Being offended and being subjected to fear through threats are very different things. Calling someone a nigger (for example) is offensive, saying "I'm going to kill you, nigger" is both a crime, and a tort. Look up the definition of "assault".
. The point of a library is to educate and assist the public, even/especially those who wouldn't be able to afford similar services.
Public use means just that, not public use that meets with the approval of the poster to whom I was replying. The emo kiddies he was bitching about are just as entitled as he is to use the machines in question.
Of course, if one wanted to really protect the children, then you'd have to take a look at where kids really do encounter sexual predators. # 1 is in their own homes. #2, churches. #3, schools.
Most of the legislators at the state level are those who aren't even smart enough to make it into the US Congress (and considering some of the blithering idiots who have infested that institution, that's saying something.)
That's an interesting line of argument. Did it fly when you tried it on the judge who heard your last girlfriend's petition for a restraining order on you?
-jcr
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The expression of an idea does not bring harm.
Sorry, it's not that simple. Threatening to kill someone does indeed harm the person threatened; they are dreprived of their peace of mind, and that's why we have such things as laws against verbal assault and incitement, and restraining orders that can compel a person not to communicate with the target of their malice.
Peak of their market capitalization, sure. It wasn't the peak of their revenues or their market share, though. At any rate, they're on the downslope now.
I just don't understand why they are announcing this new version so soon after the release of Vista.
Mainly because everyone knows what a disappointment Vista turned out to be, and to retain customers they have to pretend that something better is less than five years away.
2007 will be remembered as the peak of Microsoft. They have nothing but a long decline ahead of them.
Or, make up a few hundred thousand square miles of aluminized mylar that you can spread across the Sahara to increase its albedo? Make the desert floor shiny enough, you can send as much heat back to space as you want.
The IP in this situation is a work made for hire, and property of the United Sates. The only fighter developed with private funds in the last fifty years was the F-20 Tigershark. All the rest of them belong to the taxpayers.
They may have deals in place to exclusively sell to the US military, but that doesnt make the military own the design.
Actually, it's the development contracts that make the designs the property of the United States. Ever since WW I, the US military has had standard clauses in procurement contracts to ensure that they could have the aircraft built by any vendor(s) they chose. In practice, that right has only been exercised in wartime, since the costs of getting a second source spun up are pretty steep.
Its not like the *AA have sued DRM makers when their DRM was cracked.
They don't have to sue, they can just withdraw their tracks from the iTMS. You can work yourself into a lather over this, but the fact of the matter is that Apple never wanted to do DRM, and they did manage to negotiate the least restrictive license terms from the major labels to date. Now that Steve has handed them about a billion dollars of revenues that they wouldn't have collected otherwise, he's got some leverage to convince them to give up on a bad idea.
But hey, if you want to hate Apple for whatever sins you imagine, then have at it. It will have no effect at all on reality.
Yes, I read it. I just don't think the arguments hold much weight. Job's arguments are for why they aren't willing to try, not why it can't be done.
I'm an AAPL shareholder. Why don't you try explaining to me why Apple should do it? Keep in mind, that SJ's fiduciary responsibility here is to make money for me and millions of other shareholders, not to do a major engineering, marketing and support undertaking just because it might be doable.
If Apple closed the iTMS altogether, iPod would still be the top-selling line of music players, just as it was before the iTMS was opened, and just as it is in the countries where the iTMS isn't yet available.
You won't know that until and unless the labels say "Ok, let's ditch the DRM", and Apple renegs on selling non-DRM music.
, Apple would either use a DRM that operates with other music players, or would license their DRM to others
This doesn't follow at all. If you actually READ the statement SJ just issued, you'd know that Apple has a contractural obligation to keep the DRM working, and if they license it to every tom, dick, and harry who wants it, they can't maintain that duty.
Keith's choices were to stay in Riverside and get killed in jail (something the clams were gloating about, both to his face, and on the newsgroups), or to seek asylum and continue to tell people about the appaling crimes of the scientology cult. I'm not about to second-guess his decision.
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Being offended and being subjected to fear through threats are very different things. Calling someone a nigger (for example) is offensive, saying "I'm going to kill you, nigger" is both a crime, and a tort. Look up the definition of "assault".
-jcr
. The point of a library is to educate and assist the public, even/especially those who wouldn't be able to afford similar services.
Public use means just that, not public use that meets with the approval of the poster to whom I was replying. The emo kiddies he was bitching about are just as entitled as he is to use the machines in question.
-jcr
Of course, if one wanted to really protect the children, then you'd have to take a look at where kids really do encounter sexual predators. # 1 is in their own homes. #2, churches. #3, schools.
-jcr
Most of the legislators at the state level are those who aren't even smart enough to make it into the US Congress (and considering some of the blithering idiots who have infested that institution, that's saying something.)
-jcr
You get what you pay for, dude. If you don't want to compete with the emo kiddies for use of the taxpayer-provided computers, then buy your own.
-jcr
Maybe she just doesn't feeling like jumping through hoops for McBride.
-jcr
That's an interesting line of argument. Did it fly when you tried it on the judge who heard your last girlfriend's petition for a restraining order on you?
-jcr
The expression of an idea does not bring harm.
Sorry, it's not that simple. Threatening to kill someone does indeed harm the person threatened; they are dreprived of their peace of mind, and that's why we have such things as laws against verbal assault and incitement, and restraining orders that can compel a person not to communicate with the target of their malice.
-jcr
..and the people responsible for designing those batteries, have just been sacked.
-jcr
The *system* prevents all that manpower from delivering great results; being chained they just can't.
Exactly. That's managerial incompetence,like I said above.
-jcr
Peak of their market capitalization, sure. It wasn't the peak of their revenues or their market share, though. At any rate, they're on the downslope now.
-jcr
I've been running it since early December, as a developer, and am far more satisfied with it than I ever was with XP.
Now that's what I'd call damning with faint praise.
-jcr
I thought Linux was playing catch-up to OS X
No, its not even in the same stadium as OS X. Linux is the eventual replacement for Solars, IRIX, HPUX, etc. It's not a contender for desktops.
-jcr
I just don't understand why they are announcing this new version so soon after the release of Vista.
Mainly because everyone knows what a disappointment Vista turned out to be, and to retain customers they have to pretend that something better is less than five years away.
2007 will be remembered as the peak of Microsoft. They have nothing but a long decline ahead of them.
-jcr
What choice do they have? Be is out of the picture, and Linux is still playing catch-up to Solaris.
-jcr
There is no shortage of manpower at Microsoft. There is a severe shortage of vision, and managerial competence.
-jcr
Glad to see at least one instance of hogwash losing its funding.
-jcr
Or, make up a few hundred thousand square miles of aluminized mylar that you can spread across the Sahara to increase its albedo? Make the desert floor shiny enough, you can send as much heat back to space as you want.
-jcr
The IP in this situation is a work made for hire, and property of the United Sates. The only fighter developed with private funds in the last fifty years was the F-20 Tigershark. All the rest of them belong to the taxpayers.
-jcr
They may have deals in place to exclusively sell to the US military, but that doesnt make the military own the design.
Actually, it's the development contracts that make the designs the property of the United States. Ever since WW I, the US military has had standard clauses in procurement contracts to ensure that they could have the aircraft built by any vendor(s) they chose. In practice, that right has only been exercised in wartime, since the costs of getting a second source spun up are pretty steep.
-jcr
Its not like the *AA have sued DRM makers when their DRM was cracked.
They don't have to sue, they can just withdraw their tracks from the iTMS. You can work yourself into a lather over this, but the fact of the matter is that Apple never wanted to do DRM, and they did manage to negotiate the least restrictive license terms from the major labels to date. Now that Steve has handed them about a billion dollars of revenues that they wouldn't have collected otherwise, he's got some leverage to convince them to give up on a bad idea.
But hey, if you want to hate Apple for whatever sins you imagine, then have at it. It will have no effect at all on reality.
-jcr
Yes, I read it. I just don't think the arguments hold much weight. Job's arguments are for why they aren't willing to try, not why it can't be done.
I'm an AAPL shareholder. Why don't you try explaining to me why Apple should do it? Keep in mind, that SJ's fiduciary responsibility here is to make money for me and millions of other shareholders, not to do a major engineering, marketing and support undertaking just because it might be doable.
-jcr
If Apple closed the iTMS altogether, iPod would still be the top-selling line of music players, just as it was before the iTMS was opened, and just as it is in the countries where the iTMS isn't yet available.
-jcr
The problem here is that Steve is lying
You won't know that until and unless the labels say "Ok, let's ditch the DRM", and Apple renegs on selling non-DRM music.
, Apple would either use a DRM that operates with other music players, or would license their DRM to others
This doesn't follow at all. If you actually READ the statement SJ just issued, you'd know that Apple has a contractural obligation to keep the DRM working, and if they license it to every tom, dick, and harry who wants it, they can't maintain that duty.
-jcr
Keith's choices were to stay in Riverside and get killed in jail (something the clams were gloating about, both to his face, and on the newsgroups), or to seek asylum and continue to tell people about the appaling crimes of the scientology cult. I'm not about to second-guess his decision.
-jcr