There is a continuum between public and private. Telling a friend in whispers is not AS public as putting it up on a billboard, for example.
Odin told us, more than a thousand years ago, all that we are ever going to need to know about this. Verse 63 of Havamal (translation by W H Auden & P B Taylor, http://vta.gamall-steinn.org/havamal.htm):
It is safe to tell a secret to one, Risky to tell it to two, To tell it to three is thoughtless folly, Everyone else will know.
Judging by his writing style, which is incoherent, rambling, and in a lot of places just plain wrong.
This only really tells you that his editor sucked, possibly on account of the editor either worshipping him or being in mortal fear of him.
No one who never wrote a book before is going to be able to write a decent one on their own the first time they try. Even most people who wrote several books before won't be able to do it. You need an editor who isn't afraid to tell you when your writing sucks and to fix it and Hitler may not have had that.
I did try reading Mein Kampf at one point and I think I got about a third of the way into it before I concluded it was a colossal waste of my time. Senseless politics, doomed ideas, and terrible writing combine to make it a real pain. You'd think you might be able to get a sense of the propaganda value of the contents, that there may be some kind of evilly grandiose political manifest in there that you could study. Maybe there is, I couldn't find it but then I didn't finish it either.
I am leaning towards thinking of it more as a fundraising exercise than as a work of political significance: Make everyone buy your book, and watch the old bank account grow into the sky. Captive audiences don't get much more captured than that...
How about just going back to the original length? 7 years.
Or we could go back to the actual original length, zero years.:-)
Copyright was only ever necessary to protect the publishing and distribution chains, and for most types of entertainment both of those are fast becoming obsolete or trivial depending on your point of view. As artists can increasingly just upload their stuff and have it instantly accessible by their fans, copyright will become a redundant artifact of a bygone era and might as well just be done away with.
Depending somewhat on how screwed up your country's copyright legislation has historically been, copying off the radio or off of a friend's tape isn't copyright infringement because such activity isn't restricted by copyright. The infringing activity is the mass scale redistribution of copyrighted material that we saw happening with the P2P technologies from the early days of the public Internet and on into the present.
Carrier IQ may still be snooping at a level closer to the user, and therefore getting more accurate information.
I have set up my Android browser (Firefox) to use a local proxy which is an ssh tunnel to a trusted web server somewhere. I do this so I can happily use all manner of suspicious open wi-fis at restaurants, hotels and such. (I wouldn't mind running without the ssh tunnel when I'm using mobile broadband from my telcom but switching Firefox back and forth between the two modes is just too impractical.)
In this case, my telcom/ISP wouldn't see my web traffic only by inspecting my packets because they're all ssh traffic. Carrier IQ might still have the actual URLs though if it captures them directly from the web browser.
Wikipedia has, among other things, this to say about the attack on the USS Cole: "President Bill Clinton declared, "If, as it now appears, this was an act of terrorism, it was a despicable and cowardly act. We will find out who was responsible and hold them accountable". Some critics have pointed out that, under U.S. law, an attack against a military target does not meet the legal definition of terrorism[32] (see: 22 USC para 2656f(d)(2))."
So you are right in what you say, and political leaders tend to hate every single bit of that.
By this logic, we should be expecting bullet-proof cattle and thresher-proof wheat any day now, not to mention hook-resistant fish and armored potatoes...
Cattle, wheat and potatoes are selected for being easily harvestable, among other things. Fish, now, well that there could be the beginning of a very nice disaster movie plot!:D
Whether or not coercing someone to unlock the chest where they put their confession is the same as forcing them to incriminate themselves is a tricky and unsettled question of law that we (the Yanks) are still working on.
What if your password is "IkilledmywifewithabigwrenchthatIhaveburiedundertherosebushesatmyformeraddress" ?
I can vote for a third party, but we all know that is throwing your vote away
You are throwing your vote away in any case: no one ever won a national election by one single vote's margin. And if that situation ever even comes close to actually happening it's going to be decided by the courts anyway, not by your one single vote.
You're basically throwing your vote away whether you vote D, R, or third party. So you might as well throw it away on something you actually believe in.
There is a strong tendency for people to want to feel part of the winning side, and such people find great comfort in voting for a party that has about a 50% chance of winning because that gives them a 50% chance of, themselves, "winning" the election. This is silly and irrational and you should resist such an urge.
"Either would get fined 1M" isn't obviously any more fair than "either would get fined into bankruptcy (alternatively some percentage thereof which is probably more to the point here)".
Variations over "fined into bankruptcy" are essentially just the financial equivalents to either death sentence or life imprisonment, depending on how you look at it.
If the Turbo button didn't seem to do anything, it probably just wasn't connected to the motherboard. A few years into the Turbo button fad it had pretty much lost its usefulness and had become little more than a source of tech support calls when people had mistakenly put it in slow mode without realizing, so computer shops stopped connecting it and instead just left the PC in permanent turbo mode.
The one you want to be quoting in this debate would be Thomas Aquinas who, ~800 years ago, defined a set of rules that would allow Christianity and scientific inquiry to happily coexist. Which, apart from the odd extremist, they have been doing ever since.
It is my position that whenever someone (anyone) distributes a creative work, the author of that work should have to pay the distributor a statutory reward of $750 per copy that was distributed.
... what was that? You want to meet in the middle? Right, let's talk about that...:P
Every result in [search engine of your choice] will be "You need enable cookies to use this website, yay or nay" because search engines won't be able to index the website's content without themselves accepting cookies.
This will be a problem for all of two seconds before site operators realize that showing ads is, after all, more important than letting ads track users; and they change their site so that it just works cookies or no.
That would imply guidance wings, which makes me think of a gyrojet-style weapon.
One design for such a bullet I saw once had a pivoting tip that would be used to alter the airflow around the bullet, allowing it some amount of in-flight guidance. This might preclude spin stabilization though, not sure.
How about we reserve the dictionary for proper words and leave these acronyms to cyber space.
"Proper words" are those words that people actually use. If lots of people use "lol" and "omg" as if they were words then they are words and need to be in the dictionary.
Besides the point that any one who uses the word l33t sounds like a complete idiot and wont be taken seriously.
Now you're just starting to sound like a complete idiot and I'm not sure if I should take you seriously.:P
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"May contain trace amounts of kitten."
There is a continuum between public and private. Telling a friend in whispers is not AS public as putting it up on a billboard, for example.
Odin told us, more than a thousand years ago, all that we are ever going to need to know about this. Verse 63 of Havamal (translation by W H Auden & P B Taylor, http://vta.gamall-steinn.org/havamal.htm):
It is safe to tell a secret to one,
Risky to tell it to two,
To tell it to three is thoughtless folly,
Everyone else will know.
But I would be very curious to know how many scammers are on these sites (not like you could report them to the cops if they didn't deliver).
At this point you'd be buying fantasy product and paying for it with fantasy money, so it's an open question who is scamming who exactly in this case.
Ok, so I jest. A little bit. :p
Judging by his writing style, which is incoherent, rambling, and in a lot of places just plain wrong.
This only really tells you that his editor sucked, possibly on account of the editor either worshipping him or being in mortal fear of him.
No one who never wrote a book before is going to be able to write a decent one on their own the first time they try. Even most people who wrote several books before won't be able to do it. You need an editor who isn't afraid to tell you when your writing sucks and to fix it and Hitler may not have had that.
I did try reading Mein Kampf at one point and I think I got about a third of the way into it before I concluded it was a colossal waste of my time. Senseless politics, doomed ideas, and terrible writing combine to make it a real pain. You'd think you might be able to get a sense of the propaganda value of the contents, that there may be some kind of evilly grandiose political manifest in there that you could study. Maybe there is, I couldn't find it but then I didn't finish it either.
I am leaning towards thinking of it more as a fundraising exercise than as a work of political significance: Make everyone buy your book, and watch the old bank account grow into the sky. Captive audiences don't get much more captured than that ...
Planetary Resources has their big announce tomorrow. This was just the size they are looking for.
It seems devastating to their business plan though - why spend billions of dollars going out into space to fetch big rocks when they are coming to us?
It all comes down to the exact meaning of the word "year" ...
No matter what's planned the end result is a tiny boost to Italy's GDP - and they need it.
Is this the broken cruise ship fallacy?
How about just going back to the original length? 7 years.
Or we could go back to the actual original length, zero years. :-)
Copyright was only ever necessary to protect the publishing and distribution chains, and for most types of entertainment both of those are fast becoming obsolete or trivial depending on your point of view. As artists can increasingly just upload their stuff and have it instantly accessible by their fans, copyright will become a redundant artifact of a bygone era and might as well just be done away with.
Depending somewhat on how screwed up your country's copyright legislation has historically been, copying off the radio or off of a friend's tape isn't copyright infringement because such activity isn't restricted by copyright. The infringing activity is the mass scale redistribution of copyrighted material that we saw happening with the P2P technologies from the early days of the public Internet and on into the present.
Carrier IQ may still be snooping at a level closer to the user, and therefore getting more accurate information.
I have set up my Android browser (Firefox) to use a local proxy which is an ssh tunnel to a trusted web server somewhere. I do this so I can happily use all manner of suspicious open wi-fis at restaurants, hotels and such. (I wouldn't mind running without the ssh tunnel when I'm using mobile broadband from my telcom but switching Firefox back and forth between the two modes is just too impractical.)
In this case, my telcom/ISP wouldn't see my web traffic only by inspecting my packets because they're all ssh traffic. Carrier IQ might still have the actual URLs though if it captures them directly from the web browser.
Wikipedia has, among other things, this to say about the attack on the USS Cole:
"President Bill Clinton declared, "If, as it now appears, this was an act of terrorism, it was a despicable and cowardly act. We will find out who was responsible and hold them accountable". Some critics have pointed out that, under U.S. law, an attack against a military target does not meet the legal definition of terrorism[32] (see: 22 USC para 2656f(d)(2))."
So you are right in what you say, and political leaders tend to hate every single bit of that.
By this logic, we should be expecting bullet-proof cattle and thresher-proof wheat any day now, not to mention hook-resistant fish and armored potatoes...
Cattle, wheat and potatoes are selected for being easily harvestable, among other things. Fish, now, well that there could be the beginning of a very nice disaster movie plot! :D
Whether or not coercing someone to unlock the chest where they put their confession is the same as forcing them to incriminate themselves is a tricky and unsettled question of law that we (the Yanks) are still working on.
What if your password is "IkilledmywifewithabigwrenchthatIhaveburiedundertherosebushesatmyformeraddress" ?
I can vote for a third party, but we all know that is throwing your vote away
You are throwing your vote away in any case: no one ever won a national election by one single vote's margin. And if that situation ever even comes close to actually happening it's going to be decided by the courts anyway, not by your one single vote.
You're basically throwing your vote away whether you vote D, R, or third party. So you might as well throw it away on something you actually believe in.
There is a strong tendency for people to want to feel part of the winning side, and such people find great comfort in voting for a party that has about a 50% chance of winning because that gives them a 50% chance of, themselves, "winning" the election. This is silly and irrational and you should resist such an urge.
... then kittens must be tasty too.
Kittens?
Oh, you mean land salmon.
"Either would get fined 1M" isn't obviously any more fair than "either would get fined into bankruptcy (alternatively some percentage thereof which is probably more to the point here)".
Variations over "fined into bankruptcy" are essentially just the financial equivalents to either death sentence or life imprisonment, depending on how you look at it.
If the Turbo button didn't seem to do anything, it probably just wasn't connected to the motherboard. A few years into the Turbo button fad it had pretty much lost its usefulness and had become little more than a source of tech support calls when people had mistakenly put it in slow mode without realizing, so computer shops stopped connecting it and instead just left the PC in permanent turbo mode.
The one you want to be quoting in this debate would be Thomas Aquinas who, ~800 years ago, defined a set of rules that would allow Christianity and scientific inquiry to happily coexist. Which, apart from the odd extremist, they have been doing ever since.
Anybody actually know what are the patents that Samsung is supposedly infringing on?
"Communications device that occupies a volume of space of greater than zero extent, with Internet connectivity." :P
False flag operations are pretty easy against anonymous, because, well, anyone can do something and claim to be them.
On the other hand false flag ops against Anonymous are impossible because if someone does something and claims to be them, well then they are them.
It is my position that whenever someone (anyone) distributes a creative work, the author of that work should have to pay the distributor a statutory reward of $750 per copy that was distributed.
... what was that? You want to meet in the middle? Right, let's talk about that ... :P
Every result in [search engine of your choice] will be "You need enable cookies to use this website, yay or nay" because search engines won't be able to index the website's content without themselves accepting cookies.
This will be a problem for all of two seconds before site operators realize that showing ads is, after all, more important than letting ads track users; and they change their site so that it just works cookies or no.
You know its not a game, right? They just don't find a document from one guy and then go kill people.
On the contrary; it just took them a while to find the blue keycard. :P
That would imply guidance wings, which makes me think of a gyrojet-style weapon.
One design for such a bullet I saw once had a pivoting tip that would be used to alter the airflow around the bullet, allowing it some amount of in-flight guidance. This might preclude spin stabilization though, not sure.
How about we reserve the dictionary for proper words and leave these acronyms to cyber space.
"Proper words" are those words that people actually use. If lots of people use "lol" and "omg" as if they were words then they are words and need to be in the dictionary.
Besides the point that any one who uses the word l33t sounds like a complete idiot and wont be taken seriously.
Now you're just starting to sound like a complete idiot and I'm not sure if I should take you seriously. :P