I didnt even think young people watched TV anymore, neither me nor any of my friends have TV, yes we have the TVs, but we are using them to play games and watch videos, no one is buying TV licenses or paying for cable/satellite. For one thing its all available online, and you have control over when you watch it, and because your watching what your actively seeking out you dont end up stuck on the couch watching an endless stream of crap. Havnt had TV in years, and frankly it depresses me completely when i am exposed to it at my parents or else where.
And the funny thing is the BBC put all there shows up for free online to UK residents, and they are the broadcasting company the TV licence fees go to. Guess they were in somewhat of a bind, they had to go online to stay relevant, but they failed to device an adequate pay model.
Anyways, off-topic sort of, so mod me down, i just had to post something as i accidentally modded someone flaimbait and need to cancel it out.
Well, given that it is a British corporation, the BBC could include more personalized educational programs, such as one that teaches you proper English.
Just because you are a stupid, bleating sheep doesn't mean everyone else is.
In other words, don't be a sheep, be like me.
Spoken like someone who truly doesn't know what to do other than watch TV. You see, there is a world of difference between "don't be like the mass of sheep watching television and buying all the latest stupid gadgets" and "be like me". You see (and apparently, I have to explain this to you), there are so many other things one can do in life that don't involve watching television. There are so many things to do, so many ways to develop, so many kinds of lives that can be lived. Being an idiot who spends hours every day watching television, and who feels like he has to own every idiotic shiny box for sale is only one of them. It's not important. Get over yourself.
Of course, I'm sure you will intentionally misunderstand this in a feeble attempt to inflate your own ego.
That Twilight Zone episode where he saw an alien on the wing of the airplane. In fact, I think he's been playing the same character ever since...
Don't forget the Outer Limits Episode ("Cold Hands, Warm Heart") where he plays an army colonel who goes to Venus. He really shows his "Captain Kirk"-style acting in that one!
Cuba system is not perfect. It has many flaws. It also have many positive things.
Not according to any Cuban I've known (and yes, I have known a few). Ask them, and you'll find nothing but hatred for Castro AND his political system.
So, you can't find anyone who likes Castro in a self-selected group of ex-pats who fled Cuba specifically because they hate Castro and the Cuban government? Funny that. Mind you, I don't like the Communist government of Cuba or Castro, either. But your logic is, shall we say, a wee bit faulty.
A robot doesn't have to perfectly mimic a human to be commercially viable, just be close enough to be convincing in the dark.
Actually, if it perfectly mimicked a human being, it wouldn't be economically viable. Imagine, after some robo-sex, the fem-bot starts asking "So, when do you want to get married?" or "Why can't we live together? There is no reason for us to pay two rents."
The last part is why I feel most people hate it. They're simply jealous.
Actually, you're an idiot. They hate you for the same reason most people hate lawyers. You are bottom-feeding scum who contributes nothing of value to society, and in fact takes value out of society. If you were paid according to what you actually produce, you would have to give us all money to keep doing what you do. But, alas, that is capitalism.
I'm surprised they allowed their mass-media mind-control network to leak the fact that there are tunnels on the Moon. Perhaps they accidentally drank some of their own fluoridated water? Either way, the Annunaki will be pissed.
Spamming is a technical problem with a technical solution. On a personal level, I feel deeply suspicious of people who take it upon themselves to act in what they assume might as well be my best interests. There are laws controlling spam and there are law enforcement agencies (God knows the US has no shortage of those). Silverstein should find a new hobby, like suing his neighbors for not trimming their lawns on time or failing to scoop dog shit.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
(X) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
(X) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(X) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
(X) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(X) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
(X) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
(X) Asshats
(X) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(X) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
(X) Technically illiterate politicians
(X) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
(X) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
(X) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
(X) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
(X) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
(X) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
Being ACCUSED of something is not justification for stealing your property from you. Well, it IS . . . people have their cars and other property stolen by the government all the time for merely being ACCUSED rather than being accused, tried, and convicted of a crime, first. But it SHOULDN'T be justification.
Yes, when you purchased that property through illegal sources of money the government confiscates it. Boohoo. It's not as if they just trumped up a bunch of charges in order to steal his comic books.
Yeah, you're right. Let's not even bother with a trial! He MUST be guilty because the gubmint has telled us so!
True enough, but it's not like America is unpopular because they help everyone out. America's unpopularity has something to do with bombs. Lots and lots of bombs. Oh, and assassinating democratically elected leaders and then setting up puppet dictatorships in order to prop up corporate profits. That tends to be both immoral and a wee bit unpopular.
Actually, you dickhead, I have been to a lot of foreign countries where very little English is spoken by anyone. The first thing I do is purchase a simple translation guide and re-acquaint myself with the basics of the language. German, French, Irish, and Spanish come easy to me, other languages are much harder.
The one thing I do not do is throw myself on the mercy of anyone, ever. I take care of myself and, if by my own actions I die, then so be it. That's one thing someone like you could never understand.
So, basically, you're fine with everyone in the world saying "Screw you, I've got mine!" (And, incidentally, they do speak English in Ireland. There is such a thing as the Irish language, but it's not like you have to worry about anyone speaking only Irish when you visit Ireland. Comments like that lead me and others to think you've never left Podunk.)
You see, it is not the 19th century anymore, and foreign travel has become very easy. Thus, civilized people make accommodations for those who may not be fluent in their language. And that's not even considering how one's ability to speak a foreign language can be affected during some kind of medical emergency. There are languages in which I can tell a doctor what is wrong with me and basic family medical history while we are calmly sitting in a doctor's office. But, if I'm in something like an automobile accident, I don't trust that I can speak well enough in such a tense situation, especially if there is any kind of head trauma.
You see, it's called being civilized, which is something you clearly do not understand.
"Gee, I'm in your country, can't speak your language, and now I might die because I can't communicate with you - you should buy devices that translate my speech for you!". Yeah, go to another country and try that one - they'll still be laughing while you're floating in a tunnel w/ Elvis and your grandmother...
It's called natural selection, it's good for the human race. Stop fighting it, you're only encouraging the idiots...
You've obviously never been to a non-English speaking country. Most countries have people in hospitals who speak, in addition to the native language, English and at least a few other of the more commonly spoken world languages. Just because so many people are xenophobic assholes in the Deliverance-inspiration shithole you live in, does not mean the rest of the world is that way.
In short, why should I trust the conclusions of these "scientists" when they repeatedly demonstrate that they're interested in "proving" pre-determined results, often in exchange for large grants, rather than actually finding the truth?
Um, if all they were interested in was getting huge grants, there are some oil companies that would pay them a shitload more money if they could show scientifically that global warming is false.
Um, since you are the one claiming it is a "proven fact" that "global warming could be stopped from a few billion dollars by pumping sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere," would you mind providing some citations? It doesn't have to be a link. A simple scientific journal reference will do.
Thank you. I think your inane rant just proved GP's point admirably. Although, I think that your vast array of burning straw men is adding more to global warming than increasing CO2 concentrations.
Here's a little hint. Try arguing with respect to the actual science, rather than making lame Al Gore mockeries. Oh, that's right. You can't because you don't know anything.
I mean, what's next? Are you going to deny gravity because your physics professor in college (assuming your education has gotten that far) looked a little goofy?
No the US is behind because the Republicans want to take away child planning services from women and make abortion a very difficult process.
Actually, what they want is to make abortion and contraception illegal in all cases. They want it to be such that a woman can't use contraception and can't get an abortion even if she was raped. The only conclusion that can be drawn from this is that Republican men are all a bunch of rapists who see that as their opportunity to have more children. Perhaps, if they win this "victory" they will try to roll back societal progress even further and bring back jus primae noctis. After all, if you don't want your employer (which would be the modern equivalent of the feudal lord) to fuck your new wife on your wedding night, you can always find a new job, right?
Is there a store for people who support(ed) wikileaks but not Mr. "Killing people is fun." Assange?
Gee, you just love spreading that lie, don't you? Maybe the corporate masters whose dicks you suck will give you a lollipop for your efforts. When Assange said "Killing people is fun" he very obviously meant that the American soldiers massacring civilians found the killing to be fun. But hey, keep spreading your bullshit in the hope that these sociopaths you worship will one day give you a piece of the action.
I've never understood why slashdotters use car analogies so much. Surely most of us trolling in the comments here don't have cars, or we'd be off doing fun things like getting to work.
Well, you see, a car analogy is like a Ford. It works and gets you from point A to point B, but it tends to break down a lot and needs to be fixed often. A good comment is like a BMW or a Volvo. It does the job it is meant to do, does it well, and rarely (if ever) needs to be repaired. A troll comment is like a Pinto. If left to sit alone, everything is fine. But, ding it slightly, and the gas tank tears, spewing fire into the passenger compartment, and burning everyone to death.
Copyright is needed, but it's currently far too long.
Tolkien has been dead and buried for 38 years now. His estate is preventing the translation from being published for what reason exactly? Where's the benefit to society from that?
The estate of Margaret Mitchell pulls the same kind of crap, too. Recently, they sued Alice Randell over her story The Wind Done Gone. If you can't make derivative works without the fear of being sued, what's the point in having such a long copyright?
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I didnt even think young people watched TV anymore, neither me nor any of my friends have TV, yes we have the TVs, but we are using them to play games and watch videos, no one is buying TV licenses or paying for cable/satellite. For one thing its all available online, and you have control over when you watch it, and because your watching what your actively seeking out you dont end up stuck on the couch watching an endless stream of crap. Havnt had TV in years, and frankly it depresses me completely when i am exposed to it at my parents or else where. And the funny thing is the BBC put all there shows up for free online to UK residents, and they are the broadcasting company the TV licence fees go to. Guess they were in somewhat of a bind, they had to go online to stay relevant, but they failed to device an adequate pay model. Anyways, off-topic sort of, so mod me down, i just had to post something as i accidentally modded someone flaimbait and need to cancel it out.
Well, given that it is a British corporation, the BBC could include more personalized educational programs, such as one that teaches you proper English.
Just because you are a stupid, bleating sheep doesn't mean everyone else is.
In other words, don't be a sheep, be like me.
Spoken like someone who truly doesn't know what to do other than watch TV. You see, there is a world of difference between "don't be like the mass of sheep watching television and buying all the latest stupid gadgets" and "be like me". You see (and apparently, I have to explain this to you), there are so many other things one can do in life that don't involve watching television. There are so many things to do, so many ways to develop, so many kinds of lives that can be lived. Being an idiot who spends hours every day watching television, and who feels like he has to own every idiotic shiny box for sale is only one of them. It's not important. Get over yourself.
Of course, I'm sure you will intentionally misunderstand this in a feeble attempt to inflate your own ego.
That Twilight Zone episode where he saw an alien on the wing of the airplane. In fact, I think he's been playing the same character ever since...
Don't forget the Outer Limits Episode ("Cold Hands, Warm Heart") where he plays an army colonel who goes to Venus. He really shows his "Captain Kirk"-style acting in that one!
Who Gives a Shat?!?
Oh, get a life!
... he'll tell his friends that his "body is wearing thin." Then, he'll go into his TARDIS and regenerate.
So remember, in just over ten years, look for a younger actor. who. talks. like. this. on. stage.
He got his TARDIS cheap, though, since he was able to name his own price.
Cuba system is not perfect. It has many flaws. It also have many positive things.
Not according to any Cuban I've known (and yes, I have known a few). Ask them, and you'll find nothing but hatred for Castro AND his political system.
So, you can't find anyone who likes Castro in a self-selected group of ex-pats who fled Cuba specifically because they hate Castro and the Cuban government? Funny that. Mind you, I don't like the Communist government of Cuba or Castro, either. But your logic is, shall we say, a wee bit faulty.
A robot doesn't have to perfectly mimic a human to be commercially viable, just be close enough to be convincing in the dark.
Actually, if it perfectly mimicked a human being, it wouldn't be economically viable. Imagine, after some robo-sex, the fem-bot starts asking "So, when do you want to get married?" or "Why can't we live together? There is no reason for us to pay two rents."
The last part is why I feel most people hate it. They're simply jealous.
Actually, you're an idiot. They hate you for the same reason most people hate lawyers. You are bottom-feeding scum who contributes nothing of value to society, and in fact takes value out of society. If you were paid according to what you actually produce, you would have to give us all money to keep doing what you do. But, alas, that is capitalism.
I'm surprised they allowed their mass-media mind-control network to leak the fact that there are tunnels on the Moon. Perhaps they accidentally drank some of their own fluoridated water? Either way, the Annunaki will be pissed.
Spamming is a technical problem with a technical solution. On a personal level, I feel deeply suspicious of people who take it upon themselves to act in what they assume might as well be my best interests. There are laws controlling spam and there are law enforcement agencies (God knows the US has no shortage of those). Silverstein should find a new hobby, like suing his neighbors for not trimming their lawns on time or failing to scoop dog shit.
Your post advocates a
(X) technical (X) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
(X) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
(X) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(X) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
(X) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(X) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
(X) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
(X) Asshats
(X) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(X) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
(X) Technically illiterate politicians
(X) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
(X) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
(X) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
(X) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
(X) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
(X) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Being ACCUSED of something is not justification for stealing your property from you. Well, it IS . . . people have their cars and other property stolen by the government all the time for merely being ACCUSED rather than being accused, tried, and convicted of a crime, first. But it SHOULDN'T be justification.
Yes, when you purchased that property through illegal sources of money the government confiscates it. Boohoo. It's not as if they just trumped up a bunch of charges in order to steal his comic books.
Yeah, you're right. Let's not even bother with a trial! He MUST be guilty because the gubmint has telled us so!
Being moral is NOT a popularity contest!
True enough, but it's not like America is unpopular because they help everyone out. America's unpopularity has something to do with bombs. Lots and lots of bombs. Oh, and assassinating democratically elected leaders and then setting up puppet dictatorships in order to prop up corporate profits. That tends to be both immoral and a wee bit unpopular.
Actually, you dickhead, I have been to a lot of foreign countries where very little English is spoken by anyone. The first thing I do is purchase a simple translation guide and re-acquaint myself with the basics of the language. German, French, Irish, and Spanish come easy to me, other languages are much harder.
The one thing I do not do is throw myself on the mercy of anyone, ever. I take care of myself and, if by my own actions I die, then so be it. That's one thing someone like you could never understand.
So, basically, you're fine with everyone in the world saying "Screw you, I've got mine!" (And, incidentally, they do speak English in Ireland. There is such a thing as the Irish language, but it's not like you have to worry about anyone speaking only Irish when you visit Ireland. Comments like that lead me and others to think you've never left Podunk.)
You see, it is not the 19th century anymore, and foreign travel has become very easy. Thus, civilized people make accommodations for those who may not be fluent in their language. And that's not even considering how one's ability to speak a foreign language can be affected during some kind of medical emergency. There are languages in which I can tell a doctor what is wrong with me and basic family medical history while we are calmly sitting in a doctor's office. But, if I'm in something like an automobile accident, I don't trust that I can speak well enough in such a tense situation, especially if there is any kind of head trauma.
You see, it's called being civilized, which is something you clearly do not understand.
And how does this excuse stupidity?
"Gee, I'm in your country, can't speak your language, and now I might die because I can't communicate with you - you should buy devices that translate my speech for you!". Yeah, go to another country and try that one - they'll still be laughing while you're floating in a tunnel w/ Elvis and your grandmother...
It's called natural selection, it's good for the human race. Stop fighting it, you're only encouraging the idiots...
You've obviously never been to a non-English speaking country. Most countries have people in hospitals who speak, in addition to the native language, English and at least a few other of the more commonly spoken world languages. Just because so many people are xenophobic assholes in the Deliverance-inspiration shithole you live in, does not mean the rest of the world is that way.
Because it also includes a way to subdue uppity patients. "Phrazer on stun!"
"Don't Phraze me, bro!"
In short, why should I trust the conclusions of these "scientists" when they repeatedly demonstrate that they're interested in "proving" pre-determined results, often in exchange for large grants, rather than actually finding the truth?
Um, if all they were interested in was getting huge grants, there are some oil companies that would pay them a shitload more money if they could show scientifically that global warming is false.
Um, since you are the one claiming it is a "proven fact" that "global warming could be stopped from a few billion dollars by pumping sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere," would you mind providing some citations? It doesn't have to be a link. A simple scientific journal reference will do.
Thank you. I think your inane rant just proved GP's point admirably. Although, I think that your vast array of burning straw men is adding more to global warming than increasing CO2 concentrations.
Here's a little hint. Try arguing with respect to the actual science, rather than making lame Al Gore mockeries. Oh, that's right. You can't because you don't know anything.
I mean, what's next? Are you going to deny gravity because your physics professor in college (assuming your education has gotten that far) looked a little goofy?
No the US is behind because the Republicans want to take away child planning services from women and make abortion a very difficult process.
Actually, what they want is to make abortion and contraception illegal in all cases. They want it to be such that a woman can't use contraception and can't get an abortion even if she was raped. The only conclusion that can be drawn from this is that Republican men are all a bunch of rapists who see that as their opportunity to have more children. Perhaps, if they win this "victory" they will try to roll back societal progress even further and bring back jus primae noctis. After all, if you don't want your employer (which would be the modern equivalent of the feudal lord) to fuck your new wife on your wedding night, you can always find a new job, right?
Is there a store for people who support(ed) wikileaks but not Mr. "Killing people is fun." Assange?
Gee, you just love spreading that lie, don't you? Maybe the corporate masters whose dicks you suck will give you a lollipop for your efforts. When Assange said "Killing people is fun" he very obviously meant that the American soldiers massacring civilians found the killing to be fun. But hey, keep spreading your bullshit in the hope that these sociopaths you worship will one day give you a piece of the action.
I've never understood why slashdotters use car analogies so much. Surely most of us trolling in the comments here don't have cars, or we'd be off doing fun things like getting to work.
Well, you see, a car analogy is like a Ford. It works and gets you from point A to point B, but it tends to break down a lot and needs to be fixed often. A good comment is like a BMW or a Volvo. It does the job it is meant to do, does it well, and rarely (if ever) needs to be repaired. A troll comment is like a Pinto. If left to sit alone, everything is fine. But, ding it slightly, and the gas tank tears, spewing fire into the passenger compartment, and burning everyone to death.
No, because having copyright expire on death would provide a perverse incentive for murdering authors of famous works, like George Lucas for instance.
I'm sorry, but why is this a bad thing?
Copyright is needed, but it's currently far too long.
Tolkien has been dead and buried for 38 years now. His estate is preventing the translation from being published for what reason exactly? Where's the benefit to society from that?
The estate of Margaret Mitchell pulls the same kind of crap, too. Recently, they sued Alice Randell over her story The Wind Done Gone. If you can't make derivative works without the fear of being sued, what's the point in having such a long copyright?
We are not a free country anymore, no thanks to our draconian sex, drug and terrorism laws.
Spoken like a true Communist.
Why not ask the easter bunny for peace in the middle east?
How do you think all these anti-government protests in the middle east got started? I definitely see the easter bunny's paws in this one!