That's the argument KeyGen software depends upon to stay legal. While it's illegal to steal a bunch of Microsoft License Certificates, it is perfectly legal to reverse engineer their algorithm and provide people with those keys.
The problem with that is the logical fallacy of Appeal to Authority, is in fact a circular reference of an Appeal to Authority (to the people who write lists of fallacies).
EVERY fact not confirmed by an experiment by you personally is an Appeal to Authority. Every person referring to one of your personal experiments as proof of a fact, is an appeal to YOUR authority.
And the difference is obvious. The first has a bench seat and bed large enough for an 8x4 sheet of plywood. The second has a Fancy King Cab, a stereo, and a nearly useless 4 or 6 foot bed and is nice and Shiny and has no paint scratches.
"It means minimal government, and no government meddling in your private lives. It doesn't mean there won't be government funded agencies where it makes sense. It doesn't mean zero social nets and letting people starve to death if they lose their job. It doesn't mean there is no rule of law and people are free to go around killing each other."
2nd reply- without government meddling in your private lives (by which most Libertarians mean TAXES, and the enforcement of tax laws) how are you going to fund any government agencies, social nets like unemployment, and other redistribution of wealth?
"Libertarianism isn't an "every man for himself" anarchy. Where do people get this idea? Is it from some twisted right-wing propaganda?"
It's from a combination of the writings of Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged, specifically) and Ludwig Von Mises (whose math doesn't recognize cooperation between economic units and whose philosophy encourages competition as the main model of economic activity).
Actually, I do- the 30 seconds thing came from a *specific* request from management I had once (the idea being to make it configurable,and leave the log intact so that if they did start having errors, it'd be simple enough to change the period of the cron job.
When requested. What I'm saying is for everyday use, that is, joe conspiracy theorist who is looking into an ISP that is relatively private and safe, it turns out that the United States has no such law that prevents the ISP from just dumping logs into the null bin. Logs? We don't need no stinkin' logs.
I personally suspect that the crony capitalists whispered in his ear and mentioned that if he didn't step down, Bella would stop getting the medical treatment she needs. Thus the real Gods of America- the gods of mammon- did step in with Bella's illness.
Come to think of it, wasn't it the relatively agnostic Truman who was the only US President, or in fact any world leader, to order a nuclear holocaust?
And that is largely an engineering issue. Most Hybrid designs have thought "low power electric drive train linked to high power conventional drivetrain through complex transmission" when the design really should have been "high power AC electric drive train linked to dedicated generator and batteries". I still don't understand why the major car makers decided to sabotage the actual invention of a hybrid vehicle with such a goofy design- but almost all of the performance issues (whether gas mileage, cost, or even driving performance) are linked to this problem.
Like your next responder- the design I predict will win out in the end will be the short (under 50 mile) range commuter electric with the Type I trailer hitch for pulling a gas generator. But I've yet to see any car company even attempt that- even though it's OBVIOUSLY a way to cut the apparent investment cost in half.
I've learned quite a bit in this thread, and do regret my original post- but since when is there a greater supply of a heavy element like Uranium in the universe than Helium or Hydrogen (especially Hydrogen- the most common element in the universe)?
My point is that a troll should be subtle. It should elicit responses (whether through anger or humor) without resorting to those low tactics. The flame war resulting from the original troll may well descend to that point, but the original troll itself should be at a higher moral level.
I was just going to suggest that perhaps they could make it slightly cheaper by making it a bluetooth peripheral rather than a full fledged android phone.
If your trolling requires " use any obscene, lewd or profane language or suggest any lewd or lascivious act, or threaten to inflict physical harm to the person or property of any person", then you're not doing it correctly.
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That's the argument KeyGen software depends upon to stay legal. While it's illegal to steal a bunch of Microsoft License Certificates, it is perfectly legal to reverse engineer their algorithm and provide people with those keys.
The problem with that is the logical fallacy of Appeal to Authority, is in fact a circular reference of an Appeal to Authority (to the people who write lists of fallacies).
EVERY fact not confirmed by an experiment by you personally is an Appeal to Authority. Every person referring to one of your personal experiments as proof of a fact, is an appeal to YOUR authority.
And the difference is obvious. The first has a bench seat and bed large enough for an 8x4 sheet of plywood. The second has a Fancy King Cab, a stereo, and a nearly useless 4 or 6 foot bed and is nice and Shiny and has no paint scratches.
You know a REAL working truck when it is:
1. 20 years old
2. Gets less than 8 MPG normally
3. Has enough scraped paint and rust spots to LOOK USED.
Quite often- but in urban areas of Oregon, the speed limit is only 60.
"It means minimal government, and no government meddling in your private lives. It doesn't mean there won't be government funded agencies where it makes sense. It doesn't mean zero social nets and letting people starve to death if they lose their job. It doesn't mean there is no rule of law and people are free to go around killing each other."
2nd reply- without government meddling in your private lives (by which most Libertarians mean TAXES, and the enforcement of tax laws) how are you going to fund any government agencies, social nets like unemployment, and other redistribution of wealth?
"Libertarianism isn't an "every man for himself" anarchy. Where do people get this idea? Is it from some twisted right-wing propaganda?"
It's from a combination of the writings of Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged, specifically) and Ludwig Von Mises (whose math doesn't recognize cooperation between economic units and whose philosophy encourages competition as the main model of economic activity).
Must be due to the "quantum vacuum"- which is about as real as the sub-ether explanation for waves that behave as particles.
"Then he gets arrested for obstruction of justice."
Only if they notified him of the investigation before hand and requested he keep his logs.
Actually, I do- the 30 seconds thing came from a *specific* request from management I had once (the idea being to make it configurable,and leave the log intact so that if they did start having errors, it'd be simple enough to change the period of the cron job.
When requested. What I'm saying is for everyday use, that is, joe conspiracy theorist who is looking into an ISP that is relatively private and safe, it turns out that the United States has no such law that prevents the ISP from just dumping logs into the null bin. Logs? We don't need no stinkin' logs.
Either that, or erase the router logs every few seconds.
Wouldn't a cron job deleting all server and firewall logs every 30 seconds do the trick? They can't subpoena what doesn't exist.
Then why have they put forth a fiscal liberal free traitor like Romney?
I personally suspect that the crony capitalists whispered in his ear and mentioned that if he didn't step down, Bella would stop getting the medical treatment she needs. Thus the real Gods of America- the gods of mammon- did step in with Bella's illness.
One man's character flaw is another man's reasonable response to grief, apparently.
Come to think of it, wasn't it the relatively agnostic Truman who was the only US President, or in fact any world leader, to order a nuclear holocaust?
And that is largely an engineering issue. Most Hybrid designs have thought "low power electric drive train linked to high power conventional drivetrain through complex transmission" when the design really should have been "high power AC electric drive train linked to dedicated generator and batteries". I still don't understand why the major car makers decided to sabotage the actual invention of a hybrid vehicle with such a goofy design- but almost all of the performance issues (whether gas mileage, cost, or even driving performance) are linked to this problem.
Like your next responder- the design I predict will win out in the end will be the short (under 50 mile) range commuter electric with the Type I trailer hitch for pulling a gas generator. But I've yet to see any car company even attempt that- even though it's OBVIOUSLY a way to cut the apparent investment cost in half.
I've learned quite a bit in this thread, and do regret my original post- but since when is there a greater supply of a heavy element like Uranium in the universe than Helium or Hydrogen (especially Hydrogen- the most common element in the universe)?
"Maybe because you can't power an infrared camera array and laser sighting with a hot air balloon."
Solar panel on top of the balloon can *easily* take care of this. Neither of those takes much power.
My only question, is why use nuclear power when you can go lighter than air instead?
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My point is that a troll should be subtle. It should elicit responses (whether through anger or humor) without resorting to those low tactics. The flame war resulting from the original troll may well descend to that point, but the original troll itself should be at a higher moral level.
I was just going to suggest that perhaps they could make it slightly cheaper by making it a bluetooth peripheral rather than a full fledged android phone.
If your trolling requires " use any obscene, lewd or profane language or suggest any lewd or lascivious act, or threaten to inflict physical harm to the person or property of any person", then you're not doing it correctly.