Before you complain about my signature; I oppose the existence of copyright and am for its immediate and total abolition. I support the GPL until that happens to turn the system on itself and avoid allowing copyright holders to abuse software I write or contribute to. These positions do not conflict, but to some people, they are taken to in order to complain.
So you don't mind when non copyright holders abuse the software you write or contribute to? The GPL doesn't "turn the system on itself" and the GPL requires copyright to work.
I have email for my work. I have email for my personal life. When I leave my office and go home I stop checking my email. When I get to work the next day I start checking it again. Every once in a while I may log in from home to check my work email. I don't understand why the company needs to enforce this. If their employees want to check email at all hours of the night let them.
The main reason is that steroids, in general are not good for you. Especially for young adults. They are also illegal in many places, not just banned by the sport, but banned by the law.
Contrast that with bicycling, which outlaws coffee (well caffeine)
So my question to Moxie is "How do/did you get food and shelter when you don't/didn't have money?".
That is part of the adventure. When you are young and single you can live fairly cheaply. He didn't say this was going to be easy. You may have to work odd jobs while you hitchhike to Alaska. Or perhaps you sleep in the back of the workshop while you build the dirigibles. I know it can be done, because a lot of my friends have essentially followed Moxie's advice. I tell them to do it as long as they can.
I agree with the comment that as a young person, you should go out and explore. It is easier while you are young, with no dependents. You can sleep on friends couches. It is easier to live on little money as you have no bills.
But you suggest to build a fleet or dirigibles, or construct a UAV, but DON'T build a company?
I think you should go out and do something, and that something could be join a startup. But go do something before you become a cog in corporate America
All of the people I know that routinely travel to Europe and Asia on vacation tell people they're Canadian now,
I am an American, and proud of it. A lot of things that America has been doing lately has me disgusted. But not so disgusted that I pretend I'm from somewhere else. I have to say, claiming you are from Canada when you are actually American is one of the disgusting things American tourists do overseas.
I routinely travel the globe. Just got back from South America, will be in Europe for NYE.
If you don't like it here, then move away. But don't lie and say you are from somewhere else.
Why does Google need to find street numbers from the photos?
Google doesn't NEED to find the street numbers from photos. But evidence suggests that the data Google currently uses isn't quite accurate. Google thinks it can improve on that accuracy, for almost no additional cost.
3. your local animal shelter. Pets are people too, and they're going to need a lot of help dealing with the annual post-christmas "pet dump".
Why do people insist on ruining some real good advice with comments like this? No, pets are not people too. They don't have rights, they are not people. They may hurt and need help, but they are not people too.
Seriously, who lets a kid capable of speaking words to walk around like an idiot with non-food items in his mouth?
The kids don't walk around with non-food items in his mouth (much). They sit there and eat them. This behavior is definitely more common with very young kids (like you said less than a year) But I know I ate some strange things till I was probably 5 or 6.
Teething kids stick things in their mouth, because it makes their gums feel good. And of course kids see parents stick all kinds of non food items in their mouth (some look like small white pens)
>p>No one is implying you TOOK a copy. But you did MAKE a copy, and you have enriched yourself, at no cost to yourself. You deprived the owner of potentially earning more money. No you obviously don't care (you and others also don't care that the more you steal, the less likely there will be good content in the future, thus TAKING something from everyone)
From a legal standpoint, there are lots of laws that are out of whack. Then fix the laws, instead of stealing from others.
If you can't figure out a way to make money without resorting to censorship, then you shouldn't be spending investors' money and you shouldn't even be in business! It's simply not the government's job to provide you with a business model and censorship powers, period.
But it is the government's job to prevent car theft (and well any other form of theft) thus helping to protect other businesses?
Don't forget that it was the founding forefathers who felt it was the government's job to do this.
A friend of mine works the online help desk in another country. Each client is asked whether their problem was solved or not, at the end of the conversation. Or they can cancel the dialog. They get paid a small pittance for each question. They get some money for each yes, and are dock twice that for each no (roughly)
My friend recently told me one of the other operators made a lot of money over the last 7 months by having his girlfriend call him up and then select yes after each call. The bank eventually found out (I don't know why it took 7 months) and they are firing him, and I guess having him arrested. Of course I am not sure what they will arrest him for (ignoring the fact that this is a different country)
I don't see what he did wrong. The company set themselves up for this kind of abuse, and they did nothing to stop it.
Having a private company like Google directly influencing the outcome of the legislative process is even more dangerous than this proposed law.
It would mean corporations no longer have to hide behind lobbyists (and some semblance of democracy), and can simply demand any changes they want to a law they do not agree with.
How is this any different than how America runs today?
You are correct, but I think you are missing the point.
User report problems. I want to fix those problems. But I can't if I don't understand what the user is talking about. Fortunately my personal project is small with only a few thousand users. So it is easy for me to email them back and forth and understand the issue. But that doesn't scale very well.
You should open source your code if you estimate that you will still be the driver of the development. Then, other companies will build up dependence on you, you will gain influence and importance.
How can you make sure you will still be the driver of the development?
This might be a valid point, if your product IS the code. But if the code is a tool you are using, and is better than everyone else's tool, then you are essentially giving your free tool away to the competitors.
So you recorded someone else's music, then posted it online. Then you were surprised when the person who owned the music complained?
Just because you pressed the record button doesn't give you the right to distribute someone else's music.
What you claim the Constitution provides, and what we have today are the same thing. The authors, and their agents, have, for a limited time the exclusive right to their writings and discoveries.
Of course the limited time is currently four generations. And people are trying to push it longer. But I don't see how it differs from the Constitution. And the fact that the authors make a devils deal is irrelevant.
If we suppose that Earth-like conditions are one in a billion, which seems exceedingly conservative, nonetheless we're talking about dozens or hundreds of Earth-like planets out there. It's reasonable to suppose that our conditions are not that uncommon, and there might be an order of magnitude more Earth-like planets.
An order of magnitude more? So 10 out of 400 BILLION? Yeah, that is pretty uncommon. Even if we go with your first theory, it is only 400 out of 400 BILLION. I'd still say that is fairly uncommon.
On average, they definitely are, and if they were not, they have to spend their time training and participating in competition when everyone else is studying.
Recently on Biggest Looser they informed us that in the past the average American took 15,000 steps. Today it is 3000! That is significant
2) Bad food.
Its not just the fast food that is bad. Its everything. I spend a month or so in Europe every year, and I tend to loose 2 or 3 pounds a week. I eat as much as I eat here (although I do tend to be a bit more active) But the food itself is better. One of my vice's is CocaCola. I drink too much, yet in Europe they use real sugar. The breads aren't full of preservatives. And so on.
No, not looking for one that is anorexic, but I do want one that is NOT 120lbs or more...
Depending on her height, 120lbs IS anorexic. The average American women is 5 foot 4. Her target weight should be 133 lbs (give or take 20 lbs) a 5 foot women's target weight (give or take 20 pounds) is 120. To find a girl that is healthy and NOT 120 pounds or more, you should be looking for a girl in the four foot range.
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Before you complain about my signature; I oppose the existence of copyright and am for its immediate and total abolition. I support the GPL until that happens to turn the system on itself and avoid allowing copyright holders to abuse software I write or contribute to. These positions do not conflict, but to some people, they are taken to in order to complain.
So you don't mind when non copyright holders abuse the software you write or contribute to? The GPL doesn't "turn the system on itself" and the GPL requires copyright to work.
I have email for my work. I have email for my personal life. When I leave my office and go home I stop checking my email. When I get to work the next day I start checking it again. Every once in a while I may log in from home to check my work email. I don't understand why the company needs to enforce this. If their employees want to check email at all hours of the night let them.
The main reason is that steroids, in general are not good for you. Especially for young adults. They are also illegal in many places, not just banned by the sport, but banned by the law. Contrast that with bicycling, which outlaws coffee (well caffeine)
Ever hear of stalking? That's basically what this guy was doing - stalking his ex.
That wasn't his "ex." And he was sticking his nose into his own life.
So my question to Moxie is "How do/did you get food and shelter when you don't/didn't have money?".
That is part of the adventure. When you are young and single you can live fairly cheaply. He didn't say this was going to be easy. You may have to work odd jobs while you hitchhike to Alaska. Or perhaps you sleep in the back of the workshop while you build the dirigibles. I know it can be done, because a lot of my friends have essentially followed Moxie's advice. I tell them to do it as long as they can.
I agree with the comment that as a young person, you should go out and explore. It is easier while you are young, with no dependents. You can sleep on friends couches. It is easier to live on little money as you have no bills.
But you suggest to build a fleet or dirigibles, or construct a UAV, but DON'T build a company?
I think you should go out and do something, and that something could be join a startup. But go do something before you become a cog in corporate America
All of the people I know that routinely travel to Europe and Asia on vacation tell people they're Canadian now,
I am an American, and proud of it. A lot of things that America has been doing lately has me disgusted. But not so disgusted that I pretend I'm from somewhere else. I have to say, claiming you are from Canada when you are actually American is one of the disgusting things American tourists do overseas.
I routinely travel the globe. Just got back from South America, will be in Europe for NYE.
If you don't like it here, then move away. But don't lie and say you are from somewhere else.
Why does Google need to find street numbers from the photos?
Google doesn't NEED to find the street numbers from photos. But evidence suggests that the data Google currently uses isn't quite accurate. Google thinks it can improve on that accuracy, for almost no additional cost.
GPL ... it enforces freedom.
GPL does the exact opposite. GPL forces you to use the GPL license. Which isn't freedom at all.
3. your local animal shelter. Pets are people too, and they're going to need a lot of help dealing with the annual post-christmas "pet dump".
Why do people insist on ruining some real good advice with comments like this? No, pets are not people too. They don't have rights, they are not people. They may hurt and need help, but they are not people too.
yeah, but they taste better.
Do they taste as good as sea-kittens?
Seriously, who lets a kid capable of speaking words to walk around like an idiot with non-food items in his mouth?
The kids don't walk around with non-food items in his mouth (much). They sit there and eat them. This behavior is definitely more common with very young kids (like you said less than a year) But I know I ate some strange things till I was probably 5 or 6.
Teething kids stick things in their mouth, because it makes their gums feel good. And of course kids see parents stick all kinds of non food items in their mouth (some look like small white pens)
But i don't TAKE a copy, I MAKE a copy.
>p>No one is implying you TOOK a copy. But you did MAKE a copy, and you have enriched yourself, at no cost to yourself. You deprived the owner of potentially earning more money. No you obviously don't care (you and others also don't care that the more you steal, the less likely there will be good content in the future, thus TAKING something from everyone)
From a legal standpoint, there are lots of laws that are out of whack. Then fix the laws, instead of stealing from others.
If you can't figure out a way to make money without resorting to censorship, then you shouldn't be spending investors' money and you shouldn't even be in business! It's simply not the government's job to provide you with a business model and censorship powers, period.
But it is the government's job to prevent car theft (and well any other form of theft) thus helping to protect other businesses? Don't forget that it was the founding forefathers who felt it was the government's job to do this.
A friend of mine works the online help desk in another country. Each client is asked whether their problem was solved or not, at the end of the conversation. Or they can cancel the dialog. They get paid a small pittance for each question. They get some money for each yes, and are dock twice that for each no (roughly) My friend recently told me one of the other operators made a lot of money over the last 7 months by having his girlfriend call him up and then select yes after each call. The bank eventually found out (I don't know why it took 7 months) and they are firing him, and I guess having him arrested. Of course I am not sure what they will arrest him for (ignoring the fact that this is a different country) I don't see what he did wrong. The company set themselves up for this kind of abuse, and they did nothing to stop it.
Having a private company like Google directly influencing the outcome of the legislative process is even more dangerous than this proposed law.
It would mean corporations no longer have to hide behind lobbyists (and some semblance of democracy), and can simply demand any changes they want to a law they do not agree with.
How is this any different than how America runs today?
You are correct, but I think you are missing the point.
User report problems. I want to fix those problems. But I can't if I don't understand what the user is talking about. Fortunately my personal project is small with only a few thousand users. So it is easy for me to email them back and forth and understand the issue. But that doesn't scale very well.
Math isn't hard. It's easy. It's amazingly easy.
Math is hard, it is very difficult for a lot of people. Just because you find it easy, doesn't mean it is easy for everyone else.
You should open source your code if you estimate that you will still be the driver of the development. Then, other companies will build up dependence on you, you will gain influence and importance.
How can you make sure you will still be the driver of the development?
This might be a valid point, if your product IS the code. But if the code is a tool you are using, and is better than everyone else's tool, then you are essentially giving your free tool away to the competitors.
So you recorded someone else's music, then posted it online. Then you were surprised when the person who owned the music complained? Just because you pressed the record button doesn't give you the right to distribute someone else's music.
What you claim the Constitution provides, and what we have today are the same thing. The authors, and their agents, have, for a limited time the exclusive right to their writings and discoveries. Of course the limited time is currently four generations. And people are trying to push it longer. But I don't see how it differs from the Constitution. And the fact that the authors make a devils deal is irrelevant.
If we suppose that Earth-like conditions are one in a billion, which seems exceedingly conservative, nonetheless we're talking about dozens or hundreds of Earth-like planets out there. It's reasonable to suppose that our conditions are not that uncommon, and there might be an order of magnitude more Earth-like planets.
An order of magnitude more? So 10 out of 400 BILLION? Yeah, that is pretty uncommon. Even if we go with your first theory, it is only 400 out of 400 BILLION. I'd still say that is fairly uncommon.
On average, they definitely are, and if they were not, they have to spend their time training and participating in competition when everyone else is studying.
You mean when everyone else is partying?
1) Lack of exercise.
Recently on Biggest Looser they informed us that in the past the average American took 15,000 steps. Today it is 3000! That is significant
2) Bad food.
Its not just the fast food that is bad. Its everything. I spend a month or so in Europe every year, and I tend to loose 2 or 3 pounds a week. I eat as much as I eat here (although I do tend to be a bit more active) But the food itself is better. One of my vice's is CocaCola. I drink too much, yet in Europe they use real sugar. The breads aren't full of preservatives. And so on.
No, not looking for one that is anorexic, but I do want one that is NOT 120lbs or more...
Depending on her height, 120lbs IS anorexic. The average American women is 5 foot 4. Her target weight should be 133 lbs (give or take 20 lbs) a 5 foot women's target weight (give or take 20 pounds) is 120. To find a girl that is healthy and NOT 120 pounds or more, you should be looking for a girl in the four foot range.