We've got many of towns with this kind of name in Canada. Bangor, Dildo, Climax, Placentia, Come-By-Chance, etc.
To the state just south of me is one that is one of those "almost but not quite names". When making my quarterly trip on I84 to visit family in Eastern Oregon, I always have to do the Beavis and Butthead laugh as I pass the sign for Condon.
What the hell is a sex tourist? Is there a country called sex?
None that I am aware of. However, there are cities and towns in the world called: Pune, Bangkok, Intercourse, and Fucking. And let us not forget Lake Titticaca.
Am I the only one here who finds it odd that our government officials specifically pointed out that Snowden would not be tortured? Is that not something that should not have even had to be said? Sounds like anyone who was involved in preparing this public statement should now come under investigation on suspicion of torturing prisoners, since it sounds like they are implying that torture is perfectly normal here despite being a blatant violation of the Eight Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Now the A-10 is a plane that should never have be retired. It WAS the primary defense against a Soviet Invasion of western Europe
The A-10 is still in service, and won't be retired until 2028 at the very least. I predict it will be the C-130 of fighter/attack craft, just like the C-130 is the Energizer of cargo planes. Just keeps going and going and going...
Use the argument given in the post you're replying to. Tell her the filter is blocking "normal" sites like Reddit, Tumblr, anything else you can think of (DeviantArt, movie trailers?), etc just because they contain a small amount of adult content too.
I know this sounds silly, but it would probably be wise not to include DeviantArt in the list, simply due to the fact that it has Deviant in the name.
And if the customer then sells or gives away the print version, I am guessing you are cool with him passing on the eBook copy as well, provided he doesn't keep a copy for himself, since the eBook is part of the "package"?
Certainly this would seem to be the only sane response. Too bad it's illegal, just like all those movies you could otherwise rip from your DVD collection to watch on your phone.
Who, other than the publishers/studios/labels gives a fuck if it is illegal. It is still the right thing to do. Strip the DRM and have your middle finger proudly raised high while doing so.
I inherited several boxes of paperbacks from a former landlady who had a fondness for detective thrillers and Anaïs Nin.
Neither the local church nor the library wants them. I'd be glad to give them to Vinnie's, but the nearest one is about 15000 km distant.
I suppose I'll end up throwing them out. Even though most of them are crap, it still seems wrong to throw out books.
If your weather forecast for the next couple days is dry, then put them in a box and set them out by the street with a big sign that says "Free Books". In no time at all, they should become somebody else's boogers.
Okay I have bits or magnetic facsimiles of them or opto-electo or however they're stored bits, but yes, if it's DRM'd I own nothing except a license that has a TOS in it perhaps that says "It's mine! mine! all mine, I'm a happy miser and can take this from you - love Apple"
Paper in that case is good... you can touch it feel it and feed the book worms.
So strip the DRM out of it, and fuck what the copyright holders try to claim as to its legality. What are they going to do, bust down your door and confiscate your reader(s)? The first thing I did when I bought Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon was strip the DRM out of it. Now I own that copy as if I had purchased the print version, and I am free to read it on any reader I may own at any time.
Publishers don't like it? Well, tough shit. Dial Whine One One and summon the Waaaaahmbulance.
Don't buy DRMed ebooks, don't buy from 1984-enabled stores, problem solved.
I for one use a cheapo ebook reader without Wifi connectivity. Try to remotely delete a book from that.
Well, I was given an original Kindle as a gift a couple years back. However, none of my eBooks came from Amazon's store, so they have no control over the content I have accumulated, and backed up onto various computers.
And if the one who that copy is "registered" to was finished with it, and passed it on to someone else without keeping any copies for himself wasn't the one who uploaded it?
Typically, with magazines or any other media, when you are finished with it, you are well within your rights to give it away, resell it (if you can find a buyer), or do whatever you want with it, as long as you don't keep any copies for yourself. Just because said media is distributed electronically instead of printed on paper should in no way give the publisher any additional special privileges than what copyright already grants.
I don't think lawyers should be held responsible to know what property HBO owns.
Sorry. I think the lawyer is fine.
A lawyer hired to handle something like this, should damn well know how to research to see if the content being targeted for take down is their client's imaginary property. So yes, the lawyers should indeed share the responsibility.
The tool is not illegal, the use of it for such purposes is.
And if any media entity tries to intimidate any users over this, I believe the correct response is "Fuck Off" with one or both middle fingers raised in their general direction.
...McDonald's for making me fat. They have failed to install a filter to prevent me from installing unhealthy food into my body.
You need to replace your filter, as it obviously isn't working. I have the most up to date filter imaginable for that. I gag even thinking about trying to choke down anything from McDonalds.
What are you talking about? LA burned from the Rodney King case, not OJ Simpson. I know, because I lived in LA at the time of the riots and the OJ trial.
Try to get your facts straight.
I thought it sounded like the GP was referring to the wrong case. Good to know I wasn't just imagining it.
I propose that sort of error be dubbed the "When the Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor Fallacy."
Apple are fucking stupid. They go around suing every other large company around alienating themselves and making a lot of enemies when they could be forming valuable partnerships instead.
That makes far too much sense. And to top it off, where such a philosophy would have been normal in the early days of the personal computer industry, cooperation between businesses to where everyone can succeed does not align with the modern douchebag corporate philosophy, where it is not enough for a company to be a success, but all competitors must ultimately fail. And if that is not possible, scorch the land.
Slashdot Mirror
Being an 'early bird' has no positives...
The early bird may catch the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
We've got many of towns with this kind of name in Canada. Bangor, Dildo, Climax, Placentia, Come-By-Chance, etc.
To the state just south of me is one that is one of those "almost but not quite names". When making my quarterly trip on I84 to visit family in Eastern Oregon, I always have to do the Beavis and Butthead laugh as I pass the sign for Condon.
What the hell is a sex tourist? Is there a country called sex?
None that I am aware of. However, there are cities and towns in the world called: Pune, Bangkok, Intercourse, and Fucking. And let us not forget Lake Titticaca.
Am I the only one here who finds it odd that our government officials specifically pointed out that Snowden would not be tortured? Is that not something that should not have even had to be said? Sounds like anyone who was involved in preparing this public statement should now come under investigation on suspicion of torturing prisoners, since it sounds like they are implying that torture is perfectly normal here despite being a blatant violation of the Eight Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Now the A-10 is a plane that should never have be retired. It WAS the primary defense against a Soviet Invasion of western Europe
The A-10 is still in service, and won't be retired until 2028 at the very least. I predict it will be the C-130 of fighter/attack craft, just like the C-130 is the Energizer of cargo planes. Just keeps going and going and going...
Use the argument given in the post you're replying to. Tell her the filter is blocking "normal" sites like Reddit, Tumblr, anything else you can think of (DeviantArt, movie trailers?), etc just because they contain a small amount of adult content too.
I know this sounds silly, but it would probably be wise not to include DeviantArt in the list, simply due to the fact that it has Deviant in the name.
And if the customer then sells or gives away the print version, I am guessing you are cool with him passing on the eBook copy as well, provided he doesn't keep a copy for himself, since the eBook is part of the "package"?
Certainly this would seem to be the only sane response. Too bad it's illegal, just like all those movies you could otherwise rip from your DVD collection to watch on your phone.
Who, other than the publishers/studios/labels gives a fuck if it is illegal. It is still the right thing to do. Strip the DRM and have your middle finger proudly raised high while doing so.
I inherited several boxes of paperbacks from a former landlady who had a fondness for detective thrillers and Anaïs Nin.
Neither the local church nor the library wants them. I'd be glad to give them to Vinnie's, but the nearest one is about 15000 km distant.
I suppose I'll end up throwing them out. Even though most of them are crap, it still seems wrong to throw out books.
If your weather forecast for the next couple days is dry, then put them in a box and set them out by the street with a big sign that says "Free Books". In no time at all, they should become somebody else's boogers.
Okay I have bits or magnetic facsimiles of them or opto-electo or however they're stored bits, but yes, if it's DRM'd I own nothing except a license that has a TOS in it perhaps that says "It's mine! mine! all mine, I'm a happy miser and can take this from you - love Apple"
Paper in that case is good... you can touch it feel it and feed the book worms.
So strip the DRM out of it, and fuck what the copyright holders try to claim as to its legality. What are they going to do, bust down your door and confiscate your reader(s)? The first thing I did when I bought Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon was strip the DRM out of it. Now I own that copy as if I had purchased the print version, and I am free to read it on any reader I may own at any time.
Publishers don't like it? Well, tough shit. Dial Whine One One and summon the Waaaaahmbulance.
Don't buy DRMed ebooks, don't buy from 1984-enabled stores, problem solved.
I for one use a cheapo ebook reader without Wifi connectivity. Try to remotely delete a book from that.
Well, I was given an original Kindle as a gift a couple years back. However, none of my eBooks came from Amazon's store, so they have no control over the content I have accumulated, and backed up onto various computers.
And if the one who that copy is "registered" to was finished with it, and passed it on to someone else without keeping any copies for himself wasn't the one who uploaded it?
Typically, with magazines or any other media, when you are finished with it, you are well within your rights to give it away, resell it (if you can find a buyer), or do whatever you want with it, as long as you don't keep any copies for yourself. Just because said media is distributed electronically instead of printed on paper should in no way give the publisher any additional special privileges than what copyright already grants.
software patents need to be cut down as well as well the patents on basic stuff.
They should be eliminated completely, since software is already protected by copyright.
I don't think lawyers should be held responsible to know what property HBO owns.
Sorry. I think the lawyer is fine.
A lawyer hired to handle something like this, should damn well know how to research to see if the content being targeted for take down is their client's imaginary property. So yes, the lawyers should indeed share the responsibility.
Thanks, I read it as Good For You, and was having trouble making sense of the post.
Same here, even though I should have realized it was for Go Fuck Yourself.
And when I read GFY, I was hearing it South Park style.
That movie was a masturpiece!!!
FTFY.
The tool is not illegal, the use of it for such purposes is.
And if any media entity tries to intimidate any users over this, I believe the correct response is "Fuck Off" with one or both middle fingers raised in their general direction.
I think his point is that you should have used the words "due diligence".
I think doo diligence would have been even more appropriate, since their actions are USDA Grade A bullshit.
A Safe-Mode? What would they call it?
iCondom
ICondemn
And would you need a new name when it's disabled?
iSin
iLonely
iGoatse.
Every time you even think about viewing porn, the safe mode kicks in and pops up a high def Goatse on your screen, causing instant bone kill.
...McDonald's for making me fat. They have failed to install a filter to prevent me from installing unhealthy food into my body.
You need to replace your filter, as it obviously isn't working. I have the most up to date filter imaginable for that. I gag even thinking about trying to choke down anything from McDonalds.
Nah. I just have a fondness for Animal House.
What are you talking about? LA burned from the Rodney King case, not OJ Simpson. I know, because I lived in LA at the time of the riots and the OJ trial.
Try to get your facts straight.
I thought it sounded like the GP was referring to the wrong case. Good to know I wasn't just imagining it.
I propose that sort of error be dubbed the "When the Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor Fallacy."
What kind of phone are YOU using, hypocrite?
One is a Uniden 5.8 GHz cordless phone. The other, for rare times when the power is out, is an old touchtone 1980s vintage duck phone.
Naturally, neither of those have any sort of operating system on them.
Apple are fucking stupid. They go around suing every other large company around alienating themselves and making a lot of enemies when they could be forming valuable partnerships instead.
That makes far too much sense. And to top it off, where such a philosophy would have been normal in the early days of the personal computer industry, cooperation between businesses to where everyone can succeed does not align with the modern douchebag corporate philosophy, where it is not enough for a company to be a success, but all competitors must ultimately fail. And if that is not possible, scorch the land.
The tower? The tower? Rapunzel!!!