Wrong. With something like a photograph, the right commercial customer may come along and find it ideal for a marketing campaign, etc. The photographer - who has not yet licensed it to anybody else - can then license it exclusively to that company, and charge appropriately. If the image has already been appropriated and used out of context by some other infringing part, that can cause problems for the photographer's later ability to license it as he sees fit. You're not understanding how this works.

And as an attorney and someone who publishes stuff herself, she should know that every work is subject to copyright, and that if she can't see where someone has granted her license to use it without asking, she can safely assume that running off with it and using it as part of her own material is infringement, plain and simple.

The point is that there is the difference between a job as a way to get something done, and a job just for the sake of paying some people. Both are a job, but one gets something done, the other is just a fancy way to redistribute wealth.

Then again, considering that half the private IT projects and probably three quarters of government ones are about as needed as the pyramids, it's probably no wonder that so many people on this site are unable to see the difference :p

And this brings up a question I have.

You seem to be able to find some great deals on computers - but I've struggled to find much that I can get in Hungary - even if I'm willing to pay a little more. Can you point me to some good European electronics retails sites that ship EU wide? I've looked at some stuff in the UK but often they wont ship here. English would be nice but is not necessary - Chrome plus the fact that a lot of tech terms just carry straight over is usually good enough.

Well, maybe not as we know it today, but the idea of building something useless, or which you don't really need, as a way to give a wage to the poor has been used before. E.g., the follies in the 19'th century.

What makes it effectively welfare from the point of view of the state is that you're not really getting anything you need either way. I mean, if you pay to have a bridge built over a river to relieve a busy ferry, you've bought something useful with that money. If you build a bridge in the middle of a field, just to pay some workers, that's really what you get when people don't want to just pay any loafer but still want to feed some unemployed who want to work.

What Imhotep as high priest came up with is hard to describe as anything else than a religious BS rationalization for why the pharaoh should do that. It wasn't jump from a mastaba tomb (simple rectangular house, so to speak, as a crypt) to pyramid AND the whole complex around it, but also a tradition that it's sorta bad luck to stop building SOMETHING at it. The great pyramid for example, because the Pharaoh still wasn't dead after a long time, ended up with tunnels dug under it to nowhere and stuff like that.

I had one until we moved - wasn't trucking that beast across the ocean. Picked up a dual power/dual tuner lcd that should conceivably work pretty much anywhere.

I knew you would. :)

The first sentence seems pretty clear to me - it's a free software community. The section on organization says, "The financial and legal matters of KDE are handled by KDE e.V., which is a German non-profit organization, and help organizing the conferences and meetings of the community members." which also seems pretty clear.

And there's more. There is a lot to the article but it doesn't seem too confusing to me.

I'm a big KDE fan. I think they provide the best graphical desktop for linux, one of the better music players on any platform and I am a big fan of QT - specifically via PyQT and now PySide. I'm all for anything that keeps it all going.

oh my.

impressive - but unsettling. like the virtual girl friend of the science guy on Archer - Dr. Krieger

Do it.