File sharing is already legal as long as you own the copyright or have permission from the copyright holder (or if it's public domain).
Sigh.. Okay. I'll clarify.
Should we allow unrestricted sharing of copyrighted media files?
Believe it or not, most artists (hint: I'm not talking about Britney Spears here)
How elitist of you
become artists because they have a desire to create, not for financial gain. Just try to imagine how many struggling artists there are for each famous/wealthy artist.
Indeed. Believe it or not, these people also like to eat. They would still create, but only in their spare time. If we force artists to work full time, a lot less work will be produced.
Nothing. No new legeslation is necessary.
But people are breaking thelaw on a regular basis under current laws? Is this a good thing? To me, it means that either the law is bad, or the people are bad.
What's the problem with stealing? Nothing wrong with wanting to get something for the lowest price possible. Our whole society is based on this principle.
Should we legalise file sharing? Should we abolish copyright? If we do, what will be the incentive for creators to publish their work? The desire to create?
So, can we make a whole class of software illegal? Well, we can. Considering a substantial part of the population uses it though, it's unlikely that would prove to be too popular.
Some of us are tired of hearing all the "its not stealing if they don't lose it" jive. Suddenly everyone is a lawyer and wants to argue semantics when it comes to defending GETTING SOMETHING ILEGALLY THAT THEY DID NOT PAY FOR
That's because it's different.
Stealing is not wrong because it's illegal
Stealing is not wrong because you get something for nothing.
Stealing is wrong because you deprive the rightful owner of his property.
Copyright infringement is wrong because you're depriving the copyright holder of his government granted monopoly.
"Stealing" is an emotive word. You should argue the facts, not be swayed by emotions.
They're using armed forces reserved RF frequencies for car doors!? I though that you needed a license from the FCC to broadcast at a given frequency.
Aside from the inconvenience to car users who find their cars jammed, isn't it a little dangerous to allow the cars to interfere with military equipment? This could cause havoc with radar, missile guidance systems, and who knows what else. What are they going to say "Oh, sorry we blew up that hospital. We meant to hit a test target, but someone decided to oen their car door".
(who, despite an astounding amount of research, was unable to demonstrably prove he fulfilled his obligation to the National Guard,
Why is it up to him to prove his innocence on the charge of dessertion? If he wasn't there, there must be a lot of better evidence than hearsay.
and who (AFAIK) never saw anything resembling warfare
Thus proving himself to be in touch with the views of the populace at the time, that vietnam was a mistake.
Why is the point not as valid or pressing this time around?
I thought it wasn't valid last time around. That's what the Democrats seemed to be saying. Suddenly it's important not only that someone did serve in the armed forces, but also killed a load of foreigners? And why should he have to account for his presence at all times? It seems that the air force was satisfied with whatever his explanation was.
I'm inclined to believe that all claims of bias in news reporting are whininess by people who don't know how to properly configure their RSS readers.
The whole bias thing is a myth anyway. "Bias" to a politician means that there are people who have differing political opinions.
I thought IBM was an American company. They're pushing hard to sell Linux and related services aren't they?
Yes, but Kerry isn't buying Linux from them.
Remember how often the term "draft dodger" was applied to Clinton and "war hero" was attributed to Bush Sr. by the so-called liberal media?
That's because clinton was a draft dodger, whereas Bush spent some time in the armed forces during the vietnam war.
We heard more about Monica this year than the Whitehouse scandals such as INTENTIONALLY LEAKING IDENTITY OF OUR CIA OPERATIVE or VP REFUSING TO DISCLOSE HOW NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY WAS SHAPED BY CROOKS--and that was before Clinton's self-serving book came out.
The PR machine in action. The publishers of books are often the same people who own newspapers.
Thanks to assholes like you, its gotten so fucking embarrassing to be a conservative that I don't tell anyone I'm a conservative Republican anymore because they'll mistakenly assume I want to lie and rape the US constitution to fatten my bank accounts or bloat the national deficit for short-term profits so our children can get royally screwed with 80% taxe rates 10-20 years from now.
How about not being a conservative Republican? You are allowed to change your political opinions.
Bush believes in supporting hard working American workers. Even if he has topay for it, he knows that it's worth it to put food on the plates of his citizens and subjects. He probably also eats American grown food, flies in an American buiolt plane and drives an American car
Kerry on the other hand uses foreign imported free software. He thinks that cost is the only area that matters. He probably drives an imported car and flies using foreign airlines such as Quantas and Aeroflot.
This is an important point! My tinfoil hats in my luggage may interfere with the RFID tracking! This means I'll lose my hats, the government wil be able to spy on me, and I'll lose my luggage!
Well, lets be fair; The restrictions are on "military critical" components. This is probably defined as a very fast CPU. The actual speed is probably in an addendum somewhere, specified in FLOPS, or something, and there's probably no indication of what sort of speed pentium CPU would have this speed.
Even if someone did say "That's equivalent to a Pentium III", this probably still sounds like a very fast processor. It seems like only a couple of years ago that Intel was pushing the Pentium. People who don't live and breath computers would find it hard to imagine just how outdated a 5 year old machine is.
The designer thhad the inspiration for a female character who was gutsy, aggressive, and a genuine female role model. The skin tight clothing was just a way to show her femininity.
Marketing got involved, and the breasts got bigger.
Tombraider as ironic campaign against the objectification of women my arse, cynical cash in on "Girl Power" more like.
That's where it backfired. Marketing people have no concept of irony. The designers thought they'd make a strong female character with exaggerated features, and then make her totally sexless. Then marketting got involved and realised they could push the whole sex angle.
Ever since Space invaders. This was a Japanese game, so the imagery is a little difficult for westerners to comrehend, but the metaphors are there for those who take the trouble to look.
More recently we've had Tomb Raider, which is an ironic campaign against the objectification of Women, (ironically, the irony backfired), and Grand Theft Auto, protesting against the innefectiveness of the criminal justice system.
The prevailing wisdom is that the GPL only grants rights. It doesn't take them away. Hence if it was ruled invalid, anyone who distributed GPL software would be guilty of copyright infringement.
For much the same reason, it is quite unlikely that all clauses in an EULA would be invalidated. The part that permits you to install it on a machine would have to remain valid.
Now, what about the floating-point exception handler bug in Linux?
But how much did this particular bug cost the industry? This would be the maximum liability. And obviously only the vendors would be liable; They're the ones selling it as a working OS suitable for certain purposes. There is only an implicit warrenty once you charge for it.
causing the cooling system in the reactor to stop working as it should. I think we all know what happens next...
The fuses melt, the rods drop and the reactor is disabled.
Nuclear power plant desingers justifiably have a belt and braces approach to things. This also applies to the software. They are not going to be running Windows. I suspect they'll not run Linux either. Neither are anywhere near reliable enough.
For example, say you have an if-else statement and a variable that you did not assign a value to. You give it a value in the if statement. You give it a different value in the else statement.
This is detectable. I'm sure MS Visual C++ spots this one and compiles without a warning.
But you're right. There are a lot of low level warnings such as unused command line parameters.
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It's not about "cleaning" it. He didn't. Simply removing grime doesn't count as cleaning it unless the intention is to make it cleaner.
It's about leaving a mark. Who cares whether it's done by adding paint or removing grime. It's left a clear and obvious mark that wasn't there before.
If he wants to clean it, clean it, but he was advertising, and merely claiming he was cleaning it.
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But GIF is the worst format for animations ever!
File sharing is already legal as long as you own the copyright or have permission from the copyright holder (or if it's public domain).
Sigh.. Okay. I'll clarify.
Should we allow unrestricted sharing of copyrighted media files?
Believe it or not, most artists (hint: I'm not talking about Britney Spears here)
How elitist of you
become artists because they have a desire to create, not for financial gain. Just try to imagine how many struggling artists there are for each famous/wealthy artist.
Indeed. Believe it or not, these people also like to eat. They would still create, but only in their spare time. If we force artists to work full time, a lot less work will be produced.
Nothing. No new legeslation is necessary.
But people are breaking thelaw on a regular basis under current laws? Is this a good thing? To me, it means that either the law is bad, or the people are bad.
What's the problem with stealing? Nothing wrong with wanting to get something for the lowest price possible. Our whole society is based on this principle.
Should we legalise file sharing? Should we abolish copyright? If we do, what will be the incentive for creators to publish their work? The desire to create?
So, can we make a whole class of software illegal? Well, we can. Considering a substantial part of the population uses it though, it's unlikely that would prove to be too popular.
So, what do we do?
Clearly thesolution is more legislation and litigation.
The USB on it is probably the 12mbps one too. That is dirt slow, to say nothing of the "thumb" drive speed.
Depends what you want it for though. It could be fast enough if you don't have a lot o fstuff to load.
Some of us are tired of hearing all the "its not stealing if they don't lose it" jive. Suddenly everyone is a lawyer and wants to argue semantics when it comes to defending GETTING SOMETHING ILEGALLY THAT THEY DID NOT PAY FOR
That's because it's different.
Stealing is not wrong because it's illegal
Stealing is not wrong because you get something for nothing.
Stealing is wrong because you deprive the rightful owner of his property.
Copyright infringement is wrong because you're depriving the copyright holder of his government granted monopoly.
"Stealing" is an emotive word. You should argue the facts, not be swayed by emotions.
They're using armed forces reserved RF frequencies for car doors!? I though that you needed a license from the FCC to broadcast at a given frequency.
Aside from the inconvenience to car users who find their cars jammed, isn't it a little dangerous to allow the cars to interfere with military equipment? This could cause havoc with radar, missile guidance systems, and who knows what else. What are they going to say "Oh, sorry we blew up that hospital. We meant to hit a test target, but someone decided to oen their car door".
(who, despite an astounding amount of research, was unable to demonstrably prove he fulfilled his obligation to the National Guard,
Why is it up to him to prove his innocence on the charge of dessertion? If he wasn't there, there must be a lot of better evidence than hearsay.
and who (AFAIK) never saw anything resembling warfare
Thus proving himself to be in touch with the views of the populace at the time, that vietnam was a mistake.
Why is the point not as valid or pressing this time around?
I thought it wasn't valid last time around. That's what the Democrats seemed to be saying. Suddenly it's important not only that someone did serve in the armed forces, but also killed a load of foreigners? And why should he have to account for his presence at all times? It seems that the air force was satisfied with whatever his explanation was.
I'm inclined to believe that all claims of bias in news reporting are whininess by people who don't know how to properly configure their RSS readers.
The whole bias thing is a myth anyway. "Bias" to a politician means that there are people who have differing political opinions.
Point noted. I shall remmeber for future trolling. ;)
I thought IBM was an American company. They're pushing hard to sell Linux and related services aren't they?
Yes, but Kerry isn't buying Linux from them.
Remember how often the term "draft dodger" was applied to Clinton and "war hero" was attributed to Bush Sr. by the so-called liberal media?
That's because clinton was a draft dodger, whereas Bush spent some time in the armed forces during the vietnam war.
We heard more about Monica this year than the Whitehouse scandals such as INTENTIONALLY LEAKING IDENTITY OF OUR CIA OPERATIVE or VP REFUSING TO DISCLOSE HOW NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY WAS SHAPED BY CROOKS--and that was before Clinton's self-serving book came out.
The PR machine in action. The publishers of books are often the same people who own newspapers.
Thanks to assholes like you, its gotten so fucking embarrassing to be a conservative that I don't tell anyone I'm a conservative Republican anymore because they'll mistakenly assume I want to lie and rape the US constitution to fatten my bank accounts or bloat the national deficit for short-term profits so our children can get royally screwed with 80% taxe rates 10-20 years from now.
How about not being a conservative Republican? You are allowed to change your political opinions.
Bush believes in supporting hard working American workers. Even if he has topay for it, he knows that it's worth it to put food on the plates of his citizens and subjects. He probably also eats American grown food, flies in an American buiolt plane and drives an American car
Kerry on the other hand uses foreign imported free software. He thinks that cost is the only area that matters. He probably drives an imported car and flies using foreign airlines such as Quantas and Aeroflot.
This is an important point! My tinfoil hats in my luggage may interfere with the RFID tracking! This means I'll lose my hats, the government wil be able to spy on me, and I'll lose my luggage!
Do these people not think the issues through?
Erm.. you were aware that I wasn't exactly being 100% serious weren't you?
But thanks for posting that. I have a friend who's very interested in this sort of thing.
Well, lets be fair; The restrictions are on "military critical" components. This is probably defined as a very fast CPU. The actual speed is probably in an addendum somewhere, specified in FLOPS, or something, and there's probably no indication of what sort of speed pentium CPU would have this speed.
Even if someone did say "That's equivalent to a Pentium III", this probably still sounds like a very fast processor. It seems like only a couple of years ago that Intel was pushing the Pentium. People who don't live and breath computers would find it hard to imagine just how outdated a 5 year old machine is.
Not at all.
The designer thhad the inspiration for a female character who was gutsy, aggressive, and a genuine female role model. The skin tight clothing was just a way to show her femininity.
Marketing got involved, and the breasts got bigger.
Tombraider as ironic campaign against the objectification of women my arse, cynical cash in on "Girl Power" more like.
That's where it backfired. Marketing people have no concept of irony. The designers thought they'd make a strong female character with exaggerated features, and then make her totally sexless. Then marketting got involved and realised they could push the whole sex angle.
Pacman was anti-prohibition.
Ever since Space invaders. This was a Japanese game, so the imagery is a little difficult for westerners to comrehend, but the metaphors are there for those who take the trouble to look.
More recently we've had Tomb Raider, which is an ironic campaign against the objectification of Women, (ironically, the irony backfired), and Grand Theft Auto, protesting against the innefectiveness of the criminal justice system.
That too is a good point. I forgot to point out that this supposisition is from people who are fairly biased towards the GPL.
It's been discussed before.
The prevailing wisdom is that the GPL only grants rights. It doesn't take them away. Hence if it was ruled invalid, anyone who distributed GPL software would be guilty of copyright infringement.
For much the same reason, it is quite unlikely that all clauses in an EULA would be invalidated. The part that permits you to install it on a machine would have to remain valid.
Now, what about the floating-point exception handler bug in Linux?
But how much did this particular bug cost the industry? This would be the maximum liability. And obviously only the vendors would be liable; They're the ones selling it as a working OS suitable for certain purposes. There is only an implicit warrenty once you charge for it.
causing the cooling system in the reactor to stop working as it should. I think we all know what happens next...
The fuses melt, the rods drop and the reactor is disabled.
Nuclear power plant desingers justifiably have a belt and braces approach to things. This also applies to the software. They are not going to be running Windows. I suspect they'll not run Linux either. Neither are anywhere near reliable enough.
For example, say you have an if-else statement and a variable that you did not assign a value to. You give it a value in the if statement. You give it a different value in the else statement.
This is detectable. I'm sure MS Visual C++ spots this one and compiles without a warning.
But you're right. There are a lot of low level warnings such as unused command line parameters.
It's not about "cleaning" it. He didn't. Simply removing grime doesn't count as cleaning it unless the intention is to make it cleaner.
It's about leaving a mark. Who cares whether it's done by adding paint or removing grime. It's left a clear and obvious mark that wasn't there before.
If he wants to clean it, clean it, but he was advertising, and merely claiming he was cleaning it.