If a programming project is open source, with an uncontrolled number of people working on its, whats to stop someone comming forward saying I changed module x with code/ideas I stoll form company y in an IP case. I know things like GPL try to address IP with open source but have their been any big court cases concerning IP on open source Software to test thing out? (forgive me if I an not aware of some big case, that 99% of everyone always knows about)
I wont punch you in the head when I seen you in the street coz I respect your right to have teeth. So can you perhaps stop taking my rights away by being big Nanas? I want to be able to go to a Chinese takeout without being considered a security risk.
Perhaps freaking out all the time wanting new laws/Your Govtnerment to kill things to protect you, how about working on not pissing people off in the first place so they don't want to blow anything up.
Start with you local member of government and hassle them about all the lame arse laws/policies they put up with.
The People's Republic of San Francisco gives ~$400/mo cash to their homeless, and their city government is perplexed as to why they have so many of them when they're spending so much money.
I guess this means money != fix.
The People's Republic will have to look for another solution to care for its lost soles if it really cares about them.
Actually, I think we now have a pretty solid reputation as a nation you do NOT want to fsck with. This counts as an improvement over the years immediately prior to 2001.
Have you learned with nothing from the past?
If you have a Hornets Nest in your back yard, will it not be poked with a stick?
If people are repressed (this includes the USA repression of the rest of the world by telling them what to do) Will they not revolt? No matter how mean the repressor is? The People Will Be FREE! And the US will be fscked with. (well not fscked but just ignore them and treat them like they don't exist, like we do with Africa at the mo, cause we will still dl all the good porn/what ever but with out the yapping of the RIAA)
As for human rights, the fact that you can post such drivel with impunity speaks volumes.
Just coz you can do the things your Government tell you are things that only free people can do does not make you free. There is a lot you can't. Witch hunts still happen everyday in the US.
As for why the Estonian and Russian economies are zipping along today, one major reason is that they've both passed flat income taxes.
Tax Blah! They are just more advanced that the USA. They were first to Berlin, they were first into Space, and they will be first to the moon.
Not bad for a country that only 10 years ago was a crumbling, bankrupt mess with a network infrastructure to match."
So even thought things might look bad now in the 3rd world that is the USA, with countless homeless people, even more people living the poverty line, California and 5 other states recently bankrupt (failing to meet budget requirements) with a huge national deficit, a shaky international reputation and lack of human rights. Not to mention things are getting worse day by day. Perhaps The sates could use Estonia as a model to help pull them self out of their current slump.
No one in the USSR saw it coming either, a lot of them were laughing at how bad the USA had it, and how lucky they were to be living in the greatest nation on earth.
Guess things are just the same as always, the USA is 15 years or so behind Russia.
"Well, I think a large majority of the US schools aren't on a year-round system, so most kids would already be able to do it any day in July without missing school. Next theory, please."
Yeah coz those other 5.75 billion people out side the US arn't important.
"People can be a danger/annoying to others for so many reasons"
The operative phrase here is 'can be'. That's distinctly different from 'will most likely be'.
Will most likely be? What do you base this on? Study?
It maybe proven that smoking weed has an inpact of driving, so that can be illegal (which it is), not smoking weed in it self.
I do think there are problems with smoking weed (relating to to much to offen) as there is with drinking/ playing video games/ eating. But its up to each person to find what is right for them. If society wants to help if should do so by offering support for those who want/(need?) it, not by locking them up.
This hit the nail of the head. All these anti dope arguments are from the over reacting pusys. And man they get get on my nerves, and not just with dope.
It seems every thing we do is controled by losers, and most of the things they control are non of their bees-wax.
The Church was big on it. For Example saying coz they felt one man to have sex with another was sick, no one can do it. If I wanted to list all the things they wanted to stop it would go on and on for ever.
Now days its the pc crowd. They get on there hight horse saying somthing harmless is wrong, and should be stoped at all costs. (Govts will even go to war over it)
I think its cool for these people to think that these things are wrong (In fact I HATE fags myself:)) But why cant they stop there? No they have to ruin it for every one else to make them feel like they are making a difference.
But back to being pusys. I think they are like this is because they are scared. The poster who didn't want people leaving their home until the effects had worn off is a good example. People can be a danger/annoying to others for so many reasons you can't make laws against everything, and assume that people in those groups are bad. (We could assume black people are trouble and stick them in their own townships? No wait that would be wrong, we dont discrimate on rase/gender anymore, now its for habbits/passtimes/beliefs.)
How about rather than panicing that drug useing/ video game playing/ Man on man sex/ Or what ever the next person is telling us not to do coz its all leading us to hell or goign to result in good god FEARing kids to be harmed by the evil, how about working on Society/Parents/Teachers providing morals not laws(eg Never drive in a way that harm others, its not a very nice thing to do) And trusting that people can work out what is good for themselfs, and if they dont agree with you trust their judgement.
In Summary, if somthing only inpacts on the person doing it, well hard luck pusys it should be legal. If you can think up ways people can abuse that right and make it inpact on you (eg driving while drunk/ smoking in your face) Then those thing can be illegal too.
Spinning it all back round to the top most post (sharing music and other IP), perhaps that falls into the most hard to classify groups, ie what harm will it do to you if I download your music for free if I was not going to buy it anyway? NOTHING YOU TIGHT-ARSE LOSERS, get over it, make good music and perhaps then people will buy it.
Ps I hope by writing the word ARSE, I'm not going to hell/harming your kids.
Just because you can do the certain things doesnâ(TM)t mean you are not being oppressed. By telling a population they are not being controlled because they can do X and Y and in other EVIL countries cant do these things does not show how free they are is just a way of tricking/controlling a population.
The people in power in America know they donâ(TM)t need to be as heavy handed to control the country, but they control it none the less.
If America is so free then why was there slavery in this land? And even in the last 50 years rights of black people have been 2nd rate. Sure they are improving now but when they were still shit, American still said it was the freest country around. I know slavey and black right is sliding off topic but I think it shows how the general population can still think that things are great when they are not. Americanaâ(TM)s have restrictions they other countries donâ(TM)t have. The American mindset is very controlled.
I donâ(TM)t want to bash Americans, many are very aware of these issues particularly a lot of the readers on this site. And the ones who arenâ(TM)t are not necessary EVIL, but more likely nice people. Me bashing Americans would just be no different than Americans saying North Korea is Evil.
I just think that a lot need to wake up, not be over paranoid, but be aware.
The word of the media is very powerful, the fact that US media coverage was very one-sided lead to the fact that most Americans supported the war, where as most of the rest of the world did not.
There is a lot of deception in life, every where you go you will find it, but it seems to thrive in the US of A
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If a programming project is open source, with an uncontrolled number of people working on its, whats to stop someone comming forward saying I changed module x with code/ideas I stoll form company y in an IP case.
I know things like GPL try to address IP with open source but have their been any big court cases concerning IP on open source Software to test thing out? (forgive me if I an not aware of some big case, that 99% of everyone always knows about)
I wont punch you in the head when I seen you in the street coz I respect your right to have teeth.
So can you perhaps stop taking my rights away by being big Nanas? I want to be able to go to a Chinese takeout without being considered a security risk.
Perhaps freaking out all the time wanting new laws/Your Govtnerment to kill things to protect you, how about working on not pissing people off in the first place so they don't want to blow anything up.
Start with you local member of government and hassle them about all the lame arse laws/policies they put up with.
The People's Republic of San Francisco gives ~$400/mo cash to their homeless, and their city government is perplexed as to why they have so many of them when they're spending so much money.
I guess this means money != fix.
The People's Republic will have to look for another solution to care for its lost soles if it really cares about them.
Actually, I think we now have a pretty solid reputation as a nation you do NOT want to fsck with. This counts as an improvement over the years immediately prior to 2001.
Have you learned with nothing from the past?
If you have a Hornets Nest in your back yard, will it not be poked with a stick?
If people are repressed (this includes the USA repression of the rest of the world by telling them what to do) Will they not revolt? No matter how mean the repressor is? The People Will Be FREE! And the US will be fscked with. (well not fscked but just ignore them and treat them like they don't exist, like we do with Africa at the mo, cause we will still dl all the good porn/what ever but with out the yapping of the RIAA)
As for human rights, the fact that you can post such drivel with impunity speaks volumes.
Just coz you can do the things your Government tell you are things that only free people can do does not make you free. There is a lot you can't. Witch hunts still happen everyday in the US.
As for why the Estonian and Russian economies are zipping along today, one major reason is that they've both passed flat income taxes.
Tax Blah! They are just more advanced that the USA. They were first to Berlin, they were first into Space, and they will be first to the moon.
Not bad for a country that only 10 years ago was a crumbling, bankrupt mess with a network infrastructure to match."
So even thought things might look bad now in the 3rd world that is the USA, with countless homeless people, even more people living the poverty line, California and 5 other states recently bankrupt (failing to meet budget requirements) with a huge national deficit, a shaky international reputation and lack of human rights. Not to mention things are getting worse day by day. Perhaps The sates could use Estonia as a model to help pull them self out of their current slump.
No one in the USSR saw it coming either, a lot of them were laughing at how bad the USA had it, and how lucky they were to be living in the greatest nation on earth.
Guess things are just the same as always, the USA is 15 years or so behind Russia.
"Well, I think a large majority of the US schools aren't on a year-round system, so most kids would already be able to do it any day in July without missing school. Next theory, please."
Yeah coz those other 5.75 billion people out side the US arn't important.
To be fair, the dangers of drug use has a lot more scientific data working for it than video game violence or homosexuality
You mean like this
"People can be a danger/annoying to others for so many reasons" The operative phrase here is 'can be'. That's distinctly different from 'will most likely be'.
Will most likely be? What do you base this on? Study?It maybe proven that smoking weed has an inpact of driving, so that can be illegal (which it is), not smoking weed in it self.
I do think there are problems with smoking weed (relating to to much to offen) as there is with drinking/ playing video games/ eating. But its up to each person to find what is right for them. If society wants to help if should do so by offering support for those who want/(need?) it, not by locking them up.
"Stop being such a pussy."
:)) But why cant they stop there? No they have to ruin it for every one else to make them feel like they are making a difference.
This hit the nail of the head. All these anti dope arguments are from the over reacting pusys.
And man they get get on my nerves, and not just with dope.
It seems every thing we do is controled by losers, and most of the things they control are non of their bees-wax.
The Church was big on it. For Example saying coz they felt one man to have sex with another was sick, no one can do it. If I wanted to list all the things they wanted to stop it would go on and on for ever.
Now days its the pc crowd. They get on there hight horse saying somthing harmless is wrong, and should be stoped at all costs. (Govts will even go to war over it)
I think its cool for these people to think that these things are wrong (In fact I HATE fags myself
But back to being pusys. I think they are like this is because they are scared. The poster who didn't want people leaving their home until the effects had worn off is a good example. People can be a danger/annoying to others for so many reasons you can't make laws against everything, and assume that people in those groups are bad. (We could assume black people are trouble and stick them in their own townships? No wait that would be wrong, we dont discrimate on rase/gender anymore, now its for habbits/passtimes/beliefs.)
How about rather than panicing that drug useing/ video game playing/ Man on man sex/ Or what ever the next person is telling us not to do coz its all leading us to hell or goign to result in good god FEARing kids to be harmed by the evil, how about working on Society/Parents/Teachers providing morals not laws(eg Never drive in a way that harm others, its not a very nice thing to do)
And trusting that people can work out what is good for themselfs, and if they dont agree with you trust their judgement.
In Summary, if somthing only inpacts on the person doing it, well hard luck pusys it should be legal. If you can think up ways people can abuse that right and make it inpact on you (eg driving while drunk/ smoking in your face) Then those thing can be illegal too.
Spinning it all back round to the top most post (sharing music and other IP), perhaps that falls into the most hard to classify groups, ie what harm will it do to you if I download your music for free if I was not going to buy it anyway?
NOTHING YOU TIGHT-ARSE LOSERS, get over it, make good music and perhaps then people will buy it.
Ps I hope by writing the word ARSE, I'm not going to hell/harming your kids.
Just because you can do the certain things doesnâ(TM)t mean you are not being oppressed. By telling a population they are not being controlled because they can do X and Y and in other EVIL countries cant do these things does not show how free they are is just a way of tricking/controlling a population. The people in power in America know they donâ(TM)t need to be as heavy handed to control the country, but they control it none the less. If America is so free then why was there slavery in this land? And even in the last 50 years rights of black people have been 2nd rate. Sure they are improving now but when they were still shit, American still said it was the freest country around. I know slavey and black right is sliding off topic but I think it shows how the general population can still think that things are great when they are not. Americanaâ(TM)s have restrictions they other countries donâ(TM)t have. The American mindset is very controlled. I donâ(TM)t want to bash Americans, many are very aware of these issues particularly a lot of the readers on this site. And the ones who arenâ(TM)t are not necessary EVIL, but more likely nice people. Me bashing Americans would just be no different than Americans saying North Korea is Evil. I just think that a lot need to wake up, not be over paranoid, but be aware. The word of the media is very powerful, the fact that US media coverage was very one-sided lead to the fact that most Americans supported the war, where as most of the rest of the world did not. There is a lot of deception in life, every where you go you will find it, but it seems to thrive in the US of A