"The lines between fantasy and reality have been blurred so much that pure reality pieces just seem boring."
No, the lines are as clearly distinct as they ever were. And, the general population is just as ill-educated as they ever were.
The only way to prevent nincompoops from believing fantasy is to never publish fantasy. I personally object. I can tell the difference and enjoy the fantasy. Don't restrict *me* because of an idiot.
"These comments make you no better a person than the worm writer."
Apparently you have very poor comprehension and discrimination abilities. Making comments, regardless of how vile, does not in any way equal actually *DOING* something to harm others.
"...only when we recognize the futility of violence..."
Yep. Criminals first. *Then* you can carp on the rest.
Puh-lease. I've had the 'pleasure' of working with two physicists and several mathemetaicans in my IT career. *None* was worth a shit. Couldn't touch-type, couldn't write logical code.
Like you, they seemed to think that programming and design were 'easy'. Utter bullshit.
Guns are a bogus analogy in toto. A gun is used to shoot things and cause damage. The software is used to perform business and (in this case) save lives non-violently. Bad choice.
Disabling emergency systems is *not* a "soft" crime. The have radio, unfortunately radio can't store and retrieve information.
The worm writer is responsible for damages caused by their disabling any system they target. Just because they target the world doesn't excuse them from the smaller impacts.
No, the great bulk of shashdotters don't write and distribute malicious code.
Those aren't "hippies" son. We're way too old to be stroking ourselves at work. Most of us have "old ladies" at home. Perhaps you were looking for a word to describe your geeky friends, like tech nerds, or yuppies?
"Many artists only want to spread their music and play concerts (where many small artists make most of their money anyway)."
Straw. You're presuming that there is some opposition to them doing this right now. No one is preventing them. They can post their music on a server and let it fly.
I wonder why more of them don't?
"I chatted with one Piratbyrån member, who's hatred towards intellectual property was very intense, very pure."
Yes. My guess is he's rather upset it's illegal for him to roam the web, snatching other people's work here and there, and pasting them together so that he can sell it without doing any real work himself. Such a shame, so unfair.
Much like what research and term papers have become in college today.
I'm joining the chorus. You're teacher is incompetent to teach that course.
I implemented over 300 modules in 6 systems for a K.C. bank and each and every time I worked out the design according to things that were required.
The menuing system had to handle 100 simultaneous submissions, the fiching program had to run in under two hours, etc.
I indeed did not know "how fast it will be", but I friggin' knew how fast it had to be.
I did not know "how much space it will take", but I had to know how much space it could take.
"Its sheer folly."
No, it's experience.
"customer may realize that they want it differently as the process is going along"
Get pedantic, why don't you? You think they're going to change from a funds management system to an on-line airline ticket one? No, only minor changes to what they want, not major.
"And the Open Source Community best represents this, because a project never ends..."
That, by the way, is one excellent way to get sued if you're writing a system on someone else's dollar.
"The important question to ask about these sorts of things is not whether they are permitted by the constitution, but whether the Founding Fathers would have forbidden them if they had any idea that they were possible."
NO, definitely not. They lived in a completely different time. Besides which, is your opinion or my opinion of what they would have accepted to be taken? Hmmm.
"The thing is, we have (at the moment) a right to privacy."
Yes, we do. Right up to the point where you break laws. Then, they have a right to try to identify you and arrest you.
There is not, and has never been, the "right" to total anonymity in public. That's a dream some folk have who simply want to behave in any manner they wish. Tuff.
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"The lines between fantasy and reality have been blurred so much that pure reality pieces just seem boring."
No, the lines are as clearly distinct as they ever were. And, the general population is just as ill-educated as they ever were.
The only way to prevent nincompoops from believing fantasy is to never publish fantasy. I personally object. I can tell the difference and enjoy the fantasy. Don't restrict *me* because of an idiot.
Apparently you, like many people today, do not have a grasp of history and see current activities only in their current function.
Perhaps you weren't aware that "football" is a sport designed upon a Celtic game which was used to "get the head back" of a decaptitated companion.
*That* means that we actually *civillized* the 'game'.
Human nature hasn't changed in millenia.
"These comments make you no better a person than the worm writer."
Apparently you have very poor comprehension and discrimination abilities. Making comments, regardless of how vile, does not in any way equal actually *DOING* something to harm others.
"...only when we recognize the futility of violence..."
Yep. Criminals first. *Then* you can carp on the rest.
Yeah, like write a truely terrible virus which will disable a hundred times as many systems.
Since when is identifying a criminal an attack?
"...nor how they arrived at the determination that he is the author."
You mean, other than his confession?
Yes, and when a guy is mugged by someone, he very well may seek a course in self-defense. Therefore, the mugger actually did him a favor, right?
Yeesh.
"In this model, gravity would still be three dimensional"
... There's experiments going on now to test and see whether this is actually the case..."
Why, because it's convienent to leave it so?
"The theory of gravity carrying over to other universes
They're going to test to see if our gravity is leaking into another universe? A I>hypothetical" universe?
Puh-lease. I've had the 'pleasure' of working with two physicists and several mathemetaicans in my IT career. *None* was worth a shit. Couldn't touch-type, couldn't write logical code.
Like you, they seemed to think that programming and design were 'easy'. Utter bullshit.
'"criminals" are just doing their job'
And *you* said *their* view was retarded.
"...including, but not limited to, the kind of social environment which stimulates unlawful behavior.."
Please describe any social environment in any period of history where there was not "unlawful behavior" and you might have a point.
Until then, the accountability falls squarely upon the shoulders of the malicious perp.
Guns are a bogus analogy in toto. A gun is used to shoot things and cause damage. The software is used to perform business and (in this case) save lives non-violently. Bad choice.
"There is absolutely no need for the posession of guns beyond the size required to bring down a rabbit/deer."
What reasoning have you? If it is lethality, either of those will kill a human too.
Disabling emergency systems is *not* a "soft" crime. The have radio, unfortunately radio can't store and retrieve information.
The worm writer is responsible for damages caused by their disabling any system they target. Just because they target the world doesn't excuse them from the smaller impacts.
No, the great bulk of shashdotters don't write and distribute malicious code.
Those aren't "hippies" son. We're way too old to be stroking ourselves at work. Most of us have "old ladies" at home. Perhaps you were looking for a word to describe your geeky friends, like tech nerds, or yuppies?
"Certain things just don't happen very often in evolution because of the difficulty of redesigning an organism."
Uhhhh. You're suggesting then that evolution wants to head a certain way, but it's too difficult? Maybe, the need simply doesn't develope.
"Many artists only want to spread their music and play concerts (where many small artists make most of their money anyway)."
Straw. You're presuming that there is some opposition to them doing this right now. No one is preventing them. They can post their music on a server and let it fly.
I wonder why more of them don't?
"This law declares that..."
Actually, no. That is an example of a model for material systems. Music, art, and the written word have never been handled that way.
"Look at Linux."
Not proof, chum. Many people do charitable work. Those same people do work for money. Sometimes that work is the same kind of work.
My making free software (I do) for my personal amusement has nothing whatsoever to do with my making commercial software (I do) for my livelyhood.
"more than a few musicians who could give a shit about their music being copied"
You must know a different type of musician than I do. The ones I know want to be paid to perform and record.
"we need to figure out a sensible approach"
Suggest one that doesn't entail you getting everything you want without your extending any valuable to others effort for it.
"I chatted with one Piratbyrån member, who's hatred towards intellectual property was very intense, very pure."
Yes. My guess is he's rather upset it's illegal for him to roam the web, snatching other people's work here and there, and pasting them together so that he can sell it without doing any real work himself. Such a shame, so unfair.
Much like what research and term papers have become in college today.
Not all Libertarians want IP abolished. Not all Dem's, Rep', Green's,...... want IP kept.
TIN FOIL HAT!! TIN FOIL HAT!!
You really believe that WalMart will get people to put on id bracelets when the enter the store?
Yeesh.
I'm joining the chorus. You're teacher is incompetent to teach that course.
I implemented over 300 modules in 6 systems for a K.C. bank and each and every time I worked out the design according to things that were required.
The menuing system had to handle 100 simultaneous submissions, the fiching program had to run in under two hours, etc.
I indeed did not know "how fast it will be", but I friggin' knew how fast it had to be.
I did not know "how much space it will take", but I had to know how much space it could take.
"Its sheer folly."
No, it's experience.
"customer may realize that they want it differently as the process is going along"
Get pedantic, why don't you? You think they're going to change from a funds management system to an on-line airline ticket one? No, only minor changes to what they want, not major.
"And the Open Source Community best represents this, because a project never ends..."
That, by the way, is one excellent way to get sued if you're writing a system on someone else's dollar.
Get a different teacher.
http://www.eridu.co.uk/Author/atlantis/ You wanna try that again? Heroditus did not.
Your post might have been more comprehensible had you used some paragraphs.
"The important question to ask about these sorts of things is not whether they are permitted by the constitution, but whether the Founding Fathers would have forbidden them if they had any idea that they were possible."
NO, definitely not. They lived in a completely different time. Besides which, is your opinion or my opinion of what they would have accepted to be taken? Hmmm.
"The thing is, we have (at the moment) a right to privacy."
Yes, we do. Right up to the point where you break laws. Then, they have a right to try to identify you and arrest you.
There is not, and has never been, the "right" to total anonymity in public. That's a dream some folk have who simply want to behave in any manner they wish. Tuff.