I like to look at current changes from Asimov's psychohistory point of view - social structures are not random, they mostly depend on current technology level. Consider that technologies are evolving - one of the results is that it will become easier and cheaper to create, just for an example, deadly virus and the antidote. Resources of Earth is limited, but population is constantly increasing. There are less and less frontiers, so less and less reasons for free entrepreneurs to exist. If you need people that colonize dangerous foreign land - you need free, self reliant people with many skills, but what type needed now? Anyway humans are less and less needed at all - automatic production, software for management and accounting etc - we are becoming irrelevant in every aspect. We could change all that by working towards colonization of our galaxy, but clearly we are not doing it, it's just not possible with our individualism that allows only short term goals. So world government and total control maybe not the worst scenario, it may prolong existence of human race or maybe even change the way we think - somehow merge humanity n a singe ego.
We have no indication that another life forms do exist anywhere else in the universe. Best thing we could realistically do now is to became a patriots of carbon based lifeforms and launch as many capsules as possible with some low level 1 cell organisms that can survive, adapt and evolve, in a directions of known habitable planets, to increase the chances life in the universe in a future. From evolutionary point of view - maybe that's the purpose of our species. Or maybe that is what God wants - we can always say that:) Or think how boring the universe without life would be - we could do it just for lulz!
Parent post looks like form of racketeering to me, considering it's persistence. Maybe we can lock him up after this law passes, or at least force him to take his meds?
But, really, how hard for admins is to block this post by contents? Or maybe just block by IP will suffice? Posting is easy to script, but how does he solve catchpa - either he automated it with one of the services, or posting junk on slashdot is his full time job, or, perhaps, he is a member posting as AC! Nobody have a banhammer here or what?
I own Kindle 3, it's not restricted at all - I can just connect it with the cable (standard micro usb, not some proprietary connector) and just copy books for future reading - no need for any special software like iTunes. It understands txt, pdf and mobi - good enough. You do not have to buy anything from Amazon to use Kindle. And Amazon provides free 3g internet anywhere in the world - so I can just read books from free online libraries in Kindle's browser.
Poor people do not really need freedom of speech - they need to eat first, then they need proper place to live, then comes education and all stuff like this, and only some time after that, next generations, when they are fed and healthy and educated, may demand freedom of speech. And in Venezuela opposition candidate got a bit less than a half votes for last election - so apparently they have opposition TV and other media, otherwise it just could not happen.
In a perfect world - no waiting, but I'm unsure how it could work. But at least I would like to see all the previous deceased rulers of my country from Lenin to Yeltsin - why not? They were going in this direction - at first they did put Stalin in mausoleum, but then Khrushev spoiled everything - buried Stalin and stopped this awesome tradition. Pity. Mummified corpses are fun and profit!
They are asking Russians to do it, so Chaves will be ok:)
I would love to live in a world where all presidents or whatever called heads of a state are embalmed and stored in a mausoleums for the amusement of the next generations.
I usually eat 2-3 raw eggs after heavy drinking before sleep - it seems to help. I guess salmonella just can not survive harsh conditions of 40% alcohol inside me and dies.
There are common jokes amongst Russians about people from Chelybinsk, similar to Chuck Norris jokes, basically it's a city populated by Chuck Norrises )
GLONASS is currently operational ( http://www.sdcm.ru/index_eng.html ) , it is second operational global navigation system after US GPS, so you can call it a success.
Most relatively new GPS chips support GLONASS, so it is already used in consumer devices (for example Iphone 4S and 5) increasing positioning accuracy in cities with tall buildings and another situations where open sky view is limited.
Thailand slowly adopting ethanol mixtures - highest now is E20. It's cheaper than pure gasoline or E10, so it's widely used. Absolutely cheapest fuel is LPG (Propane), but car needs to be converted to use it.
Yes, thats a significant triumph of law and order over mayhem and chaos, and should be celebrated by all law abiding world citizens! I, for one, applaud fearless Scandinavian law enforcement officers, and congratulate them with successful completion of this important and dangerous assignment! Girl should be re-educated in specialized correctional facilities, and the tool of the crime, namely Winnie the Pooh laptop, destroyed.
Digital content is free and readily available, and this reduce hoarding - people used to hoard cd's, mp3's and movies in different formats, now you just need to know the name of the movie - 2 hours later (due to low bandwidth here on the island) you can watch it, and there is no point not to delete it afterwards - as it can be easily downloaded again if needed. Basically it's the same as DVD rental but wider selection, less hassle, available everywhere in the world 24/7 and free.
Ah I get it now, driving to DVD rental provides the necessary exercise for your body and you see the sun and all those albinos on the way? I live on a small island in Thailand, we do not have a DVD rentals or any shop selling movies here (i guess due to no demand), fortunately there are plenty other stimulus to go outside.
http://thepiratebay.se/search/naruto/0/7/0 naruto in japanse with subtitles. Could you tell your otakus they may shell out some money in my direction? I will gladly accept paypal, bitcoin, bank wire or any other form of payment.
Whats your problem, you people do not know how to use internets? Or you just need to pay somebody for the movie you will watch? Whats the real difference between thepiratebay and offline dvd rental store, except that rentals are free on thepiratebay? Movie producers do not get anything from offline DVD rental when you rent a movie, right?
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I like to look at current changes from Asimov's psychohistory point of view - social structures are not random, they mostly depend on current technology level. Consider that technologies are evolving - one of the results is that it will become easier and cheaper to create, just for an example, deadly virus and the antidote. Resources of Earth is limited, but population is constantly increasing. There are less and less frontiers, so less and less reasons for free entrepreneurs to exist. If you need people that colonize dangerous foreign land - you need free, self reliant people with many skills, but what type needed now? Anyway humans are less and less needed at all - automatic production, software for management and accounting etc - we are becoming irrelevant in every aspect. We could change all that by working towards colonization of our galaxy, but clearly we are not doing it, it's just not possible with our individualism that allows only short term goals. So world government and total control maybe not the worst scenario, it may prolong existence of human race or maybe even change the way we think - somehow merge humanity n a singe ego.
:) Or think how boring the universe without life would be - we could do it just for lulz!
We have no indication that another life forms do exist anywhere else in the universe. Best thing we could realistically do now is to became a patriots of carbon based lifeforms and launch as many capsules as possible with some low level 1 cell organisms that can survive, adapt and evolve, in a directions of known habitable planets, to increase the chances life in the universe in a future. From evolutionary point of view - maybe that's the purpose of our species. Or maybe that is what God wants - we can always say that
Parent post looks like form of racketeering to me, considering it's persistence. Maybe we can lock him up after this law passes, or at least force him to take his meds?
But, really, how hard for admins is to block this post by contents? Or maybe just block by IP will suffice? Posting is easy to script, but how does he solve catchpa - either he automated it with one of the services, or posting junk on slashdot is his full time job, or, perhaps, he is a member posting as AC! Nobody have a banhammer here or what?
I own Kindle 3, it's not restricted at all - I can just connect it with the cable (standard micro usb, not some proprietary connector) and just copy books for future reading - no need for any special software like iTunes. It understands txt, pdf and mobi - good enough. You do not have to buy anything from Amazon to use Kindle. And Amazon provides free 3g internet anywhere in the world - so I can just read books from free online libraries in Kindle's browser.
Poor people do not really need freedom of speech - they need to eat first, then they need proper place to live, then comes education and all stuff like this, and only some time after that, next generations, when they are fed and healthy and educated, may demand freedom of speech. And in Venezuela opposition candidate got a bit less than a half votes for last election - so apparently they have opposition TV and other media, otherwise it just could not happen.
In a perfect world - no waiting, but I'm unsure how it could work. But at least I would like to see all the previous deceased rulers of my country from Lenin to Yeltsin - why not? They were going in this direction - at first they did put Stalin in mausoleum, but then Khrushev spoiled everything - buried Stalin and stopped this awesome tradition. Pity. Mummified corpses are fun and profit!
They are asking Russians to do it, so Chaves will be ok :)
I would love to live in a world where all presidents or whatever called heads of a state are embalmed and stored in a mausoleums for the amusement of the next generations.
They could run part of the code needed for singe player game on their servers, then there will be no cracks.
Something have to be done about this until irreparable harm is finally done! Where exactly are those stockpiles of cocaine you say?
Is it technically possible to trace user on a VPN with shared IP, like when hundreds of VPN users use one server with one IP?
See, those triggers are working!
Burn the witch!
Our rape culture is incredible repressive towards women.
You have no rape culture at all, Japanese have.
I usually eat 2-3 raw eggs after heavy drinking before sleep - it seems to help. I guess salmonella just can not survive harsh conditions of 40% alcohol inside me and dies.
There are common jokes amongst Russians about people from Chelybinsk, similar to Chuck Norris jokes, basically it's a city populated by Chuck Norrises )
It does not look like the keys, seems to be repost of the same encrypted files.
Sure, famous Chinese gulags! Thats why they have 121 prisoners per 100 000 population, while in truly democratic US... Wait, OH SHI.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
Russia - nope, below $1/liter for 91, that is about the same as US average of $3.60/gallon.
GLONASS is currently operational ( http://www.sdcm.ru/index_eng.html ) , it is second operational global navigation system after US GPS, so you can call it a success.
Most relatively new GPS chips support GLONASS, so it is already used in consumer devices (for example Iphone 4S and 5) increasing positioning accuracy in cities with tall buildings and another situations where open sky view is limited.
Thailand slowly adopting ethanol mixtures - highest now is E20. It's cheaper than pure gasoline or E10, so it's widely used. Absolutely cheapest fuel is LPG (Propane), but car needs to be converted to use it.
Yes, thats a significant triumph of law and order over mayhem and chaos, and should be celebrated by all law abiding world citizens! I, for one, applaud fearless Scandinavian law enforcement officers, and congratulate them with successful completion of this important and dangerous assignment! Girl should be re-educated in specialized correctional facilities, and the tool of the crime, namely Winnie the Pooh laptop, destroyed.
Nope, see for example bombing in Domodedovo arrivals hall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domodedovo_International_Airport_bombing . Now security check everybody at the airport's entrances, so there are big crowds at the there - new potential attack target.
Digital content is free and readily available, and this reduce hoarding - people used to hoard cd's, mp3's and movies in different formats, now you just need to know the name of the movie - 2 hours later (due to low bandwidth here on the island) you can watch it, and there is no point not to delete it afterwards - as it can be easily downloaded again if needed. Basically it's the same as DVD rental but wider selection, less hassle, available everywhere in the world 24/7 and free.
Ah I get it now, driving to DVD rental provides the necessary exercise for your body and you see the sun and all those albinos on the way? I live on a small island in Thailand, we do not have a DVD rentals or any shop selling movies here (i guess due to no demand), fortunately there are plenty other stimulus to go outside.
http://thepiratebay.se/search/naruto/0/7/0 naruto in japanse with subtitles. Could you tell your otakus they may shell out some money in my direction? I will gladly accept paypal, bitcoin, bank wire or any other form of payment.
Whats your problem, you people do not know how to use internets? Or you just need to pay somebody for the movie you will watch? Whats the real difference between thepiratebay and offline dvd rental store, except that rentals are free on thepiratebay? Movie producers do not get anything from offline DVD rental when you rent a movie, right?
Watch this one http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3420889/Kin-Dza-Dza_with_English_Subtitles_proper .
Sadly I could not think of any post USSR Russian movie that I could suggest to watch.