When was the last time a UN law was taken seriously? What are they going to do? Pass more resolutions to write angry letters to the first nation to build military installations on the moon?
Someone should really create a more accurate flash representation from the one shown on the "internet of the future" site. One that shows that the extra roads are toll roads, and the "single lane" mentioned when referring to the "dumb pipe" is actually a massive, expansive highway, paving over the entire landscape instead of subjecting information to specific lane caches.
Also show the streaming video stalled to a halt on its single lane because all streaming video online gets a meager share (decided by the Telecoms: "lol 1%!!!!") because that's supposedly, according to the Telecoms, what's clogging up our current trillion-lane highway. They squelch streaming video through limited customer-available bandwidth, and get paid more to do it - kill 2 birds with 1 stone.
and at the end, they need "Paid for by the companies that will profit by this, while everyone else pays more."
So many ideas, so many ideas! Damn my poor flash skills, I can't make it myself:(
From the MPAA's statement: "The bottom line is that the operators of the Pirate Bay and others like them are
criminals who profit handsomely by facilitating the distribution of millions of
copyrighted creative works and files protected under the law," said John G.
Malcolm, Executive Vice President and Director of Worldwide Anti-Piracy Operations for
the MPAA. "We applaud Swedish law enforcement for their effort to stop
egregious copyright infringement on The Pirate Bay."
The only Criminals who profit handsomely by facilitating the distribution of millions of
copyrighted creative works and files protected under the law in this story are the MPAA. Piratebay is a search engine. You have to break a law to be 'Criminal'
We live in a nation where burned-out hippies grew up and decided that the words "Theory" and "Fact" have become so intertwined we should teach them as synonymous in every science class, and the letter "L" for litigation makes up 20% of any self-respecting yellow pages.
Underground fight clubs are a thing of the new age where punching out the bully in class means a lawsuit and expulsion. 50 years ago, in a nation where 95% of eligible voters claimed to be "faithful churchgoers", litigation was not allowed in yellow pages, and the "Theory of Evolution" was still taught as a "Theory" - underground fight clubs didn't exist.
Enough with your flamebait when the facts oh-so-clearly point against it. The fact of the matter is that healthy outlets of aggression are being demonized and harped on by ALL media and society to a point where adolescents and punk-geeks who never grew up knowing how to take a punch in school end up choosing one of their few (albeit stupid) available options. They end up hurting themselves.
When will honda start implementing this technology into their cars? I can't wait to get cut off in traffic by some jerk while his civic is flipping me off.
Indeed I should have been more careful to draw the line from point A to B to C instead of just speaking on point C. What I said was part of a much larger point, then I cut out a lot of the stuff I felt was "long-winded" but apparently it was also the part that made it topical.
Draw your own lines from point A to point B if you want, I really don't feel like rewriting something that I found too drawn to post in the first place and I'm sure you're not dying to read it.
Any computer program or file, when saved, is a massive binary number set up for a computer to interpret. In effect, this large, multi-million-digit number is all a program or file is. The rest is simply representation and imagination. In fact, that's what "digital" means.
Now, you cannot patent fact, and numbers are fact. I cannot patent the number 7 and sue anyone who uses it (yet), since the number 7 simply is. I didn't invent it, it's always been there (let's not dabble too far into philosophy though), and as far as I'm aware, there is no rule of thumb to say "the number 12 cannot be patented, but the number 110101010111001E3,000,000" can.
Any program or file ever written/saved on a computer can be compiled and decompiled into a giant binary number. (That's simply how it's stored) So technically, by the law that a number cannot be patented, neither can any digital representation of anything.
Does this really factor down into a ruling of whether the size of a number makes it any less a number?
WE would prefer a WII.
I must say, though, it's definitely against my nature to disappoint...
Therefore, if Sony's attitude toward ME as a standard consumer is that I live to pirate their software as to use it without paying them a dime they so feel they richly deserve, I will do everything in my power to prove them right.
How would you compete with a species that is hundreds, thousands, and possibly millions of years more advanced that us... AND warlike?
I wouldn't think it would take much more than spears, torches or shotguns, and I'll tell you why showing the FACTS:
The planets have not actually been photographed other than receiving blurry images.
Bigfoot has never actually been photographed other than receiving blurry images.
The ONLY correct conclusion to be drawn here is that the planet is inhabited by sasquatches! (Possibly yetis on the outer planet) They arrived in ufo's whose images turned out blurry as well (see the famous "I want to believe" poster for an example)
Yetis were purportedly hunted by eskimos with spears. The International Sasquatch Society reports sightings of sasquatch where he was chased away by guns, dogs, or man's fire (perhaps their enlightenment never included directly harnessing fire)
Indeed, we have nothing to fear from them save our inability to capture their likeness via photographic camera and their molesting of our mountain sheep.
We may as well already name them Earth's b*tch 1, 2, and 3
From reading the article, it seems the planets have semi-habitable climates, possible liquid water, that's interesting...
Perhaps these planets contain intelligent life, advanced far beyond our own. Perhaps they have learned the better way of pacifism and build technologies directed toward bettering life rather than destroying it.
If that's the case, I vote we conquer them, enslave their kind, take their technologies and patent them as our own, and propel ourselves toward a new age of luxury. It will serve as a witness to the galaxy that No One messes with Earth!
Duhrr... Head Managers work without managers over them... so I guess 100% of businesses in the USA are run by someone who is influenced - at most - only by peers to their position.
However, I'm sure you see the word "Worker" and automatically assume a room-temperature IQ, a namebadge with "employee of the week" star on it, working for minimum wage -- not a room full of MIT grads whose combined IQ is higher than your yearly salary. With the attitude you show toward the word "work" I wouldn't be surprised to hear that you yourself are a manager.
And the "Cite your source!" argument on slashdot is getting old. If you really want sources, you can google them for yourself and not blabber on it. If you don't really care for sources but are just throwing it around as an argument, don't bother typing it out. You may just end up getting wrecked.
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NASA and their Gamma Ray Spectrometer disagree
When was the last time a UN law was taken seriously? What are they going to do? Pass more resolutions to write angry letters to the first nation to build military installations on the moon?
Someone should really create a more accurate flash representation from the one shown on the "internet of the future" site. One that shows that the extra roads are toll roads, and the "single lane" mentioned when referring to the "dumb pipe" is actually a massive, expansive highway, paving over the entire landscape instead of subjecting information to specific lane caches.
:(
Also show the streaming video stalled to a halt on its single lane because all streaming video online gets a meager share (decided by the Telecoms: "lol 1%!!!!") because that's supposedly, according to the Telecoms, what's clogging up our current trillion-lane highway. They squelch streaming video through limited customer-available bandwidth, and get paid more to do it - kill 2 birds with 1 stone.
and at the end, they need "Paid for by the companies that will profit by this, while everyone else pays more."
So many ideas, so many ideas! Damn my poor flash skills, I can't make it myself
When it comes down to it, these men are shaking hands about teaching a computer to read Magic Eyes.
Isn't that like a second year problem at most universities?
From the MPAA's statement: "The bottom line is that the operators of the Pirate Bay and others like them are criminals who profit handsomely by facilitating the distribution of millions of copyrighted creative works and files protected under the law," said John G. Malcolm, Executive Vice President and Director of Worldwide Anti-Piracy Operations for the MPAA. "We applaud Swedish law enforcement for their effort to stop egregious copyright infringement on The Pirate Bay."
The only Criminals who profit handsomely by facilitating the distribution of millions of copyrighted creative works and files protected under the law in this story are the MPAA. Piratebay is a search engine. You have to break a law to be 'Criminal'
Anyone want to call the MPAA and ask how much 50 Swedish Policemen cost?
We live in a nation where burned-out hippies grew up and decided that the words "Theory" and "Fact" have become so intertwined we should teach them as synonymous in every science class, and the letter "L" for litigation makes up 20% of any self-respecting yellow pages.
Underground fight clubs are a thing of the new age where punching out the bully in class means a lawsuit and expulsion. 50 years ago, in a nation where 95% of eligible voters claimed to be "faithful churchgoers", litigation was not allowed in yellow pages, and the "Theory of Evolution" was still taught as a "Theory" - underground fight clubs didn't exist.
Enough with your flamebait when the facts oh-so-clearly point against it. The fact of the matter is that healthy outlets of aggression are being demonized and harped on by ALL media and society to a point where adolescents and punk-geeks who never grew up knowing how to take a punch in school end up choosing one of their few (albeit stupid) available options. They end up hurting themselves.
Can't wait to fart in one of those things!
any infinity that is smaller, greater, or anything but equal to any other infinity is not true infinity.
When will honda start implementing this technology into their cars? I can't wait to get cut off in traffic by some jerk while his civic is flipping me off.
Copyright infringement falls under the realm of civil cases (the owner of the copyright must push the case, not the state)
However, if they're hacking systems to get information, the state can prosecute against them along with the owner of the violated property.
Even the state agrees with one of your points.
Indeed I should have been more careful to draw the line from point A to B to C instead of just speaking on point C. What I said was part of a much larger point, then I cut out a lot of the stuff I felt was "long-winded" but apparently it was also the part that made it topical.
Draw your own lines from point A to point B if you want, I really don't feel like rewriting something that I found too drawn to post in the first place and I'm sure you're not dying to read it.
As it was once said:
Any computer program or file, when saved, is a massive binary number set up for a computer to interpret. In effect, this large, multi-million-digit number is all a program or file is. The rest is simply representation and imagination. In fact, that's what "digital" means.
Now, you cannot patent fact, and numbers are fact. I cannot patent the number 7 and sue anyone who uses it (yet), since the number 7 simply is. I didn't invent it, it's always been there (let's not dabble too far into philosophy though), and as far as I'm aware, there is no rule of thumb to say "the number 12 cannot be patented, but the number 110101010111001E3,000,000" can.
Any program or file ever written/saved on a computer can be compiled and decompiled into a giant binary number. (That's simply how it's stored) So technically, by the law that a number cannot be patented, neither can any digital representation of anything.
Does this really factor down into a ruling of whether the size of a number makes it any less a number?
WE would prefer a WII. I must say, though, it's definitely against my nature to disappoint... Therefore, if Sony's attitude toward ME as a standard consumer is that I live to pirate their software as to use it without paying them a dime they so feel they richly deserve, I will do everything in my power to prove them right.
I wouldn't think it would take much more than spears, torches or shotguns, and I'll tell you why showing the FACTS:
The ONLY correct conclusion to be drawn here is that the planet is inhabited by sasquatches! (Possibly yetis on the outer planet) They arrived in ufo's whose images turned out blurry as well (see the famous "I want to believe" poster for an example)
Yetis were purportedly hunted by eskimos with spears. The International Sasquatch Society reports sightings of sasquatch where he was chased away by guns, dogs, or man's fire (perhaps their enlightenment never included directly harnessing fire)
Indeed, we have nothing to fear from them save our inability to capture their likeness via photographic camera and their molesting of our mountain sheep.
We may as well already name them Earth's b*tch 1, 2, and 3
From reading the article, it seems the planets have semi-habitable climates, possible liquid water, that's interesting...
Perhaps these planets contain intelligent life, advanced far beyond our own. Perhaps they have learned the better way of pacifism and build technologies directed toward bettering life rather than destroying it.
If that's the case, I vote we conquer them, enslave their kind, take their technologies and patent them as our own, and propel ourselves toward a new age of luxury. It will serve as a witness to the galaxy that No One messes with Earth!
Duhrr... Head Managers work without managers over them... so I guess 100% of businesses in the USA are run by someone who is influenced - at most - only by peers to their position.
However, I'm sure you see the word "Worker" and automatically assume a room-temperature IQ, a namebadge with "employee of the week" star on it, working for minimum wage -- not a room full of MIT grads whose combined IQ is higher than your yearly salary. With the attitude you show toward the word "work" I wouldn't be surprised to hear that you yourself are a manager.
And the "Cite your source!" argument on slashdot is getting old. If you really want sources, you can google them for yourself and not blabber on it. If you don't really care for sources but are just throwing it around as an argument, don't bother typing it out. You may just end up getting wrecked.