Also note that the US DMCA came along in 1998, a full decade after the UK paved the way with the CDPA in 1988. Since that was passed before the Intartubes, it's barely even known about, let alone protested.
Better. In this case, they'll put up a series of scattered three foot wide by two foot high sections of fence, with signs on them saying "Please do not climb over or go around this fence".
Not realising that making a threat to mount a "public smear campaign" not only negates your ability to do so, it in fact destroys your own position?
This campaign of abuse is so incompetent that it's utterly self defeating; any attempt to engage in nuanced debate can now be curtailed simply by labelling the doubter as "one of those denialist terrorists", and refusing to engage with them.
Indeed, if I were a ecomental activist, I'd mount exactly this sort of comedically clumsy campaign in the name of denialists. It works especially well since hug-a-dolphin liberals do actually believe that denialists (i.e. anyone who disagrees with them) are exactly "that dumb".
Bravo, ecomentals. Well played, sirs, madams and non-gender-specificists.
Of course, you're not really saving the earth, you're just inadvertently shilling for the very corporations who are selling snake oil to solve an intractable problem (too many humans), but don't let that stop you, you plucky mentals.
Every line of code that we wrote was signed off by an individual chartered engineer. And that means that we printed off the entire source, and a Very Serious Chap sat down and Very Seriously Reviewed it, and if he approved it, he wrote his initials against it. Against every single individual line, using his hand, and a pen. A red pen. And if one line, one single line, didn't have that Very Serious Chap's initials against it, then the software didn't ship. No way, no how.
And once it shipped, that Very Serious Chap would Very Seriously take full responsibility for it, and for the consequences of using it, in the most literal and legal sense.
And now to save a penny in the dollar, SCADA systems are sourced from by the Whang Dong Control Systems, Light Industrial Tools and Edible Cuttlefish Products Conglomerate, of Zing Ping Province, China. WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; WITHOUT EVEN THE IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Is that OK? Has anyone legalised it yet? It's really important that I know if Senator John Johnson III has passed a bill saying that it's no longer illegal for me to scratch my ass.
Still, that's an improvement over Japan's previous 98% conviction rate by judges. Part of that is the underfunded police force only investigates and prosecutes open-and-shut cases, and part of it is that judges tend to believe that and convict out of hand.
Get me a SyFy channel commissioning editor, and some washed up actress who people might remember from that one thing in 1994, and who's still sort of MILFish from some angles, if you're into older chubby chicks, stat
HP now appears to be composed entirely of execs, lawyers, marketeers, and one guy called Mike who runs runs the offshored sweatshops from his basement office in Woodside. How the mighty have fallen.
I hope that all the naysayers that said nay about the Wii (myself among them) have finally grokked that there's - demonstrably - a huge market for a small, relatively cheap games console that:
Just plays games.
Makes Nintendo money on each console sold, rather than losing it like early run XBoxen and Playstations.
Rail against it if you like, but you'll have to shout: Nintendo are way down there at the deep end of their Olympic sized pool full of cash, blow and hookers.
Dammit, I've been missing all the maiming and killing in the biathlon and modern pentathlon events in the Olympics?
Jocks can and do enjoy the skill involved in target shooting without wanting to kill or maim, in exactly the same way that nerds can enjoy the skill involved in white-hat hacking, without wanting to steal and destroy.
No. And that tells you everything you need to know about how far we are from the food production precipice.
For certain First World values of "we".
Oh, I don't have any problem with that. If Johnny Foreigner would rather starve (said Rogerborg) he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
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Also note that the US DMCA came along in 1998, a full decade after the UK paved the way with the CDPA in 1988. Since that was passed before the Intartubes, it's barely even known about, let alone protested.
Better. In this case, they'll put up a series of scattered three foot wide by two foot high sections of fence, with signs on them saying "Please do not climb over or go around this fence".
"Her" is a meat puppet. Actors don't sue when someone rips of "their" film, do they?
You've got the right to have me pay for yours, but if I don't have any means to do so, how are you going to collect?
All social programs rob the above-median to support the below-median. Whether either party is deserving doesn't enter into it.
Spending your bitcoins makes everyone else's worth more. If you can't identify the sucker at the table, it's you.
What's the total market cap for bitcoins now? $50 million USD after the crash? It's a statistically insignificant blip.
A "right"? Hey, pay this doctor's bill for me, would ya? Shut ya bitching - it's mah right.
You mean making the mistake of not harming anyone? I'm sure the next guy to try this will take careful note of that.
Damn, I was just about to gift them enough for an Epic Mount.
I'd expand on that, but, uuuuurh. Wresting is on.
Q: Why hasn't Slashdot removed the moderation cap on comments? Some comments deserve to go to 11.
All my imaginary currency is pegged to the WOW gold standard.
Not realising that making a threat to mount a "public smear campaign" not only negates your ability to do so, it in fact destroys your own position?
This campaign of abuse is so incompetent that it's utterly self defeating; any attempt to engage in nuanced debate can now be curtailed simply by labelling the doubter as "one of those denialist terrorists", and refusing to engage with them.
Indeed, if I were a ecomental activist, I'd mount exactly this sort of comedically clumsy campaign in the name of denialists. It works especially well since hug-a-dolphin liberals do actually believe that denialists (i.e. anyone who disagrees with them) are exactly "that dumb".
Bravo, ecomentals. Well played, sirs, madams and non-gender-specificists.
Of course, you're not really saving the earth, you're just inadvertently shilling for the very corporations who are selling snake oil to solve an intractable problem (too many humans), but don't let that stop you, you plucky mentals.
"That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?"
Who indeed? The law is, de facto, not what's on the statute books, it's what's enforced. With actual force.
Presumably the monkey will carry the word of Prophet Mohammed into the vasty deeps?
If you leave any younglings alive, shall they not avenge?
If you're going to be the Empire, be the Empire. Don't leave any of them alive. Not. One. Single. Bothan.
Every line of code that we wrote was signed off by an individual chartered engineer. And that means that we printed off the entire source, and a Very Serious Chap sat down and Very Seriously Reviewed it, and if he approved it, he wrote his initials against it. Against every single individual line, using his hand, and a pen. A red pen. And if one line, one single line, didn't have that Very Serious Chap's initials against it, then the software didn't ship. No way, no how.
And once it shipped, that Very Serious Chap would Very Seriously take full responsibility for it, and for the consequences of using it, in the most literal and legal sense.
And now to save a penny in the dollar, SCADA systems are sourced from by the Whang Dong Control Systems, Light Industrial Tools and Edible Cuttlefish Products Conglomerate, of Zing Ping Province, China. WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; WITHOUT EVEN THE IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Ain't it marvellous living in the Future?
Is that OK? Has anyone legalised it yet? It's really important that I know if Senator John Johnson III has passed a bill saying that it's no longer illegal for me to scratch my ass.
You mean "lay judges", not a jury.
Still, that's an improvement over Japan's previous 98% conviction rate by judges. Part of that is the underfunded police force only investigates and prosecutes open-and-shut cases, and part of it is that judges tend to believe that and convict out of hand.
Get me a SyFy channel commissioning editor, and some washed up actress who people might remember from that one thing in 1994, and who's still sort of MILFish from some angles, if you're into older chubby chicks, stat
QUICK! What's the exchange rate of WOW gold to Elbonian Dingbats! I must know!
HP now appears to be composed entirely of execs, lawyers, marketeers, and one guy called Mike who runs runs the offshored sweatshops from his basement office in Woodside. How the mighty have fallen.
I hope that all the naysayers that said nay about the Wii (myself among them) have finally grokked that there's - demonstrably - a huge market for a small, relatively cheap games console that:
Rail against it if you like, but you'll have to shout: Nintendo are way down there at the deep end of their Olympic sized pool full of cash, blow and hookers.
Dammit, I've been missing all the maiming and killing in the biathlon and modern pentathlon events in the Olympics?
Jocks can and do enjoy the skill involved in target shooting without wanting to kill or maim, in exactly the same way that nerds can enjoy the skill involved in white-hat hacking, without wanting to steal and destroy.
For certain First World values of "we".
Oh, I don't have any problem with that. If Johnny Foreigner would rather starve (said Rogerborg) he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
Well, it's Monday morning, so I guess that's the traditional time for verbal quarterbacking.