They stole the music ? You mean the original copyright holders can't listen to their own songs anymore ? Man, that's just criminal. I guess the rest of us can't listen anymore either, if it's already been stolen. Damn. I'll miss Britney Spears.
keep the USA safe from soccer Moms with sippy cups full of water, homeland security and TSA are competent. Anything more complex, and they are all butterfingers. Even the name "Homeland Security" freaks me out, not because they have extraordinary powers that threaten me, but because the name reminds me of something out of 1984 type double speak, sort of a Stalin-esk soviet type of pun. I suspect Homeland Security is much more likely to be applied against citizens of the homeland than it is likely to be applied against any enemy of America.
I don't buy support myself, but I do quite a bit of small time consulting for individuals and a few small businesses, and I'll be recommending RedHat without reservation. Ubuntu and Mandriva also, for those without a need for a distro certified to work with Oracle or similar product. Vote with your wallet, when you can folks. Novell drank the cool aid, RedHat, Ubuntu, and Mandriva turned down millions simply to avoid pissing us off, time to reward them for it, when we can.
Which almost never happens. It happens so rarely that it makes the news when it does, and even then, these guys spend years out on bail while they appeal. Then they go to a country club "prison", and get out early anyway, when they aren't out on "work release". They are almost never punished to begin with, and the few times they get busted are not a deterrent to the rest of them.
Because their interest is in screwing us over. Only a citizen should have the right to donate to (bribe) a public official. Letting a corporation have the same rights as a citizen with none of the responsibility is damaging to a democracy. A corporation has sociopathic tendenceys, because of the power/lack of accountability combination. I don't want them bribing public officials who make laws that affect me. You can't throw a corporation in prison.
You could contact the copyright owner and ask them if you can include that code in your GPLv3 project. If it's a single copyright holder you have a pretty good chance. If it's the kernel, with 100's or 1000's of contributors, well, your mileage may vary.
Best of luck....
That it's patents are worth something when it has to PAY everyone to license them ? Isn't the point to COLLECT money for your patents ? I know they have a long term plan and more money than god, but I don't believe this will pay off in the future. I think by the time this deal, and the others like it even start to recoup M$'s investment, there will be some form of patent reform, that will make these deals useless.
I am absolutely not a Nationalist. If anything I'm an isolationist. I think present America has serous problems. Calling me a nationalist when you know nothing about me is no different from me calling you a Nazi. Russians did suffer huge casualties. They also played a major role in starting the war in the first place. Hitler would have been slowed considerably in his war with Western Europe without Stalin's non-aggression pact. I'm much too young to have participated in WWII, but I grew up hearing many first hand accounts of it, as my grandfather fought all over Europe. Even spent 6 weeks in Moscow at the end of the war. And the reward being mostly for the Americans ? The French might not agree with you. Well, the French might, they are French after all. But they shouldn't. That statement is ridiculous.
So let me get this straight. The first post, perhaps you lost track in your haste to bash America, but the first post I replied to thought the EU should use economic muscle to force the USA to remove a DEFENSIVE missile system from European soil. Never mind asking Russia to stop pointing Nukes at them, he thinks Europeans should bitch that America has missiles on their soil to SHOOT DOWN the nukes. Think about that a minute. One country has nukes pointed AT him. The USA puts in an incomplete NUKE shield system, that would also protect his own nation. And he doesn't think the guy pointing the damn nukes at him is the bad guy ? He thinks the guy with the arrows to SHOOT DOWN the nukes (pointed at HIM) is the bad guy ? And you think Americans are in the wrong here ? That is exactly the type of thinking that leads Americans like myself to believe the Nazi's conquered all of Europe so easily because you guys can't think your way out of paper bag. It's not like the Nazi's were real sharp guys.
Just for your information. I don't believe America should have invaded Iraq. And the poster I was rude to implied that living under the Nazi's or Communism could in any way compare to living in a nation protected by America. (Japan or Germany might not agree. I think the former East Germans have some strong feeling on this matter.)
The people who started the war in Iraq are dumbasses. Every one here in the USA knows it. Even the republicans know it now. But if the Nazi's or the Soviets invaded there is no doubt they would have succeded, where the USA is failing. The Nazi's or the Soviets would use the same brutal tactics Saddam used to supress the Iraqi's. You doing notice the insurgents pulling this shit against Saddam ? He would have murdered their whole damn village, and no one would have tried again. Case closed.
Do I think Europe should let the USA do anything it wants to ? NO. Do I think Europe should let the USA put defensive missiles in Europe, to defend against nukes ? Well yeah. How can you not ? Maybe you would rather just deal with the nukes huh ? Good plan.
And you think it would have been good for the Hungarians if America invaded Hungry or even just gave the Hungarians weapons to fight the Soviets at the zenith of their power, when they had the means, and will to make 20 million of their own people disappear without consequence ? It would have been a complete blood bath. It would have been WW3. But this time the belligerent partys had nukes.
You are free to code any damn thing you want. If you use GPLv3 code you need to respect the wishes of the writers of that code, code you use for free. Release your own code under any damn license you want to. It's yours. If you don't like the terms of GPLv3 then don't use it, and certainly don't complain about code others wrote and gave to you without cost, asking only that you return the favor, and release any improvements you DISTRIBUTE back for others to use and improve. If you don't like GPLv3, just don't use it.
You are Hungarian ? So you believe the USA shouldn't send Americans to die for Iraq. (I agree with you by the way.) But you think Americans should have invaded to save your nation ? You sound like the French. It's great for a few hundred thousand American's to die for French freedom, but it's evil for a few thousand American's to die for Iraqi freedom ?
Ok, you got me there. That is true. But they deserved it. Don't kick the big kid in the balls then complain he kicks your ass. We could have nuked stalin in the early 50's, before they had the bomb, and didn't. (Probably would have saved Millions of Russian lives too. Stalin killed 20 million of his own people.) Could have nuked any number of dinky little evil tin hat dictators or Islamist crazys, and didn't. Russia has nothing to worry about, from DEFENSIVE missiles.
You ungrateful ass. You and the all of Europe would still be dragging your sorry asses out of a decades long economic hangover from communism if it wasn't for the weapons and protection of the USA. That is, if you weren't sitting around trying to figure out how to get the damn nazi's that a few hundred thousand Americans died to defeat, not even to keep you free, but to FREE your already defeated ass. Maybe the next time some fascist defeats your country in an afternoon we'll let them keep it.
These are defensive missiles. There are no "crazy dangeous games" you CAN play with defensive missiles. If the USA was going to ever nuke anyone first, it wouldn't Russia. There is no doubt it would be North Korea or Iran, and the USA still hasn't done either. Pretending otherwise just displays your bias. Have fun with that, you are in the right place for it.
Most sex offenders who GET CAUGHT are morons. There are far more who are never even suspected. I worked with a sex offender (as his minder, sort of). I had to attend some of his group sessions. Nearly 100% of CAUGHT sex offenders in this county were borderline retarded or worse. These people only get CAUGHT because they are even more brutally stupid than the police. The brighter ones never get caught.
Myspace might be able to find these already caught already verified brutally stupid sex offenders, but the ones we need to worry about won't even spike the radar this way. More power to them.
And for the people who claim this is a violation of the sex offender rights, they almost always agree to some sort of supervison, as a condition of their release. You lose certain rights when you are convicted of a crime. (Right to vote, in many states, for one, there are many others.) I have no problem with privacy being one of them, for convicted felons.
Dell won't make linux look good. Especially to the budget demographic they cater to. Dell sold my ex's Mom a pentium 4 computer, pre-loaded with windowsXP, with, get this, 128mb of ram. It ran slower than my windows95 pentium 1 box with 32mb of ram. She paid over a grand for it. They completely crippled a $1000 machine to save less than $25. They will do the same to Ubuntu. There is no way this will be a success for Ubuntu. Most people who want linux are going to pay the extra $40 that windows will cost anyway, and just install their favorite distro anyway. So sales will be terrible, AND the few linux boxes they sell will make linux look bad, as they will surely be crippled by Dell, don't even get me started with bloatware. The only place linux might come out ahead in this deal is if Dell can find some big corporate customers who want Ubuntu on the desktop. This is the one and only place this deal can shine, everything else comes out as a net negative for linux. I wish they would just leave linux alone. Let a company that cares about linux do something like this.
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If it's the government doing it in a criminal case. For civilians in general or to gather evidence for a civil suit, the rules are different.
They stole the music ? You mean the original copyright holders can't listen to their own songs anymore ? Man, that's just criminal. I guess the rest of us can't listen anymore either, if it's already been stolen. Damn. I'll miss Britney Spears.
keep the USA safe from soccer Moms with sippy cups full of water, homeland security and TSA are competent. Anything more complex, and they are all butterfingers. Even the name "Homeland Security" freaks me out, not because they have extraordinary powers that threaten me, but because the name reminds me of something out of 1984 type double speak, sort of a Stalin-esk soviet type of pun. I suspect Homeland Security is much more likely to be applied against citizens of the homeland than it is likely to be applied against any enemy of America.
I don't buy support myself, but I do quite a bit of small time consulting for individuals and a few small businesses, and I'll be recommending RedHat without reservation. Ubuntu and Mandriva also, for those without a need for a distro certified to work with Oracle or similar product. Vote with your wallet, when you can folks. Novell drank the cool aid, RedHat, Ubuntu, and Mandriva turned down millions simply to avoid pissing us off, time to reward them for it, when we can.
A corporation is a "person" in the eyes of the law.
Which almost never happens. It happens so rarely that it makes the news when it does, and even then, these guys spend years out on bail while they appeal. Then they go to a country club "prison", and get out early anyway, when they aren't out on "work release". They are almost never punished to begin with, and the few times they get busted are not a deterrent to the rest of them.
Because their interest is in screwing us over. Only a citizen should have the right to donate to (bribe) a public official. Letting a corporation have the same rights as a citizen with none of the responsibility is damaging to a democracy. A corporation has sociopathic tendenceys, because of the power/lack of accountability combination. I don't want them bribing public officials who make laws that affect me. You can't throw a corporation in prison.
You could contact the copyright owner and ask them if you can include that code in your GPLv3 project. If it's a single copyright holder you have a pretty good chance. If it's the kernel, with 100's or 1000's of contributors, well, your mileage may vary. Best of luck....
why they won't lose their common carrier status if they start discriminating between different types of traffic ?
That it's patents are worth something when it has to PAY everyone to license them ? Isn't the point to COLLECT money for your patents ? I know they have a long term plan and more money than god, but I don't believe this will pay off in the future. I think by the time this deal, and the others like it even start to recoup M$'s investment, there will be some form of patent reform, that will make these deals useless.
I am absolutely not a Nationalist. If anything I'm an isolationist. I think present America has serous problems. Calling me a nationalist when you know nothing about me is no different from me calling you a Nazi. Russians did suffer huge casualties. They also played a major role in starting the war in the first place. Hitler would have been slowed considerably in his war with Western Europe without Stalin's non-aggression pact. I'm much too young to have participated in WWII, but I grew up hearing many first hand accounts of it, as my grandfather fought all over Europe. Even spent 6 weeks in Moscow at the end of the war. And the reward being mostly for the Americans ? The French might not agree with you. Well, the French might, they are French after all. But they shouldn't. That statement is ridiculous.
So let me get this straight. The first post, perhaps you lost track in your haste to bash America, but the first post I replied to thought the EU should use economic muscle to force the USA to remove a DEFENSIVE missile system from European soil. Never mind asking Russia to stop pointing Nukes at them, he thinks Europeans should bitch that America has missiles on their soil to SHOOT DOWN the nukes. Think about that a minute. One country has nukes pointed AT him. The USA puts in an incomplete NUKE shield system, that would also protect his own nation. And he doesn't think the guy pointing the damn nukes at him is the bad guy ? He thinks the guy with the arrows to SHOOT DOWN the nukes (pointed at HIM) is the bad guy ? And you think Americans are in the wrong here ? That is exactly the type of thinking that leads Americans like myself to believe the Nazi's conquered all of Europe so easily because you guys can't think your way out of paper bag. It's not like the Nazi's were real sharp guys. Just for your information. I don't believe America should have invaded Iraq. And the poster I was rude to implied that living under the Nazi's or Communism could in any way compare to living in a nation protected by America. (Japan or Germany might not agree. I think the former East Germans have some strong feeling on this matter.) The people who started the war in Iraq are dumbasses. Every one here in the USA knows it. Even the republicans know it now. But if the Nazi's or the Soviets invaded there is no doubt they would have succeded, where the USA is failing. The Nazi's or the Soviets would use the same brutal tactics Saddam used to supress the Iraqi's. You doing notice the insurgents pulling this shit against Saddam ? He would have murdered their whole damn village, and no one would have tried again. Case closed. Do I think Europe should let the USA do anything it wants to ? NO. Do I think Europe should let the USA put defensive missiles in Europe, to defend against nukes ? Well yeah. How can you not ? Maybe you would rather just deal with the nukes huh ? Good plan.
And you think it would have been good for the Hungarians if America invaded Hungry or even just gave the Hungarians weapons to fight the Soviets at the zenith of their power, when they had the means, and will to make 20 million of their own people disappear without consequence ? It would have been a complete blood bath. It would have been WW3. But this time the belligerent partys had nukes.
I'm exactly what most of the world dislikes about Americans. I'm right.
You are free to code any damn thing you want. If you use GPLv3 code you need to respect the wishes of the writers of that code, code you use for free. Release your own code under any damn license you want to. It's yours. If you don't like the terms of GPLv3 then don't use it, and certainly don't complain about code others wrote and gave to you without cost, asking only that you return the favor, and release any improvements you DISTRIBUTE back for others to use and improve. If you don't like GPLv3, just don't use it.
It's a big world Mr Mystery. I'm not in the history biz. Just a guy who likes to read.
You are Hungarian ? So you believe the USA shouldn't send Americans to die for Iraq. (I agree with you by the way.) But you think Americans should have invaded to save your nation ? You sound like the French. It's great for a few hundred thousand American's to die for French freedom, but it's evil for a few thousand American's to die for Iraqi freedom ?
I'm sure lots happened in 56. Happened to whom is the question. I read a bit of history, and would love to know who the hell you are talking about.
Ok, you got me there. That is true. But they deserved it. Don't kick the big kid in the balls then complain he kicks your ass. We could have nuked stalin in the early 50's, before they had the bomb, and didn't. (Probably would have saved Millions of Russian lives too. Stalin killed 20 million of his own people.) Could have nuked any number of dinky little evil tin hat dictators or Islamist crazys, and didn't. Russia has nothing to worry about, from DEFENSIVE missiles.
When the alternative is Nazi's or Communists ? Yeah, be pretty fucking grateful.
And what nation would that be ?
You ungrateful ass. You and the all of Europe would still be dragging your sorry asses out of a decades long economic hangover from communism if it wasn't for the weapons and protection of the USA. That is, if you weren't sitting around trying to figure out how to get the damn nazi's that a few hundred thousand Americans died to defeat, not even to keep you free, but to FREE your already defeated ass. Maybe the next time some fascist defeats your country in an afternoon we'll let them keep it.
These are defensive missiles. There are no "crazy dangeous games" you CAN play with defensive missiles. If the USA was going to ever nuke anyone first, it wouldn't Russia. There is no doubt it would be North Korea or Iran, and the USA still hasn't done either. Pretending otherwise just displays your bias. Have fun with that, you are in the right place for it.
Most sex offenders who GET CAUGHT are morons. There are far more who are never even suspected. I worked with a sex offender (as his minder, sort of). I had to attend some of his group sessions. Nearly 100% of CAUGHT sex offenders in this county were borderline retarded or worse. These people only get CAUGHT because they are even more brutally stupid than the police. The brighter ones never get caught. Myspace might be able to find these already caught already verified brutally stupid sex offenders, but the ones we need to worry about won't even spike the radar this way. More power to them. And for the people who claim this is a violation of the sex offender rights, they almost always agree to some sort of supervison, as a condition of their release. You lose certain rights when you are convicted of a crime. (Right to vote, in many states, for one, there are many others.) I have no problem with privacy being one of them, for convicted felons.
Dell won't make linux look good. Especially to the budget demographic they cater to. Dell sold my ex's Mom a pentium 4 computer, pre-loaded with windowsXP, with, get this, 128mb of ram. It ran slower than my windows95 pentium 1 box with 32mb of ram. She paid over a grand for it. They completely crippled a $1000 machine to save less than $25. They will do the same to Ubuntu. There is no way this will be a success for Ubuntu. Most people who want linux are going to pay the extra $40 that windows will cost anyway, and just install their favorite distro anyway. So sales will be terrible, AND the few linux boxes they sell will make linux look bad, as they will surely be crippled by Dell, don't even get me started with bloatware. The only place linux might come out ahead in this deal is if Dell can find some big corporate customers who want Ubuntu on the desktop. This is the one and only place this deal can shine, everything else comes out as a net negative for linux. I wish they would just leave linux alone. Let a company that cares about linux do something like this.