The failure is really in the voters, who stay away from the polling places in droves during non-presidential elections. True, there is occasional gerrymandering and other questionable practices, but, in the end, we get the politicians we deserve. Democracy is a gift wasted on so many Americans.
Hawking is an alien, and he's trying to get rid of us to make way for the rest of his species to settle our planet. Fortunately for us, they're all confined to wheelchairs and will be easy to defeat, especialy if we refuse to build special hyperspace ramps for the handicapped.
You claimed control "is the whole point of copyright in the first place." I claim it is not. I think we both agree it has been perverted from its original purpose (notably by the term extension from 14 years to up to 120+ years), but the original purpose was to encourage, through financial incentive of limited term monopoly, the creation and duplication of creative works so they would enter the public domain and raise the overall cultural IQ, hence the name "copyright." If its purpose was to control who can and cannot view/listen/whatever to a creative work, it would have been called "controlright" or some other silly name.
DRM is a bastardization of copyright law. And I quote:
The primary purpose of copyright law is not so much to protect the interests of the authors/creators, but rather to promote the progress of science and the useful arts--that is--knowledge. To accomplish this purpose, copyright ownership encourages authors/creators in their efforts by granting them a temporary monopoly, or ownership of exclusive rights for a specified length of time.
You've misquoted Mr. Strunk. Rule #17 is: "In summaries, keep to one tense." Rule #13 suggests we "Omit needless words," but only once. The text of the rule is an example of the rule.
I'm actually working on a project that EXACTLY fits your problem. Please check it out at homelibrary at sourceforge. I've only just started the project, it's not very easy to install right now, and there are a few bugs, but I started it with the exact problem in mind.
The word "sourceforge" in the second sentence makes the third superfluous.
Television should not be construed as legal advive. The burden of proof is upon the RIAA - she is not required to prove she didn't do something; instead, they are required to find the evidence she did use a computer and downloaded songs during the times they specified. If she wins, her case could be used as precedent to dismiss other similar cases. She may also countersue for malicious prosecution, depending on the facts of the case and jusrisdiction. The parts of the American legal system that haven't been gutted by Jorge Doublevee Busch and his corporate owners are still pretty solidly in favor of the defendant.
You're right - it was liberal-media-whore Walter Duranty's fault all those persons died under Stalin. And all this time I was blaming Stalin and his purges and death camps.
Ben Franklin started the whole turkey business as a satire of The Society of the Cincinnati's symbol, a badly drawn eagle which looked like a turkey. He was critical of the Society because membership was hereditary, which smacked of the very sort of nobilty the young United States had just successfully won a war against.
Ben Franklin started the whole turkey business as a satire of The Society of the Cincinnati's symbol, a badly drawn eagle which looked like a turkey. He was critical of the Society because membership was hereditary, which smacked of the very sort of nobilty the young United States had just successfully won a war against.
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And who's to say I don't already? Yee-heeee!!
That's what they should have done instead. I'd walk to the moon.
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The failure is really in the voters, who stay away from the polling places in droves during non-presidential elections. True, there is occasional gerrymandering and other questionable practices, but, in the end, we get the politicians we deserve. Democracy is a gift wasted on so many Americans.
Hawking is an alien, and he's trying to get rid of us to make way for the rest of his species to settle our planet. Fortunately for us, they're all confined to wheelchairs and will be easy to defeat, especialy if we refuse to build special hyperspace ramps for the handicapped.
True, but OP wasn't talking about IQ tests.
Nitpick: You meant to say that 50% of the population is below median.
You claimed control "is the whole point of copyright in the first place." I claim it is not. I think we both agree it has been perverted from its original purpose (notably by the term extension from 14 years to up to 120+ years), but the original purpose was to encourage, through financial incentive of limited term monopoly, the creation and duplication of creative works so they would enter the public domain and raise the overall cultural IQ, hence the name "copyright." If its purpose was to control who can and cannot view/listen/whatever to a creative work, it would have been called "controlright" or some other silly name.
DRM is a bastardization of copyright law. And I quote:
Having four other nerds over to your mom's basement to play Warhammer 40k doesn't count as a "party."
If you use Windows (i.e., you can't afford a Mac yet), Tag&Rename and MusicBrainz make a pretty powerful combination for fixing tags.
You've misquoted Mr. Strunk. Rule #17 is: "In summaries, keep to one tense." Rule #13 suggests we "Omit needless words," but only once. The text of the rule is an example of the rule.
The word "sourceforge" in the second sentence makes the third superfluous.
I find the session saver in Tab Mix Plus to be more robust than the session saver in Session Saver. YMMV.
Television should not be construed as legal advive. The burden of proof is upon the RIAA - she is not required to prove she didn't do something; instead, they are required to find the evidence she did use a computer and downloaded songs during the times they specified. If she wins, her case could be used as precedent to dismiss other similar cases. She may also countersue for malicious prosecution, depending on the facts of the case and jusrisdiction. The parts of the American legal system that haven't been gutted by Jorge Doublevee Busch and his corporate owners are still pretty solidly in favor of the defendant.
You're right - it was liberal-media-whore Walter Duranty's fault all those persons died under Stalin. And all this time I was blaming Stalin and his purges and death camps.
As could have you. You can find that link here. Dick.
By strange coincidence, that episode aired exactly nine years ago today.
No, no - they keep getting hired away by Hank Scorpio of Globex Corporation.
And they redeveloped the site a few years back with Quixote, a very cool, no-nonsense Python-based web framework.
No need to get your shorts in knot - I'm using the constriction supplied by the OP to illustrate its unsound logic and overall ridiculousness.
OK, I'm gonna lock you in a small, 100% air-tight room. I want you to use only your logic to keep yourself breathing indefinitely.
Wasn't Bender built in America's heartland - Mexico?
Ben Franklin started the whole turkey business as a satire of The Society of the Cincinnati's symbol, a badly drawn eagle which looked like a turkey. He was critical of the Society because membership was hereditary, which smacked of the very sort of nobilty the young United States had just successfully won a war against.
Ben Franklin started the whole turkey business as a satire of The Society of the Cincinnati's symbol, a badly drawn eagle which looked like a turkey. He was critical of the Society because membership was hereditary, which smacked of the very sort of nobilty the young United States had just successfully won a war against.