Please go to the nearest police station and submit your DNA. Put your privacy where your mouth is.
Once you start okaying things based on the assumption that the state (ANY state!) is altruistic, you've just set yourself up for atrocities. Maybe the current administration is okay, but who knows about the next one?
Ah, just like Gattaca, but planting evidence to make someone else look bad rather than to make yourself look good. Quick, let's do a loser count on that one. Oh, I see we're in the 670k range so far;)
Well, then the southern US should be safe from these issues for a while. First reaseon: "Dee-En-Ay, what is that?" Second reason: They never get less than an 85% match - "Well, it wasn't him, but it was someone he was related to." "Aw, shucks, we already knew it was a guy, so it could still be half the city..."
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I can't see how that can go wrong. No matter what happens, you'll be happy at the end.
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Long dresses are going to make a comeback in european pr0n. I keep getting a vision of Benny Hill doing a skit where the real action starts when the lady hits the deceleration point.
How do you define this as black-hat? They purchase a piece of equipment, which they are, by law, entitled to use in any legal way, including turning it into an aquarium, for spare parts, or a linux box. They even go so far as to say their exploit won't work for pirated games, but that easy task is left to those who know how - more than most do. So they stay entirely within their legal rights (with the possible exception of DMCA, which is another ball game), and you compare them to black-hats? Sure, there was hacking involved, and it wasn't the intended use of the manufacturer, but that's not illegal. I don't get it.
Hey, I don't drink, and I don't eat seafood. For a second there, I almost did say yellow...now let me go and I'll find a nice tall bridge to jump off in this great flat land where I live. I'd better get started, it could take a while.
Which classic was that from? I remember reading it, but the only name that comes to me regarding that quote is The Integral Trees (which would NOT be about solar sailing).
Either way, that is the issue with solar sails. If your sail isn't perpindicular to the photon flow from the sun, you will only collect part of the angular momentum, therefore propelling you clockwise or counterclockwise, up or down from the inclination. And you probably do need a centreboard, and I suspect that it is comprised of your angular momentum and/or gravitational force. Not being a physicist, I don't think of this all day...
If the current trend of declining plot made up for with increasingly dazzling special effects, by the time these movies come out they'll just take your $8.50, give you a box of sparklers, and chase you around the theater a couple of times.
And you'll have been better off than if you had watched the last movie in just about any movie 'series'.
You're almost right. When you have about a billion square miles (about a billion square kilometers if you like metric;-) of wilderness, anyone can conduct rogue scientific experiments. Heck, with a little remote launch equipment, you could probably send off live missles and they wouldn't be able to figure out who it was. I'm sure this will get flagged by the U.S., and Canada will be told to maintain proper vigilance over all potential launch sites, or the Americans will have to send troops into all remote areas to be vigilant for unapproved launches. Of course, they've been doing that every summer for years, but their crack troops (a.k.a. 'tourists') keep forgetting that we actually have alcohol in our beer...
Curious that you mention the European laws, that's where the software I work with originated. Like I said, though, they didn't use any fixed-point decimals. In fact, their DLL for external programming has conversion routines to go from/to their (proprietary) datatype to/from BCD. You could fix the decimal size (it would trim/pad it to match), though, and the defaults for most of their fields was 5. Now I know why.
You're not looking far enough ahead. What do you do when you have two taxes collected, where each is a fraction of a cent? What do you do when the governing bodies allow you to combine the fractional cents for economy, and pay the tax based on total taxable sales at the end of the month? Where I live we have two VAT taxes, both 7%. There is nowhere, short of whole dollars that that equals whole pennies except for whole dollars. Since the governing bodies allow combining of taxes, 50 cents gives a whole number, too, but what do you do for the other 98% of the time? Now, just for fun, let's talk foreign currencies (how much is the peso in U.S. dollars?). You need at least 4 decimals. The accounting system I develop value-added mods for typically allows 5 decimals for financial values, and we've run into situations where this isn't enough for our clients.
Now, how the system stores that value may be up for grabs, but from what I've seen of the specs, they use a floating point.
No, more pointing out that the Bible has references to social responsibility that weren't surpassed for over 2000 years, if you believe the system we have today is better than it was then. You'll note I said they accused him of it. Upon his response, they knew they couldn't go any further. I'm just amused that people take the views of extreminsts, of whatever religion, and say that is what the religion is about. They ignore that you couldn't indebt yourself for more than 7 years, slavery wasn't permanent the first time around, and you chose for it to be permanent. Also, women were allowed to buy land, and thought well of for it. It doesn't quite sound like the repressive patriarchal (sp?) society most feminists make it out to be, does it? There may have been a lot of duties attributed to them, but that also comes with the freedom to accomplish it.
Yep, so now that they know that you have copyrighted material on your system, and they haven't broken any laws, they wait to see if anyone else downloads it (can they do that - I don't know). Once it happens, you're added to the list.
Of course, if they can't do that, there's that whole contriutory thing.
Sorry to break it to you, but stealing is a black-and-white issue whether it's stealing for survival
Most laws make specific exemptions for the sake of survival (murder vs. self-defense, break-and-enter vs. shelter-from-elements, theft vs. starvation or clothing). The theft one will likely get you some leniency, the other two can release you from the conditions of those crimes outright.
On a slightly off-topic note, for those of you who dislike the bible and what it stood for, the corners of fields were not to be harvested, nor was any grain that was dropped to be picked up. This was specifically left for the poor, or passers-by. Also, it was not theft if you harvested standing produce for yourself without any tools. Hence the crime Jesus was accused of was working and breaking the Sabbath when he and the disciples did so. Seems pretty archaic and repressive, doesn't it?
I'm not defending the RIAA and overpriced music, but I do think that refusing to buy is a more appropriate response to the problem than violating copyright law. It seems to me that the former would force a reduction in prices, whereas the latter would ensure widespread adoption of DRM, harsher laws, etc.
Hmm, your logic s compelling, and the facts seem to support it, but I would rather to listen to free music. Let's see how that Metallica/John Denver mp3 is coming along...
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Please go to the nearest police station and submit your DNA. Put your privacy where your mouth is.
Once you start okaying things based on the assumption that the state (ANY state!) is altruistic, you've just set yourself up for atrocities. Maybe the current administration is okay, but who knows about the next one?
Ah, just like Gattaca, but planting evidence to make someone else look bad rather than to make yourself look good. Quick, let's do a loser count on that one. Oh, I see we're in the 670k range so far ;)
Well, then the southern US should be safe from these issues for a while. First reaseon: "Dee-En-Ay, what is that?" Second reason: They never get less than an 85% match - "Well, it wasn't him, but it was someone he was related to." "Aw, shucks, we already knew it was a guy, so it could still be half the city..."
If one of those babies happened within 100 light-years, you could lose a bit more than an appendage.
T12: The Terminator Goes To The Grand Canyon With The Brady Bunch
I can't see how that can go wrong. No matter what happens, you'll be happy at the end.
Long dresses are going to make a comeback in european pr0n. I keep getting a vision of Benny Hill doing a skit where the real action starts when the lady hits the deceleration point.
Don't worry. The way things are going, soon he won't be able to tell the difference.
How do you define this as black-hat? They purchase a piece of equipment, which they are, by law, entitled to use in any legal way, including turning it into an aquarium, for spare parts, or a linux box. They even go so far as to say their exploit won't work for pirated games, but that easy task is left to those who know how - more than most do. So they stay entirely within their legal rights (with the possible exception of DMCA, which is another ball game), and you compare them to black-hats? Sure, there was hacking involved, and it wasn't the intended use of the manufacturer, but that's not illegal. I don't get it.
Hey, I don't drink, and I don't eat seafood. For a second there, I almost did say yellow...now let me go and I'll find a nice tall bridge to jump off in this great flat land where I live. I'd better get started, it could take a while.
Unfortunately, it doesn't taste nearly as good, and goes rather poorly with lobster.
Well, yes, when you use the blue ink. If you try the red ink, I'm sure you'll be much happier.
Which classic was that from? I remember reading it, but the only name that comes to me regarding that quote is The Integral Trees (which would NOT be about solar sailing).
Either way, that is the issue with solar sails. If your sail isn't perpindicular to the photon flow from the sun, you will only collect part of the angular momentum, therefore propelling you clockwise or counterclockwise, up or down from the inclination. And you probably do need a centreboard, and I suspect that it is comprised of your angular momentum and/or gravitational force. Not being a physicist, I don't think of this all day...
When I do it, it's in the name of Consumer Safety, too - namely, the removal thereof.
Cute sig, but I have a question for you - why do so many practice it?
If you're going for fiction (or fantasy), why not? Have you taken a look outside lately? Yeah, I didn't think so...
How come it never hits the PHB's?
First, they'd have to leave their ivory tower...
If the current trend of declining plot made up for with increasingly dazzling special effects, by the time these movies come out they'll just take your $8.50, give you a box of sparklers, and chase you around the theater a couple of times.
And you'll have been better off than if you had watched the last movie in just about any movie 'series'.
And guys wish they had something like that to show them...
You're almost right. When you have about a billion square miles (about a billion square kilometers if you like metric ;-) of wilderness, anyone can conduct rogue scientific experiments. Heck, with a little remote launch equipment, you could probably send off live missles and they wouldn't be able to figure out who it was. I'm sure this will get flagged by the U.S., and Canada will be told to maintain proper vigilance over all potential launch sites, or the Americans will have to send troops into all remote areas to be vigilant for unapproved launches. Of course, they've been doing that every summer for years, but their crack troops (a.k.a. 'tourists') keep forgetting that we actually have alcohol in our beer...
Curious that you mention the European laws, that's where the software I work with originated. Like I said, though, they didn't use any fixed-point decimals. In fact, their DLL for external programming has conversion routines to go from/to their (proprietary) datatype to/from BCD. You could fix the decimal size (it would trim/pad it to match), though, and the defaults for most of their fields was 5. Now I know why.
You're not looking far enough ahead. What do you do when you have two taxes collected, where each is a fraction of a cent? What do you do when the governing bodies allow you to combine the fractional cents for economy, and pay the tax based on total taxable sales at the end of the month? Where I live we have two VAT taxes, both 7%. There is nowhere, short of whole dollars that that equals whole pennies except for whole dollars. Since the governing bodies allow combining of taxes, 50 cents gives a whole number, too, but what do you do for the other 98% of the time? Now, just for fun, let's talk foreign currencies (how much is the peso in U.S. dollars?). You need at least 4 decimals. The accounting system I develop value-added mods for typically allows 5 decimals for financial values, and we've run into situations where this isn't enough for our clients.
Now, how the system stores that value may be up for grabs, but from what I've seen of the specs, they use a floating point.
No, more pointing out that the Bible has references to social responsibility that weren't surpassed for over 2000 years, if you believe the system we have today is better than it was then. You'll note I said they accused him of it. Upon his response, they knew they couldn't go any further. I'm just amused that people take the views of extreminsts, of whatever religion, and say that is what the religion is about. They ignore that you couldn't indebt yourself for more than 7 years, slavery wasn't permanent the first time around, and you chose for it to be permanent. Also, women were allowed to buy land, and thought well of for it. It doesn't quite sound like the repressive patriarchal (sp?) society most feminists make it out to be, does it? There may have been a lot of duties attributed to them, but that also comes with the freedom to accomplish it.
Yep, so now that they know that you have copyrighted material on your system, and they haven't broken any laws, they wait to see if anyone else downloads it (can they do that - I don't know). Once it happens, you're added to the list.
Of course, if they can't do that, there's that whole contriutory thing.
Sorry to break it to you, but stealing is a black-and-white issue whether it's stealing for survival
Most laws make specific exemptions for the sake of survival (murder vs. self-defense, break-and-enter vs. shelter-from-elements, theft vs. starvation or clothing). The theft one will likely get you some leniency, the other two can release you from the conditions of those crimes outright.
On a slightly off-topic note, for those of you who dislike the bible and what it stood for, the corners of fields were not to be harvested, nor was any grain that was dropped to be picked up. This was specifically left for the poor, or passers-by. Also, it was not theft if you harvested standing produce for yourself without any tools. Hence the crime Jesus was accused of was working and breaking the Sabbath when he and the disciples did so. Seems pretty archaic and repressive, doesn't it?
I'm not defending the RIAA and overpriced music, but I do think that refusing to buy is a more appropriate response to the problem than violating copyright law. It seems to me that the former would force a reduction in prices, whereas the latter would ensure widespread adoption of DRM, harsher laws, etc.
Hmm, your logic s compelling, and the facts seem to support it, but I would rather to listen to free music. Let's see how that Metallica/John Denver mp3 is coming along...