As it's also written in the summary, he has *not* forced de-wiki offline, but only a redirection which hardly anybody uses anyway. By the way, this is only a preliminary injunction.
A couple of years ago, I ran Debian Woody on an AMD K6, 300 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 4 MB Video RAM, 8 GB HDD. Just for surfing, writing, spreadsheets etc. It worked fine, even under KDE (although I would recommend xfce or similar under such conditions).
You didn't quite get the term "unalienable rights". The point about constitutional rights is exactly that you don't need to be one of the good guys to have them. Even "the nastiest, low-life scum-fucks" have them. Because they're human beings.
Join the Army, travel around the world, see many places, meet interesting people - and kill them.
Oh, I'm sorry, that post was about the USMC...
But why the hell does a US military branch have a.com domain? What happened to.mil?
No, it simply is not public domain then. You still have copyright etc. They (jurisdiction) treat it as if putting it under public domain had never happened.
FLOSS licenses are of course possible. That is not public domain. You just cannot give away all copyrights.
"I didn't realise the goal is maximum sentence or revenge, rather than resonable justice."
Yeah, but what is justice? Or, to be more precise, why do we punish people?
The possibilities are:
a) Vengeance
b) Deterrence for the general public
c) Deterrence for the individual
All of these are part of the principle of justice. As a matter of fact, justice is based on equality. If I kill someone, I will be punished for it, for I violated his rights and thus my rights shall be restricted as well (in that case, freedom of travel or whatever you call the right to walk around in freedom).
So, next thing: Is 15 years too much for one murder?
I absolutely disagree. Murder - being at least one of the most serious (if not the most) felonies - should be punished with the hardest penalty the jurisdiction of the state/country/authority/whatever has to offer. For instance, in Germany, where I come from, the punishment for murder (here being only the voluntary killing of a person with ruthlessness and malicious intent) is generally life imprisonment (meaning at least 15 years, in some cases at least 21).
Exceptions can be made if there were some special circumstances (not heat of the moment, as that is a different crime). But I cannot really see why this would be appropriate here.
So, from my point of view, the sentence is justifiable (morally, as I am not an [American] lawyer).
...then policemen, soldiers, security guards, bodyguards - hell, even doctors - would all be sad people [i]per definitionem[/i], as they all protect people from negative influences.
Well, I can only talk about Germany here, for that's where I live. Here the traffic inside the roundabout has the right-of-way if there is a special roundabout sign. If there is none (which never occurs...), it's normal priority to the right - which is of course strange, as it'll block the roundabout, but as I said: That sign is always there... However there's a special question about in the theoretical exam you need to pass in order to get your license.
Well, and of course (propably in every country on the world) the instructions of a police officer stand about traffic lights, above traffic signs, above special rules like these and above the normal priority to the right.
I realize that my own statement was nonsense. What I meant was "when entering the roundabout". And of course I do know who has got priority in this case (as I'm currently doing my driver's license). What I wanted to show is that traffic rules are necessary.
Solution: Use a roundabout on slow roads...
And when leaving the roundabout, who has got priority? The car leaving it, or the one coming in? And anyway, right or left lane?
There will always be traffic rules, and they are damned necessary. If you allow people to drive around on the highway (or even on the German Autobahn), it will not only result in the loss of their lifes, but also in the threatening and propably loss of others'.
It is not about "We head Microsoft", it is about the fact that something like WordWrapLikeWord95 should not exist in an ISO standard.
BTW: There was a very interesting graph in the German magazine c't. The essence was as follows:
XHTML: ~100 pages, ~400 days of standardization process
ODF: ~800 pages, ~900 days
SVG: ~600 pages. ~1050 days
SOAP: ~200 pages, ~950 days ...
OOXML: ~6500 pages, ~350 days.
You've no idea how incredible that looks in a graph...
Yes, they do (and also their German version), but they need to get the names behind the IP addresses. So they start a criminal trial, ask the police for the IP data, then start their civil law suit and let the criminal case go to hell. That is exactly what this stuff is about. You should have RTFA.
Well, such a thing exists, although not exactly in the government. It is called a court.
However nowadays the courts shrink back from exercising this duty, and that really scares me...
Slashdot Mirror
...does it support HTCPCP?
As it's also written in the summary, he has *not* forced de-wiki offline, but only a redirection which hardly anybody uses anyway. By the way, this is only a preliminary injunction.
I can also remember having read that a couple of years ago on heise.de
A couple of years ago, I ran Debian Woody on an AMD K6, 300 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 4 MB Video RAM, 8 GB HDD. Just for surfing, writing, spreadsheets etc. It worked fine, even under KDE (although I would recommend xfce or similar under such conditions).
He simply decrypts the truth.
You didn't quite get the term "unalienable rights". The point about constitutional rights is exactly that you don't need to be one of the good guys to have them. Even "the nastiest, low-life scum-fucks" have them. Because they're human beings.
We live in a matrix, folks!
I can actually imagine IBM lawyers sitting in a room and laughing themselves to death after they files this patent...
As what? Secretary for throwing chairs? SCNR
Join the Army, travel around the world, see many places, meet interesting people - and kill them. .com domain? What happened to .mil?
Oh, I'm sorry, that post was about the USMC...
But why the hell does a US military branch have a
A lot of people can actually distinguish, but the rest wonders why the American people (or the Electoral College) actually elected this government...
No, it simply is not public domain then. You still have copyright etc. They (jurisdiction) treat it as if putting it under public domain had never happened.
FLOSS licenses are of course possible. That is not public domain. You just cannot give away all copyrights.
"I didn't realise the goal is maximum sentence or revenge, rather than resonable justice."
Yeah, but what is justice? Or, to be more precise, why do we punish people?
The possibilities are:
a) Vengeance
b) Deterrence for the general public
c) Deterrence for the individual
All of these are part of the principle of justice. As a matter of fact, justice is based on equality. If I kill someone, I will be punished for it, for I violated his rights and thus my rights shall be restricted as well (in that case, freedom of travel or whatever you call the right to walk around in freedom).
So, next thing: Is 15 years too much for one murder?
I absolutely disagree. Murder - being at least one of the most serious (if not the most) felonies - should be punished with the hardest penalty the jurisdiction of the state/country/authority/whatever has to offer. For instance, in Germany, where I come from, the punishment for murder (here being only the voluntary killing of a person with ruthlessness and malicious intent) is generally life imprisonment (meaning at least 15 years, in some cases at least 21).
Exceptions can be made if there were some special circumstances (not heat of the moment, as that is a different crime). But I cannot really see why this would be appropriate here.
So, from my point of view, the sentence is justifiable (morally, as I am not an [American] lawyer).
...which is not legally possible in a lot of countries. In Germany, for instance, you can not license your work under public domain.
Reminds me of the old joke: "The MIR is to be shut down soon. In order to speed this process up, its operating system is switched to Windows 98".
...then policemen, soldiers, security guards, bodyguards - hell, even doctors - would all be sad people [i]per definitionem[/i], as they all protect people from negative influences.
Well, I can only talk about Germany here, for that's where I live. Here the traffic inside the roundabout has the right-of-way if there is a special roundabout sign. If there is none (which never occurs...), it's normal priority to the right - which is of course strange, as it'll block the roundabout, but as I said: That sign is always there... However there's a special question about in the theoretical exam you need to pass in order to get your license. Well, and of course (propably in every country on the world) the instructions of a police officer stand about traffic lights, above traffic signs, above special rules like these and above the normal priority to the right.
I realize that my own statement was nonsense. What I meant was "when entering the roundabout". And of course I do know who has got priority in this case (as I'm currently doing my driver's license). What I wanted to show is that traffic rules are necessary.
Solution: Use a roundabout on slow roads...
And when leaving the roundabout, who has got priority? The car leaving it, or the one coming in? And anyway, right or left lane?
There will always be traffic rules, and they are damned necessary. If you allow people to drive around on the highway (or even on the German Autobahn), it will not only result in the loss of their lifes, but also in the threatening and propably loss of others'.
...until I can see Duke Nukem Forever-DVDs in the shops.
It is not about "We head Microsoft", it is about the fact that something like WordWrapLikeWord95 should not exist in an ISO standard.
...
BTW: There was a very interesting graph in the German magazine c't. The essence was as follows:
XHTML: ~100 pages, ~400 days of standardization process
ODF: ~800 pages, ~900 days
SVG: ~600 pages. ~1050 days
SOAP: ~200 pages, ~950 days
OOXML: ~6500 pages, ~350 days.
You've no idea how incredible that looks in a graph...
The old Romans knew that already. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Yes, they do (and also their German version), but they need to get the names behind the IP addresses. So they start a criminal trial, ask the police for the IP data, then start their civil law suit and let the criminal case go to hell. That is exactly what this stuff is about. You should have RTFA.
Agreed. And in fact it is a dictatorship from a political point of view, combined with a government-boosted turbo-capitalism.
Well, such a thing exists, although not exactly in the government. It is called a court.
However nowadays the courts shrink back from exercising this duty, and that really scares me...