Look at idle for a minute. No really, go have a look at it.
No, really, I'm not going to look at it. I have it turned off in my preferences for a reason. Are you seriously complaining about the content in Idle? Here's a fucking clue: "change the channel".
Specifically, from the Vietnam war on to today, they have made it very clear, publicly, that they actively try to manipulate what information gets out for no other reason than to manipulate public opinion about their operations.
That's been going on since forever. You don't think information was being managed in all the other wars? There's always some bullshit going on. I'm not trying to defend it, but people seem rather myopic when it comes to history.
Contracts can come into conflict with federal law. If they don't have your credit card when payment is due, and you refuse to give them one, you owe a debt. If they want to collect, federal law says that cash is legal tender.
The way I read that is they can refuse to sell or offer services for cash, but once a debt has been created they have to accept cash. For example, if you try to buy a movie ticket with all pennies, they can refuse you, but if you've stayed at a hotel, and they are now demanding payment, it's a legal debt, so they must accept cash. I don't see how their policy can trump federal law.
Or, Ubuntu shipped non-free drivers and documented the hardware as supported without mentioning that clearly enough. I *think* Ubuntu does such things. Debian sure doesn't.
Actually they do. They only recently stopped including binary firmware blobs from the testing distribution. Now you might be tempted to call one a "driver", and the other "firmware", but they are both binaries loaded at runtime to make the hardware run. Debian has recognized this as a problem for a long time but had decided to distribute the blobs as a matter of practicality.
When I reach an advanced age, say 60, I will buy myself insurance to cover the cost of my failing machine (my body).
If only people who were 60 bought health insurance, most people wouldn't be able to afford it. The point of insurance is that it spreads the cost out.
The iPod's new. It won't break when it's still young. Neither will the human body.
Dumb analogy. New iPod's do break in some small percentage, but it's not worth the cost of insuring them. Young people get sick too, just not as often as older people. They also get into accidents. It's easy to decide to opt out when you're young and healthy, but who is really willing to face the consequences if they get unlucky?
I'm merely taking back a small portion (capped at 20,000) what I already paid into the Unemployment program.
If you went broke, how would you pay for your medical care? Would you choose to DIE, as you so claimed? You paid into a system, but your medical costs could easily exceed what you paid into it.
Do you propose that emergency services should do a credit authorization before providing service?
I think he means the China that consumes more energy than the United States yet uses only half the oil.
And where do you think the energy comes from? Efficient use of oil, or burning shitloads of coal in a dirty fashion? As more people start to drive in China, they're going to ramp up their use of oil too.
You probably mean "not a happy experience for the programmer who hasn't used Perl for more than a week".
No, I don't. I've used Perl 5 for over 10 years. Not so much these days, but I still break it out when I want to parse something in a while(<>) loop, or script some web downloads, as examples.
I'm not jealous. I have no interest in learning Latin or reading obscure texts.
because I dare to actually take pride in my efforts
It's one thing to take pride, it's quite another to boast and use your arcane knowledge to insult others while feeling superior for it.
An intellectual elite is a fact of all human eras.
Intellectually elite in your chosen interests. There's an inexhaustible supply of intellectual material you have not studied, let alone mastered. Acting like a snob is the problem, not being intellectually elite.
You feel superior to me as mere mental compensation to the reality that I am superior to you and most others.
Laughable. You're just showing your ego again. You have no idea what my intelligence is, or pretty much anything else about me.
[L. Wall]: They've designed languages intended more to keep the computer happy than the programmer.
The problem is that programming in Perl quite often is not a happy experience for the programmer. Too much magic. Too much line noise. I do admit, though, that there's a quite useful subset of Perl that is fun to program in -- for scripts, anyways. Anything larger that benefits from data structures gets to be a mess, fast.
If we destroy everything that America stands for to fight the terrorists, haven't the terrorists already won?
No, because the terrorists have a different agenda. They want to rule their Muslim countries without outside interference. So in the end, both parties lose, except for the government types who don't give a shit about what America supposedly stands for.
I think the decision is obviously wrong on one point:
The law he's using only applies if "effective technological measures have been applied to a copyright work other than a computer program"
And here's the judges specious reasoning:
"It is equally plain that such ETM [effective technological measures] have been "applied" by Nintendo to its games. Are they applied to copyright works "other than computer programs"? It seems to me, again, that the answer is yes. Although that which is stored on the card is a computer program, the game includes graphic and other works the copying and use of which is controlled by the ETM."
So by his reasoning, any program that includes some copyrighted graphics falls under this law. Ridiculous.
What's bullshit is your lack of cited evidence to the evidence that I cited, which refuted the post I replied to. The French minister's speech did not show that they thought there were no WMD, as the original poster claimed. In fact, it stated the opposite: "We are pursuing together the objective of effectively disarming Iraq." Not "We don't believe Iraq has any WMD."
In other words, despite your claims of "big interests", the best you can do is point to a weak document where your number 2 example are some minor research technologies. A document which also lists pufferies such as democracy and a long desire for a Jewish homeland.
You said: "none of them have anywhere near the importance ascribed to them"
Yet they were mentioned in the link you provided from the State Department as to why we are committed to Israel.
nor am I in the position to define the US' actual long-term strategy beyond examples for you.
Yet you claimed we have "big interests" in Israel, a country we have been supporting for decades. So far, the examples are to stop Iran from getting nukes, and a science research partner.
I'm not here to educate you, certainly not if you won't listen.
I read your link. I've responded to your arguments. You are now ignoring my arguments and won't provide the "big interests" that you claim exist and tried to bolster by a weak document.
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Look at idle for a minute. No really, go have a look at it.
No, really, I'm not going to look at it. I have it turned off in my preferences for a reason. Are you seriously complaining about the content in Idle? Here's a fucking clue: "change the channel".
You've got some spittle on the sides of your mouth.
Specifically, from the Vietnam war on to today, they have made it very clear, publicly, that they actively try to manipulate what information gets out for no other reason than to manipulate public opinion about their operations.
That's been going on since forever. You don't think information was being managed in all the other wars? There's always some bullshit going on. I'm not trying to defend it, but people seem rather myopic when it comes to history.
Oversimplifications like this story don't belong on a techy site like slashdot.
Sure they do, because they give people like you a chance to fill in the details. I came here looking for a comment exactly like yours.
Contracts can come into conflict with federal law. If they don't have your credit card when payment is due, and you refuse to give them one, you owe a debt. If they want to collect, federal law says that cash is legal tender.
The way I read that is they can refuse to sell or offer services for cash, but once a debt has been created they have to accept cash. For example, if you try to buy a movie ticket with all pennies, they can refuse you, but if you've stayed at a hotel, and they are now demanding payment, it's a legal debt, so they must accept cash. I don't see how their policy can trump federal law.
Or, Ubuntu shipped non-free drivers and documented the hardware as supported without mentioning that clearly enough. I *think* Ubuntu does such things. Debian sure doesn't.
Actually they do. They only recently stopped including binary firmware blobs from the testing distribution. Now you might be tempted to call one a "driver", and the other "firmware", but they are both binaries loaded at runtime to make the hardware run. Debian has recognized this as a problem for a long time but had decided to distribute the blobs as a matter of practicality.
When I reach an advanced age, say 60, I will buy myself insurance to cover the cost of my failing machine (my body).
If only people who were 60 bought health insurance, most people wouldn't be able to afford it. The point of insurance is that it spreads the cost out.
The iPod's new. It won't break when it's still young. Neither will the human body.
Dumb analogy. New iPod's do break in some small percentage, but it's not worth the cost of insuring them. Young people get sick too, just not as often as older people. They also get into accidents. It's easy to decide to opt out when you're young and healthy, but who is really willing to face the consequences if they get unlucky?
I'm merely taking back a small portion (capped at 20,000) what I already paid into the Unemployment program.
If you went broke, how would you pay for your medical care? Would you choose to DIE, as you so claimed? You paid into a system, but your medical costs could easily exceed what you paid into it.
Do you propose that emergency services should do a credit authorization before providing service?
I think he means the China that consumes more energy than the United States yet uses only half the oil.
And where do you think the energy comes from? Efficient use of oil, or burning shitloads of coal in a dirty fashion? As more people start to drive in China, they're going to ramp up their use of oil too.
I'd sooner DIE than steal from you.
I seem to recall you collecting unemployment benefits, and even complaining about some aspect of it. True or not?
You probably mean "not a happy experience for the programmer who hasn't used Perl for more than a week".
No, I don't. I've used Perl 5 for over 10 years. Not so much these days, but I still break it out when I want to parse something in a while(<>) loop, or script some web downloads, as examples.
Your foundation is mere jealous indignance.
I'm not jealous. I have no interest in learning Latin or reading obscure texts.
because I dare to actually take pride in my efforts
It's one thing to take pride, it's quite another to boast and use your arcane knowledge to insult others while feeling superior for it.
An intellectual elite is a fact of all human eras.
Intellectually elite in your chosen interests. There's an inexhaustible supply of intellectual material you have not studied, let alone mastered. Acting like a snob is the problem, not being intellectually elite.
You feel superior to me as mere mental compensation to the reality that I am superior to you and most others.
Laughable. You're just showing your ego again. You have no idea what my intelligence is, or pretty much anything else about me.
So you could look like an elitist jackass?
Being exceptionally literate kicks ass.
You just end up looking like an elitist jackass.
[L. Wall]: They've designed languages intended more to keep the computer happy than the programmer.
The problem is that programming in Perl quite often is not a happy experience for the programmer. Too much magic. Too much line noise. I do admit, though, that there's a quite useful subset of Perl that is fun to program in -- for scripts, anyways. Anything larger that benefits from data structures gets to be a mess, fast.
In Perl? L O L.
If we destroy everything that America stands for to fight the terrorists, haven't the terrorists already won?
No, because the terrorists have a different agenda. They want to rule their Muslim countries without outside interference. So in the end, both parties lose, except for the government types who don't give a shit about what America supposedly stands for.
Not all ISPs monitor customer traffic enough to be able to provide even those statistics (speaking as a recently-ex employee of a national ISP).
Considering the secret, wholesale wiretapping of communication lines, the government could be collecting these statistics and you wouldn't know it.
If you don't want people to know you are visiting certain sites, then don't visit them.
This is why you are a sheep. Your advice is to never do anything you don't want others to know about.
Ok, I hate it when people say "mod parent up"
Yet you did it anyways.
, but in this case, it's a valid point.
Right, all those other people said it for invalid points.
I think the decision is obviously wrong on one point:
The law he's using only applies if "effective technological measures have been applied to a copyright work other than a computer program"
And here's the judges specious reasoning:
"It is equally plain that such ETM [effective technological measures] have been "applied" by Nintendo to its games. Are they applied to copyright works "other than computer programs"? It seems to me, again, that the answer is yes. Although that which is stored on the card is a computer program, the game includes graphic and other works the copying and use of which is controlled by the ETM."
So by his reasoning, any program that includes some copyrighted graphics falls under this law. Ridiculous.
What's bullshit is your lack of cited evidence to the evidence that I cited, which refuted the post I replied to. The French minister's speech did not show that they thought there were no WMD, as the original poster claimed. In fact, it stated the opposite: "We are pursuing together the objective of effectively disarming Iraq." Not "We don't believe Iraq has any WMD."
In other words, despite your claims of "big interests", the best you can do is point to a weak document where your number 2 example are some minor research technologies. A document which also lists pufferies such as democracy and a long desire for a Jewish homeland.
I didn't say "not important"
You said: "none of them have anywhere near the importance ascribed to them"
Yet they were mentioned in the link you provided from the State Department as to why we are committed to Israel.
nor am I in the position to define the US' actual long-term strategy beyond examples for you.
Yet you claimed we have "big interests" in Israel, a country we have been supporting for decades. So far, the examples are to stop Iran from getting nukes, and a science research partner.
I'm not here to educate you, certainly not if you won't listen.
I read your link. I've responded to your arguments. You are now ignoring my arguments and won't provide the "big interests" that you claim exist and tried to bolster by a weak document.