"IMO in this case the "entitled" are not the studios wanting payment for watching their movies"
How can't it be entitlement? They produce the movies *first*, then they show it publicly and *after* that they seek for money. How about me farting first and then, if you happen to smell it, ask for your money supported by law?
"it's the people who think that watching those movies is somehow their inherent right"
The fact is that it *is* their inherent right: once that something goes public, it's public and you can't put it back in its box again. All copyright laws, either if you support them or not, are restrictions over inherent rights, under the argument that, in the end, that's overall better for the general interest: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing..." in USA parlance.
"Forcing FB or anyone else to remove anything just because you don't want to see it, is NOT your prerogative."
No, it certainly isn't.
On the other hand, it certainly *IS* the prerogative of any sovereign country's legislative body to set the rules that any company must abide by in order to do any kind of business or even set presence within its jurisdiction.
"Why would you go thought tattooing peoples only to gas them and burn them."
Why would you go through putting bar codes to milk bricks only to sell them within a day?
Because that's the proper way to track things (and yes, jews were "things to be tracked" to those bastards).
"The intent of the Nazi was the deport them!
The intent of Nazis was to deprive them of their ability to influence society, then of citizenship, then of property, then to be deported, then... "oh, hell, why are we going through all this hassle? We know how we want jews, so let's go right to the end of it: the final solution!"
"The demonisation of the Nazi is very similar to the demonisation of the German peoples before the first and second world wars which lead me to believe it is all war propaganda."
Yeah, well, except for the tiny fact that they *did* kill jews (and gipsies and homosexuals, and Spanish republicans...) for the sake of it in a quite formal and organized manner.
"But yeah, MUH 6M LOLCOAST HOLOHOAX JEWISH PRIVILEGE! Help Israel apartheid state commit Palestinian genocide"
On proper time Windows has added symlinks, a (somehow) worthwhile command line, non-graphic environment, the ability to remotely manage, declarative-based configuration management...
It's only they are reinventing all these things on their own, forgetting about how did they came to be and, of course, not caring about the way those facilities have been used and abused in the past.
I think it was Henry Spencer the one that said "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
Back in my day, my country was transitioning from conscription to a professional army and you could choose between going to the army or covering social services instead, which I chose.
I had to take care of a single mother and his ADD child (about six y.o). By "taking care" I mean just being with them about two hours a day, monday to friday, nothing more fancy than that.
Yes, at the begining the child was a hell of a boy but after only maybe two/three weeks, he was properly behaving both at home and on the street, doing his school homeworks, helping on home duties... Pay attention I am nothing sort of a superhero, nor I am a subject matter expert and I was just on my early twenties but still a bit of common sense and about two hours a day paying attention made a *hugh* difference.
My experience and opinion is that ADD gets misdiagnosed on a vast percentage of case. My wife's experience after having looked after thousands of children also supports the same view.
"The child with ADD was a little hellion that couldn't be controlled by his parents nor by my wife or I."
A nephew of me was a little hellion that couldn't be controlled by his parents, was diagnosed ADD and was about to start the medication.
Then he stayed a month on holidays with me and my wife (who happens to be a teacher for kids about his age) and we found him to be a smart, inquisitive and easily controllable lad.
ADD certainly does exists. But I truly call bullshit to its current apparent levels. Most of those children get utterly misdiagnosed because of uncaring/unknowing adults.
"Depression studies show that vigourous excercise several times a week is just as effective a treatment as the leading drugs at maintaining happiness and preventing suicide. Does that make Depression a real condition and disease, or just a result of our modern world allowing us to sit on our butts?"
Scurvy studies show that adding some fresh fruit to your ingest is just as effective a treatment as the leading drugs at resolving all the symptoms. Does that make Scurvy a real condition and disease or not?
In other words: have you stop to think for a second what was you talking about? Hey! maybe I just diagnosed your hidden ADHD!
No. ADD/ADHD is very real... but it seems it is currently like 95% faked/misdiagnosed.
Have you read about the XIX century? If so, you know that hysteria was as prevalent among women as ADD/ADHD among children today. There exists the condition, of course but, well, where are the big numbers now? what have changed for the condition to grossly reduce its numbers?
"Nobody in the datacenter uses Ubuntu desktop. they use server."
Is there *any single package* that is different between the server and desktop versions? I mean, is it the postfix package from the server version any different from the desktop one?
In other words, is there any difference at all if you are using "desktop" or "server" versions?
"There used to be an understanding that FOSS software projects needs to release early and often, and that this sometimes meant releases with missing features and bugs."
There used to be the understanding that releasing soon made for pending features. Bugs, on the other hand, have always been a matter of the quality and seriousness of the developers involved.
"Wow! Planetary physics must be quite advanced if they can set such a precise margin!" Wait! or else... they *are* rounding up, only not in miles and astroengine is just making up numbers out of his ass.
"TFA is saying its cheaper to run MSFT products at large scale than the open source counterpart"
No. TFA is saying that is cheaper to accept MSFT lock-in than to use *any* competitor. It is not a case of Office vs Openoffice but about Microsoft locking out everybody else.
I would hope for public officials to look a bit beyond TCO and analyze the root causes for public benefit but, alas, it seems that's not the case.
"You see, this can't work in a large organization. It's fine in a small company to have a single computer with MS Office for emergencies. But once you have 100 or 1000 employees, having everybody go through a single chokepoint to get access to MS Office just isn't worth it."
You know large organizations have more solutions to reach an Office copy than having an old desktop overthere for "just in case", right?
I.e.: a remote desktop service with 1 to 5% as many licenses as users.
"When employees are making $50,000 a year, it's not a big deal on the balance sheet when you are spending $100 a year on an MS Office license"
If there were no other expenses (time expenses) in using Microsoft than the yearly license you might be right. The point is that the productivity loses from using Office (and other Microsoft products for that matter) are considered "the standard" up to a point that they are invisible. This case is more or less the same, where the inability of Office to cooperate is taken for a flaw on the competition.
"You can migrate away from their [microsoft] formats, but you can't really interoperate with them without a lot of fiddling around. That's costly, and wasn't accounted for in the original planning. Shockingly, it costed time and money."
And even more shockingly, once they found, they put the costs on the "Openoffice TCO" column instead of putting them on the "Microsft TCO" were they belong.
"Microsoft press release or not, it's something that's happening."
Yes. Once again, Microsoft's product limitations, lack of compatibility and users' lock-in in this case, are portrayed as limitations of their competitors.
"but in what possible universe do you imagine 3 planes colliding in total."
I would bet that, within civil aviation, it's easier to have three planes colliding mid-air than just two or, at least, three involved with two crashing and a near-miss.
"The premise to be a device ready for commercialization is to be energy-positive. If tokamaks of increasing size and field strength demonstrate increasing net energy generation, they are "working devices""
So the definition for a working device is a non-working device? "Promising", "On the right path"... but not "working".
"Tokamaks work. Their flaw is that they are energy-negative."
So they don't work since the premise to be a "working device" is not fusion, you can easily get that with a bomb, but doing it in a controlled (i.e.: not a bomb) and energy-positive way (i.e.: not a home farnsworth fusor).
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"IMO in this case the "entitled" are not the studios wanting payment for watching their movies"
How can't it be entitlement? They produce the movies *first*, then they show it publicly and *after* that they seek for money. How about me farting first and then, if you happen to smell it, ask for your money supported by law?
"it's the people who think that watching those movies is somehow their inherent right"
The fact is that it *is* their inherent right: once that something goes public, it's public and you can't put it back in its box again. All copyright laws, either if you support them or not, are restrictions over inherent rights, under the argument that, in the end, that's overall better for the general interest: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing..." in USA parlance.
"Your comment is almost completely irrelevant."
So you think.
"Also, it's more than a little arrogant to suggest that Unix is the penultimate OS"
On one hand, it is not me, but Henry Spencer, the one saying that. On the other hand, some OS has to be the penultimate one.
"Linux, for one, suggests that it is not."
Linux is not a Unix reinvention but a Unix rewriting; if anything, it suggests the opposite of your position.
"we have illustrators at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. They're wonderful."
Not because of the sci part but because of the PR one, so they don't count.
"Forcing FB or anyone else to remove anything just because you don't want to see it, is NOT your prerogative."
No, it certainly isn't.
On the other hand, it certainly *IS* the prerogative of any sovereign country's legislative body to set the rules that any company must abide by in order to do any kind of business or even set presence within its jurisdiction.
"Why would you go thought tattooing peoples only to gas them and burn them."
Why would you go through putting bar codes to milk bricks only to sell them within a day?
Because that's the proper way to track things (and yes, jews were "things to be tracked" to those bastards).
"The intent of the Nazi was the deport them!
The intent of Nazis was to deprive them of their ability to influence society, then of citizenship, then of property, then to be deported, then... "oh, hell, why are we going through all this hassle? We know how we want jews, so let's go right to the end of it: the final solution!"
"The demonisation of the Nazi is very similar to the demonisation of the German peoples before the first and second world wars which lead me to believe it is all war propaganda."
Yeah, well, except for the tiny fact that they *did* kill jews (and gipsies and homosexuals, and Spanish republicans...) for the sake of it in a quite formal and organized manner.
"But yeah, MUH 6M LOLCOAST HOLOHOAX JEWISH PRIVILEGE! Help Israel apartheid state commit Palestinian genocide"
You do know what a "straw man" is, do you?
But, of course you do, you Mr Anonymous Troll.
On proper time Windows has added symlinks, a (somehow) worthwhile command line, non-graphic environment, the ability to remotely manage, declarative-based configuration management...
It's only they are reinventing all these things on their own, forgetting about how did they came to be and, of course, not caring about the way those facilities have been used and abused in the past.
I think it was Henry Spencer the one that said "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
"Leader of the populistic party Orah is known for asking Croatian parliament to have an official stance about chemtrails."
Well, if it indeed was such a hot topic in Croatia, why not?
"You are nuts" would be good enough for an answer.
Oh, another example...
Back in my day, my country was transitioning from conscription to a professional army and you could choose between going to the army or covering social services instead, which I chose.
I had to take care of a single mother and his ADD child (about six y.o). By "taking care" I mean just being with them about two hours a day, monday to friday, nothing more fancy than that.
Yes, at the begining the child was a hell of a boy but after only maybe two/three weeks, he was properly behaving both at home and on the street, doing his school homeworks, helping on home duties... Pay attention I am nothing sort of a superhero, nor I am a subject matter expert and I was just on my early twenties but still a bit of common sense and about two hours a day paying attention made a *hugh* difference.
My experience and opinion is that ADD gets misdiagnosed on a vast percentage of case. My wife's experience after having looked after thousands of children also supports the same view.
"The child with ADD was a little hellion that couldn't be controlled by his parents nor by my wife or I."
A nephew of me was a little hellion that couldn't be controlled by his parents, was diagnosed ADD and was about to start the medication.
Then he stayed a month on holidays with me and my wife (who happens to be a teacher for kids about his age) and we found him to be a smart, inquisitive and easily controllable lad.
ADD certainly does exists. But I truly call bullshit to its current apparent levels. Most of those children get utterly misdiagnosed because of uncaring/unknowing adults.
"Depression studies show that vigourous excercise several times a week is just as effective a treatment as the leading drugs at maintaining happiness and preventing suicide. Does that make Depression a real condition and disease, or just a result of our modern world allowing us to sit on our butts?"
Scurvy studies show that adding some fresh fruit to your ingest is just as effective a treatment as the leading drugs at resolving all the symptoms. Does that make Scurvy a real condition and disease or not?
In other words: have you stop to think for a second what was you talking about? Hey! maybe I just diagnosed your hidden ADHD!
"ADD is very fake."
No. ADD/ADHD is very real... but it seems it is currently like 95% faked/misdiagnosed.
Have you read about the XIX century? If so, you know that hysteria was as prevalent among women as ADD/ADHD among children today. There exists the condition, of course but, well, where are the big numbers now? what have changed for the condition to grossly reduce its numbers?
"They used to use a different kernel package with different tunings, but that hasn't been the case since 12.04."
No. All kernels were available in both the "server" and "desktop" versions. It was the one installed by default, at most.
"Nobody in the datacenter uses Ubuntu desktop. they use server."
Is there *any single package* that is different between the server and desktop versions? I mean, is it the postfix package from the server version any different from the desktop one?
In other words, is there any difference at all if you are using "desktop" or "server" versions?
"There used to be an understanding that FOSS software projects needs to release early and often, and that this sometimes meant releases with missing features and bugs."
There used to be the understanding that releasing soon made for pending features. Bugs, on the other hand, have always been a matter of the quality and seriousness of the developers involved.
"some 62- to 620 miles in diameter"
My thought too.
"Wow! Planetary physics must be quite advanced if they can set such a precise margin!" Wait! or else... they *are* rounding up, only not in miles and astroengine is just making up numbers out of his ass.
"Because one thing is certain: You will be guilty."
Are you implying there's no case in Denmark where the defendant comes non-guilty?
"TFA is saying its cheaper to run MSFT products at large scale than the open source counterpart"
No. TFA is saying that is cheaper to accept MSFT lock-in than to use *any* competitor. It is not a case of Office vs Openoffice but about Microsoft locking out everybody else.
I would hope for public officials to look a bit beyond TCO and analyze the root causes for public benefit but, alas, it seems that's not the case.
"You see, this can't work in a large organization. It's fine in a small company to have a single computer with MS Office for emergencies. But once you have 100 or 1000 employees, having everybody go through a single chokepoint to get access to MS Office just isn't worth it."
You know large organizations have more solutions to reach an Office copy than having an old desktop overthere for "just in case", right?
I.e.: a remote desktop service with 1 to 5% as many licenses as users.
"When employees are making $50,000 a year, it's not a big deal on the balance sheet when you are spending $100 a year on an MS Office license"
If there were no other expenses (time expenses) in using Microsoft than the yearly license you might be right. The point is that the productivity loses from using Office (and other Microsoft products for that matter) are considered "the standard" up to a point that they are invisible. This case is more or less the same, where the inability of Office to cooperate is taken for a flaw on the competition.
"You can migrate away from their [microsoft] formats, but you can't really interoperate with them without a lot of fiddling around.
That's costly, and wasn't accounted for in the original planning. Shockingly, it costed time and money."
And even more shockingly, once they found, they put the costs on the "Openoffice TCO" column instead of putting them on the "Microsft TCO" were they belong.
"t's like saying you built a tractor powered by a Ferrari engine and it's not working as well as a custom built John Deere"
Your problem. It was not a Ferrari what you were looking for, but a Lamborghini.
"Microsoft press release or not, it's something that's happening."
Yes. Once again, Microsoft's product limitations, lack of compatibility and users' lock-in in this case, are portrayed as limitations of their competitors.
"but in what possible universe do you imagine 3 planes colliding in total."
I would bet that, within civil aviation, it's easier to have three planes colliding mid-air than just two or, at least, three involved with two crashing and a near-miss.
"You seem to forget just how fucking expensive it is to defend against even wrongful accusations."
You seem to forget a minor detail: this has happened in Denmark, not USA.
"The premise to be a device ready for commercialization is to be energy-positive. If tokamaks of increasing size and field strength demonstrate increasing net energy generation, they are "working devices""
So the definition for a working device is a non-working device? "Promising", "On the right path"... but not "working".
"Tokamaks work. Their flaw is that they are energy-negative."
So they don't work since the premise to be a "working device" is not fusion, you can easily get that with a bomb, but doing it in a controlled (i.e.: not a bomb) and energy-positive way (i.e.: not a home farnsworth fusor).