Ah, but those darn ingredient and nutritional information labels the FDA requires on food products are censored by the ATF... when was the last time you saw nutritional info on a bottle of beer? Mmmmm Grant's Scotish Ale, only 97 calories.
and opera has all those cool things, multiple homepages, restore all open windows (even after a crash), cross platform, disable animated gifs, gui css interface, to name a few of my favorites.
when i see text on a label indicating the brand name, there's that tm right there too... if companys want to have there name in the ip directory listing, they should append a tm. then for everyone it is obvious if you are going to www.microsofttm.com as opposed to anyone else. or ICANNT needs to ceed its authority to the office of trademarks and close up shop, because what they are doing is the job of the trademark agency. domain names are like a damn phone book listing,... and i dont want to hear, "im sorry you cant have your name in the phone book, somebody has a trademark on your name."
you can sign all the contracts you want, but it is not legal for Them to deny these warrenties, and attempts to do so end up invalidating the whole limited warrenty. read those limited warrenties again, i have 3 here at hand all 3 specifically don't limit merchantablity or fitness for a particular purpose.
Yes, in America we have a 5 year warrenty by default. Even with a limited warrenty on a product, They cannot take away the specific warrenties of 'merchantablity' and 'fitness for a particular purpose.'
you can return it for up to 5 years... it's called a warrenty. Specifically the clauses of merchantablity and fitness for a particular purpose. Even if They give you a limited warrenty on the CD, They can't take away these 2 clauses.
Opera 5 seems to do most of what he is proposing as part of its ad-ware version. 1 add, customizable preferences about the types of ads you want to see. Of course you have to choose ad type(s) or pay the 30 bucks, there's no opt out, there's no blocking certain adds,... basically I've always hated banner ads (I run junkbuster, I disable animation in gif's, I set the standard ad size to be non-viewable with a CSS...), but Opera works really well, and with the customized adds, I haven't been near as annoyed by them as i thought i would be.
This statement is copyrighted. Before you can read this statement, your browser mad you a copy on your local hard drive. That is copyright infringement, and I'm suing British Telcom (as they have the patent on this copyright infringement system & they have money). BAN THE INTERNET NOW! DOWN WITH NET COMMUNISISM! UP WITH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND MY ABILITY TO CHARGE YOU UP THE YANG TO READ THIS PIECE OF RUBISH I JUST WROTE.
How long has X been around? X is a shell for Unix, and it is designed for many Unix(s). Unix(s) machines are traditionally referred to as 'boxes.' If I am using it as a desktop machine with X on it, I call that an 'X-Box.'
Due to King Lears tragic ending, it has been performed for more years with an alternate 'happy' ending by (Ben or Sam, I can't remember, I think it was Ben) Johnson, where Lear survives and goes off to live with his 'good' daughter, Cordelia. It was only restored around 1920.
But our problem is that lawyers have taught us that there is only one kind of economic market for innovation out there and it is this kind of isolated inventor who comes up with an idea and then needs to be protected. That is a good picture of maybe what pharmaceutical industry does. It's a bad picture of what goes on, for example, in the context of software development, in particular. In the context of software development, where you have sequential and complimentary developments, patents create an extraordinarily damaging influence on innovation and on the process of developing and bringing new ideas to market. So the particular mistake that lawyers have compounded is the unwillingness to discriminate among different kinds of innovation.
do any inventions come from an isolated inventor anymore, or are new inventions only building on what came before?
A trademark comes out of the medieval guild system, the 'mark' of a master craftsman. Basically a guarantee of quality.
Guilds were of course utterly destroyed by the industrial revolution which promised all the same stuff cheaper despite their best attempts to get governments to outlaw the anti-competitive 'pirate' factorys. (satire added)
A trademark is by definition therefore not just any mark, but a unique mark. i.e. typing 1$ on a piece of paper does not a dollar make. Think unique design like a branding iron ('brand name recognition.')
What is a a url? A word name that out in the big internet phone book equates to number longer than my home phone (generally).
If a company prevents me from using their brand name in casual conversation, product review, etc, it is a simple conflict between my freedom of speach and the 'brand' monopoly. Reasonably i can't yell fire in a crowded theatre, but outside of safty concerns all else is fair game. Likewise the point of a brand is both to protect a craftsmans interests, and for everyone else, to provide a unique and authoritative way to refer to a specific product.
The main simularity to a brand is that the names are still 'unique'... but that fails... to properly indicate a brand in a text i include 'TM.' Url's have no ability to indicate that a given reference is to the trademark holder's website, a spoof site, etc. It is not possible to include the particular look of a trademark. Even the TM for the frowny face,':-( ' isn't for the 3 characters, is for a logo, an image that looks like that. Url are completely unable to display the graphical logo, that's on the homepage. A Url cannot display the flair that is the coca-cola tm, so why should it be treated as a mark? In text you include the TM, until Coca-Cola.com is Coca-ColaTM.com or better Coca-Coal.TM why would anyone assume this is the 'brands' homepage (I submit, only because we've done so before).
The short and simple of my point is that there is not enough meat in a url to realistically assume that any url on the anoymous internet is a 'brand', and trademarks should not be given any special weight until there is a dotTM extension which is authoritative to a TM database.
Ignoring the 'American Golden Rule: the one with the gold makes the rules'... The Golden Rule itself is just as outmoded, shortsighted, etc as an 'eye for an eye.' "Treating other's as you wish to be treated," stomps all over the concept of diversity. The Golden Rule basically says that I should treat others as if they have my values. (i say that's bunk). A much better rule is, "treat other's with respect." And the best rule of all is, "don't get caught.
--a picture had better be worth a 1000 words, it takes longer to download
Sorry, guys, but vi and emacs both suck bigtime for former Windows users!
debian and probably other's include 'ee' which i like because its a non gui editor for those situations, but uses all the same cheatcodes as notepad+ (i.e. i didn't have to learn anything new.
are all in my menu by default. That being said, the menu is still weird, all the good stuff isn't in the gnome menu structure, but off 'programs'. i really miss the active destop in win because you could right click or just drag any item in the start menu to anywhere else (and the debian menu is very full of stuff i have yet to use). point and click isn't always stupid, when i adminster the box it's through an eterm (or alt-f1) and ssh, but when i 'use' linux to browse the web or play with toys it would be much nicer if the gui was better. for some things it is better tho, cut-and-paste for example is simpler than windoze-- highlight the text you want to copy, and middle mouse button where you want to paste what's highlighted (both buttons at once for 2button mice)
the main thing i've learned about linux, is that it's an OS without arbituary limits... 'cd/usr/local/n* takes me to/usr/local/notesdata on the webserver over there in the corner-- the one without a monitor or keyboard... in windoze there is vnc and pcanywhere, the same functions are native to X... oh look my drive doesn't have room for programx, hmmm well a symlink to another harddrive, and now it does (like when you set/var as it's own small partion and then grab a stack of packages)
windoze really is just a window to the internet, linux is like being part of the internet, it's incredibly easy for me to loose track of which box im at.
on the flip side some tasks still have me fumbling about and feeling like a stupid monkey: configuring a printer so that i can print this page, getting sound to work, installing a cd-burner or a zip drive, recompiling the kernal, isapnptools,... there's HOWTO's for all of that, and are fully possible, but nowhere near as easy as in windoze.
point and click to install setup.exe is way easier than untarring, compiling a download, and building icon shortcuts; and dselect is way way easier than point and clicking a setup.exe. (and the dependcy conflicts are way easy to 'enter' through than clicking through an install)
for me, the ten best things about linux are:
not typing a 30 digit alpha-numeric
rebooting every time a program installs
when netscape crashes nothing else crashes with it (modular is better than integrated when things can crash)
not haveing to go upstairs to administer something (where do you want to go today, why go, just bring it to my usual monitor
ah, the desktop is cluttered, click, new destop, click back to the other one
cut-and-paste (i edit lots of raw html and this makes it mmmm mmmm fast)
xscorch (scorched earth is now networkable, no more four guys scrunched shoulder2shoulder on a lazyboy)
pysol (have you looked at the card sets you can choose from or the number of games?) and gnome solitaire games
the OS may be smarter than me, but it perfectly willing to teach me if i take the time (unlike the print troubleshooter in winblows which finding that i chose 'yes its plugged in but still wont print' has the next step of 'contact your administrator')
all the tools you want are included with the OS (windont includes a webbrowser and telnet) (linux has it all, lynx, c compiler, webserver,...) instead of finding stuff to install in windoze, you have everything by default and choose what you don't want/need
Scorched Earth is only apt-get --install xscorch away and is networkable. Not everything is implimented yet (rollers:--)
rationalizations vs law equal civil disobedience
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the following is from the ninth page and was orignally a table:Rationalization Legal Argument
Because of Napster I actually buy more music at the store. It's illegal to distribute intellectual property you don't own.
It's so rampant, it must be legal It's illegal to distribute intellectual property you don't own.
It's the record companies' fault for making CDs so hard to open. It's illegal to distribute intellectual property you don't own.
That's what the record companies get for makng vinyl obsolete. It's illegal to distribute intellectual property you don't own.
Metallica lets people tape their concerts
i think the intent here is to show that no amount of rationalization makes the illegal legal, but for me it ends up doing the opposite. the long list of benefits vs a single reference that you cant because its illegal (not to be confused with 'you can't because it's wrong). thus, downloading from napster is illegal, morally justifiable, and by that definition, civil disobedience by a large portion of the population vs an anti-social law.
on a side note, if guilds were protected by law and threatened by rampant mass production from factories, would we require that the factories keep the guilds in business through royalties? should the government subsidize the guilds? or maybe just outlaw factories for destroying the established market?
if the RIAA companies can't compete with the newest mass production market, maybe it's time for them to liquidate their assets and find a new business?
when are people going to realize that there may be two right ways to do something?
same reason that we always find things in the last place that we look... sometimes i keep looking just for the heck of it.
kel's theorum: with infinite solutions, any given new solution has a 50% chance of being a better solution than the current one.
i like using a hammer to put in screws. they may not get stuck in the wall as tightly as if i'd used a screwdriver, but its a lot faster and easier. sometimes the wrong tool is the best tool too.
i can't download driver's from www.iomega.com because lynx doesn't support javascript, and morally i won't support sites that won't work with lynx.
i can't use a lot more websites even if i turn on javascript in netscape, because the site 'requires' flash and i don't feel like installing it.
i can't download from www.windowsupdate.com because i don't use IE
i can't read the NY times because i won't log in & and i can't download from www.sun.com for the same reason
i can't download from other sites because i refuse to accept cookies
(i can work around these problems, if an upstream admin used MAPS i woundn't have a way around it if my morality were lacking on a given day-- it is often out to a 3 martini lunch following a new bizaro windoze problem=P)
not as many people refuse this much, thus more and more sites require more of this. MAPS seems to have the same view. Yes, I loose access, but you've already lost access to more than MAPS blocks if you can't get to any of the.god domains (among others).
1. the internet needs to be fully accessible to basic HTML, 2. enhancements are fine but shouldnt break the basic functionality and freedom that the net should have.
I am temped to blocks www.iomega.com and the NY times at the firewall, send them emails, and when they fix their sites I'll remove the blocks. That's pretty much the same as MAPS does-- block sections of the net that don't provide consumer protections. Is it wrong or right? If you as a member of the net community don't block it, it gets worse. If you do block it, you allow collateral damage censorship. Both actually have the same goal, a vision of the future internet that is usable by all, but only by closing off certain avenues-- MAPS through censorship, non-censorship through bloat. Sort of the whole point of the moderation system, eh? (except the trolls still get their say with moderation, but the 'subscribers to maps' types who browse at 1 or 2 are subscribing to the slashdot black list?).
moderation doesn't have easy answers. neither does censorship (which we all engage it, it's where we draw the line to censor)... should our tax dollars by libraries be spent on: 1)Harry Potter 2)Daniel Steele 3)Huck Finn 4)Mein Kamph 5)Anarchist Cookbook 6)Playboy 7)Hustler 8)GangBang Girls educational tapes 9)kiddie porn (those pervs are gonna get it somewhere anyway, right) 10)or german shiesa videos with Cartman's mom. libraries have a new problem with the Internet, now they don't have hidden censorship via the 'best use of funds' defence, for one easy price they can get it all from catagory 1-10.
its the same arguement here... for you, when are you getting spammed so bad that you decide to subscribe to MAPS, when is it so bad that you support blocking peacefire? When I got 3 spams a day I didn't care about it, now that it's 20 per day, I'm tempted. How many spam's do you get a day and how tempted are you?
When i first saw Lynch's Dune, i thought it sucked. I saw it again on dvd last year, and i liked it alot.
this one seemed followed the same storyline as closely as i can remember the difference is the effects and acting. the acting in Lynch's Dune was much more complex. many of the actors in the series seemed like they were reading lines instead of saying what they felt-- and what was with baron harkkonan (no idea how its spelled)'s stilted and unemotional iambic pentameter? there's probably alot more comparisons (like i liked both versions of the harkkonan prince (Sting in the old Dune), but such critisism is quite subjective.
the effects tho... bleah the still suits, Lynch's were sweet and the fremen wore them all the time as if they were a permanent part of life in the desert. in this one they wear them to retain every precious drop of water from a super arid planet, but quickly don street clothes when they are not in the sands. how is the air not as dry just outside of a cave? the new one made me feel like they were in some weeny desert, and the still suits were one step better than standard issue fatigues. the pain box was better in this one, the personal body shields were about the same, as was the worms, but the muppet mouse that Paul name's himself after, that was plain silly looking
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Ah, but those darn ingredient and nutritional information labels the FDA requires on food products are censored by the ATF... when was the last time you saw nutritional info on a bottle of beer? Mmmmm Grant's Scotish Ale, only 97 calories.
and opera has all those cool things, multiple homepages, restore all open windows (even after a crash), cross platform, disable animated gifs, gui css interface, to name a few of my favorites.
when i see text on a label indicating the brand name, there's that tm right there too... if companys want to have there name in the ip directory listing, they should append a tm. then for everyone it is obvious if you are going to www.microsofttm.com as opposed to anyone else. or ICANNT needs to ceed its authority to the office of trademarks and close up shop, because what they are doing is the job of the trademark agency. domain names are like a damn phone book listing, ... and i dont want to hear, "im sorry you cant have your name in the phone book, somebody has a trademark on your name."
you can sign all the contracts you want, but it is not legal for Them to deny these warrenties, and attempts to do so end up invalidating the whole limited warrenty. read those limited warrenties again, i have 3 here at hand all 3 specifically don't limit merchantablity or fitness for a particular purpose.
Yes, in America we have a 5 year warrenty by default. Even with a limited warrenty on a product, They cannot take away the specific warrenties of 'merchantablity' and 'fitness for a particular purpose.'
That's correct english. In American the period or other punctuation always goes inside of the quote.
you can return it for up to 5 years... it's called a warrenty. Specifically the clauses of merchantablity and fitness for a particular purpose. Even if They give you a limited warrenty on the CD, They can't take away these 2 clauses.
bah
do any inventions come from an isolated inventor anymore, or are new inventions only building on what came before?
A trademark comes out of the medieval guild system, the 'mark' of a master craftsman. Basically a guarantee of quality.
Guilds were of course utterly destroyed by the industrial revolution which promised all the same stuff cheaper despite their best attempts to get governments to outlaw the anti-competitive 'pirate' factorys. (satire added)
A trademark is by definition therefore not just any mark, but a unique mark. i.e. typing 1$ on a piece of paper does not a dollar make. Think unique design like a branding iron ('brand name recognition.')
What is a a url? A word name that out in the big internet phone book equates to number longer than my home phone (generally).
If a company prevents me from using their brand name in casual conversation, product review, etc, it is a simple conflict between my freedom of speach and the 'brand' monopoly. Reasonably i can't yell fire in a crowded theatre, but outside of safty concerns all else is fair game. Likewise the point of a brand is both to protect a craftsmans interests, and for everyone else, to provide a unique and authoritative way to refer to a specific product.
The main simularity to a brand is that the names are still 'unique'... but that fails... to properly indicate a brand in a text i include 'TM.' Url's have no ability to indicate that a given reference is to the trademark holder's website, a spoof site, etc. It is not possible to include the particular look of a trademark. Even the TM for the frowny face,' :-( ' isn't for the 3 characters, is for a logo, an image that looks like that. Url are completely unable to display the graphical logo, that's on the homepage. A Url cannot display the flair that is the coca-cola tm, so why should it be treated as a mark? In text you include the TM, until Coca-Cola.com is Coca-ColaTM.com or better Coca-Coal.TM why would anyone assume this is the 'brands' homepage (I submit, only because we've done so before).
The short and simple of my point is that there is not enough meat in a url to realistically assume that any url on the anoymous internet is a 'brand', and trademarks should not be given any special weight until there is a dotTM extension which is authoritative to a TM database.
Seems reasonable to me
--a picture had better be worth a 1000 words, it takes longer to download
debian and probably other's include 'ee' which i like because its a non gui editor for those situations, but uses all the same cheatcodes as notepad+ (i.e. i didn't have to learn anything new.
are all in my menu by default. That being said, the menu is still weird, all the good stuff isn't in the gnome menu structure, but off 'programs'. i really miss the active destop in win because you could right click or just drag any item in the start menu to anywhere else (and the debian menu is very full of stuff i have yet to use). point and click isn't always stupid, when i adminster the box it's through an eterm (or alt-f1) and ssh, but when i 'use' linux to browse the web or play with toys it would be much nicer if the gui was better. for some things it is better tho, cut-and-paste for example is simpler than windoze-- highlight the text you want to copy, and middle mouse button where you want to paste what's highlighted (both buttons at once for 2button mice)
the main thing i've learned about linux, is that it's an OS without arbituary limits... 'cd /usr/local/n* takes me to /usr/local/notesdata on the webserver over there in the corner-- the one without a monitor or keyboard... in windoze there is vnc and pcanywhere, the same functions are native to X... oh look my drive doesn't have room for programx, hmmm well a symlink to another harddrive, and now it does (like when you set /var as it's own small partion and then grab a stack of packages)
windoze really is just a window to the internet, linux is like being part of the internet, it's incredibly easy for me to loose track of which box im at.
on the flip side some tasks still have me fumbling about and feeling like a stupid monkey: configuring a printer so that i can print this page, getting sound to work, installing a cd-burner or a zip drive, recompiling the kernal, isapnptools, ... there's HOWTO's for all of that, and are fully possible, but nowhere near as easy as in windoze.
point and click to install setup.exe is way easier than untarring, compiling a download, and building icon shortcuts; and dselect is way way easier than point and clicking a setup.exe. (and the dependcy conflicts are way easy to 'enter' through than clicking through an install)
for me, the ten best things about linux are:
i think the intent here is to show that no amount of rationalization makes the illegal legal, but for me it ends up doing the opposite. the long list of benefits vs a single reference that you cant because its illegal (not to be confused with 'you can't because it's wrong). thus, downloading from napster is illegal, morally justifiable, and by that definition, civil disobedience by a large portion of the population vs an anti-social law.
on a side note, if guilds were protected by law and threatened by rampant mass production from factories, would we require that the factories keep the guilds in business through royalties? should the government subsidize the guilds? or maybe just outlaw factories for destroying the established market?
if the RIAA companies can't compete with the newest mass production market, maybe it's time for them to liquidate their assets and find a new business?
kel's theorum: with infinite solutions, any given new solution has a 50% chance of being a better solution than the current one.
i like using a hammer to put in screws. they may not get stuck in the wall as tightly as if i'd used a screwdriver, but its a lot faster and easier. sometimes the wrong tool is the best tool too.
i can't use a lot more websites even if i turn on javascript in netscape, because the site 'requires' flash and i don't feel like installing it.
i can't download from www.windowsupdate.com because i don't use IE
i can't read the NY times because i won't log in & and i can't download from www.sun.com for the same reason
i can't download from other sites because i refuse to accept cookies
(i can work around these problems, if an upstream admin used MAPS i woundn't have a way around it if my morality were lacking on a given day-- it is often out to a 3 martini lunch following a new bizaro windoze problem=P)
not as many people refuse this much, thus more and more sites require more of this. MAPS seems to have the same view. Yes, I loose access, but you've already lost access to more than MAPS blocks if you can't get to any of the .god domains (among others).
1. the internet needs to be fully accessible to basic HTML, 2. enhancements are fine but shouldnt break the basic functionality and freedom that the net should have.
I am temped to blocks www.iomega.com and the NY times at the firewall, send them emails, and when they fix their sites I'll remove the blocks. That's pretty much the same as MAPS does-- block sections of the net that don't provide consumer protections. Is it wrong or right? If you as a member of the net community don't block it, it gets worse. If you do block it, you allow collateral damage censorship. Both actually have the same goal, a vision of the future internet that is usable by all, but only by closing off certain avenues-- MAPS through censorship, non-censorship through bloat. Sort of the whole point of the moderation system, eh? (except the trolls still get their say with moderation, but the 'subscribers to maps' types who browse at 1 or 2 are subscribing to the slashdot black list?).
moderation doesn't have easy answers. neither does censorship (which we all engage it, it's where we draw the line to censor)... should our tax dollars by libraries be spent on: 1)Harry Potter 2)Daniel Steele 3)Huck Finn 4)Mein Kamph 5)Anarchist Cookbook 6)Playboy 7)Hustler 8)GangBang Girls educational tapes 9)kiddie porn (those pervs are gonna get it somewhere anyway, right) 10)or german shiesa videos with Cartman's mom. libraries have a new problem with the Internet, now they don't have hidden censorship via the 'best use of funds' defence, for one easy price they can get it all from catagory 1-10.
its the same arguement here... for you, when are you getting spammed so bad that you decide to subscribe to MAPS, when is it so bad that you support blocking peacefire? When I got 3 spams a day I didn't care about it, now that it's 20 per day, I'm tempted. How many spam's do you get a day and how tempted are you?
this one seemed followed the same storyline as closely as i can remember the difference is the effects and acting. the acting in Lynch's Dune was much more complex. many of the actors in the series seemed like they were reading lines instead of saying what they felt-- and what was with baron harkkonan (no idea how its spelled)'s stilted and unemotional iambic pentameter? there's probably alot more comparisons (like i liked both versions of the harkkonan prince (Sting in the old Dune), but such critisism is quite subjective.
the effects tho... bleah the still suits, Lynch's were sweet and the fremen wore them all the time as if they were a permanent part of life in the desert. in this one they wear them to retain every precious drop of water from a super arid planet, but quickly don street clothes when they are not in the sands. how is the air not as dry just outside of a cave? the new one made me feel like they were in some weeny desert, and the still suits were one step better than standard issue fatigues. the pain box was better in this one, the personal body shields were about the same, as was the worms, but the muppet mouse that Paul name's himself after, that was plain silly looking