... That was here in Tenneessee, and applies not just to bars but other public places like parks. Before it was 364 days in jail, now it's legal as long as you...
165629
Paul Hartzer
paulhartzer@...
Oct 1, 2009 9:44 pm
... But what difference would it make? If you have a replicator as powerful as And. describes, what need would you have for money anyway? If you're hungry, you...
165628
Larry Sulky
larrysulky@...
Oct 1, 2009 9:27 pm
... Ah! I am much relieved!...
165627
Sai Emrys
saizai@...
Oct 1, 2009 9:24 pm
... Yes, if your ownership of that replicator came at significant expense (either in materials or research). You have a stronger argument if that expense has...
165626
Sai Emrys
saizai@...
Oct 1, 2009 9:18 pm
... Interesting idea. I know someone who works at CC from Noisebridge (a SF hacker space). Will have a chat with them. Could y'all brainstorm on what the...
165625
Eldin Raigmore
eldin_raigmore@...
Oct 1, 2009 9:06 pm
Are "cybernetics" and "gubernatorial", related words? If so, what other words (in any language) are also related to them? Do both come from some root meaning...
165624
Daniel Demski
dranorter@...
Oct 1, 2009 9:00 pm
... The language in which this happened was Swahili. ...
165623
Daniel Demski
dranorter@...
Oct 1, 2009 8:53 pm
... I had never heard IINM before! IMO, IMNSHO, IMHO, IIRC, IINM, AIUI etc. are all qualifications, expressing uncertainty. What is up with that?...
165622
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Oct 1, 2009 8:33 pm
... This reminds me of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones song "Hell of a Hat". That's a hell of a hat that you're wearing It goes real well with the earring ... The...
165621
Garth Wallace
gwalla@...
Oct 1, 2009 8:03 pm
... Arizona. And they're not allowed to drink if they're packing heat (although, since it allows concealed carry, that'll be hard to enforce)....
165620
TOms Deimonds Barvidis
emopunk14@...
Oct 1, 2009 6:57 pm
... It could, I suppose. [?] was a way of avoiding hiatus in previous version also. Well... why not? Then, It just simply happened to switch [?] with [t],...
165619
Lee
waywardwretch@...
Oct 1, 2009 6:11 pm
... Fun diversion! I'll be playing with it again today. Feature ideas... - Hover mouse over a person to hear what they have to say. Put tge comment in a...
165618
Larry Sulky
larrysulky@...
Oct 1, 2009 6:02 pm
And down south somewhere -- Texas? -- a law was recently passed permitting guns in bars (unless posted otherwise by the bar)... so discussions of religion and...
165617
<deinx nxtxr>
deinx.nxtxr@...
Oct 1, 2009 6:01 pm
... It's sort of an unwritten rule of etiquette not to discuss religion or politics in bars because heated discussions like that can easily lead to fights when...
165616
Lee
waywardwretch@...
Oct 1, 2009 5:52 pm
... Add guns, and you've got the makings of a spaghetti western or a prohibition era mob scene. Oh wait, they're only discussing not actually concealing,...
165615
Julia "Schnecki&...
helicula@...
Oct 1, 2009 4:53 pm
Hello! ... I've had a look at the relevant German legal text ("Urheberrechtsgesetz") and it looks to me as if works for hire count as the *automatical*...
165614
Roger Mills
romiltz@...
Oct 1, 2009 4:40 pm
... Unlikely. I think the Engl. change is due originally to the non-release of final /t/, which then spread to other (mostly pre-stop) environments (ult. _all_...
165613
Paul Hartzer
paulhartzer@...
Oct 1, 2009 4:28 pm
... I agree. I think Esata makes an unintentional case for why the major/minor divergence issue is relevant in an auxlang. Let's say I create an auxlang with...
165612
Lee
waywardwretch@...
Oct 1, 2009 4:25 pm
Learn something new everyday! I had never heard the original before. On camping forum I used to frequent, discussions about any of the 3Gs were to be avoided:...
165611
Julia "Schnecki&...
helicula@...
Oct 1, 2009 4:19 pm
Hello! ... Hi there! <waves> Yep, I'm still in Finland. And still not finding enough time to conlang, even though I *have* managed in the meantime to develop...
165610
And Rosta
and.rosta@...
Oct 1, 2009 4:12 pm
... Both. My objections to ownership of languages in particular are twofold. The first is that the 'quality space' of languages is relatively circumscribed;...
165609
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Oct 1, 2009 3:31 pm
Hallo! ... According to an archive search I did, Sally Caves, who, however, said that it was used this way on signs in taverns. ... brought to you by the...
165608
TOms Deimonds Barvidis
emopunk14@...
Oct 1, 2009 2:48 pm
I have seen that [?] occures as an allophone of [t]. I was just wondering, is it possable that [t] comes from [?], not the other way oround? It just that...
165607
Paul Hartzer
paulhartzer@...
Oct 1, 2009 2:42 pm
... Actually, I do agree with your concerns here. The annals of IP lawsuits are littered with ludicrously thin lawsuits. In my ideal world, people would be...
165606
And Rosta
and.rosta@...
Oct 1, 2009 2:28 pm
replying to Paul Hartzer, On 30/09/2009 18:51: ... What if Smith and his lawyers tried to claim that my conlang infringes his because both are ergative, or...
165605
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Oct 1, 2009 2:25 pm
... That's probably a good idea: a license that allows derivative works based on the conlang if and only if such new conlangs are given a new name. So, would...
165604
Paul Hartzer
paulhartzer@...
Oct 1, 2009 1:52 pm
... One more famous case is perhaps the Edison light bulb. Joseph Swan won a patent infringement case against Edison in the UK, but Edison held that patent in...
165603
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Oct 1, 2009 1:23 pm
Very interesting. So the "don't discuss religion or politics" meaning seems to be wholly a Conlang-L invention. To whom goes the credit for the adoption? ......
165602
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Oct 1, 2009 12:48 pm
... Hmm. I'm not sure what Sai meant, but what I took him to mean was that a too-restrictive open source license on a conlang could mean that no one could,...
165601
Peter Bleackley
Peter.Bleackley@...
Oct 1, 2009 8:47 am
... My knowledge of IP law suggests that you have to use very similar tactics to defeat claims of ownership as you do to defend them. I used to work on the...
