News? I'm not news. I'm just a comical little troll for the forces of rational cynicism. (The only job left to me now that the chances of seeing Secular Humanism in the US during my lifetime appear to be nil.)
The universe is getting more disorganized. The planet is not because it's being pumped full of relatively non-deadly radiation all the time.
As far as faith goes: faith is idiotic. It exists for the sole purpose of allowing the weak to live without facing the unknown. I believe only what can be concretely proven which, in the non-mundane garbage-gets-picked-up-on-tuesday sense, is jack shit. Humans do not, and will not exist as a species long enough to understand the truth behind the origins of this universe. In the cosmic sense, we're no smarter than the bacteria.
Actually, I do believe one thing: pure cynicism is the highest form of enlightenment.
Bring 'em on. I live in Chicago - one of the most heavily Democratic cities around in addition to being good at violence. I'd prefer a straight fight to all this pointless complaining about them shanghaiing the country.
Eh, even if it stood up to a constitutional challenge it wouldn't work. Given that kind of threat how long do you think it would be before somebody would break the TC keying system and render the whole thing stupid?
Interesting how the same person who believes the propaganda can't spell "insane" or construct a sentence that conveys a clearly comprehensible message . . . . .
Fear of getting bombed doesn't lead to long-term reform, and occupations are never won. Time will prove the 5.5 billion of us who think America is out of its collective mind and its so-called is the most dangerous man alive right. This will become the Vietnam of your generation. I can't say I'll feel any sympathy for the nominal half of America responsible.
As for the other half, welcome to the sane-but-powerless club.
I'm so damn sick of these American nationalists who think they need to dig at France at every possible opportunity. I have news for you jackasses: the French were one of the few significant countries with the balls to tell you you were insane and they had the nerve to be right too.
ISPs are reporting major drops in bandwidth usage.
And couldn't we expect the ISPs, especially some of the state owned(?) ones to start pushing against a crackdown when they start losing money? dDOS excluded, more traffic == more business for an ISP.
I never called it harmless, I just said that there was vastly more radioactive material in a truck full of smoke detectors - a thing that can be seen bouncing along the road cutting off trucks full of gasoline with significant frequency.
Those sites wouldn't be legal in France. As I understand it all this ruling says is "It's legal to be a leech" and not "copyrights are dead." If you illegally distribute material you can still get nailed.
Given that we might get some kind of closed-source decoder library. With the DMCA and the studios the world will end before they give us anything freedom-free. A black box for a few arcitectures is the best we can practically hope for.
(Not to say somebody isn't gonna hack it and release a freedom-free version. I fully expect that to happen inside the first year.)
Time for Apple's Ninja Attack Lawyers to do something productive! They've been kinda bored and . . . . suey lately. Now they'll be distracted kicking an ass that deserves it for awhile.
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Or you could, y'know, just add a $0.03 green LED to the "in" side and a red one to the "out." "For the security of knowing it's hooked up right."
I believe the parent was referring to Servotron who make me want there to be a robot rebellion every time I listen to them.
Researcher pays YOU off!
News? I'm not news. I'm just a comical little troll for the forces of rational cynicism. (The only job left to me now that the chances of seeing Secular Humanism in the US during my lifetime appear to be nil.)
Go science! Now if only religion could get around to realizing that . . . . . .
Have I been laid? I'll have to ask my girlfriend about that when she gets home.
* Points at the sun. * Effort.
The universe is getting more disorganized. The planet is not because it's being pumped full of relatively non-deadly radiation all the time.
As far as faith goes: faith is idiotic. It exists for the sole purpose of allowing the weak to live without facing the unknown. I believe only what can be concretely proven which, in the non-mundane garbage-gets-picked-up-on-tuesday sense, is jack shit. Humans do not, and will not exist as a species long enough to understand the truth behind the origins of this universe. In the cosmic sense, we're no smarter than the bacteria.
Actually, I do believe one thing: pure cynicism is the highest form of enlightenment.
Bring 'em on. I live in Chicago - one of the most heavily Democratic cities around in addition to being good at violence. I'd prefer a straight fight to all this pointless complaining about them shanghaiing the country.
Does it really matter how many days? THe story is equally false regardless.
Purely from a technological, eye-candy standpoint I'd like to see this.
Of course, what other "brilliant re-edits" will we be subjected to for the re-re-re-release?
Eh, even if it stood up to a constitutional challenge it wouldn't work. Given that kind of threat how long do you think it would be before somebody would break the TC keying system and render the whole thing stupid?
Interesting how the same person who believes the propaganda can't spell "insane" or construct a sentence that conveys a clearly comprehensible message . . . . .
Fear of getting bombed doesn't lead to long-term reform, and occupations are never won. Time will prove the 5.5 billion of us who think America is out of its collective mind and its so-called is the most dangerous man alive right. This will become the Vietnam of your generation. I can't say I'll feel any sympathy for the nominal half of America responsible.
As for the other half, welcome to the sane-but-powerless club.
I'm so damn sick of these American nationalists who think they need to dig at France at every possible opportunity. I have news for you jackasses: the French were one of the few significant countries with the balls to tell you you were insane and they had the nerve to be right too.
ISPs are reporting major drops in bandwidth usage.
And couldn't we expect the ISPs, especially some of the state owned(?) ones to start pushing against a crackdown when they start losing money? dDOS excluded, more traffic == more business for an ISP.
Not anymore . . . . .
Wait, that didn't make sense as a reply. I think I replied to the wrong AC post.
Or maybe that "AC" jackass has the magical "post editing" power that we mortals lack . . . . .
So? Mars has 2/3 less gravity than the Earth, and it has an atmosphere of sorts.
The link doesn't seem to say, but anyone know how thick the atmosphere is, or what it's made of?
I never called it harmless, I just said that there was vastly more radioactive material in a truck full of smoke detectors - a thing that can be seen bouncing along the road cutting off trucks full of gasoline with significant frequency.
1) Non-fissile isotope.
2) Designed to survive an explosion and crash.
3) More radioactivity in a truck full of smoke-detectors.
Personally, I'm more worried about the propellants that would spray everywhere if the thing blew up.
Yeah, but we intend our /. posts to be rather public. On AIM I have a reasonable expectation that my transmissions are rather . . . . not.
Those sites wouldn't be legal in France. As I understand it all this ruling says is "It's legal to be a leech" and not "copyrights are dead." If you illegally distribute material you can still get nailed.
Given that we might get some kind of closed-source decoder library. With the DMCA and the studios the world will end before they give us anything freedom-free. A black box for a few arcitectures is the best we can practically hope for.
(Not to say somebody isn't gonna hack it and release a freedom-free version. I fully expect that to happen inside the first year.)
Time for Apple's Ninja Attack Lawyers to do something productive! They've been kinda bored and . . . . suey lately. Now they'll be distracted kicking an ass that deserves it for awhile.
Open standards? Microsoft?
Oh wait, you were serious. Hang on while I laugh harder.