Well, this is a case when calling this "selling" is misleading. "selling" implies transferring some good to buyer, or at least doing something for him that requires any effort.
Indeed, a translation is derivative work and this particular case it's not covered with fair use exemption. So it's an argument in favor of abolition of copyright law, since there's no benefit for society in disallowing fan translations.
It doesn't matter whether you have to use internet or not. It's like arguing against equipping cars with safety belts because you don't have to use cars.
The thing is who will decide what "direct provable relationship with said government" really means? They can decide on any interpretation probably mostly informed by kickbacks from entities in question. Whether particular relationship qualifies as direct or no can be very subjective, their decisions wouldn't be subject to much of scrutiny and they can decide whatever they wish.
Donetsk isn't in Crimea. It's deep in the mainland. Ukraine basically splintered like Soviet Union did before, and Crimea and Donbass(Donetsk is a major city in the latter region) are among regions that have splintered off. Russia has incorporated Crimea but didn't incorporate Donbass for some reason.
Who cares what he said? People lie. Some campaign promises aren't enough to warrant supporting him with black ops. Sanctions actually support local industry by removing competition from foreign imports and Crimea's status doesn't matter as long as people aren't getting killed there.. The only issues with sanctions is that they're insulting.
I for one am a Russian, and I frankly don't care who wins on american elections. It's obvious to me that this whole story is made up to whitewash Hilary's fuckups in her campaign that alienated people so much that they voted for the designated "joke candidate". However the very idea that associating something with Russians can automatically vilify it seems very insulting and ridiculous to me.
I need to disclaim that I feel some frustration and disappointment with Ubuntu, too. I had hopes that it would become a dominant desktop OS, but it never did. It's not like there weren't major opportunities. For example that Vista fiasco. It's just that Ubuntu never filled any of the big vacuums. However, I mostly didn't care that much, so I never even investigated the details. I just observed the results.
I was replying to this. Ubuntu didn't become dominant simply because computer manufacturers didn't get around to use it. Many of them tend to have heavy ties to microsoft and in any case it will take decades if not millenia for both common users and manufacturers to change. And the destop linux community isn't too unhappy with being a niche os in general either. If they wanted total domination they'd just croudsource buy some desktop manufacturer and make it completely adopt linux and sell linux boxen at reduced price to make enough of a user base.
If US didn't decide to take down Assad(most likely to please Saudi Arabia) Syria would be as much of an ally to Russia now as Poland or Czechia. After all Russian Federation is a different thing than Soviet Union. And they don't get to inherit Soviet Union's client states such as those I mentioned.
Agreed. I want the US to have nothing else to do with Syria. But using chemical weapons is simply too awful and too horrific to ignore. We can't stop parties from making or using the things, but we can damned well make sure there are painful consequences to doing so.
Why is it too awful? The death toll from this particular attack is a lot less than from many conventional airstrikes. The fact that people are somehow less accepting of chemicals than of just bombing people to death with explosives is insane.
Backing Assad means backing the sole Russian ally in the region which the US cannot do, but this also means that realistically speaking getting the conflict in Syria contained is extremely difficult, much more so than it would be if this was a war with only 2 sides.
Why it cannot do this? Assad and Russia weren't much of allies before US decided to enter civil war on side of islamists. So the only way to deprive Russia of this ally would be to support Assad. He's pretty much like all other monarchs in the region, only more secular minded. It seems US prefers islamic fundamentalism though. Pretty much shows their more anti-intellectual attitude in stark contrast of the ideals of their founding fathers. They became victims of the same process that in the past turned islamic countries from forefronts of progress into breeders of ignorance.
Yup. We (entire world) is like this. Corruption or lack of thereof is determined by particular people, not by countries. And I wouldn't say that Russia has any particularly bad history about this stuff. Nothing that England or France didn't do worse in their time. Once again that's all spin and double standard.
The thing is every country has its own share of deaths that could be deemed "suspicious" if you arbitrarily assign them the role of "political critic". If it's done only for Russia then it's double standard. I'm not willing to live in other countries that still wage propaganda war against Soviet Union(which they equate with Russia) even when there's no longer a point for that. It kinda proves that the reason of propaganda war was not that Soviet Union was doing something wrong but that it was a competitor that should be removed. I'm not willing to convert to anglo-saxon groupthink just to stop them making up stuff about me. It would be same as compromise with terrorists. I'll be always second rate for you. No matter what I do you'll always find a way to spin it negatively. And I'm not willing to condone such behavior.
She's merely saying that both Soviet Union and Russian Federation are countries like any other. And if you feel an urge to find ways to paint them in negative light at any opportunity then you're a moron brainwashed by propaganda.
Used cartridge market only exists because printer manufacturers shift significant parts of printer's price on printer cartridges. This price shift results in market distortion so market seeks to shift the price back. Only sane solution of this conflict is to have cartridge manufacturer as a separate corporation from printer manufacturer. Otherwise there's no way to prevent printer manufacturers from artificially distorting the market like this.
A linker command in larger projects can easily blow over those limits necessitating hacks in buildsystems. To me it's one of most striking examples suggesting just how poorly Microsoft reinvented Unix. Another related issue is that command line is passed as single string in windows api while individual args are sent in separate strings in posix apis. Separate strings make more sense for lowest level api. Parsing command lines and handling escaping to be able to pass arguments with spaces for sure isn't job of a low level api. A shell should handle this since all shells have their own rules for escaping, and conversion layer for this is yet another annoying source of complexity.
Military can't think in terms of price of equipment. More fundamental is accomplishment of war objective. It's true that a CIWS would be a lot more effective here, but it's also shorter range, so ship or vehicle equipped with CIWS would have harder time getting into range. So Patriot could be better in a pinch, better than CIWS that couldn't get there. Also, cost of missile vs drone doesn't matter because the enemy most likely can get less drones than US government can get missiles anyway.
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Well, this is a case when calling this "selling" is misleading. "selling" implies transferring some good to buyer, or at least doing something for him that requires any effort.
But a translation is exactly the kind of work that is supposed to count as derivative while NOT being covered by fair use.
Incorrect. It's not about money. Fair use covers things like citations and parodies, even if you make money on them.
Indeed, a translation is derivative work and this particular case it's not covered with fair use exemption. So it's an argument in favor of abolition of copyright law, since there's no benefit for society in disallowing fan translations.
It doesn't matter whether you have to use internet or not. It's like arguing against equipping cars with safety belts because you don't have to use cars.
The thing is who will decide what "direct provable relationship with said government" really means? They can decide on any interpretation probably mostly informed by kickbacks from entities in question. Whether particular relationship qualifies as direct or no can be very subjective, their decisions wouldn't be subject to much of scrutiny and they can decide whatever they wish.
Probably it's marked so on the map because they plan to attack it later after they'll be done with attacking DNR and LNR.
Donetsk isn't in Crimea. It's deep in the mainland. Ukraine basically splintered like Soviet Union did before, and Crimea and Donbass(Donetsk is a major city in the latter region) are among regions that have splintered off. Russia has incorporated Crimea but didn't incorporate Donbass for some reason.
Who cares what he said? People lie. Some campaign promises aren't enough to warrant supporting him with black ops. Sanctions actually support local industry by removing competition from foreign imports and Crimea's status doesn't matter as long as people aren't getting killed there.. The only issues with sanctions is that they're insulting.
I for one am a Russian, and I frankly don't care who wins on american elections. It's obvious to me that this whole story is made up to whitewash Hilary's fuckups in her campaign that alienated people so much that they voted for the designated "joke candidate". However the very idea that associating something with Russians can automatically vilify it seems very insulting and ridiculous to me.
I need to disclaim that I feel some frustration and disappointment with Ubuntu, too. I had hopes that it would become a dominant desktop OS, but it never did. It's not like there weren't major opportunities. For example that Vista fiasco. It's just that Ubuntu never filled any of the big vacuums. However, I mostly didn't care that much, so I never even investigated the details. I just observed the results.
I was replying to this. Ubuntu didn't become dominant simply because computer manufacturers didn't get around to use it. Many of them tend to have heavy ties to microsoft and in any case it will take decades if not millenia for both common users and manufacturers to change. And the destop linux community isn't too unhappy with being a niche os in general either. If they wanted total domination they'd just croudsource buy some desktop manufacturer and make it completely adopt linux and sell linux boxen at reduced price to make enough of a user base.
Contrary to what you might think quality of OS doesn't matter. People gonna use any trash that comes pre-installed on pc. Even Windows.
Making a replica fingerprint is easier than replacing home button.
Biometrics provide security inferior to that of passwords. Their advantage is that they're faster.
Syria is not only a client state of Russia, they have hosted a Russian naval base at least since 1971 - way back in the Soviet era.
If US didn't decide to take down Assad(most likely to please Saudi Arabia) Syria would be as much of an ally to Russia now as Poland or Czechia. After all Russian Federation is a different thing than Soviet Union. And they don't get to inherit Soviet Union's client states such as those I mentioned.
Agreed. I want the US to have nothing else to do with Syria. But using chemical weapons is simply too awful and too horrific to ignore. We can't stop parties from making or using the things, but we can damned well make sure there are painful consequences to doing so.
Why is it too awful? The death toll from this particular attack is a lot less than from many conventional airstrikes. The fact that people are somehow less accepting of chemicals than of just bombing people to death with explosives is insane.
Backing Assad means backing the sole Russian ally in the region which the US cannot do, but this also means that realistically speaking getting the conflict in Syria contained is extremely difficult, much more so than it would be if this was a war with only 2 sides.
Why it cannot do this? Assad and Russia weren't much of allies before US decided to enter civil war on side of islamists. So the only way to deprive Russia of this ally would be to support Assad. He's pretty much like all other monarchs in the region, only more secular minded. It seems US prefers islamic fundamentalism though. Pretty much shows their more anti-intellectual attitude in stark contrast of the ideals of their founding fathers. They became victims of the same process that in the past turned islamic countries from forefronts of progress into breeders of ignorance.
Yup. We (entire world) is like this. Corruption or lack of thereof is determined by particular people, not by countries. And I wouldn't say that Russia has any particularly bad history about this stuff. Nothing that England or France didn't do worse in their time. Once again that's all spin and double standard.
The thing is every country has its own share of deaths that could be deemed "suspicious" if you arbitrarily assign them the role of "political critic". If it's done only for Russia then it's double standard. I'm not willing to live in other countries that still wage propaganda war against Soviet Union(which they equate with Russia) even when there's no longer a point for that. It kinda proves that the reason of propaganda war was not that Soviet Union was doing something wrong but that it was a competitor that should be removed. I'm not willing to convert to anglo-saxon groupthink just to stop them making up stuff about me. It would be same as compromise with terrorists. I'll be always second rate for you. No matter what I do you'll always find a way to spin it negatively. And I'm not willing to condone such behavior.
She's merely saying that both Soviet Union and Russian Federation are countries like any other. And if you feel an urge to find ways to paint them in negative light at any opportunity then you're a moron brainwashed by propaganda.
The only requirement they tweaked was "being a man" :P
Used cartridge market only exists because printer manufacturers shift significant parts of printer's price on printer cartridges. This price shift results in market distortion so market seeks to shift the price back. Only sane solution of this conflict is to have cartridge manufacturer as a separate corporation from printer manufacturer. Otherwise there's no way to prevent printer manufacturers from artificially distorting the market like this.
Glad I also have an old ATM running XP SP3 to use.
Why not OS/2 Warp? :P
A linker command in larger projects can easily blow over those limits necessitating hacks in buildsystems. To me it's one of most striking examples suggesting just how poorly Microsoft reinvented Unix. Another related issue is that command line is passed as single string in windows api while individual args are sent in separate strings in posix apis. Separate strings make more sense for lowest level api. Parsing command lines and handling escaping to be able to pass arguments with spaces for sure isn't job of a low level api. A shell should handle this since all shells have their own rules for escaping, and conversion layer for this is yet another annoying source of complexity.
Military can't think in terms of price of equipment. More fundamental is accomplishment of war objective. It's true that a CIWS would be a lot more effective here, but it's also shorter range, so ship or vehicle equipped with CIWS would have harder time getting into range. So Patriot could be better in a pinch, better than CIWS that couldn't get there. Also, cost of missile vs drone doesn't matter because the enemy most likely can get less drones than US government can get missiles anyway.