There are people who believe that, if something bad happens to someone, then that person did something to deserve it. The action to "earn" punishment might be reckless behavior, or the punishment could be divine retribution, but either way bad things only happen to bad people.
For that type of people, it's a justification for their belief that no one ever deserves a safety net in case all else fails. You might find that this drives certain political views.
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So have you. Crook.
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Remorse for *not* distributing your credit card information to others?
Do you expect all the waiters at the local TGI Fridays to also share in this remorse?
According to many older court rulings...no. According to one or two of the more recent music cloud storage rulings...maybe.
But every court opinion I know of makes format shifting for something you already own legal, so that's most certainly the safest bet for the person who's moral compass won't let them avoid even the stupidest of bought-and-paid-for laws.
That quote is not based on the content of those six lines, but on the fact that, with six lines of handwritten text, you could find someone able to forge an incriminating document in that handwriting.
These days I think it takes substantially less. You don't need any text from someone to plant a few ounces of cocaine or (even worse) an RIAA song.
Would you prefer the constants whines from people complaining that slashdot was/is in cahoots with the likes of Roland Piquepaille, and the only way to get a story submitted is to be a member of that club?
Because I remember plenty of those posts back when Roland was alive and submitting. Now I see complaints like yours, which seem to be the exact opposite.
Accept that most people aren't going to be happy no matter what, and agree to overlook a few words that cost you a few precious digital bits.
You say this, and yet people bitched for years about Roland Piquepaille's submissions being constantly accepted, leading people to think that you had to be "in the know" to get your story on the front page.
In the United States: The abolition of slavery, taxation, social security, child labor laws, welfare, the interstate highway system, eminent domain, anti-trust laws (Sherman Act), minimum wage, the draft, the inability to sell your organs, pollution laws, laws against exploiting poor people, the list is endless really.
The number of items in your list being actively campaigned against by one of the major parties is scary.
Maybe you could angle the launch of every mined payload so that it both sent the load on its way to earth AND pushed the asteroid back up in its orbit.
Admittedly things have changed since then, primarily with local cable companies now offering voice communication as well. That said, I wish more DOJ employees would realize that duopolies and triopolies are barely better than monopolies when it comes to consumer choice.
I'm actually sort of expecting a Sprint and T-Mobile combination. I've been happy with Sprint via Virgin Mobile but would prefer them to move to GSM and amp up their offerings, coverage, and user base.
I was grudgingly considering a move to AT&T for an iPhone, primarily because my wife uses them so I could get the family rate. But with the recent iPhone Sprint rumors I've decided to wait; I expect that with Sprint I can pay just a little more for the same service and not have to give any money to warrantless-wiretappers.
If gas stations can manage to stock and sell three grades of gasoline, plus half of them carry diesel, then I'd hope we could manage to stock one gasoline replacement, one biodiesel, and maybe the occasional hydrogen station or battery pack swapping station. We don't have to solve every car with the same system.
And I think that once business needs a gas replacement based on cellulose, we'll find the way to produce what we need. There are fewer pesky FDA regulations about genetic manipulation if you plan to feed the product to bacteria instead of humans.
Food crops used as fuel are different than fuel crops. Bamboo can grow like wild. All the leftover bits from corn production can be turned into fuel while the corn itself remains food. Plenty of hardy grasses can grow places that we'd never try to grow food. Almost every suburb in the country produces large quantities of grass clippings on land that won't be turned (back) into farmland any time soon.
I moved my parents onto Firefox (with a few key addons) so that I wouldn't have to do this kind of shit to keep their computer running. If I'm going to bother with anything, it would be to point them to the Opera or Chrome installer. That's easier than either of your suggestions, both for me and for them.
Let's look at why the Apple product can do those things while the Android product can't. There is an app to access The Economist. There is an app to access Netflix. WHY are there apps for this crap? Why can't you access The Economist through a specially formatted web page? Why can't you access it through a generic eBook format? Why can't you access Netflix through HTML5?
Because the market is free*, and not some idealized market that exists in your head*? I'm not saying I'm happy about it either, but I'm not happy about it while enjoying my handy tablet.
*Technically it's an idealized market that existed in Steve Jobs' head. And since the market is "free" it chose his head to follow.
All you have to do is open the xpi in e.g. 7zip or winrar, open the install.rdf in a text editor, search for maxVersion, and change it to match your version. Change it to something big, like 10, and you'll be in the clear for a long time.
"All you have to do" fail for 90% of the people we talked into using Firefox a few years back.
They're a hell of a lot cheaper than in-car entertainment systems, that's for sure. Plus you can bring them into the restaurant and keep the kids quiet inside, too.
I might be biased a bit, but everything you've pointed out that doesn't work on your tablet works fine on my iPad. Even movie streaming, which I can do with it propped up on the treadmill's magazine stand at the gym (try to get a netbook to do that). If you're comfortable buying an Apple product, you might try switching and see if it makes you happier.
Disclaimer: I'm an Apple shareholder and I want you to fall in love with Apple products so I can retire earlier.
The settlement will be a free coupon for their online version, plus a few dozen million for the lawyers. At least the money is discouragement to them doing the same thing again, but don't expect anyone else to get more than what was taken from the game box to begin with.
Given the lack of life loss in this, I'd guess that the folks at SpaceX see reason to celebrate this error. It certainly helps hold the door open for them.
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There are people who believe that, if something bad happens to someone, then that person did something to deserve it. The action to "earn" punishment might be reckless behavior, or the punishment could be divine retribution, but either way bad things only happen to bad people.
For that type of people, it's a justification for their belief that no one ever deserves a safety net in case all else fails. You might find that this drives certain political views.
So have you. Crook.
Remorse for *not* distributing your credit card information to others?
Do you expect all the waiters at the local TGI Fridays to also share in this remorse?
According to many older court rulings...no. According to one or two of the more recent music cloud storage rulings...maybe.
But every court opinion I know of makes format shifting for something you already own legal, so that's most certainly the safest bet for the person who's moral compass won't let them avoid even the stupidest of bought-and-paid-for laws.
The whole point of copyright and the letter of the law regarding copyright diverged long ago.
That quote is not based on the content of those six lines, but on the fact that, with six lines of handwritten text, you could find someone able to forge an incriminating document in that handwriting.
These days I think it takes substantially less. You don't need any text from someone to plant a few ounces of cocaine or (even worse) an RIAA song.
Would you prefer the constants whines from people complaining that slashdot was/is in cahoots with the likes of Roland Piquepaille, and the only way to get a story submitted is to be a member of that club?
Because I remember plenty of those posts back when Roland was alive and submitting. Now I see complaints like yours, which seem to be the exact opposite.
Accept that most people aren't going to be happy no matter what, and agree to overlook a few words that cost you a few precious digital bits.
To be fair, almost every PDF I've opened in the last week has crashed Adobe Reader. Something is just not right with the latest update...
You say this, and yet people bitched for years about Roland Piquepaille's submissions being constantly accepted, leading people to think that you had to be "in the know" to get your story on the front page.
In the United States: The abolition of slavery, taxation, social security, child labor laws, welfare, the interstate highway system, eminent domain, anti-trust laws (Sherman Act), minimum wage, the draft, the inability to sell your organs, pollution laws, laws against exploiting poor people, the list is endless really.
The number of items in your list being actively campaigned against by one of the major parties is scary.
Climate engineering is already being done in most of the developed and developing world. Lookup Global Warming.
Maybe you could angle the launch of every mined payload so that it both sent the load on its way to earth AND pushed the asteroid back up in its orbit.
Admittedly things have changed since then, primarily with local cable companies now offering voice communication as well. That said, I wish more DOJ employees would realize that duopolies and triopolies are barely better than monopolies when it comes to consumer choice.
I'm actually sort of expecting a Sprint and T-Mobile combination. I've been happy with Sprint via Virgin Mobile but would prefer them to move to GSM and amp up their offerings, coverage, and user base.
I was grudgingly considering a move to AT&T for an iPhone, primarily because my wife uses them so I could get the family rate. But with the recent iPhone Sprint rumors I've decided to wait; I expect that with Sprint I can pay just a little more for the same service and not have to give any money to warrantless-wiretappers.
If gas stations can manage to stock and sell three grades of gasoline, plus half of them carry diesel, then I'd hope we could manage to stock one gasoline replacement, one biodiesel, and maybe the occasional hydrogen station or battery pack swapping station. We don't have to solve every car with the same system.
And I think that once business needs a gas replacement based on cellulose, we'll find the way to produce what we need. There are fewer pesky FDA regulations about genetic manipulation if you plan to feed the product to bacteria instead of humans.
Food crops used as fuel are different than fuel crops. Bamboo can grow like wild. All the leftover bits from corn production can be turned into fuel while the corn itself remains food. Plenty of hardy grasses can grow places that we'd never try to grow food. Almost every suburb in the country produces large quantities of grass clippings on land that won't be turned (back) into farmland any time soon.
I moved my parents onto Firefox (with a few key addons) so that I wouldn't have to do this kind of shit to keep their computer running. If I'm going to bother with anything, it would be to point them to the Opera or Chrome installer. That's easier than either of your suggestions, both for me and for them.
Let's look at why the Apple product can do those things while the Android product can't. There is an app to access The Economist. There is an app to access Netflix. WHY are there apps for this crap? Why can't you access The Economist through a specially formatted web page? Why can't you access it through a generic eBook format? Why can't you access Netflix through HTML5?
Because the market is free*, and not some idealized market that exists in your head*? I'm not saying I'm happy about it either, but I'm not happy about it while enjoying my handy tablet.
*Technically it's an idealized market that existed in Steve Jobs' head. And since the market is "free" it chose his head to follow.
Godwin, too.
All you have to do is open the xpi in e.g. 7zip or winrar, open the install.rdf in a text editor, search for maxVersion, and change it to match your version. Change it to something big, like 10, and you'll be in the clear for a long time.
"All you have to do" fail for 90% of the people we talked into using Firefox a few years back.
They're a hell of a lot cheaper than in-car entertainment systems, that's for sure. Plus you can bring them into the restaurant and keep the kids quiet inside, too.
I might be biased a bit, but everything you've pointed out that doesn't work on your tablet works fine on my iPad. Even movie streaming, which I can do with it propped up on the treadmill's magazine stand at the gym (try to get a netbook to do that). If you're comfortable buying an Apple product, you might try switching and see if it makes you happier.
Disclaimer: I'm an Apple shareholder and I want you to fall in love with Apple products so I can retire earlier.
Signing statements aren't legal. I'm glad Obama is breaking the law less than Bush did.
The settlement will be a free coupon for their online version, plus a few dozen million for the lawyers. At least the money is discouragement to them doing the same thing again, but don't expect anyone else to get more than what was taken from the game box to begin with.
Given the lack of life loss in this, I'd guess that the folks at SpaceX see reason to celebrate this error. It certainly helps hold the door open for them.