"Minor" restrictions are still restrictions, I don't want any that are only there to protect large corporate/government entities. In China, they're still allowed to have kids, but only two... that's minor, right? I don't want to go down that road.
Flywheels aren't lighter (at least not when you consider the shielding:) just more efficient. And I agree, they fail VERY catostropically when they break.
WTF is a proto-law? No, we really don't need to have a conversation. There isn't one to have. You are simply trying to spread FUD by using native american song references and other such BS. See, native americans didn't have ATTORNEYS, which is what you sound like. No IANAL, I see. Of course, I'm assuming that you've been misled by bottom feeders...
Yep... would you rather they sat there like robots, or actually laughed when the recording industry reps said something really stupid? Take your pick. Get involved or quit whining. Or organize, which would be better.
Yes, but at least he has ideas. Most of them make sense. The record companies haven't come up with any in quite a while. What they have come up with sucks hind tit. Palladium.. Let me think...
Ok, I'm burning mod points like crazy here, but BE SPECIFIC. What did he say that made you take that point of view? Give me a link to a few gnu.org articles. OK, so he's an "extremist". What do you call Valenti? And who do you agree with? RMS has been, is currently, and will continue to be a lightning rod. You are allowed to disagree with him... will you be allowed to disagree with the RIAA?
I don't agree with all of his ideas, but I do like the way he works. RMS is one of the few people I would travel to hear speak (trying to work it in), just to say that I did. The man doesn't back down, and that's more than can be said for most of us... arguing over the semantics of piracy while DRM takes our 'net down in flames.
"The uninformed public"? WTF does that mean? Oh my god, they'll think I'm a commy and kick me out of my gated subdivision, so I can't do this? And why was your brother "disturbed"? Come on man, you're a geek (or on the road to becoming one) if you were even considering this. Geeks could be a special interest group/political force to be reckoned with, they just have to get organized and grow some balls. Anyone for SlashdotPAC? It might be fun.
You should stay in line... even if you'll never get to the end of it. You should hold up your hand for hours... even if nobody will ever call on you. Better to be silent, and make sure that no one is offended or disrupted by your speech. Just show up, sit there, and let the powers that be know that you're out there. Does this attitude make sense to anyone? It doesn't make any sense to me. Whether or not you like RMS, you should at least respect the fact that HE WENT TO THE MEETING! How many of us did that? And are you sure that you wouldn't have cracked up after some of the FUD Valenti spewed? If not, either shut up or start sending letters to congress critters. I have. Have you?
Stallman isn't embarassing, he just isn't PC enough for you. The man has convictions, that's all. Which is good... Are you embarassed by the ideas he has, or by the fact that he has consistently refused to kiss ass in order to air them in public? If it's the latter, you need to review your worldview. Whether or not his methods will work with a stuffy group like Congress is another matter... but I don't see him changing much and I like that, even I do disagree with him on some things.
Yeah, and it's kind of interesting that the BSA counts downloading OS software as "piracy" in its statistics, isn't it? I guess it does deprive them of a sale... or does it?
OK, here we go... they hate me because I'm American. They wander into the shopping mall that my girl dragged me into, pull a gun, and start shooting. I shoot them in the face. Or they shoot me, give it 50/50 odds. Was I evil to have a gun in the mall, or were they? You take care of yourself, your family, and your friends... not neccesarily in that order. I don't think that anyone has a right, reason, or motive to kill me. If they try, I reserve the right to kill them first. If they want to play stupid games, shouldn't I be allowed to fight back? Or would you just use the mace in your wife's purse?
Ok, so what's bad? I drink Guinness. If I'm going to drink a beer I want a real one. I smoke unfiltered cigs. Hey, those are biodegradable. I own semiautomatic weapons that hold lots and lots of bullets. I use them to shoot empty Guinness bottles. So what? You are responsible for yourself; should the government have to keep an eye on you to make sure that you don't do something stupid? Grow up, people, and VOTE!
Yeah, but that's just doing work that they should have done in the first goddamn place. They did the job, they fucked it up, and then they get paid to do it again correctly. I wish I got paid on those terms. (Assuming they were contract labor... even if they were salaried employees, the point is the same).
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On the other hand, if the hadn't pushed, he wouldn't have found the problem. And maybe the next guy wouldn't have told them and taken some info. Too many what-ifs on this one; the article doesn't give enough info to make a call. Seems heavy handed unless there's something the Reg left out, and that NEVER happens:)
I would have to agree here. I walked out of an interview with Lucent a few years ago... their offer was "work as temp with no health insurance and crappy pay until it's profitable for us to put you on salary and work you 80 hours a week, then you get to be a "team player!". The guy actually looked shocked when I told him I didn't think I was interested. First and only time I had to interview with various "team players" in a department who yelled at me on the interview. Maybe it was supposed to be a stress test. Their bathroom security was interesting too... They way I see it, if a company is interviewing they should be trying to attract employees as much as the employee is trying to impress them. That heavy handed attitude on an interview is a serious negative. Now I'm really glad I didn't work for them, because they're still trying to find people to lay off. But I'll bet you that they still have the security guards at the bathrooms.
That holds true for other types of engineering as well, not just software engineering. A good Honda mechanic makes a hell of a lot more than a good engineer, and gets better benefits. ( My old boss turned in a resume to Honda with my name on it as a joke ). You know what? I should have ditched engineering, dropped out of school, and taken that job. Then again, to do any kind of troubleshooting on modern cars you need an engineer's skillset. I made more in college working on cars than I do now as an engineer... of course, now I barely have time to fix things for my friends when their cars die. Work for yourself... that's at least a worthy goal. Fighting over peanuts won't get you very far... companies just LOVE people that are willing to.
Maybe we should just import Bosnian immigrants. The couple I've met have been all around great people. Yeah, I know, that doesn't count as a statistic. I'll still impressive that learn more calculus in high school than most U.S. students do in college. And that was with people shooting at them because they were they wrong religion.
Yeah, but a lot of us working two jobs are freelancing on the side... we might not HAVE to work two jobs, but working for yourself is the only way to have a chance at really getting ahead of the game. On the other hand, that's America for you.
I think the key word here is "technically". Special interest groups and big business have been running the show for a long time. Hey, then again, I'm an NRA member. Maybe Slashdot needs special interest group with some soft money to throw around.
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Yeah, but it will if you don't vote them out of office.
"Minor" restrictions are still restrictions, I don't want any that are only there to protect large corporate/government entities. In China, they're still allowed to have kids, but only two... that's minor, right? I don't want to go down that road.
Flywheels aren't lighter (at least not when you consider the shielding :) just more efficient. And I agree, they fail VERY catostropically when they break.
WTF is a proto-law? No, we really don't need to have a conversation. There isn't one to have. You are simply trying to spread FUD by using native american song references and other such BS. See, native americans didn't have ATTORNEYS, which is what you sound like. No IANAL, I see. Of course, I'm assuming that you've been misled by bottom feeders...
Yep... would you rather they sat there like robots, or actually laughed when the recording industry reps said something really stupid? Take your pick. Get involved or quit whining. Or organize, which would be better.
No, give them enough power and they'll just burn you at the stake and be done with it :)
Yes, but at least he has ideas. Most of them make sense. The record companies haven't come up with any in quite a while. What they have come up with sucks hind tit. Palladium.. Let me think...
Ok, I'm burning mod points like crazy here, but BE SPECIFIC. What did he say that made you take that point of view? Give me a link to a few gnu.org articles. OK, so he's an "extremist". What do you call Valenti? And who do you agree with? RMS has been, is currently, and will continue to be a lightning rod. You are allowed to disagree with him... will you be allowed to disagree with the RIAA?
I don't agree with all of his ideas, but I do like the way he works. RMS is one of the few people I would travel to hear speak (trying to work it in), just to say that I did. The man doesn't back down, and that's more than can be said for most of us... arguing over the semantics of piracy while DRM takes our 'net down in flames.
"The uninformed public"? WTF does that mean? Oh my god, they'll think I'm a commy and kick me out of my gated subdivision, so I can't do this? And why was your brother "disturbed"? Come on man, you're a geek (or on the road to becoming one) if you were even considering this. Geeks could be a special interest group/political force to be reckoned with, they just have to get organized and grow some balls. Anyone for SlashdotPAC? It might be fun.
You should stay in line... even if you'll never get to the end of it. You should hold up your hand for hours... even if nobody will ever call on you. Better to be silent, and make sure that no one is offended or disrupted by your speech. Just show up, sit there, and let the powers that be know that you're out there. Does this attitude make sense to anyone? It doesn't make any sense to me. Whether or not you like RMS, you should at least respect the fact that HE WENT TO THE MEETING! How many of us did that? And are you sure that you wouldn't have cracked up after some of the FUD Valenti spewed? If not, either shut up or start sending letters to congress critters. I have. Have you?
Stallman isn't embarassing, he just isn't PC enough for you. The man has convictions, that's all. Which is good... Are you embarassed by the ideas he has, or by the fact that he has consistently refused to kiss ass in order to air them in public? If it's the latter, you need to review your worldview. Whether or not his methods will work with a stuffy group like Congress is another matter... but I don't see him changing much and I like that, even I do disagree with him on some things.
Yeah, and it's kind of interesting that the BSA counts downloading OS software as "piracy" in its statistics, isn't it? I guess it does deprive them of a sale... or does it?
OK, here we go... they hate me because I'm American. They wander into the shopping mall that my girl dragged me into, pull a gun, and start shooting. I shoot them in the face. Or they shoot me, give it 50/50 odds. Was I evil to have a gun in the mall, or were they? You take care of yourself, your family, and your friends... not neccesarily in that order. I don't think that anyone has a right, reason, or motive to kill me. If they try, I reserve the right to kill them first. If they want to play stupid games, shouldn't I be allowed to fight back? Or would you just use the mace in your wife's purse?
Ok, so what's bad? I drink Guinness. If I'm going to drink a beer I want a real one. I smoke unfiltered cigs. Hey, those are biodegradable. I own semiautomatic weapons that hold lots and lots of bullets. I use them to shoot empty Guinness bottles. So what? You are responsible for yourself; should the government have to keep an eye on you to make sure that you don't do something stupid? Grow up, people, and VOTE!
So, do you support gun control? If you do, please link to a study supporting your viewpoint. Then please link to the PAC that funded them.
Yeah, but that's just doing work that they should have done in the first goddamn place. They did the job, they fucked it up, and then they get paid to do it again correctly. I wish I got paid on those terms. (Assuming they were contract labor... even if they were salaried employees, the point is the same).
On the other hand, if the hadn't pushed, he wouldn't have found the problem. And maybe the next guy wouldn't have told them and taken some info. Too many what-ifs on this one; the article doesn't give enough info to make a call. Seems heavy handed unless there's something the Reg left out, and that NEVER happens :)
I would have to agree here. I walked out of an interview with Lucent a few years ago... their offer was "work as temp with no health insurance and crappy pay until it's profitable for us to put you on salary and work you 80 hours a week, then you get to be a "team player!". The guy actually looked shocked when I told him I didn't think I was interested. First and only time I had to interview with various "team players" in a department who yelled at me on the interview. Maybe it was supposed to be a stress test. Their bathroom security was interesting too... They way I see it, if a company is interviewing they should be trying to attract employees as much as the employee is trying to impress them. That heavy handed attitude on an interview is a serious negative. Now I'm really glad I didn't work for them, because they're still trying to find people to lay off. But I'll bet you that they still have the security guards at the bathrooms.
That holds true for other types of engineering as well, not just software engineering. A good Honda mechanic makes a hell of a lot more than a good engineer, and gets better benefits. ( My old boss turned in a resume to Honda with my name on it as a joke ). You know what? I should have ditched engineering, dropped out of school, and taken that job. Then again, to do any kind of troubleshooting on modern cars you need an engineer's skillset. I made more in college working on cars than I do now as an engineer... of course, now I barely have time to fix things for my friends when their cars die. Work for yourself... that's at least a worthy goal. Fighting over peanuts won't get you very far... companies just LOVE people that are willing to.
Is that supposed to be a threat? Here, we all have guns :)
Maybe we should just import Bosnian immigrants. The couple I've met have been all around great people. Yeah, I know, that doesn't count as a statistic. I'll still impressive that learn more calculus in high school than most U.S. students do in college. And that was with people shooting at them because they were they wrong religion.
Yeah, but a lot of us working two jobs are freelancing on the side... we might not HAVE to work two jobs, but working for yourself is the only way to have a chance at really getting ahead of the game. On the other hand, that's America for you.
Yeah... funny how all those asteroid movies pop up all at once :)
I think the key word here is "technically". Special interest groups and big business have been running the show for a long time. Hey, then again, I'm an NRA member. Maybe Slashdot needs special interest group with some soft money to throw around.