Regardless of what is whose, you should just negociate what you take home. Whatever "excess" there is is the company's problem. Let them do the paperwork. That's all it amounts to anyway. The money doesn't really exist. If the taxes in Sweden are excessive, then I have faith that the Swedes will know how to deal with it. I haven't checked, but I don't believe that excessive taxation has put too many of them into the streets. Oh, and long live Pirate Bay! Unfortunately, I do believe that the Swedish gov't will ultimately cave to the cartels if they want to remain a "world player".
about the Americans, but at least they have a law on the books just to prevent this kind of thing. Now...if we could only get the citizens to uphold it. Evidently they have some trouble understanding what "no law" actually means. The constitution doesn't seperate one kind of speech from the other. We shouldn't either. The amendment says "no law". That's what it means. If they think they need to restrict speech, then they need to amend their constitution and spell it out, not ignore or interpret as they see fit the ones they have.
When all they have to do is copyright everything. Hey, it works for Scientology. If everything like the weather service and map makers, etc. goes private, then IP law will have more teeth than those against murder and rape. It won't be long before a freedom of information request becomes a DMCA violation. If that doesn't work, then all you need to do is scream "terrorist!" at anyone who dares to question the authority of the gov't. Y'all let me know when you wake up from your slumber and start to vote these bums out of office. The change has to come from your own selves. Until you take action, you will find that this is only the beginning. "You aint seen nuttin yet."
I can think of at least one industry that would literally die over night if patents were suddenly done away with.
Patent law? Oh, those poor starving attorneys. Yeah, that's a beaut all right. Well hell, I can think of a whole bunch of industries that will "literally die over night" if marijuana prohibition was suddenly done away with. So, I guess it's much better to drag all of society down to the depths with draconian, racist, unjust law so that these industries can survive. Especially the expanding private prisons. We're giving people jobs. No matter that it's the devil's work.
Pharmaceutical research would pretty much grind to a halt without IP laws.
Oh please! That just doesn't wash. It's just another tired old smoke screen designed to cover up and distract us from the rampant corruption and featherbedding, and of course "packaging".
Yes IP is a farce designed to restrict the flow of knowledge. It only spurs hoarding and speculation for the benefit of very few people.
It seems like it was spelled out pretty clearly what the offer is. "For a wholly non-violent offense like this, perhaps a long probation, confiscation of funds, and a few years of regular community service would be more appropriate." Sounds reasonable to me as a person who understands that prison should be for those who are truly violent and dangerous. But also as one who understands the profit motive for locking up as many people as possible...possibly as a source of cheap labor, medical experimants, etc., I don't expect much change as long as people in general are so vengeful. And yes, the authorities do use rape and beatings as a method of behavior control. They just reward the other prisoners to do it for them to give themselves "plausable deniability".
However since they now make it a crime to do the right thing, we resolve to anonymously publish our results for these products to the most vile and wicked cracking gangs we can contact as ready to use fully weaponized exploits. (Emphasis mine)
Ever the fine line between funny and insightful. I'd call this one the latter. This is precisely(ok I can forget about helping the "vile and wicked cracking gangs") what needs to be done. How many more cases like these do we need before this becomes general practice?? The same applies to those who develope "questionable" programs like P2P, etc. Do it anonymously and stay out of jail. Let's forget about attribution and just get the goods out there. And of course, this proves once AGAIN that IP law is just as effective at censorship as a Chinese rifle.
Why? Can't you accept(or reject) a statement on its face value without knowing who wrote it? Why is the name so important when you should be focused on the subject? I don't get it. It shouldn't matter where an expressed idea originates. Only that the idea is expressed. Is this some hang-up over attribution or recognition? This is like the jesus freaks completely losing his message because they are so infatuated with the man.
So if you don't have the government at all... the large corporations just exert more direct control.
On the contrary. Those large corporations won't have the gov't protection they presently enjoy to become the behemoths that they are now. The gov't regulations we see now are more of an attempt to raise barriers to the competetion than anything else.
Government is supposed to be the representative of the people and enforce their will.
It is and it does. Otherwise the turnover would be much higher. You wouldn't see the 90-95% re-election rate that we have today.
Though it would require some work(oh my!), and require that you work outside the system, and not get distracted by mass media, etc., the write-in is still available. If it is made obvious that the majority voted for a non-aligned candidate, then that person will become president. Nothing you posted here can deny that. The president needs the majority of votes to win, not the majority of money. The money influences us, not them. They use it to influence us to vote for them. They don't just buy the office and then occupy it. We give it to them.
life was sseded from space. The planet...the solar system...the galaxy was seeded from space. Everything in the universe, including us, is just condensed gas and dust.
While the black market isn't necessarily something to be proud of, it shows up whenever there are market inefficiences or certain niches that aren't being fulfilled.
Actually, most black markets arise from some kind of prohibition or other.
...maybe we'll have a chance at getting a balanced government again.
Or we could simply vote for one. So far I haven't seen any laws that require you to vote republican or democrat. I don't care who the republicans(democrats) align themselves with. The problem is when 99% of the voters align with the republicans(democrats), in their vain attempts to rule over their neighbors. Every two years we are given the chance to destroy this unholy alliance. And every two years we choose to maintain the status quo. As long as that continues, you can forget about any kind of balanced gov't. In fact you can forget about it as long as 51% is allowed to decide how the other 49% is allowed to live.
An act of war is not the same as an officially declared war.
Yeah, I understand. Korea and Vietnam are good cases in point. Hardly black ops, but...
The president has taken it upon himself to assume them anyway.
I wonder if it's possible to hold congress people responsible for their failure to stop the president from conducting what is now an illegal operation in Iraq and Afganistan...in addition to the president himself. There should be something in there when talking about swearing to uphold the constitution. If we could only catch one of them getting(giving?) a blow job. That would rile up the masses. Too bad the entire political scene is so completely filled with spineless wimps that nobody will stand up and resist. Then again, what we really have to deal with is the idiots that vote for them. That's where the real fault lies. Oh well, back to American Idol. Now there's a way of doing a campaign and election that just might hold the voters' attention.
A backdoor in OSS is easily, and sometimes quickly correctable(all you gotta do is check outgoing traffic. Which should work on the closed source stuff, also, but decoding it could violate the DMCA)...by anyone that's interested. Compare this to MS's response time to its flaws. And nobody is allowed to even try to fix it. Proprietary software has the convenience of "one stop shopping" in many instances. Not much else. Okay, usually the documentation is a lot better. All right, they have great documentation and a real slick looking GUI, also. For the big companies lawsuits are just a part of doing business, and the costs are figured into the price. Lawsuits are like mosquito bites to them. As far as reputation is concerned, well, that's why they have a public relations department to manipulate that. A good one can turn any negative(bug, exploit,backdoor) into a positive(feature). Their engineering(developement) departments have very little effect on their reputation as a result.
But with OSS it's legal to check...for those who care.
So, it comes down to a question of who do you trust: college kids who have nothing at stake, or companies that have everything at stake?
I find those with nothing at stake to be a little less biased and easier to trust. The company with everything at stake will do what it takes to protect their interests.
How do you know they aren't? Maybe we ought to do a little checking up on these NTP guys. You might find some of Gotti's distant(or maybe not so distant) relatives. IP law generates much (info)contraband... The life blood of organized crime...and many governments.
Any sensible person would call a military strike an act of war. If it's not an act of war, then it's simple murder if people die. Hell, a blockade is considered an act of war by some.
Unfortunately for the president, the wartime authorities given him by the constitution do not apply without a formal declaration of war.
That is very fortunate for the rest of us. This is how we protect ourselves from a maniac to go around throwing bombs where he pleases.
In the case of Iraq congress voted to give funds but has not issued an official constitutional declaration of war.
And it was wrong of them to do that. The American attacks on Iraq are acts of war.
Even if they did read it, many of them consider petroleum, coal, etc. to be a bit of a golden goose(gotta keep their constituents employed and happy so they get re-elected), so they will always find a way to protect it. I'm not surprised by this at all... Saddened by the fact that most of them will still get re-elected anyway, but not surprised.
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Regardless of what is whose, you should just negociate what you take home. Whatever "excess" there is is the company's problem. Let them do the paperwork. That's all it amounts to anyway. The money doesn't really exist. If the taxes in Sweden are excessive, then I have faith that the Swedes will know how to deal with it. I haven't checked, but I don't believe that excessive taxation has put too many of them into the streets. Oh, and long live Pirate Bay! Unfortunately, I do believe that the Swedish gov't will ultimately cave to the cartels if they want to remain a "world player".
about the Americans, but at least they have a law on the books just to prevent this kind of thing. Now...if we could only get the citizens to uphold it. Evidently they have some trouble understanding what "no law" actually means. The constitution doesn't seperate one kind of speech from the other. We shouldn't either. The amendment says "no law". That's what it means. If they think they need to restrict speech, then they need to amend their constitution and spell it out, not ignore or interpret as they see fit the ones they have.
Has anyone ever FOIA'd their state government for in-house software to look at?
Yes...well, kind of
When all they have to do is copyright everything. Hey, it works for Scientology. If everything like the weather service and map makers, etc. goes private, then IP law will have more teeth than those against murder and rape. It won't be long before a freedom of information request becomes a DMCA violation. If that doesn't work, then all you need to do is scream "terrorist!" at anyone who dares to question the authority of the gov't. Y'all let me know when you wake up from your slumber and start to vote these bums out of office. The change has to come from your own selves. Until you take action, you will find that this is only the beginning. "You aint seen nuttin yet."
I can think of at least one industry that would literally die over night if patents were suddenly done away with.
Patent law? Oh, those poor starving attorneys. Yeah, that's a beaut all right. Well hell, I can think of a whole bunch of industries that will "literally die over night" if marijuana prohibition was suddenly done away with. So, I guess it's much better to drag all of society down to the depths with draconian, racist, unjust law so that these industries can survive. Especially the expanding private prisons. We're giving people jobs. No matter that it's the devil's work.
Pharmaceutical research would pretty much grind to a halt without IP laws.
Oh please! That just doesn't wash. It's just another tired old smoke screen designed to cover up and distract us from the rampant corruption and featherbedding, and of course "packaging".
Yes IP is a farce designed to restrict the flow of knowledge. It only spurs hoarding and speculation for the benefit of very few people.
I gave up reading books because the resolution and clarity just wasn't there, not to mention the lack of sound.
Maybe this might be what you need. And audio cassettes are available to play on your home theater system.
What have you got to offer?
It seems like it was spelled out pretty clearly what the offer is. "For a wholly non-violent offense like this, perhaps a long probation, confiscation of funds, and a few years of regular community service would be more appropriate." Sounds reasonable to me as a person who understands that prison should be for those who are truly violent and dangerous. But also as one who understands the profit motive for locking up as many people as possible...possibly as a source of cheap labor, medical experimants, etc., I don't expect much change as long as people in general are so vengeful. And yes, the authorities do use rape and beatings as a method of behavior control. They just reward the other prisoners to do it for them to give themselves "plausable deniability".
Centuries of prioritizing jail hasn't done much beyond turn jails into crime schools.
Oh, it does much more.
However since they now make it a crime to do the right thing, we resolve to anonymously publish our results for these products to the most vile and wicked cracking gangs we can contact as ready to use fully weaponized exploits. (Emphasis mine)
Ever the fine line between funny and insightful. I'd call this one the latter. This is precisely(ok I can forget about helping the "vile and wicked cracking gangs") what needs to be done. How many more cases like these do we need before this becomes general practice?? The same applies to those who develope "questionable" programs like P2P, etc. Do it anonymously and stay out of jail. Let's forget about attribution and just get the goods out there. And of course, this proves once AGAIN that IP law is just as effective at censorship as a Chinese rifle.
A shame you posted as an anonymous coward...
Why? Can't you accept(or reject) a statement on its face value without knowing who wrote it? Why is the name so important when you should be focused on the subject? I don't get it. It shouldn't matter where an expressed idea originates. Only that the idea is expressed. Is this some hang-up over attribution or recognition? This is like the jesus freaks completely losing his message because they are so infatuated with the man.
So if you don't have the government at all... the large corporations just exert more direct control.
On the contrary. Those large corporations won't have the gov't protection they presently enjoy to become the behemoths that they are now. The gov't regulations we see now are more of an attempt to raise barriers to the competetion than anything else.
Government is supposed to be the representative of the people and enforce their will.
It is and it does. Otherwise the turnover would be much higher. You wouldn't see the 90-95% re-election rate that we have today.
besides the obvious money grab is the vain attempt to stay ahead of the warez sites.
Republicans...Democrats...BAH! It's been "all downhill since Kennedy died".
Though it would require some work(oh my!), and require that you work outside the system, and not get distracted by mass media, etc., the write-in is still available. If it is made obvious that the majority voted for a non-aligned candidate, then that person will become president. Nothing you posted here can deny that. The president needs the majority of votes to win, not the majority of money. The money influences us, not them. They use it to influence us to vote for them. They don't just buy the office and then occupy it. We give it to them.
life was sseded from space. The planet...the solar system...the galaxy was seeded from space. Everything in the universe, including us, is just condensed gas and dust.
While the black market isn't necessarily something to be proud of, it shows up whenever there are market inefficiences or certain niches that aren't being fulfilled.
Actually, most black markets arise from some kind of prohibition or other.
...maybe we'll have a chance at getting a balanced government again.
Or we could simply vote for one. So far I haven't seen any laws that require you to vote republican or democrat. I don't care who the republicans(democrats) align themselves with. The problem is when 99% of the voters align with the republicans(democrats), in their vain attempts to rule over their neighbors. Every two years we are given the chance to destroy this unholy alliance. And every two years we choose to maintain the status quo. As long as that continues, you can forget about any kind of balanced gov't. In fact you can forget about it as long as 51% is allowed to decide how the other 49% is allowed to live.
...maybe the invention of (for instance) the printing press really was "the beginning of the end".
Well, it did mark the beginning of IP law, so you could be right.
An act of war is not the same as an officially declared war.
Yeah, I understand. Korea and Vietnam are good cases in point. Hardly black ops, but...
The president has taken it upon himself to assume them anyway.
I wonder if it's possible to hold congress people responsible for their failure to stop the president from conducting what is now an illegal operation in Iraq and Afganistan...in addition to the president himself. There should be something in there when talking about swearing to uphold the constitution. If we could only catch one of them getting(giving?) a blow job. That would rile up the masses. Too bad the entire political scene is so completely filled with spineless wimps that nobody will stand up and resist. Then again, what we really have to deal with is the idiots that vote for them. That's where the real fault lies. Oh well, back to American Idol. Now there's a way of doing a campaign and election that just might hold the voters' attention.
A backdoor in OSS is easily, and sometimes quickly correctable(all you gotta do is check outgoing traffic. Which should work on the closed source stuff, also, but decoding it could violate the DMCA)...by anyone that's interested. Compare this to MS's response time to its flaws. And nobody is allowed to even try to fix it. Proprietary software has the convenience of "one stop shopping" in many instances. Not much else. Okay, usually the documentation is a lot better. All right, they have great documentation and a real slick looking GUI, also. For the big companies lawsuits are just a part of doing business, and the costs are figured into the price. Lawsuits are like mosquito bites to them. As far as reputation is concerned, well, that's why they have a public relations department to manipulate that. A good one can turn any negative(bug, exploit,backdoor) into a positive(feature). Their engineering(developement) departments have very little effect on their reputation as a result.
But with OSS it's legal to check...for those who care.
So, it comes down to a question of who do you trust: college kids who have nothing at stake, or companies that have everything at stake?
I find those with nothing at stake to be a little less biased and easier to trust. The company with everything at stake will do what it takes to protect their interests.
How do you know they aren't? Maybe we ought to do a little checking up on these NTP guys. You might find some of Gotti's distant(or maybe not so distant) relatives. IP law generates much (info)contraband... The life blood of organized crime...and many governments.
Any sensible person would call a military strike an act of war. If it's not an act of war, then it's simple murder if people die. Hell, a blockade is considered an act of war by some.
Unfortunately for the president, the wartime authorities given him by the constitution do not apply without a formal declaration of war.
That is very fortunate for the rest of us. This is how we protect ourselves from a maniac to go around throwing bombs where he pleases.
In the case of Iraq congress voted to give funds but has not issued an official constitutional declaration of war.
And it was wrong of them to do that. The American attacks on Iraq are acts of war.
A military strike is generally a closely guarded secret and there's no particular reason why Congress should know about it in advance.
Except for the fact that a military strike should involve an actual declaration of war by an informed congress.
Even if they did read it, many of them consider petroleum, coal, etc. to be a bit of a golden goose(gotta keep their constituents employed and happy so they get re-elected), so they will always find a way to protect it. I'm not surprised by this at all... Saddened by the fact that most of them will still get re-elected anyway, but not surprised.