You're absolutely right. And banks should be responsible for any stolen money they recieve.
I mean, all the money has serial numbers, right? If a bank gets a 5 that was stolen from a little old lady during a mugging, the bank should be shut down and the executives tried for robbery and assault with a deadly weapon.
P.S. You can also buy mercury and dump it in your house. You can even drink it if you want. You just can't dump it into the air and poison everyone around you.
Damn you! I own the trees that made the oxygen you're breathing! Property taxes cost money, fertilizer costs money, water costs money! Pay me or stop breathing!
Unfortunately, I've see way too many people supporting SOPA (especially among the lobbyist crew) act as if this is just some sort of game, where the goal is to "win."
I think you just hit on the fundamental difference between your supporters and detractors, Mike.
This isn't a game, where someone has to win and someone has to lose. This is real life, and EVERYONE stands to win or lose.
How 'bout a "skip out on movies for SOPA" day? A day when everyone boycotts buying, renting, or seeing movies in theaters? (Just watch what you already have. Sheesh!)
Christmas is the biggest theater-day of the year. Boycotting theaters would certainly make Holywood stand up and say Howdy...
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Great. Now define, "smaller." So far, the only definition I've seen is, "underfunded." I think the government size is fine, but it needs to be open. Wide open. "Small but behind closed doors" just sets the machine back a few years.
We need public officials and agencies accountable to the public. Size doesn't matter. (That's what she said... then snickered.)
Has anyone wondered how fake chips get into military equipment? Well, where does the military get it's equipment?
Answer: Subcontractors.
Who repairs/upgrades military equipment?
Answer: Subcontractors.
How old is the equipment being upgraded/repaired?
Answer: 10 to 20 years.
How do you get ahold of 10 to 20 year old chips?
Answer: ...ebay?...
The problem here is NOT counterfeiting. It is simple economics. The supplies are out, so the subcontractors use whatever they can get. This is a total red herring.
Remember, "Sticks and stones my break my bones, but words will never harm me!" What happened to that?
As a person who was called many unsavory things, I'm really disgusted by this "speak no evil, even if it is the truth" b.s. Verbal insults are nothing after getting punched in the stomach 3 times for beating the schoolyard bully at a game of tetherball. (Yes, this is still burned in my mind 30 years after the fact!)
They aren't charging you for the digital file, but for the experience of watching/listening. When you go to a concert you aren't buying a phsyical chair, you're paying for the experience of watching the performers. When you leave you have no physical good.
Hmm... if that was the case, then why don't they create a digital registry, allow people to download the file on whatever device they want at whatever time they want?
The RIAA has already spoken out against this, claiming that CD's and DVD's should be just like any other good, and if you break your CD you should go out and buy a new one. (I think the argument was, "If you break a glass, you have to buy a new one. Why should a CD be any different?) In other words, they want the best of both worlds: a physical good which can break/wear out, and intellectual goods which cannot legally be copied.
Hey, anyone out there know any prison guards? I do. My best friend is one. I can't tell you how happy he is to be supervising 20 or 30 inmates, many of whom are armed, and his defensive weapon is... a button. If anything bad happens, he presses it, and hopefully no one sticks him before the armed guards show. And when a fight between two gangs DID break out on his watch, the only thing that saved him was the respect he showed the prisoners on a daily basis. One of the gang-bangers actually started for him, but another gang-banger stopped it.
In another situation, a prisoner asked for a second helping of lunch. A (new)surley guard told him no. The prisoner said, "I'm in for life. I've got no reason to take this" and proceeded to beat the guard to a pulp before someone pulled him off. The guard found out the hard way that respect is the best policy.
My buddy says there ARE guards with bad attitudes. They also have very short life expectancies.
Yeah. It's much better to say, "Hey, you've been accused of rape. You now have to sit in jail without possibility of bail, until we get around to doing a DNA test in a month or 6. We would let you go on bail, but you might rape that person again in the meantime. The person accusing you of rape has been known to make lots of false accusations, but we don't care, 'cause they give us money.
How 'bout w let ONE country take copyright to it's draconian extreme. France would be the perfect place, since they voted Sarkosy and Gallo in (and also because I don't live there!) We'll just track their GDP for 5 years, compare it to other countries GDP and the past GDP, and we can get some real data on the effects of copyrights on an economy.
Actually, all he did was change it back to the slightly less efficient way to calculate volume shadows, which eats an extra clock cycle. Thus, a 6 line change.
John WAS a staunch supporter of open source, and didn't patent any of his techniques, because he believed in the golden rule: "I'd be really pissed if I couldn't do something in code because of a patent." (paraphrased from "Masters of Doom" and filtered through my faulty organic memory.)
I've been noticing some non-open vibes coming from him since ID was bought out. (Endorsing DirectX over OpenGL is one.) I'd be interested to know if he's intending to open-source Tech 5 whenever he develops Tech 6.
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I mean, all the money has serial numbers, right? If a bank gets a 5 that was stolen from a little old lady during a mugging, the bank should be shut down and the executives tried for robbery and assault with a deadly weapon.
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http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp
P.S. You can also buy mercury and dump it in your house. You can even drink it if you want. You just can't dump it into the air and poison everyone around you.
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Great.
(Booya! Blue and Joe, us freetards buy stuff, too!)
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Re: Re: Go baby go!...FIXED
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PS I really do own 3 acres of trees!
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I think you just hit on the fundamental difference between your supporters and detractors, Mike.
This isn't a game, where someone has to win and someone has to lose. This is real life, and EVERYONE stands to win or lose.
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here's a thought...
Christmas is the biggest theater-day of the year. Boycotting theaters would certainly make Holywood stand up and say Howdy...
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We need public officials and agencies accountable to the public. Size doesn't matter. (That's what she said... then snickered.)
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I don't get it...
On the post: Spotting Counterfeit Chips Is Hard; Spotting Digital Piracy Is Even Harder
Counterfeits in military electronics
Answer: Subcontractors.
Who repairs/upgrades military equipment?
Answer: Subcontractors.
How old is the equipment being upgraded/repaired?
Answer: 10 to 20 years.
How do you get ahold of 10 to 20 year old chips?
Answer: ...ebay?...
The problem here is NOT counterfeiting. It is simple economics. The supplies are out, so the subcontractors use whatever they can get. This is a total red herring.
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Where do politicians stash their brib--excess campaign funding? What kind of bank account?
No one is gonna mess with the Swiss.
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As a person who was called many unsavory things, I'm really disgusted by this "speak no evil, even if it is the truth" b.s. Verbal insults are nothing after getting punched in the stomach 3 times for beating the schoolyard bully at a game of tetherball. (Yes, this is still burned in my mind 30 years after the fact!)
I think the whole world needs to get off my lawn.
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I don't like Republicans at this point in time, but even I am offended by this attempted character-assassination.
Please, keep it classy, people!
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Hmm... if that was the case, then why don't they create a digital registry, allow people to download the file on whatever device they want at whatever time they want?
The RIAA has already spoken out against this, claiming that CD's and DVD's should be just like any other good, and if you break your CD you should go out and buy a new one. (I think the argument was, "If you break a glass, you have to buy a new one. Why should a CD be any different?) In other words, they want the best of both worlds: a physical good which can break/wear out, and intellectual goods which cannot legally be copied.
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Prison Guards...
In another situation, a prisoner asked for a second helping of lunch. A (new)surley guard told him no. The prisoner said, "I'm in for life. I've got no reason to take this" and proceeded to beat the guard to a pulp before someone pulled him off. The guard found out the hard way that respect is the best policy.
My buddy says there ARE guards with bad attitudes. They also have very short life expectancies.
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http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/home/886902-312/ereader_users_likely_to_read.html.cs p
Your reply?
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Is that what you're talking about?
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Here's an idea...
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Source Code Released!
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John WAS a staunch supporter of open source, and didn't patent any of his techniques, because he believed in the golden rule: "I'd be really pissed if I couldn't do something in code because of a patent." (paraphrased from "Masters of Doom" and filtered through my faulty organic memory.)
I've been noticing some non-open vibes coming from him since ID was bought out. (Endorsing DirectX over OpenGL is one.) I'd be interested to know if he's intending to open-source Tech 5 whenever he develops Tech 6.
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