"On another side note, where the HELL are those super secured networks I keep hearing about that my tax dollars paid for huh? Apparently, the Pentagon's networks must be in really bad shape too. You would think that trillions of dollars could provide some pretty secure networks, communication infrastructures, and operating systems."
You forget that in the DoD, CAT5 cable costs $1.5 Million/foot, and Windows Vista: Preemptive Strike Edition's license costs 3 Billion per employee, with some employees counting as more than one if they multi-task.
My OS has the fewest flaws!
I created a design where the gui involves a sheet of pulverized tree, and then you take the special stylus (sold separately) that contains a special solution of a liquid with tiny pigmented particles suspended in it. While there have been reports that occasionally the stylus can malfunction, vigorous shaking or banging the stylus on a hard surface and proceeding to make several tight spirals or circles clears this OS flaw up pretty quickly!
Of course, at present there are not that many users of said OS, but as it is a much more robust OS than Vista, I feel that the results for my OS are far superior to those achieved by Vista.
DRM is an annoyance to the casual user, anyone serious about pirating content will find a workaround. This idea that we need DRM protected content is just retarded. The falling sales of music is more due to the fact that wages have been fairly stagnate for a while now, yet cost of living has risen. Many people just do not have the disposable income anymore to be buying luxury items such as music CDs. People also would be more likely to buy a CD if they were cheaper, but for some reason the cost of a CD has not really changed since the format was first introduced, and with DRM you do not have control over how you want to play the content you just spent money on.
While piracy does take a bit out of potential sales, I would argue that in general those that pirate music more buy more CDs. These people that think DRM is a solution to the music industry woes are just retarded, because between DRM annoyances, root-kits, and RIAA that seem content with suing those very people that are more likely to spend money on CDs, you have an industry in shambles and the executives at the top shouting to the world that its not their fault...
I think that what is really happening is a revolution in that record companies are no longer really necessary, they just want to cling on to life as long as possible...
While I agree with many of the sentiments you mention, posting such things in this topic just makes you look like an idiot. It doesn't really get your point across, and for the most part you are just preaching to the choir. Anyone who would disagree with you on some or all of the points you mention will just ignore you for posting an offtopic message with the really annoying "yOUR" phrase...
You diminish the value of such ideas by constructing them in such a way that they are just annoying, instead of being pertinent...
You would need a sophisticated autopilot guidance system with traffic detection and a lot of computer control over the flight of the aircar. You would need to discourgage/disable manual control while in flight to keep all aircar traffic flowing in a predictable way/avoid having really nasty accidents because the little old lady piloting the purple air-car forgot her glasses at the bingo parlor...
You need a system that would need to be proven to be safe and reliable for a long time before it gets adopted by the masses, and until a flying car can manage to fly after:
1) while commuting home one night, you manage to hit 7 out of 12 ducks flying south for the winter
2) you forget to check the lubrication levels in the right rear turbofan, in fact you should have gotten an oil change 2 1/2 months ago...
3) since you can't afford a new one right now, your exhaust system will just have to be held up by bailing wire and duct tape, hopefully the shearing forces of the wind won't rip it off
4) Microsoft Windows-Flying Car Edition crashes... at 9,000 feet....
"I'd think it would be slightly cheaper to try and avoid a situation where someone wants to fire missiles at you in the first place"
No, the best way of ridding the world of terrorism is just to kill everybody. Side bonus is that you also end 100% of crime, divorce, child abuse, and the global warming debate.
Seriously though, this sounds like an idea that only applies to a specific type of weapon system being used against a civilian aircraft. So you stop heat seeking or laser guided missiles.. I don't think terrorists have access to the best weapons out there. Chances are they would use something cheap, easily concealed, and has an accuracy of "close enough". After spending billions of dollars on this system, a SAM with a cheap tv camera/transmitter and a proximity sensor duct-taped to the nose of it combined with radio controlled airplane parts would be the obvious work-around.
While I think terrorists are reprehensible, and we should obviously protect ourselves as best we can, these billions could be better spent elsewhere...
I attend a community college as a non-traditional student. Due to events that happened to my family when I was in highschool I had to drop out and get a job to help support my family. I recently returned to school going part time, and I can only attend college because of financial aid. I used to hate school but I love college and am happy to say that my gpa is 3.87. My college has a high number of non-traditional students going there, meaning those over the age of 25 who are returning to school. Now I mention all of this to say that there is generally a large number of regular students who come in because their parents have made them, and they usually last a semester before they drop out. The majority of these students come from middle and upper-middle class backgrounds. These students spend a lot of time just messing around on their laptops in lobby areas, playing music and games and so on. If some of these students are using the university's network to download some song, this bill then means I can't afford to go to college anymore. Yup that makes sense.
I know several students who do not even own a computer of any sort, and also are 100% reliant on financial aid to afford going to classes. This type of bill would eliminate from college many students who want the opportunity to go, just because some fuck-offs want to download some music rather than attend class because daddy will stop payments on their shiny new car if they aren't enrolled. This is a mean-spirited bill harming those who generally cannot stand up for themselves: us poor folks who work hard but haven't had the opportunities for advancement due to unfortunate circumstances. How anyone can suggest this bill does anything to "help" financial aid is beyond my comprehension. We live in a society where those at the top of the economic pyramid issue dictates that harm the majority that is not lucky enough to have hundreds of millions and billions.
Copyright infringement is a problem, but I think it has less to do with university students downloading stuff than it is the fact that people have a lot less disposable income than they have had in the past. There also is the issue of price gouging by media corporations where the price of cds has remained relatively the same regardless of the drop in the cost of production since the time when cds were first introduced. I also do not believe that all this bullshit about paying the artists is true, and I would like to know what percentage of a sale of a CD, or more importantly how much of these fines and such imposed on copyright infringers the average artist gets.
This legislation just makes me angry and yet more cynical. We really have lost our way as a nation when the sense of civic responsibility goes so far away that our elected leaders blatantly create legislation that only benefits a tiny segment of the population that needs the least at the expense of those who need the most help. Its rather hard to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" when you can no longer get an education. . .
Because while there is almost no chance of ever detecting E.T.'s version of I Love Lucy, there is that possibility. It may be a gigantic waste of money, but I'd rather have it go towards something like this than say building yet more nuclear weapons. Also they may find interesting non-sentient life related signals from stars that other scientists may miss. Many scientific discoveries come from happy accidents, so a SETI researcher discovering SOMETHING of value isn't exactly far-fetched...
what about the friendly folks at freeallegiance.org:D
mmo space shooter thats an rts where you are one of the units... no plot lines there either, but a lot more fun and its free. Granted the source code was released by Microsoft, but don't let that fool you, many hardworking coders continue to tweak it!
The HUD in the pics look remarkably similar to the one used in Allegiance as well....
its all about the gain of American Hegemony (TM) over the world, so that a few of the aristocracy can enjoy 90 percent of the worlds wealth.. and what scraps they miss the rest of us get to keep... they prefer a nation divided.. despite what they say about 'United We Stand'... look to the entertainment they create, political correctness is another method of creating OTHER... that which is not us is OTHER.. and therefore LESSER.. the lure of aristocratic lifestyle is very ancient... only until fairly recently (in the lifespan of humanity) has there emerged a significant middle class, but that middle class is now not only shrinking but it is subjected to propaganda that those at the bottom who are falling into the realm of poverty do not see what is happening, and those at the upper reaches of the middle class belive they are members of the elite few at the top.. but the majority never rise above lackeys to the counts and dukes and barons of this new era of royalty... the american dream of rags to riches, is naught but a myth, with but a handful of examples...
as to the war in iraq... if you belive that this invasion of a country was to help develope democracy in a nation we had absolutely no trouble at all in giving their dictator money, arms, and WMD's until the 1990's... then i wish you well in your blinded ignorance....
by the way, drafting may commence in the latter part of 2005... and its going to be alot harder to run to canada this time around . ..
well sorry for the rambling, half awake babbling but we must wake up from our dream state, and confront the powers that be that we will no longer tolerate being used as cannon fodder in their wars of profit...
"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, IT IS THE LEADERS of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is TELL THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY COUNTRY."
sadly schools in this country are so desparate for money many have become billboards, like there is a school with the pepsi logo on the roof for passing aircraft at a nearby airport to see aparently... and other schools teaming up with corporate sponsors, like pizza hut and so on, to provide the school with money if they may sell their products there, or atleast advertise....
how long before we have these schmucks peddling their wares as well as their shady misinformation
with the way our current society is working, human interaction will be through machines, never again will we need the discomfort of actually having to speak with another live human, we can just live in a nice little bubble, just make sure to keep consuming!
minor note, Buddha is not a deity, but still makes the point... could also have under Allah since there are many muslim americans.. or how about under R the supreme godfigure of the pond
Slashdot Mirror
"On another side note, where the HELL are those super secured networks I keep hearing about that my tax dollars paid for huh? Apparently, the Pentagon's networks must be in really bad shape too. You would think that trillions of dollars could provide some pretty secure networks, communication infrastructures, and operating systems." You forget that in the DoD, CAT5 cable costs $1.5 Million/foot, and Windows Vista: Preemptive Strike Edition's license costs 3 Billion per employee, with some employees counting as more than one if they multi-task.
My OS has the fewest flaws! I created a design where the gui involves a sheet of pulverized tree, and then you take the special stylus (sold separately) that contains a special solution of a liquid with tiny pigmented particles suspended in it. While there have been reports that occasionally the stylus can malfunction, vigorous shaking or banging the stylus on a hard surface and proceeding to make several tight spirals or circles clears this OS flaw up pretty quickly! Of course, at present there are not that many users of said OS, but as it is a much more robust OS than Vista, I feel that the results for my OS are far superior to those achieved by Vista.
DRM is an annoyance to the casual user, anyone serious about pirating content will find a workaround. This idea that we need DRM protected content is just retarded. The falling sales of music is more due to the fact that wages have been fairly stagnate for a while now, yet cost of living has risen. Many people just do not have the disposable income anymore to be buying luxury items such as music CDs. People also would be more likely to buy a CD if they were cheaper, but for some reason the cost of a CD has not really changed since the format was first introduced, and with DRM you do not have control over how you want to play the content you just spent money on. While piracy does take a bit out of potential sales, I would argue that in general those that pirate music more buy more CDs. These people that think DRM is a solution to the music industry woes are just retarded, because between DRM annoyances, root-kits, and RIAA that seem content with suing those very people that are more likely to spend money on CDs, you have an industry in shambles and the executives at the top shouting to the world that its not their fault... I think that what is really happening is a revolution in that record companies are no longer really necessary, they just want to cling on to life as long as possible...
Slashdot, news for nerds...with Alzheimer's!
While I agree with many of the sentiments you mention, posting such things in this topic just makes you look like an idiot. It doesn't really get your point across, and for the most part you are just preaching to the choir. Anyone who would disagree with you on some or all of the points you mention will just ignore you for posting an offtopic message with the really annoying "yOUR" phrase... You diminish the value of such ideas by constructing them in such a way that they are just annoying, instead of being pertinent...
You would need a sophisticated autopilot guidance system with traffic detection and a lot of computer control over the flight of the aircar. You would need to discourgage/disable manual control while in flight to keep all aircar traffic flowing in a predictable way/avoid having really nasty accidents because the little old lady piloting the purple air-car forgot her glasses at the bingo parlor... You need a system that would need to be proven to be safe and reliable for a long time before it gets adopted by the masses, and until a flying car can manage to fly after: 1) while commuting home one night, you manage to hit 7 out of 12 ducks flying south for the winter 2) you forget to check the lubrication levels in the right rear turbofan, in fact you should have gotten an oil change 2 1/2 months ago... 3) since you can't afford a new one right now, your exhaust system will just have to be held up by bailing wire and duct tape, hopefully the shearing forces of the wind won't rip it off 4) Microsoft Windows-Flying Car Edition crashes... at 9,000 feet....
"I'd think it would be slightly cheaper to try and avoid a situation where someone wants to fire missiles at you in the first place" No, the best way of ridding the world of terrorism is just to kill everybody. Side bonus is that you also end 100% of crime, divorce, child abuse, and the global warming debate. Seriously though, this sounds like an idea that only applies to a specific type of weapon system being used against a civilian aircraft. So you stop heat seeking or laser guided missiles.. I don't think terrorists have access to the best weapons out there. Chances are they would use something cheap, easily concealed, and has an accuracy of "close enough". After spending billions of dollars on this system, a SAM with a cheap tv camera/transmitter and a proximity sensor duct-taped to the nose of it combined with radio controlled airplane parts would be the obvious work-around. While I think terrorists are reprehensible, and we should obviously protect ourselves as best we can, these billions could be better spent elsewhere...
I attend a community college as a non-traditional student. Due to events that happened to my family when I was in highschool I had to drop out and get a job to help support my family. I recently returned to school going part time, and I can only attend college because of financial aid. I used to hate school but I love college and am happy to say that my gpa is 3.87. My college has a high number of non-traditional students going there, meaning those over the age of 25 who are returning to school. Now I mention all of this to say that there is generally a large number of regular students who come in because their parents have made them, and they usually last a semester before they drop out. The majority of these students come from middle and upper-middle class backgrounds. These students spend a lot of time just messing around on their laptops in lobby areas, playing music and games and so on. If some of these students are using the university's network to download some song, this bill then means I can't afford to go to college anymore. Yup that makes sense. I know several students who do not even own a computer of any sort, and also are 100% reliant on financial aid to afford going to classes. This type of bill would eliminate from college many students who want the opportunity to go, just because some fuck-offs want to download some music rather than attend class because daddy will stop payments on their shiny new car if they aren't enrolled. This is a mean-spirited bill harming those who generally cannot stand up for themselves: us poor folks who work hard but haven't had the opportunities for advancement due to unfortunate circumstances. How anyone can suggest this bill does anything to "help" financial aid is beyond my comprehension. We live in a society where those at the top of the economic pyramid issue dictates that harm the majority that is not lucky enough to have hundreds of millions and billions. Copyright infringement is a problem, but I think it has less to do with university students downloading stuff than it is the fact that people have a lot less disposable income than they have had in the past. There also is the issue of price gouging by media corporations where the price of cds has remained relatively the same regardless of the drop in the cost of production since the time when cds were first introduced. I also do not believe that all this bullshit about paying the artists is true, and I would like to know what percentage of a sale of a CD, or more importantly how much of these fines and such imposed on copyright infringers the average artist gets. This legislation just makes me angry and yet more cynical. We really have lost our way as a nation when the sense of civic responsibility goes so far away that our elected leaders blatantly create legislation that only benefits a tiny segment of the population that needs the least at the expense of those who need the most help. Its rather hard to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" when you can no longer get an education. . .
Because you can take out a carrier battle group with a deer rifle? Good luck with that.
Because while there is almost no chance of ever detecting E.T.'s version of I Love Lucy, there is that possibility. It may be a gigantic waste of money, but I'd rather have it go towards something like this than say building yet more nuclear weapons. Also they may find interesting non-sentient life related signals from stars that other scientists may miss. Many scientific discoveries come from happy accidents, so a SETI researcher discovering SOMETHING of value isn't exactly far-fetched...
when they get the billing system worked out, instead of saying "type of data: data" it will now read "type of data: pr0n"
what about the friendly folks at freeallegiance.org :D
mmo space shooter thats an rts where you are one of the units... no plot lines there either, but a lot more fun and its free. Granted the source code was released by Microsoft, but don't let that fool you, many hardworking coders continue to tweak it!
The HUD in the pics look remarkably similar to the one used in Allegiance as well....
than star trek, sounds more like an ansible than a transporter, though i suppose that ender's game is not as well known as star trek.
But you forget, Universal owns the copyright to the Chinese character for 'serenity'.
Get gamers workshop to re-release Battlemasters!
that is all
its all about the gain of American Hegemony (TM) over the world, so that a few of the aristocracy can enjoy 90 percent of the worlds wealth .. and what scraps they miss the rest of us get to keep... .. despite what they say about 'United We Stand' ... look to the entertainment they create, political correctness is another method of creating OTHER... that which is not us is OTHER .. and therefore LESSER ..
... then i wish you well in your blinded ignorance ....
... and its going to be alot harder to run to canada this time around . . .
they prefer a nation divided
the lure of aristocratic lifestyle is very ancient... only until fairly recently (in the lifespan of humanity) has there emerged a significant middle class, but that middle class is now not only shrinking but it is subjected to propaganda that those at the bottom who are falling into the realm of poverty do not see what is happening, and those at the upper reaches of the middle class belive they are members of the elite few at the top.. but the majority never rise above lackeys to the counts and dukes and barons of this new era of royalty...
the american dream of rags to riches, is naught but a myth, with but a handful of examples...
as to the war in iraq... if you belive that this invasion of a country was to help develope democracy in a nation we had absolutely no trouble at all in giving their dictator money, arms, and WMD's until the 1990's
by the way, drafting may commence in the latter part of 2005
well sorry for the rambling, half awake babbling but we must wake up from our dream state, and confront the powers that be that we will no longer tolerate being used as cannon fodder in their wars of profit...
"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, IT IS THE LEADERS of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is TELL THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY COUNTRY."
--Goering at the Nuremberg Trials
sadly schools in this country are so desparate for money many have become billboards, like there is a school with the pepsi logo on the roof for passing aircraft at a nearby airport to see aparently... and other schools teaming up with corporate sponsors, like pizza hut and so on, to provide the school with money if they may sell their products there, or atleast advertise.... how long before we have these schmucks peddling their wares as well as their shady misinformation
with the way our current society is working, human interaction will be through machines, never again will we need the discomfort of actually having to speak with another live human, we can just live in a nice little bubble, just make sure to keep consuming!
minor note, Buddha is not a deity, but still makes the point... could also have under Allah since there are many muslim americans .. or how about under R the supreme godfigure of the pond