I think it is easier to blame global problems on the US rather than someone else getting the balls to step up to the plate and pitch in.
I'm blaming US problems on the US. My kids have grown up in two countries (England and here) and the religious-based fights on education (which I've fought in the US, thank you very much) are just not an issue in the U.K. They laugh at us. And they don't need a dammed Constitution to have intelligent government, even though us yanks can scarcely believe it. ("Y'all don't have a constitution? And your prime minister isn't an evil overlord?? Brain error. Can't... process... doesn't... fit... childhood... propaganda.")
And why are you feeling alienated from your own country? Our country was founded on the basis of religious freedom because we have such a diverse set of beliefs. And while 81% of americans identify themsleves with a specific religion, I'd bet that that number is even higher when you count "agnostics" and those who have certain religious beliefs, but don't identify themselves with a particular religion.
I feel alienated by the fundamentalists: for example, that important research and health issues (stem Cells, AIDS program funding) are hijacked by a single, intolerant, view. Or that it's actually an issue in my children's schools on whether to teach basic evolutionary biology. I'm sorry, but my tolerance does not extend to allowing every nutball theory to be taught in public schools alongside scientific evidence. And fighting the zealots in this country leaves me with little belief in our so-called diversity.
I've lived in four countries, four different religions (Muslim, Protestant, Catholic, Buddhist) for over a year each, and the U.S. most of my life. Europe, with its history of reglious wars, is currently far more tolerant of actual seperation of church and state than any place in this country that gives it lip service in its oh-so-precious Constitution I was indocrinated to worship. It's laughable...in Constitution-free England, they can have established churches and have actual science taught in schools...absolutely amazing.
ps. I do greatly appreciate (and admit, surprising for a Turk:( ) the horrors in your recent past or the horrors visited by the atheistic Soviet Union, etc., etc... but that does not forgive the sheer religious intolerance in the U.S. today and evidenced by the presidential outcome.
81% of American adults identify themselves with a specific religion according to national studies.
That's what fucking scares and alienates me in my own country. Tolerance in U.S.? Fuck no. From
Canadian newsOne-fourth of Ohio voters identified themselves as born-again Christians and they backed Bush by a 3-to-1 margin....Bush was favoured among...evangelical Christians who view him as a messenger from God in a titanic fight to quell terrorism and spread liberty around the world...
Why is it that America and the fucked Middle East are the fundamentalists and problem-causers, while the rest of the world has gotten over it? The middle ages are over, fellow Americans. Figure it out. (ps. my viewpoint: I'm 2nd-generation Turkish American, committed atheist: after seeing what fundamentalists (muslim and christian) are doing to both of my otherwise lovely countries.
Aw, man, here I've been thinking about this thing since I was like 11, and you come and completely blow all my ideas away with this military base thing. Man, that's cool.
It wouldn't work anyway. Pinky would reverse the polarity and the corals in The Brain's secret undersea base would dig a hole straight down, a sure obstacle in today's plan to Rule the World!
...SimCity was fun, and had strong elements of politics...[the Sims] was inherently a bit right-wing/capitalist...
If our local politicians had played Sim City instead of the Sims, we might have a tightly-integrated public transit system by now instead of a set of potholes made by SUVs.
Fair use is a statutory defense to a charge of copyright infringement that is available primarily to those who use a portion of a copyrighted work (not the entire concert, program, etc.) for educational or journalistic purposes,...
Does it also not cover reverse engineering on items you own, eg. examining something to see how it's made? Or how to say, play a tape you own on an operating system you own? Provided you don't make copies with that knowledge of course.
In raw machine code of course? My first 3 on windows are all from Cygwin (loophole: on Windows that doesn't count as an OS):
(1) gcc
(2) perl
(3) emacs [flamewar deleted]
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So, does anyone know the origin of the Gazebo Boy joke?
Eric and the Gazebo not only describes the origin but mentions Phil Foglio in the process.
I first remember it from the '89 first internet posting in rec.games.roleplaying, the joke was around all geek circles in the college within hours.
I found a negative for a photo that was taken sometime between 1891 & 1934 - prints were beautiful. This negative was not stored properly at all. No special effort to preserve.
Not quite. The difference is robustness.
The negative may have had a small crease, or off-color spot or three (i.e. "bit" decay), or even be torn in half, but the basic information was intact.
The problem is that for many electronic storage formats, copy fidelity is strong but robustness (tolerance to a few corrupt bits, eg. in the FAT, or a plain an simple crack) is low.
So what's a robust way of storing gigabytes, so that the corruption of a few makes a few "off-color" pixels but doesn't destroy the image overall? Give me a format that I can still read most of it, with no crucial weak spots (eg FATs) even if a few words are smudged or faded. That's why papyrus works.
This is as it should be. Go license the play and charge $5 a head (we did).
I agree. My point is that expecting schools to protect students from companies actively looking for copyright violators is silly, or at least that this sort of pursuit is nothing new.
Would it be right for the school to let the copyright holder send goons over to monitor the theaters with "anti-piracy" equipment and haul off offenders and slap him with a huge prison/fine sentence?
Quitcher bitching, electronic-boys: oddly enough this has been going on for years... on the stage.
If you put on a copyrighted play, as a free, amateur student production, and don't pay royalties... odds (my experience) are >10% that an agent of publishing houses, who's job it is to scan theater listings, will serve you for fines.
And your school won't protect you (well, they didn't protect us).
If you take a bloody knife out of my house, you still have to prove the blood is that of the victim.
Recall that levels of proof for criminal matters and civil matters (e.g., being sued by RIAA) are very different. Mulitple shared files with suspicious names and sizes might come under "preponderance of evidence" even if the aren't "reasonable doubt."
I'd gladly "suffer" 16 pounds just to be able to move this around my house easily...oh and to be able to afford it easily.
Hmm, you're right, this isn't bad for a "this desktop never leaves the house, but it's easy to tuck away when I don't need it sitting out" market. Might consider it on those grounds.
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I'm blaming US problems on the US. My kids have grown up in two countries (England and here) and the religious-based fights on education (which I've fought in the US, thank you very much) are just not an issue in the U.K. They laugh at us. And they don't need a dammed Constitution to have intelligent government, even though us yanks can scarcely believe it. ("Y'all don't have a constitution? And your prime minister isn't an evil overlord?? Brain error. Can't... process... doesn't... fit... childhood... propaganda.")
I feel alienated by the fundamentalists: for example, that important research and health issues (stem Cells, AIDS program funding) are hijacked by a single, intolerant, view. Or that it's actually an issue in my children's schools on whether to teach basic evolutionary biology. I'm sorry, but my tolerance does not extend to allowing every nutball theory to be taught in public schools alongside scientific evidence. And fighting the zealots in this country leaves me with little belief in our so-called diversity.
I've lived in four countries, four different religions (Muslim, Protestant, Catholic, Buddhist) for over a year each, and the U.S. most of my life. Europe, with its history of reglious wars, is currently far more tolerant of actual seperation of church and state than any place in this country that gives it lip service in its oh-so-precious Constitution I was indocrinated to worship. It's laughable...in Constitution-free England, they can have established churches and have actual science taught in schools...absolutely amazing.
ps. I do greatly appreciate (and admit, surprising for a Turk :( ) the horrors in your recent past or the horrors visited by the atheistic Soviet Union, etc., etc... but that does not forgive the sheer religious intolerance in the U.S. today and evidenced by the presidential outcome.
That's what fucking scares and alienates me in my own country. Tolerance in U.S.? Fuck no. From Canadian news One-fourth of Ohio voters identified themselves as born-again Christians and they backed Bush by a 3-to-1 margin....Bush was favoured among ...evangelical Christians who view him as a messenger from God in a titanic fight to quell terrorism and spread liberty around the world...
Why is it that America and the fucked Middle East are the fundamentalists and problem-causers, while the rest of the world has gotten over it? The middle ages are over, fellow Americans. Figure it out. (ps. my viewpoint: I'm 2nd-generation Turkish American, committed atheist: after seeing what fundamentalists (muslim and christian) are doing to both of my otherwise lovely countries.
Data point: I have a girl exactly the same age, and her hunger sign is also head nod + foot kick. Interesting!
Actually, it wasn't named by Euler, but by another man of the same name.
"They do not so much fly, as plummet."
Aw, man, here I've been thinking about this thing since I was like 11, and you come and completely blow all my ideas away with this military base thing. Man, that's cool.
It wouldn't work anyway. Pinky would reverse the polarity and the corals in The Brain's secret undersea base would dig a hole straight down, a sure obstacle in today's plan to Rule the World!
If our local politicians had played Sim City instead of the Sims, we might have a tightly-integrated public transit system by now instead of a set of potholes made by SUVs.
[Ground to pilot] "Steer away!"
[Pilot to ground] "If the plane is coming, it's coming. When it hits, you will survive and adapt."
Problem finally solved!...
10 GOTO 30
20 REM ???
30 PRINT "PROFIT!"
Does it also not cover reverse engineering on items you own, eg. examining something to see how it's made? Or how to say, play a tape you own on an operating system you own? Provided you don't make copies with that knowledge of course.
In raw machine code of course? My first 3 on windows are all from Cygwin (loophole: on Windows that doesn't count as an OS):
(1) gcc
(2) perl
(3) emacs [flamewar deleted]
Eric and the Gazebo not only describes the origin but mentions Phil Foglio in the process.
I first remember it from the '89 first internet posting in rec.games.roleplaying, the joke was around all geek circles in the college within hours.
Not quite. The difference is robustness.
The negative may have had a small crease, or off-color spot or three (i.e. "bit" decay), or even be torn in half, but the basic information was intact.
The problem is that for many electronic storage formats, copy fidelity is strong but robustness (tolerance to a few corrupt bits, eg. in the FAT, or a plain an simple crack) is low.
So what's a robust way of storing gigabytes, so that the corruption of a few makes a few "off-color" pixels but doesn't destroy the image overall? Give me a format that I can still read most of it, with no crucial weak spots (eg FATs) even if a few words are smudged or faded. That's why papyrus works.
I agree. My point is that expecting schools to protect students from companies actively looking for copyright violators is silly, or at least that this sort of pursuit is nothing new.
Quitcher bitching, electronic-boys: oddly enough this has been going on for years... on the stage.
If you put on a copyrighted play, as a free, amateur student production, and don't pay royalties... odds (my experience) are >10% that an agent of publishing houses, who's job it is to scan theater listings, will serve you for fines.
And your school won't protect you (well, they didn't protect us).
If you've got nothing to hide...
...we've got nothing to search for!
I took Quicksilver on a 12-hour flight, and at hour 4 I was fervently praying for it to alchemize into a different book.
One the way back I bought three Terry Pratchetts in the airport instead.
Show: command not found
#linux>What the heck does that mean?
What: command not found
GUI's are for people who can't play Zork.
Personally I'd go with Rabbi
Recall that levels of proof for criminal matters and civil matters (e.g., being sued by RIAA) are very different. Mulitple shared files with suspicious names and sizes might come under "preponderance of evidence" even if the aren't "reasonable doubt."
Dude! Don't dilute your gene pool!
Hmm, you're right, this isn't bad for a "this desktop never leaves the house, but it's easy to tuck away when I don't need it sitting out" market. Might consider it on those grounds.
"In the mean time, Kent, stop playing with yourself ."
1. Go to the Google home page.
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