Don't you DARE try to redefine the language I use.
Rich and poor are just fine, thankyou.
Of COURSE there are bad laws. Blind unthinking obedience to law is unhealthy in society, so is breaking laws just because they are there. It's all about balance.
As an aside, is the ringmaster at jackwhispers public domain? I'm concerned it's an MS WMF and perhaps you 'aint allowed it there -- just a thought.
The ice coming off antarctica will mean a lot more water in the sea, but I'm unsure of the magnitude. It's a land mass. This does however reveal amazing new discoveries under the ice, like massive fossil beds with gold and oil et al to be mined.
The ice is in part a red herring. Take [insert huuuge number] litres of water on earth and increase it by one degree. PV=nRT or some such, so the seas literally expand. That's where most of the rise in sea levels comes from.
Our leaders don't seem to be doing much about it, assuming that anything much CAN be done about it.
Further, if you juggle the climate a bit it won't suddenly make desert sand fertile, whatever the temp and rainfall in the area, so it's ridiculous to assume that the amount of arable land will not shrink. If all you're after is the right climate and you'll slap fertilizers etc in to handle the soil then that's another massive drain on the oil supply.
Lastly, and major new industrial endeavours in the west (nuclear power, three gorges dams, wind farms) will require massive investments in infrastructure and equipment that we don't have the resources or the politcal will for. It took about two hundered years to get where we are, I personally don't think we can replace it in twenty.
Of course, reduction in energy consumption is different. That can be achieved, at massive economic upheaval./. ers are happy talking about buggy whip makers going bust. Personally, I see consumer electronics as the first agains the wall -- expensive, resource hungry and for the most part an unproductive entertainment industry. Sorry guys!
If Australia had elected officials with greater legitimacy then yes, we would be importing far fewer consumables from all over the place, especially US IP.
These guys do a free product, ieradicator which kills ie in versions up to windows 2000 sr1, (sp1?) so well that many third party apps (kazaa, myob) will fail also.
Perhaps people in Europe and other places outside the US don't understand why you didn't think of this before you built the cities so big with such unnatractive centres and such huge blocks of land for each family which they seem to often either neglect or waste heaps fo fresh water on.
The size of the country has nothing to do with how far you have to drive. The problem is two fold:
1) All the "real" employment is in one spot in the centre of the city, it should be better dispersed, and
2) housing density is too low.
If the USA uses too much fuel per unit of economic output, or per person per year or whatever, it's a bit rich to say "oh but we're special". It makes you sound like a spoilt child.
Perhaps if you, as a society, made an earnest, sincere attempt to make the unnice unsafe areas nicer and safer and fixed the old schools that are there then you could work close to home.
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Easy.
I don't post here for profit, do you?
I don't eat for profit, nor did I get married for profit, nor in fact did I buy my house for profit -- I bough it to live in.
In fact, to the extent that $ == power, you are making the broad assumption that all people are selfish and greedy, which while it often seems that way is simply absurd -- we wouldn't have made it this far. The push for self-interest and a self-centered approach to everyhting is a cultural concept which came of age in the USA, is regarded as absolute truth by many in the USA and was actually refuted as a social ideal by Plato in a discussion with a Sophist thousands of years ago.
Given a centruy we will see just how productive this approach is in bringing peace, stability, freedom, prosperity and, dare I say it, equality to the people of the USA.
you'd be getting confused over wisdom, intelligence and maturity -- realted but distinct qualities. I've met many stupid wise people. Being stupid in fact helps bring wisdom. Being smart helps bring arrogance.
You're stealing money from everyone associated with the production of that product. From the artist all the way to the 17 year old kid working at Sam Goody. The impact is arguably much worse, and essentially effects a much larger group of people.
No.
Lets assume we're talking about stealing not copying -- let's talk about shoplifting.
The company is paying minumum wage already. The 17 year old boy isn't going to get a pay cut becasue stuff was stolen from the shelf, and he's not getting a pay rise in a good month either.
Corporate profits are primarily for shareholders, although it seems that divedends are a little passe now, and so corp profits appear to be used for shiny things to boost the stock price and help the speculators, and to expand the business.
Now, if the Sam Goody goes bust due to onerous amounts of theft, then the boy loses a job. However, from what I read these days he's a minumum wage casual with the boss re-working his timesheets anyway, and I don't really see how it's going to destroy his life that he can't get another job for a while.
So, can you give me an example of a mall-style retail outlet that closed down due to too much shoplifting?
The distinction here is subtle; we're talkinag bout happiness as opposed to pleasure -- cash buys lots and lots of pleasure, that's what marketing is all about.
It would be different if the carorcar provided a zipped copy of the site on a P2P network, and covered the costs of bandwidth themselves.
I would have a problem with any moron who copied mp3s off kazzaa, added "by the way, get your car fixed at Mike's megagarage" at the end of the track and shared the new file.
The fundamental difference is the attempt to make a financial profit from the work of others.
If carorcar downloaded the thing for private offline use,
All tools that we manufacture are designed and engineered to meet a purpose or a small range of purposes.
Guns aren't purposed and marketed by society to drink beer from, or to eat, or to use to undo phillips head screws.
It's not very practical as a necktie, although you could attach it to one.
It's designed and marketed to launch metal bullets at high speed.
The main idea behind the concept it to kill and wound living animals. It can be used to chop down trees, but that's not why cops carry them.
Now, if you say that a gun has no purpose; you are likening it to a stone. A shotgun can be left loaded and unattended and triggered by a curious dog; no living, thinking human involved.
The bloody things are dangerous and for as long as firearms are regarded as less dangerous and more suitable in the bedroom than pot, I will contiune to regard the leaders of the US as having a substantial discord with reality.
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Besides, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere!
Don't you DARE try to redefine the language I use.
Rich and poor are just fine, thankyou.
Of COURSE there are bad laws. Blind unthinking obedience to law is unhealthy in society, so is breaking laws just because they are there. It's all about balance.
As an aside, is the ringmaster at jackwhispers public domain? I'm concerned it's an MS WMF and perhaps you 'aint allowed it there -- just a thought.
Now that they sold the PC business, they don't need MS any more.
They don't do desktops.
They want consulting, and the better the GPL software is, the better they can compete against Novell with Suse, against Oracle, SAP and Sun.
I just charge them more $.
so what? Whatever the cause, I still see no plans being made to compensate for the effects.
The ice coming off antarctica will mean a lot more water in the sea, but I'm unsure of the magnitude. It's a land mass. This does however reveal amazing new discoveries under the ice, like massive fossil beds with gold and oil et al to be mined.
/. ers are happy talking about buggy whip makers going bust. Personally, I see consumer electronics as the first agains the wall -- expensive, resource hungry and for the most part an unproductive entertainment industry. Sorry guys!
The ice is in part a red herring. Take [insert huuuge number] litres of water on earth and increase it by one degree. PV=nRT or some such, so the seas literally expand. That's where most of the rise in sea levels comes from.
Our leaders don't seem to be doing much about it, assuming that anything much CAN be done about it.
Further, if you juggle the climate a bit it won't suddenly make desert sand fertile, whatever the temp and rainfall in the area, so it's ridiculous to assume that the amount of arable land will not shrink. If all you're after is the right climate and you'll slap fertilizers etc in to handle the soil then that's another massive drain on the oil supply.
Lastly, and major new industrial endeavours in the west (nuclear power, three gorges dams, wind farms) will require massive investments in infrastructure and equipment that we don't have the resources or the politcal will for. It took about two hundered years to get where we are, I personally don't think we can replace it in twenty.
Of course, reduction in energy consumption is different. That can be achieved, at massive economic upheaval.
I have 2 worms on the system I am typing this on
And you know this, and you leave them there? That's unwise, to say the least.
Well, it's funny you should say that.
If Australia had elected officials with greater legitimacy then yes, we would be importing far fewer consumables from all over the place, especially US IP.
http://www.litepc.com/xplite.html
These guys do a free product, ieradicator which kills ie in versions up to windows 2000 sr1, (sp1?) so well that many third party apps (kazaa, myob) will fail also.
In Windows:
mouse click home shift-end shift-del alt-tab -tab -tab shift-ins enter.
Fastest way of all, try it. I use it all the time, as regular del kills the highlighted text.
Now, in Linux, evolution email:
mouse click home shift-end shift-del ---- hey, where's my email gone?
Course, don't try it in windows with files, just text...
Good keystroke navigation and copy/paste is a must for me on any GUI.
Bloody good idea, might stop people buying as much crap as they do now.
Perhaps people in Europe and other places outside the US don't understand why you didn't think of this before you built the cities so big with such unnatractive centres and such huge blocks of land for each family which they seem to often either neglect or waste heaps fo fresh water on.
The size of the country has nothing to do with how far you have to drive. The problem is two fold:
1) All the "real" employment is in one spot in the centre of the city, it should be better dispersed, and
2) housing density is too low.
If the USA uses too much fuel per unit of economic output, or per person per year or whatever, it's a bit rich to say "oh but we're special". It makes you sound like a spoilt child.
Perhaps if you, as a society, made an earnest, sincere attempt to make the unnice unsafe areas nicer and safer and fixed the old schools that are there then you could work close to home.
Easy.
I don't post here for profit, do you?
I don't eat for profit, nor did I get married for profit, nor in fact did I buy my house for profit -- I bough it to live in.
In fact, to the extent that $ == power, you are making the broad assumption that all people are selfish and greedy, which while it often seems that way is simply absurd -- we wouldn't have made it this far. The push for self-interest and a self-centered approach to everyhting is a cultural concept which came of age in the USA, is regarded as absolute truth by many in the USA and was actually refuted as a social ideal by Plato in a discussion with a Sophist thousands of years ago.
Given a centruy we will see just how productive this approach is in bringing peace, stability, freedom, prosperity and, dare I say it, equality to the people of the USA.
you'd be getting confused over wisdom, intelligence and maturity -- realted but distinct qualities. I've met many stupid wise people. Being stupid in fact helps bring wisdom. Being smart helps bring arrogance.
Friends with photoshop? I don't have any friends, you insensitive clod!
You're stealing money from everyone associated with the production of that product. From the artist all the way to the 17 year old kid working at Sam Goody. The impact is arguably much worse, and essentially effects a much larger group of people.
No.
Lets assume we're talking about stealing not copying -- let's talk about shoplifting.
The company is paying minumum wage already. The 17 year old boy isn't going to get a pay cut becasue stuff was stolen from the shelf, and he's not getting a pay rise in a good month either.
Corporate profits are primarily for shareholders, although it seems that divedends are a little passe now, and so corp profits appear to be used for shiny things to boost the stock price and help the speculators, and to expand the business.
Now, if the Sam Goody goes bust due to onerous amounts of theft, then the boy loses a job. However, from what I read these days he's a minumum wage casual with the boss re-working his timesheets anyway, and I don't really see how it's going to destroy his life that he can't get another job for a while.
So, can you give me an example of a mall-style retail outlet that closed down due to too much shoplifting?
The distinction here is subtle; we're talkinag bout happiness as opposed to pleasure -- cash buys lots and lots of pleasure, that's what marketing is all about.
Please explain, in detail, why this technical, not political regulation of the computing environment is a bad thing.
To drive you need a licence.
To practice law, medicine or accountancy you must be registered.
DRM doesn't per se mean MS gets a key. It doesn't stop you pirating games or running Linux.
It just means that if you report to Blizzard that it's a valid licence, you can prove it.
It means that you can tell your PC not to run subseven and it won't run it.
That's how I understood the article. Did you read it?
Ah, read it. You can sell any GPL software for whatever you can get.
You just can't stop the person you sold it to from making a zillion copies and selling them for less.
It would be different if the carorcar provided a zipped copy of the site on a P2P network, and covered the costs of bandwidth themselves.
I would have a problem with any moron who copied mp3s off kazzaa, added "by the way, get your car fixed at Mike's megagarage" at the end of the track and shared the new file.
The fundamental difference is the attempt to make a financial profit from the work of others.
If carorcar downloaded the thing for private offline use,
1) we wouldn't know and
2) we wouldn't care.
It's not hard really.
cheated by shady local PC repair places
If you call charging money to fix the problem cheating, and if you mean not part of a franchise to be shady, then this is probably what will happen.
Why the hell would any PC shop give someone the run around for a simple virus/spyware clean? $100 bucks, or $50 if you buy the virus scanner.
Seems fair enough to me, so long as they actually fix the problem.
how long before we get viruses which
infect;if other virus found then erase machine; else attempt infect other machines for 24 hours and remove self.
I reckon that'd help.
because running a red light gives a high chance of killing someone compared to sending a million spams.
Yep.
They can pay the slash bots a couple of hundred bucks per PC, I'm sure there's many takers.
Perhaps we could even get corporate marketing onside, since a lot of ompanies would be better off without a million zombies.....
Let's pause a second and read what you wrote.
All tools that we manufacture are designed and engineered to meet a purpose or a small range of purposes.
Guns aren't purposed and marketed by society to drink beer from, or to eat, or to use to undo phillips head screws.
It's not very practical as a necktie, although you could attach it to one.
It's designed and marketed to launch metal bullets at high speed.
The main idea behind the concept it to kill and wound living animals. It can be used to chop down trees, but that's not why cops carry them.
Now, if you say that a gun has no purpose; you are likening it to a stone. A shotgun can be left loaded and unattended and triggered by a curious dog; no living, thinking human involved.
The bloody things are dangerous and for as long as firearms are regarded as less dangerous and more suitable in the bedroom than pot, I will contiune to regard the leaders of the US as having a substantial discord with reality.