The Massachusetts RMV had no idea what to do with an odometer in kilometers
if they ask just say "Some weird european thing... five eighths of a mile"
4.971 eighths, to be more precise, but it's probably easier for them to work with whole numbers, and it's not fraud (though IANAL) since the error falls against you rather than in your favor.
The post you're replying to is saying that the law making it a year is unjust. I fail to see how your post (saying nothing more than the fact that it's the law) contradicts this
As far as the "unique and proprietary symbol placement", that isn't 100% bullshit. Map makers do it -- putting intentional small errors or custom features -- to make certain no one copied their maps.
So did phone book compilers - nothing proprietary about them, or about the phone numbers themselves, as was eventually ruled.
The claim that the symbol placements are themselves proprietary is the bullshit in the claim.
And see the rest of the page - they also claim that freeware is in itself evil - i.e. anyone giving away a font for free must be a counterfeiter.
"If a font is distributed as freeware without promotion of another product or service it is most likely a counterfeit of another font."
well, i suppose it is reasonable to call Arial a counterfeit of Helvetica (and a poor-quality one, at that), but i don't see what bitstream vera serif is a ripoff of.
What makes you automatically think glabels or kbarcode even use a font to generate the barcodes?
and any site that makes claims about "unique and proprietary symbol placements" is 100% certified bullshit - there's nothing illegal about putting a space symbol at '=' and a start/stop symbol at '!'
You have just made an eloquent argument for allowing the government to _have_ a monopoly on _gathering_ weather data - unfortunately, the parent post was arguing against allowing the government to _give_ various companies a monopoly on _repackaging_ their data.
And you are still wrong. Any slashdotter who knows it's a risk knows how to look at the status bar. And they probably notice the [somedomain.com] right after the link. And since/. filters out the blahblahblah@ part, the status bar is going to show a nice short domain name anyhow.
Yes, but many slashdotters don't KNOW that/. filters out the.......@ part - i didn't before today.
I was responding specifically to the statement "I made no broad claims about other countries that have lower tax rates than the US.", which was made after you previously stated "Higher taxes==less freedom.", which is an example of a 'broad claim about other countries that have lower tax rates than the US'.
you're new here, aren't you? newer than said feature, if i'm not mistaken... the point i was illustrating was that many slashdotters don't trust links, because that used to actually work.
Ever wonder why PC games use colours (1,2,1) and (2,3,2) (out of 255) as contrasting textures? It's cos artists (and many coders) live in utter darkness.
You completely missed his point, which was that you could click on [a href="http://www.google.com%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%2 0%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20% 20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20 %20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%2 0%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20% 20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20@goats e.cx/"] not knowing that it leads to goatse.cx... slashdot seems to filter out anything before an @ these days, though, so his concern is misguided.
still, lots of people don't trust HREF links... you are in the minority.
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Seems like there's been a rash of these "accidental identity disclosures" lately... wonder if they might be joe jobs?
The governement transition alone will probably cost a couple of million.
You misspelled billion... (though i'm told there are numbering systems where 'million' indicates 10^9... if so, then i'm mistaken)
The Massachusetts RMV had no idea what to do with an odometer in kilometers
if they ask just say "Some weird european thing... five eighths of a mile"
4.971 eighths, to be more precise, but it's probably easier for them to work with whole numbers, and it's not fraud (though IANAL) since the error falls against you rather than in your favor.
Except that lists, recipes, scents and a few other items were always considered non-copyrightable.
;P
the "ruling" i refer to is the one that took place "always ago" that caused it to be considered uncopyrightable
incidentally, since you mentioned them... scents are, this very moment, being trademarked (and quite possibly patented), right under your nose!
The post you're replying to is saying that the law making it a year is unjust. I fail to see how your post (saying nothing more than the fact that it's the law) contradicts this
or, from the other perspective: they got bought out, then the company that bought _THEM_ got bought out.
As far as the "unique and proprietary symbol placement", that isn't 100% bullshit. Map makers do it -- putting intentional small errors or custom features -- to make certain no one copied their maps.
So did phone book compilers - nothing proprietary about them, or about the phone numbers themselves, as was eventually ruled.
The claim that the symbol placements are themselves proprietary is the bullshit in the claim.
And see the rest of the page - they also claim that freeware is in itself evil - i.e. anyone giving away a font for free must be a counterfeiter.
"If a font is distributed as freeware without promotion of another product or service it is most likely a counterfeit of another font."
well, i suppose it is reasonable to call Arial a counterfeit of Helvetica (and a poor-quality one, at that), but i don't see what bitstream vera serif is a ripoff of.
What makes you automatically think glabels or kbarcode even use a font to generate the barcodes?
and any site that makes claims about "unique and proprietary symbol placements" is 100% certified bullshit - there's nothing illegal about putting a space symbol at '=' and a start/stop symbol at '!'
yeah, because you can edit posts on slashdot... right..
why not pay one cent less than the tax out of pocket, and put that $.01 on the gift card?
You have just made an eloquent argument for allowing the government to _have_ a monopoly on _gathering_ weather data - unfortunately, the parent post was arguing against allowing the government to _give_ various companies a monopoly on _repackaging_ their data.
your move.
but _windows_ has the ability to refuse to run unless it's enabled.
And you are still wrong. Any slashdotter who knows it's a risk knows how to look at the status bar. And they probably notice the [somedomain.com] right after the link. And since /. filters out the blahblahblah@ part, the status bar is going to show a nice short domain name anyhow.
/. filters out the .......@ part - i didn't before today.
Yes, but many slashdotters don't KNOW that
the point of the original post is that selection wouldn't have worked to begin with without 'founder effect'
All competition has this effect, whether from proprietary or Free sources. Are Chevrolet and Ford evil because they caused Yugo to go out of business?
Well, yes... but this is different.
try it. no, seriously.
And i ask: Do you really think microsoft won't?
I was responding specifically to the statement "I made no broad claims about other countries that have lower tax rates than the US.", which was made after you previously stated "Higher taxes==less freedom.", which is an example of a 'broad claim about other countries that have lower tax rates than the US'.
i identify the root post of this discussion as being several posts above where you seem to think it is.
you're new here, aren't you? newer than said feature, if i'm not mistaken... the point i was illustrating was that many slashdotters don't trust links, because that used to actually work.
Ever wonder why PC games use colours (1,2,1) and (2,3,2) (out of 255) as contrasting textures? It's cos artists (and many coders) live in utter darkness.
Don't gamers also?
no, i read "Higher taxes==less freedom." and ignored your later weaseling.
You completely missed his point, which was that you could click on [a href="http://www.google.com%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%2 0%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20% 20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20 %20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%2 0%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20% 20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20@goats e.cx/"]
not knowing that it leads to goatse.cx... slashdot seems to filter out anything before an @ these days, though, so his concern is misguided.
still, lots of people don't trust HREF links... you are in the minority.
You did not state (and still haven't justified) your underlying claim that the US has the same level of political freedom as Finland.