Bascially, the more life that you have available to you, they more valuable it becomes. We consider crimes against children much worse than crimes against 99 year old men on thier deathbeds simply because when a child dies, so much more is lost.
If you know you have another 800 years to go, you will be much more careful with your life. "Life in prison" suddenly means SO much more. Even 50 years of poverty and despair isn't your entire life... it's just a drop in the bucket. You won't have any great need to commit crimes and evil to get ahead because you don't have such a pressing NEED to live a good life NOW.
Last time I checked suprnova.org, I didn't see many 70-year old warez, but then again I don't know what sites you frequent... -- Mother is the best bet and don't let Satan draw you too fast.
Defending copyright holders in the body and then quoting cryptic discordian secrets in the.sig. French-canadian bean soup to you too.
The key word in my message is "distributing". I doubt that distributing an album to 300 people through bittorrent falls under non-commercial personal use copies
And I'm sure the people distributing those copies don't believe that 70 years after the death of the artists counts as the "limited time" granted in the constitution... go figure.
Woman: AGAINST! It's wrong, it's taking life, and is the same as murder! Any instance of it is WRONG! Put it up for adoption, or take some responcibility!
Man: So you are saying that if the young woman was raped so badly, that she should have the child from the instance regardless of the future psychological damage it would have on her? And even if having the child would, if the circumstance brought it up, kill her?
Woman: Well.. um
That one doesn't work so well, I've tried it before... Try this one for most entertainment value:
Man: So are you for or against abortion?
Woman: AGAINST! It's wrong, it's taking life, and is the same as murder! Any instance of it is WRONG! Put it up for adoption, or take some responcibility!
Man: So you are saying that if you could have the baby surgically implanted in your womb to carry it to term for the next nine months, you would do so to prevcent the abortion from taking place?
Um, I think I'll fall somewhere in the middle. When you sneak into a movie, you haven't cost anybody anything in the sense that the movie was playing anyway, and the seat was empty, and nobody is harmed. However, you theoretically "steal" the income that you would normally have paid to see that movie.
The problem with that argument in any form is that as soon as you make it, you owe me money. Why? Because you are buying things right now. I am offering to see you those very same things at twice the price. By not buying a more expensive version from me, you have theoretically "stolen" income from me that you could have paid me, but didn't. Do you see how that works?
Art is an expression of emotion. Forgers don't express themselves. Your analogy also says that writing is a farce, as anyone can copy out what someone else wrote, ignoring the fact that coming up with the story is the hard part.
Art isn't about technical perfection, but emotion. Copying art has no emotion, creating art does.
Picasso was once given a bet that he could not tell his own paintings from his very astute forgers. He took the bet, was offered a lineup and proceded to pull out all the forgeries and additionally three of his own paintings. When this was pointed out to him, he replied, "I can fake a picasso as well as anyone."
I've run my understanding about the current "reality show" fad (which seems to have settled into a modus operandi rather than a fad) as being a response to a writers' strike.
It's much more simple than that... If you can mae one show for a million dollers and episode, and in return make two million on ad revnue, you've doubled your profit... But if you can make a show for 50k, and each episode makes $200,000 on ad revenue, you've quadrupled your profit!
Sure, you don't make as much money as you used to, because there is a limited number of timeslots available, but did you just see, you are making 4x the return as you used to! Woot! Also, less sarcastically, cheaper shows means less cost of failure.
1) When a flourescent bulb fails, it stops giving off light completely. Usually and LED light will only have 1 led fail at a time. Given theis, you don't have large areas of darkness and don't have to replace the bulb immediatley when a part fails. LEDs fail gracefully.
I finally understand the doom 3 lighting scheme...
I always wondered about that guy... Couldn't he charge "rent"? Just put up a sign that says "Will house your IP protected seeds, $40,000 per growing plant per year. Simply blow ing some seeds on the wind to sign up."
Good thing they got that all hammared out before, say, running water and electricity. Don't want to graciously offer people, I dunno, medical treatment or schools or other such luxuries and then replay you by stealing your genetically modified corn, right?
Does anyone think their data is more important than their safety?
yes.
Better to give over a few details than to have your plane taken over by terrorists.
Indeed. Please give me your data, and I will protect you. What you don't believe me, a perfect stranger? But you seemed to believe the TSA folks... Aaah, you were lulled by thier shiny badges... I get it, shiny things good.
In addition, what you fail to realize is that Microsoft still has every right to tell you what you are and are not allowed to do with their software.
To a certian extent... If you were the creator of soundforge, for example, Microsoft would have an amazingly difficult time in court procecuting you for piracy.
Decimation is the Roman Army practice of executing every tenth man in a unit to ensure discipline. This is usually done to deal with rebellion or crowdedness. I was unaware they every tenth dinosaur was executed. I get annoyed when this word is used incorrectly, I would use obliteration or some other word instead.
NO, the ORIGINALY meaning of Decimation is the practice of killing off all the Dinosaurs... The Romans just allowed thier language to slip in the 65 million years after the "great decimation" and corrupted the word to mean what you just said.
And when you buy new it does nothing to help the used CD store... Your point is what? That artists are somehow more entitled to money than other people?
Saddam would have killed 2X the the number that have been killed this year just for the sake of repression. The Iraqis as a people are much better off this year.
That logic doesn't make sense. The logical conclusion is to say, how many people will die next year, or the next 10 billion years? If we murder everyone on the planet today, then we'll be SAVING trillions of lives in the future of people who would be born and thus would die.
Contrary to popular belief there is not a cracker/hacker/meanie in the world that actually wants to steal your data. Data is worthless. There is not a single market for it, even stuff that seems to be really valuable.
"But but but, I have lots of top secret plans for our X14 prototype for the new product line..."
Nope, Not Interested. The data on your new product line is a trade secret, and even if your biggest competitor didn't already think thier own product is superior, being caught with the data could cost them thier entire business.
"But but but, I have information on the new merger!"
Nope, same deal. Getting caught by the SEC means JAIL TIME for rich white men. They don't need that. Your competitors do NOT want to see your information.
"But I have millions of credit card numbers!"
So does google.
"But I have..."
No, nobody wants your data, get that through your head!
What they DO want, however, is your hardware. The VAST majority of hacking occours because someone wants to own your machines so they can be used as zombies in DDOS attacks and to send spam. Forget about protecting your useless data, but SECURE YOUR MACHINES, damn it.
You are counting many Iraqi's who were part of Saddam Husseins regime. How many innocent Iraqi civillians would be dead now at the hand of Saddam Hussein? How many would have died because of the corrupt "food for oil" program? What kind of threat would we face if we did nothing?
Was it painful to get rid of him? Yes. I never said, and I never will say, that it wasn't. Was it the right thing to do? You have your opinion, and I have mine.
It's hard to argue that OBL is a much more worthwhile target, but please don't repeat that crap that we had him and Bush let him go... fact is, throwing more troops at the OBL problem wasn't going to help... there were NO distractions.
Quick now, why aren't we going after kim jong ill?
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Bascially, the more life that you have available to you, they more valuable it becomes. We consider crimes against children much worse than crimes against 99 year old men on thier deathbeds simply because when a child dies, so much more is lost.
If you know you have another 800 years to go, you will be much more careful with your life. "Life in prison" suddenly means SO much more. Even 50 years of poverty and despair isn't your entire life... it's just a drop in the bucket. You won't have any great need to commit crimes and evil to get ahead because you don't have such a pressing NEED to live a good life NOW.
Last time I checked suprnova.org, I didn't see many 70-year old warez, but then again I don't know what sites you frequent...
.sig. French-canadian bean soup to you too.
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Mother is the best bet and don't let Satan draw you too fast.
Defending copyright holders in the body and then quoting cryptic discordian secrets in the
The key word in my message is "distributing". I doubt that distributing an album to 300 people through bittorrent falls under non-commercial personal use copies
And I'm sure the people distributing those copies don't believe that 70 years after the death of the artists counts as the "limited time" granted in the constitution... go figure.
Man: So are you for or against abortion?
Woman: AGAINST! It's wrong, it's taking life, and is the same as murder! Any instance of it is WRONG! Put it up for adoption, or take some responcibility!
Man: So you are saying that if the young woman was raped so badly, that she should have the child from the instance regardless of the future psychological damage it would have on her? And even if having the child would, if the circumstance brought it up, kill her?
Woman: Well.. um
That one doesn't work so well, I've tried it before... Try this one for most entertainment value:
Man: So are you for or against abortion?
Woman: AGAINST! It's wrong, it's taking life, and is the same as murder! Any instance of it is WRONG! Put it up for adoption, or take some responcibility!
Man: So you are saying that if you could have the baby surgically implanted in your womb to carry it to term for the next nine months, you would do so to prevcent the abortion from taking place?
Woman: Well.. um
Um, I think I'll fall somewhere in the middle. When you sneak into a movie, you haven't cost anybody anything in the sense that the movie was playing anyway, and the seat was empty, and nobody is harmed. However, you theoretically "steal" the income that you would normally have paid to see that movie.
The problem with that argument in any form is that as soon as you make it, you owe me money. Why? Because you are buying things right now. I am offering to see you those very same things at twice the price. By not buying a more expensive version from me, you have theoretically "stolen" income from me that you could have paid me, but didn't. Do you see how that works?
+5, Missed the entire point of art
Art is an expression of emotion. Forgers don't express themselves. Your analogy also says that writing is a farce, as anyone can copy out what someone else wrote, ignoring the fact that coming up with the story is the hard part.
Art isn't about technical perfection, but emotion. Copying art has no emotion, creating art does.
Picasso was once given a bet that he could not tell his own paintings from his very astute forgers. He took the bet, was offered a lineup and proceded to pull out all the forgeries and additionally three of his own paintings. When this was pointed out to him, he replied, "I can fake a picasso as well as anyone."
I've run my understanding about the current "reality show" fad (which seems to have settled into a modus operandi rather than a fad) as being a response to a writers' strike.
It's much more simple than that... If you can mae one show for a million dollers and episode, and in return make two million on ad revnue, you've doubled your profit... But if you can make a show for 50k, and each episode makes $200,000 on ad revenue, you've quadrupled your profit!
Sure, you don't make as much money as you used to, because there is a limited number of timeslots available, but did you just see, you are making 4x the return as you used to! Woot! Also, less sarcastically, cheaper shows means less cost of failure.
1) When a flourescent bulb fails, it stops giving off light completely. Usually and LED light will only have 1 led fail at a time. Given theis, you don't have large areas of darkness and don't have to replace the bulb immediatley when a part fails. LEDs fail gracefully.
I finally understand the doom 3 lighting scheme...
That's around 12 000 Km/h for those who use the more civilized metric system.
Is that metric hours?
they say they will soon be using robots to stop sheep jumping off cliffs
Or a... fence.
Is a misconception that sheep jump off of fences... You are thinking of cows.
I hope the spammers don't all sue me for sending out millions of emails that say all spammers are evil and that spam should be ignored!
I hope they ALL do, that way we can find out who they are!
I always wondered about that guy... Couldn't he charge "rent"? Just put up a sign that says "Will house your IP protected seeds, $40,000 per growing plant per year. Simply blow ing some seeds on the wind to sign up."
Sorry, but that rendering of the Heart of Gold looks wrong. It's supposed to be shaped like a running shoe.
Perhaps it's almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a running shoe?
Good thing they got that all hammared out before, say, running water and electricity. Don't want to graciously offer people, I dunno, medical treatment or schools or other such luxuries and then replay you by stealing your genetically modified corn, right?
Up, up, down, down, left, right, B, A, select, start.
Does anyone think their data is more important than their safety?
yes.
Better to give over a few details than to have your plane taken over by terrorists.
Indeed. Please give me your data, and I will protect you. What you don't believe me, a perfect stranger? But you seemed to believe the TSA folks... Aaah, you were lulled by thier shiny badges... I get it, shiny things good.
In addition, what you fail to realize is that Microsoft still has every right to tell you what you are and are not allowed to do with their software.
To a certian extent... If you were the creator of soundforge, for example, Microsoft would have an amazingly difficult time in court procecuting you for piracy.
Decimation is the Roman Army practice of executing every tenth man in a unit to ensure discipline. This is usually done to deal with rebellion or crowdedness. I was unaware they every tenth dinosaur was executed. I get annoyed when this word is used incorrectly, I would use obliteration or some other word instead.
NO, the ORIGINALY meaning of Decimation is the practice of killing off all the Dinosaurs... The Romans just allowed thier language to slip in the 65 million years after the "great decimation" and corrupted the word to mean what you just said.
Right, but it does nothing to help the artist.
And when you buy new it does nothing to help the used CD store... Your point is what? That artists are somehow more entitled to money than other people?
Saddam would have killed 2X the the number that have been killed this year just for the sake of repression. The Iraqis as a people are much better off this year.
That logic doesn't make sense. The logical conclusion is to say, how many people will die next year, or the next 10 billion years? If we murder everyone on the planet today, then we'll be SAVING trillions of lives in the future of people who would be born and thus would die.
The exit polls reveal that there is not much of a correlation between political affiliation and education.
True, but the exit polls also show that Kerry won...
Contrary to popular belief there is not a cracker/hacker/meanie in the world that actually wants to steal your data. Data is worthless. There is not a single market for it, even stuff that seems to be really valuable.
"But but but, I have lots of top secret plans for our X14 prototype for the new product line..."
Nope, Not Interested. The data on your new product line is a trade secret, and even if your biggest competitor didn't already think thier own product is superior, being caught with the data could cost them thier entire business.
"But but but, I have information on the new merger!"
Nope, same deal. Getting caught by the SEC means JAIL TIME for rich white men. They don't need that. Your competitors do NOT want to see your information.
"But I have millions of credit card numbers!"
So does google.
"But I have..."
No, nobody wants your data, get that through your head!
What they DO want, however, is your hardware. The VAST majority of hacking occours because someone wants to own your machines so they can be used as zombies in DDOS attacks and to send spam. Forget about protecting your useless data, but SECURE YOUR MACHINES, damn it.
Only because the roll-out and retraining of hundreds of I.T. staff would have cost them millions in time and lost productivity.
More than 500 million though?
So the questions are:
You are counting many Iraqi's who were part of Saddam Husseins regime. How many innocent Iraqi civillians would be dead now at the hand of Saddam Hussein? How many would have died because of the corrupt "food for oil" program? What kind of threat would we face if we did nothing?
Was it painful to get rid of him? Yes. I never said, and I never will say, that it wasn't. Was it the right thing to do? You have your opinion, and I have mine.
It's hard to argue that OBL is a much more worthwhile target, but please don't repeat that crap that we had him and Bush let him go... fact is, throwing more troops at the OBL problem wasn't going to help... there were NO distractions.
Quick now, why aren't we going after kim jong ill?