Maybe "DarkWeb" is web being surfed or served by computers residing in dimly lit parents' basements?

Saw that human experiments site months ago. Still having "bleach effects on fetus" tells me it's not being updated. It did sort of scream "Bonzai Kitten" when I first saw it. Glad to see it's just a fake troll after all.

Huh... I just turn off the AC and let them sweat for a while in blistering heat until they pass out. That usually shows them, and after I hit reset, no damage is done.

Only if HAL9000 required you to yell at it in increasingly loud and frustrated tone, and answered in random gibberish you didn't ask for.

Wow, not even motion blur! Impressive camera.

Also, why am I getting an image of a video card being whipped and asked, "What is your name, boy?", and when it replies, "Radeon HD 9530," the whipper yells, " No, it's VisionTek SuperCoolGraphicsYeahAwesome!" and whipps it some more  

Since the brain is a series of networds, instead of digital data list of 0's and 1's, I think the internet, and likely Google, will be the first to attain consciousness. Heck, maybe it has already? Google can answer questions, send you informed decisions (buy this, grab your umbrella), and since it actively re-sorts, optimizes, and fixes its database, and even bypasses or fixes it's own physical servers when they go down, sending notices to engineers, it may even be in a way self award. So maybe Google has already attained consciousness, just a very slow one and not in a form we easily recodnize.

I notice your miner is asleep on the job (fan isn't spinning). Time to bring out the beating stick?

I think at this point the only question that matters is how can we keep a business going without having to rely on IP laws. Thanks to computers and internet, IP is pretty much dying or failing like the war against drugs. It being a law isn't stopping anyone from downloading, people are getting better TVs and sound systems, making going to the movies less necessary, and DRM in music has been practically abandoned. Young kids don't even see pirating music and movies as anything wrong. And if we ever switch to mesh networking, you can pretty much kiss the concept of IP good bye. About only thing left is patent protections for physical stuff sold, and that is apparently only protected by sue-happy mega corp (does make me worry about our patent). Once 3D printers are more prevalent, that'll start disappearing, too, with people downloading gadget schematics.

I was mainly referring to mining for yachts in the Barbedos, but even flat screen TVs can be considered luxury items.

They are the same thing, because if I don't buy the luxuries, the poor people in Africa won't have the job of mining for the materials the luxury is made of, the poor people in China won't have the job to put the luxury together, and the poor people in India won't have the job to provide support for the luxury, and then all those poor people without jobs will starve, get sick, and die. Luxuries are still made by people who get paid for them, and usually the more expensive the luxury, the more people ended up getting paid in the process of its creation.


Oh yeah...

Oh, I was a total need fag, so I got plenty of that. atlass just doesn't strike me as a faggot type, and the basketball to the nuts just seems like something that would have to happen in a rather specific situation(weekly gym class with very dedicated bullies?)

I'm not equal if I am forced to pay more for the same stuff as someone else (higher tax rates). I am also not equal if I am runnin g a business honestly, and am forced to compete with a business that is buddies with politicians and gets subsidies, just because it "helps the common man."

You are free to change work, or not work at all.
You are to borrow or not to borrow. Don't want debt, save and don't buy junk.

And i'm not touching that last one with a ten foot pole.

Use a pie in that case. You can even use one decorated like a bitcoin that will leave a big B. Paint ball guns are dangerous, leave bruises, and hurt like a bitch!

I don't know what I want to ask more, why in the f were people calling you a faggot, or what kind of f'ed up situation were you in that allowed weekly nut shots?

Nah, I'd have to say that people back then were pretty ignorant. We know a hell of a lot more now than we did back then, and not just about sciences. If you think that slavery was a perfectly fine and moral thing 1000 years ago, that's your prerogative. I'll keep believing that we simply didn't know any better.

As for IP, this is a discussion about rights. You can't have a discussion about intellectual property rights without establishing what is a right first.

Again, not my assertion. My only assertion is that people will be much worse off if their demands of having the wealth of the 99% just given to them were answered. This is why:

http://www.google.com/search?q=the+lottery+curse

I have no problem with people demanding change that allowed them to work and earn enough to become one of the 1%. I haven't seen a lot of those demands though.

*sigh* Sorry, let me rephrase that:

Not if you were a slave or a close friend of one.

I think it happens because the person on the receiving end of that law eventually reasons that what is being done to them is not just, asserts their own rights, and uses logic and reason to convince others of his own rights. Using logic and reason in this way, we can figure out what rights people should have even if we are not on the receiving end of the law, and then change the law we realized was a mistake.

Ukraine was founded 1,400 years ago. I used Eastern European in the context of living in the eastern part of the European continent, like Asians or Africans.

Slaves didn't have the option to quit, to start their own business, and to become one of the %1. Isn't 1% an income of $300,000? While that is difficult to archive, it's by far not impossible.

As for why? My guess is that thanks to technology, productivity increased exponentially, while the number of skilled employees remained about the same. As a result, the 1% who can drive wealth creang machines were able to drive them with much higher output, while the workers doing the work never increased their own unique contribution, instead just augmenting it with technology. I.e. workers are in too high numbers (high supply, same demand, same or lower price) and are easily replacable, but what they can pump towards those with unique skills has increased dramatically.

Not if you wereblack/jewish/eastern european (or if you were friends with one). Those people sure as hell feel they didn't have a right to be owned. (See Bible, part 1)