That still might be legal, if you have the right to make copies of the file. It might, for example, be argued that it is fair use to download a tune from KaZaa (or by using Bitorrent), if you have paid for the CD of that tune.
I wont dispute the fact that Christians kill more people than Muslims, and blow a *lot* more stuff up, but they do it for different reasons than the Muslims. I am not aware of any Christian death-threats resulting from satire about Christianity. Even when Christian society did try to suppress comedy, they did it through legal means (eg asking cinemas not to show The Life of Brian, prosecuting punk-band Crass under the blasphemy legislation for Realityasylum etc).
OTOH, the underlying reasons for Muslim aggression against western culture are similar to (and worse than) the reasons for the Irish and Basque terrorism of recent decades).
Leaving aside for the moment the fact that not all inter-generational relationships are abusive, it's easy to prove adulthood, by demanding a credit-card check. However, how is it possible online to robustly age-verify a person as under 18?
Does anyone know if any provider has made any progress on this?
I think I was 9 when I saw ANH (or just 'Star Wars', as it was known then) for the first time. I can say that the special-effects were very important to it's success. You have pointed out 2001 and CEOTTK as better examples. They are both great FX films, and I saw them at around the same age. CEOTTK seemed boring by comparison. Those FX, which are perhaps more elegant than in ANH didn't make up for frustration at the lack of any great visual revelation in the film. You don't get to see stuff in the same detail as with ANH (and yes, I include the end sequence in that). 2001 is a great FX film too, but the FX in that are really based mostly on good prop design, rather than visual effects themselves. The end-sequence there is very visual, of course, but it is hallucinatory, rather than attempting to show a technological reality.
The fast and complex movements of the spaceships and in space explosions etc were the great achievement of ANH - other films of the time that tried to have FX like that were nowhere close. Check out Battle Beyond the Stars sometime!
Give it up. Demolish your church. Sack your minister. Recycle your leaflets. Put your books in the library in the fiction section. Distribute your church's wealth to something worthwhile. See the cosmos as it is, not as you would wish it to be. Tell your kids it was all a bad dream. Apologise to society at large. Get up off your knees. Take responsibility.
I am about to be told-off for not RTFA (they do have a db available) - sorry about this but I am in the middle of something else at work. My main point of function-creep still stands.
Hmmm this isn't good. I wonder if they will simply record the prints for checking against a db later, or if they have wireless abilities to check for a match at the scene? If they don't then they soon will. That technology would be very likely to be subject to function-creep. I could imagine a lot of situations where it might be argued that on-the-spot print-matching would protect 'us', from age-checks when buying alcohol, to entitlement to emergency medical care, and more. I am afraid that way too many people will cheerfully abandon privacy if they think it will save them in tax. Not that I am paranoid, or anything.
If what you say were true the same would apply to films and tv-shows and there would be websites largely dedicated to serving clips of the good bits. Oh, wait...
What do you mean "now available"?/blockquote.
I mean available in the present. Of course this does not mean that they were not available in the past, although it would be fair to say that there weren't many albums available on BT when Napster 1 was shut down.
that's what happens after buying ten tracks, since you picked them. You've got ten great performances for ten bucks, and no "filler."
You know, for many years the canonical why to consume music was by listening to albums. Instead of 'filler' the non-single tracks on the album would be seen as a part of the body of the whole work that gave it shape. After years of p2p fun, I have begun to turn against pick 'n' mix as a way of consuming music. An enjoyable side-effect of the copywrong enforcement on the p2p world is that full albums are now easily available on BT sites.
I don't understand all the fuss about Wikipedia. It's an excellent idea, and an excellent site. It says on the homepage that it is the free encylopedia that anyone can edit. Anyone who doesn't grasp the implications of that is frankly stupid. It is an excellent resource for quickly finding non-critical information, and a excellent start-point for finding critical information. Problems only begin when people rely on it for critical information - It's their own fault if they do that.
This question is so silly it beggars belief. *Of course* people will be more likely to buy a book if they know that the contents include the information that they want. Duh....
I have just searched the whole discussion here and am delighted that no-one has said "Ooooh, of course Daleks are rubbish because they can't go up stairs", which is the single most, boring, predictable, irrelevant and untrue thing that anyone can say while discussing Dr Who. You came closest. Bear with me, I have something to get off my chest:
The thing is, Daleks don't need to go upstairs generally, because most of the environments they find themselves in don't have stairs. In fact, in the UK it is now law that all public buildings must have wheelchair access anyway. The 4th Dr used to mock them mercilessly for not being able to go upstairs, but then much later the 8th Dr was confounded to discover that they can. Even without going upstairs Daleks can easily defeat nearly any other race with their superior intellect, stamina, armour, weaponry, and of course their ability to travel in time, shared only by the Timelords.
In the new two series, the writers have been so aware of the stairs cliche that they have in my view overreacted by fundamentally changing Daleks from ground-trundling upturned dustbins (which is what we love them for) into essentially flying creatures. This is a shame, in my view.
Down with the Daleks - down to the ground floor!
Which episode of Dr Who did you see?
There is, of course, a huge library of old episodes to watch, with a great variety of styles and quality. - I do recommend you have another look. Try some of the Tom Baker ones. That is the period which is responsible for the special place that the series has in the hearts of Englishmen.
Am I the only one who gets annoyed when the Eccleston/Tennant seasons (or series to us Brits), are referred to as numbers 1 and 2 instead of 27 and 28? The whole point is that the show is 43 years old, so why pretend the other 26 series never happened in the numbering?
I don't know exactly what I was doing on this day last year. However, I don't know (without wracking my brain) exactly what I was doing this day last week!
However, in both cases I do have a general memory of my overall situation - it isn't the same as a blank period from which I can recall nothing. To get one of those I have to go back to my early childhood. It is unlikely that I ever stored those early memories, so I don't think the blank period has appeared as I got older.
If time makes long-term stored memory become generalised, rather than creating gaps, then those general memories are still going to take up space. This means that in a long enough lifetime, the available space must run out. - That's going to have some kind of adverse psychological effect.
Also, what about the emotional experience of life over a very long period? - I have been damaged by so many girls already! - If I live to be 1000 at this rate I will have the emotions of a crocodile.
hmmm - I bet it is possible to regenerate the body indefinitely, (eventually), but I am doubtful that this is possible with the mind. Even if the brain-tissue could be replaced, could a useful structure be preserved? How would a human mind cope with the increased memory requirements? - It would distort the psychology somewhat to have centuries or millennia of experience. Perhaps the brain could drop its oldest memories in favour of new ones, but would this seem like immortality to mind of that person?
I feel obliged to jump in and point this out whenever I see a misquote (not that yours is so bad). Google's motto isn't "Do no evil", but is "Don't be evil". It's a lighthearted motto, which does allow Google to do evil from time to time.
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That still might be legal, if you have the right to make copies of the file.
It might, for example, be argued that it is fair use to download a tune from KaZaa (or by using Bitorrent), if you have paid for the CD of that tune.
I wont dispute the fact that Christians kill more people than Muslims, and blow a *lot* more stuff up, but they do it for different reasons than the Muslims. I am not aware of any Christian death-threats resulting from satire about Christianity. Even when Christian society did try to suppress comedy, they did it through legal means (eg asking cinemas not to show The Life of Brian, prosecuting punk-band Crass under the blasphemy legislation for Realityasylum etc). OTOH, the underlying reasons for Muslim aggression against western culture are similar to (and worse than) the reasons for the Irish and Basque terrorism of recent decades).
What country is it published in?
I have never heard of it (I am a UK person, so I am surprised to see mention of Doonesbury which I do know).
Leaving aside for the moment the fact that not all inter-generational relationships are abusive, it's easy to prove adulthood, by demanding a credit-card check. However, how is it possible online to robustly age-verify a person as under 18?
Does anyone know if any provider has made any progress on this?
I think I was 9 when I saw ANH (or just 'Star Wars', as it was known then) for the first time. I can say that the special-effects were very important to it's success. You have pointed out 2001 and CEOTTK as better examples. They are both great FX films, and I saw them at around the same age. CEOTTK seemed boring by comparison. Those FX, which are perhaps more elegant than in ANH didn't make up for frustration at the lack of any great visual revelation in the film. You don't get to see stuff in the same detail as with ANH (and yes, I include the end sequence in that). 2001 is a great FX film too, but the FX in that are really based mostly on good prop design, rather than visual effects themselves. The end-sequence there is very visual, of course, but it is hallucinatory, rather than attempting to show a technological reality.
The fast and complex movements of the spaceships and in space explosions etc were the great achievement of ANH - other films of the time that tried to have FX like that were nowhere close. Check out Battle Beyond the Stars sometime!
In the UK, refusing to supply an encryption key in a criminal investigation carries a maximum two-year gaol sentence.
Have you seen this?
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http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/silence/archives/20
Give it up. Demolish your church. Sack your minister. Recycle your leaflets. Put your books in the library in the fiction section. Distribute your church's wealth to something worthwhile.
See the cosmos as it is, not as you would wish it to be.
Tell your kids it was all a bad dream.
Apologise to society at large.
Get up off your knees.
Take responsibility.
I am about to be told-off for not RTFA (they do have a db available) - sorry about this but I am in the middle of something else at work. My main point of function-creep still stands.
Hmmm this isn't good. I wonder if they will simply record the prints for checking against a db later, or if they have wireless abilities to check for a match at the scene? If they don't then they soon will.
That technology would be very likely to be subject to function-creep. I could imagine a lot of situations where it might be argued that on-the-spot print-matching would protect 'us', from age-checks when buying alcohol, to entitlement to emergency medical care, and more.
I am afraid that way too many people will cheerfully abandon privacy if they think it will save them in tax.
Not that I am paranoid, or anything.
If what you say were true the same would apply to films and tv-shows and there would be websites largely dedicated to serving clips of the good bits. Oh, wait...
- not better if you don't live in a country where Trojans are on sale.
You know, for many years the canonical why to consume music was by listening to albums. Instead of 'filler' the non-single tracks on the album would be seen as a part of the body of the whole work that gave it shape. After years of p2p fun, I have begun to turn against pick 'n' mix as a way of consuming music. An enjoyable side-effect of the copywrong enforcement on the p2p world is that full albums are now easily available on BT sites.
I don't understand all the fuss about Wikipedia. It's an excellent idea, and an excellent site.
It says on the homepage that it is the free encylopedia that anyone can edit. Anyone who doesn't grasp the implications of that is frankly stupid.
It is an excellent resource for quickly finding non-critical information, and a excellent start-point for finding critical information.
Problems only begin when people rely on it for critical information - It's their own fault if they do that.
This question is so silly it beggars belief.
*Of course* people will be more likely to buy a book if they know that the contents include the information that they want. Duh....
I have just searched the whole discussion here and am delighted that no-one has said "Ooooh, of course Daleks are rubbish because they can't go up stairs", which is the single most, boring, predictable, irrelevant and untrue thing that anyone can say while discussing Dr Who. You came closest. Bear with me, I have something to get off my chest:
The thing is, Daleks don't need to go upstairs generally, because most of the environments they find themselves in don't have stairs. In fact, in the UK it is now law that all public buildings must have wheelchair access anyway. The 4th Dr used to mock them mercilessly for not being able to go upstairs, but then much later the 8th Dr was confounded to discover that they can. Even without going upstairs Daleks can easily defeat nearly any other race with their superior intellect, stamina, armour, weaponry, and of course their ability to travel in time, shared only by the Timelords.
In the new two series, the writers have been so aware of the stairs cliche that they have in my view overreacted by fundamentally changing Daleks from ground-trundling upturned dustbins (which is what we love them for) into essentially flying creatures. This is a shame, in my view. Down with the Daleks - down to the ground floor!
Which episode of Dr Who did you see? There is, of course, a huge library of old episodes to watch, with a great variety of styles and quality. - I do recommend you have another look. Try some of the Tom Baker ones. That is the period which is responsible for the special place that the series has in the hearts of Englishmen.
Am I the only one who gets annoyed when the Eccleston/Tennant seasons (or series to us Brits), are referred to as numbers 1 and 2 instead of 27 and 28?
The whole point is that the show is 43 years old, so why pretend the other 26 series never happened in the numbering?
I don't know exactly what I was doing on this day last year. However, I don't know (without wracking my brain) exactly what I was doing this day last week! However, in both cases I do have a general memory of my overall situation - it isn't the same as a blank period from which I can recall nothing. To get one of those I have to go back to my early childhood. It is unlikely that I ever stored those early memories, so I don't think the blank period has appeared as I got older. If time makes long-term stored memory become generalised, rather than creating gaps, then those general memories are still going to take up space. This means that in a long enough lifetime, the available space must run out. - That's going to have some kind of adverse psychological effect. Also, what about the emotional experience of life over a very long period? - I have been damaged by so many girls already! - If I live to be 1000 at this rate I will have the emotions of a crocodile.
Did you hear about the dyslexic diabolist who sold his soul to Santa?
hmmm - I bet it is possible to regenerate the body indefinitely, (eventually), but I am doubtful that this is possible with the mind. Even if the brain-tissue could be replaced, could a useful structure be preserved? How would a human mind cope with the increased memory requirements? - It would distort the psychology somewhat to have centuries or millennia of experience.
Perhaps the brain could drop its oldest memories in favour of new ones, but would this seem like immortality to mind of that person?
I feel obliged to jump in and point this out whenever I see a misquote (not that yours is so bad).
Google's motto isn't "Do no evil", but is "Don't be evil". It's a lighthearted motto, which does allow Google to do evil from time to time.
The Docklands Light Railway in London is driverless. It is a fairly complicated network too. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/dlr/pdf/network/zones.pdf
The question of rules within an olnine environment and the reality of virtual crime came up in the early ninties: http://www.ludd.luth.se/mud/aber/articles/village_ voice.html
(This is a very good read, for those that don't know the story).