Actually, society at large granted the artificial monopoly on reproduction; what you call the "right." We very well do get to decide for them, and the way it is going, I wouldn't bet on that "right" existing for 20 more years.
Is it false, then, they they still have the clause I mentioned and wrote my post about? If it is still true... then your outrage is pointless and idiotic, and my point stands. Qualified rights, especially when they involve taking away your ability to defend them in court, are not rights.
"...unless such recordings interfere with police activity."
So more or less, nothing changes, this is just a PR stunt to cover their asses. They'll still take your camera and smash it so you have no evidence, and just say you were interfering. Your word against the infallible police force.
Both my community college and my current university ask for class evaluations. The community college asks for campus administrative feedback every semester. Maybe you need to go to a better college?
Because some people are hypocrites, and others are just idiots. Logical answers often seem more so afar than they do when their implications reach you. On the other hand, some people try to actually practice what they preach and use open source or similar, and if they are programmers, find ways to make money without having to resort to DRM and other shady means of controlling information.
Good for you, then. That's not how the majority of this new wave of "online app" programs work, though. Even then, there is still the question about using it offline and having to depend upon external resources which might go down, both of which are in my mind prohibitive to any serious consideration.
Yeah, and what do I do with the data if it is only readable by your program? What if I need to access it without internet? I am not at all interested in this new scam.
"Less piracy. At this point, there's no way I'd mess with a phone app, or an old fashioned installible."
At no point have I ever, nor do I ever intend to, depends upon programs which I do not control. The "we control your data" model is bound for a big crash as soon as it causes a billion dollar lawsuit.
"I am also forcing nerds to be evicted from their basements and force them to shave their neckbeards. Also I'm making sure Half Life 3 is only released on Origin."
You have no idea the ancient evil you have just unleashed upon the world!
'Imagine taking, say, the Star Wars logo font and title crawl, and using it in a generic romantic comedy. That doesn't reference Star Wars in any way. Or have anything to do with Star Wars. And isn't trying to make a joke of it. Would that be "fair use"?'
Uhh, yes? You cannot trademark something like "Credits scrolling in from overhead." Many movies and TV shows have used this, in fact, usually with it being the only real mention of Star Wars.
Bourbon is corn-grain whiskey, which "Tennessee Whiskey" is as well. Bourbon is a general classification, like malt and grain. It does not have to come from Kentucky, but generally does. "Tennessee Whiskey" really means nothing other than that it comes from Tennessee; some are filtered, some not, and some "Bourbons" are as well.
Basically, the two terms are more or less interchangeable unless you're specifically trying to refer to Tennessee.
I am still pissed no one has invited me yet. I'm an atheist, pretty left wing, a chemical engineering student, bisexual, and a few other things that the internet tells me have global conspiracies, and the only one I am in so far is being a Brony!
Actually, that suggests the right had a qualitative failure, and the left had a quantitative failure. Wrong magnitude of prediction is a lesser error than complete failure to predict the occurrence of some event. Had you asked without allowing specification of magnitude (which is unrealistic to expect most people to remember anyway), the right would be completely wrong and the left completely correct.
And in other news, if you make something hot enough, it freezes!
No. This meme gets repeated, but it is still bullshit. The spectrum is actually two axises. Being far to one side of an axis does not mean you come out magically on the other. It is simply that extreme governments like fascism and communist-socialism tend to be authoritarian as well, and if you are authoritarian enough, left/right differences disappear. Same with extreme libertarianism: if you do not believe in any government, then right/left cases to have any sensible meaning and you end up with anarchy.
The axises are [social support]/[social darwinism-inherited wealth] and authoritarianism/anarchy.
"Inflation is a hidden tax that slowly but surely strips-away the citizens' saved wealth."
Good thing most of the country is in debt, then.
No, seriously: inflation favors those in debt. This is basic economics. This is something you should not be complaining about. But you're a goldbug, so yeah, logic -> window.
"What a bunch of idiots on slashdot. Whether you like it or not, patents have been around for over a couple hundred years."
I can think of at least two other systems of claiming things as property when they obviously were not that existed for hundreds of years. Then again, were you alive about 200 or 500 years ago, why do I suspect you'd be for those, too.
So, what have they done since then? Oh, right, lawsuits. That's what we call a patent troll, son. Rambus is no less a patent troll for having a lot of patents and a lot of lawsuits. This company is just as bad.
1. Get patent.
2. Milk industry
And people think I am crazy for being an IP abolitionist.
Seems like they would have been better off just suing over Minecraft. Suing major multinational corporations has a much higher chance to get your entire case thrown out.
Then again, patent trolls are useless idiotic shells of humans. News at 11.
The fact you only think of the major ones does not mean there are minor. There are several huge sites which eclipse the others, but a million porn sites is an incredibly low-ball number considering the number of sites on the internet. I am not sure how to go about getting statistics on this, unfortunately.
The Arab Spring ended up installing Islamist governments. I think you need to pay more attention to world events. This is certainly what the people of Indonesia want; that is the problem.
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Hmmm, coilguns.
I always thought these seemed expensive. Buy iron-zinc BBs and put them through a strong electromagnet. Not rare earth, but should work just fine.
I think I just found a black market to enter!
Actually, society at large granted the artificial monopoly on reproduction; what you call the "right." We very well do get to decide for them, and the way it is going, I wouldn't bet on that "right" existing for 20 more years.
Is it false, then, they they still have the clause I mentioned and wrote my post about? If it is still true... then your outrage is pointless and idiotic, and my point stands. Qualified rights, especially when they involve taking away your ability to defend them in court, are not rights.
"...unless such recordings interfere with police activity."
So more or less, nothing changes, this is just a PR stunt to cover their asses. They'll still take your camera and smash it so you have no evidence, and just say you were interfering. Your word against the infallible police force.
Both my community college and my current university ask for class evaluations. The community college asks for campus administrative feedback every semester. Maybe you need to go to a better college?
Because some people are hypocrites, and others are just idiots. Logical answers often seem more so afar than they do when their implications reach you. On the other hand, some people try to actually practice what they preach and use open source or similar, and if they are programmers, find ways to make money without having to resort to DRM and other shady means of controlling information.
Good for you, then. That's not how the majority of this new wave of "online app" programs work, though. Even then, there is still the question about using it offline and having to depend upon external resources which might go down, both of which are in my mind prohibitive to any serious consideration.
Yeah, and what do I do with the data if it is only readable by your program? What if I need to access it without internet? I am not at all interested in this new scam.
"Less piracy. At this point, there's no way I'd mess with a phone app, or an old fashioned installible."
At no point have I ever, nor do I ever intend to, depends upon programs which I do not control. The "we control your data" model is bound for a big crash as soon as it causes a billion dollar lawsuit.
More like they sell things in-game, and this was just a publicity stunt.
"I am also forcing nerds to be evicted from their basements and force them to shave their neckbeards. Also I'm making sure Half Life 3 is only released on Origin."
You have no idea the ancient evil you have just unleashed upon the world!
'Imagine taking, say, the Star Wars logo font and title crawl, and using it in a generic romantic comedy. That doesn't reference Star Wars in any way. Or have anything to do with Star Wars. And isn't trying to make a joke of it. Would that be "fair use"?'
Uhh, yes? You cannot trademark something like "Credits scrolling in from overhead." Many movies and TV shows have used this, in fact, usually with it being the only real mention of Star Wars.
I guess the whole trademark system is irrelevant.
Bourbon is corn-grain whiskey, which "Tennessee Whiskey" is as well. Bourbon is a general classification, like malt and grain. It does not have to come from Kentucky, but generally does. "Tennessee Whiskey" really means nothing other than that it comes from Tennessee; some are filtered, some not, and some "Bourbons" are as well.
Basically, the two terms are more or less interchangeable unless you're specifically trying to refer to Tennessee.
"Anonymity is the tool of the disenfranchised... it's better NOT to be disenfranchised, and that requires the end of privacy."
So your theory is that by removing the tool, they will cease to be so? Right....
I am still pissed no one has invited me yet. I'm an atheist, pretty left wing, a chemical engineering student, bisexual, and a few other things that the internet tells me have global conspiracies, and the only one I am in so far is being a Brony!
Actually, that suggests the right had a qualitative failure, and the left had a quantitative failure. Wrong magnitude of prediction is a lesser error than complete failure to predict the occurrence of some event. Had you asked without allowing specification of magnitude (which is unrealistic to expect most people to remember anyway), the right would be completely wrong and the left completely correct.
And in other news, if you make something hot enough, it freezes!
No. This meme gets repeated, but it is still bullshit. The spectrum is actually two axises. Being far to one side of an axis does not mean you come out magically on the other. It is simply that extreme governments like fascism and communist-socialism tend to be authoritarian as well, and if you are authoritarian enough, left/right differences disappear. Same with extreme libertarianism: if you do not believe in any government, then right/left cases to have any sensible meaning and you end up with anarchy.
The axises are [social support]/[social darwinism-inherited wealth] and authoritarianism/anarchy.
"Inflation is a hidden tax that slowly but surely strips-away the citizens' saved wealth."
Good thing most of the country is in debt, then.
No, seriously: inflation favors those in debt. This is basic economics. This is something you should not be complaining about. But you're a goldbug, so yeah, logic -> window.
"What a bunch of idiots on slashdot. Whether you like it or not, patents have been around for over a couple hundred years."
I can think of at least two other systems of claiming things as property when they obviously were not that existed for hundreds of years. Then again, were you alive about 200 or 500 years ago, why do I suspect you'd be for those, too.
So, what have they done since then? Oh, right, lawsuits. That's what we call a patent troll, son. Rambus is no less a patent troll for having a lot of patents and a lot of lawsuits. This company is just as bad.
1. Get patent.
2. Milk industry
And people think I am crazy for being an IP abolitionist.
Seems like they would have been better off just suing over Minecraft. Suing major multinational corporations has a much higher chance to get your entire case thrown out.
Then again, patent trolls are useless idiotic shells of humans. News at 11.
Yeah, it's ashame most countries have them.
The fact you only think of the major ones does not mean there are minor. There are several huge sites which eclipse the others, but a million porn sites is an incredibly low-ball number considering the number of sites on the internet. I am not sure how to go about getting statistics on this, unfortunately.
The Arab Spring ended up installing Islamist governments. I think you need to pay more attention to world events. This is certainly what the people of Indonesia want; that is the problem.