Exactly. Maybe sometime in the future when robots do all the manual labor such a conspiracy might be plausible, but at this point in time they'd just be shooting themselves in the foot.
So if, for example, I were to order a Dell, and as one of the options I select for them to pre-install Office 2007, it's my fault if the copy they install is improperly licensed?
You and me both. The problem people will be those that feel they have some sort of divine (or otherwise) responsibility to shame and/or punish pedophiles just for being pedophiles, even when no child is or would have been harmed.
Back when I was still forced into going, I remember a sermon my father's pastor gave about homosexuality, wherein he basically said that as long as homosexuals do not act upon their urges in any way, shape, or form, then they can be as homosexual as they want. Maybe not the same thing, but for some reason I was reminded of that sermon.
You're assuming he revels in schadenfreude, and enjoys seeing other people suffer. Why would you assume that? It's like assuming a rape victim enjoys hearing of other people getting raped.
I think you have a bit mixed up. It's more like a rape victim hearing that their assailant got raped while in prison.
Or to put it into a car analogy, someone who abhors Chevrolets hearing that Chevrolet is going bankrupt.
But not of the officer who is writing the tickets, which I took to be the point.
Unless the officer gets a percentage of each ticket he gives out, in which case, yes, there is an incentive to write tickets "beyond that which is needed [to keep his job]".
That means you must keep your guns disassembled and non-firing.
What about the police? FBI? Army? GP said they "do some cool stuff for the government" but didn't specify what. So it's possible that they don't need to keep their guns in the condition that you specified.
good luck convincing a court that it wasn't installed by an employee
You do know that it is possible to buy computers with software pre-installed, right? I've never done it myself so maybe my point is invalid, but just saying...
Doesn't the HOSTS file (at least on Windows) just map hostnames to IP addresses? So that if the product "phoned home" to a specific IP instead of a hostname, the HOSTS file wouldn't even be taken into account? Not to mention if the product contains some sort of "if I can't phone home, stop working" contingency.
Knowing the locations and layout of some camping and extreme sports equipment stores around here, an argument could probably be made that it's less about enabling step-less entry and more about enabling step-less exiting quickly and safely in the event of an emergency.
I don't know about allergies (Khris did kinda go from "we need to fix the root cause of allergies" to "being dirty is good" with no clear link), but as far as the whole "being dirty is good" thing, just check this story out.
In other words, you agree with me that it shouldn't matter, that an image of a naked Bart Simpson (or any cartoon character) should be legal, regardless of if someone faps to it or not.
I guess I'm ok with, say, if an artist dies and leaves a 5 year old child alone in the world, that child could be allowed to profit off daddy's work until the child turns 18.
But Isa Dick Hackett was born on March 15, 1967 (source). The bitch is now 42 (turning 43 this March). Her father stopped being required to care for her 24 years ago. If she hasn't been able to make a living like the rest of us slobs in those 24 years, that's her own goddamned fault.
If finding that prior art took less than 2 hours of Googling by a PhD in the field, the inspector is shot.
You want to shoot someone who probably has zero experience with the field the patent is in, who probably has much less than 2 hours per patent (that's only 4 patents a day, which the various patent articles over the years seem to imply is much less than patent inspectors are expected to review in a single day)?
Not saying it's right or wrong that a patent inspector inspects patents under those circumstances, just that it isn't nice to "shoot the messenger" as could probably be said about your proposed solution.
when you own a book 'it’s yours to give away, yours to keep, yours to license or to borrow, to inherit or to be included in your safe for your children'
Maybe that's why? The content of the book is certainly important, but without these so-called rights inherent in owning a book, the dissemination of that content becomes limited. Libraries wouldn't be allowed, you'd need to purchase a copy for yourself for any book that you wished to absorb the contents of.
THANK YOU! Too many people seem to forget that it doesn't matter if our actions cause, nudge, or do nothing to affect the climate, we're still just as fucked if we can't adapt (either ourselves or the climate) to those changes, whatever those changes may be.
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Exactly. Maybe sometime in the future when robots do all the manual labor such a conspiracy might be plausible, but at this point in time they'd just be shooting themselves in the foot.
Or... we could be remembering another so-called "un" object, and remembering how that one ended up fairing.
Looks like there's already a Highlander reboot for sometime this year.
No clue what BART is, but I hadn't really considered that option before. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
So if, for example, I were to order a Dell, and as one of the options I select for them to pre-install Office 2007, it's my fault if the copy they install is improperly licensed?
You and me both. The problem people will be those that feel they have some sort of divine (or otherwise) responsibility to shame and/or punish pedophiles just for being pedophiles, even when no child is or would have been harmed.
Back when I was still forced into going, I remember a sermon my father's pastor gave about homosexuality, wherein he basically said that as long as homosexuals do not act upon their urges in any way, shape, or form, then they can be as homosexual as they want. Maybe not the same thing, but for some reason I was reminded of that sermon.
You're assuming he revels in schadenfreude, and enjoys seeing other people suffer. Why would you assume that? It's like assuming a rape victim enjoys hearing of other people getting raped.
I think you have a bit mixed up. It's more like a rape victim hearing that their assailant got raped while in prison.
Or to put it into a car analogy, someone who abhors Chevrolets hearing that Chevrolet is going bankrupt.
But not of the officer who is writing the tickets, which I took to be the point.
Unless the officer gets a percentage of each ticket he gives out, in which case, yes, there is an incentive to write tickets "beyond that which is needed [to keep his job]".
That means you must keep your guns disassembled and non-firing.
What about the police? FBI? Army? GP said they "do some cool stuff for the government" but didn't specify what. So it's possible that they don't need to keep their guns in the condition that you specified.
good luck convincing a court that it wasn't installed by an employee
You do know that it is possible to buy computers with software pre-installed, right? I've never done it myself so maybe my point is invalid, but just saying...
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/12/21/ applies too.
Doesn't the HOSTS file (at least on Windows) just map hostnames to IP addresses? So that if the product "phoned home" to a specific IP instead of a hostname, the HOSTS file wouldn't even be taken into account? Not to mention if the product contains some sort of "if I can't phone home, stop working" contingency.
Knowing the locations and layout of some camping and extreme sports equipment stores around here, an argument could probably be made that it's less about enabling step-less entry and more about enabling step-less exiting quickly and safely in the event of an emergency.
I don't know about allergies (Khris did kinda go from "we need to fix the root cause of allergies" to "being dirty is good" with no clear link), but as far as the whole "being dirty is good" thing, just check this story out.
In other words, you agree with me that it shouldn't matter, that an image of a naked Bart Simpson (or any cartoon character) should be legal, regardless of if someone faps to it or not.
who faps to naked Bart Simpson?
Why should whether or not someone does change the legality of such an image?
And Netflix has (had?) options with limits like "no more than 4 movies a month".
but if he is that kind of person he will have far bigger problems in the long run
I'm not so sure about that, upper management seems to do pretty well ;)
I guess I'm ok with, say, if an artist dies and leaves a 5 year old child alone in the world, that child could be allowed to profit off daddy's work until the child turns 18.
But Isa Dick Hackett was born on March 15, 1967 (source). The bitch is now 42 (turning 43 this March). Her father stopped being required to care for her 24 years ago. If she hasn't been able to make a living like the rest of us slobs in those 24 years, that's her own goddamned fault.
similar only in their unfortunate circumstances.
Some people actually volunteer to go into the armed forces.
In my neighborhood too, but it's also obvious from the outside that there is a livable room above it.
If finding that prior art took less than 2 hours of Googling by a PhD in the field, the inspector is shot.
You want to shoot someone who probably has zero experience with the field the patent is in, who probably has much less than 2 hours per patent (that's only 4 patents a day, which the various patent articles over the years seem to imply is much less than patent inspectors are expected to review in a single day)?
Not saying it's right or wrong that a patent inspector inspects patents under those circumstances, just that it isn't nice to "shoot the messenger" as could probably be said about your proposed solution.
It's a natural 2, no mods have given it a point (as of now).
when you own a book 'it’s yours to give away, yours to keep, yours to license or to borrow, to inherit or to be included in your safe for your children'
Maybe that's why? The content of the book is certainly important, but without these so-called rights inherent in owning a book, the dissemination of that content becomes limited. Libraries wouldn't be allowed, you'd need to purchase a copy for yourself for any book that you wished to absorb the contents of.
THANK YOU! Too many people seem to forget that it doesn't matter if our actions cause, nudge, or do nothing to affect the climate, we're still just as fucked if we can't adapt (either ourselves or the climate) to those changes, whatever those changes may be.