And right there you have the crux of the whole problem. There is no distinction between these two events in copyright law...and, in fact, I think the artist _would_ be upset about making a copy of their CD for a friend...that's a percentage of 20$C out of their own pocket.
A sense of fairness is all well and good to talk about in our electronic salons, but in the real world you take any opportunity yuo can to save a penny. Most of us have worked with databases at some level in our time, adn we know the amount of work we did and the money we got paid. If a coporation can save itself from hiring programmers, data-entry clerks, and researchers...then it will.
Simple. We're the second largest country with about the 100th largest population (somewhat less than the other CA down south). Sending lots of information a long way really quick is kind of a specialty of ours.
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Just be careful not to wear those boards over anything personal...pin-ends probably wouldn't feel too good on delightfully tender nipples.
Gosh dern it, back in _my_ day we didn't need 104 keys! Or even 88 keys! We had 24 keys and we liked gosh darn it! We didn't need none of those newfangled letters like 'J' or 'V'. We didn't need no gosh-darned punk-tyuu-eh-shun. We just rammed those keys like there was no tomorrow over our accoustic couplers hooked up to our shortwave radio keys and we LIKED it gosh darn it!
Course I guess there's no pleasing these kids these days with their fancy 'automobiles' and their 'cordless phones' and their 'Internet', so I guess us proper, decent, Ghod-fearing old folk will just have to suffer along with all the clackity-clack of all those keys going at once and them mice oh don't even get me started about those darn mice! You'd have never seen a mouse in MY computer lab, gosh darn it! Those critters fried up real good inside ENIAC, heh-heh-heh...*cough*
Gosh darn it now you've gone and got my emphysima goin' again, you young rascals. Go on, git out of here, you punks, with your 104 keys and your mice and your 'monitors', what kind of garbage is that, kids these days, I'll tell you, can't even read a punched card, or use a keypunch....
How about a WYSIWYG word processor you don't need a month's training to use day to day? Or an easy-to-find MP3 player with an intuitive interface? Or even...a web browser, so you can post snarky replies about bloatware with a minimum or effort and sweat? (That was my BIG beef about FreeBSD 2.2.2)
Sure, you, me, and many of the people on this site could do everything by command line and Meta-keys...but John Doe can't, doesn't want to, and shouldn't have to. If it makes it more comfortable, and increases the userbase, bloat isn't all evil.
When *BSD is as easy to use, configure, and setup for my own personal needs and wants as Linux, I'll switch. Not a moment before.
That article summed things up pretty well for me, though unwittingly, I think. I've toyed with *nix off and on for the last 6 years, only just a few months ago gone full-Linux, using RH. I played with FreeBSD 2.2.2 through that, and while it was nice, and stable, and easier to configure than I expected...no apps!
Maybe this has changed with the FreeBSD 3.x series, but for those of us out there who don't know how to mod our Linux apps (no matter how easy true hackers claim it to be) *BSD isn't worth it. No matter how stable an OS is, if it doesn't DO anything, it's useless.
Linux has the larger share of the publicity and market not because of the 'young hackers' but because it is the only *nix that Joe Average User has a change of understanding and _using_.
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Longer than a couple years ago, and it's called an asteroid, not a planet. It's name is Chiron, if you're interested.
And right there you have the crux of the whole problem. There is no distinction between these two events in copyright law...and, in fact, I think the artist _would_ be upset about making a copy of their CD for a friend...that's a percentage of 20$C out of their own pocket.
A sense of fairness is all well and good to talk about in our electronic salons, but in the real world you take any opportunity yuo can to save a penny. Most of us have worked with databases at some level in our time, adn we know the amount of work we did and the money we got paid. If a coporation can save itself from hiring programmers, data-entry clerks, and researchers...then it will.
Just did my two cents Canadian over there, and now doig it over here. Much quicker to do it over there. Can't wait for the new server to be up.
Simple. We're the second largest country with about the 100th largest population (somewhat less than the other CA down south). Sending lots of information a long way really quick is kind of a specialty of ours.
Just be careful not to wear those boards over anything personal...pin-ends probably wouldn't feel too good on delightfully tender nipples.
I'll just wait for the skull-jacks, my self.
Gosh dern it, back in _my_ day we didn't need 104 keys! Or even 88 keys! We had 24 keys and we liked gosh darn it! We didn't need none of those newfangled letters like 'J' or 'V'. We didn't need no gosh-darned punk-tyuu-eh-shun. We just rammed those keys like there was no tomorrow over our accoustic couplers hooked up to our shortwave radio keys and we LIKED it gosh darn it!
Course I guess there's no pleasing these kids these days with their fancy 'automobiles' and their 'cordless phones' and their 'Internet', so I guess us proper, decent, Ghod-fearing old folk will just have to suffer along with all the clackity-clack of all those keys going at once and them mice oh don't even get me started about those darn mice! You'd have never seen a mouse in MY computer lab, gosh darn it! Those critters fried up real good inside ENIAC, heh-heh-heh...*cough*
Gosh darn it now you've gone and got my emphysima goin' again, you young rascals. Go on, git out of here, you punks, with your 104 keys and your mice and your 'monitors', what kind of garbage is that, kids these days, I'll tell you, can't even read a punched card, or use a keypunch....
Well, given the choice between the worlds youngest, nakedest xxx teens! and a handful of Reeses Pieces...I think ET would make the right choice.
BTW, you gonna eat the rest of those crunchies?
How about a WYSIWYG word processor you don't need a month's training to use day to day? Or an easy-to-find MP3 player with an intuitive interface? Or even...a web browser, so you can post snarky replies about bloatware with a minimum or effort and sweat? (That was my BIG beef about FreeBSD 2.2.2)
Sure, you, me, and many of the people on this site could do everything by command line and Meta-keys...but John Doe can't, doesn't want to, and shouldn't have to. If it makes it more comfortable, and increases the userbase, bloat isn't all evil.
When *BSD is as easy to use, configure, and setup for my own personal needs and wants as Linux, I'll switch. Not a moment before.
That article summed things up pretty well for me, though unwittingly, I think. I've toyed with *nix off and on for the last 6 years, only just a few months ago gone full-Linux, using RH. I played with FreeBSD 2.2.2 through that, and while it was nice, and stable, and easier to configure than I expected...no apps!
Maybe this has changed with the FreeBSD 3.x series, but for those of us out there who don't know how to mod our Linux apps (no matter how easy true hackers claim it to be) *BSD isn't worth it. No matter how stable an OS is, if it doesn't DO anything, it's useless.
Linux has the larger share of the publicity and market not because of the 'young hackers' but because it is the only *nix that Joe Average User has a change of understanding and _using_.