This is exactly the type of laws that protectionists and tea party activists want. They hate foreigners, and want to force people not to interact or trade with them.
If you are going to spout mindless drivel like this, please use the term "tea-baggers" so we can filter you more easily. Thanks!
Once SOPA passes, and US companies start to offshore both domain names and hosting, how long before a law like this passes here? Don't say it could never happen. A lot of "nevers" have happened in the past few years. I never thought US Citizens could be dissapeared on US soil either.
If 10% of the people who bitch and do nothing suddenly showed up a precinct meetings for the primaries, they system would be rocked like never before. Sense less than.001% of the public actually get involved before the primary, you are actually bringing 10 thousand people with you, statistically.
When there are a hand full of people just starting out, find one you like. One not completely in the machine. Contact them, and offer help. Offer to set up the office network, and give desktop support. Offer to set up an Asterisk phone system. Offer to do a web page. Make a difference early when you still can.
Established torrent sites aren't the answer, because whilst they do contain some of this material, the also have lots of material that morally should still be copyrighted. Such as last years movies.
This is actually the problem. The law has become so intrusive and so vast, that no one respects it. So it no longer protects those it was designed to protect. (Like photographers getting pictures "stolen" by media outlets.) It is like the US boarder. With the thousands of "good hard working people" sneaking across, you can hide a lot of really bad people as well. Just like a more open boarder would actually keep out more criminals, a more open copyright would protect more artists.
Start early, before the primaries. Then you might have a chance of getting a real person on the ballot. If you just show up late to vote and bitch, it is STILL your fault.
"The Public Domain Day 2012 web pages by Duke University's Center for the Study of the Public Domain are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. "
Now the question I have is that if SOPA passes, how long do you think it will take for every business that supports it to have some sort of infringing material?
"Oh look Sony, I can tell by the metadata in your websites header image that some intern you hired years ago used a pirated version of Photoshop....**OFFLINE**"
Never... It will not apply to companies with a legal staff. Only the actual people.
You mean like the tag at the end of the link that says ".pdf" every time? Or do you not bother to check links before you click them? And if not, how is that goatse working out for you?
No, the lesson we refuse to learn is not that "gubment subsidy baaad mmmkayy!" It is that government subsidy needs to be A) predictable over the next decade and...
No one is thinking that far ahead anymore. It is just until the next election, or the next job, or until my options vest. Ya think that is related?
The first time my Salvadorian Finance did that, I freaked out too... But oddly enough, we didn't die. I also found out that store bought eggs will last about two weeks in the fridge, but locally raised eggs will last about a month on the counter. That really scares me!
Apparently, neither have you. It now directs to http://www.choosemyplate.gov/ and after several minutes I can not figure out what the heck it is recommending!
That was FUD. Oracle is moving Java from the Java6 sdk to the openjdk, and this Ubuntu upgrade move you from sun java to open jdk... If you can live without update, don't do the upgrade. Upgrade Manager even tells you what it is doing.
So you really want to bore them to begin with? Analyzing someones existing code is a really tedious work for even existing programmers. On top of that they wouldn't get to imagine and make what they actually do want to make. Your whole suggestion is terrible.
Really? So you jumped from nothing to high level coding without ever looking at anyone else's code? Wow! That is amazing! I don't know anyone like that. We all learned from looking at other code...
If you want to "build upon it", there are far better solutions, like modding Valve's games. Garry's mod is really fun too. Yes, they aren't open source, but do you really want to draconically push such views on newcomers? Because if you do, then congratulations, you just ruined all the fun from starting programming.
You do know that ioquake and iodoom3 run all the quake and doom3 mods, right? And mod editors, and so on? So you can do all the stuff you want without having to buy a half life for each student, or resorting to pirating it.
So why not start with an open source game? Start with ioquake, or now the new iodoom3? http://www.iodoom3.org/ YOu start by analyzing a existing game, and then build on it. The whole concept of open source...
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This is exactly the type of laws that protectionists and tea party activists want. They hate foreigners, and want to force people not to interact or trade with them.
If you are going to spout mindless drivel like this, please use the term "tea-baggers" so we can filter you more easily. Thanks!
Control. If everyone is breaking the law, you can arrest anyone at any time for any reason.
Once SOPA passes, and US companies start to offshore both domain names and hosting, how long before a law like this passes here? Don't say it could never happen. A lot of "nevers" have happened in the past few years. I never thought US Citizens could be dissapeared on US soil either.
If 10% of the people who bitch and do nothing suddenly showed up a precinct meetings for the primaries, they system would be rocked like never before. Sense less than .001% of the public actually get involved before the primary, you are actually bringing 10 thousand people with you, statistically.
Before... BEFORE... B 4
When there are a hand full of people just starting out, find one you like. One not completely in the machine. Contact them, and offer help. Offer to set up the office network, and give desktop support. Offer to set up an Asterisk phone system. Offer to do a web page. Make a difference early when you still can.
Established torrent sites aren't the answer, because whilst they do contain some of this material, the also have lots of material that morally should still be copyrighted. Such as last years movies.
This is actually the problem. The law has become so intrusive and so vast, that no one respects it. So it no longer protects those it was designed to protect. (Like photographers getting pictures "stolen" by media outlets.) It is like the US boarder. With the thousands of "good hard working people" sneaking across, you can hide a lot of really bad people as well. Just like a more open boarder would actually keep out more criminals, a more open copyright would protect more artists.
People are still making money from The Iliad, and the works of Shakespeare, and yet they are out of copyright.
Start early, before the primaries. Then you might have a chance of getting a real person on the ballot. If you just show up late to vote and bitch, it is STILL your fault.
You could not scroll down?
"The Public Domain Day 2012 web pages by Duke University's Center for the Study of the Public Domain are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. "
True, but this one did, and that was what the OP was upset about.
Now the question I have is that if SOPA passes, how long do you think it will take for every business that supports it to have some sort of infringing material? "Oh look Sony, I can tell by the metadata in your websites header image that some intern you hired years ago used a pirated version of Photoshop....**OFFLINE**"
Never... It will not apply to companies with a legal staff. Only the actual people.
There have been a lot of articles specifically about Microsoft and Apple pushing the ESA to back off SOPA. There may be some dissension in the ranks.
You mean like the tag at the end of the link that says ".pdf" every time? Or do you not bother to check links before you click them? And if not, how is that goatse working out for you?
"No! Not anymore! Really! We like you! Buy our crap!"
"EA, Nintendo, Sony Quietly Withdraw SOPA Support"
If it was quiet, they still support it. They just don't want to lose as many customers.
No, the lesson we refuse to learn is not that "gubment subsidy baaad mmmkayy!" It is that government subsidy needs to be A) predictable over the next decade and...
No one is thinking that far ahead anymore. It is just until the next election, or the next job, or until my options vest. Ya think that is related?
The first time my Salvadorian Finance did that, I freaked out too... But oddly enough, we didn't die. I also found out that store bought eggs will last about two weeks in the fridge, but locally raised eggs will last about a month on the counter. That really scares me!
I see someone isn't aware that they recently reworked the FDA Food Guide Pyramid
Apparently, neither have you. It now directs to http://www.choosemyplate.gov/ and after several minutes I can not figure out what the heck it is recommending!
That was FUD. Oracle is moving Java from the Java6 sdk to the openjdk, and this Ubuntu upgrade move you from sun java to open jdk... If you can live without update, don't do the upgrade. Upgrade Manager even tells you what it is doing.
So you really want to bore them to begin with? Analyzing someones existing code is a really tedious work for even existing programmers. On top of that they wouldn't get to imagine and make what they actually do want to make. Your whole suggestion is terrible.
Really? So you jumped from nothing to high level coding without ever looking at anyone else's code? Wow! That is amazing! I don't know anyone like that. We all learned from looking at other code...
If you want to "build upon it", there are far better solutions, like modding Valve's games. Garry's mod is really fun too. Yes, they aren't open source, but do you really want to draconically push such views on newcomers? Because if you do, then congratulations, you just ruined all the fun from starting programming.
You do know that ioquake and iodoom3 run all the quake and doom3 mods, right? And mod editors, and so on? So you can do all the stuff you want without having to buy a half life for each student, or resorting to pirating it.
There are a lot more than fps games. http://www.playdeb.net/ Pick your type, and get your source.
Between 2 weeks and nine months. Some of the short ones went quick, and some of one not due for almost a year were still hung up 6 months later.
I was six months in, and still could not move the domains. That is not propagation time, that is a registrar playing games.
So why not start with an open source game? Start with ioquake, or now the new iodoom3? http://www.iodoom3.org/ YOu start by analyzing a existing game, and then build on it. The whole concept of open source...
That is the point... Once there is a problem, they will not care. You only find the quality of a company when things go wrong.