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What Critics of the Critics of the FCC Rule Miss
Asprin writes "Businessweek has an editorial up which argues that the FCC's HDTV broadcast flag rule is a good thing, and that everyone is just overreacting. What the author is overlooking is that this rule gives exclusive control over production to the studios that are in "the club", essentially denying private citizens the right to make their own HDTV format video. To wit: "The problem comes when a program taped on an old VCR can't be replayed on a next-generation VCR. So consumers may experience some compatibility problems between machines as they upgrade." Awww, she almost gets it. (...and she was sooo close, too!) The problem is the word "consumers", which doesn't describe us anymore. There's nothing like being locked out of your own old family videos when your current VCR dies, eh?"
There's nothing like being locked out of your own old family videos when your current VCR dies, eh?
No problem. Every law-abiding citizen will simply pay the licensing costs to obtain a broadcast flag of their own. Obviously.
so if it boils, it's a witch? or if it floats.. um, its.. uh
She turned me into a newt!
"All in all, the FCC has taken a reasonable first step. If consumers want their HDTV, they have to accept limits on the ability to redistribute TV shows on the Web. Shelter from pirates will help broadcasters venture into the digital era. And that will benefit everyone except the pirates."
Arrr, shiver me timbers. You won't find much shelter on da high sea. Shes a harsh mistres.
So frogs actually ARE smarter than humans. I always suspected as much.
I for one welcome our new frog overlords.
To the RIAA/MPAA/TV-studios/Entertainment Industry:
Fuck off, we dont give a shit about your bull. You either accept our terms and conditions as the customer or you fuck off and we do it ourselves. We don't need your cheap pushed remixed re-covered music, your formula action movies, your pathetic remakes and your hyped up crap because every year the technological divide between having a state of the art film/tv/music studio gets smaller and computing power gets cheaper. Millions of people around the world have ideas that they want to create and share and the technology for them to do it and for anyone to become a producer is closing in and theres nothing that you can do about it. we are really getting pissed off at you and your crack sniffing and your pretentious billion dollar demanding actors and singers. Don't fuck with our technology and don't tell us what we can and cant do.
PS
Please make more X-Files, we want Anderson and Duchovny
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Put a frog (alive) into a pot of cold water. Put the pot on low heat. If you heat the water slowly enough, the frog will not jump out, even when it eventually boils to death.
My friend's mom inadvertently tried this experiment with a crab. You're supposed to drop the crab in a pot of boiling water to cook it, but she put it in lukewarm water and set the stove to high heat. We left the kitchen, and came back to find an empty pot, and a crab hiding under the kitchen cabinets!
You want a sig? I can get you a sig... Hell, I can get you a sig by 3 o'clock this afternoon... with nail polish.
What the shit are you ragheads smoking? I'm calling the department of homeland security.
So like I went to this party and we were going to watch the TV but like I forgot my TV-PASS so like when they called everbody to pony up and plug in their passes I had to leave. The people tracker knew there were 25 people in the house.
Thing was, after I left, they coudn't watch it anyway because there were 24 people in the house but the host hadn't rented a TV-Party hub so he only had ten slots on the built in hub.
So like the pary went indoor/outdoor. They got the lead curtins out and hung them on the windows so that the people-tracker wouldn't see the people outside and it was totally a drag because everytime someone went in the house to pee the TV cut out.
Finally the police showed up. The people tracker called them when it noticed the counts tripping up repeatedly. The TV control board totally garnished the guys house because one of the other guys didn't have his pass with him at all and nobody could prove he han't been watching because people weren't trading up their keys every time they traded places. The lead curtins were illegal too.
So like, its a good thing I left, because everybody at the party got fined $150,000 for piracy and the guy throwing the party caught two years in jail.
That's the last time I party with Fred's group... I won't be able to get into Penn State if I like totally have a record for piracy...
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