If I punch people in the face, can I call that a service, too?
If anyone asks for it, and/or likes it, yes. Even if someone asks you to punch someone else in the face, you'd still provide a service, just not to the punchee.
The Dutch equivalent of RIAA/MPAA (BREIN) does it smarter: Their official position is NOT to prosecute small "offenders", on the grounds that there is no viable legal alternative (in the netherlands anyway) for downloading music yet. Undoubtably this is better PR than the sue-a-12-year-old approach of RIAA.
Ofcourse how they define "small" is anyone's guess.
What next? Back doors so advertizers can see where we surf?
Slippery slope fallacy, I'm afraid. There's a huge difference between showing an advertisment as default homepage/screensaver, and facilitating criminal activities at the cost of your customers.
Yes, but watching advertisments is like paying with your SOUL! There should be anti-corporate messages and speeches by RMS in every Linux^H^H^H^H^HGNU/Linux installer.
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Yeah, and who needs static or initialized local variables anyway. Oh you mean I should use assignable consts for that? Yeah that makes sense.
Google is your friend.
New technology allows the consumer to use the downloaded content, but not distribute it outside of their home
So, what happens if I turn up to volume a bit?
If I punch people in the face, can I call that a service, too?
If anyone asks for it, and/or likes it, yes. Even if someone asks you to punch someone else in the face, you'd still provide a service, just not to the punchee.
Didn't Al Gore invent numbers?
*DUCKS*
It doesn't matter if she was innocent or not, sueing a 12 year old for what (to many) appears to be a victimless crime is bad PR.
The Dutch equivalent of RIAA/MPAA (BREIN) does it smarter: Their official position is NOT to prosecute small "offenders", on the grounds that there is no viable legal alternative (in the netherlands anyway) for downloading music yet. Undoubtably this is better PR than the sue-a-12-year-old approach of RIAA.
Ofcourse how they define "small" is anyone's guess.
did that make sense?
Too bad there's a 63 character cap on dns names, not to mention the illegal ' and " characters.
SCO could sue VeriSign about www.scocks.com
Here's hoping someone at SCO reads this.
All analogies are flawed, I know, but compare it to porn: after watching porn I want to go have sex, but after masturbating I really don't.
Same thing with movies and games. Games are a way to vent some anger, while movies are not.
Yes, but the story is from the editorial-responsibility-not-included dept.
etc.
otherwise, Pol Pot would have won
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Seriously, what do you mean?
Somehow I got severely aroused by that. Too bad I'm at work.
plz provide links kthxbye
Yeah, but GNU's not Linux either, so what's your point?
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slikken.sl@alsik.com
translates to swallow.sl(ut)wheni.com
btw. wheni.com and untilli.com seem te be available oddly enough.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
That's a pretty stupid position. Remember Iran/Iraq? I though you might.
What next? Back doors so advertizers can see where we surf?
Slippery slope fallacy, I'm afraid. There's a huge difference between showing an advertisment as default homepage/screensaver, and facilitating criminal activities at the cost of your customers.
No need to panic just yet, I think.
YES! aren't they French anyway? They probably support terrorism with the money they make with those ads.
There need to be limits on advertising. It's ruining the country and the world.
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How exactly does it ruin the country/world? Does it increase famine? Incite war? Decrease happiness?
Yes, but watching advertisments is like paying with your SOUL! There should be anti-corporate messages and speeches by RMS in every Linux^H^H^H^H^HGNU/Linux installer.
if you are like my girlfriend and your cell phone is your business then you put it on as soon as you get in the car
Does she take it off when she arives at the customer's motelroom? I find hookers, sorry escorts, with headsets a real turnoff.