although for some bizarre reason the biggest treaty organization of them all, the United Nations, is at un.org rather than un.int
Offhand, I'd guess they did that for the same reason that everyone registers the ".com" version of their name, if available - Because, given a domain name, people will completely forget the TLD and try, in order, com, then org, then net, then just ask Google for the damned thing.
Hell, I've used the internet since that meant using Mosaic, and worked in IT for over 15 years, and I have not ever gone to a ".int" domain knowingly (though I've probably hit one or two through Google searches and didn't notice).
Since the EyeSee doesn't store any images, retailers can use it as long as they have a closed-circuit television license."
Can someone European (or British, I expect?) explain this point? I know about the Beeb's "TV license", but thought that applied only if you use a TV to watch OTA content. For closed circuit, what the hell do you pay for?
You don't even need a key or a (code-based) hack to run Win7 forever without activation - You can run it in fully-functional pre-activation mode forever.
Google "slmgr -rearm" and "IR5". Note that IR5 doesn't install any sort of actual cracks, it just scripts a few simple tasks you can do manually if you don't trust it.
because that is the most prevalent drug, but we are not nearly to the point where we are with alcohol,' says Jeffrey P. Michael, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's impaired-driving director. 'We don't know what level of marijuana impairs a driver.'"
Sorry guys, but we don't know what level of alcohol actually makes people too impaired to safely drive, either. Yes, we have a hell of a lot better idea than with THC, but put bluntly, some people can function better at.015 than others can at.005 (I could use myself and my SO as an example of that).
That doesn't mean you'll catch me on the road at 0.015, or even at.005 - I don't drive after drinking any alcohol, legal or not; but we need to move beyond this convenient legal fiction that BAC defines level of impairment.
Perhaps the need to deal with pot will finally promote exactly that change, and we'll finally see a real test of impairment rather than the BS in use today.
They're basically a way of imposing a tax on people too stupid or hopeful to know better.
Wait... I don't quite see the problem there. A voluntary tax... On the stupid! Goodness... We have so much stupid going around here in the US, we could balance the federal budget with something like that!
What's more, venues that have poker machines deliberately target the poor.
I don't know how this works in Australia, but in the US, the poor don't pay income taxes. So if, after getting paid and complaining about whether to pay rent, food, or utility bills, they choose to hit the casino, hey, I have no moral problem with that. Hell, I'd actually consider gambling the moral high-ground over "normal" taxation, since at least those who do it, do so without threat of government force for not forking over their cash.
As for the bigger topic - I generally don't think well of the children of famous authors trying to follow in daddy's footsteps. And when they prove themselves as money-grubbing attention whores, it makes it all the easier. Hey, Chris T - Get a fucking job. Your father did something great for the world. Now learn to dig ditches, you hack.
One who needs some manner by which they can pay for that which they're registering.
Prepaid VISA cards FTW - No one online gets my "real" contact info unless I need something physically shipped to me - And even then, I almost always have it shipped to my work address c/o my phone extension - Technically enough to ID me with two court orders (merchant and my employer), but good luck otherwise.
Did you miss the part about paying for more upload space/bandwidth, or do you seriously think RapidShare will accept payments via throwing a plain manila envelope full of unmarked bills off a bridge at 2am?
You do realize this conversation involves a company that used to (maybe they still do, haven't looked in years) accept payments through some sketchy Russian "bill it to your phone via SMS" processor, right?
Whether or not you can extract (and I choose that word deliberately) wealth from a nation through the fiction we call "intellectual property" has nothing to do with the long-term viability of that concept.
When people starve to death because Monsanto won't let them grow patented plants, we need to put the bastards up against the wall.
When people starve to death because Goldman Sachs has cornered the Red Spring Wheat market, we need to put the bastards up against the wall.
When people die of malaria because Novartis would rather profit than save lives, we need to put the bastards up against the wall.
"Intellectual property" literally means nothing more than "we value dollars over your life". Anyone using that as a defense for their actions counts as nothing short of a race traitor - To the human race.
The sooner We The People stop putting up with this shit, the sooner we can get back to improving our world rather than making sure the "right" people get paid for improvements 20 years ago.
Yeah, all of the unused HD textures the high polygon count models they stuck in there, in anticipation, will finally shine.
2x or 4x oversampling counts as the norm (for avoiding "edge" case distortions). So yeah, 2304p (or even boring ol' 1080p) really will shine compared to NTSC on the original.
That's a port. Now get an emulator that runs an unmodified ROM of FF3 to do that.
FF3 used sprite/raster graphics. You don't get much more than it had in it originally.
OTOH, FF7/8/9 used "real" 3d constrained to an NTSC viewport. ePSXe (and other PS1 emulators) really can display those in far, far better resolution than the original PS. Not just scaled-and-smoothed, but natively at a higher resolution. Same goes for the N64 under 1964.
It would really surprise me if a modern gaming console like the Wii didn't also use low-level 3d primitives that an emulator could show at a "full" real modern resolution.
Lets see, my 10kW generator doesn't even power my whole house, and a 10kWH battery set is supposed to provide electricity to 5 houses for 2 hours, that would be 1kW a house. Somehow this seems to be a new use of the word "provide" I was not previously aware of.
As an offline system, no, that amounts to a pitiful amount of power.
As a grid-tie supplementary system, most likely your "background" power use comes in at somewhere between 0.5 to 1kW.
Charging this bank overnight at $0.015/kWH, then using it during the daytime peak at $0.285/kWH comes out to a savings of very nearly $1000/year (so the first year would cover the cost of the inverter, basically), just for squeezing the last bit of use out of something otherwise considered garbage.
So if they have that right, then don't we have the right to out them and call them shitheads?
Absolutely. Call them out, call them shitheads, let the world know their idiocy - They want to "speak", give them as wide an audience as possible so we all know "the enemy".
This thread has nothing to do with calling a spade a spade, however - It started with "you are free to say anything you want as long as your ok with consequences of the men in black suv's showing up and putting you down sans trial under patriot act anti terror legislation". Outing bigots, I have no problem with. Taking away their right to free speech with a web of capricious laws that favor certain types of speech, absolutely not even remotely okay.
I may mock you mercilessly as seven different kinds of idiot who should refrain from contaminating the future gene pool of the human race, "but I will defend to the death your right to say it".
How, exactly, do you "force" someone to accept something socially?
When everyone around them - in their family, in their town, in their church, at work, at the store, at the beach - all publicly "denounce" racism with a wink and a nudge, they'll probably grow up to do the same.
It gets tricky to try to force social compliance through law. Social pressure, however, works wonders where even lengthy prison sentences fall flat.
If they can't get a job, no church will let them in, the stores refuse to serve them, and their relatives shuns them for ruining the family name - Then maybe they'll get the message. And if not, at the very least, they won't poison the next generation. So how do you "force" someone to accept something socially? You fucking ruin a few of them to get the point across. Simple as that.
And no, the symmetry in that does not count as ironic, hypocritical, or accidental. I'd go with "poetic".
It's something more: it's called bullying (through verbal harassment). Now, are we gonna accept bullying as a right, too?
Yes. As part of having the right to free speech, others have that same right.
But you (unintentionally, I presume) make light of "real" bullying here, which goes far, far beyond "speech". Those chronically bullied very quickly become numb to mere words, and would gladly put up with that over what they actually endure.
Define "proper federal budget", because they have passed federal budgets since then - mind you the last time a budget was passed by both houses of congress was 2009 (the democrat controlled senate has refused to pass a budget since then)
I mean passing an actual, complete federal budget. The 2009 "budget" only contained an omnibus spending bill, not an actual budget.
You may call that picking nits, but it has both a constitutional and a practical basis. Constitutional, because Article I requires congress to enact a federal budget. Practical, for the same reason you make a personal budget - And the federal government has much more complicated finances than you or I do.
Time Warner Cable, another U.S. internet service provider pledging to tackle piracy, says it will use pop-up warnings to deter repeat offenders.
How, exactly, do they plan to accomplish this? Yes, obviously, they have the capability to do the ultimate "man in the middle" attack, but I have rather a huge problem with them analyzing my traffic and modifying it enough to intelligently inject malicious scripts into pages I view.
More to the point, ISPs keep announcing grand plans like this, but not mentioning how they plan to detect "pirates" or what appeals process they plan to put in place. And yes, I know we'll all joke and say "none, of course", but realistically, you don't just lose all your rights as a result of engaging in minor civil offenses against a third party. Hell, even serial killers still get their day in court.
The US has not passed a proper federal budget since NINETEEN-FUCKING-NINETY-SEVEN. We sit on the edge of a "fiscal cliff" not because the government can't work together today to undo the one functionally useful compromise they made last year, but rather, because they haven't managet to work together in decades.
Yes, eventually a foreign enemy will take advantage of our weak stance on cybersecurity. Yes, it will take a "Pearl Harbor" moment to make anyone recognize the problem (to which they'll respond by enacting tougher copyright laws, of course). But cybersecurity falls so far down the list of real problems we face as a country that, even as an IT professional, I honestly can't get all that worked up about it.
When we have our house in order; when we have a balanced budget; when we stop fighting our grandfathers' wars; when we stop worrying about legislating in time with the "news cycle"; when we have a stable economy and don't wonder what our tax rates next year will look like; when the losers in Washington start acting in the public interest instead of demanding we buy chastity belts for all our generals - Then perhaps we can worry about beefing up our national network security.
Until then - Quit bailing with teaspoons and grab a godamned bucket!
Wow, dude, you've really dominated this discussion so far with baseless accusation after baseless accusation. I'd call you a troll, but wow, you have too serious a hard-on over spewing your lies to count as merely a troll - You really seem to hate Bitcoin for some reason.
That said, your sincerity doesn't make you right. You should leave this topic alone until you learn the difference between "what I want something to be" and "what it is".
Now I'm gonna tell ya a story, a tale of wrong and right; and freedom is the reason you can't take it without a fight.
So now I'm startin' up a posse (suck my dick, suck my dick) to come and look for you; we're gonna put a stop to what you want to do.
You fucking whores (you fuckin' whores), that's all you are!
You say our records are offensive (you're a douche, you're a douche), our messages ain't right, you say "We're gonna label records so our kids can grow up right".
You fucking whores (let them decide), that's all you are!
"Shit, fuck, Satan, death, sex, drugs, rape", these seven words you're trying to take.
"Shit, fuck, Satan, death, sex, drugs, rape", right or wrong it's our choice to make.
America the beautiful, land of the free - Don't change the words to land of hypocrisy!
Now I'm startin' up a posse (fascist scum, fascist scum) and we'll damn sure make you see, something that offends you may not be offensive to me.
You fucking whores (you fuckin' whores) That's all you are!
Now you might take offense to a word like "fuck" or "shit" (dick!); but you fuckin' don't have the right (cunt!) to discriminate me for saying it!
You fuckin' whores (you fuckin' whores), that's all you are!
So now I'm startin' up a posse (motherfucker, motherfucker) to fight for freedom of choice, to fight for freedom of speech, we're gonna make you hear our voice.
And now I don't do this to shock you (that's the end, that's the end), I don't do this for spite; you've got the choice, don't buy it, don't read it, and don't say your opinion's right
You fucking whores (you fuckin' whores), that's all you are (cunty, cunty, cunty, cunt)!
You know you can't censor my feelings, you can't censor my thoughts. Censorship's against everything America stands for.
You fuckin' whores (let us decide), that's all you are (and this ain't sexist, either)!
When ads no longer pay the bills (because everyone uses some method to avoid them) those 'free' services will no longer exist.
The free web predates the commercial web.
You know why newwpapers are dying
Because dead trees have no relevance to the modern world, and what little non-local coverage most of them carry, they buy from a syndication service anyway?
How long do you think Google, for instance, would last without advertising revenue?
Google predates ad-sponsored Google.
They don't have a pathological fear of ads
"Loathing" does not equal "Fear", even if both can happen concurrently while having a bad trip in Las Vegas.
They may find some ads actually useful
Okay, now I know you either count as a troll or work as a PR weenie. Useful ads... Heh... Excuse me, I need to go clean the spewed soda out out of me keyboard now.:)
This is probably what Red Hat thinks needs to be proven.
Then they would have it completely wrong.
"As you know, we contributed the Linux SCSI target core, including the relevant interfaces, to the Linux kernel. To be clear, we wrote that code entirely ourselves, so we have the right to use it as we please."
RedHat would, instead, need to disprove that. I honestly don't know the truth of it, offhand. But, if true, RedHat doesn't have a leg to stand on.
If I modify your GPL'd code, I need to release my changes. If I releasing my own code under the GPL, I can also release it however else (ie, closed and proprietary) I want, and you can't do a goddamned thing about it. You have no rights to my further improvements thereof, you have no rights to me continuing that codebase in the future, you simply have no rights beyond what I've granted you with the GPL version.
More to the point - The GPL doesn't change the ownership of a snippet of code. It only changes the terms under which others can use that code. The original author still retains the right to do whatever the hell he wants with his code.
So a single packet might easily be resent multiple times, causing AT&T to measure the bytes that went across their network (since that's what costs them) and not the effective amount of communication that you received.
Oh, you mean much like McDonalds charges me extra for every patty they drop on the floor while trying to prepare my order (since that's what costs them, not how much I actually eat)?
What the 'modern world' needs to learn is that just because you have the ability to do something doesn't mean it is right to do that thing, or that doing that thing has no long-term negative effects.
Heh... How cute. No one "needs" your product. Learn how to sell in the modern market, or vanish into obsolescence.
"Waaaah, no one will pay me for my buggy whips anymore!"
But what do you think will happen to UW's basketball program when it no longer is a source of revenue (or loses even more money than it does now, if that is the case)?
Well, ideally, the University of Washington would stop pouring tuition into stadiums and scholarships for athletic idiots, and focus on such mundane things as academics. But y'know, call me crazy to hope getting a degree would involve getting an education (yes, I count as one of "them" - I see no benefit to linking your sweaty homoerotic gladiatorial games with our institutions of learning).
It's the University, who don't want people "tuning" into Twitter for a play-by-play - they want them tuning in to the local radio or TV stations that have paid handsomely for the broadcast privileges.
UW's failure to grasp the realities of the modern world doesn't make a bit of difference.
Although they could revoke the "credentials" of a traditional-media reporter (ironically, the one group they do need to appease for the advertising revenue), how do they plan to stop a "random fan" from tweeting as much as he wants? 20 tweets? That doesn't even come out to one-per-scored-point in most sports. I've seen people send twice that (well, I've only "seen" them text, can't say for sure if they tweeted it) just in the top of the first inning!
Let UW have its little pissing contes - They'll lose, of course, but it might provide some entertainment to watch (cue them learning about the "Streisand" effect at their next game in 3... 2...1...).
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although for some bizarre reason the biggest treaty organization of them all, the United Nations, is at un.org rather than un.int
Offhand, I'd guess they did that for the same reason that everyone registers the ".com" version of their name, if available - Because, given a domain name, people will completely forget the TLD and try, in order, com, then org, then net, then just ask Google for the damned thing.
Hell, I've used the internet since that meant using Mosaic, and worked in IT for over 15 years, and I have not ever gone to a ".int" domain knowingly (though I've probably hit one or two through Google searches and didn't notice).
Since the EyeSee doesn't store any images, retailers can use it as long as they have a closed-circuit television license."
Can someone European (or British, I expect?) explain this point? I know about the Beeb's "TV license", but thought that applied only if you use a TV to watch OTA content. For closed circuit, what the hell do you pay for?
You don't even need a key or a (code-based) hack to run Win7 forever without activation - You can run it in fully-functional pre-activation mode forever.
Google "slmgr -rearm" and "IR5". Note that IR5 doesn't install any sort of actual cracks, it just scripts a few simple tasks you can do manually if you don't trust it.
because that is the most prevalent drug, but we are not nearly to the point where we are with alcohol,' says Jeffrey P. Michael, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's impaired-driving director. 'We don't know what level of marijuana impairs a driver.'"
.015 than others can at .005 (I could use myself and my SO as an example of that).
.005 - I don't drive after drinking any alcohol, legal or not; but we need to move beyond this convenient legal fiction that BAC defines level of impairment.
Sorry guys, but we don't know what level of alcohol actually makes people too impaired to safely drive, either. Yes, we have a hell of a lot better idea than with THC, but put bluntly, some people can function better at
That doesn't mean you'll catch me on the road at 0.015, or even at
Perhaps the need to deal with pot will finally promote exactly that change, and we'll finally see a real test of impairment rather than the BS in use today.
They're basically a way of imposing a tax on people too stupid or hopeful to know better.
Wait... I don't quite see the problem there. A voluntary tax... On the stupid! Goodness... We have so much stupid going around here in the US, we could balance the federal budget with something like that!
What's more, venues that have poker machines deliberately target the poor.
I don't know how this works in Australia, but in the US, the poor don't pay income taxes. So if, after getting paid and complaining about whether to pay rent, food, or utility bills, they choose to hit the casino, hey, I have no moral problem with that. Hell, I'd actually consider gambling the moral high-ground over "normal" taxation, since at least those who do it, do so without threat of government force for not forking over their cash.
As for the bigger topic - I generally don't think well of the children of famous authors trying to follow in daddy's footsteps. And when they prove themselves as money-grubbing attention whores, it makes it all the easier. Hey, Chris T - Get a fucking job. Your father did something great for the world. Now learn to dig ditches, you hack.
One who needs some manner by which they can pay for that which they're registering.
Prepaid VISA cards FTW - No one online gets my "real" contact info unless I need something physically shipped to me - And even then, I almost always have it shipped to my work address c/o my phone extension - Technically enough to ID me with two court orders (merchant and my employer), but good luck otherwise.
Did you miss the part about paying for more upload space/bandwidth, or do you seriously think RapidShare will accept payments via throwing a plain manila envelope full of unmarked bills off a bridge at 2am?
You do realize this conversation involves a company that used to (maybe they still do, haven't looked in years) accept payments through some sketchy Russian "bill it to your phone via SMS" processor, right?
Whether or not you can extract (and I choose that word deliberately) wealth from a nation through the fiction we call "intellectual property" has nothing to do with the long-term viability of that concept.
When people starve to death because Monsanto won't let them grow patented plants, we need to put the bastards up against the wall.
When people starve to death because Goldman Sachs has cornered the Red Spring Wheat market, we need to put the bastards up against the wall.
When people die of malaria because Novartis would rather profit than save lives, we need to put the bastards up against the wall.
"Intellectual property" literally means nothing more than "we value dollars over your life". Anyone using that as a defense for their actions counts as nothing short of a race traitor - To the human race.
The sooner We The People stop putting up with this shit, the sooner we can get back to improving our world rather than making sure the "right" people get paid for improvements 20 years ago.
Yeah, all of the unused HD textures the high polygon count models they stuck in there, in anticipation, will finally shine.
2x or 4x oversampling counts as the norm (for avoiding "edge" case distortions). So yeah, 2304p (or even boring ol' 1080p) really will shine compared to NTSC on the original.
That's a port. Now get an emulator that runs an unmodified ROM of FF3 to do that.
FF3 used sprite/raster graphics. You don't get much more than it had in it originally.
OTOH, FF7/8/9 used "real" 3d constrained to an NTSC viewport. ePSXe (and other PS1 emulators) really can display those in far, far better resolution than the original PS. Not just scaled-and-smoothed, but natively at a higher resolution. Same goes for the N64 under 1964.
It would really surprise me if a modern gaming console like the Wii didn't also use low-level 3d primitives that an emulator could show at a "full" real modern resolution.
Lets see, my 10kW generator doesn't even power my whole house, and a 10kWH battery set is supposed to provide electricity to 5 houses for 2 hours, that would be 1kW a house. Somehow this seems to be a new use of the word "provide" I was not previously aware of.
As an offline system, no, that amounts to a pitiful amount of power.
As a grid-tie supplementary system, most likely your "background" power use comes in at somewhere between 0.5 to 1kW.
Charging this bank overnight at $0.015/kWH, then using it during the daytime peak at $0.285/kWH comes out to a savings of very nearly $1000/year (so the first year would cover the cost of the inverter, basically), just for squeezing the last bit of use out of something otherwise considered garbage.
So if they have that right, then don't we have the right to out them and call them shitheads?
Absolutely. Call them out, call them shitheads, let the world know their idiocy - They want to "speak", give them as wide an audience as possible so we all know "the enemy".
This thread has nothing to do with calling a spade a spade, however - It started with "you are free to say anything you want as long as your ok with consequences of the men in black suv's showing up and putting you down sans trial under patriot act anti terror legislation". Outing bigots, I have no problem with. Taking away their right to free speech with a web of capricious laws that favor certain types of speech, absolutely not even remotely okay.
I may mock you mercilessly as seven different kinds of idiot who should refrain from contaminating the future gene pool of the human race, "but I will defend to the death your right to say it".
How, exactly, do you "force" someone to accept something socially?
When everyone around them - in their family, in their town, in their church, at work, at the store, at the beach - all publicly "denounce" racism with a wink and a nudge, they'll probably grow up to do the same.
It gets tricky to try to force social compliance through law. Social pressure, however, works wonders where even lengthy prison sentences fall flat.
If they can't get a job, no church will let them in, the stores refuse to serve them, and their relatives shuns them for ruining the family name - Then maybe they'll get the message. And if not, at the very least, they won't poison the next generation. So how do you "force" someone to accept something socially? You fucking ruin a few of them to get the point across. Simple as that.
And no, the symmetry in that does not count as ironic, hypocritical, or accidental. I'd go with "poetic".
It's something more: it's called bullying (through verbal harassment). Now, are we gonna accept bullying as a right, too?
Yes. As part of having the right to free speech, others have that same right.
But you (unintentionally, I presume) make light of "real" bullying here, which goes far, far beyond "speech". Those chronically bullied very quickly become numb to mere words, and would gladly put up with that over what they actually endure.
Define "proper federal budget", because they have passed federal budgets since then - mind you the last time a budget was passed by both houses of congress was 2009 (the democrat controlled senate has refused to pass a budget since then)
I mean passing an actual, complete federal budget. The 2009 "budget" only contained an omnibus spending bill, not an actual budget.
You may call that picking nits, but it has both a constitutional and a practical basis. Constitutional, because Article I requires congress to enact a federal budget. Practical, for the same reason you make a personal budget - And the federal government has much more complicated finances than you or I do.
Time Warner Cable, another U.S. internet service provider pledging to tackle piracy, says it will use pop-up warnings to deter repeat offenders.
How, exactly, do they plan to accomplish this? Yes, obviously, they have the capability to do the ultimate "man in the middle" attack, but I have rather a huge problem with them analyzing my traffic and modifying it enough to intelligently inject malicious scripts into pages I view.
More to the point, ISPs keep announcing grand plans like this, but not mentioning how they plan to detect "pirates" or what appeals process they plan to put in place. And yes, I know we'll all joke and say "none, of course", but realistically, you don't just lose all your rights as a result of engaging in minor civil offenses against a third party. Hell, even serial killers still get their day in court.
The US has not passed a proper federal budget since NINETEEN-FUCKING-NINETY-SEVEN. We sit on the edge of a "fiscal cliff" not because the government can't work together today to undo the one functionally useful compromise they made last year, but rather, because they haven't managet to work together in decades.
Yes, eventually a foreign enemy will take advantage of our weak stance on cybersecurity. Yes, it will take a "Pearl Harbor" moment to make anyone recognize the problem (to which they'll respond by enacting tougher copyright laws, of course). But cybersecurity falls so far down the list of real problems we face as a country that, even as an IT professional, I honestly can't get all that worked up about it.
When we have our house in order; when we have a balanced budget; when we stop fighting our grandfathers' wars; when we stop worrying about legislating in time with the "news cycle"; when we have a stable economy and don't wonder what our tax rates next year will look like; when the losers in Washington start acting in the public interest instead of demanding we buy chastity belts for all our generals - Then perhaps we can worry about beefing up our national network security.
Until then - Quit bailing with teaspoons and grab a godamned bucket!
Wow, dude, you've really dominated this discussion so far with baseless accusation after baseless accusation. I'd call you a troll, but wow, you have too serious a hard-on over spewing your lies to count as merely a troll - You really seem to hate Bitcoin for some reason.
That said, your sincerity doesn't make you right. You should leave this topic alone until you learn the difference between "what I want something to be" and "what it is".
Now I'm gonna tell ya a story, a tale of wrong and right; and freedom is the reason you can't take it without a fight.
So now I'm startin' up a posse (suck my dick, suck my dick) to come and look for you; we're gonna put a stop to what you want to do.
You fucking whores (you fuckin' whores), that's all you are!
You say our records are offensive (you're a douche, you're a douche), our messages ain't right, you say "We're gonna label records so our kids can grow up right".
You fucking whores (let them decide), that's all you are!
"Shit, fuck, Satan, death, sex, drugs, rape", these seven words you're trying to take.
"Shit, fuck, Satan, death, sex, drugs, rape", right or wrong it's our choice to make.
America the beautiful, land of the free - Don't change the words to land of hypocrisy!
Now I'm startin' up a posse (fascist scum, fascist scum) and we'll damn sure make you see, something that offends you may not be offensive to me.
You fucking whores (you fuckin' whores) That's all you are!
Now you might take offense to a word like "fuck" or "shit" (dick!); but you fuckin' don't have the right (cunt!) to discriminate me for saying it!
You fuckin' whores (you fuckin' whores), that's all you are!
So now I'm startin' up a posse (motherfucker, motherfucker) to fight for freedom of choice, to fight for freedom of speech, we're gonna make you hear our voice.
And now I don't do this to shock you (that's the end, that's the end), I don't do this for spite; you've got the choice, don't buy it, don't read it, and don't say your opinion's right
You fucking whores (you fuckin' whores), that's all you are (cunty, cunty, cunty, cunt)!
You know you can't censor my feelings, you can't censor my thoughts. Censorship's against everything America stands for.
You fuckin' whores (let us decide), that's all you are (and this ain't sexist, either)!
When ads no longer pay the bills (because everyone uses some method to avoid them) those 'free' services will no longer exist.
:)
The free web predates the commercial web.
You know why newwpapers are dying
Because dead trees have no relevance to the modern world, and what little non-local coverage most of them carry, they buy from a syndication service anyway?
How long do you think Google, for instance, would last without advertising revenue?
Google predates ad-sponsored Google.
They don't have a pathological fear of ads
"Loathing" does not equal "Fear", even if both can happen concurrently while having a bad trip in Las Vegas.
They may find some ads actually useful
Okay, now I know you either count as a troll or work as a PR weenie. Useful ads... Heh... Excuse me, I need to go clean the spewed soda out out of me keyboard now.
This is probably what Red Hat thinks needs to be proven.
Then they would have it completely wrong.
"As you know, we contributed the Linux SCSI target core, including the relevant interfaces, to the Linux kernel. To be clear, we wrote that code entirely ourselves, so we have the right to use it as we please."
RedHat would, instead, need to disprove that. I honestly don't know the truth of it, offhand. But, if true, RedHat doesn't have a leg to stand on.
If I modify your GPL'd code, I need to release my changes. If I releasing my own code under the GPL, I can also release it however else (ie, closed and proprietary) I want, and you can't do a goddamned thing about it. You have no rights to my further improvements thereof, you have no rights to me continuing that codebase in the future, you simply have no rights beyond what I've granted you with the GPL version.
More to the point - The GPL doesn't change the ownership of a snippet of code. It only changes the terms under which others can use that code. The original author still retains the right to do whatever the hell he wants with his code.
Yeah, about all those letters(tm) you keep using in your apps to form words(tm)? Scrabble's lawyers would like a word with you...
So a single packet might easily be resent multiple times, causing AT&T to measure the bytes that went across their network (since that's what costs them) and not the effective amount of communication that you received.
Oh, you mean much like McDonalds charges me extra for every patty they drop on the floor while trying to prepare my order (since that's what costs them, not how much I actually eat)?
Of course, it all makes sense now!
What the 'modern world' needs to learn is that just because you have the ability to do something doesn't mean it is right to do that thing, or that doing that thing has no long-term negative effects.
Heh... How cute. No one "needs" your product. Learn how to sell in the modern market, or vanish into obsolescence.
"Waaaah, no one will pay me for my buggy whips anymore!"
But what do you think will happen to UW's basketball program when it no longer is a source of revenue (or loses even more money than it does now, if that is the case)?
Well, ideally, the University of Washington would stop pouring tuition into stadiums and scholarships for athletic idiots, and focus on such mundane things as academics. But y'know, call me crazy to hope getting a degree would involve getting an education (yes, I count as one of "them" - I see no benefit to linking your sweaty homoerotic gladiatorial games with our institutions of learning).
It's the University, who don't want people "tuning" into Twitter for a play-by-play - they want them tuning in to the local radio or TV stations that have paid handsomely for the broadcast privileges.
UW's failure to grasp the realities of the modern world doesn't make a bit of difference.
Although they could revoke the "credentials" of a traditional-media reporter (ironically, the one group they do need to appease for the advertising revenue), how do they plan to stop a "random fan" from tweeting as much as he wants? 20 tweets? That doesn't even come out to one-per-scored-point in most sports. I've seen people send twice that (well, I've only "seen" them text, can't say for sure if they tweeted it) just in the top of the first inning!
Let UW have its little pissing contes - They'll lose, of course, but it might provide some entertainment to watch (cue them learning about the "Streisand" effect at their next game in 3... 2...1...).
Otherwise this would be a *good* thing for them (and they would negotiate to pay the highest possible price).
They would very much like to do so, but we call that "collusion" and have a whole slew of laws making it illegal.