Sharp, do you have anything which would substantiate the notion that such workshops were available to the clueless rural youth you're championing, that the average salary is now below 500zl (parts would be cheaper in Poland, anyway), and that Polish society lacks upward mobility? On this last point, I can ask my uncle how things went as he moved from selling TV remotes off a blue cot at the stadium to running a profitable electronics partnership and owning a large, marble-filled home (the new rich, and their wives, especially, have no sense of taste).
Ask your averagen Solidarity leader. He will claim it was a fight for the liberty from the beginning to the end. (if he ever stops his luxury car to answer your question). Ask average member and he will tell you "everyone was told we will be free and rich. I piss at this freedom, look how poor we are! - and he will point at his starving family.
I can ask at least TWO former Solidarity members right now, and they'll say it was about liberty. That's why they came to the US.
when suddenly many perfectly legal things get forbidden, when under flags of "liberty" our country kisses ass of yet another empire, when people are finally free to bitch at the government, but simultaneously they lost their freedom to have a decent life.
So you plan to cut off your nose to spite your face? Plenty of people are living a decent life, arguably many many times better than in other Eastern European countries (just look at the average monthly income), and international involvement is a much a Western import as your familiar leftist fear-mongering.
Out of curiosity, do you have any data on the (un)employment rates for non-European immigrants in Scandinavian countries, and their proportion to the total population? (Just for the record, I'm NOT treating "Europeanness" as independently relevant here.)
Let's not forget that Sweden had the slight advantage of not being crushed to smithereens by both the Nazis and the Soviets, so it actually has the long-term economic and social stability which is required for a full welfare state.
Out of curiousity, were you even alive during the time of the Solidarity Movement and martial law or before?
Problems? Main problem was availablity of consumer goods, and their quality. Everything was poor quality, it was hard to find good stuff, not enough of everything but the very basic. Freedom? Who cares? We had mostly all the freedom we ever wanted, with one -tiny- exception. No jokes, no attacks, no bitching about the government. Taboo. Easy as that. So... it wasn't freedom that people fought for. It was the shiny shop shelves bending under weight of wares, it was fast cars, big luxury houses most of people who fought, thought they would have.
Or maybe not? Maybe it was about the ability to travel where you wanted, to say what you wanted, to think what you wanted, to have rights, to be free from ceaseless monitoring/surveillance by secret police, to gather freely and without threat of being taken away, never to be seen again by your friends, to have a nation independent of the imperialist invaders who have knocked at your gates so many times before and been repelled, to be represented independently in your government, to negotiate a fair wage, to have, above all, LIBERTY. Perhaps those aren't an issue for mediocre consumerists like yourself, supposedly content with idle brain candy like hobbies and vacations at the Baltic, but don't tell me that they are the building blocks of a nation?! People tell me again and again how Poland is falling back to neo-Communism, and you are making me believe it.
I couldn't help but laugh at this line:
Build your own RC car? How? Tools! Parts! Knowledge! Cost! Completely beyond reach.
Poland is easily one of the most wired Eastern European nations, so don't give me that bullshit about lacking tools, parts and knowledge. The best Polish teenagers are doing very much the same thing as the best European teenagers.
And one wonderful thing I miss really deeply: Honesty and trust.
And one final note: Some people miss trust, others miss honour, but they tend to become sorry very quickly when liberty goes missing. You might not care, but fortunately others did.
That's what this article should have been called. Oh, wait, I forgot...governmental control magically becomes good when used against people you don't like.
Do not implement legal "solutions" for technological "problems." A problem for one person is a useful tool for another, and when there are obvious voluntary means of eliminating the issue for those who see it as a "problem," the law has absolutely no business intervening. Hell, the current open-ended nature of the internet could precisely be seen as a loophole relative to the closed network it was designed to be, but look where "exploiting" its capabilities got us?
We introduce and characterize a new class of polygons that models wood, stone, glass, and ceramic shapes that can be cut with a table saw, lapidary trim saw, or other circular saw.
I bet they are also mostly composed of telemarketers and junk mailers. Naturally, even scum competes with scum, so they've decided to support the ban on spam.:)
Why do I have the feeling that one could replace "climate change" in your post with just about anything and get an equally compelling result?
First, I must mention that those who rush to blame anything and everything on Microsoft are just as irrational and stupid and those who rush to the assumption that Microsoft has nothing to do with anything. Both assumptions are erronous, unlearned, and emotionally modivated.
On the geological timescale, 3000 years of solid Ward Hunt Ice Shelf is really just a little blip. For all the worries about human greenhouse gases, we should probably also take a serious look at natural cycles. Only 12,000 years ago, you could walk out to the Farallon Islands outside SF.
Problem with #3/4: Let's say you WANTED to have popups appear on a given page (giving commentary, or whatever), and you allowed others to use your computer. A publisher could easily sue for what is a legitimate modification to your own property (the browser).
"the user...can do whatever he wants to his computer" is anything BUT an ignorant sentiment, my friend.
Yet we can mitigate the danger of "spent" nuclear fuel with on-site reprocessing. Admittedly, you will still have waste, but of a less dangerous variety than today.
So, SCO claims 2 million lines of code to be infringing, which, without conversion to elephant intestines, looks like a mighty large figure. Instead of calculating the total code in supposedly infringing sections (as some have done), why not just take 2.2 and 2.4+ side by side and enumerate the differences? This might give us a better idea of just how much crack SCO is smoking.
At what point does intelligent processing of data produce a copyrightable work, under current law? On the far end you have a mere random compilation of, say, books or book titles from Gutenberg.net, in the middle you have a database of words in Gutenberg's docs, sorted by statistical frequency, and finally you have a student paper on the use of a given word in Shakespeare's writings. Speaking from experience, a suitable paper often contains nothing more than a seemingly "intelligent" re-presentation of totally uninteresting data.
So what is a database? May we also call it an intelligent representation of data? If some boundary is to be drawn in copyright, "intelligence" will need to be measured. As an artistic statement, I might be inclined to list all the words to Hamlet in scrambled order. If accompanied by a suitable justification (that's all modern art is these days), could I say it's more than a dumb "collection"? Or what about intelligently linked databases, such as gnoosic.com?
For a moment, recall the ingenious attempts at casting DeCSS code as ordinary speech. Well, could the same not be done with any other work? Should a paper describing the countless associations contained in gnoosic be any more copyrightable than the database itself? If gnoosic added scripted commentary of associations (based on some theory or other), would it be more than a database? If not, what about a paper adding theoretical commentary to the clearly intelligent associations present?
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Sharp, do you have anything which would substantiate the notion that such workshops were available to the clueless rural youth you're championing, that the average salary is now below 500zl (parts would be cheaper in Poland, anyway), and that Polish society lacks upward mobility? On this last point, I can ask my uncle how things went as he moved from selling TV remotes off a blue cot at the stadium to running a profitable electronics partnership and owning a large, marble-filled home (the new rich, and their wives, especially, have no sense of taste).
Ask your averagen Solidarity leader. He will claim it was a fight for the liberty from the beginning to the end. (if he ever stops his luxury car to answer your question). Ask average member and he will tell you "everyone was told we will be free and rich. I piss at this freedom, look how poor we are! - and he will point at his starving family.
I can ask at least TWO former Solidarity members right now, and they'll say it was about liberty. That's why they came to the US.
when suddenly many perfectly legal things get forbidden, when under flags of "liberty" our country kisses ass of yet another empire, when people are finally free to bitch at the government, but simultaneously they lost their freedom to have a decent life.
So you plan to cut off your nose to spite your face? Plenty of people are living a decent life, arguably many many times better than in other Eastern European countries (just look at the average monthly income), and international involvement is a much a Western import as your familiar leftist fear-mongering.
Out of curiosity, do you have any data on the (un)employment rates for non-European immigrants in Scandinavian countries, and their proportion to the total population? (Just for the record, I'm NOT treating "Europeanness" as independently relevant here.)
Let's not forget that Sweden had the slight advantage of not being crushed to smithereens by both the Nazis and the Soviets, so it actually has the long-term economic and social stability which is required for a full welfare state.
Out of curiousity, were you even alive during the time of the Solidarity Movement and martial law or before?
Problems? Main problem was availablity of consumer goods, and their quality. Everything was poor quality, it was hard to find good stuff, not enough of everything but the very basic. Freedom? Who cares? We had mostly all the freedom we ever wanted, with one -tiny- exception. No jokes, no attacks, no bitching about the government. Taboo. Easy as that. So... it wasn't freedom that people fought for. It was the shiny shop shelves bending under weight of wares, it was fast cars, big luxury houses most of people who fought, thought they would have.
Or maybe not? Maybe it was about the ability to travel where you wanted, to say what you wanted, to think what you wanted, to have rights, to be free from ceaseless monitoring/surveillance by secret police, to gather freely and without threat of being taken away, never to be seen again by your friends, to have a nation independent of the imperialist invaders who have knocked at your gates so many times before and been repelled, to be represented independently in your government, to negotiate a fair wage, to have, above all, LIBERTY. Perhaps those aren't an issue for mediocre consumerists like yourself, supposedly content with idle brain candy like hobbies and vacations at the Baltic, but don't tell me that they are the building blocks of a nation?! People tell me again and again how Poland is falling back to neo-Communism, and you are making me believe it.
I couldn't help but laugh at this line:
Build your own RC car? How? Tools! Parts! Knowledge! Cost! Completely beyond reach.
Poland is easily one of the most wired Eastern European nations, so don't give me that bullshit about lacking tools, parts and knowledge. The best Polish teenagers are doing very much the same thing as the best European teenagers.
And one wonderful thing I miss really deeply: Honesty and trust.
And one final note: Some people miss trust, others miss honour, but they tend to become sorry very quickly when liberty goes missing. You might not care, but fortunately others did.
That's what this article should have been called. Oh, wait, I forgot...governmental control magically becomes good when used against people you don't like.
Do not implement legal "solutions" for technological "problems." A problem for one person is a useful tool for another, and when there are obvious voluntary means of eliminating the issue for those who see it as a "problem," the law has absolutely no business intervening. Hell, the current open-ended nature of the internet could precisely be seen as a loophole relative to the closed network it was designed to be, but look where "exploiting" its capabilities got us?
Regulation is the enemy of progress.
http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~edemaine/papers/CCCG20
I bet they are also mostly composed of telemarketers and junk mailers. Naturally, even scum competes with scum, so they've decided to support the ban on spam. :)
Why do I have the feeling that one could replace "climate change" in your post with just about anything and get an equally compelling result?
First, I must mention that those who rush to blame anything and everything on Microsoft are just as irrational and stupid and those who rush to the assumption that Microsoft has nothing to do with anything. Both assumptions are erronous, unlearned, and emotionally modivated.
On the geological timescale, 3000 years of solid Ward Hunt Ice Shelf is really just a little blip. For all the worries about human greenhouse gases, we should probably also take a serious look at natural cycles. Only 12,000 years ago, you could walk out to the Farallon Islands outside SF.
Problem with #3/4: Let's say you WANTED to have popups appear on a given page (giving commentary, or whatever), and you allowed others to use your computer. A publisher could easily sue for what is a legitimate modification to your own property (the browser).
"the user...can do whatever he wants to his computer" is anything BUT an ignorant sentiment, my friend.
Or send it to a breeder reactor, I suppose.
Yet we can mitigate the danger of "spent" nuclear fuel with on-site reprocessing. Admittedly, you will still have waste, but of a less dangerous variety than today.
Death is inevitable; what might matter is who dies when, and why. Some disagreements are worth fighting for, and cannot be solved any other way.
Fit a Linux machine into a .50 caliber *cartridge* and we'll be talking.
It's already known that Microsoft bought a "UNIX" license from them. http://news.com.com/2100-1016-1007528.html
So, SCO claims 2 million lines of code to be infringing, which, without conversion to elephant intestines, looks like a mighty large figure. Instead of calculating the total code in supposedly infringing sections (as some have done), why not just take 2.2 and 2.4+ side by side and enumerate the differences? This might give us a better idea of just how much crack SCO is smoking.
Excuse me if I'm missing something...
At what point does intelligent processing of data produce a copyrightable work, under current law? On the far end you have a mere random compilation of, say, books or book titles from Gutenberg.net, in the middle you have a database of words in Gutenberg's docs, sorted by statistical frequency, and finally you have a student paper on the use of a given word in Shakespeare's writings. Speaking from experience, a suitable paper often contains nothing more than a seemingly "intelligent" re-presentation of totally uninteresting data.
So what is a database? May we also call it an intelligent representation of data? If some boundary is to be drawn in copyright, "intelligence" will need to be measured. As an artistic statement, I might be inclined to list all the words to Hamlet in scrambled order. If accompanied by a suitable justification (that's all modern art is these days), could I say it's more than a dumb "collection"? Or what about intelligently linked databases, such as gnoosic.com?
For a moment, recall the ingenious attempts at casting DeCSS code as ordinary speech. Well, could the same not be done with any other work? Should a paper describing the countless associations contained in gnoosic be any more copyrightable than the database itself? If gnoosic added scripted commentary of associations (based on some theory or other), would it be more than a database? If not, what about a paper adding theoretical commentary to the clearly intelligent associations present?
Data is data is data is Dada.