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Comment: Re:What is it I am supposed to learn? (Score 1) 115

by smitty_one_each (#43779501) Attached to: What Professors Can Learn From "Hard Core" MOOC Students

Of course anything even remotely resembling a union is "communist", so we can rule that option right out.

Private sector unions are a perfectly reasonable expression of the right to assemble.
It's when they distort the market and drive jobs away that achieve that full "solution in search of a problem" state.
Public sector unions, like mutinies and rabid dogs, need to be put down.

Comment: Re:Genius! (Score 2) 188

"Do you know any off-hand or can you find one or two?"

I don't have case citations at hand but you can look them up. In particular, find copyright cases surrounding player piano rolls, in which the courts ruled that it made absolutely no difference whether copyrighted works were used to control a machine.

John Philip Sousa was famously involved in some of those suits.

Comment: Re:please stop calling it piracy (Score 1) 127

by DigiShaman (#43778871) Attached to: Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook

Words mean things. From Merriam-Webster.com
3 a: the unauthorized use of another's production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright

Just don't pirate. The best thing you can do is use free open sourced knowledge. Don't feed the machine if you don't want too. But also don't take from it either or else you're playing by their rules.

Comment: Re:People still IM? (Score 1) 278

by DaHat (#43778203) Attached to: Google Drops XMPP Support

Other than SMS, people still use IM?

I refuse to pay for a texting plan you insensitive clod!

More so, why would I when I can do various messaging services from my phone via the data plan I'm already paying for? Anyone who needs to contact me has been taught that if they text me... I will yell and demand they pay me $0.25 per text sent... and that IM (or better yet email) is the best way to catch me.

None the less... you speak like a person who is... 25+? While SMSing used to be all the rage of the cool kids in Jr & Sr high... it later moved to Facebook messaging... and even now to 'other' IM services which are less obvious to parental inspection and even more 'cool'.

Judge not the world you do not understand ye still young'in who thinks they understand the world!

One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.

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