Yeah, when we shot or hanged all of the leaders, took all of the money from the banks, looted the museums and split the entire country in half for almost 50 years it was just a slap on the wrist.
Um, no, it's not. That's just one of those things that everyone THINKS is illegal, including cops etc. Airports, at least the big ones, are public property, and as such it is explicitly NOT illegal to take photographs in them, because even if a law saying otherwise was passed tomorrow, it would absolutely fail on the basis of unconstitutionality.
What IS illegal is taking photographs of essentially anything in order to commit a crime of any sort. In fact, there are very few things that one can do to plan a crime that isn't illegal because we have laws against conspiring to commit a crime. If the security guard legitimately believes you are planning a crime, he is welcome to file a police report so that it can be properly investigated. After the 8th or 9th time the cops have to deal with nothing reports, they'll probably just tell him to chill.
Remember, if you actually aren't breaking any laws, it is your civic duty to require all government agents to comply with the laws they are supposed to uphold. If cops are stopping every car on a stretch of road and requesting to search cars, make them get a signed warrant from a sitting judge before they get so much as a glance at the glove compartment. The authorities violate our rights for just two reasons, the first is that they think they can, and the second is that the people giving the orders don't realize how much work it would be if they actually had to do their jobs. Make every cop get a warrant for every search, and I guarantee you'll see a lot less searches (which is the whole point, in case anybody missed it).
No, I'm writing to Google. By the way, why aren't youhelping me get on the internet?!?!?!?! AOL was working fine for me last week, why aren't you helping me?!
"Unless you're arguing that installing/using Linux requires fewer computer skills than Windows...?)"
As a matter of fact... I have a dual-boot XP64/Ubuntu machine, and the Ubuntu installation was easier by far. It asked fewer questions, took less time, and actually did a bunch of relatively complicated things all by itself without me having to fix them at all (which pleasantly surprised me when I, for example, double checked that it wasn't trying to eat my Windows partition). Installing XP actually requires having at least some vague notion of what you're doing, but I could have simply clicked "Next" through the Ubuntu installer and gotten the exact same result. So yes, I'd be willing to make that argument.
Well, Worcester isn't all that far from Danvers... (note that the infamous Witch Trials were held in Salem Village, which is now known as Danvers, and not in the city of Salem, tourism titles aside)
"1) Unique -- Uh, how about the user interface? One can be nit-picky about anything not being "unique." For example, there is nothing unique or original between a Ford and a Mercedes vehicle, I mean they both have wheels, seats, and use gas right? (sarcasm in case you miss it)."
Having driven cars made by both Ford and Mercedes, I assure you that their controls are essentially the same. The Mercedes' might look a little nicer, and it might have a few minor bells and whistles, but it would take an insanely poor driver to feel lost in a Ford having only driven Mercedes. in fact, I'd argue that almost all that separates them is what's under the hood and how much money was spent to make it pretty. The point is, there's nothing nit-picky about saying that the iPhone's UI is not functionally unique, you're just pretending it is because otherwise the iPhone is overpriced crap (see where this is going yet?).
"2) Battery -- Well, your usage is different. I have never ever purchased a second battery for a cell phone in all the years I have owned a cell phone. Your experience obviously is different. Oh, you do realize you can buy a replacement battery from Apple right?"
I've from all sorts of sources that the iPhone's battery is shit, My room mate loves his, but even he complains that the battery dies far too quickly. as for ordering a new battery... I've handled a couple, and I have no idea how or where one would get access to the battery. what good is ordering a battery from Apple if you still need to pay them to install it, and possibly lose access to it for a few weeks as well?
"3) Palm OS does all the same things -- Are you kidding me? That OS is CRAP, wait that would give crap a bad name it's so shitty. If people wanted to use something designed in 1995 have fun. You have got to be kidding trying to compare Palm OS to any of the modern cell OS systems."
Did I fall asleep and Palm stopped being an active company? Have they really not changed their software since '95? i'll admit that i haven't touched anything Palm in a while, but if what I remember was made 13 years ago, I'm actually quite impressed... i didn't realize some of that stuff was possible on ANYTHING in '95.
"Oh, and I don't own an iPhone. Your comments just were too ridiculous to ignore."
Not really, he's just saying that the only thing special about the iPhone is, well, the "i"... which is pretty much true.
No, you just have to be damned good, but you can hijack one of their tanks, drive around the city annihilating everything in your path, and make your way to the nearest autobody shop so that you can steal another vehicle and get it spraypainted.
Law and enforcement and military personnel,i>always fall for the old "that can't be the same car, it's a different COLOR" trick.
Which is why you should elect the other guy. He totally believes that you should have a say in politics and doesn't want you to simply shut up and obey.
No, just you suckers who didn't vote for [insert candidate]like me!
HAHAHAHA!
Once we get rid of all you degenerates the world will be a better safer place and we can just quietly dismantle our black helicopter fleets and "re-education" centers (complete with eco-friendly bio-mass incinerators!). This plan can't possibly fail.
"after the creator/inventor is dead should the copyright still be in place?"
In fairness, it probably should. Otherwise I could see it being encouragement for some people to try and make the copyright holder dead in order to better evade it.
Death is also problematic when corporations are able to hold copyrights because it's not something they are subject to. If you're waiting for my immortal corporation to die in order for the copyright to expire, you'll be waiting a very long time.
When they discovered that it was impossible to extend the hours in a day to allow for more ad time, they responded by removing from their programming anything for which an advertiser was not paying them money and then creating spin-off channels to increase the overall load.
"I mean, c'mon. It's common sense that AOL can send SMS. One idiot figures out a program and it makes the front news."
I, for one, had no idea that AIM could do that. Anyway, why would it be common sense? There are all sorts of totally incompatible protocols and formats that accomplish essentially the same task, and while it's cool that AOL apparently decided to code an intuitive workaround in this instance that isn't the general state of things. Of course, I use AIM very little 9and SMS even less), because I prefer to just call people, so perhaps I'm just out of the loop on this one.
That said, I agree that this is hardly worthy of the front page; it isn't even as funny as installing Skype on PDA with a wireless data plan and skipping, possibly I remember using AIM on a Nokia about 8 years ago with no trouble outside of only typing ~3 words per minute.
Because it's easier to use lazy ad hominems to attack someone than it is to actually refute them?
BTW, I do pirate software, regularly. I've yet to pirate anything, however, that was so good I wish I had paid for it and didn't, or that was otherwise available to me. When games get discontinued, there's often little recourse for someone looking for it other than to pirate it.
In fairness, I'm sure they would re-evaluate that position in the case of a state bar association unreasonably revoking licenses to practice law (based on, say, race or political affiliation), but this case is not such a one.
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Yeah, when we shot or hanged all of the leaders, took all of the money from the banks, looted the museums and split the entire country in half for almost 50 years it was just a slap on the wrist.
Um, no, it's not. That's just one of those things that everyone THINKS is illegal, including cops etc. Airports, at least the big ones, are public property, and as such it is explicitly NOT illegal to take photographs in them, because even if a law saying otherwise was passed tomorrow, it would absolutely fail on the basis of unconstitutionality.
What IS illegal is taking photographs of essentially anything in order to commit a crime of any sort. In fact, there are very few things that one can do to plan a crime that isn't illegal because we have laws against conspiring to commit a crime. If the security guard legitimately believes you are planning a crime, he is welcome to file a police report so that it can be properly investigated. After the 8th or 9th time the cops have to deal with nothing reports, they'll probably just tell him to chill.
Remember, if you actually aren't breaking any laws, it is your civic duty to require all government agents to comply with the laws they are supposed to uphold. If cops are stopping every car on a stretch of road and requesting to search cars, make them get a signed warrant from a sitting judge before they get so much as a glance at the glove compartment. The authorities violate our rights for just two reasons, the first is that they think they can, and the second is that the people giving the orders don't realize how much work it would be if they actually had to do their jobs. Make every cop get a warrant for every search, and I guarantee you'll see a lot less searches (which is the whole point, in case anybody missed it).
Step 1: Shove Wiimote up your ass sans lube
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!!!
Oddly enough, that sounds nearly as fun as listening to shitty J-Pop while jumping up and down on a piece of lexan (read: not very).
No, I'm writing to Google. By the way, why aren't youhelping me get on the internet?!?!?!?! AOL was working fine for me last week, why aren't you helping me?!
"Unless you're arguing that installing/using Linux requires fewer computer skills than Windows...?)"
As a matter of fact... I have a dual-boot XP64/Ubuntu machine, and the Ubuntu installation was easier by far. It asked fewer questions, took less time, and actually did a bunch of relatively complicated things all by itself without me having to fix them at all (which pleasantly surprised me when I, for example, double checked that it wasn't trying to eat my Windows partition). Installing XP actually requires having at least some vague notion of what you're doing, but I could have simply clicked "Next" through the Ubuntu installer and gotten the exact same result. So yes, I'd be willing to make that argument.
Well, Worcester isn't all that far from Danvers... (note that the infamous Witch Trials were held in Salem Village, which is now known as Danvers, and not in the city of Salem, tourism titles aside)
Unless your business gets big fat government subsidies. Then you'd be Iowa.
No, even the few paint-shops that the tank can fit into won't spraypaint it because it's "too hot".
They also won't spraypaint cop cars, or certain other vehicles that are illegal just to drive around.
"Hey, maybe people can actually hold Bush and MS to what they do/say..."
Whoa there, don't go rocking the boat there. Wouldn't want people to think you're a commie terrorist furinner or something like that.
Oh! Oh! Can I play?
"1) Unique -- Uh, how about the user interface? One can be nit-picky about anything not being "unique." For example, there is nothing unique or original between a Ford and a Mercedes vehicle, I mean they both have wheels, seats, and use gas right? (sarcasm in case you miss it)."
Having driven cars made by both Ford and Mercedes, I assure you that their controls are essentially the same. The Mercedes' might look a little nicer, and it might have a few minor bells and whistles, but it would take an insanely poor driver to feel lost in a Ford having only driven Mercedes. in fact, I'd argue that almost all that separates them is what's under the hood and how much money was spent to make it pretty. The point is, there's nothing nit-picky about saying that the iPhone's UI is not functionally unique, you're just pretending it is because otherwise the iPhone is overpriced crap (see where this is going yet?).
"2) Battery -- Well, your usage is different. I have never ever purchased a second battery for a cell phone in all the years I have owned a cell phone. Your experience obviously is different. Oh, you do realize you can buy a replacement battery from Apple right?"
I've from all sorts of sources that the iPhone's battery is shit, My room mate loves his, but even he complains that the battery dies far too quickly. as for ordering a new battery... I've handled a couple, and I have no idea how or where one would get access to the battery. what good is ordering a battery from Apple if you still need to pay them to install it, and possibly lose access to it for a few weeks as well?
"3) Palm OS does all the same things -- Are you kidding me? That OS is CRAP, wait that would give crap a bad name it's so shitty. If people wanted to use something designed in 1995 have fun. You have got to be kidding trying to compare Palm OS to any of the modern cell OS systems."
Did I fall asleep and Palm stopped being an active company? Have they really not changed their software since '95? i'll admit that i haven't touched anything Palm in a while, but if what I remember was made 13 years ago, I'm actually quite impressed... i didn't realize some of that stuff was possible on ANYTHING in '95.
"Oh, and I don't own an iPhone. Your comments just were too ridiculous to ignore."
Not really, he's just saying that the only thing special about the iPhone is, well, the "i"... which is pretty much true.
No, you just have to be damned good, but you can hijack one of their tanks, drive around the city annihilating everything in your path, and make your way to the nearest autobody shop so that you can steal another vehicle and get it spraypainted.
Law and enforcement and military personnel ,i>always fall for the old "that can't be the same car, it's a different COLOR" trick.
Plus, you get a tank out of the deal.
Which is why you should elect the other guy. He totally believes that you should have a say in politics and doesn't want you to simply shut up and obey.
"The Other Guy in '08!"
I'm not your pal, friend.
No, just you suckers who didn't vote for [insert candidate]like me!
HAHAHAHA!
Once we get rid of all you degenerates the world will be a better safer place and we can just quietly dismantle our black helicopter fleets and "re-education" centers (complete with eco-friendly bio-mass incinerators!). This plan can't possibly fail.
Um... he could untag himself. Facebook lets you do that, even in other people's photos.
"after the creator/inventor is dead should the copyright still be in place?"
In fairness, it probably should. Otherwise I could see it being encouragement for some people to try and make the copyright holder dead in order to better evade it.
Death is also problematic when corporations are able to hold copyrights because it's not something they are subject to. If you're waiting for my immortal corporation to die in order for the copyright to expire, you'll be waiting a very long time.
Or the TV.
When they discovered that it was impossible to extend the hours in a day to allow for more ad time, they responded by removing from their programming anything for which an advertiser was not paying them money and then creating spin-off channels to increase the overall load.
MTV is basically just HSN without an 800 number.
"I'd call Social Security and Medicaid welfare..."
And you would be mistaken in doing so. Call anything you like welfare, but that doesn't make it so.
It would also be funnier.
"Take cover, the rookie is compiling his first code!"
"We're all gonna die!"
"I mean, c'mon. It's common sense that AOL can send SMS. One idiot figures out a program and it makes the front news."
I, for one, had no idea that AIM could do that. Anyway, why would it be common sense? There are all sorts of totally incompatible protocols and formats that accomplish essentially the same task, and while it's cool that AOL apparently decided to code an intuitive workaround in this instance that isn't the general state of things. Of course, I use AIM very little 9and SMS even less), because I prefer to just call people, so perhaps I'm just out of the loop on this one.
That said, I agree that this is hardly worthy of the front page; it isn't even as funny as installing Skype on PDA with a wireless data plan and skipping, possibly I remember using AIM on a Nokia about 8 years ago with no trouble outside of only typing ~3 words per minute.
Thank you for that utterly pointless and irrelevant mini-rant. Now get back in your cave.
Because it's easier to use lazy ad hominems to attack someone than it is to actually refute them?
BTW, I do pirate software, regularly. I've yet to pirate anything, however, that was so good I wish I had paid for it and didn't, or that was otherwise available to me. When games get discontinued, there's often little recourse for someone looking for it other than to pirate it.
Unless it is in reference to oral sex... then it's taken VERY seriously.
In fairness, I'm sure they would re-evaluate that position in the case of a state bar association unreasonably revoking licenses to practice law (based on, say, race or political affiliation), but this case is not such a one.