@moonbus saidI was really surprised with that supreme court decision, but many big businesses benefited. Really, how many people can use dos?
Bill Gates stole Apple’s user interface by reverse engineering it to resell it as Windows. No one had ever heard of reverse engineering until Gates did it. Now every operating system and copyrighted app includes a clause in the fine print prohibiting reverse engineering. Just sayin’.
@moonbus saidDoes "reverse engineer" mean in this context?
Bill Gates stole Apple’s user interface by reverse engineering it to resell it as Windows. No one had ever heard of reverse engineering until Gates did it. Now every operating system and copyrighted app includes a clause in the fine print prohibiting reverse engineering. Just sayin’.
@dood111 saidNot all the conservatives get banned. Just the ones who don't mind their manners.
I notice all the far left Soros libtard radicals here get to say whatever they want.
Why do all the conservatives get banned?
I just got off a monthh long ban because this site LOVES the anti-western anti-white anti- christian radical left.
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@vivify saidGates saw an early Apple computer and realised it knocked his own DOS operating system (command line, blinking cursor on a blank screen) into a cocked hat. So he got an Apple and had his engineers take it apart, both the hardware and the software. Then they analyzed it, wrote code to imitate its graphical user interface and rebranded it as Microsoft Windows. Microsoft's Windows (built on top of DOS) started from the result (i.e., what 'it' --actually Apple-- looked like on the monitor), instead of designing underlying operating system functionality from the foundations up, hence reverse engineering.
Does "reverse engineer" mean in this context?
This is ancient history; I merely wished to point out that Gates's first Windows OS was lifted from Apple. Due to a legal loophole at that time, computer programs were not classified as copyrightable, Apple could not sue for damages, and what Gates did was not legally speaking "stealing". The law was subsequently changed; it would be stealing now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_copyright
@moonbus saidThank you for breaking it down. Very informative.
Gates saw an early Apple computer and realised it knocked his own DOS operating system (command line, blinking cursor on a blank screen) into a cocked hat. So he got an Apple and had his engineers take it apart, both the hardware and the software. Then they analyzed it, wrote code to imitate its graphical user interface and rebranded it as Microsoft Windows. Microsoft's Windo ...[text shortened]... ubsequently changed; it would be stealing now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_copyright
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@ashiitaka saidOn the other hand, here are ten reasons why someone might not be a conservative:
I consider myself to be a Conservative (with a capital or lowercase "c" ). Here are some things that being a Conservative should not entail:
1) Being racist.
2) Being unfair or ungenerous.
3) Being anti-science.
4) Complaining ironically about your freedoms being taken away, and then sticking your nose where it shouldn't be (like into other people's personal lives ...[text shortened]... h and go through your life with honesty and true fairness, that nothing is out of your reach.
1. Understanding that capitalism, when unrestrained, is incredibly destructive of both healthy competition and the environment.
2. Knowing that socialism is not the same as Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, or Communism, and that several socialist countries have functioning national health care systems, very high living standards and very long life expectancies (comparable to or better than that of the USA), without the secret police and prison camps typical of marxist, leninist, maoist, and communist states.
3. Being opposed to me-first-ism and the culture of unrestrained egotism.
4. Being disgusted by the bigotry and bullying among the right, and desiring to fight back against the toxic "everything was better in the 1950s" in favour of decency and common sense.
5. Being mind-boggled by the stupidity of dismissing your voter base's complex and valid concerns (which often have a true cause in economics or respect for human rights, including control over their bodies) and then wondering why they no longer vote for you.
6. Not demonizing the financially disenfranchised or imputing absurdly evil motives (e.g., sloth) to them.
7. Recognizing that Bill Gates did steal from Apple, though due to a legal loophole (since closed) it was not called theft at that time. Recognizing that Donald Trump is a scumbag who cares only about himself and his immediate family, and that an alarming number of his associates are white collar criminals (Bannon is the latest in a long line of them).
8. Realizing that scarcity is part of life and that there are better solutions and worse solutions for distributing scarce resources.
9. Disliking that some on the right will make assumptions about the lives or experiences of people who do not have a first-world-problems-derived chip on their shoulder, and choosing instead to support the real common people in this world, rather than Donald Trump's billionaire buddies (who, for example, run the USPS into the ground and then claim that mail-in ballots won't be delivered reliably).
10. Holding a firm belief that if you work hard enough and go through your life with honesty and true fairness, that nothing is out of your reach, but that if, through no fault your own (e.g., hurricane, death of the primary bread winner of the family, etc.) society will not let you, your wife and kids starve.
I consider myself neither a conservative nor a liberal. I judge each issue on its merits, without regard to any party's agenda.
@moonbus saidNumber 4 above. I saw a liberal hyena being a bully in a street. You know, the one in Portland...or was it Seatle? What is about streets with you people? How about a college gym?
On the other hand, here are ten reasons why someone might not be a conservative:
1. Understanding that capitalism, when unrestrained, is incredibly destructive of both healthy competition and the environment.
2. Knowing that socialism is not the same as Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, or Communism, and that several socialist countries have functioning national health care ...[text shortened]... conservative nor a liberal. I judge each issue on its merits, without regard to any party's agenda.
@moonbus saidLiberals rarely consider themselves liberals.
On the other hand, here are ten reasons why someone might not be a conservative:
1. Understanding that capitalism, when unrestrained, is incredibly destructive of both healthy competition and the environment.
2. Knowing that socialism is not the same as Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, or Communism, and that several socialist countries have functioning national health care ...[text shortened]... conservative nor a liberal. I judge each issue on its merits, without regard to any party's agenda.
@AverageJoe1
So deflecting from his post. A Nazi can be a bully but so can a priest.
You are just making idiot points. You WANT there to be chaos and fighting between left and right.
Just like Trump commanded you.