Read Thedailywtf.com sometime. Said people are not just regular old incompetent twats, but bureaucratic incompetent twats... which means they have lawyers. Lots of lawyers. And not NYCL-like lawyers.
Best of all worlds -- have broadcasters have a standard, well documented, streaming interface to a PC that requires nothing more than a cable, so people can use their PC as a TV or a DVR to their heart's content.
Advertisers: "Eww, people can timeshift with that!!" MAFIAA: "No DRM?! How will we protect helpless copyrights from dangerous pirates?!" Broadcasters: "So if we sell a cable box/service package to John Smith and he decides to switch to [competitor], then he keeps the box and uses it with them?!" Lobbyists^H^H^H^H Congress: "Ain't gonna happen. Not via a new law, anyway."
Mods and other speed readers, please be sure to notice the presence of the quotation marks -- these are not my opinions.
furthermore, the GP mentions the idea of the gov't holding copyright to an image, which would have let them issue a DMCA notice. however, all images/documents produced by members of the government as part of the duties of their job are part of the public domain (unless classified)
Shut up! Those fake copyrights are extremely useful for censorship purposes!!
It's a reasonable conclusion but a different argument as well.
Your original argument was "If [Situation X], then don't do [Action Y]."
Your jobs analogy makes the argument "If [Situation X], then don't do [Action Y] using [Method Z]."
Essentially, you're saying "Maybe if you don't want your job to see that you're looking for another job, don't look for another job because then you wouldn't have that problem." That's why it was perceived as a morality statement.
Could you please rephrase in terms of a car analogy?
What they need is not called a DNA sequence, it's a karyotype. In other words, they look at her chromosomes, without looking at the actual sequence of base-pairs. That's better than a DNA sequence b/c you're only looking at what her chromosomes are, not what her actual genes are--and it's a hell of a lot more private than asking her to show people her genitals.
...goes unusable when I turn on desktop effects (flashes off and on, slows down the machine) with an HIS Radeon HD4850 and the proprietary drivers from the ubuntu repos....
Don't turn on desktop effects on an old computer. Would you turn on Aero (in Vista) on mediocre hardware (you couldn't even put Vista on an old computer)?
I think you'll notice though that much like the gold mentioned in the article, people are stocking like CRAZY on ammunition right now. Prices have doubled (or more) in the last 6 months. You have about a snowball's chance in hell of finding any common pistol ammunition on the shelves right now (9mm,.45acp,.40s&w, etc) - people are literally waiting at stores as the boxes are unloaded and buying it all up immediately. All the local stores have had to put a per item limit on customers just to try and keep the speculators from buying it all.
Drunk dialing used to be a problem for alcoholics. Now they use the internet. I've never heard of someone drunk snail-mailing.
"Blowing off steam" is vaguely similar to being drunk -- you make stupid choices in the short run. It's harder to make a stupid choice w.r.t. snail mail since you need an envelope and stamp, and those things are not readily available (i.e. you have to get in your car and drive to the post office or something). By contrast, the internet, the phone, etc. are readily available -- you can just pick up the phone or mouse/keyboard/laptop/whatever.
There's a huge gap between "they ought to" hurt someone and "I'm going to" hurt someone.
Wow, do I wish more people realized this. I was suspended in Highschool for this EXACT same thing. I "Threatened" another student who had been picking on me by saying I ought to kick his ass. When I pointed out to the vice principal that the choice of the words "ought to" was intentional because it implied I was not going to, she claimed there was no difference.
School == Prison. They're not going to treat you the same way a court would.
Ya see, my anthro class sponsored a field trip to the Mohave desert. You should have SEEN the Vista! I'm tellin' ya, you ain't seen nuthin' until you checked out a desert sunset headed into a full moon.
Then it was time to set up our water filtering equipment. Can kernels of corn grow in desert conditions...
[snip]
Were you looking out of a window? Or multiple Windoze?
Pande explains that this is "as drug design is very hard, itâ(TM)s very easy to do more harm than good, and thatâ(TM)s one thing that we never want to see".
Eww, smart quotes! Just use the "'" symbol (conveniently quoted for you).
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Read Thedailywtf.com sometime. Said people are not just regular old incompetent twats, but bureaucratic incompetent twats... which means they have lawyers. Lots of lawyers. And not NYCL-like lawyers.
[big snip]
Best of all worlds -- have broadcasters have a standard, well documented, streaming interface to a PC that requires nothing more than a cable, so people can use their PC as a TV or a DVR to their heart's content.
Advertisers: "Eww, people can timeshift with that!!"
MAFIAA: "No DRM?! How will we protect helpless copyrights from dangerous pirates?!"
Broadcasters: "So if we sell a cable box/service package to John Smith and he decides to switch to [competitor], then he keeps the box and uses it with them?!"
Lobbyists^H^H^H^H Congress: "Ain't gonna happen. Not via a new law, anyway."
Mods and other speed readers, please be sure to notice the presence of the quotation marks -- these are not my opinions.
[snip]
furthermore, the GP mentions the idea of the gov't holding copyright to an image, which would have let them issue a DMCA notice. however, all images/documents produced by members of the government as part of the duties of their job are part of the public domain (unless classified)
Shut up! Those fake copyrights are extremely useful for censorship purposes!!
It's a reasonable conclusion but a different argument as well.
Your original argument was "If [Situation X], then don't do [Action Y]."
Your jobs analogy makes the argument "If [Situation X], then don't do [Action Y] using [Method Z]."
Essentially, you're saying "Maybe if you don't want your job to see that you're looking for another job, don't look for another job because then you wouldn't have that problem." That's why it was perceived as a morality statement.
Could you please rephrase in terms of a car analogy?
Right. I just read over the whole decision......
You read all 42 pages??? You must be new here. Nobody reads it all here.
There, fixed that for you.
That'll work for about five seconds...
The day they stop suing poor people who can't afford lawyers is the day they lose their revenue source...
He's also in the US... or else he just chose to use google.com instead of something else...
Of course he could always be spoofing the UA string... or even hand-crafting the URL...
The right to protest corporate actions is more sacred than the corporation in question. (read his sig)
I always thought the only law in that area of the world was "Do what the fuck you want and don't kill anyone".
What they need is not called a DNA sequence, it's a karyotype. In other words, they look at her chromosomes, without looking at the actual sequence of base-pairs. That's better than a DNA sequence b/c you're only looking at what her chromosomes are, not what her actual genes are--and it's a hell of a lot more private than asking her to show people her genitals.
...goes unusable when I turn on desktop effects (flashes off and on, slows down the machine) with an HIS Radeon HD4850 and the proprietary drivers from the ubuntu repos. ...
Don't turn on desktop effects on an old computer. Would you turn on Aero (in Vista) on mediocre hardware (you couldn't even put Vista on an old computer)?
An exception (there are certainly more): binge -> binging (though bingeing is also acceptable in some dictionaries.)
So what's the gerund form of the verb "bing" (to look up on bing)?
It's also an acronym--it stands for mung until no good. :-)
See also sense three of that link.
Basically, munging munge mungs it. Seems appropriate to me.
O RLY? Munging something mungs it? I never would have guessed.
You would still need to buy over 120 monopoly games to get that much monopoly money. Much more reasonable but even that is probably excessive.
Wrong! (using Google's cache b/c the normal link is dead)
I think you'll notice though that much like the gold mentioned in the article, people are stocking like CRAZY on ammunition right now. Prices have doubled (or more) in the last 6 months. You have about a snowball's chance in hell of finding any common pistol ammunition on the shelves right now (9mm, .45acp, .40s&w, etc) - people are literally waiting at stores as the boxes are unloaded and buying it all up immediately. All the local stores have had to put a per item limit on customers just to try and keep the speculators from buying it all.
[citation needed]
No clue wtf "like 3rd and 4th edition" means, but electrum can be explained.
Drunk dialing used to be a problem for alcoholics. Now they use the internet. I've never heard of someone drunk snail-mailing.
"Blowing off steam" is vaguely similar to being drunk -- you make stupid choices in the short run. It's harder to make a stupid choice w.r.t. snail mail since you need an envelope and stamp, and those things are not readily available (i.e. you have to get in your car and drive to the post office or something). By contrast, the internet, the phone, etc. are readily available -- you can just pick up the phone or mouse/keyboard/laptop/whatever.
What is this gitmo of which you speak? Do you mean the one Obama shut down?
There's a huge gap between "they ought to" hurt someone and "I'm going to" hurt someone.
Wow, do I wish more people realized this. I was suspended in Highschool for this EXACT same thing. I "Threatened" another student who had been picking on me by saying I ought to kick his ass. When I pointed out to the vice principal that the choice of the words "ought to" was intentional because it implied I was not going to, she claimed there was no difference.
School == Prison. They're not going to treat you the same way a court would.
You forgot one:
$ curl -I slashdot.org
[snip]
X-Leela: This wangs chung.
[snip some more]
The easiest way is using the "keywords" META tag which I'm sure is used by most explicit sites to self-identify.
Except that goatse won't do that.
I'll bite!
Ya see, my anthro class sponsored a field trip to the Mohave desert. You should have SEEN the Vista! I'm tellin' ya, you ain't seen nuthin' until you checked out a desert sunset headed into a full moon.
Then it was time to set up our water filtering equipment. Can kernels of corn grow in desert conditions...
[snip]
Were you looking out of a window? Or multiple Windoze?
Pande explains that this is "as drug design is very hard, itâ(TM)s very easy to do more harm than good, and thatâ(TM)s one thing that we never want to see".
Eww, smart quotes! Just use the "'" symbol (conveniently quoted for you).