US classificating enemies or obstacles as terrorists - one thing.
Chavez sponsoring FARC terrorists - another one.

Is this even branch of Christian anymore?
First they substracted commandment, now they add 7 new sins?!

Jesus was pretty sharp guy and some claim he knew the future (or at least predict it with god-like accuracy). He might easily add these. And even in form understandable to ppl of his time.

1. Human life starts at conception, so behold punishment for killing the unborn.

2. Human life is sanctified and any tempering with it is forbidden in the name of thine God. (this would definetely hurt medicine, just as stem cell research blocking may hurt it now)

3. Do not cloud thine mind by impure substances.

4. Thou shall cherish nature and thou shall not litter.

5. (ok maybe not this one... it's some BS even now, but let me try) Thou shall pay close attention to sins 6 and 7. Very close.

6. Thou shall not be wealthier than thine bishop.

7. Thou shall not make people poor.

My favourite webcomic on the spearhead.
^^
If any of you BB readers haven't seen Diesel Sweeties yet - now's the time!

Best of luck to this project.
This is EXACTLY the road for innovation to go (from what I saw here and on thier site). Technology made such undertakings not only possible but gave them reasonable chances for success.
If some people pull off design efficient enough - it may spread around the world in few years and make tremendous difference.

And... I'm radical supporter of market economy, not some humble and average on purpose servant of collective. FYI collectivists (if any open this section) market has nothing against VOLUNTARY non-profit cooperation and is against goverment lending power to lobbying corporations to crush their competition. Corporation running on coercion and lawsuits is hardly market entity.

@Monopole #9
So tolerant, so thoughtful. Anyone above your level has to be evil.
Subprime and outsourcing... u know.

Awesome.

Though it might make some complications. Imagine coming to work interview to some office - to meet your potential future boss behind THIS desk.

Britain is on the spearhead of Polictically Correct Castration. They cave at most cultural brawls with muslim minority in their country, naturally they caved to post-communist China.

All cultures are equal?

@The topic and all these comments

If you tried to talk liberal (not socialist - this word means socialism in ur country only... maybe Canada too) democracy to Egyptian slaves they'd ridicule you at the spot.
Or advocate "equality" in ancient Athenes to slave-driving elite with voting power.
Or stand by freedom of religion in Medieval Europe/Middle East.

Many things that were thought to be "extreme" and "strange" came to life eventually.
Considering that advantage of free market is concrete efficiency and regulations are fueled by mere mindset preferences of homo sapiens - i think it will prevail. And probably expand taking down current huge countries to level of administrators.
Rich, spoiled, lazy "elite" of West - that has enough time and money on thier hands... ok. Scratch that. Nothing productive from venturing on this terytorry. Socialism supporters - can chain markets here and there with force (democratic, or else), but ther's just to many of them. If they take USA down and half of Europe giving way to East Asia domination - everyboy will see again what's real driving force of this world. Human action.

BTW Bioshock really did it.
Not only they sold their CDs, but stirred so much dust.

How could you plant AUTODESTRUCTION device in city you're funding (with input of many other people!) and call yourself objectivist?

Great game, though it can hardly be a problem for and invidualism philosophy.

To all that want to live without money - good luck and have fun.
Hell - I don't mind actual communism if all the participants volunteered and may leave in reasonable situations ... and if their kids get to know some world outside and decide for themselves.
I'm for "bloodthirsty capitalism" - free society where enterpretuers are free to hire for "evil money" anyone who voluntarily agrees as much as commies are free to try their utopia. On thier own ground and without violence, ofcourse.

@Loudiamondphillips

Downloading DRM protected game is easier than that. You just open the pirate bay, or mininova, type title and get it.
Once in a while there's new, better, DRM and you will need to wait up to a week until hackers break it for their own amusement. If you bought all the games, you'd probably loose more time on DRM failures when it locks bought copy.

Data isn't property.
It's simple fact of our reality, that's began to be obvious as copying and distributing costs are close to 0.
To get money from games/tv shows etc you need new models. Selling data will simply fail. If you think now "piracy is a problem" imagine "teaching" next generation the evils of duplicating data. I'm already getting more information from internet that printed press. I like "Gazeta Wyborcza" and pay for the pleasure to read printed edition... knowing that the data itself I could get on their site free. Imagine generation thinking that, that's the natural state of all "intelectual property". Service of getting nice printed newspaper - costs, information - is duplicated without boundries.

@Takun
It's downright evil to keep a cat.
Cats don't waterboard their prey... thier tortures do leave marks. And it's not like it ment anything for the cat - they just like to do it. My cat is 3yo, we got meadows in convinient vicinity and it knows exactly how to kill. Yet still - from time to time - it tortures captured mice.

Animals are not innocent. Natural life on Earth is extremaly cruel and vicious. Being on the top of the food chain, we see this creatures as fluffy little things they aren't. They do whatever they have to - or want to. Only difference is in power - our can change landscapes, their can only make some other species extinct.

It's not Skynet if it only has defence capabilities.

"By the gods, Run! AI run amok and started arbitrally ... shooting down incoming missiles!"

IMO it's right move to allow more autonomus operations. "Never trust a computer that you can't throw thru the window". So it will have general on-switch. In extreme situation you could instantly fire it up with one order if humans wouldn't cope with organising thousands of interceptions in one hour. On the other hand if somehow autonomy, or central command fails you can still input codes and fire away from each unit.
Quite safe.
...
For a DEFENSE mechanism. Aplying same tech to stuff that actually kills people, not only incoming rockets, would be risky.

@Ted
Thank god people do try even "crazy" ideas.

In our reality if you don't run - you're history.
Breaking even is not good enough.

Tomorrow space tourism, next week revolution in space propulsion, next month homo sapiens living on more than one planet. Sky commuter might be a failure, but only by taking chances you can get anywhere.
We'd definetely not change climate living in caves for average of 20 years.
Glory to Neandertals who died out in the name of the Planet.

Great!
Though, I'd like podcast too.

EU has long tradition of imposing stuff on European citizens in both senseless and irresponsible way.

There're regulation to the size of some fruits.

@Byte
Information =/= property.
It was made "property" by copyrights, but in nature it simply isn't. It's why all the problems arise. We're trying to treat sqare like a circle - it needs a lot of pushing to start "rolling" and stops when you don't push anymore.

I do strongly support property rights to the lenghts most of Boing Boing readers don't, but information simply isn't property.

Private property it is.

However whistleblowing and exposing this bully practices is our moral way to fight back. They may be awful neighbours and get away with it if they hurt small percentage of potential clients. If persistant kicking of kids and grandmas with cameras out earned boycot, they'd act responsibly.

This is absurd... and will continue as long as security companies and goverment have diffetent motivation than passangers.
Whatever the cost, as long as they stay "tough on secuirty" they get what they want. Security - paychecks, goverment - votes.

IMO there's a reasonable way to get minimum risk with minimum expense. Bind security pay with both passanger inconvinience and their results. They get more than generous payment, but it's lowered for inconvience to passangers, not intercepted goverment agents' setups and devastated for any succeeded terrorist attack.
If it's your money on the stake you will do your best.

However... this method wouldn't be "equality" supporters approved. It'd definetelty lead to racial/age/occupation profiling. What company in it's right mind would waste money (more delay = lesser payment) patting down grannies? Or which one would take any risk with European muslim, who had visited middle east frequently and had flying course?

Lower (preferably to 0) developed countries spending on "protection" of thier markets.
Poor need chances to make money. They need to provide us with services we will genuinely value - and for this get ours.
Handouts lead nowhere.
Best side of market economy is how it motivets people to do ... "good". Violence is outlawed - only way to satisfy one's greed is to produce, or provide wanted services. (In socialism - greed leads to making country rob ppl for your group of interest, in current middle Africa it leads to gunning down neighbours and taking thier stuff)
When violence is curbed and people start looking for oportunities in production and service to others - there'll be water for everyone. When one _earns_ current medium EU wage - there'll be always someone ready to drill his well, or dig his canalisation. Beggers will be beggers.

BTW I did check some Polish publishers, this book didn't make it here yet. I'm somewhat around last Live8, Al Gore private Jet and Global (benefactory, while utterly Sun-dependant) Warming in "saving Earth topic". So... I might miss the point in this post, judging it by the cover %).

It looks great!
Though, it won't get a chance to show off while against f-22. Even some loss at manuvrability will be more than compensated with stealth.

Diesel Sweeties FTW!
Great comic, it's in my fav's for more than a year.

If not even big retailers support DRM lobbists... than who's left?

From other post one could assume... Canadian goverment!

[i]Neither of those people teach in schools though.

A quick search on google reveals:
Teacher: I was fired, said Bible isn't literal[/i]

Being fired from shool means you did sth that made shool authority think, they don't need you any more.
Yes, ofcourse it's pretty stupid reason to be fired. But it's not such a big problem to get fired for not being liked by your boss in any free society.
Your boss being jerk who won't tolerate other perspectives is
no big deal.
However landing in law's crosshair for religious faux pass =/= loosing job.

I've got an idea how to get such a "framework".
It's no problem to distribute (BT and more), or get money (thousands of on-line shops have several options of payment)... but to promote.

Collaboration with Last.fm might promote beginning artists to warp speed. If Last.fm added "freedome music" mode (Like discovery mode, but focuses not on lower listen count, but on special "freedome" tag) and add links at all "freedome" availible tracks to thier respective sites.

So one could enable "freedome music", choose tag he's interested in and just listen to Last.fm radio. If some great tune caches his ear he's one click behind buying album/tracks for "whatever he wishes to pay".

I don't know how much people fishes for new bands on Last.fm... but at least I do. Hell I'd buy some albums already from bands I heard first on this radio, but right now these exact discs are sold-out, or sold only on CDs (international shipping to Poland).

Thanks for mirroring.

re up
These are valid points.
What about a hypothetical situation in which you choose and:
- interrogate 2k highest-tier (there were many more captuered, these are selected few) prisoners for 5 years without a trial... and using squished information make Iraq and Afghanistan fairly democratic (let's say like Turkey) countries.
- treat captured enemies how Geneva convention regulates (ofcurse they won't do the same), let many go becouse proof was not strong enough and loose both countries to extreme militiant Islam. You're saving big chunks of 200 lives of innocent people from current Gitmo and as a bonus hold less innocents in local prisons in Iraq and Afg. Also you get slightly better press (seriously... you'll get good press again only after Asia starts stomping on European interests... or some other country claims world hegemony).

After WW2 in conquered Germany many fanatic NSDAP fallowers fought with partisan tactics.
They didn't go half as far as Islamic fanatics do now.
Allies were ruthless.
Captured could get PoW status if they fought in the open, but sniping or plain clothes were frequently worth instant death penalty and execution. Civilians were commonly repressed for Wehrwolf partisants actions (French go as far as kill 10 civilians for one sniped officer and Russians... burned cities.). Good sniper nests were demolished "just in case". etc.

And world accepted this, as a special measure to deal with enemy that screws conventions and goes for terror.

Can't DL, prolly it's overcroweded already.

BTW
I can't really get this Gitmo hype.
One side can hide behind civilans, wear civilians clothing, make no1 target of civilians and police and pretty much aim for CIVIL WAR as a mean to SHATTER THE COUNTRY to win. And... they still got sympathy around the world?!

I'm Pole. If there's a nation that knows something about uprising - we're your men.
After medieval ended Poland got into internal mess that eventually led us to loss of independace for ... 123 years. There were numerous uprisings. After a brief "2nd Rzeczpospolita" we got jumped from both sides and after 4 weaks we were conquered - WW2 started. This didn't stop us from partisan combat ofcourse and some units continued to fight around the world. After WW2 we were sold to Stalin and had rised again hopefully without too much bloodshead.

And for terrorists... I'd recommend intensive interrogation with tortures and hanging on the trees.

Difference between terrorist and partisant is obvious. You can identify latter after you've captured him. Combatats of Warsaw Uprising used stolen uniform... with white&red tags! There was no problem to identify if you get civilan or partisan. Ergo no additional risk to civilians.

Terrorist on the other hand WANT max risk for civilians. The more of them dies the more dumb world community sympathisies with them. This also goes to IEDs or suicide bombers. Most of them could be done in other tactics with comperable damage to enemy and much lesser to civilans.

And civil war... seriously people just how sick is this?

What would you do with people like this?
Or with worst of Afghan Talibs, that also did some civilian shielding on their own?
I honestly believe they don't get to be PoWs.

"Again, the GPL doesn't restrict your right to redistribute, it merely doesn't extend that right without limitation."
Limitations in extention... isn't it the same as restrictions?

Just downloaded Miro...

@Alux
Conviniently none of availible providers in my area does this... so well... i don't know how it goes.

However there's some extra prize for "the good guy" that cracks all really-free market monopolies. The one to break the circle get's it all. It may be profitable to abuse users for each company. They may even make secret agreement to "go for it". But... if one "backstabs" his comrades he'll get a head start in reshapeing whole market. People bothered by this flaw won't cry about leaving previous providers.
As long as there're no unlawful ways to keep "partners" in line, circle is bound to break.

And... well... isn't it our freedom to choose "sponsored" wire, which favours some companies, but is cheaper becouse they have to pay for this "advertisment"?

"incredible equality"?
I like "decentralization" and "deregulation" more.

If one agrees on flawed network provider contract in which he gets different output on different sites/services... it's his problem.
He can refuse it, get other provider and push perp out of the market.

And if contract says one thing, service delivers other - it's criminal offence already isnt' it?

@Squid
Which goverment, are u US citizen???

@Anti
Thought about the same thing.
I think it's false name. She knows what's the score in this game pretty good.

It was far hotter in mid medieval, or bronze age and ... these were phases of rapid civilisation advance.
Well... I don't think reopening wineries in England, or Poland will make big impact on current globe. But - global warming is hardly harmful and quite possibly unstopable... maybe even our petty carbon emission (check out charts from history... one big volcano eruption makes more greenhouse gases than ten big cities) has no effect on it.

However using & producing energy more effectively, or protecting Earth's very valuable wildlife should be priorities no matter what kind of apocalypse is currently used by green lobby.
Global warming maight make life harsher for some parts of the globe, possibly with our contribution... while many of China's rivers are literally black.

@Anthropo
Open your eyes, will you?
I could be ranting for hours about what's wrong with Poland and many Poles. How it's far worse on many levels than US and better on just a few.

But i will never say it's "same effect" of "different degradadation" as Burma! It's insane overstatement for Poland and even bigger for US.

As long as immigration>emmigration it's pretty darn great country - comparing to the rest of the world. So stop emo-level whining lefty and - if u actually wannt do it - go try changing things for the better.

I doubt they're so dumb to actually think it's protected.
IMO they know what's up, but decide to write that BS anyway. To scare potentialy problematic encounters... maybe there was SOMETHING in this code that had to be "protected"?
And... with current understanding of IP of average person it might have worked. People around the world start thinking that whatever is made by someone has to become property... and if it's not material - IP.

Piracy is theft you know ;).

What a shocker! /sarc

@Nex #13
Agreed.

It's not even shure if humanity contributes to global warming in any noticable way in our current situation. Warming in one city & thourgh few decades it's hardly realistic.
BTW in temperate climate it'd be very beneficial to gain some 5 C. In first 2/3 of medieval people were growing large quantities of grapes in ... Britain or Poland.

Penn & Teller made pretty interesting show on cryptozoology (If you can swallow harsh Penn's language).

Thank's a lot for posting this link.
It's just what the doctor ordered :).

I'd say they have some gutts to call themselves as they are.
In this one instance they are better than most left-leaning paramilitary organisations throughout the years. "Liberation armies", "Liberation fronts" etc. And they just fought for power. They could name themselves "Salvation corps"... That would be wrong. Blackwater is right name in the right place.

(However is contracting them right thing to do by US gov is another story.)

Cory do you have any evedience on how does CC affect your book sales?
(I'd be great ammunition against copyright supporters - creative individual who just don't want copyright protection... and makes money without it.)