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  1. But ripping a piece of open source code without giving changes back is taking it away without sharing what you've added. In that instance, what you did amounts to nothing without what you built it on, but you're claiming the whole thing as yours.

    Having your own work 'stolen' is plagiarism and has really nothing to do with copyright.

    It's all about claiming credit for work you didn't do, and not being sociable.

  2. It's actually much harder to write a piece of music than to find performers who will play it.

    "Jamming" works, but really there aren't that many good 'Jam' artists, and there are real limitations to improvisation.

  3. Re:Some guy hates competiting with 'free' on Trent Reznor: YouTube Is Built On the Back Of Stolen Content (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, Johnny Cash covered one of Trents songs and made it something more than the usual self indulgent whine.

  4. Re: Some guy hates competiting with 'free' on Trent Reznor: YouTube Is Built On the Back Of Stolen Content (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    He got his attention and attained his success the 'old' way by grinding away until he got lucky.

    Everybody is capable of making music. Unfortunately a lot of us just sit back and listen. Performers who get a 'breakthrough' were almost always get handed that from on high, after a ton of grinding.

    YouTube and similar distribution forms remove a lot of barriers, and change things so 'getting lucky' isn't as important.

    Getting a seat at the table doesn't quality somebody to talk about music production and distribution. Oh, right. Actually it does, under the current regime.

  5. Trent being owned by Apple is just... well, I guess everybody needs to have a master.

  6. A YouTube channel is built using cameras. on Trent Reznor: YouTube Is Built On the Back Of Stolen Content (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Sure, people can just cut and snip and paste, etc. and come up with something interesting enough to get views. That isn't the point though.

    But YouTube is built using cameras. And there's not nearly as many exclusionary barriers to success as there were in the 'good old days.'

    Trent is threatened by that, sadly.

  7. Re:Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for proofreading.

    I should have typed 'Moronic Hooligans' in place of 'Skinhead Morons.'

    Here's your cookie, thanks for saving me my coin.

  8. Re: Are foreign devices fully secure? on Obama Finally Ditches BlackBerry, Switches To Samsung Galaxy S4 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what our national costume is here in the USA, but that is what Obama should be required to wear.

  9. I was a BBSer, and actually a the sysop/owner of a popular local board. Yes, it was my lawn everybody was hanging around on...

  10. Who would consume all the comic books with them gone?

  11. Re:Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll give you a hint about the religion of the vast majority of people who "roll fags."

    I would have to say, for the most part, their religion is probably agnostic. Skinhead morons don't generally attend church. You do a great disservice to your cause by trying to assert that the moronic hooligans who bash gay people have any basis beyond moronic hooliganism for the way they behave. They''re not an organized group. They're street filth.

  12. Re: Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    To come full circle, a similar fundamentalist, unbending adherence to old laws (and a big dose of crazy) has ended up with today's events.

    Actually, no, it hasn't. Though there are plenty of craven opportunists hoping to use this tragedy that way.

  13. Re:Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Almost certainly a closeted homosexual

    How can you pull such a garbage assertion out of your ass and type it here? Doesn't it embarrass you to do that?

  14. Re: Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    We need a citation, so we can examine and characterize said 'guy.'

  15. Re:It's only weird looking at it from 2016 based e on What Star Trek Owes To Robert Heinlein · · Score: 2

    At the end of the war, the US even whisked the head scientist of the Japanese Chemical Wars unit, Unit 731, to the US to avoid having him prosecuted and executed. He became a key scientist in the US chemical war research effort. This after it had been well documented that this scientist's unit had even engaged in chemical weapons experiments using US POWs as subjects (along with many, many more Chinese civilians). The US military really, really wanted the results of these war criminal's research, and to make them part of the US team.

  16. Re: What happened to the second campus? on A Tour of Campus 2, Apple's Upcoming Headquarters (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    One Infinite Hype. Surely you've heard of it.

  17. Would the UK have to negotiate trade deals with the whole EU or could they negotiate trade deals with individual member states?

    What have the EU members surrendered to be a part of the EU?

  18. That's cute. Did you adopt that worldview when you were a freshman and discovered Noam Chomsky?

    Enjoy your toy-like political ideology. It's kinda cute.

  19. Re:Well, it is either her or Trump. on Julian Assange: Google is 'Directly Engaged' In Hillary Clinton's Campaign (infowars.com) · · Score: 2

    The Clinton family is plenty bent enough as it is.

  20. Re:CROOKED hillary will be busted by Donald J. Tru on Julian Assange: Google is 'Directly Engaged' In Hillary Clinton's Campaign (infowars.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump may possibly provide that reboot, if we're lucky.

    The surplus office furniture/equipment auctions as they empty out large buildings full of worthless-fuck government employees will bankrupt most of the big office equipment manufacturers for years after.

    (I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.)

  21. Re:"a report via Infowars" on Julian Assange: Google is 'Directly Engaged' In Hillary Clinton's Campaign (infowars.com) · · Score: 1

    Daily Kos/Infowars. You've seen one, you've seen them all.

  22. Re:Welcome to the entire history of mankind on Julian Assange: Google is 'Directly Engaged' In Hillary Clinton's Campaign (infowars.com) · · Score: 1

    Julian can do us a favor, though, if he convinces even just one Clinton supporter that she's really no different from Donald Trump aside from the fact that she's only a three figure millionaire, so doesn't live in the complete bubble that Billionaire Trump lives in. She can't afford to completely isolate herself from anybody who would possibly ever tell her something she thought was wrong.

    Aside from that, basically the same plutocrat mentality as Trump. With texture provided by her handlers, of course. (To keep her from just being more of the usual political diarrhea.)

  23. Re:Sin visited with punishment on Julian Assange: Google is 'Directly Engaged' In Hillary Clinton's Campaign (infowars.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump has kind of a dumb East-coast vocal style. Not particularly intelligent sounding, and mildly annoying.

    Clinton's voice elicits the feeling that you're listening to one of the giant spiders from Lord Of The Ring. Not because she sounds like a spider, but spiders are evil and tricky and can obfuscate their voice style.

  24. True. They will lose all their staffers who are no longer able to update their Facebook.

  25. Re:Productivity not Security on Singapore To Cut Off Internet Access For Government Workers From 2017 (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We could hope this would spur a global reassessment of the use cases for Internet Access at the workplace. Most workplaces would function well with a whitelist of the small handful of websites a worker needs to be able to navigate to remain a productive worker.

    You're at WORK.