Then don't buy their music. That does not give you the right to infringe on copyright. Listening to music is not something you are entitled to, despite what some may think.
Linux aquarius.xxxxxxx.net 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 02:46:46 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Azureus:
This session: Up Time: 222d
Total Transfer: Up Time: 1y129d Dl: 854.46 GB Ul: 3.342 TB Ratio: 4.005
Azureus does like to use memory when you have hundreds of torrents, but I honestly don't know what you mean when you say "the ruinous bloat that is java." When was the last time you used Java? 1998? Are you still running with 64 MB of RAM?
You are missing the point - the nature of bittorrent is that the clients (seeds and peers) constantly perform new handshakes to induct a new peer into the swarm. Perhaps the only way to preserve filesharing is through darknets. (That is where encryption can actually help you).
You are missing the point. They are not selling "digital files," they are selling creativity. The point of copyright is to preserve the intellectual property of the creators, not the physical property. Digital copies are indeed worthless, but the creativity they represent is not worthless (or you would not want it). Economics is the study of scarce resources and good musicians are a scarce resource.
Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? Did you even read your own quote? He's saying that the people who rebel, while spirited and necessary, are wrong. Those who rebel will be "set right to the facts, pardon[ed] and pacif[ied]." I gather your point was that you believe us to be those who should rebel - and so we would be the one's who are incorrect and must be pacified.
However, my tax dollars are going to support a regieme that is racist, militarist and un-democratic, which has an expansionist foreign policy and which commits the type of war crimes that they accused Germany of on an almost daily basis. I seem to remember Israel being attacked first... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War
As to your point about the Japanese - yes, I am familiar. However, we (Americans) whooped their ass, forced them to submit and now they're more or less harmless. That may be a little bit racist... or at least insensitive to the thousands of civilians that died.
Once we realized that the notion of space-time as a continuum is only an approximation of reality, it became clear to us that singularities are merely artifacts of our insistence that space-time should be described as a continuum. I already discovered this during a wild acid trip 30 years ago. Man, the space time continuum is just an illusion - it's all about the singularities. When will The Man start listening and give me my Nobel Prize.
As far as I can tell, my 15/2 FiOS is completely unrestricted - I regularly hit 2 MB/s on Bittorrent downloads and can upload with ease. Of course, I also threw out the crappy router they give you for my nix gateway box, which can handle more than 100 simultaneous connections. Also, if you're having trouble browsing while using BT - remember that you need to cap your upload speed, as the browser needs to upload info just to view a page.
World War 1 - The upper-class of Europe gets a bit excitable and millions of people die, although in the long run (after WW2) it effectively removed the European upper-class from power which is a good thing. It had nothing to do with economics whatsoever. This is wildly inaccurate - I do not know where you gathered your knowledge of history, but it is sorely lacking. WWI was a product of a slew of different things, specifically, an escalating arms race between Britain and Germany, a shadowed and complicated alliance system, the overactive nationalism in Europe, and (of course) ethnic tensions. In fact, the backing of Austria-Hungary could be blamed largely on the international relations before the war. Germany was a new country, just united from its individual states, with no empire and practically no supporters in Europe. It's biggest supporter, economically and politically, was Austria-Hungary. When war came between Austria-Hungary and the Triple Entente, Germany had little choice but to give a blank check - its only significant partner in Europe was in dire straits. I won't extrapolate as I'd rather not write a 10 page paper on Slashdot, but there's an economic precursor for you.
Nuclear physicists are just one precedent for mitigating the risks we create by inventing new destructive techniques. You have made my point for me - just because nuclear physicists have dangerous knowledge doesn't mean we have people tailing them around the country. Knowledge can be used for good or bad and sanctioning them for having such knowledge is no way to act. College chemistry may as well be bombmaking class, but we don't invade the privacy of all chem majors just because they might be a threat.
We once again come back to how far you are willing to go. I will first note that having a person sign a "release" does not give you the authority to remove their rights under the Constitution - the courts have previously ruled that contracts which violate Constitutional rights are unenforceable. However, if you are talking about non-intrusive actions then you probably mean a contract. In this case, I will note that most contract violations would then require the government to file a civil suit (since at the moment there is no law in place relevant to this issue) for breach of contract. The most that can be done under breach of contract is an obligation for the party to pay damages - of which there are none.
Therefore, the obligation for these trainees to follow your restrictions is exactly none. Perhaps I am misunderstanding what you are calling for, but your description thus far has been far too vague to analyze accurately.
I find your suggestion more than a little unethical. The US justice system presumes innocence - by placing undue pressure on a certain segment of society simply because they are well educated in a certain area violates the principles of our Bill of Rights (if not the letter). "Tracking" them may be appropriate as long at it is no more intrusive or extensive than that used to keep track of US nuclear physicists, but anything else is simply reprehensible.
Technically its not a question of us-uk, but of NATO. I'm not sure what the problem is with having NATO (that includes US) forces in Europe - but if you want US forces out, withdraw from NATO. I would note that NATO is actually a fairly secure and productive alliance among the Western powers, but its your decision...
Actually, this is fairly simple. We know that vaccines work - case in point, the smallpox vaccine. Denying that you present a definite health risk to society by not being vaccinated against communicable diseases is illogical and dangerous.
On the other hand, if you're talking about non-communicable diseases - screw up your life however you like, I don't care.
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Then don't buy their music. That does not give you the right to infringe on copyright. Listening to music is not something you are entitled to, despite what some may think.
http://www.idiom.com/~zilla/Computer/javaCbenchmark.html
statistics seem to contradict you. On startup Java is slow, but when you're running azureus for months, even years at a time, a minute or so of startup is nothing.
Linux aquarius.xxxxxxx.net 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 02:46:46 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Azureus:
This session: Up Time: 222d
Total Transfer:
Up Time: 1y129d
Dl: 854.46 GB
Ul: 3.342
TB Ratio: 4.005
Azurues seems to work fine for me.
Azureus does like to use memory when you have hundreds of torrents, but I honestly don't know what you mean when you say "the ruinous bloat that is java." When was the last time you used Java? 1998? Are you still running with 64 MB of RAM?
Then that central server becomes the point that will face legal pressure. I think you proved the GPs point for him.
You are missing the point - the nature of bittorrent is that the clients (seeds and peers) constantly perform new handshakes to induct a new peer into the swarm. Perhaps the only way to preserve filesharing is through darknets. (That is where encryption can actually help you).
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Copyright law predates the Constitution and Jefferson seemed to have no problem with it, so we can safely deem the concept constitutional.
You are missing the point. They are not selling "digital files," they are selling creativity. The point of copyright is to preserve the intellectual property of the creators, not the physical property. Digital copies are indeed worthless, but the creativity they represent is not worthless (or you would not want it). Economics is the study of scarce resources and good musicians are a scarce resource.
However, by Youtube guidelines, we have established that this is not the correct forum for these images. A private server should do just fine.
Does a presidential candidate count? http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/02/mccain-falwell/
As far as I can tell, my 15/2 FiOS is completely unrestricted - I regularly hit 2 MB/s on Bittorrent downloads and can upload with ease. Of course, I also threw out the crappy router they give you for my nix gateway box, which can handle more than 100 simultaneous connections. Also, if you're having trouble browsing while using BT - remember that you need to cap your upload speed, as the browser needs to upload info just to view a page.
This isn't funny.
We once again come back to how far you are willing to go. I will first note that having a person sign a "release" does not give you the authority to remove their rights under the Constitution - the courts have previously ruled that contracts which violate Constitutional rights are unenforceable. However, if you are talking about non-intrusive actions then you probably mean a contract. In this case, I will note that most contract violations would then require the government to file a civil suit (since at the moment there is no law in place relevant to this issue) for breach of contract. The most that can be done under breach of contract is an obligation for the party to pay damages - of which there are none.
Therefore, the obligation for these trainees to follow your restrictions is exactly none. Perhaps I am misunderstanding what you are calling for, but your description thus far has been far too vague to analyze accurately.
I find your suggestion more than a little unethical. The US justice system presumes innocence - by placing undue pressure on a certain segment of society simply because they are well educated in a certain area violates the principles of our Bill of Rights (if not the letter). "Tracking" them may be appropriate as long at it is no more intrusive or extensive than that used to keep track of US nuclear physicists, but anything else is simply reprehensible.
A German grammar nazi...
One could even argue that the majority of Americans don't like what our government is doing (30% approval rate or something like that).
Technically its not a question of us-uk, but of NATO. I'm not sure what the problem is with having NATO (that includes US) forces in Europe - but if you want US forces out, withdraw from NATO. I would note that NATO is actually a fairly secure and productive alliance among the Western powers, but its your decision...
Actually, this is fairly simple. We know that vaccines work - case in point, the smallpox vaccine. Denying that you present a definite health risk to society by not being vaccinated against communicable diseases is illogical and dangerous.
On the other hand, if you're talking about non-communicable diseases - screw up your life however you like, I don't care.
Driveway? It could be way worse.