Actually I've seen at least one of the Beatallica albums on sale in a record store, so perhaps they reached an agreement with both Metallica and Beatles rights holders?
Free speech governs restrictions on the Government's part; after you successfully use your free speech rights you get to face the consequences, whether you get sued for hate speech, libel or what have you. But you were not hindered from "speaking", which is the important part.
Just like most freedoms, freedom of speech has a duty of responsibility attached to it - as such, anonymous vents like/. really only cover the half where you speak not the other half where you stand for what you said...
No, I was thinking of e.g. the Indian government if their food supplies were threatened by Monsanto actions. Remember, IP laws are PER COUNTRY, including any laws related to upholding international treaties like the Berne Convention on copyright and the WIPO rules.
The FIRST slaves, sure. Later, less privileged ex-Europeans, and Chinese, were used as what was the rebranded slavery of "indentured servitude" where your meagre salaries were eaten up by the company store you were forced to buy goods from - and that you got a hefty debt to.
There were some rioting over some newspaper printing some political cartoons allegedly depicting Mohammed (the prophet, not the million others by that name). The newspaper used "freedom of expression" defense, but probably censors a bunch of other things without anyone knowing (e.g. articles which might have put journalists in a bad light etc.)...
However, those riots were more a continuation of earlier riots in that part of Copenhagen over the tearing down of a youth-occupied building some six months earlier.
ALL "intellectual property" is based on government-granted monopolies. If Monsanto keep abusing their powers over what is essential to a country's food supply, Monsanto risk that a government revokes their patents on the GM seeds under national emergency laws (which the WIPO accept as far as I know).
So step gently, big corporation - you only get to play by government fiat.
No, it's too late. If it had been spared the fast-track process a JTC would have grabbed it and possibly tweaked it into something useful.
Now? The current version, warts and all, has an ISO number. Any changes might turn into a NEW standard, but not the current one.
I mean that was the argument from the OOXML camp when it was pointed out that OASIS added formulas in ODF 1.1. Apparently, that did not count since what was "stamped" by ISO was version 1.0.
(Apparently though, it's not a problem for them that Microsoft e.g. makes new versions of C# beyond the ISO-stamped spec...)
But if what you "love" doing at home benefits your employer without you getting paid for it, you are just really being a company lap dog, a wage slave that does not realize he is a slave. You "love your job" in the same sense a dog loves his owner. And as many employees eventually discover, that love is one-way only: You employer does not love you in return.
But if you really love your craft instead of "the job" where you practice it, and seek out new technologies and live "the bleeding edge", growing your skills, do you not risk harming your employer in the end? For instance by introducing unproven tech in a project because "it's cool and new"? Or by effectively sabotaging teamwork because your dedication to the craft grows into an arrogance.
to seek to maximize what you enjoy and to minimize what you don't enjoy.
What if they enjoy other things in addition to work? Exclusive focus ("commitment" in your terminology) on one thing to the exclusion of all others can be a sign of a mental disorder - perhaps a mild form of autism which some claim is prevalent in the IT industry...
It is possible to have more than one interest in life. So it seems the complement to your dismissal of "9-to-5'ism" is "socially-inept'ism"...
But there will be more: According to the JW, on the Day of Judgement 144,000 will ascend to Heaven, 144,000 will go to Hell, and the rest will live in the (now God-less) world they left behind...:)
Why? There are several UFO observations from credible sources yet it is perfectly acceptable to deny the existence of UFOs. Why is it any less credible to deny the existence of (non-observed) gods?
Anyway, an atheist lives a life with no faith in gods. The only way there would be a difference between an atheits and an agnostic cwould be if the agnostic "hedged his bets" by the occasional prayer to Yahweh, a sacrifice to Ganesha for good luck or an offering at a Shinto shrine.
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all the java hype of being able to write once and run anywhere
Hello, 1998! This is 2008 calling, how are things?
They count every download as a lost sale.
Worse than that; in order to call it theft they practically have to count every download as a loss or expense.
Which does not make sense at all.
Or Beatallica, who mixed Metallica and Beatles to great effect. "Hey Dude", "Leper Madonna", "Sgt. Hetfield's Motorbreath Pub Band" etc.
Do read the Wikipedia entry, Lars is not an asshole all the time...
Actually I've seen at least one of the Beatallica albums on sale in a record store, so perhaps they reached an agreement with both Metallica and Beatles rights holders?
"Got to get you trapped under ice"...
... unless it's done by the Japanese against captured American soldiers during WW2. Apparently.
Great idea, I will start marking my own comments in such a manner from now on!
Well, the solution to the repressive laws of Nazi Germany was a foreign military invasion...
Hey! Don't attack Flash like that! Without Flash we would have been under the crushing fist of Ming!
Free speech governs restrictions on the Government's part; after you successfully use your free speech rights you get to face the consequences, whether you get sued for hate speech, libel or what have you. But you were not hindered from "speaking", which is the important part.
/. really only cover the half where you speak not the other half where you stand for what you said...
Just like most freedoms, freedom of speech has a duty of responsibility attached to it - as such, anonymous vents like
As far as I have seen they have been "refreshingly" open about Office 2007 supporting "MSOOXML" which is not the same as the ECMA/ISO spec.
ODF: 5+ applications can write the format.
OOXML: Zero applications can write the format.
ODF Wins!
It's both: The ISO standard number is ISO/IEC 23270:2006.
No, I was thinking of e.g. the Indian government if their food supplies were threatened by Monsanto actions. Remember, IP laws are PER COUNTRY, including any laws related to upholding international treaties like the Berne Convention on copyright and the WIPO rules.
The FIRST slaves, sure. Later, less privileged ex-Europeans, and Chinese, were used as what was the rebranded slavery of "indentured servitude" where your meagre salaries were eaten up by the company store you were forced to buy goods from - and that you got a hefty debt to.
- Where are you from?
- Knock Knock!
- Who's there?
- Yes, our glorious leader Who, and the happy citizens of Knock Knock!
There were some rioting over some newspaper printing some political cartoons allegedly depicting Mohammed (the prophet, not the million others by that name). The newspaper used "freedom of expression" defense, but probably censors a bunch of other things without anyone knowing (e.g. articles which might have put journalists in a bad light etc.)...
However, those riots were more a continuation of earlier riots in that part of Copenhagen over the tearing down of a youth-occupied building some six months earlier.
ALL "intellectual property" is based on government-granted monopolies. If Monsanto keep abusing their powers over what is essential to a country's food supply, Monsanto risk that a government revokes their patents on the GM seeds under national emergency laws (which the WIPO accept as far as I know).
So step gently, big corporation - you only get to play by government fiat.
No, it's too late. If it had been spared the fast-track process a JTC would have grabbed it and possibly tweaked it into something useful.
Now? The current version, warts and all, has an ISO number. Any changes might turn into a NEW standard, but not the current one.
I mean that was the argument from the OOXML camp when it was pointed out that OASIS added formulas in ODF 1.1. Apparently, that did not count since what was "stamped" by ISO was version 1.0.
(Apparently though, it's not a problem for them that Microsoft e.g. makes new versions of C# beyond the ISO-stamped spec...)
But if you really love your craft instead of "the job" where you practice it, and seek out new technologies and live "the bleeding edge", growing your skills, do you not risk harming your employer in the end? For instance by introducing unproven tech in a project because "it's cool and new"? Or by effectively sabotaging teamwork because your dedication to the craft grows into an arrogance. What if they enjoy other things in addition to work? Exclusive focus ("commitment" in your terminology) on one thing to the exclusion of all others can be a sign of a mental disorder - perhaps a mild form of autism which some claim is prevalent in the IT industry...
It is possible to have more than one interest in life. So it seems the complement to your dismissal of "9-to-5'ism" is "socially-inept'ism"...
They ARE sold, but the price is not paid by the recipient - as such it is very much like any other gift.
If you want fewer digits, I have this X-acto knife... now, give me your hands...
Yeah, but we don't have Greek words to add "a-" to for those...
Do we?
If you excuse me I have to go back to my hobby of not collecting stamps. Busy, busy.
But there will be more: According to the JW, on the Day of Judgement 144,000 will ascend to Heaven, 144,000 will go to Hell, and the rest will live in the (now God-less) world they left behind... :)
Why? There are several UFO observations from credible sources yet it is perfectly acceptable to deny the existence of UFOs. Why is it any less credible to deny the existence of (non-observed) gods?
Anyway, an atheist lives a life with no faith in gods. The only way there would be a difference between an atheits and an agnostic cwould be if the agnostic "hedged his bets" by the occasional prayer to Yahweh, a sacrifice to Ganesha for good luck or an offering at a Shinto shrine.
There are even references to some by name, whether Hebrew or otherwise - Baal, Moloch, Mammon...