Thanks to the many responses to my journals and other discussions, I have formed a different opinion of what I want the world to be like. I agree there will always be inequality, but every person on earth should have a fair oportunity to make a decent life for his or her self. In the Utilitarian view of things that means people should live happy lives, or at least not unhappy ones. Unless the rich are striped of their wealth and their children are sent to the same schools as the poor, and the rich don't get to have maids giving them more time to help their childrenn........the rich will always provide for their children better than the poor can. I DO NOT want to do this to the rich, or the upper 49.99999999~% of people. This is unrealistic, unfair, and human nature wouldn't let it work. What should happen though is the upper 49.9999999~% should help the lower 49.9999999~% have a fair chance at leading a happy life. This can be done by giving free food, clothing, schooling, books, condoms (to keep more poor from being born if the parents can't handle another child).
If there is another potential Einstein stuck on a farm in Mozambique whol will never learn to read or muliply 9x9 because of the current system, that is shameful. I am ashamed of this, but I hope to help the current system change.
Darwin NEVER coined the term 'survival of the fittest.' That was Spencer. A rich man in the upper classes who thought the poor were unfit to survive because they were poor and therefore it was okay for the rich to exploit them.
What's the source and context for your.sig? My snide first guess is the increase in tax revenue came from all the deficit spending. Money that was only borrowed, spent by the government and distributed to the rich. Some of it trickled down to the masses, and eventually 500B more returned to the indebted government.
You're kidding right? If the player doesn't have to be returned, than the reviewer can just break open the player carefully and get to the CD. The point of gluing them is to keep the tracks from going up on the net before the album hits the retail shelves. I'm betting the glue doesn't have a strength of infinity+1 and the players do have to be returned unmolested if the reviewer wants to preview any future albums from that company.
There is little data tracking brain injuries and rides, which makes it difficult to know if injuries may have been caused by something other than the rides or if a person may have unknowingly had a pre-existing medical condition, some experts say.
Other than 'previously', what other words need the prefix 'pre'? An existing medical condition says the exact same thing as pre-existing. Can anyone think back to a time when 'pre' wasn't abused all over the place? Maybe it started with pre-heating ovens? Have previews always been called that? Have trailers ever been at the end of movie, else why are they called that?
please. just because that part of the law is flawed doesn't mean the other parts of it are. do you really think this AC is suing people because of that clause in the law? Sure the AC might be using the clause in court, but most likely the reason to sue is the spam was another "add two inches to your dick" spam but the subject line said "here is the file we talked about earlier," and the AC was tired of those.
I sure am glad you posted at +1 since your rant is seriously lacking English skills or evidence to disprove the concept. An explanation of how the fuck you can tangibly add all the small unhappiness, and consider it bigger than murder or rape can be found here.
Well considering that one in three women and one in ten (or was it 15) men will be sexually victimized in some serious way over the course of their lifetimes, there ought to be plenty of people to poll and get their opinion from.
In case you're in denial of the concept of Utilitarianism: Suppose every single day EVERY LAST PERSON ON THIS EARTH was hit in the left shoulder with a 10Kg ball of iron traveling at 8Km/ph. AT SOME POINT the world-wide suffering would surpass the immense pain your friend has undergone.
You don't belive spamming can possibly be on the same scale as rape, I think its possible when 1,000,000,000 people (give or take 500,000,000) get spam every single day of the year. That's spam as a whole. If the spammers are individually punished for their portion of the total, than I doubt they deserve death like quite a few others have said.
Denying Utilitarianism doesn't make it not exist. Some people belive in it the way some belive there is a god. Regardless of if this is a troll, the viewpoint is valid to me. I haven't read any convincing arguments from the crime-based-on-severity proponents that don't come back to the severity being based on personal belief and opinion which varies around the world.
Amen to your last sentence. The 3000 people are nothing compared to families and friends suffering because someone they knew died in the last year from a car accident, drugs, heart attacks, smoking... Instead of the War on Terror, it ought to be the Campaign for Kindness. Send food and books to middle east countries. Open schools that aren't devoted to religion. Drill wells so people can spend time improving their lives instead of walking to get water. Send drip-irrigation systems to grow healthier crops. Send condoms so families which can't afford another child might not have one.
I'm assuming you're also paying for development and scanning if you're not going digital, or you'll have a laptop at the wedding for the pro to upload the photos to? What about paying for the cost of his day? If by tradesman, you lump plumbers or electricians in there, well they can do their job all day and make a number of appointments. Wedding are usually around the same time of day, and a photographer can realistically only attend one each day. Even if the wedding only takes four hours, you should pay for eight or ten.
I posted and am posting at +2 now because you don't appear to read below +2, for which I flamed you in another post earlier in this topic discussion, which you haven't replied to. I wanted to make sure you and anyone seeing your comment would see mine. Actually, for you to see bushboy's comment you have to browse at +1, but evidently you don't browse at +0 or you would've seen the comment that replied to my post before you did.
As bushboy mentioned, the Start menu says Windows 98 on the side when large icons are enabled. This is one of the default settings for the Taskbar. Someone who knew enough about Windows 98 had to change the settings, someone who surely knows the name of the operating system. Granted it could have been the caller's son who changed it.
Another final reason you should have posted at +1 is because bushboy posted at +1 and your comment was hardly insightful enough to warrant +2.
Finally, I'll bet most of the people who you actually know hit the power button and go do something else while the computer is booting, are computer literate enough to know the name of their OS. How many of these people don't know the name of their OS?
Just because you CAN post at +2, doesn't mean you should. I can tell you the brand of my microwave, its Sharp. Can you tell me the brand of your TV? That's a much more fair comparison. Few people sit in front of their microwave for an hour or two each day, but they do that with their computer and TV.
If you give bob a gun to use at the shooting range and he kills someone, he needs to be arrested, not you. What would work compariably in the digital music world would is a record of ownership and trasferability built into each file. If I own the file and it can be transfered to five different devices, but only one "hop", bob won't be able to share it on Kazaa. If I switch the ownership to bob, he can share it over Kazaa to five other people, but no more. Of course if Bob records the file from the analog out with a deck and gets it back in his computer, only a watermark containing ownership/transferability would still stop him.
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I'm glad you don't expect the TV manufacturer to replace the TV just because the child knocked it over. I'm assuming it broke. For the sake of my argument, I'll assume it broke. What about a Pokemon game for the Nintendo Game Cube? This product is inherently fragile, but made for children. Must Nintendo replace it if the child uses it as a frisbee? The only valid point you make is that if we truly have only a licence to the music, we should get replacements. If what we buy is the media that happens to contain copyrighted data, then we must obey copyright law while knowing that when the disk is damaged, too bad we just own the disk.
What's going to come? Don't get your hopes up. DRM will give you nothing but pay per play, regardless of the promises made now.
A company that does not satisfy it's customers is soon bankrupt.
Unless pay per play doesn't satisfy the customers and another company is created offering all-you-can-eat for a flat monthly fee, or perhaps let me purchase songs to keep and listen as many times as I want. If the oligopoly of music companies tries to shut down the upstart company with anti-competitive practices, the government can take them to court.
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Did you read THE VERY FIRST REPLY to my comment? Its by an AC at score 0, but you'll see right here I already addressed your first two points when I replied to that post. As for point three, I agree a lot of people here on Slashdot could easily get their hands ripped off when poking around inside a car, or get chemical burns messing around with chemicals, or (here's a good one) ruin food, equipment, and sometimes damage themselves trying to cook something. The key work here is COULD. A lot of people DO NOT poke around inside their cars, or handle dangerous chemicals WHEN THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING! If I don't know what I'm doing, I ask someone before fcuking things up. Sometimes I think I know what I'm doing and mess up, then people get to laugh at me.
I'm still in college, and for a job I sell shoes, which are stored in the back. If a customer is an idiot, I will make fun of him. I will still give him the same quality of service I give to non-idiots. Workers dealing with tech support don't know what ID-Ten-T and PEB-ChAK mean, so what's the harm in it? So long as tech support offers the same quality of service, they can make all the jokes they want.
Why didn't you read the first reply to my comment before posting? I browse at +2 or +3, but before posting I read the other comments in a thread to make sure I'm NOT BEING REDUNDANT and sounding stupid. You have a high User ID so I can forgive you for being a noobie and not knowing better, unless this is your second account your're working on. When you don't bother to read what others have written, sometimes hours, sometimes minutes before, you become the perfect fish for trolls. People like you are why anti-Linux trolls still get 10 responses all saying the same damn thing because none of the 10 would read what the others wrote. I hope you don't think that if its at +1 or 0 a comment isn't worth reading? That simply isn't true. There's just too much junk down there and our time is precious. Nevertheless, check to see if someone has raised the point you plan to make before posting, especially when a new topic just hit the front page and there's already 10 comments. Your comment might be so obvious two others said it already, and you'll be REDUNDANT.
I do plenty of stupid things, thankfully there aren't people watching most of the time. When they are watching I can take a good ribbing for it. I try not to do stupid things by RTFM or asking for help. I think Grip read to much into Lord Slepnir's original comment. I think I might have read too much into Grip's comment as well. Lord Slepnir makes jokes at the expense of fools. Grip suggests Lord Slepnir has a bad, elitest attitude, which might be true. I possibly misread Grip's comment as suggesting its mean to laugh at the screw-ups of others.
I'm saying if people do stupid things, laugh at them, obvious reasons or otherwise. Example: someone makes an unintentional double entendre. Them: Don't laugh, you know what I mean. Me: *Laughing anyway* Sure I do, but that doesn't make it less funny.
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Do average adult people stick peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in the slot of their VCRs? No. Denis Leary's kids do, though. Why shouldn't those who know better make fun of total idiots? I suppose you think the Darwin Awards are cruel and mean too? People who don't know what they're doing should either get help, or RTFM. People who think they know what they're doing and are dead wrong have only themselves to blame unless there's a good story to explain their actions.
800x600 WHAT?!? Per square inch? Shouldn't that be more like 700x700 then? Equal on both sides? On my 19" monitor I can see aliasing in my games from two feet away at 1600x1200. Its so tiny I don't care, though its perceptible. Anti-aliasing does help quite a bit, though.
You just made a friend. Of course I'm going to need to watch your comments and see if I agree with them, but I appreciate what's written above. I wonder why I didn't get a reply? I'm not ordinarily a grammar nazi, but "iMax" isn't funny, its retarded.
You probably also celebrate every time the editors post a duplicate story, and leave spelling errors all over the place. After all, this is just a forum, and there's no reason to try and raise the journalism above the regular BBS out there.
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Thanks to the many responses to my journals and other discussions, I have formed a different opinion of what I want the world to be like. I agree there will always be inequality, but every person on earth should have a fair oportunity to make a decent life for his or her self. In the Utilitarian view of things that means people should live happy lives, or at least not unhappy ones. Unless the rich are striped of their wealth and their children are sent to the same schools as the poor, and the rich don't get to have maids giving them more time to help their childrenn........the rich will always provide for their children better than the poor can. I DO NOT want to do this to the rich, or the upper 49.99999999~% of people. This is unrealistic, unfair, and human nature wouldn't let it work. What should happen though is the upper 49.9999999~% should help the lower 49.9999999~% have a fair chance at leading a happy life. This can be done by giving free food, clothing, schooling, books, condoms (to keep more poor from being born if the parents can't handle another child).
If there is another potential Einstein stuck on a farm in Mozambique whol will never learn to read or muliply 9x9 because of the current system, that is shameful. I am ashamed of this, but I hope to help the current system change.
Darwin NEVER coined the term 'survival of the fittest.' That was Spencer. A rich man in the upper classes who thought the poor were unfit to survive because they were poor and therefore it was okay for the rich to exploit them.
What's the source and context for your .sig? My snide first guess is the increase in tax revenue came from all the deficit spending. Money that was only borrowed, spent by the government and distributed to the rich. Some of it trickled down to the masses, and eventually 500B more returned to the indebted government.
Are you just seconding what the opening paragraph says? Or did you forget to read it?!
I doubt I'm the first, and I don't expect to be the last, but you should shorten your .sig. 'Most people are idiots', works just fine.
You're kidding right? If the player doesn't have to be returned, than the reviewer can just break open the player carefully and get to the CD. The point of gluing them is to keep the tracks from going up on the net before the album hits the retail shelves. I'm betting the glue doesn't have a strength of infinity+1 and the players do have to be returned unmolested if the reviewer wants to preview any future albums from that company.
There is little data tracking brain injuries and rides, which makes it difficult to know if injuries may have been caused by something other than the rides or if a person may have unknowingly had a pre-existing medical condition, some experts say.
Other than 'previously', what other words need the prefix 'pre'? An existing medical condition says the exact same thing as pre-existing. Can anyone think back to a time when 'pre' wasn't abused all over the place? Maybe it started with pre-heating ovens? Have previews always been called that? Have trailers ever been at the end of movie, else why are they called that?
but then only criminals will have guns. How will USians defend themselves? :-}
please. just because that part of the law is flawed doesn't mean the other parts of it are. do you really think this AC is suing people because of that clause in the law? Sure the AC might be using the clause in court, but most likely the reason to sue is the spam was another "add two inches to your dick" spam but the subject line said "here is the file we talked about earlier," and the AC was tired of those.
I sure am glad you posted at +1 since your rant is seriously lacking English skills or evidence to disprove the concept. An explanation of how the fuck you can tangibly add all the small unhappiness, and consider it bigger than murder or rape can be found here.
Well considering that one in three women and one in ten (or was it 15) men will be sexually victimized in some serious way over the course of their lifetimes, there ought to be plenty of people to poll and get their opinion from.
In case you're in denial of the concept of Utilitarianism: Suppose every single day EVERY LAST PERSON ON THIS EARTH was hit in the left shoulder with a 10Kg ball of iron traveling at 8Km/ph. AT SOME POINT the world-wide suffering would surpass the immense pain your friend has undergone.
You don't belive spamming can possibly be on the same scale as rape, I think its possible when 1,000,000,000 people (give or take 500,000,000) get spam every single day of the year. That's spam as a whole. If the spammers are individually punished for their portion of the total, than I doubt they deserve death like quite a few others have said.
Denying Utilitarianism doesn't make it not exist. Some people belive in it the way some belive there is a god. Regardless of if this is a troll, the viewpoint is valid to me. I haven't read any convincing arguments from the crime-based-on-severity proponents that don't come back to the severity being based on personal belief and opinion which varies around the world.
Amen to your last sentence. The 3000 people are nothing compared to families and friends suffering because someone they knew died in the last year from a car accident, drugs, heart attacks, smoking... Instead of the War on Terror, it ought to be the Campaign for Kindness. Send food and books to middle east countries. Open schools that aren't devoted to religion. Drill wells so people can spend time improving their lives instead of walking to get water. Send drip-irrigation systems to grow healthier crops. Send condoms so families which can't afford another child might not have one.
I'm assuming you're also paying for development and scanning if you're not going digital, or you'll have a laptop at the wedding for the pro to upload the photos to? What about paying for the cost of his day? If by tradesman, you lump plumbers or electricians in there, well they can do their job all day and make a number of appointments. Wedding are usually around the same time of day, and a photographer can realistically only attend one each day. Even if the wedding only takes four hours, you should pay for eight or ten.
I posted and am posting at +2 now because you don't appear to read below +2, for which I flamed you in another post earlier in this topic discussion, which you haven't replied to. I wanted to make sure you and anyone seeing your comment would see mine. Actually, for you to see bushboy's comment you have to browse at +1, but evidently you don't browse at +0 or you would've seen the comment that replied to my post before you did.
As bushboy mentioned, the Start menu says Windows 98 on the side when large icons are enabled. This is one of the default settings for the Taskbar. Someone who knew enough about Windows 98 had to change the settings, someone who surely knows the name of the operating system. Granted it could have been the caller's son who changed it.
Another final reason you should have posted at +1 is because bushboy posted at +1 and your comment was hardly insightful enough to warrant +2.
Finally, I'll bet most of the people who you actually know hit the power button and go do something else while the computer is booting, are computer literate enough to know the name of their OS. How many of these people don't know the name of their OS?
Just because you CAN post at +2, doesn't mean you should. I can tell you the brand of my microwave, its Sharp. Can you tell me the brand of your TV? That's a much more fair comparison. Few people sit in front of their microwave for an hour or two each day, but they do that with their computer and TV.
If you give bob a gun to use at the shooting range and he kills someone, he needs to be arrested, not you. What would work compariably in the digital music world would is a record of ownership and trasferability built into each file. If I own the file and it can be transfered to five different devices, but only one "hop", bob won't be able to share it on Kazaa. If I switch the ownership to bob, he can share it over Kazaa to five other people, but no more. Of course if Bob records the file from the analog out with a deck and gets it back in his computer, only a watermark containing ownership/transferability would still stop him.
I'm glad you don't expect the TV manufacturer to replace the TV just because the child knocked it over. I'm assuming it broke. For the sake of my argument, I'll assume it broke. What about a Pokemon game for the Nintendo Game Cube? This product is inherently fragile, but made for children. Must Nintendo replace it if the child uses it as a frisbee? The only valid point you make is that if we truly have only a licence to the music, we should get replacements. If what we buy is the media that happens to contain copyrighted data, then we must obey copyright law while knowing that when the disk is damaged, too bad we just own the disk.
What's going to come? Don't get your hopes up. DRM will give you nothing but pay per play, regardless of the promises made now.
A company that does not satisfy it's customers is soon bankrupt.
Unless pay per play doesn't satisfy the customers and another company is created offering all-you-can-eat for a flat monthly fee, or perhaps let me purchase songs to keep and listen as many times as I want. If the oligopoly of music companies tries to shut down the upstart company with anti-competitive practices, the government can take them to court.
Did you read THE VERY FIRST REPLY to my comment? Its by an AC at score 0, but you'll see right here I already addressed your first two points when I replied to that post. As for point three, I agree a lot of people here on Slashdot could easily get their hands ripped off when poking around inside a car, or get chemical burns messing around with chemicals, or (here's a good one) ruin food, equipment, and sometimes damage themselves trying to cook something. The key work here is COULD. A lot of people DO NOT poke around inside their cars, or handle dangerous chemicals WHEN THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING! If I don't know what I'm doing, I ask someone before fcuking things up. Sometimes I think I know what I'm doing and mess up, then people get to laugh at me.
I'm still in college, and for a job I sell shoes, which are stored in the back. If a customer is an idiot, I will make fun of him. I will still give him the same quality of service I give to non-idiots. Workers dealing with tech support don't know what ID-Ten-T and PEB-ChAK mean, so what's the harm in it? So long as tech support offers the same quality of service, they can make all the jokes they want.
Why didn't you read the first reply to my comment before posting? I browse at +2 or +3, but before posting I read the other comments in a thread to make sure I'm NOT BEING REDUNDANT and sounding stupid. You have a high User ID so I can forgive you for being a noobie and not knowing better, unless this is your second account your're working on. When you don't bother to read what others have written, sometimes hours, sometimes minutes before, you become the perfect fish for trolls. People like you are why anti-Linux trolls still get 10 responses all saying the same damn thing because none of the 10 would read what the others wrote. I hope you don't think that if its at +1 or 0 a comment isn't worth reading? That simply isn't true. There's just too much junk down there and our time is precious. Nevertheless, check to see if someone has raised the point you plan to make before posting, especially when a new topic just hit the front page and there's already 10 comments. Your comment might be so obvious two others said it already, and you'll be REDUNDANT.
I do plenty of stupid things, thankfully there aren't people watching most of the time. When they are watching I can take a good ribbing for it. I try not to do stupid things by RTFM or asking for help. I think Grip read to much into Lord Slepnir's original comment. I think I might have read too much into Grip's comment as well. Lord Slepnir makes jokes at the expense of fools. Grip suggests Lord Slepnir has a bad, elitest attitude, which might be true. I possibly misread Grip's comment as suggesting its mean to laugh at the screw-ups of others.
I'm saying if people do stupid things, laugh at them, obvious reasons or otherwise. Example: someone makes an unintentional double entendre.
Them: Don't laugh, you know what I mean.
Me: *Laughing anyway* Sure I do, but that doesn't make it less funny.
Do average adult people stick peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in the slot of their VCRs? No. Denis Leary's kids do, though. Why shouldn't those who know better make fun of total idiots? I suppose you think the Darwin Awards are cruel and mean too? People who don't know what they're doing should either get help, or RTFM. People who think they know what they're doing and are dead wrong have only themselves to blame unless there's a good story to explain their actions.
800x600 WHAT?!? Per square inch? Shouldn't that be more like 700x700 then? Equal on both sides? On my 19" monitor I can see aliasing in my games from two feet away at 1600x1200. Its so tiny I don't care, though its perceptible. Anti-aliasing does help quite a bit, though.
You just made a friend. Of course I'm going to need to watch your comments and see if I agree with them, but I appreciate what's written above. I wonder why I didn't get a reply? I'm not ordinarily a grammar nazi, but "iMax" isn't funny, its retarded.
You probably also celebrate every time the editors post a duplicate story, and leave spelling errors all over the place. After all, this is just a forum, and there's no reason to try and raise the journalism above the regular BBS out there.