A society that doesn't allow incest at all won't allow incest that could produce more birth defects, either. So there's an absolute benefit, even if it's irrational for those who can't produce offspring anyway. That isn't the case for forbidding gay marriage.
But there's a solid biological reason for why incest is a bad thing. Homosexuality being a danger to society or marriage or whatever is vague bullshit.
Incest is probably instinctively gross in all its forms because societies/tribes/species that are lax about it have unhealthy gene pools and get selected against. However, there's no evolutionary reason against homosexuality; some even say there's one for it, as it helps relationships outside of mating. It's definitely not instinctively gross as pretty much only Abrahamic religions find it offensive.
The reason they probably want to keep it locked down is because their calculators are accepted in school exams, and that's because they have a fixed feature set that prevents cheating. If a well-versed student jailbroke his calculator he could use it for things his teachers didn't expect, allowing him to cheat on exams. What they should do is release a calculator locked down even harder for exams, along with one that isn't locked down at all.
The other thing about a "publisher stealing" that you don't get is that not only can ONE publisher 'steal' it - ALL of them can. It then becomes a race to the bottom where the only publishers that will make money are the ones who have the cheapest and most efficient distribution system and are able to live off the thinnest of margins. At that point they aren't 'stealing' anything, they are providing a service to the end-user - distribution - and that's all they are getting paid for because the margins will be so thin in such hyper-competitive market.
How does that help the author?
Yes. Or they can sell a chapter at a time for a month's worth of income.
Which a publisher can just copy and resell without paying the author.
Or they can do the lecture circuit.
Not realistic.
Or they can use the credentials of being a published expert in the field to get a consulting gig in their field of expertise.
Total bullshit. Writing fiction doesn't make you a "published expert in the field."
Understand that writing isn't a part-time job.
How doesn't it? Most people working on GPL software are doing it for compensation already, as long as they get paid for the work they put in then so what?
The entire point of GPL is that you can't just steal the code without giving anything back. Without copyright it would be unenforceable.
To www.duskgytldkxiuqc6.onion, for instance. They could register a DNS alias for it. Tor hidden services aren't hidden in the sense that you can't access them, they're hidden in the sense that you don't know what their IP is.
That's not an answer at all. You expect authors to sell books at five year's worth of income so they can still make a living when a publisher steals it? How does that help GPL?
2) Financial -- Point of sale or performance only.
Bingo was his nameo!
And what exactly is to stop a publisher just stealing an author's book and printing it without him seeing a penny? Or a software company ripping off a GPL project without giving anything back?
People should be punished for opening a safe and snooping around classified information, no matter how badly the safe was designed. This could be mitigated by telling them he found a flaw, but as far as I know McKinnon did no such thing.
Why not make cars transmit a signal that can be picked up by nearby personal receivers for blind people? It'd eliminate noise pollution and everyone else could just look.
I'm far more worried about Washington and Albany than I am about a handful of naked savages residing in caves who managed to pull off a single mass casualty attack only through luck and our own incompetence.
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Why exactly?
A society that doesn't allow incest at all won't allow incest that could produce more birth defects, either. So there's an absolute benefit, even if it's irrational for those who can't produce offspring anyway. That isn't the case for forbidding gay marriage.
But there's a solid biological reason for why incest is a bad thing. Homosexuality being a danger to society or marriage or whatever is vague bullshit.
We wouldn't be here talking about this if it wasn't for DARPA.
Incest is probably instinctively gross in all its forms because societies/tribes/species that are lax about it have unhealthy gene pools and get selected against. However, there's no evolutionary reason against homosexuality; some even say there's one for it, as it helps relationships outside of mating. It's definitely not instinctively gross as pretty much only Abrahamic religions find it offensive.
Why isn't it then, o enlightened one.
Because incest is bad for the gene pool but homosexuality isn't bad for anything.
WHOOSH
The reason they probably want to keep it locked down is because their calculators are accepted in school exams, and that's because they have a fixed feature set that prevents cheating. If a well-versed student jailbroke his calculator he could use it for things his teachers didn't expect, allowing him to cheat on exams. What they should do is release a calculator locked down even harder for exams, along with one that isn't locked down at all.
*ducks*
Hopefully they're realize it's stupid and remove it themselves.
You're why no one seriously agrees with abolishing copyright. Have a nice day.
The other thing about a "publisher stealing" that you don't get is that not only can ONE publisher 'steal' it - ALL of them can. It then becomes a race to the bottom where the only publishers that will make money are the ones who have the cheapest and most efficient distribution system and are able to live off the thinnest of margins. At that point they aren't 'stealing' anything, they are providing a service to the end-user - distribution - and that's all they are getting paid for because the margins will be so thin in such hyper-competitive market.
How does that help the author?
Yes. Or they can sell a chapter at a time for a month's worth of income.
Which a publisher can just copy and resell without paying the author.
Or they can do the lecture circuit.
Not realistic.
Or they can use the credentials of being a published expert in the field to get a consulting gig in their field of expertise.
Total bullshit. Writing fiction doesn't make you a "published expert in the field."
Understand that writing isn't a part-time job.
How doesn't it? Most people working on GPL software are doing it for compensation already, as long as they get paid for the work they put in then so what?
The entire point of GPL is that you can't just steal the code without giving anything back. Without copyright it would be unenforceable.
To www.duskgytldkxiuqc6.onion, for instance. They could register a DNS alias for it. Tor hidden services aren't hidden in the sense that you can't access them, they're hidden in the sense that you don't know what their IP is.
That's not an answer at all. You expect authors to sell books at five year's worth of income so they can still make a living when a publisher steals it? How does that help GPL?
2) Financial -- Point of sale or performance only.
Bingo was his nameo!
And what exactly is to stop a publisher just stealing an author's book and printing it without him seeing a penny? Or a software company ripping off a GPL project without giving anything back?
I've been thinking, why don't torrent trackers work through a Tor hidden service?
You could try mounting the archive(s) using FUSE, and then play the contents with whatever you want.
People should be punished for opening a safe and snooping around classified information, no matter how badly the safe was designed. This could be mitigated by telling them he found a flaw, but as far as I know McKinnon did no such thing.
Why not make cars transmit a signal that can be picked up by nearby personal receivers for blind people? It'd eliminate noise pollution and everyone else could just look.
I'm far more worried about Washington and Albany than I am about a handful of naked savages residing in caves who managed to pull off a single mass casualty attack only through luck and our own incompetence.
How about your own arrogance?
Well it is basically a tax but the difference is that the government doesn't see the money, so they have no control over the BBC.
You should start a religion.
Mono got a development license from them legally.
But it isn't a version behind, especially not the important parts. It even has stuff Microsoft .NET doesn't, like SIMD support.