The Australian politicial system has an election system which discourages tyrannical rule by political parties.
Political parties provide corporations a method to sway the mind of the government. Threaten the livlihood of the party, and you've threatened the careers of the majority of people in office.
When you're reduced to two political parties with no limits on political spending, corporate funding becomes critical to political success.
Corporations of course can fund both sides to ensure they always win... and funding both sides doesn't weaken the sway on the party members.
We need a secular anticontreception meme compatible with the Catholic dislike of contraception:-)
But seriously, strengthen the extended family, treat teen pregnancy as a norm (daycare in highschools... ), and let the doctors start practicing at 33 instead of 31. Women and Men of course. This idea that having a child as a teenager is the end of one's life should be tossed out.
Yeah, but those don't do a lot for branding. Even Linux users or Mac users could use those things. Microsoft would probably want to tie it to their OS and their messaging service... Probably to their search engine for a telephone directory too.
You can't broadcast without special rights from the copyright holder, just like you can't rent a DVD and play it in a public cinema, you can't play music in your coffee shop, or you can't play music on the radio without purchasing special public performance rights from SOCAN or whomever.
I'm certainly not arguing that you're broadcasting to yourself. That's silly. I was saying that if you wanted to timeshift, it probably only applies to broadcasted materials. I don't really know about that though. If it weren't the case, then yeah, there's probably a gaping loophole in the law... which makes me doubtful that timeshifting could be used to circumvent copying and distribtuion.
What you're doing is copying and distributing. It just doesn't look like it because you're copying a work you have rights to for personal use. Where your plan will fail is when you don't destroy your personal use copy when you return the original to Blockbuster. At that point, you've violated the copyright.
Blockbuster's terms have nothing to do with the copyright on the movie.
You don't get fire and ice from anything besides diamonds...
I think everyone knows that diamonds are about materialism and bragging rights. I would never want to marry a woman who would put me through the hell of "shopping" for a diamond. Every time I'd look at that frick'ing ring, I'd be thinking of the dollar figure and the a**holes trying to sell me as large a stone as I could possibly afford. Worse, I'd be thinking of DeBeer's commercials. Nothing about diamonds excite me. They nauseate me.
What does a pair of platinum wedding bands cost these days? It would be interesting to compare it to a diamond engagement ring. The metal used would have a reasonable market rate price (no stupid certificates or appraisals to deal with), and your wedding ring could be used for electrolysis in a pinch.
I can't recall where I heard this, but some Japaneese hotel rooms feed the hot water for the shower through a miniature radiator behind the mirror. This way, running the shower automatically heats the mirror so that it doesn't fog.
Yep. I'm not saying I would knock the phone out of their hand...
I would ignore them as best I could or leave and complain.
I would also probably never come back.
Because I'm a coward about these things.
But when somebody is about to be dragged through the courts and given a criminal record for taking action when some disrespectful twit went gabbing on a cell phone in a place where quiet is expected, upsetting patrons throughout the theatre, then when asked to be quiet does not comply, then when their cell is smashed, the child applys what is clearly a vindictive counterattack through a thin guise of "property damage", draining the public coffers of thousands of dollars in legal costs and police time, I will gladly step forward and screw up that sociopathic child's destructive plans by lying to the police in defense of their victim.
I wouldn't hesitate. Sometimes the laws just don't make sense. The police should be able to say to the kid "Hey, the sign says 'no cell phones'. The trailers say 'no cell phones', the staff remind you to turn your cell phone off, this fellow asked you to turn off your cell phone, you did not, your cell phone was smashed, what the hell did you think would happen?"... but the police can't say that. They have to say "oh, property damage? o.k., you're coming with us to the station."
It is very hard to spot the women in the Physics lab, but they're there. They leave behind neatly bubble-written math assignments and keep impeccable notes.
Oh and these women would never be caught dead in a "womyn's" center, they'd be far too likely to encounter arts students.
It was dark, nobody saw you grab the phone. Police are human too, and they hate stupid brats chatting on their cells just as much. She'd probably have to drag you through the courts to get action.
If I were sitting next to you, I'd probably lie to the police if she tried to pull you down. "I think I saw her get pissed off and try to throw it at him"... Explaining her way out of that would make her very irrational in front of the police.
...and the police would know exactly what I was doing:-)
When I was little, I vaguely recall there being ushers in the cinemas. Ushers were people who would throw you out of the cinema if you were acting inappropriately.
Now you're treated like a busybody if you get out of your seat and seek out managment to complain about somebody.
I finished my degree while taking public transit to work. I read one book at a time and took notes of what I needed to cross-reference when I got home.
Paper I think is just a holdover from generations who have learned from paper. It's still superior in many ways than electronic text. Those who are used to paper are used to learning without being able to instantly cross-reference an enormous library, but are used to no compromises in the quality of the print and where they choose to read.
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www.neanderthalbrides.com is not registered!
The Australian politicial system has an election system which discourages tyrannical rule by political parties.
Political parties provide corporations a method to sway the mind of the government. Threaten the livlihood of the party, and you've threatened the careers of the majority of people in office.
When you're reduced to two political parties with no limits on political spending, corporate funding becomes critical to political success.
Corporations of course can fund both sides to ensure they always win... and funding both sides doesn't weaken the sway on the party members.
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We need a secular anticontreception meme compatible with the Catholic dislike of contraception :-)
But seriously, strengthen the extended family, treat teen pregnancy as a norm (daycare in highschools... ), and let the doctors start practicing at 33 instead of 31. Women and Men of course. This idea that having a child as a teenager is the end of one's life should be tossed out.
Many countries have underpopulation problems. Shrinking populations mean that immigration must be used to keep the population steady.
Immortality would go a long way towards slowing down the death rates :-)
Nothing in the slightest. If you don't know why, you're missing some very basic principles of evolution.
It's not about what is "good" for the organism, it's about the organism reproducing succesfully.
Living too long beyond your reproductive years consumes resources needed by those who are reproducing... and...
A long reproductive lifespan slows down a population's ability to adapt to change.
Now that Microsoft has incorporated an unzip utilitiy in the OS, WinZip can't profit from people who just want to unzip files.
Yeah, but those don't do a lot for branding. Even Linux users or Mac users could use those things. Microsoft would probably want to tie it to their OS and their messaging service... Probably to their search engine for a telephone directory too.
Hmm... Microsoft has made some nice peripherals in the past. How about a USB telephone?
You can't broadcast without special rights from the copyright holder, just like you can't rent a DVD and play it in a public cinema, you can't play music in your coffee shop, or you can't play music on the radio without purchasing special public performance rights from SOCAN or whomever.
I'm certainly not arguing that you're broadcasting to yourself. That's silly. I was saying that if you wanted to timeshift, it probably only applies to broadcasted materials. I don't really know about that though. If it weren't the case, then yeah, there's probably a gaping loophole in the law... which makes me doubtful that timeshifting could be used to circumvent copying and distribtuion.
What you're doing is copying and distributing. It just doesn't look like it because you're copying a work you have rights to for personal use. Where your plan will fail is when you don't destroy your personal use copy when you return the original to Blockbuster. At that point, you've violated the copyright.
Blockbuster's terms have nothing to do with the copyright on the movie.
By making a copy then returning the original, you have copied and distributed it. You just distributed it to yourself.
It's the same if you were to buy a copyrighted work, copy it, then sell the original. You're expected to destroy all copies.
I don't think time shifting applies because it was not broadcast to you.
You don't get fire and ice from anything besides diamonds...
I think everyone knows that diamonds are about materialism and bragging rights. I would never want to marry a woman who would put me through the hell of "shopping" for a diamond. Every time I'd look at that frick'ing ring, I'd be thinking of the dollar figure and the a**holes trying to sell me as large a stone as I could possibly afford. Worse, I'd be thinking of DeBeer's commercials. Nothing about diamonds excite me. They nauseate me.
What does a pair of platinum wedding bands cost these days? It would be interesting to compare it to a diamond engagement ring. The metal used would have a reasonable market rate price (no stupid certificates or appraisals to deal with), and your wedding ring could be used for electrolysis in a pinch.
I can't recall where I heard this, but some Japaneese hotel rooms feed the hot water for the shower through a miniature radiator behind the mirror. This way, running the shower automatically heats the mirror so that it doesn't fog.
"For those already employed, it looks great on a performance review..."
hey, Slashdot should offer a certification
I don't think I would want to work for a company which makes such sweeping generalizations.
I throw my certifications on a one-liner under my education and training. You know, something like:
500% of the profits!
One OO Design course I took: "this is not a course in Java, but if you don't know it, don't worry, here's some recommended reading..."
We did programs in Java, C++ and Smalltalk.
A couple years back it hit me:
ISPs are offering connections greater than 4Mbps.
A 1x CDROM drive is 150KBps...
Not only are the patches bigger than Windows 95, but you could download them faster than the old machine could read them from the CD!
Women generally don't get ostracized by the opposite sex for being "creepy"
Maybe these guys are just awkward around women because they're WOEFULLY and DESPARATELY lonely.
Yep. I'm not saying I would knock the phone out of their hand...
I would ignore them as best I could or leave and complain.
I would also probably never come back.
Because I'm a coward about these things.
But when somebody is about to be dragged through the courts and given a criminal record for taking action when some disrespectful twit went gabbing on a cell phone in a place where quiet is expected, upsetting patrons throughout the theatre, then when asked to be quiet does not comply, then when their cell is smashed, the child applys what is clearly a vindictive counterattack through a thin guise of "property damage", draining the public coffers of thousands of dollars in legal costs and police time, I will gladly step forward and screw up that sociopathic child's destructive plans by lying to the police in defense of their victim.
I wouldn't hesitate. Sometimes the laws just don't make sense. The police should be able to say to the kid "Hey, the sign says 'no cell phones'. The trailers say 'no cell phones', the staff remind you to turn your cell phone off, this fellow asked you to turn off your cell phone, you did not, your cell phone was smashed, what the hell did you think would happen?"... but the police can't say that. They have to say "oh, property damage? o.k., you're coming with us to the station."
What a screwed up world we live in.
It is very hard to spot the women in the Physics lab, but they're there. They leave behind neatly bubble-written math assignments and keep impeccable notes.
Oh and these women would never be caught dead in a "womyn's" center, they'd be far too likely to encounter arts students.
It was dark, nobody saw you grab the phone. Police are human too, and they hate stupid brats chatting on their cells just as much. She'd probably have to drag you through the courts to get action.
If I were sitting next to you, I'd probably lie to the police if she tried to pull you down. "I think I saw her get pissed off and try to throw it at him"... Explaining her way out of that would make her very irrational in front of the police.
...and the police would know exactly what I was doing :-)
When I was little, I vaguely recall there being ushers in the cinemas. Ushers were people who would throw you out of the cinema if you were acting inappropriately.
Now you're treated like a busybody if you get out of your seat and seek out managment to complain about somebody.
Lines used for centuries by corrupt priests to dupe gullible people out of their family fortunes.
I finished my degree while taking public transit to work. I read one book at a time and took notes of what I needed to cross-reference when I got home.
Paper I think is just a holdover from generations who have learned from paper. It's still superior in many ways than electronic text. Those who are used to paper are used to learning without being able to instantly cross-reference an enormous library, but are used to no compromises in the quality of the print and where they choose to read.