The common thread in the three locations that is helping Polio making a revival is Islam.
Right. That's the only thing these three countries have in common. That explains why all those other muslim majority countries are also seeing polio rates increase. Oh wait...
Do you believe that waiting for a traffic light to change when absolutely no one is around is wrong? If so, then go ahead. I know lots of people who do just that at desserted intersections. I've driven through a few towns that have taken that into account and set lights like that to flashing yellow after midnight.
I'd rather work within the system to get it changed rather than just violate it because I disagree with it.
Breaking the law because you disagree with it is part of the system. Pot would never have been legalized if it weren't for all those people smoking it in violation of the law. Same thing with anti-miscegenation laws, sodomy laws, removal of the national 55mph speed limit, repeal of prohibition, etc. There are countless examples.
A typical response to that point is to claim that disobedience doesn't count if you don't do it publicly and get arrested. But practically all of the examples I've given were not done publicly - it took wide-scale private law-breaking for people to become comfortable enough with the concepts in order for the handful of court challenges to be successful.
You can't have it both ways: "you must follow my copyright rules but I don't have to follow yours".
Of course you can. You are confusing the form of a thing with intent of a thing.
Stuff like the GPL and CC is about increasing free access, copyright is about limiting free access. The fact that the principles of copyleft are currently implemented on modern copyright law does not validate modern copyright law, it just means that under the current set of circumstances it was the most practical way to get it done.
DNS was decentralized at first as well (at one point Microsoft was getting blackholed so often that had a $50k bounty for the contact info of anyone running a DNS server, not exactly public knowledge). At some point the US government decided DNS was actually important, and the DHS got involved and so on.
I can't tell if you are joking or not. But for anyone else reading along who takes what you wrote seriously -- it is total bullshit. DNS has always been hierarchal with root servers under the control of a central authority. There have been bugs that could be exploited to corrupt lookups, but it has never been decentralized.
There are legitimate uses for torrents, but demonoid... was about pirating movies and music.
The two are not mutually exclusive. Demonoid had a large collection of abandoned works - music, tv shows, movies, magazines, books, etc that were simply not commercially available. Some were orphaned works where the copyright owner was unknown and so could never be legally distributed again, some where works where the copyright owner just didn't think it was worth it to distribute and some were works that were too risky to distribute commercially - like fan edits of movies and other works that the owner could not afford to go to court to prove their right of fair use. Piracy of those sorts of works serves a legitimate public interest.
Or , ya know, you could actually read the article. Its not about how prone someone is, its when the symptoms start. Schizophrenia shows early symptoms in childhood, and if you've got it, you will succumb to psychosis eventually.
1. Fast and Furious was made up. The entire thing was based on one right wing ATF source, who was discovered to be lying. It has been debunked so often that even the actual GOP doesn't mention it, only ultra-far right idiots in the Tea Party talk about it nowadays. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/20/irs-scandal-democratic-acorn_n_3785717.html
That link is to a completely unrelated story about the IRS. I was hoping you had some proof, because that was the first time I've heard that Fast and Furious was all bullshit. So I searched the same website for more info and didn't find anything to support your claim. What I did find was an article from july 2013 talking about two more deaths in mexico linked to those guns - not something I'd expect to see from "huffpo" if the scandal had been debunked.
I use three 22" widescreens at home, which is a pretty optimal setup, but I would gladly trade it for a single 39" because it gives you slightly more viewing space, but changes it from a very long X axis and very short Y axis to a balanced X and Y axis, which seems like it would be a little more ergonomic.
I rotate one of my monitors into portrait mode. Much better for things like web browsing, and reading code.
Show me actual experimental results. Your link actually states -
There are two sets there. The NASA experiments which are in process and the Navy experiments that inspired NASA to start trying. I quoted NASA talking about the navy experiments.
I can certainly force vomit back down my own throat if I had to.
Have you ever actually had motion sickness? It is more than just puking, it is being unable to function.
"Previous studies have shown the training can enhance tolerance of motion sickness in 80 percent of the participants within six hours of training, notes NASA in a summary of the Navy study."
Think about the people you know who can't read in the car. Reading in the car doesn't make them handle it better next time, they just vomit twice.
That's a lot like saying that because you can't do a pull-up you'll never be able to do a pull-up. It presumes that a process of adaption through incremental improvements is impossible.
It isn't like reading in the car makes a person vomit immediately, perhaps if they just read for one minute more each day they would get to a point where it wouldn't make them sick. Or maybe it is a matter of the speed of the car, where if they were able to increase speed 1mph each day they would acclimate.
The current generation of "smart" TV's with every brand having their own interface is getting a bit tedious.
These companies are trying to differentiate their products via software. The problem is that it is embedded software. If they were able to think ahead by more than one product cycle they would put all the "smarts" on a tiny little HDMI stick like google has with their chromecast.
That would let them get all the benefits of a "customized experience" or whatever the marketing aholes are calling it this year, but it would be easily upgradeable in the field after the manufacturer has stopped giving a shit about software updates.
HDMI even as the CEC protocol for doing remote control, like changing channels, volume, etc. The little HDMI stick could directly control all the basic functions of the TV, making it just as seamless of a user interface as they get today with the embedded crap.
What is it with you, that you have to have every fiction labeled as such
Yes. that's exactly what it is with me. EVERY fiction labeled as such. As if there is no room for a simple baseline. No, it is either all or nothing because if we let there be anything it will obviously scope creep until it devours the entire market.
And the SEC has no business at all in messing with Crowdfunded Startups. Until those dream chasers become legal, tax paying, businesses
The SEC is requiring that a CPA go over the books of dreams, not actual businesses... You don't really understand what's going on here, do you?
There is no possibility of fraud here where there is no reasonable expectation of a return on investment.
Jesus fucking christ, how can you come along so late to the discussion and still not figure out that what we are talking about is selling shares in startups... not prepaying for theoretical products?
I didn't say that it changed his motivation. It just indicates that he didn't care what happened to them while getting his Assange Ego Rating into high gear.
Complaining that other employees suffered career damage because of his actions doesn't indicate that Snowden's motivations ego-centric.
Since all you've got left are picayune "I didn't say that even if that's what I meant" responses, I am happy with where you took this discussion.
The SEC exists as a reactive measure to a very particular set of circumstances.
No, if what you say is true, then the SEC was created as a reactive measure. The world has changed A LOT since then and so has the SEC. The only constant is change.
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The common thread in the three locations that is helping Polio making a revival is Islam.
Right. That's the only thing these three countries have in common. That explains why all those other muslim majority countries are also seeing polio rates increase. Oh wait...
Do you believe that waiting for a traffic light to change when absolutely no one is around is wrong? If so, then go ahead. I know lots of people who do just that at desserted intersections. I've driven through a few towns that have taken that into account and set lights like that to flashing yellow after midnight.
I'd rather work within the system to get it changed rather than just violate it because I disagree with it.
Breaking the law because you disagree with it is part of the system. Pot would never have been legalized if it weren't for all those people smoking it in violation of the law. Same thing with anti-miscegenation laws, sodomy laws, removal of the national 55mph speed limit, repeal of prohibition, etc. There are countless examples.
A typical response to that point is to claim that disobedience doesn't count if you don't do it publicly and get arrested. But practically all of the examples I've given were not done publicly - it took wide-scale private law-breaking for people to become comfortable enough with the concepts in order for the handful of court challenges to be successful.
You can't have it both ways: "you must follow my copyright rules but I don't have to follow yours".
Of course you can. You are confusing the form of a thing with intent of a thing.
Stuff like the GPL and CC is about increasing free access, copyright is about limiting free access. The fact that the principles of copyleft are currently implemented on modern copyright law does not validate modern copyright law, it just means that under the current set of circumstances it was the most practical way to get it done.
Vigilantism works so well in general that I'm glad to see you applying it to copyright law.
Nobody is claiming that piracy is about punishment.
It isn't even close to vigilantism.
DNS was decentralized at first as well (at one point Microsoft was getting blackholed so often that had a $50k bounty for the contact info of anyone running a DNS server, not exactly public knowledge). At some point the US government decided DNS was actually important, and the DHS got involved and so on.
I can't tell if you are joking or not. But for anyone else reading along who takes what you wrote seriously -- it is total bullshit. DNS has always been hierarchal with root servers under the control of a central authority. There have been bugs that could be exploited to corrupt lookups, but it has never been decentralized.
There are legitimate uses for torrents, but demonoid ... was about pirating movies and music.
The two are not mutually exclusive. Demonoid had a large collection of abandoned works - music, tv shows, movies, magazines, books, etc that were simply not commercially available. Some were orphaned works where the copyright owner was unknown and so could never be legally distributed again, some where works where the copyright owner just didn't think it was worth it to distribute and some were works that were too risky to distribute commercially - like fan edits of movies and other works that the owner could not afford to go to court to prove their right of fair use. Piracy of those sorts of works serves a legitimate public interest.
> Yes. Not the GP but the AC you responded to.
lol In your case it sounds like not enough pot.
Or , ya know, you could actually read the article. Its not about how prone someone is, its when the symptoms start. Schizophrenia shows early symptoms in childhood, and if you've got it, you will succumb to psychosis eventually.
Hhhm, I didn't see that in the article.
> methinks your sarcasm detector is busted.
Too much pot perhaps?
1. Fast and Furious was made up. The entire thing was based on one right wing ATF source, who was discovered to be lying. It has been debunked so often that even the actual GOP doesn't mention it, only ultra-far right idiots in the Tea Party talk about it nowadays.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/20/irs-scandal-democratic-acorn_n_3785717.html
That link is to a completely unrelated story about the IRS. I was hoping you had some proof, because that was the first time I've heard that Fast and Furious was all bullshit. So I searched the same website for more info and didn't find anything to support your claim. What I did find was an article from july 2013 talking about two more deaths in mexico linked to those guns - not something I'd expect to see from "huffpo" if the scandal had been debunked.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/06/fast-and-furious-gun_n_3554854.html
Obviously the nutjobs will point their skinny little fingers and accuse Tesla of papering over their own flaw, which is a lie.
Elon? Is that you?
I use three 22" widescreens at home, which is a pretty optimal setup, but I would gladly trade it for a single 39" because it gives you slightly more viewing space, but changes it from a very long X axis and very short Y axis to a balanced X and Y axis, which seems like it would be a little more ergonomic.
I rotate one of my monitors into portrait mode. Much better for things like web browsing, and reading code.
> Must... reopen... Dell financing account.
It isn't like these are some crazy-expensive $3000 monitors.
They are only $500 at Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DOPGO2G
> What sort of company has a child as CEO?
Most of them?
Show me actual experimental results. Your link actually states -
There are two sets there. The NASA experiments which are in process and the Navy experiments that inspired NASA to start trying. I quoted NASA talking about the navy experiments.
I can certainly force vomit back down my own throat if I had to.
Have you ever actually had motion sickness? It is more than just puking, it is being unable to function.
There is no training to "overcome" motion sickness.
NASA disagrees.
"Previous studies have shown the training can enhance tolerance of motion sickness in 80 percent of the participants within six hours of training, notes NASA in a summary of the Navy study."
Think about the people you know who can't read in the car. Reading in the car doesn't make them handle it better next time, they just vomit twice.
That's a lot like saying that because you can't do a pull-up you'll never be able to do a pull-up. It presumes that a process of adaption through incremental improvements is impossible.
It isn't like reading in the car makes a person vomit immediately, perhaps if they just read for one minute more each day they would get to a point where it wouldn't make them sick. Or maybe it is a matter of the speed of the car, where if they were able to increase speed 1mph each day they would acclimate.
The current generation of "smart" TV's with every brand having their own interface is getting a bit tedious.
These companies are trying to differentiate their products via software. The problem is that it is embedded software. If they were able to think ahead by more than one product cycle they would put all the "smarts" on a tiny little HDMI stick like google has with their chromecast.
That would let them get all the benefits of a "customized experience" or whatever the marketing aholes are calling it this year, but it would be easily upgradeable in the field after the manufacturer has stopped giving a shit about software updates.
HDMI even as the CEC protocol for doing remote control, like changing channels, volume, etc. The little HDMI stick could directly control all the basic functions of the TV, making it just as seamless of a user interface as they get today with the embedded crap.
Why should Schneier's jobs make the front page
We just had a story about Bezo's fucking kidney stone.
ANYTHING is more relevant than that.
What is it with you, that you have to have every fiction labeled as such
Yes. that's exactly what it is with me. EVERY fiction labeled as such. As if there is no room for a simple baseline. No, it is either all or nothing because if we let there be anything it will obviously scope creep until it devours the entire market.
And the SEC has no business at all in messing with Crowdfunded Startups. Until those dream chasers become legal, tax paying, businesses
The SEC is requiring that a CPA go over the books of dreams, not actual businesses... You don't really understand what's going on here, do you?
There is no possibility of fraud here where there is no reasonable expectation of a return on investment.
Jesus fucking christ, how can you come along so late to the discussion and still not figure out that what we are talking about is selling shares in startups ... not prepaying for theoretical products?
I didn't say that it changed his motivation. It just indicates that he didn't care what happened to them while getting his Assange Ego Rating into high gear.
Complaining that other employees suffered career damage because of his actions doesn't indicate that Snowden's motivations ego-centric.
Since all you've got left are picayune "I didn't say that even if that's what I meant" responses, I am happy with where you took this discussion.
If there is a 12.9% to 39% fee on it by the SEC, then it is a bad decision.
The stupid in this thread is palpable. The SEC isn't taking any fees.
Those are the estimated costs for (1) the fee to the crowdfunding organizer, (2) cost to prepare forms and (3) cost to hire a CPA to audit the books.
The SEC exists as a reactive measure to a very particular set of circumstances.
No, if what you say is true, then the SEC was created as a reactive measure. The world has changed A LOT since then and so has the SEC. The only constant is change.