I, too, can play the definition game and i can't see how any of what you said applies to Orrin Hatch. He's a radical? He's employing terror as a weapon? What this amounts to is, you're trying to tell me, that you'll die if you can't download movies off the Internet*. And i say that it's a load of rubbish.
* And my rhetorics is way more convincing than yours, so i win.
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Many movies are written that way: one person comes up with the concept and then there's a whole bunch of others working on things like dialogue and so on. Not too surprisingly, most (if not all) of these movies are quite dull and unimaginative.
Damn. I've so been caught with my pants down. And here i was hoping i could get away with copy-pasting stuff from your site. I hope you're not too mad at me:7
(In case you're wondering, i found the link to your Earth-destruction page on dirty.ru and just had to plug it somewhere; this story here was just like heaven sent for me...)
Well, i can't offer you health insurance, but i can offer you "protection" (you wouldn't want anything to happen to that nice little internet of yours, would you?).
I've never ever watched a single Stargate episode in my whole life (the concept of a black hole eating the Earth was familiar to me from Hyperion, though). I only linked to that web page because i saw the link on another site earlier today and just had to plug it:7
Like i said, it's a milestone -- just like all those newly reached milestones in Quantum Computing that we're constantly told of. I do not expect it to be working and online tomorrow. Well, actually i do, but this is only a stimulus for my minions to work even harder:H
Thanks to the devotion of my minions, I'm yeat again a step closer to fulfilling my Earth destruction plan (why am I doing this? Just for fun, you know...).
You will need: a microscopic black hole having enough mass not to evaporate instantly. Creating a
microscopic black hole is tricky, since one needs a reasonable amount of neutronium, but may possibly be achievable by jamming large numbers of atomic
nuclei together until they stick. This is left as an exercise to the reader.
Method: simply place your black hole on the surface of the Earth and wait. Black holes are of such high density
that they pass through ordinary matter like a stone through the air. The black hole will plummet through the ground, eating its way to
the centre of the Earth and all the way through to the other side: then, it'll oscillate back, over and over like a matter-absorbing
pendulum. Eventually it might come to rest at the core due to the resistance of the matter it passes through, but it'll have riddled
the planet full of holes long before then. Then you just need to wait, while it sits and consumes matter until the whole Earth is
gone.
Earth's final resting place: a singularity of almost zero size, which will then proceed to happily orbit the Sun
as normal.
Feasibility rating: 2/10. Highly, highly unlikely. But not impossible.
However, now it seems that we're a step closer to accomplishing this, so i might have him revise the list.
Why do we always have to start out w/cool shows that get into the nitty gritty of work and then branch out into situational drama soaps?
Probably because the real nitty-gritty isn't really all that interesting and there's not too much of it to show, so the show would become repetitive quite soon. And one can watch David Hasselhoff save a kid from drowning only so many times before it gets boring, so they naturally have to add elements like speedboat chases and backstabbing bitches.
The same seems to be happening to "reality shows" as well: the first season, it's mostly about the game itself, but the next one already concentrates more on the little everyday-life dramas of the participants.
I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
That said, there are a few points that i would like to argue. Right now, however, i will only take on one of them. I do not think that "To think that such a system [where abuses are impossible] is impossible would make one a disbeliever of freedom." I see no contradiction in believing in a system where abuses are possible and believing in freedom. If anything, then freedom actually implies the possibility of abuses (but also being able not to choose to abuse the system).
It's simple really: the SCO soap opera seems to have come to an end, but Slashdot (or the tech news community in general, for that matter) badly needs one. Google seems to be a good enough replacement -- will they turn evil? Will they manage to stay on top of the competition? And so on. Of course there's really not much to talk about -- despite it being a "company run by geeks," it's still business as usual -- but this has never stopped a reporter, has it? You can turn anything into a small scandal. The signs are everywhere. Google added a weather service? Clearly, it must be a turn to evil. The same for this story, and all numerous stories that are yet to come.
Just a guess, but MMORPG players are probably easier to account for, as the systems are more centralized. The data gathered from the participants can be double-checked: [FTA] "the average number of hours of MMORPG game play reported by survey participants matches data gathered by other online surveys and the data provided by Sony and Electronic Arts."
Silly BBC reporter writes: What might really worry us is the most recent discovery made in Professor Franks' Ant Lab.
It seems that ants are not just dumb miracles of evolution - they can learn from experience.
When you destroy their nest and make them migrate to a new one, they manage it very efficiently, as you would expect.
If you repeat the exercise next day, they achieve the same thing - but this time they do it even faster. Now that's scary.
I can't see what's so scary about it. Just because they can learn to perform a task (a hardwired one?) faster doesn't mean they'll start building foot-proof nests two weeks later, not to mention taking over the world. Yet another journalist has jumped the gun and rushed to greet "our new ant overlords" way too early:7
The way i see it, it's a sign that Open Source is finally growing up. Fanatics
like ESR might do good to the cause in the early stages of revolution, but in
the longer run, they will always prove to be an annoyance and will be dealt with.
See, for instance, what Stalin did with the veterans of the Russian Revolution,
or how Fidel Castro got rid of Che. Every revolution has ended up eating its children;
i can't see why the Open Source Revolution should be different.
Some funding for the experiment came from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Yeah. I'm betting that "some" of the tech used came from the same source as well. I mean, if it's been proven [tt] that transistors couldn't have been invented the all of a sudden way they were in 1947 (or even using today's technology), then how are they expecting us to believe that this new tech isn't reverse-engineered UFO tech? We're currently still miles away from acheiving anything in quantum computing, and now we're suddenly expected to believe that HP has this kind of working tech? Give me a break.
Besides, you're completely missing the point. While making profit is important to every company, it's not really the issue here. These companies aren't doing this about lost profits -- they're doing this because they hold rights over these cartoons and they intend to keep it that way. They want to have control over what is released and when.
Slashdot Mirror
From the second link: "Terror: an intense fear of physical injury or death ; also : the infliction of such fear "
* And my rhetorics is way more convincing than yours, so i win.
Obviously, you don't know who or what a terrorist is.
n/t
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Many movies are written that way: one person comes up with the concept and then there's a whole bunch of others working on things like dialogue and so on. Not too surprisingly, most (if not all) of these movies are quite dull and unimaginative.
(In case you're wondering, i found the link to your Earth-destruction page on dirty.ru and just had to plug it somewhere; this story here was just like heaven sent for me...)
I so succeeded it, didn't i? ^_^
I've never ever watched a single Stargate episode in my whole life (the concept of a black hole eating the Earth was familiar to me from Hyperion, though). I only linked to that web page because i saw the link on another site earlier today and just had to plug it :7
Like i said, it's a milestone -- just like all those newly reached milestones in Quantum Computing that we're constantly told of. I do not expect it to be working and online tomorrow. Well, actually i do, but this is only a stimulus for my minions to work even harder :H
Some time ago, I had one of my minions to compose a list of possible ways of destroying the Earth. Back then, he rated the "microscopic black hole plan" as follows:
You will need: a microscopic black hole having enough mass not to evaporate instantly. Creating a microscopic black hole is tricky, since one needs a reasonable amount of neutronium, but may possibly be achievable by jamming large numbers of atomic nuclei together until they stick. This is left as an exercise to the reader.
Method: simply place your black hole on the surface of the Earth and wait. Black holes are of such high density that they pass through ordinary matter like a stone through the air. The black hole will plummet through the ground, eating its way to the centre of the Earth and all the way through to the other side: then, it'll oscillate back, over and over like a matter-absorbing pendulum. Eventually it might come to rest at the core due to the resistance of the matter it passes through, but it'll have riddled the planet full of holes long before then. Then you just need to wait, while it sits and consumes matter until the whole Earth is gone.
Earth's final resting place: a singularity of almost zero size, which will then proceed to happily orbit the Sun as normal.
Feasibility rating: 2/10. Highly, highly unlikely. But not impossible.
However, now it seems that we're a step closer to accomplishing this, so i might have him revise the list.
Probably because the real nitty-gritty isn't really all that interesting and there's not too much of it to show, so the show would become repetitive quite soon. And one can watch David Hasselhoff save a kid from drowning only so many times before it gets boring, so they naturally have to add elements like speedboat chases and backstabbing bitches.
The same seems to be happening to "reality shows" as well: the first season, it's mostly about the game itself, but the next one already concentrates more on the little everyday-life dramas of the participants.
You can't. I've tried hard, but the only way seems to be to stop posting.
That said, there are a few points that i would like to argue. Right now, however, i will only take on one of them. I do not think that "To think that such a system [where abuses are impossible] is impossible would make one a disbeliever of freedom." I see no contradiction in believing in a system where abuses are possible and believing in freedom. If anything, then freedom actually implies the possibility of abuses (but also being able not to choose to abuse the system).
"Surprisingly, it turns out that you don't suck."
It's simple really: the SCO soap opera seems to have come to an end, but Slashdot (or the tech news community in general, for that matter) badly needs one. Google seems to be a good enough replacement -- will they turn evil? Will they manage to stay on top of the competition? And so on. Of course there's really not much to talk about -- despite it being a "company run by geeks," it's still business as usual -- but this has never stopped a reporter, has it? You can turn anything into a small scandal. The signs are everywhere. Google added a weather service? Clearly, it must be a turn to evil. The same for this story, and all numerous stories that are yet to come.
Just a guess, but MMORPG players are probably easier to account for, as the systems are more centralized. The data gathered from the participants can be double-checked: [FTA] "the average number of hours of MMORPG game play reported by survey participants matches data gathered by other online surveys and the data provided by Sony and Electronic Arts."
I can't see what's so scary about it. Just because they can learn to perform a task (a hardwired one?) faster doesn't mean they'll start building foot-proof nests two weeks later, not to mention taking over the world. Yet another journalist has jumped the gun and rushed to greet "our new ant overlords" way too early :7
The way i see it, it's a sign that Open Source is finally growing up. Fanatics like ESR might do good to the cause in the early stages of revolution, but in the longer run, they will always prove to be an annoyance and will be dealt with. See, for instance, what Stalin did with the veterans of the Russian Revolution, or how Fidel Castro got rid of Che. Every revolution has ended up eating its children; i can't see why the Open Source Revolution should be different.
Well, call me pink and paint me an idiot. Or vice versa. Feathers optional.
Some funding for the experiment came from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Yeah. I'm betting that "some" of the tech used came from the same source as well. I mean, if it's been proven [tt] that transistors couldn't have been invented the all of a sudden way they were in 1947 (or even using today's technology), then how are they expecting us to believe that this new tech isn't reverse-engineered UFO tech? We're currently still miles away from acheiving anything in quantum computing, and now we're suddenly expected to believe that HP has this kind of working tech? Give me a break.
I wouldn't want someone like ESR or your typical Slashdotter representing them in the court :7
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Besides, you're completely missing the point. While making profit is important to every company, it's not really the issue here. These companies aren't doing this about lost profits -- they're doing this because they hold rights over these cartoons and they intend to keep it that way. They want to have control over what is released and when.
Good. I'm sick and tired of people claiming that copyright infringement isn't illegal just because they think it shouldn't be.