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Oh hey, Microsoft changed some of their legalese. Let’s interpret.
Just some random brainfart.
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I write short stories. On paper. With a pen.
One of the obvious questions one would have come to mind when seeing me work is “Why use pen and paper?” In an era of computers and sophisticated writing software, isn’t the pen obsolete? Not even close.
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I probably had more in mind for this article, but as it sat around for a very long time, I’m kicking it out the door.
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People have a habit of agreeing a point with “sounds right”.
That’s an extremely credulous attitude.
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Upholding laws must not be about attacking the tools and methods used to break laws, but instead used to punish actual criminal acts.
The entertainment industry has been flailing about, attacking a huge number of targets. It’s gotten to the point that law enforcement branches have been created and international treaties signed. People have been extradited .. to be charged for something that’s not illegal in their country.
There are some serious issues with crafting laws which go after methods, because those same laws can be abused in other circumstances, for other methods.
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This was a piece I had rattling around in my head for some time. It gets weak at the end, and has no real flow to it, but it’s interesting enough in places that I thought I’d clean it up and publish it. Enjoy my dark sarcasm!
In a mass-market scenario, the larger the population the higher the chance for one or more free software projects to appear.
Since software can, in theory, be inherited by additional programmers and indefinitely updated, even the smallest chance for a free software project to be created becomes an inevitability over time. This means that even a niche market scenario can have competition from free software.
A crowd of hobbyists will have more time and expertise for a general-purpose piece of software than a development house can bring to bear. Simply put, they can do it better.
It goes without saying that cheaper, better and more supported free software will eventually out-compete proprietary equivalents, displacing established businesses and markets.
How can this problem be addressed?
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I have an uncanny knack. It’s partly my nature, but heavily augmented by practice and a kind of effort for education.
It’s one of those qualities which has been recognized to some small degree in past cultures and is largely overlooked or misunderstood in ours.
I bumped into an interesting old article. Since it’s nowhere else on the web I thought I’d share it.
This was written in 1997. Linking and images added by me, because I think its original author would find it funny.
THE PLACE TO BE
Product placement is big business, benefiting both movie studios (who get their props for free) and corporate marketers (who gain valuable exposure for their products). Done right, it can be amazingly cost-effective. Leveraged properly, it can drive sales. But the entertainment business can also be unpredictable and occasionally unkind.
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When raising a point, it’s essential for it to not have alternatives. Otherwise it doesn’t serve the argument.
This is a pretty straightforward way to dismiss essential point in many arguments for the existence of deities.
As an unshakable dogmatic creationist, William Lame Lane Craig dusted off the several-hundred-years-old and thoroughly debunked ontological argument.
Apparently he’s been obsessed with it for some time.
