"If you import legally purchased marijuana you will be in violation of drug possession laws."
Yes it is illegal to IMPORT drugs.
"But can you name a law you would violate when importing a legally purchased piece of music?"
Im no expert but you might me liable for an import duty on the goods you purchaced as you are importing them. In the same way if you tried to bring a truck full of vodka into the US customs might ask for some(lots of) money.
My opinion is that it is 100% Ok to do this as you are complying with Russian copyright law. The legal grounds for this depend on where is the "official" location of the transaction. Good luck to them!
They want your money. They do not want you to fix it yourself. They want to sell you a whole new part every time! They do not want you to buy a part from someone else. They want you to get then to fix it in one of their repairshops./rant
But I dont want to pay for a RFID tag. I pay the airlines they should do their job. As regards using RFID or Barcode I DONT CARE.... my bag getting where it is going, is all i care about.
"You can install cygwin under Windows, or WINE under Linux. It all depends what your primary operating environment is."
Yes but a true master can install cygwin under Windows and then run WINE, inside WINE you can then run cygwin, inside cygwin you can then run WINE and play solitaire.
There is a point being missed here. With iTMS there is a restriction placed on what I can and cannot do in "private" with my songs. With a piece of GPL software I can do whatever I want in "private" I can print it on puchcards and burn it if I want. If however I choose to release it or sell it I am bound by the GPL. With the iTMS songs I cannot release them in "public" or sell them.. this is against copyright. Do not mistake the GPL which is a copyright liscence with the iTMS TOC which has nothing to do with copyright. (Cracking it is covered by the DMCA...I think)
On a side point I do not think that there is any rule about you taking your iTMS songs out of the US. Removing the copy proteciton there and then bringing them back. (FYI IANAL)
I agree with what you say but we differ in matters of degree. My arguments are that percieved dangers of terrorism are far overstated and that our essential liberty is undervalued. The chances of me being killed by my wife are much higher than my demise being at the hands of terrorists. The government could better spend its efforts on health and education than "The War On Terror"
I advocate privacy on the principle that the innocent should not be punished with the guilty. The fear being generated is extremely caustic to society. I have spent much time on the other side of the iron curtain (when it was draw shut)and I have had the luck to live in England. Having seen both extremes I know which I would pick. Crime in England may have been much higher but the freedom is worth the price. There are not many countries where a policeman stops you and asks you your name and you are within your rights to say "None of your bussiness"... This seems harsh but it means that the policeman has to have good reason to suspect you. You are only obliged to give your name after you have been arrested.
You say "I'm content for the NSA to read my mail" well I have never been to the states and I am not. Let me read their private love letters and correspondence with doctors and lawyers. There is always the temptation from this kind of organisation to get the most out of their powers.
I personaly think that a touchpad is the best option for pain as you are only moving your finger. This really reduces any discomfort. May I reccommend using the middle finger for movement and the index finger for clicking. In this way you rest your palm on the edge and index finger on the button. With this setup there is almost no movement. Tip 2 relax your hand... many people really GRIP their mouse... there is no need! Tip3 take your screen breaks... not just your hands suffer but also your eyes.
"So this is the first thing we need. You want privacy? I want security more..."
I cannot believe that any sane person would say this. You must protect your freedom at all costs. There is nothing more valuble than freedom. By restricting your freedoms the terrorists will have won the war. Now to go through an airport it takes much longer. Should I ever visit the US they will try and fingerprint me... so I will never go to the US.
There is a basic principle at stake that is the presumption of innocence. I am sure that every person would be serving some kind of jail time if they had had their entire lives under total scrutiny. (Ever got on a bicycle drunk, ever dropped a sweetwrapper, ever j-walked, ever smoked underage, ever kicked a vending machine?)
The point is that by restricting our freedoms we are harming ourselves not the terrorists. Do you honeslty think that 9/11 was about killing as many Americans as possible. Do you think that they thought that they would kill you all? No of course not they did it to provoke the US. Guess what it worked! Now the US is a far more unpleasant than before. Why do they insist on taking the bait?
Do not get me wrong I do not in anyway condone terrorism, I feel sorrow for all the victims. There is an other side to this that is who attacked first? Sorry t say it but we did! Imagine you at work minding your own bussiness and a warplane flies over and bombs your town. They kill some of your familly and freinds. You are going to be angry and there is a chance you are going to want revenge. The way to stop terrorism is to remove the reason for it. Killing and bombing will not solve the problem.
As a closing point never forget who trained and funded Bin Laden! (dont know... read some history)..Was fine whilst he was killing Russians was it?
As regards this bomb plot...ha ha... what bomb... you have two guys "talking" about maybe getting hold of some chemical and making a bomb. (P.S. check out the price...1200 USD per gramme!) I would be supprised if someone was not talking about making a bomb. I can talk about becoming the new dictator of the combined European Superstate is it going to be a scoop that I am arrested and charged with attempts to overthrow all european goverments.
.....In a speech in 2002, Ashcroft made it clear that the Justice Department intends to try. He said pornography "invades our homes persistently though the mail, phone, VCR, cable TV and the Internet," and has "strewn its victims from coast to coast."....
We should not be so harsh on Mr Ascroft. He is a good man who is just trying to save all those poor kittens.
anyway to the main point...how the fuck does porn invade your home through your phone and VCR???
This sounds great. Im no linux guru and the hardest thing I find is to install a programme that requires other files but one version is required for one app and the other for another. In this age disk space is trivial and stability and ease of use much more important. Granted many people like tinkering with their systems but for me I just want to get my work done..(and then play games).
Why is everyone here obsessed with getting the top of the range laptop to play games. It is really not needed. My laptop that is a year old costs less than 1900 euro , has a pentium 4 mobile 2.2 with 640Mb RAM and a GeForce4 420 Go and is 2.7Kg (6 pounds.... I think). This is easily good enough to play all the 3D games out there. You dont need 150 FPS because it is a LCD screen. Having a 3.6GHz HT Pentium 4 in a laptop will get really hot really quick. Then in a years time you will have a heavy hot brick of a laptop that is still fast but not very. Plus you battery life means that you can not really play away from a power socket anyway.
On the other side it is your money and you can do what you want with it. (Beer, bedroom companions, laptops...its all entertainment)
..." Ok, what if someone had a couple of servers in some other country that provided/shared music to the rest of the world - specifically another country that these monopolistic corporations can't touch? Is there such a country in the world?"
yes try http://www.sealandgov.com/
to quote from their site.... "Sealand was founded as a sovereign Principality in 1967 in international waters, six miles off the eastern shores of Britain. The island fortress is conveniently situated from 65 to 100 miles from the coasts of France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. "
There they have a ISP called HavenCo.
http://www.havenco.com
The policy is as follows........"Sealand currently has no regulations regarding copyright, patents, libel, restrictions on political speech, non-disclosure agreements, cryptography, restrictions on maintaining customer records, tax or mandatory licensing, DMCA, music sharing services, or other issues; child pornography is the only content explicitly prohibited."
They are not cheap but if it is what you want they will provide.
They have this in Portugal and nobody uses it. You cant easily check how much cash you have. If it is stolen it realy is stolen and the money is gone. And you can only use this where people take cards... no pizza delivery (no drug dealers!).
The only thing it is good for is kids and their pocket money.
SCO: you stole our stuff! Autozone: what stuff? SCO: you know... like, our stuff. Autozone:...er? we need more info than that. SCO: I could tell you but then i would have to kill you!
There is a linux distro out there called oralux at http://www.oralux.org/ it is based on Knoppix with Emacspeak mods and others. It is designed for visualy impaired people. Give it a try.
They seem like decent guys so please lets try to not/. them!!
In one way you are right but superficialy: Yes we are bound by the EULA but only to the level that it does not contradict law.
I may agree with an EULA and it may say that they can enter my house at 3am and rape me but that does not mean that they have the legal right to do so. When you sign a contract the contract is not the whole story. It is the contract and the whole of the legal code of that particular country.
As regards EULA I am always a little uneasy by the concept of making a purchace of some software and only after being presented with the terms and conditons of its use. I find something fundamentaly unfair about the whole situation. It is like me buying a car and only once I get in and turn the igniton key the salesman runs up and says you may only carry one person at a time or one piece of luggage and after 3 years you have to give it back. ANyway I am digressing from the point. The guy should go to the shop where he bought it and get his money back. Do not go after the software publisher. There are two ways of looking at this. 1- You bought the product from a shop and it is defective, you are entitiled to a refund of your money. 2- The shop acted as an agent for the software house.
The correct option will depend on the country. Personaly I prefer the first option. A shop has no interest in setting a precedent and will be more likley to settle before the court. Secondly the shop will be able to punish the software publisher more than you will. THey can threaten with future purchaces and products in all of their brances not just one lousy sale (you). Good luck and dont try for Class action. It is not quick or eficcient.
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Few points:
"If you import legally purchased marijuana you will be in violation of drug possession laws."
Yes it is illegal to IMPORT drugs.
"But can you name a law you would violate when importing a legally purchased piece of music?"
Im no expert but you might me liable for an import duty on the goods you purchaced as you are importing them. In the same way if you tried to bring a truck full of vodka into the US customs might ask for some(lots of) money.
My opinion is that it is 100% Ok to do this as you are complying with Russian copyright law. The legal grounds for this depend on where is the "official" location of the transaction. Good luck to them!
seems all is dead............ no pretty pics for me!
rant
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They want your money.
They do not want you to fix it yourself.
They want to sell you a whole new part every time!
They do not want you to buy a part from someone else.
They want you to get then to fix it in one of their repairshops.
fair enough just found the language a bit strong.
Oh thank god for a moment I thought you meant Dr Watson --- M$ peice of shit debugger, freeze your computer for 5mins, app. Glad to be wrong.
Im no expert but this seems a little harsh.
First have you asked PJ?
Second people are free to choose any license they they wish with their work.
You say: "PJ is happy to profit from other peoples' GPLd work" I say good for PJ! Would you prefer if we all did things for free?
But I dont want to pay for a RFID tag. I pay the airlines they should do their job. As regards using RFID or Barcode I DONT CARE.... my bag getting where it is going, is all i care about.
At least they get some publicity out of it.
I hope that Bill G gets sued by http://www.gates.com/ The World's Most Trusted Name in Belts, Hose and Hydraulics.
After all it is a trade mark and his "Gates" foundation is clearly in breach.
Try living in europe... where I live sales tax is 19%. Remember in the US you pay the least tax of any developed nation.
"You can install cygwin under Windows, or WINE under Linux. It all depends what your primary operating environment is."
Yes but a true master can install cygwin under Windows and then run WINE, inside WINE you can then run cygwin, inside cygwin you can then run WINE and play solitaire.
There is a point being missed here. With iTMS there is a restriction placed on what I can and cannot do in "private" with my songs. With a piece of GPL software I can do whatever I want in "private" I can print it on puchcards and burn it if I want. If however I choose to release it or sell it I am bound by the GPL. With the iTMS songs I cannot release them in "public" or sell them.. this is against copyright. Do not mistake the GPL which is a copyright liscence with the iTMS TOC which has nothing to do with copyright. (Cracking it is covered by the DMCA ...I think)
On a side point I do not think that there is any rule about you taking your iTMS songs out of the US. Removing the copy proteciton there and then bringing them back. (FYI IANAL)
I agree with what you say but we differ in matters of degree. My arguments are that percieved dangers of terrorism are far overstated and that our essential liberty is undervalued. The chances of me being killed by my wife are much higher than my demise being at the hands of terrorists. The government could better spend its efforts on health and education than "The War On Terror"
I advocate privacy on the principle that the innocent should not be punished with the guilty. The fear being generated is extremely caustic to society. I have spent much time on the other side of the iron curtain (when it was draw shut)and I have had the luck to live in England. Having seen both extremes I know which I would pick. Crime in England may have been much higher but the freedom is worth the price. There are not many countries where a policeman stops you and asks you your name and you are within your rights to say "None of your bussiness"... This seems harsh but it means that the policeman has to have good reason to suspect you. You are only obliged to give your name after you have been arrested.
You say "I'm content for the NSA to read my mail" well I have never been to the states and I am not. Let me read their private love letters and correspondence with doctors and lawyers. There is always the temptation from this kind of organisation to get the most out of their powers.
I personaly think that a touchpad is the best option for pain as you are only moving your finger. This really reduces any discomfort. May I reccommend using the middle finger for movement and the index finger for clicking. In this way you rest your palm on the edge and index finger on the button. With this setup there is almost no movement. Tip 2 relax your hand... many people really GRIP their mouse... there is no need! Tip3 take your screen breaks... not just your hands suffer but also your eyes.
"So this is the first thing we need. You want privacy? I want security more..."
... you have two guys "talking" about maybe getting hold of some chemical and making a bomb. (P.S. check out the price...1200 USD per gramme!) I would be supprised if someone was not talking about making a bomb. I can talk about becoming the new dictator of the combined European Superstate is it going to be a scoop that I am arrested and charged with attempts to overthrow all european goverments.
I cannot believe that any sane person would say this. You must protect your freedom at all costs. There is nothing more valuble than freedom. By restricting your freedoms the terrorists will have won the war. Now to go through an airport it takes much longer. Should I ever visit the US they will try and fingerprint me... so I will never go to the US.
There is a basic principle at stake that is the presumption of innocence. I am sure that every person would be serving some kind of jail time if they had had their entire lives under total scrutiny. (Ever got on a bicycle drunk, ever dropped a sweetwrapper, ever j-walked, ever smoked underage, ever kicked a vending machine?)
The point is that by restricting our freedoms we are harming ourselves not the terrorists. Do you honeslty think that 9/11 was about killing as many Americans as possible. Do you think that they thought that they would kill you all? No of course not they did it to provoke the US. Guess what it worked! Now the US is a far more unpleasant than before. Why do they insist on taking the bait?
Do not get me wrong I do not in anyway condone terrorism, I feel sorrow for all the victims. There is an other side to this that is who attacked first? Sorry t say it but we did! Imagine you at work minding your own bussiness and a warplane flies over and bombs your town. They kill some of your familly and freinds. You are going to be angry and there is a chance you are going to want revenge. The way to stop terrorism is to remove the reason for it. Killing and bombing will not solve the problem.
As a closing point never forget who trained and funded Bin Laden! (dont know... read some history)..Was fine whilst he was killing Russians was it?
As regards this bomb plot...ha ha... what bomb
(Go on mod me down)
.....In a speech in 2002, Ashcroft made it clear that the Justice Department intends to try. He said pornography "invades our homes persistently though the mail, phone, VCR, cable TV and the Internet," and has "strewn its victims from coast to coast."....
...how the fuck does porn invade your home through your phone and VCR???
We should not be so harsh on Mr Ascroft. He is a good man who is just trying to save all those poor kittens.
anyway to the main point
This sounds great. Im no linux guru and the hardest thing I find is to install a programme that requires other files but one version is required for one app and the other for another. In this age disk space is trivial and stability and ease of use much more important. Granted many people like tinkering with their systems but for me I just want to get my work done..(and then play games).
Microsoft pays EU big bag of cash. ...........Microsoft pays mrsev big bag of cash?
Microsoft pays SUN big bag of cash.
What's next?
Thanks
Makes me kind of glad I dont eat breakfast.
Gives me a kind of wicked idea that I am going to create an erotic breakfast cereal to thwart Mr K.
er... please explain?
Why is everyone here obsessed with getting the top of the range laptop to play games. It is really not needed. My laptop that is a year old costs less than 1900 euro , has a pentium 4 mobile 2.2 with 640Mb RAM and a GeForce4 420 Go and is 2.7Kg (6 pounds.... I think). This is easily good enough to play all the 3D games out there. You dont need 150 FPS because it is a LCD screen. Having a 3.6GHz HT Pentium 4 in a laptop will get really hot really quick. Then in a years time you will have a heavy hot brick of a laptop that is still fast but not very. Plus you battery life means that you can not really play away from a power socket anyway.
...its all entertainment)
On the other side it is your money and you can do what you want with it. (Beer, bedroom companions, laptops
..." Ok, what if someone had a couple of servers in some other country that provided/shared music to the rest of the world - specifically another country that these monopolistic corporations can't touch? Is there such a country in the world?"
yes try
http://www.sealandgov.com/
to quote from their site.... "Sealand was founded as a sovereign Principality in 1967 in international waters, six miles off the eastern shores of Britain. The island fortress is conveniently situated from 65 to 100 miles from the coasts of France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. "
There they have a ISP called HavenCo.
http://www.havenco.com
The policy is as follows........"Sealand currently has no regulations regarding copyright, patents, libel, restrictions on political speech, non-disclosure agreements, cryptography, restrictions on maintaining customer records, tax or mandatory licensing, DMCA, music sharing services, or other issues; child pornography is the only content explicitly prohibited."
They are not cheap but if it is what you want they will provide.
They have this in Portugal and nobody uses it. You cant easily check how much cash you have. If it is stolen it realy is stolen and the money is gone. And you can only use this where people take cards... no pizza delivery (no drug dealers!).
The only thing it is good for is kids and their pocket money.
.
SCO: you stole our stuff! ... like, our stuff. ...er? we need more info than that.
Autozone: what stuff?
SCO: you know
Autozone:
SCO: I could tell you but then i would have to kill you!
There is a linux distro out there called oralux at http://www.oralux.org/ it is based on Knoppix with Emacspeak mods and others. It is designed for visualy impaired people. Give it a try.
/. them!!
They seem like decent guys so please lets try to not
.
In one way you are right but superficialy: Yes we are bound by the EULA but only to the level that it does not contradict law.
I may agree with an EULA and it may say that they can enter my house at 3am and rape me but that does not mean that they have the legal right to do so. When you sign a contract the contract is not the whole story. It is the contract and the whole of the legal code of that particular country.
As regards EULA I am always a little uneasy by the concept of making a purchace of some software and only after being presented with the terms and conditons of its use. I find something fundamentaly unfair about the whole situation. It is like me buying a car and only once I get in and turn the igniton key the salesman runs up and says you may only carry one person at a time or one piece of luggage and after 3 years you have to give it back. ANyway I am digressing from the point. The guy should go to the shop where he bought it and get his money back. Do not go after the software publisher. There are two ways of looking at this. 1- You bought the product from a shop and it is defective, you are entitiled to a refund of your money. 2- The shop acted as an agent for the software house.
The correct option will depend on the country. Personaly I prefer the first option. A shop has no interest in setting a precedent and will be more likley to settle before the court. Secondly the shop will be able to punish the software publisher more than you will. THey can threaten with future purchaces and products in all of their brances not just one lousy sale (you). Good luck and dont try for Class action. It is not quick or eficcient.
(I am not a lawyer... blah blah blah)
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