The GPL is not a EULA. The GPL is a disclaimer of waranty, and a distribution licence. So long as copyright law exists the GPL is a reasonable licence for those who think code should be treated the way the GPL treats code. Also, you're assuming groupthink, where in fact there isn't so much. So long as the code is under the GPL, and copyright exists, companies have to play by the rules. If copyright is destroyed, then the rules no longer need to be played by. These companies are never going to have copyright struck down though, because it is how they make their money.

It can be, if you live there, or do business there. If not, then well, it doesn't matter to you, and since it's nicely contained on that newspaper's website, you don't have to follow it. Thank you for completly missing the point. I'm sure the poster apreciates being trolled by an AC who most likely lives nowhere near him about his local news.

Not at all. If the audaince gets it, it's art. If the audiance doesn't get it, it's not art. No matter how much the elites want you to think it is. As Robert Heinlein said, a government sposonred artist is an incompotent whore. Art is about transmitting an experiance or emotion to the audiance. If you wish to create art that only transmits to a small audaince, you are welcome to, but that doesn't make it any MORE artistic. But that wasn't my point in the first place. My point was that denigrating something as "mere" entertainment is frankly, idiotic when determining artistic value. If it is entertaining, it by defninition transmits some meaning to the audiance, that of enjoyment.

Because the leftists know that they are commie fascist bastards, and that the only way to forward their agenda is with the big lie. They have conviced everyone that it is the other side of the aisle that are fascists. This rule of those who fail at life will destroy our econonmy and our contry, but that is the point of it. Unfortunatly the Republicans have been complacent in this, and instead of acting respoably when they had the presidency and both houses, they decided to go wild on spending. Admittedly we were in the middle of a war, but the spending went well beyond reasonable spending for national power. I'd say that the only solution is for those whom Obama betrayed, those stupid enough to buy his "change change change" mantra, without looking at what he wanted to change, should vote the bum out come the next election. The only solution to our economic woes is to take the damned medicine, and then rebuild when we're done. Let the econonmy colapse as far as it will, and then move forward.

Mere entertainment. That's what I hate about fucking art fags. Art is supposed to convey something to the audiance. What is conveyed depends on the particular peice of art. There is nothing mere about entertainment except in those who have lost sight of what art is supposed to do. Happiness, interest, and devotion are all emotions, and yet they get the short end of the stick when any coversation about art comes up. Art is supposed to bring meaning and emotion to the audiance. That is at once a simple, and profound explaination of what art does and what art is. Do video games convey meaning and emotion to the audiance, yes. Therefore they are art. Just the same as a comemerative chess set is art. Is it a new art form, that is barely explored for its "artistic value" probably, but just because it's new, and not used fully doesn't make it any less art, any more than that the cave paintings at Lascaux are any less art because they were done at the dawn of humanity, or because humans are not realisticly drawn in them.

First thing I thought of too. That, and almost all servers already log connections by IP address. I mean, I look at /var/log/secure and what I see is a list of IP addresses that have connected to my machine, with what they have been trying to do. Someone didn't have their thinking caps on when they wrote this law.

It's Now, in Lolspeak. You'd better watch out or ceiling cat will smite you for your lack of understanding of the lulz.

Actually, it's more of us and them. And the blood elves are on the Horde side. Also, it's a lot more lived in of a world, and it has a healty dose of steampunk from the goblins and gnomes. Even an Orc can be the hero of his own story in WoW.

Funny that, we give the most subsidies to the crops we export the most, and therefore need to control the production of the most. And if you think farm subsidies are about helping farmers, I've got some bottom land in Michigan to sell you. That said, the poisoning of the land I mentioned in my post, that's why they subsidise tobacco. Nothing else will grow where tobacco grows. It's not just a way of life issue for the tobacco farmers, it's a matter that there is nothing else that they can grow. If it were not for the addictive drug in it tobacco would be a weed that we would try to eradicate at any costs. It poisons all that it touches, and yet because it is euphoric, and allows us to deal with stress, we keep growing, grooming, harvesting, and replanting it.

Tobacco also poisons the soil, has to be cured, and in general isn't something you want to just put willy-nilly anywhere. That said, if you reduce the risk of growing marajuana, you also reduce the price of the marajuana, and yes, these numbers would be overinflated. I honestly don't know how much legal marajuana grown in the US would cost, especially if the growers wanted subsidies similar to most other agricultural products in the US.

I'd give you a very strong probably on that. You'd still need to have a USB Hub to attach more than one device to this particular plug computer. But with Samba and CUPS you could set it up to share files and printing to the windows machines. Then attach a hard drive and the printer, and all will be good.

A bolo. A semi-autonomous tank the size of a battleship. Thank you Keith Laumer

Ummmm... the procedure for hard drives seems a little overdone to me. Wouldn't a thermite grenade out in the middle of nowhere mean that the drive would be destroyed with less risk of interception than shipping it back to where it can be "properly" destoryed?

100*40 gigs=100 drives each of which is capable of holding the operating system for a workstation. Also since he mentioned CD drives, maybe he is selling the entire used system. Also depending on drive technology, you may be able to work them into a RAID array, or the buyer might just want to slag them anyway for the component material.

Ok, you're not the first to cast the Klingons as the Soviets, and yes, there was a lot of US - Soviet drama examined as the fight between the Klingons and the Americans. But, the Klingons, the Borg, and the Ferengi were all based on aspects of America that Rodenberry didn't like. The federation was a utopian comunist society. You get less of that in the series that he didn't directly touch. Remember that Gene Rodenberry was a card carrying member of the comunist party. This isn't an attack on his work, regardless of his politics it stands as a work of art in its own right, But please, at least try to understand where the author was coming from.