Personnally I see no need to carry a human killing tool. I have no real desire to kill humans since I was spared the misery of the North American "educational" system. yes it is the man behind the gun that pulls the trigger (another insightful NRA self rationalization, on par with the household cold war of "I need a gun to protect myself from other people with guns") but the gun, being a tool for killing (where tool is defined as a thing which makes a task easier to perform) is in the end responsible for the deaths since even if I were to go ballistic It'd take me a hell of a long time to beat 13 (or so) people to death... My hands'd be sore too....
Americans should deal with the fact that their's is a country which isn't more than a bastion of conformity and paranoid over regulation when compared to the rest of the western world... From living in fear of being shot to caving in to paranoia and wanting to quash free speach that doesn't sit with american ideology... The US is not the champion of freedom it once was, but rather an over armed, over populated second rate nation who's citizens have difficulty finding their own country on a map. The anti american sentiment in Canada created by McCarthy is still alive and well and as such don't expect Canada to EVER cave in to America's lead (for lack of a better word) with regards to ruining the internet through regulation.
I've always laughed my arse off at how much trouble Americans have accepting that the internet isn't their's to regulate in the first place... At least here in Canada the gov't has proven that at least one person somewhere has actually double clicked a netscape icon before... But really, if they had tried to regulate it and if for whatever reason my site didn't conform, what's to stop me from moving it to Hong Kong by FTP? I'd like to see Jean Chretien (or any US official next time some paranoid right wing parliamentarien needs extra votes) trying to explain to The People's Liberation Army of China how they are gonna have to go about protecting the minds of North America's kids...
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ProgModMan? uhh.... ProgModPerson? hmmm... too wordy... CodeCranker? ReCoder? DeCoder?
It occurs to me that the world is full of dimwits as I read this... The moron that signed his name to a virus instead of telnetting through fifteen countries first:), the absolute know nothing that wrote this all-hype article, the people who use windows and expect to get away with it (does not the windows disclaimer itself say "This application may not be used in a situation where it's failure to function may cause harm or injury to any human...."... So, if someone was harmed, they are in breach of contract and if no one was harmed, what the hell is the problem?) and above all the FBI agent who thinks he's hot **it for figuring out that the virus digitally signed by Joe Smoe came from Joe Smoe (who'd have guessed)... I don't think I even want to touch on the subject of people stoopid enough to buy stocks because some page on AngelFire told them to... That one's beyond the pale, for chrissake, don't believe everything you read on the internet kiddies... Does this mean if I put up some kind of spoof/joke page I'm liable to get sued? The only real conclusion to be drawn from this facile article is that ISP's should make prospective customers pass IQ tests, mandating a minimum monkey-level intelligence before allowing people on the 'net.
As a basic "translated to" mechanism, quick time offers no real >end user< advantages over other playable formats other than the fact that it's not free which might appeal to you if you are a snob... The qt3 player is a royal pain in the arse that's so code bloated it may as well have been released by MicroSoft... All in all I can honestly say that releasing the source of the server but not the codecs sounds like something MicroSoft would do to show "support" for OSS. Anyway, I suppose Apple should make as many announcements as possible while they are still around.
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Personnally I see no need to carry a human killing tool. I have no real desire to kill humans since I was spared the misery of the North American "educational" system. yes it is the man behind the gun that pulls the trigger (another insightful NRA self rationalization, on par with the household cold war of "I need a gun to protect myself from other people with guns") but the gun, being a tool for killing (where tool is defined as a thing which makes a task easier to perform) is in the end responsible for the deaths since even if I were to go ballistic It'd take me a hell of a long time to beat 13 (or so) people to death... My hands'd be sore too....
Americans should deal with the fact that their's is a country which isn't more than a bastion of conformity and paranoid over regulation when compared to the rest of the western world... From living in fear of being shot to caving in to paranoia and wanting to quash free speach that doesn't sit with american ideology... The US is not the champion of freedom it once was, but rather an over armed, over populated second rate nation who's citizens have difficulty finding their own country on a map. The anti american sentiment in Canada created by McCarthy is still alive and well and as such don't expect Canada to EVER cave in to America's lead (for lack of a better word) with regards to ruining the internet through regulation.
I've always laughed my arse off at how much trouble Americans have accepting that the internet isn't their's to regulate in the first place... At least here in Canada the gov't has proven that at least one person somewhere has actually double clicked a netscape icon before... But really, if they had tried to regulate it and if for whatever reason my site didn't conform, what's to stop me from moving it to Hong Kong by FTP? I'd like to see Jean Chretien (or any US official next time some paranoid right wing parliamentarien needs extra votes) trying to explain to The People's Liberation Army of China how they are gonna have to go about protecting the minds of North America's kids...
ProgModMan? uhh.... ProgModPerson? hmmm... too wordy... CodeCranker? ReCoder? DeCoder?
It occurs to me that the world is full of dimwits as I read this... The moron that signed his name to a virus instead of telnetting through fifteen countries first :), the absolute know nothing that wrote this all-hype article, the people who use windows and expect to get away with it (does not the windows disclaimer itself say "This application may not be used in a situation where it's failure to function may cause harm or injury to any human...."... So, if someone was harmed, they are in breach of contract and if no one was harmed, what the hell is the problem?) and above all the FBI agent who thinks he's hot **it for figuring out that the virus digitally signed by Joe Smoe came from Joe Smoe (who'd have guessed)... I don't think I even want to touch on the subject of people stoopid enough to buy stocks because some page on AngelFire told them to... That one's beyond the pale, for chrissake, don't believe everything you read on the internet kiddies... Does this mean if I put up some kind of spoof/joke page I'm liable to get sued? The only real conclusion to be drawn from this facile article is that ISP's should make prospective customers pass IQ tests, mandating a minimum monkey-level intelligence before allowing people on the 'net.
As a basic "translated to" mechanism, quick time offers no real >end user< advantages over other playable formats other than the fact that it's not free which might appeal to you if you are a snob... The qt3 player is a royal pain in the arse that's so code bloated it may as well have been released by MicroSoft... All in all I can honestly say that releasing the source of the server but not the codecs sounds like something MicroSoft would do to show "support" for OSS. Anyway, I suppose Apple should make as many announcements as possible while they are still around.