You're right, but not the way you think. Modern science was started by the Catholic church. The dark ages were brought about by the fall of the Roman Empire. Had it not been for the church we might well still be in the dark ages.
With your bronze gears and such tomfoolery. Back in my day we sisn't even have abacuses. We had to count everything by hand, do the math in our heads, and remember it!
Now get off my lawn, and take your newfangled gizmo with you!
Once when I first got XP it borked its own network, replacing a perfectly good ethernet driver with one that didn't work at all!
It had informed me that there were "updates" so I let it do its thing, and went to bed. When I got up the cat had knocked the cablemodem off the desk, and it wouln't get on the internet. I figured the cat had broken the modem. The cable company's tech support said no, the modem was good because he could see the modem from his end, but he couldn't see the computer, so my LAN card was probably bad.
I figured it was probably a cable, but changing cables had no effect. I was all ready to shell out ten bucks for an ethernet card, but reinstalled Windows for an unrelated problem, and lo and behold I was on the internet again - until I updated it.
That was the last time I let it update automatically, I'll tell you.
It wasn't windows' fault, it was a hardware fault. My point was that Linux is fault-tolerant, where Windows is pretty fragile. It takes a lot to make Linux crash, very little to make Windows crash.
I can't imagine my mom wanting to bother trying to set up wireless in ANY Linux distro
I haven't set wireless up at all, but with a wired network I found Windows was a pain in the ass; I had a 98 box and an XP laptop and had a hell of a time getting them to talk to each other. I put Mandrake (this was over five years ago) on both of them, and the Linux partitions were a piece of cake to network; it pretty much did it attomatically on installation.
Windows' vaunted "ease of use" is a myth, as is Linux's complexity. Windows' only claim to superiority to Linux is that it's prettier.
These jokes are getting old and redundant. My Windows XP has not crashed a single time in months
I'd have modded that "funny", it made me laugh! I read it as "Windows only crashes every few months!"
Mine crashed repeatedly, while its Linux partition was rock solid. Now the computer itself is like a rock - the power supply had been going out, causing the crashes. I'm using an old box I dragged out of the basement until I get the energy to replace the power supply.
Yeah, but I get younger every year. I had arthritis bad when I first voted, now it barely hurts ate all. When I was 30 I'd call in sick if I drank until 3:00 am, now I outlast the twenty five year olds. I wore coke-bottle glasses all my life, now my vision is better than 20/20 (you will be assimilated).
You voted for Democrats for 20 years!
That was mostly the Republican's fault.
I voted for Reagan because I didn't think we could possibly have a worse President than Carter. I voted for him again because the idiot Democrats ran Carter's VP. I voted Democrat in the next election because Bush was Reagan's VP. I held my nose voted Clinton because Bush was a shitty President.
I actually voted for Clinton's reelection because he did a good job. I voted against Bush because, as they say, "like father, like son". Turns out it was more like Asimov's Foundation Mayors, where the first (don't remember his name) was brutal and efficient, junior was merely brutal, and the third of the line was a "bookkeeper gone wrong".
If I wasn't disgusted with both major parties I'd most likely vote McCain this time.
The nations retail goods are so tied up in China right now that if we pissed them off, all they would have to do is squeeze the tube a little to bring the whole world to its knees.
If the slave kills the master, the slave starves to death.
it would be financial suicide to actually carry out their threats.
That's the problem with having everything revolving around money. Human rights? Who cares. Government censorship? Not our problem. Lose some money? We can't let THAT happen!
"Financial suicide" would be having your newspaper go out of business. I can't see a paper going out of business because of lack of olympic coverage.
The press seems to have completely forgotten its primary purpose, and that purpose is NOT "making a profit".
Adultery is not a crime. Drunk driving is. I can forgive perjury about a lie in answer to a question that should never have been asked.
Adultery affects nobody but the adulteror and his/her family. Drunk drivers are a menace to us all. A conviction for a candidate's crime should not be secret. His or her fidelity to his or her spouse is none of the voters' business.
BTW, I am not a partisan. My voting record in presidential elections: Nixon Carter Reagan Reagan Whoever ran against Bush Sr (I don't remember) Clinton (held my nose and voted for the lesser of two evils) Clinton (he did a good job) Kerry Gore Barr (not voting lesser of two evils again)
We might learn a lesson from this. Like, if you find out the day before the election that a Presidential candidate has a conviction for drunk driving, vote against him. Not because he's a reformed alcoholic or even a reformed cokehead, not becaue he was driving drunk, not because he was a criminal, but because he hid that fact from the American people.
If WalMart can sell Huckleberry Finn cheaper than anyone else, why should I care? It's not like they have a monopoly, but Disney DOES have a monopoly on Steamboat Willie.
The present way is Sony owning all the TV stations. Limited time copyright is everybody in the world having their own TV station.
You can still buy copies of Huckleberry Finn that are identical to copies sold under Clemon's copyright. You can't buy a copy of the Golden Book version of Little Black Sambo even though that book is half century old.
Yep, that sounds like Microsoft - unimaginitive and more effort than needed and completely without utility. I can change radio stations, go from AM to FM to CD, change CD tracks, or raise of lower the volume by pressing a button on the steering wheel. Having to talk, possibly interrupting my conversation with my passenger, adds nothing.
I can't think of a better way to do voice activation for all those systems together
I can, and Ster Trak did forty years go. Program a single word (such as "computer" or "Fadwoggle") in your or other authorized user's voice like you program names into a Razr phone. Then when you want voice activation, instead of pressing a button and saying "KSHE", you say "Computer, KSHE".
If you have to press a button, why do you need voice activation at all, except to impress your passengers with your nerdy toy? I want more than nerdiness from my nerdy toys, I was real utility.
It depends on where you're travelling, and why. If you're driving down I-70 through Kansas, there's absolutely NO scenery whatever. If you're making your weekly trip up I-55 from St Louis to Grandma's in Mount Olive, there's not likely to be anything you haven't seen a thousand times already.
If you're on vacation it's different.
What's the difference between drawing or writing (hard to do in a car anyway) or reading/coloring and watching a movie or playing a game?
ever wanted to download a blockbuster and got some gay porn instead?
I'll give you a concrete example with a real music file. I have some friends whose band's name is The Station (no link to their site as I don't want to be accused of comment spam). They have CDs for sale at their shows, and a song on their first CD is titled "The Fog".
So you drunkenly stumble into a bar and they're playing, or you hear them at a musc festival with a lot of other bands, and you like them; they're unique, you can't even pigeonhole the genre. The next day you're telling a friend about them, but you can't remember their name, only "the fog". So you fire up your P2P client and download The Fog, which is freely available on archive.org with their permission.
You don't have your downloads going to a non-sharable folder - why should you? You are part of the boycott and won't buy or download RIAA music. But the copy you get isn't The Station's; it's a MAFIAA tune, and they sue you for copyright violation (click the google link to see what I mean; none of the songs listed on the first page are the tune by my friends).
This is the main reason I think that no noncommercial use of any intellectual work should be illegal.
Yeah, it's called "being a good attorney". Being one yourself, you can certainly identify. The attorney's job is to present the client's arguments in the best possible light, and if he has to bend the law or ethics to do it, then that's his job. Breaking the law is OK too, as long as you don't get caught
On at least one client you can download to a non-sharable folder and share legal files (indie tunes the author wants shared, Linux distros, Star Wreck, public domain books, etc). Do this and you aren't a leech.
I'm checking the "no karma bonus" since this is so far ooftopic, but a so-called "bible" that is protected by copyright isn't a text I would trust in the least. "If a man asks for your cloak, give him your coat as well".
Also I wouldn't trust a preacher in an expensive suit, or one who wore a necktie. The tie is the symbol of wealth and power; bankers and politicians wear neckties. People who wear "Satan's leash" worship money, not God.
I burn the KJV to CD and give them away. If you are a Christian, you should too.
I believe your work is helping to fix the typical feeling of mistrust that most Americans have for lawyers.
Actually, the one thing that fixes "the typical feeling of mistrust that most Americans have for lawyers" is needing one yourself. The lawyers that took care of my divorce and bankrupcy were intelligent, personable, dedicated, and well worth what I paid them.
Yeh, we all thought you were fighting the good fight from your Mom's basement
Not all of us; I'd guessed that he was probably near my age (the picture confirms it). It is a certainty that he would have to be at least three decades old, because he would have had to graduate college and then law school. By then you're pushing the magic 30, unless you're Earl's friend Crabman.
And shoplifters go to jail too, just like music thieves should.
Shoplifters get arrested, but they don't go to jail. The penalty for shoplifting is a small fine - I know, because Evil-X got busted for shoplifting once, and it cost me a hundred bucks. If I hadn't had the cash for the fine she would have had to do "community service". That's one huge difference between copyright infringement and stealing music: there's a small fine for stealing music (shoplifting a CD) and a huge civil penalty for copyright infringement (sharing tunes).
And from what I've read, the "music thieves", the ones stealing from the musicians, are YOU- the record labels themselves.
Never want to see RIAA again? Then don't steal the dream - don't steal the music. Buy your "tunes" at a reputable record store instead of just stealing them off the Internet.
No, buy them directly from the artist. And don't buy them at a record store; record stores carry RIAA titles. You can't get rid of the MAFIAA by giving them your hard earned cash. Sustain the boycott that has been going on since the original Napster and that the music industry and the mainstream media refuse to acknowledge.
Don't download the RIAA's crap, legally or illegally. True artists (at least those with brains) put MP3s on the internet for free, knowing that if you like it you'll pay for it.
RTFA. He's mostly working for free on these RIAA cases. I, for one, salute his efforts.
Am I the only one who notices a resemblance between NYCL's photo (in TFA) and Isaac Asimov? If Ray grew a set of insane giant sideburns he'd be a ringer for Asimov!
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You're right, but not the way you think. Modern science was started by the Catholic church. The dark ages were brought about by the fall of the Roman Empire. Had it not been for the church we might well still be in the dark ages.
With your bronze gears and such tomfoolery. Back in my day we sisn't even have abacuses. We had to count everything by hand, do the math in our heads, and remember it!
Now get off my lawn, and take your newfangled gizmo with you!
Once when I first got XP it borked its own network, replacing a perfectly good ethernet driver with one that didn't work at all!
It had informed me that there were "updates" so I let it do its thing, and went to bed. When I got up the cat had knocked the cablemodem off the desk, and it wouln't get on the internet. I figured the cat had broken the modem. The cable company's tech support said no, the modem was good because he could see the modem from his end, but he couldn't see the computer, so my LAN card was probably bad.
I figured it was probably a cable, but changing cables had no effect. I was all ready to shell out ten bucks for an ethernet card, but reinstalled Windows for an unrelated problem, and lo and behold I was on the internet again - until I updated it.
That was the last time I let it update automatically, I'll tell you.
It wasn't windows' fault, it was a hardware fault. My point was that Linux is fault-tolerant, where Windows is pretty fragile. It takes a lot to make Linux crash, very little to make Windows crash.
I can't imagine my mom wanting to bother trying to set up wireless in ANY Linux distro
I haven't set wireless up at all, but with a wired network I found Windows was a pain in the ass; I had a 98 box and an XP laptop and had a hell of a time getting them to talk to each other. I put Mandrake (this was over five years ago) on both of them, and the Linux partitions were a piece of cake to network; it pretty much did it attomatically on installation.
Windows' vaunted "ease of use" is a myth, as is Linux's complexity. Windows' only claim to superiority to Linux is that it's prettier.
These jokes are getting old and redundant. My Windows XP has not crashed a single time in months
I'd have modded that "funny", it made me laugh! I read it as "Windows only crashes every few months!"
Mine crashed repeatedly, while its Linux partition was rock solid. Now the computer itself is like a rock - the power supply had been going out, causing the crashes. I'm using an old box I dragged out of the basement until I get the energy to replace the power supply.
Wow. UR old
Yeah, but I get younger every year. I had arthritis bad when I first voted, now it barely hurts ate all. When I was 30 I'd call in sick if I drank until 3:00 am, now I outlast the twenty five year olds. I wore coke-bottle glasses all my life, now my vision is better than 20/20 (you will be assimilated).
You voted for Democrats for 20 years!
That was mostly the Republican's fault.
I voted for Reagan because I didn't think we could possibly have a worse President than Carter. I voted for him again because the idiot Democrats ran Carter's VP. I voted Democrat in the next election because Bush was Reagan's VP. I held my nose voted Clinton because Bush was a shitty President.
I actually voted for Clinton's reelection because he did a good job. I voted against Bush because, as they say, "like father, like son". Turns out it was more like Asimov's Foundation Mayors, where the first (don't remember his name) was brutal and efficient, junior was merely brutal, and the third of the line was a "bookkeeper gone wrong".
If I wasn't disgusted with both major parties I'd most likely vote McCain this time.
The nations retail goods are so tied up in China right now that if we pissed them off, all they would have to do is squeeze the tube a little to bring the whole world to its knees.
If the slave kills the master, the slave starves to death.
it would be financial suicide to actually carry out their threats.
That's the problem with having everything revolving around money. Human rights? Who cares. Government censorship? Not our problem. Lose some money? We can't let THAT happen!
"Financial suicide" would be having your newspaper go out of business. I can't see a paper going out of business because of lack of olympic coverage.
The press seems to have completely forgotten its primary purpose, and that purpose is NOT "making a profit".
BEIJING (Reuters) -- Some International Olympic Committee officials cut a deal to let China block sensitive websites
I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't let you do that.
Adultery is not a crime. Drunk driving is. I can forgive perjury about a lie in answer to a question that should never have been asked.
Adultery affects nobody but the adulteror and his/her family. Drunk drivers are a menace to us all. A conviction for a candidate's crime should not be secret. His or her fidelity to his or her spouse is none of the voters' business.
BTW, I am not a partisan. My voting record in presidential elections:
Nixon
Carter
Reagan
Reagan
Whoever ran against Bush Sr (I don't remember)
Clinton (held my nose and voted for the lesser of two evils)
Clinton (he did a good job)
Kerry
Gore
Barr (not voting lesser of two evils again)
We might learn a lesson from this. Like, if you find out the day before the election that a Presidential candidate has a conviction for drunk driving, vote against him. Not because he's a reformed alcoholic or even a reformed cokehead, not becaue he was driving drunk, not because he was a criminal, but because he hid that fact from the American people.
Note that 'sex!' appears twice in the query. Must be VERY important.
My employer was asked for a list of employees, broken down by age and sex. He replied, "Just mcgrew".
If WalMart can sell Huckleberry Finn cheaper than anyone else, why should I care? It's not like they have a monopoly, but Disney DOES have a monopoly on Steamboat Willie.
The present way is Sony owning all the TV stations. Limited time copyright is everybody in the world having their own TV station.
You can still buy copies of Huckleberry Finn that are identical to copies sold under Clemon's copyright. You can't buy a copy of the Golden Book version of Little Black Sambo even though that book is half century old.
Yep, that sounds like Microsoft - unimaginitive and more effort than needed and completely without utility. I can change radio stations, go from AM to FM to CD, change CD tracks, or raise of lower the volume by pressing a button on the steering wheel. Having to talk, possibly interrupting my conversation with my passenger, adds nothing.
I can't think of a better way to do voice activation for all those systems together
I can, and Ster Trak did forty years go. Program a single word (such as "computer" or "Fadwoggle") in your or other authorized user's voice like you program names into a Razr phone. Then when you want voice activation, instead of pressing a button and saying "KSHE", you say "Computer, KSHE".
If you have to press a button, why do you need voice activation at all, except to impress your passengers with your nerdy toy? I want more than nerdiness from my nerdy toys, I was real utility.
It depends on where you're travelling, and why. If you're driving down I-70 through Kansas, there's absolutely NO scenery whatever. If you're making your weekly trip up I-55 from St Louis to Grandma's in Mount Olive, there's not likely to be anything you haven't seen a thousand times already.
If you're on vacation it's different.
What's the difference between drawing or writing (hard to do in a car anyway) or reading/coloring and watching a movie or playing a game?
ever wanted to download a blockbuster and got some gay porn instead?
I'll give you a concrete example with a real music file. I have some friends whose band's name is The Station (no link to their site as I don't want to be accused of comment spam). They have CDs for sale at their shows, and a song on their first CD is titled "The Fog".
So you drunkenly stumble into a bar and they're playing, or you hear them at a musc festival with a lot of other bands, and you like them; they're unique, you can't even pigeonhole the genre. The next day you're telling a friend about them, but you can't remember their name, only "the fog". So you fire up your P2P client and download The Fog, which is freely available on archive.org with their permission.
You don't have your downloads going to a non-sharable folder - why should you? You are part of the boycott and won't buy or download RIAA music. But the copy you get isn't The Station's; it's a MAFIAA tune, and they sue you for copyright violation (click the google link to see what I mean; none of the songs listed on the first page are the tune by my friends).
This is the main reason I think that no noncommercial use of any intellectual work should be illegal.
Yeah, it's called "being a good attorney". Being one yourself, you can certainly identify. The attorney's job is to present the client's arguments in the best possible light, and if he has to bend the law or ethics to do it, then that's his job. Breaking the law is OK too, as long as you don't get caught
How can being bad possibly be good?
On at least one client you can download to a non-sharable folder and share legal files (indie tunes the author wants shared, Linux distros, Star Wreck, public domain books, etc). Do this and you aren't a leech.
I'm checking the "no karma bonus" since this is so far ooftopic, but a so-called "bible" that is protected by copyright isn't a text I would trust in the least. "If a man asks for your cloak, give him your coat as well".
Also I wouldn't trust a preacher in an expensive suit, or one who wore a necktie. The tie is the symbol of wealth and power; bankers and politicians wear neckties. People who wear
"Satan's leash" worship money, not God.
I burn the KJV to CD and give them away. If you are a Christian, you should too.
oh forget it- just give me the hookers and be done with it
If you insist.
I believe your work is helping to fix the typical feeling of mistrust that most Americans have for lawyers.
Actually, the one thing that fixes "the typical feeling of mistrust that most Americans have for lawyers" is needing one yourself. The lawyers that took care of my divorce and bankrupcy were intelligent, personable, dedicated, and well worth what I paid them.
Yeh, we all thought you were fighting the good fight from your Mom's basement
Not all of us; I'd guessed that he was probably near my age (the picture confirms it). It is a certainty that he would have to be at least three decades old, because he would have had to graduate college and then law school. By then you're pushing the magic 30, unless you're Earl's friend Crabman.
And shoplifters go to jail too, just like music thieves should.
Shoplifters get arrested, but they don't go to jail. The penalty for shoplifting is a small fine - I know, because Evil-X got busted for shoplifting once, and it cost me a hundred bucks. If I hadn't had the cash for the fine she would have had to do "community service". That's one huge difference between copyright infringement and stealing music: there's a small fine for stealing music (shoplifting a CD) and a huge civil penalty for copyright infringement (sharing tunes).
And from what I've read, the "music thieves", the ones stealing from the musicians, are YOU- the record labels themselves.
Never want to see RIAA again? Then don't steal the dream - don't steal the music. Buy your "tunes" at a reputable record store instead of just stealing them off the Internet.
No, buy them directly from the artist. And don't buy them at a record store; record stores carry RIAA titles. You can't get rid of the MAFIAA by giving them your hard earned cash. Sustain the boycott that has been going on since the original Napster and that the music industry and the mainstream media refuse to acknowledge.
Don't download the RIAA's crap, legally or illegally. True artists (at least those with brains) put MP3s on the internet for free, knowing that if you like it you'll pay for it.
RTFA. He's mostly working for free on these RIAA cases. I, for one, salute his efforts.
Am I the only one who notices a resemblance between NYCL's photo (in TFA) and Isaac Asimov? If Ray grew a set of insane giant sideburns he'd be a ringer for Asimov!