You have lost the legal challenge. You suck at law. Go home. You are speaking of copyright law which has not been broken (the act of shipping from printing house to book stores publishes the book) when you should be speaking of contract law -- fortunately for the general public they have no contract with Scholastic.
hm. so if Windows promotes its file-sharing abilities (which it has done since the days of Windows for Workgroups 3.11) it should be liable if people use those capabilities for copyright infringement?
There is no emergency. The concept of emergency is most used to spread fear by priests or politicians to who seek power by hurting people or damaging the economy with regulations.
Case in point Bush with his "Social Security Crisis".
people seem to think that the US government is a "democracy" and so popular opinion should always win.
wrong.
the US is a Constitutional democracy (among other flavors and adjectives I won't add) which is supposed to prevent the mob from going to town like this.
Now instead of surprise it will be irony, as the audience knows what Luke does not. The audience also is left ahead of time wondering why Obi-Wan lies to Luke about his father.
Spoiled? Perhaps, in a way. But also brings up other things which are potentially interesting.
I will likely get flamed for this but "actual real life graphic sex" isn't really all that "sexy" either. The flirting, seduction, and foreplay are truly more "sexy" in every way.
Qui Gonn claimed to follow the "living force" which often led him in contradiction of both the "traditional" Light Side of the force (Yoda, Jedi Council) and the Dark Side (Sith, Palpatine).
because when I think roleplay, I think "capture the flag". what exactly is the point supposed to be?
"Hey, we're at war. How about instead of a meaningful battle, you try and capture my flag, and I'll try and capture yours. Best two of three. After that, we'll shake hands, maybe go again?"
Has anyone seen the absolutely awful ads for this movie with the tagline "Sith Happens"? I could see that for a Star Wars Parody movie... just sad, sad, sad.
I think that was his point, they are skinny little sticks with no muscles with which to clean streets. His point seems to be of the variety that there are "two" kinds of OSS geek: skinny and fat. Neither would have a particularly good record in physical labour.
sometimes I get tired of this "public servants are lazy leeches on the working stiffs" sentiment. actually my wife works as a district attorney (criminal prosecution). she makes $35K per year when others with her same degree earn hundreds of thousands in firms. she works her butt off, dealing with murderers and rapists on a daily basis, receiving threats on her life.
not to mention police officers and firemen who put their life on the line every day for even less money than that.
all to have themselves lumped into the statement (and I can assure you common public sentiment) "Unless you're a public servant... in which case, doing nothing will result in a promotion."
guess what; getting a raise of any kind as a public servant is quite a thing. sometimes entire classes of public servant have to go on strike to be recognized with even a pittance of a raise after years of watching prices go up but not their wages.
many police forces and district attorney's offices are understaffed, underpaid, and overworked. we see a few ficticious examples on TV perhaps to the contrary, but those are really both few and for the most part ficticious. yes there are lazy podunk police precincts, there are abusive cops, etc.
but there are a hell of a lot of people working their asses off in dangerous conditions for little pay or chance of meaningful promotion (where promotion means more than a different placard for your cubicle).
and don't get me started on the National Guardsmen or Army Reservists, or even full-time military.
public service can bring an immense amount of meaning to one's life. it's simply too bad that so many want to demean all public servants because of the atrocities of a few or television's take on a few in some of the largest cities in the world.
maybe you mean the clerks at the DMV, or the post office, or garbage men, or the psychiatrists at the VA. guess what, not even all of them are lazy assholes who would prefer for you to wait as long as possible.
yes, there are lazy people in public service. there are lazy people every-damn-where in America. if you find it okay to call all public servants lazy, then perhaps you also find it okay to call all Americans lazy?
Yes, but you don't have to bet the house constantly. You cannot lose the house due to extraneous circumstances such as lag, power outage, etc.
Then why do they ply the patrons with free drinks, I wonder, and parade all manner of mammary eye candy around? They are definitely looking for you to suffer some lag and power outages of your higher mental facilities.
sure, every MMO game seems to have a similar tack: build up your character, get them stuff and levels. obviously if perma-death existed, this could mean a spot of net lag or a down router would mean perma-death for your character, and as many argue that is unacceptable.
however, let us imagine games "outside the tiny box" of current MMO. how about a game where your "character" is really just a soul, which possesses a mortal being. sure, you can upgrade this mortal with some gear, but the real "stuff" is being accumulated by the "soul" - that is where things like special skills, experience points, levels, or whatever "progress" constructs you want to have are attached. so when the mortal is killed, your soul escapes to possess another. so we have something like "perma death" where your "character" dies, period, but you go on in a different fashion from the majority of MMO which I have seen. you could even have it set up so the "soul" would die a permanent death if they wander too long without a mortal body, and if that is too harsh, you could have that soul be "recoverable" in some fashion.
If I call 1-800-TRUMP-CASINO (or whatever it is) you can bet I expect to be put on hold a bit and hear about their upcoming vacation specials.
If I call a weather hotline, I expect that before, after, or during, I will hear "this weather report brought to you by (nameless grocery store) where you can save on your groceries every day" or something.
When I call a friend, I don't expect an ad. When I visit a friend's website, I don't expect an ad, either.
It is a nature of the beast that ESPN.com, for example, serves up commercial advertisements to pay for bandwidth and content. To block them most certainly violates the social contract.
But geez... get over it. You're not a criminal, just an jerk. There are millions of people who are worse jerks than the people who block ads. Personally I don't use ad-blocking software (although I am most certainly capable) and instead just simply refuse to visit sites with annoying (read: pop-up, pop-under, sound, CPU-intensive, etc) ads. They have offered up a social contract which I am unwilling to accept, and so instead of ignoring their offer and taking their content anyway, I move on.
There are too many sites on the internet that don't have annoying ads to worry about the ones that do.
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You have lost the legal challenge. You suck at law. Go home. You are speaking of copyright law which has not been broken (the act of shipping from printing house to book stores publishes the book) when you should be speaking of contract law -- fortunately for the general public they have no contract with Scholastic.
You can have my data when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Because if you took it while I was alive, damn, that would just be torture.
hm. so if Windows promotes its file-sharing abilities (which it has done since the days of Windows for Workgroups 3.11) it should be liable if people use those capabilities for copyright infringement?
1. repeal all tariffs
2. repeal all taxes that raise the cost of business or investment
3. open the borders
4. ???
5. profit
(the ??? is the sound that the world makes when investing in the United States)
the perfect libertarian world encourages communes more and more convincingly than the perfect communist world.
that's why I am an extremly leftist libertarian.
There is no emergency. The concept of emergency is most used to spread fear by priests or politicians to who seek power by hurting people or damaging the economy with regulations.
Case in point Bush with his "Social Security Crisis".
substantial literal copying is prohibited but the ideas behind it are unprotected
And that's where software patents come in. Imagine being able to patent the "betrayal of the parent by the son" play idea.
is the game any good?
Nearly every software patent I have ever seen is bogus.
Apple is getting its just deserts from supporting the software patent system.
people seem to think that the US government is a "democracy" and so popular opinion should always win.
wrong.
the US is a Constitutional democracy (among other flavors and adjectives I won't add) which is supposed to prevent the mob from going to town like this.
It's a pity the end of Empire has been spoiled.
Now instead of surprise it will be irony, as the audience knows what Luke does not. The audience also is left ahead of time wondering why Obi-Wan lies to Luke about his father.
Spoiled? Perhaps, in a way. But also brings up other things which are potentially interesting.
Yes but when will people stop calling the command line dos?
When it stops looking like DOS, smelling like DOS, and quacking like DOS.
Actually the damage is more than 3.9 million, but that's not a bad first pass.
I will likely get flamed for this but "actual real life graphic sex" isn't really all that "sexy" either. The flirting, seduction, and foreplay are truly more "sexy" in every way.
Qui Gonn claimed to follow the "living force" which often led him in contradiction of both the "traditional" Light Side of the force (Yoda, Jedi Council) and the Dark Side (Sith, Palpatine).
if I had not already left the game for green pastures
any hints as to the location of greener pastures would be appreciated.
when someone in the US government is talking about "destiny", soem indegenous people needs to get ready to be raped, horribly and repeatedly.
but i guess everybody's "safe" since we've already taken care of raping just about everybody.
mod bomb away.
because when I think roleplay, I think "capture the flag". what exactly is the point supposed to be?
"Hey, we're at war. How about instead of a meaningful battle, you try and capture my flag, and I'll try and capture yours. Best two of three. After that, we'll shake hands, maybe go again?"
Blah.
Has anyone seen the absolutely awful ads for this movie with the tagline "Sith Happens"? I could see that for a Star Wars Parody movie... just sad, sad, sad.
SITH HAPPENS! HAhahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahah...
I think that was his point, they are skinny little sticks with no muscles with which to clean streets. His point seems to be of the variety that there are "two" kinds of OSS geek: skinny and fat. Neither would have a particularly good record in physical labour.
sometimes I get tired of this "public servants are lazy leeches on the working stiffs" sentiment. actually my wife works as a district attorney (criminal prosecution). she makes $35K per year when others with her same degree earn hundreds of thousands in firms. she works her butt off, dealing with murderers and rapists on a daily basis, receiving threats on her life.
not to mention police officers and firemen who put their life on the line every day for even less money than that.
all to have themselves lumped into the statement (and I can assure you common public sentiment) "Unless you're a public servant... in which case, doing nothing will result in a promotion."
guess what; getting a raise of any kind as a public servant is quite a thing. sometimes entire classes of public servant have to go on strike to be recognized with even a pittance of a raise after years of watching prices go up but not their wages.
many police forces and district attorney's offices are understaffed, underpaid, and overworked. we see a few ficticious examples on TV perhaps to the contrary, but those are really both few and for the most part ficticious. yes there are lazy podunk police precincts, there are abusive cops, etc.
but there are a hell of a lot of people working their asses off in dangerous conditions for little pay or chance of meaningful promotion (where promotion means more than a different placard for your cubicle).
and don't get me started on the National Guardsmen or Army Reservists, or even full-time military.
public service can bring an immense amount of meaning to one's life. it's simply too bad that so many want to demean all public servants because of the atrocities of a few or television's take on a few in some of the largest cities in the world.
maybe you mean the clerks at the DMV, or the post office, or garbage men, or the psychiatrists at the VA. guess what, not even all of them are lazy assholes who would prefer for you to wait as long as possible.
yes, there are lazy people in public service. there are lazy people every-damn-where in America. if you find it okay to call all public servants lazy, then perhaps you also find it okay to call all Americans lazy?
Yes, but you don't have to bet the house constantly. You cannot lose the house due to extraneous circumstances such as lag, power outage, etc.
Then why do they ply the patrons with free drinks, I wonder, and parade all manner of mammary eye candy around? They are definitely looking for you to suffer some lag and power outages of your higher mental facilities.
sure, every MMO game seems to have a similar tack: build up your character, get them stuff and levels. obviously if perma-death existed, this could mean a spot of net lag or a down router would mean perma-death for your character, and as many argue that is unacceptable.
however, let us imagine games "outside the tiny box" of current MMO. how about a game where your "character" is really just a soul, which possesses a mortal being. sure, you can upgrade this mortal with some gear, but the real "stuff" is being accumulated by the "soul" - that is where things like special skills, experience points, levels, or whatever "progress" constructs you want to have are attached. so when the mortal is killed, your soul escapes to possess another. so we have something like "perma death" where your "character" dies, period, but you go on in a different fashion from the majority of MMO which I have seen. you could even have it set up so the "soul" would die a permanent death if they wander too long without a mortal body, and if that is too harsh, you could have that soul be "recoverable" in some fashion.
Having the same code name doesn't mean necessarily that Apple's "Tiger" includes SUN's "Tiger".
If I call 1-800-TRUMP-CASINO (or whatever it is) you can bet I expect to be put on hold a bit and hear about their upcoming vacation specials.
If I call a weather hotline, I expect that before, after, or during, I will hear "this weather report brought to you by (nameless grocery store) where you can save on your groceries every day" or something.
When I call a friend, I don't expect an ad. When I visit a friend's website, I don't expect an ad, either.
It is a nature of the beast that ESPN.com, for example, serves up commercial advertisements to pay for bandwidth and content. To block them most certainly violates the social contract.
But geez... get over it. You're not a criminal, just an jerk. There are millions of people who are worse jerks than the people who block ads. Personally I don't use ad-blocking software (although I am most certainly capable) and instead just simply refuse to visit sites with annoying (read: pop-up, pop-under, sound, CPU-intensive, etc) ads. They have offered up a social contract which I am unwilling to accept, and so instead of ignoring their offer and taking their content anyway, I move on.
There are too many sites on the internet that don't have annoying ads to worry about the ones that do.