If it wasn't readily available to read (e.g. On the outside of the box or handed to you beforehand by the salesjerk) then it is usually not enforceable.
You should be doing audits anyway and booting people who install pirated or even unauthorized software.
Get your IS Dept off their butts and have them do their WHOLE job. If they can't, there are lots of out-of-work pros who would be happy to fill their spot.
...to ensure their copyright is not violated. A previous business I worked for was raided; and I support the folks who had it raided. If you use commercial software, pay for it. How much more simple can it get?!
Glad to see the statement in an earlier posting that the US Marshals require a court order before they'll act. Some people here and elsewhere like to be childish and think that the Marshals are just hired thugs for M$. Not true. The Marshals are doing the job of enforcing laws that have been on the books for decades and people understand at least the basic idea of those laws.
Anyone who pirate software is committing a crime; and they should be ready to pay the consequences. It's more likely that a business will be caught than an individual or household. That doesn't make piracy any less wrong.
You're talking pie-in-the-sky philosophy. He is talking down-to-Earth realism. Can a big, powerful drone squeeze its way into a cave? Doubt it. Will a big, sophisticated drone be able to navigate through unbelievably thick tropical jungles without rusting to a pile of junk. Doubt it.
And the Gulf War was won by siege. If you want to be philosophical, fine...say it was because of Hussein's mental mistake. But the actual act of winning came about by destroying the bulk of its army and denying it the imports on which Iraq relys.
Get a reality check. Or take your dreamland attitude back to the psycho ward. Either will stop your wasting our time.
"When humans fight they want to see real damage to the opposition..."
More importantly, it requires real damage to subdue the opposition. Will an entire country surrender at the moment that its drone army is defeated. Of course not. The average person is too stupid to realize the ramifications of suddenly becoming defenseless. It will require sending drones into the opposing civilian populations and devastating them before the opposing country capitulates.
War isn't chess. There is no checkmate. You must actually kill lots of people before a country acknowledges defeat.
After the enemy mech is defeated...
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...the drones go to the other countries civilian population and wipe it out. Other than saving a few more soldiers' lives, what's the difference from today's warfare?
The biggest preventer of this is cost. Creating a sufficiently 'smart' drone would be enormously costly. And there is no way that we'd use remote control drones, since you could lose communication easily or someone one could breech whatever security it had and take over control.
This is a (bad) dream that won't be even remotely thinkable for a century or more.
I only hope they'll soon get rid of the movie-hyping covers on the newest hardcover editions and replace them with something more Tolkien-esque. Wish I had bought the hardcover versions of the 1983 Ballantine releases. Those were cool covers.
When will automakers offer the ability to set options? When we make them, of course.
I personally hate the lighting systems that act like your mom. I don't want my lights on during the day. I also want the dome light to go off immediately when I shut off the car, unless I intervene. I also don't want the @$%# locks to lock every time the car goes off->on and vice versa.
Add to that the ability to turn on/off the chipped key requirement and whatever else isn't absolutely required for the car to run.
...even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
What a vague, pointless statement. Ted Bundy and Timothy McVeigh made undeniable 'contributions' to our culture and are 'American icons'. Nothing they did in those acts positively contributed to our country or culture. I hope they burn in Hell.
Maybe in your pathetic life; but not in the vast majority of peoples'. If it were, the horror of Sept 11th wouldn't have been horror...just an everyday occurance.
Raise yourself above being just another dumb animal.
The "filth" you describe is simply one way to depict those crucial elements.
Those 'elements' you self-righteously describe are not dependent on sex, violence, or cursing to be conveyed. Many excellent films and books written by skilled writers convey them without coming anywhere near normal moral boundaries. It is only the childish voyeurs crying for their measure of crud who think it is at all necessary to be 'graphic'.
This is no different than your turning off the TV for a moment at an objectionable scene or muting the volume with your remote when some idiot character goes off.
And calling most movies 'art'...now that's a laugh....
I'd be rich if I had a $ for each movie I've turned off because of the pointless nudity, sex, and profanity. In almost all cases these 'features' in a film are totally unnecessary to express the ideas of the film. In the end most of it is put in as an attempt to draw the weakminded to watch it.
Let the freaks rent a porno if their meaningless lives require them to be immersed in sex. An well done, artful film will be successful from the plot and character development. It doesn't need to lower itself to the sewer to make a profit.
Hmm...I wonder if the Columbine victims would agree with you. (As you'll remember, the handoff parental approach of Harris' and Klebold's parents led to the killing rampage.)
Those community standards are enforced so fervently on the teachers exactly because so many teachers try to push smut and freak lifestyles on their students.
Check out the latest initiatives of the American Ed Assoc. Talk about threats to our society....
They'll do like my DirecTV does: Have a setting that governs the highest -- or 'lowest', in my view -- rating viewable at all times unless someone with the access code temporarily changes it.
Ours is set to PG all of the time unless we decide to let something else through. Great feature, in my mind. That way the punk down the street who puts on the nice guy act can't switch it to Showtime or Playboy when I step out of the room.
Just proof that anyone who brings in any personal stuff they would mind losing is insane.
I've never brought in more than I could carry out in my arms. And none of it that would bother me to lose. (e.g. only pictures that I could get more copies of, cheap picture frames, etc.)
First of all, they're illegal aliens...with emphasis on the illegal.
Secondly, they're taking jobs from Americans and depressing wages.
Third, tend to _not_ pay taxes (except sales tax, which even tourists pay) since they're working under the table, and don't pay property tax since they're usually renting or living with a relative or friend. Meanwhile they're costing us BILLIONS of dollars on healthcare and education that they're not contributing to.
They're breaking our laws (e.g. spitting in our faces) by being here. They're lucky we haven't gotten a law through letting us knife them in the street.
Oh...and they're damn cowards for running here instead of fixing their own country.
Good thing our Founding Fathers had brass balls instead of being losers like the illegals that run here.
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If it wasn't readily available to read (e.g. On the outside of the box or handed to you beforehand by the salesjerk) then it is usually not enforceable.
You should be doing audits anyway and booting people who install pirated or even unauthorized software.
Get your IS Dept off their butts and have them do their WHOLE job. If they can't, there are lots of out-of-work pros who would be happy to fill their spot.
...to ensure their copyright is not violated. A previous business I worked for was raided; and I support the folks who had it raided. If you use commercial software, pay for it. How much more simple can it get?!
Glad to see the statement in an earlier posting that the US Marshals require a court order before they'll act. Some people here and elsewhere like to be childish and think that the Marshals are just hired thugs for M$. Not true. The Marshals are doing the job of enforcing laws that have been on the books for decades and people understand at least the basic idea of those laws.
Anyone who pirate software is committing a crime; and they should be ready to pay the consequences. It's more likely that a business will be caught than an individual or household. That doesn't make piracy any less wrong.
No...you're wrong.
You're talking pie-in-the-sky philosophy. He is talking down-to-Earth realism. Can a big, powerful drone squeeze its way into a cave? Doubt it. Will a big, sophisticated drone be able to navigate through unbelievably thick tropical jungles without rusting to a pile of junk. Doubt it.
And the Gulf War was won by siege. If you want to be philosophical, fine...say it was because of Hussein's mental mistake. But the actual act of winning came about by destroying the bulk of its army and denying it the imports on which Iraq relys.
Get a reality check. Or take your dreamland attitude back to the psycho ward. Either will stop your wasting our time.
"When humans fight they want to see real damage to the opposition..."
More importantly, it requires real damage to subdue the opposition. Will an entire country surrender at the moment that its drone army is defeated. Of course not. The average person is too stupid to realize the ramifications of suddenly becoming defenseless. It will require sending drones into the opposing civilian populations and devastating them before the opposing country capitulates.
War isn't chess. There is no checkmate. You must actually kill lots of people before a country acknowledges defeat.
...the drones go to the other countries civilian population and wipe it out. Other than saving a few more soldiers' lives, what's the difference from today's warfare?
The biggest preventer of this is cost. Creating a sufficiently 'smart' drone would be enormously costly. And there is no way that we'd use remote control drones, since you could lose communication easily or someone one could breech whatever security it had and take over control.
This is a (bad) dream that won't be even remotely thinkable for a century or more.
I'm too stupid to figure out how to surf from my Linux box. Add one to the count for me....
I only hope they'll soon get rid of the movie-hyping covers on the newest hardcover editions and replace them with something more Tolkien-esque. Wish I had bought the hardcover versions of the 1983 Ballantine releases. Those were cool covers.
When will automakers offer the ability to set options? When we make them, of course.
I personally hate the lighting systems that act like your mom. I don't want my lights on during the day. I also want the dome light to go off immediately when I shut off the car, unless I intervene. I also don't want the @$%# locks to lock every time the car goes off->on and vice versa.
Add to that the ability to turn on/off the chipped key requirement and whatever else isn't absolutely required for the car to run.
Would it be so hard to allow the owner to chose?
...even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
What a vague, pointless statement. Ted Bundy and Timothy McVeigh made undeniable 'contributions' to our culture and are 'American icons'. Nothing they did in those acts positively contributed to our country or culture. I hope they burn in Hell.
Sex and violence are the very definition of life.
Maybe in your pathetic life; but not in the vast majority of peoples'. If it were, the horror of Sept 11th wouldn't have been horror...just an everyday occurance.
Raise yourself above being just another dumb animal.
The "filth" you describe is simply one way to depict those crucial elements.
Those 'elements' you self-righteously describe are not dependent on sex, violence, or cursing to be conveyed. Many excellent films and books written by skilled writers convey them without coming anywhere near normal moral boundaries. It is only the childish voyeurs crying for their measure of crud who think it is at all necessary to be 'graphic'.
* Note: I did walk out. I wanted to see it, but certainly not while sitting between my parents.
And you call us naive? You don't even have the integrity to let your parents know you get turned on by porn in a public place.
Get a grip.
This is no different than your turning off the TV for a moment at an objectionable scene or muting the volume with your remote when some idiot character goes off.
And calling most movies 'art'...now that's a laugh....
Imagina using this option on the south park movie. You'd be watching a black screen for 90 minutes :)
That should be your clue that South Park and it's kind are junk.
I must agree with a lot of what you're saying.
I'd be rich if I had a $ for each movie I've turned off because of the pointless nudity, sex, and profanity. In almost all cases these 'features' in a film are totally unnecessary to express the ideas of the film. In the end most of it is put in as an attempt to draw the weakminded to watch it.
Let the freaks rent a porno if their meaningless lives require them to be immersed in sex. An well done, artful film will be successful from the plot and character development. It doesn't need to lower itself to the sewer to make a profit.
Hmm...I wonder if the Columbine victims would agree with you. (As you'll remember, the handoff parental approach of Harris' and Klebold's parents led to the killing rampage.)
Of course, those victims are all dead....
Those community standards are enforced so fervently on the teachers exactly because so many teachers try to push smut and freak lifestyles on their students.
Check out the latest initiatives of the American Ed Assoc. Talk about threats to our society....
Great info, Tom. Thanks for the new resources.
Guess what: The vast majority of your peers disagree with you.
If there were a significant (read: enough viewers to be profitable) market out there for NC-17 films, they'd be made and shown.
Obviously so few people are twisted scum looking for NC-17 content that the studios don't bother making it.
If you need to be a freak, go cower in the backroom theatre of the sex shops with the pedophiles. Stop doing it halfway.
Obviously it censored the dictionary, in your case.
Learn to spell.
They'll do like my DirecTV does: Have a setting that governs the highest -- or 'lowest', in my view -- rating viewable at all times unless someone with the access code temporarily changes it.
Ours is set to PG all of the time unless we decide to let something else through. Great feature, in my mind. That way the punk down the street who puts on the nice guy act can't switch it to Showtime or Playboy when I step out of the room.
It's called Showtime...Home of the most dehumanizing garbage ever seen.
Just proof that anyone who brings in any personal stuff they would mind losing is insane.
I've never brought in more than I could carry out in my arms. And none of it that would bother me to lose. (e.g. only pictures that I could get more copies of, cheap picture frames, etc.)
Get a grip.
First of all, they're illegal aliens...with emphasis on the illegal.
Secondly, they're taking jobs from Americans and depressing wages.
Third, tend to _not_ pay taxes (except sales tax, which even tourists pay) since they're working under the table, and don't pay property tax since they're usually renting or living with a relative or friend. Meanwhile they're costing us BILLIONS of dollars on healthcare and education that they're not contributing to.
They're breaking our laws (e.g. spitting in our faces) by being here. They're lucky we haven't gotten a law through letting us knife them in the street.
Oh...and they're damn cowards for running here instead of fixing their own country.
Good thing our Founding Fathers had brass balls instead of being losers like the illegals that run here.