"Can you imagine the professor sitting in class while the webmaster's lawyer calls student after student who says the class is a waste of time?" I can more easily imagine him sitting in court as they probably wouldn't try the case without him present.
I'll try to stop thinking "Curzon-Dax" long enough to say this-- I know you can be sued in civil court for slander and libel, but whether it's done on line, in the newspaper, or on the side of a bus, is it really a *crime*?
But if you could, then the ultimate extrapolation of that would be emulations running emulations until you had the original Intel 4004 running the latest bloatware at glacial speeds. Might be interesting to see a screen change at about 1 pixel per second.
"Linux could probably be compared to just about any form of music." Okay, I'll play along. How can Linux be compared to Beach Music? Not Surf Music, Beach Music.
"can you please tell me where we imported those from?" Africa, for the most part. Although I guess we can take credit for the slavery part, without which probably none of the aforementioned would have developed. Hey, there's an interesting viewpoint (or rationalization, depending on how you look at it). If great artists truly need to suffer for their art, then you can be a patron of the arts by providing the suffering. I guess that's how the trolls around here convince themselves that they improve Slashdot.
My point is, (above and beyond setting up a joke for someone else to complete) in addition to the "sameness" of porn sites, web sites in general don't have a "local" or "national" flavor (unless they're completely in a non-english language in which case most of us click away to somewhere else) the same way a radio or television show or station or restaurant or bar would. I can tell the "national" difference between a "britcom" and something from NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, etc. more easily and instantly than between The Register and Slashdot.
A bunch of satellites fell down one dark and windy day The radio astronomers all jumped and said "Hooray!" Outdated narrow bandwidth was found to be a flaw They're losing too much money, said a fellow named McCaw Throw them away, can't save them to-day-ay They're Boat Anchors in the Sky Boat Anchors i-n-n-n the sky-y-y
My house wiring is kitchen-centric, from a certain point of view, but I could plug the toaster in in any room. The 'net is America-centric if those are the only type of sites you visit.
My concern is that the border-disregarding nature of the internet will so frustrate separate governments that they solve the problem by consolidating. Problem collecting sales tax on Oregan business's shipment to Louisiana resident? Wipe out all state sales taxes and replace with national sales tax. Might as well do away with state governments and make them all federal provinves while we're at it. Selling to France instead of Louisiana? If it's physical it has to go through customs. It's not physical? Better institute global telecommunications law enforcement authority. There's a slippery slope ahead.
Can we have a show of hands of everybody here that wants to pay higher taxes so that the patent office can have all the resources it needs to deal with the constant deluge of applications?
And how many patents did you violate with your modification : ) Of course if you're using those 2 AAA's in parallel to sub for a single 1.5 Volt button cell (some are 1.5, some are 3), then you may have grounds to file for a patent! Consult the nearest expensive attorney at the earliest possible opportunity. : )
But according to him, the particular "one-click" system that they came up with *isn't* obvious and simplistic, or the way that they make it work isn't or something like that, and though I don't know whether it is or not, he apparently sincerely believes it. Honest and sincere people can honestly and sincerely disagree about whether something is or isn't obvious, which sort of complicates a simplistic rule like "no obvious patents".
But then again perhaps this will be modrated as "obvious" : )
"Politics makes strange bedfellows" as the old adage says. 'Twas ever thus. Is this clichestock? No, just a reminder that not everything in the digital online virtual future is going to be brand new and unconnected to the past. At least not while humans are still involved : )
Will the moderator in question please post anon. and tell us how a first post that is a first post can be considered redundant? Troll, yes. Flamebait, yes. Overrated, yes. All of those are defensible positions. One might, by performing certain mental gymnastics, even justify "interesting", "insightful", "informative", and "underrated". But how do you see it as "redundant"? How?
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"Can you imagine the professor sitting in class while the webmaster's lawyer calls student after student who says the class is a waste of time?"
I can more easily imagine him sitting in court as they probably wouldn't try the case without him present.
I'll try to stop thinking "Curzon-Dax" long enough to say this--
I know you can be sued in civil court for slander and libel, but whether it's done on line, in the newspaper, or on the side of a bus, is it really a *crime*?
But if you could, then the ultimate extrapolation of that would be emulations running emulations until you had the original Intel 4004 running the latest bloatware at glacial speeds.
Might be interesting to see a screen change at about 1 pixel per second.
"Linux could probably be compared to just about any form of music."
Okay, I'll play along. How can Linux be compared to Beach Music? Not Surf Music, Beach Music.
"can you please tell me where we imported those from?"
Africa, for the most part. Although I guess we can take credit for the slavery part, without which probably none of the aforementioned would have developed.
Hey, there's an interesting viewpoint (or rationalization, depending on how you look at it). If great artists truly need to suffer for their art, then you can be a patron of the arts by providing the suffering. I guess that's how the trolls around here convince themselves that they improve Slashdot.
I think Slashdot expects uppercase letters in between the "less than" and "greater than" birdmouths.
"(Yes, you haven't lived until you've heard Japanese hip hop.)"
And after you have heard it do you still want to live?
Earth, Wind and Fire without a horn section? You are unwell.
"Illuminati satellites so the Greys can keep tabs on your every action"
Not even on a Super VHS VCR?
You do need a replacement keyboard for your i-opener, don't you?
My point is, (above and beyond setting up a joke for someone else to complete) in addition to the "sameness" of porn sites, web sites in general don't have a "local" or "national" flavor (unless they're completely in a non-english language in which case most of us click away to somewhere else) the same way a radio or television show or station or restaurant or bar would. I can tell the "national" difference between a "britcom" and something from NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, etc. more easily and instantly than between The Register and Slashdot.
The radio astronomers all jumped and said "Hooray!"
Outdated narrow bandwidth was found to be a flaw
They're losing too much money, said a fellow named McCaw
Throw them away, can't save them to-day-ay
They're Boat Anchors in the Sky
Boat Anchors i-n-n-n the sky-y-y
Think I can sell the idea to Weird Al?
My concern is that the border-disregarding nature of the internet will so frustrate separate governments that they solve the problem by consolidating.
Problem collecting sales tax on Oregan business's shipment to Louisiana resident? Wipe out all state sales taxes and replace with national sales tax. Might as well do away with state governments and make them all federal provinves while we're at it.
Selling to France instead of Louisiana? If it's physical it has to go through customs.
It's not physical? Better institute global telecommunications law enforcement authority.
There's a slippery slope ahead.
But really, unless a porn site or any other business puts their address on the page, how do you know if it's Australian or American or whatever?
"English is the lingua franca of the world"
Familiarity with the meaning and origin of the phrase "lingua franca" renders the above hilarious.
(well, Bill Mahr thought it was funny)
Apparently I'm not the only fossil around here : )
(remember the part about changing the sex of one of the elephants?)
Yeah, that's what I thought.
And how many patents did you violate with your modification : )
Of course if you're using those 2 AAA's in parallel to sub for a single 1.5 Volt button cell (some are 1.5, some are 3), then you may have grounds to file for a patent! Consult the nearest expensive attorney at the earliest possible opportunity. : )
Honest and sincere people can honestly and sincerely disagree about whether something is or isn't obvious, which sort of complicates a simplistic rule like "no obvious patents".
But then again perhaps this will be modrated as "obvious" : )
"Politics makes strange bedfellows" as the old adage says. 'Twas ever thus.
Is this clichestock? No, just a reminder that not everything in the digital online virtual future is going to be brand new and unconnected to the past. At least not while humans are still involved : )
Will the moderator in question please post anon. and tell us how a first post that is a first post can be considered redundant? Troll, yes. Flamebait, yes. Overrated, yes. All of those are defensible positions. One might, by performing certain mental gymnastics, even justify "interesting", "insightful", "informative", and "underrated". But how do you see it as "redundant"? How?
How's your current AIW card (the one with the lousy 3d)as a TV tuner? And what model number is it?
And just why was it that you thought anyone here would care what your opinion on all this is?