No, what makes this sad is that you seem to think that Crawford, TX is Bush's hometown.
The Dodgers used to play in Brooklyn, but people in LA root for them all the same. From the Miriam-Webster dictionary:
hometown : the city or town where one was born or grew up; also: the place of one's principal residence
Crawford, TX is as much Bush's hometown as Lowell, MA was Kerry's from 1972-1976 - their place of principal (legal) residence. For all the hype about the Lowell endorsement, Kerry hasn't lived there in almost 30 years. Bush has lived in Crawford longer (since 1999) and is all too happy to cast himself as a man from small-town America, false as that might be. (Fun fact: officeholders living in official housing do not change their legal place of residence. Dick Cheney's legal residence is Jackson Hole, WY, not the US Naval Observatory in Washington, DC)
I know as well as anyone that Bush is a Connecticut yankee. I myself was born in Texas and lived there for years, but I don't consider the place I was born my hometown. Home is the electoral district where you hang your hat.
Don't let a little thing like the truth get in the way of your trolling.
Everything I wrote was demonstrably true, just like what you wrote. Oh wait, what you said about Crawford, TX not being Bush's hometown was demonstrably false. Sorry. It is Bush's hometown in a real and legally binding sense.
I never said Kerry was an "outsider." I said the Lowell Sun has had it out for Kerry since 1972 when Kerry moved to Lowell in order to run for the 5th Congressional District seat vacated by Representative F. Bradford Morse. (Kerry lost, BTW, due in no small part to the crusade against him led by the Sun's editor Clement C. Costello, who later infamously for urged the US to invade Canada and Mexico in response to the Arab oil boycott.)
It's sad that the AP picks up the fact that a paper with a circulation of 425 supports Kerry. But there is not mention that the Lowell Sun, a ciculation of 100,000+ and a major newspaper in Massachusetts, Endorses Bush.
What makes this a story is that Bush's hometown paper endorsed him in 2000. The Lowell Sun has been attacking Kerry relentlessly since 1972 when Kerry first moved there and upset the local good-ol-boy political network. It's not "news" when the Sun publishes the same "Vote Kerry's Opponent" endorsement it's published for the last 32 years.
The fact that YOUR SOFTWARE shuts down after 49.7 days "to prevent data overload" is YOUR FAULT and BAD SOFTWARE DESIGN, no matter how much you use your pet news outlet to spin otherwise.
You're right about one thing, though. The FAA guys were idiots for deploying your software to replace an (eminently more reliable by all accounts) UNIX-based system. Call it a compound failure.
But according to the EULA you're not buying the software, you're buying a license to use the software. Even if your original media is destroyed or unusable, your license is still valid.
Right.
Either the software manufacturer owes you a free copy of the software (minus media and shipping costs), or you can use your backup. No effect on the market.
Sorry? The software manufacturer is likely to differ on that point. You still have your license to use said software. That you have lost your installation media is your problem, not the manufacturer's problem.
As another poster pointed out, 17 USC 117 grants an explicit right to backup copies of software you own. But of course, since consumer software companies claim to confer no such transfer of ownership at time of sale, this clause is ineffective.
I think it sucks, too. The twisted logic that makes walking into a store, plunking down your cash, and walking out with a box somehow "not a sale," or that makes contractual terms presented unilaterally after the offer and acceptance (i.e. the EULA) somehow binding is going to totally eviscerate most consumer protection laws in this country once manufacturers of other goods twig to it.
...would it be legal to make backups of the software BEFORE agreeing to the EULA?
Who says backups are fair use?
There are four factors that judges use to make a fair use determination under copyright law:
The "transformative" factor - have you added any value to, or transformed, the original work? Consider a parody - the original is transformed - or the case of commentary, research, or education where the original work is the subject of commentary or used to illustrate a port. A backup copy of software does not transform the original work - indeed, the whole purpose of the backup is to make an exact (or functionally exact) copy of the original.
The nature of the copyrighted work - it is considered a public good to disseminate factual information. Your software might contain facts (e.g. an encyclopedia on CDROM), but you're simply duplicating the original work, not excerpting and disseminating its factual content. This goes to the next point,
The amount and substantiality of the portion taken. In the case of a backup, you're copying the entire work. Backups fail this test, too.
The effect of the use upon the potential market. By making a backup of your software, you are potentially depriving the copyright owner of a second sale in the event your original media are destroyed or otherwise rendered unreadable.
Any rational analysis of these rules suggest that backup copies are not, in fact, fair use of copyrighted work under the present code and caselaw. Sad, isn't it?
I wrote civil messages on DU which people seemed to enjoy responding to and I was deleted simply because I wasn't a liberal. I don't think that would have happened on FR.
I don't self-identify as a either a liberal or a conservative, but my FR account was summarily deleted when I merely posed the question as to whether Jeb Bush could face eviction from the governor's mansion as a result of his daughter's conviction of a drug offense. (This was back when the US Supreme Court upheld a federal law permitting eviction of family members of those convicted of drug offenses from public housing even if they had no knowledge of the crime.)
My experience doesn't suggest that Freepers are willing to put up with any sort of uncomfortable questions.
Let's just hope that Gmail still works with other browsers.
Gmail requires you allow cookies from google.com. This in turn allows google to log and track all your searches with a persistent cookie.
Considering how much I use google and the degree to which it has become an extension of my own memory, I find this unacceptable. Thus, no gmail for me.
Google's official corporate mantra might be "Don't be evil" but they sure don't care much about privacy.
Earth to Britain: If you're tired of being gouged by your local vendors (as compared to the continent), adopt the euro.
People in the UK have always been gouged on everything. What sells for $1 in the US usually sells for £1 in the UK (and now 1 in most of Europe). Great for foreign companies selling into the UK market. Not so great for UK companies that have to pay inflationary wages to local employees just to survive.
I don't know why the UK puts up with this state of affairs. I wouldn't be surprised to learn those who gain under the present arrangement might manipulate of nationalist sentiment against the euro through media outlets they control.
Under armed surrender (what one wag called my plan for "Fortress America"), we basically ignore that the rest of the world exists for a while- and kill anybody who tries to tell us different. That would cost us our economic superiority- but maybe, just maybe, when we come out a thousand years from now, the rest of the world will have caught up to us in standard of living.
This strategy certainly has worked wonders for North Korea.
nuance is only quantifiable by lawyers. say what you damn mean
The world is complicated and precise language reflects its complexity. Precision and nuance are not only important to lawyers, but they're regrettably lost on most people these days.
People generally hate obviously unfair propaganda.
Right, which is why "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" were so unsuccessful.
I believe you've got it completely backwards. People hate substantive discussion of issues. People hate nuance. Nuance and intelligent discussion = nerd. And people really hate nerds. Take Al Gore, please!
Pro wrestling has more fans than "Meet The Press" and image triumphs over substance every time. Unfair propaganda works.
This is part of the new curriculum being phased in at CS programs around the country. The next phase will have you deposit your diploma into a shredder for recycling after you cross the stage. You'll then be loaded onto a container ship and be sent to a reprocessing facility in China, where you'll become something useful, like soylent green.
None of what I said was an attack or said to illicit angryness. Maybe the word you are loking for is "patronizing". Now *that* I would admit to, although my intent was not to hurt, I was only stating commonly-known psychology.
That's clearly false. The very act of communicating in a patronizing manner bespeaks ill will.
Your disregard for the plain meaning of language further elicits "angryness."
You wrote, You can't even peacefully wear a "No Bush" T-Shirt to a political rally now adays without being arrested for trespassing. Is that from personal experience of being arrested for doing so or are you just parroting a FOAF? It's always been trendy in pop society to associate with rebels, as it represents the teenage breaking of the womb ties and further reinforces the adolescent's identity.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0715-07. ht m
I said I bought the mouse long before I found out about your pet crusade.
Now you're telling me "You need to seriously examine your ethics and integrity" and "you're [sic] integrity is that of SPAMHaus CEO or you lack intelligence to comprehend the grossness and perversion of business MacMice represents" as a result?
Pardon my french, but kindly fuck off. You don't know me, not even a little bit. You may have a legitimate beef, but your paranoia and hostility makes me dismiss you and your cause out of hand.
I'm not going to apologize for the (apparently) egregious oversight of failing to vet my mouse purchase with you, oh mighty guardian of mac accessory business practices.
I might think twice about ordering another macmice.com product. (I only bought themouse because my girlfriend requested it.) I will certainly never visit your site again, however. There aren't enough hours in the day for me to care about every crusade, and you lost my support with your attitude.
Has anyone ever heard of Jack Campbell and MacMice? This guy does the same thing. He says one thing in a forum, then says something completely different in another forum concerning his actions and his companies actions.
Your website is some first rate net.kookery.
FWIW, I bought "the mouse" from macmice.com long before I heard about this flamewar. To all those who say "you can buy the same mouse elsewhere for less" I say "show me where." I've seen similar mice to "the mouse" but no mouse exactly like it.
As a recent mac switcher and someone unaffiliated with any side in this fracas (except for being a satisfied macmice customer), I advise you to find a new hobby.
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The Dodgers used to play in Brooklyn, but people in LA root for them all the same. From the Miriam-Webster dictionary:
Crawford, TX is as much Bush's hometown as Lowell, MA was Kerry's from 1972-1976 - their place of principal (legal) residence. For all the hype about the Lowell endorsement, Kerry hasn't lived there in almost 30 years. Bush has lived in Crawford longer (since 1999) and is all too happy to cast himself as a man from small-town America, false as that might be. (Fun fact: officeholders living in official housing do not change their legal place of residence. Dick Cheney's legal residence is Jackson Hole, WY, not the US Naval Observatory in Washington, DC)
I know as well as anyone that Bush is a Connecticut yankee. I myself was born in Texas and lived there for years, but I don't consider the place I was born my hometown. Home is the electoral district where you hang your hat.
Everything I wrote was demonstrably true, just like what you wrote. Oh wait, what you said about Crawford, TX not being Bush's hometown was demonstrably false. Sorry. It is Bush's hometown in a real and legally binding sense.
-Isaac
Way to put words in my mouth, asshat.
I never said Kerry was an "outsider." I said the Lowell Sun has had it out for Kerry since 1972 when Kerry moved to Lowell in order to run for the 5th Congressional District seat vacated by Representative F. Bradford Morse. (Kerry lost, BTW, due in no small part to the crusade against him led by the Sun's editor Clement C. Costello, who later infamously for urged the US to invade Canada and Mexico in response to the Arab oil boycott.)
-Isaac
No. 7Up is owned by the Dr.Pepper/7Up company which is a subsidiary of Cadbury Schweppes, PLC.
7Up does have some regional bottling and distribution agreements with Pepsi, however.
I believe Pepsi's lemon-lime soda product is Slice.
-Isaac
What makes this a story is that Bush's hometown paper endorsed him in 2000. The Lowell Sun has been attacking Kerry relentlessly since 1972 when Kerry first moved there and upset the local good-ol-boy political network. It's not "news" when the Sun publishes the same "Vote Kerry's Opponent" endorsement it's published for the last 32 years.
-Isaac
The fact that YOUR SOFTWARE shuts down after 49.7 days "to prevent data overload" is YOUR FAULT and BAD SOFTWARE DESIGN, no matter how much you use your pet news outlet to spin otherwise.
You're right about one thing, though. The FAA guys were idiots for deploying your software to replace an (eminently more reliable by all accounts) UNIX-based system. Call it a compound failure.
-Isaac
Right.
Sorry? The software manufacturer is likely to differ on that point. You still have your license to use said software. That you have lost your installation media is your problem, not the manufacturer's problem.
As another poster pointed out, 17 USC 117 grants an explicit right to backup copies of software you own. But of course, since consumer software companies claim to confer no such transfer of ownership at time of sale, this clause is ineffective.
I think it sucks, too. The twisted logic that makes walking into a store, plunking down your cash, and walking out with a box somehow "not a sale," or that makes contractual terms presented unilaterally after the offer and acceptance (i.e. the EULA) somehow binding is going to totally eviscerate most consumer protection laws in this country once manufacturers of other goods twig to it.
-Isaac
Who says backups are fair use?
There are four factors that judges use to make a fair use determination under copyright law:
Any rational analysis of these rules suggest that backup copies are not, in fact, fair use of copyrighted work under the present code and caselaw. Sad, isn't it?
-Isaac
I don't self-identify as a either a liberal or a conservative, but my FR account was summarily deleted when I merely posed the question as to whether Jeb Bush could face eviction from the governor's mansion as a result of his daughter's conviction of a drug offense. (This was back when the US Supreme Court upheld a federal law permitting eviction of family members of those convicted of drug offenses from public housing even if they had no knowledge of the crime.)
My experience doesn't suggest that Freepers are willing to put up with any sort of uncomfortable questions.
-Isaac
I don't like closing my browser, and remembering to flush my google cookie every few days is a pain.
Besides which, it's the google.com ID cookie that bothers me, not the gmail-related cookies. But gmail requires the ID cookie be allowed.
-Isaac
Maybe I don't like closing my browser.
-Isaac
Gmail requires you allow cookies from google.com. This in turn allows google to log and track all your searches with a persistent cookie.
Considering how much I use google and the degree to which it has become an extension of my own memory, I find this unacceptable. Thus, no gmail for me.
Google's official corporate mantra might be "Don't be evil" but they sure don't care much about privacy.
-Isaac
The 18-25 demographic doesn't vote.
See http://www.fec.gov/pages/agedemog.htm
Year after year, Americans under age 25 fail to do their civic duty. Why do you think the drinking age is 21?
Young adults might support Kerry over Bush... if they bothered to *vote*.
-Isaac
Earth to Britain: If you're tired of being gouged by your local vendors (as compared to the continent), adopt the euro.
People in the UK have always been gouged on everything. What sells for $1 in the US usually sells for £1 in the UK (and now 1 in most of Europe). Great for foreign companies selling into the UK market. Not so great for UK companies that have to pay inflationary wages to local employees just to survive.
I don't know why the UK puts up with this state of affairs. I wouldn't be surprised to learn those who gain under the present arrangement might manipulate of nationalist sentiment against the euro through media outlets they control.
-Isaac
This strategy certainly has worked wonders for North Korea.
-Isaac
The world is complicated and precise language reflects its complexity. Precision and nuance are not only important to lawyers, but they're regrettably lost on most people these days.
-Isaac
Right, which is why "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" were so unsuccessful.
I believe you've got it completely backwards. People hate substantive discussion of issues. People hate nuance. Nuance and intelligent discussion = nerd. And people really hate nerds. Take Al Gore, please!
Pro wrestling has more fans than "Meet The Press" and image triumphs over substance every time. Unfair propaganda works.
-Isaac
This is part of the new curriculum being phased in at CS programs around the country. The next phase will have you deposit your diploma into a shredder for recycling after you cross the stage. You'll then be loaded onto a container ship and be sent to a reprocessing facility in China, where you'll become something useful, like soylent green.
-Isaac
Except that it wasn't apocryphal:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/
Your continuing disregard for the truth bodes well for your future as a journalist. I can put you in touch with some people at Fox News.
-Isaac
That's clearly false. The very act of communicating in a patronizing manner bespeaks ill will.
Your disregard for the plain meaning of language further elicits "angryness."
-Isaac
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0715-07
You're awfully spiteful.
-Isaac
Actually, data are data.
-Isaac
You could use these systems as such servers. The idea, though, is that these might be cheap enough to allocate to individuals.
No video card. These are just render/compute clusters in a box.
I'm impressed at the claimed 220W peak power consumption of the 12-node box, but wonder what kind of real computing performance it provides.
-Isaac
I said I bought the mouse long before I found out about your pet crusade.
Now you're telling me "You need to seriously examine your ethics and integrity" and "you're [sic] integrity is that of SPAMHaus CEO or you lack intelligence to comprehend the grossness and perversion of business MacMice represents" as a result?
Pardon my french, but kindly fuck off. You don't know me, not even a little bit. You may have a legitimate beef, but your paranoia and hostility makes me dismiss you and your cause out of hand.
I'm not going to apologize for the (apparently) egregious oversight of failing to vet my mouse purchase with you, oh mighty guardian of mac accessory business practices.
I might think twice about ordering another macmice.com product. (I only bought themouse because my girlfriend requested it.) I will certainly never visit your site again, however. There aren't enough hours in the day for me to care about every crusade, and you lost my support with your attitude.
-Isaac
Your website is some first rate net.kookery.
FWIW, I bought "the mouse" from macmice.com long before I heard about this flamewar. To all those who say "you can buy the same mouse elsewhere for less" I say "show me where." I've seen similar mice to "the mouse" but no mouse exactly like it.
As a recent mac switcher and someone unaffiliated with any side in this fracas (except for being a satisfied macmice customer), I advise you to find a new hobby.
-Isaac
Check out this box art! Yes, this is a real game.
-Isaac