What is perhaps interesting is that Lost has a lot more popular appeal than the examples I quote above, so maybe this type of storytelling is becoming more appealing to the average TV viewer?
That would be more thee marketing then the storytelling. If anything it was exactly that storytelling (well the lack of a good story) that put me off Lost. First season was ok. After that it felt just like "how long can we milk this?".
Same happened for me with Heroes. All the flashbacks and jumps are not really an integrated part of the story. They are placed there as an afterthought so they can milk it a bit more.
and perhaps they reuse laughs from one take over the top of acting from another take...it's still actually real.
To me that is just as real as using canned laughter that was recorded for a completely different show. The fact that it would be used in the same show does not matter. It is still not laughing about what the audience saw and experienced.
Does not even have to be that. I provide copyrighted movies to others with file sharing, so I am a content provider as well. Man this is the bestest loophole ever. If you do what they want to avoid, the law makes itself void.
(Yeah, I could have said sharing Linux distro's. Oh and I do not live in the UK, so other laws apply to me.)
That is because you had special interest. If you would have had special interest before, this would have been no surprise. This is how politics work. Politics are not done in the big room. That is where the debates (not discussions, debates) are held. The real politics happens behind doors and most likely a LOT of it in the pub or "Tussen pot en pint" as they say in Belgium.
That is not always a bad thing. Unfortunately what politicians have forgotten is that they work for the public, not for the profit of companies.
The correct and easiest way would be not to loose my wallet in the first place. And if I would loose it, I can be sure that at least the money in it will be gone. And even then I would need to block my credit cards.
And who says you can trust the barkeep? Yes, I have lost stuff like telephones. I never got them back and it could be that somebody else is now using it or even sold it to somebody else. At least that is what I expect to happen to it. Not that I do that myself, it is something I would expect others will do.
It is not something I wish for, but nontheless to be expected and not something the police will be spending much time with (and nor should they).
The difference is, it is not your network. It is their network and if they want to screw it up, that is their decision. For all I car they can do a `rm -rf/` as root after I give my boss the password. will just be sure that there is a trail that I did this.
I will not withhold anything from my boss, unless I am sure there is a big issue. That I will then discuss with my N+2 and if he does not see any problem (perhaps because they work together on whatever they do) I will still give the password and will let as many people know that I had to give it.
I will still be aware that it is not my network, not my computer or not my business.
Mentioning terrorists, Iran and Venezuela. Dude, they missed mentioning children that could buy it over the Internet.
From a pure technical geek point of view, this is a great idea. I am sure that many US weapon makers now will start doing the same thing. Perhaps with a different marketing where they say it is a weapon that can be easily transported to any area where it is needed without the need of specialized transport vehicles, thus reducing the price.
To keep contact with people on the other side of the planet, I use email or SMS or call them and that is also how they contact me if they want. I just like the personal part.
And some people will drop out of contact and new ones will arrive. Such is life.
That is true. So just file a charge and get their fine. There is no reason to seize the computers. Say I buy a stolen car and then tell ecverybody I bought that stolen car, why would they need my computer data, other then the reason "because they can"?
There are a lot of people that I know who have a lot to say and a lot of announcements to make. I meet them in person and they tell me about it and ask me questions when they see me, or phone me if it is not very important. Email and SMS are other options.
So I am all for the social connections, but I and the people I know care to do that face to face instead over very impersonal generic messages.
If they don't bother to read the blog, they won't be interested in the facts when I am on facebook or on twitter. Many people think they have something important to say, because they have a lot of "friends" in their list who could read it.
So the fact that so little people would be reading a blog (if I would have one) is exactly the point of not having a facebook account. Because in the end nobody really cares anyway. The server logs just proove that, while the number of friends on facebook make it appear that you are more popular then you actually are.
To me telling strangers or vague people everything all the time is giving up my privacy. If people are interested, they can ask me and perhaps I answer, but I just do not see the point to give out information all the time for no apparent reason.
Perhaps there are people who had a diary when they where young. It was to write to yourself, not so much to show others. And then suddenly you are older, moved a few times and re-read them. It is then that you notice how uninteresting it all is.
So if you want have people get in contact with you, set up a web page and let them google you like you google them. And if they only look on Facebook, then they are interested in adding a friend to get as many as possible, not about finding you.
Or perhaps they are a humanoid species that now only has female nymphomaniacs super-models that needs men to let their planet survive AND they dig nerds. (There must be a movie about this somewhere)
So what percentage can we put on it? How safe is it? 99%? 0.99%? And on what basis have you based that assumption? Most likely on what you know, which is life on earth. And from there you take other assumptions, because we know nothing else. That does not mean to me nothing else can not exist.
Normally the providers would get the IP addresses to give out. They won't be able to do that. However providers do not order them on a daily basis, so they will still have some available. Some providers already ask extra for fixed IP addresses, even though they still need to provide one anyway (e.g. for ADSL) so nothing changes there either on that day.
So nothing will change on that day other that some can not be getting the IPs they asked for. It will be interesting to see what will happen in the next weeks and months. Will IPv6 finally take over or will providers start giving out internal IP addresses for their customers and charge double for those that want a fixed one?
Everybody masturbates, but if you ask how often, they suddenly want to hide those facts. What do they have to hide? I hide it out of principle. I think nobody needs to know any details about me. I do not want the store to know what I bought last week. I do not want the police check my finger prints with every crime that has ever been committed. I do not want pictures of me taken without my permission.
Just because it is legal does not mean it is right.
For me being in a public place means you can see what I am doing. You can then tell other people in detail what I did. What will happen is that you do not have my name and if you do, the next person will not remember it. This means that only a limited amount of people will see that I was drunk one day and my face was painted black. It will most likely not haunt me for the rest of my life. I would have a hangover and be the laughing stock for some times with my friends. I won't be the laughing stock of everybody who I meet, including future employers.
The obvious answer is to never do anything wrong and you will have no problem. The reality is that we MUST make mistakes, so we know where our boundaries are. Wasn't there some words in a very old book about casting stones and sins?
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They should give him a shave and a shower first.
That would be more thee marketing then the storytelling. If anything it was exactly that storytelling (well the lack of a good story) that put me off Lost. First season was ok. After that it felt just like "how long can we milk this?".
Same happened for me with Heroes. All the flashbacks and jumps are not really an integrated part of the story. They are placed there as an afterthought so they can milk it a bit more.
To me that is just as real as using canned laughter that was recorded for a completely different show. The fact that it would be used in the same show does not matter. It is still not laughing about what the audience saw and experienced.
Not saying that they do that.
Please do not limit yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_is_theft!
Does not even have to be that. I provide copyrighted movies to others with file sharing, so I am a content provider as well. Man this is the bestest loophole ever. If you do what they want to avoid, the law makes itself void.
(Yeah, I could have said sharing Linux distro's. Oh and I do not live in the UK, so other laws apply to me.)
That is because you had special interest. If you would have had special interest before, this would have been no surprise. This is how politics work. Politics are not done in the big room. That is where the debates (not discussions, debates) are held. The real politics happens behind doors and most likely a LOT of it in the pub or "Tussen pot en pint" as they say in Belgium.
That is not always a bad thing. Unfortunately what politicians have forgotten is that they work for the public, not for the profit of companies.
I am sure that oversight will soon be corrected.
The correct and easiest way would be not to loose my wallet in the first place. And if I would loose it, I can be sure that at least the money in it will be gone. And even then I would need to block my credit cards.
And who says you can trust the barkeep? Yes, I have lost stuff like telephones. I never got them back and it could be that somebody else is now using it or even sold it to somebody else. At least that is what I expect to happen to it. Not that I do that myself, it is something I would expect others will do.
It is not something I wish for, but nontheless to be expected and not something the police will be spending much time with (and nor should they).
The difference is, it is not your network. It is their network and if they want to screw it up, that is their decision. For all I car they can do a `rm -rf /` as root after I give my boss the password. will just be sure that there is a trail that I did this.
I will not withhold anything from my boss, unless I am sure there is a big issue. That I will then discuss with my N+2 and if he does not see any problem (perhaps because they work together on whatever they do) I will still give the password and will let as many people know that I had to give it.
I will still be aware that it is not my network, not my computer or not my business.
Mentioning terrorists, Iran and Venezuela. Dude, they missed mentioning children that could buy it over the Internet.
From a pure technical geek point of view, this is a great idea. I am sure that many US weapon makers now will start doing the same thing. Perhaps with a different marketing where they say it is a weapon that can be easily transported to any area where it is needed without the need of specialized transport vehicles, thus reducing the price.
To keep contact with people on the other side of the planet, I use email or SMS or call them and that is also how they contact me if they want. I just like the personal part.
And some people will drop out of contact and new ones will arrive. Such is life.
That is true. So just file a charge and get their fine. There is no reason to seize the computers. Say I buy a stolen car and then tell ecverybody I bought that stolen car, why would they need my computer data, other then the reason "because they can"?
There are a lot of people that I know who have a lot to say and a lot of announcements to make. I meet them in person and they tell me about it and ask me questions when they see me, or phone me if it is not very important. Email and SMS are other options.
So I am all for the social connections, but I and the people I know care to do that face to face instead over very impersonal generic messages.
If they don't bother to read the blog, they won't be interested in the facts when I am on facebook or on twitter. Many people think they have something important to say, because they have a lot of "friends" in their list who could read it.
So the fact that so little people would be reading a blog (if I would have one) is exactly the point of not having a facebook account. Because in the end nobody really cares anyway. The server logs just proove that, while the number of friends on facebook make it appear that you are more popular then you actually are.
To me telling strangers or vague people everything all the time is giving up my privacy. If people are interested, they can ask me and perhaps I answer, but I just do not see the point to give out information all the time for no apparent reason.
Perhaps there are people who had a diary when they where young. It was to write to yourself, not so much to show others. And then suddenly you are older, moved a few times and re-read them. It is then that you notice how uninteresting it all is.
So if you want have people get in contact with you, set up a web page and let them google you like you google them. And if they only look on Facebook, then they are interested in adding a friend to get as many as possible, not about finding you.
Does rot26 count as encryption?
Or perhaps they are a humanoid species that now only has female nymphomaniacs super-models that needs men to let their planet survive AND they dig nerds. (There must be a movie about this somewhere)
So what percentage can we put on it? How safe is it? 99%? 0.99%?
And on what basis have you based that assumption? Most likely on what you know, which is life on earth. And from there you take other assumptions, because we know nothing else. That does not mean to me nothing else can not exist.
It is great that you just assume they have weapons of mass destruction. That worked in the past very well.
Normally the providers would get the IP addresses to give out. They won't be able to do that. However providers do not order them on a daily basis, so they will still have some available.
Some providers already ask extra for fixed IP addresses, even though they still need to provide one anyway (e.g. for ADSL) so nothing changes there either on that day.
So nothing will change on that day other that some can not be getting the IPs they asked for.
It will be interesting to see what will happen in the next weeks and months. Will IPv6 finally take over or will providers start giving out internal IP addresses for their customers and charge double for those that want a fixed one?
You probably are thinking of the Pennsylvania Dutch, who are really German.
Fuel? They use windmills so that their wooden shoes don't get wet. Sure, in the Netherlands everybody walks around like this.
Well. Except the hookers and drug dealers, that is. So about 50%.
http://roadsafety.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/traffic_causes.jpg
Everybody masturbates, but if you ask how often, they suddenly want to hide those facts. What do they have to hide? I hide it out of principle. I think nobody needs to know any details about me. I do not want the store to know what I bought last week. I do not want the police check my finger prints with every crime that has ever been committed. I do not want pictures of me taken without my permission.
Just because it is legal does not mean it is right.
For me being in a public place means you can see what I am doing. You can then tell other people in detail what I did. What will happen is that you do not have my name and if you do, the next person will not remember it. This means that only a limited amount of people will see that I was drunk one day and my face was painted black. It will most likely not haunt me for the rest of my life. I would have a hangover and be the laughing stock for some times with my friends. I won't be the laughing stock of everybody who I meet, including future employers.
The obvious answer is to never do anything wrong and you will have no problem. The reality is that we MUST make mistakes, so we know where our boundaries are. Wasn't there some words in a very old book about casting stones and sins?