Because Ted Bundy likes Christmas? Because The Red Green show is hosted by treacherous Canadians? Because "blue" is God's color so red and green belong to the devil? Really, Jack. What "obvious" point am I too dumb to see.
He's sayin' that every time someone plays GTA, another frog dies in a blender...
Forgot to include this in my original reply, but don't necessarily discount metal/hard rock as being easier. First example comes from Tool, with Lateralus...
Also our former conductor Esa Pekka Salonen has decided to pursue a career in composition. As far as I know not a single piece of his has been included in a recording for sale, but several have been performed here and he seems to be doing just fine.
The only problem is that I can't see specific genres of music (namely, "classical") carrying on without copyright, as it takes a high level of skill to produce these works of art...
Thankfully, classical.MP3s can be found for download in the public domain if you know how to phrase your search...
Eventually I told her that I had no respect for an organization that claims to fight drunk driving, a laudable effort, but is actually a bunch of teetotalling prohibitionists. They've never called back.:)
I just tell 'em I'm a member of DAMM: Drunks Against Mad Mothers. They leave me be.;)
So like drugs, if you have say more than 4 or 5 copyrighted files you are guilty of "intent to illegally distribute"?
Sure, they can technically pop you for sharing just one file, and even for having it without good reason...
And that would apply to all files on a computer connected to the internet?
Now you're just trying to blow smoke up our rears. You know darn well that piracy cases don't sue for EVERY file on the disk, but then again, just PART of an OS install directory won't give you an OS. Part of a CD can get you a song or three.
In short, the songs are individually wrapped, while an OS comes in family pack only {in most cases}.
ITD been made illegal for kiddy porn and drugs. Check your local statutes for details, as your area may have "blue laws" that cover more than you expect...
Yes there is a lot in psychology that is guessing. But they are guesses that match real world behavior. But to call it a complete pseudoscience is flat out wrong.
Try volunteering to spend some time in/around psych hospitals, and pull the other leg: it squirts Ovaltine!
Most private hospitals are simply cash cows. The usual psychobabble they throw at the parents keeps them happy, while a "healthy" dose of medication keeps the patients calm, if not content. Overmedication is rampant, and I'll use an example I saw:
"Kent" had been restrained after Monday's fracas over his phone time, and his medication had been bumped up. Flash forward to Wednesday, where he's in the hallway, drying his hair VERY slowly with a hair dryer...
...but it wasn't, sadly, plugged in to the wall. Kent never noticed due to his new "therapeutic medication regimen". This is a pretty regular occurance, believe me.
It doesn't matter why Metallica does this, only that they do.
Feel free to trust their motives all you like. I choose not to, and am voting with my wallet.
Even better, they're telling the world that the way to make money is to stop being assholes.
No, they're telling the world that they realized being assholes wasn't making them any money, and so they're willing to change their tune to get aforementioned cash.
I'd have had more respect for them if they'd stuck to their guns, honestly. I may not have agreed with their former stance, but this just sets in my mind their image as "whiny has-beens"
Rejecting Metallica on the grounds of their past attitude could only serve to shut that breakthrough down and solidify the opposition. Punishing Metallica just when they've implicitly issued a mea-culpa could only be counter productive.
The question is "WHY did they do choose now to do so?"
Looking at their album sales this decade, I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that it's for nothing more than the cash.
When a "Heavy Metal" band goes from "Kill 'Em All", "Seek and Destroy", and "Leper Messiah" to lawsuits, whining, [and f'r the love o' Pete] group therapy, they're going to lose "street cred" with the headbangers. You wouldn't expect to hear King Diamond singing "The Good Ship Lollipop", would you?
Well, 'theory' isn't a reserved word. You can use it to describe just about anything if you like.
...which is why I linked to the Merriam-Webster entry on theory. You're referring to the entries 1 through 5 and 6c, but apparently {disagree with OR view differently} 6a and 6b.
Why?
I'm just suggesting that those that posit that ID isn't a "real" theory instead try using "not verifiable at present" instead; they might find a few more ears.
Note: I believe in ID. I just believe that in order to reach the "Design", evolution was used. Please don't assume that religion is a rejection of science. Many religious scientists use science to find out HOW God works.
Ten-to-one odds you get flamed by a devout agnostic...
What's funny is that many agnostics/atheists are convinced that "belief" and "science" are incompatible, and will try to ridicule anyone that suggests differently.
Propose a theory which can be tested, then go about trying to disprove the theory.
That's assuming that all theories can be tested. Or, to put it another way: If you can't test it, is it a theory? According to Merriam-Webster, yes. Inference points towards your disputing that. Is this the problem in a nutshell?
...we demo this system, but for snailmail? As our Congress-critters are so eager to make this happen, let's start with them. Each "representative" would be personally responsible for keeping ALL copies of incoming AND outgoing mail for their entire term. Those found in violation would be stripped of their office, flogged with 3-day-dead trout, and made to work in the mailroom for a period of not less than 6 months... sitting next to the guy with the flatulence problem.
No, it won't happen, but it gets a little irritating to think that they believe that email is sufficiently different than "normal" mail to warrant treatment that they'd not put up/deal with themselves.
We're on slashdot.... The odds are quite good here for meeting people having been in "quite special" situations;-)
Quite special? Guess that explains why I rode the little bus!
I'll have to throw out a "ditto" on the old-PC interface. We recently had a guy come in with a 286. Turns out he'd bought an engraving machine in the late 80's and had forgotten how to use it. My favorite part: He left the engraver at home and wanted us to show him how to use the software HERE.
Lacking a CGA monitor and engraver, we made a call to his house.;)
...and people wonder why I ask new hires about DOS/CLI experience...
Is the U.S. no longer the home of the brave and the land of the free? Honestly, does anyone over six years old actually buy into crap like that? People are people. Period.
Yes, heaven forbid we hold an ideal as a standard to work toward...
...like those that've served honorably in the military...
Oh noes! The USA is not living up to an impossible idealized archetype that never actually existed in the first place!
The embodiments of "free" and "brave" are neither impossible nor nonexistant.
We need to put those who want authority over us under a different, much more strict set of rules. It's our only way of protecting ourselves from the all too frequent abuses.
Nice thought, but consider this:
The people that need policing are the only ones that can authorize/mandate it. Figure the odds...
It's perfectly fair when you consider that 90% of comcast's bandwidth is being used by 10% of the users doing p2p, yet everyone is paying (nearly if not exactly) the same price--that's what's not fair.
Let me rephrase that for clarity:
So you mean that 90% of the users are underutilizing a resource, and therefore the 10% that are actually using what they paid for should be penalized.
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He's sayin' that every time someone plays GTA, another frog dies in a blender...
Forgot to include this in my original reply, but don't necessarily discount metal/hard rock as being easier. First example comes from Tool, with Lateralus...
Hard to find? Mayhaps. But as seen here, some of his work is already being sold...
Thankfully, classical .MP3s can be found for download in the public domain if you know how to phrase your search...
I just tell 'em I'm a member of DAMM: Drunks Against Mad Mothers. They leave me be. ;)
Sure, they can technically pop you for sharing just one file, and even for having it without good reason...
And that would apply to all files on a computer connected to the internet?Now you're just trying to blow smoke up our rears. You know darn well that piracy cases don't sue for EVERY file on the disk, but then again, just PART of an OS install directory won't give you an OS. Part of a CD can get you a song or three.
In short, the songs are individually wrapped, while an OS comes in family pack only {in most cases}.
The key phrase here is "intent to distribute"...
ITD been made illegal for kiddy porn and drugs. Check your local statutes for details, as your area may have "blue laws" that cover more than you expect...
Try volunteering to spend some time in/around psych hospitals, and pull the other leg: it squirts Ovaltine!
Most private hospitals are simply cash cows. The usual psychobabble they throw at the parents keeps them happy, while a "healthy" dose of medication keeps the patients calm, if not content. Overmedication is rampant, and I'll use an example I saw:
"Kent" had been restrained after Monday's fracas over his phone time, and his medication had been bumped up. Flash forward to Wednesday, where he's in the hallway, drying his hair VERY slowly with a hair dryer...
...but it wasn't, sadly, plugged in to the wall. Kent never noticed due to his new "therapeutic medication regimen". This is a pretty regular occurance, believe me.
So yeah, pardon if some of us are cynical.
Feel free to trust their motives all you like. I choose not to, and am voting with my wallet.
Even better, they're telling the world that the way to make money is to stop being assholes.No, they're telling the world that they realized being assholes wasn't making them any money, and so they're willing to change their tune to get aforementioned cash.
I'd have had more respect for them if they'd stuck to their guns, honestly. I may not have agreed with their former stance, but this just sets in my mind their image as "whiny has-beens"
The question is "WHY did they do choose now to do so?"
Looking at their album sales this decade, I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that it's for nothing more than the cash.
When a "Heavy Metal" band goes from "Kill 'Em All", "Seek and Destroy", and "Leper Messiah" to lawsuits, whining, [and f'r the love o' Pete] group therapy, they're going to lose "street cred" with the headbangers. You wouldn't expect to hear King Diamond singing "The Good Ship Lollipop", would you?
Hey, I have that pinball game, too! DOSBox is your friend!
How 'bout the Addams Family?
I LOVED them using the movie actors and lines for the game. The strobes during multiball were distracting, but added to the fun...
....mechanics of such:
How about the horizontal mambo?
....by the fuzz, no less.
Never said they weren't, and long-winded explanations like that are why many theists don't care to talk to you on the subject.
Still doesn't change the fact that ID falls under the category of theory, whether you like it or not.
...which is why I linked to the Merriam-Webster entry on theory. You're referring to the entries 1 through 5 and 6c, but apparently {disagree with OR view differently} 6a and 6b.
Why?
I'm just suggesting that those that posit that ID isn't a "real" theory instead try using "not verifiable at present" instead; they might find a few more ears.
Once again, does that make it !theory, or just not a scientific one? Slight but important difference.
Ten-to-one odds you get flamed by a devout agnostic...
What's funny is that many agnostics/atheists are convinced that "belief" and "science" are incompatible, and will try to ridicule anyone that suggests differently.
"Faith", indeed.
That's assuming that all theories can be tested. Or, to put it another way: If you can't test it, is it a theory? According to Merriam-Webster, yes. Inference points towards your disputing that. Is this the problem in a nutshell?
...we demo this system, but for snailmail? As our Congress-critters are so eager to make this happen, let's start with them. Each "representative" would be personally responsible for keeping ALL copies of incoming AND outgoing mail for their entire term. Those found in violation would be stripped of their office, flogged with 3-day-dead trout, and made to work in the mailroom for a period of not less than 6 months... sitting next to the guy with the flatulence problem.
No, it won't happen, but it gets a little irritating to think that they believe that email is sufficiently different than "normal" mail to warrant treatment that they'd not put up/deal with themselves.
...let's not forget the brief period after that where Real Men learned that early IDE drives did NOT like a low-level formatting...
Only took one drive to learn that lesson...
Quite special? Guess that explains why I rode the little bus!
I'll have to throw out a "ditto" on the old-PC interface. We recently had a guy come in with a 286. Turns out he'd bought an engraving machine in the late 80's and had forgotten how to use it. My favorite part: He left the engraver at home and wanted us to show him how to use the software HERE.
Lacking a CGA monitor and engraver, we made a call to his house. ;)
...and people wonder why I ask new hires about DOS/CLI experience...
Yes, heaven forbid we hold an ideal as a standard to work toward...
...like those that've served honorably in the military...
Oh noes! The USA is not living up to an impossible idealized archetype that never actually existed in the first place!The embodiments of "free" and "brave" are neither impossible nor nonexistant.
They're just not EASY.
Nice thought, but consider this:
The people that need policing are the only ones that can authorize/mandate it. Figure the odds...
Let me rephrase that for clarity:
So you mean that 90% of the users are underutilizing a resource, and therefore the 10% that are actually using what they paid for should be penalized.
Nope. Still doesn't parse.