So they're going to fight the integration of telecommunications and entertainment providers by integrating their entertainment providing business with telecommunications?
As many Bostonians are quick to point out, the order to stay inside was voluntary.
Then again, when there are 9000 cops and military roaming the streets perpetuating irrational fear, the fact that people were technically allowed to leave their homes becomes a moot point.
You know, what if it were more than an anti-piracy measure? What if they actually did design a game that was so stupidly complex, that it couldn't be contained in our mere mortal quad-core rigs with some general-purpose calculations offloaded to the GPU?
You know what then?
Then it would still be a completely unsustainable product design.
Uh, speak for yourself, Andrew. A lot of us are abolitionists. I mean, I wouldn't mind copyright reform if it happened tomorrow, but in the long-term my work's not done until the whole thing's either gone or so radically altered that it's not even recognizably "copyright" anymore. So maybe your Pirate Party doesn't have a problem with copyright, but New York's certainly does.
Also, I've never quite found the opportunity to ask this, but what the hell is the NC clause doing in the NSH's license? Really? Do we seriously expect we'd be losing out on licensing fees without that? Or that somebody's going to release knock-off copies? Or that we'd actually have the resources to take somebody to court for doing anything we disapproved of? Nina, if you're reading this, back me up here.
In Danger Mouse's defense, Pizza Hut is already guilty of fraud by calling themselves "Pizza" Hut. If it were Cardboard Hut, they might have more of a moral high ground.
So what? The progress of technology will go on if one is unable to hire 3000 engineers instantaneously. The world will not end if we slow shit down just a tiny, tiny bit to make sure people aren't killing themselves.
They're not even saying you can torrent it. They're implying it, but not saying it. It's like getting around a gag order by saying, for example, "I'm not allowed to talk about my settlement with Acme Inc., so on a completely unrelated note, once upon a time there was a big corporation called Shmacme Shmincorporated, and (etc.)"
So, rather than just look at how legislation can be stopped, ask yourself: Where do we go from here? Don?t limit your opinion to what?s the wrong thing to do, ask yourself what?s right.
What about the students' mental health? The rate at which students learn, as measured by test scores, grades, etc. is hardly the whole picture. If a student gets through school with straight A's and anxiety issues, that's hardly prepared them for the real world.
I struggled in large class sizes throughout middle and high school, until finally transferring to a smaller school for my junior and senior years. Instantly, the more intimate environment helped me succeed, because the teachers and staff actually had the time and resources to give a crap about me.
It's just a shame that such things are only considered when they start affecting a student's grades. Just because somebody's testing well doesn't mean they're doing okay.
My beef isn't with Apple copying Android; it's with the press ejaculating all over the place about it (in both senses of the word) as if it were the most magical and revolutionary and magical and paradigm-shifting and magical new development in the world.
Every inconsequential thing Apple ever announces is an earth-shattering, cancer-curing event to an enormous swath of the tech press. It's getting really, really tiring.
Mobile phones output non-ionizing radiation. This is the type of radiation which has been found, time and time again, to not cause DNA damage, and therefore not cancer.
So, why is it that we're hearing that cell phones may have been found to be carcinogenic, but not about the fundamental new development in particle physics that non-ionizing radiation behaves differently than we thought? That's kind of a big deal.
If cell phones cause cancer, that would imply that perhaps a particularly intense shade of blue might also cause cancer. However, no such theories are being discussed in light of this news.
Re: Netflix Fiber? Amazon Fiber?
So they're going to fight the integration of telecommunications and entertainment providers by integrating their entertainment providing business with telecommunications?
Re: We lost more than we gained
As many Bostonians are quick to point out, the order to stay inside was voluntary.
Then again, when there are 9000 cops and military roaming the streets perpetuating irrational fear, the fact that people were technically allowed to leave their homes becomes a moot point.
You know, what if it were more than an anti-piracy measure? What if they actually did design a game that was so stupidly complex, that it couldn't be contained in our mere mortal quad-core rigs with some general-purpose calculations offloaded to the GPU?
You know what then?
Then it would still be a completely unsustainable product design.
"One of the areas of economics I'm most interested in is focused on incentives." -Mike Masnick
"Economics is the study of incentives." -Dr. Steven D. Levitt
"One of the areas of economics I'm most interested in is focused on economics." -Mike Masnick
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Uh, speak for yourself, Andrew. A lot of us are abolitionists. I mean, I wouldn't mind copyright reform if it happened tomorrow, but in the long-term my work's not done until the whole thing's either gone or so radically altered that it's not even recognizably "copyright" anymore. So maybe your Pirate Party doesn't have a problem with copyright, but New York's certainly does.
Also, I've never quite found the opportunity to ask this, but what the hell is the NC clause doing in the NSH's license? Really? Do we seriously expect we'd be losing out on licensing fees without that? Or that somebody's going to release knock-off copies? Or that we'd actually have the resources to take somebody to court for doing anything we disapproved of? Nina, if you're reading this, back me up here.
In Danger Mouse's defense, Pizza Hut is already guilty of fraud by calling themselves "Pizza" Hut. If it were Cardboard Hut, they might have more of a moral high ground.
Re: Re: Butt Jobs Admited To Some Problems
So what? The progress of technology will go on if one is unable to hire 3000 engineers instantaneously. The world will not end if we slow shit down just a tiny, tiny bit to make sure people aren't killing themselves.
Cars are useful but potentially harmful machines which we license people to operate in public. Perhaps the same with drones?
Although with their potential to be operated anonymously, and the size of the micro-drones, I wonder if that's even doable.
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They're not even saying you can torrent it. They're implying it, but not saying it. It's like getting around a gag order by saying, for example, "I'm not allowed to talk about my settlement with Acme Inc., so on a completely unrelated note, once upon a time there was a big corporation called Shmacme Shmincorporated, and (etc.)"
They can lawyer their way out of that easily.
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Would you mind citing an example of the mob demanding citations and dismissing a perfectly reasonable one?
Okay, so let's try this again, but instead not specifically requesting they do anything about it, just to comment on it.
Maybe that's better.
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Some people are dyslexic.
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We don't want to be friends with Congress. We want them to stop fucking shit up.
Clearly, they're looking for another petition.
I did my best to be as comprehensive as possible within the 800 character limit. Let's see if we can't get this to do something.
Kopimism should join forces with Pastafarianism. All hail the copypasta.
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So, talking to other human beings makes you a jackbooted thug?
Regarding the Salon article about class size:
What about the students' mental health? The rate at which students learn, as measured by test scores, grades, etc. is hardly the whole picture. If a student gets through school with straight A's and anxiety issues, that's hardly prepared them for the real world.
I struggled in large class sizes throughout middle and high school, until finally transferring to a smaller school for my junior and senior years. Instantly, the more intimate environment helped me succeed, because the teachers and staff actually had the time and resources to give a crap about me.
It's just a shame that such things are only considered when they start affecting a student's grades. Just because somebody's testing well doesn't mean they're doing okay.
I'm not outraged right this moment, but given Facebook's track record, I'm concerned that they'll start abusing this technology.
That's why I'm uploading and tagging myself in only photos in which I'm wearing a full-body animal costume. Just to fuck with the algorithm.
My beef isn't with Apple copying Android; it's with the press ejaculating all over the place about it (in both senses of the word) as if it were the most magical and revolutionary and magical and paradigm-shifting and magical new development in the world.
Every inconsequential thing Apple ever announces is an earth-shattering, cancer-curing event to an enormous swath of the tech press. It's getting really, really tiring.
Oh for chrissakes.
Mobile phones output non-ionizing radiation. This is the type of radiation which has been found, time and time again, to not cause DNA damage, and therefore not cancer.
So, why is it that we're hearing that cell phones may have been found to be carcinogenic, but not about the fundamental new development in particle physics that non-ionizing radiation behaves differently than we thought? That's kind of a big deal.
If cell phones cause cancer, that would imply that perhaps a particularly intense shade of blue might also cause cancer. However, no such theories are being discussed in light of this news.