setting aside the fact that copyright infringement is not theft, who said I download copyrighted works? The OP suggested that if someone copied something I created, I would instantly change my political opinion about what the Pirate Bay guys are doing. I don't think this is true.
Oh, your whole post was based on a fallacy and a flawed assumption? Sorry about that.
Violating the laws to try to get them change- as some people promote- is a stupid strategy. All it does is harden the positions of copyright holders, lawmakers and courts against such actions.
Yeah, I think it was poor strategy for all those black people to try and register to vote, go to high school and university, ride buses, and sit at lunch counters to eat their sandwiches. They would have been much better off if they had just asked Governor George Wallace nicely, to end segregation. That way they wouldn't have pissed so many people off.
Here's my painting. You'll notice it's 'licensed' under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Copy this painting even in breach of its license (which may be illegal or unlawful in your jurisdiction) and I will still maintain that the major record labels and movie studios are a corrupt cartel, and that the guys behind the Pirate Bay are both visionaries and heroes.
I work for a majorly evil lobbying company. As a whistleblowing service to the internet community, and at great personal risk, I can reveal here the text of the proposed amendment. This is the original paragraph:
9. [The European Parliament] urges the Commission to rethink the critical issue of intellectual property from the cultural and economic point of view and to invite all those active in the sector to join forces and seek solutions equitable to all, in the interest of a balance between the opportunities for access to cultural events and content and intellectual property; draws Member States' attention on this point to the fact that criminalising consumers so as to combat digital piracy is not the right solution;
and this is the amendment which we submitted and was rejected:
9. [The European Parliament] urges the Commission to rethink the critical issue of intellectual property from the cultural and economic point of view and to invite all those active in the sector to join forces and seek solutions equitable to all, in the interest of a balance between the opportunities for access to cultural events and content and intellectual property; draws Member States' attention on this point to the fact that criminalising consumers so as to combat digital piracy is the right solution;
Also 'Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver' for playstation which worked quite fantastically without load screens. Sometimes going thru portals takes a few seconds (literally, 2 or 3), but you can walk thru the whole game without teleporting and without any pausing or freezing, ever.
This shows that it is not a real issue of hardware limitations like some people have written above as this was on the (underpowered by todays console or PC standards) PS1 and the graphics/sounds aren't particularly crap for that game. Oh, it's because graphics have got a lot better on games since then? This is all you need to know about the games industry - chasing more and more advanced 'realism' instead of making architectural changes to games engines which really improve gameplay.
The fact that Red Hat do alright by selling software which is available and accessible costfree to anyone, means that the assumptions made in this article (and by much of the proprietary software industry) are obsolete.
Perhaps you would think that someone who's as big a smart-ass as you would have learnt by now how to change/add a single parameter in a file called, very confusingly,/etc/xorg.conf, and even maybe figured out how to do so on the command line in single-user mode.
No? You haven't? Fuck off back to being Vista's gimp then.
Why is it better to buy something that will cost money, than to use something you already have that is going to waste, even if that (completely free) performance is inferior?
Maybe you want to be able to prove that's it's you in the photo. What the police have done has proved that the swirl isn't a one-way function - but if you thought it was you might want to produce the original photo and show someone that it was really your face.
As others have pointed out here, a blur, especially a gaussian blur, is mathematically trivial to undo. The only difficulties come from the fact that the blur an image editing program applies isn't a true gaussian - because of rounding and the fact that the picture plane isn't infinite.
these are very very familiar words in the UK to anyone who reads/watches the news since 'pensioner' is what you might call a 'senior' and 'manslaughter' is 'thrid-degree murder'.
>It is just that most people have second thoughts when they are facing the dripping fang vampire all alone.
Agreed. Where is the legal defense fund for these guys?
Personally, I won't buy CDs not because I am cheap, but because I don't want to support corrupt dinosaur industries acting in such immoral ways towards consumers. I would gladly pay a few dollars of the hundreds and hundreds I've saved by downloading music to an organization that would give the students involved legal advice, and eventually fight a test case on their behalf.
OpenBSD is a respected operating system that is relied upon by communities and businesses across the world. It deserves, and demands, a stable leadership committed to creating the best operating system they can.
Crap. OpenBSD became the respected and secure operating system it is, because it has an unstable leadership composed of borderline lunatics without any sense of perspective, committed to creating the best operating system they can.
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where some posts the exact same comment, and a bunch of people reply to say that they did call them Beebs. HTH
definitely called it a beeb, as did my friend who actually owned one
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s/people/lawyers/
because the diameter of the eastern hemisphere is 800 miles.
lol, thanks for your feedback.
Watched many Hollywood movies lately? Let's not go there..
setting aside the fact that copyright infringement is not theft, who said I download copyrighted works? The OP suggested that if someone copied something I created, I would instantly change my political opinion about what the Pirate Bay guys are doing. I don't think this is true.
Oh, your whole post was based on a fallacy and a flawed assumption? Sorry about that.
Here's my painting. You'll notice it's 'licensed' under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Copy this painting even in breach of its license (which may be illegal or unlawful in your jurisdiction) and I will still maintain that the major record labels and movie studios are a corrupt cartel, and that the guys behind the Pirate Bay are both visionaries and heroes.
what the fuck are you talking about?
Also 'Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver' for playstation which worked quite fantastically without load screens. Sometimes going thru portals takes a few seconds (literally, 2 or 3), but you can walk thru the whole game without teleporting and without any pausing or freezing, ever.
This shows that it is not a real issue of hardware limitations like some people have written above as this was on the (underpowered by todays console or PC standards) PS1 and the graphics/sounds aren't particularly crap for that game. Oh, it's because graphics have got a lot better on games since then? This is all you need to know about the games industry - chasing more and more advanced 'realism' instead of making architectural changes to games engines which really improve gameplay.
Did you buy the CPU from Red Hat???!!??
The fact that Red Hat do alright by selling software which is available and accessible costfree to anyone, means that the assumptions made in this article (and by much of the proprietary software industry) are obsolete.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roulette
Perhaps you would think that someone who's as big a smart-ass as you would have learnt by now how to change/add a single parameter in a file called, very confusingly, /etc/xorg.conf, and even maybe figured out how to do so on the command line in single-user mode.
No? You haven't? Fuck off back to being Vista's gimp then.
But I thought my new sig shows the nicest turn of phrase and (unintentional?) use of punning of all the above emails
Why is it better to buy something that will cost money, than to use something you already have that is going to waste, even if that (completely free) performance is inferior?
Maybe you want to be able to prove that's it's you in the photo. What the police have done has proved that the swirl isn't a one-way function - but if you thought it was you might want to produce the original photo and show someone that it was really your face.
As others have pointed out here, a blur, especially a gaussian blur, is mathematically trivial to undo. The only difficulties come from the fact that the blur an image editing program applies isn't a true gaussian - because of rounding and the fact that the picture plane isn't infinite.
There is in fact no accent on the 'e' in the Spanish word "Bolero".
these are very very familiar words in the UK to anyone who reads/watches the news since 'pensioner' is what you might call a 'senior' and 'manslaughter' is 'thrid-degree murder'.
It's nice to hear that you're putting into practice security policies based on information you're getting from Wikipedia.
>It is just that most people have second thoughts when they are facing the dripping fang vampire all alone.
Agreed. Where is the legal defense fund for these guys?
Personally, I won't buy CDs not because I am cheap, but because I don't want to support corrupt dinosaur industries acting in such immoral ways towards consumers. I would gladly pay a few dollars of the hundreds and hundreds I've saved by downloading music to an organization that would give the students involved legal advice, and eventually fight a test case on their behalf.