Holding convicted people in bed to atrophy their muscles is cruel and unusual punishment even given that all the laws the make people felons for bullshit reason were removed.
I wouldn't blow up the UN building. It is after all a nice enough piece of real estate to use for something else.:-)
Given that the Libertarian ideals for what government should and shouldn't do are correct and given that a Libertarina becomes president, how would we proceed to dismantle much of the current government machinery in an orderly fashion? It looks to be a rather delicate process. Obviously just junking everything immediately that should not be there would destroy the nation's economy. So what could be changed immediately and what needs to be phased in and over what kind of time?
Actually, it has become acceptable usage to use either one in most contexts. Would someone please buy the poster who started this side thread a better discrimination implanat as to what is important?
The fine can also be levied for ordering prescription drugs fron any firm online which isn't certified re:
" Under the new policy, prescription drug sellers who do not have Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Sites certification from the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, and the people who buy from them, also face fines and possible legal action if they do business using PayPal."
So if I buy Piracatem over the net as it is not available without a prescription in the US, PayPal can fine me and otherwise bring legal action against me? A convenient financial middleman is now a pimp of the FDA and Big Pharma as well as for Religious Nuts attempting to take over the US government?
This is way, way too much. If this is not rescinded then I am pulling all funds out of Paypal and closing my account. I don't pay bloody creeps for their malicious behavior.
I am very happy to pay for the PayPal service as it works well for me. But to not only pay for the service I wanted but also have part of those funds enable PayPal to police what I do in my life and how I choose to spend my money? NO, THANKS.
I encourage everyone to write in and complain about this Big Brother-ish behavior or Little Brother attempted to placate Big Brother.
Demand the freedom we prattle on about. Settle for nothing less.
Blind the people lest they see what we don't want them to see. Blind the people lest the few do something with what they see that is wrong. Blind the people so the many cannot do even good without government license. Blind the people to what their government does. Blind the people to the world that could have been. Blind the people, keep them in the dark and feed them only fear.
What is considered "safe" is often tied to ridiculous notions of "safe" speeds. Safe speed actually depends on road conditions, traffic density, driver reflexes and so on. Remember 55mph speed limits? For most interstate conditions this is a huge blow to our economy and to millions of commuters lives. For that matter on most of our interstates much of the time 65mph is also more waste than gain.
How long do you think it will be before these boxes are mandatory and tied to automatic ticketing systems to bolster falling municipal revenues?
Enforcing laws does not include pissing all over what is supposed to be the highest law of the land. Nor does it include grossly inflating the nature of the alleged misdeeds to garner publicity and raise a smokescreen. Nor does it include acting like jack-booted thugs who may invade citizen's homes and take their property without due process.
Er, did you miss what the government commonly does in tax or drug cases? Take everything, don't necessarily return any of it even if you are found innocent or not charged at all. We haven't been in a country with a government actually limited by the Constitution in a l-o-n-g time. Please make a note of it and act accordingly.
"This doesn't seem possible - that's what, 100,000 x 300GB hard drives? Are they really providing that much, or is this the total amount available on the entire network?"
Any p2p net out there would be really, really proud to have that kind of hardware to share. Obviously, Ashcroft inflated the hell out of the numbers as per usual and things the people are too friggin' dumb to notice.
I thought we still had not given the FBI permission to listen to all domestic calls even after 9/11. So when did they get this authority and who gave it to them? If they do have it then where is the campaign to remove this authority and get them out of our conversations post haste?
Does anyone really believe that matching faces to passports will stop any but the already known/suspected terrorists from entering under a false passport? Does anyone believe that the determined minority of terrorists thus filtered cannot find those who can finagle such measures? Is security actually served by treating everyone as a possible terrorist? I thought we got over that stuff in the US during the McCarthy era. Apparently not.
The problem is the very existence of software patents. The solution is to eliminate them. Anything less is endless catering to and reinforcement of insanity.
Let the West learn to slack off even more than is already done. No problem. Asia will simply eat our lunch. That part of the world already is averaging on the order of 10x the number of engineering and science degrees.
That the beyond our wildest dreams is possible does not make it religion. It just proves that the Universe is indeed "stranger than we can imagine".
BTW, it is not a good sign when hard to think about ideas are simply branded and slammed. It doesn't exactly leave me with a lot hope if even geeks do knee-jerk respones.
"Human level" or greater does not mean the AI "thinks like humans". It means it has equal or greater modeling, problem-solving, creativity, and so on plus self-awareness (self-modeling). If it also has the ability to self-improve/self-evolve and if it can take advantage of the at least 10^6 times faster switching ability it is built upon, then it is not difficult at all to project that we won't be in Kansas anymore. Mere human-level AI would change the world drastically. Beyond that the Singularity is almost inescapable.
This is pretty contemptible by my experience. Most of my friends and acquantances who were laid off, some of whome have stayed unemployed for quite some time, were very senior with excellent records. I can't speak for the number of script kiddie equivalents out there as those aren't the folks I hang with. But just waving off the bad news claimin that those who lost jobs and did not find new ones weren't acceptable software geeks is a convenient self-assuring fantasy that it can't happen to you.
A lot of commercial software work can be done by any available labor pool with good skills and good work habits. So guess what? Many of the jobs are going to the cheaper labor pools producing acceptable results. Thi is a logical outcome of global free trade. Combine that with an extremely bad market and you have more than sufficient explanation for what we are seeing. Add in a seriously anti science and anti-technology administration and there is no need to posit that all those left jobless simply weren't worthwhile hackers to start with.
The above is not "informative". It is the old blame the victim and assume we the employed are so much better than that. It assumes that having a job is some kind of statement of moral worth or software savvy.
Apple rocks in all ways and aspects forever and ever regardless of what they or any of their employees and lawyers ever do, eh? So where can I get some of these indulgences forgiving all sins even preventing all sins from being sins universally?
This is "interesting"? How so? The poster can't spell, and seems unaware that being a "felon" doesn't mean jack in our modern society with thousands of ways to be a felon most of which you would never see coming. Or was it interesting that the poster doesn't want to read any more about him or somehow thinks he is oh, so much brighter than to get caught?
Not necessarily. Much of the hardware cycle is becoming sufficiently commodized to allow rapid hardware design, prototyping, mass implementation and quality control. Quite a lot of reusable sub-components and procedures are now available. As hardware gets closer to software expect this to increase.
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Shared state is practically equivalent to stateless? Since when?
Holding convicted people in bed to atrophy their muscles is cruel and unusual punishment even given that all the laws the make people felons for bullshit reason were removed.
:-)
I wouldn't blow up the UN building. It is after all a nice enough piece of real estate to use for something else.
Given that the Libertarian ideals for what government should and shouldn't do are correct and given that a Libertarina becomes president, how would we proceed to dismantle much of the current government machinery in an orderly fashion? It looks to be a rather delicate process. Obviously just junking everything immediately that should not be there would destroy the nation's economy. So what could be changed immediately and what needs to be phased in and over what kind of time?
Actually, it has become acceptable usage to use either one in most contexts. Would someone please buy the poster who started this side thread a better discrimination implanat as to what is important?
The fine can also be levied for ordering prescription drugs fron any firm online which isn't certified re:
" Under the new policy, prescription drug sellers who do not have Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Sites certification from the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, and the people who buy from them, also face fines and possible legal action if they do business using PayPal."
So if I buy Piracatem over the net as it is not available without a prescription in the US, PayPal can fine me and otherwise bring legal action against me? A convenient financial middleman is now a pimp of the FDA and Big Pharma as well as for Religious Nuts attempting to take over the US government?
This is way, way too much. If this is not rescinded then I am pulling all funds out of Paypal and closing my account. I don't pay bloody creeps for their malicious behavior.
I am very happy to pay for the PayPal service as it works well for me. But to not only pay for the service I wanted but also have part of those funds enable PayPal to police what I do in my life and how I choose to spend my money? NO, THANKS.
I encourage everyone to write in and complain about this Big Brother-ish behavior or Little Brother attempted to placate Big Brother.
Demand the freedom we prattle on about. Settle for nothing less.
Blind the people lest they see what we don't want them to see.
Blind the people lest the few do something with what they see that is wrong.
Blind the people so the many cannot do even good without government license.
Blind the people to what their government does.
Blind the people to the world that could have been.
Blind the people, keep them in the dark and feed them only fear.
What, you are google-illiterate and expect to be spoon-fed everything?
What is considered "safe" is often tied to ridiculous notions of "safe" speeds. Safe speed actually depends on road conditions, traffic density, driver reflexes and so on. Remember 55mph speed limits? For most interstate conditions this is a huge blow to our economy and to millions of commuters lives. For that matter on most of our interstates much of the time 65mph is also more waste than gain.
How long do you think it will be before these boxes are mandatory and tied to automatic ticketing systems to bolster falling municipal revenues?
Please, just say "NO".
Hell, it "sounds like" they are over an amount equivalent to all music in existence. :-)
Enforcing laws does not include pissing all over what is supposed to be the highest law of the land. Nor does it include grossly inflating the nature of the alleged misdeeds to garner publicity and raise a smokescreen. Nor does it include acting like jack-booted thugs who may invade citizen's homes and take their property without due process.
Er, did you miss what the government commonly does in tax or drug cases? Take everything, don't necessarily return any of it even if you are found innocent or not charged at all. We haven't been in a country with a government actually limited by the Constitution in a l-o-n-g time. Please make a note of it and act accordingly.
"This doesn't seem possible - that's what, 100,000 x 300GB hard drives? Are they really providing that much, or is this the total amount available on the entire network?"
Any p2p net out there would be really, really proud to have that kind of hardware to share. Obviously, Ashcroft inflated the hell out of the numbers as per usual and things the people are too friggin' dumb to notice.
I thought we still had not given the FBI permission to listen to all domestic calls even after 9/11. So when did they get this authority and who gave it to them? If they do have it then where is the campaign to remove this authority and get them out of our conversations post haste?
Does anyone really believe that matching faces to passports will stop any but the already known/suspected terrorists from entering under a false passport? Does anyone believe that the determined minority of terrorists thus filtered cannot find those who can finagle such measures? Is security actually served by treating everyone as a possible terrorist? I thought we got over that stuff in the US during the McCarthy era. Apparently not.
The problem is the very existence of software patents. The solution is to eliminate them. Anything less is endless catering to and reinforcement of insanity.
Let the West learn to slack off even more than is already done. No problem. Asia will simply eat our lunch. That part of the world already is averaging on the order of 10x the number of engineering and science degrees.
Think about it.
That the beyond our wildest dreams is possible does not make it religion. It just proves that the Universe is indeed "stranger than we can imagine".
BTW, it is not a good sign when hard to think about ideas are simply branded and slammed. It doesn't exactly leave me with a lot hope if even geeks do knee-jerk respones.
"Human level" or greater does not mean the AI "thinks like humans". It means it has equal or greater modeling, problem-solving, creativity, and so on plus self-awareness (self-modeling). If it also has the ability to self-improve/self-evolve and if it can take advantage of the at least 10^6 times faster switching ability it is built upon, then it is not difficult at all to project that we won't be in Kansas anymore. Mere human-level AI would change the world drastically. Beyond that the Singularity is almost inescapable.
A gentle but fairly thorough taste can be found in Kurzweil's "The Age of Spiritual Machines". Also check out http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?m=1s ing.html
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-
http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Singularity/
I am sure interested entities can google more.
This is pretty contemptible by my experience. Most of my friends and acquantances who were laid off, some of whome have stayed unemployed for quite some time, were very senior with excellent records. I can't speak for the number of script kiddie equivalents out there as those aren't the folks I hang with. But just waving off the bad news claimin that those who lost jobs and did not find new ones weren't acceptable software geeks is a convenient self-assuring fantasy that it can't happen to you.
A lot of commercial software work can be done by any available labor pool with good skills and good work habits. So guess what? Many of the jobs are going to the cheaper labor pools producing acceptable results. Thi is a logical outcome of global free trade. Combine that with an extremely bad market and you have more than sufficient explanation for what we are seeing. Add in a seriously anti science and anti-technology administration and there is no need to posit that all those left jobless simply weren't worthwhile hackers to start with.
The above is not "informative". It is the old blame the victim and assume we the employed are so much better than that. It assumes that having a job is some kind of statement of moral worth or software savvy.
You are a raving loon. The jobs were lost to out-sourcing and to company downsizing in a bad economy.
Apple rocks in all ways and aspects forever and ever regardless of what they or any of their employees and lawyers ever do, eh? So where can I get some of these indulgences forgiving all sins even preventing all sins from being sins universally?
This is "interesting"? How so? The poster can't spell, and seems unaware that being a "felon" doesn't mean jack in our modern society with thousands of ways to be a felon most of which you would never see coming. Or was it interesting that the poster doesn't want to read any more about him or somehow thinks he is oh, so much brighter than to get caught?
Time to moderate moderators.
Not necessarily. Much of the hardware cycle is becoming sufficiently commodized to allow rapid hardware design, prototyping, mass implementation and quality control. Quite a lot of reusable sub-components and procedures are now available. As hardware gets closer to software expect this to increase.