I'm not sure you can compare the HPL and a research paper. The actual text in Harry Potter is the basis of a billion dollar industry and Rowling's publishers have very good lawyers. Fair use has rules about quote length and attribution and it seems like this guy broke them. Of course a lot of research papers may break those same rules but it would be very unlikely anyone would sue over that.
Slashdot is schizophrenic about copyright, if someone had taken big chunks of GPL code and used them in a closed source application everyone would be baying for blood, but for some reason Harry Potter is considered entertainment and therefore OK to copy, a bit like movies and music. In a sense Harry Potter is open source - the text is freely available. It definitely isn't Creative Commons though, so while you are free to cite it you are not free to make derivative works, unless you have an agreement with Rowling herself.
From what I've read this guy cut and pasted big chunks of the original text and didn't add much himself. While the whole thing was non commercial he was safe but as soon as he started to make money he wasn't. It's actually the literary equivalent of using GPL code in a commercial, closed source application.
If you have a net connection, FUCK YOU AND YOUR FUCKING GOOGLE you're so fucking stupid and fucking lame, fucker OpenOffice will stomp over Google and then come anD EAT YOU, FUKCING HERETIC
The difference between the two was that in case of Hungary it was the people who decided to remove the existing government and they succeeded at the end too. In Czech republic there was a divide in the government itself, while a part of it decided to redefine what the party line was, the other half actually loyal to the USSR called the Soviets for help. Again, no new territory was on the table.
In both countries once the USSR stopped propping up the Communists they lost elections. So neither was really your territory in the first place. Same with Poland, the Communist governments only survived because people knew the Russians would invade if they were toppled. Omce that threat disappeared so did the government.
How profitable was it for the USSR to dismantle East Germany factories and ship them back home. Or run Eastern Europe as a sort of neo empire for the good of the USSR?
Well probably not much since those sorts of policies don't make economic sense, but it sure must have been handy for the people that run the USSR. They certainly didn't seem to have to queue to get stuff, unlike the proles.
The US continues the same BS right now, with the 'rocket shield' being installed around Russia, obviously this is seeing as just another act of aggression, and actually it is.
Missile defense is an act of aggression? Come to think of it most of the other US stuff you mentioned was defensive too - e.g. arming South Vietnam, South Korea, setting up Nato and so on. Most people in those countries didn't want to be part of a Soviet buffer zone as you put it. Which actually means living under vicious foreign installed totalitarianism.
I'm as skeptical of unions as you, but look at the next post up. Lawyers don't sign non competes because they are againsts ABA rules. Now the ABA isn't a union, but it does seem sort of handy to have an organisations that rules that you can't sign things that are not in your interest.
Maybe the ABA is the model of what should replace unions for white collar workers.
Radio Shack will always survive because it sells 555 timer chips. Those protect it from recessions, shoplifters and rentacop security guards scaring the customers away by preemptively waterboarding them in the back room to deter shoplifting.
While there are a lot of users that do care about encoding time and Office benchmarks, most users just want IE and Outlook to let them start typing quickly so that they can forward on the latest news regarding Bill Gates paying people for testing their new e-mail system or letting their voice be heard by voting on "Am I Hot or Not?"
Not really. Back when DNS was invented (1982) pretty much everything connected to the Internet was essentially a trusted machine. Arguably that was almost true until the Morris worm in 1988. Of course you could never truly trust them, but the idea was that if someone did something silly other people would phone them and then they would stop. Essentially it was an anarchy populated by non malicious people.
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I believe the case was Woosh vs Woosh 2006, Woosh County Court, State of Woosh
I'm not sure you can compare the HPL and a research paper. The actual text in Harry Potter is the basis of a billion dollar industry and Rowling's publishers have very good lawyers. Fair use has rules about quote length and attribution and it seems like this guy broke them. Of course a lot of research papers may break those same rules but it would be very unlikely anyone would sue over that.
Slashdot is schizophrenic about copyright, if someone had taken big chunks of GPL code and used them in a closed source application everyone would be baying for blood, but for some reason Harry Potter is considered entertainment and therefore OK to copy, a bit like movies and music. In a sense Harry Potter is open source - the text is freely available. It definitely isn't Creative Commons though, so while you are free to cite it you are not free to make derivative works, unless you have an agreement with Rowling herself.
From what I've read this guy cut and pasted big chunks of the original text and didn't add much himself. While the whole thing was non commercial he was safe but as soon as he started to make money he wasn't. It's actually the literary equivalent of using GPL code in a commercial, closed source application.
Not a copyright but Haliburton was granted a patent on Impressionism a few years back. They successfully sued the estate of Claude Monet.
If you have a net connection, FUCK YOU AND YOUR FUCKING GOOGLE you're so fucking stupid and fucking lame, fucker OpenOffice will stomp over Google and then come anD EAT YOU, FUKCING HERETIC
That's the funniest thing I've read here in ages.
Me too, M$ Astroturfers stopped me getting it.
I've known employees who have dropped them in the toilet and they still functioned afterwards
You should fit your employees with something like this
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Borg_Construct_Aj%5E6
Less chance of 'accidents'. It makes them happier too, well if you don't overvolt them too much.
The difference between the two was that in case of Hungary it was the people who decided to remove the existing government and they succeeded at the end too. In Czech republic there was a divide in the government itself, while a part of it decided to redefine what the party line was, the other half actually loyal to the USSR called the Soviets for help. Again, no new territory was on the table.
In both countries once the USSR stopped propping up the Communists they lost elections. So neither was really your territory in the first place. Same with Poland, the Communist governments only survived because people knew the Russians would invade if they were toppled. Omce that threat disappeared so did the government.
How profitable was it for the USSR to dismantle East Germany factories and ship them back home. Or run Eastern Europe as a sort of neo empire for the good of the USSR?
Well probably not much since those sorts of policies don't make economic sense, but it sure must have been handy for the people that run the USSR. They certainly didn't seem to have to queue to get stuff, unlike the proles.
The US continues the same BS right now, with the 'rocket shield' being installed around Russia, obviously this is seeing as just another act of aggression, and actually it is.
Missile defense is an act of aggression? Come to think of it most of the other US stuff you mentioned was defensive too - e.g. arming South Vietnam, South Korea, setting up Nato and so on. Most people in those countries didn't want to be part of a Soviet buffer zone as you put it. Which actually means living under vicious foreign installed totalitarianism.
Freed.
Operation Iraqi Liberation^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HFreedom
That's what this site does
http://www.unitednuclear.com/
I love the "Looking for some Uranium" gif.
They must be on crack. Oh wait.
pendants
(pedants?)
Sorry, I couldn't resist...
Muahaha. I know!
I'm as skeptical of unions as you, but look at the next post up. Lawyers don't sign non competes because they are againsts ABA rules. Now the ABA isn't a union, but it does seem sort of handy to have an organisations that rules that you can't sign things that are not in your interest.
Maybe the ABA is the model of what should replace unions for white collar workers.
on freeway. jst hd srs accident. pramedics cutting me out ov car. ow my spine.
Virii is a good way to catch pendants though.
But then we'd have to go outside.
Microsoft Vista a failure you say? Please tell me more!
Radio Shack will always survive because it sells 555 timer chips. Those protect it from recessions, shoplifters and rentacop security guards scaring the customers away by preemptively waterboarding them in the back room to deter shoplifting.
That's what Hitler said though. You're a member of a club (Germany) that has rules (National Socialism, genocide).
Oh, come on. Reductio ad absurdum is a valid argument and on the Internet references to rape or Nazis are pretty much de rigeur.
Anyhow it made me laugh.
Plus the emo kids were all committing suicide in the aisles
1)Kill emo kids
2)???
3)Bankruptcy? WTF?
Seems rather unfair to me. Federal Bailout for Circut City, now!
Thank goodness eh? Now your worldview is secure again.
While there are a lot of users that do care about encoding time and Office benchmarks, most users just want IE and Outlook to let them start typing quickly so that they can forward on the latest news regarding Bill Gates paying people for testing their new e-mail system or letting their voice be heard by voting on "Am I Hot or Not?"
HAW HAW WINDOWS USERS R T STUPID.
Not really. Back when DNS was invented (1982) pretty much everything connected to the Internet was essentially a trusted machine. Arguably that was almost true until the Morris worm in 1988. Of course you could never truly trust them, but the idea was that if someone did something silly other people would phone them and then they would stop. Essentially it was an anarchy populated by non malicious people.