There are money order and check cashing places on every other corner around UIC. Just take your cash to them, pay your 5% ludite fee, and pay the damn bill.
Napisy.org website was shut down immediately afterwards by the German forces Am I the only one that got a bit of a shiver when they read about German Forces immediately shutting down Poles.
- Microsoft engaged in a contract with Novell, MS distributes coupons for Novell software, Novell gets a liscense granting freedom from MS patent concerns. Money traded hand.
- FSF and others went WTF Novell - you can't do that, you're distributing under the GPL, that code is GPLed, WTF are you doing.
- Novell found a nice big loophole in the GPL and ran through it with a truckload of MS cash.
- FSF is releasing GPL 3.0 which closes the loophole
- It is assumed that when GPL 3 comes out, Novell will choose to distribute under 3, rather than forking off their own version of the kernel to retain GPL 2.0 licensing.
- The argument here is that once Novell starts distributing under 3.0 with the MS coupons (i.e. with a lisence to use the patented material from MS) the GPL 3.0 viral patent lisence clause goes into effect.
There are problems with this.. not the least of which is that it attempts to blend the GPL (copyright law) and the MS-Novell deal (Contract Law) as if they held to the same principles (which they don't contracts are shredable in a few thousand ways). MS will probably argue that this use of their limited licesne with Novell constitutes an act of bad faith.. intended to deprive them of their patent rights.. which would then go to a whole series of legal arguments that don't matter for now. Basically.. FSF thinks they're SO clever, they're letting MS know what's coming. Great idea.. no really.. suprise is useless. ]sigh[
Wow, this sounds great - MS makes a stupid contract and gest BORKED when the GPL team change the license. Except.. this is a really one sided (as in straw man) position.
IAJALS*, but contracts are always subject to interpretation as to meaning and intent. There are rules (which are silly, generally) limiting what can and cannot be brought in as evidence of intent - but terms like "advantadge of the bargain" and "intent of the parties" weigh heavily on judges minds when they look on contracts like this. One of the big principles of law is that there is no such thing as "magic words" in law that force parties to subject themselves to unfair (technically "inequitable") results. -actually, property law is an exception to that.. deeds are very formulaic under most state systems, but that's just real estate, which is not touched here-
Here MS has granted a limited liscense.. there is ample evidence as to intent at the time of the contract formation (many press releases from all concerned parties) and then this defense is practially a template for how to show bad faith on the part of a contracting partner. As discussed above, Novell has little / no option except to distribute under the 3.0 GPL, but doing so subjects their partner to very harsh terms which are explicity intended to fuck them over. That is a text-book worthy demonstration of abusive languge in a contract.
I'm not saying the FSF folks don't know what they're doing - they're very clever and this is sharp stuff - but this is no one sided tidal wave bearing down on MS, and they do have their own lawyers (as you may have heard), who are also very smart (and they drink the blood of virgins.. so bonus evil points).
If it's got water, it's got hydrogen and oxygen. We can find other sources of nitrogen, and there's most of a breathable atmosphere.
The basic assumption that we can -reach- such a planet is the first major barrier. Remember how long it took voyager to get out of the system.. now multiply that distance a few (hundred?) thousand times.
First step should be the moon, then mars.. that takes all our eggs out of one nest - getting to another coup is cool and all, but baby steps are more likely to succeed.
It is not necessarily incorrect. If the probability is generally known but small, we can fairly safely extrapolate that to lots of planets and stars. However, vastness of space does not necessarily increase the likelyhood that say unicorns or fairies will exist somewhere. This is because we don't know the probability of those in the first place, and multiplying an unknown probability by a known expanse (the size and age of the universe) still gives you an unknown result. (Kinda like dealing with SQL nulls. One unknown factor "spoils" the results.)But there is no standard measurment of potential existence. A thing exists or it dosen't. The existence of things can be more or less plausible, but potentiality is immaterial to an instantiated system. There are a set number of stable configurations for matter. The combinations may seem inifinte, but that's just because they are a vast set - they can be named and numbered. They are not infinite. And the probability as proof thesis requires infinite instantiation to function.
Or to put it another way - if we live in a finite universe, then it has finite objects, and extrapolating from potential to probable fails.
Why lose the account, friends, etc? The account will switch over to Silver level. You won't lose anything but the ability to play online. This is the system my brother uses to stay on live-gold for "free" (I mean he is buying the games). Register a new account, play three months, start a new one, repeat.
Please. Bush would NEVER have been able to draft troops for this ridiculous excuse for a war. If there were a draft tomorrow there'd be riots in the streets and US troops coming home before they got anyone over there against their will. I know that, you know that, and the white house knows that....that's why there hasn't been a draft (despite huge troop shortages), isn't a draft, and won't be one. Oh please. He's got 2 years left in office which makes him immune to public outcry. Riots, when they do occur, can produce two things - (1) a chance for republicans to pose as law and order presidents (see the results of the watts riots), and (2) draftees, prisoners, and dead bodies.
We live in a covenant with the government embodied in the constitution - the constitution gives the government the power to draft us. If you like the rights guaranteed in the bill of rights, sometimes you have to pay the price.
If my arm blew off, I would be screaming in pain. Then I would think of the pain of losing my arm for the rest of my life. And maybe of how much surgery I'm about to go through to fix this problem and how much pain there is going to be involved in that. Reports from people who have experience in your hypothetical disagree.
The body fails to acknowledge traumatic stimula that will cause the mind to fail in the midst of danger. Or in plain terms, when you get your arm blown off, unless you look at it and get scared, you may not even notice for a few minutes. Other things - like running away from danger - will own your brain until you have time to realize your prediciment and break the smooth functioning of millenia worth of evelutionairy programing.
Unless I've been reading all the wrong message boards it appears that most Halo players are by far more interested in the multiplayer deathmatches than the story. The backlash over the "story" in Halo 2 was all over Halo 2 boards for months following the game's release. Halo 1 had a decent story that was COMPLETE on release.
Halo 2 had a deeper story that was more involving.. and then stopped suddenly half way through.
The story is important to me, and most of my friends - but anecdotes aren't evidence. I don't know if anyone is bothering to survey gamers to find out either.
There was some Microsoft exec interview quoted in the last 1UP Yours podcast, and one important point of it was that MS see Live as a source of income, so it will probably never be free unless it becomes totally ad-supported. Two things:
(1) Live is already a heavy profit margin for them, and one they should continue to play up - but you don't have to pay for it. So long as you are buying games that have live functionality, look for the ones that come with three month trials, create an account with the code in the game box, play your three months, and then loose the account. You lose the name, the friends, and the points - but people that bitch about live are supposed to think those are silly anyway right?
(2) as the hardware comes closer to breaking even and profits from live rise - selling the razor cheap to profit on the blades becomes more feasible - which means lower hardware and game prices for us.
And here I thought they gave Master Chief the helmet so they wouldn't have to bother with pesky things like facial animation... You might think that, but everybody else in Halo 1 had a face (seargent, cortana, etc). I think it serves as an immersion tool - because the avatar dosen't have a face you can identify with the avatar as self - or if your subconcious works differently - the avatar as your favorite kind of hero. It eliminates the desire in the player for an avatar that reflects their own identity without forcing them to build in custom avatars (which would have been a stretch back in H1).
"to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" means only the author or inventor gets the right. Congress cannot change that without amending the Constitution. The courts don't question the means used by congress to acheive an end under the commerce power, only that the attempt is to reach that end. This is a strong deference, the courts will find a valid purpose for an apparently crap law if they must - 100 years of precedent forces them to do so.
Sure everyone deserves some blame. The people should elect responsible representatives who in the form of a government should prevent corporate crimes like the RIAA is pulling. But don't forget that the RIAA is a company. So is Google. One is evil, one isn't (yet). You're wasting your breath screaming at the RIAA. They have the force of law on their side. I was telling you to go talk to your elected officials because they're the only ones with power who are responsible to you.
If you'd rather rend your clothes and gnash your teeth impotently, then by all means...
This is not something one party should do unilateraly. If the Republicans can freely cut apart and use the Democratic debates without fear, but the Democrats cannot return the favor, this will only lend a tool to the opposition party. They should mutually dis-arm and open up all the debates under creative commons.
"The recent U.S. Copyright Office ruling regarding webcasting designated SoundExchange to collect and distribute to all nonmembers as well as its members. The Librarian of Congress issued his decision with rates and terms to govern the compulsory license for webcasters (Internet-only radio) and simulcastors (retransmissions)." (http://soundexchange.com/faq.html#b4) The U.S. Gov't gave themt he right to do this. It's not theft, it's not criminal, it's just corrupt. Your anger should not be aimed at the unnelected construct of law who's only legal purpose for existing is profit - it should be aimed at the assholes in gov't who did this. I'll bet you your congressman dosen't know about this.. maybe you should tell him.
I won't take you on on local law, so tell me if I'm wrong - but my understanding of the effect is that the lawyer is certed by the court as an officer of the court, and then issues subpoena's durring discovery in her capacity as an officer of the court, rather than as a form of mandatory invitation from an individual.
Thus, from the court.
-GiH I am just a law student - so I'm often wrong.
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There are money order and check cashing places on every other corner around UIC. Just take your cash to them, pay your 5% ludite fee, and pay the damn bill.
-GiH
Est Verboten!! ]yikes[
-GiH
- Microsoft engaged in a contract with Novell, MS distributes coupons for Novell software, Novell gets a liscense granting freedom from MS patent concerns. Money traded hand.
- FSF and others went WTF Novell - you can't do that, you're distributing under the GPL, that code is GPLed, WTF are you doing.
- Novell found a nice big loophole in the GPL and ran through it with a truckload of MS cash.
- FSF is releasing GPL 3.0 which closes the loophole
- It is assumed that when GPL 3 comes out, Novell will choose to distribute under 3, rather than forking off their own version of the kernel to retain GPL 2.0 licensing.
- The argument here is that once Novell starts distributing under 3.0 with the MS coupons (i.e. with a lisence to use the patented material from MS) the GPL 3.0 viral patent lisence clause goes into effect.
There are problems with this.. not the least of which is that it attempts to blend the GPL (copyright law) and the MS-Novell deal (Contract Law) as if they held to the same principles (which they don't contracts are shredable in a few thousand ways). MS will probably argue that this use of their limited licesne with Novell constitutes an act of bad faith.. intended to deprive them of their patent rights.. which would then go to a whole series of legal arguments that don't matter for now. Basically.. FSF thinks they're SO clever, they're letting MS know what's coming. Great idea.. no really.. suprise is useless. ]sigh[
-GiH
IAJALS*, but contracts are always subject to interpretation as to meaning and intent. There are rules (which are silly, generally) limiting what can and cannot be brought in as evidence of intent - but terms like "advantadge of the bargain" and "intent of the parties" weigh heavily on judges minds when they look on contracts like this. One of the big principles of law is that there is no such thing as "magic words" in law that force parties to subject themselves to unfair (technically "inequitable") results. -actually, property law is an exception to that.. deeds are very formulaic under most state systems, but that's just real estate, which is not touched here-
Here MS has granted a limited liscense.. there is ample evidence as to intent at the time of the contract formation (many press releases from all concerned parties) and then this defense is practially a template for how to show bad faith on the part of a contracting partner. As discussed above, Novell has little / no option except to distribute under the 3.0 GPL, but doing so subjects their partner to very harsh terms which are explicity intended to fuck them over. That is a text-book worthy demonstration of abusive languge in a contract.
I'm not saying the FSF folks don't know what they're doing - they're very clever and this is sharp stuff - but this is no one sided tidal wave bearing down on MS, and they do have their own lawyers (as you may have heard), who are also very smart (and they drink the blood of virgins.. so bonus evil points).
-GiH
* = I am just a law student
The basic assumption that we can -reach- such a planet is the first major barrier. Remember how long it took voyager to get out of the system.. now multiply that distance a few (hundred?) thousand times.
First step should be the moon, then mars.. that takes all our eggs out of one nest - getting to another coup is cool and all, but baby steps are more likely to succeed.
-GiH
/quote failure. I am humiliated. :(
-GiH
Or to put it another way - if we live in a finite universe, then it has finite objects, and extrapolating from potential to probable fails.
-GiH
-GiH
It's part fo the "space is infinite so all things which can exist do exist" line of (incorrect) thinking.
Two thumbs down for cliched half-truths on this article.
-GiH
We live in a covenant with the government embodied in the constitution - the constitution gives the government the power to draft us. If you like the rights guaranteed in the bill of rights, sometimes you have to pay the price.
-GiH
Thank you for serving. I never had the balls to sign up, part of me still regrets that.
-GiH
The body fails to acknowledge traumatic stimula that will cause the mind to fail in the midst of danger. Or in plain terms, when you get your arm blown off, unless you look at it and get scared, you may not even notice for a few minutes. Other things - like running away from danger - will own your brain until you have time to realize your prediciment and break the smooth functioning of millenia worth of evelutionairy programing.
-GiH
Halo 2 had a deeper story that was more involving.. and then stopped suddenly half way through.
The story is important to me, and most of my friends - but anecdotes aren't evidence. I don't know if anyone is bothering to survey gamers to find out either.
-GiH
(1) Live is already a heavy profit margin for them, and one they should continue to play up - but you don't have to pay for it. So long as you are buying games that have live functionality, look for the ones that come with three month trials, create an account with the code in the game box, play your three months, and then loose the account. You lose the name, the friends, and the points - but people that bitch about live are supposed to think those are silly anyway right?
(2) as the hardware comes closer to breaking even and profits from live rise - selling the razor cheap to profit on the blades becomes more feasible - which means lower hardware and game prices for us.
-GiH
-GiH
It's not you, it's the game.
-GiH
Next generation of technology said to be more advanced than last! (Who knew?)
Shouldn't this article be met with a resounding "DUH!" ?
-GiH
They're not regulating you. They're regulating the broadcaster. -GiH
-GiH
If you'd rather rend your clothes and gnash your teeth impotently, then by all means...
-GiH
-GiH
-GiH
Because when they (I) play them.. they have fun.
-GiH
I won't take you on on local law, so tell me if I'm wrong - but my understanding of the effect is that the lawyer is certed by the court as an officer of the court, and then issues subpoena's durring discovery in her capacity as an officer of the court, rather than as a form of mandatory invitation from an individual.
Thus, from the court.
-GiH
I am just a law student - so I'm often wrong.
The subpeona is not to the defendant, it is to a "related" party. So you're looking at fines / bench warrants.
-GiH