Slashdot, your clock is wrong. Have you been huffing kittins again?
Well actually now it's 11:07 but I had to look up the "root of all evil". It appears that the right wingers (Godwin) are wrong, and that government is NOT in fact the root of all evil.
Google is? Ok, I guess. All its employees were babies once. Many slashdotters still are (but not you, dear reader)
My bank balance isn't intangible. I put my cash in the bank for safekeeping. In fact, I loan money to the bank at interest. There's nothing intangible about it, save your grasp of the situation.
That settlement seems reasonable compared to the RIAA ones.
Yeah, and gas prices here seem "reasonable" compared to UK gas prices. But they're still over three times as high as they were when those two oil men first took occupancy of the White House.
It's a ripoff (well, at this point still an attempted ripoff) despite the fact that these bozos are trying to legally steal a lot less than the RIAA legally steals. Just because a bank robber gets away with a $10,000 heist doen't mean the guy who robs a liquor store for $100 isn't stealing.
No, I get kudos and encouragement daily. I have a very long list of people who have put me on their "friends" list. People without blue dots by their names tell me how much they enjoy reading the journals. My "freaks" list is quite short.
In fact, the only one who seems to not like the journals is you, mr Coward. I suggest that if you don't like the journals, just don't fucking read them, moron.
Sure there is. It's called the Earned Income Tax Credit
Key words are "earned income". You have to have a job to get it, and what's more, a job that pays starvation wages. It isn't the poor person getting this welfare, it's the company that he generates wealth for that gets the government largess. Raise the minimum wage so that a wage earner can afford the cost of living and nobody will get the earned income tax credit.
But I'm sure a right wing facist like yourself doesn't belive in the minimum wage at all, that rules and regulations are for the poor while the rich and the corporations they run should be left alone by the government.
Corporate welfare is indeed still around, but welfare for poor people is not.
more children = more tax credit
That's the Child Care credit, and it's there so that widow White can afford babysitters for her two kids so she can go to work for starvation wages.
The question is not whether there are more white people who received welfare than black people who received welfare.
And I already gave you your answer, Mr. Limbaugh. More white people were on AFDC than all other races combined.
That's some offal expensive intellectual pooperty!
-mcgrew
(Yes, boys and girls, today's new word is "intellectual pooperty". Because anybody who thinks that something intangible is "property" has shit for brains.
what changes do we need to make to the constitution to make it work?
The Constitution's 4th amendment guarantees that the police won't open my garage door, enter, and "have a look around" without a warrant. But that's just what happened last memorial day.
Article II Section 8 says congress can grant copyrights terms lasting "a limited time". The Supreme Court says "limited" means whatever Congress says it means. If "limited" means whatever Congress says it means, then any other word in the Constitution means whatever Congress says it means.
So how is amending the Constitution, or rewriting it entirely, going to help anything?
I'm guessing that most politicians who take money from organizations like the MPAA understand that trying to stop people from sharing files over the internet is like trying to stop them smoking marijuana, except a lot harder.
So how long have they been trying to get people to stop smoking marijuana now? They haven't given up yet, have they?
I think the public interest is served by the availability of information.
Which is why they fight availability of information. In the US, the public interest is always trumped by business interests. We are a plutocracy, our religion is mammon worship, our god is the almighty greenback and our church is called "the bank". Any talk of intellectual pooperty reform or universal health care that doesn't involve insurance companies is sacrelige and will be dealt with harshly.
Kidding aside, Obama does speak about reforming the whole intellectual property system... It's hard to quantify what exactly he means when he talks about reform
That scares the hell out of me. Any time a a politican talks about "intellectual pooperty reform" the copyright length is even longer and fair use rights are further eroded.
I've looked at the other two candidates
You mean Wayne Allyn Root and Cynthia McKinney? Don't you mean three? The Republicans are running some guy or another, too, you know
Obama talks about rewriting intellectual property, writes some dream bill, only to have it obliterated in Congress due equally to his lack of commitment and Congress's general distaste for effective legislation
He's been Senator for a while now, why hasn't he introduced this legislation? That is, after all, what Congress does. The President merely vetos it or signs it into law and runs the bureaucracy. Don't look to Obama or any other mainstream candidate to push for meaningful reform of anything, unless it benefits the corporations that pay for their election campaigns.
It's all these damned kids, I tell ya! They have all these stands set up all over the place selling bootleg copies of Iron Man! Why just yesterday I stopped by this darned place called "Family Video" and believe it or not they were renting copies of all kinds to anyone that walked in and the cops ain't doin' nothin' about it! Don't these people realise that the VCR tapes makes poor Spielberg's kids starve? Didn't they hear Jack Valenti say that he VCR is to Hollywood what Jack The Ripper was to women?
Somebody stuck a kiosk in the grocery store with this stolen intelectual pooperty! And the store owner let them!
And... damn it there's some kid setting up a stolen movie stand right there in front of my house! HEY KID, get that intellectual pooperty the hell off my lawn before I call the cops!
What they need, though, is something killer. Something that makes people sit up and say "OMG must have OSX!" Something GTA4-level wowzers. What would that be? No idea
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot, your clock is wrong. Have you been huffing kittins again?
Well actually now it's 11:07 but I had to look up the "root of all evil". It appears that the right wingers (Godwin) are wrong, and that government is NOT in fact the root of all evil.
Google is? Ok, I guess. All its employees were babies once. Many slashdotters still are (but not you, dear reader)
It's 11:00. Babies are the root of all evil.
Do <strike>no</strike> evil
My bank balance isn't intangible. I put my cash in the bank for safekeeping. In fact, I loan money to the bank at interest. There's nothing intangible about it, save your grasp of the situation.
That settlement seems reasonable compared to the RIAA ones.
Yeah, and gas prices here seem "reasonable" compared to UK gas prices. But they're still over three times as high as they were when those two oil men first took occupancy of the White House.
It's a ripoff (well, at this point still an attempted ripoff) despite the fact that these bozos are trying to legally steal a lot less than the RIAA legally steals. Just because a bank robber gets away with a $10,000 heist doen't mean the guy who robs a liquor store for $100 isn't stealing.
If you're American, Read the Comstitution. Intellectual pooperty is un-American. You are either a foreigner or a traitor to your country.
Didn't you know? R2 droids grow up to be Daleks!
No, I get kudos and encouragement daily. I have a very long list of people who have put me on their "friends" list. People without blue dots by their names tell me how much they enjoy reading the journals. My "freaks" list is quite short.
In fact, the only one who seems to not like the journals is you, mr Coward. I suggest that if you don't like the journals, just don't fucking read them, moron.
Sure there is. It's called the Earned Income Tax Credit
Key words are "earned income". You have to have a job to get it, and what's more, a job that pays starvation wages. It isn't the poor person getting this welfare, it's the company that he generates wealth for that gets the government largess. Raise the minimum wage so that a wage earner can afford the cost of living and nobody will get the earned income tax credit.
But I'm sure a right wing facist like yourself doesn't belive in the minimum wage at all, that rules and regulations are for the poor while the rich and the corporations they run should be left alone by the government.
Corporate welfare is indeed still around, but welfare for poor people is not.
more children = more tax credit
That's the Child Care credit, and it's there so that widow White can afford babysitters for her two kids so she can go to work for starvation wages.
The question is not whether there are more white people who received welfare than black people who received welfare.
And I already gave you your answer, Mr. Limbaugh. More white people were on AFDC than all other races combined.
That's some offal expensive intellectual pooperty!
-mcgrew
(Yes, boys and girls, today's new word is "intellectual pooperty". Because anybody who thinks that something intangible is "property" has shit for brains.
yesterday's word of the day was "cyburglar".)
Go...Penguin ...Go...
Dude... you're Batman?
No way! Who could forget Springtime For Godwin?
is that copyright infringement cures cancer. And the common cold. And male pattern baldness
And for proof, I'm 56, I smoked a pack of cigarettes every day for thirty years, I still have all my hair and I don't have a cold.
I owe it all to copyright infringement!
Also, it can be used to make any car run on water.
My car's too lazy, it just walks on water.
send Paris Hilton to your
weekend get-togethers. RMS is a poor substitute.
Unless you're Cowboy Neal.
what changes do we need to make to the constitution to make it work?
The Constitution's 4th amendment guarantees that the police won't open my garage door, enter, and "have a look around" without a warrant. But that's just what happened last memorial day.
Article II Section 8 says congress can grant copyrights terms lasting "a limited time". The Supreme Court says "limited" means whatever Congress says it means. If "limited" means whatever Congress says it means, then any other word in the Constitution means whatever Congress says it means.
So how is amending the Constitution, or rewriting it entirely, going to help anything?
So the United States was serving a smaller group when women got the vote? When minorities got the vote? And when poll taxes were eliminated?
That was over a hundred years ago. Do you have any more recent examples?
I'm guessing that most politicians who take money from organizations like the MPAA understand that trying to stop people from sharing files over the internet is like trying to stop them smoking marijuana, except a lot harder.
So how long have they been trying to get people to stop smoking marijuana now? They haven't given up yet, have they?
I think the public interest is served by the availability of information.
Which is why they fight availability of information. In the US, the public interest is always trumped by business interests. We are a plutocracy, our religion is mammon worship, our god is the almighty greenback and our church is called "the bank". Any talk of intellectual pooperty reform or universal health care that doesn't involve insurance companies is sacrelige and will be dealt with harshly.
Kidding aside, Obama does speak about reforming the whole intellectual property system... It's hard to quantify what exactly he means when he talks about reform
That scares the hell out of me. Any time a a politican talks about "intellectual pooperty reform" the copyright length is even longer and fair use rights are further eroded.
I've looked at the other two candidates
You mean Wayne Allyn Root and Cynthia McKinney? Don't you mean three? The Republicans are running some guy or another, too, you know
Obama talks about rewriting intellectual property, writes some dream bill, only to have it obliterated in Congress due equally to his lack of commitment and Congress's general distaste for effective legislation
He's been Senator for a while now, why hasn't he introduced this legislation? That is, after all, what Congress does. The President merely vetos it or signs it into law and runs the bureaucracy. Don't look to Obama or any other mainstream candidate to push for meaningful reform of anything, unless it benefits the corporations that pay for their election campaigns.
It's all these damned kids, I tell ya! They have all these stands set up all over the place selling bootleg copies of Iron Man! Why just yesterday I stopped by this darned place called "Family Video" and believe it or not they were renting copies of all kinds to anyone that walked in and the cops ain't doin' nothin' about it! Don't these people realise that the VCR tapes makes poor Spielberg's kids starve? Didn't they hear Jack Valenti say that he VCR is to Hollywood what Jack The Ripper was to women?
Heck they even have a web site!
Somebody stuck a kiosk in the grocery store with this stolen intelectual pooperty! And the store owner let them!
And... damn it there's some kid setting up a stolen movie stand right there in front of my house! HEY KID, get that intellectual pooperty the hell off my lawn before I call the cops!
mumble grumble disrespectful mumble where's my glasses grumble itellectual pooperty grumble grumble mumble
The result of this realization was a ground-up redesign
;)
They ground up the redesign?
A layman's theory is a scientist's hypothesis, just as a computer nerd's RAM is a cowboy's Dodge pickup truck.
Yeah, I can see it now, I'm creeping along a dark corridor and an imp jumps out and
>RING!<
Bad enough when you're playing on a PC.
What they need, though, is something killer. Something that makes people sit up and say "OMG must have OSX!" Something GTA4-level wowzers. What would that be? No idea
Duke Nukem 4ever
Yes, there are mobile phone games, but how big an industry are we talking about?
Well, we had phone games before Apple ever made a computer, and before IBM ever made a PC.
IINM the first phone game was called "telephone tag." The game really took off when answering machines were introduced.
Yep, they've now got 4% of the market! They're in the big times now!
If I had 4% of Bill Gates' money, I and 160 of my closest friends would be millionaires (If the Windows Calc program can be trusted).