A rich man that's sent to prison for 5 years loses out more than a poor man who has nothing.
That's a stupid thing to say and you're stupid for saying it.
It's not like a poor man is going to be missing out
Yeah, poor people don't enjoy their freedom; they have no loved ones to spend time with, not sunny days in the park...
Quite frankly, being poor sucks so much that rich people ought to simply put them out of their misery? Right? I mean, they're poor: they have nothing to lose, right? It would be the humane thing to do.
At the very least, since rich people lose out more in a year of prison than poor people, they should have to do less time in prison, right? On account of the poor people not missing out on luxuries, hell, they're winning! Prison is like a reward to poor people, huh? Free meals, free lodgings, right?
steal (yes it is appropriate, because it means taking something without paying, regardless of the lack of a physical item taken).
No, it is not appropriate because you are NOT taking something away from someone.
When my old cassette from a movie soundtrack got chewed up by the tape deck and I couldn't buy the CD because it was out of print and there was 0% chance that it would come back in print, finding those songs through "piracy" was not stealing, because they won't take my money even when I drive downtown and try to give it to them.
They are stealing from me by denying me access to the cultural elements that interest me.
And I don't want to buy the crap I keep hearing on the radio every time I walk into a shop, I demand reparation for the mental anguish caused by having their crappy tunes stuck in my head! A thousand US dollar per iteration of that suffering... I figure I'm owed a few millions, to say the least.
There are plenty of legal ways you can harm someone that should remain legal.
Indeed there are!
If you produce widgets and I invent a process that lets me build widgets much cheaper, I can come in and undercut your business. Then I have harmed you, but I haven't done anything wrong.
ESPECIALLY in a place as thoroughly corrupt on all levels as Mexico.
The simple truth is that the US is at least as corrupt as Mexico - War On Drugs
There's some corruption everywhere, but it is so pervasive in some countries that you can't get anything done without bribes. The US has its own corruption problems, but they're not at a point where you can't get a government employee to do their job without slipping a 50 in your paperwork.
But the corruption problem wouldn't be as bad in Mexico if they didn't have very powerful corrupt friends on the other side of the border, that's for sure.
an opposition party won the elections for the first time in 70 years. One would expect all corruption would be wiped out
No, one would not.
One would expect to be promised such things, but one should never expect a small event like an election to wipe out something as pervasive as corruption. ESPECIALLY in a place as thoroughly corrupt on all levels as Mexico.
That's like saying that with a diagnosis of metastasizing cancer, one would expect total remission after the first treatment. One should not.
I'm a working scientist (ok, PhD student), so I read journal articles pretty often. I can understand the rub in principle, but let's say that we come up with some way for all scientific data to be freely shared. So what? In almost all cases, the only people who actually benefit from access to particular data are a small handful of specialists. Could someone explain to me why this is a real problem and not just something that people with too much time on their hands (and who would never actually read, let alone understand, real research results) get worked up about?
Replace "scientific data" with "satellite imagery". There's nothing to gain by letting anyone look at it? Only highly trained experts can decipher it?
People have found hidden forests, ancient ruins, and a few meteor impacts. You don't know what's to find in the data until you let people look.
I don't see a problem with cameras in public places where you never had a reasonable expectation of privacy anyway. If they were invading my privacy I'd be the first to protest
Nobody should be worried about cameras on every corner unless they are a criminal worried about being caught in the act.
De Menezes, an electrician who had been in the country for three years, lived in a building that was under surveillance because it was believed to house a suspect wanted in connection with the unsuccessful bombings of July 21. When de Menezes left his apartment, he was believed to be that man and subsequently tracked to the station. He rushed to board a waiting train car, where two officers pinned him to the floor and shot him seven times in the head and once in the shoulder.
What we have there is obviously... a giant space flyswatter! The martians used it to squish some giant space fly. Don't look under it, you won't like what you find.:)
Same thing here. Like a film, a game that was good 2 years ago is still good today.
I like to wait for my compy to naturally reach a point past minimum requirements for games (can take years, but IT is like cars, you're always sinking money in the damn things) rather than worrying and spending on making a machine that can run the latest games.
Bonus: the games are, by then, at a more reasonable price.
The bad part is a disconnect with the latest gam3rz culture. But I'm a geek, disconnect with the herd is a normal state of mind;-)
The nice thing, though, was that we picked every POSSIBLE library that we could find and submitted them and their copyrights for their analysis/aproval. We had 4 developers spend an entire week doing that. At the client's expense.
So, you knowingly and deliberately inflated your billing to your client by doing unnecessary work due entirely to your own conceit?
Of course this is a false strawman. You are perpetrating the common caricature of the "gun nut".
People who fixate on "gun control" want nothing of the sort. They want to ban guns outright buy are stymied by the current state of the law. They don't want the moderate version of your little caricature.
That said, do you really think that McCain/Palin and Obama/Biden are equal?
Of course I do. They both had critical flaws which made both of them unsuitable to be our next president. Once we get past that, it doesn't matter what else you can say about them. They were both equal: really bad.
One promised (in song!) to start a war with Iran and one promised to try not to.
I like the one that won't go looking for any damn excuse to go to phase three of the take over of the middle east (1-East, 2-West, 3-Center).
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A rich man that's sent to prison for 5 years loses out more than a poor man who has nothing.
That's a stupid thing to say and you're stupid for saying it.
It's not like a poor man is going to be missing out
Yeah, poor people don't enjoy their freedom; they have no loved ones to spend time with, not sunny days in the park...
Quite frankly, being poor sucks so much that rich people ought to simply put them out of their misery? Right? I mean, they're poor: they have nothing to lose, right?
It would be the humane thing to do.
At the very least, since rich people lose out more in a year of prison than poor people, they should have to do less time in prison, right? On account of the poor people not missing out on luxuries, hell, they're winning! Prison is like a reward to poor people, huh? Free meals, free lodgings, right?
steal (yes it is appropriate, because it means taking something without paying, regardless of the lack of a physical item taken).
No, it is not appropriate because you are NOT taking something away from someone.
When my old cassette from a movie soundtrack got chewed up by the tape deck and I couldn't buy the CD because it was out of print and there was 0% chance that it would come back in print, finding those songs through "piracy" was not stealing, because they won't take my money even when I drive downtown and try to give it to them.
They are stealing from me by denying me access to the cultural elements that interest me.
And I don't want to buy the crap I keep hearing on the radio every time I walk into a shop, I demand reparation for the mental anguish caused by having their crappy tunes stuck in my head! A thousand US dollar per iteration of that suffering... I figure I'm owed a few millions, to say the least.
There are plenty of legal ways you can harm someone that should remain legal.
Indeed there are!
If you produce widgets and I invent a process that lets me build widgets much cheaper, I can come in and undercut your business. Then I have harmed you, but I haven't done anything wrong.
Oh. I thought you meant duels :-(
I don't understand how this fellows testimony as to the relationship between album sales and file sharing is relevant. If they broke the law
Understand this: The law is not a Boolean value.
IF they illegally caused damage:
How much damage did they cause?
1 to 1000 dollars?
1001 to 5000?
etc.
I've seen 8 American karaoke labels die in the last 10 years, and as of now there's only like 3 or 4 left. /end rant.
Karaoke labels?
WTF?
It's other peoples' music with their words scrolling on a screen. How can you have multiple labels in that non-industry?
ESPECIALLY in a place as thoroughly corrupt on all levels as Mexico.
The simple truth is that the US is at least as corrupt as Mexico - War On Drugs
There's some corruption everywhere, but it is so pervasive in some countries that you can't get anything done without bribes.
The US has its own corruption problems, but they're not at a point where you can't get a government employee to do their job without slipping a 50 in your paperwork.
But the corruption problem wouldn't be as bad in Mexico if they didn't have very powerful corrupt friends on the other side of the border, that's for sure.
FTA: I would comment more, but I am on my way to my daily Ballmer goat and bull sacrifice.
Ah yes, where you let a live goat or bull into the Ballmer enclosure at feeding time.
Because Ballmer doesn't want to be fed... he wants to hunt!
an opposition party won the elections for the first time in 70 years. One would expect all corruption would be wiped out
No, one would not.
One would expect to be promised such things, but one should never expect a small event like an election to wipe out something as pervasive as corruption.
ESPECIALLY in a place as thoroughly corrupt on all levels as Mexico.
That's like saying that with a diagnosis of metastasizing cancer, one would expect total remission after the first treatment. One should not.
I'm a working scientist (ok, PhD student), so I read journal articles pretty often. I can understand the rub in principle, but let's say that we come up with some way for all scientific data to be freely shared. So what? In almost all cases, the only people who actually benefit from access to particular data are a small handful of specialists. Could someone explain to me why this is a real problem and not just something that people with too much time on their hands (and who would never actually read, let alone understand, real research results) get worked up about?
Replace "scientific data" with "satellite imagery".
There's nothing to gain by letting anyone look at it? Only highly trained experts can decipher it?
People have found hidden forests, ancient ruins, and a few meteor impacts. You don't know what's to find in the data until you let people look.
criminals with somewhat normal minds that have any hope of a future will surely
Learn where the blind spots are and cover their features when not in them.
I don't see a problem with cameras in public places where you never had a reasonable expectation of privacy anyway. If they were invading my privacy I'd be the first to protest
Baby steps, baby steps...
Nobody should be worried about cameras on every corner unless they are a criminal worried about being caught in the act.
De Menezes, an electrician who had been in the country for three years, lived in a building that was under surveillance because it was believed to house a suspect wanted in connection with the unsuccessful bombings of July 21.
When de Menezes left his apartment, he was believed to be that man and subsequently tracked to the station. He rushed to board a waiting train car, where two officers pinned him to the floor and shot him seven times in the head and once in the shoulder.
What causes that? I see it a lot here. With quites, trademark symbols, etc.
Character encoding error. The input is in a different format than the output, they need some kind of algorithm to check the input and translate it to their output format.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh C'thulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
How's the weather in South Wales? :P
A wee bit eldritch...
Sooo, we're not even bothering with a hyperlink then?
Hyperlinks are for the weak!
We are slashdoters! We take raw data and we google it ourselves! By Crom!
Well, maybe back in 1999...but this is now. You'd get more points handing out the Google Maps link instead.
Well, if his degrees weren't garbled up by the gorram slashdot posting process, you could just input them in google maps.
What we have there is obviously ... a giant space flyswatter! The martians used it to squish some giant space fly. Don't look under it, you won't like what you find. :)
Ia! Ia! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh C'thulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
Same thing here. Like a film, a game that was good 2 years ago is still good today.
I like to wait for my compy to naturally reach a point past minimum requirements for games (can take years, but IT is like cars, you're always sinking money in the damn things) rather than worrying and spending on making a machine that can run the latest games.
Bonus: the games are, by then, at a more reasonable price.
The bad part is a disconnect with the latest gam3rz culture. But I'm a geek, disconnect with the herd is a normal state of mind ;-)
Google blurred the satellite photo of the US Naval observatory in DC, a public building, in order to protect VP Cheney.
If Google is willing to protect the privacy of a man who can shoot you in the face with impunity
FTFY
Facebook showed fear to users. Never do that.
Lol! That made me laugh.
Facebook has to be the pack leader!
So, you knowingly and deliberately inflated your billing to your client by doing unnecessary work due entirely to your own conceit?
No, due entirely to the lawyers' conceit.
Reading comprehension much?
Of course this is a false strawman. You are perpetrating the common caricature of the "gun nut".
People who fixate on "gun control" want nothing of the sort. They want to ban
guns outright buy are stymied by the current state of the law. They don't want
the moderate version of your little caricature.
I see you're an expert in false straw men.
That said, do you really think that McCain/Palin and Obama/Biden are equal?
Of course I do. They both had critical flaws which made both of them unsuitable to be our next president. Once we get past that, it doesn't matter what else you can say about them. They were both equal: really bad.
One promised (in song!) to start a war with Iran and one promised to try not to.
I like the one that won't go looking for any damn excuse to go to phase three of the take over of the middle east (1-East, 2-West, 3-Center).
their survival (and thus profits) comes from exclusive government contract, not from a free market.
But their government payments are proportional to the number of inmates. It is in their best financial interest to have all available rooms occupied.
Shouldn't they get charged with hacking the researchers faces off? That is kind of brutal no?
Hey, hacking off someone's face and wearing it as a grotesque mask to access their laptop is ghoulish, but it works! :-\
You gotta do watcha gotta do