Piracy never hurt anyone more than the various industries are hurting themselves and their customers, and filesharing in itself is only a good thing. Filesharing is what the Internet is all about, and the Internet would hardly exist without it.
Hollywood, you can keep producing ridiculously expensive and wasteful movies, but you gotta come up with better excuses when you're losing money. It's never piracy. A good movie will make money no matter what, and it'll get advertised through filesharing around the world, faster than you apparently are able to do. Though it might not make a profit if you spent more than a small nation's budget to make it.
Well, it would be nice to get the IRS to help track down the gold buyers and sellers, So that they can be removed from the game they were never meant to be a part of in the first place.
If they require that for any applicants as part of their qualifications, obviously you'll have to get it done before even starting to work there (or just don't apply if the requirements seem unreasonable for what the job is).
But if it is something they decide to require from you after you already work there (which is what this article seems to be about), then the only time they can require you to do anything in, is your work hours.
Yeah, personally I don't consider copying data or information as serious an act as pillaging, rape and murder, and I don't see how anyone made that connection.
No amount of specific sequences of 1s and 0s on my HDDs is going to make me think of myself as a pirate.
A big thank you to America (and yes, Russia too) for getting us started on this whole space thingamajig. I think Europe and Asia can take over now. So long, and thanks for all the fish!
Europe - Let's talk when you're able to launch people into space.
Asia - This isn't a country, or even a loose confederacy. If you mean Japan, see above. If you mean China, then I'll be more impressed when you do something post 1965 that isn't bought from the Russians.
If you use that argument, most of the world's countries could barely renew any funding or start any new projects at all.
Most budgets are a bit more complex than that. But you can't really complain about debt going up, then also about taxes going up. If the debt it is to be paid, the money has to come from somewhere.
Yes, invisibility is "cool", and I wouldn't mind an invisibility cloak for myself. But I can't immediately think of who would benefit the general public by having invisibility. Especially among the military, the police, criminals or terrorists (all of them sometimes interchangeable).
What practical use does invisibility have, other than as a weapon?
We, the west, have killed so terribly many more innocents than what these terrorists have done. What we focus on is when our soldiers die. But what we ignore, is the hundreds of thousands of civilians that have died in the last decade, because of our wars.
Like moving to another, living underwater might keep you safe from certain mass extinction events on the surface of the Earth.
We could also build a city a few hundred feet under the surface. Wouldn't be able to sustain it without the resources on the surface for quite a while yet, though.
I'm with the rest who say too many articles are being deleted. Several times I've been able to, or thought I was able to, find an article on a subject I was wanting information on. Then all I get is a deleted page, with no way to see what was deleted, and about as much clarity as to why it was deleted. At least send me to the page where you explain and quote why and what you deleted.
Preferably if you have more knowledge on the subject, write a better article and put up that as a replacement. Empty pages benefit no one. And no, there aren't any subjects too small. If they are too small for their own page, put them together with whatever else they belong, and point me to that material when you delete the former main article.
I don't see why these people don't deserve being locked up. Spammers are responsible for severely damaging the usefulness of email, as well as requiring millions of hours of trying to clean up after them, time that could be used for much more productive tasks. And there's still the huge waste of bandwidth from spam. Spammers from where I'm looking are among the scum of the Internet, along with e.g. the makers of malware and those stealing your credit card numbers.
9/11/01 turned out as only yet another excuse as to why we still roam the world and kill people for resources.
9/11/01 was significant from similar events only in that it happened in the USA. Only in that it was *our* civilians that got slaughtered. The west have done worse many times, and many times after 9/11/01.
The only way to prevent war is to fight the reasons for them. Starting more wars only starts more wars.
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Swedes, you used to be cool. What happened?
Piracy never hurt anyone more than the various industries are hurting themselves and their customers, and filesharing in itself is only a good thing. Filesharing is what the Internet is all about, and the Internet would hardly exist without it.
Hollywood, you can keep producing ridiculously expensive and wasteful movies, but you gotta come up with better excuses when you're losing money. It's never piracy. A good movie will make money no matter what, and it'll get advertised through filesharing around the world, faster than you apparently are able to do. Though it might not make a profit if you spent more than a small nation's budget to make it.
Sounds about as sensible as registering as a sex offender some 18 year old who had consensual sex with a 17 year old.
Well, it would be nice to get the IRS to help track down the gold buyers and sellers, So that they can be removed from the game they were never meant to be a part of in the first place.
Weren't they way ahead of the west in math and science while we were having our "dark ages"?
Anyway, judging them by their calendar is faulty. Wouldn't the Jews then be in interstellar space by now?
than into the pockets of the already wealthy.
It's just sad to see all the money spent on "saving the economy" going to waste while we could've used it for so many better things.
There's gotta be a law against it, right?
You lose more to that than you ever did on piracy.
If they require that for any applicants as part of their qualifications, obviously you'll have to get it done before even starting to work there (or just don't apply if the requirements seem unreasonable for what the job is).
But if it is something they decide to require from you after you already work there (which is what this article seems to be about), then the only time they can require you to do anything in, is your work hours.
Yeah, personally I don't consider copying data or information as serious an act as pillaging, rape and murder, and I don't see how anyone made that connection.
No amount of specific sequences of 1s and 0s on my HDDs is going to make me think of myself as a pirate.
A big thank you to America (and yes, Russia too) for getting us started on this whole space thingamajig. I think Europe and Asia can take over now. So long, and thanks for all the fish!
Europe - Let's talk when you're able to launch people into space.
Asia - This isn't a country, or even a loose confederacy. If you mean Japan, see above. If you mean China, then I'll be more impressed when you do something post 1965 that isn't bought from the Russians.
Europe isn't a country either...
War means it's okay that innocents die.
Except, of course, when it's the other side that killed them.
I always thought that smoking was the one of the worst things a girl could do for her attractiveness.
War is only more delicate now, for the people living in the USA, because they have never seen a war on their homeland.
In the last century we have killed many times more people than in any age before.
If you can justify killing people for oil, I'd value a terrorist killing people in revenge for that, over you.
Patents can take a long walk off a short evolutionary path.
If you use that argument, most of the world's countries could barely renew any funding or start any new projects at all.
Most budgets are a bit more complex than that. But you can't really complain about debt going up, then also about taxes going up. If the debt it is to be paid, the money has to come from somewhere.
Flamebait?
Personally I hate security questions. The suggestions are always obvious things where most you need to know is the person that owns the account.
The only safe thing is to not put an actual answer as the answer.
Yes, invisibility is "cool", and I wouldn't mind an invisibility cloak for myself. But I can't immediately think of who would benefit the general public by having invisibility. Especially among the military, the police, criminals or terrorists (all of them sometimes interchangeable).
What practical use does invisibility have, other than as a weapon?
We, the west, have killed so terribly many more innocents than what these terrorists have done. What we focus on is when our soldiers die. But what we ignore, is the hundreds of thousands of civilians that have died in the last decade, because of our wars.
Of course, innocents are always left in peace.
I know, preview... bah, I still wish I could edit slashdot posts. *another planet, of course.
Like moving to another, living underwater might keep you safe from certain mass extinction events on the surface of the Earth.
We could also build a city a few hundred feet under the surface. Wouldn't be able to sustain it without the resources on the surface for quite a while yet, though.
I'm with the rest who say too many articles are being deleted. Several times I've been able to, or thought I was able to, find an article on a subject I was wanting information on. Then all I get is a deleted page, with no way to see what was deleted, and about as much clarity as to why it was deleted. At least send me to the page where you explain and quote why and what you deleted.
Preferably if you have more knowledge on the subject, write a better article and put up that as a replacement. Empty pages benefit no one. And no, there aren't any subjects too small. If they are too small for their own page, put them together with whatever else they belong, and point me to that material when you delete the former main article.
I don't see why these people don't deserve being locked up. Spammers are responsible for severely damaging the usefulness of email, as well as requiring millions of hours of trying to clean up after them, time that could be used for much more productive tasks. And there's still the huge waste of bandwidth from spam. Spammers from where I'm looking are among the scum of the Internet, along with e.g. the makers of malware and those stealing your credit card numbers.
9/11/01 turned out as only yet another excuse as to why we still roam the world and kill people for resources.
9/11/01 was significant from similar events only in that it happened in the USA. Only in that it was *our* civilians that got slaughtered. The west have done worse many times, and many times after 9/11/01.
The only way to prevent war is to fight the reasons for them. Starting more wars only starts more wars.