The section which discusses not discriminating against any person or group of persons. It's very clear in the GPL that is not tolerated, and discrimating again minors, which would be a group, violates that clause.
Heck, the government has admitted to working on devices which were assumed to be flying saucers and even released the footage from the tests. The government just needs to cut their crap and let us in on this stuff. Do we really belive a toilet seat costs $500?
If PETA would just screw their heads on straight, along with all those other "animal rights activists" (not all of them, just the extremists like PETA and those that give 'animal rights' a bad name), we wouldn't have to put up with articles like this.
Read the article. They were trained penguins. They were used to doing stupid tricks and shows like this -- heck, they were even penguins in Batman Returns! It's not like someone just ran to Seaworld California and stole a couple of the warm-climate penguins from the area outside the penguin complex.
And of course, here comes PETA, the same people who dress up as a Tuna fish and go to a Houston, TX elementary school to tell kids not to eat fish or meat... And plague hunters, without whom the animal population would become to large and die off anyway... Who are well beyond liberal... The fact of the matter is that PETA would come to my house and say that my having a Guinea Pig in a cage is wrong, and that it should be a free-range guinea pig.
How on earth you can be a nerd/geek and a PETA member, I'm not quite sure... All my fellow nerds/geeks think clearly, which is something PETA oft demonstrates they simply cannot do. They complain about sharp fishing hooks, not having vegetarian meals in school cafeterias (which there ARE, if you ask for them), how animals shouldn't be caged, how it's wrong to eat meat, how hunting hurts animals and we should leave them alone, et. al. They can take their vegan lips and kiss my penguin-loving butt.
Not all penguins live in cold climates, and when they are trained penguins, they're undoubtedly used to their cage. These aren't wild penguins who just got shoved in a cage. The one thing that really bugs me about this irresponsible piece of journalism is how they used showgoers' thoughts on the penguins. Do you think an NEC rep is really going to know what a frightened penguin looks like? Give me a break.
I thought this was the stupidest thing I'd ever heard since it all began a few years ago, and it's no different now.
A lot of you have raised a lot of good points, but the one thing every post I've read has missed is The Catalog. If something wasn't in the Pepsi Points Catalog, it wasn't for sale. The Harrier (surprise, surprise) wasn't in the catalog. Thus, it's not for sale.
This isn't to say that the rest of the reasons set forth aren't valid, namely the "restricted military aircraft aren't available to civilians" reason, but to have someone who tries to order an item that's not in the catalog? You had to give the item number to order, and the last time I checked, there was no picture of a Harrier with a big, bold item number next to it.
However, to actually reach the section of this where it got its title...
People like this guy will kill themselves off without our help if we just let them. It's like Darwin said, survival of the fittest. People who are stupid enough to be taken in by an obvious joke, too stupid to realize coffee is going to be hot, or that hitting yourself with a hammer is going to hurt, or that shooting someone generally maims or kills them (do I really need to continue listing other thought processes that require a total lack of brain cells?) need to just be left alone. One of these days, they'll do something even more stupid than the usual, and end up dead somewhere.
Darwin's probably rolling over in his grave as we all write about this. If this guy does end up getting money out of Pepsi from his appeal (which I hope he doesn't, because the only money he needs is enough to get a whole lot of counseling, and maybe some electro-shock therapy), I bet he'll go buy himself a plane. Then, maybe he'll be like other people and not get instrument certified, go flying someday, and find that visual flying isn't possible. Anyone with the IQ of a lower monkey could read instruments, but people like this have an IQ more like that of a banana slug, and as such he'll end up crashing. Now just imagine how much bigger and better the resulting fireball would be if it had been a multi-million dollar Harrier.
Yes, it was in the commercial, but it was not only presented in a completely different manner, but it wasn't in the catalog. The Pepsi catalog was like the Pepsi Points Bible -- if it wasn't there, they weren't selling it. If some moron is too dumb to recognize that, they need a good healthy dose of electro-shock therapy.
Even if he wins this, there's no way he'll ever get the jet -- they already explained that way back when this first occurred. You simply can't purchase a jet that's in active military use.
And I thought that woman suing McDonalds for her idiocy in spilling hot (wow, coffee is hot?) coffee on her lap. Unless she asked for an iced coffee, I don't see how any reasonable person could think coffee wouldn't be hot. The fact that she won was just plain appalling. I sincerely hope this guy doesn't win if he actually gets to appeal.
Hey, if he gets the Harrier, maybe he'll end up in next year's Darwin Awards, though.;o) See, there's an upside to everything!
Why worry about all this? The simplest solution would be to hack your preferred OS to warm and fuzzy completely-encrypted status;o) With a little work, there couldbe a major revolt against the US government. They've tried to stick their noses where they don't belong one too many times. For a country that was founded on the rights of humans, I see them quickly disappearing every time a story like this comes up. Replace all http connections with secure http. Phase out telnet, let's all switch to ssh. Use insanely huge PGP keys for everything... Grocery lists, e-mails, anything else you can think of.;oP If this isn't another one of those Oh-the-press-is-stupid-it-never-existed stories, like several others about supposed Bills to be passed, the US government will have a revolution on their hands. You don't have to let anyone into you home anymore, because they don't have to be in your home to monitor what you're doing. Just tap into their net connection and monitor the bits and bytes flying by. "Unalienable rights" comes to mind, among other things. Enough ranting for now.
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Assuming patents operate in a similar manner to copyrights (which they may or may not), the rights would revert back to the person(s) who actually created the [insert patented item here]. (This also assumes there are no weird contractual clauses about who rights go to...)
>Also emulation deals mainly with older products >not with actual ones.
Maybe for some of us, but definately not all. If emulation dealt mainly with older systems (you don't see NOA throwing a hissy over all the NES emulation... yet.), there wouldn't be at least 5 N64 emulators and tons of sites with N64 roms, which is what they're worried about. When they're selling their new console -still- for over US$100 and the games at anywhere from US$50-US$70 a piece, they're growing more and more paranoid.
Why on earth they even care about the SNES anymore, I don't know. I highly doubt they're making that much money off of it. Heck, they don't even bat an eyelash at the VirtualBoy emulators (but then, neither would I).
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I'll tell you which part of the GPL --
The section which discusses not discriminating against any person or group of persons. It's very clear in the GPL that is not tolerated, and discrimating again minors, which would be a group, violates that clause.
Last time I checked, the GPL contains something about not discriminating against any person or group of people...
Sounds like it violates the GPL to me.
Heck, the government has admitted to working on devices which were assumed to be flying saucers and even released the footage from the tests.
The government just needs to cut their crap and let us in on this stuff. Do we really belive a toilet seat costs $500?
If PETA would just screw their heads on straight, along with all those other "animal rights activists" (not all of them, just the extremists like PETA and those that give 'animal rights' a bad name), we wouldn't have to put up with articles like this.
Read the article. They were trained penguins. They were used to doing stupid tricks and shows like this -- heck, they were even penguins in Batman Returns! It's not like someone just ran to Seaworld California and stole a couple of the warm-climate penguins from the area outside the penguin complex.
And of course, here comes PETA, the same people who dress up as a Tuna fish and go to a Houston, TX elementary school to tell kids not to eat fish or meat... And plague hunters, without whom the animal population would become to large and die off anyway... Who are well beyond liberal... The fact of the matter is that PETA would come to my house and say that my having a Guinea Pig in a cage is wrong, and that it should be a free-range guinea pig.
How on earth you can be a nerd/geek and a PETA member, I'm not quite sure... All my fellow nerds/geeks think clearly, which is something PETA oft demonstrates they simply cannot do. They complain about sharp fishing hooks, not having vegetarian meals in school cafeterias (which there ARE, if you ask for them), how animals shouldn't be caged, how it's wrong to eat meat, how hunting hurts animals and we should leave them alone, et. al. They can take their vegan lips and kiss my penguin-loving butt.
Not all penguins live in cold climates, and when they are trained penguins, they're undoubtedly used to their cage. These aren't wild penguins who just got shoved in a cage. The one thing that really bugs me about this irresponsible piece of journalism is how they used showgoers' thoughts on the penguins. Do you think an NEC rep is really going to know what a frightened penguin looks like? Give me a break.
I thought this was the stupidest thing I'd ever heard since it all began a few years ago, and it's no different now.
A lot of you have raised a lot of good points, but the one thing every post I've read has missed is The Catalog. If something wasn't in the Pepsi Points Catalog, it wasn't for sale. The Harrier (surprise, surprise) wasn't in the catalog. Thus, it's not for sale.
This isn't to say that the rest of the reasons set forth aren't valid, namely the "restricted military aircraft aren't available to civilians" reason, but to have someone who tries to order an item that's not in the catalog? You had to give the item number to order, and the last time I checked, there was no picture of a Harrier with a big, bold item number next to it.
However, to actually reach the section of this where it got its title...
People like this guy will kill themselves off without our help if we just let them. It's like Darwin said, survival of the fittest. People who are stupid enough to be taken in by an obvious joke, too stupid to realize coffee is going to be hot, or that hitting yourself with a hammer is going to hurt, or that shooting someone generally maims or kills them (do I really need to continue listing other thought processes that require a total lack of brain cells?) need to just be left alone. One of these days, they'll do something even more stupid than the usual, and end up dead somewhere.
Darwin's probably rolling over in his grave as we all write about this. If this guy does end up getting money out of Pepsi from his appeal (which I hope he doesn't, because the only money he needs is enough to get a whole lot of counseling, and maybe some electro-shock therapy), I bet he'll go buy himself a plane. Then, maybe he'll be like other people and not get instrument certified, go flying someday, and find that visual flying isn't possible. Anyone with the IQ of a lower monkey could read instruments, but people like this have an IQ more like that of a banana slug, and as such he'll end up crashing. Now just imagine how much bigger and better the resulting fireball would be if it had been a multi-million dollar Harrier.
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That's probably what's next. "Hey, I wanted a blue dot, not this stupid money!"
What is society coming to? And we're supposed to be proud to be Americans?
Yes, it was in the commercial, but it was not only presented in a completely different manner, but it wasn't in the catalog. The Pepsi catalog was like the Pepsi Points Bible -- if it wasn't there, they weren't selling it. If some moron is too dumb to recognize that, they need a good healthy dose of electro-shock therapy.
Even if he wins this, there's no way he'll ever get the jet -- they already explained that way back when this first occurred. You simply can't purchase a jet that's in active military use.
And I thought that woman suing McDonalds for her idiocy in spilling hot (wow, coffee is hot?) coffee on her lap. Unless she asked for an iced coffee, I don't see how any reasonable person could think coffee wouldn't be hot. The fact that she won was just plain appalling. I sincerely hope this guy doesn't win if he actually gets to appeal.
Hey, if he gets the Harrier, maybe he'll end up in next year's Darwin Awards, though. ;o) See, there's an upside to everything!
Since posting this, it should be noted that strange things have started happening...
Just today, maybe an hour ago, some guy pulled up across the street in a Green Ford Explorer and took pictures of my neighbor's house and my house.
Big Brother is watching.Why worry about all this? The simplest solution would be to hack your preferred OS to warm and fuzzy completely-encrypted status ;o) With a little work, there couldbe a major revolt against the US government. They've tried to stick their noses where they don't belong one too many times. For a country that was founded on the rights of humans, I see them quickly disappearing every time a story like this comes up. Replace all http connections with secure http. Phase out telnet, let's all switch to ssh. Use insanely huge PGP keys for everything ... Grocery lists, e-mails, anything else you can think of. ;oP If this isn't another one of those Oh-the-press-is-stupid-it-never-existed stories, like several others about supposed Bills to be passed, the US government will have a revolution on their hands. You don't have to let anyone into you home anymore, because they don't have to be in your home to monitor what you're doing. Just tap into their net connection and monitor the bits and bytes flying by. "Unalienable rights" comes to mind, among other things. Enough ranting for now.
Assuming patents operate in a similar manner to copyrights (which they may or may not), the rights would revert back to the person(s) who actually created the [insert patented item here]. (This also assumes there are no weird contractual clauses about who rights go to...)
Of course, this could totally be off, as well.
>Also emulation deals mainly with older products >not with actual ones.
Maybe for some of us, but definately not all. If emulation dealt mainly with older systems (you don't see NOA throwing a hissy over all the NES emulation... yet.), there wouldn't be at least 5 N64 emulators and tons of sites with N64 roms, which is what they're worried about. When they're selling their new console -still- for over US$100
and the games at anywhere from US$50-US$70 a piece, they're growing more and more paranoid.
Why on earth they even care about the SNES anymore, I don't know. I highly doubt they're making that much money off of it. Heck, they don't even bat an eyelash at the VirtualBoy emulators (but then, neither would I).