(Not well-worded either, alas, but the point is there under the clumsy verbiage.) Hey! It's wikipedia - if you don't think it's well worded, reword it!
I always find it a bit funny reading comments by Americans related to gun ownership.
As an Australian, I find Obama's (incredibly polarizing and unpopular) intention to restrict gun ownership heartening.
True, I don't live in the US, so realistically, my opinion counts as nothing for your election. But the concept of so many people so proud of their right to own a device which is 100%, purely and simply, designed to kill, scares me witless.
We have a much tighter gun control here - if you have a use for a gun (such as collecting, hunting/farm use), you can have one (with restrictions - no semi automatics/pistols and such, collectibles must (granted, it's a apparently reversible) disabled).
I feel so much safer, knowing that 90% of people do NOT have access to a gun. And we have a comparative murder rate to show it.
But I don't expect many (americans) to agree with me - it's a different culture. I just wanted to put in my 2 cents.:D
My guess is that he nor any of his users ever got any chance to vote on any copyright law. Can't say I have. Have you? Have you ever gotten to vote on any copyright issue?
Do you vote? If it's that important to you, lobby your rep. If you don't already do this, then you have no right to whine - it's your choice to do nothing. If you DO vote and DO lobby your representative, then what you say is fair.
Hell, I never even agreed to be any citizen of any country. Show me a signature where I did. So therefore, how do any laws apply to him, or me? As far as I'm concerned, if you have no say so in the making of a law, then you have no obligation whatsoever to have to abide by it.
You agreed implicitly by not leaving. If you don't like being a citizen, you can leave. And once again, it's starting to sound to me like you don't vote, because you claim you have no say in the making of the law.
Kind of like your neighbors down the street getting together and making an assinine aggreement, that all windows in the neighborhood must be left open in the winter time. And then enforcing that law on you. Fining you and or imprisoning you when you don't abide by it. Assembling a police force of patrollers to enforce this rule and smashing down the door and taking prisoner those who are in violation of it. Conformity and enforcement at the end of a barrel of gun. Only the neighbors aren't down the street, they are 100 miles, or 1000 miles away. Or worse, somewhere back in time, even before you were even born.
To run with your metaphor... if you don't like the street, move. Or make an EFFORT to convince your neighbours that they're idiots.
Tell me the US version of representational democracy / republic isn't a total crock of ****....
All I can say is I'm glad I don't live in the same country as you:D
Further, if you're under 18, you have no say so whatsoever. If you're over 18, your say so is generally limited to the joke of a vote. Which is nothing but a weak concession to undermine your primary right, which is the right to riot.
Aahhhh it comes down to it. You're under 18, so you can't vote. Going through angsty rebel-against-the-powers-that-be phase are we?
Okay, so that was low - but the 'joke' of a vote isn't quite accurate. Yes, one vote doesn't make a lot of difference - but neither should one opinion. If lots of people share your opinion, that's lots of votes. Enough votes, and you start to make a difference!
I'm not saying the US model of a democracy is perfect, but until you actually propose a better valid solution, or move from blindly whining to actually doing something, please contain your comments!
Wow... that's just plain paranoid. Yes, I appreciate that there are people out there who can look back in my old phone, or whatever, and realise that all my information is available. After saying that - I also honestly don't care who knows that I have a haircut booked this saturday (and had one last month, and so on and so forth). Yes, I'm sure determined people could find out a lot about me if they stole my phone. WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD THEY WANT TO?!
There's no sensitive data there which people could use for identity theft... so why care?
Do you really think there are people that interested in your life that they WOULD care?
We use sametime at work, and I find it much more effective than msn/icq/yahoo etc.
There are a couple of extended client versions available offering more functionality than the original (though this functionality is intended to be included in Sametime 7.5)
Notes Buddy and IBM Community Tools (ICT)
But all is not lost!
Us sport-obsessed Australians have developed numerous new past-times with these wonderful beasts!
There's Cane Toad Golf, the time honoured past time of wandering fields with a driver and rather than wasting good golf balls, working on your swing and ridding a national pest at the same time!
Cane Toad Cricket, very similar to golf, but with a cricket bat. Not quite as much fun.
Then there's Cane Toad racing, which I think will be hugely benifited by the increase in leg size - however will this invalidate the old records set by shorter-legged toads of yore?
Well.... there is Starcraft Ghost...
However they also did manage to spawn off a number of (potentially) very interesting game houses when most of their staff quit in one mass exodus!
flagshipstudios.com - Hellgate:London is one game I'm REALLY looking forward to!
And of course a number of the Guild Wars guys are from Blizzard.
P.S. WoW is a good game - not perfect, but no MMORPG (especially) is going to please everyone, so they're not a total loss. But I just kicked my WoW addiction! I've been clean for 4 months!
P.P.S. If only I could do the same for my Civilization IV addiction... JUST ONE MORE TURN
There's a distinct difference here as well - if they got a salary, it would be coming from the company coffers (i.e. company networth would DECREASE).
By selling shares, they are just selling what THEY ALREADY OWN. So yes, they're in a sense increasing their personal fortune by working, but at NO COST TO THE COMPANY.
I.E. If they decided to pay themselves $20M a year, they would get that ONTOP of the shares they already own. Instead, they decided the shares are enough, and that $20M each effectively gets split among all the shareholders.
Ken MacLeod's Sky Road presents a scenario space is so cluttered part of the premise of the book is that an AI is required to navigate it - no human could leave Earth because of the chaos up there.
Lets hope it doesn't get that far!
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I always find it a bit funny reading comments by Americans related to gun ownership.
:D
As an Australian, I find Obama's (incredibly polarizing and unpopular) intention to restrict gun ownership heartening.
True, I don't live in the US, so realistically, my opinion counts as nothing for your election. But the concept of so many people so proud of their right to own a device which is 100%, purely and simply, designed to kill, scares me witless.
We have a much tighter gun control here - if you have a use for a gun (such as collecting, hunting/farm use), you can have one (with restrictions - no semi automatics/pistols and such, collectibles must (granted, it's a apparently reversible) disabled).
I feel so much safer, knowing that 90% of people do NOT have access to a gun. And we have a comparative murder rate to show it.
But I don't expect many (americans) to agree with me - it's a different culture. I just wanted to put in my 2 cents.
Okay, so that was low - but the 'joke' of a vote isn't quite accurate. Yes, one vote doesn't make a lot of difference - but neither should one opinion. If lots of people share your opinion, that's lots of votes. Enough votes, and you start to make a difference!
I'm not saying the US model of a democracy is perfect, but until you actually propose a better valid solution, or move from blindly whining to actually doing something, please contain your comments!
Wow... that's just plain paranoid.
Yes, I appreciate that there are people out there who can look back in my old phone, or whatever, and realise that all my information is available.
After saying that - I also honestly don't care who knows that I have a haircut booked this saturday (and had one last month, and so on and so forth). Yes, I'm sure determined people could find out a lot about me if they stole my phone. WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD THEY WANT TO?!
There's no sensitive data there which people could use for identity theft... so why care?
Do you really think there are people that interested in your life that they WOULD care?
We use sametime at work, and I find it much more effective than msn/icq/yahoo etc. There are a couple of extended client versions available offering more functionality than the original (though this functionality is intended to be included in Sametime 7.5)
Notes Buddy and
IBM Community Tools (ICT)
Quite a reliable system, I've found!
Yet no-one in Australia drinks Fosters... we just export that sh*te to the rest of the world... Think about it...
But all is not lost! Us sport-obsessed Australians have developed numerous new past-times with these wonderful beasts! There's Cane Toad Golf, the time honoured past time of wandering fields with a driver and rather than wasting good golf balls, working on your swing and ridding a national pest at the same time! Cane Toad Cricket, very similar to golf, but with a cricket bat. Not quite as much fun. Then there's Cane Toad racing, which I think will be hugely benifited by the increase in leg size - however will this invalidate the old records set by shorter-legged toads of yore?
Well.... there is Starcraft Ghost... However they also did manage to spawn off a number of (potentially) very interesting game houses when most of their staff quit in one mass exodus! flagshipstudios.com - Hellgate:London is one game I'm REALLY looking forward to! And of course a number of the Guild Wars guys are from Blizzard. P.S. WoW is a good game - not perfect, but no MMORPG (especially) is going to please everyone, so they're not a total loss. But I just kicked my WoW addiction! I've been clean for 4 months! P.P.S. If only I could do the same for my Civilization IV addiction... JUST ONE MORE TURN
Half a google is better than none!
There's a distinct difference here as well - if they got a salary, it would be coming from the company coffers (i.e. company networth would DECREASE). By selling shares, they are just selling what THEY ALREADY OWN. So yes, they're in a sense increasing their personal fortune by working, but at NO COST TO THE COMPANY. I.E. If they decided to pay themselves $20M a year, they would get that ONTOP of the shares they already own. Instead, they decided the shares are enough, and that $20M each effectively gets split among all the shareholders.
Ken MacLeod's Sky Road presents a scenario space is so cluttered part of the premise of the book is that an AI is required to navigate it - no human could leave Earth because of the chaos up there. Lets hope it doesn't get that far!