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  1. Re:Interesting on Unsealed SCO Email Reveals Linux Code is Clean · · Score: 1

    Nah, I'd rather be dead than submit to the DMCA, but then I believe in a life that transcends death.

  2. Re:Interesting on Unsealed SCO Email Reveals Linux Code is Clean · · Score: 1

    But they don't have a voice. Not in the sentient being kind of way. They let the book and what might be called the "keepers of the book" do their thinking for them. They are essentially and primarily given what to say. This is what causes the result of "Dr." James Dobson calling senators who did something pretty sensible "traitors" and Federal Judges tyrants, and him alone appears to have quite a following.
    http://www.google.com/search?q=dobson+traitors

  3. Ever heard of a revolution? on Unsealed SCO Email Reveals Linux Code is Clean · · Score: 1

    Or forced change from without?
    This isn't just something a third party Band-Aid will fix.

    However, neither the United Nations, nor al-Queda are doing it for me. If there are any extraplanetary governments out there, I'm interested.

    Some lines from a speech I remember that feels relevant about now:
    Tradition is a history, it's the history of caring built by deep, true feelings of people. I do think that fighting in battles can at times be beautiful, but at the same time I'd like to express my regret over the lost souls be appealing to you to recognize how priceless man's life is. I believe what man needs is not absolute victory, but a certain demeanor in fighting, an attitude toward fighting. I feel that this era may become an embarrassment to the people of the future.

    From a historical point of view, warriors who have lost what they were protecting and were further betrayed by those they were protecting are losers. But they do not recognize themselves as such. Not only that, but they retain a strong will to continue fighting. The emotions of those who were thought to be beautiful are always full of sorrow, and honored tradition disappears in the cry of the weak. Winners of a battle will eventually decline in power and become losers, and then those 'loserswill cultivate a new leader.

    I'm telling you... I want to be a "loser".

  4. Re:Interesting on Unsealed SCO Email Reveals Linux Code is Clean · · Score: 1

    Let me introduce you to a little thing called history, bub. I've been reviewing history, and in general The United States hasn't been going the way I want, and the very fact that you assumed that I was talking of the politics of the moment is yet another indication of the wrong way this country has been headed for quite some time now.

    Furthermore, it isn't just politics but my interactions with people, the people who may or may not vote, in general that havent't been going my way. Just try to get ANYTHING done and the people involved in the process barely have a clue.

    The people I mentioned in connection with the 2000 year old book are the people you seem to believe will vote sensibly. However, my point wasn't merely that they believed in the book, but that they were commiting to it in place of reason or observation or feelings, and insist upon it. Anything it doesn't cover simply doesn't exist in their minds. This isn't merely my opinion of them, this is what they have been claiming over and over again. I believe in much of what that book says but these people are blind to anything else, and there is very much else out there. The book isn't really that robust.

  5. Re:Take your pick, Mr. Indecisive on Slashback: Archives, Leak, Fanfilm · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I had misread his post so that it seemed that he was referring only to Google.

  6. Re:Interesting on Unsealed SCO Email Reveals Linux Code is Clean · · Score: 1

    Our government works? Do tell...

    It sure as hell isn't the government I served to protect.

    The government you served to protect is a figment of your imagination, and that's just the way the people in power like it.

    Many of the people who vote believe that a translation (your opinion of quality may vary) of a roughly 2000 year-old book is the end all, be all for just about any purposes of judgement, experiences be irrelevent.

    And if you don't believe me, just read this page: http://www.bible.org/page.asp?page_id=693#P170_217 59

  7. Re:When someone puts up a website... on Slashback: Archives, Leak, Fanfilm · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately the material is copyrighted, and the copyright holder does possess that right, last I checked...that is, if he has the money to do so.

  8. Re:Take your pick, Mr. Indecisive on Slashback: Archives, Leak, Fanfilm · · Score: 1

    In American English his sentence is correct.

  9. Re:When someone puts up a website... on Slashback: Archives, Leak, Fanfilm · · Score: 1

    Should this guy have a right to erase his past creations?

    I say no...but according to copyrigh laws, he has it for some time with a lengthy expiration date that can change simply by passing a new law.

    Should people judge her based on who she used to be, what she did to survive within a specific context of existance?

    Depends on what basis they are judging her for.

    Now, some questions you didn't ask, and my answers.

    Should non-identifying data be someone's property?

    In general, I say NO!.

    Do laws give you rights.

    Not alone. Unenforcable Laws, or laws that are only enforcable if you have the cash to pursue them give you no rights at all.
    You only have a right if you can exercise it.

  10. Re:Interesting on Unsealed SCO Email Reveals Linux Code is Clean · · Score: 1

    Show me someone to vote for that is different enough to matter. After that, find a way for him to get enough votes so that my voting won't be a waste of time.

  11. Re:Reveals Darl McBride is Dirty on Unsealed SCO Email Reveals Linux Code is Clean · · Score: 1

    I watched XXX:State of the Nation, and quickly reached the opinion that I didn't care which side won as they were both bad and not worth trifling with. I'd already looked at the U.S. and al-Quaeda currently and saw the exact same thing.

  12. Re:Ha ha, lights. on NVIDIA's Lead Scientist Interviewed · · Score: 1

    Picard is an idiot

    From Patch Adams: How many fingers do you see.

  13. Elements on Setting up a Small Office Network? · · Score: 1

    Look at Linksys or D-link products for networking. as for source control, Perforce or AlienBrain are reportedly good. Avoid Visual SourceSafe at all costs. StarTeam and ClearCase usually aren't worth the money for a team your size. You can e-mail me.

  14. Re:Intellectual Property terms on BBC In Trouble Over Free Music · · Score: 1

    Just because a term isn't used in a given arena doesn't mean that the general concept doesn't exist. Besides the process of discovery is similar.

    http://www.coolcopyright.com/cases/fulltext/nichol suniversaltext.htm

    BTW that case doesn't make your case...nor it seems, strongly support it. It says essentially that even if the two are quite a bit different, a comparison of portions is necessary to rule out any infringement.

  15. Re:Does this mean... on BBC In Trouble Over Free Music · · Score: 1

    I don't see anything legally stopping you except maybe for laws limiting your choice of weapon. In fact, I advocate this sort of thing.

  16. Re:Intellectual Property terms on BBC In Trouble Over Free Music · · Score: 1

    Prior art also applies to copyrights. If an older work is found that is similar enough, a copyright owner cannot claim that they own the rights to another work under the "derivative works" clause.

  17. You were embarrased? on Improving Education? · · Score: 1

    You should have made that teacher rue the day that he thought he could be a teacher without a proper education

    And that is what's wrong with education as well as everything else. No accountability, and in the lack of formal accountability, the lack of willingness to instill a sense of regret in the person who fails to fulfil what should be their duty.

  18. Re:Yeah, thanks a lot NAT on David Clark: Rebuild the Internet · · Score: 1

    You havent learned the ISO/OSI Network Model, have you. The two issues here are at different levels of the model:
    Layer 3: IPv4, NAT
    Layer 4: QoS
    http://www.google.com/search?q=osi+iso+layers

  19. Re:NAT isn't a permanent solution on David Clark: Rebuild the Internet · · Score: 1

    As with anything, the most cost effective transition will begin on its own when the time is right

    Drunk the "invisible hand" Kool-aid I see.

    I suppose NASA's Retrofits after the disasters was the most cost effective time.

    I suppose all wars end at the most cost effective time.

    I could go on, but I think this is sufficient for now.

  20. Re:true on Yankee Group Slams Linux 'Extremists' · · Score: 1

    When has Windows ever insisted on a Floppy?

  21. Population problem on Realm of Albion Removed From Dark Age of Camelot · · Score: 1

    So was this an under or over population?

  22. Re:Oh, no! on Dr. Who Series Star Quits · · Score: 1

    Each Regeneration get's harder and harder to do. It's kinda like asking why are human beings limited to 100 years.

  23. Re:Oh, no! on Dr. Who Series Star Quits · · Score: 1

    You forgot his evil regeneration that tried to end Colin Baker Doctor Early to get another regen.

  24. Come on... on Sony Cancels PS3 Showing · · Score: 1

    That picture's clearly a digital creation
    It contains both hard reflection edges, and digital generated "randomized" glare.

  25. What WinFS is on WinFS to be available in WinXP · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From my understanding, WinFS is not a file system at all just a database API sitting on top of what is essentially NTFS http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=winfs+ntfs