I'm right at the median income, and I couldn't afford to get one (and you're certainly right about not being able to defend one even if I could get one).
They're not being prosecuted for violating the DMCA, in this case the DMCA actually gave them a way around copyright law, by allowing them to take down the infringing material without being prosecuted. IINM hosting others' copyrighted material without theor permissioon is still illegal in NZ.
You have the Constitutional right to say things, but not to terrorize whole groups of people. When you publicly call someone "nigger"...
What's funny is black people have called me "nigger" (and "bro" as well), and I have hazel eyes and had brown hair before it turned gray. I was always taught "sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never harm me." And if I were an Arab living in Palestine, I would most likely think "fuck the jews", would a Palestinian be within his rights to express hatred for a group that has been lording over them? If I were black, why should it not be my right to say "fuck those honkey bastards, I'm sitting in the FRONT of the bus!"?
Like Asimov's Hober Mallow said, it's a poor atom blaster that won't point both ways. Call me a "goddamned mick" and I'll simply laugh at you.
That's easy to say, you probably give $50 here and there, not $thousands
Well, I don't have $thouands, but I drop fifty in the collection plate every week, plus whatever other needs I can help fill (just helped a young poor couple yesterday). Generosity has its own reward and needs nothing extra. If I took the deducton I would miss out on the greater rewards.
If you remove the tax incentive for charities, large donations from companies would simply dry up.
And? There is always someone ready to step up toi the plate, and there are literally billions in grants from non-profits; there's a four inch thick book with small print at the Illinois State Library listing private donors and funding organizations, just in Illinois, with each listing offering millions. I had to research it for work several years ago when they were hosting some multistate shindig, and was amazed at the amounts of cash out there for the needy and greedy.
There *used* to be a time when people were educated enough to know the difference between enquiry and inquiry.
Really? When was that? In my six decades I've never seen many non-ignorant people, even though lately they're having trouble with "lose" and "loose", and even brain-dead crap like they're, there, and their, let alone affect and effect.
I'd like ALL charity to be non-deductable, and not just corporations but living people as well. I never take a charity deduction, a tax dodge is NOT charity, even if it helps someone.
Thank you, and countertrolling too, for the chuckle. I'm in pain today, and the arthritis kept me awake all night. A good chuckle is almost as good as naproxin. I wish I could find some reefer... or get some sleep.
No it doesn't. Just like you don't have the right to get to see Coke's "secret formula". It's a trade secret.
It's a trade secret because you can neither patent nor copyright a recipe. A patent would protect it for 20 years, after which progress will have surely rendered the tech obsolete. Copyright is, for all intents and purposes, forever.
There are other manufacturers, and if not, well, you don't HAVE to get an implant.
What the goddamned fuck??? No, she doesn't HAVE to get it, she can just DIE.What the fuck is wrong with your brain, boy? Christ, but some of these comments are stupid.
(sorry for the inflammatory tone but my arthritis kept me awake all night and I'm REALLY cranky)
This may or may not be germane (I didn't RTFA but I guess I should), but my dad was an electrical lineman for a lot of companies and did quite a bit of construction on the grid, building towers and stringing high tension cables. A careless lineman building these is in danger of electrocution even before the power is switched on. He would weld his initials on the towers he built by wrapping a 12 gauge wire around the cable and shorting it to the tower.
He never could figure out what caused it, but when he told me this (I was a teenager at the time), it seemed obvious that the cables swinging in the breeze through the Earth's magnetic field generated the electricity.
But maybe there was more to it than just that.
As to the "subject line, there is one more item in the equation -- motion. The energy has to be there to begin with for it to be converted to electricity.
Google "getting away with it" is the only non-evil part of the DMCA. You, sir, are unfortunately misguided. It's understandabe from your user name, which RIAA abel do you work for?
I know you're being sarcastic, but I know many very intelligent people of all races, and many really stupid people of all races, and the intilligent members of all the races surely have a genetic component to their giftedness.
There are other reasons for stupidity than genetics; fetal alcohol syndrome, or simple things like the baby's umbilical cord being wrapped around its neck, head trauma in the infant, etc. But high intelligence surely has a genetic component, no matter what the genuis' race. It is in no way racist to suggest that intelligence has a genetic component unless you're suggesting that all members of some race are stupid.
we all stop buying (and stealing) ALL music and movies
*SIGH* Copyright infringement is NOT theft, any more than rape is murder. The difference between copyright infringement and stealing music is, shoplifting a CD from WalMart is stealing music, and is a misdemeanor with a penalty of a couple hundred bucks. Ripping and uploading that CD to TPB is copyright infringement, which the government considers to be far worse than stealing and with far higher penalties.
Make your own music, read books from a lending library or used book store.
Or buy indie music; most indies WANT you to put their stuff on the internet, for the same reason Cory Doctorow puts his books on BoingBoing for free download -- there is no evidence anyone ever lost a penny from piracy, but many artists have starved from obscurity. Read Doctorow and authors like him; hell, the book I wrote I uploaded to BitTorrent. Musicians I know upload to archive.org. Star Wreck -- In The Pirkinning is a very funny, free movie you can either buy or download. Authors, artists, and musicians with a clue WANT their stuff to be seen/heard/read. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater by disenfranchising them.
Go to a local bar and listen to a local band. They probably have CDs for sale that they'd love for you to upload.
One of the neighbors, I don't know who, has one that's "hack me and I'll find you"... pretty stupid if you ask me. It's tempting... your wife is a wise woman.
Mine's simply "Cisco". I don't remember what the default was. I'd open it up for anybody to get on if AT&T's TOS allowed it.
The art of distillation began with the Babylonians in Mesopotamia (in what is now Iraq) from at least the 2nd millennium BC,[3] with perfumes and aromatics being distilled long before potable spirits. Distillation was brought from Africa to Europe by the Moors,[4][5] and its use spread through the monasteries,[6] largely for medicinal purposes, such as the treatment of colic, palsy, and smallpox.[7]
Between 1100 and 1300, distillation spread in Ireland and Scotland,[8] with monastic distilleries existing in Ireland in the 12th century. Because the islands had few grapes to make wine with, barley beer was used instead, resulting in the development of whisky.[7] In the Irish Annals of Clonmacnoise in 1405, the first written record of whisky appears describing the death of a chieftain at Christmas from "taking a surfeit of aqua vitae".[2] In Scotland, the first evidence of whisky production comes from an entry in the Exchequer Rolls for 1494 where malt is sent "To Friar John Cor, by order of the king, to make aquavitae", enough to make about 500 bottles.[9]
I've heard it said that God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from conquering the world. They had whiskey a hundred years before the Scotts, according to known records.
Do you think it's somehow anti-democratic to have a police force?
It shouldn't be, but it is. Break in to a tavern and steal a few cartons of cigarettes and some booze, and it's almost certain that they'll track you down somehow. But break into my house and you're almost certain to get away scott free. How is that democratic?
When I was young, somewhere between 25 and 30, my home was broken into and my killer stereo I brought back from Asia when I was in the USAF was stolen, along with all my records. I found out later from a cop I knew that they caught the guy, but let him go when he Judased on a dope dealer, and they even let him keep my stuff!! That''s democracy? If you're not a businessman, the police will NOT help you. And I say that as someone who has been a crime victim many times in my six decades; not once has the perp ever paid, and not once have I ever gotten any stolen goods back.
Having a police force shouldn't be anti-democratic, but it is. It's not that mob rule is good, it's that classism is bad. When they start writing respectable laws, I'll respect the law (I used to in my naive youth).
This is what you ask for; you are fortunate that other, more grown-up people still think that this sort of lynch mob is a bad idea, and will fight it on your behalf.
I think someone said that to George Washington and Ben Franklin, too.
Alas that is not going to cause the under 30s to re-engage with voting.
You can vote for a Republican who is for the marijuana laws, PIPA, DMCA, long copyrights, and Gitmo, or you can vote for a Democrat who is for the marijuana laws, PIPA, DMCA, long copyrights, and Gitmo, or you can vote for someone the media refuses to discuss, making it impossible for them to win. And you think we have a democracy? Our two party system is twice as good as the communist one party system! Or... actually, we only have the Republicrats. Or is it the Demublicans? Not much difference between either one. Both are corrupt to the core.
Ah, youth... if there's one thing I miss about being young, it's being naive.
The reason why diamonds are so expensive isn't the result of De Beers, but rather the governments of the western world refusing to sell diamonds unless they are certified as "conflict free" and the government of many diamond producing nations having laws in place to limit the harvesting and exporting of diamonds.
Ah, the shortsighed, history-ignoring youth. If that's so, then why were they so expensive fifty years ago?
Either you've had the privilege of never being intimidated that way, you just don't think anyone else should be protected.
Or you're not a cowardly wimp, and I say that as someone who has had guns pointed at me and had a few teeth knocked out. Fucking cowards trying to take my constitutional rights away... STOP IT!!! Giving in to fear never stopped a bully.
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After a few shots, who cares how it's spelled?
You don't have to fight to get punched.
Ksanfomaliti says the Russian photographs depict objects resembling a 'disk,' a 'black flap' and a 'scorpion.'"
Yeah, and NASA took photos of what appeared to be a stature of a human head on Mars, which was actually just a trick of shadow and light.
Like I said, it certainly wasn't his best.
They are within the reach of individuals
I'm right at the median income, and I couldn't afford to get one (and you're certainly right about not being able to defend one even if I could get one).
many areas of the US you can not be elected to public office if you won't swear on the Bible.
Whis is pretty stupid, considering that the bible itself says that swearing on it is a sin. Matthew 5:33 --
Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing.
They're not being prosecuted for violating the DMCA, in this case the DMCA actually gave them a way around copyright law, by allowing them to take down the infringing material without being prosecuted. IINM hosting others' copyrighted material without theor permissioon is still illegal in NZ.
You have the Constitutional right to say things, but not to terrorize whole groups of people. When you publicly call someone "nigger"...
What's funny is black people have called me "nigger" (and "bro" as well), and I have hazel eyes and had brown hair before it turned gray. I was always taught "sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never harm me." And if I were an Arab living in Palestine, I would most likely think "fuck the jews", would a Palestinian be within his rights to express hatred for a group that has been lording over them? If I were black, why should it not be my right to say "fuck those honkey bastards, I'm sitting in the FRONT of the bus!"?
Like Asimov's Hober Mallow said, it's a poor atom blaster that won't point both ways. Call me a "goddamned mick" and I'll simply laugh at you.
Like the depression-era humorist Will Rogers said, "All I know is what I read in the papers."
That's easy to say, you probably give $50 here and there, not $thousands
Well, I don't have $thouands, but I drop fifty in the collection plate every week, plus whatever other needs I can help fill (just helped a young poor couple yesterday). Generosity has its own reward and needs nothing extra. If I took the deducton I would miss out on the greater rewards.
If you remove the tax incentive for charities, large donations from companies would simply dry up.
And? There is always someone ready to step up toi the plate, and there are literally billions in grants from non-profits; there's a four inch thick book with small print at the Illinois State Library listing private donors and funding organizations, just in Illinois, with each listing offering millions. I had to research it for work several years ago when they were hosting some multistate shindig, and was amazed at the amounts of cash out there for the needy and greedy.
It's probably more like harvesting water from the Pacific Ocean. There is comparatively little water in the Mississippi, let alone the Colorado.
There *used* to be a time when people were educated enough to know the difference between enquiry and inquiry.
Really? When was that? In my six decades I've never seen many non-ignorant people, even though lately they're having trouble with "lose" and "loose", and even brain-dead crap like they're, there, and their, let alone affect and effect.
Hmm, maybe you're right.
I'd like ALL charity to be non-deductable, and not just corporations but living people as well. I never take a charity deduction, a tax dodge is NOT charity, even if it helps someone.
Thank you, and countertrolling too, for the chuckle. I'm in pain today, and the arthritis kept me awake all night. A good chuckle is almost as good as naproxin. I wish I could find some reefer... or get some sleep.
No it doesn't. Just like you don't have the right to get to see Coke's "secret formula". It's a trade secret.
It's a trade secret because you can neither patent nor copyright a recipe. A patent would protect it for 20 years, after which progress will have surely rendered the tech obsolete. Copyright is, for all intents and purposes, forever.
There are other manufacturers, and if not, well, you don't HAVE to get an implant.
What the goddamned fuck??? No, she doesn't HAVE to get it, she can just DIE.What the fuck is wrong with your brain, boy? Christ, but some of these comments are stupid.
(sorry for the inflammatory tone but my arthritis kept me awake all night and I'm REALLY cranky)
This may or may not be germane (I didn't RTFA but I guess I should), but my dad was an electrical lineman for a lot of companies and did quite a bit of construction on the grid, building towers and stringing high tension cables. A careless lineman building these is in danger of electrocution even before the power is switched on. He would weld his initials on the towers he built by wrapping a 12 gauge wire around the cable and shorting it to the tower.
He never could figure out what caused it, but when he told me this (I was a teenager at the time), it seemed obvious that the cables swinging in the breeze through the Earth's magnetic field generated the electricity.
But maybe there was more to it than just that.
As to the "subject line, there is one more item in the equation -- motion. The energy has to be there to begin with for it to be converted to electricity.
Google "getting away with it" is the only non-evil part of the DMCA. You, sir, are unfortunately misguided. It's understandabe from your user name, which RIAA abel do you work for?
I know you're being sarcastic, but I know many very intelligent people of all races, and many really stupid people of all races, and the intilligent members of all the races surely have a genetic component to their giftedness.
There are other reasons for stupidity than genetics; fetal alcohol syndrome, or simple things like the baby's umbilical cord being wrapped around its neck, head trauma in the infant, etc. But high intelligence surely has a genetic component, no matter what the genuis' race. It is in no way racist to suggest that intelligence has a genetic component unless you're suggesting that all members of some race are stupid.
we all stop buying (and stealing) ALL music and movies
*SIGH* Copyright infringement is NOT theft, any more than rape is murder. The difference between copyright infringement and stealing music is, shoplifting a CD from WalMart is stealing music, and is a misdemeanor with a penalty of a couple hundred bucks. Ripping and uploading that CD to TPB is copyright infringement, which the government considers to be far worse than stealing and with far higher penalties.
Make your own music, read books from a lending library or used book store.
Or buy indie music; most indies WANT you to put their stuff on the internet, for the same reason Cory Doctorow puts his books on BoingBoing for free download -- there is no evidence anyone ever lost a penny from piracy, but many artists have starved from obscurity. Read Doctorow and authors like him; hell, the book I wrote I uploaded to BitTorrent. Musicians I know upload to archive.org. Star Wreck -- In The Pirkinning is a very funny, free movie you can either buy or download. Authors, artists, and musicians with a clue WANT their stuff to be seen/heard/read. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater by disenfranchising them.
Go to a local bar and listen to a local band. They probably have CDs for sale that they'd love for you to upload.
One of the neighbors, I don't know who, has one that's "hack me and I'll find you"... pretty stupid if you ask me. It's tempting... your wife is a wise woman.
Mine's simply "Cisco". I don't remember what the default was. I'd open it up for anybody to get on if AT&T's TOS allowed it.
The Scots didn't invent whiskey. From wikipedia:
I've heard it said that God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from conquering the world. They had whiskey a hundred years before the Scotts, according to known records.
Do you think it's somehow anti-democratic to have a police force?
It shouldn't be, but it is. Break in to a tavern and steal a few cartons of cigarettes and some booze, and it's almost certain that they'll track you down somehow. But break into my house and you're almost certain to get away scott free. How is that democratic?
When I was young, somewhere between 25 and 30, my home was broken into and my killer stereo I brought back from Asia when I was in the USAF was stolen, along with all my records. I found out later from a cop I knew that they caught the guy, but let him go when he Judased on a dope dealer, and they even let him keep my stuff!! That''s democracy? If you're not a businessman, the police will NOT help you. And I say that as someone who has been a crime victim many times in my six decades; not once has the perp ever paid, and not once have I ever gotten any stolen goods back.
Having a police force shouldn't be anti-democratic, but it is. It's not that mob rule is good, it's that classism is bad. When they start writing respectable laws, I'll respect the law (I used to in my naive youth).
This is what you ask for; you are fortunate that other, more grown-up people still think that this sort of lynch mob is a bad idea, and will fight it on your behalf.
I think someone said that to George Washington and Ben Franklin, too.
Alas that is not going to cause the under 30s to re-engage with voting.
You can vote for a Republican who is for the marijuana laws, PIPA, DMCA, long copyrights, and Gitmo, or you can vote for a Democrat who is for the marijuana laws, PIPA, DMCA, long copyrights, and Gitmo, or you can vote for someone the media refuses to discuss, making it impossible for them to win. And you think we have a democracy? Our two party system is twice as good as the communist one party system! Or... actually, we only have the Republicrats. Or is it the Demublicans? Not much difference between either one. Both are corrupt to the core.
Ah, youth... if there's one thing I miss about being young, it's being naive.
The reason why diamonds are so expensive isn't the result of De Beers, but rather the governments of the western world refusing to sell diamonds unless they are certified as "conflict free" and the government of many diamond producing nations having laws in place to limit the harvesting and exporting of diamonds.
Ah, the shortsighed, history-ignoring youth. If that's so, then why were they so expensive fifty years ago?
Pneumatic tyres (which we in the US misspell). And hey, what about Montgomery Scott? ;)
Either you've had the privilege of never being intimidated that way, you just don't think anyone else should be protected.
Or you're not a cowardly wimp, and I say that as someone who has had guns pointed at me and had a few teeth knocked out. Fucking cowards trying to take my constitutional rights away... STOP IT!!! Giving in to fear never stopped a bully.