I consider myself a social libertarian. I don't see taxes as anti-liberty (with the exception of property taxes) or unconstitutional; it was amended to allow income taxes. I have no problem with universal health care and in fact think we should join the civilized world and institute it.
I do, however, have a problem with drug laws, gambling laws, and prostitution laws. A person ought to have the right to screw up his life anyway he sees fit. And I certanly have a problem with asset forfeiture laws, FISA, the PATRIOT act, etc.
Last summer I was jumped by the DEA and FBI for parking in front of the wrong house (I gave two women friends a ride to a slumlord's property they were cleaning) and had my car searched without my consent (they had "probable cause" since the house next to the vacant house was a dope dealer). I'm certainly against the US police state we have become.
Evans and his colleague Vihang Narkar wanted to see whether a drug that activates PPAR-delta could turn regular adult rodents to miniature marathon winners. But the drug - called WG1516 - did nothing for the mice but switch on a handful of genes in their muscles.
However, when the researchers paired doses of WG1516 with a month of training - half an hour on a treadmill, five days a week - mice given the drug jogged longer and further than drug-free mice.
Also, it isn't two drugs either one of which do the trick, but two drugs taken together. Not a good summary at all, if the NYT article says the same as the NS article.
In this case I was going to rtfa, but I see th elink goes to a site named virtuallyblind.com. Does anybody have a link to a reputable site, and not just some guy's blog?
You assume that 1. you have a working model for evolution that requires life to evolve in a different way in different planets
Occam's razor. Lacking evidence to the contrary I assume that evolution will work the same, but having evidence of the diversity of life on a single planet, I would assume that extraterrestrial life of multiple solar systems would be even more diverse. Earth's life is far more diverse than an single continent's life. Even within a single species, say, human or elephant, there are marked (albeit trivial) differences between that species in Asia and the very same species in Africa.
2. That our widespread evidence for diverse life represents proof for the diversity of life capable of space travel
Not proof; there is no proof, only deduction.
3. that the gravitational pulse that results from a nuclear explosion travels at the speed of light.
Why would anyone assume that it would travel at faster than light, models aside? I wouldn't trust a model of something we don't understand; afaik we haven't discovered the gravitron and we don't know how gravity actually works. I tried to look up "gravitational pulse" in wikipedia and came up empty. Googling "gravitational pulse" in quotes and "speed" not in quotes came up with a few links, but with assurance that gravitational pulses do not, in fact, travel faster than light. Do you have a link to a reputable source, preferably in an.edu domain?
please let me know of a body part that can use a tool, with the *minimum* number of degrees of freedom that does not look like an arm... ever go into a car factory?
Ever seen a backhoe, a front-end loader, a cherry picker? Note that the automotive robots' arms have no hands or fingers! Crows have no hands or arms but use and have even been observed making tools.
more likely at least two feet
Almost certainly at least two feet, more than two feet and more than two arms would seem more conducive to the ability to build. That said, birds manage to build their nests without any arms or hands at all!
So they would most likely have two eyes
Or more. Eyes in the back of a species head, or multiple eyes like insects have would seem more evolutionarily likely.
And the tendency in evolution is that the minimum body parts necessary to accomplish something is as many as we get
Then explain why birds have two legs, dogs have four legs, insects have six legs, and spiders have eight legs? Your statement is falsified by reality.
Life in the form we recognize (space traveling in physical form) is very limited in the ways it could evolve,
Unproven and illogical assumption.
and the physical means it could harness for energy production (say inventing fire?), hunting, and agriculture (use of tools), to eventually become capable of space travel.
Fire was never invented. It was harnessed. We do not know that we are the only earthly species ever to have harnesses fire, although there is no evidence that there ever was such a species except ourselves. But there is no evidence that a different species couldn't have. Many earthly species hunt, and of five earthly species that farm, only one is a mammal; all the other farmers are insects.
You completely missed my point. It isn't an either/or proposition, that you can have a rewarding job OR pay the bills. It's possible to have a rewarding job that DOES pay the bills.
What's the difference between a job and a wife? After ten years the job still sucks.
So do I, but I would much rather have a rational conversation than a flame war.
I'm guessing your wife left you for someone with some economic sense?
I'll ignore your flamebait and answer rationally - no, he's an auto mechanic who can't hold a steady job. The stupid bitch has been mostly supporting him. I've come far enough that I'm glad she's gone. I've had a lot of good times and met a lot of interesting people I never would have been able to had she not left. And I bought another house, a small one since the kids are grown and gone and I (usually) live by myself.
Its so amazing how some folks think Bush is an idiot, while at the same time think he is able to control everything so completely.
I agree. I think he purposely makes people think he's an idiot; the perception has worked well for him. I think he's intelligent but completely and shamelessly devoid of any morals. Rather than stupidly blundering into Iraq as the "Bush is stupid" camp thinks (and I think he wants people to think; "In college, [x] wrote a book. I read one"), I think it was coldly calculated for his and Cheney's own personal gain, at his country's expense.
You've heard of Hanlon's razor, well, mcgrew's razor says "never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self interest."
Oil prices are high due primarily to Speculators who have bid up the market price
I hope you're right but fear you're wrong, because if so then it means it's a bubble. When it bursts everyone except the oil companies will prosper.
Spend a day in Italy, and you would LOVE what gasoline costs back here in America.
Only if I didn't have to pay for medical care or health insurance, which is why gasoline is so much more expensive in other countries. The price of gas in the civilized world is mostly taxes. Without medical bills and health insurance I could afford more expensive fuel.
Banks fail when people cannot repay their loans
And when their income doesn't rise to meet inflation, they can't repay their loans.
(1) Buying a house in your name without being able to pay for it with only the income that's in your name is a pretty damned bad idea.
It was in both our names. She simply walked away from it.
(2) If your ex-wife has the income and you have the kids, shouldn't you be getting child support?
I thought I should, but the judge thought differently.
And didn't have the foresight to (1) keep on top of the job market w/ current contacts or (2) pay for long-term disability insurance?
Nobody can forsee (or afford) everything. There's no gurantee that you CAN keep on top of the job narket, or that your disability insurance will cover all the associated costs.
It's a callous, judgmental, ignorant world.
Only because of the callous, judgmental, ignorant people who populate it. The only person anone can ever hope to change is one's self. If I'm callous or judgemental (and we all are at times) I hope someone calls me on it. If I'm ignorant I hope someone educates me.
I can't support every case of bad luck with my tax dollars.
But you can support American Motors, Kodak, IBM, and Haliburton? Sorry, we're going to have to agree to disagree there. I am outraged when a multimillion dollar multinational corporation like IBM gets more money from teh government than it pays in taxes, but I personally have no problem with helping those folks who have been stomped on by life. Maybe it's because even though I'm not doing bad now, I've been stomped on before and know a lot of people getting stomped on now. Must be nice to lead such a sheltered life.
I believe you missed the implosion of the housing bubble, the credit crunch and the fact that people have reached their spending limit - which is what has propped up the economy in the last 5-6 years
The housing bubble didn't prop up the economy, the credit crunch is creditors suddenly getting stingy, and people are reaching their spending limits because wages aren't keeping up with the price of goods, all of which are rapidly rising due to the rising price of iol, which everything depends on.
The wealth of the wealthy during the Reagan years and the prosperity of the middle class and easing of the suffering of the poor during the Clinton years was largely the result of stable and sometimes dropping oil prices during that two decade period. We are now going through what we geezers remember going through in the 1970s.
VC funding is not like bank funding
The money being invested in VC is money that can't be invested in banks.
The internet CAN be used for serious purposes, but it can also be used for less serious purposes. The internet is like a baseball bat; you can play games with it, or use it to bash someone with.
From TFA: "Women named Jill and Hillary should be raped."
I'm wondering under what law anybody could be prosecuted for that? Yes, it's beneath contempt, but it's also protected speech. If my bank pisses me off and I say it should be robbed, I should be prosecuted? And if there was no prosecution, why should the trolls' victims be allowed to unmask them?
If I was the pathetic asshole who posted the offending phrase, I'd counter sue for invasion of privacy. I would have posted this anonymously just for effect, but I don't want to wait a "slow down cowboy" hour.
You have as much privace as I've always had, and I'm 56. You have privacy in private places, like you always have had. Nobody knows what you're doing with your lover in the privacy of your bedroom, whether sleeping of shagging. Some privacy is protected by law - in Illinois it's illegal with threat of prison to tape someone without their consent.
You don't have privacy in a public place. You never have had. And the internet is a public place. If you wear a mask while walking through a park, don't be surprised when a cop makes you take it off.
The price of oil is going up world wide. Everything is dependant on oil. Plastics are mode from oil, huge amounts of fuel are used in modern farming, and everything must be transported.
You are right that the falling value of the dollar in relation to gold is a result of our banks/lenders and the Federal Reserve.
If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to fear.
My links refute the above statement. You do, indeed, have much to fear whether or not you're doing anything wrong, as the innocents on death row and the people being framed for drugs attest. An easy way to get revenge on someone is plant drugs in their car and call CrameStoppers and narc on them.
Also, wrong!=illegal. Adultery is wrong, but it's legal. Smoling pot isn't wrong, but it is illegal.
If you've something to hide, you better hide it well.
That's just common sense. I wasn't arguing against that statement.
I feel sorry for someone with such an unrewarding job. You get no pride of accomplishment, or doing a job you enjoy doing, or satisfaction of a job well done, or anything? That's just sad. There's more to life than money.
I just now ran across someone's sig in this very topic: "Enjoy what you're doing! If it becomes drudgery, you're doing it wrong!" - Jim Butterfield
I just now (based on your comment, thank you) looked up "uncyclopedia" on Cuil. It returned a bunch of uncyclopedia articles.
The third returned article was this:
Redundancy - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia This article and page has been featured and depicted on the front page of Uncyclopedia.. & can vote for or nominate your favourite articles and pages at Uncyclopedia:VFH, the page where you can vote for articles to be displayed and shown on the front page you visit when you first come to Uncyclopedia.. Cream of the...
Yeah, my Quake site looked kind of like that back in 1997 and folks loved it. Only it had yellow headlines and Stroggs. Maybe Cuil needs a few animated Stroggs?
Your post isn't exactly on topic, but as I can afford a downmodding I'll respond.
I don't care if some jackass buys a house he can't afford.
How about when "some jackass" like me CAN afford a house, but his wife and her job leaves him and his teenaged daughters for another man, and he is left raising and supporting those daughters without her income or help, and loses the house that he no longer can afford on his single salary? Or some "jackass" not like me gets his job outsourced? Or gets crippled and can't do that job any more? You might try being a little less judgemental there, sparky. BTW calling someone "jackass" just might get you modded "flamebait". Try to be a bit more civil; I was insulted by your callous, judgemental, ignorant comment.
I do care when that leads to bank failures government bailouts and a stagnant economy.
The stagnant economy isn't a result of bank failures or government bailouts, but is caused by the fact that gasoline prices have quadrupled since the oil barons moved into the White House. With fuel so expensive nobody can afford much of anything else. The extra three dollars I have to spend on that gallon of gasoline is lunch at McDonald's I won't be buying. That is what is stagnating the economy - everybody is broke, thanks to the price of oil. That, in fact, probably is a contributing factor to some losing their homes.
Likewise, I don't care if some douchebag internet company has cool perks.
You should care; where do you think they're getting their funding? Yep, those banks that are failing and getting bailed out by the government.
I think that the bigger proof is that their product sucks ass
I tried it last week when the other article about cuil was posted here. My thoughts on it were:
I did a search for "mcgrew cigarettes". Google's third result was a K5 article I wrote several years ago, How to quit smoking cigarettes. Cuil's idiotic column layout makes it hard to determine if it's the second or the fourth result, but rather than return the K5 article, it returns a completely unrelated site (tobacco.org) that copied the intro (no permission, but fair use) and a link to the K5 article. Lame.
The site is IMO ugly as sin. It looks like a 1998 Quake site.
iFrames. Ugh.
Columns? Why?
Cuil returns 47 results on three pages, many of which on the first page lack the word "mcgrew" or "cigarettes". Google returns 12,900 results, all of the results on the first page have both "mcgrew" and "cigarettes" in the text.
In fact, this thing is completely lame in every respect I can think of. It's so lame crutches won't work, not even a wheelchair will make this thing mobile.
It's doomed to failure. Google has kicked ass on every other search engine out there, and Cuil even gets its ass kicked by Microsoft's search. Now, THAT'S pathetic. Anybody foolish enough to invest in Cuil deserves to lose his money.
If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to fear. If you've something to hide, you better hide it well.
I beg to differ. While at that site (a local weekly newspaper) search for "Paul Carpenter" for additional stories on the crooked cop who planted dope on innocent people.
Also see this articla about our (now incarcerated) former Governor; the linked portion explains why he declared a moratorium on capital punishment. Hint: they were executing innocent people, many who were on death row on trumped up charges.
I didn't say "observing the outside of your home", I said TRESPASSING. Google can photograph my home without violating my privacy; it's visible from the street. I have no expectation of privacy sitting on my porch swing.
My frined Mike's house, otoh, is out in the boonies and only accessible by private road, just like the home owned by the people suing Google. I do have an expectation of privacy sitting on Mike's porch; it is not visible form any public road or land.
(I think it is a shame you got a "Flamebait" moderation, even though I disagree with you)
It's been modded back up, thx. There are too many slashdotters who will mod a comment they disagree with down, others who will mod a comment down because they don't like the commenter, and a lot of rabid aniitheists who will mod any comment that has anything positive to say about any religion down.
There were a lot of interesting comments in reply to my comment, including yours, and I thank you for posting it.
they should've just taken their guns (every American owns at least 2, right?)
No, I don't own any. I did when I was younger and hunted, but have no need for one now, even though my favorite redneck bar is in the ghetto and I frequently walk home from there.
and shoot the Google car
You would go to jail for that, and possibly shot and killed by the police. One fellow was firing shots in the air here in Springfield to ring in the New Year last January, on his own property, and the local cops shot him multiple times. He was put in jail when he got out of the hospital, and now is a felon who can't own a gun.
I've argued that the US is a police state* before, but "no privacy" isn't the hallmark of a police state. The Nazis had privacy in their own homes, even if they were encouraged to be Judas and rat out family and friends, as is done here in the US.
It's not likely IMO, but isn't it possible that a worldwide government could be a democracy?
You almost got it right, but not quite. The internet never changed anything concerning your privacy.
If you are in a public place, you have no expectation of privacy and never have had. If you were kissing some man's wife in a park in 1700, you would have no expectation that the man couldn't find out about it.
If you are in a private place, like your private property then you do and should have an expectation of privacy. It's always been like that.
The internet is a public place, no different than a park. If you go into my backyard and take pictures of the underwear hanging on my clothesline and post them on trees in the park, you have violated my privacy, just as Google did posting pictures of these folks' PRIVATE property on the PUBLIC internet.
Take your meds, boy. The moderator was right. You came in here anonymously to slashdot and slandered and insulted everyone here.
If you did that in a bar (although I'm sure you're not old enough to go into one) you'd get your sorry ass kicked and probably thrown in jail afterwards.
The key word in "private property" is private. To say that privacy doesn't exist is ludicrous. If you think otherwise, can I plant a spy cam in your bedroom? I hear your wife is a hottie.
If I have a long, winding driveway with a "no trespassing" sign on it and you come onto my property uninvited, I'm calling the police AND my lawyer, having you jailed for trespassing and sued for invasion of privacy. Nobody has a right to be on my property without my permission.
"Don't be evil" is clearly a hollow slogan, no more real than Pontiac's "we build excitement". If they were serious the slogan would be "do no evil".
For once, the old slashdot geezer joke is serious: Get the fuck off my lawn.
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I consider myself a social libertarian. I don't see taxes as anti-liberty (with the exception of property taxes) or unconstitutional; it was amended to allow income taxes. I have no problem with universal health care and in fact think we should join the civilized world and institute it.
I do, however, have a problem with drug laws, gambling laws, and prostitution laws. A person ought to have the right to screw up his life anyway he sees fit. And I certanly have a problem with asset forfeiture laws, FISA, the PATRIOT act, etc.
Last summer I was jumped by the DEA and FBI for parking in front of the wrong house (I gave two women friends a ride to a slumlord's property they were cleaning) and had my car searched without my consent (they had "probable cause" since the house next to the vacant house was a dope dealer). I'm certainly against the US police state we have become.
medical researchers have developed two drugs that can build muscle tone in mice without exercise
The New Scientist article says
Also, it isn't two drugs either one of which do the trick, but two drugs taken together. Not a good summary at all, if the NYT article says the same as the NS article.
In this case I was going to rtfa, but I see th elink goes to a site named virtuallyblind.com. Does anybody have a link to a reputable site, and not just some guy's blog?
You assume that 1. you have a working model for evolution that requires life to evolve in a different way in different planets
Occam's razor. Lacking evidence to the contrary I assume that evolution will work the same, but having evidence of the diversity of life on a single planet, I would assume that extraterrestrial life of multiple solar systems would be even more diverse. Earth's life is far more diverse than an single continent's life. Even within a single species, say, human or elephant, there are marked (albeit trivial) differences between that species in Asia and the very same species in Africa.
2. That our widespread evidence for diverse life represents proof for the diversity of life capable of space travel
Not proof; there is no proof, only deduction.
3. that the gravitational pulse that results from a nuclear explosion travels at the speed of light.
Why would anyone assume that it would travel at faster than light, models aside? I wouldn't trust a model of something we don't understand; afaik we haven't discovered the gravitron and we don't know how gravity actually works. I tried to look up "gravitational pulse" in wikipedia and came up empty. Googling "gravitational pulse" in quotes and "speed" not in quotes came up with a few links, but with assurance that gravitational pulses do not, in fact, travel faster than light. Do you have a link to a reputable source, preferably in an .edu domain?
please let me know of a body part that can use a tool, with the *minimum* number of degrees of freedom that does not look like an arm... ever go into a car factory?
Ever seen a backhoe, a front-end loader, a cherry picker? Note that the automotive robots' arms have no hands or fingers! Crows have no hands or arms but use and have even been observed making tools.
more likely at least two feet
Almost certainly at least two feet, more than two feet and more than two arms would seem more conducive to the ability to build. That said, birds manage to build their nests without any arms or hands at all!
So they would most likely have two eyes
Or more. Eyes in the back of a species head, or multiple eyes like insects have would seem more evolutionarily likely.
And the tendency in evolution is that the minimum body parts necessary to accomplish something is as many as we get
Then explain why birds have two legs, dogs have four legs, insects have six legs, and spiders have eight legs? Your statement is falsified by reality.
Life in the form we recognize (space traveling in physical form) is very limited in the ways it could evolve,
Unproven and illogical assumption.
and the physical means it could harness for energy production (say inventing fire?), hunting, and agriculture (use of tools), to eventually become capable of space travel.
Fire was never invented. It was harnessed. We do not know that we are the only earthly species ever to have harnesses fire, although there is no evidence that there ever was such a species except ourselves. But there is no evidence that a different species couldn't have. Many earthly species hunt, and of five earthly species that farm, only one is a mammal; all the other farmers are insects.
You completely missed my point. It isn't an either/or proposition, that you can have a rewarding job OR pay the bills. It's possible to have a rewarding job that DOES pay the bills.
What's the difference between a job and a wife? After ten years the job still sucks.
Flame away, I've got Karma to burn, baby!
So do I, but I would much rather have a rational conversation than a flame war.
I'm guessing your wife left you for someone with some economic sense?
I'll ignore your flamebait and answer rationally - no, he's an auto mechanic who can't hold a steady job. The stupid bitch has been mostly supporting him. I've come far enough that I'm glad she's gone. I've had a lot of good times and met a lot of interesting people I never would have been able to had she not left. And I bought another house, a small one since the kids are grown and gone and I (usually) live by myself.
Its so amazing how some folks think Bush is an idiot, while at the same time think he is able to control everything so completely.
I agree. I think he purposely makes people think he's an idiot; the perception has worked well for him. I think he's intelligent but completely and shamelessly devoid of any morals. Rather than stupidly blundering into Iraq as the "Bush is stupid" camp thinks (and I think he wants people to think; "In college, [x] wrote a book. I read one"), I think it was coldly calculated for his and Cheney's own personal gain, at his country's expense.
You've heard of Hanlon's razor, well, mcgrew's razor says "never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self interest."
Oil prices are high due primarily to Speculators who have bid up the market price
I hope you're right but fear you're wrong, because if so then it means it's a bubble. When it bursts everyone except the oil companies will prosper.
Spend a day in Italy, and you would LOVE what gasoline costs back here in America.
Only if I didn't have to pay for medical care or health insurance, which is why gasoline is so much more expensive in other countries. The price of gas in the civilized world is mostly taxes. Without medical bills and health insurance I could afford more expensive fuel.
Banks fail when people cannot repay their loans
And when their income doesn't rise to meet inflation, they can't repay their loans.
(1) Buying a house in your name without being able to pay for it with only the income that's in your name is a pretty damned bad idea.
It was in both our names. She simply walked away from it.
(2) If your ex-wife has the income and you have the kids, shouldn't you be getting child support?
I thought I should, but the judge thought differently.
And didn't have the foresight to (1) keep on top of the job market w/ current contacts or (2) pay for long-term disability insurance?
Nobody can forsee (or afford) everything. There's no gurantee that you CAN keep on top of the job narket, or that your disability insurance will cover all the associated costs.
It's a callous, judgmental, ignorant world.
Only because of the callous, judgmental, ignorant people who populate it. The only person anone can ever hope to change is one's self. If I'm callous or judgemental (and we all are at times) I hope someone calls me on it. If I'm ignorant I hope someone educates me.
I can't support every case of bad luck with my tax dollars.
But you can support American Motors, Kodak, IBM, and Haliburton? Sorry, we're going to have to agree to disagree there. I am outraged when a multimillion dollar multinational corporation like IBM gets more money from teh government than it pays in taxes, but I personally have no problem with helping those folks who have been stomped on by life. Maybe it's because even though I'm not doing bad now, I've been stomped on before and know a lot of people getting stomped on now. Must be nice to lead such a sheltered life.
I believe you missed the implosion of the housing bubble, the credit crunch and the fact that people have reached their spending limit - which is what has propped up the economy in the last 5-6 years
The housing bubble didn't prop up the economy, the credit crunch is creditors suddenly getting stingy, and people are reaching their spending limits because wages aren't keeping up with the price of goods, all of which are rapidly rising due to the rising price of iol, which everything depends on.
The wealth of the wealthy during the Reagan years and the prosperity of the middle class and easing of the suffering of the poor during the Clinton years was largely the result of stable and sometimes dropping oil prices during that two decade period. We are now going through what we geezers remember going through in the 1970s.
VC funding is not like bank funding
The money being invested in VC is money that can't be invested in banks.
The internet CAN be used for serious purposes, but it can also be used for less serious purposes. The internet is like a baseball bat; you can play games with it, or use it to bash someone with.
From TFA: "Women named Jill and Hillary should be raped."
I'm wondering under what law anybody could be prosecuted for that? Yes, it's beneath contempt, but it's also protected speech. If my bank pisses me off and I say it should be robbed, I should be prosecuted? And if there was no prosecution, why should the trolls' victims be allowed to unmask them?
If I was the pathetic asshole who posted the offending phrase, I'd counter sue for invasion of privacy. I would have posted this anonymously just for effect, but I don't want to wait a "slow down cowboy" hour.
No one has any privacy left anymore
You have as much privace as I've always had, and I'm 56. You have privacy in private places, like you always have had. Nobody knows what you're doing with your lover in the privacy of your bedroom, whether sleeping of shagging. Some privacy is protected by law - in Illinois it's illegal with threat of prison to tape someone without their consent.
You don't have privacy in a public place. You never have had. And the internet is a public place. If you wear a mask while walking through a park, don't be surprised when a cop makes you take it off.
The price of oil is going up world wide. Everything is dependant on oil. Plastics are mode from oil, huge amounts of fuel are used in modern farming, and everything must be transported.
You are right that the falling value of the dollar in relation to gold is a result of our banks/lenders and the Federal Reserve.
If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to fear.
My links refute the above statement. You do, indeed, have much to fear whether or not you're doing anything wrong, as the innocents on death row and the people being framed for drugs attest. An easy way to get revenge on someone is plant drugs in their car and call CrameStoppers and narc on them.
Also, wrong!=illegal. Adultery is wrong, but it's legal. Smoling pot isn't wrong, but it is illegal.
If you've something to hide, you better hide it well.
That's just common sense. I wasn't arguing against that statement.
I feel sorry for someone with such an unrewarding job. You get no pride of accomplishment, or doing a job you enjoy doing, or satisfaction of a job well done, or anything? That's just sad. There's more to life than money.
I just now ran across someone's sig in this very topic: "Enjoy what you're doing! If it becomes drudgery, you're doing it wrong!" - Jim Butterfield
I just now (based on your comment, thank you) looked up "uncyclopedia" on Cuil. It returned a bunch of uncyclopedia articles.
The third returned article was this:
Yes it's nice visually
Yeah, my Quake site looked kind of like that back in 1997 and folks loved it. Only it had yellow headlines and Stroggs. Maybe Cuil needs a few animated Stroggs?
Your post isn't exactly on topic, but as I can afford a downmodding I'll respond.
I don't care if some jackass buys a house he can't afford.
How about when "some jackass" like me CAN afford a house, but his wife and her job leaves him and his teenaged daughters for another man, and he is left raising and supporting those daughters without her income or help, and loses the house that he no longer can afford on his single salary? Or some "jackass" not like me gets his job outsourced? Or gets crippled and can't do that job any more? You might try being a little less judgemental there, sparky. BTW calling someone "jackass" just might get you modded "flamebait". Try to be a bit more civil; I was insulted by your callous, judgemental, ignorant comment.
I do care when that leads to bank failures government bailouts and a stagnant economy.
The stagnant economy isn't a result of bank failures or government bailouts, but is caused by the fact that gasoline prices have quadrupled since the oil barons moved into the White House. With fuel so expensive nobody can afford much of anything else. The extra three dollars I have to spend on that gallon of gasoline is lunch at McDonald's I won't be buying. That is what is stagnating the economy - everybody is broke, thanks to the price of oil. That, in fact, probably is a contributing factor to some losing their homes.
Likewise, I don't care if some douchebag internet company has cool perks.
You should care; where do you think they're getting their funding? Yep, those banks that are failing and getting bailed out by the government.
I think that the bigger proof is that their product sucks ass
I tried it last week when the other article about cuil was posted here. My thoughts on it were:
In fact, this thing is completely lame in every respect I can think of. It's so lame crutches won't work, not even a wheelchair will make this thing mobile.
It's doomed to failure. Google has kicked ass on every other search engine out there, and Cuil even gets its ass kicked by Microsoft's search. Now, THAT'S pathetic. Anybody foolish enough to invest in Cuil deserves to lose his money.
If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to fear. If you've something to hide, you better hide it well.
I beg to differ. While at that site (a local weekly newspaper) search for "Paul Carpenter" for additional stories on the crooked cop who planted dope on innocent people.
Also see this articla about our (now incarcerated) former Governor; the linked portion explains why he declared a moratorium on capital punishment. Hint: they were executing innocent people, many who were on death row on trumped up charges.
I truly wish you were right.
I didn't say "observing the outside of your home", I said TRESPASSING. Google can photograph my home without violating my privacy; it's visible from the street. I have no expectation of privacy sitting on my porch swing.
My frined Mike's house, otoh, is out in the boonies and only accessible by private road, just like the home owned by the people suing Google. I do have an expectation of privacy sitting on Mike's porch; it is not visible form any public road or land.
(I think it is a shame you got a "Flamebait" moderation, even though I disagree with you)
It's been modded back up, thx. There are too many slashdotters who will mod a comment they disagree with down, others who will mod a comment down because they don't like the commenter, and a lot of rabid aniitheists who will mod any comment that has anything positive to say about any religion down.
There were a lot of interesting comments in reply to my comment, including yours, and I thank you for posting it.
IHBT?
they should've just taken their guns (every American owns at least 2, right?)
No, I don't own any. I did when I was younger and hunted, but have no need for one now, even though my favorite redneck bar is in the ghetto and I frequently walk home from there.
and shoot the Google car
You would go to jail for that, and possibly shot and killed by the police. One fellow was firing shots in the air here in Springfield to ring in the New Year last January, on his own property, and the local cops shot him multiple times. He was put in jail when he got out of the hospital, and now is a felon who can't own a gun.
I've argued that the US is a police state* before, but "no privacy" isn't the hallmark of a police state. The Nazis had privacy in their own homes, even if they were encouraged to be Judas and rat out family and friends, as is done here in the US.
It's not likely IMO, but isn't it possible that a worldwide government could be a democracy?
*link NSFW
You almost got it right, but not quite. The internet never changed anything concerning your privacy.
If you are in a public place, you have no expectation of privacy and never have had. If you were kissing some man's wife in a park in 1700, you would have no expectation that the man couldn't find out about it.
If you are in a private place, like your private property then you do and should have an expectation of privacy. It's always been like that.
The internet is a public place, no different than a park. If you go into my backyard and take pictures of the underwear hanging on my clothesline and post them on trees in the park, you have violated my privacy, just as Google did posting pictures of these folks' PRIVATE property on the PUBLIC internet.
Technology doesn't change morality.
Take your meds, boy. The moderator was right. You came in here anonymously to slashdot and slandered and insulted everyone here.
If you did that in a bar (although I'm sure you're not old enough to go into one) you'd get your sorry ass kicked and probably thrown in jail afterwards.
FOAD, troll.
The key word in "private property" is private. To say that privacy doesn't exist is ludicrous. If you think otherwise, can I plant a spy cam in your bedroom? I hear your wife is a hottie.
If I have a long, winding driveway with a "no trespassing" sign on it and you come onto my property uninvited, I'm calling the police AND my lawyer, having you jailed for trespassing and sued for invasion of privacy. Nobody has a right to be on my property without my permission.
"Don't be evil" is clearly a hollow slogan, no more real than Pontiac's "we build excitement". If they were serious the slogan would be "do no evil".
For once, the old slashdot geezer joke is serious: Get the fuck off my lawn.