Without a government monopoly these things are extremely expensive.
Yeah right everybody knows that the gov't is more efficient and wastes less money than private companies that are actually interested in keeping their customers. Oh wait.
And you would be wrong, since accepting the GPL is not required to receive or use GPL'd software, by the terms of the GPL itself. It is only required to have the privilege of modifying or distributing software distributed under the GPL.
Idiocy. Under the upcoming GPL v. 3, accepting e.g. a GPLd webserver will force me to distribute the source of my programs that run ON TOP OF IT even when no modification has been made to the server itself. So, by accepting GPLd software, you will have to distribute not only the source of any modified version (if you distribute it at all), but also the results of your work if you used the software to actually DO something.
What's funny is that OSS advocates were screaming in disgust when FUD-spreaders went around saying that if you use OopenOffice.org you have to give away all your documents because of the viral nature of the license. Thanks to GPL v. 3, this is exactly what will happen. Well, if RMS has it his way. Thank god Apache is not GPL, and again that sensible people are making better OSs than Linux. I wonder why Linux is still involved with it.
Wow, so basically everybody who speaks his mind is oppressing you in some way? You know what, I'm an atheist in a close to 100% catholic country, yet nothing has ever been forced onto me by the church. MUCH more has been forced by the government. How so, I wonder?
Because you explicitely agreed not do watch it when you signed your contract, and possibly every time you've logged into the system. That enough for ya?
Nobody downloads mp3 via http from pimply-faced youths anymore. People get music on eMule and movies on BitTorrent. So, everytime you're downloading, you're uploading as well.
Yeah and you know what, I have no power but who's to say I wouldn't brutally maim and murder random people around me while strangling kitten and raping goat puppies?
What's your point? Do you even have one? Nobody cares if Adolf's young brother was even worse than the real thing, if he didn't kill anybody, he didn't - end of the story. China regularly kills people, MS does not. Get your priorities right.
Holy schmoly, in an unusual fit of OSS zealotry sometime ago I tried that combo but honestly, it slows down the system like nothing else is able to... not even Symantec and McAfee are capable of such slowness!
Dear Sir, why did you call your product Firefox 2, rather than the much more correct Firefox OE, Opera Edition?
I kid, I kid... What's that I see in the distance, an army of FF fanboys with pitchforks and torches?
The hell they don't... there are quite a few independent roots out there. Find them, use them, USa dominance dissolved.
But hey it's not a technical problem so why do I suggest a technical solution? It's a political one.
I can envision the comments already. Rednecks spouting their crap while moronic hippies spew their BS, both of them thinking they're somehow "right".
You know what, if a country wants to do as they please with their part of the internet, all they have to do is update a couple of DNS servers. As simple as that. In fact, I'm already looking into using an alternative DNS root.
NO debating is needed. NO decision needs to be taken. All those who want a non-USA-regulated net have to do is START using the internet the way they like, simply disregarding USA rules. And, well, be ready to be cut off from any USA network, if the USA were so inclined. What's that you say, your citizens won't like it? Tough luck buddy, that's the price of freedom. It goes both ways.
On a side note, maybe it's time we did away with non-national TLDs. But that can only be done when people stop treating.com as a first choice and everything else as sub-standard.
And why on Earth would you distribute it? It cannot run on non-Macs and every Mac comes with a copy of the OS. So why would you go looking for a pirated OS when it's necessary to buy their hardware dongle anyway, and that dongle is conveniently packaged with the OS to boot?
Woah a Libertarian is running free among us! Someone stop him before anyone has a chance to listen to him! Won't somebody think of the Greater Good(tm)?!
On a different note, I wonder what they'd do to you if you erected an unapproved TV antenna or did some wierd renovation - would they come out in arms and take you down, either in person or by using the gov'tal mercenaries?
I just heard a sound... as if this young libertarian cried out and were suddenly silenced. Am I going to have such an epiphany as well? Time will tell, I suppose. Good day to you, too.
Put up a static page with links to 30 seconds versions of each song. Each of them has a checkbox called "download this". At the end a huge Buy Now button. Next page, compute how much you want and send them over to PayPal. On the final page, give them the links to the real songs, possibly with an expiration code embedded or something.
But really, "non transferable" music is simply non existant, even more so when you ask for no DRM. Oh and get ready to see your music on p2p networks in 3... 2... 1...
First, because our lwas don't quite behave like yours - judges do not MAKE laws here, theyr are made by parliaments. Seconadly, because even if the EU Parliament had decided this was important enough to make a law against this behaviour, it would have taken about three thousand years before it would be a. agreed upon b. implemented by every member country.
No, you can defrag them just fine, their (much worse) problem is that they are not assigned a recycle bin, so if you try to delete a file most of the time the operation fails (but randomly it works! why? no idea) unless you shift-delete it in which case it always works.
Yes, I have one. It's not revolutionary. It's called freedom. Let the bloggers do as they like. This is Not Evil(tm). It is not ambiguous: any intervention is evil. It is objective: any intervention is evil.
Then again I agree that, if we look at their action, their motto should indeed be Do Nothing Illegal. That's fine and all, they can do as they please with their own company. But there *is* a way to define "evil" when it comes to freedom of speech-related things.
if you dislike the idea so much, do as I did and mount secondary partitions under the root. it will still be called C: but at least you'll only have one drive letter. it is done via the disk management applet.
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Without a government monopoly these things are extremely expensive.
Yeah right everybody knows that the gov't is more efficient and wastes less money than private companies that are actually interested in keeping their customers. Oh wait.
And you would be wrong, since accepting the GPL is not required to receive or use GPL'd software, by the terms of the GPL itself. It is only required to have the privilege of modifying or distributing software distributed under the GPL.
Idiocy. Under the upcoming GPL v. 3, accepting e.g. a GPLd webserver will force me to distribute the source of my programs that run ON TOP OF IT even when no modification has been made to the server itself. So, by accepting GPLd software, you will have to distribute not only the source of any modified version (if you distribute it at all), but also the results of your work if you used the software to actually DO something.
What's funny is that OSS advocates were screaming in disgust when FUD-spreaders went around saying that if you use OopenOffice.org you have to give away all your documents because of the viral nature of the license. Thanks to GPL v. 3, this is exactly what will happen. Well, if RMS has it his way. Thank god Apache is not GPL, and again that sensible people are making better OSs than Linux. I wonder why Linux is still involved with it.
It's kinda like social security, isn't it. If you don't use it and you complain about it, you are considered a smart indiv... oh wait.
Regulation is good.
so no there wont be any manbearpigs running around
On the other hand, production of shark-men with friggin' laser beams is expected to start shortly.
Wow, so basically everybody who speaks his mind is oppressing you in some way?
You know what, I'm an atheist in a close to 100% catholic country, yet nothing has ever been forced onto me by the church. MUCH more has been forced by the government. How so, I wonder?
Because you explicitely agreed not do watch it when you signed your contract, and possibly every time you've logged into the system.
That enough for ya?
Nobody downloads mp3 via http from pimply-faced youths anymore. People get music on eMule and movies on BitTorrent. So, everytime you're downloading, you're uploading as well.
Yeah and you know what, I have no power but who's to say I wouldn't brutally maim and murder random people around me while strangling kitten and raping goat puppies?
What's your point? Do you even have one? Nobody cares if Adolf's young brother was even worse than the real thing, if he didn't kill anybody, he didn't - end of the story. China regularly kills people, MS does not. Get your priorities right.
Holy schmoly, in an unusual fit of OSS zealotry sometime ago I tried that combo but honestly, it slows down the system like nothing else is able to... not even Symantec and McAfee are capable of such slowness!
But if some people want to entrench themselves and be cut off from (some part of the) world, it's no use trying to stop them.
Dear Sir, why did you call your product Firefox 2, rather than the much more correct Firefox OE, Opera Edition?
I kid, I kid... What's that I see in the distance, an army of FF fanboys with pitchforks and torches?
The hell they don't... there are quite a few independent roots out there. Find them, use them, USa dominance dissolved.
But hey it's not a technical problem so why do I suggest a technical solution? It's a political one.
I can envision the comments already. Rednecks spouting their crap while moronic hippies spew their BS, both of them thinking they're somehow "right". .com as a first choice and everything else as sub-standard.
You know what, if a country wants to do as they please with their part of the internet, all they have to do is update a couple of DNS servers. As simple as that. In fact, I'm already looking into using an alternative DNS root.
NO debating is needed. NO decision needs to be taken. All those who want a non-USA-regulated net have to do is START using the internet the way they like, simply disregarding USA rules. And, well, be ready to be cut off from any USA network, if the USA were so inclined. What's that you say, your citizens won't like it? Tough luck buddy, that's the price of freedom. It goes both ways.
On a side note, maybe it's time we did away with non-national TLDs. But that can only be done when people stop treating
And why on Earth would you distribute it? It cannot run on non-Macs and every Mac comes with a copy of the OS. So why would you go looking for a pirated OS when it's necessary to buy their hardware dongle anyway, and that dongle is conveniently packaged with the OS to boot?
Woah a Libertarian is running free among us! Someone stop him before anyone has a chance to listen to him! Won't somebody think of the Greater Good(tm)?!
On a different note, I wonder what they'd do to you if you erected an unapproved TV antenna or did some wierd renovation - would they come out in arms and take you down, either in person or by using the gov'tal mercenaries?
I just heard a sound... as if this young libertarian cried out and were suddenly silenced. Am I going to have such an epiphany as well? Time will tell, I suppose. Good day to you, too.
Kome again? Oktoberfest? Klasse? Volk? Merk? Konzept? Don't they sound like "k" to you?
Put up a static page with links to 30 seconds versions of each song. Each of them has a checkbox called "download this". At the end a huge Buy Now button. Next page, compute how much you want and send them over to PayPal. On the final page, give them the links to the real songs, possibly with an expiration code embedded or something.
But really, "non transferable" music is simply non existant, even more so when you ask for no DRM. Oh and get ready to see your music on p2p networks in 3... 2... 1...
It's NOT SO! BAKA!!!11!oneone
First, because our lwas don't quite behave like yours - judges do not MAKE laws here, theyr are made by parliaments. Seconadly, because even if the EU Parliament had decided this was important enough to make a law against this behaviour, it would have taken about three thousand years before it would be a. agreed upon b. implemented by every member country.
No, you can defrag them just fine, their (much worse) problem is that they are not assigned a recycle bin, so if you try to delete a file most of the time the operation fails (but randomly it works! why? no idea) unless you shift-delete it in which case it always works.
Yes, I have one. It's not revolutionary. It's called freedom. Let the bloggers do as they like. This is Not Evil(tm). It is not ambiguous: any intervention is evil. It is objective: any intervention is evil.
Then again I agree that, if we look at their action, their motto should indeed be Do Nothing Illegal. That's fine and all, they can do as they please with their own company. But there *is* a way to define "evil" when it comes to freedom of speech-related things.
Where is K'breel, speaker for the Council? What shall we do, elder?
if you dislike the idea so much, do as I did and mount secondary partitions under the root. it will still be called C: but at least you'll only have one drive letter. it is done via the disk management applet.