And what's more, let's take a trip down the slippery slope: if this is allowed, then party X is sure as heck going to post fake libelous remarks on party Y's websites and ask a judge for an immediate injunction to "temporarily" take down their site during an election race. And party Y will do likewise. The judge shouldn't be allowed to do that when the speech is political.
"This book shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser"
So if you lend or borrow a book from a friend then you too are a pirate.
No, "in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser" means that you can't remove/replace the cover of the book and resell/lend/etc. It's just like the "Do not remove this tag under penalty of law" tags which are placed on mattresses (in the USA at least), they're laws intended to apply to retailers, not end users.
He isn't comparing anything to the Holocaust -- that poem happens to have been inspired by events that took place during the Holocaust, but it is meant to be applicable to any situation where you have the power to help others but choose to mind your own business instead, only finding out later that your inaction comes back to bite you in the ass.
Have you no sense of decency? This was not "meant" to be applicable to everything else, especially not something as trivial (relatively speaking) as the topic at hand.
Yes, it was. It was meant to show that allowing your government to deny your neighbors their rights by proxy allows your government to deny you your rights. Else, why the comment at all? If it was intended for only one person's situation "They came for ME", then there's no reason to quote it. If it's a universal truth, applicable to any right, any people, then it would be the well-known quote that it is.
I am EXTREMELY fed up with the overuse of the holocaust by Israel apologist -- no, that your grand grand parents suffered a lot does not give you any right to do the same to innocent people -- for the same reason as I'm disgusted by this overuse of the cliché: it cheapens the tragedy.
Cheapens? I'd say this keeps it fresh in the mind of anyone who might be prone to think "At least if I were alive back then, I'd have been safe" because unless you were complicit in the vile crimes, you wouldn't have been safe at all.
Don't most companies buy insurance to offset theft*? In the case of some companies whose business model can not prevent theft, and they can't buy insurance, don't they change their business model, accept the cost of doing business, or liquidate? How many companies get to levy taxes to the populace at large? Not everyone enjoys listening to popular music, or music in general, by the way. It's almost like asking for a tax to have television signals broadcast for free throughout... oh, wait, UK. Right. Um, it's almost like asking for a tax to have fish 'n chips on every street corner where people can pay as they please. Some people won't pay, so the tax covers the extra cost. But, some people don't like fish 'n chips. Why should they have to pay the tax?
*I'm well aware that copyright infringement is not theft. I'm just using their terminology to show how ridiculous this is from their point of view. It gets even more ridiculous when you use s/theft/copyright infringement/g and s/fish 'n chips/automatic book printer/g
Star Trek style management: Managers who think their crew are Scotty who pulls off a miracle every week. Its never been done, we don't have time to do it right, but its got to work right the first time given not enough resources. Sure it works on Star Trek, its in the script. FYI: I love the Star Trek series, but I also know the difference between fiction and reality.
Geordi: "Yeah, well, I told the captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour."
Scotty: "How long will it really take?"
Geordi: "An hour."
Scotty: "You didn't tell him how long it would really take, did you?"
Geordi: "Of course I did."
Scotty: "Laddie, you got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker!"
Tapes are orders of magnitude slower, with only slightly higher reliability, and a funny habit of only working in the _one_machine_ that a small/medium business might have their single tape drive installed in.
Mgmt blames the devs, and devs blame the mgmt, and both get modded "insightful". It's like watching hot naked babes wrestling in the mud, except that it's the exact opposite.
Pudgy, clothed, men shaking hands in an office? I suppose so.
This movie [...] is making a statement that it is wrong to try to impose one peoples' way of living onto another people simply because they have something worth taking.
Then Cameron should stop imposing his way of living on hapless movie goers simply because they have disposable income.
Avatar's story argues that technology is bad. Humans destroyed their home world through environmental disaster and use military might to annihilate the locals and steal their resources.
Bad? That's how awesome technology is. It allows us to do the impossible.
This causes autism. Run with it, crazy rumor mill. I expect to see this in the news when I wake up Monday morning.
By Wednesday, parents will be mixing dirt into cereal and formula in the hopes of increasing microbial ppm.
Or, according to some reports, it was a small bag of powder (thermite?) and a liquid syringe (potassium permanganate and ethylene glycol?) that would have made a terrible fire, burning through the plane's hull. But besides a few pops and fizzes, it was a dud. We win because he was stupid. Yay.
Of course the big question there is how did he get a bag of aluminum and rust past the metal detectors?
I think that Scientology would a pretty good video game. Scored in thetans you would lambast your opponents into submission so they were 'stuck in an incident' and use a variety of pyscological techniques to intimidate, cajole and threaten anyone who get's in your way.
I will only play if you get to buy an R2-45 audit kit. It could be like the chaingun in Wolf3d or the BFG from Doom. Exteriorize Thetans right and left!
Sure, it wasn't "Religion" based, but it was philosophically based, and promoted good values. Give me some more positive games like that where there are little sub-quests where you can make the lives of the people in the game-world better. Heck, I was just playing Ultima7 again for the bazillionth time, and just fixed Polly and Thurston up for the first time. No lasting game value, doesn't help any quest, give moeny, etc. but it's a great warm fuzzy. Then I stole Morphin's illegal drugs, tried to blackmail him with his ledger, then slaughtered Garritt and his parents with caltrops for being pricks. Next: Lord British.
Slippery Slope is an Informal fallacy, not a formal one. As such, it's not always bad reasoning. When dealing with laws and freedom, slippery slope is a good metric to use to determine if a type of action or progression of actions should be allowed to continue. Why do we have the right to keep and bear arms? Because the government might become tyrannical and need overthrowing. Slippery Slope: It's what the Bill of Rights is full of.
Even worse is when you have a very unique sounding name, but there's another "you" who ends up doing something bad. People think that you *have* to be that person because the name's "unique"!
Not Convicted? Are they going to Tweet and Text the names of people found innocent of the charge, or is this an attempt to subvert the law and incite vigilante justice?
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And what's more, let's take a trip down the slippery slope: if this is allowed, then party X is sure as heck going to post fake libelous remarks on party Y's websites and ask a judge for an immediate injunction to "temporarily" take down their site during an election race. And party Y will do likewise. The judge shouldn't be allowed to do that when the speech is political.
"This book shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser "
So if you lend or borrow a book from a friend then you too are a pirate.
No, "in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser" means that you can't remove/replace the cover of the book and resell/lend/etc. It's just like the "Do not remove this tag under penalty of law" tags which are placed on mattresses (in the USA at least), they're laws intended to apply to retailers, not end users.
He isn't comparing anything to the Holocaust -- that poem happens to have been inspired by events that took place during the Holocaust, but it is meant to be applicable to any situation where you have the power to help others but choose to mind your own business instead, only finding out later that your inaction comes back to bite you in the ass.
Have you no sense of decency? This was not "meant" to be applicable to everything else, especially not something as trivial (relatively speaking) as the topic at hand.
Yes, it was. It was meant to show that allowing your government to deny your neighbors their rights by proxy allows your government to deny you your rights. Else, why the comment at all? If it was intended for only one person's situation "They came for ME", then there's no reason to quote it. If it's a universal truth, applicable to any right, any people, then it would be the well-known quote that it is.
I am EXTREMELY fed up with the overuse of the holocaust by Israel apologist -- no, that your grand grand parents suffered a lot does not give you any right to do the same to innocent people -- for the same reason as I'm disgusted by this overuse of the cliché: it cheapens the tragedy.
Cheapens? I'd say this keeps it fresh in the mind of anyone who might be prone to think "At least if I were alive back then, I'd have been safe" because unless you were complicit in the vile crimes, you wouldn't have been safe at all.
Don't most companies buy insurance to offset theft*? In the case of some companies whose business model can not prevent theft, and they can't buy insurance, don't they change their business model, accept the cost of doing business, or liquidate? How many companies get to levy taxes to the populace at large? Not everyone enjoys listening to popular music, or music in general, by the way. It's almost like asking for a tax to have television signals broadcast for free throughout... oh, wait, UK. Right. Um, it's almost like asking for a tax to have fish 'n chips on every street corner where people can pay as they please. Some people won't pay, so the tax covers the extra cost. But, some people don't like fish 'n chips. Why should they have to pay the tax?
*I'm well aware that copyright infringement is not theft. I'm just using their terminology to show how ridiculous this is from their point of view. It gets even more ridiculous when you use s/theft/copyright infringement/g and s/fish 'n chips/automatic book printer/g
I was confused how this might be a troll until I read one of the replies. I suppose I'm not hip to the new slang.
Recognized by the goatee
Better than the goatse I suppose.
Finnish wins. Six umlauts and a lower case "i", that's 13 dots!
"one of the goats finally gave birth to a female burrito"?
'cause I sure did.
Star Trek style management: Managers who think their crew are Scotty who pulls off a miracle every week. Its never been done, we don't have time to do it right, but its got to work right the first time given not enough resources. Sure it works on Star Trek, its in the script. FYI: I love the Star Trek series, but I also know the difference between fiction and reality.
Geordi: "Yeah, well, I told the captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour."
Scotty: "How long will it really take?"
Geordi: "An hour."
Scotty: "You didn't tell him how long it would really take, did you?"
Geordi: "Of course I did."
Scotty: "Laddie, you got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker!"
So how much value does IT generate in a year?
All of it. Take away IT and watch any company larger than a mom 'n pop wither.
Tapes are orders of magnitude slower, with only slightly higher reliability, and a funny habit of only working in the _one_machine_ that a small/medium business might have their single tape drive installed in.
Mgmt blames the devs, and devs blame the mgmt, and both get modded "insightful". It's like watching hot naked babes wrestling in the mud, except that it's the exact opposite.
Pudgy, clothed, men shaking hands in an office? I suppose so.
This movie [...] is making a statement that it is wrong to try to impose one peoples' way of living onto another people simply because they have something worth taking.
Then Cameron should stop imposing his way of living on hapless movie goers simply because they have disposable income.
Avatar's story argues that technology is bad. Humans destroyed their home world through environmental disaster and use military might to annihilate the locals and steal their resources.
Bad? That's how awesome technology is. It allows us to do the impossible.
This causes autism. Run with it, crazy rumor mill. I expect to see this in the news when I wake up Monday morning.
By Wednesday, parents will be mixing dirt into cereal and formula in the hopes of increasing microbial ppm.
Just stop Spamming, and they'll stop rooting you. And don't ask us how to prevent it, because they have physical access. You're hosed. Stop spamming.
Or, according to some reports, it was a small bag of powder (thermite?) and a liquid syringe (potassium permanganate and ethylene glycol?) that would have made a terrible fire, burning through the plane's hull. But besides a few pops and fizzes, it was a dud. We win because he was stupid. Yay.
Of course the big question there is how did he get a bag of aluminum and rust past the metal detectors?
http://games.adultswim.com/bible-fight-action-online-game.html
Tada
I said Tada.
I think that Scientology would a pretty good video game. Scored in thetans you would lambast your opponents into submission so they were 'stuck in an incident' and use a variety of pyscological techniques to intimidate, cajole and threaten anyone who get's in your way.
I will only play if you get to buy an R2-45 audit kit. It could be like the chaingun in Wolf3d or the BFG from Doom. Exteriorize Thetans right and left!
A lot of religious mythology would make pretty awesome settings for games.
"Bring me the foreskins of 100 Philistine warriors, bonus points for 200" - Quest from "A Lorena Bobbit in King Saul's court"
Sure, it wasn't "Religion" based, but it was philosophically based, and promoted good values. Give me some more positive games like that where there are little sub-quests where you can make the lives of the people in the game-world better. Heck, I was just playing Ultima7 again for the bazillionth time, and just fixed Polly and Thurston up for the first time. No lasting game value, doesn't help any quest, give moeny, etc. but it's a great warm fuzzy. Then I stole Morphin's illegal drugs, tried to blackmail him with his ledger, then slaughtered Garritt and his parents with caltrops for being pricks. Next: Lord British.
Slippery Slope is an Informal fallacy, not a formal one. As such, it's not always bad reasoning. When dealing with laws and freedom, slippery slope is a good metric to use to determine if a type of action or progression of actions should be allowed to continue. Why do we have the right to keep and bear arms? Because the government might become tyrannical and need overthrowing. Slippery Slope: It's what the Bill of Rights is full of.
Even worse is when you have a very unique sounding name, but there's another "you" who ends up doing something bad. People think that you *have* to be that person because the name's "unique"!
Not Convicted? Are they going to Tweet and Text the names of people found innocent of the charge, or is this an attempt to subvert the law and incite vigilante justice?
I thought Linux was more like the Society of Friends.