You've got a weird idea of extortion. Let's look at this from another angle. Say, environmental regulations. From your logic above, it is somehow 'extortion' for the government to require a company not to dump toxic waste?
- Gays only will become normal parts of society, when the need for a "we are so special" parade goes away.
Wait, what? Parades are an indication that the paraders aren't a normal part of society?
They have parades for all kinds of things - returned veterans, marching bands, agricultural fairs. Does that mean that all those are not normal parts of society?
Actually, I thought the dominant/. dogma was that artists actually should be fairly compensated for what they do, but also that million-dollar judgments in favor of record companies against Joe Schmoe Filesharer doesn't have anything to do with that.
As you can see from one of your replies, no. Commodore_64_love appears to believe that royalties are immoral and artists should just be paid an hourly wage.
And there are even more extreme positions than that - such as that as soon as a copyrighted work is sold once, then anybody else can make money from it, the copyright holder losing any exclusive right to it.
One also occasionally sees even more extreme arguments, to the effect that being an "artist" is not a real job, and they don't deserve money at all, or that all artists should do it for the "love" of the work, and not expect compensation.
I shall be a bit pedantic that this isn't the first time the Norwegian courts actually use reason and rational assessment before issuing a verdict.
A man was taken to court for uploading a pirated version of the Norwegian movie "Falne Engler" and was let go with a warning.
But according to the dominant slashdot dogma, isn't it a crime against humanity that this man was given a warning? After all, information wants to be free, and copyright law is an abomination. So, shouldn't this man have been given a medal for helping free the information?
Thanks for reminding us all of this basic fact. Copyright (actually a monopoly privilege granted by government) was intended to protect the owners of printing presses, not for the benefit of authors like Paine or Milton or Shakespeare
So, why did you argue the exact opposite in your previous post? Contradict yourself much?
What you are not allowed to do is redistribute the result. Then you have violated copyright.
No. Why do so many slashdotters persist with these arguments with no basis in reality, which only reinforce the "crazy person" meme discussed in this thread?
In all of those cases, you could be sued for violating copyright without having redistributed the material. Why is it that so many people here think that you can only violate copyright through redistribution, and otherwise you can do anything you please? It's simply not true.
The sad part is, that this is not a joke product. This is actually a press release that they are proud to release to promote Open Office. Complete with product photo that has for some reason been shot in harsh sunlight and overexposed, and a headline in ALL-CAPS.
This is actually OpenOffice.org's idea of advertising and marketing. Unbelievable.
Imagine instead of buying a mouse with 18 buttons and tons of things you may or may not need; you could get a bare bones mouse that you could just clip on new components as you needed.
OK, I'm imagining that... it would be an absolute disaster.
I don't care if it was mentioned on the site. It's an article, not a conversation with my neighbor. What's the point of making this a question, when it's pointless answering it? After all, the article can't hear my answer. And what's with the total cheesiness of it all?
Remember that $200,000 Contest For a Better Open-WRT Wireless Router GUI?
No, I can't say that I do. And how was your day, Mr. Article Submitter? How's this weather we've been having? Did you hear about [insert local sports team] on the weekend?
hope that it will be used in Florida's massive grapefruit industry.
I wouldn't have thought there'd be much of a market for massive grapefruit. I mean, I like grapefruit, but the regular size is plenty to eat for breakfast.
My ignorance of language? That's fucking rich. I didn't say I couldn't parse the language. I said the style of writing was annoying. Big difference. Why should posts poorly-written posts be modded up, anyway? After all, writing is the medium we are using here. Perhaps it doesn't deserve to be modded down, but it certainly is not worthy of promotion.
From the stats I can find, UK deaths by electrical outlets are.486 per 100,000 and US rates are.015 per 100,000, more than an order of magnitude safer, even without massive numbers of safety features.
Does that include death by fires stared by electrical faults? I don't know the statistics, but anecdotally, household fires are alarmingly more common in the US than anywhere else I've lived.
The Ubuntu using moderators are really stretching, here. How exactly is this Offtopic?
It maybe because there's no moderation tag for "annoying" that offtopic has been used as a substitute. Could anyone in good conscience really mod-up a post with so many uses of "fail" as a noun?
though this was the obvious way to make a new e-reader, these days.
Eh, what? The obvious way to make an eBook reader these days is to waste space by putting a power-consuming, small color LCD underneath the e-Ink screen, that performs ancillary functions, rather than having a larger e-Ink screen? I'm not sure what kind of designer that is obvious to.
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You've got a weird idea of extortion. Let's look at this from another angle. Say, environmental regulations. From your logic above, it is somehow 'extortion' for the government to require a company not to dump toxic waste?
- Gays only will become normal parts of society, when the need for a "we are so special" parade goes away.
Wait, what? Parades are an indication that the paraders aren't a normal part of society?
They have parades for all kinds of things - returned veterans, marching bands, agricultural fairs. Does that mean that all those are not normal parts of society?
Actually, I thought the dominant /. dogma was that artists actually should be fairly compensated for what they do, but also that million-dollar judgments in favor of record companies against Joe Schmoe Filesharer doesn't have anything to do with that.
As you can see from one of your replies, no. Commodore_64_love appears to believe that royalties are immoral and artists should just be paid an hourly wage.
And there are even more extreme positions than that - such as that as soon as a copyrighted work is sold once, then anybody else can make money from it, the copyright holder losing any exclusive right to it.
One also occasionally sees even more extreme arguments, to the effect that being an "artist" is not a real job, and they don't deserve money at all, or that all artists should do it for the "love" of the work, and not expect compensation.
That depends what happened 5 minutes ago.
I shall be a bit pedantic that this isn't the first time the Norwegian courts actually use reason and rational assessment before issuing a verdict. A man was taken to court for uploading a pirated version of the Norwegian movie "Falne Engler" and was let go with a warning.
But according to the dominant slashdot dogma, isn't it a crime against humanity that this man was given a warning? After all, information wants to be free, and copyright law is an abomination. So, shouldn't this man have been given a medal for helping free the information?
Thanks for reminding us all of this basic fact. Copyright (actually a monopoly privilege granted by government) was intended to protect the owners of printing presses, not for the benefit of authors like Paine or Milton or Shakespeare
So, why did you argue the exact opposite in your previous post? Contradict yourself much?
Instead they own the very idea of these songs.
Of course, this is completely untrue, but still gets modded up to +5 for some reason.
editors do a lot more than people think on here.
That's both utterly baffling and completely unsurprising at the same time.
What you are not allowed to do is redistribute the result. Then you have violated copyright.
No. Why do so many slashdotters persist with these arguments with no basis in reality, which only reinforce the "crazy person" meme discussed in this thread?
In all of those cases, you could be sued for violating copyright without having redistributed the material. Why is it that so many people here think that you can only violate copyright through redistribution, and otherwise you can do anything you please? It's simply not true.
The sad part is, that this is not a joke product. This is actually a press release that they are proud to release to promote Open Office. Complete with product photo that has for some reason been shot in harsh sunlight and overexposed, and a headline in ALL-CAPS.
This is actually OpenOffice.org's idea of advertising and marketing. Unbelievable.
Imagine instead of buying a mouse with 18 buttons and tons of things you may or may not need; you could get a bare bones mouse that you could just clip on new components as you needed.
OK, I'm imagining that... it would be an absolute disaster.
Just think of all the hilarious motions going un-captured!
I don't care if it was mentioned on the site. It's an article, not a conversation with my neighbor. What's the point of making this a question, when it's pointless answering it? After all, the article can't hear my answer. And what's with the total cheesiness of it all?
Remember that $200,000 Contest For a Better Open-WRT Wireless Router GUI?
No, I can't say that I do. And how was your day, Mr. Article Submitter? How's this weather we've been having? Did you hear about [insert local sports team] on the weekend?
Easy - Vista's so bad they didn't upgrade the computer for 30 years in anticipation of Vista's release.
No lights is better than badly times lights.
Hmmm... multiplying a quality by a luminaire, and comparing it to a null value. What branch of mathematics is this, exactly?
hope that it will be used in Florida's massive grapefruit industry.
I wouldn't have thought there'd be much of a market for massive grapefruit. I mean, I like grapefruit, but the regular size is plenty to eat for breakfast.
My ignorance of language? That's fucking rich. I didn't say I couldn't parse the language. I said the style of writing was annoying. Big difference. Why should posts poorly-written posts be modded up, anyway? After all, writing is the medium we are using here. Perhaps it doesn't deserve to be modded down, but it certainly is not worthy of promotion.
From the stats I can find, UK deaths by electrical outlets are .486 per 100,000 and US rates are .015 per 100,000, more than an order of magnitude safer, even without massive numbers of safety features.
Does that include death by fires stared by electrical faults? I don't know the statistics, but anecdotally, household fires are alarmingly more common in the US than anywhere else I've lived.
Joe Sixpack thinks there's a problem rather than realising the appliance is designed not to fit.
Don't you mean Bruce Sixpack?
The shroud engages the enclosing slot before the pins make contact.
Oh, yes, baby. You're making me hot! How about a little three-phase action? C'mon, you know you like it when the electrons flow.
This one gets the electrical nuts out of the woodwork
"Electrical nuts"? Woodwork? This is a very unorthodox form of electronic engineering. Were you taught by squirrels, perchance?
Is the Mutube like Youtube, only much smaller? Or is it more like a MuMuTube that is missing one Mu?
The Ubuntu using moderators are really stretching, here. How exactly is this Offtopic?
It maybe because there's no moderation tag for "annoying" that offtopic has been used as a substitute. Could anyone in good conscience really mod-up a post with so many uses of "fail" as a noun?
though this was the obvious way to make a new e-reader, these days.
Eh, what? The obvious way to make an eBook reader these days is to waste space by putting a power-consuming, small color LCD underneath the e-Ink screen, that performs ancillary functions, rather than having a larger e-Ink screen? I'm not sure what kind of designer that is obvious to.