Pivacy? What kind of bookmarks do you want to keep private, besides just to avoid spam? Use Bittorrent for that stuff.
Seriously, what will Google know? I'll post my bookmarks here to show how much I don't care.
I have some webcomics, a link to my website, a link to my gmail, a link to youtube (and some specific videos, nothing useful), The Best Page in the Universe, SIGForum, some Linux and computer sites, some wikipedia pages, and some humor pages.
WOW! Whoop-de-freakin-do you guys know sooo much now, I feel naked.
I'm much more concerned about gmail archiving all of my email forever than I am about this, and I got over it very simply: don't have anything you would especially care to keep private! I mean, sure, I wouldn't go handing out data just because it's not that important, but my only fear from that is spam and having ake a new email account. Unless your work involves alot of confidential information (in which case have a seperate work and home computer or even just accounts), or you have really weird fetishes or something, it's pretty much insignificant in terms of privacy worries. It's like those stories about laptops getting stolen that had tons of employee info on them. Why was it on a laptop, why was it just sitting in a guy's car instead or an armored truck, why wasn't it encrypted, etc.; what the hell were these people thinking?
For the fifty millionth time, not all of them are starving! This isn't for the kids you see on the adopt-a-child commercials, this is for the semi-stable states that would hopefully, through the education of its children, begin modernizing and bring wealth, prosperity, education, and infrastructure to the entire region. If, say, 7 African nations were truly on their way to becoming first world nations, imagine how it would affect their neighbours.
If all we did was feed starving people, they'd be dependant on us forever, and would have rampant overpopulation and disease. By educating the parts of the continent that is slightly better off, they can help themselves, and then help their neighbours help themselves.
I wasn't advocating a system of government, just a policy. The idea is to have them expire a little faster than you can replace them, so that it trims down the less important ones (again, hopefully).
I'm a moderate, little-L libertarian, but you must be a really hardcore one. All taxes are theft? Even for, say, national defense? Public schools are trash, but some people come from poor families and do their best and get into a great school on a full ride scholarship. If private/home schooling was more affordable, maybe. How about police and fire services? I think free universal healthcare is too much, but what about emergency medical services and the like? I really hate Democrats that don't just go ahead be honest about the fact that they have hidden shrines to Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Castro in their basement and that think that Uncle Sam should pay for everything with taxes, and I do agree that taxes and spending should be drastically cut, but to say that all taxes should be abolished, not even replacing them with sales taxes (you know, like if we followed the Constitution...) is perhaps a bit much.
The reason I'm a moderate libertarian is because I like the ideas but I do see the possible pitfalls, and don't see any reason why we can't take things one bit at a time, because that will take less time than convincing everyone to jump in head-first to the libertarian pipe dream. Which, BTW, we don't even know will work, whereas one bit at a time, say, civil unions, limited abortions, cutting government affirmative action, allowing weed but not other drugs, etc. is easier to convince people to do, or at least to try, because if it doesn't go as planned (like most communist revolutions) it's really easy to revert because there isn't a fundamental change in society or social order, like there is with a Communist revolution.
Laws should be concerned with the social aspect. If everyone was free to murder, there'd be a breakdown of social order into anarchy. Same with stealing. But what if everyone suddenly became gay, and got married?
Aside from birth rate problems (easily alleviated by adoption from disenfranchised nations), there'd be some changes, but... nothing too terrible. If everyone saw boobies on TV... then what? Aside from Bible junkies having a hard tme explaining it to their kids or possibly suffering heart attacks... what's the problem exactly? If there were boobies everywhere (i.e. in public), yeah, society might have some bumps due to workplace distractions, or possibly mass orgies. But on a TV in your own home that has a v-chip you control?... Not so much. I didn't really care about saying the Pledge in school, other than when we did it every day and it detracted from the value of it. I just omitted that certain line. There doesn't need to be a law omitting it as long as there is no requirement to say it. People that think otherwise (on both sides) are just being attention-whoring asshats.
It's like when a FDA guy said that when testing for a certain drug (don't remember the drug) was done 14,000 deaths a year would be stopped. Since testing took 4 years, one could also say they killed 56,000 people.
Why would it have to secede? As far as I can tell it's usually the state legislatures that have too much free time to micomanage every little thing, and you could just make them exempt from certain Federal policies.
How about having groups of current laws expire unless re-ratified? You pick a bunch of laws (haven't got this part worked out yet) set a time limit (so that there will only be enough time for the most important ones) and pray. Not perfect, but I'm toying with it.
"Nobody has a right to make laws over me or steal my property"
Ah, an anarchist. So no one can tax you for anything ever? No one can hold you accountable for not feeding your children (hypothetically)? I think I understand your point, but you worded it very strongly.
I would like to see a system rigged up to make groups (currently deciding on how to make said groups) of laws have a time limit during which they need to be re-ratified or they expire, and have this done so that the time limit is too short to re-ratify all laws and that (hopefully) only the most important ones are reimplemeted. This could be done on a rolling schedule, giving politicians just enough time to deal with only important new legislation, and purging some ancient, archaic, and unnecessary laws. I know that this is far from perfect and would have to be customized for every legal system it is in, but I am just toying with it. Whadda ya think?
Think about this... What were graphics like 20 years ago?
Calling them graphics is almost silly.
Think about how good Half-Life 2, Oblivion, F.E.A.R., Doom 3, FarCry, and the gameplay footage of E3 looked. Now think about how good it's gonna look in 20 years.
Think 40 years now.
Full-speed ahead to the Metaverse!
Run through this thought process with medical technology and practices too... I feel optimistic that I'll have plenty of time to enjoy that Metaverse when it finally comes out along with Duke Nukem Forever.
Additionally, the bourgousie realized that the proles would become violent, so they conceded tiny perks and benefits a little at a time, like minimum wage, 8 hour work days, safety regulations, no child labor, vacation time, union rights, so forth and so on so that no violent revolution was necessary in countries that did this like England.
Also, the communism everyone (well, people that knew what they were talking about) was scared of wasn't really Marx's communism (just look at some of our unions...) but the Soviet kind (which had a real nasty political and social environment that went with what should have just been an economic system) that did so much good for the Soviets, East Germany, China (till recently), Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba, and whoever else I'm forgetting. Communism on its own? Maybe not so bad, if you could get it to work. Some countries kinda do this in some areas, like Israel. Soviet style? To the gulag for your questions!
Remember, all things in moderation...
Democratic socialism works for much of Europe, but I don't think that it would work to such a degree like that in the USA. Many European countries have very stable, static, and socioeconomically equal societies, whereas the US has an extremly dynamic, contrasting, and actively changing society in most areas. I wish there really was some science to "political science"...
Maybe if there wasn't so much cheap labor those jobs would actually pay decently and Americans would want them. Maybe if minimum wage was enforced there wouldn't be any reason to hire illegal immigrants over citizens.
Maybe if illegal immigrants paid their taxes we wouldn't mind so much about them recieveing free medical care, free education in their own language, free legal aid in their own language; free police, fire, and emergency services, and recieving many other social services for free at our expense. Oh, and if they wouldn't protest not having rights they don't actually have because they aren't citizens and would go and get their citizen application papers instead of skipping work, rallying, hanging our flag upside down underneath ours, talking about 'la reconquista' in our own universities they got into because of 'racial diversity' quotas (because different colored skin makes you different... right?) and affirmative action tuitions, maybe we wouldn't mind so much about them breaking our laws to enter our country.
Because most of us realize that life in Mexico really sucks and while we would prefer if you could fix your own country, we are mostly pretty hospitable people who would love to help you improve your lives. We just get a little ticked when people take advantage of that by acting like we owe them something (actually quite a bit of somethings) and not giving back to the pot they take from at all.
If coming into our country was the only law you've ever broken and you just want to work hard at an honest job to improve the lives of your family and pay your taxes as best you can, learn English to speak out of the home (do whatever you like in your but don't expect us to jump to learn your language to help you), maybe occasionally do some community sevice or somehow give back, and apply for your green card or citizenship as soon as you can, then by golly you're more American than many people I know, and I'd be proud to have you in this country.
Actually, my school was slammed by a phone virus that jumped onto the pc network after someone connected their phone to a pc over xmas break. They had to reimage the entire school. I thought it was hilarious because they take such a unnecessarily draconian stance on certain aspects of security but leave gaping holes like this. Serves them right, I'm glad I graduated and am moving on.
In a way, crosswords do harm by cluttering up the mind with an aimless heap of unusual words selected purely for mechanical exigencies and having no well-proportioned relation to the needs of graceful discourse.
- H. P. Lovecraft
That's the right attitude, FOSS is a brotherhood against teh suck. I like Opera, but I have Firefox tweaked to perfection and though I have played with Opera, I'm just gonna stick to FF for a while.
Okay, so it doesn't find text in drop-down menus, but it works perfectly for everything I do. I love it, personally. With Google and Find-in-text, I can find almost anything. This is especially nice because i have a gmail email "conversation" as they call it of me emailing any cool quotes I find to myself, and I can find any of the hundred or so of them in about 10 seconds.
A better comparison would be construction workers realizing that building collapse and/or burst into flames far too often, or lock and door manufacturers ralizing that a toddler can get through thir products with just a little effort.
But essentially you are right, security has sucked for so long, it is hardly news. Call me when it doesn't suck anymore (when there is mass Linux/BSD migration? When Satan buys ice skates?).
I think Trigun's really funny but that's mainly what I like about it and I thought GITS SAC got kinda boring, although it was pretty and had good action (like the movie). I would kill for a Tachikoma though...
One thing alot of the "eva sucks" posts are missing is that the series was *supposed* to be a franchise for kids. Really, they just wanted to make toys from it. But somehow Anno got ahold of it, and while the deepness of it and whether certain things are superficial or add to the mood and atmosphere is debatable, it certainly broke the mold for... pretty much everything. It wouldn't of been notable at all except for the changes made, and it was a mishmash of design, so I give it props for what it does well father than where it supposedly slips.
Certain aspects of it are really amazingly cool, and I think the live action eva movies have great potential. I have almost no faith that potential will be fufilled, but the concept art looks great and I wish I were in charge of it. Make Shinji less of a whiny pussy but still downtrodden (perhaps knock their ages up to, say 17 or 18?), make some parts less corny but still funny, a little dialogue editing to clarify what is going on and why it happend and make characters seem believable and reduce the immature angstiness, a little work on certain action scenes, and it could be freakishly kick ass and epic. It's ideas like this that make me want to go into the film industry (yeah, that's right, I DO think I could do a better job than most movies, although it would be a while before I could seriously try to). I probably wouldn't start with this though...
It is very much a love/don't get/hate series. I rank it up with Cowboy Bebop, but consider Bebop better because of its universal appeal. Bebop is not everyone's favorite of all time, but I don't know anyone that has seen a good amount of it and doesn't like it.
On a side note, I also really like Haibane Renmei (yeah, I'm a guy, say whatever but I like it. Fuck you.), Cowboy Bebop, FLCL, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, and Miyazaki's work.
For the record, I hate long and popular series ESPECIALLY DBZ, Inu-yasha (DBZ for girls! Better when it was called Fushigi-Yugi!), and Naruto. GITS and SAC have some cool stuff but aren't really good.
Anime sucks as much as American movies and TV, but has its gems too, and combine both gem piles together and you've got a nice selection. I really don't like much of it at all, but what I do like stands up to anything from Hollywood or on cable.
Slashdot Mirror
Asimov, and it's a little different.
Pivacy? What kind of bookmarks do you want to keep private, besides just to avoid spam? Use Bittorrent for that stuff.
Seriously, what will Google know? I'll post my bookmarks here to show how much I don't care.
I have some webcomics, a link to my website, a link to my gmail, a link to youtube (and some specific videos, nothing useful), The Best Page in the Universe, SIGForum, some Linux and computer sites, some wikipedia pages, and some humor pages.
WOW! Whoop-de-freakin-do you guys know sooo much now, I feel naked.
I'm much more concerned about gmail archiving all of my email forever than I am about this, and I got over it very simply: don't have anything you would especially care to keep private! I mean, sure, I wouldn't go handing out data just because it's not that important, but my only fear from that is spam and having ake a new email account. Unless your work involves alot of confidential information (in which case have a seperate work and home computer or even just accounts), or you have really weird fetishes or something, it's pretty much insignificant in terms of privacy worries. It's like those stories about laptops getting stolen that had tons of employee info on them. Why was it on a laptop, why was it just sitting in a guy's car instead or an armored truck, why wasn't it encrypted, etc.; what the hell were these people thinking?
For the fifty millionth time, not all of them are starving! This isn't for the kids you see on the adopt-a-child commercials, this is for the semi-stable states that would hopefully, through the education of its children, begin modernizing and bring wealth, prosperity, education, and infrastructure to the entire region. If, say, 7 African nations were truly on their way to becoming first world nations, imagine how it would affect their neighbours.
If all we did was feed starving people, they'd be dependant on us forever, and would have rampant overpopulation and disease. By educating the parts of the continent that is slightly better off, they can help themselves, and then help their neighbours help themselves.
'itunes' (like 100MB is giong to do me any good?)
I agree. You'd think that given the choking-hazard size of the iPod Nano they could remedy this, but nooo...
I dunno, Pentium 4s use alot of juice.
I wasn't advocating a system of government, just a policy. The idea is to have them expire a little faster than you can replace them, so that it trims down the less important ones (again, hopefully).
I'm a moderate, little-L libertarian, but you must be a really hardcore one. All taxes are theft? Even for, say, national defense? Public schools are trash, but some people come from poor families and do their best and get into a great school on a full ride scholarship. If private/home schooling was more affordable, maybe. How about police and fire services? I think free universal healthcare is too much, but what about emergency medical services and the like? I really hate Democrats that don't just go ahead be honest about the fact that they have hidden shrines to Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Castro in their basement and that think that Uncle Sam should pay for everything with taxes, and I do agree that taxes and spending should be drastically cut, but to say that all taxes should be abolished, not even replacing them with sales taxes (you know, like if we followed the Constitution...) is perhaps a bit much.
The reason I'm a moderate libertarian is because I like the ideas but I do see the possible pitfalls, and don't see any reason why we can't take things one bit at a time, because that will take less time than convincing everyone to jump in head-first to the libertarian pipe dream. Which, BTW, we don't even know will work, whereas one bit at a time, say, civil unions, limited abortions, cutting government affirmative action, allowing weed but not other drugs, etc. is easier to convince people to do, or at least to try, because if it doesn't go as planned (like most communist revolutions) it's really easy to revert because there isn't a fundamental change in society or social order, like there is with a Communist revolution.
I agree, with a clarification.
... Not so much. I didn't really care about saying the Pledge in school, other than when we did it every day and it detracted from the value of it. I just omitted that certain line. There doesn't need to be a law omitting it as long as there is no requirement to say it. People that think otherwise (on both sides) are just being attention-whoring asshats.
Laws should be concerned with the social aspect. If everyone was free to murder, there'd be a breakdown of social order into anarchy. Same with stealing. But what if everyone suddenly became gay, and got married?
Aside from birth rate problems (easily alleviated by adoption from disenfranchised nations), there'd be some changes, but... nothing too terrible. If everyone saw boobies on TV... then what? Aside from Bible junkies having a hard tme explaining it to their kids or possibly suffering heart attacks... what's the problem exactly? If there were boobies everywhere (i.e. in public), yeah, society might have some bumps due to workplace distractions, or possibly mass orgies. But on a TV in your own home that has a v-chip you control?
It's like when a FDA guy said that when testing for a certain drug (don't remember the drug) was done 14,000 deaths a year would be stopped. Since testing took 4 years, one could also say they killed 56,000 people.
How about people that redundantly call it an ATM machine?
*ducks
Why would it have to secede? As far as I can tell it's usually the state legislatures that have too much free time to micomanage every little thing, and you could just make them exempt from certain Federal policies.
How about having groups of current laws expire unless re-ratified? You pick a bunch of laws (haven't got this part worked out yet) set a time limit (so that there will only be enough time for the most important ones) and pray. Not perfect, but I'm toying with it.
"Nobody has a right to make laws over me or steal my property"
Ah, an anarchist. So no one can tax you for anything ever? No one can hold you accountable for not feeding your children (hypothetically)? I think I understand your point, but you worded it very strongly.
I would like to see a system rigged up to make groups (currently deciding on how to make said groups) of laws have a time limit during which they need to be re-ratified or they expire, and have this done so that the time limit is too short to re-ratify all laws and that (hopefully) only the most important ones are reimplemeted. This could be done on a rolling schedule, giving politicians just enough time to deal with only important new legislation, and purging some ancient, archaic, and unnecessary laws. I know that this is far from perfect and would have to be customized for every legal system it is in, but I am just toying with it. Whadda ya think?
Think about this... What were graphics like 20 years ago?
Calling them graphics is almost silly.
Think about how good Half-Life 2, Oblivion, F.E.A.R., Doom 3, FarCry, and the gameplay footage of E3 looked. Now think about how good it's gonna look in 20 years.
Think 40 years now.
Full-speed ahead to the Metaverse!
Run through this thought process with medical technology and practices too... I feel optimistic that I'll have plenty of time to enjoy that Metaverse when it finally comes out along with Duke Nukem Forever.
Additionally, the bourgousie realized that the proles would become violent, so they conceded tiny perks and benefits a little at a time, like minimum wage, 8 hour work days, safety regulations, no child labor, vacation time, union rights, so forth and so on so that no violent revolution was necessary in countries that did this like England.
Also, the communism everyone (well, people that knew what they were talking about) was scared of wasn't really Marx's communism (just look at some of our unions...) but the Soviet kind (which had a real nasty political and social environment that went with what should have just been an economic system) that did so much good for the Soviets, East Germany, China (till recently), Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba, and whoever else I'm forgetting. Communism on its own? Maybe not so bad, if you could get it to work. Some countries kinda do this in some areas, like Israel. Soviet style? To the gulag for your questions!
Remember, all things in moderation...
Democratic socialism works for much of Europe, but I don't think that it would work to such a degree like that in the USA. Many European countries have very stable, static, and socioeconomically equal societies, whereas the US has an extremly dynamic, contrasting, and actively changing society in most areas. I wish there really was some science to "political science"...
Yeah, cuz private firms are always unbiased, especially when it comes to the environment, health, and social 'studies'.
Maybe if there wasn't so much cheap labor those jobs would actually pay decently and Americans would want them. Maybe if minimum wage was enforced there wouldn't be any reason to hire illegal immigrants over citizens.
Maybe if illegal immigrants paid their taxes we wouldn't mind so much about them recieveing free medical care, free education in their own language, free legal aid in their own language; free police, fire, and emergency services, and recieving many other social services for free at our expense. Oh, and if they wouldn't protest not having rights they don't actually have because they aren't citizens and would go and get their citizen application papers instead of skipping work, rallying, hanging our flag upside down underneath ours, talking about 'la reconquista' in our own universities they got into because of 'racial diversity' quotas (because different colored skin makes you different... right?) and affirmative action tuitions, maybe we wouldn't mind so much about them breaking our laws to enter our country.
Because most of us realize that life in Mexico really sucks and while we would prefer if you could fix your own country, we are mostly pretty hospitable people who would love to help you improve your lives. We just get a little ticked when people take advantage of that by acting like we owe them something (actually quite a bit of somethings) and not giving back to the pot they take from at all.
If coming into our country was the only law you've ever broken and you just want to work hard at an honest job to improve the lives of your family and pay your taxes as best you can, learn English to speak out of the home (do whatever you like in your but don't expect us to jump to learn your language to help you), maybe occasionally do some community sevice or somehow give back, and apply for your green card or citizenship as soon as you can, then by golly you're more American than many people I know, and I'd be proud to have you in this country.
Otherwise, not so much.
Actually, my school was slammed by a phone virus that jumped onto the pc network after someone connected their phone to a pc over xmas break. They had to reimage the entire school. I thought it was hilarious because they take such a unnecessarily draconian stance on certain aspects of security but leave gaping holes like this. Serves them right, I'm glad I graduated and am moving on.
If there are any intelligent life forms, I'm sure they could spell "intelegent" correctly.
Joke, not spelling Nazi, mmmkay?
In a way, crosswords do harm by cluttering up the mind with an aimless heap of unusual words selected purely for mechanical exigencies and having no well-proportioned relation to the needs of graceful discourse.
- H. P. Lovecraft
That's the right attitude, FOSS is a brotherhood against teh suck. I like Opera, but I have Firefox tweaked to perfection and though I have played with Opera, I'm just gonna stick to FF for a while.
Okay, so it doesn't find text in drop-down menus, but it works perfectly for everything I do. I love it, personally. With Google and Find-in-text, I can find almost anything. This is especially nice because i have a gmail email "conversation" as they call it of me emailing any cool quotes I find to myself, and I can find any of the hundred or so of them in about 10 seconds.
Microprocessors stole my heart and soul long ago...
A better comparison would be construction workers realizing that building collapse and/or burst into flames far too often, or lock and door manufacturers ralizing that a toddler can get through thir products with just a little effort.
But essentially you are right, security has sucked for so long, it is hardly news. Call me when it doesn't suck anymore (when there is mass Linux/BSD migration? When Satan buys ice skates?).
Lusers - always the biggest security hole! Social engineering is the first fallback option.
I think Trigun's really funny but that's mainly what I like about it and I thought GITS SAC got kinda boring, although it was pretty and had good action (like the movie). I would kill for a Tachikoma though...
One thing alot of the "eva sucks" posts are missing is that the series was *supposed* to be a franchise for kids. Really, they just wanted to make toys from it. But somehow Anno got ahold of it, and while the deepness of it and whether certain things are superficial or add to the mood and atmosphere is debatable, it certainly broke the mold for... pretty much everything. It wouldn't of been notable at all except for the changes made, and it was a mishmash of design, so I give it props for what it does well father than where it supposedly slips.
Certain aspects of it are really amazingly cool, and I think the live action eva movies have great potential. I have almost no faith that potential will be fufilled, but the concept art looks great and I wish I were in charge of it. Make Shinji less of a whiny pussy but still downtrodden (perhaps knock their ages up to, say 17 or 18?), make some parts less corny but still funny, a little dialogue editing to clarify what is going on and why it happend and make characters seem believable and reduce the immature angstiness, a little work on certain action scenes, and it could be freakishly kick ass and epic. It's ideas like this that make me want to go into the film industry (yeah, that's right, I DO think I could do a better job than most movies, although it would be a while before I could seriously try to). I probably wouldn't start with this though...
It is very much a love/don't get/hate series. I rank it up with Cowboy Bebop, but consider Bebop better because of its universal appeal. Bebop is not everyone's favorite of all time, but I don't know anyone that has seen a good amount of it and doesn't like it.
On a side note, I also really like Haibane Renmei (yeah, I'm a guy, say whatever but I like it. Fuck you.), Cowboy Bebop, FLCL, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, and Miyazaki's work.
For the record, I hate long and popular series ESPECIALLY DBZ, Inu-yasha (DBZ for girls! Better when it was called Fushigi-Yugi!), and Naruto. GITS and SAC have some cool stuff but aren't really good.
Anime sucks as much as American movies and TV, but has its gems too, and combine both gem piles together and you've got a nice selection. I really don't like much of it at all, but what I do like stands up to anything from Hollywood or on cable.