Is Bill Gates standing behind you and holding a Magnum on your head?
Metaphorically, yes. I'm at work where we use nothing but Windows, and I can't download and install unauthorized software. My home Linux system does not have an internet connection.
Think of it more of "I use Microsoft and am delighted to see its flaws but need a bit of help sometimes" kind of attitude. Making Mozilla the default browser would be a coup of sorts, but I'd need evidence for it...
I'm using IE6, and I guess a picture is worth a thousand words, becaus I don't understand from your explanation what it is that I'm supposed to see that I'm not. Would you care to post a screenshot for comparison purposes?
...paying people's sons and daughters for a few years of creativity on behalf of a father/mother/uncle/aunt or whatever
Sons and daughters? Copyrights last for, what, life + 70 years? Barring advancements in logevity treatment, my children (~20 years younger than I) and my hypothetical grandchildren (~40 years younger than I) will all be dead 70 years after my death. My great-grandchildren will be either dead or retired. At some point, the recipients of my creativity will be my great-grandchildren and my great-great-grandchildren.
Patents, no matter what else is wrong with them, have the good grace to expire 20 years after being issued. Let's all hope that no one ever comes up with a Sonny Bono Patent Act.
Porn shouldn't be an ethics violation if the guy takes appropriate precautions to make sure it doesn't offend anyone.
Observation: Porn offends a significant portion of the public Definition: "Public" means "accessible to anyone." Conclusion: Looking at porn in a public place will offend someone.
While visiting relatives in Germany this summer, much was made of a party we were attending that was to have a real, live, German band. Guess what they played? American oldies. Everyone sang along, even aunts and uncles who didn't speak English. All the music on German MTV was in English (thought the commercials were in German). There were even a few German bands on MTV...who sang in English.
I suspect that this is why the French kicked NATO out a few decades ago...they foresaw the the cultural influence of hundreds of thousands of American youth who were overpaid, oversexed, and over there. I'd be curious to know if France is significantly different in this respect.
The presence of these binary-only programs in "source" files of Linux creates a secondary problem: it calls into question whether Linux binaries can legally be redistributed at all. The GPL requires "complete corresponding source code," and a sequence of integers is not the source code
Reading between the lines, most Linux distros are not free (speech). Most Linux distros violate the GPL. Most Linux distros are in violation of the FSF's license. Most Linux distros could be hauled into court by the FSF...but they're not. I think that speaks volumes of Stallman.
I am reminded of the writing of Jonathan Edwards. Non-free code is as loathsome to Stallman as a poisonous spider, and he dangles it over an open flame. But RMS is a gracious genius,and does not drop the spider into the fire.
I think he's right on the money, though, when he says that we must be very careful or we'll lose our new-found freedom. Legislation could easily place large economic burdens on free software development (liability, for example) that would not outlaw it but would make it disappear. The corporate world can afford to buy laws; we can't. We have to work to retain our freedom.
1. You'd have lost this anyway - that's the point of the test. 2. They designed a failed bridge, and you want them to design the new one? 3. These are cheap when you have hundreds of millions of slaves.
Its amusing that people are opposed to nuclear waste in outer space...after all, the mass of all nuclear waste in the sun is probably greater than the mass of everything on earth. For that matter, the mass of radioactive materials on earth is probably orders of magnitude greater than all the radioactive materials mined/produced/enhanced by human beings.
Only idiots are fundamentally morally opposed to radioactive material or its production. The only rational basis on which to oppose it is safety. Not that this is a trivial basis =)
You, sir, have stumbled upon a key criterion. How many professors have published pedagogical materials within the last ten years that are still in use?
Precisely. Failure to provide intellectual property at a price less than or equal to the original price should be grounds for loss of copyright protection.
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...I would rather troll on slashdot...
If you insist...YHBT.YHL. HAND. =)
Is Bill Gates standing behind you and holding a Magnum on your head?
Metaphorically, yes. I'm at work where we use nothing but Windows, and I can't download and install unauthorized software. My home Linux system does not have an internet connection.
Think of it more of "I use Microsoft and am delighted to see its flaws but need a bit of help sometimes" kind of attitude. Making Mozilla the default browser would be a coup of sorts, but I'd need evidence for it...
I'm using IE6, and I guess a picture is worth a thousand words, becaus I don't understand from your explanation what it is that I'm supposed to see that I'm not. Would you care to post a screenshot for comparison purposes?
Huh?
Instead of "own" think of "0\/\/|\|". As in "~~***\/\/3 0\/\/|\| j00!!!***~~" (those are all zeroes, not ohs).
...paying people's sons and daughters for a few years of creativity on behalf of a father/mother/uncle/aunt or whatever
Sons and daughters? Copyrights last for, what, life + 70 years? Barring advancements in logevity treatment, my children (~20 years younger than I) and my hypothetical grandchildren (~40 years younger than I) will all be dead 70 years after my death. My great-grandchildren will be either dead or retired. At some point, the recipients of my creativity will be my great-grandchildren and my great-great-grandchildren.
Patents, no matter what else is wrong with them, have the good grace to expire 20 years after being issued. Let's all hope that no one ever comes up with a Sonny Bono Patent Act.
Bentonville (the home and headquarters of WalMart) is the only county seat to have a statue of a Confederate soldier in the town square.
The likelihood is large enough that it is a virtual certainty, given the BILL-yuns and BILL-yuns of stars we can observe.
Wouldn't the hydrogen and helium just float up out of the way?
Ah, yes, the cherubim, symbolic of the highest place offered to man...
At the anode the hydrogen molecules give up electrons and form hydrogen ions, a process which is made possible by the platinum catalyst.
And don't forget...hydrogen ions are raw protons, their positive electrical charge unmediated by electrons...
Hey, at least they didn't name it "e-thics."
Porn shouldn't be an ethics violation if the guy takes appropriate precautions to make sure it doesn't offend anyone.
Observation: Porn offends a significant portion of the public
Definition: "Public" means "accessible to anyone."
Conclusion: Looking at porn in a public place will offend someone.
While visiting relatives in Germany this summer, much was made of a party we were attending that was to have a real, live, German band. Guess what they played? American oldies. Everyone sang along, even aunts and uncles who didn't speak English. All the music on German MTV was in English (thought the commercials were in German). There were even a few German bands on MTV...who sang in English.
I suspect that this is why the French kicked NATO out a few decades ago...they foresaw the the cultural influence of hundreds of thousands of American youth who were overpaid, oversexed, and over there. I'd be curious to know if France is significantly different in this respect.
This is the funniest thing I've read in a month...
The music industry is likely to squash any attempts to create or market an LP-ROM. Check out this site.
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What schools did you go to? =)
IHBT. IHL. HAND.
You have a script before you start shooting, correct?
You spend months (or years) producing the movie, correct?
Once the script is in hand, hand it off to the subtitlers and let them spend months (or years) working on it.
If the script changes during production, hand the changes off to the subtitlers.
In short, I don't see subtitling as a barrier.
Besides...who cares about the dialog in a typical action flick? =)
Unfortunately, that child actor got caught in a temporal anomaly and has aged nearly ten years since then...
1. You'd have lost this anyway - that's the point of the test.
2. They designed a failed bridge, and you want them to design the new one?
3. These are cheap when you have hundreds of millions of slaves.
Its amusing that people are opposed to nuclear waste in outer space...after all, the mass of all nuclear waste in the sun is probably greater than the mass of everything on earth. For that matter, the mass of radioactive materials on earth is probably orders of magnitude greater than all the radioactive materials mined/produced/enhanced by human beings.
Only idiots are fundamentally morally opposed to radioactive material or its production. The only rational basis on which to oppose it is safety. Not that this is a trivial basis =)
Bricks are pretty common...as are steel bars, rocks, tire irons, etc...
I'll grant that this was an invitation to mischief makers.
You, sir, have stumbled upon a key criterion. How many professors have published pedagogical materials within the last ten years that are still in use?
Precisely. Failure to provide intellectual property at a price less than or equal to the original price should be grounds for loss of copyright protection.
I think the subject says it all.