My only wish for you is that we can get public anonymous suicide booths up and running before you have to suffer too much and that they only cost a quarter to use.
Piracy = making money off of other people's works = bad
File sharing != Piracy
Thank goodness the portugese legal system understands that as most of the rest of the world (Including Slashdot) seems to think those things are one and the same.
Helping to keep the world safe from fascists does have its privileges, it's true.
No one got pregnant anyway so you're really grasping at straws there.
Even the rest is debatable at this point but we'll probably never know for sure because that isn't what this fiasco is really about and everyone knows it.
Now if they could get over their harry jerkoff anslinger racism motivated anti-hemp policies hemp would have been planted for use as fuel (and a myriad of other extremely beneficial uses) and everyone would have a much different opinion about growing plants for fuel.
I swear when corn was chosen somebody just wanted the whole idea to fail. What an idiotic plant to choose for fuel.
You know the corporations already figured out long ago that there's no such thing as distinct nations in the real world it's about time the proletariat wised up to it and dropped their nationalistic nonsense so that the corps aren't the only ones to benefit from said realization.
Nation-States are legal fictions supported only by those who haven't yet realized what instant communication and global transportation really means and those who benefit from the ignorance of those who haven't yet come to terms with that reality.
Not only that but the arpanet didn't come out of a vacuum or out of a space of knowledge which the US had a sole monopoly over. Everything they used to build the arpanet was knowledge accumulated by all kinds of people from all over the globe throughout history. Yes - we were globalized even before instant communications but ever since that happened I think that only a fool can deny it.
Planet earth is local to everyone and while war is already obsolete (they've all failed miserably to accomplish anything meaningful since WWII) the sooner people realize it's one planet rather than the distinct and separated nation states we thought it was for most of our history the better.
You may live in "America" or "Canada" or "United Kingdom" but you don't live in a vacuum, all by yourself. The reality is we all live on a chunk of rock, spinning around in a vacuum, all by ourselveS.
So when you share knowledge and technology it's not because you should be nicer. It's should be because you understand that doing so is the only other alternative to ending civilization because we were too thick-skulled to pull it together. Of course maybe that's fine with you. But to me it's really quite tedious, monotonous, and just more of the same old primate games.
Exactly right. In fact we never should have been paying for the 'privilege' of being advertised to in the first place.
When it comes to commercial television the buyers are the advertisers and the product is the viewers yet we have somehow been fooled into thinking we should pay for our time and attenion being delivered to advertisers? It's quite insane when you think about it that way. The way I see it the cable companies should be billing the commercial television stations for all the viewers their service brings the advertisers.
Of course the cable companies can still charge us for non-commercial channels since in that case we're not paying twice for the same darned thing like we have been with cable & satellite-piped commercial television!!
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This will never happen. Computers were supposed to revolutionize our work world because they could make office staff thousands of times more efficient than they were with filing cabinets. Well computers have done their part and the typical office worker IS thousands of times more efficient than they were with a paper-based information infrastructure. The problem here is that you can never overestimate greed. If an organization can do in 2 days what used to take it 5 days it isn't going to pay its workers full pay for 2 days a week!! No instead they get rid of 3/5 of their work force and get the other 2/5 to use the increased efficiency to do what used to be the work of 5 in - you guessed it - a 40 hour work week.
It is because of this that our work weeks will NEVER shrink and if the anti-union folks get their way you can can on 60 to 100 hour work weeks being the norm REGARDLESS of how efficient and labor saving technology becomes.
Correction: That should have read "Actually the Inspiron 531S is a desktop"
But also I want to add that if you're referring to the Dell desktops manufactured in the early 2000's which are known to have been afflicted with a bad case of defective capacitors on the motherboard do know that this failure wasn't limited to Dell desktop motherboards but rather affected all manufacturers which used these bad caps on their desktop boards. I have personally replaced the caps on a machine from that era and it is still running just fine today.
And it has been used almost every single day since I took delivery of it. Sometimes it's on for days on end and has been for weeks on end on the rare occasion.
Also after having done phone support for both Dell laptops and desktops (from 2006-2008) my experience has been the opposite: the consumer line anyway tended to run too hot back then with what I considered to be a critical design flaw: ventilation for cooling systems being on the bottom of the unit right where the typical laptop user would have their lap - blocking the cooling process.
I'm writing this on a Dell Inspiron 531S purchased late 2007. It's running great haven't had a problem yet. Anectdotal sure but it does disprove that all Dell machines don't last longer than a year.
Yes you're right I should have added that I agree that casual file sharing can technically be termed 'copyright infringement' even though I personally disagree with the way copyright law is going what with its' seemingly endless extensions (witness Disney and others lobby to have copyright law changed so that it keeps on covering longer and longer time periods).
However I wanted to add my two cents worth regarding the horrible and mass mis-use of the piracy term in the thread where someone also pointed out the horrible and mass mis-use of the word theft as applied to file sharing and so only focussed on that.
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You keep using that word. I do not think you know what it means.
They still think DRM is worth anything or is able to control anything. ROTFLMFAO!!!
Yeah... and I want a pony.
Absolutely.
My only wish for you is that we can get public anonymous suicide booths up and running before you have to suffer too much and that they only cost a quarter to use.
I think the sphere would be larger than the orbit of the planet meaning the both the planet and the sun it orbits are inside that sphere.
Therefore no gap is required unless there's some need to see stars or the outer plaents.
Basically just a big door to let out the space ships now and again would do, I'm sure.
Sorry - obviously my bad assumption here was that no one would be so obedient as to accept such a moronic contract.
Slavery knows no bounds, I suppose.
So who authorized Stratasys as a law enforcement agency anyway?
Has it finally happened is it now official corporations run the world and not people anymore?
Piracy = making money off of other people's works = bad
File sharing != Piracy
Thank goodness the portugese legal system understands that as most of the rest of the world (Including Slashdot) seems to think those things are one and the same.
Well first of all if people would stop confusing piracy with sharing we could actually begin discussing the matter with appropriate terms.
By equating making a profit off of material you don't own with sharing it with others for free we miss an important distinction.
I get just a little bit sadder.
Helping to keep the world safe from fascists does have its privileges, it's true.
No one got pregnant anyway so you're really grasping at straws there.
Even the rest is debatable at this point but we'll probably never know for sure because that isn't what this fiasco is really about and everyone knows it.
Although that does change periodically the one that's down there now is no less applicable:
"Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent."
Now if they could get over their harry jerkoff anslinger racism motivated anti-hemp policies hemp would have been planted for use as fuel (and a myriad of other extremely beneficial uses) and everyone would have a much different opinion about growing plants for fuel.
I swear when corn was chosen somebody just wanted the whole idea to fail. What an idiotic plant to choose for fuel.
No we don't. Been a vegetarian for 20 years now and I'm surviving quite well thank you very much.
You know the corporations already figured out long ago that there's no such thing as distinct nations in the real world it's about time the proletariat wised up to it and dropped their nationalistic nonsense so that the corps aren't the only ones to benefit from said realization.
Nation-States are legal fictions supported only by those who haven't yet realized what instant communication and global transportation really means and those who benefit from the ignorance of those who haven't yet come to terms with that reality.
Not only that but the arpanet didn't come out of a vacuum or out of a space of knowledge which the US had a sole monopoly over. Everything they used to build the arpanet was knowledge accumulated by all kinds of people from all over the globe throughout history. Yes - we were globalized even before instant communications but ever since that happened I think that only a fool can deny it.
Planet earth is local to everyone and while war is already obsolete (they've all failed miserably to accomplish anything meaningful since WWII) the sooner people realize it's one planet rather than the distinct and separated nation states we thought it was for most of our history the better.
You may live in "America" or "Canada" or "United Kingdom" but you don't live in a vacuum, all by yourself. The reality is we all live on a chunk of rock, spinning around in a vacuum, all by ourselveS.
So when you share knowledge and technology it's not because you should be nicer. It's should be because you understand that doing so is the only other alternative to ending civilization because we were too thick-skulled to pull it together. Of course maybe that's fine with you. But to me it's really quite tedious, monotonous, and just more of the same old primate games.
This post's rating was brought to you by home grown American jingoism.
Exactly right. In fact we never should have been paying for the 'privilege' of being advertised to in the first place.
When it comes to commercial television the buyers are the advertisers and the product is the viewers yet we have somehow been fooled into thinking we should pay for our time and attenion being delivered to advertisers? It's quite insane when you think about it that way. The way I see it the cable companies should be billing the commercial television stations for all the viewers their service brings the advertisers.
Of course the cable companies can still charge us for non-commercial channels since in that case we're not paying twice for the same darned thing like we have been with cable & satellite-piped commercial television!!
Hmmm... must be an election year.
Look we don't go trying to play sports or get laid so hopefully this jock has learned his lesson and will stay out of the computer business.
This will never happen. Computers were supposed to revolutionize our work world because they could make office staff thousands of times more efficient than they were with filing cabinets. Well computers have done their part and the typical office worker IS thousands of times more efficient than they were with a paper-based information infrastructure. The problem here is that you can never overestimate greed. If an organization can do in 2 days what used to take it 5 days it isn't going to pay its workers full pay for 2 days a week!! No instead they get rid of 3/5 of their work force and get the other 2/5 to use the increased efficiency to do what used to be the work of 5 in - you guessed it - a 40 hour work week.
It is because of this that our work weeks will NEVER shrink and if the anti-union folks get their way you can can on 60 to 100 hour work weeks being the norm REGARDLESS of how efficient and labor saving technology becomes.
Correction: That should have read "Actually the Inspiron 531S is a desktop"
But also I want to add that if you're referring to the Dell desktops manufactured in the early 2000's which are known to have been afflicted with a bad case of defective capacitors on the motherboard do know that this failure wasn't limited to Dell desktop motherboards but rather affected all manufacturers which used these bad caps on their desktop boards. I have personally replaced the caps on a machine from that era and it is still running just fine today.
Actually the Inspiron is a 531S:
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/products/inspndt/topics/en/us/inspndt_531s_sv?c=us&l=en
And it has been used almost every single day since I took delivery of it. Sometimes it's on for days on end and has been for weeks on end on the rare occasion.
Also after having done phone support for both Dell laptops and desktops (from 2006-2008) my experience has been the opposite: the consumer line anyway tended to run too hot back then with what I considered to be a critical design flaw: ventilation for cooling systems being on the bottom of the unit right where the typical laptop user would have their lap - blocking the cooling process.
Leonard Cohen predicted this decades ago:
"There's gonna be a meter on your bed which will disclose
What everybody knows."
I'm writing this on a Dell Inspiron 531S purchased late 2007. It's running great haven't had a problem yet. Anectdotal sure but it does disprove that all Dell machines don't last longer than a year.
Yes you're right I should have added that I agree that casual file sharing can technically be termed 'copyright infringement' even though I personally disagree with the way copyright law is going what with its' seemingly endless extensions (witness Disney and others lobby to have copyright law changed so that it keeps on covering longer and longer time periods).
However I wanted to add my two cents worth regarding the horrible and mass mis-use of the piracy term in the thread where someone also pointed out the horrible and mass mis-use of the word theft as applied to file sharing and so only focussed on that.