Copying a CD, making a mix disc for your girlfriend, having a group of people watch one copy of a videotape, loaning CDs to friends, these are all legally fuzzy.
Where is that? Here, I'm perfectly allowed to borrow a CD from a friend - or the library - and make a copy for myself.
Be it established that within the confines of the United States of America, it shall henceforthwith deemed illegal to establish any kind of establishment, subterranean or otherwise, for the purpose of punishing sinners by way of exposure to extreme temperature, combustion without consumption up to but not limited to epidermic puncture by the use of pitchforks yielded by devilish critters, no matter cute or BSDish they may look.
On the subject of lockpicks, I don't believe that they are illegal to posess in the US...I bought a set about a year and a half ago, and no one hassled me or asked me if I was a locksmith. Neither my friend (who also owns a set) nor I make a bit deal out of owning lockpicking tools, as people tend to assume that you are a criminal, but I use it fairly often to let people into their (own) houses, dorm rooms, cars (if possible), and so on.
On the subject of cocaine, even though it is illegall to possess in the US, I but a kilo of it about a year and a half ago, and no one hassled me or asked me if I was a pusher. Neither my friend (who also owns a kilo) nor I make a bit deal of owning cocaine, as people tend to assume that you are a criminal, but I use it fairly oftern to let people into their (own) brains, bodies, souls (if possible, and so on.
On it, there are more than 2500 MP3s (10 gigs worth of them), of which about 50% have been downloaded with Napster and Gnutella. The rest have been made from CDs I borrowed from the library (they have that little sign that says "pirating music kills it" - I chuckle whenever I see it...), and which I copied for my own use.
All legally, of course. And my friends are quite welcome to make copies for themselves (still legally, of course).
In other news, researchers from the Bethesda Institute for Genetic Research report that chin dimples, which have done so much to endear stars such as Robert Mitchum to women, are also the result of a mutated gene.
Dont get her a ring. Nothing at all. If you both really love each other, you don't need trinkets to mark it. Or if you want a bit to mark that milestone, have a picture taken of both of you at the moment.
If she insists on having a ring, she's a goldigger.
If her friends pester her for not having a ring, and she then pesters you afterwards, since you're on Slashdot, you're too smart for that kind of broad. Ditch the bitch, then.
Starting Jan. 1, 2005, the 12-digit bar codes retailers use to identify everything from cars to candy bars will go to 13 digits. The additional number (and associated bars and spaces) is enough to make checkout scanners seize up and make computers crash, perhaps disrupting entire supply chains.
Oh no! It's 2000 all over again!!!
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It's not feasible to send waste into the sun - take a look through a few
astronomy texts and you'll see why.
Basically the problem is that any object we lift from the Earth has energy,
and angular momentum. If you want to hit the sun, and not just put it in a
very eccentric orbit, you need to remove a lot of energy from the object,
and the space elevator wouldn't help - it pulls you out of Earth's gravity
well, not out of Earth's orbit. You'd require massive amounts of fuel to get
it there.
You only need to slow it down enough for the orbit to decay. A very good way
of doing so for practically free is to attach a solar sail to the garbage packet.
The solar wind will then simply slow it down so that it's orbit decays sufficiently
to eventually hit the Sun.
I sent the/. URL to an EU patent examiner I know, and he answered back that the guy has lots of balls to do this, because he could get in lots of trouble for speaking publicly...
He also said that the questions weren't very good either...
Whats wrong with McDonalds? Tasteless, bland, small, factory-style food. Here we have local hamburger joint, ironically named "American Style" where you can get hamburgers like god intended them to be. Big, juicy and with TASTE! Something that McDonalds totally forgot.
You have to understand that if Wac Donald's (or Burper King for that matter) would make hamburgers that did taste something, the taste would be bound to displease some people. So, in order to keep market share, hamburgers are totally tasteless in order to offend no one.
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An act to prohibit the establishment of a place of repentance for sinners
Sens. Guzwald (ZA), Hotckiss (DU), Punkadiddle (IE).
Be it established that within the confines of the United States of America, it shall henceforthwith deemed illegal to establish any kind of establishment, subterranean or otherwise, for the purpose of punishing sinners by way of exposure to extreme temperature, combustion without consumption up to but not limited to epidermic puncture by the use of pitchforks yielded by devilish critters, no matter cute or BSDish they may look.
There are other things beside THE economy; it isn't everything there is, you know.
On it, there are more than 2500 MP3s (10 gigs worth of them), of which about 50% have been downloaded with Napster and Gnutella. The rest have been made from CDs I borrowed from the library (they have that little sign that says "pirating music kills it" - I chuckle whenever I see it...), and which I copied for my own use.
All legally, of course. And my friends are quite welcome to make copies for themselves (still legally, of course).
Or better, just drop one into a Greyhound bus bound for the other coast...
In other news, researchers from the Bethesda Institute for Genetic Research report that chin dimples, which have done so much to endear stars such as Robert Mitchum to women, are also the result of a mutated gene.
Yadda, yadda, yadda. I've been 10 years with the same SO.
If she insists on having a ring, she's a goldigger.
If her friends pester her for not having a ring, and she then pesters you afterwards, since you're on Slashdot, you're too smart for that kind of broad. Ditch the bitch, then.
Where is Ultraman when you need him?
Here is the product's actual website.
The RIAA is likely to say that only terrorists would be likely to get such a device...
$570,000???
Isn't that a wee-bit expensive for a dog-eared copy of Fountains of Paradises ????
Bike.
He also said that the questions weren't very good either...
Nothing else will cut it.
How long before some Hamas logic-bomb virus detonates itself in the computer????
Now imagine all that pr0n!!!