Did it change their vote, though? Writing a physical letter shows a fair amount of concern, as you need to go out of your way to pay for a stamp and to mail it. Email is too immediate. A form response goes out, but little attention is paid to opinion expressed according to the aides I have talked to.
But it needs to be a letter. With a stamp and everything and no sign of being a form letter downloaded from a web site. I work in DC and I can tell you that with the use of the web to mobilize mass campaigns, the value of an email to your legislator is rapidly approaching zero. Too much noise, not enough signal, particularly when many of the emails come from enraged activists who aren't even constituents.
To make money off free software, it mostly comes down to finding a niche that businesses find important. If you get a lot of users, a small percentage will be large businesses that like buying expensive support contracts.
In other words, there is little financial incentive to do so, period. Which is why so many open source projects are labors of love and not efforts to make a living. This isn't a bad thing necessarily.
This indeed seems to be the problem. While the libertarian philosophy seems appealing on its face, all too often it is merely used as a window dressing for the attitude of "fuck y'all, I got mine." That this attitude inevitably leads to revolution by the have-nots is lost on the dreamers.
Nope. People get towed for walkaways all the time. Parking lots are private property, and you sit in them at the sufferance of the owner, period. Otherwise, you are arguing that I can park my car in your driveway and eat a sandwitch as long as you have not posted a "No public parking" sign.
Again, the correct response would have been to tell the freeloader to move on and then only if he refused to do so, to have him arrested for trespass. I'm pretty sure if he was told that he'd have to buy something to stay he would have either done so or left. If he decided to be an ass about it at that point, then I'd say he deserved what he got from that point. That's not what transpired, of course, and I do have a problem with that. On the other hand, arguing that he has the right to do whatever the hell he wants while his vehicle is sitting on someone else's ground is equally bad.
Ah, but there is also another place to hit the university in pocketbook: the Alumni. If you are an alumnus of the University of Ohio and feel they are taking the wrong stand, be sure to let them know the next time they want a few bucks for the school. Enough of that, and the private universities and colleges will tell the RIAA to stick it.
If the parking lot he was sitting in using the connection belongs to the coffee shop or the landlord, he still has a pretty serious tresspassing problem. Again, I think this is a civil matter, but he was freeloading and it's free riders like him that make places invest in expensive routing solutions that rotate passwords every hour or so and force you to go back to the register, or cause them to drop wifi entirely.
Certainly you can broadcast in the 2.4 GHz band. Please show me your authorization to use the wire inside the coffee shop that ultimately connects you to the Internet. As long as you don't use that wire, you have a case. As soon as your transmission leaves the air and crosses a wire somebody else has paid for, you are in theft-of-service territory.
This still should be a civil, not criminal matter at this level, however. Leave the criminal docket for the real criminals.
From my 27 years as a human being I can surely tell you most humans volunteer to be stupid selfish bastards followers. In my 40+ years as a human being, I've seen a lot of twentysomethings who feel like they are ultra-superior Randian Ubermensch as well, myself included. Life slaps them with the cluestick eventually. Hopefully your slap will be survivable. For some it isn't.
Not to mention, with a resume like that, he's bound to be hired as CEO for some major pharmaceutical company or something... Nah, with a resume like that he's got Administration Official written all over him.
I've been using it for years. So have I. Hopefully it will have fully started up by the end of next month. Then I can get some word processing done. I need to allow another six months before the spreadsheet module will open, I think.
Ah, but by that time they have passed the compulsory period of education, so requiring them to sign such a contract to get a diploma is still legal. Sorry, sometimes you just lose.
I think the greater question is if at a public highschool, when completing your legally-mandated education, can a teacher/professor compel a student to use such a service (and thereby surrender the right to their intellectual property) as a condition of receiving a passing grade in the course?
As minors they can't execute contracts, so it would be the parents' role to sign away said rights. In fact, it might be within the rights of the principal to do so in some states. Minors can be legally made to do all sorts of things under duress.
Oh, that I had mod points. I work with lawyers, and the one thing I've learned over the years is that your worst enemy in a legal proceeding is your own misunderstanding of the law. That's one reason for licensing, which is not automatic, even if you graduate at the top of your class from Yale Law.
And those corporations will be bankrupt as well, as they depend on the well-paid American consumer to buy their products. This isn't as simple as either side makes it out to be.
Is Stonehenge more culturally significant than the Gateway Arch? Sure, one could argue that Shakespeare generated more culture than Mark Twain
Well Stonehenge gets built earlier, so it will generate a fair amount before the discovery of Calendar obsoletes it. Twain and Shakespeare are both Great Artists, so they generate the same amount of culture.
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Did it change their vote, though? Writing a physical letter shows a fair amount of concern, as you need to go out of your way to pay for a stamp and to mail it. Email is too immediate. A form response goes out, but little attention is paid to opinion expressed according to the aides I have talked to.
But it needs to be a letter. With a stamp and everything and no sign of being a form letter downloaded from a web site. I work in DC and I can tell you that with the use of the web to mobilize mass campaigns, the value of an email to your legislator is rapidly approaching zero. Too much noise, not enough signal, particularly when many of the emails come from enraged activists who aren't even constituents.
Eternal life. Or at least that's what they think.
This indeed seems to be the problem. While the libertarian philosophy seems appealing on its face, all too often it is merely used as a window dressing for the attitude of "fuck y'all, I got mine." That this attitude inevitably leads to revolution by the have-nots is lost on the dreamers.
Again, the correct response would have been to tell the freeloader to move on and then only if he refused to do so, to have him arrested for trespass. I'm pretty sure if he was told that he'd have to buy something to stay he would have either done so or left. If he decided to be an ass about it at that point, then I'd say he deserved what he got from that point. That's not what transpired, of course, and I do have a problem with that. On the other hand, arguing that he has the right to do whatever the hell he wants while his vehicle is sitting on someone else's ground is equally bad.
Ah, but there is also another place to hit the university in pocketbook: the Alumni. If you are an alumnus of the University of Ohio and feel they are taking the wrong stand, be sure to let them know the next time they want a few bucks for the school. Enough of that, and the private universities and colleges will tell the RIAA to stick it.
If the parking lot he was sitting in using the connection belongs to the coffee shop or the landlord, he still has a pretty serious tresspassing problem. Again, I think this is a civil matter, but he was freeloading and it's free riders like him that make places invest in expensive routing solutions that rotate passwords every hour or so and force you to go back to the register, or cause them to drop wifi entirely.
Certainly you can broadcast in the 2.4 GHz band. Please show me your authorization to use the wire inside the coffee shop that ultimately connects you to the Internet. As long as you don't use that wire, you have a case. As soon as your transmission leaves the air and crosses a wire somebody else has paid for, you are in theft-of-service territory. This still should be a civil, not criminal matter at this level, however. Leave the criminal docket for the real criminals.
Or Zilla versus the Real Thing.
Ah, but by that time they have passed the compulsory period of education, so requiring them to sign such a contract to get a diploma is still legal. Sorry, sometimes you just lose.
Yeah. That's why the small government heaven of Somalia is paradise on Earth. I wish more of the Randroids would move there.
Oh, that I had mod points. I work with lawyers, and the one thing I've learned over the years is that your worst enemy in a legal proceeding is your own misunderstanding of the law. That's one reason for licensing, which is not automatic, even if you graduate at the top of your class from Yale Law.
And those corporations will be bankrupt as well, as they depend on the well-paid American consumer to buy their products. This isn't as simple as either side makes it out to be.
Perhaps the US Mint doesn't get skill from Smelting plain old copper anymore? Personally, I'll hold out for Arcanite or Dark Iron.
It has a hard disk. You can stream to the HD and play locally once the transfer completes.
Only if it came with a dozen extra faulty memory boards for troubleshooting. Ah, DEC Service Calls.
Oh it would take off, but it'd only hold like 6 passengers while using exactly the same amount of fuel. $30,000 one way tickets, anyone?
Silly? Yes. As is this whole penis-size contest.