Look, if you want a cheap(er) source of fuel, you better get off your butt and do it yourself. All these interesting little discoveries aren't going to do anything with the big oil companies still making record profits by raping the world's citizens. Period. End of story. The technology has been there since the 70's to do everythig we see in the news. That's why OPEC suddenly made gas cheap again - we were developing technologies to make their product worthless. If that happens, they disappear into the sands again as no country other than Dubai (look at Dubai from a space viewpoint if you're that out of touch) has anything to offer in trade. Anyone up for a tourism industry in Iran? LMFAO. Buy a dielsel and convert it to a grease car for $500. That's as close as you're going to get unless you invest a technology yourself and refuse to sell it to the oil companies who will bury it until the oil runs out.
Since 6/10 songs on a CD are crap anymore anyhow, I can't see anyone seriously buying CDs anymore. Spend $4 to download them from iTunes and have the good songs. What genius decided it was good to sue every one of your customers with every loophole in the law? These record company execs must be very guilable to let the RIAA lawyers keep talking them into funding their org. Seriously, who buys CDs anymore? LOL Next, the RIAA will sue to make Americans purchase a minimum of 10 CDs per year. Hahahaha. Pathetic.
It'll never happen. American companies aren't going to cut off paying customers for something as stupid as this. Give me a break. If he likes French law so much, move there and be content. Don't pick and law here and a law there to make your own personal utoipia and force it down everyone else's throat. No ISP is going to tell a paying customer "we don't want your money anymore because you doanloaded a song." And if they start having to cut people off for something like downloading a sog, what is next? If you fart while online you'll lose your service? It's a domino party and you're not invited.
This administration has hidden behind EP or a flat out refusal to comply for almost 8 years. Cheney came up with an energy policy years ago behind closed doors with execs from the oil and energy companies. When Congress called for details and names, Cheney told Congress to go suck an egg. This administration doesn't care about the founders' desire for 3 branches of government. The Executive branch is the only one that "rules" right now. Thank you all the Bush voters. We haven't had a democratic process for 8 years. Bush dictates what the important bills will contain and how they'll be written. If you waver, you're called un-American and the bill is vetoed. When the Executive branch dictates to the Congressional branch what to do, that's not really a "checks and balances" system. Get used to it or get off your butt and VOTE!!
Well, that makes me about sick. "Let's sacrifice the education of our youth and the future of the nation by cutting funding to ensure Hollywood makes an extra few dollars." I guess when universities have to reduce programs and students begin getting denies admission, we will be able to more easily secure the "dumbest nation on earth" status. But hey, at least the movie and music industries will get their money. How bright do you have to be to sit in a meeting and say "We can't find anyone smart enough to invent a technology to control this. Well, let's go ahead and stifle education. Maybe increasing the ignorance in a population will create a genius to write the software we need." The more people that complete college = more people with good jobs = less people that feel the need to use p2p for music and movies. Apparently these lawyers are from the future where the education system was butchered. They're obviously products of such a system. Wonder which country we stole the time-travel tech from because we sure as hell didn't invent it. There's going to be a special place for folks someday.
This was a long-time in coming. It didn't make financial sense. Look. The major record labels have been pumping million$ into the RIAA for years. In return, they've sued 10 year old girls and, on many cases, gotten a $2,000 settlement. Hmmm. Millions for thousands? If a car company did this they'd be called Ford - and be in just as bad a financial state. It's pushed their customers to more cost-effective means of acquiring music - i.e. iTunes. "We don't like the way our customers use our product so let's sue them to make them act right." Yeah, that worked. Despite the RIAA's best spinning, CD sales are still tanking. Why buy a CD for 3 good songs and 12 crappy ones for $12 when you can go to iTunes and get the 3 good ones for $3??? Ummm, duh!! The lawyers and lobbyists have been riding this gravy train for years just sitting back and laughing at the dumb record execs they've fooled into accepting the $2,000 settlements as progress and justification for the million$ they've supported them with. Is it any surprise that finally someone looked at the books and said "Wait a gosh darn minute! Something here looks a bit fishy. Ms. Jenkins - what's all this red ink about on the bottom line???" I think EMI is the first to demand change and the others will soon follow suit . . . no pun intended.
Most older Net users remember the days og popup literally taking over one's screen. They would spawn another and another and another. Maybe if they hadn't tried to spam my machine, I wouldn't have looked for a way, or 5, to bloack them. Maybe if they didn't install cookies, trackers, software, etc. I wouldn't block them. It's like a porn dealer getting mad because parents use parental controls on cable to block their stuff from being shown to their children!!!!!!! It's like Hitler being ticked that our tanks were better. It's like Satan being mad that you read the Bible. Get over it! If people hadn't tried to use ads to control your computer, there wouldn't be a need for blockers. Advertisers vreated the need now they must live with it. They must EARN my trust and desire to watch.
Ha ha ha. "The moral compass of America." Does this really surprise anyone? Wonder if they're calling the parents of their Pages with these messages too? Hmmmm.
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Look, if you want a cheap(er) source of fuel, you better get off your butt and do it yourself. All these interesting little discoveries aren't going to do anything with the big oil companies still making record profits by raping the world's citizens. Period. End of story. The technology has been there since the 70's to do everythig we see in the news. That's why OPEC suddenly made gas cheap again - we were developing technologies to make their product worthless. If that happens, they disappear into the sands again as no country other than Dubai (look at Dubai from a space viewpoint if you're that out of touch) has anything to offer in trade. Anyone up for a tourism industry in Iran? LMFAO. Buy a dielsel and convert it to a grease car for $500. That's as close as you're going to get unless you invest a technology yourself and refuse to sell it to the oil companies who will bury it until the oil runs out.
Would Tor assist is blocking this type of intrusion?
Since 6/10 songs on a CD are crap anymore anyhow, I can't see anyone seriously buying CDs anymore. Spend $4 to download them from iTunes and have the good songs. What genius decided it was good to sue every one of your customers with every loophole in the law? These record company execs must be very guilable to let the RIAA lawyers keep talking them into funding their org. Seriously, who buys CDs anymore? LOL Next, the RIAA will sue to make Americans purchase a minimum of 10 CDs per year. Hahahaha. Pathetic.
It'll never happen. American companies aren't going to cut off paying customers for something as stupid as this. Give me a break. If he likes French law so much, move there and be content. Don't pick and law here and a law there to make your own personal utoipia and force it down everyone else's throat. No ISP is going to tell a paying customer "we don't want your money anymore because you doanloaded a song." And if they start having to cut people off for something like downloading a sog, what is next? If you fart while online you'll lose your service? It's a domino party and you're not invited.
This administration has hidden behind EP or a flat out refusal to comply for almost 8 years. Cheney came up with an energy policy years ago behind closed doors with execs from the oil and energy companies. When Congress called for details and names, Cheney told Congress to go suck an egg. This administration doesn't care about the founders' desire for 3 branches of government. The Executive branch is the only one that "rules" right now. Thank you all the Bush voters. We haven't had a democratic process for 8 years. Bush dictates what the important bills will contain and how they'll be written. If you waver, you're called un-American and the bill is vetoed. When the Executive branch dictates to the Congressional branch what to do, that's not really a "checks and balances" system. Get used to it or get off your butt and VOTE!!
Well, that makes me about sick. "Let's sacrifice the education of our youth and the future of the nation by cutting funding to ensure Hollywood makes an extra few dollars." I guess when universities have to reduce programs and students begin getting denies admission, we will be able to more easily secure the "dumbest nation on earth" status. But hey, at least the movie and music industries will get their money. How bright do you have to be to sit in a meeting and say "We can't find anyone smart enough to invent a technology to control this. Well, let's go ahead and stifle education. Maybe increasing the ignorance in a population will create a genius to write the software we need." The more people that complete college = more people with good jobs = less people that feel the need to use p2p for music and movies. Apparently these lawyers are from the future where the education system was butchered. They're obviously products of such a system. Wonder which country we stole the time-travel tech from because we sure as hell didn't invent it. There's going to be a special place for folks someday.
This was a long-time in coming. It didn't make financial sense. Look. The major record labels have been pumping million$ into the RIAA for years. In return, they've sued 10 year old girls and, on many cases, gotten a $2,000 settlement. Hmmm. Millions for thousands? If a car company did this they'd be called Ford - and be in just as bad a financial state. It's pushed their customers to more cost-effective means of acquiring music - i.e. iTunes. "We don't like the way our customers use our product so let's sue them to make them act right." Yeah, that worked. Despite the RIAA's best spinning, CD sales are still tanking. Why buy a CD for 3 good songs and 12 crappy ones for $12 when you can go to iTunes and get the 3 good ones for $3??? Ummm, duh!! The lawyers and lobbyists have been riding this gravy train for years just sitting back and laughing at the dumb record execs they've fooled into accepting the $2,000 settlements as progress and justification for the million$ they've supported them with. Is it any surprise that finally someone looked at the books and said "Wait a gosh darn minute! Something here looks a bit fishy. Ms. Jenkins - what's all this red ink about on the bottom line???" I think EMI is the first to demand change and the others will soon follow suit . . . no pun intended.
Most older Net users remember the days og popup literally taking over one's screen. They would spawn another and another and another. Maybe if they hadn't tried to spam my machine, I wouldn't have looked for a way, or 5, to bloack them. Maybe if they didn't install cookies, trackers, software, etc. I wouldn't block them. It's like a porn dealer getting mad because parents use parental controls on cable to block their stuff from being shown to their children!!!!!!! It's like Hitler being ticked that our tanks were better. It's like Satan being mad that you read the Bible. Get over it! If people hadn't tried to use ads to control your computer, there wouldn't be a need for blockers. Advertisers vreated the need now they must live with it. They must EARN my trust and desire to watch.
Ha ha ha. "The moral compass of America." Does this really surprise anyone? Wonder if they're calling the parents of their Pages with these messages too? Hmmmm.