Thief is a slightly acceptable word to describe copyright violators, but there are all sorts of problems that can arise with using the word.
1) It is an inherently more emotional word than copyright violation. That's not neccesarily bad, but it has its time and place.
2) "Intellectual Property" is not universally accepted as equivalent to property. Using "thief" strongly implies that it is.
3) Thief very much implies that there is removal being done, even if it isn't a neccesary part of the definition. "Intellectual property" doesn't work that way, so it's more along the lines of trespassing. There is no direct loss from "intellectual thievery." (Although, like many things, that doesn't make it right.)
It's a valid usage, certianly. The word is used all the time. "Theft of services," and "stealing cable," are examples which come quickly to mind. But sometimes it is appropriate, and sometime it is not.
Well, that brings us to the third and most debatable of the reasons for Libraries. There is inherent value in being able to get entertainment and information whenever you want as easily as possible. So people, when they come together to form governments, ought to try and pool their resources so they can do this.
I'm sure what he meant was that "pen and pencil" RPGers tend to spell it dice and dices for historical reasons which they fought bloody wars over. Which might be true. I really don't know.
But what I do know, which is utterly fascenating, is that dice and data apparently are closely related. (Die comes from the word datum, which is the latin singular of data.) That is fitting.
Intellegent Design isn't really all that respected. It's taught in schools because Creationists are very powerful in some parts of this country, and ID is basically Creationism's way of dressing up for the scientists.
Physicists will gladly accept that things do <i>appear</i> unusually tuned to our existance, but many would argue "if the universe wasn't in such a way as to make our existance possible, we wouldn't be here to care." There's a few slightly more formalized ways of dealing with that (quantumly paralell universes, for example) but that's what most of them argue.
Obviously, but 2 is a bit of a complex issue. How do you know how easy it is? Well, that's the whole friggin point of the article. We thought that having only sevenish things in a menu and making everything only three clicks away would make content easier to access. Apparently, it does not.
Speaking out of turn, that's a paddlin'. Posting on Slashdot, that's a paddlin'. Blaming all problems today with the lack of paddlin'... you better believe THAT'S a paddlin'. Mmm... your point could've been valid, but you should've called it a "spanking" if you didn't want a Simpsons quote.
That said, I think that a well designed "time out" (either of the sit-in-the-corner variety, which is more of a punishment, or the sit-in-your-room variety, which is less of a punishment, but allows the child to calm down) followed by a "talk" on the moral issues raised by their action. (If you just say, "don't do that" you aren't really formulating a good moral system. You have to teach kids why it's good to be good.) Allow them to present their counterarguements if they have good ones. Holding the threat of restrictions (grounding, no dessert, whatever) is a good way of having a way of making these time-outs count, as long as it fits the punishment. (Unfair restrictions, even if only as an idle threat, will only create problems.)
Yes, but they WILL have the Grey Havens, which, supposedly, should be shown with the proper degree of bittersweetness. Hopefully SOMETHING will have changed in the Shire, though.
"Begging the question" means circular logic, but it also literally means to beg a question, which is a phrase worth using. "Raise the question" merely means that stating something causes new questions to become apparent. "Beg the question" is a bit stronger. It says (more or less) that the question is pleaded to be asked.
This implies that the question needs to be answered, instead of just coming about tangentially. It is a stronger phrase, and people, as a rule, like using stronger phrases.
I'll agree with the page that educated people should probably avoid the phrase, because it can cause confusion, but "beg the question" is too useful a phrase in the parent's sense, whereas "beg the question" in the sense of the fallacy is too easily replaced with the much more obvious "circular reasoning."
The system is busy waiting for the Close Program dialog box to be displayed. You can wait and see if it appears, your you can restart your computer.
* Press any key to return to Windows and exist. * Press CTRL+ALT+DEL again to restart your computer. You will lose unsaved information in all programs that are running.
Press any key to continue
Not the worst of the BSODs, but bad enough for these sorts of purposes. I am curious, however, why Windows was waiting for the close program dialog box in the first place.
Yes, the sign for water in France is different, just like the word for water in France in different. ASL is not an international language, and neither are most spoken languages.
ASL is a natural language, not an artificially constructed language like Esperanto. Although there's certianly reason for there to be an International Sign Language, (there might even be one) ASL is no worse than English in that regard.
Me: Oh yeah? OH YEAH? Well, whose the bigger loser!? The guy who pays to run UnixWare, or the guy who gets paid to bug people who run it?
SCO Customer: Still you.
Me: Damn. Really?
SCO Customer: Well, yeah. I'm a highly paid executive at a successful cheese company. You answer phones all day.
Me: Yes, and I get to make fun of UnixWare users.
SCO Customer: Well, actually, I do the ads at New England Cheese.
Me: I'm sure that's fulfilling.
SCO Customer: It is, but that's not the point. The point is that we're launching a big "Linux is for losers, eat cheese" campaign.
Me: Why?
SCO Customer: We think there's a lot of money to be made in competing with Linux.
Me: But you sell cheese!
SCO Customer: Pfft. At least our business model doesn't consist of suing IBM. Oh that's real smart.
Me: I'm fully aware that SCO is stupid. Why do you think I called us hell?
SCO Customer: Oh... I thought you were telling the truth. You know, a lot of subcontracting has been going on.
Me: And you called me... huh?
SCO Customer: It's not hard to understand. I thought you were Satan, so I called you a loser. I hope you'd agree Satan is a loser. Unless you want us to start our "Linux is for satanist paedophiles, try Cheese instead" campaign.
Me: What do you have to succeed from competing with Linux again? You exist in a totally different market.
Certianly, but wouldn't you agree that antidistestablishmentarianistic actions are quite likely to promote establishmentarianism?
(The first word being the opposition to the seperation of church and state, and the second (I assume) being in favor of the union of Church State. You two aren't the same, but very very similar.)
And anyway, "dis-" and "anti-" don't exactly mean the same thing, so your point is slightly less than valid. Of course, you were probably going for what they call a "joke" so I guess we can let it slide.
Well that's nice of them. They usually enjoy a little panic now and then. Good for business. But for once, the Illuminati puts our interests ahead of their own. Kind of sweet, in their own way.
Yes, language is flexible, and if enough people use Virii, it will become acceptable, but its etymology is still based on ignorance, and you're an idiot for using the word. Also, it's really not an accepted word yet, as shown by all the people calling you an idiot.
Yes, cells mutate, and this is how they evolve. But genes don't "want" to mutate. (Well, genes don't really want anything, they're just complex molecules, but bear with me.)
Lets say you have a piece of DNA. A gene. Now, evolution says that genes which promote their existance will be more common than genes which do not. Obviously. This means that genes which promote their own existance will be more common.
Now, genes typically have many side effects. They might make a person a little taller, but at the same time it might increase the odds of cavities. It's a very chaotic system. Now, let's say you have two genes which are identical except for one difference: one prevents mutation of the gene, where the other one does not. Obviously, the one which prevents mutation will be more successful, because the other one will be changed to god-knows-what.
So evolution tends to favor genes which prevent mutation, although we still get enough for there to be new variation.
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Par chance, do any of you know of a program in Windows (XP) which will allow the end-user to send messages directly to programs? Is it even possible?
Thief is a slightly acceptable word to describe copyright violators, but there are all sorts of problems that can arise with using the word.
1) It is an inherently more emotional word than copyright violation. That's not neccesarily bad, but it has its time and place.
2) "Intellectual Property" is not universally accepted as equivalent to property. Using "thief" strongly implies that it is.
3) Thief very much implies that there is removal being done, even if it isn't a neccesary part of the definition. "Intellectual property" doesn't work that way, so it's more along the lines of trespassing. There is no direct loss from "intellectual thievery." (Although, like many things, that doesn't make it right.)
It's a valid usage, certianly. The word is used all the time. "Theft of services," and "stealing cable," are examples which come quickly to mind. But sometimes it is appropriate, and sometime it is not.
Cute, but the relationship between beauty and ship-launching isn't linear.
Well you know who that guy bending over is, don't you?
Xenu.
To be fair, that's only financed and distributed by Hollywood. It was made and produced in New Zealand.
Yes, and energy would also be scarce.
However, many extremely useful things can be produced just out of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and silicon, all of which are very easy to find.
Well, that brings us to the third and most debatable of the reasons for Libraries. There is inherent value in being able to get entertainment and information whenever you want as easily as possible. So people, when they come together to form governments, ought to try and pool their resources so they can do this.
I'm sure what he meant was that "pen and pencil" RPGers tend to spell it dice and dices for historical reasons which they fought bloody wars over. Which might be true. I really don't know.
But what I do know, which is utterly fascenating, is that dice and data apparently are closely related. (Die comes from the word datum, which is the latin singular of data.) That is fitting.
Intellegent Design isn't really all that respected. It's taught in schools because Creationists are very powerful in some parts of this country, and ID is basically Creationism's way of dressing up for the scientists.
Physicists will gladly accept that things do <i>appear</i> unusually tuned to our existance, but many would argue "if the universe wasn't in such a way as to make our existance possible, we wouldn't be here to care." There's a few slightly more formalized ways of dealing with that (quantumly paralell universes, for example) but that's what most of them argue.
Obviously, but 2 is a bit of a complex issue. How do you know how easy it is? Well, that's the whole friggin point of the article. We thought that having only sevenish things in a menu and making everything only three clicks away would make content easier to access. Apparently, it does not.
If I have to teach Lambda Calculus in order to tell people how to burn CDs, then so be it.
True. In English, all statements evaluate to true unless otherwise stated.
Speaking out of turn, that's a paddlin'. Posting on Slashdot, that's a paddlin'. Blaming all problems today with the lack of paddlin'... you better believe THAT'S a paddlin'. Mmm... your point could've been valid, but you should've called it a "spanking" if you didn't want a Simpsons quote.
That said, I think that a well designed "time out" (either of the sit-in-the-corner variety, which is more of a punishment, or the sit-in-your-room variety, which is less of a punishment, but allows the child to calm down) followed by a "talk" on the moral issues raised by their action. (If you just say, "don't do that" you aren't really formulating a good moral system. You have to teach kids why it's good to be good.) Allow them to present their counterarguements if they have good ones. Holding the threat of restrictions (grounding, no dessert, whatever) is a good way of having a way of making these time-outs count, as long as it fits the punishment. (Unfair restrictions, even if only as an idle threat, will only create problems.)
Yes, but they WILL have the Grey Havens, which, supposedly, should be shown with the proper degree of bittersweetness. Hopefully SOMETHING will have changed in the Shire, though.
"Begging the question" means circular logic, but it also literally means to beg a question, which is a phrase worth using. "Raise the question" merely means that stating something causes new questions to become apparent. "Beg the question" is a bit stronger. It says (more or less) that the question is pleaded to be asked.
This implies that the question needs to be answered, instead of just coming about tangentially. It is a stronger phrase, and people, as a rule, like using stronger phrases.
I'll agree with the page that educated people should probably avoid the phrase, because it can cause confusion, but "beg the question" is too useful a phrase in the parent's sense, whereas "beg the question" in the sense of the fallacy is too easily replaced with the much more obvious "circular reasoning."
Not the worst of the BSODs, but bad enough for these sorts of purposes. I am curious, however, why Windows was waiting for the close program dialog box in the first place.
I thought I heard they had accelerated to 1399m/s?
Yes, the sign for water in France is different, just like the word for water in France in different. ASL is not an international language, and neither are most spoken languages.
ASL is a natural language, not an artificially constructed language like Esperanto. Although there's certianly reason for there to be an International Sign Language, (there might even be one) ASL is no worse than English in that regard.
Me: Oh yeah? OH YEAH? Well, whose the bigger loser!? The guy who pays to run UnixWare, or the guy who gets paid to bug people who run it?
SCO Customer: Still you.
Me: Damn. Really?
SCO Customer: Well, yeah. I'm a highly paid executive at a successful cheese company. You answer phones all day.
Me: Yes, and I get to make fun of UnixWare users.
SCO Customer: Well, actually, I do the ads at New England Cheese.
Me: I'm sure that's fulfilling.
SCO Customer: It is, but that's not the point. The point is that we're launching a big "Linux is for losers, eat cheese" campaign.
Me: Why?
SCO Customer: We think there's a lot of money to be made in competing with Linux.
Me: But you sell cheese!
SCO Customer: Pfft. At least our business model doesn't consist of suing IBM. Oh that's real smart.
Me: I'm fully aware that SCO is stupid. Why do you think I called us hell?
SCO Customer: Oh... I thought you were telling the truth. You know, a lot of subcontracting has been going on.
Me: And you called me... huh?
SCO Customer: It's not hard to understand. I thought you were Satan, so I called you a loser. I hope you'd agree Satan is a loser. Unless you want us to start our "Linux is for satanist paedophiles, try Cheese instead" campaign.
Me: What do you have to succeed from competing with Linux again? You exist in a totally different market.
SCO Customer: Oh, I think you know.
Umm... reading at 1, are we? Slashdot only displays the posts which go above your threshold. There IS an article titled that, it's just rated 0.
And since YOU are also rated at 0, maybe you should just go down a notch. Even Anonymous Cowards can change their threshold.
Certianly, but wouldn't you agree that antidistestablishmentarianistic actions are quite likely to promote establishmentarianism?
(The first word being the opposition to the seperation of church and state, and the second (I assume) being in favor of the union of Church State. You two aren't the same, but very very similar.)
And anyway, "dis-" and "anti-" don't exactly mean the same thing, so your point is slightly less than valid. Of course, you were probably going for what they call a "joke" so I guess we can let it slide.
Well that's nice of them. They usually enjoy a little panic now and then. Good for business. But for once, the Illuminati puts our interests ahead of their own. Kind of sweet, in their own way.
Hacker hacker hacker hacker. :)
Yes, language is flexible, and if enough people use Virii, it will become acceptable, but its etymology is still based on ignorance, and you're an idiot for using the word. Also, it's really not an accepted word yet, as shown by all the people calling you an idiot.
And HIV and SARS are not manmade.
Ehh... no.
Yes, cells mutate, and this is how they evolve. But genes don't "want" to mutate. (Well, genes don't really want anything, they're just complex molecules, but bear with me.)
Lets say you have a piece of DNA. A gene. Now, evolution says that genes which promote their existance will be more common than genes which do not. Obviously. This means that genes which promote their own existance will be more common.
Now, genes typically have many side effects. They might make a person a little taller, but at the same time it might increase the odds of cavities. It's a very chaotic system. Now, let's say you have two genes which are identical except for one difference: one prevents mutation of the gene, where the other one does not. Obviously, the one which prevents mutation will be more successful, because the other one will be changed to god-knows-what.
So evolution tends to favor genes which prevent mutation, although we still get enough for there to be new variation.
No, Linux isn't a business.