Being able to steal a hungry baby's food without any remorse would probably be considered a useful trait for a CFO.
It's not THEFT, it's COPYRIGHT INFRING-
oh wait, sorry, force of habit.
Ultimately, it's high time the incompetent 80% that's had a free ride to date either got with the program, or got cut off from the rest of the productive members of society.
Perhaps some sort of giant space-ark is in order? (with apologies to D. Adams)
Not every joe sixpack is savvy enough to have backed up his DVD collection. Some of my old original disks are already failing on commercial players. (Stargate season 1, bought when it first came out, is now unplayable.)
As people find more and more of their disks failing, these services could become seriously mainstream. And at 10bucks a pop, a lucrative source of cash.
Look, Joe's murderer fled to Poland, sure. But he was arrested there by Polish police, and the evidence against him is pretty convincing. Eye witnesses, CCTV footage, and his accomplice's word.
His extradition follows the standard legal structure set up to deal with cases like this, and he will get a fair trial in Belgium, where he was when he committed the crime.
In fact, his prison cell in Belgium is likely to be much better than the equivalent cell in Poland.
Voting does NOT (No matter what you have been trained to believe), talking to representatives does NOT (unless you can outbid the lobbyists whispering in their other ear--I can't). I've just given up...
I used to think like that. Till I read the book "You must be joking Mr. Feynmann"
Now, as all geeks know, Richard Feynmann was an absolute genius. In this fascinating collection of biographical stories, he recounts how he learned a very valuable lesson. If you freely spend money on a woman, she will NOT sleep with you. Let her buy her own damn drinks. If a woman asks you to buy her a drink, tell her to buy her own. Same for dinner, don't pick up the cheque.
Like most things in quantum physics, I don't know why it works, but some experimentation should convince you that it DOES work.
"It is, for example, a breach of copyright laws to copy a music book, but it is not illegal to receive or use the copied book," said the party's legal affairs spokesman, Johan Linander. "It should be no more complicated than that in the digital arena," he added.
That's the smartest comment I've seen on the whole P2P fiasco.
I was about 8 or 9 when I first got my hands on Usbourne Basic. I didn't have a computer, but I used the book to learn Basic commands, for next loops, goto, gosub, that sort of thing.
Then I found a store about 20 minutes from school which had computers on display that the public could play around with. I spent weeks and weeks going to that store for about 20 minutes at a time, practicing my Basic skills.
That Christmas, I demanded a spectrum 48K from Santa Claus.
He's still alive today, so you know I got my hardware.
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But if the pendulum of public opinion *really* swings to the concept that there is nothing wrong with Napster, the laws will be disregarded, ignored, and then changed.
This would be true only if we lived in a democratic society.
My favourite (very Indiana Jones) was the Control-G in the C64 version of this game. It only worked on level one, but every time you pressed Control-G your character pulled out a gun and shot the bad guys in front of you.
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Sir, I object!
You forgot 'Wine-guzzling'
Being able to steal a hungry baby's food without any remorse would probably be considered a useful trait for a CFO.
It's not THEFT, it's COPYRIGHT INFRING-
oh wait, sorry, force of habit.
Ultimately, it's high time the incompetent 80% that's had a free ride to date either got with the program, or got cut off from the rest of the productive members of society. Perhaps some sort of giant space-ark is in order? (with apologies to D. Adams)
Not every joe sixpack is savvy enough to have backed up his DVD collection. Some of my old original disks are already failing on commercial players. (Stargate season 1, bought when it first came out, is now unplayable.)
As people find more and more of their disks failing, these services could become seriously mainstream. And at 10bucks a pop, a lucrative source of cash.
Looking for UFO evidence on someone's computer is a prelude to copyright infringement, if anything.
Holy shit! That's WAY more serious than breaking into the military defence network. He'll be lucky not to get the death penalty.
Look, Joe's murderer fled to Poland, sure.
But he was arrested there by Polish police, and the evidence against him is pretty convincing. Eye witnesses, CCTV footage, and his accomplice's word.
His extradition follows the standard legal structure set up to deal with cases like this, and he will get a fair trial in Belgium, where he was when he committed the crime.
In fact, his prison cell in Belgium is likely to be much better than the equivalent cell in Poland.
Voting does NOT (No matter what you have been trained to believe), talking to representatives does NOT (unless you can outbid the lobbyists whispering in their other ear--I can't). I've just given up...
Any suggestions at all?
You could ask Timothy McVeigh... Oh wait.
True story, there was an Irish software company which went by the name "Magic Blue Smoke" for that very reason.
I used to think like that. Till I read the book "You must be joking Mr. Feynmann"
Now, as all geeks know, Richard Feynmann was an absolute genius. In this fascinating collection of biographical stories, he recounts how he learned a very valuable lesson. If you freely spend money on a woman, she will NOT sleep with you. Let her buy her own damn drinks. If a woman asks you to buy her a drink, tell her to buy her own. Same for dinner, don't pick up the cheque.
Like most things in quantum physics, I don't know why it works, but some experimentation should convince you that it DOES work.
Yeah, cause any geek worth his salt should know that travel in the Tardis isn't instantaneous.
Nope, that's pretty much it.
Remember when the EU Commission were finally forced to stand down due to overwhelming corruption charges?
So they stepped down?
And immediately stood back up again?
I shit you not.
"feel the need to heavily drink"
:)
You've also got American beer. So that's FOUR reasons your country sucks.
"It is, for example, a breach of copyright laws to copy a music book, but it is not illegal to receive or use the copied book," said the party's legal affairs spokesman, Johan Linander. "It should be no more complicated than that in the digital arena," he added.
That's the smartest comment I've seen on the whole P2P fiasco.
Look at how badly music translates into movies
Yeah. That FANTASIA movie sucked donkey balls.
I was about 8 or 9 when I first got my hands on Usbourne Basic. I didn't have a computer, but I used the book to learn Basic commands, for next loops, goto, gosub, that sort of thing.
Then I found a store about 20 minutes from school which had computers on display that the public could play around with. I spent weeks and weeks going to that store for about 20 minutes at a time, practicing my Basic skills.
That Christmas, I demanded a spectrum 48K from Santa Claus.
He's still alive today, so you know I got my hardware.
This would be true only if we lived in a democratic society.
We don't
First time I saw this, I laughed for ages...
Too late...