Did you know the DHS is teaching law enforcement that the founding fathers were terrorists and anyone that respects and supports what they did should be suspected of supporting terrorism?
How sad and twisted things have gotten that I honestly can't tell if you're kidding or not.
George Washington was a cryptologist spymaster. The DHS is warning libraries from offering tor. QED. I think it's less a joke than a warning. Perhaps the DHS should tell the FBI to go after this Washington character.
Now, anything he does, no matter how well, is tainted by those two absurd ideas.
If anything, his running for the presidency is intended to shine a light on the absurdity that is the US electoral system. He wants to start the ball rolling and perhaps shame Congress into fixing the rest of its mess.
Is it just me that is really puzzled by how stupid these companies are?
Reading this, I'm thinking more the users. What you've just described is the natural progression of replacing manual transmission with automatic transmission. Why? Users are often too lazy and impatient to learn complex skills, such as driving a car using both hands and both feet and both eyes, not to mention ears and touch and feeling centrifugal forces acting upon their body, all in constant balance and communication using one's brain.
To simplify, think about the spacial orientation skills needed to use rear and side view mirrors in conjunction with all those other skills of controlling a vehicle, but in reverse. Too many potential drivers found that operation far too difficult and time consuming to learn, so now we have a TV and cameras and proximity detectors built in so the driver doesn't need to learn how to drive backwards using mirrors. Now, they rely on magic bullets instead. It only costs $30k/vehicle to implement and doesn't work very well, but people hate learning to do the alternative so it's worth it to them.
Stunning. I'd always wondered where the impetus for this stuff was. This is what happens when you overdose on George Jetson at a young age. Thanks for explaining it so well.
I believe he can avoid such "atrocities" as this in the future merely by wearing a bag over his head when in public. I suspect this would similarly satisfy his detractors.
I don't think he knows what that word means. Rumor has it there were multi-million souls floating about Europe about seventy years ago who could've enlightened him.
It's amazing that anyone could be as full of himself as this. A *mildly* unflattering photo taken in public, then used to portray his likeness on a similarly unflattering blog, is justification for him to stamp out free speech.
Now, it's multiplied by the Streisand Effect. Good job, fathead.
It's not a question of "permission society", it's about respect, something that is often sorely lacking in the current grab all you can and run society.
"Grab all you can and run society" vs. "everything has to be owned" and we'll sue you to death to prove it? I guess you missed this line from the story?
But, of course, in an age where every news organization is afraid to get hit with a massive damages award in a copyright lawsuit, they're all going to ask.
Posting tweets is the modern equivalent of speaking to a room full of people, but we've encumbered it now with threats of lawsuits and requests to use statements said in public which should be covered by fair use exceptions written in the law. How is this an improvement over a default of permissiveness? How the hell is civilization going to continue to work when we're all gagged by default?
I wonder how much of this is just simple racism, like interning Japanese in WWII, carpet bombing Koreans and ChiComs, and padding the bodycount with women and children in Vietnam. They're just gooks after all, and there's plenty more where they came from. :-P
I haven't heard of any efforts to put those who failed to secure OPM into jail, and that's far more likely damaging than this gong show.
This reminds of the time my psycho father accused me of being Chinese(I'm extremely white) and being sent by the soviet Union to kidnap jimmy carter and assassinate Jeb Bush, Donald trump, and Dick Cheney.
This sounds way too weirdly specific to be distant past stuff. I suspect you may need your meds checked sir.
I suspect porn is not what OP AC meant by "naughty stuff", and I doubt JWs are any worse wrt porn than anyone else. In the last city I lived in, the straights were complaining about homeless rummies surfing porn from library computers. The librarians were telling the straights to shut up, while telling the homeless to be sensible and keep it reasonable.
I've never understood the attraction to surf porn in public places, such as even while at work. It seems like taunting yourself with forbidden fruit on purpose. Masochism perhaps? Buy a cheap laptop and use Starbucks' wifi, ffs.
Closing the barn door after the horses have bolted? I wonder how many copies of this data are already out there, burned to DVD, mirrored, torrented, ...
People who don't understand the net should go back and start reading RFCs. They might then learn what they're up against and realize it would be a waste of their time, effort, and money to attempt to stick their noses in trying to stop it. "The Internet interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it."
DMCA, based on US copyright law, is routinely used by Google ...
It's not being used by Google. It's being used by rightsholders. Google is just complying with the law. I'm not a Google "fanboi", but it's wrong to blame them for this.
Duchamp's estate/heirs are being asses for pulling this crap. This does no honor to his memory. They should be ashamed.
Does this mean there are others out there, one doesn't market unless they have something to sell which brings up the possibility ..this unique work of art is not, well very unique.
Well, there has been quite a bit of turmoil over there since then. Things get lost, stolen, bombed, yada yada, and rich people love to lock things away in private collections. It was thought this set was lost when they started recreating it, only to reappear once somebody started doing something with photos.
We also know little of what came of his marketing effort. I'd assume very little as all that was thought left of it was photographs.
It's pretty annoying that someone who managed to pry this little bit of lost art back into reality are then accosted by copyright lawyers. Those people have no idea of the real meaning of art. It's a shame for it to be in their hands.
The duchamp Estate can simply sequester the Queen, who as a female, cannot possibly have a mustache.
You must be a youngun. There's a shop about a block from me which offers a hair waxing service to remove those impossible mustaches. As you grow older, you'll find hair growing in places you couldn't imagine when you were younger (and good luck keeping the ones on top of your head). A girlfriend of mine was shocked to learn I had hair on the knuckles of my toes, and that was when I was a teenager.
Re: Maybe he's a loon and ABC News is just a hack?
Why can't we just nuke Baghdad?
Because a nuke kills everything in range of it, not just those presumably deserving of your retribution. A bullet from a trained sniper's not equivalent to an IED. One can be controlled, the other's just wanton violence on anyone within range of it (just like a drone strike; huh).
WMDs are not defensive weapons, they're offensive. Their use will cause friendly casualties. Stupid tech. Why waste explosives on those who aren't a threat? Dumb.
That's what "chicken vs. egg" tries, and fails, to explain. We can blame Reagan for creating al Quaida, or we can blame the Soviets for invading Afghanistan, or we can blame Karl Marx, or we can blame various princes and kings for feudalism, or Ghengis Khan, or Lucy in Olduvai Gorge (if only they'd stayed in Africa, none of this mess would be happening!) ...
Just keep moving forward. That !@#$ wasn't our doing, and we should be able to do better knowing what we know now.
And the US has been using Middle East as a playground for a long time.
Yeah, and not just the Middle East, and not just the US. Since Biblical times, then the Crusades, then jerks (diplomats) drawing lines on maps.
"You don't do this, I don't do this either. You do this, I do this too."
"Do unto others ..." Have we learned anything yet? Some have, but we've a lot of slackers who fail to keep up. The Spartans tossed the defectives off a cliff. Have we improved our selection criteria since then? Compare Josef Stalin to Curtis LeMay.
Oh, and btw, Hitler was actually supported by the Germans ...
Arguable. The Nazis got in mostly through lots of luck and very lucky timing. The great depression was on, the existing leader was senile and very old, the Russian Bolsheviks were scaring the crap out of those in power (especially the British & Churchill), and Hitler was surrounded by smart opportunists who were determined to find chinks in the system. Others (ie. Ayn Rand) also blamed it on centuries of Germans being conditioned by "collectivist philosophers" to follow strong men and tyrants in support of nationalism.
I'm amazed Stalin never read Mein Kampf. You'd think the commies would have had someone to handle such things. I guess they were too busy collectivizing Kulaks.
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George Washington was a cryptologist spymaster. The DHS is warning libraries from offering tor. QED. I think it's less a joke than a warning. Perhaps the DHS should tell the FBI to go after this Washington character.
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"But, but, but, ... Muslims!" Texas. :-P
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If anything, his running for the presidency is intended to shine a light on the absurdity that is the US electoral system. He wants to start the ball rolling and perhaps shame Congress into fixing the rest of its mess.
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Some things shouldn't be automated.
Reading this, I'm thinking more the users. What you've just described is the natural progression of replacing manual transmission with automatic transmission. Why? Users are often too lazy and impatient to learn complex skills, such as driving a car using both hands and both feet and both eyes, not to mention ears and touch and feeling centrifugal forces acting upon their body, all in constant balance and communication using one's brain.
To simplify, think about the spacial orientation skills needed to use rear and side view mirrors in conjunction with all those other skills of controlling a vehicle, but in reverse. Too many potential drivers found that operation far too difficult and time consuming to learn, so now we have a TV and cameras and proximity detectors built in so the driver doesn't need to learn how to drive backwards using mirrors. Now, they rely on magic bullets instead. It only costs $30k/vehicle to implement and doesn't work very well, but people hate learning to do the alternative so it's worth it to them.
Stunning. I'd always wondered where the impetus for this stuff was. This is what happens when you overdose on George Jetson at a young age. Thanks for explaining it so well.
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"Atrocity."
I don't think he knows what that word means. Rumor has it there were multi-million souls floating about Europe about seventy years ago who could've enlightened him.
It's amazing that anyone could be as full of himself as this. A *mildly* unflattering photo taken in public, then used to portray his likeness on a similarly unflattering blog, is justification for him to stamp out free speech.
Now, it's multiplied by the Streisand Effect. Good job, fathead.
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"Grab all you can and run society" vs. "everything has to be owned" and we'll sue you to death to prove it? I guess you missed this line from the story?
Posting tweets is the modern equivalent of speaking to a room full of people, but we've encumbered it now with threats of lawsuits and requests to use statements said in public which should be covered by fair use exceptions written in the law. How is this an improvement over a default of permissiveness? How the hell is civilization going to continue to work when we're all gagged by default?
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Jailhouse conversation ...
Goldberg: "Internet trolling potential ISIS recruits."
GC: "Whoah, doooood!!! Wait, that's illegal?"
G: "When the trollee turns out to be a fibbie CI, apparently it is."
GC: "What did you do?"
G: "Showed 'em how to Google."
GC: "WTF?!?"
And suddenly, every potential ISIS recruit "goes dark." Mission accomplished? What was the mission again?
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Re: The More Things Change
I wonder how much of this is just simple racism, like interning Japanese in WWII, carpet bombing Koreans and ChiComs, and padding the bodycount with women and children in Vietnam. They're just gooks after all, and there's plenty more where they came from. :-P
I haven't heard of any efforts to put those who failed to secure OPM into jail, and that's far more likely damaging than this gong show.
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Re: Déjà vu
This sounds way too weirdly specific to be distant past stuff. I suspect you may need your meds checked sir.
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I've never understood the attraction to surf porn in public places, such as even while at work. It seems like taunting yourself with forbidden fruit on purpose. Masochism perhaps? Buy a cheap laptop and use Starbucks' wifi, ffs.
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People who don't understand the net should go back and start reading RFCs. They might then learn what they're up against and realize it would be a waste of their time, effort, and money to attempt to stick their noses in trying to stop it. "The Internet interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it."
"Can't stop the message, Mal."
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Re: Mismatch
It's not being used by Google. It's being used by rightsholders. Google is just complying with the law. I'm not a Google "fanboi", but it's wrong to blame them for this.
Duchamp's estate/heirs are being asses for pulling this crap. This does no honor to his memory. They should be ashamed.
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Well, there has been quite a bit of turmoil over there since then. Things get lost, stolen, bombed, yada yada, and rich people love to lock things away in private collections. It was thought this set was lost when they started recreating it, only to reappear once somebody started doing something with photos.
We also know little of what came of his marketing effort. I'd assume very little as all that was thought left of it was photographs.
It's pretty annoying that someone who managed to pry this little bit of lost art back into reality are then accosted by copyright lawyers. Those people have no idea of the real meaning of art. It's a shame for it to be in their hands.
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Re: Mustaches won't help
You must be a youngun. There's a shop about a block from me which offers a hair waxing service to remove those impossible mustaches. As you grow older, you'll find hair growing in places you couldn't imagine when you were younger (and good luck keeping the ones on top of your head). A girlfriend of mine was shocked to learn I had hair on the knuckles of my toes, and that was when I was a teenager.
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Hah! I just watched that last night. What a hoot. :-) And I got it from the library.
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Re: Maybe he's a loon and ABC News is just a hack?
Because a nuke kills everything in range of it, not just those presumably deserving of your retribution. A bullet from a trained sniper's not equivalent to an IED. One can be controlled, the other's just wanton violence on anyone within range of it (just like a drone strike; huh).
WMDs are not defensive weapons, they're offensive. Their use will cause friendly casualties. Stupid tech. Why waste explosives on those who aren't a threat? Dumb.
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That's what "chicken vs. egg" tries, and fails, to explain. We can blame Reagan for creating al Quaida, or we can blame the Soviets for invading Afghanistan, or we can blame Karl Marx, or we can blame various princes and kings for feudalism, or Ghengis Khan, or Lucy in Olduvai Gorge (if only they'd stayed in Africa, none of this mess would be happening!) ...
Just keep moving forward. That !@#$ wasn't our doing, and we should be able to do better knowing what we know now.
Yeah, and not just the Middle East, and not just the US. Since Biblical times, then the Crusades, then jerks (diplomats) drawing lines on maps.
"Do unto others ..." Have we learned anything yet? Some have, but we've a lot of slackers who fail to keep up. The Spartans tossed the defectives off a cliff. Have we improved our selection criteria since then? Compare Josef Stalin to Curtis LeMay.
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Arguable. The Nazis got in mostly through lots of luck and very lucky timing. The great depression was on, the existing leader was senile and very old, the Russian Bolsheviks were scaring the crap out of those in power (especially the British & Churchill), and Hitler was surrounded by smart opportunists who were determined to find chinks in the system. Others (ie. Ayn Rand) also blamed it on centuries of Germans being conditioned by "collectivist philosophers" to follow strong men and tyrants in support of nationalism.
I'm amazed Stalin never read Mein Kampf. You'd think the commies would have had someone to handle such things. I guess they were too busy collectivizing Kulaks.
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