We don't have to TRY to make ourselves heard. We have been making ourselves heard since the invention of radio and televison. And besides, don't you think that in the off chance that we are chemically compatable with aliens, and on top of that they happen to like the way we taste, wouldn't it be much more economical for them to syntheisze whatever it is in us that makes us taste so good with white wine and cheese, then to travel billions of miles just to snatch up people and take them home to eat us?
Or lets say they failed econ, and took a bunch of ag classes. Wouldn't they be just as happy with a few breeding pairs, instead of coming here like laying waste like so many conquistidors?
Look I never claimed copying music made me a good person. Me, and a lot of other people are all copyright infringers, which makes us criminals. But I am not a thief.
It's not much of a distinction but It's enough to let me sleep at night.
"Theft (also known as stealing) is, in general, the wrongful taking of someone else's property without that person's willful consent. In law, it is usually the broadest term for a crime against property. It is a general term that encompasses offences such as burglary, embezzlement, larceny, looting, robbery, trespassing, fraud (theft by deception), and sometimes criminal conversion. Legally, theft is generally considered to be synonymous with larceny.
In the common law, theft is usually defined as the unauthorised taking or use of someone else's property with the intent to permanently deprive the owner or the person with rightful possession of that property or its use."
Ok for the last time, say it with me. IT'S NOT STEALING! It's copyright infringement, which is not the same at all.
If I walk in to a store and physically take a cd, then the store can no longer sell it. Thats stealing, and its wrong. What I do is simply get my music from another (usually friends and family NOT kazaa) cheaper source, which is not stealing.
What I'm talking about is copying music that I do not have the rights to copy. Hence copyright infringement, not shoplifting.
I suffer from dyscalcula. I tell people it's sort of like dyslexia for math. When I had to take standardized tests in grade school, I would consistently score highest in the class on math comprehension, and the lowest score in math calculation.
I understand math and can do higher math just fine. What I cannot do is basic arithmetic. There is no treatment. My psychologist recommemed I carry a calculator everywhere I go.
Like everyone else here I am of above average intelligence, I can read/write well, have an analytical mind, and am usually considered to be the smart guy (read nerd) in the room. I just can't add, subtract, multiply, or divide. So I use a TI-30XIIS to get by.
HIV destroys your immune system and thereby causes AIDS. AIDS does not kill you. You die of complications due to AIDS, usually by catching a disease which is not fatal to a healthy person (cold, pnunomia), but because of your ravaged immune system is fatal to you.
This reminds me of a time at work when a colleague called me with a dead monitor. I told him it was probably still under warranty and he should go to the manufacturers website. He asked me if I knew what it was, and I said to try www.acer.com. A second later I heard him practically scream in shock and revulsion at what he had seen. He was literally at a loss for words (I guess he had never seen porn before).
Once I stopped laughing I told him he should check the spelling of his url. Then he started to get worried someone would think he had been intentionally viewing smut during work hours on the campus network. All in all a pretty good day at someone else's expense of course.
"if I decided to spend 1 billion dollars and buy an island nation to rule like a king, that would be my business and noone else's."
Wouldn't it be the business of your subjects? I hope you would be a benevolent king.
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Hey I thought this was appledot?
http://familiar.handhelds.org/
So none of these people have televisions or radios?
Hereyou go.
You know that's funny because I consulted wikipedia for the correct spelling of 'Mahatma.' I guess I have a short attention spa-Hey look a pencil!
Think there's a google cache of this?
I for one welcome our biologically active martian overlords.
Watch what you say, or you'll end up in Gitmo for threating the president with all the other freedom haters, you freedom hating hater of freedom.
No, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
You should get a Zaurus. http://openzaurus.org
Let me get this straight. Transmeta has their own slashdot icon but gentoo does not. OK.
Or lets say they failed econ, and took a bunch of ag classes. Wouldn't they be just as happy with a few breeding pairs, instead of coming here like laying waste like so many conquistidors?
Look I never claimed copying music made me a good person. Me, and a lot of other people are all copyright infringers, which makes us criminals. But I am not a thief.
It's not much of a distinction but It's enough to let me sleep at night.
In the common law, theft is usually defined as the unauthorised taking or use of someone else's property with the intent to permanently deprive the owner or the person with rightful possession of that property or its use."
If I walk in to a store and physically take a cd, then the store can no longer sell it. Thats stealing, and its wrong. What I do is simply get my music from another (usually friends and family NOT kazaa) cheaper source, which is not stealing.
What I'm talking about is copying music that I do not have the rights to copy. Hence copyright infringement, not shoplifting.
Never paid for it in my life, and I'm not about to start. I guess I can be proud of that.
Here is all you need to know about spanking.
Hey, that hurts. . . no wonder no one came to my birthday party.
http://www.dyscalculia.org/ would be a good place to start.
I don't want one unless it is also usb powered.
I understand math and can do higher math just fine. What I cannot do is basic arithmetic. There is no treatment. My psychologist recommemed I carry a calculator everywhere I go.
Like everyone else here I am of above average intelligence, I can read/write well, have an analytical mind, and am usually considered to be the smart guy (read nerd) in the room. I just can't add, subtract, multiply, or divide. So I use a TI-30XIIS to get by.
AIDS = Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
HIV destroys your immune system and thereby causes AIDS. AIDS does not kill you. You die of complications due to AIDS, usually by catching a disease which is not fatal to a healthy person (cold, pnunomia), but because of your ravaged immune system is fatal to you.
I guess as long as they take care of the immunodeficency part, that might not be so bad. Wouldn't want to live in a bubble now would we.
Once I stopped laughing I told him he should check the spelling of his url. Then he started to get worried someone would think he had been intentionally viewing smut during work hours on the campus network. All in all a pretty good day at someone else's expense of course.
"if I decided to spend 1 billion dollars and buy an island nation to rule like a king, that would be my business and noone else's." Wouldn't it be the business of your subjects? I hope you would be a benevolent king.