I'm coming off of the sysadmin route, so if that's what it comes down to then so be it. And to preface this comment... I'm super tired. If it doesn't make sense (I really tried) then ignore me, k?
I'm not taking the stance that copyright infringement is okay. I'm only saying that it is not *theft*. Your counter-example is not quite right, either, because you're still denying the use of the product to the original owner. Unless you're stealing money and paying what the money was paid for... That just doesn't sound right, you know what I mean.
If someone goes into McAfee's building and *steals* the hard disc drives and tapes and other backup sources for their anti-virus software code then it has been *stolen*. If someone just copies it then it has been *infringed* because it *does not* deny McAfee the use of that code. McAfee still retains the code. The infringer just has an illegal *copy*.
I'm not saying that infringement is right. It is illegal, and it should be punished. I am saying that infringement is *not theft* simply because it does not deny the use of the original work to the original owner.
And just for the record: I do not pirate music, movies, or software over peer-to-peer networks (or at all, for that matter). I *do* only buy music from non-RIAA-affiliated artists or used so the RIAA doesn't get a share. I *do* only buy movies that are non-MPAA-affiliated or used so the MPAA doesn't get a share. I *do* mostly use Free and Open Source Software to accomplish my work. I *do* donate money and sometimes code and technical writing skills to many (though not all) of those projects.
According to an Eagleton-Rutgers poll released on October 17, 2004, Kerry is expected to lead Bush with 51% of the popular vote. Bush's vote percentage is projected at 38% while Nader lags with 2%. New Jersey has 15 electoral votes.
Given the timeframe a significant event would be required for Bush to reclaim the lead over Kerry.
You're still viewing copyrighted works as "hard" property. What you should really be asking is:
Would a bank robbery be "different" if they ran into the bank and faithfully reproduced each bank note there and then went out and...?
You get the picture. Copyright infringement *DOES NOT DENY* the use of the work to the original owner. It merely creates a new copy that is not distributed in a manner agreeable to the originator.
It's not flaming when someone brings up legitimate points.
Sinclair has every right to show this film on their networks except during election season. There are rules and regulations that must be followed. If they show this film then they must also show anti-Bush propoganda for the exact amount of time (Farenheit 9/11 would be a good fit, but it is by no means the only film available).
Do not forget that they are "pre-empting" (which means, in this case, playing over) regular broadcasting. This will create a huge problem with advertisers who expect their material to be played during regular commercial breaks of certain shows.
Since you brought up Michael Moore's piece, we have all shown you the clear problem with your argument. Farenheit 9/11, while certainly a propoganda piece, was not "pre-empting" regular programming on public airwaves during election season.
So stop whining about the left being so "up in arms" when all they are doing is attempting to bring regulatory entities into this so laws will not be broken.
Most politicians in the United States of America are held accountable to their constituency by the electoral process.
Most citizens in the United States of America are held accountable to their peers by the judicial process.
This case is special in that the politician has (possibly) violated a law. Enforcement of the law is not in the hands of his constituency. Enforcement of the law is in the hands of the legal system.
So instead of just giving your vote to another candidate, why not make this politician accountable for his (possibly) unlawful actions in the same manner in which citizens are held accountable?
I read the article to which you linked. Does that not read like a propoganda piece? It puts positive spin on every feature except the A9 Toolbar where a neutral "only works with Internet Explorer" is used instead.
...please don't moderate this insightful or anything - not meant to be making statements.
Why don't they build a regular looking helicopter that uses something like a bicycle transmission? I mean, getting the rotors to spin at first would seem kind of hard, but once they're up to speed for that gear shift to the next one. You would probably go through a hundred gears, but in my mind that seems right?
I'll second this. I once was a sysadmin, and I couldn't bear to use a computer at home anymore. I changed my hobby to philosophy. I quit being a sysadmin to write childrens books while trying to get a physics degree. Now I have two hobbies - computers and philosophy.
According to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (which, as I understand it, has been partially superceded by the Federal Do-Not-Call registry law) Subpart L Section 64.1200(c):
The term "telephone call" in sec. 64.1200(a)(2) shall not include a call or message by, or on behalf of, a caller:
that is not made for a commercial purpose,
that is made for a commercial purpose but does not include the transmission of any unsolicited advertisement,
to any person with whom the caller has an established business relationship at the time the call is made, or
which is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization.
Further down in section 64.1200(f)(4):
The term "established business relationship" means a prior or existing relationship formed by a voluntary two-way communication between a person or entity and a residential subscriber with or without an exchange of consideration, on the basis of an inquiry, application, purchase or transaction by the residential subscriber regarding products or services offered by such person or entity, which relationship has not been previously terminated by either party.
So according to my interpretation of this, there is no limitation on how long the "previous business relationship" rule is in effect provided the "relationship has not been previously terminated by either party."
It is possible that this means once a customer not always customer. So one of the above poster's comments concerning the newspaper for which he works would still allow complaints under the TCPA since some of the people on the Federal Do-Not-Call have probably terminated their business relationship with the newspaper.
It's great to see that the creators and publishers of the Myth games will allow fan improvements to their code-base. This was also seen a while back with this Slashdot article about a fan-created Myth II patch.
There was one exception who was Neal Armstrong (Yes that one!) and he tried to mount a proper effort. It got hit by Kurdish Terrorists.
I forgot to include this bit in my last post. The astronaut that sought the ark was James Irwin - the first man to drive a "buggy" on the moon. He led several expeditions, none of which were cancelled because of terrorists. He did, however, suffer very serious injuries on one of those expeditions when he fell quite a long ways down a slope.
On one of the modern expeditions (1980's) men brought back wood which appeared to match the ark specs which was taken from near the historically reported site.
The first pieces of hand-tooled wood found on Mt. Ararat were discovered in 1953 by Ferdinand Navarra. He returned to the site in 1954 and 1955 bringing back a sample on the latter expedition. This piece of wood was lignite dated (a method of dating used before current carbon-14 methods) to be approximately 5,000 years old. The only problem with lignite dating is that it's horribly inaccurate. Modern dating results for this sample were obtained by five different labs all with similar conclusions: the wood is from the seventh century CE. There was a great deal of controversy at the time about the assumptions that went into these five tests, but the results still stand. If you wish to read more on Navarra's discrediting then a simple Google search should suffice.
The second pieces of hand-tooled wood found on Mt. Ararat were discovered in 1984 by George Jammal. Jammal did visit Mt. Ararat in 1980, but his expedition was unsuccessful. This piece of wood has been carbon-14 dated to be only 2,000 years old. Again, there is controversy surrounding the assumptions used in the dating process. Jammal's story isn't quite right, either. Should the reader be so inclined, a Google search will turn up more information on his discrediting.
This wood is of a species not living today and similar to cypress which lives nowhere near the mountain now.
The piece of wood is not only of a species of tree that is living today, but it is also not a cypress tree. The 1984 wood sample is from a type of oak tree that is found in abundance today. What makes people think it is "not living today" is that this tree is not currently found on Mt. Ararat. The closest place one could find this tree is approximately 300 km away. However, local records, whether verbally passed or written I'm not sure, indicate that Mt. Ararat was a heavily forested area sometime around 200 to 300 years ago. It is feasible that this species of oak was found on the mountain during that time period.
I am not aware of any other wood samples being brought back from expedition.
It is of the proper carbon dated age range and has the proper machining marks to match.
As stated earlier, the carbon-14 dating used on this second wood sample showed it to be only 2,000 years old. This places the "great flood" and the ark firmly in the age of the Roman Empire. I'm quite certain Caesar would have noted something like this in his records. As for machining marks, I can't argue with you on that. The machining marks have been verified to be from bronze-age hand-tools - the kind a poor community during the early first century CE would use.
I sincerely doubt that even if the ark is found and is substantially intact that it will change any hearts or minds. The Atheists will remain adamant that it is a fabrication. The Biblical scholars will argue as usual and the Islamic nuts will...
The reason nothing will change is because nothing is proven. The existence of the ark would no more prove that God exists than it would prove that Moore's Law will be broken. The only thing a discovery like this would prove is that a large ark that possibly housed animals was built. It may or may not have "landed" on Mt. Ararat. There is absolutely no concrete evidence to show that this mountain was once submerged. If it was, one should be able to find large amounts of sea salts, pillow lava, water-formed sediments, and/or fossiliforous rocks. Only pillow lava is reported to be on the mountain. However, geologists have not performed an exhaustive study of these formations, and many experts claim that it is not pillow lava at all.
Recent expeditions found the anchor stones from it in the proper region for them to have been dropped.
These expeditions were to the regions surrounding Mt. Ararat. The searchers discovered large stone blo
I once setup a PC for a client, and his modem claimed to connect at 54,667 bps. I was astonished to say the least. Since he regularly connected at this speed, I now suspect some trickery in his modem's.inf file. I would almost bet the modem manufacturer (it's a "winmodem") did this to make their modems appear to connect faster than competing modems. Of course, I think of this long after I've moved away.
When we used Comcast as my local telco, I regularly connected at 48,000 bps. Now, however, we've switched to Verizon and are barely getting a stable 19,200 bps connection. We're supposed to be getting 1.5 Mbps ADSL soon, though.
I've been doing IT (sysadmin) for ten years now on only a high school degree and a lot of experience. Unfortunately, the company I had been working for closed its doors last year, and I haven't been able to find an IT job since. I worked at a retail place for a bit, but that didn't go over too well.
So now I'm going to college to persue my original dream - physics.
When I was working for a law firm in downtown Dallas, I had to work with 174 domain names registered with GoDaddy. I had a few minor quibbles with them, but their telephone support was second-to-none. Just give the guys a call. The worst they could do is say no.
Don't get irate with them on the phone, either - that'll just convince the telephone rep. to not help you. Be nice, courteous - it's not that guy's fault. Don't threaten with lawyers or the BBB to the phone guys. Save that for certified mail.
Wouldn't simply running tar with --ignore-failed-read achieve the desired results? It wouldn't simply stop once it hits an error. Instead, tar will proceed beyond the error and probably just write out junk data (if anything at all) for the corrupted part of the archive.
DISCLAIMER: I haven't tried this, and I'm not entirely sure this is what you want.
If I had some moderator points I'd give you a +1 Insightful, but alas, I'm all out for today.
So instead I'll have to just say a few things. First, thanks for speaking up about the lack of decent accounting packages - even ones that support the US tax rules! Yeah, there is SQL Ledger and others, but I've tried them. Not one works as good for my family's businesses as Peachtree Complete Accounting or QuickBooks Pro (let alone the mid-range stuff like MAS90).
And there's a damn good reason for it, too. You see, tax guys like to get paid and they generally don't like putzing around with software. Open source guys like to putz around with software, but they aren't so good with the tax stuff.
So, at least for now, the commercial software vendors have a leg up on free and open-source software - they can pay accountants to putz with software or at least work with the engineers.
Somewhere along the line, we'll get great (and I mean great) free and open-source accounting software. I have every bit of faith in the process. Unfortunately, that process can sometimes be slow.
As far as Norwegian internationalization / localization - any specific software package you're needing translated? I've been learning Norwegian steady for a bit now, and I might give it a go to help my skills along.
Perhaps you really should read this article. It's actually an entry from Lindows.com's FAQ. Apparently, and I can vouch for this having setup multipe LindowsOS computers for friends and family, you can setup users during setup and don't have to run "EVERY DAMN THING as root."
Turns out that this little bit of FUD took "root" (pun intended).
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You are correct. Only copyright law acts the way your parent poster describes.
Does anyone have a link to the court order, the ruling (opinion), or the transcript of the case?
I'm coming off of the sysadmin route, so if that's what it comes down to then so be it. And to preface this comment... I'm super tired. If it doesn't make sense (I really tried) then ignore me, k?
I'm not taking the stance that copyright infringement is okay. I'm only saying that it is not *theft*. Your counter-example is not quite right, either, because you're still denying the use of the product to the original owner. Unless you're stealing money and paying what the money was paid for... That just doesn't sound right, you know what I mean.
If someone goes into McAfee's building and *steals* the hard disc drives and tapes and other backup sources for their anti-virus software code then it has been *stolen*. If someone just copies it then it has been *infringed* because it *does not* deny McAfee the use of that code. McAfee still retains the code. The infringer just has an illegal *copy*.
I'm not saying that infringement is right. It is illegal, and it should be punished. I am saying that infringement is *not theft* simply because it does not deny the use of the original work to the original owner.
And just for the record: I do not pirate music, movies, or software over peer-to-peer networks (or at all, for that matter). I *do* only buy music from non-RIAA-affiliated artists or used so the RIAA doesn't get a share. I *do* only buy movies that are non-MPAA-affiliated or used so the MPAA doesn't get a share. I *do* mostly use Free and Open Source Software to accomplish my work. I *do* donate money and sometimes code and technical writing skills to many (though not all) of those projects.
According to an Eagleton-Rutgers poll released on October 17, 2004, Kerry is expected to lead Bush with 51% of the popular vote. Bush's vote percentage is projected at 38% while Nader lags with 2%. New Jersey has 15 electoral votes.
Given the timeframe a significant event would be required for Bush to reclaim the lead over Kerry.
You're still viewing copyrighted works as "hard" property. What you should really be asking is:
Would a bank robbery be "different" if they ran into the bank and faithfully reproduced each bank note there and then went out and...?
You get the picture. Copyright infringement *DOES NOT DENY* the use of the work to the original owner. It merely creates a new copy that is not distributed in a manner agreeable to the originator.
Why would I want to lick it?
It's not flaming when someone brings up legitimate points.
Sinclair has every right to show this film on their networks except during election season. There are rules and regulations that must be followed. If they show this film then they must also show anti-Bush propoganda for the exact amount of time (Farenheit 9/11 would be a good fit, but it is by no means the only film available).
Do not forget that they are "pre-empting" (which means, in this case, playing over) regular broadcasting. This will create a huge problem with advertisers who expect their material to be played during regular commercial breaks of certain shows.
Since you brought up Michael Moore's piece, we have all shown you the clear problem with your argument. Farenheit 9/11, while certainly a propoganda piece, was not "pre-empting" regular programming on public airwaves during election season.
So stop whining about the left being so "up in arms" when all they are doing is attempting to bring regulatory entities into this so laws will not be broken.
Most politicians in the United States of America are held accountable to their constituency by the electoral process.
Most citizens in the United States of America are held accountable to their peers by the judicial process.
This case is special in that the politician has (possibly) violated a law. Enforcement of the law is not in the hands of his constituency. Enforcement of the law is in the hands of the legal system.
So instead of just giving your vote to another candidate, why not make this politician accountable for his (possibly) unlawful actions in the same manner in which citizens are held accountable?
I read the article to which you linked. Does that not read like a propoganda piece? It puts positive spin on every feature except the A9 Toolbar where a neutral "only works with Internet Explorer" is used instead.
I wonder if Amazon's marketing guys wrote this.
Could you provide a source for this, please?
Then how come Republican Orrin Hatch is the entertainment industry's number one politician?
...please don't moderate this insightful or anything - not meant to be making statements.
Why don't they build a regular looking helicopter that uses something like a bicycle transmission? I mean, getting the rotors to spin at first would seem kind of hard, but once they're up to speed for that gear shift to the next one. You would probably go through a hundred gears, but in my mind that seems right?
I'll second this. I once was a sysadmin, and I couldn't bear to use a computer at home anymore. I changed my hobby to philosophy. I quit being a sysadmin to write childrens books while trying to get a physics degree. Now I have two hobbies - computers and philosophy.
According to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (which, as I understand it, has been partially superceded by the Federal Do-Not-Call registry law) Subpart L Section 64.1200(c):
Further down in section 64.1200(f)(4):
So according to my interpretation of this, there is no limitation on how long the "previous business relationship" rule is in effect provided the "relationship has not been previously terminated by either party."
It is possible that this means once a customer not always customer. So one of the above poster's comments concerning the newspaper for which he works would still allow complaints under the TCPA since some of the people on the Federal Do-Not-Call have probably terminated their business relationship with the newspaper.
It's great to see that the creators and publishers of the Myth games will allow fan improvements to their code-base. This was also seen a while back with this Slashdot article about a fan-created Myth II patch.
I do really care, and I'm proceeding to Google immediately. Thank you for pointing that out to me.
Here is what gets installed after Windows XP Home SP1a and all the patches:
There was one exception who was Neal Armstrong (Yes that one!) and he tried to mount a proper effort. It got hit by Kurdish Terrorists.
I forgot to include this bit in my last post. The astronaut that sought the ark was James Irwin - the first man to drive a "buggy" on the moon. He led several expeditions, none of which were cancelled because of terrorists. He did, however, suffer very serious injuries on one of those expeditions when he fell quite a long ways down a slope.
On one of the modern expeditions (1980's) men brought back wood which appeared to match the ark specs which was taken from near the historically reported site.
The first pieces of hand-tooled wood found on Mt. Ararat were discovered in 1953 by Ferdinand Navarra. He returned to the site in 1954 and 1955 bringing back a sample on the latter expedition. This piece of wood was lignite dated (a method of dating used before current carbon-14 methods) to be approximately 5,000 years old. The only problem with lignite dating is that it's horribly inaccurate. Modern dating results for this sample were obtained by five different labs all with similar conclusions: the wood is from the seventh century CE. There was a great deal of controversy at the time about the assumptions that went into these five tests, but the results still stand. If you wish to read more on Navarra's discrediting then a simple Google search should suffice.
The second pieces of hand-tooled wood found on Mt. Ararat were discovered in 1984 by George Jammal. Jammal did visit Mt. Ararat in 1980, but his expedition was unsuccessful. This piece of wood has been carbon-14 dated to be only 2,000 years old. Again, there is controversy surrounding the assumptions used in the dating process. Jammal's story isn't quite right, either. Should the reader be so inclined, a Google search will turn up more information on his discrediting.
This wood is of a species not living today and similar to cypress which lives nowhere near the mountain now.
The piece of wood is not only of a species of tree that is living today, but it is also not a cypress tree. The 1984 wood sample is from a type of oak tree that is found in abundance today. What makes people think it is "not living today" is that this tree is not currently found on Mt. Ararat. The closest place one could find this tree is approximately 300 km away. However, local records, whether verbally passed or written I'm not sure, indicate that Mt. Ararat was a heavily forested area sometime around 200 to 300 years ago. It is feasible that this species of oak was found on the mountain during that time period.
I am not aware of any other wood samples being brought back from expedition.
It is of the proper carbon dated age range and has the proper machining marks to match.
As stated earlier, the carbon-14 dating used on this second wood sample showed it to be only 2,000 years old. This places the "great flood" and the ark firmly in the age of the Roman Empire. I'm quite certain Caesar would have noted something like this in his records. As for machining marks, I can't argue with you on that. The machining marks have been verified to be from bronze-age hand-tools - the kind a poor community during the early first century CE would use.
I sincerely doubt that even if the ark is found and is substantially intact that it will change any hearts or minds. The Atheists will remain adamant that it is a fabrication. The Biblical scholars will argue as usual and the Islamic nuts will...
The reason nothing will change is because nothing is proven. The existence of the ark would no more prove that God exists than it would prove that Moore's Law will be broken. The only thing a discovery like this would prove is that a large ark that possibly housed animals was built. It may or may not have "landed" on Mt. Ararat. There is absolutely no concrete evidence to show that this mountain was once submerged. If it was, one should be able to find large amounts of sea salts, pillow lava, water-formed sediments, and/or fossiliforous rocks. Only pillow lava is reported to be on the mountain. However, geologists have not performed an exhaustive study of these formations, and many experts claim that it is not pillow lava at all.
Recent expeditions found the anchor stones from it in the proper region for them to have been dropped.
These expeditions were to the regions surrounding Mt. Ararat. The searchers discovered large stone blo
I once setup a PC for a client, and his modem claimed to connect at 54,667 bps. I was astonished to say the least. Since he regularly connected at this speed, I now suspect some trickery in his modem's .inf file. I would almost bet the modem manufacturer (it's a "winmodem") did this to make their modems appear to connect faster than competing modems. Of course, I think of this long after I've moved away.
When we used Comcast as my local telco, I regularly connected at 48,000 bps. Now, however, we've switched to Verizon and are barely getting a stable 19,200 bps connection. We're supposed to be getting 1.5 Mbps ADSL soon, though.
I've been doing IT (sysadmin) for ten years now on only a high school degree and a lot of experience. Unfortunately, the company I had been working for closed its doors last year, and I haven't been able to find an IT job since. I worked at a retail place for a bit, but that didn't go over too well.
So now I'm going to college to persue my original dream - physics.
When I was working for a law firm in downtown Dallas, I had to work with 174 domain names registered with GoDaddy. I had a few minor quibbles with them, but their telephone support was second-to-none. Just give the guys a call. The worst they could do is say no.
Don't get irate with them on the phone, either - that'll just convince the telephone rep. to not help you. Be nice, courteous - it's not that guy's fault. Don't threaten with lawyers or the BBB to the phone guys. Save that for certified mail.
Wouldn't simply running tar with --ignore-failed-read achieve the desired results? It wouldn't simply stop once it hits an error. Instead, tar will proceed beyond the error and probably just write out junk data (if anything at all) for the corrupted part of the archive.
DISCLAIMER: I haven't tried this, and I'm not entirely sure this is what you want.
If I had some moderator points I'd give you a +1 Insightful, but alas, I'm all out for today.
So instead I'll have to just say a few things. First, thanks for speaking up about the lack of decent accounting packages - even ones that support the US tax rules! Yeah, there is SQL Ledger and others, but I've tried them. Not one works as good for my family's businesses as Peachtree Complete Accounting or QuickBooks Pro (let alone the mid-range stuff like MAS90).
And there's a damn good reason for it, too. You see, tax guys like to get paid and they generally don't like putzing around with software. Open source guys like to putz around with software, but they aren't so good with the tax stuff.
So, at least for now, the commercial software vendors have a leg up on free and open-source software - they can pay accountants to putz with software or at least work with the engineers.
Somewhere along the line, we'll get great (and I mean great) free and open-source accounting software. I have every bit of faith in the process. Unfortunately, that process can sometimes be slow.
As far as Norwegian internationalization / localization - any specific software package you're needing translated? I've been learning Norwegian steady for a bit now, and I might give it a go to help my skills along.
Perhaps you really should read this article. It's actually an entry from Lindows.com's FAQ. Apparently, and I can vouch for this having setup multipe LindowsOS computers for friends and family, you can setup users during setup and don't have to run "EVERY DAMN THING as root."
Turns out that this little bit of FUD took "root" (pun intended).