I agree with the modded down previous reply. It was more like "informative" than "funny". And it should be possible to point this out without being modded down to -1 for it. The guy wasn't being rude or anything.
Ummm... if that is the case, please explain redhat? Or anyother company selling free products.
RedHat offerr service on top of its Linux distro, something that has no direct analogue in the music world. I don't know of any musicians operating a premium content phoneline where you can, for say US$5 / month, be told what the artist was thinking when they wrote the song, or get instructions on how to get a CD to play in your equipment. Once the music has been written and recorded and sold (or downloaded), their job is pretty much done.
he [John Walker Lindh] is NOT considered an American citizen -- he voluntarily left this country to join a group of fighters hostile to the US, with the active intent of causing damage to this country. [...] the Taliban have no country to call their own, and clearly do not adhere to rules dictated by the Geneva Peace Accord, and you have a perfectly rational explanation for denying this individual his rights under US law.
I don't see it. If the Taliban *don't* have their own country, then how the hell else are you going to treat Lindh except as a U.S. citizen? I think the powers-that-be are making up their rules as they go along.
Re:What does this mean for the industry as a whole
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Most of the comments I see posted are by either by Socialists or Communists. Mod me flamebait if you will, but you must admit that it is a big sin here to admit that you believe in Capitalism and suppor those who try to make a living selling anything that has to do with intellectual property.
Interesting. I see a good bit of that, but far more of people saying "so-and-so's business model was faulty", or how the "free market will sort everything out (no need to involve the federal government)". Perhaps we're reading different posts? I browse at 3+ (so obviously I never get to see my own few posts).
Well I haven't heard your music, and I don't know how successful you are. And I wouldn't wish a KKK video on any artist, but so what if they did? You write music. Music with lyrics? I assume so. The lyrics might fall into one of three types:
(1) "Fuck the KKK. They're inbred racist bastards." Not many people write this stuff, but if they did, not much chance of the KK using it.
(2) "Up the KKK! They keep us pure". um, never mind.
(3) "La la la, life is good/shit, my woman loves/left me" (depending on whether it's rock/country). So you're left with KKK-neutral stuff. This describes most of the music in the world. Sure, they *could* use it for evil, but there's no reson you should lose face for it.
OK, so the KKK is your toy example. But do you think Louis Armstrong gets a bad rep because "What A Wonderful World" is played at Republican Party conventions? He may find them morally despicable, but it doesn't really matter. Only idiots assume the writer is associated with the politics.
Regardless, a GPL-like thing would be good for protecting yourself against Sting et al.
All he is exccluding are gravity-waves. These are different then the basic curvature of space that generates gravity itself.
If you mean "gravitational waves", then no, they are *not* different from the curvature of space. It's exactly the same stuff, though gravitational waves passing close to the Earth are probably very weak.So yes, they look like ripples on our pretty flat curvature, but they're just smaller-scale, generally weak curvature perturbations on a much more uniform background curvature.
As an aside, the term "gravity wave" is usually taken to mean "wave formed by a process where gravity is significant", like some types of water wave. Not actually what's been talked about here.
I saw that NRA video on Australia, as an Australian I can safely say it was totally wrong. Incidentally it was only played in DC and TX where Bush and Gore were.
Nah, I saw in Pennsylvania, too. But it has a higher incidence of gun ownership than Texas, I've heard.
uhhh, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the monarchy in the UK was just for show, and all the actual governing took place in Parliament with the Prime Minister. I thought the royal family was more just a PR thing for the government.
This is true (apart from a few symbolic powers), but there are better methods even of choosing figureheads. The British Royal family is no better and no worse than the average non-royal family, but has been elevated (and at times, humiliated), simply because of genetics and marriage. This is pretty offensive to many people, even if it's a small unimportant thing.
AotC was shown in 1600 fewer theatres than Spiderman, because Lucas refused to have AotC shown in theatres without digital THX sound. Demand was not the main factor.
So? All the cinemas where I live were packed out anyway. if there were more screens, they would have been at least partly filled. Whatever the reason behind the fewer-cinemas choice, it must have had an impact.
Re:Mususe of the term "script kiddie"?
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This kid is a script kiddie, nothing more, and he should have been locked up for a while. Stupid teenage shitbag.
Does it matter whether or not he was a script kiddie? Even if he did it all with his own work, he should still be locked up for a while. Whether he got the tools fron the 'net, or developed them himself, he still did something very wrong.
Yeah, I know. I actually meant that since super is a *real* adjective (at least as they use it), it should be a whole separate word. No hyphen, nothing: "Super Man"
On the other hand, "super" is also a valid prefix, so perhaps they meant it like that. In fact, that must be it. I take back my objection.
They hyphenated it because that's how it's always been. Standard rules of English: a noun ("spider" here) used as an adjective (describing "man") should be attached to that noun with a hyphen. "Spiderman" is meaningless unless it's a surname. All my old Marvel comics used "Spider-Man" as far as I can recall.
Now, I have issues with "Superman" as a single word (and not two separate ones), but that use goes back a long time. For instance, George Bernard Shaw wrote a play titled "Man and Superman". So it's pretty established now.
Please, please tell me. Of which economist(s) am I so ignorant? This discussion revolves around a single economist, Adam Smith and my personal musings.
I think the previous poster meant John Maynard Keynes. You referred to an "Alan Keynes", who appears from a Google search to be a Republican politician, but not a famous economist.
do Americans call Mathematics "math" because the only know one of them?
I used to say "maths" too, but "math" actually makes more sense. Almost no English words ending in "ics" are actually plurals ("statistics" can be singular or plural) - just an artifact of inheritance from other languages.
You (and I) might believe that banning a political movement, however odious, is unacceptable on principle. But it's just possible that it would have been much worse for Germany and Europe and the world if the ban hadn't been placed. There's no way to know one way or the other.
No, it's Guinness time. Yes it's petty, but restaurants/bars get this wrong all the time. As an Irishman, I feel I should defend our most popular export, even if I don't like it myself.
True and everything, but why use a car instead of, say, a child as the fought-over item in your example? Last I knew, cars still don't really want anything. Well, apart from the buckling-up.
(1) Spam has real costs associated with it - bandwidth wasted, inboxes filled up. Sure you can filter, *if you've had spam from this source before* to fix the latter, but nothing's going to bring back the wasted network resources.
(2) (and this is more personal) I *hate* spam. Electronic, paper, fax, phone. Anything that seeks me out personally and tries to *make* me a consumer. You may hate/distrust government, and I'm not too keen on bits of it, but I distrust semi-anonymous companies far more.
Re:I don't know what subject to give this...
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So what you're trying to say is that people in Europe are enslaved? This opinion is ignorant at best (which is an option you kindly make available yourself). You should try thinking for yourself
No, (s)he's saying that the people in the Third World are enslaved. The Europeans are just resentful.
... but in case the poster looks at late responses:
"begs the question" doesn't mean what you're trying to make it mean. It means "assumes the proposition one is trying to prove". In other words, circular reasoning.
"raises the question" would be more appropriate, I think.
Some kind of user moderation might be useful, then? Like "this source/individual only has crappy quality rips/doesn't attribute properly - look elsewhere for what you seek".
Of course, then the user ratings would have to live somewhere central/trustworthy. Bah.
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I agree with the modded down previous reply. It was more like "informative" than "funny". And it should be possible to point this out without being modded down to -1 for it. The guy wasn't being rude or anything.
Interesting. I see a good bit of that, but far more of people saying "so-and-so's business model was faulty", or how the "free market will sort everything out (no need to involve the federal government)". Perhaps we're reading different posts? I browse at 3+ (so obviously I never get to see my own few posts).
No, as long as you keep saying "American football", and don't call real football "soccer".
Well I haven't heard your music, and I don't know how successful you are. And I wouldn't wish a KKK video on any artist, but so what if they did? You write music. Music with lyrics? I assume so. The lyrics might fall into one of three types:
(1) "Fuck the KKK. They're inbred racist bastards." Not many people write this stuff, but if they did, not much chance of the KK using it.
(2) "Up the KKK! They keep us pure". um, never mind.
(3) "La la la, life is good/shit, my woman loves/left me" (depending on whether it's rock/country). So you're left with KKK-neutral stuff. This describes most of the music in the world. Sure, they *could* use it for evil, but there's no reson you should lose face for it.
OK, so the KKK is your toy example. But do you think Louis Armstrong gets a bad rep because "What A Wonderful World" is played at Republican Party conventions? He may find them morally despicable, but it doesn't really matter. Only idiots assume the writer is associated with the politics.
Regardless, a GPL-like thing would be good for protecting yourself against Sting et al.
If you mean "gravitational waves", then no, they are *not* different from the curvature of space. It's exactly the same stuff, though gravitational waves passing close to the Earth are probably very weak.So yes, they look like ripples on our pretty flat curvature, but they're just smaller-scale, generally weak curvature perturbations on a much more uniform background curvature.
As an aside, the term "gravity wave" is usually taken to mean "wave formed by a process where gravity is significant", like some types of water wave. Not actually what's been talked about here.
Nah, I saw in Pennsylvania, too. But it has a higher incidence of gun ownership than Texas, I've heard.
This is true (apart from a few symbolic powers), but there are better methods even of choosing figureheads. The British Royal family is no better and no worse than the average non-royal family, but has been elevated (and at times, humiliated), simply because of genetics and marriage. This is pretty offensive to many people, even if it's a small unimportant thing.
AotC was shown in 1600 fewer theatres than Spiderman, because Lucas refused to have AotC shown in theatres without digital THX sound. Demand was not the main factor.
So? All the cinemas where I live were packed out anyway. if there were more screens, they would have been at least partly filled. Whatever the reason behind the fewer-cinemas choice, it must have had an impact.
This kid is a script kiddie, nothing more, and he should have been locked up for a while. Stupid teenage shitbag.
Does it matter whether or not he was a script kiddie? Even if he did it all with his own work, he should still be locked up for a while. Whether he got the tools fron the 'net, or developed them himself, he still did something very wrong.
Yeah, I know. I actually meant that since super is a *real* adjective (at least as they use it), it should be a whole separate word. No hyphen, nothing: "Super Man"
On the other hand, "super" is also a valid prefix, so perhaps they meant it like that. In fact, that must be it. I take back my objection.
I watched Spider-man (why did they hyphenate it?)
They hyphenated it because that's how it's always been. Standard rules of English: a noun ("spider" here) used as an adjective (describing "man") should be attached to that noun with a hyphen. "Spiderman" is meaningless unless it's a surname. All my old Marvel comics used "Spider-Man" as far as I can recall.
Now, I have issues with "Superman" as a single word (and not two separate ones), but that use goes back a long time. For instance, George Bernard Shaw wrote a play titled "Man and Superman". So it's pretty established now.
If you type in the wrong url, thats your fault. If he was spoofing other sites or using they're graphics, thats a copyright issue.
But how would you feel if Slashdot started directing extra pop-up ads at posters who can't spell "that's" and "their" correctly?
Please, please tell me. Of which economist(s) am I so ignorant? This discussion revolves around a single economist, Adam Smith and my personal musings.
I think the previous poster meant John Maynard Keynes. You referred to an "Alan Keynes", who appears from a Google search to be a Republican politician, but not a famous economist.
do Americans call Mathematics "math" because the only know one of them?
I used to say "maths" too, but "math" actually makes more sense. Almost no English words ending in "ics" are actually plurals ("statistics" can be singular or plural) - just an artifact of inheritance from other languages.
OT, I know.
You (and I) might believe that banning a political movement, however odious, is unacceptable on principle. But it's just possible that it would have been much worse for Germany and Europe and the world if the ban hadn't been placed. There's no way to know one way or the other.
Sorry if it's O/T.
It's guiness time.
No, it's Guinness time. Yes it's petty, but restaurants/bars get this wrong all the time. As an Irishman, I feel I should defend our most popular export, even if I don't like it myself.
Yeah, I suppose. It was a pointless reply really, but the use of an inanimate object as an example seemed strange to me in this case.
True and everything, but why use a car instead of, say, a child as the fought-over item in your example? Last I knew, cars still don't really want anything. Well, apart from the buckling-up.
Two reasons:
(1) Spam has real costs associated with it - bandwidth wasted, inboxes filled up. Sure you can filter, *if you've had spam from this source before* to fix the latter, but nothing's going to bring back the wasted network resources.
(2) (and this is more personal) I *hate* spam. Electronic, paper, fax, phone. Anything that seeks me out personally and tries to *make* me a consumer. You may hate/distrust government, and I'm not too keen on bits of it, but I distrust semi-anonymous companies far more.
So what you're trying to say is that people in Europe are enslaved? This opinion is ignorant at best (which is an option you kindly make available yourself). You should try thinking for yourself
No, (s)he's saying that the people in the Third World are enslaved. The Europeans are just resentful.
Minor quibble: don't Windows users expect "ctrl + c" for copying without deleting original text (as opposed to "ctrl + x", which is for cutting?
Netscape on Linux default seems to be to use "alt+c", "alt+x" and "alt+v" for copy, cut, and paste. Just plain confusing.
... but in case the poster looks at late responses:
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"begs the question" doesn't mean what you're trying to make it mean. It means "assumes the proposition one is trying to prove". In other words, circular reasoning.
"raises the question" would be more appropriate, I think.
Sorry for being pedantic
Some kind of user moderation might be useful, then? Like "this source/individual only has crappy quality rips/doesn't attribute properly - look elsewhere for what you seek".
Of course, then the user ratings would have to live somewhere central/trustworthy. Bah.