When I stopped playing Eve:online, I had about 12 billion ISK in funds and about twice that in materiel and ships. If I sold it all on one of those dubious sites that allow newbies to buy virtual assets from older players, I'd have a couple of thousand dollars.. theoretically. If you want to pretend that your dogecoin is worth anything at all, then I'm fine with that.. as long as you understand it's a fantasy and that it will, one day, be involved in a high-speed head-on collision with cold, heartless reality.
Trying to lessen the impact of Facebook's criminal activity by saying "Comcast, AT&T and Verizon are a worse threat". I hope Salome got paid in Bitcoins.
Kind of my thought. When you subvocalize words internally your voice box actually twiches to make the sounds you just don't move your lips and tongue to say them.
This might explain why my voice is so tired. I usually have a tune running through my head, pretty much 24/7, and right now it's playing "Rosetta Stoned" by Tool, and I don't have Brother Maynard's vocal range.
Imagine trying to copy-and-paste some text from a news article somewhere into a Slashdot submission box, and having browser DRM tell you 'Sorry! The author, copyright holder or publisher of this text does not allow it to be quoted or re-published anywhere other than where it was originally published!'.
Now imagine... reading the text from that news article, one sentence at a time... and then typing it into a text editor. Good lord! People are using their brains as COPY BUFFERS!
The study also neglects to mention if the rats were exposed to human-scaled phones, or, more appropriately in my view, tiny rat-sized ones, with tiny tiny touch sensitive screens and incredibly tiny headphone jacks.
What this study may indicate is that it's bad for humans to be around phones the size of your refrigerator.
And can it tell the difference between my speech and that "Cheech and Chong" album I was listening to? Oh, look. An advertisement for a marijuana dispensary.
Megaupload executives cost film studios and record companies more than $500 million and generated more than $175 million by encouraging paying users to store and share copyrighted material.
wow, that's almost 6 gorillion shekels.
It does seem a little low. Aren't the damages in these sorts of cases ranked in the hundreds of billions? Did a legal team sit down and decide "Five hundred billion seems too much, given the films he was supposed to be hosting."
I recently discovered that there's a small town in Central Victoria named Poowong. I am not making this up. I wonder if I visited the town and took some photos and uploaded them to Google Drive with the appropriate titles if they'd get the ky-bosh? Perhaps someone with more spare time than me could explore the limits of what bored Google staffers consider to be pornographic names.
The solution to this is quite simple : remove anonymity.
And how would you do that? Require that all usenet servers must document their users' details and not permit anyone to post unless they can supply those details? Who checks the details to make sure that Mr I. P. Frehley actually DOES live at 1060 West Addison St.? Would there be an American Usenet Identity Service that liases with the Russian, Chinese, English, Icelandic, African, New Zealand, Australian and Duchy of Grand Fenwick Usenet Identity services?
Usenet was a good idea when it was made up of less than a thousand university students, but it doesn't have any mechanisms for dealing with gaslighters and professional spin doctors. It didn't have to.
Usenet won't work unless the people posting to it can be held accountable for what they post - otherwise it's spam, flames, and shitposts. At the moment, most of the posts made to talk.bizarre are coming from some dating site that promises to help their users connect with "cougars". On top of that, it's ridiculously easy to crosspost to inappropriate newsgroups, and once that starts it's very hard to stop.
Good luck finding a way to "provide users with a way to block video auto-play that doesn't break websites", especially if it's muted.
Oh, I've got a way. If click on a link and it leads to an autoplaying video, I close the page, knowing that it was a 90-second bloat with a 30 second intro, of what would have been one paragraph of text, the context of which you can often infer from the url.
I became a mystic when I dwelt in the presence of my Soul a couple decades back.
I guess if you're not dwelling in the presence of your soul.. you're dead.
I don't have much time for mystics who throw out lines like "dwelt in the presence of". What does that mean? You shared an apartment with it? Did it ever stiff you on the rent? Did it ever float into the room and casually announce "... Akashic shitter's clogged"?
Some people are theorizing that the pair interfered with the orbits of comets in the Oort cloud, some of which might have come closer to, or even hit the Earth as a result.
As for "early humans saw it", down-scaled to "appeared as a faint reddish light to anyone looking up at the time".. "Hey, look up! The sky is slightly redder than it was last week! Wow, that hasn't happened since the last volcano."
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When I stopped playing Eve:online, I had about 12 billion ISK in funds and about twice that in materiel and ships. If I sold it all on one of those dubious sites that allow newbies to buy virtual assets from older players, I'd have a couple of thousand dollars.. theoretically. If you want to pretend that your dogecoin is worth anything at all, then I'm fine with that.. as long as you understand it's a fantasy and that it will, one day, be involved in a high-speed head-on collision with cold, heartless reality.
Trying to lessen the impact of Facebook's criminal activity by saying "Comcast, AT&T and Verizon are a worse threat". I hope Salome got paid in Bitcoins.
Because they're worthless.
And I call baloney on the ability to identify non-verbalized words.
I expect it would either not work at all, or work far too well, with someone suffering Tourette's.
Kind of my thought. When you subvocalize words internally your voice box actually twiches to make the sounds you just don't move your lips and tongue to say them.
This might explain why my voice is so tired. I usually have a tune running through my head, pretty much 24/7, and right now it's playing "Rosetta Stoned" by Tool, and I don't have Brother Maynard's vocal range.
India's breeches are dhoti!
Imagine trying to copy-and-paste some text from a news article somewhere into a Slashdot submission box, and having browser DRM tell you 'Sorry! The author, copyright holder or publisher of this text does not allow it to be quoted or re-published anywhere other than where it was originally published!'.
Now imagine ... reading the text from that news article, one sentence at a time... and then typing it into a text editor. Good lord! People are using their brains as COPY BUFFERS!
Everyone line up for your mandatory lobotomies!
It could be worse. The last thing you want to hear from an AI is "... let there be light."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOZwyf9v4Z4
If you swallow an entire hot tub's worth of water, you may drown.
The study also neglects to mention if the rats were exposed to human-scaled phones, or, more appropriately in my view, tiny rat-sized ones, with tiny tiny touch sensitive screens and incredibly tiny headphone jacks.
What this study may indicate is that it's bad for humans to be around phones the size of your refrigerator.
They who? It's an unmanned probe.
The sheep is the one who continues to eat the grass.
It also adds silver iodide to the air and rain which is of course toxic.
It could be worse. In his novel "The Caryatids", Bruce Sterling had them doing something similar, using nuclear fusion bombs.
And can it tell the difference between my speech and that "Cheech and Chong" album I was listening to? Oh, look. An advertisement for a marijuana dispensary.
there is no "healing jolt" ...
You may know it better as the backhand, or the bitchslap.
Then I can finally build that Ender Chest.
Megaupload executives cost film studios and record companies more than $500 million and generated more than $175 million by encouraging paying users to store and share copyrighted material.
wow, that's almost 6 gorillion shekels.
It does seem a little low. Aren't the damages in these sorts of cases ranked in the hundreds of billions? Did a legal team sit down and decide "Five hundred billion seems too much, given the films he was supposed to be hosting."
I recently discovered that there's a small town in Central Victoria named Poowong. I am not making this up. I wonder if I visited the town and took some photos and uploaded them to Google Drive with the appropriate titles if they'd get the ky-bosh? Perhaps someone with more spare time than me could explore the limits of what bored Google staffers consider to be pornographic names.
The solution to this is quite simple : remove anonymity.
And how would you do that? Require that all usenet servers must document their users' details and not permit anyone to post unless they can supply those details? Who checks the details to make sure that Mr I. P. Frehley actually DOES live at 1060 West Addison St.? Would there be an American Usenet Identity Service that liases with the Russian, Chinese, English, Icelandic, African, New Zealand, Australian and Duchy of Grand Fenwick Usenet Identity services?
Usenet was a good idea when it was made up of less than a thousand university students, but it doesn't have any mechanisms for dealing with gaslighters and professional spin doctors. It didn't have to.
Usenet won't work unless the people posting to it can be held accountable for what they post - otherwise it's spam, flames, and shitposts. At the moment, most of the posts made to talk.bizarre are coming from some dating site that promises to help their users connect with "cougars". On top of that, it's ridiculously easy to crosspost to inappropriate newsgroups, and once that starts it's very hard to stop.
That's the Muybridge Horse. NOTHING can stop the Muybridge horse, not even death.
Good luck finding a way to "provide users with a way to block video auto-play that doesn't break websites", especially if it's muted.
Oh, I've got a way. If click on a link and it leads to an autoplaying video, I close the page, knowing that it was a 90-second bloat with a 30 second intro, of what would have been one paragraph of text, the context of which you can often infer from the url.
"And nothing of value was lost."
I became a mystic when I dwelt in the presence of my Soul a couple decades back.
I guess if you're not dwelling in the presence of your soul.. you're dead.
I don't have much time for mystics who throw out lines like "dwelt in the presence of". What does that mean? You shared an apartment with it? Did it ever stiff you on the rent? Did it ever float into the room and casually announce "... Akashic shitter's clogged"?
Some people are theorizing that the pair interfered with the orbits of comets in the Oort cloud, some of which might have come closer to, or even hit the Earth as a result.
As for "early humans saw it", down-scaled to "appeared as a faint reddish light to anyone looking up at the time".. "Hey, look up! The sky is slightly redder than it was last week! Wow, that hasn't happened since the last volcano."
Then shouldn't there be a significantly higher incidence of cancer in people who live closer to cell towers than in people who don't?
And I would not be at all surprised if that wallet's only activity was to insert those links.
Realistically, they should have made a few conventional transactions to muddy the water a little, but there wasn't any need to in this case.