No, it's aptly called cause and consequence, but some people wish not to believe this, because then they would need to study the implications of their decisions and be responsible for the outcomes of their actions.
The men who sent lude photos of themselves to a perfect stranger they've never even seen shouldn't have a problem if a few thousand other perfect strangers see them.
They let their passions override their common sence and this is the result. Good or bad, life has a 'funny' way of giving people what they deserve.
Check out the tags for this story: vista, duh, fud, notfud, obvious. Does anyone know how to tag properly around here? How is this tag feature ever going to work with crummy tags like that?
I know what you're saying, but once it's sold, certain metrics can come into play. Now numbers of sales and downloads can be measured, which will help potential consumers and listeners ascertain what is good/bad/will be popular. When your giving something away, who cares how many are using the product? When it's being sold, these numbers start to take on a new significance.
Wikipedia is still, by-in-large, a respectable and reliable source of information when compared to professionally produced encyclopedias. For example, in a study where experts evaluated 42 entries between Wikipedia and Britannica's online version, the experts found an equal amount of *serious* errors (four each) along with 123 factual errors in the Britannica and 162 in Wikipedia. So, that means the professionally-produced encyclopedia had three errors for every four in an amateur and openly edited one. Not too shabby for free.
The world's largest medical experiment is aspartame and MSG, and it's being conducted by food manufacturers and multinational conglomerates with the FDA's blessing.
There's been a distinct lack of reputable distributers of downloadable, commercial movies. With Amazon however, I know they're good. I've done business with them before and they're well established, so I can forsee using this service.
That is exactly his point, and you missed it...by not paying for something just because it isn't a material good, doesn't make it any less of a crime, and doesn't mean that there isn't financial impact. People seem to think that if it isn't a physical stolen piece of property that nobody is hurt, but it isn't true.
I got his point perfectly, but I think you misunderstood what I was saying. Under legal definitions, copyright infringement is different than theft. They are both wrong, and in some cases are both punishable crimes under the law, but they are not the same. Copyright infringement is the "unauthorized use of copyrighted material in a manner that violates one of the original copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works that build upon it". Theft is the "unauthorised taking, keeping or using of another's property which must be accompanied by a mens rea of dishonesty and/or the intent to permanently deprive the owner or the person with rightful possession of that property or its use".
That, my friend, is an apple and an orange. Or maybe it's a grapefruit and an orange, but they are still different, and if you call a grapefruit and orange I'll tell you the same thing: please don't confuse the two because it's annoying!
Econ 101: The point of copyright is to force something that isn't physical property to be treated as physical property.
No, the purpose of copyright is to prevent the unauthorized reproduction or performance of copyrighted work, or make derivative works. That is the definition and the purpose.
I don't endorse copyright infringement or stealing. Once the legal courts of the land make laws and distinctions, we as citizens need to abide by them, but equating violation of an original copyright owner's exclusive rights to the crime of theft is incorrect.
In short, right is right and wrong is wrong, and copyright infringement and theft are both wrong. However, they are NOT the same thing, no matter how hard you try and bend the english language.
There is nothing wrong with RPM and RPM-based Linux distros. In fact, many people including myself prefer them. If there be "one package manager to rule them all", it better be able to handle rpm's, dpkg AND any other compression/binary format that may exist (I think Alien succeeds to a certain degree).
Linux users need more options and more freedom, not less. Freedom of choice is what helped GNU/Linux (I'm using the name as an all-encompassing unbrella term here) grow and fill many niches. Centos and other RPM-based distros of that ilk for businesses, Gentoo Portage for the tweakers and hobbiests (yes, I'm generalizing, but bear with me), Debian and DPKG for the purists, Slackware and tar+gzip for the old farts, Fedora Core and Ubuntu for the masses... and I could go on. Diversity is our strength, it shouldn't be percieved as a weakness.
it's that there's been greater public attention to documentaries (and hopefully more docs will be funded in the future). For example, I wonder if An Inconvenient Truth would be receiving so much attention if it wasn't for such a dearth of quality Hollywood movies.
I should clarify my parent statement by saying hotbed topics, IMO, are usually factually suspect in Wikipedia and in the news at large, until the elapse of time gives way to hind sight and finally the truth.
Hotbed topics are indeed biased (if not flat out wrong) in Wikipedia and in the news at large, but the elapse of time gives way to hind sight and finally the truth.
I wish people would stop rippin' on Wikipedia. Let's face it: Wikipedia's an awesome resource; a marvel of the internet age. No, it's not perfect, but in the end, time always distills the facts from the lies.
I like Simpy. It merges bookmarks and deletes redundancy, something most other social bookmarking sites are incapable of. But Simpy was merely an example. What I'm suggesting is this: there needs to be a new way of bookmarking and backing up favorites, which is "integrated seemlessly"(TM) with the browser. There are too many websites out there, and people have too many bookmerks. People complain of information overload and are looking for ways to aggregate (popurls needs to be shoehorned into the conversation somehow) and opera has the desire to bring bookmarking to the next level. So let's do it.
Give users more monitor real estate (less toolbar, more web page) and reinvent favorites/bookmarks. Say automatic online backups to Simpy.com and an easier way of keeping bookmark catagories organized. I've recently gotten into genealogy and the links pile-up in a hurry. I almost want to use a browser exclusively for that research alone.
The Linux support is awesome however. It's the best browser for that platform.
Just because your ancesters are easy to forget, and genealogical research is hard, doesn't mean it's of no value. Perhaps because it's easy to forget and hard to do, it must be important...
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No, it's aptly called cause and consequence, but some people wish not to believe this, because then they would need to study the implications of their decisions and be responsible for the outcomes of their actions.
The men who sent lude photos of themselves to a perfect stranger they've never even seen shouldn't have a problem if a few thousand other perfect strangers see them.
They let their passions override their common sence and this is the result. Good or bad, life has a 'funny' way of giving people what they deserve.
Check out the tags for this story: vista, duh, fud, notfud, obvious. Does anyone know how to tag properly around here? How is this tag feature ever going to work with crummy tags like that?
I'd mod you up bro, if I had any points. Unfortunately, all I can offer you is moral support.
I know what you're saying, but once it's sold, certain metrics can come into play. Now numbers of sales and downloads can be measured, which will help potential consumers and listeners ascertain what is good/bad/will be popular. When your giving something away, who cares how many are using the product? When it's being sold, these numbers start to take on a new significance.
Wikipedia is still, by-in-large, a respectable and reliable source of information when compared to professionally produced encyclopedias. For example, in a study where experts evaluated 42 entries between Wikipedia and Britannica's online version, the experts found an equal amount of *serious* errors (four each) along with 123 factual errors in the Britannica and 162 in Wikipedia. So, that means the professionally-produced encyclopedia had three errors for every four in an amateur and openly edited one. Not too shabby for free.
The world's largest medical experiment is aspartame and MSG, and it's being conducted by food manufacturers and multinational conglomerates with the FDA's blessing.
And you and I are the guinea pigs.
There's been a distinct lack of reputable distributers of downloadable, commercial movies. With Amazon however, I know they're good. I've done business with them before and they're well established, so I can forsee using this service.
That is exactly his point, and you missed it...by not paying for something just because it isn't a material good, doesn't make it any less of a crime, and doesn't mean that there isn't financial impact. People seem to think that if it isn't a physical stolen piece of property that nobody is hurt, but it isn't true.
I got his point perfectly, but I think you misunderstood what I was saying. Under legal definitions, copyright infringement is different than theft. They are both wrong, and in some cases are both punishable crimes under the law, but they are not the same. Copyright infringement is the "unauthorized use of copyrighted material in a manner that violates one of the original copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works that build upon it". Theft is the "unauthorised taking, keeping or using of another's property which must be accompanied by a mens rea of dishonesty and/or the intent to permanently deprive the owner or the person with rightful possession of that property or its use".
That, my friend, is an apple and an orange. Or maybe it's a grapefruit and an orange, but they are still different, and if you call a grapefruit and orange I'll tell you the same thing: please don't confuse the two because it's annoying!
Econ 101: The point of copyright is to force something that isn't physical property to be treated as physical property.
No, the purpose of copyright is to prevent the unauthorized reproduction or performance of copyrighted work, or make derivative works. That is the definition and the purpose.
I don't endorse copyright infringement or stealing. Once the legal courts of the land make laws and distinctions, we as citizens need to abide by them, but equating violation of an original copyright owner's exclusive rights to the crime of theft is incorrect.
In short, right is right and wrong is wrong, and copyright infringement and theft are both wrong. However, they are NOT the same thing, no matter how hard you try and bend the english language.
Please don't confuse copyright infringement with theft. It's annoying and you sound brainwashed.
There is nothing wrong with RPM and RPM-based Linux distros. In fact, many people including myself prefer them. If there be "one package manager to rule them all", it better be able to handle rpm's, dpkg AND any other compression/binary format that may exist (I think Alien succeeds to a certain degree).
Linux users need more options and more freedom, not less. Freedom of choice is what helped GNU/Linux (I'm using the name as an all-encompassing unbrella term here) grow and fill many niches. Centos and other RPM-based distros of that ilk for businesses, Gentoo Portage for the tweakers and hobbiests (yes, I'm generalizing, but bear with me), Debian and DPKG for the purists, Slackware and tar+gzip for the old farts, Fedora Core and Ubuntu for the masses... and I could go on. Diversity is our strength, it shouldn't be percieved as a weakness.
They should be at least 14 years old before being responsible enough to have a brain tumour-generating device like a cell phone.
A machine measured biometric responses -- blood pressure, pulse and sweat levels -- that then were analyzed by software
I can forsee alot of innocent passengers with anxiety disorders getting screwed.
it's that there's been greater public attention to documentaries (and hopefully more docs will be funded in the future). For example, I wonder if An Inconvenient Truth would be receiving so much attention if it wasn't for such a dearth of quality Hollywood movies.
That being said, have you been outside lately?!
This is funny stuff!
As long as the French don't build them like their prizefighters ;)
The Zip.ca queue and the service in general is really quite bitching. Lot's of selection. Highly recommended.
Damn, I sound like a commercial.
Firefox Jumps the Shark Day.
Nice ring to it.
I should clarify my parent statement by saying hotbed topics, IMO, are usually factually suspect in Wikipedia and in the news at large, until the elapse of time gives way to hind sight and finally the truth.
That reads a little better.
Hotbed topics are indeed biased (if not flat out wrong) in Wikipedia and in the news at large, but the elapse of time gives way to hind sight and finally the truth.
I wish people would stop rippin' on Wikipedia. Let's face it: Wikipedia's an awesome resource; a marvel of the internet age. No, it's not perfect, but in the end, time always distills the facts from the lies.
I like Simpy. It merges bookmarks and deletes redundancy, something most other social bookmarking sites are incapable of. But Simpy was merely an example. What I'm suggesting is this: there needs to be a new way of bookmarking and backing up favorites, which is "integrated seemlessly"(TM) with the browser. There are too many websites out there, and people have too many bookmerks. People complain of information overload and are looking for ways to aggregate (popurls needs to be shoehorned into the conversation somehow) and opera has the desire to bring bookmarking to the next level. So let's do it.
You can download SUSE Linux 10.2 Alpha 1 here.
Give users more monitor real estate (less toolbar, more web page) and reinvent favorites/bookmarks. Say automatic online backups to Simpy.com and an easier way of keeping bookmark catagories organized. I've recently gotten into genealogy and the links pile-up in a hurry. I almost want to use a browser exclusively for that research alone.
The Linux support is awesome however. It's the best browser for that platform.
Just because your ancesters are easy to forget, and genealogical research is hard, doesn't mean it's of no value. Perhaps because it's easy to forget and hard to do, it must be important...