* Honest looking face, do not avert eye contant and have firm grip
* Dress the same or a bit better than their marks.
* Are happy and unconcerned when doing their work.
* Bathed and groomed.
* Get a bit of charisma.
* Are not dumb.
This is incredibly important for pickpockets - if you are in suit and looking like you are just comming from business meeting, people will not suspect a thing. And if you get caught, you can talk your way out because it can be played as misunderstanding.
Compare this to badly dressed, tatooed, nervous member of differently colored minory which causes people put their hands on their valuables immediatelly. (Those are good to detecting where people have their valuable stuff so that their coworker has much easier time)
Any system that judges people on looks is going to be way too stupid to know this. Most people are too scared to notice real dangers. And now they made software that mimicks this stupidity.
Bravo.
And we are not event getting to how evil this thing is because of basically labeling people randomly as criminals.
Married child-bearing people pay less taxes, because they provide important thing that you are likely not:
Future taxpayers.
You know, people who will in 20 years start paying for your roads and public infrastructure and all those nifty things that goverment provides you. And most likely for your retirement home or some other shit that you will eventually need.
So fuck you, in eyes of goverment (and in mine) you are dead-end and freeloader. Paying full amount of taxes and chipping in is least you can do to offset that.
So shut up about how unfairly you are taxed because in the end, those married people are subsiding you.
This is selfishness of stunning degree. Guess comes with your lifestyle.
* forget fads and kitch no-one will remember
* filter out crap and crud withing medium or genre
* discover enough nuances and develop artisty to level where we can appreciate works for what they are
This is all very necessary.
Take a look at any "popular" lists like "10 best movies of century" or "20 best book authors" - they will nearly always contain disproportionate amount of recent stuff which is worthless and only got there because it is still fresh in memory and talked about, but which will be completelly forgotten and left out of those lists ten years later.
There are always idiots who think that recent pop and kitch is unrecognized art. Time needs to test the art.
> If I go pick up all the trash along a road, should I have the right to sue the city for the work I did without compensation? When did they get the right to have a clean street without contributing anything to me or society for having made it happen?
Except that city can not prevents itself from volunteer helping out.
Leech has distinct option of not having chain of actions that lead to him having downloaded and enjoyed something.
You example would have been right city forced you to pick up trash, torrent node would have been okay if he only distributed work which someone volunteered for distribution (gpl, creative commons...)
(Sweedish) Pirate party is founded to get good publicity for business and to ensure it stays profitable and unhindered.
That business is basically making money of displaying advertizements (along with doing things like attempting users to download browser toolbar and other things that freedom loving geeks shound not event consider) when people are searching its index which is nearly 100% composed of pirated material. Should have there been "no more downloads of pirated content", it would go bankrupt and its owners would likely have to find real work other than being just middlemen.
Add to that arrogant behavior that would end up with them being punched in face, this does not make good image of them for me.
They are getting votes of:
a) FUD Populism - various privacy e-scares and first world problems. b) Giving people free shit and promise that it will still be free. Good old bread & games. c) Exploting underdog effect of brave folks fighting evil big bads and rebeling against authority.
Which sums to getting votes from naive and/or young.
They are exactly same as all politicians: using political capital to enable them to get money.
Turns out that I can not be bought for few free mp3s, avis and promises that are impossible to keep. What about you?
While this is just a joke, one thing is dead wrong:
In any case of big emergency, you should not head to common stores or malls, but to big warehouses that are usually outside towns/cities.
Shopping malls have low supplies and require to be restocked fairly frequenctly. Most of food is low duration or requires refrigeration and you will run out of anything that can be reliably stored in few weeks (depending on amount of people who get same idea - and that amount is going to be very high).
Big warehouses will have supplies that can last you years, fairly defensibe position and loading ports for moving food to location that is even more defensible. And only people who know something about logistic of food will be going there.
By commiting suicide, he chose to punish his family and friends instead of him.
That is terrible, monstrous and unredeemable alternative.
His choice of actions all the way from begining. Goverment court documents? Of course he was going to be showtrialed and handled as harshly as possible.
People do not bother wil programing clocks for one reason: It is pointless - if you have tons and tons of clocks elsewhere and most likely some wall mounted right in the living room, reading manual and figuring out VCRs unique (and often stupid, lazy-dev) way of setting up when is it not necessary or even helpfull.
I'd say that is pretty smart from dev pov: avoid unnecessary complexity, focus on solution (playing media), not bloat. In fact, when I think about it many thinks geeks tend to decry as stupid are actually very pragmatic and thus pretty smart.
Normal people can code, but they need to need it. They need motivation. Not pointless "set up vcr clock".
In past, short copyright made sense for publishers, because older items on their catalogue were not worth reproducing anymore anyway.
Right now, with digital they can keep selling 30 year old stuff without any issues. Only five people per year wants to hear certain song? No problem. Technically, it is not different from handling latest hit. So they would, of course, want to have as long as possible to exploit it because demand never drops to zero.
If they had to press CDs (or books or vinyls or DVDs), it would be unprofitable to make them, but now they can just give customer license and let him download from big archive which is way cheaper.
Simply put, if you have infinite stock, you need infinite time to sell it.
If you were crinimal, your nickname would be "idiot rezalas".
Police will not really work hard when investigating typical robbery. Even if homeowner saw someone, police will have rather casuall aproach because there are usually more important crimes to solve like...
Murdered family? Well, enjoy your manhunt because now you are high-priority target which made some headlines. Expect police to to a lot more thorou, dedicate more men, public call for help of witneses, check security cameras, ask cell phone operators for co-location profile of cell phones, Snitches, Bounties, Maybe short spot at news etc etc...
Just showing gun might make you improtant enough that your case will be actually investigated rather than filed. Killing someone? Con-fucking-gratulations, genius, you *really* made sure you are not getting caught, now didn't you?
Thanks for illustrating shortsigtedness of gun-people.
Solution: Make personal encryption and anonymization illegal (or allow it to exist provided that goverment gets all the keys). If you have nothing to hide and whatnot (+ terrorists)... Plus anonymizers help evil pedos, if you run anon node, you are accessory to child abuse.
That was not so hard.
What next - steganography? Right, it is oh-so-easy to hide 4GB image of dvd movie......
Yay for filesharing doing its share of helping to drive war on privacy.
Problem is that there are charities where leadership recieves executive-grade paychecks, get nice company car, have offices in expensive districts, etc... They are being ran as for-profit company that is doing extremelly well and can waste money.
I once recieved snail-mail letter from (unicef or doctors without borders, i do not remember which, materials had touching pictures of starving children), all neighbours recieved the same letter. It contained brochure, refilled money transfer order, leaflet, letter, all high quality prints... it must have cost about 3$ to send this kind of stuff.
Needless to say, I was pretty disgusted. It was pretty obvious that friend of someone higher-up in that charity got pretty profitable comision. And that is not mentioning prefilled money transfer order in that mail (and snail-mail spam).
Sickening approach. I hoped it was some scammer hoping people will simply send him money without checking bank account, but it was not the case.
Just like you have cop-assisted suicide, you also have apple-assisted Streisand effect.
If you think about it, producing controversial app that you know since day 1 of development to not pass review process, is extemely cheap way to get your name on title pages.
I bet app authors would be royally pissed if it actually passed review process and appeared in app store.
I want to obliterate certain sites from search results:
Stuff like this, for example: http://tapix/ . ru/mobile/t64340 (it is inscredible how many sites which are basically list of sequential numbers there are.)
Various newsgroup, forum and mailing list scrappers.
javadoc and opensource code mirrors.
goddamn www.roseindia . net/java/
etc... There is just too much of redundant clutter.
You will come across as desperate. Especially if your future target sees you hitting on someone else several times before. Small sub-community (workplace, school... ) is no-no for this approach.
On other accounts, you are right. Stop being shy and you will get laid. You will be suprised how much success you will have.
Hard part is not asking girl out on date and then getting her to bed. It is after you start dating.
In my opinion, Batle is very biased and frankly, a bit dinosaur.
He is the guy that argues that "Permanent Death" is good thing for MMO (and only hated because of bad past implementations and that intelligent player can be convinced it is good thing for him).
Then, it goes downhill. He is basically all about trying to convicne people that good old hardocre muds were fun and if you do not find then fun, you are stupid. Any innovation is, of course, stupid too because it dilludes old and superior design. He is the guy that mocks player who wants to join up group of his friends in dungeon without havign to travel world for half and hour.
Game designed by this guy would be, well, disaster. Marketers made better games than him because they make games for their current customers while he wants to make game for his 20-something self.
Not sure what you meant by "clearly have no idea about communism either in theory or practice", but I would guess you are hanging onto "greed and envy".
When you convert country to communist one, you desperatelly depend on average guy hating guts of more succesfull people and wanting to destroy them out of spite. By, say, confiscating factories. Or houses. Or piece of land. And you pay on greed of rest of people whom you convince that they are going to be piece of action from it - either by helping themselves to some property or position of power (say, management position in factory or nice flat in confiscated house or part of harvest from confiscated land).
Key is to be prophet and leader of this change so that you end up "owning" this place. At first, you offer paradise, then you offer some looting and ability to kick powerfull people in balls.
(And yes, I have lived in communist country, i know very well how it works in practice, thank you very much.)
And this "ideology" was proven again and again to lead to corrupt and flawed regimes.
Because it is just another tool to fool masses and get to the top. It was never supposed to be more than propaganda piece that plays on human greed and envy.
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Most succesfull criminals generally have:
* Honest looking face, do not avert eye contant and have firm grip
* Dress the same or a bit better than their marks.
* Are happy and unconcerned when doing their work.
* Bathed and groomed.
* Get a bit of charisma.
* Are not dumb.
This is incredibly important for pickpockets - if you are in suit and looking like you are just comming from business meeting, people will not suspect a thing. And if you get caught, you can talk your way out because it can be played as misunderstanding.
Compare this to badly dressed, tatooed, nervous member of differently colored minory which causes people put their hands on their valuables immediatelly. (Those are good to detecting where people have their valuable stuff so that their coworker has much easier time)
Any system that judges people on looks is going to be way too stupid to know this. Most people are too scared to notice real dangers. And now they made software that mimicks this stupidity.
Bravo.
And we are not event getting to how evil this thing is because of basically labeling people randomly as criminals.
Married child-bearing people pay less taxes, because they provide important thing that you are likely not:
Future taxpayers.
You know, people who will in 20 years start paying for your roads and public infrastructure and all those nifty things that goverment provides you. And most likely for your retirement home or some other shit that you will eventually need.
So fuck you, in eyes of goverment (and in mine) you are dead-end and freeloader. Paying full amount of taxes and chipping in is least you can do to offset that.
So shut up about how unfairly you are taxed because in the end, those married people are subsiding you.
This is selfishness of stunning degree. Guess comes with your lifestyle.
Well, I certainly hope authors can do it.
Many such projects died - which is usually great shame if is episodic sci-fi like L5
50 - 100 years is about time to:
* forget fads and kitch no-one will remember
* filter out crap and crud withing medium or genre
* discover enough nuances and develop artisty to level where we can appreciate works for what they are
This is all very necessary.
Take a look at any "popular" lists like "10 best movies of century" or "20 best book authors" - they will nearly always contain disproportionate amount of recent stuff which is worthless and only got there because it is still fresh in memory and talked about, but which will be completelly forgotten and left out of those lists ten years later.
There are always idiots who think that recent pop and kitch is unrecognized art. Time needs to test the art.
And you want cake (watch movie) and eat it too (not pay a cent).
What about everyone having their cake?
You download stuff that people want to share - you get free stuff and can consume it, but refrain from touching other stuff.
You know, pay respect to authors or works you enjoy.
Are you arguing against yourself?
> If I go pick up all the trash along a road, should I have the right to sue the city for the work I did without compensation? When did they get the right to have a clean street without contributing anything to me or society for having made it happen?
Except that city can not prevents itself from volunteer helping out.
Leech has distinct option of not having chain of actions that lead to him having downloaded and enjoyed something.
You example would have been right city forced you to pick up trash, torrent node would have been okay if he only distributed work which someone volunteered for distribution (gpl, creative commons...)
I would like to word this bluntly:
(Sweedish) Pirate party is founded to get good publicity for business and to ensure it stays profitable and unhindered.
That business is basically making money of displaying advertizements (along with doing things like attempting users to download browser toolbar and other things that freedom loving geeks shound not event consider) when people are searching its index which is nearly 100% composed of pirated material. Should have there been "no more downloads of pirated content", it would go bankrupt and its owners would likely have to find real work other than being just middlemen.
Add to that arrogant behavior that would end up with them being punched in face, this does not make good image of them for me.
They are getting votes of:
a) FUD Populism - various privacy e-scares and first world problems.
b) Giving people free shit and promise that it will still be free. Good old bread & games.
c) Exploting underdog effect of brave folks fighting evil big bads and rebeling against authority.
Which sums to getting votes from naive and/or young.
They are exactly same as all politicians: using political capital to enable them to get money.
Turns out that I can not be bought for few free mp3s, avis and promises that are impossible to keep. What about you?
And where did you get right to make use of his work without giving something in return to either him or society?
Breathing and being alive does not count.
While this is just a joke, one thing is dead wrong:
In any case of big emergency, you should not head to common stores or malls, but to big warehouses that are usually outside towns/cities.
Shopping malls have low supplies and require to be restocked fairly frequenctly. Most of food is low duration or requires refrigeration and you will run out of anything that can be reliably stored in few weeks (depending on amount of people who get same idea - and that amount is going to be very high).
Big warehouses will have supplies that can last you years, fairly defensibe position and loading ports for moving food to location that is even more defensible. And only people who know something about logistic of food will be going there.
Insert coin to continue in 3.. 2.. 1..
By commiting suicide, he chose to punish his family and friends instead of him.
That is terrible, monstrous and unredeemable alternative.
His choice of actions all the way from begining. Goverment court documents? Of course he was going to be showtrialed and handled as harshly as possible.
People do not bother wil programing clocks for one reason: It is pointless - if you have tons and tons of clocks elsewhere and most likely some wall mounted right in the living room, reading manual and figuring out VCRs unique (and often stupid, lazy-dev) way of setting up when is it not necessary or even helpfull.
I'd say that is pretty smart from dev pov: avoid unnecessary complexity, focus on solution (playing media), not bloat. In fact, when I think about it many thinks geeks tend to decry as stupid are actually very pragmatic and thus pretty smart.
Normal people can code, but they need to need it. They need motivation. Not pointless "set up vcr clock".
You are looking at it wrong way.
In past, short copyright made sense for publishers, because older items on their catalogue were not worth reproducing anymore anyway.
Right now, with digital they can keep selling 30 year old stuff without any issues. Only five people per year wants to hear certain song? No problem. Technically, it is not different from handling latest hit. So they would, of course, want to have as long as possible to exploit it because demand never drops to zero.
If they had to press CDs (or books or vinyls or DVDs), it would be unprofitable to make them, but now they can just give customer license and let him download from big archive which is way cheaper.
Simply put, if you have infinite stock, you need infinite time to sell it.
If you were crinimal, your nickname would be "idiot rezalas".
Police will not really work hard when investigating typical robbery. Even if homeowner saw someone, police will have rather casuall aproach because there are usually more important crimes to solve like...
Murdered family? Well, enjoy your manhunt because now you are high-priority target which made some headlines. Expect police to to a lot more thorou, dedicate more men, public call for help of witneses, check security cameras, ask cell phone operators for co-location profile of cell phones, Snitches, Bounties, Maybe short spot at news etc etc...
Just showing gun might make you improtant enough that your case will be actually investigated rather than filed. Killing someone? Con-fucking-gratulations, genius, you *really* made sure you are not getting caught, now didn't you?
Thanks for illustrating shortsigtedness of gun-people.
Order more drives. Hope for jackpot.
Solution: Make personal encryption and anonymization illegal (or allow it to exist provided that goverment gets all the keys). If you have nothing to hide and whatnot (+ terrorists) ... Plus anonymizers help evil pedos, if you run anon node, you are accessory to child abuse.
That was not so hard.
What next - steganography? Right, it is oh-so-easy to hide 4GB image of dvd movie... ...
Yay for filesharing doing its share of helping to drive war on privacy.
That is not overhead, that is normal operation.
Problem is that there are charities where leadership recieves executive-grade paychecks, get nice company car, have offices in expensive districts, etc... They are being ran as for-profit company that is doing extremelly well and can waste money.
I once recieved snail-mail letter from (unicef or doctors without borders, i do not remember which, materials had touching pictures of starving children), all neighbours recieved the same letter. It contained brochure, refilled money transfer order, leaflet, letter, all high quality prints ... it must have cost about 3$ to send this kind of stuff.
Needless to say, I was pretty disgusted. It was pretty obvious that friend of someone higher-up in that charity got pretty profitable comision. And that is not mentioning prefilled money transfer order in that mail (and snail-mail spam).
Sickening approach. I hoped it was some scammer hoping people will simply send him money without checking bank account, but it was not the case.
Just like you have cop-assisted suicide, you also have apple-assisted Streisand effect.
If you think about it, producing controversial app that you know since day 1 of development to not pass review process, is extemely cheap way to get your name on title pages.
I bet app authors would be royally pissed if it actually passed review process and appeared in app store.
This so much.
I want to obliterate certain sites from search results:
Stuff like this, for example: http://tapix/ . ru/mobile/t64340 (it is inscredible how many sites which are basically list of sequential numbers there are.)
Various newsgroup, forum and mailing list scrappers.
javadoc and opensource code mirrors.
goddamn www.roseindia . net/java/
etc... There is just too much of redundant clutter.
Do not overdo 1).
You will come across as desperate. Especially if your future target sees you hitting on someone else several times before. Small sub-community (workplace, school... ) is no-no for this approach.
On other accounts, you are right. Stop being shy and you will get laid. You will be suprised how much success you will have.
Hard part is not asking girl out on date and then getting her to bed. It is after you start dating.
Now, imagine life evolved there...
Not only that, it is also providing service to people who in past refused to use facebook.
In my opinion, Batle is very biased and frankly, a bit dinosaur.
He is the guy that argues that "Permanent Death" is good thing for MMO (and only hated because of bad past implementations and that intelligent player can be convinced it is good thing for him).
Then, it goes downhill. He is basically all about trying to convicne people that good old hardocre muds were fun and if you do not find then fun, you are stupid. Any innovation is, of course, stupid too because it dilludes old and superior design. He is the guy that mocks player who wants to join up group of his friends in dungeon without havign to travel world for half and hour.
Game designed by this guy would be, well, disaster. Marketers made better games than him because they make games for their current customers while he wants to make game for his 20-something self.
Read and laugh: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2157/soapbox_why_virtual_worlds_are_.php
Not sure what you meant by "clearly have no idea about communism either in theory or practice", but I would guess you are hanging onto "greed and envy".
When you convert country to communist one, you desperatelly depend on average guy hating guts of more succesfull people and wanting to destroy them out of spite. By, say, confiscating factories. Or houses. Or piece of land. And you pay on greed of rest of people whom you convince that they are going to be piece of action from it - either by helping themselves to some property or position of power (say, management position in factory or nice flat in confiscated house or part of harvest from confiscated land).
Key is to be prophet and leader of this change so that you end up "owning" this place. At first, you offer paradise, then you offer some looting and ability to kick powerfull people in balls.
(And yes, I have lived in communist country, i know very well how it works in practice, thank you very much.)
And this "ideology" was proven again and again to lead to corrupt and flawed regimes.
Because it is just another tool to fool masses and get to the top. It was never supposed to be more than propaganda piece that plays on human greed and envy.