If this true I imagine Hollywood would jump on this -- they now have one less reason to be inconvenienced when an (popular) actor dies.
Someone uses a reconstruction of someone else's popular, but now dead voice, as a marketing ploy -- much like Natalie Cole hijacked her father's song -- are we going to have lawsuits over unauthorized sound-a-likes now?
I also imagine the music industry would go crazy over it as well. First with their Auto-Tune shenanigans I'm now waiting for the inevitable "Auto-Sing" -- "we can recreate the voice of any dead singer!"
Ask any of us geeks that "cracked" copy protection. We ain't doing it for the free money or chicks. We're doing it because we love to explore, learn, and take back our rights.
The fastest way to motivate a geek is to tell him he can't do something.
"You can't copy this floppy, music, movie, etc." "Fuck you and your shitty DRM copy protection."
As a mystic I get tired of ignorant man taking pure Spirituality and corrupting it into man-made Religion. I also call out atheists for their arrogance of throwing the baby out with the bath water -- they have ZERO knowledge, by definition you can't have knowledge when you lack belief. If the shoe fits, then pay attention to the shoe size!
Just in case it wasn't clear what the difference between the two is:
Religion: One person telling another what they should do to understand the All Parent. Spirituality: One person telling another what they could do to understand the All Parent.
> So you don't believe 99.99% of the bible. Ok, we agree.
Incorrect.
It is 100% true. But your thinking is clouded by a _literal_ interpretation. Unless one reads ALL scripture in a 3-fold manner:
1. Literal, 2. Allegorical, and 3. Spiritual
then man is doomed to focus on the absurdities of the "literal letter that killeth." One of the few things Paul the Murderer got right was in Gal 4:24 "Now this is an allegory:" when referring to Sarah and Hagar.
When you read about the parable of the boy who cried wolf, does it matter if the story was not _literally_ true? Of course. The _lesson_ is what is important. The bible is one big parable -- some parts are literally true. Others are made up. And yet other is borrowed. The historical events are completely irrelevant.
It is the very same reason day 2 of the creation story is not called good. There is a much deeper meaning portrayed in the two contradictory creation stories in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2.
> I'm feeling extra cool today so I'm letting it slide. I'm sure that's what Jesus would want me to do.
That is _exactly_ what you should do. "Turn the other cheek".
Maybe there is hope for you after all.:-)
See, you don't need the Bible at all -- you've already learnt the lesson. Now apply this in the rest of your life and you will be blessed.
You mis-attributing to the pagan Egyptian God Yahweh what man corrupted.
Go read Matthew 22:37-40 again:
37 Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: âLove your neighbor as yourself.' 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.â
Because ANYTHING that contradicts this is a perversion and corruption written by MEN of some nameless God which includes 99.99% of the Bible.
Only a complete, and fucking idiot, believes that our All-Parent commands his/her children to kill one another.
The fact that you can't summarize the Bible in 2 words, Love Unconditionally, makes me question your reading comprehension. You are throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Blaming other people because they were too stupid to understand Spirituality is no excuse for your own ignorance about man-made Religion.
Can you show me _anywhere_ that Jesus said any of those things?
Because you're talking about the corrupted versions of men, specifically by Moses and Paul -- both, who ironically, who started their spiritual "careers" by murdering people.
Even in Jeremiah 8:8 it admits that scripture is corrupted:
"'How can you say, "We are wise, for we have the law of the LORD," when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely?
Why is it that animals have lived on this planet for BILLIONS of years without any money yet MAN is the ONLY STUPID creature who hasn't figured out how to do this yet???
Robbing Paul to pay Peter is a shitty way to run the country, and not sustainable. Instead of **wasting** money on killing other people -- which solves NOTHING in the long run, we should be educating our selves and our children. When we prioritize genocide it shows us what we value -- not investing in ourselves.
We have two choices:
* Direct Tax, aka, the Gasoline Tax * Voluntarily
It people are unwilling to help out their fellow man, voluntarily, then they don't _deserve_ any of those things. Your society is already a morally bankrupt one -- adding laws won't fix that. Sustaining it will just be a footnote in history.
The fundamental problem is this:
We don't have a income problem, we have a spending problem.
Trying to enforce morality, by forcing a Socialist Slave Number on everyone, just doesn't work long term. The economic collapse of 1935 was socially engineered to make everyone an economic slave. Are people taught to save for themselves? No, they would rather suck the teet of the government "hoping" that someone else will provide for them.
Hell, The Treasury in 2013 owes $2.8 trillion to the "Social Security Trust Fund"
> First prove how society wouldn't fall apart by eliminating taxes.
The fact that other advanced civilizations do it proves that money isn't needed. It is only man in his immature greed and myopic stupidity that won't allow it.
The whole country is bankrupt, being help up by wishful thinking. One day the house of cards is going to collapse.
This is why First Contact in 2024 is such as game changer -- to help us look beyond our petty, myopic problems and gain a cosmic perspective. God help us all until then if Korea doesn't nuke somebody.
> Avatar came out in 2009, 8 years ago. You could argue there are some derivative ideas in it (as you could argue for any other work of fiction these days), but it was not a remake, not a sequel/prequel, and not a spin-off.
Avatar was a 100% remake of "Dances with Wolves" -- and I'm saying that as someone who bought the BluRay the instant it was available AND The Ultimate Fan's Guide to Avatar
What makes Avatar so good is that it is layered -- you have dumb action at the lowest level and interesting perspective/philosophy at the top. It brings the Out-Body-Experience to the forefront of mass consciousness. It hinted that plants were conscious. Lots of interesting questions for the layman to think about.
* Consciousness doesn't exist according to Physics * The Big Bang is joke with many unsolved problems * We STILL don't know what Electricity is * Or what causes Gravity * Or how to calculate how long a magnet will stay on a fridge * We haven't discovered that Space is relative (i.e. teleportation) * We haven't discovered that Time is relative (i.e. time travel)
So yeah, our current tech is a total joke compared to other advanced civilizations.
80% of the problems of unhappiness are caused by other people:
* Lack of communication from upper management * Excessive communication from upper management * Over (Micro) management * Under management * Unrealistic schedules * Unrealistic features usually promised by Marketing / Sales * Lack of Design * Over-engineered design * Constant interruptions * Meetings that drag on * Excessive meetings * Hardware bugs * No authority to make changes * Lack of Quality Assurance * Excessive Quality Assurance * Lack of ergonomic hardware * User Experience designers that don't know what the fuck they are doing
The remaining 20% problems ARE things we can actually directly deal with:
* Complexity * syntax/compile bugs * run-time bugs -- such as logic bugs, not handling exceptions such as Out of Memory, Out of Disk Space
In the 40 years I've been programming Programming Languages, like fads, come and go. The one thing that is constant is that this list hasn't changed.
-- JavaShit, noun, a brain-dead programming language hacked together in 10 days by a moron where you are forced to use magic numbers like:
Any JS programmer worth their salt uses the triple equality test, ===, because JavaShit fucked up the normal equality comparison test, ==, due to unwanted type conversions -- one ends up with this retarded operator comparison table.
JavaShit likes to masquerade it has native arrays but we can quickly dispel that notion via these tests:
console.log( typeof 1 );// native integer type console.log( typeof Math.PI );// native constant floating-point number console.log( typeof "Hello World" );// native string console.log( typeof [] );// native array, right? console.log( typeof [] == "array" );// sarcasm, this should work, right? console.log( Array.isArray( [] ) );// Why is this needed??
Which produces this output:
"number"// OK -- so both integers and floating-point are treated the same way "number"// OK -- so both integers and floating-point are treated the same way "string"// OK "object"// Wut?? Why is Array returning object?? false// There is no native array in JS true// WTF is the point of having a broken typeof if it doesn't work for arrays???
How does JavaShit define concatenation with arrays? I mean, that isn't too hard to fuck up, right?
Out of the the 4 possibilities for a return type...
* The array [4,6] which is Vector or Matrix addition * The array [1,2,3,4] which is concatenation like [1,2].concat( [3,4] ); * undefined -- Gee, one would think this would be expected, or * Throw an exception -- maybe even this one.
... guess what JavaShit does? It does a 5th retarded thing -- string concatenation!!
"1,23,4"// <b>WTF!?!?!</b> Who is the fucktard that thought this would be reasonable?? "string"// <b>WAT!?!</b> Idiotic type conversion to string!?
-- Only a complete and fucking moron defends JavaShit.
Did you learrn nothing from BASIC in the 70's and 80's??? Only amateurs think misspelling a variable name without throwing an error is somehow "acceptable".
When you are forced to use hacks like this "magic number"...
"use strict";
... where you can't disable strict mode, or worse, turn it off for only one function, you quickly see why it is shitty language.
Artificial scarcity is never a good business tactic -- again, you're assuming everyone "buys" into this stupid idea. The fact that people ARE pirating product X means your philosophy is only costing you in the long run.
> You have no right to ask for number 101,
Hello McFly, it is called being a _customer_. Apparently you failed Business 101.
> Yet I fail to find any right you or I have that we must be able to buy everything and be made available everything, just because we want it.
You're assuming _your morals_ are the (only) ones that are valid -- that is your fallacy.
_Copyright_ is ARTIFICIAL MONOPOLY created by publishers. Not everyone believes in "imaginary (digital) property rights", go figure.
If people _can't_ buy it -- they WILL pirate it. Hell, some people will pirate it regardless. The fact remains that Piracy is a symptom of an untapped demand. Not everyone has the self discipline to _not_ pirate.
Like I said, the issue isn't as black-and-white as you try to make it to be.
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> , so keep using your 60 yr spinning disk tech.
FTFY
The hard drive was invented in 1956, not 1997.
--
"Get off my LAN, you hooligans"
.. and we are still trying to justify our $26 Billion check.
If this true I imagine Hollywood would jump on this -- they now have one less reason to be inconvenienced when an (popular) actor dies.
Someone uses a reconstruction of someone else's popular, but now dead voice, as a marketing ploy -- much like Natalie Cole hijacked her father's song -- are we going to have lawsuits over unauthorized sound-a-likes now?
I also imagine the music industry would go crazy over it as well. First with their Auto-Tune shenanigans I'm now waiting for the inevitable "Auto-Sing" -- "we can recreate the voice of any dead singer!"
... is not sustainable.
How is this any different?
--
Apostle Paul, noun, Murderer of Stephen, Corruptor of The Way, Attempted Murderer of James
Ask any of us geeks that "cracked" copy protection. We ain't doing it for the free money or chicks. We're doing it because we love to explore, learn, and take back our rights.
The fastest way to motivate a geek is to tell him he can't do something.
Heck, or you could let a brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight describe it.
As a mystic I get tired of ignorant man taking pure Spirituality and corrupting it into man-made Religion. I also call out atheists for their arrogance of throwing the baby out with the bath water -- they have ZERO knowledge, by definition you can't have knowledge when you lack belief. If the shoe fits, then pay attention to the shoe size!
Just in case it wasn't clear what the difference between the two is:
Religion: One person telling another what they should do to understand the All Parent.
Spirituality: One person telling another what they could do to understand the All Parent.
> So you don't believe 99.99% of the bible. Ok, we agree.
Incorrect.
It is 100% true. But your thinking is clouded by a _literal_ interpretation. Unless one reads ALL scripture in a 3-fold manner:
1. Literal,
2. Allegorical, and
3. Spiritual
then man is doomed to focus on the absurdities of the "literal letter that killeth." One of the few things Paul the Murderer got right was in Gal 4:24 "Now this is an allegory:" when referring to Sarah and Hagar.
When you read about the parable of the boy who cried wolf, does it matter if the story was not _literally_ true? Of course. The _lesson_ is what is important. The bible is one big parable -- some parts are literally true. Others are made up. And yet other is borrowed. The historical events are completely irrelevant.
It is the very same reason day 2 of the creation story is not called good. There is a much deeper meaning portrayed in the two contradictory creation stories in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2.
> I'm feeling extra cool today so I'm letting it slide. I'm sure that's what Jesus would want me to do.
That is _exactly_ what you should do. "Turn the other cheek".
Maybe there is hope for you after all. :-)
See, you don't need the Bible at all -- you've already learnt the lesson. Now apply this in the rest of your life and you will be blessed.
Go in peace.
Yeah, that is the Dual (or Inverse) of Godwin's Law:
--
You can take the people out of Politics,
But you can't take the Politics out of people.
> like how StarCraft developers dis-obeyed Microsoft orders to not release on NT 4 because it was a serious Operating System.
You wouldn't happen to have a source for that by chance? Thanks.
> You can not GPL your own code and make proprietary binaries.
Yes you can, it's call dual licensing.
Uh, bug fixes, McFly.
You mis-attributing to the pagan Egyptian God Yahweh what man corrupted.
Go read Matthew 22:37-40 again:
Because ANYTHING that contradicts this is a perversion and corruption written by MEN of some nameless God which includes 99.99% of the Bible.
Only a complete, and fucking idiot, believes that our All-Parent commands his/her children to kill one another.
The fact that you can't summarize the Bible in 2 words, Love Unconditionally, makes me question your reading comprehension. You are throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Blaming other people because they were too stupid to understand Spirituality is no excuse for your own ignorance about man-made Religion.
Can you show me _anywhere_ that Jesus said any of those things?
Because you're talking about the corrupted versions of men, specifically by Moses and Paul -- both, who ironically, who started their spiritual "careers" by murdering people.
Even in Jeremiah 8:8 it admits that scripture is corrupted:
"'How can you say, "We are wise, for we have the law of the LORD," when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely?
Why is it that animals have lived on this planet for BILLIONS of years without any money yet MAN is the ONLY STUPID creature who hasn't figured out how to do this yet???
Robbing Paul to pay Peter is a shitty way to run the country, and not sustainable. Instead of **wasting** money on killing other people -- which solves NOTHING in the long run, we should be educating our selves and our children. When we prioritize genocide it shows us what we value -- not investing in ourselves.
We have two choices:
* Direct Tax, aka, the Gasoline Tax
* Voluntarily
It people are unwilling to help out their fellow man, voluntarily, then they don't _deserve_ any of those things. Your society is already a morally bankrupt one -- adding laws won't fix that. Sustaining it will just be a footnote in history.
The fundamental problem is this:
We don't have a income problem, we have a spending problem.
Trying to enforce morality, by forcing a Socialist Slave Number on everyone, just doesn't work long term. The economic collapse of 1935 was socially engineered to make everyone an economic slave. Are people taught to save for themselves? No, they would rather suck the teet of the government "hoping" that someone else will provide for them.
Guess what? Social Security will be BANKRUPT in 2033.
Hell, The Treasury in 2013 owes $2.8 trillion to the "Social Security Trust Fund"
> First prove how society wouldn't fall apart by eliminating taxes.
The fact that other advanced civilizations do it proves that money isn't needed. It is only man in his immature greed and myopic stupidity that won't allow it.
The whole country is bankrupt, being help up by wishful thinking.
One day the house of cards is going to collapse.
This is why First Contact in 2024 is such as game changer -- to help us look beyond our petty, myopic problems and gain a cosmic perspective. God help us all until then if Korea doesn't nuke somebody.
> Avatar came out in 2009, 8 years ago. You could argue there are some derivative ideas in it (as you could argue for any other work of fiction these days), but it was not a remake, not a sequel/prequel, and not a spin-off.
Avatar was a 100% remake of "Dances with Wolves" -- and I'm saying that as someone who bought the BluRay the instant it was available AND The Ultimate Fan's Guide to Avatar
You might enjoy these reads:
* Avatar: A Multi-Dimensional Pop Parable for Ascension
* The Theology of Avatar
What makes Avatar so good is that it is layered -- you have dumb action at the lowest level and interesting perspective/philosophy at the top. It brings the Out-Body-Experience to the forefront of mass consciousness. It hinted that plants were conscious. Lots of interesting questions for the layman to think about.
And yet,
* Consciousness doesn't exist according to Physics
* The Big Bang is joke with many unsolved problems
* We STILL don't know what Electricity is
* Or what causes Gravity
* Or how to calculate how long a magnet will stay on a fridge
* We haven't discovered that Space is relative (i.e. teleportation)
* We haven't discovered that Time is relative (i.e. time travel)
So yeah, our current tech is a total joke compared to other advanced civilizations.
.. because there would be little point in showing us how morally, spiritually, and technologically primitive we are.
Hoisting is just the formal name for retarded design.
Maybe one day you'll grow up and learn about Basic Blocks.
I'm disciplined enough to use triple equals. I'm the one responsible for introducing it to our internal Code Standards.
The problem is the rest of the people on my team. who aren't.
80% of the problems of unhappiness are caused by other people:
* Lack of communication from upper management
* Excessive communication from upper management
* Over (Micro) management
* Under management
* Unrealistic schedules
* Unrealistic features usually promised by Marketing / Sales
* Lack of Design
* Over-engineered design
* Constant interruptions
* Meetings that drag on
* Excessive meetings
* Hardware bugs
* No authority to make changes
* Lack of Quality Assurance
* Excessive Quality Assurance
* Lack of ergonomic hardware
* User Experience designers that don't know what the fuck they are doing
The remaining 20% problems ARE things we can actually directly deal with:
* Complexity
* syntax/compile bugs
* run-time bugs -- such as logic bugs, not handling exceptions such as Out of Memory, Out of Disk Space
In the 40 years I've been programming Programming Languages, like fads, come and go.
The one thing that is constant is that this list hasn't changed.
--
JavaShit, noun, a brain-dead programming language hacked together in 10 days by a moron where you are forced to use magic numbers like:
In JavaShit, variables can be used ANYWHERE in a function, even outside their _expected_ scoping.
For example, weak scoping:
In contradistinction to C++ which has strong scoping:
Scoping helps prevent name collision and bugs.
--
Only an amateur defends JavaShit; professionals are too busy trying to work around the brain dead language designed in 10 days.
> All languages suck in various ways.
Except JavaShit is brain dead.
Any JS programmer worth their salt uses the triple equality test, ===, because JavaShit fucked up the normal equality comparison test, ==, due to unwanted type conversions -- one ends up with this retarded operator comparison table.
Which produces this output:
"equal"
"equal"
true
true
true
true
**FACEPALM**
This forces one to do string concatenation with a dummy empty string prefix: var text = '' + x;
Lastly, any language that ENFORCES the K&R Brace Style for "return", because it will silently fail otherwise, is broken by design.
As Douglas Crockford, author of JavaScript: The Good Parts", said at 34:31
--
Only a complete and fucking moron defends JavaShit.
> All languages suck in various ways.
Except JavaShit sucks worse. It was designed by a fucking moron in 10 days.
JavaShit likes to masquerade it has native arrays but we can quickly dispel that notion via these tests:
Which produces this output:
How does JavaShit define concatenation with arrays? I mean, that isn't too hard to fuck up, right?
Out of the the 4 possibilities for a return type ...
* The array [4,6] which is Vector or Matrix addition
* The array [1,2,3,4] which is concatenation like [1,2].concat( [3,4] );
* undefined -- Gee, one would think this would be expected, or
* Throw an exception -- maybe even this one.
--
Only a complete and fucking moron defends JavaShit.
> I will defend Javascript to pretty much anyone.
Did you learrn nothing from BASIC in the 70's and 80's??? Only amateurs think misspelling a variable name without throwing an error is somehow "acceptable".
When you are forced to use hacks like this "magic number" ...
... where you can't disable strict mode, or worse, turn it off for only one function, you quickly see why it is shitty language.
Artificial scarcity is never a good business tactic -- again, you're assuming everyone "buys" into this stupid idea. The fact that people ARE pirating product X means your philosophy is only costing you in the long run.
> You have no right to ask for number 101,
Hello McFly, it is called being a _customer_. Apparently you failed Business 101.
> Yet I fail to find any right you or I have that we must be able to buy everything and be made available everything, just because we want it.
You're assuming _your morals_ are the (only) ones that are valid -- that is your fallacy.
_Copyright_ is ARTIFICIAL MONOPOLY created by publishers. Not everyone believes in "imaginary (digital) property rights", go figure.
If people _can't_ buy it -- they WILL pirate it. Hell, some people will pirate it regardless. The fact remains that Piracy is a symptom of an untapped demand. Not everyone has the self discipline to _not_ pirate.
Like I said, the issue isn't as black-and-white as you try to make it to be.