Word docs are not Web pages. In our situation, any word doc available on a web server cannot be displayed in a web browser. Instead, you have to download the doc and then open it in Word.
I'm not a big fan of word processors, and I generally keep everything in plaintext/HTML/PDF, but that item is simply incorrect, for one reason: Google Docs. You can use the service to open any.pdf/.doc/.ppt/.whatever file on the internet, and there are even browser extensions that make it into a one click process.
Technically you never steal a person's indentity, you use other peoples information to fraudulently pay for products and services
Can't emphasize this enough. All the arguments about obtaining information not being theft don't stop applying just because the victim changes from being the RIAA to being normal innocent people. It's not identity theft, it's pretending to be other people, a form of plain old normal fraud that has existed for millennia.
You missed the big one: World of Warcraft. Many people don't realize this, but it's quite possible to make hundreds of gold just by sitting around and buying and selling stuff.
I have no experience with prison but I think I'd rather be unemployed than in prison of any sort.
Some people actually like prison. It's an environment where you literally have to try to screw up and where all the choices are made for you, so you just have to do whatever you do and you'll be fine. These types of people, obviously, tend to go into underling professions in real life, and the two programmers here who simply did what they're told without thinking about legality fit the bill pretty well.
And denying you the right to use cheap tools if you aren't worried about safety. You could argue that no one would willingly subject themselves to such a risk for a few tens of dollars, but why not put the cheap unsafe saws out there with some safety warnings and see if anyone actually wants them? If no one buys them, you don't need a law anyway. If some people buy them, then there's a demand for them and they should be allowed to be sold.
Privacy is a big one, making it much more difficult for someone to build up a full picture of your life. Also as a purely defensive device to get around, avoiding the fanatics trying to kill you because of something legal but controversial you said.
Notice the repeated statements in TFS about how nothing is officially confirmed. I think we should hold our cries of celebration until we get some official word here.
I count that as eight different platforms (assuming we only count integer-valued version numbers). How many desktop OSes are in use, discounting those used by less than 0.1% of the market? Windows, OS X, Linux, iPhone OS, and uhm... yeah?
Operating Systems: Win 2000, XP, Vista, 7, Mac OS 10.4-6, Ubuntu 9.10, Fedora 12, OpenSUSE 11.2, iPhone original, iPhone 3G
I'm pretty sure all those OSes have at least 0.1% market share, that's 12 platforms.
The superior portability of web apps is not because there are less browsers but because they all adhere to a common standard, unlike operating systems. You can't run a Linux binary natively on Windows, and vice versa. There are libraries and middleware systems, but not everyone uses them, unlike browsers, which are essentially all mutually compatible middleware.
Manifold = a surface created by taking pieces of paper and warping them. For example, cylinder is a manifold since it can be formed by attaching the two opposite sides of the paper to each other. If you then attach the two circles at the ends of the cylinder, you get a torus (ie. donut).
Homeomorphic = there's a continuous function mapping points from one object to the other. This means that if two points are close to each other in the first object, they will be close together when the homeomorphism (the function) is used to map the points onto the second object. A square and the surface of a sphere, for example, are not homeomorphic since the square has edges and the sphere doesn't, so the mapping function has to jump somewhere, making it not continuous. Generally, two shapes are homeomorphic if you can deform one into the other (see animation here)
Homologous = I don't know how that word got in there. It's not in the Wikipedia article. Simply connected = Any line drawn on the manifold that starts and ends at the same point can be slowly shrunk down to one point without taking any part of it off the manifold. A torus is not simply connected, since you can draw a line going around the cylinder and there's no way to take it off.
As for implications, as far as I can see, it just tells us that lots of things can be deformed into spheres and gives us a simple test for determining if something can.
Are you suggesting basic rights are something that exists independently of social acceptance?
Yes. That's kind of the whole point of modern theory regarding these matters. Under your system, the Chinese government has the right to censor information and arrest and execute random people, the Iranian government has the right to brutally put down protests and every other evil regime would be justified because that's just how things work over there.
Do you really think laws define morality? Every day I hear people casually talking about the latest movie they pirated and joking about what trouble they would be in if the government found out how much they lied on their customs forms. And nobody reports on people who do this. If you went around talking about how you steal chocolate bars, you would be shunned from society pretty quickly. There is a massive disconnect between what is legal and what is right, and sometimes breaking the law is the only right thing to do.
This brings me to my whole point: these papers are descriptive, not prescriptive. They try, but often fail, to keep up even with what the socially acceptable view on morality is. Having sex with minors isn't wrong because the law says so, the law says so because it's wrong.
Wait, so a piece of paper written by a bunch of people in suits tells me what everyone's basic rights are? Next thing you'll be telling me that laws define morality.
Better than the current system of pushing people up the ranks regardless of their ability and then being shocked when grade 9 students can't tell you what 4 * 9 is.
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Sorry about the speed-of-light delay. Sometimes it sucks to be a Martian.
Word docs are not Web pages. In our situation, any word doc available on a web server cannot be displayed in a web browser. Instead, you have to download the doc and then open it in Word.
I'm not a big fan of word processors, and I generally keep everything in plaintext/HTML/PDF, but that item is simply incorrect, for one reason: Google Docs. You can use the service to open any .pdf/.doc/.ppt/.whatever file on the internet, and there are even browser extensions that make it into a one click process.
Technically you never steal a person's indentity, you use other peoples information to fraudulently pay for products and services
Can't emphasize this enough. All the arguments about obtaining information not being theft don't stop applying just because the victim changes from being the RIAA to being normal innocent people. It's not identity theft, it's pretending to be other people, a form of plain old normal fraud that has existed for millennia.
Or just use SSL for everything private.
people with the most powerful memes... lining the streets, chanting "El Pueblo unido jamas sera vencido!"
Nah, they'll be chanting "Yo puedo tiene cheezburger"*
*Amazingly, Google Translate understands it perfectly
You missed the big one: World of Warcraft. Many people don't realize this, but it's quite possible to make hundreds of gold just by sitting around and buying and selling stuff.
Buy? Market? Who said anything about a market?
I have no experience with prison but I think I'd rather be unemployed than in prison of any sort.
Some people actually like prison. It's an environment where you literally have to try to screw up and where all the choices are made for you, so you just have to do whatever you do and you'll be fine. These types of people, obviously, tend to go into underling professions in real life, and the two programmers here who simply did what they're told without thinking about legality fit the bill pretty well.
I mean, imagine if you worked on a popular OS and my boss told me to put a back-door in, saying the NSA required it of us. what would you do? :)
Put a back-door in the back-door. What else is there to do?
10. World peace.
I'm pretty sure you need a proprietary driver for that. No wonder no one's found it yet.
Nah, Tiger Woods is for the plebs. Over here we have civilized humor. For example:
In Soviet Russia, sex-crazed pest bugs you!
That begs the question: who cares?
Seriously, meanings change over time, and "begs for the question to be asked" is a perfectly valid interpretation of "begs the question".
SSO is a pretty backwards way to do Open Source Software.
And denying you the right to use cheap tools if you aren't worried about safety. You could argue that no one would willingly subject themselves to such a risk for a few tens of dollars, but why not put the cheap unsafe saws out there with some safety warnings and see if anyone actually wants them? If no one buys them, you don't need a law anyway. If some people buy them, then there's a demand for them and they should be allowed to be sold.
Wow, you got all of them except the most obvious
Privacy is a big one, making it much more difficult for someone to build up a full picture of your life. Also as a purely defensive device to get around, avoiding the fanatics trying to kill you because of something legal but controversial you said.
Mostly privacy, really.
Notice the repeated statements in TFS about how nothing is officially confirmed. I think we should hold our cries of celebration until we get some official word here.
I count that as eight different platforms (assuming we only count integer-valued version numbers). How many desktop OSes are in use, discounting those used by less than 0.1% of the market? Windows, OS X, Linux, iPhone OS, and uhm... yeah?
Operating Systems: Win 2000, XP, Vista, 7, Mac OS 10.4-6, Ubuntu 9.10, Fedora 12, OpenSUSE 11.2, iPhone original, iPhone 3G
I'm pretty sure all those OSes have at least 0.1% market share, that's 12 platforms.
The superior portability of web apps is not because there are less browsers but because they all adhere to a common standard, unlike operating systems. You can't run a Linux binary natively on Windows, and vice versa. There are libraries and middleware systems, but not everyone uses them, unlike browsers, which are essentially all mutually compatible middleware.
Manifold = a surface created by taking pieces of paper and warping them. For example, cylinder is a manifold since it can be formed by attaching the two opposite sides of the paper to each other. If you then attach the two circles at the ends of the cylinder, you get a torus (ie. donut).
Homeomorphic = there's a continuous function mapping points from one object to the other. This means that if two points are close to each other in the first object, they will be close together when the homeomorphism (the function) is used to map the points onto the second object. A square and the surface of a sphere, for example, are not homeomorphic since the square has edges and the sphere doesn't, so the mapping function has to jump somewhere, making it not continuous. Generally, two shapes are homeomorphic if you can deform one into the other (see animation here)
Homologous = I don't know how that word got in there. It's not in the Wikipedia article.
Simply connected = Any line drawn on the manifold that starts and ends at the same point can be slowly shrunk down to one point without taking any part of it off the manifold. A torus is not simply connected, since you can draw a line going around the cylinder and there's no way to take it off.
As for implications, as far as I can see, it just tells us that lots of things can be deformed into spheres and gives us a simple test for determining if something can.
At least he's not going to boldly split infinitives.
Change the language to French
It is time to bring back the guillotine.
There HAS to be a good joke to make here somewhere.
Are you suggesting basic rights are something that exists independently of social acceptance?
Yes. That's kind of the whole point of modern theory regarding these matters. Under your system, the Chinese government has the right to censor information and arrest and execute random people, the Iranian government has the right to brutally put down protests and every other evil regime would be justified because that's just how things work over there.
Do you really think laws define morality? Every day I hear people casually talking about the latest movie they pirated and joking about what trouble they would be in if the government found out how much they lied on their customs forms. And nobody reports on people who do this. If you went around talking about how you steal chocolate bars, you would be shunned from society pretty quickly. There is a massive disconnect between what is legal and what is right, and sometimes breaking the law is the only right thing to do.
This brings me to my whole point: these papers are descriptive, not prescriptive. They try, but often fail, to keep up even with what the socially acceptable view on morality is. Having sex with minors isn't wrong because the law says so, the law says so because it's wrong.
I believe the term you're looking for is "Common Law".
Wait, so a piece of paper written by a bunch of people in suits tells me what everyone's basic rights are? Next thing you'll be telling me that laws define morality.
Better than the current system of pushing people up the ranks regardless of their ability and then being shocked when grade 9 students can't tell you what 4 * 9 is.