I might consider paying for an "all you can eat" system that gave me access to vast quantities of premium content, but I am NOT going to be nickeled and dimed to death with "micropayments" to every Tom Dick and Harry who thinks his useless two cents worth should be billed to the reader at that rate. When's the last time you actually read some "news" online that required anything other than the most superficial fact gathering? Half these idiots can't get the easy facts right, let along getting to the bottom of a complex story. And the day Google starts routing me to pay-per-view pages without clearly notifying me in advance is the day I find another search engine. Some of you folks need to go back and reread the Cluetrain Manifesto.
Maryland has a "use" tax supposedly imposed on anyone who avoids the state sales tax by buying out of state. They even claim lots of folks actually pay it. Yeah, riiiiiight!
Call me a troll if you must, but there used to be mechanisms to keep corporations in check. Back in the Golden Age before RR, we had these things called "regulations" that determined what corporations could do when their best interests clashed with those of the societies in which they operated. And there were even politicians who supported and extended those "regulations" when new abuses appeared on the horizon. Let's see, what were those guys called? I can't quite remember, it's been so long...OH YEAH! They were called "Democrats"!
...More police officers and nurses who need a little picture of a green car to tell them what the equipment says. Does anyone here seriously think people who can't interpret a simple readout should be carrying guns and interfacing between patients and the poor excuse for doctors we already have to deal with today?
I'm all in favor of hiring the handicapped, but folks whose IQ is lower than their shoe size should most assuredly be excluded from certain life critical functions.
This is a linguistic problem. The US "states" were in fact real states, i.e., nations, before they confederated. After the adoption of the constitution they became what could be compared with the guberniya (or provinces) of the old Russian Empire. The units of the EU are also states in the classical sense but on their way to becoming "states" or provinces along the lines of the American "states." At the end of the day, the US "states" aren't states at all and the EU countries will at some point cease to be nation states in the classical sense.
Wonder of wonders! I have half a BILLION DOLLARS stashed away in a Nigerian bank from the estate of the late President Mbawasa Ngimima of Upper Revolta just waiting for a way to get it out of the country. Perhaps we could work out an arrangement...
A much more practical possibility is that a current or future nuclear power would see an advantage in giving a group of terrorists a nuclear bomb, either because thay sympathized with their cause or, on the contrary, because they saw an advantage to having a much scarier enemy to hang their power hungry hats on. I could certainly see the current reactionary Israeli administration doing this to maintain their grip on power, and I could even see old George W, the man who "won the trifecta" when the WTC was hit, trying to maintain his own grip on power by nuclear-arming his favorite non-Christian boogie men.
It makes one wonder when something this (as you so elegantly point out) obvious gets twisted all around by the media and the police and everyone else who pretends to be in the know but really doesn't know diddly. Thanks for such an enlightening post amonst the usual Slashdot point missing and tangent tracking.
Descartes was neither "right" nor "wrong." He was simply positing a point at which to begin his philosophical discourse. I, for one, consider the whole field to be the rantings of a bunch of demented coon dogs, but that's just my opinion. What is (almost) universally recognized is that it has nothing to do with science. I.e., it cannot be used to prove or disprove anything resembling a scientific statement.
So all you have to do is convince the universe you are nothing. Sounds like cosmonauts of the future will have to take some classes in Zen Mind States.
Personally, I have been escaping causality for years. But then, I don't really exist...
That's it! My new pass phrase is BEWARE OF THE CLEANING LADY! Or better yet, BEWEAR O DAH CLEENIN LAIDY!
Actually, wouldn't it make more sense to give everybody a HARDWARE key? How many folks have had their front door keys stolen online? It seems to me all this password pasta sauce is equivalent to trying to build a better rooster to guard the henhouse... Get real!
I create my passwords using an Epsilon II Password Generator I swiped off of a UFO when they thought I was hypnotized. The only problem is I have to transliterate and transnumerate from the Glog Language Standard to the Latin alphabet and Arabic numerals. As soon as I get this mini-super-computer I also swiped working I can do all that automatically.
The legal system, to paraphrase old Honest Abe, is of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.
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I paid $400 for fucking Windows XP. And how long did it take the vaunted Microsoft Corporation to get to this point of advanced computer development? How many fucking iterations of this pathetic little OS did I have to buy either directly or indirectly before I got one that even did something as simple as a drag and drop to a CD? And you think this is some kind of terrific breakthrough do you? Jesus Christ, you arrogant little jackass who thinks the world was created the day before you were born, apparently sometime in the late 1980s.
Troll? You haven't seen a troll yet, SONNY! Screw Off!
You can actually say a lot in plaintext without actually saying openly what you mean. Aleister Crowley was a master at this. The way this works is you talk directly to those who know the context in which you are speaking and it all just looks like mere verbiage to anyone not familiar with your topic. Or you refer to your predicates in such a way that the casual observer can't tell what your final conclusion refers to. This is not steganography per se, but goes to the origins of the concept. I have done this myself and it allows you to say things you wouldn't dare say outright for fear of retribution from certain third parties.
And they leave more room in front of them, so they are actually safer than the kiddies who want to yak and drive at the same time but climb up the guy in front of them's butt.
Oh gee, built from the ground up by M$'s army of anthropoid programmers. Go back to your mothership until further notice, Billy Boy. You're grounded till the next millennium.
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I might consider paying for an "all you can eat" system that gave me access to vast quantities of premium content, but I am NOT going to be nickeled and dimed to death with "micropayments" to every Tom Dick and Harry who thinks his useless two cents worth should be billed to the reader at that rate. When's the last time you actually read some "news" online that required anything other than the most superficial fact gathering? Half these idiots can't get the easy facts right, let along getting to the bottom of a complex story. And the day Google starts routing me to pay-per-view pages without clearly notifying me in advance is the day I find another search engine. Some of you folks need to go back and reread the Cluetrain Manifesto.
I suppose you could file this all under "The Arrogance of Power."
Maryland has a "use" tax supposedly imposed on anyone who avoids the state sales tax by buying out of state. They even claim lots of folks actually pay it. Yeah, riiiiiight!
Call me a troll if you must, but there used to be mechanisms to keep corporations in check. Back in the Golden Age before RR, we had these things called "regulations" that determined what corporations could do when their best interests clashed with those of the societies in which they operated. And there were even politicians who supported and extended those "regulations" when new abuses appeared on the horizon. Let's see, what were those guys called? I can't quite remember, it's been so long...OH YEAH! They were called "Democrats"!
It was a joke. Sheesh...
A filter? Is this part of the lens cap theory?
What's the Greek for chocolate milk?
...More police officers and nurses who need a little picture of a green car to tell them what the equipment says. Does anyone here seriously think people who can't interpret a simple readout should be carrying guns and interfacing between patients and the poor excuse for doctors we already have to deal with today? I'm all in favor of hiring the handicapped, but folks whose IQ is lower than their shoe size should most assuredly be excluded from certain life critical functions.
This is a linguistic problem. The US "states" were in fact real states, i.e., nations, before they confederated. After the adoption of the constitution they became what could be compared with the guberniya (or provinces) of the old Russian Empire. The units of the EU are also states in the classical sense but on their way to becoming "states" or provinces along the lines of the American "states." At the end of the day, the US "states" aren't states at all and the EU countries will at some point cease to be nation states in the classical sense.
Wonder of wonders! I have half a BILLION DOLLARS stashed away in a Nigerian bank from the estate of the late President Mbawasa Ngimima of Upper Revolta just waiting for a way to get it out of the country. Perhaps we could work out an arrangement...
"...have fits about possible nukular explosions."
They think hydrogen fuel is related to hydrogen bombs?
Somebody mod this up a few points. It is dead on true.
A much more practical possibility is that a current or future nuclear power would see an advantage in giving a group of terrorists a nuclear bomb, either because thay sympathized with their cause or, on the contrary, because they saw an advantage to having a much scarier enemy to hang their power hungry hats on. I could certainly see the current reactionary Israeli administration doing this to maintain their grip on power, and I could even see old George W, the man who "won the trifecta" when the WTC was hit, trying to maintain his own grip on power by nuclear-arming his favorite non-Christian boogie men.
It makes one wonder when something this (as you so elegantly point out) obvious gets twisted all around by the media and the police and everyone else who pretends to be in the know but really doesn't know diddly. Thanks for such an enlightening post amonst the usual Slashdot point missing and tangent tracking.
Descartes was neither "right" nor "wrong." He was simply positing a point at which to begin his philosophical discourse. I, for one, consider the whole field to be the rantings of a bunch of demented coon dogs, but that's just my opinion. What is (almost) universally recognized is that it has nothing to do with science. I.e., it cannot be used to prove or disprove anything resembling a scientific statement.
"Nothing can escape causality."
So all you have to do is convince the universe you are nothing. Sounds like cosmonauts of the future will have to take some classes in Zen Mind States.
Personally, I have been escaping causality for years. But then, I don't really exist...
Um, you already ARE at the edge of the galaxy. Perhaps you meant the OTHER edge of the galaxy?
That's it! My new pass phrase is BEWARE OF THE CLEANING LADY! Or better yet, BEWEAR O DAH CLEENIN LAIDY!
Actually, wouldn't it make more sense to give everybody a HARDWARE key? How many folks have had their front door keys stolen online? It seems to me all this password pasta sauce is equivalent to trying to build a better rooster to guard the henhouse... Get real!
I thinks there's probably voice recognition software involved there also...
I create my passwords using an Epsilon II Password Generator I swiped off of a UFO when they thought I was hypnotized. The only problem is I have to transliterate and transnumerate from the Glog Language Standard to the Latin alphabet and Arabic numerals. As soon as I get this mini-super-computer I also swiped working I can do all that automatically.
The legal system, to paraphrase old Honest Abe, is of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.
I paid $400 for fucking Windows XP. And how long did it take the vaunted Microsoft Corporation to get to this point of advanced computer development? How many fucking iterations of this pathetic little OS did I have to buy either directly or indirectly before I got one that even did something as simple as a drag and drop to a CD? And you think this is some kind of terrific breakthrough do you? Jesus Christ, you arrogant little jackass who thinks the world was created the day before you were born, apparently sometime in the late 1980s.
Troll? You haven't seen a troll yet, SONNY! Screw Off!
You can actually say a lot in plaintext without actually saying openly what you mean. Aleister Crowley was a master at this. The way this works is you talk directly to those who know the context in which you are speaking and it all just looks like mere verbiage to anyone not familiar with your topic. Or you refer to your predicates in such a way that the casual observer can't tell what your final conclusion refers to. This is not steganography per se, but goes to the origins of the concept. I have done this myself and it allows you to say things you wouldn't dare say outright for fear of retribution from certain third parties.
And they leave more room in front of them, so they are actually safer than the kiddies who want to yak and drive at the same time but climb up the guy in front of them's butt.
Oh gee, built from the ground up by M$'s army of anthropoid programmers. Go back to your mothership until further notice, Billy Boy. You're grounded till the next millennium.