Does anyone know how long (on average) two groups have to be isolated for before they diverge sufficiently that they'll no longer be able to reproduce fertile offspring with each other? Is it tens of thousands of years? Hundreds of thousands? Millions?
Tigers and Lions don't breed in the wild (geographic reasons, mostly! Well that and everyone knows tigers are sluts and so no-one will consider sleeping with one unless they've got a vet nearby to help treat them for the STDs the poor lion invariably caught.
Someone want to link me the Monty Python script this is taken from so I can see where this comment originated?
Oh you might be wondering how I know its a Monty Python quote without knowing the reference? Its elementary, you see: * Its been modded 2, Funny so it could be a joke. * It makes very little sense in this context confirms it is a joke. * A very British accent is being used so obviously the joke is of English (the country, not the language) origin. * This is a site for nerds so unless a cult of The Goodies has risen up while I wasn't looking, it has to be a Monty Python reference.
You mean he's incorrect? African-Americans and Hispanic people aren't disproportionately located in low income housing?
Wow! It's great these people have been able to overcome the social handicap their ethnicities started with in America (as in, not being able to vote, having discriminatory hiring practices put in place against them, etc, etc). America must truly be a land of racial equality!
Does anyone cry when a thief steals from a thief?
But you say that jmcnaught isn't stealing? Well neither is his ISP, they're simply providing a bad service to pirates.
If his aim was to provide users a secure way to pirate copyrighted content, then it would be rather pointless. If, however, his aim was to place his own advertisements on other people's torrent sites in order to make money, he has succeeded. While he needed to claim it was for the "poor pirates with bad ISPs" in order to quell the anger, it was little more then an excuse.
Kazaa got screwed over when they advertised that they're product was great for pirates. Until deluge does this, they're actually safe (at least safe from getting screwed over the way Kazaa was). If for example, the deluge creator says on his website "Deluge is great for downloading movies without getting caught!" this would be equivalent to what Kazaa said and would result in him being liable to get screwed over. If however he says "Great to download torrents for the security conscious" he hasn't made the same mistake as Kazaa.
Its a thin line, but such is life when you're trying to make money off illegal activities.
Sure bittorrent has legal purposes. Just as marijuana has therapeutic uses. Now who do you think the majority of the marijuana uses are? Cancer patients or potheads? Same thing with bittorrent. While people do download Linux ISOs and other legitimate things, they're in the minority (quite likely are an even greater minority then the cancer patients in my above example).
Furthermore spelling out how to donkey vote as you have done in your post is also illegal and can attract jail time. IIRC an activist in the suburbs of Melbourne was taken to court about a decade ago and given a slap on the wrist in an attempt to stop his "none of the above" style campaign. Mustn't be illegal in Canberra because my school took me there, and I was specifically told what a donkey vote is and how to do one in some government building (they were teaching us to how to vote).
I've really been trying to figure out how I was going to vote for in the primaries. Since I'm registered Democrat in Florida, I can only vote to Democrats in the primary. Your system is the most fucked up and rigged system I've ever seen. Normally I wouldn't advocate violence, but you people need to do SOMETHING to reclaim your rights! Currently you have a democracy as much as Russia or China had communism.
If you want to get your child that MA or R game, you're more then welcome to. This is simply asking that YOU be given the opportunity to decide, not some minimum wage store clerk.
I consider the spirit of the constitution to be paramount to avoiding a tyrannical government. When you consider not a single copyrighted item today will have its copyright expire, this is unconstitutional.
Doug52392 is a well known pedophile in real life, I encourage everyone to please mod him down and not respond to his posts. If you also see this username on any websites targeted to children please contact the police immediately as he is breaking his parole. If we all do our duty, scum like Doug52392 will be kept away from our children and so little Sandra's suffering will not be for nothing.
In your world, the above paragraph would not be actionable. Thank god your world doesn't exist outside of your head.
I don't think suing the customer base, calling all of them thieves, making the products do less (i.e. format/time shifting), ignoring obvious markets like on-line purchases of movies, or demanding the pay for things they don't want will result in making more money. Right, except if you read the Anonymous Coward he doesn't object to any of this, he clearly states he'll pirate because he wants to and anyone who doesn't like it and go get fucked.
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I'm not saying anything about GPL v1 or GPL v2. However the changes made in GPL v3 is designed to aid IBM, not to ensure greater freedoms.
They quite possibly do believe in IP. They just don't believe downloading for personal use to be immoral.
My post was something of a joke. I'm sorry you can't get any jokes but the most obvious.
Does anyone know how long (on average) two groups have to be isolated for before they diverge sufficiently that they'll no longer be able to reproduce fertile offspring with each other? Is it tens of thousands of years? Hundreds of thousands? Millions?
Someone want to link me the Monty Python script this is taken from so I can see where this comment originated?
Oh you might be wondering how I know its a Monty Python quote without knowing the reference? Its elementary, you see:
* Its been modded 2, Funny so it could be a joke.
* It makes very little sense in this context confirms it is a joke.
* A very British accent is being used so obviously the joke is of English (the country, not the language) origin.
* This is a site for nerds so unless a cult of The Goodies has risen up while I wasn't looking, it has to be a Monty Python reference.
You mean he's incorrect? African-Americans and Hispanic people aren't disproportionately located in low income housing? Wow! It's great these people have been able to overcome the social handicap their ethnicities started with in America (as in, not being able to vote, having discriminatory hiring practices put in place against them, etc, etc). America must truly be a land of racial equality!
Does anyone cry when a thief steals from a thief? But you say that jmcnaught isn't stealing? Well neither is his ISP, they're simply providing a bad service to pirates.
If his aim was to provide users a secure way to pirate copyrighted content, then it would be rather pointless. If, however, his aim was to place his own advertisements on other people's torrent sites in order to make money, he has succeeded. While he needed to claim it was for the "poor pirates with bad ISPs" in order to quell the anger, it was little more then an excuse.
Kazaa got screwed over when they advertised that they're product was great for pirates. Until deluge does this, they're actually safe (at least safe from getting screwed over the way Kazaa was). If for example, the deluge creator says on his website "Deluge is great for downloading movies without getting caught!" this would be equivalent to what Kazaa said and would result in him being liable to get screwed over. If however he says "Great to download torrents for the security conscious" he hasn't made the same mistake as Kazaa.
Its a thin line, but such is life when you're trying to make money off illegal activities.
Sure bittorrent has legal purposes. Just as marijuana has therapeutic uses. Now who do you think the majority of the marijuana uses are? Cancer patients or potheads? Same thing with bittorrent. While people do download Linux ISOs and other legitimate things, they're in the minority (quite likely are an even greater minority then the cancer patients in my above example).
Huh, well thanks. That makes this issue a lot less clear. I think to start with the law shouldn't specifically target games.
If you want to get your child that MA or R game, you're more then welcome to. This is simply asking that YOU be given the opportunity to decide, not some minimum wage store clerk.
Exactly. Although I do wonder how a kid is going to get $50 without their parent noticing.
So it isn't illegal for as 12 year old to go into an MA rated movie if they can convince the person selling the ticket to let them in?
Once people become accustomed to KDE its one less reason to stick with Windows.
I thought it was given a DNR?
I consider the spirit of the constitution to be paramount to avoiding a tyrannical government. When you consider not a single copyrighted item today will have its copyright expire, this is unconstitutional.
Heh, that's cool :D If only all disagreements could be resolved so amicably here at slashdot.
It didn't come free with my computer.
Doug52392 is a well known pedophile in real life, I encourage everyone to please mod him down and not respond to his posts. If you also see this username on any websites targeted to children please contact the police immediately as he is breaking his parole. If we all do our duty, scum like Doug52392 will be kept away from our children and so little Sandra's suffering will not be for nothing. In your world, the above paragraph would not be actionable. Thank god your world doesn't exist outside of your head.