Why must it always be haters of Christianity? This is a peculiar facet of right wing Christianity that I do not understand. Just because someone isn't Christian doesn't mean they hate Cristianity. Most non Christians in the US take a "you leave me alone and I'll leave you alone" attitude, the problems is that they are never left alone. Certainly there are a few "haters of Christianity" out there, but this "If you are not with us, you are against us" cliche has got to go
First of all, Hitler was not Jewish. This is a myth. Ask any specialist in European history. In fact, other than his lineage (which can be traced through church records) very little is known of Hitler's early life (he was a peasant in Austria, no one paid all thet much attention to him). At various times people have claimed that he was Jewish, or came from an abuseive home, or a number of other things largely based on his own (conflicting) reports and and a desire either to excuse or explain his latter action.
World War One was certainly a horrifing experience for a young man, and this certainly affected Hitler's outlook, but the other side of that arguement is that a remarkably large number of people lived through it without becoming phsycopathic, power-mad killers.
Conditions in Postwar Germany and the insane reparations required by the Allies make a strong arguement for the inevitability of WWII. I will not fight that fight here, and I really don't know which side of the fence I fall on. The Holocaust on the other hand was totally unnecesary and should be the shame of Germany for the rest of time (No I don't think the United States has a clean concious either, We have our own shames to bear). Many of the Jews that died were loyal Germans who would have happilly died getting retribution for Germany's defeat and humilation. Hitler tried to wipe out a race for ABSOLUTLEY NO REASON, and Germany followed him like puppies. I mean no direspect to current Germans. What is past is past and you cannot change what happened in your country's past anymore than I can change what happened in mine, but the fact is unchanged. No matter how poorly Gemany was treated, no matter how terrible Hitler's life before power, there is no excuse for the Holocaust. The Jews did not occupy land that Germany wanted, they did not represent enimies Germany had to defeat, they were Germans.
Argue all you want about the validity or invalidy of every other war the US has every took part in, World War II had to be fought, and we should have joined from the beginning.
BTW John eventually became king after the death of his brother, which kind of invalidates him as the example of someone born to power but no weilding it. He did face rebelions, and was eventually forced to sign the Magna Carta, but had retaken most of the power he gave up by the time of his death (In a flash flood). Although by no means a popular historical king, John I was most certainly a king, and weilded considerable power.
Someone who is a lawyer clear this up for me. I registered my name through Register.com. Register.com does not have this silly "we own your domain name" contract, however they must still go through NSI to actually regiser the domain (NSI I believe still controls the database). Does NSI still have the power to revoke my domain name?
I've never experimented with this (I've only had moderation points once), but I am willing to bet that if I moderate a post, log out completely, turn off browser cookies, and come back in without filling out the login information, the servers will not know who I am. If I never had a login, the servers sure don't know who I am, or if I use a different Netscape profile the servers won't know who I am. The only way the servers really have a chance of knowing who I am is if I check the "post anonymously" box. I really don't know if they know me then (I've never read the slash code), but there are alot of other ways to post AC.
Actually, the Producer engineer, studio tech, studio time, and video are all set costs, probably paid for with the first 200,000 or so records sold (After that all profits go to the studio). The tour pays for itself, and makes a profit, some bands make almost all of their money off of tours. CD's probably cost $.50 if that, I can press a CD for a dollar, I know a record company can do better. So the only actual cuts (as opposed to flat rate expenses) on a CD are the record store (They have a lot of overhead), the label (they also have alot of overhead, but not THAT much), and the band (The manager doesn't get a "cut" of the albulm per se, he takes a percntage of the band's gross from everything (albums, concerts, etc)) everything else is single shot expenses since the record companies often own the studios, they'd have been paying the engineers, techs, etc, their wages or salaries whether they were recording Metalica or reading./. The reocrd company gets by FAR the best deal here. If Metalica recorded their music digitally, sold it for five bucks over the net, and I could record it onto a CD-ROM at home, everyone (except the labels ) would win. I'd get music for $6.00 a CD (I am includeing my media cost here), Metalica would, after paying for studio time mint at least $3.00 a pop (probably more), and be able to charge for advertising on their (probably popular) download site. This, I think, is what Chuck D envisions (I don't care for his music, ut it's not a bad idea). The major problem is that most bands can't afford the start-up cost, hence the labels continue to sign them, and once they are signed, they are (at least temporarilly) trapped. I don't really konw the solution to this problem.
The Only two copies I've gotten so far were from profesional mailing lists... One of them was the Samba Nt-Domain controller list. You know that guy has got to feel silly.
Stupid Users.. Thank God I installed virus checker, Stupid users.. Thank Go...
Well you get the idea. How many fsking times do you have to say "DON"T DOWNLOAD UNKONOWN ATTACHMENTS: before people figure that they are not supposed to do so?
Maybe I'm just confused, but how can you only support one distro? Debian has Alien to allow.rpms, and the actual code FOR Red Hat's Package Manager is free, and will work on any distro (Unless I am mistaken about this?). Libs and Kernals can be upgraded... Granted all this stuff requires effort, but isn't that the point of Linux? You can customise it to your heart's content. It'd be nice if these companies released.debs or.pkgs, and it'd be nicer if they'd release source. But surely you can get these programs to work on any Linux distro.
Encryption won't work against a warrant or other court order (I don't think they are called warrants in civil cases). They will instruct you to unencrypt the data or face additional (criminal) charges.
Applications are obviously one of the must have items for any OS to succeed. Although Linux has more applications being released for it than most other Unixes, it is behind on older, established apps (In particular, our CAD and accounting software both run on SCO, but not on Linux.) In addition to your position as an application vendor, you have influence over other vendors. Do you have any plans to use that influence and (hopefully) increase the rate of ports by older school app developers?
Purtians? Freedom of Religion? Gov't out of religion? Someone has read The Story of Thanksgiving one to many times. I don't know whether to laugh or cry at the state of historical misinformation passed out in U.S. schools. The Puritans came to the "New World" for freedom of religion all right, freedom to practice their religion and no other. There was no mass Puritan persecution going on in England, Puritans could practice there, they came here to found a colony in which ONLY Puritanism was practiced. Far from seperating church and state the early New England colonies were practically a theocracy. Non-puritans were a persecuted majority not given most of the rights of citizenship. Decsions were made in church councils at the local level, and the church leadership had a great deal of influence even at the colonial level (Rev. Cotton Mather was one of the judges at the Salem Witch trials, his father Increase was also a clergyman/judge). Our Constitiutional freedom of religion is a result of latter and more secular minds, many of whom were Deists. The whole story of Puritans coming to this country to escape "persecution" and establish "religious freedom" was a great PR job by later American Whig historians living in...hmm.. New England.
I am probably being trolled here, but just in case you are simply stupid, I will reply. The entire point of the first amendment which you claim to have such an interest in is precisely to protect the type of speech you are talking about here. The people who wonder about pedophiles using this service have a possible legit gripe. The people who worry about copyright laws being violated at least have a legal gripe. Your gripe is against political and religious speech, exactly the things that first amendment was intended to protect. Most people who value the rights granted them in the constitution would be thrilled to see those rights extended to areas of the world that do not currently posses them (Western Europe? Huh? most of Western Europe has roughly the same speech rights we do. China needs free speech, Cuba needs free speech, as do many Middle Eastern countries. What world do you live in?) The bill of rights exists because someone though that EVERYONE, not just those people you agree with, has the right to say their piece. Even those, like you, who believe that free speech should be curtailed get to have their say, even though we don't agree with them.
This arguement make some sense when used in this case, but Ticketmaster used this same tchnique against Microsoft, and they did not have a lot of chance to hurt/destroy that behemoth. On the other hand, it worked so maybe I am worng.
There is an irony here. In order to read the "Licence Agreement" for a site I would have to go through it's homepage (at least I assume that they are not going to post several KB's of legal text on every page in the site). If I was "deep linked" into the site, I can honestly say that I was unaware of the licence that prevents me from deep linking.
Does it seem to anyone else that this case is about being lazy? I am not the most masterful coder in the world, but it seems relatively trivial to me to write a CGI script that protects the pages in question from deep linking if you don't want them linked. Instead of linking to the.html that you want protected, link to a cgi script that looks at where you just came from (I know this is possible) and based on that either sends you to the protected html or to an error page. You could spoof the script, but that is more than 99.9% of the world would know how to do, and would be clearly illegal, thus eliminating the need to set new precedent. Like I said, I am not a great programmer, if anyone sees a reason that this would not work, please respond.
That is the whole point of the ruling. The rights of the expressive nature of the code (its abilty to provide a communications medium between two people, just like a book) outweighs the limitations on the functional nature of the code (its ability to make the computer do something). The court has ruled that uncompiled code (binaries would be a different matter, as they have no purpose other than making a computer do something) is more like the book than the bomb. This makes sense when you think about it. I could easilly argue that I sent my friend the code to the worm I just wrote merely as an acedemic excercise. I wanted to show him how to do something, and the code in this worm simply illustrates that point very well. Now if I sent him compliled binaries of my new worm, I am in effect sending him a bomb. He can't learn anything useful from it, so there is no expression.
At the cost of ruining how many OTHER childeren's lives? Someone on/. used to use this as a.sig, and it is a great quote "Those who sacrifice freedom for saftey will loose both and deserve neither" Any student of history can tell you the truth of this statement.
WoTC Still controls the stuff they publish. If THEY decide to publish something under copyright, then THEY are responsible. Hence the "Official PHB" will never have any copyrighted (by someone else) matirial in it. If you write a module for the game and include (someone else's) copyrighted matirial, you are subject to legal action by the copyright holder. You maintain your module, just like the creator of a Linux module maintains his code. If Xfree86 were to start calling itself Windows (not that they would, just an example) Microsoft would sue them, not Linus, even though Xfree86 comes with almost every distro.(not a perfect example I know, X is not actually a "module", but it's the best analogy I can come up with)
This seems similar to Linux and GPL to me. I can make all the changes I want. I can send them in to TSR to consider adding to the next "release" of the "kernal". They can accept my patch or not. I can sell my new "kernal" if I want, I just can't call it AD&D (That would confuse people). I can write modules for the "kernal" all I want and sell or distribute them as I want, but I can't change the "kernal" of the game and still call it AD&D.
Actually, Daemon is a far older term than either demon or Disk And Execution MONitor. The term Daemon originated with the Greeks, and indicated a beings of a level between mortals and gods. They usually represented a Platonic ideal of some human thing. Thus Socrates describes Eros as a Daemon. Of course the Greeks were very fluid about where exactly a being falls in the divine Hierarchy, and Eros has also ben describes as a god. The Romans (as they did with so much else) took over the Greek concept of Daemons. They expanded it slightly to make them "server beings" of the gods. Christianity came along, and redfined the old gods as fallen angels, thus they took the name of divine serants, daemons. The word eventually corrupted to demon. Actually if you used the old definition of Daemon, both angels and demons would be subclasses of the race daemon. AD&D for purposes of giving us a greater varity of things to kill seperatered Daemon as a race from Demon and Devils, just as they seperated Demons and Devils from each other. In actual Christian Mythos, all three are the same, but AD&D made them the embodiment of the NE, CE, and LE alignments respectivly.
1) We can prove with no shadow of doubt that CyberPatrol is blocking sites that critsise them as nudity (and every other catagory).
2) We can prove that teh software is blocking other sites incorrectly (commercial sites would be best here, although some.orgs havre the resources to be helpful).
If these are both true, the solution is simple. Find the companies that own the blocked sites, and combine with them into a class action libel suit against Mattel. Sick the Lawyers on the bad guys for a change. Even if no commercial site would agree to help (doubtful if they really are being blocked) theoretically the anti censorware sites could go it alone.
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Why must it always be haters of Christianity? This is a peculiar facet of right wing Christianity that I do not understand. Just because someone isn't Christian doesn't mean they hate Cristianity. Most non Christians in the US take a "you leave me alone and I'll leave you alone" attitude, the problems is that they are never left alone. Certainly there are a few "haters of Christianity" out there, but this "If you are not with us, you are against us" cliche has got to go
Hmmm... and you say this is "well known history"?
First of all, Hitler was not Jewish. This is a myth. Ask any specialist in European history. In fact, other than his lineage (which can be traced through church records) very little is known of Hitler's early life (he was a peasant in Austria, no one paid all thet much attention to him). At various times people have claimed that he was Jewish, or came from an abuseive home, or a number of other things largely based on his own (conflicting) reports and and a desire either to excuse or explain his latter action.
World War One was certainly a horrifing experience for a young man, and this certainly affected Hitler's outlook, but the other side of that arguement is that a remarkably large number of people lived through it without becoming phsycopathic, power-mad killers.
Conditions in Postwar Germany and the insane reparations required by the Allies make a strong arguement for the inevitability of WWII. I will not fight that fight here, and I really don't know which side of the fence I fall on. The Holocaust on the other hand was totally unnecesary and should be the shame of Germany for the rest of time (No I don't think the United States has a clean concious either, We have our own shames to bear). Many of the Jews that died were loyal Germans who would have happilly died getting retribution for Germany's defeat and humilation. Hitler tried to wipe out a race for ABSOLUTLEY NO REASON, and Germany followed him like puppies. I mean no direspect to current Germans. What is past is past and you cannot change what happened in your country's past anymore than I can change what happened in mine, but the fact is unchanged. No matter how poorly Gemany was treated, no matter how terrible Hitler's life before power, there is no excuse for the Holocaust. The Jews did not occupy land that Germany wanted, they did not represent enimies Germany had to defeat, they were Germans.
Argue all you want about the validity or invalidy of every other war the US has every took part in, World War II had to be fought, and we should have joined from the beginning.
BTW John eventually became king after the death of his brother, which kind of invalidates him as the example of someone born to power but no weilding it. He did face rebelions, and was eventually forced to sign the Magna Carta, but had retaken most of the power he gave up by the time of his death (In a flash flood). Although by no means a popular historical king, John I was most certainly a king, and weilded considerable power.
Someone who is a lawyer clear this up for me. I registered my name through Register.com. Register.com does not have this silly "we own your domain name" contract, however they must still go through NSI to actually regiser the domain (NSI I believe still controls the database). Does NSI still have the power to revoke my domain name?
I've never experimented with this (I've only had moderation points once), but I am willing to bet that if I moderate a post, log out completely, turn off browser cookies, and come back in without filling out the login information, the servers will not know who I am. If I never had a login, the servers sure don't know who I am, or if I use a different Netscape profile the servers won't know who I am. The only way the servers really have a chance of knowing who I am is if I check the "post anonymously" box. I really don't know if they know me then (I've never read the slash code), but there are alot of other ways to post AC.
Actually, the Producer engineer, studio tech, studio time, and video are all set costs, probably paid for with the first 200,000 or so records sold (After that all profits go to the studio). The tour pays for itself, and makes a profit, some bands make almost all of their money off of tours. CD's probably cost $.50 if that, I can press a CD for a dollar, I know a record company can do better. So the only actual cuts (as opposed to flat rate expenses) on a CD are the record store (They have a lot of overhead), the label (they also have alot of overhead, but not THAT much), and the band (The manager doesn't get a "cut" of the albulm per se, he takes a percntage of the band's gross from everything (albums, concerts, etc)) everything else is single shot expenses since the record companies often own the studios, they'd have been paying the engineers, techs, etc, their wages or salaries whether they were recording Metalica or reading ./. The reocrd company gets by FAR the best deal here. If Metalica recorded their music digitally, sold it for five bucks over the net, and I could record it onto a CD-ROM at home, everyone (except the labels ) would win. I'd get music for $6.00 a CD (I am includeing my media cost here), Metalica would, after paying for studio time mint at least $3.00 a pop (probably more), and be able to charge for advertising on their (probably popular) download site. This, I think, is what Chuck D envisions (I don't care for his music, ut it's not a bad idea). The major problem is that most bands can't afford the start-up cost, hence the labels continue to sign them, and once they are signed, they are (at least temporarilly) trapped. I don't really konw the solution to this problem.
The Only two copies I've gotten so far were from profesional mailing lists... One of them was the Samba Nt-Domain controller list. You know that guy has got to feel silly.
Stupid Users.. Thank God I installed virus checker, Stupid users.. Thank Go...
Well you get the idea. How many fsking times do you have to say "DON"T DOWNLOAD UNKONOWN ATTACHMENTS: before people figure that they are not supposed to do so?
Maybe I'm just confused, but how can you only support one distro? Debian has Alien to allow .rpms, and the actual code FOR Red Hat's Package Manager is free, and will work on any distro (Unless I am mistaken about this?). Libs and Kernals can be upgraded... Granted all this stuff requires effort, but isn't that the point of Linux? You can customise it to your heart's content. It'd be nice if these companies released .debs or .pkgs, and it'd be nicer if they'd release source. But surely you can get these programs to work on any Linux distro.
Encryption won't work against a warrant or other court order (I don't think they are called warrants in civil cases). They will instruct you to unencrypt the data or face additional (criminal) charges.
Applications are obviously one of the must have items for any OS to succeed. Although Linux has more applications being released for it than most other Unixes, it is behind on older, established apps (In particular, our CAD and accounting software both run on SCO, but not on Linux.) In addition to your position as an application vendor, you have influence over other vendors. Do you have any plans to use that influence and (hopefully) increase the rate of ports by older school app developers?
Purtians? Freedom of Religion? Gov't out of religion? Someone has read The Story of Thanksgiving one to many times. I don't know whether to laugh or cry at the state of historical misinformation passed out in U.S. schools. The Puritans came to the "New World" for freedom of religion all right, freedom to practice their religion and no other. There was no mass Puritan persecution going on in England, Puritans could practice there, they came here to found a colony in which ONLY Puritanism was practiced. Far from seperating church and state the early New England colonies were practically a theocracy. Non-puritans were a persecuted majority not given most of the rights of citizenship. Decsions were made in church councils at the local level, and the church leadership had a great deal of influence even at the colonial level (Rev. Cotton Mather was one of the judges at the Salem Witch trials, his father Increase was also a clergyman/judge). Our Constitiutional freedom of religion is a result of latter and more secular minds, many of whom were Deists. The whole story of Puritans coming to this country to escape "persecution" and establish "religious freedom" was a great PR job by later American Whig historians living in...hmm.. New England.
When has this planet ever been sane?
I am probably being trolled here, but just in case you are simply stupid, I will reply. The entire point of the first amendment which you claim to have such an interest in is precisely to protect the type of speech you are talking about here. The people who wonder about pedophiles using this service have a possible legit gripe. The people who worry about copyright laws being violated at least have a legal gripe. Your gripe is against political and religious speech, exactly the things that first amendment was intended to protect. Most people who value the rights granted them in the constitution would be thrilled to see those rights extended to areas of the world that do not currently posses them (Western Europe? Huh? most of Western Europe has roughly the same speech rights we do. China needs free speech, Cuba needs free speech, as do many Middle Eastern countries. What world do you live in?) The bill of rights exists because someone though that EVERYONE, not just those people you agree with, has the right to say their piece. Even those, like you, who believe that free speech should be curtailed get to have their say, even though we don't agree with them.
This arguement make some sense when used in this case, but Ticketmaster used this same tchnique against Microsoft, and they did not have a lot of chance to hurt/destroy that behemoth. On the other hand, it worked so maybe I am worng.
There is an irony here. In order to read the "Licence Agreement" for a site I would have to go through it's homepage (at least I assume that they are not going to post several KB's of legal text on every page in the site). If I was "deep linked" into the site, I can honestly say that I was unaware of the licence that prevents me from deep linking.
Does it seem to anyone else that this case is about being lazy? I am not the most masterful coder in the world, but it seems relatively trivial to me to write a CGI script that protects the pages in question from deep linking if you don't want them linked. Instead of linking to the .html that you want protected, link to a cgi script that looks at where you just came from (I know this is possible) and based on that either sends you to the protected html or to an error page. You could spoof the script, but that is more than 99.9% of the world would know how to do, and would be clearly illegal, thus eliminating the need to set new precedent. Like I said, I am not a great programmer, if anyone sees a reason that this would not work, please respond.
That is the whole point of the ruling. The rights of the expressive nature of the code (its abilty to provide a communications medium between two people, just like a book) outweighs the limitations on the functional nature of the code (its ability to make the computer do something). The court has ruled that uncompiled code (binaries would be a different matter, as they have no purpose other than making a computer do something) is more like the book than the bomb. This makes sense when you think about it. I could easilly argue that I sent my friend the code to the worm I just wrote merely as an acedemic excercise. I wanted to show him how to do something, and the code in this worm simply illustrates that point very well. Now if I sent him compliled binaries of my new worm, I am in effect sending him a bomb. He can't learn anything useful from it, so there is no expression.
At the cost of ruining how many OTHER childeren's lives? Someone on /. used to use this as a .sig, and it is a great quote "Those who sacrifice freedom for saftey will loose both and deserve neither" Any student of history can tell you the truth of this statement.
Unless they think of it first
I think he means DRI drivers for Xf86 4.0. These are still 3.3.x drivers.
It doesn't exist yet. Vaporware doesn't count.
Just a guess here:
WoTC Still controls the stuff they publish. If THEY decide to publish something under copyright, then THEY are responsible. Hence the "Official PHB" will never have any copyrighted (by someone else) matirial in it. If you write a module for the game and include (someone else's) copyrighted matirial, you are subject to legal action by the copyright holder. You maintain your module, just like the creator of a Linux module maintains his code. If Xfree86 were to start calling itself Windows (not that they would, just an example) Microsoft would sue them, not Linus, even though Xfree86 comes with almost every distro.(not a perfect example I know, X is not actually a "module", but it's the best analogy I can come up with)
This seems similar to Linux and GPL to me. I can make all the changes I want. I can send them in to TSR to consider adding to the next "release" of the "kernal". They can accept my patch or not. I can sell my new "kernal" if I want, I just can't call it AD&D (That would confuse people). I can write modules for the "kernal" all I want and sell or distribute them as I want, but I can't change the "kernal" of the game and still call it AD&D.
Actually, Daemon is a far older term than either demon or Disk And Execution MONitor. The term Daemon originated with the Greeks, and indicated a beings of a level between mortals and gods. They usually represented a Platonic ideal of some human thing. Thus Socrates describes Eros as a Daemon. Of course the Greeks were very fluid about where exactly a being falls in the divine Hierarchy, and Eros has also ben describes as a god. The Romans (as they did with so much else) took over the Greek concept of Daemons. They expanded it slightly to make them "server beings" of the gods. Christianity came along, and redfined the old gods as fallen angels, thus they took the name of divine serants, daemons. The word eventually corrupted to demon. Actually if you used the old definition of Daemon, both angels and demons would be subclasses of the race daemon. AD&D for purposes of giving us a greater varity of things to kill seperatered Daemon as a race from Demon and Devils, just as they seperated Demons and Devils from each other. In actual Christian Mythos, all three are the same, but AD&D made them the embodiment of the NE, CE, and LE alignments respectivly.
Making a couple of assumptions here:
1) We can prove with no shadow of doubt that CyberPatrol is blocking sites that critsise them as nudity (and every other catagory).
2) We can prove that teh software is blocking other sites incorrectly (commercial sites would be best here, although some .orgs havre the resources to be helpful).
If these are both true, the solution is simple. Find the companies that own the blocked sites, and combine with them into a class action libel suit against Mattel. Sick the Lawyers on the bad guys for a change. Even if no commercial site would agree to help (doubtful if they really are being blocked) theoretically the anti censorware sites could go it alone.