Ring your local elected representatives. Write to your local paper. Tell them the story. Demand that they get Diebold executives charged with vote-tampering. Whining to your fellow slashdotters will achieve nothing. Go hack the real world.
You know why? Because of the people who posted in reply to this article with nonsense like "illegal software" or "got what he deserved" or "should have been aware that this was possible".
If you think copying software ought to be illegal, then it logically follows that there ought to be some mechanism for enforcement of that law. If you go further and believe the marketing spin that it's somehow immoral behavior to copy software over and above mere illegality, well then, jackboots away.
This is unlikely to occur without active medical intervention, but in theory you could get twins who are genetically 'unrelated' by taking the two halves of each parental zygote (XX and xy) and cross-fertilizing them (Xx and Xy).
I am not a geneticist, and this came originally from an offhand comment by a character in a Robert Heinlein story.
I'd sure want his advice on how to do it, for which the committee/organization would pay. If that amounts to trust, then yeah. He's willing to take money to do antisocial things, he's declared an intention to give up spamming, why are you assuming his loyalty to other spammers would override his desire to be paid for his knowledge?
Don't worry about the smokers. They're taking breaks out of their work time now, but it's kind of like flex leave from the far end of their lives. They'll pay it back then.
So quit. Every day you spend doing that shit is a bit more of your essential humanity gone. Learn to live cheaper, so you can get by on a worse-paid, but better-satisfying, job. Move to a smaller house, sell the least played 300 of your PS2 games, go to movies a bit less often, start shopping for clothes at seconds outlets, whatever it takes.
Stuff is not worth being a wage slave for, worse yet a cringing, lying, and snivelling wage slave. And buddy, that's what you are. You cringe to your boss, who is the kind of guy who deserves a good hard punch in the nose (you'll be charged with assault, but you have no prior convictions (and I know this because you are a wuss): plead guilty, claim provocation, get witness statements from your fellow employees; you'll probably get off with a couple hundred dollar fine and may not even get a conviction recorded), you lie to your customers, and you snivel about your life to us.
You are responsible for your own fate. If you don't like it, you have the right to change. Go reclaim your humanity: punch your damn boss right in the nose, right now, and quit, and get yourself a life you wouldn't be ashamed to post under your real name about.
Any religion that works on the basis of dissemination of belief is pretty much against the notion of copyright, unless there's a specific priest class who have the sole right to teach the religion.
Yes, but only if you already buy into the 'copyright infringement = theft' worldview will you not get to listen to it. It's not a natural law, it's a business rule.
Denying funding for not doing X is exactly the same as mandating the non-doing of X, only worse, because the denial of funding is much harder to get reviewed, not least because people like Keebler71 think "it's only a funding issue, you can do without funding". Libraries can do without funding like you can do without air. Cutting off your access to air (when I control your sole source of air) unless you do what I want has the same effect, only worse, than ordering you to do what I want. It's an end-run around the processes for reviewing my orders.
I don't know whether this is a "stupidity hole" in libertarianism or Republican ideology, maybe both: neither ideology really understands the concept of dependence, especially inter-dependence. You are not an individual atom, wholly responsible to and for yourself. Everything you do creates obligations to and from you to others.
My discriminating tastes: 1% of inventory appeals to me, 1000 CDs.
Average CD length:.75hrs.
Time taken to listen to 1000 CDs: 750hrs.
Time each day spent listening: 15hrs
Days between hearing the same song: 50.
I don't know about you, but I can live with that, plus the occasional new songs put out by people who actually WANT to, who feel INSPIRED to write songs. Same goes for movies, books and computer games. Novelty is overrated.
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Ring your local elected representatives. Write to your local paper. Tell them the story. Demand that they get Diebold executives charged with vote-tampering. Whining to your fellow slashdotters will achieve nothing. Go hack the real world.
Does it mean "Brother"? That is, a variation of "Br'er" as in Rabbit?
I dunno how much good a 0/2 artifact creature is going to be, even if it is casting cost zero.
You know why? Because of the people who posted in reply to this article with nonsense like "illegal software" or "got what he deserved" or "should have been aware that this was possible".
If you think copying software ought to be illegal, then it logically follows that there ought to be some mechanism for enforcement of that law. If you go further and believe the marketing spin that it's somehow immoral behavior to copy software over and above mere illegality, well then, jackboots away.
This is unlikely to occur without active medical intervention, but in theory you could get twins who are genetically 'unrelated' by taking the two halves of each parental zygote (XX and xy) and cross-fertilizing them (Xx and Xy). I am not a geneticist, and this came originally from an offhand comment by a character in a Robert Heinlein story.
I wonder if this could work on the Voynich Manuscript? (www.voynich.nu)
I'd sure want his advice on how to do it, for which the committee/organization would pay. If that amounts to trust, then yeah. He's willing to take money to do antisocial things, he's declared an intention to give up spamming, why are you assuming his loyalty to other spammers would override his desire to be paid for his knowledge?
A very good point. Company bandwidth is much cheaper than company phone calls.
Don't worry about the smokers. They're taking breaks out of their work time now, but it's kind of like flex leave from the far end of their lives. They'll pay it back then.
Stuff is not worth being a wage slave for, worse yet a cringing, lying, and snivelling wage slave. And buddy, that's what you are. You cringe to your boss, who is the kind of guy who deserves a good hard punch in the nose (you'll be charged with assault, but you have no prior convictions (and I know this because you are a wuss): plead guilty, claim provocation, get witness statements from your fellow employees; you'll probably get off with a couple hundred dollar fine and may not even get a conviction recorded), you lie to your customers, and you snivel about your life to us.
You are responsible for your own fate. If you don't like it, you have the right to change. Go reclaim your humanity: punch your damn boss right in the nose, right now, and quit, and get yourself a life you wouldn't be ashamed to post under your real name about.
Any religion that works on the basis of dissemination of belief is pretty much against the notion of copyright, unless there's a specific priest class who have the sole right to teach the religion.
Yes, but only if you already buy into the 'copyright infringement = theft' worldview will you not get to listen to it. It's not a natural law, it's a business rule.
I don't know whether this is a "stupidity hole" in libertarianism or Republican ideology, maybe both: neither ideology really understands the concept of dependence, especially inter-dependence. You are not an individual atom, wholly responsible to and for yourself. Everything you do creates obligations to and from you to others.
My discriminating tastes: 1% of inventory appeals to me, 1000 CDs.
Average CD length: .75hrs.
Time taken to listen to 1000 CDs: 750hrs.
Time each day spent listening: 15hrs
Days between hearing the same song: 50.
I don't know about you, but I can live with that, plus the occasional new songs put out by people who actually WANT to, who feel INSPIRED to write songs. Same goes for movies, books and computer games. Novelty is overrated.
Hey, I just noticed nothing's burning right now. Let's sack the fire department! Ash.