Of course not. You're a bacteria. There are more bacterias in your body than human cells, and they are probably more important than most of your cells. It's not like you brain does anything without the influence of chemicals created in your gut.
Eh... Google is always changing how they enforce their policies. A Google robot suddenly locked out two of my sites (after 5 years!) from Google Adsense (because of some pages, but I don't know which except one example and neither exactly why. Before they just stopped showing ads on the actual pages that might have "questionable" content (like artistic nudity or a link to a Hentai site)
Short story: Google will ass-rape you sooner or later, if they can. And Google+ isn't an alternative to Facebook as the US government has access to both.
Electricity, even from a coal plant, is way more clean and efficient than burning gas in a car. You do loose some due to battery issues, but compared to the waste in a explosion engine, it's nothing.
And cars should be driven with electric motors, that isn't a question. The question is if the power comes from batteries, engines, fuel cells or loaded while driving.
The rules and restrictions against things like pump and dump are there to protect firms that own or pay huge amount of money to the stock exchanges, so that they can continue to run their very profitable ultra fast trading computer programs without risking that a human fools them.
There are no protections what so ever for small traders. They get news later, much higher fees, less transparency and so on, just because the stock exchanges want to earn more money and can do so because traders accept this. Partly due to that people like you think that the rules are there to protect you, although it's quite clear that the rules are there to protect the "bribing" ones against you or any differently thinking and trading trader.
(I didn't mean this to be insulting, but I failed... Sorry about that in advance!) I think it's best that your cousin look her kids in the cellar and never let them out. Otherwise the kids might see someone who has heard about some sort of sex, and their tiny heads will explode.
Seriously: Get your moralist myths against the wall and shoot them! Kids get hurt by beatings, rapes and overprotecting parents, not by seeing nudity or learn about sex. That is fact and nothing for sane people to debate.
I'm been running Elftown for 9 years, and we allow all ages and we ban the moralist pigs who say that they will report us to the police (Well, very rarely, of course. We just tell them to get their act together or we'll ban them).
And I very much want my cousin's children on FB. Otherwise I'll know nothing about them.
Since when is it harmful for kids to see porn? Tell me! Exactly which scientific studies have proven that children get harmed by seeing porn? There must be like 4711 studies that clearly show this as the moralist pigs keep stating this lie.
If it's something that is proven, it's that people who grew up where sex is considered something horrible will have huge problems later in life like traumas, unwanted pregnancy, perversions, violent behavior and, worst of all, risk of becoming a damn moralist pig themselves so that they can hurt everyone else too.
1) They were filled with mechanical stuff that is expensive to maintain.
2) They where local.
The goal here isn't to replace lorries, but to replace lorries, reloading and trains. So that you can send something out on the local network, over the network to another town, and then out on the other local network directly to the destination. It's like a very small lorry that needs no driver and way less fuel.
Next next step is to build superspeed intercontinental vacuum tubes so that goods can cheaply (and fast) be transported door-to-door everywhere. And if the system works great, people can start shipping themselves in special build cans (like suggested below by others).
The problem with that copyright no longer expire in USA (I assume you know that the copyright is extended at least at the same rate as the years are passing) is not about copying, but about that it makes it impossible to make derived works. As all work, cultural or more about science, is derived work, this is extremely harmful. Quite often people have to rewrite for example educational books, instead of just updating them, just because the best book there is simply can't be updated due to legal and economic bullshit.
And then we of course have the problem that for example services to stream music and films can't be made by anyone, unless they have an army of lawyers behind them. If copyright would have expired we would have seen countless of these services a long time ago that would have distributed old music, TV-series and movies. Now that invention was killed by the laws.
10 years is way too long when it comes to music, movies and TV-series. If they can't make money in that time, they don't deserve it. And they don't need more money (And they actually might get more money by giving away their old stuff for free, but I seriously don't give a shit about that and so shouldn't anyone else).
No, "they" want money for blank media, for music played in stores, for kids singing on birthday parties, for everything until they own everything. If you give them money for blank media, they will use that money to lobby and bribe politicians to get even more support from the government.
In the end of the day, you really have to think about if your tax-money (It's nothing else than that because it's the government that is upholding their monopoly to copy) should really go to lawyers, extremely rich ex-artists and companies that don't help humankind in any way.
If the copyright laws were sane and actually would expire and if you just have to pay a part of what you earn by spreading the copyrighted material, then everything would be OK. Now it's not, and especially you Americans need to stop this shit. Lists of companies to boycott or support would be a great start, if someone is willing to start working.
ThinLinc can handle advanced graphics where the graphics are generated on the server's graphic card, so it can be used on a client with a slow graphics card. It isn't (only) open source though, but there is a free version for up to 10 clients.
"The Earth's crust is tectonically recycled every several hundred million years"
No, that is not true. The ocean floor is recycled in this way, but the continents kind of flow on top of the "liquid" that is coming up in the center of the oceans and is subdued in the subduction zones. There is plenty of surface that is more than billion years old, but there are also plenty of new land like the Alps that were sea floor not long ago. The new land will probably sink back down eventually, but the light crust simply can't sink regardless of how the continents clash together, and it will stay on top.
Good for you. I would suspect that you're either a weirdo, criminal or secret agent. Either way, any same person would try to avoid you and don't do business with you.
I post everything. If people think I'm shit because I have a drink in my hand every other day, I'm just happy that they will avoid me. And I'm so grateful to never have to spend time on damn dreamers and moralists that want to find "someone perfect" and eventually start thinking that I has to be avoided because I was wearing a dress on a photo.
I've of course alienated quite a few friends that feel that they don't want to be that public, but I think that's best for everyone. I want friends (and business relations) that I can trust even after when they get to know "less good" stuff about me. I'm a good man, and if someone thinks differently, they are broken...
You forget a lot of stuff. For example, you are going from Hamburg to Shanghai, which means changing planes in Frankfurt, in best case. Then you can't sleep well on the airplane.
So an 11 hour flight basically takes as long as ferry or train trip that starts in the evening and arrives in the morning after 36 hours. They both take one day of your life.Then time-zones complicate things, of course.
As my sites aren't based in the USA, but in EU, this basically only means that I'll get fewer competitors from the USA and that the ones I have will spend more money on lawyers and less on development. I don't see how reading a patent would help me implement this though, but there might be something smart in there that I can't see by simply using Facebook and think.
Yes, I run sites similar to Facebook and I'm about to implement that kind of news-feed. Different, but similar.
Numbers mean little in war/fights. Dedication is everything. The ones who don't give up win.
Every time someone buys a CD or DVD, a little of the Internet dies. Every time someone uses Spotify, our Internet becomes more like cable TV.
Every time they shut down a Pirate Bay, the pirates learn a new way of fighting, just like every pirate copy teaches the media monopolists some new way of stealing money for stuff they paid someone to do 50 years ago.
When it comes to music it's quite easy: No compromise is needed. We should not have to pay for music and enough music will be made anyway. When it comes to movies, it's pretty easy at the moment: Let the movie theaters pay for it and sell fancy DVD-boxes that are better than digital copies. And so on. Well, if the good side win. Otherwise, welcome to cable-TV "Internet" and the end of free speech!
Why would you need net neutrality for if you can select between different companies?
The only thing that is needed is good information about what minimum standard the ISP can provide when it comes to access to remote places, and then it's up to you to select if you want to pay for a 2009 or a 2012 quality Internet (With the same local speed), and maybe if you want extra fast Youtube or extra slow. Maybe you're totally OK with only 1Mbit for port 80, but instead get fast ping-times there and in WoW, while you get 80Mbit for your bittorrent traffic where the ping times become huge.
Yes, since 2000 basically everything has gone in the wrong direction when it comes to legislation. The technology and social window to fight freedom of speech and piracy just isn't there yet, but it will eventually be.
China is moving towards that everyone must have a spyware installed on their computer and if you try to hide what you're doing, you'll be in trouble. In USA innocent people are sued for millions of dollars just because they have copied a harmless file that anyone can get access to, not to mention arrested for things they say online.
What seems to be happening with the Internet is the same that happened to pirate radio in Europe. When everyone is using things like Facebook and other "official" ways of connecting, then the authorities will simply shut Internet down so that you can't communicate directly with someone without a government controlled server in between you. Facebook already filter the private messages so that you can't send your friends what you want. Just like no one can listen to radio that isn't indirectly government controlled today, even though the station is run by a private company.
And people will accept it because everything they use Internet for still works OK. And THINK OF THE CHILDREN and TERRORISM will be great excuses for doing all sort of evil things.
Even the net neutrality conspiracy idea is a threat to the Internet. It calls for nothing else than government control of the Internet. When the control is there, it will be used to turn Internet into a fancy cable TV. We need many interconnected Internets to select from, not some more or less government run technology. If for example USA paid the same price for Internet as we do in Sweden, Americans could afford to get Internet from 3 companies and maybe a public Internet too at the same time, so who cares about net neutrality then? But USA has selected the monopoly regulated way and will soon be irrelevant, I guess. Only companies who have bribed politicians will be able to sell there. Worse is that USA is still able to push its bad ways on the rest of the world (China, France, Israel and I don't know what are trying too, but they don't succeed that much). THINK OF THE CHILDREN and then the foreign poker sites were blocked, for example. No one cared because there are still local poker sites. But this will be repeated for every aspect!
Every time someone pays $20 for a simply file-copy, a little bit of the Internet dies. This is because the incentive for the ones who over-charge this operation so heavily will increase and eventually they can basically afford to break Internet down (or make it so that you have to get everything via YouTube or Spotify like services where you are controlled).
Allofmp3.com might be cheaper, but it's still evil and charge too much for a simple copy that really doesn't cost anything. And they only share their income with Russian artists, so buying from there it isn't even an inefficient way to donate to your favourite artist.
I suggest the music stores start to sell other things than data-copying. Merchandise, tickets, social events (musicians coming there to talk), coffee, beer, guitar-lessons and so on. The entire CD-copying and iTunes industry that only copy small files can actually be replaced by a few band or fan-paid servers.
So everyone would be better off if we just stop wasting money on plastic pieces and over-expensive digital shops and instead spent the money on concerts and donations to the musicians and writers.
India got independence with actions like this. Farmers and fishers use it all the time quite successfully. The idea is simple: Make it unprofitable for others to oppose you.
The content mafia will see that you are having traffic with people who are generally filesharing. It doesn't matter if you use darknets and encryption, because they will kick in your door and look at what's on your screen and then lock you up.
You can fight them with technology, but there is no way in hell that you can win the war without removing the ones who are bribed by the content mafia from power. That means that you have to run for office and get your organizations created.
Pirate parties are forming in the civilized part of the world, but unfortunately it will be very hard to do meaningfully with the US political system. But creating other organizations to pressure politicians can work.
The thing is that power from the grid is about 4-10 times cheaper than power from a car diesel engine (which is more efficient than a gas engine). So if you see the battery and the power grid as one system, the battery is actually the bigger part of the power system, economically speaking.
With your logic a blade for a wind turbine doesn't produce any power either. It's sort of true, but as the blade is a part of a power system, you can also think of it as a producer of power.
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Of course not. You're a bacteria. There are more bacterias in your body than human cells, and they are probably more important than most of your cells. It's not like you brain does anything without the influence of chemicals created in your gut.
Short story: Google will ass-rape you sooner or later, if they can. And Google+ isn't an alternative to Facebook as the US government has access to both.
Google+ doesn't have a problem. It just haven't got anything for it. Get that, and we can start talking problems!
And cars should be driven with electric motors, that isn't a question. The question is if the power comes from batteries, engines, fuel cells or loaded while driving.
There are no protections what so ever for small traders. They get news later, much higher fees, less transparency and so on, just because the stock exchanges want to earn more money and can do so because traders accept this. Partly due to that people like you think that the rules are there to protect you, although it's quite clear that the rules are there to protect the "bribing" ones against you or any differently thinking and trading trader.
Seriously: Get your moralist myths against the wall and shoot them! Kids get hurt by beatings, rapes and overprotecting parents, not by seeing nudity or learn about sex. That is fact and nothing for sane people to debate.
I'm been running Elftown for 9 years, and we allow all ages and we ban the moralist pigs who say that they will report us to the police (Well, very rarely, of course. We just tell them to get their act together or we'll ban them).
And I very much want my cousin's children on FB. Otherwise I'll know nothing about them.
If it's something that is proven, it's that people who grew up where sex is considered something horrible will have huge problems later in life like traumas, unwanted pregnancy, perversions, violent behavior and, worst of all, risk of becoming a damn moralist pig themselves so that they can hurt everyone else too.
1) They were filled with mechanical stuff that is expensive to maintain.
2) They where local.
The goal here isn't to replace lorries, but to replace lorries, reloading and trains. So that you can send something out on the local network, over the network to another town, and then out on the other local network directly to the destination. It's like a very small lorry that needs no driver and way less fuel.
Next next step is to build superspeed intercontinental vacuum tubes so that goods can cheaply (and fast) be transported door-to-door everywhere. And if the system works great, people can start shipping themselves in special build cans (like suggested below by others).
The problem with that copyright no longer expire in USA (I assume you know that the copyright is extended at least at the same rate as the years are passing) is not about copying, but about that it makes it impossible to make derived works. As all work, cultural or more about science, is derived work, this is extremely harmful. Quite often people have to rewrite for example educational books, instead of just updating them, just because the best book there is simply can't be updated due to legal and economic bullshit.
And then we of course have the problem that for example services to stream music and films can't be made by anyone, unless they have an army of lawyers behind them. If copyright would have expired we would have seen countless of these services a long time ago that would have distributed old music, TV-series and movies. Now that invention was killed by the laws.
10 years is way too long when it comes to music, movies and TV-series. If they can't make money in that time, they don't deserve it. And they don't need more money (And they actually might get more money by giving away their old stuff for free, but I seriously don't give a shit about that and so shouldn't anyone else).
No, "they" want money for blank media, for music played in stores, for kids singing on birthday parties, for everything until they own everything. If you give them money for blank media, they will use that money to lobby and bribe politicians to get even more support from the government.
In the end of the day, you really have to think about if your tax-money (It's nothing else than that because it's the government that is upholding their monopoly to copy) should really go to lawyers, extremely rich ex-artists and companies that don't help humankind in any way.
If the copyright laws were sane and actually would expire and if you just have to pay a part of what you earn by spreading the copyrighted material, then everything would be OK. Now it's not, and especially you Americans need to stop this shit. Lists of companies to boycott or support would be a great start, if someone is willing to start working.
I do agree that it's the best way though.
ThinLinc can handle advanced graphics where the graphics are generated on the server's graphic card, so it can be used on a client with a slow graphics card. It isn't (only) open source though, but there is a free version for up to 10 clients.
No, that is not true. The ocean floor is recycled in this way, but the continents kind of flow on top of the "liquid" that is coming up in the center of the oceans and is subdued in the subduction zones. There is plenty of surface that is more than billion years old, but there are also plenty of new land like the Alps that were sea floor not long ago. The new land will probably sink back down eventually, but the light crust simply can't sink regardless of how the continents clash together, and it will stay on top.
I post everything. If people think I'm shit because I have a drink in my hand every other day, I'm just happy that they will avoid me. And I'm so grateful to never have to spend time on damn dreamers and moralists that want to find "someone perfect" and eventually start thinking that I has to be avoided because I was wearing a dress on a photo.
I've of course alienated quite a few friends that feel that they don't want to be that public, but I think that's best for everyone. I want friends (and business relations) that I can trust even after when they get to know "less good" stuff about me. I'm a good man, and if someone thinks differently, they are broken...
So an 11 hour flight basically takes as long as ferry or train trip that starts in the evening and arrives in the morning after 36 hours. They both take one day of your life.Then time-zones complicate things, of course.
Yes, I run sites similar to Facebook and I'm about to implement that kind of news-feed. Different, but similar.
Every time someone buys a CD or DVD, a little of the Internet dies. Every time someone uses Spotify, our Internet becomes more like cable TV.
Every time they shut down a Pirate Bay, the pirates learn a new way of fighting, just like every pirate copy teaches the media monopolists some new way of stealing money for stuff they paid someone to do 50 years ago.
When it comes to music it's quite easy: No compromise is needed. We should not have to pay for music and enough music will be made anyway. When it comes to movies, it's pretty easy at the moment: Let the movie theaters pay for it and sell fancy DVD-boxes that are better than digital copies. And so on. Well, if the good side win. Otherwise, welcome to cable-TV "Internet" and the end of free speech!
The only thing that is needed is good information about what minimum standard the ISP can provide when it comes to access to remote places, and then it's up to you to select if you want to pay for a 2009 or a 2012 quality Internet (With the same local speed), and maybe if you want extra fast Youtube or extra slow. Maybe you're totally OK with only 1Mbit for port 80, but instead get fast ping-times there and in WoW, while you get 80Mbit for your bittorrent traffic where the ping times become huge.
China is moving towards that everyone must have a spyware installed on their computer and if you try to hide what you're doing, you'll be in trouble. In USA innocent people are sued for millions of dollars just because they have copied a harmless file that anyone can get access to, not to mention arrested for things they say online.
What seems to be happening with the Internet is the same that happened to pirate radio in Europe. When everyone is using things like Facebook and other "official" ways of connecting, then the authorities will simply shut Internet down so that you can't communicate directly with someone without a government controlled server in between you. Facebook already filter the private messages so that you can't send your friends what you want. Just like no one can listen to radio that isn't indirectly government controlled today, even though the station is run by a private company.
And people will accept it because everything they use Internet for still works OK. And THINK OF THE CHILDREN and TERRORISM will be great excuses for doing all sort of evil things.
Even the net neutrality conspiracy idea is a threat to the Internet. It calls for nothing else than government control of the Internet. When the control is there, it will be used to turn Internet into a fancy cable TV. We need many interconnected Internets to select from, not some more or less government run technology. If for example USA paid the same price for Internet as we do in Sweden, Americans could afford to get Internet from 3 companies and maybe a public Internet too at the same time, so who cares about net neutrality then? But USA has selected the monopoly regulated way and will soon be irrelevant, I guess. Only companies who have bribed politicians will be able to sell there. Worse is that USA is still able to push its bad ways on the rest of the world (China, France, Israel and I don't know what are trying too, but they don't succeed that much). THINK OF THE CHILDREN and then the foreign poker sites were blocked, for example. No one cared because there are still local poker sites. But this will be repeated for every aspect!
Allofmp3.com might be cheaper, but it's still evil and charge too much for a simple copy that really doesn't cost anything. And they only share their income with Russian artists, so buying from there it isn't even an inefficient way to donate to your favourite artist.
I suggest the music stores start to sell other things than data-copying. Merchandise, tickets, social events (musicians coming there to talk), coffee, beer, guitar-lessons and so on. The entire CD-copying and iTunes industry that only copy small files can actually be replaced by a few band or fan-paid servers.
So everyone would be better off if we just stop wasting money on plastic pieces and over-expensive digital shops and instead spent the money on concerts and donations to the musicians and writers.
India got independence with actions like this. Farmers and fishers use it all the time quite successfully. The idea is simple: Make it unprofitable for others to oppose you.
Are you telling me that Slashdot eventually fixed so that Ã...ÃÃ- works! Whee! That only took 4711 trolls like me to fix.
Eh, no... Mine aren't working in the preview. You must be cheating with some kind of HTML-skills.
The content mafia will see that you are having traffic with people who are generally filesharing. It doesn't matter if you use darknets and encryption, because they will kick in your door and look at what's on your screen and then lock you up.
You can fight them with technology, but there is no way in hell that you can win the war without removing the ones who are bribed by the content mafia from power. That means that you have to run for office and get your organizations created.
Pirate parties are forming in the civilized part of the world, but unfortunately it will be very hard to do meaningfully with the US political system. But creating other organizations to pressure politicians can work.
Strangely, the soon-to-be second largest party in Sweden, Piratpartiet, seems to disagree with you. Why are you against free culture?
Maybe you say that culture isn't free to produce. We know that; it's you who are stupid. Why are you against free culture?
Because filesharing is stealing? No, it isn't. Why are you against free culture?
Because the ones producing content have to be paid? No, they don't have to be paid. Why are you against free culture?
But then no content will be produced? No, that is a lie. Why are you against free culture?
Because you like putting annoying kids in jail. OK, I can't argue with you there, but it's a quite expensive solution.
The thing is that power from the grid is about 4-10 times cheaper than power from a car diesel engine (which is more efficient than a gas engine). So if you see the battery and the power grid as one system, the battery is actually the bigger part of the power system, economically speaking.
With your logic a blade for a wind turbine doesn't produce any power either. It's sort of true, but as the blade is a part of a power system, you can also think of it as a producer of power.