Ok, the Fish comes up with "Damned little fungi". While that's kinda amusing, is there anything else you'd like to share with those of us who didn't get it?
Wow. All this discussion generated by a troll cut-and-pasting MONEX propaganda. I don't even watch TV anymore, and I can smell that a mile away... Watch Headline News at 15 and 45 past the hour, if you don't know what I'm talking about... You soon will.
Hint: the reference to the Vienna Philharmonic is a big giveaway.
Slight correction there, bucko... Adam and Eve would still be in Paradise, but the rest of us poor schmucks wouldn't exist. Why bother having sex if you live in a garden of infinite pleasures?
Although it's demonstrably false, most people do have expectations of privacy when it comes to the Internet. That's why encryption hasn't taken off nearly as much (analogy: closing the blinds on the window).
It's the same sort of thinking that brought us "Clippy". "Oops! You forgot this important link! Let me add it for you..." Microsoft seems to bank on making all their products convenient to a fault. Unfortunately for them, convenience is no longer convenient when it causes something to work in a way that the user doesn't want it to.
I agree wholeheartedly with you on this one. Make application of the death penalty into entertainment and you might as well hang it up. *sigh* What happens when corporations start sponsoring executions in order to get ratings?
Larry Niven was right about the death penalty eventually being applied for traffic infractions... He just failed to see that the public's hunger for bloodier and bloodier entertainment would outpace research into safe universal transplants.
Well, What I'd do is use a rotating angled mirror to skew the beam slightly off center. The head assembly gives you a coarse adjustment, and the angled mirror gives a fine adjustment. This combination wouldn't be too hard to engineer, would it?
Actually, from what I understand, the term "munitions" is a step above "arms". When the government classifies encryption algorithms as munitions, they're saying it's the equivalent of owning a cruise missle, a functional artillery piece with ammo, or a fighter-bomber fully loaded with Mk. 84s. I don't recall a situation where anyone ever successfully claimed that they had a second amendment right to own and operate a fully equipped and loaded M1A2.
Not to give the impression that I agree with the classification of encryption as "munitions"... I think it's ridiculous. But trying to argue that you have a second amendment right to things classified as munitions would have as much effect as banging your head against Cheyenne Mountain's front door. Repeatedly. (It'd hurt you and not the door, then the MPs would shoot you.)
Actually, that'd be Roman and Orthodox... And then you've got to separate Orthodox into Greek and Russian (although those two are closer to each other than either is to the Roman side of the schizm).
Totally offtopic, I realize... But history is important, neh?
If the code's in the public domain, what's to stop you from grabbing the tarball, making a couple of changes, and building a multi-million dollar business? What's stopping you from doing it even if a corporation already did the same thing? Surely they can't yell "copyright violation!!!" and have it stick... Public domain means you have the same access that the corp does. If you've got the right to it, so do they.
Allright... I'm calling bullshit on that moderator. The above is not a frigging troll. He's got it exactly right. Just because Ballmer's a slimebag and using the phrase "Open Source" instead of "GPL'ed" does not mean that the GPL is probably not a good license to release Government-funded work under. Who cares if some corp uses public-domain code to make money? It's still available to everyone else who paid for it with tax money! That's what public-domain means!
since when is it "easier to get a rifle or a handgun than it is to get a fishing license"? I remember filling out a lot of paper, waiting for a database search to certify that I wasn't a felon, and then paying money. How is that any easier than getting a fishing license?
Yes it's offtopic, but that sentance in the article jumped out at me. I suppose it's an indicator of the author's political views...
Tapping the tap lets you know what information the original tappers were interested in and what information you transmitted wasn't compromised by the original tap.
Tapping the tap on the tap does the same thing, ad infinitum.
I got my Dad hooked on it a few years back... He was still playing it over and over until he lost the program in a hard-drive accident and switched over to WarcraftII, which up until that point he described as "Nah... Too many bells and whistles."
Although if we want to talk about Loki ports I'd want to see, let's talk about Syndicate.
As I've seen it said before, the Constitution is not the end-all be-all of our rights as citizens of the United States. It's a high-level view of how the business of government shall be conducted, with some lines that government is not allowed to cross with respect to individual liberties tacked on the end. (Never mind that Congress has been ignoring that for years, that's a different argument.) You're right, the phrase "pursuit of happiness" is in the Declaration of Independance and not the Constitution, but they were both written by the same group of folks, so the person you replied to is technically correct. Go back and read the wording.
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Hint: the reference to the Vienna Philharmonic is a big giveaway.
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Although for a second there I thought you were talklng about the "TP Event Horizon"...
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Probably a doctrinal point, though.
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I know it's satire, but that describes the M1A2 pretty accurately as well...
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Although it's demonstrably false, most people do have expectations of privacy when it comes to the Internet. That's why encryption hasn't taken off nearly as much (analogy: closing the blinds on the window).
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Larry Niven was right about the death penalty eventually being applied for traffic infractions... He just failed to see that the public's hunger for bloodier and bloodier entertainment would outpace research into safe universal transplants.
--Fesh
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Not to give the impression that I agree with the classification of encryption as "munitions"... I think it's ridiculous. But trying to argue that you have a second amendment right to things classified as munitions would have as much effect as banging your head against Cheyenne Mountain's front door. Repeatedly. (It'd hurt you and not the door, then the MPs would shoot you.)
--Fesh
Totally offtopic, I realize... But history is important, neh?
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Geez. Pretty sad when Public Radio gets the scoop on everyone, considering the millions that the networks pump into "generating" news...
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Bob the Angry Flower.
Hint folks... He's not a pansy.
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If the code's in the public domain, what's to stop you from grabbing the tarball, making a couple of changes, and building a multi-million dollar business? What's stopping you from doing it even if a corporation already did the same thing? Surely they can't yell "copyright violation!!!" and have it stick... Public domain means you have the same access that the corp does. If you've got the right to it, so do they.
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Taco, the moderator pool needs more chlorine.
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Eh... I'm left-handed, but I mouse right-handed. But then again, I also use scissors right-handed... *shrug*
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Yes it's offtopic, but that sentance in the article jumped out at me. I suppose it's an indicator of the author's political views...
--Fesh
Tapping the tap on the tap does the same thing, ad infinitum.
--Fesh
Although if we want to talk about Loki ports I'd want to see, let's talk about Syndicate.
--Fesh
Well, seeing as how it'd be virtually impossible to get that pixellated effect in real life...
(Bah dum-bum...)
--Fesh
He's got the red button in view and he can't even pronounce it right. How's that for irony?
--Fesh
As I've seen it said before, the Constitution is not the end-all be-all of our rights as citizens of the United States. It's a high-level view of how the business of government shall be conducted, with some lines that government is not allowed to cross with respect to individual liberties tacked on the end. (Never mind that Congress has been ignoring that for years, that's a different argument.) You're right, the phrase "pursuit of happiness" is in the Declaration of Independance and not the Constitution, but they were both written by the same group of folks, so the person you replied to is technically correct. Go back and read the wording.
--Fesh