I really don't know, I haven't really read up on the SCO thing, but I'm pretty sure they own the copyright to UNIX (System V?) and that's what this whole thing is about.
I find it amusing that you can see the damage YOU do as "virtual" but the theft being perpetrated against you as real. Think about that, you're saying that destroying what could possibly be the only copies of data on a persons system is somehow more moral than making a copy of some existing data.
Doesn't this seem like burning someone's house down because they tape recorded you singing in the kitchen?
Oh, and BTW, I don't know where you live, but in my home country copyright violation is a civil offense, while actively destroying someones data on their computer without permission is both a civil AND a criminal offense. Civil vs Criminal+Civil. Yeah, you might wanna re-think this whole strategy of yours, you're entirely likely to come out with the short stick, and the potential gain (satisfying a sense of revenge?) from such an action couldn't possibly be seen as worth the risk, hope you're the sole shareholder.
Trust me, photogrammetry can be a bigger PITA than you are implying. Done right, you can get a subpixel resolution (meaning that the output model is of higher quality than the source images) out of multiple images, and throwing lots (LOTS) of CPU time at the problem can indeed smooth things considerably, but there are still numerous problem spots where the automation technology is only "pretty damn good". Now, "pretty damn good" is pretty damn good, but errors do creep in unless you keep things tight and calibrate constantly, with a 'real' calibration (checking your camera mounts for tiny changes in position, etc) needed quite often.
Yeah, it's magical, but the spell formula is complicated, touchy and unforgiving of mistakes, often magnifying them way out of proportion (especially if spatial information is shared between frames in a moving video).
*sigh* A "large portion" of murders aren't over drugs, the "large portion" (that is bullshit anyway, it's just false) of murders you're talking about are BLACK MARKET related. if drugs weren't on the black market, there wouldn't be murders, at least only as many as there are for other legal items people view as "necessities".
I love it when the same people who can accurately and eloquently explain why "think of the children" is a really really poor reason to wiretap everybody (and it is a very very poor reason) think "think of the children" becomes a compelling and undeniable argument when used in a gun ownership debate.
It's a poor poor reason to wiretap, and it's a poor poor reason to take away a persons firearms too. If you're too scared to live in a nation of self-responsible adults (no matter what scares you, terrorists or rednecks) then move please, we'll both be better off for it.
Maybe not, but the PPs moral code -IS- the one supported by biology and physics. That might not make it "the one true" moral code, but it sure does lend some credence to the idea.
I was once told by a lawyer that you can put any symbol down you like as your signature, as long as the act is witnessed. Then again, I didn't know the guy that well, so I don't know how if he liked his bullshit thin and rare or thick and omnipresent.
For several years I used a rounded M with a line through it so that it looked like a B on its back. Got a couple of strange looks, but only once did someone go so far as to SAY something about it, and that was a mere curious remark.
I still don't understand your answer to the GPs very valid points. I understand how your IDEALIZED version of this is supposed to go, but what about those real life consequences the GP mentioned?
I think you and I may not believe as differently as you think we do (though most likely we do have some different opinions on how the badness is going to go down). I however, have been here since 1775, genealogically speaking, and will not leave at any cost, with the POSSIBLE exception of a proper American Indian uprising (fair IS fair).
Then we get into morality, which to me is a different ball of wax altogether. That's like discussing the merits of C, and you mention that many trojans are written in C. Well, yeah, that's the power of C.
And there will always be malware (speaking both literally and metaphorically), there are better ways of dealing with it than either condemning C or murdering malware writers (to make the analogy complete).
I'm suprised I haven't seen anyone mention the "Touch and Feel" being mentioned in the same title as Oprah. Maybe human brains DO have near-universal filters for some Cthuluesque topics.
"Bloody rich" is quite the understatement. Look here and check out those numbers below her picture there on the right. Money does translate to power to some degree, and numbers in the form of $xBillion (where x>=1) can get you a whole lot of power.
Putin vs Oprah? That makes me think of The Stand. Putin isn't hard to image as an incarnation of Randal Flagg (perhaps with a touch more self-control), and Oprah (compared to Putin) just radiates goodness, much like I viewed the spiritual meta-battle going on in that book.
I'm not usually this pedantic, but pointing out for whom the "bell tolls" is rather moot. The poem points out that if the bell is tolling, it is tooling for YOU, due to the interconnectedness of humanity.
Stop trying to use it to sound like a bad-assed toughguy, it falls flat on people educated beyond Spike's Manswers or Metallica albums.
To be fair, how do you settle an argument between a man who says the sea is made of jello, and a man who says there is no sea at all when you live a lifetime's journey to the sea?
Your mind is a powerful tool, just learn to "program" it effectively, and use whatever gives you the best results.
This my friends is the One True Religion.
I'm not saying anything for or against $DIETY, but when all the dust from the argument settles, the "program" mentioned in parent's final sentence is the effect you're left with. Your best bet is to find one that will guide your mind the way you wish, and implement it.
I think, by declaring liberals as extremists, you pretty well defined hypocrisy with your post.
You use your first 2 sentences to denounce up a type of behavior, and then engage in that very behavior in the very next sentence, you didn't even break for paragraph. Thank you for your demonstration, it may even cover cognitive dissonance as well as hypocrisy.
You know damn well that not all (not even most, and you KNOW it) liberals are extremists like that. On top of that you know (you KNOW) that there are conservatives just as extreme. Stop pretending to be on the only rational side. You'll find idiots and assholes wherever you look, especially if you go hunting for idiots and assholes.
You sir or ma'am (as the case may be) may have very well brought me back into the pro-nuclear camp. The issue that bothered me with nuclear is fuel collection, and if what you say is true, that issue can be highly mitigated.
Thanks for giving me something to read/think about.
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I honestly think you're right, but it does seem to be an awful lot of relying on other people having common sense, and that's not always a good bet.
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I know it's a bit long, just put our acronym, CASH, on the check and it'll be just fine thanks. :-)
I think one of the mods has read that particular issue before. :-/
I've got $5 on it!
I think that would be UNIX, wouldn't it?
I really don't know, I haven't really read up on the SCO thing, but I'm pretty sure they own the copyright to UNIX (System V?) and that's what this whole thing is about.
If I'm wrong, could someone please correct me.
I think the GP was doing his or her math homework, and you just gave him/her the answer to the extra-credit question. :-)
I find it amusing that you can see the damage YOU do as "virtual" but the theft being perpetrated against you as real. Think about that, you're saying that destroying what could possibly be the only copies of data on a persons system is somehow more moral than making a copy of some existing data.
Doesn't this seem like burning someone's house down because they tape recorded you singing in the kitchen?
Oh, and BTW, I don't know where you live, but in my home country copyright violation is a civil offense, while actively destroying someones data on their computer without permission is both a civil AND a criminal offense. Civil vs Criminal+Civil. Yeah, you might wanna re-think this whole strategy of yours, you're entirely likely to come out with the short stick, and the potential gain (satisfying a sense of revenge?) from such an action couldn't possibly be seen as worth the risk, hope you're the sole shareholder.
Trust me, photogrammetry can be a bigger PITA than you are implying. Done right, you can get a subpixel resolution (meaning that the output model is of higher quality than the source images) out of multiple images, and throwing lots (LOTS) of CPU time at the problem can indeed smooth things considerably, but there are still numerous problem spots where the automation technology is only "pretty damn good". Now, "pretty damn good" is pretty damn good, but errors do creep in unless you keep things tight and calibrate constantly, with a 'real' calibration (checking your camera mounts for tiny changes in position, etc) needed quite often.
Yeah, it's magical, but the spell formula is complicated, touchy and unforgiving of mistakes, often magnifying them way out of proportion (especially if spatial information is shared between frames in a moving video).
*sigh* A "large portion" of murders aren't over drugs, the "large portion" (that is bullshit anyway, it's just false) of murders you're talking about are BLACK MARKET related. if drugs weren't on the black market, there wouldn't be murders, at least only as many as there are for other legal items people view as "necessities".
I love it when the same people who can accurately and eloquently explain why "think of the children" is a really really poor reason to wiretap everybody (and it is a very very poor reason) think "think of the children" becomes a compelling and undeniable argument when used in a gun ownership debate.
It's a poor poor reason to wiretap, and it's a poor poor reason to take away a persons firearms too. If you're too scared to live in a nation of self-responsible adults (no matter what scares you, terrorists or rednecks) then move please, we'll both be better off for it.
Maybe not, but the PPs moral code -IS- the one supported by biology and physics. That might not make it "the one true" moral code, but it sure does lend some credence to the idea.
I was once told by a lawyer that you can put any symbol down you like as your signature, as long as the act is witnessed. Then again, I didn't know the guy that well, so I don't know how if he liked his bullshit thin and rare or thick and omnipresent.
For several years I used a rounded M with a line through it so that it looked like a B on its back. Got a couple of strange looks, but only once did someone go so far as to SAY something about it, and that was a mere curious remark.
So this is YOUR fault! *points finger menacingly*
I still don't understand your answer to the GPs very valid points. I understand how your IDEALIZED version of this is supposed to go, but what about those real life consequences the GP mentioned?
I think you and I may not believe as differently as you think we do (though most likely we do have some different opinions on how the badness is going to go down). I however, have been here since 1775, genealogically speaking, and will not leave at any cost, with the POSSIBLE exception of a proper American Indian uprising (fair IS fair).
Then we get into morality, which to me is a different ball of wax altogether. That's like discussing the merits of C, and you mention that many trojans are written in C. Well, yeah, that's the power of C.
And there will always be malware (speaking both literally and metaphorically), there are better ways of dealing with it than either condemning C or murdering malware writers (to make the analogy complete).
I'm suprised I haven't seen anyone mention the "Touch and Feel" being mentioned in the same title as Oprah. Maybe human brains DO have near-universal filters for some Cthuluesque topics.
"Bloody rich" is quite the understatement. Look here and check out those numbers below her picture there on the right. Money does translate to power to some degree, and numbers in the form of $xBillion (where x>=1) can get you a whole lot of power.
Putin vs Oprah? That makes me think of The Stand. Putin isn't hard to image as an incarnation of Randal Flagg (perhaps with a touch more self-control), and Oprah (compared to Putin) just radiates goodness, much like I viewed the spiritual meta-battle going on in that book.
I'm not usually this pedantic, but pointing out for whom the "bell tolls" is rather moot. The poem points out that if the bell is tolling, it is tooling for YOU, due to the interconnectedness of humanity.
Stop trying to use it to sound like a bad-assed toughguy, it falls flat on people educated beyond Spike's Manswers or Metallica albums.
To be fair, how do you settle an argument between a man who says the sea is made of jello, and a man who says there is no sea at all when you live a lifetime's journey to the sea?
Your mind is a powerful tool, just learn to "program" it effectively, and use whatever gives you the best results.
This my friends is the One True Religion.
I'm not saying anything for or against $DIETY, but when all the dust from the argument settles, the "program" mentioned in parent's final sentence is the effect you're left with. Your best bet is to find one that will guide your mind the way you wish, and implement it.
I think, by declaring liberals as extremists, you pretty well defined hypocrisy with your post.
You use your first 2 sentences to denounce up a type of behavior, and then engage in that very behavior in the very next sentence, you didn't even break for paragraph. Thank you for your demonstration, it may even cover cognitive dissonance as well as hypocrisy.
You know damn well that not all (not even most, and you KNOW it) liberals are extremists like that. On top of that you know (you KNOW) that there are conservatives just as extreme. Stop pretending to be on the only rational side. You'll find idiots and assholes wherever you look, especially if you go hunting for idiots and assholes.
You sir or ma'am (as the case may be) may have very well brought me back into the pro-nuclear camp. The issue that bothered me with nuclear is fuel collection, and if what you say is true, that issue can be highly mitigated.
Thanks for giving me something to read/think about.
Yeah, I'd like to apply the 10th Amendment to my post. I'm not giving away any rights here just by mentioning the specific case.