But seriously, this is a terrible idea. Sure, they buy a nation for half a billion - now they have to defend it.
Interestingly enough, Sealand HAS defended itself in the past. And I've gotta tell you, I can imagine a plethora of people, being honorary citizens after all, being perfectly willing to shoot cannons at whatever decides to enter its territory.
Besides, a judge has already ruled that it is a soverign nation, so invading it truly WOULD be invasion of foreign soil.
then you are agreeing that it's valid (you licensed it, after all), and thus have no right to challenge it's validity
In reality, you're not necessarily agreeing that it's valid, but agreeing to operate within the limits of the law. Paying royalties to remain lawful should not remove your ability to challenge the validity of that which the law is enforcing.
It's akin to not drinking during prohibition. If you don't drink to comply with law, do you automatically give up your ability to challenge the law because compliance also denotes acceptance and confirmation of validity?
Agreed on both points. First, just give me an OS, and stop bundling all your own shit with it. But to the GGGP post, it took me 45 minutes to uninstall all the crap that came on my new work Dell (Compuserve still lives??) - and the worst part is they don't even include a Windows install disc with the machine!! All you get is a "restore" disk which restores your computer to its initial crap-loaded state. I hate having 40 tray icons load when I boot - it shouldn't take my brand-spankin new dual core 2GB RAM machine longer to boot than my fresh Windows install on an old P4 512MB machine.
Can I see all the crap and bloat of OEM-installed apps (all for the Benjamins, of course) tainting a person's view of the OS (and even the "Dell"/other brand?) - abso-freikin-lootly.
First of all, his primary question is: Do citizens currently need to show ID in order to travel in their own country?
The answer is a resounding "no".
This is incredibly incorrect. Many cases have upheld the rights of police officers to demand ID, even without any crime having been committed (like walking up to people on the street, not a traffic stop.)
Further, the REAL ID act is setting up a national ID which will have to be surrendered to meet said demands.
While the letter of the law may not demand ID requirements, courts have upheld time and again that it is no right of a person to refuse law enforcement's demands to produce identification.
Damn right. AJAX = protocol to communicate with the server.
The client-side complaining is hardly a problem with AJAX. Calling and getting information from the server is easy and quick. It's the DOM scripting that is then used to display the information that comes back from the server that causes CPU spikes and client-experience breakdowns.
Further, a block of text fading in and out on a page is not AJAX. For the love of God, it's DOM scripting via Javascript, and in no way AJAX at all. Perhaps AJAX was used to get the text to display, but putting said text in a div or whatever and then FADING it in to be cool is not AJAX at all.
Perhaps, then, people are actually learning what "DRM" means, and are going to sites like eMusic? Although eMusic is also raising their prices, so perhaps ALL pay music downloads are falling. I wouldn't know where to look for those stats though.
So you have a bought and paid for copy of Windows and they've made you afraid to use it. Seems like there's a moral in there somewhere.
Yeah, and the moral - for those of us who make our $ writing software for Windows - is to crack that activation shit. I bought it, I own it, back off me.
I can't imagine a pure Libertarian philosophy ever really being actualized, but I think an extreme dose of it would bring sobriety and balance to bear against government's inexorable tendency to intrude further and further into what should be the private sphere.
Take a look at Barry Goldwater - the man couldn't have been more libertarian (despite the "Mr. Conservative" label of the day) and believed in the government staying out of people's lives (like, homosexuality and abortion - that's right, a conservative that's pro-choice and not a crazy homo-phobe) but he wasn't for a complete disbanding of government.
And neither is the libertarian party. To say that the party is for a complete removal of government from the country is to confuse them with Anarchists.
They'll also save money by distributing said movies using your bandwidth, instead of theirs. They're capitalizing on the idea that "torrents are cool" and hope that by simply inserting the words "download using bittorrent" that the geek side of you will be more willing to buy.
It's a shame that in some bid to legitimize itself to the media companies, BitTorrent has quite literally been used like a cheap whore. MPAA gets to save money on bandwidth and distribution costs, and your computer gets to run what I can only imagine will be a constantly-running, branded bittorrent client in the background, using up your bandwidth to save the MPAA money.
BT sold out, or were really stupid - one or the other.
Any technology.?The patent doesn't even have to be specific. That is another example of why the patent system with respect of software is broken.
This isn't even a software issue. if the "any" keyword is indeed in the patent, it could go for anything. Any method of propulsion. Any method of steering. Any method of manufacturing. Any...
This sounds like an overall problem with SK's patent system, and not necessarily one with just the software part.
How can you denounce them, when the Christian Crusades are partially why Christianity is so wide-spread? Ah the hypocracy of religion.
It is possible for man to see the err of his ways and correct such actions. And hundreds of years and many many generations after the crusades, yes, as a Christian, I do have the right and - I believe - the moral obligation - to denounce any Muslim crusade of force.
I genuinely hope that the public don't buy this latest round of Msft. bullsh-t, Office 2003 is still perfectly capable, why should users be forced to upgrade?
Being someone who develops a product that is heavily integrated into Office wherever possible (because our customers demand it) I could actually see using some of these components. I know there's a lot of MS hate, but Office 2007's UI will become known - sooner or later - and riding their giant monopolistic wave to success isn't bad business.
It may make you feel dirty, I can understand it. From a business perspective, with a product that we want to be seen as made for the business professional - it's not an entirely off-the-table idea.
And that also is a question about the studies done here - is this evolution, or adaptation? Some make a distinction between the two, others think that adaptation is evolution at a micro-scale.
I personally believe it's more adaptation and survival of the fittest. I akin it to races among humans - darker skin of African or Middle Eastern people is an adaptation to the environment, but not specieation or evolution. Genetically, race != species, but the differences between all races of people are obvious adaptations to environmental conditions.
It's not a knock for or against evolution, just a thought that people too quickly label "evolution" that which is simply stronger traits surviving under different conditions.
It's long been said that traffic, if devoid of speed limits, can self-regulate itself. It's why two four-lane highways, one with a 55 mph speed limit and one with a 65 mph speed limit will both see the same basic average speed of travel.
An address to a beer-having, backrub-giving, nerd-loving chick would see airline stock skyrocket as nerds around the world booked their tickets to Houston with the quickness, in hopes of reliving themselves of the damned iron mask that is virginity.
It's always uber-painful waiting for common sense to wake up. Look at Iraq, DRM, RIAA, GPL, NTP, etc., etc. - sometimes I feel like I have this ability to foreshadow common sense years into the future.
I know that everyone will eventually catch up, but it's so difficult to wait...
I can't wait for Apple's contract to come up, and for Steve Jobs, still owning a good 85-90% market share, to bitch-slap these new Zune-happy CEO's to the ground like the little greedy trolls they are.
I guess what I'm saying is I'd rather respond with open arms and understanding/forgiveness than a knife. Is it really that bad that Microsoft and Novell made this deal?
I hate questions that require time to sort out. Will the Democrats taking back Congress be a good thing? Who knows? I remain, for some reason, forever hopeful, but if Novell becomes a MS pawn - well... I'm gonna stick with hopeful, because the other end of the spectrum is not that pleasant.
Hardly secure... After watching Hacking Democracy and taking some note that our votes are stored in a Microsoft Access database, I think I might have gone slightly pale...
It seems to me that your heart is set on the Perl job. Are you waiting for someone to give you permission to choose the lower paying job that you think you'd enjoy more? Life's too short, go for the Perl job, you know you want to:-D
Money can't buy happiness. studies have shown that true happiness is worth a TON of money. This study shows that going from having sex once a month to once a week is - in terms of a person's overall happiness - approximately equal to getting a $50,000 pay raise at work.
Although the "120 mile" thing is a factor in terms of living, family, wife/kids if you have any - if it's just a consideration of money and happiness, the Perl job FTW. I'm at a job now that I love - and it's mostly because I asked almost every person in the company (when they say "do you have any questions for me?") are you happy here? When every single person said it was the best job they'd ever had, I took it, over another offer for slightly more money.
While weekends will always win, smiling when you get up in the morning because you're going to a job you love is worth a lot more than that extra 40% increase - and I'll bet you can get the Perl job to come up a little bit.
However, one much wonder what financial and social benefit is achieved by the enforcement agency, who are using their special "Spy-Kids" branded spy equipment to hunt down and prosecute these obvious law-breakers.
I could also argue that by learning to play guitar by learning Beatles songs, a kid is learning a life skill that he/she may be able to eventually monetize. Playing others' songs in your bedroom may also enhance ones creativity or inspire others to write - and hello, that shit shouldn't be free, ya know.
You can always round-about argue this or that, but the guy was playing a harmonica for God's sake.
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Interestingly enough, Sealand HAS defended itself in the past. And I've gotta tell you, I can imagine a plethora of people, being honorary citizens after all, being perfectly willing to shoot cannons at whatever decides to enter its territory.
Besides, a judge has already ruled that it is a soverign nation, so invading it truly WOULD be invasion of foreign soil.
Yeah, even Apple is in on the game. I don't want Office's demo. I'll use NeoOffice, or download an eval, but I don't need it preinstalled.
Off-topic, but check out AppZapper for true OSX uninstallation. Brilliant.
In reality, you're not necessarily agreeing that it's valid, but agreeing to operate within the limits of the law. Paying royalties to remain lawful should not remove your ability to challenge the validity of that which the law is enforcing.
It's akin to not drinking during prohibition. If you don't drink to comply with law, do you automatically give up your ability to challenge the law because compliance also denotes acceptance and confirmation of validity?
Agreed on both points. First, just give me an OS, and stop bundling all your own shit with it. But to the GGGP post, it took me 45 minutes to uninstall all the crap that came on my new work Dell (Compuserve still lives??) - and the worst part is they don't even include a Windows install disc with the machine!! All you get is a "restore" disk which restores your computer to its initial crap-loaded state. I hate having 40 tray icons load when I boot - it shouldn't take my brand-spankin new dual core 2GB RAM machine longer to boot than my fresh Windows install on an old P4 512MB machine.
Can I see all the crap and bloat of OEM-installed apps (all for the Benjamins, of course) tainting a person's view of the OS (and even the "Dell"/other brand?) - abso-freikin-lootly.
This is incredibly incorrect. Many cases have upheld the rights of police officers to demand ID, even without any crime having been committed (like walking up to people on the street, not a traffic stop.)
Further, the REAL ID act is setting up a national ID which will have to be surrendered to meet said demands.
While the letter of the law may not demand ID requirements, courts have upheld time and again that it is no right of a person to refuse law enforcement's demands to produce identification.
Damn right. AJAX = protocol to communicate with the server.
The client-side complaining is hardly a problem with AJAX. Calling and getting information from the server is easy and quick. It's the DOM scripting that is then used to display the information that comes back from the server that causes CPU spikes and client-experience breakdowns.
Further, a block of text fading in and out on a page is not AJAX. For the love of God, it's DOM scripting via Javascript, and in no way AJAX at all. Perhaps AJAX was used to get the text to display, but putting said text in a div or whatever and then FADING it in to be cool is not AJAX at all.
Perhaps, then, people are actually learning what "DRM" means, and are going to sites like eMusic? Although eMusic is also raising their prices, so perhaps ALL pay music downloads are falling. I wouldn't know where to look for those stats though.
Yeah, and the moral - for those of us who make our $ writing software for Windows - is to crack that activation shit. I bought it, I own it, back off me.
Same damn installation too.
Take a look at Barry Goldwater - the man couldn't have been more libertarian (despite the "Mr. Conservative" label of the day) and believed in the government staying out of people's lives (like, homosexuality and abortion - that's right, a conservative that's pro-choice and not a crazy homo-phobe) but he wasn't for a complete disbanding of government.
And neither is the libertarian party. To say that the party is for a complete removal of government from the country is to confuse them with Anarchists.
They'll also save money by distributing said movies using your bandwidth, instead of theirs. They're capitalizing on the idea that "torrents are cool" and hope that by simply inserting the words "download using bittorrent" that the geek side of you will be more willing to buy.
It's a shame that in some bid to legitimize itself to the media companies, BitTorrent has quite literally been used like a cheap whore. MPAA gets to save money on bandwidth and distribution costs, and your computer gets to run what I can only imagine will be a constantly-running, branded bittorrent client in the background, using up your bandwidth to save the MPAA money.
BT sold out, or were really stupid - one or the other.
I can't see suing the RIAA for their current crusade as being anything close to ridiculous.
This isn't even a software issue. if the "any" keyword is indeed in the patent, it could go for anything. Any method of propulsion. Any method of steering. Any method of manufacturing. Any...
This sounds like an overall problem with SK's patent system, and not necessarily one with just the software part.
It is possible for man to see the err of his ways and correct such actions. And hundreds of years and many many generations after the crusades, yes, as a Christian, I do have the right and - I believe - the moral obligation - to denounce any Muslim crusade of force.
What a completely dumb statement.
Being someone who develops a product that is heavily integrated into Office wherever possible (because our customers demand it) I could actually see using some of these components. I know there's a lot of MS hate, but Office 2007's UI will become known - sooner or later - and riding their giant monopolistic wave to success isn't bad business.
It may make you feel dirty, I can understand it. From a business perspective, with a product that we want to be seen as made for the business professional - it's not an entirely off-the-table idea.
And that also is a question about the studies done here - is this evolution, or adaptation? Some make a distinction between the two, others think that adaptation is evolution at a micro-scale.
I personally believe it's more adaptation and survival of the fittest. I akin it to races among humans - darker skin of African or Middle Eastern people is an adaptation to the environment, but not specieation or evolution. Genetically, race != species, but the differences between all races of people are obvious adaptations to environmental conditions.
It's not a knock for or against evolution, just a thought that people too quickly label "evolution" that which is simply stronger traits surviving under different conditions.
It's long been said that traffic, if devoid of speed limits, can self-regulate itself. It's why two four-lane highways, one with a 55 mph speed limit and one with a 65 mph speed limit will both see the same basic average speed of travel.
They charge for pillows now?!
An address to a beer-having, backrub-giving, nerd-loving chick would see airline stock skyrocket as nerds around the world booked their tickets to Houston with the quickness, in hopes of reliving themselves of the damned iron mask that is virginity.
It's always uber-painful waiting for common sense to wake up. Look at Iraq, DRM, RIAA, GPL, NTP, etc., etc. - sometimes I feel like I have this ability to foreshadow common sense years into the future.
I know that everyone will eventually catch up, but it's so difficult to wait...
I can't wait for Apple's contract to come up, and for Steve Jobs, still owning a good 85-90% market share, to bitch-slap these new Zune-happy CEO's to the ground like the little greedy trolls they are.
I hate questions that require time to sort out. Will the Democrats taking back Congress be a good thing? Who knows? I remain, for some reason, forever hopeful, but if Novell becomes a MS pawn - well... I'm gonna stick with hopeful, because the other end of the spectrum is not that pleasant.
So we'll wait...
Hardly secure... After watching Hacking Democracy and taking some note that our votes are stored in a Microsoft Access database, I think I might have gone slightly pale...
WORD.
Money can't buy happiness. studies have shown that true happiness is worth a TON of money. This study shows that going from having sex once a month to once a week is - in terms of a person's overall happiness - approximately equal to getting a $50,000 pay raise at work.
Although the "120 mile" thing is a factor in terms of living, family, wife/kids if you have any - if it's just a consideration of money and happiness, the Perl job FTW. I'm at a job now that I love - and it's mostly because I asked almost every person in the company (when they say "do you have any questions for me?") are you happy here? When every single person said it was the best job they'd ever had, I took it, over another offer for slightly more money.
While weekends will always win, smiling when you get up in the morning because you're going to a job you love is worth a lot more than that extra 40% increase - and I'll bet you can get the Perl job to come up a little bit.
However, one much wonder what financial and social benefit is achieved by the enforcement agency, who are using their special "Spy-Kids" branded spy equipment to hunt down and prosecute these obvious law-breakers.
I could also argue that by learning to play guitar by learning Beatles songs, a kid is learning a life skill that he/she may be able to eventually monetize. Playing others' songs in your bedroom may also enhance ones creativity or inspire others to write - and hello, that shit shouldn't be free, ya know.
You can always round-about argue this or that, but the guy was playing a harmonica for God's sake.