Decency nothing, you've fallen for the wolf-in-sheeps-clothing deception. They're still trying to wield corporate muscle to get an artist to change his work. It's wrong, no matter how nice the letter is worded. It's still a threat -- "We noticed what you did. We won't do anything right now if you change it for the next printing, but if you don't, well, we'll just see what happens..."
classy or not, it's still bullshit. this is an artistic rendering for a book cover, nothing more. JD has no business asking an author to change their cover. IMO they have no legal recourse, so they're just going to "ask nicely" and hope they get what they want. if they had a solid legal case against this, they would most certainly have sent a nastier letter. why are you people so happy to allow a corporation to try to limit artistic expression? it would be like them asking a country songwriter to remove the words "jack daniels" from a song about an alcoholic father who beats his kids... i'm sure the response would be quite different in this case...
Just like we Americans TV did to The Office, right?
Yeah, but the American "The Office" was made by the person who made the British one. I think if American Ninja Warrior was made by the same people who did the Japanese one, it would be much truer to its original format, and consequently much better.
all that really says is they will be following Apple into any market even ones that aren't right for Microsoft
You are exactly right, and this is why MS fails. They have absolutely no vision of their own, no creativity, nothing driving them other than to not keep losing money to other companies. So they just copy copy copy and try to keep their head above the water while everyone else moves ahead. This is a losing strategy in the long run, which Ballmer is oblivious to apparently... MS should just pick a couple things that they do well, and do those things best, instead of trying to do everything and sucking at all of them...
the private copyright cops have no reason to lie or cheat
Sure they do. Since this is really just an elaborate extortion racket, the more IPs they deliver to their clients, the more they get paid. Their clients just file a bunch of John Doe lawsuits and hope for settlements. The more IPs they have, the more possible settlements -- false positives be damned.
Maybe the survivors would be so war-weary they would rebuild in a way that no more wars would occur at all
It's a good thought, but the next generation of people would have no concept of the reality of war, so this weariness would slowly die out, and once again you'd be left with another not-war-fearing population.. It's not quite the same to read about war in a book as it is to actually experience it.
If you're connecting to a torrent, it's pretty damn obvious you're expecting to swap chunks of the target file with peers who also want that exact same file
Except when you connect to a swarm just to see who is in the swarm, like the media companies do. Who's to say that I didn't do the same thing?
The best way to get me to do something is to tell me I am not allowed to do it.
Have you ever stopped to think about why this might be so? Doing "forbidden" things is somehow giving you (or whomever it is we're talking about here) fulfillment -- momentarily filling some hole somewhere, and I'm guessing you don't really care whether that forbidden thing is good or bad for you. This is how addictions work also -- it's pretty much how everything in the human psyche works. The fulfillment is always fleeting, and then you're on the hunt for the next thing...
Veganism is an ethical stance about the eliminating the exploitation of animals, not natural processes. Maybe some reading will help to relieve the ignorance...
Ok, this is a purely curiosity-based question, and I know there's lot of web security people roaming around here. How would you actually detect that a website like this is a honeypot?
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Decency nothing, you've fallen for the wolf-in-sheeps-clothing deception. They're still trying to wield corporate muscle to get an artist to change his work. It's wrong, no matter how nice the letter is worded. It's still a threat -- "We noticed what you did. We won't do anything right now if you change it for the next printing, but if you don't, well, we'll just see what happens..."
classy or not, it's still bullshit. this is an artistic rendering for a book cover, nothing more. JD has no business asking an author to change their cover. IMO they have no legal recourse, so they're just going to "ask nicely" and hope they get what they want. if they had a solid legal case against this, they would most certainly have sent a nastier letter. why are you people so happy to allow a corporation to try to limit artistic expression? it would be like them asking a country songwriter to remove the words "jack daniels" from a song about an alcoholic father who beats his kids... i'm sure the response would be quite different in this case...
That said, do you really think he could have killed 12 and injured 50 had he burst into the theatre armed with a flint knife and an atlatl?
No, but a simple bomb or poison gas would be equally effective.
I propose we start migrating computers to a dodecadecimal numbering system, which would allow for such comedy.
Pray for Mojo
Until we can explain how it works, you can't prove it isn't magic.
Just like we Americans TV did to The Office, right?
Yeah, but the American "The Office" was made by the person who made the British one. I think if American Ninja Warrior was made by the same people who did the Japanese one, it would be much truer to its original format, and consequently much better.
Dihydrogen Monoxide kills!
Why do hot dogs come in packages of 10 but hot-dog rolls in packages of 8?
Two for Fido.
Just maglev the entire mavlev train system.
all that really says is they will be following Apple into any market even ones that aren't right for Microsoft
You are exactly right, and this is why MS fails. They have absolutely no vision of their own, no creativity, nothing driving them other than to not keep losing money to other companies. So they just copy copy copy and try to keep their head above the water while everyone else moves ahead. This is a losing strategy in the long run, which Ballmer is oblivious to apparently... MS should just pick a couple things that they do well, and do those things best, instead of trying to do everything and sucking at all of them...
Could this have implications for understanding how human physiology adapts to space?
Sure, it could. Anything could.
the private copyright cops have no reason to lie or cheat
Sure they do. Since this is really just an elaborate extortion racket, the more IPs they deliver to their clients, the more they get paid. Their clients just file a bunch of John Doe lawsuits and hope for settlements. The more IPs they have, the more possible settlements -- false positives be damned.
the company has driven innovation for decades
Examples or GTFO.
Maybe the survivors would be so war-weary they would rebuild in a way that no more wars would occur at all
It's a good thought, but the next generation of people would have no concept of the reality of war, so this weariness would slowly die out, and once again you'd be left with another not-war-fearing population.. It's not quite the same to read about war in a book as it is to actually experience it.
Performance is supposed to be worth something
Yeah, it's worth exactly -€3,000. Maybe you didn't learn as much about economics as you thought...
If you're connecting to a torrent, it's pretty damn obvious you're expecting to swap chunks of the target file with peers who also want that exact same file
Except when you connect to a swarm just to see who is in the swarm, like the media companies do. Who's to say that I didn't do the same thing?
The best way to get me to do something is to tell me I am not allowed to do it.
Have you ever stopped to think about why this might be so? Doing "forbidden" things is somehow giving you (or whomever it is we're talking about here) fulfillment -- momentarily filling some hole somewhere, and I'm guessing you don't really care whether that forbidden thing is good or bad for you. This is how addictions work also -- it's pretty much how everything in the human psyche works. The fulfillment is always fleeting, and then you're on the hunt for the next thing...
Veganism is an ethical stance about the eliminating the exploitation of animals, not natural processes. Maybe some reading will help to relieve the ignorance...
Ok, this is a purely curiosity-based question, and I know there's lot of web security people roaming around here. How would you actually detect that a website like this is a honeypot?
i wonder if in switzerland the media also tries to apply overly broad generalizations and stereotypes to an entire population
Does this mean we can publicly criticize the XBMC UI?
pick one up at Anchorhead
i like the german version "unterwaterboot" for comedy value
smoke weed, get drunk, play video games, go to the beach, skateboard, whatever
you've got like 50 years left to do that work shit..