This idea presupposes that it will succeed on its merits. These merits are demonstrated through logic and experimental evidence. Neither of which are accepted by religious zealots.
Just to be different; here's car^H^H^Hhorse analogy... It's like saying that a horse can't die of dehydration right next to a huge body of drinking water. If the horse neighs '*neigh*, I choose to disbelieve in the recuperative powers of water', it's screwed.
You seem to be missing the point. Isohunt indexes trackers. They have no control over what's on those trackers. Their control is even further removed; it's the end users that decide which torrents to upload to the trackers.
They've always appeared to me to be meant to keep the rich and powerful people (including the gov't) who SCREWED EVERYTHING UP in power and well off, while destroying everything and everyone else.
It may have escaped your notice but that's a politician's job; maintaining the status-quo whilst promising change.
Does anyone ever get the idea that the PHB's aren't really clueless and self-contradictory with no short-term memories but instead, are desperately trying to keep developers on the hop to prevent them from using their superior ability to manage information and turning that into power ?
It's gotta be. There must be some reason why *they* are in charge.
Don't you get the sense that collectively, humanity has reached a certain point of awareness. That 'our leaders' have realised this and are cramming-in as many abuses as possible whilst they still have the opportunity?
Doesn't this sound kind of like how the chinese handle democracy?
It certainly seems that way but we all are doubtless guilty of confusing american (1984-style) propaganda with reality. Because america is a hotbed of corruption and stupidity, the greatest threat to them continuing in the same vein, must be painted as 'evil'.
To be fair, he did disrespect a major record label. Isn't that a corporate offense that requires jail time?
Yep, it is but there are doubtless those that don't realise that it's the fact that he outed one of the pieces of shit that they're profiting from, that caused the offence.
PS. Spending 16.5 years being a drunk/crack-head and 6 months having someone else write an album in your style != spending 17 years writing an album.
[IANAL] You need to realise that a contract is an agreement between two parties. If you claim that they tricked you into agreeing to stuff you weren't aware of, the contract is invalid and you are free.
Inform them in advance, by letter (registered delivery, so you can demonstrate at a later date that they've received your letter) of your position then stop paying them the excess to which you didn't agree.
If they threaten to take you to court, take them up on their offer then if you are asked to go to court, explain in detail how they have abused your trust.
I've been through something similar with T-Mobile. I followed the procedure above; they sent me perhaps five letters over the course of six months threatening me with court action. Each time I replied to tell them that I'd be happy to attend court to detail their dodgy business practices; I haven't heard from them for six months now.
Contracts are there to protect both parties, not as a tool to allow corporations to trick consumers then bind them to compliance.
I don't know why you're all so anti-microsoft! I mean, they can't let the complete collapse of a country's economy affect their bonuses, you shelfish fucks!
I have a feeling that Best Buy will be in the same boat as Circuit City in a few years, as the sales people are just as uninformed, and the products are just as overpriced.
What are they gonna do though? Increasingly we (certainly I) expect a salesperson to demonstrate the in-depth product knowledge I could find on the 'technical specifications' tab of some product page on the web.
Given that their wages come out of your pocket, there's an incentive to lower their wages yet this runs counter to the desire to reward knowledgeable staff with decent pay.
Perhaps consumer expectations will drive all bricks-and-mortar stores out of business or to the brink of survival, maintained through subsidy from their internet presence?
You'd think that at least one politician would suggest that the US stops conducting black-ops missions all over the world.
Oh wait!, wtf am I thinking? - surely that couldn't be a reason for 'terrorists' to attack you; most likely they're trying to steal all your apple pie!
If one were cynical, one might suspect that certain parties are attempting to conduct a campaign against p2p itself; extending the idea 'p2p of copyrighted files is naughty' through to 'p2p itself is evil'.
That same cynical person might suspect that the reason this is so is that p2p changes the relationship between producers and consumers of content and allows us all to be both producers and consumers.
This likely disturbs large media companies which are accustomed to the idea that *they* control the distribution mechanism and we take what we are given.
See the film linked in my sig. for more of this 'irrationality';-)
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I never understand this flat earth thing.
Walk to a beach. Look out at the ocean. It's curved. You can see it with your eyes from ground level.
This idea presupposes that it will succeed on its merits. These merits are demonstrated through logic and experimental evidence. Neither of which are accepted by religious zealots.
Just to be different; here's car^H^H^Hhorse analogy... It's like saying that a horse can't die of dehydration right next to a huge body of drinking water. If the horse neighs '*neigh*, I choose to disbelieve in the recuperative powers of water', it's screwed.
Prove it.
Here you go.
You seem to be missing the point. Isohunt indexes trackers. They have no control over what's on those trackers. Their control is even further removed; it's the end users that decide which torrents to upload to the trackers.
It just seems that in today's world, outrage is expressed only via CAPS.
It may have escaped your notice but that's a politician's job; maintaining the status-quo whilst promising change.
I thought the whole point was that the article exists to imbue a sense of awe-of-the-unknown into the discussion.
Pasting from the article is like telling your kids that santa claus doesn't exist.
Does anyone ever get the idea that the PHB's aren't really clueless and self-contradictory with no short-term memories but instead, are desperately trying to keep developers on the hop to prevent them from using their superior ability to manage information and turning that into power ?
It's gotta be. There must be some reason why *they* are in charge.
Oh, oh, and I almost forgot. Ahh, I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too...
Don't you get the sense that collectively, humanity has reached a certain point of awareness. That 'our leaders' have realised this and are cramming-in as many abuses as possible whilst they still have the opportunity?
What I love about Boosh is his facial expression. It says "I can't believe you suckers are letting me get away with this shit. Shame on you!"
It certainly seems that way but we all are doubtless guilty of confusing american (1984-style) propaganda with reality. Because america is a hotbed of corruption and stupidity, the greatest threat to them continuing in the same vein, must be painted as 'evil'.
Yep, it is but there are doubtless those that don't realise that it's the fact that he outed one of the pieces of shit that they're profiting from, that caused the offence.
PS. Spending 16.5 years being a drunk/crack-head and 6 months having someone else write an album in your style != spending 17 years writing an album.
Yet another numerical indicator of the phenomenal rate of wo]mankind's progress...
No of course not; please excuse me for a badly-worded post. I understood from your post that you are opposed to the hypocrisy.
I mean the 'government' - the most successful powermongers within your country, at all points of your country's history.
As an aside, it's interesting that I'm modded troll simply because I've exercised my memory.
The only people who don't want ads are those they're targeted at. Anyone profiting from them are all for ads.
Too black-and-white?
[IANAL] You need to realise that a contract is an agreement between two parties. If you claim that they tricked you into agreeing to stuff you weren't aware of, the contract is invalid and you are free.
Inform them in advance, by letter (registered delivery, so you can demonstrate at a later date that they've received your letter) of your position then stop paying them the excess to which you didn't agree.
If they threaten to take you to court, take them up on their offer then if you are asked to go to court, explain in detail how they have abused your trust.
I've been through something similar with T-Mobile. I followed the procedure above; they sent me perhaps five letters over the course of six months threatening me with court action. Each time I replied to tell them that I'd be happy to attend court to detail their dodgy business practices; I haven't heard from them for six months now.
Contracts are there to protect both parties, not as a tool to allow corporations to trick consumers then bind them to compliance.
Once again, IANAL.
I don't know why you're all so anti-microsoft! I mean, they can't let the complete collapse of a country's economy affect their bonuses, you shelfish fucks!
What are they gonna do though? Increasingly we (certainly I) expect a salesperson to demonstrate the in-depth product knowledge I could find on the 'technical specifications' tab of some product page on the web.
Given that their wages come out of your pocket, there's an incentive to lower their wages yet this runs counter to the desire to reward knowledgeable staff with decent pay.
Perhaps consumer expectations will drive all bricks-and-mortar stores out of business or to the brink of survival, maintained through subsidy from their internet presence?
In soviet russia, things call a ban on politicians.
You'd think that at least one politician would suggest that the US stops conducting black-ops missions all over the world.
Oh wait!, wtf am I thinking? - surely that couldn't be a reason for 'terrorists' to attack you; most likely they're trying to steal all your apple pie!
We're not gonna ask how you have data for both sides of that comparison...
If one were cynical, one might suspect that certain parties are attempting to conduct a campaign against p2p itself; extending the idea 'p2p of copyrighted files is naughty' through to 'p2p itself is evil'.
That same cynical person might suspect that the reason this is so is that p2p changes the relationship between producers and consumers of content and allows us all to be both producers and consumers.
This likely disturbs large media companies which are accustomed to the idea that *they* control the distribution mechanism and we take what we are given.
See the film linked in my sig. for more of this 'irrationality' ;-)
Actually, that's a torrent link to a film actually called 'steal this film' - check it out..
Thanks for the vote of confidence though :D