Oh, how I would love to play Quake against you and your friends.
Well, apparently I'd like to shoot you with a pistol.
If I needed to be in a gunfight with somebody, that is. (I'd know better. Today.)
(Note that the Quake statistics I quoted are real, but are based on hitting the target only. Hitting near him, but causing damage from an explosion, was not considered. Incorporating splash-damage adds about 25% to accuracy ratings, especially since its possible to hit 2+ targets with one shot)
People don't look for realistic gunfights in action anime shows,
True. Viewers of an "action anime" want "action". That is, some form of movement from the main characters, at least when a supposedly exciting battle is going on. The opening sequence for Noir contains 2 scenes of high-quality action combat, suggesting that the show itself will include it at a moderate quality.
But it doesn't. False advertising. (If you look away and just concentrate on the music, you can pretend there's action, though)
Noir-apologists claim that the stillness is an intentional stylistic choice. Even if that's true (and it's not just budget-cutting), then it's a BAD choice.
sig: Kerry's own After Action report validates the accounts of the Swift Boat Vets
Hint: If you're wounded and want to retreat, consider dropping any heavy weapons before you start running. Otherwise, you appear to be an opponent searching for a vantage point to fire rockets, instead of a non-combatant fleeing for safety.
USMC in Iraq this year continue to follow the rule of firing on enemy with weapons, regardless of them being injured.
"No machine[usually meaning computer, but in this case a jumpdrive] is secure if the physical box is in the hands of the hacker/criminal."
That's not true. If my harddrive contains an encrypted filesystem, it does a "hacker" no good to steal my PC. He's mathmatically less likely to brute force that encryption than if he sniffed encypted email or SSL sessions.
If the hacker installs a keylogger, and I don't detect the intrusion when I return, then a second trip to physical access could break the security... but getting his hands on it once won't help.
That famous saying only applies if the machine gets some ongoing use after the hacker has physical access. (Thus it demonstrates a core flaw of DRM, etc)
I mean, if you have the jumprdrive in your possession it's only a matter of time before you find a weakness to exploit, right?
No. There is no reason a device like this needs to store the password at all.
Properly, it shouldn't be a "password" at all, but a decryption-key you type before accessing the files. Type in the wrong key, and the files appear scrambled.
.....Totally scalable, native support out of the box.
Nope. Normal Linux (as installed by the popular distros) will not work with more than 1 physical keyboard.
It takes some serious hacking to allow each X server to bind to a different keyboard (even though USB ports make it easy to attach multiple keyboards to one PC). It's been done, but it's not easy. The next full release of the Linux kernel should allow this to work seamlessly.
making all kinds of comments about Gentoo without understand what it's purpose even is.
We know what the point of Gentoo was supposed to be. We're also aware of the numerous side-by-side benchmarks that've shown Gentoo machines to run slower than Fedora and Debian, on the same hardware.
Supposedly they map the emulated APIs to host system APIs.
Yep.
They imply that you can run Wintel apps on OS X without Windows or an Intel processor.
Nope. Quoting from their announcement: "Operating System Mapper. Dynamite supports operating system mapping between any two Unix/Linux-like operating systems, as well as mapping between mainframe and any Unix/Linux-like operating systems."
The lack of security is *not* the internet's fault; it already does what it needs to do.
Just because something isn't your fault doesn't mean it's not your problem.
Today, the internet is vulnerable to DDoS attacks from hosts, either after a security breach, or just malicious users. It needs a better way to prevent aggressive DDoS, but that can be added simply enough at the level of international ISP blacklists, and won't need any modification to TCP/IP underpinnings.
However, the majority of "virus" problems only lead to data loss on the client side, and it is truely the client's responsibility to protect itself. Users should be self-sufficient enough to not NEED the Internet to be deleting viruses for them.
The DMCA specificly applies to circumventing the access control system specifically protecting someone else's specific copyrighted work.
Wrong. The DMCA forbids you from breaking a device which protects copyrighted work. It contains no exception if you happen to own the copyright to that work!
This has already been demonstrated, when a digital camera company brought suit against photographers who wanted to extract their own pictures.
There was a similar scene at the end of Unforgiven, when Clint Eastwood mowed down a room full of armed men.
False. No scene in Unforgiven was similar to a Noir battle.
In Unforgiven's climatic massacre, Eastwood attacked a roomful of men by surprise, opening fire before they even knew he was there. And they weren't all armed; none of them had guns in hand- some didn't even have weapons on their person. He got off 6-8 shots before the victims even started to retaliate. Furthermore, the victims were huddled in a tight group, so that those at the rear (who survived the first barrage) didn't have a clear view of Eastwood, who had a doorframe to duck behind too.
The Noir scene I'm referring to, by contrast, took place on the wide open steps of an outdoor temple. The gangsters were fanned out, with none blocking each other's line of sight. And most importantly, neither side was really suprised, and the men were able to draw and open fire at the same time the girl was. Most critically of all, is that the men fired an average of more than 4 rounds each. Yet as usual, the only place they can hit a stationary girl is in the hair.
A live gunfight is not like a Quake deathmatch
True. In Quake, gunfighters are much less likely to get shot than in real life. Quake shooters are less accurate, because compared to a real person, they have
Less field of view. 40 degrees vs 250 degrees, or so.
Less visual resolution. The best PC monitors are around 1600 horizontal. A human eye, for the same field of view, has much more than 5000 pixel-equivalents.
Linked eyes and gun. Real people can look around quickly without changing their aim, Quake players cannot
Clumsy weapon grip. Quake weapons are aimed with a mouse, which is a far inferior position than using a pistol grip. (Players can overcome this limitation with unusual hardware, such as touch-screen monitors, but that's uncommon).
And Quake players are tougher targets than real people, because
Quake players move at a sustained rate of 30 mph, compared with 5-8 mph for a human runner. They can also change direction more erratically, and jump a lot higher.
Real-life people have one advantage that Quake guys don't have- they can duck behind cover and only expose a sliver of body while firing. But the Noir girl I'm complaining about doesn't use this technique, prefering to stand boldly out in the open. (Her adult partner does use cover, however)
where you can expect to hit your target more often than not.
False. Completely backwards, in fact. Statistically, average Quake players land fewer than 1 shot out of five. Good players get 1/3. Nobody hits more than misses. (Unless they were intentionally trying for a high accuracy score, by only firing when the target is certain to be hit. But that will lead to worse overall results)
As silly as it seems, the truth is that untrained fighters (such as bottom-of-the-barrel mafia goons) will often empty entire clips of pistols or automatic rifles in a point-blank gunfight and never hit a thing.
Yes, I'm well aware of the factors that lead to 1/50th of soldiers to account for 1/5th of all kills. But Noir doesn't present this reality at all. Unforgiven does. Band of Brothers, too. But I can't recall any anime to use a realistic conception of gunfighting. (Except for those where fighting happens only very rarely, or where the heros / monsters are bulletproof)
It is about running applications for windows in a different operating system with different hardware.
Wrong. This doesn't let you run Windows apps on OS X. It provides CPU compatibility only. OS compatibility is up to you- meaning the Mac user will need to install a copy of Win XP before running those games.
In the short term, Microsoft won't mind that, because they still get a sale. But long term, it will hurt them, as the increased flexibility allows users to migrate to Mac without needing to replace all their apps at once.
RTFA. It's a Macintosh program. So there's no reason to expect that programs like X and Apache are even installed. (They can be installed, and a few are by default, but users might not care)
However, depending on how the installer is run, the application might not have write permissions to do that kind of damage. The home directory is both more likely to be vulnerable, and much much more important to the victim.
Here's some other, milder ways to punish the offender:
ROT13 the documents in her home directory
Randomly rename some of the documents in her home directory, by adding prefixes like pirate_.
Send emails to the application developer containing the user's name, to record her on a list for eventual legal retaliation.
People who think that generally hadn't really seen Fighting Robots shows before.
The whole point of Evangelion was to take a goofy genre and treat it seriously. (Compare with Watchmen and superheros)
Wolf's Rain, Cowboy Bebop, or FLCL in terms of production values.
Of course not. Evangelion's budget was notoriously low. No other anime has achieved 100 straight seconds on a single stationary frame.
Several minutes of three guys standing still,
WAITING to shoot. ANTICIPATING the fight.
When the action finally started, it was one cut, and the fight was over.
Right. And that's not what Noir does. They start shooting, the exciting music starts playing... and everyone stands there. And they keep standing there, for up to a minute, until finally all the men have been killed (the whole logical background of Noir is that no man can bear to shoot a woman, and especially cannot consider shooting a girl. That's the only way it makes any sense)
At around episode 7 or 8 it got too bad for me to bear watching anymore. The girl took down 19 Chinese gangsters with her patented "stand there and keep pulling the trigger" technique.
Togusa's even dumber than his usual self and partnered with Batou, something that seems highly unlikely given he was the Major's partner,
In the manga, Togusa was Batou's partner once, and Major Kusanagi's partner twice. Kusanagi and Batou were NEVER partners, until issues 10 and 11, which were after she had left the force (and was a fugitive from the law...)
Hmm, 10 years back is just when Evangelion was airing...
The vanship time-trial from that show makes the Episode I "pod race" look, well, even more boring than it looked in the first place.
Actually, both were equally boring- from the perspective of the fictional spectators in the stands.
Who would want to buy tickets for a race where you can't see any of the course except the finish line? No fun to sit there listening to an announcer TELL you where the cars are. If it were a multi-lap race, then there might be some point to it... but not just one ending.
actually enhanced the mood for "Noir"
They didn't enhance Noir. If the still images had been of a moving person, that might've been something. But considering that the killer-girl just stood there with 1 arm raised, pumping bullet after bullet into rows of thugs who mysteriously never decided to shoot her...
(stretching a complex story throughout an entire series) with Gargoyles.
No, the storyline on Gargoyles didn't persist through the whole series. Like many American scifi shows (Star Trek*, Buffy, etc), they started with 3-5 episodes of continuity, then settle down for generally unrelated adventures, and end the season with 2-4 more contiuous eps to finish off the "main" storyline. More importantly, the Gargoygles series lasted far past the end of the story, with the "magic boat travelling to a random place each week" concept.
However, in terms of continuity, Gargoyles was head&shoulders above most other USA cartoons (and even live action shows). The fact that they even HAD an audio clip for "Previously on Gargoyles" proves it.
Using length as a yardstick for quality doesn't quite measure up.
It's often highly accurate. The more hours you need to fill, the lower the ratio of quality ideas to filler. In general, theatrical films are better than TV miniseries, which are better than weekly TV programs, which are better than daily soap operas. (Consider how many people enjoyed the Spiderman movie, who wouldn't have considered viewing the cartoon or comic book. They expected, correctly, that the movie would be be more enjoyable, with a higher concentration of originality)
One great advantage of Japanese TV programs (including but not limited to anime), in comparison to American TV, is that from the beginning, the producer is planning for the end. There is a conclusion planned for the 13th, 26th, or 52nd episode, and everything progresses along towards there**. Whereas American television is based on the idea of dragging it out until the ratings sink away.
13 to 26 episodes long and end up boring the socks off of you
Witch Hunter Robin is a recent series of 26 episodes that only had enough content for 7.
* Golly, I wonder why Gargoyles reminded me of Star Trek?
** Juvenile toy shows like Pokemon and Yugioh are exceptions, as is Doreamon.
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If this is true, it would mean that the alleged problem you speak of is not a problem. It's the hypothetical system giving the hypothetical voters precisely what they want. The problem is that the voters don't want what the Libertarians want them to want.
Wrong. We're only looking at things from the perspective of the Libertarian voter. "Does voting the way I want contribute to results I want?"
They voted LRD, and got D. But if they had voted RD, R would've won. So at best, this means that IRV has not addressed the problem that voting for a 3rd party wastes your vote.
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By the way, Australia isn't a republic. They have a parlimentary government. Their experiences with IRV don't make good analogies with a republic style of government
Being a republic or not has absolutely zero influence as to how democratic processes work. In fact, the phrase "republic style of government" is an oxymoron. The only reason Australia isn't a republic is that their nominal head-of-state is a (foreign) Queen.
China is a republic, and they're still stuck in a one-party system... I seem to remember a place called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, too... what was it like?
Libraries do not get explicit permission from the copyright owners to place copyrighted works in an area that others can get access to.
Richard_at_work was not specific enough in his wording. After all, "area that others can get access to" covers a whole lot of ground, and we're not obligated to stand over purchased CDs with a shotgun guarding them from potential infringers.
Libraries are OK because they expect (correctly) that the big majority of patrons will only read the books, and not make copies before returning them. Private individuals can lend out works they own too, without needing any special permission.
But if they had fairly firm knowledge that other people will use the provided access to make copies, then they're breaking the law.
Library: the borrower of a book probably won't photocopy the whole thing before returning it. If he does, well, the lender is safe, because it wasn't expected.
Kazaa: the downloader of a file will absolutely copy it before listening, because that's the only way he can actually hear anything!
You see, that "cp" command there stands for "copy"... I just made a copy. If the copy was for my own temporary, personal use, and I already had a legal copy of the song, then it might be protected under Fair Use. But if I expect other people to copy it from there, then it's not.
What about if someone browses to it and sees it, but doesn't download it?
As I already said, both downloading and uploading are copying. In this case, he didn't download, so he didn't copy.
How about if someone finds it, then, without my permission, DLs it?
If it was truly without your permission, and she's the one who did the download, then she is the infringer. But you can't say "Here's my directory of unprotected music files! Don't anybody illegally copy them, *wink wink*" and expect to get away with it.
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Now, call me crazy, but I thought that UF was Canadian...
Call me crazy, but Canada is American. just a pedantic point...
(FYI, Peru is also American)
For as many BESM shows there are one can find shows where people have more "normal" size facial features and heads.
Of the 35 anime on TV this year, only three (Wolf Rain, GITS, Witch Hunter Robin) weren't BESM. And Wolf's Rain is borderline on that score.
Even quite adult shows like Paranoia agent and Planetes use exaggerated facial features.
Oh, how I would love to play Quake against you and your friends.
Well, apparently I'd like to shoot you with a pistol.
If I needed to be in a gunfight with somebody, that is. (I'd know better. Today.)
(Note that the Quake statistics I quoted are real, but are based on hitting the target only. Hitting near him, but causing damage from an explosion, was not considered. Incorporating splash-damage adds about 25% to accuracy ratings, especially since its possible to hit 2+ targets with one shot)
People don't look for realistic gunfights in action anime shows,
True. Viewers of an "action anime" want "action". That is, some form of movement from the main characters, at least when a supposedly exciting battle is going on. The opening sequence for Noir contains 2 scenes of high-quality action combat, suggesting that the show itself will include it at a moderate quality.
But it doesn't. False advertising. (If you look away and just concentrate on the music, you can pretend there's action, though)
Noir-apologists claim that the stillness is an intentional stylistic choice. Even if that's true (and it's not just budget-cutting), then it's a BAD choice.
sig: Kerry's own After Action report validates the accounts of the Swift Boat Vets
Hint: If you're wounded and want to retreat, consider dropping any heavy weapons before you start running. Otherwise, you appear to be an opponent searching for a vantage point to fire rockets, instead of a non-combatant fleeing for safety.
USMC in Iraq this year continue to follow the rule of firing on enemy with weapons, regardless of them being injured.
"No machine[usually meaning computer, but in this case a jumpdrive] is secure if the physical box is in the hands of the hacker/criminal."
That's not true. If my harddrive contains an encrypted filesystem, it does a "hacker" no good to steal my PC. He's mathmatically less likely to brute force that encryption than if he sniffed encypted email or SSL sessions.
If the hacker installs a keylogger, and I don't detect the intrusion when I return, then a second trip to physical access could break the security... but getting his hands on it once won't help.
That famous saying only applies if the machine gets some ongoing use after the hacker has physical access. (Thus it demonstrates a core flaw of DRM, etc)
I mean, if you have the jumprdrive in your possession it's only a matter of time before you find a weakness to exploit, right?
No. There is no reason a device like this needs to store the password at all.
Properly, it shouldn't be a "password" at all, but a decryption-key you type before accessing the files. Type in the wrong key, and the files appear scrambled.
.....Totally scalable, native support out of the box.
Nope. Normal Linux (as installed by the popular distros) will not work with more than 1 physical keyboard.
It takes some serious hacking to allow each X server to bind to a different keyboard (even though USB ports make it easy to attach multiple keyboards to one PC). It's been done, but it's not easy. The next full release of the Linux kernel should allow this to work seamlessly.
It was, as any logical person could immediately see, equally biased.
Wrong. It's not biased- it just reflects the facts. There are 150 million more women than men. The average human is female.
making all kinds of comments about Gentoo without understand what it's purpose even is.
We know what the point of Gentoo was supposed to be. We're also aware of the numerous side-by-side benchmarks that've shown Gentoo machines to run slower than Fedora and Debian, on the same hardware.
If nothing else, the US would have been very interested in his uber-amphibious truck.
Here you go
Supposedly they map the emulated APIs to host system APIs.
Yep.
They imply that you can run Wintel apps on OS X without Windows or an Intel processor.
Nope. Quoting from their announcement: "Operating System Mapper. Dynamite supports operating system mapping between any two Unix/Linux-like operating systems, as well as mapping between mainframe and any Unix/Linux-like operating systems."
The lack of security is *not* the internet's fault; it already does what it needs to do.
Just because something isn't your fault doesn't mean it's not your problem.
Today, the internet is vulnerable to DDoS attacks from hosts, either after a security breach, or just malicious users. It needs a better way to prevent aggressive DDoS, but that can be added simply enough at the level of international ISP blacklists, and won't need any modification to TCP/IP underpinnings.
However, the majority of "virus" problems only lead to data loss on the client side, and it is truely the client's responsibility to protect itself. Users should be self-sufficient enough to not NEED the Internet to be deleting viruses for them.
The DMCA specificly applies to circumventing the access control system specifically protecting someone else's specific copyrighted work.
Wrong. The DMCA forbids you from breaking a device which protects copyrighted work. It contains no exception if you happen to own the copyright to that work!
This has already been demonstrated, when a digital camera company brought suit against photographers who wanted to extract their own pictures.
False. No scene in Unforgiven was similar to a Noir battle.
In Unforgiven's climatic massacre, Eastwood attacked a roomful of men by surprise, opening fire before they even knew he was there. And they weren't all armed; none of them had guns in hand- some didn't even have weapons on their person. He got off 6-8 shots before the victims even started to retaliate. Furthermore, the victims were huddled in a tight group, so that those at the rear (who survived the first barrage) didn't have a clear view of Eastwood, who had a doorframe to duck behind too.
The Noir scene I'm referring to, by contrast, took place on the wide open steps of an outdoor temple. The gangsters were fanned out, with none blocking each other's line of sight. And most importantly, neither side was really suprised, and the men were able to draw and open fire at the same time the girl was. Most critically of all, is that the men fired an average of more than 4 rounds each. Yet as usual, the only place they can hit a stationary girl is in the hair.
A live gunfight is not like a Quake deathmatch
True. In Quake, gunfighters are much less likely to get shot than in real life.
Quake shooters are less accurate, because compared to a real person, they have
And Quake players are tougher targets than real people, because
Real-life people have one advantage that Quake guys don't have- they can duck behind cover and only expose a sliver of body while firing. But the Noir girl I'm complaining about doesn't use this technique, prefering to stand boldly out in the open. (Her adult partner does use cover, however)
where you can expect to hit your target more often than not.
False. Completely backwards, in fact. Statistically, average Quake players land fewer than 1 shot out of five. Good players get 1/3. Nobody hits more than misses. (Unless they were intentionally trying for a high accuracy score, by only firing when the target is certain to be hit. But that will lead to worse overall results)
As silly as it seems, the truth is that untrained fighters (such as bottom-of-the-barrel mafia goons) will often empty entire clips of pistols or automatic rifles in a point-blank gunfight and never hit a thing.
Yes, I'm well aware of the factors that lead to 1/50th of soldiers to account for 1/5th of all kills. But Noir doesn't present this reality at all. Unforgiven does. Band of Brothers, too. But I can't recall any anime to use a realistic conception of gunfighting. (Except for those where fighting happens only very rarely, or where the heros / monsters are bulletproof)
It is about running applications for windows in a different operating system with different hardware.
Wrong. This doesn't let you run Windows apps on OS X. It provides CPU compatibility only. OS compatibility is up to you- meaning the Mac user will need to install a copy of Win XP before running those games.
In the short term, Microsoft won't mind that, because they still get a sale. But long term, it will hurt them, as the increased flexibility allows users to migrate to Mac without needing to replace all their apps at once.
RTFA. It's a Macintosh program. So there's no reason to expect that programs like X and Apache are even installed. (They can be installed, and a few are by default, but users might not care)
However, depending on how the installer is run, the application might not have write permissions to do that kind of damage. The home directory is both more likely to be vulnerable, and much much more important to the victim.
Here's some other, milder ways to punish the offender:
Evangelion was an over-rated Fighting Robot drama
People who think that generally hadn't really seen Fighting Robots shows before.
The whole point of Evangelion was to take a goofy genre and treat it seriously. (Compare with Watchmen and superheros)
Wolf's Rain, Cowboy Bebop, or FLCL in terms of production values.
Of course not. Evangelion's budget was notoriously low. No other anime has achieved 100 straight seconds on a single stationary frame.
Several minutes of three guys standing still,
WAITING to shoot. ANTICIPATING the fight.
When the action finally started, it was one cut, and the fight was over.
Right. And that's not what Noir does. They start shooting, the exciting music starts playing... and everyone stands there. And they keep standing there, for up to a minute, until finally all the men have been killed (the whole logical background of Noir is that no man can bear to shoot a woman, and especially cannot consider shooting a girl. That's the only way it makes any sense)
At around episode 7 or 8 it got too bad for me to bear watching anymore. The girl took down 19 Chinese gangsters with her patented "stand there and keep pulling the trigger" technique.
It is good music, though.
Togusa's even dumber than his usual self and partnered with Batou, something that seems highly unlikely given he was the Major's partner,
In the manga, Togusa was Batou's partner once, and Major Kusanagi's partner twice. Kusanagi and Batou were NEVER partners, until issues 10 and 11, which were after she had left the force (and was a fugitive from the law...)
So what? There's never been any legality to fansubbing anyway. It's always been a copyright violation.
Wrong. Back before 1987, Japanese copyrights were not valid in the USA.
Some other countries didn't start recognizing Japanese copyright until 2002. (And it seems that China still doesn't...?)
For all I know, PowerPuff Girls or Samurai Jack or any of the other distinctly American style animated series are great.
Ahem- both of those have a heavily anime-derived style.
PowerPuff Girls especially was based on the anime maxim "Big Eyes, Small Mouth" and taking it beyond all sensibility.
a lot better... over the last ten years or so.
Hmm, 10 years back is just when Evangelion was airing...
The vanship time-trial from that show makes the Episode I "pod race" look, well, even more boring than it looked in the first place.
Actually, both were equally boring- from the perspective of the fictional spectators in the stands.
Who would want to buy tickets for a race where you can't see any of the course except the finish line? No fun to sit there listening to an announcer TELL you where the cars are. If it were a multi-lap race, then there might be some point to it... but not just one ending.
actually enhanced the mood for "Noir"
They didn't enhance Noir. If the still images had been of a moving person, that might've been something. But considering that the killer-girl just stood there with 1 arm raised, pumping bullet after bullet into rows of thugs who mysteriously never decided to shoot her...
(stretching a complex story throughout an entire series) with Gargoyles.
No, the storyline on Gargoyles didn't persist through the whole series. Like many American scifi shows (Star Trek*, Buffy, etc), they started with 3-5 episodes of continuity, then settle down for generally unrelated adventures, and end the season with 2-4 more contiuous eps to finish off the "main" storyline. More importantly, the Gargoygles series lasted far past the end of the story, with the "magic boat travelling to a random place each week" concept.
However, in terms of continuity, Gargoyles was head&shoulders above most other USA cartoons (and even live action shows). The fact that they even HAD an audio clip for "Previously on Gargoyles" proves it.
Using length as a yardstick for quality doesn't quite measure up.
It's often highly accurate. The more hours you need to fill, the lower the ratio of quality ideas to filler. In general, theatrical films are better than TV miniseries, which are better than weekly TV programs, which are better than daily soap operas. (Consider how many people enjoyed the Spiderman movie, who wouldn't have considered viewing the cartoon or comic book. They expected, correctly, that the movie would be be more enjoyable, with a higher concentration of originality)
One great advantage of Japanese TV programs (including but not limited to anime), in comparison to American TV, is that from the beginning, the producer is planning for the end. There is a conclusion planned for the 13th, 26th, or 52nd episode, and everything progresses along towards there**. Whereas American television is based on the idea of dragging it out until the ratings sink away.
13 to 26 episodes long and end up boring the socks off of you
Witch Hunter Robin is a recent series of 26 episodes that only had enough content for 7.
* Golly, I wonder why Gargoyles reminded me of Star Trek?
** Juvenile toy shows like Pokemon and Yugioh are exceptions, as is Doreamon.
If this is true, it would mean that the alleged problem you speak of is not a problem. It's the hypothetical system giving the hypothetical voters precisely what they want. The problem is that the voters don't want what the Libertarians want them to want.
Wrong. We're only looking at things from the perspective of the Libertarian voter. "Does voting the way I want contribute to results I want?"
They voted LRD, and got D. But if they had voted RD, R would've won. So at best, this means that IRV has not addressed the problem that voting for a 3rd party wastes your vote.
By the way, Australia isn't a republic. They have a parlimentary government. Their experiences with IRV don't make good analogies with a republic style of government
Being a republic or not has absolutely zero influence as to how democratic processes work. In fact, the phrase "republic style of government" is an oxymoron. The only reason Australia isn't a republic is that their nominal head-of-state is a (foreign) Queen.
China is a republic, and they're still stuck in a one-party system... I seem to remember a place called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, too... what was it like?
Libraries do not get explicit permission from the copyright owners to place copyrighted works in an area that others can get access to.
Richard_at_work was not specific enough in his wording. After all, "area that others can get access to" covers a whole lot of ground, and we're not obligated to stand over purchased CDs with a shotgun guarding them from potential infringers.
Libraries are OK because they expect (correctly) that the big majority of patrons will only read the books, and not make copies before returning them. Private individuals can lend out works they own too, without needing any special permission.
But if they had fairly firm knowledge that other people will use the provided access to make copies, then they're breaking the law.
Library: the borrower of a book probably won't photocopy the whole thing before returning it. If he does, well, the lender is safe, because it wasn't expected.
Kazaa: the downloader of a file will absolutely copy it before listening, because that's the only way he can actually hear anything!
Do you understand UNIX command line syntax? If so, I can quickly demonstrate:
You see, that "cp" command there stands for "copy"... I just made a copy. If the copy was for my own temporary, personal use, and I already had a legal copy of the song, then it might be protected under Fair Use. But if I expect other people to copy it from there, then it's not.
What about if someone browses to it and sees it, but doesn't download it?
As I already said, both downloading and uploading are copying. In this case, he didn't download, so he didn't copy.
How about if someone finds it, then, without my permission, DLs it?
If it was truly without your permission, and she's the one who did the download, then she is the infringer. But you can't say "Here's my directory of unprotected music files! Don't anybody illegally copy them, *wink wink*" and expect to get away with it.