It's all about the threat model. If you're defending against script kiddies who want to being down someone, anyone, then hiding your house in someone else's backyard is a good idea. Against determined attackers, however, it's pretty useless.
Sorry, but the Germans aren't a monolithic entity, they are millions of people, and the majority of them don't have the right to deny a proper response to Nazism to everyone else.
Freedom of expression is a good idea irrespective of the fact that the US and its WW2 allies are its main proponents. Saying that it isn't is an ad hominem.
First, sneak your interface into the browser, then you could change the Windows desktop environment, then change the kernel and before you know it we're running 100% open source software.
If you RTFA (don't worry, I'm not a full heretic, I run Linux), you'll realize that it's not a hair trigger - it checks for nuclear explosions, checks if there are any military generals alive to make the decision, and if there are none, it transfers control to a station located deep underground in a nuclear bunker.
You're not directly stealing from someone (psychologically/morally easier than stealing, which is the other criminal way to get money) and the money is right under your nose (practically easier than stealing).
If you ever find yourself in a chemical, biological nuclear zone with a guy shooting you in the head every five seconds or so, take out your laptop and read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_immortality
In some countries, there have been cases where copyright extension laws moved things which had already passed into the public domain back into copyright.
It won't cause inflation, it will increase the prices of products by a few percent but inflation will still be at normal levels after that. Products might be more expensive but all the extra money will be going into the government so taxes will be cheaper - if you lead a non-polluting lifestyle, you will save money with this scheme. And that's the whole point, to encourage a non-polluting lifestyle.
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So I'm supposed to carry a huge 40cm long keyboard around with me AND a computer? Might as well go back to piles of books.
It's all about the threat model. If you're defending against script kiddies who want to being down someone, anyone, then hiding your house in someone else's backyard is a good idea. Against determined attackers, however, it's pretty useless.
Standard practice is that nobody knows the password - you just store the hash.
Brian: Yeah, in this pamphlet, I don't see anything between 1939 and 1945.
German tour guide: They were all on vacation!
Sorry, but the Germans aren't a monolithic entity, they are millions of people, and the majority of them don't have the right to deny a proper response to Nazism to everyone else.
Just because the US doesn't have freedom doesn't make it more okay to deny people freedom in Germany.
Freedom of expression is a good idea irrespective of the fact that the US and its WW2 allies are its main proponents. Saying that it isn't is an ad hominem.
That was... the whole point of my comment.
Cogongrass is the opposite of... prongrass?
First, sneak your interface into the browser, then you could change the Windows desktop environment, then change the kernel and before you know it we're running 100% open source software.
You're insightful. Can I have you come and perform for my presidential speech?
Besides, what is the past tense of "bing"? Is it "bang", as in "I don't know much about your mother so I bang her"?
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If you RTFA (don't worry, I'm not a full heretic, I run Linux), you'll realize that it's not a hair trigger - it checks for nuclear explosions, checks if there are any military generals alive to make the decision, and if there are none, it transfers control to a station located deep underground in a nuclear bunker.
You're not directly stealing from someone (psychologically/morally easier than stealing, which is the other criminal way to get money) and the money is right under your nose (practically easier than stealing).
That would also be fraud - the public participated under the false knowledge that they had a chance of winning.
If you ever find yourself in a chemical, biological nuclear zone with a guy shooting you in the head every five seconds or so, take out your laptop and read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_immortality
Only the sources to Linux/GNU, which are already public, not the sources to your proprietary stuff which you're not even including.
Linux Thorvalds, ancient Viking god of computers?
In some countries, there have been cases where copyright extension laws moved things which had already passed into the public domain back into copyright.
The word rape can also mean steal. And yes, Disney is stealing the public domain.
Under that logic, Microsoft Windows would be uncopyrightable.
I hereby copyright copyrighting. Take that, RIAA!
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It won't cause inflation, it will increase the prices of products by a few percent but inflation will still be at normal levels after that. Products might be more expensive but all the extra money will be going into the government so taxes will be cheaper - if you lead a non-polluting lifestyle, you will save money with this scheme. And that's the whole point, to encourage a non-polluting lifestyle.