It was a hypothetical question, and in the hypothetical question the 'pirated' disk was reinstalled using the numbers on the little sticker on the back, so in theory the original license does cover the 'pirated' version.
I'm a SuSE Desktop 10.1 user so it doesn't really matter - but it's a good exercise for the course, worth considering.
Here's one for you - what if I bought a nice used laptop for about $400 (not bad for an Inspiron e1505 w/ a Core 2 Duo and a Gig of memory, less than a year old) that was originally bought new with Windows XP, but the guy didn't have the disks so I ended up installing a pirated copy of the same version of Windows it originally came with?
None of my theoretical pirated.MP3s gave me a motherfucking root-kit. I say theoretical, of course, because I don't pirate music. But if I did, they wouldn't.
Plenty of Sony 'compact discs bought at retail' are guaranteed to give you a root-kit. And that technology was in use two years ago - I can only imagine what they are putting on retail CDs now.
"Inciting a riot" is a felony. Regardless of the sentencing (even if the judge lets him off with a slap on the wrist for it), if that one sticks he becomes a felon and loses the ability to vote or own a gun. You read that right - LOSES HIS RIGHT TO VOTE. Meaning - he's not going to be changing the system from either direction.
The most chilling thing was the implicit threat to all the people (other students, friends) that stood by watching but horrified to do anything lest they too have their lives destroyed by trumped up charges. THIS is what made it so scary, because that was what made the KGB business so scary. Speak up = disappear. I'm not a first person observer of that whole Nazi / Jew thing, but if I had to guess - I'd guess it was the same atmosphere. Throw another Godwin in the mix, I honestly hope I am wrong and I lose this conversation. Because life is going to suck big-time if I am right.
I watched the videos, one student said something and the cop barked her down - 'Shut Up!' Implicit follow-on sentence was, of course, '... or we destroy your life too.' Scary. I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, on several different camcordings. I'm a pretty hardcore pro-government and pro-rules kind of person, which makes it so much harder for me to take this slant - when the staunchest of Repub's / Shrub supporters are scared, something is definitely wrong.
He was a sober guy talking at the mic and four cops bum-rushed him. They startled him - and he spooked. I'd say with good reason. Hold a cat in one hand and a dust-buster in the other, spark up the dust-buster (a medium sized hand-held vacuum cleaner, for the foreigners) and see how the cat reacts - time to arrest and tazer the cat, or was it just instinct reaction?
As for the KGB reference, I've spent time in Russia in the early 90's (just after the wall came down) and I have talked to the families, so yes I speak with a little authority on the subject. When the cops start abducting people that say the wrong things, particularly when people defend those cops, it is a slippery slope. Regarding Godwin's Law - nothing would make me happier in my life than to be totally wrong on this issue. I pray for us both that I was wrong and that I did, in fact, lose this discussion.
If four cops grab you, you're arrested. Don't let the fact that they hadn't actually said the words 'you are arrested' fool you - if a cop puts his hands on you in an unsocial fashion, you are under arrest and doing anything (including doing nothing) will be trumped up in charges of resisting arrest, disturbing the peace, and inciting a riot.
Honestly I'm surprised they didn't charge him with that last one, inciting a riot. Fucking slacker cops - the cops in my 'hood would have totally done it, just to screw the guy for life.
If you were talking to someone and four cops walked up and started physically taking you into custody with no warning or pretext, you'd go frantic too. Particularly if you had been a law-abiding citizen up until that point, and had NO CLUE why you were being arrested and taken down / walked off.
Historically speaking, that's textbook Nazi / KGB behavior. And the victims generally never recovered.
Sometimes a motherfucker just needs to be heard. Got something on his mind, picking at him day and night and it won't relent - he needs to vent. Let it out, takes about 1 minute of someone's time and once he has had his say... he's deflated. Empty. Drained. Devoid of energy. A guy can have delusions of grandeur about what's going to happen once the truth is known, think that the people of power will take this information and do something with it - but if they don't, at least he tried. If he carries it forever it will eat him inside out, because he never got a chance to be heard.
I know.
I carry mine, afraid to say my one minute of truth, lest they arrest me for resisting arrest and pretty much fuck my life up even more than it already is. At least I'm not as fucked as this guy. What's the world coming to, when I feel empathy for a rabid Kerry supporter?
If you think the scary parts of Doom3, HL 1/2, FEAR, STALKER, etc are immersive when you are sober, try game night with a two drink minimum. One more reason games are way scarier than movies - you rarely watch movies (at the theater) under the influence, but you play all your games with a few drinks in you (at night with the lights off) and the last bit of disbelief fades away and you are there, living it. There are a few places in Doom3 where (a few glasses of scotch in my system) I had to turn it off and walk around the house turning on lights.
Screw that - in the world of legal expenses, a few sticks of DDR2 pc5300 is cheap. Next maintenance window turn off the server, pull the RAM, put it in an anti-static bag and send it to the other lawyers. Put in some new RAM, fire up your box and you're back on your merry way.
Yea, or they could plant a two ounce bag of crack in his jacket pocket, 'tip off' the police and have him arrested and thrown in jail for posession of crack cocaine on a drug-free school zone with intent to distribute. Fuck his life up real good for something he didn't do, destroy him professionally / financially / emotionally and then say - there now, that's not very nice, is it? You don't like it when people do it to you, don't do it to other people.
Bunch of NASA whiners must have replaced 'The Right Stuff' through worthless politically correct hiring practices - this new generation of 'engineers' and 'rocket scientists' have forgotten history and thus are being forced to re-invent the wheel. The logistics of these landings were worked out years ago - as you can plainly see in this simulation.
You are considering buying a console and instead of going out to see what you like, you'd wait another year to see how things shake out before buying? A game console? We are talking a couple hundred dollars, or like $30 a month for the next year.
Jeez man, if you see a system that has games that you like right now, buy it. MS is extending the warranty to three years, and between Halo3 coming out, Gears of War and Forza2 being out right now, it's a no-brainer. Don't want to hassle with mail-in exchanges, get the in-store replacement warranty offered at CCity, BBuy or whatever - cost you another $50 or so. If you aren't in a position to drop half a grand on a game box, then don't. If you are, and there are games you really like on the Wii, get that instead. Like the games on the PS3? Get that one instead. But don't just twiddle your thumbs for a year waiting to see if MS does anything even more better than extending your warranty to three years.
Two years from now there will be a few systems that totally out-do what you can get today. You aren't investing in technology and hedging against obsolesence, you are buying a game system. It's like buying a bottle of liquor - buy it to enjoy it, consume it, and understand it isn't going to last for twenty years. That's it. Don't spend the next year wondering if Glenlivit is going to come out with an even better bottle of scotch - get a bottle today, drink it and next year if they have something better (and you have emptied the last bottle) then get the next better one.
(Note - the folling post curiously lacking in hard facts, unlike most of my posts.)
There was a report a few months ago harping on about bubbling the factory exhaust from smokestacks through algae water, which seemed to have an explosive growth effect on the algae. I recall none of the actual facts, other than a) it cleaned the bad stuff out of the smokestack exhaust before pumping it into the air (a good thing), and b) the algae just loved it and grew like wildfire (which is also good.)
The substantiation of this post is considered trivial, and has been left to the reader as an exercise.
So basically the only step between this being 'as proposed' and 'another royal ass-fucking like Everquest' is for Sony to buy Flying Labs? Sorry to tell you this, but methinks this game is already fucked because that's exactly what is going to happen (Sony buy FL) - there's no way I'm pouring a couple hundred hours into a game only to have SOE do to it what they did to Everquest.
The director's cut changed the underlying theme and plot of the movie, the worst of which was changing Deckard from a man (whose thoughts you could hear) to a replicant (whose thoughts you could not hear.) Additionally he dropped some of the mood music and changed the ending. Those of us that saw the original (many times, likely) before seeing the director's cut think Ridley Scott fucked the movie up badly in the process, and have gone to great lengths to obtain the original (or any of the other pre-fuckup versions) in DVD format.
Ok maybe I'm the only one that thinks so - but if the new release is fairly true to the original release then I will buy it, because the one I have is a weak bootleg conversion from tape.
I'm guessing he hasn't (nor have I, obviously) - possibly because of the name association hurdle of getting Ubuntu installed in the first place. But if that's the case, Ubuntu is about 90% of the way there to 'winning'. Rename it 'Operating System (That Doesn't Suck) For Your Computer' and I bet it would be the fastest growing Windows replacement in the history of software.
In your sentence you paraphrase Luke - 'I don't believe it.' In response, I paraphrase Yoda - 'and that is why we fail.'
I wasn't putting it out there as a question or something to be discussed or pondered - I was just pointing out why we (the Linux community) fail. As I mentioned - it's not a problem for me personally, I'm an avid Linux user both personally and professionally (yes, I get to use it at work.)
To use the new car line example - have Ford roll out a new line of 3/4 ton work trucks named 'I suck donkey dicks' and lets see how well they sell (regardless of how good the truck actually is.) Yes that's a bit extreme, but the point holds - see the GIMP example above. See also, early issues selling the Chevy Nova in Latin America, and early issues with name branding Coca-Cola in China (q.v. bite the wax tadpole.)
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It was a hypothetical question, and in the hypothetical question the 'pirated' disk was reinstalled using the numbers on the little sticker on the back, so in theory the original license does cover the 'pirated' version.
I'm a SuSE Desktop 10.1 user so it doesn't really matter - but it's a good exercise for the course, worth considering.
Here's one for you - what if I bought a nice used laptop for about $400 (not bad for an Inspiron e1505 w/ a Core 2 Duo and a Gig of memory, less than a year old) that was originally bought new with Windows XP, but the guy didn't have the disks so I ended up installing a pirated copy of the same version of Windows it originally came with?
Should I be upset about the Microsoft tax, or no?
None of my theoretical pirated .MP3s gave me a motherfucking root-kit.
I say theoretical, of course, because I don't pirate music. But if I did, they wouldn't.
Plenty of Sony 'compact discs bought at retail' are guaranteed to give you a root-kit.
And that technology was in use two years ago - I can only imagine what they are putting on retail CDs now.
No joke.
Be happy she wasn't carrying a Lite-Brite!
Know what's funny?
I wonder if, at the end of that day, any of Rosa Parks' friends / family asked 'So why didn't you just go to the back of the bus?'
For some reason that strikes me as hilarious right now, in a dumb sort of way.
"Inciting a riot" is a felony. Regardless of the sentencing (even if the judge lets him off with a slap on the wrist for it), if that one sticks he becomes a felon and loses the ability to vote or own a gun. You read that right - LOSES HIS RIGHT TO VOTE. Meaning - he's not going to be changing the system from either direction.
The most chilling thing was the implicit threat to all the people (other students, friends) that stood by watching but horrified to do anything lest they too have their lives destroyed by trumped up charges. THIS is what made it so scary, because that was what made the KGB business so scary. Speak up = disappear. I'm not a first person observer of that whole Nazi / Jew thing, but if I had to guess - I'd guess it was the same atmosphere. Throw another Godwin in the mix, I honestly hope I am wrong and I lose this conversation. Because life is going to suck big-time if I am right.
I watched the videos, one student said something and the cop barked her down - 'Shut Up!' Implicit follow-on sentence was, of course, '... or we destroy your life too.'
Scary. I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, on several different camcordings. I'm a pretty hardcore pro-government and pro-rules kind of person, which makes it so much harder for me to take this slant - when the staunchest of Repub's / Shrub supporters are scared, something is definitely wrong.
He was a sober guy talking at the mic and four cops bum-rushed him. They startled him - and he spooked. I'd say with good reason. Hold a cat in one hand and a dust-buster in the other, spark up the dust-buster (a medium sized hand-held vacuum cleaner, for the foreigners) and see how the cat reacts - time to arrest and tazer the cat, or was it just instinct reaction?
As for the KGB reference, I've spent time in Russia in the early 90's (just after the wall came down) and I have talked to the families, so yes I speak with a little authority on the subject. When the cops start abducting people that say the wrong things, particularly when people defend those cops, it is a slippery slope. Regarding Godwin's Law - nothing would make me happier in my life than to be totally wrong on this issue. I pray for us both that I was wrong and that I did, in fact, lose this discussion.
If four cops grab you, you're arrested. Don't let the fact that they hadn't actually said the words 'you are arrested' fool you - if a cop puts his hands on you in an unsocial fashion, you are under arrest and doing anything (including doing nothing) will be trumped up in charges of resisting arrest, disturbing the peace, and inciting a riot.
Honestly I'm surprised they didn't charge him with that last one, inciting a riot. Fucking slacker cops - the cops in my 'hood would have totally done it, just to screw the guy for life.
If you were talking to someone and four cops walked up and started physically taking you into custody with no warning or pretext, you'd go frantic too. Particularly if you had been a law-abiding citizen up until that point, and had NO CLUE why you were being arrested and taken down / walked off.
Historically speaking, that's textbook Nazi / KGB behavior. And the victims generally never recovered.
That isn't supposed to happen in America.
That's kind of like saying rape doesn't hurt much, if you don't resist.
Sometimes a motherfucker just needs to be heard. Got something on his mind, picking at him day and night and it won't relent - he needs to vent. Let it out, takes about 1 minute of someone's time and once he has had his say ... he's deflated. Empty. Drained. Devoid of energy. A guy can have delusions of grandeur about what's going to happen once the truth is known, think that the people of power will take this information and do something with it - but if they don't, at least he tried. If he carries it forever it will eat him inside out, because he never got a chance to be heard.
I know.
I carry mine, afraid to say my one minute of truth, lest they arrest me for resisting arrest and pretty much fuck my life up even more than it already is.
At least I'm not as fucked as this guy. What's the world coming to, when I feel empathy for a rabid Kerry supporter?
That wasn't bullshit. It was just flip-flopping.
According to Kerry, he was for the Tazering before he was against it.
If you think the scary parts of Doom3, HL 1/2, FEAR, STALKER, etc are immersive when you are sober, try game night with a two drink minimum. One more reason games are way scarier than movies - you rarely watch movies (at the theater) under the influence, but you play all your games with a few drinks in you (at night with the lights off) and the last bit of disbelief fades away and you are there, living it. There are a few places in Doom3 where (a few glasses of scotch in my system) I had to turn it off and walk around the house turning on lights.
Screw that - in the world of legal expenses, a few sticks of DDR2 pc5300 is cheap. Next maintenance window turn off the server, pull the RAM, put it in an anti-static bag and send it to the other lawyers. Put in some new RAM, fire up your box and you're back on your merry way.
Yea, or they could plant a two ounce bag of crack in his jacket pocket, 'tip off' the police and have him arrested and thrown in jail for posession of crack cocaine on a drug-free school zone with intent to distribute. Fuck his life up real good for something he didn't do, destroy him professionally / financially / emotionally and then say - there now, that's not very nice, is it? You don't like it when people do it to you, don't do it to other people.
(Does crack come in bags?)
Bunch of NASA whiners must have replaced 'The Right Stuff' through worthless politically correct hiring practices - this new generation of 'engineers' and 'rocket scientists' have forgotten history and thus are being forced to re-invent the wheel. The logistics of these landings were worked out years ago - as you can plainly see in this simulation.
You are considering buying a console and instead of going out to see what you like, you'd wait another year to see how things shake out before buying? A game console? We are talking a couple hundred dollars, or like $30 a month for the next year.
Jeez man, if you see a system that has games that you like right now, buy it. MS is extending the warranty to three years, and between Halo3 coming out, Gears of War and Forza2 being out right now, it's a no-brainer. Don't want to hassle with mail-in exchanges, get the in-store replacement warranty offered at CCity, BBuy or whatever - cost you another $50 or so. If you aren't in a position to drop half a grand on a game box, then don't. If you are, and there are games you really like on the Wii, get that instead. Like the games on the PS3? Get that one instead. But don't just twiddle your thumbs for a year waiting to see if MS does anything even more better than extending your warranty to three years.
Two years from now there will be a few systems that totally out-do what you can get today. You aren't investing in technology and hedging against obsolesence, you are buying a game system. It's like buying a bottle of liquor - buy it to enjoy it, consume it, and understand it isn't going to last for twenty years. That's it. Don't spend the next year wondering if Glenlivit is going to come out with an even better bottle of scotch - get a bottle today, drink it and next year if they have something better (and you have emptied the last bottle) then get the next better one.
(Note - the folling post curiously lacking in hard facts, unlike most of my posts.)
There was a report a few months ago harping on about bubbling the factory exhaust from smokestacks through algae water, which seemed to have an explosive growth effect on the algae. I recall none of the actual facts, other than a) it cleaned the bad stuff out of the smokestack exhaust before pumping it into the air (a good thing), and b) the algae just loved it and grew like wildfire (which is also good.)
The substantiation of this post is considered trivial, and has been left to the reader as an exercise.
Won't someone please think of the algae?
So basically the only step between this being 'as proposed' and 'another royal ass-fucking like Everquest' is for Sony to buy Flying Labs? Sorry to tell you this, but methinks this game is already fucked because that's exactly what is going to happen (Sony buy FL) - there's no way I'm pouring a couple hundred hours into a game only to have SOE do to it what they did to Everquest.
The nerfings ... will ... now ... Commence!
The director's cut changed the underlying theme and plot of the movie, the worst of which was changing Deckard from a man (whose thoughts you could hear) to a replicant (whose thoughts you could not hear.) Additionally he dropped some of the mood music and changed the ending. Those of us that saw the original (many times, likely) before seeing the director's cut think Ridley Scott fucked the movie up badly in the process, and have gone to great lengths to obtain the original (or any of the other pre-fuckup versions) in DVD format.
Ok maybe I'm the only one that thinks so - but if the new release is fairly true to the original release then I will buy it, because the one I have is a weak bootleg conversion from tape.
The possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3720 to 1.
I'm guessing he hasn't (nor have I, obviously) - possibly because of the name association hurdle of getting Ubuntu installed in the first place.
But if that's the case, Ubuntu is about 90% of the way there to 'winning'. Rename it 'Operating System (That Doesn't Suck) For Your Computer' and I bet it would be the fastest growing Windows replacement in the history of software.
And I would like that.
In your sentence you paraphrase Luke - 'I don't believe it.'
In response, I paraphrase Yoda - 'and that is why we fail.'
I wasn't putting it out there as a question or something to be discussed or pondered - I was just pointing out why we (the Linux community) fail.
As I mentioned - it's not a problem for me personally, I'm an avid Linux user both personally and professionally (yes, I get to use it at work.)
To use the new car line example - have Ford roll out a new line of 3/4 ton work trucks named 'I suck donkey dicks' and lets see how well they sell (regardless of how good the truck actually is.) Yes that's a bit extreme, but the point holds - see the GIMP example above. See also, early issues selling the Chevy Nova in Latin America, and early issues with name branding Coca-Cola in China (q.v. bite the wax tadpole.)