The problem with prosecuting the Pirate bay is that someone must be found guilty of a crime for another to be guilty of being an accessory to thet crime. The users of Piratebay are not suspected of a crime carrying a sentence of two years or more, meaning the police can't get their IP numbers, meaning they can't be charged with a crime that Piratebay could be an accessory to.
It is all about balance. While as a consumer I prefer non DRM, I understand the business point of view. This is a grey-area IMHO not black or white.
Yes. While, as a rational thinker I prefer evolution, I understand the Intelligent Design point of view. It's false. This is a boolean value, not a color.
Society has an interest in as many consumers as possible having access to as much art and information as possible. This is literally equal to the interest of the individual consumer. There is no "right to make money" that overrules the interests of humanity. Patents and copyright are useful concepts to the degree that they encourage innovation and the creation of art more than they limit the access of people to that innovation or art. DRM makes the business model of online rental possible. Since there are already other, proven, ways to distribute content, DRM is not needed. Since it also prevents access using equipment already owned by massive amounts of potential consumers, DRM is harmful. Bad for humanity. An enemy of the information society.
I thought the main objection to OpenXML was that it fails to define a number of things, essentially saying "render like WordPerfect 1.0", making it an incomplete standard. Making it not impossible but very difficult for anyone other than Microsoft to implement it so it's fully compatible with the MS version.
As the headline of TFA states, this is about online music sales. What is specifically about iTunes is the Norwegian case where iTunes have been accused of breaking existing law. The law is the same for Apple as for any other online music store. The Consumer Council of Norway had recieved complaints about iTunes and brought the case to the consumer ombudsman.
There are no Apple-only laws and no grand conspiracy against Apple. "because iTunes is the most popular store" actually is part of the explanation though. The Consumer Council has stated that they filed the complaint against Apple first since iTunes is largest and most popular.
Occasionally, when she'd bring a boy home, I'd happen to be cleaning my collection of combat knives or demonstrating my dog's attack training. Now my girl is 18 (for another week or so) and has never been pregnant and there are no visible track marks or bruises. Most of it was luck,
Let me be the first to say W-T-F??? You threaten your daughter's boyfriends with knives and attack dogs and pat yourself on the back for managing to keep her non-pregnant? No shit, Sherlock! What do you think the odds are of girls with parents who don't polish their M-16's in front of their fiends getting pregnant? Does your daughter even have friends anymore?
Yes, using any p2p software is suspect. Actually, just like if you purchased a means to store data, you should pay a tax just as if you were guilty. Guilty of what!?!?. Doesn't matter. You must be guilty of something. Like playing World of Warcraft.
Additionally, it doesn't matter what fraction of iPod owners or iTunes customers are locked in. What matters is the amount of people locked in, and what moving to another brand would cost them. The sum of lock-in is the gross revenue of the iTunes store. Every DRM:d song is worthless when you want a non-Apple mp3 player.
Her face is much longer in the second pic (distance between hairline and chin compared to width of face). The pic could be photoshopped as well. The face in the left pic is 157 pixels from side to side, the right 140. Length goes from 225 to 240. Ratio goes from 1,43 to 1,71. Using the width of my own face as an approximation, it looks like that woman had her face lenghtened by two full inches. If you try to figure out what part(s) of her face could have been stretched this much, the conclusion would pretty much be that the picture has been evenly stretched. I mean, even her forehead is noticabely higher after surgery. Skull extension?
Without the cartel, the prices of CDs would likely vary depending on supply / demand of the individual records. Prices are artificially held at a certain price, not because of the monopoly on a single recording, but because of (illegal) price fixing.
The grandparents idea is absurd anyway. There is a huge demand for a cure for cancer. Private citizens would buy it. Since it's non-patented competition would set the price point at which it was sold. The world works this way for any normal item you see in a normal store of any kind.
There's been so much RIAA propaganda force-fed to US Slashdot readers that they no longer believe anyone can make money on anything without a government-enforced monopoly.
The field would decrease exponentially, that is, by a fixed percentage per unit time (Figure 3) . (Since readers of this Quarterly come from very diverse areas of science, I am italicizing and explaining the more technical terms).
Thought this was funny. I have to start doing this on Slashdot as well, since only scientists specializing in astronomy and evolutionism know the meaning of words like "exponentially".
Thanks for the explanation. I can't help but feel people in the US are shooting themselves in the foot by opposing unions. On the other hand, US unions also seem to work against their own best interest by causing their members to be inefficient. *shrug*
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If you link to copyrighted material but do not host it, you're an accessory to the crime of illegally distributing the material. Story (in swedish), the actual document (pdf, swedish).
The problem with prosecuting the Pirate bay is that someone must be found guilty of a crime for another to be guilty of being an accessory to thet crime. The users of Piratebay are not suspected of a crime carrying a sentence of two years or more, meaning the police can't get their IP numbers, meaning they can't be charged with a crime that Piratebay could be an accessory to.
The dietary supplements are, afaik, fake. The kid was big news years ago and I think that was what spawned the market for them.
Here's a story from 2004 with a pic of the kid from when he was 7 months old.
The scientists allay fears that global warming has created these pockets of water.
Big word: Allay. Still, lessen the intensity of or calm - "The news eased my conscience"; "still the fears"
Here. This is old news. There are even myostatin blockers sold as "dietary supplements".
We've know for the last 30 years, that were are emerging from a little ice age.
The temperature stabilized around 10k years ago.
Just go with "freedom doers". Simple and patriotic!
It is all about balance. While as a consumer I prefer non DRM, I understand the business point of view. This is a grey-area IMHO not black or white.
Yes. While, as a rational thinker I prefer evolution, I understand the Intelligent Design point of view. It's false. This is a boolean value, not a color.
Society has an interest in as many consumers as possible having access to as much art and information as possible. This is literally equal to the interest of the individual consumer. There is no "right to make money" that overrules the interests of humanity. Patents and copyright are useful concepts to the degree that they encourage innovation and the creation of art more than they limit the access of people to that innovation or art. DRM makes the business model of online rental possible. Since there are already other, proven, ways to distribute content, DRM is not needed. Since it also prevents access using equipment already owned by massive amounts of potential consumers, DRM is harmful. Bad for humanity. An enemy of the information society.
I thought the main objection to OpenXML was that it fails to define a number of things, essentially saying "render like WordPerfect 1.0", making it an incomplete standard. Making it not impossible but very difficult for anyone other than Microsoft to implement it so it's fully compatible with the MS version.
As the headline of TFA states, this is about online music sales. What is specifically about iTunes is the Norwegian case where iTunes have been accused of breaking existing law. The law is the same for Apple as for any other online music store. The Consumer Council of Norway had recieved complaints about iTunes and brought the case to the consumer ombudsman.
There are no Apple-only laws and no grand conspiracy against Apple. "because iTunes is the most popular store" actually is part of the explanation though. The Consumer Council has stated that they filed the complaint against Apple first since iTunes is largest and most popular.
Meh. Sounds like an 8x10 to me. Lame.
Occasionally, when she'd bring a boy home, I'd happen to be cleaning my collection of combat knives or demonstrating my dog's attack training. Now my girl is 18 (for another week or so) and has never been pregnant and there are no visible track marks or bruises. Most of it was luck,
Let me be the first to say W-T-F??? You threaten your daughter's boyfriends with knives and attack dogs and pat yourself on the back for managing to keep her non-pregnant? No shit, Sherlock! What do you think the odds are of girls with parents who don't polish their M-16's in front of their fiends getting pregnant? Does your daughter even have friends anymore?
The whole point of lock-in is that you're happy with buying it but will regret it later, because of things you didn't foresee.
Yes, using any p2p software is suspect. Actually, just like if you purchased a means to store data, you should pay a tax just as if you were guilty. Guilty of what!?!? . Doesn't matter. You must be guilty of something. Like playing World of Warcraft.
Additionally, it doesn't matter what fraction of iPod owners or iTunes customers are locked in. What matters is the amount of people locked in, and what moving to another brand would cost them. The sum of lock-in is the gross revenue of the iTunes store. Every DRM:d song is worthless when you want a non-Apple mp3 player.
It doesn't really look like her appearance has changed visibly at all.
You botch someone's face, they post about it, that's not unjust. This seems like a no-brainer.
You presuppose that the operation was botched. She may make false or misleading statements on the web site, which would make it unjust.
I don't think this is really about free speech at all. The winning side just want to get publicity.
Her face is much longer in the second pic (distance between hairline and chin compared to width of face). The pic could be photoshopped as well. The face in the left pic is 157 pixels from side to side, the right 140. Length goes from 225 to 240. Ratio goes from 1,43 to 1,71. Using the width of my own face as an approximation, it looks like that woman had her face lenghtened by two full inches. If you try to figure out what part(s) of her face could have been stretched this much, the conclusion would pretty much be that the picture has been evenly stretched. I mean, even her forehead is noticabely higher after surgery. Skull extension?
The pic looks fake.
Does fiber count as electromagnetic transmission? Junk legislation like this shows why they shouldn't write new laws for the Internet.
Whoa! Like, every post could be the first post until the next post was posted. Brilliant!
Without the cartel, the prices of CDs would likely vary depending on supply / demand of the individual records. Prices are artificially held at a certain price, not because of the monopoly on a single recording, but because of (illegal) price fixing.
... says Mister Anonymous Coward.
Don't worry, his name will be on the register soon.
Twice.
The grandparents idea is absurd anyway. There is a huge demand for a cure for cancer. Private citizens would buy it. Since it's non-patented competition would set the price point at which it was sold. The world works this way for any normal item you see in a normal store of any kind.
There's been so much RIAA propaganda force-fed to US Slashdot readers that they no longer believe anyone can make money on anything without a government-enforced monopoly.
Don't let your temper get us into even more trouble. The chair 'incident' made us look really bad.
- Bill
The field would decrease exponentially, that is, by a fixed percentage per unit time (Figure 3) . (Since readers of this Quarterly come from very diverse areas of science, I am italicizing and explaining the more technical terms).
Thought this was funny. I have to start doing this on Slashdot as well, since only scientists specializing in astronomy and evolutionism know the meaning of words like "exponentially".
Thanks for the explanation. I can't help but feel people in the US are shooting themselves in the foot by opposing unions. On the other hand, US unions also seem to work against their own best interest by causing their members to be inefficient. *shrug*