Well, the thing is, it DOES protect you from that. What it does NOT protect, however, is "hate speech" (which would fall under libel). It applies to everyone, not just to the government.
Criticisms are very different from insults.
I am.
Pretty much everything released recently aside from Assassin's Creed has been downright horrible.
Ubisoft, your sales are down because your games lick taint, not because people are pirating them.
The problem isn't so much whether or not the laws are unjust themselves... but the fact that those who are supposed to enforce them do not uphold them themselves... and are not nearly often enough held accountable for that.
If you recall, the US military defeated Iraq's military within a couple of weeks.
The only people fighting anymore are guerrillas, and you could argue that they're not so much "standing up to" the US's forces so much as attempting to annoy them to the point that they leave. In a "fair fight" (if you could call it that) they would never last.
Whether you like it or not, GNOME will be the big one, because nobody controls it. With Nokia owning Trolltech, no other company (whose primary business is not Linux itself) will touch KDE. I know that's not justified, but don't expect large corporations to care.
Trolltech doesn't make KDE, just Qt. I fail to see why that would be an issue for them, especially since Qt is GPL.
Technically, everything is copyrighted. My website, your website, this website, all copyrighted. It may not be officially registered in the copyright office, but anything that is created by anyone is subject to (and protected by) copyright law.
Does that mean that they're going to filter the copyrighted content on my personal website (ie, everything I created that's up there) as well?
This is a legal breach of net neutrality. Comcast is already under investigation by the FCC for this, and they're looking at $195,000 per affected customer. I expect if AT&T goes through with this plan they'll be fined as well, so the bigwigs should really look at that while figuring their money-saving options. Spend X amount of money on upgrading their bandwidth capacity to fill demand, or spend $(customer*200,000) on fines for violating Net Neutrality.
Uh no, sorry.
http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/copyright/ (with photographic proof)
Original copyright law was 14 years, extendable one time for an additional 14 years. The original penalty for violation of the copyright law was, turn over the infringing material to the copyright holder for them to destroy, and pay 50 cents per page you had to turn over.
The act was signed by George Washington and went into effect in 1790, and DID NOT CHANGE AT ALL until 1891 when copyright protections were granted to non-citizens.
Currently, copyright does not expire until 70 years after the death of the creator.
Research has been done to suggest that 12-14 year copyrights are optimal, as it allows the creator to get a bunch of money out of it, and then after it goes out of print due to lack of salability (NES games?), it returns to the public domain relatively quickly so anyone interested can get ahold of it. This is how it should be, but its not.
if by "traditionally geeky" they mean people who couldn't be bothered to *learn* about PC hardware, and would rather pay a rather high premium to have someone else do it for them, then yes.
Agreed. After grade school I attended private school as well, because the quality of education at public schools became suddenly a lot more obviously about making the school look adequate, rather than educating the students. Curriculum in the public school was specifically designed to make passing the state's standardized test the number one priority. Fortunately, that particular test was optional for private schools.
Or if you like ads (sometimes the google ones are amusing, or you want to support the website you're visiting), turn on HTTP Pipelining. It'll handle all of your requests simultaneously instead of one after the other.
I think the real problem here is that, at an IQ of about 145, I'm in the.5th percentile for IQ, meaning there are only a million and a half people in the US with an equivalent or higher IQ than mine. Worldwide, this amounts to about 30 million people. Seems like a lot, but other qualifications start narrowing down my options even further. For instance, age. I'm 21, so I wouldn't want to marry someone who's 30. I'm 6'3 so I wouldn't want to marry a girl who's 5'0, so lets say taller than 5'6. And then there's the attractiveness factor, and the ability to laugh at my retarded jokes while tolerating my technical nature...
I'd estimate that my chances of finding a woman as smart or smarter that meets these other criteria at about 6 in the world, give or take. And given my luck, 5 of those 6 have boyfriends, and the sixth most likely will not speak a lick of English.
I hypothesize that the simple fact that you made this hypothesis, and extrapolated the two possible outcomes yourself, infers that you are, in fact, not going to get laid.
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Hard to imagine just how someone who supported Bush has the gall to call anyone dumb.
It's because they're too dumb to realize how dumb they are.
Well, the thing is, it DOES protect you from that. What it does NOT protect, however, is "hate speech" (which would fall under libel). It applies to everyone, not just to the government. Criticisms are very different from insults.
I am not saying your current games are bad
I am. Pretty much everything released recently aside from Assassin's Creed has been downright horrible. Ubisoft, your sales are down because your games lick taint, not because people are pirating them.
The problem isn't so much whether or not the laws are unjust themselves... but the fact that those who are supposed to enforce them do not uphold them themselves... and are not nearly often enough held accountable for that.
If you recall, the US military defeated Iraq's military within a couple of weeks. The only people fighting anymore are guerrillas, and you could argue that they're not so much "standing up to" the US's forces so much as attempting to annoy them to the point that they leave. In a "fair fight" (if you could call it that) they would never last.
another one for ips: /^\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}$/
/\/\*/,/\*\// { d }
remove single-line C-style comments:
s;//.*$;;
s/\/\*.*\*\///g
multi-line C-style comments:
Trolltech doesn't make KDE, just Qt. I fail to see why that would be an issue for them, especially since Qt is GPL.
But what if it has a portly man dressed as Santa Claus, giving out free candy canes?!
Mod parent up. It's definitely worth mentioning to put all this into perspective.
Blogs do not work that way! Goodnight!
"Unthinkable!"
"I wouldn't think of it!"
Technically, everything is copyrighted. My website, your website, this website, all copyrighted. It may not be officially registered in the copyright office, but anything that is created by anyone is subject to (and protected by) copyright law. Does that mean that they're going to filter the copyrighted content on my personal website (ie, everything I created that's up there) as well? This is a legal breach of net neutrality. Comcast is already under investigation by the FCC for this, and they're looking at $195,000 per affected customer. I expect if AT&T goes through with this plan they'll be fined as well, so the bigwigs should really look at that while figuring their money-saving options. Spend X amount of money on upgrading their bandwidth capacity to fill demand, or spend $(customer*200,000) on fines for violating Net Neutrality.
Uh no, sorry. http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/copyright/ (with photographic proof) Original copyright law was 14 years, extendable one time for an additional 14 years. The original penalty for violation of the copyright law was, turn over the infringing material to the copyright holder for them to destroy, and pay 50 cents per page you had to turn over. The act was signed by George Washington and went into effect in 1790, and DID NOT CHANGE AT ALL until 1891 when copyright protections were granted to non-citizens. Currently, copyright does not expire until 70 years after the death of the creator. Research has been done to suggest that 12-14 year copyrights are optimal, as it allows the creator to get a bunch of money out of it, and then after it goes out of print due to lack of salability (NES games?), it returns to the public domain relatively quickly so anyone interested can get ahold of it. This is how it should be, but its not.
Or more accurately, if your sphincter can't do the time...
Into superfine particulate matter!
As far as I know, reverse engineering for educational purposes is 100% legal, though I'm sure other purposes are more gray.
I don't think it's fair for them to blame M$ for their own platform deficiencies.
if by "traditionally geeky" they mean people who couldn't be bothered to *learn* about PC hardware, and would rather pay a rather high premium to have someone else do it for them, then yes.
Agreed. After grade school I attended private school as well, because the quality of education at public schools became suddenly a lot more obviously about making the school look adequate, rather than educating the students. Curriculum in the public school was specifically designed to make passing the state's standardized test the number one priority. Fortunately, that particular test was optional for private schools.
There must be a break in the earth's water cooling loop. Maybe it needs a new bigger pump, and some UV reactive dye.
Or if you like ads (sometimes the google ones are amusing, or you want to support the website you're visiting), turn on HTTP Pipelining. It'll handle all of your requests simultaneously instead of one after the other.
I think the real problem here is that, at an IQ of about 145, I'm in the .5th percentile for IQ, meaning there are only a million and a half people in the US with an equivalent or higher IQ than mine. Worldwide, this amounts to about 30 million people. Seems like a lot, but other qualifications start narrowing down my options even further. For instance, age. I'm 21, so I wouldn't want to marry someone who's 30. I'm 6'3 so I wouldn't want to marry a girl who's 5'0, so lets say taller than 5'6. And then there's the attractiveness factor, and the ability to laugh at my retarded jokes while tolerating my technical nature...
I'd estimate that my chances of finding a woman as smart or smarter that meets these other criteria at about 6 in the world, give or take. And given my luck, 5 of those 6 have boyfriends, and the sixth most likely will not speak a lick of English.
I hypothesize that the simple fact that you made this hypothesis, and extrapolated the two possible outcomes yourself, infers that you are, in fact, not going to get laid.
And we refer to the others as "Coffee boy" ;)