"Where's our war on smog, bad driving, and gun proliferation?"
Smog - car and emission control legislation.
Driving - traffic laws.
Gun proliferation - What type? That's too general. If you mean personal restriction of gun ownership, you might peruse crime stats in states that have strict controls against those that have looser ones.
"The basic idea is that if someone patents software, he loses the right to use free software."
My guess is this would fly about as far as a non-compete agreement. Regardless of someone signing such a contract, it cannot be upheld in court.
Funny that someone (or ones) who promote "free" software would try such a tactic.
The ethics involved with preventing someone from using something that is nowhere in the domain of the first party is questionable, to say the least. You are free to purchase Sony products unless you use RCA products.
"... it raises the question of if it really matters if the path to get to the correct point is wrong."
Yes would be my answer. The path is just as relevant as the answer in science because the path can bi,tri or greater furcate from any give point. If the path is incorrect, then it influences all subsequent divergences.
You post is based on the premise that someone is forcing you to buy music. This is false
No culture makes the fundamental claim that you can force others to pay for your work.
No, but every culture that outlaws slavery prevents you from forcing them to work for free.
If musicians can't figure out a way to get people to voluntarily pay for their services then they should go do work which people will voluntarily pay them to do.
Musicians have indeed figured that one out. You voluntarily pay for the music CD. No one, absolutly no one, forces you to buy music. You're just cheesed at those that want you to provide them something (money) in return.
Just why is it that you don't want to pay someone for their hard work?
"No one's forcing them to participate in a business model which is horribly out-of-step with the technology of the day."
My, my. Your opinion that their business model is antiquated makes it ok for you to rip-off folks? Also, how do they prevent you from purchasing the music or whatever in the first place?
"... and assuming for comparison purposes a family with roughly the same budget in both places."
Doesn't that pretty much negate your assumption? Same budget, same costs.
P.S. Things cost the same here as they do in the city. The "cheaper to live in the country" montra is nothing more than real estate agents and employers spouting.
You are out of your fucking mind. A cord of wood measures 2x4x8 foot. I buy my wood, then split it myself. A single cord will have maybe two hundred pieces of wood, each maybe five pounds. If winter is only three months long, you're saying you can head a "very large home" with six pieces of wood a day. Bullshit.
Our home is 30x60 feet and one level. We require about ten cords a winter using a Swedish wood furnace that is in the 90 percent efficiency range. That, plus solar, is our only heat.
Actually, it has been shown that men are excellent at following more than one conversation in a crowd and women find it almost impossible. This, told to me by my daughter from her clinical studies in women's psychology. Too bad, another myth hosed.
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While rated funny -- were you serious? If so, that article was plain stupid. There would be no small dinosaur fossils.
Indeed. That's why it's science. Look up the paleotological history of Iguanodon for a great example.
That random scientist would have been an idiot. Unless you mean claimed like in a mining claim.
Keep in mind that just because science does support your lifestyle doesn't make it wrong either.
"Where's our war on smog, bad driving, and gun proliferation?"
Smog - car and emission control legislation.
Driving - traffic laws.
Gun proliferation - What type? That's too general. If you mean personal restriction of gun ownership, you might peruse crime stats in states that have strict controls against those that have looser ones.
"The basic idea is that if someone patents software, he loses the right to use free software."
My guess is this would fly about as far as a non-compete agreement. Regardless of someone signing such a contract, it cannot be upheld in court.
Funny that someone (or ones) who promote "free" software would try such a tactic.
The ethics involved with preventing someone from using something that is nowhere in the domain of the first party is questionable, to say the least. You are free to purchase Sony products unless you use RCA products.
Word processing document equal web page? I don't think so. I can imagine a business meeting where the document is being displayed...
"Shit. Sorry, boss. The guy we want to talk to got run over yesterday."
Or worse, a video of the goatse guy.
Or marsupials, or many other large groups of animals. So?
"... are usually mono-unicolour."
That is much more dependant upon whether the chick needs to be camoflagued. Look at killdeer, bob white, pheasant and so forth.
"... it raises the question of if it really matters if the path to get to the correct point is wrong."
Yes would be my answer. The path is just as relevant as the answer in science because the path can bi,tri or greater furcate from any give point. If the path is incorrect, then it influences all subsequent divergences.
Pray tell. Just what's flaming about that? Please be specific.
Hate to say it, but I bought Myst, my wife and I played it, and we thought it was dull, dull, dull.
OK puzzles (Seventh Guest's were good too), but didn't save it for us.
To each.
"Communism hasn't failed in Soviet Union, unless you use some very special definition of failure. "
Could that definition be its demise?
The fact that none of those works were your private property (your words) should clue you as to the length of the wait.
"Homosexuals sue to get married, which is an act under GOD and not man."
I am an athiest. I am married. There was no god present, nor did I or my wife consult one. Blow that theocratic crap right back up your ass.
You post is based on the premise that someone is forcing you to buy music. This is false
No culture makes the fundamental claim that you can force others to pay for your work.
No, but every culture that outlaws slavery prevents you from forcing them to work for free.
If musicians can't figure out a way to get people to voluntarily pay for their services then they should go do work which people will voluntarily pay them to do.
Musicians have indeed figured that one out. You voluntarily pay for the music CD. No one, absolutly no one, forces you to buy music. You're just cheesed at those that want you to provide them something (money) in return.
Just why is it that you don't want to pay someone for their hard work?
"The artists are not loosing anything."
So, you don't understand royalties (or spell checking).
"... we the people can NEVER win."
So, you also don't understand the Vietnam war reference you made.
"Guess what happens when Joe Sixpack calls Senator Hatch. Not a damn thing."
Another indication you don't understand the Vietnam reference.
"No one's forcing them to participate in a business model which is horribly out-of-step with the technology of the day."
My, my. Your opinion that their business model is antiquated makes it ok for you to rip-off folks? Also, how do they prevent you from purchasing the music or whatever in the first place?
So, the "will of the people" is to rip-off someone else? And, just who is this "we" of whom you speak?
Nice advertisement. Too bad it's totally bogus. Id is nothing but a religious argument.
Keep in mind that none of this cyclic nature of hurricanes will affect the fear mongers a bit. They will still spout that this year is proof.
That interpretation is preferable how?
"... and assuming for comparison purposes a family with roughly the same budget in both places."
Doesn't that pretty much negate your assumption? Same budget, same costs.
P.S. Things cost the same here as they do in the city. The "cheaper to live in the country" montra is nothing more than real estate agents and employers spouting.
You are out of your fucking mind. A cord of wood measures 2x4x8 foot. I buy my wood, then split it myself. A single cord will have maybe two hundred pieces of wood, each maybe five pounds. If winter is only three months long, you're saying you can head a "very large home" with six pieces of wood a day. Bullshit.
Our home is 30x60 feet and one level. We require about ten cords a winter using a Swedish wood furnace that is in the 90 percent efficiency range. That, plus solar, is our only heat.
Actually, it has been shown that men are excellent at following more than one conversation in a crowd and women find it almost impossible. This, told to me by my daughter from her clinical studies in women's psychology. Too bad, another myth hosed.