Like all statistical info, it should be taken with plenty of salt. The analogy wasn't meant to be precise, but rather "these businesses are fast and loose with IP and are fine... maybe other industries could learn from that". Maybe there is some other position to take besides suing everything that moves.
i have PlanetSide and Left4Dead dreams. One or two Borderlands dreams. Sometimes in dreams i feel powerless, or that what i'm doing isn't working. In recent years i've been better at thinking "no... i got a headshot on that zombie... it should be down". Sometimes i know it's a dream, sometimes i just know how things ought to work and WILL them to work despite my subconscious' desire to make me feel powerless.
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"The secret is to let the explanation fade with distance: They showed us a lot about Jacob and MiB, give us a couple more glimpses of why their "mother" was so murderous, and then a quick glimpse of her predecessor (and a hint at how it all started), and a quick glimpse of Hurley's successor. The Guardianship fades into the mists of time, but it IS anchored there: it is real and continuous and it matters (to the planet and all its current and future inhabitants)."
i didn't catch anything about the mother's predecessor or Hurley's successor. When was that?
Americans don't like trains for several reasons: 1) Once you get where you're going, you're on foot for the next 10 to 50 miles. The train stations connect to nothing but a train station in most cities. Cab fare is outrageous here. 2) Trains go on a schedule. We want to leave and arrive when we want to. 3) Trains contain people we didn't bring with us. 4) Trains contain poor and or brown people.
i spent the latter half of my childhood in Germany and loved public transportation. Aside from the big cities where owning a car is more hassle than benefit, public transport is very unappealing to the American character. We want to go when we want and drive right up to the door. Not take a train to the city, then get on the metro for a few stops, transfer to a bus and then walk 7 blocks. People outside the US sometimes forget how spread out things are here in the US.
i really hope that attitude changes though. You're right. Electric powered public transport + nuclear/clean sources of volts = give the Saudis the finger. Some republican could run on that platform.
Say what it is, rather than what it isn't. It's NOT many other things... it's also not a small car, a big house by the lake or a policy to affect traffic patterns.
i agree with the first part of your post about the flawed logic, but then you embark on some yourself:
"Someone who feels that freedom of speech is overrated - spare me the "fire! in a theater" exceptions we already know about - is not someone who I want deciding freedom of speech cases."
So if the speech in question is hate speech intended to incite crime (violent or otherwise) against some group, that's fine with you?
Her position on speech is the same as most sane position on other rights and liberties. i have the right to own a gun, but i don't have the right to go Yosamite Sam in the mall. i have the right own land, but i have to leave that land if society decides it is more important to use that land to build an airport that will bring business to the area. i have the right to vote unless i forfiet that by committing a felony. i have the right say "I don't like brown people", i don't have the right to say "kill all the brown people!" (if i mean to provoke people to commit crimes).
There are no absolute rights. Not even to life. Not because it's tyranny, but because we have to sane in how much harm the use of those rights may cause.
Much of defense spending is to pay stockholders, overpaid contractors and the executives of those contractors. If the gov't did it's own work we could get the same results for much less.
If the federal budget was 1/12th would people still say "OMG TEH USA SPEND 1/12th IT"S BUDGET ON KILLING BROWN PEOPLE LOLOLOL!"? When you cite that fraction, are you accounting for the reality that our budget is not just ours? NATO members can afford to spend proportionately less on their militaries and more on services because they are behind our aegis. Most nations have a tiny AoR. We can be naive/selfish/short sighted/forgetful and say that we don't have to be the world's police, but if we didn't fill that role someone else would step into it.
As for failed... that's a matter of politics. If you are a partisan on the left, sure they are failures. If you are on the right or a non-partisan about it you'd say they are sucessful but frought with difficulty. Oh, i'm sorry, i mean... "NATION BUILDING EWHILE BEING SHTO AT IS EASY LOLOLOLO!".
Developing a weapon for the purpose of maiming people is definately a GenCon no-no.
That's why they are working on "dazzling" systems. They cause no permanent damage (unless you hold your remaining eye right up to the lens). i shine the dazzler on the enemy, Bob sweeps in for the kill.
i wouldn't work on laser rifles, but a vehicle mounted system that can lay down a blast of frequency X light, while my guys have goggles that filter out X. We can see, they can't. We win.
Or mount a lethal type laser on an armature that can raise shoot into the third floor window or around the corner. The mount would have a sensor array (low light, thermal, laser range finding, LIDAR) and a microphone and speaker. "Come out with your pants down or we'll cut in twain". Hell, toss a grenade launcher on it that can select smoke and or tear gas as well as loud bangy things.
i played one of those from Steam and hated it. i got stuck right away after finding that hatch in the snow. i went to look for a walkthrough and the solution, the thing i missed offended me to the point that i deleted the game.
How about a lump of steel the size of a grenade, with the right velocity relative to the satellite it could hit with more energy than a grenade would ipart on it's own.
Heh. If that were the case squirrels should have figured out "cars dangerous" by now, and yet there's a dead squirrel per block of suburb road. The squirrels that survive to breed did so by luck, not by figuring out that cars are dangerous. So their children are just as dumb.
There is another type of wind turbine that looks like a square column. Birds see it as a solid thing so they avoid it. i saw them on Beyond 2000 or some such show. Haven't seem them anywhere since.
i like the idea that this sort of work is ephemeral. You have to be in a certain place at a certain time to experience. His work has to be found because it's not in a museum, gallery or Hot Topic. The disposable nature of his work is appropriate. i like these street artists who make life a bit more surreal and make the mundane (and ugly) funny or even meaningful.
Besides, we have cameras and websites to make him and his work immortal.
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Like all statistical info, it should be taken with plenty of salt. The analogy wasn't meant to be precise, but rather "these businesses are fast and loose with IP and are fine... maybe other industries could learn from that". Maybe there is some other position to take besides suing everything that moves.
i have PlanetSide and Left4Dead dreams. One or two Borderlands dreams. Sometimes in dreams i feel powerless, or that what i'm doing isn't working. In recent years i've been better at thinking "no... i got a headshot on that zombie... it should be down". Sometimes i know it's a dream, sometimes i just know how things ought to work and WILL them to work despite my subconscious' desire to make me feel powerless.
"The secret is to let the explanation fade with distance: They showed us a lot about Jacob and MiB, give us a couple more glimpses of why their "mother" was so murderous, and then a quick glimpse of her predecessor (and a hint at how it all started), and a quick glimpse of Hurley's successor. The Guardianship fades into the mists of time, but it IS anchored there: it is real and continuous and it matters (to the planet and all its current and future inhabitants)."
i didn't catch anything about the mother's predecessor or Hurley's successor. When was that?
This is a machine operating a violin. Not a violinist.
As IALs go, Esperanto is pretty bad. Most of the world's population couldn't speak it.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030904080229/www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto#Criticism
Americans don't like trains for several reasons:
1) Once you get where you're going, you're on foot for the next 10 to 50 miles. The train stations connect to nothing but a train station in most cities. Cab fare is outrageous here.
2) Trains go on a schedule. We want to leave and arrive when we want to.
3) Trains contain people we didn't bring with us.
4) Trains contain poor and or brown people.
i spent the latter half of my childhood in Germany and loved public transportation. Aside from the big cities where owning a car is more hassle than benefit, public transport is very unappealing to the American character. We want to go when we want and drive right up to the door. Not take a train to the city, then get on the metro for a few stops, transfer to a bus and then walk 7 blocks. People outside the US sometimes forget how spread out things are here in the US.
i really hope that attitude changes though. You're right. Electric powered public transport + nuclear/clean sources of volts = give the Saudis the finger. Some republican could run on that platform.
This is a large/big/major change.
Say what it is, rather than what it isn't. It's NOT many other things... it's also not a small car, a big house by the lake or a policy to affect traffic patterns.
As impressive as it would be to create a sentient life form it would be useless as a grad student until it achieved sapience.
i agree with the first part of your post about the flawed logic, but then you embark on some yourself:
"Someone who feels that freedom of speech is overrated - spare me the "fire! in a theater" exceptions we already know about - is not someone who I want deciding freedom of speech cases."
So if the speech in question is hate speech intended to incite crime (violent or otherwise) against some group, that's fine with you?
Her position on speech is the same as most sane position on other rights and liberties. i have the right to own a gun, but i don't have the right to go Yosamite Sam in the mall. i have the right own land, but i have to leave that land if society decides it is more important to use that land to build an airport that will bring business to the area. i have the right to vote unless i forfiet that by committing a felony. i have the right say "I don't like brown people", i don't have the right to say "kill all the brown people!" (if i mean to provoke people to commit crimes).
There are no absolute rights. Not even to life. Not because it's tyranny, but because we have to sane in how much harm the use of those rights may cause.
Much of defense spending is to pay stockholders, overpaid contractors and the executives of those contractors. If the gov't did it's own work we could get the same results for much less.
If the federal budget was 1/12th would people still say "OMG TEH USA SPEND 1/12th IT"S BUDGET ON KILLING BROWN PEOPLE LOLOLOL!"? When you cite that fraction, are you accounting for the reality that our budget is not just ours? NATO members can afford to spend proportionately less on their militaries and more on services because they are behind our aegis. Most nations have a tiny AoR. We can be naive/selfish/short sighted/forgetful and say that we don't have to be the world's police, but if we didn't fill that role someone else would step into it.
As for failed... that's a matter of politics. If you are a partisan on the left, sure they are failures. If you are on the right or a non-partisan about it you'd say they are sucessful but frought with difficulty. Oh, i'm sorry, i mean... "NATION BUILDING EWHILE BEING SHTO AT IS EASY LOLOLOLO!".
Let the censorhip modding and flaming begin!
Developing a weapon for the purpose of maiming people is definately a GenCon no-no.
That's why they are working on "dazzling" systems. They cause no permanent damage (unless you hold your remaining eye right up to the lens). i shine the dazzler on the enemy, Bob sweeps in for the kill.
i wouldn't work on laser rifles, but a vehicle mounted system that can lay down a blast of frequency X light, while my guys have goggles that filter out X. We can see, they can't. We win.
Or mount a lethal type laser on an armature that can raise shoot into the third floor window or around the corner. The mount would have a sensor array (low light, thermal, laser range finding, LIDAR) and a microphone and speaker. "Come out with your pants down or we'll cut in twain". Hell, toss a grenade launcher on it that can select smoke and or tear gas as well as loud bangy things.
Enjoy your self imposed exile.
i played one of those from Steam and hated it. i got stuck right away after finding that hatch in the snow. i went to look for a walkthrough and the solution, the thing i missed offended me to the point that i deleted the game.
Glad you got more out of it.
How about a lump of steel the size of a grenade, with the right velocity relative to the satellite it could hit with more energy than a grenade would ipart on it's own.
A hypersonic grenade otoH....
Heh. If that were the case squirrels should have figured out "cars dangerous" by now, and yet there's a dead squirrel per block of suburb road. The squirrels that survive to breed did so by luck, not by figuring out that cars are dangerous. So their children are just as dumb.
Lives on Skullcrusher Mountain and has an assistant named Scarface.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z53WLtowYBo
There is a difference.
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Thanks.
There is another type of wind turbine that looks like a square column. Birds see it as a solid thing so they avoid it. i saw them on Beyond 2000 or some such show. Haven't seem them anywhere since.
Why post this as AC? It's a good post.
All of them.
Waxing Toreador for a moment:
i like the idea that this sort of work is ephemeral. You have to be in a certain place at a certain time to experience. His work has to be found because it's not in a museum, gallery or Hot Topic. The disposable nature of his work is appropriate. i like these street artists who make life a bit more surreal and make the mundane (and ugly) funny or even meaningful.
Besides, we have cameras and websites to make him and his work immortal.
i wouldn't worry about them decimating us. That would kill less that 700M people. Annihilation... now THAT'S scary.
That's not just the original definition so much as the correct and only definition. When someone calls a cyber criminal a hacker... they are wrong.
Critics and cynics are among the least useful people on the planet.
i'm disappointed that i haven't seen anyone mention Total Recall in this thread.