there's a difference between kids playing with toys and someone trying to write and publish a derivative work based on lucas' story. it's not like the toys are purchased under the GPL.
... lucas owns the right to decide how his characters are used. i can't go out and write a sequel to the "wheel of time" using the same characters without jordan's permission. it's not about being controlling or greedy, it's not wanting a million 'leia and luke as incestual lovers' crap, or 'han and chewie as gay lovers' crap.
personally, i think it's about damn time lucas did this, publicly give permission to do these parodies, etc, which mostly are crap, but a few are quite funny. this helps people understand where the line is drawn, and go forth and create.
the show ended at 4 pm, but you can usually get the archived version directly at NPR: Talk of the Nation.
according to the web site: The audio for this program will be available online after 6PM ET, 3PM PT.
-rp
Re:For those of you who like this "gee-whiz" stuff
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It's the year 2000, but where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars. I don't see any flying cars? Why? Why? Why?
-- Avery Brooks, IBM Ad
discussion on NPR right now...
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i'm listening to a discussion on this very topic right now on my local NPR station - "Talk of the Nation".
Researchers at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory are working to create robots as intelligent and as sociable as humans are. At the same time, medical advances are making humans more robot-like, with mechanical hearts and artificial limbs. Join the show in its second hour for a look at the relationship between humans and machines.
for your local NPR station (which probably has an online stream) visit npr.org.
i'm not posting mine because i enjoy the speed of the stream:)
os/2 and windows nt not related? microsoft codeveloped os/2 with ibm, both support the 'win16' and later 'win32' api... not at all like saying linux and "window NT" are the same os.
the best analogies i've heard come from the other direction, to show the contrast between copyright infringement and physical theft.
paraphrased, it goes something like "If I have an apple, and I give you the apple, now you have an apple and I do not. But if I have an idea, and I give you the idea, we both have the idea."
maybe you missed the body of the post, where it said: Multnomah ESD has its own thin-client Linux distro called K12LTSP. there is already such a 'K-12' distro, get involved now, there is no need to 'create' a new distribution.
actually a good idea in this case, but what happens next time, when all of our unsused licenses are already in use? i guess as soon as they pass this audit, we start installing linux there, and then move the licenses from school to school, in time for MS audits, and installing linux after the audits pass.
what needs to happen is to stop government (and thus local taxpayer) dependence on commercial interests.
thanks for responding with discussion and not flames. very refreshing to see it.
Z was not all that high. I believe it was close to $100k.
$100k back then... was a LOT of money. not exactly 'billions and billions' of dollars, but not the kind of money the average person would see in a lifetime.
How much I have already paid is irrelevent when I am making the decision whether or not to put in another dollar's worth of effort knowing that I'm only going to get to keep a nickel for it.
again, at the Z tax bracket where this kind of decision becomes necessary, you are not looking at whether or not you are going to put forward enough effort to put food on the table. that is already taken care of. you are worried about things way, way down on the 'need pyramid' (if you subscribe to that kind of thing).
but having said that, i am often lazy enough to wonder if i should put in the extra effort to get the 60 cents on the dollar's worth of effort. early in the month i usually decide yes, because the bills are not paid. by the end of the month, i usually decide no because i'm not going to lose my house/go hungry this month.
but i think talking about a "dollar's worth" of effort is misleading, because a dollar's worth of my effort takes about as much time as someone else's shift at McBurger's. do you think talking about things in terms of time, not money, would lead to a more interesting discussion? because an hour of time is less subjective than the value of a dollar.
Well, taxes are designed to provide income for the government, right? I'd say they do that okay.
the current form of taxes does not do a very good job of providing income. heard of the Laffer Curve? basically we are not maxing out the money the government could be making from taxes.
Big, active governments require lots of taxes, no surprise there.
maybe i'm guessing wrong, but perhaps you agree that having a "big active government" might be the first problem?
you are mixing up the terms "the highest income brackets" and "effort". people who need food put forth effort. here's a hint, those were not the people at the highest income bracket. people who have food but may want a yacht may not care enough to put forth more "effort". also, clearing up a strangely common misconception, 90% tax does not mean the person gives 90% of all their income to the government. this means that at some point, 90% of all ADDITIONAL money goes to the government. so they give 0% of their first X dollars, Y% of their next Z dollars, and 95% of all dollars after that.
there are a LOT of people sitting below X. nearly all people are below Z. people making more than Z... well, everyone below X and nearly all below Z couldn't care LESS about their "efforts".
me, personally, i hate the current tax system because it doesn't perform the purpose for which it was supposedly created. right now, the tax system serves as a tool for wealth redistribution and social engineering, and not much else (other than political "discussion" ever 4 years or so).
When my taxes rise above 50%, I quit and I will live off the Government. simple math, I'm not getting as much as I put in, so I decide to still make a profit.
now i am not in favor of high taxes by any means... but you seem to be missing the fact that 50% of $1M is still $500K. you can't pay MORE money than you bring in unless taxes are above 100%. so this "making a profit" nonsense is just that: nonsense.
when it gets to the point where someone making $20K is being taxed 50%, and "living off the Government" provides more than $10K, THEN start talking.
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actually you can build the bmw, you just can't call it a bmw or sell it. and you had probably not try to take it in for warranty service...
-rp
there's a difference between kids playing with toys and someone trying to write and publish a derivative work based on lucas' story. it's not like the toys are purchased under the GPL.
-rp
... lucas owns the right to decide how his characters are used. i can't go out and write a sequel to the "wheel of time" using the same characters without jordan's permission. it's not about being controlling or greedy, it's not wanting a million 'leia and luke as incestual lovers' crap, or 'han and chewie as gay lovers' crap.
personally, i think it's about damn time lucas did this, publicly give permission to do these parodies, etc, which mostly are crap, but a few are quite funny. this helps people understand where the line is drawn, and go forth and create.
-rp
the show ended at 4 pm, but you can usually get the archived version directly at NPR: Talk of the Nation.
according to the web site: The audio for this program will be available online after 6PM ET, 3PM PT.
-rp
It's the year 2000, but where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars. I don't see any flying cars? Why? Why? Why?
-- Avery Brooks, IBM Ad
for your local NPR station (which probably has an online stream) visit npr.org.
i'm not posting mine because i enjoy the speed of the stream
-rp
it makes windows XP networking based on FreeBSD. windows nt was almost completely based off the microsoft/ibm codeveloped os/2 project.
-rp
if i had mod points, i'd mod this 'funny' as well as the referred goatse post. actually quite funny, better than most attempts at humor on the site...
-rp
os/2 and windows nt not related? microsoft codeveloped os/2 with ibm, both support the 'win16' and later 'win32' api... not at all like saying linux and "window NT" are the same os.
-rp
okay try running distributed.net or anything which needs integer performance. use hammers for nails, screwdrivers for screws.
of course, a G4 eats through integers even faster than an athlon...
-rp
windows nt (and more pointedly is "sister" OS, OS/2) are on many, many such environments as cash machines.
-rp
i have had great success in getting the BBB to get my money refunded from scam sites.
-rp
whether or not it is legal for you to get it from kazaa, it IS illegal for whomever you got it FROM to distribute it via kazaa.
-rp
the best analogies i've heard come from the other direction, to show the contrast between copyright infringement and physical theft.
paraphrased, it goes something like "If I have an apple, and I give you the apple, now you have an apple and I do not. But if I have an idea, and I give you the idea, we both have the idea."
-rp
But bnetd? It's really just a way for people to play pirated videogame software.
gee, and here i was using bnetd to host lan parties without internet connections.
-rp
perhaps having a high karma could keep the ads off your screen, since the high karma (moderated up) are supposedly the ones adding valuable content...
-rp
maybe you missed the body of the post, where it said: Multnomah ESD has its own thin-client Linux distro called K12LTSP. there is already such a 'K-12' distro, get involved now, there is no need to 'create' a new distribution.
-rp
actually a good idea in this case, but what happens next time, when all of our unsused licenses are already in use? i guess as soon as they pass this audit, we start installing linux there, and then move the licenses from school to school, in time for MS audits, and installing linux after the audits pass.
what needs to happen is to stop government (and thus local taxpayer) dependence on commercial interests.
-rp
thanks for responding with discussion and not flames. very refreshing to see it.
Z was not all that high. I believe it was close to $100k.
$100k back then... was a LOT of money. not exactly 'billions and billions' of dollars, but not the kind of money the average person would see in a lifetime.
How much I have already paid is irrelevent when I am making the decision whether or not to put in another dollar's worth of effort knowing that I'm only going to get to keep a nickel for it.
again, at the Z tax bracket where this kind of decision becomes necessary, you are not looking at whether or not you are going to put forward enough effort to put food on the table. that is already taken care of. you are worried about things way, way down on the 'need pyramid' (if you subscribe to that kind of thing).
but having said that, i am often lazy enough to wonder if i should put in the extra effort to get the 60 cents on the dollar's worth of effort. early in the month i usually decide yes, because the bills are not paid. by the end of the month, i usually decide no because i'm not going to lose my house/go hungry this month.
but i think talking about a "dollar's worth" of effort is misleading, because a dollar's worth of my effort takes about as much time as someone else's shift at McBurger's. do you think talking about things in terms of time, not money, would lead to a more interesting discussion? because an hour of time is less subjective than the value of a dollar.
Well, taxes are designed to provide income for the government, right? I'd say they do that okay.
the current form of taxes does not do a very good job of providing income. heard of the Laffer Curve? basically we are not maxing out the money the government could be making from taxes.
Big, active governments require lots of taxes, no surprise there.
maybe i'm guessing wrong, but perhaps you agree that having a "big active government" might be the first problem?
-rp
you are mixing up the terms "the highest income brackets" and "effort". people who need food put forth effort. here's a hint, those were not the people at the highest income bracket. people who have food but may want a yacht may not care enough to put forth more "effort". also, clearing up a strangely common misconception, 90% tax does not mean the person gives 90% of all their income to the government. this means that at some point, 90% of all ADDITIONAL money goes to the government. so they give 0% of their first X dollars, Y% of their next Z dollars, and 95% of all dollars after that.
there are a LOT of people sitting below X. nearly all people are below Z. people making more than Z... well, everyone below X and nearly all below Z couldn't care LESS about their "efforts".
me, personally, i hate the current tax system because it doesn't perform the purpose for which it was supposedly created. right now, the tax system serves as a tool for wealth redistribution and social engineering, and not much else (other than political "discussion" ever 4 years or so).
-rp
now i am not in favor of high taxes by any means... but you seem to be missing the fact that 50% of $1M is still $500K. you can't pay MORE money than you bring in unless taxes are above 100%. so this "making a profit" nonsense is just that: nonsense.
when it gets to the point where someone making $20K is being taxed 50%, and "living off the Government" provides more than $10K, THEN start talking.
-rp
mmm... fried ice cream.
-rp
well if there are only 2 good games, and you already have them... 2 extra games ARE pretty worthless.
-rp
yeah... those genius open-source guru types who know how to close an HTML tag...
-rp
ah, marriage. i remember being at the top of the geek food chain, with my dual pentium 120 and tons of RAM.
i still have that computer.
-rp