Wow. I apologize for what you obviously interpreted as a personal attack, somehow slighting your personal experience. I did not mean to do this at all. HIV/AIDS is a terrible disease to be sure, and I am all for furthering the treatment/cure of the disease itself.
However, my post was meant to remind people that overuse of a drug tends to lead to resistant strains that are even harder to treat. If this is a substantial cure for the disease, it needs to be used responsibly to prevent any resistant strains from being passed on. Specifically, imagine someone is treated but the infection is not removed, and they infect someone else, assuming somehow that they are now cured. This kind of irresponsible behaviour is not altogether unlikely, given the infection vectors that are most common (unprotected sex, sharing needles).
This is no miracle cure. The miracle cure is a level of responsibility that most people lack entirely.
Insert generic comment about the overuse of a drug leading to the evolution of the disease to a new super form that is resistant to all known treatments.
youre still assuming that the buyer is inherently dishonest and intends to defraud. I wont argue that this is a possibility, but youd have to wait until the thing ships and is used for the purposes of infringing to indict.
To cite prior cases of a similar only furthers the point that this country is adopting a mindset of guilty until proven innocent. Im quite tired of falling down this slippery slope.
Thats still a presumption of guilt without proof. Presumption by odds is still a guess.
Owning a license to 11,000 songs is nowhere near the order of winning the lottery.
Example: Lets say that the average album has 12 songs on it (its somewhere between 10 and 13). Further, lets say an average person purchases 10 albums a year once they start purchasing music (ive seen statistics from 5 to 30). Thats only 10 years to completely cover the 11,000 song count. So your average 23 year old would statistically be allowed to purchase a fully loaded ipod. Sure theres a lot of combinations available, but whos to say what that combination is? Additionally, infringement only occurs when the user listens to the song (this is a license for the content remember) so if the user were to delete the song, nothing illegal has occurred.
Please re-examine your constitution and its amendments.
Your analogy involving cocaine is inherently flawed. For that to be valid, music itself would have to be illegal. Your first analogy is slightly more correct.
If one were to own all the media listed, would it be illegal to purchase an ipod preloaded with the content? I cant see that as being illegal. What about users who are too inept/lazy/etc to transcode the content themselves? Should there be no legal recourse for them to get their content onto their devices legally? What about the guy shipping used copies of the content along with the unit? Excuse me, I think I smell a business opportunity here.
In fact, since everyone(1) is already plenty upset over ICANN retaining monopolistic levels of control(2), any further attempts to exercise control over countries will possibly lead to them setting up an entire infrastructure alternative in defiance.
i think you misspelled (1)"europeans and the UN" and (2)"managed to keep the internet from becoming a burecratic nightmare once"
fantastic idea! I'm sure it would catch on if we could come up with some cutesy way of designating it as being of an electronic nature as opposed to a hardcopy counterpart...
Cooper said IBM sees growth opportunities in large-capacity printing as marketers increasingly use direct mail to target customers. "Mail remains a very good way to market your business," he said, because consumers are overwhelmed by unsolicited e-mails, or spam, and don't like getting called by telemarketers.
Tis a shame that IBM is going to be marketing this printer for evil. I get enough junk mail, and the forests of our planet dont need anothe reason to be cut down.
FWIW OpenDoc was an apple technology back in the 90s that was ultimately killed off by jobs. it was a pretty cool framework that would have destroyed everything out there at the time if most people had been able to wrap their heads around "one document, one interface, many applications"
I still have a developer release laying around somewhere.
xbox controllers? are you high? even the s controller is mushy and difficult to use.
GC controller is easily the best video game controller, but ill listen to arguments for the genesis controller (not dreamcast, that textured analog stick ate my thumb for breakfast).
I wasn't aware that I was in the midst of the Spokesman of God and all things Christian^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hCatholic. That would be the pope... who is also against it;)
depending on how the school administration handled it, they probably saw it as a challenge to their person. i would have. most school administrators have a nasty habit of being authoritarian figures to students, espeically the rebellious ones. just from reading the previous TFA, its pretty clear that the superintendent is an arrogant prick.
additionally it appears that they are applying the punishment selectively by targeting underclassmen almost exclusively. it is not clear if sr/jrs were participating, but given how easy all of this was, its hard to imagine they werent.
additionally, these are children. 13-16 mostly. a felony conviction would ruin their lives. that hardly seems appropriate for a situation in which nobody got hurt. kids do stupid shit as it is, at least they werent playing around with firearms. i agree they need to take some degree of responsibility for their actions, but a felony conviction is not it.
so you agree that these kids should be charged with a felony for typing in a password that was affixed to their computer?
i maintain that at a very minimum the administrators should be held on conspiracy to commit or at the very least contributing to delinquency of a minor. OR that all charges should be dropped and everyone gets a slap on the wrist.
youre one of those people who would flip out if someone downloaded an mp3 and then bought the album later, arent you?
teenagers are not exactly known for impluse control or logical action. leaving this breadcrumb out was asking for trouble, and the IT administrators if not the school district is equally responsible for expecting children (not just any children, children with huge volumes of hormones coursing through their bodies) to behave themselves when GIVEN the key to the machine.
like a government, teenagers are not likely to give up things granted to them, so its not surprising they made a game of it.
in summary, telling teenagers to behave and then giving them the means to disobey you = misbehaving teenagers.
In a stunning series of events microsoft has sued google for use of the text "Live" added to the end of any service citing prior art and a series of obscure patents granting them the rights to the entire english language, as well as parts of french and spanish.
funny you mention the sony and kodak dye subs. if you check out wilhelm research (the archivabliity folks) the prints from those two machines are rated to 4 and 7 years.
if you had to pick one to go off of, which would you base your cooling decisions on?
the one that you want to see, or the one that will motivate you to perhaps take better care of your computer (eg, better fans, lowering load, increasing airflow, etc)?
me, id believe the 70c number, especially with SFF boxen.
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Wow. I apologize for what you obviously interpreted as a personal attack, somehow slighting your personal experience. I did not mean to do this at all. HIV/AIDS is a terrible disease to be sure, and I am all for furthering the treatment/cure of the disease itself.
However, my post was meant to remind people that overuse of a drug tends to lead to resistant strains that are even harder to treat. If this is a substantial cure for the disease, it needs to be used responsibly to prevent any resistant strains from being passed on. Specifically, imagine someone is treated but the infection is not removed, and they infect someone else, assuming somehow that they are now cured. This kind of irresponsible behaviour is not altogether unlikely, given the infection vectors that are most common (unprotected sex, sharing needles).
This is no miracle cure. The miracle cure is a level of responsibility that most people lack entirely.
Insert generic comment about the overuse of a drug leading to the evolution of the disease to a new super form that is resistant to all known treatments.
youre still assuming that the buyer is inherently dishonest and intends to defraud. I wont argue that this is a possibility, but youd have to wait until the thing ships and is used for the purposes of infringing to indict.
To cite prior cases of a similar only furthers the point that this country is adopting a mindset of guilty until proven innocent. Im quite tired of falling down this slippery slope.
Thats still a presumption of guilt without proof. Presumption by odds is still a guess.
Owning a license to 11,000 songs is nowhere near the order of winning the lottery.
Example:
Lets say that the average album has 12 songs on it (its somewhere between 10 and 13). Further, lets say an average person purchases 10 albums a year once they start purchasing music (ive seen statistics from 5 to 30). Thats only 10 years to completely cover the 11,000 song count. So your average 23 year old would statistically be allowed to purchase a fully loaded ipod. Sure theres a lot of combinations available, but whos to say what that combination is? Additionally, infringement only occurs when the user listens to the song (this is a license for the content remember) so if the user were to delete the song, nothing illegal has occurred.
Please re-examine your constitution and its amendments.
So youre going by the "guilty until proven innocent" principle?
Ill buy you a one way ticket to any contry that isnt the US that you want.
Your analogy involving cocaine is inherently flawed. For that to be valid, music itself would have to be illegal. Your first analogy is slightly more correct.
If one were to own all the media listed, would it be illegal to purchase an ipod preloaded with the content? I cant see that as being illegal. What about users who are too inept/lazy/etc to transcode the content themselves? Should there be no legal recourse for them to get their content onto their devices legally? What about the guy shipping used copies of the content along with the unit? Excuse me, I think I smell a business opportunity here.
In fact, since everyone(1) is already plenty upset over ICANN retaining monopolistic levels of control(2), any further attempts to exercise control over countries will possibly lead to them setting up an entire infrastructure alternative in defiance.
i think you misspelled (1)"europeans and the UN" and (2)"managed to keep the internet from becoming a burecratic nightmare once"
The same thing happened to me when my parents LP collection fell on me. Perhaps we should ban music too? One fell swoop and all that?
wouldnt a laser print (toner) be a better choice? inkjet printer ink tends to suck for archivability.
there was a time, back when clones were still around and the 604e was fresh, that macs were faster both per instruction _and_ had a higher clock rate.
it was once, and it was fleeting, but it was glorious.
fantastic idea! I'm sure it would catch on if we could come up with some cutesy way of designating it as being of an electronic nature as opposed to a hardcopy counterpart...
From TFA:
Cooper said IBM sees growth opportunities in large-capacity printing as marketers increasingly use direct mail to target customers. "Mail remains a very good way to market your business," he said, because consumers are overwhelmed by unsolicited e-mails, or spam, and don't like getting called by telemarketers.
Tis a shame that IBM is going to be marketing this printer for evil. I get enough junk mail, and the forests of our planet dont need anothe reason to be cut down.
FWIW OpenDoc was an apple technology back in the 90s that was ultimately killed off by jobs. it was a pretty cool framework that would have destroyed everything out there at the time if most people had been able to wrap their heads around "one document, one interface, many applications"
I still have a developer release laying around somewhere.
cdrom im guessing.
xbox controllers? are you high? even the s controller is mushy and difficult to use.
GC controller is easily the best video game controller, but ill listen to arguments for the genesis controller (not dreamcast, that textured analog stick ate my thumb for breakfast).
sometimes you see a comment that deserves more than +5, funny.
this is one of those.
good show.
I wasn't aware that I was in the midst of the Spokesman of God and all things Christian^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hCatholic. ;)
That would be the pope... who is also against it
let me help you with that
depending on how the school administration handled it, they probably saw it as a challenge to their person. i would have. most school administrators have a nasty habit of being authoritarian figures to students, espeically the rebellious ones. just from reading the previous TFA, its pretty clear that the superintendent is an arrogant prick.
additionally it appears that they are applying the punishment selectively by targeting underclassmen almost exclusively. it is not clear if sr/jrs were participating, but given how easy all of this was, its hard to imagine they werent.
additionally, these are children. 13-16 mostly. a felony conviction would ruin their lives. that hardly seems appropriate for a situation in which nobody got hurt. kids do stupid shit as it is, at least they werent playing around with firearms. i agree they need to take some degree of responsibility for their actions, but a felony conviction is not it.
so you agree that these kids should be charged with a felony for typing in a password that was affixed to their computer?
i maintain that at a very minimum the administrators should be held on conspiracy to commit or at the very least contributing to delinquency of a minor. OR that all charges should be dropped and everyone gets a slap on the wrist.
youre one of those people who would flip out if someone downloaded an mp3 and then bought the album later, arent you?
teenagers are not exactly known for impluse control or logical action. leaving this breadcrumb out was asking for trouble, and the IT administrators if not the school district is equally responsible for expecting children (not just any children, children with huge volumes of hormones coursing through their bodies) to behave themselves when GIVEN the key to the machine.
like a government, teenagers are not likely to give up things granted to them, so its not surprising they made a game of it.
in summary, telling teenagers to behave and then giving them the means to disobey you = misbehaving teenagers.
In a stunning series of events microsoft has sued google for use of the text "Live" added to the end of any service citing prior art and a series of obscure patents granting them the rights to the entire english language, as well as parts of french and spanish.
funny you mention the sony and kodak dye subs. if you check out wilhelm research (the archivabliity folks) the prints from those two machines are rated to 4 and 7 years.
just assume that that third is everything produced by microsoft and its cohorts.
all better!
at this point, unless you are scraping the very bottom of the barrel, most new pcs/new motherboards come with both usb2 and FW ports.
some (sonys) will mostly have the worthless 4pin ports, while most opt for the 6pin (powered) ports.
if you had to pick one to go off of, which would you base your cooling decisions on?
the one that you want to see, or the one that will motivate you to perhaps take better care of your computer (eg, better fans, lowering load, increasing airflow, etc)?
me, id believe the 70c number, especially with SFF boxen.