Well, you state the case in trollish fashion, but the point is valid.
650,000 is a mob. Mobs are not know for intellignece. What accessing 650,000 minds really does for you is give you a large pool out of which to find the dozen or so minds smart enough to constribute something.
Is there anything out there for Linux that makes a tablet PC worthwhile? I would love to look at someone's post about Linux on tablet pc and say "yes, that would be worth it" but right now all I have to say is you're wasting your money.
I want a tablet PC for one, and only one, reason, to run vim as an ASCII etext reader. A laptop is too awkward to curl up with and a PDA is too small.
It would be worth a good, oooooooh, hundred bucks to me.
I haven't seen described the legal use of modchips.
Then you need to read the blurb again.
By the way, people buy scanners to "steal" books, and even distribute them. Scanners are legal because they can be used for legitimate purposes. They are not illegal because people do use them for illegal purposes.
Me, I just type 'em in, at least until keyboards are illegal.
I agree the submission could have been written better, but you have to remember that submission blurbs are really just Slashdot posts like any other. We're just folk chatting about the news here. We're virtually handing each other clippings, making a comment about it, and opening the floor to discussion. Most of the critcisms of Slashdot's journalistic failures are entirely misplaced.
Here in America they do not, and the country at issue here is England.
Perhaps Canada will rule that mod chips are legal but owe the copyright tax as they do with copy machines, blank CDs, etc, but England has banned them because they can be used to play copies. My point stands.
Except your revision is incorrect. The rights of all citizens are being infringed upon.
Rights are innate even when they are not being acted upon. A monk who has taken a vow of silence still retains whatever rights to speak any citizen has and a law forbiding speech, even though he has already chosen not to, infringes his rights.
SCO is a corporation. What's more it's one that bought the so called rights they so called hold. They didn't write much of anything and even if they had those rights would reside strictly with the corporation, having been work for hire.
There is no individual at SCO who holds any copyrights to UNIX code. Just like a former Ford employee (that's all the people who work at SCO are remember, even Darl) cannot sue as an individual for violating a patent held by Ford.
Gerald Durrell and Rudyard Kipling were both born in India. They were not Indians. They were British.
A military brat friend of mine was born in Osaka, Japan. He is not Japanese. He has no right to Japanese citizenship. He is American.
In some cases, and in some times and places, parantage is as, or more, important than place of birth.
On that April night of 1775 no one yelled "The British are coming." That would have been nonsensical. They were all British. The yell was "The regulars are coming."
At the time of Franklin all British were subjects and all subjects were British, either natural born or naturalised and the American colonies were not even self governing dominions. They were British, as Alaska was American at the time of my birth, even though it was not yet a state. Had I been born in Alaska I would still be a natural born American. Franklin was a natural born British subject of natural born British subject parents and grandparents, just as were British subjects born in London.
Modern citizenship laws were not enacted until 1914.
Go ahead and pick all the holes you want though. If no one did I would have less opportunity to close them. I'm hardly always right, but I do like to get righter over time. It's all anyone can do.
Yes, it did. You forget that Franklin was British. The British patent system dates from the first quarter of the 17th century, and before that the King could grant them directly.
He actually had a patent on the Franklin stove, but did not enforce it.
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For the record, I got that from Utah Phillips and he got it from an old IWW organizer called Idaho Blackie.
KFG
Yes, it does indeed seem that MS has been granted a patent on the Captain Midnight secret decoder ring.
KFG
Anarchy is not the same as disorder. It's a situation where there are not static leaders.
The best pragmatic definition of an anarchist I know is "Someone who doesn't need a cop to tell him what to do."
KFG
I did not invoke "experts."
KFG
Sure, all they have to do is add some equipment to the cat detector vans.
KFG
This whole anti-French thing is getting really old. . .
Indeed, Julius Caeser indulged in it. When something gets that old we give it new name:
Tradition.
KFG
Mobs are not know for intellignece.
Although they have some value for copy editing.
KFG
Well, you state the case in trollish fashion, but the point is valid.
650,000 is a mob. Mobs are not know for intellignece. What accessing 650,000 minds really does for you is give you a large pool out of which to find the dozen or so minds smart enough to constribute something.
KFG
I stand corrected.
KFG
Is there anything out there for Linux that makes a tablet PC worthwhile? I would love to look at someone's post about Linux on tablet pc and say "yes, that would be worth it" but right now all I have to say is you're wasting your money.
I want a tablet PC for one, and only one, reason, to run vim as an ASCII etext reader. A laptop is too awkward to curl up with and a PDA is too small.
It would be worth a good, oooooooh, hundred bucks to me.
KFG
A PS2 is a device for playing licensed PS2 games on.
And a Lexmark printer is a device for squirting Lexmark licensed ink, and as soon as they get the RFID tag thing going Lexmark licensed paper.
Your next PC will be a device for running nVidia licensed graphics cards and your bed a device for covering with Wamsutta licensed sheets.
Damn those sheet and ink pirates all to hell.
KFG
I haven't seen described the legal use of modchips.
Then you need to read the blurb again.
By the way, people buy scanners to "steal" books, and even distribute them. Scanners are legal because they can be used for legitimate purposes. They are not illegal because people do use them for illegal purposes.
Me, I just type 'em in, at least until keyboards are illegal.
KFG
I'm afraid anyone qualified for the job wouldn't want it.
KFG
"I'm sorry boss, but the TPS report got munged by a computer bacteria."
I wonder, does this mean that our storage devices will all have four partitions?
KFG
Yes, I am familiar with the doctrine of fair use, but that is not why copy machines are legal.
KFG
I agree the submission could have been written better, but you have to remember that submission blurbs are really just Slashdot posts like any other. We're just folk chatting about the news here. We're virtually handing each other clippings, making a comment about it, and opening the floor to discussion. Most of the critcisms of Slashdot's journalistic failures are entirely misplaced.
KFG
Here in America they do not, and the country at issue here is England.
Perhaps Canada will rule that mod chips are legal but owe the copyright tax as they do with copy machines, blank CDs, etc, but England has banned them because they can be used to play copies. My point stands.
KFG
Except your revision is incorrect. The rights of all citizens are being infringed upon.
Rights are innate even when they are not being acted upon. A monk who has taken a vow of silence still retains whatever rights to speak any citizen has and a law forbiding speech, even though he has already chosen not to, infringes his rights.
KFG
Let's not overlook the obvious, libraries install copy machines so that you can copy works under copyright.
KFG
SCO is a corporation. What's more it's one that bought the so called rights they so called hold. They didn't write much of anything and even if they had those rights would reside strictly with the corporation, having been work for hire.
There is no individual at SCO who holds any copyrights to UNIX code. Just like a former Ford employee (that's all the people who work at SCO are remember, even Darl) cannot sue as an individual for violating a patent held by Ford.
KFG
Good Lord, those are simply frickin' beautiful and I obviously had no idea that they were already commercially available.
Thank you.
KFG
Gerald Durrell and Rudyard Kipling were both born in India. They were not Indians. They were British.
A military brat friend of mine was born in Osaka, Japan. He is not Japanese. He has no right to Japanese citizenship. He is American.
In some cases, and in some times and places, parantage is as, or more, important than place of birth.
On that April night of 1775 no one yelled "The British are coming." That would have been nonsensical. They were all British. The yell was "The regulars are coming."
At the time of Franklin all British were subjects and all subjects were British, either natural born or naturalised and the American colonies were not even self governing dominions. They were British, as Alaska was American at the time of my birth, even though it was not yet a state. Had I been born in Alaska I would still be a natural born American. Franklin was a natural born British subject of natural born British subject parents and grandparents, just as were British subjects born in London.
Modern citizenship laws were not enacted until 1914.
Go ahead and pick all the holes you want though. If no one did I would have less opportunity to close them. I'm hardly always right, but I do like to get righter over time. It's all anyone can do.
KFG
(ok, the patent system didn't exist then)
Yes, it did. You forget that Franklin was British. The British patent system dates from the first quarter of the 17th century, and before that the King could grant them directly.
He actually had a patent on the Franklin stove, but did not enforce it.
KFG
Well, yes, but I wasn't speaking of the safety of Osama. I was speaking of the safety of Mars.
KFG
Just wait until they find out that Osama is guarding it.
KFG