Yeah... but they also seize things as a form of pre-trial punishment. Oh it's 'Evidence' we need to keep it for the 'trial' because you used this computer to buy your thing online.
But you see, police work is really much easier when the cops can just throw people in jail indefinitely for being suspicious, without having to bother with the expense and hassle of a kangaroo court. If you don't agree you're obviously a pedophilic, communist, anti-semitic, copyright-pirating Al Qaeda member.
IMHO the losing side should always be required to pay the other side's fees.
But that would give the state a strong financial incentive not to arrest or harass innocent people. I can't imagine very many politicians supporting that.
Am I the only one who really hates being handed one measly paper towel by a servant, who then wants paid for his efforts, when there is a whole stack of towels sitting there which I could easily pick up by myself?
Vpnc is dead-easy to set up if you use the network-manager applet plugin (package "network-manager-vpnc" on Ubuntu). Alas, it does not support quite all VPN configurations (iirc, it can only do VPN over UDP, not over TCP), so I still need to use Cisco's (shitty & difficult to install) client in a few situations.
Your business or employer sales service and or support then and it's that what pays the bills.
Nope. The government pays us to write the software. They are happy to pay cash money for development of Free software, because they need the functionality (which is not available elsewhere), and they believe the open source model will save them money in the long run.
I can already hear an anchorite shouting, "Holy fucktards, Batman, it's the Federal Gub'ment -- that doesn't apply to rock-ribbed capitalists like us!" But consider, most businesses are concerned about basically the same things: Will this software provide the functionality we need, and will it do so cost effectively? Free Software scores well on both those points, even if its a little challenging to shoehorn the olde-timey model for a software company into the new open source paradigm.
Artistic production of all manner happened long before the imaginary property regime was instituted, and will continue long after it has crumbled. The media cartel throws up the fear of a world without music and movies as a boogey-man, to scare decent citizens into acquiescence.
I use Hulu fairly regularly to watch Colbert's show. It sucks my ass. Even tho I am fully willing to sit through their commercials (the price paid for convenience), the media cartel insists on discriminating against internet viewers by not releasing shows until the day after they air on teevee.
Seriously, every time I hear someone say "oh noez! if there's no copyright then the record/movie companies might go out of business, eek!", I say (out loud), "Hell yeah, that's the general idea!"
Amazingly, I have met a real live Windows believer. Granted, he is a.Net software architect. But he made me realize that.Net itself is not especially ugly -- the ugliness is just its M$ imaginary property encumbrances, which don't bother him.
I keep reading comments here that Mr Colbert's viewers "stuffed" the ballot box. By this I assume "voted more than once" is meant. Is there any evidence of this? I have not seen any so far (tho I haven't searched very hard).
What it looks like to me is that Colbert has a lot of fans, and they all voted to name the node after him. Nothing at all wrong with that, and if there is no evidence of widespread fraud, NASA ought to have accepted the outcome of the vote far more gracefully than they did.
Maybe having real maritime piracy in the news so much will work to our benefit. People may realize how fucking retarded it is to call someone a "pirate" sitting at his computer downloading mp3s.
Hitting up TPB for things available through legal outlets just shows that you're some whiny brat who wants to eat his cake and have it too, for free.
Alternatively, one might say it shows good business acumen.
An item's value is a function of its usefulness and its scarcity. Musical recordings have (sometimes considerable) utility, but like all static data, can be produced in limitless quantity at near-zero cost. Thus recorded music has near zero value, and one who downloads it for free is paying the right price.
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MS is advertising that Windows has a backdoor now??!
I thought this was pretty widely known? IIRC, they are mandated by US law to provide a backdoor for 'intelligence' and 'law enforcement' agencies.
Yeah... but they also seize things as a form of pre-trial punishment. Oh it's 'Evidence' we need to keep it for the 'trial' because you used this computer to buy your thing online.
But you see, police work is really much easier when the cops can just throw people in jail indefinitely for being suspicious, without having to bother with the expense and hassle of a kangaroo court. If you don't agree you're obviously a pedophilic, communist, anti-semitic, copyright-pirating Al Qaeda member.
IMHO the losing side should always be required to pay the other side's fees.
But that would give the state a strong financial incentive not to arrest or harass innocent people. I can't imagine very many politicians supporting that.
So the law and the courts are turning a blind eye to the reality of the situation.
And this is surprising?
Amen to that!
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For what crime, exactly?
Since when do you need to commit an actual crime to get arrested in Amerika?
Am I the only one who really hates being handed one measly paper towel by a servant, who then wants paid for his efforts, when there is a whole stack of towels sitting there which I could easily pick up by myself?
If the industry-standard web application software for your line of business uses ActiveX or relies on quirks of Windows Internet Explorer
Could you provide an example of an "industry-standard" web app that works only with IE?
Vpnc is dead-easy to set up if you use the network-manager applet plugin (package "network-manager-vpnc" on Ubuntu). Alas, it does not support quite all VPN configurations (iirc, it can only do VPN over UDP, not over TCP), so I still need to use Cisco's (shitty & difficult to install) client in a few situations.
Why "crazed"? Sounds plausible to me.
Your business or employer sales service and or support then and it's that what pays the bills.
Nope. The government pays us to write the software. They are happy to pay cash money for development of Free software, because they need the functionality (which is not available elsewhere), and they believe the open source model will save them money in the long run.
I can already hear an anchorite shouting, "Holy fucktards, Batman, it's the Federal Gub'ment -- that doesn't apply to rock-ribbed capitalists like us!" But consider, most businesses are concerned about basically the same things: Will this software provide the functionality we need, and will it do so cost effectively? Free Software scores well on both those points, even if its a little challenging to shoehorn the olde-timey model for a software company into the new open source paradigm.
Did that make you a "gloomy, miserable wretch"?
Actually, working for the Man (writing proprietary code) made me gloomy & miserable in the past. Life is better in the Free world.
The problem with free (gratis) is that it doesn't pay the bills for the developer.
I manage to pay my bills -- which in Boston are not inconsiderable -- by writing Free Software.
Get real.
Artistic production of all manner happened long before the imaginary property regime was instituted, and will continue long after it has crumbled. The media cartel throws up the fear of a world without music and movies as a boogey-man, to scare decent citizens into acquiescence.
I use Hulu fairly regularly to watch Colbert's show. It sucks my ass. Even tho I am fully willing to sit through their commercials (the price paid for convenience), the media cartel insists on discriminating against internet viewers by not releasing shows until the day after they air on teevee.
Seriously, every time I hear someone say "oh noez! if there's no copyright then the record/movie companies might go out of business, eek!", I say (out loud), "Hell yeah, that's the general idea!"
Heretic! The cult of Vi(m) will have you burnt at the stake!
Amazingly, I have met a real live Windows believer. Granted, he is a .Net software architect. But he made me realize that .Net itself is not especially ugly -- the ugliness is just its M$ imaginary property encumbrances, which don't bother him.
Don't judges typically rubberstamp home invasion requests from the Stasi, regardless of pretext?
Maybe it's time for some basic cost-control in Hollywood?
I keep reading comments here that Mr Colbert's viewers "stuffed" the ballot box. By this I assume "voted more than once" is meant. Is there any evidence of this? I have not seen any so far (tho I haven't searched very hard).
What it looks like to me is that Colbert has a lot of fans, and they all voted to name the node after him. Nothing at all wrong with that, and if there is no evidence of widespread fraud, NASA ought to have accepted the outcome of the vote far more gracefully than they did.
Maybe having real maritime piracy in the news so much will work to our benefit. People may realize how fucking retarded it is to call someone a "pirate" sitting at his computer downloading mp3s.
Some of them may very well have become hell-bent on revenge from being couped up for so long...
Exactly -- if they weren't enemies of the United States when they went in to Guantanamo (many probably weren't), they sure as hell are now.
Hitting up TPB for things available through legal outlets just shows that you're some whiny brat who wants to eat his cake and have it too, for free.
Alternatively, one might say it shows good business acumen.
An item's value is a function of its usefulness and its scarcity. Musical recordings have (sometimes considerable) utility, but like all static data, can be produced in limitless quantity at near-zero cost. Thus recorded music has near zero value, and one who downloads it for free is paying the right price.
or another Python variation:
binascii.unhexlify( s.replace(' ', '') )