They certainly *do* have the right to profit from other's work, and without permission. As makers of hardware and software media players know. which is all my.mp3.com was. this is part of the effort to own the hardware and media player market (in the cracker sense), just like CSS licenseing.
Nevermind privacy, that's a dead horse round these parts. (I think Bill Safire called the fear of beating a dead horse 'Vapulequimortiphobia') The interesting thing there is the psuedoscientific "CORTEX INDEX" which, according to their website will tell you...
Does the site attract a analytical audience, or a more creative type of average visitor? By analyzing the interests of enonymous community members who visit a site, we've generated a fun index number which estimates how "left" or "right-brained" the average visitor is.
Now what the hell does that mean??!! Slashdot gets a 3.6? I think we ought to be outraged about that. It doen't mean anything, but 3.6 is a low, low number. The russian judges would give us better numbers.
I think he (the author) is saying that copyright is *functionally* censorship. Which it is. The only clue to the author's *philisophical* intent is in the choice of the word "censorship", which is widely believed to have a negative connotation. I must assume it is on this basis that you chose to make the brilliant leap to FN=CL^2. Fucking Genius. I can't believe I'm quibbling about semantics with blatant flamebait like this.
To remove prank postings. Not that I mind. A little levity once a year won't kill me. I think. Still, If you can filter out Katz, you ought to be able to filter out this nonsense. Maybe custom filters. OTOH filtering itself kind of breaks the "community" up.
One solution would be to get rid of the sidewings, and use magnetic switching and guidance. For Guidance vehicle has steel U-channel with permanent magnets, track has steel U-channel. they face each other to create a magnetic circuit. This provides steering force (~1/3 hold down) At switches substitute electromagnets in track for steel u-channel and power up the path you wish the vehicle to take. I do not believe that there are any major problems with either method (magnetic or aerodynamic) of guidance at rail crossings. (Aside from traffic conrol) Disadvantages: gap would have to be small 3-5cm. Advantages: No moving parts Short headway Any real system will be a hybrid. No maglev or magnetically propelled (via LIMs or LSMs)train moving at realistic speed can ignore aerodynamics, and why not make use of what you get for free? While magnetic guidance is not free, it is not expensive (being passive, except at switches) and solves other problems thus far not mentioned like train crossings (for cars and trucks).
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They certainly *do* have the right to profit from other's work, and without permission. As makers of hardware and software media players know. which is all my.mp3.com was. this is part of the effort to own the hardware and media player market (in the cracker sense), just like CSS licenseing.
The interesting thing there is the psuedoscientific "CORTEX INDEX" which, according to their website will tell you...
Now what the hell does that mean??!! Slashdot gets a 3.6? I think we ought to be outraged about that. It doen't mean anything, but 3.6 is a low, low number. The russian judges would give us better numbers.
I think he (the author) is saying that copyright is *functionally* censorship. Which it is. The only clue to the author's *philisophical* intent is in the choice of the word "censorship", which is widely believed to have a negative connotation. I must assume it is on this basis that you chose to make the brilliant leap to FN=CL^2. Fucking Genius.
I can't believe I'm quibbling about semantics with blatant flamebait like this.
To remove prank postings.
Not that I mind. A little levity once a year won't kill me. I think.
Still, If you can filter out Katz, you ought to be able to filter out this nonsense. Maybe custom filters.
OTOH filtering itself kind of breaks the "community" up.
One solution would be to get rid of the sidewings, and use magnetic switching and guidance. For Guidance vehicle has steel U-channel with permanent magnets, track has steel U-channel. they face each other to create a magnetic circuit. This provides steering force (~1/3 hold down) At switches substitute electromagnets in track for steel u-channel and power up the path you wish the vehicle to take. I do not believe that there are any major problems with either method (magnetic or aerodynamic) of guidance at rail crossings. (Aside from traffic conrol) Disadvantages: gap would have to be small 3-5cm. Advantages: No moving parts Short headway Any real system will be a hybrid. No maglev or magnetically propelled (via LIMs or LSMs)train moving at realistic speed can ignore aerodynamics, and why not make use of what you get for free? While magnetic guidance is not free, it is not expensive (being passive, except at switches) and solves other problems thus far not mentioned like train crossings (for cars and trucks).