Actually, calling a copyright infringer a pirate just makes the act sound cooler than it actually is. Plenty of cracker groups in the 80s and 90s latched onto it for that very reason.
Of course, these days it has lost most of it's potency- positive or negative. Calling a copyright infringer a pirate is given no more thought than calling a custodian a janitor.
The use of the term as a negative propaganda tactic has failed miserably.
You forgot one major downside to using Tor in this application: substantially increased lag and unreliable connections. Now I'm not saying it's impossible to get a good connection through Tor, but in my experience, most of the time the problems are noticable enough to make using it for a commercial browser impractical. Your average user just isn't going to see the benefit in adding as much as a 10 minute delay to loading a web page in exchange for a little more privacy. (No this is not hyperbole- I have actually experienced this.)
If you are going to shoot on private property, get permission to enter and use the location for shooting and to show the premises in your work, in order to avoid trespass and invasion of privacy claims by the property owner.
So I'm afraid in that respect, things are slightly different in Australia - the concept of public space is different between the countries.
The quote you provided doesn't show that the two countries are different any better than the GP's quote shows they are similar. It's talking about preventing the owner of a building from using your photographs to prove you were trespassing on his/her property or violating the privacy of the owner.
If you're in a private building that the public is routinely permitted in (such as a shopping mall), photographing things the public is normally permitted to see, than you can't rationally be accused of trespassing. (Unless of course you're stupid enough to break into the mall after hours to do your photography. In which case- DON'T PHOTOGRAPH THE BIG CLOCK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MALL!)
"why is kde so unloved here in the USA?"
I'm guessing it's the very american "Not invented here" syndrome.
Good technologies don't have a chance in the USA if it isn't to be actively developed there. KDE is from the germans.
And yet KDE and GNOME are both most commonly found running on top of the Linux kernel which was developed be a man from Finland. And yes, I'm well aware of the fact that Torvalds now lives in the U.S. Doesn't help your case any- he only moved here last year and Linux gained quite a few American followers before that!
Oh, and KDE's major competitor, GNOME? Developed by Mexicans.
(Don't even get me started on the Japanese hardware and software that floods the US market.)
Pay is roughly $10/hr. Now, I happen to be concerned that someone being paid so little should be handling rare books.
I would tend to think this is a good thing. It means that the people doing it aren't neccesarily in it for the money. Being paid by the hour also gives them an incentive to take their time about it.;)
As long as the people hired are screened for at least a medium-high level of respect for old books, I don't see a problem here.
And at 200 calls per-hour, they'll just stop answering the phones. Seriously, do you think they're going to listen?
If they've gotten to the point where they have to stop answering the phones, then they'll probably have gotten the hint that people care about the issue.
So, all they have to do is put back the copyright notices, and the.dsp files, and then they can continue to offer spyware to the unwitting public? The GPL doesn't seem to give us much protection against chancers like these:(
Of course.
The GPL has absolutley nothing to do with what function a program performs. You're more than welcome to take a copy of BASH and modify it to randomly delete important libraries anytime the root user logs on with it. You're well within your rights to then release this malignant version of BASH onto an unsuspecting public.
The beauty of the GPL is, as soon as you do that, one of the less blindly trusting members of the programming community is going to take a look at your code, realize what it does and warn everybody else that you're a malicious moron who is stupid enough to think he can both comply with the requirements of the GPL and release a harmful program without anyone noticing!
Instead, the crazed automaton [...] careened past the drug depository before barging into a room in the hospital's radiation oncology department where an examination was in progress.
The psychotic pill pusher reportedly refused to leave, sending both doctor and patient fleeing for their lives.
In other words, the robot pushed its way into the room, realized it was lost and stopped moving. The doctor then left to go call a tech to get the thing out of the exam room. The patient, not particularly interested in waiting around in a small room with a large, seemingly unpredictable piece of machinery, decided to wait out in the hall for him to come back.
Maine puts the onus on manufacturers, demanding they pay the full cost of recycling their computers or televisions and pick up a share of the recycling tab for products of unknown origin.
Well that's awful interesting. I've lived in Maine for the better part of a decade now and this is the first I've heard about this. My town's recyling center charges $20 to accept a TV and I've heard people from other towns complaining about the same thing.
I guess I'm not surprised. Maine has been developing a reputation for driving away larger job-providing businesses and then taxing its citizenry into oblivion. This sounds like just another side of the same coin.
So I guess that must be why Nielsen Media Research always has to break into people's homes under cover of darkness and hide black boxes on the rear of their TV sets in order to get legitimate reasearch data.
Not if those services are being provided free of charge to the public. (Unless of course they were to license the distribution of their files with a "free for personal use" clause.)
you subsequently obtain a copy of the original publication. This is true of all collections of works including encyclopedias and anthologies, not just online databases.
Check out the MLA Handbook sometime for examples of the extensive citations required of articles reprinted in other sources.
I can only theorize the reasoning behind this is that if you obtain your source second-hand, it's possible there may be errors (or even intentional changes!) in the reprinting and any future researcher would need to be able to find these variations in order to verify your credibility as a researcher.
After all, if "Hank's Encyclopedia" quotes Lincoln as having said in his inaugural address, "We gonna go free 'tem niggahs!!!" and you cite this in your paper as being directly from the address instead of from Hank's copy of the address, you just assumed responsibility for fabricating a falsehood rather than innocently (if moronically) propagating one.
Judging from his handling of the trilogy, I think Jackson is both capable and likely to handle The Hobbit appropriately. The Two Towers and The Return of the King were much darker movies than The Fellowship of the Ring. I see no reason why Jackson would not reverse the process and make The Hobbit lighter than the The Fellowship.
That still doesn't explain why it is so leet to say "received a lot of flak by"...
I don't know where you are from, but in my region of the world (Maine, USA), that particular phrase is as common in everyday speech as saying "he hit the roof" instead of "he became violently angered".
It has absolutely nothing more to do with 'leetness' than choosing to say "Have a good one!" versus "Have a nice day!" It's whatever comes naturally to your mind in the context of your local culture and dialect.
As for your incredibly rude response to a common (if lamentable) spelling error, I would suggest you use a spell checker yourself- "ab abbreviation"?
While I agree with most of what you say, I would like to point out that charging you a replacement fee for a movie kept out over a month is nothing new. IIRC this was always there policy and it was spelled out quite clearly in the agreement you have to sign when establishing an account. (You did read it right? *g*) I don't remember if it was always 30 days (I suspect it was), but it was certainly no more than 90.
In fact, the local Blockbuster near the university I used to attend had an even stricter arrangement with the school- keep a movie out to long and face not only a replacement fee, but also possible suspension!
Really, I see no problem with that part of the deal. The real problem is with their strategy of renaming their late fees "restocking fees" and then claiming that late fees no longer apply. That's deceptive advertising if anything is.
There are some programs that utilize the Caps Lock key for something other than capital letter entry. For example, VICE, maps Caps Lock to the Commodore 64's Run/Stop key. I'm sure there are plenty of other programs that utilize Caps Lock as well. If AlphaGrip ditched Caps Lock (or any other key on the standard keyboard) they'd just be asking for user complaints to start rolling in.
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Actually, calling a copyright infringer a pirate just makes the act sound cooler than it actually is. Plenty of cracker groups in the 80s and 90s latched onto it for that very reason.
Of course, these days it has lost most of it's potency- positive or negative. Calling a copyright infringer a pirate is given no more thought than calling a custodian a janitor.
The use of the term as a negative propaganda tactic has failed miserably.
You forgot one major downside to using Tor in this application: substantially increased lag and unreliable connections. Now I'm not saying it's impossible to get a good connection through Tor, but in my experience, most of the time the problems are noticable enough to make using it for a commercial browser impractical. Your average user just isn't going to see the benefit in adding as much as a 10 minute delay to loading a web page in exchange for a little more privacy. (No this is not hyperbole- I have actually experienced this.)
Another quote from the link you provided:
So I'm afraid in that respect, things are slightly different in Australia - the concept of public space is different between the countries.The quote you provided doesn't show that the two countries are different any better than the GP's quote shows they are similar. It's talking about preventing the owner of a building from using your photographs to prove you were trespassing on his/her property or violating the privacy of the owner.
If you're in a private building that the public is routinely permitted in (such as a shopping mall), photographing things the public is normally permitted to see, than you can't rationally be accused of trespassing. (Unless of course you're stupid enough to break into the mall after hours to do your photography. In which case- DON'T PHOTOGRAPH THE BIG CLOCK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MALL!)
Everything renders correctly here in both Firefox 1.5 and IE 6 at either 800x600 or 1024x768 resolutions, so it's probably a problem at your end.
Oh, and KDE's major competitor, GNOME? Developed by Mexicans.
(Don't even get me started on the Japanese hardware and software that floods the US market.)
I would tend to think this is a good thing. It means that the people doing it aren't neccesarily in it for the money. Being paid by the hour also gives them an incentive to take their time about it. ;)
As long as the people hired are screened for at least a medium-high level of respect for old books, I don't see a problem here.
If they've gotten to the point where they have to stop answering the phones, then they'll probably have gotten the hint that people care about the issue.
Of course.
The GPL has absolutley nothing to do with what function a program performs. You're more than welcome to take a copy of BASH and modify it to randomly delete important libraries anytime the root user logs on with it. You're well within your rights to then release this malignant version of BASH onto an unsuspecting public.
The beauty of the GPL is, as soon as you do that, one of the less blindly trusting members of the programming community is going to take a look at your code, realize what it does and warn everybody else that you're a malicious moron who is stupid enough to think he can both comply with the requirements of the GPL and release a harmful program without anyone noticing!
The psychotic pill pusher reportedly refused to leave, sending both doctor and patient fleeing for their lives.
In other words, the robot pushed its way into the room, realized it was lost and stopped moving. The doctor then left to go call a tech to get the thing out of the exam room. The patient, not particularly interested in waiting around in a small room with a large, seemingly unpredictable piece of machinery, decided to wait out in the hall for him to come back.
That's my guess, anyway.
Well that's awful interesting. I've lived in Maine for the better part of a decade now and this is the first I've heard about this. My town's recyling center charges $20 to accept a TV and I've heard people from other towns complaining about the same thing.
I guess I'm not surprised. Maine has been developing a reputation for driving away larger job-providing businesses and then taxing its citizenry into oblivion. This sounds like just another side of the same coin.
Actually, for the sake of nitpikking <g>, the 'rm' command was around a long time before 'deltree' was introduced in MS-DOS 5
Oh, wait...
Not if those services are being provided free of charge to the public. (Unless of course they were to license the distribution of their files with a "free for personal use" clause.)
Check out the MLA Handbook sometime for examples of the extensive citations required of articles reprinted in other sources.
I can only theorize the reasoning behind this is that if you obtain your source second-hand, it's possible there may be errors (or even intentional changes!) in the reprinting and any future researcher would need to be able to find these variations in order to verify your credibility as a researcher.
After all, if "Hank's Encyclopedia" quotes Lincoln as having said in his inaugural address, "We gonna go free 'tem niggahs!!!" and you cite this in your paper as being directly from the address instead of from Hank's copy of the address, you just assumed responsibility for fabricating a falsehood rather than innocently (if moronically) propagating one.
Judging from his handling of the trilogy, I think Jackson is both capable and likely to handle The Hobbit appropriately. The Two Towers and The Return of the King were much darker movies than The Fellowship of the Ring. I see no reason why Jackson would not reverse the process and make The Hobbit lighter than the The Fellowship.
I don't know where you are from, but in my region of the world (Maine, USA), that particular phrase is as common in everyday speech as saying "he hit the roof" instead of "he became violently angered".
It has absolutely nothing more to do with 'leetness' than choosing to say "Have a good one!" versus "Have a nice day!" It's whatever comes naturally to your mind in the context of your local culture and dialect.
As for your incredibly rude response to a common (if lamentable) spelling error, I would suggest you use a spell checker yourself- "ab abbreviation"?
A little tact never hurt anyone.
While I agree with most of what you say, I would like to point out that charging you a replacement fee for a movie kept out over a month is nothing new. IIRC this was always there policy and it was spelled out quite clearly in the agreement you have to sign when establishing an account. (You did read it right? *g*) I don't remember if it was always 30 days (I suspect it was), but it was certainly no more than 90.
In fact, the local Blockbuster near the university I used to attend had an even stricter arrangement with the school- keep a movie out to long and face not only a replacement fee, but also possible suspension!
Really, I see no problem with that part of the deal. The real problem is with their strategy of renaming their late fees "restocking fees" and then claiming that late fees no longer apply. That's deceptive advertising if anything is.
There are some programs that utilize the Caps Lock key for something other than capital letter entry. For example, VICE, maps Caps Lock to the Commodore 64's Run/Stop key. I'm sure there are plenty of other programs that utilize Caps Lock as well. If AlphaGrip ditched Caps Lock (or any other key on the standard keyboard) they'd just be asking for user complaints to start rolling in.
It would seem even Slashdot is caught up in the Beta craze.
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