wormwood28

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by wormwood28 14y ago
Now I don't think this guy should be extradited, but it is worth taking a look at what his site was. Here is the last capture I could find in the way back machine. This doesn't look like a search engine to me, more like a curated collecti
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by wormwood28 15y ago
I'd guess it's largely the nature of the Essay as a literary form. Some of the criticisms here are very reminiscent of those Arnauld and Pascal made regarding Montaigne's method and rigor.
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by wormwood28 15y ago
No one broke any laws making horseless carriages, we should not ignore that.
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by wormwood28 15y ago
Anyone who has seen the wrath poured out on people who dislike (or disagree with) the oatmeal on its facebook page has to laugh a bit when the creator -- I forget his name -- is held up as a model of level-headed behavior.
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by wormwood28 15y ago
I don't want to speak for the OP but he's probably referring to the character Mickey Mouse, which is already protected effectively in perpetuity by trademark law. So there doesn't seem to be a reason to distinguish copyright terms on that
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by wormwood28 15y ago
You're right, there is zero logic in it. The whole paragraph is a total muddle really. For better or worse there are international laws that protect copyright. They're essentially unenforceable. That these industries clamor for more laws
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by wormwood28 15y ago
The comical thing is that people do argue that infringement raises awareness of a product and thereby increases sales. Whether it's true or not, I don't know, but if so it would certainly be at cross purposes to a boycott.
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by wormwood28 15y ago
Really? I'm starting to feel the opposite: that these arguments by definition are getting tedious and deliberately miss the point. In much the same vein as the "marriage is only between a man and woman" variety. The English verb "to steal
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by wormwood28 15y ago
Quite right. Especially using Valve -- a company that refuses to disclose anything substantive, but could* play the reddit community, who worships it, like a fiddle -- as the prime example that it's a service problem isn't particularly con
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by wormwood28 15y ago
this is probably the other quote you're thinking of. it all seems to be from Gates' perspective, however. Isaacson fundamentally did not understand the relationship between nextstep and mac os x, that's for sure. it really is a dreadful
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by wormwood28 15y ago
"At the January 2000 Macworld in San Francisco, Jobs rolled out the new Macintosh operating system, OSX, which used some of the software that Apple had bought from NeXT three years earlier. It was fitting, and not entirely coincidental, tha
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by wormwood28 15y ago
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation." Henry David Thoreau from /Walden/