The basic problem is here: if you don't like (insert a free web service: wikipedia,/. etc) just stop reading and stop donating. So simple and no hard feelings left.
But, you can't stop paying taxes if you don't like where your money goes. That is a major difference and the result is politics. Yes, that dirty thing where different groups try to bend the whole collective where they want.
Once the option for political pressure is set free, it rarely can be hold back anymore. Then you'd see the content of wikipedia affected by the likes of political corrects, anti-abortionists, rifle-assiciationists etc.
BTW: I'm not an American (as you probably guess of my horrible English) and I don't like to see things I use and like taken to the control of a government which I can't affect even by voting.
No no no! No government messing with Wikipedia! Of course if they give money, they have some kind of right to say what to write there
Keeping this kind of site up isn't so expensive. Many of us web people are having quite a good salaries in IT or other science/tech jobs. Lets keep on donating!
Usenet was born to the Internet culturally completely different from the Net today. Practically everybody wrote with their own names. There were practically no non-academic readers.
The point is: those who wrote the usenet messages years ago thought they were read by only a few people, quite friendly and civilized ones, and that the messages were forgotten in weeks when the news server washed the old messages.
Now these often rather intimate and open discussions can be browsed by anybody anywhere. Just type a name and all you've written will come out.
Maybe some think the Usenet archive has a reason not to exist anymore.
No. Most of the software projects I've had have required some kind of knowledge of local culture, customs and environment. Even though it never required working in the office.
If producing software really were that trivial, that you could do it anywhere basically without knowledge of an outside world, it wouldn't be outsourced but automatized.
In every advance of storage technology the capacity grows. We've seen how people record their old vinyl records, c-cassettes and even CD:s to mp3:s or ogg:s and store them to their hard disks.
I believe that before the CD rot or any kind of physical deterioration of digital material begins to have any kind of real effect, practically all the relevant data is transferred to newer storage technologies.
The reason to transfer would be the usability, reliability, mobility or saving the physical space (for example a record collection vs. laptop hard disk).
Actually both the Earth and Moon orbit the common center, which happens to locate inside the Earth, but not in the centre.
Maybe in the systems where the weight difference of planet and its moon is smaller, both orbit a point outside of both bodies. Maybe Pluto and Charon do this. Which one is the planet an which one the moon then?
They say the robots are clumsy and cannot be operated from Earth, because the distance. I understand the software can't solve every possible event on Moon/Mars whatever.
Maybe they already do this, but why can't they program the robots from the Earth? We could have a scientist here saying what the robot should do next. The robot waits when the programmer implements the scientist's wishes, then send the new program to the robot via radiowaves and there you are.
It would be almost as if the scientist was sent to the foreign planet.
I think the massive music industry actually benefits the marginal bands more than the popular bands.
You never know for sure what is the next fad. That's why the industry has to keep some bands alive waiting if their style happens to be the next seller, and the company would be in the becoming scene at the very start.
Well, please tell me why some numbers are evil. Any number can be interpreted in any way. It's quite possible to build a device, which when inserted a 0 portraits 100 pictures you find offensive an when 1 a similar collection of pictures I find offensive. Does that make ones and zeroes bad?
And even if we agree on the interpretation, I didn't know there are some arrangements of pixels that can hurt people like, say, angry dogs or shotguns.
To really hurt someone requires something from the physical device used: no picture can harm you unless it's so bright it damages your eyes. You can be quite confident your computer is structurally incapable to do that.
Pictures of necrophilia are just strings of ones and zeroes. They cannot hurt anybody. Guns and axes can.
Maybe some people believe, that some binary digits are evil and others dont, but it sounds insane to me. Is 100001100110110 bad? If it is, why and if it isn't what exactly would make it evil?
I have some tendencies to occasional depression (yeah, went to a doctor and have the papers) as well as to hypochondria.
It's interesting, that my hypochondria appears usually when I find myself depressed and decide to rise myself out of it by will. Almost every time I come up with some kind of serious disease and quite obvious symptoms.
Even when I know it's only in my mind, I usually have to visit the doctor to have a peace of mind. These symptoms feel very real.
I think hypochondria is for me a some kind of rationalization of depression. I know I'm depressive, try to get out of it and then my messed up brains give me a "real" disease to worry about.
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I could sit here half the night listing reasons why launching dead granny dust into space is a pretty daft idea
Well, it's smarter than to bury some native Americans to the middle of the Earth turning our planet into one giant Amityville.
Yes, the might of the Superman is beyond our comprehension. That's why we only have to believe in Him and that he was born as a human being among us and crucified for our sins.
Not believing in Superman is a religion too, and you can't prove our Kryptonian friend isn't our lord and saviour. I, for one welcome our new red-caped overlord.
But of the millions of hard disks some might survive. Actually it's not so easy to erase the disks completely and reliably, and quite a few ever even try it.
It is probably very easy to future computers to go through today's data storages. An autopsy of today's artist's or writer's used computer might give more information than we can even dream of. When are the texts written, how fast, how edited etc.
I remember nowadays' text processors' or drawing programs wrap in their files (.doc etc) a lot more information than people know.
Actually pitch correction and other means of spreading the ability to make music ot their own to larger masses might bring new richness to music.
If the machines help making the music listenable, the artist saves the effort to learn to play the instruments or sing (in tune). This helps the artists with new innovations and ideas to make music, and not only those who have sacrificed years in learning to use their instruments.
I think the machines will help to bring more of the true lasting essence of punk to music. Actually it has already done so. People who never visited violin lessons or sang in school choir enjoy making music with their computers.
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That's the very reason why they haven't drilled into the lake yet. They want to be sure not to pollute it.
I recall being able to see through my arm, like looking at an x-ray!
Probably this was because the flash was so bright. Lightwaves, not X. It isn't that hard to see though your fingers or even palms against the sun.
Lying face down there aren't any ambient light, so it is even easier than in the normal outdoor light.
Think about it, you're trying to pick up chicks and an add like "Levitra helped me with my erectile dysfunction" comes up.
Looks like an excellent way to break the ice. I'd like that. Makes the world even less formal and humorless.
But, you can't stop paying taxes if you don't like where your money goes. That is a major difference and the result is politics. Yes, that dirty thing where different groups try to bend the whole collective where they want.
Once the option for political pressure is set free, it rarely can be hold back anymore. Then you'd see the content of wikipedia affected by the likes of political corrects, anti-abortionists, rifle-assiciationists etc.
BTW: I'm not an American (as you probably guess of my horrible English) and I don't like to see things I use and like taken to the control of a government which I can't affect even by voting.
Keeping this kind of site up isn't so expensive. Many of us web people are having quite a good salaries in IT or other science/tech jobs. Lets keep on donating!
Biafra isn't an independent country. Hutus and Tutsies live and fight in Ruanda, not Liberia.
The point is: those who wrote the usenet messages years ago thought they were read by only a few people, quite friendly and civilized ones, and that the messages were forgotten in weeks when the news server washed the old messages.
Now these often rather intimate and open discussions can be browsed by anybody anywhere. Just type a name and all you've written will come out.
Maybe some think the Usenet archive has a reason not to exist anymore.
No. Most of the software projects I've had have required some kind of knowledge of local culture, customs and environment. Even though it never required working in the office.
If producing software really were that trivial, that you could do it anywhere basically without knowledge of an outside world, it wouldn't be outsourced but automatized.
I believe that before the CD rot or any kind of physical deterioration of digital material begins to have any kind of real effect, practically all the relevant data is transferred to newer storage technologies.
The reason to transfer would be the usability, reliability, mobility or saving the physical space (for example a record collection vs. laptop hard disk).
Ban the commie-cracker-pornloving Finland!
Maybe in the systems where the weight difference of planet and its moon is smaller, both orbit a point outside of both bodies. Maybe Pluto and Charon do this. Which one is the planet an which one the moon then?
That's the reason anonymous surveys work so well: most people are too lazy to lie.
Maybe they already do this, but why can't they program the robots from the Earth? We could have a scientist here saying what the robot should do next. The robot waits when the programmer implements the scientist's wishes, then send the new program to the robot via radiowaves and there you are.
It would be almost as if the scientist was sent to the foreign planet.
Computers for developing for software next to nothing, at least compared to the starting costs of almost any other industrial branch.
You never know for sure what is the next fad. That's why the industry has to keep some bands alive waiting if their style happens to be the next seller, and the company would be in the becoming scene at the very start.
And even if we agree on the interpretation, I didn't know there are some arrangements of pixels that can hurt people like, say, angry dogs or shotguns.
To really hurt someone requires something from the physical device used: no picture can harm you unless it's so bright it damages your eyes. You can be quite confident your computer is structurally incapable to do that.
Maybe some people believe, that some binary digits are evil and others dont, but it sounds insane to me. Is 100001100110110 bad? If it is, why and if it isn't what exactly would make it evil?
It's interesting, that my hypochondria appears usually when I find myself depressed and decide to rise myself out of it by will. Almost every time I come up with some kind of serious disease and quite obvious symptoms.
Even when I know it's only in my mind, I usually have to visit the doctor to have a peace of mind. These symptoms feel very real.
I think hypochondria is for me a some kind of rationalization of depression. I know I'm depressive, try to get out of it and then my messed up brains give me a "real" disease to worry about.
Not believing in Superman is a religion too, and you can't prove our Kryptonian friend isn't our lord and saviour. I, for one welcome our new red-caped overlord.
It is probably very easy to future computers to go through today's data storages. An autopsy of today's artist's or writer's used computer might give more information than we can even dream of. When are the texts written, how fast, how edited etc.
I remember nowadays' text processors' or drawing programs wrap in their files (.doc etc) a lot more information than people know.
Actually pitch correction and other means of spreading the ability to make music ot their own to larger masses might bring new richness to music.
If the machines help making the music listenable, the artist saves the effort to learn to play the instruments or sing (in tune). This helps the artists with new innovations and ideas to make music, and not only those who have sacrificed years in learning to use their instruments.
I think the machines will help to bring more of the true lasting essence of punk to music. Actually it has already done so. People who never visited violin lessons or sang in school choir enjoy making music with their computers.
Wouldn't it be smarter to make a virtual mouth and larynx and make it sing? So that the computer would calculate the resulting voice.
Maybe someone has already tried. Sorry about my bad English.
Flying cars exist. They're called aeroplanes or helicopters. A few of them space rockets.