Not legally, you can't. In fact, MS has clarified the license so that an OEM license is only good for a single computer (that is, it isn't a transferable license) built for resale. Hobbyists aren't allowed to use it on hardware they build to keep for themselves.
How much you care about Microsoft's terms is, of course, entirely up to you.
Passing taxes on to investors is entirely appropriate. Liability shielding is a really sweet government-provided perk of incorporation -- no individual BP shareholder (who wasn't also a negligent corporate officer, and unfortunately probably not even those) will be personally liable for a dime of gulf spill damage, to name one example. The liability shield facilitates capital formation but it can also lead to short-sightedness, risky corporate behavior, and higher social costs. No reason the shield should come free of charge.
I am reminded of an incident a few years ago when the public water supply of Wuxi, China started smelling like sewage out of the tap. The newspapers had big front-page photos of the mayor and other city officials drinking tap water to try to convince people that it was safe.
I have more than $260 worth of shelving for my dead tree books, and I buy cheap shelves. There are infrastructure costs associated with any kind of book ownership.
I was in China in December of 2006 when this happened. One major undersea cable was damaged and let me tell you, China was effectively cut off from the English-speaking Internet. I couldn't get google.com to load, or check my US-based email. The remaining network infrastructure between China and North America was simply inadequate to meet the demand. According to that wiki link, spam from China dropped 99% during the outage.
Severing trans-Pacific cables would do a lot more to cripple a Chinese cyberattack than you think.
Yeah, but the Party built in an escape clause. See Article 51:
"The exercise by citizens of the People's Republic of China of their freedoms and rights may not infringe upon the interests of the state, of society and of the collective, or upon the lawful freedoms and rights of other citizens."
The "interests of the state" clause is a license for the Party to do whatever the hell it likes, the rest of the articles be damned. The Chinese constitution is more useful as toilet paper than as a binding social contract.
Every human having their own personal high-speed transport is a historically recent innovation and not a sustainable one. The age of the car has to end to solve this problem.
Religious homophobes and religious abortion protesters are intersecting communities- right-wing religious extremists. There's a history of murder and terrorism in America's right-wing religious extremist fringe, and a history of hit lists being posted to the internet, ostensibly to shame but too often resulting in the listed people being targeted for violence.
When gay marriage activists publish a list, it really is just a shame list.
It's not for anyone and everyone, but organizations with volume licensing and software assurance agreements on older Windows desktop OSes have been able to download Win 7 from Microsoft Eopen since RTM.
You'd imagine incorrectly. Film grads wish they could operate mic booms for a living right out of school.
Union production jobs on studio features aren't make ends meet kinds of jobs. They are the goal. They're good jobs! Making movies! And they're good jobs because there's a union.
Don't get me wrong, the film and TV unions do a lot of things that don't make intuitive sense and that are inconvenient for a lot of people, even a lot of union members. But I have worked in production and development, and I'm glad the unions are there, because film producers are some of the worst, most knee-jerkingly exploitative people on Earth.
Can you honestly not see how asserting a positive without evidence is different from asserting a negative based on lack of evidence?
Hint: in the former case, like in your Allah example, one is ascribing specific properties to something that is unobservable, impossible to test, impossible to prove. There is another word for this: fantasy.
There is no scientific evidence for unicorns, but I believe they're out there anyway because I want to/an old book told me to think that/it's convenient to my laziness of intellect.
China has had a massive, documented, and concerted effort to get people of all stripes, from authors to analysts to politicians to government officials to individuals members of societies such as yourself, to believe they are no longer "Communist". Apparently it's working quite well.
Please. Have you ever actually been to China? Or read any Marx? Because the modern China experience is fundamentally incompatible with Marxism.
Which Chinese political figures are supposed to be the ones behind your grand Red conspiracy? The ones letting all of the entrepreneurs get rich off of the ownership of capital infrastructure? The ones who dismantled the social safety net and pissed all over public health? Or do you mean the ones who, concerned with the miserable plight of the Chinese working class, came up with the Harmonious Society propaganda campaign, little more than a rhetorical bandaid to hide the real class exploitation and income inequality issues this country now faces?
No, you must have just meant the corrupt bureaucrats lining their own pockets while all of this goes down, looting the public coffers because there's no oversight and because they can.
Every single one of these people would have been among the first ones shot in 1949. The Party talks about socialism, but- not to Godwin myself- so did Hitler. Saying the word "socialism" in your political propaganda don't necessarily make it so.
Be afraid of China, by all means. I live here (hopefully not for too much longer), and I sure as fuck am. Everything you said about their global economic and military ambitions is probably at least partially true, and China does deserve greater public scrutiny from the West. They're perpetrating an environmental rape here that would make even the Soviets jealous for its breadth and creativity, and that's going to doom us all if nothing else does it first.
All of which is why I'd appreciate it if you would stop coming off like a damned lunatic so that people might actually treat the situation with the seriousness it deserves.
Since censorship and withholding information are bad making these DVDs available has to be a good thing. YES! This is the precise point I came to this thread to make.
Let me tell you what is playing in Beijing cinemas right now: Flyboys, Sixteen Blocks, A Night at the Museum, Eragon, and probably a Hong Kong flick or two.
Not to pass judgment on any of these movies in particular. I enjoyed a couple of them, myself. But do you see the pattern? These are the most popcorn, inconsequential, and super-commercial of Hollywood's output. There isn't a challenging, thought-provoking moment among them. It was a national event when we got Casino Royale, "uncut!" (Those might have been projection glitches, but I have my doubts.)
I mention this because movies are only approved for legal DVD sale if they can pass the censorship to make it into theaters in the first place. The studios are full of shit when they claim that they're losing money, because there are no legal DVDs worth buying in the first place. The legal movies are pretty cheap, they have decent Chinese subtitles, and they're certainly easier to get than the pirated stock. People aren't buying for the same reason ticket revenues are down in the States: the movies suck.
Do you want to see the award-winning art movie that everybody on the internet is talking about? If you're in China, you have to buy it off the street or in a hidden back room. If a Chinese person wants to see a piece of provocative film art about their own country, they have to buy a pirated copy. Even the better popcorn fare is banned: we didn't get Dead Man's Chest because the yarr matey pirates are a bad moral example to the tender, innocent Chinese public.
I work in the Chinese film industry, making domestic commercial movies. We probably lose money to movie piracy (although it was virtually impossible to find an illicit copy of Curse of the Golden Flower- which shattered Chinese BO records). But part of the job description at the office is to stay on top of international trends. There are only two ways to do that: piracy in the office, or massive travel budgets to send the whole office to Hong Kong every couple of weeks- which we can't do either, because the Chinese citizens in the office aren't free to travel there unrestricted.
I know it's too much to ask for principled international leadership from my mother country, but if the United States government would pull their heads out of the MPAA's ass for one minute, I might hope that they would see that piracy isn't what's killing Hollywood's profits in China- the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television is. And they're keeping the domestic industry at a third-world level while they're at it.
How about some WTO threats about that?
(Also, while I'm dreaming, if they could apply some pressure to make the Chinese fish less lead than fish and the air more air than choking soot, that would be fantastic.
I live and work in Beijing, and TOR is what makes the internet worth surfing.
It isn't just Wikipedia. Blogspot blogs are banned, here. The BBC news, even. Every day I run across a site that some bureaucrat has decided is too offensive for my virgin eyes. I expect that it's only a matter of time before Slashdot goes, too.
So thank you, noble TOR node operators, for shining a bit of light into one of the darker corners of the world.
Slashdot Mirror
That's part of the formula.
Not legally, you can't. In fact, MS has clarified the license so that an OEM license is only good for a single computer (that is, it isn't a transferable license) built for resale. Hobbyists aren't allowed to use it on hardware they build to keep for themselves. How much you care about Microsoft's terms is, of course, entirely up to you.
Profit motive.
Passing taxes on to investors is entirely appropriate. Liability shielding is a really sweet government-provided perk of incorporation -- no individual BP shareholder (who wasn't also a negligent corporate officer, and unfortunately probably not even those) will be personally liable for a dime of gulf spill damage, to name one example. The liability shield facilitates capital formation but it can also lead to short-sightedness, risky corporate behavior, and higher social costs. No reason the shield should come free of charge.
I am reminded of an incident a few years ago when the public water supply of Wuxi, China started smelling like sewage out of the tap. The newspapers had big front-page photos of the mayor and other city officials drinking tap water to try to convince people that it was safe.
I have more than $260 worth of shelving for my dead tree books, and I buy cheap shelves. There are infrastructure costs associated with any kind of book ownership.
The NSA's SELinux, anybody? Obama administration Drupal sites? Forge.mil?
These morons can ask all they like but I don't think they're going to get anywhere.
I was in China in December of 2006 when this happened. One major undersea cable was damaged and let me tell you, China was effectively cut off from the English-speaking Internet. I couldn't get google.com to load, or check my US-based email. The remaining network infrastructure between China and North America was simply inadequate to meet the demand. According to that wiki link, spam from China dropped 99% during the outage.
Severing trans-Pacific cables would do a lot more to cripple a Chinese cyberattack than you think.
Yeah, but the Party built in an escape clause. See Article 51:
"The exercise by citizens of the People's Republic of China of their freedoms and rights may not infringe upon the interests of the state, of society and of the collective, or upon the lawful freedoms and rights of other citizens."
source
The "interests of the state" clause is a license for the Party to do whatever the hell it likes, the rest of the articles be damned. The Chinese constitution is more useful as toilet paper than as a binding social contract.
You can configure unison to ignore files like OS X's ._blarg stuff (or anything else for that matter) while syncing.
Unison works much better due to its 2-way change propogation, but it is only designed to handle 2 sources of documents, not 3.
I sync between 3 computers using a hub-and-spoke system. My file server is the hub; my desktop and laptop both sync only with the file server.
I like Unison for this sort of thing.
Electric trains are pretty cost-effective.
Every human having their own personal high-speed transport is a historically recent innovation and not a sustainable one. The age of the car has to end to solve this problem.
It would, in fact, be different.
Religious homophobes and religious abortion protesters are intersecting communities- right-wing religious extremists. There's a history of murder and terrorism in America's right-wing religious extremist fringe, and a history of hit lists being posted to the internet, ostensibly to shame but too often resulting in the listed people being targeted for violence.
When gay marriage activists publish a list, it really is just a shame list.
It's not for anyone and everyone, but organizations with volume licensing and software assurance agreements on older Windows desktop OSes have been able to download Win 7 from Microsoft Eopen since RTM.
Google is your friend. In Spanish, pluralized words in an acronym double the letter.
Yeah, but will we be able to scale any of them without any (cheap) oil?
You'd imagine incorrectly. Film grads wish they could operate mic booms for a living right out of school.
Union production jobs on studio features aren't make ends meet kinds of jobs. They are the goal. They're good jobs! Making movies! And they're good jobs because there's a union.
Don't get me wrong, the film and TV unions do a lot of things that don't make intuitive sense and that are inconvenient for a lot of people, even a lot of union members. But I have worked in production and development, and I'm glad the unions are there, because film producers are some of the worst, most knee-jerkingly exploitative people on Earth.
There's nothing wrong with apprenticeship. For most vocations, it makes a lot more sense than college.
You don't need to go to film school to work a mic boom.
Can you honestly not see how asserting a positive without evidence is different from asserting a negative based on lack of evidence?
Hint: in the former case, like in your Allah example, one is ascribing specific properties to something that is unobservable, impossible to test, impossible to prove. There is another word for this: fantasy.
There is no scientific evidence for unicorns, but I believe they're out there anyway because I want to/an old book told me to think that/it's convenient to my laziness of intellect.
I know a lot of Chinese nationals have been immigrating to your shores lately, Australia, but this is the wrong way to make them feel at home.
"America: Not As Bad As China Yet" is not exactly a stirring catch-phrase.
Which Chinese political figures are supposed to be the ones behind your grand Red conspiracy?
The ones letting all of the entrepreneurs get rich off of the ownership of capital infrastructure?
The ones who dismantled the social safety net and pissed all over public health?
Or do you mean the ones who, concerned with the miserable plight of the Chinese working class, came up with the Harmonious Society propaganda campaign, little more than a rhetorical bandaid to hide the real class exploitation and income inequality issues this country now faces?
No, you must have just meant the corrupt bureaucrats lining their own pockets while all of this goes down, looting the public coffers because there's no oversight and because they can.
Every single one of these people would have been among the first ones shot in 1949. The Party talks about socialism, but- not to Godwin myself- so did Hitler. Saying the word "socialism" in your political propaganda don't necessarily make it so.
Be afraid of China, by all means. I live here (hopefully not for too much longer), and I sure as fuck am. Everything you said about their global economic and military ambitions is probably at least partially true, and China does deserve greater public scrutiny from the West. They're perpetrating an environmental rape here that would make even the Soviets jealous for its breadth and creativity, and that's going to doom us all if nothing else does it first.
All of which is why I'd appreciate it if you would stop coming off like a damned lunatic so that people might actually treat the situation with the seriousness it deserves.
Let me tell you what is playing in Beijing cinemas right now: Flyboys, Sixteen Blocks, A Night at the Museum, Eragon, and probably a Hong Kong flick or two.
Not to pass judgment on any of these movies in particular. I enjoyed a couple of them, myself. But do you see the pattern? These are the most popcorn, inconsequential, and super-commercial of Hollywood's output. There isn't a challenging, thought-provoking moment among them. It was a national event when we got Casino Royale, "uncut!" (Those might have been projection glitches, but I have my doubts.)
I mention this because movies are only approved for legal DVD sale if they can pass the censorship to make it into theaters in the first place. The studios are full of shit when they claim that they're losing money, because there are no legal DVDs worth buying in the first place. The legal movies are pretty cheap, they have decent Chinese subtitles, and they're certainly easier to get than the pirated stock. People aren't buying for the same reason ticket revenues are down in the States: the movies suck.
Do you want to see the award-winning art movie that everybody on the internet is talking about? If you're in China, you have to buy it off the street or in a hidden back room. If a Chinese person wants to see a piece of provocative film art about their own country, they have to buy a pirated copy. Even the better popcorn fare is banned: we didn't get Dead Man's Chest because the yarr matey pirates are a bad moral example to the tender, innocent Chinese public.
I work in the Chinese film industry, making domestic commercial movies. We probably lose money to movie piracy (although it was virtually impossible to find an illicit copy of Curse of the Golden Flower- which shattered Chinese BO records). But part of the job description at the office is to stay on top of international trends. There are only two ways to do that: piracy in the office, or massive travel budgets to send the whole office to Hong Kong every couple of weeks- which we can't do either, because the Chinese citizens in the office aren't free to travel there unrestricted.
I know it's too much to ask for principled international leadership from my mother country, but if the United States government would pull their heads out of the MPAA's ass for one minute, I might hope that they would see that piracy isn't what's killing Hollywood's profits in China- the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television is. And they're keeping the domestic industry at a third-world level while they're at it.
How about some WTO threats about that?
(Also, while I'm dreaming, if they could apply some pressure to make the Chinese fish less lead than fish and the air more air than choking soot, that would be fantastic.
Why do I live here, again?)
Yes! Everybody please run TOR.
I live and work in Beijing, and TOR is what makes the internet worth surfing.
It isn't just Wikipedia. Blogspot blogs are banned, here. The BBC news, even. Every day I run across a site that some bureaucrat has decided is too offensive for my virgin eyes. I expect that it's only a matter of time before Slashdot goes, too.
So thank you, noble TOR node operators, for shining a bit of light into one of the darker corners of the world.