The only comfort I take from this no-win situation is that as long as separation of powers is maintained, even the police/government/etc. can't get your information legitimately without a valid court order, and they must make their case to the court just like anyone else.
It isn't with any pleasure that I tell you this, but the legitimate channels to get the information are frequently ignored. I'll not go into details, but this is the case. It is only in an instance where the victim (for want of a better word) is able to challenge the given agency through a legal channel that it becomes relevant. The police are more cautious about this, the intelligence agencies far less so.
I do see a way out of the no-win situation though, if it's any consolation. In between the two battling forces of government and the eternal revolution, we can work on making the battle less intense by undermining the causes. Making the government less oppressive and making the free more responsible reduces the tension a degree. Every little helps in whatever way we can. Pressure the government to behave with one hand, make it redundant with the other and we claw our way back from the pit.
It doesn't have to be endlessly escalating cycle of oppression and subversion.
Oh no, mate! Never let anyone tell you that you have to be just one person. I like anything if it's good
I have different preferences for differnt activities though, e.g. 90's metal for running, classical for programming, silly-pop for cooking. And for/. it currently seems to be (checks soundtrack) Electric Six - High Voltage.;)
The nice thing is that if I were driving and DJing (DriveJ'ing?) I'd be broadening everyone's minds as they listened.
For myself, I would be interested in using an anonymous system not because I especially care to commit crimes with it, but because I no longer trust the powers that be. I am seeing too much abuse going on right now, and have too good a knowledge of history to feel comfortable with all of my lifestyle exposed to the governments (and these issues cross national boundaries remember).
I now believe that if we create an environment friendly to a dictatorship, then a dictatorship will take route. A society without privacy is such an environment.
You could have a society without privacy if you also had a society without guilt. But it is even less in the interests of the powers that be to foster that, than it is to allow privacy where they can stop it.
It's about power. The government or the credit company or whoever, having a big fat database on your behaviour gives them power over you, not you over them.
The catalytic converter is all about not damaging other people (very indirectly in this specific case). It's a different principle.
Now all we need is an Open Source protocol that can be used to define your music stream and possibly identify you if you care to do so.
I.e. People scan through the 1000 people in range with their preset tastes set to say, Punk and Classical and those with Punk and Classical in their stream headers appear in your list. You could also have a ID tag reading "I'm the red-head in the Fiesta" or "single guy in the porsche" etc. so that people can complement you on your taste.
When I go driving,
I stay in my lane,
But getting cut up,
Just makes me insane.
I open my glove box /
Reach Inside,
I'm gonna wreck this fucker's ride,
'Cause I got a bad habit
-Of blowing them away.
I don't particularly want to see the film, but I am slightly obsessive and have a lingering curiousity as to what happened in it. E.g. Why does the Emperor suddenly go all lumpy? I'd assumed it was age in the later ones, but in the trailer there he is all grey-green.
Anyone point me at a good summary so I can skip the film?
Fuck the reviewers. They're nothing more than shills nowadays. Tell people the movie is crap, you don't get any more "previews", so you're out of a job.
It got a whopping one star out of five. It's an entertaining review, as well. I can't say whether it's accurate or not though, because I haven't seen the film. Ep. I was bad enough that I just rented Ep. II later on. Ep II was dull enough that I haven't bothered with Ep III at all.
Doesn't that open room for more people to earn 2 million?
I.e. Someone says, I'm making my two-million now, so I can stop working so hard, but I can see there is scope for more, so partner, why don't you get in on some of this?
Seconded. I bought AMD because of this before Intel even implemented it, simply because Intel said they were going to. And as I'm the person in my social group that everyone asks about computers, I'll be recommending they avoid Intel and Dell also.
Yes - but Firefox's market share is already limiting MS's options. Note how they say there will be no target=tab function.
Well they can't really, can they? Six years ago they would have re-written HTML without a care, added in any proprietary features they liked and declared that any rival product was broken. But now they have to ensure compatability.
Only problem is were talking about humans here, who have quaint little institutions like marriage, bigammy and child maintainance laws and the like.
One - these institutions have been formalized for a couple of thousand years and even then not consistently, and even then only in a geographically limited areas or the globe. It's reasonable to hypothesize that this will not have yet over-ridden a million years of accumumlated genetic tendancies, and the correlation bears this out.
Two - are these institutions set in stone in modern society? Dominant males are more attractive to most girls and will still have a better chance of reproduction and are still more likely to have multiple partners.
Rather than merely hedging on the genetic or environmental factors, you should also have written "will either be passed on or not." Now that would be difficult to disagree with.
No I should not have written that as it was not what I meant. What I wrote was what I wanted to write and was correct. I'm not hypothesizing that might happen, I'm explaining why it does. the child of a dominant male is more likely to be male, with other factors controlled.
The biggest problem I have though is trying to understand what you actually mean by dominance-submission. Are you merely saying that there exist, within the male population, men who in a particular context at a particular time in leaders and followers? Are you inferring that the position they find themselves in at any particular juncture has been genetically determined? Are you saying that my promotion from copy boy to CEO of our company has had a Lamarckian effect upon my genetic material which I will now be able to pass onto my (male?) offspring? Or is it just that some guys aren't as good at sports?
The simple answer to all of them, is exactly what I said in my initial post, but I can elaborate for you. Taking you as an example - if you are a dominant male then your children are more likely to be male. Now whether this happens because you are dominant socially and your body understands this, or whether you are dominant because you are already genetically predisposed to dominance, I do not know. To the best of my knowledge the mechanism has yet to be explained, but I could well be out of date. I'm willing to stake someone's money that the process is not 'Lamarckian' however.:D
Still, I would make an educated guess that it is not genetic, but rather environmental that determines this effect. My reason is both theoretical - it is not advantageous to the species that dominance should be inflexibly aligned with other traits, but should vary according to what traits are currently beneficial - and anecdotal. I have found that dominance-submission can be determined early in childhood through experiences rather than pre-determined. Anyway, this last paragraph is personal conjecture and will remain as such. The previous paragraphs are the answer to your questions.
Don't underestimate symbolism. Aside from expressing how he feels to himself, he expresses to many others how he feels. A band depends on other people for its worth. Actions like this diminish it, even if it doesn't cost them a few quid immediately.
A sad scientist was once heard to say,
To upload my brain, I have found a way,
But my memory contains
Things not public domain
And I'd violate DMCA.
Hello alcohol, goodbye Karma. 8) Seriously, I just got this image of the RIAA breaking into the lab 'cause the cloned brain remembered the Happy Birthday lyrics.
A British newspaper did a bit of shit stirring in an attempt to boost sales. They published locations of sexual offenders names and addresses around the country. It kicked off a wave of assaults, cases of mistaken identity and included one woman whose home was wrecked and she narrowly escaped... because she was a peadiatrician.
You want mob justice? Prepare for trial by gossip, then.
Interestingly, so can dominance-submission of the father. The theory is that dominance or submision will be passed on to the child either through genetic or envrionmental factors. Result is that a dominant male child will get around a lot and have many kids whilst a submissive male will not get many mates. Therefore, if you're dominant, best to have a male child and if your low-status, best have a girl as she's going to get laid anyway.
Relating it to the story? Engineers are clearly high status individuals. So get out there, boys.;)
Yep. And after it's gone straight to DVD, and they've had the initial massive sales... It goes to TV.
Yes - it began with Futurama. DVD is the release medium and crap films go straight to TV instead of DVD. Think about it - it makes so much more sense (for them). Hell, it can even shut down the Betamax argument.
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The only comfort I take from this no-win situation is that as long as separation of powers is maintained, even the police/government/etc. can't get your information legitimately without a valid court order, and they must make their case to the court just like anyone else.
It isn't with any pleasure that I tell you this, but the legitimate channels to get the information are frequently ignored. I'll not go into details, but this is the case. It is only in an instance where the victim (for want of a better word) is able to challenge the given agency through a legal channel that it becomes relevant. The police are more cautious about this, the intelligence agencies far less so.
I do see a way out of the no-win situation though, if it's any consolation. In between the two battling forces of government and the eternal revolution, we can work on making the battle less intense by undermining the causes. Making the government less oppressive and making the free more responsible reduces the tension a degree. Every little helps in whatever way we can. Pressure the government to behave with one hand, make it redundant with the other and we claw our way back from the pit.
It doesn't have to be endlessly escalating cycle of oppression and subversion.
But I'll still support anonymity for now.
And classical, too, it seems ( 12695640 ).
Oh no, mate! Never let anyone tell you that you have to be just one person. I like anything if it's good
I have different preferences for differnt activities though, e.g. 90's metal for running, classical for programming, silly-pop for cooking. And for
The nice thing is that if I were driving and DJing (DriveJ'ing?) I'd be broadening everyone's minds as they listened.
For myself, I would be interested in using an anonymous system not because I especially care to commit crimes with it, but because I no longer trust the powers that be. I am seeing too much abuse going on right now, and have too good a knowledge of history to feel comfortable with all of my lifestyle exposed to the governments (and these issues cross national boundaries remember).
I now believe that if we create an environment friendly to a dictatorship, then a dictatorship will take route. A society without privacy is such an environment.
You could have a society without privacy if you also had a society without guilt. But it is even less in the interests of the powers that be to foster that, than it is to allow privacy where they can stop it.
My £0.02.
It's about power. The government or the credit company or whoever, having a big fat database on your behaviour gives them power over you, not you over them.
The catalytic converter is all about not damaging other people (very indirectly in this specific case). It's a different principle.
Now all we need is an Open Source protocol that can be used to define your music stream and possibly identify you if you care to do so.
I.e. People scan through the 1000 people in range with their preset tastes set to say, Punk and Classical and those with Punk and Classical in their stream headers appear in your list. You could also have a ID tag reading "I'm the red-head in the Fiesta" or "single guy in the porsche" etc. so that people can complement you on your taste.
This is such a good idea!
When I go driving,
I stay in my lane,
But getting cut up,
Just makes me insane.
I open my glove box /
Reach Inside,
I'm gonna wreck this fucker's ride,
'Cause I got a bad habit
-Of blowing them away.
Courtesy of Offspring (I'm such punk wannabe).
Is that some sort of crack about my UID?
Nope - seems you don't realize who you're quoting. End of Game, you're not a Discordian at all.
I don't particularly want to see the film, but I am slightly obsessive and have a lingering curiousity as to what happened in it. E.g. Why does the Emperor suddenly go all lumpy? I'd assumed it was age in the later ones, but in the trailer there he is all grey-green.
Anyone point me at a good summary so I can skip the film?
Fuck the reviewers. They're nothing more than shills nowadays. Tell people the movie is crap, you don't get any more "previews", so you're out of a job.
Try the Independent's review
It got a whopping one star out of five. It's an entertaining review, as well. I can't say whether it's accurate or not though, because I haven't seen the film. Ep. I was bad enough that I just rented Ep. II later on. Ep II was dull enough that I haven't bothered with Ep III at all.
Go back to your mountain, Old Man. You'll not sell paradise to me.
You remind me of someone I don't know.
Sometimes I channel. In Discordianism, the channel changes you!
Am I Discordian? All things are true.
Granted.
Doesn't that open room for more people to earn 2 million?
I.e. Someone says, I'm making my two-million now, so I can stop working so hard, but I can see there is scope for more, so partner, why don't you get in on some of this?
Wow am I sleepy.
Gotta get over there now
Wow am I sleepy.
Seconded. I bought AMD because of this before Intel even implemented it, simply because Intel said they were going to. And as I'm the person in my social group that everyone asks about computers, I'll be recommending they avoid Intel and Dell also.
Phase3.5: Buy shares in Lucas Arts and plug the movie incessantly on your 'Stuff That Matters' website.
Yes - but Firefox's market share is already limiting MS's options. Note how they say there will be no target=tab function.
Well they can't really, can they? Six years ago they would have re-written HTML without a care, added in any proprietary features they liked and declared that any rival product was broken. But now they have to ensure compatability.
MS going down.
Only problem is were talking about humans here, who have quaint little institutions like marriage, bigammy and child maintainance laws and the like.
One - these institutions have been formalized for a couple of thousand years and even then not consistently, and even then only in a geographically limited areas or the globe. It's reasonable to hypothesize that this will not have yet over-ridden a million years of accumumlated genetic tendancies, and the correlation bears this out.
Two - are these institutions set in stone in modern society? Dominant males are more attractive to most girls and will still have a better chance of reproduction and are still more likely to have multiple partners.
Rather than merely hedging on the genetic or environmental factors, you should also have written "will either be passed on or not." Now that would be difficult to disagree with.
No I should not have written that as it was not what I meant. What I wrote was what I wanted to write and was correct. I'm not hypothesizing that might happen, I'm explaining why it does. the child of a dominant male is more likely to be male, with other factors controlled.
The biggest problem I have though is trying to understand what you actually mean by dominance-submission. Are you merely saying that there exist, within the male population, men who in a particular context at a particular time in leaders and followers? Are you inferring that the position they find themselves in at any particular juncture has been genetically determined? Are you saying that my promotion from copy boy to CEO of our company has had a Lamarckian effect upon my genetic material which I will now be able to pass onto my (male?) offspring? Or is it just that some guys aren't as good at sports?
The simple answer to all of them, is exactly what I said in my initial post, but I can elaborate for you. Taking you as an example - if you are a dominant male then your children are more likely to be male. Now whether this happens because you are dominant socially and your body understands this, or whether you are dominant because you are already genetically predisposed to dominance, I do not know. To the best of my knowledge the mechanism has yet to be explained, but I could well be out of date. I'm willing to stake someone's money that the process is not 'Lamarckian' however.
Still, I would make an educated guess that it is not genetic, but rather environmental that determines this effect. My reason is both theoretical - it is not advantageous to the species that dominance should be inflexibly aligned with other traits, but should vary according to what traits are currently beneficial - and anecdotal. I have found that dominance-submission can be determined early in childhood through experiences rather than pre-determined. Anyway, this last paragraph is personal conjecture and will remain as such. The previous paragraphs are the answer to your questions.
Don't underestimate symbolism. Aside from expressing how he feels to himself, he expresses to many others how he feels. A band depends on other people for its worth. Actions like this diminish it, even if it doesn't cost them a few quid immediately.
Hahahahaha!
+3 Insightful????
A sad scientist was once heard to say,
To upload my brain, I have found a way,
But my memory contains
Things not public domain
And I'd violate DMCA.
Hello alcohol, goodbye Karma. 8) Seriously, I just got this image of the RIAA breaking into the lab 'cause the cloned brain remembered the Happy Birthday lyrics.
A British newspaper did a bit of shit stirring in an attempt to boost sales. They published locations of sexual offenders names and addresses around the country. It kicked off a wave of assaults, cases of mistaken identity and included one woman whose home was wrecked and she narrowly escaped... because she was a peadiatrician.
You want mob justice? Prepare for trial by gossip, then.
They were a couple? Boy did the censors cut up that movie.
Interestingly, so can dominance-submission of the father. The theory is that dominance or submision will be passed on to the child either through genetic or envrionmental factors. Result is that a dominant male child will get around a lot and have many kids whilst a submissive male will not get many mates. Therefore, if you're dominant, best to have a male child and if your low-status, best have a girl as she's going to get laid anyway.
Relating it to the story? Engineers are clearly high status individuals. So get out there, boys.
Yep. And after it's gone straight to DVD, and they've had the initial massive sales... It goes to TV.
Yes - it began with Futurama. DVD is the release medium and crap films go straight to TV instead of DVD. Think about it - it makes so much more sense (for them). Hell, it can even shut down the Betamax argument.