Again, no. The EULA has nothing to do with it. Title 17 also provides for civil penalties for infringement that doesn't meet one of those 2 conditions. You can't go to jail if you don't meet them, but you can be sued, whether the infringement is copying a piece of software with a EULA or copying a book or sound recording, which doesn't come with any sort of license at all. It's not a breach of contract, it's a violation of section 501 of title 17 of the US Code.
(a) Criminal Infringement.-- Any person who infringes a copyright willfully either--
(1) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, or
(2) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000,
shall be punished as provided under section 2319 of title 18, United States Code. For purposes of this subsection, evidence of reproduction or distribution of a copyrighted work, by itself, shall not be sufficient to establish willful infringement.
Yes. Like I said, read Title 17 instead of pulling stuff out of your ass. Copyright violations are a criminal offense if they meet certain standards. If you make or distribute 10 copies of OS X, that's a federal crime. One copy of Final Cut or the Adobe Creative Suite, that's a federal crime too.
"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now." - Robert Anton Wilson
Ok, let's say I really like gold. I'd like to have an ounce of solid gold, but it's only worth $20 to me, not $400. Since no one will sell it to me for $20, I should just get it for free, right?
No, you're not. You're not infringing Copyright, either. If you hum it in public for a paying audience, you might be on shaky ground, but otherwise you're fine.
I don't see this as a major flaw (for any of the third parties, many of which could be subject to similar critcism), for the simple reason that no third party is going to get a President elected before it manages to grab a few statehouses and seats on Congress (not to mention tons of local offices).
Running candidates for President is a good way to bring more attention to the party, but if any of these guys think they're going to win, they're seriously deluded (and anyone who votes for them as anything other than a way to feel better about not voting for the lesser of two evils is just as deluded). It probably doesn't hurt anything, but the more charismatic leaders of each party would probably do more for the party by getting themselves actually elected to less important offices than they do by running for President.
If you want people to take your party seriously, you need to actually build the party and win some elections, not just get on ballots for big elections you can't win.
If those people were the DNC or the Kerry campaign, they'd be engaging in unethical campaign practices. As the people cybersquatting are private citizens engaging in satire, it's hardly a similar situation.
Now, out in the "real world", I have nowhere to run, nowhere to go if I want to "play with" computers.
You might want to move out of your parent's house. Then you can lock yourself in your apartment, put on a tin foil hat, and play with your computer as much as you want.
Actually, the law of ostracism was instituted to prevent civil wars when two very popular leaders were at odds; the Athenian assembly could vote to ostracize one of them for a period of 5 or 10 years, after which he could return, without any sense of dishonor attached, to his previous position.
This process is, literally, as old as Democracy itself, having been instituted by Cleisthenes when he brought the first democratic reforms to Athens around 525BC.
Title pages -- I shouldn't have to press enter a bunch to put my name in the approximate middle of the page. There should be a wizard of some sort that lets you choose between different layouts for title pages.
There's no "wizard" to do it, but there's a setting in Page Setup to set vertical alignment for a section. It's not where I'd put it (in fact, I find most of Microsoft's choices in organizing things to be counterintuitive, but that could be beacuse I prefer to use a Mac that has no MS software at all installed on it, while at work I'm stuck with a Windows machine and Office), but it's there.
Word has its problems, but I don't think a lack of creeping featuritis is one of them. It's got every feature you'd ever want, and about a billion you wouldn't. Many of which are turned on by default (like autoformatting, which is just plain annoying if you'd like your word processor to assume that you know better than it does how you want to format something).
Well, since the neoconservatives call themselves that, they must hate themselves. Which would explain why they want to bring about the end of the world.
Mandatory prayer in schools ranks up there with banning all abortion and getting rid of all the gays in the right-wing domestic agenda. The RNC, just this week, claimed that "liberals" want to ban the Bible.
BTW, a baccalaureate ceremony is not graduation. It is a separate religious ceremony; ours was held the day before graduation.
Well, of course you'll get modded down; your statistics are made up (and not even close to being accurate), your assertion that fox news "has a lot of liberals" is ridiculous, and anyone who thinks the public school system is liberal is obviously from a big coastal city, and not the Republicans "real America" between the coasts.
I went to school in Pennsylvania, which is fairly middle of the road overall, where my public school principal informed my senior class, a month after the Supreme Court ruled clearly that it was completely illegal to even have a baccalaureate ceremony in a public school, that anyone not attending the one that we were having wouldn't be graduating. Real liberal there.
As for the 67% liberal population, can you please explain George Bush's greater-than-33% approval rating? Are you suggesting that about a third of all liberals love Bush?
Time and Newsweek both have significantly higher weekly circulation. US News doesn't even seem to try to hide its bias; it seems like the very first thing in every issue is an editorial expressing views slightly to the right of Karl Rove.
Umm, no. It's more like a shopkeeper figuring out who a shoplifter is, then breaking into his computer and deleting all of his files. Hyperbole really makes for a bad argument.
The Performas were even worse. The insides of the cases are loaded with razor-sharp metal bits.
Then again, the PowerMac 6100 and 7100 were pretty dangerous inside too, IIRC, and they weren't even in a consumer line. I think maybe they just never considered that filing down the sharp edges of metal could save a lot of not-so-careful techs a lot of blood.
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Again, no. The EULA has nothing to do with it. Title 17 also provides for civil penalties for infringement that doesn't meet one of those 2 conditions. You can't go to jail if you don't meet them, but you can be sued, whether the infringement is copying a piece of software with a EULA or copying a book or sound recording, which doesn't come with any sort of license at all. It's not a breach of contract, it's a violation of section 501 of title 17 of the US Code.
(a) Criminal Infringement.-- Any person who infringes a copyright willfully either-- (1) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, or
(2) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000,
shall be punished as provided under section 2319 of title 18, United States Code. For purposes of this subsection, evidence of reproduction or distribution of a copyrighted work, by itself, shall not be sufficient to establish willful infringement.
Yes. Like I said, read Title 17 instead of pulling stuff out of your ass. Copyright violations are a criminal offense if they meet certain standards. If you make or distribute 10 copies of OS X, that's a federal crime. One copy of Final Cut or the Adobe Creative Suite, that's a federal crime too.
submarine-launched cruise missiles?
"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now." - Robert Anton Wilson
Civil penalties for copyright infringement have nothing to do with contract law, and certain types of violations are, in fact, federal crimes.
Ok, let's say I really like gold. I'd like to have an ounce of solid gold, but it's only worth $20 to me, not $400. Since no one will sell it to me for $20, I should just get it for free, right?
No, you're not. You're not infringing Copyright, either. If you hum it in public for a paying audience, you might be on shaky ground, but otherwise you're fine.
Running candidates for President is a good way to bring more attention to the party, but if any of these guys think they're going to win, they're seriously deluded (and anyone who votes for them as anything other than a way to feel better about not voting for the lesser of two evils is just as deluded). It probably doesn't hurt anything, but the more charismatic leaders of each party would probably do more for the party by getting themselves actually elected to less important offices than they do by running for President.
If you want people to take your party seriously, you need to actually build the party and win some elections, not just get on ballots for big elections you can't win.
I think you have Libertarianism and Anarcho-Communism confused. Hope this helps.
If those people were the DNC or the Kerry campaign, they'd be engaging in unethical campaign practices. As the people cybersquatting are private citizens engaging in satire, it's hardly a similar situation.
You might want to move out of your parent's house. Then you can lock yourself in your apartment, put on a tin foil hat, and play with your computer as much as you want.
Sure, if by "common use" you mean "used by about 5 lawyers and 10 geeks" it was.
You clearly have no idea what "Fascism" means. I suggest you purchase a dictionary oir a history book.
This process is, literally, as old as Democracy itself, having been instituted by Cleisthenes when he brought the first democratic reforms to Athens around 525BC.
There's no "wizard" to do it, but there's a setting in Page Setup to set vertical alignment for a section. It's not where I'd put it (in fact, I find most of Microsoft's choices in organizing things to be counterintuitive, but that could be beacuse I prefer to use a Mac that has no MS software at all installed on it, while at work I'm stuck with a Windows machine and Office), but it's there.
Word has its problems, but I don't think a lack of creeping featuritis is one of them. It's got every feature you'd ever want, and about a billion you wouldn't. Many of which are turned on by default (like autoformatting, which is just plain annoying if you'd like your word processor to assume that you know better than it does how you want to format something).
The Electoral College cannot pass a single law. How difficult is that to understand?
Well, since the neoconservatives call themselves that, they must hate themselves. Which would explain why they want to bring about the end of the world.
Wow... what school did you go to? Every mechanical engineering textbook I've seen is just loaded with physics.
BTW, a baccalaureate ceremony is not graduation. It is a separate religious ceremony; ours was held the day before graduation.
I went to school in Pennsylvania, which is fairly middle of the road overall, where my public school principal informed my senior class, a month after the Supreme Court ruled clearly that it was completely illegal to even have a baccalaureate ceremony in a public school, that anyone not attending the one that we were having wouldn't be graduating. Real liberal there.
As for the 67% liberal population, can you please explain George Bush's greater-than-33% approval rating? Are you suggesting that about a third of all liberals love Bush?
No. All media has a liberal bias. I saw it on Fox (which also has a liberal bias, being part of the evil monolithic media itself.)
Time and Newsweek both have significantly higher weekly circulation. US News doesn't even seem to try to hide its bias; it seems like the very first thing in every issue is an editorial expressing views slightly to the right of Karl Rove.
Umm, no. It's more like a shopkeeper figuring out who a shoplifter is, then breaking into his computer and deleting all of his files. Hyperbole really makes for a bad argument.
Then again, the PowerMac 6100 and 7100 were pretty dangerous inside too, IIRC, and they weren't even in a consumer line. I think maybe they just never considered that filing down the sharp edges of metal could save a lot of not-so-careful techs a lot of blood.