Other than the problem of deciding (and who gets to decide) what is junk food and what isn't, what's wrong with the idea of a “junk food” tax? That would shift the burden of responsibility to where it belongs, and it might actually dissuade people from purchasing (as much) junk food.
Most of the time. I accept responsibility for most of my excessive weight (and I'm losing, fast!), however certain drugs and conditions (such as inactive thyroid, hypo-/hyperglycemia, some cancer treatments) can contribute significantly to weight gain or the inability to lose weight. I know someone who eats a completely organic vegan lifestyle and even exercises routinely, however that person is still a pretty large person, due to a severely hypoactive thyroid. Medications don't help, either.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but some people are just predisposed to being "fat", genetically or otherwise.
I'm glad I expanded my threshold before I posted the comment I was originally going to post. HP just donated a whole bunch of their code to the community, and people are so ungrateful that they're actually complaining about it. Huh??!
I know I'm just adding my voice to a crowd and feeding a troll, but I can't resist...
Competitors can also get their hands on the source code. Also, anyone that downloads the source can also compile it and release it for free. If it got popular enough, it would effectively put the company out of business.
Then the company should have thought of that before using GPL'd code. They made the choice to use free software in their products and then not comply with the license terms when the time came to do so. There's a term that proprietary software companies use for behavior like this: piracy.
By allowing everyone to profit from something, the value rapidly approaches $0 and the result is that nobody can profit from it.
See above.
"The RIAA/MPAA is trying to defend their own rights by making sure none of their works ever reach the Public Domain where everyone can profit from them"
This is their choice. They created their works and have the right to protect it.
Just as the BusyBox and Linux developers would be doing if they followed through with legal action as a result of Minerva's actions. The OP also has a legal right to obtain source code to the software he received with his purchase of the IPTV unit. Again, it seems like this is just a case of Minerva not wanting to comply with the terms of a software license. Minerva is in violation of the license, and they have no legal right to redistribute the GPL code, so they're in violation of copyright law. No shillery here, just raw facts.
Something similar happened to me at a previous workplace, although the downloaded content wasn't this extreme (at least I assume). I was pulled into a room and told I was being fired for porn. The IT department had logs of hundreds of images being downloaded to my machine. (First off, if I were stupid enough to browse porn at work, it would have been VIDEOS on the blazing connection they had.)
I asked to speak to someone in Human Resources and/or the IT department. Luckily, my boss agreed, and I was able to explain that I'd not done anything of the sort (with a big lump in my throat the entire time), and something else must have been going on. The Human Resources manager didn't believe me, but the IT guy agreed to inspect my machine before I was to be escorted out of the building and he found malware on it.
A couple months later, my boss that agreed to let me speak to someone had something similar happen on his home PC, only it was with explicit popups that would appear randomly, and he was worried his young child was going to see them. This was a result of some fake screensaver Web site distributing malware as a browser (IE) exploit (he didn't even have to download a "screensaver"). He came to me for advice for getting rid of his trouble. I think at that point he finally believed me (I had a feeling he thought I was lying before the same happened to him).
As a result of all that had transpired up to this point, the IT department started implementing more secure system settings, such as disabling all unsigned ActiveX and prompting for everything else. I'm amazed this hasn't happened where I am now, where everyone is set up as an Administrator on their own machine.
I've never taken a solid look at Netflix as an option for movie rentals. Actually, I don't remember the last time I rented a movie, but that's beside the point.
Having heard about this Profiles feature exclusively from this story, it sounds like a good reason to start renting movies. This story probably just advertised one of Netflix's best features. I'll bet Netflix will reverse this decision. Who knows? It could have been a strategic move. If Netflix does reverse the decision, I know I'll probably end up being a new customer just to make use of this feature (it would beat buying new movies, and our library runneth over, so we're running out of places to put the DVDs).
I really can't imagine a software department of a big corporation whining that something is too hard to implement or maintain.
In other words, you have double standards. You want to have your cake and eat it, too. You want to leech off of the community (by using its code, making money from it, and not contributing back). The only thing the GPL restricts you from doing is keeping your changes to yourself if people ask you for them.
Can you enlighten us on uses for guns that don't involve inflicting serious injury or killing someone/something, excluding competitive shotgun shooting?
Guns are used to destroy. That is their purpose. They are in the same class as a bomb, grenade, missile.
A meathook is used to hang meat before it's processed into food. Using a meathook for killing someone would be using it against its intended purpose. Using a gun for killing someone, however, would not.
However, if a busty blonde nympho suddenly turned up in the middle of the night, the busty brunette/redhead (depends on her mood) sleeping next to me might be inclined to expect...
John Spartan: Get me a Marlboro. Alfredo Garcia: Yes, of course... [pause] What's a Marlboro? John Spartan: A cigarette. Any cigarette. Lenina Huxley: Um, smoking is not good for you, and it has been deemed that anything not good for you is bad, hence illegal. Alcohol, caffeine, contact sports, meat... John Spartan: Are you shitting me? Computer: John Spartan, you are fined one credit for violation of the verbal moralities code. John Spartan: What the hell is that? Computer: You are fined one credit... Lenina Huxley: Bad language... chocolate, gasoline, uneducational toys, and anything spicy. Abortion is also illegal but so is pregnancy if you don't have a license.
=====
John Spartan: Do you have the salt? Lenina Huxley: Salt is not good for you, hence, it is illegal.
I purchased my home almost entirely using scanned documents sent via e-mail. The only time I physically signed documents in front of anybody was at the closing of the loan. The loan officer, realtor, and closing attorney all suggested using e-mail in order to save time (and some paper). I got the impression they all regularly conducted business via e-mail. They'd never heard of PGP/GPG or S/MIME, but at least it was a step forward.
The name originated as Gnusiance as a reference to RMS's GPG key, but was later changed to gNewSense by bbrazil and ompaul to also capture the New Sense of the distribution and as a pun on GNU.
5. How do you pronounce gNewSense?
There is no definitive pronunciation, but guh-NEW-sense is preferred.
The sweetness in the artificial sweetener causes your body to release more insulin than it needs, making your blood sugar lower, making you feel hungrier.
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Then again, game design doesn't exactly fall under the category of IT.
If jobs were very exciting and fulfilling in and of themselves, we wouldn't need to pay people to do them.
Then why do actors get paid? Stunt professionals? Sky diving instructors? Et al.?Like Sasuke (Ninja Warrior), except use alligator/shark pits and lava instead of dirty water... Brilliant!!
Sounds familiar.
Other than the problem of deciding (and who gets to decide) what is junk food and what isn't, what's wrong with the idea of a “junk food” tax? That would shift the burden of responsibility to where it belongs, and it might actually dissuade people from purchasing (as much) junk food.
Most of the time. I accept responsibility for most of my excessive weight (and I'm losing, fast!), however certain drugs and conditions (such as inactive thyroid, hypo-/hyperglycemia, some cancer treatments) can contribute significantly to weight gain or the inability to lose weight. I know someone who eats a completely organic vegan lifestyle and even exercises routinely, however that person is still a pretty large person, due to a severely hypoactive thyroid. Medications don't help, either.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but some people are just predisposed to being "fat", genetically or otherwise.
I'm glad I expanded my threshold before I posted the comment I was originally going to post. HP just donated a whole bunch of their code to the community, and people are so ungrateful that they're actually complaining about it. Huh??!
Thanks, HP! :)
I know I'm just adding my voice to a crowd and feeding a troll, but I can't resist...
Competitors can also get their hands on the source code. Also, anyone that downloads the source can also compile it and release it for free. If it got popular enough, it would effectively put the company out of business.
Then the company should have thought of that before using GPL'd code. They made the choice to use free software in their products and then not comply with the license terms when the time came to do so. There's a term that proprietary software companies use for behavior like this: piracy.By allowing everyone to profit from something, the value rapidly approaches $0 and the result is that nobody can profit from it.
See above."The RIAA/MPAA is trying to defend their own rights by making sure none of their works ever reach the Public Domain where everyone can profit from them"
This is their choice. They created their works and have the right to protect it.
Just as the BusyBox and Linux developers would be doing if they followed through with legal action as a result of Minerva's actions. The OP also has a legal right to obtain source code to the software he received with his purchase of the IPTV unit. Again, it seems like this is just a case of Minerva not wanting to comply with the terms of a software license. Minerva is in violation of the license, and they have no legal right to redistribute the GPL code, so they're in violation of copyright law. No shillery here, just raw facts.Don't you mean “Americanized”?
Something similar happened to me at a previous workplace, although the downloaded content wasn't this extreme (at least I assume). I was pulled into a room and told I was being fired for porn. The IT department had logs of hundreds of images being downloaded to my machine. (First off, if I were stupid enough to browse porn at work, it would have been VIDEOS on the blazing connection they had.)
I asked to speak to someone in Human Resources and/or the IT department. Luckily, my boss agreed, and I was able to explain that I'd not done anything of the sort (with a big lump in my throat the entire time), and something else must have been going on. The Human Resources manager didn't believe me, but the IT guy agreed to inspect my machine before I was to be escorted out of the building and he found malware on it.
A couple months later, my boss that agreed to let me speak to someone had something similar happen on his home PC, only it was with explicit popups that would appear randomly, and he was worried his young child was going to see them. This was a result of some fake screensaver Web site distributing malware as a browser (IE) exploit (he didn't even have to download a "screensaver"). He came to me for advice for getting rid of his trouble. I think at that point he finally believed me (I had a feeling he thought I was lying before the same happened to him).
As a result of all that had transpired up to this point, the IT department started implementing more secure system settings, such as disabling all unsigned ActiveX and prompting for everything else. I'm amazed this hasn't happened where I am now, where everyone is set up as an Administrator on their own machine.
I've never taken a solid look at Netflix as an option for movie rentals. Actually, I don't remember the last time I rented a movie, but that's beside the point.
Having heard about this Profiles feature exclusively from this story, it sounds like a good reason to start renting movies. This story probably just advertised one of Netflix's best features. I'll bet Netflix will reverse this decision. Who knows? It could have been a strategic move. If Netflix does reverse the decision, I know I'll probably end up being a new customer just to make use of this feature (it would beat buying new movies, and our library runneth over, so we're running out of places to put the DVDs).
I really can't imagine a software department of a big corporation whining that something is too hard to implement or maintain.
In other words, you have double standards. You want to have your cake and eat it, too. You want to leech off of the community (by using its code, making money from it, and not contributing back). The only thing the GPL restricts you from doing is keeping your changes to yourself if people ask you for them.
Don't be greedy.
Ok, go ahead, mod me as a troll. It's the truth.
Can you enlighten us on uses for guns that don't involve inflicting serious injury or killing someone/something, excluding competitive shotgun shooting?
Guns are used to destroy. That is their purpose. They are in the same class as a bomb, grenade, missile.
A meathook is used to hang meat before it's processed into food. Using a meathook for killing someone would be using it against its intended purpose. Using a gun for killing someone, however, would not.
However, if a busty blonde nympho suddenly turned up in the middle of the night, the busty brunette/redhead (depends on her mood) sleeping next to me might be inclined to expect ...
Woohoo!!!... an explanation.
Aww.John Spartan: Get me a Marlboro.
Alfredo Garcia: Yes, of course... [pause] What's a Marlboro?
John Spartan: A cigarette. Any cigarette.
Lenina Huxley: Um, smoking is not good for you, and it has been deemed that anything not good for you is bad, hence illegal. Alcohol, caffeine, contact sports, meat...
John Spartan: Are you shitting me?
Computer: John Spartan, you are fined one credit for violation of the verbal moralities code.
John Spartan: What the hell is that?
Computer: You are fined one credit...
Lenina Huxley: Bad language... chocolate, gasoline, uneducational toys, and anything spicy. Abortion is also illegal but so is pregnancy if you don't have a license.
=====
John Spartan: Do you have the salt?
Lenina Huxley: Salt is not good for you, hence, it is illegal.
...or my old 19th- and early-20th-century scrimshaw? Much scrimshaw is passed down as heirlooms and was made when it was still legal to make it.
whoosh!
Whooosh!
I purchased my home almost entirely using scanned documents sent via e-mail. The only time I physically signed documents in front of anybody was at the closing of the loan. The loan officer, realtor, and closing attorney all suggested using e-mail in order to save time (and some paper). I got the impression they all regularly conducted business via e-mail. They'd never heard of PGP/GPG or S/MIME, but at least it was a step forward.
The name originated as Gnusiance as a reference to RMS's GPG key, but was later changed to gNewSense by bbrazil and ompaul to also capture the New Sense of the distribution and as a pun on GNU.
5. How do you pronounce gNewSense?
There is no definitive pronunciation, but guh-NEW-sense is preferred.
The 'G' in GNOME isn't silent.
You made me choke on my drink. Thanks a lot.
The sweetness in the artificial sweetener causes your body to release more insulin than it needs, making your blood sugar lower, making you feel hungrier.
A quick Google search pulls up some decent results: http://www.google.com/search?q=artificial+sweetener+insulin
...huh?