But other things are kept out due to patent issues, and other sorts of regulatory absurdity. The few Cuban cigars brought into the country change hands for astronomical sums compared with what they sell for everywhere else, so the market obviously wants them.
When the Cuban embargo is lifted, I expect that there will be an explosion in the sales of Cuban cigars. Mostly due to afficianados wanting to try out 'the best', and 'the forbidden'. However I would imagine that sales of such cigars would fall to the levels of every other cigar manufacturer once the novelty fades.
It isn't so much that the market wants them, but that they hype pushes them, and the hype makes it seem like we really want them. But in reality, less people than ever are smoking, and even less smoking cigars.
And like wine, it will become little more than a variety to be sampled, rather than some exemplar of what is 'perfect'. French wine is a good example for a similar product. Snobs will pick a region/type and declare it to be the best, a connoisseur will appreciate the differences.
Very true. The average bank robbery results in about $5,000 stolen by the robber.
Consider that you could probably make $30,000 per year as a bus driver. You would have to rob at least 5 banks per year to come close (No taxes:p) . I'd imagine that after the 3rd bank you would jump up pretty high on the FBI watchlist.
An average 'tech' job probably earns you more than the most active bank robber.
I can't cite any specific sources, but I doubt it would be hard to find a precedent or justification.
It is a very clear statement. Assault by proxy.
All that they would need to prove is that he knew that by his actions, the police would raid the home. Since they have the false 'report' he created, it is probably written in a manner that suggest that a raid was absolutely necessary.
The police in this case were the proxy.
However, it could be argued that he only expected them to use standard issue sidearms. If that is the case, then Assault with an assault weapon (friggen redundant) by proxy may not stick because his intent was assault with a deadly weapon or simply assault.
But it appears that they are throwing the book at him. The loaded term, Assault weapon, was probably thrown in because it carries the potential for the highest penalites of the Assault by Proxy category.
Well, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) always seemed to be the 'Bizzaro' version of ex-Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA).
While I haven't agreed with all his votes, he has generally been one of the more small 'c' conservatives in the Republican party. I'm surprised he actually gathered as much strength given that he has often been at odds with the party leadership.
I was genuinely upset/worried when he was fighting cancer (Hodgkin's Disease). He is one of the few politicians I actually liked. Glad to see he is still doing enough of what is right to keep us 'surprised'.
While the software can be fixed, the flaw isn't so easy to repair.
A nefarious person only needs a patsy to make a call on the opposite side of the city. $100 to a drug addict or something similar. Heck, the guy doesn't even need to stay there. Break in, call 911, leave.
In my opinion we are lucky that mostly everyone is law abiding. It doesn't take much in the way of planning to understand the flaws in our system. I suppose that is why it is a Justice System and not a Protection System since it must remain as a reactionary body. I would shudder to imagine what a protective police force would have to be like to be 'successful'.
Security has been lax for far too long, and I can't really blame anyone for taking advantage of that.
You may not be able to blame anyone. But I can certainly assign blame.
Is the person/group that designed this botnet talented? Without a doubt. Do they deserve respect? Hell, no.
If you respect this person, then you would have to also respect the people who put together those televangelist networks and faith-healers. Liars, cheats, and thieves. They deserve no respect.
This product is so expensive that I am willing to bet that 90% of copies are unlicensed.
Now, if I were a professional photographer, or graphic artist, I wouldn't hesitate for a moment to purchase a copy of Photoshop. (In fact, when I had access to a reasonably priced version, I did purchase it)
Ignoring music for a moment. This is a significant problem in the software industry. They have set the price so high that I'm certain that they expect, and potentially even encourage limited piracy to increase their market saturation.
In cases like that, can they even argue that there is a monetary loss? I suppose that is why set penalties are in place.
Looks like TPB just gave them justification to call TPB thieves instead of just infringers now. Because I'm certain that this DOES deprive them of the original.
This is a bad PR move for them. The only people who really cheer for this sort of thing are the types that would download a copy even if there were a low cost, drm-free authorized source for the files. I would like to see the Pirate Bay lose this, simply because they are going in a direction that I think is a bit more like promoting anarcy rather than protesting outdated laws.
Stealing a domain name is something that I think we all can agree is pretty wrong.
America teaches that being morally and ethically right means nothing. No one fights fair (see politics). Your not trying to persuade other scientists the exaggeration are right. Your trying to persuade the American public that their demagogues are wrong. Fighting fair means you lose in such a distorted field. Some fights are too important to lose. That's fine, and I don't disagree with your statement, but just don't call it science. In fact, you can't call it science without lying.
Call it what it is. Propaganda.
And it doesn't have to be negative. The word itself comes from the verb propagate. And is the 'sewing' of ideas. I recognize that you feel that some of your points are important to you to get across, and may in the end help humanity.
Yet I love the irony.
Telling lies to people because you are upset they believe other lies, with the goal of getting them to follow a belief, which you ensure them is not, a lie.
If you throw in the 'holiday' money to children then you end up back in the situation where parents are giving their children the means without providing the oversight.
But you wouldn't pass a law to stop them eating junk food with that money. It is much easier to tie a 'cost to society' to obesity than it is to violent video games.
Bear in mind that I haven't used linux from scratch. However I plan to at some point. I just wanted to state an observation.
Perhaps a slight change in your method while going through the LFS process might have helped your understanding. Think of it like a text book. It contains all the information you need, but you may not understand all of it. You could go through the text book and parrot the commands, and in the end, if you are lucky you could pass the exam, but you wouldn't understand what you did. This is a bit what your LFS experience sounded like.
My suggestion, which has worked for me when studying networking, was to take extra time when going through the lessons/steps. If I encountered ANYTHING that I didn't immediately know. I would stop, look up the confusing term/step (Oh its, a routing algorithm) and then continue only when I understood the term. Your brain will let you skip over confusing terms, but it is likely to cause you to fall back on parroting the steps without understanding them.
It will take a lot longer, but I would suggest that you understand why you are entering each command, and what that command is actually doing before you let yourself progress to the next step.
And what that means is I will again be needlessly 'carded' whenver I want to buy a game. It's the same crap with alcohol that is used as a rallying cry for sleazy politicians to rally the overprotective parents.
So, the annoyance of being carded aside. Lets not forget that we don't need to go further down the path of expanding the amount of time people remain 'children'. This is not a labor law, where unfair working conditions forced children to work in dangerous conditions.
You have to work to survive, it is pretty much a requirement of life, and therefore easily abused. Unlike child labor, people can't be forced INTO purchasing this game. Children aren't forced to do this sort of thing so their families can survive.
The only 'children' buying MA rated games are the following:
1. Children whose parents gave them a large amount of cash and didn't provide oversight. 2. Children who have their own jobs and saved the money. 3. Children who saved their allowance for such a game.
In the first example, the problem is poor parental oversight.
In the second two examples, the 'child' showed remarkable maturity and in that case, should meet the requirements of the MA rating.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but eventually >= 10 years. Flash memory is expensive to produce, and production of flash memory already outstrips HDDs (think of all those USB thumb drives).
I'd say 10 years or less. My thumb drive is larger and cheaper than my HDD from 10 years ago was.
64gb is more than enough for a 'die hard' gamer. Flash is pretty much ideal with respect to gaming. Like the OS, there aren't that many writes that are made after the install and configuration. You will have your occasional patch, or settings tweaks, but even at an absurd 1 patch a day, this drive would not burn out on writes for hundreds of years. (obviously something else would be a cause of failure before then).
The fast seek times would be very nice in reducing load times (as long as it isn't the unpacking that slows you down).
Personally, the games on my computer take up about 20-30 gigs max. And that is probably a high estimate since people will have their favorite games and I'm in a transition atm. That leaves about 10gigs for a properly bloated OS. Boost up the RAM as high as you can to help avoid any virtual-memory issues.
But yes 64Gb should be more than enough for gamers. It is when you would add in the 'side' aspects that occur with gamers. Music and movies. That's where you might feel the crunch with a 64 gig drive.
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I'd actually say that Wikipedia has been far more successful as an example of a collaborative Free product than Linux has. Wikipedia actually dominates the market now.
Not surprisingly, since the barrier for entry into Wikipedia is much lower. Collaboration in Linux requires some fairly specific knowledge if you are trying to do anything grander than test from an end user perspective. Wikipedia simply requires that you have something to add and a desire to comment.
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But other things are kept out due to patent issues, and other sorts of regulatory absurdity. The few Cuban cigars brought into the country change hands for astronomical sums compared with what they sell for everywhere else, so the market obviously wants them.
When the Cuban embargo is lifted, I expect that there will be an explosion in the sales of Cuban cigars. Mostly due to afficianados wanting to try out 'the best', and 'the forbidden'. However I would imagine that sales of such cigars would fall to the levels of every other cigar manufacturer once the novelty fades.
It isn't so much that the market wants them, but that they hype pushes them, and the hype makes it seem like we really want them. But in reality, less people than ever are smoking, and even less smoking cigars.
And like wine, it will become little more than a variety to be sampled, rather than some exemplar of what is 'perfect'. French wine is a good example for a similar product. Snobs will pick a region/type and declare it to be the best, a connoisseur will appreciate the differences.
Its ok. I've got alzheimer's.
But then I might read it again. Am I allowed to read it twice?
It's ok. I've got alzheimer's.
What if I worked on some really mundane boring shit that I can't talk about? :(
Someone who pays 0, when the store accepts 0 as a price is NOT a pirate. They are a legitimate customer who paid what was asked. No piracy.
Even then what they fail to consider is how many of these $0 purchasers simply saw this as an opportunity to hear music from a new source.
"Hmm, I've never heard anything by Radiohead before. What? I don't have to pay? I think I'll go check them out."
That is what I did.
Very true. The average bank robbery results in about $5,000 stolen by the robber.
:p) . I'd imagine that after the 3rd bank you would jump up pretty high on the FBI watchlist.
Consider that you could probably make $30,000 per year as a bus driver. You would have to rob at least 5 banks per year to come close (No taxes
An average 'tech' job probably earns you more than the most active bank robber.
I can't cite any specific sources, but I doubt it would be hard to find a precedent or justification.
It is a very clear statement. Assault by proxy.
All that they would need to prove is that he knew that by his actions, the police would raid the home. Since they have the false 'report' he created, it is probably written in a manner that suggest that a raid was absolutely necessary.
The police in this case were the proxy.
However, it could be argued that he only expected them to use standard issue sidearms. If that is the case, then Assault with an assault weapon (friggen redundant) by proxy may not stick because his intent was assault with a deadly weapon or simply assault.
But it appears that they are throwing the book at him. The loaded term, Assault weapon, was probably thrown in because it carries the potential for the highest penalites of the Assault by Proxy category.
Well, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) always seemed to be the 'Bizzaro' version of ex-Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA).
While I haven't agreed with all his votes, he has generally been one of the more small 'c' conservatives in the Republican party. I'm surprised he actually gathered as much strength given that he has often been at odds with the party leadership.
I was genuinely upset/worried when he was fighting cancer (Hodgkin's Disease). He is one of the few politicians I actually liked. Glad to see he is still doing enough of what is right to keep us 'surprised'.
While the software can be fixed, the flaw isn't so easy to repair.
A nefarious person only needs a patsy to make a call on the opposite side of the city. $100 to a drug addict or something similar. Heck, the guy doesn't even need to stay there. Break in, call 911, leave.
In my opinion we are lucky that mostly everyone is law abiding. It doesn't take much in the way of planning to understand the flaws in our system. I suppose that is why it is a Justice System and not a Protection System since it must remain as a reactionary body. I would shudder to imagine what a protective police force would have to be like to be 'successful'.
Even if they do, wouldn't that make it a bit hard for them to collect taxes?
Botnets can be used to generate huge amounts of revenue. That revenue can purchase a lot of domains.
Security has been lax for far too long, and I can't really blame anyone for taking advantage of that.
You may not be able to blame anyone. But I can certainly assign blame.
Is the person/group that designed this botnet talented? Without a doubt. Do they deserve respect? Hell, no.
If you respect this person, then you would have to also respect the people who put together those televangelist networks and faith-healers. Liars, cheats, and thieves. They deserve no respect.
That would be the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution.
"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
Seems to fit.
Photoshop is a good example.
This product is so expensive that I am willing to bet that 90% of copies are unlicensed.
Now, if I were a professional photographer, or graphic artist, I wouldn't hesitate for a moment to purchase a copy of Photoshop. (In fact, when I had access to a reasonably priced version, I did purchase it)
Ignoring music for a moment. This is a significant problem in the software industry. They have set the price so high that I'm certain that they expect, and potentially even encourage limited piracy to increase their market saturation.
In cases like that, can they even argue that there is a monetary loss? I suppose that is why set penalties are in place.
Looks like TPB just gave them justification to call TPB thieves instead of just infringers now. Because I'm certain that this DOES deprive them of the original.
This is a bad PR move for them. The only people who really cheer for this sort of thing are the types that would download a copy even if there were a low cost, drm-free authorized source for the files. I would like to see the Pirate Bay lose this, simply because they are going in a direction that I think is a bit more like promoting anarcy rather than protesting outdated laws.
Stealing a domain name is something that I think we all can agree is pretty wrong.
Call it what it is. Propaganda.
And it doesn't have to be negative. The word itself comes from the verb propagate. And is the 'sewing' of ideas. I recognize that you feel that some of your points are important to you to get across, and may in the end help humanity.
Yet I love the irony.
Telling lies to people because you are upset they believe other lies, with the goal of getting them to follow a belief, which you ensure them is not, a lie.
. Science fights fair too often and gets steam rollered by the lies of the opponents to science.
Science must 'fight fair' or it isn't science. If you distort the facts then it isn't science at all, it's a belief system.
If you throw in the 'holiday' money to children then you end up back in the situation where parents are giving their children the means without providing the oversight.
But you wouldn't pass a law to stop them eating junk food with that money. It is much easier to tie a 'cost to society' to obesity than it is to violent video games.
FCC: "If you raise your rates, why wouldn't your customers switch to a competing service?".
Expected answer: We anticipate that our competitor's would have to raise their rates accordingly due to cost increases in providing the service.
FCC: "Who is your competitor?"
*Crickets*
FCC: Thank you.
Bear in mind that I haven't used linux from scratch. However I plan to at some point. I just wanted to state an observation.
Perhaps a slight change in your method while going through the LFS process might have helped your understanding. Think of it like a text book. It contains all the information you need, but you may not understand all of it. You could go through the text book and parrot the commands, and in the end, if you are lucky you could pass the exam, but you wouldn't understand what you did. This is a bit what your LFS experience sounded like.
My suggestion, which has worked for me when studying networking, was to take extra time when going through the lessons/steps. If I encountered ANYTHING that I didn't immediately know. I would stop, look up the confusing term/step (Oh its, a routing algorithm) and then continue only when I understood the term. Your brain will let you skip over confusing terms, but it is likely to cause you to fall back on parroting the steps without understanding them.
It will take a lot longer, but I would suggest that you understand why you are entering each command, and what that command is actually doing before you let yourself progress to the next step.
Slow, but very effective.
And what that means is I will again be needlessly 'carded' whenver I want to buy a game. It's the same crap with alcohol that is used as a rallying cry for sleazy politicians to rally the overprotective parents.
So, the annoyance of being carded aside. Lets not forget that we don't need to go further down the path of expanding the amount of time people remain 'children'. This is not a labor law, where unfair working conditions forced children to work in dangerous conditions.
You have to work to survive, it is pretty much a requirement of life, and therefore easily abused. Unlike child labor, people can't be forced INTO purchasing this game. Children aren't forced to do this sort of thing so their families can survive.
The only 'children' buying MA rated games are the following:
1. Children whose parents gave them a large amount of cash and didn't provide oversight.
2. Children who have their own jobs and saved the money.
3. Children who saved their allowance for such a game.
In the first example, the problem is poor parental oversight.
In the second two examples, the 'child' showed remarkable maturity and in that case, should meet the requirements of the MA rating.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but eventually >= 10 years. Flash memory is expensive to produce, and production of flash memory already outstrips HDDs (think of all those USB thumb drives).
I'd say 10 years or less. My thumb drive is larger and cheaper than my HDD from 10 years ago was.
64gb is more than enough for a 'die hard' gamer. Flash is pretty much ideal with respect to gaming. Like the OS, there aren't that many writes that are made after the install and configuration. You will have your occasional patch, or settings tweaks, but even at an absurd 1 patch a day, this drive would not burn out on writes for hundreds of years. (obviously something else would be a cause of failure before then).
The fast seek times would be very nice in reducing load times (as long as it isn't the unpacking that slows you down).
Personally, the games on my computer take up about 20-30 gigs max. And that is probably a high estimate since people will have their favorite games and I'm in a transition atm. That leaves about 10gigs for a properly bloated OS. Boost up the RAM as high as you can to help avoid any virtual-memory issues.
But yes 64Gb should be more than enough for gamers. It is when you would add in the 'side' aspects that occur with gamers. Music and movies. That's where you might feel the crunch with a 64 gig drive.
I'd actually say that Wikipedia has been far more successful as an example of a collaborative Free product than Linux has. Wikipedia actually dominates the market now.
Not surprisingly, since the barrier for entry into Wikipedia is much lower. Collaboration in Linux requires some fairly specific knowledge if you are trying to do anything grander than test from an end user perspective. Wikipedia simply requires that you have something to add and a desire to comment.
In Halo3 you are fighting against what could easily be called a 'False Prophet'. Sounds like good justification for a Christian church.
He was referring to publishing the method used to de-whirl the images, not the images themselves.