I long ago read that the Homo Sapiens arised in an extremely harsh environment that created a strong selective pressure in favor of intelligence and advanced social interactions. Explain the link between "an extremely harsh environment" and "in favor of intelligence and advanced social interactions".
Bacteria lives in extremely harsh environments. Brains and teamwork sounds more like something that would be useful to outperform other species in a bountiful, but competitive, environment.
And obviously, any migrant species will tend to end up in the places they will survive easier. If you found such an area, would you leave it to live in the desert?
And bear in mind that the sun has a lot longer life cycle than me. But you have a will of your own, which make you harder to predict. (Ok, free will cannot exist, but that's another story. Anyway, you're harder to predict.)
The sun is just sitting there, fusionin'. It's not like it will suddenly decide to take a shot at the wild side and break some laws of physics tomorrow.
Don't know why you were rated informative instead of funny. Is the age limit to enter pubs is 18 in your country?;) Not to mention that if I put a team of observers on you for a year, I'll vager a guess if you're headed to the pub a given weekend;)
The IP "thing" is the monopoly. The property right is the ability to own that thing. A "monopoly" is not a thing. And there are laws that specifically prevent you from "owning a monopoly".
So when a monopoly is created, it's a thing? Then we cannot convict monopolist and split up the monopoly, because that would also be some kind of theft?
No. It does not work that way.
My take:
The essence of the Internet is to be the biggest, baddest information manipulation unit the world have ever seen. Not only did we build computeres - machines designed from the scratch for the purpose of copying, moving and transforming information. Oh, no, we have hooked a huge amount of those those information manipulating things into a fucking global network.
If you have digital information and consider it property. And also release said information into the global information maelstrom called the Internet: Good luck!
Ok, ok. So I'm not really a music industry exec. But I think like one:
People want music in several formats. People want music that plays over all devices they own. People want music in varying quality, and are willing to scale the pay of a song to the quality. People are not willing to pay more than a song is worth. (This is the biggest issue for the labels) No, no, no. Nono. No!
We've figured it out now. People want free (as in beer) music! That's why we have rampant piracy and such lackluster sales. Right? Duh. Those mindless buggers care for nothing but free. But since these music-playing handheld machines still are selling like hotcakes, there must be some way we can get money from them instead!
Obviously we just have to make music "free", and people will buy... erm, rent... er, hang on... enjoy (yes!) our music again!
Trust us, our plans are brilliant this time!
Oh... and I shouldn't write this... It's supposed to be a secret, but here goes: Since this "free" service obviously needs to be limited to the specific devices that are paying us, there must be some DRM involved. That means that we can at any time change this into a pay-per-play scheme. See how clever we are!!!
We should have done this sooner! World domination! We've learned now! Those selfish consumers want nothing but free, so we'll give them "free", all right. Ha! this time, we cannot loose! Brilliant, I tell you!
Global warming has nothing to do with peace. Well, at least you weren't modded insightful for stating "politics has nothing to do with peace"...
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it wanted to bring into sharper focus the "increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states" posed by climate change. What the hell is so difficult to understand here? If climate changes cause Earth to only support 4 billion humans, - then 2 billion people are going to die old-fashioned blood and violence WAR.
You can argue wether climate change is real or caused by humans. But climate change has everything to do with war. Any significant decrease in this planet's ability to sustain the current population is: 100% guarenteed war. People do not roll over and die to make room for others.
You can still drive state-to-state with no papers. You just can't fly. Up until this point... I thought the article was only applying to international flights.
Best of luck, Americans. You will live in interesting times.
Where did you get your hand on such propaganda?!? Come with us, please.
Why the hell are you trying to make excuses for the terrorists? You're no true patriot. We can only hope that in a few years, spreading misinformation like this will be outlawed....
When I was a kid, 20 years ago, my world view was that the only country in the world where people would be stopped because of their papers and turned back with no reason, - was the Sovjet Union and its vassal states.
Submit my name 3 days before travel and maybe be refused on short notice? Sovjet. Hearing stories about small issues in immigration escalating and you ending up being sent back? Sovjet.
You're still a good country. Please don't become a bad one...
Source? http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita ?
As of 2000 or so: Murder rate: -US: 0.042802 per 1,000 people -Russia: 0.201534 per 1,000 people Keep it up, you may soon be a safer country than Armenia (0.042), India (0.034), Yemen (0.034), Dominica (0.029) and maybe Azerbaijan (0.028).
Maybe a hitfund should be setup - $1 mln per head of top 20 spammers in the world. The community-based approach to fighting spam? I smell Web 2.0 potential.
However: 1. Run spam empire through scapegoat. 2. Profit! (From advertisers) 3. Assasinate scapegoat 4. More profit! (From hitfund) 5. Rinse, repeat.
Vigilante justice might feel good, but it's difficult to hurt the right people. You'd do nothing except introducing even more cash into the business.
Only because something exists does not mean you need to cram it into Wikipedia. And certainly not anything so obscure that even google comes up empty. You seem to think Wikipedia should provide free web hosting for any topic, but that is not the case.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev alojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld. As a non-native English speaker, I decree that the sentence above would actually be easier to learn to read that the horrendous alphabeth mishmash you employ for your daily use.
"though, tough, cough, hiccough, plough, through" You learn the pronunciation and writing of those like you learn Chinese: You memorize. Completely missing the bloody point (and the genious) of the alphabeth.
The joke is actually very sensible for the first half, removing confusing and surplus characters. But at the end, the argument become completely retarded. The logic is akin to suggesting that: if removing surplus information is good, then removing useful information must be just as good! Which is bloody daft, and as much tragedy as comic relief that such and argument is accepted as a defense of an awful writing system.
"As simple as possible, but not simpler." Applies here, too.
What is interesting about Japanese in this context, is that they have a total of 6 or so irregular verbs. Mind you, half of those are irregular only because they skip a double consonant where they stricktly speaking should have had one.
And it is indeed the most used ones, "to do, to come, to go". I'm not at all surprosed by TFA.
Agree with TFA that language hooks into culture and social rules. For Japan, the stereotype is certainly "Follow the rules. Irregularity is bad". And without the mental overhead of managing irregularities, they could have the mental overhead of managing politeness and hierarchy instead.
Anyhow, languages are amazing things. Wish I had time to study more of them, understanding how and why languages work gives some very interesting insight into how our human brains actually operate.
But then you wouldn't be in that burning building. Yes, you would. Unless you are self-sufficient. You do not want your life depending on regular supplies from earth fi earth is having a nuclear holocaust.
Give me cobalt nukes and nanotech-weapons. Fine. Much better than the moon. Because after 99% of every human on earth is dead and the moon supplies stop, the people on that moon colony dies. 100%.
Hey, Ray, since you actually know about these things:
Would it be possible for her to sue them for suing her? I mean, she was convicted to pay $200k for (accidentally?) sharing 24 songs. That is completely absurd. They plaintiffs have obviously exploited a law that was meant to punish large-scale operations selling pirated goods for a profit.
Ok. So then, after she have decleared bankrupcy and all this is over with... Then we can set up that PayPal accound and give her money that she can keep without handing a dime of it to the RIAA?
Actually, the lady should write a book. The mental anguish and injust punishment she received for sharing 24 songs over the Internet. Not being able to care for her daughter. Heartbreaking, really, it would be a wonderful book. The perfect irony would be if she could start writing it now, file bankrupcy and be done with the fine, then release the book and become a millionarie.
Careful! From the recent case pricing copyright infingement at $9.250 per song, handing out that DVD to a friend of yours would carry a $9.250.000 fine.
Come to think of it. We ought to compile a dual-layer DVD, the $20 million copyright infringement disk. Make sure every song is owned by Capitol records while we're at it.
Heck, if you know a teenager with no assets, you should ask him to hand out such a disk in front of the police station, then head in and confess to them that he just made a $20 million crime. People should be burning it out and making the disk availiable everywhere.
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That book in your wiki link is the best one I have read when it comes down to understanding the development of human civilization.
Ok, it may not the "the" explanation, but it makes a better attempt than anything esle I've read.
Bacteria lives in extremely harsh environments. Brains and teamwork sounds more like something that would be useful to outperform other species in a bountiful, but competitive, environment.
And obviously, any migrant species will tend to end up in the places they will survive easier. If you found such an area, would you leave it to live in the desert?
God is what I felt when I held my newborn daughter, you insensitive clod!
Because he's not talking about usenet!
What is the usenet? I don't know. Does anyone know? No! It's nothing! It does not exist. Lawsuits are boring.
Oh! Look! A squirrel!!!
Does anyone like squirrels? Let's talk about squirrels!
The sun is just sitting there, fusionin'. It's not like it will suddenly decide to take a shot at the wild side and break some laws of physics tomorrow.
Don't know why you were rated informative instead of funny. Is the age limit to enter pubs is 18 in your country?
So when a monopoly is created, it's a thing? Then we cannot convict monopolist and split up the monopoly, because that would also be some kind of theft?
No. It does not work that way.
My take:
The essence of the Internet is to be the biggest, baddest information manipulation unit the world have ever seen. Not only did we build computeres - machines designed from the scratch for the purpose of copying, moving and transforming information. Oh, no, we have hooked a huge amount of those those information manipulating things into a fucking global network.
If you have digital information and consider it property. And also release said information into the global information maelstrom called the Internet: Good luck!
People want music that plays over all devices they own.
People want music in varying quality, and are willing to scale the pay of a song to the quality.
People are not willing to pay more than a song is worth. (This is the biggest issue for the labels) No, no, no. Nono. No!
We've figured it out now. People want free (as in beer) music! That's why we have rampant piracy and such lackluster sales. Right? Duh. Those mindless buggers care for nothing but free. But since these music-playing handheld machines still are selling like hotcakes, there must be some way we can get money from them instead!
Obviously we just have to make music "free", and people will buy... erm, rent... er, hang on... enjoy (yes!) our music again!
Trust us, our plans are brilliant this time!
Oh... and I shouldn't write this... It's supposed to be a secret, but here goes: Since this "free" service obviously needs to be limited to the specific devices that are paying us, there must be some DRM involved. That means that we can at any time change this into a pay-per-play scheme. See how clever we are!!!
We should have done this sooner! World domination! We've learned now! Those selfish consumers want nothing but free, so we'll give them "free", all right. Ha! this time, we cannot loose! Brilliant, I tell you!
All I found, was a "FPS for dummies" description of what FPS games are.
How to use the console? How to change key settings? What is "capture the flag"?
You know it's weekend when TFS aucks horse balls. Time to go out in teh sun, then!
Quote article: The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it wanted to bring into sharper focus the "increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states" posed by climate change. What the hell is so difficult to understand here? If climate changes cause Earth to only support 4 billion humans, - then 2 billion people are going to die old-fashioned blood and violence WAR.
You can argue wether climate change is real or caused by humans. But climate change has everything to do with war. Any significant decrease in this planet's ability to sustain the current population is: 100% guarenteed war. People do not roll over and die to make room for others.
Parent summed it up, nice and elegant.
With computers, you can track every single citizen on a daily basis. And yes, fascism is going to be better than ever.
Best of luck, Americans. You will live in interesting times.
Where did you get your hand on such propaganda?!? Come with us, please.
...
Why the hell are you trying to make excuses for the terrorists? You're no true patriot. We can only hope that in a few years, spreading misinformation like this will be outlawed.
When I was a kid, 20 years ago, my world view was that the only country in the world where people would be stopped because of their papers and turned back with no reason, - was the Sovjet Union and its vassal states.
Submit my name 3 days before travel and maybe be refused on short notice? Sovjet. Hearing stories about small issues in immigration escalating and you ending up being sent back? Sovjet.
You're still a good country. Please don't become a bad one...
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita ? As of 2000 or so:
Murder rate:
-US: 0.042802 per 1,000 people
-Russia: 0.201534 per 1,000 people Keep it up, you may soon be a safer country than Armenia (0.042), India (0.034), Yemen (0.034), Dominica (0.029) and maybe Azerbaijan (0.028).
However:
1. Run spam empire through scapegoat.
2. Profit! (From advertisers)
3. Assasinate scapegoat
4. More profit! (From hitfund)
5. Rinse, repeat.
Vigilante justice might feel good, but it's difficult to hurt the right people. You'd do nothing except introducing even more cash into the business.
Only because something exists does not mean you need to cram it into Wikipedia. And certainly not anything so obscure that even google comes up empty. You seem to think Wikipedia should provide free web hosting for any topic, but that is not the case.
Alexa confirms it, wikipedia is growing substantially. Traffic and viewershipis up 12% the last 3 months.
"though, tough, cough, hiccough, plough, through"
You learn the pronunciation and writing of those like you learn Chinese: You memorize. Completely missing the bloody point (and the genious) of the alphabeth.
The joke is actually very sensible for the first half, removing confusing and surplus characters. But at the end, the argument become completely retarded. The logic is akin to suggesting that: if removing surplus information is good, then removing useful information must be just as good! Which is bloody daft, and as much tragedy as comic relief that such and argument is accepted as a defense of an awful writing system.
"As simple as possible, but not simpler." Applies here, too.
What is interesting about Japanese in this context, is that they have a total of 6 or so irregular verbs. Mind you, half of those are irregular only because they skip a double consonant where they stricktly speaking should have had one.
And it is indeed the most used ones, "to do, to come, to go". I'm not at all surprosed by TFA.
Agree with TFA that language hooks into culture and social rules. For Japan, the stereotype is certainly "Follow the rules. Irregularity is bad". And without the mental overhead of managing irregularities, they could have the mental overhead of managing politeness and hierarchy instead.
Anyhow, languages are amazing things. Wish I had time to study more of them, understanding how and why languages work gives some very interesting insight into how our human brains actually operate.
Give me cobalt nukes and nanotech-weapons. Fine. Much better than the moon. Because after 99% of every human on earth is dead and the moon supplies stop, the people on that moon colony dies. 100%.
Unless they are self-sufficient.
Hey, Ray, since you actually know about these things:
Would it be possible for her to sue them for suing her? I mean, she was convicted to pay $200k for (accidentally?) sharing 24 songs. That is completely absurd. They plaintiffs have obviously exploited a law that was meant to punish large-scale operations selling pirated goods for a profit.
Ok. So then, after she have decleared bankrupcy and all this is over with... Then we can set up that PayPal accound and give her money that she can keep without handing a dime of it to the RIAA?
Actually, the lady should write a book. The mental anguish and injust punishment she received for sharing 24 songs over the Internet. Not being able to care for her daughter. Heartbreaking, really, it would be a wonderful book. The perfect irony would be if she could start writing it now, file bankrupcy and be done with the fine, then release the book and become a millionarie.
If OJ was sentencted to death by blowtorch over the course of several weeks, even I would have embraced him as some symbol of racial injustice.
A $220.000 fine for sharing 24 songs is utterly insane, period.
Careful! From the recent case pricing copyright infingement at $9.250 per song, handing out that DVD to a friend of yours would carry a $9.250.000 fine.
Come to think of it. We ought to compile a dual-layer DVD, the $20 million copyright infringement disk. Make sure every song is owned by Capitol records while we're at it.
Heck, if you know a teenager with no assets, you should ask him to hand out such a disk in front of the police station, then head in and confess to them that he just made a $20 million crime. People should be burning it out and making the disk availiable everywhere.
Holy Newspeak, Batman!
They're neither freedom fighters now greedy.
It's fucking common sense.