You either don't have kids, or you have very angry and/or untrusting kids. If you don't trust your own children, they won't trust you back.
And what's with the drug problem reference? Trudging up old memories?
If you'd been my parent before I went to college, I'd have moved out early. If I found that you had invaded my personal computer and obtained admin access, I'd format your own computer in spite.
There may be no tax in Alberta, but that doesn't effect you one iota if you're from BC. Even if you buy something PST free in Alberta, if you don't charge yourself 7% PST for BC and send in a form to remit it, you're breaking the law. http://www.rev.gov.bc.ca/ctb/forms/0428PFILL.pdf.
Actually, the levies don't apply to data discs. When you go into the store to buy cd's there will be two stacks. One stack is labeled audio, the other stack is labled data. The discs are exactly the same, but priced differently.
Atleast, that's what happans in london drugs.
I didn't know that there was a name to my theory, interesting. Of course, your link to the wikipedia article didn't exacty offer any proof whatsoever that it isn't possible, just one scientist coming up with three methods about how it could work, and three ways why those three methods don't work.
Unfortunately, the amount of time it would take to proove this one way or the other is huge. Travel to a distant star, and measure the light coming off it directly.
And rather than throwing insults around like a little child about what makes a scientist a scientist, state your opinion and don't attack other's for their beliefs.
Exactly, you buy them. So take the hardrive out and hook it up to your computer and do whatever you want to it.
However, just because you bought the harddrive doesn't mean you bought the content that is encrypted on that harddrive, or that you have the right to decrypt the data. So go ahead and read the data, but don't expect you've got some god given right to do whatever you want with it. (Like make dvd's to sell to your friends).
If you don't like the fact that you can't decrypt the data, don't buy the product. Stop whining about what you can and can't do and actually DO something. Talk with your wallet, not with your mouth.
A question for you: How do you light doesn't lose energy as it travels? As a photon's energy is reduced, it becomes lower in frequency, so it appears to be red shifted.
The history of science is full of assumptions that were later proven wrong, we could easily be living in a stationary universe that is not expanding, but the light reaching us from so far away is losing energy through interaction of some unknown effect.
Of course, your'e perfectly free to believe whatever you want. I choose not to believe in "From Nothing into Creation (big bang), and From Creation into Nothing (Heat Death)".
Many music files, for instance, may differ only in the artist-and-title headers, but are otherwise 99 percent similar. I've never used a p2p program that won't download from two songs, just because they are labeled differently, or have different headers.
I have mod points, but you're already at +5 and this is far more important.
I can't message you, but hopefully you have slashdot set to notify you when people reply to you.
Thank you ever so much for recommending that book, particularily the part where you mention that it's about assertiveness. I've only read a couple dozen pages and already I can see that it will change my life for the better.
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I got this once from Telus when I was using them. I sent back a reply that went like this:
Dear telus, according to canadian copyright law and free use laws, I am free to download any piece of work that I have any form of ownership in already and use it. Since it is impossible for anyone besides myself to determine previous ownership, this complaint has no merit. Furthermore, I am also free to download ANY piece of music or video that I do not have previous ownership in, and provide it for others to upload so long as I do not use it myself.
As no complaint brought against me can be verified as true, all such complaints should be treated as spam. I am hearby giving you notice that the relaying of these messages to me will constitute a violation of the canadian anti spam laws, and further communication on the subject will result in legal proceeding being brough against telus.
Thank you.
I got a very apolagetic letter back in response. Of course, when I found out that Telus blocks outgoing server ports for HTTP and FTP, I switched to Shaw anyways. Shaw has never given me any copyright complaint notices, just politely informed me when I went over 80GB a month in transfer and asked if I would like to upgrade my account to a higher tier.
Regardless of whether you think what they did was right or wrong, THEY did it because THEY thought it was RIGHT.
They didn't care about people boycotting them, because they knew that people would misunderstand. KNOWING that they would lose money by providing the chinese people with an efficiant search engine; KNOWING that they were the first and only search engine to inform the chinese when they were being censored; KNOWING that people in the west would boycott them and they would lose money; they still went ahead and did what they thought was RIGHT.
What, you can't make a 1-800 phone call and spend less than 5 minutes to tel a microsoft rep that you've changed your video card? They just say, oh okay, here's your activation key. geeze.
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You either don't have kids, or you have very angry and/or untrusting kids. If you don't trust your own children, they won't trust you back. And what's with the drug problem reference? Trudging up old memories?
If you'd been my parent before I went to college, I'd have moved out early. If I found that you had invaded my personal computer and obtained admin access, I'd format your own computer in spite.
It's called a nose.
the parent post is many negative things, but redundent? I do believe his is the first overlords post, not the second or third...
damn, and here I am without mod points
I don't know about you guys, but I think that's f'in awesomely cool!
So when to we get a picture of the american flag that's implanted on the surface somewhere.
It it's FU beyond all repair, how do they fix it?
It's been said lots of times already on here, it should be said many thousands more.
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There may be no tax in Alberta, but that doesn't effect you one iota if you're from BC. Even if you buy something PST free in Alberta, if you don't charge yourself 7% PST for BC and send in a form to remit it, you're breaking the law. http://www.rev.gov.bc.ca/ctb/forms/0428PFILL.pdf.
Hope you don't get an audit...
No, you may not be the first to say. Go read the comment earlier in the thread that has +5 funny on it. It's good for a laugh.
Actually, the levies don't apply to data discs. When you go into the store to buy cd's there will be two stacks. One stack is labeled audio, the other stack is labled data. The discs are exactly the same, but priced differently. Atleast, that's what happans in london drugs.
I didn't know that there was a name to my theory, interesting. Of course, your link to the wikipedia article didn't exacty offer any proof whatsoever that it isn't possible, just one scientist coming up with three methods about how it could work, and three ways why those three methods don't work.
Unfortunately, the amount of time it would take to proove this one way or the other is huge. Travel to a distant star, and measure the light coming off it directly.
And rather than throwing insults around like a little child about what makes a scientist a scientist, state your opinion and don't attack other's for their beliefs.
Exactly, you buy them. So take the hardrive out and hook it up to your computer and do whatever you want to it. However, just because you bought the harddrive doesn't mean you bought the content that is encrypted on that harddrive, or that you have the right to decrypt the data. So go ahead and read the data, but don't expect you've got some god given right to do whatever you want with it. (Like make dvd's to sell to your friends). If you don't like the fact that you can't decrypt the data, don't buy the product. Stop whining about what you can and can't do and actually DO something. Talk with your wallet, not with your mouth.
A question for you: How do you light doesn't lose energy as it travels? As a photon's energy is reduced, it becomes lower in frequency, so it appears to be red shifted.
The history of science is full of assumptions that were later proven wrong, we could easily be living in a stationary universe that is not expanding, but the light reaching us from so far away is losing energy through interaction of some unknown effect.
Of course, your'e perfectly free to believe whatever you want. I choose not to believe in "From Nothing into Creation (big bang), and From Creation into Nothing (Heat Death)".
How dare anyone mod this informative.
This is a direct copy and paste from a practically ad free one page article. It is direct plagairism. I don't care if he posted as anonymous coward.
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I have mod points, but you're already at +5 and this is far more important.
I can't message you, but hopefully you have slashdot set to notify you when people reply to you.
Thank you ever so much for recommending that book, particularily the part where you mention that it's about assertiveness. I've only read a couple dozen pages and already I can see that it will change my life for the better.
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Thank You
When you grow up and have children, or perhaps you already have and do, well...
your children are very lucky to have a parent like you. whether they exist in the present, or the future.
May your moral compass be a beacon to guide those who are lost.
I got this once from Telus when I was using them. I sent back a reply that went like this:
Dear telus, according to canadian copyright law and free use laws, I am free to download any piece of work that I have any form of ownership in already and use it. Since it is impossible for anyone besides myself to determine previous ownership, this complaint has no merit. Furthermore, I am also free to download ANY piece of music or video that I do not have previous ownership in, and provide it for others to upload so long as I do not use it myself.
As no complaint brought against me can be verified as true, all such complaints should be treated as spam. I am hearby giving you notice that the relaying of these messages to me will constitute a violation of the canadian anti spam laws, and further communication on the subject will result in legal proceeding being brough against telus.
Thank you.
I got a very apolagetic letter back in response. Of course, when I found out that Telus blocks outgoing server ports for HTTP and FTP, I switched to Shaw anyways. Shaw has never given me any copyright complaint notices, just politely informed me when I went over 80GB a month in transfer and asked if I would like to upgrade my account to a higher tier.
But they DID consider the consequences...
Regardless of whether you think what they did was right or wrong, THEY did it because THEY thought it was RIGHT.
They didn't care about people boycotting them, because they knew that people would misunderstand. KNOWING that they would lose money by providing the chinese people with an efficiant search engine; KNOWING that they were the first and only search engine to inform the chinese when they were being censored; KNOWING that people in the west would boycott them and they would lose money; they still went ahead and did what they thought was RIGHT.
Since I organised it..... It's on a paper hardcopy with all electronic forms destroyed, in a locked cabinet behind the photocopier...
What, you can't make a 1-800 phone call and spend less than 5 minutes to tel a microsoft rep that you've changed your video card? They just say, oh okay, here's your activation key. geeze.
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