hidispenser - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Someone finally gets it -- not really (Score 1) 463

by hidispenser on Saturday December 03, 2011 @03:01PM (#38251570) Attached to: Swiss Gov't: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal

. Most of the time, the amount of what people spend on entertainment is constant. When they can pirate films and music for free, they will spend the remainder to go to cinemas and concerts.
I don't buy this argument at all. One's time is constant! If you spend your 6 hours of daily free time watching pirated material, you have no time to watch legally purchased material, therefore you will likely NOT buy as much legal material. If you're play a new pirated game every month, when do you have time to play legally purchased ones? The user will instinctively know that their "plate is full" already and likely have no desire to buy as many, or any, legal games since they are already overloaded with media. Furthermore, maybe there are only 4-5 games annually that will excite a given gamer... if they are all pirated, then there's nothing LEFT to buy. If he spends that money on DVDs instead, how does that help the game developers who worked hard creating? How can people be lumping "media" and calling that fair. Truly ridiculous.

Comment Same as sneaking in to a performance (Score 1) 463

by hidispenser on Saturday December 03, 2011 @07:32AM (#38248874) Attached to: Swiss Gov't: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal

The house painting analogy seems to be falling apart, so how about this... illegally downloading copyrighted media is like sneaking into a less-than full movie theater or concert. As long as your presence isn't preventing a paying customer from entering, you aren't "stealing" money from the artists, right? After all, the movie or concert was going to be performed anyway, with or without you there. Yet I think most of us would see sneaking in as theft, although no physical object was taken from an owner and not given back.

Comment Re:Insightful? I think not. (Score 1) 650

by hidispenser on Thursday April 01, 2010 @04:21AM (#31698350) Attached to: House of Commons Finds No Evidence of Tampering In Climate E-mails

I think you missed the word *if* in his sentence.

Seinfeld's Good Samaritan Law Now Reality? 735

Posted by samzenpus on Friday January 29, 2010 @12:48AM from the not-that-there-is-anything-wrong-with-that dept.

e3m4n writes "The fictitious 'good samaritan' law from the final episode of Seinfeld (the one that landed them in jail for a year) appears to be headed toward reality for California residents after the house passed this bill. There are some differences, such as direct action is not required, but the concept of guilt by association for not doing the right thing is still on the face of the bill."

Submission + - Giant Ribbon Discovered at the Edge ofthe Solar Sy (nasa.gov) 2

Submitted by beadwindow on Thursday October 15, 2009 @09:34PM

beadwindow writes: NASA's IBEX (Interstellar Boundary Explorer) spacecraft has made the first all-sky maps of the heliosphere and the results have taken researchers by surprise. The maps are bisected by a bright, winding ribbon of unknown origin:
"This is a shocking new result," says IBEX principal investigator Dave McComas of the Southwest Research Institute. "We had no idea this ribbon existed--or what has created it. Our previous ideas about the outer heliosphere are going to have to be revised."

Comment Re:containment theory... (Score 1) 1032

by hidispenser on Wednesday September 30, 2009 @11:33PM (#29601653) Attached to: Iran's Nuclear Ambitions

Thank you. I stand corrected. Still, what Iran has said pretty much amounts to the KKK saying: "We don't wish to murder blacks, no, we just wish they had never existed. Also, we hope to see them collapse and vanish from the Earth some day." Charming. Definitely the kind of people I shouldn't have to worry about having nuclear material.

Comment Re:containment theory... (Score 1) 1032

by hidispenser on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @08:00AM (#29578603) Attached to: Iran's Nuclear Ambitions

thats strange... I just googled "israel threatens iran" and got 1.8 million results.

I guess you're a liar, or just good at ignoring reality.

1) Half of those hits are IRAN making the threat. Use quotes next time. 2) Israel "threatens" a strike, while Iran threatens wiping Israel off the map. Not an insignificant difference.

Comment Re:rural places need guns to protect from criminal (Score 1) 319

by hidispenser on Saturday September 26, 2009 @06:07PM (#29550961) Attached to: Math Indicates Pollster Is Forging Results

Premeditated murders maybe, but crime in general is greatly assisted by the availability of guns.

True, but the real point is that laws banning guns won't stop crime, since so many of the guns used in crime are already illegal and/or illegally obtained. It will reduce crime, though only slightly.

Comment Re:Eco bling / Green gadgets (Score 1) 154

by hidispenser on Saturday September 26, 2009 @05:31PM (#29550635) Attached to: Google Project 10^100 Reaches Voting Phase

Do you have any idea how much solar energy there is hitting the world?

Since covering the entire world in solar panels is not an option, that number, while impressive, is not very helpful. Right now, I say spend money on development of these alternative energy sources, NOT implementation (just yet).

Comment It's all about the CO2 (Score 1) 278

by hidispenser on Saturday April 04, 2009 @05:15PM (#27460231) Attached to: Large Ice Shelf Expected To Break From Antarctica

Climate Change more accurately reflects that it's going out of whack in both directions.

I seem to remember Al Gore stating that when CO2 levels increase, so does the temperature. So are CO2 levels increasing or not? If they are, then call it "Global Warming". Changing the term to "Climate Change" sounds, to me, like a child who keeps adding on to his "story" every time he's caught in a lie.

Comment Re:Nothing after 1300 (Score 1) 1034

by hidispenser on Monday March 13, 2006 @09:14PM (#14912487) Attached to: 1001 Islamic Inventions

-respect for human life (They are VERY anti-abortion but PRO war and PRO death penalty. That makes sense how???)

Since liberals hold the exact opposite views on those three issues you bring up, you can't say one side is inconsistent without implying the other is as well. It just makes good sense.

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