One mans crazy is another mans asset. Some of the best soldiers, for instance, may be unable to function inside your average society. But given them a battlefield and clear goals and they will thrive.
Btw, i think there was a documentary on the Falklands war where a British soldier voiced the opinion that there was three kinds of soldier. The first was the kind that wet their pants and refused to leave the safety of cover at the first sign of danger. The second was the kind that ran at danger with a slasher grin of glee. The third was the kind that would approach danger with a grim determination to protect others from it.
Such defenses will require us to rethink "punishments" as well.
I think there is at least one neuro-scientist that suggests the focus should shift from from crass punishment to the criminals likelihood of repeating the offense, and tailoring the legal responses based on that.
So if a medical examination suggests a high likelihood of repetition, various measures to reduce or remove that would come into effect. Still, there may be some crimes that are considered so hideous that anything other then zero chance of repetition is grounds for having the person simply locked away.
And this was the basic vision Marx had, and why he questioned the idea of having Russia bootstrap from monarchy directly to communism. This because in his view there needed a industry supplying the basics before one could start considering communism, and that industry was most quickly built up under capitalism.
Thing is that capitalism, at least in Europe, got the reset button hammered by a couple of world wars. The second one in particular basically flatlined German industry and demonstrated that British industry could be starved.
Marx did question having Russia bootstrap from Monarchy directly to communism. Also, for Marx communism was just a stepping stone towards true socialism. And it required the industrial buildup that capitalism provided. This to provide the production capacity to cover the basic needs of the people.
Still, there is as least one person that have taken a serious look at Marx and found him overlooking the effects of industrial machinery. Or if not overlooking, at least not talking about it enough so that later persons building on his writing have ended up focusing too much on the worker and not enough on the industrial machinery.
This will depend on how big of a nation you live in, and about how close your native language is to English when written. The smaller the nation, and the further from English (resulting in odd letters or perhaps even replacing whole alphabets) the language is the less likely that there will be a slide out keyboard phone in your market.
I wonder how much that has to do with people never changing the channel of the hotspot. Still, one 3 B channels are really separate, the rest overlap with neighbors to some degree or other.
Btw, i think there was a recent announcement of a wifi router that would automatically change channel if it detected too much noise or something. I wonder how this will work out of there are many of those in a area tho. I can see them continually hopping around in some kind of pattern, much like one can detect bot patterns in HF trading on the stock market.
And throwing misdirections to lull the competition into complacency also helps. At this Jobs have been a master. It is almost as if one can make the claim that the more Jobs decried something, the closer Apple was to launch a product in that segment.
We only have Jobs word for that (unless there have been some named Apple engineer that have come out and confirmed it), and the guy is a savant spin doctor. One year he claims people do not read, the next Apple launch ebooks for iphone. And never do we see the guy confess to a mea culpa or anything even close to that. It was almost as if the more Jobs decried something, the more likely it was that Apple had some project in the lab that was about to launch that aimed directly at that topic.
And why the Knights Templars where rounded up and killed once the debt of the French king was beyond his ability to manage.
Hell, there have been uprisings in the past where the population would raid banks and lenders and burn their ledgers. But these days, doing so would mean taking out computers in various places around the nation (or even world) and stand the risk of wiping out peoples savings as well as their debt.
Yep, the banksters really do have us by the balls this time round.
This is because the tiered distribution system is as old as film itself.
Duplication, transport, differences in national standards, all added up to a system where a movie would hit rental one place before hitting cinemas elsewhere.
Now however a english language movie has global reach on day one, but the agreements and corporate systems are set up around the old ways. And so they try to put the genie back in the bottle...
This, in combo with the issues of exchange rates and differing wages results in a movie that costs a weeks wage one place and a minutes another.
It is also about creator lock-in. Consider that if a author wants to change ebook distributor, all his current ebook releases may be behind a different DRM system. Try explaining that to your readers.
But consider the difference in throughput of a switched network vs a hub network. Yes, the techniques used in cable and such are a bit more complicated than that, but in the end it comes down to that when one talk, all others need to be silent on a shared medium like cable, passive fiber (fios) or wireless. DSL, active fiber, and other non-shared (in terms of last mile) allows the individual user connection to talk as fast as i can, and whatever box is at the other end is the limiter on the actual throughput (and much easier to subdivide then having to roll a whole new cable or set up a new cell).
This also applies to media companies of all kinds. Just look at how Disney keeps rotating their classic films in and out of sale at a annual basis. Now if those movies where public domain they would be faced with having to compete with their own creations, now freely distributable.
I am taking a world view, not a US view. This because copyright is a world wide issue. Especially as via Bern every nation have to respect the copyright issued in other nations.
And i do not think the life+X years wording entered into US thinking until Bern was signed, before then it was always a set number of years (and still is for corporate issued, but then that is the same on a global level. But this can be gamed by getting the copyright in a private name that then signs over the economic rights to a corporation).
And while 1909 provided for foreign holders, it still had to be specifically registered in USA. Something i think was the issue with LOTR not being (or at least claimed to not being).
The French set a long duration, as they where as interested in allowing a author to control how his creations got used, and via that use impacted the social appearance of the author.
This then got merged with the UK/US copyright during the Bern convention on copyright, and resulted in a merging of the UK thinking with the French time frame.
Btw, it is interesting to note that USA did not sign on to the Bern convention until the 1970s. As such, a US publisher was able to pick up a copy of LOTR during a UK visit, and create cheap printings once he got home.
Hell, USA have a long history of giving the middle finger to European IP rights as long as it would benefit the local economy. Various early industrial machines got a much bigger use in USA thanks to ignoring patents they where encumbered with in UK.
As such, China employing similar tactics to bootstrap themselves into a international industrial powerhouse is not without precedence. And the largest complainer is actually being somewhat hypocritical.
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or "i did not take kickbacks from that corporation".
One mans crazy is another mans asset. Some of the best soldiers, for instance, may be unable to function inside your average society. But given them a battlefield and clear goals and they will thrive.
Btw, i think there was a documentary on the Falklands war where a British soldier voiced the opinion that there was three kinds of soldier. The first was the kind that wet their pants and refused to leave the safety of cover at the first sign of danger. The second was the kind that ran at danger with a slasher grin of glee. The third was the kind that would approach danger with a grim determination to protect others from it.
Such defenses will require us to rethink "punishments" as well.
I think there is at least one neuro-scientist that suggests the focus should shift from from crass punishment to the criminals likelihood of repeating the offense, and tailoring the legal responses based on that.
So if a medical examination suggests a high likelihood of repetition, various measures to reduce or remove that would come into effect. Still, there may be some crimes that are considered so hideous that anything other then zero chance of repetition is grounds for having the person simply locked away.
Could be an effect similar to how various drugs (i include alcohol under that label) makes us disregard or lower our risk aversion.
So when stimulated on one side, the persons reluctance to lie is heightened while the other lowers it.
I wonder how it would affect diagnosed sociopaths tho.
acting like assholes and lying like the devil do not have to be synonymous. Some of the most habitual liars are very smooth social animals.
1. it is quite possible to deliver SMS via GPRS data traffic these days, if the phone is set to request it and the network supports it.
2. i think one delivery mode for WAP was per SMS, as some kind of last resort.
Best of luck with those metals...
And this was the basic vision Marx had, and why he questioned the idea of having Russia bootstrap from monarchy directly to communism. This because in his view there needed a industry supplying the basics before one could start considering communism, and that industry was most quickly built up under capitalism.
Thing is that capitalism, at least in Europe, got the reset button hammered by a couple of world wars. The second one in particular basically flatlined German industry and demonstrated that British industry could be starved.
Marx did question having Russia bootstrap from Monarchy directly to communism. Also, for Marx communism was just a stepping stone towards true socialism. And it required the industrial buildup that capitalism provided. This to provide the production capacity to cover the basic needs of the people.
Still, there is as least one person that have taken a serious look at Marx and found him overlooking the effects of industrial machinery. Or if not overlooking, at least not talking about it enough so that later persons building on his writing have ended up focusing too much on the worker and not enough on the industrial machinery.
http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/research/
Well they have also been faced with rising food prices thanks to bad wheat harvest in Russia and such.
As a certain Roman comedian said "bread and circus", or in these days in Europe and NA, fast food and "reality" TV...
This will depend on how big of a nation you live in, and about how close your native language is to English when written. The smaller the nation, and the further from English (resulting in odd letters or perhaps even replacing whole alphabets) the language is the less likely that there will be a slide out keyboard phone in your market.
I wonder how much that has to do with people never changing the channel of the hotspot. Still, one 3 B channels are really separate, the rest overlap with neighbors to some degree or other.
Btw, i think there was a recent announcement of a wifi router that would automatically change channel if it detected too much noise or something. I wonder how this will work out of there are many of those in a area tho. I can see them continually hopping around in some kind of pattern, much like one can detect bot patterns in HF trading on the stock market.
I could have sworn it was in response to a general question about Apple getting getting into the ebook market.
And throwing misdirections to lull the competition into complacency also helps. At this Jobs have been a master. It is almost as if one can make the claim that the more Jobs decried something, the closer Apple was to launch a product in that segment.
We only have Jobs word for that (unless there have been some named Apple engineer that have come out and confirmed it), and the guy is a savant spin doctor. One year he claims people do not read, the next Apple launch ebooks for iphone. And never do we see the guy confess to a mea culpa or anything even close to that. It was almost as if the more Jobs decried something, the more likely it was that Apple had some project in the lab that was about to launch that aimed directly at that topic.
And why the Knights Templars where rounded up and killed once the debt of the French king was beyond his ability to manage.
Hell, there have been uprisings in the past where the population would raid banks and lenders and burn their ledgers. But these days, doing so would mean taking out computers in various places around the nation (or even world) and stand the risk of wiping out peoples savings as well as their debt.
Yep, the banksters really do have us by the balls this time round.
This is because the tiered distribution system is as old as film itself.
Duplication, transport, differences in national standards, all added up to a system where a movie would hit rental one place before hitting cinemas elsewhere.
Now however a english language movie has global reach on day one, but the agreements and corporate systems are set up around the old ways. And so they try to put the genie back in the bottle...
This, in combo with the issues of exchange rates and differing wages results in a movie that costs a weeks wage one place and a minutes another.
It is also about creator lock-in. Consider that if a author wants to change ebook distributor, all his current ebook releases may be behind a different DRM system. Try explaining that to your readers.
Is there not more of a issue with routers not keeping up with the raw bandwidth of fiber then the fiber connections right now?
But consider the difference in throughput of a switched network vs a hub network. Yes, the techniques used in cable and such are a bit more complicated than that, but in the end it comes down to that when one talk, all others need to be silent on a shared medium like cable, passive fiber (fios) or wireless. DSL, active fiber, and other non-shared (in terms of last mile) allows the individual user connection to talk as fast as i can, and whatever box is at the other end is the limiter on the actual throughput (and much easier to subdivide then having to roll a whole new cable or set up a new cell).
Yea, i think a flash drive is more likely to saturate a USB3 connection then a HDD. Especially if it is using some kind of connector bridge.
This also applies to media companies of all kinds. Just look at how Disney keeps rotating their classic films in and out of sale at a annual basis. Now if those movies where public domain they would be faced with having to compete with their own creations, now freely distributable.
Unless one start messing with new circuit designs, like those memristors.
I am taking a world view, not a US view. This because copyright is a world wide issue. Especially as via Bern every nation have to respect the copyright issued in other nations.
And i do not think the life+X years wording entered into US thinking until Bern was signed, before then it was always a set number of years (and still is for corporate issued, but then that is the same on a global level. But this can be gamed by getting the copyright in a private name that then signs over the economic rights to a corporation).
And while 1909 provided for foreign holders, it still had to be specifically registered in USA. Something i think was the issue with LOTR not being (or at least claimed to not being).
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/French_copyright_law
The French set a long duration, as they where as interested in allowing a author to control how his creations got used, and via that use impacted the social appearance of the author.
This then got merged with the UK/US copyright during the Bern convention on copyright, and resulted in a merging of the UK thinking with the French time frame.
Btw, it is interesting to note that USA did not sign on to the Bern convention until the 1970s. As such, a US publisher was able to pick up a copy of LOTR during a UK visit, and create cheap printings once he got home.
Hell, USA have a long history of giving the middle finger to European IP rights as long as it would benefit the local economy. Various early industrial machines got a much bigger use in USA thanks to ignoring patents they where encumbered with in UK.
As such, China employing similar tactics to bootstrap themselves into a international industrial powerhouse is not without precedence. And the largest complainer is actually being somewhat hypocritical.