The problem with that is that the "less lethal" weapons then get deployed more often, and the cops are held less accountable because they tried to use the "soft" weapons.
You're assuming that licenses have the full weight of law behind every clause. If I create a license that says you must kill your family if you use my software, or that you must sign your soul over to Satan, that is obviously unenforceable. Licenses cannot force you to do silly things, and the "do no harm" will likely not be able to be twisted too far in court.
IANAL, and you should probably talk to one before taking what I said as the absolute truth, but I'm reasonably certain of it.
It's PETA. Of course humans don't count as animals. They'd prefer all humans on earth to just die and let the animals live in peace and harmony and never experience pain or fear again.
You do realize that makes absolutely no sense, right?
The feeding deer in winter causes overpopulation. Ok, more of them survive the winter that way, and they're also more attracted to urban areas. But how does hunting make them destroy young trees? Without hunting, there would be more deer to destroy the trees, and then your point would stand, but as it is, you seem to have it ass-backwards.
Oh, I agree. There's a difference between what you are talking about and what many people do. You understand how to be polite, even if you're busy with something else. I find no fault with that. I get annoyed when someone is upset that the service person is interrupting their conversation, when the twit on the phone is the one who initiated it.
I just carry on the invisible half of the conversation myself, like they're talking to me. It's rather amusing.
I HATE when people talk on a damn cell phone when talking to people trying to help them at a store or restaurant or something. It's just amazingly rude. So I'll also try to stick up for the service people and annoy the phone talker when the worker can't actually do much in the interest of keeping their jobs;)
Bollywood creates 800 movies a year in India, a place the US is exceptionally upset at for it's lax IP laws, that by all politicians should not have nearly the thriving multimedia industry it does.
Given the local differences, it's amazing that they make 10% of the revenue that Hollywood does, while investing only $500K per movie (from the previous PBS report, as contrasted with the average of $100 million for a Hollywood movie.
You're assuming the starting and end points of memory are the same and just stretched out further, and that this treatment doesn't stop the decline in its tracks.
The assumptions I made with my word choice are more in line with what the article showed as the effects of this treatment.
You mean shape the market. We can't tell for sure that it's beneficial, but we can tell for sure that places with more lax "intellectual property" laws tend to have higher rates of innovation.
That's my age. I do notice it takes just a wee bit more effort to cram more stuff in my head than it used to. Other than that, I still enjoy my ability to recall ridiculous bits of obscure minutia that when viewed in total aren't enough to get me a good job, but are just enough to be annoying.
Seriously, though. My ability to commit stuff to memory and recall it *IS* one of my marketable skills. And anything that can help postpone the decline is welcome news.
Fixed that for you. Lemme guess... grammar and spelling aren't something you like committing to memory?
The lay-person knows more about themselves than they could ever convey to the doctor. There most certainly is a place for Googling, but then follow-up with the doctor who has training and experience. I'd rather have someone have restarted their computer before calling tech support than just calling at the drop of a hat. I'm sure a doctor would, too.
You don't have a right to not be offended. You have a right to not listen to him, to go elsewhere, and to not allow him on your property, but if you're in public, you get to fucking deal with whatever the hell some other asshole wants to say.
Remember Evelyn Beatrice Hall? "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
I'm offended by people proselytizing their God. Do I have the right to have them ticketed or hauled away, too?
I grew up with educational films in the US. They're sufficiently similar that Look Around You is still funny to a non-British audience. But only if you're into that kind of humor in the first place;) My wife thinks it's stupid, but she also thinks that Monty Python is stupid.
Where did you get your ideas? Did you pay the people who thought of them originally, since you're now parroting them?
There's a major difference between "IP" and land. We can't both have a house on the same piece of land. We can both share the same idea, though, without it diminishing anything for either of us.
IP laws are not a natural right, not like property ownership. Copyright is only 300 years old. In case you're stupid (and I think you are), there's a LOT of ideas that were expressed and art that was made long before copyright and the concept of "intellectual property" existed.
Just because you put work in does not mean you are entitled to get paid. I can spend all day spinning around in my chair... I should get paid for it! Except that won't happen unless I build good a business model around it, and get people to pay me to do it. Effort != value.
Oh, and in your drug example? Most research is carried out in publicly funded universities, which then pull patents and sell them to drug companies. We're paying for the research, the drug companies are profiting from it. Your example is imaginary.
I've got a Nexus One with my bluetooth car stereo... it does navigation, bluetooth music to the car stereo, calls and everything all together, interruption of the music to speak navigation directions or to take a call. Integration is a good thing, if it's done intelligently.
And in case anyone still thinks Wikipedia should be authoritative for anything, I quote from the linked wiki page, at 3:07pm MST:
Origins
The term ROFLcopter originated on forums such as Fark, and meant a newbie who continuously spouted faux-l33t h4x acronyms such as ROFL ("rolling on floor, laughing").
Still another is that a Counter-Strike map included a helicopter emblazoned with ROFL, but this probably alludes to the Something Awful usage.
Another one is from the popular machinima "Arby n' the chief", where in one episode the Chief says:"My ROFLcopter goes SOI SOI SOI".
Also more recently in some circles the use of roflcopter has been used to convey such amusement that the individual is "rolling on floor laughing" whilst spinning their penis round in circles thus indicating the heli "copter", this is of course only used in cases of excessive amusement as it may cause offence when used in public.
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The problem with that is that the "less lethal" weapons then get deployed more often, and the cops are held less accountable because they tried to use the "soft" weapons.
Is it ironic when someone that is nearly illiterate is chastising others for being "incompetent"?
It's a reverse-engineered implementation of the Win32 (and now 64) API. Your requirement for an implementation is erroneously strict.
You're assuming that licenses have the full weight of law behind every clause. If I create a license that says you must kill your family if you use my software, or that you must sign your soul over to Satan, that is obviously unenforceable. Licenses cannot force you to do silly things, and the "do no harm" will likely not be able to be twisted too far in court.
IANAL, and you should probably talk to one before taking what I said as the absolute truth, but I'm reasonably certain of it.
It's PETA. Of course humans don't count as animals. They'd prefer all humans on earth to just die and let the animals live in peace and harmony and never experience pain or fear again.
Yes, they are that stupid.
You do realize that makes absolutely no sense, right?
The feeding deer in winter causes overpopulation. Ok, more of them survive the winter that way, and they're also more attracted to urban areas. But how does hunting make them destroy young trees? Without hunting, there would be more deer to destroy the trees, and then your point would stand, but as it is, you seem to have it ass-backwards.
Oh, I agree. There's a difference between what you are talking about and what many people do. You understand how to be polite, even if you're busy with something else. I find no fault with that. I get annoyed when someone is upset that the service person is interrupting their conversation, when the twit on the phone is the one who initiated it.
Why a jammer? It's more fun to reply to them as if they're talking to you :p
I just carry on the invisible half of the conversation myself, like they're talking to me. It's rather amusing.
I HATE when people talk on a damn cell phone when talking to people trying to help them at a store or restaurant or something. It's just amazingly rude. So I'll also try to stick up for the service people and annoy the phone talker when the worker can't actually do much in the interest of keeping their jobs ;)
Bollywood creates 800 movies a year in India, a place the US is exceptionally upset at for it's lax IP laws, that by all politicians should not have nearly the thriving multimedia industry it does.
Hollywood creates about 600 (603 in 2007).
Given the local differences, it's amazing that they make 10% of the revenue that Hollywood does, while investing only $500K per movie (from the previous PBS report, as contrasted with the average of $100 million for a Hollywood movie.
You're assuming the starting and end points of memory are the same and just stretched out further, and that this treatment doesn't stop the decline in its tracks.
The assumptions I made with my word choice are more in line with what the article showed as the effects of this treatment.
Bazinga.
You mean shape the market. We can't tell for sure that it's beneficial, but we can tell for sure that places with more lax "intellectual property" laws tend to have higher rates of innovation.
That's my age. I do notice it takes just a wee bit more effort to cram more stuff in my head than it used to. Other than that, I still enjoy my ability to recall ridiculous bits of obscure minutia that when viewed in total aren't enough to get me a good job, but are just enough to be annoying.
Seriously, though. My ability to commit stuff to memory and recall it *IS* one of my marketable skills. And anything that can help postpone the decline is welcome news.
Fixed that for you. Lemme guess... grammar and spelling aren't something you like committing to memory?
Man, I'd love it if I didn't have to click through so many shitty images to find the pr0n I wanted... wait, what was the question?
The lay-person knows more about themselves than they could ever convey to the doctor. There most certainly is a place for Googling, but then follow-up with the doctor who has training and experience. I'd rather have someone have restarted their computer before calling tech support than just calling at the drop of a hat. I'm sure a doctor would, too.
On a scale of 1 to Comic Book Guy, how would you describe your Google-tits?
Hell, even if it was an extra hour. The people who care about getting there NOW already have their own planes.
You don't have a right to not be offended. You have a right to not listen to him, to go elsewhere, and to not allow him on your property, but if you're in public, you get to fucking deal with whatever the hell some other asshole wants to say.
Remember Evelyn Beatrice Hall? "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
I'm offended by people proselytizing their God. Do I have the right to have them ticketed or hauled away, too?
/me runs off to illegally download American Idol
I grew up with educational films in the US. They're sufficiently similar that Look Around You is still funny to a non-British audience. But only if you're into that kind of humor in the first place ;) My wife thinks it's stupid, but she also thinks that Monty Python is stupid.
Where did you get your ideas? Did you pay the people who thought of them originally, since you're now parroting them?
There's a major difference between "IP" and land. We can't both have a house on the same piece of land. We can both share the same idea, though, without it diminishing anything for either of us.
IP laws are not a natural right, not like property ownership. Copyright is only 300 years old. In case you're stupid (and I think you are), there's a LOT of ideas that were expressed and art that was made long before copyright and the concept of "intellectual property" existed.
Just because you put work in does not mean you are entitled to get paid. I can spend all day spinning around in my chair... I should get paid for it! Except that won't happen unless I build good a business model around it, and get people to pay me to do it. Effort != value.
Oh, and in your drug example? Most research is carried out in publicly funded universities, which then pull patents and sell them to drug companies. We're paying for the research, the drug companies are profiting from it. Your example is imaginary.
Why not rip it? Pirated versions are almost always compressed to fit on a VCD, which kills the quality of everything except animated features.
I've got a Nexus One with my bluetooth car stereo... it does navigation, bluetooth music to the car stereo, calls and everything all together, interruption of the music to speak navigation directions or to take a call. Integration is a good thing, if it's done intelligently.
They made an AT&T version of the Nexus One. I've got one here.
And in case anyone still thinks Wikipedia should be authoritative for anything, I quote from the linked wiki page, at 3:07pm MST: