I am strongly opposed to term limits, because I think they would just create a charade. Your electoral body (the House, or whatever) would be full of inexperienced neophytes, while the really good politicans (ie: the shark/snake combination) would be out of office. These people are not going to walk away from politics so easily. They will organize to defeat the oppositions' neophytes. The neophytes will need protection, so they will be beholden to their own party's group of sharks. By the time someone learns the ropes and has political capital - boom! out you go. It will create a system even more dysfunctional than the one in place today.
That said, I am happy that there is a term limit on the presidency. Being the highest office, there is a tendency for people to accept and view the president as they would a king. I think it is a healthy reminder to the electorate when these people are forced from office.
I'm betting these new high capacity discs will be a flop. DVDs are good enough, and the average person will not shell out for a slightly better version of the DVD format. Stores still sell CDs, despite the introduction of many new audio formats. Even with the widespread adoption of MP3, the CD will be with us for quite some time. DVDs will have the same fate. People have adopted them, and they aren't going anywhere. Especially not in the next five or ten years.
Honestly, let's just give every business interest a way to collect "compensation" from the general public. Why are we compensating for private copying at all. If I buy a cd, and make a duplicate for my car, why is the publisher entitled to anything beyond my initial purchase ?
You see where this is going. Everyone will get compensated for everything, with a general hit to the economy. Put a tax on paper and photocopiers for the publishing industry. For that matter, why are there not taxes and levies to compensate the software industry for rampant "piracy" ? Unauthorized copies of software is far more common than music or movies.
I'm sorry, but this is not a sane idea at all. Why not have a tax on paper and photocopiers to compensate book and magazine publishers whose articles are being copied ? Look at all that piracy which is being completely ignored. And what about libraries. They lend books out and anyone can read them. They should have to pay a tax too. The fact is, the music and movie industries have been incredibly successful at getting people to accept special rules just for them. But intellectual property has been around a lot longer. They should be forced to accept the same rules as the print-publishing industry, for the betterment of society.
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I'm not buying an external Firewire drive until they fix this problem. There is no excuse, period.
I think it's news. I checked slashdot before installing it to see if it fucked anyone over.
Yeah, they can't even stand a little torture.
We'd better change every logo and trademark to a blue dot before there's a thermonuclear war!
Stop trying to inject facts into a slashdot discussion. We're outraged!
Is this going to end with a bunch of kids in black bodysuits dancing to sound effects ? Merry something everybody ?
I wonder what the hell these people think of OpenDarwin.
Jeez, I've been running Gentoo all this time when I should have been running Linux from Scratch, if only for the chance of sadomasochistic sex!
But the penalties for real stealing are much less than fake stealing.
Either that or Steve Jobs is dying.
Well, he wanted a home-grown solution, and that means Linux From Scratch. Now where can I get some hard-drive seeds ?
When I read your post, the results startled me. Most of the word configurations I had seen elsewhere.
Guess Michael and mods missed this one, eh?
The alternative is even scarier.
Now it's up to +5. I think the trolls have a point. BTW, welcome to slashdot.
My firm represents Metallica. We are going to sue your ass off!
Social Security is already going to be bankrupt in a few years.
And by a few, you mean 50. Quick! We have to act now and dismantle it entirely!
I am strongly opposed to term limits, because I think they would just create a charade. Your electoral body (the House, or whatever) would be full of inexperienced neophytes, while the really good politicans (ie: the shark/snake combination) would be out of office. These people are not going to walk away from politics so easily. They will organize to defeat the oppositions' neophytes. The neophytes will need protection, so they will be beholden to their own party's group of sharks. By the time someone learns the ropes and has political capital - boom! out you go. It will create a system even more dysfunctional than the one in place today.
That said, I am happy that there is a term limit on the presidency. Being the highest office, there is a tendency for people to accept and view the president as they would a king. I think it is a healthy reminder to the electorate when these people are forced from office.
Or whoever, as in restraining order ?
Forget legal bullying, I want to see a fight to the death! At least we would be rid of one stupid justice system that way.
To prevent it from spewing rotten eggs all over the neighbourhood ? Hmm, I'd really have to think about that.
How long until this is patented and the people with the gene are prosecuted ?
I'm betting these new high capacity discs will be a flop. DVDs are good enough, and the average person will not shell out for a slightly better version of the DVD format. Stores still sell CDs, despite the introduction of many new audio formats. Even with the widespread adoption of MP3, the CD will be with us for quite some time. DVDs will have the same fate. People have adopted them, and they aren't going anywhere. Especially not in the next five or ten years.
Honestly, let's just give every business interest a way to collect "compensation" from the general public. Why are we compensating for private copying at all. If I buy a cd, and make a duplicate for my car, why is the publisher entitled to anything beyond my initial purchase ?
You see where this is going. Everyone will get compensated for everything, with a general hit to the economy. Put a tax on paper and photocopiers for the publishing industry. For that matter, why are there not taxes and levies to compensate the software industry for rampant "piracy" ? Unauthorized copies of software is far more common than music or movies.
Not unconstitutional. A federal court found that MP3 players were not "blank media" as specified by the law. It is a technicality.
I'm sorry, but this is not a sane idea at all. Why not have a tax on paper and photocopiers to compensate book and magazine publishers whose articles are being copied ? Look at all that piracy which is being completely ignored. And what about libraries. They lend books out and anyone can read them. They should have to pay a tax too. The fact is, the music and movie industries have been incredibly successful at getting people to accept special rules just for them. But intellectual property has been around a lot longer. They should be forced to accept the same rules as the print-publishing industry, for the betterment of society.