Anime and manga should be legal. They're cartoons; Fictional representations of a fabricated encounter, often between entities which do not even exist outside of a person's imagination.
Or do you think there really are impossibly proportioned cartoon people in the real world, with emotions other than those that the artist has attributed to them at the exact time being pictured? Do they have a family history? Are they going to grow up in later life and abuse other cartoon people?
The man who's job it is to suggest names for new inventions based on pop culture references unfortunately got the career chip for the job of suggesting names for new inventions based upon pop culture references from half a century ago.
Was Dick Tracy's watch more like Dick Tracy's sleeve? If it's anything like the dimensions of the watch I've got on my left wrist right now, it won't be able to show you anything but the time.
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You don't comment on proportionality of sentencing at all. In fact, you suggest you'd have a common thief put in jail and have "the shit raped out of him" for nothing more than trying to steal your bicycle. Either that or you shifted subject pretty quickly. I guess you voted for the guy who wanted mandatory prison sentences for drug offences; Possession and supply, without distinction. How's that working out for your current total prison population? Pretty low, I hear... Oh, wait, highest in the world per head of population. I guess you folks are just predisposed to committing crime; couldn't be that your system is broken.
He admitted gaining access, and in the US it is illegal. There's not a lot of wiggle-room on that point. I think the main issues are that he's mentally unwell, will kill himself if extradited, and the proposed US punishment is disproportionate to the crime.
The issue here isn't what he did and where, it's a question of excessive and inhumane punishment. In the UK, he'd be expected to get maybe 2 years in a minimum security prison, probably with an order preventing internet access for a couple of years, maybe a fine or some form of remuneration to the US gooberment. In the US, he faces fifty years in your oh so popular Federal PMITA prison system.
Remember: He fully admitted breaching the systems described; He had no malicious intent, he was investigating UFO cover-ups; He has recently been diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome, and professional medical opinion is that he will fulfil his stated intention to commit suicide if extradited to the US for trial; The access he obtained was extremely easy to obtain, and would most likely have been abused by a malicious attacker had it not been discovered by Garry's actions.
Garry is guilty of illegally accessing government computer systems in the US, but the sentencing guidelines would put him at at least 70 years old when he is released. There are no words for how inappropriate that is.
The last time I talked to herself, my head exploded. Then again, I wasn't immortal as I'd just had my wings blown off by a gangsta with a Mac 10. Sucks to be a fallen angel, but the flaming sword kicked ass.
So let's say I roll down to a garage sale and find the band Poison's worst songs of the 1980s on vinyl for two pence (that's two pence more than it's worth). By your logic, is it okay for me to now get online and download that?
Yes you are, as far as I'm concerned. You have a properly licensed copy of a copyrighted work (first sale doctrine in the US) which is on a medium you can no longer access. Format shifting should be listed as fair use, so you put the licensed vinyl in your loft and download the digital version. If anyone wants to argue the point, the original is no longer being used (one copy out of circulation) and the digital one is. The licensing is balanced out, and is fair. The record company, and Poison, got their money when it was sold, the original purchaser no longer has a license for the tracks (Media company is free to persue them if they're still enjoying the tracks without a license), but in a sane world you would be morally and legally untouchable.
He says he has a US iTunes account. I'm fairly sure that he shouldn't be using that in the UK, and whatever he thinks of as being a legal purchase is probably not legal at all. He's probably paying to infringe copyright because of the different licensing for different countries.
And frankly, the ten minutes of promos and trailers never bothered me. I simply go to the bathroom or do something else during them...
I do that before i sit down to watch a DVD. I then use VLC to watch it, which allows me to skip all of that rubbish (I literally shout at the TV when I'm forced to watch a DVD on a regular player). I also turn up to the cinema 15 minutes after the displayed time to start showing, as I know there will be some b-list celebrity telling me to shop the guy making a shaky-cam screener of the film, and several trailers for movies loosely related to the one I want to watch (It has a woman in it? Show a trailer for a Rom-Com). I went to see Iron Man 2 recently, and do you know what there was an advert for? Sex and The City 2. I guess the link is that they are both sequels.
So yeah, I get why people are pissy about these things, and I agree totally. Give me a DVD with the movie I want to watch and nothing else and I'll be a happy person. Skip the trailers at the cinema, and I'll be a happy person. Bombard me with region-specific releases, format shifting prohibiting DRM, and unskippable trailers and I you will lose my business.
Because regardless of what the grandparent said, the above post is insightful. It's also interesting to those who know nothing of Linux but do know of Windows servers falling over because of a mandatory patch, for example. For essential systems, a working stable configuration does indeed make more sense than a cutting edge potentially buggy one.
I hate to trot out Ubuntu as an example, but why do you think they have Long Term Support releases? High availability production servers are not expected to run Ubuntu Server 9.10; It has a lot of patches which may break features which worked in previous versions (just look at the list of dependencies removed when you upgrade). I would expect a significant number of those servers to be running 8.04 LTS, and to potentially upgrade to 10.04.1 when it becomes available (the LTS version of LL still being relatively new and untested).
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What is listed as step 4. is actually step 5. There wasn't much of a wait involved at all, so we skipped it to keep things simple.
..." I you will.
Think of the step you're thinking of as being more of an extension of step 3... "3.b)
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Anime and manga should be legal. They're cartoons; Fictional representations of a fabricated encounter, often between entities which do not even exist outside of a person's imagination.
Or do you think there really are impossibly proportioned cartoon people in the real world, with emotions other than those that the artist has attributed to them at the exact time being pictured? Do they have a family history? Are they going to grow up in later life and abuse other cartoon people?
The man who's job it is to suggest names for new inventions based on pop culture references unfortunately got the career chip for the job of suggesting names for new inventions based upon pop culture references from half a century ago.
After all, "You gotta do what you gotta do."
Was Dick Tracy's watch more like Dick Tracy's sleeve? If it's anything like the dimensions of the watch I've got on my left wrist right now, it won't be able to show you anything but the time.
"since 1967"? "20th centure average"?
You do know we're coming out of an ICE AGE don't you? It's SUPPOSED to be getting warmer.
Come back when you've consulted geological records and we'll have a chat.
I thought Thetans were responsible for all of the bad emotions we have. Therefore, they are almost entirely made up of... Well, made up stuff.
I played EVE for a few years. This is the first I've heard of the CSM.
Note to CSM members: Improve public image of CSM, improve awareness.
How many tyres would a VW Beetle need to drive across all of those?
No, I'm not telling you which direction.
We'll be getting more of this magical product to market, as soon as Steve finishes smoking his iPipe.
FTFY.
I find the fact that you would have to actually plug in your cell phone to charge it a big turn off.
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Or turn on
He's saying nobody should be killed for denying the holocaust. I agree with him.
Posted from a laptop tethered to a WinMobile device, which has supported tethering since release, over USB, Bluetooth, and WiFi (act as wireless router).
But yeah, you enjoy your "progress."
Pfff, typical engineers. Having Shutdown next to Reboot is very efficient, but not very fault tolerant.
Goodluckwiththat.
Exactly. No change.
You don't comment on proportionality of sentencing at all. In fact, you suggest you'd have a common thief put in jail and have "the shit raped out of him" for nothing more than trying to steal your bicycle. Either that or you shifted subject pretty quickly. I guess you voted for the guy who wanted mandatory prison sentences for drug offences; Possession and supply, without distinction. How's that working out for your current total prison population? Pretty low, I hear... Oh, wait, highest in the world per head of population. I guess you folks are just predisposed to committing crime; couldn't be that your system is broken.
He admitted gaining access, and in the US it is illegal. There's not a lot of wiggle-room on that point. I think the main issues are that he's mentally unwell, will kill himself if extradited, and the proposed US punishment is disproportionate to the crime.
The issue here isn't what he did and where, it's a question of excessive and inhumane punishment. In the UK, he'd be expected to get maybe 2 years in a minimum security prison, probably with an order preventing internet access for a couple of years, maybe a fine or some form of remuneration to the US gooberment. In the US, he faces fifty years in your oh so popular Federal PMITA prison system.
Remember: He fully admitted breaching the systems described; He had no malicious intent, he was investigating UFO cover-ups; He has recently been diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome, and professional medical opinion is that he will fulfil his stated intention to commit suicide if extradited to the US for trial; The access he obtained was extremely easy to obtain, and would most likely have been abused by a malicious attacker had it not been discovered by Garry's actions.
Garry is guilty of illegally accessing government computer systems in the US, but the sentencing guidelines would put him at at least 70 years old when he is released. There are no words for how inappropriate that is.
Yup! No change. It's one way.
He does: "Let it slide; My name's hard enough to pronounce, let alone spell."
Sincerely, Edward Theosnoplingastorpolitus.
The last time I talked to herself, my head exploded. Then again, I wasn't immortal as I'd just had my wings blown off by a gangsta with a Mac 10. Sucks to be a fallen angel, but the flaming sword kicked ass.
So let's say I roll down to a garage sale and find the band Poison's worst songs of the 1980s on vinyl for two pence (that's two pence more than it's worth). By your logic, is it okay for me to now get online and download that?
Yes you are, as far as I'm concerned. You have a properly licensed copy of a copyrighted work (first sale doctrine in the US) which is on a medium you can no longer access. Format shifting should be listed as fair use, so you put the licensed vinyl in your loft and download the digital version. If anyone wants to argue the point, the original is no longer being used (one copy out of circulation) and the digital one is. The licensing is balanced out, and is fair. The record company, and Poison, got their money when it was sold, the original purchaser no longer has a license for the tracks (Media company is free to persue them if they're still enjoying the tracks without a license), but in a sane world you would be morally and legally untouchable.
However, sane doesn't come into the picture.
He says he has a US iTunes account. I'm fairly sure that he shouldn't be using that in the UK, and whatever he thinks of as being a legal purchase is probably not legal at all. He's probably paying to infringe copyright because of the different licensing for different countries.
Just a thought...
And frankly, the ten minutes of promos and trailers never bothered me. I simply go to the bathroom or do something else during them...
I do that before i sit down to watch a DVD. I then use VLC to watch it, which allows me to skip all of that rubbish (I literally shout at the TV when I'm forced to watch a DVD on a regular player). I also turn up to the cinema 15 minutes after the displayed time to start showing, as I know there will be some b-list celebrity telling me to shop the guy making a shaky-cam screener of the film, and several trailers for movies loosely related to the one I want to watch (It has a woman in it? Show a trailer for a Rom-Com). I went to see Iron Man 2 recently, and do you know what there was an advert for? Sex and The City 2. I guess the link is that they are both sequels.
So yeah, I get why people are pissy about these things, and I agree totally. Give me a DVD with the movie I want to watch and nothing else and I'll be a happy person. Skip the trailers at the cinema, and I'll be a happy person. Bombard me with region-specific releases, format shifting prohibiting DRM, and unskippable trailers and I you will lose my business.
Because regardless of what the grandparent said, the above post is insightful. It's also interesting to those who know nothing of Linux but do know of Windows servers falling over because of a mandatory patch, for example. For essential systems, a working stable configuration does indeed make more sense than a cutting edge potentially buggy one.
I hate to trot out Ubuntu as an example, but why do you think they have Long Term Support releases? High availability production servers are not expected to run Ubuntu Server 9.10; It has a lot of patches which may break features which worked in previous versions (just look at the list of dependencies removed when you upgrade). I would expect a significant number of those servers to be running 8.04 LTS, and to potentially upgrade to 10.04.1 when it becomes available (the LTS version of LL still being relatively new and untested).