Amazing!
Thanks for sharing such a masterpiece against copyright. It's sad that those that came afterwards didn't have someone like Thomas Babington Macaulay to put into such excellent words the devil of copyright.
I don't think most women truly understand that the concept of a woman being able to take care of herself and her children without resorting to prostitution as a relatively recent societal construct.
I disagree. I think most women do understand it. The fact that it's a new possibility doesn't mean that we should still live like it isn't possible.
It has only been in the past 75 years (generously) that women could arguably do fine without a man.
[citation needed].
Just of the top of my head I can think of books like "Little Women" or "Jane Eyre" that happen about 150 years ago, where women are already able to work and support themselves, even if society is still not accepting it as "normal".
130 years ago, women were already accepted as university graduate students in the US.
100 years ago, Marie Curie earned her SECOND Nobel prize (1903 and 1911).
Yes, it's still fairly recent, but it's NOT 75 years. At least for some countries, I'd say women have been able to support themselves for 150 to 200 years. There are of course places where women still do not have this possibility.
It is actually only a fairly recent concept that marriage occurred with common folk
[citation needed], again. You describe how marriage was handled among nobility in Europe. That DOESN'T mean that marriage was handled the same way everywhere, for the "common folk", as you say. Maybe you are referring only to big weddings, and you are most probably forgetting what is called "Common law Marriage".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law_marriage
Note that sexual monogomy was originally only a constraint imposed on women, and that was to ensure the sire of any offspring the woman produces. Men had no such constraints.
Yet another [citation needed]. "Originally" where? when? under which laws?
Even in many countries today a man caught being unfaithful is punished with a fine while a woman being unfaithful is punished with death. This isn't mysogynistic, this is reality.
As already stated in another comment, reality can be misogynistic, and in many places in the world it is. This doesn't mean that you should accept it as valid, and that you shouldn't take a stand against it.
I find your comment completely misogynist and dumb.
Even if marriage WAS designed to protect women in the past, it doesn't mean that it cannot get a new significance with new times.
I agree that a lot of people get married for the wrong reasons. And that it'd be better if they didn't. I feel that you are mistaken in almost everything else you say, though.
Your statements are suprisingly dumb for a +5 comment... "I'll make a promise to this lady because I love her and I don't want her to ever worry about where her next meal is coming from"
Marriage goes both ways. You fail to see that a man can also need the support of a woman. If a man is disabled for any reason (be it physical or psychological) then having a wife will mean having a person by his side to support him no matter what.
For me, marriage means: "I'm committed to you, I'll stand by your side, in the good times and the bad times, I'll respect you and care for you until death do us apart".
[I'm a married woman, I earn the same as my husband, I didn't marry him so he wouldn't run off, nor did I marry him so he would support me economically]
Not every program should be fixed by hand.
People who rely on libraries shouldn't need to touch anything, except update their libraries.
This would quickly identify good programmers from bad programmers.
In any case, this ain't going to happen. Not a chance. Who would want their birthday always on the same day? Is there any benefit from such a stupid (and old) suggestion?
> Take an example 1/4" = 0.635 cm, it's a hell of a lot easier
> (and cheaper) to make something 1/4th of the length of
> something else, versus 127/200th of some standard length.
This is ridiculous. It's not cheaper or easier, it's just that that was what was there before.
There are inch-screws and millimetric screws. In millimetric screws you have, for example, a 6mm one. You wouldn't have a 6.35 mm one, that's stupid.
The same goes with everything else. The fact that certain things are measured as 1 inch, 1/2 inch, 1/4 inch is just a convenience, there's nothing magical in these numbers. They could perfectly be rounded to 2cm, 1cm, 1/2 cm or whatever is handy for each use.
What has to stay off YouTube? The whole show or just that podcast?
Are you prepared to fight them in court?
I don't think this would work at all.
The ContentID system is prepared to match parts of video and parts of songs. You have to modify more than just a few frames at the beginning and the end to fool ContentID.
The only solution is to complain until they listen.
I understand that Slashdot is located in the US and thus there are many US-centered pieces of news... However, it's normally the case that there are extra options in the polls for those of us that aren't US-located... And actually quite a lot of people select them...
She had a very unusual life, at least by our standards. Reading about her life makes me think that it may not be the genes so much as the environment that made her live that much.
So, if you've read them and studied them, can you tell us what are the most important things that they say?
For years and years people have spoken about these scrolls as if they held the key to understanding Christianity, or maybe as if they would somehow discredit the bases of Christianity. However, it doesn't seem to be the case, so why is it that people keep talking about this as if it were a great menace?
Finally, I once heard a theory that Jesus had come FROM Qumran, i.e. he was living that monastic life before going to Jerusalem to preach... What do you make of such theory?
Even though it's still obvious and quite plainly not patentable, what the patent says is that _the broker_ (i.e. not _the shipper_) 'pushes' the estimate the client.
So, it's not the same as inputting your tracking number into a FedEx website, because it's A) a separate entity B) it's a push rather than a pull.
That is not to say that other people don't do exactly this, but still, it's better to really know what's being patented here.
What are the "bigger privacy problems" ? I see it basically as _the same_ privacy problems, I fail to see how they are bigger.
The math is not so simple as that, because these devices waste some battery while on stand-by. So if you don't turn them completely off (which is not usual, due to the painful amount of time it takes to start-up).
With my nook (first edition), I've found that I can read between 10 to 14 days of aprox. 1 hour a day (about 12 hours of reading), but I can also use it for 3 days of 8 hours a day (about 24 hours of reading) -only feasable on holidays, obviously-. All of this with wireless off, and none of it an exact measurement, just what I've experienced.
So yes, measuring battery life is hard, it depends a lot on the use you give the device. However, it annoys me that it wastes so much battery on keeping it on stand-by. Maybe they've worked on that for the nook 2, and that's why they are parading their 2 months estimate. Because, with the old nook, it's not true that you can double the amount of days the battery lasts if you halve the amount of hours you read.
The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine
