I just had to cart a PC up 3 flights of stairs and down the hall to my dorm room. Moving my PowerMac was a lot easier because of the handles. PC makers still have a lot to learn from Apple IMO
#1-Police. What happens if a cop's partner is disabled and he has the only remaining ammo between them. Is the other cop supposed to say, "hey mr. nice criminal, let me pop this clip into my gun so I can kill you?"
#2-Families where the kids can handle a firearm. I could handle (admittedly not perfectly by any stretch of the imagination) a 9mm at an early age, around 9-10 or so. I'm sick of the anti-gun nuts who say such rubbish as kids can't use guns effectively and responsibly. And so what if they can't in such a situation? It's better that the kid die trying than die a totally defenseless victim. Oh and, in close range... you don't have to be that good of a shot.
#3-What happens if the gun gets damaged and can't recognize its owner? Oh sheot, that's right. The gun ain't worth a damn now.
Here's the deal, we don't need gun control and here's why. If the crime is heinous, lock the perp up and punish them properly. Once they get out, they've paid their debt to society and give them their rights back. Anyone who disagrees is a fascistic prick whose "pro-freedom" views on any other issue are meaningless.
Your 2nd amendment right, not your right to vote, is what ultimately keeps the government in line. I'm amazed at how many people know jack shit about guns and then spout off anti-gun ownership rhetoric. A 30.06 is a much more powerful weapon than a M16 or AK-47. A M1 Carbine is even better. Both are now weapons civilians can own IIRC without any special permits. A M1 Carbine is an order of magnitude deadlier in the hands of a skilled fighter than a M16 because its shots are more powerful and accurate than a M16. You damn well better believe that a crowd carrying shotguns, 30.06s and the like would be taken VERY seriously by the government.
So let me ask this, are you people who believe in gun control stupid or just lack any desire to have a free country? How many totalitarian regimes that rose to power by disarming their populations does it take? Do we need to draw you guys diagrams showing these things point-by-point? I'm being serious here. You have no right to tell me that I can't own a 9mm because it makes you uncomfortable. Nor do you have a right to tell the local Klan or BPP thug to shut up because what he's saying is making you feel uncomfortable.
Maybe you people need to take remedial English because the last time I read the 2nd amendment it said, "The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." You people seem hung up over a GD prepositional phrase. A well-regulated militia means a well-organized militia, not one whose ability to stay armed is being lynched with bureacratic red tape. It is the same thing as "Congress shall pass no law INSERT_ISSUE." What part of that is so hard to understand? And if you have any concerns about state gun control, may I suggest you read the 14th amendment which was partly ratified so blacks in the post-Civil War south could legally own firearms. At that time most southern states prohibited blacks from owning guns. Jim Crow, the first major gun control advocate in this country.
If they really were doing this in an official capacity then it is a potential liability. However the company should recognize that such a willingness to help is an asset if the company simply sits them down and politely tells them not to do it "officially." I would imagine that such a spirit of helpfullness isn't easy to find. It's easy to pay people to be civil, it's not easy to find people willing to provide free help after hours. Firing them was a major strategic mistake if they were first time offenders.
Is the installer a typical OSS POS or is actually quality? Flame me all you want, juxtapose Debian with Mandrake. Debian's installer is nothing compared to Mandrake's for the average user. If the installer isn't as good as the usual installer for Windows then this project is next to worthless. The only people that you'll get from this are those ABMers who are too lazy or cheap to put their money where their mouths are and switch to Linux or OSX. Open source developers just about don't have a track record, let alone a bad one, on making newbie friendly installers.
Highlight the top paragraph and mail it to your representative and Senators. Attach a note or something saying that you find this behavior disturbing and think that Congress needs to take swift and decisive action to stop it.
What I don't get is why don't these projects realize the kind of coup they could score by releasing a Mandrake/RedHatesque installer that even the average marketting drone could use to setup a fully operational installation. I'd love to use OpenBSD if I thought I could get it working. I'm still just a novice with *NIX though so some of this is a bit too hardcore for people like me right now. But still, getting OpenBSD an installer that **just works** for the average person would take it to a whole new level.
a poll recently uncovered that the majority of Americans think that property rights are still relevent and necessary for a functional civil society.....
That's the melodious wails of Jack Valenti screaming bloody murder. Oh wait a second, he did that the moment smart geeks discovered TMPGEnc and similar tools for making high quality VCDs out of DivXs to watch on their DVD players.....
The Constitution clearly states that the federal government can only do those things that it has been explictly empowered to do and by extension things related to those. It is reasonable to establish more branches of the military as the military is explicitly federal. However the US Constitution does not grant any general authority for the US Government within the borders of the states. The "necessary and proper clause" only applies to those areas that the US Government already has jurisdiction which are in reality few and far between.
Phrase it this way: "Microsoft knows all too well that MP3 is the prefered mass-market technology for music distribution and DivX is the equivalent for movies. With this in mind, why does Microsoft insist on supporting digital rights management rather than support market-proven technologies which the vast majority of its customers are comfortable with?"
If you feel the need to jab them a bit you can add as small semi-asides stuff like:
"Does Microsoft feel some sort of moral obligation to not support open technologies that the public currently users?"
"Does Microsoft feel that what benefits the content producers benefits consumers?" (When all good capitalists know it's the other way around because a company can't survive without satisfying its customers)
"Does Microsoft feel that the user experience is enhanced by limiting the choices of its users?"
Or if you just feel like making a political statement you can ask, "Does Microsoft value the relationship its trying to build with content producers more than its relationship with its users who it is restricting via DRM?"
Anything that helps the enemy while hurting the domestic front is typically called treason of some form or another. We know that it is logistically impossible for encryption to NOT fall into the hands of established terrorist groups. Therefore such regulations only weaken the ability of the US to defend its IT infrastructure from terrorist and/or beligerant activity. So that in mind, it is very logical IMO to argue that Freeh is not some "patriot" but rather an intellectual traitor to the US for arguing for the systematic weakening of critical US infrastructure.
Of course there's nothing wrong with what the GNU project does! The whole point is that the original poster was saying that you have a right to copy anything you want. Big difference between the GNU philosophy and that philosophy. One is voluntary, the other is not.
Since when do you have a right to copy something you don't own or intend to buy? People like you are the reason why there are few that take legitimate opposition to draconian copyright seriously. Instead of arguing "I have a right to use my IP in any way I choose for my own use (commercial or personal)" you argue, "I have a right to do anything with any IP I encounter for my own use." Tell me, which one sounds more mature and one like the rantings of some child who never grew up?
Pass a replacement copyright law where the artist can establish a set of payment procedures for how much a certain action will cost and let anybody produce the artist's CDs. For example you could have something like this in a more machine readable copyright data sheet.
I don't use P2P, but the majority of the students at my university seem to. Our connection isn't worth a damn most of the time as a result. The method used to "block" P2P is to go after users who download XMB per time period. So I get a citation for downloading 5 Linux ISOs which are legitimate downloads especially since I am a CS major, but the assholes who download MP3s, DivXs, etc on a regular basis get a free ride. So far I am one of only handfull of people I know that has been given such a citation. And yes, it is the P2P users' fault and they should lose their connections for an entire semester. If it weren't for them, the university would never have had to implement such stupid regulations.
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Remember this is the same USSC that ruled that a police officer can arrest you for **any** offense regardless of what the local/state law stipulates. That means now that every state legislature must go back and reel in its law enforcement officers because of this group of anti-constitution miscreants.
As the subject says, this is the kind of shit we have to deal with when people see the state as the be-all, end-all solution to problems. I'm semi-opposed to file sharing because it eats up the bandwidth like crazy at my university, but even then you won't see me advocating prosecution. This is what happens when institutions of control push one thing over another. I know from personal experience why this is bad because I'm one of only 2 CS majors at my school that use OSX. Our school is geared toward whatever the professor wants, --if it can run on a PC--. Even though all of the curriculum for the BS can be completed with a Mac running OSX, a Sun Blade 100 (isn't that the $1000 one?), etc. A perfect example of them choosing to limit our options even though it is completely unnecessary.
President: chosen by a vote of confidence by each state legislature. Can serve one 5 year term and must be a military veteran.
Senate: chosen by state legislatures again, can serve up to 3 3 year terms
House of Representatives: chosen at random similar to jury duty from the part of the population of a state never convicted of a felony. Term: 1 year.
Before any bill goes to the President for signing a "Constitutional Court" must read it and vote on its constitutionality. Any act of corruption could be summarily punishable by the US Supreme Court if it makes a constitutionality ruling. Any lobbyist and his/her financial backers found to have been involved would receive the maximum penalty the law provides without any appeal. The message: if you aid and abet government corruption you will be punished VERY severely.
The fundamental flaws in democracy are that (a) it legitimizes any action a politician may take in the eyes of said politician if he/she wins by a strong majority, (b) it gives the majority the illusion that it has any moral authority by sheer fact of being a majority and (c) it establishes a political aristocracy that can't relate to either its working class our bourgeoise constituents if it tried. How many think the DMCA would have been passed if Joe Blow down the street was chosen at random to be the next rep for his district and then was asked to draft a law that would make his little Johnny or Suzy a multiple felon? Hint: it probably wouldn't happen and the lobbyist would probably have gotten a black eye just for asking for such a thing.
I stopped believing in democracy the moment that I realized it's natural conclusion. As Peikoff put it, the face of democracy is the execution of Socrates.
Congress passes copyright law, the states pass contract law. Contract law is what the EULA deals with. A state can easily declare a MS EULA non-enforceable in its borders if it violates state law.
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I just had to cart a PC up 3 flights of stairs and down the hall to my dorm room. Moving my PowerMac was a lot easier because of the handles. PC makers still have a lot to learn from Apple IMO
#1-Police. What happens if a cop's partner is disabled and he has the only remaining ammo between them. Is the other cop supposed to say, "hey mr. nice criminal, let me pop this clip into my gun so I can kill you?"
#2-Families where the kids can handle a firearm. I could handle (admittedly not perfectly by any stretch of the imagination) a 9mm at an early age, around 9-10 or so. I'm sick of the anti-gun nuts who say such rubbish as kids can't use guns effectively and responsibly. And so what if they can't in such a situation? It's better that the kid die trying than die a totally defenseless victim. Oh and, in close range... you don't have to be that good of a shot.
#3-What happens if the gun gets damaged and can't recognize its owner? Oh sheot, that's right. The gun ain't worth a damn now.
Here's the deal, we don't need gun control and here's why. If the crime is heinous, lock the perp up and punish them properly. Once they get out, they've paid their debt to society and give them their rights back. Anyone who disagrees is a fascistic prick whose "pro-freedom" views on any other issue are meaningless.
Your 2nd amendment right, not your right to vote, is what ultimately keeps the government in line. I'm amazed at how many people know jack shit about guns and then spout off anti-gun ownership rhetoric. A 30.06 is a much more powerful weapon than a M16 or AK-47. A M1 Carbine is even better. Both are now weapons civilians can own IIRC without any special permits. A M1 Carbine is an order of magnitude deadlier in the hands of a skilled fighter than a M16 because its shots are more powerful and accurate than a M16. You damn well better believe that a crowd carrying shotguns, 30.06s and the like would be taken VERY seriously by the government.
So let me ask this, are you people who believe in gun control stupid or just lack any desire to have a free country? How many totalitarian regimes that rose to power by disarming their populations does it take? Do we need to draw you guys diagrams showing these things point-by-point? I'm being serious here. You have no right to tell me that I can't own a 9mm because it makes you uncomfortable. Nor do you have a right to tell the local Klan or BPP thug to shut up because what he's saying is making you feel uncomfortable.
Maybe you people need to take remedial English because the last time I read the 2nd amendment it said, "The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." You people seem hung up over a GD prepositional phrase. A well-regulated militia means a well-organized militia, not one whose ability to stay armed is being lynched with bureacratic red tape. It is the same thing as "Congress shall pass no law INSERT_ISSUE." What part of that is so hard to understand? And if you have any concerns about state gun control, may I suggest you read the 14th amendment which was partly ratified so blacks in the post-Civil War south could legally own firearms. At that time most southern states prohibited blacks from owning guns. Jim Crow, the first major gun control advocate in this country.
Found this on their product page below the Corum III listing:
The only real choice for entertainment on BeOS.
If they really were doing this in an official capacity then it is a potential liability. However the company should recognize that such a willingness to help is an asset if the company simply sits them down and politely tells them not to do it "officially." I would imagine that such a spirit of helpfullness isn't easy to find. It's easy to pay people to be civil, it's not easy to find people willing to provide free help after hours. Firing them was a major strategic mistake if they were first time offenders.
Is the installer a typical OSS POS or is actually quality? Flame me all you want, juxtapose Debian with Mandrake. Debian's installer is nothing compared to Mandrake's for the average user. If the installer isn't as good as the usual installer for Windows then this project is next to worthless. The only people that you'll get from this are those ABMers who are too lazy or cheap to put their money where their mouths are and switch to Linux or OSX. Open source developers just about don't have a track record, let alone a bad one, on making newbie friendly installers.
Make filing frivolous lawsuits a criminal offense for the attorney and plaintiff.
Highlight the top paragraph and mail it to your representative and Senators. Attach a note or something saying that you find this behavior disturbing and think that Congress needs to take swift and decisive action to stop it.
What I don't get is why don't these projects realize the kind of coup they could score by releasing a Mandrake/RedHatesque installer that even the average marketting drone could use to setup a fully operational installation. I'd love to use OpenBSD if I thought I could get it working. I'm still just a novice with *NIX though so some of this is a bit too hardcore for people like me right now. But still, getting OpenBSD an installer that **just works** for the average person would take it to a whole new level.
a poll recently uncovered that the majority of Americans think that property rights are still relevent and necessary for a functional civil society.....
That's the melodious wails of Jack Valenti screaming bloody murder. Oh wait a second, he did that the moment smart geeks discovered TMPGEnc and similar tools for making high quality VCDs out of DivXs to watch on their DVD players.....
The Constitution clearly states that the federal government can only do those things that it has been explictly empowered to do and by extension things related to those. It is reasonable to establish more branches of the military as the military is explicitly federal. However the US Constitution does not grant any general authority for the US Government within the borders of the states. The "necessary and proper clause" only applies to those areas that the US Government already has jurisdiction which are in reality few and far between.
Oh yeah!
9. Food prices. I can get a whole meal at JMU with a meal punch for the price I would pay for a drink ($3.50) at the local theatre.
10. Inane local advertising in the theatre. I did not come to see advertising
11. Lack of leg room for those of us that are >5 feet tall
12. Turning the AC down so low that my gf has to look like a fsckin eskimo to keep from walking out a deep shade of blue
Phrase it this way: "Microsoft knows all too well that MP3 is the prefered mass-market technology for music distribution and DivX is the equivalent for movies. With this in mind, why does Microsoft insist on supporting digital rights management rather than support market-proven technologies which the vast majority of its customers are comfortable with?"
If you feel the need to jab them a bit you can add as small semi-asides stuff like:
"Does Microsoft feel some sort of moral obligation to not support open technologies that the public currently users?"
"Does Microsoft feel that what benefits the content producers benefits consumers?" (When all good capitalists know it's the other way around because a company can't survive without satisfying its customers)
"Does Microsoft feel that the user experience is enhanced by limiting the choices of its users?"
Or if you just feel like making a political statement you can ask, "Does Microsoft value the relationship its trying to build with content producers more than its relationship with its users who it is restricting via DRM?"
Anything that helps the enemy while hurting the domestic front is typically called treason of some form or another. We know that it is logistically impossible for encryption to NOT fall into the hands of established terrorist groups. Therefore such regulations only weaken the ability of the US to defend its IT infrastructure from terrorist and/or beligerant activity. So that in mind, it is very logical IMO to argue that Freeh is not some "patriot" but rather an intellectual traitor to the US for arguing for the systematic weakening of critical US infrastructure.
Of course there's nothing wrong with what the GNU project does! The whole point is that the original poster was saying that you have a right to copy anything you want. Big difference between the GNU philosophy and that philosophy. One is voluntary, the other is not.
Since when do you have a right to copy something you don't own or intend to buy? People like you are the reason why there are few that take legitimate opposition to draconian copyright seriously. Instead of arguing "I have a right to use my IP in any way I choose for my own use (commercial or personal)" you argue, "I have a right to do anything with any IP I encounter for my own use." Tell me, which one sounds more mature and one like the rantings of some child who never grew up?
Null was the beta, bluecurve is the new theme
Pass a replacement copyright law where the artist can establish a set of payment procedures for how much a certain action will cost and let anybody produce the artist's CDs. For example you could have something like this in a more machine readable copyright data sheet.
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I don't use P2P, but the majority of the students at my university seem to. Our connection isn't worth a damn most of the time as a result. The method used to "block" P2P is to go after users who download XMB per time period. So I get a citation for downloading 5 Linux ISOs which are legitimate downloads especially since I am a CS major, but the assholes who download MP3s, DivXs, etc on a regular basis get a free ride. So far I am one of only handfull of people I know that has been given such a citation. And yes, it is the P2P users' fault and they should lose their connections for an entire semester. If it weren't for them, the university would never have had to implement such stupid regulations.
Remember this is the same USSC that ruled that a police officer can arrest you for **any** offense regardless of what the local/state law stipulates. That means now that every state legislature must go back and reel in its law enforcement officers because of this group of anti-constitution miscreants.
As the subject says, this is the kind of shit we have to deal with when people see the state as the be-all, end-all solution to problems. I'm semi-opposed to file sharing because it eats up the bandwidth like crazy at my university, but even then you won't see me advocating prosecution. This is what happens when institutions of control push one thing over another. I know from personal experience why this is bad because I'm one of only 2 CS majors at my school that use OSX. Our school is geared toward whatever the professor wants, --if it can run on a PC--. Even though all of the curriculum for the BS can be completed with a Mac running OSX, a Sun Blade 100 (isn't that the $1000 one?), etc. A perfect example of them choosing to limit our options even though it is completely unnecessary.
At least at the federal level....
President: chosen by a vote of confidence by each state legislature. Can serve one 5 year term and must be a military veteran.
Senate: chosen by state legislatures again, can serve up to 3 3 year terms
House of Representatives: chosen at random similar to jury duty from the part of the population of a state never convicted of a felony. Term: 1 year.
Before any bill goes to the President for signing a "Constitutional Court" must read it and vote on its constitutionality. Any act of corruption could be summarily punishable by the US Supreme Court if it makes a constitutionality ruling. Any lobbyist and his/her financial backers found to have been involved would receive the maximum penalty the law provides without any appeal. The message: if you aid and abet government corruption you will be punished VERY severely.
The fundamental flaws in democracy are that (a) it legitimizes any action a politician may take in the eyes of said politician if he/she wins by a strong majority, (b) it gives the majority the illusion that it has any moral authority by sheer fact of being a majority and (c) it establishes a political aristocracy that can't relate to either its working class our bourgeoise constituents if it tried. How many think the DMCA would have been passed if Joe Blow down the street was chosen at random to be the next rep for his district and then was asked to draft a law that would make his little Johnny or Suzy a multiple felon? Hint: it probably wouldn't happen and the lobbyist would probably have gotten a black eye just for asking for such a thing.
I stopped believing in democracy the moment that I realized it's natural conclusion. As Peikoff put it, the face of democracy is the execution of Socrates.
Congress passes copyright law, the states pass contract law. Contract law is what the EULA deals with. A state can easily declare a MS EULA non-enforceable in its borders if it violates state law.
WinXP is $100 for the upgrade for Pro here at JMU, VS.NET is $100 and Office XP Standard is $150 with pro being $200.