throwawayday

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by throwawayday 15y ago
It shouldn't because the original possessor of the copy still has access to his copy. In principle they are different. Copying is no different morally than speeding.
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by throwawayday 15y ago
Sorry, but the copying is not by 'force'. The force part comes in where the government tries to enFORCE copyright. There is no loss when something is copied. There may be no gain, which is different.
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by throwawayday 15y ago
why would you believe the first over the second? It boils down to your outlook on life - if you're Eeyore, everything's a dark cloud.
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by throwawayday 15y ago
it also helps you logically deduce stuff you don't know. I remember that after a while, I could almost guess the names of functions that I didn't really know - that's what having a naming convention and regular syntax do for you
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by throwawayday 15y ago
yep, cause so long as they have to worry about an uprising of an armed populace they will at least show a little restraint.
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by throwawayday 15y ago
the reason there's a law against it is because men (yes, men!) were stupid enough to allow women to vote in the first place. and now we have a feminine culture takeover: used to be only sticks and stones would hurt me, now it's words that s
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by throwawayday 15y ago
"cannot be spent in a reasonable way by a few individuals" - again with the socialist claptrap - these people earned the money, they should decide what it's best possible use is. I'm stopping by your place today to raid your refrigerator, a
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by throwawayday 15y ago
"the wealthy have more money than they really need" - who are you to decide what the wealthy need? They decide, by how hard (or smart) they are willing to work.
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by throwawayday 15y ago
No, our taxes are going to be a lot higher in the future because the government is too busy getting re-elected by redistributing taxes & allowing the printing of new money to be responsible with it's financial commitments. In the end,
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by throwawayday 15y ago
the words 'put up or shutup' come to mind. There aren't that many people at Buffet & Gates level - they would affect the average if they donated what their conscience tells them to.
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by throwawayday 15y ago
I'm with the parent on this one: if you think the govt should tax more, send in your 'extra' money. Don't tell me what I should do with mine, don't say that everyone should pay more taxes. I'm the one that decides what to 'reasonably' do
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by throwawayday 15y ago
I think the term is being used to note that the price is artificially high - supply is virtually limitless once the first copy of the song is created, so the price should approach zero.
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by throwawayday 15y ago
I'd say that most companies aren't at the level where they code for this - they buy COTS software for their business, and much of it is still of the 'put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket' mentality. I know it works that wa
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by throwawayday 15y ago
at least until you disarm the populace, then it's 'free play' all day long
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by throwawayday 15y ago
it actually makes it worse: you now have at least 2 agencies you have to watch
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by throwawayday 15y ago
you obviously have a very limited view: if you're talking 10 or 20 machines, no problem. If you're talking 1000 or 2000 (or 10 or 20 thousand) then it's a whole different ballgame. Doing this would be career suicide. Imagine Monday morni
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by throwawayday 15y ago
I've almost gotten to the point where I don't read the comments. Quality has (subjectively) been declining over the last couple of years.
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by throwawayday 15y ago
>>if your labour is only worth $26K this means you're >>contributing very little of any value to society >This is way, way wrong. This is a very pervasive error in >reasoning. Just because someone is only willing t
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by throwawayday 15y ago
I beg to differ: I grew up in a trailer park, with an alcoholic carpenter for a dad. We certainly didn't have the money to send me to prep classes or private school. I did have one thing going for me: a love of books. I read more books
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by throwawayday 15y ago
Jesus, dude - that's enough info to start hacking someone's life in that png - be sure to blur the email and last numbers of the account before you use a public link.
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by throwawayday 15y ago
it's called experience for a reason - the coder has to try (and fail) until they learn enough to code good, efficient, clear code
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by throwawayday 15y ago
wow - my first thought was something unprintable. Took a few minutes of staring at it before I could figure out what the code was doing. brlewis has the winning answer
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by throwawayday 15y ago
I actually get 6 weeks paid, plus 10 holidays, and I work in the US. I make sure that I take the full amount. Why? It's considered part of my compensation. It'd be like saying "No, I don't need that 26th check, you keep it".