And if everyone simply copies the AP articles without paying for it, where will the revenue stream come from to pay the writers?
This is a strawman. No one's advocating the practice of copying and pasting entire AP articles. Read the fscking article (or at least the summary) -- the AP is talking about demanding fees for Web sites who link to their stories or copy and paste excerpts with links to the full stories.
I know, I know, everything on the Internet is a commodity now. But tell me - what happens when there is no one left to produce that commodity?
Traditional journalists look down upon bloggers, but sometimes the only difference is that one group uses the Associated Press Stylebook and the other doesn't. I think you'll discover that if "traditional" newspapers go away, communities will step in to fill the void.
"Gregg Keizer reports that Microsoft acknowledged today it has 'broadened the options' for PC makers to continue offering Windows XP as a downgrade from Vista -- and potentially even Windows 7...."
They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.
No, it wasn't bad, a massacre, or sick...It was war.
I was over there, too. Just got back in January. Unlike you, I wasn't on the front lines, but as you and I both know, the front lines aren't always easy to define.
Yes, it was war. Still is. That doesn't preclude it from being bad, a massacre, or sick, because that's what war is -- especially when you consider that it wasn't a necessary war. That doesn't mean it's your fault that war's bad, and you're right that the politicians should be the ones held accountable.
Which leads us to the real question: When are we going to hold the politicians -- both the ones who lied and the ones who willingly chose to believe it -- to account for their actions?
We're talking the U.S. legal system here. It's not "am I allowed to do it?". It's "am I rich enough to afford taking it to court AND risk getting a judge that doesn't understand a thing about technology".
Nope -- Baghdad is Zulu +3; or at least, it was when I was there from July of last year to this past January. And I highly doubt they've changed it since then.
What kind of desktop PCs do you run there? Brand name, hand-built? Any standard hardware or software configurations, or can people pretty much install what they want? Configuration management is important when you're talking about a large PC farm.
hard to prove your innocence if you're not given the chance to.
Fortunately, defendants aren't required to prove their innocence in court -- the burden of proof lies with the prosecutor. And I can't imagine a judge that would take this seriously if the prosecution refused to show its evidence to the defense attorneys.
I know you got modded funny, but you should have gotten some "insightful" points as well -- because this is how some military folks actually think.
An anecdote: Our office is in charge of creating a display for a local airport. The plan was to showcase some of the satellites we control and some information about what they do. A couple of weeks into working on things, someone from higher headquarters said they were concerned about including information on how high the satellites are above the Earth.
Yes -- some knothead decided that we should omit information like the satellites' altitude, despite the fact that this information is already freelyavailable to the public.
Oh, and this higher headquarters? It's the same agency that's now responsible for "defending cyberspace."
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This is a strawman. No one's advocating the practice of copying and pasting entire AP articles. Read the fscking article (or at least the summary) -- the AP is talking about demanding fees for Web sites who link to their stories or copy and paste excerpts with links to the full stories.
Traditional journalists look down upon bloggers, but sometimes the only difference is that one group uses the Associated Press Stylebook and the other doesn't. I think you'll discover that if "traditional" newspapers go away, communities will step in to fill the void.
They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.
I was over there, too. Just got back in January. Unlike you, I wasn't on the front lines, but as you and I both know, the front lines aren't always easy to define.
Yes, it was war. Still is. That doesn't preclude it from being bad, a massacre, or sick, because that's what war is -- especially when you consider that it wasn't a necessary war. That doesn't mean it's your fault that war's bad, and you're right that the politicians should be the ones held accountable.
Which leads us to the real question: When are we going to hold the politicians -- both the ones who lied and the ones who willingly chose to believe it -- to account for their actions?
All the others will become Treknobabble.
Fixed!
Absolutely. Anyone who's ever owned a cat can tell you the little beasts will kill you sooner or later.
You're posting on SlashDot, and you expect us to believe you have a girlfriend?
A wife, maybe. Possibly two or three, if your username is any indication. But a girlfriend? Inconceivable!
Oh, c'mon, mods. It's a joke. Laugh!
Is that you, Tom Cruise?
There, fixed that for ya.
And if the Reverse Streisand doesn't work, expect them to go with the Double Maverick^W Streisand or the Sad Grandpa.
Does goatse count?
Would you be referring to good old Rule 34? :)
Just randomly mod things "funny" until you run out of points. :)
In that case, would you go for the "Spanish Inquisition" argument? No one expects that.
Nope -- Baghdad is Zulu +3; or at least, it was when I was there from July of last year to this past January. And I highly doubt they've changed it since then.
Well, to be fair, it's April 1 in Tokyo, Beijing, Sydney and Baghdad.
Grep doesn't work. You have to grok it:
Amendment IX: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Without the right to speak anonymously, freedom of speech isn't really so free.
Yes, actually, I have. Thanks for a post that adds precisely nothing to the discussion.
What kind of desktop PCs do you run there? Brand name, hand-built? Any standard hardware or software configurations, or can people pretty much install what they want? Configuration management is important when you're talking about a large PC farm.
Fortunately, defendants aren't required to prove their innocence in court -- the burden of proof lies with the prosecutor. And I can't imagine a judge that would take this seriously if the prosecution refused to show its evidence to the defense attorneys.
Who let Texas on the Internet?
:)
I know you got modded funny, but you should have gotten some "insightful" points as well -- because this is how some military folks actually think.
An anecdote: Our office is in charge of creating a display for a local airport. The plan was to showcase some of the satellites we control and some information about what they do. A couple of weeks into working on things, someone from higher headquarters said they were concerned about including information on how high the satellites are above the Earth.
Yes -- some knothead decided that we should omit information like the satellites' altitude, despite the fact that this information is already freely available to the public.
Oh, and this higher headquarters? It's the same agency that's now responsible for "defending cyberspace."
You, sir, are full of shit. Time shifting applies equally to radio as to television or any other medium.