I think you need to build a working model and demonstrate it.
I read that site, and it had some serious flawed assumptions in it. Sure, the Earth is moving on the order of 2-300 miles a second while orbitting the Sun, and the Sun is moving as well in orbit around the galactic center. How did they get in motion? Probably from the Big Bang. Why do they keep in motion? Because in space, there's not enough matter to impact them to significantly decrease their orbital velocities. Vacuum is thin, on the order of one atom of hydrogen per cubic centimeter of interstellar space. Not gonna get a whole lot of delta vee from impacting one. Keep in mind that a uniformly accellerated object shows no inherent motion in its components, they're all accellerated at the same rate. That's why Earth still has an atmosphere.
If the BSA was genuinely concerned about software piracy, they'd be actively promoting free and open alternatives.
No they wouldn't. BSA is a trade organisation of major software houses like Microsoft, similar to RIAA, except BSA actually does look out for its members' interests, to a point. For them to promote free and open alternatives to their members' efforts is shooting themselves in the foot.
Seriously, better check the BSA's definition of 'pirated'. Previous announcements like this turned out to classify any non-MS software as 'pirated'.
Like my Microsoft-free desktop computer? Been a penguinista for over a decade now, and I still get a chuckle when they keep telling me Linux just doesn't get it done on the desktop.
Non-geeks don't buy or install software, but that doesn't mean that they don't have it installed. A computer shop near here used to put pirate copies of Windows, Office, and quite a few other things on every machine they sold.
And Microsoft had a campaign a couple years back where you could turn in those corner computer shops for legitmate copies of your Windows/Office/Microsoft products. Somewhat successful one, from what I hear, though I haven't heard or read of any arrests & convictions.
So is that a lost sale when the kid can't afford to pay $1300? Heck even I can't afford that kind of money. My vote is "no" - it isn't a lost sale.
That $1300 piece of software is marketted toward a corporation who is assumed to have the cash to buy the software. Most of the 'superhighpriced' softwares are targetted that direction, with very few $450 & up 'wares marketted for the home consumer.
Preventing everyone from producing something just because someone else has produced that same thing before. Yes, from the economic, legal and ethical perspectives, it falls very close to the realm of 'crazy'. And it certainly isn't compatible with a free market economy. Even the use of the phrase 'legal right to produce' indicates how far from a free market it is.
What about derivative works? For instance, being the bigtime Star Trek fan that I am, I create, produce, film, and distribute my own 'Star Trek' series with different non-canon characters and new storylines. Per the studios, I'm not allowed to do this. IIRC, Desilu Studios holds the copyrights on the original Star Trek series, and they can sue me for making my own 'Starship X' series even if I put 'Based Upon 'Star Trek' Created By Gene Roddenbery' in it someplace.
So far, though, nobody who does this strictly as nonprofit has been sued, such as Hidden Frontier and James Cawley's 'Phase 2'.
If the top management at Microsoft believes, as they always have up to now, that FOSS is a mortal threat to their business model, then you can bet your booty that the right hand knows very well what the left hand is doing.
I'd venture to say the right hand is busy saying "Nice doggie" to the left hand while compiling facts as to the left hand 'contaminating' FOSS with the crumbs from Microsoft's table and getting ready to hit it with a rock.
H Beam Piper for his Future History series (including the Fuzzy novels as well as Star Viking & Uller Uprising). Spent a lot of time over the years reading and rereading these.
Cordwainer Smith for the Instrumentality Of Man series. These stories have dated well.
Harry Kuttner for various reasons. He didn't date well, but he still told a great tale.
I find it annoying that they haven't come up with the idea of keeping Stargates on their battlecruisers yet. It would make it possible to evacuate the ship easily in case they were cornered.
Strange, the 'canon' is, once you move a gate, you need to recalibrate it. You can't connect a wormhole to a gate in hyperspace, per Season 1 SG1 Ep 21 Within The Serpent's Grasp. Remember, Hammond tried to redial that address and it wouldn't connect because the mothership carrying the gate was moving.
How they managed to make the 9th Chevron work using the Earth symbol 21 lightyears from Earth is beyond me. Serious plothole. Didn't somebody read the Stargate bibles???
as for reconfiguring a ship in space of that size with only 6 people ya right ok if you say so. the point of the storyline was to develop the characters specifically Daniel and Vala.
And then they hit the reset button to bring them all back (except Teal'c) to their normal age. Cheesy, if you ask me...
If corporations are considered people, perhaps we can start locking them up/shutting them down when they are breaking the law... you know... just like everyone else.
That sounds good until they start demanding voting rights.
Heh. If voting ever mattered, they'd make it illegal. Corporations already produce a lot of the special needs legislation going through Congress these days. Why bother with a vote if you can just buy the legislature?
At the rate this idiocy is going it won't be long until directors of failed corporations get charged with manslaughter or murder
The way corporations are run, maybe they should.
Stockholders have been known to sue boards of directors for failure to ensure stockholder value. It's the reason why the shareholders voted in those boards to begin with. No amount of incorporation can protect a board when the stockholders come banging on the door with torches and pitchforks...
Why should a Publicly Traded Company have any expectation of privacy?
Good point. Except for the details of trade secrets (KFC's "11 secret herbs & spices", for instance), they shouldn't.
Notice I said trade secrets, not copyrights. Copyrights need dissolving after a certain amount of time. Somebody unfreeze Walt and tell him this, the old fascist...
And saying that Corporations in general are entitled to the same privacy protections as individuals seems really silly to me.
Except that individuals seem to have no expectation of privacy, so in effect, this would give corporations more rights than individuals. This trend keeps up, I'm gonna have to incorporate myself in order to get comparable rights and privileges of 'other' corporations...
Another article mentions that " Instead of fighting for access to females, a male Ardipithecus would supply a "targeted female" and her offspring with gathered foods and gain her sexual loyalty in return.
Which is why females today say "Not without dinner and a movie FIRST, you insensitive clod!!"
So... the only one of those things that will be a gas at the surface on the far side is oxygen. The article says the atmosphere may not be breathable, but I have to wonder... why not?
Metals poisoning, I'm thinking. When was the last time you tried to breathe some iron?
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I think you need to build a working model and demonstrate it.
I read that site, and it had some serious flawed assumptions in it. Sure, the Earth is moving on the order of 2-300 miles a second while orbitting the Sun, and the Sun is moving as well in orbit around the galactic center. How did they get in motion? Probably from the Big Bang. Why do they keep in motion? Because in space, there's not enough matter to impact them to significantly decrease their orbital velocities. Vacuum is thin, on the order of one atom of hydrogen per cubic centimeter of interstellar space. Not gonna get a whole lot of delta vee from impacting one. Keep in mind that a uniformly accellerated object shows no inherent motion in its components, they're all accellerated at the same rate. That's why Earth still has an atmosphere.
We like Christmas more?
Thank you, I'll be here all week, try the veal, and don't forget to tip your waitress...
Shut up and pass the rum.
No they wouldn't. BSA is a trade organisation of major software houses like Microsoft, similar to RIAA, except BSA actually does look out for its members' interests, to a point. For them to promote free and open alternatives to their members' efforts is shooting themselves in the foot.
Like my Microsoft-free desktop computer? Been a penguinista for over a decade now, and I still get a chuckle when they keep telling me Linux just doesn't get it done on the desktop.
And Microsoft had a campaign a couple years back where you could turn in those corner computer shops for legitmate copies of your Windows/Office/Microsoft products. Somewhat successful one, from what I hear, though I haven't heard or read of any arrests & convictions.
That $1300 piece of software is marketted toward a corporation who is assumed to have the cash to buy the software. Most of the 'superhighpriced' softwares are targetted that direction, with very few $450 & up 'wares marketted for the home consumer.
Preventing everyone from producing something just because someone else has produced that same thing before. Yes, from the economic, legal and ethical perspectives, it falls very close to the realm of 'crazy'. And it certainly isn't compatible with a free market economy. Even the use of the phrase 'legal right to produce' indicates how far from a free market it is.
What about derivative works? For instance, being the bigtime Star Trek fan that I am, I create, produce, film, and distribute my own 'Star Trek' series with different non-canon characters and new storylines. Per the studios, I'm not allowed to do this. IIRC, Desilu Studios holds the copyrights on the original Star Trek series, and they can sue me for making my own 'Starship X' series even if I put 'Based Upon 'Star Trek' Created By Gene Roddenbery' in it someplace.
So far, though, nobody who does this strictly as nonprofit has been sued, such as Hidden Frontier and James Cawley's 'Phase 2'.
Wait, what?? I never got that memo...
Dammit, that means I have to give up my 29 year old girlfriend. (I'm 54)
I wouldn't count on it. Politicians tend to think of themselves as above the law.
I'd venture to say the right hand is busy saying "Nice doggie" to the left hand while compiling facts as to the left hand 'contaminating' FOSS with the crumbs from Microsoft's table and getting ready to hit it with a rock.
Did you smoke test it first?
Cordwainer Smith for the Instrumentality Of Man series. These stories have dated well.
Harry Kuttner for various reasons. He didn't date well, but he still told a great tale.
Strange, the 'canon' is, once you move a gate, you need to recalibrate it. You can't connect a wormhole to a gate in hyperspace, per Season 1 SG1 Ep 21 Within The Serpent's Grasp. Remember, Hammond tried to redial that address and it wouldn't connect because the mothership carrying the gate was moving.
How they managed to make the 9th Chevron work using the Earth symbol 21 lightyears from Earth is beyond me. Serious plothole. Didn't somebody read the Stargate bibles???
And then they hit the reset button to bring them all back (except Teal'c) to their normal age. Cheesy, if you ask me...
I read through that link a bit. What does Savain think keeps the Solar System in motion? Or does it start and stop at a whim?
Heh. If voting ever mattered, they'd make it illegal. Corporations already produce a lot of the special needs legislation going through Congress these days. Why bother with a vote if you can just buy the legislature?
Stockholders have been known to sue boards of directors for failure to ensure stockholder value. It's the reason why the shareholders voted in those boards to begin with. No amount of incorporation can protect a board when the stockholders come banging on the door with torches and pitchforks...
Good point. Except for the details of trade secrets (KFC's "11 secret herbs & spices", for instance), they shouldn't.
Notice I said trade secrets, not copyrights. Copyrights need dissolving after a certain amount of time. Somebody unfreeze Walt and tell him this, the old fascist...
Except that individuals seem to have no expectation of privacy, so in effect, this would give corporations more rights than individuals. This trend keeps up, I'm gonna have to incorporate myself in order to get comparable rights and privileges of 'other' corporations...
That's still legal, isn't it???
As the old tshirt used to say, "There is no gravity. Earth sucks." Pretty much explained it all.
I'd ask when you intended to share whatever it is you're smoking.
Which is why females today say "Not without dinner and a movie FIRST, you insensitive clod!!"
Metals poisoning, I'm thinking. When was the last time you tried to breathe some iron?
"Captain, I sense... millions of horny geeks staring at my cleavage..."
Mebbe he was punning on Kubuntu.