I don't think every sigle employee of Enron should be able to be sued by its creditors, for example.
Obviously not the employees- just the *owners*. Stockholders should be liable relative to their stake in the company.
That way, it becomes the stockholder's *responsibility* to know what's going on, rather than simply their right. It also means that boards would be more likely to hire trustworthy people.
Man I wish I worked at Vivendi and knew who this rep was. Then I could walk over to her desk and show her "look- everyone on the internet thinks what you wrote is too stupid to be true"!
With the exception of reference books which I use too often to repeatedly take out of the library, the only reason I every buy a book is so that I can lend it out to my friends.
Sure they could wait for the book at the library, but I like having a collection of books I can both recommend to my friends and *give* to them.
If Hillary Rosen heard that she'd cough up Jack Valenti's left kidney, but I sure would buy less books if I couldn't share them.
Creating cars that can't exceed the speed limit would also create dangerous situations on the highway. Imagine you are between the cabs of two large semi's, and you are driving 64mph in your Porsche. One of them starts to change lanes, unable to see you because your car is so low. You would like to speed up to avoid being sandwiched, but once your car hits the 65mph limit, it locks into cruise control at 65. You hit the brakes, but you can't slow down fast enough to avoid being smushed. (Does anyone else remember those kitschy "punch it, Martha!" commercials?)
Often the ability to use your possessions flexibly is important in ways that are not immediately obvious. Laws that prevent the flexible use of purchased items in order to extend the monopoly of content producers are bad.
The network is a product I don't need. The club is a way of recognizing the fact that they do work that can't be easily metered, but that needs to be compensated in some way.
It's a way of recognizing ethical companies who turn out quality products by giving them your money. It's a less formal way of buying the iso's I've downloaded, which saves them overhead and gives them a userbase they can identify.
Totonic is right. Mandrake has a *great* idea. This is a bandwagon RedHat should jump on immediately. I would definitely join the Redhat club in a heartbeat.
Hmmmm, commerce through ignorance? That must be Rad Hat's plan. Sell shiny boxes for $70, don't let on that you can get it for free if you ask. (The gurus know anyway).
That giant popping noise you hear is Hilary Rosen herniating herself when she reads this article.
Xerox machines were to the publishing industry are what the Boston Strangler was to a woman alone, to paraphrase Jack Valenti. Given that no one bothers to write books anymore since perfect copies can be made inexpensively, I'm sure we'll wise up this time and stop this reckless sharing of information in its tracks.
a bunch of snot-nosed brats not wanting to pay for other people's labor is beyond pathetic.
And your belief that "snot-nosed brats" are the only ones with a stake in the consequences of the ownership of ideas is laughable. The patenting/copyrighting of DNA threatens to create a much more insidious era of subjection, and what good is freedom of expression if all the obvious ideas and ideas you'd like to use as building blocks for your own new ideas are owned by immortal corporations?
If you can't see the perils inherent in this system, you are extremely short sighted.
Do you suppose it's possible to say something so hypocritical, so mindbendingly and offensively pointing to one's own guilt, that the speakers' head actually spins 360 degrees Exorcist-style then reseats itself as if nothing had happened?
I mean, the telecom behemoths want to complain about unfair competition after the way Excite, Rhythms, etc were treated?
Good gravy. Since the government created these corporate monsters through deregulation, perhaps the government is the only entity that can compete with them. Note to conspiracy theorists- perhaps this is all a clever ploy to keep the telecom bribes flowing, so the fatcats don't get too comfortable.
Make your data available over the gnutella network. Free, distributed serving. And it gives gnutella users a substantial, non-infringing use. History buffs will recall that the only reason we have vcr's without MPAA padlocks in our homes is because of a substantial, non-infringing use: taping Mr. Rogers for your children to watch later.
Perhaps PBS programming can save us once again from the clutches of the information monopoly industries.
I say keep the oral tradition. Hire a master storyteller and have this person write lays and epics about the overwhelming odds and unimaginable challenges your programmers faced, and the way that these struggles between good and evil shaped the interface you see today.
Who wouldn't buy the support contract if it included a yearly visit from the master storyteller? By jove I believe I've just solved the "how to make money from GPL softare" problem...
Note: Sun's trademark prevents us from calling the software "ACS Java", though "ACS for the Java Platform" is OK. Hence the abbreviation "ACSJ".
To this unfortunate obfuscation at cheapbytes.com:
Looking for CDs containing the downloadable version of the XXX XXX Linux distribution?
Hint: The name has to do with an article of clothing to keep your head warm.
We can't call it by it's real name due to trademark law. Our president will be providing a statement and information at a later time regarding this subject. Please be informed about this matter prior to jumping to any erroneous conclusions.
Cheapbytes, IANAL and this is not legal advice, but if the statement above is good enough for redhat, I wonder what could prevent you from saying something like
Note: Red Hat's trademark prevents us from calling the software "Red Hat", though "XXX XXX" is OK. Hence the abbreviation "XXX XXX".
Yeah, it's sweet. I was a little disappointed that that line was stripped from the movie, but since they show her wearing it in the beginning I suppose it's an acceptable abridgement:)
BTW, if you are at all into roguelike games (or have never tried them), you should try Angband. It's a very fun Tolkien-based ascii-graphics game that's been around for well over a decade and has been developed more or less actively for pretty much all of that time. You can find Nenya very, very deep in the dungeon. But it's pretty damned tough if you don't cheat (i.e., restore a dead character from a savefile). You can almost certainly find a version for your platform at ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/games/Angband/.
Slashdot Mirror
We've come to one of the finest lilypads in the world and replaced this frog's caffeine powder with Folger's Crystals.
Let's see if she notices.
"Croak!"
There you have it folks!
I don't think every sigle employee of Enron should be able to be sued by its creditors, for example.
Obviously not the employees- just the *owners*. Stockholders should be liable relative to their stake in the company.
That way, it becomes the stockholder's *responsibility* to know what's going on, rather than simply their right. It also means that boards would be more likely to hire trustworthy people.
Anything, just not a giant purple gorilla!
Readers of userfriendly will most likely wince...
Man I wish I worked at Vivendi and knew who this rep was. Then I could walk over to her desk and show her "look- everyone on the internet thinks what you wrote is too stupid to be true"!
You can mod me to oblivion if you like, but that was the funniest thing I've read in months. Good eye, czardonic!
With the exception of reference books which I use too often to repeatedly take out of the library, the only reason I every buy a book is so that I can lend it out to my friends.
Sure they could wait for the book at the library, but I like having a collection of books I can both recommend to my friends and *give* to them.
If Hillary Rosen heard that she'd cough up Jack Valenti's left kidney, but I sure would buy less books if I couldn't share them.
Creating cars that can't exceed the speed limit would also create dangerous situations on the highway. Imagine you are between the cabs of two large semi's, and you are driving 64mph in your Porsche. One of them starts to change lanes, unable to see you because your car is so low. You would like to speed up to avoid being sandwiched, but once your car hits the 65mph limit, it locks into cruise control at 65. You hit the brakes, but you can't slow down fast enough to avoid being smushed. (Does anyone else remember those kitschy "punch it, Martha!" commercials?)
Often the ability to use your possessions flexibly is important in ways that are not immediately obvious. Laws that prevent the flexible use of purchased items in order to extend the monopoly of content producers are bad.
Wait for it... Wait for it...
"Fool of a Took!"
---Gandalf
"Kind of shallow research, making a some common mistakes..."
Yeah a it is a easy to a make a some a common mostakes.
Yousa makin' funna my-a speech? I oughta breaka you face-a, you sunnuvabitch.
The network is a product I don't need. The club is a way of recognizing the fact that they do work that can't be easily metered, but that needs to be compensated in some way.
It's a way of recognizing ethical companies who turn out quality products by giving them your money. It's a less formal way of buying the iso's I've downloaded, which saves them overhead and gives them a userbase they can identify.
Totonic is right. Mandrake has a *great* idea. This is a bandwagon RedHat should jump on immediately. I would definitely join the Redhat club in a heartbeat.
Aibo, go fetch the vaio!
Let go! Bad dog! BAD DOG!
Hmmmm, commerce through ignorance? That must be Rad Hat's plan. Sell shiny boxes for $70, don't let on that you can get it for free if you ask. (The gurus know anyway).
Two words:
"Bottled Water".
'nuff said.
That giant popping noise you hear is Hilary Rosen herniating herself when she reads this article.
Xerox machines were to the publishing industry are what the Boston Strangler was to a woman alone, to paraphrase Jack Valenti. Given that no one bothers to write books anymore since perfect copies can be made inexpensively, I'm sure we'll wise up this time and stop this reckless sharing of information in its tracks.
Wil Wheaton is going to be 8 of 22! That's awesome! Man, I just can't get enough of that wacky borg.
a bunch of snot-nosed brats not wanting to pay for other people's labor is beyond pathetic.
And your belief that "snot-nosed brats" are the only ones with a stake in the consequences of the ownership of ideas is laughable. The patenting/copyrighting of DNA threatens to create a much more insidious era of subjection, and what good is freedom of expression if all the obvious ideas and ideas you'd like to use as building blocks for your own new ideas are owned by immortal corporations?
If you can't see the perils inherent in this system, you are extremely short sighted.
Do you suppose it's possible to say something so hypocritical, so mindbendingly and offensively pointing to one's own guilt, that the speakers' head actually spins 360 degrees Exorcist-style then reseats itself as if nothing had happened?
I mean, the telecom behemoths want to complain about unfair competition after the way Excite, Rhythms, etc were treated?
Good gravy. Since the government created these corporate monsters through deregulation, perhaps the government is the only entity that can compete with them. Note to conspiracy theorists- perhaps this is all a clever ploy to keep the telecom bribes flowing, so the fatcats don't get too comfortable.
Make your data available over the gnutella network. Free, distributed serving. And it gives gnutella users a substantial, non-infringing use. History buffs will recall that the only reason we have vcr's without MPAA padlocks in our homes is because of a substantial, non-infringing use: taping Mr. Rogers for your children to watch later.
Perhaps PBS programming can save us once again from the clutches of the information monopoly industries.
I say keep the oral tradition. Hire a master storyteller and have this person write lays and epics about the overwhelming odds and unimaginable challenges your programmers faced, and the way that these struggles between good and evil shaped the interface you see today.
Who wouldn't buy the support contract if it included a yearly visit from the master storyteller? By jove I believe I've just solved the "how to make money from GPL softare" problem...
:)
Just be sure that your trademarks don't infringe on someone else's freedom of expression!
Yeah, like the rest of the list are the meek who will inherit the earth. What a load of flerbage.
:)
Compare this short notice:
Note: Sun's trademark prevents us from calling the software "ACS Java", though "ACS for the Java Platform" is OK. Hence the abbreviation "ACSJ".
To this unfortunate obfuscation at cheapbytes.com:
Looking for CDs containing the downloadable
version of the XXX XXX Linux distribution?
Hint: The name has to do with an article of clothing
to keep your head warm.
We can't call it by it's real name due to trademark law.
Our president will be providing a statement and information at
a later time regarding this subject. Please be informed about
this matter prior to jumping to any erroneous conclusions.
Cheapbytes, IANAL and this is not legal advice, but if the statement above is good enough for redhat, I wonder what could prevent you from saying something like
Note: Red Hat's trademark prevents us from calling the software "Red Hat", though "XXX XXX" is OK. Hence the abbreviation "XXX XXX".
There should be an idiot clause in the DMCA
That would be a little redundant, don't you think? Hmmmm?
As is the case in many of these debates, there are two extremes, and both are equally likely to have problems.
"1 + 1 is 2!"
"1 + 1 is 3! (this message paid for by 3com)"
Oh, the truth must be somewhere in between these two extremes. Hence 1 + 1 is approximately 2.5.
Yeah, it's sweet. I was a little disappointed that that line was stripped from the movie, but since they show her wearing it in the beginning I suppose it's an acceptable abridgement :)
BTW, if you are at all into roguelike games (or have never tried them), you should try Angband. It's a very fun Tolkien-based ascii-graphics game that's been around for well over a decade and has been developed more or less actively for pretty much all of that time. You can find Nenya very, very deep in the dungeon. But it's pretty damned tough if you don't cheat (i.e., restore a dead character from a savefile). You can almost certainly find a version for your platform at ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/games/Angband/.
Ah well. Back to the rockets I suppose.