That's bullshit. Copyright laws say that distribution requires a license from the copyright holder. Usually, this license is granted in exchange for money. The GPL grants it in exchange for the promise to keep copies and derivative work under the GPL. With a bit of effort, even you should be able to fit the thought that asking for money is not the only way to "assert your copyright" into your head.
That's the amount of cash in circulation, which is tiny fraction of the actual money in the US, let alone the world. Remember, money is a fiction, no matter whether it's given a physical representation or not.
Nope. Microsoft may be evil, but SCO is simply dumb. "Evil" is cunning and scary. Someone cunning would have long since realized that these uncoordinated and unfounded all-out attacks simply make SCO look hysterical and ridiculous.
Nah, I was horribly disappointed by the pretentiousness and the gartuitous wish-fulfillment of the first part. I liked the sequel much better because it left out those.
Except that in this case, the allhole who files the suit is himself the patent lawyer, and his "company"'s business plan seems to consist entirely of suing people over "patent" violations.
The point is that they're not using them - there's a number of US companies (not ISPs) that have class A networks assigned to them, meaning they have a hundred or more times as many IP adresses as employees.
First, you're thinking about comets, not asteroids. The latter usually don't stray far from the sun. Second, it's more like interstellar snails. Comets that go out a significant distance take tens of thousands of years to do so. Finally, they usually still stay attached to our solar system.
Of course that means your "standard" is now the intersection of what all those different browsers can display correctly. Which means there is no final authority and any new thing or new combination of things can blow up in your face. Not exactly an ideal situation...
A more likely scenario is a cap at about 10 times what you're using on average (which is still a tenth of what your habitual p2p junkie uses). Your spikes are unlikely to reach that, so why would you expect to pay much less than now?
Probably 98% of the people pay a flat fee for local calls
Um, no. Not outside the US. In most countries, metered local calls are the absolute norm. Which makes flatrate broadband internet access all the more attractive.
Unfortunately, the world ain't that easy. You may not personally buy something from overseas, but the company that makes the stuff you buy almost certainly is. Which means the stuff you buy gets more expensive.
I'm not sure where you're getting your numbers from, but all recent reports have shown that MS, Sony, Nintendo are selling their gaming hardware at a loss. This has been the way that the industry has worked over the years: sell the systems cheaply, make it up by collecting the royalty and licensing fees.
And why are they doing this? In order to fool the consumer about the overall price of the hobby. They choose to do it this way, nothing forces them to. Obviously they see a benefit in it. But they don't have a right to that benefit, or a right that there can't be disadvantages to this strategy.
Piracy is one thing, modding quite another. Anyone who wants to tell me how I'm "allowed" to use something I paid for can go fuck themselves.
It's a very bad idea. it would immediately destroy all noncommercial mailing lists, and people would very quickly find a way to disguise their email traffic as e.g. HTTP traffic.
Im glad you can equate being blacklisted by McCarthy with people being worked and starved to death in the USSR. Thats quite a biting rebuttal. Moral relativism?
Where did I equate anything? And my relativism is sure better than your apparent absolutism of saying "It's OK to do something bad as long as someone else does worse".
Turing was homosexual. Because of that, he lost his security clearance for government work and was forced to undergo hormone "therapy". Most likely these were the reasons why he committed suicide.
Until someone finds a method that reliably prevents people from mixing tabs and spaces and fucking up the indentation for everyone with a different tab width.
IIRC, Tezukas wife did not say that it wasn't plagiarism, just that her husband would have taken it as flatters. As for Nadia, the similarities on that page are visual and constructed; the stories aren't all that similar.
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No, I just dislike fundamentalism in general. And there are a lot of people out there who will instantly proclaim you an illiterate idiot if you as much as suggest there's anything good about any dub. I actually hardly ever watch dubs anymore, but not because of quality considerations but because after living in Japan for a year my Japanese is good enough to actually benefit from it.
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You're supposed to think about the qualities of the character and decide for yourself whose side your on.
And if you really think you might even decide that all sides are both write and wrong and that concepts like "good and evil" and the pressure to coose sides in the first place are the real problem...
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That's bullshit. Copyright laws say that distribution requires a license from the copyright holder. Usually, this license is granted in exchange for money. The GPL grants it in exchange for the promise to keep copies and derivative work under the GPL. With a bit of effort, even you should be able to fit the thought that asking for money is not the only way to "assert your copyright" into your head.
Nah, it's way too obvious and clumsy for real evil.
That's the amount of cash in circulation, which is tiny fraction of the actual money in the US, let alone the world. Remember, money is a fiction, no matter whether it's given a physical representation or not.
Nope. Microsoft may be evil, but SCO is simply dumb. "Evil" is cunning and scary. Someone cunning would have long since realized that these uncoordinated and unfounded all-out attacks simply make SCO look hysterical and ridiculous.
Nah, I was horribly disappointed by the pretentiousness and the gartuitous wish-fulfillment of the first part. I liked the sequel much better because it left out those.
Frace's highway tolls will.
It frightens me deeply even thing about it.
Aren't odd things usually considered more frightening?
You owe us Europe.. you owe us big.
Not as much as we owe the Soviets.
Except that in this case, the allhole who files the suit is himself the patent lawyer, and his "company"'s business plan seems to consist entirely of suing people over "patent" violations.
The point is that they're not using them - there's a number of US companies (not ISPs) that have class A networks assigned to them, meaning they have a hundred or more times as many IP adresses as employees.
Considering that IPv6 offers more than a million IP adresses for every square meter of the earth, not bloody likely.
First, you're thinking about comets, not asteroids. The latter usually don't stray far from the sun. Second, it's more like interstellar snails. Comets that go out a significant distance take tens of thousands of years to do so. Finally, they usually still stay attached to our solar system.
Of course that means your "standard" is now the intersection of what all those different browsers can display correctly. Which means there is no final authority and any new thing or new combination of things can blow up in your face. Not exactly an ideal situation...
A more likely scenario is a cap at about 10 times what you're using on average (which is still a tenth of what your habitual p2p junkie uses). Your spikes are unlikely to reach that, so why would you expect to pay much less than now?
I am.
Probably 98% of the people pay a flat fee for local calls
Um, no. Not outside the US. In most countries, metered local calls are the absolute norm. Which makes flatrate broadband internet access all the more attractive.
No, spam is about 50% of all email traffic, which is just a small percentage of the overall traffic.
Which is only possible to a very limited degree. Again, the world ain't that simple, and hasn't been for decades.
Unfortunately, the world ain't that easy. You may not personally buy something from overseas, but the company that makes the stuff you buy almost certainly is. Which means the stuff you buy gets more expensive.
And why are they doing this? In order to fool the consumer about the overall price of the hobby. They choose to do it this way, nothing forces them to. Obviously they see a benefit in it. But they don't have a right to that benefit, or a right that there can't be disadvantages to this strategy.
Piracy is one thing, modding quite another. Anyone who wants to tell me how I'm "allowed" to use something I paid for can go fuck themselves.
It's a very bad idea. it would immediately destroy all noncommercial mailing lists, and people would very quickly find a way to disguise their email traffic as e.g. HTTP traffic.
Im glad you can equate being blacklisted by McCarthy with people being worked and starved to death in the USSR. Thats quite a biting rebuttal. Moral relativism?
Where did I equate anything? And my relativism is sure better than your apparent absolutism of saying "It's OK to do something bad as long as someone else does worse".
Turing was homosexual. Because of that, he lost his security clearance for government work and was forced to undergo hormone "therapy". Most likely these were the reasons why he committed suicide.
No, they were just harassed, thrown out of their jobs and put into prison without fair trial. Look up "McCarthy" in a history book, kiddo.
Until someone finds a method that reliably prevents people from mixing tabs and spaces and fucking up the indentation for everyone with a different tab width.
IIRC, Tezukas wife did not say that it wasn't plagiarism, just that her husband would have taken it as flatters. As for Nadia, the similarities on that page are visual and constructed; the stories aren't all that similar.
No, I just dislike fundamentalism in general. And there are a lot of people out there who will instantly proclaim you an illiterate idiot if you as much as suggest there's anything good about any dub. I actually hardly ever watch dubs anymore, but not because of quality considerations but because after living in Japan for a year my Japanese is good enough to actually benefit from it.
And if you really think you might even decide that all sides are both write and wrong and that concepts like "good and evil" and the pressure to coose sides in the first place are the real problem...