And my point is that a single world government would leave you with no other country to become a citizen of if you don't like your current establishment.
It's not just about putting democracy on hold. It's about a global concerted effort to do so. If the world governments all join up to save the world from the greenhouse gases, once the smoke clears we're left with a single world government. AKA, a global monopoly. The telco monopoly gave us telcos that didn't care about their customers, the browser monopoly gave us the most reviled browser ever created, and a monopoly on government would destroy civil liberties for centuries, and descend into a spiral of corruption, greed and social inequality that would only start to fix itself once the government collapses in its own filth.
Not having to buy any more winter clothing is almost preferable.
When we argue, we don't argue about what the law is. That's for the courts to decide. We argue about what the law should be. And, as the discussion here shows, it is not at all clear that Warner Bros is morally right in legally enforcing their copyrights against individual file sharers.
I know most people, including even myself, have the reading style of letting our brains pick out the interesting bits and ignoring everything else, but it's important to point out that this isn't one of those cyberbullying vs free speech type of cases. Specifically:
The sweeping charges... include statutory rape, violation of civil rights with bodily injury...
How is it deception? It's keeping two identities separate. The people on the internet (and your employers/coworkers/clients) don't have a need to know that nine-times and whatever your legal name is are one and the same person. For me, selven is as "real" a name as the one on my passport - people use it to identify me, therefore it's real.
Apparently it's morally wrong for rich people to get preferential treatment, even if the total number of lives saved by kidney transplants is the same regardless of who gets them.
I don't think society has any legitimate interest at stake here that is not covered by allowing the free market to set prices for human kidneys. It should be interesting to see what kidney buyers will place real $ value on.
It's a tax supported public service (which, of course, only makes their DRM even more despicable). You can only opt out by not watching any TV channels.
See, I don't think antisemitism or racism should be arrestable offenses, or even illegal. Beating people up because you don't like their race should still be illegal, but that's just plain old assault. Freedom of thought and speech too important to simply ignore whenever it's convenient to do so.
And there's a strong argument that people are quickly getting used to the fact that anyone can say anything on the internet, so few people will believe an anonymous poster.
You can go either way, but I always prefer to err on the side of liberty.
What is that even supposed to mean? We are working within the system. Working outside the system is what you do when you just go and download everything you want instead of trying to obtain a legal copy. That approach works fine for most people, but not for the corporations who are producing the software (including the open source stuff) we use - they can't get away with it as easily.
While a noble objective, it'll fail the same reason any attempt to artificially improve human language, no matter how noble, is extremely difficult to carry out. Backward compatibility, the current system having a large number of existing users, people using the new system won't be understood by those on the old one, etc. I'd switch to hex (more natural than oct IMO, 2 hex digits are 1 byte) but most people wouldn't bother.
I don't think you understand. I have NO interest in mainstream $60 DRM-locked blockbusters. There are lots of games out there which run on my PC just fine, of which many have no DRM and no proprietary licensing restrictions (and are free of charge too). With all that content out there, who needs the small percentage of it that has DRM on it?
A VM is just a program, so any keystrokes will be sent to both the VM and whatever other program feels like it needs them. What you won't have, however, is contextual information - it's not as easy to tell when you're typing in a password in the VM from the host.
Damn near everyone on the planet? I know that the number of people talking on Facebook exceeds the number of people talking about how they don't use it, and talking on Facebook is a social activity, so it does seem that Facebook is popular (compare Windows where using it is a solitary activity, so Windows seems very unpopular). However, there are lots of people not using Facebook - you can count me in that group, and privacy is one of my reasons against using it.
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Individual instances of the exploit might be designed for Windows only, but I can't see why Linux would protect you here.
Lobbyists are fine, I would just prefer it if the companies' views weren't accompanied by money.
And my point is that a single world government would leave you with no other country to become a citizen of if you don't like your current establishment.
I think they would welcome it. Only one body to sink their lobbyists' claws into.
It's not just about putting democracy on hold. It's about a global concerted effort to do so. If the world governments all join up to save the world from the greenhouse gases, once the smoke clears we're left with a single world government. AKA, a global monopoly. The telco monopoly gave us telcos that didn't care about their customers, the browser monopoly gave us the most reviled browser ever created, and a monopoly on government would destroy civil liberties for centuries, and descend into a spiral of corruption, greed and social inequality that would only start to fix itself once the government collapses in its own filth.
Not having to buy any more winter clothing is almost preferable.
Download Chromium, the pure open source version.
Adultery is immoral (and harmful), yet there's no law against it in my state.
Wait, isn't breaking one's marriage vow a contract violation? Or is that whole part of law screwed up beyond repair by now?
Jack Thompson seems to be fairly quiet after he got disbarred. Darl isn't a lawyer so maybe we can just put him in prison for a while.
Knowledge is just as much a real human right as food and water and torture.
Greek gods are overrated, apparently Zeus's main weapon only does at most 14 damage
When we argue, we don't argue about what the law is. That's for the courts to decide. We argue about what the law should be. And, as the discussion here shows, it is not at all clear that Warner Bros is morally right in legally enforcing their copyrights against individual file sharers.
I know most people, including even myself, have the reading style of letting our brains pick out the interesting bits and ignoring everything else, but it's important to point out that this isn't one of those cyberbullying vs free speech type of cases. Specifically:
The sweeping charges ... include statutory rape, violation of civil rights with bodily injury...
This isn't about the internet at all.
How is it deception? It's keeping two identities separate. The people on the internet (and your employers/coworkers/clients) don't have a need to know that nine-times and whatever your legal name is are one and the same person. For me, selven is as "real" a name as the one on my passport - people use it to identify me, therefore it's real.
Apparently it's morally wrong for rich people to get preferential treatment, even if the total number of lives saved by kidney transplants is the same regardless of who gets them.
I don't think society has any legitimate interest at stake here that is not covered by allowing the free market to set prices for human kidneys. It should be interesting to see what kidney buyers will place real $ value on.
I agree.
It's a tax supported public service (which, of course, only makes their DRM even more despicable). You can only opt out by not watching any TV channels.
See, I don't think antisemitism or racism should be arrestable offenses, or even illegal. Beating people up because you don't like their race should still be illegal, but that's just plain old assault. Freedom of thought and speech too important to simply ignore whenever it's convenient to do so.
And there's a strong argument that people are quickly getting used to the fact that anyone can say anything on the internet, so few people will believe an anonymous poster.
You can go either way, but I always prefer to err on the side of liberty.
You can be arrested and imprisoned for claiming that the Turks are responsible for the Armenian genocide.
Well, to be fair, in a few EU countries you can be arrested for saying that the Holocaust didn't happen.
What is that even supposed to mean? We are working within the system. Working outside the system is what you do when you just go and download everything you want instead of trying to obtain a legal copy. That approach works fine for most people, but not for the corporations who are producing the software (including the open source stuff) we use - they can't get away with it as easily.
While a noble objective, it'll fail the same reason any attempt to artificially improve human language, no matter how noble, is extremely difficult to carry out. Backward compatibility, the current system having a large number of existing users, people using the new system won't be understood by those on the old one, etc. I'd switch to hex (more natural than oct IMO, 2 hex digits are 1 byte) but most people wouldn't bother.
I don't think you understand. I have NO interest in mainstream $60 DRM-locked blockbusters. There are lots of games out there which run on my PC just fine, of which many have no DRM and no proprietary licensing restrictions (and are free of charge too). With all that content out there, who needs the small percentage of it that has DRM on it?
Interesting. I, however, will be continuing to play open source games which do not require me to buy an entire new computer just to play them.
A VM is just a program, so any keystrokes will be sent to both the VM and whatever other program feels like it needs them. What you won't have, however, is contextual information - it's not as easy to tell when you're typing in a password in the VM from the host.
Damn near everyone on the planet? I know that the number of people talking on Facebook exceeds the number of people talking about how they don't use it, and talking on Facebook is a social activity, so it does seem that Facebook is popular (compare Windows where using it is a solitary activity, so Windows seems very unpopular). However, there are lots of people not using Facebook - you can count me in that group, and privacy is one of my reasons against using it.