Christmas, unlike Easter, was a minor feast until the Roman Catholic Church decided to do something about all the former pagans who still carried on many of their former traditions
Similarly, Hanukkah was a pretty minor holiday but because of its proximity to christmas it has become significantly more recognized. Thus the "holiday season" is appropriate as a term to refer to the time roughly from Diwali through Chinese new year. That range will also cover Eid al-Adha (but not Eid al-Fitr).
After all it is a season of holidays, not just a single holiday.
Then how are actual damages for GPL violations calculated?
They aren't. To the best of my knowledge: (a) no GPL case has actually gone to court in the USA (b) every suit threatened or filed by the FSF involved software that was registered (it only takes $30 to do it and can be done at any time, although you can't get the statutory damages for violations prior to registration) (c) every suit threatened or filed by the FSF has been about compliance, not punishment.
I thought since the US joined the Berne convention in the 80s or 90s, registration with the copyright office is not required...
It is required if you want statutory damages (you know, those crazy numbers like $25,000 per song downloaded or whatever it is the RIAA threatens people with). Otherwise the worst you can sue for is actual damages - in this case the cost of a copy of OSX for each copy made.
>Its starting to look like the increase is due to people living in an environment that is 'too clean'
Cite multiple peer reviewed studies in respectable journals or else stop spreading New Age myths on the internet. Thanks.
What, google too hard for you to use? There are literally hundreds of such studies with enough results to back my original statement. How about from now on you fuck off with your self-aggrandizing judgmental imperative. Thanks.
These people are a tremendous illness upon the world.
Have you heard about the dramatic increase in asthma rates in the first world? Its starting to look like the increase is due to people living in an environment that is 'too clean' - as children their systems don't get a chance to develop protections against common problems.
You should look at these attackers the same way - they contribute to an increase in overall security. Sure it is painful, but ultimately pain is the only real motivator - just look at how piss-poor vendor responses were to security problems before full disclosure became them norm and threatened their bottom line.
You will absolutely never ever be able to make all attackers go away, any solution that relies on locking them up is doomed to failure, full stop. You can drive out the masses of dumb ones, but then that will only leave the small group of really smart ones behind. And at the same time you'll end up making the lives of the smart ones much easier since without widespread "illness" there will never be widespread inoculation either.
hm i didnt think slashdot even HAD a red header. Are you perhaps colorblind?
No. He is not colorblind. For one thing, colorblindness doesn't mean you see the wrong color, it means it is very hard to distinguish between certain colors. Thus complaining that a color is "wrong" is probably the last thing a colorblind person would do.
And yes, it probably was red. I've seen the phenomenon myself a few times over the last week or two. It has only been on the top most article and only when it was relatively "fresh" so far, for me, it has reverted back to green by the time I get around to reloading the front page.
Yes, the Bible. According to most Christians, it's the word of God, and has no errors.
No. The only christians who think that are... wait for it... the ignorant extremists who want to think exactly like you do.
Any reasonable christian knows that there have been dozens of versions of the bible over the years, that the original texts do not even exist any more and that most chapters were written by people, not God. For example, the epistles of Paul are, at the very least, written by Paul or one of his disciples.
I'm pretty much done here, you couldn't have done a better job of demonstrating that extremists are not looking for guidance, they are looking for justification and are prone to making all kinds of ridiculous errors in favor of that justification. I doubt I have convinced you of anything, but then that's the nature of extremism - justification trumps education.
Interpretation? It's written in black-and-white in those holy books. I don't know how much clearer it could get. ... And you want to tell me that I'm misinterpreting these passages? That's ridiculous.
You demonstrate exactly how the extremists think. They cherry pick and then they come back and say things like "how much clearer could it get?" But they and you ignore contradictions and chose the worst possible interpretation as it suits you. You clearly know what you are doing because you pre-excused your dismissal of the contradictions by saying "they even have a convenient excuse" - it is not an excuse - it is words that are at least as much a part of the bible, but you chose to ignore it in favor of the worst possible interpretation.
So, no you are not misinterpreting those passages - you are misinterpreting the entire body of the text as a whole. Religion is not simply a bunch of unrelated sound bites.
That's exactly right. As far as I'm concerned, the extremists are the only ones who properly practice their religion.
Lol. How ridiculous. A religion is defined by its worst possible interpretation. Never mind that the people who typically make that interpretation are not looking for guidance, they are looking for justification and are prone to all kinds of errors in favor of that justification.
Yet Felt was not strictly against "black bag jobs" like the Watergate break-in: He later said he ordered the break-ins because national security required it.
FWIW - I think that all kinds of constitutional rule breaking is OK. But there needs to be oversight. I say that if you really and truly believe there is a significant threat to national security, or otherwise, then prove it. Put your career and freedom on the line and be prepared to be judged after the fact.
Go ahead and order that bag-job, or that torture, or whatever other constitution-violating actions you think are necessary in order to counter the threat. But don't make it a secret. You should expect to stand trial and either be exonerated for doing the right thing in exigent circumstances or punished for breaking the law. After all - if the situation is not so dire that *your* liberty is worth the risk, then who are you to say that violating the liberty of someone else is worth the risk?
Like any crazy religion, the followers of the "religion of peace" aren't all the same; not all are extremists, wanting to blow up people. The ones who sway that direction are apparently found mostly in Pakistan, in that region.
This doesn't change the fact that the religion itself is violent and evil;
Rrright. Its always the religion and the extremists are just the ones who are the most devout. Sociological factors like economics and politics are never the root cause despite being common across most if not all extremists regardless of religion or lack there of.
So all the LED streetlights in Portland are covered in snow and cannot be seen.
Since LEDs are more efficient (more lumens per watt) the colder their tmperature, you can at least take comfort in the fact those snow-encrusted street-lamps are very efficiently lighting up the inside of the snow.
Could be, but an LED that uses phosphors eliminates any interest in my book because it means the color spectrum is a spiky mess....:-)
That is the way all white LEDs work. If you want something else, you will need an RGB array of leds - those exist too, but they cost more to manufacture and can't always be used to substitute for incandescent since some applications require a single point source.
Its been widely hypothesized that EA's intent with the DRM on Spore was not really to prevent piracy, but to impede second-hand sales. Doesn't Steam do exactly the same thing? Can you feasibly resell a license/copy of a game purchased on Steam?
So, of course, the followers of the "religion of peace" aren't too happy about their rival's success, so they want to put a stop to it.
With almost as many "followers of the religion of peace" living in India as live in all of Pakistan, they really don't need Pakistan around to fuck over India if they wanted too. Oh well.
Really? Piracy? I download Chuck via p2p every Monday... How am I competing with my ISP/Cable Provider?
Let me count the ways - those DVRs are used to closely track viewing habits, at least as closely as watching the shows streaming from the network's own website.
1) No national ad revenue 2) No local/affiliate ad revenue
OTA isn't the only thing being pirated - consider that all of the non-OTA channel shows are available within hours in pseudo-HD format (tolerably low bitrate 720p mpeg4) and generally full quality within a week or less. For example Dexter, True Blood, Californication, Brotherhood, Stargate Atlantis, Entourage, Sanctuary, BSG, Testees, Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Saving Grace, etc. Then there are foreign shows that might take years to show up on domestic channels like Life on Mars, Regenesis, Apparitions, Jekyll or may never show up, but since you watched them instead of domestic programming further potential revenue was lost.
Which leads me to ask - what would entice an ISP to follow the RIAA's 'suggestions'? Very few of them have anything to do with the entertainment industry directly.
Most, if not all, major ISPs in the US have television offerings with pay-per-view and premium channels. Verizon, Comcast, Cox - just off the top of my head. Piracy is competition for those services.
The only reason why criticism of inferior cultures is branded "racism" is due to the propaganda of postmodern revisionists who want to cultivate recalcitrant and supremacist Muslim votebanks.
You are such a freaking delusional paranoid. Any information contrary to your extremism is simply kowtowing to voting blocks or arab money. You are just like all other nutjobs with their personal bigotries and self-fulfilling prophecies. Stuck in a delusional echo chamber of your own making.
That's the whole point. It is NOT a minority position. It is a majority position.
You keep claiming that, but its complete bullshit. For you to go around proclaiming that people are not real muslims because they are not extremists would be funny if it weren't so fucked up. You know who else makes that claim? The fucking nutjobs. 99% of muslims would never accuse another muslim of being kafir, its only the crazy extremists who think like you do. No surprise since you are just as extremist as they are.
I have BEEN to Indonesia. All your claims are a steaming pile of obfuscatory bollocks. The entire Muslim population is behind Jemiah Islamiyah and other terror groups. Lock, stock and qiblah. They are less loose-lipped around me than they are around some westerner.
Whoopdeedoo. So when Gallup and Pew hired locals to do polling that shows exactly the opposite of what you claim - for example that indonesian support for suicide bombings against civilian targets went from 42% of the population in 2002 to 34% in 2007 that's just being tight lipped around westerners and Pew kowtowing to voting blocks and arab money. Your personal anecdotal coverage of the situation that the population is behind suicide bombings "lock, stock and qiblah" is soooo much more accurate. It was 100% support and that hasn't changed one bit since 9/11.
I'll take your silence on the $5B/yr from western nations during the east timor massacres as acceptance that the west sanctioned those killings. Sanctioned them a hell of a lot more than a bunch of muslim farmers and factory workers who don't have much more than a substinece living.
Muslims aren't a "race". Stop abusing the term "racism" to smear critics of a barbaric religion of racism and hate like Islam.
Standard innumerate deflection. You were set up for it - the term racism applies to cultures not just singular ethnic identities. Come back when you can address the issue of nit-picking minority positions and ascribing them to the entire group.
Read the proclamations of Islamic militias
Further innumeracy. No fucking duh a bunch of militants are going to be looking for extremist interpretation in order to rationalize their actions.
LTTE are not Muslims,
Biggest fucking WOOOOOOOOOSH ever. Your capacity for critical thinking is severely hampered by your innumeracy. To the point where you really aren't even capable of it.
I would say that Indonesia's Islam-sanctioned genocides in East Timor very much qualify as "terrorism" on a vast scale.
Really? Does $5B a year count as sanctioning? Because that's what Indonesia received from western countries during that time. But good job ignoring the point that in spite of the bullshit bush doctrine of ignorance backed by force, since the Bali bombings Indonesia has made substantial progress in "undermining islamic terror."
Not the same thing. This is the fallacy of moral relativism at work again on two grounds
1. Bush never committed active genocide. Muslims have, several times, in the 20th century (Armenia, Pontic Greeks, Bangladesh)
Moral relativism my ass. You think America hasn't committed genocide? Furthermore, that is completely irrelevant to my point which was that nit-picking specific characteristics of a small minority and using them to define an entire group is typical innumerate racist idiocy.
No such demographic exists in the Muslim world that actively undermines Islamic terror. All we hear are hollow condemnations of Wahabbism and Deobandi militancy. Nobody (and I mean nobody) in the entire Muslim world actively undermines their proliferation. Witness the recent terror attacks in Mumbai, and the active collusion of the Pakistani government in as well as the widespread approval of the Pakistani people (second-most Muslim population) of the attacks. Clearly, most of the Muslim world is on board with the terrorists.
Get a grip. You confuse territorial conflict with an idealogical conflict. Mumbai and almost all "terrorism" in India is about Kashmir separatism. You might as well complain that muslims aren't doing enough to stop the LTTE. While at the same time ignoring that Indonesia - the largest population of muslims in the world - has been very successful at stopping the proliferation of terrorism.
capable of critical thinking.
Critical thinking can only get you so far when you are innumerate.
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Christmas, unlike Easter, was a minor feast until the Roman Catholic Church decided to do something about all the former pagans who still carried on many of their former traditions
Similarly, Hanukkah was a pretty minor holiday but because of its proximity to christmas it has become significantly more recognized. Thus the "holiday season" is appropriate as a term to refer to the time roughly from Diwali through Chinese new year. That range will also cover Eid al-Adha (but not Eid al-Fitr).
After all it is a season of holidays, not just a single holiday.
I don't go to "Geek sites" for political adverts.
Who goes to any website for the advertising?
Read the damn link. Stop making up shit to rationalize your own insanity.
Then how are actual damages for GPL violations calculated?
They aren't. To the best of my knowledge:
(a) no GPL case has actually gone to court in the USA
(b) every suit threatened or filed by the FSF involved software that was registered (it only takes $30 to do it and can be done at any time, although you can't get the statutory damages for violations prior to registration)
(c) every suit threatened or filed by the FSF has been about compliance, not punishment.
I thought since the US joined the Berne convention in the 80s or 90s, registration with the copyright office is not required...
It is required if you want statutory damages (you know, those crazy numbers like $25,000 per song downloaded or whatever it is the RIAA threatens people with). Otherwise the worst you can sue for is actual damages - in this case the cost of a copy of OSX for each copy made.
It sure would be funny if it is true.
>Its starting to look like the increase is due to people living in an environment that is 'too clean'
Cite multiple peer reviewed studies in respectable journals or else stop spreading New Age myths on the internet. Thanks.
What, google too hard for you to use? There are literally hundreds of such studies with enough results to back my original statement.
How about from now on you fuck off with your self-aggrandizing judgmental imperative. Thanks.
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Marra F, Lynd L, Coombes M, et al. Does antibiotic exposure during infancy lead to development of asthma?: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Chest. 2006;129:610-618
Alm, J.S., et al. 1999. Atopy in children of families with anthroposophic lifestyle. Lancet 353(May 1):1485.
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Braun-Fahrlander, C.H., et al. 1999. Prevalence of hay fever and allergic sensitization in farmer's children and their peers living in the same rural community. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Allergy 29(January):28.
Farooqi, I.S., and J.M. Hopkin. 1998. Early childhood infection and atopic disorder. Thorax 53(November):927.
Kramer, U., et al. 1999. Age of entry to day nursery and allergy in later childhood. Lancet 353(Feb. 6).
These people are a tremendous illness upon the world.
Have you heard about the dramatic increase in asthma rates in the first world? Its starting to look like the increase is due to people living in an environment that is 'too clean' - as children their systems don't get a chance to develop protections against common problems.
You should look at these attackers the same way - they contribute to an increase in overall security. Sure it is painful, but ultimately pain is the only real motivator - just look at how piss-poor vendor responses were to security problems before full disclosure became them norm and threatened their bottom line.
You will absolutely never ever be able to make all attackers go away, any solution that relies on locking them up is doomed to failure, full stop. You can drive out the masses of dumb ones, but then that will only leave the small group of really smart ones behind. And at the same time you'll end up making the lives of the smart ones much easier since without widespread "illness" there will never be widespread inoculation either.
hm i didnt think slashdot even HAD a red header. Are you perhaps colorblind?
No. He is not colorblind. For one thing, colorblindness doesn't mean you see the wrong color, it means it is very hard to distinguish between certain colors. Thus complaining that a color is "wrong" is probably the last thing a colorblind person would do.
And yes, it probably was red. I've seen the phenomenon myself a few times over the last week or two. It has only been on the top most article and only when it was relatively "fresh" so far, for me, it has reverted back to green by the time I get around to reloading the front page.
Sorry, no. Most American Christians believe that way.
Just because you keep saying something does not make it true.
It is also indicative of your extremism how you've tried to narrow your definitions down from "most christians" to "most american christians" - which is still false:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/27682/OneThird-Americans-Believe-Bible-Literally-True.aspx
Yes, the Bible. According to most Christians, it's the word of God, and has no errors.
No. The only christians who think that are... wait for it... the ignorant extremists who want to think exactly like you do.
Any reasonable christian knows that there have been dozens of versions of the bible over the years, that the original texts do not even exist any more and that most chapters were written by people, not God. For example, the epistles of Paul are, at the very least, written by Paul or one of his disciples.
I'm pretty much done here, you couldn't have done a better job of demonstrating that extremists are not looking for guidance, they are looking for justification and are prone to making all kinds of ridiculous errors in favor of that justification. I doubt I have convinced you of anything, but then that's the nature of extremism - justification trumps education.
Don't be ridiculous. Contradictions? I thought this book is supposed to be the infallible word of God, without error.
What book are you talking about? Certainly not the Bible from which you were quoting.
Interpretation? It's written in black-and-white in those holy books. I don't know how much clearer it could get.
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And you want to tell me that I'm misinterpreting these passages? That's ridiculous.
You demonstrate exactly how the extremists think. They cherry pick and then they come back and say things like "how much clearer could it get?" But they and you ignore contradictions and chose the worst possible interpretation as it suits you. You clearly know what you are doing because you pre-excused your dismissal of the contradictions by saying "they even have a convenient excuse" - it is not an excuse - it is words that are at least as much a part of the bible, but you chose to ignore it in favor of the worst possible interpretation.
So, no you are not misinterpreting those passages - you are misinterpreting the entire body of the text as a whole.
Religion is not simply a bunch of unrelated sound bites.
That's exactly right. As far as I'm concerned, the extremists are the only ones who properly practice their religion.
Lol. How ridiculous. A religion is defined by its worst possible interpretation. Never mind that the people who typically make that interpretation are not looking for guidance, they are looking for justification and are prone to all kinds of errors in favor of that justification.
Yet Felt was not strictly against "black bag jobs" like the Watergate break-in:
He later said he ordered the break-ins because national security required it.
FWIW - I think that all kinds of constitutional rule breaking is OK. But there needs to be oversight. I say that if you really and truly believe there is a significant threat to national security, or otherwise, then prove it. Put your career and freedom on the line and be prepared to be judged after the fact.
Go ahead and order that bag-job, or that torture, or whatever other constitution-violating actions you think are necessary in order to counter the threat. But don't make it a secret. You should expect to stand trial and either be exonerated for doing the right thing in exigent circumstances or punished for breaking the law. After all - if the situation is not so dire that *your* liberty is worth the risk, then who are you to say that violating the liberty of someone else is worth the risk?
Like any crazy religion, the followers of the "religion of peace" aren't all the same; not all are extremists, wanting to blow up people. The ones who sway that direction are apparently found mostly in Pakistan, in that region.
This doesn't change the fact that the religion itself is violent and evil;
Rrright. Its always the religion and the extremists are just the ones who are the most devout. Sociological factors like economics and politics are never the root cause despite being common across most if not all extremists regardless of religion or lack there of.
So all the LED streetlights in Portland are covered in snow and cannot be seen.
Since LEDs are more efficient (more lumens per watt) the colder their tmperature, you can at least take comfort in the fact those snow-encrusted street-lamps are very efficiently lighting up the inside of the snow.
Could be, but an LED that uses phosphors eliminates any interest in my book because it means the color spectrum is a spiky mess.... :-)
That is the way all white LEDs work.
If you want something else, you will need an RGB array of leds - those exist too, but they cost more to manufacture and can't always be used to substitute for incandescent since some applications require a single point source.
Its been widely hypothesized that EA's intent with the DRM on Spore was not really to prevent piracy, but to impede second-hand sales. Doesn't Steam do exactly the same thing? Can you feasibly resell a license/copy of a game purchased on Steam?
So, of course, the followers of the "religion of peace" aren't too happy about their rival's success, so they want to put a stop to it.
With almost as many "followers of the religion of peace" living in India as live in all of Pakistan, they really don't need Pakistan around to fuck over India if they wanted too. Oh well.
Really? Piracy? I download Chuck via p2p every Monday ... How am I competing with my ISP/Cable Provider?
Let me count the ways - those DVRs are used to closely track viewing habits, at least as closely as watching the shows streaming from the network's own website.
1) No national ad revenue
2) No local/affiliate ad revenue
OTA isn't the only thing being pirated - consider that all of the non-OTA channel shows are available within hours in pseudo-HD format (tolerably low bitrate 720p mpeg4) and generally full quality within a week or less. For example Dexter, True Blood, Californication, Brotherhood, Stargate Atlantis, Entourage, Sanctuary, BSG, Testees, Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Saving Grace, etc. Then there are foreign shows that might take years to show up on domestic channels like Life on Mars, Regenesis, Apparitions, Jekyll or may never show up, but since you watched them instead of domestic programming further potential revenue was lost.
Which leads me to ask - what would entice an ISP to follow the RIAA's 'suggestions'? Very few of them have anything to do with the entertainment industry directly.
Most, if not all, major ISPs in the US have television offerings with pay-per-view and premium channels. Verizon, Comcast, Cox - just off the top of my head. Piracy is competition for those services.
The only reason why criticism of inferior cultures is branded "racism" is due to the propaganda of postmodern revisionists who want to cultivate recalcitrant and supremacist Muslim votebanks.
You are such a freaking delusional paranoid. Any information contrary to your extremism is simply kowtowing to voting blocks or arab money. You are just like all other nutjobs with their personal bigotries and self-fulfilling prophecies. Stuck in a delusional echo chamber of your own making.
That's the whole point. It is NOT a minority position. It is a majority position.
You keep claiming that, but its complete bullshit. For you to go around proclaiming that people are not real muslims because they are not extremists would be funny if it weren't so fucked up. You know who else makes that claim? The fucking nutjobs. 99% of muslims would never accuse another muslim of being kafir, its only the crazy extremists who think like you do. No surprise since you are just as extremist as they are.
I have BEEN to Indonesia. All your claims are a steaming pile of obfuscatory bollocks. The entire Muslim population is behind Jemiah Islamiyah and other terror groups. Lock, stock and qiblah. They are less loose-lipped around me than they are around some westerner.
Whoopdeedoo. So when Gallup and Pew hired locals to do polling that shows exactly the opposite of what you claim - for example that indonesian support for suicide bombings against civilian targets went from 42% of the population in 2002 to 34% in 2007 that's just being tight lipped around westerners and Pew kowtowing to voting blocks and arab money. Your personal anecdotal coverage of the situation that the population is behind suicide bombings "lock, stock and qiblah" is soooo much more accurate. It was 100% support and that hasn't changed one bit since 9/11.
I'll take your silence on the $5B/yr from western nations during the east timor massacres as acceptance that the west sanctioned those killings. Sanctioned them a hell of a lot more than a bunch of muslim farmers and factory workers who don't have much more than a substinece living.
Not so rare any more. Pretty much all the tunnels & bridges in NYC are "no photo" zones. Take a look at this entertaining gallery for examples.
All part of the War on Photographers.
Muslims aren't a "race". Stop abusing the term "racism" to smear critics of a barbaric religion of racism and hate like Islam.
Standard innumerate deflection. You were set up for it - the term racism applies to cultures not just singular ethnic identities. Come back when you can address the issue of nit-picking minority positions and ascribing them to the entire group.
Read the proclamations of Islamic militias
Further innumeracy. No fucking duh a bunch of militants are going to be looking for extremist interpretation in order to rationalize their actions.
LTTE are not Muslims,
Biggest fucking WOOOOOOOOOSH ever. Your capacity for critical thinking is severely hampered by your innumeracy. To the point where you really aren't even capable of it.
I would say that Indonesia's Islam-sanctioned genocides in East Timor very much qualify as "terrorism" on a vast scale.
Really? Does $5B a year count as sanctioning? Because that's what Indonesia received from western countries during that time. But good job ignoring the point that in spite of the bullshit bush doctrine of ignorance backed by force, since the Bali bombings Indonesia has made substantial progress in "undermining islamic terror."
Not the same thing. This is the fallacy of moral relativism at work again on two grounds
1. Bush never committed active genocide. Muslims have, several times, in the 20th century (Armenia, Pontic Greeks, Bangladesh)
Moral relativism my ass. You think America hasn't committed genocide? Furthermore, that is completely irrelevant to my point which was that nit-picking specific characteristics of a small minority and using them to define an entire group is typical innumerate racist idiocy.
No such demographic exists in the Muslim world that actively undermines Islamic terror. All we hear are hollow condemnations of Wahabbism and Deobandi militancy. Nobody (and I mean nobody) in the entire Muslim world actively undermines their proliferation. Witness the recent terror attacks in Mumbai, and the active collusion of the Pakistani government in as well as the widespread approval of the Pakistani people (second-most Muslim population) of the attacks. Clearly, most of the Muslim world is on board with the terrorists.
Get a grip. You confuse territorial conflict with an idealogical conflict. Mumbai and almost all "terrorism" in India is about Kashmir separatism. You might as well complain that muslims aren't doing enough to stop the LTTE. While at the same time ignoring that Indonesia - the largest population of muslims in the world - has been very successful at stopping the proliferation of terrorism.
capable of critical thinking.
Critical thinking can only get you so far when you are innumerate.