The FBI agent "said that he checked all the trash bins at Disneyland and that he believed the one on the video was the best one in which to place a bomb."
Actually, i do not really trust people trying to get innocent people in jail, and checking all trash bins to see which is the best to place a bomb.
Being suspect has become a crime, but not for FBI-agents. Very, very scary.
Which is, in itself, a bad thing. Shopping centers replace regular shopping streets. On a shopping steet, people walk in public space, so they can choose which private shop they will enter, or not enter any shop at all. In shopping centers, only to choose where to shop, they have to enter private property, and comply with extra rules, give up even more privacy etc.
Since people need to shop, and many shops along public streets are disappearing because of the shopping centers, people are not free to avoid such places. So another part of the public space turns into private property.
This holds only true if you don't consider the vast amount of industrial production which was relocated in third world countries. The people stitching shoes do not live in developed countries any more. They live in China and are seriously poorer than the shoemaker living in your street a century ago.
Poor people are always cheaper than robots. Stitching shoes should have been totally automated by now, if the legion of the poors had really decreased.
"Rich is the nation which has lots of poor" - Joseph Heller. It's just way better to have your poor a few thousand miles away.
A lot of people know what an unsecured network is. They heard it from a friend, but that friend doesn't have time this month to secure it. (But next month, I will do it, promise.) Or he could have heard about the existance of wireless, after he got the letter, when he wondered how it could have happened and someone asked him 'but you've got a wireless card, what did you do with it?'
What's 4 computers? Maybe the guy's got a little company at home (financial administration or so). Or he's got a 286 and a 486 in the basement for some old data from ancient customers.
What's 'cleaned'? Did he wipe the drive for a re-install? That's what a lot of people do when windows messes up to much and don't have the knowledge to repair it. He used the cleaning tool from that same friend that would secure his network next month. Or did he wipe the drive of a second-hand, because he heard he would infringe copyright if he didn't?
We do not know what's exactly the case. And that's the very point. It could happen to anyone, guilty or not.
No, Mc* is not a restaurant. It's a snack bar. In a restaurant, eating takes time. It's a place where the quality of the meal and the social context of eating is at the center. And i am not talking about expensive restaurants, it also holds true for simple small-alley striplightning el cheapo restaurants and anarchistic veganistic-food-against-capitalism-squats. I've been in many restaurants that were cheaper than any fast food halls. (probably not in/Kj, soit) In a restaurant you might not learn how to cook, but at least you learn a meal is something that deserves care and special attention.
No, Mc* is seriously targetting kids to push their parents into the corner. All their friends at school have this gadget or have been at the mc this weekend, and their kids not, blablabla. We all know how these things work. In Holland, the big Mcdonalds-signs along the speedway are sometimes called 'screaming post', because kids start screaming immediately when they see one.
No, the real problem is not so much in the fast food, as it is in the driving. With healthy homecooking (or eating in a vegan-fuck-capitalism-dreadlock-restaurant) one can still get weight problems, simply by lack of body motion. So, get your kids (and yourself) out of that car, and on a bicycle. Cycling is a key to stay healthy when busy: one gets excercise during dayly transportation. 15km commuting a day by bicycle generally doesn't take more time than by car or public transport. And kids really should go to school by bicycle. (the biggest threat to children during their trip to school is the car of parents driving their kids to school). The trick is, excercise invokes healthy eating, your body simply asks for healthy food to keep the machine running. Improving the food whithout excercise is futile.
But, i completely agree, one should cook at home as frequently as possible.
This review is one in a very long range of policy reviews doomed to fail. It focuses on the fine-tuning of the existing policy, not looking at the conceptual level of the policy. Mr Gowers speaks of 'maintaining a world-class environment for creativity, design and innovation'. He does not ask: How good is our environment for creativity? or: Do we have such an environment at all? or: What fundamental shifts are at stake?
When he talks about balance between right-holders and consumers, he clearly misses the fact the distinction between the two is getting at least very vague. When he talks about enforcement of IP, he doesn't seem to see enforcement of IP will be futile in the very near future.
What happens now with music and movies, will happen with physical products soon. Right now metal parts can be custom machined by sending a drawing over the internet to a metal shop. It's done almost fully automated, noone checks on patent infringement. A metal shop could be manufacturing patented machines on a large scale without being noticed by the owners of the shop. The drawings could be torrented all around the internet. (it's probably happening already). It will happen with chemicals in less than five years, and with DNA in probably less than ten years.
Not to mention the 2.5 billion of people living in China and India alone, who will be very hard to convince they have to pay for using certain knowledge freely available on the internet.
As attempts to enforce copyright on music never fail to fail, so will other forms of IP as we know it fail. A study which does not recognise the fact that the very concept of IP is under pressure and likely to collapse, is therefore doomed to fail too.
On the other hand, if the review does recognise this, and studies IP at a conceptual level, it's also doomed, because it will be ignored.
And about what 'civil liberties' are people concerned? Privacy of your email? Privacy of your bank account? A fair trial? Freedom of speech? Freedom of manifestations? No, of all f*cking habits, speeding!
This makes the situation actually worse. Which government will think twice about civil liberties when the only liberty 'we, the people' are interested in, is to endanger other civilians by speeding?
I can't wait for the 14,357 comments saying the most fundamental human right is the freedom to break speed laws. Scientific research showing speeding increases the risk of mortal accidents and basic physics telling higher speeds increases emissions of CO2 and other pollutants will definitely be a fascist complot. A fast car will be more fundamental to survival than food and fresh water. People without a car will a) be fanatic terrorist hippies, or b) not exist.
In e-discussions on environmental related topics, Godwin's law holds true for the words "middle ages" and "stone age".
Let me guess, the reason is they wanted to build in their own look-and-feel? So X sucks?
This would only mean Linux sucks for Apple-addicts. For other people, Linux with X might be very fine. For people who can't stand the Apple look-and-feel, it might be a relief.
Apple is not the best for all. It's the best for a certain amount of users. They choose to serve this group well, better than everybody half. A good choice. A pity Apple-users generally don't understand this choice.
Well, this make the guy's remark "I will make sure you will never be able to place an order on the internet again" quite ironic. Seems like Thomas Hawk is the type of photographer a lot of shops will boast about him being one of their customers.
The difference is, there's no Moore's Law for optics. A 20 years old high-end camera is still a high-end camera, although a lot of features will be missing. A friend of mine is a brilliant student photography at an academy of art, and he works with an 25 years old professional Nikon set. True, he is the only one still working chemically, but it doesn't matter. His set has good optics.
This is the reason Leica is still not dead. They having big troubles getting their first(!) digital camera out of the factory. But Leica's are still sold. The optics of a Leica are second-to-none. Photoshop can't replace good optics. A lens is something of flesh & blood.
I wonder if i ever read an article on/. without someone touting (hidden or less hidden) one of these misconceptions about linux-for-normal-people or linux-in-the-real-world.
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The FBI agent "said that he checked all the trash bins at Disneyland and that he believed the one on the video was the best one in which to place a bomb."
Actually, i do not really trust people trying to get innocent people in jail, and checking all trash bins to see which is the best to place a bomb.
Being suspect has become a crime, but not for FBI-agents. Very, very scary.
The shopping center is private property...
Which is, in itself, a bad thing. Shopping centers replace regular shopping streets. On a shopping steet, people walk in public space, so they can choose which private shop they will enter, or not enter any shop at all. In shopping centers, only to choose where to shop, they have to enter private property, and comply with extra rules, give up even more privacy etc.
Since people need to shop, and many shops along public streets are disappearing because of the shopping centers, people are not free to avoid such places. So another part of the public space turns into private property.
We've got to stop and ask ourselves 'How many photographs do we need?'
Apart from which, any major extinction due to human effects is
bad in its own right
The extinction of humans might be an exception to that rule.
I can't remember - you don't remember your first meal, do you?
-- Waiting for the moment Unesco getting nailed for promoting exposure of breasts to children less than one day old.
That's the sort of naive, pre Januari 30 1933 talk...
This holds only true if you don't consider the vast amount of industrial production which was relocated in third world countries. The people stitching shoes do not live in developed countries any more. They live in China and are seriously poorer than the shoemaker living in your street a century ago.
Poor people are always cheaper than robots. Stitching shoes should have been totally automated by now, if the legion of the poors had really decreased.
"Rich is the nation which has lots of poor" - Joseph Heller. It's just way better to have your poor a few thousand miles away.
children seeing porn != child porn
whether to expect nothing from it as being merely a PR stunt, or be very afraid...
So you don't trust the ones who take care of your safety and protect you against the terrorists?!? Interesting...
A lot of people know what an unsecured network is. They heard it from a friend, but that friend doesn't have time this month to secure it. (But next month, I will do it, promise.) Or he could have heard about the existance of wireless, after he got the letter, when he wondered how it could have happened and someone asked him 'but you've got a wireless card, what did you do with it?'
What's 4 computers? Maybe the guy's got a little company at home (financial administration or so). Or he's got a 286 and a 486 in the basement for some old data from ancient customers.
What's 'cleaned'? Did he wipe the drive for a re-install? That's what a lot of people do when windows messes up to much and don't have the knowledge to repair it. He used the cleaning tool from that same friend that would secure his network next month. Or did he wipe the drive of a second-hand, because he heard he would infringe copyright if he didn't?
We do not know what's exactly the case. And that's the very point. It could happen to anyone, guilty or not.
You sure they sell at a loss? Or do they just sell with less profit?
No, Mc* is not a restaurant. It's a snack bar. In a restaurant, eating takes time. It's a place where the quality of the meal and the social context of eating is at the center. And i am not talking about expensive restaurants, it also holds true for simple small-alley striplightning el cheapo restaurants and anarchistic veganistic-food-against-capitalism-squats. I've been in many restaurants that were cheaper than any fast food halls. (probably not in /Kj, soit) In a restaurant you might not learn how to cook, but at least you learn a meal is something that deserves care and special attention.
No, Mc* is seriously targetting kids to push their parents into the corner. All their friends at school have this gadget or have been at the mc this weekend, and their kids not, blablabla. We all know how these things work. In Holland, the big Mcdonalds-signs along the speedway are sometimes called 'screaming post', because kids start screaming immediately when they see one.
No, the real problem is not so much in the fast food, as it is in the driving. With healthy homecooking (or eating in a vegan-fuck-capitalism-dreadlock-restaurant) one can still get weight problems, simply by lack of body motion. So, get your kids (and yourself) out of that car, and on a bicycle. Cycling is a key to stay healthy when busy: one gets excercise during dayly transportation. 15km commuting a day by bicycle generally doesn't take more time than by car or public transport. And kids really should go to school by bicycle. (the biggest threat to children during their trip to school is the car of parents driving their kids to school). The trick is, excercise invokes healthy eating, your body simply asks for healthy food to keep the machine running. Improving the food whithout excercise is futile.
But, i completely agree, one should cook at home as frequently as possible.
So Klaus Knopper will be the next arrested and sent to G'bay for developing and distributing a terrorism-enabling technology?
Just pick the guy who ordered to arrest 500 anti-WTO protesters.
Information can be useful.
This review is one in a very long range of policy reviews doomed to fail. It focuses on the fine-tuning of the existing policy, not looking at the conceptual level of the policy. Mr Gowers speaks of 'maintaining a world-class environment for creativity, design and innovation'. He does not ask: How good is our environment for creativity? or: Do we have such an environment at all? or: What fundamental shifts are at stake?
When he talks about balance between right-holders and consumers, he clearly misses the fact the distinction between the two is getting at least very vague. When he talks about enforcement of IP, he doesn't seem to see enforcement of IP will be futile in the very near future.
What happens now with music and movies, will happen with physical products soon. Right now metal parts can be custom machined by sending a drawing over the internet to a metal shop. It's done almost fully automated, noone checks on patent infringement. A metal shop could be manufacturing patented machines on a large scale without being noticed by the owners of the shop. The drawings could be torrented all around the internet. (it's probably happening already). It will happen with chemicals in less than five years, and with DNA in probably less than ten years.
Not to mention the 2.5 billion of people living in China and India alone, who will be very hard to convince they have to pay for using certain knowledge freely available on the internet.
As attempts to enforce copyright on music never fail to fail, so will other forms of IP as we know it fail. A study which does not recognise the fact that the very concept of IP is under pressure and likely to collapse, is therefore doomed to fail too.
On the other hand, if the review does recognise this, and studies IP at a conceptual level, it's also doomed, because it will be ignored.
And about what 'civil liberties' are people concerned? Privacy of your email? Privacy of your bank account? A fair trial? Freedom of speech? Freedom of manifestations? No, of all f*cking habits, speeding!
This makes the situation actually worse. Which government will think twice about civil liberties when the only liberty 'we, the people' are interested in, is to endanger other civilians by speeding?
I can't wait for the 14,357 comments saying the most fundamental human right is the freedom to break speed laws. Scientific research showing speeding increases the risk of mortal accidents and basic physics telling higher speeds increases emissions of CO2 and other pollutants will definitely be a fascist complot. A fast car will be more fundamental to survival than food and fresh water. People without a car will a) be fanatic terrorist hippies, or b) not exist.
In e-discussions on environmental related topics, Godwin's law holds true for the words "middle ages" and "stone age".
Research showed an increase of rougly 3% in accidents for every increase of 1 km/h in average speed on a given road. You can find a report here: http://www.swov.nl/rapport/Factsheets/Factsheet_Sn elheid.pdf but it's Dutch, and a pdf.
Like any normal user ever get's to use emacs or gnome-terminal.
Let me guess, the reason is they wanted to build in their own look-and-feel? So X sucks?
This would only mean Linux sucks for Apple-addicts. For other people, Linux with X might be very fine. For people who can't stand the Apple look-and-feel, it might be a relief.
Apple is not the best for all. It's the best for a certain amount of users. They choose to serve this group well, better than everybody half. A good choice. A pity Apple-users generally don't understand this choice.
Well, this make the guy's remark "I will make sure you will never be able to place an order on the internet again" quite ironic. Seems like Thomas Hawk is the type of photographer a lot of shops will boast about him being one of their customers.
The difference is, there's no Moore's Law for optics. A 20 years old high-end camera is still a high-end camera, although a lot of features will be missing. A friend of mine is a brilliant student photography at an academy of art, and he works with an 25 years old professional Nikon set. True, he is the only one still working chemically, but it doesn't matter. His set has good optics.
This is the reason Leica is still not dead. They having big troubles getting their first(!) digital camera out of the factory. But Leica's are still sold. The optics of a Leica are second-to-none. Photoshop can't replace good optics. A lens is something of flesh & blood.
This comment appeared on slashdot while i was writing this: http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=169622&c id=14137500
/. without someone touting (hidden or less hidden) one of these misconceptions about linux-for-normal-people or linux-in-the-real-world.
I wonder if i ever read an article on