The "news cycle" makes it difficult to get any attention unless you do something novel and/or dangerous. Greenpeace is well known precisely because they are grandstanding nutjobs.
I had the pleasure of working under a truly stellar programmer. Through braindead bosses and vauge requirements he built a system that worked *and* scaled 100:1. Comments were rare but almost unecessary, because all of it was astonishingly consistent. Many a time I was working on the code, wishing for a lib that would... oh, wait! It's already written.
500%? absolutely. He had to be replaced by 5, count 'em FIVE people.
RIAA doesn't really want to eliminate the iPod, the VCR, etc. What they want is the power to do so, exactly how the Business Software Alliance has special powers granted by congress to examine all your computers, without a warrant, to certify "compliance", and sue you out of existance while forcing you to pay their legal bills. It's not something they do every day because they don't *have* to. The threat is enough.
What the *AA want is a piece of the pie, to mandate DRM *and* get a royalty payment off every device and download. We keep telling them "get a new business model!" Well, this is it.
I guess that's where we split, torpor. A society *might* protect your words; more likely they will forget, alter or subvert them. Someone in this thread exhumed Ozymandias so I won't rattle those bones again. But whatever you and yours hold to, life is all about change. A society that preserves untouched the ideas of older generations is by definition stagnant and (excuse me) torpid.
If I have published something, I have a right to not have that thing be constantly changed and altered by the world at large.
...so in your perfect world, quoting you would be prohibited. Lemme give you a hint: time is a great long river that washes away everything that is not essential, even your name. The people downstream take what they need for their time, and let the rest wash away. Nothing you do can change that.
Before Patriot and after watergate, all federal wiretaps were overlooked by a panel of judges called FISA. in over 20 years, not a SINGLE wiretap request was ever denied. Some oversight.
"...tell me what freedom's we've lost that used to be written in law?"
Amendment 10, 1792:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
That means EVERY SINGLE RIGHT AND POWER IS OURS UNTIL THE GOVERNEMENT IS GIVEN THAT POWER. It is up to US to keep them from doing so. So far we haven't don't a good job.
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The "news cycle" makes it difficult to get any attention unless you do something novel and/or dangerous. Greenpeace is well known precisely because they are grandstanding nutjobs.
I had the pleasure of working under a truly stellar programmer. Through braindead bosses and vauge requirements he built a system that worked *and* scaled 100:1. Comments were rare but almost unecessary, because all of it was astonishingly consistent. Many a time I was working on the code, wishing for a lib that would... oh, wait! It's already written. 500%? absolutely. He had to be replaced by 5, count 'em FIVE people.
Because one makes money and one makes *more* money. The law is an ass. It depends on those who are entrenched to enforce it.
Here's a related question: why is killing a police office a worse crime than killing a mother? You probably won't like the honest answer to that.
Just when i think I'm out, they drag me back in.....
RIAA doesn't really want to eliminate the iPod, the VCR, etc. What they want is the power to do so, exactly how the Business Software Alliance has special powers granted by congress to examine all your computers, without a warrant, to certify "compliance", and sue you out of existance while forcing you to pay their legal bills. It's not something they do every day because they don't *have* to. The threat is enough.
What the *AA want is a piece of the pie, to mandate DRM *and* get a royalty payment off every device and download. We keep telling them "get a new business model!" Well, this is it.
I guess that's where we split, torpor. A society *might* protect your words; more likely they will forget, alter or subvert them. Someone in this thread exhumed Ozymandias so I won't rattle those bones again. But whatever you and yours hold to, life is all about change. A society that preserves untouched the ideas of older generations is by definition stagnant and (excuse me) torpid.
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217 years and counting.... of course, it's had 27 patches applied to it.
Even a dead robot bounces.
Before Patriot and after watergate, all federal wiretaps were overlooked by a panel of judges called FISA. in over 20 years, not a SINGLE wiretap request was ever denied. Some oversight.
"...tell me what freedom's we've lost that used to be written in law?"
Amendment 10, 1792:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
That means EVERY SINGLE RIGHT AND POWER IS OURS UNTIL THE GOVERNEMENT IS GIVEN THAT POWER. It is up to US to keep them from doing so. So far we haven't don't a good job.
My mother was a Gambian rat, you insensitive clod!