Standard strategy, propose some ridiculous thing that outrages everyone and will never get passed, so that later you can implement the slightly-less ridiculous tariff/tax/law that you actually wanted, and it will seem like you're being reasonable.
Not that I disagree with your points, but you were the one making the initial claim of the majority of traffic on the internet being illegal content, so really the onus falls on you to back up your claims first.:)
It's mass is so low that the pressure and temperature at the core can only support a very low rate of fusion. It's radiation pressure from fusion that counterbalances the self-gravity that tries to make stars collapse, so it's no surprise to me that it's pretty tiny.:)
Personally, as long as its cost-effective (ie. it pays for itself in power savings over a reasonable amount of time), it's useful. I mean... how much completely useless space do we have tied up in the roofs of buildings, right now?
Bwah-ha-ha please... less than 10%... riiiight, sure. Sorry, that just struck me as unbearably funny.
Sex isn't purely about reproduction. It's a social act just as much as a biological one.
By your definitions, eating escargot or sushi is a mortal sin, because I find both of those utterly vile experiences. I must have a really, really weird god... oO
Yes... but HAVE you restricted access to it? Just saying 'no, you can't look!' isn't restricting access, when it comes to things like the internet, no matter how much people might want to say otherwise. I'm pretty certain that's been legally established.
Spraypaint? I suggest nitric acid, etch that bastard on there. Wouldn't want it accidentally coming off, or people might forget it's copyrighted and start infringing again!;)
Read the words that are on the screen in front of your face.:)
Under the legal definitions, they are absolutely NOT the same thing. From a semantic point of view, they are also absolutely not the same thing.
Theft is taking something away from someone else without permission, depriving them of the use of it. They no longer have it.
Copyright violation is copying a protected work without permission. The original owner is not deprived of the use of said work, therefor, it is not theft.
If I had some magical device that allowed me to clone any physical object, and I used it to make a duplicate of your car for myself, have I stolen your car? oO
Impressive equipment? We've already got deep-water unmanned submersibles that can go to these depths... wouldn't be that hard to recover some nastiness from down there.
Mind, why anyone would want to is beyond me. Spent fuel isn't exactly bomb-making material, unless someone wants to make a conventional 'dirty' bomb or something.
The stars will always be there in 10 years. Nice, unlimited 10 year delays in advancing any space science, since I'm sure we can always find "better" things to spend the money on, and the stars will always be there in 10 years.
As I recall in the Canadian case, the farmer in question was deliberately crossbreeding his own seed-stock with Monsanto seed that he had 'acquired'. As much as I despise Monsanto and 'Intellectual Property', in that case, Monsanto was more-or-less in the right.
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Standard strategy, propose some ridiculous thing that outrages everyone and will never get passed, so that later you can implement the slightly-less ridiculous tariff/tax/law that you actually wanted, and it will seem like you're being reasonable.
I tried your formula to convert -50C back to F, and get the right result(-58F). It looks like you did F = C(9/5) + (-32) instead. :)
Not that I disagree with your points, but you were the one making the initial claim of the majority of traffic on the internet being illegal content, so really the onus falls on you to back up your claims first. :)
Even were the cable to snap, the station would likely be built at or near geosychronous orbit... so it would just sit there, regardless. :)
That was actually here in Canada, not the US. We haven't become a State just yet. :)
It's mass is so low that the pressure and temperature at the core can only support a very low rate of fusion. It's radiation pressure from fusion that counterbalances the self-gravity that tries to make stars collapse, so it's no surprise to me that it's pretty tiny. :)
Posthumously? :)
Wouldn't all the current software using these unenforcable patents immediately become prior art, the moment the patents come into force, then? :)
Personally, as long as its cost-effective (ie. it pays for itself in power savings over a reasonable amount of time), it's useful. I mean... how much completely useless space do we have tied up in the roofs of buildings, right now?
So... stealing someone else's copyrighted logo to trademark it himself is not doing harm? oO
It's not as random as you might think. It isn't like any two random atoms can just stick together any old way; it doesn't work like that.
Bwah-ha-ha please... less than 10%... riiiight, sure. Sorry, that just struck me as unbearably funny.
Sex isn't purely about reproduction. It's a social act just as much as a biological one.
By your definitions, eating escargot or sushi is a mortal sin, because I find both of those utterly vile experiences. I must have a really, really weird god... oO
No country is 'just rich'... it had to have gotten that way somehow. Sometimes, a country's means of becoming rich irritate other people.
Yes... but HAVE you restricted access to it? Just saying 'no, you can't look!' isn't restricting access, when it comes to things like the internet, no matter how much people might want to say otherwise. I'm pretty certain that's been legally established.
Spraypaint? I suggest nitric acid, etch that bastard on there. Wouldn't want it accidentally coming off, or people might forget it's copyrighted and start infringing again! ;)
You know, the ones where we *bleep* *bleep-bleep* the *bleep* so that we don't *bleep* *bleep*. Those ones. ;)
:)
Of course, we pay those weird blank media tarriffs... which allow us to fileshare with legal impunity. Canada's not so bad.
Aw, I couldn't resist...
So... the movitation is that they're purely evil? Somehow I think greed is more likely than sociopathy...
Yes yes, just make sure you have Approved Political Views, citizen.
Nothing was taken.
:)
Nothing == NO THING
Read the words that are on the screen in front of your face.
Under the legal definitions, they are absolutely NOT the same thing. From a semantic point of view, they are also absolutely not the same thing.
Theft is taking something away from someone else without permission, depriving them of the use of it. They no longer have it.
Copyright violation is copying a protected work without permission. The original owner is not deprived of the use of said work, therefor, it is not theft.
If I had some magical device that allowed me to clone any physical object, and I used it to make a duplicate of your car for myself, have I stolen your car? oO
Impressive equipment? We've already got deep-water unmanned submersibles that can go to these depths... wouldn't be that hard to recover some nastiness from down there.
Mind, why anyone would want to is beyond me. Spent fuel isn't exactly bomb-making material, unless someone wants to make a conventional 'dirty' bomb or something.
So... if I say I'm not religious, you'll label me an Atheist and say I'm relgious? ;)
The stars will always be there in 10 years. Nice, unlimited 10 year delays in advancing any space science, since I'm sure we can always find "better" things to spend the money on, and the stars will always be there in 10 years.
As I recall in the Canadian case, the farmer in question was deliberately crossbreeding his own seed-stock with Monsanto seed that he had 'acquired'. As much as I despise Monsanto and 'Intellectual Property', in that case, Monsanto was more-or-less in the right.
Silly. It will always be a theory. Outside of pure mathematics and logic, there's no such thing as laws. Please don't confuse theory and hypothesis.