An elderly man with medical devices that include metal components would make an excellent suicide bomber. The metal components of his bomb? "Oh, that's my pacemaker/air filter/cancer thingamajig." Bomb dog smells something? "Oh, I take these tablets of such and such for my heart." He's not suspicious in the least no matter how suspicious he's acting. Plus, he doesn't have much time and wouldn't mind as much giving up his life for some radical cause. Keep up the good work, men!
I know! I was excited to read an article on the office, power, or term of the office of a censor of Rome, and here I am reading some silly thing about copyright.
But seriously, censorship is just the removal of anything objectionable. It is objectionable to NBC and the Olympic committee for U.S. citizens to watch streaming video over the BBC, so the BBC censors it from them. Don't be mad because the article uses a different, yet correct, use of censorship than you're used to. Censorship doesn't have to be by a government, you #*&@&@#&($#@&(@#!!!. You see? I've censored my own words.
He was president of our theatre organization. Do you know how many times we had to swear that we wouldn't let him get near the buzzcard reader in order to get one?
Ah, I was thinking of all that business with changing the title of the book and such, and I assumed the author herself had little to do with this. If she was in on it, too, then you're right, the author is the bad one. Sometimes I forget that just because something bad happens to you, you're not automatically good.
Whow, boy, slow down. Let's not imply the other Katie is the bad one. She was also, and to a much greater extent, a victim. Repeat after me. I am not my publisher.
I'll be more impressed if they can be uploaded freely as a standard file without any of this password nonsense, but this is still much, much, much better than caving to the football lobby.
You're right, you can't. That's why they trademarked "Windows Operating System." Unfortunately, Lindows is easily confused with "Windows Operating System," since it is usually refered to as just "Windows," which is not itself trademarked. See how legal loopholes work?
One of the reason a lot of things, especially electronics, are more expensive in europe is that both the euro and the pound are beating our U.S. dollar into submission at the moment. In reverse, visiting America from England is like having a nationwide 50% off sale.
There are a lot of things that aren't by themselves critical secret knowledge (schematics to a nuclear weapon), but are still not a good idea to share. Let's say they contain software for helicopters that controls the interface for missile detection. It's probably not dangerous to give out, but there might be a bug in that software that some country exploits to build missiles that won't be detected. Things like that.
Indeed, I was surprised too. Gaiman's work is quite possibly the ultimate example of comic book as novel. Maybe they figure it's not "accessible to the masses" on account of how smart it is?
While not being familiar with this particular CD, I imagine if it runs successfully in a CD player, a linux ripper will probably not notice that it is somehow protected, but I could be wrong.
Well, since you want to know, I'll tell you.
The treadmill is gameplay so tedious and automatic that someone could write a fairly simple program with minimal AI that would do a pretty good job of it for them. Treadmills have very little change of pace or scenery and require very little thought. Indeed, it's like walking on a treadmill, thus the name.
Tetris is not a treadmill -- Figuring out what to do with the blocks requires constant thought and planning. Writing a program to play a good game of Tetris is hard. Heck, it's NP-complete hard.
Doom, Ico, and Metal Slug are not treadmills, the first time through. Sure, you could write a program to play them, but these are games meant to be skill-based and puzzle-based. You use quick reflexes or solve puzzles, neither of which are treadmills.
The Sims isn't a treadmill -- if you're not trying to get anywhere, it doesn't matter that you're standing still.
Doing it exactly that way would mean that any work would need to be released more or less simultaneously in every country in the world. The current model allows the owner to take his or her time expanding. Now, I could see how you could make a case, for, say, declaring a copyright null and void when it hadn't been sold in a given country for 3 or 4 years. Even that has problems, though. Let's imagine if an author writes a really good book, but it takes him a couple of years to find a publisher. That publisher tests the waters with a small release, then a larger release, and so on. By the time it's translated and sent to another country, it could very well have been 5 or 6 years.
Mea culpa. I think I made Mr. Banana mad with the word thief, too. Gotta get these bloody RIAA-created phrases back out of my head. Maybe I'll go install a new flavor of linux. D'oh! I meant GNU/Linux! At least I'm confident that I can say it's free software, unlike competitors with their commercial software. Ack! I meant non-free software! Really! At least Linux's creator, Linus Torvalds, grr, I meant author, is opposed to digital rights management..I mean...uh...digital...handcuffing!
Umm...in case it didn't come through, I really didn't mean to use the word theft, and I apologize.
I hope you didn't misunderstand me. I have a great deal of respect for most fansub groups, I'm very glad that I often see the not for resale line, and I'm grateful to them for letting me watch and read a whole lot of great stuff that would have otherwise been unavailable to me, which would have been a shame.
However, I will repeat that technically, under U.S. law, they are thieves. I don't particularly agree with this law, but nonetheless, there is no legal distinction between selling, say, an illegal German translation of a Harry Potter book and fansubbing. Obviously in reality it's not such an issue, as Japanese art houses and distributors are much, much, MUCH more tolerant of this sort of thing than any American corporation, but the legal issues are still there, and the derivative nature of these works makes them inherently different from open source.
So, to reiterate, I am in favor of what they are doing. I've watched lots of stuff that I can't buy, and I've bought lots of stuff that I otherwise would never have known existed. If I was introduced to a fansubber, I would thank him profusely. Nevertheless, as a technicality in the eyes of the law, he's a thief and a criminal, at least as soon as an American company chooses to sue him.
By the way, I really hope that the statement "fansub and scanlation groups are thieves" is one of the most ignorant statements you've heard in quite some time because maybe that means that the world's a way better place than I thought it was.
I love how whenever F/OSS is mentioned in relation to anything involving copyright someone has to play the Darl-Card. Is it just me, or is this the 21st century equivilant of Godwin's Law?
In this case the comparison is apt. You can't just throw away an argument entirely because it's used often. SCO claims open source builds off intellectual property without permission, and translating comics is building off intellectual property without permission. Pavon was right in comparing them.
Besides, the movement to translate Asiatic and Western European IP is something being pushed by Demand, not supply. There has always been easy availability of imported material/documents etc. Heck you can't buy a PDA book reader without getting seven copies of The Art of War.
I should point out that demand would be pulling, not pushing. I'm not sure what else you're trying to say, but..umm...ha!
Besides, noting the post count, and my own preference of the written word or the silver screen over comic books, I'd say the audience couldn't be that broad. 12-20+ year old males? (At least ignoring targetted imports towards the female demographic...)
Comics can't have larger audiences? Go read something real, like Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. It's not manga, but it is a comic book, and it is most definitely for adults and phenomenal work of literature. Just because your silver screen tells you comics are always for kids doesn't mean you have to believe it.
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Glad I don't work at your company.
An elderly man with medical devices that include metal components would make an excellent suicide bomber. The metal components of his bomb? "Oh, that's my pacemaker/air filter/cancer thingamajig." Bomb dog smells something? "Oh, I take these tablets of such and such for my heart." He's not suspicious in the least no matter how suspicious he's acting. Plus, he doesn't have much time and wouldn't mind as much giving up his life for some radical cause. Keep up the good work, men!
Eh, there could be lots of other reasons for your wife to get stopped every time. For instance, does she look rather like a young arabic man?
They think trolls are stupid because they only count one, two, many, but the counting system is:
one, two, many, many-one, many-two, many-many, many-many-one, many-many-two, lots...
You mean you don't use network byte order? Ye gods, man!
I know! I was excited to read an article on the office, power, or term of the office of a censor of Rome, and here I am reading some silly thing about copyright.
But seriously, censorship is just the removal of anything objectionable. It is objectionable to NBC and the Olympic committee for U.S. citizens to watch streaming video over the BBC, so the BBC censors it from them. Don't be mad because the article uses a different, yet correct, use of censorship than you're used to. Censorship doesn't have to be by a government, you #*&@&@#&($#@&(@#!!!. You see? I've censored my own words.
He was president of our theatre organization. Do you know how many times we had to swear that we wouldn't let him get near the buzzcard reader in order to get one?
Ah, I was thinking of all that business with changing the title of the book and such, and I assumed the author herself had little to do with this. If she was in on it, too, then you're right, the author is the bad one. Sometimes I forget that just because something bad happens to you, you're not automatically good.
Whow, boy, slow down. Let's not imply the other Katie is the bad one. She was also, and to a much greater extent, a victim. Repeat after me. I am not my publisher.
I'll be more impressed if they can be uploaded freely as a standard file without any of this password nonsense, but this is still much, much, much better than caving to the football lobby.
I usually play Mindball to lose :)
You're right, you can't. That's why they trademarked "Windows Operating System." Unfortunately, Lindows is easily confused with "Windows Operating System," since it is usually refered to as just "Windows," which is not itself trademarked. See how legal loopholes work?
One of the reason a lot of things, especially electronics, are more expensive in europe is that both the euro and the pound are beating our U.S. dollar into submission at the moment. In reverse, visiting America from England is like having a nationwide 50% off sale.
There are a lot of things that aren't by themselves critical secret knowledge (schematics to a nuclear weapon), but are still not a good idea to share. Let's say they contain software for helicopters that controls the interface for missile detection. It's probably not dangerous to give out, but there might be a bug in that software that some country exploits to build missiles that won't be detected. Things like that.
Indeed, I was surprised too. Gaiman's work is quite possibly the ultimate example of comic book as novel. Maybe they figure it's not "accessible to the masses" on account of how smart it is?
Ah, but see, their new exclusive toy seller may be Wal-mart.
Was that a question? Phase 2 was press the rip button in iTunes.
While not being familiar with this particular CD, I imagine if it runs successfully in a CD player, a linux ripper will probably not notice that it is somehow protected, but I could be wrong.
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Well, since you want to know, I'll tell you. The treadmill is gameplay so tedious and automatic that someone could write a fairly simple program with minimal AI that would do a pretty good job of it for them. Treadmills have very little change of pace or scenery and require very little thought. Indeed, it's like walking on a treadmill, thus the name. Tetris is not a treadmill -- Figuring out what to do with the blocks requires constant thought and planning. Writing a program to play a good game of Tetris is hard. Heck, it's NP-complete hard. Doom, Ico, and Metal Slug are not treadmills, the first time through. Sure, you could write a program to play them, but these are games meant to be skill-based and puzzle-based. You use quick reflexes or solve puzzles, neither of which are treadmills. The Sims isn't a treadmill -- if you're not trying to get anywhere, it doesn't matter that you're standing still.
Doing it exactly that way would mean that any work would need to be released more or less simultaneously in every country in the world. The current model allows the owner to take his or her time expanding. Now, I could see how you could make a case, for, say, declaring a copyright null and void when it hadn't been sold in a given country for 3 or 4 years. Even that has problems, though. Let's imagine if an author writes a really good book, but it takes him a couple of years to find a publisher. That publisher tests the waters with a small release, then a larger release, and so on. By the time it's translated and sent to another country, it could very well have been 5 or 6 years.
Mea culpa. I think I made Mr. Banana mad with the word thief, too. Gotta get these bloody RIAA-created phrases back out of my head. Maybe I'll go install a new flavor of linux. D'oh! I meant GNU/Linux! At least I'm confident that I can say it's free software, unlike competitors with their commercial software. Ack! I meant non-free software! Really! At least Linux's creator, Linus Torvalds, grr, I meant author, is opposed to digital rights management..I mean...uh...digital...handcuffing!
Umm...in case it didn't come through, I really didn't mean to use the word theft, and I apologize.
I hope you didn't misunderstand me. I have a great deal of respect for most fansub groups, I'm very glad that I often see the not for resale line, and I'm grateful to them for letting me watch and read a whole lot of great stuff that would have otherwise been unavailable to me, which would have been a shame.
However, I will repeat that technically, under U.S. law, they are thieves. I don't particularly agree with this law, but nonetheless, there is no legal distinction between selling, say, an illegal German translation of a Harry Potter book and fansubbing. Obviously in reality it's not such an issue, as Japanese art houses and distributors are much, much, MUCH more tolerant of this sort of thing than any American corporation, but the legal issues are still there, and the derivative nature of these works makes them inherently different from open source.
So, to reiterate, I am in favor of what they are doing. I've watched lots of stuff that I can't buy, and I've bought lots of stuff that I otherwise would never have known existed. If I was introduced to a fansubber, I would thank him profusely. Nevertheless, as a technicality in the eyes of the law, he's a thief and a criminal, at least as soon as an American company chooses to sue him.
By the way, I really hope that the statement "fansub and scanlation groups are thieves" is one of the most ignorant statements you've heard in quite some time because maybe that means that the world's a way better place than I thought it was.
You're wrong on 3 counts.
I love how whenever F/OSS is mentioned in relation to anything involving copyright someone has to play the Darl-Card. Is it just me, or is this the 21st century equivilant of Godwin's Law?
In this case the comparison is apt. You can't just throw away an argument entirely because it's used often. SCO claims open source builds off intellectual property without permission, and translating comics is building off intellectual property without permission. Pavon was right in comparing them.
Besides, the movement to translate Asiatic and Western European IP is something being pushed by Demand, not supply. There has always been easy availability of imported material/documents etc. Heck you can't buy a PDA book reader without getting seven copies of The Art of War.
I should point out that demand would be pulling, not pushing. I'm not sure what else you're trying to say, but..umm...ha!
Besides, noting the post count, and my own preference of the written word or the silver screen over comic books, I'd say the audience couldn't be that broad. 12-20+ year old males? (At least ignoring targetted imports towards the female demographic...)
Comics can't have larger audiences? Go read something real, like Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. It's not manga, but it is a comic book, and it is most definitely for adults and phenomenal work of literature. Just because your silver screen tells you comics are always for kids doesn't mean you have to believe it.
Dude, have you READ manga? 90% of it is for girls, and the other 10% is mostly pictures of girls.