Executive Director Patrick Ross of the Copyright Alliance tells us in an editorial that "fair use is not a consumer right."
Consumer right? No. But it is a human right. It is a requirement so that we can maintain freedom from content producers. And it is a legal right, for now. The fact that this slob refers to human beings as consumers says it all in regards to what he thinks of them.
The word "consumer" was originally a marketing slur used to describe their customers and potential customers. It helps marketers to screw people over if they can de-humanize them. Much the same way a con man will refer to people as "marks." As words often do, this slur spread, and eventually, even people sometimes refer to themselves as such. It is very sad.
...these silly names are hurting Ubuntu...Sure you can use the 7.10 number, but it seems that the Ubuntu community prefers not to use the numbers, and these silly names actually crop up within the OS more.
Yes, we should alienate Ubuntu's current customers, who prefer the silly names, so that we can acquire hypothetical corporate customers, who will only use the product with the best name.
Successful peer-to-peer systems rely on designing rules that promote fair sharing of resources amongst users.
Actually, the most successful p2p system, bit torrent, has little that promotes fair sharing. That is, in my opinion, one of the reasons it is so successful. It is more communist, and less capitalist; exactly the opposite of the article implies.
Not making sure everything is "fair", but rather giving away freely has less overhead, and is great for when the resources, in this case bandwidth, are in abundance.
The good news is that we can translate from Assyrian using a web site*. The bad news is that the Assyrian's used a proprietary document format, and the original program can not be found.
* Yeah, I know we can't actually do that. The article summary is bunk. It's just that I had this joke prepared as soon as I saw it.
Use several pie charts and a few graphs. Get some of your information from/dev/random if you need to. Create a script/program that creates the charts for you from legitimate system info, such as uptime, and number of users. The more complicated you make it, the less likely he will know that you are bullshitting him. And let's face it, bullshit is your only option, aside from saying "no."
For anyone wondering why a private company would voluntarily censor their merchandise, Wal-Mart does it to satisfy the Christian Rite, and prudes in general. It helps them when they advertise as a "Family Store." There are more people who would prefer that other people are censored than there are who prefer that nobody is censored, and Wal-Mart is indeed catering to the majority.
Please tell me you were kidding. Please tell me you don't think Kazaa and AOL are these kids' friends.
I wasn't kidding. But I don't think that Kazaa, AOL, or the recording industry was this person's friend. The person who used their computer might have been. The community was. I was only pointing out that I felt that suing everyone but the kitchen sink, and claiming that her ISP was responsible for giving her access to the internet, was a bad move.
This is a poor move. The record companies don't like her. Here ISP, Kazaa, and her friend is not going to like her after she drags them into a senseless lawsuit. We don't like her. Friends are helpful in this world. Screwing over everyone you can think of to weasel out of a little trouble is not the right way to make friends.
Got caught sleeping on the job? Producing crap? Everybody hates you? Have a bad reputation? Change your name! Maybe some people will think you are a new company.
Bummer. Netflix got rid of its email support. I couldn't find a contact email on their site, nor could I couldn't find a TTY phone number. This just reeks of forsaking their customers to cut costs.
I am not a Netflix customer. I am a Pirate Bay customer. However, I had been considering subscribing to Netflix, but I will definitely be taking my business elsewhere. I prefer email, because it takes less time, and doesn't cost me anything.
Imagine the hassle that someone who can't talk, or can't hear, would have if they were already a Netflix customer and wanted to quit?
A lot of people are complaining that they can't find any plain soap in the stores. I use ivory. I buy it at Wal-Mart. I've never seen a Wal-Mart that didn't have it. Most drug stores have it to. It costs me less than 50 cents a bar. When I first started using it, it made my hands feel good. Now, of course, it's just business as usual, but I wouldn't use anything else. Ivory is "99.44% pure", and does not contain any anti-bacterial chemicals.
There is also Dove. It is not soap, but a "Beauty Bar." It has moisturizers. It doesn't dry your face like soap. The Equate brand at Wal-Mart is less than 50 cents a bar.
Opening up software is good. Closing software is bad. Why is this difficult for some people to understand? It isn't a double-standard, either. If Microsoft GPL'd or BSD'd a part of its system, it would be a good thing. If Microsoft started closing their software even more, by, for example... well... if they managed to do it, we would dislike it, just like we disliked it when XFree86 went non-free.
I actually thought that whole discussion was interesting, not because of any Novell versus MS issues at all, but because all the people talking about them so clearly showed their own biases.
That is what a discussion is. A bunch of people giving their opinions, or "biases" as Linus calls them.
He is correct. It is important that people speak against the common wisdom, otherwise we would never learn anything. That being said, 99% of the time when people claim stuff against common sense, they are talking bullshit.
Defendant: In order to defend myself from the prosecutions alleged evidence, I need the source code to the breathalizer. If I can't defend myself from it, you would have to dismiss that evidence. Judge: OK. Here's the source code. Defendant: Crap!
* I wasn't actually there. But I imagine it went something like that.
YouTube looks like ass (as already mentioned). Some of the content on YouTube is good. Most of it is crap (just like TV). People have favorite TV shows, and will watch them when they are on. There is no equivalent for YouTube. You can watch a good clip several times, but after that, it's back to hunting for something good. You can't watch YouTube from the couch. Every couple of minutes, you have to go find another video.
Isn't this the company that sued Sony in the 80's, and tried to make VCRs illegal? And, they are associated with the RIAA. I think it is too soon to start throwing money at any major record labels. The best solution would be to pirate exactly as much as you had been before.
The only hard part about building a computer - for females - is having some guy who thinks that his dick is an essential tool for building anything try to take over.
The solution is simple. You don't have to have a penis, you just have to think like a man. That screwdriver doubles as a weapon.
MY girlfriend is always bugging me to let her get in there with the screwdriver! Maybe I should write up a story and take some pictures: "The lesbian geek couple mess with computer innards!" Oooohhh.
I also only use a hand screwdriver rather than my power tools for putting a computer together. However, it has nothing to do with stripping. In fact, as already pointed out, a power drill is less likely to strip a screw if you know how to adjust the torque setting. I use a hand screwdriver because a power drill won't reach 25 percent of the screws in a computer case. Rather than analyze whether or not my power drill can reach a particular screw, and then choose which screwdriver to use, it is easier to just have one screwdriver with me, and use that one.
I noticed they were using Vista. Wrong tool for the job. And they had a high-end CPU and graphics card, but a Lite-On CD/DVD drive. I think both of these kids weren't quite sure what they were doing, but they managed to put the thing together.
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Consumer right? No. But it is a human right. It is a requirement so that we can maintain freedom from content producers. And it is a legal right, for now. The fact that this slob refers to human beings as consumers says it all in regards to what he thinks of them.
The word "consumer" was originally a marketing slur used to describe their customers and potential customers. It helps marketers to screw people over if they can de-humanize them. Much the same way a con man will refer to people as "marks." As words often do, this slur spread, and eventually, even people sometimes refer to themselves as such. It is very sad.
Yes, we should alienate Ubuntu's current customers, who prefer the silly names, so that we can acquire hypothetical corporate customers, who will only use the product with the best name.
Actually, the most successful p2p system, bit torrent, has little that promotes fair sharing. That is, in my opinion, one of the reasons it is so successful. It is more communist, and less capitalist; exactly the opposite of the article implies.
Not making sure everything is "fair", but rather giving away freely has less overhead, and is great for when the resources, in this case bandwidth, are in abundance.
The good news is that we can translate from Assyrian using a web site*. The bad news is that the Assyrian's used a proprietary document format, and the original program can not be found.
* Yeah, I know we can't actually do that. The article summary is bunk. It's just that I had this joke prepared as soon as I saw it.
So they'll have purple, green, red; every color except black.
Use several pie charts and a few graphs. Get some of your information from /dev/random if you need to. Create a script/program that creates the charts for you from legitimate system info, such as uptime, and number of users. The more complicated you make it, the less likely he will know that you are bullshitting him. And let's face it, bullshit is your only option, aside from saying "no."
For anyone wondering why a private company would voluntarily censor their merchandise, Wal-Mart does it to satisfy the Christian Rite, and prudes in general. It helps them when they advertise as a "Family Store." There are more people who would prefer that other people are censored than there are who prefer that nobody is censored, and Wal-Mart is indeed catering to the majority.
Are you lost?
Translation: We did tabs, damnit! Not Firefox! I repeat: Firefox did not do tabs first! It was us!!
I wasn't kidding. But I don't think that Kazaa, AOL, or the recording industry was this person's friend. The person who used their computer might have been. The community was. I was only pointing out that I felt that suing everyone but the kitchen sink, and claiming that her ISP was responsible for giving her access to the internet, was a bad move.
I hear Microsoft is making a lot of money, too.
This is a poor move. The record companies don't like her. Here ISP, Kazaa, and her friend is not going to like her after she drags them into a senseless lawsuit. We don't like her. Friends are helpful in this world. Screwing over everyone you can think of to weasel out of a little trouble is not the right way to make friends.
Got caught sleeping on the job? Producing crap? Everybody hates you? Have a bad reputation? Change your name! Maybe some people will think you are a new company.
Bummer. Netflix got rid of its email support. I couldn't find a contact email on their site, nor could I couldn't find a TTY phone number. This just reeks of forsaking their customers to cut costs.
I am not a Netflix customer. I am a Pirate Bay customer. However, I had been considering subscribing to Netflix, but I will definitely be taking my business elsewhere. I prefer email, because it takes less time, and doesn't cost me anything.
Imagine the hassle that someone who can't talk, or can't hear, would have if they were already a Netflix customer and wanted to quit?
A lot of people are complaining that they can't find any plain soap in the stores. I use ivory. I buy it at Wal-Mart. I've never seen a Wal-Mart that didn't have it. Most drug stores have it to. It costs me less than 50 cents a bar. When I first started using it, it made my hands feel good. Now, of course, it's just business as usual, but I wouldn't use anything else. Ivory is "99.44% pure", and does not contain any anti-bacterial chemicals.
There is also Dove. It is not soap, but a "Beauty Bar." It has moisturizers. It doesn't dry your face like soap. The Equate brand at Wal-Mart is less than 50 cents a bar.
Opening up software is good. Closing software is bad. Why is this difficult for some people to understand? It isn't a double-standard, either. If Microsoft GPL'd or BSD'd a part of its system, it would be a good thing. If Microsoft started closing their software even more, by, for example... well... if they managed to do it, we would dislike it, just like we disliked it when XFree86 went non-free.
In summary,
opening == good
closing == bad
Any questions?
That is what a discussion is. A bunch of people giving their opinions, or "biases" as Linus calls them.
He is correct. It is important that people speak against the common wisdom, otherwise we would never learn anything. That being said, 99% of the time when people claim stuff against common sense, they are talking bullshit.
Defendant: In order to defend myself from the prosecutions alleged evidence, I need the source code to the breathalizer. If I can't defend myself from it, you would have to dismiss that evidence.
Judge: OK. Here's the source code.
Defendant: Crap!
* I wasn't actually there. But I imagine it went something like that.
YouTube looks like ass (as already mentioned).
Some of the content on YouTube is good. Most of it is crap (just like TV). People have favorite TV shows, and will watch them when they are on. There is no equivalent for YouTube. You can watch a good clip several times, but after that, it's back to hunting for something good.
You can't watch YouTube from the couch. Every couple of minutes, you have to go find another video.
Isn't this the company that sued Sony in the 80's, and tried to make VCRs illegal? And, they are associated with the RIAA. I think it is too soon to start throwing money at any major record labels. The best solution would be to pirate exactly as much as you had been before.
The solution is simple. You don't have to have a penis, you just have to think like a man. That screwdriver doubles as a weapon.
Yes! Please do!
Mod parent "+1 soft porn"!
I also only use a hand screwdriver rather than my power tools for putting a computer together. However, it has nothing to do with stripping. In fact, as already pointed out, a power drill is less likely to strip a screw if you know how to adjust the torque setting. I use a hand screwdriver because a power drill won't reach 25 percent of the screws in a computer case. Rather than analyze whether or not my power drill can reach a particular screw, and then choose which screwdriver to use, it is easier to just have one screwdriver with me, and use that one.
I noticed they were using Vista. Wrong tool for the job. And they had a high-end CPU and graphics card, but a Lite-On CD/DVD drive. I think both of these kids weren't quite sure what they were doing, but they managed to put the thing together.
I just happen to be an internet user and I thought the google was the only search engine.