In a larger sense, I see this as one of the flaws of advanced society. It may seem harsh, but making accomodations for those with disabilities allows them to procreate, thus limiting evolution.
We have reached the point where we can (acquire the ability to) direct our future evolution.
Some disabilities have advantageous consequences, and this occurs on a scale both small and large in various species including our own.
A disability in one society/environment can be an advantage in another (and vice versa).
I've seen reports by others with Sims 2 DVD, who also have no problems with their burning/imaging software. So I do wonder if it's just that the DVD doesn't use the CD edition's "protection" control?
The DMCA does not take away your fair use "rights" but merely makes them a hell of a lot harder to exercise...you can still copy that song by say, putting a tape recorder by the speaker...but you cannot break or strip the DRM away, as that would count as circumvention and hence is prohibited
Of course, since the DRM is digital and the tape recording is analog, you've just circumvented and stripped the DRM. You naughty DMCA-breaker you.:p
And finally, there is no US government, not the way you picture it. The military and the government is run by the people. So, you're asking ME to go to Rwanda and put myself and my fellow countryment into a civil war. I would vote against it also. Who do you think you are? Insisting that I put my life on the line for these people?
How do you know they did not deserve to die?
Just offhand I'd say children and infants don't deserve to die. They call it the "Rwandan Genocide" for a reason, y'know.
There was indeed an outcry back when games first started rising $50-$60 up to the 90-$100 mark, but nothing happened (other than sales of CDRs rising up too) because back then most armchair Aussies were interested in TV sports and soaps, not PC games. Who cared if a few "nerds" had to pay more? By the time PC gaming started to hit the mainstream, the fix was in.
And if $100 is not an exhorbitant amount for a single game for you, then I think you're getting paid rather more than I am.;)
Every once in a while I check out the bargain bins and "old classics" shelves to see if there's anything I like, but mostly I use a game library - Gamers Valhalla is what we have in Bundaberg.
Some of the older HP printers develop the multiple sheets problem, and HP was offering a free repair kit for certain models (dunno if it's still available - if not another reply mentioned a site where you can buy a fix for your model I believe).
Fundamentally if you don't want to pay the cost of something, you have absolutely zero right to enjoy it.
What happens when we reach the tech point where you can duplicate a vaccine for zero, and some guy wants money for it? You can't claim that's a strawman without being hypocritical - it's a hell of a lot more accurate as an analogy than your copied MP3 versus stolen laptop scenario...
People are being threatened with longer jail terms and bigger fines for copying songs than they would get for murdering the singer. What kind of screwed-up "justice" system does that tell you we live in?
Hmm. Okay, so they got your IP, they go after you, it doesn't matter if thousands of others are doing it... what happens if you then give them the IP addresses of the thousands of others? Do they have a duty to investigate and prosecute all of those people, or can they be selective?
Just curious.
What the hell? Every review I ever read panned it...
Reviews I read varied. Oni was "different". I enjoyed it, but if you were a reviewer who ate Quake or Street Fighter for breakfast, lunch and dinner, I could easily understand you finding Oni on your plate and going "what's this stuff?!".
Who gives two squirts if they rate your site as pr0n? It shouldn't affect you at all.
Unless he wants any public school in Queensland, Australia to be able to view his site. That state uses N2H2. I don't know what filters the other Australian states use.
You're exactly right, although a P2P network would only be part of it: someone without access to the client software should still be able to download the book.
Um, whether you download a book via WWW or P2P you still need client software to do so. It's just that (currently) a lot more people have a browsing client than a sharing client. I suggest placing the book on gnutella and freenet, and giving download links to both the book and some P2P clients?
Advantage of freenet over gnutella is that anyone who downloads automatically hosts, at least for a while; advantage of gnutella over freenet is that there are many more clients, and they are more developed/stable/etc. Or so I understand (I'm a gnutella user myself, haven't tried freenet yet).
and the amount of the bandwidth bill.
Yes, for better and worse that's the big important point in a glowing neon size 120 font that anyone planning on putting something "interesting" on the net has got to remember - even if only 1% of people on the net see your link, and only 1% of those download it, "people on the net" is in the hundreds of millions... hope you get off lightly. G'luck.
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It would also be a safe assumption that we would protect the space elevator base with a force substantial enough to destroy any conceivable terrorist attack.
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I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.
Of course it's the inconceivable attacks that keep defense planners awake at night.:)
Another idea - as a space elevator would cost BIGNUM money and have to be built out in the middle of nowhere anyway, how about putting it in international waters as an "International Space Elevator", a la the ISS. Doesn't matter if it's mostly US-funded; so long as it's "owned by the world" and not draped in the red-white-and-blue it hopefully shouldn't be attracting terrorists like bees to honey.
Yep, the tribbles were extinct. But at the end of the DS9 episode, very last scene after the Temporal Police have left - we see somebody must've have brought back a tribble or two... because the Promenade is littered with them!:)
It doesn't matter whether or not the downloader would have paid for the work--he now has it, and the only way you're supposed to be able to get the work is to pay for it. Therefore, the owner of the work has lost money.
That's a straw man too. To be accurate you should have said "the copyright holder of the work has missed out on potential money".
All of these uses would be better served with a cheaper more specialized device. It is insane to buy a full blown PC for doing a single task
It is also insane to buy a dozen specialised devices for $20 each when you can buy one universal device for $120. Tasks don't exist in a vacuum; there's always more work to do!:)
Sometimes specialised devices are better. But not always. Don't underestimate the economy of scale produced by mass manufacturing - especially not when it can be combined with the flexibility of modular software.
In the U.S., suicide is a crime. [...] In the U.S., if you commit suicide, the State takes your possessions.
Yuck. If it's also illegal to profit from a crime in the U.S., then the State should be forced to prosecute itself! ("sorry your son hung himself, Mrs X, now we'll just list him as a criminal and we'll take all his stuff too!")
That just feels so wrong. What's the govt's excuse?
It is different. If you give the book to your friend, you no longer have the book. If you want to read it again, you must either get it back from the friend (in which case they no longer have the book) or you must buy a new copy.
Unless of course you have an eidetic memory (perfect recall), in which case the Book Publishers Union sends thugs to follow you around and beat you with clubs every time you go near a book.
Seriously, what happens if we find the genes that control memory and it turns out to be real easy to make our kids eidetic? Should we ban that too so that media companies can continue to make the profits they currently enjoy without fear of having to change, adapt or grow?
work and home are the same place, and I'm 15 miles from the nearest anything, so where do I store an offsite backup?
Depends on what kind of hazards you have in mind as requiring offsite backup. I wonder whether the ambient heat penetrating a safe during a house fire would be enough to destroy the data integrity of a drive inside (fireproof != heatproof).
I suppose you could put up a little shed or "doghouse" a reasonable distance away from your house, fire/weatherproof it, secure it, and store stuff in there. Add floodproofing and thiefproofing as necessary. Heck, bury a pipe between it and the house, run power and cat5 out to it, put in a barebones PC with a UPS, and you could have it do automatic nightly backups!:)
If they don't interfere until afterwards, when the damage has already been done, then they're not exactly doing a good job of protecting us! It'd be like the police standing by waiting until someone had finished committing a crime before arresting them...
As for the Courts - please, who has more money&time for lawyers/solicitors/clerks/etc/etc? Even if you get the lawyer pro bono, the rest still isn't cheap!
PS. I have no desire to oppress you with tyranny; are you confusing me with another poster? I also have no problem with people getting rich or using their riches to gain more - I have a problem with people who think they can kick you in the head because they're standing on your shoulders.
And of course, to maintain this illusion, they ignore the fact that the market is quite good at rectifying and eliminating companies that aren't wise-- SonicBlue is at what, $0.44 right now?
Tell me, who's left holding those worthless shares, while the people who were supposed to be acting in the shareholders' best interest have a couple hundred thousand in non-recourse loans and a luxury lifestyle? Oh yeah, the market's real good at eliminating these companies - pity about the side effect of human misery...
We don't need the government-- the market does a much better job and we don't have to give up the bill of rights in the process.
*BLINK* Um, if there is no government, there is also no bill of rights.
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Please re-read my post. Where in it did I say you could see the building?
It is the same thing with computing networks. You are expected to assume that a network is private unless told otherwise. Thus, you can connect insofar as you're "walking" up to the front door -- but you can't go in unless unvited.
So when I connect to the front page of a website on the internet, and I see a bunch of links leader deeper into the website, I'm expected to assume they are private and not even try clicking on them?
So when I connect to an FTP site, and I see a login request, I'm expected to assume it is private and not even try entering 'anonymous'?
Private buildings are not required to have warnings because it is OBVIOUS that X is a private building (hey, that looks like a house) and Y is a public building (hey, that looks like a mall).
On an open network on public spectrum with nothing obvious to say "you shouldn't be here", how I am supposed to know whether I'm allowed to do something or not except by trying?
Or do you think that if humans were meant to fly we'd have been given wings and trying to fly without them is immoral?
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We have reached the point where we can (acquire the ability to) direct our future evolution.
Some disabilities have advantageous consequences, and this occurs on a scale both small and large in various species including our own.
A disability in one society/environment can be an advantage in another (and vice versa).
Gandalf knew what he was talking about.
I've seen reports by others with Sims 2 DVD, who also have no problems with their burning/imaging software. So I do wonder if it's just that the DVD doesn't use the CD edition's "protection" control?
Just offhand I'd say children and infants don't deserve to die. They call it the "Rwandan Genocide" for a reason, y'know.
It'd be all fun and games until the Dalek exterminated half the Away Team. :)
And if $100 is not an exhorbitant amount for a single game for you, then I think you're getting paid rather more than I am. ;)
Every once in a while I check out the bargain bins and "old classics" shelves to see if there's anything I like, but mostly I use a game library - Gamers Valhalla is what we have in Bundaberg.
Some of the older HP printers develop the multiple sheets problem, and HP was offering a free repair kit for certain models (dunno if it's still available - if not another reply mentioned a site where you can buy a fix for your model I believe).
What happens when we reach the tech point where you can duplicate a vaccine for zero, and some guy wants money for it? You can't claim that's a strawman without being hypocritical - it's a hell of a lot more accurate as an analogy than your copied MP3 versus stolen laptop scenario...
People are being threatened with longer jail terms and bigger fines for copying songs than they would get for murdering the singer. What kind of screwed-up "justice" system does that tell you we live in?
(paragraph about unchecked cats eating a neighbourhood's birdlife)
Am I the only one seeing a solutions here? ;)
Hmm. Okay, so they got your IP, they go after you, it doesn't matter if thousands of others are doing it... what happens if you then give them the IP addresses of the thousands of others? Do they have a duty to investigate and prosecute all of those people, or can they be selective? Just curious.
What the hell? Every review I ever read panned it... Reviews I read varied. Oni was "different". I enjoyed it, but if you were a reviewer who ate Quake or Street Fighter for breakfast, lunch and dinner, I could easily understand you finding Oni on your plate and going "what's this stuff?!".
Advantage of freenet over gnutella is that anyone who downloads automatically hosts, at least for a while; advantage of gnutella over freenet is that there are many more clients, and they are more developed/stable/etc. Or so I understand (I'm a gnutella user myself, haven't tried freenet yet).
Yes, for better and worse that's the big important point in a glowing neon size 120 font that anyone planning on putting something "interesting" on the net has got to remember - even if only 1% of people on the net see your link, and only 1% of those download it, "people on the net" is in the hundreds of millions... hope you get off lightly. G'luck.Another idea - as a space elevator would cost BIGNUM money and have to be built out in the middle of nowhere anyway, how about putting it in international waters as an "International Space Elevator", a la the ISS. Doesn't matter if it's mostly US-funded; so long as it's "owned by the world" and not draped in the red-white-and-blue it hopefully shouldn't be attracting terrorists like bees to honey.
Yep, the tribbles were extinct. But at the end of the DS9 episode, very last scene after the Temporal Police have left - we see somebody must've have brought back a tribble or two... because the Promenade is littered with them! :)
Sometimes specialised devices are better. But not always. Don't underestimate the economy of scale produced by mass manufacturing - especially not when it can be combined with the flexibility of modular software.
Seriously, what happens if we find the genes that control memory and it turns out to be real easy to make our kids eidetic? Should we ban that too so that media companies can continue to make the profits they currently enjoy without fear of having to change, adapt or grow?
I suppose you could put up a little shed or "doghouse" a reasonable distance away from your house, fire/weatherproof it, secure it, and store stuff in there. Add floodproofing and thiefproofing as necessary. Heck, bury a pipe between it and the house, run power and cat5 out to it, put in a barebones PC with a UPS, and you could have it do automatic nightly backups! :)
As for the Courts - please, who has more money&time for lawyers/solicitors/clerks/etc/etc? Even if you get the lawyer pro bono, the rest still isn't cheap!
PS. I have no desire to oppress you with tyranny; are you confusing me with another poster? I also have no problem with people getting rich or using their riches to gain more - I have a problem with people who think they can kick you in the head because they're standing on your shoulders.
Wow. Cool insight. Someone mod the parent up!
So when I connect to an FTP site, and I see a login request, I'm expected to assume it is private and not even try entering 'anonymous'?
Private buildings are not required to have warnings because it is OBVIOUS that X is a private building (hey, that looks like a house) and Y is a public building (hey, that looks like a mall).
On an open network on public spectrum with nothing obvious to say "you shouldn't be here", how I am supposed to know whether I'm allowed to do something or not except by trying?
Or do you think that if humans were meant to fly we'd have been given wings and trying to fly without them is immoral?