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I thought that too, but then Benicio Del Toro's character was involved in a conversation when he said that the drug czar's cell phones were dumped every 12 hours. I assume that Catherine Zeta Jones was involved in the drug cartel enough by that point to understand wire taps.
I'm really sick and tired of teacher bashing from ignorant childish nerds. The phrase "those who can do, those who can't teach" is one of the most ignorant things you can say. Have you ever done any teaching? It's alot more difficult than you imagine.
I expect a less ignorant commecnt from the/. crowd. Making sweeping generlizations like "Teachers are stupid" is along the lines of "Everyone with a hotmail account is a moron".
Just because you're posting a story about a teacher daring a student to bring a gun in (with no references to back it up) doesn't make whatever you spout out of your mouth true.
Americans know there's a world outside of North America? Heck - they know there's a country outside of the States?
I've got a story!
When I was at the programming competition in Celeveland a guy came up to me and asked where something was - I said that I didn't know and I wasn't even from his country. He said oh, what country are you from? I said that I was from a country just north of Cleveland. He said in all seriousness : "There's a country up there?" I gave up on him right then and there.
I'll bet ya that the gas companies realize that gasoline is nearing its end in terms of viability and supply. I think that the new price hikes aare due to the fact that the gas barons wanna get us for a few more bucks before gasoline is rendered obsolete.
My issue with this arguement lies in this sentance.
What's interesting about this trend is that the pirates are usually not profiteers. They believe that cultural and intellectual property belong to humanity and many go to great lengths just to provide people with free copies of things.
This says that the individual (or group) who ownes the property owes it to humanity to give it something back to the world. Why does that have to happen? Say for example a person spends 10 years going through Universities and post grad programs to get his degree in Engineering. Say he has to get loans and crappy summer job after summer job to pay for this education. After 10 years of school our friend the student owes a whole whack of money not to mention the time he spent learning and the money he misses while not working. He gets out of his PhD program and ivents a new way to produce thinggimajiggs that saves the manufaturer time, money and materials. This is his intellectual property. It's my understanding that the people who believe that this property should belong to humanity and so our friend gets nothing for the years he spent developing. This is very much a left wing view. Why does one man have to give up so much of his life and get very little, if anything in return? I'm sure that he gets the 'gift of knowledge' in return for his time and effort learning the material...but shouldn't that be free too? And since there's still a cost of living, then that should be free for anyone who wants to learn? Suddenly you're being given money to pursue your own interests. Sounds like welfare to me! I guess I take issue with the argument that any intellectual property should be free. It kinda seems like it would turn us into a society of left wing welfare bums. I believe that our society works because there is the ability to have the choice to free your ideas or keep them to yourself. I don't believe that someone making the choice for you is acceptable and that's what these pirates are arguing.
The article might not be very well written, but it raises some interesting ideas and guesses as to whether we're alone or not. Not completly on-topic, but what the hell...
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I thought that too, but then Benicio Del Toro's character was involved in a conversation when he said that the drug czar's cell phones were dumped every 12 hours. I assume that Catherine Zeta Jones was involved in the drug cartel enough by that point to understand wire taps.
Oh, shut up.
/. crowd. Making sweeping generlizations like "Teachers are stupid" is along the lines of "Everyone with a hotmail account is a moron".
I'm really sick and tired of teacher bashing from ignorant childish nerds. The phrase "those who can do, those who can't teach" is one of the most ignorant things you can say. Have you ever done any teaching? It's alot more difficult than you imagine.
I expect a less ignorant commecnt from the
Just because you're posting a story about a teacher daring a student to bring a gun in (with no references to back it up) doesn't make whatever you spout out of your mouth true.
Americans know there's a world outside of North America? Heck - they know there's a country outside of the States?
I've got a story!
When I was at the programming competition in Celeveland a guy came up to me and asked where something was - I said that I didn't know and I wasn't even from his country. He said oh, what country are you from? I said that I was from a country just north of Cleveland. He said in all seriousness : "There's a country up there?" I gave up on him right then and there.
What's going to happen with Destination Mir?
I'll bet ya that the gas companies realize that gasoline is nearing its end in terms of viability and supply. I think that the new price hikes aare due to the fact that the gas barons wanna get us for a few more bucks before gasoline is rendered obsolete.
My issue with this arguement lies in this sentance.
What's interesting about this trend is that the pirates are usually not profiteers. They believe that cultural and intellectual property belong to humanity and many go to great lengths just to provide people with free copies of things.
This says that the individual (or group) who ownes the property owes it to humanity to give it something back to the world. Why does that have to happen?
Say for example a person spends 10 years going through Universities and post grad programs to get his degree in Engineering. Say he has to get loans and crappy summer job after summer job to pay for this education. After 10 years of school our friend the student owes a whole whack of money not to mention the time he spent learning and the money he misses while not working. He gets out of his PhD program and ivents a new way to produce thinggimajiggs that saves the manufaturer time, money and materials. This is his intellectual property. It's my understanding that the people who believe that this property should belong to humanity and so our friend gets nothing for the years he spent developing.
This is very much a left wing view. Why does one man have to give up so much of his life and get very little, if anything in return?
I'm sure that he gets the 'gift of knowledge' in return for his time and effort learning the material...but shouldn't that be free too? And since there's still a cost of living, then that should be free for anyone who wants to learn? Suddenly you're being given money to pursue your own interests. Sounds like welfare to me!
I guess I take issue with the argument that any intellectual property should be free. It kinda seems like it would turn us into a society of left wing welfare bums. I believe that our society works because there is the ability to have the choice to free your ideas or keep them to yourself. I don't believe that someone making the choice for you is acceptable and that's what these pirates are arguing.
There's a fluffy book review on the front page of the Toronto Star today.
The link to the book on amazon is here
The article might not be very well written, but it raises some interesting ideas and guesses as to whether we're alone or not. Not completly on-topic, but what the hell...