Drones avoid civilian casualties? That's certainly not the reputation they are getting. It's hard to find good numbers, because 'militants' are often vaguely defined, but there are certainly significant amounts of civilians killed, and it extends to extreme the viewpoint of archers as being cowards, dating back to at least the Iliad.
They are being consumed, and the means by which they are being consumed is often referred to as 'fire', so it's not an enormous stretch from the original literal meaning. For bonus points, it is a bit of ritual, since the targets are not neccessarily an actual threat, and the actions are being done to appease a powerful party that won't actually do anything for the benefit of those carrying out the ritual.
There is a problem with the defeats becoming more or less meaningless, though. If you lose Goose as a drone pilot, Goose just gets another drone. Then Maverick and Iceman just see continue to see each other as assholes
You are forgetting the politics side of things. Anybody we've been fighting could be wiped out by the tech we had decades ago. The battles the US military is engaged in involve hearts and minds, and drones are very bad from that perspective.
Yeah, the difference in size makes quite a difference, so if you only intend to watch moonrises on one planets, Mars may not be your best choice. Then again, Mars has two moons, so that could present some very interesting visuals. It's also important to note that this camera had to be able to survive in space, was constrained by other limitations of the flight, and wasn't under direct human operation. If we could get manned missions to Mars and could bypass many of the current concerns, we could get much more compelling footage.
It's more than a third of your country's population, a good bit of the mass, and is a unique level of division within your country, since it encompasses two provinces. It would more like calling The UK "England" or "Great Britain."
That's old hat for organs, though, I'm not saying that our engineering can keep up with a heart, but rather, that the heart does a pretty poor job of keeping up with other organs that do even more.
But by comparison, it's pretty bad. The heart does one thing: pump blood. Compare that to the liver, which has a considerably lower failure rate and performs so many functions it's nearly a living thing on its own.
The SFLC is far from the most extreme in their interpretations of derivative works. Now, some other proprietary licenses might be more permissive at times in regards to defining such things, but it is very much situational and a matter of practicality. The FSF has advocated BSDL/MITL for certain libraries to maximize their usage, primarily codecs.
Also, I'm not entirely sure that there is a lot of room for comparison, as most proprietary software is pretty limited in its capacity for extensions. There is some proprietary software with 3rd party plugins under different licenses, but that applies just as much, and probably a great deal more to GPL software as well.
I'm sorry, but have you even being keeping up? Maybe these would have been competitively cute 10-15 years ago, but cuteness has been growing at an exponential rate. And furthermore, it's not just the intensity of the cuteness, but also the sheer output of cuteness. Even if we could manage to get a 3:1 cuteness intensit advantage, we still wouldn't be able to compete. Japan has cute everything. A recent series went so far as to make some of Lovecraft's eldritch abominations into cute girls. If we wish to remain competitive in cuteness, we need a concentrated, long term plan, and relying on yesterday's A-list isn't going to cut it today. Mark my words, Japan will only continue to advance further in cuteness, and if we underestimate them, we will become irrelevant.
True, but that nothing to do with this issue. You can rename any BSD or GPL project. However, you can also use trademark to force forks to have a different name if they deviate outside of certain criteria.
On the other side you have the BSD licence where redistributing the source is not a requirement, and you can pretty much keep it as it was designed to by telling people who fork it to change the name of the product.
Actually, you could do that with GPL code as well. Just use trademark law. Firefox does the same thing, which is why Debian ships iceweasel. Now, it might be a bit more complex if you are building your project off of someone else's GPL code, but in that case, you are likely the one who is "it into something it was not supposed to be."
What I'm getting at is that the spirit of the GPL is to keep software "open", not so much free. When software is open you can download it, compile it and add whatever tweak you need to it to make it work in your environment. You can do that with BSD and you can do that with GPL, but the latter would like you to contribute your changes back.
Actually, you don't need to share your contributions in you don't distribute your code.
As soon as Patents come into play the GPL is now unworkable, since those tweaks may violate patent licences. So this is why the "binary blobs" exist in Linux via shims to skirt the GPL licence.
Patents break everything everywhere. Where GPL patent clauses get messy is when you are shipping a product where you license a patent from someone else.
As for binary blobs, that's usually not tied to patents. Otherwise, distros from countries without software patents would ship with Nvidia drivers. Binary blobs are the results of non-free code. I believe a large portion of it is that the code is already under a restrictive copyright license for reasons like sharing a decent chunk of code with a proprietary windows driver, which they may not retain all the rights to. There's also fear that competitors will reverse engineer their products via this source code or similar such nonsense.
Page header is comic sans. Try being a little less blatant in your trolling next time.
Also, all licenses are 'viral' in the sense you use here. The difference is that certain licenses have very few symptoms, such as the BSDL, and others are less prone to spread, such as a typical proprietary license.
I'm sure he applied a mens rea approach, so if your code was intentially not human readable, you are clear, but if you just write bad code, having to deal with said code is punishment enough.
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Drones avoid civilian casualties? That's certainly not the reputation they are getting. It's hard to find good numbers, because 'militants' are often vaguely defined, but there are certainly significant amounts of civilians killed, and it extends to extreme the viewpoint of archers as being cowards, dating back to at least the Iliad.
They are being consumed, and the means by which they are being consumed is often referred to as 'fire', so it's not an enormous stretch from the original literal meaning. For bonus points, it is a bit of ritual, since the targets are not neccessarily an actual threat, and the actions are being done to appease a powerful party that won't actually do anything for the benefit of those carrying out the ritual.
There is a problem with the defeats becoming more or less meaningless, though. If you lose Goose as a drone pilot, Goose just gets another drone. Then Maverick and Iceman just see continue to see each other as assholes
You are forgetting the politics side of things. Anybody we've been fighting could be wiped out by the tech we had decades ago. The battles the US military is engaged in involve hearts and minds, and drones are very bad from that perspective.
You do realize the difference between 'a holocaust' and 'The Holocaust', right?
Yeah, the difference in size makes quite a difference, so if you only intend to watch moonrises on one planets, Mars may not be your best choice. Then again, Mars has two moons, so that could present some very interesting visuals. It's also important to note that this camera had to be able to survive in space, was constrained by other limitations of the flight, and wasn't under direct human operation. If we could get manned missions to Mars and could bypass many of the current concerns, we could get much more compelling footage.
It's more than a third of your country's population, a good bit of the mass, and is a unique level of division within your country, since it encompasses two provinces. It would more like calling The UK "England" or "Great Britain."
He, there is still time. In fact, the longer you wait, the more disgusting it will be.
Also, encryption is necessary for a TON of businesses. VPNs specifically as well.
Too be fair, the we can't have a single discussion without it being read by the NSA, so there's no sense in leaving them out.
That's old hat for organs, though, I'm not saying that our engineering can keep up with a heart, but rather, that the heart does a pretty poor job of keeping up with other organs that do even more.
But by comparison, it's pretty bad. The heart does one thing: pump blood. Compare that to the liver, which has a considerably lower failure rate and performs so many functions it's nearly a living thing on its own.
Windows 7 was more or less Vista SP2. However, by the time 7 had come out, many of the criticisms of Vista no longer applied.
A clone is the genetic equivalent of a twin, maybe add an asterisk, though, for the mechanics.
The SFLC is far from the most extreme in their interpretations of derivative works. Now, some other proprietary licenses might be more permissive at times in regards to defining such things, but it is very much situational and a matter of practicality. The FSF has advocated BSDL/MITL for certain libraries to maximize their usage, primarily codecs.
Also, I'm not entirely sure that there is a lot of room for comparison, as most proprietary software is pretty limited in its capacity for extensions. There is some proprietary software with 3rd party plugins under different licenses, but that applies just as much, and probably a great deal more to GPL software as well.
No, the characters on the site are hiragana.
I'm sorry, but have you even being keeping up? Maybe these would have been competitively cute 10-15 years ago, but cuteness has been growing at an exponential rate. And furthermore, it's not just the intensity of the cuteness, but also the sheer output of cuteness. Even if we could manage to get a 3:1 cuteness intensit advantage, we still wouldn't be able to compete. Japan has cute everything. A recent series went so far as to make some of Lovecraft's eldritch abominations into cute girls. If we wish to remain competitive in cuteness, we need a concentrated, long term plan, and relying on yesterday's A-list isn't going to cut it today. Mark my words, Japan will only continue to advance further in cuteness, and if we underestimate them, we will become irrelevant.
By lulling enemies into a false sense of security.
Generally speaking, 'pirated' media is far more convenient. You can use it anywhere without limitations. It's easy, and it's only going to get easier.
True, but that nothing to do with this issue. You can rename any BSD or GPL project. However, you can also use trademark to force forks to have a different name if they deviate outside of certain criteria.
Actually, you could do that with GPL code as well. Just use trademark law. Firefox does the same thing, which is why Debian ships iceweasel. Now, it might be a bit more complex if you are building your project off of someone else's GPL code, but in that case, you are likely the one who is "it into something it was not supposed to be."
Actually, you don't need to share your contributions in you don't distribute your code.
Patents break everything everywhere. Where GPL patent clauses get messy is when you are shipping a product where you license a patent from someone else.
As for binary blobs, that's usually not tied to patents. Otherwise, distros from countries without software patents would ship with Nvidia drivers. Binary blobs are the results of non-free code. I believe a large portion of it is that the code is already under a restrictive copyright license for reasons like sharing a decent chunk of code with a proprietary windows driver, which they may not retain all the rights to. There's also fear that competitors will reverse engineer their products via this source code or similar such nonsense.
Page header is comic sans. Try being a little less blatant in your trolling next time.
Also, all licenses are 'viral' in the sense you use here. The difference is that certain licenses have very few symptoms, such as the BSDL, and others are less prone to spread, such as a typical proprietary license.
I will agree that CSS would generally be considered code, at least if it's complex enough to deserve being put in it's own file.
I'm sure he applied a mens rea approach, so if your code was intentially not human readable, you are clear, but if you just write bad code, having to deal with said code is punishment enough.