Is this yet another sign of the typical media industry 'head in the sand, refuse to change' approach, or might we be seeing the early stages or some actual change?"
Sounds more like preparation for those wretched music execs to put out non-DRM'd music like it was their idea all along; as if their customers haven't been shouting for DRM-free products all this time.
Microsoft is supposed to be making money any way possible, like any good organization.
Assuming you meant "corporation" and not "organization", I have to disagree with your assertion. The primary responsibility of any corporation is serving the society which granted it its existence via its corporate charter. Making money is secondary to that. The problem in our society today is that most people forget the first part because the enforcers of the law are either spineless or bribed into never revoking corporate charters when a corporation's actions demand it.
A good corporation would be giving its products to educational and non-profit organizations for free, as thanks to the public for allowing the corporation to exist. What Microsoft is doing -- trying to trap schools and students into reliance on their products and forcing them to watch ads -- is exactly the kinds of thing that should lead to the termination of its corporate charter in a just society. Would that we actually lived in a society that resembled one...
We have a huge number of different versions from the 4th century which differ widely from each other. We also have some earlier fragments which also differ pretty widely.
What most people don't realize is that almost all of these "differences" and "contradictions" end up being spelling errors or alternate word usage (e.g. mountains/hills), and that the same difference in 100 manuscripts gets counted as 100 "errors".
>>they can't exactly hide any intentional mistranslations anymore- there are enough (though not a whole lot)
They didn't hide them exactly. For example, 2 Samuel 21:19, typically have the version (KJV) italicize "brother of" because the words "brother of" is simply added regardless of not being in the original text. They obviously realized that Elhanan killing Goliath would clash with the same story of David killing the same person. Other translations go ahead and ignore that and have Goliath die twice (as happens in the original text).
2 Samuel 21:19 probably had "brother of" inserted into the English translation because:
It's recorded elsewhere that David, not Elhanan, killed Goliath
It's recorded elsewhere that Elhanan killed Goliath's brother
1 Chronicles 20:5
In another battle with the Philistines, Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, who had a spear with a shaft like a weaver's rod.
I really hope they don't find any of them. If they do, we'll have hundreds of water world remakes and the level of pain that would bring is too much to bare.
What's worse is when you think about how amazingly vaste the entire universe is: It's entirely possible that there's a planet out there where, through sheer chance, the events of Waterworld actually took place-- whoah, I need to lie down for a sec.
Perhaps some sort of humiliation for them, like having to wear a dress for a day, would help them realize what it does, but the parents would complain that their "darling angel" is being unfairly treated, and that would be the end of that.
The problem with bullies starts with the parents. If the parents don't give a crap about raising their kid properly, then there's not much anyone else can do.
However, I like the idea of creating "school prisons" where bullies can be incarcerated for a time (a few hours, a day, overnight, etc.). Let them have a taste of what that kind of behavior will lead to in the real world.
Makes just as much sense as taking Israel away from Palestinians and giving it to holocaust survivors after WWII
See, this is what I mean by my other post. Israel's neighbor's have done a hell of a job with their propaganda since they changed their tactics after discovering they could not beat Israel with military might.
they just told the bit about Isreal valiantly defending there right to annex parts of other countries
How dare a nation annex land belonging to foreign invaders -- who, to this day, continue to proclaim the obliteration of that nation -- as a means of protecting itself from future attacks!
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That, combined with the spite you have for movie stars who make big salaries makes you sing songs of how right you are for stealing.
Who's advocating theft here? Stealing is morally wrong. P2P has nothing to do with stealing. P2P often (thought not always) has to do with copyright infringement, which is illegal. BIG difference.
Also, equating copyright infringement with theft is morally wrong (but not illegal, so you're safe there).
(It can also be argued that copyright law is morally wrong, but that's an argument for another time)
Sounds like a good idea. Just have a small, text link called "view associated advertisements" on the lower-right corner of every page in Wikipedia that leads to a page with the ads. That way, people who want to see the ads can easily view them and the people who don't want to see the ads just have to ignore a small, out-of-the-way text link. It's win-win!
'It has been shown that cameras increase car accident rates by between 7 and 24 percent.'
? says who?
I'd heard that before, too. Then my city got those cameras at a bunch of intersections. Years later, an independant study showed that the city police were lying to the populace when they kept insisting that the cameras are there to promote safety and not to generate income and that the police were using misleading statistics to trick people into accepting the cameras as making the roads safer:
As seen in the charts, the number of collisions increased 58 percent after cameras were introduced at the twelve intersections selected by Winnipeg. These extra accidents were not minor ones. Injuries increased 64 percent and property damage claims between 60 and 113 percent, with the largest claims increasing the most. These effects were specific to the camera intersections, as the number of accidents citywide increased only 7 percent during the same period.
A 58% percent increase in serious accidents at intersections with cameras. Fifty-eight percent. To our city's police, income is more important than safety.
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Sounds more like preparation for those wretched music execs to put out non-DRM'd music like it was their idea all along; as if their customers haven't been shouting for DRM-free products all this time.
I'm not talking about legality; I'm talking about morality.
I did not say that.
Huh? That doesn't make any sense. Is Microsoft sending cheques out to people who pirate their software or something?
You say that like it's a good thing.
Two sides of the same coin, my friend. Two sides of the same coin...
Assuming you meant "corporation" and not "organization", I have to disagree with your assertion. The primary responsibility of any corporation is serving the society which granted it its existence via its corporate charter. Making money is secondary to that. The problem in our society today is that most people forget the first part because the enforcers of the law are either spineless or bribed into never revoking corporate charters when a corporation's actions demand it.
A good corporation would be giving its products to educational and non-profit organizations for free, as thanks to the public for allowing the corporation to exist. What Microsoft is doing -- trying to trap schools and students into reliance on their products and forcing them to watch ads -- is exactly the kinds of thing that should lead to the termination of its corporate charter in a just society. Would that we actually lived in a society that resembled one...
What most people don't realize is that almost all of these "differences" and "contradictions" end up being spelling errors or alternate word usage (e.g. mountains/hills), and that the same difference in 100 manuscripts gets counted as 100 "errors".
2 Samuel 21:19 probably had "brother of" inserted into the English translation because:
Ow, the poetic-meter measuring center of my brain.
What's worse is when you think about how amazingly vaste the entire universe is: It's entirely possible that there's a planet out there where, through sheer chance, the events of Waterworld actually took place-- whoah, I need to lie down for a sec.
Deep breaths. Deep breaths.
*shudder*
The problem with bullies starts with the parents. If the parents don't give a crap about raising their kid properly, then there's not much anyone else can do.
However, I like the idea of creating "school prisons" where bullies can be incarcerated for a time (a few hours, a day, overnight, etc.). Let them have a taste of what that kind of behavior will lead to in the real world.
"Spider-man" is to "flying" as "Joe Average" is to "understanding how microwaves work".
That "whooshing" sound you heard is not Spider-man flying over your head, but, rather, the joke.
I thought the name was describing the 64-bit version of a breakfast cereal?
He's free open source?
Because they learn about systems of government from Sid Meier's video games?
Marx may have been wrong about a lot of things, but this wasn't one of them.
See, this is what I mean by my other post. Israel's neighbor's have done a hell of a job with their propaganda since they changed their tactics after discovering they could not beat Israel with military might.
Four words: revocation of corporate charter.
This is something that needs to start happening a lot if we ever want to reduce the problem of corrupt business damaging society.
What's not surprising, however, is the fact that almost nobody knows what Palestine really is.
How dare a nation annex land belonging to foreign invaders -- who, to this day, continue to proclaim the obliteration of that nation -- as a means of protecting itself from future attacks!
Who's advocating theft here? Stealing is morally wrong. P2P has nothing to do with stealing. P2P often (thought not always) has to do with copyright infringement, which is illegal. BIG difference.
Also, equating copyright infringement with theft is morally wrong (but not illegal, so you're safe there).
(It can also be argued that copyright law is morally wrong, but that's an argument for another time)
Another great example of how intellectual property rights promote the creation of new and interesting things.
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The word "clock" was a typo in the article. It's easy to accidentally it the 'l' key because it's so close to the 'o' key.
Or, better yet, make Ford ask Lucas for the role of Han Solo first.
Sounds like a good idea. Just have a small, text link called "view associated advertisements" on the lower-right corner of every page in Wikipedia that leads to a page with the ads. That way, people who want to see the ads can easily view them and the people who don't want to see the ads just have to ignore a small, out-of-the-way text link. It's win-win!
Sorry. I included a link to an article discussing the independant study, but not a link to the study itself. Here's the study (PDF link).
I'd heard that before, too. Then my city got those cameras at a bunch of intersections. Years later, an independant study showed that the city police were lying to the populace when they kept insisting that the cameras are there to promote safety and not to generate income and that the police were using misleading statistics to trick people into accepting the cameras as making the roads safer:
A 58% percent increase in serious accidents at intersections with cameras. Fifty-eight percent. To our city's police, income is more important than safety.