"The unit
is trying to define what a 'Coke space' means to a teenager"
Clearly a place where you can buy hard drugs, tooth rotting soft drinks and small lumps of coal.
The sad thing is, teens are unsophisticated enough that they won't realise that this is marketing produced by exectly the older generation that it's pretending to rebel against.
And soda fountains in the house? Wow, the guy has reinvented Soda-Stream but with a water inlet on the side. I think you used to be able to get coke syrup for those as well.
Actually, if you look at it logically, a standard marriage is the union of one representative from each of the genders of the human race. So if a man can legally marry a man, why not two men? Or three? Or indeed, their dog?
Now, this may sound like I'm against gay marriages but I'm not. My contention is that the state should stay the hell out of peoples personal lives. If people want to marry, it's a personal thing between them and their religion (if applicable). Whatever you may claim happens spiritually, I am still an individual human being and so is my wife. I don't see that government has any reason to see things any differently
My theory is that kids learn more by what the SEE and less by what they HEAR.
At least, that explains why my kids don't listen to me.
It's the old forbidden fruit thing. When kids are told not to do things, it raises their curiosity. Now, I don't advocate giving a two year old a gun to play with to get it out of their system but you have to wonder.
For example, I myself am 30. Last week, I was going to get a chance to handle a chainsaw for the first time. Now, I've played doom, all that cool destructive power and loud as well. Well, comes to it, you pull the trigger, it saws through wood. No big deal. But the point is that my expectation way exceeded the experience. I think we forget this when we tell children not to do things which seem mundane (if slightly dangerous) to ourselves.
I am sure that is some parts of the southern U.S. a v-chip would soon enough screen out
programs that delt with religiously controversial issues, or the history of slavery, the list goes on...
Whereas the North doesn't need this of course, already having managed to convince people that the civil war was about slavery and not state rights.
People, the civil war was about an imperialistic federal government forcing it's agenda on and over the constitutionally protected rights of the individual States.
The losers in the civil war were the citizens of the United States of America, the winners was the federal government. Remember which side was which next time Washington DC tells your state to install content filters in your libraries.
Rich
Disclaimer: I do not support slavery in any way or form
No because gore films show stupid violence. Guy comes out of the shadows and hacks someone's head off with with a machete. BFD. It's cartoon violence.
Real violence is someone slowly bleeding to death, wondering why it had to end this way. Real violence is someone being beaten to the ground and kicked and kicked, being in a hospital for six months and waking up unable to speak their own name. Real violence is nightmares and waking up screaming for the rest of your life.
There was a movie that was on www.bangedup.com called chech21.mpeg before they shrank their content. It may have been fake but it looked real. It was presumably from the chechnian conflict that was going on in Russia a while back. It shows a soldier prone on the ground, another soldier has his boot pushing the prone soldier's face into the ground. He draws out his knife and pushes it into the prone soldiers kneck. He then begins to saw through to the front of the neck. The prone soldier coughs, choking on his blood as he dies. He problably has family, maybe children at home hoping they'll see him again soon.
No, it's a pretty valid comparison. You are handing over the wellbeing of your children to people you don't know.
You may not notice it so much, your views may coincide with those of the ratings people but mine don't. I feel there is too much violence on TV and that sex is overly censored. I also have problems that scenes where people are shot, bleed and die are considered less acceptable than scenes where bullets are sprayed about like confetti and noone gets a scratch (A team style). And you can bet the God channels will be let through and I consider some of them the most disturbing of all.
Can you see the angle I'm coming from? This V-chip is all very good for letting me apply other peoples values to my children but where's the ability to apply mine?
For a V-chip to be acceptable, it would need a much greater level of configurability and programability. For example
if(violence
But that's too complex for people so we have to go LCD. Well, that's not really acceptable to me.
Agreed. In fact, they have the right to put zero effort into it and ask $300 per copy if they wish. It's perfectly valid in terms of the GPL. And I can even see it being valid in some cases "ArcticWare, the only company that delivers distros to the North Pole". I just wouldn't expect them to sell that many copies.
I've occasionally not left tips when I didn't have the spare cash on me (made up for it later) so it definitely isn't mandatory.
You don't know the programmer's motivations for not requiring payment for their program. Perhaps they did it that way so that people who are in the third world with no money can use it without cost but pehaps those that do have the money can show some gratitude for the utility they're deriving from it. I don't think it's fair for you to complain about your donation going to pay for the programmer's new hard-drive rather than food for someone in Africa when you're deriving utiity from the program and probably not exactly running off a ten year old 486 yourself.
In short, if you don't want to pay for it, don't. That's your prerogative after all. Just don't get all self righteous about it. Be a man and admit you're a leach.
And you would allow a handfully of unelected, randomly chosen people with unknown agendas to decide what your children should be watching? Gee, I guess you pass them over to the first available stranger at the mall to watch while you go into a store too.
Might be a good idea and the anti-GPL party could make a weak case so it goes in the GPL's favour. Would be a good precedent to set. Don't know if it could be donw legally though.
But funilly enough, someone not downloading the ISO costs the "sender" also ~$2
Ideally, you want to fill your pipe to the brim without actually overflowing and incurring penalty costs (assuming the bandwidth isn't capped), especially if your business model is charging for supporting those downloads.
If you're not expecting to make money off supporting those downloads, why are you allowing them to be dowloaded for free? (not counting that it might be part of a "free updates" scheme but then the downlaods have already been paid for)
Sure. But it wouldn't be worth any more to you if they'd flown to tibet and spent 18 months meditating and eating only caviar to determine the correct alignment of the files on the distro. Either it's a good distro or its not and the value applies accordingly.
The amount of labour they put into it does not determine the value, it merely determines what profit margin they can make.
If I wanted to help fatten the coffers of businessmen, I'd keep it closed and demand a licensing
fee, not release it under the GPL.
Then you are operating under a mistaken idea of what the GPL is for. It totally allows this kind of thing. If you don't like it and want to release software so that it doesn't fatten the coffers of businessmen then find another licence. But don't be surprised when your application gets snowed under by a GPL or BSD version
Yeah, and it's not like anyone is holding a gun to peoples heads to make them download LibraNet. If you don't like it, download a different distro or roll your own. That's what free software and the internet is all about.
It'd be worth the price of the gold
plus the cost of labour, surely.
It would be worth the price of the gold but labout has nothing to do with it. What if JoeBloggs Ltd down the road is stamping out exactly the same gold discs with a machine down the road? The only time labour comes into play is where it adds value. The selection and arrangement of files on a distribution for example or, in the case of made goods the ethnic charm or artisitic style it adds (and if you want to go around boasting that your CDs are made by wizened old men with nanochisels).
I mean, would you pay a guy who you employed to dig a hole in your backyard more because he used a spoon rather than a shovel?
Another good one: Many companies provide two lines for the street address. You can use one of these to record the name of the company (I put it in brackets). Since in most cases, no human being processes entered addresses at any stage, it goes straight through. e.g.
Xavier Exinstein
1122 Imaginary Road
(Cornucopia Ltd order)
Any Town
Statename, 12345
Also, because of the way my ISP works, I get a hostname and any number of e-mail addresses I want. So I could have cornucopia@my-hostname.co.uk Makes it encredibly easy to ignore all the spam that comes in from having my e-mail visible on slashdot.
Rich
(Apologies to any real "cornucopia" company out there
Slashdot Mirror
Clearly a place where you can buy hard drugs, tooth rotting soft drinks and small lumps of coal.
The sad thing is, teens are unsophisticated enough that they won't realise that this is marketing produced by exectly the older generation that it's pretending to rebel against.
And soda fountains in the house? Wow, the guy has reinvented Soda-Stream but with a water inlet on the side. I think you used to be able to get coke syrup for those as well.
Rich
Excel?
Rich
Actually, if you look at it logically, a standard marriage is the union of one representative from each of the genders of the human race. So if a man can legally marry a man, why not two men? Or three? Or indeed, their dog?
Now, this may sound like I'm against gay marriages but I'm not. My contention is that the state should stay the hell out of peoples personal lives. If people want to marry, it's a personal thing between them and their religion (if applicable). Whatever you may claim happens spiritually, I am still an individual human being and so is my wife. I don't see that government has any reason to see things any differently
Rich
It's the old forbidden fruit thing. When kids are told not to do things, it raises their curiosity. Now, I don't advocate giving a two year old a gun to play with to get it out of their system but you have to wonder.
For example, I myself am 30. Last week, I was going to get a chance to handle a chainsaw for the first time. Now, I've played doom, all that cool destructive power and loud as well. Well, comes to it, you pull the trigger, it saws through wood. No big deal. But the point is that my expectation way exceeded the experience. I think we forget this when we tell children not to do things which seem mundane (if slightly dangerous) to ourselves.
Rich
that's the scary thing. We haven't. They have deemed themselves to have opinions so important that the rest of the world should abide by them.
Throw a few random Joes and Joans in there and it would probably be a bit more reasonable. Unfortunately, we're getting the extremists.
Rich
Whereas the North doesn't need this of course, already having managed to convince people that the civil war was about slavery and not state rights.
People, the civil war was about an imperialistic federal government forcing it's agenda on and over the constitutionally protected rights of the individual States.
The losers in the civil war were the citizens of the United States of America, the winners was the federal government. Remember which side was which next time Washington DC tells your state to install content filters in your libraries.
Rich
Disclaimer: I do not support slavery in any way or form
Real violence is someone slowly bleeding to death, wondering why it had to end this way. Real violence is someone being beaten to the ground and kicked and kicked, being in a hospital for six months and waking up unable to speak their own name. Real violence is nightmares and waking up screaming for the rest of your life.
There was a movie that was on www.bangedup.com called chech21.mpeg before they shrank their content. It may have been fake but it looked real. It was presumably from the chechnian conflict that was going on in Russia a while back. It shows a soldier prone on the ground, another soldier has his boot pushing the prone soldier's face into the ground. He draws out his knife and pushes it into the prone soldiers kneck. He then begins to saw through to the front of the neck. The prone soldier coughs, choking on his blood as he dies. He problably has family, maybe children at home hoping they'll see him again soon.
That is real violence
Rich
Hmm, wonder if Mike Myers read this.
Rich
But that's too complex for people so we have to go LCD. Well, that's not really acceptable to me.
Rich
You may not notice it so much, your views may coincide with those of the ratings people but mine don't. I feel there is too much violence on TV and that sex is overly censored. I also have problems that scenes where people are shot, bleed and die are considered less acceptable than scenes where bullets are sprayed about like confetti and noone gets a scratch (A team style). And you can bet the God channels will be let through and I consider some of them the most disturbing of all.
Can you see the angle I'm coming from? This V-chip is all very good for letting me apply other peoples values to my children but where's the ability to apply mine?
For a V-chip to be acceptable, it would need a much greater level of configurability and programability. For example
if(violence But that's too complex for people so we have to go LCD. Well, that's not really acceptable to me.
Rich
Rich
You don't know the programmer's motivations for not requiring payment for their program. Perhaps they did it that way so that people who are in the third world with no money can use it without cost but pehaps those that do have the money can show some gratitude for the utility they're deriving from it. I don't think it's fair for you to complain about your donation going to pay for the programmer's new hard-drive rather than food for someone in Africa when you're deriving utiity from the program and probably not exactly running off a ten year old 486 yourself.
In short, if you don't want to pay for it, don't. That's your prerogative after all. Just don't get all self righteous about it. Be a man and admit you're a leach.
Rich
Rich
Rich
Ideally, you want to fill your pipe to the brim without actually overflowing and incurring penalty costs (assuming the bandwidth isn't capped), especially if your business model is charging for supporting those downloads.
If you're not expecting to make money off supporting those downloads, why are you allowing them to be dowloaded for free? (not counting that it might be part of a "free updates" scheme but then the downlaods have already been paid for)
Rich
The amount of labour they put into it does not determine the value, it merely determines what profit margin they can make.
Rich
Then you are operating under a mistaken idea of what the GPL is for. It totally allows this kind of thing. If you don't like it and want to release software so that it doesn't fatten the coffers of businessmen then find another licence. But don't be surprised when your application gets snowed under by a GPL or BSD version
Rich
Rich
Rich
It would be worth the price of the gold but labout has nothing to do with it. What if JoeBloggs Ltd down the road is stamping out exactly the same gold discs with a machine down the road? The only time labour comes into play is where it adds value. The selection and arrangement of files on a distribution for example or, in the case of made goods the ethnic charm or artisitic style it adds (and if you want to go around boasting that your CDs are made by wizened old men with nanochisels).
I mean, would you pay a guy who you employed to dig a hole in your backyard more because he used a spoon rather than a shovel?
Rich
Rich
It was Winston Churchill. Most quotes get attributed to him anyway.
Rich
I propose re revise the Linux name.
Linux Operating System Extended Revision
Err, perhaps not.
Rich
1122 Imaginary Road
(Cornucopia Ltd order)
Any Town
Statename, 12345
Rich
Xavier Exinstein 1122 Imaginary Road (Cornucopia Ltd order) Any Town Statename, 12345
Also, because of the way my ISP works, I get a hostname and any number of e-mail addresses I want. So I could have cornucopia@my-hostname.co.uk Makes it encredibly easy to ignore all the spam that comes in from having my e-mail visible on slashdot.
Rich (Apologies to any real "cornucopia" company out there