Ignored a stop sign when you could see that it was clear for half a mile either way.
Run your tires 1mm under the tread limit. What's the tread limit where you live? Is it the same in the next county or state? Do you know if there is one? Ignorance of the law isn't an excuse.
Had consensual sex with a 17 year old in a county or state where the age of consent is 18, regardless of whether you knew that or not. Ignorance of the law isn't an excuse.
Drunk under the legal age (what it is in the US, 40 or so?)
Drove while over the legal limit, regardless of whether you knew that or not. Ignorance, etc.
Backed up software or music.
Created a mix tape.
But wait! Those last two are legal now. Kind of. Sort of. Maybe. But only because case law precedent has decided so.
See, in the US, they aren't actually legal, it's just vanishingly unlikely that you'll be successfully prosecuted for doing them.
I know her! I bought a box of Camp Girl Cookies from her! She was trying to raise enough money to buy a flag, as all they can afford is a piece of sackcloth, but they salute that raggedy old thing and sing the Star Spangled Banner at the top of their little tuberculosis ravaged voices like the bravest little patriots you've ever seen.
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In most other circumstances, it's bad advice. Under these circumstances, what have you got to lose? What's your alternative? Settle by paying out more money than you can possibly afford, take a loan to cover it, then declare yourself bankrupt? Hey, much the same situation.
Only it's worse, because as part of the settlement, you'll have to sign a full confession. Sure, the RIAA has settled with you. Now, how about all of the individual labels and/or artists?
"It is easier for some in the Open Source community to fire off a "rant" than to sit across a negotiation table"
(See how I used Darl's actual words, in the order that he wrote them, without changing the context or meaning?)
Hey Darl, what's to "negotiate"? What, exactly do you think that we want from you? What can you offer us? Binary runtime licenses for code that you chose to release and sell under the GPL?
You have no case, nothing to offer, nothing to bargain with. So here's my negotiating position: I'll stop using Linux if you let yourself get assraped by a rabid donkey.
Go ahead and quote this as a threat from the "open source community" (can you point at the open source community? Do you see them in the courtroom? Where do we live? What's our stock code?). Bleat about being forced to file an Anti Donkey (Rabid) Raping (Ass, In The) restraining order against all donkeys because of the threat. Sue the Catholic Church for ten trillion dollars because there's a donkey in the nativity. Knock yourself out.
Sweet Jesus, I see your stock is up again. I have to admit, for a man with the intellect and integrity of a lump of earwax, you really do know how to fleece greedy, ignorant speculators.
Gaa, I'm done with it. It's gone from amusing, to irritating, back to amusing again. We all know that you're going to (illegally) dump and run before IBM get a chance to kick your donkey-cum dribbling ass round a courtroom, and it's only going to be the speculators that get screwed, but could you do us a favour and get on with it, because the joke is wearing a little thin.
Every company that I've worked at has violated the copy rights of open or free source authors by putting it into their products without following the license.
The difference between open/free software and commercial software is simply that it's way, way harder to get caught at it in a commercial environment.
Ah, well in that case, my point is this: your mother squeals like a pig when being ass raped, but she always crawls back for more.
I mention this because you don't have the common courtesy or basic integrity to simply acknowledge that you wasted our time and perpetuated emotive baseless psuedo-debate by posting a bunch of shit while telling us that it was shinola.
Nice avoision. Can you answer the question that was posed?
The statistics that you quoted indicate that (absent further details) sales should be up. More people said that they were spending more than said that they were spending less.
But sales are down.
Now, how does that support the position that because more file sharers said that they were spending more, that sales to file sharers should be up?
I put it to you that the surveys you quoted are, to put it mildly, utter bollocks. They don't deal with amounts up or down, and they don't attempt to verify the veracity of the claims.
I'll put it more simply:
Lots of people said they spend more on CDs.
But they didn't.
Beyond that, it doesn't really matter much which group claimed to have spent more, because they're pretty much all lying or mistaken.
You're just making Darl richer when he finally dumps and skips the country, you know.
It's like paying attention to the 'tarded kid at the back of the class who steals every else's pencils and screams "Mine! Mine! Mine! WEEEEeeeeeeeeargh! Mine!". Just take the pencils off of him firmly but gently and then ignore him and he'll learn eventually.
If 34% of leechers (claim that they) spend more on CDs and it turns out to be 10% more, but 15% of leechers (admit to) paying less for CDs and it turns out that they mean they pay nothing now, then how far from Philadephia do the trains meet?
I mention this because I can't help but notice that among non-leechers, 19% say they spend more, and 10% say less, but, fuck me with a haddock, CD sales are down.
Now, you explain how this can be so. I mean, you have actual statistics!
figured this out. Once you show weakness, you're their bitch for life.
Here's an innovative strategy. Ignore them. Just throw the letters in the bin. Ignore the court dates. Ignore everything and just get on with your life. Show up for your final court appearance (for not paying the fine levied by default for your no-shows, not for copy right violation) and wangle a stay in a low security prison. Stir up a media fuss, do the time, use the time to write a book about it, laugh all the way to the bank.
But don't ever, ever compromise with the bastards. Bitch for life.
No, really. I pick up the occasional SF book now, and don't see much that wasn't covered in Astounding / Analog back in the 50's and 60's. Robots, AI, nanotech, genetic modification, big scale, small scale, space opera, it's all been done.
It's not all doom and gloom. Stephen Baxter produces hard science fiction, and has the background to pull it off. David Brin does likewise, but he's rather shot his bolt by moving the scope of his work far beyond the human scale. Ian M. Banks is keepin' it real by mixing SF with fantasy by making the technology so sufficiently advanced that the SF part is observing the fantasy part rather than participating, but, hey, Helliconia got there first.
There are others, but it's a few names, producing irregular books. There simply isn't the groundswell of new ideas, because it's becoming harder to come up with new ones, and SF, unlike fantasy, relies on invention rather than re-hashing.
No, there's something else that needs saying. Those books are very nearly, but not quite, completely unlike readable fiction.
I'm sure there are great, majestic, sweeping ideas in there, but the undefined jargon and lack of anything like sympathetic characters relegates these books to an audience of people that want to read between the lines and see content that isn't actually on the page.
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You, of course, have never:
But wait! Those last two are legal now. Kind of. Sort of. Maybe. But only because case law precedent has decided so.
See, in the US, they aren't actually legal, it's just vanishingly unlikely that you'll be successfully prosecuted for doing them.
Do you begin to see how this works yet?
I bet he's Brianna's grandfather. She's the criminal mastermind behind it all. She probably tortures puppies and shorts SCO stock as well.
I know her! I bought a box of Camp Girl Cookies from her! She was trying to raise enough money to buy a flag, as all they can afford is a piece of sackcloth, but they salute that raggedy old thing and sing the Star Spangled Banner at the top of their little tuberculosis ravaged voices like the bravest little patriots you've ever seen.
Therefore Linux supports terrorism.
Ah, but I'll be sober in the morning, and you'll still be a humourless asshat.
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I'll take it if you can GARANTEE AN EXTRA ONE TWO THREE INCHES IN PENNIS SIGHS!!!!
In most other circumstances, it's bad advice. Under these circumstances, what have you got to lose? What's your alternative? Settle by paying out more money than you can possibly afford, take a loan to cover it, then declare yourself bankrupt? Hey, much the same situation.
Only it's worse, because as part of the settlement, you'll have to sign a full confession. Sure, the RIAA has settled with you. Now, how about all of the individual labels and/or artists?
Oh, wait, we hadn't thought about that, had we?
"It is easier for some in the Open Source community to fire off a "rant" than to sit across a negotiation table"
(See how I used Darl's actual words, in the order that he wrote them, without changing the context or meaning?)
Hey Darl, what's to "negotiate"? What, exactly do you think that we want from you? What can you offer us? Binary runtime licenses for code that you chose to release and sell under the GPL?
You have no case, nothing to offer, nothing to bargain with. So here's my negotiating position: I'll stop using Linux if you let yourself get assraped by a rabid donkey.
Go ahead and quote this as a threat from the "open source community" (can you point at the open source community? Do you see them in the courtroom? Where do we live? What's our stock code?). Bleat about being forced to file an Anti Donkey (Rabid) Raping (Ass, In The) restraining order against all donkeys because of the threat. Sue the Catholic Church for ten trillion dollars because there's a donkey in the nativity. Knock yourself out.
Sweet Jesus, I see your stock is up again. I have to admit, for a man with the intellect and integrity of a lump of earwax, you really do know how to fleece greedy, ignorant speculators.
Gaa, I'm done with it. It's gone from amusing, to irritating, back to amusing again. We all know that you're going to (illegally) dump and run before IBM get a chance to kick your donkey-cum dribbling ass round a courtroom, and it's only going to be the speculators that get screwed, but could you do us a favour and get on with it, because the joke is wearing a little thin.
Every company that I've worked at has violated the copy rights of open or free source authors by putting it into their products without following the license.
The difference between open/free software and commercial software is simply that it's way, way harder to get caught at it in a commercial environment.
Let me quote you:
"I ra pe d Bruce in te h as s"
Does that make it any clearer?
Or: Microsoft are convicted abusive monopolists, therefore all commercial software developers are abusive monopolists.
You Danes and your crazy ideas of government of the people, by the people, and for the people! It'll never catch on.
I accept that sending UCE is "almost essential" for promoting your services.
Given that, I hope that you go out of business and burn in hell, not necessarily in that order.
Unsolicited. Commercial. Email.
Ah, well in that case, my point is this: your mother squeals like a pig when being ass raped, but she always crawls back for more.
I mention this because you don't have the common courtesy or basic integrity to simply acknowledge that you wasted our time and perpetuated emotive baseless psuedo-debate by posting a bunch of shit while telling us that it was shinola.
Oh, and my high horse has fucked your momma too.
Nice avoision. Can you answer the question that was posed?
The statistics that you quoted indicate that (absent further details) sales should be up. More people said that they were spending more than said that they were spending less.
But sales are down.
Now, how does that support the position that because more file sharers said that they were spending more, that sales to file sharers should be up?
I put it to you that the surveys you quoted are, to put it mildly, utter bollocks. They don't deal with amounts up or down, and they don't attempt to verify the veracity of the claims.
I'll put it more simply:
Beyond that, it doesn't really matter much which group claimed to have spent more, because they're pretty much all lying or mistaken.
Every time we run a SCO story their stock rises another buck and a quarter.
You're just making Darl richer when he finally dumps and skips the country, you know.
It's like paying attention to the 'tarded kid at the back of the class who steals every else's pencils and screams "Mine! Mine! Mine! WEEEEeeeeeeeeargh! Mine!". Just take the pencils off of him firmly but gently and then ignore him and he'll learn eventually.
Statistics, eh?
If 34% of leechers (claim that they) spend more on CDs and it turns out to be 10% more, but 15% of leechers (admit to) paying less for CDs and it turns out that they mean they pay nothing now, then how far from Philadephia do the trains meet?
I mention this because I can't help but notice that among non-leechers, 19% say they spend more, and 10% say less, but, fuck me with a haddock, CD sales are down.
Now, you explain how this can be so. I mean, you have actual statistics!
figured this out. Once you show weakness, you're their bitch for life.
Here's an innovative strategy. Ignore them. Just throw the letters in the bin. Ignore the court dates. Ignore everything and just get on with your life. Show up for your final court appearance (for not paying the fine levied by default for your no-shows, not for copy right violation) and wangle a stay in a low security prison. Stir up a media fuss, do the time, use the time to write a book about it, laugh all the way to the bank.
But don't ever, ever compromise with the bastards. Bitch for life.
Well, have they?
Neuromancer was written in 1984. That's "cutting edge"? Quit playing Vice City!
All the big SF ideas have already been done.
No, really. I pick up the occasional SF book now, and don't see much that wasn't covered in Astounding / Analog back in the 50's and 60's. Robots, AI, nanotech, genetic modification, big scale, small scale, space opera, it's all been done.
It's not all doom and gloom. Stephen Baxter produces hard science fiction, and has the background to pull it off. David Brin does likewise, but he's rather shot his bolt by moving the scope of his work far beyond the human scale. Ian M. Banks is keepin' it real by mixing SF with fantasy by making the technology so sufficiently advanced that the SF part is observing the fantasy part rather than participating, but, hey, Helliconia got there first.
There are others, but it's a few names, producing irregular books. There simply isn't the groundswell of new ideas, because it's becoming harder to come up with new ones, and SF, unlike fantasy, relies on invention rather than re-hashing.
No, there's something else that needs saying. Those books are very nearly, but not quite, completely unlike readable fiction.
I'm sure there are great, majestic, sweeping ideas in there, but the undefined jargon and lack of anything like sympathetic characters relegates these books to an audience of people that want to read between the lines and see content that isn't actually on the page.
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What the... holy fuck, I think I just got attacked by a Slashdot brain slug. Get it off! Get it off!
And I for one welcome our new tile overlords.