Well, let me be the first to suggest them to stick it up theirs!
But seriously: simple elegant idea, almost too good to believe it hasn't been invented before, and in fact it has... nothing to see here please move along.
+10 Insightful. You elegantly formulated the heart of the problem, and why this will never ever work. It's a good thing actually, when the MAFIAA makes normal fair use impossible for consumers that's one thing, but when they try to screw over other corporations with impossible demands and schemes we will surely find a strong ally there. It's only a matter of a (short) time until the MAFIAA will *only* have enemies, and that will include their own clients. Their only 'friends' are people they pay big time... but the thing with paying people for loyalty is that loyalty evaporates when the shit get tough (especially true for politicians).
When the video of the US air-strike spread across the globe I started the waiting game to see what kind of shit would be thrown at Wikileaks... It was obvious that this could not be allowed to continue, since they were doing exactly what they should: finding and publishing the truth, and I have to say better than most journalists.
I guess other journalists don't take kindly to people doing their jobs better... WIRED: "They took our jobs!'
I honestly can't fully distill from your post what your exact stand is here... But you are wrong.;)
There is no 'original' bible, most of the stories from the bible are millennia old and have obviously changed over history, Genesis for example has existed for more time before the bible than after... The success of Christianity is based solely on the combination of ideas and stories that already existed (with some selective picking being applied then too). With the right memes combined you can have a force more powerful than anything in the history of human culture.
The catholic church realized this and just did what was already done to the 'original' bible, they selected what served their purpose. To insist the bible is a non-changing book that will remain forever the same is terribly naive. Catholics only were the latest to the party of re-use for own gain, there is no definitive way of saying they 'corrupted' it, unless you are a purist and really believe this is the word of God exactly as it should be, and in that case I would have to point out that the history does not stop at the year 0, and neither did the ever changing evolution of our culture (and religion).
It really pisses me off, and I can't see anything I can do about it.
Others say that, and then become 'terrorists'... The phrase is used so loosely it is used often instead of: revolutionary, guerrilla's, resistance fighter, or plain old heroes. It depends completely on perspective... the Germans called the Dutch who blew up their trains and transports 'terrorists', but we now call them heroes. And the patriots who fought in the civil war would also have been called terrorists, and they would have gone down in history as such if they would have lost...
The point is you *can* do something about it, just speak out loud (and keep last resorts for times so dark you can't see any light from a spark of hope around you). But you have to become immune to the people who completely miss the point and try to label critical people as 'unpatriotic'... When you criticize your countries wrongdoings you are the greatest patriot there is, because you love your country so much you will fight against all odds to improve or preserve it's values.
Yeah, that story (like many in the bible) predates Jesus by millennia. The only reason it's in the new testament is because Jesus referenced it as an example. So they frowned upon sodomy back then, as well as a lot of other retarded stuff (often named in one sentence). That does give passages from the new testament more relevance. I'm just saying that if you read this, and lots of other non-homosexuality related things from the new testament as hidden attacks against Rome it makes a lot more sense sometime. To completely disregard the historic context of any written work is to limit yourself to not understanding any of the deeper meaning.
Corporation and Terrorism are not mutually exclusive. The effect of terrorism is that by harming a few people you hurt the majority by creating fear and thus terrorizing them, reducing their quality of life and freedoms. This also does not require blowing yourself up (hence the reason the term 'terrified' does not mean 'blown to bits'). If people stick to this proper definition (instead of modern sensationalism) it becomes very clear this applies to the media corporations tactics. They sue a few (actually thousands, more than have been blown up by Al Qaida) to terrorize others, and nobody knows if they will be sued (the little fact of downloading is not even relevant, anyone got sued by them).
So you Americans *do* need to fear terrorists (and thus some corporations), it's just that your idea of what terrorism means is all FOXed up.
Shit, they took down a pirate and *two* ninja's man! Think about the unholy alliance of ninja pirates who will take their revenge and seize what is erRRRrrrrrrightfully theirs.:)
One site tries to say that the bible is simply criticising non-Christian worship practices when it complains about same sex relationships, but that's clearly a load of horse shit. It would just say so if that was the case.
There might be more truth in it than you know. If you place these scriptures in the context of the time when they were written. Christians were basically a new sect who stood up against 'the man', the Romans at that time. A lot of passages from the new testament are thinly veiled references to the evils of the Roman empire. These are the same Romans who we all know loved to pound ass, so it's fairly logical to also point this out as another 'evil' thing to do... it's a basic method of undermining your enemy by attacking their culture, it happened then and it happens today.
According to Wikipedia people in the US (as well as Canada) also pay this tax... although it seems some legal battle resulted in exemption for tax on data-CDs (and MP3 players etc.). But the bureaucracy to divide this levy exists, and that was the only point.
Wouldn't be surprised... and during the trial all the skeletons come out of the closet and the little kid tells the judge that 'daddy gave me some pills and a shot whiskey to chase it down after we came from the dentist...'. You'll be amazed what some of these fucking assholes do to their own spawn just for some attention/power/money. This shit occurs so often they even identify it as a true child-abusing syndrome like MSbP.
an unwieldy collective sharing system that's incredibly bureaucratic
"Pool all the money and divide among the scavengers who claim their part of the loot"... seems to me this bureaucratic part is already being done with the tax on CD-R's. And that sure as hell wasn't an idea from the EFF!
Extremist capitalists... Who terrorize ordinary civilians with bankruptcy... What a bunch of wankers, I hope this will get a *lot* of publicity!
And if this war breaks out and the EFF shows they can stand their ground I will support them (i'd rather give all my money to the EFF than let a dime go to these thugs), and I hope many others will because of this.
No, quite the opposite, you're confusing it with Bacta, the medicine (for pretty much anything).
"If there's a spark of life, bacta will keep you going."
Funny, it works for a law, but just as good for software security... We need some software security experts to shoot holes in laws: white-hat law-hacking (with the back-hats being the scumbags abusing the law)...:-)
But you're right, the time should be limited to the time needed to organize an emergency meeting, perhaps +1 day. So 1-3 days sounds just about right. But if you is it needed i'd say NO, they can better make a kill-switch law for the power grid, we only have like 15 minutes ahead warning for a Coronal Mass Ejection or superflare (coincidentally the same timespan for the spread of a Warhol worm), but the consequences of all our power-infrastructure blowing up at once is many orders of magnitude worse than DDOSing the internet. It is my understanding the transformers need to be disconnected to protect them, and we have satellites that give an early warning, but there is no emergency plan to shut everything down when the shit goes down. Sounds like something much more important than the internet needing a kill switch... then again, there probably isn't anyone lobbying for this.
This may sound ridiculous now, but is exactly the kind of unintended consequence of a law you can expect... Laws are always abused by stretching them to the limit of what the words can possibly mean... You should never judge a law by what the intentions are (hint: they are *always* 'good'), but by the unforeseen possible (mis-)uses later on.
If we were that cheap with out bandwidth we would have lighting fast internet, but pretty simple boring websites nowhere near the rich media experience we have today. And presentation is everything for most sites, you can even put a monetary value on the 'wasted' bandwidth and check the ROI, i'm pretty sure the extra people you reach are well worth it.
You can always surf with CSS/JS/Images etc. disabled, and well designed sites will fall back to the fast experience while retaining all information in a good-enough presentation. But I like the nice designs, and would not sacrifice a rich experience to save a couple Kb.
Example: Mozilla know the value of a good presentation (and you can bet they blow a *lot* of money on bandwidth so they put their money where their heart is). They have one of the only open source project sites that doesn't look like 1995 HTML... and they reach more people trough this informative rich site. But they waste over 300Kb listing their projects, and waste almost 500Kb showcasing Firefox... is that worth it? Fuck yeah!!!
Now that sounds like tech to be used in rural areas! When they combine the receiving station with a 3G node you would have broadband with an added mobile broadband bonus... This is the way to go, I'm pretty sure Australian farmers would see the benefit of using their mobile all over the ranch and would see a box like that as a good infrastructure investment. The cell companies would probably charge them big time, but this way there should be a mutual benefit, the farmer gets coverage and pays a little more for it, and the telco gets coverage and pays a little less for it...
On that same note, there should be more access points that double as 3G node, so you can have fast cheap mobile internet everywhere you are willing to make the investment where the telco's aren't. Another added bonus is this: transmit power can be lowered significantly so less radio-noise is produced... and your cell's battery will last twice as long when using the internet.
Yeah, and has anyone ever had any reception in a 'rural' area? I don't know what definition they used for rural here, but it is most likely the park in the center of the city if they can pull 2 Mbit of 3G.
Also: prepare to be massively overcharged by the providers who have to build the 3G towers in the middle of nowhere now...
our liberties and our rights and freedoms are utterly doomed if those who defend those notions are hysterical twits who cry the sky is falling about everything. be prudent and intelligent or don't bother: you only hurt the good cause
This is so true... for all areas I can think of right now there are people that fit exactly that profile and hurt our good cause, for example:
- Enviromentalists (do more harm to environment than they even know, overly complaining about visible oil on the surface killing some birds only forces them to use more toxic dispersants that are more dangerous to the ecosystem than the oil. Ignorant hippies!)
- Privacy advocates (complaining that extra camera's reduce privacy even further while the opposite should be true, a ridiculous amount of camera's can never be watched so i'd worry more about 1 than 1000. Paranoid fucks!)
- Free-speech advocates (always complaining that free speech means 'anything can be said', and then add: well anything except that 'one hurtful thing' they personally don't like. Hypocritical bastards!)
Fuck em all, bunch of misguided motherfuckers. The only way to really change something is indeed like you said: be prudent and intelligent or don't bother.
I apologize for the rather harsh language, but it's been a long day and thinking about self righteous do-gooders that actually fuck shit up even worse pisses me off...
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More accurately: 1 library of congress = over 9000 Boeing 747's full of monkeys.
Well, let me be the first to suggest them to stick it up theirs!
But seriously: simple elegant idea, almost too good to believe it hasn't been invented before, and in fact it has... nothing to see here please move along.
+10 Insightful. You elegantly formulated the heart of the problem, and why this will never ever work. It's a good thing actually, when the MAFIAA makes normal fair use impossible for consumers that's one thing, but when they try to screw over other corporations with impossible demands and schemes we will surely find a strong ally there. It's only a matter of a (short) time until the MAFIAA will *only* have enemies, and that will include their own clients. Their only 'friends' are people they pay big time... but the thing with paying people for loyalty is that loyalty evaporates when the shit get tough (especially true for politicians).
When the video of the US air-strike spread across the globe I started the waiting game to see what kind of shit would be thrown at Wikileaks... It was obvious that this could not be allowed to continue, since they were doing exactly what they should: finding and publishing the truth, and I have to say better than most journalists.
I guess other journalists don't take kindly to people doing their jobs better... WIRED: "They took our jobs!'
I honestly can't fully distill from your post what your exact stand is here... But you are wrong. ;)
There is no 'original' bible, most of the stories from the bible are millennia old and have obviously changed over history, Genesis for example has existed for more time before the bible than after... The success of Christianity is based solely on the combination of ideas and stories that already existed (with some selective picking being applied then too). With the right memes combined you can have a force more powerful than anything in the history of human culture.
The catholic church realized this and just did what was already done to the 'original' bible, they selected what served their purpose. To insist the bible is a non-changing book that will remain forever the same is terribly naive. Catholics only were the latest to the party of re-use for own gain, there is no definitive way of saying they 'corrupted' it, unless you are a purist and really believe this is the word of God exactly as it should be, and in that case I would have to point out that the history does not stop at the year 0, and neither did the ever changing evolution of our culture (and religion).
It really pisses me off, and I can't see anything I can do about it.
Others say that, and then become 'terrorists'... The phrase is used so loosely it is used often instead of: revolutionary, guerrilla's, resistance fighter, or plain old heroes. It depends completely on perspective... the Germans called the Dutch who blew up their trains and transports 'terrorists', but we now call them heroes. And the patriots who fought in the civil war would also have been called terrorists, and they would have gone down in history as such if they would have lost...
The point is you *can* do something about it, just speak out loud (and keep last resorts for times so dark you can't see any light from a spark of hope around you). But you have to become immune to the people who completely miss the point and try to label critical people as 'unpatriotic'... When you criticize your countries wrongdoings you are the greatest patriot there is, because you love your country so much you will fight against all odds to improve or preserve it's values.
Yes! They can never defeat the last Ninja. I propose we only keep Ninja.com, it is also useful for searching for torrents: Google Ninja
Yeah, that story (like many in the bible) predates Jesus by millennia. The only reason it's in the new testament is because Jesus referenced it as an example. So they frowned upon sodomy back then, as well as a lot of other retarded stuff (often named in one sentence). That does give passages from the new testament more relevance. I'm just saying that if you read this, and lots of other non-homosexuality related things from the new testament as hidden attacks against Rome it makes a lot more sense sometime. To completely disregard the historic context of any written work is to limit yourself to not understanding any of the deeper meaning.
Corporation and Terrorism are not mutually exclusive. The effect of terrorism is that by harming a few people you hurt the majority by creating fear and thus terrorizing them, reducing their quality of life and freedoms. This also does not require blowing yourself up (hence the reason the term 'terrified' does not mean 'blown to bits'). If people stick to this proper definition (instead of modern sensationalism) it becomes very clear this applies to the media corporations tactics. They sue a few (actually thousands, more than have been blown up by Al Qaida) to terrorize others, and nobody knows if they will be sued (the little fact of downloading is not even relevant, anyone got sued by them).
So you Americans *do* need to fear terrorists (and thus some corporations), it's just that your idea of what terrorism means is all FOXed up.
Shit, they took down a pirate and *two* ninja's man! Think about the unholy alliance of ninja pirates who will take their revenge and seize what is erRRRrrrrrrightfully theirs. :)
One site tries to say that the bible is simply criticising non-Christian worship practices when it complains about same sex relationships, but that's clearly a load of horse shit. It would just say so if that was the case.
There might be more truth in it than you know. If you place these scriptures in the context of the time when they were written. Christians were basically a new sect who stood up against 'the man', the Romans at that time. A lot of passages from the new testament are thinly veiled references to the evils of the Roman empire. These are the same Romans who we all know loved to pound ass, so it's fairly logical to also point this out as another 'evil' thing to do... it's a basic method of undermining your enemy by attacking their culture, it happened then and it happens today.
According to Wikipedia people in the US (as well as Canada) also pay this tax... although it seems some legal battle resulted in exemption for tax on data-CDs (and MP3 players etc.). But the bureaucracy to divide this levy exists, and that was the only point.
Wouldn't be surprised... and during the trial all the skeletons come out of the closet and the little kid tells the judge that 'daddy gave me some pills and a shot whiskey to chase it down after we came from the dentist...'. You'll be amazed what some of these fucking assholes do to their own spawn just for some attention/power/money. This shit occurs so often they even identify it as a true child-abusing syndrome like MSbP.
an unwieldy collective sharing system that's incredibly bureaucratic
"Pool all the money and divide among the scavengers who claim their part of the loot"... seems to me this bureaucratic part is already being done with the tax on CD-R's. And that sure as hell wasn't an idea from the EFF!
Extremist capitalists... Who terrorize ordinary civilians with bankruptcy... What a bunch of wankers, I hope this will get a *lot* of publicity!
And if this war breaks out and the EFF shows they can stand their ground I will support them (i'd rather give all my money to the EFF than let a dime go to these thugs), and I hope many others will because of this.
No, quite the opposite, you're confusing it with Bacta, the medicine (for pretty much anything). "If there's a spark of life, bacta will keep you going."
Dear sir, I find your statement offensive... masturbation never harmed anyone!!!
Funny, it works for a law, but just as good for software security... We need some software security experts to shoot holes in laws: white-hat law-hacking (with the back-hats being the scumbags abusing the law)... :-)
But you're right, the time should be limited to the time needed to organize an emergency meeting, perhaps +1 day. So 1-3 days sounds just about right.
But if you is it needed i'd say NO, they can better make a kill-switch law for the power grid, we only have like 15 minutes ahead warning for a Coronal Mass Ejection or superflare (coincidentally the same timespan for the spread of a Warhol worm), but the consequences of all our power-infrastructure blowing up at once is many orders of magnitude worse than DDOSing the internet. It is my understanding the transformers need to be disconnected to protect them, and we have satellites that give an early warning, but there is no emergency plan to shut everything down when the shit goes down. Sounds like something much more important than the internet needing a kill switch... then again, there probably isn't anyone lobbying for this.
This may sound ridiculous now, but is exactly the kind of unintended consequence of a law you can expect... Laws are always abused by stretching them to the limit of what the words can possibly mean... You should never judge a law by what the intentions are (hint: they are *always* 'good'), but by the unforeseen possible (mis-)uses later on.
If we were that cheap with out bandwidth we would have lighting fast internet, but pretty simple boring websites nowhere near the rich media experience we have today. And presentation is everything for most sites, you can even put a monetary value on the 'wasted' bandwidth and check the ROI, i'm pretty sure the extra people you reach are well worth it. You can always surf with CSS/JS/Images etc. disabled, and well designed sites will fall back to the fast experience while retaining all information in a good-enough presentation. But I like the nice designs, and would not sacrifice a rich experience to save a couple Kb.
Example: Mozilla know the value of a good presentation (and you can bet they blow a *lot* of money on bandwidth so they put their money where their heart is). They have one of the only open source project sites that doesn't look like 1995 HTML... and they reach more people trough this informative rich site. But they waste over 300Kb listing their projects, and waste almost 500Kb showcasing Firefox... is that worth it? Fuck yeah!!!
Now that sounds like tech to be used in rural areas! When they combine the receiving station with a 3G node you would have broadband with an added mobile broadband bonus... This is the way to go, I'm pretty sure Australian farmers would see the benefit of using their mobile all over the ranch and would see a box like that as a good infrastructure investment. The cell companies would probably charge them big time, but this way there should be a mutual benefit, the farmer gets coverage and pays a little more for it, and the telco gets coverage and pays a little less for it...
On that same note, there should be more access points that double as 3G node, so you can have fast cheap mobile internet everywhere you are willing to make the investment where the telco's aren't. Another added bonus is this: transmit power can be lowered significantly so less radio-noise is produced... and your cell's battery will last twice as long when using the internet.
Yeah, and has anyone ever had any reception in a 'rural' area? I don't know what definition they used for rural here, but it is most likely the park in the center of the city if they can pull 2 Mbit of 3G.
Also: prepare to be massively overcharged by the providers who have to build the 3G towers in the middle of nowhere now...
Wasn't that part of the new extension to RFC 2549: "IP over Avian Carrier with QoS and Packet Tracking over SMS Carrier"
Would be fun to see all those pigeons texting where they are...
our liberties and our rights and freedoms are utterly doomed if those who defend those notions are hysterical twits who cry the sky is falling about everything. be prudent and intelligent or don't bother: you only hurt the good cause
This is so true... for all areas I can think of right now there are people that fit exactly that profile and hurt our good cause, for example:
- Enviromentalists (do more harm to environment than they even know, overly complaining about visible oil on the surface killing some birds only forces them to use more toxic dispersants that are more dangerous to the ecosystem than the oil. Ignorant hippies!)
- Privacy advocates (complaining that extra camera's reduce privacy even further while the opposite should be true, a ridiculous amount of camera's can never be watched so i'd worry more about 1 than 1000. Paranoid fucks!)
- Free-speech advocates (always complaining that free speech means 'anything can be said', and then add: well anything except that 'one hurtful thing' they personally don't like. Hypocritical bastards!)
Fuck em all, bunch of misguided motherfuckers. The only way to really change something is indeed like you said: be prudent and intelligent or don't bother.
I apologize for the rather harsh language, but it's been a long day and thinking about self righteous do-gooders that actually fuck shit up even worse pisses me off...