He has no choice. The bourgeois have the money to spend the media to brainwash the population against him, exactly like the media in the US is brainwashing the people to vote for shrub and his clique.
The US has no State-owned media (like Canada or Britain) to counterbalance the blatantly biased viewpoint of the private media (which always say that the government is bad - so that whenever some asshole runs for office saying "government is bad, we should cut it", the sheep vote for him).
Wherever there is a State-owned media, it helps to keep the private media in check by preventing it from being blatantly anti-government; this prevents a few rich men from subverting the whole country.
The real subversion is not from communist, but from capitalists who manipulate media in order to further their own goals, goals who seldom (if ever) go towards the maximum benefit for the population.
The poeple who should be getting pissed about this is MS, i dont' think they will like it when WMA becomes like IE, known for giving you adware and viruses when used.
I don't think so. I'd rather say that it's a little known, er, deliberate "feature" of Windows Media to embed an URL in a movie/sound clip.
I've downloaded several pr0n movie previews that, as soon as you launch them, spawn an Internet Exploder windows that goes to the pr0n company's website...
There's a couple of major stores I know in the UK that don't like to give returns. And you know what? Once people experience an obstructive refund policy, they'll think twice about giving you any money again. So, for the sake of 1 refund of 1 product, you can lose years of business, as well as people telling all their friends what a bunch of bastards you are.
This is the main reasons why little-fuck stores are faring so badly in the face of Wall-Marde: the little shits who run them will NEVER admit being wrong, and they ALWAYS treat their customers like they're doing their customers a favour by letting them in their holy stores. So, whenever a customer gets snubbed by one of those little fuck mom&pop stores, he says "fuck those fuckiong fuckers", and goes to Wall-Marde where he knows the glassy-eyed clerks there won't give him "NO" for an answer when some merchandise fucks-up.
The ring avoided detection in part by visiting stores at the busiest times, Portland Police Detective Don Hardin said. Hardin, who declined to name the other chains at the companies' request, said other arrests could come as soon as next week.
Is that Don Hardin any related to Terminus/Foundation mayor Salvor Hardin???
The two U.S. and Russian astronauts on the International Space Station had to rely on a candy-laden diet for five weeks because their predecessors raided the pantry.
When a government interferes with private information dissemination companies (AKA 'the media'), the government is distorting the power of the people to speak and think for themselves.
A big media conglomerate, suck as "Fucks News", is not exactly "the people". It's more the mouthpiece of a few very rich people who want to influence public opinion towards furthering their own very private goals, such the dismantlement of States to enable them to increase their power over the people even more.
From what I see, president Hugo Chavez has a deep hatred towards the U.S. And he sees any american company as a threat to his government. In other words, his move towards open source is not to be seen as something "defending the rights of the people", but rather as an instrument of pressure.
This is not surprising, given that in order to promote the leeching bourgeois agenda of siphoning off the country's wealth, the US has been trying for a long time to destabilize Chavez's goverment.
Why should Chavez be grateful towards people who wants to suck his country dry and leave the majority of the population in abject poverty and ignorance?
You should also look at the Hudson's Bay Company, which, unlike the BEIC, still exists (being the oldest - 335 years old - corporation in Canada, if not in the world) to this day.
If you care to actually read the article, you would notice that Chavez is simply counterbalancing the greater disinformational power of the bourgeois-controlled media in order to avoid further destabilization attempts by the bourgeois who cannot bear to see the State help the poorer people by providing them by better education (the bourgeois are dependent on an ignorant population in order to suck their wealth).
In effect, the Chavez government is providing A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD, something the bourgeois hate because they got ahead because of a playingfield blatantly lopsided in their favour.
You don't understand. Only the US has the right to buttress it's own domestic software industry (Microsoft, Oracle, CA). Other countries SHOULD NOT help their own, but instead support the US software industry.
Only the americans have a god-given right to have their own software (and movie) industries so to leech more wealth from the rest of the world.
Governments can do what they want; they have the ultimate power. The WTO is no lawmaking body, it just suggest treaties to sovereign nations, each, in turn, can choose whether to follow the treaties or not.
So France can do very well it damn wants to, and so does the US, and between the two, the US is the most flagrant violator of WTO "policies".
it's great and means you only need to see the people if you have a problem - that's the main reason for long queues at shopping etc - the 1% of the people that take up 99% of the time and delay everyone else.
Oxdung. In my experience, 99.44% of the delays at checkount counters are either because the cashier is changing her cash drawer (with the attendant paperwork slowly done in the face of 10 customers without the slightest apology nor explanation) or because the store is too fucking stupid to program their barcode database with a given product.
In some places, such as the rural United States, you don't always explicitly barter one service for another. You help out when you are needed, knowing that you'll get assistance in return in the future. Of course this does not happen as much in my Seattle neighborhood.
Hmmm, lemme guess. Is it an UPSCALE neighbourhood???
No, but as michael keeps posting paranoid left-wing drivel as commentary to each story to the front page of slashdot, it's inevitable that I and a lot of other people will stop reading it.
BREIN (Dutch for BRAIN) is the little sister of the MPAA. They kinda follow their actions and immitate them as closely as possible, I guess. They even have a commercial in the Dutch cinema's, bothering people that pay for good movies with blah blah about piracy.
Same shit in Canada; they show that blurb where a low-level movie worker talks about all those great movies he worked on, then rants about being pissed-off when he sees those movies being pirated, and says that he doesn't want to have his pay lowered.
That's bullshit because when he made a movie, he got paid anyway whether it was a blockbuster or a dud. But of course, the same commercial with a movie mogul would not fligh high...
And, they are not on video yet anyway. I cannot have the videos imported from any country because they are not for sale in any country. I am willing to accept that my actions may still be wrong in some ethical way; but, I'm hard pressed to see how I'm causing any financial harm.
Exactly.
US satellite TV distributors are prohibited from selling their content in Canada. So the courts have ruled that whenever their signal is received in Canada, it is NOT theft nor piracy because one cannot LEGALLY pay to receive it.
Legal actions against canadian people who pirate US satellite signals always come from the US and most involve illegal acts from US private detectives that infringe on canadian sovereignty.
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The US has no State-owned media (like Canada or Britain) to counterbalance the blatantly biased viewpoint of the private media (which always say that the government is bad - so that whenever some asshole runs for office saying "government is bad, we should cut it", the sheep vote for him).
Wherever there is a State-owned media, it helps to keep the private media in check by preventing it from being blatantly anti-government; this prevents a few rich men from subverting the whole country.
The real subversion is not from communist, but from capitalists who manipulate media in order to further their own goals, goals who seldom (if ever) go towards the maximum benefit for the population.
(No, you won't get it if you didn't read the book).
I've downloaded several pr0n movie previews that, as soon as you launch them, spawn an Internet Exploder windows that goes to the pr0n company's website...
XML maybe????
Oh, PANTRY...
Why should Chavez be grateful towards people who wants to suck his country dry and leave the majority of the population in abject poverty and ignorance?
You should also look at the Hudson's Bay Company, which, unlike the BEIC, still exists (being the oldest - 335 years old - corporation in Canada, if not in the world) to this day.
In effect, the Chavez government is providing A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD, something the bourgeois hate because they got ahead because of a playingfield blatantly lopsided in their favour.
Only the americans have a god-given right to have their own software (and movie) industries so to leech more wealth from the rest of the world.
So France can do very well it damn wants to, and so does the US, and between the two, the US is the most flagrant violator of WTO "policies".
If they need to surf with no limits, put-up a Squid caching proxy and let them use Firefox.
Do they do this to be forgiven for invading Irak???
... to workers going postal: shooting the automated kiosks...
That's bullshit because when he made a movie, he got paid anyway whether it was a blockbuster or a dud. But of course, the same commercial with a movie mogul would not fligh high...
Allowing copyright holders to CONTROL their work to an extents that VIOLATES other people's right (to fair use, for example) is BAD.
US satellite TV distributors are prohibited from selling their content in Canada. So the courts have ruled that whenever their signal is received in Canada, it is NOT theft nor piracy because one cannot LEGALLY pay to receive it.
Legal actions against canadian people who pirate US satellite signals always come from the US and most involve illegal acts from US private detectives that infringe on canadian sovereignty.