I might be significantly LESS inclined to use the connection inappropriately sitting on a park bench where everyone can see me.
Or if you have an apartment near the library, you can use them for all your broadband internet needs. Run a P2p hub and use ALL their bandwidth, why don't you?
The people who happen to be inside the library have no greater right to any service the library provides than those outside the library. It is called a public library for a reason.
Yes they do. The government (or charitable fund running the library) may have an interest in controlling how it is used. Consider a public park. Am I allowed to bring my daily household trash into their wastebaskets, and carry water from their spigots into my nearby home?
It is called a public library for a reason.
All these years I've been paying for my house, when I just could've been sleeping at the library! After all, it's public, so I can go there and do whatever I want.
Plus its in my yard, so i didnt break any trespass laws..
If you sit on your lawn and use a dial-up modem to access someone else's computer, you can still get busted for it, even if he stupidly left it open with no passwords. Maybe that's not how things should be, but it's established law.
Oh, and the 14th does not count.. it wasnt part of the original 10..
Before the Constitution had any Amendments, it had Articles. Go check on Article 5, and then think again if Amendment 10 is any more valid than 14.
Live performances are free from copyrights / trademarks.
Totally wrong. If even the Girl Scouts sing "Happy Birthday" around a campfire, they need permission from BMI first. (They've granted the Girl Scouts broad license for non-recording usage, only AFTER the newspapers made a big deal of it)
Word is the most popular word processor. It doesn't make it standard.
Oh yes it is. "Word" is not only a word-processing application, it is also a file format specification (as defined by the files that application saves and loads). That format IS a standard (although a standard without fully published specifications)
Apache is not the standard. HTTP is.
Right, because Apache implements the HTTP standard. But Microsoft Word implements "Microsoft Word Document" as it's protocol, so that is the standard.
DOC - capable word processors are the real standard.
True. And since Microsoft Word is the only ".DOC capable word processor"....
(Don't try to argue that OpenOffice or anything related is "DOC capable"! Counterexamples are trivial to demonstrate)
Spear of Destiny sucked compared to either the original Wolfenstein3d (which at least had novelty) or Doom (which had variety, atmosphere, and enough AI to be outsmarted)
Especially with shooters and strategy games, the game engine is the most important, and most expensive, piece of development.
Wrong wrong wrong. Especially wrong for strategy games!
The most important thing for strat games is balanced, fun gameplay, which is quite difficult to create. Next most important is art quality. Look at Blizzard's Starcraft and Warcraft3 products. Do you really think it was the engine that let them dominate the market?
You're wrong for shooters too. The typical budget breakdown is spending $300,000 to license an engine, under $200,000 to tweak it, and then $2,500,000 on art and level design.
If we had had gold currencies, then the changes in gold valuation would have been very relevant indeed.
No. If they were still linked, then those price changes wouldn't have happened! Speculators were free to wildly change the rate for gold because it was not attached as a currency.
The knowledge that you could go instantly convert gold to dollars to any other commodity acted a brake on gold's price, preventing it from moving as quickly as the free market would've otherwise done. The price run-up of 1970-80 was CAUSED by the de-linking.
They continue to blow up inocent people whose only crime is getting on a bus or going out to eat.
The Zionists invaded someone else's property, killing and driving out the previous residents. From the "Palestinian" perspective, all that terrorism is striking back at invaders.
Both sides value the territory for religious reasons, so probably neither will back down. The Zionists have an advantage in money and technology today, but someday the tide will shift and they'll be out-numbered and out-gunned. The best result we can hope for is that beforehand they'll see reason and give "Palestinians"
The fact that you use the word Zionists proves it.
I can't use the word Israeli, because that means anyone living in Israel (including Christian and Muslim citizens today). I can't use Israelite, because that means anyone descended from someone living in Israel. Zionist, however, means someone supporting the establishment of a Jewish nation in Israel, and that's exactly what I meant to say.
(There are even some Jews in Israel who support giving "Palestinians" voting rights, so not all Israeli Jews are Zionists)
Pakistan cannot stand up to Isreal!
Pakistan could nuke Israel into a crater. Israel is so small it would only take 3 of their atomic bombs to destroy the whole country.
If the Zionists were to kill the "Palestinans", Pakistan would kill them in revenge, without too much fear of the USA retaliating back. Of course that's all hypotheticals that'll never happen.
Isreal is not occupying Palestian land because there never was any country called Palestine!
Palestine was the name used by the British Empire to refer to their territory containing Israel, prior to WWII. Notice how I put quotes around "Palestinian" whenever I use it. That's to show I don't really agree with the term, but acknowledge that it is the most popularly accepted word for what I'm talking about. (Those Arabs, born in Israel, whom are denied suffrage according to official religious bias)
Nope. You can't create gold by fiat. If you have 10% of the country's gold, the government can't change that without seizing your property.
A King or Congress, however, can decide to produce more fiat money whenever they please, which will reduce the value of all existing money. (The only reason they don't, so far, is Alan Greenspan's say-so)
most of it's value came from fashion and other accidents of culture
No, gold's value came from scarcity. In most regions of the ancient world, gold-mining proceeded at such a low rate that the total available gold was nearly a constant quantity.
Although it is a helluva lot easier to print money than it is to mine gold.
But don't take my word for it - go look up the price of gold in 1971 versus today, and make a line graph showing the price during that period. I'm quite serious - doing this is very instructive.
Uh, no. Gold prices 1971-2004 is irrelevant. Since the hypothetical situation is with currency backed by gold, the price of gold after currency was de-linked is irrelevant (an error you already caught susa-no-o with, so it's surprising you made it yourself). After the de-linking, gold was driven by market demand for artistic/sentimental/electro-chemical/paranoid uses.
To demonstrate your point, you'd have to show that even before 1971, gold was already unstable. That's easy enough, since the price for one ounce went from $20 in 1930 to $40 in 1970. If gold made a decent currency, then it would've been flat across that period.
Once people figure out how deflation works, and they start hoarding gold wherever and whenever they can, those Aussies and South Africans will be the only ones with a rational reason for putting it out on the market - they can make more, unlike the rest of us.
Don't be naive! President Jenna Bush will launch Operation Zulu Freedom... to protect the Gold Eagle from terrorists, of course.
Any money standard backed by a physical commodity will have a detrimental effect on some industry, unless that physical substance had truely no useful qualities beyond scarcity (and durability). More than 100 or so years ago, gold was like that, in that there was nothing practical you could do with it. But with today's modern technology, we've found a way to make productive use of almost everything.
AC: Aside from the fact that 2001 and Contact aren't even about big alien secrets
Yes they are. The aliens themselves are the "secret". The whole point of the movies was sharing the hero-explorer's wonderous curiosity at meeting the aliens.
we get a big colorful spaceship in Close Encounters and that long-ass slitscreen stargate sequence in 2001.
Yeah, colorful spaceships. Never the creatures inside them. That's because the directors knew that nothing they could put on screen would live up to the anticipation.
playing out several symbolic comparisons to becoming an adult and finding acceptance of one's lifestyle
By "symbolic", do you mean "transform into automobiles"?
I was lucky to see it in a movie theater at a convention years ago, its truly stunning on the big screen in surround sound.
I saw it at a convention theater too. Most everyone walked out, regardless of whether they were fans of the TV version. A fan splicing together 90 minutes of the series could almost make a better movie.
I didn't realize that X-Chat wasn't a functionning program.
Pay attention.
Blender was a functioning, closed-source program, which went open-source for a big payment.
X-Chat is a functioning, open-source program. There's obviously no way it can ask for a payment to make a single GPL release.
would have been a good first move?
Since it's not illegal fraud, it'd be better than adding in that shareware message. He has no right to forbid people from using X-Chat if they don't pay him. Claiming he has that right is fraud.
Disney is just about as "Hollywood" as a company can get, and it's responsible for bringing most of Studio Ghibli's output to the US.
Barely. Investors are accusing Disney of mismanagement recently, and their reluctance to promote imported Miyazaki films is part of the problem.
You see, they bought the import rights to Miyazaki not because they wanted to profit on them, but only to prevent some other company from bringing them over and making Disney look bad by comparison.
Think back to 2002, when Disney had (Oscar nominated) "Spirted Away" they could bring to US theaters. So what did they advertise instead? The horrible "Treasure Planet". They try not to give Miyazaki too much exposure, because he's so much better at Disney's supposed strong-point than they are.
Pixar and Ghilbi are eating Disney's lunch. What was their last successful animation? Lion King, 10 years ago?
Not anime. Transformers was as American as GI Joe.
There was a japanese version, but it wasn't shown in the USA.
Pen and ink on animation cells, motherfuckers, 24 per second.
USA animation from the same era never achieved that.... or if they did, it was by reusing the same loops of Scooby-Doo running and stumbling on new backdrops each week.
Excellent, surprising, tight plot up to the very last minute
No. It really starts to fall apart earlier than that. The last 4-5 episodes are hardly worth watching- until the "Exile" is revealed, it's fine, but they couldn't come up with a convincingly impressive "great secret" to warrant the anticipation.
Consider some Hollywood films that focused on revealing a major alien secret, like "Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind", "2001", or "Contact". They all had the good sense to know that they can't convincingly portray the big secret on screen, so once the hero finds it, roll credits.
Oh, and for the ending battle, when the two-seater vanships were attacking the guild's giant airships, exactly where were their dozens of incomprably superior "star-shaped" fighters?
It's not that the ending was "bad", but they couldn't come up with something worthy of the rest of the series' high quality. Escaflowne's ending was much better (although the worst part of that episode was the incompetent translation into English). But, it's not quite fair to compare Escaflowne with those other anime. It was mid 90s, while the rest are mid-00s. Hold it up against Evangelion for a comparison of the same vintage... although with Evangelion's notoriously bad ending, it's not even a contest.
to redesign the closing credits to fit it all
That's standard-operating procedure. You blend the closing music over the epilogue montage... Escaflowne did it, Cowboy Bebop did it... it's completely normal for anime, or even some USA shows.
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at the lowest level, radio-opaque shielding; at a higher level, software mechanisms to make users register after agreeing to some terms
At an even higher level, a cop to stroll around and shove off the riff-raff. That's a "mechanism" too.
I might be significantly LESS inclined to use the connection inappropriately sitting on a park bench where everyone can see me.
Or if you have an apartment near the library, you can use them for all your broadband internet needs. Run a P2p hub and use ALL their bandwidth, why don't you?
The people who happen to be inside the library have no greater right to any service the library provides than those outside the library. It is called a public library for a reason.
Yes they do. The government (or charitable fund running the library) may have an interest in controlling how it is used. Consider a public park. Am I allowed to bring my daily household trash into their wastebaskets, and carry water from their spigots into my nearby home?
It is called a public library for a reason.
All these years I've been paying for my house, when I just could've been sleeping at the library! After all, it's public, so I can go there and do whatever I want.
Plus its in my yard, so i didnt break any trespass laws..
If you sit on your lawn and use a dial-up modem to access someone else's computer, you can still get busted for it, even if he stupidly left it open with no passwords. Maybe that's not how things should be, but it's established law.
Oh, and the 14th does not count.. it wasnt part of the original 10..
Before the Constitution had any Amendments, it had Articles. Go check on Article 5, and then think again if Amendment 10 is any more valid than 14.
Live performances are free from copyrights / trademarks.
Totally wrong. If even the Girl Scouts sing "Happy Birthday" around a campfire, they need permission from BMI first. (They've granted the Girl Scouts broad license for non-recording usage, only AFTER the newspapers made a big deal of it)
While there have been many StarOffice (or OpenOffice) "reviews", I don't think any have talked about how transparently you can work with documents,
False. All major reviewers cover that topic.
Word is the most popular word processor. It doesn't make it standard.
Oh yes it is. "Word" is not only a word-processing application, it is also a file format specification (as defined by the files that application saves and loads). That format IS a standard (although a standard without fully published specifications)
Apache is not the standard. HTTP is.
Right, because Apache implements the HTTP standard. But Microsoft Word implements "Microsoft Word Document" as it's protocol, so that is the standard.
DOC - capable word processors are the real standard.
True. And since Microsoft Word is the only ".DOC capable word processor"....
(Don't try to argue that OpenOffice or anything related is "DOC capable"! Counterexamples are trivial to demonstrate)
It's what Spear of Destiny had that Doom didn't.
Spear of Destiny sucked compared to either the original Wolfenstein3d (which at least had novelty) or Doom (which had variety, atmosphere, and enough AI to be outsmarted)
Especially with shooters and strategy games, the game engine is the most important, and most expensive, piece of development.
Wrong wrong wrong. Especially wrong for strategy games!
The most important thing for strat games is balanced, fun gameplay, which is quite difficult to create. Next most important is art quality. Look at Blizzard's Starcraft and Warcraft3 products. Do you really think it was the engine that let them dominate the market?
You're wrong for shooters too. The typical budget breakdown is spending $300,000 to license an engine, under $200,000 to tweak it, and then $2,500,000 on art and level design.
Faceball for Game Boy was a 1991 FPS with multiplayer.
Midi-maze for Atari was a 1987 FPS with multiplayer.
(Nonethelss, Doom was innovative)
If we had had gold currencies, then the changes in gold valuation would have been very relevant indeed.
No. If they were still linked, then those price changes wouldn't have happened! Speculators were free to wildly change the rate for gold because it was not attached as a currency.
The knowledge that you could go instantly convert gold to dollars to any other commodity acted a brake on gold's price, preventing it from moving as quickly as the free market would've otherwise done. The price run-up of 1970-80 was CAUSED by the de-linking.
They continue to blow up inocent people whose only crime is getting on a bus or going out to eat.
The Zionists invaded someone else's property, killing and driving out the previous residents. From the "Palestinian" perspective, all that terrorism is striking back at invaders.
Both sides value the territory for religious reasons, so probably neither will back down. The Zionists have an advantage in money and technology today, but someday the tide will shift and they'll be out-numbered and out-gunned. The best result we can hope for is that beforehand they'll see reason and give "Palestinians"
The fact that you use the word Zionists proves it.
I can't use the word Israeli, because that means anyone living in Israel (including Christian and Muslim citizens today). I can't use Israelite, because that means anyone descended from someone living in Israel. Zionist, however, means someone supporting the establishment of a Jewish nation in Israel, and that's exactly what I meant to say.
(There are even some Jews in Israel who support giving "Palestinians" voting rights, so not all Israeli Jews are Zionists)
Pakistan cannot stand up to Isreal!
Pakistan could nuke Israel into a crater. Israel is so small it would only take 3 of their atomic bombs to destroy the whole country.
If the Zionists were to kill the "Palestinans", Pakistan would kill them in revenge, without too much fear of the USA retaliating back. Of course that's all hypotheticals that'll never happen.
Isreal is not occupying Palestian land because there never was any country called Palestine!
Palestine was the name used by the British Empire to refer to their territory containing Israel, prior to WWII. Notice how I put quotes around "Palestinian" whenever I use it. That's to show I don't really agree with the term, but acknowledge that it is the most popularly accepted word for what I'm talking about. (Those Arabs, born in Israel, whom are denied suffrage according to official religious bias)
Gold is practically fiat money itself.
Nope. You can't create gold by fiat. If you have 10% of the country's gold, the government can't change that without seizing your property.
A King or Congress, however, can decide to produce more fiat money whenever they please, which will reduce the value of all existing money. (The only reason they don't, so far, is Alan Greenspan's say-so)
most of it's value came from fashion and other accidents of culture
No, gold's value came from scarcity. In most regions of the ancient world, gold-mining proceeded at such a low rate that the total available gold was nearly a constant quantity.
Although it is a helluva lot easier to print money than it is to mine gold.
And therefore it's not nearly fiat money AT ALL.
But don't take my word for it - go look up the price of gold in 1971 versus today, and make a line graph showing the price during that period. I'm quite serious - doing this is very instructive.
Uh, no. Gold prices 1971-2004 is irrelevant. Since the hypothetical situation is with currency backed by gold, the price of gold after currency was de-linked is irrelevant (an error you already caught susa-no-o with, so it's surprising you made it yourself). After the de-linking, gold was driven by market demand for artistic/sentimental/electro-chemical/paranoid uses.
To demonstrate your point, you'd have to show that even before 1971, gold was already unstable. That's easy enough, since the price for one ounce went from $20 in 1930 to $40 in 1970. If gold made a decent currency, then it would've been flat across that period.
Once people figure out how deflation works, and they start hoarding gold wherever and whenever they can, those Aussies and South Africans will be the only ones with a rational reason for putting it out on the market - they can make more, unlike the rest of us.
Don't be naive! President Jenna Bush will launch Operation Zulu Freedom... to protect the Gold Eagle from terrorists, of course.
That doesn't matter unless you use gold for something.
Check.
Any money standard backed by a physical commodity will have a detrimental effect on some industry, unless that physical substance had truely no useful qualities beyond scarcity (and durability). More than 100 or so years ago, gold was like that, in that there was nothing practical you could do with it. But with today's modern technology, we've found a way to make productive use of almost everything.
how did their daughter age 6 years in 4 years?
They were out on a family picnic and she fell through a hole in the ground which happened to contain an intertemporal wormhole...
Oh wait, that was Colm Meaney, nevermind.
AC: Aside from the fact that 2001 and Contact aren't even about big alien secrets
Yes they are. The aliens themselves are the "secret". The whole point of the movies was sharing the hero-explorer's wonderous curiosity at meeting the aliens.
we get a big colorful spaceship in Close Encounters and that long-ass slitscreen stargate sequence in 2001.
Yeah, colorful spaceships. Never the creatures inside them. That's because the directors knew that nothing they could put on screen would live up to the anticipation.
playing out several symbolic comparisons to becoming an adult and finding acceptance of one's lifestyle
By "symbolic", do you mean "transform into automobiles"?
I was lucky to see it in a movie theater at a convention years ago, its truly stunning on the big screen in surround sound.
I saw it at a convention theater too. Most everyone walked out, regardless of whether they were fans of the TV version. A fan splicing together 90 minutes of the series could almost make a better movie.
Pay attention.
would have been a good first move?
Since it's not illegal fraud, it'd be better than adding in that shareware message. He has no right to forbid people from using X-Chat if they don't pay him. Claiming he has that right is fraud.
Disney is just about as "Hollywood" as a company can get, and it's responsible for bringing most of Studio Ghibli's output to the US.
Barely. Investors are accusing Disney of mismanagement recently, and their reluctance to promote imported Miyazaki films is part of the problem.
You see, they bought the import rights to Miyazaki not because they wanted to profit on them, but only to prevent some other company from bringing them over and making Disney look bad by comparison.
Think back to 2002, when Disney had (Oscar nominated) "Spirted Away" they could bring to US theaters. So what did they advertise instead? The horrible "Treasure Planet". They try not to give Miyazaki too much exposure, because he's so much better at Disney's supposed strong-point than they are.
Pixar and Ghilbi are eating Disney's lunch. What was their last successful animation? Lion King, 10 years ago?
Not to mention that an increasing majority of anime projects are being colored and/or animated on computers these days,
Incorrect. That majority is not increasing "these days". It has been at 100% for 3 years.
Transformers..
Not anime. Transformers was as American as GI Joe.
There was a japanese version, but it wasn't shown in the USA.
Pen and ink on animation cells, motherfuckers, 24 per second.
USA animation from the same era never achieved that.... or if they did, it was by reusing the same loops of Scooby-Doo running and stumbling on new backdrops each week.
Also I do not agree with your view of geeks being against popular things.
But that's the DEFINITION of "geek". A "geek" is someone who's unpopular, whose interests are belittled by the mainstream population.
(Enjoying technology has nothing to do with "geek", by the way)
and 13 hours later I realized I had just spent a whole day watching an anime series
If you fast-forward through the opening music and "coming up next week", it would only take you 9.5 hours...
Excellent, surprising, tight plot up to the very last minute
No. It really starts to fall apart earlier than that. The last 4-5 episodes are hardly worth watching- until the "Exile" is revealed, it's fine, but they couldn't come up with a convincingly impressive "great secret" to warrant the anticipation.
Consider some Hollywood films that focused on revealing a major alien secret, like "Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind", "2001", or "Contact". They all had the good sense to know that they can't convincingly portray the big secret on screen, so once the hero finds it, roll credits.
Oh, and for the ending battle, when the two-seater vanships were attacking the guild's giant airships, exactly where were their dozens of incomprably superior "star-shaped" fighters?
It's not that the ending was "bad", but they couldn't come up with something worthy of the rest of the series' high quality. Escaflowne's ending was much better (although the worst part of that episode was the incompetent translation into English). But, it's not quite fair to compare Escaflowne with those other anime. It was mid 90s, while the rest are mid-00s. Hold it up against Evangelion for a comparison of the same vintage... although with Evangelion's notoriously bad ending, it's not even a contest.
to redesign the closing credits to fit it all
That's standard-operating procedure. You blend the closing music over the epilogue montage... Escaflowne did it, Cowboy Bebop did it... it's completely normal for anime, or even some USA shows.