In Soviet Russia, most stores had the following system (and some still do to this day):
You don't need any soviet nor Russia to do this; many lumber yards do just that... You're actually not even to enter the lumber yard without a receipt. You have to go to the counter, ask for the lumber you want, pay for it, then go fetch it.
Socialism which centralizes all p;power in the government, causes this. When the same government that is responsible for policing, is repsonsible for economic activity such as providing electricity and even news to the public.. seriously fucked up shit like this can happen. It irreverasbly fucks a country hard.
Oxdung. Poverty and ignorance (citizens who don't know the law, their rights and who can then be bullied by local bullies) are what cause corruption.
In Canada and France, for example, the government provice electricity and health-insurance, yet they are LESS corrupt than even the USA.
What fucks up a country irremediably is when some people are allowed to accumulate unchecked wealth and power.
It is legal to download in Canada right now (I'm sure things are in the works to change that), but I don't think I'm entitled to download the album without paying for it. These are the fruits of the labour of others; made commercially for the purpose of profit.
The white album is not a fruit of labour, but a fruit of love. Anybody who laboured (studio staff) have could have been paid and repaid and repaid thousands of time since a long time ago. All that's left is a gravy train to a record company that uses it's ill-gotten wealth to increase it's power to be used against us, by lobbying hard to have the laws changed so if record companies want to charge each time you listen to the CD you "purchased".
By downloading music without paying for it, you help demolish the undue power big media conglomerates yield over countries by subverting their democratic process. Which is the whole point behind downloading: wrecking big media conglomerate.
I don't believe I have a right to own it without paying, just because I want it, or because I don't like the industry, or just because it's legal.
Don't worry, even if you paid $5000 for the diamond-studded CD version, you wouldn't **OWN** it either.
Just to point out that HMV is grossly overpriced compared to other places like Future Shop or A&B Sound.
The CRIA should give their heads a shake. Don't kid yourselves, the members of CRIA are probably similar to the members of the RIAA, and are equally an evil lobby group.
The CRIA is actually mostly formed by the RIAA members, and as so is totally unrepresentative of the canadian music "industry".
You know - I'm living in Canada, never used p2p or anything like that to download music...don't consider myself a pirate at all. Happy to pay for the materials I want. Upon hearing HMV is slashing prices - I rejoice and head to the website.
The White Album is still forty-five freakin' dollars!
So why don't you download it, just like I did, especially that it's legal to do so in Canada?
Here are several.torrents for it:
12345. I mean, if you pay $45 for it, you're a real sucker when you can have it for free.
It's a good thing the TSA has no jurisdiction over space travel, because I just can see an astronaut being busted for bringing a weapon aboard the shuttle...
Oh, wait, they gonna check it in the cargo hold...
Simple things like issuing a travel advisory against visiting Antigua will kill their tourism. Small amount of grit in the financial sector could harm their trade.
Just like the US embargo against Cuba is hurting their tourist trade, eh????
This is odd. It will be placing the burden of the remedy for US law on private entities. Congress passed laws prohibiting offshore gambling. So why must Hollywood and Microsoft (and other IP owners) bear the burden of WTOs remedy?
Congratulations! You have found the problem with the WTO and all those supragovernmental private organizations that purport to rule the world without any sort of democratic oversight.
In Germany the owner is responsible for the traffic. In the UK, they're not. Perhaps the average British person is just dumber than the average German. Perhaps personal responsibility makes a difference.
What? An anglo-saxon country that does not trumpets personal responsibility????
Not if you live in Canada. From what I know (IANAL) it's legal to decrypt any signal you want, because it's over the air, and public domain. That's why all the pirate satellite dishes and receivers are referred to as grey-market. Because you are allowed to do this.
Actually not.
Canadian law prohibits viewing satellite TV that is not broadcasted with a canadian license.
However, US broadcasters cannot sue canadians receiving their programmes because, since they do (cannot) have a canadian license, they cannot sell their signal and thus it cannot be "stolen" by canadians.
As a matter of fact, back when Sheila Copps was heritage minister (during the infamous Chrétin reign), she asked the RCMP to conduct satellite dish raids where they confiscated non-canadian receivers (it didn't last long).
Personally, I don't see it as a big deal. I already have a federal ID (passport) and have to show an ID when boarding a plane (state issued DL or passport or military ID). I also used to carry a federal (DOD) ID card. Never once have I thought that having to prove who I say I am as an invasion of my privacy or my rights.
DOD card. No wonder you're a police state shill...
Take the original file, and introduce LSB errors in it.
To read the watermark, you need the original file, which you substract from the watermarked file, yielding the watermarked information, which could then be further encrypted or whatnot.
Now, how could you detect such watermarking?
You could scramble it by adding other LSB errors, though.
Sigh. What I'm trying to say, is that you're not as clever as you think you are.
Of course not. There's always someone smarter somewhere (real or imagined).
If you want to 'convert' someone to your point of view, what's the better method: persuasion, or confrontation?
In the case of the hassidim, they won't be converted to my viewpoint anymore that they want me converted to theirs; after all, I'm goyim and thus, I can never be one of the chosen people; I'm condemned of having god dump on me all the time.
My point was since they were shoving their value down my throat, I will shove my body down their eyes, just to show them that only retarded hassidim jews are scared by the sight of human bodies.
I know a guy who was very proud of himself when he had a t-shirt saying "Jesus is a c***".
"they're just words" he told me.
I'm not really offended by this, but it's definitely designed to cause offence.
(What's the actual word? "Cunt"???)
It's designed to cause offence to assholes, yes.
Some 20 years ago, hassidim jews made the city I lived in outlaw bathing suits, because they could not bear looking at sunbathers in city parks. At that moment, I started to wear skimpy speedoes for no particular reason other than offend the ass-idim jews who thought nothing of shoving their stupid morals down the throats of the majority (and no, I never was arrested). Eventually, the municipal bylaw was struck down by the courts.
And whenever I go there, I take my bike and make a point in wearing the tightest revealing spandex possible (I have a fluorescent day-glo green bike short bought especially for this purpose). It only shocks those who are assholes enough to be offended.
Well, we don't actually. We did sorta four decades ago. It had its pluses and minuses. It was nice to be able to let your kids watch network programming without too much risk of having to explain homosexuality to an eight year old
And what is wrong with that? I recall asking my mother, some 40 years ago (when I was about 8) what is homosexuality, and she answered "it's just a man who loves another man instead of a woman", just like if I asked her what's a bandoneon.
Profanity is the crutch of inarticulate motherfuckers.
That's because I'm relatively inarticulate motherfucker in english. If I would be sure that slashdotters could read french en masse, I would have posted instead
Sacrament d'hostie, c'est quoi la câlisse d'affaire, tabarnak???
Viarge de criss, c'est juste des ciboire de mots, bâtard!
which is far more articulate (notice: no reduntancy).
In modern society, we have a thing called "decency." Part of it is that we have enough self-respect so as not to debase ourselves with needless profanity. It's pretty much the same reason that we tend to use more formal language in formal writing - we similarly don't consider our everyday conversation so uncouth as to warrant whatever curses we can think of.
No. What there is, are some retarded middle-ages numbfucks who give the utmost attention to fucking superficial details, and do not give a flying fuck about the ultimate deep consequences of actions.
Add to this the hypocrites who gives themselves a veneer of respectability all the while being total fuckwads who really fuck-up society and you have the explanation why some motherfucking assholes get all in their high horses when someone says something as benign as "shit" all the while driving a Hummer to the convenience store to pick some unethical cheap coffee.
I nearly blinded myself. I work with lasers, and was trying to align one of the mirrors. I misaligned one slightly, causing the beam to shine in my eye.
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In Canada and France, for example, the government provice electricity and health-insurance, yet they are LESS corrupt than even the USA.
What fucks up a country irremediably is when some people are allowed to accumulate unchecked wealth and power.
Reality check 101: a CEO's job is to maximize profits. That's all, folks.
So anything that doesn't bring-in a fat bottom-line right now can't stand a chance.
Sheeesh!
By downloading music without paying for it, you help demolish the undue power big media conglomerates yield over countries by subverting their democratic process. Which is the whole point behind downloading: wrecking big media conglomerate.
Don't worry, even if you paid $5000 for the diamond-studded CD version, you wouldn't **OWN** it either.Here are several .torrents for it:
1 2 3 4 5. I mean, if you pay $45 for it, you're a real sucker when you can have it for free.
Oh, wait, they gonna check it in the cargo hold...
Shocking! Positively shocking!
Canadian law prohibits viewing satellite TV that is not broadcasted with a canadian license.
However, US broadcasters cannot sue canadians receiving their programmes because, since they do (cannot) have a canadian license, they cannot sell their signal and thus it cannot be "stolen" by canadians.
As a matter of fact, back when Sheila Copps was heritage minister (during the infamous Chrétin reign), she asked the RCMP to conduct satellite dish raids where they confiscated non-canadian receivers (it didn't last long).
Montana???? Montana????
Let's imagine a simple watermarking scheme.
Take the original file, and introduce LSB errors in it.
To read the watermark, you need the original file, which you substract from the watermarked file, yielding the watermarked information, which could then be further encrypted or whatnot.
Now, how could you detect such watermarking?
You could scramble it by adding other LSB errors, though.
They will reopen after changing their name to "Virus".
Control.
My point was since they were shoving their value down my throat, I will shove my body down their eyes, just to show them that only retarded hassidim jews are scared by the sight of human bodies.
It's designed to cause offence to assholes, yes.
Some 20 years ago, hassidim jews made the city I lived in outlaw bathing suits, because they could not bear looking at sunbathers in city parks. At that moment, I started to wear skimpy speedoes for no particular reason other than offend the ass-idim jews who thought nothing of shoving their stupid morals down the throats of the majority (and no, I never was arrested). Eventually, the municipal bylaw was struck down by the courts.
And whenever I go there, I take my bike and make a point in wearing the tightest revealing spandex possible (I have a fluorescent day-glo green bike short bought especially for this purpose). It only shocks those who are assholes enough to be offended.
There.
Add to this the hypocrites who gives themselves a veneer of respectability all the while being total fuckwads who really fuck-up society and you have the explanation why some motherfucking assholes get all in their high horses when someone says something as benign as "shit" all the while driving a Hummer to the convenience store to pick some unethical cheap coffee.
Jesus H. Fucking Christ Almighty, it's only goddammed fucking words.
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