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• Buying a bottle of water: You pay X amount of dollars for Y amount of water.
• Getting water out of the tap (municipal water system): You are billed X amount of dollars for Y gallons of water you use.
• Getting water out of a well: You pay W dollars for drilling, X dollars for the pump and Z amount of dollars for filration/treatment for Y amount of water....and let's not forget E amount of dollars for the power required to operate the pump....or the possibility that the well may either a) run dry or b) require multiple holes to be drilled before a good "tap" is found.

And that, my Anonymous friend, was my point.

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Feel free to remind your employer of this on Monday.

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How soon we forget......

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Soooooo.....who did you steal the pump from?

Oh, and by the way...please let me know who's going around surveying and drilling wells for free. I'm sure a lot of refined country folks like yourself would love to make use of such a service.

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Well, aside from the obvious glaring fact that the production houses and record chains set those prices and earn most of the profit....how exactly is the consumer "stolen from"?

I don't seem to recall being in a music store and suddenly finding my wallet missing after passing through the Rock section.

I've never found a Waxie Maxie employee holding a gun to my head, screaming "BUY THIS N'SYNC ALBUM! NOW!" (and thank God for that)

BOTTOM LINE: The CDs cost what the public is willing to pay. You said this yourself. If the price is outrageous, then they won't sell and the distributor loses money.

If you're pissed because the price of music CDs are too steep for your pocketbook, blame your friends, your coworkers, your family and yourself for purchasing them.

Artists make most of they money off of their concert tours, not their albums, anyway.

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Oh, I'm sorry. I guess I should have said sportspersonlike so I can cater to those individuals who cannot differentiate between a sexist remark and an attempt to use a commonly-accepted gender-neutral term for the sake of brevity.
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Did you know that for every dollar of govenment funding that Cancer Reasearch gets from the US Govenment, AIDS gets $20?

That's quite a disgrace, seeing that AIDS is so much more preventable.

It's sad, that people allow passion to cloud their ability to reason. While staying Anonymous, no less.

Imagine a slightly less-rapid virus, more rapid than HIV, but not constrained to sexual contact, and the possibilities are terrifying.

Imagine how much I'd be willing to donate to research it. Then remember we're in the land of hypothetical viruses, while cancer and AIDS are real and kill daily.

I stand by my original post, and I suspect that if we want to really find out what MicroBerto really thinks about cancer and AIDS, we should wait for any follow-up posts by him before resorting to hypothetical discussion about the Right Wing Boogeyman.

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Not quickly, of course...unless the hapless victim(s) ingested scores at once without noticing a grainy consistancy to their food.

Maybe these killer nanites could be designed to block arteries with cholesterol, or dissolve platelets to prevent the stop of bleeding on the battlefield, or change the chemical structure of certain food items to slowly poison a victim. How about severing optic nerves to cause blindness, or causing spinal cord injuries to cause paralysis?

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I agree with MicroBerto that AIDS is more preventable than Cancer. Sex, however, is not the sole method of AIDS (rather, HIV) transmission....needle-sharing is also a major vector, and it's on the rise in developed countries.

Cancer can also be prevented: don't smoke, don't chew, avoid tanning, etc. Unfortunately cancer's causes are legion whereas HIV/AIDS may be contracted in a limited number of fashions such as unprotected sex, IV drug use and unscreened blood transfusions.

Both maladies have claimed victims who avoided dangerous and/or hedonistic lifestyles which might have put them at higher risk.

I take the side of cancer research: pancreatic, lung and breast cancer have claimed the lives of three members of my immediate family. HIV/AIDS has not.

While I sympathize with those who have lost loved ones to AIDS and neither desire to trivialize their losses nor lobby for reduced AIDS research donations, I cannot ignore that which has struck closer to home.

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I think Jackson will do well. He's a real Tolkien fan, and not just a guy who thinks this will make a cool movie. I think the casting alone reflects this.
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I shudder to think what Lucas would have done to the Tolkien trilogy. While I doubt a Jar-Jar type of character would have been created, I envison a hell of a lot more cutsiness than Jackson (or any LOTR purist) would allow. And action figures. And McDonald's promotions.

Of course, a Disney treatment would be even worse. Can you imagine the songs?
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How about a science fiction writer with nutty religious opinions?

Oh wait...that's already been done.

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Refit Mir to be an orbiting data library, free of any national jurisdiction. Utilize the abandoned Iridium satellites so users worldwide can access it. Charge for Iridium-based net access, use profits to pay Mir operating expenses.
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So Redmond churns out "Office 2002 for Linux". It's 1GB, costs $1200 and only runs under Red Hat. How is this a good thing?

My point here is this: forcing MS to build apps for other platforms is a poor remedy. Although in such a case they could be forced to implement the same features for each platform, it would be highly doubtful that they would be forced to charge the same amount or ship each flavor at the same time.

Sure, commercial Linux users would benefit. IF they could convince the guy who writes the check to spend X more on the Linux version as opposed to getting a bargain-basement PC and a much cheaper Win32 version.

This would be like forcing pre-breakup AT&T to make payphones that not only accept pennies, but Canadian coins as well.
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Yes Jon, bring that movie to their attention. I'd love to hear about their reaction!
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More disturbing was "Conveys violence in writings and/or drawings." Lot of room there. I guess kids shouldn't draw battles or scenes from their favorite movies; God knows what will be reported about them.

While still capable of being misinterpreted, I think the Imminent Warning Signs they list are a bit more on-target.

Totally worthless, IMHO, is the Why Call The WAVE Line page and it's purpose. It urges newly-hatched WAVE drones to call the line if they wish to anonymously report drug/alcohol abuse, vandalism and suicide threats -- valid cases I suppose -- along with aggressive behavior, harassment, intolerant attitudes and "Anything Else Harmful to You or Your School".

Gee, could I call the WAVE line to report that WAVE is harmful to me and my school?

Any of you high-school gratuates out there remember not experiencing some kind of agressive behavior, harassment or intolerant atttudes during those years?

I'm so damn glad my school days are long past; high school was stressful enough without worrying about the Stasi looking over my shoulder every minute.
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1. How do you determine "total market"? That may be fairly easy to do with Macintosh since Apple is the only source...but what about an open-source platform such as (but not necessarily) Linux? We've seen Microsoft's spinmasters at work, and I doubt that it would take much number-juggling to turn a 3% market share into 2.8% or the like.
2. Ok, so Redmond churns out "Office 2002 for Linux". It's 600Mb and costs $500. How is this a good thing?

I agree with you here. Combine this with a Baby Bill Breakup and I think you have an effective punishment.

Fourth, appoint a judge to oversee this with the authority to intervene at any time, rather than making them wait until a suit is filed.

Just because accused was found guilty doesn't mean he should be tortured. Microsoft the corporation still has rights, and appointing a judge who can act with total authority whenever MS does something somebody else doesn't like scares the hell out of me. Hello? Due Process?
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