The difference is that pirates hurt them, pirates being individuals. By going to court every week and draining tax payer dollars while often hurting innocent grandma clearly the RIAA is the greater threat.
A person who steals from another is wrong and should be punished, a person who steals from the collective good of society is a criminal.
Have you used a JME phone in a while? Let me tell you that native software is an order of magnitude faster on any phone I have used, be it Symbian or WM. When you have 200mhz to work with and lazy OS coders you can't afford the hit.
You sound a bit like a dry drunk, or born again person. In my upbringing TV was used soley for education. Once a month or so I was allowed to rent a pleasure film a watch it once or twice. Today I mostly watch documentaries and some PBS stuff.
You on the other hand sound like a a former TV abuser, you watched all the brain melting crap. I'm glad you moved on, but don't think that just because YOU couldn't control the remote that I cannot.
It's pretty sad that we will do anything for oil while claiming service, yet we will snuggle in and suck teet of these bastards. If we want be isolationist fine, if we want to be the world's police fine, but make up your fucking mind politicos!!
Funny enough I would imagine that Cali is about on par with the UK. Listen I didn't mean to bash other nations, but the airplane, the car, nuclear energy.... I'm sorry but be happy with music.
We may live in the armpit of freedom right now, but there is no doubt that our government funded initiatives like this have provided more fruit to the world than any other nation is hundreds of years. Now lets win back our freedom of speech and assembly!
God I can't believe I'm defending AT&T but frankly Comcast sucks way more. Horrible throttling of DLs and some of the worst practices. T-Mobile is great, but you are crazy about the reception, they are GSM like AT&T but don't have access to large EDGE networks and forget 3G! Also AT&T has far better roaming agreements. T-Mo is great for urban non data heavy phones.
I'm not sure how you can claim Obama is such a leftie. He sure wasn't "left" on FISA, or abortion, he isn't terribly "left" when it comes to healthcare either (for a D at least).
I just don't understand why shareholders of the major record companies don't revolt. These jokers in charge seem dead set on destroying the "industry". Boneheaded moves like trying to keep new music away from listeners is just asinine. Radio is how many people find new (or old) songs for the first time. Clearly net radio is a huge market, why shoot themselves in the foot in the name of short term greed.
You are right about that, sorry for not making the distinction- I spaced-out on that one. Still Fring is coming to the App Store according to the devs and nothing in the SDK should prevent it from doing so.
11.68 billion is a lot, I think the % profit is pretty irrelavant frankly, I mean really who cares? Would you accept that for the water you drink, or the government (who prob. should run like that to reduce the deficit). I think for all the damage they have done to our economies and the earth that they should be lucky to break even unless they become more innovative and clean. Lets not forget the purpose of the corporate charter, to be in the best interest of the public. Big oil is clearly not doing that now.
....and I would bet that after 9/11 most Americans would have supported all kinds of crazy shit like the Patriot Act, Warrentless Wiretapping, Ect. So that must all be good as well!
I respect the point you are trying to make however I think Americans need a little "tough love" Pelosi style. For year we have shunned improvements to efficiency both in factories and cars as well as of course our energy production capabilities. We have had the means to move to more independent energy sources for years but we have avoided them because they cost a little more. Well we have dragged so long we are now in a pickle. I believe it is better to toughen it out now, than get 20 more years of this just to be faced with an even more serious problem where there is no oil in the US and we are still driving 20MPH vehicles. Don't you agree it is better to take some discomfort now, than to deal with a true crisis when we deplete the oil on our soil?
I am not entirely opposed to nuclear, it beats the heck out of coal or petrol. However to claim that its waste is "manageable" isn't quite accurate. Yes we can collect it easier than coal, ect. However dealing with what we collect is a problem we need to figure out. If we can then great, if not it will stay contentious.
Considering that the people have shifted from opposition to support for drilling over that last few years I would say they are pretty gullible. The envirnment may be worth $2.20 a gallon but at $4.00 lets burn the motherfucker down for every last drop!
This is yet another great point against drilling. I worry that too often we as Americans look for the quick fix. Years ago we fought against environmental regulation because it might forces us to make SMALL changes, now we are forces to pillage our nation or make BIG changes and guess what the majority (of the public) want to do? Another quick fix that will quickly put us in an even worse position.
I appriciate the point you are making. However Congress gets recesses like this so that they can go home and be with the people they claim to represent. Obviously many take this time to screw around, but those who use it for what it should be are truer "representatives" of the people. Washington brings out the worse, send them back to Iowa, or New York so that they can see the people.
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The difference is that pirates hurt them, pirates being individuals. By going to court every week and draining tax payer dollars while often hurting innocent grandma clearly the RIAA is the greater threat. A person who steals from another is wrong and should be punished, a person who steals from the collective good of society is a criminal.
So they SIM locked the phone with for what reason then? Just so it could be broken, how very nice of them.
Have you used a JME phone in a while? Let me tell you that native software is an order of magnitude faster on any phone I have used, be it Symbian or WM. When you have 200mhz to work with and lazy OS coders you can't afford the hit.
You sound a bit like a dry drunk, or born again person. In my upbringing TV was used soley for education. Once a month or so I was allowed to rent a pleasure film a watch it once or twice. Today I mostly watch documentaries and some PBS stuff. You on the other hand sound like a a former TV abuser, you watched all the brain melting crap. I'm glad you moved on, but don't think that just because YOU couldn't control the remote that I cannot.
It's pretty sad that we will do anything for oil while claiming service, yet we will snuggle in and suck teet of these bastards. If we want be isolationist fine, if we want to be the world's police fine, but make up your fucking mind politicos!!
Funny enough I would imagine that Cali is about on par with the UK. Listen I didn't mean to bash other nations, but the airplane, the car, nuclear energy.... I'm sorry but be happy with music.
We may live in the armpit of freedom right now, but there is no doubt that our government funded initiatives like this have provided more fruit to the world than any other nation is hundreds of years. Now lets win back our freedom of speech and assembly!
But I learned long ago that EA will milk its customers until they can barely stand it. Spore DRM, yearly rehashes and abusive ads make me concerned.
Let 'em have it. They need to learn to stop treating customers like criminals!
He's not one of us. Just another nut.
God I can't believe I'm defending AT&T but frankly Comcast sucks way more. Horrible throttling of DLs and some of the worst practices. T-Mobile is great, but you are crazy about the reception, they are GSM like AT&T but don't have access to large EDGE networks and forget 3G! Also AT&T has far better roaming agreements. T-Mo is great for urban non data heavy phones.
Unless Yahoo or MS can get their act together on search and ads Google has little to fear.
I'm not sure how you can claim Obama is such a leftie. He sure wasn't "left" on FISA, or abortion, he isn't terribly "left" when it comes to healthcare either (for a D at least).
More people have died in Iraq and Afghanistan than died in 9/11 not even counting Iraqi civilians.
I just don't understand why shareholders of the major record companies don't revolt. These jokers in charge seem dead set on destroying the "industry". Boneheaded moves like trying to keep new music away from listeners is just asinine. Radio is how many people find new (or old) songs for the first time. Clearly net radio is a huge market, why shoot themselves in the foot in the name of short term greed.
You are right about that, sorry for not making the distinction- I spaced-out on that one. Still Fring is coming to the App Store according to the devs and nothing in the SDK should prevent it from doing so.
11.68 billion is a lot, I think the % profit is pretty irrelavant frankly, I mean really who cares? Would you accept that for the water you drink, or the government (who prob. should run like that to reduce the deficit). I think for all the damage they have done to our economies and the earth that they should be lucky to break even unless they become more innovative and clean. Lets not forget the purpose of the corporate charter, to be in the best interest of the public. Big oil is clearly not doing that now.
....and I would bet that after 9/11 most Americans would have supported all kinds of crazy shit like the Patriot Act, Warrentless Wiretapping, Ect. So that must all be good as well!
I respect the point you are trying to make however I think Americans need a little "tough love" Pelosi style. For year we have shunned improvements to efficiency both in factories and cars as well as of course our energy production capabilities. We have had the means to move to more independent energy sources for years but we have avoided them because they cost a little more. Well we have dragged so long we are now in a pickle. I believe it is better to toughen it out now, than get 20 more years of this just to be faced with an even more serious problem where there is no oil in the US and we are still driving 20MPH vehicles. Don't you agree it is better to take some discomfort now, than to deal with a true crisis when we deplete the oil on our soil?
Energy is becoming more technical by the day. Battaries, Solar, Hydro, Nuclear, heck even coal and existing techs are getting rethought and re-imaged.
I am not entirely opposed to nuclear, it beats the heck out of coal or petrol. However to claim that its waste is "manageable" isn't quite accurate. Yes we can collect it easier than coal, ect. However dealing with what we collect is a problem we need to figure out. If we can then great, if not it will stay contentious.
Considering that the people have shifted from opposition to support for drilling over that last few years I would say they are pretty gullible. The envirnment may be worth $2.20 a gallon but at $4.00 lets burn the motherfucker down for every last drop!
This is yet another great point against drilling. I worry that too often we as Americans look for the quick fix. Years ago we fought against environmental regulation because it might forces us to make SMALL changes, now we are forces to pillage our nation or make BIG changes and guess what the majority (of the public) want to do? Another quick fix that will quickly put us in an even worse position.
Thank God! If the majority want to leave before the vote, doesn't that make you think that perhaps the bill isn't of interest to the majority.
I appriciate the point you are making. However Congress gets recesses like this so that they can go home and be with the people they claim to represent. Obviously many take this time to screw around, but those who use it for what it should be are truer "representatives" of the people. Washington brings out the worse, send them back to Iowa, or New York so that they can see the people.