Yes. Thats what I am saying. Attack the root cause of crime and not the criminal.
Whats happening today even in tackling problems like corruption and poverty is that criminals and perpetrators are being targeted and punished. The root cause of the problem remains intact in all these conditions and some other unsuspecting person falls prey to it.
Tackle the cause and the effects will be taken care of.
Its the guy (the capitain) who couldn't keep his dcik in his pants. He's the one who ought to be fired for playing with women's emotions. Actually, that'll leave very few male astronauts in NASA.
There's this method of execution shown in Tom Hanks' 'The Green Mile' in which the guy to be electrocuted is seated in the chair and a wet sponge must be placed on top of his head. Some guy (Percy) with sadistic intentions 'forgets' to do this and the poor convict burns to death in the chair. Forgive me if its off-topic, but you can learn a lot from the movies...
Whats the harm if a company markets its own products aggressively? Ultimately its up to the user to decide what to choose. Why curb companies from marketing their products? Why do we instinctively go into socialist mode? Why can't we tolerate that if I am providing a service, I want the business to come to me. Why the hell should I think about giving my competitors 'some space'? If they want this 'space', then they should be good enough for that first. Of course, if I have am manufacturing product A, and another company is making product A and C; and in order to sell my prod A, I need to use prod C, then prod C should be fair. That much is pretty obvious.
...they're made in china with cheap quality of build materials and poor quality of soldering. How else do you think prices have gone down in the last decade or so?
Won't it take energy to produce bubbles? What about law of conservation of energy? They'll just use something else to generate the bubbles (perhaps electricity). So yeah, fuel may get saved. But hello, haven't we had hovercrafts? The ship would then just be one massively overweight hovercraft no?
Why don't you people STOP THINKING IN BITS!!!!
3 co-ordinates in a 2-D space present a theoretically infinite number of possibilities. Data can be stored in the angle, distance, location and relative position of the triangle. This has nothing to do with bits and bytes, but is a different scheme of encoding. So stop with those inane calculations already!
We human beings just cannot stand to see other people succeed and make money. Its such a crabby mentality (i.e. if one crab tries to escape from the bowl, others will pull him down). They should felicitate his idea and the novelty of his scheme. At least what he did wasn't illegal in terms of his source of income. I have seen students doing bad things for money. what this chap did was harmless.
It may be that the music being churned out these days is such crap that downloading has automatically become less. Just a thought, from my personal experience. Gone are the days of Metallica, Stone Temple Pilots, GNR, Pearl Jam,...list goes on...
Narrow minded sons of beaches...Such closed minds (if any). What is the so-called 'Western influence'?? Those mullahs force their own women to wear veils and then ogle at other people's wives and daughters at every place imaginable. In a word - hypocrites.
Theres a fantastic book my Michael Crichton titled 'Prey'. In that book also there is some company that creates a swarm of nanoparticles for carrying out programmable tasks. Only thing is it takes an ugly turn when these swarms become environment-aware and intelligent. I hope these idiots also don't create something dangerous in the name of science.
To have two distinguishable species, the breeding needs to be controlled. And as I see it, its an NP-Hard problem:) Also, there is the issue with midget porno. Children born of such encounters will be somewhere in-between the Good and the Ugly. As long as sex is uncontrolled, there will always be a gradual distinction between the species of humans as there is today (you have American Chinks and you have Asian (pure) Chinks. Just like you have the blacks and the browns). Even 10000 years is too short a period for absolutely distinct species to evolve.
Why ban a domain? or 10 domains? Why not focus on the bigger problem or the goal? i.e. to ban porn itself? Porn is bad, its perverse. It brings out the worst in an individual and to top it all, the storyline really sucks (no pun intended). Instead of trying to divide and conquer, govt should focus their efforts and whatever little brains they have on trying to come up with ways of banning porn. Or the simplest solution is to not ban anything and completely trust human beings to have enough maturity and good sense. But then this is the desert of the real right?
These commercial oss companies say that they charge for their 'support'. I have realised that paying for this 'support' is a total waste of money and time. Whatever 'support' you want is freely available on newsgroups and websites. There are tons of tutorials for whatever you want to do.
Besides, if you use a free os instead of the commercial-'supported'-but-actually-free os, you can also be sure that there will be no propietary extensions/additions/tweaks in the os that can only be resolved by calling up their support.
So bottom line is DONT PAY. THINK FREE. THINK LINUX. Any version will do. I am a bigtime fan of Ubuntu. Very reliable. Loving it.
Well, where I come from, we invite the whole village for a feast that lasts 4 days. There is great rejoicing and festivity. Meals are prepared at home for the 400-odd people who turn up. And even today, I don't intend getting married in some musty government office with a clerk and a witness. We have a proper ceremony with 4 priests presiding over the rituals. I am not Catholic, in case you still haven't guessed. I'm Zoroastrian:) One of the very few remaining of our community.
"a pack of smokes in the 70's cost $0.50, but by the same token in 1976 I was taking home $60/week."
Well, the point is that the difference between what you 'could' afford and how much you 'could' spend was significant. I haven't known of anyone having to take a loan to get their children married in the "good ol' days". But today, getting children married requires taking a loan.
Of course, I agree that this varies from person to person, place to place. What I am saying here may not necessarily apply to what you may have experienced. I completely honor this fact.
"because the human mind represses bad memories and enhances good ones."
Yes, I agree with you. But then there are pessimists and negativists (like me):) who keep finding fault with the world as it exists today and keep trying to improve the quality of life around us.
Has anyone wondered why people indulge in piracy? Or anything illegal, for that matter?
I think that would happen only when a person needs something and that need is not fulfilled. People have different reasons for indulging in criminal acts. Money, glory, recognition are some reasons that I can think of.
The problem with today's world is that things are just too expensive. My grandfather talks of the time he has seen (just about 50 years ago) when things were actually available at 1/100 th the price they are today (in Indian Rupees)! He says that people were truly happy then. Because all their needs were taken care of. Two factors have ruined that: Economy and Population.
Our so-called 'leaders' today care only about their seat of power. Everything has become too damn expensive. People just aren't happy with what they get as salary. Its pittance. Everyone has dreams to fulfill. That propels them to earn more money. Business is the next option. But no one wants to leave a secure salaried job and dive into the uncertainity of business. So, they take the easy way out. Part-time business. Piracy is just one of these easy ways.
Today, I can get whatever 'commercial' software I want for less than a dollar (alghough personally, I use Linux and open source and free software or whatever you want to call it). Once things become cheap and affordable for all strata of society, people won't NEED to indulge in piracy and think of other ingenious ways of making money. The basic problem lies not in piracy itself, but in our inflation-ridden economies and the strain that increased population puts on our resources.
I know that the time my grandfather speaks of will never return, but I shudder to think what my children will have to go through to earn a respectable living.
It happens only in America. American corporates are a bunch of ingrates. The work culture sucks. There is no humanity, no love and no warmth. All the 'Hi, how you doin', 'Hi, how are you today?', 'So nice to see you again' and other phrases of warmth and caring are all feigned. No one really cares a shit about how you are today. All they know is that this company is not doing well, I need to search for sheep I can shear. An example from the health care scene: I know a child with a respiratory disorder that had to wait for 2 months just to get a bed. After getting the bed, the child survived only for a day. Its really sad how cold we have become in the pursuit for money and power. We have forgotten how peoples lives get affected by our decisions. There are countless people who are such dedicated workers, people who genuinely care about the company they work in, people who suffer silently when their dedication and committment is met with a terse email saying 'Piss off dawg, we don't need you no more'. Is it any wonder then that stuff gets outsourced to destinations like India? And that more and more workers are coming from America to work in India?
15 billion miles is a hell of a distance. What powers the Voyager? Even if its solar powered, what kind of a transmitter can signal from 15 billion miles? I would like to know the technology in the transmitter.
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Yes. Thats what I am saying. Attack the root cause of crime and not the criminal. Whats happening today even in tackling problems like corruption and poverty is that criminals and perpetrators are being targeted and punished. The root cause of the problem remains intact in all these conditions and some other unsuspecting person falls prey to it. Tackle the cause and the effects will be taken care of.
Its the guy (the capitain) who couldn't keep his dcik in his pants. He's the one who ought to be fired for playing with women's emotions. Actually, that'll leave very few male astronauts in NASA.
..Noiseware Community Edition??
There's this method of execution shown in Tom Hanks' 'The Green Mile' in which the guy to be electrocuted is seated in the chair and a wet sponge must be placed on top of his head. Some guy (Percy) with sadistic intentions 'forgets' to do this and the poor convict burns to death in the chair.
Forgive me if its off-topic, but you can learn a lot from the movies...
So Judgement Day will become a reality. Its a good thing I've booked my T-1000 in advance.
Whats the harm if a company markets its own products aggressively? Ultimately its up to the user to decide what to choose.
Why curb companies from marketing their products? Why do we instinctively go into socialist mode? Why can't we tolerate that if I am providing a service, I want the business to come to me. Why the hell should I think about giving my competitors 'some space'? If they want this 'space', then they should be good enough for that first.
Of course, if I have am manufacturing product A, and another company is making product A and C; and in order to sell my prod A, I need to use prod C, then prod C should be fair. That much is pretty obvious.
...they're made in china with cheap quality of build materials and poor quality of soldering. How else do you think prices have gone down in the last decade or so?
Won't it take energy to produce bubbles? What about law of conservation of energy? They'll just use something else to generate the bubbles (perhaps electricity). So yeah, fuel may get saved. But hello, haven't we had hovercrafts? The ship would then just be one massively overweight hovercraft no?
Why don't you people STOP THINKING IN BITS!!!! 3 co-ordinates in a 2-D space present a theoretically infinite number of possibilities. Data can be stored in the angle, distance, location and relative position of the triangle. This has nothing to do with bits and bytes, but is a different scheme of encoding. So stop with those inane calculations already!
We human beings just cannot stand to see other people succeed and make money. Its such a crabby mentality (i.e. if one crab tries to escape from the bowl, others will pull him down). They should felicitate his idea and the novelty of his scheme. At least what he did wasn't illegal in terms of his source of income. I have seen students doing bad things for money. what this chap did was harmless.
...they had outsourced it to India...
...oh surely you mean blood-baath :)
It may be that the music being churned out these days is such crap that downloading has automatically become less. Just a thought, from my personal experience. Gone are the days of Metallica, Stone Temple Pilots, GNR, Pearl Jam, ...list goes on...
Narrow minded sons of beaches...Such closed minds (if any). What is the so-called 'Western influence'?? Those mullahs force their own women to wear veils and then ogle at other people's wives and daughters at every place imaginable. In a word - hypocrites.
Theres a fantastic book my Michael Crichton titled 'Prey'. In that book also there is some company that creates a swarm of nanoparticles for carrying out programmable tasks. Only thing is it takes an ugly turn when these swarms become environment-aware and intelligent. I hope these idiots also don't create something dangerous in the name of science.
To have two distinguishable species, the breeding needs to be controlled. And as I see it, its an NP-Hard problem :)
Also, there is the issue with midget porno. Children born of such encounters will be somewhere in-between the Good and the Ugly. As long as sex is uncontrolled, there will always be a gradual distinction between the species of humans as there is today (you have American Chinks and you have Asian (pure) Chinks. Just like you have the blacks and the browns). Even 10000 years is too short a period for absolutely distinct species to evolve.
Why ban a domain? or 10 domains? Why not focus on the bigger problem or the goal? i.e. to ban porn itself? Porn is bad, its perverse. It brings out the worst in an individual and to top it all, the storyline really sucks (no pun intended).
Instead of trying to divide and conquer, govt should focus their efforts and whatever little brains they have on trying to come up with ways of banning porn. Or the simplest solution is to not ban anything and completely trust human beings to have enough maturity and good sense. But then this is the desert of the real right?
Its probably becoz of the asians there. They'll soon turn America into China or India :)
These commercial oss companies say that they charge for their 'support'. I have realised that paying for this 'support' is a total waste of money and time. Whatever 'support' you want is freely available on newsgroups and websites. There are tons of tutorials for whatever you want to do.
Besides, if you use a free os instead of the commercial-'supported'-but-actually-free os, you can also be sure that there will be no propietary extensions/additions/tweaks in the os that can only be resolved by calling up their support.
So bottom line is DONT PAY. THINK FREE. THINK LINUX. Any version will do. I am a bigtime fan of Ubuntu. Very reliable. Loving it.
I had read sometime back about Broadband being delivered over power lines. What are the practical difficulties in transmitting power wirelessly?
Well, where I come from, we invite the whole village for a feast that lasts 4 days. There is great rejoicing and festivity. Meals are prepared at home for the 400-odd people who turn up. And even today, I don't intend getting married in some musty government office with a clerk and a witness. We have a proper ceremony with 4 priests presiding over the rituals. I am not Catholic, in case you still haven't guessed. I'm Zoroastrian :) One of the very few remaining of our community.
Well, the point is that the difference between what you 'could' afford and how much you 'could' spend was significant. I haven't known of anyone having to take a loan to get their children married in the "good ol' days". But today, getting children married requires taking a loan. Of course, I agree that this varies from person to person, place to place. What I am saying here may not necessarily apply to what you may have experienced. I completely honor this fact.
"because the human mind represses bad memories and enhances good ones."
Yes, I agree with you. But then there are pessimists and negativists (like me) :) who keep finding fault with the world as it exists today and keep trying to improve the quality of life around us.
Has anyone wondered why people indulge in piracy? Or anything illegal, for that matter?
I think that would happen only when a person needs something and that need is not fulfilled. People have different reasons for indulging in criminal acts. Money, glory, recognition are some reasons that I can think of.
The problem with today's world is that things are just too expensive. My grandfather talks of the time he has seen (just about 50 years ago) when things were actually available at 1/100 th the price they are today (in Indian Rupees)! He says that people were truly happy then. Because all their needs were taken care of. Two factors have ruined that: Economy and Population.
Our so-called 'leaders' today care only about their seat of power. Everything has become too damn expensive. People just aren't happy with what they get as salary. Its pittance. Everyone has dreams to fulfill. That propels them to earn more money. Business is the next option. But no one wants to leave a secure salaried job and dive into the uncertainity of business. So, they take the easy way out. Part-time business. Piracy is just one of these easy ways.
Today, I can get whatever 'commercial' software I want for less than a dollar (alghough personally, I use Linux and open source and free software or whatever you want to call it). Once things become cheap and affordable for all strata of society, people won't NEED to indulge in piracy and think of other ingenious ways of making money. The basic problem lies not in piracy itself, but in our inflation-ridden economies and the strain that increased population puts on our resources.
I know that the time my grandfather speaks of will never return, but I shudder to think what my children will have to go through to earn a respectable living.
It happens only in America. American corporates are a bunch of ingrates. The work culture sucks. There is no humanity, no love and no warmth. All the 'Hi, how you doin', 'Hi, how are you today?', 'So nice to see you again' and other phrases of warmth and caring are all feigned. No one really cares a shit about how you are today. All they know is that this company is not doing well, I need to search for sheep I can shear.
An example from the health care scene: I know a child with a respiratory disorder that had to wait for 2 months just to get a bed. After getting the bed, the child survived only for a day. Its really sad how cold we have become in the pursuit for money and power. We have forgotten how peoples lives get affected by our decisions. There are countless people who are such dedicated workers, people who genuinely care about the company they work in, people who suffer silently when their dedication and committment is met with a terse email saying 'Piss off dawg, we don't need you no more'.
Is it any wonder then that stuff gets outsourced to destinations like India? And that more and more workers are coming from America to work in India?
15 billion miles is a hell of a distance. What powers the Voyager? Even if its solar powered, what kind of a transmitter can signal from 15 billion miles? I would like to know the technology in the transmitter.