People are responding strongly to this because your attitude is the sort of thing that allows people to scam money out of people with all sorts of bogus "natural remedies". Herbs and other various natural remedies are drugs, plain and simple. The only difference is that herbs and other supplements aren't given in a controlled dosage and aren't safety tested even remotely as carefully as drugs that require FDA approval.
I'd have to say that you've been eating the wrong pizza, then. In my opinion, some of the best variations on pizza are American. For example, chicago style pizza, which is by far my favorite type, is pretty clearly an American variety. If you can't be bothered to eat good food, don't try to blame an entire country on it.
Yes, lobbying is cheaper. But then again, law enforcement is much weaker.
Yes, but like the grandparent post said, they don't really need the enforcement. Once they get enough laws passed elsewhere, they can be used as an additional lever here. The *AAs' already have enough of a hold on the government as it is that we can ill afford to let them get an even firmer grip on things. Ideally, we would smack down these companies before this sort of strategy could start to bear results. That's already happening in a limited fashion, we just need to keep it going and continue to make IP in this county more sane.
...where people here were claiming that.A large amount of water on Mars would be something to get excited about for a number of good reasons, none of which are "disproving God".
Uhm.. voice recognition and speech-to-text do NOT work. We've got QUITE A WAYS to go.
It really, really depends on what you mean by doesn't work. At least some voice recognition has been used in consumer products for a while now. For example, my (now ~2 or 3 year old) phone is capable of voice activation for many of its functions, and in the times I've used it I've had no problems with it.
Some people say GPL isn't enough, because it restricts how you can redistribute the code, and only think that BSD like licenses are really open source.
Which is, to my mind, a completely nonsensical idea. When it comes to offering the most freedom, no license can possibly beat simply releasing the code into public domain. The GPL, on the other hand, puts emphasis on building an open and free community over just making the "most free license".
We need to start someplace, sometime. Why not do it now? There is no advantage in waiting...the advantage in starting it now is that it will be done sooner.
Not necessarily. If we wait a few decades, we may very well be significantly more advanced in the technological prerequisites necessary for this sort of mission. For example, imagine if we had tried to do the Appolo missions during the 20's. I'm not saying that this is necessarily the case. I honestly don't know enough about the technology involved to really chime in on whether or not this is true. I just want to point out that it isn't necessarily true that starting another trip to the moon right now will necessarily be the best thing we could do to work towards long term space expansion.
I imagine that it isn't about the game itself for at least a good portion of the buyers. Don't underestimate the importance that status has on the way people act. Is it really any different than the more extreme grinders? Are they really playing for fun, or are they playing to have the best/newest stuff in game? In the end, does it make a difference whether people do it by grinding or by buying gold? Either way, they are working to try and gain more in game prestige.
To be honest, if Wikipedia had to jettison some things to make way for others, I'd be more inclined to jettison things that don't exist (e.g Star Trek races, yellow bleating thing) vs things that actually do (e.g. schools, places, things, people).
I think that one of the key differences between the two is that in the case of a place such as a high school, it will usually have only local significance, whereas these sort of fictional details will generally be important to people around the world, or at least at a national level.
That said, I do agree that wikipedia pages often get into fictional details that are best left for sites other than wikipedia to deal with. I know that there is at least one fairly large star wars wiki, and I have no doubt that there is a star trek one as well. These sorts of things should really be left for those sorts of sites to deal with.
Nonetheless, I feel that if a choice needs to be made be between something of local interest and something of a more global interest, then all things being equal the more widespread article should remain.
Personally I don't have a complaint so long as the things are only installed on informed, sound-of-mind, adults... with consent.
The problem is, what exactly does "consent" entail. What happens if this sort of thing became required in certaint contexts. For example, there are some fields where this would certainly simplify security, what if you were required to get an implant to work in that field? Sure you could always go to some other company or line of work, but the more standard these get the harder it gets to avoid them. Eventually, it is possible that getting a chip would be comparable to giving out your social security number. Sure, you have to consent to give it out, but the costs for not doing so are extremely prohibitive.
As far as I am concerned, we ought put a stop to this whole thing now before it gets too deep into our society to easily reverse.
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I don't think that you can really use a slippery slope argument here. There have been limits on speech for pretty much as long as the concept of free speech has been around. While there have certainly been abuses, fraud, libel, and other limitations haven't destroyed free speech yet. As far as I can tell, this is simply a logical extension of these limitations.
Furthermore, this doesn't effect the content of what people can say. It appears to mostly be a limitation on how people are allowed to represent themselves. The companies are still quite free to heap praise on their products, they just aren't allowed to lie about who they are while doing it.
The one good thing about it is that as rhetoric, more people are going to hear about it. It's now "on the table" when last election nobody with a chance of getting elected to office would ever pro-actively bring up the subject.
An excellent point. Even if this is nothing more than empty promises, it is a good step in the right direction to see that privacy concerns have at least entered favorably into public debate. The longer politicians are promising more privacy, the more likely it is that people are going to start really demanding it.
As far as I've seen, it mostly comes down to people who want to be able to tell others what to do, and everyone else. Unfortunately, the government has gotten really full of that first type of people. This whole left and right thing is just a set of labels for the different things that they want to force down our throats.
Sony Corp. has been too strict about preventing users from playing around with hacks into products like the PlayStation Portable, Bullwinkle and other panelists agreed.
Even though the PSP modding community has had to fight Sony every step of the way, they've still been able to do some pretty cool things. COuld you imagine what might have happened if they actually had been able to just do what they wanted, or even been encouraged by Sony? There might actually be a reason for someone to buy one of them.
The order and arrangement of the instructions should be registered under copyright and not patent.
Because using a system with an indefinite end point is a much better alternative. Say what you want to about patents, but at least they have a nice neat end date.
IANAL, but here's my take on that idea.
If they do that, then it would require them to admit that they are capable of policing the files indexed on their site. This would open up a lot more doors for the *IAA's than it would for the torrent site. The best bet, IMO, is just to have really good feedback systems so that it is easy for users to tell which files are garbage.
That analogy doesn't work for downloading, though. Their servers aren't just sitting there with files on them. They are actively sending out data to people who have requested it. Very huge difference. To borrow your analogy: if you are sitting on your porch with a bag of money, and I walk up and ask for some, I'm not stealing if you reach into the bag and hand me some of it.
Partly, especially when you are talking about party insiders. For most people, though religion and political party seem to have a lot of similarities. For one thing, there is a fierce loyalty to political parties. Like religion, people are often unwilling to even consider alternatives that are not sanctioned by the party leaders.
In addition, political parties share the desire and ability to define what is "moral" behavior. In any important issue, parties are quick to define a "right" and a "wrong" way of thinking, and they generally expect those who are members of the party to toe the line on all issues. True, there are still many that dissent, but that is true in religion as well. After all, how many Catholics agree with everything the Pope says. The important thing is that they share the belief that it is their place of the leaders to dictate morality to the "lessers".
Finally, like religion, political affiliation is often times adhered to for no other reason than that was the way a person was raised.
Really, political parties have become the new religion. The only thing missing is the mysticism and some of the superficial trappings.
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People are responding strongly to this because your attitude is the sort of thing that allows people to scam money out of people with all sorts of bogus "natural remedies". Herbs and other various natural remedies are drugs, plain and simple. The only difference is that herbs and other supplements aren't given in a controlled dosage and aren't safety tested even remotely as carefully as drugs that require FDA approval.
I'd have to say that you've been eating the wrong pizza, then. In my opinion, some of the best variations on pizza are American. For example, chicago style pizza, which is by far my favorite type, is pretty clearly an American variety. If you can't be bothered to eat good food, don't try to blame an entire country on it.
Yes, but like the grandparent post said, they don't really need the enforcement. Once they get enough laws passed elsewhere, they can be used as an additional lever here. The *AAs' already have enough of a hold on the government as it is that we can ill afford to let them get an even firmer grip on things. Ideally, we would smack down these companies before this sort of strategy could start to bear results. That's already happening in a limited fashion, we just need to keep it going and continue to make IP in this county more sane.
...where people here were claiming that.A large amount of water on Mars would be something to get excited about for a number of good reasons, none of which are "disproving God".
Seriously, I had never heard of that word either. It was kind of lame that the lawyer spent so much time drilling him on it.
I imagine that it isn't about the game itself for at least a good portion of the buyers. Don't underestimate the importance that status has on the way people act. Is it really any different than the more extreme grinders? Are they really playing for fun, or are they playing to have the best/newest stuff in game? In the end, does it make a difference whether people do it by grinding or by buying gold? Either way, they are working to try and gain more in game prestige.
To be honest, if Wikipedia had to jettison some things to make way for others, I'd be more inclined to jettison things that don't exist (e.g Star Trek races, yellow bleating thing) vs things that actually do (e.g. schools, places, things, people). I think that one of the key differences between the two is that in the case of a place such as a high school, it will usually have only local significance, whereas these sort of fictional details will generally be important to people around the world, or at least at a national level. That said, I do agree that wikipedia pages often get into fictional details that are best left for sites other than wikipedia to deal with. I know that there is at least one fairly large star wars wiki, and I have no doubt that there is a star trek one as well. These sorts of things should really be left for those sorts of sites to deal with. Nonetheless, I feel that if a choice needs to be made be between something of local interest and something of a more global interest, then all things being equal the more widespread article should remain.
The problem is, what exactly does "consent" entail. What happens if this sort of thing became required in certaint contexts. For example, there are some fields where this would certainly simplify security, what if you were required to get an implant to work in that field? Sure you could always go to some other company or line of work, but the more standard these get the harder it gets to avoid them. Eventually, it is possible that getting a chip would be comparable to giving out your social security number. Sure, you have to consent to give it out, but the costs for not doing so are extremely prohibitive.
As far as I am concerned, we ought put a stop to this whole thing now before it gets too deep into our society to easily reverse.
I don't think that you can really use a slippery slope argument here. There have been limits on speech for pretty much as long as the concept of free speech has been around. While there have certainly been abuses, fraud, libel, and other limitations haven't destroyed free speech yet. As far as I can tell, this is simply a logical extension of these limitations. Furthermore, this doesn't effect the content of what people can say. It appears to mostly be a limitation on how people are allowed to represent themselves. The companies are still quite free to heap praise on their products, they just aren't allowed to lie about who they are while doing it.
To heck with her stance on video games, she very likely lost my vote for good when she voted for the flag desecration ammendment.
As far as I've seen, it mostly comes down to people who want to be able to tell others what to do, and everyone else. Unfortunately, the government has gotten really full of that first type of people. This whole left and right thing is just a set of labels for the different things that they want to force down our throats.
He's a pooka.
True, but if we manage to wipe humanity off the planet, I'm not really going to care how much bacteria is left.
Sony Corp. has been too strict about preventing users from playing around with hacks into products like the PlayStation Portable, Bullwinkle and other panelists agreed. Even though the PSP modding community has had to fight Sony every step of the way, they've still been able to do some pretty cool things. COuld you imagine what might have happened if they actually had been able to just do what they wanted, or even been encouraged by Sony? There might actually be a reason for someone to buy one of them.
IANAL, but here's my take on that idea. If they do that, then it would require them to admit that they are capable of policing the files indexed on their site. This would open up a lot more doors for the *IAA's than it would for the torrent site. The best bet, IMO, is just to have really good feedback systems so that it is easy for users to tell which files are garbage.
That analogy doesn't work for downloading, though. Their servers aren't just sitting there with files on them. They are actively sending out data to people who have requested it. Very huge difference. To borrow your analogy: if you are sitting on your porch with a bag of money, and I walk up and ask for some, I'm not stealing if you reach into the bag and hand me some of it.
Partly, especially when you are talking about party insiders. For most people, though religion and political party seem to have a lot of similarities. For one thing, there is a fierce loyalty to political parties. Like religion, people are often unwilling to even consider alternatives that are not sanctioned by the party leaders. In addition, political parties share the desire and ability to define what is "moral" behavior. In any important issue, parties are quick to define a "right" and a "wrong" way of thinking, and they generally expect those who are members of the party to toe the line on all issues. True, there are still many that dissent, but that is true in religion as well. After all, how many Catholics agree with everything the Pope says. The important thing is that they share the belief that it is their place of the leaders to dictate morality to the "lessers". Finally, like religion, political affiliation is often times adhered to for no other reason than that was the way a person was raised. Really, political parties have become the new religion. The only thing missing is the mysticism and some of the superficial trappings.