While we are on the subject why would she want to run anyway. Aren't Governers > Senators?
Even though Palin might have less overall power as a Senator, she would still likely consider it a good strategic move to bolster her future Presidential campaign. This is because being a Senator is a Federal office, while Governor is a State office, and she wants to stay in the spotlight nation-wide. Recall also that nobody outside Alaska had ever even heard of her until she got selected as McCain's running mate -- being the Governor just isn't a very visible office outside the state.
Do you see the irony that a champion of the rights-limiting GPL would raise a fuss about rights limitations?
Not in the slightest, and I'll tell you why:
There are two sets of rights in question in these situations: the rights of the publisher and the right of the user. The GPL, by requiring that users be given the source code, upholds their rights at the expense of the rights of publishers.
Similarly, by requiring publishers to abide by the doctrine of first sale, one upholds the rights of users at the expense of the rights of publishers.
It's completely consistent and not ironic at all, you see.
Most games that I buy new, I wait until the initial price drop before I buy it if I really *must* have it ($50 --> $40). Some games, I can be a little more patient with and wait for the second price drop ($40 --> $30). Others, I wait until it's a bargain ($20).
Unfortunately, for some games that takes way too long to happen, if it ever does. For example, the Diablo 2 expansion came out in 2003 and still costs 2/3s of its original price.
But if you purchase something, you agree to the terms and conditions attached to the product. You shouldn't go back and say "but I thought I have these implied rights" it doesn't work that way.
What are you, a dumbass? Maybe you don't like the doctrine of first sale and the Uniform Commercial Code for some reason, but you can't pretend it doesn't exist!
but the aspect of how software sales fall into the category of first sale doctrine is still fuzzy
No it's not! Software is exactly like every other form of artistic work sold in a fixed medium! Books are subject to the first sale doctrine. Music is subject to the first sale doctrine. Movies are subject to the first sale doctrine. Software is no different!
I think it's safe to assume that everyone who wants to do drugs in our society is already doing them.
I disagree. I think there is a group of people who are deterred by the illegality of the drugs, but who might try them if they were legal (especially the less-harmful ones). Heck, even I might have been inclined to try LSD, if it were legal.
I hope you don't believe that anyone put away for dealing illegal drugs is a "bad" person.
Dealing drugs is different from using them. Drug dealing is often associated with other crimes: robbery, assault, murder, etc. While I agree with you that choosing to sell drugs is not necessarily indicative of a bad person in itself, and I preemptively agree with you that a lot of that ancillary crime is caused by the very fact that drug dealing is illegal, the fact that the dealer is willing to accept the circumstances and participate in that crime in order to deal makes him a bad person.
If all drugs were legal, these "bad people" would simply cease to exsist, or at worst become coca farmers.
I disagree: if all drugs were legal, the people currently selling them would move onto some other lucrative, illegal activity. For example, the Mafia didn't cease to exist when Prohibition ended and they couldn't run their speakeasys anymore; they just stepped up their extortion, money laundering, etc. to compensate.
In other words, people are not inherently bad because they choose to deal drugs, but the illegality of dealing drugs attracts bad people to it.
It's not an issue of protecting the source code -- I think even the FBI is minimally competent enough to realize that cat's out of the bag -- it's an issue of punishing the guy for the computer tresspass etc..
And on a TV if you can actually see a single pixel you either are watching TV through a rifle scope or are sitting way too close.
That's not really true. First of all, it's not actually bad for your eyesight to sit close to the TV. Second, even though you can't see individual pixels in the normal case, if you get a dead pixel in the middle of a field of contrasting color it's glaringly obvious and annoying.
For steel, maybe embed little magnets in the posts, or make them rough enough to give friction without giving way (a small clamp could be used to force them together), or just apply enough heat to soften them up a bit. Solder them together?
All of those defeat the purpose of having interlocking posts to begin with. If you need special tools (and especially potentially dangerous ones, like torches or soldering irons), they're not really toys, you know?
On that point, what is the feeling about using partially melted LEGOs to get more organic shapes?
If you deform the brick, it probably won't fit together correctly anymore. Those things are made to a 2-micrometer tolerance, you know.
Or melting holes through the join pegs with a hot needle for wiring for structure or electronics? LEDs inside blocks?
Actually, they havethose already; you can just buy them.
How about a mold for making your own blocks out of ice for a LEGO hockey rink? With a functioning LEGO Zamboni? Maybe with a LEGO mobster figure trapped under the ice?
I'm not sure why you need a mold for that. Zambonis are designed to scrape the ice smooth, so they wouldn't do well if you made LEGO-shaped ice cubes (with posts). And if you made smooth ice cubes, then, well, you don't need a special mold anymore!
Plus, ice LEGO bricks would melt too fast to be useful, under normal conditions. It might be useful if they decided to put an ice hotel in Legoland, but that's about it.
The entity I was thinking of was the Army Core of Engineers. However, I wasn't trying to imply that I thought they were at fault; I honestly don't know which was responsible.
What we learned from New Orleans is that if you ignore 25+ years of warnings that you need to build a higher wall than you will be screwed if you don't.
Obviously. However, who was making those decisions to ignore the problem? Was it the people of New Orleans, or someone else?
A part of me would have rather just had most NO population moved out and dispersed around the country to never come back.
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Yeah, but it's still only a few weeks after the election. What's she going to do to get attention two or three years from now?
Even though Palin might have less overall power as a Senator, she would still likely consider it a good strategic move to bolster her future Presidential campaign. This is because being a Senator is a Federal office, while Governor is a State office, and she wants to stay in the spotlight nation-wide. Recall also that nobody outside Alaska had ever even heard of her until she got selected as McCain's running mate -- being the Governor just isn't a very visible office outside the state.
Not in the slightest, and I'll tell you why:
There are two sets of rights in question in these situations: the rights of the publisher and the right of the user. The GPL, by requiring that users be given the source code, upholds their rights at the expense of the rights of publishers.
Similarly, by requiring publishers to abide by the doctrine of first sale, one upholds the rights of users at the expense of the rights of publishers.
It's completely consistent and not ironic at all, you see.
According to Star Trek canon, that war is about a decade overdue.
It also does not beg the question. Therefore, I conclude that what the sig is actually about is trolling people who care about correct usage.
Unfortunately, for some games that takes way too long to happen, if it ever does. For example, the Diablo 2 expansion came out in 2003 and still costs 2/3s of its original price.
Why?
No really, why? Why should I help them destroy my rights as a consumer? Why should I help them fuck me over? What do I get out of the deal?
Exactly: and that "new paradigm" only exists in the publishing execs' coked-out delusions, because people (hopefully) won't put up with it!
What are you, a dumbass? Maybe you don't like the doctrine of first sale and the Uniform Commercial Code for some reason, but you can't pretend it doesn't exist!
No it's not! Software is exactly like every other form of artistic work sold in a fixed medium! Books are subject to the first sale doctrine. Music is subject to the first sale doctrine. Movies are subject to the first sale doctrine. Software is no different!
They can claim that (and idiots might believe them), but that doesn't make it true!
Not to mention, that Corvette wouldv'e been what, 300 years old? Why the hell would anybody in Iowa still have one in running condition?!
I might be mistaken, but I think Picard got more "action" than Riker did.
You must have gotten kicked in the head by a horse one too many times, since you apparently can't remember two months ago.
Bah! Even your 10-year-old Saturn is a gas hog compared to a 15-year-old Geo Metro XFi or 20-year-old Honda CRX HF!
(Or my girlfriend's '98 VW New Beetle TDI, for that matter -- but it's got a bit of an unfair advantage as a diesel.)
I disagree. I think there is a group of people who are deterred by the illegality of the drugs, but who might try them if they were legal (especially the less-harmful ones). Heck, even I might have been inclined to try LSD, if it were legal.
Analogously, they shouldn't bother going after attempted murderers because they didn't manage to kill their victim.
Right?
Dealing drugs is different from using them. Drug dealing is often associated with other crimes: robbery, assault, murder, etc. While I agree with you that choosing to sell drugs is not necessarily indicative of a bad person in itself, and I preemptively agree with you that a lot of that ancillary crime is caused by the very fact that drug dealing is illegal, the fact that the dealer is willing to accept the circumstances and participate in that crime in order to deal makes him a bad person.
I disagree: if all drugs were legal, the people currently selling them would move onto some other lucrative, illegal activity. For example, the Mafia didn't cease to exist when Prohibition ended and they couldn't run their speakeasys anymore; they just stepped up their extortion, money laundering, etc. to compensate.
In other words, people are not inherently bad because they choose to deal drugs, but the illegality of dealing drugs attracts bad people to it.
It's not an issue of protecting the source code -- I think even the FBI is minimally competent enough to realize that cat's out of the bag -- it's an issue of punishing the guy for the computer tresspass etc..
That's not really true. First of all, it's not actually bad for your eyesight to sit close to the TV. Second, even though you can't see individual pixels in the normal case, if you get a dead pixel in the middle of a field of contrasting color it's glaringly obvious and annoying.
All of those defeat the purpose of having interlocking posts to begin with. If you need special tools (and especially potentially dangerous ones, like torches or soldering irons), they're not really toys, you know?
Lego actually does have chrome and metallic-colored bricks.
If you deform the brick, it probably won't fit together correctly anymore. Those things are made to a 2-micrometer tolerance, you know.
Actually, they have those already; you can just buy them.
I'm not sure why you need a mold for that. Zambonis are designed to scrape the ice smooth, so they wouldn't do well if you made LEGO-shaped ice cubes (with posts). And if you made smooth ice cubes, then, well, you don't need a special mold anymore!
Plus, ice LEGO bricks would melt too fast to be useful, under normal conditions. It might be useful if they decided to put an ice hotel in Legoland, but that's about it.
The entity I was thinking of was the Army Core of Engineers. However, I wasn't trying to imply that I thought they were at fault; I honestly don't know which was responsible.
Considering the vast difference in elasticity, etc. between plastic and metal, would metal LEGO blocks fit together correctly anyway?
Obviously. However, who was making those decisions to ignore the problem? Was it the people of New Orleans, or someone else?
Isn't that what happened?
If you don't catch the un-caught pedophiles, how can you tell that they were gullible and desperate?