It shouldn't. Lampreys have proved to be a stable life-form for millions of years...
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yup, electronic stuff should cost less. but I see no reason to tax it less. the company producing it should sell it for less, because of lower production costs. Taxes are used for more than just infrastructure. education, medical care, social security etc. Essentially there is no difference between say.. CD-ripping software and a tapedeck, so they should fall in the same tax-group.
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The tax will be on goods and services. a license is a service. in a brick shop you pay tax on software too.
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Go ahead if you don't want any government arranged stuff. You get robbed? don't go to the police. don't use roads and pavements. pay your own medical bill. And your really shit out of luck should you ever get your legs lobbed off by a playful grizzly.
> Are there any special abilities a Lamprey has that would be useful if augmented?
not really I think.. The lamprey is one of the most primitive species of fish, they're older than sharks if I remember correctly. they don't do much, except squiggle around, eating dead stuff. Still this probably worked because the things are so primitive. unfortunately the story itself seems slashdotted at the moment..:(
never mind the rest of the world for who it's daytime. stop being pissed off about people living in different timezones.
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> If Linux meets all your needs, why even give those evil capitalist pigs a second thought? Is the Man screwing you over (in which case I have to wonder why you don't just go 100% Linux, since it's so wonderful)
Many of us have to work with windows while running linux at home. Not much choice then...
The thing I'm paying for when I buy a computer with windows on it is windows95, as it is advertised. not some subset that only works on a specific set of hardware. At least the ads I saw all said Windows 95/98 and never mentioned omissions in the software delivered.
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also untrue...
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Get stoned. Makes the license incredibly funny too.
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He also forgot to outline:
1) M$ done nothing wrong, they're just doing business 2) failed to mention freedom and innovation 3) M$ has done so much good!
At least they're not asking for the copyright. And since most people here probably happily share their sourcecode, that shouldn't be much of a problem.
>So tell me, who appreciates closed standards? In other words, proprietary standards?
the DVD forum 'appreciates' closed standards as a way to control people's viewing habits, use of equipment and the likes. And ofcourse screw us all out of some more obsolete money.
You can open up a completely closed standard by reverse engineering, like DeCSS did. Yes, that's legal, but probably not in the US.
There are some cases in which I would allow the misconfigured argument: if all the burglar did was leave a note saying 'your locks suck, here's the adress of a good locksmith' or something like that. As soon as you actually start making use of your ill-gotten privileges...that's real bad.
That would fit with most theories on the causes of motion sickness: your eyes perceive motion, ergo there is motion. Your inner ear does not detect motion, ergo there is none. Closing your eyes stops motion sickness. This is often visible on ships, people in the cabin get motion sickness, people on the deck don't. Ofcourse one can get used to it. the brain just has to find out that there is no discrepancy.
ugh.. after years and years I still have trouble switching to american dates. who made that up anyway, a date notation of MM/DD/YYYY ? YYYY/MM/DD or DD/MM/YYYY is more logical.
wow.. bona fide business trademark. Is that like military intelligence?
Ofcourse there are TMed sex sites.. playboy has a TM (probably.. I haven't checked this, it's really just made up). I see the.reg TLD as a lot easier to attain then a.xxx, because a trademark is checkable, whereas "being porn" is not something easily defined. And ofcourse businesses have hurt a lot more people than porn.
News at 11: porn movie leaves large slick of KY jelly on alaskan beach
>ALL businesses would be able to use their name. No cybersquatting, no sex sites and no infringement.
Oh? and there will be no commercial sex sites? And businesses in the same country can't have the same name? Good idea though, banishing all business to a separate part of the net.. makes it easier to avoid..
If you would like to receive several offers, that each have an infinitesimal chance of ever interesting anyone with more braincells than the average brussel sprout, please give us your name, age, adress, number of pets, type of pets, name of pets, dieases they've had/they've been inoculated against and your creditcard number (so we can bill you for conveniently storing these data) in the form below.
So you're saying you can't sell any stuff if you can't use personal customer data for marketing? that's bullshit. Pure and simple. Take my local game-shop. It's small. It doesn't collect personal information. It exists, and has existed for years. So we're just damned if we don't.
frankly I hope that the RIAA wins. This would make the US even more the laughing stock of the civilized world than it already is. Land of the free, home of the brave.. nobody outside the US takes THAT serious any more. So I hope the RIAA has got themselves some big-ass, expensive lawyers. The type that cost more in 1 hour than 37 whores for a 48 hour orgy with Jack Valenti.
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It shouldn't. Lampreys have proved to be a stable life-form for millions of years...
//rdj
yup, electronic stuff should cost less. but I see no reason to tax it less. the company producing it should sell it for less, because of lower production costs. Taxes are used for more than just infrastructure. education, medical care, social security etc. Essentially there is no difference between say.. CD-ripping software and a tapedeck, so they should fall in the same tax-group.
//rdj
The tax will be on goods and services. a license is a service. in a brick shop you pay tax on software too.
//rdj
Go ahead if you don't want any government arranged stuff. You get robbed? don't go to the police. don't use roads and pavements. pay your own medical bill. And your really shit out of luck should you ever get your legs lobbed off by a playful grizzly.
//rdj
> Are there any special abilities a Lamprey has that would be useful if augmented?
:(
not really I think.. The lamprey is one of the most primitive species of fish, they're older than sharks if I remember correctly. they don't do much, except squiggle around, eating dead stuff. Still this probably worked because the things are so primitive. unfortunately the story itself seems slashdotted at the moment..
//rdj
they should make post-it notes that stick Vanderwaals-like...after a while the glue on those things just doesn't glue much any more...
//rdj
illegal, schmillegal.. I'm dutch ;)
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never mind the rest of the world for who it's daytime.
stop being pissed off about people living in different timezones.
> If Linux meets all your needs, why even give those evil capitalist pigs a second thought? Is the Man screwing you over (in which case I have to wonder why you don't just go 100% Linux, since it's so wonderful)
Many of us have to work with windows while running linux at home. Not much choice then...
//rdj
The thing I'm paying for when I buy a computer with windows on it is windows95, as it is advertised. not some subset that only works on a specific set of hardware. At least the ads I saw all said Windows 95/98 and never mentioned omissions in the software delivered.
//rdj
also untrue...
//rdj
Get stoned. Makes the license incredibly funny too.
//rdj
He also forgot to outline:
1) M$ done nothing wrong, they're just doing business
2) failed to mention freedom and innovation
3) M$ has done so much good!
You give him a C, I give him a JScript.
//rdj
At least they're not asking for the copyright. And since most people here probably happily share their sourcecode, that shouldn't be much of a problem.
//rdj
Not that hard to make Iron Porn a parody. parodies are quite well protected, legally.
//rdj
>So tell me, who appreciates closed standards? In other words, proprietary standards?
the DVD forum 'appreciates' closed standards as a way to control people's viewing habits, use of equipment and the likes. And ofcourse screw us all out of some more obsolete money.
You can open up a completely closed standard by reverse engineering, like DeCSS did. Yes, that's legal, but probably not in the US.
//rdj
There are some cases in which I would allow the misconfigured argument: if all the burglar did was leave a note saying 'your locks suck, here's the adress of a good locksmith' or something like that. As soon as you actually start making use of your ill-gotten privileges...that's real bad.
//rdj
That would fit with most theories on the causes of motion sickness: your eyes perceive motion, ergo there is motion. Your inner ear does not detect motion, ergo there is none. Closing your eyes stops motion sickness. This is often visible on ships, people in the cabin get motion sickness, people on the deck don't. Ofcourse one can get used to it. the brain just has to find out that there is no discrepancy.
//rdj
Don't you know? to a spammer EVERYBODY is an american..
//rdj
ugh.. after years and years I still have trouble switching to american dates. who made that up anyway, a date notation of MM/DD/YYYY ?
YYYY/MM/DD or DD/MM/YYYY is more logical.
//rdj
wow.. bona fide business trademark. Is that like military intelligence?
.reg TLD as a lot easier to attain then a .xxx, because a trademark is checkable, whereas "being porn" is not something easily defined. And ofcourse businesses have hurt a lot more people than porn.
Ofcourse there are TMed sex sites.. playboy has a TM (probably.. I haven't checked this, it's really just made up). I see the
News at 11: porn movie leaves large slick of KY jelly on alaskan beach
//rdj
>ALL businesses would be able to use their name. No cybersquatting, no sex sites and no infringement.
Oh? and there will be no commercial sex sites? And businesses in the same country can't have the same name? Good idea though, banishing all business to a separate part of the net.. makes it easier to avoid..
//rdj
If you would like to receive several offers, that each have an infinitesimal chance of ever interesting anyone with more braincells than the average brussel sprout, please give us your name, age, adress, number of pets, type of pets, name of pets, dieases they've had/they've been inoculated against and your creditcard number (so we can bill you for conveniently storing these data) in the form below.
There. simple, isn't it.
//rdj
So you're saying you can't sell any stuff if you can't use personal customer data for marketing? that's bullshit. Pure and simple. Take my local game-shop. It's small. It doesn't collect personal information. It exists, and has existed for years.
So we're just damned if we don't.
//rdj
frankly I hope that the RIAA wins. This would make the US even more the laughing stock of the civilized world than it already is. Land of the free, home of the brave.. nobody outside the US takes THAT serious any more. So I hope the RIAA has got themselves some big-ass, expensive lawyers. The type that cost more in 1 hour than 37 whores for a 48 hour orgy with Jack Valenti.
//rdj