The Hobbits, Dwarfs, and Elves were trying to destroy the world as we know it. They came close to destroying The One Ring, but Thankfully Sauron, with the help of Lord Saruman and some other good fellows helped to vanquish the long eared, hole digging, tree hugging folk. It was close for a while, but we pulled through.
After we wiped out the radicals, the tree's (or Ents as they're referred to in ye old books), posed a much larger problem as their domain occupied much of the earth. In the past 150 years, we've only reallg begun to win this war with the Ents. Soon we'll have ever last tree vanquished.
If the one ring hadnt been saved, who knows what the wold would be like today!
your statements makes complete sense, and i do agree completely.
Yet, its still an interesting quagmire when looking at it from an antitrust perspective. Their spending money to develop a product, and if you give it away (at a loss) it's directly impacting and encroaching on the market of existing companies products.
on a similar note, symantec can go to hell.They own the "L0phtcrack" password auditing suite, yet their antivirus products flag John the Ripper (and the tools you use with jon)as viruses--when they're developed for the same purpose as LC5--to audit passwords. If that is not Antitrust, then it sure should be.
I believe you made a typo: "...healtcare and lack of a recent war should ensure that another Spanish Flu breakout cannot happen"
should read as: "...healtcare and lack of a recent war should ensure that another Spanish Flu breakout can happen"
Seriously though, with increasingly dense populations where human interaction is REQUIRED for survival (i.e. grocery store for food) coupled with rampant abuse of antibiotic perscriptions combined with the the ability to travel halfway around the world in mere hours--These are perfect cinditions for a pandemic. Either by Virus or by Antibiotic resistent bacteria, either looks just as likely at this time.
*Shrug* It'd be ironic if some military super virus escaped and ended up killing 99.999% of the population, after which Good and Evil people face off in what some would call a chess match between Lucifer and God....only to end up with Evil nuking themselves. So assuming all that went down and there was a 50/50 split of good and evil, and all of the evil died--then taking into account the current population of what? 6.55 Billion... there'd still be hmmm, 3.2 million people left? Thats still a hellofalota people.
1.) The US sold the WMD's to him in the early 80's 2.) He used WMD's on Iranian soldiers and civilians and its OK 3.) He used WMD's on his own citizens and its OK--only until almost a decade later when we decide its not ok.
"He refused to allow a vigorous inspection to prove he didn't have them." When you're making a case for war--any excuse is used.
a.) The inspecors were in there for years befor ehe initially kicked them out.
b.) Inspectors were initially let back in befor the war.
c.) inspectors themselves said it was extremely unlikely he had WMD's.
ok, but can you make vast quantities of oil by harnessing sunlight, or wind, or tidal power?
Sure, perhaps hydrogen is less efficent by your calculations, but by my calculations hydrogen has a hellofalot less environmental impact versus burning dead dinosaurs.
seriously, with the olympics becoming more and more like a professional sport with the advertising, lucrative contracts and shit, i am getting more and more turned off to it.
If a country wants to host the olympics, the requirement should be that it have ZERO corporate logo's anywhere on the properties of the stadiums. and that news stations can get equal coverage of the games.
Or better yet, LOTTERY off coverage of games. So that i dont have to flip through 12 channles of figure skating or gymnastics. I would like to check out some of the other sports--outside of what the news feeds think will get the best coverage.
That quote you give didn't reference the GOVERNMENT at all.
I imagine it'd be hella useful to be able to anonymously publish information about a corporation as well. Its not just the government that people fear.
For example, i'd be very leery in leaking anything about a news corporation. If i had any scandalous or incriminating information about a news corp i would WANT to remain anonymous. Because they would dig up and place on the air, every little thing about you and every rumor about you and inflate any tarnish you may have done throughout your life--including the time you lifted the neighbor girl's skirt when you were 3 years old.
on the history channle, they told how the condoms were used to protect guns.
If the soldiers got caught, and in their posession were condoms marked 'medium' yet, they were 18 inches long, or whatever--it was supposed to be a propaganda or phychological thing. that and possibly to just conceal the purpose of the condoms.
Tell me, how would it not be illegal (or at the very least immoral) to indefinitely detain a citizen or suspected terrorist from a foreign country? These organized acts of war you describe, can you elaborate on what they were? You further state they have been caught red handed. Please i want cold hard facts. Stating that they were dressed in military uniforms does not mean they are terrorists. Theres are such things as militia's. People committed to being ready in the event that they or their country need some kind of battlefield experience. There are hundreds of militia's in the US. Our founding fathers explicitly wanted militia's to be a somewhat normal thing. I do not think its unreasonable to assume that other governments allow such behavior and practicesits never a bad thing to have some people who aren't total newbies in the event of an emergency which requires trained soldiers.
You ask why not throw these people in a can and forget about them? Well, for one. WHERE IS THE PROOF that these people were caught red-handed COMMITTING acts of crime against the US. What would you do, what would you FEEL if you were hanging out in your hick town, and some military helicopter from China came in and scooped your sorry ass up simply because you were in a militia, and it was the weekend you trained? Would you be bitter? Do you think your government would be pissed off? Do you think your family and friends would be mad as well? Odds are they would all be steaming angry at this act of aggression. Especially if China said you were bad guy and offered no proof of this.
Right now, WE ARE THE BAD GUYS. I want proof that these people actually committed crimes or that they were individually specifically planning to commit a terrorist act. And saying i hate Americans doesn't count.
Just because they do not operate under our constitution does not make them exempt in my eyes. I firmly believe that if we try and persecute others (even from another country) then we must apply our rule of law and constitutional rights to those same people. If we can not do such a thing, then we are no better than those we are supposedly trying to stop.
while i have no legal background, could it be possible for the laywers to use a line such as "microsoft is not a monopoly, heck, we ourselves use corel wp over microsoft's product"
so when you say you can get the weather for free, can you get the weather in plain text? or do you have to go to a webpage with advertisements spewed across your screen. Or do you have to install some clientside program which includes boatloads of spyware built into it?
I do not believe that your definition of free is, in fact, free.
If the govt (the PEOPLE) funds this data to be collected, then the PEOPLE should have the right to view it freely. The internet pipe required to send this data would be CHEAP if all you are doing it spitting out ASCI text of the locations you wish to lookup information on--this is even more true when you compare it to the actual cost to collect said data.
While you could attribute this to laziness. I would not like the government to be in the position of deciding what point a FOIA request is sufficently fulfilled, especially if it skips over previously released FOIA docs. Just because a doc is released under the FOIA act, it does not necessarly become released to the public unless the requestor makes it available.
Now, if they limited it to not retrieving the same document twice for the SAME requestor in which two requests overlapped. that i think would be acceptable. so long as there's still a "hi i lost said documents i previously requested, can i get another copy" kind of fallback.
call me paranoid, but if the govt filtered any document previously relesed... they just have to have someone with close ties to the govt request said document which they do not want in public hands, and it'd never get released again. woot, easy coverup!
hypothetically, if they can crack it right away-- should they? If its broken right away, it'll be patched right away. Each hole patched makes the system more secure.
Do you let it be out for a few years (and possibly let the consumer market see the suckiness of DRM and possibly reject it) or if consumers do not reject DRM when a crack is published, there will be a few years worth of flawed players and media which can be circumvented.
either way, i dont believe DRM can be completely secure (for the companies)...how can you send information to the enemy (comsumer) and expect to not get (anywhere from some of it to all) it copied. At least untill there's a method of importing media directly into the brain for a users viewing pleasure...then my friend, DRM prettymuch hamper most meaningful of consumer media.
opera has has extremely fast fixes for secutiry holes in their products. also, you may want to recompare the time between their major version releases (6.x,7.x,8.x). i'll bet (as i'm not sure) that opera beats the pants off mozilla. As for firefox you can even compare firefox to this as its just hit its first release version.
isnt comparing closed source/open source a bit redundant to comparing their cost? Newly developed and closed source software almost has to "cost money" to the user unless the developer can contract their "implementation" of said software out to companies, or contract their support of said software to users. Of course, maybe someday you would like to spend tens of millions of dollars developing a product and then give it away untill your company goes belly up and you can no longer afford to keep any employees on the payroll. I certainly wont stop you from choosing this route.
in your little comparison, i almost hate to say this, but wouldnt blocking popups with builtin options be better than with a plugin? perhaps i'm just biased, as i dont like having to hunt around to download an install a great number of plugins and addins to achieve functionality i desire
Lastly, i dont know how you can justify the size as a real point since their both amazingly small.in windows, i hate to tell you this, but for the latest RELEASE versions of these browsers, opera is smaller by 1.18 MB. if you want to compare the beta of 8.0--well thats is bit different, as its even SMALLER--1.21 MB smaller than firefox. Your mileage may vary with different OS's. At the moment i cant easily compare how this is on freebsd. or i would.
"The question is about whether we really need a World Wide Web that looks like Wikipedia with links to every word and generally just a jumbled mess of blue and purple text."
While your description of this is quite unflattering, i think it would be useful to have the ability to say--highlight a word or phase and by right clicking on it--get the option of:encyclopedia lookup, dictionary, thesarus, etc. I believe in my context, that could be extremely useful.
Whenever i hear bush spout out "God Bless America" i think of a phrase a politician used in a cheezy movie i saw--i cant help but feel its how bush (and many americans) must truely feel. That phrase is:
"God Bless America, and America only!"
I am an american, and i am utterly sick of the hypocracy my country spouts out. State sponcered terrorism, pollution, agression, etc. Its ridiculous. We're the Fscking bullies of the world, and our mass media never mentions it. We need the smaller children of the playground to get together and confront the bully.
Also seeking instructions for attaching said thermonuclear device to a motorcycle sidecar, and linking the detenation sequence to the loss of my body's vitals.
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LOTR is more like a scifi horror flick.
The Hobbits, Dwarfs, and Elves were trying to destroy the world as we know it. They came close to destroying The One Ring, but Thankfully Sauron, with the help of Lord Saruman and some other good fellows helped to vanquish the long eared, hole digging, tree hugging folk. It was close for a while, but we pulled through.
After we wiped out the radicals, the tree's (or Ents as they're referred to in ye old books), posed a much larger problem as their domain occupied much of the earth. In the past 150 years, we've only reallg begun to win this war with the Ents. Soon we'll have ever last tree vanquished.
If the one ring hadnt been saved, who knows what the wold would be like today!
your statements makes complete sense, and i do agree completely.
Yet, its still an interesting quagmire when looking at it from an antitrust perspective. Their spending money to develop a product, and if you give it away (at a loss) it's directly impacting and encroaching on the market of existing companies products.
on a similar note, symantec can go to hell.They own the "L0phtcrack" password auditing suite, yet their antivirus products flag John the Ripper (and the tools you use with jon)as viruses--when they're developed for the same purpose as LC5--to audit passwords. If that is not Antitrust, then it sure should be.
Seeing as you're "the exceedingly paranoid type"
I believe you made a typo:
"...healtcare and lack of a recent war should ensure that another Spanish Flu breakout cannot happen"
should read as:
"...healtcare and lack of a recent war should ensure that another Spanish Flu breakout can happen"
Seriously though, with increasingly dense populations where human interaction is REQUIRED for survival (i.e. grocery store for food) coupled with rampant abuse of antibiotic perscriptions combined with the the ability to travel halfway around the world in mere hours--These are perfect cinditions for a pandemic. Either by Virus or by Antibiotic resistent bacteria, either looks just as likely at this time.
*Shrug* It'd be ironic if some military super virus escaped and ended up killing 99.999% of the population, after which Good and Evil people face off in what some would call a chess match between Lucifer and God....only to end up with Evil nuking themselves. So assuming all that went down and there was a 50/50 split of good and evil, and all of the evil died--then taking into account the current population of what? 6.55 Billion... there'd still be hmmm, 3.2 million people left? Thats still a hellofalota people.
"US has enough nuclear firepower to not need biological weaponry, which are much more unpredictable in effect, and less reliable."
While i agree with you--we do indeed have massive stockpiles of biological agents. More than likely we have stockpiles in excess of anyone else.
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3.) He used WMD's on his own citizens and its OK--until MORE THAN a decade later when we decide its not ok.
1.) The US sold the WMD's to him in the early 80's
2.) He used WMD's on Iranian soldiers and civilians and its OK
3.) He used WMD's on his own citizens and its OK--only until almost a decade later when we decide its not ok.
"He refused to allow a vigorous inspection to prove he didn't have them."
When you're making a case for war--any excuse is used.
a.) The inspecors were in there for years befor ehe initially kicked them out.
b.) Inspectors were initially let back in befor the war.
c.) inspectors themselves said it was extremely unlikely he had WMD's.
ok, but can you make vast quantities of oil by harnessing sunlight, or wind, or tidal power?
Sure, perhaps hydrogen is less efficent by your calculations, but by my calculations hydrogen has a hellofalot less environmental impact versus burning dead dinosaurs.
seriously,
with the olympics becoming more and more like a professional sport with the advertising, lucrative contracts and shit, i am getting more and more turned off to it.
If a country wants to host the olympics, the requirement should be that it have ZERO corporate logo's anywhere on the properties of the stadiums. and that news stations can get equal coverage of the games.
Or better yet, LOTTERY off coverage of games. So that i dont have to flip through 12 channles of figure skating or gymnastics. I would like to check out some of the other sports--outside of what the news feeds think will get the best coverage.
grrrr
no no silly--dont outlaw it---BOMB cyberspace!
That quote you give didn't reference the GOVERNMENT at all.
I imagine it'd be hella useful to be able to anonymously publish information about a corporation as well. Its not just the government that people fear.
For example, i'd be very leery in leaking anything about a news corporation. If i had any scandalous or incriminating information about a news corp i would WANT to remain anonymous. Because they would dig up and place on the air, every little thing about you and every rumor about you and inflate any tarnish you may have done throughout your life--including the time you lifted the neighbor girl's skirt when you were 3 years old.
on the history channle, they told how the condoms were used to protect guns.
If the soldiers got caught, and in their posession were condoms marked 'medium' yet, they were 18 inches long, or whatever--it was supposed to be a propaganda or phychological thing. that and possibly to just conceal the purpose of the condoms.
Tell me, how would it not be illegal (or at the very least immoral) to indefinitely detain a citizen or suspected terrorist from a foreign country? These organized acts of war you describe, can you elaborate on what they were? You further state they have been caught red handed. Please i want cold hard facts. Stating that they were dressed in military uniforms does not mean they are terrorists. Theres are such things as militia's. People committed to being ready in the event that they or their country need some kind of battlefield experience. There are hundreds of militia's in the US. Our founding fathers explicitly wanted militia's to be a somewhat normal thing. I do not think its unreasonable to assume that other governments allow such behavior and practicesits never a bad thing to have some people who aren't total newbies in the event of an emergency which requires trained soldiers.
You ask why not throw these people in a can and forget about them? Well, for one. WHERE IS THE PROOF that these people were caught red-handed COMMITTING acts of crime against the US. What would you do, what would you FEEL if you were hanging out in your hick town, and some military helicopter from China came in and scooped your sorry ass up simply because you were in a militia, and it was the weekend you trained? Would you be bitter? Do you think your government would be pissed off? Do you think your family and friends would be mad as well? Odds are they would all be steaming angry at this act of aggression. Especially if China said you were bad guy and offered no proof of this.
Right now, WE ARE THE BAD GUYS. I want proof that these people actually committed crimes or that they were individually specifically planning to commit a terrorist act. And saying i hate Americans doesn't count.
Just because they do not operate under our constitution does not make them exempt in my eyes. I firmly believe that if we try and persecute others (even from another country) then we must apply our rule of law and constitutional rights to those same people. If we can not do such a thing, then we are no better than those we are supposedly trying to stop.
perhaps using corel was a part of MS's strategy.
while i have no legal background, could it be possible for the laywers to use a line such as "microsoft is not a monopoly, heck, we ourselves use corel wp over microsoft's product"
so when you say you can get the weather for free, can you get the weather in plain text? or do you have to go to a webpage with advertisements spewed across your screen. Or do you have to install some clientside program which includes boatloads of spyware built into it?
I do not believe that your definition of free is, in fact, free.
If the govt (the PEOPLE) funds this data to be collected, then the PEOPLE should have the right to view it freely. The internet pipe required to send this data would be CHEAP if all you are doing it spitting out ASCI text of the locations you wish to lookup information on--this is even more true when you compare it to the actual cost to collect said data.
While you could attribute this to laziness. I would not like the government to be in the position of deciding what point a FOIA request is sufficently fulfilled, especially if it skips over previously released FOIA docs. Just because a doc is released under the FOIA act, it does not necessarly become released to the public unless the requestor makes it available.
Now, if they limited it to not retrieving the same document twice for the SAME requestor in which two requests overlapped. that i think would be acceptable. so long as there's still a "hi i lost said documents i previously requested, can i get another copy" kind of fallback.
call me paranoid, but if the govt filtered any document previously relesed... they just have to have someone with close ties to the govt request said document which they do not want in public hands, and it'd never get released again. woot, easy coverup!
hypothetically, if they can crack it right away-- should they? If its broken right away, it'll be patched right away. Each hole patched makes the system more secure.
Do you let it be out for a few years (and possibly let the consumer market see the suckiness of DRM and possibly reject it) or if consumers do not reject DRM when a crack is published, there will be a few years worth of flawed players and media which can be circumvented.
either way, i dont believe DRM can be completely secure (for the companies)...how can you send information to the enemy (comsumer) and expect to not get (anywhere from some of it to all) it copied. At least untill there's a method of importing media directly into the brain for a users viewing pleasure...then my friend, DRM prettymuch hamper most meaningful of consumer media.
mmmm bias.
opera has has extremely fast fixes for secutiry holes in their products. also, you may want to recompare the time between their major version releases (6.x,7.x,8.x). i'll bet (as i'm not sure) that opera beats the pants off mozilla. As for firefox you can even compare firefox to this as its just hit its first release version.
isnt comparing closed source/open source a bit redundant to comparing their cost? Newly developed and closed source software almost has to "cost money" to the user unless the developer can contract their "implementation" of said software out to companies, or contract their support of said software to users. Of course, maybe someday you would like to spend tens of millions of dollars developing a product and then give it away untill your company goes belly up and you can no longer afford to keep any employees on the payroll. I certainly wont stop you from choosing this route.
in your little comparison, i almost hate to say this, but wouldnt blocking popups with builtin options be better than with a plugin? perhaps i'm just biased, as i dont like having to hunt around to download an install a great number of plugins and addins to achieve functionality i desire
Lastly, i dont know how you can justify the size as a real point since their both amazingly small.in windows, i hate to tell you this, but for the latest RELEASE versions of these browsers, opera is smaller by 1.18 MB. if you want to compare the beta of 8.0--well thats is bit different, as its even SMALLER--1.21 MB smaller than firefox. Your mileage may vary with different OS's. At the moment i cant easily compare how this is on freebsd. or i would.
Troll, Troll, Go Away Flaim Again Some Other Day.
careful what you say--big brother may be reading this and you may get moded +1 Terrorist.
and then my friend, a governmeny agency may just put a jihad on you.
i'd mod you up if i could.
i also refuse to buy a game with these kind of BS strings attached for the single player.
half life 1 was done right.. all it required was a valid cd key. online or off. that is acceptable.
this HL2 method is unacceptable.
"The question is about whether we really need a World Wide Web that looks like Wikipedia with links to every word and generally just a jumbled mess of blue and purple text."
While your description of this is quite unflattering, i think it would be useful to have the ability to say--highlight a word or phase and by right clicking on it--get the option of:encyclopedia lookup, dictionary, thesarus, etc. I believe in my context, that could be extremely useful.
Whenever i hear bush spout out "God Bless America" i think of a phrase a politician used in a cheezy movie i saw--i cant help but feel its how bush (and many americans) must truely feel. That phrase is:
"God Bless America, and America only!"
I am an american, and i am utterly sick of the hypocracy my country spouts out. State sponcered terrorism, pollution, agression, etc. Its ridiculous. We're the Fscking bullies of the world, and our mass media never mentions it. We need the smaller children of the playground to get together and confront the bully.
you are correct. brain fart =\
I completely agree.
Dont forget: Feeling disgraced that millions of people have died to preserve liberties which we just discarded like used toilet paper.
it also enrages me.
which is more efficent:
A: Always turning an alternator to power the electronics?
or
b: use a small fuel cell to convert just what is needed into electricity?
WTB: 1 thermonuclear bomb.
Also seeking instructions for attaching said thermonuclear device to a motorcycle sidecar, and linking the detenation sequence to the loss of my body's vitals.