Could you please elaborate with specific references? I don't see anything written by the founding fathers to support your statement.
How about the constitution? You have to infer a little bit but I don't see any other conclusion. What other ends do you see copyright providing? Recently, open source is the only new use of the law since it's inception as far as I know.
You don't need copyright when you have normal property rights.
Think about when the law started. The printing press. Copyright restricted people from making copies without permission because authors of books and publications were getting screwed out of their money.
I have no way of easily accessing my prior posts. I often remember a post I made about something (like Iceland) and I have to go to Google for it because there is simply no way to page through all my comments in my user page. Sometimes someone replies with a thread linking to a useful open source tool and I can never remember what story it was on or where it was attached.
Don't give us all so much credit. There are a lot of things hard-wired into an animal's brain that comes from millions of years of evolution, and other things that come from the organism's experiences.
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When I stopped smoking, a year later when I didn't have any craving for tobacco whatever and had no desire to light a cigarette, nevertheless when I walked down the steps at work my hand automatically grabbed the shirt pocket that had held cigarettes all those years.
Learned behavior is not evolution. Breeding animals for a certain behavior is not the same as training them.
Who is to say that they are not capable of building a city? Just because they have never had the need to build cities like humans have doesn't mean they aren't capable.
True, but they lack something really important. Even if we can't accurately measure their intelligence, a very important tool is needed: hands. There is no single physical attribute that helped our intelligence grow and help us experience the world the way we do. Monkeys are close but their brains just haven't caught up yet.
If you sign a contract waiving your rights it absolutely can be upheld in court, and your naivety will not save you. Automatic waiver by your actions is a different story.
Liberties, maybe. But rights are inalienable. As a citizen, you are not allowed to contract yourself into slavery or give up your right to free speech.
Posting to make a couple points and remove my positive moderation. Your post started out good and then just fell into flamebaiting.
So, you make the point that because everyone else does it, we shouldn't have a problem with torture? Maybe you don't subscribe to the ideal, but there is something to be said about the moral high ground and leading by example.
And now we finally get to your motivation. You haven't been tortured. You haven't been treated any less than justly.
But Bush is proof that your ideas about the world are total bullshit. The fact that his policies affect the world, and even besides Bush you see that you're finding others who've somehow "wronged" you (despite having nothing to do with you at all, but hey).
So, you can only care about how our government acts when it directly affects you? That is an obsurd statement. Since the government is essentially 'we the people', they're acting on our behalf. Do you want to have your hands in torture? Do you not have things like conscience, empathy, and compassion?
I'm sorry your worldview is so poor and I hope some day you will see things like torture are not necessary evils.
People in positions of global scale aren't going to give up that power just because you have a lot of signatures on a petition.
The founding fathers did. Seriously, these guys could have setup an oligarchy and run the country as they see fit. Instead, the gambled and threw the power out to the people. And, you know what? It worked pretty well.
Then other countries followed suit and dabbled in more representative democracy. All this, without revolution, I might add.
> How would Firefox even know which podcasts to download?
Tooltip that supports multimedia in ENCLOSURE tag : images are displayed beside the description, and audio and video files are played (podcasting, try feed http://inforss.mozdev.org/inforss.xml) with the firefox embedded multimedia plugin
I would rather argue that it is. It's one thing when you're speaking of a server -- a machine with fully redundant hardware, ECC ram, dual PSU's and so on -- that is set to run mission critical apps with a very defined purpose and static role set.
This just happens to be the workstation I'm on. I've installed many different pieces of software since. Last outage was due to a long term power outage(~Reliable Montana Power~).
skarphace@skinner ~ $ uname -a
Linux skinner 2.6.22-gentoo-r9 #5 PREEMPT Tue May 6 16:20:54 MDT 2008 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
You are just as off-topic as the previous post I replied to. This has nothing to do with Real Player. Whatever your personal beef with that product might be, this is not the place to discuss it. The company Real Networks is involved, but we're talking about Rhapsody, which provides plain, ordinary MP3 files.
Yes but you can easily judge a company by it's previous products. *cough* Windows
If they were, you'd see a decline in parking tickets issued which, if anything, they have increased.
[citation needed]
I'd say if they did happen to have increased, it is most likely due to population increases. I'd appreciate it if you could get me per capita stats.
In fact, there was a story not long ago that had people purposely getting tickets because it was cheaper to pay the fine than to pay for parking in the city garages.
While this may be true, it does not support your argument.
The government has created a society in which everybody either rolls over belly-up and plays it their way, or faces some serious (money) troubles.
Isn't that why we have public defenders? If you actually had a defense, this shouldn't be much of a problem. Yes, you have to spend some of your time and take somewhat of a risk but damn, it's the principal of it.
Free speech is only for those who can afford it, or care more about making a change than about maintaining their current lifestyle...
Sometimes you have to alter your lifestyle to stand up for what is right and just.
Which actually doesn't make that much sense if you think about it, since why would two Klingons use a human calendar when speaking to each other? The elegant solution to this problem, of course, is not to think about it too much.
It does considering Worf was brought up by humans.
I've restrained myself from correcting Star Trek factual errors on here for years and this is what baits me out? Sheesh...
They also kept it all in one place. We have libraries all over the world. There are even book vaults that could survive nuclear war kept around the world to house important texts. And now with the internet, we have information, and copies of it all spread across the entire globe.
Short of world ending event, which is almost impossible, we will retain most, if not all of our information.
Since he said this is for company computers, you'd think that for porn "fast power-off times" would be more important than "fast boot times". But that doesn't seem like as much of a challenge now, does it?
When you "buy" software you aren't actually buying anything more than a license to use it under a set of rules that the author has chosen to insist on. You buy a physical copy of the media format that it is distrubted on (or pay, in some form probably) to download it. The *reality* is that you're just buying a license and not the software, and as it is proprietary you can't afford to buy the software.
While this is true, it doesn't fit the argument. Copyright's fair use rules allow personal copies to be made, regardless of what the license says.
Courts(and even the DMCA) still hold that you can make backup copies of your CDs and DVDs. That rule should also apply here.
Even though I hate cheating in games, this ruling was way too broad and can affect the whole software industry.
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Could you please elaborate with specific references? I don't see anything written by the founding fathers to support your statement.
How about the constitution? You have to infer a little bit but I don't see any other conclusion. What other ends do you see copyright providing? Recently, open source is the only new use of the law since it's inception as far as I know.
You don't need copyright when you have normal property rights.
Think about when the law started. The printing press. Copyright restricted people from making copies without permission because authors of books and publications were getting screwed out of their money.
Bah, I almost had that out of my memory...
You don't even get the same site appearance if you go to the URL in the browser window.
http://maps.google.de/maps?t=m&hl=de&q=Tscheljabinsk+Russland&output=html
They don't even have an ajaxy styled maps in Germany. Anyone have any idea why not?
That correlation has been pretty much debunked for quite some time. See: http://www.livescience.com/environment/070312_solarsys_warming.html
While this is true, no other climactic event has had such a change so quickly. And this according to observable fact.
ha, them Verizon bastards won't be far behind on capping their crap, remember they were ones that backed comcrap in their bt killing efforts.
Unlikely. The FiOS network has such an overwhelming capacity that it'll probably take at least 10 years before they even feel the slightest strain.
http://slashdot.org/~eldavojohn
You have a link? I can't find any reference to it on these here internats.
Don't give us all so much credit. There are a lot of things hard-wired into an animal's brain that comes from millions of years of evolution, and other things that come from the organism's experiences.
[...]
When I stopped smoking, a year later when I didn't have any craving for tobacco whatever and had no desire to light a cigarette, nevertheless when I walked down the steps at work my hand automatically grabbed the shirt pocket that had held cigarettes all those years.
Learned behavior is not evolution. Breeding animals for a certain behavior is not the same as training them.
Why would they want to?
Same reason we do. Comfort of living.
Who is to say that they are not capable of building a city? Just because they have never had the need to build cities like humans have doesn't mean they aren't capable.
True, but they lack something really important. Even if we can't accurately measure their intelligence, a very important tool is needed: hands. There is no single physical attribute that helped our intelligence grow and help us experience the world the way we do. Monkeys are close but their brains just haven't caught up yet.
If you sign a contract waiving your rights it absolutely can be upheld in court, and your naivety will not save you. Automatic waiver by your actions is a different story.
Liberties, maybe. But rights are inalienable. As a citizen, you are not allowed to contract yourself into slavery or give up your right to free speech.
So, you make the point that because everyone else does it, we shouldn't have a problem with torture? Maybe you don't subscribe to the ideal, but there is something to be said about the moral high ground and leading by example.
So, you can only care about how our government acts when it directly affects you? That is an obsurd statement. Since the government is essentially 'we the people', they're acting on our behalf. Do you want to have your hands in torture? Do you not have things like conscience, empathy, and compassion?
I'm sorry your worldview is so poor and I hope some day you will see things like torture are not necessary evils.
People in positions of global scale aren't going to give up that power just because you have a lot of signatures on a petition.
The founding fathers did. Seriously, these guys could have setup an oligarchy and run the country as they see fit. Instead, the gambled and threw the power out to the people. And, you know what? It worked pretty well.
Then other countries followed suit and dabbled in more representative democracy. All this, without revolution, I might add.
And has our educational system gotten so bad that people think the US is a democracy? We're a federal republic, people.
Which is an indirect democracy, people.
> How would Firefox even know which podcasts to download?
http://inforss.mozdev.org/index.html
I would rather argue that it is. It's one thing when you're speaking of a server -- a machine with fully redundant hardware, ECC ram, dual PSU's and so on -- that is set to run mission critical apps with a very defined purpose and static role set.
This just happens to be the workstation I'm on. I've installed many different pieces of software since. Last outage was due to a long term power outage(~Reliable Montana Power~).
You are just as off-topic as the previous post I replied to. This has nothing to do with Real Player. Whatever your personal beef with that product might be, this is not the place to discuss it. The company Real Networks is involved, but we're talking about Rhapsody, which provides plain, ordinary MP3 files.
Yes but you can easily judge a company by it's previous products. *cough* Windows
If they were, you'd see a decline in parking tickets issued which, if anything, they have increased.
[citation needed]
I'd say if they did happen to have increased, it is most likely due to population increases. I'd appreciate it if you could get me per capita stats.
In fact, there was a story not long ago that had people purposely getting tickets because it was cheaper to pay the fine than to pay for parking in the city garages.
While this may be true, it does not support your argument.
The government has created a society in which everybody either rolls over belly-up and plays it their way, or faces some serious (money) troubles.
Isn't that why we have public defenders? If you actually had a defense, this shouldn't be much of a problem. Yes, you have to spend some of your time and take somewhat of a risk but damn, it's the principal of it.
Free speech is only for those who can afford it, or care more about making a change than about maintaining their current lifestyle...
Sometimes you have to alter your lifestyle to stand up for what is right and just.
Which actually doesn't make that much sense if you think about it, since why would two Klingons use a human calendar when speaking to each other? The elegant solution to this problem, of course, is not to think about it too much.
It does considering Worf was brought up by humans.
I've restrained myself from correcting Star Trek factual errors on here for years and this is what baits me out? Sheesh...
But "all of that" of the Romans wasn't destroyed.
They also kept it all in one place. We have libraries all over the world. There are even book vaults that could survive nuclear war kept around the world to house important texts. And now with the internet, we have information, and copies of it all spread across the entire globe.
Short of world ending event, which is almost impossible, we will retain most, if not all of our information.
So putting in a faulty NIC card and seeing what happened wouldn't have done anything at all, huh?
You keep a bunch of 'faulty' NICs around?
Since he said this is for company computers, you'd think that for porn "fast power-off times" would be more important than "fast boot times". But that doesn't seem like as much of a challenge now, does it?
The company could be a sperm bank.
You download audio files containing pornographic content?
This is disturbing.
It's called Kool Keith.
Only if you have a method for authenticating the other side of the phone conversation.
Visit the website and get the phone number, of course!
When you "buy" software you aren't actually buying anything more than a license to use it under a set of rules that the author has chosen to insist on. You buy a physical copy of the media format that it is distrubted on (or pay, in some form probably) to download it. The *reality* is that you're just buying a license and not the software, and as it is proprietary you can't afford to buy the software.
While this is true, it doesn't fit the argument. Copyright's fair use rules allow personal copies to be made, regardless of what the license says.
Courts(and even the DMCA) still hold that you can make backup copies of your CDs and DVDs. That rule should also apply here.
Even though I hate cheating in games, this ruling was way too broad and can affect the whole software industry.