You can always re-paint your car when you want to sell it.
Let's do some math.
Cost of painting a car = $400 (source) * 2 = $800 Cost of auto insurance = $1837/year (source) Insurance reduction for anti-theft devices = up to 30% (source), we'll assume 10% for just this ($183/year)
Thus, you need to keep your car for 800 / 183 = 4.5 years for painting to be a good use of your money.
I love that law. 1 watt lasers are illegal because they blind the enemy, but increase the power to 100 watts and they're just plain old killing weapons, making them okay!
Second of all, the GPLv3 prevents you from signing a binary to run on a specific piece of hardware. So no GPLv3 on medical devices.
The GPLv3 does not prevent you from designing a binary for a specific piece of hardware, it just prevents making it impossible for any other software to run on the hardware. If you're going to run untested code on a pacemaker, you deserve what you get. I see no problems here.
In Star Trek you don't hear humans speaking anything but English. Also, you might notice that no technologically advanced planet in most sci fi universes has multiple governments operating on it. One world government, one world language.
Man, quality of life is much more than the money. It's support when you need it. It's knowing that you are protected in case something goes wrong and it's not entirely your fault, it's good climate (well, this only applies to Souther Europe), it's culture for free, it's really good food (once again... only in southern Europe:D), it's living in a city where you don't have to drive every morning to work cause the public mass transport system is really effective or because the centre of the city is also occupied by it's citizens... well, it's a very big bunch of many other things.
Wait, so quality of life is not about money but it's about support, protection (I assume you mean welfare and social security here, the economic system does not alter your ability to get support from friends) and "free" culture, which are in reality the same thing as money except someone else buys the products for you? You know that in the US, and in every other country in the world, money will also get you support, protection and culture?
Sounds like you are rich, it's just that 20-30% of your money doesn't appear on your budget since you're enjoying it through all these public services.
but I think I'd rather have employees' rights protected through specific legislation than be forced to join or otherwise be represented by a union before being allowed to work for a particular employer.
So basically you prefer a giant union of 300 million people that you're forced to join and be represented by before being allowed to work anywhere.
Each user has a pair of cryptographic keys--a public key and a private key. The private key is kept secret, while the public key may be widely distributed. Messages are encrypted with the recipient's public key and can only be decrypted with the corresponding private key. The keys are related mathematically, but the private key cannot be feasibly (ie, in actual or projected practice) derived from the public key.
Something like settlement extortion will exist for as long as it is cheaper to pay up than it is to defend yourself. Perhaps we should make the entire profession of lawyers illegal? (no sarcasm there)
Although I personally have some objections (website not mine) to Esperanto in particular, that's a bad analogy. Logo is not used by everyone because it's not powerful enough for professionals. Simplified speaking languages, however, are every bit as powerful as "real" languages. The main reason people use English et al, as the guy who wrote the above linked page put it, "it has an extensive Installed User Base, and can thus afford to ignore criticism in exactly the same manner as Fahrenheit thermometers, QWERTY keyboards, and certain software packages, which can all rely on conformism, short-termism, and sheer laziness for their continued survival."
But all the new movies they come up with will be 90 FPS 4320*3200 resolution and 3D, so they'll take up a few dozen gigs each. Not because people can tell the difference between 4320 * 3200 and the level below that but because it'll take longer to bit torrent it.
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You can always re-paint your car when you want to sell it.
Let's do some math.
Cost of painting a car = $400 (source) * 2 = $800
Cost of auto insurance = $1837/year (source)
Insurance reduction for anti-theft devices = up to 30% (source), we'll assume 10% for just this ($183/year)
Thus, you need to keep your car for 800 / 183 = 4.5 years for painting to be a good use of your money.
Again? We've always been at war with Adobe.
Or, as an above poster suggested, substitute the folder with a link to /dev/null.
Probably not too busy/lazy to fight the charges, but too busy/lazy to even read the entire credit card bill in the first place.
I love that law. 1 watt lasers are illegal because they blind the enemy, but increase the power to 100 watts and they're just plain old killing weapons, making them okay!
But they are vulnerable to frost damage.
Bring out the water guns!
Second of all, the GPLv3 prevents you from signing a binary to run on a specific piece of hardware. So no GPLv3 on medical devices.
The GPLv3 does not prevent you from designing a binary for a specific piece of hardware, it just prevents making it impossible for any other software to run on the hardware. If you're going to run untested code on a pacemaker, you deserve what you get. I see no problems here.
You don't get the IP since that's open sourced anyway.
You do if the business involves making software with a GPL version and selling a version with proprietary licensing (like MySQL).
In Star Trek you don't hear humans speaking anything but English. Also, you might notice that no technologically advanced planet in most sci fi universes has multiple governments operating on it. One world government, one world language.
Man, quality of life is much more than the money. It's support when you need it. It's knowing that you are protected in case something goes wrong and it's not entirely your fault, it's good climate (well, this only applies to Souther Europe), it's culture for free, it's really good food (once again ... only in southern Europe :D), it's living in a city where you don't have to drive every morning to work cause the public mass transport system is really effective or because the centre of the city is also occupied by it's citizens ... well, it's a very big bunch of many other things.
Wait, so quality of life is not about money but it's about support, protection (I assume you mean welfare and social security here, the economic system does not alter your ability to get support from friends) and "free" culture, which are in reality the same thing as money except someone else buys the products for you? You know that in the US, and in every other country in the world, money will also get you support, protection and culture?
Sounds like you are rich, it's just that 20-30% of your money doesn't appear on your budget since you're enjoying it through all these public services.
I'm pretty sure you do have to be criticizing (or commenting on) the work itself. Otherwise the entire genre of comedy would get to ignore copyright.
But seedy research downloads more quickly!
When I look at the online population, I see a lot of people claiming to be 18 year old bi-sexual nymphomaniac miss-universe winners.
FTFY
but I think I'd rather have employees' rights protected through specific legislation than be forced to join or otherwise be represented by a union before being allowed to work for a particular employer.
So basically you prefer a giant union of 300 million people that you're forced to join and be represented by before being allowed to work anywhere.
Each user has a pair of cryptographic keys--a public key and a private key. The private key is kept secret, while the public key may be widely distributed. Messages are encrypted with the recipient's public key and can only be decrypted with the corresponding private key. The keys are related mathematically, but the private key cannot be feasibly (ie, in actual or projected practice) derived from the public key.
Public Key Cryptography.
Yo dawg, I heard you like tabs...
Something like settlement extortion will exist for as long as it is cheaper to pay up than it is to defend yourself. Perhaps we should make the entire profession of lawyers illegal? (no sarcasm there)
Although I personally have some objections (website not mine) to Esperanto in particular, that's a bad analogy. Logo is not used by everyone because it's not powerful enough for professionals. Simplified speaking languages, however, are every bit as powerful as "real" languages. The main reason people use English et al, as the guy who wrote the above linked page put it, "it has an extensive Installed User Base, and can thus afford to ignore criticism in exactly the same manner as Fahrenheit thermometers, QWERTY keyboards, and certain software packages, which can all rely on conformism, short-termism, and sheer laziness for their continued survival."
$35 tablet + $15 USB keyboard = $50 netbook-like thing.
le rirni cu bebna .i. la lojban zmadu la esperantos leka xamgu
But all the new movies they come up with will be 90 FPS 4320*3200 resolution and 3D, so they'll take up a few dozen gigs each. Not because people can tell the difference between 4320 * 3200 and the level below that but because it'll take longer to bit torrent it.
Most system libraries uses the lesser GPL
The GPL doesn't allow linking with incompatibly licensed software. The LGPL, however, does.
2015:
People are tired of crapvertisement exploding, find efficient entertainment elsewhere, Freenet explodes
2020:
Freenet is a fun place, banners and popups are crap but they can be turned off, we have fun
2030:
People are tired of crapvertisement exploding, find efficient entertainment elsewhere...
And if the employee happens to be going to the washroom / sleeping / driving at the time?