That's not entirely rubbish. By choosing where to spend your dollar, or my pound, we can pressure companies - though it helps if we also educate the company as to WHY we do not wish to be their customer.
I believe that the UK method of making a series is to film every episode before you start showing them. So all Dr Who episodes are already in the can. Anyone able to correct me?
Indeed - to the extent that I threaten your ability to pass on your genes, you should consider removing that threat. But I share genes with my familiy, and it is in their best interests that they stop non-family members from killing me. It is this that causes families and clans to form, our very social nature a means for our genes to protect themselves. And it is this nature of ours to form social groups that has extrapolated itself and made so many of us supporters of our local sporting team, nationalist about those from the same country as ourselves, and so willing to fight the foreigner who certainly has far less genes in common than those from our own country - and when resources in our own country grow scarce, we degenerate into smaller groups and fight with the other groups around us. Yes, chaos and anarchy, did you really think humanity had anything better to offer than that?
I'm a scientist - in fact I have 2 science degrees. I just shouted out the word 'theory' (surprising my work colleagues) but I actually meant 'hypothesis'.
*5 seconds later*
Oo I just did it again - I'm getting strange looks now, but I have at least proven you wrong.
Then I gues there should be a sticket on all physics text books saying: The content of this book is only theory - it is entirely possible that everything we currently believe is false and will be proven so tomorrow by a brilliant scientist. Same for chemistry books, geography books, any science book, heck, might as well include all non-fiction books - don't want to get caught out.
We exist for the same reason every other living creature exists - to pass on our genetic material to the next generation. We're vessels - and nothing more. You've just been conned into thinking you are more important than snail, or a mouse, or an elephant, or some bacteria - you aren't. I'm not. None of us are. The fact that the vessel might enjoy itself during it's existance is neither here nor there in the sceme of things - less than the blink of an eyelid in cosmological or geographical or even evolutionary terms.
I know it is fractionally off topic (see, now you can't mod me off topic without feeling as if you are picking on me) but I was watching TV (in the UK) this morning, and they were discussing the legal issues around getting permission from all those that took part in Live Aid so that a DVD of it can be produced and sold. Midge Ure is one of the legal caretakers of the whole Live Aid thing, and he was extolling how much money would be made for the poor/hungry/etc in Africa, and how he was humbled at the thought of this legacy continuing after he was long dead, continually making money for charity.
Now, I didn't mean to think cruel thoughts, but I felt like phoning up and yelling about how copyrights/would/ run out, there was no eternal legacy being left. Predicting the return argument that there should be eternal copyright, otherwise the poor Africans will lose out, I had ready a retort that if the copyright never ran out, all of society would be losing out.
Of course, I didn't phone in, I had to come to work.. and so I have been waiting all day for a RIAA article on/. so I could rant about this anyway.
The article attempts to worry Brits by saying they will start losing money as the Beatles goes out of copyright - umm... I thought Michael Jackson owned the Beatles portfolio... So yeah.. let's change British law to help out Wacko Jacko..
Yes, I agree with you. More than 50% of/all/ computer purchasers replace preloaded Windows with their favourite *nix distro. Let's not let common sense get in the way of things.
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copyright is intellectual property.. and all property is theft? ;)
As an ipod user how can you be stuck with itunes? Do the other systems not provide mp3? Do they not provide formats that can be converted to mp3?
That's not entirely rubbish. By choosing where to spend your dollar, or my pound, we can pressure companies - though it helps if we also educate the company as to WHY we do not wish to be their customer.
So.. you would prefer:
The spawn of Netscape and Firefox and has never been more popular and and is poised
I believe that the UK method of making a series is to film every episode before you start showing them. So all Dr Who episodes are already in the can. Anyone able to correct me?
Umm.. no... no it isn't
Schopenhauer was right, wouldn't you say? 'Life without pain has no meaning' ...
Indeed - to the extent that I threaten your ability to pass on your genes, you should consider removing that threat. But I share genes with my familiy, and it is in their best interests that they stop non-family members from killing me. It is this that causes families and clans to form, our very social nature a means for our genes to protect themselves. And it is this nature of ours to form social groups that has extrapolated itself and made so many of us supporters of our local sporting team, nationalist about those from the same country as ourselves, and so willing to fight the foreigner who certainly has far less genes in common than those from our own country - and when resources in our own country grow scarce, we degenerate into smaller groups and fight with the other groups around us. Yes, chaos and anarchy, did you really think humanity had anything better to offer than that?
I think you mean that it's a 'theory' that they don't work?
*ducks*
I'm a scientist - in fact I have 2 science degrees. I just shouted out the word 'theory' (surprising my work colleagues) but I actually meant 'hypothesis'.
*5 seconds later*
Oo I just did it again - I'm getting strange looks now, but I have at least proven you wrong.
Then I gues there should be a sticket on all physics text books saying: The content of this book is only theory - it is entirely possible that everything we currently believe is false and will be proven so tomorrow by a brilliant scientist. Same for chemistry books, geography books, any science book, heck, might as well include all non-fiction books - don't want to get caught out.
We exist for the same reason every other living creature exists - to pass on our genetic material to the next generation. We're vessels - and nothing more. You've just been conned into thinking you are more important than snail, or a mouse, or an elephant, or some bacteria - you aren't. I'm not. None of us are. The fact that the vessel might enjoy itself during it's existance is neither here nor there in the sceme of things - less than the blink of an eyelid in cosmological or geographical or even evolutionary terms.
> JMS certainly proved his mettle as a writer during much of B5's run, but afterwards, well
I think he did ok with Jeremiah
> JMS should just turn off the lights and let B5 retire with dignity.
that however might unfortunatly be true
Learn everybody to use English proper
I'd rather plant a tree, which has a child, which gets turned into a book.
What's wrong with your nose?
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The movie was called 'Ball Games' ;)
I know it is fractionally off topic (see, now you can't mod me off topic without feeling as if you are picking on me) but I was watching TV (in the UK) this morning, and they were discussing the legal issues around getting permission from all those that took part in Live Aid so that a DVD of it can be produced and sold. Midge Ure is one of the legal caretakers of the whole Live Aid thing, and he was extolling how much money would be made for the poor/hungry/etc in Africa, and how he was humbled at the thought of this legacy continuing after he was long dead, continually making money for charity.
/would/ run out, there was no eternal legacy being left. Predicting the return argument that there should be eternal copyright, otherwise the poor Africans will lose out, I had ready a retort that if the copyright never ran out, all of society would be losing out.
/. so I could rant about this anyway.
Now, I didn't mean to think cruel thoughts, but I felt like phoning up and yelling about how copyrights
Of course, I didn't phone in, I had to come to work.. and so I have been waiting all day for a RIAA article on
What's more
Micros is 6 characters
^D^D^D^D^D^D^D is doing 'something' to 7 characters
You have also demonstrated a mastery of time travel.
Oh.. I thought it meant Java 2 Mono Edition
The article attempts to worry Brits by saying they will start losing money as the Beatles goes out of copyright - umm... I thought Michael Jackson owned the Beatles portfolio... So yeah.. let's change British law to help out Wacko Jacko..
Yes, I agree with you. /all/ computer purchasers replace preloaded Windows with their favourite *nix distro.
More than 50% of
Let's not let common sense get in the way of things.