Every time I read "Andrew Norton" I get a moment of cognitive dissonance. When I was growing up (yes, I realized I haven't finished yet :) my favorite Science Fiction author (and also the first I ever read) was Andre Norton.
My own feeling is that if it's a simulation, it's merely a device. But if it attains actual sentience (The Moon is a Harsh Mistress) then it's a person, or at least, life.
So. Is the trademark on a pure red color? Or anything with red in it? Can I give my shoes an orange sole?
Yes, that's silly. Hah hah! How about red-orange?
Hmm. What if I mix in a little more red... then a little more... how close to pure red can I get before I'm in violation?
What happens when all three primary colors have been trademarked? How about the secondary colors? Exactly how much of the color wheel has been locked up?
I want a DEFINITIVE answer. "Red" can mean so many things...
Exactly how much does he deserved to be punished? One ten cent youthful indiscretion means a destroyed life? Why not just kill him and be done with it?
God, we're such a vindictive society.
Let's just kill everybody who ever makes a mistake. We'll be a law-abiding... wasteland. Nice.
"Once you share something with more than one person over a public network, you really should not expect privacy."
So... once you've made one single public utterance, you should have no expectation of privacy WRT anything in your life from then on?
"The "extra" information is information that Twitter holds, not information that the user himself holds exclusively. Email address, IP used to connect, etc. I am not sure that the user should have a right to appeal here, as the information is available without contacting the user (it's not exclusively their domain, as they shared it with Twitter)."
Once again you seem to be stating that sharing personal information with anybody under any circumstances opens up all your personal information to everybody under all circumstances.
"I would say the courts got it right, and Twitter is just trying to come off looking like they tried."
I would say you're a troll. But I'm too nice to say anything like that, so I won't.
Between my various drives I've probably got (wets a finger and holds it up to test the breeze) on the order of 10 terabytes of storage at home. And I don't have much cash to spare for gadgets (I'm still using a G1, fer crissakes).
If the DEA can't cough up for 4 times that... honestly, I can't think of anything. The cognitive dissonance has exceeded the capacity of my brain's paradox-absorbing crumple zones.
"More" obscure doesn't mean much. I already own several sets of Torx drivers myself, and for legitimate reasons. (I've owned several Apple computers over the years, to start with.) Why not at least security screws? Though security screw tools are almost as easy to get, if a bit more expensive, last time I looked.
Torx are too easy -- positive insertion and self-centering. They should make 'em flat blade screws. Those are a pain in the ass, the blade keeps slipping off. :)
"With a population of 300+ million in the US and many more English speakers globally the chances of anyone having a unique name are; vanishingly slim."
Usually when I insert a movie DVD it's because, um, I want to watch the movie.
I know. Stupid of me.
Sometimes I'm interested enough to watch the ads, but the 35th time I insert the DVD, I just want to watch the fricken movie.
I don't care if the ads are skippable. I don't want to spend 20 minutes playing with the remote control before getting to the movie.
Something I find equally annoying is being forced to sit through 30 seconds of menu animation before I can hit Play. Yeah, your animated menu is so damned clever that I need it shoved in my face EVERY. FREAKIN. TIME.
That's when I run DVD Shrink and create my own copy. I bought the movie to watch the movie, and I'm sorry if the studio can't monetize every single viewing, but that's just rough darts. Contrariwise, not a single one of those views costs them anything. If I want to go through the menu, I can hit the menu button on the remote; that's what it's there for. Otherwise I want to WATCH THE MOVIE I PAID FOR.
I'm always grateful (and usually surprised) when I find a commercial DVD that just plays the movie when I insert it.
Think I'm a captive audience? Wrong. I'm a pissed-off audience.
And that's just part 1. Part 2 is where I hate it when the advertising department insists on telling you stuff you don't want to know. T2 is my favorite example of that: the guys making it went out of their way and did all that work to bring the tension to a peak in the back halls of the Galleria when the Terminator and the good guy intersect with John between them... and suddenly Arnold says "Get down!" and shoots the T1000. Only, we already knew that Arnold was the good guy, because every single trailer basically said "OH LOOK, THE TERMINATOR IS THE GOOD GUY IN THIS MOVIE, ain't that great?" Thanks, guys. I should have been on the edge of my seat for that. Instead I was sitting back, gnawing on my popcorn and thinking, "It's about damn time they gave us some real action."
So, yeah, add my voice to the complaints about spoiling trailers. Putting an unskippable spoiling trailer on the very DVD it's advertising is... I don't know. It's like it's a new KIND of stupid.
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apropos of nothing
...Yeah.
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My own feeling is that if it's a simulation, it's merely a device. But if it attains actual sentience (The Moon is a Harsh Mistress) then it's a person, or at least, life.
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And By God, we're going to spend the next 200 years running a repressive totalitarian regime to prove it.
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So much for me being clever. :)
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Yes, that's silly. Hah hah! How about red-orange?
Hmm. What if I mix in a little more red... then a little more... how close to pure red can I get before I'm in violation?
What happens when all three primary colors have been trademarked? How about the secondary colors? Exactly how much of the color wheel has been locked up?
I want a DEFINITIVE answer. "Red" can mean so many things...
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God, we're such a vindictive society.
Let's just kill everybody who ever makes a mistake. We'll be a law-abiding... wasteland. Nice.
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So... once you've made one single public utterance, you should have no expectation of privacy WRT anything in your life from then on?
"The "extra" information is information that Twitter holds, not information that the user himself holds exclusively. Email address, IP used to connect, etc. I am not sure that the user should have a right to appeal here, as the information is available without contacting the user (it's not exclusively their domain, as they shared it with Twitter)."
Once again you seem to be stating that sharing personal information with anybody under any circumstances opens up all your personal information to everybody under all circumstances.
"I would say the courts got it right, and Twitter is just trying to come off looking like they tried."
I would say you're a troll. But I'm too nice to say anything like that, so I won't.
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If the DEA can't cough up for 4 times that... honestly, I can't think of anything. The cognitive dissonance has exceeded the capacity of my brain's paradox-absorbing crumple zones.
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Torx are too easy -- positive insertion and self-centering. They should make 'em flat blade screws. Those are a pain in the ass, the blade keeps slipping off. :)
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Greetings, then, from a statistical anomaly. :)
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I know. Stupid of me.
Sometimes I'm interested enough to watch the ads, but the 35th time I insert the DVD, I just want to watch the fricken movie.
I don't care if the ads are skippable. I don't want to spend 20 minutes playing with the remote control before getting to the movie.
Something I find equally annoying is being forced to sit through 30 seconds of menu animation before I can hit Play. Yeah, your animated menu is so damned clever that I need it shoved in my face EVERY. FREAKIN. TIME.
That's when I run DVD Shrink and create my own copy. I bought the movie to watch the movie, and I'm sorry if the studio can't monetize every single viewing, but that's just rough darts. Contrariwise, not a single one of those views costs them anything. If I want to go through the menu, I can hit the menu button on the remote; that's what it's there for. Otherwise I want to WATCH THE MOVIE I PAID FOR.
I'm always grateful (and usually surprised) when I find a commercial DVD that just plays the movie when I insert it.
Think I'm a captive audience? Wrong. I'm a pissed-off audience.
And that's just part 1. Part 2 is where I hate it when the advertising department insists on telling you stuff you don't want to know. T2 is my favorite example of that: the guys making it went out of their way and did all that work to bring the tension to a peak in the back halls of the Galleria when the Terminator and the good guy intersect with John between them... and suddenly Arnold says "Get down!" and shoots the T1000. Only, we already knew that Arnold was the good guy, because every single trailer basically said "OH LOOK, THE TERMINATOR IS THE GOOD GUY IN THIS MOVIE, ain't that great?" Thanks, guys. I should have been on the edge of my seat for that. Instead I was sitting back, gnawing on my popcorn and thinking, "It's about damn time they gave us some real action."
So, yeah, add my voice to the complaints about spoiling trailers. Putting an unskippable spoiling trailer on the very DVD it's advertising is... I don't know. It's like it's a new KIND of stupid.
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