That is why the aliens where so scare of Minmei singing, they almost had a heart attack.
Aaaah, yes, the Minmei attack.
Then again, considering the talent of the voice actress (rumors have it she was drunk a few times while singing), it's not easy to be scared by her. That the American version has a rather untalented musical star rising high is a bit of irony, considering the general lack of talent seen in many of our own rising "musical stars."
Then the ISPs will be liable in the same way that Napster and my.mp3.com were liable. I'm sure they'd love that. "Content-neutral" won't save anyone's ass, especially not from overly-litigious conglomerates.
I do not think it is much different than any place else. I have a friend of mine that belives in nothing. Yet when he heard about a family in the church that has 8 kids. with no other knowlege than the number he stated. That is irresponsible!. Being judgemental seems to be a universal failing.
You know what? In this day and age, -choosing- to have 8 kids IS irresponsible. Since I doubt they were the family making the news for having 8 children, I would have to assume they did this by choice, and that IS irresponsible.
Good lord. I doubt anyone other than you and I are reading this anymore, but if anyone is, I certainly hope they are intelligent enough to spot the glaring flaws in your argument.
I still am, and I did.:) It's all been very interesting reading though.. these sorts of things are why I come to Slashdot.
Leftists such as yourself always talk about "the greater good", as in "let's ban this for the greater good" or "let's do this in the name of the social fabric." Unfortunately for you, there remain plenty of us who are still committed to the principles of freedom...
Unfortunately, it's just not leftists anymore. The above statements are used all the time by conservative Republicans, many of whom are hypocrites who preach the ideas of freedom and Constitutional principles, except when it comes to social policy. In those cases, it's safe to screw around with laws and bans "for the greater good" and "for the family" all they want. It seems like Libertarians are the only honest right-wingers anymore.
Do you think the majority of the people in the South wanted slavery to be abolished? I'd say no. Do you think that if it were up to individual states, that the southern states would have had the civil rights laws that were passed nationally in the 60's? I doubt that very much. This is a similar type of situation in Utah, in reverse.
Have bars and restaurants closed in record numbers, driven to bankruptcy because noone goes anymore because they can't smoke inside?
That was the scenario feared by many. Can someone in CA tell me if it happened?
No, that hasn't really happened. There was a lot of grumbling, especially around when the law first went into effect, but there weren't any serious repurcussions.
Sorry, smokers haven't taken away your freedoms, nature has. You're understandably bitter about it. Asking the rest of the world to change because you have a problem is fairly unreasonable, if that problem prevents you from dealing with others in an open-air environment. Someone's home? Sure. Restaurants? I could understand that. But if you have problems at little league games even, then yes, perhaps removing yourself from society is the option that has to be taken, or other alternatives have to be searched for.
Yeah, but the problem with that was that no one but Infocom had a good text parsing engine. I loved the old King's Quests and Space Quests and such, but I also remember many frustrating times trying to come up with a way to do something in a format that the text parser understood. "Put the cookie in the batter" -> "I don't understand". "Break the cookie into the bowl" -> "You can't do that here." "Crumble the cookie into the bowl" -> Success! (I just made that exchange up, but it was a common hassle. Infocom got it right, but almost no one else did.)
Worse still, the moon didn't have a large "CHA" carved into the surface, back from when Chairface Chipendale tried to carve his name there using a laser powered by a flashlight. Happened sometime in the late 80's or early 90's, I think it was covered on CNN.
Several Linux advocates (like myself) fight UCITA in an effort to hinder mandatory licensing schemes. There is, however, in my opinion, some contradiction here: Why is it that the governments attempts to standardize software licensing are hindered whereas the FSF's efforts are glorified???
Because the purposes of the two schemes are completely different. The GPL gives software users rights that they normally wouldn't have for copyrighted software - the right to make modifications and distrubute them. This is a granting of additional privilages. The UCITA however has several provisions which remove the rights of the software user. That is why it is not hypocritical to oppose one and not the other.
Don't like the GPL? Don't distribute modifications to GPLed software.
Don't like UCITA? Don't use any software at all.
Please tell me how the local ISP, the backbone providers, or Dave at CCS is supposed to tell that I'm sending a pirated copy of Office to my friend
instead of a netscape core dump, if I'm using his and my public key?
Then that is the drug dealer analogy you mentioned, which is also bustable, but harder. (And fairly unbustable if you're only dealing with friends.)
Of course, private transfers between a few friends were never really the issue here. The RIAA/BSA/CCS/whoever is only concerned about making something available to a wide-open audience. That is the threat. Sending something to a friend is no threat at all.
If somebody hires you to write some code to help solve one of their problems, they will pay you for your labor. If the code happens to fall into other hands and ends up helping others solve their problems too, that doesn't change the fact that you got paid to solve the first person's problem.
But the difference is that you are getting paid for writing it, and the price for this is enough to cover all the costs of writing it. Software "piracy" is a slightly less extreme example of hiring someone to come up with the code and simply refusing to pay for it when the bill comes. They're getting the use of the software without paying for it. With regular software "piracy" instead of a one to one relationship, it's a one to many, with some of those many not paying the required fee. If someone spends money creating something to sell, and another person wants to use it, then that other person
has to pay for it if they "copy" it. It is theft, except it's monetary theft. Someone copies the software, they owe the money. Withholding payment is theft.
Now, in some cases, I'm all for theft, but let's at least call it what it is.
Right. I also liked the way they often portrayed the Federation as having some corruption here and there.
One of the neatest things was how this was sometimes a Red Herring.. there was an idea of some corruption, but that was really a Dominion plot to get everyone to suspect corruption everywhere, leading the Federation to collapse from the inside. Rather interesting.
In some ways, yes this was true, and in at other times, DS9 was the most soap-operay one of them all. One of DS9's biggest problems was that it was maddeningly inconsistant. You'd have a cool episode one week with the unmasking of a Dominion spy or some such, then the next week you'd have a shitty Vanessa Williams on Risa/Worf is an angry Republican episode. Good quality followed by episodes that make Star Trek V look good. Being locked on a space station meant the writers had to take a different tack, concentrating on character relations and politics instead of meeting a new futuristic wonder every week.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a 747 filled with CD-ROMs.
Hrm, I thought it was "never underestimate the bandwidth of a minivan full of DLT tapes traveling 50 MPH down the interstate." Which is the original quote, and where does it come from?
Every time the flit-boy leutenant gave me the TS paperwork, I would shread it. Later when they asked about it, I would claim the dumb-asses in the orderly room lost it. I ducked that shit for four years.
Of course, -anyone- can be a child molester. So why are you even bringing that up when you say you wouldn't want your children in a scouting troupe (for example) with a gay scoutmaster?
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Aaaah, yes, the Minmei attack.
Then again, considering the talent of the voice actress (rumors have it she was drunk a few times while singing), it's not easy to be scared by her. That the American version has a rather untalented musical star rising high is a bit of irony, considering the general lack of talent seen in many of our own rising "musical stars."
And it did get a little stale when the series went into "gargoyles world tour" mode..
You know what? In this day and age, -choosing- to have 8 kids IS irresponsible. Since I doubt they were the family making the news for having 8 children, I would have to assume they did this by choice, and that IS irresponsible.
I still am, and I did. :) It's all been very interesting reading though.. these sorts of things are why I come to Slashdot.
Unfortunately, it's just not leftists anymore. The above statements are used all the time by conservative Republicans, many of whom are hypocrites who preach the ideas of freedom and Constitutional principles, except when it comes to social policy. In those cases, it's safe to screw around with laws and bans "for the greater good" and "for the family" all they want. It seems like Libertarians are the only honest right-wingers anymore.
That was the scenario feared by many. Can someone in CA tell me if it happened?
No, that hasn't really happened. There was a lot of grumbling, especially around when the law first went into effect, but there weren't any serious repurcussions.
Sorry, smokers haven't taken away your freedoms, nature has. You're understandably bitter about it. Asking the rest of the world to change because you have a problem is fairly unreasonable, if that problem prevents you from dealing with others in an open-air environment. Someone's home? Sure. Restaurants? I could understand that. But if you have problems at little league games even, then yes, perhaps removing yourself from society is the option that has to be taken, or other alternatives have to be searched for.
Don't let Jon Katz hear you say that. I can envision a whole series on that topic now.
Because the purposes of the two schemes are completely different. The GPL gives software users rights that they normally wouldn't have for copyrighted software - the right to make modifications and distrubute them. This is a granting of additional privilages. The UCITA however has several provisions which remove the rights of the software user. That is why it is not hypocritical to oppose one and not the other.
Don't like the GPL? Don't distribute modifications to GPLed software.
Don't like UCITA? Don't use any software at all.
Then that is the drug dealer analogy you mentioned, which is also bustable, but harder. (And fairly unbustable if you're only dealing with friends.)
Of course, private transfers between a few friends were never really the issue here. The RIAA/BSA/CCS/whoever is only concerned about making something available to a wide-open audience. That is the threat. Sending something to a friend is no threat at all.
Yeah, but it's a little harder to get a job afterwards.
But the difference is that you are getting paid for writing it, and the price for this is enough to cover all the costs of writing it. Software "piracy" is a slightly less extreme example of hiring someone to come up with the code and simply refusing to pay for it when the bill comes. They're getting the use of the software without paying for it. With regular software "piracy" instead of a one to one relationship, it's a one to many, with some of those many not paying the required fee. If someone spends money creating something to sell, and another person wants to use it, then that other person has to pay for it if they "copy" it. It is theft, except it's monetary theft. Someone copies the software, they owe the money. Withholding payment is theft.
Now, in some cases, I'm all for theft, but let's at least call it what it is.
One of the neatest things was how this was sometimes a Red Herring.. there was an idea of some corruption, but that was really a Dominion plot to get everyone to suspect corruption everywhere, leading the Federation to collapse from the inside. Rather interesting.
A ninja?
Hrm, I thought it was "never underestimate the bandwidth of a minivan full of DLT tapes traveling 50 MPH down the interstate." Which is the original quote, and where does it come from?
Is that you Ollie?
I think you meant Mosaic instead of Mozilla, but yeah, that sounds about right.