Seriously, how is this a comment? I've always wondered why people waste time commenting about how a story was not worth posting, let alone reading, but apparently these devoid-of-interest stories are still worth commenting on.
It's like if your car had a camera and the car manufacturer insisted that they retained copyright in every picture it took.
Now when it takes a picture of a Chevy, is GM going to see that as a cash cow and sue Toyota for infringement and/or perjury and raise the spector of good old USofA IP rights being infringed by them dirty furrinners?
it occurred to me that over these past few years Philosophy has a more prominent role in Computer Science then ever before
Maybe computers have a more prominent role in philosophy than ever before. Not in the physical sense of typing up long winded papers, but in the sense of creating models to simulate... stuff.
I seem to recall Bill Joy having some decidedly pessimistic and even luddite attitudes towards future tech, but it's been so long since he's been in the news that I don't remember now what. Paranoid about nanotech, I think, for starters.
Carter hardly had time to fix all the problems left over by LBJ and Nixon, both of who tried to run a war and expanding government without raising taxes.
People go on and on about how great Reagan was, but forget his last year or two when people were happy to find mortgages as low as 21%, a doubled national debt, and Iran Contra among other scandals. Carter was a wuss and micro manager in many ways, but at least he had some idea of what "honor" meant.
You shouldn't have been modded as flamebait, but the problem with your stance is that 99% of the people who espouse it are liars. They want the government to get out of the way -- but only so far. They like having "corporation" defined by law to their advantage, they like the government banning unions, they like government laws against competition and for monopolies (contrary to the spirit of the visionary they pretend to worship, Adam Smith), they like the government setting up courts to enforce things the business way, they like having the poor and rich equally forbidden from sleeping under bridges.
I sometimes think how fun it would be to define a section of the country and say "here, we will remove all government from this area" -- let those so-called adults go there and run it for themselves without the "benefit" of government -- I wonder how long they would last before the gangs and rough justice send them running back?
If Stevens is re-elected and resigns, there will be a special election. She'll be in that right like stink on shit, you betcha.
If Stevens loses, she'll have to keep herself in the public eye for the next four years, and governor of Alaska just ain't gonna cut it. I wouldn't put it past her to resign and take up a TV talk show. Can't be radio, she'll want to take advantage of her hotness among those puritanical righteous righties. The most interesting thing will be Rush's reaction at being upstaged by the latest fad -- he won't dare make too many overt comments until she undercuts herself enough first, but you can also bet there will be no love lost between the two.
Copyright is a state-enabled artificial monopoly, without which authors would have NO protection from copying. In exchange for getting this artificial monopoly, authors are supposed to give up something in return, such as fair use.
If the public wanted to grant a full monopoly, they would have.
If authors actually needed any kind of copyright, music and writing would not have existed until copyright was created, but no one would have known copyright was needed without music and literature already existing without copyright.
I slow down for idiots like you, and when you pass me and cut in front of me to show me what's up, I flash my brights to give you a taste of your own medecine.
It's got frickin' wires going from the frickin' microscope to the frickin' outside world! They even mention the low friction commutator to let the mouse move around easily.
Come ON, how hard is it to add a wireless web server t this beast of burden? Then we could have a new record for the smallest mobile web server.
He whines about spammers not following the rules, then wants the judge to not follow the rules, or rather, wants the judge to follow his own rules, as if he knows more about that than the judge.
Especially thinking evidence in a Washington state court should follow rules in the state where he made the recording. Number one rule in court: don't piss off the judge.
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You might want a W there instead of a w. It kinda sorta lessens the impact.
Or maybe you are boycotting the current occupant.
Seriously, how is this a comment? I've always wondered why people waste time commenting about how a story was not worth posting, let alone reading, but apparently these devoid-of-interest stories are still worth commenting on.
It's like if your car had a camera and the car manufacturer insisted that they retained copyright in every picture it took.
Now when it takes a picture of a Chevy, is GM going to see that as a cash cow and sue Toyota for infringement and/or perjury and raise the spector of good old USofA IP rights being infringed by them dirty furrinners?
It's a dark joke on the thousands of people who "disappeared" during the late great dictatorship.
it occurred to me that over these past few years Philosophy has a more prominent role in Computer Science then ever before
Maybe computers have a more prominent role in philosophy than ever before. Not in the physical sense of typing up long winded papers, but in the sense of creating models to simulate ... stuff.
Just asking.
Me too!
Uh ....
There is no such thing as a "forward slash".
There is only "slash" and "backslash".
No, there is only rightsideup slash and upsidedown slash.
I seem to recall Bill Joy having some decidedly pessimistic and even luddite attitudes towards future tech, but it's been so long since he's been in the news that I don't remember now what. Paranoid about nanotech, I think, for starters.
The Republican Nixon who immediately started trying to get us out of that Democrat mess?
Amazing that LBJ could create such a mess that it took Nixon longer to get us out of it (1968-1973) than it took LBJ to get us into it (1965-1968).
Carter hardly had time to fix all the problems left over by LBJ and Nixon, both of who tried to run a war and expanding government without raising taxes.
People go on and on about how great Reagan was, but forget his last year or two when people were happy to find mortgages as low as 21%, a doubled national debt, and Iran Contra among other scandals. Carter was a wuss and micro manager in many ways, but at least he had some idea of what "honor" meant.
You shouldn't have been modded as flamebait, but the problem with your stance is that 99% of the people who espouse it are liars. They want the government to get out of the way -- but only so far. They like having "corporation" defined by law to their advantage, they like the government banning unions, they like government laws against competition and for monopolies (contrary to the spirit of the visionary they pretend to worship, Adam Smith), they like the government setting up courts to enforce things the business way, they like having the poor and rich equally forbidden from sleeping under bridges.
I sometimes think how fun it would be to define a section of the country and say "here, we will remove all government from this area" -- let those so-called adults go there and run it for themselves without the "benefit" of government -- I wonder how long they would last before the gangs and rough justice send them running back?
If Stevens is re-elected and resigns, there will be a special election. She'll be in that right like stink on shit, you betcha.
If Stevens loses, she'll have to keep herself in the public eye for the next four years, and governor of Alaska just ain't gonna cut it. I wouldn't put it past her to resign and take up a TV talk show. Can't be radio, she'll want to take advantage of her hotness among those puritanical righteous righties. The most interesting thing will be Rush's reaction at being upstaged by the latest fad -- he won't dare make too many overt comments until she undercuts herself enough first, but you can also bet there will be no love lost between the two.
RIAA must have been before the intertubes. I remember RIAA equalization curves for stylii.
Ever hear of fair use?
Copyright is a state-enabled artificial monopoly, without which authors would have NO protection from copying. In exchange for getting this artificial monopoly, authors are supposed to give up something in return, such as fair use.
If the public wanted to grant a full monopoly, they would have.
If authors actually needed any kind of copyright, music and writing would not have existed until copyright was created, but no one would have known copyright was needed without music and literature already existing without copyright.
Which came first, creativity or copyright?
If the sky is falling, where will our beloved pigs fly?
I slow down for idiots like you, and when you pass me and cut in front of me to show me what's up, I flash my brights to give you a taste of your own medecine.
If he was so drunk he didn't see stopped cars in front of him, what makes you think ANYTHING else would have gotten his attention?
In Soviet Russia, YOU vote for CowboyNeal!
Fraud?
Wouldn't be a slashvertisement, but maybe it's a gagvertisement.
You have obviously never heard of Frost Piss, another invention from the wonderful slashdot readers.
It's got frickin' wires going from the frickin' microscope to the frickin' outside world! They even mention the low friction commutator to let the mouse move around easily.
Come ON, how hard is it to add a wireless web server t this beast of burden? Then we could have a new record for the smallest mobile web server.
He whines about spammers not following the rules, then wants the judge to not follow the rules, or rather, wants the judge to follow his own rules, as if he knows more about that than the judge.
Especially thinking evidence in a Washington state court should follow rules in the state where he made the recording. Number one rule in court: don't piss off the judge.
A subplane could be useful for smuggling ...
No, that's not at all what I want to argue.
How odd. If it isn't what you want to argue, why are you arguing that?