If we're calling bullshit on terminology, then how many file "sharers" do actually share a single copy rather than making new ones every time they up- and download?
If you're under any delusions that making and particularly distributing copies is legal or defensible in any Berne Convention signatory, then I invite you to peruse the wide variety of judgements which will scoff at you far more effectively than I can. And I give good scoff.
The direct letter of the law in this case is the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights, as repeatedly confirmed by courts at every level when applied to a government funded institution. If you're going to have a rent-a-cop execute the "law" then they should be expected to take the time to learn it first, rather than simply trotting out "Me am too dumb for my own thinking to make, you bring lawsuit thing now okey dokey."
In theory. In practice, this race is entered by teams of penniless students who spunk most of their budget on shipping their piles of commodity parts half way around the world. R&D is great, but this is all D and no R.
It is always a temptation to a greedy grasping boardroom
To call upon a neighbour and to say: --
"We sued you last night--we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away."
And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld
And then you'll get rid of the Dane!
It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy comp'ny,
To puff and look important and to say: --
"Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away."
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any boardroom,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: --
"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the comp'ny that pays it is lost!"
Thank you. Virtual "+1, only comment that matters" from me.
What boils my piss isn't s much that some retail clowns have fallen for the greenwashing, but that my Goddamn tax money is being used to subsidise this scam.
Eventually we'll have to face up to the fact that most such "renewable" schemes are snake oil that effectively piss fossil energy away on creating very long term discharge batteries. I just hope that we do it before we're too reliant on them to engineer our way out of the cold, dark hole.
The guys who succeeded in breaking a window, then setting themselves on fire? I've seen smarted on America's Dumbest Jackasses: Special Retard Edition.
Where has science disproved the existence of a supernatural entity?
Where has science disproved the existence of magical pink goblins who knitted the universe out of snot?
You can squeeze your god into smaller and smaller gaps, but if your fallback position is that god is what we don't understand, then you're no better than a caveman asserting that fire is made of goblin piss. All scientific progress since the pointed stick has required someone to man up and say "Perhaps we should understand how this stuff works".
You must be new here, but have you actually ever read the Bill of Rights? Here's what you're presumably referring to: "No person shall [...] be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law".
Ah, sweet liberty, which means all things to all readers. Of course, in the original Klingon, it meant nothing more than being safe from incarceration, but doubtless you interpret it to mean liberty to scream "fire!" while being ass spelunked by your gay llama husband in the business class section of a 747.
I'm really baffled as to this bizarre belief that the State requires "due process of law" in order to first investigate a subject, or that being found not guilty of one offence means that you can't be suspected of another.
Which Constitution are you talking about? I'm not familiar with the "dude has to be proven guilty before we can get the evidence to prove dude's guilt" clause in the US Constitution. Hint: the Constitution you wrote in fifth grade Civics doesn't really count.
How dreadful it must be to be trapped in such an atrophied, angry little mind. I wish that I could help you, but all I can do is to shed a tear because your stunted reach will never exceed your grasp.
Get yourself into a nice safe government job plugging in machines made in China, don't start on a career which will relatively soon (two decades, i.e. half way through your working life) be done exclusively in India, Malaysia, China and wherever else looks the cheapest this quarter.
I've read quite enough "miracle breakthrough" stories down the years to waste my time on this one. It'll be yet another bunch of beardy weirdies claming a theoretical result in the lab which is a magnitude short of the headline, but they have a plan to make a breakthrough (the plan being the only plan) real soon now. Insert more funding to continue.
If it's not on the market, it's not news. End of story.
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Will shank anyone who might prevent them. Also, fire bad, tree pretty.
If we're calling bullshit on terminology, then how many file "sharers" do actually share a single copy rather than making new ones every time they up- and download?
If you're under any delusions that making and particularly distributing copies is legal or defensible in any Berne Convention signatory, then I invite you to peruse the wide variety of judgements which will scoff at you far more effectively than I can. And I give good scoff.
I pray you, how many hath you killed and eaten?
The direct letter of the law in this case is the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights, as repeatedly confirmed by courts at every level when applied to a government funded institution. If you're going to have a rent-a-cop execute the "law" then they should be expected to take the time to learn it first, rather than simply trotting out "Me am too dumb for my own thinking to make, you bring lawsuit thing now okey dokey."
Tsk tsk. They drew first. Now it's just down to who has more chambers in their gun.
Edited for verbosity.
Thanks, but I don't think I'll be needing to read your sample chapters.
Concludes that children produced this archaeology.
The first rule of science is to question the obvious, appealing hypothesis.
The first year, yes. Fess up, you just used last year's car and shaved another quarter mm off the GRP, right?
In theory. In practice, this race is entered by teams of penniless students who spunk most of their budget on shipping their piles of commodity parts half way around the world. R&D is great, but this is all D and no R.
To crib from Kipling:
It is always a temptation to a greedy grasping boardroom
To call upon a neighbour and to say: --
"We sued you last night--we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away."
And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld
And then you'll get rid of the Dane!
It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy comp'ny,
To puff and look important and to say: --
"Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away."
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any boardroom,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: --
"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the comp'ny that pays it is lost!"
Thank you. Virtual "+1, only comment that matters" from me.
What boils my piss isn't s much that some retail clowns have fallen for the greenwashing, but that my Goddamn tax money is being used to subsidise this scam.
Eventually we'll have to face up to the fact that most such "renewable" schemes are snake oil that effectively piss fossil energy away on creating very long term discharge batteries. I just hope that we do it before we're too reliant on them to engineer our way out of the cold, dark hole.
The guys who succeeded in breaking a window, then setting themselves on fire? I've seen smarted on America's Dumbest Jackasses: Special Retard Edition.
Where has science disproved the existence of magical pink goblins who knitted the universe out of snot?
You can squeeze your god into smaller and smaller gaps, but if your fallback position is that god is what we don't understand, then you're no better than a caveman asserting that fire is made of goblin piss. All scientific progress since the pointed stick has required someone to man up and say "Perhaps we should understand how this stuff works".
You must be new here, but have you actually ever read the Bill of Rights? Here's what you're presumably referring to: "No person shall [...] be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law".
Ah, sweet liberty, which means all things to all readers. Of course, in the original Klingon, it meant nothing more than being safe from incarceration, but doubtless you interpret it to mean liberty to scream "fire!" while being ass spelunked by your gay llama husband in the business class section of a 747.
I'm really baffled as to this bizarre belief that the State requires "due process of law" in order to first investigate a subject, or that being found not guilty of one offence means that you can't be suspected of another.
Which Constitution are you talking about? I'm not familiar with the "dude has to be proven guilty before we can get the evidence to prove dude's guilt" clause in the US Constitution. Hint: the Constitution you wrote in fifth grade Civics doesn't really count.
Edited For Clarity.
Slashdot should patent summary trolling.
Hitler ensured full employment, and all people had to do was to obey orders.
That's 9am Democracy Time, you piece of commie Eurotrash, and it's only by the grace of God and His Instrument Patton that you're not on Berlin time.
Thou just can't giveth up thy esoterica, canst thou?
Let's try again, shall we? In actual English this time, not Ye Olde Worlde Beardspeake.
"You made the seed grow on the day it was planted, and the next morning made it blossom".
Harder to build a cult around prose, isn't it?
How dreadful it must be to be trapped in such an atrophied, angry little mind. I wish that I could help you, but all I can do is to shed a tear because your stunted reach will never exceed your grasp.
Get yourself into a nice safe government job plugging in machines made in China, don't start on a career which will relatively soon (two decades, i.e. half way through your working life) be done exclusively in India, Malaysia, China and wherever else looks the cheapest this quarter.
I've read quite enough "miracle breakthrough" stories down the years to waste my time on this one. It'll be yet another bunch of beardy weirdies claming a theoretical result in the lab which is a magnitude short of the headline, but they have a plan to make a breakthrough (the plan being the only plan) real soon now. Insert more funding to continue.
If it's not on the market, it's not news. End of story.
We choose to go to the moon in this decade, and to do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
I truly pity you, sir. I'll get my grandchildren to send you a nice postcard from Alpha Centauri.