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I'm afraid you're incorrect again. My natural right to free speech is limited, constitutionally, by the copyright clause. The copyright clause's stated purpose is to "promote the progress of science and useful arts." This goal is most certainly not served by preventing the distrubition of creative works.
Regardless of whether or not it's currently against the law to distribute this work, the author's copyright, transferred to the studio, is being used in direct opposition to the stated purpose of the constitutional clause that limits my ability to distribute that work.
The reason the GPL exists is because copyright law, as it exists today, is broken. Yes, the GPL uses copyright to its advantage, but only to serve the ultimate purpose: To allow all information to be freely distributed for the benefit of mankind.
But don't worry about the details, just keep framing it as hypocrisy.
They still make those things? Who'd've thought. Last few machines I built I never even considered one. Small files: easier to move via network. Boot for install: CD. Large files: CDR.
What possible purpose does the floppy drive serve today?
The vast increases in productivity over the past decade mean that Jane has a lot of free time.
Yeah. As opposed to using the vast increases in productivity to allow our corporate masters to extract more productivity from us in the same (or more) amount of time.
Just like all the other technological advances have.
But after learning some hard lessons in the last few years, the U.S. wireless industry is skittish about investing heavily in anything that does not have immediate promise of improving its bottom line.
It seems to me that they've learned the wrong lessons, then. The correct response to "We got burned investing in things which could never generate sufficient revenue to earn a return" is not "Invest only in things that will yield immediate returns".
In fact, I'm almost certain that our current economic woes are due primarily to a management mentality that focuses on this quarter's numbers withou scarcely a thought toward two, five, ten years down the line.
How about trying to invest in things that will secure enough revenue to cover the cost and earn additional income over whatever the life of the technology may be?
I mean, this is, I think, basic economics. Isn't it?
There was a time when I couldn't imagine using a search tool other than gopher. Then there was a time when I could type 'altavista' more quickly than any other string of characters.
I've lost two PS2 games, one to scratches and another to a burn (don't ask).
Since Sony (or whatever 3rd party produced the game) isn't going to send me a new disc, why should I not be able to make a backup and play from those backups?
It also effectively deterred me from ever giving money to a SafeDisc-using company.
The only CD drive in my machine at one point was a Yamaha 4x4x16 CDRW. I bought a nice legal copy of Half Life: Opposing Force, had to open the shrink wrap (thus eliminating any chance of simply returning it to the store), install, try a few things to figure out why it wasn't working when it seemed it should, read the readme and found that it was incompatible with my drive. Now, who's gonna give me a refund? The store? Not likely. The publisher? Maybe, if I pay for shipping.
Congratulations, Sierra. You just lost a paying customer.
Seriously, about two years ago, August '00 IIRC, there was a big uproar about the RIAA v. Napster case and everyone yelled "Boycott". It seems few have followed through.
Well, I did. If not for +Live+ still being on a major label, I would not have bought a single RIAA-member CD in the last two years. I struggled for weeks with the decision of whether or not to buy that +Live+ album, too.
Stop giving them any of your money. Do it now. Buy from indies (real indies, not RIAA "indies"), but don't give the RIAA any more money to throw at legislators.
I doubt the insurance money would pay off the loan. Argh.
I should have known better. I really should have. Mine was also sold before they adopted the 10yr/100,000 mile warranty. It's likely the reason they adopted that warranty scheme. It was my first new car, and it's been more trouble than any of my used cars. Two different dealers made two different attempts to repair faulty hub seals (one under warranty and another under recall), both of which have failed, and now I've got front hubs which will not only not lock, but have significant damage because they've been sucking water in for the past three years. And now I'm out of warranty.
I could go on, but I'm already way off-topic.
Ah well, I'll know better next time. Expensive lessons are the most well-learned, I suppose.
...selecting from among the most commonly stolen vehicles. Nationally, that list includes Toyota Camrys, Honda Accords and Oldsmobile Cutlasses.
Great, if this works, thieves will stop picking on the most commonly stolen vehicles, thereby increasing the risk that my Kia Sportage will get stolen!
Who am I kidding, I could leave that thing in a dark lot with the engine running and the doors open and nobody would touch it. Bad, bad Kia.
Now, I don't know if it's simply a question of volume, or if they don't like the instrument or my playing, but not only will my cat leave the room in a hurry when I sit down to practice, but a couple that I'm cat-sitting for a friend will, as well.
Much like the recent discovery of the average color of the universe, this would be a pointless, but fun, use of the data. Of course, I'm not sure exactly what to average. Do you take into account browser real-estate a particular color occupies? Do you simply average each color= and stylesheet instance?
The point of war is to make the other side stop fighting. If I want a neighboring country and they don't want to give themselves up, they will fight. So I must make them stop fighting. If I've been invaded and I don't want to be invaded, I must make the invaders stop invading. If I need to prove that my god is bigger than your god... etc., etc., ad nauseum.
To make the other side stop fighting, you have to make it too costly. War is not about blowing shit up. War is about making it impossible for the bad guys to keep shooting you. There are many ways to do this. Obviously effective is to kill the people who want to keep shooting you. Another way is to starve them; of food, weapons, hope, etc. This drone vs. drone scenario would only settle a conflict if the nations involved were willing to throw resources at it until one ran out of money. If this is the case, then you can settle who wins at the outset by the respective GDPs. At some point, one nation or the other will run out of drones and will face the choice of sending flesh-and-blood people out to try to stop the 'bots or giving up. And history has shown that people are not generally willing to give up too easily.
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I'm pretty sure those are wildcards, not censorship bars.
I'm Yotto's fat friend, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies...
I'm afraid you're incorrect again. My natural right to free speech is limited, constitutionally, by the copyright clause. The copyright clause's stated purpose is to "promote the progress of science and useful arts." This goal is most certainly not served by preventing the distrubition of creative works.
Regardless of whether or not it's currently against the law to distribute this work, the author's copyright, transferred to the studio, is being used in direct opposition to the stated purpose of the constitutional clause that limits my ability to distribute that work.
What's right isn't always what's legal.
The reason the GPL exists is because copyright law, as it exists today, is broken. Yes, the GPL uses copyright to its advantage, but only to serve the ultimate purpose: To allow all information to be freely distributed for the benefit of mankind.
But don't worry about the details, just keep framing it as hypocrisy.
CNN: So, you can steal music with your tool, then?
Student: Well, sorta. You can find any kind of document on the network with it.
CNN: Like music.
Student: Music, along with any other type of file.
CNN: Illegal music.
Student: Well, I suppose.
CNN: So you're stealing music, then?
Student: No.
CNN: But you've created a tool for stealin music.
Student: I've created a tool that is a search engine, like AltaVista or Google.
CNN: There you have it, folks, one of the evil communists trying to get something for nothing.
You all know MC Hawking's take on the subject, of course.
Fuck the Creationists
Check it out at da Hawkman's Crib, j0.
MC Hawking's Crib
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Yeah, well he's playing Montoya, so even if he survived the crash he'd just blow up the engine half-way through the race. ;)
Is there any reason for us to believe that you didn't type it offline over the course of the past six months and just pasted it here today?
Oh, and you failed it.
They still make those things? Who'd've thought. Last few machines I built I never even considered one. Small files: easier to move via network. Boot for install: CD. Large files: CDR.
What possible purpose does the floppy drive serve today?
Yeah. As opposed to using the vast increases in productivity to allow our corporate masters to extract more productivity from us in the same (or more) amount of time.
Just like all the other technological advances have.
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It seems to me that they've learned the wrong lessons, then. The correct response to "We got burned investing in things which could never generate sufficient revenue to earn a return" is not "Invest only in things that will yield immediate returns".
In fact, I'm almost certain that our current economic woes are due primarily to a management mentality that focuses on this quarter's numbers withou scarcely a thought toward two, five, ten years down the line.
How about trying to invest in things that will secure enough revenue to cover the cost and earn additional income over whatever the life of the technology may be?
I mean, this is, I think, basic economics. Isn't it?
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There was a time when I couldn't imagine using a search tool other than gopher. Then there was a time when I could type 'altavista' more quickly than any other string of characters.
It is the nature of things.
I've lost two PS2 games, one to scratches and another to a burn (don't ask).
Since Sony (or whatever 3rd party produced the game) isn't going to send me a new disc, why should I not be able to make a backup and play from those backups?
It also effectively deterred me from ever giving money to a SafeDisc-using company.
The only CD drive in my machine at one point was a Yamaha 4x4x16 CDRW. I bought a nice legal copy of Half Life: Opposing Force, had to open the shrink wrap (thus eliminating any chance of simply returning it to the store), install, try a few things to figure out why it wasn't working when it seemed it should, read the readme and found that it was incompatible with my drive. Now, who's gonna give me a refund? The store? Not likely. The publisher? Maybe, if I pay for shipping.
Congratulations, Sierra. You just lost a paying customer.
I gave $0 to the RIAA/MPAA last month. :)
...Customers stop buying.
News at 11.
Seriously, about two years ago, August '00 IIRC, there was a big uproar about the RIAA v. Napster case and everyone yelled "Boycott". It seems few have followed through.
Well, I did. If not for +Live+ still being on a major label, I would not have bought a single RIAA-member CD in the last two years. I struggled for weeks with the decision of whether or not to buy that +Live+ album, too.
Stop giving them any of your money. Do it now. Buy from indies (real indies, not RIAA "indies"), but don't give the RIAA any more money to throw at legislators.
I've given 'em both $0 in the last two years. If I had some fundage, it would certainly go to the EFF over the ??AA, though.
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Did you obtain the author's permission before reprinting his copyrighted original work?
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I doubt the insurance money would pay off the loan. Argh.
I should have known better. I really should have. Mine was also sold before they adopted the 10yr/100,000 mile warranty. It's likely the reason they adopted that warranty scheme. It was my first new car, and it's been more trouble than any of my used cars. Two different dealers made two different attempts to repair faulty hub seals (one under warranty and another under recall), both of which have failed, and now I've got front hubs which will not only not lock, but have significant damage because they've been sucking water in for the past three years. And now I'm out of warranty.
I could go on, but I'm already way off-topic.
Ah well, I'll know better next time. Expensive lessons are the most well-learned, I suppose.
--blob
...selecting from among the most commonly stolen vehicles. Nationally, that list includes Toyota Camrys, Honda Accords and Oldsmobile Cutlasses.
Great, if this works, thieves will stop picking on the most commonly stolen vehicles, thereby increasing the risk that my Kia Sportage will get stolen!
Who am I kidding, I could leave that thing in a dark lot with the engine running and the doors open and nobody would touch it. Bad, bad Kia.
Learn from my mistake. Don't buy a Kia, kids.
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Now, I don't know if it's simply a question of volume, or if they don't like the instrument or my playing, but not only will my cat leave the room in a hurry when I sit down to practice, but a couple that I'm cat-sitting for a friend will, as well.
--blob
Much like the recent discovery of the average color of the universe, this would be a pointless, but fun, use of the data. Of course, I'm not sure exactly what to average. Do you take into account browser real-estate a particular color occupies? Do you simply average each color= and stylesheet instance?
Ideas?
The point of war is to make the other side stop fighting. If I want a neighboring country and they don't want to give themselves up, they will fight. So I must make them stop fighting. If I've been invaded and I don't want to be invaded, I must make the invaders stop invading. If I need to prove that my god is bigger than your god... etc., etc., ad nauseum.
To make the other side stop fighting, you have to make it too costly. War is not about blowing shit up. War is about making it impossible for the bad guys to keep shooting you. There are many ways to do this. Obviously effective is to kill the people who want to keep shooting you. Another way is to starve them; of food, weapons, hope, etc. This drone vs. drone scenario would only settle a conflict if the nations involved were willing to throw resources at it until one ran out of money. If this is the case, then you can settle who wins at the outset by the respective GDPs. At some point, one nation or the other will run out of drones and will face the choice of sending flesh-and-blood people out to try to stop the 'bots or giving up. And history has shown that people are not generally willing to give up too easily.
War will never not have human casualties.
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Only MS owns XP. Its users rent.