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Aw hell, I've seen a NASA document relating what to do in case of an attack by Vikings. People at NASA, and the aerospace companies have pretty good senses of humor.
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That's actually fairly tough. I would guess that the answer is no, it's not ok. But I Am Not A Talmudic Scholar;)
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No
Presumably (unless they're proof we're already in hell;)
Got me
Depends on circumstances
Quite a few, I'm sure
Yes, but before that the bgcolor will turn pea soup green
ObTopic: Now, if only it could recognize when it picked up a stray Lego and reassemble itself....Mike Jittlov had something like that. You should see if he can give you some advice;)
Like I said - you don't have to take the class if you have a good reason, and you don't have to take the class in order to qualify to purchase firearms (though you do have to be 18+).
So these guys would not have a problem.
Honestly, I think that we could all benefit from something like this. Wish they had it when I turned 18 (more useful than the stupid selective service thing)
That would be nice, though there will surely be drawbacks. Bud, in "The Diamond Age" was always twitchy because of this sort of thing. But I've got a soft spot for Bud; he's also from north Florida.
There are some nuclear weapons which are designed to do other things than leave holes in the ground. Neutron bombs, for example, are designed to kill people but generally leave structures intact.
Furthermore regular nuclear bombs can be potentially used for other purposes: There was a proposal to use them to create harbors for ships; Initial non-nuclear testing of Orion (a spaceship propelled by exploding nuclear bombs behind it) succeeded but were put to an end because of various treaties regulating the detonation of nuclear weapons.
So it's certainly possible to have nukes that are not intended to blow things up but are still weapons and nukes which do blow things up but are not intended to be used as weapons.
Minors aren't allowed to purchase, own or operate firearms (though there will be a grandfather clause)
Upon turning 18, all regular citizens in good standing are required to learn how to safely use, own and operate pistols and rifles unless they deliberately want to opt out (for religious/moral reasons, but not because they're lazy or they have a date).
No records are kept of who attends the class, and it's not required to have taken the class to legally obtain firearms but it is now much more likely that any generic person will be know what they're doing. Sounds okay to me.
Actually Canadians _are_ bad, and Americans _are_ good. This is basically because America has vast natural supplies of goodness and during the 30's and 40's we established a strategic reserve supply of goodness in case of emergency.
While many countries recieve exports of our goodness, we would be foolish to expend it all.
At any rate, Canada unfortunately sits on top of one of the largest naturally occuring masses of badness in the world (the only larger ones are Russia, which we all knew, and Madagascar which is kind of strange). If Canada had not shipped the bulk of it's good supply to Britain in the early part of this century it would not be as big a deal as it is.
And it still wouldn't be a problem given the healthy trade relationship between the naturally very good US and naturally very bad Canada but due to an oversight good imports/exports were not covered under NAFTA.
At the moment good exports to Canada from the US are constrained and so Canada has reverted to badness. Hopefully this will be resolved soon and Canada can once again join the ranks of good nations, even though it has to do so artificially.
I agree with you. And here's a further extension. Is it okay to non-intrusively tap power lines if you do so from your property without violating their right-of-way?
They're dumping energy into the surrounding air (basically on the big high tension lines) which is going to waste and which may be going onto your property. They are typically considered a utility and have some extra privleges and restrictions, and they interfere with other public resources (like EM transmissions).
So should you legally be able to set up an induction loop or something on the edge of your property and draw power from it?
IMHO, yes. The power co knew what it was doing, and is free to attempt to purchase more right of way or not waste energy in such a way that it tresspasses onto my property. Unfortunately they tend to pass laws against this.
This makes sense _basically_ but not so much in the case of mp3s. It depends on where the line is drawn. Lichtenstein (sp) paintings are almost exact copies of other people's copywritten comic books. But you'd be stupid to sue over it. So at what point does an mp3 become an different work of art which is derived from some other work? The lawsuits over sampling are a good starting point, except that there's nothing wrong IMHO with sampling. Could you make a valid expressive point (irony perhaps) by including an exact duplicate of someone else's work along with your own? Maybe.
Since copyright has no basis in natural rights or in reality it is very much a matter of interpretation..ca's 'only if it's exact' law was not exactly the worst implementation you know.
Sounds like this is specific to.ca law. If you broadcast something then as a result of that anyone else can repeat the identical broadcast. Copyright does not apply. Don't like it? Don't broadcast. No one's making you.
Sounds like a good idea to me (it's like FidonetTV. Store and forward;)
While I am an American, and therefore seen as a dork in the eyes of nearly everyone who isn't an American, let me offer my opinion.
What iCrave is doing is legal. If you did it too, it would also be legal. But if you copied iCrave's data that would not be legal.
Because iCrave is not broadcasting. If you want their data you send a request (e.g. clicking on a particular link or using a client that when started puts in a request) to their servers. Then it gives you data by the barrowload. But it doesn't send you that data even if you don't ask somehow. (that would be more like getting pingflooded and would be interpreted as a DOS on every possible IP address - good luck)
So really, even if iCrave _wanted_ people to recopy their data it's not legal b/c you only get to ignore the copyright if you get it off of a broadcast.
Now answer me this: are homemade satellite descramblers legal in.ca? If so then I will have to show some newfound respect to my neighbors to the north.
There is only one purpose for using a gun, and you're right as to what it is.
The problem here is that you think that violence is never justified. I disagree.
The basic reason IMHO that Americans have such a fundemental right to firearms is so that if it becomes utterly, truely necessary, we can overthrow our government, which will pretty certainly require the use of force. Wish it didn't, but if things are that bad, they probably will.
This is how it's supposed to work. Because the government derives its power and right to exist from a single source: the people. And if we don't like it then that's that for the government.
If I lived under an utterly oppressive United States of America (there is some debate as to whether or not we actually do; I don't, but we're probably getting there slowly much like the frog in the pot), it would be my obligation as an American to overthrow it so that I can live freely. Is this bad? No. It's good. It is a good use of violence or the threat of violence. Do you disagree?
Frankly I'm always impressed that the Z80 is still in use.
It used to be popular all over - the Sinclair used a Z80. The Apples of course used the 6502, which was a knock-off of the significantly more expensive Motorola 6800.
There is an interesting theory about the Woz's decision to use the MOS chip. First some factual (as well as I can remember the stuff I read) background....
At about the time the Apple I was under development Steve Jobs had been working for Atari, even though he was - and honestly still is - a real nontechnical bozo. Steve started working on Breakout, that most challenging of Pong games, but had trouble. He recruited the Woz to secretly do Steve's work at Atari whilst still putting in full days at HP.
The Woz finished Breakout, but Nolan (head cheese at Atari) didn't know. Nolan did give Steve a big bonus for having an extremely tight board with very few IC's used. The bonus was ~$5000 and since Steve had had the offer of a bonus based on #of ICs not used, he had already offered to split it with the Woz.
Then Steve claimed that the bonus was off by an order of magnitude and gave the Woz ~$250. The Woz didn't know for a long time, though he probably could have landed a job at Atari if Nolan had known. Still, given how poor Atari management got around then it's best that Nolan didn't know.;)
At any rate, the theory is that if Steve hadn't cheated his friend, the Woz might have used a pricier but better-fated chip... like the Intel 8080. This could have had a massive impact on Apple's later work, which has always been dominated by Motorola chips. I'm not saying it would be best, but it might have made things more interesting.
Of course, Bender uses a 6502 and that's a thousand years from now, so you never know;)
One of these days I should ask the Woz about this. He's pretty approachable, but the idea's too awesome for me to deal with right now.
Well, unless you yourself are responsible for that 99%, or you witnessed it, that sounds like hearsay to this cat. While I agree that you're probably right about Napster being used illegally, I am a jillion times more concerned about keeping hearsay from being the basis of any legal action than I am about copyright violations.
Nevertheless, I think that it really sucks when the US spies on anyone save during wartime. In attempting to save the country from a real or imagined threat we are destroying the ideals which it is founded upon from the inside. 'United States of America' is just a name; it doesn't have any value. The reasons are much more worthy of protection than the particular incarnation.
I'm not saying that we have to be impotent, but it's unAmerican to do a lot of the stuff that the NSA, CIA, FBI and other three letter agencies have done.
Suprisingly VAIO (which is not pronouncable in Japanese IIRC) does make a little sense.
The VA look kind of like a sine wave and can be taken to represent the analog.
IO could also be 10, which is binary, and represents the digitial.
So the VAIO logo is sort of supposed to indicate that the computer is both analog (really that it can accept analog, ie video/audio, which also works for VA) inputs.
At least that's my reading of it. But I'm still happier with a Mac.
I had always secretly hoped that it was named after the character from Battlestar Galactica (who probably also liked coffee, but would have called it something 'spacey')
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Aw hell, I've seen a NASA document relating what to do in case of an attack by Vikings. People at NASA, and the aerospace companies have pretty good senses of humor.
That's actually fairly tough. I would guess that the answer is no, it's not ok. But I Am Not A Talmudic Scholar ;)
ObTopic: Now, if only it could recognize when it picked up a stray Lego and reassemble itself....Mike Jittlov had something like that. You should see if he can give you some advice ;)
That's kind of confusing. Who goes to a bridge to slice wrists? I thought that suicides jumped off bridges. Guess he wasn't the brightest bulb.
Like I said - you don't have to take the class if you have a good reason, and you don't have to take the class in order to qualify to purchase firearms (though you do have to be 18+).
So these guys would not have a problem.
Honestly, I think that we could all benefit from something like this. Wish they had it when I turned 18 (more useful than the stupid selective service thing)
That would be nice, though there will surely be drawbacks. Bud, in "The Diamond Age" was always twitchy because of this sort of thing. But I've got a soft spot for Bud; he's also from north Florida.
Actually you might be suprised.
There are some nuclear weapons which are designed to do other things than leave holes in the ground. Neutron bombs, for example, are designed to kill people but generally leave structures intact.
Furthermore regular nuclear bombs can be potentially used for other purposes: There was a proposal to use them to create harbors for ships; Initial non-nuclear testing of Orion (a spaceship propelled by exploding nuclear bombs behind it) succeeded but were put to an end because of various treaties regulating the detonation of nuclear weapons.
So it's certainly possible to have nukes that are not intended to blow things up but are still weapons and nukes which do blow things up but are not intended to be used as weapons.
What if there are even as few as ten honest Napster users? Is that enough to legitimize it?
Okay then - let's try a solution like this:
Minors aren't allowed to purchase, own or operate firearms (though there will be a grandfather clause)
Upon turning 18, all regular citizens in good standing are required to learn how to safely use, own and operate pistols and rifles unless they deliberately want to opt out (for religious/moral reasons, but not because they're lazy or they have a date).
No records are kept of who attends the class, and it's not required to have taken the class to legally obtain firearms but it is now much more likely that any generic person will be know what they're doing. Sounds okay to me.
Actually Canadians _are_ bad, and Americans _are_ good. This is basically because America has vast natural supplies of goodness and during the 30's and 40's we established a strategic reserve supply of goodness in case of emergency.
While many countries recieve exports of our goodness, we would be foolish to expend it all.
At any rate, Canada unfortunately sits on top of one of the largest naturally occuring masses of badness in the world (the only larger ones are Russia, which we all knew, and Madagascar which is kind of strange). If Canada had not shipped the bulk of it's good supply to Britain in the early part of this century it would not be as big a deal as it is.
And it still wouldn't be a problem given the healthy trade relationship between the naturally very good US and naturally very bad Canada but due to an oversight good imports/exports were not covered under NAFTA.
At the moment good exports to Canada from the US are constrained and so Canada has reverted to badness. Hopefully this will be resolved soon and Canada can once again join the ranks of good nations, even though it has to do so artificially.
I agree with you. And here's a further extension. Is it okay to non-intrusively tap power lines if you do so from your property without violating their right-of-way?
They're dumping energy into the surrounding air (basically on the big high tension lines) which is going to waste and which may be going onto your property. They are typically considered a utility and have some extra privleges and restrictions, and they interfere with other public resources (like EM transmissions).
So should you legally be able to set up an induction loop or something on the edge of your property and draw power from it?
IMHO, yes. The power co knew what it was doing, and is free to attempt to purchase more right of way or not waste energy in such a way that it tresspasses onto my property. Unfortunately they tend to pass laws against this.
This makes sense _basically_ but not so much in the case of mp3s. It depends on where the line is drawn. Lichtenstein (sp) paintings are almost exact copies of other people's copywritten comic books. But you'd be stupid to sue over it. So at what point does an mp3 become an different work of art which is derived from some other work? The lawsuits over sampling are a good starting point, except that there's nothing wrong IMHO with sampling. Could you make a valid expressive point (irony perhaps) by including an exact duplicate of someone else's work along with your own? Maybe.
.ca's 'only if it's exact' law was not exactly the worst implementation you know.
Since copyright has no basis in natural rights or in reality it is very much a matter of interpretation.
Sounds like this is specific to .ca law. If you broadcast something then as a result of that anyone else can repeat the identical broadcast. Copyright does not apply. Don't like it? Don't broadcast. No one's making you.
;)
Sounds like a good idea to me (it's like FidonetTV. Store and forward
While I am an American, and therefore seen as a dork in the eyes of nearly everyone who isn't an American, let me offer my opinion.
.ca? If so then I will have to show some newfound respect to my neighbors to the north.
What iCrave is doing is legal. If you did it too, it would also be legal. But if you copied iCrave's data that would not be legal.
Because iCrave is not broadcasting. If you want their data you send a request (e.g. clicking on a particular link or using a client that when started puts in a request) to their servers. Then it gives you data by the barrowload. But it doesn't send you that data even if you don't ask somehow. (that would be more like getting pingflooded and would be interpreted as a DOS on every possible IP address - good luck)
So really, even if iCrave _wanted_ people to recopy their data it's not legal b/c you only get to ignore the copyright if you get it off of a broadcast.
Now answer me this: are homemade satellite descramblers legal in
There is only one purpose for using a gun, and you're right as to what it is.
The problem here is that you think that violence is never justified. I disagree.
The basic reason IMHO that Americans have such a fundemental right to firearms is so that if it becomes utterly, truely necessary, we can overthrow our government, which will pretty certainly require the use of force. Wish it didn't, but if things are that bad, they probably will.
This is how it's supposed to work. Because the government derives its power and right to exist from a single source: the people. And if we don't like it then that's that for the government.
If I lived under an utterly oppressive United States of America (there is some debate as to whether or not we actually do; I don't, but we're probably getting there slowly much like the frog in the pot), it would be my obligation as an American to overthrow it so that I can live freely. Is this bad? No. It's good. It is a good use of violence or the threat of violence. Do you disagree?
Frankly I'm always impressed that the Z80 is still in use.
;)
;)
It used to be popular all over - the Sinclair used a Z80. The Apples of course used the 6502, which was a knock-off of the significantly more expensive Motorola 6800.
There is an interesting theory about the Woz's decision to use the MOS chip. First some factual (as well as I can remember the stuff I read) background....
At about the time the Apple I was under development Steve Jobs had been working for Atari, even though he was - and honestly still is - a real nontechnical bozo. Steve started working on Breakout, that most challenging of Pong games, but had trouble. He recruited the Woz to secretly do Steve's work at Atari whilst still putting in full days at HP.
The Woz finished Breakout, but Nolan (head cheese at Atari) didn't know. Nolan did give Steve a big bonus for having an extremely tight board with very few IC's used. The bonus was ~$5000 and since Steve had had the offer of a bonus based on #of ICs not used, he had already offered to split it with the Woz.
Then Steve claimed that the bonus was off by an order of magnitude and gave the Woz ~$250. The Woz didn't know for a long time, though he probably could have landed a job at Atari if Nolan had known. Still, given how poor Atari management got around then it's best that Nolan didn't know.
At any rate, the theory is that if Steve hadn't cheated his friend, the Woz might have used a pricier but better-fated chip... like the Intel 8080. This could have had a massive impact on Apple's later work, which has always been dominated by Motorola chips. I'm not saying it would be best, but it might have made things more interesting.
Of course, Bender uses a 6502 and that's a thousand years from now, so you never know
One of these days I should ask the Woz about this. He's pretty approachable, but the idea's too awesome for me to deal with right now.
Well, unless you yourself are responsible for that 99%, or you witnessed it, that sounds like hearsay to this cat. While I agree that you're probably right about Napster being used illegally, I am a jillion times more concerned about keeping hearsay from being the basis of any legal action than I am about copyright violations.
Nevertheless, I think that it really sucks when the US spies on anyone save during wartime. In attempting to save the country from a real or imagined threat we are destroying the ideals which it is founded upon from the inside. 'United States of America' is just a name; it doesn't have any value. The reasons are much more worthy of protection than the particular incarnation.
I'm not saying that we have to be impotent, but it's unAmerican to do a lot of the stuff that the NSA, CIA, FBI and other three letter agencies have done.
I'm not worried. All we have to do is pit him against Bionic Ray Charles and we're saved! ;)
Unless you're actually under seige, in which case it's just common sense...
Suprisingly VAIO (which is not pronouncable in Japanese IIRC) does make a little sense.
The VA look kind of like a sine wave and can be taken to represent the analog.
IO could also be 10, which is binary, and represents the digitial.
So the VAIO logo is sort of supposed to indicate that the computer is both analog (really that it can accept analog, ie video/audio, which also works for VA) inputs.
At least that's my reading of it. But I'm still happier with a Mac.
Sounds like Star Trek to me.
I seem to recall that they actually did sell Novae in Spanish-speaking countries. And it did pretty well. Can anyone confirm this?
Naw, Bartleby didn't like anything.
I had always secretly hoped that it was named after the character from Battlestar Galactica (who probably also liked coffee, but would have called it something 'spacey')