You only think it's wrong because the Bible said so. ..
Well no, not exactly. The Bible said taking someone else's sheep was stealing and was wrong. It not only said nothing about copying someone else's intellectual ideas, it is copies of someone else's idea. The idea that ideas can be "stolen" is entirely modern. Like, within my lifetime really, the way it's now used in the literal sense even by lawmakers.
What OP really fails to grasp in his point of view is that both coming up with ideas and using other people's ideas without paying for them are fundamental human rights which we all rely upon every day. The right to think.
Itellectual property is a legal infringement of that right, for a limited time, for the good society as a whole, in short, a licensed by the government priviledge.
"Don't you people understand? Just because you can sell music doesn't make it right. Selling music is earning!!! Go read something about Subjectivism."
Especially since there are billions and billions of suns, each a vast thermonuclear reactor permeating space with radiation of all sorts, including, gasp, visible light, and some suns even explode, breifly putting out more radiation than the entire rest of the galaxy in which they reside, some of which is blasting completely through my body right now, cleaner than light through a glass window.
I'm well aware of this. In fact, I wouldn't have written the post to which you are responding if I weren't.
Actually, no. We don't have flying cars because there's no way to make a flying car that doesn't suck. The requirements of the two vehicles are just too different and I canna change the laws of physics.
. ..probably wasn't worth the risk to the 4 lives involved
Personally I'd say making this assessment is strictly the business of the 4 lives. If someone wants to attempt a free climb of the north face of the Eiger it really makes no nevermind to me.
Risks to others are another story.
Of course, you risk other people's lives every time you take a drive to the mall as well, in tight formation with God knows who doing God knows what. There's no clean ethical cutoff.
Of course, on a typical day cars don't just drop out of the sky onto your head either, although it's been known to happen.
Ah yes, the old "Etc" catagory that kinda gets tacked onto the end of the list, like it refered to paperclips and thumbtacks or something, instead of the Waco QCF it really represents.
I remember when the demo flight was only five bucks. Ahhhh, the good old days. Of course I also remember that minimum wage was a buck plus change so it comes to about the same thing really. The problem with not having an overselective memory I guess.
My own first flight in a light plane was pretty memorable. Cole Palen took me up in his Pitcairn Mailwing PA-7 from the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome. Open cockpit over the Mid-Hudson Valley. Beautiful.
Of course they don't make intro flights like that anymore, the Pitcairn is grounded and Cole is gone. Some things about today aren't really just the same as in the old days.
KFG
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Hook up a battery to an LED or light a shielded candle lantern, something like that with relatively low luminosity, so you can see the small "ball" of light it throws off. Turn off the house lights. Now wave it around slowly ( to avoid physiological effects from ruining the experiment).
For more advanced study read the first few chapters of Bertrand Russell's "The ABC's of Relativity."
There's a lot of lag in the system. It stalls and hangs for what feels like a month, but then once it gets working the actual throughput seems nearly instantaneuos despite the high graphical content, as it were.
Funniest damned thing I've written in a long time too. Ah well, it turned out to be good straightline as well. I find it amusing how many people got so many mod points for pointing out the joke.
Next time I'll have to take a clue from Playboy. They label their humor articles "humor" up front. They've found it saves them from getting a lot of nastygrams.
I guess this just goes to show their is a difference between reading and comprehending.
Yeah, I guess. Next time I'll use a smiley face to help out.
No amount of nuclear devices or propulsive systems that humans use in long distances space travel will have any noticeable affects given the huge amount of high energy particles given off by the sun.
Not to mention all the other suns, X-ray stars, quasars, exploding galaxies and such like. Whole lot of radiation out there.
Here's how Dr. Sagan put it in the book he gave me when he was trying to get me to come to Cornell:
"The universe is vast and awesome, and for the first time we are becomming part of it."
I like the sound of that.
Decent little book. It's got three chapters entitled "Space Exploration as a Human Enterprise" in it. I think you'd like them. The Cosmic Connection. Check it out.
He might also have mentioned something about space being full of nuclear reactions spewing radiation all over the place and that one of the problems to be faced by humans in becomming part of the universe was being able to shield ourselves from it.
Nah, today, for instance, I got up and started reading about meridional currents in the radiative zones of an axially symetric star, but only a simplfied version assuming a perfect gas and ignoring radiation pressure, 'cause I'm just doing it for fun.
If you've got any interest in that sort of thing you might want to check out Jean-Louis Tassoul's "Theory of Rotating Stars". It's one of the Princeton Series in Astrophysics releases.
Well, see, we're very much against that around these parts. We even have armed guards trying to keep them out.
. ..countries that have no labor laws.
Well, see, we helped arrange that over the past few centuries, so we could grow our wealth on the broken backs of coolies with no laws to protect them.
I'm afraid that the "coolies" are just starting to come into their own is all. Because now they actually do have some laws to protect them.
Of course there's an overlapping phase in period, but sooner or later we've nearly all had the experience of looking at the White Album and trying to decide whether we're really going to buy it again.
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Try booting from floppy and copying the .cab files to the HD first.
KFG
You only think it's wrong because the Bible said so. . .
Well no, not exactly. The Bible said taking someone else's sheep was stealing and was wrong. It not only said nothing about copying someone else's intellectual ideas, it is copies of someone else's idea. The idea that ideas can be "stolen" is entirely modern. Like, within my lifetime really, the way it's now used in the literal sense even by lawmakers.
What OP really fails to grasp in his point of view is that both coming up with ideas and using other people's ideas without paying for them are fundamental human rights which we all rely upon every day. The right to think.
Itellectual property is a legal infringement of that right, for a limited time, for the good society as a whole, in short, a licensed by the government priviledge.
KFG
"Don't you people understand? Just because you can sell music doesn't make it right. Selling music is earning!!! Go read something about Subjectivism."
KFG
Especially since there are billions and billions of suns, each a vast thermonuclear reactor permeating space with radiation of all sorts, including, gasp, visible light, and some suns even explode, breifly putting out more radiation than the entire rest of the galaxy in which they reside, some of which is blasting completely through my body right now, cleaner than light through a glass window.
I'm well aware of this. In fact, I wouldn't have written the post to which you are responding if I weren't.
KFG
Actually, no. We don't have flying cars because there's no way to make a flying car that doesn't suck. The requirements of the two vehicles are just too different and I canna change the laws of physics.
Levitating cars would be a different issue.
KFG
. . .probably wasn't worth the risk to the 4 lives involved
Personally I'd say making this assessment is strictly the business of the 4 lives. If someone wants to attempt a free climb of the north face of the Eiger it really makes no nevermind to me.
Risks to others are another story.
Of course, you risk other people's lives every time you take a drive to the mall as well, in tight formation with God knows who doing God knows what. There's no clean ethical cutoff.
Of course, on a typical day cars don't just drop out of the sky onto your head either, although it's been known to happen.
KFG
Ah yes, the old "Etc" catagory that kinda gets tacked onto the end of the list, like it refered to paperclips and thumbtacks or something, instead of the Waco QCF it really represents.
KFG
I remember when the demo flight was only five bucks. Ahhhh, the good old days. Of course I also remember that minimum wage was a buck plus change so it comes to about the same thing really. The problem with not having an overselective memory I guess.
My own first flight in a light plane was pretty memorable. Cole Palen took me up in his Pitcairn Mailwing PA-7 from the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome. Open cockpit over the Mid-Hudson Valley. Beautiful.
Of course they don't make intro flights like that anymore, the Pitcairn is grounded and Cole is gone. Some things about today aren't really just the same as in the old days.
KFG
Hook up a battery to an LED or light a shielded candle lantern, something like that with relatively low luminosity, so you can see the small "ball" of light it throws off. Turn off the house lights. Now wave it around slowly ( to avoid physiological effects from ruining the experiment).
For more advanced study read the first few chapters of Bertrand Russell's "The ABC's of Relativity."
KFG
In the context of this particular case mod your post is actually rather amusing.
KFG
Sam the mailman.
There's a lot of lag in the system. It stalls and hangs for what feels like a month, but then once it gets working the actual throughput seems nearly instantaneuos despite the high graphical content, as it were.
KFG
Funniest damned thing I've written in a long time too. Ah well, it turned out to be good straightline as well. I find it amusing how many people got so many mod points for pointing out the joke.
Next time I'll have to take a clue from Playboy. They label their humor articles "humor" up front. They've found it saves them from getting a lot of nastygrams.
KFG
I guess this just goes to show their is a difference between reading and comprehending.
Yeah, I guess. Next time I'll use a smiley face to help out.
No amount of nuclear devices or propulsive systems that humans use in long distances space travel will have any noticeable affects given the huge amount of high energy particles given off by the sun.
Not to mention all the other suns, X-ray stars, quasars, exploding galaxies and such like. Whole lot of radiation out there.
Like light and shit.
KFG
You are the dumbest sack of shit ever to draw oxygen.
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Yes, but in the morning I'll have a sense of humor.
Space is already FILLED with radiation, you stupid, ignorant prick.
Do tell.
You are the prime example of the original poster's description of far-fringe lunatic.
Well, in a sense I suppose to provide such an example was part of the general idea. In a left handed sort of way.
Learn some godamned science. .
Hey, it's not my fault. They should have said something about that in all those cosmology and astrophysics courses I took.
KFG
Here's how Dr. Sagan put it in the book he gave me when he was trying to get me to come to Cornell:
"The universe is vast and awesome, and for the first time we are becomming part of it."
I like the sound of that.
Decent little book. It's got three chapters entitled "Space Exploration as a Human Enterprise" in it. I think you'd like them. The Cosmic Connection. Check it out.
He might also have mentioned something about space being full of nuclear reactions spewing radiation all over the place and that one of the problems to be faced by humans in becomming part of the universe was being able to shield ourselves from it.
It seems my humor was a little too dry this time.
KFG
Nah, today, for instance, I got up and started reading about meridional currents in the radiative zones of an axially symetric star, but only a simplfied version assuming a perfect gas and ignoring radiation pressure, 'cause I'm just doing it for fun.
If you've got any interest in that sort of thing you might want to check out Jean-Louis Tassoul's "Theory of Rotating Stars". It's one of the Princeton Series in Astrophysics releases.
KFG
Only far-fringe lunatics care if you use nuclear bombs in space
We've done enough damage here on earth. I don't think it would be right to fill space with the radiative effects of nuclear reactions.
KFG
The dinosaurs died out because they didn't have a space program.
But boy, are we going to be surprised when we get to Mars and find it infested with cockroaches.
KFG
. . .threw their windows machines off a balcony. . .
Why are there so few geek suicides?
KFG
. . .workers can move to where the jobs are. . .
.countries that have no labor laws.
Well, see, we're very much against that around these parts. We even have armed guards trying to keep them out.
. .
Well, see, we helped arrange that over the past few centuries, so we could grow our wealth on the broken backs of coolies with no laws to protect them.
I'm afraid that the "coolies" are just starting to come into their own is all. Because now they actually do have some laws to protect them.
KFG
It's called fuedalism.
And to think that my great grandparents came to the new world to escape serfdom.
KFG
Ever wonder why that box of Corn Flakes costs $4?
Because you'll pay it. I don't buy "cereal." I go a few ailes down, in the same market, and buy cereal for $.50/lb.
I can get it even cheaper if I mailorder in bulk.
Learn how to shop.
KFG
Shhhhhhhhhh, that's the secret I'm using to perfect making platters out of wood.
KFG
And the winner is??
Seabiscuit!
KFG
Of course there's an overlapping phase in period, but sooner or later we've nearly all had the experience of looking at the White Album and trying to decide whether we're really going to buy it again.
We usually do.
KFG