How is this "sticking it to the man"? You did RTFA and read that there are no authorized sources, right? Meaning that anyone who buys this cd-r and then downloads the music can easily be sued.
No , because you actually bought the cd. Downloading something that you already bought, isn't illegal.
Absentee voting solves this if your country allows it but it can still be problematic. As far as having someone else vote for you, the policy is "One man, one vote" here in the U.S., and I can't really see any country allowing proxy voting in an election as it would be seriously problematic.
I don't see the problem : in my country , you can give a person the right to vote in your name , for the upcoming election . It's often done in the case the person is to far away to vote.
Also , the key word seems to be 'to much effort'. Why is that ? How can standing up for what you believe in , possible be to much effort ?
It may not be possible in the US , but i'll answer it from my country's prespective :
I don't care : If you don't care to vote , you don't have the right to complain afterwards ( maybe you will care next time ).
I don't feel represented by the available parties : Start your own 'party' , or try to convince a party of your views. If you don't want to put the effort in it , than you will likely accommodate to another party's views.
I think the elections aren't fair(the system is geared towards certain parties)/
I don't want to legitimize these elections(perception of fraud)/ I don't want to ligitimize all elections(anti-democrats) :
For this , there should be a 'blank' vote , stating that you disagree with the election itself.
I don't know : nothing to stop you from learning about a party's agenda/hidden agenda.
I can't(too far off location) : could be hard , but there are solutions , where you could ask a person you trust , to vote for you.
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and if he says the hell with it, there is not much you can do.
Well , you can write it yourself. Or better , find other people , who want the same driver , and cooperate to make the driver. This is how most of the drivers are made and improved.
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Well , for one of them (gspca) , i know there are drivers available , because i used them in a linux robotics project.
Just a matter of adding a kernel module , and using video4linux.
There's something incredibly sensible about regulating and taxing things the government has no business dealing with in the first place. OH, other governments do it, therefore, it's right, right?
I guess if the rest of the world had a problem with potatoes you'd fawn over the "sensibility" of regulating and taxing potatoes and only allowing people to own potatoes in small amounts, right?
No , it's not taxing of 'bad' things. Everything you buy is taxed. But offcourse , if goverment doesn't know it , you don't pay taxes.
How it works is that owner of the coffee shops , have to pay a percentage of what they sold , as taxes to the goverment( well , actually the customer pays that part ). Indeed , it also works like this for selling potatoes.
So , if you just have some potatoes in your garden , it's ok as long as you don't sell them in large quantities. Because then , the government needs it's share.
I assume they allow small time tax-free use, because it would cost them more to try to regulate it , then they could possible gain from it.
There may be a point to that , but most programming languages use an english syntax , so someone knowing only Russian and Chinese is still going to have a hard time programming it ( but , according to your theory , he will be better at designing ).
The main reason a document in English , is because then everyone understands it , for the same amount of work .
You see , we have Dutch , French an English people where i work . So i would have to write documentation in 3 languages , which would be very time consuming. Everyone understands English , so it saves a lot of time.
I dunno. Regular exercise certainly qualifies, and isn't really such a bad thing--your body destroys itself pretty quickly if you don't get any. Of course, sporadic exercise causes sores, blisters, etc. It's entertaining that some forms of exercise are healthy whereas others (button mashing, typing, etc) are less so.
Actually , it depends on how much you warm up : if you excercise without warming up , you are bound to get problems. I guess the same counts for gaming
well , they could breed the Ibex with regular goats. This would create a subspecies , which would be stronger, that can then again breed with Ibex , until you get something close enough to an Ibex , but without genetic defects.
You don't really create a perfect Ibex this way ( if that ever even existed ), but you save some of it's DNA.
True . Where i live , it's comparable : we have 2 competing firms selling digital tv , and now they are in the heat of promotion , basically giving away the tuners , and providing months of free extra channels ( offcourse , the do this so you pay for them afterwards ) .
If we had just bought it at the start, we would have had to pay for the tuner, without the free months.
Not to mention , there are some games you buy , where you agree to the TOS simply by opening the box, so before you can actually read it. And that TOS also states that by opening the box , you void your warranty.
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Something tells me the prices of cd-r's are going to go up.
How is this "sticking it to the man"?
You did RTFA and read that there are no authorized sources, right?
Meaning that anyone who buys this cd-r and then downloads the music can easily be sued.
No , because you actually bought the cd.
Downloading something that you already bought, isn't illegal.
Otherwise , making a backup would be illegal.
Which is why we don't have juries in the Netherlands, we have judges.
Who can also be wild and stupid.
Absentee voting solves this if your country allows it but it can still be problematic. As far as having someone else vote for you, the policy is "One man, one vote" here in the U.S., and I can't really see any country allowing proxy voting in an election as it would be seriously problematic.
I don't see the problem : in my country , you can give a person the right to vote in your name , for the upcoming election . It's often done in the case the person is to far away to vote.
Also , the key word seems to be 'to much effort'. Why is that ? How can standing up for what you believe in , possible be to much effort ?
It may not be possible in the US , but i'll answer it from my country's prespective :
I don't care :
If you don't care to vote , you don't have the right to complain afterwards ( maybe you will care next time ).
I don't feel represented by the available parties :
Start your own 'party' , or try to convince a party of your views. If you don't want to put the effort in it , than you will likely accommodate to another party's views.
I think the elections aren't fair(the system is geared towards certain parties)/
I don't want to legitimize these elections(perception of fraud)/ I don't want to ligitimize all elections(anti-democrats) :
For this , there should be a 'blank' vote , stating that you disagree with the election itself.
I don't know : nothing to stop you from learning about a party's agenda/hidden agenda.
I can't(too far off location) : could be hard , but there are solutions , where you could ask a person you trust , to vote for you.
and if he says the hell with it, there is not much you can do.
Well , you can write it yourself.
Or better , find other people , who want the same driver , and cooperate to make the driver. This is how most of the drivers are made and improved.
Well , for one of them (gspca) , i know there are drivers available , because i used them in a linux robotics project.
Just a matter of adding a kernel module , and using video4linux.
Actually , what happens is the following :
He will win the case now , then 5 years later , they will change the law, and countersue to get the money back , plus interest over the 5 years.
It's been done that way before.
Actually , my company already does something like this , and called it bike-to-work .
Basically , they give you a bike , and even pay you a small amount of money every month , if you promise to use the bike to go to work.
The idea is mainly to reduce the need for more parking space , which is very costly here. After all , a bike takes a lot less space than a car.
There's something incredibly sensible about regulating and taxing things the government has no business dealing with in the first place. OH, other governments do it, therefore, it's right, right?
I guess if the rest of the world had a problem with potatoes you'd fawn over the "sensibility" of regulating and taxing potatoes and only allowing people to own potatoes in small amounts, right?
No , it's not taxing of 'bad' things. Everything you buy is taxed. But offcourse , if goverment doesn't know it , you don't pay taxes.
How it works is that owner of the coffee shops , have to pay a percentage of what they sold , as taxes to the goverment( well , actually the customer pays that part ). Indeed , it also works like this for selling potatoes.
So , if you just have some potatoes in your garden , it's ok as long as you don't sell them in large quantities. Because then , the government needs it's share.
I assume they allow small time tax-free use, because it would cost them more to try to regulate it , then they could possible gain from it.
Funny , isn't it , that radios have to pay artists , to advertise their songs.
Image all radio stations no longer played any copyrighted music. Who would know a certain song existed , if they never heard it play ?
Radio stations play a big role in making people addicted enough to a certain song , to actually buy it.
There may be a point to that , but most programming languages use an english syntax , so someone knowing only Russian and Chinese is still going to have a hard time programming it ( but , according to your theory , he will be better at designing ).
The main reason a document in English , is because then everyone understands it , for the same amount of work .
You see , we have Dutch , French an English people where i work . So i would have to write documentation in 3 languages , which would be very time consuming. Everyone understands English , so it saves a lot of time.
I always hear it like "Porn in the USA" .
I dunno. Regular exercise certainly qualifies, and isn't really such a bad thing--your body destroys itself pretty quickly if you don't get any. Of course, sporadic exercise causes sores, blisters, etc. It's entertaining that some forms of exercise are healthy whereas others (button mashing, typing, etc) are less so.
Actually , it depends on how much you warm up : if you excercise without warming up , you are bound to get problems. I guess the same counts for gaming
Note to self : learn to use preview button.
And anybody advanced enough to know how to actually write an application against it would know how to emerge it.
And wait 2 hours for it to compile :-).
After that was accomplished, both my kids had a significant increase in the school grades.
I know , it's called withdrawal. It will pass.
well , they could breed the Ibex with regular goats.
This would create a subspecies , which would be stronger, that can then again breed with Ibex , until you get something close enough to an Ibex , but without genetic defects.
You don't really create a perfect Ibex this way ( if that ever even existed ), but you save some of it's DNA.
True . Where i live , it's comparable : we have 2 competing firms selling digital tv , and now they are in the heat of promotion , basically giving away the tuners , and providing months of free extra channels ( offcourse , the do this so you pay for them afterwards ) .
If we had just bought it at the start, we would have had to pay for the tuner, without the free months.
Really? Your wife said she loved it.
Exactly.
Not to mention , there are some games you buy , where you agree to the TOS simply by opening the box, so before you can actually read it. And that TOS also states that by opening the box , you void your warranty.
It seems if you pay for it and deal with the DRM you CAN'T play it...
So , the only play it , is to get a cracked version , where they removed the DRM. Oh, the irony :-)
Well , there is an increased risk , because after all, you are screwing with the normal workings of the body's cell regeneration.
Even if there isn't a 100% certainty that it will cause cancer , it's still something that needs to be looked into .
Both conservatism and progressivism are needed, in a balanced amount. Sadly , with politics , it's usually completely one way or the other.
actually , a file only contains bytes.
A program can convert those bytes to content , like text , audio ,video , which you can expierence with the hardware.
Nah , i prefer the metric system.