Unfortunately, the judge in the case refused to even look at the brief after Jones Day said the brief sided with one party (as most amicus briefs do); he also refused to dismiss the case at the request of BlockShopper. According to TechDirt, the judge even allegedly put pressure on BlockShopper to back down by saying, "Do you know, young man, how much money it's going to cost you to defend yourselves against Jones Day?"
I may not know much, but that's pretty low.
Also grounds for an appeal. Dude should send that stupid asshole judge a thank you note.
Hmm. Now imagine if you could buy these mirrors for 20 bucks a pop and put one on your roof. Then charge rich people $100,000 an hour to control the array and play "missile command" IRL. Plus, if your cable company raises their rates again you could blow their sattelite out of orbit.
But you don't have to vaporize the whole thing, just push it low enough that its orbit decays and it burns up. Ultimately, don't we have gravity working for us in this situation?
That may be true, but there is a branch of government whose sole purpose for existing is to interpret the Founding Fathers' intention in the words of the Constitution. That's pretty much what the Supreme Court does all day.
The document they work from today is not the same one written by those guys 200 years ago.
Sounds good, except you and people who think like you have got it backwards. PG-13 violence (see Aeon Flux for a great example) is worse for kids than R violence (see Saving Private Ryan for a great example). PG-13 violence, where some superhero walks into a crowded room and starts shooting and everyone just quietly and cleanly falls down with no blood, mess, or gore gives a skewed perspective to violence and its impact in the real world. Gunshot wounds are often not the simple, clean affairs of a PG-13 movie. They are brutal mutilations of flesh and bone.
A PG-13 action scene often focuses almost entirely on the protagonist and how "badass" he or she is, with lots of glory shots of them blazing away, trenchcoat blowing in the wind, brass flying... and no focus on the pain and suffering they're putting out.
An R rated action scene has a lot more opportunity (not that this is always taken) to show the horror and agony that the victims experience as their bodies are torn apart and permanently ruined by the violence. It provides a mental context to the acts being taken, and reminds the viewer that walking into a room and blazing away at people isn't clean and pretty, it is messy and brutal.
There are, of course, exceptions to this (Matrix lobby scene was pretty scrubbed), but the R rating is MUCH more free to show young people the true context of violent content than PG-13 is. Think about the sick feeling of watching soldiers be blown apart by german machine gun fire on the beach and compare it to the stylized gun play scene in Aeon Flux where she kills about 100 dudes in the course of a few minutes without a drop of blood being spilled, and you'll understand what I'm getting at. I'd rather a kid know that violence has consequences, and I think the kid will be better off for it.
I've thought about this, and considered buying my name as an adword once I seriously start job hunting, with a link to my 'official site' and explanations of various other common search results for my name. Especially since I have a relatively uncommon name, and I often post under my real name, there is a lot of stuff out there with my name on it that might freak out weak minded people who are thinking about hiring me. I'm guessing that holding their hands and walking them through the idea that a person's life on the internet has nothing to do with their job performance is going to be a bigger challenge than sifting through all the fake job postings that companies put up so they can hire H1Bs.
So instead of tons of dirt & water, the building only needs a 90% humidity level.
Well, that would suck for NYC but you would have to dry the air out to get to 90% if you built it in Houston.
Of course, if you tried to grow anything in the air in Houston you'd probably worry more about getting the toxins out of the air than the humidity.
As much as I like urban green space, I don't think large scale urban farming is going to be practical any time soon. Maybe if we GM some fungus and grow everything underground in damp tunnels fed by the city's sewer network.
I've been training for that all weekend ever since I purchased Left 4 Dead, the Army's Zombie murder simulator designed to train young soldiers to pull the trigger on a Z without hesitating.
The problem is when you have patterns of abuse from certain corporations over a period of time. The corporation itself, based on its business model, is incentivized to act in certain ways, and whoever happens to be in the driver seat will feel the pull of those incentives. Knowing that there are counter-incentives (the risk of losing it all) could help balance the action of corporations. Imagine if Viacom could be executed for sending too many fraudulent DMCA takedown notices.
Of course, I'm of the opinion that memetic organisms should have life spans artifically imposed on them, purely as a matter of enlightened self interest. Allowing any entity, memetic or biological, to accumulate power over too long a time is a very very bad idea.
I wouldn't even mind seeing a 20 year "flush" on congress where every 20 years you simply clean out the whole thing and start from scratch, with no one who previously served being allowed to serve again.
Surely with the hundreds of millions of people we have in this country, we can find a few hundred every 20 years to step up and do some public service.
A corporate death penalty would obviously include a method for breaking up and reallocating the assets of the corporation. The most logical solution would be to seize and auction all of the assets of a corporation that had been sentenced to death. This means that the shareholders would be wiped out and would prevent things like golden parachutes, not to mention it would give them a very strong incentive to keep a tight rein on the behavior of the entity their capital was tied up in.
The problems we're having with corporations now are the exact problems we will have when the useful human lifespan is extended past 70 or so years (for people who have excelent top rate medical care).
The corporate life cycle is horribly distorted, and the fact that a corporation can hold things like copyrights is incredibly dangerous. Imagine a copyright term of 'life of the author." Sounds ok, right? Now what do you do when the "author" of a copyrighted work is Viacom? What are the chances that the corporate charter will ever be revoked for Viacom?
We need to invent a way for Corporations to die with dignity. Corporate euthenasia is going to become more and more mandatory as time goes on.
Never again should we find ourselves forced to prop up the failing life cycle of a memetic organism because it has become "too big to fail."
I don't know, I'm finding myself more and more drawn to the ideas of David Brin in regards to privacy. I think the ultimate answer in a world with the kind of computer technology we have (and will soon have) is to not try and fight the inevitable forms of electronic surveilance, but to make it so that the eye is omni directional. I think perhaps our focus should be on finding a way to make sure that politicians can not exempt themselves from tansparency, and in fact that they are subject to increasing levels of scrutiny compared to the scrutiny they level at us.
I think a good first step would be to hire an "archivist" who is tasked with following every congressperson and top level government official around and recording in video and audio (and making copies of all electronic and analog communications they make) everything that they do, every meeting they have, etc.
If they haven't done anything wrong, they have no reason to object, right?
Pretty sure I did in fact respond to the wrong post. Sorry about that.
As for
if you are right then, logically, sin does not exist so lying is irrelevant and neither moral nor immoral. If you're wrong then whoever you think you're arguing with would be correct and, therefore, not lying.
Morality does not require supernatualism. You can derive a morality from values that is more likely to lead to the valued "good" behaviors that people seem to feel are inseperable from magical thinking.
This isn't flamebait. You have to talk to these people from inside their delusion, they are too wedded to it to let reality pierce the bubble of make believe they've spun around themselves.
So true. Sadly, their intent is to fight enlightenment at every turn.
These people are infected with a memetic virus similar to the one that infects fanboys. You go to a forum for a show and post something critical of the show and these fanboys come out in droves to "protect" the show from your comments, I guess with the hope that maybe if they show how devoted they are to the show that the pretty people on the glowing box will notice them and be their friends.
Its interesting to me that the simulation of reality running in our heads can't tell the difference between obvious fiction (television, books) and actual reality, to the point that people feel these tribal/familial connections to entirely nonexistant memetic constructs.
Ironically, since you can't prove a negative, there is no way to use their frontal lobes and the higher language and "conscious" selves as a carrier for any kind of cure, except in cases where their lower order processes are already on the edge.
I used to think you could reason with them straight up, but I've come to realize that what you have to do is DOS their lower order by overwhelming it with competing high priority overrides, bury an injection attack in the DOS, and then distract their upper level consciousness while your worm works.
To put it easier: you gotta blow their fuckin minds, man.
So, thats what I'm working on now. One of my other posts in this discussion got modded flamebait, so I'm at least getting a little traction, I hope.
Actually intelligent design says that there is a magic man who is invisible and flies around the planet pushing molecules around to cause speciation. That really isn't compatible with evolution.
You know that lying is a sin right? Because of this post, you're going to burn in a lake of fire, being tortured for all eternity. Don't worry though, you'll have plenty of us "Darwninists" to keep you company. While you're busy screaming in agony we'll be devising testable hypothesis to figure out our environment. And you'll have to watch us do it FOREVER. All because you thought lying to protect your supposedly all powerful, all knowing "God" was a good idea even though he told you specifically not to do it.
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Unfortunately, the judge in the case refused to even look at the brief after Jones Day said the brief sided with one party (as most amicus briefs do); he also refused to dismiss the case at the request of BlockShopper. According to TechDirt, the judge even allegedly put pressure on BlockShopper to back down by saying, "Do you know, young man, how much money it's going to cost you to defend yourselves against Jones Day?"
I may not know much, but that's pretty low.
Also grounds for an appeal. Dude should send that stupid asshole judge a thank you note.
Apparently we have a need for Mega Maid... hopefully she won't go from suck to blow.
Like a Michael Bay movie?
What if you made your distributed array out of those evil green lasers that pop balloons and crash airplanes?
Hmm. Now imagine if you could buy these mirrors for 20 bucks a pop and put one on your roof. Then charge rich people $100,000 an hour to control the array and play "missile command" IRL. Plus, if your cable company raises their rates again you could blow their sattelite out of orbit.
But you don't have to vaporize the whole thing, just push it low enough that its orbit decays and it burns up. Ultimately, don't we have gravity working for us in this situation?
That may be true, but there is a branch of government whose sole purpose for existing is to interpret the Founding Fathers' intention in the words of the Constitution. That's pretty much what the Supreme Court does all day.
The document they work from today is not the same one written by those guys 200 years ago.
Sounds good, except you and people who think like you have got it backwards. PG-13 violence (see Aeon Flux for a great example) is worse for kids than R violence (see Saving Private Ryan for a great example). PG-13 violence, where some superhero walks into a crowded room and starts shooting and everyone just quietly and cleanly falls down with no blood, mess, or gore gives a skewed perspective to violence and its impact in the real world. Gunshot wounds are often not the simple, clean affairs of a PG-13 movie. They are brutal mutilations of flesh and bone.
A PG-13 action scene often focuses almost entirely on the protagonist and how "badass" he or she is, with lots of glory shots of them blazing away, trenchcoat blowing in the wind, brass flying... and no focus on the pain and suffering they're putting out.
An R rated action scene has a lot more opportunity (not that this is always taken) to show the horror and agony that the victims experience as their bodies are torn apart and permanently ruined by the violence. It provides a mental context to the acts being taken, and reminds the viewer that walking into a room and blazing away at people isn't clean and pretty, it is messy and brutal.
There are, of course, exceptions to this (Matrix lobby scene was pretty scrubbed), but the R rating is MUCH more free to show young people the true context of violent content than PG-13 is. Think about the sick feeling of watching soldiers be blown apart by german machine gun fire on the beach and compare it to the stylized gun play scene in Aeon Flux where she kills about 100 dudes in the course of a few minutes without a drop of blood being spilled, and you'll understand what I'm getting at. I'd rather a kid know that violence has consequences, and I think the kid will be better off for it.
Holy shit that was funny. I startled the dogs laughing so loud.
I've thought about this, and considered buying my name as an adword once I seriously start job hunting, with a link to my 'official site' and explanations of various other common search results for my name. Especially since I have a relatively uncommon name, and I often post under my real name, there is a lot of stuff out there with my name on it that might freak out weak minded people who are thinking about hiring me. I'm guessing that holding their hands and walking them through the idea that a person's life on the internet has nothing to do with their job performance is going to be a bigger challenge than sifting through all the fake job postings that companies put up so they can hire H1Bs.
So instead of tons of dirt & water, the building only needs a 90% humidity level.
Well, that would suck for NYC but you would have to dry the air out to get to 90% if you built it in Houston.
Of course, if you tried to grow anything in the air in Houston you'd probably worry more about getting the toxins out of the air than the humidity.
As much as I like urban green space, I don't think large scale urban farming is going to be practical any time soon. Maybe if we GM some fungus and grow everything underground in damp tunnels fed by the city's sewer network.
Maybe it's dark matter soil--then each ton would weigh over 10000 tons.
Evidence of memetic evolution?
I'm not a submarine warfare specialist, but I did burn down a Holiday Inn Express last night!
Oops, did I say that out loud?
If two submarines crash in the ocean, and neither is running sonar, does it make a sound?
I've been training for that all weekend ever since I purchased Left 4 Dead, the Army's Zombie murder simulator designed to train young soldiers to pull the trigger on a Z without hesitating.
This is probably the funniest comment posted to slashdot. Ever.
The problem is when you have patterns of abuse from certain corporations over a period of time. The corporation itself, based on its business model, is incentivized to act in certain ways, and whoever happens to be in the driver seat will feel the pull of those incentives. Knowing that there are counter-incentives (the risk of losing it all) could help balance the action of corporations. Imagine if Viacom could be executed for sending too many fraudulent DMCA takedown notices.
Of course, I'm of the opinion that memetic organisms should have life spans artifically imposed on them, purely as a matter of enlightened self interest. Allowing any entity, memetic or biological, to accumulate power over too long a time is a very very bad idea.
I wouldn't even mind seeing a 20 year "flush" on congress where every 20 years you simply clean out the whole thing and start from scratch, with no one who previously served being allowed to serve again.
Surely with the hundreds of millions of people we have in this country, we can find a few hundred every 20 years to step up and do some public service.
A corporate death penalty would obviously include a method for breaking up and reallocating the assets of the corporation. The most logical solution would be to seize and auction all of the assets of a corporation that had been sentenced to death. This means that the shareholders would be wiped out and would prevent things like golden parachutes, not to mention it would give them a very strong incentive to keep a tight rein on the behavior of the entity their capital was tied up in.
The problems we're having with corporations now are the exact problems we will have when the useful human lifespan is extended past 70 or so years (for people who have excelent top rate medical care).
The corporate life cycle is horribly distorted, and the fact that a corporation can hold things like copyrights is incredibly dangerous. Imagine a copyright term of 'life of the author." Sounds ok, right? Now what do you do when the "author" of a copyrighted work is Viacom? What are the chances that the corporate charter will ever be revoked for Viacom?
We need to invent a way for Corporations to die with dignity. Corporate euthenasia is going to become more and more mandatory as time goes on.
Never again should we find ourselves forced to prop up the failing life cycle of a memetic organism because it has become "too big to fail."
I don't know, I'm finding myself more and more drawn to the ideas of David Brin in regards to privacy. I think the ultimate answer in a world with the kind of computer technology we have (and will soon have) is to not try and fight the inevitable forms of electronic surveilance, but to make it so that the eye is omni directional. I think perhaps our focus should be on finding a way to make sure that politicians can not exempt themselves from tansparency, and in fact that they are subject to increasing levels of scrutiny compared to the scrutiny they level at us.
I think a good first step would be to hire an "archivist" who is tasked with following every congressperson and top level government official around and recording in video and audio (and making copies of all electronic and analog communications they make) everything that they do, every meeting they have, etc.
If they haven't done anything wrong, they have no reason to object, right?
Pretty sure I did in fact respond to the wrong post. Sorry about that.
As for
if you are right then, logically, sin does not exist so lying is irrelevant and neither moral nor immoral. If you're wrong then whoever you think you're arguing with would be correct and, therefore, not lying.
Morality does not require supernatualism. You can derive a morality from values that is more likely to lead to the valued "good" behaviors that people seem to feel are inseperable from magical thinking.
I can give your mom another protein injection.
(Note to mods: this post is what flamebait ACTUALLY looks like)
This isn't flamebait. You have to talk to these people from inside their delusion, they are too wedded to it to let reality pierce the bubble of make believe they've spun around themselves.
So true. Sadly, their intent is to fight enlightenment at every turn.
These people are infected with a memetic virus similar to the one that infects fanboys. You go to a forum for a show and post something critical of the show and these fanboys come out in droves to "protect" the show from your comments, I guess with the hope that maybe if they show how devoted they are to the show that the pretty people on the glowing box will notice them and be their friends.
Its interesting to me that the simulation of reality running in our heads can't tell the difference between obvious fiction (television, books) and actual reality, to the point that people feel these tribal/familial connections to entirely nonexistant memetic constructs.
Ironically, since you can't prove a negative, there is no way to use their frontal lobes and the higher language and "conscious" selves as a carrier for any kind of cure, except in cases where their lower order processes are already on the edge.
I used to think you could reason with them straight up, but I've come to realize that what you have to do is DOS their lower order by overwhelming it with competing high priority overrides, bury an injection attack in the DOS, and then distract their upper level consciousness while your worm works.
To put it easier: you gotta blow their fuckin minds, man.
So, thats what I'm working on now. One of my other posts in this discussion got modded flamebait, so I'm at least getting a little traction, I hope.
Actually intelligent design says that there is a magic man who is invisible and flies around the planet pushing molecules around to cause speciation. That really isn't compatible with evolution.
You know that lying is a sin right? Because of this post, you're going to burn in a lake of fire, being tortured for all eternity. Don't worry though, you'll have plenty of us "Darwninists" to keep you company. While you're busy screaming in agony we'll be devising testable hypothesis to figure out our environment. And you'll have to watch us do it FOREVER. All because you thought lying to protect your supposedly all powerful, all knowing "God" was a good idea even though he told you specifically not to do it.
Well done, thou good and faithful servant!