One other point I forgot to add. With the pace of modern technology, some works (especially software, and if we'll extend this discussion to patents, various inventions) become useless in a very short time span (5-15 years often), so even a copyright of reasonable length for fiction books will prevent the public from ever getting value from them, so we may need copyright for some classes of works to become shorter and shorter.
Yes. And copying your work verbatim is free speech too. But I might be willing to temporarily not do that, at least in some circumstances, if you made it worth my while. But you don't just start out dictating to me what I may and may not say, merely because you said it first.
While I agree with the general point you're confusing a voluntary surrender of rights to a mandatory one enforced by the government.
This is true. The reason why the entire sky is bright at daytime, rather than just the sun, is that the air refracts the light so when it gets to your eyes it is coming from all different directions, so you think the light source is everywhere. This will drown out anything but the moon and maybe satellites/Venus if you have good eyesight / equipment.
Except that even if it's wrong, there is no justification for putting her through years of court cases, hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, and emotional trauma enough to push some people to suicide.
If people are knowledgeable enough to know that the software is there, and that it can be removed in that way, and knowledgeable enough to download the windows torrent to reinstall, China can't do much about them anyway.
Except even if Linux magically got a 96% market share there is no way any single organization could cause as much harm to anyone as Microsoft can and did. Even if Ubuntu started to have backdoors/malware/whatever everywhere, everyone would just leave it and join opensuse.
Even if they can somehow account for every small asteroid that will change the course of Earth's orbit over a billion years, they can't possibly account for the possibility (near-certainty unless we nuke ourselves to death) that we will, possibly before the end of this century, be able to cause drastic changes to anything in the solar system.
Unununium was such an awesome name, why did they have to rename it something stupid like roentgenium? What does that mean anyway? Does it mean it creates rodents?
I'm sure there are exceptions, I'm talking about the public perception of women, and people generally see women as being less hostile than men and are therefore more willing to talk to them.
But the enemy would also have more moral misgivings about killing a woman than a man. Also, women tend to seem less threatening and can be better for peaceful interaction with civilians.
No, you sue for the damages you suffered. If someone stole $1000 from me, it doesn't matter if 50% of it was blown away by the wind - the thief needs to pay $1000 anyway, because that is what I lost.
I like this. Have a group of people look through every law in existence and see if it can be justifiably kept, removing it if it can't. As a bonus, you could also let these people decide the executive branch's salaries, so they would be careful not to inundate them with too much work to go through...
If you open source an online game with a client you're going to get aimbots, programs that triple the onscreen size of all your enemies, speedhacks, and a whole host of other forms of cheating. That's just what happens when you let people modify whatever they want in the client.
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I thought part of the philosophy behind the GPL is that there would be no need for it if there was no copyright.
One other point I forgot to add. With the pace of modern technology, some works (especially software, and if we'll extend this discussion to patents, various inventions) become useless in a very short time span (5-15 years often), so even a copyright of reasonable length for fiction books will prevent the public from ever getting value from them, so we may need copyright for some classes of works to become shorter and shorter.
Yes. And copying your work verbatim is free speech too. But I might be willing to temporarily not do that, at least in some circumstances, if you made it worth my while. But you don't just start out dictating to me what I may and may not say, merely because you said it first.
While I agree with the general point you're confusing a voluntary surrender of rights to a mandatory one enforced by the government.
So you want the authorities to be tiptoeing around the citizens in fear of being punished? Reminds me of something about tyranny and liberty...
and you need extremely expensive instruments (well, not math)
A large portion of modern math is done with the aid of supercomputers.
This is true. The reason why the entire sky is bright at daytime, rather than just the sun, is that the air refracts the light so when it gets to your eyes it is coming from all different directions, so you think the light source is everywhere. This will drown out anything but the moon and maybe satellites/Venus if you have good eyesight / equipment.
Makes the servers more serviceable, and in a server closet there isn't much that would require a skin to protect against.
Except that even if it's wrong, there is no justification for putting her through years of court cases, hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, and emotional trauma enough to push some people to suicide.
If people are knowledgeable enough to know that the software is there, and that it can be removed in that way, and knowledgeable enough to download the windows torrent to reinstall, China can't do much about them anyway.
Except even if Linux magically got a 96% market share there is no way any single organization could cause as much harm to anyone as Microsoft can and did. Even if Ubuntu started to have backdoors/malware/whatever everywhere, everyone would just leave it and join opensuse.
Open source did a lot of things first. Tabbed browsing, multiple desktops, there are probably a lot of things.
Even if they can somehow account for every small asteroid that will change the course of Earth's orbit over a billion years, they can't possibly account for the possibility (near-certainty unless we nuke ourselves to death) that we will, possibly before the end of this century, be able to cause drastic changes to anything in the solar system.
Unununium was such an awesome name, why did they have to rename it something stupid like roentgenium? What does that mean anyway? Does it mean it creates rodents?
I'm sure there are exceptions, I'm talking about the public perception of women, and people generally see women as being less hostile than men and are therefore more willing to talk to them.
But the enemy would also have more moral misgivings about killing a woman than a man. Also, women tend to seem less threatening and can be better for peaceful interaction with civilians.
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Two of those should be enough for everyone!
No, it's no space station either! It's a moon!
A U.S. soldier fired on his fellow troops at a counseling center at a base outside Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, U.S. officials said, killing five people in the worst such attack of the six-year-old Iraq war
When it's a human malfunctions it's a tragedy. When it's a robot it's technology itself that's evil.
No, you sue for the damages you suffered. If someone stole $1000 from me, it doesn't matter if 50% of it was blown away by the wind - the thief needs to pay $1000 anyway, because that is what I lost.
No need. They're already on strike.
I like this. Have a group of people look through every law in existence and see if it can be justifiably kept, removing it if it can't. As a bonus, you could also let these people decide the executive branch's salaries, so they would be careful not to inundate them with too much work to go through...
If you open source an online game with a client you're going to get aimbots, programs that triple the onscreen size of all your enemies, speedhacks, and a whole host of other forms of cheating. That's just what happens when you let people modify whatever they want in the client.
It's obvious emacs is better than all of those.
Your name fits you.