games try to give you some illusion of free will to allow you feel like it is you choosing
And some licensed games utterly fail. I recently played Star Trek Bridge Commander all the way through. It's an older game, so I can forgive some of the weird looking lip sync and human models.
The real problem was you had very little opportunity to make any decisions that affected the outcome of the game. Any "wrong" decision, and it was game over.
It felt like a poorly written "choose your own adventure book", one where you start to recognize the page number of the "death page" that is referred to on nearly every decision page.
I find it hard to believe that game was given such good reviews, it's really a pretty terrible game, with pretty good 3D combat as its only saving grace.
It is true. The appeals court ruled in the Emerson case that the 2nd is a individual, civilian right, (as if there were any doubt by anyone reasonable), but that the state may suspend it in the face of compelling state interest.
The supreme court refused to hear the case, so this appellate opinion is the current precedent.
It's not a California law, it's a federal law. Someone needs to attack it on the grounds that it does not involve interstate commerce, or anything else the federal government is allowed to pass laws about. So far I believe it's only been attacked on 2nd amendment grounds.
I bet you're thinking "well what if you are a law enforcement officer or armed security guard and you are getting a divorce or whatnot?". Well the answer is, basically, "tough shit". A case has gone through involving a security guard, where he won, but it was not appealed and no real precedent is set. Any person required to carry a gun that is going through a divorce is potentially putting their career in jeopardy, since restraining orders are generally granted automatically in divorce cases.
As a contractor, your "boss" is not your boss at all, they are your customer. If they decide to stop using your services, for whatever reason, that's tough shit, as the parent pointed out.
After reading this story, I posted a GPLed snippet of my code on the site.
If someone emailed me and said they would like to put it in their BSD licensed application, I would grant them a specific permission.
I have a feeling most people that license their stuff under GPL would have similar feelings about small snippets of their GPL code. It can't hurt to ask, not everything has to be a huge political battle, we are all programmers here.
I agree that it's tough to give a quantative score to something like liberty.
I think it's also flawed to take a snapshot of GDP and compare. Many social welfare systems are very akin to pyramid schemes, if not reformed, doomed to collapse under their own weight in a couple decades. We're facing that now with our Social Security programs.
I don't know, all Democrats call themselves "fiscal conservatives", but when it comes down to it, nearly all the democrats and most of the republicans are really into expanding government spending.
So be it. If a company can't figure out a way to charge for their service, then they go out of business.
You seem to have the impression I don't pay for satellite, I do, in fact my satellite bill was recently over $130 until I cut back and cancelled some of the premium channels. I use satellite Internet also.
I pay for it, and yet see nothing wrong with tuning it in without paying. Ponder that one for a while.
In your example, I would be taking up a seat that could be sold to a paying customer, hence, I have stolen something. Taking the seat uses part of a finite resource, it reduces the amount of that resource that is available for sale. Tuning in a satellite broadcast does not use part of a finite resource, it does not reduce the amount of broadcast available for sale.
Human Development Index what you propably consider socialist welfare states
Ever stop to think that the index probably measures things that are biased toward socialist welfare?
Don't compare "socialist welfare states " to a foregin policy of "imperialist invasion of countries"
I think you misunderstood me, I used the two as examples of two major negatives of both sides of our tranditional one dimensional political spectrum, which seems to be a choice between facism and socialism, with no room for freedom from government interference.
Don't know about sharpton, I took that survey that someone else mentioned, and here's what it said:
1. Libertarian Candidate (100%) Click here for info 2. Sharpton, Reverend Al - Democrat (51%) Click here for info 3. Dean, Gov. Howard, VT - Democrat (49%) Click here for info
So apparently Sharpton is more Libertarian than this Howard guy.
It's theft of services. Exactly as if you siphoned energy off the grid unmetered, or phreaked for phone calls.
No, it's not.
If you use energy off the grid, there is something taken. You used something that could have been sold to someone else had you not taken it. Same with use of a phone network, you are using a circuit that could have went to a paying customer.
When you "steal" something that is broadcast, you aren't using any resource that could have been sold to someone else. You aren't "stealing" anything at all.
you could probably build the system to focus specifically on the correct part, further eliminating confusion.
Take that a step further, scale and rotate the text so it appears it's actually painted on the object in question. If you turn your head, the text turns too so the illusion that the object actually has the text on it is complete. Wonder how hard that would be.
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TCP/IP doesn't handle high latency hardly at all though.
If it did, my satellite router wouldn't need to run windows.
games try to give you some illusion of free will to allow you feel like it is you choosing
And some licensed games utterly fail. I recently played Star Trek Bridge Commander all the way through. It's an older game, so I can forgive some of the weird looking lip sync and human models.
The real problem was you had very little opportunity to make any decisions that affected the outcome of the game. Any "wrong" decision, and it was game over.
It felt like a poorly written "choose your own adventure book", one where you start to recognize the page number of the "death page" that is referred to on nearly every decision page.
I find it hard to believe that game was given such good reviews, it's really a pretty terrible game, with pretty good 3D combat as its only saving grace.
Make sure to see my reply to this issue, one level up.
This sounds far too unconstitutional to be true
Welcome to Amerika Comrade!
It is true. The appeals court ruled in the Emerson case that the 2nd is a individual, civilian right, (as if there were any doubt by anyone reasonable), but that the state may suspend it in the face of compelling state interest.
The supreme court refused to hear the case, so this appellate opinion is the current precedent.
It's not a California law, it's a federal law. Someone needs to attack it on the grounds that it does not involve interstate commerce, or anything else the federal government is allowed to pass laws about. So far I believe it's only been attacked on 2nd amendment grounds.
I bet you're thinking "well what if you are a law enforcement officer or armed security guard and you are getting a divorce or whatnot?". Well the answer is, basically, "tough shit". A case has gone through involving a security guard, where he won, but it was not appealed and no real precedent is set. Any person required to carry a gun that is going through a divorce is potentially putting their career in jeopardy, since restraining orders are generally granted automatically in divorce cases.
Be honest, now
I never have to su to configure things that are specific to my user, only to configure system wide things.
swell foop
Heh. Spoonerism.
Well that's the whole point.
As a contractor, your "boss" is not your boss at all, they are your customer. If they decide to stop using your services, for whatever reason, that's tough shit, as the parent pointed out.
After reading this story, I posted a GPLed snippet of my code on the site.
If someone emailed me and said they would like to put it in their BSD licensed application, I would grant them a specific permission.
I have a feeling most people that license their stuff under GPL would have similar feelings about small snippets of their GPL code. It can't hurt to ask, not everything has to be a huge political battle, we are all programmers here.
Anything else will be inadequate.
If you write your own, it will no doubt be much more useful for your particular company.
I agree that it's tough to give a quantative score to something like liberty.
I think it's also flawed to take a snapshot of GDP and compare. Many social welfare systems are very akin to pyramid schemes, if not reformed, doomed to collapse under their own weight in a couple decades. We're facing that now with our Social Security programs.
I don't know, all Democrats call themselves "fiscal conservatives", but when it comes down to it, nearly all the democrats and most of the republicans are really into expanding government spending.
Winamp doesn't stop playing when you switch users.
If you are amazed by that, you really don't know what you are missing by not using Linux/BSD.
So be it. If a company can't figure out a way to charge for their service, then they go out of business.
You seem to have the impression I don't pay for satellite, I do, in fact my satellite bill was recently over $130 until I cut back and cancelled some of the premium channels. I use satellite Internet also.
I pay for it, and yet see nothing wrong with tuning it in without paying. Ponder that one for a while.
Yes.
In your example, I would be taking up a seat that could be sold to a paying customer, hence, I have stolen something. Taking the seat uses part of a finite resource, it reduces the amount of that resource that is available for sale. Tuning in a satellite broadcast does not use part of a finite resource, it does not reduce the amount of broadcast available for sale.
The thing is that the US continues to make mistakes in foreign policy
When you play God, mistakes have much greater consequences.
Human Development Index what you propably consider socialist welfare states
Ever stop to think that the index probably measures things that are biased toward socialist welfare?
Don't compare "socialist welfare states " to a foregin policy of "imperialist invasion of countries"
I think you misunderstood me, I used the two as examples of two major negatives of both sides of our tranditional one dimensional political spectrum, which seems to be a choice between facism and socialism, with no room for freedom from government interference.
Don't know about sharpton, I took that survey that someone else mentioned, and here's what it said:
1. Libertarian Candidate (100%) Click here for info
2. Sharpton, Reverend Al - Democrat (51%) Click here for info
3. Dean, Gov. Howard, VT - Democrat (49%) Click here for info
So apparently Sharpton is more Libertarian than this Howard guy.
Either sane copyright laws, with a socialist welfare state, or bad copyright laws, and imperialist invasion of countries?
Why do people continue to vote for republicans and democrats anyway?
It's theft of services. Exactly as if you siphoned energy off the grid unmetered, or phreaked for phone calls.
No, it's not.
If you use energy off the grid, there is something taken. You used something that could have been sold to someone else had you not taken it. Same with use of a phone network, you are using a circuit that could have went to a paying customer.
When you "steal" something that is broadcast, you aren't using any resource that could have been sold to someone else. You aren't "stealing" anything at all.
I see what you are saying when you take that literally, but it's almost always meant as a compliment.
you could probably build the system to focus specifically on the correct part, further eliminating confusion.
Take that a step further, scale and rotate the text so it appears it's actually painted on the object in question. If you turn your head, the text turns too so the illusion that the object actually has the text on it is complete. Wonder how hard that would be.
Wouldn't it make more sense to put these types of things on a Commodore 64/128 that already has a kick ass synth chip?
Do you know the laws of every country in the whole world?
By doing business there, you are subject to them.
Guess you better hire hundreds of lawyers to research all the laws in the countries you want to sell in.
International customers are not desired, by any smart business that doesn't have billions of dollars to give to lawyers.
Last time I checked, it's not illegal for an 18-year-old to have firearms.
You can't purchase a handgun until you are 21, though you can get rifles and shotguns when you are 18.
Yeah I remember that one too. You had options when indians attacked like "circle wagons" or to kill them.
Typing "shoot" or "bang" quickly was pretty hard back then when I couldn't type very well, especially not on that crappy c64 keyboard.