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« Last post by Renegade on April 13, 2012, 11:04 AM »Meh, not interested then.

This is just hilarious:-Renegade (April 13, 2012, 12:20 AM)![]()
hadnt heard him before, he's great
here's another from him including the topics:
heavy metal and comedy; the British riots; the "war on terror"; global warming; the Xfactor on the news, and music
http://www.youtube.c...&feature=related-tomos (April 13, 2012, 06:07 AM)
"Good, peace, freedom loving terror. Like Diet Terror. Terror Lite."-TaoPhoenix (April 13, 2012, 06:38 AM)
Contract to Obscure Technologies to fund the development and delivery of computer forensic tools for analyzing network traffic and stored data created during the use of video game systems. The total amount available is $177,237.50 RDT & E underlying funds;
3. Description of Supplies/Services.
This project proposes to create the following deliverables for use by Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology (DHS S&T):
4.1 Hardware and software tools that can be used for extracting data from video game systems.
4.2 A collection of data (disk images; flash memory dumps; configuration settings) extracted from new video game systems and used game systems purchased on the secondary market.
4.3 A final report between 10 and 20 pages to include the following information:
- Detailed account of issues involved in extracting forensic data from a series of game consoles
- Technical information regarding how information can be extracted from video game systems
- Any engineering decisions that were made and why
- What work remains to be done
- Any failings of the approaches followed
"While he said he didn’t want to get into copyright math,..."
Haha! So the minute a properly calculated hard number appears, it might reverse his "noted that" talking points!
And when do we get to bring Hollywood Accounting into all this, where despite all that money, the second tier actors and scriptwriters get none of it? (Same thing for music.)-TaoPhoenix (April 13, 2012, 04:30 AM)
Looks like an RIAA/MPAA propaganda/indoctrination mission didn't work out too well for Paramount at Brooklyn Law School:
Paramount's Post-SOPA 'Outreach' To Law Students About 'Content Theft' Still Shows An Out Of Touch Operation
Worth a read.-IainB (April 13, 2012, 03:36 AM)
Perry finally discussed SOPA and PROTECT IP. From Paramount’s perspective, these were proportionate measures targeting foreign sites and providing for a measure of due process
Wow! so he's a true historian? Yes, the US government has dragged the American people into war, but... 9/11 was a hoax perpetrated by the US government? And the US government blew up the Oklahoma City Federal Building? And Angelina Jolie is a war criminal? Oh boy! Tri-Lateral Commission stuff all over again? US will be a lot of FEMA-run concentration camps? And all this crap belongs in our history books? Really?-J-Mac (April 12, 2012, 11:24 AM)
Copy & paste into a text editor, then copy and past that into Excel. Done.
Wow it works - awesome. Yeah I've done this in the past too, but forgot!-Twinbee (April 12, 2012, 10:05 AM)
"Kill it with violence!"
I just can't stop laughing at the audio
http://www.liveleak....iew?i=e4a_1334156442-nosh (April 12, 2012, 08:51 AM)
maybe.
She's referring to PR campaigns by the fossil fuel industry to influence public perception of global warming and related science (she gives a link in the Wired Science link from Iain above - [PDF link: "How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco’s Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science"]
(Again, I dont subscribe to censorship, but I dont subscribe to Exxon's tactics either - but I think the best "solution" is simply to publicise it.)-tomos (April 12, 2012, 08:56 AM)
Develop limits on the ability of the fossil fuel industry to influence policy debate.
Ref. the paper Kari Norgaard wrote: (about 76 pages long, dated 2009)-IainB (April 12, 2012, 08:08 AM)
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4940
I'm not for or against anyone here and I'm certainly not supporting her paper.
I [just] think the response was unhelpful, inappropriate, exaggerated, stupid, etc etc.-tomos (April 12, 2012, 06:33 AM)
OK, kidding aside, I couldn't find much about what the professor wrote in her paper but if anyone is paraphrasing her accurately then I agree that she seems a bit wacky. At the same time, that whole web site featuring Alex Jones appears to be more wacky yet. Look up "wild-eyed conspiracy theorist wacko" and I bet it links directly to that web site!!
Talk about a pot and kettle! Whew!
Jim-J-Mac (April 12, 2012, 12:40 AM)
The discussion, she said, is comparable to what happened with challenges to racism or slavery in the U.S. South.
Climate change activist Kari Norgaard equates skepticism with racism
Global warming alarmist, Kari Norgaard, equates skepticism about climate change to racism. They have been labeled with many names, but skeptics now endure the most egregious, insulting, name-calling of all.
So, who is Kari Norgaard that we should worry about whom she calls racists? Miss Norgaard is a member of the Sociology Department at the University of Oregon and current caller of climate catastrophe in ‘Planet Under Pressure,’ a climate conference in London. She presented a paper calling for climate change skepticism to be treated as a 'sickness' or mental illness.
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So, yeah, I am alarmed by Miss Norgaard and the way-off-scale sociological socialists in her academic neighborhoods. They have ignored the hard science of climate change, have not noticed that the debate goes on, and are using the perpetuated lies to gain power over people. Their arguments appear logical at first blush until the ‘sickness’ they see in others manifests from within themselves. An alarming cancer is growing within the global warming alarmist group.
This reminds me of the scarey stuff we read about in George Orwell’s book, 1984. Is Big Brother watching us? No, Kari Norgaard is.
The scientists behind the event recently put out a statement calling for humans to be packed into denser cities so that the rest of the planet can be surrendered to mother nature.
And fellow attendee Yale University professor Karen Seto told MSNBC: ‘We certainly don’t want them (humans) strolling about the entire countryside. We want them to save land for nature by living closely [together].’
You have about 150 colours there, but Wikipedia <a href="http://en.wikipedia..../wiki/List_of_colors">lists about 900</a> (not sure if there's a better source). Now if I can find a HTML table to CSV converter...-Twinbee (April 11, 2012, 09:29 AM)
Google can NOT engage in censorship. They're a private entity choosing how they want to use their resources.-CWuestefeld (April 11, 2012, 12:21 PM)
I'm willing to be that each of you would willingly engage in this same kind of "censorship". If someone came into your home -- even with an invitation -- and started saying insulting things to your family, wouldn't you ask them to leave? It's your home, and you're well within your rights to control the kinds of things that others do there.-CWuestefeld (April 11, 2012, 12:21 PM)
Indeed, our system needs to work this way. We recognize that the government must not interfere with people's ability to speak, but that doesn't mean that we want to have profanity and porn displayed on every street corner. Instead, we rely on the values of the people to exert social pressures on each other, so that the overall cultural values are preserved.-CWuestefeld (April 11, 2012, 12:21 PM)
The thing about this kind of government intervention is that it only addresses the symptom - monopolistic practices. So, whilst we can all probably feel cheered by this particular result, the causal problem remains - i.e., the legal status of the corporate (psychopathic) person. So this type of ripoff will be able to recur ad infinitum, under different guises, and each time it recurs the consumers who have been ripped off (victimised) will probably never be given their money back. Suckers.
Now that's a failure of government.-IainB (April 11, 2012, 06:12 PM)