That's just not realistic. Western consumers just aren't willing to pay more [snip]
Do you have trouble with your reading comprehension skills? Consumers paying more was not what was proposed. "Slightly lower profits" for the companies was. Now, you may argue with that on its own merits, but don't try to change the subject and argue against a strawman.
This whole "you could be sued for reverse engineering" thing is a load of crap. Who in reality has been sued for reverse engineering? Even in the US you are allowed to reverse engineer for interoperability purposes. You can be sued for infringing on a patent, but that's not specific to reverse engineering.
Two facts: One, Russia was hardly better than a third-world country after the Soviet Union collapsed - it seems that their "socialist" economic policies actually led to negative productivity in some cases. Two, much of Russia has a low population density. It may look big on the map, but...
Yes but the US seems to have a nasty habit of trying to push its most corporate-friendly laws on everyone else. "Even" China has passed a DMCA-style law now ("even" in quotation marks because they're more capitalist than socialist these days).
Mr. Walther was the first person ever to be ranked below "None of the Above" in a Debian Project Leader election (in the 2005 elections)
That's not all that surprising, given that Mr. Walther is alleged by some to be a fascist, racist kook. (Unfortunately he has since deleted some of the self-incriminating evidence from his website.) Of course Debian doesn't have any "no platform for fascists" principles, so they couldn't consistently exclude him from the event even if they wanted to. It does however raise the possibility that some members of ethnic minorities might have been unwilling to attend.
The problem is not that all three branches are controlled by Bush-ites: they aren't. The problem, is that Bush asserts he is above the constitution and above the judiciary because he has no need to obtain warrants, which is a fatuous claim.
He was a pro se litigant in both cases, and he obviously didn't get (competent) legal advice on his submissions to the court, so these would have been cheaper than average cases.
Perhaps he is just a kook with a pile of money he got from something entirely unrelated.
Well, not quite all the source code. The SCSL does not cover the version of javac included in Java 1.5 or older versions (I don't know about Java 1.6). But that doesn't matter, because the Eclipse Java compiler is open source, and just as good if not better (it certainly has better warnings than javac in Java 1.5).
How do you define newsworthy? To me, this was very newsworthy. It's not often a comedian gets a chance to do this, and I thought Colbert pulled it off really well. Certainly more newsworthy than the kind of fluff pieces you find in newspapers these days that are little more than puff pieces for some "new" government policy, or some corporate "survey" - regurgitated press releases, in other words.
So let me get this straight - you're saying that an artificial intelligence would consider Wikipedia a credible source of information, with no need for corroboration?
and that's not even counting the environmental effect of the various wars that are being fought (and will be fought in the future) to control the remaining fossil fuels.
Nor is it counting the impact of global warming on sea levels, potentially putting many coastal cities underwater - and the wars THAT will cause.
But an OEM license is an EULA, and moreover was probably "agreed" to after the sale of the old PC, and is thus legally dubious. Especially since... the license tells you to "return the software to your store if you don't agree", but most stores won't let you return OEM Windows!
It truly is unrealistic to expect people that are promiscuous before marriage to remain faithful in marriage.
You've got it backwards. It is unrealistic to expect anyone to abstain from sex before marriage. I wouldn't expect it of a partner. After that, the rest of your argument is irrelevant. It's no use telling people to do something if it won't work for most people.
So, what would I do about the problem of unfaithfulness in marriage, then? I think, for couples who are willing, open relationships are the best solution. Expect it to happen, and enjoy it when it does.
For others (well, really, for everyone), don't ever take your relationship for granted. Imagine your partner was attracted to another person and wanted to stray with him/her. You don't want that to happen, right? So don't give your partner a reason to stray. Keep your relationship happy and alive, be attentive to your partner's sexual desires, and never treat your partner disrespectfully.
But learning self-control is much harder after you have had sex.
You've fallen for a logical fallacy here. Yes, abstinence-pledges have more self-control - right until they break their pledge! Surveys show that abstinence-only sex education actually makes teens more likely to have sex, as compared to full sex education.
But of course, it remains the case that 100% of people who have abstained from sex, have never had sex. Well, gee whiz! 100% - What a wonder! I wonder what could have produced that?
Hint: You define the question the right way, you get the answer you want.
. I joked with a friend in college once (who immediately agreed) that I hated magazines like Playboy because they made it impossible to be truly turned on by the majority of real woman around us[...] I'd rather see a cute real world girl anyday."
Um, you're blatantly contradicting yourself. I agree with your second statement, but not your first.
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Don't be an idiot. They should obey local laws in both cases, but they should go further and pay workers more in this case.
Do you have trouble with your reading comprehension skills? Consumers paying more was not what was proposed. "Slightly lower profits" for the companies was. Now, you may argue with that on its own merits, but don't try to change the subject and argue against a strawman.
Hate to sound like a broken record - but please file bug reports.
That's not all that surprising, given that Mr. Walther is alleged by some to be a fascist, racist kook. (Unfortunately he has since deleted some of the self-incriminating evidence from his website.) Of course Debian doesn't have any "no platform for fascists" principles, so they couldn't consistently exclude him from the event even if they wanted to. It does however raise the possibility that some members of ethnic minorities might have been unwilling to attend.
Perhaps he is just a kook with a pile of money he got from something entirely unrelated.
Sun doesn't support Java on Linux. Open sourcers complain. Now, they do, thanks to open sourcers complaining.
Sun doesn't support Java on Linux as a tier-1 platform. Open sourcers complain. Now, they do, thanks to open sourcers complaining.
Sun doesn't release source code for Java. Open sourcers complain. Now, they do, thanks to open sourcers copmlaining.
Etc.
Nor is it counting the impact of global warming on sea levels, potentially putting many coastal cities underwater - and the wars THAT will cause.
But windows injure and kill far more birds than modern wind turbines. Are we going to ban windows?
That's a pretty strong assumption.
You've got it backwards. It is unrealistic to expect anyone to abstain from sex before marriage. I wouldn't expect it of a partner. After that, the rest of your argument is irrelevant. It's no use telling people to do something if it won't work for most people.
So, what would I do about the problem of unfaithfulness in marriage, then? I think, for couples who are willing, open relationships are the best solution. Expect it to happen, and enjoy it when it does.
For others (well, really, for everyone), don't ever take your relationship for granted. Imagine your partner was attracted to another person and wanted to stray with him/her. You don't want that to happen, right? So don't give your partner a reason to stray. Keep your relationship happy and alive, be attentive to your partner's sexual desires, and never treat your partner disrespectfully.
That would be a good start.
You've fallen for a logical fallacy here. Yes, abstinence-pledges have more self-control - right until they break their pledge! Surveys show that abstinence-only sex education actually makes teens more likely to have sex, as compared to full sex education.
But of course, it remains the case that 100% of people who have abstained from sex, have never had sex. Well, gee whiz! 100% - What a wonder! I wonder what could have produced that?
Hint: You define the question the right way, you get the answer you want.
Um, you're blatantly contradicting yourself. I agree with your second statement, but not your first.