They want to restrict us to downloading packets in the gaps between theirs, so what?
We can afford to wait because we're not trying to be broadcasters who absolutely need the bandwidth or the user experience goes to shit and they get calls into tech support.
assets to somebody else would take care of that problem.
There would be NO ComCast bills passing on the cost because there would be NO MORE ComCast.
It is perfectly ethical to TERMINATE ComCast when they do something illegal. (They're NOT a living being. You can't kill them. But you can dissolve them.)
Imagine how delighted one of their current competitors would be at picking up their assets and their customers at fire sale prices.
The hundreds of other labels in North America are supposedly protected by a 'halo' effect, but the RIAA wouldn't lift a finger for 'em, in effect.
Since the coming of iTunes and digital downloads, where single songs are once again slectable, we find ourselves back prior to the middle sixties when 45 RPMs were the main means of selling music (and B-Sides were almost guaranteed to be crap,) but they were a lot cheaper to buy than 33&1/3 RPMs.
The RIAA's take prior to the coming of the Beatles and the 'concept albums' used to be measured in pennies per hundred records. But since the introduction of the >$10 12" vinyl album and the >$15 CD, the RIAA has seen its yearly take grow by leaps and bounds while the label's costs were covered by the same crooked contracts so they just raked in the money (while the artists were stuck with the bill for producing the homogenized pap they can end up NOT EVEN BEING ABLE TO PERFORM though it was created BY THEM.)
The RIAA is not too happy with the situation as their take goes down.
The labels are getting gutted by the internet.
The recording studios are getting left behind by the quality of digital recording equipment.
All in all, the digital revolution is really bending them over and doing them dry.
is that Apple is off the hook for anything that fucks up with Java Apps (and Sun knows it so look for very conservative Java apps to get rolled out first.)
That opens up the iPhone (and iPod Touch but who cares about that minority,) for corporate deployment and all those goodies without exposing Apple at all.
I think you're referring to "eminent domain" which has I believe has been used here in New Jersey to get rid of, uh, obstructionists and other undesirables who were standing in the path of progress, "Truth, Justice and the American Way (TM)"
Basically, if you own anything, the gummint is supposed to pay "fair market value" before they kick you off of your land.
Of course, what's fair and when is it fair (the value of land fluctuates doesn't it,) seems to be up to the gummint. (And you can bet that you'll get the value prior to the, uh, "improvements{ of the new owners.)
I remember rfeading something written by another "Moore" (Chuck Moore, creator of the Forth programming language,) concerning the compiling Forth programs directly into silicon via a silicon foundry which would take the patterns and traces directly from the compiler output.
Now that always appealed to me.
Making purpose specific devices from more generalized instructions by eliminating the generalized instruction processing.
You would end up having something that might very well be unhackable because all it knows how to do is what its supposed to do and nothing else. (The instructions just aren't there.)
You couldn't have tomography without computer assistance, true, but you have lots of people going around with radiation burns from improperly calibrated X-ray equipment.
after all, they're supposed to maintain discipline and allegiance and the internet is awash with temptations to be independent in deed and, most dangerously, in thought.
The last thing he military needs and wants it independent thinkers.
And all of this has come about as an unforeseen, uncontrolled and unwanted consequence to a system designer's answer to a simple question about increasing the survivability of communications networks in the event of nuclear war.
There's be one apology for waiting at the airline desk, one apology for waiting after the TSA to root through your carry on, one apology for waiting after the airport for runway clearance, one apology for waiting for your luggage at the carousel, (only to discover that your luggage is having a much nicer trip than you are,) and one last apology for waiting after the idiot who's supposed to deliver all of the apologies.
I suppose there should be an Al Queida booth set up for apologizing that you've actually made it to wherever because they haven't got around to blowing up your plane.
As for the corruption in the military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about...
No need to bother your father. I wholeheartedly agree that its the must corrupt thing (What do you want? They're dedicated to blowing thing up and people down.) In delivering the goods, the level of corruption is as astonishing as it is expensive.
But what is important here is that they are a nationalized defense force.
We have state militias but they are subservient to the national militia.
We should organize the spending for our health care in the same manner. (And keep the feds OUT of the loop when it comes to deciding what treatment is necessary.)
Health care should be a national agenda priority and the province of a national single payer because it affects the well being of the entire nation.
It is fundamentally not amenable to "sharing the caring" for the same reason that we don't have 50 state currencies.
Just make it a single payer system. That would be the federal government's sole responsibility, not deciding on treatment or deciding anything else. (They already foot the bill for the military, let 'em foot the bill for health care and for the same reasons.)
It would eliminate most of the shenanigans and multiple price lists that are currently a major headache with spiraling health care costs.
If you're basing your decision of who to vote for on that, then you, sir, are dumber then I.
I would prefer basing my decision of what structural changes a candidate would implement in order to deal with the reality and thus avoid a Gattaca scenario.
Getting the insurance companies out of health care is a very good place to start. (They are fundamentally dedicated to health-don't-care because caring about the fate of individuals would impact their bottom line.)
If we take care of the stigmatization (all based on potential costs) by eliminating it and even the need for it, a Gattaca scenario is a waste of resources and thus extremely unlikely to occur.
Implementing universal health care as a single payer system will immediately eliminate the kinds of multi-pricing scams that see different department in the same hospital being charged different prices for the same medication.
The scams only get worse with medical appliances.
On the whole, I really think we would benefit from a good sweep with an ethical broom, because the medical supply industry really need it and rather than appoint an oversight committee, (just one more structure to corrupt,) it makes a lot more sense to have a single payer system where a prescription for good *A* is the same regardless of who makes, who prescribes it, where it come from, where its going to, or how it gets into a patient.
I am pitting my wife through college for two reasons:
1) To save her sanity. Being unemployed was driving her nuts and being too near a refrigerator was driving her fat.
2) When she finally gets health benefits working for a Catholic School board, its one less worry.
Personally, I hope the USA wakes the hell up and does what Canada did decades ago.
And the argument about socialized medicine being bad for health care is so bogus (as this article points out,) is not funny.
The USA would have achieved even MORE with socialized medicine, (just like they won in Afghanistan and Iraq with a SOCIALIZED ARMY. [I'm not saying that there aren't problems with KEEPING Afghanistan and Iraq, but the battle phases of the operations were remarkably effective.])
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the better podcasting looks.
They want to restrict us to downloading packets in the gaps between theirs, so what?
We can afford to wait because we're not trying to be broadcasters who absolutely need the bandwidth or the user experience goes to shit and they get calls into tech support.
Screw em. Fuck 'em where they breathe.
tell me I could have got a solid state one.
Oh well. I'll just have to wait until the moving parts on this one stop moving.
you could/should at least give attribution.
That old joke comes via Mel Brooks in "The History Of The World: Part I"
Practice what you preach...
sucking your thumb?
Ditch the Tux stuffed-animal or be prepared to spend the rest of your life alone and looking weird.
As much as I would love the alternative you suggest, I'll settle for vengeance from the dissolution of ComCast and sale of their assets.
Yes it fattens the wallets of the acquirerer, but at least its not at our expense.
assets to somebody else would take care of that problem.
There would be NO ComCast bills passing on the cost because there would be NO MORE ComCast.
It is perfectly ethical to TERMINATE ComCast when they do something illegal.
(They're NOT a living being. You can't kill them. But you can dissolve them.)
Imagine how delighted one of their current competitors would be at picking up their assets and their customers at fire sale prices.
in the RIAAs stable.
The hundreds of other labels in North America are supposedly protected by a 'halo' effect, but the RIAA wouldn't lift a finger for 'em, in effect.
Since the coming of iTunes and digital downloads, where single songs are once again slectable, we find ourselves back prior to the middle sixties when 45 RPMs were the main means of selling music (and B-Sides were almost guaranteed to be crap,) but they were a lot cheaper to buy than 33&1/3 RPMs.
The RIAA's take prior to the coming of the Beatles and the 'concept albums' used to be measured in pennies per hundred records. But since the introduction of the >$10 12" vinyl album and the >$15 CD, the RIAA has seen its yearly take grow by leaps and bounds while the label's costs were covered by the same crooked contracts so they just raked in the money (while the artists were stuck with the bill for producing the homogenized pap they can end up NOT EVEN BEING ABLE TO PERFORM though it was created BY THEM.)
The RIAA is not too happy with the situation as their take goes down.
The labels are getting gutted by the internet.
The recording studios are getting left behind by the quality of digital recording equipment.
All in all, the digital revolution is really bending them over and doing them dry.
And I could care less.
that that ad was utter BS and the screen s/he'll be working looks more like a 327x or a TTY than anything like "Minority Report."
I'm sorry but the military strikes me has never having enough funds for that fancy Hollywood stuff.
That's probably the real reason why.
is that Apple is off the hook for anything that fucks up with Java Apps (and Sun knows it so look for very conservative Java apps to get rolled out first.)
That opens up the iPhone (and iPod Touch but who cares about that minority,) for corporate deployment and all those goodies without exposing Apple at all.
I am always leery of anything Microsoft claims.
The "downloads" may in fact be automated requests and the downloader may not even be aware of his download.
I think you're referring to "eminent domain" which has I believe has been used here in New Jersey to get rid of, uh, obstructionists and other undesirables who were standing in the path of progress, "Truth, Justice and the American Way (TM)"
Basically, if you own anything, the gummint is supposed to pay "fair market value" before they kick you off of your land.
Of course, what's fair and when is it fair (the value of land fluctuates doesn't it,) seems to be up to the gummint. (And you can bet that you'll get the value prior to the, uh, "improvements{ of the new owners.)
I remember rfeading something written by another "Moore" (Chuck Moore, creator of the Forth programming language,) concerning the compiling Forth programs directly into silicon via a silicon foundry which would take the patterns and traces directly from the compiler output.
Now that always appealed to me.
Making purpose specific devices from more generalized instructions by eliminating the generalized instruction processing.
You would end up having something that might very well be unhackable because all it knows how to do is what its supposed to do and nothing else. (The instructions just aren't there.)
Evidence should be able to stand on its own.
We HAD habeus corpus in the 'States until recently.
Now though...
first contact with the medical engineering?
You couldn't have tomography without computer assistance, true, but you have lots of people going around with radiation burns from improperly calibrated X-ray equipment.
after all, they're supposed to maintain discipline and allegiance and the internet is awash with temptations to be independent in deed and, most dangerously, in thought.
The last thing he military needs and wants it independent thinkers.
And all of this has come about as an unforeseen, uncontrolled and unwanted consequence to a system designer's answer to a simple question about increasing the survivability of communications networks in the event of nuclear war.
I keep being led around to buy a copy of Office even though don't WANT a fuckin' copy of fuckin' Office.
All I fuckin' well want is a fuckin' copy of fuckin' Excel.
And they keep asking all these fuckin' questions.
ALL I WANT IS A FUCKIN' COPY OF EXCELL.
I DON'T WANT A FUCKIN' INQUISITION!
THE CLIENT CAN GO AND FUCK HIMSELF.
from the point of view available from slightly in front of and below where a tail joins a horse.
This is meaningless drivel.
and it wouldn't surprise me if they had to write down instructions for chewing your food and an addendum for remembering to swallow it.
Then again, they probably wouldn't have to give any instructions for vomiting.
airport wait queues.
There's be one apology for waiting at the airline desk, one apology for waiting after the TSA to root through your carry on, one apology for waiting after the airport for runway clearance, one apology for waiting for your luggage at the carousel, (only to discover that your luggage is having a much nicer trip than you are,) and one last apology for waiting after the idiot who's supposed to deliver all of the apologies.
I suppose there should be an Al Queida booth set up for apologizing that you've actually made it to wherever because they haven't got around to blowing up your plane.
from the fifties rewritten on a patent application form.
Total sham.
thing they seem to be any good at, paying.
As for the corruption in the military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about...
No need to bother your father. I wholeheartedly agree that its the must corrupt thing (What do you want? They're dedicated to blowing thing up and people down.) In delivering the goods, the level of corruption is as astonishing as it is expensive.
But what is important here is that they are a nationalized defense force.
We have state militias but they are subservient to the national militia.
We should organize the spending for our health care in the same manner. (And keep the feds OUT of the loop when it comes to deciding what treatment is necessary.)
Health care should be a national agenda priority and the province of a national single payer because it affects the well being of the entire nation.
It is fundamentally not amenable to "sharing the caring" for the same reason that we don't have 50 state currencies.
health care.
As for the medical care system.
Just make it a single payer system. That would be the federal government's sole responsibility, not deciding on treatment or deciding anything else. (They already foot the bill for the military, let 'em foot the bill for health care and for the same reasons.)
It would eliminate most of the shenanigans and multiple price lists that are currently a major headache with spiraling health care costs.
If you're basing your decision of who to vote for on that, then you, sir, are dumber then I.
I would prefer basing my decision of what structural changes a candidate would implement in order to deal with the reality and thus avoid a Gattaca scenario.
Getting the insurance companies out of health care is a very good place to start. (They are fundamentally dedicated to health-don't-care because caring about the fate of individuals would impact their bottom line.)
If we take care of the stigmatization (all based on potential costs) by eliminating it and even the need for it, a Gattaca scenario is a waste of resources and thus extremely unlikely to occur.
Implementing universal health care as a single payer system will immediately eliminate the kinds of multi-pricing scams that see different department in the same hospital being charged different prices for the same medication.
The scams only get worse with medical appliances.
On the whole, I really think we would benefit from a good sweep with an ethical broom, because the medical supply industry really need it and rather than appoint an oversight committee, (just one more structure to corrupt,) it makes a lot more sense to have a single payer system where a prescription for good *A* is the same regardless of who makes, who prescribes it, where it come from, where its going to, or how it gets into a patient.
I am pitting my wife through college for two reasons:
1) To save her sanity. Being unemployed was driving her nuts and being too near a refrigerator was driving her fat.
2) When she finally gets health benefits working for a Catholic School board, its one less worry.
Personally, I hope the USA wakes the hell up and does what Canada did decades ago.
And the argument about socialized medicine being bad for health care is so bogus (as this article points out,) is not funny.
The USA would have achieved even MORE with socialized medicine, (just like they won in Afghanistan and Iraq with a SOCIALIZED ARMY. [I'm not saying that there aren't problems with KEEPING Afghanistan and Iraq, but the battle phases of the operations were remarkably effective.])
to being stupid but that didn't stop us from electing the current administration. (Which is largely composed of elements of a prior one.)