2 things 1. If it happens on the blue side of the aisle, punish them to the fullest extent of the law. 2. It *DID* happpen on the red side of the aisle. Punish them to the fullest extent of the law.
Don't let your "independent thinking" cloud your judgment there sport.
This is the comment I was looking for, hoping I wouldn't have to post it myself. GPL requires copyright it's true, but it's only necessary because of copyright in the first place.
The difference is that it's a game, and it's supposed to be relatively fair and meritocratic. The world is not a game, not a fantasy, and only the most minimal attempts are made to ensure its fairness.
Producing another brand new Corvette: I'm guessing $20,000 worth of parts, just spitballing. Then shipping the damn thing costs hundreds if not thousands of dollars.
Reproducing another copy of a CD for network consumption: $.10 worth of bandwidth or so, tops.
Having a free market where goods are priced competitively from multiple suppliers: priceless
Too bad you can't buy allofmp3 songs with Mastercard (TM).
Serious question now- does anyone personally know of someone who sought treatment for WoW addiction? I don't mean you read about it in the news, I mean personally. People seek treatment when they realize they have other sorts of non-chemical addictions but even among the most obsessed WoWers I know, none of them seem to see it as a problem that requires intervention to solve.
The grandparent of that post was an arg against the death penalty, I didn't start that. Your "principle" was that if punishment is as bad as crime, we can't punish people. I was saying that the point of punishment is not to equal the crime, but prevent more crime (sometimes through deterrence, sometimes through incapacitation of the original criminal) and that usually doesn't require the state to kill anyone most of the time.
What you're missing is that jail is sufficient to stop him from killing again, so your principle doesn't hold. In fact jail prevents most crime except those very limited crimes that can be accomplished from within a jail cell (buying and selling drugs, killing a guard, copyright infringement and other thought crimes).
More than half of the wireless ethernet cards I've ever tried to use have been completely incompatible with linux. Half of the compatible ones required special arrangements like extracting the firmware from the windows drivers or installing ndiswrapper by hand.
You build a reputation for doing good work and then charge a lot on the expectation that it will be a success. It just shifts the risk to the record labels, that's all.
"Those sound at odds to me. The record labels/movie studios don't care that you're not making a profit by distributing their music/movies P2P. They care that a whole bunch of people have it but didn't buy it, and that they're not making a profit. Do they get to enforce their IP rights or don't they?"
I'm glad you posted this. This is an entitlement, and it's precisely the problem. Owning a patent or copyright currently entitles you to sit on your butt while other people do work and you get to collect money. In a sensible system, people who create knowledge/media would be paid what their creation skills are worth in the marketplace. After all, even without patent/copyright protection, people would still need inventions and want music; we'd just let the market assign the costs rationally.
Most people don't know what compiling is, nor do they know what drivers are. You might as well tell them to flerb their blerfs and it will be just as useful.
The real issue is that Microsoft comes preinstalled on nearly every machine in the world because of their monopoly, and hardware vendors try to be compatible because of their monopoly (and sometimes even avoid compatibility with free/open software *because* of the Micropoly.)
No, it is Orwellian. It's using a word to mean the exact opposite of what is really the situation.
Your point is taken that the word "Orwellian" is overused these days, but I chalk that up to it being applicable too often, rather than being used more often than it applies.
They're a de facto monopoly, like a public utility, so they have some de facto responsibilities. Personally I think it's bad tactics to take on google like this, but it may be their only chance of not being eaten by the search juggernaut.
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2 things
1. If it happens on the blue side of the aisle, punish them to the fullest extent of the law.
2. It *DID* happpen on the red side of the aisle. Punish them to the fullest extent of the law.
Don't let your "independent thinking" cloud your judgment there sport.
This is the comment I was looking for, hoping I wouldn't have to post it myself. GPL requires copyright it's true, but it's only necessary because of copyright in the first place.
The difference is that it's a game, and it's supposed to be relatively fair and meritocratic. The world is not a game, not a fantasy, and only the most minimal attempts are made to ensure its fairness.
Well, this may be the first product where the 20 year span of the patent doesn't bother me.
This must be serious - they're even thinking about leaving Pittsburgh.
Producing another brand new Corvette: I'm guessing $20,000 worth of parts, just spitballing. Then shipping the damn thing costs hundreds if not thousands of dollars.
Reproducing another copy of a CD for network consumption: $.10 worth of bandwidth or so, tops.
Having a free market where goods are priced competitively from multiple suppliers: priceless
Too bad you can't buy allofmp3 songs with Mastercard (TM).
If I had a nickel for every time I heard that one...
Clean hands doctrine seems to apply here. I know it was the guys kids not him, but that's the case with many RIAA lawsuits isn't it?
And why the xenophobia?
Predator.
QED baby, QED.
Serious question now- does anyone personally know of someone who sought treatment for WoW addiction? I don't mean you read about it in the news, I mean personally. People seek treatment when they realize they have other sorts of non-chemical addictions but even among the most obsessed WoWers I know, none of them seem to see it as a problem that requires intervention to solve.
Breaking News: Republican Congress rushes Vote-by-ATM bill through committee.
Why do you think those other guys only became governors?
I'm sure that story would actually surprise a lot of people.
The grandparent of that post was an arg against the death penalty, I didn't start that.
Your "principle" was that if punishment is as bad as crime, we can't punish people. I was saying that the point of punishment is not to equal the crime, but prevent more crime (sometimes through deterrence, sometimes through incapacitation of the original criminal) and that usually doesn't require the state to kill anyone most of the time.
What you're missing is that jail is sufficient to stop him from killing again, so your principle doesn't hold. In fact jail prevents most crime except those very limited crimes that can be accomplished from within a jail cell (buying and selling drugs, killing a guard, copyright infringement and other thought crimes).
More than half of the wireless ethernet cards I've ever tried to use have been completely incompatible with linux. Half of the compatible ones required special arrangements like extracting the firmware from the windows drivers or installing ndiswrapper by hand.
You build a reputation for doing good work and then charge a lot on the expectation that it will be a success. It just shifts the risk to the record labels, that's all.
"Those sound at odds to me. The record labels/movie studios don't care that you're not making a profit by distributing their music/movies P2P. They care that a whole bunch of people have it but didn't buy it, and that they're not making a profit. Do they get to enforce their IP rights or don't they?"
I'm glad you posted this. This is an entitlement, and it's precisely the problem. Owning a patent or copyright currently entitles you to sit on your butt while other people do work and you get to collect money. In a sensible system, people who create knowledge/media would be paid what their creation skills are worth in the marketplace. After all, even without patent/copyright protection, people would still need inventions and want music; we'd just let the market assign the costs rationally.
Most people don't know what compiling is, nor do they know what drivers are. You might as well tell them to flerb their blerfs and it will be just as useful.
The real issue is that Microsoft comes preinstalled on nearly every machine in the world because of their monopoly, and hardware vendors try to be compatible because of their monopoly (and sometimes even avoid compatibility with free/open software *because* of the Micropoly.)
Couldn't happen to a nicer country.
Couldn't happen to a nicer company.
I hope they both find the happiness they deserve.
Your right to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose... after that it's negotiable. Yay freedom.
No, it is Orwellian. It's using a word to mean the exact opposite of what is really the situation.
Your point is taken that the word "Orwellian" is overused these days, but I chalk that up to it being applicable too often, rather than being used more often than it applies.
Forget that.
They're a de facto monopoly, like a public utility, so they have some de facto responsibilities. Personally I think it's bad tactics to take on google like this, but it may be their only chance of not being eaten by the search juggernaut.
and to the extent that it's not, liability is ok- it's really the intersection of free as in beer and free as in freedom we're interested in.