I do not want to research what every country in the EU historically thought about copyright to have an informed discussion on that topic.
I'm telling you about one specific man who has a specific connection to the man who co-authored the only document you are willing to consider on the subject. "every country in the EU" has nothing to do with it. I had a point I was trying to make, but you xenophobia blinded you to it.
I should say that I am coming from the original american idea of copyright and that other countries may have different ideas.
No, firstly you should ask yourself "why did he mention that Beaumarchais and Jefferson were buddies?". Then you should take a long, hard look at yourself in the mirror while you ponder this: "Could the writers of the US constitution have taken some of their ideas from others, rather than including only original notions?"
detaining people that may pose a terrorist threat or have information about a possible terrorist threat
Is a fiction. Instead of believing that Saddam was linked to 9-11, that he had WMDs ready for deployment, that breathing cement&asbestos dust is safe, that no one foresaw the failure of the levees, and that Guantanamo is keeping you safe, you should look for the truth, because what the Bush administration has been feeding you is a long list of lies.
Do you also believe that the Inquisition protected you from people who may have posed a witchcraft risk or had information about possible witching covens? Because that wasn't true either, even though both groups used water boarding to obtain information from suspects.
In short: When people have been systematically lying to you, why would you believe anything they say without external, independent confirmation?
Because more and more people encounter content that isn't advertised or played in the mass media. When there wasn't no Internet people had rely on the radio/tv/newspapers for bringing them the newest cultural content but now people can find suitable content for them self.
Which exactly why the media cartels are investing so much money and energy to fight it: They're becoming irrelevant. It scares and angers them.
They had built themselves a vast and complicated system for controlling the creation and distribution of culture, and now the people are taking that power back!
Those rights were created so that society would benefit, not so the individuals would benefit.
Beaumarchais, the french man who came up with the novel idea of "authors' rights" was a buddy of Jefferson, and his idea was most defiantly about protecting the rights of the authors from the (then) printing industry who felt they could profit from any text as they pleased without having to share their profit with the author.
Media cartels have since perverted those ideals and once again moved the power from the author to the businessmen who control the means of distribution... until the internet took that control away from them.
Now they're fighting tooth and nail to get that control back, through the usual perversion of democracy by way of plutocracy.
Part of exercising a set of fingers is ensuring that they get the full range of motion and not just the cramped(but reportedly more efficient) "most commonly used in a single row" idea behind dvorak.
You seem to be implying that qwerty exists for ergonomic reasons, rather than minimizing the tangling of mechanical components of type writers.
Why would that be no longer effective? If the cloak reroutes 90% of the light, then you're left with 10% opacity, right? Sure, something that translucent would be very difficult to see, especially from a distance.
The Predator still got his ass shot up good with that hand-held vulcan gun, because the soldier saw the 10% of light that he couldn't cloak.
That's what you get for pissing off Jesse "the future Governor of Minnesota" Ventura. Cloaking device or not.
Theo Jansens Strandbeesten are not mentioned. [...] He did a talk at TED in 2007.
How odd, it's not a robot, and it's not from 2008, and it wasn't mentioned in The Best Robots of 2008. I can't understand why!!!
Aside from the fact that you couldn't be more off topic if you tried, mad props to Theo, delusions of grandeur notwithstanding, his creations are amazing.
I think Silverlight is one of the few things Microsoft got right. I've been using Silverlight quite extensively on my Mac since Netflix switched to it, and it's rock solid. This kind of got me interested into looking into the programming aspects of it, and it's pretty darn easy if you know.NET Framework and WPF already, and if you don't, the learning curve is not that bad. I wanted to write a multi-file uploader for one of my apps, and I was able to do so in just a couple of hours, end to end.
Do you, by any chance, also really like astroturf? It sounds like you do.
Are computers 3 years old outdated? Even back in 1998, sites could provide 3 alternatives (Qt, Real, Wmedia) on same page. What happened to that
Real and MS started making exclusivity deal, forcing to install Real, which then took over all media types on your computer, even those it couldn't handle. And then there was sadness. But some day flash came along, at first it was just a huge waste of electrons, serving only to make pointless "intro animations" which were annoyances that had to be suffered only long enough to find and click on the "skip" button... until youTube made popular a way of embedding video in a page using flash that made it usable. And the peasants rejoiced. But MS saw that there was profit being made, and thought to itself "I want that profit for myself!", and so from the raped corpse of a unicorn, it carved the unholy horror know as silverlight. And the peasants felt the tinge of sadness come back to their browser video experience.
if the D.C. dept of Sanitation doesn't provide enough waste baskets as well.
I remember a 20th century report on the coming tide of terror in America that mentioned that public waste baskets were a security threat, apparently terrorist can't resist putting bombs in there....just sayin'
As far as I understand, they are detaining people for the purposes of national security.
And I bet that as far as you understand it, Saddam caused 9-11 and had an arsenal of WMDs which you were saved from at the last moment by the invasion. But your understanding apparently doesn't go far enough.
How dare you live in an area that the corporations do not estimate to be profitable! No modern telecommunications for you! You don't deserve them!
If I decide to go buy property and build a house out in northern Alaska, dozens of miles from anyone else, is it the government's job to provide me with all the same infrastructure as everywhere else?! [...] If I choose to live outside the "bubbles" of infrastructure that they've contributed to
It's not about reaching survivalist weirdos going out of their way to keep out of the grid, it's about reaching already established communities that have been overlooked because of a perceived lack of profitability.
Napster was what -- 8,9 years ago? That means you're almost a decade older now. People also tend to buy less music as they get older.
People also tend to stop buying RIAA music almost entirely (I'm only human) as part of a conscious thought after being called a thief for daring to sample a product before deciding to buy it or not.
I'm almost only buying straight from the artists now. Bonus: Autographs.
I am speechless at the business acumen behind killing your number one free advertising site, the one that had no negative affect whatsoever on your sales
I never bought as much music as I did during the napster days. I got to sample music I liked, instead of being subjected to the choices of our betters in the music industry, who get to chose what gets played on the radio.
And this is the crux, it's not motivated by business acumen, but by a desire for control.
a lot of chinese people happen to like the chinese government and approve of what's going on
Quite right. This is anecdotal, but the Chinese people I've spoken with about this simply do not see the problems that I try to ask them about. They largely agree with what the Chinese government is doing. They see government as their protector, and mostly agree/assume that "the government knows best." They point to the remarkable progress and advancement in China (in terms of tech, economy, society, etc.) to prove their point.
same with the US, all the wiretapping and fingerprinting and tasering and "free speech zoning" is mostly agreed to by the people who make up their mind by absorbing whatever propaganda is thrown at them.
They point to a lack of another terrorist attack since 9-11 to prove their point (never mind the anthrax, happy face bomber, the beltway sniper...)
Id like to see that in a porn film, the girl yelling out, "freedom to all, death to taxes, no riaa, get rid of older 50yos in govt!!!, release all aliens info"
Cicciolina is a Hungarian-born Italian porn-star and occasional singer, turned politician and the first hardcore performer in the world to be elected to a democratic parliament
Also don't forget A Scanner Darkly, where he's playing a guy who's so fucked up on drugs, most of the time he doesn't know if he's an undercover cop, the druggie he's supposed to monitor, or both. As with the films you mentioned, he manages to perfectly portray a character with only partially functioning brain.
An excellent movie, with a totally convincing lead losing his mind.
Slashdot Mirror
Do we need special "time ships" to travel through space ?
You do if you expect to be at the same point in time when you get to your space destination.
you don't need "space ships" to travel through time.
As long as you don't expect to be at the same point in space when you reach your time destination.
I do not want to research what every country in the EU historically thought about copyright to have an informed discussion on that topic.
I'm telling you about one specific man who has a specific connection to the man who co-authored the only document you are willing to consider on the subject. "every country in the EU" has nothing to do with it.
I had a point I was trying to make, but you xenophobia blinded you to it.
Willful ignorance it is then, so buh bye now.
Firstly,
I should say that I am coming from the original american idea of copyright and that other countries may have different ideas.
No, firstly you should ask yourself "why did he mention that Beaumarchais and Jefferson were buddies?".
Then you should take a long, hard look at yourself in the mirror while you ponder this: "Could the writers of the US constitution have taken some of their ideas from others, rather than including only original notions?"
detaining people that may pose a terrorist threat or have information about a possible terrorist threat
Is a fiction.
Instead of believing that Saddam was linked to 9-11, that he had WMDs ready for deployment, that breathing cement&asbestos dust is safe, that no one foresaw the failure of the levees, and that Guantanamo is keeping you safe, you should look for the truth, because what the Bush administration has been feeding you is a long list of lies.
Do you also believe that the Inquisition protected you from people who may have posed a witchcraft risk or had information about possible witching covens? Because that wasn't true either, even though both groups used water boarding to obtain information from suspects.
In short: When people have been systematically lying to you, why would you believe anything they say without external, independent confirmation?
Because more and more people encounter content that isn't advertised or played in the mass media. When there wasn't no Internet people had rely on the radio/tv/newspapers for bringing them the newest cultural content but now people can find suitable content for them self.
Which exactly why the media cartels are investing so much money and energy to fight it: They're becoming irrelevant.
It scares and angers them.
They had built themselves a vast and complicated system for controlling the creation and distribution of culture, and now the people are taking that power back!
Those rights were created so that society would benefit, not so the individuals would benefit.
Beaumarchais, the french man who came up with the novel idea of "authors' rights" was a buddy of Jefferson, and his idea was most defiantly about protecting the rights of the authors from the (then) printing industry who felt they could profit from any text as they pleased without having to share their profit with the author.
Media cartels have since perverted those ideals and once again moved the power from the author to the businessmen who control the means of distribution... until the internet took that control away from them.
Now they're fighting tooth and nail to get that control back, through the usual perversion of democracy by way of plutocracy.
Part of exercising a set of fingers is ensuring that they get the full range of motion and not just the cramped(but reportedly more efficient) "most commonly used in a single row" idea behind dvorak.
You seem to be implying that qwerty exists for ergonomic reasons, rather than minimizing the tangling of mechanical components of type writers.
Why would that be no longer effective? If the cloak reroutes 90% of the light, then you're left with 10% opacity, right? Sure, something that translucent would be very difficult to see, especially from a distance.
The Predator still got his ass shot up good with that hand-held vulcan gun, because the soldier saw the 10% of light that he couldn't cloak.
That's what you get for pissing off Jesse "the future Governor of Minnesota" Ventura.
Cloaking device or not.
I do not think that being off-topic will stop the post from getting +5 Interesting.
Karma whore :-|
That's a dumb argument. I still slice bread with knife, a technology which has been around for thousands of years
Pros do it with a multi-bladed automated bread cutting machine, you philistine!
Theo Jansens Strandbeesten are not mentioned. [...] He did a talk at TED in 2007.
How odd, it's not a robot, and it's not from 2008, and it wasn't mentioned in The Best Robots of 2008.
I can't understand why!!!
Aside from the fact that you couldn't be more off topic if you tried, mad props to Theo, delusions of grandeur notwithstanding, his creations are amazing.
I think Silverlight is one of the few things Microsoft got right. I've been using Silverlight quite extensively on my Mac since Netflix switched to it, and it's rock solid. This kind of got me interested into looking into the programming aspects of it, and it's pretty darn easy if you know .NET Framework and WPF already, and if you don't, the learning curve is not that bad. I wanted to write a multi-file uploader for one of my apps, and I was able to do so in just a couple of hours, end to end.
Do you, by any chance, also really like astroturf?
It sounds like you do.
Are computers 3 years old outdated? Even back in 1998, sites could provide 3 alternatives (Qt, Real, Wmedia) on same page. What happened to that
Real and MS started making exclusivity deal, forcing to install Real, which then took over all media types on your computer, even those it couldn't handle.
And then there was sadness.
But some day flash came along, at first it was just a huge waste of electrons, serving only to make pointless "intro animations" which were annoyances that had to be suffered only long enough to find and click on the "skip" button... until youTube made popular a way of embedding video in a page using flash that made it usable.
And the peasants rejoiced.
But MS saw that there was profit being made, and thought to itself "I want that profit for myself!", and so from the raped corpse of a unicorn, it carved the unholy horror know as silverlight.
And the peasants felt the tinge of sadness come back to their browser video experience.
For those whom Hulu deems fit to allow to watch their WORLD wide web content (limited to one country).
Hulu is a monstrosity that should be burned and buried.
if the D.C. dept of Sanitation doesn't provide enough waste baskets as well.
I remember a 20th century report on the coming tide of terror in America that mentioned that public waste baskets were a security threat, apparently terrorist can't resist putting bombs in there. ...just sayin'
As far as I understand, they are detaining people for the purposes of national security.
And I bet that as far as you understand it, Saddam caused 9-11 and had an arsenal of WMDs which you were saved from at the last moment by the invasion.
But your understanding apparently doesn't go far enough.
How dare you live in an area that the corporations do not estimate to be profitable! No modern telecommunications for you! You don't deserve them!
If I decide to go buy property and build a house out in northern Alaska, dozens of miles from anyone else, is it the government's job to provide me with all the same infrastructure as everywhere else?! [...] If I choose to live outside the "bubbles" of infrastructure that they've contributed to
It's not about reaching survivalist weirdos going out of their way to keep out of the grid, it's about reaching already established communities that have been overlooked because of a perceived lack of profitability.
Napster was what -- 8,9 years ago? That means you're almost a decade older now. People also tend to buy less music as they get older.
People also tend to stop buying RIAA music almost entirely (I'm only human) as part of a conscious thought after being called a thief for daring to sample a product before deciding to buy it or not.
I'm almost only buying straight from the artists now. Bonus: Autographs.
I am speechless at the business acumen behind killing your number one free advertising site, the one that had no negative affect whatsoever on your sales
I never bought as much music as I did during the napster days.
I got to sample music I liked, instead of being subjected to the choices of our betters in the music industry, who get to chose what gets played on the radio.
And this is the crux, it's not motivated by business acumen, but by a desire for control.
a lot of chinese people happen to like the chinese government and approve of what's going on
Quite right. This is anecdotal, but the Chinese people I've spoken with about this simply do not see the problems that I try to ask them about. They largely agree with what the Chinese government is doing. They see government as their protector, and mostly agree/assume that "the government knows best." They point to the remarkable progress and advancement in China (in terms of tech, economy, society, etc.) to prove their point.
same with the US, all the wiretapping and fingerprinting and tasering and "free speech zoning" is mostly agreed to by the people who make up their mind by absorbing whatever propaganda is thrown at them.
They point to a lack of another terrorist attack since 9-11 to prove their point (never mind the anthrax, happy face bomber, the beltway sniper...)
Read the poems of Martial, Juvenal, and Catullus, and look at the architecture and decorations preserved at Pompeii, and tell me that the Romans were.
Women in ancient Rome had little importance as independent citizens, but could be very influential in their primary roles as mothers and wives. Devotion to one man was the ideal. A good Roman matron was chaste, honorable, and fertile.
Id like to see that in a porn film, the girl yelling out, "freedom to all, death to taxes, no riaa, get rid of older 50yos in govt!!!, release all aliens info"
Oh, you'll like her.
Cicciolina is a Hungarian-born Italian porn-star and occasional singer, turned politician and the first hardcore performer in the world to be elected to a democratic parliament
primarily in what are called "unserved" and "underserved" areas. ...
How about "undeserved" areas?
How dare you live in an area that the corporations do not estimate to be profitable! No modern telecommunications for you! You don't deserve them!
Stop being a selfish little whiner and just be glad your retirement money wasn't invested in the stock market like the right wing wanted.
It's more like,
"Hi, this is the Government. We were wrong for butting into your religions rites
You have that upside down.
The religious are messing with the government, and this will only spur them on.
Also don't forget A Scanner Darkly, where he's playing a guy who's so fucked up on drugs, most of the time he doesn't know if he's an undercover cop, the druggie he's supposed to monitor, or both. As with the films you mentioned, he manages to perfectly portray a character with only partially functioning brain.
An excellent movie, with a totally convincing lead losing his mind.