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This is a lot like luring Lexus or Mercedes sales people to sell Ramblers.
That's the post that he was responding to. Not sure what it looks like to you, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and blame Slashdot's marvelous CSS.
It's no mistake that the most liberal/regulated/taxed states are the ones that are hurting the most right now.
I can think of several other correlations that would make at least as much sense as that. States such as New York have been hurt the most because those states have more of the industries that have been hurt the most. I would guess that since New York and California have far more financial institutions and large corporations than Alabama and North Dakota, New York and California have lost many more jobs, particularly the higher-paying jobs that are usually in urban areas. States that are primarily agricultural would be hurt less, since the amount of food people buy can't go down nearly as much as most other purchases.
How is 1337 not a standard port number? I doubt they'd be able to get anything under 1024. My/etc/services file doesn't list anything for 1337, so it probably isn't used by any common software. I agree that they probably picked port 1337 just to be "cute", but it's no less valid of a port number than 12345.
Noticed how 2/3 of slashdot news today is about the legality aspect of one thing or the other ? Noticed how we spend more time on the issues of free speech, copyright violation, net neutrality than on actual coding ?
If one were a bit more cynical, one would draw the conclusion that the reason we see mostly law stories on Slashdot is that they generate more comments, thus generating more page views, thus generating more ad revenue. You shouldn't neglect the part that sensationalist journalism plays in what we see.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I meant, that educational purposes is usually considered fair use. Obviously you can't just say "educational purposes" and get a free pass; you have to actually be involved in educating in some way (the easiest is to be a teacher or professor, but you could try arguing it if you're privately teaching some kids).
As far as I know, our band director didn't keep a list of exactly which songs we played at every football, hockey, and basketball game. Maybe the university paid a flat fee, or we really were breaking the law.
Give it another year or two and it'll be coming to your country, too. We aren't the only country doing stupid stuff, we're just the ones doing it first. In fact, call us "world leaders" so that we'll feel better about it.
I took a course in High School where we dissected the film Cool Hand Luke, and we showed the whole thing. Then took pieces of it and commented on each piece one section at a time and in the end we had reproduced the entire script and several images within the commentary. This was ruled fair use because we used the entire thing in the commentary and the commentary would be useless without the amount we used.
As far as I know, "educational purposes" is itself often a defense against infringement charges. School bands don't have to pay fees for the music performances, only for the sheet music itself. In my college sports bands, we'd even have a few students write their own arrangements of songs.
"Anonymous Coward worships Satan" is no more or less libelous than "Anonymous Coward worships Satan." No reasonable person would ever take "A link is not in of itself libel" to mean "I can shield myself from a lawsuit just by putting the libelous text inside <a> tags." It's an even more absurd idea than trying to shield yourself by using the phrase "in my opinion" before stating an untrue fact.
Origin:
< Czech, coined by Karel ÄOEapek in the play R.U.R. (1920) from the base robot-, as in robota compulsory labor, robotnÃk peasant owing such labor
In related news, the same body has approved a special security packet encapsulator consisting of pigmented lipids that bond the rolled packet together, with a special imprinted signature to establish non-deniability of the transmitter and ensure the packet has not been intercepted and examined by third parties.
Presumably, "product or service" means "type of product or service". Apple is the only one who sells the iPhone, but the iPhone does not dictate the cell phone market. Similarly, McDonald's does not dictate the chicken sandwich market. Microsoft, on the other hand, had near complete control on the operating system market up until the resurgence of Macs in the last few years, though their control is still very strong, and it's still nearly complete in the corporate market.
If my interpretation is wrong, then yes, obviously that definition doesn't make any sense.
Tradition seems to win over common sense in most cases.
I think it only seems like tradition wins over common sense because the traditionalists are the very vocal minority. In many cases, they're so vocal about tradition because that tradition is what keeps them in power.
This seems to be an excuse for man to kill man, because they don't conform exactly to our views they need to die; it's always the loving caring religions huh?
To be fair, though, people have found plenty of reasons other than religion to kill each other, religion just happens to be one of the easiest ones to trot out. For those who haven't seen it, I highly recommend the South Park two-parter Go God Go.
There are revisionist movements of course, but these are fringe groups who are having very little headway against the entrenched status quo.
In Judaism, that's absolutely false. A quick search on Google showed me a survey of American Jews from 2000 (PDF here) where 35% are Reform, 25% Conservative (which is actually a relatively moderate branch, though still pretty liberal; the name comes from the fact that the movement was a response to the massive changes of the Reform movement), and only 10% are Orthodox. Most of the other 30% call themselves "Jews" without any affiliation to a denomination (how many people consider themselves "Christian" instead of Catholic, Protestant, or Baptist?). Orthodox Judaism has been on the decline for well over a hundred years, with Reform and secular/unaffiliated Jews steadily becoming the majority.
When you look at the ideals of a few world religions (christianity, islam, judaism, buddhism, hinduism...), you'll notice that they all somehow focus on an attempt to get society to work well together. They all follow a more or less common moral standard: Don't steal. Don't kill. Don't lie. Try to live a "good" life and do "good" things. They promise rewards in the afterlife for this, which might be a bit too mystical for the secular mind of this time, but in general the intention behind it isn't so bad.
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Buddhism promises -no- afterlife.
Judaism also doesn't really have a concept of an afterlife. There seem to be brief mentions of it scattered through various writings over the years, but nothing like what Christianity has.
I for one strongly reject the concept that religions teach you that it doesn't matter how good or how ethical of a person you are: if you don't follow that religion, you will be punished in one way or another for eternity.
"Religions" don't teach that, only certain religions do.
I also reject the way religion is being taught in churches: it's one-way communication with endless repetition of a very small set of events that supposedly took place and that would NOT pass scrutiny in this day and age.
This also depends on the religion, as well as the denomination and often even the individual person. Some promote obedience to every detail of the doctrine, others encourage interpretation and debate.
and of course religion being "the word of God" it can't be revised.
You might want to take a look at the more progressive branches of major religions instead of only listening to the whackjobs that always seem to make it onto television. Different denominations of Christian frequently have widely different interpretations of scripture, and the various branches of Judaism other than Orthodox have essentially said that certain biblical laws no longer apply to the modern world. If you want to see a great example of what happens when people decide that a religion needs to change, take a look at the origin of Reform Judaism.
I dare to lump all the major religions in with scientology. Christianity beat Scientology any day if you look at it historically. A more brutal conversion than the one from hedonism to christianity is hard to find. Cult is a bit too nice of a wording for how most of our religions have come to be. You carry on closing your eyes and dont whatever you do read any history.
While there have certainly been horrible acts carried out in the name of religion (even though they usually had little to do with religion and more to do with land, resources, political control, and all the other normal reasons for war), those are rather orthogonal to being a cult. The correct definition of a cult normally involves certain psychological techniques used to bring in members. You could potentially argue that Christianity started as a cult of personality, where the first followers came solely by the charisma of the leader, but that hasn't been true of the religion for nearly 2,000 years. Unfortunately, I know very little about Islam, so I can't really comment on its origin. Judaism is very different from other religions in that the Israelites existed as a culture and a political state before the religion came into being; it grew within the nation instead of being forced onto an existing nation from outside.
Not SYMBOLICALLY. The doctrine is that it is the TRUE flesh of Jesus. Google crackergate and see how seriously they take it, it's not a symbol, they equate desecrating the cracker to murder.
Keep in mind that Christianity is an extremely fractured religion, probably more than any other religion. Different sects of Christianity often disagree, sometimes very strongly, occasionally violently, about various doctrines.
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This is a lot like luring Lexus or Mercedes sales people to sell Ramblers.
That's the post that he was responding to. Not sure what it looks like to you, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and blame Slashdot's marvelous CSS.
And how would you access the software in your headphones?
How do the headphones control the music player?
It's no mistake that the most liberal/regulated/taxed states are the ones that are hurting the most right now.
I can think of several other correlations that would make at least as much sense as that. States such as New York have been hurt the most because those states have more of the industries that have been hurt the most. I would guess that since New York and California have far more financial institutions and large corporations than Alabama and North Dakota, New York and California have lost many more jobs, particularly the higher-paying jobs that are usually in urban areas. States that are primarily agricultural would be hurt less, since the amount of food people buy can't go down nearly as much as most other purchases.
Fuck, I need more caffeine, "copyright". Wheres the damn edit button?
The edit button was stolen by the copywriters.
How is 1337 not a standard port number? I doubt they'd be able to get anything under 1024. My /etc/services file doesn't list anything for 1337, so it probably isn't used by any common software. I agree that they probably picked port 1337 just to be "cute", but it's no less valid of a port number than 12345.
Noticed how 2/3 of slashdot news today is about the legality aspect of one thing or the other ? Noticed how we spend more time on the issues of free speech, copyright violation, net neutrality than on actual coding ?
If one were a bit more cynical, one would draw the conclusion that the reason we see mostly law stories on Slashdot is that they generate more comments, thus generating more page views, thus generating more ad revenue. You shouldn't neglect the part that sensationalist journalism plays in what we see.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I meant, that educational purposes is usually considered fair use. Obviously you can't just say "educational purposes" and get a free pass; you have to actually be involved in educating in some way (the easiest is to be a teacher or professor, but you could try arguing it if you're privately teaching some kids).
As far as I know, our band director didn't keep a list of exactly which songs we played at every football, hockey, and basketball game. Maybe the university paid a flat fee, or we really were breaking the law.
Only in the United States of Avarice.
Give it another year or two and it'll be coming to your country, too. We aren't the only country doing stupid stuff, we're just the ones doing it first. In fact, call us "world leaders" so that we'll feel better about it.
Schools should focus on "The three Rs", Reading, wRiting, a aRithmetic
So what should schools do with kids after they're done with 2nd grade?
Of sex ed or copyright ed?
Around here, the biggest lie about sex education is that you might someday have sex.
I took a course in High School where we dissected the film Cool Hand Luke , and we showed the whole thing. Then took pieces of it and commented on each piece one section at a time and in the end we had reproduced the entire script and several images within the commentary. This was ruled fair use because we used the entire thing in the commentary and the commentary would be useless without the amount we used.
As far as I know, "educational purposes" is itself often a defense against infringement charges. School bands don't have to pay fees for the music performances, only for the sheet music itself. In my college sports bands, we'd even have a few students write their own arrangements of songs.
I could see where in some cases it could still be found to be libel, depending on how the link was crafted.
My supporting evidence.... Anonymous Coward worships Satan
"Anonymous Coward worships Satan" is no more or less libelous than "Anonymous Coward worships Satan." No reasonable person would ever take "A link is not in of itself libel" to mean "I can shield myself from a lawsuit just by putting the libelous text inside <a> tags." It's an even more absurd idea than trying to shield yourself by using the phrase "in my opinion" before stating an untrue fact.
The underlying assumption here of course is that each ring corresponds to one year.
And it's a reasonable assumption, since that's what has been observed in plants for a very long time.
Actually robot is rooted in Latin
Unless you mean indirectly, the dictionary disagrees:
Origin: < Czech, coined by Karel ÄOEapek in the play R.U.R. (1920) from the base robot-, as in robota compulsory labor, robotnÃk peasant owing such labor
In related news, the same body has approved a special security packet encapsulator consisting of pigmented lipids that bond the rolled packet together, with a special imprinted signature to establish non-deniability of the transmitter and ensure the packet has not been intercepted and examined by third parties.
But does it support the Evil Bit?
Presumably, "product or service" means "type of product or service". Apple is the only one who sells the iPhone, but the iPhone does not dictate the cell phone market. Similarly, McDonald's does not dictate the chicken sandwich market. Microsoft, on the other hand, had near complete control on the operating system market up until the resurgence of Macs in the last few years, though their control is still very strong, and it's still nearly complete in the corporate market.
If my interpretation is wrong, then yes, obviously that definition doesn't make any sense.
Tradition seems to win over common sense in most cases.
I think it only seems like tradition wins over common sense because the traditionalists are the very vocal minority. In many cases, they're so vocal about tradition because that tradition is what keeps them in power.
This seems to be an excuse for man to kill man, because they don't conform exactly to our views they need to die; it's always the loving caring religions huh?
To be fair, though, people have found plenty of reasons other than religion to kill each other, religion just happens to be one of the easiest ones to trot out. For those who haven't seen it, I highly recommend the South Park two-parter Go God Go.
There are revisionist movements of course, but these are fringe groups who are having very little headway against the entrenched status quo.
In Judaism, that's absolutely false. A quick search on Google showed me a survey of American Jews from 2000 (PDF here) where 35% are Reform, 25% Conservative (which is actually a relatively moderate branch, though still pretty liberal; the name comes from the fact that the movement was a response to the massive changes of the Reform movement), and only 10% are Orthodox. Most of the other 30% call themselves "Jews" without any affiliation to a denomination (how many people consider themselves "Christian" instead of Catholic, Protestant, or Baptist?). Orthodox Judaism has been on the decline for well over a hundred years, with Reform and secular/unaffiliated Jews steadily becoming the majority.
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Buddhism promises -no- afterlife.
Judaism also doesn't really have a concept of an afterlife. There seem to be brief mentions of it scattered through various writings over the years, but nothing like what Christianity has.
I for one strongly reject the concept that religions teach you that it doesn't matter how good or how ethical of a person you are: if you don't follow that religion, you will be punished in one way or another for eternity.
"Religions" don't teach that, only certain religions do.
I also reject the way religion is being taught in churches: it's one-way communication with endless repetition of a very small set of events that supposedly took place and that would NOT pass scrutiny in this day and age.
This also depends on the religion, as well as the denomination and often even the individual person. Some promote obedience to every detail of the doctrine, others encourage interpretation and debate.
and of course religion being "the word of God" it can't be revised.
You might want to take a look at the more progressive branches of major religions instead of only listening to the whackjobs that always seem to make it onto television. Different denominations of Christian frequently have widely different interpretations of scripture, and the various branches of Judaism other than Orthodox have essentially said that certain biblical laws no longer apply to the modern world. If you want to see a great example of what happens when people decide that a religion needs to change, take a look at the origin of Reform Judaism.
I dare to lump all the major religions in with scientology. Christianity beat Scientology any day if you look at it historically. A more brutal conversion than the one from hedonism to christianity is hard to find. Cult is a bit too nice of a wording for how most of our religions have come to be. You carry on closing your eyes and dont whatever you do read any history.
While there have certainly been horrible acts carried out in the name of religion (even though they usually had little to do with religion and more to do with land, resources, political control, and all the other normal reasons for war), those are rather orthogonal to being a cult. The correct definition of a cult normally involves certain psychological techniques used to bring in members. You could potentially argue that Christianity started as a cult of personality, where the first followers came solely by the charisma of the leader, but that hasn't been true of the religion for nearly 2,000 years. Unfortunately, I know very little about Islam, so I can't really comment on its origin. Judaism is very different from other religions in that the Israelites existed as a culture and a political state before the religion came into being; it grew within the nation instead of being forced onto an existing nation from outside.
Not SYMBOLICALLY. The doctrine is that it is the TRUE flesh of Jesus. Google crackergate and see how seriously they take it, it's not a symbol, they equate desecrating the cracker to murder.
Keep in mind that Christianity is an extremely fractured religion, probably more than any other religion. Different sects of Christianity often disagree, sometimes very strongly, occasionally violently, about various doctrines.