For general human rights I'm right with you. I also agree that it's very important that property rights are maintained, but I believe property rights to be a subset of human rights.
Property rights are the difference between free people and serfs or slaves. What Sony, along with the rest of the content industry, is trying to do is to quite literally turn us all into "digital serfs!"
There is also an insidious creep in the reasoning for war, and in the acceptance of collateral damage ( people who have had their human rights denied in the most permanent way ).
If you wish to trivialize the rationale behind this "war on Sony," then the collateral damage (Sony patrons' loss of use of the Playstation network and leaking of personal info) must be considered similarly trivial. The hackers aren't killing anybody, despite you trying to conflate it as such!
War over human rights, war over oil, war on inanimate objects ( drugs ). You're defending the idea of war over functionality in a games console ?
No, you're defending the absurd idea that hacking Sony's website is somehow equivalent to calling in the damn Marines!
First of all, you only mentioned some sensationally graphic drivel about parents an children, not anything about any "entire society." It makes no real difference to your argument, but I'd thank you not to try to put words in my mouth.
Secondly, most emphatically YES I do think slow erosion of fundamental property rights is more important! In a war, the enemy is well-defined and easy to fight. A slow erosion, in contrast, is insidious, and much more dangerous to my rights and freedoms in the long run.
On the contrary, the subtle difference is that one is merely individuals being injured or killed, while the other is the irrevocable destruction of the principle on which our society is based (i.e., sovereignty over personal property).
Well, Big Media is kind of right (in this narrowly-defined situation) -- everything you write is copyrighted by you. It's just that that's irrelevant, because if you don't distribute it then it's also essentially a [trade] secret, which is a stronger protection.
The cheap stuff is intended to appeal to builders (hence, "builder grade"), not the masses. The masses don't buy fixtures; they just keep whatever their house comes with.
And even almost-low-end appliances come in stainless steel now.
(We'd put all the telephone sanitizers on the 3rd ship, right?)
Keep in mind that the third ship people were ultimately the only ones who survived (the people on the other two ships were killed off by disease spread via dirty telephones).
We were halfway there with the first iMac. Putting in more memory was a matter of using a coin to open a little hatch and then putting the memory right into the slots underneath. Apple since moved to designs where it isn't so simple....
It's still almost that simple, except now you need a Philips screwdriver instead of a coin. (Considering that I pay for everything with a card, I'm more likely to have a Philips screwdriver than a coin anyway, so I think that's an improvement!)
Honestly though, research has shown that Dolphins can keep track of at least 100 different words... compare that to a great ape which is capable of up to a couple thousand... then compare that to a human which is capable of tens of thousands.
Humans raised in society are capable of keeping track of tens of thousands of words. Humans raised in linguistic isolation (google "feral children") are pretty comparable to the apes or dolphins.
This looks like it needs a concrete trough; something we can build with an extrusion machine if needed. (Look them up; they make extrusion machines for bridges; why not this?)
Such a thing wouldn't even be new; they already make concrete sewer pipes that big. All you'd need to do is cut them in half (or rather, mold half a pipe in the first place).
What do you mean? Atheists don't have souls but everybody else does? I can see believing that everybody has one or that everybody doesn't, but the idea that each person may or may not have one according to their opinion on the subject is uncommonly odd...
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I was under the impression that France reprocessed their waste/fuel.
Property rights are the difference between free people and serfs or slaves. What Sony, along with the rest of the content industry, is trying to do is to quite literally turn us all into "digital serfs!"
If you wish to trivialize the rationale behind this "war on Sony," then the collateral damage (Sony patrons' loss of use of the Playstation network and leaking of personal info) must be considered similarly trivial. The hackers aren't killing anybody, despite you trying to conflate it as such!
No, you're defending the absurd idea that hacking Sony's website is somehow equivalent to calling in the damn Marines!
First of all, you only mentioned some sensationally graphic drivel about parents an children, not anything about any "entire society." It makes no real difference to your argument, but I'd thank you not to try to put words in my mouth.
Secondly, most emphatically YES I do think slow erosion of fundamental property rights is more important! In a war, the enemy is well-defined and easy to fight. A slow erosion, in contrast, is insidious, and much more dangerous to my rights and freedoms in the long run.
I'm an ecologist, you insensitive clod!
On the contrary, the subtle difference is that one is merely individuals being injured or killed, while the other is the irrevocable destruction of the principle on which our society is based (i.e., sovereignty over personal property).
See: broken window fallacy. All those people who we no longer need as clerks can go find something more valuable to do.
IIRC, GE got a credit this year!
If you're good at making low-res graphics, why not just skip XNA and make games for smartphones instead?
Well, Big Media is kind of right (in this narrowly-defined situation) -- everything you write is copyrighted by you. It's just that that's irrelevant, because if you don't distribute it then it's also essentially a [trade] secret, which is a stronger protection.
The cheap stuff is intended to appeal to builders (hence, "builder grade"), not the masses. The masses don't buy fixtures; they just keep whatever their house comes with.
And even almost-low-end appliances come in stainless steel now.
They're safer because they make you pay attention to what you're doing.
The currently popular styles in fixtures and appliances are brushed nickel, oil-rubbed bronze, and stainless steel -- all matte.
By virtue of the fact that Google picked Linux (GPL), not BSD, to base Android on.
Indeed it is... the problem is that Android is supposed to be on the GPL side of that debate!!!
Keep in mind that the third ship people were ultimately the only ones who survived (the people on the other two ships were killed off by disease spread via dirty telephones).
You just accidentally the whole verb.
It's still almost that simple, except now you need a Philips screwdriver instead of a coin. (Considering that I pay for everything with a card, I'm more likely to have a Philips screwdriver than a coin anyway, so I think that's an improvement!)
But what if your longcat is peer-to-peer?
Humans raised in society are capable of keeping track of tens of thousands of words. Humans raised in linguistic isolation (google "feral children") are pretty comparable to the apes or dolphins.
The problem with that is that anything nuclear gives everyone the heebie-jeebies (what if it blew up on the launchpad, for example?).
How does one go about finding a job like that?
I wonder if you could solve that by changing the shape of the tunnel exits, like maybe with a gradual funnel shape instead of a hard cut-off?
Such a thing wouldn't even be new; they already make concrete sewer pipes that big. All you'd need to do is cut them in half (or rather, mold half a pipe in the first place).
Now that's a good idea: don't bother with powerful magnets to keep the thing levitated, but use relatively week magnets to keep the thing on course.
What do you mean? Atheists don't have souls but everybody else does? I can see believing that everybody has one or that everybody doesn't, but the idea that each person may or may not have one according to their opinion on the subject is uncommonly odd...