Of course. I find it extremely offensive that I might not even be allowed to wear my own clothing because of some contract between third parties. As a concession stand customer I might also like to have my own tastes catered to rather than being forced to consume something I don't like because of a contract between third parties. For the me the solution is simple, avoid those events and keep my money in my pocket.
But this is the gist of all the stories being written about the issue with regards to the Olympics. I chose to focus on the often overlooked issue, how it affects the athletes themselves.
There are, however, no Gatorade shirts anywhere within the Olympic grounds, not even as personal wear by athletes sponsored by Gatorade, and NBC will not show a Gatorade logo even in interviews conducted away from the site.
Of course the problem comes in the fact that many of the athletes rely on personal sponsors to compete at all; and if you're sponsored by Adidas but have to wear a Nike shirt or no shirt at all, well, you go without the Adidas money you need to train and compete because there's nothing in the deal for Adidas.
The organizers end up with all the loot, the competitors themselves are left out in the cold.
This a big deal in NASCAR right now, what with Coke sponsoring events and cars sponsored by Pepsi winning races and vice versa.
So you stupid reporters and lawyers can as well stop argueing about license switches. ..
It doesn't work like that. I think it takes a silver bullet or something.
In any case the article evinces the same basic flaw in perception that we see over and over again, no matter how many times you explain it to them they will persist in thinking of Linux as a product.
Not to mention the fact that they rarely even know what the hell they're talking about, e.g. the statement that SCO acquired the UNIX trademark. When you see uninformed shit like that in an article you know that the article is, well, uninformed.
Damn! I clicked on the story just to make that joke.
But really, it does seem the perfect game to offer with a console aimed at people who don't play games.
People actually invested in this idea?
I think I'll take old Teddy Ruxpin voiceboxes, put them in a suppository shaped case, and market them as an iPod competitor to people who don't listen to music.
I'll go put in the order for my Modena 360 right now.
Ten years later, most computers running X run just four programs: xterm, xload, xclock, and a window manager. And most xterm windows run Emacs! X has to be the most expensive way ever of popping up an Emacs window. It sure would have been much cheaper and easier to put terminal handling in the kernel where it belongs, rather than forcing people to purchase expensive bitmapped terminals to run character-based applications.
Ok, have you got any specific complaints that are relevant to the past decade?
If I walk into your house and take your TV all I have to distribute is your TV to one "customer."
If I obtain your software, crack it, all I have to distribute is an infinate number of copies.
The "casual priracy" argument has never held water and never will, because it only takes one noncasual pirate to provide casual piracy to everyone.
When companies use pain in the ass proctection that only drives downloads of the pirate version, since paying customers buy the CD, then run the pirate version. A paying customer has now become a "pirate." Your idea that downloaded cracked versions are inherently unpaid for is simply untrue. For some titles I'd hazard that paying customers make up the majority of illegal downloaders.
And the publisher will count the download as lost revenue as well, and therefore justification of even more offensive, but just as worthless, copy protection.
There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza.
It is possible to be both a strong supporter of the philosophy of copyright and yet oppose specific copyright law.
Not to mention private interests being allowed to making their case as fact in the public schools without so much as a representative of a counterpoint.
I certainly hope school librarians take up the gauntlet, but my experience suggests that to do so might well endanger their jobs.
When you have a dead poet's estate prohibiting a poetry festival from "performing" his poems, you know the system's gone mad.
Indeed. Anyone who's ever been to an open mike night knows that in a sane world it would be the poet who would be prohibited from reading his own works.
People who don't like team activities, but aren't actually antisocial (they aren't the same thing at all) are sometimes actually the best team players.
Consider it a corollary to Plato's observation that people who want to rule aren't qualified to do so.
They go in, do the job, and get out.
Ok, so maybe that wasn't the best way to phrase it given the context.
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I thought that's what their mailbox was for.
KFG
Yeah. Why don't they just use their own money instead of making us pay for it?
KFG
. . . online game called REAL LIFE!
You could have at least posted a link.
KFG
The national teams are composed of individuals. They are not Borg collectives.
At least not since the reunification of Germany.
However, you seem to miss the point that none of the teams are allowed to be officially sponsored by Gatorade, although some of the individuals are.
Hence the problem.
Which is where I came into this movie.
KFG
Of course. I find it extremely offensive that I might not even be allowed to wear my own clothing because of some contract between third parties. As a concession stand customer I might also like to have my own tastes catered to rather than being forced to consume something I don't like because of a contract between third parties. For the me the solution is simple, avoid those events and keep my money in my pocket.
But this is the gist of all the stories being written about the issue with regards to the Olympics. I chose to focus on the often overlooked issue, how it affects the athletes themselves.
KFG
There are, however, no Gatorade shirts anywhere within the Olympic grounds, not even as personal wear by athletes sponsored by Gatorade, and NBC will not show a Gatorade logo even in interviews conducted away from the site.
It's Powerade or nothin'.
KFG
Of course the problem comes in the fact that many of the athletes rely on personal sponsors to compete at all; and if you're sponsored by Adidas but have to wear a Nike shirt or no shirt at all, well, you go without the Adidas money you need to train and compete because there's nothing in the deal for Adidas.
The organizers end up with all the loot, the competitors themselves are left out in the cold.
This a big deal in NASCAR right now, what with Coke sponsoring events and cars sponsored by Pepsi winning races and vice versa.
It's a fucking mess.
KFG
So you stupid reporters and lawyers can as well stop argueing about license switches. . .
It doesn't work like that. I think it takes a silver bullet or something.
In any case the article evinces the same basic flaw in perception that we see over and over again, no matter how many times you explain it to them they will persist in thinking of Linux as a product.
Not to mention the fact that they rarely even know what the hell they're talking about, e.g. the statement that SCO acquired the UNIX trademark. When you see uninformed shit like that in an article you know that the article is, well, uninformed.
Move along, nothing to see here but media hack.
KFG
The only way we can truly protect ourselves is to quite literally monitor everyone's actions 24-7
Which is why if you want yourself protected the first thing you do is have yourself sent to prison.
KFG
Indeed, but if I erected four Doric columns at the corners of your property would you be prepared to call it a house and move in?
KFG
This site could use more Duke Nukem Forever jokes.
There's a quota per story you know, and we've been running about a quart low.
Of course the very phrase "Duke Nukem Forever joke" is redundant.
KFG
Nonsense. You can buy games for the Xbox.
KFG
Damn! I clicked on the story just to make that joke.
But really, it does seem the perfect game to offer with a console aimed at people who don't play games.
People actually invested in this idea?
I think I'll take old Teddy Ruxpin voiceboxes, put them in a suppository shaped case, and market them as an iPod competitor to people who don't listen to music.
I'll go put in the order for my Modena 360 right now.
KFG
the internals of what the Phantom REALLY has.
An eMachine in a silly case?
KFG
Ten years later, most computers running X run just four programs: xterm, xload, xclock, and a window manager. And most xterm windows run Emacs! X has to be the most expensive way ever of popping up an Emacs window. It sure would have been much cheaper and easier to put terminal handling in the kernel where it belongs, rather than forcing people to purchase expensive bitmapped terminals to run character-based applications.
Ok, have you got any specific complaints that are relevant to the past decade?
KFG
If Mickey Mouse's copyright gets extended any further they might as well just say, 'Infinity + 1' and be done with it.
If you think the Mickey Mouse laws are bad you should check out the Peter Pan laws.
Think of the children.
KFG
On the other hand you could hit yourself in the back of the head with a Nerf(tm) Ball.
KFG
It's "Hear, hear."
An equivilent phrasing would be "Listen, listen."
While it has come to be a cheer of assent, it is really an admonition to others to pay attention to what someone is saying.
KFG
If I walk into your house and take your TV all I have to distribute is your TV to one "customer."
If I obtain your software, crack it, all I have to distribute is an infinate number of copies.
The "casual priracy" argument has never held water and never will, because it only takes one noncasual pirate to provide casual piracy to everyone.
When companies use pain in the ass proctection that only drives downloads of the pirate version, since paying customers buy the CD, then run the pirate version. A paying customer has now become a "pirate." Your idea that downloaded cracked versions are inherently unpaid for is simply untrue. For some titles I'd hazard that paying customers make up the majority of illegal downloaders.
And the publisher will count the download as lost revenue as well, and therefore justification of even more offensive, but just as worthless, copy protection.
There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza.
KFG
It is possible to be both a strong supporter of the philosophy of copyright and yet oppose specific copyright law.
Not to mention private interests being allowed to making their case as fact in the public schools without so much as a representative of a counterpoint.
I certainly hope school librarians take up the gauntlet, but my experience suggests that to do so might well endanger their jobs.
KFG
When you have a dead poet's estate prohibiting a poetry festival from "performing" his poems, you know the system's gone mad.
Indeed. Anyone who's ever been to an open mike night knows that in a sane world it would be the poet who would be prohibited from reading his own works.
KFG
Good girl!
KFG
People who don't like team activities, but aren't actually antisocial (they aren't the same thing at all) are sometimes actually the best team players.
Consider it a corollary to Plato's observation that people who want to rule aren't qualified to do so.
They go in, do the job, and get out.
Ok, so maybe that wasn't the best way to phrase it given the context.
KFG
How is she going to accomplish that after we extract her carbon?
KFG
I'm afraid he'll have to be disposed of, but he'll still beat Homer out for Worker of the Week.
KFG