I prefer to think of it as anyone has the right to form a world government with a police force who can go and enforce any laws they like. Of course, you'd wanna have a shit load of guns.
junkies cost the public coffers (or philanthropists, which is the same thing) money to feed their drug-addicted asses
Ummm.. no, it's not the same thing at all. Philanthropists offer to give their money for a "good cause". The public have their money taken away from them under the threat of imprisionment. If the only difference between the two is free will and you think that they're the "same thing" then maybe libertarianism isn't for you.
Wont making the government really really weak just invite big ass cartels back to the country? I really liked the game Syndicate, but that was only because I didn't live in those scary little corporate sponsored gang infested little towns.
Although I see your point, it would be very difficult to argue that a model file or a wall texture is somehow derived from the Quake 2 source code. If you made any changes to the engine you'd have to release those changes when you distributed the engine, but your artwork could legally be distributed with any license.
Have any games companies released a game that used the GPL version of the Quake 2 engine? It would seem to me that it's a pretty good deal: just stick a tar of the source on the CD and you've forefilled the requirements of the GPL. Of course, your content need not be distributed under the GPL.
Dude, don't hate your country. Hate Howard. You know that ad on tv with the "protecting Australia's $800 billion economy", we should put something together that adds a line right below it "by sucking US cock" or something slightly less inflamitary like "with the blood of our soldiers". Give the people a little reminder that this coming election isn't about "trust" as the tv is trying to make it, it's about Howard selling us out at every opportunity. Is it any wonder that Gough Witlam is the most remembered Australian Prime Minister?
So the concept of incidental copies isn't even codified in uk legislation? That really is sad. Here in Australia we not only always have the right to run a program, we have the right to reverse engineer a program for most purposes including just to see what it does.
Can you quote the case? Cause if you're talking about Nintendo vs Accolade then you are wrong. This was the premise of the case and Nintendo LOST. Copying into ram is not distribution and repeatably the courts have found that copyright is about distribution.
You're close. Money has value because other people think it has value. I am willing to exchange my services for little pieces of paper because I know others are also willing to exchange their services for them.
You really don't know do you? He knows the difference between intellectual property and physical property, he just doesn't believe there should be any difference, and by continually repeating that sentiment he has personally managed to change copyright laws in countries all around the world.
What utopian land of hackers are you living in? You are aware that there is only 6 billion people on earth right? So by your logic 50% of us are leet hackers. Man, when you consider that most of that 6 billion live in poverty and don't even have computers that must mean that like 90% of people in the western world are leet hackers. God damn, I gotta get out more.
Trueth is, if they were to line all us leet hackers up against the wall they wouldn't need much of a mass grave to hide our bodies.
What he is asking is where did the idea come from that by buying a digital thing you get it forever? You don't get physical things forever.. That's always what Jack is asking: Why does everyone think digital things should be different to physical things? You and I know the answer, because they are fucking different Jack. But most other people don't and it is a really powerful argument to them.
Reading bad code is good for you also. You just have to recognise that it is bad. It's easy to tell what is good code and what is bad code. Set yourself a maintenance task. If it takes you half as long to complete the task on one code base as it does on the other then it is fair to say the first code base is better than the second (assuming equal levels of complexity).
Well hopefully you would learn by reading code that was good, not written by another student. Kinda explains why Microsoft's code is shit, they all learn by reading Bill's code.
Maybe this isn't what you are saying, but it made me think of it. I believe it is impossible to use Free Software without contributing in some way to the community, even if it is not terribly productive contribution, like whining, and if you have enough users there's always a small percentage that will actually do some activate development. If developing nations are going to embrace Free Software then surely that means they will be doing a lot of development on Free Software. The populations of these countries are enormous. Could it be that soon a large amount of Free Software development will be done in third world countries? Could it be that the majority of it will be? In which case won't you feel a bit guilty about using Free Software, especially for business. After all you're capitalising on the work of developing nations, just like those evil corporations.
Wouldn't it be great if we could sit down and shoot some scenes to make Contact the movie like Contact the book?
Oh, and you are aware that some mathematicians tore Carl apart for his "message in pie". It's like the Bible Code, if you look for meaning in randomness you will always find it because it is easy to assign meaning to something that is random (ask Wolfram).
That's what I liked about Takedown. But apparently everyone else on the planet hated specifically that. If you knew what was happening in that film you really got pissed there wasn't more technical detail. If you had no idea what was going on you really got pissed there was so much technical detail. Unfortunately there's more people in the second category than the first so most movies include no technical details.
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I prefer to think of it as anyone has the right to form a world government with a police force who can go and enforce any laws they like. Of course, you'd wanna have a shit load of guns.
Ummm.. no, it's not the same thing at all. Philanthropists offer to give their money for a "good cause". The public have their money taken away from them under the threat of imprisionment. If the only difference between the two is free will and you think that they're the "same thing" then maybe libertarianism isn't for you.
More to the point, why doesn't Bill Gates get pissed off everytime this happens and pony up his crack troops to kick some ass?
Wont making the government really really weak just invite big ass cartels back to the country? I really liked the game Syndicate, but that was only because I didn't live in those scary little corporate sponsored gang infested little towns.
Just give me your name, address, DOB and credit card number.
Although I see your point, it would be very difficult to argue that a model file or a wall texture is somehow derived from the Quake 2 source code. If you made any changes to the engine you'd have to release those changes when you distributed the engine, but your artwork could legally be distributed with any license.
Have any games companies released a game that used the GPL version of the Quake 2 engine? It would seem to me that it's a pretty good deal: just stick a tar of the source on the CD and you've forefilled the requirements of the GPL. Of course, your content need not be distributed under the GPL.
Qt for Windows isn't Free Software.
Dude, don't hate your country. Hate Howard. You know that ad on tv with the "protecting Australia's $800 billion economy", we should put something together that adds a line right below it "by sucking US cock" or something slightly less inflamitary like "with the blood of our soldiers". Give the people a little reminder that this coming election isn't about "trust" as the tv is trying to make it, it's about Howard selling us out at every opportunity. Is it any wonder that Gough Witlam is the most remembered Australian Prime Minister?
So the concept of incidental copies isn't even codified in uk legislation? That really is sad. Here in Australia we not only always have the right to run a program, we have the right to reverse engineer a program for most purposes including just to see what it does.
Can you quote the case? Cause if you're talking about Nintendo vs Accolade then you are wrong. This was the premise of the case and Nintendo LOST. Copying into ram is not distribution and repeatably the courts have found that copyright is about distribution.
You're close. Money has value because other people think it has value. I am willing to exchange my services for little pieces of paper because I know others are also willing to exchange their services for them.
Thanks for keeping the faith.. but you're aware that you're one guy whispering against a storm right?
You really don't know do you? He knows the difference between intellectual property and physical property, he just doesn't believe there should be any difference, and by continually repeating that sentiment he has personally managed to change copyright laws in countries all around the world.
Trueth is, if they were to line all us leet hackers up against the wall they wouldn't need much of a mass grave to hide our bodies.
What he is asking is where did the idea come from that by buying a digital thing you get it forever? You don't get physical things forever.. That's always what Jack is asking: Why does everyone think digital things should be different to physical things? You and I know the answer, because they are fucking different Jack. But most other people don't and it is a really powerful argument to them.
Reading bad code is good for you also. You just have to recognise that it is bad. It's easy to tell what is good code and what is bad code. Set yourself a maintenance task. If it takes you half as long to complete the task on one code base as it does on the other then it is fair to say the first code base is better than the second (assuming equal levels of complexity).
Well hopefully you would learn by reading code that was good, not written by another student. Kinda explains why Microsoft's code is shit, they all learn by reading Bill's code.
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Maybe this isn't what you are saying, but it made me think of it. I believe it is impossible to use Free Software without contributing in some way to the community, even if it is not terribly productive contribution, like whining, and if you have enough users there's always a small percentage that will actually do some activate development. If developing nations are going to embrace Free Software then surely that means they will be doing a lot of development on Free Software. The populations of these countries are enormous. Could it be that soon a large amount of Free Software development will be done in third world countries? Could it be that the majority of it will be? In which case won't you feel a bit guilty about using Free Software, especially for business. After all you're capitalising on the work of developing nations, just like those evil corporations.
I agree, but if you were to do that to a song from the future wouldn't it then be in a superset of these two states? :)
Wouldn't it be great if we could sit down and shoot some scenes to make Contact the movie like Contact the book?
Oh, and you are aware that some mathematicians tore Carl apart for his "message in pie". It's like the Bible Code, if you look for meaning in randomness you will always find it because it is easy to assign meaning to something that is random (ask Wolfram).
That's what I liked about Takedown. But apparently everyone else on the planet hated specifically that. If you knew what was happening in that film you really got pissed there wasn't more technical detail. If you had no idea what was going on you really got pissed there was so much technical detail. Unfortunately there's more people in the second category than the first so most movies include no technical details.
It sounds like an e-tag. Of course it probably isn't.
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