Piracy against other countries was regularly sactioned by colonial governments. The justification was that they were infringing on your profits taking away trade from your country. It also helped that you got to keep a percentage of your loot and often the ships you took and could register them in your country of charter. Of course the country that was sponsoring you would call you a buccaneer or some nonsense. Everyone else considered you a pirate. There were very few independent pirates, most were government sponsored. The best justification though is that you got to sail the seven seas, bringing up ships, kill the crew and take the cargo and ship. What other justification were you looking for.
Yo ho yo ho a pirates life for me!
As for the justification for copyright infrigment style piracy, you get free stuff and have a very low chance of getting caught. I think that is the real justification most people need, regardless of the other stuff they make up. I think you are all mistaken when you think people need some sort of moral justification. That would be assuming most people have morals that preclude denying someone profit and I think that is just wishful thinking.
Speed freaks. The computer equivilent of the people who buy sports cars to go 20 miles an hour on the freeway. It doesn't matter that you can't use it for anything, just that you have it.
Anyway, these function as previews for what normal gamers will be able to buy for $100-$200 in a year or so after the next couple uber video cards come out. The company gets a few sales to the freaks. We get to see whats next. Everybody wins.
The DoD is all about curiosity, imagination, scientific endevor and understanding and interacting with the universe. Just because it is to better eliminate the enemy of the moment, does not mean it does not count. And think how excited they would be if they actually found aliens to kill. Then you would see some spending, an enemy everyone on earth can hate.
I am a supporter of robot and human exploration. So I am bummed to see the funding cuts, because I do not believe they will really go toward human exploration. My hope is with the private sector.
Primer is one of the best movies I have seen in years. I actually bought the DVD after downloading it and watching it a few times. I added it to my must have movie collection. If you have not seen it, go buy or download it. You will not be dissapointed either way.
And that is when I will find a new browser. The last thing I want is more anti-features like Clippy. I just set the browser to delete on exit and don't worry about it.
I can't play an instrument worth a damn, but I can create a good Neverwinter Nights campaign. I have tried, so saying anyone can learn to play music and even create original music is just wrong. It devalues the musicians in a way piracy never could.
I guess programming takes the ability to think logically though, and that seems to be in really short supply these days. Gaming probably helps though.
A ton of providers block SMTP and I am glad. The average internet user is just a giant spam relay otherwise. Usually they have a form that you can fill out to unblock it. I have had to do this at a few different locations. Even SBC is relatively reasonable about it. Cable companies are the worst, they tend to think you are some kind of international criminal if you want any kind of outgoing traffic.
You can already get 2 way satelite internet anywhere in the United States with a clear view of the southern sky. Trust me they play the ad constantly on DirectTV.
So the only people who can not get high speed internet at this point are people living in caves on the north side of a mountain. So they probably don't have power, let alone a computer.
Also why is everyone so in love with the cable company? Every time I have had cable it was overpriced and the service sucked at least as bad as SBC. I have set up a ton of people with high speed internet and it is almost always easier to deal with DSL than Cable. Cable tends to have a lot more variablity in the quality of connection over time too.
I have dsl extreme and have been very happy with them. I have run several servers over a DSL connection with Static IP addresses. This was several years ago and even then I could get up to 6Mps down and 3Mps up. You just can't do that with Cable.
Actually most of the current breeds of dogs are designed to be pets or work animals by hundreds or even thousands of years of selective breeding. My Pug definitely is not designed for survival in the wild. Nor are most of the small breeds.
I agree the punishment must be appropriate, but I have a feeling that you don't think spam=death is appropriate. I think lots of things should be punishable by death. Like car pool violations, or going anything less than the speed limit in the fast lane.
Wouldn't it make more sense to find 5 year old versions of linux to install on 5+ year old hardware? I recommend anyone still running 95/98 to just buy a new computer anyway. If they can't afford the $250, I can't waste my time with them.
Now if you were just using it for routing or something thats different, but you don't expect that to be super user friendly. Then again if you can't afford $20 for a router, don't bother me either.
My favorite is I had to write about 50 different modules for a program. So I put a George Carlin quote at the begining of each module from brain droppings. No one except the small group of developers I work with would ever see it right. Unfortunately all of our code got subpoena. They obviously had no idea what the code was doing because out of 10 boxes of printed code, what do you think they had questions about? You guessed it the Carlin Quotes. There were a few sections with things like "Fear ye who enter here!" at the beginning of some really ugly subroutines. Ever since then I have had very innocuous comments in my code. Ok, I at least make them look innocuous to the casual observer.
The problem is that there is more than enough food to go around and throwing more money at the problem does very little to feed hungry people. Education in America is in in the same state. They have more than enough money it is just poorly allocated. Not to mention our education system encourages everyone to perform at the lowest common denominator. It requires a force of will to overcome our miserable education system.
I was much happier with the mystery that the originals left of the past. Then again I tend to like anime, which usually pick up in the middle of a story too. Things do not have nice neat beginnings in life, why should they in movies.
I am not a Microsoft fan, but I support a lot of windows boxes. It doesn't take a genius to figure out the firewall in XP SP2. It pretty much takes care of itself on the average users box. If they are doing anything that requires custom firewall config, they should be able to figure it out.
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Most mushroom allergies are specific to one kind of mushroom. So unless she is allergic to chichitake mushrooms, she should be able to use them with no problem.
Since the current alternatives to latex gloves are inferior, this could be a real boon to the health care industry. Even if they are not completely allergy free for everyone they will at least provide an alternative.
Unfortunately congress has also voted down any proposal that involves NASA creating their own funds through commercialization or advertising. So they are stuck with what congress gives out.
So its the French who have all the good acid? The wheeled ones are probably going to be more practical for a long time. Although if you could get that thing doing a decent speed it would be cool.
I only hope they get autopilot on cars of anykind soon, as I am sick of driving in traffic. I think that is where the real money is.
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I look forward to working on intellegent killing machines when I get out of school, so that less lives are lost on our side of a war. It is what I am going to school for. Isn't that kind of the whole point of war, to win with as little loss on your side as possible.
One of the problems with the RFP system and OSS especially free OSS is that there is often no one available to write the proposal.
Some effort has to be made to look for free software, no one is calling you to sell it to you. I find free software to use at my company occasionally. It usually takes a few hours on the internet to compare all of the free alternatives and can save thousands of dollars compared to what companies are trying to sell to us. Shouldn't the government at least look for alternatives before it shells out our money?
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Piracy against other countries was regularly sactioned by colonial governments. The justification was that they were infringing on your profits taking away trade from your country. It also helped that you got to keep a percentage of your loot and often the ships you took and could register them in your country of charter. Of course the country that was sponsoring you would call you a buccaneer or some nonsense. Everyone else considered you a pirate. There were very few independent pirates, most were government sponsored. The best justification though is that you got to sail the seven seas, bringing up ships, kill the crew and take the cargo and ship. What other justification were you looking for.
Yo ho yo ho a pirates life for me!
As for the justification for copyright infrigment style piracy, you get free stuff and have a very low chance of getting caught. I think that is the real justification most people need, regardless of the other stuff they make up. I think you are all mistaken when you think people need some sort of moral justification. That would be assuming most people have morals that preclude denying someone profit and I think that is just wishful thinking.
Speed freaks. The computer equivilent of the people who buy sports cars to go 20 miles an hour on the freeway. It doesn't matter that you can't use it for anything, just that you have it. Anyway, these function as previews for what normal gamers will be able to buy for $100-$200 in a year or so after the next couple uber video cards come out. The company gets a few sales to the freaks. We get to see whats next. Everybody wins.
The DoD is all about curiosity, imagination, scientific endevor and understanding and interacting with the universe. Just because it is to better eliminate the enemy of the moment, does not mean it does not count. And think how excited they would be if they actually found aliens to kill. Then you would see some spending, an enemy everyone on earth can hate. I am a supporter of robot and human exploration. So I am bummed to see the funding cuts, because I do not believe they will really go toward human exploration. My hope is with the private sector.
Primer is one of the best movies I have seen in years. I actually bought the DVD after downloading it and watching it a few times. I added it to my must have movie collection. If you have not seen it, go buy or download it. You will not be dissapointed either way.
And that is when I will find a new browser. The last thing I want is more anti-features like Clippy. I just set the browser to delete on exit and don't worry about it.
Charity, when compelled through coersion or threat, is just a nice word for slavery.
I thought it was called taxes.
I can't play an instrument worth a damn, but I can create a good Neverwinter Nights campaign. I have tried, so saying anyone can learn to play music and even create original music is just wrong. It devalues the musicians in a way piracy never could.
I guess programming takes the ability to think logically though, and that seems to be in really short supply these days. Gaming probably helps though.
A ton of providers block SMTP and I am glad. The average internet user is just a giant spam relay otherwise. Usually they have a form that you can fill out to unblock it. I have had to do this at a few different locations. Even SBC is relatively reasonable about it. Cable companies are the worst, they tend to think you are some kind of international criminal if you want any kind of outgoing traffic.
You can already get 2 way satelite internet anywhere in the United States with a clear view of the southern sky. Trust me they play the ad constantly on DirectTV. So the only people who can not get high speed internet at this point are people living in caves on the north side of a mountain. So they probably don't have power, let alone a computer. Also why is everyone so in love with the cable company? Every time I have had cable it was overpriced and the service sucked at least as bad as SBC. I have set up a ton of people with high speed internet and it is almost always easier to deal with DSL than Cable. Cable tends to have a lot more variablity in the quality of connection over time too. I have dsl extreme and have been very happy with them. I have run several servers over a DSL connection with Static IP addresses. This was several years ago and even then I could get up to 6Mps down and 3Mps up. You just can't do that with Cable.
Actually most of the current breeds of dogs are designed to be pets or work animals by hundreds or even thousands of years of selective breeding. My Pug definitely is not designed for survival in the wild. Nor are most of the small breeds.
I agree the punishment must be appropriate, but I have a feeling that you don't think spam=death is appropriate. I think lots of things should be punishable by death. Like car pool violations, or going anything less than the speed limit in the fast lane.
Every time you close your browser is even better. That is one of the first options in Fire Fox that I set after I install it.
Wouldn't it make more sense to find 5 year old versions of linux to install on 5+ year old hardware? I recommend anyone still running 95/98 to just buy a new computer anyway. If they can't afford the $250, I can't waste my time with them.
Now if you were just using it for routing or something thats different, but you don't expect that to be super user friendly. Then again if you can't afford $20 for a router, don't bother me either.
My favorite is I had to write about 50 different modules for a program. So I put a George Carlin quote at the begining of each module from brain droppings. No one except the small group of developers I work with would ever see it right. Unfortunately all of our code got subpoena. They obviously had no idea what the code was doing because out of 10 boxes of printed code, what do you think they had questions about? You guessed it the Carlin Quotes. There were a few sections with things like "Fear ye who enter here!" at the beginning of some really ugly subroutines. Ever since then I have had very innocuous comments in my code. Ok, I at least make them look innocuous to the casual observer.
The problem is that there is more than enough food to go around and throwing more money at the problem does very little to feed hungry people. Education in America is in in the same state. They have more than enough money it is just poorly allocated. Not to mention our education system encourages everyone to perform at the lowest common denominator. It requires a force of will to overcome our miserable education system.
I was much happier with the mystery that the originals left of the past. Then again I tend to like anime, which usually pick up in the middle of a story too. Things do not have nice neat beginnings in life, why should they in movies.
I am not a Microsoft fan, but I support a lot of windows boxes. It doesn't take a genius to figure out the firewall in XP SP2. It pretty much takes care of itself on the average users box. If they are doing anything that requires custom firewall config, they should be able to figure it out.
Most mushroom allergies are specific to one kind of mushroom. So unless she is allergic to chichitake mushrooms, she should be able to use them with no problem. Since the current alternatives to latex gloves are inferior, this could be a real boon to the health care industry. Even if they are not completely allergy free for everyone they will at least provide an alternative.
Unfortunately congress has also voted down any proposal that involves NASA creating their own funds through commercialization or advertising. So they are stuck with what congress gives out.
So its the French who have all the good acid? The wheeled ones are probably going to be more practical for a long time. Although if you could get that thing doing a decent speed it would be cool. I only hope they get autopilot on cars of anykind soon, as I am sick of driving in traffic. I think that is where the real money is. Fear the Geek
I can't wait to see the evictions!
I look forward to working on intellegent killing machines when I get out of school, so that less lives are lost on our side of a war. It is what I am going to school for. Isn't that kind of the whole point of war, to win with as little loss on your side as possible.
Some effort has to be made to look for free software, no one is calling you to sell it to you. I find free software to use at my company occasionally. It usually takes a few hours on the internet to compare all of the free alternatives and can save thousands of dollars compared to what companies are trying to sell to us. Shouldn't the government at least look for alternatives before it shells out our money?