Not arguing for the GP but you do have some misconceptions.
> Certainly without copyright law you could "abuse" the GPL. Now, what would that mean "abusing the GPL" in a world without copyright? Hmm. A world where anyone could copy any source code they like for any reason.
Where anyone could copy any source code they could physically access.
> Hmm. Corporations could take your GPL code and just use it. Well, ok. You could take any code from any corporation and just use it too! See how that works out? They can't take your GPL code and lock it away because if they use it that code appears in the final product along with all modifications they made internally.
I am an evil corporation. In a world without copyrights, I take your source code, modify it and sell a product based on it. I never release any source, so there is nothing for you to take back. And don't talk to me about decompilers, I have yet to see an optimized binary decompiled into semi-maintainable C++ code.
> Also, there would be no legal penalty for a random person to upload the source to Photoshop (say) to BT, or for anyone to d/l it, compile and modify it and even release their own version. You could have "LingNoi's Photoshop Clone".
Abolishing copyrights will not do away with contract law. NDAs will still exist. Also, code is being leaked today so I don't see a difference.
Now, I would agree with the senator that if two people are being considered for a layoff and one has an H1-B and the other is a citizen, the H1-B should be let go.
Given that several posters who admitted being MS employees stated that the foreign workers receive the same level of compensation and benefits as the domestic ones, I would argue that the less competent should be let go.
Israel survives as a "pure" culture by ethnically herding native born non-Jews into refugee camps
Who modded this drivel "insightful"?
Here's some info:
Almost a quarter of Israeli citizens are non-Jewish, with Arab citizens comprising almost 20% of the population. The majority of them identify themselves as Palestinian by nationality and Israeli by citizenship.
10% of the members of the Israeli Parliament are Arab citizens, most representing Arab political parties, and one of Israel's Supreme Court judges is a Palestinian Arab.
In the public employment sphere, by the end of 2002, 6.1% of the Israeli civil servants were Arab. In January 2004, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared that every state-run company must have at least one Arab citizen of Israel on its board of directors.
Ali Yahya, an Arab Muslim, served as an ambassador to Finland from 1995 until 1999, and in 2006 was appointed ambassador to Greece. Other Arab ambassadors include Walid Mansour, a Druze, appointed ambassador to Vietnam in 1999, and Reda Mansour, also a Druze, a former ambassador to Ecuador. Mohammed Masarwa, an Arab Muslim, was Consul-General in Atlanta. In 2006, Ismail Khaldi, a Bedouin, was appointed Israeli consul in San Francisco.
Six Israeli Arabs have received orders of distinction as a part of their military service; of them the most famous is a Bedouin officer, Lieutenant Colonel Abd el-Amin Hajer, who received the Order of Distinction. Recently, a Bedouin officer was promoted to the rank of Colonel. In recent years, several Druze officers have reached ranks as high as Major General and many have received commendations for distinguished service. It is important to note that, proportionally to their numbers, the Druze people achieve much higher--documented--levels in the Israeli army than other soldiers. Arab Generals in the IDF include Major General Hussain Fares, commander of Israel's border police, and Major General Yosef Mishlav, head of the Israeli Home Front Command and current Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories. Both are members of the Druze community.
After trying to play with him for at least 30 minutes, I just quit and told him I would never play against him ever again because he was brutal, unkind, and deceitful.
Rather than criticize erroneus, I'll try to imagine myself in a similar situation and see it I would do anything differently.
It was a long time ago, but I seem to remember that when I was a teenager, beating my dad at anything was very important to me. Totally humiliating him was even better and having him admit that he was no match for me was heaven. However, after reaching that point, I would calm down and act a lot more rational (and social) about it. I may have even tried to cheat if it was close (don't remember but it is not inconceivable).
So, with that in mind, I'm playing a video game with my son and he goes all out on me even after I ask him to take it easy. What do I do?
First, I'll assume that he REALLY wants to show off to his dad: Listen, son, you're so much better than me at this game...
Then I'll let him know what effect his behaviour is having on others: ... to the point I stopped enjoying the humiliation some time ago.
And there are consequences: So I don't think that I'll play this with you anymore...
But leave him an out:... unless we agree some on sort of a handicap for you that will even the playing field a bit. For example, you are only allowed to use the least powerful weapon against me. (I am not familiar with Halo so I'm extrapolating)
Now, he will have a choice, either he refuses and does not play this game with me (which is what erroneus achieved with the added bonus of driving home the point that it was avoidable and entirely his fault, without me having to say so outright), or he accepts and we proceed from there.
I believe that in my case it would work OK. I'll probably find out in the not-so-distant future. In any case, I'd like to thank erroneus for presenting an interesting situation.
If we lifted the sanctions on Palestine and ended the prison-like occupation of the state, it would take 15 years tops for them to start caring more about cars and TVs than God and Jews.
No, a tax credit reduces your total tax burden off the top, and if it is more than your total tax burden then you DO get that cash back. The catch is that you have to have spent at least the same amount on college that year, so what's happening is that college becomes free for the first $4,000 annually if you are willing to do some community service in exchange.
In my opinion, as a user AND a web developer, the ONLY truly acceptable use of flash is for games and intensively interactive media.
Not being a web developer, I cannot comment on that part but, as a user, I sometimes stumble upon sites that use Flash in interesting ways. Yes, that means I have to add NoScript exceptions to view the content but that's not too much of an inconvenience if I believe it is "safe".
One example is Blue Cat Networks. Hover over the people, then try clicking some of them.
(No, I don't work there but I know a couple of people that do).
The restrictions apply to "public vehicles", which explicitly excludes "car pool vehicles"
The whole brouhaha started because the service, as it currently operates, does not meet the definition of car pooling.
Quoted:
"car pool vehicle" means a motor vehicle as defined in the Highway Traffic Act,
(a) with a seating capacity of not more than twelve persons,
(b) while it is operated transporting no more than twelve commuters including the driver, none of whom pay for the transportation more frequently than on a weekly basis,
(c) that is not used by any one driver to transport commuters for more than one round trip per day, and
(d) the owner, or if the vehicle is subject to a lease, the lessee, of which does not own or lease another car pool vehicle unless the owner or lessee is the employer of a majority of the commuters transported in the vehicles,
but does not include a motor vehicle while being operated by or under contract with a school board or other authority in charge of a school for the transportation of children to or from school; ("véhicule de covoiturage")
The same bill will effectively outlaw most GPS systems:
78. (1) No person shall drive on a highway a motor vehicle that is equipped with, carries, contains or has attached to it a television, computer or other device with a display screen if the display screen is visible to the driver.
Exceptions
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply in respect of,
(a) a global positioning system navigation device that has no other function than to deliver a global positioning system for navigation;
Almost all consumer GPS systems have other functions: MP3 players, image viewer, Phone, Bluetooth, etc.
Please write the minister (mailto:jbradley.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org) and urge him to reword this section so allow such devices as long as they are used for navigation.
Also, let Garmin know that Nuvis are about to become illegal in Ontario.
Our leading scientific theories are proven facts which have been subjected to the highest level of scrutiny and standards.
Fuck this "Falisification" Bullshit! Evolution is a proven fact. Newtonian mechanics is a proven fact. General relativity is a proven fact. If you want to pull some falsification argument out of your ass or nitpick about thing not being compatible and how relativity "falsifies" Newtonian mechanics, then you can Fuck off back to your coding and your Wiki trips and let real scientists get back to doing their job . And that job is, yes, discovering the truth, not the myths or what we would like to be the truth. The Real Truth; which only science can provide.
Spoken like a true mathematician.
Unfortunately, the rest of science does not quite work this way. Scientific theories are not "proven", they are refined. Scientists do not discover "truth", they build models (incidentally, philosophers, whom you deride, are the ones seeking truths).
Newtonian mechanics is definitely not a "proven fact", it is a model that works quite well within given constrains and fails spectacularly when you progress to relativistic speeds or quantum scales. Special relativity is a refinement of that model that successfully deals with the speed issues and GR is yet another refinement that managed to bring gravity into the mix. Still, scientists search for another refinement to unify GR and quantum mechanics.
So no, science cannot provide the "real truth", only a model that provides a "good enough" approximation. When observations that are inconsistent with the model are made, the approximation is no longer good enough and the model (aka theory) needs to be refined further or, if it cannot be, altogether replaced.
Getting back to evolution, that it happens is an observation, the mechanism behind it is explained by theories (which are getting constantly refined). Calling it a "proven fact" is akin to saying that a burning candle is hot is a proven fact. Yes, it is but it does not tell much.
I would say that "in development" is a bit misleading.
The current version, 3.4.3, was released in December 2003 -- 5 years ago. Since then, nothing.
I counted 423 reported bugs for this version, 405 of them are classified as "fixed in a future release" or "fixed in the next bug-fix release" and still, according to the Dev Team, this does not warrant even a minor release.
Oh, sure, there are unofficial patches but some people like the consistency that vanilla provides. Especially when playing on different servers.
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Not arguing for the GP but you do have some misconceptions.
> Certainly without copyright law you could "abuse" the GPL. Now, what would that mean "abusing the GPL" in a world without copyright? Hmm. A world where anyone could copy any source code they like for any reason.
Where anyone could copy any source code they could physically access.
> Hmm. Corporations could take your GPL code and just use it. Well, ok. You could take any code from any corporation and just use it too! See how that works out? They can't take your GPL code and lock it away because if they use it that code appears in the final product along with all modifications they made internally.
I am an evil corporation. In a world without copyrights, I take your source code, modify it and sell a product based on it. I never release any source, so there is nothing for you to take back. And don't talk to me about decompilers, I have yet to see an optimized binary decompiled into semi-maintainable C++ code.
> Also, there would be no legal penalty for a random person to upload the source to Photoshop (say) to BT, or for anyone to d/l it, compile and modify it and even release their own version. You could have "LingNoi's Photoshop Clone".
Abolishing copyrights will not do away with contract law. NDAs will still exist.
Also, code is being leaked today so I don't see a difference.
Given that several posters who admitted being MS employees stated that the foreign workers receive the same level of compensation and benefits as the domestic ones, I would argue that the less competent should be let go.
The GP was off but not by much.
And I fart in your general direction.
Except that it doesn't.
Who modded this drivel "insightful"?
Here's some info:
Almost a quarter of Israeli citizens are non-Jewish, with Arab citizens comprising almost 20% of the population. The majority of them identify themselves as Palestinian by nationality and Israeli by citizenship.
10% of the members of the Israeli Parliament are Arab citizens, most representing Arab political parties, and one of Israel's Supreme Court judges is a Palestinian Arab.
In the public employment sphere, by the end of 2002, 6.1% of the Israeli civil servants were Arab. In January 2004, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared that every state-run company must have at least one Arab citizen of Israel on its board of directors.
Ali Yahya, an Arab Muslim, served as an ambassador to Finland from 1995 until 1999, and in 2006 was appointed ambassador to Greece. Other Arab ambassadors include Walid Mansour, a Druze, appointed ambassador to Vietnam in 1999, and Reda Mansour, also a Druze, a former ambassador to Ecuador. Mohammed Masarwa, an Arab Muslim, was Consul-General in Atlanta. In 2006, Ismail Khaldi, a Bedouin, was appointed Israeli consul in San Francisco.
Six Israeli Arabs have received orders of distinction as a part of their military service; of them the most famous is a Bedouin officer, Lieutenant Colonel Abd el-Amin Hajer, who received the Order of Distinction. Recently, a Bedouin officer was promoted to the rank of Colonel. In recent years, several Druze officers have reached ranks as high as Major General and many have received commendations for distinguished service. It is important to note that, proportionally to their numbers, the Druze people achieve much higher--documented--levels in the Israeli army than other soldiers. Arab Generals in the IDF include Major General Hussain Fares, commander of Israel's border police, and Major General Yosef Mishlav, head of the Israeli Home Front Command and current Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories. Both are members of the Druze community.
Stick a fork in him!
Perverts!
Thus the AC aptly summarizes what is wrong with our "justice" system.
No mod points but a good, thought out and logically laid out response nonetheless.
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Ray,
As a sane lawyer (or one depicted that way), would you please comment on this article?
Thank you.
Rather than criticize erroneus, I'll try to imagine myself in a similar situation and see it I would do anything differently.
It was a long time ago, but I seem to remember that when I was a teenager, beating my dad at anything was very important to me. Totally humiliating him was even better and having him admit that he was no match for me was heaven. However, after reaching that point, I would calm down and act a lot more rational (and social) about it. I may have even tried to cheat if it was close (don't remember but it is not inconceivable).
So, with that in mind, I'm playing a video game with my son and he goes all out on me even after I ask him to take it easy. What do I do?
First, I'll assume that he REALLY wants to show off to his dad:
Listen, son, you're so much better than me at this game...
Then I'll let him know what effect his behaviour is having on others:
... to the point I stopped enjoying the humiliation some time ago.
And there are consequences:
So I don't think that I'll play this with you anymore...
But leave him an out: ... unless we agree some on sort of a handicap for you that will even the playing field a bit. For example, you are only allowed to use the least powerful weapon against me. (I am not familiar with Halo so I'm extrapolating)
Now, he will have a choice, either he refuses and does not play this game with me (which is what erroneus achieved with the added bonus of driving home the point that it was avoidable and entirely his fault, without me having to say so outright), or he accepts and we proceed from there.
I believe that in my case it would work OK. I'll probably find out in the not-so-distant future.
In any case, I'd like to thank erroneus for presenting an interesting situation.
It's been tried but didn't work too well.
I heard that Clozapine can help.
You would work as a convection oven?
Case 4: The Neanderthal is smarter.
Combine that with it being stronger (widely accepted as fact) and you have a different can of worms.
As a lawyer, Ray, you should be familiar with the provisions against cruel and unusual punishment.
File that under "investing in education".
Not being a web developer, I cannot comment on that part but, as a user, I sometimes stumble upon sites that use Flash in interesting ways. Yes, that means I have to add NoScript exceptions to view the content but that's not too much of an inconvenience if I believe it is "safe".
One example is Blue Cat Networks.
Hover over the people, then try clicking some of them.
(No, I don't work there but I know a couple of people that do).
Not according to the act.
The restrictions apply to "public vehicles", which explicitly excludes "car pool vehicles"
The whole brouhaha started because the service, as it currently operates, does not meet the definition of car pooling.
Quoted:
The same bill will effectively outlaw most GPS systems:
Almost all consumer GPS systems have other functions: MP3 players, image viewer, Phone, Bluetooth, etc.
Please write the minister (mailto:jbradley.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org) and urge him to reword this section so allow such devices as long as they are used for navigation.
Also, let Garmin know that Nuvis are about to become illegal in Ontario.
sorry, no mod points.
I owe you +1 informative.
Fortunately we don't judge people by their beliefs but only by their actions.
Or do we?
Spoken like a true mathematician.
Unfortunately, the rest of science does not quite work this way.
Scientific theories are not "proven", they are refined. Scientists do not discover "truth", they build models (incidentally, philosophers, whom you deride, are the ones seeking truths).
Newtonian mechanics is definitely not a "proven fact", it is a model that works quite well within given constrains and fails spectacularly when you progress to relativistic speeds or quantum scales. Special relativity is a refinement of that model that successfully deals with the speed issues and GR is yet another refinement that managed to bring gravity into the mix. Still, scientists search for another refinement to unify GR and quantum mechanics.
So no, science cannot provide the "real truth", only a model that provides a "good enough" approximation. When observations that are inconsistent with the model are made, the approximation is no longer good enough and the model (aka theory) needs to be refined further or, if it cannot be, altogether replaced.
Getting back to evolution, that it happens is an observation, the mechanism behind it is explained by theories (which are getting constantly refined). Calling it a "proven fact" is akin to saying that a burning candle is hot is a proven fact. Yes, it is but it does not tell much.
I would say that "in development" is a bit misleading.
The current version, 3.4.3, was released in December 2003 -- 5 years ago.
Since then, nothing.
I counted 423 reported bugs for this version, 405 of them are classified as "fixed in a future release" or "fixed in the next bug-fix release" and still, according to the Dev Team, this does not warrant even a minor release.
Oh, sure, there are unofficial patches but some people like the consistency that vanilla provides. Especially when playing on different servers.