That's backwards. Companies like Viacom and Google are involved in creating the legislative future that the rest of us will have to live with. The ones who don't get it are those who don't realize that this isn't about Viacom collecting a little cash from Google, or stopping Google from posting Viacom's content.
Viacom is suing Google because it wants a piece of the action (payment for its content) going forward, one way or another. That could happen in any number of ways, probably a combination of legislation and agreements between huge corporations. This suit is just a move in the game, like "Pawn to King 4" in chess. Although they're actually further along in the game than that -- it started a while back, even before Google's purchase of Youtube.
Except that's a little like, "Next stop: U.S. invades Iran?" It will just encourage the next [crazy dictator|money-hungry company] to act up, and {the U.S.|Google] can't afford to [invade|buy] them all.
Pfft. Clearly, GoDaddy knew that the DST changeover would be a problem, so they started faking network problems early on so that they could pretend that it was nothing to do with DST.
If you'd been wearing your tinfoil hat, your brain would be unclouded by the control waves and you'd have been able to figure that out for yourself!
The "stuff left around by people" definition is just a specialization of a more general meaning, which is "stuff left around by some activity" which can include geological activity, biological activity, collisions between planetary or stellar bodies, etc. Here's a pretty picture of Stellar Debris in the Large Magellanic Cloud for you to contemplate while you're plotting your theft of this term from multiple scientific disciplines.;)
You originally used the term "artificial debris"; qualifying it like that seems fine to me. So I'm not clear why any redefinition is needed here.
In my view, debris is the result of the actions of intelligence
In geology, debris refers to "an accumulation of loose fragments of rock". Similar meanings can be found in other sciences, including biology and space science, and these definitions do not require the actions of intelligence. Providing your own definition of a contested term like "planet" is not unreasonable, particularly if it's compatible in spirit with competing definitions. Providing your own definition for a word like "debris" isn't reasonable, though.
The sentence has a straightforward overall structure:
A grant to B a C license to use D without E.
The value of C is a bit complex, but not too bad. It's only the last clause, E, that really needs to be broken up itself, e.g.: F and without G or H, or I, to A or J.
Even though some of the "variables" have long values, it's still easily comprehensible because it's mostly linear. Here's Perl code to generate the whole sentence:
$A = "You"; $B = "The Economist Group and its designees"; $C = "perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive fully-paid up and royalty free"; $D = "such Submission"; $F = "restrictions of any kind"; $G = "any obligation of payment"; $H = "other consideration of any kind"; $I = "permission or notification"; $J = "any third party"; $E = "$F and without $G or $H, or $I, to $A or $J";
print "$A grant to $B a $C license to use $D without $E.\n";
I'm saying that powerful people actually change the rules, when they can, often to the detriment of others, which undermines the legal system's ability to protect everyone else.
I agree that we should be supporting and strengthening the legal system, but we have to be careful about how, and there are parts that we should be attacking. For example, Bush and Gonzales would say that that's what they're doing right now - supporting and strengthening the legal system to give them more power, so that they are better able to go after terrorists.
Still, I'd say the OP is not entirely wrong to extrapolate from Braveheart: despite all our rules, truly powerful men (there are very few truly powerful women in this sense) fashion and bend the rules of society and government to work in their favor, and we are all living under systems which are the result of centuries of such distortion. In some ways it's quite amazing that the major democracies are still as free as they are, although we seem to be correcting that little anomaly now.
I can't tell to what extent you are kidding or whether you might need or want your question answered seriously, but just in case, "trains running on time" is supposed to be symbolic of a government's administrative effectiveness. In post-Saddam Iraq, they have had to worry about even more basic things, like electricity and running water, but it falls into the same category as trains running on time. People tend to get annoyed with their governments if they can't take care of the basics, and that annoyance can override more abstract, ideological concerns. As another example, many people who didn't agree with New York Mayor Giuliani's political leanings nevertheless appreciated his success at cleaning up NYC.
Just a tangential point, if you have 20-30 websites on a single box, you don't need more than 1 IP address unless you're either trying to pretend they're different machines for anyone who investigates, or are hosting for multiple customers and have agreed to give them each their own IP.
Part of the point is that these days, if the person asking a question like this does absolutely no research via a search engine, then they're really wasting everyone's time, and all they deserve is a link to www.justfuckinggoogleit.com. If you want to ask the question more seriously, then you look around for what you can find, and post a question that indicates that you've done some minimal amount of research before throwing yourself on the mercy of a random group of strangers.
Parent is my first -1, Troll post ever. So it's taken me a while to get started (years!) but now I finally figured out the trick. To be modded down to "-1, Troll" on Slashdot, you have to criticize Microsoft, or Microsoft fanboys, I'm not sure which. Who woulda thunk it? I remember the old days, when Slashdot wasn't crawling with MS fanboys, apologists, toadies, and astroturfers...
Am I being too obvious now? This is all so new to me!
Why, because he has the unmitigated gall to have a differing opinion from you on the subject?
No, because he claimed that he "hates Microsoft as much as the next guy here", and then went on to indulge in some fanboy drooling, concluding with some more material attempting to bolster his non-Microsoft cred. As I pointed out, he clearly doesn't "hate Microsoft as much as the next guy here", and if he had left out that comment and his attempt to be taken seriously as anything other than a Microsoft fan, I wouldn't have bothered to respond.
Now, I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy here, but realistically, ribbons are a UI improvement over menus and toolbars.
That seems unlikely, since many people here won't be ponying up cash to use Microsoft Office 2007 on Microsoft Windows just because Microsoft has a new UI trick.
Some of us, myself included, invested quite some effort to escape the clutches of Microsoft, and the reasons for doing that weren't some kind of irrational "hatred" that will evaporate when Microsoft dangles a new shiny. It has to do with locking customers into their products at every level (I know Exchange admins who would kill to escape Microsoft), while at the same time locking customers out of the information they need to integrate with their products (e.g. data formats, source code), not to mention treating customers like criminals.
Frankly, your post reads like you just received your first month's check from Microsoft for astroturfing Slashdot. So no, you don't hate Microsoft as much as the next guy here.
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Because the war represents $400 bn plus that a majority seem to feel didn't need to be spent, i.e. it's an ongoing mistake. Not sure there's evidence that the same applies to those others.
As for topicality, perhaps NASA's discoveries related to moondust will help soldiers operating in desert conditions, which is apparently going to be an unavoidable part of America's future for decades to come.
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Gay marriage happens inside the United States. That trumps anything that's going on in some furrin country that almost no Americans (other than soldiers) have ever visited. You gotta get into the parochial, everythingophobe mindset of the religious conservative!
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Viacom is suing Google because it wants a piece of the action (payment for its content) going forward, one way or another. That could happen in any number of ways, probably a combination of legislation and agreements between huge corporations. This suit is just a move in the game, like "Pawn to King 4" in chess. Although they're actually further along in the game than that -- it started a while back, even before Google's purchase of Youtube.
Except that's a little like, "Next stop: U.S. invades Iran?" It will just encourage the next [crazy dictator|money-hungry company] to act up, and {the U.S.|Google] can't afford to [invade|buy] them all.
Well, Dr. Evil demanded it as a ransom (after some helpful advice from his henchpeople) -- does that count?
Zonk?
Why do you think Pinky can never remember what they do every night, even though it's always the same thing?
It's legitimate to use a comma like that to convey a pause, in writing which is intended to be read as though it were spoken.
(Yeah yeah, what I, need is a humor, detector.)
Er, if you "work for" a cosmologist, isn't he the one who'll be publishing papers?
Pfft. Clearly, GoDaddy knew that the DST changeover would be a problem, so they started faking network problems early on so that they could pretend that it was nothing to do with DST.
If you'd been wearing your tinfoil hat, your brain would be unclouded by the control waves and you'd have been able to figure that out for yourself!
I've done some work with automation of contract writing, so your comment played into my bias. No worries, I'll just ascribe evil to you. ;)
The "stuff left around by people" definition is just a specialization of a more general meaning, which is "stuff left around by some activity" which can include geological activity, biological activity, collisions between planetary or stellar bodies, etc. Here's a pretty picture of Stellar Debris in the Large Magellanic Cloud for you to contemplate while you're plotting your theft of this term from multiple scientific disciplines. ;)
You originally used the term "artificial debris"; qualifying it like that seems fine to me. So I'm not clear why any redefinition is needed here.
A grant to B a C license to use D without E.
The value of C is a bit complex, but not too bad. It's only the last clause, E, that really needs to be broken up itself, e.g.: F and without G or H, or I, to A or J.
Even though some of the "variables" have long values, it's still easily comprehensible because it's mostly linear. Here's Perl code to generate the whole sentence:
I'm saying that powerful people actually change the rules, when they can, often to the detriment of others, which undermines the legal system's ability to protect everyone else.
I agree that we should be supporting and strengthening the legal system, but we have to be careful about how, and there are parts that we should be attacking. For example, Bush and Gonzales would say that that's what they're doing right now - supporting and strengthening the legal system to give them more power, so that they are better able to go after terrorists.
Still, I'd say the OP is not entirely wrong to extrapolate from Braveheart: despite all our rules, truly powerful men (there are very few truly powerful women in this sense) fashion and bend the rules of society and government to work in their favor, and we are all living under systems which are the result of centuries of such distortion. In some ways it's quite amazing that the major democracies are still as free as they are, although we seem to be correcting that little anomaly now.
I can't tell to what extent you are kidding or whether you might need or want your question answered seriously, but just in case, "trains running on time" is supposed to be symbolic of a government's administrative effectiveness. In post-Saddam Iraq, they have had to worry about even more basic things, like electricity and running water, but it falls into the same category as trains running on time. People tend to get annoyed with their governments if they can't take care of the basics, and that annoyance can override more abstract, ideological concerns. As another example, many people who didn't agree with New York Mayor Giuliani's political leanings nevertheless appreciated his success at cleaning up NYC.
The first rule of quantum computing on Slashdot is that most of the moderators won't know what you're talking about.
Just a tangential point, if you have 20-30 websites on a single box, you don't need more than 1 IP address unless you're either trying to pretend they're different machines for anyone who investigates, or are hosting for multiple customers and have agreed to give them each their own IP.
Part of the point is that these days, if the person asking a question like this does absolutely no research via a search engine, then they're really wasting everyone's time, and all they deserve is a link to www.justfuckinggoogleit.com. If you want to ask the question more seriously, then you look around for what you can find, and post a question that indicates that you've done some minimal amount of research before throwing yourself on the mercy of a random group of strangers.
So apparently America's managers are not smart citizens? Doesn't that support the grandparent's point?
Parent is my first -1, Troll post ever. So it's taken me a while to get started (years!) but now I finally figured out the trick. To be modded down to "-1, Troll" on Slashdot, you have to criticize Microsoft, or Microsoft fanboys, I'm not sure which. Who woulda thunk it? I remember the old days, when Slashdot wasn't crawling with MS fanboys, apologists, toadies, and astroturfers...
Am I being too obvious now? This is all so new to me!
Wouldn't Wonder Woman be a superheroine?
Some of us, myself included, invested quite some effort to escape the clutches of Microsoft, and the reasons for doing that weren't some kind of irrational "hatred" that will evaporate when Microsoft dangles a new shiny. It has to do with locking customers into their products at every level (I know Exchange admins who would kill to escape Microsoft), while at the same time locking customers out of the information they need to integrate with their products (e.g. data formats, source code), not to mention treating customers like criminals.
Frankly, your post reads like you just received your first month's check from Microsoft for astroturfing Slashdot. So no, you don't hate Microsoft as much as the next guy here.
Because the war represents $400 bn plus that a majority seem to feel didn't need to be spent, i.e. it's an ongoing mistake. Not sure there's evidence that the same applies to those others.
As for topicality, perhaps NASA's discoveries related to moondust will help soldiers operating in desert conditions, which is apparently going to be an unavoidable part of America's future for decades to come.
Gay marriage happens inside the United States. That trumps anything that's going on in some furrin country that almost no Americans (other than soldiers) have ever visited. You gotta get into the parochial, everythingophobe mindset of the religious conservative!