You can have open source DRM Yes, sure, you can have open source anything. The point still is: Free-as-in-speech is the opposite of "rights management". One tries to prevent you from doing what you want with it, the other goes out of its way to make it easy for you to do what you want with it.
With that, Clinton may have been given the room to offer a technically "true" denial to the question of whether he had sex with Lewinsky--even if she happened to perform fellatio on him. The truncated definition characterizes sex in terms of a checklist of body parts, including the genitals, breast and thigh. Oral sex would not necessarily require the President to touch anything on Lewinsky that appears on that list. Strange as it may sound, under one reading of the definition, Lewinsky could have been having sex with him (because she was "touching" the President's genitals) while at the same moment, he was not having sex with her. (At the deposition, Clinton wasn't asked if she had sexual relations with him, just if he had them with her.) Isn't the law a wonderfully intricate device?
I realize many of you would consider him a god around here, but nonetheless his arrival was like this.
He arrived around 4am (note that by this time there was a considerable line) before the Apple store opened, and said "I'm Steve Wozniak, and I'm going to be first in line and buy 8 iPhones." What a dick [...] While he was in line, a 50something year old woman with a macbook tried to enter the store prior to the doors opening, as she was having battery trouble with it. Woz then proceeded to help her troubleshoot her battery issues. When she walked away I asked her, "Do you know who that is?" She responded "No." I told her, "He co-founded Apple..." She smiled, said "Oh, that's nice," and headed home to try again to fix her laptop with Woz's tips. 1- Gods don't stand at the back of the line, they lead their people;-) 2- Had he been in the back of the line, that little old lady would not have had help with her laptop from a bonifide Geek God of macs. She especially wouldn't have much luck getting the attention of the mac geniuses in an iPhone stampede. By using his geek god status, he was where and when he needed to be to help the meek. It's a miracle!
If you don't think DRM "makes sense", why on earth have you bought so much DRM-d content and so little DRM-free content? Because, on earth, that's the only options you have been offered.
I don't think the Open Source Movement has much contribute to the fight against DRM. Existing as the antithesis of DRM is the biggest contribution imaginable. They don't fight DRM, they make the alternative.
Sex was defined as vaginal intercourse, so blowjobs didn't count.
Clinton did not say "I did not have sex with that woman". He said "I did not have sexual relations with that woman". Since when is a blowjob not something sexual? Since it's defined in trial as vaginal intercourse. Are you dense?
If you consider him an enemy, you should analyze his strengths as much as his weakneses. Lawful evil, impervious to rational arguments, gains power from other people's tragedies, +1 against freedom.
The reason being that he technically did not perjure himself. Yes, there was a "lie of omission", but that is not perjury.
Doesn't the oath say "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?". I'd say the second bit covers omissions. Sex was defined as vaginal intercourse, so blowjobs didn't count.
Civil War could have been a chance to have some real commentary on modern issues, but it quickly devolved into just a chance for people to fight each other. There was no real discussion, no real logic And I, for one, am shocked. SHOCKED that a comic book would devolve from it's original intent of rational discussion to a long fight scene. For shame! What has the world become, I ask. What indeed!
Two of Japan's civilian cities were utterly vaporized. I've been there, they weren't vaporized. Severely blown up, 300 000 dead, but I met a survivor (really nice guy), I have pictures of the A-Bomb Dome, I touched a scorched tree. They weren't vapors.
Learn your lesson already: Buyer beware. Read the product requirements carefully and don't expect one product listed to mean that products with similar but technically different names are implied. Especially if, as you say, it's written elsewhere that it's not supported. Duh.
I was watching a show where some biologists were in a helicopter, shooting grizzly bears with darts, and then tagging them to track them, and also drawing samples from them.
I realized that that bear would have what we would essentially describe as an abduction experience. The bear was just minding its own business, when a strange vehicle in the sky with humanoids appeared. Suddenly, it felt a pain in its rear, and everything seemed fuzzy and dreamlike. Then the humanoids performed a weird surgery on it, drawing blood and other tissue, and implanting a small device in it. When it woke up, it's memory was incomplete.
And what was the ultimate purpose of the humanoids? They wanted to see how it reproduced! Just like what those abduction people claim aliens are interested in us about. Performing weird experiments on our genitals, taking samples, and implanting small objects. I have the same thoughts when I watch those documentaries. And then I was watching one about the breeding programs of zoos. That one was talking proudly about the advances in artificial insemination, especially the new, humane and very entertaining method of gathering sperm from captive gorillas: They show them human porn, which the gorillas enjoy, surprisingly, and then a cute intern comes along and offers them a hand job. They were saying how much better this technique was than the traditional gorilla sperm collection technique: 6 or 8 big guys with an anal probe they use for electrical stimulation of the prostate, which induces ejaculation.
And I thought "Ah, that's what anal probes are for, to get sperm from an unconscious subject. That explains a lot."
Neither Japan nor Germany devolved into such an all out state of unrest and civil war in the times they were occupied after war. Occupation of a country and installation of a new government are common things after armed conflicts. A population that would rather kill their countrymen than build a nation with them is not. 1- Saddam emptied all the prisons back when Powell was waving a salt shaker at the UN. Think about that. 2- It's not a population and their countrymen, Iraq is a frankensteinian nation coalesced from at least 3 conflicting parties. 3- Germany was split in two, with a big wall in the middle. 4- Japan was united in their disbelief that they had been invaded for the first time in history. 5- And Japan and Germany were exhausted from a long, terrible conflict. Not shocked and awed.
Are you honestly claiming that "Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" isn't being sold as a particular version of "Windows XP Professsional"? I'm actually saying that when you're reading a particular product's requirements you should make sure that the actual product name is actually listed. Yes, but your argument only holds water if "Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" can't reasonably be considered a version of "Windows XP Professsional".
MS's naming/marketing clearly implies that it *is* being sold as such (regardless of the actual underpinnings), so it's disingenuous to suggest that Apple Yes, it IS disingenuous to blame Apple for Microsoft's convoluted OS marketing schemes. Shame on you.
Elephants and dolphins might be as smart as we are, but without appendages to manipulate objects Seriously? You picked ELEPHANTS are your example of a species without a manipulative appendage?
If your eyes are below your nose, for example, then your breathing passage has to go down past the eyes, while your optic nerve has to wend around the breathing passage. This is obviously doable, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are some species that work this way It's called a blowhole. Dolphins and whales have them.
This requires appendages with fine enough motor control to manipulate small objects in a precise manner, which pretty much rules out any sea creature: Sea creatures need flattened, webbed appendages in order to swim, and those wouldn't be very good at fine manipulation. Octopuses are more agile than us, can manipulate fine objects with great dexterity, and can shift their shape when they want to swim.
Likewise most human being flying on space shuttle or commercial aircraft could not pilot the craft to literally save their life. To be an astronaut you need to be an airforce pilot. The one time they brought someone up that couldn't fly the shuttle, it exploded during takeoff.
gets people motivated to find some "get up and go" that hasn't already got up and gone, then I don't care if it's real, fake or purple. If it achieves for society what society won't achieve for itself, then by all means declare it true. All your points were excellent, but when I get to this last part, I feel uneasy. It sounds so much like what must be going through someone's mind while they're preparing a motivation for war. "Are there really WMDs, an imminent threat? Don't care, as long as it gets people motivated!"
When you apply it to space exploration, it sounds noble, but when you apply it to more mundane concerns, it's downright creepy.
90% of those deaths are from Iraqi on Iraqi violence and not from American action. Yes, I've been there, and i know what I'm talking about. "I didn't hurt those people! It was the wasps from that nest I threw rocks at! Stop blaming me for the consequences of my actions!"
Are you honestly claiming that "Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" isn't being sold as a particular version of "Windows XP Professsional"? I'm actually saying that when you're reading a particular product's requirements you should make sure that the actual product name is actually listed.
"1- It has been sabotaged at every turn, it's failures are engineered, not due to an inherent flaw."
OK, some of the socialist leaders may have been thrown out of militarilly but look at how many have stayed in power and yet their countries still do not prosper. Vietnam, every country in eastern europe, china, russia, cuba [...] The fact that Cuba is right below the US on that list should speak more to the problems with the US healthcare system, not to how wonderful the cuban economy is(*). You even point out that the Cuban economic system doesnt have much going for it. Right, a 49 year embargo doesn't count as economic sabotage to you. You know, your grasp of reality seems... slippery.
* I said nothing of the sort. You even point out I pointed that out.
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One tries to prevent you from doing what you want with it, the other goes out of its way to make it easy for you to do what you want with it.
With that, Clinton may have been given the room to offer a technically "true" denial to the question of whether he had sex with Lewinsky--even if she happened to perform fellatio on him. The truncated definition characterizes sex in terms of a checklist of body parts, including the genitals, breast and thigh. Oral sex would not necessarily require the President to touch anything on Lewinsky that appears on that list. Strange as it may sound, under one reading of the definition, Lewinsky could have been having sex with him (because she was "touching" the President's genitals) while at the same moment, he was not having sex with her. (At the deposition, Clinton wasn't asked if she had sexual relations with him, just if he had them with her.) Isn't the law a wonderfully intricate device?
You're not just dense, you're a fucking idiot.
He arrived around 4am (note that by this time there was a considerable line) before the Apple store opened, and said "I'm Steve Wozniak, and I'm going to be first in line and buy 8 iPhones." What a dick
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While he was in line, a 50something year old woman with a macbook tried to enter the store prior to the doors opening, as she was having battery trouble with it. Woz then proceeded to help her troubleshoot her battery issues. When she walked away I asked her, "Do you know who that is?" She responded "No." I told her, "He co-founded Apple..." She smiled, said "Oh, that's nice," and headed home to try again to fix her laptop with Woz's tips. 1- Gods don't stand at the back of the line, they lead their people
2- Had he been in the back of the line, that little old lady would not have had help with her laptop from a bonifide Geek God of macs.
She especially wouldn't have much luck getting the attention of the mac geniuses in an iPhone stampede. By using his geek god status, he was where and when he needed to be to help the meek. It's a miracle!
They don't fight DRM, they make the alternative.
Clinton did not say "I did not have sex with that woman".
He said "I did not have sexual relations with that woman".
Since when is a blowjob not something sexual? Since it's defined in trial as vaginal intercourse. Are you dense?
That's lawyer logic for you.
For shame! What has the world become, I ask. What indeed!
And... civilian cities? Is there any other kind??
Learn your lesson already: Buyer beware. Read the product requirements carefully and don't expect one product listed to mean that products with similar but technically different names are implied.
Especially if, as you say, it's written elsewhere that it's not supported. Duh.
I realized that that bear would have what we would essentially describe as an abduction experience. The bear was just minding its own business, when a strange vehicle in the sky with humanoids appeared. Suddenly, it felt a pain in its rear, and everything seemed fuzzy and dreamlike. Then the humanoids performed a weird surgery on it, drawing blood and other tissue, and implanting a small device in it. When it woke up, it's memory was incomplete.
And what was the ultimate purpose of the humanoids? They wanted to see how it reproduced! Just like what those abduction people claim aliens are interested in us about. Performing weird experiments on our genitals, taking samples, and implanting small objects. I have the same thoughts when I watch those documentaries.
And then I was watching one about the breeding programs of zoos. That one was talking proudly about the advances in artificial insemination, especially the new, humane and very entertaining method of gathering sperm from captive gorillas: They show them human porn, which the gorillas enjoy, surprisingly, and then a cute intern comes along and offers them a hand job.
They were saying how much better this technique was than the traditional gorilla sperm collection technique: 6 or 8 big guys with an anal probe they use for electrical stimulation of the prostate, which induces ejaculation.
And I thought "Ah, that's what anal probes are for, to get sperm from an unconscious subject. That explains a lot."
2- It's not a population and their countrymen, Iraq is a frankensteinian nation coalesced from at least 3 conflicting parties.
3- Germany was split in two, with a big wall in the middle.
4- Japan was united in their disbelief that they had been invaded for the first time in history.
5- And Japan and Germany were exhausted from a long, terrible conflict. Not shocked and awed.
MS's naming/marketing clearly implies that it *is* being sold as such (regardless of the actual underpinnings), so it's disingenuous to suggest that Apple Yes, it IS disingenuous to blame Apple for Microsoft's convoluted OS marketing schemes. Shame on you.
Someone get that man some coffee! Stat!
aircraft could not pilot the craft to literally save their life. To be an astronaut you need to be an airforce pilot.
The one time they brought someone up that couldn't fly the shuttle, it exploded during takeoff.
"Are there really WMDs, an imminent threat? Don't care, as long as it gets people motivated!"
When you apply it to space exploration, it sounds noble, but when you apply it to more mundane concerns, it's downright creepy.
Yes, I've been there, and i know what I'm talking about. "I didn't hurt those people! It was the wasps from that nest I threw rocks at! Stop blaming me for the consequences of my actions!"
OK, some of the socialist leaders may have been thrown out of militarilly but look at how many have stayed in power and yet their countries still do not prosper. Vietnam, every country in eastern europe, china, russia, cuba [...]
The fact that Cuba is right below the US on that list should speak more to the problems with the US healthcare system, not to how wonderful the cuban economy is(*). You even point out that the Cuban economic system doesnt have much going for it. Right, a 49 year embargo doesn't count as economic sabotage to you.
You know, your grasp of reality seems... slippery.
* I said nothing of the sort. You even point out I pointed that out.