From the same document: Constitution: unwritten; partly statutes, partly common law and practice
I always took this as meaning that they don't have a constitution, and so the legislative powers can pretty much pass whatever laws they like...
At least here in the Netherlands you've got to have a 2/3rds majority to change the consitution, and all other laws that contradict it are not valid in court (or something: you know IANAL)
We don't live anymore in caves and don't go hunting with our bare hands to get food. We don't need to be able to outrun a Grizzly or fight without medicine all virii and infections we come across.
If you believe that survival of the fittest still appies to humankind, don't go to the pharmacy or call the doctor next time you're sick!
If anybody tried to live in a cave right now, I would hardly call them fit for the environment they are in. - That's what's meant with the term, not survival of the strongest, or healthiest, or the stupidest...
Now humans are excellent at fitting in, in almost all situations, we even have the power to go the moon and survive there (for a few days at least)! Now many other species can do that?
The point is, that humans are excellent at adapting [themselves to] environments, and so yes, survival of the fittest still applies to humans: if they don't fit their environments one of them changes, and in this particular case, it's the humans that are changeing, which is, in my view a lot better than the the changing of the environment that has been going on the last 150 year or so...
This system is designed to be used on propriatory hardware just like DVDs, with region encoding and other bells and whistles. The public accepted DVD players, why would they not accept similar restrictions in a music player if it does not hurt them too much?
But every single person I know who own a DVD-player have had the region-coding removed. - I live in the Netherlands, where you have to wait 6 to 12 months for an American DVD to appear in our region... If they appear at all.;-(
So maybe people will accept the 'play-protection' , but they will circumvent it when necessary (that is, when they play want to play a song that can't play with a regular protected player. Simple as that.
> I also miss the simplicity of the old style atari joystick, wish I could find a joystick like that for my pc.
I recently got an old digital joystick interface (isa card - accepts 2 cbm/atari style sticks) but i've so far not found any drivers for using it with VICE or any other (c64-)emulator on linux or windows. Shame really 'cuz i really hate the big analogue-type sticks - why would you need more than one (or maybe two) fire-buttons on a shoot'em up game? So now I still have to use the keyboard to play my favorite game of alltime: International Karate
(IANAL) But patents can't be used to protect trade (or any other) secrets, because they have to be available to the public. - Otherwise how could anyone know that there even is such a patent?
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From the same document:
Constitution: unwritten; partly statutes, partly common law and practice
I always took this as meaning that they don't have a constitution, and so the legislative powers can pretty much pass whatever laws they like...
At least here in the Netherlands you've got to have a 2/3rds majority to change the consitution, and all other laws that contradict it are not valid in court (or something: you know IANAL)
If anybody tried to live in a cave right now, I would hardly call them fit for the environment they are in. - That's what's meant with the term, not survival of the strongest, or healthiest, or the stupidest...
Now humans are excellent at fitting in, in almost all situations, we even have the power to go the moon and survive there (for a few days at least)! Now many other species can do that?
The point is, that humans are excellent at adapting [themselves to] environments, and so yes, survival of the fittest still applies to humans: if they don't fit their environments one of them changes, and in this particular case, it's the humans that are changeing, which is, in my view a lot better than the the changing of the environment that has been going on the last 150 year or so...
But every single person I know who own a DVD-player have had the region-coding removed. - I live in the Netherlands, where you have to wait 6 to 12 months for an American DVD to appear in our region... If they appear at all. ;-(
So maybe people will accept the 'play-protection' , but they will circumvent it when necessary (that is, when they play want to play a song that can't play with a regular protected player. Simple as that.
I recently got an old digital joystick interface (isa card - accepts 2 cbm/atari style sticks) but i've so far not found any drivers for using it with VICE or any other (c64-)emulator on linux or windows. Shame really 'cuz i really hate the big analogue-type sticks - why would you need more than one (or maybe two) fire-buttons on a shoot'em up game? So now I still have to use the keyboard to play my favorite game of alltime: International Karate
How about being launched by a meteorite hitting their planet. The fragments can be send back into space if I remember correctly.
(IANAL) But patents can't be used to protect trade (or any other) secrets, because they have to be available to the public. - Otherwise how could anyone know that there even is such a patent?