I'm actually starting to see more evidence that states (and not just "American States") which reserve the right of execution have a higher rate of crime in and around them.
Are you sure the states with higher rates of crime aren't reserving the right of execution?
Problem is, as soon as the network becomes too free, the FCC will step in to save the children and either regulate it or shut it down. You just can't escape a government that controls the space-time in which you walk.
Hmm... sorry, I seem to have read my own prejudices into your comments. I'll try to do that a bit less. As for the technical aspects:
End-to-end encryption would be necessary, of course, and existing routing protocols could probably handle load balancing fine, but the biggest obstacle I can think of is simple lack of interest and/or competence. The type of person who'd take part in such a thing, because of knowledge required to even care, is one in a million. I don't think you could even get enough router density for the nodes to communicate, much less make the network robust.
Supposing the telecoms REALLY piss everyone off and an easy-to-use automatic device is made available, I think it could be done easily with current technology, with almost no adaptation required. Soon as you decide on a frequency that can reach far enough, I can't see any major obstacles - routing protocols are designed to handle shifting and redundant networks, so the only technical obstacle is reliable inter-router communication, which wouldn't be difficult at all.
'Course, you'd have to deal with the FCC, and I don't imagine they'd be too happy about it. But since this is hypothetical let's assume everyone has guns and likes civil disobedience.
The problem is that governments and corporations aren't fanged creatures sent forth from the deepest, darkest corners of Hell to cause trouble for sinners - they're groups of people. Just because I don't trust the government and/or corporations with my data doesn't mean I trust a bunch of random schmucks over the hundreds or thousands of miles between my computer and whatever web server I'm contacting.
Oh, and it's probably too difficult technologically to make it reliable, not to mention robust against deception and DoS - even if I did want it.
Actually, that's quite like Deep Throat. He worked on deep background - never volunteering information, only confirming it for Woodward, who wasn't allowed to print any of his information or count him as a confirmation. And much of Deep Throat's information was along the lines of "Man, these guys are dicks. I don't like them. They did lots of stuff, good luck and have fun finding it all, bro!"
I don't know about that. I take "old fogey" to mean an old person with old-fashioned ideas, and you'd be hard-pressed to find an old person who didn't have at least some old-fashioned ideas. Most of them have many old-fashioned ideas.
What in the fuck are you talking about? Popular music didn't get better in the '70s and '80s. If we're going to generalize, it got good in the late '60s, stayed good in the early and mid '70s, started to decline in the lat '70s, fell hard in the early '80s, made a small recovery with the brief, small, and fleeting popularity of thrash metal in the mid and late '80s, then crashed painfully, with only the occasional good band like Primus becoming popular since. And people haven't gotten rebellious, they're downloading Green Day and Fall Out Boy for Christ's sake.
Everyone who doesn't die young becomes an old fogey. Doesn't matter anyway, because old fogeys are perfectly capable of being right in their opinions of social trends. Communication was important to older generations too - that's why the FSM gave us mouths and legs.
Easy path? I guess you don't know too many journalists, then. I've never, ever, heard of someone who studied journalism so they could report on well-known sluts and worthless B-list movie stars. I don't think it'd be too far off the mark to say every single reporter in the world would prefer to be Bob Woodward or Carl Bernstein than the anonymous photographer who caught Lohan's nipple on camera back in 2004 (anyone remember that one? No. Not even the fansite that first got a copy of the picture does).
Coryoth is correct, you don't have a hope in hell of teaching them anything. I've worked with 4-year-olds, and they tend to say things like "You wear a fashion, so you're a jello and I'm going to eat you!" and it makes perfect sense to them. Some can't pull their own pants up. You can have them spin around and get dizzy and say you study that, and that's about all they'll understand. Probably not even that.
The difference is that the analysis in the Warren report was shown to be insufficient. Can you, then, show that the analysis in the 9/11 Commission report was insufficient?
Isn't real data fun? I'm glad you like it too. If you'd like to actually convince anyone, post up a few links to flamebait articles and debates between mindless OSS fanboys and corporate astroturfers. I'll make you a deal: I'll post an article to counter each of your examples, with both of use using only articles posted in the past 24 hours (24 hours before now, 16:13 EST). 24 hours isn't too many articles, it'll only take a few minutes. Go ahead, see how many you can come up with.
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What's the difference between saying a supreme being created the universe or that it created itself?
One creates ignorance, one creates useful scientific knowledge. When you get sick, do you trust biologists of priests to get you well?
It's people on the fence like you that are the problem. If you would just go read a book every now and then, the few thousand true creationists in the world would have no influence. But no, half the population is too FUCKING lazy, or possible too FUCKING stupid, to figure it out, so they consider both sides to have equal weight and merit.
Causation is reasonably proven when a theory is proposed which states a causal relationship, and the theory is verified by experiment. To take the example of smoke and fire given above: once the atomic theory reached the level of support it has now in the early 20th century, a theory of combustion could be proposed, involving oxidation and the production of small solid particles. Then, various means such as measuring partial pressure of oxygen before and after combustion, capturing and analyzing smoke particles, decomposing combustion products, and etc. could be used to demonstrate the practical usefulness and physical accuracy of the theory. The modern theory of combustion has been verified so many times by so many experiments that it can be considered proven, so that we can be quite sure fire causes smoke.
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I can't fucking believe you're allotted the same amount of oxygen as me. You better be a bored teenager annoying people online for fun.
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H is actually spelled "aitch". Just a heads-up.
Far as I know the definition of a liter is based on the meter, which is defined by how far light travels in 1/c seconds.
Are you sure the states with higher rates of crime aren't reserving the right of execution?
Problem is, as soon as the network becomes too free, the FCC will step in to save the children and either regulate it or shut it down. You just can't escape a government that controls the space-time in which you walk.
Hmm... sorry, I seem to have read my own prejudices into your comments. I'll try to do that a bit less. As for the technical aspects:
End-to-end encryption would be necessary, of course, and existing routing protocols could probably handle load balancing fine, but the biggest obstacle I can think of is simple lack of interest and/or competence. The type of person who'd take part in such a thing, because of knowledge required to even care, is one in a million. I don't think you could even get enough router density for the nodes to communicate, much less make the network robust.
Supposing the telecoms REALLY piss everyone off and an easy-to-use automatic device is made available, I think it could be done easily with current technology, with almost no adaptation required. Soon as you decide on a frequency that can reach far enough, I can't see any major obstacles - routing protocols are designed to handle shifting and redundant networks, so the only technical obstacle is reliable inter-router communication, which wouldn't be difficult at all.
'Course, you'd have to deal with the FCC, and I don't imagine they'd be too happy about it. But since this is hypothetical let's assume everyone has guns and likes civil disobedience.
The problem is that governments and corporations aren't fanged creatures sent forth from the deepest, darkest corners of Hell to cause trouble for sinners - they're groups of people. Just because I don't trust the government and/or corporations with my data doesn't mean I trust a bunch of random schmucks over the hundreds or thousands of miles between my computer and whatever web server I'm contacting.
Oh, and it's probably too difficult technologically to make it reliable, not to mention robust against deception and DoS - even if I did want it.
Yeah, I guess you're right. It might not be as exciting to play as some of their other songs, now I think about it, but damn is it good to listen to.
HALLOWED BE THY FUCKING NAME!!! Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Actually, that's quite like Deep Throat. He worked on deep background - never volunteering information, only confirming it for Woodward, who wasn't allowed to print any of his information or count him as a confirmation. And much of Deep Throat's information was along the lines of "Man, these guys are dicks. I don't like them. They did lots of stuff, good luck and have fun finding it all, bro!"
Yeah, it'd be like Zeus screwing his sister or something!
Do you honestly think these people care more about looking good than about doing the will of their gods?
I don't know about that. I take "old fogey" to mean an old person with old-fashioned ideas, and you'd be hard-pressed to find an old person who didn't have at least some old-fashioned ideas. Most of them have many old-fashioned ideas.
*sigh* You don't listen to music much, do you? Maybe you shouldn't comment on music articles until that's rectified.
What in the fuck are you talking about? Popular music didn't get better in the '70s and '80s. If we're going to generalize, it got good in the late '60s, stayed good in the early and mid '70s, started to decline in the lat '70s, fell hard in the early '80s, made a small recovery with the brief, small, and fleeting popularity of thrash metal in the mid and late '80s, then crashed painfully, with only the occasional good band like Primus becoming popular since. And people haven't gotten rebellious, they're downloading Green Day and Fall Out Boy for Christ's sake.
Everyone who doesn't die young becomes an old fogey. Doesn't matter anyway, because old fogeys are perfectly capable of being right in their opinions of social trends. Communication was important to older generations too - that's why the FSM gave us mouths and legs.
Well, we *did* bring the world Lil' Jon. That says more than any Association of America ever could.
Easy path? I guess you don't know too many journalists, then. I've never, ever, heard of someone who studied journalism so they could report on well-known sluts and worthless B-list movie stars. I don't think it'd be too far off the mark to say every single reporter in the world would prefer to be Bob Woodward or Carl Bernstein than the anonymous photographer who caught Lohan's nipple on camera back in 2004 (anyone remember that one? No. Not even the fansite that first got a copy of the picture does).
Coryoth is correct, you don't have a hope in hell of teaching them anything. I've worked with 4-year-olds, and they tend to say things like "You wear a fashion, so you're a jello and I'm going to eat you!" and it makes perfect sense to them. Some can't pull their own pants up. You can have them spin around and get dizzy and say you study that, and that's about all they'll understand. Probably not even that.
The difference is that the analysis in the Warren report was shown to be insufficient. Can you, then, show that the analysis in the 9/11 Commission report was insufficient?
A necessity? You've never wardriven a college campus, have you?
I haven't either. No need, my hallway had 4 open APs last I checked.
Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin has a theremin in the middle bit. I'm sure you can find a performance on Youtube.
Isn't real data fun? I'm glad you like it too. If you'd like to actually convince anyone, post up a few links to flamebait articles and debates between mindless OSS fanboys and corporate astroturfers. I'll make you a deal: I'll post an article to counter each of your examples, with both of use using only articles posted in the past 24 hours (24 hours before now, 16:13 EST). 24 hours isn't too many articles, it'll only take a few minutes. Go ahead, see how many you can come up with.
It's people on the fence like you that are the problem. If you would just go read a book every now and then, the few thousand true creationists in the world would have no influence. But no, half the population is too FUCKING lazy, or possible too FUCKING stupid, to figure it out, so they consider both sides to have equal weight and merit.
Causation is reasonably proven when a theory is proposed which states a causal relationship, and the theory is verified by experiment. To take the example of smoke and fire given above: once the atomic theory reached the level of support it has now in the early 20th century, a theory of combustion could be proposed, involving oxidation and the production of small solid particles. Then, various means such as measuring partial pressure of oxygen before and after combustion, capturing and analyzing smoke particles, decomposing combustion products, and etc. could be used to demonstrate the practical usefulness and physical accuracy of the theory. The modern theory of combustion has been verified so many times by so many experiments that it can be considered proven, so that we can be quite sure fire causes smoke.
I can't fucking believe you're allotted the same amount of oxygen as me. You better be a bored teenager annoying people online for fun.