I can't afford a dodge viper..but I'm not about to go down to the dealership at 3am and liberate one.
"Piracy" isn't illegal theft of a physical object, it's illegal copying of intellectual property. Still a crime, but I'm sick of seeing people like Valenti equate the two.
(And I use the quotes because real pirates have swords and parrots.:)
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Floppies were never a sure way to store any data, but they used to be much more durable and longer lasting than they are now. Not sure why the quality has dropped so much, but if anyone knows, I would be interested (other than the obvious price drop).
For a while I figured that we were being sold old stock from times of overproduction... but now I imagine the margins on them are so low that no-one bothers to do that last 5% of QC.
Now think back to The Matrix, where they dissipate their landing energy one of two ways - converting it to forward momentum (Trinity's over-the-street leap, where she rolled on the landing and kept moving) or "sunk" it into the landing (Morpheus's landing during the jump program, where the concrete cracked and broke around him). Both were more realistic-seeming than the 10-point olympic landing from 300 feet.
Odd really, given that the philosophical thrust of the film was that inside the Matrix, reality is what you make of it.
We don't have a president, we have a Prime Miniature... er, Prime Minister. The people of Australia have voted for him three times running, which just shows what a backward lot of stupid, racist fuckwits we are in this country.
Talking to a friend of mine who worked for Income Support confirms this. She said that immigrants would come in and sign on, making no attempt to look for work.
Yeah, and no British person would ever behave like that?
Besides, anecdotal evidence is rarely worth the electrons it's written on.
If they stopped sewing their appendages together and burning the fucking place down they'd be just fine. It's not like they're being kept in a concrete cell.
And why aren't all the British visa overstayers there too? Hmmm?
Why should the many who don't react violently have to suffer for the actions of the few who do? Why do they have private companies running these things? Why are they bothering with the UNHRC role, given their utter disdain for the institution and its representatives, unless to undermine the very idea of human rights on a global basis?
Why don't you try living in a cell block behind barbed wire near Woomera and see how you like it? I especially liked the guards' practice of referring to prisoners by numbers instead of names... next they'll be tattoing them, just to keep track. Of course, I thought it was pretty ironic that Israeli soldiers were marking Palestinian civilians arrested during military raids on refugee camps with ID numbers, too.
Whatever happened to a bare minimum of tolerance in this country? (Oh, that's right, John Howard's Minister for Immigration & Aboriginal Affairs, Pauline Hanson. You might think it's supposed to be Ruddock, but I can't really see a difference.) We let the Vietnamese in after the war there, can't we extend the same courtesy to Afghanis and Iraqis who are suffering similar fates now?
And WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN(tm)? How would you like to grow up in a place like that? No wonder 12 and 14-year-olds are making suicide attempts...
Hey, at least it's selfishness with a positive outcome -- rational self-interest, as the libertarians would call it. That's admirable, but I think it's hardly the domain of anyone I would call a hero. I realise people with differing beliefs may not agree with me.
Patents on the e-book technology used might expire, but the content contained within will still be under copyright if it was written after 'Steamboat Willie' (1928), now and forever more, at least within the USA.
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What were Isaac's politics like? Somewhat liberal but nothing extreme?
"You know... for kids!"
I saw that, and the sequel, one after the other on the big screen. Man, that was sure... something. I'm still not quite sure what. :/
Sounds like Ronald Reagan, strangely enough...
Copyright dates in my copies are 1959 for ST and 1977 for EG.
I can't afford a dodge viper..but I'm not about to go down to the dealership at 3am and liberate one.
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"Piracy" isn't illegal theft of a physical object, it's illegal copying of intellectual property. Still a crime, but I'm sick of seeing people like Valenti equate the two.
(And I use the quotes because real pirates have swords and parrots.
Pretty hypocritical to cite the court as authoritative ONLY when it goes your way.
It's pretty hypocritical of Congresspeople to sell legislative opportunities, as well.
Charles Manson is one of the more famous (infamous? notorious?) examples.
Yeah, but Microsoft's business model was proved illegal in a court of law. Haven't seen that happen to the FSF yet...
Only 8? You have it easy.
Floppies were never a sure way to store any data, but they used to be much more durable and longer lasting than they are now. Not sure why the quality has dropped so much, but if anyone knows, I would be interested (other than the obvious price drop).
For a while I figured that we were being sold old stock from times of overproduction... but now I imagine the margins on them are so low that no-one bothers to do that last 5% of QC.
The first time I parsed that sentence, I missed the word 'up'. :/
Now think back to The Matrix, where they dissipate their landing energy one of two ways - converting it to forward momentum (Trinity's over-the-street leap, where she rolled on the landing and kept moving) or "sunk" it into the landing (Morpheus's landing during the jump program, where the concrete cracked and broke around him). Both were more realistic-seeming than the 10-point olympic landing from 300 feet.
Odd really, given that the philosophical thrust of the film was that inside the Matrix, reality is what you make of it.
and they can get incredible detail from a blurry photo simply by saying "Enhancing."
Hey, don't you be saying anything against Blade Runner , now...
We don't have a president, we have a Prime Miniature... er, Prime Minister. The people of Australia have voted for him three times running, which just shows what a backward lot of stupid, racist fuckwits we are in this country.
Talking to a friend of mine who worked for Income Support confirms this. She said that immigrants would come in and sign on, making no attempt to look for work.
Yeah, and no British person would ever behave like that?
Besides, anecdotal evidence is rarely worth the electrons it's written on.
If they stopped sewing their appendages together and burning the fucking place down they'd be just fine. It's not like they're being kept in a concrete cell.
And why aren't all the British visa overstayers there too? Hmmm?
Why should the many who don't react violently have to suffer for the actions of the few who do? Why do they have private companies running these things? Why are they bothering with the UNHRC role, given their utter disdain for the institution and its representatives, unless to undermine the very idea of human rights on a global basis?
Why don't you try living in a cell block behind barbed wire near Woomera and see how you like it? I especially liked the guards' practice of referring to prisoners by numbers instead of names... next they'll be tattoing them, just to keep track. Of course, I thought it was pretty ironic that Israeli soldiers were marking Palestinian civilians arrested during military raids on refugee camps with ID numbers, too.
Whatever happened to a bare minimum of tolerance in this country? (Oh, that's right, John Howard's Minister for Immigration & Aboriginal Affairs, Pauline Hanson. You might think it's supposed to be Ruddock, but I can't really see a difference.) We let the Vietnamese in after the war there, can't we extend the same courtesy to Afghanis and Iraqis who are suffering similar fates now?
And WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN(tm)? How would you like to grow up in a place like that? No wonder 12 and 14-year-olds are making suicide attempts...
Is keeping children in concentration camps enough for you?
Here's a submission to the government on the issue from the Australian Human Rights Centre.
Hey, at least it's selfishness with a positive outcome -- rational self-interest, as the libertarians would call it. That's admirable, but I think it's hardly the domain of anyone I would call a hero. I realise people with differing beliefs may not agree with me.
With Australia as vice-chair, which is pretty ironic given their recent record on human rights.
If he had done this work without an obvious personal stake in the outcome, I'd be far more likely to call him a hero.
Yes! People always say I'm being cynical when I say this, but I just respond that I'm not being as cynical as Reeve himself is.
Remember kids, 1 + 1 = -17 (On a complex plane)
:)
And, of course, for extremely small values of 1. Eh, it's all not(at)ional...
till their respective patents expire
Patents on the e-book technology used might expire, but the content contained within will still be under copyright if it was written after 'Steamboat Willie' (1928), now and forever more, at least within the USA.
Yeah, the man was a nutter. Still a genius, though.
You know the only reason we kept electing lawyers?
Because they're preferable to bigoted chip shop owners who only go into politics to scam the public for money?
Thank God she didn't end up like Pim Fortuyn, or we'd be under a One Nation government by now. I wonder if we'd notice the difference at all...