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Perhaps you mean child pornography?

smut
pornography

Perhaps you mean child pornography?

smut
pornography

Perhaps you mean child pornography?

Who's saying otherwise? And who's saying people are just fetuses? I don't think I've ever heard that either. That's just crazy talk.

Really I'm with you on this, man.

Pedantically, that is exactly backwards. To be technical about it, what we often call "games" like Doom and Half-Life are not games at all, but puzzles.

By definition, a "game" requires competitiveness, so nothing single-player need apply.

So, Solitare is not a game?

If it's not in the defined meaning of "game," then it's certainly in the colloquial meaning.

Wait a minnit... here we go. From the definition on Dictionary.com:

1. An activity providing entertainment or amusement; a pastime: party games; word games.

All computer games fulfill this definition, even weird ones like SimCity, but probably an argument could be made that a new meaning should be introduced to specifically account for them.

The game theory meaning of "game" is more specific than the general meaning, and takes in account games no one would really play (or would rather avoid playing, such as Prisoner's Dilemma).

Which is a lot of verbiage to expend in replying to someone who basically agrees with me (since competitive games are time-focused puzzles for the same reasons), but I can be rather pedantic myself if need be.

Sorry, meant to cite my source

[T]he origin of the word "Slav" remains controversial. In Slavic languages that word is "Slowianie", "Slovene", or something similar, with obvious similarities to word slowo or slovo meaning "word". Slowianie would mean "people who can speak", as opposed to the Slavic word for Germans, "Niemcy", that is, "dumb", "people who cannot speak" (compare the Greek coinage of the term "barbarian"). Another obvious similarity links "Slavs" to the word slawa or slava, that is "glory" or "praise" (with a root in common with slowo - someone glorious has a word, a tale, spreading about him). Some linguists believe, however, that these obvious connections mislead, despite the early translation of the Greek word orthodoxos ("Correct/right", "glorifying/praising") having its equivalent in pravoslavni with pravo meaning "right" or "correct" and slavni meaning "those who praise" or "those who glorify" [God].

It is believed that the English word "slave" has its root (from Latin Sclavus and Greek Sklabos) in the Slavic ethnonym, because in the early middle ages Slavs were often used as slaves. See this external etymology

Unfortunatly for you the power of interpretation of legislation and constitution falls into the hands of the Supreme Court. Part of the division and layering of power. Your linking federalism http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=federalis m with communism clearly outlines your ignorance of the US political system.

I realize critical writing is difficult, but if you're going to advertise a book review, deliver one. Like most Slashdot "reviews", this review is actually a summary.

A review should provide critical thoughts on the strengths and weaknesses of the material under consideration. A book review is not just a regurgitation of its contents. It also also provides an evaluation of its merits, noting where it succeeds or fails in its purpose. And enables me to determine if its worth its while.

This "review" nicely summarized the contents of the book but largely failed to inform as to whether the reviews are well written, provide new ideas, or present old ideas in particularly valuable manner. Therefore, I cannot recommend reading this review. Instead, just read the book's table of contents.

I realize critical writing is difficult, but if you're going to advertise a book review, deliver one. Like most Slashdot "reviews", this review is actually a summary.

A review should provide critical thoughts on the strengths and weaknesses of the material under consideration. A book review is not just a regurgitation of its contents. It also also provides an evaluation of its merits, noting where it succeeds or fails in its purpose. And enables me to determine if its worth its while.

This "review" nicely summarized the contents of the book but largely failed to inform as to whether the reviews are well written, provide new ideas, or present old ideas in particularly valuable manner. Therefore, I cannot recommend reading this review. Instead, just read the book's table of contents.

I'm thinking you probably mean a "penchant" for blood and evil.

Why must you lie to us?
Dictionary.com/courage
[Middle English corage, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *corticum, from Latin cor, heart. See kerd- in Indo-European Roots.]

Men axed hym, what sholde bifalle ( Canterbury Tales)

See ax(2).

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It's spelled Monopoly, you ignorant twat.

Nobody is policing anybody. The companies are merely suing in civil court because people are stealing (is that the right word? Why yes it is!) their movies.

First of all, no "stealing" is not the right word. Otherwise, why aren't they suing for theft of private property? Why isn't this going to small claims court instead of trials involving oftentimes millions of dollars in damages for what could be, at most, hundreds of dollars in CDs/DVDs? It's COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT; get it right.

Secondly, I think you're right, this isn't policing--it's something far worse: vigilantism (a related sub-set of the word policing; v. 1) via the public courts and an army of lawyers. Copyright infringement of even a single movie can carry a fine of $120,000. With those kinds of damages, it doesn't matter if the person is guilty or not. Risking the financial destitution of you and your loved ones for, at best, public vindication over what is socially, a minor crime (like speeding*) isn't much of a choice. The ?IAAs know this, and that's why they don't continue cases against people who fight back with the legal help of groups like the EFF. As a matter of fact, I don't remember ANY of these cases going all the way to a verdict. This isn't about the law. It's about punishing (via settlements or court/lawyer costs) those whom the content industry deems guilty and scaring the general populace into submission. Their actions go contrary to the very spirit (although you can be sure not the letter) of law and order itself.

-Grym

*-Over sixty-million people (more people than the number of people that voted for the president in the most recent election which some even touted as a "mandate") share copyrighted files.

Nobody is policing anybody. The companies are merely suing in civil court because people are stealing (is that the right word? Why yes it is!) their movies.

First of all, no "stealing" is not the right word. Otherwise, why aren't they suing for theft of private property? Why isn't this going to small claims court instead of trials involving oftentimes millions of dollars in damages for what could be, at most, hundreds of dollars in CDs/DVDs? It's COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT; get it right.

Secondly, I think you're right, this isn't policing--it's something far worse: vigilantism (a related sub-set of the word policing; v. 1) via the public courts and an army of lawyers. Copyright infringement of even a single movie can carry a fine of $120,000. With those kinds of damages, it doesn't matter if the person is guilty or not. Risking the financial destitution of you and your loved ones for, at best, public vindication over what is socially, a minor crime (like speeding*) isn't much of a choice. The ?IAAs know this, and that's why they don't continue cases against people who fight back with the legal help of groups like the EFF. As a matter of fact, I don't remember ANY of these cases going all the way to a verdict. This isn't about the law. It's about punishing (via settlements or court/lawyer costs) those whom the content industry deems guilty and scaring the general populace into submission. Their actions go contrary to the very spirit (although you can be sure not the letter) of law and order itself.

-Grym

*-Over sixty-million people (more people than the number of people that voted for the president in the most recent election which some even touted as a "mandate") share copyrighted files.

There are news bites coming out about Firefox everywhere you could possibly imagine.

Thanks, but we've already heard about Google News.

• Electromagnetic radiation that has a wavelength in the range from about 4,000 (violet) to about 7,700 (red) angstroms and may be perceived by the normal unaided human eye.

I think the definition of electronic can help here: Of, based on, operated by, or otherwise involving the controlled conduction of electrons or other charge carriers, especially in a vacuum, gas, or semiconducting material. The first electronic device was the vacuum tube. The modern electronic device is the transistor. You can process signals with tubes, obviously, so even if that is what the author meant, they were using the word incorrectly.

Not to flame or anything, but the post says salty brine, the definition of brine already implies that it's salty, just trying to spread knowledge. Brine or salty water would have been acceptable.

On a separate note very interesting article, you do learn something new every day, or several things on /.

Virginity is a pretty important aspect of the concept of maiden (as you can see with words like maidenhead). I'm not saying the translation is right, but the 'correct' definition he gives does not show it to be wrong since it encompasses virginity. If he wants to suggest that it doesn't imply virginity, he might want to choose another term. How about 'chick'? ;)

maiden

Note definition 1.b. A virgin.

So what was your point again? :D

"champing at the bit," not "chomping."

thanks for all the helpful links!

thanks for all the helpful links!

tasteful use of blue cathodes

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=exaggerat ion

data
group noun [U]
information, especially facts or numbers, collected for examination and consideration and used to help decision-making, or information in an electronic form that can be stored and processed by a computer:

Data Audio pronunciation of "data" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dt, dt, dät)
pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)

1. Factual information, especially information organized for analysis or used to reason or make decisions.
2. Computer Science. Numerical or other information represented in a form suitable for processing by computer.
3. Values derived from scientific experiments.
4. Plural of datum.

define data

conclusion:
data = information

You really need a lesson in spin.

My geekiness has gotten me laid on multiple occasions.

Once you pass about 25 years old, women dig smart guys.

I think I'll stick with something that doesnt alienate the dripping hot sluts always coming on to me here in my swinging bachelor pad.

Dripping hot? Sluts?

That's called "gonorrhea."

LK

No mater where you go, there you are...about a block from Taco Bell.

/mater/matter/.

So's a kerfuffle.

So's a kerfuffle.

Counterfeiting.

Um... whats wrong with hypocrisy?

When a friend of mine who was going to grad school in Indiana came back here, the first thing she did was force me to take her out to eat because she hadn't been able to find Thai food for six months.
Is Bloomington that bad?

You cannot get real Thai food in the U.S. like that in Thailand; however, around here there are several good Thai restaurants.
Local Population Mix: White: 75%; Black: 11.5%; American Indian and Alaska Native: 1%; Asian: 4%; Other race: 5%; Two or more races: 3%; Hispanic/Latino: 9.5%.
Indian, Mexican, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, and even French, German, Lebanese restaurants are available here, even though I do not live in the urban paradise which is San Jose. (Does Milpitas have its city hall in a shopping mall? It did when I was last there but I guess the elected officials decided it was too hard to park far away and walk to the office.) It is not necessary to live in CA (or even on a coast) to enjoy different cultures. Your comment:
There are certainly immigrant communities elsewhere in the US, but only on the coasts, and pretty much only in the major urban areas on the coasts, do you find such a varied mix of people from all over the place, all getting along just fine most of the time.
sounds like a California comment; I say this as a person who lived in California for the first 21 years of his life (and returns fairly often). I realize how provincial ("Limited in perspective; narrow and self-centered.") are (many of) the people in my birth state. (I was at LAX a week ago and the "natives" from LA were very funny.) I have students and colleagues from all over the world. I suspect that I have been to more foreign countries than have you, even though I do not live in San Jose (motto: world's greatest parking lot after Mesa, AZ.).

Copyright infringement is not theft.
Copying software does not prevent the creator from having access to the source data, so technically, this cannot be theft. IANAL, but I strongly doubt that anyone of them would call copyright infringement 'theft'.
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Campaigning for the right usage of these terms since well before 2001.

Copyright infringement is not theft.
Copying software does not prevent the creator from having access to the source data, so technically, this cannot be theft. IANAL, but I strongly doubt that anyone of them would call copyright infringement 'theft'.
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Campaigning for the right usage of these terms since well before 2001.

From dictionary.com, hypocrisy is "the practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness." The difference here (and what I think the original poster was alluding to) was the fact that MS tells everyone about the evils of software piracy, condemning those who practice it, and then they pirate software anyway.

You're right about that not giving anyone the right to pirate MS software, but it could certainly make one feel better about it!

Scotch-Irish or Scots-Irish