We used to have a guy here in DERBY who swore he was a Viking and carried
a ceremonial sword. He was always having run-ins with the law, but claimed
he had a right to carry it as it was an obligation from his religion. He said
he'd give up his sword when Hell thawed.....
And so do sikhs around here nowadays, with the ceremonial daggers they are
required to carry at all times...
Progress has value only if it is shared by all -- slogan of SNCF [French
Railways]
As it happens, when railroads were introduced in France, the stationmasters
were given swords. They were the only civilians allowed to carry swords...
This is an European taxation issue (just like french truckers guzzling-up on cheaper gas. HR Custom's guys should, in that case, charge excise for a full tank to every truck coming into the U.K.).
"That's it. What's your name? You're blacklisted. Now take yourself and your little bitch friend out of my store - and don't come back." I barked. Cravenly, they complied and scampered off.
Heh. And after treating your CUSTOMERS like shit, you wonder why they don't come to your store?
So typical. Just like the RIAA.
And then those clueless wonders wonder why their business is going down the drain????
C'mon, everyone knows this is frivolous. The RIAA has nothing but good intentions here. You can trust them. I mean take a look back at all their past actions and ask yourself, "Why wouldn't the RIAA want to be my friend?"
Why not indeed the RIAA would want to be your friend?
Sorry, no way. People who amass collections of in excess of 1,000 mp3s (of songs they do not posses on CD) are by no stretch of the imagination "victims".
Like hell. Were I live, I have more than 3000 MP3s, most of which LEGALLY MADE from CDs I borrowed from the library. It is perfectly legal to make a copy for your own use.
France blew millions trying to develop Astree, a satellite-based train dispatching system. They failed.
Using GPS to monitor trains is ridiculous. It doesn't have the precision to determine on WHICH TRACK THE TRAIN IS; and if it had the precision to do so, you would need an extremely precise and onerous database to precisely locate every meter of every track.
The track itself is a fixed location, and over the last 120 years, technology has been developped to precisely locate trains on it, from people stationned by the track and reporting on train locations to multiple-frequency track circuits that do the job magnificiently without having to depend on foreign satellites that could be turned-off at the US's whim.
Proposing to use satellite to track trains is the result of a technocratic brain that haven't had the slightest real-world railroad experience.
Why is it that when someone attempts to lock stuff they deem propritary
so it won't get copied all over the place, so they can make a buck, someone
has to come along to nullify it?
Instead of spending all your time trying to ruin someone's hard work, why
don't you use your time and make something that *you* can sell? Hhhhmmmmm?
I hope you get sued and you go to jail.
You **MUST** be a suit.
Comeon, you **HAVE TO BE** a suit.
Will you **ADMIT** that **YOU ARE** a suit?
**ONLY A SUIT**
would think that conservatively.
But in any case, it's not really important. Even though you are a suit,
it's no importance. Suits
are always the first one to say no whenever someone comes with a
bright idea, but whatever they say, it's of no importance, because bright ideas
triumph by their own merit.
If it were not the case, suits
would still lead us (from behind, of course - what does a suit
knows better than his behind???) to the mammoth chase, and the hunters would
still marvel why mammoths never have to peel suits
from the bottom their feet...
I've been toying with a folderless idea to organize e-mails.
All mail are kept into one place (say, a MySQL database). You, however, setup filters (that is, SQL queries) that show your e-mails in virtual folders.
That is, messages can be in as many folders as they meet the selection criterion of.
In addition to the obvious "from", "date", "subject", you could assign an arbitrary number of categories which could constitute more selection criteria.
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And so do sikhs around here nowadays, with the ceremonial daggers they are required to carry at all times...
As it happens, when railroads were introduced in France, the stationmasters were given swords. They were the only civilians allowed to carry swords...
This is an European taxation issue (just like french truckers guzzling-up on cheaper gas. HR Custom's guys should, in that case, charge excise for a full tank to every truck coming into the U.K.).
Think of it as Waterloo's revenge... :) :) :) :)
(BTW, I'm -gasp!- french)
Why would one want to charge people for travelling on roads? To pay for upkeep and maintenance.
Well, why don't you charge more to those who destroy the road the most?
And what does make one destroy the road more than the next guy? WEIGHT.
Weight. The heavier you are, the more you destroy the road.
So you have to get heavier vehicles to pay more for the road.
Now, what correlates nicely with vehicle weight?
PETROL CONSUMPTION. That's right. The heavier you are, the more petrol you need just to move about.
And, guess what? Petrol is taxed. Yes! There is actually a (gasp!) tax on petrol!!!
So, the more petrol you take, the more tax you pay.
And, better yet, you pay the tax wherever you travel. No need for toll booths, no need for fancy schmanzy technology.
Plain simple good old-fashioned accounting will do it.
Want more money for the roads? Want it to be collected fairly?
Just increase the petrol tax.
So typical. Just like the RIAA.
And then those clueless wonders wonder why their business is going down the drain????
To better SERVE you???
No more restriction for amish pr0n (that is, a film of a shirtless man talking about lunch on the phone with his wife)!!!!
Yummy!!!!
You obvously haven't READ the post you repied to... No, I didn't SPEND $3000 for all that music.
You, the people are simply reaping what you sowed. You slept at the switch whilst the croporations stole your power, you only deserved to lose it.
Nothing beats a speeding 4000 H.P. locomotive at 100 km/hour, pulling a 10,000 ton freight train.
France blew millions trying to develop Astree, a satellite-based train dispatching system. They failed.
Using GPS to monitor trains is ridiculous. It doesn't have the precision to determine on WHICH TRACK THE TRAIN IS; and if it had the precision to do so, you would need an extremely precise and onerous database to precisely locate every meter of every track.
The track itself is a fixed location, and over the last 120 years, technology has been developped to precisely locate trains on it, from people stationned by the track and reporting on train locations to multiple-frequency track circuits that do the job magnificiently without having to depend on foreign satellites that could be turned-off at the US's whim.
Proposing to use satellite to track trains is the result of a technocratic brain that haven't had the slightest real-world railroad experience.
... click on my signature to get the cen$ored google links...
$12.00 a pop for a CD is *STILL* too expensive.
The recent price cuts are just like the last ditch effort from Wile Coyote brandishing a lace umbrella to ward-off the falling boulder.
So long, CDs, I'll forever cherish the few ones I've been able to afford...
You **MUST** be a suit. Comeon, you **HAVE TO BE** a suit. Will you **ADMIT** that **YOU ARE** a suit? **ONLY A SUIT** would think that conservatively.
But in any case, it's not really important. Even though you are a suit, it's no importance. Suits are always the first one to say no whenever someone comes with a bright idea, but whatever they say, it's of no importance, because bright ideas triumph by their own merit.
If it were not the case, suits would still lead us (from behind, of course - what does a suit knows better than his behind???) to the mammoth chase, and the hunters would still marvel why mammoths never have to peel suits from the bottom their feet...
One is never too careful nowadays...
From the Apple website
Won't fly high with the RIAA...It's your music, and you can listen to it however and wherever you want to
All mail are kept into one place (say, a MySQL database). You, however, setup filters (that is, SQL queries) that show your e-mails in virtual folders.
That is, messages can be in as many folders as they meet the selection criterion of.
In addition to the obvious "from", "date", "subject", you could assign an arbitrary number of categories which could constitute more selection criteria.
Businesses will not bite when they realize that they are painting themselves into an incompatibility corner when they use Microsoft.
They can try to do it to me... But they'll quickly find out that I am immune to US law.
Bill Gates should start shaking in his boots!!!