Democrats are making the same mistake when they picked Obama and then Clinton: in the desperate grasp for their most strong argument: populism, they over rewarded minorities and alienated their other base: politically active working class, mostly white men.
EFF and other hi tech digital privacy fighters do not realize couple of a ver6 simple things.
They are not in power, that makes their movement a subject of Lenin's definition of revolutionary situation: it happens when three conditions are met: the ones in power can't rule as before, the ones oppressed can't live as before and, finally, presence of organized disciplined group of accltivists ("The Party")
None of these even close to reality.
The reality is that we live in the times when the government has maximum control in history as a result of technological progress and inevitably growing disparity between personal weapons and government force, multiplied by increased technical capabilities of servailance.
>Libraries exist, they loan books, whether they are digital or paper and it's all perfectly legal.
You are making a mistake that every single +5 or +4 comment made in this discussion: not realizing the fundamental differences between analog content (hardcopies and photocopies of books) and digital content (mobi, pdf or txt): the latter can be copied without any loss unlimited amount of time, the library that "lends" the latter can lend unlimited number of copies.
For a brief moment 5 years ago I became a member of the local county library. It had a nice Web interface to request a book. I requested several volumes (not at once) from GoT series and waited for months for each of them until my turn came and the book was sent to me by mail (or I picked it up, do not remember). That's because they literally had a limited number of copies allowed for them to have.
Had it been a digital library, nothing would have prevented me from downloading it at once except for formality of having programmatically coding "tokens" (at ADDITIONAL cost to a digital library - "normal" way of distributing content is without any token system).
>For one, section 108 "h" of the copyright act gives libraries the power to scan and make available copies of books. > The Internet Archive is a legally registered and recognized US library based out of California.
This is clearly a result of a deep misunderstanding of the nature of data stored in a brick-and-mortar library and digital library that resulted in this legal equivalency.
The hardcopy data is not a data-loss copy (copy of the book has lower quality compared to the book) and the copying is not unlimited, while digital copy is flawless and unlimitedly replicable .
Computer literacy should be an obligatory exam for anyone who votes or being voted for.
That's all true, but I know folks who used this search capability to automatically restore the contents by applying searches inductively: search for A, Google Books displays A and B, search for B, Google Books displays A, B and C, etc.
The fundamental problem is the digital nature of the modern data and zero-loss copying of that data.
This problem can only be reserved by subscription-based access to all data: one flat subscription fee to all the data on Internet paid by leaf customers with content-providers sharing the total fee collected with content-owners proportionally to the number of views in a zero sum game. I can't simultaneously watch Alien and Terminator 2. I watch either one or another at this moment, that means that either XX Century Fox gets the portion of the fee or TriStar Pictures.
The model worked for broadcast television. Advent of additional fees for additional cable packs was one of the factors that drove people to cut the cords (there are plenty of other major factors of course).
If all I do is watch Mickey Mouse cartoons, all my $100 dollars per month (or, say, 50% of it - let's say Comcast gets 50% and the content owners get 50%) will go to Disney. The amount of time I can spend watching TV episodes or reading book is not limited by money nowadays, it's solely limited by my time. I have very little time watching 100% videos (I "listen" to them while doing something else) and especially reading books which require 100% attention. That means that it is fair that I spend a fixed fee per month per all entertainment I get. Fixed amount for entertainment (HBO or Random House), fixed amount for professional services (NEJM or Phys Rev Letters)
English usage nowadays is worse than malapropisms. People are laughed at for using rarely used synonyms ("LOL, look at this Thesaurus guy").
I hate every bit of Western culture that elevates so called "common" man. I want to live in a world where people need to have some kind of exam before getting access to the Internet, before that stupid Eternal September thing.
I miss classes. Not classes at school. Classes in Marxist definition. I want to receive a formal acknowledgement for being a Ph.D. from plumbers and waiters. I want them to take of their stupid baseball hats when they see me while I respond with dismissive acknowledgment of their existence.
I hate egalitarianism. I am not equal to you, dumbass that was flanking high school just few years ago.
No sarcasm. I am tired living in a consumer society.
The thing about pyramid schemes and bubbles is that many people do not realize how many participants are aware that they are participating in pyramid schemes and bubbles. I would not be surprised if the MOST COMMON reason for participation would be "This will end soon, I'd better participate right now before it ends".
And that, and not gullibility, is probably the main reason why the bubbles and pyramids are so pervasive. Interest-based economy where money is commodity gives rise to "get rich fast" hopes - the worst hope that any man can get.
The source for WALS map's designation is Malherbe, Michael and Rosenberg, S. 1996. _Les langages de l'humanité: une encyclopédie des 3000 langues parlées dans le monde_, page 605
Click on them (for example, https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/...), copy paste the title to Google Translate, it will give you transliteration of the sound and it also has an audio button to hear it.
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>The fitness of someone to serve is ultimately determined by the public.
You are saying like this is something even remotely intelligent.
Democrats are making the same mistake when they picked Obama and then Clinton: in the desperate grasp for their most strong argument: populism, they over rewarded minorities and alienated their other base: politically active working class, mostly white men.
Catalans planned something better that Germans.
Now I heard everything.
not /. worthy news.
EFF and other hi tech digital privacy fighters do not realize couple of a ver6 simple things.
They are not in power, that makes their movement a subject of Lenin's definition of revolutionary situation: it happens when three conditions are met: the ones in power can't rule as before, the ones oppressed can't live as before and, finally, presence of organized disciplined group of accltivists ("The Party")
None of these even close to reality.
The reality is that we live in the times when the government has maximum control in history as a result of technological progress and inevitably growing disparity between personal weapons and government force, multiplied by increased technical capabilities of servailance.
It's a doomed fight.
>Maintenance will be outsourced to India or China.
This is a verifiable hypothesis.
>Libraries exist, they loan books, whether they are digital or paper and it's all perfectly legal.
You are making a mistake that every single +5 or +4 comment made in this discussion: not realizing the fundamental differences between analog content (hardcopies and photocopies of books) and digital content (mobi, pdf or txt): the latter can be copied without any loss unlimited amount of time, the library that "lends" the latter can lend unlimited number of copies.
For a brief moment 5 years ago I became a member of the local county library. It had a nice Web interface to request a book. I requested several volumes (not at once) from GoT series and waited for months for each of them until my turn came and the book was sent to me by mail (or I picked it up, do not remember). That's because they literally had a limited number of copies allowed for them to have.
Had it been a digital library, nothing would have prevented me from downloading it at once except for formality of having programmatically coding "tokens" (at ADDITIONAL cost to a digital library - "normal" way of distributing content is without any token system).
Do you see the difference?
>For one, section 108 "h" of the copyright act gives libraries the power to scan and make available copies of books.
> The Internet Archive is a legally registered and recognized US library based out of California.
This is clearly a result of a deep misunderstanding of the nature of data stored in a brick-and-mortar library and digital library that resulted in this legal equivalency.
The hardcopy data is not a data-loss copy (copy of the book has lower quality compared to the book) and the copying is not unlimited, while digital copy is flawless and unlimitedly replicable .
Computer literacy should be an obligatory exam for anyone who votes or being voted for.
Legally there is no "rubbing wrong way" concept.
> We also know that a segment of the population, given the option to do nothing WILL DO NOTHING.
Thank you for presenting a very good testable hypothesis. That's exactly what this experiment for.
That's all true, but I know folks who used this search capability to automatically restore the contents by applying searches inductively: search for A, Google Books displays A and B, search for B, Google Books displays A, B and C, etc.
The fundamental problem is the digital nature of the modern data and zero-loss copying of that data.
This problem can only be reserved by subscription-based access to all data: one flat subscription fee to all the data on Internet paid by leaf customers with content-providers sharing the total fee collected with content-owners proportionally to the number of views in a zero sum game. I can't simultaneously watch Alien and Terminator 2. I watch either one or another at this moment, that means that either XX Century Fox gets the portion of the fee or TriStar Pictures.
The model worked for broadcast television. Advent of additional fees for additional cable packs was one of the factors that drove people to cut the cords (there are plenty of other major factors of course).
If all I do is watch Mickey Mouse cartoons, all my $100 dollars per month (or, say, 50% of it - let's say Comcast gets 50% and the content owners get 50%) will go to Disney. The amount of time I can spend watching TV episodes or reading book is not limited by money nowadays, it's solely limited by my time. I have very little time watching 100% videos (I "listen" to them while doing something else) and especially reading books which require 100% attention. That means that it is fair that I spend a fixed fee per month per all entertainment I get. Fixed amount for entertainment (HBO or Random House), fixed amount for professional services (NEJM or Phys Rev Letters)
UBI should be in the form of services, not currency. Giving away currency is just renormalization (or inflation) of currency.
You are not making bums richer, you are making all these illegal immigrants struggling on 3 jobs and sharing a room with four others poorer.
Give the bums free shelter, free food and free Internet access, not money.
English usage nowadays is worse than malapropisms. People are laughed at for using rarely used synonyms ("LOL, look at this Thesaurus guy").
I hate every bit of Western culture that elevates so called "common" man. I want to live in a world where people need to have some kind of exam before getting access to the Internet, before that stupid Eternal September thing.
I miss classes. Not classes at school. Classes in Marxist definition. I want to receive a formal acknowledgement for being a Ph.D. from plumbers and waiters. I want them to take of their stupid baseball hats when they see me while I respond with dismissive acknowledgment of their existence.
I hate egalitarianism. I am not equal to you, dumbass that was flanking high school just few years ago.
No sarcasm. I am tired living in a consumer society.
The thing about pyramid schemes and bubbles is that many people do not realize how many participants are aware that they are participating in pyramid schemes and bubbles. I would not be surprised if the MOST COMMON reason for participation would be "This will end soon, I'd better participate right now before it ends".
And that, and not gullibility, is probably the main reason why the bubbles and pyramids are so pervasive. Interest-based economy where money is commodity gives rise to "get rich fast" hopes - the worst hope that any man can get.
See:
https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The source for WALS map's designation is Malherbe, Michael and Rosenberg, S. 1996. _Les langages de l'humanité: une encyclopédie des 3000 langues parlées dans le monde_, page 605
It's much better. Quartz should die.
http://wals.info/feature/138A#...
Click on them (for example, https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/...), copy paste the title to Google Translate, it will give you transliteration of the sound and it also has an audio button to hear it.
What's the point of the dots, if there is not even mouseover? Do I have to guess that exceptions in the European midst are POrtuguese and Basque?
I'd like to see track by track comparison of what came out from AI and what has been added by humans to that track
Too bad he cohorted with Gudeman, a blithering idiot, judging by his part of the lawsuit.
This is a really well written argument. No sarcasm
to the usage of the term "genome" in this context
I do not know what is /s
and making days last 27 hours.
>People seem to have forgotten that his supporters were also very vocal at Google and none of them have been fired.
I did not know that. Kinda slipped pass me.