Re: Its called "Playing by the rules", ALL the rules and laws.
The rules, are the law, therefore 'cheat = crime'.
Oh yeah, and that equation does not hold. Parking violations are not crimes. Opening a restaurant without a license isn't a crime. And patent infringements which are not even prosecuted by the state but instead settled as civil lawsuits are most definitely not crimes. Infringing a patent falls in the same bucket as breach of contract and such. Nothing to do with crime.
What I really would like to see would be kids switching their Jerseys to confuse everyone... Have a single jersey enter and leave the cafeteria a dozen times during lunch. Swap the Jersey with a kid in a different grade... Toss your RFID chip out the door and watch as everyone wonders where you've gone! The possibilities are endless!
"Trying to type out a text message while driving is basically inherently unsafe."
Be a bit more precise. It raises the level of risk. Because honestly, if the only two possibilities are safe and unsafe, we should place driving a car in the unsafe category and probably ban it.
"you only use one hand and you don't have to look at your phone to write and send the message."
Somebody was not in school when cellphones became popular. Texting with the phone inside your pocket is something you learn at age 12 today. Of course, won't work you smartphones...
Well, my main problem with that one is how small that little button is. Honestly, I don't do it because staring at the keyboard to find and press that stupid tiny button while driving can be dangerous... Make that goddamned button larger! OK, I'm done...
Reason #2 is that driving is not the only thing in our lives deserving of attention, and the structure of text messaging allows the person on the other end to make the same decisions about when to divert their attention to the message(s).
That is why I actually get annoyed when people call me no matter the situation without pre-arranging a call. I mean, who do they think they are that they can command my attention at that precise moment? My wife and some family members are fine, but everyone else, I strangely enough have come to expect some sort of text-based communication to make sure it's ok to call first.
(using a mobile phone, while driving, means USING a mobile phone, does not matter if you use it to text, or hands free. its still illegal. as it should be.)..
Except that's not true... Hands-free kits make it legal to use the phone. Also, your argument doesn't hold. If holding a conversation by phone is distracting, what about holding a conversation with your passenger with whom you will be tempted to make eye-contact?! What about listening to the radio?
The truth is, you and many others are oversimplifying enormously. Some activities are more dangerous than others, nobody actually knows what the risk of using your phone and driving simultaneously is, (sure we have the accident stats, but how accurate do you think is the how many people are doing it without accident stats?) different driving situations raise or lower the risk (stopped at a red light vs merging on the highway) etc...
The truth is as always complicated and this naive simplistic approach of yours won't work anyways. Some people will be texting and driving. Sure, we can throw them in jail after their behavior has caused significant danger, or we could reduce the amount of danger their behavior causes.
As to your comments on filesharing, your position is to put it mildly quite shallow. Copyright is not a property right. It's a monopoly right. It's the same way that some countries have government monopoly on things like gambling, electricity or whatever else. When you violate that monopoly, you are not stealing. You are simply violating that monopoly. Stealing involves someone loosing something. If you can't understand that, notice the difference next time someone infringes your copyright (you can't even notice that it happens) as opposed to stealing your car and you can't drive to work.
Why a builder would agree to that is beyond me... think about it: part of what you pay for in a house is future appreciation. So, since you get less of the appreciation, you pay less. However think of the moral hazard. Since you get less of the resale price your incentive to a high resale price is lower. Also, you might want to leave the house sooner as appreciation isnt worth as much to you. Most likely those factors are underestimated in the model right now. It's arbitrage time baby!
Well, there is the obvious handing your phone to your passenger option.
Otherwise, I think that the old phones (phone key board instead of full keyboard) were probably safer. Any teenager learned to text without looking at the phone. How about a 12 button keypad on the armrest? You could probably learn to use it without looking rather fast.
There is always dictation software... Yes, voice recognition is a pain, but if all you are saying are the names of letters, it's not too bad... I think that's going to be my next droid app :)
I have been thinking: Marshall, Texas where many of the worst patent lawsuits are filed has something like 27k people in it. Why won't let's say Google (but probably a group of companies that have good reasons to dislike patents) just blow something like 5-10 mil on a propaganda campaign in that area and just saturate the airwaves until the juries in that town become so anti-patent that they automatically reject all patent lawsuits. And just keep doing that when a new Marshall, Texas pops up until you've effectively convinced most patent supporters that it's a bad idea...
Actually it works. My boss during lunch a week ago asked to borrow my droid to test the theory and successfuly unlocked it. Not a scientific test, but it is feasible.
"Should artists be able to retain some control on how their works are copied or modified even once they're sold?"
No. Don't like it? Don't sell it. If you want to be able to ignore the wishes desires and actions of people who buy your art. Put it in your garage and don't sell it. Yes. We are consumers. If you don't want consumers to have your art, don't sell it and get a day job. If you are all about the purity of your art, then why get involved in crass commercialism by trying to make a living off it? If you want to make a living off it, get off your high horse and accept people will do things you don't want.
That pseudo-journalist is disgusting. He abused the grief of an old woman to peddle his lies. He also demonstrated a total lack of ethical standards. Why is he not fired?
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Re: Its called "Playing by the rules", ALL the rules and laws.
Oh yeah, and that equation does not hold. Parking violations are not crimes. Opening a restaurant without a license isn't a crime. And patent infringements which are not even prosecuted by the state but instead settled as civil lawsuits are most definitely not crimes. Infringing a patent falls in the same bucket as breach of contract and such. Nothing to do with crime.
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Re: Its called "Playing by the rules", ALL the rules and laws.
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Be a bit more precise. It raises the level of risk. Because honestly, if the only two possibilities are safe and unsafe, we should place driving a car in the unsafe category and probably ban it.
"you only use one hand and you don't have to look at your phone to write and send the message."
Somebody was not in school when cellphones became popular. Texting with the phone inside your pocket is something you learn at age 12 today. Of course, won't work you smartphones...
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That is why I actually get annoyed when people call me no matter the situation without pre-arranging a call. I mean, who do they think they are that they can command my attention at that precise moment? My wife and some family members are fine, but everyone else, I strangely enough have come to expect some sort of text-based communication to make sure it's ok to call first.
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Re: Why not, just let em do it !!!.
Except that's not true... Hands-free kits make it legal to use the phone. Also, your argument doesn't hold. If holding a conversation by phone is distracting, what about holding a conversation with your passenger with whom you will be tempted to make eye-contact?! What about listening to the radio?
The truth is, you and many others are oversimplifying enormously. Some activities are more dangerous than others, nobody actually knows what the risk of using your phone and driving simultaneously is, (sure we have the accident stats, but how accurate do you think is the how many people are doing it without accident stats?) different driving situations raise or lower the risk (stopped at a red light vs merging on the highway) etc...
The truth is as always complicated and this naive simplistic approach of yours won't work anyways. Some people will be texting and driving. Sure, we can throw them in jail after their behavior has caused significant danger, or we could reduce the amount of danger their behavior causes.
As to your comments on filesharing, your position is to put it mildly quite shallow. Copyright is not a property right. It's a monopoly right. It's the same way that some countries have government monopoly on things like gambling, electricity or whatever else. When you violate that monopoly, you are not stealing. You are simply violating that monopoly. Stealing involves someone loosing something. If you can't understand that, notice the difference next time someone infringes your copyright (you can't even notice that it happens) as opposed to stealing your car and you can't drive to work.
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Otherwise, I think that the old phones (phone key board instead of full keyboard) were probably safer. Any teenager learned to text without looking at the phone. How about a 12 button keypad on the armrest? You could probably learn to use it without looking rather fast.
There is always dictation software... Yes, voice recognition is a pain, but if all you are saying are the names of letters, it's not too bad... I think that's going to be my next droid app :)
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No. Don't like it? Don't sell it. If you want to be able to ignore the wishes desires and actions of people who buy your art. Put it in your garage and don't sell it. Yes. We are consumers. If you don't want consumers to have your art, don't sell it and get a day job. If you are all about the purity of your art, then why get involved in crass commercialism by trying to make a living off it? If you want to make a living off it, get off your high horse and accept people will do things you don't want.
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