The purpose is to ease the bureacuratic burden of the military, which is an artificial burden in the first place. Why not simply just remove the bureaucratic burden?
We should just ignore/deny all software patents. It doesn't make any sense at all to patent software, can anyone name a single case where a software patent actually makes any sense at all, even remotely?
Meritt Parkway in Connecticut, two lanes in each direction with narrow shoulder and lots of curves, the speed limit is 55, average speed is about 80, they pass at 90+mph.
I am 100% against piracy. Piracy takes a bite out of a legitimate industry's profits. It is a despicable act and must be stopped. That having been said, what is piracy?
Piracy is:
1. Profiting by hijacking ships and their cargo.
2. Profiting by fucking the copyright law.
So when you see an ass hijack an oil tanker off the coast of Somalia, that's a pirate. When you see an ass selling bootleg DVD's in front of the movie theater on the opening day of the movie, that's a pirate.
Piracy is not:
1. Some 21 year old college student who barely has enough money for books, downloading some songs for free.
2. Some benevolent chap sharing his collection with people mentioned in 1.
The anti-piracy junkies can scream and yell until they're blue in the face about how the teenager downloading $1.9M worth of stuff for free is costing them $1.9M, it doesn't make it true. There isn't $1.9M to be spent on things in the first place, nor any amount close to it. No piracy even took place. There was no profiteering from the sharing. There was no exchange of money nor any intentions of it. That is NOT piracy nor anything close to it.
The sickest part of piracy is corporations violating the copyright law for profit: that is piracy at its worst. When Bono and Disney fucked over the copyright to extend it to "forever minus a day" for their own profit, they hijacked the legal system and violated the copyright law for their own profit. I see that as the most heinous form of piracy. Disney, who built an empire re-branding public domain destroyed public domain.
That's only true until you try to read some.txt files from a 30 years old 8" floppy. There are paper books and handwritten notes that are ten times older that are still human readable like it was written yesterday, no forensics or special equipment required.
That wont bother PETA at all. They have nothing against killing animals senselessly. They only get angry if you try to justify the death of the animal by using its fur or meat for something useful, but if you just throw it all out it's all good with them. http://www.petakillsanimals.com/
Hey dude, your space key is broken, luckily I trained myself to be computer technician and i can help u fix it, without you needing to call geek squad.
First, get the materials ready: a stick of gum, a paperclip and a hammer
Fixing the space key is as simple as 1,2,3...
1. start chewing the gum.
2. stick the paperclip in your ear until you can't hear things (because the next step is too loud otherwise!)
3. hammer time!
Hell yeah! I learned how to fix my own PC and it works fine now, but I have to use the laptop because it's taking forever to boot up... I hit the power button 3 days ago and it's still booting up, maybe windows is installing itself? Who knows. I also learned how to replace the oil in my car, and it seems to work fine too except for the gray smoke billowing every time I step on the gas, but sure beats getting ripped of by mechanics plus I get free smoke effects, great for parties. My tooth was hurting, so I learned how to give myself root canal, it's awesome, with only $20 worth of parts from Home Depot my tooth looks brand new, I used plumbers putty for making the crown, little pieces break off when I eat Doritos, but smart me got a large tube of plumber putty so I can keep replacing it. I got appendicitis the other day and I read up on it and gave myself an appendectomy... I think I messed something up though, the manual doesn't say what to do if part of your kidney sticks out you can't get it to go back in... it hurts like hell but thankfully I also read up on pharmacology and I fashioned myself some painkillers and antibiotics out of wild mushrooms and plants I found in my back yard. I've been taking them for the past few days. I'm pretty sure the bad blood that is making all the pain must be ejected from the body of to cure the illness, so this can't be bad because I've been vomiting blood non stop, so I'm on the right path. Hopefully I'll be cured in time before I go to jail, you see I did my own accounting too for my taxes. It sure beats hiring someone who specialized in the field and getting ripped off!
RC planes use lithium polymer (lipo) batteries, similar as what ipods use, just bigger with much higher capacity. My friend was charging a lipo in his car and the battery burst in flames and within minutes the car was toast. Lithium is great, but everyone who flies planes knows lithium polymer batteries are very finicky. They have a maximum charge rate, if you exceed it the consequence is overheating quickly followed by bursting into 1500 degree flames. The warning label says to stop using it if it is hot, never exceed the charge/discharge rate and never charge a battery if it is hot. It's really bad for the battery to be hot, and it's worse for it to be charged when hot, but Apple insists on charging their batteries at maximum capacity ignoring what is pretty much second nature for RC hobbyists. Also, charging/discharging battery when it's hot greatly lowers the life span of the battery. I always charge my batteries at half the max charge rate and always make sure it's not warm before/during charge. My batteries that have gone through several hundred charge/discharge cycles over two years and they still work like brand new... iPod batteries w/ same chemistry last about 6 months last time I checked.
I declare Global Warming to be a new deity of some sort, it has all the hallmarks of an insanely stupid religion. For example, a thousand years ago:
Lightning: act of God! Let's pay priests to sacrifice our cattle.
Torrential rain: act of God! Let's sacrifice virgins.
Drought: act of God! Let's run around begging for forgiveness!
Today:
Lightning: Global warming! Let's pay idiot politicians to make new carbon emission laws.
Torrential rain: Global warming! Let's make farting illegal to reduce methane.
Drought: Global warming! Let's stop cutting trees!
Maybe there's a God, and it's very likely that there is a human cause for the climate change. But regardless of what you happen to believe in, the moment you throw out logic, rationale and scientific reasoning you become nothing more than a religious zealot.
If my grandma did what the RIAA did, I would have a diamond studded swimming pool and a solid gold humvee. Racketeering is very profitable! Unfortunately for grandma, it's also against the law so she would get caught and thrown in jail. The question is how does RIAA get away with it?
Fact: printed photos fade over time... I got some really old photos of my great grandparents and there's no color left on the photos at all, they all turned black and white over time!
Profiting by copying the box's design and selling other boxes that unscramble the signal is immoral and perhaps illegal, BUT just because the end result is illegal doesn't mean the steps to it should also be illegal.
They sell you the box. They can't expect you to never look in the box. It would be terribly naive and dumb of them to expect you to not look in the box. Some people will open the box, some people will fiddle with what's inside the box, and some people will do unmentionable things to the box. What they do with the box after it is theirs isn't theft, it isn't breaking into anyone's property, it isn't stealing anything. Nobody broke into anyone's property.
Just like owning a gun isn't illegal, even though you can use the gun to shoot someone. Driving a car isn't illegal even though you can drive into a crowd of people. Drinking beer isn't illegal even though you can stab someone with the beer bottle. Having knowledge of electronics isn't illegal even though you can use that knowledge to make bomb timers. Knowing how a particular encryption system works isn't illegal even though such knowledge could be used to make devices that unscrambles paid content. DMCA tries to make that last one illegal... why don't we have laws against the other instances of prerequisites for doing illegal things? Last time I checked, human life was worth more than some paid content, nobody died from getting free TV. Have we degraded so low that we must break our civil liberties to protect paid content?
Here's a car analogy for exercise:
The other day I was filling up my gas tank and it started overflowing! So I brought my car to the mechanic and he said my car wasn't getting driven enough for the amount of gas I was putting in. I'm very used to putting in exactly 20 gallons per week, and I wasn't about to change that, but I took his advice and I've been driving around the city for about an hour every day and I have seen considerable improvement, my gas tank is not overflowing nearly as much as it used to.
Doesn't it want to scream "Put less gas in there you fucking moron!"
I'm gonna learn you some English: First, I will download my photos to my Facebook page. Then I will borrow you my car but in collateral I demand you borrow me you're lawnmower for a week so I can mow my lawn. Your smart, so you will do good on your next test.
First of all, the crap at the end of that link is bullshit to make it look like a real news site. The whole domain has only one breaking news posted on it, so you can go to http://the-daily-tribune.com/ to see the breaking news.
But I went there and the page is titled "The Mason DAILY TRIBUNE" and the story is about Mary, a mother from Mason, OH... and here's the funny thing, I am connected through an ISP in Mason, OH. If I had an IQ of a cell phone totting minivan driving soccer mom, I'd say "OMG that's totally where I'm from! Mary can do it, so can I! I am so totally gonna give this a try!" But instead I change my proxy, and reload the page, and guess what? Now it's the "The Pennington DAILY TRIBUNE" and the story is about Mary, a mother from San Jose, CA.
They take the "relate to your readers" to a whole new level. I wish real news sites like CNN would do that too:
"A deadly car bombing in [your town] during the early hours of [today's date] killed 42 people and injured hundreds more in a crowded [strip mall/mosque/church/market]."... that's news nobody would want to miss!
Slashdot Mirror
Generalize a little more and say everything in the whole universe has only one source of energy:
Nuclear
and tomorrow we'll be blocking Blacks and Jews! I don't like where this is going at all, discrimination is alive and well.
The purpose is to ease the bureacuratic burden of the military, which is an artificial burden in the first place. Why not simply just remove the bureaucratic burden?
We should just ignore/deny all software patents. It doesn't make any sense at all to patent software, can anyone name a single case where a software patent actually makes any sense at all, even remotely?
Meritt Parkway in Connecticut, two lanes in each direction with narrow shoulder and lots of curves, the speed limit is 55, average speed is about 80, they pass at 90+mph.
I am 100% against piracy. Piracy takes a bite out of a legitimate industry's profits. It is a despicable act and must be stopped. That having been said, what is piracy?
Piracy is:
1. Profiting by hijacking ships and their cargo.
2. Profiting by fucking the copyright law.
So when you see an ass hijack an oil tanker off the coast of Somalia, that's a pirate. When you see an ass selling bootleg DVD's in front of the movie theater on the opening day of the movie, that's a pirate.
Piracy is not:
1. Some 21 year old college student who barely has enough money for books, downloading some songs for free.
2. Some benevolent chap sharing his collection with people mentioned in 1.
The anti-piracy junkies can scream and yell until they're blue in the face about how the teenager downloading $1.9M worth of stuff for free is costing them $1.9M, it doesn't make it true. There isn't $1.9M to be spent on things in the first place, nor any amount close to it. No piracy even took place. There was no profiteering from the sharing. There was no exchange of money nor any intentions of it. That is NOT piracy nor anything close to it.
The sickest part of piracy is corporations violating the copyright law for profit: that is piracy at its worst. When Bono and Disney fucked over the copyright to extend it to "forever minus a day" for their own profit, they hijacked the legal system and violated the copyright law for their own profit. I see that as the most heinous form of piracy. Disney, who built an empire re-branding public domain destroyed public domain.
my 2 cents
That's only true until you try to read some .txt files from a 30 years old 8" floppy. There are paper books and handwritten notes that are ten times older that are still human readable like it was written yesterday, no forensics or special equipment required.
Yes... and we'll be driving flying cars.
That wont bother PETA at all. They have nothing against killing animals senselessly. They only get angry if you try to justify the death of the animal by using its fur or meat for something useful, but if you just throw it all out it's all good with them. http://www.petakillsanimals.com/
So can we expect this to work in parallel with existing hydro power generation techniques?
No, but you can use it in series, downstream from a dam.
Any girls want to play Skin Flute Hero? I have only one controller, but many can play at the same time!
Hey dude, your space key is broken, luckily I trained myself to be computer technician and i can help u fix it, without you needing to call geek squad.
First, get the materials ready: a stick of gum, a paperclip and a hammer
Fixing the space key is as simple as 1,2,3...
1. start chewing the gum.
2. stick the paperclip in your ear until you can't hear things (because the next step is too loud otherwise!)
3. hammer time!
Hell yeah! I learned how to fix my own PC and it works fine now, but I have to use the laptop because it's taking forever to boot up... I hit the power button 3 days ago and it's still booting up, maybe windows is installing itself? Who knows. I also learned how to replace the oil in my car, and it seems to work fine too except for the gray smoke billowing every time I step on the gas, but sure beats getting ripped of by mechanics plus I get free smoke effects, great for parties. My tooth was hurting, so I learned how to give myself root canal, it's awesome, with only $20 worth of parts from Home Depot my tooth looks brand new, I used plumbers putty for making the crown, little pieces break off when I eat Doritos, but smart me got a large tube of plumber putty so I can keep replacing it. I got appendicitis the other day and I read up on it and gave myself an appendectomy... I think I messed something up though, the manual doesn't say what to do if part of your kidney sticks out you can't get it to go back in... it hurts like hell but thankfully I also read up on pharmacology and I fashioned myself some painkillers and antibiotics out of wild mushrooms and plants I found in my back yard. I've been taking them for the past few days. I'm pretty sure the bad blood that is making all the pain must be ejected from the body of to cure the illness, so this can't be bad because I've been vomiting blood non stop, so I'm on the right path. Hopefully I'll be cured in time before I go to jail, you see I did my own accounting too for my taxes. It sure beats hiring someone who specialized in the field and getting ripped off!
RC planes use lithium polymer (lipo) batteries, similar as what ipods use, just bigger with much higher capacity. My friend was charging a lipo in his car and the battery burst in flames and within minutes the car was toast. Lithium is great, but everyone who flies planes knows lithium polymer batteries are very finicky. They have a maximum charge rate, if you exceed it the consequence is overheating quickly followed by bursting into 1500 degree flames. The warning label says to stop using it if it is hot, never exceed the charge/discharge rate and never charge a battery if it is hot. It's really bad for the battery to be hot, and it's worse for it to be charged when hot, but Apple insists on charging their batteries at maximum capacity ignoring what is pretty much second nature for RC hobbyists. Also, charging/discharging battery when it's hot greatly lowers the life span of the battery. I always charge my batteries at half the max charge rate and always make sure it's not warm before/during charge. My batteries that have gone through several hundred charge/discharge cycles over two years and they still work like brand new... iPod batteries w/ same chemistry last about 6 months last time I checked.
I declare Global Warming to be a new deity of some sort, it has all the hallmarks of an insanely stupid religion. For example, a thousand years ago:
Lightning: act of God! Let's pay priests to sacrifice our cattle.
Torrential rain: act of God! Let's sacrifice virgins.
Drought: act of God! Let's run around begging for forgiveness!
Today: Lightning: Global warming! Let's pay idiot politicians to make new carbon emission laws.
Torrential rain: Global warming! Let's make farting illegal to reduce methane.
Drought: Global warming! Let's stop cutting trees!
Maybe there's a God, and it's very likely that there is a human cause for the climate change. But regardless of what you happen to believe in, the moment you throw out logic, rationale and scientific reasoning you become nothing more than a religious zealot.
-- My 2 cents.
If my grandma did what the RIAA did, I would have a diamond studded swimming pool and a solid gold humvee. Racketeering is very profitable! Unfortunately for grandma, it's also against the law so she would get caught and thrown in jail. The question is how does RIAA get away with it?
I lost track of how many trillions of dollars the RIAA insists everyone owes them.
It's about $23,148,855,308,184,500
Fact: printed photos fade over time... I got some really old photos of my great grandparents and there's no color left on the photos at all, they all turned black and white over time!
;)
jk
Profiting by copying the box's design and selling other boxes that unscramble the signal is immoral and perhaps illegal, BUT just because the end result is illegal doesn't mean the steps to it should also be illegal.
They sell you the box. They can't expect you to never look in the box. It would be terribly naive and dumb of them to expect you to not look in the box. Some people will open the box, some people will fiddle with what's inside the box, and some people will do unmentionable things to the box. What they do with the box after it is theirs isn't theft, it isn't breaking into anyone's property, it isn't stealing anything. Nobody broke into anyone's property.
Just like owning a gun isn't illegal, even though you can use the gun to shoot someone. Driving a car isn't illegal even though you can drive into a crowd of people. Drinking beer isn't illegal even though you can stab someone with the beer bottle. Having knowledge of electronics isn't illegal even though you can use that knowledge to make bomb timers. Knowing how a particular encryption system works isn't illegal even though such knowledge could be used to make devices that unscrambles paid content. DMCA tries to make that last one illegal... why don't we have laws against the other instances of prerequisites for doing illegal things? Last time I checked, human life was worth more than some paid content, nobody died from getting free TV. Have we degraded so low that we must break our civil liberties to protect paid content?
I wish the tag still worked, it would go really well with custom fonts.
Here's a car analogy for exercise:
The other day I was filling up my gas tank and it started overflowing! So I brought my car to the mechanic and he said my car wasn't getting driven enough for the amount of gas I was putting in. I'm very used to putting in exactly 20 gallons per week, and I wasn't about to change that, but I took his advice and I've been driving around the city for about an hour every day and I have seen considerable improvement, my gas tank is not overflowing nearly as much as it used to.
Doesn't it want to scream "Put less gas in there you fucking moron!"
Your comment is retarded and you're retarded.
I'm gonna learn you some English: First, I will download my photos to my Facebook page. Then I will borrow you my car but in collateral I demand you borrow me you're lawnmower for a week so I can mow my lawn. Your smart, so you will do good on your next test.
amoebas will survive? awesome.
First of all, the crap at the end of that link is bullshit to make it look like a real news site. The whole domain has only one breaking news posted on it, so you can go to http://the-daily-tribune.com/ to see the breaking news.
But I went there and the page is titled "The Mason DAILY TRIBUNE" and the story is about Mary, a mother from Mason, OH... and here's the funny thing, I am connected through an ISP in Mason, OH. If I had an IQ of a cell phone totting minivan driving soccer mom, I'd say "OMG that's totally where I'm from! Mary can do it, so can I! I am so totally gonna give this a try!" But instead I change my proxy, and reload the page, and guess what? Now it's the "The Pennington DAILY TRIBUNE" and the story is about Mary, a mother from San Jose, CA.
They take the "relate to your readers" to a whole new level. I wish real news sites like CNN would do that too:
"A deadly car bombing in [your town] during the early hours of [today's date] killed 42 people and injured hundreds more in a crowded [strip mall/mosque/church/market]."... that's news nobody would want to miss!