I'm not against copyright in general. I'm against the part where freely sharing art is illegal. I don't want to be able to sell someone else's art, or charge for access to it, or say it's mine, or alter it, or use it for self-promotion. THOSE are what copyright law should be stopping. Those are the things that 60 million Americans AREN'T doing.
If you think 60 million Americans are wrong, then your so far right of freedom that you'd make Lenin look like center left.
Civil rights for minorities happened because lots of people supported. Democracy at its best -- the black civil rights movement convinced so many people of the justness of their cause that the laws were changed. Democracy supported civil rights movement.
The RIAA, on the other hand, is only supported by a small minority of rich businessman and the fascists who support their anti-democratic enforcement of a copyright system that most Americans don't believe in. Democracy does not support the RIAA.
As for Nazi Germany, it was a dictatorship by the time Germany started making bad trouble. As a democracy, Germany was quite benign.
That's exactly what the British said (more or less) when Americans didn't want to pay taxes to them. Democracy is more important than petty little property laws.
Also, if I could suck my own cock, do you really think I'd be wasting my time at this keyboard?:P
MORE AMERICANS ENGAGE IN FILE-SHARING THAN VOTE IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS.
Anyone who disagrees with file-sharing is flying in the face of democracy. American copyright law is unjust, and ignores the beliefs of the American people. To continue enforcing it is raw fascism.
At the end of the day, the manner in which the RIAA conducts business is legal, though obviously immoral. Willing copyright infringement is not.
It has never been legal to issue subpoenas without due process. Why the RIAA was given that power is beyond comprehension. Actually, it's entirely within comprehension: they give the government lots of money.
JBuilder and Eclipse, arguably two of the most popular Java IDEs, do tons of code generation for you.
Seriously, what kind of programmer is wasting their time writing accessors and mutators anyway?
This goes doubly so for generating skeletons of implemented interfaces or extended subclasses. Java coding benefits so strongly from this that it's almost unimaginable to do it any other way.
Consider this lovely irony: Linux doesn't support Kazaa, the number one file-sharing utility (if Kazaa disappeared, so would the majority of internet file-sharing). And yet the music industry is working to ENFORCE the Windows monopoly of the desktop by releasing copy-protected CDs that will only play in Windows (or on a Macintosh, which barely counts:P ).
Ironically, independent musicians usually have sell their CDs for next to nothing, because it gets them exposure. They usually have to beg radio stations to play their music at all, and they NEVER charge.
Independent musicians make their money from live performances. It's always been that way, at least since the patronage system died. Only popular, mainstream musician expect to make money of off what is basically promotional material.
And me almost done my Computer Science degree , too. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to get a Business Administration degree. North America always has lots of jobs available for a guy who's willing to do less work for more money.
This device sounds excellent. It does exactly what a privacy tool should -- it provides consumers with choice, rather than just arbitrarily having to accept whatever oligopolists throw at them.
I've heard that a great (yet simple) way to manage requests is to give the customer write access to a spreadsheet that stores a prioritized list of work requests. You always work on whatever is at the top of the list.
This allows customers / bosses to assign new tasks as they see fit, but helps to make clear the fact that prioritization is necessary, and that a new request may be neglected or may push out other necessary tasks.
What I like most about Mozilla is that it's helped to fire up competition in the browser market. The many Gecko browsers, the renewed interest in Opera, the success of Konqueror, and others; Mozilla has helped to fuel this renaissance.
What's a google bar? Firebird already has a search bar right beside the address bar, which can be set to use any search engine you like. Does the IE "GoogleBar" do something more fancy than that?
Why does everyone assume that copyright infringement is illegal? More Americans download MP3s than vote in federal elections; the basic principles of democracy would imply that copyright infringement is legal (and that the Bush government, which is ignoring the will of the people, is therefore illegitimate).
This is Florida, the state that assumes that if you're Black or Jewish, you're also a felon.
They're probably operating under the belief that everyone is cheating the government anyway, so why not treat them like the criminals that they obviously are?
As a result, I'm receiving thousands of bounced messages claiming I sent a virus. This is costly, let alone wrong! I didn't send you that virus!
My e-mail address is plastered all over the internet too, and I got 500 Spams this evening. The difference? I don't use crappy software like Outlook. I use Mozilla Messenger, and it ate those Spams and spit them out. All 500 went straight to the junk folder -- including the bounces (which, oddly enough, seem to come primarily from french-speaking countries for me).
So stop your whining, and "invest" in some quality software. If your e-mail system can't handle cruft, you have no-one but yourself to blame.
I didn't think it was possible, but there's a country that has even LESS balls than the US. Does Britain even have elections any more? Maybe the British supreme court picks the parliment, just like the US supreme courts picks the president now.:P
No, I kid. But you should all read "Stupid White Men", by Michael Moore.
I'm sure all of us in the castrated portions of the IP world are wishing the citizens of the EU luck with their protests. It would be nice to think that innovation and freedom still have a home somewhere in the world.
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I'm not against copyright in general. I'm against the part where freely sharing art is illegal. I don't want to be able to sell someone else's art, or charge for access to it, or say it's mine, or alter it, or use it for self-promotion. THOSE are what copyright law should be stopping. Those are the things that 60 million Americans AREN'T doing.
If you think 60 million Americans are wrong, then your so far right of freedom that you'd make Lenin look like center left.
Civil rights for minorities happened because lots of people supported. Democracy at its best -- the black civil rights movement convinced so many people of the justness of their cause that the laws were changed. Democracy supported civil rights movement.
The RIAA, on the other hand, is only supported by a small minority of rich businessman and the fascists who support their anti-democratic enforcement of a copyright system that most Americans don't believe in. Democracy does not support the RIAA.
As for Nazi Germany, it was a dictatorship by the time Germany started making bad trouble. As a democracy, Germany was quite benign.
Go live in China, and then tell me that it's okay when the will of the people is ignored.
That's exactly what the British said (more or less) when Americans didn't want to pay taxes to them. Democracy is more important than petty little property laws.
Also, if I could suck my own cock, do you really think I'd be wasting my time at this keyboard? :P
Shhh. Be quiet, or you'll spoil the surprise! Why ruin the RIAA's best joke on the American people yet!
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
MORE AMERICANS ENGAGE IN FILE-SHARING THAN VOTE IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS.
Anyone who disagrees with file-sharing is flying in the face of democracy. American copyright law is unjust, and ignores the beliefs of the American people. To continue enforcing it is raw fascism.
JBuilder and Eclipse, arguably two of the most popular Java IDEs, do tons of code generation for you.
Seriously, what kind of programmer is wasting their time writing accessors and mutators anyway?
This goes doubly so for generating skeletons of implemented interfaces or extended subclasses. Java coding benefits so strongly from this that it's almost unimaginable to do it any other way.
Consider this lovely irony: Linux doesn't support Kazaa, the number one file-sharing utility (if Kazaa disappeared, so would the majority of internet file-sharing). And yet the music industry is working to ENFORCE the Windows monopoly of the desktop by releasing copy-protected CDs that will only play in Windows (or on a Macintosh, which barely counts :P ).
Ironically, independent musicians usually have sell their CDs for next to nothing, because it gets them exposure. They usually have to beg radio stations to play their music at all, and they NEVER charge.
Independent musicians make their money from live performances. It's always been that way, at least since the patronage system died. Only popular, mainstream musician expect to make money of off what is basically promotional material.
And me almost done my Computer Science degree , too. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to get a Business Administration degree. North America always has lots of jobs available for a guy who's willing to do less work for more money.
This device sounds excellent. It does exactly what a privacy tool should -- it provides consumers with choice, rather than just arbitrarily having to accept whatever oligopolists throw at them.
I've heard that a great (yet simple) way to manage requests is to give the customer write access to a spreadsheet that stores a prioritized list of work requests. You always work on whatever is at the top of the list.
This allows customers / bosses to assign new tasks as they see fit, but helps to make clear the fact that prioritization is necessary, and that a new request may be neglected or may push out other necessary tasks.
What I like most about Mozilla is that it's helped to fire up competition in the browser market. The many Gecko browsers, the renewed interest in Opera, the success of Konqueror, and others; Mozilla has helped to fuel this renaissance.
What's a google bar? Firebird already has a search bar right beside the address bar, which can be set to use any search engine you like. Does the IE "GoogleBar" do something more fancy than that?
Why does everyone assume that copyright infringement is illegal? More Americans download MP3s than vote in federal elections; the basic principles of democracy would imply that copyright infringement is legal (and that the Bush government, which is ignoring the will of the people, is therefore illegitimate).
This is Florida, the state that assumes that if you're Black or Jewish, you're also a felon.
They're probably operating under the belief that everyone is cheating the government anyway, so why not treat them like the criminals that they obviously are?
My e-mail address is plastered all over the internet too, and I got 500 Spams this evening. The difference? I don't use crappy software like Outlook. I use Mozilla Messenger, and it ate those Spams and spit them out. All 500 went straight to the junk folder -- including the bounces (which, oddly enough, seem to come primarily from french-speaking countries for me).
So stop your whining, and "invest" in some quality software. If your e-mail system can't handle cruft, you have no-one but yourself to blame.
I didn't think it was possible, but there's a country that has even LESS balls than the US. Does Britain even have elections any more? Maybe the British supreme court picks the parliment, just like the US supreme courts picks the president now. :P
No, I kid. But you should all read "Stupid White Men", by Michael Moore.
Too bad there isn't some way for North Americans to show our support.
Sigh... yet another situation that could be solved by remote holograms.
Sheeple. That's hilarious!
You obviously don't talk out your ass enough. It almost always gets an insightful. :P
How cases of DMCA prosecution have their been? Hardly any, but that doesn't make it any more just.
Unjust legislation must be fought. It is insufficient to simply hope it wont be enforced, like some sort of naive child.
I'm sure all of us in the castrated portions of the IP world are wishing the citizens of the EU luck with their protests. It would be nice to think that innovation and freedom still have a home somewhere in the world.