Fair enough. Calling me (or whomever) an "ignorant twit" doesn't offend me, only because it doesn't seem to have any traction in the media. It's the presumption of racism that pisses me off because that seems to get echoed, with minimal substantiation, by many sources with little effort.
Did you know that 25% of people who identify themselves as Tea Party members are non-white?
Err, what? I thought the Tea Party rejects Obama (you know, on an individual level) solely because he is black..?
And what the hell are you talking about with Cain being rejected? He imploded over his own stupid sex scandal but before that happened he was kicking some ass...
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gallup-herman-cain-top-choice-tea-party-and-southerners
And yet the Republicans and specifically the Tea Partiers were supporters of Herman Cain...ergo the Tea Party and Conservatives are RACISTS because they don't vote for DEMOCRATS...
"The asteroid 2011 AG5 is 140 meters across: football-stadium-sized. Its orbit isn't nailed down well enough to say yet, but using what's currently known, there's a 1 in 625 chance it will impact the Earth in 2040. It's behind the Sun until September 2013, and more observations taken then will probably reduce the odds of impact to something close to 0."
Let me guess...the odds of that happening are approximately 624/625?
I don't like the idea that either you're a defector, or trustworthy. It's really a matter of degree, which is determined by our ethics AND our current situation. Have you ever parked at a meter without plugging it, "hoping" that you'd not get caught? How is that different from stealing from society in other, larger ways, such as robbing a bank (beyond severity of the betrayal)?
By attempting to give a reasonable answer you're kind of legitimizing the parent troll's point...that the local market's (supposed) political views should be considered when "honoring" them with high speed internet. This is offensive on many levels.
When I hear about Russian hackers, for example, I don't instantly conclude that the Russian Government was involved, but that isn't the general sense I get from people when discussing Chinese hackers...and please know that I'm not condoning or excusing this behavior, and I'm also not saying the Chinese Government is innocent here...just making that observation.
This is the first resolution that I feel is a good idea. LET THE MARKET DECIDE, not politicians and not CEOs. If a company signs up for Traffic Management Transparency, and is subsequently throttles their bandwidth based on data content, the lawsuits will make the cost savings of their throttling irrelevant. If another company publicly refuses to adhere to the TMT guidelines while remaining economically viable then the market has spoken. PLUS, since it's a voluntary code of practice it can be implemented IMMEDIATELY ALL OVER THE WORLD.
Also, net neutrality is a little more complex than "Big Corporation wants to charge me MORE for access to [political website]!!!!". While I personally find that possibility to be remote, I think that the possibility of 911-type emergency VOIP calls to be dependent upon a reliable connection to be in the very near future. Ask yourself if you want to be in a situation wherein you cannot connect to a 911 operator because the 13 year old fapper next door is downloading pr0n! Just sayin, it isn't necessarily as black and white as many seem to make it out to be.
Random thought...in the recesses of my mind, I believe I recall a "priority bit" in the TCP/IP spec...
"They say that the curvature of the Universe is tightly constrained around 0. In other words, the most likely model is that the Universe is flat. A flat Universe would also be infinite and their calculations are consistent with this too. These show that the Universe is at least 250 times bigger than the Hubble volume. (The Hubble volume is similar to the size of the observable universe.)"
So...the Hubble volume is roughly 1/250th the size of infinity?
Nothing illustrates the connection between being "anti-human" and being "green" more than this story. No matter what thoughtful precautions you can take to preserve Nature, the better alternative is that you never existed at all. In other words, kill yourself so that the world may remain a pleasant place for the animals.:)
It seems there is no fraud if the gift's intended recipient acknowledges "receipt", ownership and transfer of the bad gift back to Amazon in exchange for a gift certificate, right? Except in this case the "receipt" part is just kind of skipped over...
Too lazy to RTFA, but spigot algorithms (specifically the BBP algorithm for calculating pi) ALL have the capability of extracting arbitrary digits from irrational numbers without calculating previous ones first.
Actually you make some good points. I'm just overly sensitive to proposed solutions of anthropogenic global warming; they always seem to reek of a thinly-veiled global socialist agenda.
If politics could be completely stripped from the debate I think people would find that many of us "deniers" are not as closed-minded as it appears. It's just that I would rather live in a hot free society than socialist one.
No dude you're just falling for the AGW propaganda. Do you really believe we're sitting in some "magical temperature sweet spot"? Does it strike you as odd that the only apparent consequences of a warming trend seem to be bad, if not fatal?
1) Lookup on the IP and call the ISP. If they're a smaller company they may be willing to give an address "to the police". With an address (and potentially even a heads-up as to when the criminal is home) you've done most of the hard work for the local law enforcement.
2) Expand use of the honeypot. Send yourself some nude pics that are apparently from some girl. Then use your imagination to get the guy to meet you somewhere. "Hey stud, I was thinking of you the other day and snapped a couple of pics for ya. I can't wait to see you at the orgy conveniently located in the state to the East of your current location! See you there!!"
the multiple market crashes and panics that happened in the 19th and early 20th centuries, taught us that unrestrained capitalism is not a sustainable economic model.
Bullshit. What you're implying is that the natural economic business cycles are able to be avoided if we can just tweak the formula. I find it interesting that you blame "unrestrained capitalism" rather than "pure Socialism" on the market crashes. You realize Socialist countries experience these crashes as well, right?
Agreed, it comes down to whether one believes that the government has a right to intrude upon every possible financial transaction that takes place between people.
Think about this: if Uncle Sam wants a cut of my winnings why can I not write off my losses?
"...if we get a cut!" I've never understood this logic. Either we have the ethical/moral/legal right to gamble online or we do not, but the debate should not include whether the government sees revenue from the activity. The only justification for this is if all of the tax proceeds went towards Gambler's Anonymous or something.
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Fair enough. Calling me (or whomever) an "ignorant twit" doesn't offend me, only because it doesn't seem to have any traction in the media. It's the presumption of racism that pisses me off because that seems to get echoed, with minimal substantiation, by many sources with little effort.
Did you know that 25% of people who identify themselves as Tea Party members are non-white?
Err, what? I thought the Tea Party rejects Obama (you know, on an individual level) solely because he is black..? And what the hell are you talking about with Cain being rejected? He imploded over his own stupid sex scandal but before that happened he was kicking some ass... http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gallup-herman-cain-top-choice-tea-party-and-southerners
And yet the Republicans and specifically the Tea Partiers were supporters of Herman Cain...ergo the Tea Party and Conservatives are RACISTS because they don't vote for DEMOCRATS...
"The asteroid 2011 AG5 is 140 meters across: football-stadium-sized. Its orbit isn't nailed down well enough to say yet, but using what's currently known, there's a 1 in 625 chance it will impact the Earth in 2040. It's behind the Sun until September 2013, and more observations taken then will probably reduce the odds of impact to something close to 0. "
Let me guess...the odds of that happening are approximately 624/625?
I don't like the idea that either you're a defector, or trustworthy. It's really a matter of degree, which is determined by our ethics AND our current situation. Have you ever parked at a meter without plugging it, "hoping" that you'd not get caught? How is that different from stealing from society in other, larger ways, such as robbing a bank (beyond severity of the betrayal)?
By attempting to give a reasonable answer you're kind of legitimizing the parent troll's point...that the local market's (supposed) political views should be considered when "honoring" them with high speed internet. This is offensive on many levels.
When I hear about Russian hackers, for example, I don't instantly conclude that the Russian Government was involved, but that isn't the general sense I get from people when discussing Chinese hackers...and please know that I'm not condoning or excusing this behavior, and I'm also not saying the Chinese Government is innocent here...just making that observation.
...let the rational, even-handed and emotionally detached debate begin!
I still don't understand why this wasn't more broadly reported, but CO2's role may not be the cause... http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-data-blow-gaping-hold-global-warming-alarmism-192334971.html
Hmm, you seem to have a preconception of Republicans there, and an imbecilic one at that.
This is the first resolution that I feel is a good idea. LET THE MARKET DECIDE, not politicians and not CEOs. If a company signs up for Traffic Management Transparency, and is subsequently throttles their bandwidth based on data content, the lawsuits will make the cost savings of their throttling irrelevant. If another company publicly refuses to adhere to the TMT guidelines while remaining economically viable then the market has spoken. PLUS, since it's a voluntary code of practice it can be implemented IMMEDIATELY ALL OVER THE WORLD.
Also, net neutrality is a little more complex than "Big Corporation wants to charge me MORE for access to [political website]!!!!". While I personally find that possibility to be remote, I think that the possibility of 911-type emergency VOIP calls to be dependent upon a reliable connection to be in the very near future. Ask yourself if you want to be in a situation wherein you cannot connect to a 911 operator because the 13 year old fapper next door is downloading pr0n! Just sayin, it isn't necessarily as black and white as many seem to make it out to be.
Random thought...in the recesses of my mind, I believe I recall a "priority bit" in the TCP/IP spec...
From TFA:
"They say that the curvature of the Universe is tightly constrained around 0. In other words, the most likely model is that the Universe is flat. A flat Universe would also be infinite and their calculations are consistent with this too. These show that the Universe is at least 250 times bigger than the Hubble volume. (The Hubble volume is similar to the size of the observable universe.)"
So...the Hubble volume is roughly 1/250th the size of infinity?
Nothing illustrates the connection between being "anti-human" and being "green" more than this story. No matter what thoughtful precautions you can take to preserve Nature, the better alternative is that you never existed at all. In other words, kill yourself so that the world may remain a pleasant place for the animals. :)
It seems there is no fraud if the gift's intended recipient acknowledges "receipt", ownership and transfer of the bad gift back to Amazon in exchange for a gift certificate, right? Except in this case the "receipt" part is just kind of skipped over...
Too lazy to RTFA, but spigot algorithms (specifically the BBP algorithm for calculating pi) ALL have the capability of extracting arbitrary digits from irrational numbers without calculating previous ones first.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spigot_algorithm
It wasn't unnamed, just classified. Here's a video of the voting procedure on the bill in question.
Viable alternative, please? You aren't lamenting Capitalism, you are lamenting REALITY.
Actually you make some good points. I'm just overly sensitive to proposed solutions of anthropogenic global warming; they always seem to reek of a thinly-veiled global socialist agenda.
If politics could be completely stripped from the debate I think people would find that many of us "deniers" are not as closed-minded as it appears. It's just that I would rather live in a hot free society than socialist one.
No dude you're just falling for the AGW propaganda. Do you really believe we're sitting in some "magical temperature sweet spot"? Does it strike you as odd that the only apparent consequences of a warming trend seem to be bad, if not fatal?
Options...
1) Lookup on the IP and call the ISP. If they're a smaller company they may be willing to give an address "to the police". With an address (and potentially even a heads-up as to when the criminal is home) you've done most of the hard work for the local law enforcement.
2) Expand use of the honeypot. Send yourself some nude pics that are apparently from some girl. Then use your imagination to get the guy to meet you somewhere. "Hey stud, I was thinking of you the other day and snapped a couple of pics for ya. I can't wait to see you at the orgy conveniently located in the state to the East of your current location! See you there!!"
Check the credits...not quite what I was hoping but the illusion is still pretty cool.
the multiple market crashes and panics that happened in the 19th and early 20th centuries, taught us that unrestrained capitalism is not a sustainable economic model.
Bullshit. What you're implying is that the natural economic business cycles are able to be avoided if we can just tweak the formula. I find it interesting that you blame "unrestrained capitalism" rather than "pure Socialism" on the market crashes. You realize Socialist countries experience these crashes as well, right?
Agreed, it comes down to whether one believes that the government has a right to intrude upon every possible financial transaction that takes place between people.
Think about this: if Uncle Sam wants a cut of my winnings why can I not write off my losses?
"...if we get a cut!" I've never understood this logic. Either we have the ethical/moral/legal right to gamble online or we do not, but the debate should not include whether the government sees revenue from the activity. The only justification for this is if all of the tax proceeds went towards Gambler's Anonymous or something.
That's EXACTLY what I said! OK, fine, so you didn't include the trollish tone and actually fleshed out your ideas, but still... :)