[quote]When you play a songwriter's composition in a way that makes you money (such as attracting customers), you owe that songwriter a cut. [/quote]

Why? No, seriously, why? It doesn't take money from the people who made the music, it doesn't even deny them CD sales in the way that piracy could theoretically do (though there is no hard evidence that it does).

The reason the stupid copyright law exists in the first place is to benefit the people! It isn't so that you can claim profit from each and every rendition of a song throughout space and time. A cover band playing a professional song will never detract from the professional group's funds, and I defy you to find anything to the contrary.

Explain the moral obligation society has to pay an artist for every single performance of work that he originated, please.

This isn't news. The article simply says that there have been problems getting new satellites in orbit; but the ones that are there are functioning fine. Yes, they COULD fail, but they haven't done so yet, and there isn't yet any indication that they will.

Move along, move along.

It would have to be written correctly to work, wouldn't it? even if the code runs flawlessly: It doesn't average correctly. It tries several times to analyze a sample, but then averages them incorrectly, point 2 FTFA. They can program, but failed basic math.

It isn't that HFCS is more fattening than sugar, it's that it's slightly cheaper and easy to manufacture out of corn.

Because people like sweet things, they pump the crap into everything. I recommend reading Omnivore's Dilemma to the curious, it has a very good breakdown of where all the food we eat today actually comes from, and it's kind of sickening.

And no, it wasn't always sickening!

Err, that's not what he said, though. He said it saves a 'just in case' hibernation file before it sleeps.

So, you put it to sleep, it can still wake just fine. However, if you put it to sleep, come back a month later with a fresh battery, and boot it, it will boot and restore your data as if you had hibernated.

But they aren't working to enforce the laws!

They are attacking a private citizen for not doing the job for them, when they could be instead using craigslist as an incredibly easy to access directory of the prostitutes that area already out there? Surely you aren't so naive as to think that craigslist has caused this prostitution, or even marginally increased it? The only crime they have committed is bringing other crimes into the public awareness.

Not to mention that this is just another form of censorship.. I wish they'd fought harder.

Before, craigslist could easily claim they were not responsible for content, and that has been the line for quite some time. Now they are going to -manually- review every entry in a particular section? That seems insane to me. They are giving up the most important protection that they have, for no gain at all and a lot of extra work.

Maybe I was thinking of IE5, then. Whichever, the point still stands that I miss that speed! I haven't seen a new system run quickly in a long time.

They don't want to just make a modest profit, they want to be gaming superstars.

Piracy is better the smaller a company you are, to a point. It is advertising, and it can get you more publicity. But to go from the game that sells 10,000 copies to the one that sells ten million, and continues selling for years after being produced, companies feel they need a way to force people to buy. One in every (gamer) household!

Just like the founding fathers wanted!

Does anyone else miss how quickly ie4 was? I booted an old, unupdated system, connected to the internet (doubtless aquiring several nasty things) and ie4 was just.. there. Instantly. I know it had been preloaded into memory by the system, but it wasn't that. Every page was instantaneous, there was no wait time, even on an old P2. Then I updated, got firefox, and it all slowed to a crawl.

I'd like something good for old systems - so I could use it on my new one and have it run that quickly. Maybe I should use Dillo..

Razors will have 100 blades by 2050 according to current growth rates.

Yes. Am I right in saying that if you commit a felony at work, and are terminated as a result, they don't have to pony up unemployment?

Scenario: You want to fire an employee, and you really hate him to boot. Solution! Find a website he visits, change the policy, and send out a long rambling copy of the full policy that no one reads anyway, wait a month, get him jailed.