How to I get down on the action to rush out a release candidate and then leave for a large bonus and some stock options which will make me a millionaire? 1) Get an MBA
2) Get some friends in high places
3) Be prepared to screw over your current employer
4) Profit!
Free markets are bad in the case of utilities however (see California, early 2000's). There's a difference between deregulation and stupidity. There is no free market in the U.S. -- there is only a greater or lesser degree of regulation.
In fact, the problems in California were caused (primarily) by strict, government-induced price controls -- not exactly a free-market practice.
Doing business with an oppressive regime helps bring up the standard of living for the people under it Not when the business you're doing specifically furthers the people's oppression. Trade is one thing; offering up your search engine as a tool of censorship and propaganda is another.
Space travel for the masses - first you need a space destination for the masses. If you build it, they will come. But not for a while, and not until you have a destination. Space is a destination. There are no hotel/resorts at the bottom of the ocean either, but I've spent a small fortune scuba diving.
TPB is not being blocked because it has the writings of Karl Marx, Osama Bin Laden or Adolf Hitler. No one is saying that TPB doesn't make stealing music easier. But at what point does that make all internet searching illegal?
Fact is, I can use Google to find any info available on TPB. You must also support the closing of Google then, no?
I like Bush's logic that created this debate:
GWB: "We must allow domestic spying immediately in order to prevent another 9/11."
GWB (2 weeks later): "I will veto any domestic spying legislation that doesn't retroactively protect the telcos."
In other words, protecting the telcos (retroactively!) is more important than preventing another 9/11.
I have yet to meet an atheist who gives a fuck what anyone else believes, as long as the believers aren't trying to preach in schools or make laws based on current popular mythology.
A bunch of people... spout flames and blame Bush for this erosion of their God-given right---guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence---to have a porn-filled iPod. Yup, looks like I'm in the right place. And then there are those -- like you -- who complain about things that haven't even occurred yet anywhere in the thread. Yep, it's slashdot alright.
Why would a society make laws which apply to its members if the laws aren't going to be good for the society? Although I disagree with the parent, this question is so plainly ridiculous that I have to respond.
'Society' doesn't make laws. Lobbyists write laws, which lawmakers (who owe their political well-being to the companies that lobbyists represent) then pass.
The implication of your question is that all laws must be inherently good for society, because they wouldn't be passed otherwise. This panglossian viewpoint ignores the fact that laws are overturned, changed, or reversed all the time.
It's the insulated kids who set up meetings with strangers online, because their parents have 'insulated' them from the reality that there are people online who will assfuck them for a few days and then toss them in a trashcan.
I'd rather my kid experiment intelligently with sex, drugs and alcohol while they're still young (like I did!), rather than waiting until college, when minor crimes==major prison sentence.
Parents also don't buy designer clothing that their kids will grow out of in 6 months, or $2000 strollers, or $150 sneakers as a status symbol for themselves and their kids.
One does have trouble imagining how organs like the eye developed through mutation. I have no more trouble with mutation developing a light sensor than with it developing a sound sensor. I don't get why the argument always turns to eyes, as though they're really all that amazing.
Nearly everyone I know wears glasses. Everyone I know needs sunglasses most of the year (I live in Nevada). Many, many people I know have had to spend thousands of dollars on Lasik just for this most fantastic of God's creations -- the eyeball -- to function properly.
If I was religious, the last thing I'd want to claim as evidence of God's hand in creation is the human eye, which, although useful, is really just another weak, imperfect, and unreliable device.
My thoughts exactly. Yes, we could (and should) just cure their diseases and feed them and help them grow crops. That will help them rise to the level of our servants -- growing our food for us, and maybe assembling the toys our children play with.
But giving them technology when they have little else should be a big leap towards competing directly with U.S. industry, rather than being slaves to it. Of course, maybe they'll just wind up manning call centers and growing a middle class until tech manufacturers move on to the next 3rd world country willing to work for (relative) peanuts. But maybe they'll create the next tech boom, removing Westerners from of creative dominance in technology.
At its heart, this is a massive social experiment, and I'm excited to see how it turns out. (Of course this all sounds very elitist, because it is!)
I'm in Vegas and use a motorcycle exclusively all year. I also rode all year when I lived in Southern California and Arizona.
And although my current motorcycle was $9000, I've owned 2 other great bikes over the past 10 years -- one was $300 ('83 Honda Rebel, lasted me 4 years and is still running well; I sold it to my cousin), the other was $1000 and was great for 5 years (but an accident killed it).
You explained why the school would want to discipline the kids. Actually, he didn't even explain that. Parents don't choose where to send their kids to school 98% of the time; public schools have a monopoly. The "we're protecting our school's reputation in order to save funding" argument is so transparently ridiculous that even the school admins didn't attempt it.
he reason the school administrators are punishing the kids instead of reporting them to the police is to avoid giving (or adding to) the kids' criminal records. Incorrect. Guess what the police would do if they obtained pics of these underaged kids drinking? Absolutely nothing, because it would be impossible to prove that what's in those containers is alcohol.
As others have said, this all has to do with one thing: power. It's a lot easier to control kids than it is to teach them, so that's what schools do.
I think there's very stringent usage rights set and signed for and everyone's aware of who's using who's material. Can't imagine what would make you think this. The whole problem outlined in the article is theft of a non-CC image, which is then falsely given a CC license.
This doesn't illustrate any problem at all with CC -- it's just run-of-the-mill IP infringement. The fact that TFA doesn't bother citing any examples of anyone actually being sued for this is telling -- fact is, no one would ever get sued except possibly the person committing the original crime. The worst that might happen is a cease-and-desist letter getting sent.
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2) Get some friends in high places
3) Be prepared to screw over your current employer
4) Profit!
Perhaps push a not-ready-for-primetime, butt-ugly e-book reader in desperate need of some usability consulting. Oh, wait...
In fact, the problems in California were caused (primarily) by strict, government-induced price controls -- not exactly a free-market practice.
You're wrong.
(See how grammatically correct that is?
Fact is, I can use Google to find any info available on TPB. You must also support the closing of Google then, no?
I ride a motorcycle. Does this mean that if I get gas in NJ or Oregon, I have a big, sweaty guy reaching in between my legs to fill me?
If so, I'm there!
My gf's 24 (I'm 35). When we started dating, she didn't know who Fonzi was :-(
repvik PWN3d. Beautiful.
I like Bush's logic that created this debate:
GWB: "We must allow domestic spying immediately in order to prevent another 9/11."
GWB (2 weeks later): "I will veto any domestic spying legislation that doesn't retroactively protect the telcos."
In other words, protecting the telcos (retroactively!) is more important than preventing another 9/11.
I have yet to meet an atheist who gives a fuck what anyone else believes, as long as the believers aren't trying to preach in schools or make laws based on current popular mythology.
'Society' doesn't make laws. Lobbyists write laws, which lawmakers (who owe their political well-being to the companies that lobbyists represent) then pass.
The implication of your question is that all laws must be inherently good for society, because they wouldn't be passed otherwise. This panglossian viewpoint ignores the fact that laws are overturned, changed, or reversed all the time.
One thing PC users can do that Mac users can't...
Protect & educate, yes. Insulate, no.
It's the insulated kids who set up meetings with strangers online, because their parents have 'insulated' them from the reality that there are people online who will assfuck them for a few days and then toss them in a trashcan.
I'd rather my kid experiment intelligently with sex, drugs and alcohol while they're still young (like I did!), rather than waiting until college, when minor crimes==major prison sentence.
Parents also don't buy designer clothing that their kids will grow out of in 6 months, or $2000 strollers, or $150 sneakers as a status symbol for themselves and their kids.
Oh wait -- yeah they do.
Nearly everyone I know wears glasses. Everyone I know needs sunglasses most of the year (I live in Nevada). Many, many people I know have had to spend thousands of dollars on Lasik just for this most fantastic of God's creations -- the eyeball -- to function properly.
If I was religious, the last thing I'd want to claim as evidence of God's hand in creation is the human eye, which, although useful, is really just another weak, imperfect, and unreliable device.
My thoughts exactly. Yes, we could (and should) just cure their diseases and feed them and help them grow crops. That will help them rise to the level of our servants -- growing our food for us, and maybe assembling the toys our children play with.
But giving them technology when they have little else should be a big leap towards competing directly with U.S. industry, rather than being slaves to it. Of course, maybe they'll just wind up manning call centers and growing a middle class until tech manufacturers move on to the next 3rd world country willing to work for (relative) peanuts. But maybe they'll create the next tech boom, removing Westerners from of creative dominance in technology.
At its heart, this is a massive social experiment, and I'm excited to see how it turns out. (Of course this all sounds very elitist, because it is!)
I'm in Vegas and use a motorcycle exclusively all year. I also rode all year when I lived in Southern California and Arizona.
And although my current motorcycle was $9000, I've owned 2 other great bikes over the past 10 years -- one was $300 ('83 Honda Rebel, lasted me 4 years and is still running well; I sold it to my cousin), the other was $1000 and was great for 5 years (but an accident killed it).
First 2007 was the Year of the Linux Desktop, and now THIS??
What a great year!
As others have said, this all has to do with one thing: power. It's a lot easier to control kids than it is to teach them, so that's what schools do.
Fucking pathetic.
This doesn't illustrate any problem at all with CC -- it's just run-of-the-mill IP infringement. The fact that TFA doesn't bother citing any examples of anyone actually being sued for this is telling -- fact is, no one would ever get sued except possibly the person committing the original crime. The worst that might happen is a cease-and-desist letter getting sent.