Not to mention that gays and lesbians aren't sterile. It is perfectly possible for a gay man and/or woman to have sex with someone of the opposite sex and have a baby - they are just veeeery unlikely to, or at least to enjoy the experience if they do.
And yes, parenthood is a social mechanism more than a biological one among humans, though the default is that they are the same.
Disney is a greedy shithouse which either uses public domain works for free (Hunchback, Pocahontas, Mulan, Snow White) or tries to trick people into selling their IP for a pittance. E.g. when they tried to get the rights to the Dr. Dolittle stories and offered the pricenly sum of $7,500 for the perpetual rights to the books, characters, merchandising etc. and the same for whatever other works he had written or would write in the future.
They got a "no".
Sadly, the A. A. Milne descendants did not have the sense to say so, so Disney are leeching off the Winnie the Pooh universe so much they possibly can.
And do I really have to remind you of "Uncle Walt", where the actual creators and artists were denied credit because if this saintly image they were creating? How can you defend that POS company?
My observations over the last couple of daylight hours is that it never gets dark. Therefore I have proven that there is no such thing as night and the people selling flashlights and the like are partaking in a scam.
Sheesh.
(However, the "climate revisionists" denying the warming appear to be running out of arguments since they start to recycle their old shit more and more. That is a good thing.)
I think willy-nilly changing the environment is stupid.
But it's precisely the use of fossil/hydrocarbon fuels which have now turned out to be "willy-nilly changing the environment". Heck, even on a smaller scale it has been demonstrated to be so years ago, e.g. the mass death of the Ruhr forests in Germanyl. There are also other examples like strip-miners dumping contaminated mass in rivers. And of old there is the sad story of the Easter Island inhabitants who cut down all the trees in order to transport their stupid stone heads long distances, until all forest was gone, the earth eroded and they starved to death.
Geo-engineering, however, can be seen as PLANNED changing of the environment. Which is inherently better than the unplanned changing taking place as we speak.
In that case we need to ban a whole shedload of useless products marketed and sold to a gullible flock of consumer-sheep. Oh, and all art that does not serve the Revolution.
Taxation is a consequence of something called civilization. This occcurs when people grok the idea that doing things collectively is more efficient than multiple people doing things for themselves. Civilization is when people realize life is not a zero-sum game and that it has an intrinsic value to take care of thise who cannot care for themselves.
I mean, if you do not like the "fees" (like taxation) that a government charges to finance common services, feel free to stop contributing by changing to a different country. You apparently want to receive and use their money - otherwise, feel free to set up a separate economy which does not use it. But keep in mind that if you DO get robbed, make sure you have some money stashed away to pay the police to investigate, and hope the robbers didn't steal enough money to pay the police to stop investigating...
Relatively less than Exxon et al are pouring into the anti-global-warming revisionism. Thankfully some oil companies grew a conscience and left that band of lie-spreading lobbyists.
There's just a passionate movement against knee-jerk reactions that involve spending billions of dollars, have wide-spread economic repercussions and involve deceiving large swathes of the population.
Why did you just switch the topic to the Iraq war?
I hear there's some cheap farmland on Tuvalu and in the Maldives you could buy and move to. Heck, you could probably trade in your apparently freezing cold house for quite a few acres.
The rest of us love that the language defines the size of primitives exactly (Java) instead of setting just minimum ranges but allowing implementations to go outside of them (C).
For code that runs for a long time, the translation to (fast) native code instead of emulated bytecode is done rarely, so for e.g. long-running server programs the speed will be better than so-called "native" (i.e. ignorant) static compilation simply becasuse the runtime can monitor the behavior and "recompile" as needed if the call pattern makes it sensible to optimize some code (unrolling loops etc.).
JIT (which really just means dynamic compilation) is only slower for interpreted for code that is run once and then exits.
Lenin (precursor to Stalin) and Mao took what was effectively a feudal society, wrote "Communism" across it and replaced the aristocrats with party bigwigs.
Neither the Soviet Union nor "Communist" China were any more communist than the the "Democratic" republics of DDR, Conco or North Korea were/are democratic. The workers did NOT own the factories, and people did NOT get according to need and many were forced to give more than their ability. Many who joined in the Russian revolution were dismayed when Lenin replaced the dreams of utopia with a police state.
There is also the "80 Hole". Basically since firewalls are often set up to block other ports than the regular HTTP port of 80 (plus SSL ports), anything else ends up being rewritten to tunnel through HTTP. With the overhead and security risks that incurs...
Pirates do not say DRM is bad since they do not experience it: DRM is absent from pirated versions. The ONLY people affected (or "afflicted") by DRM are the paying customers.
If DRM actually worked as a hindrance for piracy, there would be no pirated versions of a DRM-infested product, but there are. And the industry's excuse that DRM prevents "casual piracy" is also bullshit because you only NEED one copy available, then everyone can spread that. They no longer need to try and create another pirated copy since they only use the one the "professional" pirate/cracker has made. (Most often from a master copy obtained from the production site, I'd wager.)
Maybe I am a little cranky now for having been called a potential "thief" by the stupid propaganda trailer before the latest PURCHASED and PAID FOR DVD I watched. Thanks for INSULTING your customers!
Well DUH! That is implicit. You see, it is MORE important to the publisher to sell the product to a customer than it is to the customer to buy it - except for some items you need in order to survive. It is the publisher etc. who have spent money and need to recoup the costs. The customer can easily spend their money on something else. It's not like GTA IV is a life necessity or even the only video game out there.
So: The customer is more important than the "you" companies. And companies which treat their customers as potential criminals need to realize they are fucking with their business model.
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Not to mention that gays and lesbians aren't sterile. It is perfectly possible for a gay man and/or woman to have sex with someone of the opposite sex and have a baby - they are just veeeery unlikely to, or at least to enjoy the experience if they do.
And yes, parenthood is a social mechanism more than a biological one among humans, though the default is that they are the same.
No, they are selling her OpenOffice.org 3. Which is perfectly legal. Even though she could have gotten it for free elsewhere.
Is it worth what she is charged for it? No, but that goes for quite a lot of goods.
Disney is a greedy shithouse which either uses public domain works for free (Hunchback, Pocahontas, Mulan, Snow White) or tries to trick people into selling their IP for a pittance. E.g. when they tried to get the rights to the Dr. Dolittle stories and offered the pricenly sum of $7,500 for the perpetual rights to the books, characters, merchandising etc. and the same for whatever other works he had written or would write in the future.
They got a "no".
Sadly, the A. A. Milne descendants did not have the sense to say so, so Disney are leeching off the Winnie the Pooh universe so much they possibly can.
And do I really have to remind you of "Uncle Walt", where the actual creators and artists were denied credit because if this saintly image they were creating? How can you defend that POS company?
My observations over the last couple of daylight hours is that it never gets dark. Therefore I have proven that there is no such thing as night and the people selling flashlights and the like are partaking in a scam.
Sheesh.
(However, the "climate revisionists" denying the warming appear to be running out of arguments since they start to recycle their old shit more and more. That is a good thing.)
But it's precisely the use of fossil/hydrocarbon fuels which have now turned out to be "willy-nilly changing the environment". Heck, even on a smaller scale it has been demonstrated to be so years ago, e.g. the mass death of the Ruhr forests in Germanyl. There are also other examples like strip-miners dumping contaminated mass in rivers. And of old there is the sad story of the Easter Island inhabitants who cut down all the trees in order to transport their stupid stone heads long distances, until all forest was gone, the earth eroded and they starved to death.
Geo-engineering, however, can be seen as PLANNED changing of the environment. Which is inherently better than the unplanned changing taking place as we speak.
In that case we need to ban a whole shedload of useless products marketed and sold to a gullible flock of consumer-sheep. Oh, and all art that does not serve the Revolution.
Go away, Stalin.
Because the apps in the iPhone are integrated. On other smartphones - not so much.
Taxation is a consequence of something called civilization. This occcurs when people grok the idea that doing things collectively is more efficient than multiple people doing things for themselves. Civilization is when people realize life is not a zero-sum game and that it has an intrinsic value to take care of thise who cannot care for themselves.
I mean, if you do not like the "fees" (like taxation) that a government charges to finance common services, feel free to stop contributing by changing to a different country. You apparently want to receive and use their money - otherwise, feel free to set up a separate economy which does not use it. But keep in mind that if you DO get robbed, make sure you have some money stashed away to pay the police to investigate, and hope the robbers didn't steal enough money to pay the police to stop investigating...
Apple's me.com is already telling IE 7 users to switch; they suggest Safari or Firefox of course.
Why is only one side asked for evidence and not the other?
Name of the organization is the "Global Climate Coalition": http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2008/12/383156.shtml
Relatively less than Exxon et al are pouring into the anti-global-warming revisionism. Thankfully some oil companies grew a conscience and left that band of lie-spreading lobbyists.
Why did you just switch the topic to the Iraq war?
I hear there's some cheap farmland on Tuvalu and in the Maldives you could buy and move to. Heck, you could probably trade in your apparently freezing cold house for quite a few acres.
REALLY fucking close to the sea too...
That's Tarzan primitive pick-up line.
The rest of us love that the language defines the size of primitives exactly (Java) instead of setting just minimum ranges but allowing implementations to go outside of them (C).
But little did they know that I patented patents...
The JSE 1.6/Java 6 VM for Mac OS X is only 64-bit - but the browsers refuse to use it for applets...
For code that runs for a long time, the translation to (fast) native code instead of emulated bytecode is done rarely, so for e.g. long-running server programs the speed will be better than so-called "native" (i.e. ignorant) static compilation simply becasuse the runtime can monitor the behavior and "recompile" as needed if the call pattern makes it sensible to optimize some code (unrolling loops etc.).
JIT (which really just means dynamic compilation) is only slower for interpreted for code that is run once and then exits.
Italians, eh?
There was also an Italian EU "bigman" who wanted to filter internet searches in EU and block terms like "genocide" and "bomb".
The former would have prevented EU citizens from finding the EU Commision's own documents about WW2, Srebrenica and Rwanda...
You ruined Python for me!
Does this mean we will get a Linux client for World of Warcraft?
Lenin (precursor to Stalin) and Mao took what was effectively a feudal society, wrote "Communism" across it and replaced the aristocrats with party bigwigs.
Neither the Soviet Union nor "Communist" China were any more communist than the the "Democratic" republics of DDR, Conco or North Korea were/are democratic. The workers did NOT own the factories, and people did NOT get according to need and many were forced to give more than their ability. Many who joined in the Russian revolution were dismayed when Lenin replaced the dreams of utopia with a police state.
There is also the "80 Hole". Basically since firewalls are often set up to block other ports than the regular HTTP port of 80 (plus SSL ports), anything else ends up being rewritten to tunnel through HTTP. With the overhead and security risks that incurs...
Are they willing to block the "80 hole"?
I vas elected to lead, not to seed!
Pirates do not say DRM is bad since they do not experience it: DRM is absent from pirated versions. The ONLY people affected (or "afflicted") by DRM are the paying customers.
If DRM actually worked as a hindrance for piracy, there would be no pirated versions of a DRM-infested product, but there are. And the industry's excuse that DRM prevents "casual piracy" is also bullshit because you only NEED one copy available, then everyone can spread that. They no longer need to try and create another pirated copy since they only use the one the "professional" pirate/cracker has made. (Most often from a master copy obtained from the production site, I'd wager.)
Maybe I am a little cranky now for having been called a potential "thief" by the stupid propaganda trailer before the latest PURCHASED and PAID FOR DVD I watched. Thanks for INSULTING your customers!
Well DUH! That is implicit. You see, it is MORE important to the publisher to sell the product to a customer than it is to the customer to buy it - except for some items you need in order to survive. It is the publisher etc. who have spent money and need to recoup the costs. The customer can easily spend their money on something else. It's not like GTA IV is a life necessity or even the only video game out there.
So: The customer is more important than the "you" companies. And companies which treat their customers as potential criminals need to realize they are fucking with their business model.