That's still infringement, not stealing. Stealing involves taking something away from someone and depriving them of use of the thing you stole.
If you go into a variety store and take a chocolate bar, no one can use that chocolate bar. This is stealing.
If you make a copy of Photoshop and use the copy, you have violated the license and infringed on Adobe's copyright, but the original is still intact. This is infringement.
Neither of these acts are really moral, but in the second one the owner loses nothing but a potential buyer. Think of copyright infringement as similar to this situation: you see a friend's DVD player and think to yourself "Hey, that's a pretty good DVD player". You open it up, find out the parts you need, buy or make those parts, and put together an exact copy of your friend's DVD player (you also put your friend's player back together). If you wanted to copy Photoshop, you would buy a CDR or some HDD space and copy the parts (files) of Photoshop onto your own medium. The only difference in these two cases is that physical things are a lot harder to copy.
If it wasn't for libraries when I was younger, I probably wouldn't be buying any books today. Libraries are a bit like drug pushers, first few years are free but eventually you're going to want a book that is checked out by someone else and don't want to wait for it to come back. So you'll go and spend money buying it.
If it wasn't for libraries, very few people would learn to enjoy reading and the book industry would be screwed. The publishers should donate books to libraries to increase interest in their authors.
As a good example, I read a couple of books by Robert J. Sawyer from the library. I wouldn't have gone into a bookstore and bought them because I'd never heard of him before. I've since bought almost all of his books that are currently in print.
This law seems pretty fucked up. The people lose rights and have to pay a levy on CDRs on top of that. At least when Canada brought in levies for CDRs and CDRWs, we gained some rights. We can record music off the radio for personal use. We can also copy a friend's CD, give the original back to them, and keep the copy for personal use.
I'm in Ontario on Rogers cable. With most businesses, you expect service should improve. With Rogers, they raise the price and cut the speed in half. And because Sympatico isn't upgrading exchanges too quickly, there is no competition in many areas.
Considering the size of the place I live in (very small town), I should probably be happy anything more than dialup is available.
Too bad Sympatico seems to have stopped the "every exchange in Ontario and Quebec will be upgraded by the end of the year" plan. I expect DSL to come to my area at about the time frozen pigs fly in hell.
By the road, I'm 700 metres from the Bell building with all the phone equipment in it.
Don't worry, your unlimited cable in Canada is probably bringing in caps too. If your ISP was Rogers, they started off a little over a year ago by raising the price to $45/month. Then they decided to cut speeds in half. They also announced monthly caps around the same time (they have yet to be implemented) and their big DSL competitor Bell Sympatico has had caps for quite a while now.
I hope not (27 here too). Yeah, I had essay questions, and I always printed. For me it was faster than cursive and I don't recall significant discomfort
Teachers would threaten to take marks off if you printed on the next test. This was usually in English class. English teachers are pretty anal that way.
It doesn't matter that you didn't know that girl was only 15, you're going to jail for statutory rape. (You may have an out if she *said* she was 19, but that's acting in good faith, not ignorance).
Whew. Good thing the age of consent is 14 in my country.
I thought I was reading Fark for a moment there. Anytime an article is posted there with the ironic tag, people come out and say the article isn't ironic. Then others post the many definitions of irony and everyone argues about who's right.
Hmmm, not that much different from Slashdot. Never mind.
Exactly. I'm not sure how widespread this type of thing is, but in Ontario you can get quite a few different scratch-and-win (or lose) games. One of the most popular is Bingo. About half the ticket is the caller's card, the other half is 4 bingo cards. It's a great waste of time, takes about 5-15 minutes depending on how fast you scratch. Costs $3, minimum prize is $3, maximum prize is $50000.
The tickets seem to be designed to make a lot of "I just need one more number" rows and to not allow you to win until you get to the last few numbers. It's good clean fun and if there's a small chance of me winning $50000, that's just a nice bonus.
Guide info for radio? You know of any company that can get every radio station to give them their playlists? If you just meant for talk radio, that probably wouldn't be all that tough.
That depends on where you live. Last I checked in Ontario, we have 3 gas taxes. One is by volume, one is a percentage, and one is the GST (goods and services tax). The GST is added on as 7% of the price but it is added on after the other taxes are added. We end up taxing the tax.
Thankfully our dollar has risen in comparison to the US dollar and oil prices have dropped a bit so our price per litre is $0.60-$0.70 in my area.
cira rules would apply but this is a.com domain rather than a.ca domain. I'm not sure what kind of weird rules for.com would allow a company that doesn't have anything to do the name of the domain to take possession of it.
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That's still infringement, not stealing. Stealing involves taking something away from someone and depriving them of use of the thing you stole.
If you go into a variety store and take a chocolate bar, no one can use that chocolate bar. This is stealing.
If you make a copy of Photoshop and use the copy, you have violated the license and infringed on Adobe's copyright, but the original is still intact. This is infringement.
Neither of these acts are really moral, but in the second one the owner loses nothing but a potential buyer. Think of copyright infringement as similar to this situation: you see a friend's DVD player and think to yourself "Hey, that's a pretty good DVD player". You open it up, find out the parts you need, buy or make those parts, and put together an exact copy of your friend's DVD player (you also put your friend's player back together). If you wanted to copy Photoshop, you would buy a CDR or some HDD space and copy the parts (files) of Photoshop onto your own medium. The only difference in these two cases is that physical things are a lot harder to copy.
Its stealing. Plain and simple.
Not to be anal retentive or anything, but to be consistent, it's not stealing. It's copyright infringement. There is a difference.
If it wasn't for libraries when I was younger, I probably wouldn't be buying any books today. Libraries are a bit like drug pushers, first few years are free but eventually you're going to want a book that is checked out by someone else and don't want to wait for it to come back. So you'll go and spend money buying it.
If it wasn't for libraries, very few people would learn to enjoy reading and the book industry would be screwed. The publishers should donate books to libraries to increase interest in their authors.
As a good example, I read a couple of books by Robert J. Sawyer from the library. I wouldn't have gone into a bookstore and bought them because I'd never heard of him before. I've since bought almost all of his books that are currently in print.
UV sunglasses, pacemakers, velcro , and hundreds of other major scientific breaktrhoughs
Dammit, we all know that the Vulcans introduced velcro to earth. Enterprise taught me that. Anything else is revisionist propaganda.
This law seems pretty fucked up. The people lose rights and have to pay a levy on CDRs on top of that. At least when Canada brought in levies for CDRs and CDRWs, we gained some rights. We can record music off the radio for personal use. We can also copy a friend's CD, give the original back to them, and keep the copy for personal use.
If the soup in the container disolves it, you're either keeping the soup in there too long or you should look into how bad your cooking is.
I'm in Ontario on Rogers cable. With most businesses, you expect service should improve. With Rogers, they raise the price and cut the speed in half. And because Sympatico isn't upgrading exchanges too quickly, there is no competition in many areas.
Considering the size of the place I live in (very small town), I should probably be happy anything more than dialup is available.
Too bad Sympatico seems to have stopped the "every exchange in Ontario and Quebec will be upgraded by the end of the year" plan. I expect DSL to come to my area at about the time frozen pigs fly in hell.
By the road, I'm 700 metres from the Bell building with all the phone equipment in it.
That's the whole point. What if I don't care about SecureIM? Then I don't get the plugin and don't waste disk space and system resources.
Which, when you think about it, is kind of weird. The postal abbreviation is actually PQ.
pq.ca redirects to paidsurveysonline.com and "may be for sale". Damn squatters.
********.montreal.on.ca
.on? Where did you learn geography? Montreal is in Quebec so their domain would be montreal.qc.ca
Uh,
Good concept though and something used by most cities in Canada.
Don't worry, your unlimited cable in Canada is probably bringing in caps too. If your ISP was Rogers, they started off a little over a year ago by raising the price to $45/month. Then they decided to cut speeds in half. They also announced monthly caps around the same time (they have yet to be implemented) and their big DSL competitor Bell Sympatico has had caps for quite a while now.
I hope not (27 here too). Yeah, I had essay questions, and I always printed. For me it was faster than cursive and I don't recall significant discomfort
Teachers would threaten to take marks off if you printed on the next test. This was usually in English class. English teachers are pretty anal that way.
your signature has to be written in English text but that's the only restriction.
What if your name is a weird symbol like Prince had for a while?
It doesn't matter that you didn't know that girl was only 15, you're going to jail for statutory rape. (You may have an out if she *said* she was 19, but that's acting in good faith, not ignorance).
Whew. Good thing the age of consent is 14 in my country.
That statement was doubleplus ungood. Please do not resist when the Ministry of Love agents come. How do you feel about rats?
I thought I was reading Fark for a moment there. Anytime an article is posted there with the ironic tag, people come out and say the article isn't ironic. Then others post the many definitions of irony and everyone argues about who's right.
Hmmm, not that much different from Slashdot. Never mind.
Or, cheap entertainment
Exactly. I'm not sure how widespread this type of thing is, but in Ontario you can get quite a few different scratch-and-win (or lose) games. One of the most popular is Bingo. About half the ticket is the caller's card, the other half is 4 bingo cards. It's a great waste of time, takes about 5-15 minutes depending on how fast you scratch. Costs $3, minimum prize is $3, maximum prize is $50000.
The tickets seem to be designed to make a lot of "I just need one more number" rows and to not allow you to win until you get to the last few numbers. It's good clean fun and if there's a small chance of me winning $50000, that's just a nice bonus.
You can trap a monkey very easily with a jar and some peanuts...
Try it sometime, you'll finder it tougher than you think. Even if you manage to finally trap the monkey, you have to remember to put in airholes.
Poor monkey.
There is an Sg-1 mod for Elite Force. It's been a while since I've played it, but you might want to check it out.
Also, not to nitpick or anything, but it's goa'uld.
Guide info for radio? You know of any company that can get every radio station to give them their playlists? If you just meant for talk radio, that probably wouldn't be all that tough.
We're already amoung you. Hundreds of our entertainers await the word to...well, I'm not sure exactly what, but something! Be afraid.
That depends on where you live. Last I checked in Ontario, we have 3 gas taxes. One is by volume, one is a percentage, and one is the GST (goods and services tax). The GST is added on as 7% of the price but it is added on after the other taxes are added. We end up taxing the tax.
Thankfully our dollar has risen in comparison to the US dollar and oil prices have dropped a bit so our price per litre is $0.60-$0.70 in my area.
Oh great, Farkers have invaded. Save the kittens!
cira rules would apply but this is a .com domain rather than a .ca domain. I'm not sure what kind of weird rules for .com would allow a company that doesn't have anything to do the name of the domain to take possession of it.