There are videos we own for our kids which contain scenes I don't want them to see over and over. As an owner of a copy of the content I have the right to edit out those scenes by hand (by ripping and editing on a computer) and then let my kids watch what I deem is acceptable. It falls under fair use, is a deriviative work that I don't/won't distribute, and is within my rights whether the content producer likes it or not.
I think the point of part of the argument seems to be that the list of edits (machine readable) is a dirivitive work and is being distributed.
I think I might actually enjoy a player like this if the studios actually put the edit instructions on the DVD itself, and just give you a menu to select what you do and don't want. Don't wanna see that scene in Deliverance just uncheck the goatse box Don't like swearing it uses a seperate audio track. Heck, if a scene has dialog that is actualy important to the story overlaid by the bloody slaughter of 5000 sheep in a meat grinder, just have a cue to show a different angle (a scene of kittens frolicing in a feild of flowers perhaps)
Oh, so you say he'll have expanded to a few orders of magnitude beyond his current size, and be all red and evil looking? Well, what kind of friend is that?
a pregnant one?
(it's a joke, i don't wish to offend anyone who is pregnant, or trying to become pregnant, or trying to get me to get them pregnant.... ok mostly the last group...)
well, I have a common enough American name, I get to put up with the whole thing were people quiz me on my book of the bible. Unfortunately I was named after a tree, which usually confuses those people when I tell them that.
When they really annoy me though, I have to correct their pronunciation, as my parents named me the Jo is pronounced like in fjord and the sylables break differently. Usually I let it go with friends since it can be difficult getting the pronunciation right without practice. I put up with it and am generally well adjusted, except for the whole fire thing
You forget that when the defendant looses, they ususally get to pay the plaintif's legal costs as well as whatever compensation is deemed appropriate for whatever they did that got them sued in the first place.
i think, perhaps we should not just have the jury pool, but the lawyer pool as well (what else will they suspend Mr. Bond over if sharks are a protected species [a joke people] ) so we don't have Joe Sixpack worried because the company that sold him in Atomic Mouse Trap has Cochrin et al on retainer ready to bullshit the jury into beleiving the resulting "nucular splosion" was Joe's fault and not the company that sold a mousetrap containing 100 kg of fissionable plutonium.
Socialize the legal system and the health care system. It's government for the people, so they should at least keep us safe from ourselves
You were probably born after 1987.... Ever see a black-and-white TV? Not many colors there. However, even on a black and white TV, creatures like Ricky Ricardo look real and creatures like Gollum look fake. It is not the colors that does it, it is the way they move.
I think, though, that if you put the b&w Ricky next to the real life Ricky, you would be able to tell the difference. Similarly, if you had an HDTV feed of what's going on outside a window playing right next to the window, youd probably be able to tell the difference too. There are just some subconscoius subtleties that the brain nags on.
I think few things artificial will be completely perfect to the brain, 'good enough' sure, but not so flawless that something doesn't pop up your brain's red flag that says "from previous experience, this isn't quite behaving as it should" be it a light source being off by half a degree or a bit of hair that hangs too limp. As other posters have said, the brain has a lifetime of experience learning the pattern of how things work and have been evolved over a long period to be fairly good at it.
Yeah, I never did quite understand that part. I thought the bit of the TARDIS that travels through space and time was just a tiny interface to the rest of it, which was a safe separate dimension and didn't exist in this universe at all. Guess not...:-)
I seem to recall in a episode, the doctor was explaining to his assistant (don't remember which, this was ages ago) that it was all a matter of (higher dimensional) perspective, that the inside of the TARDIS was further away than the outside and so it could be made to fit inside the smaller outside. Like i said though, that was ages ago, the local PBS hasn't carried Dr. Who for quite a while.
disclaimer: The grammar is kinda odd, but i've slept about 4 hours in the past 8 days. I am trying though
What we need is a (this is the important part here!) catchy turn of phrase that can take the place of "begs the question" but can be easily seen to mean "demands to be asked" or "prompts the question", as the parent put it.
At work we fall back to quoteing the drive-thru lady from Dude, Where's My Car "And den?" but that usually seems to replace the obviously begged question [now see that doesn't even conjugate correctishly] as well.
Or perhaps I just work with a bunch of silly buggers.
Fortunately, people like you are in a very small minority. I, for one, prefer my air to be breatheable.
Feh, breathing is highly overrated. I'd rather put hight restrictions on the vehicles, I don't think people realy need a suv so tall the hood is level with the roof of my Tempo. all that vertical distance has to create a fair bit of drag
Midnight Where though? They went all "we're sorry this channel is not currently available at 3 AMish Eastern and during the opening theme of Daria too... those Viacom bastards
Heh, we used to do that to the new guys, send them to the hardware store for 50 feet of Shore Line. I'm the only person in our store's history to successfully complete the task, having found steel cable from a company called Shore.
To get closer to the topic: I seem to recall a story on/. a while back about some company patenting the process of a messaging service that translates the user message into the target's language (or perhaps the other way round)
Mostly OT We live in North East Florida, so we deal with the same state level laws but different local law enforcement.
We had a B&E once at the house, one of the punk kids down the street. I was out checking on a wounded fox around 9 pm and as I'm walking back toward the house (one disadvantage of 10 acres is that it's 10 acres) I see someone walking up the driveway.
There's realy no excuse for kids to just wander up the drive way, you have to go thru 2 gates one at the street and one in the fence around the area we keep mowed (close to 1/8 of a mile from the street) So I just chill and lean against a tree at the edge of the yard and watch as the person continues toward the house looking around. Once he wasn't looking around as much I circled wide and started to follow him, making sure I kept in the shadows since I caught sight of something long in his right hand. At the time I had on heavy clothing, thick gloves and some basic medical stuff (she had been shot and I had her leg in a splint) so as he was getting closer to the house I started to get closer.
I was standing less than 10 feet from the kid when he smashed one of the bedroom windows, I rushed up and grabbed him by the ankles and pulled him back as he tried to crawl in. He dropped the crowbar as he left the window which hung for a second and then fell on him. That had him out for a few minutes during which I tied his hands and feet with the bandages in my kit. With him temporarilly tied like that I ran into the house and grabbed some rope from the pantry and the portable phone and rushed back out the door.
I called the cops to report an armed breaking and entering in progress and the operator said that a car was on the way. An hour and a half later the cop shows up and asks me why there is a kid bound to the tree by the porch.
I didn't get charged with anything, because i was defending my home from an armed invader. The officer said I probably shouldn't have tied him to the tree though. It's a good thing for him I wasn't carrying something to shoot him with, I realy don't beleive in shooting to wound, having dealt with so many animals that had been shot that way.
I heard later that week they searched the house the kid lived in, there having been quite a few break-ins on the street in the past few months, and they found quite a lot of stolen stuff, up to the point there was a stolen ATV in his garage behind a pile of boxes and a tarp.
Though to get slightly back to the topic at hand: All the stolen property was seized for evidence, and then afterward returned to the owners.
because it sounds horribly tinny coming from that dinky little speaker...
oh, you meant because they try to put more game in the cartridge than noise the other people on the bus/in class/at the park probably don't want to hear
Their right to yack does not supercede your right to relax. But in attempting to exercise your right to relax, you are ILLEGALLY infringing upon their rights. If you sat next to the yacker and talked loudly to your neighbor, infringing on their right to yack, there would be nothing wrong with that. Because, although you're "infringing on their rights", you would be WITHIN THE RULES OF THE OWNERS OF THE PROPERTY.
Dude, just carry an airhorn with you. Every time the guy next to you with the cell phone gets loud, hit the horn. You just change the place you are jamming the cell call from the EM spectrum between the phone and the tower to the audio spectrum between the annoying person and his/her phone.
I know when I call someone's cell phone and they don't answer, I assume they don't have it on them or they're in an area where they don't get service.
I know that's pretty much what my voice-mail message says. My phone tends to stay in either my backpack (at school) or my tool bag (at work) and there are times (like being half upside down over a bank of capacitors) when I can't drop what I'm doing to answer a phone.
Some people do find it humorous that my message begins "You've reached my bag..."
Yes that one is wonderful but you can see what they think of the class with the very first topic "Kroy (FU)"
and then there's the first thursday topic "Bunk (HU) computer physics" if they think it's bunk, they can go back to doing it in their heads like a freshman who can't afford the $150 TI-eleventy-billion calculator
And perhaps this one should have been held earlier "Gentleman Mr. (DO) introduction to theoretical physics" Isn't quantum physics encompassed in the whole 'theoretical' subclass of physics?
Is there realy a point to a clear case mod? It's not like it contains any moving parts. Now when I make something clear it's so people can see what is going on with the bits to make it work, not just to show off chunks of nonmoving semi-conductor.
No, they need to make more. More demand, more supply, more innovations.
I think you misapplied the modifier, when he said they need to make less efficient vibrators he probably didn't mean to make less of the efficient vibrators, it's more likely he meant to make the vibrators less efficient. then again I'm not (currently being paid to be) psychic
If the United States gets kicked out of the WTO, will it still be able to import necessities of life other than entertainment products? Look at what happened to Turkey when it ignored one or more provisions of TRIPS.
Errr, I think you missed the part where the US will go into other countries, claim there are WMDs, steal the food/steel/booty and leave the country a bill for having shifted the power to someone we like, who wouldn't mind ignoring trade regulatins in exchange for an SUV and Natile Portman
In the near future, popular music will be made by robots, and the kids won't be able to tell the difference.
And by 'near future' you mean the 1990's right? You'll never convince me the boy bands aren't sing-droids. And don't even get me started on the spice girls or brittany and her clones
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I think the point of part of the argument seems to be that the list of edits (machine readable) is a dirivitive work and is being distributed.
I think I might actually enjoy a player like this if the studios actually put the edit instructions on the DVD itself, and just give you a menu to select what you do and don't want.
Don't wanna see that scene in Deliverance just uncheck the goatse box
Don't like swearing it uses a seperate audio track. Heck, if a scene has dialog that is actualy important to the story overlaid by the bloody slaughter of 5000 sheep in a meat grinder, just have a cue to show a different angle (a scene of kittens frolicing in a feild of flowers perhaps)
a pregnant one?
(it's a joke, i don't wish to offend anyone who is pregnant, or trying to become pregnant, or trying to get me to get them pregnant.... ok mostly the last group...)
This, children, is why we don't read
that one line got read as
I wonder what would happen were one to start trailing long cords hooked up to voulentiers to measure ambient electrical current?
I think i should probably take a nap.
yes reign in your curiosity, her *ahem* cat, is quite dead
well, I have a common enough American name, I get to put up with the whole thing were people quiz me on my book of the bible. Unfortunately I was named after a tree, which usually confuses those people when I tell them that.
When they really annoy me though, I have to correct their pronunciation, as my parents named me the Jo is pronounced like in fjord and the sylables break differently. Usually I let it go with friends since it can be difficult getting the pronunciation right without practice.
I put up with it and am generally well adjusted, except for the whole fire thing
Ahh, but you have forgotten something, that vampire hunter is equipped with..... a whip... erm... nevermind...
i think, perhaps we should not just have the jury pool, but the lawyer pool as well (what else will they suspend Mr. Bond over if sharks are a protected species [a joke people] ) so we don't have Joe Sixpack worried because the company that sold him in Atomic Mouse Trap has Cochrin et al on retainer ready to bullshit the jury into beleiving the resulting "nucular splosion" was Joe's fault and not the company that sold a mousetrap containing 100 kg of fissionable plutonium.
Socialize the legal system and the health care system. It's government for the people, so they should at least keep us safe from ourselves
I think, though, that if you put the b&w Ricky next to the real life Ricky, you would be able to tell the difference.
Similarly, if you had an HDTV feed of what's going on outside a window playing right next to the window, youd probably be able to tell the difference too.
There are just some subconscoius subtleties that the brain nags on.
I think few things artificial will be completely perfect to the brain, 'good enough' sure, but not so flawless that something doesn't pop up your brain's red flag that says "from previous experience, this isn't quite behaving as it should" be it a light source being off by half a degree or a bit of hair that hangs too limp.
As other posters have said, the brain has a lifetime of experience learning the pattern of how things work and have been evolved over a long period to be fairly good at it.
I seem to recall in a episode, the doctor was explaining to his assistant (don't remember which, this was ages ago) that it was all a matter of (higher dimensional) perspective, that the inside of the TARDIS was further away than the outside and so it could be made to fit inside the smaller outside. Like i said though, that was ages ago, the local PBS hasn't carried Dr. Who for quite a while.
disclaimer: The grammar is kinda odd, but i've slept about 4 hours in the past 8 days. I am trying though
At work we fall back to quoteing the drive-thru lady from Dude, Where's My Car "And den?"
but that usually seems to replace the obviously begged question [now see that doesn't even conjugate correctishly] as well.
Or perhaps I just work with a bunch of silly buggers.
Feh, breathing is highly overrated.
I'd rather put hight restrictions on the vehicles, I don't think people realy need a suv so tall the hood is level with the roof of my Tempo.
all that vertical distance has to create a fair bit of drag
I beleive StepMania has support for Pump It Up
one of the other arcades around here had PIU, but it kinda sucked.
Midnight Where though?
They went all "we're sorry this channel is not currently available at 3 AMish Eastern
and during the opening theme of Daria too... those Viacom bastards
Heh, we used to do that to the new guys, send them to the hardware store for 50 feet of Shore Line. I'm the only person in our store's history to successfully complete the task, having found steel cable from a company called Shore.
/. a while back about some company patenting the process of a messaging service that translates the user message into the target's language (or perhaps the other way round)
To get closer to the topic:
I seem to recall a story on
Mostly OT
We live in North East Florida, so we deal with the same state level laws but different local law enforcement.
We had a B&E once at the house, one of the punk kids down the street. I was out checking on a wounded fox around 9 pm and as I'm walking back toward the house (one disadvantage of 10 acres is that it's 10 acres) I see someone walking up the driveway.
There's realy no excuse for kids to just wander up the drive way, you have to go thru 2 gates one at the street and one in the fence around the area we keep mowed (close to 1/8 of a mile from the street) So I just chill and lean against a tree at the edge of the yard and watch as the person continues toward the house looking around. Once he wasn't looking around as much I circled wide and started to follow him, making sure I kept in the shadows since I caught sight of something long in his right hand. At the time I had on heavy clothing, thick gloves and some basic medical stuff (she had been shot and I had her leg in a splint) so as he was getting closer to the house I started to get closer.
I was standing less than 10 feet from the kid when he smashed one of the bedroom windows, I rushed up and grabbed him by the ankles and pulled him back as he tried to crawl in. He dropped the crowbar as he left the window which hung for a second and then fell on him. That had him out for a few minutes during which I tied his hands and feet with the bandages in my kit. With him temporarilly tied like that I ran into the house and grabbed some rope from the pantry and the portable phone and rushed back out the door.
I called the cops to report an armed breaking and entering in progress and the operator said that a car was on the way. An hour and a half later the cop shows up and asks me why there is a kid bound to the tree by the porch.
I didn't get charged with anything, because i was defending my home from an armed invader. The officer said I probably shouldn't have tied him to the tree though. It's a good thing for him I wasn't carrying something to shoot him with, I realy don't beleive in shooting to wound, having dealt with so many animals that had been shot that way.
I heard later that week they searched the house the kid lived in, there having been quite a few break-ins on the street in the past few months, and they found quite a lot of stolen stuff, up to the point there was a stolen ATV in his garage behind a pile of boxes and a tarp.
Though to get slightly back to the topic at hand:
All the stolen property was seized for evidence, and then afterward returned to the owners.
Canopy group...
does anyone else feel that's disturbingly close to Umbrella Corp. ?
because it sounds horribly tinny coming from that dinky little speaker...
oh, you meant because they try to put more game in the cartridge than noise the other people on the bus/in class/at the park probably don't want to hear
but wouldn't your existing mean....
I'm just gonna stop before i get images of old lady sex lodged in my brain
Dude, just carry an airhorn with you. Every time the guy next to you with the cell phone gets loud, hit the horn. You just change the place you are jamming the cell call from the EM spectrum between the phone and the tower to the audio spectrum between the annoying person and his/her phone.
I know that's pretty much what my voice-mail message says. My phone tends to stay in either my backpack (at school) or my tool bag (at work) and there are times (like being half upside down over a bank of capacitors) when I can't drop what I'm doing to answer a phone.
Some people do find it humorous that my message begins "You've reached my bag..."
Yes that one is wonderful
but you can see what they think of the class with the very first topic
"Kroy (FU)"
and then there's the first thursday topic
"Bunk (HU) computer physics"
if they think it's bunk, they can go back to doing it in their heads like a freshman who can't afford the $150 TI-eleventy-billion calculator
And perhaps this one should have been held earlier
"Gentleman Mr. (DO) introduction to theoretical physics"
Isn't quantum physics encompassed in the whole 'theoretical' subclass of physics?
Does it run Linux?
Is there realy a point to a clear case mod? It's not like it contains any moving parts. Now when I make something clear it's so people can see what is going on with the bits to make it work, not just to show off chunks of nonmoving semi-conductor.
I think you misapplied the modifier,
when he said they need to make less efficient vibrators he probably didn't mean to make less of the efficient vibrators, it's more likely he meant to make the vibrators less efficient.
then again I'm not (currently being paid to be) psychic
Errr, I think you missed the part where the US will go into other countries, claim there are WMDs, steal the food/steel/booty and leave the country a bill for having shifted the power to someone we like, who wouldn't mind ignoring trade regulatins in exchange for an SUV and Natile Portman
And by 'near future' you mean the 1990's right?
You'll never convince me the boy bands aren't sing-droids. And don't even get me started on the spice girls or brittany and her clones