Posts by Destroy All Monsters

Submitting to "byte renting" and other make-believe fantasy toll booths!

"The songs on your i-whatever aren’t property."

Exactly. They aren't.

Because I can copy the hell out of them and no-one will miss anything (except the power-supplying company that provided the energy to do the copying; for this said company can bill me).

"License" you say? Did it come with my torrent file? Amazing.

A "valuable patent" you say? Hell, half of the asteroid belt belongs to me (of course, I don't have a state and a collective delusion to back that claim up, so it's an uphill battle to prove that).

Not that I won't pay for good content, on the contrary. But spare me the "licensed IP" cant.

"What the hell is going on with DHS? Why aren't people being notified?"

Someone is being stupid here. And it isn't fat-assed bureaucrats safely encysted in the inner belly of an *enormous* dinosaur, blowing tens of billions and busy seizing spanish soccer websites (diversification into IP problems is always good), setting drones on Mexicans trying to cross the southern rabbit fence, using government credit cards to build a home brewery, checking out the 99% or warning about the mighty danger of poisoned buffets.

Did I mention that DHS was involved in blowing a whole New Orleans?

Really, we need a FAIL + NUKE + TRASH icon, all mashed together into a single gigantic clusterfuck. Probably a TAX icon, too.

Hmmm...

There is some tension in the article between lauding the IE9 + Active Directory combination vs. saying that Active Directory is being irrelevant. Yes, no? What do?

I the Mozilla freaks^^H^H^H^H^HHdevelopers would just get over their shiny shiny fetishism and do something staid and serious for once.

I may be accused of having a dirty mind, but...

Except ballgags being part of the official toolery of the US boys in blue Real Soon Now.

I mean, they already use every nastiness up to deadly force and even beyond...

Smut Torrent and Self-injected Javascript: The Connection.

I'm sure there are some good tagline possibilities here.

You don't need that placard to make ME do anything.

Unfortunately I'm more like Harry Plinkett.

Revenue stream for governments? Why, sure.

"A private firm like Ad Astra can probably never muster the permissions and resources needed to make spacegoing reactors for use beyond Earth orbit."

1. Set up nuclear launch zones in Siberia, the Sahara or wherever.

2. Tell fearfags and amurricans off.

3. ????

4. Finally some progress!

There is something to say for organizations with a regional violence monopoly that are not beholden to special interests or can quash dissent as needed.

All the king's horses and all the king's men could certify anything ever again

So what cert is that?

If I dump it, will it be back on the next update??

Will this go on forever???

Hey lads, there's a whole list of people fingered...

Hold on. They are all in parliament?

Amused to Death

"having moved down the agenda in recent years after the mysterious Stuxnet worm was widely believed to have caused a massive setback to Iran's quest for nuclear weapons"

should be fixed to:

"having stayed down in spite of relentless Israeli/Neocon pressure after no credible evidence ever surfaced that Iran's quest for nuclear weapons wasn't indeed abandoned in 2003"

But in the cockpit's techno glow

Behind the Ray Ban shine

The kid from Cleveland

In the comfort of routine

Scans his dials and smiles

Secure in the beauty of military life

There is no right, no wrong

Only tin cans and cordite and white cliffs

And blue skies and flight... flight... flight

Not allowed to print money (i.e. tax using a Heimlich Manoeuver)

How about this then...

http://mises.org/daily/5575: The Fed and the ECB: Two Paths, One Goal

While the ECB's and Fed's functions (to provide liquidity to the banking system in times of crisis and to finance the government together with the banking system) are the same, there exist small differences between them. In the so-called open-market operations (another term for active manipulation of the money supply) the central banks produce or destroy base money.

There are two ways central banks produce base money. By tradition, the Fed uses the produce-money-and-purchase approach (PMP). Normally, the Fed produces money in their computers and uses it to buy US Treasuries from the banking system. In exchange for the US Treasuries, the Fed creates money on the account that the selling bank holds at the Fed.

The ECB, in contrast, uses the produce-money-and-lend (PML) approach. It produces money and lends it to the banking system for one week or three months. The preferred collateral for these loans to banks is government bonds.[1] As a result of PMP and PML, banks receive new base money. They hold more reserves at their account at the central bank. The additional reserves mean that they can now expand credit and create even more money.

Check it!

Do women have an EXTREMELY HIGH PROBABILITY of dying of cancer relative to men?

No?

Then MOBILES ARE HARMLESS.

I mean, Jeez you can't even try to hit on some of those modern broads because THEY PHONE ALL THE TIME.