If you're really wealthy,
you don't fly on a common carrier airline;
you don't get into those TSA "criminal parade" line ups;
you use a different airport, different roads to and from those airports and aren't inconvenienced by all of this crap.
The reason the airlines still do their own security, instead of a federal agency, is because private air transport doesn't want to be subject to all of these 'rules and regs'.
Wake up. If you're rich, you don't have to put up with any of this plebian crap. (Can you even think of anyone telling Bill Gates or Warren Buffet to take of their shoes before walking through the detector?)
I purchased "Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict (1994 Digital Remaster)" off of the "Ummagumma" by "Pink Floyd"and got it to update iTunes (and my iPod) without a hitch.
It works and the selection seems to be pretty good.
which is where the majors get the acts that get promoted (until the bitch goes crazy, shaves her head and fucks up an MTV award shows. [Now she can't even get a luncheon date from her ex-lawyer.])
The labels are dying as a business model because the internet makes them unnecessary.
I can find more music, legally, on the 'net and the web than I can find at Tower Records (Oh yeah... Tower's GONE now...)
What's got the music business scared is that its all happening so FAST.
They've gone from 'essential' to 'buggy whip maker' in less than a decade.
Their skills, as dubious as you might think them, are all useless now.
As a Smalltalk programmer who watched his entire market crater about half a decade ago, I feel for 'em. They'll have to join the heap of humanity on the bottom of the pile, 'cause its crumbling fast.
As a podcaster with over 200 episodes under his belt, I feel for the broadcasters too. Everything 'over the air' is going to be 'over the fiber' soon and if you own a transmitter its value is dropping like a bomb.
Tough.
Everything has changed because of something started when I was a kid, and the internet is just getting started.
The pace of change is only going to accelerate from this point forward.
This should get dismissed as a frivolous lawsuit because the guy is asking for something that is:
a) not available with broadcasting (it being BROADcasting an all,) b) already available with podcasting (or should be.)
The complaint about selection and choice of programs is entirely immaterial.
The material was not available over the broadcast channels either until is was MADE available at some point in time by the content provider and the broadcaster.
The material was not available over the podcast channels either until is was MADE available at some point in time by the content provider (Transmitter? We don't need no stinking transmitter.)
----
The economics of the situation is that if you can produce and put it out there you can either:
a) be in intense competition for access to a very scarce resource (the transmitters,)
b) be in NO competition for access to an asynchronous, persistent medium.
----
Now there ARE problems with amateur production. Budgets are non-existent unless and until you can attract an audience. You are in competition for the attention span of the average person "in the the particular group that you are aiming to reach." (If you put out [podcast] a show aimed at string theorists, or if you download [podcatch] a show about string theory, you'd better know string theory.)
SCO Potato Chips, comes in douche flavor, instead of just salt and vinegar.
SCO the newest Windows' Vista Reseller.
SCO retailers: Going to Vietnam to compete with Wall*Mart.
SCO Foods: Made with cyclamates, triglycerides and all the hydrogenated denatured vegetable oils you crave.
SCO Soap: Made with extra lubricating oils and gentle soothing lotions. Suppliers to the US Penal System since we found out what we could expect.
SCO Coffee: 'Crap'pucino, Made from what Starbuck's threw away.
SCO Greeting Cards: Made specially for mothers' in law and other people you don't really care about.
SCO Theme Park. Its like "Six Flags" without the rides or any of the fun. Basically, think of the lousiest fair run by the most crooked grifters on the most run down equipment, showing the worst flea-bitten, urine-smelling animals (Gerty The Wonder Rat!) and down-on-their-luck geeks (we're talking REAL geeks, Glauman geeks here,) that its ever been your displeasure to encounter outside of their tent. That's the SCO Theme Park.
flying apart but they're all knotted again and that's the part the string theorists don't like; being in a strange, topless/bottomless joint without any charm at all.
In most of Asia, they KILL your ass for piracy (even software piracy!)
As long as you're getting away with it, fine; when the shit hits the fan, its "show trial" time and a swift execution. (There's a guy who used to accept bribes while running the Chinese equivalent of the FDA. He's now in TWO boxes.)
I'm sure that Bill G. doesn't have to be reminded of that fact.
I'm also sure that its not keeping him up at night either.
Usus is what you get when you 'buy' a CD or DVD under THEIR rules...
Abusus and usufruct remain with the company that 'sold' you that CD or DVD.
The confusion is that for most other goods, the three things are usually combined.
But imagine is they WERE'NT.
You'd have to pay the car company extra for using (USUFRUCT') their car as a taxi.
You couldn't just drive your POS car until it died, and then just call your friends to come with a screwdriver [to take off the plates] and pick you up.(ABUSUS) (My sister did that more than once with her ancient $50 clunkers.:-)
What should be made CLEAR when you 'buy' ANYTHING is WHAT YOU ARE ACTUALLY BUYING!
I stopped buying CDs from RIAA backed artists year ago. I use the PMN (Podsafe Music Network) to put together my shows and to listen to music.
I stopped seeing movies from MPAA backed studios years ago. (What is beginning to happen is that CONSUMERS are beginning to ask for stuff from a producer and its actually getting made, slowly but surely.)
I KEEP my $ and I don't have to put up with ANY of their crap.
came over me as I thought back to images of infants playing with their toes.
If the robot had come with some elastic (but NOT flesh colored) rubber skin, instead of looking like a meccano set, it would have been almost cute.
They should try different orientations for the 'shoulder/hip' attachment, give it a longer brain/body and a spotted outer covering (with sensors in the 'skin",) a need to home to an electrical outlet to recharge, and make a toy out of it.
After an initial charge "through" the box, you open the box and watch a "new born" toy adapt to you and your house.
It would have a large PRAM to build its "mental maps" of itself (after the initial period of intense self introspection, [deep psychosis, which may require turning off the effectuator circuitry while the thing is going through self-reflection] it needs somewhere to store the body map if has constructed,) and the environment map of your house (and the location of your wall sockets, its 'food' sources:-) as well as RAM for short term "memory" and an operational "white board" system which is filled with associative facts from memory and newly acquired facts from environmental sensors (and that gives it something to "sleep on" while its recharging, building new associations and storing them into PRAM.)
If Mattel or somebody could build one for less than a thousand bucks, I'd probably buy one.
"hacking someone's email and reading it is illegal" is not quite accurate since its possible to request emails (and its often done too,) and every sys-admin who's administering email servers know that.
Confidentiality of email does NOT exist. It might exist in some alternate universe but it doesn't exist on this planet.
Thinking that it does gets people in deep do-doo (or even killed [depends who's doing the asking.])
The documents were open to anyone who has the $50 or so it cost.
I was doing it in Smalltalk/V Win to parse all of the documents produced by our analysts, several thousand of them (and I just happened to generate COBOL record layouts and screen maps [, which turned out handy because I was able to automate the generation of WinRunner test scripts,] and validated the APIs before the coders got the specs.)
Saved a lot of tears all aroun and I couldn't have done it at all using Word.
Slashdot Mirror
How fast can you flood a TB switch? :-)
never used it, never send the email address to ANYONE from there, but every day, there's spam in there.
I'd say, "Yeah there's a security hole in there..."
If you're really wealthy,
you don't fly on a common carrier airline;
you don't get into those TSA "criminal parade" line ups;
you use a different airport, different roads to and from those airports
and aren't inconvenienced by all of this crap.
The reason the airlines still do their own security, instead of a federal agency, is because private air transport doesn't want to be subject to all of these 'rules and regs'.
Wake up. If you're rich, you don't have to put up with any of this plebian crap. (Can you even think of anyone telling Bill Gates or Warren Buffet to take of their shoes before walking through the detector?)
and its use, without fear of retribution.
And it works well.
I purchased "Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict (1994 Digital Remaster)" off of the "Ummagumma" by "Pink Floyd"and got it to update iTunes (and my iPod) without a hitch.
It works and the selection seems to be pretty good.
which is where the majors get the acts that get promoted (until the bitch goes crazy, shaves her head and fucks up an MTV award shows. [Now she can't even get a luncheon date from her ex-lawyer.])
The labels are dying as a business model because the internet makes them unnecessary.
I can find more music, legally, on the 'net and the web than I can find at Tower Records (Oh yeah... Tower's GONE now...)
What's got the music business scared is that its all happening so FAST.
They've gone from 'essential' to 'buggy whip maker' in less than a decade.
Their skills, as dubious as you might think them, are all useless now.
As a Smalltalk programmer who watched his entire market crater about half a decade ago, I feel for 'em. They'll have to join the heap of humanity on the bottom of the pile, 'cause its crumbling fast.
As a podcaster with over 200 episodes under his belt, I feel for the broadcasters too. Everything 'over the air' is going to be 'over the fiber' soon and if you own a transmitter its value is dropping like a bomb.
Tough.
Everything has changed because of something started when I was a kid, and the internet is just getting started.
The pace of change is only going to accelerate from this point forward.
blown by a gorgeous blond with a fabulous rack, an ass that stops traffic and a face that camera's love.
... and the mouth of a two dollar whore"
"She's got the face of an angel, the heart of a saint
-Three Dead Trolls in a Baggy
This should get dismissed as a frivolous lawsuit because the guy is asking for something that is:
a) not available with broadcasting (it being BROADcasting an all,)
b) already available with podcasting (or should be.)
The complaint about selection and choice of programs is entirely immaterial.
The material was not available over the broadcast channels either until is was MADE available at some point in time by the content provider and the broadcaster.
The material was not available over the podcast channels either until is was MADE available at some point in time by the content provider (Transmitter? We don't need no stinking transmitter.)
----
The economics of the situation is that if you can produce and put it out there you can either:
a) be in intense competition for access to a very scarce resource (the transmitters,)
b) be in NO competition for access to an asynchronous, persistent medium.
----
Now there ARE problems with amateur production. Budgets are non-existent unless and until you can attract an audience. You are in competition for the attention span of the average person "in the the particular group that you are aiming to reach." (If you put out [podcast] a show aimed at string theorists, or if you download [podcatch] a show about string theory, you'd better know string theory.)
by about an order of magnitude.
Try again, it not 10 feet in diameter, its 100 feet!
Try:
SCO Potato Chips, comes in douche flavor, instead of just salt and vinegar.
SCO the newest Windows' Vista Reseller.
SCO retailers: Going to Vietnam to compete with Wall*Mart.
SCO Foods: Made with cyclamates, triglycerides and all the hydrogenated denatured vegetable oils you crave.
SCO Soap: Made with extra lubricating oils and gentle soothing lotions. Suppliers to the US Penal System since we found out what we could expect.
SCO Coffee: 'Crap'pucino, Made from what Starbuck's threw away.
SCO Greeting Cards: Made specially for mothers' in law and other people you don't really care about.
SCO Theme Park. Its like "Six Flags" without the rides or any of the fun. Basically, think of the lousiest fair run by the most crooked grifters on the most run down equipment, showing the worst flea-bitten, urine-smelling animals (Gerty The Wonder Rat!) and down-on-their-luck geeks (we're talking REAL geeks, Glauman geeks here,) that its ever been your displeasure to encounter outside of their tent. That's the SCO Theme Park.
your skin still doesn't make it ideal.
If you want to achieve real efficiency, use the large permeable you just took a breath through. Its MADE for it and doesn't need needles (sorry HP.)
And it DOES transfer pharmaceuticals.
Just ask the companies that make inhalers, (and tobacco companies [or pot farmers,]) lungs work great.
flying apart but they're all knotted again and that's the part the string theorists don't like; being in a strange, topless/bottomless joint without any charm at all.
Remember the 'McGuffin' in Zardoz?
It was a diamond based processor.
In fact it was a diamond based, optical processor...
Hmm... Things that make you go hmm...
Oh, for people who don't know, 'McGuffin' was Alfred Hitchcock's name for a central plot device around which everything in the story rotated.
And for people who don't know who Alfred Hitchcock was, he was a famous movie director.
Its not easy getting old. There's all this common 'shared reference' shit to worry about losing.
In most of Asia, they KILL your ass for piracy (even software piracy!)
As long as you're getting away with it, fine; when the shit hits the fan, its "show trial" time and a swift execution. (There's a guy who used to accept bribes while running the Chinese equivalent of the FDA. He's now in TWO boxes.)
I'm sure that Bill G. doesn't have to be reminded of that fact.
I'm also sure that its not keeping him up at night either.
of course they have "contempt of court" issues.
Seeriously, mon.
But then again, WHO IS?
Usus is what you get when you 'buy' a CD or DVD under THEIR rules...
:-)
Abusus and usufruct remain with the company that 'sold' you that CD or DVD.
The confusion is that for most other goods, the three things are usually combined.
But imagine is they WERE'NT.
You'd have to pay the car company extra for using (USUFRUCT') their car as a taxi.
You couldn't just drive your POS car until it died, and then just call your friends to come with a screwdriver [to take off the plates] and pick you up.(ABUSUS) (My sister did that more than once with her ancient $50 clunkers.
What should be made CLEAR when you 'buy' ANYTHING is WHAT YOU ARE ACTUALLY BUYING!
total and complete $ilence.
I stopped buying CDs from RIAA backed artists year ago. I use the PMN (Podsafe Music Network) to put together my shows and to listen to music.
I stopped seeing movies from MPAA backed studios years ago. (What is beginning to happen is that CONSUMERS are beginning to ask for stuff from a producer and its actually getting made, slowly but surely.)
I KEEP my $ and I don't have to put up with ANY of their crap.
caused by an errant shell.
Well in peace time anyway.
I had a sister who lived in Lawton OK for a long time and a few random shells made way from the artillery range from time to time.
That's why they fire duds. The damage is limited to a small diameter.
came over me as I thought back to images of infants playing with their toes.
:-) as well as RAM for short term "memory" and an operational "white board" system which is filled with associative facts from memory and newly acquired facts from environmental sensors (and that gives it something to "sleep on" while its recharging, building new associations and storing them into PRAM.)
If the robot had come with some elastic (but NOT flesh colored) rubber skin, instead of looking like a meccano set, it would have been almost cute.
They should try different orientations for the 'shoulder/hip' attachment, give it a longer brain/body and a spotted outer covering (with sensors in the 'skin",) a need to home to an electrical outlet to recharge, and make a toy out of it.
After an initial charge "through" the box, you open the box and watch a "new born" toy adapt to you and your house.
It would have a large PRAM to build its "mental maps" of itself (after the initial period of intense self introspection, [deep psychosis, which may require turning off the effectuator circuitry while the thing is going through self-reflection] it needs somewhere to store the body map if has constructed,) and the environment map of your house (and the location of your wall sockets, its 'food' sources
If Mattel or somebody could build one for less than a thousand bucks, I'd probably buy one.
"hacking someone's email and reading it is illegal" is not quite accurate since its possible to request emails (and its often done too,) and every sys-admin who's administering email servers know that.
Confidentiality of email does NOT exist. It might exist in some alternate universe but it doesn't exist on this planet.
Thinking that it does gets people in deep do-doo (or even killed [depends who's doing the asking.])
Don't be a jerk, sittin' in you chair, suckin' on the glass teat and munching Fritoes, go out and have some fun instead.
The documents were open to anyone who has the $50 or so it cost.
I was doing it in Smalltalk/V Win to parse all of the documents produced by our analysts, several thousand of them (and I just happened to generate COBOL record layouts and screen maps [, which turned out handy because I was able to automate the generation of WinRunner test scripts,] and validated the APIs before the coders got the specs.)
Saved a lot of tears all aroun and I couldn't have done it at all using Word.
to send Ballmer to their zoo.
:-)
I can just imagine monkey boy sitting in the cage flinging his poo, and some furniture, at visitors.