You are not entitled to a job, a car, food on the table, or a movie in the DVD/Torrent player.
I take it they didn't have Sesame Street where you grew up, 'cause the rest of us can spot that One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others in less than a second.
...and my chosen career field is in very high demand.
Good on you, for making that happen.
If everyone would just man up and cause their chosen career fields to be in very high demand, we'd have this unemployment problem licked in no time, no socialism required. Lazy bastards and their unwanted skills...
The motion blur issue with games doesn't really have an equal, but to most people it looks subconsciously better with it enabled for reasons they can't explain.
It's 'cause there's motion blur IRL, unless you're under low-Hz lighting. Our retinas don't clear old image data faster than we can percieve new incoming data, so stuff tends to smear above a certain angular velocity.
When Obama starts looking the other way to the mobile raping vans to silence activist women and sends in the army to level neighborhoods of political undesireables, and we're all working at the new minimum wage of $4 an hour, I might be willing to entertain the idea that we're in the same boat as activists in Syria.
You want to wait until then to say something?
"When there's a giant breach in the hull and compartments start filling with water, and the ship starts nosing into the North Atlantic, I might be willing to entertain the idea that we're on the same boat as Leonardo DiCaprio."
Maybe shouting an iceberg warning when you see an iceberg isn't such a bad idea, even if you think your ship is unsinkable.
You do realize that it is conceivable that the last two combatants could kill each other or the survivor might not live long enough to issue a verdict?
Just replace "hung jury" with "exsanguinated jury."
The US is very proud of being a democracy, the corporations are ultimately responsible for their leaders actions.
You're welcome! Don't worry; I know it's tough, but we'll all learn to spell "corporations" correctly sooner or later, and that old spelling will be an archaic memory referenced only as "The P-Word."
I guess you didn't pass the section on the Constitution. "Freedom of Association" isn't mentioned there.
It's an inherent prerequisite for freedom of assembly. See NAACP v. Alabama.
You can argue "judicial activism" if you want, but you'd then also have to argue that assembly is somehow possible without association, which would be a neat trick...
They would be violations of school policy, not misdemeanors / felonies.
Well, that depends a lot on what they mean by "principals and other officials will inspect teachers' profiles."
If they just look at the profile, fine, whatever.
If they log in AS the profile, there's a problem: everyone on that teacher's friend list who has a non-public profile is now visible, and accessing their friends-only profile info under that circumstance is, potentially, a federal crime.
odd that a [paid?] performance by a cover band (or worse, a tribute band) isn't a violation, yet if they sold a copy of that recording it certainly would be.
Most places pay ASCAP fees or whatever, so you can play covers there without having to ask permission first. But that's because the performance license is already paid for, not because not because a license isn't required.
Some places don't pay ASCAP fees, and also don't allow covers. For Example.
Most places pay ASCAP fees or whatever, so you can play covers there without having to ask permission first. But that's because the performance license is already paid for, not because a license isn't required.
Natural selection trends towards adaptation to a particular environment and the other organisms in it.
Artificial selection trends towards adaptation to a particular collection of memes, which have undergone a parallel and not entirely natural selection of their own prior to their interaction with the genes in question. It's, like, an extra layer of weird, and sometimes results in organisms that can't survive without help.
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Rationalization at it finest. Damn it I'm ENTITLED to see the movie EVEN IF I can't afford it.
If you CAN do something, and If it doesn't hurt anyone to do it, what difference does it make whether or not you're entitled to do it? Yours isn't an argument against entitlement; it's an argument in favor of rent-seeking behavior and memetic control by force. "They didn't pay me, so they shouldn't be allowed access to our culture."
You are not entitled to a job, a car, food on the table, or a movie in the DVD/Torrent player.
I take it they didn't have Sesame Street where you grew up, 'cause the rest of us can spot that One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others in less than a second.
Good on you, for making that happen.
If everyone would just man up and cause their chosen career fields to be in very high demand, we'd have this unemployment problem licked in no time, no socialism required. Lazy bastards and their unwanted skills...
The motion blur issue with games doesn't really have an equal, but to most people it looks subconsciously better with it enabled for reasons they can't explain.
It's 'cause there's motion blur IRL, unless you're under low-Hz lighting. Our retinas don't clear old image data faster than we can percieve new incoming data, so stuff tends to smear above a certain angular velocity.
When Obama starts looking the other way to the mobile raping vans to silence activist women and sends in the army to level neighborhoods of political undesireables, and we're all working at the new minimum wage of $4 an hour, I might be willing to entertain the idea that we're in the same boat as activists in Syria.
You want to wait until then to say something?
"When there's a giant breach in the hull and compartments start filling with water, and the ship starts nosing into the North Atlantic, I might be willing to entertain the idea that we're on the same boat as Leonardo DiCaprio."
Maybe shouting an iceberg warning when you see an iceberg isn't such a bad idea, even if you think your ship is unsinkable.
You do realize that it is conceivable that the last two combatants could kill each other or the survivor might not live long enough to issue a verdict?
Just replace "hung jury" with "exsanguinated jury."
If the game itself hits the right notes, the players will come.
The "white note"?
Jainism?
But don't miss, there's a lot at stake.
The US is very proud of being a democracy, the corporations are ultimately responsible for their leaders actions.
You're welcome! Don't worry; I know it's tough, but we'll all learn to spell "corporations" correctly sooner or later, and that old spelling will be an archaic memory referenced only as "The P-Word."
I guess you didn't pass the section on the Constitution. "Freedom of Association" isn't mentioned there.
It's an inherent prerequisite for freedom of assembly. See NAACP v. Alabama.
You can argue "judicial activism" if you want, but you'd then also have to argue that assembly is somehow possible without association, which would be a neat trick...
They would be violations of school policy, not misdemeanors / felonies.
Well, that depends a lot on what they mean by "principals and other officials will inspect teachers' profiles."
If they just look at the profile, fine, whatever.
If they log in AS the profile, there's a problem: everyone on that teacher's friend list who has a non-public profile is now visible, and accessing their friends-only profile info under that circumstance is, potentially, a federal crime.
Yes, it does, really. They researched this. Humans are the only mammal with a glans shaped like ours, and in simulations it proved to be dramatically more effective at removing recently deposited semen than the glansless penii of other primates.
odd that a [paid?] performance by a cover band (or worse, a tribute band) isn't a violation, yet if they sold a copy of that recording it certainly would be.
Both are violations.
Most places pay ASCAP fees or whatever, so you can play covers there without having to ask permission first. But that's because the performance license is already paid for, not because not because a license isn't required.
Some places don't pay ASCAP fees, and also don't allow covers. For Example.
The case ancestor brought up is for a live performance of a song by a cover band, which is not a copyright violation.
Yes, it is.
Most places pay ASCAP fees or whatever, so you can play covers there without having to ask permission first. But that's because the performance license is already paid for, not because a license isn't required.
"Round up all the choir boys, we need to probe them to see if they've ever leaked."
Have you seen those Redguard lake-women? They lob curved swords.
Curved.
Swords.
Mod parent up. L4t3r4lu5, you might want to check to see if something's happened a bunch of times before saying it would never happen.
No matter where you set the bar, sooner or later the universe will deliver you a bigger asshat.
Just turn your head, you'll see what's coming up next.
That's highly subjective -- How do you define "consent" when it comes to animals without speech?
Ask someone who advocates bestiality.
All objects have gravity, but a puddle isn't a well.
Are you selling us an object that we own, or are you asking us to pay you for convenient access to a system that you own?
You can't have it both ways.
Natural selection trends towards adaptation to a particular environment and the other organisms in it.
Artificial selection trends towards adaptation to a particular collection of memes, which have undergone a parallel and not entirely natural selection of their own prior to their interaction with the genes in question. It's, like, an extra layer of weird, and sometimes results in organisms that can't survive without help.
Current theory holds that it took about 3 billion years to go from nucleic acids to complex multicellular organisms.
Yeah, but current theory also holds that nobody was trying to do that on purpose.
[cue Tennessee jokes]
If there's one thing I learned from Slashdot, it's that data cannot be stolen.
This is correct. However, private data can be illegally accessed.