Gotta love this mindless trash talk. Considering their position they are probably going to want to make all sorts of loud noises. Otherwise if every Linux company with any real money comming in gets into the action, SCO is toast.
Be funny if they went there expecting life, and all they found was an old alien thermoelectric generator someone forgot to turn off before they left the planet.
Don't be foolish, violence is here to stay. You can sit there and talk like some creep lawyer all you want, the guy with the gun who wants your wallet doesn't care if the sentance is life in prison and being zapped with cattle prods dozens of times a day.
And the people who vote want other people to make their problems go away. They don't want to be held responsible if little billy swipes their firearm, and trades it to some crack whore that later shoots some used car dealer for not "respecting" her.
They will vote for a politician who will hold them blameless, and sentance the crack whore to a mandatory 2000 years in prison. Never mind that the crack whore will probably get shanked in prison and escape from the prison hospital 2 years later. For that the toothless white trash that run the prison will be slapped on the wrist, told to be more carefull next time, and maybe if they find the crack whore again they'll give her another 2000 year sentance.
This has pretty well gone well beyond the protest stage. This isn't exactly about dolphin safe tuna or the rights of sex offenders to adopt children.
This isn't now slanted to be about rights, right now the spin is all about big media money. At this stage its about the media companies playing catch up, and trying to slow one trend and divert it into another. That being away from P2P networks, and toward the pay per track networks.
Right now they are trying to build a big enough panic reaction. Most of the cases are garbage, but usally your typical file leeching/serving crowd are not likely to be real serious legal experts. If these people they are going after stall for time, and in america you can drag a case out for well over 10 years, most of them would have their cases dropped. because in ten years it will be long over.
If you want to distract the music companies at this point where the lawyers have been deployed and the advertising money spent, you would need a very heavy duty direct action campaign. Something very very seriously disruptive to the lives of the executives, the lawyers, intermediate companies, and even the artists. And you would need some good connections to print media outlets, even if its just the local two bit coupons n' more newspapers. It would take thousands of web pages smearing each and every one of the media lawyers and executives with each page mirrored like crazy.
And at that point you see if they blink. If you can get them to do something stupid and mediapathic, like having the police kick in the door and raid the house of a crippled or retarded kid serving mp3s on a cable connection, and maybe put a few rounds into an overly protective care worker, then you have something that shows a tangible evil of big music corps that you can play up.
People don't respond negatively to companies screwing over college kids, hell, the loan companies and the colleges already do that and noone cares.
You need them to do something really vile, some sort of slaying of the innocents that can be played up into video and sound bytes. You need something that will stir up every clueless reactionary twit into a frenzy. Get them spitting on music company stock holders and calling them child killers. Only then will this start to be over.
Well, worse case is you have a few people at all exits to lay down cover fire in the event of a raid. Having 40-50 pounds of thermite and magnesium fuses with a box of sand to burn the evidence in could also help.
If you were really wacky you could have an RF chip or card scanner embedded in your USB2 or Firewire drive. If the drive was accessed without the right RF device signature, it lights up whatever you may have packed in with the drive.
Its not that bad that such things would have to be done now unless you've been serving goat porn over the net or something equally twisted.
But heres a possibility if you don't wanna swap at someones house, simply get all your friends with laptops, and get bit torrent going over the wi-fi, or some sort of mesh networking system. get rooms at a cheap motel and transmit through the walls, or get together at a parking lot at a mall, set up the laptops to swap files automatically, and go in and shop. 4-5 hours later you have a few more gigs of mp3s, and have your shopping done.
With some hacking you could get some sort of p2p network going over the wireless, and rig it up to autohop from server to server like the cell phones do. Just cruise up and down the main drag of your town, or hang out at the hang out spots, be social while your computer is sucking down and serving mp3s.
With the new tech out there you don't really have to do all your dirty work over the internet.
This should be basic wisdom now. If people are known to cave in to this sort of thing, be it from RIAA, SCO, or some two bit thug who wants protection money from you, then it will never stop. America is already totally polluted with the notion that you can scam your way to a big pile of money while providing the people you scam with little or nothing in return.
Either something happens to break the cycle, or we can become another south america.
It must be some odd quirk, maybe the Tim Allen factor, but there's really no good reason to spend large amounts of cash on shaving products. $2 for a bag of disposable razors, $3-4 for some shaving gel, that should do for at least 4-5 months unless you are some sort of yetti.
Electric shavers cost a fat chunk of change, $50-80 for basic ones,$10-$30 for bagain basement chinese specials, but seem to save a lot of time. You can even touch up with a cheap razor if you are a total nut about it.
But using a razor with 3 blades that costs neerly what an electric shaver does, come on !
Why stop at ripping someone elses CDs ? If everyone at the party has a computer with hundreds-thousands of MP3s already ripped, all you need is a means of pumping the data from one PC to the next. USB2 and Firewire drives would be ideal for this. Or you could finally get some use out of that new gigabit ethernet that comes on many new motherboards.
Just turn your lan gaming party into a file swapping mania party. Of if you wanna be totally wacky, use a wireless network with a mesh system rigged up, or just use some bit torrent system.
Get real, the united states is a place where people votes themselves bread and circuses. People are always in for the get rich quick scams, lotto, burning money on shiney jewelry marked up 50000% and on cars that won't last more than 10 years.
People love scams here in the US, P2Ping ripped off MP3s is much more fun than sitting around ripping CDs you borrowed.
The system breaks down when people download a few mp3s, find the rest of the album is nowhere to be found and go out and buy the box set just to upload it.
Yeah, nothing like all that crap to get em back into the fold. You're an unperson now buddy, maybe if your lucky you can get a job flipping burgers. So where is the motivation for them to live honestly now ? There is none. They buy themselves a stolen gun for $100, a bag a crack rocks, and in a few months have enough money to buy their rights on an as needed basis.
But then, the people who enact these systems sure as hell don't want them to work, because that would mean they'd be out on the streets looking for a private sector job. Better to keep criminals in the same old games, and keep themselves and their buddies in well paying jobs.
most people in the conyers district spend their days carjacking, smoking crack, and sucking down welfare money and faygo cola. Thay guy, and Carl Levin are gonna be in office until the die fo old age.
Hehe. Even adults get nailed by the electric fence gag now and then. The new pulse fencers are the worst. You unplug it to do something inside, and just as you are climbing back through you hear, "oh, watch out I turned the fence back on".
That means you have some unknown fraction of a second to get through before the pulse gets you or not depending on an assortment of random things.
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Should be more simple. Such as, we are not responsible for kids who are so stupid they set themselves on fire, or get killed/injured striving for that darwin award.
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They also had 12 ounce GLASS bottles of coke back then. That made it a tad harder to get fat by sucking down 6 liters worth of cola in a day.
And if you lived in a huge metro area, you might get up to 6-7 whopping channels of TV, on which the programming was pretty lame. If you lived in the sticks you could still get those 6-7 channels, but only with a huge antenna that likely had the motor burned out 10 years ago requiring someone to go up on the roof and turn it while someone on the ground yelled up to say if it was better or worse.
Candy flavings were still not too good in the 70s, but you learned to love it because the butter/bacon/whatever fat overwhelem the turpentine aromas of an immature artifical flavoring technology.
And don't forget, there was the sweet and poisonous aroma of leaded gas. On bitter cold mornings you could see that evil grey everywhere.
Ah yes, TV sucked, so kids ran amok trying to entertain themselves. Cola was flavored with cane sugar produced by neer slave labor, now its full of corn sugar that doesn't taste so good an is as addictive, if not more, than heroin. And the nation simply believed that vietnam was a fluke, and wasn't a trend of sending troops to rotting cesspools worldwide for no good reason. Drugs were something that only low born gutter scum used, and kids looked forward to when they could be cool and start smoking, drinking, and getting laid. Playboy was "hardcore" porn. The term "fisting" would be unknown to the masses until the 80s, and even not then really.
Now, kids learn even before they enter school that the world is a cesspool, and if they are lucky they'll get enough of an education from these union protected losers "teaching" in school that they'll be able to spell and read well enough that they can get real info off the internet educational sights. And then, if they know the right people, and work like a slave they'll find a more or less dry part of the cesspool to exist in. And all their hard work will go into taxes to support the masses of baby boomers crying for more bread and circuses in their retirement years, and the welfare cesspits breeding subhuman scum who dream of becomming rap stars and crack dealers.
But hey, who wouldn't find motivation in a future like that ?
Not a big surprise. Harlan Ellison lives to bitch and complain about everything. "My fans and all sci-fi fans are the lowest scum of the earth. Buy my new book dirtbags!"
The actual rant was about 16 pages, and that was long before he became Harlan Ellison Talk Show Media Whore.
I think that it was only the fact that Larry Ellison started saying more freakish things every week that saved Harlan from an angry lynch mob.
A DNA library has GREAT potential for mayhem. Say you want to get rid of a certain segment of society. You run viral/bacterial DNA data through the database of who you have that would be most vulnerable to it.
Then you calculate the losses, and can better select which to use the kills/permanently disables/sterilezes the enemy more than people on your side.
Or you are an enemy nation, and have a few insiders copy off the entire DNA database of a country so you can better plan a strike.
Or you can just do a search for the vulnerable areas that cover the most of the enemy target population and tailor a virus/bug.
Iceland will probably be the first proof of concept target for this sort of attack since all their DNA will be the first to be fully documented.
Doesn't really do much good after 15 years. In the 15 years he could have killed dozens more.
With every bit of technology you give police an easy way to do bad police work. You pull in family members of the killer trying to match the partial, but oops, the killer was put up for adoption at birth.
So they lean on someone in the guys family who got in a few bar fights or had a minor domestic dispute who might be capable of it, get a false conviction, and the killer is now free because noone is looking anymore. If they find a few more bodies, just mark it up as the guy they falsely bagged. Justice is served because they have a good scapegoat.
I'm afraid what you say is probably lost on a good part of these people. Most think ALL of africa is a sandheap where everyone is starving to death and the only 30-40 people that make more than 5 cents a year are dictators/warlords of whatever nation.
But anyway, it's true enough, a series of cell towers is easier to put up than having to slash, burn and trench every which way thru various terrain. You also don't have to send a service tech out into the middle of nowhere to try and find out where the cable went bad.
That was part of the problem of having got there first. Spain, Portugul, Holland and France all had american colonies. Where are they now exactly ? They spent all their effort breaking ground getting there with horribly crude technology. England started building their empire over a century later. They took over all the leftover rotten land where you could freeze to death. And few big nasty sand/dust heaps here and there. I guess thems is just the breaks.
If UN dues were based on the number of people in each nation at a certain $ per head, I would be all for the US paying its dues. Right after china and india were paid in full.
Let me guess, you live in suburbia, and think that parents who don't have full coverage health insurance for their kids are commiting "child abuse". Only people like this who live in a bubble can even dream of banning something as generic as "weapons". You might as well ban air or food while you are at it. When you are talking a whole continent with billions of people there will always be war somewhere, and as long as you have thinking human beings you will have weapons. Now the trick here is to help build things up faster than they can be torn down. There have been many failures with aid in the past, and people will learn from those failures, and most likely fail again and again until something works. People in africa have TVs, satt TV, shortwave radios, pocket calculators and other things that the first world has made dirt cheap. As the information flow increases progress moves faster. With wifi, cellular tech, spread spectrum digital you don't have to rip up those ever so wonderfull old growth rain forests to lay down optical cable.
You wanna clean up all the water in the world ? Start making water filtration pitchers. Get a bunch of well healed liberals to fund it and sell em at a loss.
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Gotta love this mindless trash talk. Considering their position they are probably going to want to make all sorts of loud noises. Otherwise if every Linux company with any real money comming in gets into the action, SCO is toast.
Did they break out into German Techno dancing like on Sprockets ??
The dingo stole their baby!
Be funny if they went there expecting life, and all they found was an old alien thermoelectric generator someone forgot to turn off before they left the planet.
Don't be foolish, violence is here to stay. You can
sit there and talk like some creep lawyer all you want, the guy with the gun who wants your wallet doesn't care if the sentance is life in prison and being zapped with cattle prods dozens of times a day.
And the people who vote want other people to make their problems go away. They don't want to be held responsible if little billy swipes their firearm, and trades it to some crack whore that later shoots some used car dealer for not "respecting" her.
They will vote for a politician who will hold them blameless, and sentance the crack whore to a mandatory 2000 years in prison. Never mind that the crack whore will probably get shanked in prison and escape from the prison hospital 2 years later. For that the toothless white trash that run the prison will be slapped on the wrist, told to be more carefull next time, and maybe if they find the crack whore again they'll give her another 2000 year sentance.
This has pretty well gone well beyond the protest stage. This isn't exactly about dolphin safe tuna or the rights of sex offenders to adopt children.
This isn't now slanted to be about rights, right now the spin is all about big media money.
At this stage its about the media companies playing catch up, and trying to slow one trend and divert it into another. That being away from P2P networks, and toward the pay per track networks.
Right now they are trying to build a big enough panic reaction. Most of the cases are garbage, but usally your typical file leeching/serving crowd are not likely to be real serious legal experts.
If these people they are going after stall for time, and in america you can drag a case out for well over 10 years, most of them would have their cases dropped. because in ten years it will be long over.
If you want to distract the music companies at this point where the lawyers have been deployed and the advertising money spent, you would need a very heavy duty direct action campaign. Something very very seriously disruptive to the lives of the executives, the lawyers, intermediate companies, and even the artists. And you would need some good connections to print media outlets, even if its just the local two bit coupons n' more newspapers.
It would take thousands of web pages smearing each and every one of the media lawyers and executives
with each page mirrored like crazy.
And at that point you see if they blink. If you can get them to do something stupid and mediapathic, like having the police kick in the door and raid the house of a crippled or retarded kid serving mp3s on a cable connection, and maybe put a few rounds into an overly protective care worker, then you have something that shows a tangible evil of big music corps that you can play up.
People don't respond negatively to companies screwing over college kids, hell, the loan companies and the colleges already do that and noone cares.
You need them to do something really vile, some sort of slaying of the innocents that can be played up into video and sound bytes. You need something that will stir up every clueless reactionary twit into a frenzy. Get them spitting on music company stock holders and calling them child killers. Only then will this start to be over.
Well, worse case is you have a few people at all exits to lay down cover fire in the event of a raid. Having 40-50 pounds of thermite and magnesium
fuses with a box of sand to burn the evidence in could also help.
If you were really wacky you could have an RF chip or card scanner embedded in your USB2 or Firewire drive. If the drive was accessed without the right RF device signature, it lights up whatever you may have packed in with the drive.
Its not that bad that such things would have to be done now unless you've been serving goat porn over the net or something equally twisted.
But heres a possibility if you don't wanna swap at someones house, simply get all your friends with laptops, and get bit torrent going over the wi-fi, or some sort of mesh networking system. get rooms at a cheap motel and transmit through the walls, or get together at a parking lot at a mall, set up the laptops to swap files automatically, and go in and shop. 4-5 hours later you have a few more gigs
of mp3s, and have your shopping done.
With some hacking you could get some sort of p2p network going over the wireless, and rig it up to autohop from server to server like the cell phones do. Just cruise up and down the main drag of your town, or hang out at the hang out spots, be social while your computer is sucking down and serving mp3s.
With the new tech out there you don't really have to do all your dirty work over the internet.
This should be basic wisdom now. If people are known to cave in to this sort of thing, be it from RIAA, SCO, or some two bit thug who wants protection money from you, then it will never stop. America is already totally polluted with the notion that you can scam your way to a big pile of money while providing the people you scam with little or nothing in return.
Either something happens to break the cycle, or we can become another south america.
It must be some odd quirk, maybe the Tim Allen factor, but there's really no good reason to spend large amounts of cash on shaving products. $2 for a bag of disposable razors, $3-4 for some shaving gel, that should do for at least 4-5 months unless you are some sort of yetti.
Electric shavers cost a fat chunk of change, $50-80 for basic ones,$10-$30 for bagain basement chinese specials, but seem to save a lot of time. You can even touch up with a cheap razor if you are a total nut about it.
But using a razor with 3 blades that costs neerly what an electric shaver does, come on !
Why stop at ripping someone elses CDs ? If everyone at the party has a computer with hundreds-thousands of MP3s already ripped, all you need is a means of pumping the data from one PC to the next. USB2 and Firewire drives would be ideal for this. Or you could finally get some use out of that new gigabit ethernet that comes on many new motherboards. Just turn your lan gaming party into a file swapping mania party. Of if you wanna be totally wacky, use a wireless network with a mesh system rigged up, or just use some bit torrent system.
Get real, the united states is a place where people votes themselves bread and circuses. People are always in for the get rich quick scams, lotto, burning money on shiney jewelry marked up 50000% and on cars that won't last more than 10 years. People love scams here in the US, P2Ping ripped off MP3s is much more fun than sitting around ripping CDs you borrowed. The system breaks down when people download a few mp3s, find the rest of the album is nowhere to be found and go out and buy the box set just to upload it.
Yeah, nothing like all that crap to get em back into the fold. You're an unperson now buddy, maybe if your lucky you can get a job flipping burgers. So where is the motivation for them to live honestly now ? There is none. They buy themselves a stolen gun for $100, a bag a crack rocks, and in a few months have enough money to buy their rights on an as needed basis.
But then, the people who enact these systems sure as hell don't want them to work, because that would mean they'd be out on the streets looking for a private sector job. Better to keep criminals in the same old games, and keep themselves and their buddies in well paying jobs.
Just stuff em in all the sanitariums they closed down in the 60s-80s.
most people in the conyers district spend their days carjacking, smoking crack, and sucking down welfare money and faygo cola. Thay guy, and Carl Levin are gonna be in office until the die fo old age.
Hehe. Even adults get nailed by the electric fence gag now and then. The new pulse fencers are the worst. You unplug it to do something inside, and just as you are climbing back through you hear, "oh, watch out I turned the fence back on".
That means you have some unknown fraction of a second to get through before the pulse gets you or not depending on an assortment of random things.
Should be more simple. Such as, we are not responsible for kids who are so stupid they set themselves on fire, or get killed/injured striving for that darwin award.
They also had 12 ounce GLASS bottles of coke back then. That made it a tad harder to get fat by sucking down 6 liters worth of cola in a day.
And if you lived in a huge metro area, you might get up to 6-7 whopping channels of TV, on which the programming was pretty lame. If you lived in the sticks you could still get those 6-7 channels, but only with a huge antenna that likely had the motor burned out 10 years ago requiring someone to go up on the roof and turn it while someone on the ground yelled up to say if it was better or worse.
Candy flavings were still not too good in the 70s, but you learned to love it because the butter/bacon/whatever fat overwhelem the turpentine aromas of an immature artifical flavoring technology.
And don't forget, there was the sweet and poisonous aroma of leaded gas. On bitter cold mornings you could see that evil grey everywhere.
Ah yes, TV sucked, so kids ran amok trying to entertain themselves. Cola was flavored with cane sugar produced by neer slave labor, now its full of corn sugar that doesn't taste so good an is as addictive, if not more, than heroin. And the nation simply believed that vietnam was a fluke, and wasn't a trend of sending troops to rotting cesspools worldwide for no good reason. Drugs were something that only low born gutter scum used, and kids looked forward to when they could be cool and start smoking, drinking, and getting laid. Playboy was "hardcore" porn. The term "fisting" would be unknown to the masses until the 80s, and even not then really.
Now, kids learn even before they enter school that the world is a cesspool, and if they are lucky they'll get enough of an education from these union protected losers "teaching" in school that they'll be able to spell and read well enough that they can get real info off the internet educational sights. And then, if they know the right people, and work like a slave they'll find a more or less dry part of the cesspool to exist in. And all their hard work will go into taxes to support the masses of baby boomers crying for more bread and circuses in their retirement years, and the welfare cesspits breeding subhuman scum who dream of becomming rap stars and crack dealers.
But hey, who wouldn't find motivation in a future like that ?
Not a big surprise. Harlan Ellison lives to bitch and complain about everything. "My fans and all sci-fi fans are the lowest scum of the earth. Buy my new book dirtbags!" The actual rant was about 16 pages, and that was long before he became Harlan Ellison Talk Show Media Whore. I think that it was only the fact that Larry Ellison started saying more freakish things every week that saved Harlan from an angry lynch mob.
A DNA library has GREAT potential for mayhem. Say you want to get rid of a certain segment of society. You run viral/bacterial DNA data through the database of who you have that would be most vulnerable to it.
Then you calculate the losses, and can better select which to use the kills/permanently disables/sterilezes the enemy more than people on your side.
Or you are an enemy nation, and have a few insiders copy off the entire DNA database of a country so you can better plan a strike.
Or you can just do a search for the vulnerable areas that cover the most of the enemy target population and tailor a virus/bug.
Iceland will probably be the first proof of concept target for this sort of attack since all their DNA will be the first to be fully documented.
Doesn't really do much good after 15 years. In the 15 years he could have killed dozens more.
With every bit of technology you give police an easy way to do bad police work. You pull in family members of the killer trying to match the partial, but oops, the killer was put up for adoption at birth.
So they lean on someone in the guys family who got in a few bar fights or had a minor domestic dispute who might be capable of it, get a false conviction, and the killer is now free because noone is looking anymore. If they find a few more bodies, just mark it up as the guy they falsely bagged. Justice is served because they have a good scapegoat.
I'm afraid what you say is probably lost on a good part of these people. Most think ALL of africa is a sandheap where everyone is starving to death and the only 30-40 people that make more than 5 cents a year are dictators/warlords of whatever nation. But anyway, it's true enough, a series of cell towers is easier to put up than having to slash, burn and trench every which way thru various terrain. You also don't have to send a service tech out into the middle of nowhere to try and find out where the cable went bad.
That was part of the problem of having got there first. Spain, Portugul, Holland and France all had american colonies. Where are they now exactly ? They spent all their effort breaking ground getting there with horribly crude technology.
England started building their empire over a century later. They took over all the leftover rotten land where you could freeze to death. And few big nasty sand/dust heaps here and there.
I guess thems is just the breaks.
If UN dues were based on the number of people in each nation at a certain $ per head, I would be all for the US paying its dues. Right after china and india were paid in full.
Let me guess, you live in suburbia, and think that parents who don't have full coverage health insurance for their kids are commiting "child abuse".
Only people like this who live in a bubble can even dream of banning something as generic as "weapons". You might as well ban air or food while you are at it.
When you are talking a whole continent with billions of people there will always be war somewhere, and as long as you have thinking human beings you will have weapons.
Now the trick here is to help build things up faster than they can be torn down. There have been many failures with aid in the past, and people will learn from those failures, and most likely fail again and again until something works.
People in africa have TVs, satt TV, shortwave radios, pocket calculators and other things that the first world has made dirt cheap. As the information flow increases progress moves faster. With wifi, cellular tech, spread spectrum digital you don't have to rip up those ever so wonderfull old growth rain forests to lay down optical cable.
You wanna clean up all the water in the world ? Start making water filtration pitchers. Get a bunch of well healed liberals to fund it and sell em at a loss.
Hey chucklehead, this guy is FROM africa, he knows whats going on down there. Go burn your cross on someone elses yard toothless hick!