I am pretty sure they are also drafted into the militia. Not the kind of run around in the woods and drink beer militia like we have in montana either.
Most countries have extrememly stringent gun ownership rights (except of course places like afghanistan, iran, israel etc where war in one form or another has been waging for centuries).
No matter how hard he or she tries no author can usurp your rights under the law. An author can not make your stand on one foot say "almighty god rules" fifty times and the author can not stop you from printing anything you want. You have the right to print it's fair use, it's the law. It does not matter what the author wants.
"but no more so than having rules against running the halls"
It's one thing to have rule against running in the halls it another to shackle everybody as soon as they enter the building because they *might* run in the hall.
Too late. The only people who need to acknowledge the law are a couple of judges. Then you are screwed. Well you are screwed anyways but that's another topic and a hazard of living in the good old U S of A.
Once again they would have to be pressured or bullied to comply. Just because they signed on to some treaty that does not mean anything. The US signed on to the ABM treaty and are developing a missle defence system anyway. Treaties are only enforcable if you are willing to declare war and kill people. So who is going to declare war on india, pakistan, israel, china or russia?
Much worse trust me. These guys get some serious brainwashing on the campus. They never leave the place for chrissake. At least the open source people are scattered across the globe and are living in the world.
It's not so bad. MS asked the govt to intervene on the AOL Time Warner deal. Ms has asked to government to intervene many times to cripple their opponents. MS like all corporations know that burdonsome regulations raise to competition. Nobody loves the govt like giant corporations.
1) Find a country which does not like the united states, is too big and powerful to simply blow away, is not easily bullied.
2)Place server there.
Here are some suggestions for you.
Isreal is not easily bullied ans a sacred cow no politician would dare even critisize them let alone attempt to nuke them. They might be pressured politicaly but they are stubborn as hell.
China would love to tweak the US and for all practical purposes are immune to anything kind of pressure that US or the corps can throw at them.
Most of south america has nothing to lose really.
India and Pakistan have to be dealt with lightly so they can easily host something like this.
Of course there is always russia they need money in a bad way.
Even some former republics like khazakstan have lots of oil and nukes (left over from russia) that we want to go away.
Maybe some arab countries like saudi arabia or egypt would be good candidates.
Maybe turkey or greece but they could be pressured politically. Both are pretty stradegic though.
Anyway you get the picture. Anybody can kill a dozen people and call it a day and corporations wouln't even flinch. Declaring war on China on the other hand would scare shit out of anybody.
A pansy is a idiot luser who can ot be bothered to learn how to use a program.
A pansy is a whiner who complains that the software someone worked his ass off to produce and then gave away sucks.
A pansy is someone who would rather bitch on slashdot then get off his butt and write documentation or test the freaking thing in the first place.
Why are you wating for someone else to do the testing? Is it too much to ask for for your pansy ass?
Screw mom and pop, they are idiots, they will eat whatever junk some corporation spoonfeeds them. They have zero awareness of the world around them, they don't give a flying donut about anything except their favorite TV show. The corps love them because they are so easily duped into paying money for useless junk wheather that's nose hair clippers or buggy software.
Let them lose their freedom they will enjoy having less choices, they will revel in knowledge that big brother is watching out for them. They will listen to talk radio and nod their heads mindlessly while consuming whatever junk is being peddled there.
The world needs stupid people and thank god there is an endless supply.
Ummm we were talking about GUIs remember. BTW SOAP is nothing but a simple extension of XML-RPC which is Dave Winers baby. I think MS must be regretting throwing it's weight behind SOAP either that or they will find a way to make it break on all other operating systems. My guess is that MS operating systems will wrap GUIDs in SOAP envelopes thereby assuring that no other operating system can act on the package.
And ms is always chasing apples taillights. That's the way it's allways been.
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The cato institute is a money laundering operation for the republican party. People get around campaign finance laws by contributing to these so called think tanks and then the think tanks funels the money to the political party or takes out independent ads. The donors stay private because the think tank is not required to publish the names of the donors.
I am not trying to single out the cato institute here all thinks tanks are formed for this purpose. The cato institute on the other hand is one of the biggest and most well funded which is no surprise considering the amount of millionaires and bilionaires who are also republicans.
What about the book then? I can let other people read the book, I can make copies, I can post quotes from it on slashdot.
Aside from that intellectual property is a myth. The word property does attach to thoughts. Because of this there are all kinds of convulted laws trying to protect something intangible and unprotectable.
In the past we used to feel superior to countries who would jail people for thinking and saying forbidden things now we have joined the ranks of of them.
Think about what MS is doing. They let you use a software which is not guaranteed to do anything, and for which they hold absolutely no liability. In exchange for getting this etheral substance you pay them a good chunk of money. If you do anything with this admittedly useless thing that is forbidden you get to go to jail. You don't own it, you can't do whatever you want with it, you pay your money, you give away your privacy and you still risk jail or bankrupcy.
The emperor has no clothes people.
Now would be good time to wake up.
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Lets see now..
The cato institute has an article by an avoved enemy of the environmentalists and democrats.
In this article there is the phrase "One survey shows they outnumber Democrats two-to-one.". No further attempt is made to identify the survey.
You then are convinced beyond any doubt that this fact is true despite coming from a biased author who works for a biased "think tank" AKA fund raising arm of the republican party. And despite the fact that the survey is not even mentioned by name.
blocking the smb ports would take away "features" as would blocking activeX objects and disabling VBS scripting. MS systems are insecure when used as intended in order to secure them you have to cripple them.
I am absolutely sure that if the best way was to use a "asymetric encryption via pgp/gpg or the host-key of ssh." then the debian guys will do it first.
He is competing. In business all is fair just ask MS. This is how businesses operate in this day and age no ethics, no morals, just profit and shareholder value. Just ask Firestone, Microsoft, Exxon, Nike etc.
"Happens all the time - when you buy something at the store, your paying for all the shoplifted items also; i.e., the cost of theft is spread over
and paid for by all the legit customers"
This has nothing to do with it. When I buy a book at barnes and noble I don't have to go home and call the publisher and give them my name and address before I can read the book. If I buy a donut at 7-11 I don't have to call the maker of the donut before I can eat the thing. If I bought a TV from target I don't have to call RCA beore I watch it. But If I buy MS office from best buy I have to register with MS and give them all kinds of personal information before I am allowed to use it.
I paid for it I ought to be able use it without getting permission from the manufacturer.
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I am pretty sure they are also drafted into the militia. Not the kind of run around in the woods and drink beer militia like we have in montana either.
Most countries have extrememly stringent gun ownership rights (except of course places like afghanistan, iran, israel etc where war in one form or another has been waging for centuries).
No matter how hard he or she tries no author can usurp your rights under the law. An author can not make your stand on one foot say "almighty god rules" fifty times and the author can not stop you from printing anything you want. You have the right to print it's fair use, it's the law. It does not matter what the author wants.
Now does not printing stop distribution? you could always copy the file and send it to a friend.
"but no more so than having rules against running the halls"
It's one thing to have rule against running in the halls it another to shackle everybody as soon as they enter the building because they *might* run in the hall.
Do you see the difference here?
Too late. The only people who need to acknowledge the law are a couple of judges. Then you are screwed. Well you are screwed anyways but that's another topic and a hazard of living in the good old U S of A.
Once again they would have to be pressured or bullied to comply. Just because they signed on to some treaty that does not mean anything. The US signed on to the ABM treaty and are developing a missle defence system anyway. Treaties are only enforcable if you are willing to declare war and kill people. So who is going to declare war on india, pakistan, israel, china or russia?
Much worse trust me. These guys get some serious brainwashing on the campus. They never leave the place for chrissake. At least the open source people are scattered across the globe and are living in the world.
Why not? who could stop them? They can do whatever they want they are the largest most powerful ornaization on the planet.
It's not so bad. MS asked the govt to intervene on the AOL Time Warner deal. Ms has asked to government to intervene many times to cripple their opponents. MS like all corporations know that burdonsome regulations raise to competition. Nobody loves the govt like giant corporations.
1) Find a country which does not like the united states, is too big and powerful to simply blow away, is not easily bullied.
2)Place server there.
Here are some suggestions for you.
Isreal is not easily bullied ans a sacred cow no politician would dare even critisize them let alone attempt to nuke them. They might be pressured politicaly but they are stubborn as hell.
China would love to tweak the US and for all practical purposes are immune to anything kind of pressure that US or the corps can throw at them.
Most of south america has nothing to lose really.
India and Pakistan have to be dealt with lightly so they can easily host something like this.
Of course there is always russia they need money in a bad way.
Even some former republics like khazakstan have lots of oil and nukes (left over from russia) that we want to go away.
Maybe some arab countries like saudi arabia or egypt would be good candidates.
Maybe turkey or greece but they could be pressured politically. Both are pretty stradegic though.
Anyway you get the picture. Anybody can kill a dozen people and call it a day and corporations wouln't even flinch. Declaring war on China on the other hand would scare shit out of anybody.
" Cry me a fucking river, you pansy"
A pansy is a idiot luser who can ot be bothered to learn how to use a program.
A pansy is a whiner who complains that the software someone worked his ass off to produce and then gave away sucks.
A pansy is someone who would rather bitch on slashdot then get off his butt and write documentation or test the freaking thing in the first place.
Why are you wating for someone else to do the testing? Is it too much to ask for for your pansy ass?
Screw mom and pop, they are idiots, they will eat whatever junk some corporation spoonfeeds them. They have zero awareness of the world around them, they don't give a flying donut about anything except their favorite TV show. The corps love them because they are so easily duped into paying money for useless junk wheather that's nose hair clippers or buggy software.
Let them lose their freedom they will enjoy having less choices, they will revel in knowledge that big brother is watching out for them. They will listen to talk radio and nod their heads mindlessly while consuming whatever junk is being peddled there.
The world needs stupid people and thank god there is an endless supply.
MS is already a religion. Ever talk to an ms employee?
I don't know about others but yes VNC is very promising. Now how to make anonymous users run simple apps safely over VNC..
Ummm we were talking about GUIs remember. BTW SOAP is nothing but a simple extension of XML-RPC which is Dave Winers baby. I think MS must be regretting throwing it's weight behind SOAP either that or they will find a way to make it break on all other operating systems. My guess is that MS operating systems will wrap GUIDs in SOAP envelopes thereby assuring that no other operating system can act on the package.
I agree more should be done to make X lighter weight so that it could be more usable over the net. It would give unix a leg up on anything .NET.
And ms is always chasing apples taillights. That's the way it's allways been.
The cato institute is a money laundering operation for the republican party. People get around campaign finance laws by contributing to these so called think tanks and then the think tanks funels the money to the political party or takes out independent ads. The donors stay private because the think tank is not required to publish the names of the donors.
I am not trying to single out the cato institute here all thinks tanks are formed for this purpose. The cato institute on the other hand is one of the biggest and most well funded which is no surprise considering the amount of millionaires and bilionaires who are also republicans.
What about the book then? I can let other people read the book, I can make copies, I can post quotes from it on slashdot.
Aside from that intellectual property is a myth. The word property does attach to thoughts. Because of this there are all kinds of convulted laws trying to protect something intangible and unprotectable.
In the past we used to feel superior to countries who would jail people for thinking and saying forbidden things now we have joined the ranks of of them.
Think about what MS is doing. They let you use a software which is not guaranteed to do anything, and for which they hold absolutely no liability. In exchange for getting this etheral substance you pay them a good chunk of money. If you do anything with this admittedly useless thing that is forbidden you get to go to jail. You don't own it, you can't do whatever you want with it, you pay your money, you give away your privacy and you still risk jail or bankrupcy.
The emperor has no clothes people.
Now would be good time to wake up.
Lets see now..
The cato institute has an article by an avoved enemy of the environmentalists and democrats.
In this article there is the phrase "One survey shows they outnumber Democrats two-to-one.". No further attempt is made to identify the survey.
You then are convinced beyond any doubt that this fact is true despite coming from a biased author who works for a biased "think tank" AKA fund raising arm of the republican party. And despite the fact that the survey is not even mentioned by name.
Are all republicans as gullable as you?
blocking the smb ports would take away "features" as would blocking activeX objects and disabling VBS scripting. MS systems are insecure when used as intended in order to secure them you have to cripple them.
I am absolutely sure that if the best way was to use a "asymetric encryption via pgp/gpg or the host-key of ssh." then the debian guys will do it first.
Debian is a very nice quality distro. So is caldera BTW.
He is competing. In business all is fair just ask MS. This is how businesses operate in this day and age no ethics, no morals, just profit and shareholder value. Just ask Firestone, Microsoft, Exxon, Nike etc.
"Happens all the time - when you buy something at the store, your paying for all the shoplifted items also; i.e., the cost of theft is spread over
and paid for by all the legit customers"
This has nothing to do with it. When I buy a book at barnes and noble I don't have to go home and call the publisher and give them my name and address before I can read the book. If I buy a donut at 7-11 I don't have to call the maker of the donut before I can eat the thing. If I bought a TV from target I don't have to call RCA beore I watch it. But If I buy MS office from best buy I have to register with MS and give them all kinds of personal information before I am allowed to use it.
I paid for it I ought to be able use it without getting permission from the manufacturer.
Yes because it's only moral and right that you should have to get permission to use something you paid for.