You explicity agree to those laws by taking advantage of the priviledges offered to you by said society. If you don't agree with them, leave the society. Then you'll be free.
You seem to be confusing explicit consent with tacit consent - a dubious notion at best. If a person is not born into obligation, the point the parent poster is arguing, then no act short of explicitly agreeing (in earnest) can oblige him to follow society's laws. If one is free and unbound to laws, then one is also free to freeload, so to speak. The question you raise is whether or not one should freeload, or whether it is impossible to freeload with integrity, but you have not made any argument for your position.
The consequences of the choice will vary however and you are not free of consequences.
I think that the poster would agree with you, but the point was that one could act against society and still not act immorally. There are many examples of this, civil disobedience being one of them. It would be irrational for a person to blatantly commit a crime, confess to doing so, and claim "I am a free man and you can't punish me". The parent is speaking of moral implications of freedom.
I always place the tablet on my lap and use it as if I were taking notes in a chair. I find it to be quite comfortable. I also like being able to place the pointer anywhere I like without having to drag it across the screen, as well.
Wacom has a wonderful selection of writing tablets for various uses (web designer, artist, general use, etc...) and I have found it to be quit relaxing and natural to use, especially if you grew up using pencil and paper to do things. According to their website, it helps reduce Repetitive Stress Injury, and they have several testimonials to that effect.
The notion otherwise is ludicrious, thought that fits right in line with anything else Congress has thought up lately.
I think that what we are seeing is an overabundance of laws. The legislature's job is essentially to continue to produce new laws throughout all eternity, whereas - one would think - there exists some finite set of laws that are necessary and sufficient for society to function peacefully and happily. If all new laws seem to conflict with, or be quite different (from a rationalization point of view), perhaps it because there is not really a need for these new laws, either because the old laws are already in place over the same domain or because the new laws are of a new type that are not only unnecessary but superfluous, having been created for the sake of creating. If I were Congress, I would dedicate one or two months out of every year doing a little house cleaning and repealing laws that are currently unnecessary, or have been shown to be a threat to the freedom of the American people.
So how many slashdotters will it take to submit a request for 1000 numbers between 0 and 1 before it generates the binary code for Windows? What about the source code?
Not every meaning of the word "crack" implies something nefarious. And again, perhaps the company released the key generator or a patch to remove copy protection ala Bioware as per Neverwinter Nights in responce to customer dissatisfaction with the copy protection.
don't stand up for it installing spyware, but if it just pops up a message with a black pirate flag and says you have been logged...the only thing that is harmed is the privacy of a criminal.
Of course it is always assumed that EVERYBODY knows that getting certain software from P2P is illegal. What is not reasonable to expect someone to know is that the program that they are downloading is not a freeware demo or some code that was released by the company. Just because the name of a file is "Unreal Tournament 2004 Full.exe" does not imply "Totally Illegal for you to download from me - Unreal Tournament 2004 Full.exe".
Is the burden of legitimacy placed on me, the downloader, or on the person who is uploading and distributing the copyrighted work? If the burden is on me, then I am at risk every single time I visit any website because anybody may be serving copyrighted images that they don't own the rights to. I don't think there is much legal recourse for those that downloaded, unless they were told in advance that the said file was being illegally distributed and they knowlingly contributed to the act of copyright infringment. But the fact is it is much much harder to prove willing intent to break the law than an ignorance of the facts about the copyright status of the file in question.
Of course this is no different than a library consisting of only papers on cannibilism that people have written, and are submitted in real time for publication. Again, not illegal.
"Windows has detected you want to connect a high resolution display to your computer. Your current Windows license doesn't allow displays over 1024x768. If you wish to upgrade, please insert appendage you wish to pay with..."
Sorry, I don't think this is an issuue because it is always possible to prevent non users of DRM from setting their display resolution above a certain size. I mean, you do have to configure windows to set the display resolution. If they don't want to support that resolution it doesn't require any special act of encryption to prevent you from using it.
No, the better solution is to do what Mandrake does, and during installation look for updated packages BEFORE installing them. Yes, this requires a network connection, but who doesn't have that these days? And if you don't have the internet, then the system is fairly secure anyway.
If you think that they sensored themselves out of any self-realization that they have created something immoral or indecent, think again. The only logic that motivates a corporation is sales and profit. The rationale behind censoring the game is to not lose sales to customers sensitive or sympathetic to the complaining group.
just recently bought a new car and I had to put gas in it after only 350 miles! They did not warn me about THAT at the dealership. Maybe I had better buy a new car?
More like buying a car and having to replace the "gas tank" after 350 miles. They were recharging their battery after all with electricity. And I'm sure that Apple didn't advertise the fact that batteries need to be replaced after a year or so. In fact, I'm quite sure that Apple was playing up the "rechargability" as a feature.
For those musicians who are original and are making what I like to call "real music", it would be nice to have a little extra money to get their music out to the public.
But don't you see? That's the beauty of P2P, you don't NEED a ton of money to get your music out to the public, just put it up on KaZaa or the like, and it will be spread across the internet to a great many people who are actually INTERESTED in what you have created and not forced down their throats in some payola radio fashion.
P2P filesharing of copyrighted MP3's is what the people want. Make any moral arguments you want, but the fact remains that this is what 60 million people REALLY want. If you can make a living from making music because of it, well yes then that is a sad story, but "them's the breaks". Deal with it and the people who make music for love and hobby will continue to do so (myself included).
If I were introducing Linux to the newbie, and expected them to be productive, I would install Mandrake Linux, or Redhat Linux (depending on how much you expect them to want to install a posteriori, or in addition to what comes with the install CD's).
I would of course use OpenOffice.org, which has come quite a long way in terms of usability and compatibility (I even use it as my defacto word processor now).
I would splurge and buy Opera web browser for Linux, however, even though Mozilla is nice, I just find that Opera is REALLY nice - especiialy with the full scale zooming of text and images to a reasonable level. You don't even need to buy it, it is also ad supported if you prefer.
The Gimp is perfect for image manipulation and for designing graphics and things, depending on what your organization is going to be doing.
And evolution is the perfect replacement for Outlook, and even surpasses it in many areas.
Overall, any standard linux distro is going to come with most of this stuff and you shouldn't have any trouble deciding what you should and shouldn't need to install. It really is a simple decision to switch to linux, and if you need to have windows around for migration purposes, just keep a few PCs around just in case. It'll still be cheaper.
I am an avid movie-goer and I find the cost is well worth the experience of the movie theater. I admit that Friday and Saturday nights I usually don't plan on seeing a movie because of the tendency of immature teanie boppers to flock together and act boisterously, however this is not something that is easy to deal with - nor would the theaters want to, because they are a LARGE part of the audience. Instead, I find myself going on evenings and midday after work. Sometimes I take an extended lunch break. I almost always get in on a matinee, but when I can do that, my university ID gets me in to AMC for only $6. As for popcorn and soda, I will pay $3 for a large diet coke, but I'm no big fan of popcorn anyway, and the money that I spend on concessions helps keep the theater and not the studios in business. I'm happy to pay that, I might even make a donation of a few dollars every time I go, if I felt it were warrented. The big screen experience is an indispensible part of my repetoire of entertainment.
As a matter of interest, when exactly does the copyright violation occur? Is it after she shares the songs in question with another user, or simply as soon as she makes it available for download by other users. If it is the former, then wouldn't the RIAA have to download the song to prove that any infringement had occurred at all? If so, did they do this?
Nobody is going to say "Since most people are making illegal copies of music, we should make it legal."
History would disagree with you. Just look at what happened to Prohibition. (Yes this is a redundant argument, but so, too, is the parent poster's rhetoric.
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One might even say that Forgent is going to make the GIMP their gimp. Wakka wakka wakka! - (ducks)
You seem to be confusing explicit consent with tacit consent - a dubious notion at best. If a person is not born into obligation, the point the parent poster is arguing, then no act short of explicitly agreeing (in earnest) can oblige him to follow society's laws. If one is free and unbound to laws, then one is also free to freeload, so to speak. The question you raise is whether or not one should freeload, or whether it is impossible to freeload with integrity, but you have not made any argument for your position.
The consequences of the choice will vary however and you are not free of consequences.
I think that the poster would agree with you, but the point was that one could act against society and still not act immorally. There are many examples of this, civil disobedience being one of them. It would be irrational for a person to blatantly commit a crime, confess to doing so, and claim "I am a free man and you can't punish me". The parent is speaking of moral implications of freedom.
I always place the tablet on my lap and use it as if I were taking notes in a chair. I find it to be quite comfortable. I also like being able to place the pointer anywhere I like without having to drag it across the screen, as well.
Wacom has a wonderful selection of writing tablets for various uses (web designer, artist, general use, etc...) and I have found it to be quit relaxing and natural to use, especially if you grew up using pencil and paper to do things. According to their website, it helps reduce Repetitive Stress Injury, and they have several testimonials to that effect.
I think that what we are seeing is an overabundance of laws. The legislature's job is essentially to continue to produce new laws throughout all eternity, whereas - one would think - there exists some finite set of laws that are necessary and sufficient for society to function peacefully and happily. If all new laws seem to conflict with, or be quite different (from a rationalization point of view), perhaps it because there is not really a need for these new laws, either because the old laws are already in place over the same domain or because the new laws are of a new type that are not only unnecessary but superfluous, having been created for the sake of creating. If I were Congress, I would dedicate one or two months out of every year doing a little house cleaning and repealing laws that are currently unnecessary, or have been shown to be a threat to the freedom of the American people.
So how many slashdotters will it take to submit a request for 1000 numbers between 0 and 1 before it generates the binary code for Windows? What about the source code?
Not every meaning of the word "crack" implies something nefarious. And again, perhaps the company released the key generator or a patch to remove copy protection ala Bioware as per Neverwinter Nights in responce to customer dissatisfaction with the copy protection.
Of course it is always assumed that EVERYBODY knows that getting certain software from P2P is illegal. What is not reasonable to expect someone to know is that the program that they are downloading is not a freeware demo or some code that was released by the company. Just because the name of a file is "Unreal Tournament 2004 Full.exe" does not imply "Totally Illegal for you to download from me - Unreal Tournament 2004 Full.exe".
Is the burden of legitimacy placed on me, the downloader, or on the person who is uploading and distributing the copyrighted work? If the burden is on me, then I am at risk every single time I visit any website because anybody may be serving copyrighted images that they don't own the rights to. I don't think there is much legal recourse for those that downloaded, unless they were told in advance that the said file was being illegally distributed and they knowlingly contributed to the act of copyright infringment. But the fact is it is much much harder to prove willing intent to break the law than an ignorance of the facts about the copyright status of the file in question.
Yes and the letters underneath it will stand for Save To Disk, so you'll have a butt with an STD...
Of course this is no different than a library consisting of only papers on cannibilism that people have written, and are submitted in real time for publication. Again, not illegal.
Sorry, I don't think this is an issuue because it is always possible to prevent non users of DRM from setting their display resolution above a certain size. I mean, you do have to configure windows to set the display resolution. If they don't want to support that resolution it doesn't require any special act of encryption to prevent you from using it.
So you can develop your own games without having to pay any licensing fees...
Am I the only one that read that as "Grand Theft Autobahn"??
No, the better solution is to do what Mandrake does, and during installation look for updated packages BEFORE installing them. Yes, this requires a network connection, but who doesn't have that these days? And if you don't have the internet, then the system is fairly secure anyway.
If you think that they sensored themselves out of any self-realization that they have created something immoral or indecent, think again. The only logic that motivates a corporation is sales and profit. The rationale behind censoring the game is to not lose sales to customers sensitive or sympathetic to the complaining group.
More like buying a car and having to replace the "gas tank" after 350 miles. They were recharging their battery after all with electricity. And I'm sure that Apple didn't advertise the fact that batteries need to be replaced after a year or so. In fact, I'm quite sure that Apple was playing up the "rechargability" as a feature.
But don't you see? That's the beauty of P2P, you don't NEED a ton of money to get your music out to the public, just put it up on KaZaa or the like, and it will be spread across the internet to a great many people who are actually INTERESTED in what you have created and not forced down their throats in some payola radio fashion.
P2P filesharing of copyrighted MP3's is what the people want. Make any moral arguments you want, but the fact remains that this is what 60 million people REALLY want. If you can make a living from making music because of it, well yes then that is a sad story, but "them's the breaks". Deal with it and the people who make music for love and hobby will continue to do so (myself included).
No no no - Small victories make everyone work. Big victories make everything work better...
I would of course use OpenOffice.org, which has come quite a long way in terms of usability and compatibility (I even use it as my defacto word processor now).
I would splurge and buy Opera web browser for Linux, however, even though Mozilla is nice, I just find that Opera is REALLY nice - especiialy with the full scale zooming of text and images to a reasonable level. You don't even need to buy it, it is also ad supported if you prefer.
The Gimp is perfect for image manipulation and for designing graphics and things, depending on what your organization is going to be doing.
And evolution is the perfect replacement for Outlook, and even surpasses it in many areas.
Overall, any standard linux distro is going to come with most of this stuff and you shouldn't have any trouble deciding what you should and shouldn't need to install. It really is a simple decision to switch to linux, and if you need to have windows around for migration purposes, just keep a few PCs around just in case. It'll still be cheaper.
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I am an avid movie-goer and I find the cost is well worth the experience of the movie theater. I admit that Friday and Saturday nights I usually don't plan on seeing a movie because of the tendency of immature teanie boppers to flock together and act boisterously, however this is not something that is easy to deal with - nor would the theaters want to, because they are a LARGE part of the audience. Instead, I find myself going on evenings and midday after work. Sometimes I take an extended lunch break. I almost always get in on a matinee, but when I can do that, my university ID gets me in to AMC for only $6. As for popcorn and soda, I will pay $3 for a large diet coke, but I'm no big fan of popcorn anyway, and the money that I spend on concessions helps keep the theater and not the studios in business. I'm happy to pay that, I might even make a donation of a few dollars every time I go, if I felt it were warrented. The big screen experience is an indispensible part of my repetoire of entertainment.
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As a matter of interest, when exactly does the copyright violation occur? Is it after she shares the songs in question with another user, or simply as soon as she makes it available for download by other users. If it is the former, then wouldn't the RIAA have to download the song to prove that any infringement had occurred at all? If so, did they do this?
That is rather insightful...
History would disagree with you. Just look at what happened to Prohibition. (Yes this is a redundant argument, but so, too, is the parent poster's rhetoric.