Because it means things without a legitimate purpose can be banned if they're a sufficient problem to others, while a legitimate purpose is a reason not to ban things.
You don't accept that there's a real distinction between something designed to kill people and something with another purpose that can also kill people?
This is incorrect, and is not what is said above. There are two aspects to the above statement.
1) that a well regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free stae
2) the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed
These are joined by the word "being", which is a conditional. What the statement actually says is IF 1) is the case THEN 2) applies.
Notice the word "being" in there? That's an if-then clause. If a well regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state, then the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. You can check with the other places "being" is used in the constitution.
And personally, I'd say these days such a militia isn't needed.
1. Children can hurt themselves with all manner of household objects. Why should guns be any more regulated than swimming pools in this regard?
2. Shootings are only one part of the spectrum in domestic violence. Like point one, why should guns be any more regulated than say, hammers, in this regard?
Because swimming pools and hammers have a legitimate purpose, wheras the primary use of guns is to kill people.
Society as a whole, via the representatives it elects.
what happens if what is decided as good is harmful to members of that society?
Then the law is imperfect. That's not really avoidable.
Wasn't segregation justified in this way?
It can't have been, unless you're saying segregation is actually good for society.
Of course it does; if anyone can make a copy of the item for free, how can you recapture the time and money you invested in creating it?
If I dig ten holes and then fill them in, how can I recapture the time and money I invested in doing this?
If there's one single action which will devestate any industry, it's removing the ability to make money from that industry, because people working in that industry are then obliged to change professions - and that entire industry basically disappears overnight.
Which is why we have copyright laws. Having copyright expire doesn't make arts completely unprofitable, in fact to the overwhelming majority of authors it will make no difference at all. What proportion of books are still being sold after ten years, yet alone the current life+70? (Feel free to substitute painters, composers, filmmakers etc. for authors)
No it's not, since it doesn't deprive you of anything. The only judicial theft going on is the theft of my right to do what I want with property I own, including making a copy of it.
How? Being a little bit faster does not make up for being nowhere near as widely supported as USB2, and is it even possible for a PC to boot from firewire?
So why delay switching to 2.0? Because 1.5 is just fine. Not because 2.0 is broken. Comparing a.0 release to an established release, and to Internet Explorer, is just pretty laughable where I am sitting.
Comparing it is perfectly right. If a.0 isn't good enough to ship, it should be an alpha or beta.
Here's a question for all you IANAL's out there... if MS used a GNU GPL'd graphics format in Internet Explorer, would they have to release code?
I don't think you can GPL a format, but if you did, yes. That's why things like libpng are LGPL or BSD licensed, and the standard itself usually public domain or very close to it - where adoption of the open standard is more important than code being open sourced, it makes more sense than GPL.
If a format truly superior (for the purposes of being used on a web page) to JPEG & GIF came along and Mozilla & Konqueror (and Apple) all got behind it, MS would be forced to at least consider it, or develop/support an open source plugin for IE or something.
I think adherence to standards is a separate issue. If I rolled my own distro (and believe me, I could) I would deliberately avoid using the FHS, just because it sucks./media? WTF were they smoking? It's not ignoring standards that's the problem with the corporate linucies, it's integration of closed components and being driven by business priorities over technical merit.
So you put in 4x as much effort for those quests so that they work for all the different races, same difference. Or you have all the races similar enough you don't need to, but then you're back to where we are now.
Not really. There are too many munchkins out there. What you would get is 99% of players going for the strongest class, and those who tried something else getting killed all the time and (quite rightly) moaning.
How much more programming and design effort would it take to do that (you'd need 4x the quests for starters)? And how many extra sales do you think it would earn you?
I like the idea, but it will never ever be put into practice.
Dos 1.0 had no directories, and arbitrarily used / for options (remember DIR/P ?). When 2.0 came out, to preserve backwards compatibility they kept / for options, so decided on \ as the directory separator. Modern dos/windows can handle / for directories fine, but they need to still support \ for - you guessed it - backwards compatibility.
The language isn't the point. Out of god knows how many extension systems, I've only seen one (winamp) which doesn't result in a very bloated program. And not one extension system I've seen is without security problems. It doesn't matter what language you use, having extensions messes up a program.
An example is as a webdev I like to be able to right-click on an open page and say "View in FireFox" or "View in IE", but placing information about other browsers into Opera for all users would be an uglification for most of them. Making it optional for that kind of thing would result in option explosion. Therefore it makes most sense if someone like me goes out and finds an extension for what I need, so that the majority aren't disaffected.
And so instead of an option explosion you have an extension explosion, with all the fun of the former plus having to search around the web, differently organized sites, and having to trust individual authors. Just having the option, hidden away appropriately (advanced tab, or config file only if it's really unlikely to be wanted) is a far better way.
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Because it means things without a legitimate purpose can be banned if they're a sufficient problem to others, while a legitimate purpose is a reason not to ban things.
You don't accept that there's a real distinction between something designed to kill people and something with another purpose that can also kill people?
Try applying that reasoning to the other places "being" is used in the constitution. It no work.
This is incorrect, and is not what is said above. There are two aspects to the above statement. 1) that a well regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free stae 2) the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed These are joined by the word "being", which is a conditional. What the statement actually says is IF 1) is the case THEN 2) applies.
If you're going to use consistency, look at what the word "being" means everywhere else in the constitution.
And personally, I'd say these days such a militia isn't needed.
I'll be interested to watch you parry a bullet with your gun
2. Shootings are only one part of the spectrum in domestic violence. Like point one, why should guns be any more regulated than say, hammers, in this regard?
Because swimming pools and hammers have a legitimate purpose, wheras the primary use of guns is to kill people.
Society as a whole, via the representatives it elects.
what happens if what is decided as good is harmful to members of that society?
Then the law is imperfect. That's not really avoidable.
Wasn't segregation justified in this way?
It can't have been, unless you're saying segregation is actually good for society.
Of course it does; if anyone can make a copy of the item for free, how can you recapture the time and money you invested in creating it?
If I dig ten holes and then fill them in, how can I recapture the time and money I invested in doing this?
If there's one single action which will devestate any industry, it's removing the ability to make money from that industry, because people working in that industry are then obliged to change professions - and that entire industry basically disappears overnight.
Which is why we have copyright laws. Having copyright expire doesn't make arts completely unprofitable, in fact to the overwhelming majority of authors it will make no difference at all. What proportion of books are still being sold after ten years, yet alone the current life+70? (Feel free to substitute painters, composers, filmmakers etc. for authors)
For the good of society.
It's basically judicial theft.
No it's not, since it doesn't deprive you of anything. The only judicial theft going on is the theft of my right to do what I want with property I own, including making a copy of it.
How? Being a little bit faster does not make up for being nowhere near as widely supported as USB2, and is it even possible for a PC to boot from firewire?
I see no way at all that forcing people to use a dying language they don't want to makes anything better for anyone.
Comparing it is perfectly right. If a .0 isn't good enough to ship, it should be an alpha or beta.
Opera, or Konqueror if you're a free software zealot. Not hard.
Here's a question for all you IANAL's out there... if MS used a GNU GPL'd graphics format in Internet Explorer, would they have to release code?
I don't think you can GPL a format, but if you did, yes. That's why things like libpng are LGPL or BSD licensed, and the standard itself usually public domain or very close to it - where adoption of the open standard is more important than code being open sourced, it makes more sense than GPL.
If a format truly superior (for the purposes of being used on a web page) to JPEG & GIF came along and Mozilla & Konqueror (and Apple) all got behind it, MS would be forced to at least consider it, or develop/support an open source plugin for IE or something.
I wish I had your confidence.
I think adherence to standards is a separate issue. If I rolled my own distro (and believe me, I could) I would deliberately avoid using the FHS, just because it sucks. /media? WTF were they smoking? It's not ignoring standards that's the problem with the corporate linucies, it's integration of closed components and being driven by business priorities over technical merit.
I've got higher priorities than fixing the videogame industry.
So you put in 4x as much effort for those quests so that they work for all the different races, same difference. Or you have all the races similar enough you don't need to, but then you're back to where we are now.
Fallout 3 is supposed to be happening. Here's hoping...
Not really. There are too many munchkins out there. What you would get is 99% of players going for the strongest class, and those who tried something else getting killed all the time and (quite rightly) moaning.
So play Nintendo. The technology isn't what's limiting, it's lack of creativity on the part of the game makers
I like the idea, but it will never ever be put into practice.
Dos 1.0 had no directories, and arbitrarily used / for options (remember DIR /P ?). When 2.0 came out, to preserve backwards compatibility they kept / for options, so decided on \ as the directory separator. Modern dos/windows can handle / for directories fine, but they need to still support \ for - you guessed it - backwards compatibility.
The language isn't the point. Out of god knows how many extension systems, I've only seen one (winamp) which doesn't result in a very bloated program. And not one extension system I've seen is without security problems. It doesn't matter what language you use, having extensions messes up a program.
And so instead of an option explosion you have an extension explosion, with all the fun of the former plus having to search around the web, differently organized sites, and having to trust individual authors. Just having the option, hidden away appropriately (advanced tab, or config file only if it's really unlikely to be wanted) is a far better way.