while in voyager it was complety silly and stupid, like the series (and i have yet to hear someone defending voyager), with ST:TNG it was much more sane, they considered the enterprise harmless and ignored them completly, and when they started to do something that the borg didn't like they would get attacked and driven off the ship.
TNG used the borg in many good ways, and didn't OVERUSE them like voyager. ST:TNG was much MUCH more realistic then voyager or enterprise. Those 2 just seemed more artificial and fake to me. ST:TNG ST:DS9 were so much better, thou the dominion war in DS9 wasn't done very well like the shadow war in B5
valves code wasn't published, and to get it they had to hack (well trick) valve to get it.
I would be the charges laid on the hackers would not be theft, corporate espionage, hacking, copyright violations, and such.
Downloading music is much diffrence as its published, someone is offering you a copy (witch is why downloaders are kinda safe and uploaders are not)
Also the money lost by each act is diffrent, vavle has taken a BIG hit in the $$ department because of the "theft", how much (if any) money the RIAA and co lose when a song is copied is debatable and might be a gain.
That is why poeple get all up in arms about P2P being called tehft, but when it comes to valve and sounce code theft they tolerate and join in in calling it theft, its much more like theft and it did cause damage to valve in many ways, unlike P2P.
and it STILL isn't theft, it is a multitude of other crimes, but NOT theft at all.
if this was theft, there would be no such charge as corporate espionage. because all corporate espionage is is "stealing" information and ideas.
Neither is theft. One is copyright violations, the other is corporate espionage/hacking/copyright.
bah thats insane, your right tha punlic schools as they stand are horrid, but your idea of how a for profit system should work is also a horrible idea.
lets be honest, not all kids work hard, hell they are kids and public school is there to force them to learn some basic knowlage (and fails right now) and to allow the poor to get their kids educated like everyone else to give them a chance at a firture. so letting those who dont' want to/can't not to get in is not what we want at all. we want to Improve the quality of the system.
Its really simple actauly, you allow a new kind of school, some kinda "publicy funded private school". where it is paid by the goverment for the number of students it has. ie for each kid the private school company gets XXX dollars. And you ensure that ANY kid from ANY where can attend. no "districts"
What this allows is choice in the education market and diversity. Parents and their kids can now choose what school they want to go to.
Once you have achived this bad schools will have kids leave as parents put them in better schools. and because they are paid PER STUDENT they will lose income be unable to expand and then fail and go bankrupt.
good schools will have more sutdents and if you give a big bonus to schools that get alot of students with high standardized test marks they can get bigger and allow more students.
not only will this improve education it will also inprove all aspects of schools.
This system is much better then the current one or the one you proposed, and i will not claim it as my own as i heard it on "yes minister" a great british comedey series:)
its nice winrar has the option to encrypt the entrie archive, in fact i do belive that th eonly way to tell if a file is a encrypted winrar archive is to look for RAR in the first 3 bytes. remove that and you wouldn't know what the file is
problem is people who care but are nisinformed/lied to/don;t have the intelligance to make a decision based on anything but "i like this guys name" or "hes got an honest face"
there are such devices, anything that poeple need, and need cheaply has a machine/system that makes them for the devloped worlds, bricks, food, water, they all exists.
miltary spending on weapons doesn't just result in weapons it results in new tech that is used by ALL industry.
And i think your the close minded on who thinks the poeple are all 100% perfect and good. bah to that some people are inherntly evil/good while most are somewhere in the middle.
name a device for peace that remains unmade.
And to give you the best example of why your thoery is false, look at the devloped countries, we still have problems with poeple killing each and the only reason it doesn't get out of hand is a strong police force that will lock you up if you kill ppl. Some people are crazy.
man you just don't get it, that is NOT going to happen unless lets say... a powerfull country does that or forcs peace on them... or they kill each other.
if i had HIV or some other such terminal ilness i'd go for a untested treatment like this. If you going to die theres not much you really have to worry about...
well i modde dyou up before i read the artical... BIG MISTAKE
"By using a computer model of what happens to the immune system when it's infected with HIV, Arkin and his colleagues have designed a potential AIDS treatment that would remain with the patient as long as he or she has HIV, meaning it would prevent AIDS from arising even in patients who otherwise would have developed the disease after a decade of latency. They also predict HIV would not become resistant to the virus."
also note "The treatment is made of a gutted HIV virus. The harmful parts of the virus are removed, and in their place the researchers have inserted a DNA cargo that inhibits HIV's ability to kill immune cells. It latches onto the natural HIV and spreads along with it, even from person to person."
hmm makes me wonder, i've got 3 harddrives in a bankvault and that was something i thaught about, but i just also backed everything up to DVD and stuck them in there as well so its not big deal if the harddrives are screwed up.
Been there for about a month now, i'll take one out and test it as each drive has a file wil MD5 sums of every file on the drive.
>IBM's revenues are much larger (91B vs 36B) but the EBITDA (10.4 vs 11.7B) and net earnings (7.8B vs 7.4B) are pretty close.
maybe its because IBM inovates and spends lots of money on R&D unlike MS who steals other peoples ideas and depends on poeple being locked into their OS.
>> has more employees,
>Making the same amount of money with more people is not good.
Maybe they would rather spend their money then have 50 billion sitting in the bank? IBM does alot more then MS does so it has to spend more money.
not to mention downtime and other such times where the ATM has crashed and no longer working are mostly ignored by customers and not a big deal to the banks as they got a cheap ATM.
my god, the diffrence between downloading and sneaking into a venue is HUGE.
They are diffrent as sneaking in you are going on to someone PRIVATE PROPERTY without PREMISSION as you haven't paid the OWNER to enter the venue. That is why you cna be kicked out for any reason they want, its their property and security has the right as representives of the owner to remove anyone from the property they choose.
They are selling you a seat on their property so you can view a performace. they are NOT selling you music, a movie or whatever.
Now this has nothing to do with downloading being right or wrong, theres a huge diffrence between your examples, ones copyright infringment, and the other is... well i dunno, maybe its nothing because they have the legal right to prevent access to their property so no new law is needed.
the ONLY things you cna compare downlading to is borrowing someone elses CD/tpae/DVD and makeing a copy of that. Or stealing satalite TV (thou i feel tis up to the contents provider to protect its signal not to outlaw it)
And now i could go on to say why those against downloading have no valid point because i won't bceause i'm sure others will point out the statistics and why there is no reason to prevent for it other then greedy corprete pride and ignorence and control of the consumer.
msot poeple i know are the same, or own like ~10CDs at most, thou there are the strange few who own, 100-300... always nice to have a few friends like that=D
maybe i'm mistake, but a theater is NOT a public place, just as a mall isn't a public place.
If they were a public place they couldn't kick you out of the mall, you oculd take all the video footage you want, ect. public is publicly owned, a theater is privatly own so its private property.
Drugs CAN spread diseases, but mostly they don't unless needles are shared (and thats only because of drug war)
there is a huge diffrence between the 2.
prostitution also is still somewhat legal in brothels and escourt services. and there is still ALOT of prostitution still going on. Its gone down due to education and peoples changeing attitudes, witch is how drug use should be reduced, not by laws
and here in cananda i do belive its legal as long as the man ask the women (or visa versa) and the law is to prevent people on the streets from being bugged to pay for sex.
Sneak food in, i went to a movie 2 days ago, put some food in my backpack and walked right in. (i also had a canon EOS 10D digital camera(not a video camera) in there but thats besides the point)
Didn't check it, didn't ask to see what was in it, about 10 other pepople i oculd see in the theaters eating, some walked in with stuff in their hands.
I've had alcohol in there befor and no one notided/cared.
and wouldn't that saturate the infected computer market and drive people away from windows when they have 5+ diffrent spyware apps installed and get 5 popups for each webpage and such?
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while in voyager it was complety silly and stupid, like the series (and i have yet to hear someone defending voyager), with ST:TNG it was much more sane, they considered the enterprise harmless and ignored them completly, and when they started to do something that the borg didn't like they would get attacked and driven off the ship.
TNG used the borg in many good ways, and didn't OVERUSE them like voyager. ST:TNG was much MUCH more realistic then voyager or enterprise. Those 2 just seemed more artificial and fake to me. ST:TNG ST:DS9 were so much better, thou the dominion war in DS9 wasn't done very well like the shadow war in B5
valves code wasn't published, and to get it they had to hack (well trick) valve to get it.
I would be the charges laid on the hackers would not be theft, corporate espionage, hacking, copyright violations, and such.
Downloading music is much diffrence as its published, someone is offering you a copy (witch is why downloaders are kinda safe and uploaders are not)
Also the money lost by each act is diffrent, vavle has taken a BIG hit in the $$ department because of the "theft", how much (if any) money the RIAA and co lose when a song is copied is debatable and might be a gain.
That is why poeple get all up in arms about P2P being called tehft, but when it comes to valve and sounce code theft they tolerate and join in in calling it theft, its much more like theft and it did cause damage to valve in many ways, unlike P2P.
and it STILL isn't theft, it is a multitude of other crimes, but NOT theft at all.
if this was theft, there would be no such charge as corporate espionage. because all corporate espionage is is "stealing" information and ideas.
Neither is theft. One is copyright violations, the other is corporate espionage/hacking/copyright.
so before you go to war make sure you all patched up!!
and ever 2nd day of said war delcare a patch break so both sides can go patch their windows boxes!
bah thats insane, your right tha punlic schools as they stand are horrid, but your idea of how a for profit system should work is also a horrible idea.
lets be honest, not all kids work hard, hell they are kids and public school is there to force them to learn some basic knowlage (and fails right now) and to allow the poor to get their kids educated like everyone else to give them a chance at a firture. so letting those who dont' want to/can't not to get in is not what we want at all. we want to Improve the quality of the system.
Its really simple actauly, you allow a new kind of school, some kinda "publicy funded private school". where it is paid by the goverment for the number of students it has. ie for each kid the private school company gets XXX dollars. And you ensure that ANY kid from ANY where can attend. no "districts"
What this allows is choice in the education market and diversity. Parents and their kids can now choose what school they want to go to.
Once you have achived this bad schools will have kids leave as parents put them in better schools. and because they are paid PER STUDENT they will lose income be unable to expand and then fail and go bankrupt.
good schools will have more sutdents and if you give a big bonus to schools that get alot of students with high standardized test marks they can get bigger and allow more students.
not only will this improve education it will also inprove all aspects of schools.
This system is much better then the current one or the one you proposed, and i will not claim it as my own as i heard it on "yes minister" a great british comedey series:)
its nice winrar has the option to encrypt the entrie archive, in fact i do belive that th eonly way to tell if a file is a encrypted winrar archive is to look for RAR in the first 3 bytes. remove that and you wouldn't know what the file is
problem is people who care but are nisinformed/lied to/don;t have the intelligance to make a decision based on anything but "i like this guys name" or "hes got an honest face"
Still wouldn't work as the morons would still belive what the corperations told them.
Another reason to limit voters... how i'm not sure but there should be some way.
there are such devices, anything that poeple need, and need cheaply has a machine/system that makes them for the devloped worlds, bricks, food, water, they all exists.
miltary spending on weapons doesn't just result in weapons it results in new tech that is used by ALL industry.
And i think your the close minded on who thinks the poeple are all 100% perfect and good. bah to that some people are inherntly evil/good while most are somewhere in the middle.
name a device for peace that remains unmade.
And to give you the best example of why your thoery is false, look at the devloped countries, we still have problems with poeple killing each and the only reason it doesn't get out of hand is a strong police force that will lock you up if you kill ppl. Some people are crazy.
follow the $$
taxs -> goverment -> mil spending -> americans -> taxs & other americans
so its not alll that bad, unless the money goes to forien ppls
but i guess the same can be said for most govement spending...
man you just don't get it, that is NOT going to happen unless lets say... a powerfull country does that or forcs peace on them... or they kill each other.
if i had HIV or some other such terminal ilness i'd go for a untested treatment like this. If you going to die theres not much you really have to worry about...
HIV is in its current form almost the WORST thing it could be bceause it doesn't kill for so long,
if this turned into a virus that killed (the worst it can get) fast it wouldn't spread like HIV does.
well i modde dyou up before i read the artical... BIG MISTAKE
"By using a computer model of what happens to the immune system when it's infected with HIV, Arkin and his colleagues have designed a potential AIDS treatment that would remain with the patient as long as he or she has HIV, meaning it would prevent AIDS from arising even in patients who otherwise would have developed the disease after a decade of latency. They also predict HIV would not become resistant to the virus."
also note "The treatment is made of a gutted HIV virus. The harmful parts of the virus are removed, and in their place the researchers have inserted a DNA cargo that inhibits HIV's ability to kill immune cells. It latches onto the natural HIV and spreads along with it, even from person to person."
lesson: RTFA
hmm makes me wonder, i've got 3 harddrives in a bankvault and that was something i thaught about, but i just also backed everything up to DVD and stuck them in there as well so its not big deal if the harddrives are screwed up.
Been there for about a month now, i'll take one out and test it as each drive has a file wil MD5 sums of every file on the drive.
>> IBM makes more money,
>IBM's revenues are much larger (91B vs 36B) but the EBITDA (10.4 vs 11.7B) and net earnings (7.8B vs 7.4B) are pretty close.
maybe its because IBM inovates and spends lots of money on R&D unlike MS who steals other peoples ideas and depends on poeple being locked into their OS.
>> has more employees,
>Making the same amount of money with more people is not good.
Maybe they would rather spend their money then have 50 billion sitting in the bank? IBM does alot more then MS does so it has to spend more money.
not to mention downtime and other such times where the ATM has crashed and no longer working are mostly ignored by customers and not a big deal to the banks as they got a cheap ATM.
theres a diffrence between compatability and longitivity....
i just keep everything on my computer, and then do a complete backup everyyear, and dureing the year i backup the most changed stuff to DVD.
Byt the end of the year i have many redundant backups all tagged with MD5sums so i can tell if anything is screwed up.
a bit expensive, but it works for me,
my god, the diffrence between downloading and sneaking into a venue is HUGE.
They are diffrent as sneaking in you are going on to someone PRIVATE PROPERTY without PREMISSION as you haven't paid the OWNER to enter the venue. That is why you cna be kicked out for any reason they want, its their property and security has the right as representives of the owner to remove anyone from the property they choose.
They are selling you a seat on their property so you can view a performace. they are NOT selling you music, a movie or whatever.
Now this has nothing to do with downloading being right or wrong, theres a huge diffrence between your examples, ones copyright infringment, and the other is... well i dunno, maybe its nothing because they have the legal right to prevent access to their property so no new law is needed.
the ONLY things you cna compare downlading to is borrowing someone elses CD/tpae/DVD and makeing a copy of that. Or stealing satalite TV (thou i feel tis up to the contents provider to protect its signal not to outlaw it)
And now i could go on to say why those against downloading have no valid point because i won't bceause i'm sure others will point out the statistics and why there is no reason to prevent for it other then greedy corprete pride and ignorence and control of the consumer.
to true,
msot poeple i know are the same, or own like ~10CDs at most, thou there are the strange few who own, 100-300... always nice to have a few friends like that=D
I think he gets a good paying job and helps the eviroment so in the end he doesn't care if it makes a profit only that it breaks even...
maybe i'm mistake, but a theater is NOT a public place, just as a mall isn't a public place.
If they were a public place they couldn't kick you out of the mall, you oculd take all the video footage you want, ect. public is publicly owned, a theater is privatly own so its private property.
isn't that right?
prostitution != drugs
prostitution involoes sex witch spreads diseases.
Drugs CAN spread diseases, but mostly they don't unless needles are shared (and thats only because of drug war)
there is a huge diffrence between the 2.
prostitution also is still somewhat legal in brothels and escourt services. and there is still ALOT of prostitution still going on. Its gone down due to education and peoples changeing attitudes, witch is how drug use should be reduced, not by laws
and here in cananda i do belive its legal as long as the man ask the women (or visa versa) and the law is to prevent people on the streets from being bugged to pay for sex.
Sneak food in, i went to a movie 2 days ago, put some food in my backpack and walked right in. (i also had a canon EOS 10D digital camera(not a video camera) in there but thats besides the point)
Didn't check it, didn't ask to see what was in it, about 10 other pepople i oculd see in the theaters eating, some walked in with stuff in their hands.
I've had alcohol in there befor and no one notided/cared.
man, i LOVE cananda:)
and wouldn't that saturate the infected computer market and drive people away from windows when they have 5+ diffrent spyware apps installed and get 5 popups for each webpage and such?