Spam is not a crime. Bandwidth is not a public commons.
Whether the act of spamming is a crime or not is rather irrelevant. What's so incredibly annoying about spam is that it's mostly rip-offs. Getting unwanted ads wouldn't be so bad if what they were advertising wasn't so obviously BS (and illegal).
Sure, these people had good intentions, but what is the road to hell paved with?
I selected my examples for a reason. And, as I said, I believe the act of change was for the better as well as ethically correct. These people had, in other words, more than good intentions.
Dictators can often be far more reasonable than any Western government. They're usually less hypocritical, at least.
This is, of course, absolutely ludicrous. Dictatorship is based on fear, each and everyone is afraid of doing anything the dictator doesn't like. That be intentional or unintentional, or even something somebody believes the dictator doesn't like.
These people were simply figureheads for movements that represented changes caused by external pressures.
I don't see how that matters. No matter who had the real power, these people were unjustly prosecuted by their governments for wanting to make a change. The change has been for the better and was probably ethically correct in all three instances. Summing up: they were not doing anything 'wrong', but were still a target for harassment by the official government.
The dictatorships would be doing it anyway.
Obviously, but the 'world community' cannot claim the policy is oppressing the people of the dictatorship. We're doing the excact same thing here in the good ol' west.
Sigh. You really have no concept of the real world, do you? The state had better be engaged in a damn good deal of wrongdoing before you start acting up, because chances are you'd make matters much worse in the process of trying to "improve" things.
It's been noted before in this thread, but add Martin Luther King jr. to your thinking, and it would indicate you're wrong.
The same would probably go for Nelson Mandela, Steven Biko and Mahatma Gandhi.
Also remember that when a 'civilized' country like GB can do it, it makes it so much easier for dictatorships to do the same ("See, the EU is doing it, why can't I?")
I've always wondered what would make up for man stopping natural evolution - we're too successful, and it's too slow. I always thought eventually AI would come into the picture, but with the possiblilty of being able to engineer our genes in the next 25 years, maybe government will be bright enough to let us make choices for how we want our offspring be.
One problem, which can easily bee seen in heavily breeded animal races, is that they usually keep several not-wanted traits in addition to the ones we breed them for (color, strength, whatever). Usually, they also loose some wanted features, like intelligence, calm temper, whatever too. This sums up to the problem of getting excactly what we want without any side effects. That's a lot more difficult than fiddling with genes. And we might not know when we know enough...
Another problem seen with gene manipulation is that the plants (they're still mostly there) seem to 'forget' the manipulation after some generations (no reference, just word-of-mouth from my dad, a professor in biology).
Don't forget, the USSR was one of the Allies in WWII. The millions of Russians who died (the USSR suffered more casualties in WWII than any other country) certainly didn't die for the sake of Capitalism.
No, they died to keep their state free from German advances into eastern europe and Russia.
I probably should let this go, but the USSR was also vital in freeing small, still-western countries like Norway.
And one of NS's major enemies was communists, they usually ended up the same way jews, homosexuals and other 'deviants' did.
Also interesting to think about is that the Nazis' idea of perfecting the Arian race would be a lot easier to create using the discussed gene tech. Of course, then main difference now (hopefully) is that we don't kill the 'lesser' humans.
The "Legal Notice" on Borland's Community Web is rather interesting. I especially like:
Copyrights: The materials on this Site are copyrighted and protected by worldwide copyright laws and treaty provisions. You may download one copy of the information ("Materials") found on this Site on a single computer for your personal, non-commercial internal use only unless specifically licensed to do otherwise by Inprise Corporation in writing. Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, Inprise Corporation does not grant any express or implied right to you to any patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, or other intellectual property
Only one download of an HTML page? And only for non-commercial use?
In the matter of fact I am finding both Delphi and VB a triumph of so called "productivity" and marketing efforts over sanity and good engineering practices.
Says someone who's never tried Delphi... Oh, well...
XML won't do anything that a) hasn't been done before b) can't been done more elegantly
The main reason XML won't help for anything, is that it solves the easy question, syntax. Semantics is left to each and everyone of us. So, we'll end up with gadzillion of ASCII documents that no-one can read. Instead of gadzillion of binary documents that no-one can read.
Remember how much a pain HTML is/was, even with only two competing decoders?
Slashdot Mirror
Or, at least not the way I expected...
How to bathe a cat
I know of someone who simply takes the cat with him when he showers... Really!
Spam is not a crime. Bandwidth is not a public commons.
Whether the act of spamming is a crime or not is rather irrelevant. What's so incredibly annoying about spam is that it's mostly rip-offs. Getting unwanted ads wouldn't be so bad if what they were advertising wasn't so obviously BS (and illegal).
Sure, these people had good intentions, but what is the road to hell paved with?
I selected my examples for a reason. And, as I said, I believe the act of change was for the better as well as ethically correct. These people had, in other words, more than good intentions.
Dictators can often be far more reasonable than any Western government. They're usually less hypocritical, at least.
This is, of course, absolutely ludicrous. Dictatorship is based on fear, each and everyone is afraid of doing anything the dictator doesn't like. That be intentional or unintentional, or even something somebody believes the dictator doesn't like.
M.
These people were simply figureheads for movements that represented changes caused by external pressures.
I don't see how that matters. No matter who had the real power, these people were unjustly prosecuted by their governments for wanting to make a change. The change has been for the better and was probably ethically correct in all three instances. Summing up: they were not doing anything 'wrong', but were still a target for harassment by the official government.
The dictatorships would be doing it anyway.
Obviously, but the 'world community' cannot claim the policy is oppressing the people of the dictatorship. We're doing the excact same thing here in the good ol' west.
M.
Sigh. You really have no concept of the real world, do you? The state had better be engaged in a damn good deal of wrongdoing before you start acting up, because chances are you'd make matters much worse in the process of trying to "improve" things.
It's been noted before in this thread, but add Martin Luther King jr. to your thinking, and it would indicate you're wrong.
The same would probably go for Nelson Mandela, Steven Biko and Mahatma Gandhi.
Also remember that when a 'civilized' country like GB can do it, it makes it so much easier for dictatorships to do the same ("See, the EU is doing it, why can't I?")
M.
I've always wondered what would make up for man stopping natural evolution - we're too successful, and it's too slow. I always thought eventually AI would come into the picture, but with the possiblilty of being able to engineer our genes in the next 25 years, maybe government will be bright enough to let us make choices for how we want our offspring be.
One problem, which can easily bee seen in heavily breeded animal races, is that they usually keep several not-wanted traits in addition to the ones we breed them for (color, strength, whatever). Usually, they also loose some wanted features, like intelligence, calm temper, whatever too.
This sums up to the problem of getting excactly what we want without any side effects. That's a lot more difficult than fiddling with genes. And we might not know when we know enough...
Another problem seen with gene manipulation is that the plants (they're still mostly there) seem to 'forget' the manipulation after some generations (no reference, just word-of-mouth from my dad, a professor in biology).
M.
Don't forget, the USSR was one of the Allies in WWII. The millions of Russians who died (the USSR suffered more casualties in WWII than any other country) certainly didn't die for the sake of Capitalism.
No, they died to keep their state free from German advances into eastern europe and Russia.
I probably should let this go, but the USSR was also vital in freeing small, still-western countries like Norway.
And one of NS's major enemies was communists, they usually ended up the same way jews, homosexuals and other 'deviants' did.
Also interesting to think about is that the Nazis' idea of perfecting the Arian race would be a lot easier to create using the discussed gene tech. Of course, then main difference now (hopefully) is that we don't kill the 'lesser' humans.
M.
We don't want strong IP laws for Napster or DeCSS, but damn, don't touch my usenet post.
"They" want to copy the music as is, not modified with links to other products...
TRGpro has an explanation available: http://www.trgpro.com/support/faq_dram. html
There's a echnical Description" about half way down the page.
(since nobody else notices me, I better reply myself...)
There's also a pretty good explanation of the fix at TRG's site. http://www.trgpro.com/support/faq_dram. html M.
For us using TRGpro, the update is already available. It also contains the ability to run directly from Flash as well as OS 3.5.1.
The "Legal Notice" on Borland's Community Web is rather interesting. I especially like:
Copyrights: The materials on this Site are copyrighted and protected by worldwide copyright laws and treaty provisions. You may download one copy of the information ("Materials") found on this Site on a single computer for your personal, non-commercial internal use only unless specifically licensed to do otherwise by Inprise Corporation in writing. Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, Inprise Corporation does not grant any express or implied right to you to any patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, or other intellectual property
Only one download of an HTML page? And only for non-commercial use?
In the matter of fact I am finding both Delphi and VB a triumph of so called "productivity" and marketing efforts over sanity and good engineering practices.
Says someone who's never tried Delphi...
Oh, well...
XML won't do anything that
a) hasn't been done before
b) can't been done more elegantly
The main reason XML won't help for anything, is that it solves the easy question, syntax.
Semantics is left to each and everyone of us.
So, we'll end up with gadzillion of ASCII documents that no-one can read.
Instead of gadzillion of binary documents that no-one can read.
Remember how much a pain HTML is/was, even with only two competing decoders?
Kylix will do C, C++ and Delphi, so...
See the original press release here.