Whether surveilence is good or bad is totally dependant on how it is used. If the government keeps it to itself and only uses it to inforce just laws, than it is fine, regardless of the extremeness of the surveilence. You have nothing to fear unless you are doing something illegal. The problem arises when the government uses surveilence to enforce unjust, paternalistic laws (like those against marajuana), or lets third parties, like spammers, get their hands on the information it collects.
The only good reason for surveilence-phobia is that surveilence allows the government to enforce laws against "victimless crimes" (such laws are all unjust, in my opinion) that would otherwise be virtually impossible to enforce. Denying the government surveilence denies it the ability to enforce big-brotherish laws, but also weakens its ability to enforce good laws, like ones against murder. Civil rights advocates should be focusing on abolishing unjust laws that surveilence is used to enforce, not weakening law enforcement as a whole by stopping surveilence.
Of course. The whole 7th season of TNG without commercials would me nice. It sucks how they don't show any Star Trek reruns on broadcast TV in St. Louis any more. Just enterprise, and it's on the saturday night death slot 2 weeks late, not to mention that it sucks and it's a disgrace to the Star Trek franchise.
Firaxis is the developer. Infogrames is just the german company contracted to localize Civ 3. The game is not Infogrames' IP.
Firaxis won't lose any money from this, because people will still have to buy the US version before they can get the patch to translate it.
Infogrames will lose money, because they get few dollars of a skim on every german-translated copy they sell. If people can buy the US version and translate it to german with a patch, Firaxis gets the extra $5 instead of Infogrames.
Whether or not this is illegal depends on the wording of Firaxis' contract with Infogrames. If it gives Infogrames the EXCLUSIVE right to translate Civ 3 into German, then the patch might be illegal. I doubt it is worded like that, because that would be pointless. Why would Firaxis want to stop people from expanding their market share for _free_ when they're paying Infogrames to do it? There's the possibility of mistranslation, but it's just like any other mod or scenario. Downloader beware.
Anyway, the patch probably isn't illegal, and if it is, it shouldn't be, because it's not hurting anyone unfairly. If infogrames loses money, it's because their lazy asses were too slow to translate it. That's not IP infringement, that's free market capitalism.
Their manufacturing process is much more elaborate than that, so it costs more. There are holograms and other BS security measures on the CD, fat manuals, an oversized box, and other things. Microsofts arrempts to stop piracy probably tripled the actual production cost.
There's no additional cost to them whatsoever for someone to install another copy of windows, and they already make ten times what they need for R&D. The greedy bastards at MS are just gouging the market because they have a monopoly and many, many people are forced to use their OS. $90 instead of $100 for something with $0 marginal cost is still a bloody ripoff.
Bushisims like "You misunderestimate me", "subliminable", "families is where people find hope, where wings take dreams", "I did not have smoking relations with that crackrock", etc...
Since the internet is a global thing, no country or state can have the jurisdiction to tax it except for sales tax when the buyer lives in that country/state.[
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It's slow AND unstable. It also lacks some useful features like auto-refresh, IP spoofing, etc...
1.) There is no evidence that seeing the human body can harm anyone of any age.
2.) No amount of government regulation can do anything to stop kids from getting access to porn. If they want it they will get it.
3.) Everyone has the right to do whatever they want as long as they do not inflict tangible harm on non-consenting people. Virtual child porn doesn'y hurt anybody.
4.) Parents ought to be responsible for their own children, instead of having the government force this crap on everyone's children.
The right to do anything you want as long as you do not significantly harm an unwilling party is not granted. It exists independant of anyone's perceptions, laws, or constitution[/b].
The right to use linux is [b]included[/b] in that right.
It doesn't matter if toB is true or false, the expression is true anyway, but it takes 3 long boring hours to figure it out (rather like Visual Basic).
That site won't load. The slashdot effect probably made it crash, or slow down enough to time out. Maybe you should test the links before you post them.
But the consumers are too stupid to know that. Gigaflops are the real benchmark (and long pipelines slow branches down). That's why some ignorant arses think that the P4 is actually faster than Athlon or G4.
The sucess or failure of GameCube will determine whether M$ can extend it's monopoly into the console system, and gouge the customers just like it does with Windows.
Since Microsoft is selling the consoles at a loss and making all the $$$ of games, the best thing to do is buy X-box but get all the games as warez.
Except when you get your liscense taken away for drunk driving they have to have EVIDENCE and REASONABLE CAUSE. They test you for drunkenness on the spot, before they do anything else. ISPs are required under the DMCA to take away your acccess at the slightest FINGER POINTING, without any EVIDENCE or REASONABLE CAUSE whatsoever. That's the difference. That analogy is bullsh*t!
The pressure of wind is proportional to the square of the windspeed relative to whatever its hitting. Martian winds are faster than on Earth. This thing doesn't have to be light either. Changes in the weight would affect acceleration, but have little impact on the top speed.
The site claims to be "nissan computer corparation", but they aren't actually selling anything, and the front page is primarily banner ads. That's the worst case scenario, not the norm.
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Whether surveilence is good or bad is totally dependant on how it is used. If the government keeps it to itself and only uses it to inforce just laws, than it is fine, regardless of the extremeness of the surveilence. You have nothing to fear unless you are doing something illegal. The problem arises when the government uses surveilence to enforce unjust, paternalistic laws (like those against marajuana), or lets third parties, like spammers, get their hands on the information it collects.
The only good reason for surveilence-phobia is that surveilence allows the government to enforce laws against "victimless crimes" (such laws are all unjust, in my opinion) that would otherwise be virtually impossible to enforce. Denying the government surveilence denies it the ability to enforce big-brotherish laws, but also weakens its ability to enforce good laws, like ones against murder. Civil rights advocates should be focusing on abolishing unjust laws that surveilence is used to enforce, not weakening law enforcement as a whole by stopping surveilence.
Of course. The whole 7th season of TNG without commercials would me nice. It sucks how they don't show any Star Trek reruns on broadcast TV in St. Louis any more. Just enterprise, and it's on the saturday night death slot 2 weeks late, not to mention that it sucks and it's a disgrace to the Star Trek franchise.
Software is one of the few industries that would be beneficially effected by communism, because the marginal cost is zero.
Firaxis is the developer. Infogrames is just the german company contracted to localize Civ 3. The game is not Infogrames' IP.
Firaxis won't lose any money from this, because people will still have to buy the US version before they can get the patch to translate it.
Infogrames will lose money, because they get few dollars of a skim on every german-translated copy they sell. If people can buy the US version and translate it to german with a patch, Firaxis gets the extra $5 instead of Infogrames.
Whether or not this is illegal depends on the wording of Firaxis' contract with Infogrames. If it gives Infogrames the EXCLUSIVE right to translate Civ 3 into German, then the patch might be illegal. I doubt it is worded like that, because that would be pointless. Why would Firaxis want to stop people from expanding their market share for _free_ when they're paying Infogrames to do it? There's the possibility of mistranslation, but it's just like any other mod or scenario. Downloader beware.
Anyway, the patch probably isn't illegal, and if it is, it shouldn't be, because it's not hurting anyone unfairly. If infogrames loses money, it's because their lazy asses were too slow to translate it. That's not IP infringement, that's free market capitalism.
Their manufacturing process is much more elaborate than that, so it costs more. There are holograms and other BS security measures on the CD, fat manuals, an oversized box, and other things. Microsofts arrempts to stop piracy probably tripled the actual production cost.
There's no additional cost to them whatsoever for someone to install another copy of windows, and they already make ten times what they need for R&D. The greedy bastards at MS are just gouging the market because they have a monopoly and many, many people are forced to use their OS. $90 instead of $100 for something with $0 marginal cost is still a bloody ripoff.
Bushisims like "You misunderestimate me", "subliminable", "families is where people find hope, where wings take dreams", "I did not have smoking relations with that crackrock", etc...
Since the internet is a global thing, no country or state can have the jurisdiction to tax it except for sales tax when the buyer lives in that country/state.[
It's slow AND unstable. It also lacks some useful features like auto-refresh, IP spoofing, etc...
1.) There is no evidence that seeing the human body can harm anyone of any age.
2.) No amount of government regulation can do anything to stop kids from getting access to porn. If they want it they will get it.
3.) Everyone has the right to do whatever they want as long as they do not inflict tangible harm on non-consenting people. Virtual child porn doesn'y hurt anybody.
4.) Parents ought to be responsible for their own children, instead of having the government force this crap on everyone's children.
Companies should not be allowed to sell or share customers' personal information unless the customer explicitly says they can.
These were SUICIDE attacks. No amount of retaliation can deter a suicide attack.
The right to do anything you want as long as you do not significantly harm an unwilling party is not granted. It exists independant of anyone's perceptions, laws, or constitution[/b].
The right to use linux is [b]included[/b] in that right.
It doesn't matter if toB is true or false, the expression is true anyway, but it takes 3 long boring hours to figure it out (rather like Visual Basic).
That site won't load. The slashdot effect probably made it crash, or slow down enough to time out. Maybe you should test the links before you post them.
But the consumers are too stupid to know that. Gigaflops are the real benchmark (and long pipelines slow branches down). That's why some ignorant arses think that the P4 is actually faster than Athlon or G4.
The sucess or failure of GameCube will determine whether M$ can extend it's monopoly into the console system, and gouge the customers just like it does with Windows.
Since Microsoft is selling the consoles at a loss and making all the $$$ of games, the best thing to do is buy X-box but get all the games as warez.
Except when you get your liscense taken away for drunk driving they have to have EVIDENCE and REASONABLE CAUSE. They test you for drunkenness on the spot, before they do anything else. ISPs are required under the DMCA to take away your acccess at the slightest FINGER POINTING, without any EVIDENCE or REASONABLE CAUSE whatsoever. That's the difference. That analogy is bullsh*t!
Yes, but the faster winds will allow for a better top speed, even if the acceleration is crappy.
No, it's shaped like a puffed up soccer ball, and they put the cameras in the corners between the sections.
The pressure of wind is proportional to the square of the windspeed relative to whatever its hitting. Martian winds are faster than on Earth. This thing doesn't have to be light either. Changes in the weight would affect acceleration, but have little impact on the top speed.
Real estate speculation is parasitic and immoral too, but to a lesser extent that cybersquatting.
The site claims to be "nissan computer corparation", but they aren't actually selling anything, and the front page is primarily banner ads. That's the worst case scenario, not the norm.
What about all the cases against -sucks.com sites? That's just facist crap.
The bug that the goatse.cx linker used was that the links in the sig do not show where they link to, but you can fake it.
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