It's origional purpose weas to allow for authors to sell the rights for companies to print their books. It was never intended to restrict your average Joe as nobody envisioned a world where everyone owns a printing press. It might surprise you to know that many architects sued early photographers and camera makers claiming that their copyright was violated and it was illegal to photograph a building. The VCR was origionally controversial because it could record TV. In both cases courts decided copyright was ment to restrict companies and not the general public. There should be no penalty for violating copyright for noncommercial use.
Because other theories are largely unscientific, untestable, and not falsifiable?
It isn't a science. That does not make it evil or ignorant, but it is closer to analysis of a religion than science. It attempts to answer the question "is there a god?" using scientific concepts (such as the unlikelyness of the laws of physics working in a way that allows for life to exist, the near impossibility of cells self assembling into something that is able to survive and reproduce with functional DNA from nothing more than a collection of chemicals, etc.) It should not be treated as science.
That said, many in the scientific community do have an elitist mindset and seem to treat anyone who doesn't agree with the theory of evolution or even questions it as a 13th century fundamentalist.
So, RIAA and friends hand over 2-3 million dollars to their favorite Congress-Critter. Now he happily obeys his new corporate overlords. Then the EFF, DefectiveByDesign, etc. donate to his opponent. This is called "pluralism" and the American founding fathers predicted it. They believed that special interest groups would do just what they are doing, trying to promote their special interest. They knew it was impossible for the government to control these groups or check their power so the solution was to allow for so many groups to form that they would end up checking each other. That's "hyperpluralism".
Also vote buying is a bit of a myth. People don't try to pay a congressman's campaign enough to convince the candidate (if he is elected) to vote their way, they support the candidate that already would vote their way. Think about it, if you are with Smith and Wesson and you want to ensure no new assault weapons ban comes into place, will you donate to the member of Mothers Against Gun Violence or to the card carrying NRA member?
How can we tell if votes are bought? Simple. A few studies looked at congressman who had made a promise to retire. After getting into office for that last term if their votes were truely being bought you would expect them to suddenly vote differently as they have no incentive to listen to their donors, since they can't run again anyway. But last term congressmen overwhelmingly tend to vote how they always have, which means their votes are not bought.
When we canceled our subscription to comcast cable, we just simply told the lady on the other end of the line that the reason we canceled was because they were overpriced and had lousy offerings.
If anything is going to kill radio, it's the advent of the podcast, which in a lot of ways is close enough to the function of radio to be a real threat.
I see HD and digital radio usurping analog radio. You could fit hundreds of times the channels on there, broadcast song and artist info, build a radio Tivo (Rivo?), and broadcast further with no static. FM and AM would be easy to phase in, though I suppose the HAM's might not want to change.
Wouldn't carpetbombing China with dirty magazines be more ironic?
Interestingly a simmilar plan was actually drawn up in WWII against the Nazis. Hitler was deeply concerned with pornography claiming it corrupted his pure race. The RAF drew up plans to load up a few bombers with Arian porno and dump them on the Furur's mountain retreat. The plan was cancelled, the RAF didn't want to risk a squad of bombers and their support fighters just to piss Hitler off.
The fact that I use Linux more or less exclusively makes people a lot less likely to ask for support on MS/MacOS related problems.
I use Linux, but because I also know a lot about windows. Even though I don't use it much, everyone assumes "he knows Linux, he must be computer smart, he can fix windows". I generally can, but people assume you have to know a lot about computers to use linux. Or at least thats how it is at my school.
Two stories - the war in Iraq and the 2008 presidential election campaign - represented more than a quarter of the stories in newspapers, on television and online last year, the project found.
At my high school, my fellow students and me cracked the Windows admin password so that we could patch the annoyingly obsolete software (they hadn't updated since XP SP2, and some of the older W2K machines were just at the start of the SP4 Rollup 1 release, without any updates for that). We replaced IE 6 with IE 7, removed Netscape, replaced Firefox.9 with the current 2.0ish line, replaced WMP 9 with WMP 11, Replaced adobe flash 8 with 9, adobe reader 7 (some of them were 6) with 8, replaced Quicktime 6 with 7, replaced real player with the less obnoxious enterprise release, replaced the very old versions of VLC with current versions, installed K-Lite codecs, installed shockwave, installed authorware, installed silverlight, patched MS Office, updated java from version 5 to the latest version 6 release (and we installed the mozilla plugin for it)used MSCONFIG to tweek startup, and defragmented the disk. The teachers seemed to notice, but didn't care because we hadn't disrupted anything, and because they ran much better when we were done (before, thanks to disk fragmentation and the massive amount of start up crap that ran, they took about 5 minutes to start, now they take about 2.). The computers are far more usable now that you don't have to wait an eternity to start programs since they aren't running so much crap in the background. We did not put games or IM clients on them (though we do have those on flash drives).
In the case of a bad article which is signed, use the following procedures
1. Tell them by letter to restract the statement at once.
2. Hire a private investigator of the national type to investigate the writer not the magazine and get any criminal or communist background the man has....
3. Have your lawyers or solicitors write the magazines threatening suit. (Hardly ever permit a real suit - there more of a nuisance than their worth.)
4. Use the data you got off the detective at long last to write the author a very tantalizing letter. Don't give him your data on him. Just tell him we know something very interesting about him and wouldn't he like to come in and talk about it. (If he comes ask him to sign a confession of collusion and slander - people at that level often will just to commit suicide - and publish it as a paid ad in the paper if you get it.) Chances are he won't arrive but he's sure to shudder in silence.
5. Give the data you got from your detective to your lawyers to use against the magazine.
6. Don't let the matter upset you, take much time, or disrupt the central organization.
This is on page 100. Page 101 talks about "punishment". Pg. 116 explains a conspiracy theory about why government attacks religion.It appears there is a long list of conspiracies that Scientology has about the government. They talk about the constant need to deal with enemies, they seem more paranoid than Nixon, and with a longer enemies list. Pg. 148 has information about the need to attack. Pg. 149 rants about how Scientology is victimized by a conspiracy of public opinion, government, and media. I mentioned an enemy list, pg 165-206 is just that. Pg. 208 discusses Oliver's "crimes".
This is scarier than any horror film ever could be. Thank god Wikileaks. Kudos to Frank Oliver.
It's not really a question of religion, if you think about it--it's more a question of politics.
I would say it doesn't mater whether evolution is real or not, what matters is whether or not society (in this case Florida) wants it to be taught in schools. Society establishes a government to answer to it, and they ask government to educate children. Society also can decide what children should be taught, and indeed since Floridians are paying for it, they, and not the scientist have the vote.
Why do people keep insisting that Evolution, the act itself, isn't a fact? If there were no fact, then there wouldn't be a theory. The only reason theories come about is because of a fact.
The theory that earth was the center of the universe used to be supported by facts. The flat earth theory used to be supported by the facts. I am not saying evolution is not true, I believe it is, I am just saying there is potential for our information to change.
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That said, many in the scientific community do have an elitist mindset and seem to treat anyone who doesn't agree with the theory of evolution or even questions it as a 13th century fundamentalist.
If the glove does not fit, you must acquit.
An OEM copy easily could. OEMs should have little trouble installing a .deb and licensing it.
Are we talking linux or the Chicago Cubs
If the international court can claim to be fair while denying trial by jury, we can be far fairer.
Also vote buying is a bit of a myth. People don't try to pay a congressman's campaign enough to convince the candidate (if he is elected) to vote their way, they support the candidate that already would vote their way. Think about it, if you are with Smith and Wesson and you want to ensure no new assault weapons ban comes into place, will you donate to the member of Mothers Against Gun Violence or to the card carrying NRA member?
How can we tell if votes are bought? Simple. A few studies looked at congressman who had made a promise to retire. After getting into office for that last term if their votes were truely being bought you would expect them to suddenly vote differently as they have no incentive to listen to their donors, since they can't run again anyway. But last term congressmen overwhelmingly tend to vote how they always have, which means their votes are not bought.
When we canceled our subscription to comcast cable, we just simply told the lady on the other end of the line that the reason we canceled was because they were overpriced and had lousy offerings.
Just to use an indoor stadium.
So basically your afraid that they will vote the "wrong way". Might I remind you that ideas such as this led to fascism?
At my high school, my fellow students and me cracked the Windows admin password so that we could patch the annoyingly obsolete software (they hadn't updated since XP SP2, and some of the older W2K machines were just at the start of the SP4 Rollup 1 release, without any updates for that). We replaced IE 6 with IE 7, removed Netscape, replaced Firefox .9 with the current 2.0ish line, replaced WMP 9 with WMP 11, Replaced adobe flash 8 with 9, adobe reader 7 (some of them were 6) with 8, replaced Quicktime 6 with 7, replaced real player with the less obnoxious enterprise release, replaced the very old versions of VLC with current versions, installed K-Lite codecs, installed shockwave, installed authorware, installed silverlight, patched MS Office, updated java from version 5 to the latest version 6 release (and we installed the mozilla plugin for it)used MSCONFIG to tweek startup, and defragmented the disk. The teachers seemed to notice, but didn't care because we hadn't disrupted anything, and because they ran much better when we were done (before, thanks to disk fragmentation and the massive amount of start up crap that ran, they took about 5 minutes to start, now they take about 2.). The computers are far more usable now that you don't have to wait an eternity to start programs since they aren't running so much crap in the background. We did not put games or IM clients on them (though we do have those on flash drives).
This is scarier than any horror film ever could be. Thank god Wikileaks. Kudos to Frank Oliver.
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Now you no longer get modded down, now you go to jail.