Does anybody have an idea on how an out of state or a foreign citizen can bring pressure on those legislators? Have any of them been to France recently and used a mobile 'phone?
My daughter was telling me of a computer lesson about cookies that she'd just been taught at school. As far as she was concerned what she'd been told was 'rubbish', but now she understood that bit in The Matrix, so it wasn't all wasted.
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That sounds like St. Thomas Aquinas' cop outs. It would seem that not every act of will in the damned is evil. For according to Dionysius (Div. Nom. iv), "the demons desire the good and the best, namely to be, to live, to understand." Since, then, men who are damned are not worse off than the demons, it would seem that they also can have a good will.
My point is good, is survival. Ethical conduct is survival. Evil conduct is nonsurvival.
Throughout history people have had to work at the speed of technology. With every technological advance people have had to work harder, and faster than before.
Now that the technology is nearly as fast as light people are starting to burn out under the strain.
I agree in principle, but, when I learnt to program it was impossible to do so after a party as I was too full up on cake and jelly.
Also down here in the City there's lots of people who think they can program in Java after having read a book, but have no experience at all. The clients seem to be happy.
This idea has been tried under several different guises and doesn't work. Another example that comes to mind is the furore over Asbestos.
For those with a long enough memory, (and my comment is a hand-me-down from my Grandad), some people tried to stop companies going over to using Asbestos because they knew it was dangerous. They bought stock, wrote the Execs. etc. At that time, as you can imagine, these people who could buy the stock were seriously rich. They were generally ignored and the health problems only became common knowledge later.
Later those companies went bust paying out claims because they knew what they had done was wrong. By then of course, the execs who had made the decisions had retired.
What I think is needed would be some international court to deal with these execs who flout common rules of decency and even follow them to their graves. What some do is no different to some War crimes to my mind.
To stop BB building roads no one wants, it was thought a wheez to buy some of the land in the line and then resell off in one square foot sections. The idea being that the paperwork to each individual would be so huge as to be prohibative. All BB did was lean on the government to get the law changed so these holdings were too small to require notification.
I think the only way forward is not to put ones name to the code or put some other (who has an Alibi). The person who cracked CSS is only known to a select few, hence essentially unknown, but the lad who used the information to write DeCSS is very well known.
So my argument goes: if BB doesn't know who you are, how can they stop you?
This sort of thing was tried in the UK with a Utility Co.. Loads turned up at a forced extraordinary general meeting. The execs looked seriously bothered that the great unwashed had gained entry, and tried to have them expelled by the Police. When they discovered that these attendees were their share holders, they used fancy rules to wind the meeting up ASAP. Business was carried on as usual with the block votes of the institutions backing the status quo.
My favorite quote from the day was a shocked murmur that some of the attendees were wearing 'tradesmen trousers' (Jeans to you and me).
Maybe I should take credit for the DDoS attacks and become an international superstar.
At the end of the film they all jump up shouting "I'm Spartacus". So the Romans cruxified every last one of them, 6000 men along the Via Appia as a warning to other slaves.
I bump into a chap on my way to work regular. He is a Partner or Director for a like serious size Accountancy firm. He has most definitely heard of Crusoe and for an Accountant appears quite excited.
I think big things are going to happen for Transmeta.
This is the perfect way to get these corporations off our collective back. Let them do all these pesky back doors and other stupidity, and then WHAM like some sort of modern day Attila go wandering 'bout the internet destroying every single system.
Hey, and we'll all get the decent bandwidth we want overnight.
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Does anybody have an idea on how an out of state or a foreign citizen can bring pressure on those legislators? Have any of them been to France recently and used a mobile 'phone?
Some slaves do fight back. Not that it got them very far.
I disagree. The Roman Senator; Incitatus cetainly had horse sense!
Perhaps, then maybe not.
My daughter was telling me of a computer lesson about cookies that she'd just been taught at school. As far as she was concerned what she'd been told was 'rubbish', but now she understood that bit in The Matrix, so it wasn't all wasted.
It would seem that not every act of will in the damned is evil. For according to Dionysius (Div. Nom. iv), "the demons desire the good and the best, namely to be, to live, to understand." Since, then, men who are damned are not worse off than the demons, it would seem that they also can have a good will.
My point is good, is survival. Ethical conduct is survival. Evil conduct is nonsurvival.
I suggest The official publication of the American Society of Sociopaths
Look up a case involving a snail, a bottle of ginger beer, two glasses, two ladies, an Italian restaurant in Glasgow.
In America:
Look up a case involving a Lady, a Cup of hot Coffee and a drive thru'.
If you think they are perfectly sensible then I suppose you'll make a good lawyer.
Something tells me that all the knowledge based occupations will be seriously hit by the next wave of expert computer systems.
For proof the world has gone mad look at what they allow to be patented.
Does the subject give a clue ... What the fork did I hear you say?
Now that the technology is nearly as fast as light people are starting to burn out under the strain.
Also down here in the City there's lots of people who think they can program in Java after having read a book, but have no experience at all. The clients seem to be happy.
Another good read in the same vein is Polya's How to solve it.
Oh, wow. Now not only could they do us for incitement but also for insider trading. :)
So, how do you think these people got into the positions they hold? And yes, they did thoroughly enjoy it.
For those with a long enough memory, (and my comment is a hand-me-down from my Grandad), some people tried to stop companies going over to using Asbestos because they knew it was dangerous. They bought stock, wrote the Execs. etc. At that time, as you can imagine, these people who could buy the stock were seriously rich. They were generally ignored and the health problems only became common knowledge later.
Later those companies went bust paying out claims because they knew what they had done was wrong. By then of course, the execs who had made the decisions had retired.
What I think is needed would be some international court to deal with these execs who flout common rules of decency and even follow them to their graves. What some do is no different to some War crimes to my mind.
I think that the movie industries refusal to allow a Linux DVD player shows monopolistic tendencies or a cartel ... ?
To stop BB building roads no one wants, it was thought a wheez to buy some of the land in the line and then resell off in one square foot sections. The idea being that the paperwork to each individual would be so huge as to be prohibative. All BB did was lean on the government to get the law changed so these holdings were too small to require notification.
So my argument goes: if BB doesn't know who you are, how can they stop you?
My favorite quote from the day was a shocked murmur that some of the attendees were wearing 'tradesmen trousers' (Jeans to you and me).
At the end of the film they all jump up shouting "I'm Spartacus". So the Romans cruxified every last one of them, 6000 men along the Via Appia as a warning to other slaves.
I think big things are going to happen for Transmeta.
WIRWTKI Where can I get that shirt?
So maybe we ought nod the wink to some of these Greenham Common types ...
Which probably means it will get struck out faster than Cool Papa circled the bases.
Hey, and we'll all get the decent bandwidth we want overnight.