Bricking means to render unbootable with no means of recovery other than sending back to the manufactures. This is usually done through the corruption of the firmware.
Oops.. it's GPL, they can't do that.
Ever heard of dual licensing? The owner of the copyright can distribute their works seperately under as many different rules as they see fit.
It's not a specific multiplication factor for a brand of bodies. Nikon DOES make DSLRs with a full frame sensor, so no 1.5x lens factor. Even if that were the case, most action is shot with tele lenses, not wide angle lenses, so that multiplication would actually help your lens collection.
...to honor lifetime subscribers. The same thing happened to Wolf camera. Senior citizens received a lifetime membership if they joined (1 year renewal periods for everyone else). After Ritz camera bought out wolf camera, they stopped honoring senior lifetime memberships.
Given that the sole purpose of sex is for procreation (in both a Biblical and biological sense no less)
I would like to point out that our big pink friend's (The Clitoris) sole existance is for pleasure. Perhaps god/evolution had other ideas than just procreation.
True. But where are these vast good works done by the porn merchants?
I bet I can vouch for myself and others in saying that the porno peddlers have done good things for us. Just because they don't fit your 2000 year old moral standard, doesn't mean it's necessarily wrong.
I don't force you to be buddhist, so even try to force me to be Christian/Catholic/[Insert sect here]/Anything else.
We got our service through megapath dsl. Apparently they did see this coming, and they were switching providers for everyone, but northpoint bombed out 2-3 weeks earlier than originally planned.
We're now stuck with (get ready to laugh) a shared dialup amongst 15+ computers.
We're a somewhat small consultant company that depends on net access for testing our apps and communications with people in the field/our clients. Although, at this point I can't really say anyone is to blame (or everyone is?).
1 - the argument in the past has been to say "What if I'm downloading legal music that's not mainstream, and thus not owned by the RIAA"? The answer to this question is that this filtering shouldn't affect the "legal" music, so it's a non-issue.
It shouldn't but it will. If they ban based on "metallica," parodies and the like will also be banned.
2 - "what if I own the music I'm downloading, since I bought the CD"? Well - if you've got the CD, I guess you can either rip the tracks yourself, or use the my.mp3.com service. If you've already got it, why do you need to download it?
Belive it or not, there are some people with p166's still around with broadband connections. 10min download for a high quality rip vs an hour to do it yourself. For me, it's easier to have all of my mp3s accessable from one place and not have to physically swap cds when I want to listen to different tunes. Not everyone has a 5 disc changer.
I do agree with your other arguments though.
Btw, it's 5:18am, I'm intoxicated, and I've been up for 23 hours, so don't bitch about spelling/grammer.
Okay, you're assuming that it was accessed on campus, and that he forced it down the throats of the other students. And seriously, School administrators have every right to punish dispruptive behavior that spills over on to their campus.
that's just flat out wrong. It's not his fault that it "spilled over onto their campus." And even if he did access it from a school's computer, he should be punished for that as opposed to putting the site up in his own time, when the school had NO legal libel for him. So why should he have a moral libel for the school during non-school time?
This web page is also accessable from school, and during school hours also. So are dozens of porn sites. So are sites that host the anarchist's cookbook and the communist manifesto.
The difference between this and a pamphlet, is that the pamphlet is physically at school, and distracts for the learning environment. Outside of school, students may do what they wish; it's not the school's job (nor is it within their right) to be protector or punisher of their pupils when not in the school setting. Outside of school, it is the parent's job to disclipline their child.
And yes I would be ok with that. That is something physical AT the school. That (as said for the thousandth time) distracts from the learning environment.
Alot of people tend to forget that just because someone is 18, that they are people too. Children/Teens aren't owned by their parents and especially not educators.
Then by that logic the kid should be able to say anything to anyone in school and receive no punishment. Heck, swear at the teachers, it's protected speech. As I remember my speech was a bit more limited than that.
The point you seem to be missing (twice already) is that the speech was ouside of school. The reason schools are able to punish students (which hinders their own education) is because they are hindering their peers ability to learn in school by creating an unsafe/unsutable environment for learning. The schools CANNOT control what goes on outside of school.
The parody had very little to do with school, and didn't impair the learning process more than anything else would. The appropriate thing would have been for the student to have been sued.
I have to ask, but what's your defination of a linux box? If some company comes along and makes a propritary devices that you have to hack to change the software, and locks you into using linux, is that a linux box? If this isn't a linux box I dunno what is.
If it fails, some scientists believe the only alternative is to figure out some way to pump all that carbon dioxide into the ocean, a significant problem since about 70 percent of the nation's power plants are inland.
"I don't think that will work, and I don't think it's something we should do," says Cooksey. "We have no idea what the consequences of injecting CO2 into the ocean would be. Many scientists are violently opposed to it."
Does the recent trend in science of "playing God" frighten anyone else? This is seriously large scale, with a possible catastrophic outcome. This might sound trollish, but haven't they though of eliminating the source of the excess CO2, as opposed to dealing with the byproducts?
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Bricking means to render unbootable with no means of recovery other than sending back to the manufactures. This is usually done through the corruption of the firmware.
I'm not even going to adress the autofocus issue... dSLR's have an ir filter on the damn chip. So that "super-dooper IR laser" won't show up.
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You're white aren't you.
Oops.. it's GPL, they can't do that.
Ever heard of dual licensing? The owner of the copyright can distribute their works seperately under as many different rules as they see fit.
It's not a specific multiplication factor for a brand of bodies. Nikon DOES make DSLRs with a full frame sensor, so no 1.5x lens factor. Even if that were the case, most action is shot with tele lenses, not wide angle lenses, so that multiplication would actually help your lens collection.
...to honor lifetime subscribers. The same thing happened to Wolf camera. Senior citizens received a lifetime membership if they joined (1 year renewal periods for everyone else). After Ritz camera bought out wolf camera, they stopped honoring senior lifetime memberships.
There was no story.
Would it be possible to mix this with other metals so that the resulting substance wouldn't change size at all under any temperature changes?
Is due to the media being unaware of the situation? It may seem farfetched, but has anyone attempted to contact the media about this matter?
Isn't there a preview button posting stories so that you don't make a mistake like leaving the whole post in italics?
DeCSS ring a bell? Fair use? Educational purposes?
I would like to point out that our big pink friend's (The Clitoris) sole existance is for pleasure. Perhaps god/evolution had other ideas than just procreation.
True. But where are these vast good works done by the porn merchants?
I bet I can vouch for myself and others in saying that the porno peddlers have done good things for us. Just because they don't fit your 2000 year old moral standard, doesn't mean it's necessarily wrong.
I don't force you to be buddhist, so even try to force me to be Christian/Catholic/[Insert sect here]/Anything else.
We're a somewhat small consultant company that depends on net access for testing our apps and communications with people in the field/our clients. Although, at this point I can't really say anyone is to blame (or everyone is?).
Mod that down
now down 28.80%, and the day is still young ;)
It shouldn't but it will. If they ban based on "metallica," parodies and the like will also be banned.
2 - "what if I own the music I'm downloading, since I bought the CD"? Well - if you've got the CD, I guess you can either rip the tracks yourself, or use the my.mp3.com service. If you've already got it, why do you need to download it?
Belive it or not, there are some people with p166's still around with broadband connections. 10min download for a high quality rip vs an hour to do it yourself. For me, it's easier to have all of my mp3s accessable from one place and not have to physically swap cds when I want to listen to different tunes. Not everyone has a 5 disc changer.
I do agree with your other arguments though.
Btw, it's 5:18am, I'm intoxicated, and I've been up for 23 hours, so don't bitch about spelling/grammer.
No, but hopefully, the'll cut it down to one wrong.
Last time I check, lightning almost always strikes twice...
Heh, don't be so damn pessimistic either man ;)
Okay, you're assuming that it was accessed on campus, and that he forced it down the throats of the other students. And seriously, School administrators have every right to punish dispruptive behavior that spills over on to their campus. that's just flat out wrong. It's not his fault that it "spilled over onto their campus." And even if he did access it from a school's computer, he should be punished for that as opposed to putting the site up in his own time, when the school had NO legal libel for him. So why should he have a moral libel for the school during non-school time?
The difference between this and a pamphlet, is that the pamphlet is physically at school, and distracts for the learning environment. Outside of school, students may do what they wish; it's not the school's job (nor is it within their right) to be protector or punisher of their pupils when not in the school setting. Outside of school, it is the parent's job to disclipline their child.
And yes I would be ok with that. That is something physical AT the school. That (as said for the thousandth time) distracts from the learning environment.
Alot of people tend to forget that just because someone is 18, that they are people too. Children/Teens aren't owned by their parents and especially not educators.
The point you seem to be missing (twice already) is that the speech was ouside of school. The reason schools are able to punish students (which hinders their own education) is because they are hindering their peers ability to learn in school by creating an unsafe/unsutable environment for learning. The schools CANNOT control what goes on outside of school.
The parody had very little to do with school, and didn't impair the learning process more than anything else would. The appropriate thing would have been for the student to have been sued.
man, where'd you get your education? it's spelled skool.
I have to ask, but what's your defination of a linux box? If some company comes along and makes a propritary devices that you have to hack to change the software, and locks you into using linux, is that a linux box? If this isn't a linux box I dunno what is.
"I don't think that will work, and I don't think it's something we should do," says Cooksey. "We have no idea what the consequences of injecting CO2 into the ocean would be. Many scientists are violently opposed to it."
Does the recent trend in science of "playing God" frighten anyone else? This is seriously large scale, with a possible catastrophic outcome. This might sound trollish, but haven't they though of eliminating the source of the excess CO2, as opposed to dealing with the byproducts?