Not really - this was a rushed thing resulting from some kind of an 'evil variety' hack. They are asking for suggestions on their home page as to what people would like to see. Too much delay could easily disillusion many users maybe? It was something like 3 days from their having gone down that they got this out.
"If IP is not deserving of property status, why do afford physical property the privilege of protection under law?"
Simple question to answer. Because, put quite bluntly, if I take your IP, you still possess it. If I take your favorite pair of shoes, you no longer have that pair of shoes, wot?
IP laws in their current incarnation are absolutely silly.
I put it to you that the reason companies and governments are being forced into these drastic actions is because people, the geeks and high school students who use napster for one, are not responsible with the ability to copy music
tell me, then, why the record companies sales just keep going up? napster's use is doing anything but receding...kinda hurts your Fundamental Philosophical Principal Reasoning, huh?
were blessed with some truly excellent male colleagues/drinking partners who willingly shared a lot of rounds and technical knowledge. Such men have gotten rarer, though I know they are not extinct
I would like to propose that this is because, 'back in the day', IT peoples were all geeks. now, it is in large part people who see IT purely as a lucrative career move;)
The above was an attempt both at being mildy amusing (probably a failed), and at complimenting m'self:) In no way a reflection on any views I might actually hold.
it baffles the mind how quickly people can lose perspective. should you have ever had the pleasure of living under tyrants, communist regimes, or the like-or even to have really studied them and people who had, trying to get an idea why that pesky little thing called the constitution is so great-then you would understand how evil this is. i can pick locks. i am not a lock smith. should i be fined, imprisoned, or have my tools removed because it would enable me to break into some one's house? certainly not! you punish crimes, you do *not* outlaw being able to/knowing how to commit them. we have a right to bare arms, but i guess you would be opposed to that too, right? i mean, they cause many deaths! all of those hicks wanting to be able to get drunk and go on shooting sprees, and what have you. yes? and yet in the constitution the right is garaunteed (i am sure that is incorrectly spelled, and i apologize), ever really try to figure out why?
The day in america that they fine me for disabling an electronic device in a car that I own, is the day that I start looking for a revolution to aid. Seriously, that would be an absolutely attrocious (sp?) infringement on one's rights. Bleh. I doubt they would (immediately) begin to fine people who disabled them, that would be a touch too obvious. It would be baby steps, like it always is, in all such similar situations in history. Perhaps I am just paranoid. We shall see.
If we never attempt anything because we're not sure what might happen, we might as well just give up here and now on living at all, except that we don't know what'll happen if we die, either.
not doing something because we do not know what will happen seems silly. doing something not knowing what will happen, when we can instead try before hand to get a better understanding of what to expect is not, however, at all silly.
Don't be silly. Dropping everything right now and being 'peaceful' sounds just great. But it is not plausible presently. Lots of things would need change before it could happen. With lots of seperate countries, different rulers for each, there will be expansionism and imperialists. It has been the case from the beginning of time. We stop developing defense/'defensive offense' and we could get knocked upside the head pretty hard. You may say "no country is just going to attack you! That is just government horse shit!", but, as i am growing more and more fond of saying with the passing years, people haven't changed a whole lot in the past millenia, so you can bash a lot of this theory by simply opening up your history textbooks.
As for the idea of Americans (i am American) being imperialists, maybe i've been decieved by The Man, but in the recent past i can not think of any landgrabs we've made. Done some stupid things (Kosovo bombin et al), and i guess that could label us as overly aggressive. But i can think of nothing 'we' have done to promote the idea that 'we' are going to go randomly blowing stuff up and trying to take over the world, as you seem to be implying. other countries have. i am in no way trying to imply that these countries are 'evil', just that evil people do tend to get powerful positions.
anyway, that is all pointless babbling. what i am trying to say is, by building a space defense system, we are hardly being tyranical pro-war schmuks (sp?). You wanna yell about us, fine. Don't blame ya, we do dumb stuff. But this is hardly the thing to do it over.
Certainly not. It is loved because it was beautifully directed, carrie-anne moss, it had unbelievably well choreographed fight scenes, and the underlying philosophy, while it seems somewhat redundant now, was very eye-opening when I first saw it, carrie-anne moss. And hackers was sad:-) One of the few movies that has had a real impact on my life, wot? Keanu, on the whole, is not a very good actor, IMHO, but he fits the role given to him wonderfully. Ground-breaking photography work in it as well. I wasn't a 'techie' when I saw it, either, so I didn't like it because I felt that I should.
It very eloquently works the good-versus-bad-epic-theme, whilst adding some very nice quirks. And it had a better-than-decent musical score to boot.
Just like the Phantom Menace my foot. Nobody liked that. They 'got their panties in a bunch' over it because of the hope that it would be of the same level as the original 3. Lucas decided instead to cater 100% to 8-year-old and Graphics Design Folks
Then again, this is obviously flaim bait. Oh well, I had fun responding anyway.
you are missing the point. this 'all or worthless' attitude is the problem. it would have to start with a few doing this, then a few more, until you make a sizable dent. each one can add up, especially when you are saying it on a place that gets the kind of hits slashdot does. it's an age old dilemna...a bit of a paradox when ya think about it. anyway, these are very sad types of actions on the part of corporations (not surprising, though). they are beginning to really anger some groups...though they usually keep it more to themselves, holding that, 'if it goes too far, then we will do something about it'. then again, i'm getting kinda off topic here...apologies. anyway, i agree with his having said that. myself, i will continue to use it. one more of these, though, and it constitutes a trend, and i shall also cease.
if a black dude w/ cash tries to buy a team, and is unreasonably turned down, then you can call it racism. there merely being a lack of black owners does not constitute racism. the turning down/hindering of black owners does. this little blurb of yours is thus rather pointless. if you are going to post about the unfair racial bias against black managers, at least provide something to back up the claim (not saying there aren't incidents, wouldn't have a clue, never cared for any sport, save maybe soccer-and chess, if you call that a sport(i do):)
haven't seen the movie yet, so don't know what 'warriors like this' means, but women warriors such as japan's kunoichi were fairly commonplace in the far east during said time, though usually in roles pertaining more to stealth and infiltration, than battle field combat. I do not know about china specifically, but for the 'east' (never understood that term, but ah well) in general, female warriors were very much not unheard of (apologies for the double negative).
i would definitely, if i were amazon, feel obligated to hold off on selling used copies of a book for at least the first six months after i had been selling it. while you will say, "well it's their right! why shouldn't they sell what is theirs?"-and that arguments has some warrant-you must remember a few points. there is a difference between someone selling a few used books, and the top booksellers from whom the authors get nearly all of their income from, selling new books, buying them back the day after, and reselling them in order to get out of having to give recompense to the creator. that is quite wholly amoral, and if universalized, would screw the whole thing up. while the freedom to sell what is your is fundamental, for amazon to be doing this while the new books are still selling, is a *very* bad idea. then again, the system in place is already fairly screwed up, maybe this would in a roundabout way be for the best. but in conclusion-i do not know if the guild should be able to force them to stop selling the used books (which, if you actually read the thing, is not the compromise they are trying to reach), but amazon should stop. justafewthoughts
like i always say, peace is the single greatest cause of nihilism. thus has it always been, thus will it always be. no will without the some notion of a worthy end.
eheh, i love it when people try to score extra 'points' by pretending they are into theatre and the like:-) quite ammusing. from katz though it is hardly a surprise (no offense, but i mean, it often seems as though his writing process consists of sitting down for 15 minutes, running spell check to take care of any "editing", patting himself on the back and then publishin' it.
not that i mind, i always, at the least, get a good chuckle out of his work =)
in that, your boss is just someone you get paid by, and are not forced to obey, save w/ the threat that he will no longer employ you.
with teachers/students, however, children/*cough* youth *cough*, are not only told by the government to obey the teachers, but are so thouroughly indoctrinated from about 4 years old, that teachers rule is law.
and it is so. you say you don't have to obey the teacher (and this is nothing like jumping off the cliff on command), but, and this proves true all throughout the students young life-if you don't obey the teacher, you are certifiably wrong, and the teacher can seriously alter, for the worse, the next year or 2 or 5 of your life.
in other words, teachers reign in school in the eyes of the students, and they reinforce this idea knowingly, as do parents/principals/whoever else, and i know that if *i* were challenged by my teacher to do what this kid did, i'd have no reason to think it was not ok....
of course, after read this and other similar things, i know better, but before hearing of such precedents, i would not think twice before taking him/her at his/her word.
this *is* happening to me, and has happened, in several classes. I ace all tests. and i barely-if-even pass in the classes.
it would seem logical to me, in that tests are their to "test" (wow) your grasp, and homework to help you grasp, that not only is it boardering insanity and redundancy to grade homework, but, perhaps, if you can do well on the tests w/o them, that you have the amount at least reduced.
but then, that would mean you'd have to do more than give your students a text book and one collective lecture a day...(i know, some teachers are not so, no "you stereotyping putz, you!" replies please.), you'd have to look at how each student is doing...
i dunno, just seems kinda mindless to me. i could be teaching half my classes anyway...if i didn't think it would give my mom a heart attack, i'd have dropped out already, just done that whatever-you-call-it-test for all the classes to graduate, started my business (security, both physical and system), and done that till i was old enough to go to college and be of the same age as all else there. or, depending on how well my career worked out, not enroll, just sit in on the lectures, and thus be going to college for the purposes of *wait for it*... learning! as opposed to purely because i want to be able to tell employers "i'm college certified!".
so, what you are saying is, the guy who counterfiets 100 $1 bills should get 100 x as long a sentence as the person who makes one $100 dollar bill?:-) i like it.
"But that's not because I think the reasoning behind IP is valid. It's because I've agreed to live in the United States, and part of that agreement is abiding by laws whether I agree with them or not."
which raises another issue all together. i would agree w/ that sentence, were it true that i felt i was deciding to live on 'their' land. but i can't live (unless i like go live on a boat, or in some remote, uncivilized region in africa or australia or something) without being on "someone's (some governments) land". lemme say this - i am not an anarchist. i like the idea of government. but it irritates me enormously that i can not choose to abstain from being part of "the system", even if i am willing to seperate myself from the protections/benefits it provides. in order to live, i am required to be part of some government. so for me, the above sentence of yours has no meaning, as, i am not deciding to live in the U.S., and thus agreeing to follow any laws, however amoral they may be, i just wanna live on this unoccupied spot of land on the eastern coast of North America. this is not to say, however, that i would necessarily decline being part of the system presently in place. just a thought.
having never read the book, or even seen the movie, i was confused by one thing which is really bothering me. that whatever-hunter thingimabob that comes out of the wall to kill paul, paul says it can only attack movement. he also says someone is operating it. how is it, that it can only attack movement, but it can go right up to the persons face and stare at it? obviously it isn't just htat it can only 'see' movement, as it goes right up to both of the people's faces and stares at 'um for a bit. this is really bugging me. help.
i had a dream once, while i was playing one of the king's quests. in it was the solution to a problem I had. i woke from this dream at about 4 o-clock (this was during a period of my life where i had time to sleep at night) and decided i should write this dream down. now, remember, this is in the middle of my sleep period, so i'm not really aware of all which I do. so anyway, i wake up in the morning, boot up the computer and run the game, then remembering that which i had written the night before. when i go to get it, i'm really not at all sure if i actually wrote it down, or if i dreamt that as well. i go back up stairs to retrieve it, find it right in the drawer where i remembered placing it the night before. I unfolded it, turned it right side up, flip it around so i could read the text, blah blah, and what did i find, but a list of phone numbers for every beautiful woman i had seen in the last year. i call them all up, and two months of my time is booked. among these ladies, i found the woman who is now my lovely wife.
I tried my best to keep a little optomism about it, in hopes that we americans wouldn't screw such a wonderful concept up too badly. i was beginning to think we might actually be capable of creating entertainment that wasn't completely mindless, and that this would focus on quality engineering and the versatility of the robots, as in Robot Wars UK. and then they announced donna d'errico as floor comentator.....
not too seem like a biggot(sp?), but "the gay olympics"? gay runners aren't fast enough to compete with others? everyone would be very ticked if they created the "black people olympics" or the "white people olympics", how is this different? i feel about this the way i feel about black history month. that is not to say they shouldn't acknowledge the accomplishments of black americans, but that they shouldn't have to have a special setting apart of it. it should be one big history, not white history, black history. just american history.
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if you know where to look:-) though in a smaller scale than what you propose-'their operations are too small for the empire to notice' (yeah, that was lame, it popped into my mind so i had to use it). the only way i can see getting around the growingly absurd, over-encompassing copyrights, is to, er...actually, i can't think of any way around them, except avoiding notice or substantially changing the way the world works.
too bad it's so schnarfing expensive to get satellites floating 'up there'. and for all those people who have/intent to post, "couldn't happen here? hey, you're wrong!", i'm pretty sure it was sarcasm in the first place, it's been known to be happening (legally) since the cold war...only rule (how do they enforce *this*?) is that you-or rather they-send a letter alerting you that they have been tapped, x amount of time after the tapping has been done:-)
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Not really - this was a rushed thing resulting from some kind of an 'evil variety' hack. They are asking for suggestions on their home page as to what people would like to see. Too much delay could easily disillusion many users maybe? It was something like 3 days from their having gone down that they got this out.
Simple question to answer. Because, put quite bluntly, if I take your IP, you still possess it. If I take your favorite pair of shoes, you no longer have that pair of shoes, wot?
IP laws in their current incarnation are absolutely silly.
I put it to you that the reason companies and governments are being forced into these drastic actions is because people, the geeks and high school students who use napster for one, are not responsible with the ability to copy music tell me, then, why the record companies sales just keep going up? napster's use is doing anything but receding...kinda hurts your Fundamental Philosophical Principal Reasoning, huh?
I would like to propose that this is because, 'back in the day', IT peoples were all geeks. now, it is in large part people who see IT purely as a lucrative career move ;)
The above was an attempt both at being mildy amusing (probably a failed), and at complimenting m'self:) In no way a reflection on any views I might actually hold.
not doing something because we do not know what will happen seems silly. doing something not knowing what will happen, when we can instead try before hand to get a better understanding of what to expect is not, however, at all silly.
As for the idea of Americans (i am American) being imperialists, maybe i've been decieved by The Man, but in the recent past i can not think of any landgrabs we've made. Done some stupid things (Kosovo bombin et al), and i guess that could label us as overly aggressive. But i can think of nothing 'we' have done to promote the idea that 'we' are going to go randomly blowing stuff up and trying to take over the world, as you seem to be implying. other countries have. i am in no way trying to imply that these countries are 'evil', just that evil people do tend to get powerful positions.
anyway, that is all pointless babbling. what i am trying to say is, by building a space defense system, we are hardly being tyranical pro-war schmuks (sp?). You wanna yell about us, fine. Don't blame ya, we do dumb stuff. But this is hardly the thing to do it over.
or maybe i am wrong.
It very eloquently works the good-versus-bad-epic-theme, whilst adding some very nice quirks. And it had a better-than-decent musical score to boot.
Just like the Phantom Menace my foot. Nobody liked that. They 'got their panties in a bunch' over it because of the hope that it would be of the same level as the original 3. Lucas decided instead to cater 100% to 8-year-old and Graphics Design Folks
Then again, this is obviously flaim bait. Oh well, I had fun responding anyway.
just a few thoughts...
if a black dude w/ cash tries to buy a team, and is unreasonably turned down, then you can call it racism. there merely being a lack of black owners does not constitute racism. the turning down/hindering of black owners does. this little blurb of yours is thus rather pointless. if you are going to post about the unfair racial bias against black managers, at least provide something to back up the claim (not saying there aren't incidents, wouldn't have a clue, never cared for any sport, save maybe soccer-and chess, if you call that a sport(i do):)
haven't seen the movie yet, so don't know what 'warriors like this' means, but women warriors such as japan's kunoichi were fairly commonplace in the far east during said time, though usually in roles pertaining more to stealth and infiltration, than battle field combat. I do not know about china specifically, but for the 'east' (never understood that term, but ah well) in general, female warriors were very much not unheard of (apologies for the double negative).
i would definitely, if i were amazon, feel obligated to hold off on selling used copies of a book for at least the first six months after i had been selling it. while you will say, "well it's their right! why shouldn't they sell what is theirs?"-and that arguments has some warrant-you must remember a few points. there is a difference between someone selling a few used books, and the top booksellers from whom the authors get nearly all of their income from, selling new books, buying them back the day after, and reselling them in order to get out of having to give recompense to the creator. that is quite wholly amoral, and if universalized, would screw the whole thing up. while the freedom to sell what is your is fundamental, for amazon to be doing this while the new books are still selling, is a *very* bad idea. then again, the system in place is already fairly screwed up, maybe this would in a roundabout way be for the best. but in conclusion-i do not know if the guild should be able to force them to stop selling the used books (which, if you actually read the thing, is not the compromise they are trying to reach), but amazon should stop. justafewthoughts
like i always say, peace is the single greatest cause of nihilism. thus has it always been, thus will it always be. no will without the some notion of a worthy end.
not that i mind, i always, at the least, get a good chuckle out of his work =)
in that, your boss is just someone you get paid by, and are not forced to obey, save w/ the threat that he will no longer employ you.
with teachers/students, however, children/*cough* youth *cough*, are not only told by the government to obey the teachers, but are so thouroughly indoctrinated from about 4 years old, that teachers rule is law.
and it is so. you say you don't have to obey the teacher (and this is nothing like jumping off the cliff on command), but, and this proves true all throughout the students young life-if you don't obey the teacher, you are certifiably wrong, and the teacher can seriously alter, for the worse, the next year or 2 or 5 of your life.
in other words, teachers reign in school in the eyes of the students, and they reinforce this idea knowingly, as do parents/principals/whoever else, and i know that if *i* were challenged by my teacher to do what this kid did, i'd have no reason to think it was not ok....
of course, after read this and other similar things, i know better, but before hearing of such precedents, i would not think twice before taking him/her at his/her word.
this *is* happening to me, and has happened, in several classes. I ace all tests. and i barely-if-even pass in the classes.
it would seem logical to me, in that tests are their to "test" (wow) your grasp, and homework to help you grasp, that not only is it boardering insanity and redundancy to grade homework, but, perhaps, if you can do well on the tests w/o them, that you have the amount at least reduced.
but then, that would mean you'd have to do more than give your students a text book and one collective lecture a day...(i know, some teachers are not so, no "you stereotyping putz, you!" replies please.), you'd have to look at how each student is doing...
i dunno, just seems kinda mindless to me. i could be teaching half my classes anyway...if i didn't think it would give my mom a heart attack, i'd have dropped out already, just done that whatever-you-call-it-test for all the classes to graduate, started my business (security, both physical and system), and done that till i was old enough to go to college and be of the same age as all else there. or, depending on how well my career worked out, not enroll, just sit in on the lectures, and thus be going to college for the purposes of *wait for it*... learning! as opposed to purely because i want to be able to tell employers "i'm college certified!".
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so, what you are saying is, the guy who counterfiets 100 $1 bills should get 100 x as long a sentence as the person who makes one $100 dollar bill? :-) i like it.
which raises another issue all together. i would agree w/ that sentence, were it true that i felt i was deciding to live on 'their' land. but i can't live (unless i like go live on a boat, or in some remote, uncivilized region in africa or australia or something) without being on "someone's (some governments) land". lemme say this - i am not an anarchist. i like the idea of government. but it irritates me enormously that i can not choose to abstain from being part of "the system", even if i am willing to seperate myself from the protections/benefits it provides. in order to live, i am required to be part of some government. so for me, the above sentence of yours has no meaning, as, i am not deciding to live in the U.S., and thus agreeing to follow any laws, however amoral they may be, i just wanna live on this unoccupied spot of land on the eastern coast of North America. this is not to say, however, that i would necessarily decline being part of the system presently in place. just a thought.
having never read the book, or even seen the movie, i was confused by one thing which is really bothering me. that whatever-hunter thingimabob that comes out of the wall to kill paul, paul says it can only attack movement. he also says someone is operating it. how is it, that it can only attack movement, but it can go right up to the persons face and stare at it? obviously it isn't just htat it can only 'see' movement, as it goes right up to both of the people's faces and stares at 'um for a bit. this is really bugging me. help.
i had a dream once, while i was playing one of the king's quests. in it was the solution to a problem I had. i woke from this dream at about 4 o-clock (this was during a period of my life where i had time to sleep at night) and decided i should write this dream down. now, remember, this is in the middle of my sleep period, so i'm not really aware of all which I do. so anyway, i wake up in the morning, boot up the computer and run the game, then remembering that which i had written the night before. when i go to get it, i'm really not at all sure if i actually wrote it down, or if i dreamt that as well. i go back up stairs to retrieve it, find it right in the drawer where i remembered placing it the night before. I unfolded it, turned it right side up, flip it around so i could read the text, blah blah, and what did i find, but a list of phone numbers for every beautiful woman i had seen in the last year. i call them all up, and two months of my time is booked. among these ladies, i found the woman who is now my lovely wife.
the above story has no truth value.
I tried my best to keep a little optomism about it, in hopes that we americans wouldn't screw such a wonderful concept up too badly. i was beginning to think we might actually be capable of creating entertainment that wasn't completely mindless, and that this would focus on quality engineering and the versatility of the robots, as in Robot Wars UK. and then they announced donna d'errico as floor comentator.....
not too seem like a biggot(sp?), but "the gay olympics"? gay runners aren't fast enough to compete with others? everyone would be very ticked if they created the "black people olympics" or the "white people olympics", how is this different? i feel about this the way i feel about black history month. that is not to say they shouldn't acknowledge the accomplishments of black americans, but that they shouldn't have to have a special setting apart of it. it should be one big history, not white history, black history. just american history.
justathought
if you know where to look:-) though in a smaller scale than what you propose-'their operations are too small for the empire to notice' (yeah, that was lame, it popped into my mind so i had to use it). the only way i can see getting around the growingly absurd, over-encompassing copyrights, is to, er...actually, i can't think of any way around them, except avoiding notice or substantially changing the way the world works.
no mere mortal can gauge *my* karma!
too bad it's so schnarfing expensive to get satellites floating 'up there'. and for all those people who have/intent to post, "couldn't happen here? hey, you're wrong!", i'm pretty sure it was sarcasm in the first place, it's been known to be happening (legally) since the cold war...only rule (how do they enforce *this*?) is that you-or rather they-send a letter alerting you that they have been tapped, x amount of time after the tapping has been done:-)