I said I leave it on 24h a day when I'm downloading something. Like the battlestar galactica episode I would watch on tv if it wasn't on during my night class, or the other shows that are on and awkward times. And how exactly is using the connection they advertised to try and get customers abusing it? I want what I paid for, what they advertised, not what they want to give me instead.
I think I could pick out who was using bitorrent easily from the amount of traffic. Think about it, when do people download from iTunes, streaming video, etc.? Probably during the waking hours, when they're home, evenings, weekends, right? As for bitorrent, I just leave it running 24h a day if I'm downloading something. Having your connection maxed out all day, every day is going to get noticed. I don't like it any more than you do, but if the people controlling your connection are bright at all, they'll figure out what you're doing.
That happens in every country with coal deposits, including the US. They're also impossible (or very very nearly) to put out, whereas changing car emission laws or switching away from burning coal to produce electricity in most of your country is feasible, if expensive.
Let's try to fix the problems we can instead of not bothering because there are problems we can't.
First, googling something is not some innate right. Whether you or anyone else "needs" to find BWM of Germany very quickly is besides the point. There was a time before google. People managed. Second, yes, most people have heard of google's policy against these kinds of tactics. Some kinda fellow above gave us the link, which I'll repeat: http://www.google.com/intl/en/webmasters/guideline s.html
If I hadn't commented already, I would have modded you troll of flaimbait. Shame on the mod who called you insightful.
Google purports to find information on the web. They aren't a directory where you have to pay to be listed. It doesn't matter that they offer their service for free. If they post misleading information or omit information that people should expect to be there, they could be in trouble.
You said it yourself: google isn't a directory service. Nobody pays to be included. Google can exclude a site for a number of reasons, which are all easily accessible on their site. Is says specifically that websites which do not adhere to the rules may be removed from the index.
When you search for something innoculous and get porn back, or one of those useless link farms, it is because of techniques like this. Maybe BMW was using them for good purposes, maybe not. Tough luck. They did something wrong, their pagerank was set to zero, as it should be. It's what I'd want to see happen to the porn and the link farms, it's what I'd want to see happen to anyone else who tried the same low, deceptive tricks.
But we currently allow single-parent families that result from abandonment, divorce, or death. Those are often lacking a father (or mother) figure. Surely two parents of the same gender are at least as good as one?
If you genetically modify a person, the short term consequences are that you screwed up one person. It would be 20 years before you have to start worrying about the tainting of the entire gene pool.
Ah, but what if that one person becomes super-human and takes over the world, enslaving the entire non-augmented human race?
They have basically no meaningful assets. A bunch of computers, some code, and an algorithm. They could be put out of business in a year by any of hundreds of software companies.
What you said can be applied equally well to Microsoft. Are they going away soon too?
In some cases, maybe. In this case, no. What China doesn't want is political dissent. They aren't filtering sites about how to farm more effectively, or sites that make people laugh, or sites that allow people to find businesses, or sites that tell people the best treatment for a certain disese. Google is a great tool, and for most things, censorship will not change that. Were I given the choice between no internet access and censored internet access, I would choose censored, since the majority of things I do online are really of no interest to any government.
And why do you think they'll relax on free speech if they have no access to information? If we try to exclude China from the world, they might just close up even further. Open up to them and they'll eventually give in.
MSN and yahoo ended up doing things that got people in China arrested, maybe worse. Google, as of yet, is just censoring content. In my mind, the former is worse than the latter.
Killing people may or may not be evil. Putting them in small cells for the rest of their life may or may not be evil. Telling them that they are permitted to only have one child may or may not be evil. But denying people access to information so that they can make reasoned and informed decisions, what is that, if not evil?
So censorship is worse than killing people in your mind?
I can't think of any reason that God would make the universe where bad things could happen to anyone, unless (A) he made mistakes and didn't intend for the bad things, (B) he actually wants to screw with us/watch some of us fail, or (C) he's not the only one in control.
He wants us to value life and not take it for granted? Life with no adversity would be pretty dull. Also, if life is so great, what's the point of heaven?
Go look up the definition of pun, please. That is a textbook pun. I regularly find amusement in puns, especially bad ones, because I actually have a sense of humour. And when someone makes a joke, however simple, that I find amusing, I like them to know it. Part of the fun in telling a joke is having others laugh. Regarding your reasons it's not funny, a pun (a deliberate confusion of similar-sounding words or phrases for rhetorical effect, thank you wikipedia) needn't relate both it's meanings to the topic at hand, only one. Which it does, perfectly.
I wasn't saying "he said masturbator, heh heh," I was saying, "he made a comment which on the surface is perfectly valid in the context, but also has a double meaning I find clever and amusing."
4 people modded it funny, 1 overrated. It appears the majority of the mods agree with me. Jesus man, either get a sense of humour or browse with funny at -5.
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I said I leave it on 24h a day when I'm downloading something. Like the battlestar galactica episode I would watch on tv if it wasn't on during my night class, or the other shows that are on and awkward times. And how exactly is using the connection they advertised to try and get customers abusing it? I want what I paid for, what they advertised, not what they want to give me instead.
I think I could pick out who was using bitorrent easily from the amount of traffic. Think about it, when do people download from iTunes, streaming video, etc.? Probably during the waking hours, when they're home, evenings, weekends, right? As for bitorrent, I just leave it running 24h a day if I'm downloading something. Having your connection maxed out all day, every day is going to get noticed. I don't like it any more than you do, but if the people controlling your connection are bright at all, they'll figure out what you're doing.
That happens in every country with coal deposits, including the US. They're also impossible (or very very nearly) to put out, whereas changing car emission laws or switching away from burning coal to produce electricity in most of your country is feasible, if expensive.
Let's try to fix the problems we can instead of not bothering because there are problems we can't.
First, googling something is not some innate right. Whether you or anyone else "needs" to find BWM of Germany very quickly is besides the point. There was a time before google. People managed. Second, yes, most people have heard of google's policy against these kinds of tactics. Some kinda fellow above gave us the link, which I'll repeat: http://www.google.com/intl/en/webmasters/guideline s.html
If I hadn't commented already, I would have modded you troll of flaimbait. Shame on the mod who called you insightful.
Google purports to find information on the web. They aren't a directory where you have to pay to be listed. It doesn't matter that they offer their service for free. If they post misleading information or omit information that people should expect to be there, they could be in trouble.
You said it yourself: google isn't a directory service. Nobody pays to be included. Google can exclude a site for a number of reasons, which are all easily accessible on their site. Is says specifically that websites which do not adhere to the rules may be removed from the index.
When you search for something innoculous and get porn back, or one of those useless link farms, it is because of techniques like this. Maybe BMW was using them for good purposes, maybe not. Tough luck. They did something wrong, their pagerank was set to zero, as it should be. It's what I'd want to see happen to the porn and the link farms, it's what I'd want to see happen to anyone else who tried the same low, deceptive tricks.
They probably delist dozens or hundreds of porn, pharmaceuticals, gambling, etc. sites daily. You just don't hear about them because they aren't BMW.
Yeah, I have this diner, and we only serve white people. Because since it's private property, we can chose to deny service to anyone we want!
You know that's actually legal, right?
But we currently allow single-parent families that result from abandonment, divorce, or death. Those are often lacking a father (or mother) figure. Surely two parents of the same gender are at least as good as one?
Hell freezes over, pigs fly, and Linux is standard on all new PCs.
If you genetically modify a person, the short term consequences are that you screwed up one person. It would be 20 years before you have to start worrying about the tainting of the entire gene pool.
Ah, but what if that one person becomes super-human and takes over the world, enslaving the entire non-augmented human race?
You'd look pretty silly then, wouldn't you?
They have basically no meaningful assets. A bunch of computers, some code, and an algorithm. They could be put out of business in a year by any of hundreds of software companies.
What you said can be applied equally well to Microsoft. Are they going away soon too?
Bad information is worse than no information.
In some cases, maybe. In this case, no. What China doesn't want is political dissent. They aren't filtering sites about how to farm more effectively, or sites that make people laugh, or sites that allow people to find businesses, or sites that tell people the best treatment for a certain disese. Google is a great tool, and for most things, censorship will not change that. Were I given the choice between no internet access and censored internet access, I would choose censored, since the majority of things I do online are really of no interest to any government.
And why do you think they'll relax on free speech if they have no access to information? If we try to exclude China from the world, they might just close up even further. Open up to them and they'll eventually give in.
MSN and yahoo ended up doing things that got people in China arrested, maybe worse. Google, as of yet, is just censoring content. In my mind, the former is worse than the latter.
A man wants to make a nuclear weapon and has all the necessary parts. You can block him from getting the information. Would that be wrong?
There are exceptional circumstances in every case. This is about the common ones.
Aren't the free videos uploaded by whoever wants to? Not google's fault it's crap.
Killing people may or may not be evil. Putting them in small cells for the rest of their life may or may not be evil. Telling them that they are permitted to only have one child may or may not be evil. But denying people access to information so that they can make reasoned and informed decisions, what is that, if not evil?
So censorship is worse than killing people in your mind?
Don't worry, I just modded him tro....crap.
It is almost guaranteed to bomb, before anyone even sees it!
That's what they said about "Springtime for Hitler"...
Gets off with what? The cucumber ?
Or the jar of mayo, depending.
*except Google Earth. I still can't find the Sydney Opera House, no matter what keywords I use.
Try "sydney opera house, australia". Works perfectly.
With a 90% success rate every time, I don't know if it'd catch on. Most people would be dead in a week.
I can't think of any reason that God would make the universe where bad things could happen to anyone, unless (A) he made mistakes and didn't intend for the bad things, (B) he actually wants to screw with us/watch some of us fail, or (C) he's not the only one in control.
He wants us to value life and not take it for granted? Life with no adversity would be pretty dull. Also, if life is so great, what's the point of heaven?
Go look up the definition of pun, please. That is a textbook pun. I regularly find amusement in puns, especially bad ones, because I actually have a sense of humour. And when someone makes a joke, however simple, that I find amusing, I like them to know it. Part of the fun in telling a joke is having others laugh. Regarding your reasons it's not funny, a pun (a deliberate confusion of similar-sounding words or phrases for rhetorical effect, thank you wikipedia) needn't relate both it's meanings to the topic at hand, only one. Which it does, perfectly.
I wasn't saying "he said masturbator, heh heh," I was saying, "he made a comment which on the surface is perfectly valid in the context, but also has a double meaning I find clever and amusing."
4 people modded it funny, 1 overrated. It appears the majority of the mods agree with me. Jesus man, either get a sense of humour or browse with funny at -5.
Obviously, that was John Titor and he simply dialed in the wrong year. Happens to the best of us.