When you hire an ISP, you are not working for them. You are hiring them. Their equipment is leased to you, therefore YOU are the owner of that equipment (within the terms of the lease).
The contents that would be accumulated wouldn't be compressed into a 'hard' meteor as it re-entered the atmosphere. After a few seconds it would break apart into numerous pieces with a huge surface area. With slight considerations to have it re-enter over an ocean, the risk from these items would be very very low.
No, it's not an exception to the Fourth Amendment. It's only an interpretation that looking for guns and explosives when people board a plane does not constitute an "unreasonable search and seizure", but looking for anything else is "unreasonable".
Being Canadian I have more of an outside perspective, I suppose. I'm used to there being four or five viable parties. Many countries in Europe have more parties than you can count on your hands. Why have they been able to stay away from the two-party system?
It's a byproduct of having a system of government that does not provide proportional representation. The rules in the US are setup so that even if a Third Party Candidate gets elected, except in the case of tiebreakers (so it is important in the senate) they have no real power.
The parent post was describing the author's definitions. Your post seems to contradict itself. You say that it isn't altruism that makes them clueless, but then say that an altruist is clueless.
An altruist just seeks to work for the betterment of the group, and can be quite aware that not everyone will be doing the same, and they CAN apply judgment with regard to people who would attempt to take advantage of them.
There is nothing about being altruistic which requires you to be oblivious. Habitat For Humanity is an altruistic organization, yet they do have standards for their applicants.
I say this because the clueless stereotype and the sociopath stereotype in the description are mutually exclusive; the first is honorable and goes beyond the call of duty without motivation or recompense, the second you can't get out of bed without offering a six digit salary.
You seem to have confused altruistic with clueless. Of course, a sociopath would likely consider an altruistic person to be clueless.
They usually include a unique identifier in the form of a drivers license number on each license. You'd have a hard time arguing that there's a man at 121 Main Street with the same name AND license number as you.
So which did they get wrong? The address or the number? The odds of either being incorrect are the same.
We were both, however, referring to the convenience factor.
Where the hell would I find one of those people? Certainly not closer to me than the nearest BestBuy. And even then, are they selling bit for bit DVD rips, or bootlegs that they just label as DVDs?
As I said, it is close, and when the network conditions of the US improve you will likely see the pirated versions beat regular DVDs (with unskippable ads/warnings) But until then, regular DVDs still are head with at least 2/3rds of the market.
Right now, (perhaps not in the future), DVDs are still superior to the ripped version. Most people don't have the connections to download a full resolution version of a DVD rip, nor do they have their TVs set up to display a video feed from their computer. They also don't want to be bothered burning it to a DVD, marking it, etc.
In the future, this will likely not be the case, but right now for DVD to DVDrip comparisons, DVD is still slightly ahead.
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My thoughts exactly. I doubt that a single regular here would have any interest (besides data mining or other geeky stuff) on billionairexchange.
My father-in-law runs a restoration business for collectable vehicles. The typical job tends to charge 1-2 million dollars. (They will reproduce the parts from either the original plans or will pay someone to go and measure the part on their car and rebuild it to spec)
He does purchase some of these vehicles, restores them on the side, and resells them for a modest profit. He doesn't have nearly the disposable income to simply hold onto them (maybe for a few months of car cruises, competitions, and the like) A place to sell these vehicles other than ebay or the various auction houses would be of interest to him.
I'm too frugal myself to deal with luxuries in the +$200k range, and I cringe at Rolex watches, but you shouldn't be surprised if a few slashdotters do have quite a bit of disposable income.
Actually, I wonder the same thing with actual gold sales where you don't physically receive the product. How do you know it isn't some dude with a phone center and a good printer?
Realistically, you could pull off such a scam by simply issuing gold notes. Lets say that the price of gold is $1000/ounce.
You collect $100000 from some guy and issue him a certificate stating that he has purchased 100 ounces from you which are his to collect within maturity of this note (or whatever language you want to include)
Now, you have $100,000 to work with. If Mr. Gold Buyer waits 10 years and wants to cash out his gold, all you have to do is outperform the gold market with that $100,000. You keep (or lose) the difference (ignoring taxes for simplicity)
There really isn't anything magical about the market... and come to think of it, why did I call that a scam? It's roughly what is going on in today's market with those notes. That's how most things are traded.
I've had plenty of friends who are now not currently my friends. I wouldn't tolerate a friendship with someone who behaved in such a manner, and yes I would likely go to their manager if they were doing something like this.
All it will take is for the Arabs to start selling oil in Euros, and your greenback will be as respected as a Matabele Gumbo Bead (and probably worth about the same).
Sucks for anyone holding bonds listed in US dollars. Oh wait, isn't that the rest of the world?
What's really sad is, most successful people never paid for their copies until they actually needed them for a legit business. College students will pirate that stuff to learn the software and be able to put it on a resume, ultimately making money off it - but according to most of them, it's totally moral only paying for software once the first(or tenth) paycheck comes in.
Now, hopefully this doesn't evaluate my previous statement, but I believe that with your comment regarding most 'professional' tools, until very recently they actually relied on piracy to help them increase their market share so that they were the dominant tools used in the market. I believe that they have priced their products well out of the reach of students (Honestly, what student could possibly shell out several thousand for a software tool?)
This is getting into a much more nuanced position than I really think is accurate for the main topic, but when a company prices a tool beyond the reach of a market, I don't have as much of an issue if that market pirates the software provided that once they do ENTER the market (ie, become professional graphic artists) that they pay for a license.
For non-commercial purposes (like learning how to use the tool) my bar is set much lower.
I've long argued, especially when it comes to games and entertainment related media, there's absolutely NO justification in copyright infringement EVER
When you start dealing with works that are over 100 years old (which we will soon) my outrage scale falls off VERY quickly.
You don't go into a store and argue with the cashier - at least not in most western economies - that the price is too much. You either buy it or you don't.
I do it all the time. I just don't expect to leave with it unless the cashier and I agree on the price and I pay it.
Hum. Out of curiosity, does the slashdot crowd think copying 30-40 games and "saving £600" is good? Wouldn't that actually be considered... basically stealing? Maybe he couldn't afford £600 of games. I don't feel sorry for him. Not being able to afford something/something being too expensive doesn't mean you should get it illegally (and it's ok, as long as you couldn't afford it).
I don't think it is good. I think it is terrible. It is exactly people like him who are the ones which are giving the corporations the impression that such things are the norm and therefore they feel they need to do something to stop it.
People like that piss me off because it makes my complaints (non-interoperable hardware, laws damaging freedom/privacy, few legal digital options) seem less valid because there always seems to be 'that guy' standing next to you making faces and fart noises while you attempt to engage in rationale discourse.
Not being an asshole myself commenting this way , but m$ is being an really asshole doing this, I don't hear apple lock up modded apple tvs, and jailbraked iphones, and have m$ ever given free wi-fi in airports?
Ever hear of NASCAR or Formula 1 banning a vehicle for fining a driver/team for using hardware that was modified in a manner which was against their rules?
Ever hear of a baseball/basketball/football player being fined, banned, or reprimanded for using 'modded' hardware? (roughed up/greased baseballs, Corked bats, illegal cletes)
Olympic atheletes for using illegal substances in their hardware? (doping)
Microsoft was well within its rights to do what it did, and what's more, they were RIGHT in doing it. One of the key ways in which someone cheats at these games starts with modifying the hardware to bypass controls on modifying the client data.
When I play a game in a controlled environment (online service) I expect the service to make an effort to ensure that each person is playing on a level playing ground.
What Microsoft did here wasn't evil, what they did was one of the fundamental things necessary to run a fair and level game.
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When you hire an ISP, you are not working for them. You are hiring them. Their equipment is leased to you, therefore YOU are the owner of that equipment (within the terms of the lease).
The contents that would be accumulated wouldn't be compressed into a 'hard' meteor as it re-entered the atmosphere. After a few seconds it would break apart into numerous pieces with a huge surface area. With slight considerations to have it re-enter over an ocean, the risk from these items would be very very low.
My bank is in Pennsylvania. I sold a pair of ATVs in NY for $15,000.
Traveling in the US with over $10k in cash is NOT rare.
Ironically I wasn't worried about being robbed. I was however, worried that the police would take it if they searched my vehicle.
Actually yelling 'fire' might actually be appropriate when in conjunction with the 2nd Amendment.
No, it's not an exception to the Fourth Amendment. It's only an interpretation that looking for guns and explosives when people board a plane does not constitute an "unreasonable search and seizure", but looking for anything else is "unreasonable".
Such as looking for proof of prescription drugs?
Being Canadian I have more of an outside perspective, I suppose. I'm used to there being four or five viable parties. Many countries in Europe have more parties than you can count on your hands. Why have they been able to stay away from the two-party system?
It's a byproduct of having a system of government that does not provide proportional representation. The rules in the US are setup so that even if a Third Party Candidate gets elected, except in the case of tiebreakers (so it is important in the senate) they have no real power.
Chopping up virgins' bits and pieces and turning it into a medical treatment!
Human horn is real!
The parent post was describing the author's definitions. Your post seems to contradict itself. You say that it isn't altruism that makes them clueless, but then say that an altruist is clueless.
An altruist just seeks to work for the betterment of the group, and can be quite aware that not everyone will be doing the same, and they CAN apply judgment with regard to people who would attempt to take advantage of them.
There is nothing about being altruistic which requires you to be oblivious. Habitat For Humanity is an altruistic organization, yet they do have standards for their applicants.
I say this because the clueless stereotype and the sociopath stereotype in the description are mutually exclusive; the first is honorable and goes beyond the call of duty without motivation or recompense, the second you can't get out of bed without offering a six digit salary.
You seem to have confused altruistic with clueless. Of course, a sociopath would likely consider an altruistic person to be clueless.
They usually include a unique identifier in the form of a drivers license number on each license. You'd have a hard time arguing that there's a man at 121 Main Street with the same name AND license number as you.
So which did they get wrong? The address or the number? The odds of either being incorrect are the same.
We were both, however, referring to the convenience factor.
Where the hell would I find one of those people? Certainly not closer to me than the nearest BestBuy. And even then, are they selling bit for bit DVD rips, or bootlegs that they just label as DVDs?
As I said, it is close, and when the network conditions of the US improve you will likely see the pirated versions beat regular DVDs (with unskippable ads/warnings) But until then, regular DVDs still are head with at least 2/3rds of the market.
It think a count of 11 would be fun.
Right now, (perhaps not in the future), DVDs are still superior to the ripped version. Most people don't have the connections to download a full resolution version of a DVD rip, nor do they have their TVs set up to display a video feed from their computer. They also don't want to be bothered burning it to a DVD, marking it, etc.
In the future, this will likely not be the case, but right now for DVD to DVDrip comparisons, DVD is still slightly ahead.
My thoughts exactly. I doubt that a single regular here would have any interest (besides data mining or other geeky stuff) on billionairexchange.
My father-in-law runs a restoration business for collectable vehicles. The typical job tends to charge 1-2 million dollars. (They will reproduce the parts from either the original plans or will pay someone to go and measure the part on their car and rebuild it to spec)
He does purchase some of these vehicles, restores them on the side, and resells them for a modest profit. He doesn't have nearly the disposable income to simply hold onto them (maybe for a few months of car cruises, competitions, and the like) A place to sell these vehicles other than ebay or the various auction houses would be of interest to him.
I'm too frugal myself to deal with luxuries in the +$200k range, and I cringe at Rolex watches, but you shouldn't be surprised if a few slashdotters do have quite a bit of disposable income.
Actually, I wonder the same thing with actual gold sales where you don't physically receive the product. How do you know it isn't some dude with a phone center and a good printer?
Realistically, you could pull off such a scam by simply issuing gold notes. Lets say that the price of gold is $1000/ounce.
You collect $100000 from some guy and issue him a certificate stating that he has purchased 100 ounces from you which are his to collect within maturity of this note (or whatever language you want to include)
Now, you have $100,000 to work with. If Mr. Gold Buyer waits 10 years and wants to cash out his gold, all you have to do is outperform the gold market with that $100,000. You keep (or lose) the difference (ignoring taxes for simplicity)
There really isn't anything magical about the market... and come to think of it, why did I call that a scam? It's roughly what is going on in today's market with those notes. That's how most things are traded.
The price of gold isn't high enough to justify the cost of going to Mars and getting it (even if there were bars of it lying around on the surface.)
There is no test ban treaty on Mars right? Looks like Project Orion might have found a home and a goal!
I've had plenty of friends who are now not currently my friends. I wouldn't tolerate a friendship with someone who behaved in such a manner, and yes I would likely go to their manager if they were doing something like this.
My friends understand that I hold this position.
I watch the backs of people who are worth it.
All it will take is for the Arabs to start selling oil in Euros, and your greenback will be as respected as a Matabele Gumbo Bead (and probably worth about the same).
Sucks for anyone holding bonds listed in US dollars. Oh wait, isn't that the rest of the world?
This is independant of action that the US government would take against Intel.
Similar to how OJ was found not guilty in criminal court, but did end up paying restitution in civil court.
Um... Just an FYI... They're both in North America.
And are there any in South America that meet his criteria? Looks like his post is still correct.
What's really sad is, most successful people never paid for their copies until they actually needed them for a legit business. College students will pirate that stuff to learn the software and be able to put it on a resume, ultimately making money off it - but according to most of them, it's totally moral only paying for software once the first(or tenth) paycheck comes in.
Now, hopefully this doesn't evaluate my previous statement, but I believe that with your comment regarding most 'professional' tools, until very recently they actually relied on piracy to help them increase their market share so that they were the dominant tools used in the market. I believe that they have priced their products well out of the reach of students (Honestly, what student could possibly shell out several thousand for a software tool?)
This is getting into a much more nuanced position than I really think is accurate for the main topic, but when a company prices a tool beyond the reach of a market, I don't have as much of an issue if that market pirates the software provided that once they do ENTER the market (ie, become professional graphic artists) that they pay for a license.
For non-commercial purposes (like learning how to use the tool) my bar is set much lower.
I've long argued, especially when it comes to games and entertainment related media, there's absolutely NO justification in copyright infringement EVER
When you start dealing with works that are over 100 years old (which we will soon) my outrage scale falls off VERY quickly.
You don't go into a store and argue with the cashier - at least not in most western economies - that the price is too much. You either buy it or you don't.
I do it all the time. I just don't expect to leave with it unless the cashier and I agree on the price and I pay it.
Hum. Out of curiosity, does the slashdot crowd think copying 30-40 games and "saving £600" is good? Wouldn't that actually be considered ... basically stealing? Maybe he couldn't afford £600 of games. I don't feel sorry for him. Not being able to afford something/something being too expensive doesn't mean you should get it illegally (and it's ok, as long as you couldn't afford it).
I don't think it is good. I think it is terrible. It is exactly people like him who are the ones which are giving the corporations the impression that such things are the norm and therefore they feel they need to do something to stop it.
People like that piss me off because it makes my complaints (non-interoperable hardware, laws damaging freedom/privacy, few legal digital options) seem less valid because there always seems to be 'that guy' standing next to you making faces and fart noises while you attempt to engage in rationale discourse.
Not being an asshole myself commenting this way , but m$ is being an really asshole doing this, I don't hear apple lock up modded apple tvs, and jailbraked iphones, and have m$ ever given free wi-fi in airports?
Ever hear of NASCAR or Formula 1 banning a vehicle for fining a driver/team for using hardware that was modified in a manner which was against their rules?
Ever hear of a baseball/basketball/football player being fined, banned, or reprimanded for using 'modded' hardware? (roughed up/greased baseballs, Corked bats, illegal cletes)
Olympic atheletes for using illegal substances in their hardware? (doping)
Microsoft was well within its rights to do what it did, and what's more, they were RIGHT in doing it. One of the key ways in which someone cheats at these games starts with modifying the hardware to bypass controls on modifying the client data.
When I play a game in a controlled environment (online service) I expect the service to make an effort to ensure that each person is playing on a level playing ground.
What Microsoft did here wasn't evil, what they did was one of the fundamental things necessary to run a fair and level game.