"DJ Drama and DJ Don Cannon were expected to appear before a Fulton County judge at 9 a.m. this morning (January 24), however SOHH.com has learned that the scheduled court session has been postponed. [..] The Fulton County Superior Court session was to be Simmons and Cannon's first since their arrest on racketeering charges, offering attorneys a chance to discuss how the case might proceed."
So, they were not arrested for "copying" and there has yet to even be a trial let alone a conviction.. is this the best you've got?
It may be about choice to you, and that's fine, but the problem comes when the "about choice" people start weighing in on matters that are more important than choice.. like freedom and the cohesion of the community.
Apparently they don't even teach teens enough to say "what law? Show me this law, written down and approved by vote, which says what you claim. Oh, there is no law? You were just lying?"
ya dreaming. What would happen if all this IP propaganda was actually effective is that eventually this generation would discover FOSS and think it is "just wrong" because it "doesn't reward artists" and all sorts of other clap-trap that they have been taught. Some of this generation might become congressmen and happily pass laws that make FOSS impractical or impossible.
It's funny how ignorant people are of it. Ever wonder why people pay their bills? Why they obey the law? Morals and ethics and all that stuff is just a crutch.. the real reason is that, if they don't, men with guns will come and take them away.
While you're asking for it to be "faster", other people are asking for a smaller memory footprint.. considering that most performance issues in a browser are related to caching, they can't please all the users all the time.
Yes, the guy is a weirdo.. but so are a lot of people I respect. He rubbed me the wrong way about a decade ago and I wrote the guy off, but after reading this I came to see that I was just being too damn harsh. Which led me to write this. I try to be more tolerate these days, but I tell ya, posting on Slashdot really doesn't help in that department.
Riight. Can you please give me a list of restaurants in the US where you've gotten this treatment? Because I often have to yell to get service like that. I especially hate the 10 to 15 minutes it often takes between me asking for the bill and them delivering it.. only to walk away before I can give them my credit card.. so I have to wait another 5 to 10 minutes.. then they take another 5 to 10 minutes to return the bill and then I get the joy of playing the "how much is 15% of that" game (which you have to add even if the meal and the service was terrible, otherwise you're a prick) and then, after I make my mark, I'm finally free to leave. Average time from asking for the bill and getting out of the freakin' restaurant? 20 minutes or so, but sometimes 30.
testifying Unfortunately not in a court of law, where the only value of testimony is that given under oath and where stuff like hearsay is inadmissible.
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heh, point to the law which says you can be jailed for copying.
That kid is back the escalator!
copying != uploading.
The claim is that copying will get you arrested.
http://www.sohh.com/articles/article.php/10740
"DJ Drama and DJ Don Cannon were expected to appear before a Fulton County judge at 9 a.m. this morning (January 24), however SOHH.com has learned that the scheduled court session has been postponed. [..] The Fulton County Superior Court session was to be Simmons and Cannon's first since their arrest on racketeering charges, offering attorneys a chance to discuss how the case might proceed."
So, they were not arrested for "copying" and there has yet to even be a trial let alone a conviction.. is this the best you've got?
It may be about choice to you, and that's fine, but the problem comes when the "about choice" people start weighing in on matters that are more important than choice.. like freedom and the cohesion of the community.
I know you're joking, but why exactly would that be a bad thing?
Uh huh. I thought Linus said it was "just for fun".. and he even penned a book by the same title.
Were you talking about GNU/Linux? Cause we all know what GNU is about and it isn't "choice".
Apparently they don't even teach teens enough to say "what law? Show me this law, written down and approved by vote, which says what you claim. Oh, there is no law? You were just lying?"
You refuse to help friends and family?
Is your loyalty to the copyright holder and the copyright system really worth betraying your Mom?
You sicken me.
ya dreaming. What would happen if all this IP propaganda was actually effective is that eventually this generation would discover FOSS and think it is "just wrong" because it "doesn't reward artists" and all sorts of other clap-trap that they have been taught. Some of this generation might become congressmen and happily pass laws that make FOSS impractical or impossible.
Umm, in which countries is it illegal dude?
Seriously. If you know which countries actually arrest people for "copying music", I'd like to hear it.
Ya know it's not illegal right?
Seems the education campaigns are already working.
It's funny how ignorant people are of it. Ever wonder why people pay their bills? Why they obey the law? Morals and ethics and all that stuff is just a crutch.. the real reason is that, if they don't, men with guns will come and take them away.
Human society is based on violence. What you're suggesting is that we all just stop being human. Good luck with that.
about:cache?device=memory
Have a look at what is in your cache.
And supported 1/1000th of the functions of a typical web browser today.
The world has moved on from ad hoc HTML with very few sites even using javascript.
Back then the number of images on a typical page was three, now it is a hundred.
CSS didn't exist.
The list goes on.
Welcome to Slashdot.
invest in *.
The FSF isn't a money making machine.. so there isn't much chance of that.
The SFLC on the other hand...
While you're asking for it to be "faster", other people are asking for a smaller memory footprint.. considering that most performance issues in a browser are related to caching, they can't please all the users all the time.
Stress just got split into "comfort" and "room", the later of which always seemed kind of abstract to me.
Yes, the guy is a weirdo.. but so are a lot of people I respect. He rubbed me the wrong way about a decade ago and I wrote the guy off, but after reading this I came to see that I was just being too damn harsh. Which led me to write this. I try to be more tolerate these days, but I tell ya, posting on Slashdot really doesn't help in that department.
You mean the autopsy that showed the death was accidental?
Seriously, what's the problem here? People die doing crazy shit all the time. Doesn't mean you have a right to close down their religion.
Riight. Can you please give me a list of restaurants in the US where you've gotten this treatment? Because I often have to yell to get service like that. I especially hate the 10 to 15 minutes it often takes between me asking for the bill and them delivering it.. only to walk away before I can give them my credit card.. so I have to wait another 5 to 10 minutes.. then they take another 5 to 10 minutes to return the bill and then I get the joy of playing the "how much is 15% of that" game (which you have to add even if the meal and the service was terrible, otherwise you're a prick) and then, after I make my mark, I'm finally free to leave. Average time from asking for the bill and getting out of the freakin' restaurant? 20 minutes or so, but sometimes 30.