I think you are confusing nationalism with patriotism. There is a huge difference between the two, although most people use "patriotism" to describe "nationalism".
Main Entry: patriotism
Function: noun
: love for or devotion to one's country
Main Entry: nationalism
Function: noun
1 : loyalty and devotion to a nation; especially : a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups
2 : a nationalist movement or government
"Though the benefits of using the net tend to outweigh the risks of something like that happening."
Not if you are the one it happens to.
"I'm not sure what the legal comeback would be for a direct debit card"
You get your money back, like a regular credit card, but it may take some time. Happened to a friend of mine - had his bank account drained and it took about 3-4 weeks to get everything straigtened out and get his money back. Sucked for him - living for about a month with zero money in the bank...
Now if you get your identity stolen, that is another matter. A work acquaintance I know had their identity stolen about 2 years ago and is still fighting to get some things cleared off her credit reports related to the incident. No fun!
Spot on. When most people want to drive to the store to get some milk, they don't want to manually build a combustion engine from scratch, or even want to know how it is done. They want to put the key in and turn, and have everything work without having to know why.
That is the problem - all the wrong types of people keep breeding (hint - not "leftists" whatever that means) and the more informed, rational ones have stopped...
If only more "leftists" believed in such things as birth control and abortions...oh, wait....
"In my mind its similar to the "pro-life" antiabortion stance. Its not so much that they really identifies with and cares about the fetuses, but that they despise young women who can have sex with no consequences."
It's not even really that, they just want to tell people what to do because they think they know what is best for everyone.
Who care if they look similar or not. People buy iPods because of the Apple brand name, not looks or features. There are other mp3 players with more features that cost less, and yet the iPods continue to sell better due to the "coolness factor" of it being an iPod.
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Yep, and how did we own the skies?? Using existing technology and conventional weapons to take out their ground defenses, not sci-fi dreaming...
And if we had such technology, we would have owned 100% of the sky in the first couple hours, instead of the days and weeks it actually took. Satellites would become obsolete for surveillance, SAM batteries would no longer be a threat, other fighter jets wouldn't have a prayer, etc.
If my uploading time took away from other activities, you may have a point. But for me, seeing most of it is either done A) while I'm sleeping or B) while I am at work, earning money, that argument doesn't really hold any water, in my case. The uploading time has absolutely no bearing on amount of my free time used.
Now, are you honestly going to tell me while you are uploading a torrent you sit and stare at the screen, and do nothing else until it is finished, or do you do other things?? Because if you are doing other things, uploading isn't cutting into your free time either..
My point is - I work for money. If I want a faster connection, it means I need to work more to earn more money. Uploads cost me nothing. If I upload more, nothing else needs to change to facilitate that - it was idle bandwidth to begin with. Technically, I pay for a set amount of bandwidth - if I use all of it, great, if not I don't get a refund. I was just using less of my bandwidth before, in contrast to using more of it now. The two are not neccessarily the same thing.
And do you get charged a static rate for uploads with your ISP, or do they charge more or less if you use more or less bandwidth? I get charged the same every month, regardless of how much I use... I am talking about paying more MONEY if you want to talk semantics....
"What is the difference between a patrol officer walking by you on the sidewalk and a officer watching you walk on the sidewalk from a camera?"
You can see the officer on foot and know where he is looking.
You can ask the officer on foot for assistance.
If you blind a real officer, it is a felony assualt. Blinding a camera would probably be a misdemeanor (unless you did over $500 in damages).
It would also be much harder to illegally watch someone using a real officer - they would have to be "in" on it and agree to participate.
Video footage is much easier to alter or forge than real eyewitness accounts. (although they may be more accurate at times)
A real officer's eyes aren't going to malfunction at a crucial moment and not be able to witness a crime.
Sure slowing down would save a few lives, but MILLIONS would be LATE!
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Do you really think if the US military had technology like this, they wouldn't be using it, say in Iraq, right now?? You are giving the R&D folks at Skunkworks WAY to much credit here...
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I think you are confusing nationalism with patriotism. There is a huge difference between the two, although most people use "patriotism" to describe "nationalism".
Main Entry: patriotism
Function: noun
: love for or devotion to one's country
Main Entry: nationalism
Function: noun
1 : loyalty and devotion to a nation; especially : a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups
2 : a nationalist movement or government
"a subcontractor will blame another subcontractor for the fault"
And Slashdot will blame Microsoft, even though they had zero to do with it...
"Though the benefits of using the net tend to outweigh the risks of something like that happening."
Not if you are the one it happens to.
"I'm not sure what the legal comeback would be for a direct debit card"
You get your money back, like a regular credit card, but it may take some time. Happened to a friend of mine - had his bank account drained and it took about 3-4 weeks to get everything straigtened out and get his money back. Sucked for him - living for about a month with zero money in the bank...
Now if you get your identity stolen, that is another matter. A work acquaintance I know had their identity stolen about 2 years ago and is still fighting to get some things cleared off her credit reports related to the incident. No fun!
Spot on. When most people want to drive to the store to get some milk, they don't want to manually build a combustion engine from scratch, or even want to know how it is done. They want to put the key in and turn, and have everything work without having to know why.
You must be new here. Welcome to Slashdot!
That is the problem - all the wrong types of people keep breeding (hint - not "leftists" whatever that means) and the more informed, rational ones have stopped...
If only more "leftists" believed in such things as birth control and abortions...oh, wait....
"In my mind its similar to the "pro-life" antiabortion stance. Its not so much that they really identifies with and cares about the fetuses, but that they despise young women who can have sex with no consequences."
It's not even really that, they just want to tell people what to do because they think they know what is best for everyone.
Are you familiar with the expression "Nice guys finish last"? Apparently it is true...
Or, it means Rio Grande Games wasn't one of the top money earners in 2006, as the list is ranked by revenue, not opinions.
Here, I fixed it for you...
"I buy iPods because...I'm a Mac user" - the rest is all smoke and mirrors.
Who care if they look similar or not. People buy iPods because of the Apple brand name, not looks or features. There are other mp3 players with more features that cost less, and yet the iPods continue to sell better due to the "coolness factor" of it being an iPod.
I don't think Partick Swayze is doing much theese days, give him a ring....
"It's a bit of a mystery, yes, but if you look at the clues, you can figure it out."
http://www.snpp.com/guides/springfield.list.html
Yep, and how did we own the skies?? Using existing technology and conventional weapons to take out their ground defenses, not sci-fi dreaming...
And if we had such technology, we would have owned 100% of the sky in the first couple hours, instead of the days and weeks it actually took. Satellites would become obsolete for surveillance, SAM batteries would no longer be a threat, other fighter jets wouldn't have a prayer, etc.
If my uploading time took away from other activities, you may have a point. But for me, seeing most of it is either done A) while I'm sleeping or B) while I am at work, earning money, that argument doesn't really hold any water, in my case. The uploading time has absolutely no bearing on amount of my free time used.
Now, are you honestly going to tell me while you are uploading a torrent you sit and stare at the screen, and do nothing else until it is finished, or do you do other things?? Because if you are doing other things, uploading isn't cutting into your free time either..
My point is - I work for money. If I want a faster connection, it means I need to work more to earn more money. Uploads cost me nothing. If I upload more, nothing else needs to change to facilitate that - it was idle bandwidth to begin with. Technically, I pay for a set amount of bandwidth - if I use all of it, great, if not I don't get a refund. I was just using less of my bandwidth before, in contrast to using more of it now. The two are not neccessarily the same thing.
And do you get charged a static rate for uploads with your ISP, or do they charge more or less if you use more or less bandwidth? I get charged the same every month, regardless of how much I use... I am talking about paying more MONEY if you want to talk semantics....
Because no one is PAYING more for preferential treatment with Bittorrent, like they would with an ISP.
To bad GW hasn't heard it five times a day since he took office... Just because something is old doesn't make it irrelevant - usually the contrary.
Here's another "tired qutoe" that has been floating around for years -
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
Exactly. It wasn't the reality of being monitored all the time - it was fear of being monitored all the time. You never knew when they were watching.
"What is the difference between a patrol officer walking by you on the sidewalk and a officer watching you walk on the sidewalk from a camera?"
You can see the officer on foot and know where he is looking.
You can ask the officer on foot for assistance.
If you blind a real officer, it is a felony assualt. Blinding a camera would probably be a misdemeanor (unless you did over $500 in damages).
It would also be much harder to illegally watch someone using a real officer - they would have to be "in" on it and agree to participate.
Video footage is much easier to alter or forge than real eyewitness accounts. (although they may be more accurate at times)
A real officer's eyes aren't going to malfunction at a crucial moment and not be able to witness a crime.
Sure slowing down would save a few lives, but MILLIONS would be LATE!
Do you really think if the US military had technology like this, they wouldn't be using it, say in Iraq, right now?? You are giving the R&D folks at Skunkworks WAY to much credit here...
Responsible researchers would actually RTFA...
Something tells me that this guy is looking for karma instead of doing good research.
and just how long will it take slashdotters to predict how "terrible" a movie will be that hasn't even starting filming yet....
All you need to do is bring up the Lucas name....