... and the Montana rancher will still herd his cattle, and the wine-maker in Italy will still stomp his grapes, and the crossing-guard will still be out there at 7 AM... Life will go on, boys and girls, life will go on, like it has before the 'net...
And then Kevin Costner will show up and reestablish the postal service. It's cool, don't worry.
...when the product is being used by so many people to do much illegality, I don't see how any logical person can permit its existence.
Sounds like Jack Valenti talking about VCRs, circa 1980.
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I find my Sharp Zaurus to be great for reading e-books. Nice screen, and plenty of storage thanks to inexpensive Compact Flash cards. (I keep a swap file and frequently-used data on a SD card, and frequently-changed data such as MP3s and e-books on CF cards.
Because the DMCA is about circumventing copyright protection technology, which usually means encryption.
No, it's not. Copyright protection technology and circumvention is only one part of the DMCA -- the one that gets the most coverage on Slashdot, naturally. There are other provisions of the DMCA, such as those dealing with the liability of online service providers for the dissemination of infringing material.
Why wait until s/he is a newborn? In the third trimester, start running man pages through Festival, and sending the voice output though one of those pre-natal sounds systems so the little tyke can have a head start on mastering the OS.
"Being a wizard is something innate, something you are born to, not something you can achieve. As a result, Harry lives an effortless life. "
More of the same. I don't know what books this person has been reading...
Indeed -- what was that person reading?
Central to Book 2 are the facts that some people are born wizards, some people are born to wizarding families but don't have wizard powers, and some people are born to non-magical families but can achieve magical abilities, largely through study and hard work. Examples of the latter include Hermione and Harry's own mother.
The fact that the writer of that Slate piece got this (among other things) so wrong tells me that he's lazy, dim, or more interested in getting attention and scoring points than crafting a reasoned analysis.
I'm interested. How much RAM do you have ? I must install something similar (web, emails) on a Cyrix P166+ with 32Mb...:-{
My P150 has only 32 MB of RAM. I foget how much swap space I have (I'm not on that machine at the moment), but it's not huge. (My Debian instsall is on an 8 gig hard drive.)
Maybe I'm lucky, or have low expectations, but I run Debian with GNOME on a Pentium 150. Works fine for me. I can surf the Web, read email or do word processing while listening to MP3s on XMMS. Granted, XMMS didn't work very well until I recompiled my kernel.
I had always felt (and this is not an original idea) that the telegraph was the invention of the information age.
I agree entirely. The telegraph instituted central fact of the "information age": that information can be separate from physicality. With the telegraph, suddenly informaiton could travel faster than a person (or other physical object) possibly could.
As well they should - I think we can all agree that murder is morally wrong (my right to swing my fist ends at the tip of your nose).
Yes, we agree that murder is morally wrong. But morality is not why it should be illegal. Murder is legitimately illegal not because killing is inherently or morally wrong, but because each person has the right not to be killed -- a right which can be waived (by, for example, threatening the life of another).
Similarly, your right to swing your arm ends at my nose, but I believe that's because I have a right not to have my nose hit -- not because there's something inherently wrong about swinging an arm. If my nose isn't in the way, or if I agree to let you hit my nose, then you should be allowed to swing as far as you like.
This gets into the distinction between morals and ethics. As I understand the terms, ethics deals with how our actions affect other people -- that is, it refers to generally agreed-upon rules about how we treat and deal with one another. Morality, on the other hand, deals with how a persons actions affect the actor himself, often (but not always) with regard to spiritual or religious consequences. That's why actions that do not have any direct effect on another, non-consenting person (such as masturbation or consensual sex outside of marriage) might be considered by some to be immoral, but I don't think they can be unethical.
Thinking about these terms in this way, I think ethics are a perfectly reasonable basis for law, but morals, while important, are not a legitimate basis for law.
To bring this back to the Constitution and Libertarian parties: I don't see how the Consitution Party can be considered very similar at all to the Libertarian Party, when (for example) the Constitution Party's position on drugs discusses a state's right to implement the death penalty to enforce drug restrictions, but says nothing about whether it is a legitimate function of government to regulate what a person does with his own brain chemistry. Or when the Constitution Party declares that marriages must be heterosexual because God wants it that way.
The Libertarian and Constitution parties do agree on the need for a more limited Federal government, but that seems to be where the similarity ends. It's important to recognize that the Libertarian belief in limited goverenment (of all types, not just national) arises from a more fundamental ethical principle: that it is wrong to initiate force against a non-consenting other.
And if you can say with a straight face that school children have enough free time and, to be blunt, mental maturity to be able to learn to use Linux while they're in 7th grade, I'll buy you a 1GB stick of DDR RAM.
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Yes, indeed. Gopher. And Archie! It was such fun, finding useful stuff on obscure FTP servers using Archie...
And then Kevin Costner will show up and reestablish the postal service. It's cool, don't worry.
They are here to protect you. Go stand by the stairs so that you may be protected.
Pak. Chooie. Unf.
Sounds like Jack Valenti talking about VCRs, circa 1980.
I find my Sharp Zaurus to be great for reading e-books. Nice screen, and plenty of storage thanks to inexpensive Compact Flash cards. (I keep a swap file and frequently-used data on a SD card, and frequently-changed data such as MP3s and e-books on CF cards.
Lord, yes. I can't stand those creepy little dogs. Dwarves are cool, though.
The Shover Robot will protect me from the Terrible Secret of Space.
No, it's not. Copyright protection technology and circumvention is only one part of the DMCA -- the one that gets the most coverage on Slashdot, naturally. There are other provisions of the DMCA, such as those dealing with the liability of online service providers for the dissemination of infringing material.
Thank you, thank you! Now I'm prepared for the next time I need a player character name in an RPG.
Why wait until s/he is a newborn? In the third trimester, start running man pages through Festival, and sending the voice output though one of those pre-natal sounds systems so the little tyke can have a head start on mastering the OS.
More of the same. I don't know what books this person has been reading...
Indeed -- what was that person reading?
Central to Book 2 are the facts that some people are born wizards, some people are born to wizarding families but don't have wizard powers, and some people are born to non-magical families but can achieve magical abilities, largely through study and hard work. Examples of the latter include Hermione and Harry's own mother.
The fact that the writer of that Slate piece got this (among other things) so wrong tells me that he's lazy, dim, or more interested in getting attention and scoring points than crafting a reasoned analysis.
Try "Kare Kano" ("His and Her Circumstances.")
Gnumeric and AbiWord, so that might be a good alternate choice.
AbiWord and GNUCash both work OK on the P150+Debian box I described above.
I'm interested. How much RAM do you have ? I must install something similar (web, emails) on a Cyrix P166+ with 32Mb... :-{
My P150 has only 32 MB of RAM. I foget how much swap space I have (I'm not on that machine at the moment), but it's not huge. (My Debian instsall is on an 8 gig hard drive.)
Maybe I'm lucky, or have low expectations, but I run Debian with GNOME on a Pentium 150. Works fine for me. I can surf the Web, read email or do word processing while listening to MP3s on XMMS. Granted, XMMS didn't work very well until I recompiled my kernel.
Google runs on a Vic-20? I thought they'd need at least a Commodore 128...
Yeah, but we get great outbound transmission times since it's all downhill from up here!
I had always felt (and this is not an original idea) that the telegraph was the invention of the information age.
I agree entirely. The telegraph instituted central fact of the "information age": that information can be separate from physicality. With the telegraph, suddenly informaiton could travel faster than a person (or other physical object) possibly could.
THE VATICAN SECRET ARCHIVES
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(opened to the public by Pope Leo XIII)
RULES FOR SCHOLARS
First rule of Vatican Club is, you don't talk about Vatican Club!
John Edwards: the man who put the "iffy" in SciFi.
As well they should - I think we can all agree that murder is morally wrong (my right to swing my fist ends at the tip of your nose).
Yes, we agree that murder is morally wrong. But morality is not why it should be illegal. Murder is legitimately illegal not because killing is inherently or morally wrong, but because each person has the right not to be killed -- a right which can be waived (by, for example, threatening the life of another).
Similarly, your right to swing your arm ends at my nose, but I believe that's because I have a right not to have my nose hit -- not because there's something inherently wrong about swinging an arm. If my nose isn't in the way, or if I agree to let you hit my nose, then you should be allowed to swing as far as you like.
This gets into the distinction between morals and ethics. As I understand the terms, ethics deals with how our actions affect other people -- that is, it refers to generally agreed-upon rules about how we treat and deal with one another. Morality, on the other hand, deals with how a persons actions affect the actor himself, often (but not always) with regard to spiritual or religious consequences. That's why actions that do not have any direct effect on another, non-consenting person (such as masturbation or consensual sex outside of marriage) might be considered by some to be immoral, but I don't think they can be unethical.
Thinking about these terms in this way, I think ethics are a perfectly reasonable basis for law, but morals, while important, are not a legitimate basis for law.
To bring this back to the Constitution and Libertarian parties: I don't see how the Consitution Party can be considered very similar at all to the Libertarian Party, when (for example) the Constitution Party's position on drugs discusses a state's right to implement the death penalty to enforce drug restrictions, but says nothing about whether it is a legitimate function of government to regulate what a person does with his own brain chemistry. Or when the Constitution Party declares that marriages must be heterosexual because God wants it that way.
The Libertarian and Constitution parties do agree on the need for a more limited Federal government, but that seems to be where the similarity ends. It's important to recognize that the Libertarian belief in limited goverenment (of all types, not just national) arises from a more fundamental ethical principle: that it is wrong to initiate force against a non-consenting other.
Oh no, not ciliize us? Whatever shall we do!
What the matter, you don't like cilia?
And if you can say with a straight face that school children have enough free time and, to be blunt, mental maturity to be able to learn to use Linux while they're in 7th grade, I'll buy you a 1GB stick of DDR RAM.
My kid's 10. Fifth grade. Uses Debian every day.
"Libertarianism with morals" ... that the Constitution Party seeks to immpose on others through force of law.
How is this like Libertarianism?
Sounds like Russia has more idea of commercial exploitation of space travel than the supposedly more capitalist US :)
The U.S. "supposedly more capitalist" than Russia? Not according to any news I've read since 1992...