You're likely to have a lot more problems if you pocket your storage device and lie that you deleted the photos. Police deal with people trying that kind of crap all the time, you want to act like a criminal?
If you're doing nothing wrong, then act like you're doing nothing wrong. Don't piss all over my rights, you're a citizen with a responsibility to stand for our rights, no matter how inconvenient to you, you selfish prick.
It is an asset of some sort. If copyright entered the public domain purely on merit that the owner is dead, you would have to also release his other properties freely to the public. I don't think you'll get much support for that.
But I like the idea stated earlier, that property tax should be paid on all intellectual property. Hopefully creating extra headache to calculate the value of properties you are hoarding for the sake of hoarding.
I think that would protect people with good ideas while stopping douchebaggery.
People who come up with ideas and work hard selling them are freeloaders? Spoken like a real pinko. I never realized my talents are only as good as the services they can freely offer you...
In reality, we protect ownership of ideas so that they will be created in the first place. If he didn't have protection for Popeye in the first place, he'd probably never would have bothered let alone go on to make a second famous character.
Men with ideas want protection, men without want no such thing.
Listen, we don't understand Global Warming, er Global Cooling, er Global Climate Change. Since it can be anything, and caused by anything, we NEED to act. We can't just keep waiting around until we understand wtf we're talking about. We have to act before we understand these problems, and we better act big!
I believe it is actually 0.1 microsecond intervals.
But in all seriousness, I'm really annoyed with the ambiguity of "since January 1, 1601" as that would mean that Jan 2, 1601 00:01 and Jan 1, 1601 00:01 could be interpreted as the same time.
Just one of those little things that's going to cause another NASA disaster.../rant
I've got a coworker that is an IE fanatic. He keeps pointing out that IE uses less memory than FF, he's right. He also tallies up whenever I complain of a crash vs when he complains of one... and he's winning (as in fewer crashes).
I love being anti-m$, but you can't just dismiss their product as second-rate because you want it to be.
And it will emphasize the importance and purpose of standards. Wont be long before their next set of browsers will be standard adherent rather than standard creating.
I'm sure your super-awesome idea will change the world. You might even make the local paper, somewhere in the police log. After the townsfolk read about your valiant cause, "9:14 Traffic violation" they'll take arms and support you!
Because sperm, eggs and warts are not distinctly different than the person that created them. They are *part* of that person. Kill a wart, the person survives.
When you combine an egg and sperm and form a zygote, you are no longer talking about the same person, it is a new human. Kill a zygote, a human dies.
I think this distinction is clear, I'm surprised so many folks on/. are confused by it.
You are killing a subset of the subject, but not causing permanent damage to the subject. In order to be a parallel argument, you need to convince me that the tissue is a living creature that is distinctly different than the original subject.
At the point of conception, you have a single-celled organism. It's characteristics: - It regulates its internal environment. - It is composed of one or more cells. - It consumes energy and creates cellular components. - It grows. - It responds to stimuli. - It reproduces new cells.
These are the characteristics we use to define a single-celled bacteria as life. So it seems that at conception we can safely assume that the zygote is life.
Other characteristic: - It has a unique set of DNA.
This is the characteristic we currently use to define life as a separate entity, ie not the mother, and not the father.
Ok, so it's alive and it's not the mother or the father.
At this point, you are asserting that this living creature is not human. You believe it will be human, but that it isn't at this point, and that's the justification for killing it.
To be correct, these must be true: - Forms of life can change species during their lifetime. - A species cannot be defined by a subset or compared difference of DNA. - Based exclusively on the premise that the creature is not human, killing is moral.
I'd be interested to know if you believe those three things.
Slashdot Mirror
Should be read: "I eagerly await the 'mod - douchebag' option."
Not that anyone reads comments nested this deep...
If he were unionized he'd be telling us he's a lesbian. I'm pretty sure that's the only opening to a stand up routine.
I eagerly await the mod - douchebag.
Yeah, I just pulled out my english-nazi stick for using the wrong units, and made the unforgivable error of transposing you're with your.
Still, I'm keeping my nerd card, as one clearly trumps the other.
Sounds like your the victim of poor engineering, not hydroelectric power.
And to nitpick the article:
...with more than 200m Internet searches estimated daily...
If you mean million, say million, not meters. Are you recommending the search field be restricted in size?
What is the yellow grip on their handguns for?
To find it quicker?
A "caution, do not point at eyes" warning?
You're likely to have a lot more problems if you pocket your storage device and lie that you deleted the photos. Police deal with people trying that kind of crap all the time, you want to act like a criminal?
If you're doing nothing wrong, then act like you're doing nothing wrong. Don't piss all over my rights, you're a citizen with a responsibility to stand for our rights, no matter how inconvenient to you, you selfish prick.
The point is to stand up for your rights before you lose any rights to stand up for.
We aren't a police state, your post is a bit cynical.
As he said, you still need a big pile of money for a lawyer.
People don't win every lawsuit filed, even when they are right.
We've got bigger problems if TSA regulations trump our rights..
Illegal to take pictures of trains? No, the police definitely were the ignorant party.
I think you missed the point.
It is an asset of some sort. If copyright entered the public domain purely on merit that the owner is dead, you would have to also release his other properties freely to the public. I don't think you'll get much support for that.
But I like the idea stated earlier, that property tax should be paid on all intellectual property. Hopefully creating extra headache to calculate the value of properties you are hoarding for the sake of hoarding.
I think that would protect people with good ideas while stopping douchebaggery.
People who come up with ideas and work hard selling them are freeloaders? Spoken like a real pinko. I never realized my talents are only as good as the services they can freely offer you...
In reality, we protect ownership of ideas so that they will be created in the first place. If he didn't have protection for Popeye in the first place, he'd probably never would have bothered let alone go on to make a second famous character.
Men with ideas want protection, men without want no such thing.
Listen, we don't understand Global Warming, er Global Cooling, er Global Climate Change. Since it can be anything, and caused by anything, we NEED to act. We can't just keep waiting around until we understand wtf we're talking about. We have to act before we understand these problems, and we better act big!
SAVE THE PLANET!!
Yeah, how many animation cycles can my window frame have per second?
Yeah, he needs a faster hard drive.
I believe it is actually 0.1 microsecond intervals.
But in all seriousness, I'm really annoyed with the ambiguity of "since January 1, 1601" as that would mean that Jan 2, 1601 00:01 and Jan 1, 1601 00:01 could be interpreted as the same time.
Just one of those little things that's going to cause another NASA disaster... /rant
I've got a coworker that is an IE fanatic. He keeps pointing out that IE uses less memory than FF, he's right. He also tallies up whenever I complain of a crash vs when he complains of one... and he's winning (as in fewer crashes).
I love being anti-m$, but you can't just dismiss their product as second-rate because you want it to be.
And it will emphasize the importance and purpose of standards. Wont be long before their next set of browsers will be standard adherent rather than standard creating.
I'm sure your super-awesome idea will change the world. You might even make the local paper, somewhere in the police log. After the townsfolk read about your valiant cause, "9:14 Traffic violation" they'll take arms and support you!
Or we could obey the law, idiot.
Because sperm, eggs and warts are not distinctly different than the person that created them. They are *part* of that person. Kill a wart, the person survives.
When you combine an egg and sperm and form a zygote, you are no longer talking about the same person, it is a new human. Kill a zygote, a human dies.
I think this distinction is clear, I'm surprised so many folks on /. are confused by it.
You are killing a subset of the subject, but not causing permanent damage to the subject. In order to be a parallel argument, you need to convince me that the tissue is a living creature that is distinctly different than the original subject.
At the point of conception, you have a single-celled organism. It's characteristics:
- It regulates its internal environment.
- It is composed of one or more cells.
- It consumes energy and creates cellular components.
- It grows.
- It responds to stimuli.
- It reproduces new cells.
These are the characteristics we use to define a single-celled bacteria as life. So it seems that at conception we can safely assume that the zygote is life.
Other characteristic:
- It has a unique set of DNA.
This is the characteristic we currently use to define life as a separate entity, ie not the mother, and not the father.
Ok, so it's alive and it's not the mother or the father.
At this point, you are asserting that this living creature is not human. You believe it will be human, but that it isn't at this point, and that's the justification for killing it.
To be correct, these must be true:
- Forms of life can change species during their lifetime.
- A species cannot be defined by a subset or compared difference of DNA.
- Based exclusively on the premise that the creature is not human, killing is moral.
I'd be interested to know if you believe those three things.
Aren't all games over-hyped?
I'm still excited to play it.
What are the benefits exactly? Digital download?
I don't know why Steam is so popular, seems like another point of failure to me. Someone please sell me on Steam.