Not only that, but even on the highway most of the time most American drivers are doing 5-25 mph in absurdly heavy traffic, at more like 2-3% power. With a super-sized gasoline engine at those speeds their efficiency is going to be pretty near nil. With battery-powered electric motor it will be quite high.
Yeah, you could read a bunch of smoke blown by lawyers or other low lives. Or you could just, like, I don't know, read the first amendment for yourself. It's written in plain language and is extremely brief.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Hmmm, it talks about "the people", not "citizens". And it talks about about "no law", not "no law that affects specifically citizens". I'd say it's pretty obvious.
In fact the entire constitution is short (4400 words) and very readable. All the constitutions I've seen are in plain language. The 1977 version of the constitution of the USSR was pretty long and detailed, but it was plain enough. In fact it contained something sadly lacking the US constitution that could have saved an enormous number of lives in 1861. It expressly recognized that the individual constituent republics could secede; hence the breakup of the USSR was practically bloodless. Lack of that explicit language in the US constitution meant a single tyrant was able to butcher about 600,000 of his own fellow citizens.
So be it. Let the buggers watch me. Let them watch everybody. Let them watch the watchers. Because we're watching you, thugs. Everyone who is not a brain dead sheep is noting this shit.
A scene from The Blue Max comes to mind. The context is completely different, but it works here very well. Otto Heidemann: Herr General, I see now, I have notions of honor which are outdated. General Count von Klugermann: Ahh, they're not outdated! (carefully, tenderly puts away the evidence file) General Count von Klugermann: Stored. With care, and love, for better times.
And if in turn _you_ are going to be pedantic, then let _me_ be pedantic by pointing out you are are wrong.
Electrocution, source 1: 1. to kill by electricity. 2. to execute (a criminal) by electricity, as in an electric chair. Origin: 1885–90, Americanism; electro- + (exe)cute
Electrocution, source 2: 1: to execute (a criminal) by electricity 2: to kill by electric shock — electrocution noun Origin of ELECTROCUTE electr- + -cute (as in execute) First Known Use: 1889
Yes, the word has been dumbed down by some stupid dictionaries due to dumb people using it wrong so frequently. The derivation should be your CLUE to what the real meaning is.
Seriously? If the drive in the laptop fails, it has failed in any scenario. It doesn't matter what strategy you use to back up. You are looking at installing a new one and copying the backup in any event. In any backup scenario you have to do an added trick with grub to copy the boot sector to the second drive. Then all you have to do to recover is pop a new drive in the laptop and dd the backup drive to the new drive, boot sector, partition table, file system, files and all.
The solution is it should be legal to copy things in perpetuity without giving the content creators a dime because I'm an entitled baby, gimme gimme gimme.
"The solution is it should be legal to enforce a monopoly for all practical purposes in perpetuity (certainly as it applies to me) on my work, because it supports an unnatural model for income which I want to perpetuate."
The reason it is unnatural is because it can only be supported by using naked force against people who are engaging in acts which in no way cause me damage. The only way you can torture their acts into "damage" is by assuming I am somehow entitled to their money in return for... nothing.
Just something to think about. There are merits to the case for copyright, but there are also merits to the case against.
At least I can understand these people even if I hate them as a class for what they have largely turned into.
It's the tools, the apologists, the morons who slurp down their dose of corporatist indoctrination who are forever impenetrable to my understanding.
Another way of saying what I am thinking is, I know and understand those who make themselves the enemies of what is right, at absolute best parasites on the people, but my truest disgust and disrespect I reserve for those who are too lazy and stupid to engage the common enemy even in their own minds and in common discourse.
It's an interesting discussion, one in which two completely different thought processes are on exhibit, and I know for goddam sure which side of that debate I am on...
Still and nevertheless...
The initiative and hence the basic discussion in its connection is not about whether copyright should exist and be enforced. It is about how draconian and dishonest the penalties should be.
... calls for removal of copyright infringement as a crime, reducing violations by private individuals to a misdemeanor.
Uh, guys, a misdemeanor IS A CRIME Petty theft and simple assault and battery are also misdemeanors. Maybe something has been lost in translation. Otherwise I think this initiative is a sad sellout. Copyright infringement ought to be a civil matter, damnmit.
What I think is that society (which I think is what you mean by civilization) and its rickety legal system can go fuck itself it it can't keep up. Human creativity and innovation are not going to halt because it can't keep up. Society couldn't enforce it. It would be evil and people who love freedom and love creating things would fight it and they would win.
Lenovo, are you listening? If you continue your trend of removing the trackpoint buttons and the ability to completely disable the trackpad, you lose your edge and slide into irrelevance. Oh, and this should go without saying, but NO SALE.
The trackpoint with actual physical buttons (THREE of them) is the only acceptable pointing device on a portable. The X301 was PERFECT.
Touchpads are complete and utter garbage. Ones with only soft buttons are even more crappy. What I really want is for this abortion to be completely removed and the keyboard relocated to its proper place and the front of the base, but if it HAS to be there to cater to losers, at least it must be completely disablaeble so I don't brush it when I am attempting to type, damn it.
One has to make a distinction between the original negatives and the prints. Even Super 35 can resolve in excess of 3,000 lines. 65mm negatives such as Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago would have been well in excess of that; definitely far superior to 1080p, and almost certainly better than 4k. Even after accounting for printing to positive and projection in a theater equipped for 70mm using a fresh print, well maintained equipment, and a good projectionist, the indication is that the audience in 1965 in a top-tier theater had the potential to see a picture better than 1080p, and potentially pretty competitive with 4k. People in typical theaters with 35mm equipment showing worn 35mm prints, with a sloppy projectionist, would have been SOL, but that was not the fault of the original cinematography at all; hence the superb restoration of these films to Blu-ray.
You have a point with grain. You can see grain in most films even in a good DVD edition. It's a little like looking through a screen. If you stand still (i.e., single frame) it can be pretty evident, but if you walk past a screen (i.e., moving picture) it clears up dramatically because the fresh grain structure in every frame transforms into the appearance of brownian motion (the way the screen almost disappears when you walk past it). It becomes just a noise source in the picture, not really limiting the resolution. But everyone owes it to himself to be stunned by seeing the quality of some of the restored 70mm greats on Blu-ray close-up to a good 1080p display.
P.S., 2k is 1080p. 4k is 2160p. It's fucked up, because lines of resolution customarily refer to vertical, but the number before the k is the horizontal resolution - just to make it sound better than it really is, I believe.
Sites of sunken WW2 U-boats (and other warships of all nations) are treated as war graves with a prohibition against entering or disturbing. Why would WW1 sites be treated any differently?
How old would such wrecks have to be before skeletons would be treated as just skeletons? Most likely nobody would have any scruples nosing around wrecks of Norse longboats of 1,000 years ago, or if that is not the case, how about Greek ships from BCE?
"WWI definitely qualifies as history..." It does qualifies as history but not as ancient history... As i wrote i am a Greek: as many words in English, "archeology" is a compound word from the Greek "arhaio" and "logia" - "arhaio" means ancient.
Absolutely agree that archaeology is rather an odd way to characterize study of artifacts of the WW1 period. Unfortunately I don't think English has a convenient word or phrase to describe study of artifacts of modern history. Does Greek?
World War I had nothing to do with countries being invaded and citizens being murdered. It was all about the aristocracy sending young boys to their death due to antiquated treaties signed by the same aristocrats. It carried on for years, with boys being shot, gassed and suffering terribly so those same SOBs could save face.
Basically all too true, and I couldn't agree more with the general distinction, but it wasn't that cut and dried. When you use the phrase "nothing to do with" you do need to be careful. It didn't hold a candle to the the devastation of civilian populations in WW2, but it was bad enough in its own right.
DIRECT civilians deaths DUE TO MILITARY ACTION in WW1 Russian Empire 500,000 Romania 120,000 Austria-Hungary 120,000 France 40,000 German Empire 1,000
Excess deaths due to famine, disease, etc attributable to the war: Ottoman Empire 2,150,000 Russian Empire 1,000,000 Italy 585,000 German Empire 425,000 Austria-Hungary 347,000 Romania 330,000 Serbia 300,000 France 260,000 UK 107,000 Bulgaria 100,000
A global total of 950,000 direct civilian deaths plus 5,900,000 indirect civilian deaths was a "good" warmup for WW2 with its 38 to 55 million civilian deaths. Since the bulk of the civilian hurt didn't come down on the UK and France, and the worst of it not even on Germany, it gets overlooked, but I doubt if the people of Russia and Turkey will ever forget what their forebears went through.
I suppose there may have been very crude ciphers encountered; there were vast numbers of ciphers and codes used during the war. But I get the idea that generally the codebooks and even some of the principles and variations used for enciphering important signals were changed often enough to require fresh efforts to be repeatedly mounted to regain the ability to decipher. And even when that ability was gained, it was never as simple as pressing a "go" button to decipher a message.
As far as I can tell, the Lorenz Cipher and the Japanese Naval JN-25 were on the same order of difficulty as Enigma.
And old movies on blue ray look like crap because they're designed for some fuzz-factor, even on the silver screen.
Our cowardly hit and run commenter is, predictably, full of shit. I'm going to take a wild guess that he thinks 1960's movies are "old", even though I don't. The picture quality of the the Lawrence of Arabia Blu-ray is matchless. It makes the term "breathtaking" into an understatement. Anything in 70mm, properly processed and restored if necessary, is at least as good as 4k digital. Doctor Zhivago is very nearly as impressive. Julie Christie's face in candlelight will make your heart race faster than anything you can find on recent digital productions, as you will get more detail on your 1080p display than you did in 1965 on a wide movie screen, the projector a little out of focus, with smoke in the air, and more than likely a well-used print.
Agreed. And the sad thing is that the vast majority of videos coming out on Blu-ray are (in my view anyway) utter crap. Stunning explosions with no plot.
That is a description of most video program material in general; it has nothing to do with the Blu-ray technology per se. And so what? Don't watch most videos. Watch the good videos. Here are just a few of the superb quality titles available on Blu-ray: Lawrence of Arabia Doctor Zhivago The Great Escape Blade Runner Gattaca The Bridge on the River Kwai Chinatown Master and Commander 2001: A Space Oddity the Lord of the Rings trilogy The Thin Red Line North by Northwest Gods and Generals
That is only the beginning of a list that almost anyone of discerning taste will agree are superb titles. The picture quality is notably better than any streaming presentation.
"Preventive" laws are immoral, evil, presumptive and do not work. Ever see Minority Report?
Maybe if the war of escalation in which cars are made more and more like fortresses and the occupants elaborately cushioned had never been begun, more drunk and incompetent drivers would have killed themselves, reducing the danger to others. But this is pretty far afield from the topic.
Yes. The main problem with Chernobyl was not the accident itself, but the design. It had no containment vessel.
And it had a positive void coefficient. And instability at low power levels. And a flammable graphite moderator. And the tips of the control rods were made of graphite which actually INCREASED reactor power when they started to enter the reactor. And the reactor building roof was covered with flammable bitumen (counter to regulations). The totality of the dreadfulness of the design is almost impossible to comprehend. Even so it is exceeded by the stupidity of the experiment undertaken by the operators which ended in the catastrophe.
There are still 10 operating RBMK reactors of this awful type in Russia.
No, despite the mental masturbation exhibited at the link, it was not an "awful decision". It was an absurdly incompetent investigation, and doesn't result in any certitude, but it found the most likely cause. Yeah, it could have been an accident; it could have been murder; but more likely it was suicide. You take away from somebody who they ARE and you have taken away everything.
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Not only that, but even on the highway most of the time most American drivers are doing 5-25 mph in absurdly heavy traffic, at more like 2-3% power. With a super-sized gasoline engine at those speeds their efficiency is going to be pretty near nil. With battery-powered electric motor it will be quite high.
Yeah, you could read a bunch of smoke blown by lawyers or other low lives. Or you could just, like, I don't know, read the first amendment for yourself. It's written in plain language and is extremely brief.
Hmmm, it talks about "the people", not "citizens". And it talks about about "no law", not "no law that affects specifically citizens". I'd say it's pretty obvious.
In fact the entire constitution is short (4400 words) and very readable. All the constitutions I've seen are in plain language. The 1977 version of the constitution of the USSR was pretty long and detailed, but it was plain enough. In fact it contained something sadly lacking the US constitution that could have saved an enormous number of lives in 1861. It expressly recognized that the individual constituent republics could secede; hence the breakup of the USSR was practically bloodless. Lack of that explicit language in the US constitution meant a single tyrant was able to butcher about 600,000 of his own fellow citizens.
So be it. Let the buggers watch me. Let them watch everybody. Let them watch the watchers. Because we're watching you, thugs. Everyone who is not a brain dead sheep is noting this shit.
A scene from The Blue Max comes to mind. The context is completely different, but it works here very well.
Otto Heidemann: Herr General, I see now, I have notions of honor which are outdated.
General Count von Klugermann: Ahh, they're not outdated!
(carefully, tenderly puts away the evidence file)
General Count von Klugermann: Stored. With care, and love, for better times.
And if in turn _you_ are going to be pedantic, then let _me_ be pedantic by pointing out you are are wrong.
Electrocution, source 1:
1. to kill by electricity.
2. to execute (a criminal) by electricity, as in an electric chair.
Origin: 1885–90, Americanism; electro- + (exe)cute
Electrocution, source 2:
1: to execute (a criminal) by electricity
2: to kill by electric shock
— electrocution noun
Origin of ELECTROCUTE
electr- + -cute (as in execute)
First Known Use: 1889
Yes, the word has been dumbed down by some stupid dictionaries due to dumb people using it wrong so frequently. The derivation should be your CLUE to what the real meaning is.
Clue: you have never been electrocuted.
Seriously? If the drive in the laptop fails, it has failed in any scenario. It doesn't matter what strategy you use to back up. You are looking at installing a new one and copying the backup in any event. In any backup scenario you have to do an added trick with grub to copy the boot sector to the second drive. Then all you have to do to recover is pop a new drive in the laptop and dd the backup drive to the new drive, boot sector, partition table, file system, files and all.
Rot in peace you low-life slimy fat lazy pigs.
"The solution is it should be legal to enforce a monopoly for all practical purposes in perpetuity (certainly as it applies to me) on my work, because it supports an unnatural model for income which I want to perpetuate."
The reason it is unnatural is because it can only be supported by using naked force against people who are engaging in acts which in no way cause me damage. The only way you can torture their acts into "damage" is by assuming I am somehow entitled to their money in return for ... nothing.
Just something to think about. There are merits to the case for copyright, but there are also merits to the case against.
Nobody forces any of them to sign with a label. I know some who make an honest living without doing so.
At least I can understand these people even if I hate them as a class for what they have largely turned into.
It's the tools, the apologists, the morons who slurp down their dose of corporatist indoctrination who are forever impenetrable to my understanding.
Another way of saying what I am thinking is, I know and understand those who make themselves the enemies of what is right, at absolute best parasites on the people, but my truest disgust and disrespect I reserve for those who are too lazy and stupid to engage the common enemy even in their own minds and in common discourse.
For a regular peon, yes. Only the fat pig overlords get to have money continuously shoveled to their front porch for NO WORK ON THEIR PART.
It's an interesting discussion, one in which two completely different thought processes are on exhibit, and I know for goddam sure which side of that debate I am on ...
Still and nevertheless ...
The initiative and hence the basic discussion in its connection is not about whether copyright should exist and be enforced. It is about how draconian and dishonest the penalties should be.
... calls for removal of copyright infringement as a crime, reducing violations by private individuals to a misdemeanor.
Uh, guys, a misdemeanor IS A CRIME Petty theft and simple assault and battery are also misdemeanors. Maybe something has been lost in translation. Otherwise I think this initiative is a sad sellout. Copyright infringement ought to be a civil matter, damnmit.
But architectural drawings, blueprints, plans, models, and images can be. Do you see the parallel?
What I think is that society (which I think is what you mean by civilization) and its rickety legal system can go fuck itself it it can't keep up. Human creativity and innovation are not going to halt because it can't keep up. Society couldn't enforce it. It would be evil and people who love freedom and love creating things would fight it and they would win.
Lenovo, are you listening? If you continue your trend of removing the trackpoint buttons and the ability to completely disable the trackpad, you lose your edge and slide into irrelevance. Oh, and this should go without saying, but NO SALE.
The trackpoint with actual physical buttons (THREE of them) is the only acceptable pointing device on a portable. The X301 was PERFECT.
Touchpads are complete and utter garbage. Ones with only soft buttons are even more crappy. What I really want is for this abortion to be completely removed and the keyboard relocated to its proper place and the front of the base, but if it HAS to be there to cater to losers, at least it must be completely disablaeble so I don't brush it when I am attempting to type, damn it.
One has to make a distinction between the original negatives and the prints. Even Super 35 can resolve in excess of 3,000 lines. 65mm negatives such as Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago would have been well in excess of that; definitely far superior to 1080p, and almost certainly better than 4k. Even after accounting for printing to positive and projection in a theater equipped for 70mm using a fresh print, well maintained equipment, and a good projectionist, the indication is that the audience in 1965 in a top-tier theater had the potential to see a picture better than 1080p, and potentially pretty competitive with 4k. People in typical theaters with 35mm equipment showing worn 35mm prints, with a sloppy projectionist, would have been SOL, but that was not the fault of the original cinematography at all; hence the superb restoration of these films to Blu-ray.
You have a point with grain. You can see grain in most films even in a good DVD edition. It's a little like looking through a screen. If you stand still (i.e., single frame) it can be pretty evident, but if you walk past a screen (i.e., moving picture) it clears up dramatically because the fresh grain structure in every frame transforms into the appearance of brownian motion (the way the screen almost disappears when you walk past it). It becomes just a noise source in the picture, not really limiting the resolution. But everyone owes it to himself to be stunned by seeing the quality of some of the restored 70mm greats on Blu-ray close-up to a good 1080p display.
P.S., 2k is 1080p. 4k is 2160p. It's fucked up, because lines of resolution customarily refer to vertical, but the number before the k is the horizontal resolution - just to make it sound better than it really is, I believe.
Sites of sunken WW2 U-boats (and other warships of all nations) are treated as war graves with a prohibition against entering or disturbing. Why would WW1 sites be treated any differently?
How old would such wrecks have to be before skeletons would be treated as just skeletons? Most likely nobody would have any scruples nosing around wrecks of Norse longboats of 1,000 years ago, or if that is not the case, how about Greek ships from BCE?
Absolutely agree that archaeology is rather an odd way to characterize study of artifacts of the WW1 period. Unfortunately I don't think English has a convenient word or phrase to describe study of artifacts of modern history. Does Greek?
Basically all too true, and I couldn't agree more with the general distinction, but it wasn't that cut and dried. When you use the phrase "nothing to do with" you do need to be careful. It didn't hold a candle to the the devastation of civilian populations in WW2, but it was bad enough in its own right.
DIRECT civilians deaths DUE TO MILITARY ACTION in WW1
Russian Empire 500,000
Romania 120,000
Austria-Hungary 120,000
France 40,000
German Empire 1,000
Excess deaths due to famine, disease, etc attributable to the war:
Ottoman Empire 2,150,000
Russian Empire 1,000,000
Italy 585,000
German Empire 425,000
Austria-Hungary 347,000
Romania 330,000
Serbia 300,000
France 260,000
UK 107,000
Bulgaria 100,000
A global total of 950,000 direct civilian deaths plus 5,900,000 indirect civilian deaths was a "good" warmup for WW2 with its 38 to 55 million civilian deaths. Since the bulk of the civilian hurt didn't come down on the UK and France, and the worst of it not even on Germany, it gets overlooked, but I doubt if the people of Russia and Turkey will ever forget what their forebears went through.
I suppose there may have been very crude ciphers encountered; there were vast numbers of ciphers and codes used during the war. But I get the idea that generally the codebooks and even some of the principles and variations used for enciphering important signals were changed often enough to require fresh efforts to be repeatedly mounted to regain the ability to decipher. And even when that ability was gained, it was never as simple as pressing a "go" button to decipher a message.
As far as I can tell, the Lorenz Cipher and the Japanese Naval JN-25 were on the same order of difficulty as Enigma.
Our cowardly hit and run commenter is, predictably, full of shit. I'm going to take a wild guess that he thinks 1960's movies are "old", even though I don't. The picture quality of the the Lawrence of Arabia Blu-ray is matchless. It makes the term "breathtaking" into an understatement. Anything in 70mm, properly processed and restored if necessary, is at least as good as 4k digital. Doctor Zhivago is very nearly as impressive. Julie Christie's face in candlelight will make your heart race faster than anything you can find on recent digital productions, as you will get more detail on your 1080p display than you did in 1965 on a wide movie screen, the projector a little out of focus, with smoke in the air, and more than likely a well-used print.
That is a description of most video program material in general; it has nothing to do with the Blu-ray technology per se. And so what? Don't watch most videos. Watch the good videos. Here are just a few of the superb quality titles available on Blu-ray:
Lawrence of Arabia
Doctor Zhivago
The Great Escape
Blade Runner
Gattaca
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Chinatown
Master and Commander
2001: A Space Oddity
the Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Thin Red Line
North by Northwest
Gods and Generals
That is only the beginning of a list that almost anyone of discerning taste will agree are superb titles. The picture quality is notably better than any streaming presentation.
"Preventive" laws are immoral, evil, presumptive and do not work. Ever see Minority Report?
Maybe if the war of escalation in which cars are made more and more like fortresses and the occupants elaborately cushioned had never been begun, more drunk and incompetent drivers would have killed themselves, reducing the danger to others. But this is pretty far afield from the topic.
And it had a positive void coefficient. And instability at low power levels. And a flammable graphite moderator. And the tips of the control rods were made of graphite which actually INCREASED reactor power when they started to enter the reactor. And the reactor building roof was covered with flammable bitumen (counter to regulations). The totality of the dreadfulness of the design is almost impossible to comprehend. Even so it is exceeded by the stupidity of the experiment undertaken by the operators which ended in the catastrophe.
There are still 10 operating RBMK reactors of this awful type in Russia.
No, despite the mental masturbation exhibited at the link, it was not an "awful decision". It was an absurdly incompetent investigation, and doesn't result in any certitude, but it found the most likely cause. Yeah, it could have been an accident; it could have been murder; but more likely it was suicide. You take away from somebody who they ARE and you have taken away everything.