Whilst it would be desirable to have a solution to climate change that does not involve hurting the economy (and I believe this is certainly possible), we should get our priorities straight. I would not want a bigger television at the expense of living in a filthy polluted desert.
You are missing the point. More bigger, or at least expensive, televisions being bought mean more taxes being paid both directly from sales and indirectly from the income of those who build them. Besides, TVs are a bad example as the newer, more expensive lcds and plasmas tend to use less electricity than older CRTs.
Hey those reduction things don't apply to China or India so they are just costing us jobs, sure people say we are worse, but we won't be forever and being only in the top 3 worse isn't so bad they just want to cripple our jobs, its a conspiracy from pinko liberals trying to bring down America.
Even though I am one of those pinko liberals this is one point I've got to give to the right. Any proposed solution that involves hurting the economies of the nations with resources to actually deal with the problem is not the answer. As many others have pointed out, global warming is a fact and it is going to take a lot of money and knowledge to survive it. Simply cutting back on emissions is not going to solve anything.
While I agree with this statement, I think this project is the wrong way to go about it, simply because we do finally have a vendor who has committed to open source driver support: Intel.
I would love to support Intel's efforts, if only they marketed standalone cards. Until then I'll stick with Radeons since I can get OSS drivers which support up to the X850 chipset.
Tell that to the more than 1 million people who have been arrested, fined, punished because of pot laws (which you reference.)
When I was a kid possession was a felony, now it's a barely a ticketable offense in most jurisdictions. THC itself is legal as a prescription, but I doubt any smokable form of the drug will be made totally legal today. You can thank the crazed anti-smoking brigade for that.
No, what you are is a criminal and one that puts even more evidence in the hands of the MPAA and RIAA to to and get Congress to criminalize any use for torrents, include legal, educational ones.
What? Make more laws that people will ignore? Yeah, that's the ticket. It certainly worked well for Prohibition, didn't it? I've seen more people talking openly about file sharing lately than pot smoking. If people don't want to obey a law they won't obey it, and when enough people don't obey the law then the law means squat.
Ray Beckerman seems to be the attorney requesting our advice, and while I think it admirable that/. people have so much time to spare for 'the cause', the question of time itself cannot be ignored.
I suspect that if any one of us asked the good attorney for advice, we would have to reach deep into our pocketbook to pay for it. I have no idea, of course, about what financial arrangements he has made to take on this difficult case, but presumably he is being paid. Fighting for a good cause or bad, he remains what he is--a lawyer. A hired gun.
So my question is--has this good fellow made a contribution to Slashdot to thank us for our help?
Mr. Beckerman has contributed quite a few articles on the ongoing RIAA cases and provides documents related to the lawsuits at his web site.
Not because I'm sick of RIAA going after people, but because people somehow think breaking the law is OK. I'm not crazy about the current state of copyright laws, but they're still laws.
There really is no reason to change a law that the majority of people are obeying so if you really aren't crazy about the current state of copyright laws you should be encouraging people to ignore them.
Deal with the consequences of your actions people. And in this case, the consequences of your children's actions. You're the parent, you should be able to control your kids and know what they're doing.
Here I'm going to agree with you to a certain extent. More people being punished for sharing means more people screaming to their Congresscritters to change these bad laws.
And in this case, the consequences of your children's actions. You're the parent, you should be able to control your kids and know what they're doing. If you don't know 'Kazaa from kazoo' you should learn. At a minimum don't let your children do things you don't understand. You're the parent and you're supposed to be protecting them, start acting like it. How can you protect them if you don't even know what they're doing? I hope RIAA wins against the children.
Either you really aren't that upset with the laws as they are or you are stuck in some adolescent "rules are rules" stage of life. There are many children who grow up learning things that their parents didn't even know exist.
Drinking in secret isn't civil disobedience. The idea of civil disobedience is to raise awareness that the punishment does not fit the crime; if the crime is secret and the punishment nonexistent then nothing has been accomplished except a violation of the law.
The idea of ignoring stupid laws is to make those that enacted them aware of the fact that they can not be enforced.
Yeah, and if he gets sued by the RIAA, he'll be the first one to cry foul.
If he wants to be "Civil Disobdient", he should try to download his music with his real name and write a letter to the RIAA saying "Come and get me!"
Just as those who drank during prohibition wanted to hide their activity, those who share music today want to hide theirs. Civil obedience or not, the result is the same...an ignorant law gets ignored.
I haven't purchased any ATI cards in about four years, and for customers I steer them to either NVidia or, for lower-end customers, to Intel's embedded chipsets. The nice folks at ATI will eventually figure it out, if not by themselves, then by their AMD overlords.
Now I'm just the opposite. I refuse to buy nVidia cards and put only Radeons (1 X850, 1 9600, 2 9200s) that are supported by OS drivers in my machines. I do hope, though, that now that AMD has purchased ATI that they release more specs that will help out the r300 project.
Yes, but that's how a lot of people think. My original statement was about how "the world" sees America, not me, not the Dalai Lama. And being of the white-skinned, English-speaking persuasion myself, there are countries I would be unwise to visit now, as I would be treated as a target because I look like an American to them. Though my own country, Australia, has sadly been complicit in Bush's adventurism.
So you yourself can understand the difficulties we face here in the States then. Well at least we've taken control of Congress from the neo-cons, hopefully the Presidency will follow two years down the road. There are quite a large of percentage of people here who believe that freedom of religion only applies to their particularly brand though, and Bush and his croonies are quite adept at manipulating them.
You're back to square one. What group decides what is obscene and belongs in.xxx? What is hate speech and belongs in.kkk?
You must really misunderstand my meaning because that is my very point. Those who desire to be censored should move to censored TLDs while those who wish to remain free should stay where they are.
wasn't talking about myself, personally. Some of my best friends are American. But "you", collectively voted in the administration, and confirmed it 4 years later. So you get some collective responsibility. And as for your examples of countries to hate; I could cite any number of human rights abuses in the USA, and a shitload throughout the world that it has encouraged by giving dictators a pass as long as they signed on to the War On Terror. Hundreds have been disappeared in places like Pakistan, for instance. Not to mention Abu Ghraib, renditions, Guantanamo....
Holding every US citizen responsible for Bush's actions is no different than holding every German responsible for Hitler's. Come to think about, it is also no different than Bush holding Iraqis responsible for Saddam's actions either.
I don't think you understand this whole "world wide web" thing all that well.
I understand it well enough to understand that what may be considered obscene in one jurisdiction can be perfectly acceptable in another. I also know that besides.com,.org,.net,.mil,.edu, and.gov there also exist country level TLDs such as.uk,.us,.es, etc, and that new TLDs such as.info and.biz have been added. The most effective way for those who feel it is necessary to restrict what others may view is to restrict where they may go, and the easiest way to do that is to lock them in to censored domains.
Isn't this something that a globally enforced.XXX domain name for erotica and.MAT for mature would fix?
No, there is too much variation in what people consider naughty and what people consider nice around the world. But locally enforced.censored TLDs certainly would.
WTF man, I'm on your side. All I'm saying is that although there are many reasons to hate some of the things that the US has done their are nations who deserve to be hated more. As for the "Clinton was worse" thing, why in the hell would I use that when it is plain that he was a much better President than the current idiot in charge. If nothing else he at least made it be known that even the Commander-In-Chief can use a decent blowjob every once in a while.
Does the current American policy portfolio protect the interests of Americans in general, or just the interests of the few? When I lived there I saw poverty far exceeding that of other "less developed" nations. Try to keep in mind that to The Rest Of The World, America does come across as hostile to civilisation, humanity and freedom, with a selfish bravado that seems to have no or little regard for cultural diversity or what are generally considered human rights, such as the right to medical care, education, safe and adequate housing just to name a few.
It might be helpful to think of American public policy as a slowly swinging pendulum that ever so slightly moves it center to the left. I know that might not make much sense, but that is how I view it from the "inside". Contrary to your statement, I believe this is due directly to the fact that the US is itself a culturally diverse nation that has gone through many periods of integrating mass amounts of immigrants. A continuing current controversy, for example, is how to handle the huge influx of Latin Americans.
As for humanity and freedom...well women have been able to vote for almost a hundred years now, the civil rights revolution of the 60s has pretty much made race a non-issue, and gay marriage is a pretty hot topic today. If you take into account our history of starting out as a slave based, puritanical, agrarian society I think you can see we have come a long way. One thing that I think has held us back in some areas of human rights is that, unlike much of Europe, our political and financial infrastructure remained intact after WW2.
You really want to maintain your position as the most hated country in the world? I suppose you've worked hard to earn it the last five years.
Huh, and here I thought we just had the most hated administration. Yes, I have been working hard...but for the last twelve years to get neo-cons out of office twelve years. I guess you can call me a "neo" liberal, though, because I do think you should be hate countries that deprive women of the right to vote and stone homosexuals to death more than the US.
Also the fact that USA is hostile to the rest of the world and extremely selfish, means no other country could trust it as a source of energy anyway.
Every nation is hostile to things that hurt their interests. Tell us how we can save energy and maintain our our current position and we will most likely comply. Win-wins are great for everybody, win-loses are not.
I don't know if you're the religious type (I assume so if you're volunteering for your church) but stealing short clips is still stealing. "Thou shall not steal" doesn't come with size qualifiers.
Funny thing is that no matter how large a portion he uses nothing is missing from the original work. Nothing missing, nothing stolen.
Producing a video for an audience to watch is even worse, you're basically using someone else's effort to create a product.
Nobody creates anything in a vacuum so every new work is based on someone else's effort.
And soliciting advice on how to hack into DVDs is a violation of the DMCA, agree with it or not.
Most religions require their followers to violate immoral laws.
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Whilst it would be desirable to have a solution to climate change that does not involve hurting the economy (and I believe this is certainly possible), we should get our priorities straight. I would not want a bigger television at the expense of living in a filthy polluted desert.
You are missing the point. More bigger, or at least expensive, televisions being bought mean more taxes being paid both directly from sales and indirectly from the income of those who build them. Besides, TVs are a bad example as the newer, more expensive lcds and plasmas tend to use less electricity than older CRTs.
Hey those reduction things don't apply to China or India so they are just costing us jobs, sure people say we are worse, but we won't be forever and being only in the top 3 worse isn't so bad they just want to cripple our jobs, its a conspiracy from pinko liberals trying to bring down America.
Even though I am one of those pinko liberals this is one point I've got to give to the right. Any proposed solution that involves hurting the economies of the nations with resources to actually deal with the problem is not the answer. As many others have pointed out, global warming is a fact and it is going to take a lot of money and knowledge to survive it. Simply cutting back on emissions is not going to solve anything.
I've seen a lot of mentions of file corruption on their mailing list, even with ext3.
While I agree with this statement, I think this project is the wrong way to go about it, simply because we do finally have a vendor who has committed to open source driver support: Intel.
I would love to support Intel's efforts, if only they marketed standalone cards. Until then I'll stick with Radeons since I can get OSS drivers which support up to the X850 chipset.
Tell that to the more than 1 million people who have been arrested, fined, punished because of pot laws (which you reference.)
When I was a kid possession was a felony, now it's a barely a ticketable offense in most jurisdictions. THC itself is legal as a prescription, but I doubt any smokable form of the drug will be made totally legal today. You can thank the crazed anti-smoking brigade for that.
No, what you are is a criminal and one that puts even more evidence in the hands of the MPAA and RIAA to to and get Congress to criminalize any use for torrents, include legal, educational ones.
What? Make more laws that people will ignore? Yeah, that's the ticket. It certainly worked well for Prohibition, didn't it? I've seen more people talking openly about file sharing lately than pot smoking. If people don't want to obey a law they won't obey it, and when enough people don't obey the law then the law means squat.
Ray Beckerman seems to be the attorney requesting our advice, and while I think it admirable that
I suspect that if any one of us asked the good attorney for advice, we would have to reach deep into our pocketbook to pay for it. I have no idea, of course, about what financial arrangements he has made to take on this difficult case, but presumably he is being paid. Fighting for a good cause or bad, he remains what he is--a lawyer. A hired gun.
So my question is--has this good fellow made a contribution to Slashdot to thank us for our help?
Mr. Beckerman has contributed quite a few articles on the ongoing RIAA cases and provides documents related to the lawsuits at his web site.
PS: Linux users are breaking the LAW every time they watch a DVD using their OS.
Bullshit. I've burned quite a few movies to DVD from archive.org and I doubt any of them violate even the US's draconian laws.
Not because I'm sick of RIAA going after people, but because people somehow think breaking the law is OK. I'm not crazy about the current state of copyright laws, but they're still laws.
There really is no reason to change a law that the majority of people are obeying so if you really aren't crazy about the current state of copyright laws you should be encouraging people to ignore them.
Deal with the consequences of your actions people. And in this case, the consequences of your children's actions. You're the parent, you should be able to control your kids and know what they're doing.
Here I'm going to agree with you to a certain extent. More people being punished for sharing means more people screaming to their Congresscritters to change these bad laws.
And in this case, the consequences of your children's actions. You're the parent, you should be able to control your kids and know what they're doing. If you don't know 'Kazaa from kazoo' you should learn. At a minimum don't let your children do things you don't understand. You're the parent and you're supposed to be protecting them, start acting like it. How can you protect them if you don't even know what they're doing? I hope RIAA wins against the children.
Either you really aren't that upset with the laws as they are or you are stuck in some adolescent "rules are rules" stage of life. There are many children who grow up learning things that their parents didn't even know exist.
Drinking in secret isn't civil disobedience. The idea of civil disobedience is to raise awareness that the punishment does not fit the crime; if the crime is secret and the punishment nonexistent then nothing has been accomplished except a violation of the law.
The idea of ignoring stupid laws is to make those that enacted them aware of the fact that they can not be enforced.
Yeah, and if he gets sued by the RIAA, he'll be the first one to cry foul.
If he wants to be "Civil Disobdient", he should try to download his music with his real name and write a letter to the RIAA saying "Come and get me!"
Just as those who drank during prohibition wanted to hide their activity, those who share music today want to hide theirs. Civil obedience or not, the result is the same...an ignorant law gets ignored.
The hardware you chose to buy IS dependent on closed source drivers, not Linux.
But you obviously have closed source drivers now, even though most of them are not.
No, I have no closed source drivers on any my computers.
I haven't purchased any ATI cards in about four years, and for customers I steer them to either NVidia or, for lower-end customers, to Intel's embedded chipsets. The nice folks at ATI will eventually figure it out, if not by themselves, then by their AMD overlords.
Now I'm just the opposite. I refuse to buy nVidia cards and put only Radeons (1 X850, 1 9600, 2 9200s) that are supported by OS drivers in my machines. I do hope, though, that now that AMD has purchased ATI that they release more specs that will help out the r300 project.
How much more stable or secure than Windows do you think Linux would remain if it became just as dependent on closed source drivers as Microsoft is?
Yes, but that's how a lot of people think. My original statement was about how "the world" sees America, not me, not the Dalai Lama. And being of the white-skinned, English-speaking persuasion myself, there are countries I would be unwise to visit now, as I would be treated as a target because I look like an American to them. Though my own country, Australia, has sadly been complicit in Bush's adventurism.
So you yourself can understand the difficulties we face here in the States then. Well at least we've taken control of Congress from the neo-cons, hopefully the Presidency will follow two years down the road. There are quite a large of percentage of people here who believe that freedom of religion only applies to their particularly brand though, and Bush and his croonies are quite adept at manipulating them.
You're back to square one. What group decides what is obscene and belongs in
You must really misunderstand my meaning because that is my very point. Those who desire to be censored should move to censored TLDs while those who wish to remain free should stay where they are.
wasn't talking about myself, personally. Some of my best friends are American. But "you", collectively voted in the administration, and confirmed it 4 years later. So you get some collective responsibility. And as for your examples of countries to hate; I could cite any number of human rights abuses in the USA, and a shitload throughout the world that it has encouraged by giving dictators a pass as long as they signed on to the War On Terror. Hundreds have been disappeared in places like Pakistan, for instance. Not to mention Abu Ghraib, renditions, Guantanamo....
Holding every US citizen responsible for Bush's actions is no different than holding every German responsible for Hitler's. Come to think about, it is also no different than Bush holding Iraqis responsible for Saddam's actions either.
I don't think you understand this whole "world wide web" thing all that well.
I understand it well enough to understand that what may be considered obscene in one jurisdiction can be perfectly acceptable in another. I also know that besides
Isn't this something that a globally enforced
No, there is too much variation in what people consider naughty and what people consider nice around the world. But locally enforced
WTF man, I'm on your side. All I'm saying is that although there are many reasons to hate some of the things that the US has done their are nations who deserve to be hated more. As for the "Clinton was worse" thing, why in the hell would I use that when it is plain that he was a much better President than the current idiot in charge. If nothing else he at least made it be known that even the Commander-In-Chief can use a decent blowjob every once in a while.
Does the current American policy portfolio protect the interests of Americans in general, or just the interests of the few? When I lived there I saw poverty far exceeding that of other "less developed" nations. Try to keep in mind that to The Rest Of The World, America does come across as hostile to civilisation, humanity and freedom, with a selfish bravado that seems to have no or little regard for cultural diversity or what are generally considered human rights, such as the right to medical care, education, safe and adequate housing just to name a few.
It might be helpful to think of American public policy as a slowly swinging pendulum that ever so slightly moves it center to the left. I know that might not make much sense, but that is how I view it from the "inside". Contrary to your statement, I believe this is due directly to the fact that the US is itself a culturally diverse nation that has gone through many periods of integrating mass amounts of immigrants. A continuing current controversy, for example, is how to handle the huge influx of Latin Americans.
As for humanity and freedom...well women have been able to vote for almost a hundred years now, the civil rights revolution of the 60s has pretty much made race a non-issue, and gay marriage is a pretty hot topic today. If you take into account our history of starting out as a slave based, puritanical, agrarian society I think you can see we have come a long way. One thing that I think has held us back in some areas of human rights is that, unlike much of Europe, our political and financial infrastructure remained intact after WW2.
You really want to maintain your position as the most hated country in the world? I suppose you've worked hard to earn it the last five years.
Huh, and here I thought we just had the most hated administration. Yes, I have been working hard...but for the last twelve years to get neo-cons out of office twelve years. I guess you can call me a "neo" liberal, though, because I do think you should be hate countries that deprive women of the right to vote and stone homosexuals to death more than the US.
Also the fact that USA is hostile to the rest of the world and extremely selfish, means no other country could trust it as a source of energy anyway.
Every nation is hostile to things that hurt their interests. Tell us how we can save energy and maintain our our current position and we will most likely comply. Win-wins are great for everybody, win-loses are not.
I don't know if you're the religious type (I assume so if you're volunteering for your church) but stealing short clips is still stealing. "Thou shall not steal" doesn't come with size qualifiers.
Funny thing is that no matter how large a portion he uses nothing is missing from the original work. Nothing missing, nothing stolen.
Producing a video for an audience to watch is even worse, you're basically using someone else's effort to create a product.
Nobody creates anything in a vacuum so every new work is based on someone else's effort.
And soliciting advice on how to hack into DVDs is a violation of the DMCA, agree with it or not.
Most religions require their followers to violate immoral laws.