Please buy a ticket for some deserving indie film or such that starts about the same time; then go see this B sci-fi movie. That way your ticket purchase means something.
There is no way an informed/.'er would willingly support CoS even indirectly. Seeing as the CoS goons are not web-friendly and do not respect free speech. Hell you gotta wonder at a cult even the German government dislikes cause it reminds them of Nazism.
Since we are talking about the NET and taxes, will Canadians be forced to give money to the parish fire department in rural Louisiana (an acknowledged municipal taxing authority) just because some cajun wants fresh moose for his gumbo? What is to stop the flight of the big Ecommerce sites over the border into Mexico to evade tax payments to those 6000+ collectors in the US. Let's face it , US corps. have long traditions for running sites in Northern Mexico and bribing the local governor to be lax in his official duties(it cheaper than taxes and more direct).
Going further with this, say Amazon(patent monkeys) get together with UPS and FedEx and sets up a major international airport/warehousing in Northern Mexico. Then Jeff offers this service to other major Ecommerce shippers Then only US Customs is involved and most of these goods (Jeff's at least) would go through tax-free.
NOTE: UPS already does bulk shipments from Tokyo of web goods bought from nihongo sites. The customs agent inspecting these is actually in Tokyo working with local authorities.
Getting back on track to the NAFTA thing, Texas has no agreement with Canada to pay their VAT, so I doubt Canada would be willing to pay our sales Taxes on Egoods.
forget the personal.per just use.pid Personal Interest Domain as a backwards salute to Linux and it ancestors.
And as for your megahit.com sell it in an auction, since it has a clean history IMHO. But don't forget to CC: Steven Bezos so he can spend megabucks on it and have Amazon fail to make a profit in 2000.
The facts are that outside the US, some countries have almost the same non-accidental death rate as the US. In particular firearms death, murder and suicide are what we talk about. Death (homicide & suicide) about 21 per 100K for Japan and US In Japan the people kill themselves vs. harming others. In US we kill the other guy (Americans rarely blame themselves).
As for US non firearms murder rate, about 3/100k/yr this more than most industrialized nations total homicide rates. So even if you were to MAGICALY get rid of guns;) we would still be a leader in violent societies.
And we won't even go into the fact of how many non violent drug offenders become violent criminals after their first time in prison.
So should we ban.sig lines at/. Should we ignore freedom of expression. Did you also protest against the Anti-Gun off-topic rhetoric in the followup of Katz's Epcot articles (Hell, maybe your buddies moderated them as insightful). Nope, did not see you there or any other time when it is an anti-gun posting.(with ANONs it's hard to tell).
So please try not disguise your hoplophobia as concern for the message. ESR is who he is and is not afraid to show it. I rarely agree with the man but freedom of speech and RTKBA are one and two on his and my copy of the Bill of Rights.
BTW For all you anti-gun foreigners who like to compare their country firearms murder rate vs ths U.S. and then repeat the lie "It's the guns stupid". May I just point out the in the U.S. we kill more people with knives than almost every other western nation does with firearms. It's the culture of diversity, deal with it.
So should we ban.sig lines at/. Should we ignore freedom of expression. Did you also protest against the Anti-Gun off-topic rhetoric in the followup of Katz's Epcot articles (Hell, maybe your buddies moderated them as insightful). Nope, did not see you there or any other time when it is an anti-gun posting.(with Anon it's hard to tell).
So please try not disguise your hoplophobia as concern for the message. ESR is who he is and is not afraid to show it. I rarely agree with the man but freedom of speech and RTKBA are one and two on his and my copy of the Bill of Rights.
BTW For all you anti-gun foreigners who like to compare their country firearms murder rate vs ths U.S. and then repeat the lie "It's the guns stupid". May I just point out the in the U.S. we kill more people with knives than almost every other western nation does with firearms. It's the culture of diversity, deal with it.
They are in the publishing business and even have the trademark for the "eye in the pyramid" symbol for purposes of gaming and internet based activities.
The point of your problem is that you named a potential product and thought that just naming it gave you legal ownership. It should be pointed out that Neal Stephenson had no problem with SJ creating that customized MOO and naming it "Metaverse"
I notice that you have openverse as a registered domain and I bet you have even trademarked it. Welcome to US business Law.
First a point for point adressing of Janes concerns. -Using CT, how easy or otherwise is it to bring down or attack vital systems? Having done IS Disaster/Recovery and visited many of the Fortune 500 MIS centers and listened to their plans (Y2k and general response), you can take just about any company and make them non-productive for a day. This means a CT attack could shutdown a cities transitway or stop a production line in Detroit. What hackers don't tell you, is to even do this much damage it takes onsite familiarization with procedures and what those programs affect in Real World. -What sort of skills would be needed to do so, and are they common/teachable? Harassments attacks can be done by eight year olds and a scipt. To divert NextTel's Accounts Payable wire transfers for a day to your Caymen Island Bank takes a team of varied senior programmers. Commercial-off-the-shelf software: can it really do CT? Well Denial Of Service attacks can be done with commercial apps that are meant as net accessories, and infiltration can also be done when combined with some physical penetration. Which systems are actually attackable? Easiest of course are any that are attached to the Net. And these are also the one ones that DOS attacks tend to hit and temporarily take down. Those with remote terminal or even modem backup for IS support are a little harder to bother. -Can a recovery be made from such attacks? Reboot and reload from backup works 90% of the time and for the rest you call in the consultants to fix it. -Is it likely to improve/get worse? As reliance on IS increases,of course CT attacks will get worse and occasionally somebody is gonna a score a big hit. But presently the likely Hacker to make that score is not a terrorist just a kid with malicious thoughts. What sort of preventitive work would you recommend them to carry out? Believe it or not , a lot of the Y2K preparedness has taken care of many of the basic precautions.
Now about IT vs CT in the world of terrorism It is the advances in infrastructure and technology that allow some third world terrorist group to remotely launch a coordinated Chem/Bio attack across multiple targets at once with none of your group having been in the target zone for weeks or even months. With cellphones/modems and other portable tech you can set up multiple target zones and have them actually poll for release conditions based on 3rd party data. EXAMPLE: Your airborne bio weapon requires no rainfall and light winds for optimal dispersement. Yet your canisters are spread across 600 miles of varied conditions. The Palmtops each check local weather info and once consensus is reached via the wireless modem polling,they go off for maximun societal disruption. IT is a major force multiplier in the global events scale of things since it allows something like a SuperPower's ability to project force anywhere on the globe. Except with good IT,it's all done via remote.
So how good a doomsayer are you Bruce?
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I mean after 20+ years of saying how bad things are and telling us we're F**KED, what's your accuracy? I've heard you since '87 (Austin/EFF/DilloCon gotta love it) and still gotta wonder after all the rants (cypherpunks, global warming, Islam, e-currency, etc.). Has anybody been tracking your "doom and gloom" vs. what has happened?
Vulture Austin, Texas
Personally I've read BS's writings and treat them all (fiction and non-fiction) as worst case scenarios.
Slashdot Mirror
Please buy a ticket for some deserving indie film or such that starts about the same time; then go see this B sci-fi movie. That way your ticket purchase means something.
/.'er would willingly support CoS even indirectly. Seeing as the CoS goons are not web-friendly and do not respect free speech. Hell you gotta wonder at a cult even the German government dislikes cause it reminds them of Nazism.
There is no way an informed
Since we are talking about the NET and taxes, will Canadians be forced to give money to the parish fire department in rural Louisiana (an acknowledged municipal taxing authority) just because some cajun wants fresh moose for his gumbo?
What is to stop the flight of the big Ecommerce sites over the border into Mexico to evade tax payments to those 6000+ collectors in the US.
Let's face it , US corps. have long traditions for running sites in Northern Mexico and bribing the local governor to be lax in his official duties(it cheaper than taxes and more direct).
Going further with this, say Amazon(patent monkeys) get together with UPS and FedEx and sets up a major international airport/warehousing in Northern Mexico. Then Jeff offers this service to other major Ecommerce shippers Then only US Customs is involved and most of these goods (Jeff's at least) would go through tax-free.
NOTE: UPS already does bulk shipments from Tokyo of web goods bought from nihongo sites. The customs agent inspecting these is actually in Tokyo working with local authorities.
Getting back on track to the NAFTA thing, Texas has no agreement with Canada to pay their VAT, so I doubt Canada would be willing to pay our sales Taxes on Egoods.
forget the personal .per .pid Personal Interest Domain
.com sell it in an auction, since it has a clean history IMHO.
just use
as a backwards salute to Linux and it ancestors.
And as for your megahit
But don't forget to CC: Steven Bezos so he can spend megabucks on it and have Amazon fail to make a profit in 2000.
The facts are that outside the US, some countries have almost the same non-accidental death rate
;) we would still be a leader in violent societies.
as the US. In particular firearms death, murder and suicide are what we talk about.
Death (homicide & suicide) about 21 per 100K
for Japan and US
In Japan the people kill themselves vs. harming others. In US we kill the other guy (Americans rarely blame themselves).
As for US non firearms murder rate, about 3/100k/yr this more than most industrialized nations total homicide rates. So even if you were to MAGICALY get rid of guns
And we won't even go into the fact of how many non violent drug offenders become violent criminals after their first time in prison.
Mea Culpa
(for somehow double posting)
So should we ban .sig lines at /. Should we ignore freedom of expression.
Did you also protest against the Anti-Gun off-topic rhetoric in the followup of Katz's Epcot articles (Hell, maybe your buddies moderated them as insightful). Nope, did not see you there or any other time when it is an anti-gun posting.(with ANONs it's hard to tell).
So please try not disguise your hoplophobia as concern for the message. ESR is who he is and is not afraid to show it. I rarely agree with the man but freedom of speech and RTKBA are one and two on his and my copy of the Bill of Rights.
BTW For all you anti-gun foreigners who like to compare their country firearms murder rate vs ths U.S. and then repeat the lie "It's the guns stupid". May I just point out the in the U.S. we kill more people with knives than almost every other western nation does with firearms.
It's the culture of diversity, deal with it.
So should we ban .sig lines at /. Should we ignore freedom of expression.
Did you also protest against the Anti-Gun off-topic rhetoric in the followup of Katz's Epcot articles (Hell, maybe your buddies moderated them as insightful). Nope, did not see you there or any other time when it is an anti-gun posting.(with Anon it's hard to tell).
So please try not disguise your hoplophobia as concern for the message. ESR is who he is and is not afraid to show it. I rarely agree with the man but freedom of speech and RTKBA are one and two on his and my copy of the Bill of Rights.
BTW For all you anti-gun foreigners who like to compare their country firearms murder rate vs ths U.S. and then repeat the lie "It's the guns stupid". May I just point out the in the U.S. we kill more people with knives than almost every other western nation does with firearms.
It's the culture of diversity, deal with it.
They are in the publishing business and even have the trademark for the "eye in the pyramid" symbol for purposes of gaming and internet based activities.
The point of your problem is that you named a potential product and thought that just naming it gave you legal ownership. It should be pointed out that Neal Stephenson had no problem with SJ creating that customized MOO and naming it "Metaverse"
I notice that you have openverse as a registered domain and I bet you have even trademarked it.
Welcome to US business Law.
Therel Moore
Who was a tester of the Metaverse
Let's face it the hamster dance version of Mahir said it all!
This was at least kinder than all those Turkish jokes the Greeks and Cypriots tell.
The above anti-gun diatribe is neither factual nor on topic. ( Yes I too think the moderators are biased)
Federal Law (Brady Bill, etc.) has the most effect on FL gun sales.
And since Florida gun sales laws are similar to California's, then what does say about DisneyLand vs. DisneyWorld?
Therel Moore
Austin,TX
First a point for point adressing of Janes concerns.
-Using CT, how easy or otherwise is it to bring down or attack vital systems?
Having done IS Disaster/Recovery and visited many of the Fortune 500 MIS centers and listened to their plans (Y2k and general response), you can take just about any company and make them non-productive for a day. This means a CT attack could shutdown a cities transitway or stop a production line in Detroit. What hackers don't tell you, is to even do this much damage it takes onsite familiarization with procedures and what those programs affect in Real World.
-What sort of skills would be needed to do so, and are they common/teachable? Harassments attacks can be done by eight year olds and a scipt. To divert NextTel's Accounts Payable wire transfers for a day to your Caymen Island Bank takes a team of varied senior programmers.
Commercial-off-the-shelf software: can it really do CT?
Well Denial Of Service attacks can be done with commercial apps that are meant as net accessories, and infiltration can also be done when combined with some physical penetration.
Which systems are actually attackable?
Easiest of course are any that are attached to the Net. And these are also the one ones that DOS attacks tend to hit and temporarily take down.
Those with remote terminal or even modem backup for IS support are a little harder to bother. -Can a recovery be made from such attacks? Reboot and reload from backup works 90% of the time and for the rest you call in the consultants to fix it.
-Is it likely to improve/get worse? As reliance on IS increases,of course CT attacks will get worse and occasionally somebody is gonna a score a big hit. But presently the likely Hacker to make that score is not a terrorist just a kid with malicious thoughts.
What sort of preventitive work would you recommend them to carry out?
Believe it or not , a lot of the Y2K preparedness has taken care of many of the basic precautions.
Now about IT vs CT in the world of terrorism
It is the advances in infrastructure and technology that allow some third world terrorist group to remotely launch a coordinated Chem/Bio attack across multiple targets at once with none of your group having been in the target zone for weeks or even months. With cellphones/modems and other portable tech you can set up multiple target zones and have them actually poll for release conditions based on 3rd party data. EXAMPLE: Your airborne bio weapon requires no rainfall and light winds for optimal dispersement. Yet your canisters are spread across 600 miles of varied conditions. The Palmtops each check local weather info and once consensus is reached via the wireless modem polling,they go off for maximun societal disruption.
IT is a major force multiplier in the global events scale of things since it allows something like a SuperPower's ability to project force anywhere on the globe. Except with good IT,it's all done via remote.
I mean after 20+ years of saying how bad things are and telling us we're F**KED, what's your accuracy? I've heard you since '87 (Austin/EFF/DilloCon gotta love it) and still gotta wonder after all the rants (cypherpunks, global warming, Islam, e-currency, etc.). Has anybody been tracking your "doom and gloom" vs. what has happened?
Vulture
Austin, Texas
Personally I've read BS's writings and treat them all (fiction and non-fiction) as worst case scenarios.