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BSA Asks Kids to Name Copyright Weasel
theodp writes "According to CNET News, this fall, 4th-graders will not only be treated to comic books and lesson plans from the Business Software Alliance and Weekly Reader, but also invited to name the BSA's mascot, a copyright-crusading ferret who teaches tech-savvy kids about the importance of protecting and respecting copyrighted works such as software, music, games and movies. More details in the BSA press release."
Let's just call him/her "Schnitzel". Isaac Schnitzel.
I vote for Cunt-whore-bitch.
A byte is 8 bits, it's a standard of measure we use today (megabytes, kilobytes). A 32-bit processor uses 32 bit words, or 4 bytes to a word, etc..
Nope, sorry. A byte is a component larger than a bit and smaller than a word. A byte is often 9 bits on 36 bit systems, 6 or 7 bits on some older archs and a bit-field of 1-36 bits on a IBM 7030. You're thinking of an octet.
Increase taxes, Increase spending, make a better world for all mankind. ..oh, but I guess that richest 1%, already making several hundred million a year would be too devistated to have a few more million in taxes taken out of their humble stipend.
Its hard to respond to such statements filled with rage and cursing.. I wish no harm to rich people or anyone with a differing opinion.
..I reserve judgment on a person by person basis, but it does seem to point to greed..
I'd appreciate it if you don't put words in my mouth. It would be fine for very few people to control a great ammount of wealth if they could be trusted to use it properly. Yes many people do contribute to charity and help... and yes it is their money to do with as they please; however, by the undeniable fact that few people have most of the wealth while the majority have none (thinking globaly here) shows that those rich people would rather keep most of it for themselvs, if they could be trusted, then the poverty rate would be greatly reduced. The simple fact is that no single person has any use for $100 million... the tricky part is deciding where the cut off is, what is too much, what is too little... I'm not qualified to answer that, you aren't, probably no one is. Why do these people insist on keeping so much money that they will never use?
I do respect the philosophy of an economic 'survival of the fittest' if you will.. I'm not saying that someone who does nothing or very little should be given millions of dollars, but I think no sentient being should be left to sleep on a dirt floor and drink dirty water and eat moldy bread while the rich have more than they know what to do with. If someone works hard, they deserve to have more money that those who do not, but even the very laziest and lowly do not deserve starvation. With current technology, the only way to ensure this would be to put an upper cap on how much wealth any one person is allowed to have (but again who desides...). This is my personal philosphy and most likely not yours.
In actuallity, I'd like to see our civilization grow beyond the need for money... The funny thing is, you might say that would not work because there are people in the world that would abuse it, those who would take more than their share and do less work. Well let me put this out there... perhapse those are the same people who hoard so much money as it is, taking more than what (I consider to be) their fair share... I don't wish to engage in class warfare, I wish to get rid of classes altogether... the other side (making the generalization that all liberal arguments are class based, insinuating that conservative ones are not is not logical. Both sides do it, and it is not the basis for the entire viewpoint of either side) of it wants to make an even large gap in the classes because "its their right to make as much money as possible" well if that isn't greed, I don't know what is... Oh, and imo, the reason why no large goverment can spend money wisely is because "big business" has its hands in too many pockets.. this leads to unwise spending, which fuels arguments like yours that the gov't can't be trusted... so it is argued that we need to rely on the private sector, corporations become more powerful and interferes in governemtn even more. sort of goes in a spiral from there. It is entirely possible for a large governemt to wisely take care of the nation when those in control trully have their hearts in the right place, and not in their own personal greed. Almost all polititions, republican, democratic, and other have this problem.
Its funny, it seems to me that too many politicians wish to get elected just to get elected, once they're there all they work on is winning the next election.. why? greed.. they want it, they don't want the other guy to have it. They don't want to be in office to help the country, they simply want the recognition without the responsability. (again, this isn't true of everyone.. but I would not be surprised at all if it was the motivating force behind some of our current leaders). They know that all it takes to get re-elected is enough money, they can make the public think whatever they want regardless of whether or not their policies are good are bad for the nation as a whole
...in Soviet Russia, the mascot names YOU!
.. Copyright Harassment Panda
-el