Patents are abused -> abolish patents, copyright is abused -> abolish copyright, fine, we could then abolish arms, religion, philosophy, law, property, culture, language, ideas.
Fight abusers instead of giving in for everything they taint, no, uh?
You mean that consumers want to throw money at bluescreening OSes, music player with usb interface that can't do proper usb storage, pads with cams usb and sd coming as an option, stuff that bricks when you tamper with it, updates that remove capability as general as being able to install an OS?
IMHO: Advertisement backed media tell what consumers should want, consumers use what they perceive as most popular because they haven't got a clue nor time to get a clue, and their issues are lost in the sea of noise and astroturfing.
And all the people who use ISP-independent email (which is good practice anyway as an ISP change will be easier) won't even receive it.
Having said that, the overlay is about the worst way they could have used the WWW.
What about a redirection of all www traffic to a warning page?
After you click a checkbox that says OK I got it but I'm in a hurry let me finish surfing which sets a session cookie, or after n http requests or n minutes since the first recent http request normal behavior would be restored.
This is inconvenient enough to motivate people to cure the disease, will convince most people it comes from ISP, while the paranoid will suspect that their system is completely taken over so they have to clean it up anyway.
Don't you find it hypocritical that this thread like most threads do nothing but trash lawyers. But what profession do they automatically run to when they are pissed off over a specific subject and THEIR reading of the law?
Um, I find it predictable that they trash lawyers after they ran to them:P
There are few reasons to upgrade hardware anymore unless you are a gamer or do ultra high end work.
That's why there is the windows/PC makers duopoly. Makers collect the windows tax, windows new APIs break compatibility with older hardware, producers are happy and users undergo the endless update cycle.
If people cling on too much on XP, all MS needs to do is focus less on XP updates so that patches break stuff or run poorly. Malware will do the rest.
The brand new lappy with 4gb 2.5+ghz dual core and 512 geforce that employer's got has small hiccups with windows7 open and close effects, not the greatest first impression.
Catastrophists being wrong does not imply that new generations aren't heavily influenced by media. Like their fathers, and grandpas since the movie and radio era.
Recognizing game from real life does not imply that gaming has no influence on the brain. Like any other kind of activity or exercise the body adapts to perform it better. So the DSP-like capacities of the brain get stimulated. It's improbable that there are no other repercussions in brain activity.
I'm not saying that the influence is badly negative, in fact I am a gamer. I had to borrow a chair to climb up to a space invaders arcade cabinet back in the 70s, I'm currently in a FPS clan. Put simply, claiming all is good with media and gaming seems to me a strange idea.
One point is that man, as well as all creatures, were made in one day. The Bible is very clear on the length of a day as being what we think of as a day now. Furthermore, there have not been millions of years, but instead about 10,000 years, and man was around from the beginning. The point is that you either believe the Bible or you do not.
IIRC a young Christ was surprising people in the synagogue by explaining them the Scriptures. Now if somebody 2000 years ago had problems interpreting scriptures in his native tongues I don't see how somebody can come up with the "definitive interpretation of the Bible" you either have to believe or not, now. You're trolling, maybe in "good faith".
What about symbols? If the Bible is shown to contain one symbol, one metaphor, one figure of speech only, then you are not really sure if/where others may be located.
The Bible being the Word doesn't imply anything on man ability to understand it. I'd rather have faith in the possibility that the Christ described in The Word was the son of God, and listen to what people who chose to live by that faith or sacrificed themselves for their faith have to say. I also don't recall anybody being *forced* to believe by Christ.
I suspect that forcing to believe is by itself evil because it makes the choice impossible. This seems to me religion 101 regardless of the faith.
They had a comparable disaster to 9/11, according to government agencies, a quick googling says what I quote below.
Publications
The Chernobyl Forum released on 5 September 2005 a comprehensive scientific assessment report on the consequences of the Chernobyl accident titled: "Chernobyl's legacy: Health, Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts".[2] A revised edition was released in March 2006 and is available here, together with the Forum's report "Recommendations to the Governments of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine".
The report covers environmental radiation, human health and socio-economic aspects. About 100 recognized experts from many countries, including Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, have contributed. The report claims to be "the most comprehensive evaluation of the accident's consequences to date" and to represents "a consensus view of the eight organizations of the UN family according to their competences and of the three affected countries".[3]
On the death toll of the accident, the report states that 28 emergency workers died from acute radiation syndrome and 15 patients died from thyroid cancer. It roughly estimates that cancers deaths caused by the Chernobyl accident may reach a total of about 4,000 among the 600,000 clean up workers or "liquidators" who received the greatest exposures.[4]
Also, the report estimates an additional 5,000 deaths from the Chernobyl accident among the exposed population of around 6 million living in the contaminated areas of three countries: Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.[5] No estimates were given for other areas.
The report quotes 4,000 cases of thyroid cancer resulting from the accident, mainly in children and adolescents at the time of the accident; however the survival rate is said to be almost 99%. Since most emergency workers and people living in contaminated areas received relatively low radiation doses, comparable to natural background levels, no decrease in fertility or increase in congenital malformations have been observed.[2]
The report indicates that many people were traumatised by the accident and the rapid relocation that followed; they remain anxious about their health, perceiving themselves as helpless victims rather than survivors, mainly because of the lack of credible information about the effects of the accident. The Chernobyl Forum recommends that relocated people be helped to normalise their lives and better access social services and employment.
The report also concluded that a greater risk than the long-term effects of radiation exposure, is the risk to mental health caused by exaggerated fears about the effects of radiation:
"... The designation of the affected population as "victims" rather than "survivors" has led them to perceive themselves as helpless, weak and lacking control over their future. This, in turn, has led either to over cautious behavior and exaggerated health concerns, or to reckless conduct, such as consumption of mushrooms, berries and game from areas still designated as highly contaminated, overuse of alcohol and tobacco, and unprotected promiscuous sexual activity."[6]
> How can we even answer such questions short of Metaphysical reasoning which is totally anti-logic?
anti-logic... hm I'd say it's outside the scope of definition of our logic. But you are making a question which is fully inside the scope of this universe's logic, if define eternal as "having infinite time" instead of "being beyond time", a (wrong) assumption most people make.
"But can an Eternal universe be object of a Creator?"
Since WE can create eternity, the answer is yes. Just think up a cellular automata simulation's set of rules where the state of cell is a function of a variable t (itself an arbitrary floating point real, but it could be as little as mod 2, it's irrelevant) that we call "time". Congrats you made a (likely very boring) universe where you can calculate the state of a cell in arbitrary point of "time". That is an eternal universe.
people may object: "BS if you start the simulation the hardware hosting it will eventually fail, it is not eternal at all". But I didn't specify a timeline. Nor steps. That universe is complete and eternal because for each t I can get the state of all cells i'm interested in. Note that such universe is really an abstraction in the brain of the creator, that universe IS the set of rules; personally I'd add that you better have somebody who knows those rules exist and what they are for, or it loses "meaning".
The shorter answer would be: It can because logical constraints that create the "impossible" in this universe do not necessarily apply in "the meta".
I know I know, but I wanted to try out 7 we bought the damn thing you see. Anyway it dual boots so gparted with no rounding to cyl/MB and grub2 performed well.
you might want to ask people from ukraine and belarus how fascinating it is to experience natural, that is, artificial selection in first person.
And TFS speaks about surrounding soil: the explosion affected quite a large area. Strangely enough no alarm was raised until at least the day after the cloud came to our area (NE italy). Living few kilometers from the iron curtain in a (then) densely militarized zone one would have assumed that NBC monitoring was done in order to prevent attacks from the (then) bad commies.
Creating the universe = creating all that is, time included, physical constants included. An eternal universe can be object of a creator. The big bang is just a theory on how big celestial masses move around. A complex fascinating maybe wrong theory, I don't want to downplay the work of scientists, but that doesn't give anybody a free pass in making wrong logical assumptions.
In fact the Genesis said "the LORD God formed the man [e] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being".
Since "life" in the bible does not refer simply to a heart beating, see "the book of life", I think the passage means, for believers, that man have an earthly origin plus something (divine/spiritual) instilled by God.
Does not contradict Darwin's theories. It contradicts those who use Darwin as propaganda to theorize a mechanic godless world. Problem is, you don't need darwin to be atheist because God doesn't currently show up and if something godlike did there is no way for a trascendent god to prove itself in an immanent world. You cannot distinguish the root admin from a guy stealing the root password by looking at the logs.
I think the debate between creationism and darwinism is a waste of energy.
You should compare it with the Win7 Awesome version, whatever it's called.
it's called windows seven professional. I have it on the company's new laptop since a couple days.
Let me tell how professional It feels at first glance.
The system and non-MS software do the autoupgrade, so it's a very popup-whack-a-mole experience like XP was. I have preinstalled AV software and the suggestion to install windows defender came nonetheless. Actually this is not a big problem, IMHO trying to change everything would be worse, like office2007.
The funny thing is when you want to install linux: all four primary partitions are taken. (it's an Acer, extensa the name IIRC).
So, the DATA partition goes, it's empty. The idea is to resize the C: partition as I don't need much space for linux. Googling seems the faster way to reach the partition manager. I'd rather have it accessible from a disk properties panel, but nevermind maybe I just missed it.
Deleted the DATA partition. Tried to increase C: a bit. Well, you don't do that by increasing the C: partition dimension, you decrease the free space. Sigh. Then tried to make a new partition. Easy. Wait, it's a different color. Hm it's not a primary partition. I briefly look for relevant options, find none. Maybe if i find a shell and run fdisk... no, no, made the new partition and installed using gparted, recalling I warning found somewhere on the web some time ago which said not to round partitions with vista/7. Linux boots but I haven't tried rebooting 7.
Hopefully I won't have to system restore and try dualbooting using a stick with grub.
Not pointless as technology, even if mostly filled with useless stuff.
Twitter replaces a bit of email and a bit of irc in a web2.0 fashion. Which is: take internet protocols that mostly worked, enhance their functionality (when possible) and put them in a centralized webapp (the "cloud" has to do with the internals of the app's server infrastructure, so "centralized" is the right term). With all pluses and minuses of a monoculture.
The web2.1 seems to be: instead of webapps sell apps for smartphones instead, get the user to pay for the download and gather lots of info.
This trend suggests that web 3.0 will be known as "the big brother".
It's different because what you pay for in the software is the work of the programmer. In the chip, while you pay for the big development costs, and for the PHBs that pollu er manage the corporation, you pay also for the physical item itself.
So the message Intel sends is a problem for two reasons:
- it tells the client that it is not striving to give you the best price. If it was the best possible price they could honestly make, they would be at loss each time you buy a crippled chip and you don't upgrade it.
- it make people acquainted with the fact that you buy something over which the producer still have control.
In general, it is true that they likely disable chips. But that doesn't make this behaviour acceptable. It still is a problem for the first reason.
I do not make predictions about diaspora, too early for that.
I have been suprised by the reported problems, esp. with html injection. Diaspora seems a rails app. Rails, like most web frameworks, takes precautions against such injections, and IIRC even basic tutorials mention those, so an unskilled coder that RTF tutorials ought to avoid those.
So I guess they released very early and the code and protocol will have to be massaged a lot. Changing the code is trivial, the protocol is a bit more delicate. It's also probably too late to use gnunet, freenet, other p2p or stuff as i2p or tahoe-lafs as an infrastructure, too. Like every other coder out there, including me, they are gonna pay for the NIH syndrome:) But ok, let's see what happens. Good luck to diaspora.
Where is there any indication that "pirates" were behind the leak of this master key?
If being able to make copies makes a medium more palatable, you're right to be doubtful. I propose we don't care who was behind the leak as it's difficult to ascertain, but instead focus on the trends of blueray player and media in the following months. Then we'll see if the leak helped or not.
I have been using the old 64 bit beta at work with debian lenny and a chrooted 32 bit version at home with sidux (now called aptosid) 64bit without a problem- But I am not a heavy user of youtube maybe I was lucky.
If it's not for direct gain, maybe it is to assert control on Abstract things. Today music, tomorrow ideas and opinions. I think most power systems soon degenerate into a bunch of guys enjoying the control over the others instead of representing them, I see no reason for this to change with the current one, and I read about many things which seems to support my hypothesis.
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> You've seriously never heard of Dido?
Nobody must hear about the Queen of Carthago. Carthago delenda est.
Patents are abused -> abolish patents, copyright is abused -> abolish copyright, fine, we could then abolish arms, religion, philosophy, law, property, culture, language, ideas.
Fight abusers instead of giving in for everything they taint, no, uh?
> Consumers do what they want...
You mean that consumers want to throw money at bluescreening OSes, music player with usb interface that can't do proper usb storage, pads with cams usb and sd coming as an option, stuff that bricks when you tamper with it, updates that remove capability as general as being able to install an OS?
IMHO: Advertisement backed media tell what consumers should want, consumers use what they perceive as most popular because they haven't got a clue nor time to get a clue, and their issues are lost in the sea of noise and astroturfing.
And all the people who use ISP-independent email (which is good practice anyway as an ISP change will be easier) won't even receive it.
Having said that, the overlay is about the worst way they could have used the WWW.
What about a redirection of all www traffic to a warning page?
After you click a checkbox that says OK I got it but I'm in a hurry let me finish surfing which sets a session cookie, or after n http requests or n minutes since the first recent http request normal behavior would be restored.
This is inconvenient enough to motivate people to cure the disease, will convince most people it comes from ISP, while the paranoid will suspect that their system is completely taken over so they have to clean it up anyway.
Don't you find it hypocritical that this thread like most threads do nothing but trash lawyers. But what profession do they automatically run to when they are pissed off over a specific subject and THEIR reading of the law?
Um, I find it predictable that they trash lawyers after they ran to them :P
There are few reasons to upgrade hardware anymore unless you are a gamer or do ultra high end work.
That's why there is the windows/PC makers duopoly. Makers collect the windows tax, windows new APIs break compatibility with older hardware, producers are happy and users undergo the endless update cycle.
If people cling on too much on XP, all MS needs to do is focus less on XP updates so that patches break stuff or run poorly. Malware will do the rest.
The brand new lappy with 4gb 2.5+ghz dual core and 512 geforce that employer's got has small hiccups with windows7 open and close effects, not the greatest first impression.
Catastrophists being wrong does not imply that new generations aren't heavily influenced by media. Like their fathers, and grandpas since the movie and radio era.
Recognizing game from real life does not imply that gaming has no influence on the brain. Like any other kind of activity or exercise the body adapts to perform it better. So the DSP-like capacities of the brain get stimulated. It's improbable that there are no other repercussions in brain activity.
I'm not saying that the influence is badly negative, in fact I am a gamer. I had to borrow a chair to climb up to a space invaders arcade cabinet back in the 70s, I'm currently in a FPS clan. Put simply, claiming all is good with media and gaming seems to me a strange idea.
> If capitalism is supposed to be about delivering the best goods and services to people at the best price...
Microsoft.
Your supposition is invalid.
IIRC a young Christ was surprising people in the synagogue by explaining them the Scriptures. Now if somebody 2000 years ago had problems interpreting scriptures in his native tongues I don't see how somebody can come up with the "definitive interpretation of the Bible" you either have to believe or not, now. You're trolling, maybe in "good faith".
What about symbols? If the Bible is shown to contain one symbol, one metaphor, one figure of speech only, then you are not really sure if/where others may be located.
The Bible being the Word doesn't imply anything on man ability to understand it. I'd rather have faith in the possibility that the Christ described in The Word was the son of God, and listen to what people who chose to live by that faith or sacrificed themselves for their faith have to say. I also don't recall anybody being *forced* to believe by Christ.
I suspect that forcing to believe is by itself evil because it makes the choice impossible. This seems to me religion 101 regardless of the faith.
They had a comparable disaster to 9/11, according to government agencies, a quick googling says what I quote below.
Publications
The Chernobyl Forum released on 5 September 2005 a comprehensive scientific assessment report on the consequences of the Chernobyl accident titled: "Chernobyl's legacy: Health, Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts".[2] A revised edition was released in March 2006 and is available here, together with the Forum's report "Recommendations to the Governments of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine".
The report covers environmental radiation, human health and socio-economic aspects. About 100 recognized experts from many countries, including Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, have contributed. The report claims to be "the most comprehensive evaluation of the accident's consequences to date" and to represents "a consensus view of the eight organizations of the UN family according to their competences and of the three affected countries".[3]
On the death toll of the accident, the report states that 28 emergency workers died from acute radiation syndrome and 15 patients died from thyroid cancer. It roughly estimates that cancers deaths caused by the Chernobyl accident may reach a total of about 4,000 among the 600,000 clean up workers or "liquidators" who received the greatest exposures.[4]
Also, the report estimates an additional 5,000 deaths from the Chernobyl accident among the exposed population of around 6 million living in the contaminated areas of three countries: Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.[5] No estimates were given for other areas.
The report quotes 4,000 cases of thyroid cancer resulting from the accident, mainly in children and adolescents at the time of the accident; however the survival rate is said to be almost 99%. Since most emergency workers and people living in contaminated areas received relatively low radiation doses, comparable to natural background levels, no decrease in fertility or increase in congenital malformations have been observed.[2]
The report indicates that many people were traumatised by the accident and the rapid relocation that followed; they remain anxious about their health, perceiving themselves as helpless victims rather than survivors, mainly because of the lack of credible information about the effects of the accident. The Chernobyl Forum recommends that relocated people be helped to normalise their lives and better access social services and employment.
The report also concluded that a greater risk than the long-term effects of radiation exposure, is the risk to mental health caused by exaggerated fears about the effects of radiation:
" ... The designation of the affected population as "victims" rather than "survivors" has led them to perceive themselves as helpless, weak and lacking control over their future. This, in turn, has led either to over cautious behavior and exaggerated health concerns, or to reckless conduct, such as consumption of mushrooms, berries and game from areas still designated as highly contaminated, overuse of alcohol and tobacco, and unprotected promiscuous sexual activity."[6]
> How can we even answer such questions short of Metaphysical reasoning which is totally anti-logic?
anti-logic... hm I'd say it's outside the scope of definition of our logic. But you are making a question which is fully inside the scope of this universe's logic, if define eternal as "having infinite time" instead of "being beyond time", a (wrong) assumption most people make.
"But can an Eternal universe be object of a Creator?"
Since WE can create eternity, the answer is yes. Just think up a cellular automata simulation's set of rules where the state of cell is a function of a variable t (itself an arbitrary floating point real, but it could be as little as mod 2, it's irrelevant) that we call "time". Congrats you made a (likely very boring) universe where you can calculate the state of a cell in arbitrary point of "time". That is an eternal universe.
people may object: "BS if you start the simulation the hardware hosting it will eventually fail, it is not eternal at all". But I didn't specify a timeline. Nor steps.
That universe is complete and eternal because for each t I can get the state of all cells i'm interested in.
Note that such universe is really an abstraction in the brain of the creator, that universe IS the set of rules; personally I'd add that you better have somebody who knows those rules exist and what they are for, or it loses "meaning".
The shorter answer would be: It can because logical constraints that create the "impossible" in this universe do not necessarily apply in "the meta".
I know I know, but I wanted to try out 7 we bought the damn thing you see.
Anyway it dual boots so gparted with no rounding to cyl/MB and grub2 performed well.
you might want to ask people from ukraine and belarus how fascinating it is to experience natural, that is, artificial selection in first person.
And TFS speaks about surrounding soil: the explosion affected quite a large area. Strangely enough no alarm was raised until at least the day after the cloud came to our area (NE italy). Living few kilometers from the iron curtain in a (then) densely militarized zone one would have assumed that NBC monitoring was done in order to prevent attacks from the (then) bad commies.
> By that logic, Creationism = Big Bang Theory
Only if we adopt a narrow perspective.
Creating the universe = creating all that is, time included, physical constants included. An eternal universe can be object of a creator. The big bang is just a theory on how big celestial masses move around. A complex fascinating maybe wrong theory, I don't want to downplay the work of scientists, but that doesn't give anybody a free pass in making wrong logical assumptions.
In fact the Genesis said "the LORD God formed the man [e] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being".
Since "life" in the bible does not refer simply to a heart beating, see "the book of life", I think the passage means, for believers, that man have an earthly origin plus something (divine/spiritual) instilled by God.
Does not contradict Darwin's theories. It contradicts those who use Darwin as propaganda to theorize a mechanic godless world.
Problem is, you don't need darwin to be atheist because God doesn't currently show up and if something godlike did there is no way for a trascendent god to prove itself in an immanent world. You cannot distinguish the root admin from a guy stealing the root password by looking at the logs.
I think the debate between creationism and darwinism is a waste of energy.
> that man could put a fricking brick in a box and have a million selling hit...
He did, it was called the "iPhone after jailbreaking and firmware update", or the "unsupported ipod model with a linux desktop".
Is the school supposed to create men or sheep? We know the answer, I'm afraid.
it's called windows seven professional. I have it on the company's new laptop since a couple days.
Let me tell how professional It feels at first glance.
The system and non-MS software do the autoupgrade, so it's a very popup-whack-a-mole experience like XP was. I have preinstalled AV software and the suggestion to install windows defender came nonetheless. Actually this is not a big problem, IMHO trying to change everything would be worse, like office2007.
The funny thing is when you want to install linux: all four primary partitions are taken. (it's an Acer, extensa the name IIRC).
So, the DATA partition goes, it's empty. The idea is to resize the C: partition as I don't need much space for linux. Googling seems the faster way to reach the partition manager. I'd rather have it accessible from a disk properties panel, but nevermind maybe I just missed it.
Deleted the DATA partition. Tried to increase C: a bit. Well, you don't do that by increasing the C: partition dimension, you decrease the free space. Sigh.
Then tried to make a new partition. Easy. Wait, it's a different color. Hm it's not a primary partition. I briefly look for relevant options, find none. Maybe if i find a shell and run fdisk... no, no, made the new partition and installed using gparted, recalling I warning found somewhere on the web some time ago which said not to round partitions with vista/7. Linux boots but I haven't tried rebooting 7.
Hopefully I won't have to system restore and try dualbooting using a stick with grub.
Not pointless as technology, even if mostly filled with useless stuff.
Twitter replaces a bit of email and a bit of irc in a web2.0 fashion. Which is: take internet protocols that mostly worked, enhance their functionality (when possible) and put them in a centralized webapp (the "cloud" has to do with the internals of the app's server infrastructure, so "centralized" is the right term). With all pluses and minuses of a monoculture.
The web2.1 seems to be: instead of webapps sell apps for smartphones instead, get the user to pay for the download and gather lots of info.
This trend suggests that web 3.0 will be known as "the big brother".
It's different because what you pay for in the software is the work of the programmer. In the chip, while you pay for the big development costs, and for the PHBs that pollu er manage the corporation, you pay also for the physical item itself.
So the message Intel sends is a problem for two reasons:
- it tells the client that it is not striving to give you the best price. If it was the best possible price they could honestly make, they would be at loss each time you buy a crippled chip and you don't upgrade it.
- it make people acquainted with the fact that you buy something over which the producer still have control.
In general, it is true that they likely disable chips. But that doesn't make this behaviour acceptable. It still is a problem for the first reason.
Posting to undo moderation. I didn't know it was possible to mod and post anon.
I do not make predictions about diaspora, too early for that.
I have been suprised by the reported problems, esp. with html injection.
Diaspora seems a rails app.
Rails, like most web frameworks, takes precautions against such injections, and IIRC even basic tutorials mention those, so an unskilled coder that RTF tutorials ought to avoid those.
So I guess they released very early and the code and protocol will have to be massaged a lot. Changing the code is trivial, the protocol is a bit more delicate. :)
It's also probably too late to use gnunet, freenet, other p2p or stuff as i2p or tahoe-lafs as an infrastructure, too. Like every other coder out there, including me, they are gonna pay for the NIH syndrome
But ok, let's see what happens. Good luck to diaspora.
If being able to make copies makes a medium more palatable, you're right to be doubtful. I propose we don't care who was behind the leak as it's difficult to ascertain, but instead focus on the trends of blueray player and media in the following months. Then we'll see if the leak helped or not.
I have been using the old 64 bit beta at work with debian lenny and a chrooted 32 bit version at home with sidux (now called aptosid) 64bit without a problem- But I am not a heavy user of youtube maybe I was lucky.
If it's not for direct gain, maybe it is to assert control on Abstract things. Today music, tomorrow ideas and opinions. I think most power systems soon degenerate into a bunch of guys enjoying the control over the others instead of representing them, I see no reason for this to change with the current one, and I read about many things which seems to support my hypothesis.