0.5% of $40,000 a year (not that I know what you earn!) comes out as $8,000 over a 40 year career. Surely that's quite a lot of money for a hole in the ground?
Basically what i'm getting at, is you probably have a better chance of stopping crime if nearly everyone carried a gun. Effectively, you have a 99% of the population as a police force.
No, you have 99% of the population as an untrained armed mob. Would you really feel safer if you knew that every junkie, angry drunk, borderline sufferer of mental illness and road rage perpetrator you met was packing heat? Reducing crime by arming the whole population is like limiting the probability of nuclear war by giving everyone their own atom bomb!
The primary reason most people advocate capitalism is ETHICAL, not scientific. It was liberals and their endless dreams of micromanaging the perfect society that gave birth to that study.
Indeed - you only have to look at the fine examples of capitalistic ethics provided recently by companies such as Enron, Worldcom, Global Crossing etc to realise how unnecessary government regulation in the free market is.
As far as your other statements, many of us wish there WAS no police force. I am perfectly capable of defending myself, and have a license to carry a Ruger.38 to do so.
Ah yes, and of course the police do nothing that giving everyone a gun wouldn't. It's like I've always said: you can't beat a heavily-armed lynch mob for a meticulous and professional criminal investigation leading to a fair and open trial.
Health care? You have only to go to a socialist country to see how that works. They won't throw you out in the gutter, but they will make you get in line, possibly for months to remedy serious ailments such as cancer. Even dialysis machines are hardly easily accessible.
And of course, limiting access to healthcare according to personal wealth or employability is such a fair way of arranging things, isn't it? After all, it's obviously entirely your own fault if you're poor or unemployed. I'm sure many of the/. readers left jobless by recent events in the tech industry will back me up on this one.
Incidentally, which socialist countries are you thinking of? How about Cuba as a counter-example? The health service there is excellent, and completely free at the point of use.
What you say is true, but the point of this part of the article was to assert that copyrights extending beyond the death of the artist do not fulfil their stated purpose of "promoting the progress of... useful arts".
Crossing "talent search" and "big brother" shows seems to be popular in the UK (and elsewhere) right now - eg Fame Academy and Pop Rivals. Many people would agree with the sentiments expressed in this Guardian article though.
That's because the English language is defined by usage. That means:
1. People who say it's right to call copyright infringers "pirates" are correct
2. People who say it's wrong to call copyright infringers "pirates" are also correct - as long as they're arguing that it's morally, not definitively wrong; if they persuade enough people to adopt their viewpoint they'll eventually be definitively right too!
They're still twisting the English language to their own ends. They need to explain why users have to install their new cards, but "security" sounds so much friendlier than "to protect our revenue stream", despite the two being far from synonymous...
I largely agree with you, but bear in mind that at the time of the 3G auctions in Europe, the general consensus was that a network operator without a 3G license would be dead as soon as people migrated away from GSM (then thought to be only 5 or so years away).
Having this belief, they chose to believe optimistic profit forecasts rather than drop out of the auctions and go bankrupt.
ah, but what if it was evil spirits that happened to kill them just as the bomb went off?
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Well, actually, yes. KMAIL is OK, but KPP could have been designed to confuse people. And the generalisations you make sarcastically have a considerable basis in truth (in my opinion, anyway...)
Many european physicists and physics collaborations are moving from F77 to C++ too. All CERN tools and libraries are currently being rewritten in C++, and many undergraduate courses (in the UK at least) have no Fortran teaching at all - students learn C++ from the outset.
For large projects, I think the benefits of object orientation vastly outweigh the small loss of speed.
Well, being a company with shareholders, they'll (continue to) do whatever they think will increase their revenues the most. Cg is one example, and if open-sourcing it guarantees it wide adoption, that's what they'll do. I doubt we'll see them open-sourcing their drivers until their quality and integration (one driver for all cards, etc) is no longer the significant competitive advantage that it is now.
I think you misunderstand terrorism. Until Sealand start imposing their corrupt moral values on the world (thus offending Islamic terrorists), oppressing the downtrodden proletariat (Maoist and other Communist terrorists), taking part in animal testing, offering abortions or intervening in Northern Ireland, I think they're safe.
it is only a matter of time before some powerful organization convinces some judges that ISPs should be held liable for allowing P2P on their network... technology such as swarmcast which acts to distribution free software will likely get lumped in with the Napter/Kazaa/Foo P2P technologies.
Surely an important weapon against knee-jerk blanket bans would be for there to be a well-known, respectable, law-abiding P2P network?
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0.5% of $40,000 a year (not that I know what you earn!) comes out as $8,000 over a 40 year career. Surely that's quite a lot of money for a hole in the ground?
Basically what i'm getting at, is you probably have a better chance of stopping crime if nearly everyone carried a gun. Effectively, you have a 99% of the population as a police force.
No, you have 99% of the population as an untrained armed mob. Would you really feel safer if you knew that every junkie, angry drunk, borderline sufferer of mental illness and road rage perpetrator you met was packing heat? Reducing crime by arming the whole population is like limiting the probability of nuclear war by giving everyone their own atom bomb!
The primary reason most people advocate capitalism is ETHICAL, not scientific. It was liberals and their endless dreams of micromanaging the perfect society that gave birth to that study.
Indeed - you only have to look at the fine examples of capitalistic ethics provided recently by companies such as Enron, Worldcom, Global Crossing etc to realise how unnecessary government regulation in the free market is.
As far as your other statements, many of us wish there WAS no police force. I am perfectly capable of defending myself, and have a license to carry a Ruger .38 to do so.
Ah yes, and of course the police do nothing that giving everyone a gun wouldn't. It's like I've always said: you can't beat a heavily-armed lynch mob for a meticulous and professional criminal investigation leading to a fair and open trial.
Health care? You have only to go to a socialist country to see how that works. They won't throw you out in the gutter, but they will make you get in line, possibly for months to remedy serious ailments such as cancer. Even dialysis machines are hardly easily accessible.
And of course, limiting access to healthcare according to personal wealth or employability is such a fair way of arranging things, isn't it? After all, it's obviously entirely your own fault if you're poor or unemployed. I'm sure many of the /. readers left jobless by recent events in the tech industry will back me up on this one.
Incidentally, which socialist countries are you thinking of? How about Cuba as a counter-example? The health service there is excellent, and completely free at the point of use.
ah ok - probably sodium hydroxide then
What you say is true, but the point of this part of the article was to assert that copyrights extending beyond the death of the artist do not fulfil their stated purpose of "promoting the progress of... useful arts".
for the benefit of us non-USians - what's drano?
Combine this with some of the wireless power things coming out, and we're halfway to a Star Trek world. Network the tricorders indeed!
Easy tiger... there's still all that warp drive malarky to invent...
What about the BBC World Service (receivable anywhere)? The Voice of America? Moscow? (if they're still broadcasting these days... anyone know?)
Crossing "talent search" and "big brother" shows seems to be popular in the UK (and elsewhere) right now - eg Fame Academy and Pop Rivals. Many people would agree with the sentiments expressed in this Guardian article though.
That's because the English language is defined by usage. That means:
1. People who say it's right to call copyright infringers "pirates" are correct
2. People who say it's wrong to call copyright infringers "pirates" are also correct - as long as they're arguing that it's morally, not definitively wrong; if they persuade enough people to adopt their viewpoint they'll eventually be definitively right too!
They're still twisting the English language to their own ends. They need to explain why users have to install their new cards, but "security" sounds so much friendlier than "to protect our revenue stream", despite the two being far from synonymous...
I largely agree with you, but bear in mind that at the time of the 3G auctions in Europe, the general consensus was that a network operator without a 3G license would be dead as soon as people migrated away from GSM (then thought to be only 5 or so years away).
Having this belief, they chose to believe optimistic profit forecasts rather than drop out of the auctions and go bankrupt.
No.
Scientist: My results are consistent with the existence of previously-unseen effect "X". More research is required.
Media: Scientist discovers X!
darn - that's ruined the films for everyone now :-)
ah, but what if it was evil spirits that happened to kill them just as the bomb went off?
Well, actually, yes. KMAIL is OK, but KPP could have been designed to confuse people.
And the generalisations you make sarcastically have a considerable basis in truth (in my opinion, anyway...)
Many european physicists and physics collaborations are moving from F77 to C++ too. All CERN tools and libraries are currently being rewritten in C++, and many undergraduate courses (in the UK at least) have no Fortran teaching at all - students learn C++ from the outset.
For large projects, I think the benefits of object orientation vastly outweigh the small loss of speed.
Well, being a company with shareholders, they'll (continue to) do whatever they think will increase their revenues the most. Cg is one example, and if open-sourcing it guarantees it wide adoption, that's what they'll do. I doubt we'll see them open-sourcing their drivers until their quality and integration (one driver for all cards, etc) is no longer the significant competitive advantage that it is now.
I think you misunderstand terrorism. Until Sealand start imposing their corrupt moral values on the world (thus offending Islamic terrorists), oppressing the downtrodden proletariat (Maoist and other Communist terrorists), taking part in animal testing, offering abortions or intervening in Northern Ireland, I think they're safe.
Only if they were blocking the line of sight between the transceivers - I guess you could generally avoid this by placing them cunningly.
"your conversation partner could get a nice real-time view of your ear"
but only if they had eyes inside their ears. I start to worry about Michael and his friends...
hmmm... as usual, the "mod me down" request has the opposite effect...
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(off-topic, mod me down, etc.
No, it could mean that they were sent a copy by a non-customer.
it is only a matter of time before some powerful organization convinces some judges that ISPs should be held liable for allowing P2P on their network... technology such as swarmcast which acts to distribution free software will likely get lumped in with the Napter/Kazaa/Foo P2P technologies.
Surely an important weapon against knee-jerk blanket bans would be for there to be a well-known, respectable, law-abiding P2P network?