Whenever you hear someone spout off about how freedom of speech is being suppressed, or how it's a fascist state, or how Bush = Hitler, ask yourself why that person isn't rotting behind bars or in an unmarked mass grave... and then ask yourself if it's just possible that that person might be full of shit and not worth your time and attention.
Or better yet, once you find yourself NOT surounded by all those people anymore... ask yourself if it's finally true.
The German regulation on "free speech" is essentially: it is forbidden to lie about the Holocaust, i.e., to deny the murder of millions of jews by the Nazis. In my view (and probably in the view of most Germans) this restriction is necessary in order to retain the memory of what happened and to prevent that it can happen again.
And in North Korea it's forbidden to tell the truth about the birthplace of thier leader. He was not born on top of a golden shining ranbow covered mountian under the watchful eyes of a two-headed goat that burps money.
The same laws that can preserve history can destroy it. Did the Holocaust REALLY happen for you if you are not allowed to entertain the possibility of other "truths", as wrong or right as they might be?
It's absolutely justified banning public statements like "All jews should be gased"
They SHOULD! Every day. Every couple of seconds even. With a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen gas. Or they'll die of asphixia.
Words are just words. They mean different things in different contexts. What're actually saying is that we should ban speech in those contexts where it's hateful. Screw speech, why not just ban hate itself? Wouldn't that make the world a better place?
1) If a used game is being sold for more than 75% the retail price, STOP, buy the game retail. 2) Ask the clerk how much the store would give you if you SOLD them a copy of that game. If the difference between that price and the used price is more than 50% of the retail price, STOP! Buy the game retail. 3) If the game isn't available retail, then it doesn't matter, buy it used.
Do these tests apply to video cards too? And to kitchen appliances? Are you "ripping off" NEC when you buy your office phones second hand from a folded dot-com?
He goes on to argue: "Buying used is equivalent to the game not selling at all in the eyes of developers and publishers, and when games don't sell, they don't get sequels and excellent concepts and, therefore, opportunities are lost."
He goes on to argue: "Buying books is equivalent to the game not selling at all in the eyes of developers and publishers, and when games don't sell, they don't get sequels and excellent concepts and, therefore, opportunities are lost."
Seriously, where is the complaint? You are buying something that they aren't selling... Uhhh, yeah, that's got to be stopped.
Me neither! I sighed up for phone service, a flat $40 a month, free 2 ounce phone (w/megapixel camera, mp3 player, web browser, etc. usual standard fare), can cancel anytime without penalty. It's great! What's everyone complaining and bitching about? Oh yeah, and also I live in Japan.
The cost of things that can't be measured monetarily is all too often assumed to be "ZERO", but that simply isn't true. Even freeware costs somebody something to make.
By the same token, people playing basket ball on the court at the park are giving "free" entertainment to anybody watching. Those people are "losing" millions of dollars that professional players would have otherwise made, so, even though they are having fun, they are actually paying quite a price... er, right?
This is because you don't see the big picture. Speeding just kills or injures a few people now and then. File sharing, however, prevents the very rich from continuing to become a lot richer, which is clearly a much more evil offense.
No no no, the very rich do in fact get even richer. The RIAA is making more money now dispite selling fewer albums. The TRUE evil is that it allows some control to leave the hands of the wealthy. Power, my friend, it's all about power.
"...ou passed a law to put tens of thousands of your own young people in prison for activities that few civilized people consider to be a crime."
No, civilized people recognize that work should be rewarded. P2P is all about getting something for nothing, which is barbarism.
You mean P2P is about getting nothing for nothing, right? After all, after the first pressing, it cost exactly nothing to create duplicates of the original. Assuming somebody bought the first CD, there's no problem, right? (after all, a chair-maker doesn't get to continuously profit from one single chair he created thirty years ago after he's already sold it).
It think you have your barbarians a little bit backwards.
Do you drive some simle, shoddy compact sedan, or a two hundred and fifty million dollar Moller flying car? Why did you pick the crappy one instead of the state of the art?
The next lesson you need to learn in business is that crappy stuff that works "well enough" is actually MORE valuable to most people than something extrodinary.
doubt that would be the case. Altough I do think it would be illegal to send them national secrets (Like info on how to build nukes).
Because god forbid any alien species capable of getting here across interstellar distances get the secret of how to smash two blocks of urainium together really really fast.
Maybe. But do you want to bet your future on your lawyer convincing a skeptical judge and jury that it was a technology problem? After all, they have evidence that the pictures were on your machine, under your control. I don't think I'd want to bet my future on that.
I always wondered about this. I'm sure I could write a perfectly good virus in a few days, maybe a week, that could infect the lawyers/judge/jury's computers and put the very same evidence I was being tried with onto thier machines. It seems to me, at that point, they withe rhave to let you off or else arrest the judge and jury.
"This is another flip-flop by state officials, based on shifting political winds, rather than considering what is best for the people of California," County Supervisor John Tavaglione said. "They're punishing us for using a system that has worked effectively and without error." Emphasis mine Well how would you know if there was an error if there is no physical evidence.
Duh, because the people who paid the most money to Diebold won, just like it's supposed to work.
As president I promise to transfer the funds of the entire US treasury to the employees and families (and investors) of the major e-voting companies in the country. I smell landslide.
If there is no dicernable difference between talking to a human and talking to a machine... then who is to say you haven't achieved the hard AI you are looking for? What does it matter if it is really "thinking" or just giving you canned responses so long as the answers are always and consistantly right?
Damn, if ONLY the Americans had known about the quad powerup behind the stairs to the left of the embassy, the Tet offensive could have ended up completely different. War is hell.
As to the question of why outsource? Well, if you are a CEO and you could reduce your development costs by 50%, you have an obligation to your shareholders to do so as long as the benefits outweigh the consequences.
By that logic, as long as the money you pay out in losing wrongful death suits is less than the money you make selling a remarkably dangerous/faulty product, then it's the duty of the CEO to place that product on the market regardless of the number of people that die.
How much money can you make selling child porn? As long as the money you make is worth more to the company than the jail-time that your employees who get caught suffer, then child-porn is a REQUIREMENT.
If you can make trillions holding the world hostage with bioweapons, then that is the absolutly best option that your biotech company can choose.
Sure it may take a thousand years to reach where you want to go, but if you are traveling at some signifigant fration of the speed of light, that thousand years may only take you, the traveler, a couple of months.
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at one point in the descent, the pilot completely lost attitude control.
Rutan: Holy shit, i'm in fucking space! Boooooyah! Whoop, whoop! Space spece, I'm in mother fucking outer fucking space!!!!
Control: What was that Rutan?
Rutan: Oops, sorry, lost control there for a sec.
On the other hand, focusing on women (maybe near naked) with oversized parts of the anatomy does turn women off.
Hey, my girlfriend is a 36E! She sees nothing wrong at all about playing characters that resemble her. You are all intolerant small-breastists!
Whenever you hear someone spout off about how freedom of speech is being suppressed, or how it's a fascist state, or how Bush = Hitler, ask yourself why that person isn't rotting behind bars or in an unmarked mass grave... and then ask yourself if it's just possible that that person might be full of shit and not worth your time and attention.
Or better yet, once you find yourself NOT surounded by all those people anymore... ask yourself if it's finally true.
I'm just saying, I hate them too, but hey if they work, they work.
I'm just saying, I hate mugging old ladies, but hey, if it works, it works. Same Logic.
The German regulation on "free speech" is essentially: it is forbidden to lie about the Holocaust, i.e., to deny the murder of millions of jews by the Nazis. In my view (and probably in the view of most Germans) this restriction is necessary in order to retain the memory of what happened and to prevent that it can happen again.
And in North Korea it's forbidden to tell the truth about the birthplace of thier leader. He was not born on top of a golden shining ranbow covered mountian under the watchful eyes of a two-headed goat that burps money.
The same laws that can preserve history can destroy it. Did the Holocaust REALLY happen for you if you are not allowed to entertain the possibility of other "truths", as wrong or right as they might be?
It's absolutely justified banning public statements like "All jews should be gased"
They SHOULD! Every day. Every couple of seconds even. With a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen gas. Or they'll die of asphixia.
Words are just words. They mean different things in different contexts. What're actually saying is that we should ban speech in those contexts where it's hateful. Screw speech, why not just ban hate itself? Wouldn't that make the world a better place?
1) If a used game is being sold for more than 75% the retail price, STOP, buy the game retail.
2) Ask the clerk how much the store would give you if you SOLD them a copy of that game. If the difference between that price and the used price is more than 50% of the retail price, STOP! Buy the game retail.
3) If the game isn't available retail, then it doesn't matter, buy it used.
Do these tests apply to video cards too? And to kitchen appliances? Are you "ripping off" NEC when you buy your office phones second hand from a folded dot-com?
He goes on to argue: "Buying used is equivalent to the game not selling at all in the eyes of developers and publishers, and when games don't sell, they don't get sequels and excellent concepts and, therefore, opportunities are lost."
He goes on to argue: "Buying books is equivalent to the game not selling at all in the eyes of developers and publishers, and when games don't sell, they don't get sequels and excellent concepts and, therefore, opportunities are lost."
Seriously, where is the complaint? You are buying something that they aren't selling... Uhhh, yeah, that's got to be stopped.
I don't understand what the problem is...
Me neither! I sighed up for phone service, a flat $40 a month, free 2 ounce phone (w/megapixel camera, mp3 player, web browser, etc. usual standard fare), can cancel anytime without penalty. It's great! What's everyone complaining and bitching about? Oh yeah, and also I live in Japan.
The cost of things that can't be measured monetarily is all too often assumed to be "ZERO", but that simply isn't true. Even freeware costs somebody something to make.
By the same token, people playing basket ball on the court at the park are giving "free" entertainment to anybody watching. Those people are "losing" millions of dollars that professional players would have otherwise made, so, even though they are having fun, they are actually paying quite a price... er, right?
"I broke into the state board of elections, completely changed the results, and erased all traces, and did it in five minutes."
I'm sure you did, Mr. President.
This is because you don't see the big picture. Speeding just kills or injures a few people now and then. File sharing, however, prevents the very rich from continuing to become a lot richer, which is clearly a much more evil offense.
No no no, the very rich do in fact get even richer. The RIAA is making more money now dispite selling fewer albums. The TRUE evil is that it allows some control to leave the hands of the wealthy. Power, my friend, it's all about power.
"...ou passed a law to put tens of thousands of your own young people in prison for activities that few civilized people consider to be a crime."
No, civilized people recognize that work should be rewarded. P2P is all about getting something for nothing, which is barbarism.
You mean P2P is about getting nothing for nothing, right? After all, after the first pressing, it cost exactly nothing to create duplicates of the original. Assuming somebody bought the first CD, there's no problem, right? (after all, a chair-maker doesn't get to continuously profit from one single chair he created thirty years ago after he's already sold it).
It think you have your barbarians a little bit backwards.
Do you drive some simle, shoddy compact sedan, or a two hundred and fifty million dollar Moller flying car? Why did you pick the crappy one instead of the state of the art?
The next lesson you need to learn in business is that crappy stuff that works "well enough" is actually MORE valuable to most people than something extrodinary.
doubt that would be the case. Altough I do think it would be illegal to send them national secrets (Like info on how to build nukes).
Because god forbid any alien species capable of getting here across interstellar distances get the secret of how to smash two blocks of urainium together really really fast.
Maybe. But do you want to bet your future on your lawyer convincing a skeptical judge and jury that it was a technology problem? After all, they have evidence that the pictures were on your machine, under your control. I don't think I'd want to bet my future on that.
I always wondered about this. I'm sure I could write a perfectly good virus in a few days, maybe a week, that could infect the lawyers/judge/jury's computers and put the very same evidence I was being tried with onto thier machines. It seems to me, at that point, they withe rhave to let you off or else arrest the judge and jury.
"This is another flip-flop by state officials, based on shifting political winds, rather than considering what is best for the people of California," County Supervisor John Tavaglione said. "They're punishing us for using a system that has worked effectively and without error." Emphasis mine
Well how would you know if there was an error if there is no physical evidence.
Duh, because the people who paid the most money to Diebold won, just like it's supposed to work.
As president I promise to transfer the funds of the entire US treasury to the employees and families (and investors) of the major e-voting companies in the country. I smell landslide.
what does blue taste like?
much more subtle than red.
If they wish, they can retain my services as a contractor after I leave.
Not in California. There are laws in place that dissallow a company from hiring employees as contractors until six months after they leave.
If there is no dicernable difference between talking to a human and talking to a machine... then who is to say you haven't achieved the hard AI you are looking for? What does it matter if it is really "thinking" or just giving you canned responses so long as the answers are always and consistantly right?
Damn, if ONLY the Americans had known about the quad powerup behind the stairs to the left of the embassy, the Tet offensive could have ended up completely different. War is hell.
As to the question of why outsource? Well, if you are a CEO and you could reduce your development costs by 50%, you have an obligation to your shareholders to do so as long as the benefits outweigh the consequences.
By that logic, as long as the money you pay out in losing wrongful death suits is less than the money you make selling a remarkably dangerous/faulty product, then it's the duty of the CEO to place that product on the market regardless of the number of people that die.
How much money can you make selling child porn? As long as the money you make is worth more to the company than the jail-time that your employees who get caught suffer, then child-porn is a REQUIREMENT.
If you can make trillions holding the world hostage with bioweapons, then that is the absolutly best option that your biotech company can choose.
Morality indeed.
Sure it may take a thousand years to reach where you want to go, but if you are traveling at some signifigant fration of the speed of light, that thousand years may only take you, the traveler, a couple of months.
Are you feeling up to writing the utility you need? No? Hmmmm, maybe that's where all the freeware went?