I swear lobotomies are being covertly administered VERY frequently or something.
It's not even covert. Most people are lobotomized within 10 seconds of turning on the TV. The job won't be finished until the same thing is done with the internet. This is a tiny peek into the new world order that 99% of you voted for.
Those damn thieves really put the dimmer on that magic! (great source,eh?). Yep, I just don't know how the industry is going to survive all this thievery. Just how much worse does it have to get before people get off their butts and do something?
What opposition party? There is none. What opposition there is amounts to no more than one percent. And you're sure not going to see any kind of "opposition" from the democrats since they feed from the same trough. The real opposition is doing what it can, but until they get some votes, it will be business as ususal. Bush's boys just learned the lesson from Nixon..."Burn the tapes!"
They're providing this "service" for the benefit of DHS. Experimental and "voluntary" for now. Expect all public libraries to be required to implement these later. Your gov't wants to track everybody. You can also expect National Geographic to cough up all that DNA data to the gov't when that little experiment is done. There will be a subpoena forthcoming. Then you all will be perfectly safe. Trust me:-)
There is nothing "in the middle" about about 75 years and beyond copyright. I believe you think that piracy is the issue, but it's not. It's about stopping self publishing. The content producers have a right to produce content. If somebody tries to take that away, people will get plenty vocal about it. They don't have an automatic right to profit. Their cliams to exclusive ownership are frivolous. Once an idea is expressed, nobody has a right to stop it from spreading. You gave up ownership by expressing it. You only own it exclusively if it stays inside your head. You can mkae your money by using your ideas in a performance on stage, in the studio, in the garage, in the hanger, in the office, in the factory, where ever. You can make money with your software by providing service. If you try to prevent me from using your content(of any kind) with ridiculous prices, monopolistic practices, and influence peddling, then you will never get any sympathy from me.
Uh, that's pretty much a one way "P2P" that the BBC is running. It's more of a client-server thing. There is no real disconnect. They're trying to stop real P2P publishing....amongst individuals. This is the real intention. The whole piracy thing is more of a distraction...like the way kiddie porn is used to villify freenet. The corps don't want to see widespread publication of anything without going through them first. Copyright is the tool used by gov't through the corps to censor.
(if you aren't stealing the song, you are stealing the "right" to make copies)
The right to make copies is inherent. It's the prohibition derived from IP law that is stealing the right to make copies. There is no obligation to obey unjust laws.
I'm not sure how aware you are of the consequences if we were to seriously restrict the flow of contraband(including people). On the subject of taxes, it's the employer that not paying the tax. They are the ones that are failing the withhold it from their payouts and sending it off to the gov't. Plus, they're probably paying out less than minimum wage. If you want to stop employing "illegals", then stop buying from companies that hire them.
CSIRO developed and patented the idea a decade ago, hindsight is always 20/20. As you say, anyone with a "deep understanding" could have thought of the idea but the fact remains that nobody did.
But without patents, please don't take that as nobody will. Inventions will always arise from the need for the invention. I will grant that CSIRO uses patents in a good way. However, This is not the way IP law was intended to be used. It's real intention, purpose, reason for existance is to control the flow of information. So...maybe it will be information, not petroleum or water that we will have our next "war to end all wars".
Most US companies are becoming "Lawyer Employment Agencies", little else. This is where the money trail will lead you. Litigation is where it's at. This should be no surprise. This is the only path that our present system can follow. It's destination is fixed in stone. It is the natural order of things, and we shouldn't meddle with the primal forces at work here. We wouldn't be able to withstand the resultant, though temporary chaos. Maybe when self interests become a little less important...
Proof positive that you have engineering knowledge of a gnat. How do you think the material will bloody well get to the base camp?
Thank you for your respectful reply. The moon has lot of material that we aren't aware of yet, much less know how to extract. There's plenty of time to figure all those little details out before the planet is consumed by the sun, but that's what we should be doing anyway for all our interplanetary, stellar, galactic needs. We can use our present systems to achieve this. It is silly to attempt all this nonsense without creating a certain amount of infrastructure to make it at least possible, if not routine. Part of that infrastructure will have to be built out in space. It's a perfectly logical way to do things. It seems that you want to do the equivalent of building and paving a beautiful street just to tear it up to lay the sewer pipes, then re-pave it, then tear it up again to put in the electrical cables and water mains, etc. Don't try to jump the gun here. You gotta make the bricks and mix the cement before you can construct the building.
(reallocate) We need to go from LEO to the Moon in well under a day, and to Mars in less than one month. Chemicals can't do that. (you) No, chemicals can't do that. Niether can any other form of transportation that follows the rules of physics as currently understood. (me) Actually, under a steady one "g" acceleration/deacceleration, I believe you could get all the way to Jupiter in as little as 3 weeks...the moon in several hours. (you) The problem is - to do so requires fantastic amounts of energy, beyond what even a nuclear reactor or an Orion could generate.
I do believe you were doubting whether it's possible at all. The amount of energy needed was irrelevent to the discussion. And it's really not that much. You just have to have it for a very long time. Like one of those fancy ion engines. They use that very principle. You might even be able to harvest some during the trip. It still only proves to me how primitive we are when it comes to propulsion. We completely fail to look beyond chemical and nuclear. Might not be anything else. Nobody knows. Not even you, oh great wise one. The fact is that it's possible. The math proves it so. It still is only good for interplantary travel as beyond that is simply too much time. Interstellar and intergalactic will require something completely different. Even somebody with more than the engineering knowledge of a gnat should understand that. In real, absolute terms we(even you), at best, have the engineering knowledge of an iguana.
n other words, like other forms of point-to-point travel, the sooner we get there, the better.
Again, that's an assumption/opinion, not the fact you treat it as.
Actually, under a steady one "g" acceleration/deacceleration, I believe you could get all the way to Jupiter in as little as 3 weeks...the moon in several hours. I do believe these are actual facts, though I don't know where to verify them. As I was telling him, our methods of propulsion are extremely primitive. There's no need to explode nukes in the atmosphere for this. We do need to work on space based lauches. LEO and the moon should serve as our base camps.
So, if the majority of the people in the U.S. don't want atmospheric nuclear explosions, that's exactly what should happen.
I personally don't believe anybody should be allowed to contaminate the air like that even if they had a majority that approves of it. It's a clear cut place where democracy has no place. We can't let 51% put the other 49% at risk just for the sake of democracy. Especially since they would be voting without sufficient information. All that silliness aside, I absolutely agree that we must move to a space based launch system. It is clearly the most efficient and economical and logical way to do it in the long run. All the raw materials are there. We don't need to risk any more damage to ourselves or the planet to do this. The simple fact is, when it comes to propulsion(motivation) and physics in general, we are as primitive as the earliest cavemen.
It's called acquiring mindshare. Regardless of whether it's right or wrong, the entertainment industry and more than a few software companies(Microsoft and Adobe for example) use unathorized distribution(piracy?) to get this mindshare for all the obvious reasons. Like it or not, piracy is an effective means of advertising, and it has lead to enormous profits in Asia and Latin America. It works pretty good in North America also. If anybody is hurt by P2P, it's the "pirates" in the streets trying to sell physical bootleg disks. The company profits just keep on climbing.
to keep all of us alive, evolution will stagnate. In fact we will "devolve" into blobs that can't stay alive without all this new medical tech that we use now. We are actually fighting against evolution. Evolution would demand that only the fittest can survive and reproduce. That's too "cruel" for us humans to tolerate.
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I swear lobotomies are being covertly administered VERY frequently or something.
It's not even covert. Most people are lobotomized within 10 seconds of turning on the TV. The job won't be finished until the same thing is done with the internet. This is a tiny peek into the new world order that 99% of you voted for.
Those damn thieves really put the dimmer on that magic! (great source,eh?). Yep, I just don't know how the industry is going to survive all this thievery. Just how much worse does it have to get before people get off their butts and do something?
What opposition party? There is none. What opposition there is amounts to no more than one percent. And you're sure not going to see any kind of "opposition" from the democrats since they feed from the same trough. The real opposition is doing what it can, but until they get some votes, it will be business as ususal. Bush's boys just learned the lesson from Nixon..."Burn the tapes!"
That's what the recall is about. they're just putting it into a stronger case to keep the smoke in.
They're providing this "service" for the benefit of DHS. Experimental and "voluntary" for now. Expect all public libraries to be required to implement these later. Your gov't wants to track everybody. You can also expect National Geographic to cough up all that DNA data to the gov't when that little experiment is done. There will be a subpoena forthcoming. Then you all will be perfectly safe. Trust me :-)
Well then, we just have to take this union thing on a world tour. You know...Workers of the world, unite!
There is nothing "in the middle" about about 75 years and beyond copyright. I believe you think that piracy is the issue, but it's not. It's about stopping self publishing. The content producers have a right to produce content. If somebody tries to take that away, people will get plenty vocal about it. They don't have an automatic right to profit. Their cliams to exclusive ownership are frivolous. Once an idea is expressed, nobody has a right to stop it from spreading. You gave up ownership by expressing it. You only own it exclusively if it stays inside your head. You can mkae your money by using your ideas in a performance on stage, in the studio, in the garage, in the hanger, in the office, in the factory, where ever. You can make money with your software by providing service. If you try to prevent me from using your content(of any kind) with ridiculous prices, monopolistic practices, and influence peddling, then you will never get any sympathy from me.
And do the same for their lapdog politicians who give them this power.
And do the same for the lapdog voters who continue to give the same politicians their power.
Uh, that's pretty much a one way "P2P" that the BBC is running. It's more of a client-server thing. There is no real disconnect. They're trying to stop real P2P publishing....amongst individuals. This is the real intention. The whole piracy thing is more of a distraction...like the way kiddie porn is used to villify freenet. The corps don't want to see widespread publication of anything without going through them first. Copyright is the tool used by gov't through the corps to censor.
(if you aren't stealing the song, you are stealing the "right" to make copies)
The right to make copies is inherent. It's the prohibition derived from IP law that is stealing the right to make copies. There is no obligation to obey unjust laws.
What kind of bounty is $1mn?
It's one peso moneda nacional
I'm not sure how aware you are of the consequences if we were to seriously restrict the flow of contraband(including people). On the subject of taxes, it's the employer that not paying the tax. They are the ones that are failing the withhold it from their payouts and sending it off to the gov't. Plus, they're probably paying out less than minimum wage. If you want to stop employing "illegals", then stop buying from companies that hire them.
CSIRO developed and patented the idea a decade ago, hindsight is always 20/20. As you say, anyone with a "deep understanding" could have thought of the idea but the fact remains that nobody did.
But without patents, please don't take that as nobody will. Inventions will always arise from the need for the invention. I will grant that CSIRO uses patents in a good way. However, This is not the way IP law was intended to be used. It's real intention, purpose, reason for existance is to control the flow of information. So...maybe it will be information, not petroleum or water that we will have our next "war to end all wars".
Most US companies are becoming "Lawyer Employment Agencies", little else. This is where the money trail will lead you. Litigation is where it's at. This should be no surprise. This is the only path that our present system can follow. It's destination is fixed in stone. It is the natural order of things, and we shouldn't meddle with the primal forces at work here. We wouldn't be able to withstand the resultant, though temporary chaos. Maybe when self interests become a little less important...
What is the benifit on their side for the public to register to read articles online? Just to be able to sell their emails?
What? You actually give them real information??
Just lay your hand on the chip. It will be toast soon enough.
Anyone care to comment where a card like this Geforce will be REQUIRED?
This was as close as I could get.
Heh. Who needs a computer? I just put some alligator clips on the edge connector to hook up the hard drive and audio card etc.
Proof positive that you have engineering knowledge of a gnat. How do you think the material will bloody well get to the base camp?
Thank you for your respectful reply. The moon has lot of material that we aren't aware of yet, much less know how to extract. There's plenty of time to figure all those little details out before the planet is consumed by the sun, but that's what we should be doing anyway for all our interplanetary, stellar, galactic needs. We can use our present systems to achieve this. It is silly to attempt all this nonsense without creating a certain amount of infrastructure to make it at least possible, if not routine. Part of that infrastructure will have to be built out in space. It's a perfectly logical way to do things. It seems that you want to do the equivalent of building and paving a beautiful street just to tear it up to lay the sewer pipes, then re-pave it, then tear it up again to put in the electrical cables and water mains, etc. Don't try to jump the gun here. You gotta make the bricks and mix the cement before you can construct the building.
(reallocate)
We need to go from LEO to the Moon in well under a day, and to Mars in less than one month. Chemicals can't do that.
(you)
No, chemicals can't do that. Niether can any other form of transportation that follows the rules of physics as currently understood.
(me)
Actually, under a steady one "g" acceleration/deacceleration, I believe you could get all the way to Jupiter in as little as 3 weeks...the moon in several hours.
(you)
The problem is - to do so requires fantastic amounts of energy, beyond what even a nuclear reactor or an Orion could generate.
I do believe you were doubting whether it's possible at all. The amount of energy needed was irrelevent to the discussion. And it's really not that much. You just have to have it for a very long time. Like one of those fancy ion engines. They use that very principle. You might even be able to harvest some during the trip. It still only proves to me how primitive we are when it comes to propulsion. We completely fail to look beyond chemical and nuclear. Might not be anything else. Nobody knows. Not even you, oh great wise one. The fact is that it's possible. The math proves it so. It still is only good for interplantary travel as beyond that is simply too much time. Interstellar and intergalactic will require something completely different. Even somebody with more than the engineering knowledge of a gnat should understand that. In real, absolute terms we(even you), at best, have the engineering knowledge of an iguana.
...use same 3-man capsule they used snce the 1960's to staff and supply that space station. ISS/Shuttle or Mir/Soyuz: no difference.
C'mon now. You know the old saying, "If it aint broke..." I have to admit that I would feel safer taking a ride on Soyuz than the shuttle.
n other words, like other forms of point-to-point travel, the sooner we get there, the better.
Again, that's an assumption/opinion, not the fact you treat it as.
Actually, under a steady one "g" acceleration/deacceleration, I believe you could get all the way to Jupiter in as little as 3 weeks...the moon in several hours. I do believe these are actual facts, though I don't know where to verify them. As I was telling him, our methods of propulsion are extremely primitive. There's no need to explode nukes in the atmosphere for this. We do need to work on space based lauches. LEO and the moon should serve as our base camps.
So, if the majority of the people in the U.S. don't want atmospheric nuclear explosions, that's exactly what should happen.
I personally don't believe anybody should be allowed to contaminate the air like that even if they had a majority that approves of it. It's a clear cut place where democracy has no place. We can't let 51% put the other 49% at risk just for the sake of democracy. Especially since they would be voting without sufficient information. All that silliness aside, I absolutely agree that we must move to a space based launch system. It is clearly the most efficient and economical and logical way to do it in the long run. All the raw materials are there. We don't need to risk any more damage to ourselves or the planet to do this. The simple fact is, when it comes to propulsion(motivation) and physics in general, we are as primitive as the earliest cavemen.
It's called acquiring mindshare. Regardless of whether it's right or wrong, the entertainment industry and more than a few software companies(Microsoft and Adobe for example) use unathorized distribution(piracy?) to get this mindshare for all the obvious reasons. Like it or not, piracy is an effective means of advertising, and it has lead to enormous profits in Asia and Latin America. It works pretty good in North America also. If anybody is hurt by P2P, it's the "pirates" in the streets trying to sell physical bootleg disks. The company profits just keep on climbing.
to keep all of us alive, evolution will stagnate. In fact we will "devolve" into blobs that can't stay alive without all this new medical tech that we use now. We are actually fighting against evolution. Evolution would demand that only the fittest can survive and reproduce. That's too "cruel" for us humans to tolerate.
Murder is also illegal...unless you do it for the gov't.