A form of discrimination? Older people are more (much more) likely to have poor health. Certainly, more likely to have high blood pressure. So the question I have
is how is this not age discrimination?
Great, should start debating Zionism right now? I'll just state from the start. Reality exists. We can try to figure out what it is by discussing it. The fact that I or someone else works for a flower shop or CIA does not change that the Sun came up today.
It's a site that's meant to inform. Does it matter if information is contributed under false identity? Information is either true or not. Judging whether it's true or not by who contributes is setting a very low standard for fact finding. Claims about knowledge that is outside of the expertise of layman have to have references to well-established sources (which can be checked) anyway. Otherwise, it's just rumors.
You do realize that students' privacy cannot possibly (even theoretically) be violated by an act of communicating something TO THE STUDENTS as long as the students are the ONLY people to whom anything is communicated. They are not FORWARDING letters that are meant to be communications to the students. That can be done in a perfectly anonymous way. Ie., the letters can be given to the students without letting ANYONE ELSE know who these students are. So what privacy are we talking about here? All the article said is that they are not forwarding the letters.
Is the intent here criminal? All they are doing is entering into a business transaction that the other party has agreed to. Is putting money into a bank account that pays too high an interest also criminal?
Hirgin binge could be happening by gutting employees of other companies... cough.... cough... yahoo. Which means that there are few companies fighting for the same employees but unable to fill all the positions they have available -- the highly qualified ones. So both statements (the one to the Congress and the one to the shareholders) can easily be true.
I am sure they were treating college as an ISP in the motion. Let's not confuse form over function. Just because a college provides functions other than an ISP does not mean that it doesn't provide the function of an ISP. That is the function here is and ISP and the form is a college. So the only relevant question becomes is this type of motion allowed against an ISP.
Because I use the right tool for the right job. I use linux boxes and a Mac as well, but certain jobs need to quick and dirty. And that means not figuring out how to install a WiFi card for a day and a half. Of course, when I need an easy text editing, manipulation and revision control, I will use linux. A key to productive and yet happy life is to see your principles as goals rather than inflexible absolutes.
I used to have respect for them. Their attitude towards MS seemed to be "bring it on!" I guess Steve Jobs is the only who is still willing to take on the giant in the market place without the government help. It does seem that those who win legal cases against MS lose to them in the market place soon after. I am not really saying that there is a causality there -- just a correlation. Even Apple took its biggest market share hit right after their we-invented-windows law suit (although Apple lost that one). Anyway, I just wanted to say, it's time for Sergei to start throwing some chair instead whining to the government.
Entrapment issues aside (since mpaa is a private organization and does not have the limits put on the GOVERNMENT by the constitution), each one of these scans (if unauthorized) is a copyright violation if perfomred on a computers that contains any sort of creative work (for example a piece of code that someone is working on for their CS101 class). Perhaps mpaa should be reminded what kind of penalty copyright violations carry with them. Reminded, that is, through a subpoena for every instance of such violation.
They were selling tracks for as little as 3 cents. Considering that a track on a CD costs $1.50 or so, that's a factor of 30 to 50. Base 10 log of 30 is 1.477, base 10 log of 1.699. So if you round to just "order of magnitude", we are both right... just depends on which track.
I am not justifying anything. I don't think copyrights should go away. I just think (and the US Constitution agrees) that they should give authors limited rights. Whereas, the rights of property owners (not to have their property stolen) is much more absolute. The argument is about matters of degree. And the more tangible and asset the more rights the owner should have. Calling copyright infringement "theft" gives copyright owners more rights than they deserve. That is not to say they don't deserve any rights. Just not as many as, oh say, the owner of a house.
I have not. They can still sell it to me. It is an oft repeated story that people have bought music after downloading it. So the ability is still there. But that's moot, anyway. Because "ability" to engage some free person in commerce is not a property. It is a stroke of luck. So all I did was reduce your chances of getting lucky. That's not the same as taking from you the proverbial bird in the hand. All I did was make it less likely that you'll get that bird in the tree. But as the saying goes that bird in the tree is not quite your property, so it cannot be stolen from you.
Without some ranking system. At least as good as diggit, it will just become a trash land. It has no search mechanism, no ranking of content. No categorizing of content other than by unsearchable tags. As it stands, it is a little more than the beginning of another attempt at usenet.... except even less organized.
Demonstrates a much more fun way of swapping data. But this discussion probably should stay family-friendly. Yes, the last thing you want to think about there is children.
By recognizing that the property value of items in second life have to be recognized on par with property values that are tangible, the courts will validate all the ownership rules. Ie, by making ownership of the property in Second Life no longer at the whim of a private organization but recognized by courts (and thus the government) the court actually did Second Life a favor.
But Al Gore's "Assault On Reason" explores this in the first chapter. The rest of his book is, of course, a political piece on the Bush administration. But, to be fair, he doesn't give them any criticism they don't deserve. Anyway, the first chapter explores why the current news media has gotten the country in the mess it is in and the last chapter provides some hope for the future.
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A form of discrimination? Older people are more (much more) likely to have poor health. Certainly, more likely to have high blood pressure. So the question I have is how is this not age discrimination?
Great, should start debating Zionism right now? I'll just state from the start. Reality exists. We can try to figure out what it is by discussing it. The fact that I or someone else works for a flower shop or CIA does not change that the Sun came up today.
It's a site that's meant to inform. Does it matter if information is contributed under false identity? Information is either true or not. Judging whether it's true or not by who contributes is setting a very low standard for fact finding. Claims about knowledge that is outside of the expertise of layman have to have references to well-established sources (which can be checked) anyway. Otherwise, it's just rumors.
You do realize that students' privacy cannot possibly (even theoretically) be violated by an act of communicating something TO THE STUDENTS as long as the students are the ONLY people to whom anything is communicated. They are not FORWARDING letters that are meant to be communications to the students. That can be done in a perfectly anonymous way. Ie., the letters can be given to the students without letting ANYONE ELSE know who these students are. So what privacy are we talking about here? All the article said is that they are not forwarding the letters.
Is the intent here criminal? All they are doing is entering into a business transaction that the other party has agreed to. Is putting money into a bank account that pays too high an interest also criminal?
Hirgin binge could be happening by gutting employees of other companies... cough.... cough... yahoo. Which means that there are few companies fighting for the same employees but unable to fill all the positions they have available -- the highly qualified ones. So both statements (the one to the Congress and the one to the shareholders) can easily be true.
I am sure they were treating college as an ISP in the motion. Let's not confuse form over function. Just because a college provides functions other than an ISP does not mean that it doesn't provide the function of an ISP. That is the function here is and ISP and the form is a college. So the only relevant question becomes is this type of motion allowed against an ISP.
Because I use the right tool for the right job. I use linux boxes and a Mac as well, but certain jobs need to quick and dirty. And that means not figuring out how to install a WiFi card for a day and a half. Of course, when I need an easy text editing, manipulation and revision control, I will use linux. A key to productive and yet happy life is to see your principles as goals rather than inflexible absolutes.
I used to have respect for them. Their attitude towards MS seemed to be "bring it on!" I guess Steve Jobs is the only who is still willing to take on the giant in the market place without the government help. It does seem that those who win legal cases against MS lose to them in the market place soon after. I am not really saying that there is a causality there -- just a correlation. Even Apple took its biggest market share hit right after their we-invented-windows law suit (although Apple lost that one). Anyway, I just wanted to say, it's time for Sergei to start throwing some chair instead whining to the government.
Entrapment issues aside (since mpaa is a private organization and does not have the limits put on the GOVERNMENT by the constitution), each one of these scans (if unauthorized) is a copyright violation if perfomred on a computers that contains any sort of creative work (for example a piece of code that someone is working on for their CS101 class). Perhaps mpaa should be reminded what kind of penalty copyright violations carry with them. Reminded, that is, through a subpoena for every instance of such violation.
They were selling tracks for as little as 3 cents. Considering that a track on a CD costs $1.50 or so, that's a factor of 30 to 50. Base 10 log of 30 is 1.477, base 10 log of 1.699. So if you round to just "order of magnitude", we are both right... just depends on which track.
I am not justifying anything. I don't think copyrights should go away. I just think (and the US Constitution agrees) that they should give authors limited rights. Whereas, the rights of property owners (not to have their property stolen) is much more absolute. The argument is about matters of degree. And the more tangible and asset the more rights the owner should have. Calling copyright infringement "theft" gives copyright owners more rights than they deserve. That is not to say they don't deserve any rights. Just not as many as, oh say, the owner of a house.
I have not. They can still sell it to me. It is an oft repeated story that people have bought music after downloading it. So the ability is still there. But that's moot, anyway. Because "ability" to engage some free person in commerce is not a property. It is a stroke of luck. So all I did was reduce your chances of getting lucky. That's not the same as taking from you the proverbial bird in the hand. All I did was make it less likely that you'll get that bird in the tree. But as the saying goes that bird in the tree is not quite your property, so it cannot be stolen from you.
don't you mean 2 orders of magnitude?
nope. theft is only taking something in a way such that the original owner no longer has it. copyright infringement is not theft. it is what it is.
They are deliberately cheesy.
Without some ranking system. At least as good as diggit, it will just become a trash land. It has no search mechanism, no ranking of content. No categorizing of content other than by unsearchable tags. As it stands, it is a little more than the beginning of another attempt at usenet.... except even less organized.
before it gets overwhelmed by porn ads.... just took a look at it. it already happened.
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How NOT having broadband is correlated with... oh, say... medical insurance coverage.
Demonstrates a much more fun way of swapping data. But this discussion probably should stay family-friendly. Yes, the last thing you want to think about there is children.
music own you
By recognizing that the property value of items in second life have to be recognized on par with property values that are tangible, the courts will validate all the ownership rules. Ie, by making ownership of the property in Second Life no longer at the whim of a private organization but recognized by courts (and thus the government) the court actually did Second Life a favor.
But Al Gore's "Assault On Reason" explores this in the first chapter. The rest of his book is, of course, a political piece on the Bush administration. But, to be fair, he doesn't give them any criticism they don't deserve. Anyway, the first chapter explores why the current news media has gotten the country in the mess it is in and the last chapter provides some hope for the future.
and she already answers... yes, she does... she love me