I don't support the dirty fission reactors, but I support solar energy (which comes from the Sun, a fusion "device") and R&D on direct Fusion power plants.
"the music Scope will pull songs from Grooveshark"
Man I left Grooveshark years ago. Once I created a 800+ playlist and as time passed it got to have 200 songs, the rest were removed/deleted by grooveshark. I don't want to waste my time anymore with Grooveshark.
I've contributed to the secure voting platform Agora Voting and from what I know they have already thought about using the blockchain, in part because bitcoin is sexy these days (as you can see from this article being in the frontpage of/.), but the problem is the blockchain can only process a limited number of transactions per second, it's messy. It's still a good idea, but it's not the end-all solution: for example a big problem is the census, you need a reliable list of secured voters.
Let me introduce you to Agora Voting [0], an open source internet voting system that is cryptographically secure, supports vote delegation, and scales well to massive elections, you can see the security scheme here [1]. It has been used for votings in the Spanish Congress and for big parties in Spain like Podemos (more than 80,000 votes).
There's no 100% secure system, but this is almost there. Also, votes buying is minimized because you can vote as many times as you want and only the last vote counts. I would suggest you contact the team, maybe you *can* get secure online voting in your municipality.
See, the thing is that this is NOT a bad thing. 10,000 years ago, we could only travel at about 15km per hour. Now there are astronauts that go around earth and they travel that distance in less than 2 seconds. Technology allows us to either travel 7800 km in an hour, or 16 km in 2 seconds. In that sense when automation replaces jobs, it allows us to get the same work done in less time, or more work done during the same time. So in 50 years, lets say, we could do the same work that we do per person working just 1 hour per day, or do 8 times more work in 8 hours per day.
In that sense, technology and automation do not destroy jobs at all. The problem is how we organize society, not technology, we could still all be employed for 40h/week with 2% unemployment rate in 2100 if we, as society, choose to do more work during the same workshift. Or we could just work for half an hour per day and get the same level of comfort and work done than today. Of course in either case all jobs would shift towards higher level tasks, towards tasks that cannot be automated yet.
If productivity increases but average work per person does not, and at the same time we maintain a standard of 40 working hours per week, that is when unemployment rises. But as I have explained, those are a lot of ifs and it is just one possible path for society. Technology is not and will not rise unemployment, society's political decisions will.
And that's why it should be illegal to use someone's copyright for profit, but if it's non-profit any use of it should be unregulated. By the way here in spain non-profit copies of copyrighted works (what you call piracy) are LEGAL.
In my opinion, not everything is your fault. 70% of the votes are casted on voting machines, which are again and again proved prone to be manipulated. Yes, I'm saying that it's very possible elections are rigged. The first thing you should do is going back to counting votes with your hands.
Is this a Socialist move? Yes, I believe it is because I believe that the current Administration has an undeniable Socialist bend, and an aspect of Socialist regimes is the clamping down on liberties.
I can't understand why so many americans are so fracking frenzy about socialism. No country is absolutely capitalist or socialist, and as long as the government has public bodies like the police, judges, teachers, firemen, soldiers etc, your country is at the same time capitalist AND socialist up to some degree.
ACTA has nothing to do with socialism, because not everything that is done in the name of a greater good is actually a good thing for the mayority. This is not socialism because it makes a few a lot richer. It looks like Fox News convinced you that socialism is the same as communism and all that is the demon you have to fight. Fight merciless corporations instead, man!
It's common to see musicians playing with plugs stuck in their ears so they don't drive themselves stone deaf, while they obviously consider it perfectly OK for them to obliterate the hearing of customers frequenting the place.
I realise I'm probably a tedious old fart, but I've long been forced to recognise that my hearing is far from what it was when I was a teenager or even in my twenties, and I hold many of these crappy bands to blame.
I'm sorry to tell you, but rock's always meant to be loud. If it's not LOUD, it's not rock n roll. Jimi Hendrix, for example, said once that he wasn't the best, he just played louder.
"In China you can easily switch to google.com and get the same results as the rest if the world."
Yes, you can. But after searching 2 or 3 times about tiananmen, you won't be able to load google.com again (until 2 hours later): The firewall will detect that you are searching for information that threatens the dictatorship and therefore will (without showing you any warning) block you from loading google.com for 1 hour or two. Then you'll realize you shouldn't have searched for that information, because if you repeat that behaviour N times the thought police will actually go to your house for you and you'll end in jail or dead.
There was an article on wired about how China's firewall makes people censor themselves this way.
"Jajajaja... sorry... Hahahaha... where do you work? At the BSA?"
I'm pro-piracy, so no, I don't work for the BSA. I just look around and see that normally, businesses don't normally use pirated software. I haven't finnished my studies so I have no proffesional experience yet, but I look around and this is what I see: the faculty buys original software, the administration uses original software, my mum's company uses original software etc... The price for not doing so is too high (â). On the other hand, at home, everyone uses pirated software, fortunately.
Yeah, that's right. Here in Spain, it's simply legal to download, upload and/or share music and films, if it's non-profit. Also, it's been ruled that pages that encourage sharing films and music and have revenues from ads are also legal, in part because otherwise google would be illegal, as google also has links to torrent files (try searching for "filetype:torrent" in google).
Unfortunately, Spanish Law makes an exception with copyrighted software. So it's legal to share music and films but not software. Anyway, I'm PROUD to say that software piracy is also widespread here in Spain (the exception is that businesses don't use pirated software).
You are wrong. It is the people who vote, not lobbies, not companies. And your argument is ridiculous: Summarising, what you people are saying is that "he must vote whatever lobbies want him to until he becomes president, and it is then and not before that he will stand againt lobbies and for the good of the people".
And, excuse me, but that's fuckin' ridiculous. Only a doublethinker would "think" that.
So he compromised the privacy of his fellow citizens to get his hands on power. What a great leader. His actions are an example to follow. We surely must trust him, because things like this show that he will do whatever in order to protect the rights of the people. Because destrying people's right to privacy is an outstanding example of defending people's rights. Because he did it for our own good./sarcasm
But China is "Evil". I mean, it's a dictatorship, workers have no rights, citizens have no free speech, the government trades with the organs of living prisoners, and most of their economy is planned by the government (capitalist china? read more, china is still communist!) and when we buy their products we are supporting the dictatorship.
I'm not surprised at all. It's the 21st century form of fascism. There are quite a good amount of 1st world countries who say to have democracy but they have some kind of dictatorship. I include in them: Russia, Italy and USA. That's the 100% sure list, the 90% sure is a way bigger list.
Here in Spain we don't have to register anywhere to vote, you are automatically registered to be able to vote in your nearest electoral college. Of course, elections are on saturday or sunday, so everyone can go and vote.
Also, we don't use any kind of voting machines, and votes are counted by randomly selected people, who, in exchange, are paid about 70â by the state for their services.
Yeah, of course anyone who doesn't think like you is a communist. You should get a book and learn what communism is. You are thinking like a child. I mean, come on, you just called me communist in order to disqualify any of my arguments!
And, by the way. You said: by profit, I mean enjoy their work
I don't know on your country. But, here in Spain? It is very well established that profit means earing money. In fact, that's one of the reasons why what you call piracy is legal here (in fact, it's legal for movies and music, not for software). Yes, we have anti-piracy laws, but piracy here is when you get profit, that is, money from copying copyrighted material.
you advocate people being free to profit from the works of others with zero compensation
A packet of bits is like an idea. When you learn an idea from other person, this person still has that idea on his mind, no one has lost anything. When you copy a software, the same thing happens, you get the software at zero cost, yet no one loses anything. Comparing it to communism is BULLSHIT, because on a communist country, if someone creates a pair of shoes, and other person gets that pair of shoes at zero cost, the creator loses a pair of shoes.
Who's the child here? You seem unable to distinguish between material and non material things, and that inability has led you to call me a communist. What would be the next, calling me unpatriotic? come on, don't be that childish!
You said: The Internet is not a "public library of movies" because libraries paid the content owner for their content, and because there were limitations which still encouraged people to buy the content.
When someone uploads a movie, for example, one recorded with a camera inside the cinema, he has paid for it. And there are limitations which still encourage people to buy it: If you wanna see the movie on a huuuge screen with best image quality, then you go and pay it.
You said: Now, you "anti-DRM, anti-copyright"
I'm Anti-DRM, but I'm not anti-copyright. We (the Spanish Pirate Party) just want different copyright laws than you: If someone distributes or downloads a copy of a copyrighted material but doesn't earn any sound money, it should be legal. Also, copyright should have a short life, let's say less than 15 years.
You said: Actually, you are the dinosaurs. The library model doesn't work now.
Are we? Truth is this digital library WORKS. Truth is this digital library has, what, 9 years? (Napster started in 1999), and now we are outdated? haha. No, truth is that this digital library is possible just because internet exists, and only when internet disapears this digital library will cease to exist. YOu know the history of internet: they closed Napster but the Emule came to light. After that, came Bit torrent and so on. They can close some servers, or ban some programs, but that will only make us enhace the technology of this digital library. And anyway, there are some countries where it's legal, like Spain.
So, who are the dinosaurs, those who fight technology but are unable to stop hundreds of millions of people, or those who, through this brand new technology,have recently created an unstoppable digital library? Don't be such a fool.
You said: You're just too much of a dinosaur to realize that content production moved to the digital realm is still work, it's a creation, and people make their living from it.
It's not my problem if they don't know who to get money from what they do. They must realize that what they create can and will be copied with zero cost. So they must find a way to reward people who buy their product. For example, for movies, a big screen and high quality might work. And if someone doesn't find a way to sell their product, that's not my fucking problem. This is capitalism dude, I'll search for the best offer.
by RightSaidFred99 (874576): you have no "right" to download movies or software owned by someone else. To claim so is to denigrate and water down the concept of "rights".
I think we do have such a right. The right of the citizens to culture. Indeed, I'm a member of the Spanish Pirate Party. ÂShould we ban public libraries? Internet is the public library of movies. If it were for people like you, public libraries would have never existed.
by RightSaidFred99 (874576): Alas, look at the massive quantity of Spain-produced high quality (and/or) great movies! You can count them on your fingers pretty easily.
Yes, as a spanish, I do agree, spanish movies normally suck big time.
Here in Spain what you call piracy is LEGAL if you don't earn money with it. And so it was on your countries not so long ago. We just preserved our rights.
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I don't support the dirty fission reactors, but I support solar energy (which comes from the Sun, a fusion "device") and R&D on direct Fusion power plants.
"the music Scope will pull songs from Grooveshark"
Man I left Grooveshark years ago. Once I created a 800+ playlist and as time passed it got to have 200 songs, the rest were removed/deleted by grooveshark. I don't want to waste my time anymore with Grooveshark.
I've contributed to the secure voting platform Agora Voting and from what I know they have already thought about using the blockchain, in part because bitcoin is sexy these days (as you can see from this article being in the frontpage of /.), but the problem is the blockchain can only process a limited number of transactions per second, it's messy. It's still a good idea, but it's not the end-all solution: for example a big problem is the census, you need a reliable list of secured voters.
Let me introduce you to Agora Voting [0], an open source internet voting system that is cryptographically secure, supports vote delegation, and scales well to massive elections, you can see the security scheme here [1]. It has been used for votings in the Spanish Congress and for big parties in Spain like Podemos (more than 80,000 votes).
There's no 100% secure system, but this is almost there. Also, votes buying is minimized because you can vote as many times as you want and only the last vote counts. I would suggest you contact the team, maybe you *can* get secure online voting in your municipality.
[0] https://agoravoting.com/
[1] https://blog.agoravoting.com/i...
See, the thing is that this is NOT a bad thing. 10,000 years ago, we could only travel at about 15km per hour. Now there are astronauts that go around earth and they travel that distance in less than 2 seconds. Technology allows us to either travel 7800 km in an hour, or 16 km in 2 seconds. In that sense when automation replaces jobs, it allows us to get the same work done in less time, or more work done during the same time. So in 50 years, lets say, we could do the same work that we do per person working just 1 hour per day, or do 8 times more work in 8 hours per day.
In that sense, technology and automation do not destroy jobs at all. The problem is how we organize society, not technology, we could still all be employed for 40h/week with 2% unemployment rate in 2100 if we, as society, choose to do more work during the same workshift. Or we could just work for half an hour per day and get the same level of comfort and work done than today. Of course in either case all jobs would shift towards higher level tasks, towards tasks that cannot be automated yet.
If productivity increases but average work per person does not, and at the same time we maintain a standard of 40 working hours per week, that is when unemployment rises. But as I have explained, those are a lot of ifs and it is just one possible path for society. Technology is not and will not rise unemployment, society's political decisions will.
It will actually cost $500 million or more and will be launched one or two years after the deadline. Just sit back and watch it happen.
And that's why it should be illegal to use someone's copyright for profit, but if it's non-profit any use of it should be unregulated. By the way here in spain non-profit copies of copyrighted works (what you call piracy) are LEGAL.
In my opinion, not everything is your fault. 70% of the votes are casted on voting machines, which are again and again proved prone to be manipulated. Yes, I'm saying that it's very possible elections are rigged. The first thing you should do is going back to counting votes with your hands.
Is this a Socialist move? Yes, I believe it is because I believe that the current Administration has an undeniable Socialist bend, and an aspect of Socialist regimes is the clamping down on liberties.
I can't understand why so many americans are so fracking frenzy about socialism. No country is absolutely capitalist or socialist, and as long as the government has public bodies like the police, judges, teachers, firemen, soldiers etc, your country is at the same time capitalist AND socialist up to some degree.
ACTA has nothing to do with socialism, because not everything that is done in the name of a greater good is actually a good thing for the mayority. This is not socialism because it makes a few a lot richer. It looks like Fox News convinced you that socialism is the same as communism and all that is the demon you have to fight. Fight merciless corporations instead, man!
It's common to see musicians playing with plugs stuck in their ears so they don't drive themselves stone deaf, while they obviously consider it perfectly OK for them to obliterate the hearing of customers frequenting the place.
I realise I'm probably a tedious old fart, but I've long been forced to recognise that my hearing is far from what it was when I was a teenager or even in my twenties, and I hold many of these crappy bands to blame.
I'm sorry to tell you, but rock's always meant to be loud. If it's not LOUD, it's not rock n roll. Jimi Hendrix, for example, said once that he wasn't the best, he just played louder.
"In China you can easily switch to google.com and get the same results as the rest if the world."
Yes, you can. But after searching 2 or 3 times about tiananmen, you won't be able to load google.com again (until 2 hours later): The firewall will detect that you are searching for information that threatens the dictatorship and therefore will (without showing you any warning) block you from loading google.com for 1 hour or two. Then you'll realize you shouldn't have searched for that information, because if you repeat that behaviour N times the thought police will actually go to your house for you and you'll end in jail or dead.
There was an article on wired about how China's firewall makes people censor themselves this way.
"Jajajaja... sorry... Hahahaha... where do you work? At the BSA?"
I'm pro-piracy, so no, I don't work for the BSA. I just look around and see that normally, businesses don't normally use pirated software. I haven't finnished my studies so I have no proffesional experience yet, but I look around and this is what I see: the faculty buys original software, the administration uses original software, my mum's company uses original software etc... The price for not doing so is too high (â). On the other hand, at home, everyone uses pirated software, fortunately.
Yeah, that's right. Here in Spain, it's simply legal to download, upload and/or share music and films, if it's non-profit. Also, it's been ruled that pages that encourage sharing films and music and have revenues from ads are also legal, in part because otherwise google would be illegal, as google also has links to torrent files (try searching for "filetype:torrent" in google).
Unfortunately, Spanish Law makes an exception with copyrighted software. So it's legal to share music and films but not software. Anyway, I'm PROUD to say that software piracy is also widespread here in Spain (the exception is that businesses don't use pirated software).
You are wrong. It is the people who vote, not lobbies, not companies. And your argument is ridiculous: Summarising, what you people are saying is that "he must vote whatever lobbies want him to until he becomes president, and it is then and not before that he will stand againt lobbies and for the good of the people".
And, excuse me, but that's fuckin' ridiculous. Only a doublethinker would "think" that.
So he compromised the privacy of his fellow citizens to get his hands on power. What a great leader. His actions are an example to follow. We surely must trust him, because things like this show that he will do whatever in order to protect the rights of the people. Because destrying people's right to privacy is an outstanding example of defending people's rights. Because he did it for our own good. /sarcasm
Fuckin' Doublethinkers!
Thanks for your comment. That was what I tried to say, you summarized it very well.
Is your comment some kind of weird 1984 propaganda?
you said:
"He had an opportunity to not get elected if he voted against the bill."
Well, shouldn't it be the other way around? You know, *this* kind of thing:
He had an opportunity to not get elected if he voted FOR the bill.
Fuck doublethinkers!
But China is "Evil". I mean, it's a dictatorship, workers have no rights, citizens have no free speech, the government trades with the organs of living prisoners, and most of their economy is planned by the government (capitalist china? read more, china is still communist!) and when we buy their products we are supporting the dictatorship.
I'm not surprised at all. It's the 21st century form of fascism. There are quite a good amount of 1st world countries who say to have democracy but they have some kind of dictatorship. I include in them: Russia, Italy and USA. That's the 100% sure list, the 90% sure is a way bigger list.
Here in Spain we don't have to register anywhere to vote, you are automatically registered to be able to vote in your nearest electoral college. Of course, elections are on saturday or sunday, so everyone can go and vote.
Also, we don't use any kind of voting machines, and votes are counted by randomly selected people, who, in exchange, are paid about 70â by the state for their services.
Yeah, of course anyone who doesn't think like you is a communist. You should get a book and learn what communism is. You are thinking like a child. I mean, come on, you just called me communist in order to disqualify any of my arguments!
And, by the way. You said: by profit, I mean enjoy their work
I don't know on your country. But, here in Spain? It is very well established that profit means earing money. In fact, that's one of the reasons why what you call piracy is legal here (in fact, it's legal for movies and music, not for software). Yes, we have anti-piracy laws, but piracy here is when you get profit, that is, money from copying copyrighted material.
you advocate people being free to profit from the works of others with zero compensation
A packet of bits is like an idea. When you learn an idea from other person, this person still has that idea on his mind, no one has lost anything. When you copy a software, the same thing happens, you get the software at zero cost, yet no one loses anything. Comparing it to communism is BULLSHIT, because on a communist country, if someone creates a pair of shoes, and other person gets that pair of shoes at zero cost, the creator loses a pair of shoes.
Who's the child here? You seem unable to distinguish between material and non material things, and that inability has led you to call me a communist. What would be the next, calling me unpatriotic? come on, don't be that childish!
You said: The Internet is not a "public library of movies" because libraries paid the content owner for their content, and because there were limitations which still encouraged people to buy the content.
When someone uploads a movie, for example, one recorded with a camera inside the cinema, he has paid for it. And there are limitations which still encourage people to buy it: If you wanna see the movie on a huuuge screen with best image quality, then you go and pay it.
You said: Now, you "anti-DRM, anti-copyright"
I'm Anti-DRM, but I'm not anti-copyright. We (the Spanish Pirate Party) just want different copyright laws than you: If someone distributes or downloads a copy of a copyrighted material but doesn't earn any sound money, it should be legal. Also, copyright should have a short life, let's say less than 15 years.
You said: Actually, you are the dinosaurs. The library model doesn't work now.
Are we? Truth is this digital library WORKS. Truth is this digital library has, what, 9 years? (Napster started in 1999), and now we are outdated? haha. No, truth is that this digital library is possible just because internet exists, and only when internet disapears this digital library will cease to exist. YOu know the history of internet: they closed Napster but the Emule came to light. After that, came Bit torrent and so on. They can close some servers, or ban some programs, but that will only make us enhace the technology of this digital library. And anyway, there are some countries where it's legal, like Spain.
So, who are the dinosaurs, those who fight technology but are unable to stop hundreds of millions of people, or those who, through this brand new technology,have recently created an unstoppable digital library? Don't be such a fool.
You said: You're just too much of a dinosaur to realize that content production moved to the digital realm is still work, it's a creation, and people make their living from it.
It's not my problem if they don't know who to get money from what they do. They must realize that what they create can and will be copied with zero cost. So they must find a way to reward people who buy their product. For example, for movies, a big screen and high quality might work. And if someone doesn't find a way to sell their product, that's not my fucking problem. This is capitalism dude, I'll search for the best offer.
by RightSaidFred99 (874576): you have no "right" to download movies or software owned by someone else. To claim so is to denigrate and water down the concept of "rights".
I think we do have such a right. The right of the citizens to culture. Indeed, I'm a member of the Spanish Pirate Party. ÂShould we ban public libraries? Internet is the public library of movies. If it were for people like you, public libraries would have never existed.
by RightSaidFred99 (874576): Alas, look at the massive quantity of Spain-produced high quality (and/or) great movies! You can count them on your fingers pretty easily.
Yes, as a spanish, I do agree, spanish movies normally suck big time.
No, I'm telling you that the EU copyright legislation is diferent on each european country.
Here in Spain what you call piracy is LEGAL if you don't earn money with it. And so it was on your countries not so long ago. We just preserved our rights.