A book that you buy in a store is nothing more than a container for an IDEA - the idea of the story. The story can be retold, rewritten, turned into a play, a movie, or whatever. You are confusing what copyright applies to. It isn't the physical paper and glue that is copyrighted - THAT is probably patentable, if you should come up with a new method of printing and binding books.
Well - you'll note the time frame I am referring to. If MS had taken responsibility for making applications available to their customers way back then, in the name of security, then a whole lot of OTHER things would necessarily have happened differently. In my opinion, anyway. Of course, it's awfully hard to prove the existence of an alternate reality - we all know the road that MS actually chose.;^)
The Marines are looking for a few good men. The Navy is an adventure. Those who don't make the cut, just be all that they can be, in the Army.
No mention of the CIA in any recruiting posters I've seen.
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Ahhh. Senator Ted. You know, if there's a hell, that man is wishing he had a glass of water right now. Some nice cool Chappaquidick water would really go down nice, don't you think?
Yeah, I know, that's off subject, but you mentioned the douche first, LOL
They CAN be, but they SHOULDN'T be. That's my position, and I'm not budging. Unless you have something physical, or at least make physical changes to something physical, then you're in copyright land.
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Concessions have been made, in an attempt to reach a compromise with the republicans, the insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, AND the health care industry. For the most part, the republicans are being ultra-douchebags, fighting every idea tooth and nail, and misrepresenting everything to the gullible.
How 'bout them "Government death panels"? There never was one, unless you were half retarded and/or parsed words in the same manner a Bill Clinton. I know this, because I parsed my way through one version or another of the bill way back in - uhhh - November, I think it was. Maybe earlier. That sure proved that the Alaskan twat was a liar!
The iPhone has no monopoly in telephones. THAT's how it's different.
As for the idea of a Microsoft app store - to bad they didn't do that 15 years ago. Malware probably wouldn't be so prevalant today. The idea of secure repositories should have occured to MS by the time Windows 3.1 was being replaced by Win95.
Software should be copyrighted, NOT patented. Period. No matter how innovative, no matter how complex, no matter how many billion people think it's really cool. No patents. Patents are for physical, concrete, touchable and feelable items. Tangible, as opposed to intangible. All software is just a specific way of rearranging ones and zeros, after all. You can't actually make anything new with them.
Opera must be doing something right, that all the other browsers are missing. Go ahead, look at market share in eastern Europe, and especially among people who use the Cyrillic alphabet. It seems that a LOT of people take Opera seriously.
I've tested it, in several incarnations now. I'll bet I could still find my license file somewhere, if I tried hard enough. It has some pretty neat features, no matter what language you speak. That sharing thing, for instance - any idiot can share files, photos, whatever with their family, in a reasonably secure manner, without jumping through a lot of hoops.
You should drive it, before you dump on it.
I'm not switching, because Firefox suits my needs and wants, but if I were to switch, Opera would be a good browser to consider. In fact, it comes in side by side with Chrome, in my books.
I can respect assholes. When you get to be a perfect asshole, come back, and I'll buy you a drink. I don't do pity parties, though, so you keep that fucking "World's smallest violin" to yourself.
Ignorant, the man says. I already gave the example of driving at night. You can also take into consideration fog and haze - sometimes you don't see the traffic lights unless they are lit up. What does top, left, bottom and right have to do with anything when all you can see is the light itself? Often enough, color IS the only indicator.
As for the HUD display - if they are using color as the primary indicator, what else can you be referring to?
Ignorance. If there were a way for you to spend a day looking at the world through my eyes, you would be a lot less ignorant. People like myself have spent their entire lives learning how to cope with a world that uses color indicators that we can't see.
And, do you know what? It's getting worse. Those LED traffic lights with the smooth plastic covers are damned near invisible. Old incandescant bulbs behind cut glass lenses gave off enough light that I could see them. They actually light up, so that you can't miss the fact that there's a light. LED lights are invisible under so many different circumstances, it's ridiculous. In a 45 mph speed zone, I slow down to 15 and creep up on the damned thing, trying to see which, if any, of the three lights is lit. Finally, if no one is coming from the other direction, I go.
Lucky for me, I only have one of them that I need to deal with regularly, in New Boston, Texas. The hick towns here in Arkansas still have the old style traffic lights.
"At 6 houses per acre, that's about 3000 house holds."
City people.
I have 15 acres, my adjacent neighbors own 15 acres, 80 acres, and 80 acres - and then there is Weyerhauser, which owns the entire section behind my property - 1000 acres. Main street on the closest town has about 1 1/2 building per acre. The next closest town is densely populated. I think they might have two houses per acre.
Now, if I lived in that densely populated town, I would have the option of using a microwave tower, which I understand gives pretty good service. Of course, you're right, I can always go the satellite route, with pings of 10 minutes, game lag of two days, etc. Dial up is actually superior to satellite, unless you just HAVE to move gigabytes of data despite the lag.
But - between us, we make the point quite well. If the telcos won't put that last mile in where you live, with 6 homes per acre, people like me have no hope in hell of ever seeing fibre optic in their homes. We would have to buy the cable, and install it ourselves. I'm afraid to look to see how much 40 miles of cable costs. But, worst of all, I'd have to string it across the Red River in order to connect it in Texarkana. That river is treacherous!
You say 7 - 10 % of the population - which is accurate, in it's own way. It's more descriptive and accurate, I think, to say that one out of every four males is AT LEAST a little color blind. Most people are either red, OR green color impaired - I am both. I've read more detailed, and pretty interesting statistics several times in my life - they seem to change a little, depending on who does the research, and what criteria they use. But, roughly, one in four males. Almost never a female.
I'm not a gamer - never really was. But, I did play games, back before my kids were born. DRM was one of the strong motivators to stop playing games. Actually, it was a close tie between DRM and trying to justify spending 50 bucks on a stupid game, when the wife or kids could use some other stupid frivolity instead.
Without DRM, I might have played fewer games, but with DRM, I just gave them up.
Been there, done that. Pulling over isn't always the best thing to do. Ask a California highway patrol, he'll tell you that the people BEHIND you, who can't see where they are going, will follow your tail lights anywhere. Trying to stop in that thick fog invites an accident.
I experienced a sudden downpour of rain in Mississippi, on the interstate. I mean, no warning at all. Someone on the CB radio said "Rain", and then I was in it. No little warning spatter or anything. Just a solid sheet of water, like walking under a rain spout during a downpour.
Someone one the CB said he was stopping til it ended, someone quickly answered, "Don't stop - there's oil on the road, you can't stop, and the people behind you can't stop!" In six or seven minutes we had all made it through the squall, no one went in the ditch, and we were happy.
Having driven much of my life on ice, I already knew that the best answer is often NOT to touch the brakes. We got lucky as hell, that day, that no one ahead of us hit THEIR brakes!
"Red is pretty much always used to indicate danger of something critical it's a bad color to use for that sort of information amber might make more sense if you have to highlight this sort of information. I would save red for things in your path or moving into your path - real dangers."
Please, think of those of us with impaired color vision, alright? Use red for frivolous bullshit. Save blue for something that really needs attention.
Don't expect green to get our attention, either. I can drive down a big city street at night, and every single light in sight is pure white. Suddenly, one of those white lights changes to yellow, and I slow down, because I know there's a traffic light there, going to turn red. Yes, you guessed, YELLOW is another good color to get our attention. Don't use red, don't use green.
Amber is alright - I see that. I guess some rare people with worse color vision than I have don't even see that.
We don't seem to be communicating very well. As nearly as I can tell, people being targeted are high value people, who have engaged in warfare against our nation. Joe makes suicide bomb packs? He's a target. Bill transports supplies to hidden Taliban strongholds? He's a target. What's his name that makes bin Laden's press releases? He's a target. Some other dude is a courier between Taliban strongholds? Target. I don't care that he is or is not a citizen. If he's an active participant in this irregular armed force that has declared war on my country, he's a target.
I'll note here, that while GWB was the Commander in Chief, I was suspicious of claims made in the name of the Department of Defense, and/or the intelligence community. The man who casually authorized the use of torture, is NOT the man I want making decisions about who to target. The man who put political cronies into the Pentagon, and bullied professional military and intel people into coming to a particular conclusion and decision is not the man I want deciding who dies.
BUT - I do trust our professional military men, and the professionals in the intel community. They aren't going to waste time going after people with little to no military value.
Might they make mistakes? Yeah, possibly. Stuff happens. But, I trust them to do what's right, based on their knowledge.
All those thousands of people are entitled to vote. One vote per person, just like you and I get. They are not entitled to send emissaries to Washington with deep pockets.
BTW - do you think that RIAA actually represents the views of each and every employee of the firms that they represent? Hardly. Some people detest the goals of their employers. But, people need jobs, and they often take jobs that they don't really like, because that's where the money is. Personally, I've never stayed on a job that I really didn't like - but I can understand that some people do.
Of all those employees of all those "rights holders", do you think that NONE of them use bittorrent to download illegal movies? Every single one of them toes the "party line" in their private lives?
If you believe that, I've got some ocean front property and a couple of bridges for you.
My point is, he's an armed man on a battlefield. He aint' a friend. He's a target. His citizenship means nothing. I have no objections, whatsoever.
As has already been pointed out, a number of those people being targeted have already renounced their citizenship. I do not regard them as citizens, even if they come back and say, "I didn't mean it!".
Oversight. Hmmm. Who should do oversight, I wonder? Congress is the end-all and be-all for military authority. I guess congress has oversight. Do I want to see that oversight delegated to someone like the ACLU? No way. I'd be happier with no oversight at all.
I'm pretty damned sure that the copyright holders of which I speak are NOT voters, or citizens. Taxpayers, probably, in one country or another. The MPAA has no vote in the United States, nor is the MPAA a citizen. The MPAA does have lots of cash, with which to buy a few politicians, though. And, they are asking those bought and paid for politicians to give the MPAA rights that private citizens do not enjoy, along with the authority to enforce those "rights". Same with all the companies that are represented by the MPAA, RIAA, and all the rest of those pustules who are fornicating the world with that "treaty" deal.
Alright, I live here in Backwoods, Nowhere, not far from Bumfuck, Egypt. I pay my US$70/month for a phone and 380k internet connection, and that's what I've got.
Let's say next month, or next year, all the internet routers are changed over to these new ones. Is MY connection going to be any faster? Nope. Not unless I ante up the money for a full 1Mb connection. And, that's the fastest I can get - the ISP doesn't offer any faster, and they have no competition.
The only way I'm going to get faster connections, at a reasonable price, is if someone comes in, and gives my ISP some COMPETITION!!!!
Hell, a great deal of my internet content is delivered at least partway via optic fiber, now. That doesn't help my actual download speed, one bit. I need both that infamous "last mile", and COMPETITION!!!
It may be prudent to avoid consorting with terrorists while you're overseas, tending to your personal business? You know, if Osama should happen to invite you to dinner with him and his harem, and a few hundred guests at his favorite mountain training resort, you might want to turn him down. Or, if he asks you to costar with him in his next videotaped public statement, you might tell him that you're unworthy of the honor. And, you might wish to refuse the offer of moving packages of unnamed material from one place to another for him.
Really, dude - do you fear that you might become a target if you visit Pakistan to arrange for transportation and distribution of a few thousand tons of rice? (I said RICE, not RICIN!) Get serious - those drones and the missiles are expensive. They aren't going to waste them on some chump who doesn't pose any kind of a threat.
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A book that you buy in a store is nothing more than a container for an IDEA - the idea of the story. The story can be retold, rewritten, turned into a play, a movie, or whatever. You are confusing what copyright applies to. It isn't the physical paper and glue that is copyrighted - THAT is probably patentable, if you should come up with a new method of printing and binding books.
Well - you'll note the time frame I am referring to. If MS had taken responsibility for making applications available to their customers way back then, in the name of security, then a whole lot of OTHER things would necessarily have happened differently. In my opinion, anyway. Of course, it's awfully hard to prove the existence of an alternate reality - we all know the road that MS actually chose. ;^)
There is a procedure. When something gets in the way of DoD, they destroy it. I believe procedure was followed here.
Army, of course.
The Marines are looking for a few good men.
The Navy is an adventure.
Those who don't make the cut, just be all that they can be, in the Army.
No mention of the CIA in any recruiting posters I've seen.
Ahhh. Senator Ted. You know, if there's a hell, that man is wishing he had a glass of water right now. Some nice cool Chappaquidick water would really go down nice, don't you think?
Yeah, I know, that's off subject, but you mentioned the douche first, LOL
They CAN be, but they SHOULDN'T be. That's my position, and I'm not budging. Unless you have something physical, or at least make physical changes to something physical, then you're in copyright land.
Concessions have been made, in an attempt to reach a compromise with the republicans, the insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, AND the health care industry. For the most part, the republicans are being ultra-douchebags, fighting every idea tooth and nail, and misrepresenting everything to the gullible.
How 'bout them "Government death panels"? There never was one, unless you were half retarded and/or parsed words in the same manner a Bill Clinton. I know this, because I parsed my way through one version or another of the bill way back in - uhhh - November, I think it was. Maybe earlier. That sure proved that the Alaskan twat was a liar!
The iPhone has no monopoly in telephones. THAT's how it's different.
As for the idea of a Microsoft app store - to bad they didn't do that 15 years ago. Malware probably wouldn't be so prevalant today. The idea of secure repositories should have occured to MS by the time Windows 3.1 was being replaced by Win95.
Software should be copyrighted, NOT patented. Period. No matter how innovative, no matter how complex, no matter how many billion people think it's really cool. No patents. Patents are for physical, concrete, touchable and feelable items. Tangible, as opposed to intangible. All software is just a specific way of rearranging ones and zeros, after all. You can't actually make anything new with them.
Opera must be doing something right, that all the other browsers are missing. Go ahead, look at market share in eastern Europe, and especially among people who use the Cyrillic alphabet. It seems that a LOT of people take Opera seriously.
I've tested it, in several incarnations now. I'll bet I could still find my license file somewhere, if I tried hard enough. It has some pretty neat features, no matter what language you speak. That sharing thing, for instance - any idiot can share files, photos, whatever with their family, in a reasonably secure manner, without jumping through a lot of hoops.
You should drive it, before you dump on it.
I'm not switching, because Firefox suits my needs and wants, but if I were to switch, Opera would be a good browser to consider. In fact, it comes in side by side with Chrome, in my books.
I got your whiney bitch, swinging.
Now, scroll up and read the post I just made.
I can respect assholes. When you get to be a perfect asshole, come back, and I'll buy you a drink. I don't do pity parties, though, so you keep that fucking "World's smallest violin" to yourself.
Ignorant, the man says. I already gave the example of driving at night. You can also take into consideration fog and haze - sometimes you don't see the traffic lights unless they are lit up. What does top, left, bottom and right have to do with anything when all you can see is the light itself? Often enough, color IS the only indicator.
As for the HUD display - if they are using color as the primary indicator, what else can you be referring to?
Ignorance. If there were a way for you to spend a day looking at the world through my eyes, you would be a lot less ignorant. People like myself have spent their entire lives learning how to cope with a world that uses color indicators that we can't see.
And, do you know what? It's getting worse. Those LED traffic lights with the smooth plastic covers are damned near invisible. Old incandescant bulbs behind cut glass lenses gave off enough light that I could see them. They actually light up, so that you can't miss the fact that there's a light. LED lights are invisible under so many different circumstances, it's ridiculous. In a 45 mph speed zone, I slow down to 15 and creep up on the damned thing, trying to see which, if any, of the three lights is lit. Finally, if no one is coming from the other direction, I go.
Lucky for me, I only have one of them that I need to deal with regularly, in New Boston, Texas. The hick towns here in Arkansas still have the old style traffic lights.
"At 6 houses per acre, that's about 3000 house holds."
City people.
I have 15 acres, my adjacent neighbors own 15 acres, 80 acres, and 80 acres - and then there is Weyerhauser, which owns the entire section behind my property - 1000 acres. Main street on the closest town has about 1 1/2 building per acre. The next closest town is densely populated. I think they might have two houses per acre.
Now, if I lived in that densely populated town, I would have the option of using a microwave tower, which I understand gives pretty good service. Of course, you're right, I can always go the satellite route, with pings of 10 minutes, game lag of two days, etc. Dial up is actually superior to satellite, unless you just HAVE to move gigabytes of data despite the lag.
But - between us, we make the point quite well. If the telcos won't put that last mile in where you live, with 6 homes per acre, people like me have no hope in hell of ever seeing fibre optic in their homes. We would have to buy the cable, and install it ourselves. I'm afraid to look to see how much 40 miles of cable costs. But, worst of all, I'd have to string it across the Red River in order to connect it in Texarkana. That river is treacherous!
You say 7 - 10 % of the population - which is accurate, in it's own way. It's more descriptive and accurate, I think, to say that one out of every four males is AT LEAST a little color blind. Most people are either red, OR green color impaired - I am both. I've read more detailed, and pretty interesting statistics several times in my life - they seem to change a little, depending on who does the research, and what criteria they use. But, roughly, one in four males. Almost never a female.
I'm not a gamer - never really was. But, I did play games, back before my kids were born. DRM was one of the strong motivators to stop playing games. Actually, it was a close tie between DRM and trying to justify spending 50 bucks on a stupid game, when the wife or kids could use some other stupid frivolity instead.
Without DRM, I might have played fewer games, but with DRM, I just gave them up.
Like you, I doubt that I'm unique.
That's why I WoL(TM)
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Been there, done that. Pulling over isn't always the best thing to do. Ask a California highway patrol, he'll tell you that the people BEHIND you, who can't see where they are going, will follow your tail lights anywhere. Trying to stop in that thick fog invites an accident.
I experienced a sudden downpour of rain in Mississippi, on the interstate. I mean, no warning at all. Someone on the CB radio said "Rain", and then I was in it. No little warning spatter or anything. Just a solid sheet of water, like walking under a rain spout during a downpour.
Someone one the CB said he was stopping til it ended, someone quickly answered, "Don't stop - there's oil on the road, you can't stop, and the people behind you can't stop!" In six or seven minutes we had all made it through the squall, no one went in the ditch, and we were happy.
Having driven much of my life on ice, I already knew that the best answer is often NOT to touch the brakes. We got lucky as hell, that day, that no one ahead of us hit THEIR brakes!
"Red is pretty much always used to indicate danger of something critical it's a bad color to use for that sort of information amber might make more sense if you have to highlight this sort of information. I would save red for things in your path or moving into your path - real dangers."
Please, think of those of us with impaired color vision, alright? Use red for frivolous bullshit. Save blue for something that really needs attention.
Don't expect green to get our attention, either. I can drive down a big city street at night, and every single light in sight is pure white. Suddenly, one of those white lights changes to yellow, and I slow down, because I know there's a traffic light there, going to turn red. Yes, you guessed, YELLOW is another good color to get our attention. Don't use red, don't use green.
Amber is alright - I see that. I guess some rare people with worse color vision than I have don't even see that.
"I think that the RIAA does reflect the views of most of the people that they represent."
You kind of miss the point. All those employees are entitled to express their opinions in exactly the same way you and I do: at the polls.
As for the Supreme Court's opinion - it can be wrong.
We don't seem to be communicating very well. As nearly as I can tell, people being targeted are high value people, who have engaged in warfare against our nation. Joe makes suicide bomb packs? He's a target. Bill transports supplies to hidden Taliban strongholds? He's a target. What's his name that makes bin Laden's press releases? He's a target. Some other dude is a courier between Taliban strongholds? Target. I don't care that he is or is not a citizen. If he's an active participant in this irregular armed force that has declared war on my country, he's a target.
I'll note here, that while GWB was the Commander in Chief, I was suspicious of claims made in the name of the Department of Defense, and/or the intelligence community. The man who casually authorized the use of torture, is NOT the man I want making decisions about who to target. The man who put political cronies into the Pentagon, and bullied professional military and intel people into coming to a particular conclusion and decision is not the man I want deciding who dies.
BUT - I do trust our professional military men, and the professionals in the intel community. They aren't going to waste time going after people with little to no military value.
Might they make mistakes? Yeah, possibly. Stuff happens. But, I trust them to do what's right, based on their knowledge.
All those thousands of people are entitled to vote. One vote per person, just like you and I get. They are not entitled to send emissaries to Washington with deep pockets.
BTW - do you think that RIAA actually represents the views of each and every employee of the firms that they represent? Hardly. Some people detest the goals of their employers. But, people need jobs, and they often take jobs that they don't really like, because that's where the money is. Personally, I've never stayed on a job that I really didn't like - but I can understand that some people do.
Of all those employees of all those "rights holders", do you think that NONE of them use bittorrent to download illegal movies? Every single one of them toes the "party line" in their private lives?
If you believe that, I've got some ocean front property and a couple of bridges for you.
My point is, he's an armed man on a battlefield. He aint' a friend. He's a target. His citizenship means nothing. I have no objections, whatsoever.
As has already been pointed out, a number of those people being targeted have already renounced their citizenship. I do not regard them as citizens, even if they come back and say, "I didn't mean it!".
Oversight. Hmmm. Who should do oversight, I wonder? Congress is the end-all and be-all for military authority. I guess congress has oversight. Do I want to see that oversight delegated to someone like the ACLU? No way. I'd be happier with no oversight at all.
I'm pretty damned sure that the copyright holders of which I speak are NOT voters, or citizens. Taxpayers, probably, in one country or another. The MPAA has no vote in the United States, nor is the MPAA a citizen. The MPAA does have lots of cash, with which to buy a few politicians, though. And, they are asking those bought and paid for politicians to give the MPAA rights that private citizens do not enjoy, along with the authority to enforce those "rights". Same with all the companies that are represented by the MPAA, RIAA, and all the rest of those pustules who are fornicating the world with that "treaty" deal.
Alright, I live here in Backwoods, Nowhere, not far from Bumfuck, Egypt. I pay my US$70/month for a phone and 380k internet connection, and that's what I've got.
Let's say next month, or next year, all the internet routers are changed over to these new ones. Is MY connection going to be any faster? Nope. Not unless I ante up the money for a full 1Mb connection. And, that's the fastest I can get - the ISP doesn't offer any faster, and they have no competition.
The only way I'm going to get faster connections, at a reasonable price, is if someone comes in, and gives my ISP some COMPETITION!!!!
Hell, a great deal of my internet content is delivered at least partway via optic fiber, now. That doesn't help my actual download speed, one bit. I need both that infamous "last mile", and COMPETITION!!!
It may be prudent to avoid consorting with terrorists while you're overseas, tending to your personal business? You know, if Osama should happen to invite you to dinner with him and his harem, and a few hundred guests at his favorite mountain training resort, you might want to turn him down. Or, if he asks you to costar with him in his next videotaped public statement, you might tell him that you're unworthy of the honor. And, you might wish to refuse the offer of moving packages of unnamed material from one place to another for him.
Really, dude - do you fear that you might become a target if you visit Pakistan to arrange for transportation and distribution of a few thousand tons of rice? (I said RICE, not RICIN!) Get serious - those drones and the missiles are expensive. They aren't going to waste them on some chump who doesn't pose any kind of a threat.