Now, you probably came up with a few of your own, or perhaps spotted some obvious flaws with what I suggested. Come in with some guns, Matrix-style and kill the guards. It's not like they will be too vigilant there.;) Then ignore the lockers and just place the explosives inside.
Its a broken economic system! Just like open source.
It can't be a threat long term because it will fail by itself!...and that is exactly what happened. You couldn't be farther from the truth. It wouldn't fail if the USSR have embraced ERP systems. As it was, the planning process was horribly ineffective, primarily because one can't manage a 250 million people country without extensive use of computers. But, sadly, cybernetics was declared a bourgeois science earlier, leading to being far behind the West in IT development.
And communism will not fail, but develop by itself everywhere in the world, based on open source, nanotechnologies and AI. Possibly as soon as in 30 years. As such, it is a threat against the current economic system of the US, though not against the American people.
Perhaps she though everyone knows that most of tax cuts went to the wealthy in the first place, so one can't "take them back" from the poor and lower middle-class.
Hill expects visitors will find the lockers easier once they get used to them. Does he think that the same people are visiting the Statue day after day? Or does he hope that people will get their first experience somewhere else? I think he may be mistaken and it will always (for the next few years at least) take upwards from 5 minutes for people to put their stuff in (and then probably the same amount to take it back).
This is just insane - great that I don't live in the US though.:)
I, for one, do not want to live in a world where slacking and procrastinating are eliminated by a pill. What about a world where you come to your work, take a pill, work for 3 hours and accomplish the same amount of work as you do now in 9 hours? Or where you take this pill every day for two month and work at home for 12 hours/day to earn enough money for a 6-month holiday?
It's amazing how low the productivity of white-collar workers is, not mixing work and slacking would make wonders - it would give you much more free time, because work can be done so much quicker.
Bullshit. The article quotes a Gartner analyst who says that in Russia (China and Latin America) many PCs are sold without an OS or with Linux. She then says that 90-95% of these machines get a pirated Windows version in a few days.
This says NOTHING about pirated Windows replacing Linux. From my experience in Russia I can tell you that most PCs are indeed sold without a licensed copy of Windows (say, 90%) and a pirated copy of Windows is obviously installed there next. A small percentage of machines is sold with Linux preinstalled (only cheap notebooks, because you need to have some OS installed on the computer and most notebook vendors are too legitimate to install pirated Windows there). But again, we don't know how many of these Linux installations are replaced with Windows and in any case IN NO WAY does this apply to Walmart in the United States.
The paragraph in the beginning of the article is just a very careless rephrasing of Annette's quote. And you in your post imply that these statistics are somehow relevant (i.e. apply to the US market), which is completely false.
That's the beauty of conditioning - of how the citizens of the United States have been thoroughly brainwashed into believing that communism is inferior to capitalism. Funny how you speak about the road from communism to capitalism being one-way, when in reality, it's completely opposite. Linux (open source) is a brilliant example of something, which by its very nature is communism not capitalism, even though at the moment it is possible to integrate Linux with capitalism. But in the very immediate future (several decades, I would say) the elements of communism will be much more prominent.
And of course the actual transitions got quite differently. From slave-ownership society to feudalism, to capitalism, and finally to communism. Linux is just one example of this transition.
Sounds like a perfect plan. And then you can use even more bomb-ridden ambulances to go to the explosion site and kill even more people. Who is going to suspect them?
Holding shares (bonds) is not a zero-sum game. Trading shares, on the other hand, is zero-sum. Everything that you gain by buying a stock, the seller loses. Ergo, the stock market is gambling.
A group of 5 or so mad out of their mind people hides a few guns and a load of explosives in a private vehicle
BTW, it's much more effective to use a public vehicle. Noone checks buses or taxis, ever. Just pack the explosives into travel bags, dress like a tourist and use a taxi.:) Then, when you are inside the city, move into the clean car (that passed the check at the entrance) and assemble the bomb.
And the best thing is that improvements in technology will make it possible to use robots for suicide attacks. I am not a professional killer, but there are countless ways to utilise cheap but powerful technology like webcams, image recognition and GPS to kill pretty much everyone (including presidents, roman popes, etc.). Make a cheap cruise missile (like that guy in Australia did), put a GPS on it, record a position of the motorcade with a few webcams, calculate their speed, extrapolate their position and launch the cruise missile from a few kilometers away. Use GPS to hit the target. Voila. Score one for freedom fighters.:)
Of course this particular scheme may have shortcomings (though feel free to use it, if it doesn't), but the point is that technology empowers everyone and no amount of smokescreens like they use in Athens now will be effective in stopping real attacks. It may be possible to control some aspects of technology, but there is no way the state can control all of it, everywhere, 100%.
The problem is, there is no going back. The governments today are completely unable to recognise the value of privacy because they are scared of terrorists or at least are pretending to be scared, and we can do nothing to change their thinking.
No matter how effective the fight against terrorism is, and no matter how safe the next years are, the government will never back off from further development of totalitarian control measures. The only way to ever get our freedoms back is to completely destroy the current system. Ironically, our main ally here are the terrorists. I have little hope that this conflict between citizens and their governments may be resolved peacefully. So, the worse it becomes, the better it is. Only when the government attempts to takes all freedoms from the people, will the people hear the wake-up call.
The Christian science monitor has an interesting article on how many schools have stopped teaching touch typingis necessary offices due and are not insane that basic computer skills are more important. I'd agree with the letter, but what about typing? I learn to dive on an IBM selected blue (and stillborn one, is a matter of fact) in the meet- 1980s, and the last time I was tested, touch-died at around 60 WDM. Is this an obstinate you? With handwriting and was commissioned ignored is, easy using aquatic keyboard with nine out of ten fingers someonewas not a more?
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Software used: Dragon Naturally Speaking 7, with minimal user training. UK English language profile used, though I am not a native speaker and have some minor speech defects.
Well, seriously speaking, there are ways to encode something in DNA and make the readers confident the message is genuine. You just make sure that a particular message is very stable - that's the only good indicator of specialness. So if anything contained the message, it would be the mitochondrial (sp?) DNA. But, of course, you are correct in saying it's bullshit. There are better ways to communicate - just leave a "monolith" (a powerful AI + nanotech) somewhere and have it activate itself when the humanity is ready.
Publicly-traded companies want (as far as any non-living, non-sentient entity can be said to want) only one thing: increase shareholder value. First, this is not exactly true, but let's not get into that now. Second, increasing value doesn't mean increasing short-term profit (unless you are more capable of cooking books than developing a promising long-term strategy).
Apple shares were great last year, and better than MSFT. When you argue that stock market forces corporations to be unethical and only think about short-term, you are either lying, trolling, or just being stupid. There are countless ways for a company to be ethical, to care about communities, environment, etc.
Does fair use apply? Almost certainly not. Three of the four factors are against it, and the fourth is basically a wash.
You meant three are for it and the fourth is against, but not if you are pedantic enough?
Let's see. It's non-commercial, it's just a service pack, available for free from MS, it's the whole work, though the torrent itself isn't, and it will have only positive effect on the Windows market.
I really wonder how you managed to lie about 3 out of 4 being against with a straigh face, when at least #1 and #4 are clearly for. But then again, may be you are just a particularly clueless lawyer?
Apparently they now rely on one thing alone - URL spamm^H^H^H^H^Hindexing - things like like www.small-scale-web-developer.com/small_scale_web_ developer/small_scale_web_developer.html
Seriously, I don't understand how retarded those hundreds of PhDs must be to not fix such a blatant abuse in nearly a year. More than half Google queries now bring a few spam results on the first/second pages, most of which use the URL spamming.
I should have said "sometimes" or "often" stifle innovation.
But to be honest, I believe the economy would work just fine even without IP at all. For example, R&D will still be done to get a competitive edge, only the results will be kept as trade secrets instead of being patented. The inventors will still be able to license their inventions, they will simply be protected with confidentiality clauses in contracts, not by patents. In those few cases when patents help, they might be granted as an exception, the work may be financed by the public or something else can be done.
Branding would obviously not work, but that doesn't mean trademarks are necessary (especially product trademarks, company trademarks make a little bit more sense). Generic product names work just fine, and you can still inform the customer by including the name of your company and the state/industry standard of the product (if there is one). If someone includes the name of your company, they can easily be sued for misleading the consumer.
As for copyrights, we've been over this many times. Artists/musicians will be paid either by the public or by those individuals that particularly like their work. There are reasons to believe that this will profoundly change art, and possible to the better. A lot of commercial junk won't be created, while truly good works will easily get funding from patrons, after which they will be distributed more widely than today. So the end result might turn out to be more free and quality art for the public than today. And nothing prevents the public from financing particularly useful works via state funding. Again, there are some exceptions, where limited forms of copyright might be useful.
But overall the IP protections are far from necessary. The original laws got it right, it was "to promote the progress", not "to make progress possible". Copyright should have been used sparingly and only where it really helps.
You have serious problems with logic. With logic of the music execs, that is. Every copy of some crappy CD that they send to libraries means one lost sale. Obviously, libraries would have bought hundreds of OutKast CDs if not for this settlement. So record companies lose 16$ for each CD they give away. Clear now?
This is a good example of why eDonkey and KaZaA are better than BitTorrent and Freenet would be even better if it worked. We don't need a P2P system that is used to share legitimate files, like Linux ISOs. We need a P2P system that would contain a copy of each work of art in history. We need a P2P system that would provide indiscriminate free access to all art and knowledge ever created every human on Earth.
And so far eDonkey is the closest one to this ideal. You just need to know the size (33701892 bytes) and the MD5 hash (F19322EDFD0646013AAFABE1460E8296) to reconstruct a link to a famous cartoon. ed2k://|file|guesswhatthenameis.mpg|3370 1892|F1932 2EDFD0646013AAFABE1460E8296|/ BTW, this cartoon and everything created until 1970 is in public domain in my country. Sadly, the "harmonisation" of the "IP" laws is underway even here.:(
It didn't work in the USSR and it won't work in the USA. Especially now that we have the Internet and digital technologies. People in the Soviet Union used typewriters (on the mass scale) to copy books illegally (because copiers were controlled by the state). They copied audio casettes (sometimes)illegally. The only thing preventing them from copying video was that there was little worth copying.
There is no way Disney or anyone else can pull this off. As much as those retards believe in their superpower, they are no match for the Soviet Union.
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Now, you probably came up with a few of your own, or perhaps spotted some obvious flaws with what I suggested. ;) Then ignore the lockers and just place the explosives inside.
Come in with some guns, Matrix-style and kill the guards. It's not like they will be too vigilant there.
Its a broken economic system!
...and that is exactly what happened.
Just like open source.
It can't be a threat long term because it will fail by itself!
You couldn't be farther from the truth. It wouldn't fail if the USSR have embraced ERP systems. As it was, the planning process was horribly ineffective, primarily because one can't manage a 250 million people country without extensive use of computers. But, sadly, cybernetics was declared a bourgeois science earlier, leading to being far behind the West in IT development.
And communism will not fail, but develop by itself everywhere in the world, based on open source, nanotechnologies and AI. Possibly as soon as in 30 years. As such, it is a threat against the current economic system of the US, though not against the American people.
Perhaps she though everyone knows that most of tax cuts went to the wealthy in the first place, so one can't "take them back" from the poor and lower middle-class.
Hill expects visitors will find the lockers easier once they get used to them.
:)
Does he think that the same people are visiting the Statue day after day? Or does he hope that people will get their first experience somewhere else? I think he may be mistaken and it will always (for the next few years at least) take upwards from 5 minutes for people to put their stuff in (and then probably the same amount to take it back).
This is just insane - great that I don't live in the US though.
I, for one, do not want to live in a world where slacking and procrastinating are eliminated by a pill.
What about a world where you come to your work, take a pill, work for 3 hours and accomplish the same amount of work as you do now in 9 hours? Or where you take this pill every day for two month and work at home for 12 hours/day to earn enough money for a 6-month holiday?
It's amazing how low the productivity of white-collar workers is, not mixing work and slacking would make wonders - it would give you much more free time, because work can be done so much quicker.
Bullshit. The article quotes a Gartner analyst who says that in Russia (China and Latin America) many PCs are sold without an OS or with Linux. She then says that 90-95% of these machines get a pirated Windows version in a few days.
This says NOTHING about pirated Windows replacing Linux. From my experience in Russia I can tell you that most PCs are indeed sold without a licensed copy of Windows (say, 90%) and a pirated copy of Windows is obviously installed there next. A small percentage of machines is sold with Linux preinstalled (only cheap notebooks, because you need to have some OS installed on the computer and most notebook vendors are too legitimate to install pirated Windows there). But again, we don't know how many of these Linux installations are replaced with Windows and in any case IN NO WAY does this apply to Walmart in the United States.
The paragraph in the beginning of the article is just a very careless rephrasing of Annette's quote. And you in your post imply that these statistics are somehow relevant (i.e. apply to the US market), which is completely false.
That's the beauty of conditioning - of how the citizens of the United States have been thoroughly brainwashed into believing that communism is inferior to capitalism. Funny how you speak about the road from communism to capitalism being one-way, when in reality, it's completely opposite. Linux (open source) is a brilliant example of something, which by its very nature is communism not capitalism, even though at the moment it is possible to integrate Linux with capitalism. But in the very immediate future (several decades, I would say) the elements of communism will be much more prominent.
And of course the actual transitions got quite differently. From slave-ownership society to feudalism, to capitalism, and finally to communism. Linux is just one example of this transition.
Sounds like a perfect plan. And then you can use even more bomb-ridden ambulances to go to the explosion site and kill even more people. Who is going to suspect them?
Holding shares (bonds) is not a zero-sum game. Trading shares, on the other hand, is zero-sum. Everything that you gain by buying a stock, the seller loses. Ergo, the stock market is gambling.
A group of 5 or so mad out of their mind people hides a few guns and a load of explosives in a private vehicle
:) Then, when you are inside the city, move into the clean car (that passed the check at the entrance) and assemble the bomb.
BTW, it's much more effective to use a public vehicle. Noone checks buses or taxis, ever. Just pack the explosives into travel bags, dress like a tourist and use a taxi.
And the best thing is that improvements in technology will make it possible to use robots for suicide attacks. I am not a professional killer, but there are countless ways to utilise cheap but powerful technology like webcams, image recognition and GPS to kill pretty much everyone (including presidents, roman popes, etc.). Make a cheap cruise missile (like that guy in Australia did), put a GPS on it, record a position of the motorcade with a few webcams, calculate their speed, extrapolate their position and launch the cruise missile from a few kilometers away. Use GPS to hit the target. Voila. Score one for freedom fighters. :)
Of course this particular scheme may have shortcomings (though feel free to use it, if it doesn't), but the point is that technology empowers everyone and no amount of smokescreens like they use in Athens now will be effective in stopping real attacks. It may be possible to control some aspects of technology, but there is no way the state can control all of it, everywhere, 100%.
The problem is, there is no going back. The governments today are completely unable to recognise the value of privacy because they are scared of terrorists or at least are pretending to be scared, and we can do nothing to change their thinking.
No matter how effective the fight against terrorism is, and no matter how safe the next years are, the government will never back off from further development of totalitarian control measures. The only way to ever get our freedoms back is to completely destroy the current system. Ironically, our main ally here are the terrorists. I have little hope that this conflict between citizens and their governments may be resolved peacefully. So, the worse it becomes, the better it is. Only when the government attempts to takes all freedoms from the people, will the people hear the wake-up call.
The Christian science monitor has an interesting article on how many schools have stopped teaching touch typing is necessary offices due and are not insane that basic computer skills are more important. I'd agree with the letter, but what about typing? I learn to dive on an IBM selected blue (and stillborn one, is a matter of fact) in the meet- 1980s, and the last time I was tested, touch-died at around 60 WDM. Is this an obstinate you? With handwriting and was commissioned ignored is, easy using aquatic keyboard with nine out of ten fingers someone was not a more?
Both original and recognised text included:
The Christian science monitor has an interesting article on how many schools have stopped teaching touch typing as a is necessary office skill and are now often saying offices due and are not insane that basic computer skills are more important. I'd agree with the latter letter, but what about typing? I learned to type a learn to dive on an IBM Selectric II selected blue (and still own stillborn one, as is a matter of fact) in the mid meet-1980s, and the last time I was tested, touch-typed died at around 60 wpm WDM. Is this an obsolete skill obstinate you? With handwriting and voice recognition technologies was commissioned ignored is, is easy using a QWERTY aquatic keyboard with nine out of ten fingers something someone worth knowing anymore was not a more?
Software used: Dragon Naturally Speaking 7, with minimal user training. UK English language profile used, though I am not a native speaker and have some minor speech defects.
Stop at the other end? I suggest we start worrying about it when we get there. :)
Well, seriously speaking, there are ways to encode something in DNA and make the readers confident the message is genuine. You just make sure that a particular message is very stable - that's the only good indicator of specialness. So if anything contained the message, it would be the mitochondrial (sp?) DNA. But, of course, you are correct in saying it's bullshit. There are better ways to communicate - just leave a "monolith" (a powerful AI + nanotech) somewhere and have it activate itself when the humanity is ready.
Publicly-traded companies want (as far as any non-living, non-sentient entity can be said to want) only one thing: increase shareholder value.
First, this is not exactly true, but let's not get into that now. Second, increasing value doesn't mean increasing short-term profit (unless you are more capable of cooking books than developing a promising long-term strategy).
Apple shares were great last year, and better than MSFT. When you argue that stock market forces corporations to be unethical and only think about short-term, you are either lying, trolling, or just being stupid. There are countless ways for a company to be ethical, to care about communities, environment, etc.
Does fair use apply? Almost certainly not. Three of the four factors are against it, and the fourth is basically a wash.
You meant three are for it and the fourth is against, but not if you are pedantic enough?
Let's see. It's non-commercial, it's just a service pack, available for free from MS, it's the whole work, though the torrent itself isn't, and it will have only positive effect on the Windows market.
I really wonder how you managed to lie about 3 out of 4 being against with a straigh face, when at least #1 and #4 are clearly for. But then again, may be you are just a particularly clueless lawyer?
The torrent is non-commercial. Check.
It's a service pack, which is being distributed for free at MS. Probably check.
It's complete work, though the torrent itself is not. Not check.
Positive effect. Check.
So overall one can be pretty safe that distributing Microsoft service pack is probably fair use. Of course, only the courts can tell for sure.
I would rather spend 5-10 bucks to fix it in a computer store. If it was just a capacitor, that's a 10 minute job for a computer technician.
Apparently they now rely on one thing alone - URL spamm^H^H^H^H^Hindexing - things like like www.small-scale-web-developer.com/small_scale_web_ developer/small_scale_web_developer.html
Seriously, I don't understand how retarded those hundreds of PhDs must be to not fix such a blatant abuse in nearly a year. More than half Google queries now bring a few spam results on the first/second pages, most of which use the URL spamming.
I should have said "sometimes" or "often" stifle innovation.
But to be honest, I believe the economy would work just fine even without IP at all. For example, R&D will still be done to get a competitive edge, only the results will be kept as trade secrets instead of being patented. The inventors will still be able to license their inventions, they will simply be protected with confidentiality clauses in contracts, not by patents. In those few cases when patents help, they might be granted as an exception, the work may be financed by the public or something else can be done.
Branding would obviously not work, but that doesn't mean trademarks are necessary (especially product trademarks, company trademarks make a little bit more sense). Generic product names work just fine, and you can still inform the customer by including the name of your company and the state/industry standard of the product (if there is one). If someone includes the name of your company, they can easily be sued for misleading the consumer.
As for copyrights, we've been over this many times. Artists/musicians will be paid either by the public or by those individuals that particularly like their work. There are reasons to believe that this will profoundly change art, and possible to the better. A lot of commercial junk won't be created, while truly good works will easily get funding from patrons, after which they will be distributed more widely than today. So the end result might turn out to be more free and quality art for the public than today. And nothing prevents the public from financing particularly useful works via state funding. Again, there are some exceptions, where limited forms of copyright might be useful.
But overall the IP protections are far from necessary. The original laws got it right, it was "to promote the progress", not "to make progress possible". Copyright should have been used sparingly and only where it really helps.
You have serious problems with logic. With logic of the music execs, that is. Every copy of some crappy CD that they send to libraries means one lost sale. Obviously, libraries would have bought hundreds of OutKast CDs if not for this settlement. So record companies lose 16$ for each CD they give away. Clear now?
You want to conquer a high-end gaming market with a Mac OS machine?
This is a good example of why eDonkey and KaZaA are better than BitTorrent and Freenet would be even better if it worked. We don't need a P2P system that is used to share legitimate files, like Linux ISOs. We need a P2P system that would contain a copy of each work of art in history. We need a P2P system that would provide indiscriminate free access to all art and knowledge ever created every human on Earth.
0 1892|F1932 2EDFD0646013AAFABE1460E8296|/ :(
And so far eDonkey is the closest one to this ideal. You just need to know the size (33701892 bytes) and the MD5 hash (F19322EDFD0646013AAFABE1460E8296) to reconstruct a link to a famous cartoon.
ed2k://|file|guesswhatthenameis.mpg|337
BTW, this cartoon and everything created until 1970 is in public domain in my country. Sadly, the "harmonisation" of the "IP" laws is underway even here.
It didn't work in the USSR and it won't work in the USA. Especially now that we have the Internet and digital technologies. People in the Soviet Union used typewriters (on the mass scale) to copy books illegally (because copiers were controlled by the state). They copied audio casettes (sometimes)illegally. The only thing preventing them from copying video was that there was little worth copying.
There is no way Disney or anyone else can pull this off. As much as those retards believe in their superpower, they are no match for the Soviet Union.