Try to understand that you're not going to have nearly the amount of input you seem to think you will. Your kids are going to be introduced to a whole host of things without your consent/knowledge.
Once you wrap your mind around that, you can start to prepare yourself to teach them to deal with those things on a rational level.
You're thinking ahead, at least, and that's the first step to success. Good luck, you'll need it.
They might be opening themselves up to large lawsuits caused by reletively minor mistakes. Interdict the wrong file and suddenly thousands of ISP's have a legitimate cause of action. The DOS provision seems dangerous too. And really, why would they want to patent it? What do they gain by preventing others from using the same tecniques to combat piracy? Leave it open and they'll never be involved in legal action 'cause some licensee blew his cork and misused it.
we should thus prevent infertile heterosexual couples from being able to marry.
Good thinking, more invasion of privacy.
(I suspect, BTW, that you'd have to show some benefit to society for this too, before you could get enough folks to agree that the law needs to be changed.)
I hear this argument a lot, but it doesn't really hold up. It's a couple that's capable of raising children that's valuable to society...
So true, and society has decided that the best chance of fostering said child raising is by subsidizing M/F couples through the benefits of marriage. That's just how it is.
Look, I really don't care about gay marriage. I don't even care if a guy wants to marry his horse, but I can't justify changing the law until the costs to society are reduced to a level equal to the benefits to society.
This is just silly, even folks without children benefit from an educational system. SS is a ponzi scheme and I'd be all for scrapping it. And taxes are not payment for services rendered, they are insurance that allow the wealthy to remain relatively secure from revolution.
So.. you download 10,000 songs from Napster in the first month, then cancel your subscription straight away and they are supposed to let you keep all those?
Doesn't sound like a great business model to me!
It does to me, they get their $15 once or twice a year from you and a billion other users. That's, well, hell...you do the math.
And it costs them what? Bandwidth?
This is what's been missing from all those/. profit thingies.
#3. Practically give away something that costs you almost nothing.
That doesn't make the original statement true. OP said "In any race, the advantage is to the persuer." This is observably false. Cherry picking exceptions[1] does nothing to prove the original statement. Please point out the advantage in the following situation.
Horse race, leader one length from finish, persuing entry six (or sixty!) lengths back.
[1] And not very good exceptions, at that. Software usage is not a race, races finish.
And then you proceed to explain nothing, you make statements without proof.
The saying is intended to express that it's easier to catch up than stay in front. So when you're int eh lead you need to bust ass to stay there. The inverse, is that when you're behind to keep on trucking because you ultimately have the advantage.
False to fact, no matter how time worn.
But like I said, you're likely a simple man, so you probably won't get this either.
I might if there was something besides pronouncements from on high to "get".
>Plumbers, carpenters, mechanics, or pretty much >any tradesman, are expected to have their own >tools.
Only those who work for themselves. Work out of a shop or Union Hall and nothing gets done unless the employer provides the tools, and I mean down to the pencils. At least that's how it's been for me over the last 22 years.
Hardly anyone understands the nuanced connections of the economy. Folks think you can pull this out or plug that in without regard to the consequences. Start seeing the broader picture, folks.
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just the middle finger?
Try to understand that you're not going to have nearly the amount of input you seem to think you will. Your kids are going to be introduced to a whole host of things without your consent/knowledge.
Once you wrap your mind around that, you can start to prepare yourself to teach them to deal with those things on a rational level.
You're thinking ahead, at least, and that's the first step to success. Good luck, you'll need it.
Pete (father of 8)
They might be opening themselves up to large lawsuits caused by reletively minor mistakes. Interdict the wrong file and suddenly thousands of ISP's have a legitimate cause of action. The DOS provision seems dangerous too. And really, why would they want to patent it? What do they gain by preventing others from using the same tecniques to combat piracy? Leave it open and they'll never be involved in legal action 'cause some licensee blew his cork and misused it.
And so April 15 is Poop For Peace Day.
What? Nobody out there has mod points AND a sense of humor? 'Cause this is the funniest friggin thing I've heard in a long time.
Who gets your SS, when you die?
we should thus prevent infertile heterosexual couples from being able to marry.
Good thinking, more invasion of privacy.
(I suspect, BTW, that you'd have to show some benefit to society for this too, before you could get enough folks to agree that the law needs to be changed.)
I hear this argument a lot, but it doesn't really hold up. It's a couple that's capable of raising children that's valuable to society...
So true, and society has decided that the best chance of fostering said child raising is by subsidizing M/F couples through the benefits of marriage. That's just how it is.
Look, I really don't care about gay marriage. I don't even care if a guy wants to marry his horse, but I can't justify changing the law until the costs to society are reduced to a level equal to the benefits to society.
This is just silly, even folks without children benefit from an educational system. SS is a ponzi scheme and I'd be all for scrapping it. And taxes are not payment for services rendered, they are insurance that allow the wealthy to remain relatively secure from revolution.
Really? I personally haven't heard any arguments against gay/poly marriages that were not rooted in ignorance, bigotry, or both.
How about this:
Society should not have to subsidise childbirth in a marriage that is incapable of producing children.
So.. you download 10,000 songs from Napster in the first month, then cancel your subscription straight away and they are supposed to let you keep all those?
/. profit thingies.
Doesn't sound like a great business model to me!
It does to me, they get their $15 once or twice a year from you and a billion other users. That's, well, hell...you do the math.
And it costs them what? Bandwidth?
This is what's been missing from all those
#3. Practically give away something that costs you almost nothing.
Oil or no, recycling material is a good idea. It makes things cheaper by not having to mine for it.
If it's cheaper let somebody collect it and sell it at a profit.
Why involve yet another layer of gov't bureaucracy to screw things?
Competition is a good thing.
That doesn't make the original statement true. OP said "In any race, the advantage is to the persuer." This is observably false. Cherry picking exceptions[1] does nothing to prove the original statement. Please point out the advantage in the following situation.
Horse race, leader one length from finish, persuing entry six (or sixty!) lengths back.
[1] And not very good exceptions, at that. Software usage is not a race, races finish.
It's a very old, very true, very well known saying used by losers
>Plumbers, carpenters, mechanics, or pretty much >any tradesman, are expected to have their own >tools.
Only those who work for themselves. Work out of a shop or Union Hall and nothing gets done unless the employer provides the tools, and I mean down to the pencils. At least that's how it's been for me over the last 22 years.
>If $6 a month is even an issue to you, again, take >a magnifying lens to your life. Something isn't >working correctly.
If what's on TV is that important to you, something isn't right. Get out, play with your kids...Do something!
Hardly anyone understands the nuanced connections of the economy. Folks think you can pull this out or plug that in without regard to the consequences. Start seeing the broader picture, folks.
Which means it should be on the shelves by December 2009
I thought you were giving a pretty fair definition of Democratic Capitalism until I saw the word "everything".