So sorry for you, it must suck to be a wage slave. Me, I'm happy with the fact that I'm making more money than before, though I will save it for an orbital trip since the only use I can ever see for suborbital is fast transatlantic travel. Oh, I forgot you won't ever be able to even leave your shanty town. Such bitterness you must feel. Oh, well, some must lose for others to win. But then again, you most certainly have the financial standing you deserve.
Exactly. The media mafia rules, and will keep ruling. The only thing you can ever do is to kill those copyright barons, because there is no lawful recourse: they own it. There is no chance to fight them on legal grounds.
Very well, because you don't target the MBT or the helicopter. You target the guys who crew, service and maintain them. I see you have no understanding of warfare at all. You just decided to roll over. Works for you.
Why buy more powerful hardware if ITS CAPABILITIES ARE WASTED BY BAD CODE? Wow. Marketing loves you. You're the perfect consumer drone. You give out money for powerful equipment that is underutilized by bad programming practice. The "unheard possibilities" you yak about are actually nothing compared to what could be achieved by better code, buy you'll never know because you live by the Market's laws. Norton would love to clone you.
This is exactly the EU MO: submit the issue to a referendum. If approved, declare triumphantly: "The people have spoken! Europe wins! No more votes on this issue forever!". If rejected, threaten the offending country with "dire consequences", make life unpleasant for them for a couple of years, then vote again with the warning that a negative outcome would have even less pleasant consequences. Repeat until desired result is achieved.
Isn't the High Lord Bonobo supposed to be able to stop all this? How come the mighty US armed forces and drones and stuff have not bombed this vortex into submission? Surprising? I suppose this weather terrorism thing has won.
No, it's the big boys coming up and saying "einsatz". If you don't know the meaning, read up Molnàr's "The Boys of Paal Street".
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So what? You're a small minority of loserboys that nobody listens to. MIT is a highly respected institution, people with the talent and the money will still go there because of its high standards and the titles it issues are held in great esteem worldwide. Who is this aaron swartz loserboy? A nobody. Only a bunch of stupid nerds have their shit-soiled panties in a bunch over a nobody offing himself. In prison for 199 million years? A pity you cannot hear me snickering because that's what I'm doing at your pathetic ramblings. The prosecutors did their job, nobody issued ultimatums. That's all in your sick imagination where there's this Great Conspiracies against you, the Matrix Hero. Reality is different: he broke laws that he thought didn't apply to him, then took the easy way out. Your hero was all blue in the face with his blackened tongue hanging out when his mama found him, and his underwear was so soiled with his own piss and shit that there was a pool of it under his corpse.
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Yadda yadda yadda. Your hero swartz is dead, by his own trembling hand no less, and the "shameless enforcers" are still there and WILL still be there, doing exactly what they want to do. A hundred, thousand or a million dead swartzes are not going to change this. Your puny computers are no match for the power of the LAW! Enjoy the taste of shit because that's all you're going to eat, forever.
.........and that state/country will suddenly find its sky full of drones.
Unless that country is well away from an US staging area and/or has a massive trade imbalance with the US, or owns a lot of its debt. Not all countries in the world are backwater camel-humping grounds: some are highly civilized and advanced nations that can spell massive economic grief for the US. Some happen to have the technology to turn those precious drones into expensive broken toys. By the way, I've been dabbling with chemistry since I was 10 and I'm still doing it, no police visit ever. We don't live in redneckistan, you know.
When you have the cojones to travel to the Moon on a spacecraft that hasn't even been thoroughly tested with a good chance to die out there, you'll have the right to express your worthless opinions. Until then, bend over backwards and shit on your own face, loserboy.
"Free trade" and "freedom of movement" in the EU died the moment the crisis struck. From then on it's every state for itself while Germany rules and everybody hates kraut ass.
Be more subtle: you see anyone wearing these, point them out and either ridicule them or say out loud: "Look, they're taking pictures of the children". The rest will be automatic.
I see you lack the scope. You may want to cause disruption, which was a favourite technique of the Basques: detonate a couple of bombs when tourist season is about to begin and a big lot of tourists from abroad will cancel their reservations out of fear, causing big economic damages to the country. Voilà, you have dealt a blow to the government without causing many victims. You have just "killed money" in the eyes of the public. And you don't even need to use explosives: plant some OC canister on a timed release mechanism in the AC system of a mall during the festivities, you will cause massive disruption without bloodshed. But bombs cause more fear, and one or two in the right places at the right moment will scare people into staying away from those places. For those who think you can use "legal" means to send your message, see what happened to the Seattle and OSW movements, see how ineffective the "pitchfork" movement is in Italy. Those with power and money have absolutely no interest in negotiating with you. You have no bargaining chips. They have the government in their pockets and they know it. But they're mortals too, they can die and you can take their money and power from them with the correct application of disciplined violence.
Yawn. Get over yourself, your "theories" aren't even worth laughing about. And the Luddite choice is more plausible than you think: already in Europe there's talk of "technological de-growth" and "controlled industrial devolution". The "year zero" option is, unfortunately, gathering adepts day by day. And by the way, humans are animals: just that, nothing more. We're beasts who delude themselves into thinking we're something better, but we're not. The sooner we understand this, and work with what humans are rather than what we'd like to be, the better. And SF is fiction. The kind you like so much is the worst, dumbest kind. Grow up or kill yourself and spare the world a useless waste of resources.
Loserboy nerd, the Arkenstone was found in Erebor. It's in Moria that the dwarves dug too greedily and too deep and woke Durin's Bane. Throw yourself from the Bridge of Khazad-Dûm while the Balrog shits on your face.
Yes, the results are the same - and cumulative: everytime the controls get tighter and more effective. This is not the '90s anymore: there are fewer and fewer players in the ISP field and they will have to deal with both the media lobbyists AND the governments' desire for control. The technology imbalance is now fully in favour of those with the most money which, surprise surprise, are not us users. So, this "nonsense" makes a lot of sense.
Don't make any threat at all: place the bomb, detonate it. This will tell people you do have the ability to make a bomb and the will to use it. Then do it again, so they will also know you're not going to stop at one. Then you can make threats that will not sound empty.
How naive can you be? The media mafia has the whole US government in its pockets, and is using its influence to bully the whole world into obeying their rules. The rich and powerful do not abide by the laws made for the peons. There won't be any investigation, there won't be any prosecution. Joe Biden, squire to the High Lord Bonobo - the most beloved leader since the beginning of time - is their leading henchman. Those studio execs will be feasting on expensive food and fine wines forever while the populace wallows in shit. Why are you opposed to this? Do you hate 'Murkia? Are you (GASP) a TERR-OW-REEST?
I have visited both, and have no wish to ever make the same mistake again. How uncivilized, how uncultured the average Aussie is. How classist, how racist Limey society is. If I subscribed to any long-debunked "race" theory, I'd say they're lower specimen of humanity. Since I do not, I'll simply conclude that it's a cultural thing. UK and Australian citizens (subjects?) are simply not intelligent enough to deal with real freedom and responsability. A bit of advice: don't go there, you'll feel filthy afterwards. And if you live there... My sympathies. There is a way out, however, and it can be painless.
They shouldn't have listened. You shouldn't restrict anyone's rights only because the oh-so-smart and civilized, intelligent and cultured euro-peons turn into murderous zombies only because of a speech and go all goose-stepping and siegheiling all over the place instead of laughing the clowns off stage. Really, if euro-peons are so superior to everybody else on Earth, why does it take only some words to turn them all into murderers? Or maybe they are not turning at all? Maybe they've always been that way? History seems to suggest that: europeans = fascist murderers. It's that simple. Shouldn't we simply ban euro-peons outright?
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So sorry for you, it must suck to be a wage slave. Me, I'm happy with the fact that I'm making more money than before, though I will save it for an orbital trip since the only use I can ever see for suborbital is fast transatlantic travel. Oh, I forgot you won't ever be able to even leave your shanty town. Such bitterness you must feel. Oh, well, some must lose for others to win. But then again, you most certainly have the financial standing you deserve.
I never aimed at it. Couldn't be bothered. Why get in the way of a good rant?
Exactly. The media mafia rules, and will keep ruling. The only thing you can ever do is to kill those copyright barons, because there is no lawful recourse: they own it. There is no chance to fight them on legal grounds.
Very well, because you don't target the MBT or the helicopter. You target the guys who crew, service and maintain them. I see you have no understanding of warfare at all. You just decided to roll over. Works for you.
Why buy more powerful hardware if ITS CAPABILITIES ARE WASTED BY BAD CODE? Wow. Marketing loves you. You're the perfect consumer drone. You give out money for powerful equipment that is underutilized by bad programming practice. The "unheard possibilities" you yak about are actually nothing compared to what could be achieved by better code, buy you'll never know because you live by the Market's laws. Norton would love to clone you.
This is exactly the EU MO: submit the issue to a referendum. If approved, declare triumphantly: "The people have spoken! Europe wins! No more votes on this issue forever!". If rejected, threaten the offending country with "dire consequences", make life unpleasant for them for a couple of years, then vote again with the warning that a negative outcome would have even less pleasant consequences. Repeat until desired result is achieved.
Isn't the High Lord Bonobo supposed to be able to stop all this? How come the mighty US armed forces and drones and stuff have not bombed this vortex into submission? Surprising? I suppose this weather terrorism thing has won.
No, it's the big boys coming up and saying "einsatz". If you don't know the meaning, read up Molnàr's "The Boys of Paal Street".
So what? You're a small minority of loserboys that nobody listens to. MIT is a highly respected institution, people with the talent and the money will still go there because of its high standards and the titles it issues are held in great esteem worldwide. Who is this aaron swartz loserboy? A nobody. Only a bunch of stupid nerds have their shit-soiled panties in a bunch over a nobody offing himself. In prison for 199 million years? A pity you cannot hear me snickering because that's what I'm doing at your pathetic ramblings. The prosecutors did their job, nobody issued ultimatums. That's all in your sick imagination where there's this Great Conspiracies against you, the Matrix Hero. Reality is different: he broke laws that he thought didn't apply to him, then took the easy way out. Your hero was all blue in the face with his blackened tongue hanging out when his mama found him, and his underwear was so soiled with his own piss and shit that there was a pool of it under his corpse.
Yadda yadda yadda. Your hero swartz is dead, by his own trembling hand no less, and the "shameless enforcers" are still there and WILL still be there, doing exactly what they want to do. A hundred, thousand or a million dead swartzes are not going to change this. Your puny computers are no match for the power of the LAW! Enjoy the taste of shit because that's all you're going to eat, forever.
.........and that state/country will suddenly find its sky full of drones.
Unless that country is well away from an US staging area and/or has a massive trade imbalance with the US, or owns a lot of its debt. Not all countries in the world are backwater camel-humping grounds: some are highly civilized and advanced nations that can spell massive economic grief for the US. Some happen to have the technology to turn those precious drones into expensive broken toys. By the way, I've been dabbling with chemistry since I was 10 and I'm still doing it, no police visit ever. We don't live in redneckistan, you know.
When you have the cojones to travel to the Moon on a spacecraft that hasn't even been thoroughly tested with a good chance to die out there, you'll have the right to express your worthless opinions. Until then, bend over backwards and shit on your own face, loserboy.
"Free trade" and "freedom of movement" in the EU died the moment the crisis struck. From then on it's every state for itself while Germany rules and everybody hates kraut ass.
Be more subtle: you see anyone wearing these, point them out and either ridicule them or say out loud: "Look, they're taking pictures of the children". The rest will be automatic.
What's next? Germany pardoning the Holocaust victims for being Jews?
I see you lack the scope. You may want to cause disruption, which was a favourite technique of the Basques: detonate a couple of bombs when tourist season is about to begin and a big lot of tourists from abroad will cancel their reservations out of fear, causing big economic damages to the country. Voilà, you have dealt a blow to the government without causing many victims. You have just "killed money" in the eyes of the public. And you don't even need to use explosives: plant some OC canister on a timed release mechanism in the AC system of a mall during the festivities, you will cause massive disruption without bloodshed. But bombs cause more fear, and one or two in the right places at the right moment will scare people into staying away from those places. For those who think you can use "legal" means to send your message, see what happened to the Seattle and OSW movements, see how ineffective the "pitchfork" movement is in Italy. Those with power and money have absolutely no interest in negotiating with you. You have no bargaining chips. They have the government in their pockets and they know it. But they're mortals too, they can die and you can take their money and power from them with the correct application of disciplined violence.
Yawn. Get over yourself, your "theories" aren't even worth laughing about. And the Luddite choice is more plausible than you think: already in Europe there's talk of "technological de-growth" and "controlled industrial devolution". The "year zero" option is, unfortunately, gathering adepts day by day. And by the way, humans are animals: just that, nothing more. We're beasts who delude themselves into thinking we're something better, but we're not. The sooner we understand this, and work with what humans are rather than what we'd like to be, the better. And SF is fiction. The kind you like so much is the worst, dumbest kind. Grow up or kill yourself and spare the world a useless waste of resources.
Loserboy nerd, the Arkenstone was found in Erebor. It's in Moria that the dwarves dug too greedily and too deep and woke Durin's Bane. Throw yourself from the Bridge of Khazad-Dûm while the Balrog shits on your face.
Yes, the results are the same - and cumulative: everytime the controls get tighter and more effective. This is not the '90s anymore: there are fewer and fewer players in the ISP field and they will have to deal with both the media lobbyists AND the governments' desire for control. The technology imbalance is now fully in favour of those with the most money which, surprise surprise, are not us users. So, this "nonsense" makes a lot of sense.
Don't make any threat at all: place the bomb, detonate it. This will tell people you do have the ability to make a bomb and the will to use it. Then do it again, so they will also know you're not going to stop at one. Then you can make threats that will not sound empty.
How naive can you be? The media mafia has the whole US government in its pockets, and is using its influence to bully the whole world into obeying their rules. The rich and powerful do not abide by the laws made for the peons. There won't be any investigation, there won't be any prosecution. Joe Biden, squire to the High Lord Bonobo - the most beloved leader since the beginning of time - is their leading henchman. Those studio execs will be feasting on expensive food and fine wines forever while the populace wallows in shit. Why are you opposed to this? Do you hate 'Murkia? Are you (GASP) a TERR-OW-REEST?
I'm not a 'murkin, turdbrain. Piss up your nostrils or the feces floating in your skull will dry up.
Protection of France's "scientific and economic potential"? Does this mean they're making all those efforts to protect nothing at all?
I have visited both, and have no wish to ever make the same mistake again. How uncivilized, how uncultured the average Aussie is. How classist, how racist Limey society is. If I subscribed to any long-debunked "race" theory, I'd say they're lower specimen of humanity. Since I do not, I'll simply conclude that it's a cultural thing. UK and Australian citizens (subjects?) are simply not intelligent enough to deal with real freedom and responsability. A bit of advice: don't go there, you'll feel filthy afterwards. And if you live there... My sympathies. There is a way out, however, and it can be painless.
They shouldn't have listened. You shouldn't restrict anyone's rights only because the oh-so-smart and civilized, intelligent and cultured euro-peons turn into murderous zombies only because of a speech and go all goose-stepping and siegheiling all over the place instead of laughing the clowns off stage. Really, if euro-peons are so superior to everybody else on Earth, why does it take only some words to turn them all into murderers? Or maybe they are not turning at all? Maybe they've always been that way? History seems to suggest that: europeans = fascist murderers. It's that simple. Shouldn't we simply ban euro-peons outright?