So he proposes that previously copyrightable works be labours of love and not business opportunities, I get that. But this effectively puts a lot of people out of a job. You can't charge for support on a book, after all.
I might be misunderstand you, but you're saying that if you write a book, I should be able to buy a copy, copy it myself and sell the copies without paying you a penny? In effect, you'd like to enforce a BSD-style licence on all copyrightable works?
SI has unabmiguity in its favour. It's a pain in the ass trying to have a fuel efficiency conversation on Slashdot because you never know if people are using a UK gallon (4.5 l) or a US gallon (3.8 l).
Personally I've taken to taking fuel consumption figures in miles per litre, because the pumps in Scotland are in litres but car odometers are still in miles.
Tesco's recycling efforts. The most recent thing they're doing is offering extra Clubcard points to those that don't use any disposable bags (which doesn't seem to be mentioned on that page).
Obviously, if you leave common sense out of the equation. Of course such a condition would preclude a special school, or homeschooling, or whatever. You have to draw the line somewhere.
But what you're suggesting is that it is right for a child to be taken out of a school because of a medical condition that is easily dealt with. We're talking about peanuts here. And I'm sorry to have to get into the morality argument, but you seem to have an exaggerated perception of what rights you think you have, and no concept of social responsibility.
(Sorry if that sounds a little personal, it's more a reply to the thread in general.)
Please explain. In particular, please explain why the right to eat peanuts at school is more important than a child's right to attend a normal state school.
Here (Scotland), education is mandatory from the ages of five to sixteen. This means that the state has the obligation to provide this service for free (i.e. paid for fully from general taxation), and to provide it in a safe environment. Parents should not have to pay extra for such a service. If a parent feels that their child is not getting his or her RDA of peanuts then they are free to supply these at home, or at a private school.
I know a kid that has a peanut allergy, to the point where ingesting one would mean certain death for him. Close contact with peanuts or anything containing peanut products can result in severe anaphylactic shock, which requires immediate treatment. Even being in the same room as such products can produce a reaction. His school would be downright negligent if it did anything less than ban peanuts.
With regards to rights, I don't believe that somebody should have the right to cause another harm, either deliberately or through negligence, especially over something as trivial as peanuts (I'm also lucky enough to live in a country with a smoking ban). Especially in the case of children.
Sorry if this is off-topic/trolling/whatever, but it's something I feel strongly about, and I don't think you fully understood the severity of some peanut allergies.
Look at the new definition. The problem is that, because of the requirement for a planet to have cleared its orbit, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune no longer qualify either.
Because Firefox isn't the only web browser out there. There's Opera, Omniweb, Camino, Shiira... hell, you can even install IE on a PowerPC Mac if you're mad enough. Why would you want to limit yourself to one browser?
By default, an iPod on the Mac is 'ejected' as soon as iTunes is finished syncing. This is possible because 'disc use' is turned off by default. If you turn it on, you are shown a warning saying that you have to eject the iPod manually, and the iPod screen will show a 'Do not remove' message until it is ejected.
Nor do you set up a recruiting office for your enemies, which is exactly what our foreign policy in the Middle East has been doing for the past few years.
And I'm not sure how any Middle East wars are supposed to stop what has happened today, those arrested being UK-born.
I wish they'd talked more about Xcode. This is meant to be a developer conference, and Xcode is Apple's major development tool. Its next major release has just been announced, but as a bootnote at best. I'm watching the Keynote feed now just to see if the transcribers missed anything, but I was disappointed in the amount of time spent talking about Xcode at a developer conference compared to the new ability to share photos over iChat.
That left me wondering who this keynote was targetted at.
They are separated by about six times the distance between the Sun and Pluto, and can be found in the Ophiuchus star-forming region some 400 light years away.
So, 400 years for the light to reach the objects, and another 400 to get back to us... I'm pretty sure it's fairly easy to mount a torch on the side of an orbital telescope now, but it might not have been so easy 800 years ago.
Erm, well the examples you gave would mean "I was on campus". "At university" would apply to your entire term of enrolment. In my case, I've been "at university" for five years now (undergrad and postgrad), but I haven't been "at the university" for five years, because I go home every night to eat and sleep. Does that make sense?
In UK English, "It's the second of August" is common. I'm guessing this form is less used in America because American English has more of a tendency to drop prepositions (ie. the 'of'). For example, "he went Tuesday" rather than "he went on Tuesday", or "the kids are out back" rather than "the kids are out the back".
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So he proposes that previously copyrightable works be labours of love and not business opportunities, I get that. But this effectively puts a lot of people out of a job. You can't charge for support on a book, after all.
I might be misunderstand you, but you're saying that if you write a book, I should be able to buy a copy, copy it myself and sell the copies without paying you a penny? In effect, you'd like to enforce a BSD-style licence on all copyrightable works?
SI has unabmiguity in its favour. It's a pain in the ass trying to have a fuel efficiency conversation on Slashdot because you never know if people are using a UK gallon (4.5 l) or a US gallon (3.8 l).
Personally I've taken to taking fuel consumption figures in miles per litre, because the pumps in Scotland are in litres but car odometers are still in miles.
Tesco's recycling efforts. The most recent thing they're doing is offering extra Clubcard points to those that don't use any disposable bags (which doesn't seem to be mentioned on that page).
Obviously, if you leave common sense out of the equation. Of course such a condition would preclude a special school, or homeschooling, or whatever. You have to draw the line somewhere.
But what you're suggesting is that it is right for a child to be taken out of a school because of a medical condition that is easily dealt with. We're talking about peanuts here. And I'm sorry to have to get into the morality argument, but you seem to have an exaggerated perception of what rights you think you have, and no concept of social responsibility.
(Sorry if that sounds a little personal, it's more a reply to the thread in general.)
Please explain. In particular, please explain why the right to eat peanuts at school is more important than a child's right to attend a normal state school.
Wow, it must be different in Georgia.
Here (Scotland), education is mandatory from the ages of five to sixteen. This means that the state has the obligation to provide this service for free (i.e. paid for fully from general taxation), and to provide it in a safe environment. Parents should not have to pay extra for such a service. If a parent feels that their child is not getting his or her RDA of peanuts then they are free to supply these at home, or at a private school.
I'll try not to troll, but here goes...
I know a kid that has a peanut allergy, to the point where ingesting one would mean certain death for him. Close contact with peanuts or anything containing peanut products can result in severe anaphylactic shock, which requires immediate treatment. Even being in the same room as such products can produce a reaction. His school would be downright negligent if it did anything less than ban peanuts.
With regards to rights, I don't believe that somebody should have the right to cause another harm, either deliberately or through negligence, especially over something as trivial as peanuts (I'm also lucky enough to live in a country with a smoking ban). Especially in the case of children.
Sorry if this is off-topic/trolling/whatever, but it's something I feel strongly about, and I don't think you fully understood the severity of some peanut allergies.
Does a child with a severe peanut allergy not have a right to a peanut-free school?
Yay for not knowing the difference between iTunes and the iTunes Store.
If this is talk like a pirate day, why is the summary written in bad Scots?
Ars has an item today about how this won't be the case for the Wii. I think it will also be region free, although I can't remember where I read that.
Technically it's fraud. In any case, it's still illegal.
Or a tunnel under the English Channel? Pity that never panned out.
Look at the new definition. The problem is that, because of the requirement for a planet to have cleared its orbit, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune no longer qualify either.
Because Firefox isn't the only web browser out there. There's Opera, Omniweb, Camino, Shiira... hell, you can even install IE on a PowerPC Mac if you're mad enough. Why would you want to limit yourself to one browser?
By default, an iPod on the Mac is 'ejected' as soon as iTunes is finished syncing. This is possible because 'disc use' is turned off by default. If you turn it on, you are shown a warning saying that you have to eject the iPod manually, and the iPod screen will show a 'Do not remove' message until it is ejected.
Nor do you set up a recruiting office for your enemies, which is exactly what our foreign policy in the Middle East has been doing for the past few years.
And I'm not sure how any Middle East wars are supposed to stop what has happened today, those arrested being UK-born.
I wish they'd talked more about Xcode. This is meant to be a developer conference, and Xcode is Apple's major development tool. Its next major release has just been announced, but as a bootnote at best. I'm watching the Keynote feed now just to see if the transcribers missed anything, but I was disappointed in the amount of time spent talking about Xcode at a developer conference compared to the new ability to share photos over iChat.
That left me wondering who this keynote was targetted at.
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I'm a PlusNet customer, and fortunately I haven't been affected by either event.
Erm, well the examples you gave would mean "I was on campus". "At university" would apply to your entire term of enrolment. In my case, I've been "at university" for five years now (undergrad and postgrad), but I haven't been "at the university" for five years, because I go home every night to eat and sleep. Does that make sense?
'The' appears in both forms, I was referring to 'of'. And I'm not sure how the word 'in' can refer to outside.
In UK English, "It's the second of August" is common. I'm guessing this form is less used in America because American English has more of a tendency to drop prepositions (ie. the 'of'). For example, "he went Tuesday" rather than "he went on Tuesday", or "the kids are out back" rather than "the kids are out the back".