Yeah, they tried that with me too. Wasn't too successful due to the fact that US-laws do not apply in switzerland.
Instead they sacked lyrics.ch a few years before that (also firsthand-experience, I've been Sysadmin of lyrics.ch's ISP), which was also highly unsucessful after lyrics.ch was turned into a pay-per-lyrics website of the mob.
Please explain the concept of "illegal download". As far as law in my country is concerned, there is no illegal download. There just is illegal publication.
I consider 1 week (5 workdays) a reasonable response time. If some company might want to get a little bit more time, say to their next "patch thuesday", then well, fine, but certainly not more.
The fact that support for ACLs isn't as universally implemented in Linux as it is in Windows is flat out embarrasing.
Not if you compare them to the defaults they misconfigured in windows. Writeable \Windows\system ? Come-on! Those default ACLs are a complete utter fuck-up.
Actually, eToys was ruined by etoy. Etoy, a long-existing cyber-art-project staged a massive community-operation to ruin eToys after eToys wanted to take over etoy.com. Details at toywar.etoy.com.
Without some set of rules keeping other people from choosing to violate others' rights you have anarchy, which has very little to do with liberty.
I don't know what you'll have then, maybe some or other dictatorship or oligarchy, but you will not have anarchy. Anarchy is a political model of a state without ruleRS, not one without rules. And yes, anarchy has a lot to do with liberty.
And while the written word is copyrightable of course, I've yet to see a patent on fantasy stories set in alternate versions of Earth, or stories involving wizards, or aliend.
You're right. A "governement granted monopoly" sounds a lot more like soviet russia than like "free market".
Funny however, that the seemingly biggest proponents of said "free market" and "get the governement out of our lives and businesses" tend to overlook this...
Some thoughts about this in respect to Patents on lifeforms.
No, that's not the "traditional" approach just because some security-companies seem to think 28 days might be "fair" or whatever. I'd go with a week, no more. And D.J.Bernstein considers immediate release to be the correct way.
Because not every bit of music is available with iTunes...
And because iTunes isn't available in all countries? And because I have a very strict criterion for an online-music-shop, which wants to sell me something:
- No DRM at all. Pure MP3.
Do that, offer a broad bandwidth of different kinds of music and sell me these, and I'll be a buyer. But if you're fucking around with different reseller-rights for every country, and DRM, then you're doomed.
Well, the DMCA was broken by design, so to say; the lawmakers already implemented the broken law. "criminal lawmaking" if that would exist. However, beside its FUBARness, it still being used, to break the necks of people...
How about tackling a real problem -- spam -- instead of producing ever more laws against some copyright-infringers or waging war against some constructed "holders of weapons of mass destruction"? It's not on the agenda, you can't instill fear with spam, I guess.
sex is also the highest trigger for a high rating.
(Not from the netherlands, but switzerland:)
Ahem. "Sex" like "explicit visible sexual intercourse" -- get the point? Two people kissing under a sheet and doing something you can't see isn't trigger for a rating, neither are wholly naked people or somesuch.
Even more, explicit sex might still get a 12+ if its not the movies main point. "The name of the rose" is an example of this.
In other words, it's absolutely ridiculous to say that with disgust as if Wal*Mart is obligated to sell you anything.
You're right. But if its such a problem for a game not to be sold by Wal-Mart, why the fuck do you let them get such a monopoly? Boycott them, downsize the lot.
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Yeah, they tried that with me too. Wasn't too successful due to the fact that US-laws do not apply in switzerland.
Instead they sacked lyrics.ch a few years before that (also firsthand-experience, I've been Sysadmin of lyrics.ch's ISP), which was also highly unsucessful after lyrics.ch was turned into a pay-per-lyrics website of the mob.
Brilliant. All our (more than 100) FreeBSD-Servers count as "Windows Sale".
It's probably spoken "koondt".
You're right. I don't expect users of books to be able to write them, but I surely expect them to be able to read.
Please explain the concept of "illegal download". As far as law in my country is concerned, there is no illegal download. There just is illegal publication.
I consider 1 week (5 workdays) a reasonable response time. If some company might want to get a little bit more time, say to their next "patch thuesday", then well, fine, but certainly not more.
The fact that support for ACLs isn't as universally implemented in Linux as it is in Windows is flat out embarrasing.
Not if you compare them to the defaults they misconfigured in windows. Writeable \Windows\system ? Come-on! Those default ACLs are a complete utter fuck-up.
Not Microsofts fault? Well it is. Maybe it's the only way to get D3D and OGL working together.
But why the hell had they to invent Direct3D instead of sticking with OpenGL?
It definitly is Microsofts fault, its their own idiotic design decision which lead to this.
Actually, eToys was ruined by etoy. Etoy, a long-existing cyber-art-project staged a massive community-operation to ruin eToys after eToys wanted to take over etoy.com. Details at toywar.etoy.com.
I don't think so.
It will exactly look like Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets.
I don't believe in government intervention unless it comes from my moral standpoint.
I don't believe in government intervention unless it grants me a monopoly?
Without some set of rules keeping other people from choosing to violate others' rights you have anarchy, which has very little to do with liberty.
I don't know what you'll have then, maybe some or other dictatorship or oligarchy, but you will not have anarchy. Anarchy is a political model of a state without ruleRS, not one without rules. And yes, anarchy has a lot to do with liberty.
Being pro-life is about saving innocent lives.
The death penalty is about ending guilty ones.
That's the idea. The reality is
Save innocent children, screw the live of the mother. And kill the guilty, we want revenge.
And while the written word is copyrightable of course, I've yet to see a patent on fantasy stories set in alternate versions of Earth, or stories involving wizards, or aliend.
Not far off. plotpatents.com
Actually, if they did their site correctly, it would work in everything but IE.
;)
Yeah, I've got that too. My Site looks all screwy with IE. At least that's what I've heard
But I'd figured if the validator says its XHTML 1.0 STRICT, the problem must not be mine.
You're right. A "governement granted monopoly" sounds a lot more like soviet russia than like "free market".
Funny however, that the seemingly biggest proponents of said "free market" and "get the governement out of our lives and businesses" tend to overlook this...
Some thoughts about this in respect to Patents on lifeforms.
You're a prick. RTFA. He waited 4 (in words FOUR) months for Cisco to fix this until he finally made it public.
... announce the flaw publicly 28 days later
No, that's not the "traditional" approach just because some security-companies seem to think 28 days might be "fair" or whatever. I'd go with a week, no more. And D.J.Bernstein considers immediate release to be the correct way.
Because not every bit of music is available with iTunes...
And because iTunes isn't available in all countries? And because I have a very strict criterion for an online-music-shop, which wants to sell me something:
- No DRM at all. Pure MP3.
Do that, offer a broad bandwidth of different kinds of music and sell me these, and I'll be a buyer. But if you're fucking around with different reseller-rights for every country, and DRM, then you're doomed.
Well, the DMCA was broken by design, so to say; the lawmakers already implemented the broken law. "criminal lawmaking" if that would exist. However, beside its FUBARness, it still being used, to break the necks of people...
Like "Mickey Mouse Windows XP"?
How about tackling a real problem -- spam -- instead of producing ever more laws against some copyright-infringers or waging war against some constructed "holders of weapons of mass destruction"? It's not on the agenda, you can't instill fear with spam, I guess.
sex is also the highest trigger for a high rating.
(Not from the netherlands, but switzerland:)
Ahem. "Sex" like "explicit visible sexual intercourse" -- get the point? Two people kissing under a sheet and doing something you can't see isn't trigger for a rating, neither are wholly naked people or somesuch.
Even more, explicit sex might still get a 12+ if its not the movies main point. "The name of the rose" is an example of this.
Easy: do I want to look at some muscle-bound idiot in full plate for the entire game, or a hot babe in a chainmail bikini?
Being a point. I've got another one: I don't look like a muscle-bound idiot, and I don't want to play one. Just the full plate please.
In other words, it's absolutely ridiculous to say that with disgust as if Wal*Mart is obligated to sell you anything.
You're right. But if its such a problem for a game not to be sold by Wal-Mart, why the fuck do you let them get such a monopoly? Boycott them, downsize the lot.