One more issue - does anyone really need "no images at all" mode in Opera?
When I'm on site and using a really crappy 14" monitor and just want to read the news on news.bbc.co.uk over lunch I switch the images off totally; I've never had any trouble with that mode though.
She taught us a great deal of things about type design and usage. One of the more enlightening things we learned was that typefaces are not copyrightable.
Alas for her, the US Copyright Office does not agree. See the last paragraph on this page. The fact that this flies in the face of the law as it is written is, as with DeCSS, of no importance if you end up in court. Why does America even bother having written laws when the Patent Office, Copyright Office, and every half-arsed hick judge can just make up their own laws?
In the UK typefaces are copyrighted under section 54 of the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988 (section 54 is just about the most opaque section in the entire act).
For some better insight as to what was going on at the time, you should read at the very least this page [ecce.co.uk].
As far as I can see from that page what is going on is that lots of people (not me) use some IRC server somewhere that is run by some guy; the guy is providing a service that lots of people use and consequently the time it takes is too much. The guy has the choice of packing the service in - and everyone that uses it (and seem to have been happy with it) will have to go else where - or doing it full time for pay.
Apparently this makes him some sort of nut-case that should be shunned by polite society.
The linked page's response is to basically say that there are lots of other people out there that wouldn't mind being freeloaded off so this guy should buck his ideas up and get back in line and say sorry.
I'm sure almost every industry has its gray areas.
There's nothing grey about the diamond industry, it's black from top to bottom. Plus, diamonds are only expensive because they are kept that way; they are not nearly as rare as DeBeer's would have you think. In the 70's the board of DeBeers actually considered hireing ships to take diamonds out into the Atlantic to dump them. Ship loads. That's not a rare commodity.
You are either joking or a worthless piece of shit; I can't decide from your post but I'm wavering towards the former on the grounds that no one could be that much of a whore!
If the woman wants a diamond, get the woman a diamond.
And if she wants a lampshade made from human skin? There's not much ethical difference.
Tell her how these things are obtained and what DeBeers does to maintain the price and if she still wants one tell her to take a hike; you'll be better off.
Fantastic! The movie was basically a shoddy advert for the DVD and now it turns out the DVD is a shoddy advert for the other DVD.
I know - why don't we all just put all our money in an envelope and send it to them? Then maybe they'd be able to hire a director for the next movie instead of a useless hack like Jackson.
Yeah, yeah, mod me flamebait and/or troll but I'm not the one taking your money off you for half-finished projects.
He seems to be under the mistaken assumption that preventing conversations maintains the secrecy of the Guy Behind the Curtain, when in fact all it does is point out that he has no clothes on.
You can hide behind legal definitions if you like but if you deprive me of payment for my work you are stealing from me regardless of what some jackass shyster/politician says.
What do you call it if someone removes money from your bank account? Say they just took the interest you were due. Nothing physical has been taken from you, not even the notional cash that you gave the bank to hold for you. Being deprived of something you were rightfully due is theft, physicallity and media have nothing to do with it unless you are a scumbag lawyer looking for new ways to cheat people out of their money.
Copyright infringement is a crime on the same moral level as sneaking into a movie without paying.
"fixes" is the key word here: I can "fix" your viewing of certain files by installing the required codec/player. I can "fix" your inability to read activeX in emails by installing Outlook (after all, email you can't read is "broken", isn't it?)
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You're trying to tell me that the phrase "may provide upgrades or fixes to the OS Product" means MS can delete your files?
Sure it does: a future MS OS advertises "Automatically deletes potential virus files" then proceeds to remove any "suspicious" files, eg any unsigned files downloaded over P2P. Nothing you can do about it.
I'm not saying they will but you're saying they can't and that's just not true.
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Basically, this just gives them the legal legroom required to make their automatic updates feature work
It gives legal legroom for full admin rights since vague words like "upgrades or fixes" are a lawyer's wet dream. DRM is an upgrade in MS's view, deleting unauthorised mpegs is a fix to the MPAA. Are you going to argue?
This is an elaborate catch-22 that the US has set up to make Mugabe look bad no matter which way he decides to go.
First of all, Mugabe is capable of doing that himself, second of all he also couldn't care less what the US thinks of him. In fact, the worse the "white powers" think of him the more he can play the race card at home to gain support.
he will be labeled as a blundering fool, a ruthless dictator, and as a person who the world can not trust.
He's already know for all these in every country outside Africa and most of those in Africa.
Either way, this is a brilliant move by the US in the chess game between these two countries.
Except it's the pawns that lose while the Kings stay on the board forever.
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When I'm on site and using a really crappy 14" monitor and just want to read the news on news.bbc.co.uk over lunch I switch the images off totally; I've never had any trouble with that mode though.
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1: It's not free (in any sense). If I give you a non-itemised phone bill do you assume all the long-distance calls were free?
2: IE still can't render a fucking .PNG image correctly, and its CSS2 is a lot spottier than MS claims.
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Alas for her, the US Copyright Office does not agree. See the last paragraph on this page. The fact that this flies in the face of the law as it is written is, as with DeCSS, of no importance if you end up in court. Why does America even bother having written laws when the Patent Office, Copyright Office, and every half-arsed hick judge can just make up their own laws?
In the UK typefaces are copyrighted under section 54 of the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988 (section 54 is just about the most opaque section in the entire act).
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As far as I can see from that page what is going on is that lots of people (not me) use some IRC server somewhere that is run by some guy; the guy is providing a service that lots of people use and consequently the time it takes is too much. The guy has the choice of packing the service in - and everyone that uses it (and seem to have been happy with it) will have to go else where - or doing it full time for pay.
Apparently this makes him some sort of nut-case that should be shunned by polite society.
The linked page's response is to basically say that there are lots of other people out there that wouldn't mind being freeloaded off so this guy should buck his ideas up and get back in line and say sorry.
What am I missing here?
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But Knuth's Computer Modern Typewriter is THE font for printing source code; much better than Courier.
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How rare are/what would be the price of diamonds if there was no cartel?
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There's nothing grey about the diamond industry, it's black from top to bottom. Plus, diamonds are only expensive because they are kept that way; they are not nearly as rare as DeBeer's would have you think. In the 70's the board of DeBeers actually considered hireing ships to take diamonds out into the Atlantic to dump them. Ship loads. That's not a rare commodity.
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And if she wants a lampshade made from human skin? There's not much ethical difference.
Tell her how these things are obtained and what DeBeers does to maintain the price and if she still wants one tell her to take a hike; you'll be better off.
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It wasn't worth paying to see in the cimema so I can't see why it would be worth buying two copies to not watch at home...
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I know - why don't we all just put all our money in an envelope and send it to them? Then maybe they'd be able to hire a director for the next movie instead of a useless hack like Jackson.
Yeah, yeah, mod me flamebait and/or troll but I'm not the one taking your money off you for half-finished projects.
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That would be why he's behind the curtain, then.
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What do you call it if someone removes money from your bank account? Say they just took the interest you were due. Nothing physical has been taken from you, not even the notional cash that you gave the bank to hold for you. Being deprived of something you were rightfully due is theft, physicallity and media have nothing to do with it unless you are a scumbag lawyer looking for new ways to cheat people out of their money.
Copyright infringement is a crime on the same moral level as sneaking into a movie without paying.
Exactly.
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Regardless of being a writer, if he's a computer user he should, just as a driver should know the difference between a car and a road.
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It deprives them of payment for work done; the question of whether it deprives them of something physical as well is not relevant; it's still theft.
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Sure it does: a future MS OS advertises "Automatically deletes potential virus files" then proceeds to remove any "suspicious" files, eg any unsigned files downloaded over P2P. Nothing you can do about it.
I'm not saying they will but you're saying they can't and that's just not true.
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It gives legal legroom for full admin rights since vague words like "upgrades or fixes" are a lawyer's wet dream. DRM is an upgrade in MS's view, deleting unauthorised mpegs is a fix to the MPAA. Are you going to argue?
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Yep.
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First of all, Mugabe is capable of doing that himself, second of all he also couldn't care less what the US thinks of him. In fact, the worse the "white powers" think of him the more he can play the race card at home to gain support.
he will be labeled as a blundering fool, a ruthless dictator, and as a person who the world can not trust.
He's already know for all these in every country outside Africa and most of those in Africa.
Either way, this is a brilliant move by the US in the chess game between these two countries.
Except it's the pawns that lose while the Kings stay on the board forever.
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Perhaps AD&D is where one finds mistresses?
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There are two major scoring systems for Go, are you sure it wasn't using one you didn't know?
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