Except for logos, there's not a lot of gun IP left. A small amount of shifting, and the copyright restraints dissolve. There are more recent patents for semi-automatics, but the technology's been around for generations, so patents have mostly expired.
Death, however, has been around forever although I think Bezos will try to patent something there, one day soon.
There might be the surprise olive branch, with China breathing down their necks. Then they could be Gadaffi'd out of business.
Or, nice palace military coup with a few years of malaise wouldn't be too rough, although crappy for the civilians. Then, a pseudo-democratic autocracy, followed by a more popular revolution when people actually get some food in their tummies.
Many, many people have, and will die because the food supplies have and will dwindle, and all because the money invariably floats to the top, where it's misspent fighting a war of generations ago.
Audio data rates aren't too bad, provided there aren't any background noises to figure out. You could exchange keys, broadcast to a room full of your friends, and share.
Modulation, demodulation, as stated upthread.
Some patent officer needs their logic examined, just prior to being sacked.
Because you have honor. You respect an author's time in making something for you, the reader. With luck, you enjoyed that. Without impetus, fame not feeding a family, authors go away. Maybe they become musicians. Oh, wait....
Other statistics say that contributions to the problem come from many places, including container ships that blast spend kerosene into the sky, unbridled. The oxymoron of "clean coal" and its dirtier real coal burning adds, too. The hole in the ozone layer has narrowed because we cared enough about halogen release that it's narrowed, at least as a by-product if not a direct result of active human conservation.
MPG gets better and lowered emissions as a byproduct, but the outlook is still abysmal. Buy inland property. Book that Northwest Passage Cruise, soon.
I am an introvert, and am trying to explain introversion to others. In some cases, perceived introversion is actually anxiety disorder. In other cases, it's who you are, like being neurotypical, as opposed to having an autistic brain. I associate no blame, only attempt to educate that some people don't want interaction--- for a wide variety of reasons, including yours. As an introvert, I don't care because I don't fear interactions, rather I don't mind talking to people. If the kiosk or IVR gets the job done more quickly, I appreciate that. I yell at IVRs because they're programmed in such insipid ways. But that's me.... and you, are you.
Just because you disagree with me, doesn't make it not true.
Each of these platforms has enormous degrees of vortex, along with inducements and outright shock troops to keep you "in the herd".
Platform slavery is well known. I don't, in using it, diminish the horrible context of human slavery. Human slavery is a different subject for a different day. This is about Icaza going from Microsoft to Apple with a blush on his face. This isn't about Dr MLK, or Selma, or Chinese girls in Boston brothels.
The context of Slashdot comprises a lot of people, but especially developers. Go ahead and be cautious in your purchases.
Civilians, however, don't know what sort of tar pit they're moving into. There's the Apple tar pit, where everything runs nicely with anything having an Apple logo. Sure, you can run iTunes, but you're a second class citizen.
Jump to Microsoft. Tell me how well Microsoft plays with Apple.
Jump to Google; they're trying desparately to wean you from either, and into their cloud clutches.
In a more perfect world, things would work, and malware and cracking attempts would be rare. Most of my geek support today goes towards making stuff talk and solving the mysteries of platform incompatibilities.
Do I want people dependent on my good graces? Not for a living, but I do it for relatives and friends and even co-workers. Slavery. Platform slavery.
You confuse choice with slavery. Some choices have masters. Some, like Linux and BSD, do not. They may have their own cults, drama queens, and idiots, but also leaders, contributors, and plentiful competition.
Some choices do not, and I equate *them* with slavery.
You trade one slavery for another. The Cult of Macheads will mod me down, but Apple owns you as much as Microsoft does. Icaza trades one set of commercial business ecosystems for another.
Might also be anxiety disorder. There are lots of people that fear conversational interaction, for many, many reasons. They perceive machines as being faster, and never able to cause them personality problems, like being curt, funny, or other emotional responses that they're not good at interacting with.
There are some really shy and introverted people out there, and IVRs and kiosking are heaven-sent for them. I don't include myself in the mix, but know many who will happily avoid humanity out of anxiety, fear, or inability to interact well with others, spontaneously.
There are tugging and contentious needs on what government and society via government is able to do. If you believe that the US is responsible as a government and society, then responsibility of the citizenry is also important. There is a big game, and resultant tax code that is untenable, but must be honorably dealt with. I honor this, although I know it was bought and paid for. I otherwise vote for my consciously-derived best choices in candidates.
Privatizing is another word for letting your good buddy get some profits, IMHO.
Sometimes there is a breakthrough, but it almost always these days comes at the hands of toppling a monopoly, as Microsoft has been toppled by Apple and Google. Samsung has toppled Sony.
Breaking the monopolies are especially difficult.
We become enslaved to them, like we're enslaved to the oil companies and energy/utilities, and it makes the very government seem as though we're indentured to them, rather than the reverse.
While we're on thin ice, having drifted from the primary topic, I acknowledge that the IRS and state taxing authorities can be overzealous in collection efforts. But one of the biggest games in America today is concealing taxable wealth, income, and assets. Sometimes the game is played illegally, and is way over the top.
In civilization, we relinquish a few rights to maintain it. There is a quid pro quo and there is liberty and freedom, and these things are precious. They also require the fuel of contributions to the government, as well as active participant as a citizen, if in a minimal way. The old right-to-be-left-alone no longer really exists, sadly. However, the right to assemble, voice speech, vote, while always in seeming peril, is still better in the US than many places. Yes, not saying much, but despite the misuse of tax funds, we have roads, we have jails, we have courts, we have kids that can eat lunch at school, autistic adults getting voc rehab, seniors getting pretty darn good medical care, and a lot of the rest of the world in envy of our position.
I think people would be very surprised if they had a little bell that sounded each time they were paying a tax in some way, and the loudness of that bell would be in proportion to the fraction of percentage that was being paid. People tend to ignore things until they're out of control, as is most of human nature. Planners and researchers are few.
Theft, however, is a strong word that I believe to be inappropriate in this circumstance. Unreasonable, yes. But what is reason is a poorly defined line, constantly battered by the stains of greed and maximization of shareholder return, not to mention personal wealth.
They didn't take mine by force. I'm grumbling, but otherwise happy to pay for the government we have. You should be, too. If you want to ride for free, go some place else.
Taxes aren't evil, they're civilization. Generousity is also a virtue, and often civilized, too. When generous people aren't available, taxes are necessary to keep civilization. Soon, you'll see the feedback loop.
The demand for fast service is huge, and the US is a third world country because the telco model is to depreciate their asset investment as long as is possible, so as to maximize profits.
The US used to be a leader, and now, it's fallen mightily because it's all about shareholder return and buying off government regulation whilst monopolizing as much as possible.
Your "timing" BS is crack. 10G hardware is not the problem. Capital investment in a bought-off monopolistic era is the problem. The cure is to harrass the monopolists into acting like real capitalists.
The Pentagon puts all of its eggs in one basket. It better be a spectacular basket. One of the best reasons for operating systems diversity is that you can likely only kill off one branch with an attack. Imagine being able to find a way into a US$1.4trillion fleet, and whack all of them.
I'm not off-put by one turbine fan in one aircraft having problems; this has happened before in this fleet. Could have happened for many reasons. But I the US Military and its defense contractor network are vastly too cozy for my tastes. Add that to congresspeople trying to continue programs so that their districts have US military spending, and the whole process seems mightily corrupt.
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There may be a homo sapiens fork that produces homo sapiens has-guilt and homo sapiens sociopath-narcissist-psychopath as well.
Some with autistic tendencies (in the spectrum, as it were) want to say that neurotypical people are a different sub-species, too.
Vonnegut said, through his character Bokonon: nice nice very nice, so many people in the same device.
If he hosts copyrighted material and attracts it for dissemination, then yes, he invites criminal and civil litigation.
Hosting doesn't necessarily cause a problem. Invitation to piracy steps over several lines depending on the jurisdiction.
Except for logos, there's not a lot of gun IP left. A small amount of shifting, and the copyright restraints dissolve. There are more recent patents for semi-automatics, but the technology's been around for generations, so patents have mostly expired.
Death, however, has been around forever although I think Bezos will try to patent something there, one day soon.
Times change, and the ideology of Mao isn't the pseudo-democracy of today. Might work.
Your rationale is sound.
My alternative:
There might be the surprise olive branch, with China breathing down their necks. Then they could be Gadaffi'd out of business.
Or, nice palace military coup with a few years of malaise wouldn't be too rough, although crappy for the civilians. Then, a pseudo-democratic autocracy, followed by a more popular revolution when people actually get some food in their tummies.
And that's the awful thing.
Many, many people have, and will die because the food supplies have and will dwindle, and all because the money invariably floats to the top, where it's misspent fighting a war of generations ago.
Oh, wait, that sounds like Iraq and Afghanistan.
White or pink noise jammers might be fun, too.
Audio data rates aren't too bad, provided there aren't any background noises to figure out. You could exchange keys, broadcast to a room full of your friends, and share.
Modulation, demodulation, as stated upthread.
Some patent officer needs their logic examined, just prior to being sacked.
Because you have honor. You respect an author's time in making something for you, the reader. With luck, you enjoyed that. Without impetus, fame not feeding a family, authors go away. Maybe they become musicians. Oh, wait....
Other statistics say that contributions to the problem come from many places, including container ships that blast spend kerosene into the sky, unbridled. The oxymoron of "clean coal" and its dirtier real coal burning adds, too. The hole in the ozone layer has narrowed because we cared enough about halogen release that it's narrowed, at least as a by-product if not a direct result of active human conservation.
MPG gets better and lowered emissions as a byproduct, but the outlook is still abysmal. Buy inland property. Book that Northwest Passage Cruise, soon.
Oh, yeah, easy is always the right way. Why work hard? Got better things to do than deal with drama or perhaps, something to learn.
I am an introvert, and am trying to explain introversion to others. In some cases, perceived introversion is actually anxiety disorder. In other cases, it's who you are, like being neurotypical, as opposed to having an autistic brain. I associate no blame, only attempt to educate that some people don't want interaction--- for a wide variety of reasons, including yours. As an introvert, I don't care because I don't fear interactions, rather I don't mind talking to people. If the kiosk or IVR gets the job done more quickly, I appreciate that. I yell at IVRs because they're programmed in such insipid ways. But that's me.... and you, are you.
Just because you disagree with me, doesn't make it not true.
Each of these platforms has enormous degrees of vortex, along with inducements and outright shock troops to keep you "in the herd".
Platform slavery is well known. I don't, in using it, diminish the horrible context of human slavery. Human slavery is a different subject for a different day. This is about Icaza going from Microsoft to Apple with a blush on his face. This isn't about Dr MLK, or Selma, or Chinese girls in Boston brothels.
The context of Slashdot comprises a lot of people, but especially developers. Go ahead and be cautious in your purchases.
Civilians, however, don't know what sort of tar pit they're moving into. There's the Apple tar pit, where everything runs nicely with anything having an Apple logo. Sure, you can run iTunes, but you're a second class citizen.
Jump to Microsoft. Tell me how well Microsoft plays with Apple.
Jump to Google; they're trying desparately to wean you from either, and into their cloud clutches.
In a more perfect world, things would work, and malware and cracking attempts would be rare. Most of my geek support today goes towards making stuff talk and solving the mysteries of platform incompatibilities.
Do I want people dependent on my good graces? Not for a living, but I do it for relatives and friends and even co-workers. Slavery. Platform slavery.
You confuse choice with slavery. Some choices have masters. Some, like Linux and BSD, do not. They may have their own cults, drama queens, and idiots, but also leaders, contributors, and plentiful competition.
Some choices do not, and I equate *them* with slavery.
You trade one slavery for another. The Cult of Macheads will mod me down, but Apple owns you as much as Microsoft does. Icaza trades one set of commercial business ecosystems for another.
Might also be anxiety disorder. There are lots of people that fear conversational interaction, for many, many reasons. They perceive machines as being faster, and never able to cause them personality problems, like being curt, funny, or other emotional responses that they're not good at interacting with.
There are some really shy and introverted people out there, and IVRs and kiosking are heaven-sent for them. I don't include myself in the mix, but know many who will happily avoid humanity out of anxiety, fear, or inability to interact well with others, spontaneously.
Dead. Starvation, because kept trying to measure it instead of feeding it.
There are tugging and contentious needs on what government and society via government is able to do. If you believe that the US is responsible as a government and society, then responsibility of the citizenry is also important. There is a big game, and resultant tax code that is untenable, but must be honorably dealt with. I honor this, although I know it was bought and paid for. I otherwise vote for my consciously-derived best choices in candidates.
Privatizing is another word for letting your good buddy get some profits, IMHO.
Sometimes there is a breakthrough, but it almost always these days comes at the hands of toppling a monopoly, as Microsoft has been toppled by Apple and Google. Samsung has toppled Sony.
Breaking the monopolies are especially difficult.
We become enslaved to them, like we're enslaved to the oil companies and energy/utilities, and it makes the very government seem as though we're indentured to them, rather than the reverse.
While we're on thin ice, having drifted from the primary topic, I acknowledge that the IRS and state taxing authorities can be overzealous in collection efforts. But one of the biggest games in America today is concealing taxable wealth, income, and assets. Sometimes the game is played illegally, and is way over the top.
In civilization, we relinquish a few rights to maintain it. There is a quid pro quo and there is liberty and freedom, and these things are precious. They also require the fuel of contributions to the government, as well as active participant as a citizen, if in a minimal way. The old right-to-be-left-alone no longer really exists, sadly. However, the right to assemble, voice speech, vote, while always in seeming peril, is still better in the US than many places. Yes, not saying much, but despite the misuse of tax funds, we have roads, we have jails, we have courts, we have kids that can eat lunch at school, autistic adults getting voc rehab, seniors getting pretty darn good medical care, and a lot of the rest of the world in envy of our position.
I think people would be very surprised if they had a little bell that sounded each time they were paying a tax in some way, and the loudness of that bell would be in proportion to the fraction of percentage that was being paid. People tend to ignore things until they're out of control, as is most of human nature. Planners and researchers are few.
Theft, however, is a strong word that I believe to be inappropriate in this circumstance. Unreasonable, yes. But what is reason is a poorly defined line, constantly battered by the stains of greed and maximization of shareholder return, not to mention personal wealth.
They didn't take mine by force. I'm grumbling, but otherwise happy to pay for the government we have. You should be, too. If you want to ride for free, go some place else.
Taxes aren't evil, they're civilization. Generousity is also a virtue, and often civilized, too. When generous people aren't available, taxes are necessary to keep civilization. Soon, you'll see the feedback loop.
You're wrong in all directions you go.
The demand for fast service is huge, and the US is a third world country because the telco model is to depreciate their asset investment as long as is possible, so as to maximize profits.
The US used to be a leader, and now, it's fallen mightily because it's all about shareholder return and buying off government regulation whilst monopolizing as much as possible.
Your "timing" BS is crack. 10G hardware is not the problem. Capital investment in a bought-off monopolistic era is the problem. The cure is to harrass the monopolists into acting like real capitalists.
The Pentagon puts all of its eggs in one basket. It better be a spectacular basket. One of the best reasons for operating systems diversity is that you can likely only kill off one branch with an attack. Imagine being able to find a way into a US$1.4trillion fleet, and whack all of them.
I'm not off-put by one turbine fan in one aircraft having problems; this has happened before in this fleet. Could have happened for many reasons. But I the US Military and its defense contractor network are vastly too cozy for my tastes. Add that to congresspeople trying to continue programs so that their districts have US military spending, and the whole process seems mightily corrupt.