The law is not supposed to be a popularist "commonly accepted morality." Beating black people was once commonly accepted, even though it was wrong. The law exists, at least in a democracy, for the betterment of society and the people's rights. These people also include those who produce things.
What you fail completely to understand is that file-sharing is a cheaper form of distribution. A CD may no longer cost $12 to make, but a full length motion movie still takes $400 million. You can't share in any way that will make the production of movies cheaper, only the distribution.
They produce the movie, you have no right to it while it's copyright still holds unless you enter into an agreement with them. This is where the term copyright comes from, they, the producer, own the rights to copying of their product. This is a law that exists to better society because, even though the ability to copy has gotten orders of magnitude easier, the ability to produce a movie has not.
Copyright exists for the betterment of society. While ideal length is debatable the value of the system in general really isn't. The law protects rights of producers so they continue to produce, to the betterment of society.
I believe the RIAA has been socially harmful and the current length of copyright is too long, but you quasi-socialist mumbojumbo is just as harmful in the opposite direction.
Following that same logic shouldn't you be allowed to piss on anything you want with your penis?
If you came into my house and pissed on my couch I'd kick you ass. If you came into my theater and video taped my movie I'd sue your ass.
It's there theater and there movie. He was violating their agreement in all senses. File sharing infinitely copyable bits is one thing. This is outright blatant theft.
Well first off it would be hard to hit the tank with a laser unless it was very close, or you were on a hill, since lasers are line of sight. These would probably be for anti air, most likely anti-missile, since lasers travel a *lot* faster than other rounds targeting is simpler. I wonder, are there any designs for stealth cruise missiles?
By we I can only assume you mean the US. India has just touched down a probe on the moon, China has big plans. The US doesn't build windmills because THEY are pie in the sky and not cost effective.
The US gets passing grades in everything. It's just that there are a lot of pessimists like you who advocate self fulfilling prophecy's of failure. A downturn in the economy doesn't mean the worlds ending. The fire didn't die, it was put out by people like you.
You know who cares still? privet companies, developing nations. When the developing world starts wanting what the west has you'll see serious inquiry into sea mining, deep mantle mining, and space exploration, because there aren't any resources left.
You fail utterly to grasp the possibility of space.
There are mountains of high grade ore floating around up there that have more metal in them than has been mined in the entire history of mankind time 10. Not to mention rare elements that can barely be found on earth, and possible unlimited energy.
As for going back to the moon never happening, maybe for the US, but china and India seem pretty set.
The moon has very practical purpose. The moon is basically made out of Fiberglass, titanium, aluminum, Iron, and a few elements that can be used in rocket fuel. While it will likely never be cost effective to mine these for use on earth, use for space would possibly be cost effective. Think how cheap the ISS would have been if thy had to use more expensive resources from the moon and move it from L1 to LEO using ION drives rather than from the surface of the earth in giant rockets.
The problem with current manned space flight is that you have to keep sending the same people up and down with the resources to keep them alive. If they had a permanent base where people could spend long stays, like years, and where the materials to support them didn't come from down a gravity well, much of the cost of manned space flight (passing the gravity well repeatedly) would be gone.
If we are able to extract from the moon and rocket costs continue to decline then it is foreseeable that the cost of bringing 1 person to space could fall down to around $200k which means for $2 billion you could ship 10,000 people who would be able to build a lot more probes cheaper then anyone on earth could ever hope to. And it could even become cost effective as the processes needed to mine asteroids are discovered, something that will probably become more likely as the developing third world puts further demands on the earths resources
I'm not advocating maned missions to mars, but a maned manufacturing presence in orbit is practically essential to build anything worth while. People pack a lot of value. 8 pounds of brain is still a lot smarter then 8 pounds of CPU's. And 150 pounds of muscles is a lot more versatile then 150 Pounds of servos.
Any serious exploration of space will need to use resources gathered in space. That seems to be 90% dependent on if there's water on the moon. We should be spending most our effort looking for resources that would allow mechanized systems to synthesize materials before we even think about touching mars.
The gravity well is the problem, space exploration is not going to go anywhere as long as all probes have to be launched through it.
WTF! Redundant? Seriously? IF windshield wipers would be a redundant system then why is the rover in such a bad state now? Maybe you should have considered the idea instead of worrying about redundancy. Obviously the moderators on/. take minimalist engineering to far.
Well, I'm surprised they were able to have anything like that this long. They have been around 50 years, any patent should have ran out years ago. Interesting they would try to trademark the block, which doesn't run out, good thing it didn't work, for the consumer at least.
I see Lego announcing a change in which country it resides in, to one more favorable towards corporations in trademark laws. That or outsourcing few plants to China to stay competitive.
And whats with all the toy stories and polls? Is/. gearing up for some big holiday push?
because the whole system - while beautifully specialized - is essentially becoming more and more difficult to alter meaningfully when radical change needs to happen.
I am so tired of people raging on the US government on slahdot!
Well if the problem is the batteries are low, just turn it off, let it sit a while, then shake them. Should get a few more minutes of use out of the dang thing.
as they could band together to keep Obama in line if he strays too far from his promises.
You do mean spam, troll, and flame CONTENTLY right?
Am I the only one who read the summery and thought "I can't wait to see what I can say before getting banned and then post it to blogs as censorship?"
depends on who you ask. Seems most on the left will tell you we just left the Bondage phase and are well on our way to a new spiritual faith with their messiah.
The people who are still racist that I meet are mostly old white people. They mostly vote republican. So when a black person decided to run as a democrat, he wasn't really alienating the voter base he would draw from.
Of the old racist white people I have to encounter it seems the election was between the black socialist who wants to take their money, and the guy who helped destroy their 401k.
To me this election was significant, because it seems to be the passing of the torch from the boomers. Obama was elected by minorities and young people.
I was pretty sure Obama was going to win after I watched a McCain rally where he was on stage with 2 dozen old, balding, wealthy, white men, all spitting venom about the young twerps, lazy poor, and "minorities." Thats not how you run a campaign to heal America, thats how you alienate everyone but the angry white people.
We have seen how these old, angry, self righteous, people run a country, lets see how a more level headed centrist who doesn't grunt during debates handles it.
get the best people to do the job and not just those who agree with his ideology.
That would really be some noticeable Change right away. Except he would have to leave Washington. Greenspan, Bernake, Paulson, are all very wise people who didn't really stop the financial crisis from happening. In order to stop it you'd have to go outside the box and conventions of right left, and generally leave the group -think behind. A few presidents have done this, and they are usually in the top ten lists of greatest presidents.
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You sir, are wrong.
The law is not supposed to be a popularist "commonly accepted morality." Beating black people was once commonly accepted, even though it was wrong. The law exists, at least in a democracy, for the betterment of society and the people's rights. These people also include those who produce things.
What you fail completely to understand is that file-sharing is a cheaper form of distribution. A CD may no longer cost $12 to make, but a full length motion movie still takes $400 million. You can't share in any way that will make the production of movies cheaper, only the distribution.
They produce the movie, you have no right to it while it's copyright still holds unless you enter into an agreement with them. This is where the term copyright comes from, they, the producer, own the rights to copying of their product. This is a law that exists to better society because, even though the ability to copy has gotten orders of magnitude easier, the ability to produce a movie has not.
Copyright exists for the betterment of society. While ideal length is debatable the value of the system in general really isn't. The law protects rights of producers so they continue to produce, to the betterment of society.
I believe the RIAA has been socially harmful and the current length of copyright is too long, but you quasi-socialist mumbojumbo is just as harmful in the opposite direction.
what? spelled everything wrong?
Way to not read TFA, or even the summery. He didn't do any prison time.
Following that same logic shouldn't you be allowed to piss on anything you want with your penis?
If you came into my house and pissed on my couch I'd kick you ass. If you came into my theater and video taped my movie I'd sue your ass.
It's there theater and there movie. He was violating their agreement in all senses. File sharing infinitely copyable bits is one thing. This is outright blatant theft.
Well first off it would be hard to hit the tank with a laser unless it was very close, or you were on a hill, since lasers are line of sight. These would probably be for anti air, most likely anti-missile, since lasers travel a *lot* faster than other rounds targeting is simpler. I wonder, are there any designs for stealth cruise missiles?
By we I can only assume you mean the US. India has just touched down a probe on the moon, China has big plans. The US doesn't build windmills because THEY are pie in the sky and not cost effective.
The US gets passing grades in everything. It's just that there are a lot of pessimists like you who advocate self fulfilling prophecy's of failure. A downturn in the economy doesn't mean the worlds ending. The fire didn't die, it was put out by people like you.
You know who cares still? privet companies, developing nations. When the developing world starts wanting what the west has you'll see serious inquiry into sea mining, deep mantle mining, and space exploration, because there aren't any resources left.
APES! We should give the planet to apes!
Now we just need to figure out what to call the new planted. I suggest Ape World.
You fail utterly to grasp the possibility of space.
There are mountains of high grade ore floating around up there that have more metal in them than has been mined in the entire history of mankind time 10. Not to mention rare elements that can barely be found on earth, and possible unlimited energy.
As for going back to the moon never happening, maybe for the US, but china and India seem pretty set.
The moon has very practical purpose. The moon is basically made out of Fiberglass, titanium, aluminum, Iron, and a few elements that can be used in rocket fuel. While it will likely never be cost effective to mine these for use on earth, use for space would possibly be cost effective. Think how cheap the ISS would have been if thy had to use more expensive resources from the moon and move it from L1 to LEO using ION drives rather than from the surface of the earth in giant rockets.
The problem with current manned space flight is that you have to keep sending the same people up and down with the resources to keep them alive. If they had a permanent base where people could spend long stays, like years, and where the materials to support them didn't come from down a gravity well, much of the cost of manned space flight (passing the gravity well repeatedly) would be gone.
If we are able to extract from the moon and rocket costs continue to decline then it is foreseeable that the cost of bringing 1 person to space could fall down to around $200k which means for $2 billion you could ship 10,000 people who would be able to build a lot more probes cheaper then anyone on earth could ever hope to. And it could even become cost effective as the processes needed to mine asteroids are discovered, something that will probably become more likely as the developing third world puts further demands on the earths resources
I'm not advocating maned missions to mars, but a maned manufacturing presence in orbit is practically essential to build anything worth while. People pack a lot of value. 8 pounds of brain is still a lot smarter then 8 pounds of CPU's. And 150 pounds of muscles is a lot more versatile then 150 Pounds of servos.
Why even missions to mars?
Any serious exploration of space will need to use resources gathered in space. That seems to be 90% dependent on if there's water on the moon. We should be spending most our effort looking for resources that would allow mechanized systems to synthesize materials before we even think about touching mars.
The gravity well is the problem, space exploration is not going to go anywhere as long as all probes have to be launched through it.
God I bet that stunk.
WTF! Redundant? Seriously? IF windshield wipers would be a redundant system then why is the rover in such a bad state now? Maybe you should have considered the idea instead of worrying about redundancy. Obviously the moderators on /. take minimalist engineering to far.
Hmm... the only constant I see there is that the equipment with names that are based on motivational posters are still going.
I propose the next landers be named:
Success
Achievement
Teamwork
StopShrink
Looks like any future rovers should come equipped with windshield wipers.
Well, I'm surprised they were able to have anything like that this long. They have been around 50 years, any patent should have ran out years ago. Interesting they would try to trademark the block, which doesn't run out, good thing it didn't work, for the consumer at least.
/. gearing up for some big holiday push?
I see Lego announcing a change in which country it resides in, to one more favorable towards corporations in trademark laws. That or outsourcing few plants to China to stay competitive.
And whats with all the toy stories and polls? Is
So, In Soviet Russia, (DNA) (encodes)s you?
But thats not funny.
And apparently only partially true.
Not funny at all.
because the whole system - while beautifully specialized - is essentially becoming more and more difficult to alter meaningfully when radical change needs to happen.
I am so tired of people raging on the US government on slahdot!
Well if the problem is the batteries are low, just turn it off, let it sit a while, then shake them. Should get a few more minutes of use out of the dang thing.
Nope it's the second. Apparently the first cut was the oxygen to your brain.
Think about how cool it would be if we had these working on the moon!
Two engines for that load? Fuck, I'd hate to have to wait for that thing at a crossing.
as they could band together to keep Obama in line if he strays too far from his promises.
You do mean spam, troll, and flame CONTENTLY right?
Am I the only one who read the summery and thought "I can't wait to see what I can say before getting banned and then post it to blogs as censorship?"
depends on who you ask. Seems most on the left will tell you we just left the Bondage phase and are well on our way to a new spiritual faith with their messiah.
well The west coast was for him as sure as shit. All they really needed was to be sure he'd made 200 on the east and the rest was in the bag.
The people who are still racist that I meet are mostly old white people. They mostly vote republican. So when a black person decided to run as a democrat, he wasn't really alienating the voter base he would draw from.
Of the old racist white people I have to encounter it seems the election was between the black socialist who wants to take their money, and the guy who helped destroy their 401k.
To me this election was significant, because it seems to be the passing of the torch from the boomers. Obama was elected by minorities and young people.
I was pretty sure Obama was going to win after I watched a McCain rally where he was on stage with 2 dozen old, balding, wealthy, white men, all spitting venom about the young twerps, lazy poor, and "minorities." Thats not how you run a campaign to heal America, thats how you alienate everyone but the angry white people.
We have seen how these old, angry, self righteous, people run a country, lets see how a more level headed centrist who doesn't grunt during debates handles it.
get the best people to do the job and not just those who agree with his ideology.
That would really be some noticeable Change right away. Except he would have to leave Washington. Greenspan, Bernake, Paulson, are all very wise people who didn't really stop the financial crisis from happening. In order to stop it you'd have to go outside the box and conventions of right left, and generally leave the group -think behind. A few presidents have done this, and they are usually in the top ten lists of greatest presidents.