Every adult should be armed and trained to use those arms. Criminal behavior drops radically in every instance where the populace is known to be well armed, and rises dramatically in every venue where they are not.
Well if we effectively reduce criminal behavior, our law enforcement budgets would be slashed. I don't believe those bureaucrats would want that. There's a reason to our madness.
The point about the antagonist being an Arab (presumably synonymous with 'terrorist') was made in the parent of my post.
Oops, sorry about that, Chief. And yes, I do agree that we should not arm the passengers. I saw how Mr. Burns got shot. I wouldn't want the same thing to happen to the pilot.
Issued small arms to any adult passenger that didn't have same at boarding
And don't forget to issue a half a quart of vodka...so they don't flinch when they pull the trigger. If you want to give these people guns, you'd better make them take a sobriety test.
So if he's not Arab, I win? In that case I want all our air marshalls to be Arabs. So they can beat up the nutjob with a.45. A drunken, obnoxious passenger with a gun is a lot scarier than any potential act of terrorism.
Have you given a thought to what discharging a firearm on an airplane at 30,000 feet might do if you puncture the hull of the plain and depressurize the cabin?
Yeah, I saw it happen on one of these back in '64.
Yes he is, and now, like every other movement, it's starting to fragment because, like everything else, everybody thinks "my way or the highway". It may settle out in a while, but only for a short time before licensing or other legal stupidities will raise its ugly head again and again. His strategy is a short term one. Only the complete abolishment of IP law can and will possibly bring a lasting solution. And I'm not sure if I would want him to have any real power over how information is distributed any more than anybody else in such a position. Nobody should have that kind of power. So far now, while he's the underdog, he's serving us all a great purpose. But I don't want to see crap like "compulsory licensing" and such. All distribution methods must be completely voluntary in every fashion. My "strategy" to bring all this about is to simply neutralize the weapons being used to enforce IP law:-) EMP will take out the electronic stuff. The mechanical weapons are a bit more difficult. Maybe a giant Telsa coil to eletricify and melt them down right on the spot, or make it rain thermite. Whatever it takes without having to kill people.
...and you're just making irrelevant noises about how you'd like to pretend that the system doesn't exist.
You mean the same way people pretend that their money has real value? Our whole system is completely dependent on what we believe. Our faith is the only thing that keeps it running. So it can all change the instant we want it to. The system is easy to change. The people running it(all of us) are another story.
If the makers of Autocad and Photoshop had "widespread use" as their top priority, they'd also put their programs in the public domain rather than charging hundreds of dollars per copy.
Well, they do allow it to be pirated very easily. And that's because they want maintain "mindshare". If they didn't want this, they would require things like hardware dongles like Avid and Pro Tools do (or did).
...it's not our place to decide any more than it's our place to dictate the pricing on other peoples' commercial software.
Nobody has the right to deny me the use of divulged information. The law notwithstanding, once it's out, it belongs to everybody, just like a stray dog. It is absurd to put information on a leash. And I consider that to be theft.
This is a prime example of how stupid politics ruin good things.
Actually this is a prime example of how people behave no matter what the endeavor. It's that desire to prevail. There's no reason to expect OSS to be any different from anything else. Many civil rights groups suffer the same fate also. So they remain on the side lines, or simply get swallowed up. It's the Gaza Strip without the guns. OSS will have its day when licensing issues can be thrown aside, and all time spent on developement. Until then, I don't expect much.
Though I may not have put it that way, in many ways you are correct. And licenseing should be considered trivial (ie:nonexistant) The factional infighting is exposing OSS's similarities to the commercial world more than its differences (Watch the movie "Network" (1976) and note how the radicals negociate the renewal of their show). And most of the time will spent on licensing issues instead of actual developement. I've already downloaded some programs that consume less space than the license. There is only one suitable "license". That's public domain. Make it open to anybody for anything. Let the commercial companies have it. Who cares if they make money from it? They don't have any exclusivity over it. They still can't stop you from using it. As far as I'm concerned, use of public domain material in a program puts that program into the public domain also. *sigh* I guess the lawyers have found another pot of gold at the end of the OSS rainbow now. If there's anything that will prevent its widespread use, this would be it.
Who else makes a calculator that goes to infinity...or has somebody found the limit yet? If nobody has, then let's set up a "calculator@home" to see if there is one.
Heh, you read my mind.(pretty easy since it's just pop up pictures). I thought that very thing after I posted. And if that's the case with Mr. Wolf, then don't feel too bad about it. He's playing the role that he's being paid to play. How many circus clowns do you recognize at the diner when they don't have their make up and costumes on? Pretty scary when you know that clowns are EVIL!
Exactly. Too many are trying to blame the motivation for what they do. "The devil made me do it." Clearly the culpability lies in the decision to act regardless of the provocation. This is why the arguement for things like restriction of speech don't hold water. Oh well, as long as we continue to support these companies, buy their products, and re-elect their puppets into office, I wouldn't expect anything to change soon.
I'm not sure I would call them stupid, unless they hold on to the stock too long. Greedy maybe. And I suppose greed can cause one to make some stupid moves. I'm don't know if SCO started the trend, but it sure is taking off. Wall Street=Vegas We're still trying to live the 80s. In short, you are right, but I'll bet the lawyers egg 'em on a little. A win looks good on their resume also. It seems to me that people who push for these kinds of regulations are getting fished in by these hooligans. They promise to help get a law passed for a "nominal fee", then go to the other side to help them defeat or repeal the law, for a "nominal fee" of course. Like the stock broker, they make money no matter what. It's another form of ambulance chasing I suppose.
I would be interested in knowing how much bandwidth amateur radio could handle. It could be a great workaround. Probably all you could effectively recieve is text, so maybe some ascii art printed out on sheets of paper that you could flip through might work if you must have moving pictures.
What are you talking about? It creates an ebb and flow of capital. Everybody skims a little and that's how profits are made. I'll grant that nothing useful comes of it. But the manufacturers of luxury goods are doing quite nicely because of it. Money is like the ocean. It must circulate or it becaomes stagnant and everything within it dies.
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If someone is stupid (or drunk) enough to pull a weapon on a flight, they'd get shot about a hundred times in five seconds.
Heh, Just came to me. I take you never heard of a Polish firing squad.
Don't make any more difficult to get our shit back...
Hmmm...Aiding and abetting are we? :-)
Every adult should be armed and trained to use those arms. Criminal behavior drops radically in every instance where the populace is known to be well armed, and rises dramatically in every venue where they are not.
Well if we effectively reduce criminal behavior, our law enforcement budgets would be slashed. I don't believe those bureaucrats would want that. There's a reason to our madness.
The point about the antagonist being an Arab (presumably synonymous with 'terrorist') was made in the parent of my post.
Oops, sorry about that, Chief. And yes, I do agree that we should not arm the passengers. I saw how Mr. Burns got shot. I wouldn't want the same thing to happen to the pilot.
Issued small arms to any adult passenger that didn't have same at boarding
And don't forget to issue a half a quart of vodka...so they don't flinch when they pull the trigger. If you want to give these people guns, you'd better make them take a sobriety test.
Crazy, but highly-trained,arab...
.45. A drunken, obnoxious passenger with a gun is a lot scarier than any potential act of terrorism.
So if he's not Arab, I win? In that case I want all our air marshalls to be Arabs. So they can beat up the nutjob with a
Have you given a thought to what discharging a firearm on an airplane at 30,000 feet might do if you puncture the hull of the plain and depressurize the cabin?
Yeah, I saw it happen on one of these back in '64.
You do not have to provide your fingerprints when you enter the country.
For now. It's coming soon to a check point near you as soon as controversy over this thing dies down.
Yes he is, and now, like every other movement, it's starting to fragment because, like everything else, everybody thinks "my way or the highway". It may settle out in a while, but only for a short time before licensing or other legal stupidities will raise its ugly head again and again. His strategy is a short term one. Only the complete abolishment of IP law can and will possibly bring a lasting solution. And I'm not sure if I would want him to have any real power over how information is distributed any more than anybody else in such a position. Nobody should have that kind of power. So far now, while he's the underdog, he's serving us all a great purpose. But I don't want to see crap like "compulsory licensing" and such. All distribution methods must be completely voluntary in every fashion. My "strategy" to bring all this about is to simply neutralize the weapons being used to enforce IP law :-) EMP will take out the electronic stuff. The mechanical weapons are a bit more difficult. Maybe a giant Telsa coil to eletricify and melt them down right on the spot, or make it rain thermite. Whatever it takes without having to kill people.
...and you're just making irrelevant noises about how you'd like to pretend that the system doesn't exist.
You mean the same way people pretend that their money has real value? Our whole system is completely dependent on what we believe. Our faith is the only thing that keeps it running. So it can all change the instant we want it to. The system is easy to change. The people running it(all of us) are another story.
That's precisely the response I would offer up. What I'm claiming is the right to use the program that contains public domain code.
If the makers of Autocad and Photoshop had "widespread use" as their top priority, they'd also put their programs in the public domain rather than charging hundreds of dollars per copy.
...it's not our place to decide any more than it's our place to dictate the pricing on other peoples' commercial software.
Well, they do allow it to be pirated very easily. And that's because they want maintain "mindshare". If they didn't want this, they would require things like hardware dongles like Avid and Pro Tools do (or did).
Nobody has the right to deny me the use of divulged information. The law notwithstanding, once it's out, it belongs to everybody, just like a stray dog. It is absurd to put information on a leash. And I consider that to be theft.
This is a prime example of how stupid politics ruin good things.
Actually this is a prime example of how people behave no matter what the endeavor. It's that desire to prevail. There's no reason to expect OSS to be any different from anything else. Many civil rights groups suffer the same fate also. So they remain on the side lines, or simply get swallowed up. It's the Gaza Strip without the guns. OSS will have its day when licensing issues can be thrown aside, and all time spent on developement. Until then, I don't expect much.
Though I may not have put it that way, in many ways you are correct. And licenseing should be considered trivial (ie:nonexistant) The factional infighting is exposing OSS's similarities to the commercial world more than its differences (Watch the movie "Network" (1976) and note how the radicals negociate the renewal of their show). And most of the time will spent on licensing issues instead of actual developement. I've already downloaded some programs that consume less space than the license. There is only one suitable "license". That's public domain. Make it open to anybody for anything. Let the commercial companies have it. Who cares if they make money from it? They don't have any exclusivity over it. They still can't stop you from using it. As far as I'm concerned, use of public domain material in a program puts that program into the public domain also. *sigh* I guess the lawyers have found another pot of gold at the end of the OSS rainbow now. If there's anything that will prevent its widespread use, this would be it.
Who else makes a calculator that goes to infinity...or has somebody found the limit yet? If nobody has, then let's set up a "calculator@home" to see if there is one.
They're just actors.
Heh, you read my mind.(pretty easy since it's just pop up pictures). I thought that very thing after I posted. And if that's the case with Mr. Wolf, then don't feel too bad about it. He's playing the role that he's being paid to play. How many circus clowns do you recognize at the diner when they don't have their make up and costumes on? Pretty scary when you know that clowns are EVIL!
is probably playing both sides of this issue with their accomplices. Kind of like selling weapons to both sides of the war.
I don't worry about lunatic talk show hosts. I worry about their listeners.
Exactly. Too many are trying to blame the motivation for what they do. "The devil made me do it." Clearly the culpability lies in the decision to act regardless of the provocation. This is why the arguement for things like restriction of speech don't hold water. Oh well, as long as we continue to support these companies, buy their products, and re-elect their puppets into office, I wouldn't expect anything to change soon.
Plain and simple.
That's the fault of stupid investors.
I'm not sure I would call them stupid, unless they hold on to the stock too long. Greedy maybe. And I suppose greed can cause one to make some stupid moves. I'm don't know if SCO started the trend, but it sure is taking off. Wall Street=Vegas We're still trying to live the 80s. In short, you are right, but I'll bet the lawyers egg 'em on a little. A win looks good on their resume also. It seems to me that people who push for these kinds of regulations are getting fished in by these hooligans. They promise to help get a law passed for a "nominal fee", then go to the other side to help them defeat or repeal the law, for a "nominal fee" of course. Like the stock broker, they make money no matter what. It's another form of ambulance chasing I suppose.
I would be interested in knowing how much bandwidth amateur radio could handle. It could be a great workaround. Probably all you could effectively recieve is text, so maybe some ascii art printed out on sheets of paper that you could flip through might work if you must have moving pictures.
What are you talking about? It creates an ebb and flow of capital. Everybody skims a little and that's how profits are made. I'll grant that nothing useful comes of it. But the manufacturers of luxury goods are doing quite nicely because of it. Money is like the ocean. It must circulate or it becaomes stagnant and everything within it dies.
It makes enforcement tricky and causes diplomatic nightmares.
And lots of money changes hands. Another windfall for lawyers and bureaucrats.
What do they export?
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