How so? Do you know that condoms are available in africa but are often not used?
Why? Because the men often believe that condoms steal their manliness or make the experience fake. Sex is often initiated by men in africa in a way we would often see as rape. Men take multiple (as many as they can) partners as proof of their virility.... think 'playas' here but more extreme. Hell a big reason we see aids spread in Africa so effectively is because of these two reasons. And condoms are fucking CHEAP. Why in the hell would a male version of the pill matter at all?. A large portion of men (doing the impregnation) are going to be deadbeats so pregnancy doesnt effect them much. Why spend money they don't have to help someone else out?
Women are the most fucked over since you know they get pregnant. Abortion being illegal in much of africa I believe you get the death penalty in some places. So they are stuck with a child they can't care for and are pregnant for 9 months which makes them unable to fend for themselves as easily. So birth control for women is much more effective (and is actually used a little). But then birth control HERE isn't even free so good luck on getting that in Africa....
BTW, What Africa needs is near 0 trade restrictions. When/if that happens watch Africa (large parts of it) join china/india in a short decade or two. Currently Africa doesn't get fair trading deals because they can employ people for near nothing which would subvert many companies around the world. Therefore it isn't profitable for us to do so, leaving Africa in turmoil. Perhaps a staged system with ethical requirements (like joining the EU) would be best, to avoid shipping warlords huge mountains of money in trade, which the people would never see.
I think you underestimate the effectiveness of raping someone who has been given abstinence classes.
Also I'm amused that you think the ideas and problems of north americans transfer so easily to africa. Unless you are being sarcastic... Africans often work 60hours+ weeks at ~6cents an hour. Their children are often dying or at work with them. With this money they can survive week to week without saving any money for the future.
Your view shows how ignorant you are of a 3rd world situation. To the point of being offensive. Screaming brat haha, I think they worry more about hearing the screams of their family being slaughtered in yet another ethnic cleansing.
Computer illiterates aren't always going to be that way. In fact all computer litterates start off as illiterates. Bot nets are an issue... Maybe even a couple billion dollars to some tech companies. But not thhhat big of an issue.
Think of the damage done if noobs were simply given apples or more locked down ipod/phone/pad like devices. It would all but kill the nerd/hacker community in a matter of years. There would be no Linus if he were raised in such an environment. Or really any famous computer nerd you can think of. All tech stuff would come from the direct efforts of university taught students. Which would horribly cripple the pool of talent out there. That is a pretty scary thought.
FUD aside I do think it is like... mandating everyone gets a crappy electric vehicle since most ppl live 50miles from work anyways... while a gas car would really suit a lot of people even if it isn't immediately apparent.... (where is badanalogyguy when you need him:/ )
It is the computer illiterates that get fucked by these thing not the informed. Apple doesn't come with a 'this is a trap' label on it. So many unsuspecting users buy an apple product and then shortly after start getting pulled into the costly trap. One apple product supports another sometimes they require another (not a real requirement but an enforcement), other times they outright install more apple products on their own. Eventually if you decide that you don't want everything you own to be apple products it becomes a COSTLY extraction process as you have to replace most of the electronics you own.
BTW Jobs originally didn't want any apps for the iphone, the app store was a middle ground, allowing 3rd parties to have an effect on the product whilst retaining total control.
They could export to a country that isn't on that list but also doesn't give a fuck about these bans the US has. Like Laos or something.
Also I don't see why they can't just transfer the title. Start up a meaningless SF company in Laos. Give all of SF to the new SF. Make US SF a branch of Laosian SF. Profit??
Volume licenses are normally something like 60% off if you buy over 50,000 licenses. Not... give us 50million and you can use w/e you like. Not a huge deal still but easily avoided and kinda crappy for the open source advocates.
Offtopic: OMFG T_T.... I just wrote a full 2 page well researched and cited response to you. And was going back to the/. tab to hit send... I fail clicked the x button and closed the tab. That suuuuuuuuuucks. So... here I go again in a shorter version since I have to sleep. (I was probably being a windbag in anycase)
"So the guy I cited is probably reachable by email and I will see."
Only on/. does this happen. You get a retort and in response you try to investigate further rather than degenerating into name calling or, at best looking for info to support your side. Thank you.
I'm sorry about me misunderstanding the idea raw data. I perhaps am too used to mass media where you generally get opinions, and a scientist talking about trends is called data. Actual numbers and graphs with error bars using a variety of methods in a variety of places on the globe and so on seemed quite raw to me. I suppose you want to go to the ice cores and measure yourself or some such, I'm not certain what raw data would entail.
In anycase each graph has a link to the source which links to the methods and sources here: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
Given what is available there I have no idea what more you could ask for. (methods, sources, people that worked on it, how they analyzed the data, lots more). Highly suggest reading/skimming it. And they even have reports written and available for you to look at going back to 2001, showing no links to CRU. As well if you go here (link from the gistemp): http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/station_data/
You get direct access to meteorological data! Hell they even have a handy clickable map interface~ nice. (Since this is station data, without a time machine you can't CAN'T get any rawer data, unless you think NASA failed at reading their handwriting..)
About the CRU thing, they were stupid, it was regrettable. But do you think with how public the mass media got about this the scientists in the field don't know about it. I'm sure there are some things that have slipped through but after such a public debacle scientists are going to distance themselves from it. And they will make sure that CRU data doesn't fuck up any of their theories or conclusions. Unfortunately the public generally will get wind of a scandal and claim things like: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/ which is pretty horrifying for science. Imagine if this happened in other fields. Newton getting proven wrong does not show that apples fall upwards. Hell chemistry in its entirety would have been discredited repeatedly. I'm sure you can think of other examples of your own too.
"Physics insists that the same physical book cannot be read by two different people in two different places at he same time"
This just gave me a new idea for google..... All they need to do is keep all the books open in a warehouse with webcams pointed at each book, and little robots to turn the pages. They won't be making illegal copies since the law doesn't know what RAM is and think that the net is made of tubes...
Anyways google is like a library but way wayyyyy more efficient. And so you know, its mostly (almost all) libraries that scanned the books for google.:P
Other companies are free to scan their own books. Google was only granted legal exclusivity over their scanned copies. They are licensing their copies. Basically to recoup the however many millions they've spent to scan the books. The Books Rights Registry can license to people other than google...
In addition nothing has passed, a hearing is happening in February.
And yes, this deal does trample on copyright laws, opt-out is clearly not the idea of copyrights. Personally I wish they trampled on it more and had copyright laws changed but that's me.
If i buy that house from a builder and want to rent it out, let others enjoy it... hell just have guests. You expect me to pay the builder?
Anyways copyright law is supposed to be there to ensure works are produced, that artists have sufficient encouragement to go out and make things. That happens in under 20 years for music probably under 5.
The goal isn't to make artists happy. If we made laws to make specific groups happy then fuck I want free computers. And I'd be wicked happy if I could imprison people that don't use my software, just because. See my point?
So that book I bought and paid for... What right does the person I bought it from's great grandchildren have to say to my great granchildren about what they do with the book?
If I bought that dress and died it blue or sold it to a friend or even *gasp* had someone make blueprints from it... while offensive you couldn't sue me for 1million dollars (or w/e copyright violations go for today).
Copyright holders of today have a weird sense of entitlement that is hard to see since it is normal today. Take an author of any place or time >200 years ago and they'll tell you that you've gone mad.
That said the goal of copyright law is simply this: To encourage artists to produce.
Not complicated. Artists need to get paid enough to continue doing what they do. They need to be able to make enough to encourage the arts production. That's all. Do you think artists are SIGNIFICANTLY more likely to produce if they know that their grandchildren will be getting a cut? The answer is of course not. And as your mentioned, these days most artists rights are owned by corporations. So the grandkids aren't seeing that money anyways.
As a side note your legacy is meant to involve saved money in the form of an inheritance. Desk jockeys don't leave their children penniless, they save things in a bank and their kids get it when they die. I see no reason why artists should be any different. Your example of dying right after releasing a book is easily fixed by having a set time limit.
Many ISPs don't support ipv6 and some that do charge more for ipv6 addresses... Or they charge the same. That is because the fee 10$/mnth or w/e has NOTHING to do with the cost of the IP. It is to charge heavy users more. The only people that request additional static addresses are technically minded and often heavy users. Simple as that.
I imagine the switch won't be part of the consumer decision or something they advertise, the public doesn't understand the point at all. Perhaps there will be some lying advertising for ipv6 "Now with IPv6, surf faster than ever." or something retarded. But it'll likely be a letter sent out saying we are switching in 2months, make sure you have a router that supports it. Often people rent modems.. so that's easy for them to change....
"now neither of us have looked at the actual data"... Erm I linked directly to the raw temperature data which pretty clearly show that dr keen is wrong or outright lying. They show a cooling the last 4 years maybe... which i can argue doesn't make a trend when it comes to global temperatures. And it shows a clear warming trend before that... 2009 is the 2nd warmest year in 130 years (the extent of nasa's data btw).... 2005 is #1. 2007 was a cool year but not the coldest in even the last 10 years... 2000 was colder. (If you can find any accredited source that shows data for global temperature where 2007 is the coldest in 100 years i'd love to see it).
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How so? Do you know that condoms are available in africa but are often not used?
Why? Because the men often believe that condoms steal their manliness or make the experience fake. Sex is often initiated by men in africa in a way we would often see as rape. Men take multiple (as many as they can) partners as proof of their virility.... think 'playas' here but more extreme. Hell a big reason we see aids spread in Africa so effectively is because of these two reasons. And condoms are fucking CHEAP. Why in the hell would a male version of the pill matter at all?. A large portion of men (doing the impregnation) are going to be deadbeats so pregnancy doesnt effect them much. Why spend money they don't have to help someone else out?
Women are the most fucked over since you know they get pregnant. Abortion being illegal in much of africa I believe you get the death penalty in some places. So they are stuck with a child they can't care for and are pregnant for 9 months which makes them unable to fend for themselves as easily. So birth control for women is much more effective (and is actually used a little). But then birth control HERE isn't even free so good luck on getting that in Africa....
BTW, What Africa needs is near 0 trade restrictions. When/if that happens watch Africa (large parts of it) join china/india in a short decade or two. Currently Africa doesn't get fair trading deals because they can employ people for near nothing which would subvert many companies around the world. Therefore it isn't profitable for us to do so, leaving Africa in turmoil. Perhaps a staged system with ethical requirements (like joining the EU) would be best, to avoid shipping warlords huge mountains of money in trade, which the people would never see.
I think you underestimate the effectiveness of raping someone who has been given abstinence classes.
... Africans often work 60hours+ weeks at ~6cents an hour. Their children are often dying or at work with them. With this money they can survive week to week without saving any money for the future.
Also I'm amused that you think the ideas and problems of north americans transfer so easily to africa. Unless you are being sarcastic
Your view shows how ignorant you are of a 3rd world situation. To the point of being offensive. Screaming brat haha, I think they worry more about hearing the screams of their family being slaughtered in yet another ethnic cleansing.
Computer illiterates aren't always going to be that way. In fact all computer litterates start off as illiterates. Bot nets are an issue... Maybe even a couple billion dollars to some tech companies. But not thhhat big of an issue.
... mandating everyone gets a crappy electric vehicle since most ppl live 50miles from work anyways... while a gas car would really suit a lot of people even if it isn't immediately apparent.... (where is badanalogyguy when you need him :/ )
Think of the damage done if noobs were simply given apples or more locked down ipod/phone/pad like devices. It would all but kill the nerd/hacker community in a matter of years. There would be no Linus if he were raised in such an environment. Or really any famous computer nerd you can think of. All tech stuff would come from the direct efforts of university taught students. Which would horribly cripple the pool of talent out there. That is a pretty scary thought.
FUD aside I do think it is like
Hmmm if only I can think of another country..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_laws#United_States
The US had 'Nazi' laws longer than Germany going by you.... FAIL.
Its a part of a convoluted campaign to get people to rtfa on occasion.
Privacy is only gained in a very few number of cases so I don't think the privacy thing is as big a deal as the summary makes out...
It is the computer illiterates that get fucked by these thing not the informed. Apple doesn't come with a 'this is a trap' label on it. So many unsuspecting users buy an apple product and then shortly after start getting pulled into the costly trap. One apple product supports another sometimes they require another (not a real requirement but an enforcement), other times they outright install more apple products on their own. Eventually if you decide that you don't want everything you own to be apple products it becomes a COSTLY extraction process as you have to replace most of the electronics you own.
BTW Jobs originally didn't want any apps for the iphone, the app store was a middle ground, allowing 3rd parties to have an effect on the product whilst retaining total control.
Nope, it is anyone going over a certain height, NASA set that height but does not give out titles.
"zero government" Rwanda?
They could export to a country that isn't on that list but also doesn't give a fuck about these bans the US has. Like Laos or something.
Also I don't see why they can't just transfer the title. Start up a meaningless SF company in Laos. Give all of SF to the new SF. Make US SF a branch of Laosian SF. Profit??
I imagine it is the corporate overlord mentioned in the summary not SF per say that would make that decision.
I don't think you realize just how bad smart phone users are at driving. At least they can only cause 1 accident while unconscious.
Volume licenses are normally something like 60% off if you buy over 50,000 licenses. Not... give us 50million and you can use w/e you like. Not a huge deal still but easily avoided and kinda crappy for the open source advocates.
Ironically it is the libraries that are copying the books for google :P
Offtopic: OMFG T_T.... I just wrote a full 2 page well researched and cited response to you. And was going back to the /. tab to hit send... I fail clicked the x button and closed the tab. That suuuuuuuuuucks. So... here I go again in a shorter version since I have to sleep. (I was probably being a windbag in anycase)
/. does this happen. You get a retort and in response you try to investigate further rather than degenerating into name calling or, at best looking for info to support your side. Thank you.
"So the guy I cited is probably reachable by email and I will see."
Only on
I'm sorry about me misunderstanding the idea raw data. I perhaps am too used to mass media where you generally get opinions, and a scientist talking about trends is called data. Actual numbers and graphs with error bars using a variety of methods in a variety of places on the globe and so on seemed quite raw to me. I suppose you want to go to the ice cores and measure yourself or some such, I'm not certain what raw data would entail.
In anycase each graph has a link to the source which links to the methods and sources here: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
Given what is available there I have no idea what more you could ask for. (methods, sources, people that worked on it, how they analyzed the data, lots more). Highly suggest reading/skimming it. And they even have reports written and available for you to look at going back to 2001, showing no links to CRU.
As well if you go here (link from the gistemp): http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/station_data/
You get direct access to meteorological data! Hell they even have a handy clickable map interface~ nice. (Since this is station data, without a time machine you can't CAN'T get any rawer data, unless you think NASA failed at reading their handwriting..)
About the CRU thing, they were stupid, it was regrettable. But do you think with how public the mass media got about this the scientists in the field don't know about it. I'm sure there are some things that have slipped through but after such a public debacle scientists are going to distance themselves from it. And they will make sure that CRU data doesn't fuck up any of their theories or conclusions. Unfortunately the public generally will get wind of a scandal and claim things like: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/ which is pretty horrifying for science. Imagine if this happened in other fields. Newton getting proven wrong does not show that apples fall upwards. Hell chemistry in its entirety would have been discredited repeatedly. I'm sure you can think of other examples of your own too.
"Physics insists that the same physical book cannot be read by two different people in two different places at he same time"
:P
This just gave me a new idea for google..... All they need to do is keep all the books open in a warehouse with webcams pointed at each book, and little robots to turn the pages. They won't be making illegal copies since the law doesn't know what RAM is and think that the net is made of tubes...
Anyways google is like a library but way wayyyyy more efficient. And so you know, its mostly (almost all) libraries that scanned the books for google.
Other companies are free to scan their own books. Google was only granted legal exclusivity over their scanned copies. They are licensing their copies. Basically to recoup the however many millions they've spent to scan the books. The Books Rights Registry can license to people other than google...
In addition nothing has passed, a hearing is happening in February.
And yes, this deal does trample on copyright laws, opt-out is clearly not the idea of copyrights. Personally I wish they trampled on it more and had copyright laws changed but that's me.
If i buy that house from a builder and want to rent it out, let others enjoy it... hell just have guests. You expect me to pay the builder?
Anyways copyright law is supposed to be there to ensure works are produced, that artists have sufficient encouragement to go out and make things. That happens in under 20 years for music probably under 5.
The goal isn't to make artists happy. If we made laws to make specific groups happy then fuck I want free computers. And I'd be wicked happy if I could imprison people that don't use my software, just because. See my point?
So that book I bought and paid for... What right does the person I bought it from's great grandchildren have to say to my great granchildren about what they do with the book?
If I bought that dress and died it blue or sold it to a friend or even *gasp* had someone make blueprints from it... while offensive you couldn't sue me for 1million dollars (or w/e copyright violations go for today).
Copyright holders of today have a weird sense of entitlement that is hard to see since it is normal today. Take an author of any place or time >200 years ago and they'll tell you that you've gone mad.
How about 15 years if you die or not. Fair?
That said the goal of copyright law is simply this: To encourage artists to produce.
Not complicated. Artists need to get paid enough to continue doing what they do. They need to be able to make enough to encourage the arts production. That's all. Do you think artists are SIGNIFICANTLY more likely to produce if they know that their grandchildren will be getting a cut? The answer is of course not. And as your mentioned, these days most artists rights are owned by corporations. So the grandkids aren't seeing that money anyways.
As a side note your legacy is meant to involve saved money in the form of an inheritance. Desk jockeys don't leave their children penniless, they save things in a bank and their kids get it when they die. I see no reason why artists should be any different. Your example of dying right after releasing a book is easily fixed by having a set time limit.
/. worries me when they mod things like this interesting rather than funny @_@
Uhhh so libraries currently get permission from the author to lend their books? ...huh...
It would buy like 20years and get ipv6 implemented... rather than the 5 and we're fucked that we have now.
Many ISPs don't support ipv6 and some that do charge more for ipv6 addresses... Or they charge the same. That is because the fee 10$/mnth or w/e has NOTHING to do with the cost of the IP. It is to charge heavy users more. The only people that request additional static addresses are technically minded and often heavy users. Simple as that.
I imagine the switch won't be part of the consumer decision or something they advertise, the public doesn't understand the point at all. Perhaps there will be some lying advertising for ipv6 "Now with IPv6, surf faster than ever." or something retarded. But it'll likely be a letter sent out saying we are switching in 2months, make sure you have a router that supports it. Often people rent modems.. so that's easy for them to change....
"now neither of us have looked at the actual data" ... Erm I linked directly to the raw temperature data which pretty clearly show that dr keen is wrong or outright lying. They show a cooling the last 4 years maybe ... which i can argue doesn't make a trend when it comes to global temperatures. And it shows a clear warming trend before that... 2009 is the 2nd warmest year in 130 years (the extent of nasa's data btw).... 2005 is #1. 2007 was a cool year but not the coldest in even the last 10 years... 2000 was colder. (If you can find any accredited source that shows data for global temperature where 2007 is the coldest in 100 years i'd love to see it).