I love the way you categorize supporters of the U.S. Constitution as "nuts" while those who think brainless pieces of metal have an inherent state of morality are "rational people".
WTF? You have a reading comprehension problem. Or you just filter your input heavily so it fits your preconceptions.
You make a bunch of inane, ill-informed, incorrect statements about my supposed country (wrong guess, BTW), and then tell me not to make remarks about your country? And being lectured on tyrants by someone who has a "Department of Homeland Security", secret trials, and most of the paraphernalia of a police state in place is just ironic. Your "concealed carry" handguns have done nothing to protect your freedoms. Try turning up to vote and not ticking the box next to the demagogue. That works for me.
Yes, the kid used a gun to kill his parents. However, he could also have just used a butcher knife from the kitchen.
And yet, he didn't. And why aren't you satisfied with having the right to bear a butcher knife if it's just as efficient?
Don't forget the people who think that every gun is evil.
I mentioned them: "rational people".
You gotta have some fun when this old topic comes up, either that or ignore it. Because no one will ever change their mind. I think you're all murderous loonies. You think I'm a liberal fairy. Never the twain shall meet.
I see very few, if any posts, trying to admit that the internet is a "dangerous place" in the same way real life is
Because it isn't. You can't get physically hurt, threatened, or touched in any way through a computer screen. If you go down a dark alleyway in real life, you can get hurt, robbed, raped. If you go to a nasty website, you may see Goatse. Some pervert may make suggestions. Big deal.
Unless you meet then IN REAL LIFE, they're harmless. Virtual reality IS NOT reality.
my point was that the email in the file can be modified pretty easily. not really the most concrete evidence.
Yes, apparently the email address is there in plain text, easily zeroed out, but who knows what else is encoded there less obviously? But if I did plan to "share" such a file, I'd transcode it to MP3, which would lose all that metadata, unless they have done some sneaky audio watermarking. I mention that as a possibility, but I think it very unlikely.
The game is "noughts and crosses" in British English, and in that dialect "nought" means zero; (the circles in the game). "Naught" means "nothing" or "a failure". Variants of the same root, but used distinctly.
For what Iraq has cost, you could eradicate malaria, AIDS, cholera. We could have a colony on Mars. We could have clean solar (or even fusion) power and no more oil problems or global warming. ALL of the above. Instead, you've bought body bags.
You loosen something that is too tight. You let loose the hounds. You never "loose" anything.
Oxford English Dictionary
loose, v.
1. a. trans. To let loose, set free;
1697 DRYDEN Virg. Past. VI. 38 Loose me, he cry'd, 'twas Impudence to find A sleeping God, 'tis Sacrilege to bind. 1821 SHELLEY Prometh. Unb. II. ii. 94 How he [the chained Titan] shall be loosed. 1840 BROWNING Sordello II. 211 Like Perseus when he loosed his naked love. 1865 TROLLOPE Belton Est. xx. 232 Belton had gone into the stable, and had himself loosed the animal.
b. In immaterial sense: To set free, release, emancipate
1570-6 LAMBARDE Peramb. Kent (1826) 149 Loosing them from al duty of allegiance to their Prince. 1611 BIBLE Luke xiii. 12 Woman, thou art loosed from thy infirmitie. 1637-50 ROW Hist. Kirk (1842) 130 It was concluded,..that he shall be lowsed fra the said sentence. 1784 COWPER Task II. 39 They [sc. slaves] themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. 1842 TENNYSON Godiva 37 She sent a herald forth, And bad him cry,..that she would loose The people. 1902 A. M. FAIRBAIRN Philos. Chr. Relig. III. II. ii. 542 God as interpreted through Him [Christ] was loosed from the qualities that bound Him to a peculiar people.
d. To free (the lips, tongue, etc.) from constraint.
1902 Expositor May 383 The wine loosed the tongues of the guests.
.... and pages and pages more, but I think the point is made.
It is an asset of some sort. If copyright entered the public domain purely on merit that the owner is dead, you would have to also release his other properties freely to the public
There are a lot of false analogies made with "real" property.
The reason we have "intellectual property" laws is because many things are quite different.
On a moral basis, the "asset" you speak of, e.g. a story or song, were not created by the author ALONE. They were built on the work of other artists. This is most clear considering the example of Disney, a major copyright hawk, which has based most of its "assets" on stories in the public domain. And in music you don't have to explicitly sample another song to be influenced by it. As Pablo Picasso said "Bad artists copy. Great artists steal." The converse of that is if you police copying strictly, you will stifle art. All you'll have is a bunch of sterile commercial art, all licensed and approved by the corporations, since no one else will dare to produce something for fear they will be sued for infringing some ancient copyright.
All art is part of the culture. It builds on the work of previous artists, work that the artist appropriated without paying. So it is only just that his work should, eventually, go back into the public domain it came from.
And I think that death plus 95 is much too long for this. "Never" is completely absurd.
trading spending with bullets for rocket boosters is the chapter I must have missed in "Obamanomics"
from TFA: "Obamas transition team is considering a collaboration between the Defense Department and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration because military rockets may be cheaper and ready sooner than the space agencys planned launch vehicle,"
The idea is to SAVE MONEY. Whether that works out or not, we'll see. And as for "trading bullets for rockets", first that seems an excellent idea to me, but also Iraq is costing upwards of 300 billion last I heard; whatever NASA gets is pocket change compared to that.
The baby milk story is just an alleged plot. (In fact the whole "liquid bomb" conspiracy is fantasy, never could have worked even if they tried, which these wannabe terrorists never came close to doing.)
I know there have been women suicide bombers, though never one on a plane, that I can recall. And NEVER a father taking his wife and child to a bombing. Do you have an example of that? One that REALLY happened, not a "thwarted plot", which I'm afraid I find hard to credit in many cases.
they were pretty stupid to talk about a subject like that
A very large number of people suffer from "fear of flying" to some degree. Every flight is full of people who are nervous about safety. And this was a family with young children, who are likely to pipe up with all kinds of "inappropriate" remarks and questions when they're nervous or excited about making a trip.
And for fuck's sake: HOW MANY TERRORISTS BRING THEIR CHILDREN TO A SUICIDE BOMBING? Before you say "Great idea!", find an example.
no sensible terrorist is going to talk about blowing up a plane they are actually about to destroy.
Also, it seems a little unlikely they'd bring the wife and kids along to a suicide bombing. Though I'm sure some will say "That's what they WANT you to think."
"Do not allow registrations with gmail.com email addresses"
That is one of the most stupid things I heard this year.
We haven't done it, but I'm tempted. At the forum I moderate we get a dozen spammers (mostly human drones in New Delhi or Beijing, from their IPs, not bots) attempting to sign up every day, which are manually checked. Almost all use GMail addresses.
You're just a moron. First, you didn't get the joke. Then you get all defensive over it. You're just blinded by your need to feel superior.
You're just an asshole.
You called me a moron, twice now including the "woosh", for not realising you were being ironic.
I replied to what seemd a slightly clueless person with a factual response that did not put anyone down.
It's your own ego that was bruised by the idea that anyone could imagine you weren't as smart as you imagine yourself ("the_B0fh" [sic]) to be.
It's a public exchange. This is 1st degree luserdom to tell someone else they can't join in on a public debate.
Calling people names is not a "debate". And "luserdom", "B0fh"? How cute. You really do imagine yourself to be a ultra cool and "l33t".
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I would have, with surprise. Family dispute + gun = murder. Family dispute + drill = broken drill.
WTF? You have a reading comprehension problem. Or you just filter your input heavily so it fits your preconceptions.
Kid kills parent with gun. Sounds like it's about weapons to me.
And by the way, pro tip, you're a foul-mouthed bigoted scumbag.
You make a bunch of inane, ill-informed, incorrect statements about my supposed country (wrong guess, BTW), and then tell me not to make remarks about your country? And being lectured on tyrants by someone who has a "Department of Homeland Security", secret trials, and most of the paraphernalia of a police state in place is just ironic. Your "concealed carry" handguns have done nothing to protect your freedoms. Try turning up to vote and not ticking the box next to the demagogue. That works for me.
Though I am partial to a drop of tea, I'm not British. Sorry to spoil your stereotype.
Being able to "rationalize" your beliefs is not the same as being rational.
Bullshit. The US murder rate is 10 x any European country, for example. Rate of imprisonment in the US is about the highest in the world.
And yet, he didn't. And why aren't you satisfied with having the right to bear a butcher knife if it's just as efficient? Don't forget the people who think that every gun is evil.
I mentioned them: "rational people".
You gotta have some fun when this old topic comes up, either that or ignore it. Because no one will ever change their mind. I think you're all murderous loonies. You think I'm a liberal fairy. Never the twain shall meet.
Okay, why hasn't anyone even mentioned the "9mm handgun"? To my simple, unAmerican mind, that seems far more like a murder weapon than the video game.
Talk about elephant in the room.
Anyway, I expect the usual 800-post NRA/2nd Amendment gun nuts vs rational people thread.
Only in America.
Because it isn't. You can't get physically hurt, threatened, or touched in any way through a computer screen. If you go down a dark alleyway in real life, you can get hurt, robbed, raped. If you go to a nasty website, you may see Goatse. Some pervert may make suggestions. Big deal. Unless you meet then IN REAL LIFE, they're harmless. Virtual reality IS NOT reality.
Yes, apparently the email address is there in plain text, easily zeroed out, but who knows what else is encoded there less obviously? But if I did plan to "share" such a file, I'd transcode it to MP3, which would lose all that metadata, unless they have done some sneaky audio watermarking. I mention that as a possibility, but I think it very unlikely.
The game is "noughts and crosses" in British English, and in that dialect "nought" means zero; (the circles in the game). "Naught" means "nothing" or "a failure". Variants of the same root, but used distinctly.
Okay, so you're illiterate.
For what Iraq has cost, you could eradicate malaria, AIDS, cholera. We could have a colony on Mars. We could have clean solar (or even fusion) power and no more oil problems or global warming. ALL of the above. Instead, you've bought body bags.
There are a lot of false analogies made with "real" property.
The reason we have "intellectual property" laws is because many things are quite different.
On a moral basis, the "asset" you speak of, e.g. a story or song, were not created by the author ALONE. They were built on the work of other artists. This is most clear considering the example of Disney, a major copyright hawk, which has based most of its "assets" on stories in the public domain. And in music you don't have to explicitly sample another song to be influenced by it. As Pablo Picasso said "Bad artists copy. Great artists steal." The converse of that is if you police copying strictly, you will stifle art. All you'll have is a bunch of sterile commercial art, all licensed and approved by the corporations, since no one else will dare to produce something for fear they will be sued for infringing some ancient copyright.
All art is part of the culture. It builds on the work of previous artists, work that the artist appropriated without paying. So it is only just that his work should, eventually, go back into the public domain it came from.
And I think that death plus 95 is much too long for this. "Never" is completely absurd.
Tom of Finland beat you to it.
No, it is not, and never was. You CANNOT COPYRIGHT A NAME.
Copyright /= Patent /= Trademark.
from TFA: "Obamas transition team is considering a collaboration between the Defense Department and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration because military rockets may be cheaper and ready sooner than the space agencys planned launch vehicle,"
The idea is to SAVE MONEY. Whether that works out or not, we'll see. And as for "trading bullets for rockets", first that seems an excellent idea to me, but also Iraq is costing upwards of 300 billion last I heard; whatever NASA gets is pocket change compared to that.
I know there have been women suicide bombers, though never one on a plane, that I can recall. And NEVER a father taking his wife and child to a bombing. Do you have an example of that? One that REALLY happened, not a "thwarted plot", which I'm afraid I find hard to credit in many cases.
A very large number of people suffer from "fear of flying" to some degree. Every flight is full of people who are nervous about safety. And this was a family with young children, who are likely to pipe up with all kinds of "inappropriate" remarks and questions when they're nervous or excited about making a trip.
And for fuck's sake: HOW MANY TERRORISTS BRING THEIR CHILDREN TO A SUICIDE BOMBING? Before you say "Great idea!", find an example.
Also, it seems a little unlikely they'd bring the wife and kids along to a suicide bombing. Though I'm sure some will say "That's what they WANT you to think."
Baloney. Unless this is Vietnam or a similar third world country. I can believe one in three have failed WGA, but that is NOT the same thing at all.
We haven't done it, but I'm tempted. At the forum I moderate we get a dozen spammers (mostly human drones in New Delhi or Beijing, from their IPs, not bots) attempting to sign up every day, which are manually checked. Almost all use GMail addresses.
You're just an asshole.
You called me a moron, twice now including the "woosh", for not realising you were being ironic. I replied to what seemd a slightly clueless person with a factual response that did not put anyone down.
It's your own ego that was bruised by the idea that anyone could imagine you weren't as smart as you imagine yourself ("the_B0fh" [sic]) to be.
It's a public exchange. This is 1st degree luserdom to tell someone else they can't join in on a public debate.
Calling people names is not a "debate". And "luserdom", "B0fh"? How cute. You really do imagine yourself to be a ultra cool and "l33t".