Well, even if the applicant gives specific references, you still are speaking on behalf of the company, especially if you are calling their work number. At least that's what we were told if anyone called about a reference for anyone.. we were told to only confirm the dates of employement.
No you're not. If you want to watch at home, rent or buy the DVD. Stop blaming the filmmakers because YOUR LOCAL THEATHER is not controlling thier customers.
Cell phone users aren't stealing movies (unless they are filming them with their phones) you are.
Well, it doesn't matter what "we the people" decide, because rights exist in an individual. Two or more people deciding that a third party's rights are not as important still are violating the rights of the few... which is exactly why our founders hated the idea of a direct democarcy, which is just a feel good version of mob rule.
As for your examples, those that do violence do need to be punished, since it's hard to imagine a crowd would only break things that belong to them, and not harm someone else. Incitement is not a valid law, in my mind.
If your speech causes someone harm (falsely yelling fire in the theater), it's not a right. Also, keep in mind that the ruling to which you refer was later limited more.
Fraud is also speech that causes harm (the harm usually deprevation of property) to another, and so you have no right to defraud anyone.
So I don't really see what your point with your examples were; I never said any one person had the right to harm another. Note that this is different from actions that MAY harm another, which "we the people" don't have any right to regulate.
No but he can restrict your freedom of expression if you express yourself by swinging a battle-axe in a crowded mall. But if you want to go do it in a safer environment you can.
I would say there's nothing wrong with swinging a battle axe in a mall, so long as you aren't trying to hit anyone else with it.
GPL3 (and 2 to a lesser extent because it has loopholes) allows you to use and modify code, it protects your freedom. But it forces you to do so in the same altruistic manner that the person who gave you the code you are building on restricting another freedom. You are free to do with the code as you please, so long as if you distribute the code you grant others the same freedom. Hence you are free to distribute modified code, but the GPL prevents you from using that freedom to stop other people doing the same. The freedom to modify code overrides the freedom to distribute. It really isn't that complicated, I don't see why people keep getting confused by this.
There's no confusion on my part. People have all of their rights, all of the time (so long as they do not violate another's rights).
The very notion that one right "overrides" another is absurd. All rights are equally important, an none can be arbitrarly violated.
I didn't say we should have no law, I simply said you can't pick and choose which rights to respect and which one's not to respect. Laws codify that we have rights, but when you start restricting rights arbitrarly to to supposedly protect other rights, you're not doing anyone a favor.
It doesn't matter if you say "sometimes," it's still arbitary. No one has the right to kill another person either, since no one has a right to arbitrary violate the rights of another.
Society is a myth, and I'd rather continue protecting myself (the notion that police "protect" anyone is also a myth.. ask anyone murdered, raped, or mugged in NYC) and be free.
Hmm.. so you can violate my right to privacy or speech or religon, if you say you're doing so to protect my right to live? I think I'd rather do without your "help," thanks.
I don't think your rant really applies; companies aren't all murders, rapists and child molesters. I would go so far as to say most haven't done any of those things. The GPL isn't functioning as a punishment for violating some law.
As a developer, if I want to use GPLv3 code, I'm restricted, right off the bat, whehter or not I have actually done any "harm" to GPL'ed software. Also, you can look at the GPLv3 as a tool to restrict those that did adhere to the terms of v2, but in ways the writers of v2 hadn't considered or made clear in v2. Essentially, it looks like they threw a hissy fit, even though v2 was being followed to the letter, because someone else didn't do exactly what the FSF wanted (but didn't encode into the license).
I'm not sure which OS you use, but you can setup Windows Software Update Services to auto approve everything. Then you have no management required, just the initial setup. Of course that depends on what your users are doing now.
Okay, this argument doesn't really work. When you buy used like that, guess who gets 100% of that revenue? Blockbuster and Hollywood Video. Not the publishers. As far as they're concerned, you might as well be pirating the movies. If you search around, you'll find the publishing houses (movies, music, and games) blame their losses on the used market just as much as piracy (example here [next-gen.biz]).
Your argument doesn't really work because you assume the person would buy the new DVD. People set what price they want to pay; if the product remains out of that range, people won't buy it.
Your "argument" could be used for vaccuum cleaners; buying a used on though doesn't count as a loss for a new vaccuum. So, in the end I don't really buy your argument; a DVD is a product just like a vaccum cleaner, and companies that make such devices seem to be kicking around just fine.
Well, you think they should have, but didn't, at least for "banana republic." The other things you mentioned were covered, but not much time was spent, and cetainly it wasn't mentioned that banana trade had anything to do with it. Wikipedia doesn't either, but it does list a later war.. which apparently hasn't major enough to be included.
Hmm.. we focused on the WW1, the Depression and then WW2. Touched on the 50s a bit, but by then, HS was over. Not that I was happy about that. But it was ancient civ in middle school, then Western and US history in HS. By American history I mean from colonial times until about the wild west... but very little on what US companies were doing outside the US.
Nobody is going to pay me to work out (unless I'm a pro athlete or bodybuilder) Nobody is going to pay me to water ski (unless I'm a pro water-skier) Nobody is going to pay me to watch movies (unless I'm a famous critic)
Should the bodybuild ONLY work out when he'll be paid to do so? Should the water skier ONLY water ski when he'll be paid to do so? Should the critial ONLY watch movies when he'll be paid to do so?
Or can each of those people do those activties because they enjoy it and no one is willing to pay for that particular work out or movie?
Wow, you really misunderstood the argument. The argument, in plain english, is that you AREN'T BEING PAID FOR THAT TIME ANYWAY. The rest of your post is nonsense. Are you losing $30 / hr when you come home and watch TV until bed? No one works for pay 16 hours everyday of the week.
If you choose not to have a second job, you're not going to be paid those 16 hours each day you're NOT at your full time job. So your time is worthless.. because no one is paying you to use it in any specific way.
No, it's not, but these kinds of things in WINDOWS lead administrators to block those ports and in out of their networks... which would affect this as well. Windows DID have vunerablities in the SMB protocol way back when..
"Heard of it" and "being deployed more and more" are two different things though. To make a comeback, you'd need the later.. not just hearing it was being done in exceptional cases.
Um, I would think "making a comeback" means "actually starting to get mainstream use again." I don't think this type of thing was in mainsteam use in the 80s or 90s.
PHP, Bash, Lisp? I've written things in all of those, it's just not suitable to build any kind of large software. Simple scripting (it's intended use) is fine, but for an actual application.. no way. Java beats all those languages hands down for build complex software.
Why should a huge scratch in a DVD cause your entire system to lock up?
Why should a bad sector cause your entire system to lock up?
I don't know, but this problem appeared for me on Linux as well. Not as much, but that's because most of the discs giving me issues were games that wouldn't run under Linux anyway.
You may feel safe, but you aren't. Guns are illegal on school grounds, yet that hasn't stopped school shootings, has it?
People can have accidents with knives and cars too; shall we outlaw them?
That leaves "spur of the moment." If you know that everyone ELSE around you also has a gun, even if you get really really angry, do you think that would cause a person some pause before they reach for the gun? Even if they did, don't you think other's around would quickly put a stop to the original person's shooting?
That's actually what statistics DO show. You act as if someone mearely possesing a gun means they are some kind of hot headed pyschopath. That's simply not the case.
I disagree with that defintion though. First, it's too open ended. Second, why should someone not be allowed to view something because his neighbors don't like it? I thought a free society respected the rights of those in some kind of minority.. but if you happen to like watching S&M you can't do so in KY but you can in NY?
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You can afford a computer and internet connection but you can't afford a DVD? If that's the case, THEN GO WITHOUT.
No idiot would ask someone to act as a reference if they weren't going to give a positive review.
So.. why do you maintain that references are essential?
I am university educated and in the US, and except for /., I never see CV. It's always resume.
Well, even if the applicant gives specific references, you still are speaking on behalf of the company, especially if you are calling their work number. At least that's what we were told if anyone called about a reference for anyone.. we were told to only confirm the dates of employement.
The heat isn't the problem, its the carbon and other emittions that come out of the front of the fireplace and wind up inside the TV.
No you're not. If you want to watch at home, rent or buy the DVD. Stop blaming the filmmakers because YOUR LOCAL THEATHER is not controlling thier customers.
Cell phone users aren't stealing movies (unless they are filming them with their phones) you are.
Well, it doesn't matter what "we the people" decide, because rights exist in an individual. Two or more people deciding that a third party's rights are not as important still are violating the rights of the few... which is exactly why our founders hated the idea of a direct democarcy, which is just a feel good version of mob rule.
As for your examples, those that do violence do need to be punished, since it's hard to imagine a crowd would only break things that belong to them, and not harm someone else. Incitement is not a valid law, in my mind.
If your speech causes someone harm (falsely yelling fire in the theater), it's not a right. Also, keep in mind that the ruling to which you refer was later limited more.
Fraud is also speech that causes harm (the harm usually deprevation of property) to another, and so you have no right to defraud anyone.
So I don't really see what your point with your examples were; I never said any one person had the right to harm another. Note that this is different from actions that MAY harm another, which "we the people" don't have any right to regulate.
No but he can restrict your freedom of expression if you express yourself by swinging a battle-axe in a crowded mall. But if you want to go do it in a safer environment you can.
I would say there's nothing wrong with swinging a battle axe in a mall, so long as you aren't trying to hit anyone else with it.
GPL3 (and 2 to a lesser extent because it has loopholes) allows you to use and modify code, it protects your freedom. But it forces you to do so in the same altruistic manner that the person who gave you the code you are building on restricting another freedom. You are free to do with the code as you please, so long as if you distribute the code you grant others the same freedom. Hence you are free to distribute modified code, but the GPL prevents you from using that freedom to stop other people doing the same. The freedom to modify code overrides the freedom to distribute. It really isn't that complicated, I don't see why people keep getting confused by this.
There's no confusion on my part. People have all of their rights, all of the time (so long as they do not violate another's rights).
The very notion that one right "overrides" another is absurd. All rights are equally important, an none can be arbitrarly violated.
I didn't say we should have no law, I simply said you can't pick and choose which rights to respect and which one's not to respect. Laws codify that we have rights, but when you start restricting rights arbitrarly to to supposedly protect other rights, you're not doing anyone a favor.
It doesn't matter if you say "sometimes," it's still arbitary. No one has the right to kill another person either, since no one has a right to arbitrary violate the rights of another.
Society is a myth, and I'd rather continue protecting myself (the notion that police "protect" anyone is also a myth.. ask anyone murdered, raped, or mugged in NYC) and be free.
Hmm.. so you can violate my right to privacy or speech or religon, if you say you're doing so to protect my right to live? I think I'd rather do without your "help," thanks.
I don't think your rant really applies; companies aren't all murders, rapists and child molesters. I would go so far as to say most haven't done any of those things. The GPL isn't functioning as a punishment for violating some law.
As a developer, if I want to use GPLv3 code, I'm restricted, right off the bat, whehter or not I have actually done any "harm" to GPL'ed software. Also, you can look at the GPLv3 as a tool to restrict those that did adhere to the terms of v2, but in ways the writers of v2 hadn't considered or made clear in v2. Essentially, it looks like they threw a hissy fit, even though v2 was being followed to the letter, because someone else didn't do exactly what the FSF wanted (but didn't encode into the license).
I'm not sure which OS you use, but you can setup Windows Software Update Services to auto approve everything. Then you have no management required, just the initial setup. Of course that depends on what your users are doing now.
Okay, this argument doesn't really work. When you buy used like that, guess who gets 100% of that revenue? Blockbuster and Hollywood Video. Not the publishers. As far as they're concerned, you might as well be pirating the movies. If you search around, you'll find the publishing houses (movies, music, and games) blame their losses on the used market just as much as piracy (example here [next-gen.biz]).
Your argument doesn't really work because you assume the person would buy the new DVD. People set what price they want to pay; if the product remains out of that range, people won't buy it.
Your "argument" could be used for vaccuum cleaners; buying a used on though doesn't count as a loss for a new vaccuum. So, in the end I don't really buy your argument; a DVD is a product just like a vaccum cleaner, and companies that make such devices seem to be kicking around just fine.
Well, you think they should have, but didn't, at least for "banana republic." The other things you mentioned were covered, but not much time was spent, and cetainly it wasn't mentioned that banana trade had anything to do with it. Wikipedia doesn't either, but it does list a later war.. which apparently hasn't major enough to be included.
Hmm.. we focused on the WW1, the Depression and then WW2. Touched on the 50s a bit, but by then, HS was over. Not that I was happy about that. But it was ancient civ in middle school, then Western and US history in HS. By American history I mean from colonial times until about the wild west... but very little on what US companies were doing outside the US.
Nobody is going to pay me to work out (unless I'm a pro athlete or bodybuilder)
Nobody is going to pay me to water ski (unless I'm a pro water-skier)
Nobody is going to pay me to watch movies (unless I'm a famous critic)
Should the bodybuild ONLY work out when he'll be paid to do so?
Should the water skier ONLY water ski when he'll be paid to do so?
Should the critial ONLY watch movies when he'll be paid to do so?
Or can each of those people do those activties because they enjoy it and no one is willing to pay for that particular work out or movie?
Wow, you really misunderstood the argument. The argument, in plain english, is that you AREN'T BEING PAID FOR THAT TIME ANYWAY. The rest of your post is nonsense. Are you losing $30 / hr when you come home and watch TV until bed? No one works for pay 16 hours everyday of the week.
If you choose not to have a second job, you're not going to be paid those 16 hours each day you're NOT at your full time job. So your time is worthless.. because no one is paying you to use it in any specific way.
No, it's not, but these kinds of things in WINDOWS lead administrators to block those ports and in out of their networks... which would affect this as well. Windows DID have vunerablities in the SMB protocol way back when..
"Heard of it" and "being deployed more and more" are two different things though. To make a comeback, you'd need the later.. not just hearing it was being done in exceptional cases.
Um, I would think "making a comeback" means "actually starting to get mainstream use again." I don't think this type of thing was in mainsteam use in the 80s or 90s.
PHP, Bash, Lisp? I've written things in all of those, it's just not suitable to build any kind of large software. Simple scripting (it's intended use) is fine, but for an actual application.. no way. Java beats all those languages hands down for build complex software.
Why should a huge scratch in a DVD cause your entire system to lock up?
Why should a bad sector cause your entire system to lock up?
I don't know, but this problem appeared for me on Linux as well. Not as much, but that's because most of the discs giving me issues were games that wouldn't run under Linux anyway.
You may feel safe, but you aren't. Guns are illegal on school grounds, yet that hasn't stopped school shootings, has it?
People can have accidents with knives and cars too; shall we outlaw them?
That leaves "spur of the moment." If you know that everyone ELSE around you also has a gun, even if you get really really angry, do you think that would cause a person some pause before they reach for the gun? Even if they did, don't you think other's around would quickly put a stop to the original person's shooting?
That's actually what statistics DO show. You act as if someone mearely possesing a gun means they are some kind of hot headed pyschopath. That's simply not the case.
I disagree with that defintion though. First, it's too open ended. Second, why should someone not be allowed to view something because his neighbors don't like it? I thought a free society respected the rights of those in some kind of minority.. but if you happen to like watching S&M you can't do so in KY but you can in NY?