I don't blame him, either. But what he's got to remember is that the same freedom that lets idiots like this guy post libel lets oppressed people around the world contribute safely. I think it's worth it.
As a comment noted in the previous story on this hoax, the guy would've been less trace-able if he'd posted as ILURVCONSPIRACIES or something instead of being anonymous and allowing a visible IP.
"Show me any autistic individual with a non-Aquarian sun, and I'll show you a natal chart for the same individual with either several other planets in Aquarius, or a strongly aspected Uranus. (the planet associated with Aquarius)"
You could probably do the same for a sizable fraction of the population, too. I'm sorry, but that assertion has about the same value as (and in fact is very similar to) the Discordian Law of Fives.
Want to prove me wrong? First, define "several" and then determine what percentage of the year fits your definition above. If it's > 40%, I'd say the predictive power is minimal. Second, collect a couple hundred birthdates of autistic people and see where they fall in the year. If the results are statistically significant, then you've got something.
I'm sure you thought the "cars kill orders of magnitude more people than guns" argument was a good idea at the time. A few more years of this, and I'm going to bicycle over to your HQ and give you a good talking-to!
No, but drop me an e-mail and I'll send you everything but bomb-making stuff, if there was any. I don't think there was, but I just wanted to be up front about that.
IMO, no. They're more like the Discordians, who have many professed adherents but few (if any) true believers. (That's the extent of the similarities, though. The Discordians are vastly more clever...and that's true no matter what you think of the Discordians.) They're more like a club than a cult, the key difference being that you leave the former every evening and return home.
The same thing happened after the Columbine killers were discovered to have had AOL homepages. Sadly, I didn't think to archive their stuff until it was almost too late, but I still saved a lot of it. I wasn't the compulsive archiver then that I am now.
OT, but the reason that I don't care as much about these two as I did about those two is that this seems to be a pretty standard love crime, whereas that was a school shooting that came within a hair of being an order of magnitude worse. Also, I study fringe religions, so I wanted to go through their stuff and see if there was any religious connection like there'd been a few years earlier at OK City. Turned out there wasn't much of one, but I couldn't have discovered that without saving the material before reading it. In some cases I was literally minutes ahead of whoever was shutting the sites down.
As a fan of B5 since the pilot episode, I feel bad that he's apparently forgotten how to enjoy dynamic characters and a good story. I've just been rewatching them all in order in the process of introducing my wife to the show, and we both like it a lot.
I've given some thought to the problem of astroturfing review sites. I think the key is to largely ignore the positive comments unless they are detailed and well-written and focus on the negatives. If there are several negatives, then unless those look fishy (gut instinct, hard to quantify) I avoid the site.
Of course, this ends up meaning that I don't do much business with the smaller online retailers unless they operate through EBay (or I happen to hear about them). Hmmm, I suppose that says interesting things about EBay. You know, I'll bet you could set up a transaction rating system like that that random merchants could opt into. Since you're only providing the rating system, overhead probably wouldn't be that high, and you could probably support yourself with ad revenue. Paypal is probably in the perfect market position to do something like this.
As you can see from those reasonably well-documented pages, deaths from major wars and man-made famines/genocides account for more deaths than major disease outbreaks by a substantial amount. If you factor in typhoid, dysentary, pneumonia, polio, and cholera, then compare those to the rest of the conflicts listed above, my guess is that man still comes out ahead. Yay us.
As you can see from those reasonably well-documented pages, deaths from major wars and man-made famines/genocides account for more deaths than major disease outbreaks by a substantial amount. If you factor in typhoid, dysentary, pneumonia, polio, and cholera, then compare those to the rest of the conflicts listed above, my guess is that man still comes out ahead. Yay us.
The Horseman of Famine was scourging humankind when Pestilence was in diapers. I'll assume you're talking about modern, man-made ones, though.
If you look at the numbers for the 20th Century, I'm not sure you're right. Pestilence, as Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman once noted, had a bad century (War and Famine did very well, though). I don't think previous centuries' numbers all relevant because of public health advances even in much of the Third World.
There [sic] goal is to protect us in the event of a pandemic.
Sure, but who's going to protect us from them? I'm always leery of people wanting to "protect" me without being asked to do so. And if the airport questionnaire asks "Do you have stairs in your house?", then I think I'd rather walk.
I went to the page and I didn't see any ads at all. I don't have Flashblock or NoScript installed, but I do have AdBlock set to "If it moves, shoot it." Loading AdBlock with a good set of downloadable instructions will kill just about anything.
Same here. alt.callahans and alt.religion.kibology are two fine, enjoyable groups, as good or better than anything you'll find on the web. I think it's rude to turn the lights out while people are still having a good time.
The problem with that line of reasoning is that these patents are probably going to be vague enough, and movie studios sufficiently staffed by lawyers, that every movie after that point would be preceded by a long court battle. They'd have to cross-license just to get anything done at all.
Heh. Fair enough, but it has gotten better in the last couple of weeks (at least I've had less trouble, YMMV). Besides, if more people join and contribute, maybe he'll be able to upgrade again.
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That's based on something by Kevan, who also did the Zombie-based MMORPG Urban Dead.
Alternatively, look at the case of Master of Orion 3. That game was awful as released, and even the patches didn't help. But the hackers at ataricommunity stepped up and turned it into a game that lived up to most of the promise of the marketing and has only crashed on me once in over 20 hours of play. Believe it or not, the game is actually a lot of fun if you install the InvaderMod and.exe hack, and that's all user-developed. So don't totally write off games as inspiration.
Really? More profitable? This wouldn't have to do with the fact that digitally distributed music being more expensive than tranditional optical media. With individual songs at $0.99 and rising, you'd have to be an RIAA executive to think that it wasn't protifable enough as it is.
Not exactly. Before, they could hype one song and use it to sell a cd. Now, they hype that song and it sells...that song. They spend millions of dollars to hype a single, and even they can't afford to do that for an entire album. We'd be talking about an ad budget increase of more than an order of magnitude.
Ok, I know the success has been minimal so far, but this is still exciting. I wish them all the best of luck. The stars are a birthright we've been too long denied, and it's nice to see people stepping in to take up the slack from NASA's moribund manned spaceflight program.
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I don't blame him, either. But what he's got to remember is that the same freedom that lets idiots like this guy post libel lets oppressed people around the world contribute safely. I think it's worth it.
As a comment noted in the previous story on this hoax, the guy would've been less trace-able if he'd posted as ILURVCONSPIRACIES or something instead of being anonymous and allowing a visible IP.
You could probably do the same for a sizable fraction of the population, too. I'm sorry, but that assertion has about the same value as (and in fact is very similar to) the Discordian Law of Fives.
Want to prove me wrong? First, define "several" and then determine what percentage of the year fits your definition above. If it's > 40%, I'd say the predictive power is minimal. Second, collect a couple hundred birthdates of autistic people and see where they fall in the year. If the results are statistically significant, then you've got something.
I'm sure you thought the "cars kill orders of magnitude more people than guns" argument was a good idea at the time. A few more years of this, and I'm going to bicycle over to your HQ and give you a good talking-to!
No, but drop me an e-mail and I'll send you everything but bomb-making stuff, if there was any. I don't think there was, but I just wanted to be up front about that.
IMO, no. They're more like the Discordians, who have many professed adherents but few (if any) true believers. (That's the extent of the similarities, though. The Discordians are vastly more clever...and that's true no matter what you think of the Discordians.) They're more like a club than a cult, the key difference being that you leave the former every evening and return home.
OT, but the reason that I don't care as much about these two as I did about those two is that this seems to be a pretty standard love crime, whereas that was a school shooting that came within a hair of being an order of magnitude worse. Also, I study fringe religions, so I wanted to go through their stuff and see if there was any religious connection like there'd been a few years earlier at OK City. Turned out there wasn't much of one, but I couldn't have discovered that without saving the material before reading it. In some cases I was literally minutes ahead of whoever was shutting the sites down.
As a fan of B5 since the pilot episode, I feel bad that he's apparently forgotten how to enjoy dynamic characters and a good story. I've just been rewatching them all in order in the process of introducing my wife to the show, and we both like it a lot.
Hmmm. Looking at that paragraph, I think I see why it got cancelled.
Of course, this ends up meaning that I don't do much business with the smaller online retailers unless they operate through EBay (or I happen to hear about them). Hmmm, I suppose that says interesting things about EBay. You know, I'll bet you could set up a transaction rating system like that that random merchants could opt into. Since you're only providing the rating system, overhead probably wouldn't be that high, and you could probably support yourself with ad revenue. Paypal is probably in the perfect market position to do something like this.
I've got to disagree with those numbers.
Asian Flu deaths (This one got my grandmother in '57.)
Spanish Flu deaths
AIDS/HIV deaths
Deaths in Major Wars
Deaths in Medium Wars
As you can see from those reasonably well-documented pages, deaths from major wars and man-made famines/genocides account for more deaths than major disease outbreaks by a substantial amount. If you factor in typhoid, dysentary, pneumonia, polio, and cholera, then compare those to the rest of the conflicts listed above, my guess is that man still comes out ahead. Yay us.
I've got to disagree with those numbers.
Asian Flu deaths (This one got my grandmother in '57.)
Spanish Flu deaths
AIDS/HIV deaths
Deaths in Major Wars
Deaths in Medium Wars
As you can see from those reasonably well-documented pages, deaths from major wars and man-made famines/genocides account for more deaths than major disease outbreaks by a substantial amount. If you factor in typhoid, dysentary, pneumonia, polio, and cholera, then compare those to the rest of the conflicts listed above, my guess is that man still comes out ahead. Yay us.
If you look at the numbers for the 20th Century, I'm not sure you're right. Pestilence, as Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman once noted, had a bad century (War and Famine did very well, though). I don't think previous centuries' numbers all relevant because of public health advances even in much of the Third World.
Sure, but who's going to protect us from them? I'm always leery of people wanting to "protect" me without being asked to do so. And if the airport questionnaire asks "Do you have stairs in your house?", then I think I'd rather walk.
I went to the page and I didn't see any ads at all. I don't have Flashblock or NoScript installed, but I do have AdBlock set to "If it moves, shoot it." Loading AdBlock with a good set of downloadable instructions will kill just about anything.
I stand by my initial argument, regardless of the opinions of the moderators.
This strikes me as akin to a manual explaining how to install top-notch door locks and biometric ID systems in a house with paper mache walls.
Same here. alt.callahans and alt.religion.kibology are two fine, enjoyable groups, as good or better than anything you'll find on the web. I think it's rude to turn the lights out while people are still having a good time.
The problem with that line of reasoning is that these patents are probably going to be vague enough, and movie studios sufficiently staffed by lawyers, that every movie after that point would be preceded by a long court battle. They'd have to cross-license just to get anything done at all.
Heh. Fair enough, but it has gotten better in the last couple of weeks (at least I've had less trouble, YMMV). Besides, if more people join and contribute, maybe he'll be able to upgrade again.
That's based on something by Kevan, who also did the Zombie-based MMORPG Urban Dead.
I'm pretty sure they're not, but I haven't been by there for a year. Maybe they've got Mac hacks out by now.
Alternatively, look at the case of Master of Orion 3. That game was awful as released, and even the patches didn't help. But the hackers at ataricommunity stepped up and turned it into a game that lived up to most of the promise of the marketing and has only crashed on me once in over 20 hours of play. Believe it or not, the game is actually a lot of fun if you install the InvaderMod and .exe hack, and that's all user-developed. So don't totally write off games as inspiration.
Not exactly. Before, they could hype one song and use it to sell a cd. Now, they hype that song and it sells...that song. They spend millions of dollars to hype a single, and even they can't afford to do that for an entire album. We'd be talking about an ad budget increase of more than an order of magnitude.
Ok, I know the success has been minimal so far, but this is still exciting. I wish them all the best of luck. The stars are a birthright we've been too long denied, and it's nice to see people stepping in to take up the slack from NASA's moribund manned spaceflight program.