If I had to choose between killing Hilter as a kid, thus averting the Holocaust, and killing the author of that original poem as a kid, thus averting the 50 billion lame adaptations of it, I would have to go for the poet.
You're ignoring the section under the targets (with "brown recluse" and "Dr. Kaider".) Near world trade center he wrote down "cell" and "bio." Funny, I don't remember the WTC being hit by a biological attack. But maybe that's part of the coverup, too.
If he did know anything about the pending attack (and that's a pretty frelling HUGE if) he didn't give enough information to be useful. Much like, as the previous poster pointed out, a psychic. If I say "someone with the last name of 'Smith' will die tragically tomorrow", it does no bit of good and doesn't prove that I actually had any knowledge of what was going to happen. Likewise, picking major targets and saying they will be hit by terrorists sometime doesn't prove that Mr. Vreeland had any forewarning of Sept. 11.
You seem to have totally missed the point. Whether or not you would have paid for it is completely irrelevant. The copyright holder gets to decide how the software is distributed, for a limited time. If you don't like it, tough. It may not be stealing, per se, but you are still violating someone's constitutional rights.
But suddenly we're "elitists" for saying that it's a bug - a critical bug - when MS Outlook interprets *any* line beginning with "begin" as the start of a UUENCODED block?
No, the elistist part is purposely exploiting the bug to exclude certain users.
"A well educated citizenry being necessary to the sucess of a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books shall not be infringed."
I like your statement, but I think it needs a liitle tweaking to make it a more direct parallel:
A well regulated University System, being necessary to the education of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read Books, shall not be infringed.
I think I'll use that in future debates and try to get someone to explain to me how that implies that the use of books must be well regulated or that only members of a university can own them.
And you count yourself among the "civilized beings?"
Re:You're kidding about that Terrorism thing...
on
The Drone War
·
· Score: 1
They want israel to pull out of occupied terrotories, they want a nation with jerisalem as it's capital, they want the right to return to their homes.
Bombing discos and pizza parlors is not exactly the best way to go about achieving that. The only thing the extremists do is give Israel an excuse for their (over)use of force. If they would borrow a few ideas from people like, say, Martin Luther King and try large, PEACEFUL protests for a change, they might win more support in places like the US and Europe which in turn will put more pressure on Israel. But as long as they resort to violence other countries don't have much of a choice but to let Israel defend itself, especially in the current anti-terrorism atmosphere.
Before there can ever be peace in that region, arab terrorism must be stopped from within. And that doesn't look like it's going to happen any time soon.
Re:You're kidding about that Terrorism thing...
on
The Drone War
·
· Score: 1
For thousands of years the palestenians were living there. Then one day they were told told to pack out because their country was being handed over to their enemies.
That's a story that has been repeated many times throughout history. I'm not saying it's right, but the Palestinians are certainly not alone in that respect. Besides, the jews owned some of that area before that, so you can't always use the "original owner" argument.
The problem is, where do they go from here? You can't just kick out all the jews now. The only thing you can do is try to get the parties involved to play nicely. The Palestinians, however, deny that Israel has any right to exist.
I'm not saying Israel is innocent by any means. They have been in the wrong many times and have alot of blood on their hands. But I guess living in an area surrounded by people hell bent on your destruction kinda twists your point of view. And I used to have alot more sympathy for the Palestinians. But they completely refuse to accept anything less than total elimination of Israel.
Re:You're kidding about that Terrorism thing...
on
The Drone War
·
· Score: 1
They took it, yes, after the plan was rejected by the Arab League and they were attacked by Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq.
Xerox would have been a better choice than Hoover. Especially since I've never heard Hoover used as a verb. Simmilarly, I've never heard crayon used as a verb. "Make sure you crayon inside the lines."
Furthermore, common usage of a word does not prevent it from becoming a trademark. Obviously Crayon (TM) brand crayons would be a bad idea, but using Crayon (TM) brand speaker cable should be ok.
Slashdot Mirror
It's also the internationally agreed IUPAC spelling.
Bah! Since when do we Americans care about international standards?
If I had to choose between killing Hilter as a kid, thus averting the Holocaust, and killing the author of that original poem as a kid, thus averting the 50 billion lame adaptations of it, I would have to go for the poet.
Yeah, believing every nutjob that comes along is alot better than being "ignorant."
You're ignoring the section under the targets (with "brown recluse" and "Dr. Kaider".) Near world trade center he wrote down "cell" and "bio." Funny, I don't remember the WTC being hit by a biological attack. But maybe that's part of the coverup, too.
If he did know anything about the pending attack (and that's a pretty frelling HUGE if) he didn't give enough information to be useful. Much like, as the previous poster pointed out, a psychic. If I say "someone with the last name of 'Smith' will die tragically tomorrow", it does no bit of good and doesn't prove that I actually had any knowledge of what was going to happen. Likewise, picking major targets and saying they will be hit by terrorists sometime doesn't prove that Mr. Vreeland had any forewarning of Sept. 11.
PETA's got their hands full taking care of the animals that already exist on the planet.
Translation: They are too busy trying to get mean people to stop eating meat and wearing leather to do anything important.
Anonymous Cowards filtered. If their words aren't worth so much as a nom de plume why should I value them any more?
Arrogant pricks filtered. If they can't be bothered to read the opinions of others why should I value them any more?
Here's the point, kiddies...
You seem to have totally missed the point. Whether or not you would have paid for it is completely irrelevant. The copyright holder gets to decide how the software is distributed, for a limited time. If you don't like it, tough. It may not be stealing, per se, but you are still violating someone's constitutional rights.
They've obviously been taking lessons from George Lucas.
If you just changed your domain name I bet you wouldn't have such a big problem.
I just *LOVE* that MAN. His "throughput" is so *BIG*. He's a bit too speedy, though, if you know what I mean.
</lisp>
Dude, they used to have some of the best pr0n.
It's not their fault that they are mentally deficient.
No, it's the damn public health-care system.
Compared to dot-coms, 40 years is an eternity.
So why must he be greeted by flaming AC assholes?
Welcome to slashdot.
But suddenly we're "elitists" for saying that it's a bug - a critical bug - when MS Outlook interprets *any* line beginning with "begin" as the start of a UUENCODED block?
No, the elistist part is purposely exploiting the bug to exclude certain users.
thye guy condescends to post here on the topic
So we should fall to our knees and thank him for gracing this discussion?
I like your statement, but I think it needs a liitle tweaking to make it a more direct parallel:
I think I'll use that in future debates and try to get someone to explain to me how that implies that the use of books must be well regulated or that only members of a university can own them.
Oh f*ck off ..
And you count yourself among the "civilized beings?"
They want israel to pull out of occupied terrotories, they want a nation with jerisalem as it's capital, they want the right to return to their homes.
Bombing discos and pizza parlors is not exactly the best way to go about achieving that. The only thing the extremists do is give Israel an excuse for their (over)use of force. If they would borrow a few ideas from people like, say, Martin Luther King and try large, PEACEFUL protests for a change, they might win more support in places like the US and Europe which in turn will put more pressure on Israel. But as long as they resort to violence other countries don't have much of a choice but to let Israel defend itself, especially in the current anti-terrorism atmosphere.
Before there can ever be peace in that region, arab terrorism must be stopped from within. And that doesn't look like it's going to happen any time soon.
For thousands of years the palestenians were living there. Then one day they were told told to pack out because their country was being handed over to their enemies.
That's a story that has been repeated many times throughout history. I'm not saying it's right, but the Palestinians are certainly not alone in that respect. Besides, the jews owned some of that area before that, so you can't always use the "original owner" argument.
The problem is, where do they go from here? You can't just kick out all the jews now. The only thing you can do is try to get the parties involved to play nicely. The Palestinians, however, deny that Israel has any right to exist.
I'm not saying Israel is innocent by any means. They have been in the wrong many times and have alot of blood on their hands. But I guess living in an area surrounded by people hell bent on your destruction kinda twists your point of view. And I used to have alot more sympathy for the Palestinians. But they completely refuse to accept anything less than total elimination of Israel.
They took it, yes, after the plan was rejected by the Arab League and they were attacked by Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq.
Xerox would have been a better choice than Hoover. Especially since I've never heard Hoover used as a verb. Simmilarly, I've never heard crayon used as a verb. "Make sure you crayon inside the lines."
Furthermore, common usage of a word does not prevent it from becoming a trademark. Obviously Crayon (TM) brand crayons would be a bad idea, but using Crayon (TM) brand speaker cable should be ok.
Yeah, it's not like any companies would pay postage to send out junk mail.
Bah, a couple thousand pics is nothing. I have GIGS of smut!
Linux is far more powerful than Windows and I doubt that will ever change
A space shuttle is more powerful than my car, but I know which one I'd rather use to go to the store.