Not quite. We never had prohibition or illegalized the possession of gold, slavery was banned here first in whole world (I think) and the Govt. keeps out of the bedrooms of the nation.
I wouldn't be surprised in this atmosphere of fear and uncertainty for the USA to proclaim software is 'too important to be left to amateurs' and make the GPL illegal. Or you'd need a licence to write code or SOMETHING.
Since Reagan we have been seeing more and more acquiescence of the law to the bottom line of big business. Illegality of Open Source Software is not too much to imagine.
After all - TERRORISTS could get access to it, right? That's the root password to the Constitution these days, right? All it would take is one little incident...
A nation that can make booze and blow jobs illegal can do ANYTHING.
I once tried to subscribe to a mead mailing list that I found on a web page with my rogers.com Address.
I got a letter saying 'YOUR SPAM HAS BEEN REJECTED!'
I wrote the guy who ran the web page and told him and he laughed and subscribed me.
Still - to have the whole domain rejected because of BS is wrong, IMO.
Interestingly enough, very shortly afterwards Rogers adopted a policy of having to have a password to get on the mail server, and my excellent mailer PMMAIL already had a new version that could handle it.
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Attach the electrodes to your NADS and THEN we'll see some high gain negative feedback gaming!
Now he's running Bust-a-Slot-Machine University in jail.
What was the court thinking?
is the title of an circa 1970 album recorded at the Jet Propulsion Center with a church organ driven by a computer.
I have been trying to find it ever since.
Does ANYONE have a clue where to look?
I recomend games that involve handcuffs and mineral oil. The hell with video games.
Martin Gardner wrote about these in the 70s.
I saw one in DOS once - it uses Markov chains to generate prose - no big deal.
I used bit torrent. I wouldnt think of getting a big file any other way these days.
And I have a geforce mx 440 card with 64 MB - didn't like my pixel shader....
and its not over yet!
There's gonna be a lot of these, then the industry will mature.
Happens in everything.
In the fallout, we are bound to pick up a lot of source code and models and textures! Excellent!
You are right. We had prohibtion in Canada from March 1918 to December 1920. I really thought we never did.
The First Amendment does not let you make an art work that, in a judge's opinion, looks EXACTLY like a 20 dollar bill.
This will be the same thing. It all fits in with DRM, etc.
Not quite. We never had prohibition or illegalized the possession of gold, slavery was banned here first in whole world (I think) and the Govt. keeps out of the bedrooms of the nation.
I wouldn't be surprised in this atmosphere of fear and uncertainty for the USA to proclaim software is 'too important to be left to amateurs' and make the GPL illegal. Or you'd need a licence to write code or SOMETHING.
Since Reagan we have been seeing more and more acquiescence of the law to the bottom line of big business. Illegality of Open Source Software is not too much to imagine.
After all - TERRORISTS could get access to it, right? That's the root password to the Constitution these days, right? All it would take is one little incident...
A nation that can make booze and blow jobs illegal can do ANYTHING.
takes care of any GameSpy street cred, right?
people had better hang on to their copies of the source code for this OS because it's going to disappear into a corporation's vaults.
I once tried to subscribe to a mead mailing list that I found on a web page with my rogers.com Address.
I got a letter saying 'YOUR SPAM HAS BEEN REJECTED!'
I wrote the guy who ran the web page and told him and he laughed and subscribed me.
Still - to have the whole domain rejected because of BS is wrong, IMO.
Interestingly enough, very shortly afterwards Rogers adopted a policy of having to have a password to get on the mail server, and my excellent mailer PMMAIL already had a new version that could handle it.
Just stuff a cheap p-box full of nics, load OpenBSD and you can do stuff you can't do with a Cisco box that costs 50 grand.
It's more like hypoTHETical....
They're going to do, staring Al Davis of Oakland Raiders fame...
Wow! This isn't a troll, its a +6 funny!
Relax bro, SOMEONE got the joke!
What the heck has be been smoking?
And tell the GPL people to jump in the lake.
for the goatcx man!
(Now THATS an education)
It means we can have our own phone networks! Is there ANYTHING we can't have? I know! A GIRLFRIEND!
Bill and the big boys are taking back our boxes and the Internet they let slip away from them.
They'll tell us they are doing it for our own good and their motto will be 'The Internet is too important for amateurs'
This is ICANN - they don't sue, they just re-direct all your web pages to the goat.cx guy...