You are right except for one thing. The USA isn't a democracy. Its a constitutional republic. "Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would at the same time be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.” The Federalist Papers. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself." John Adams
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" Benjamin Franklin
The “founding fathers” actually never conceived of democracy as the main or ultimate goal of their constitution. The independence sentiment was couched in freedom, but this was freedom from the British Crown and their policies. What their criterion allowed was actually distinguishing between democracy and republicanism, cleaving mainly to the latter. The topic under discussion before and beyond the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 was the intensity with which the people would intervene in the affairs of government. After obtaining her freedom from the British Empire, these men felt they should be protected from a greater problem, in its nature, to the previous one: the people. They would need to preserve this precious virtue — freedom — against the whims and “licentious wishes” of its people themselves. Many signatories of the Declaration of Independence and other architects of the recent nation were vehement opponents of democracy. One of them was John Adams, who in his laborious contribution warned that democratic systems of government had historically always ended in tyranny and chaos. The defect in the democratic system occurs when we confuse the procedure of democracy (effective to select our rulers), with the idea of democracy as a system of government. The Founders conceived the democratic system as merely a procedure to give themselves a Republic, which ensured their most precious value, freedom from the British and ability to seek their happiness. Zephaniah Swift distinguishes real democracy as a government by the people, from a government of representatives who are not governed by the people merely elected by the people. The founders chose to submit their government to the Rule of Law, rather than be corrupted with the permissiveness that is invited by government by people.
And then you will have said person whining that his rights have been violated as he is being roughly cuffed over a door after being hauled out by the swat team. Doesn't work and I will beat the utter crap out of person who would so such a thing.
And the worst thing of all, it can't kill those zombies pounding on the door. That's why the generator and those wires are attached to the metal grid on the floor.
all fiat currency including physical ones are inherently worthless. That's the point. You get enough people to believe in it. Problem is, it only works with a tangible asset. hell, even Lindens worked better because it was tangible in their server environment.
does but that will seriously diminish the effect of it as well. If that were to happen unless you were at the unlucky ground zero you might not have any effect. Like any electrical pulse it will diminish and weaken over distance. A seattle attack wouldn't damage LA much at all even if it fries everything in washington state.
That's because Lindens actually can be converted into dollars and there are real millionaires form just Lindens to dollars transactions. Hell, I made $40 this month from people buying digital food for their avatars. So bitcoins can be raged at.
NO. Thats not how a emp works on microelectronics. There will be no explosions and no fire. Your reader will pop and crack (unless you get it into the microwave [its a faraday cage]) but the most that will happen to the large library is the power will die and the capacitors will pop. Yout ereader will be dead plate and guy with a mechanical generator and a bag of capacitors and a old crt can boot the server. To all of you insane enough to believe this is a good idea to end paper printing, Paper will survive an emp and I'm betting the people who survive are the survialists and librarians. Otherwise 2100 ad will look like 2100 bc
But 75% of NATO funding is from the US. And no question, Obama authorized the use of force on a soverign nation not at war with the US for the sole purpose of assisting in their civil war.
>Hell, Henry Ford was an open admirer of Hitler's policies before (and even in the pre-US stages of) WWII, and an unabashed anti-semite... does that make the Ford Mustang a Nazimobile?
After getting up from laughing so hard, I will say this: "Well imagine you have to determine if it's the national holiday in India (they have a big elephant parade). But you don't actually have any tools smaller than elephants to measure this. So every hour or so you catapult an elephant into the main street of New Delhi, and you see if the elephant hits the detector you've set up at the other end of that street." What in reality you will actually get is: a: Dead elephants. B: crushed people, cars, wholes in buildings, blood and carcass everywhere. You will never get whether its an national holiday. You will get very angry animal rights people and eternal hatred. And you will hit the detector only once.
And you are saying that a World of warcraft player with an active player group of say 40 people has "real" social interaction? The time it takes to get to the upper levels precludes it. So I would say that confirms it.
Good luck generating that when I remove the plug from the outlet, last time I checked the best batteries for streaming video lasted, oh, 2 hours? The idea is doa because someone in the chain has enough of a brain to realize that and enough authority to do what I just said above.
[_] This is nothing new. I know someone who has claimed for more than a DECADE that their TV is spying on them.
[_] Like men will ever give up control of the remote!
[_] "Excuse me, but why is it every time YOU walk into the room the TV ask if we want to switch to pay-per-view porn?"
[_] I'd rather have a TV that lets me keep an eye on the scum who think that watching me is a good idea.
[x] That scream you heard was all those "In Soviet Russia TV watches YOU" jokes dying.
[_] It doesn't matter - he'll still spend the evening clicking from one channel to the next every commercial.
[_] Just when you thought you couldn't come up with another reason not to watch TV...
[_] Duct Tape Lesson # 2,389,042 - Did you know that you can use duct tape to cover the sensors to keep your TV from spying on you?
[_] You know that they'll soon be charging extra for a TV that doesn't watch you.
[_] Mess with them - stick a computer monitor with The Sims having awesome double-back-monkey sex for hours at a time in front of the sensor. Bonus points is you screen "Faces of Death" with the monkey-brain-eating scene instead.
[x] Sue them for "producing and distributing under-age porn" because your under-18 daughter walked in front of the TV while running from the shower to her bedroom.
[_] mumble mumble remote when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
Oh he was listening, and had he or she said 'yes, I understand. They will retrieve the stuff tomorrow.' He/she would have also lost their job.They aren't mystified. That person simply hadn't dealt with a person who was sick of it yet. And yes monetization is the problem. Solution? Stop buying.
Science isn't the problem. Its the greed and oligarchic nature tied to it that are, Shall I remind you who what nationality Werner van braun was? Has it not been for people going after Hitler, The third Reich would have had rocket power. There are NO altruistic scientists anymore. Morality has to be a part of science or we will be in a technological Rome complete with plebes and slaves. And unless you are uber wealthy you will be one of them (or your children)
Ok. You are right. But when your grandchildren have to forced into a form of econmic slavery because of the fact tha GMO crops have almost total control of the food supply whose side do you think they will fall on. Yes, That was wrong to do. But seriously, this can't continue. I say that sadly GMO is too tired up into the 'I must make profit' off it to continue. Dozens of companies are not inherently evil because they want money and don't give a flying f about anyone. But If someone cut off their food or power or water supply to them and their families, hell would break out. So forgive those people who are trying to protect their descendants ability to plant potatoes. For the record, Bananas, watermelon, most chocolate, and certain varieties of tomatoes don't reproduce anymore because GMO has gotten so bad. There is only one generation of bananas left. They go, bananas are extinct. Its not just Monsanto. We are destroying our food supply by trying to make it resistant for profit. Not everything can be monetized. That has to be learned.
However, it won't happen. Sony doesn't want you to just play games on it. If they did, the PSN wouldn't exist. They want you to hand them money every single day. Honestly anyone who just wanted to play games needs to leave unconnected. Then there is no problem. You wanted to play games on their network. He wanted people who have the functionality back that he paid for. Sorry if you were fine with your crippled machine.
Ok, and I have boycotted Sony since the rootkits and go out of my way to not buy anything of theirs new or otherwise.
Oh and no big company doesn't want the TOS die because they all know its unenforceable. And that was what would have happened if he won. And there would not have been a thing you could do about it.
So when the day comes that they send the magic bullet to kill it will you still be happy? Don't think they won't because they still think they own it.
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Show me a "Backyard Reactor' and then we can discuss this.
You are right except for one thing. The USA isn't a democracy. Its a constitutional republic.
"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would at the same time be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.” The Federalist Papers. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself."
John Adams
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
Benjamin Franklin
The “founding fathers” actually never conceived of democracy as the main or ultimate goal of their constitution. The independence sentiment was couched in freedom, but this was freedom from the British Crown and their policies. What their criterion allowed was actually distinguishing between democracy and republicanism, cleaving mainly to the latter. The topic under discussion before and beyond the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 was the intensity with which the people would intervene in the affairs of government. After obtaining her freedom from the British Empire, these men felt they should be protected from a greater problem, in its nature, to the previous one: the people. They would need to preserve this precious virtue — freedom — against the whims and “licentious wishes” of its people themselves.
Many signatories of the Declaration of Independence and other architects of the recent nation were vehement opponents of democracy. One of them was John Adams, who in his laborious contribution warned that democratic systems of government had historically always ended in tyranny and chaos.
The defect in the democratic system occurs when we confuse the procedure of democracy (effective to select our rulers), with the idea of democracy as a system of government. The Founders conceived the democratic system as merely a procedure to give themselves a Republic, which ensured their most precious value, freedom from the British and ability to seek their happiness. Zephaniah Swift distinguishes real democracy as a government by the people, from a government of representatives who are not governed by the people merely elected by the people. The founders chose to submit their government to the Rule of Law, rather than be corrupted with the permissiveness that is invited by government by people.
And then you will have said person whining that his rights have been violated as he is being roughly cuffed over a door after being hauled out by the swat team. Doesn't work and I will beat the utter crap out of person who would so such a thing.
And the worst thing of all, it can't kill those zombies pounding on the door. That's why the generator and those wires are attached to the metal grid on the floor.
Solution: wipe both. Then you will see how much she remembers. You always need backups.
Um, the USA isn't a democracy. Its a republic. Democracy is American Idol.
it had credibility?
all fiat currency including physical ones are inherently worthless. That's the point. You get enough people to believe in it. Problem is, it only works with a tangible asset. hell, even Lindens worked better because it was tangible in their server environment.
does but that will seriously diminish the effect of it as well. If that were to happen unless you were at the unlucky ground zero you might not have any effect.
Like any electrical pulse it will diminish and weaken over distance. A seattle attack wouldn't damage LA much at all even if it fries everything in washington state.
That's because Lindens actually can be converted into dollars and there are real millionaires form just Lindens to dollars transactions. Hell, I made $40 this month from people buying digital food for their avatars. So bitcoins can be raged at.
it would be a better use of those servers, honestly.
NO. Thats not how a emp works on microelectronics. There will be no explosions and no fire. Your reader will pop and crack (unless you get it into the microwave [its a faraday cage]) but the most that will happen to the large library is the power will die and the capacitors will pop. Yout ereader will be dead plate and guy with a mechanical generator and a bag of capacitors and a old crt can boot the server. To all of you insane enough to believe this is a good idea to end paper printing, Paper will survive an emp and I'm betting the people who survive are the survialists and librarians. Otherwise 2100 ad will look like 2100 bc
But 75% of NATO funding is from the US. And no question, Obama authorized the use of force on a soverign nation not at war with the US for the sole purpose of assisting in their civil war.
>Hell, Henry Ford was an open admirer of Hitler's policies before (and even in the pre-US stages of) WWII, and an unabashed anti-semite... does that make the Ford Mustang a Nazimobile?
Yes, it does. ;)
actually Pioneer invented the Magnetic hard drive, IBM simply put it on stacked plates/ You forget tapes preceeded the discs.
After getting up from laughing so hard, I will say this: "Well imagine you have to determine if it's the national holiday in India (they have a big elephant parade). But you don't actually have any tools smaller than elephants to measure this. So every hour or so you catapult an elephant into the main street of New Delhi, and you see if the elephant hits the detector you've set up at the other end of that street." What in reality you will actually get is: a: Dead elephants. B: crushed people, cars, wholes in buildings, blood and carcass everywhere. You will never get whether its an national holiday. You will get very angry animal rights people and eternal hatred. And you will hit the detector only once.
And you are saying that a World of warcraft player with an active player group of say 40 people has "real" social interaction? The time it takes to get to the upper levels precludes it. So I would say that confirms it.
Good luck generating that when I remove the plug from the outlet, last time I checked the best batteries for streaming video lasted, oh, 2 hours?
The idea is doa because someone in the chain has enough of a brain to realize that and enough authority to do what I just said above.
Hard to watch programming when the device has no power. Oh and I am ignoring the obvious Max Headroom comment
POLL TIME!
[_] This is nothing new. I know someone who has claimed for more than a DECADE that their TV is spying on them.
[_] Like men will ever give up control of the remote!
[_] "Excuse me, but why is it every time YOU walk into the room the TV ask if we want to switch to pay-per-view porn?"
[_] I'd rather have a TV that lets me keep an eye on the scum who think that watching me is a good idea.
[x] That scream you heard was all those "In Soviet Russia TV watches YOU" jokes dying.
[_] It doesn't matter - he'll still spend the evening clicking from one channel to the next every commercial.
[_] Just when you thought you couldn't come up with another reason not to watch TV ...
[_] Duct Tape Lesson # 2,389,042 - Did you know that you can use duct tape to cover the sensors to keep your TV from spying on you?
[_] You know that they'll soon be charging extra for a TV that doesn't watch you.
[_] Mess with them - stick a computer monitor with The Sims having awesome double-back-monkey sex for hours at a time in front of the sensor. Bonus points is you screen "Faces of Death" with the monkey-brain-eating scene instead.
[x] Sue them for "producing and distributing under-age porn" because your under-18 daughter walked in front of the TV while running from the shower to her bedroom.
[_] mumble mumble remote when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
Oh he was listening, and had he or she said 'yes, I understand. They will retrieve the stuff tomorrow.' He/she would have also lost their job.They aren't mystified. That person simply hadn't dealt with a person who was sick of it yet.
And yes monetization is the problem. Solution? Stop buying.
Science isn't the problem. Its the greed and oligarchic nature tied to it that are, Shall I remind you who what nationality Werner van braun was? Has it not been for people going after Hitler, The third Reich would have had rocket power. There are NO altruistic scientists anymore. Morality has to be a part of science or we will be in a technological Rome complete with plebes and slaves. And unless you are uber wealthy you will be one of them (or your children)
Ok. You are right. But when your grandchildren have to forced into a form of econmic slavery because of the fact tha GMO crops have almost total control of the food supply whose side do you think they will fall on. Yes, That was wrong to do. But seriously, this can't continue. I say that sadly GMO is too tired up into the 'I must make profit' off it to continue. Dozens of companies are not inherently evil because they want money and don't give a flying f about anyone. But If someone cut off their food or power or water supply to them and their families, hell would break out. So forgive those people who are trying to protect their descendants ability to plant potatoes.
For the record, Bananas, watermelon, most chocolate, and certain varieties of tomatoes don't reproduce anymore because GMO has gotten so bad. There is only one generation of bananas left. They go, bananas are extinct. Its not just Monsanto. We are destroying our food supply by trying to make it resistant for profit. Not everything can be monetized. That has to be learned.
No I would want to know how to do it so I could myself. I don't drive and an empty street would be an awesome thing to walk on.
However, it won't happen. Sony doesn't want you to just play games on it. If they did, the PSN wouldn't exist. They want you to hand them money every single day. Honestly anyone who just wanted to play games needs to leave unconnected. Then there is no problem. You wanted to play games on their network. He wanted people who have the functionality back that he paid for. Sorry if you were fine with your crippled machine. Ok, and I have boycotted Sony since the rootkits and go out of my way to not buy anything of theirs new or otherwise. Oh and no big company doesn't want the TOS die because they all know its unenforceable. And that was what would have happened if he won. And there would not have been a thing you could do about it. So when the day comes that they send the magic bullet to kill it will you still be happy? Don't think they won't because they still think they own it.