Google currently has the edge on web searches and several other handy apps. Given that, exactly what "sleezy" tactics do you think MS has in their bag of tricks that can overcome a losing market share?
MS has typically been able to leverage their massive power against smaller, up-and-coming competetors. This situation is very different.
I'd like to hire you. I'm willing to pay you NOTHING, because you tell me that people do much better work when they have no financial incentive to do so. Too bad you posted AC: you're missing out on a lot of great opportunities!
Without copyright laws and patents, society would be forcing inventors and artists to work for nothing.
Now there is certainly room to debate the scope and duration of copyrights/patents, but they are still necessary to protect the livelihoods of artitsts/inventors from people who feel entitled to the fruits of others' labor.
"Can a dissolved entity be reconstituted (and money taken back from investors) if that company is later found liable for something?"
The whole point of LLC is to protect investors from the illegal actions (and consequences thereof) of the companies in which they invest.
Let's take everyone's favorite whipping boy Enron for example. Imagine the outrage/chaos if every Enron investor became criminally/financially liable for the illegal actions of the company? If that were the case, NOBODY would want to invest, and our economy would be nonexistant.
Apparently you've never truly experienced the full guile or brutality of a skilled Goatse troll! The skill of an accomplished Goatse troll is measured by how many people they've gotten fired.
The problem with the locallized school board system is that all it has become is yet another taxing authority.
Here in Pennsylvania, we have 67 counties, and within them 501 school districts. IIRC, Pennsylvania also has the largest number of individual boroughs/townships per mile of any other state. What that tells me is that we have an enormous amount of unnecessary and redundant beaurocracy and taxation.
What needs to happen is consolidate many of these boroughs, and haul the school system up to the county level. You'd still have the local representation, but sooo much less tax overlap.
I know I've sorta drifted offtopic here, but my point is that you can end the current stranglehold that school boards have on taxpayers, while preserving the local community.
"Why should I not be able to access a government website because I use Firefox."
Certainly that's poor design, but I don't that would pass the legal definition of "inaccessible". Now if isn't compliant with Section 508 of the Americans With Disabilities Act, feel free to file suit.
"No government documents should ever be in a proprietary format."
So you object to the government publishing documents in.PDF format, even though the Acrobat Reader is free? By the way, Microsoft has a free Word document reader (last I checked) as well. Your objection seems to be more ideological than practical.
"There are mass extinctions going on. Maybe they are just thinkers on the wrong side of politics."
There have always been "mass extinctions" going on. Maybe they are just bitter because Katrina sucked their donation base dry.
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It's about wealth redistribution: the GGP poster apparently resents the fact that Meier is wealthy, and feels that he hasn't been generous enough.
When people dictate to others how generous they should be, it always reminds me of socialists who would compel Meier to fork over his fortune through taxation.
OK, so maybe calling him a socialist was a stretch, but I have a huge problem with people who want to dictate the generosity of others.
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"Surely, after all the massive hits he's made and the piles of money he sleeps on, he can afford to be a little gracious towards an open source game project."
Ahh, spoken like a true Socialist!
'I say he's made enough money, and I think he should be compel^H^H^H^H^H^H happy to give back to the people who played his games!'
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt.45 and a.38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
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Google currently has the edge on web searches and several other handy apps. Given that, exactly what "sleezy" tactics do you think MS has in their bag of tricks that can overcome a losing market share?
MS has typically been able to leverage their massive power against smaller, up-and-coming competetors. This situation is very different.
Burn a copy of the original CD and just use the burned copy when you're playing the game. That's (still) allowed under fair use.
I suspect, however, that this isn't your REAL gripe with copy protection...
I'd like to hire you. I'm willing to pay you NOTHING, because you tell me that people do much better work when they have no financial incentive to do so. Too bad you posted AC: you're missing out on a lot of great opportunities!
"Deaths from MMORPG overload is a real issue affecting real people."
Won't somebody think of the CHILDREN!?!
"Intellectual property" is the invention of greedy racist capitalist oligarchs bent on finding new ways to screw honest people out of their money.
I wonder if they have a patent on it...
Without copyright laws and patents, society would be forcing inventors and artists to work for nothing.
Now there is certainly room to debate the scope and duration of copyrights/patents, but they are still necessary to protect the livelihoods of artitsts/inventors from people who feel entitled to the fruits of others' labor.
"Can a dissolved entity be reconstituted (and money taken back from investors) if that company is later found liable for something?"
The whole point of LLC is to protect investors from the illegal actions (and consequences thereof) of the companies in which they invest.
Let's take everyone's favorite whipping boy Enron for example. Imagine the outrage/chaos if every Enron investor became criminally/financially liable for the illegal actions of the company? If that were the case, NOBODY would want to invest, and our economy would be nonexistant.
One project respects the wishes of copyright owners. The other doesn't give the copyright owners much consideration.
Guess which project the majority of Slashdotters supports?
Apparently you've never truly experienced the full guile or brutality of a skilled Goatse troll! The skill of an accomplished Goatse troll is measured by how many people they've gotten fired.
That's funny, I work for the Navy, and all of our correspondence to Commanders has "CDR" in front of their names.
Are you going to suggest that the entire Supply Corps is doing it wrong?
However the correct abbreviation of Commander is "CDR", not "CMDR".
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Mr. Taco, if you wish to continue the matter with the Blizzard GMs, here's your ammo
I somehow managed to keep a Troll named "Goatse" off of the Everquest GMs' radar.
Abolishing the property tax entirely, and replacing it with an equitable income tax, would solve your problem.
Of course, tithes are charity and can't be considered taxable income.
The problem with the locallized school board system is that all it has become is yet another taxing authority.
Here in Pennsylvania, we have 67 counties, and within them 501 school districts. IIRC, Pennsylvania also has the largest number of individual boroughs/townships per mile of any other state. What that tells me is that we have an enormous amount of unnecessary and redundant beaurocracy and taxation.
What needs to happen is consolidate many of these boroughs, and haul the school system up to the county level. You'd still have the local representation, but sooo much less tax overlap.
I know I've sorta drifted offtopic here, but my point is that you can end the current stranglehold that school boards have on taxpayers, while preserving the local community.
Fine. What does that have to do with the Iraq war? What does that have to do with Microsoft?
By the way, I'm not a Republican. You just assumed I am because I find your ramblings tiresome and offtopic.
We get it; you hate Bush. I'm no fan of him either. But what does he have to do with this issue??
Please stop hijacking these threads with offtopic rants.
Wow. Just wow. In two sentences, you asserted:
1. Worldwide distrust of U.S.
2. The Iraq war.
3. The "Coalition of the Billing"
4. Monopolies are teh suck.
5. Microsoft is teh suck.
Were you planning on addressing the topic at hand? Did you forget to take your Adderall?
Because the word "piracy" gets the Slashbot faithful worked up into a foamier lather. I'm surprised it didn't read "theft".
"Why should I not be able to access a government website because I use Firefox."
.PDF format, even though the Acrobat Reader is free? By the way, Microsoft has a free Word document reader (last I checked) as well. Your objection seems to be more ideological than practical.
Certainly that's poor design, but I don't that would pass the legal definition of "inaccessible". Now if isn't compliant with Section 508 of the Americans With Disabilities Act, feel free to file suit.
"No government documents should ever be in a proprietary format."
So you object to the government publishing documents in
If the system does what it's supposed to do, with an appropriate cost to taxpayers, what's the problem?
"There are mass extinctions going on. Maybe they are just thinkers on the wrong side of politics."
There have always been "mass extinctions" going on. Maybe they are just bitter because Katrina sucked their donation base dry.
It's about wealth redistribution: the GGP poster apparently resents the fact that Meier is wealthy, and feels that he hasn't been generous enough.
When people dictate to others how generous they should be, it always reminds me of socialists who would compel Meier to fork over his fortune through taxation.
OK, so maybe calling him a socialist was a stretch, but I have a huge problem with people who want to dictate the generosity of others.
"Surely, after all the massive hits he's made and the piles of money he sleeps on, he can afford to be a little gracious towards an open source game project."
Ahh, spoken like a true Socialist!
'I say he's made enough money, and I think he should be compel^H^H^H^H^H^H happy to give back to the people who played his games!'
I thought information wanted to be free.
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.