Well wait, if you're TAing, aren't you in grad school? The other guy is undergrad, as far as I can tell, and thus he is not working anywhere near as hard as you are.
And I was working 40 hours at two separate jobs my 5th year of undergrad (bowling alley 25 hrs, tech support 15 hrs) and still had ridiculous amounts of time to goof off. Probably because my coursework was not all that time consuming, I guess.
I had a blast in college, and I had to support myself with student loans and low paying jobs too, buddy. Matter of fact, my low paying job in college was the best job I ever had - I worked as a pin chaser in our campus bowling alley. I wish I could go back and do it again, because work was fun, but the difference in the amount of money I make with a college degree is too great to even consider it.
Hate to have to tell you this, but if you think life is boring, it's actually because YOU are a boring person. I really can't simplify this for you any more, so perhaps that will finally get through that thick skull of yours. People who are vibrant and exciting never whine and moan and complain the way you do - if you talk to people in real life the way you post on slashdot, it's a wonder anyone is willing to hang around you at all. Lighten up a bit, for crying out loud.
I wasn't even a drinker or partier in college - I just had a great time with great friends, and I never ALLOWED things to be boring. The choice is yours.
Way to explain the flaws in the guy's argument there, buddy... oh wait, you didn't - you just issued a generic blanket statement with no factual usefulness whatsoever. Good show!
Copyright infringement, rather than being a criminal matter, is a matter of causing financial damage to a corporation. They are free to sue whomever they choose to recover their damages. If it were criminal to infringe copyrights, I'm still not sure if you'd be right or not, actually, but it's certainly not the case here.
Speeding tickets are also largely handled in a civil manner, although their classification is very confusing. Similarly though, a cop operating a speed trap is under no obligation to nab every single car that speeds by.
Seriously, it's good to see someone in here who knows what the hell they're talking about. (At least, you sound like you do) You should definitely be posting more.
I disagree. A good defense attorney would be able to get the case dismissed if the RIAA failed to go anywhere with it in a reasonable amount of time. $12,000 should have been plenty of money for what in reality is a very, very simple case with little evidence to present and so forth. This isn't Congress - the RIAA can't just indefinitely filibuster.
In the event that the court found in the kid's favor, it is likely he could have countersued, FOR FREE, if some lawyer decided they had a good chance of reaching into the RIAA's deep pockets. The lawyer's fees would come out of the RIAA's settlement.
The way they handled this is completely stupid, in my opinion.
So then why is about 90% (correct me if I'm wrong) of all lawsuits in the USA settled out of court without a trial? I'd say settling is the default in the USA?
I believe it was implied (more like blatantly stated actually) that there are so many settlements because most people are "doormats". It was even in the title of his post.
Read the guy you responded to again. He said "motion to dismiss on the first day" in his post. No long cases; no spending all of your worldly money on attorneys - to tell you the truth, the kid in the article would have had a VERY GOOD CHANCE of having such a motion succeed - simply based on the fact that search engines are known to almost everyone, including judges, and though no lawyer myself, I believe there is established legal precedent already protecting them.
People who are unable to meet their basic survival needs don't give a rat's ass about court cases involving open source software. MASLOW'S HIERARCHY, for crying out loud.
So really, the issue here is that you're a big jerk, right? After all, if something is of no interest to YOU, personally, it should be immediately disposed of, as it is "junk". It matters little whether anyone else finds that object desirable; only the opinion of you, master of all he surveys, could possibly be of any importance. You sound like a sociopath.
So, if you bring bottled water to a park, are drinking fountains litter (since you have no use for them)? If you take your trash with you when you leave, are trash cans litter? If you never feel the need to sit down, are park benches litter? What I am getting at is that there are already several unnatural objects in public parks, because they provide a convenience or possibly a fun factor to that park; and yet you do not seem to specifically object to their presence. What then is your beef with geocaches? Just feeling like an asshole, perhaps?
If you have taken these precautions, and somebody forcibly enters either, then you are well within your rights to press charges, and there is not a damn thing the perpetrator can use in thier defense.
And, if you leave your door unlocked and someone takes all your shit, you are also "well within your rights" to press charges. There's no right, written or implied, that allows you to take advantage of stupid people.
Why do half of the posts here say "DANGER! DANGER! It is an April Fool's joke!" You're not clever for figuring it out, little monkey - everyone in the entire world is already aware that these articles are a joke. Find a new way to be smart.
Unless you're actually a member of a terrorist organization using piracy to directly fund your group, NO professional pirates would give their funds away to terrorists, for one simple reason: profit.
Professional pirates are businessmen. (Also see: professional drug dealers). If they invest money in anything, they want to see some sort of return on it - giving the money to terrorist groups is about as financially effective as setting it in a pile and lighting it on fire. Why would anyone trying to maximise their profits give their money to people who can't make it into more money, when sound investment opportunities are right there for the taking?
Having terrorists blow things up and wreck the economy is also not exactly something that someone who wants to make good investments would probably be very interested in. So, now you have two great reasons not to give your money to these people. So, seriously, NO ONE is doing this, and the entire concept is bullshit.
You'd have to build the interface yourself. That's kind of the whole point of the product. If you're some enterprising (and weird) hardware company, you could buy 100,000 of these things and build some bizarre web-server-enabled appliance and sell them to the general public.
I had one once called the Mitten Touch Typist. Every fourteenth or fifteenth keystroke would end up being the key next to the one you hit - it was pure genius, and it took such a long time for people to figure out something was wrong. Hehehe.
I don't think anyone is assuming that a copyright holder's silence equals agreement; I think it would be more accurate to state that one would have to be severely stuck up to actually give a shit as to whether they followed every single copyright law all the time - in other words, some people constantly check whether they're being ethical and/or whether they are upholding the law, and most of us don't actually give a crap about your ridiculous notions of how to live.
The problem is that cases against sites hosting very old software may be anything but frivolous. Perhaps we do not agree with their methods, and perhaps even the court will not, but this does not mean that their case was not legitimate.
There ARE two sides to this issue, and the people on the opposite side from us are just as rabid in their self-righteousness as we are.
I had the shittiest paying jobs while I was in school - but I had fun doing them at least. I worked cashier and pinchaser/mechanic's assistant at a couple of bowling alleys and did tech support for 3 university departments (not all at the same time, naturally).
My jobs at the U would usually only get me 15-20 hours, maximum, and they only paid $6-$7/hr so money got a little tight. Still, $20 was crap and I sure as hell wouldn't relay spam for such a piddly amount of cash.
By the way, working full time and going to school full time might give you more spending $ and so forth, but do you have any time left over for fun?
Late post, but turn off your radio - you're right, there's really nothing too great on there - and listen to some REAL bands. You need a good dose of Slobberbone
Ice makes things colder, right? That's what we all use it for! So, take an ice cube, then place another ice cube on top of it. Wait. The ice cubes will make each other colder, infinitely. THERE IS NO ABSOLUTE ZERO!
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Well wait, if you're TAing, aren't you in grad school? The other guy is undergrad, as far as I can tell, and thus he is not working anywhere near as hard as you are.
And I was working 40 hours at two separate jobs my 5th year of undergrad (bowling alley 25 hrs, tech support 15 hrs) and still had ridiculous amounts of time to goof off. Probably because my coursework was not all that time consuming, I guess.
I had a blast in college, and I had to support myself with student loans and low paying jobs too, buddy. Matter of fact, my low paying job in college was the best job I ever had - I worked as a pin chaser in our campus bowling alley. I wish I could go back and do it again, because work was fun, but the difference in the amount of money I make with a college degree is too great to even consider it.
Hate to have to tell you this, but if you think life is boring, it's actually because YOU are a boring person. I really can't simplify this for you any more, so perhaps that will finally get through that thick skull of yours. People who are vibrant and exciting never whine and moan and complain the way you do - if you talk to people in real life the way you post on slashdot, it's a wonder anyone is willing to hang around you at all. Lighten up a bit, for crying out loud.
I wasn't even a drinker or partier in college - I just had a great time with great friends, and I never ALLOWED things to be boring. The choice is yours.
Way to explain the flaws in the guy's argument there, buddy... oh wait, you didn't - you just issued a generic blanket statement with no factual usefulness whatsoever. Good show!
Copyright infringement, rather than being a criminal matter, is a matter of causing financial damage to a corporation. They are free to sue whomever they choose to recover their damages. If it were criminal to infringe copyrights, I'm still not sure if you'd be right or not, actually, but it's certainly not the case here.
Speeding tickets are also largely handled in a civil manner, although their classification is very confusing. Similarly though, a cop operating a speed trap is under no obligation to nab every single car that speeds by.
Seriously, it's good to see someone in here who knows what the hell they're talking about. (At least, you sound like you do) You should definitely be posting more.
I disagree. A good defense attorney would be able to get the case dismissed if the RIAA failed to go anywhere with it in a reasonable amount of time. $12,000 should have been plenty of money for what in reality is a very, very simple case with little evidence to present and so forth. This isn't Congress - the RIAA can't just indefinitely filibuster.
In the event that the court found in the kid's favor, it is likely he could have countersued, FOR FREE, if some lawyer decided they had a good chance of reaching into the RIAA's deep pockets. The lawyer's fees would come out of the RIAA's settlement.
The way they handled this is completely stupid, in my opinion.
So then why is about 90% (correct me if I'm wrong) of all lawsuits in the USA settled out of court without a trial? I'd say settling is the default in the USA?
I believe it was implied (more like blatantly stated actually) that there are so many settlements because most people are "doormats". It was even in the title of his post.
Read the guy you responded to again. He said "motion to dismiss on the first day" in his post. No long cases; no spending all of your worldly money on attorneys - to tell you the truth, the kid in the article would have had a VERY GOOD CHANCE of having such a motion succeed - simply based on the fact that search engines are known to almost everyone, including judges, and though no lawyer myself, I believe there is established legal precedent already protecting them.
People who are unable to meet their basic survival needs don't give a rat's ass about court cases involving open source software. MASLOW'S HIERARCHY, for crying out loud.
So really, the issue here is that you're a big jerk, right? After all, if something is of no interest to YOU, personally, it should be immediately disposed of, as it is "junk". It matters little whether anyone else finds that object desirable; only the opinion of you, master of all he surveys, could possibly be of any importance. You sound like a sociopath.
So, if you bring bottled water to a park, are drinking fountains litter (since you have no use for them)? If you take your trash with you when you leave, are trash cans litter? If you never feel the need to sit down, are park benches litter? What I am getting at is that there are already several unnatural objects in public parks, because they provide a convenience or possibly a fun factor to that park; and yet you do not seem to specifically object to their presence. What then is your beef with geocaches? Just feeling like an asshole, perhaps?
I drink these all too frequently at a local bar. They will kick your ass, but they are awfully tasty.
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That is just pretty damn well clever right there.
If you have taken these precautions, and somebody forcibly enters either, then you are well within your rights to press charges, and there is not a damn thing the perpetrator can use in thier defense.
And, if you leave your door unlocked and someone takes all your shit, you are also "well within your rights" to press charges. There's no right, written or implied, that allows you to take advantage of stupid people.
You're not funny either, and yet here you are.
Why do half of the posts here say "DANGER! DANGER! It is an April Fool's joke!" You're not clever for figuring it out, little monkey - everyone in the entire world is already aware that these articles are a joke. Find a new way to be smart.
Unless you're actually a member of a terrorist organization using piracy to directly fund your group, NO professional pirates would give their funds away to terrorists, for one simple reason: profit.
Professional pirates are businessmen. (Also see: professional drug dealers). If they invest money in anything, they want to see some sort of return on it - giving the money to terrorist groups is about as financially effective as setting it in a pile and lighting it on fire. Why would anyone trying to maximise their profits give their money to people who can't make it into more money, when sound investment opportunities are right there for the taking?
Having terrorists blow things up and wreck the economy is also not exactly something that someone who wants to make good investments would probably be very interested in. So, now you have two great reasons not to give your money to these people. So, seriously, NO ONE is doing this, and the entire concept is bullshit.
You'd have to build the interface yourself. That's kind of the whole point of the product. If you're some enterprising (and weird) hardware company, you could buy 100,000 of these things and build some bizarre web-server-enabled appliance and sell them to the general public.
I had one once called the Mitten Touch Typist. Every fourteenth or fifteenth keystroke would end up being the key next to the one you hit - it was pure genius, and it took such a long time for people to figure out something was wrong. Hehehe.
In that case, you should call Square and tell them to stop making games that take 200 hours to complete.
I don't think anyone is assuming that a copyright holder's silence equals agreement; I think it would be more accurate to state that one would have to be severely stuck up to actually give a shit as to whether they followed every single copyright law all the time - in other words, some people constantly check whether they're being ethical and/or whether they are upholding the law, and most of us don't actually give a crap about your ridiculous notions of how to live.
Guess whose life is easier.
The problem is that cases against sites hosting very old software may be anything but frivolous. Perhaps we do not agree with their methods, and perhaps even the court will not, but this does not mean that their case was not legitimate.
There ARE two sides to this issue, and the people on the opposite side from us are just as rabid in their self-righteousness as we are.
Get a job hippies
I had the shittiest paying jobs while I was in school - but I had fun doing them at least. I worked cashier and pinchaser/mechanic's assistant at a couple of bowling alleys and did tech support for 3 university departments (not all at the same time, naturally).
My jobs at the U would usually only get me 15-20 hours, maximum, and they only paid $6-$7/hr so money got a little tight. Still, $20 was crap and I sure as hell wouldn't relay spam for such a piddly amount of cash.
By the way, working full time and going to school full time might give you more spending $ and so forth, but do you have any time left over for fun?
Late post, but turn off your radio - you're right, there's really nothing too great on there - and listen to some REAL bands. You need a good dose of Slobberbone
Ice makes things colder, right? That's what we all use it for! So, take an ice cube, then place another ice cube on top of it. Wait. The ice cubes will make each other colder, infinitely. THERE IS NO ABSOLUTE ZERO!
But they crashed into it with a PLANE full of civilians - so really, it's the same god damn thing after all, isn't it?