Of course, the counter argument is that this isn't a license on an electronic device so much as a license fee for the assumed pirated music that it will hold, so the artists should get a cut by default. However, this is the group that still discounts royalties by 5% for breakage.
You're putting a value weight on 'kill' when you use the word murder.
That's sort of the point. Killing is ok sometimes and not ok other times.
Is it murder to kill an enemy in battle?
Unless he's surrendered, then yes, always.
In samurai culture, it was tradition that one samurai would cut the head off of another samurai in order to ease the sufferring of the dying person. Is that different from pulling the plug on Terri Schiavo?
Sure: in one case, you're assisting in ritual suicide, while in the other, you're moving a body.
The simple use of the word 'murder' connotates many things that are not so simply or universally understood. You would have a point if you had said "Don't kill", leaving out any value judgements.
And that's the whole reason for using that word - saying thou shalt not kill just perpetuates a warped translation of a good idea. It's largely up to each society to draw the line where killing becomes murder.
As you get older, if you don't do this at typical companies...you are gonna become irrelavant as younger kids with more up to date knowledge come in that will work hard for 1/3 of what you make.
Like what, exactly? I think you're missing out on the part where they cost 1/3 of what you do.
Step 1: if it's not a physical object, a working model of which can be presented at the time of filing, don't grant a patent. Period. End of story. No software algorithms, no "business methods," no DNA sequences, etc. -- software can go copyright;
That doesn't work - if something is actually innovative and wholly software, then copyright just means that someone else has to write the software.
What we end up with here, at the end of the day, is a world where self-important people become to afraid to poke fun at their own self-importance, for fear that their remarks will become an eggregiously misconstrued sound-bite spun for cheap thrills and effect to pawn a second-rate parody twenty years later.
No, self important people are by definition unwilling to poke fun at themselves. That's what it means to be self important.
We all snigger at this revelation, before heading off to the pub to complain about stuffed-shirts acting like stuffed-shirts, in a climate we ourselves have created through our ill-considered sniggers where it is too dangerous for a stuffed-shirt to risk the slightest statement of self-mockery.
Yes, it's our fault, not that of the people who have the power to fire us for making them look stupid.
So, is this the same book I remember? Isn't there a chapter on the ISOE profiled companies 10-20 years down the road? As I recall, that was the most damning part: the companies held up as examples stagnated and fell from grace, or simply didn't grow or innovate.
For example, in the USA most automobile companies are in big trouble because they can no longer afford retirement and health care benefits for their already retired workers. This is a HUGE expense for them.
This wouldn't be a problem if they actually built cars people wanted - would you buy a chevy that cost $1k more that a toyota if you thought it was as reliable and pleasant to drive? Lots of people would.
Then you were failing at something that school is also supposed to teach you along with reading, writing, and 'rithmetic: Self-discipline. If there's one thing that school, both high school and college, taught me, it is that sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do in order to be better off later on.
Do what, now? Stay awake while the teacher mumbles about stuff you already know? I took a third path and sat in the back and read Heinlein.
f you're not willing to do the bare minimum of what it takes to get through high school, I don't care how smart you are, I don't want you working for me.
Yes, damn those self motivated go-getters!
Witness our adoption--or should I say, lack thereof?--of the metric system.
Because I would knock a guy out... a young Arab male with a backpack being belligerent in a crowded place.
Yes. You advocate violence against someone for looking foreign and being rude. In fact, you advocate beating his teeth out for talking back to you.
You are the type that would have negotiated with 9-11 hijackers... right before you all slammed into a building.
OK, so you're a racist who sees irrational terr'ists in every brown guy with a backpack. And yeah, it's a college campus. Everybody has a backpack and none of them have exploded.
which is why I'd use the club
If you weren't a cop, that'd be the last thing you remembered. Violent assault against a random stranger is not tolerated in anything resembling civilization.
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Corporations are supposed to be sociopathic. They are supposed to put profit above all else.
No, they are supposed to do the things they claim to do in their charter. Profit is part of it, but making it the only thing is hardly a duty.
Of course, the counter argument is that this isn't a license on an electronic device so much as a license fee for the assumed pirated music that it will hold, so the artists should get a cut by default. However, this is the group that still discounts royalties by 5% for breakage.
Yes, the rich upper class is always the one starting revolutions.
Of course not. It's the middle class - they use the poor to switch places with the rich.
have you tried living with a teenager that did not have her ipod? this causes HUGE amounts of human suffering!
On the contrary, a suffering teenager is highly entertaining.
His crime was embarrasing someone in power. This is always a risky proposition.
You're putting a value weight on 'kill' when you use the word murder.
That's sort of the point. Killing is ok sometimes and not ok other times.
Is it murder to kill an enemy in battle?
Unless he's surrendered, then yes, always.
In samurai culture, it was tradition that one samurai would cut the head off of another samurai in order to ease the sufferring of the dying person. Is that different from pulling the plug on Terri Schiavo?
Sure: in one case, you're assisting in ritual suicide, while in the other, you're moving a body.
The simple use of the word 'murder' connotates many things that are not so simply or universally understood. You would have a point if you had said "Don't kill", leaving out any value judgements.
And that's the whole reason for using that word - saying thou shalt not kill just perpetuates a warped translation of a good idea. It's largely up to each society to draw the line where killing becomes murder.
As you get older, if you don't do this at typical companies...you are gonna become irrelavant as younger kids with more up to date knowledge come in that will work hard for 1/3 of what you make.
Like what, exactly? I think you're missing out on the part where they cost 1/3 of what you do.
Nah, UPS is west side. MS is totally east side.
Object-oriented kittens have no ->microwave() method, but real world microwave ovens use a procedural model.
Your object model is screwed - microwave isn't intrinsic to kittens - microwaves have a method called nuke (thing t) (throws Sparks)
Millions of terrorists attacking us? What are you smoking? If it were millions, they'd be invading somewhere.
Step 1: if it's not a physical object, a working model of which can be presented at the time of filing, don't grant a patent. Period. End of story. No software algorithms, no "business methods," no DNA sequences, etc. -- software can go copyright;
That doesn't work - if something is actually innovative and wholly software, then copyright just means that someone else has to write the software.
Given that a user is already recognized by a website, what actual innovation is represented by oneclick?
What we end up with here, at the end of the day, is a world where self-important people become to afraid to poke fun at their own self-importance, for fear that their remarks will become an eggregiously misconstrued sound-bite spun for cheap thrills and effect to pawn a second-rate parody twenty years later.
No, self important people are by definition unwilling to poke fun at themselves. That's what it means to be self important.
We all snigger at this revelation, before heading off to the pub to complain about stuffed-shirts acting like stuffed-shirts, in a climate we ourselves have created through our ill-considered sniggers where it is too dangerous for a stuffed-shirt to risk the slightest statement of self-mockery.
Yes, it's our fault, not that of the people who have the power to fire us for making them look stupid.
So, is this the same book I remember? Isn't there a chapter on the ISOE profiled companies 10-20 years down the road? As I recall, that was the most damning part: the companies held up as examples stagnated and fell from grace, or simply didn't grow or innovate.
Or not. It's sort of a disappointment. We do have a lot of nice pubs and bars - try those out.
Exactly how compelling is a UI, anyway? Will people really ditch a product because it doesn't look the same as some other thing?
For example, in the USA most automobile companies are in big trouble because they can no longer afford retirement and health care benefits for their already retired workers. This is a HUGE expense for them.
This wouldn't be a problem if they actually built cars people wanted - would you buy a chevy that cost $1k more that a toyota if you thought it was as reliable and pleasant to drive? Lots of people would.
Why should anyone be rational if the Christian God does not exist? Why are men under any obligation to be rational in a materialistic universe?
Why are you under the delusion that men are rational?
I would say that the Mahometan peoples, many supported by Mahometan nations, have now entered into wars and acts of hostility against us.
Yes, because the acts of a handful of loonies are representative of a billion people.
So because the book was "culturally-sensitive" and didn't do a good job of presenting the material, they concluded that integrated math = bad?
No, multiculturalism has no place in a damn math book. How many people were even throwing Kwanzaa parties in 1990?
Then you were failing at something that school is also supposed to teach you along with reading, writing, and 'rithmetic: Self-discipline. If there's one thing that school, both high school and college, taught me, it is that sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do in order to be better off later on.
Do what, now? Stay awake while the teacher mumbles about stuff you already know? I took a third path and sat in the back and read Heinlein.
f you're not willing to do the bare minimum of what it takes to get through high school, I don't care how smart you are, I don't want you working for me.
Yes, damn those self motivated go-getters!
Witness our adoption--or should I say, lack thereof?--of the metric system.
We adopted it - it's just optional :)
Not in a mostly white town. Then they just get to exclude darkies, which is what they wanted anyway. Have you even read a history book?
Because I would knock a guy out... a young Arab male with a backpack being belligerent in a crowded place.
Yes. You advocate violence against someone for looking foreign and being rude. In fact, you advocate beating his teeth out for talking back to you.
You are the type that would have negotiated with 9-11 hijackers... right before you all slammed into a building.
OK, so you're a racist who sees irrational terr'ists in every brown guy with a backpack. And yeah, it's a college campus. Everybody has a backpack and none of them have exploded.
which is why I'd use the club
If you weren't a cop, that'd be the last thing you remembered. Violent assault against a random stranger is not tolerated in anything resembling civilization.
Yeah, but cops are (supposed to be) in good shape - this was a college student. Have you seen what they eat?
That's because they tasered him so much he can't think.