> The Doctor could not destroy the Daleks as it would make him no better than they were.
And killing Hitler makes you no better than Hitler.
These pseudo-moralities derive from not wanting to show the hero doing the proper thing (kind of like the good guys shooting down the bad guys' plane, said bad guys just trying to murder them, and whew! The bad guys parachutted safely out! Whew!
How can there be "collusion" on a luxury item like a CD or DVD? They should be able to suck you dry for every penny you have; you don't need those to survive.
Let's see the EU invistigate the artifically LOWER prices they pay for drugs, slowing development progress while taking advantage of the faster progress brought about by higher prices in the US.
There is some wonder, though, why it can't be illegal for an adult to knowingly and deliberately send a porno picture to a specific child (that, perhaps, they aren't the guardian for.)
God: Please tell me where I told you to take money from one person, evil or otherwise, and give it to others, evil, poor, lazy, down on their luck, or otherwise.
Person: Uhhh....
God: Did I say to give of your own will from your own effort?
Person: Uhh, yeah.
God: Where did I rescind the eighth commandment, "Thou shalt not steal?" Do I not even use the parable of a rich man and his money is his to do with as he wishes?
Person: Uhh, yeah.
God: So, what's your excuse?
Person:...
God: I'm waiting...
Person: Uhh, everyone else was doing it.
God: Express elevator to Hell. Next!
Angel: Person #63,456,239,921 step forward! Sheesh, another "voter".
Let's not forget six years or so ago when those porn BBS people in California were extradited to the backward state of Tennessee because a legal adult in the backward state of Tennessee freely chose to downloaded a naked picture of another legal adult who posed of their own free will.
Although I'm not standing up for laws forbidding free people from accessing drugs, Manual nevertheless aided in drugs getting into the US, and as such is just as responsible as if he had launched a bomb into a city from offshore.
That's what the whole Ford Pinto lawsuit was about. Ford analyzed the payout per death due to faulty design, and decided it was cheaper to simply pay out multimillion dollar settlements per death than to recall millions of cars and fix them, stopping the deaths.
The punitive damages were placed to be greater than either cost to teach corporations a lesson not to do that.
My friend you've just stumbled onto the entire reason MS reoriented around the Internet five years ago.
With a virtual machine residing in a piece of software (say, called a "browser") and real, hard-core apps like office suites running in the browser virtual OS, what need hath one for MS?
When Netscape started putting out NAPI -- Netscape API for apps to integrate browsers into, the MS panic started. When Lotus or whoever started a Java-only complete implementation of an office suite, they really got in gear (not to mention the FUD of MS s***-d***s at conferences.)
Why? Because if an office suite runs in a browser, i.e. a virtual OS, then all you have to do to is port the virtual OS to other machines and Bang! All the apps go along for the ride for free.
And as any old-school Mac user knows, the reason people buy PC's is because 99 of 100 software packages only run on PC's. If they run on other OS's, then MS dies overnight.
It was decided a few years ago that AOL would buy then kill Netscape in exchange for staying on the MS desktop as part of an official installation. Do you think this is coincidental with the "negotiations" going on about AOL remaining on the desktop?
Netscape never did fix the one bug that has been there since 4.whatever, even earlier. Once in awhile (especially if you are a right-click menu guy who is always spawning off links in new windows) Netscape's UI thread will go off into the weeds and you can't click on any links anymore. You exit via menu and Netscape still hangs around in the background and you have to kill it off the hard way and restart.
> by a shrewd knowledge of what their customers
> want, a cunning marketing campaign and quality
> products. Yes, that's right, quality products.
In that sense they're no worse than the largest company in any industry. GM usually waits for other companies to mke more radical design changes and then adopts what becomes popular, and very quickly before their market switches very much.
You are not obligated to provide for the well-being of any particular company.
You are obligated to not steal from people or freely-associating groups of people (who may happen to be labeled a "company") because that harms the well-being of those very real people who have made very real investments of effort into developing such technology for the purpose of selling it to other free people.
See how that works? You work on things, trade them to others, and earn money to buy food. It all breaks down if people start taking things without permission.
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> The Doctor could not destroy the Daleks as it would make him no better than they were.
And killing Hitler makes you no better than Hitler.
These pseudo-moralities derive from not wanting to show the hero doing the proper thing (kind of like the good guys shooting down the bad guys' plane, said bad guys just trying to murder them, and whew! The bad guys parachutted safely out! Whew!
> I remember rushing home from school so I could
> catch the last 20 minutes of the half hour
> episode on PBS.
It's good to know PBS is bright enough to show this at a time when no one who would watch it would be home.
> ST:TNG got very preachy and, let's face it,
> dull towards the end.
Ehh, the beginning wasn't so good, with every other episode being one of those "let us go or we'll blow up the ship" or "Wesley, the boy?" episodes.
> 1) Lalla Ward is married to Richard Dawkins
Not Richard "Family Feud" Dawkins, oh, wait, that's Dawson.
And Peri the Poosy Galore... Tom & Peri, the ultimate team-up that never happened.
"Exterminate!" -- The original "Resistance is Futile!"
How can there be "collusion" on a luxury item like a CD or DVD? They should be able to suck you dry for every penny you have; you don't need those to survive.
Let's see the EU invistigate the artifically LOWER prices they pay for drugs, slowing development progress while taking advantage of the faster progress brought about by higher prices in the US.
Two-faced sacks of ****.
There is some wonder, though, why it can't be illegal for an adult to knowingly and deliberately send a porno picture to a specific child (that, perhaps, they aren't the guardian for.)
But what if a female child starts swearing in front of a man?
> The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
...
God: So you liked Social Security?
Person: Uhh, yeah. I voted with that in mind.
God: Please tell me where I told you to take money from one person, evil or otherwise, and give it to others, evil, poor, lazy, down on their luck, or otherwise.
Person: Uhhh....
God: Did I say to give of your own will from your own effort?
Person: Uhh, yeah.
God: Where did I rescind the eighth commandment, "Thou shalt not steal?" Do I not even use the parable of a rich man and his money is his to do with as he wishes?
Person: Uhh, yeah.
God: So, what's your excuse?
Person:
God: I'm waiting...
Person: Uhh, everyone else was doing it.
God: Express elevator to Hell. Next!
Angel: Person #63,456,239,921 step forward! Sheesh, another "voter".
About 9 months before the 20 TB drive.
Let's not forget six years or so ago when those porn BBS people in California were extradited to the backward state of Tennessee because a legal adult in the backward state of Tennessee freely chose to downloaded a naked picture of another legal adult who posed of their own free will.
Although I'm not standing up for laws forbidding free people from accessing drugs, Manual nevertheless aided in drugs getting into the US, and as such is just as responsible as if he had launched a bomb into a city from offshore.
That's what the whole Ford Pinto lawsuit was about. Ford analyzed the payout per death due to faulty design, and decided it was cheaper to simply pay out multimillion dollar settlements per death than to recall millions of cars and fix them, stopping the deaths.
The punitive damages were placed to be greater than either cost to teach corporations a lesson not to do that.
> (Why can't English have an official gender
> non-specific pronoun?)
It does. It's the word "he".
"Best female actor award." I wanna slap someone.
> the first one: All human beings are born free
> and equal in dignity and rights.
Unfortunately, many of the subsequent UN "rights" trod all over that. You have the right to a job? You have the right to government social security?
My friend you've just stumbled onto the entire reason MS reoriented around the Internet five years ago.
With a virtual machine residing in a piece of software (say, called a "browser") and real, hard-core apps like office suites running in the browser virtual OS, what need hath one for MS?
When Netscape started putting out NAPI -- Netscape API for apps to integrate browsers into, the MS panic started. When Lotus or whoever started a Java-only complete implementation of an office suite, they really got in gear (not to mention the FUD of MS s***-d***s at conferences.)
Why? Because if an office suite runs in a browser, i.e. a virtual OS, then all you have to do to is port the virtual OS to other machines and Bang! All the apps go along for the ride for free.
And as any old-school Mac user knows, the reason people buy PC's is because 99 of 100 software packages only run on PC's. If they run on other OS's, then MS dies overnight.
> I'm at a point where IE specific code is getting really hard to argue against
Which is, of course, the Microsoft plan all along, just in case a virtual OS ever took hold, it would be theirs and only theirs.
> This may not seem obvious if you only tried
> Netscape 6.0 and don't use nightlies.
Nightly whats? Huh?
When I start Netscape, it doesn't tell me there are any updates. When I go to their site, it's months between version number changes.
Until the product auto-detects updates and offers the upgrade, it will never get out of the garage band stage into something a real consumer wants.
It was decided a few years ago that AOL would buy then kill Netscape in exchange for staying on the MS desktop as part of an official installation. Do you think this is coincidental with the "negotiations" going on about AOL remaining on the desktop?
Netscape never did fix the one bug that has been there since 4.whatever, even earlier. Once in awhile (especially if you are a right-click menu guy who is always spawning off links in new windows) Netscape's UI thread will go off into the weeds and you can't click on any links anymore. You exit via menu and Netscape still hangs around in the background and you have to kill it off the hard way and restart.
> I wonder if [open source and/or the demise
> of Netscape] will tip the tides in the
> konqueror/mozilla battle.
Oh, are a couple of feathers beating each other! Cat fight! Ooooo, that's so erotic...
> by a shrewd knowledge of what their customers
> want, a cunning marketing campaign and quality
> products. Yes, that's right, quality products.
In that sense they're no worse than the largest company in any industry. GM usually waits for other companies to mke more radical design changes and then adopts what becomes popular, and very quickly before their market switches very much.
Dr. Evil: Uhhhh....right....
You are not obligated to provide for the well-being of any particular company.
You are obligated to not steal from people or freely-associating groups of people (who may happen to be labeled a "company") because that harms the well-being of those very real people who have made very real investments of effort into developing such technology for the purpose of selling it to other free people.
See how that works? You work on things, trade them to others, and earn money to buy food. It all breaks down if people start taking things without permission.