Comment Re:Corporations are not people! (Score 2, Funny) 371
Corporations are not people! [...]
But just like Soylent green, they are made of people!
Sorry, couldn't resist the joke.
Corporations are not people! [...]
But just like Soylent green, they are made of people!
Sorry, couldn't resist the joke.
[...] (and in general electronic documents that has no paper equivalent) [...]
So, you're against computer files in general?
Printers, MD5 hashes, offline back-ups. You can use the technology on your favor rather than just being paranoid avoid it at all cost.
Here in Mexico you don't need fancy eBook stuff to rewrite history to match the political flavor of the month, the government issues official textbooks, which every year come heavily edited, last edition comes with 200 less years of history, the Spanish conquest never happened on the new editions.
[...] It's almost on a level with exploiting Murphy.
That's actually the whole point or Murphy's law. It it not a "oh, woe is me, everything is going to fail." is more like "even if everything fails, we're good"
[...] since the artist can't make money unless they go to a huge record label [...]
The good ones can.
[...] If there was a reasonable way for artists to promote and sell their work for a profit [...]
It's called the Internet and live concerts (for musicians) respectively
[...] Even with the "replicators", there would need to be source matter to create the food from. Let us not forget waste handling. [...]
You just solved both problems with the same solution.
[...] and my youngest (now 22) tried to beat the hell out of my girlfriend a couple of weeks ago. Maybe Quake is responsible?
Maybe
Was she circle strafing and rocket jumping while trying to beat your GF?
"The car's engine burns liquid petroleum gas to heat water in 12 suitcase-sized boilers, creating steam heated to 400C. The steam then drives a two-stage turbine that spins at 13,000 revolutions per minute to power its wheels.
The FIA requires two 1.6-km-long runs to be performed in opposite directions — to cancel out any effect from wind — within 60 minutes.
I think what you have in Mexico is a system where there are so many different identifiers that no one of them is worth much by itself. [...]
Yeah, I think you hit the nail on that one.
From the list I gave with the personal identification numbers, the only one that is (supposedly) required for everyone is the CURP (which was created somewhat recently, and with the propose of using it as the only number you'll ever need, but utterly failed since now is just another number you have to remember, you still need all the other PINs) but is not really secret since you can actually get the CURP of anyone if you know the full name, date of birth and the state of birth from a government's website.
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. - Voltaire