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Mounting evidence at Baen Books.

http://baen.ghostwheel.com/#RIAA

The more stuff they give away, the more money they make. Rest in peace, Jim Baen.

The set of CD images at that ghostwheel site is out of date this site has all of them.

Mounting evidence at Baen Books.

http://baen.ghostwheel.com/#RIAA

The irony is that the first two links to the free audio book "CDs" there go to an embedded AVI.

Mounting evidence at Baen Books.

http://baen.ghostwheel.com/#RIAA

The more stuff they give away, the more money they make. Rest in peace, Jim Baen.

I would agree with you on that if corporate CEOs and pretty much everyone who makes over a million dollars a year hadn't set the precedent that defrauding thousands of people at a time comes only with a slap on the wrist and a meager fine despite a huge profit margin.

Two wrongs make a right. Gotcha. You must be some kind of rebel freedom fighter.

Shit, that's the definition of how corporate America works. Why aren't they jailing the CEOs of the cable companies instead for charging >5000 times the amount they pay for bandwidth for the average user?

They aren't being jailing them because nobody has proven in a court of law that they've broken any laws. Please feel free to demand charges be pressed if you feel they're warranted. Maybe a few desperate law students can help you figure out a way to trump some charges up.

On a related note, I was born in 1981. I probably grew up in the same culture you did, and still have admiration for things like The Conscience of a Hacker. That said, you sure as shit ain't the guy that wrote that, nor are you really anything to write home about in terms of that culture. I ran a BBS here and there from the time I was a kid into my teens, and did some stuff that I'm pretty glad the statute of limitations has run out on around the same time. Looking back, the shady side of the stuff I did was utterly fucking stupid.

It's all ass-backward, and this guy just had the balls to do something about it. Do your time, but do it proudly.

Nobody does their time proudly, you dumb fuck, aside from people who have legitimately dodged grenades and slit throats for their country only to get locked up in some overseas shithole because they had the bad luck to get caught in the process (or similar scenario; go ahead and try to equate that to the crap you're defending here, I dare you). Have you ever been to a county jail, let alone served a prison term? I've got a brother who's done both; I'll be going to pick him up again when he gets released (again) next month. He's a tough son of a bitch, literally did UFC trial fights and failed to lose before getting his ass locked up again and screwing that opportunity (one of oh so many) up too. He'll be happy to demonstrate the finer points of correctional living to you if you need some help understanding it. I'll bet dollars to your nutsuck you wouldn't last 15 minutes in a drunk tank. Shit, put me in there with you, let's find out just to get it over with.

In short, I think you most likely fall into the wannabe vigilante category, and you probably stopped maturing around 14. Get a fucking life, and go do something about the stuff you're bitching about. Namely, go do something innovative to improve the situation, or shut the fuck up.

This is what Amazon needs to do to make the Kindle a worthy replacement for physical books:

http://www.ghostwheel.com/merlin/Personal/notes/2009/03/05/open-letter-how-amazon-can-fix-kindle-drm/

I noticed the same problem with BlogSpot URLs yesterday, and I documented it here:

http://www.ghostwheel.com/merlin/Personal/notes/20 06/10/09/can-you-trust-your-chat-service/

-Chris

After taking to Apple tech support about my X11 problem, and having them refuse to help, I guess I'll just have to follow the MS support path and re-install the OS.

The sysadmin mantra lives on: All operating systems suck, they just suck differently.

-Chris

In addition to the Baen free library, Baen has also put 7 freely distributable cds containg many books into some of their hardcover books, with the text "This disk and its contents may be copied and shared but NOT sold."

This site and this site both host the first 6 cds as web browsable books.

This site contains torrents for all 7 cds.

As encouraged by Baen Books, don't blow a wad of money on the Honor Harrington books until you know you are going to like them. How do you know? You read them for free on my website. :)

http://baen.ghostwheel.com/

_IF_ you get hooked, then buy the books.

-Chris

The Sounds of Apple Tech Support

The is a parody piece I did a few months ago, but its usefullness seems to go on and on and on...

Bush Presses for Identical Twin Ban

-Chris

Thanks itwerx!

The Guru link was a bit of a dud. I spent 20 minutes getting through their registration to find that their best contract resource was a link to the Nolo Press book. I already knew that one. :)

TechRepublic was much more useful. They had a template contract that I feel adapts quite well for use as a SysAdmin contract.

Since I would be a troll if I didn't contribute to a thread that I started, here is my current revision of a SysAdmin Contract.

I would love to get some feedback on it.

Thanks!

-Chris

if you typed "define frag" in google and hit "I am feeling lucky" you would have gotten this