The 1980 Heavy Metal movie had legendary problems, too. Nobody thought to clear ahead of time VCR sales, cable TV rebroadcasts, and so on.
As for SNL, music in skits, like the musical guest, is a plum spot since it leads to sales for the musician. But being able to go watch it over and over any time for free on the Internet cuts into those sales.
So, live show and the rerun, Ok. Infinite reruns of just that skit or song, no.
Apple doesn't want me switching from my Android phone so they, alone among thousands of video-serving web sites, won't let me watch their exciting announcement.
If it isn't broken, don't fix it. XP isn't broken.
Also, we do embedded software in a liabiliy-touched arena. Now we have to requalify a whole new tool version/OS combo? Just because some ass wants us to pay another hundred dollers per workstation? Screw that.
How about we just pay the hundred ransom and keep the XP?
Wouldn't most hacking try to keep your connection working and remain unobtrusive?
A kid might wanna wreck your phone but most hacking would be to look for nudie shots or spy on you or coopt you into a botnet. All want to keep you running smoothly.
Also the router's firmware gets updated. Maybe they downgrade the power to make it last longer, while leaving it cranked up at the store to meet box specs?
Yup, those Blackberry guys are tools! Not cool at all like us with our iPhones, Androids, or my Windows phone. Right guys? We are all cooler than Blackberry, haha, I look down on you from my cool Windows phone, right guys? *We* are cool!
Isn't it fraud to charge somebody for a tax then not pay the money to the government? This is true whether they really owe 20% and pay 3% or owe 3% and lie to customers they need to collect 20%.
The rhetorical purpose is safety, but like any meme worth its salt, the real reason is to get you to think one thing but make you behave for a completely different reason.
In this case, the meme allows them to behave as highway robbers. If they cared about safety they'd use marked cars in plain sight, which would save a lot more lives by slowing everyone down.
It is stealing in the core, meaningful sense of the word. IP creates virual property for the exact same reason we have property rights: so the owner can, in a free society, take advantage of it without fear of someone just taking it like we were some hunter-gatherer society.
So, yes, you are right that it is not stealing a physical object, but it is stealing in the acual, meaningful sense of the word. You are violating the virtual property rights that were instantiated to provide the exact same benefits for the exact same reason as physical property rights.
I'm tired of this god damned semantic game about "it isn't stealing".
> "The problem is, corruption has reared its ugly head."
Reared? Corruption is why these projects are being done to begin with. Go read the sordid details of the Three Gorges Dam. "Useful Idiots" trumpeted it as a model of a government project while decrying its environmental impact. Meanwhile the officials pocketed billions, which was the acual point of the project all along.
Libertarians don't downmod liberal opinions. Liberals downmod libertarian ones.
Any libertarian can tell you it's because the liberal mindset has a lot more emotionql investment in their opinion, with a gut feeling that anyone who disagrees isn't just wrong, but deliberately evil.
Libertarians, on the other hand, just feel liberals (and everyone else, really) is just stupid so if you talk slowly enough, you'll force them to see the light.
There is no attempt by libertarians to apply social pariah status to opponents, unlike the liberal mind which has that heavily integrated into their memetic worldview.
I expect a liberal to be flexing their index finger to dowmod this post even though is says nothing that wasn't written 10 years besore Slashdot started.
But before you downmod, consider this: Theories that make predictions repeatedly are more likely to be correct. Prove me wrong via upmod.
In the book, IIRC, the bugs, unintelligent, only created brain bug caste types in special cases, when they had a problem, and in an evolutionary sense, the brain bug magically solved it.
See also the engineer caste from the Mote in God's Eye, which sat idly by applying it's genuis at the beck and call and instrction of the political caste. Or Atlas Shrugged, for that matter, which also pointed out engineers putting their society-driving intelligence to be subservient to the political class.
All wonderful sarcasms directed at engineers keeping the technologically nonsentient political class in charge.
According to the latest research, you'll kill off the normal gut fauna and it will be replaced by bizarre, dysfunctional combos which will give a different feedback into the brain via a particular specialized nerve, leading to stress amplification which leads to increased abdominal belly fat deposition which leads to increased heart disease and Type II diabetes.
Research is underway to restore the normal gut bacterial configuration. Wouldn't that be a pisser result from the wonders of antibiotics?
Anyway, looks like French officials are going to learn the hard way the way California ones did with electricity or any official does trying to control the price of oil.
Of course it can be done, the issue is just how much energy do you want to hemorrhage while doing it. You can't gain energy going both ways with gasoline.
In any case, I predct more scares down the road if this becomes industrialized -- we're toying with inducing an ice age due to too much CO2 removal.
Oh, and we're making it harder for plants to grow.
Oh, and shorelines are receding, drying up fishing stocks in shallows.
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Issue 47d: Peter Griffin: "...but after awhile the inside looked like a snow globe."
The 1980 Heavy Metal movie had legendary problems, too. Nobody thought to clear ahead of time VCR sales, cable TV rebroadcasts, and so on.
As for SNL, music in skits, like the musical guest, is a plum spot since it leads to sales for the musician. But being able to go watch it over and over any time for free on the Internet cuts into those sales.
So, live show and the rerun, Ok. Infinite reruns of just that skit or song, no.
Apple doesn't want me switching from my Android phone so they, alone among thousands of video-serving web sites, won't let me watch their exciting announcement.
If it isn't broken, don't fix it. XP isn't broken.
Also, we do embedded software in a liabiliy-touched arena. Now we have to requalify a whole new tool version/OS combo? Just because some ass wants us to pay another hundred dollers per workstation? Screw that.
How about we just pay the hundred ransom and keep the XP?
Wouldn't most hacking try to keep your connection working and remain unobtrusive?
A kid might wanna wreck your phone but most hacking would be to look for nudie shots or spy on you or coopt you into a botnet. All want to keep you running smoothly.
Also the router's firmware gets updated. Maybe they downgrade the power to make it last longer, while leaving it cranked up at the store to meet box specs?
Yup, those Blackberry guys are tools! Not cool at all like us with our iPhones, Androids, or my Windows phone. Right guys? We are all cooler than Blackberry, haha, I look down on you from my cool Windows phone, right guys? *We* are cool!
Isn't it fraud to charge somebody for a tax then not pay the money to the government? This is true whether they really owe 20% and pay 3% or owe 3% and lie to customers they need to collect 20%.
Yes, the space refueling robots can refuel each other, too. Haven't you ever played Total Annihilation????
Earthquakes are technological, not natural, disasters anyway. People die because buildings and bridges collapse.
The worst quake in the continental US was in Tennesee, not California. Those cities don't have much in the way of earthquake codes.
Gonna make for some riviting TV one of these decades. :(
The rhetorical purpose is safety, but like any meme worth its salt, the real reason is to get you to think one thing but make you behave for a completely different reason.
In this case, the meme allows them to behave as highway robbers. If they cared about safety they'd use marked cars in plain sight, which would save a lot more lives by slowing everyone down.
It is stealing in the core, meaningful sense of the word. IP creates virual property for the exact same reason we have property rights: so the owner can, in a free society, take advantage of it without fear of someone just taking it like we were some hunter-gatherer society.
So, yes, you are right that it is not stealing a physical object, but it is stealing in the acual, meaningful sense of the word. You are violating the virtual property rights that were instantiated to provide the exact same benefits for the exact same reason as physical property rights.
I'm tired of this god damned semantic game about "it isn't stealing".
I can't believe people are this ballsy. I suppose it shows how far behind the curve the government is.
OP says that company partnered wih the newspapers in question. I don't know why a hired gun for you would get stuffed by a court.
> "The problem is, corruption has reared its ugly head."
Reared? Corruption is why these projects are being done to begin with. Go read the sordid details of the Three Gorges Dam. "Useful Idiots" trumpeted it as a model of a government project while decrying its environmental impact. Meanwhile the officials pocketed billions, which was the acual point of the project all along.
> "CPU design, operating systems, compilers, applications, and formal methods."
Compiler comes before OS in that hierarchy.
Why yes. I do relish this. Why do you ask?
Libertarians don't downmod liberal opinions. Liberals downmod libertarian ones.
Any libertarian can tell you it's because the liberal mindset has a lot more emotionql investment in their opinion, with a gut feeling that anyone who disagrees isn't just wrong, but deliberately evil.
Libertarians, on the other hand, just feel liberals (and everyone else, really) is just stupid so if you talk slowly enough, you'll force them to see the light.
There is no attempt by libertarians to apply social pariah status to opponents, unlike the liberal mind which has that heavily integrated into their memetic worldview.
I expect a liberal to be flexing their index finger to dowmod this post even though is says nothing that wasn't written 10 years besore Slashdot started.
But before you downmod, consider this: Theories that make predictions repeatedly are more likely to be correct. Prove me wrong via upmod.
"Brazilian Newspapers Leave Google En Masse"
"What Brazilian Newspapers?"
"Exactly."
Somebody mod this +1: Cromulent quick!
In the book, IIRC, the bugs, unintelligent, only created brain bug caste types in special cases, when they had a problem, and in an evolutionary sense, the brain bug magically solved it.
See also the engineer caste from the Mote in God's Eye, which sat idly by applying it's genuis at the beck and call and instrction of the political caste. Or Atlas Shrugged, for that matter, which also pointed out engineers putting their society-driving intelligence to be subservient to the political class.
All wonderful sarcasms directed at engineers keeping the technologically nonsentient political class in charge.
"Cyberdyne"? Come on, someone's fuckin' with you.
Since when does Nintendo care if kids sit for twelve hours a day performing repetitive hand motions and rarely seeing fresh air or sunlight?
Their business model depends on it.
According to the latest research, you'll kill off the normal gut fauna and it will be replaced by bizarre, dysfunctional combos which will give a different feedback into the brain via a particular specialized nerve, leading to stress amplification which leads to increased abdominal belly fat deposition which leads to increased heart disease and Type II diabetes.
Research is underway to restore the normal gut bacterial configuration. Wouldn't that be a pisser result from the wonders of antibiotics?
Anyway, looks like French officials are going to learn the hard way the way California ones did with electricity or any official does trying to control the price of oil.
Of course it can be done, the issue is just how much energy do you want to hemorrhage while doing it. You can't gain energy going both ways with gasoline.
In any case, I predct more scares down the road if this becomes industrialized -- we're toying with inducing an ice age due to too much CO2 removal.
Oh, and we're making it harder for plants to grow.
Oh, and shorelines are receding, drying up fishing stocks in shallows.