Oddly enough, Green and purple are both "villain colors," in classic comic book color schemes. The good guys were always primary colors. The bad guys were secondary colors.
Yes but birds are just a little more common a couple of stories up than they are 6 to 7 feet off the ground. They are also bigger. You probably got hit in the helmet by a less than one pound bird.
And if the bird's carrying a coconut, you're a goner.
There is a crying need in this country to redraw the lines, establish the boundaries, declare to the media industry in no uncertain terms: "Thus far and no farther." It is time to say that our children matter more than this brutalizing entertainment.
To me, it looks like he's saying he'd rather outlaw "brutalizing" entertainment than take the risk that some kid could see it. I'm very concerned, because before this link was pointed out to me, I was ready to vote for him. .
If someone inherits something, it is THIERS. Not the government's, not society's, not yours. Why should they pay taxes on it AGAIN? The government got thier due from sales tax on the equipment, property tax on the land every year, and sales taxes on anything the farm sells. WHY SHOULD THEY GET MORE?????
It's not a penalty paid by the benefactor; it's a penalty paid by the heir. Any time you get money, you have to give some to the government.
If you get money by working for someone, you pay income tax on it.
If you get money by selling some property, you pay capital gains tax on it.
If you get money by inheriting, you pay inheritance tax on it.
You could make the same arguments for any of these other taxes. (Why should I have to pay income tax? My employer already paid property tax!) But, as long as we tax one source of income, we should tax them all.
One of the computers on our office's network is named "Mir." It crashed last week, and needed a new motherboard. I'll ask our IT guy if it was eaten by fungus.
The statement "Virtual community is a myth" seems like he's saying there's no such thing as a virtual community, which is just an absolutely ridiculous statement to make in Slashdot, since we are a virtual community.
However, his argument for why it's a myth is that the Internet is not equally accessible to everyone.
So is he really saying "Virtual communities don't exist because not everyone can get into them"?
It would appear that his thesis is really "The idea that the Internet created Virtual Communities, where all people are equal, regardless of their situation in the real world, is a myth. The groups communicating via the Internet are more elitist than egalitarian." Why he chose to abbreviate this as "Virtual community is a myth" is beyond me.
No, the list is usesless because they completely left off Steve Case, the man who brought the unwashed masses to the internet.
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...to simply download a file off the net and print a copy of the new metallica cd?!
The composite materials to make a CD aren't quite there yet, but the resolution of this technology is probably good enough to make the groove in a record.
I agree that part of me would be more impressed if the "Bots" were truly autonomous; it is not at all obvious that that would result in entertaining TV, unless we could go a few generations further to "Robots" where the designers were essentially devoted to programming entertaining strategies
I think the exact opposite. I believe the evolution of these things should be to make them big enough to put the operator inside. Maybe I've just seen too many Japanese cartoons.
Well. Here we go with linking to DeCSS is like driving a burglar to the scene of the crime. Hence it follows that downloading DeCSS is like burglarizing a house. Hence downloading DeCSS is like permenently taking things that don't belong to you. Do I need to point out that its a bad analogy?
It's more like driving a peeping Tom to the home of the person he wants to peep. You're helping Tom look at something he doesn't have permission to see. The fact that Miss MPAA will show her goodies to anyone willing to pay her is irrelevant to the fact that Tom is still violating her privacy.
Personally, I think the law should be changed so that the data on the DVD belongs to the owner of the DVD and not the studio that made the movie, so the analogy above would become broken. Miss MPAA gave Tom a picture of herself and he can do whatever the heck he wants with it, except distribute copies.
Copyright isn't the only thing the concept of "Intellectual property" supports.
If IP doesn't exist, what would prevent someone from claiming authorship of someone else's work?
Suppose I took a posting you wrote, added a couple sentences of my own, and posted it on my web page as my own words. Isn't that stealing? But if it wasn't your property, what have I stolen?
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It seems very odd to me that there isn't a *single* point & click adventure in there
King's Quest Somenumber was in there, representing the genre.
Oddly enough, Green and purple are both "villain colors," in classic comic book color schemes. The good guys were always primary colors. The bad guys were secondary colors.
That was a typo? I thought they meant that the machinery smells bad. What did they really mean?
Yes but birds are just a little more common a couple of stories up than they are 6 to 7 feet off the ground. They are also bigger. You probably got hit in the helmet by a less than one pound bird.
And if the bird's carrying a coconut, you're a goner.
To me, it looks like he's saying he'd rather outlaw "brutalizing" entertainment than take the risk that some kid could see it. I'm very concerned, because before this link was pointed out to me, I was ready to vote for him. .
If someone inherits something, it is THIERS. Not the government's, not society's, not yours. Why should they pay taxes on it AGAIN? The government got thier due from sales tax on the equipment, property tax on the land every year, and sales taxes on anything the farm sells. WHY SHOULD THEY GET MORE?????
It's not a penalty paid by the benefactor; it's a penalty paid by the heir. Any time you get money, you have to give some to the government.
If you get money by working for someone, you pay income tax on it.
If you get money by selling some property, you pay capital gains tax on it.
If you get money by inheriting, you pay inheritance tax on it.
You could make the same arguments for any of these other taxes. (Why should I have to pay income tax? My employer already paid property tax!) But, as long as we tax one source of income, we should tax them all.
such a degree isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
It's more like "Such a degree isn't worth the molecular surface on which atoms are arranged to form its words."
"Drag-n-Drop Shopping" doesn't have the catchiness of "One-click shopping." Call it "Drag-n-Shop" and you're sure to attract the press.
Maybe i'd name it after the evil competitive robotic dog that George was going to replace Astro with on the Jetsons
If we're naming it after a robodog from a cartoon,
I'd either name it 1-Rover-1 after the truly annoying dog from Battle of the Planets,
or Orbit, after the Bow Wow Ruff Ruff dog from Partridge Family in Outer Space,
or Dyno-Mutt, the Dog Wonder.
One of the computers on our office's network is named "Mir." It crashed last week, and needed a new motherboard. I'll ask our IT guy if it was eaten by fungus.
The statement "Virtual community is a myth" seems like he's saying there's no such thing as a virtual community, which is just an absolutely ridiculous statement to make in Slashdot, since we are a virtual community.
However, his argument for why it's a myth is that the Internet is not equally accessible to everyone.
So is he really saying "Virtual communities don't exist because not everyone can get into them"?
It would appear that his thesis is really "The idea that the Internet created Virtual Communities, where all people are equal, regardless of their situation in the real world, is a myth. The groups communicating via the Internet are more elitist than egalitarian." Why he chose to abbreviate this as "Virtual community is a myth" is beyond me.
No, the list is usesless because they completely left off Steve Case, the man who brought the unwashed masses to the internet.
...to simply download a file off the net and print a copy of the new metallica cd?!
The composite materials to make a CD aren't quite there yet, but the resolution of this technology is probably good enough to make the groove in a record.
Since when do Milky Ways contain peanuts? Are you sure you don't mean a Snickers?
Don't forget the caramel, either.
If it was just nougat, it would be a Three Musketeers.
I agree that part of me would be more impressed if the "Bots" were truly autonomous; it is not at all obvious that that would result in entertaining TV, unless we could go a few generations further to "Robots" where the designers were essentially devoted to programming entertaining strategies
I think the exact opposite. I believe the evolution of these things should be to make them big enough to put the operator inside. Maybe I've just seen too many Japanese cartoons.
I bet if you go out on the street and ask 100 people who makes the best chips in the world, you'll get 99 answers of "Intel",
I'll take that bet. I figure more people will say Frito-Lay. I suppose it depends what street you go out on.
Well. Here we go with linking to DeCSS is like driving a burglar to the scene of the crime. Hence it follows that downloading DeCSS is like burglarizing a house. Hence downloading DeCSS is like permenently taking things that don't belong to you. Do I need to point out that its a bad analogy?
It's more like driving a peeping Tom to the home of the person he wants to peep. You're helping Tom look at something he doesn't have permission to see. The fact that Miss MPAA will show her goodies to anyone willing to pay her is irrelevant to the fact that Tom is still violating her privacy.
Personally, I think the law should be changed so that the data on the DVD belongs to the owner of the DVD and not the studio that made the movie, so the analogy above would become broken. Miss MPAA gave Tom a picture of herself and he can do whatever the heck he wants with it, except distribute copies.
What other usages (apart from being able to see what you had for dinner) are there?
Use it on a pregnant woman, and you wouldn't need ultrasound to watch the fetus, who would have the side benefit of getting a womb with a view.
Thing I'm wondering is what is the maximum available bandwith with an unladen african swallow, hmm?
Zero. If it's carrying any data, it would therefore be a laden swallow. It doesn't even enter into it if it's African or European.
Will someone please explain to me what it is about Floridians especially that attracts them to shady business models?
Doesn't The Mouse own most of Orlando?
For God's sake timothy, you're spending time detailing on how to wine and dine Mr. Stallman?
timothy didn't write all that text; Rene Hollan did. timothy just did the preface.
Are you claiming it is OK for me to sell a cola dirnk in a red bottle, but call it Coka Cola?
This is basic trademark law, and it is (and should be) illegal.
Well, an important difference is that web sites are not a category of trademark, and soft drinks are.
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Copyright isn't the only thing the concept of "Intellectual property" supports.
If IP doesn't exist, what would prevent someone from claiming authorship of someone else's work?
Suppose I took a posting you wrote, added a couple sentences of my own, and posted it on my web page as my own words. Isn't that stealing? But if it wasn't your property, what have I stolen?
Of course the people of Corinth are engaged in commercial activity - They make "fine Corinthian leather."