I thought this as well, though if someone could get the server/tracker set up in asia, or the polynesian islands, then they would be immune to US (and even EU) law.
The only problem left is the fact that the IP addresses are readaly available, I use the ABC bit torrent client, and all one has to do is click on the torrent link and up pops a list of IP addys seeding the file.
bout the only way to combat that is to proxy your BT connection to another offshore server...
you should be able to finish off a six-pack in an 8 hour drive, as long as you space the beers properly, and maybe stop for lunch along the way..
I think you are assuming that others would do the same, not everyone is as smart as you are, (not to be condesending to you at all). A lot of our laws are made for the lowest common denominator, those who CAN'T space a six pack properly. As a result we get these stupid laws, like open container laws, to prevent the dumb ones from killing everyone else.
IMO we should just let survival of the fittest take its course and weed out the dumb ones in our socity.
/begin Rant
Good luck trying to get Utahians to replace Hatch, they almost belive that he is Jesus Christ incarnate, and even if that weren't the case ~90% of Mormons (like the rest of the country) are mere sheep, who can't think for themseleves, (more so than the rest of the country, many have the "follow the prophet" syndrome, also known as the Lemmings syndrome)/end Rant
If only we could get Utahns to vote this basterd out, it would make the US a better place, but I am afriad we are stuck with him for a while.
OK, go mod me down as Flamebait, I'll go quitly...
This is why a smart distro would have varing levels of install, say a "Beginner", "Intermedate", and "Advanced". The Install would default to "Beginner", which would essentially just load a disk image from the CD, (or Internet) of apps pre-setup. The "Intermediate" level would let you choose some apps, but would, say have a default, pre made kernel, and for the power user types the "Advanced" option would essentially let you do a Gentoo Stage 1 type install, you boot strap the system, compile your own kernel, etc.
This way if your a complete noob not only to linux but to computers, everything is done for you, however if you want more control over your system, you got it.
The NSA is prevented from spying in America or on American citizens.
And the scary thing is that he actually believes it. No, the NSA does "spy" on US Citizens all the time, and with people in charge, like the Bush Administration, just expect that if you act slightly out of line, you will be carted off as an "enemy combatent", denied access to a lawyer, and yes even tortured.
Are you really implying the world and the state of computer technology would both be better had IBM retained monopoly control of hardware?
To find out what would have happened if IBM kept monopoly control over hardware, look no further to Apple. Now I am not bashing Apple by any means, (I own a PowerBook), but compare the price of an apple computer to the price of an OEM computer from Dell, Gateway, HP, etc. Apples are A LOT more expensive, and though we can go back and forth about the quality of an Apple computer to a PC till the cows come home. The point is, when any one company is allowed to have a monoploy they set the price, instead of letting the market of supply and demand set the price.
THis is percisly why "Free Software" is a "good thing" and not some hippie comministic ideology. it allows for compition driving the cost of software to the margin, (as an Economics professor once told me, people think at the margin).
make a better effort to be technically accurate than practically any other sci-fi show
I'll mention strieght up I haven't seen Firefly, (though I am a HUGE Whedon fan, own all of Buffy season 1-6, and Angel 1-3, which actually tempts me to by the Firefly DVD set with out watching it first), I am also a little skiptical about how technically accurate Firefly can be when two Nerdy charecters from the Whedon unviserse, (Willow - Buffy, Fred - Angel) would spout off incredably silly technobabble, that made absolutly no sense. Deffrent series true, but I also know a lot of the crew from Buffy/Angel also joined up for Firefly.
Not saying that I probably wouldn't enjoy the series, just saying that in the past Whedons other shows, haven't made that much of an effort to be technically feisable.
require citizens to reveal their identity to police officers
I know I am being redundent here, but I can't emphize this enough, the courst ruled that all you have to do to ID yourself if to give the cop YOUR NAME. The specificly state that you don't have to give up your ID (Drivers Liscense or State ID), to a cop. Any state law that currently says you must give proof of you ID will be over turned, (in the brief, the mention a law in Cali that required you to show proof of you ID, and how it was rightfully overturned).
but many if not all of the states in the US have similar laws on the book.
How ever, for now, the ruling stipulates that all you have to give an officer is your NAME, nothing more, and even if a state law says you have to give ID, you can easily get that defeated by judical precedence, in that the Opinion of the Court specificly states that all you have to do is give your NAME.
Perhaps we should look into cleaning up Venus, and terraforming it before we start looking at terraforming Mars, (or hell we could do both at the same time).
Venus is pretty much what Earth is going to look like if we continue with our super-dupper SUV's, 15 MPG gas guzzlers, coal fired power plants, etc. If we can start to terriform Venus, or at least get a probe down there that lasts for more then 5 minutes. We could learn a lot about how to prevent the same from occuring to Earth.
All in all, Venus has sometimes been deemed Earths "sister" planet, in that it is close to the same size as Earth, and has a lot the same qualities that Earth has less its ultra toxic atmosphere.
Lets go to Mars, and colonize it, were running at 6 billion+ people on Earth right now, and with out some kind of sever population control we are going to run out of room soon. Though as we goto Mars and colonize it, we should also keep our eyes on Venus, and possably use the tech, knowledge of colonizing Mars, to colonize Venus.
or we could load up a ship full of embryos of Fish/Cows/etc. and then when we get to Mars grow the embryos in tanks, into full species.
We may not have the tech now, but it could be generated in 10-20 years. I mean we already grow human embryos in petri dishes, this would be doing the same, except in large tanks (which of course would be built on Mars)
I would go, but first I would do the following, 1) Make sure I was throughly trained in both armed and unarmed combat, 2) Learn Arabic 3) Grow a beard 4) Buy and wear clothing indicative to the area.
Seiriously, that way I could blend into my surrondings, and as long as I made an attempt at speaking Arabic in the local accent, I wouldn't stand out nearly as bad as other contracters in jeans and a t shirt, unsaven, speaking english. It would decrease the chances of me being captured tremenusly, as the terrorists would go for the consipicious types first.
I for one, believe John Titor was a crock, BUT, I can also see the US in the very near future, (2005+), decending into a civil war, expecially if Bush Jr. is reelected.
Mormons don't seem to have anything against music...
Not at all in fact if you goto the Churches web site, they offer all the music that is in the Churches hymn book (with the exception of a few that the copyright owner won't let them) for a free download.
Also, I thought it kinda funny that right before the **it hit the fan the Church yanked there recording contract from Sony for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and started to distribute the choirs music under the Churches own label, a label not in any way affiliated with the RIAA.;-)
It really is sad that a few "bad eggs" like Hatch can completly ruin the Mormon Churches reputation.
He is an asshole, and Hatch makes me ashamed to call myself a Mormon, ( I am one ). He almost gets me soo ferious that I want to stay in Utah, (instead of moving back east) and organize a grass roots campagion to get him the hell out of public office.
Thing is the man is looked at as a "good" Mormon, and the fact that appx. 70% of the population is Mormon, pretty much locks him in as a Senator for life. My time would be better spent in not so hostile "free" thinking territories, instead of the mindless, sheep that are active Mormons, ( I know, I know thats flamebait, but its true).
Begin Rant
Even for those people who are not Mormons who *know* active Mormons, you don't really *KNOW* them. IN general Mormons are the most self rightious, bigitious people on the face of the Earth, who can't think for themselves and insisit that every word that comes out of any level of Church leadership is the Word of God.
End Rant
Alright, I'll stop, and accept my -1 Flamebait
**puts dunce hat one and sits in corner**
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Maybe those of us in Chicago ought to have life rafts...
Though this is a joke, one musten forget the The New Madrid Fault Line, and how many geologists believe that a "big one" could eminate from there, causing much more damage, seeing that buildings in the midwest aren't as "earth quake" proof as those in the west.
Becouse as the old addage goes, "If you don't learn from the past you are doomed to repeat it". That alone is enough incentive to study the past, with an eye to the future so we can learn from the mistakes of past generations.
Sure the RIAA may control the airwaves, but (for the moment), they don't control the Internet. If a band wanted to get noticed nationaly all they would have to do is set up a web site, Bit Torrent there album, and let word of mouth do the rest, by spreading around flyers with the bands web site at every gig/concert.
The band would continue on locally, earning money from gigs/concerts, and as word spread around the Internet, more and more people would show up at gigs, and concerts, making more money for the band, evetually they would have a good cash base to do a tour and earn even more money that way.
Why do they need to be outlawed in the first place they are "Victem-Less" Crimes. Drugs should be leagelized, along with prostitution, and other so-called crimes where there are consenting adults involved.
The gun wouldn't be for the Muggie's protection, more then it is for average joe citizen who wants to help. All average joe would have to do is jab the gun in the persons back and no more mugging.
As for man more "colombines" happening, !) A Concealed carry license would be limited to 18+ adults, like they are now, 2) if just a third of the teachers had guns on there persons Colombine could have been stopped a lot earlier with a lot less death. 3) There should be strict laws that mandate how guns are stored in the home, IE trigger locks, safes, etc, and even stricter penalties for violating said laws. Along with that parents need to be held responsible for the actions of there children, and should be charged as an accessory to the crime if there kids use their weapons with out there permission.
Except that criminals generally have citizenship too.
As it is now, gun laws only keep guns out of LAW ABIDING citizens. Most criminals get there guns from illegal sources. As the addage goes, (and somewhat saterized on/.), ""If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns."
The Muggie may not be able to pull his/her gun in time, but all another citizen has to do is pull his/her gun and stick it in the muggers back and tell the mugger to drop the gun or else. The gun isn't really for the muggie's sack its more for the average joe walking down the street, turing him into a citizen police officer.
we wouldn't even need cops if the 2 amendment wasn't keeply stampled on.
If every citizen owned AND carried a firearm, there would be NO crime. NO criminal in his right mind would approched somebody if he thought, that person may be armed. He doesn't want to get shot and rightfully so!
Not that there shouldn't be some manditory training that goes along getting a gun, there would be that and once one had a gun one would be given limited arrest privlages, essentially turing every american who own a gun into a police officer. This would substationaly reduce the amount of hired police officers that there would have to be, limiting the cost to a lot less than what is spent now.
Agian, this is why we need to push for out local communities to build there own FTTC (Fiber To The Curb) infrustructers that the COMMUNITY owns.
Provo is already implimenting there plan to extend FTTC to EVERY residence of Provo, and while I absolutly hate Utah ( mainly because of the radical religious zealots who control almost every facet of the socity ), this they have right.
We won't get cheaper prices from Cable/Telephone companies as long as THEY own the infrustructre.
Once this or a similar treaty/law goes into effect, I will be damn sure to keep even better care of my exsisting hardware, and I won't be upgrading until the piece of hardware breaks.
That should be in 10-20 years. and if enough people do this as well, the HW manufactors will just go out of buisness because no one wants to buy there DRM'd CRAP.
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I thought this as well, though if someone could get the server/tracker set up in asia, or the polynesian islands, then they would be immune to US (and even EU) law.
The only problem left is the fact that the IP addresses are readaly available, I use the ABC bit torrent client, and all one has to do is click on the torrent link and up pops a list of IP addys seeding the file.
bout the only way to combat that is to proxy your BT connection to another offshore server...
you should be able to finish off a six-pack in an 8 hour drive, as long as you space the beers properly, and maybe stop for lunch along the way..
I think you are assuming that others would do the same, not everyone is as smart as you are, (not to be condesending to you at all). A lot of our laws are made for the lowest common denominator, those who CAN'T space a six pack properly. As a result we get these stupid laws, like open container laws, to prevent the dumb ones from killing everyone else.
IMO we should just let survival of the fittest take its course and weed out the dumb ones in our socity.
/begin Rant Good luck trying to get Utahians to replace Hatch, they almost belive that he is Jesus Christ incarnate, and even if that weren't the case ~90% of Mormons (like the rest of the country) are mere sheep, who can't think for themseleves, (more so than the rest of the country, many have the "follow the prophet" syndrome, also known as the Lemmings syndrome) /end Rant
If only we could get Utahns to vote this basterd out, it would make the US a better place, but I am afriad we are stuck with him for a while.
OK, go mod me down as Flamebait, I'll go quitly...
But what if you're new to things...
This is why a smart distro would have varing levels of install, say a "Beginner", "Intermedate", and "Advanced". The Install would default to "Beginner", which would essentially just load a disk image from the CD, (or Internet) of apps pre-setup. The "Intermediate" level would let you choose some apps, but would, say have a default, pre made kernel, and for the power user types the "Advanced" option would essentially let you do a Gentoo Stage 1 type install, you boot strap the system, compile your own kernel, etc.
This way if your a complete noob not only to linux but to computers, everything is done for you, however if you want more control over your system, you got it.
The NSA is prevented from spying in America or on American citizens.
And the scary thing is that he actually believes it. No, the NSA does "spy" on US Citizens all the time, and with people in charge, like the Bush Administration, just expect that if you act slightly out of line, you will be carted off as an "enemy combatent", denied access to a lawyer, and yes even tortured.
Are you really implying the world and the state of computer technology would both be better had IBM retained monopoly control of hardware?
To find out what would have happened if IBM kept monopoly control over hardware, look no further to Apple. Now I am not bashing Apple by any means, (I own a PowerBook), but compare the price of an apple computer to the price of an OEM computer from Dell, Gateway, HP, etc. Apples are A LOT more expensive, and though we can go back and forth about the quality of an Apple computer to a PC till the cows come home. The point is, when any one company is allowed to have a monoploy they set the price, instead of letting the market of supply and demand set the price.
THis is percisly why "Free Software" is a "good thing" and not some hippie comministic ideology. it allows for compition driving the cost of software to the margin, (as an Economics professor once told me, people think at the margin).
make a better effort to be technically accurate than practically any other sci-fi show
I'll mention strieght up I haven't seen Firefly, (though I am a HUGE Whedon fan, own all of Buffy season 1-6, and Angel 1-3, which actually tempts me to by the Firefly DVD set with out watching it first), I am also a little skiptical about how technically accurate Firefly can be when two Nerdy charecters from the Whedon unviserse, (Willow - Buffy, Fred - Angel) would spout off incredably silly technobabble, that made absolutly no sense. Deffrent series true, but I also know a lot of the crew from Buffy/Angel also joined up for Firefly.
Not saying that I probably wouldn't enjoy the series, just saying that in the past Whedons other shows, haven't made that much of an effort to be technically feisable.
require citizens to reveal their identity to police officers
I know I am being redundent here, but I can't emphize this enough, the courst ruled that all you have to do to ID yourself if to give the cop YOUR NAME. The specificly state that you don't have to give up your ID (Drivers Liscense or State ID), to a cop. Any state law that currently says you must give proof of you ID will be over turned, (in the brief, the mention a law in Cali that required you to show proof of you ID, and how it was rightfully overturned).
but many if not all of the states in the US have similar laws on the book.
How ever, for now, the ruling stipulates that all you have to give an officer is your NAME, nothing more, and even if a state law says you have to give ID, you can easily get that defeated by judical precedence, in that the Opinion of the Court specificly states that all you have to do is give your NAME.
Perhaps we should look into cleaning up Venus, and terraforming it before we start looking at terraforming Mars, (or hell we could do both at the same time).
Venus is pretty much what Earth is going to look like if we continue with our super-dupper SUV's, 15 MPG gas guzzlers, coal fired power plants, etc. If we can start to terriform Venus, or at least get a probe down there that lasts for more then 5 minutes. We could learn a lot about how to prevent the same from occuring to Earth.
All in all, Venus has sometimes been deemed Earths "sister" planet, in that it is close to the same size as Earth, and has a lot the same qualities that Earth has less its ultra toxic atmosphere.
Lets go to Mars, and colonize it, were running at 6 billion+ people on Earth right now, and with out some kind of sever population control we are going to run out of room soon. Though as we goto Mars and colonize it, we should also keep our eyes on Venus, and possably use the tech, knowledge of colonizing Mars, to colonize Venus.
or we could load up a ship full of embryos of Fish/Cows/etc. and then when we get to Mars grow the embryos in tanks, into full species.
We may not have the tech now, but it could be generated in 10-20 years. I mean we already grow human embryos in petri dishes, this would be doing the same, except in large tanks (which of course would be built on Mars)
So when our are computers going to combine this with a form of Fusion and be able to geneerate all the power they could ever need?
I would go, but first I would do the following, 1) Make sure I was throughly trained in both armed and unarmed combat, 2) Learn Arabic 3) Grow a beard 4) Buy and wear clothing indicative to the area.
Seiriously, that way I could blend into my surrondings, and as long as I made an attempt at speaking Arabic in the local accent, I wouldn't stand out nearly as bad as other contracters in jeans and a t shirt, unsaven, speaking english. It would decrease the chances of me being captured tremenusly, as the terrorists would go for the consipicious types first.
I for one, believe John Titor was a crock, BUT, I can also see the US in the very near future, (2005+), decending into a civil war, expecially if Bush Jr. is reelected.
GOD I would love to but see my rather flamebait comment above on why Hatch is still in office.
:-)) in 2006 or I might just attempt to run agienst him.
To bad I won't be 30 (I will be 27, and an offical menance to socity, err, mormon joke
Mormons don't seem to have anything against music...
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Not at all in fact if you goto the Churches web site, they offer all the music that is in the Churches hymn book (with the exception of a few that the copyright owner won't let them) for a free download.
Also, I thought it kinda funny that right before the **it hit the fan the Church yanked there recording contract from Sony for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and started to distribute the choirs music under the Churches own label, a label not in any way affiliated with the RIAA.
It really is sad that a few "bad eggs" like Hatch can completly ruin the Mormon Churches reputation.
He is an asshole, and Hatch makes me ashamed to call myself a Mormon, ( I am one ). He almost gets me soo ferious that I want to stay in Utah, (instead of moving back east) and organize a grass roots campagion to get him the hell out of public office.
Thing is the man is looked at as a "good" Mormon, and the fact that appx. 70% of the population is Mormon, pretty much locks him in as a Senator for life. My time would be better spent in not so hostile "free" thinking territories, instead of the mindless, sheep that are active Mormons, ( I know, I know thats flamebait, but its true).
Begin Rant
Even for those people who are not Mormons who *know* active Mormons, you don't really *KNOW* them. IN general Mormons are the most self rightious, bigitious people on the face of the Earth, who can't think for themselves and insisit that every word that comes out of any level of Church leadership is the Word of God.
End Rant
Alright, I'll stop, and accept my -1 Flamebait
**puts dunce hat one and sits in corner**
Maybe those of us in Chicago ought to have life rafts...
Though this is a joke, one musten forget the The New Madrid Fault Line, and how many geologists believe that a "big one" could eminate from there, causing much more damage, seeing that buildings in the midwest aren't as "earth quake" proof as those in the west.
Becouse as the old addage goes, "If you don't learn from the past you are doomed to repeat it". That alone is enough incentive to study the past, with an eye to the future so we can learn from the mistakes of past generations.
Que the internet and P2P.
Sure the RIAA may control the airwaves, but (for the moment), they don't control the Internet. If a band wanted to get noticed nationaly all they would have to do is set up a web site, Bit Torrent there album, and let word of mouth do the rest, by spreading around flyers with the bands web site at every gig/concert.
The band would continue on locally, earning money from gigs/concerts, and as word spread around the Internet, more and more people would show up at gigs, and concerts, making more money for the band, evetually they would have a good cash base to do a tour and earn even more money that way.
Why outlaw Heroin, performance enhancing drugs...
Why do they need to be outlawed in the first place they are "Victem-Less" Crimes. Drugs should be leagelized, along with prostitution, and other so-called crimes where there are consenting adults involved.
The gun wouldn't be for the Muggie's protection, more then it is for average joe citizen who wants to help. All average joe would have to do is jab the gun in the persons back and no more mugging.
As for man more "colombines" happening, !) A Concealed carry license would be limited to 18+ adults, like they are now, 2) if just a third of the teachers had guns on there persons Colombine could have been stopped a lot earlier with a lot less death. 3) There should be strict laws that mandate how guns are stored in the home, IE trigger locks, safes, etc, and even stricter penalties for violating said laws. Along with that parents need to be held responsible for the actions of there children, and should be charged as an accessory to the crime if there kids use their weapons with out there permission.
Except that criminals generally have citizenship too.
/.), ""If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns."
As it is now, gun laws only keep guns out of LAW ABIDING citizens. Most criminals get there guns from illegal sources. As the addage goes, (and somewhat saterized on
The Muggie may not be able to pull his/her gun in time, but all another citizen has to do is pull his/her gun and stick it in the muggers back and tell the mugger to drop the gun or else. The gun isn't really for the muggie's sack its more for the average joe walking down the street, turing him into a citizen police officer.
we wouldn't even need cops if the 2 amendment wasn't keeply stampled on.
If every citizen owned AND carried a firearm, there would be NO crime. NO criminal in his right mind would approched somebody if he thought, that person may be armed. He doesn't want to get shot and rightfully so!
Not that there shouldn't be some manditory training that goes along getting a gun, there would be that and once one had a gun one would be given limited arrest privlages, essentially turing every american who own a gun into a police officer. This would substationaly reduce the amount of hired police officers that there would have to be, limiting the cost to a lot less than what is spent now.
Agian, this is why we need to push for out local communities to build there own FTTC (Fiber To The Curb) infrustructers that the COMMUNITY owns.
Provo is already implimenting there plan to extend FTTC to EVERY residence of Provo, and while I absolutly hate Utah ( mainly because of the radical religious zealots who control almost every facet of the socity ), this they have right.
We won't get cheaper prices from Cable/Telephone companies as long as THEY own the infrustructre.
Once this or a similar treaty/law goes into effect, I will be damn sure to keep even better care of my exsisting hardware, and I won't be upgrading until the piece of hardware breaks.
That should be in 10-20 years. and if enough people do this as well, the HW manufactors will just go out of buisness because no one wants to buy there DRM'd CRAP.
It's ether that or a civil war...