Quite right. Large corporations have no problem exporting jobs to places where labor is cheap, but the moment you start importing their products from where they can be purchased cheaply, the shit hits the fan.
Because political bias is measuring stick with which to measure freedom of speech. Do you think Bush is going to have Rush Limbauh carted off to a cell for sucking up too much? Fat chance. When freedom of speech slips away, the first to lose it are the opponents to the current establishment. If a paper like the NY Times can exist, it's a pretty good sign that you can still print almost anything without fear of retribution.
See for example, laws shielding journalist's sources. Without those protections, sources have little reason to risk their necks to expose some things to the press.
Everyone talks about a tin foil wallet as a fix but all a dedicated scammer would need to do is hang around checkout lanes where people open their wallets to harvest large numbers of cards if these become common enough. If it can be read for purchase, it can be read by anyone who wants it. Hell, you could leave one that was disguised as a harmless object at the checkout lane and just stop by later and pick it up out of the last and found bin. Voila, a big list of victims.
When my credit card number was stolen years ago, I only had to check my receipts to know where I had been during the period when it was stolen. After reporting it to the police, they got security cameras which showed in full view the vile little worm at the gas station who had copied down the number while his back was turned to me. And though the card was protected against fraud, it still took many of hours of my time to prove it was fraud, and then argue with the bank that the purchases were indeed fraudulent. Not only that, but because it was a debit card tied to my checking account, in the mean time my account had been cleaned out and some of my checks bounced. I had to argue for a long time with the bank to get them to take back the overdraft charges which had amounted to hundreds of dollars. They couldn't seem to fathom the fact that if the fraudulent charges hadn't occurred, nothing would have bounced.
Two lessons I took from this:
1. Never, ever use a debit card. Ever.
2. Banks will try to screw you even after you prove that charges were fraudulent.
My ex-wife and her husband are home schooling my daughter, and originally I wasn't too keen on the idea. They live in pretty decent school district, and I figured the socialization aspect of public school would be good for her. More and more though, I'm starting to wonder if school is really the best place for a child to become socialized. I'm beginning to think there's enough exposure to other kids through organized sports, clubs and extra-curricular activities that public school just isn't needed.
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Except this is not overreacting. While this single event isn't the downfall of the US, it's a part of the attitude that nobody is ever at fault, it's always somebody else. Following closely is the idea that if it's somebody elses fault, then somebody owes the victim millions of dollars. While gross negligence has always been and should continue to be actionable, there's no reason that things which are truly accidents should be.
To take it even further, I can see how the victim mentality that our legal system has fostered has extended to areas beyond suing anybody for anything. I mean, surely our foreign policy can't be to blame for terrorist attacks. It must be Saddam's fault. Let's sue him. I mean bomb him.
What's really exciting is what if only 10% of the PCs that are currently running the CPU version switch to the GPU version, the work output will increase by a factor of 6. What does that mean for the researchers using this data? Will they get the answers they're looking for in a matter of years instead of decades?
I think you misunderstood. He doesn't actually want to DO anything about it, he just wants to sit in his comfy office and whine about it. It's far easier to criticize others for not doing what he thinks should be done, than actually doing something himself.
Hmmm, about half of what you mentioned are tools that make it easier to install Windows. Assuming you already have Windows XP or 2000 installed, isn't it easier to stick with what you already have instead of switching to an operating system whose greatest benefit is making it easier to install? The circular logic is mind boggling.
What the hell are you doing assembling business machines by hand? Anybody who builds their company's hardware off of bits bought at Newegg needs their head examined.
* Copyright is recognised as fundamentally an economic tool for artificially assigning value to something that inherently has none
If the ideas that are copyrighted have no value, then why do others want to be able to use them freely? If something truly has no value, it's because nobody wants it. As soon as somebody wants something it has value, whether you personally believe it to or not.
Why is your only criteria for success being the next international sensation and making a gazillion dollars per year? There are thousands of people who make money distributing their works on their own, without any help from "the big boys." You have such a bad case of tunnel vision, it's actually giving me a headache to discuss this any further with you. You are beyond hope, because you believe the only way to be successful is to be the next boy band or pop diva on a major label.
You can't publish anything on the web without the consent of "the big boys?" I was not aware of that. I see nothing of substance in your posts other than wild conspiracy theories about how the man is keeping everybody down. Just because you lack the ability to create something that others want is no reason to deny others the right to control that which they create.
What are you babbling about? By typing the above reply, you could move into the elite group of copyright holders if you wanted. Copyright is nothing special. You can copyright anything you create. The "elite group" you refer to are the ones who have created works that other people are actually interested in acquiring copies of. Just because you're incapable of creating something worthwhile is no reason to be envious.
Copyright at it's core is a good thing. It spurs creative types to create, because they know they can make a living that way. Unfortunately the idea has been twisted into what is essentially an eternal copyright by the big money players. Disney and the other soulless corporations have tied the works to the corporations rather than the creator, and extended copyright far past the original intent. That is where the problem lies. Not in the fact that copyright exists.
Imagine how tough it will be to bend over and tie your shoe with that thing on your hip. That could be a workout on it's own: The Gyroscopic Abdominzeratertron.
Bush this, Bush that. Waah, waah, waah, cry, cry, cry.
Nobody blinks at the abuses going on today because the federal government has been out of control for 60 years. Ever since FDR and his New Deal, the powers of the federal government have been expanding at a disgusting rate. Some of it has been good, some of it has been bad. But it all expanded federal power and numbed Americans to the fact that the government was too big for it's own britches, and some day we'd pay for all those times people uttered the phrase "There oughta be a law."
Let's face it, America is getting exactly what it deserves under Bush for our decades of apathy, and often desire that the goverment grow in scope.
The right wing has given the government too much power? Hello, McFly. The left wing gave government the power, and the right is all too happy to use it. Maybe the left wing should have thought about the fact that they might not always be in power before expanding the power of the government so far.
Hey, if people want to blame Bush for the stupid things he's done, be my guest. I'm not going to defend him. Hell, I didn't even vote for him.
But using him as a scapegoat for everything from stubbed toes to burnt toast just makes his opponents look like morons that couldn't form a cogent argument if they tried, and are hardly the answer to the societal woes we're facing.
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Quite right. Large corporations have no problem exporting jobs to places where labor is cheap, but the moment you start importing their products from where they can be purchased cheaply, the shit hits the fan.
Because political bias is measuring stick with which to measure freedom of speech. Do you think Bush is going to have Rush Limbauh carted off to a cell for sucking up too much? Fat chance. When freedom of speech slips away, the first to lose it are the opponents to the current establishment. If a paper like the NY Times can exist, it's a pretty good sign that you can still print almost anything without fear of retribution.
See for example, laws shielding journalist's sources. Without those protections, sources have little reason to risk their necks to expose some things to the press.
Everyone talks about a tin foil wallet as a fix but all a dedicated scammer would need to do is hang around checkout lanes where people open their wallets to harvest large numbers of cards if these become common enough. If it can be read for purchase, it can be read by anyone who wants it. Hell, you could leave one that was disguised as a harmless object at the checkout lane and just stop by later and pick it up out of the last and found bin. Voila, a big list of victims.
When my credit card number was stolen years ago, I only had to check my receipts to know where I had been during the period when it was stolen. After reporting it to the police, they got security cameras which showed in full view the vile little worm at the gas station who had copied down the number while his back was turned to me. And though the card was protected against fraud, it still took many of hours of my time to prove it was fraud, and then argue with the bank that the purchases were indeed fraudulent. Not only that, but because it was a debit card tied to my checking account, in the mean time my account had been cleaned out and some of my checks bounced. I had to argue for a long time with the bank to get them to take back the overdraft charges which had amounted to hundreds of dollars. They couldn't seem to fathom the fact that if the fraudulent charges hadn't occurred, nothing would have bounced.
Two lessons I took from this:
1. Never, ever use a debit card. Ever.
2. Banks will try to screw you even after you prove that charges were fraudulent.
I stick mostly to hard currency now.
Are you kidding? That's what software patents are for. You can be lazy, frightened, and a terrible programmer and still make millions!
I just wanted to finish your sentence fragment.
"... with guns."
You mean like AMD is positioning itself with HyperTransport?
That's all well and good, but I think we need to start thinking about our mine shaft strategy. We don't want to wind up with a mine shaft gap.
Mac version? They don't even have a Windows 2000 version.
Sadly, I'm slowly beginning to agree.
My ex-wife and her husband are home schooling my daughter, and originally I wasn't too keen on the idea. They live in pretty decent school district, and I figured the socialization aspect of public school would be good for her. More and more though, I'm starting to wonder if school is really the best place for a child to become socialized. I'm beginning to think there's enough exposure to other kids through organized sports, clubs and extra-curricular activities that public school just isn't needed.
Except this is not overreacting. While this single event isn't the downfall of the US, it's a part of the attitude that nobody is ever at fault, it's always somebody else. Following closely is the idea that if it's somebody elses fault, then somebody owes the victim millions of dollars. While gross negligence has always been and should continue to be actionable, there's no reason that things which are truly accidents should be.
To take it even further, I can see how the victim mentality that our legal system has fostered has extended to areas beyond suing anybody for anything. I mean, surely our foreign policy can't be to blame for terrorist attacks. It must be Saddam's fault. Let's sue him. I mean bomb him.
I'm not a murderer, your honor. I simply removed the occupant of that home so a newer, more functional citizen can occupy that dwelling.
What's really exciting is what if only 10% of the PCs that are currently running the CPU version switch to the GPU version, the work output will increase by a factor of 6. What does that mean for the researchers using this data? Will they get the answers they're looking for in a matter of years instead of decades?
Unless MS has plans to let me download Windows for free indefinitely, I should hope the driver support is better.
I think you misunderstood. He doesn't actually want to DO anything about it, he just wants to sit in his comfy office and whine about it. It's far easier to criticize others for not doing what he thinks should be done, than actually doing something himself.
Hmmm, about half of what you mentioned are tools that make it easier to install Windows. Assuming you already have Windows XP or 2000 installed, isn't it easier to stick with what you already have instead of switching to an operating system whose greatest benefit is making it easier to install? The circular logic is mind boggling.
What the hell are you doing assembling business machines by hand? Anybody who builds their company's hardware off of bits bought at Newegg needs their head examined.
Why is your only criteria for success being the next international sensation and making a gazillion dollars per year? There are thousands of people who make money distributing their works on their own, without any help from "the big boys." You have such a bad case of tunnel vision, it's actually giving me a headache to discuss this any further with you. You are beyond hope, because you believe the only way to be successful is to be the next boy band or pop diva on a major label.
You can't publish anything on the web without the consent of "the big boys?" I was not aware of that. I see nothing of substance in your posts other than wild conspiracy theories about how the man is keeping everybody down. Just because you lack the ability to create something that others want is no reason to deny others the right to control that which they create.
What are you babbling about? By typing the above reply, you could move into the elite group of copyright holders if you wanted. Copyright is nothing special. You can copyright anything you create. The "elite group" you refer to are the ones who have created works that other people are actually interested in acquiring copies of. Just because you're incapable of creating something worthwhile is no reason to be envious.
Copyright at it's core is a good thing. It spurs creative types to create, because they know they can make a living that way. Unfortunately the idea has been twisted into what is essentially an eternal copyright by the big money players. Disney and the other soulless corporations have tied the works to the corporations rather than the creator, and extended copyright far past the original intent. That is where the problem lies. Not in the fact that copyright exists.
Imagine how tough it will be to bend over and tie your shoe with that thing on your hip. That could be a workout on it's own: The Gyroscopic Abdominzeratertron.
Bush this, Bush that. Waah, waah, waah, cry, cry, cry.
Nobody blinks at the abuses going on today because the federal government has been out of control for 60 years. Ever since FDR and his New Deal, the powers of the federal government have been expanding at a disgusting rate. Some of it has been good, some of it has been bad. But it all expanded federal power and numbed Americans to the fact that the government was too big for it's own britches, and some day we'd pay for all those times people uttered the phrase "There oughta be a law."
Let's face it, America is getting exactly what it deserves under Bush for our decades of apathy, and often desire that the goverment grow in scope.
The right wing has given the government too much power? Hello, McFly. The left wing gave government the power, and the right is all too happy to use it. Maybe the left wing should have thought about the fact that they might not always be in power before expanding the power of the government so far.
Yeah, mod me flamebait. That'll show me.
Hey, if people want to blame Bush for the stupid things he's done, be my guest. I'm not going to defend him. Hell, I didn't even vote for him.
But using him as a scapegoat for everything from stubbed toes to burnt toast just makes his opponents look like morons that couldn't form a cogent argument if they tried, and are hardly the answer to the societal woes we're facing.