The prosecution did not make their case - but the court found in the favour anyway. The court is part of the state and the state is in collusion with corporations (isn't there a word for that? I can't help remembering something about the fusion of corporate and state power...)
I am reminded by the government response to recent police brutality in the UK. The government set up the IPCC (Independent Police Complaints Commission) allegedly to monitor the police but in actual fact, and as everyone can now see, they exist only to rubber-stamp the excesses of the police. Recently, this free hand given to the police was used to excessively react to a power station protest on the insistence of the corporation that owns it.
The corporations detect a threat to their economic power, the police abuse their powers, magistrates wave it through, the IPCC brushes aside your concerns. All agencies in complete collusion, against the citizen.
Just as it is now in Sweden; the legislature, the multinational corporations, the courts - supposedly independent parties - colluded to produce an already decided upon verdict, and then went through the process of a trial purely for PR.
You can't beat the system from within the system - because all elements in the system work together against you.
Using the metric of 'how fast police get somewhere' to determine the quality of their service is asking for trouble. In fact, its asking for police to do shit like this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7987832.stm
Too bloody true. I get tired of hearing 19 year old Tories go on about how David Cameron is going to save us all from the evil commies of the Labour party. They are simply too young to realise how fucking vicious the Tories are when they have power.
He said communications data played a "vital part" in a wide range of criminal investigations, such as the hunt for the killer of Rhys Jones, the 11-year-old schoolboy shot dead in Liverpool in 2007, and the prevention of terrorists attacks.
Because clearly, Liverpudlian street gangs use the Internet to organize their activities.
Using "think of the children" to justify your totalitarianism is one thing; cynically dredging up the memory of one of the most brutal and horrific crimes of recent years to do it shows their contempt for all things warm and human.
If shit is in public, its in public whether or not someone photographs it or not. This is all about the media deliberately stirring up fear in the most ignorant people (no doubt these villagers read the Daily Mail or the Express)
A bit paranoid, but then again a small amount of paranoia is healthy in this day and age.
I wouldn't have thought they would be able to do a blanket search and start adding money to peoples phone bills though. The phone companies would fight it for a start; they would be the ones pissing off their customers. Generally, communication providers have been resistant to freedom-infringing moves from content providers unless the communication provider is also in the business of content providing (i.e. Virgin).
Contrary to what economists might think - money, property, business, commerce and all these things have no physical basis in reality. They are just sets of rules we collectively (for the most part) abide by. If these rules become useless to us, we can simply discard them and make new ones.
But they become so familiar some people do take them as physically real, and worth something in of themselves. They consider the free exchange of data between citizens as an attack on something, and would do so even if it were occurring in another solar system and was causally isolated from them and their business for years. This is clearly nonsense.
Price gouging IP to fund shite films that people wouldn't choose to watch if they weren't rammed down their throats with advertising isn't going to work much anymore. They are dead and they don't even know it. These are the Brezhnev years for Holywood, and the collapse will inevitably follow.
Don't blame the 'pirates'. Find a business model that doesn't involve lobbying the government to throw people in prison for the contents of their private communication. You aren't owned a living. We don't need you.
And because not everybody has the same values, the combined data isn't meaningful beyond a way to measure the lowest common denominator.
The brutal oversimplification of 'econ 101' when applied to real world situations does not generally lead to good outcomes. People are just too complex.
I can reiterate this. Captain cyborgs contributions to AI have been almost always publicity stunts; his contributions towards cybernetics even more so.
He has been promoting walking robots that fall over after the first ten feet, compared to the fraking cylons coming out of Korea and Japan - and implants that can apparently transmit 'feelings' between him and his wife next to extraordinary advances in actual prosthetic limbs and artificial sight or hearing.
I like how the CIA (who haven't got a great record for promoting democracy in Venezeula, seeing as they have already mounted at least one coup attempt on Chavez) are wailing about vote rigging.
They didn't seem to care this much about democratic elections when they were backing Pinochet, or the Contras, or any of the other dictators they've pushed on any Latin American country that didn't toe the line.
I used to like democracy. I always thought it was a good idea. But having seen how its most vocal proponent actually treats elections in practice, I am cynical to the point of thinking anybody who talks about democracy is only talking about their guy winning at any cost.
Unlike on, say, wikipedia, the entry requirements (in terms of the ability to code in such a way its useful to a big project) are high enough to automatically exclude a lot of the asshats out there.
People can and do cooperate. Misanthropy is popular amongst young people but it doesn't really reflect on the adult world much. Mercenary, John Galt sorts don't last long in business because they can't work with others and nobody is going to be massively successful entirely on their own.
Perhaps what hippies hoping to form successful and long lasting cooperatives need is to first fight a futile struggle on two fronts against fascist and communist oppression for a few years?
Yes, if only there were some tried and tested system where the amount you paid for medical care was based on, oh I don't know, a reasonable percentage of your income perhaps?
Right, because healthcare in the US is soooo much better. My future mother-in-law had a bout of tachycardia in florida - didn't even stay overnight in hospital - and ended up paying £2000 for basic treatement.
You can have robots, but you've got to let them choose their own fate - as the centurions were allowed to at the end. In a way, they had already broken the cycle when the humans, rebel humanoid cylons, and free centurions fought side by side in the colony.
Nope, it wasn't a parabolic flight or anything like that, it was a genuine option to fly above 100km at some point within five years after purchase. A total gimmick.
Indeed. Lots of people are under the impression that free will is a function of randomness. Sorry guys, but randomness is insanity. I would prefer that my actions flowed deterministically from my inner mental state. How else could I act according to my convictions?
Why do you have those convictions in the first place? If they were mechanically deterministic, it would be a pretty bleak (and very uniform) existence for humans.
I've always wondered why a bunch of comp sci geeks have such strong opinions on things like the nature of free will...
What are observers made of again? I don't mean to suggest that people can diffract or exist in superpositions; but it isn't clear at all how this kind of determinism transitions from the quantum to the macro world.
The problem of free will is intimately tied to that of conciousness - a very serious problem. Want to build a true AI ever? You need to read this kind of research.
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The prosecution did not make their case - but the court found in the favour anyway. The court is part of the state and the state is in collusion with corporations (isn't there a word for that? I can't help remembering something about the fusion of corporate and state power...)
I am reminded by the government response to recent police brutality in the UK. The government set up the IPCC (Independent Police Complaints Commission) allegedly to monitor the police but in actual fact, and as everyone can now see, they exist only to rubber-stamp the excesses of the police. Recently, this free hand given to the police was used to excessively react to a power station protest on the insistence of the corporation that owns it.
The corporations detect a threat to their economic power, the police abuse their powers, magistrates wave it through, the IPCC brushes aside your concerns. All agencies in complete collusion, against the citizen.
Just as it is now in Sweden; the legislature, the multinational corporations, the courts - supposedly independent parties - colluded to produce an already decided upon verdict, and then went through the process of a trial purely for PR.
You can't beat the system from within the system - because all elements in the system work together against you.
Well quoted. I may use that one myself some time
Using the metric of 'how fast police get somewhere' to determine the quality of their service is asking for trouble. In fact, its asking for police to do shit like this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7987832.stm
We do NOT suck up to Americans. Our politicians do. We get drunk and verbally abuse Americans.
Better send a huge mushroom shaped spaceship to fire a bomb into it!
Then why are you posting as AC?
Too bloody true. I get tired of hearing 19 year old Tories go on about how David Cameron is going to save us all from the evil commies of the Labour party. They are simply too young to realise how fucking vicious the Tories are when they have power.
Because clearly, Liverpudlian street gangs use the Internet to organize their activities. Using "think of the children" to justify your totalitarianism is one thing; cynically dredging up the memory of one of the most brutal and horrific crimes of recent years to do it shows their contempt for all things warm and human.
If shit is in public, its in public whether or not someone photographs it or not. This is all about the media deliberately stirring up fear in the most ignorant people (no doubt these villagers read the Daily Mail or the Express)
A bit paranoid, but then again a small amount of paranoia is healthy in this day and age.
I wouldn't have thought they would be able to do a blanket search and start adding money to peoples phone bills though. The phone companies would fight it for a start; they would be the ones pissing off their customers. Generally, communication providers have been resistant to freedom-infringing moves from content providers unless the communication provider is also in the business of content providing (i.e. Virgin).
Contrary to what economists might think - money, property, business, commerce and all these things have no physical basis in reality. They are just sets of rules we collectively (for the most part) abide by. If these rules become useless to us, we can simply discard them and make new ones.
But they become so familiar some people do take them as physically real, and worth something in of themselves. They consider the free exchange of data between citizens as an attack on something, and would do so even if it were occurring in another solar system and was causally isolated from them and their business for years. This is clearly nonsense.
Price gouging IP to fund shite films that people wouldn't choose to watch if they weren't rammed down their throats with advertising isn't going to work much anymore. They are dead and they don't even know it. These are the Brezhnev years for Holywood, and the collapse will inevitably follow.
Don't blame the 'pirates'. Find a business model that doesn't involve lobbying the government to throw people in prison for the contents of their private communication. You aren't owned a living. We don't need you.
And because not everybody has the same values, the combined data isn't meaningful beyond a way to measure the lowest common denominator.
The brutal oversimplification of 'econ 101' when applied to real world situations does not generally lead to good outcomes. People are just too complex.
I can reiterate this. Captain cyborgs contributions to AI have been almost always publicity stunts; his contributions towards cybernetics even more so.
He has been promoting walking robots that fall over after the first ten feet, compared to the fraking cylons coming out of Korea and Japan - and implants that can apparently transmit 'feelings' between him and his wife next to extraordinary advances in actual prosthetic limbs and artificial sight or hearing.
I like how the CIA (who haven't got a great record for promoting democracy in Venezeula, seeing as they have already mounted at least one coup attempt on Chavez) are wailing about vote rigging.
They didn't seem to care this much about democratic elections when they were backing Pinochet, or the Contras, or any of the other dictators they've pushed on any Latin American country that didn't toe the line.
I used to like democracy. I always thought it was a good idea. But having seen how its most vocal proponent actually treats elections in practice, I am cynical to the point of thinking anybody who talks about democracy is only talking about their guy winning at any cost.
There is a service that delivers you complete albums, for free, whenever you want - and works in any country.
Its called 'bittorrent'
LOL pop game theory!
It is more like the Iterated prisoners dilemma - which produces completely different results.
Unlike on, say, wikipedia, the entry requirements (in terms of the ability to code in such a way its useful to a big project) are high enough to automatically exclude a lot of the asshats out there.
People can and do cooperate. Misanthropy is popular amongst young people but it doesn't really reflect on the adult world much. Mercenary, John Galt sorts don't last long in business because they can't work with others and nobody is going to be massively successful entirely on their own.
Perhaps what hippies hoping to form successful and long lasting cooperatives need is to first fight a futile struggle on two fronts against fascist and communist oppression for a few years?
Yes, if only there were some tried and tested system where the amount you paid for medical care was based on, oh I don't know, a reasonable percentage of your income perhaps?
Right, because healthcare in the US is soooo much better. My future mother-in-law had a bout of tachycardia in florida - didn't even stay overnight in hospital - and ended up paying £2000 for basic treatement.
You can have robots, but you've got to let them choose their own fate - as the centurions were allowed to at the end. In a way, they had already broken the cycle when the humans, rebel humanoid cylons, and free centurions fought side by side in the colony.
Nope, it wasn't a parabolic flight or anything like that, it was a genuine option to fly above 100km at some point within five years after purchase. A total gimmick.
Why do you have those convictions in the first place? If they were mechanically deterministic, it would be a pretty bleak (and very uniform) existence for humans.
I've always wondered why a bunch of comp sci geeks have such strong opinions on things like the nature of free will...
What are observers made of again? I don't mean to suggest that people can diffract or exist in superpositions; but it isn't clear at all how this kind of determinism transitions from the quantum to the macro world.
The problem of free will is intimately tied to that of conciousness - a very serious problem. Want to build a true AI ever? You need to read this kind of research.