Long term or short term? Because the short term (ie decades) results of the french (or the russian) revolution where not that good. Revolutions tend to eat their children and it is not uncommon that people are even more oppressed afterwards. I takes a long time for things to settle down again and improve.
It isn't crazy at all actually. I don't know how if it works the same in hormone treated meat (again, I'm a plant person), but I know with genetically modified crops they are rejected by many countries for a very good (sorta) reason that really has nothing to do with safety: trade protectionism. A lot of countries, particularly in Europe, don't want to open their farms up to global market forces because they'd be out competed. Here in the US for instance we are really good at producing corn, and could totally kill Europe's native corn industry. Now, WTO laws forbid protectionism, but if you forbid import of something under the guise of regulatory issues, like say a ban on genetic engineering, they you're free to keep your market protected. I was unaware of US beef exports being banned as a result of rBGH (I thought if anything it was related to BSE), but if that is indeed the case I would not be surprised. Food gets pretty political.
I recon you never lived in Europe then. People over here are up in arms for simply mentioning the idea of introducing GMOs into the food chain. Fields with experimental crops had on several occasions to be protected by the police or were destroyed by protesters. Any politician who would try to allow large scale imports of GMO would face a painful political backlash from the voters.
Of course most of that is just "I don't understand it, so I'm scared of it" bullshit and fearmongering. But still it is a choice that people made
Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could just sue them for contamination of your fields? Though they would probably argue that it wasn't their fault, but that of the farmer next doors.
Personally I believe that GM has some potential gains, but also potential some risks associated. My opinion would be that every product containing GM crops must be labeled as such. This would also have to include secondary products (like meat from animals fed with GM crops).
The reason? While I believe most of this stuff to be a good idea, I don't trust companies that just put shitloads of money into research and patents to truthfully report a flaw that only might be dangerous in the long term.
Actually it looks a lot like a standard emergency preparedness article with rather slight modifications. Someone just added the words "zombie apocalypse" to the list of more common emergencies, changed "generic_disaster_picture_1.jpg" to "shot_from_zombie_movie.jpg", added a few words of introduction and there you go.
Probably took less than 20 minutes and totally worth the time if just one person getting in a real emergency remembers the tips from an article he read for fun.
The only way to have absolute freedom is to have absolute anarchy. Everyone is allowed to to whatever he/she pleases.
Sounds like fun until someone stronger than you decides his interests are more important than yours. After that, absolute freedom turns to absolute oppression.
The only way to have as much freedom as possible for all, is to limit said freedom to a point where some people can't use their power (and yes, words can hurt) to limit the rights of others.
Absolute freedom for all is an illusion, maximum freedom is not.
Your freedom must end where the freedom/rights/life of someone else is attacked.
Basically they were told to sum up the most important points.
Example (nothing to do with TFA or the case):
Party 1 has a patent on mousebuttonhighlighting (pretty lame, but caffeine level is currently to low) and sues Party 2 for using said technique, stating each and every page ever produced by 2 as evidence
Party 2 then states that Party 1 should never had gotten the patent in the first place, filing each and every web page using said technique before patent was granted (prior art) as evidence
Judge says: OK kids, you both get to choose your most important points and the rest of that crap goes into the waste bin (no recycling allowed). If, after you are forced to think about the stuff you unloaded on my table, you still think it is worth talking about, we can go to court.
Did I forget anything important?
A court order making sense? ObL found, nuclear reactors are now officially not 100% safe, the greens party wins an election in germany, the second british prince marries a common woman, canada has a new government, atlas shrugged the movie is out, the middle east struggling for freedom...
2012 must truly bring the end of the world as we know it.
Actually I would prefer a court of professional judges who
a) actually know the law
b) are accountable for misjudgements they made
That said, no trial should be held behind closed doors.
Btw. The "Trial without jury" thing is actually quite popular in europe.
The SQL injection problem falls into the classic DO NOT TRUST USER INPUT rule.
For web applications escape everything (especially POST and GET vars), cast known number inputs to int (or float), cut off input that is longer than the corresponding input field allows, have default values to fall back on, encrypt...
It isn't paranoia if they truly are out to get you. And on the net they are.
Know that there are people who are better at breaking things than you are at patching the holes, so don't make their live to easy.
Best thing to do, is to learn from others (and your own) failures.
Feeling a little pedantic today, but "tossing" 10gallons of water in a can could be considered somewhat hard for the average slashdotter.
Even with the kilogramm getting lighter these days.
The Message remains of course: Don't go into a dessert without supplies and a backup plan. Even on a highway.
Come on, if you are willing to modify your robot with "rubber appendages" you might as well add some pointed metal ones and upgrade the frame.
Giving the words Think Tank a new meaning.
Simply reading the link was enough for my strange mind to come up with several images I didn't really wanted to think about and dimmed my outlook on the future of humanity. And no, I don't want to click it. One cannot unsee what the internet shows us.
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Long term or short term? Because the short term (ie decades) results of the french (or the russian) revolution where not that good. Revolutions tend to eat their children and it is not uncommon that people are even more oppressed afterwards. I takes a long time for things to settle down again and improve.
It isn't crazy at all actually. I don't know how if it works the same in hormone treated meat (again, I'm a plant person), but I know with genetically modified crops they are rejected by many countries for a very good (sorta) reason that really has nothing to do with safety: trade protectionism. A lot of countries, particularly in Europe, don't want to open their farms up to global market forces because they'd be out competed. Here in the US for instance we are really good at producing corn, and could totally kill Europe's native corn industry. Now, WTO laws forbid protectionism, but if you forbid import of something under the guise of regulatory issues, like say a ban on genetic engineering, they you're free to keep your market protected. I was unaware of US beef exports being banned as a result of rBGH (I thought if anything it was related to BSE), but if that is indeed the case I would not be surprised. Food gets pretty political.
I recon you never lived in Europe then. People over here are up in arms for simply mentioning the idea of introducing GMOs into the food chain. Fields with experimental crops had on several occasions to be protected by the police or were destroyed by protesters. Any politician who would try to allow large scale imports of GMO would face a painful political backlash from the voters.
Of course most of that is just "I don't understand it, so I'm scared of it" bullshit and fearmongering. But still it is a choice that people made
Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could just sue them for contamination of your fields? Though they would probably argue that it wasn't their fault, but that of the farmer next doors.
Personally I believe that GM has some potential gains, but also potential some risks associated. My opinion would be that every product containing GM crops must be labeled as such. This would also have to include secondary products (like meat from animals fed with GM crops).
The reason? While I believe most of this stuff to be a good idea, I don't trust companies that just put shitloads of money into research and patents to truthfully report a flaw that only might be dangerous in the long term.
Well there is prior art to my technique and so I probably can't get a patent on it, but Mr 9mm still says this bag of money comes with me.
Not really. You would also have to name the "minor celebrity" he might have had an affair with.
Actually it looks a lot like a standard emergency preparedness article with rather slight modifications. Someone just added the words "zombie apocalypse" to the list of more common emergencies, changed "generic_disaster_picture_1.jpg" to "shot_from_zombie_movie.jpg", added a few words of introduction and there you go.
Probably took less than 20 minutes and totally worth the time if just one person getting in a real emergency remembers the tips from an article he read for fun.
Slightly longer answer:
Maybe
Would politicians accept the solution without re-bloating it first? No
The only way to have absolute freedom is to have absolute anarchy. Everyone is allowed to to whatever he/she pleases.
Sounds like fun until someone stronger than you decides his interests are more important than yours. After that, absolute freedom turns to absolute oppression.
The only way to have as much freedom as possible for all, is to limit said freedom to a point where some people can't use their power (and yes, words can hurt) to limit the rights of others.
Absolute freedom for all is an illusion, maximum freedom is not.
Your freedom must end where the freedom/rights/life of someone else is attacked.
Basically they were told to sum up the most important points.
Example (nothing to do with TFA or the case):
Party 1 has a patent on mousebuttonhighlighting (pretty lame, but caffeine level is currently to low) and sues Party 2 for using said technique, stating each and every page ever produced by 2 as evidence
Party 2 then states that Party 1 should never had gotten the patent in the first place, filing each and every web page using said technique before patent was granted (prior art) as evidence
Judge says: OK kids, you both get to choose your most important points and the rest of that crap goes into the waste bin (no recycling allowed). If, after you are forced to think about the stuff you unloaded on my table, you still think it is worth talking about, we can go to court.
Did I forget anything important?
A court order making sense? ObL found, nuclear reactors are now officially not 100% safe, the greens party wins an election in germany, the second british prince marries a common woman, canada has a new government, atlas shrugged the movie is out, the middle east struggling for freedom...
2012 must truly bring the end of the world as we know it.
In Bavaria the standard beer unit is the "Maß" which comes down to 1000ml or 1 liter.
Actually I would prefer a court of professional judges who
a) actually know the law
b) are accountable for misjudgements they made
That said, no trial should be held behind closed doors.
Btw. The "Trial without jury" thing is actually quite popular in europe.
or to watch the news is... insulting to the intelligence of our children.
Judging from the intelligence of the a lot of adults, this is not insulting but rather bitter acceptance
In related news: "Microsoft provides Terrorists with software to plan attacks"
Not that a piece of paper could have done the job as well (or probably better given the use of a halfway decent crypto scheme).
Well at least that should free up some IP addresses.
Sounds like normal run of the mill american capitalism. Except I would call it a "Service Bomb".
I would recommend calling it "Forced Service Intervals" and get a pay raise in addition. Laser Printers anybody?
There is no spoon ... errrr... title
The SQL injection problem falls into the classic DO NOT TRUST USER INPUT rule. For web applications escape everything (especially POST and GET vars), cast known number inputs to int (or float), cut off input that is longer than the corresponding input field allows, have default values to fall back on, encrypt... It isn't paranoia if they truly are out to get you. And on the net they are. Know that there are people who are better at breaking things than you are at patching the holes, so don't make their live to easy. Best thing to do, is to learn from others (and your own) failures.
Feeling a little pedantic today, but "tossing" 10gallons of water in a can could be considered somewhat hard for the average slashdotter. Even with the kilogramm getting lighter these days. The Message remains of course: Don't go into a dessert without supplies and a backup plan. Even on a highway.
I'm pretty confident he put that as step 4, because his market value as a consultant went up quite a bit.
Come on, if you are willing to modify your robot with "rubber appendages" you might as well add some pointed metal ones and upgrade the frame. Giving the words Think Tank a new meaning.
Simply reading the link was enough for my strange mind to come up with several images I didn't really wanted to think about and dimmed my outlook on the future of humanity. And no, I don't want to click it. One cannot unsee what the internet shows us.
Just don't drink and derive...
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but is it watermarked?