We have enough music. The music industry has been living off reselling much of the same old stuff in new formats, rerecorded. But we don't need to keep getting it. So we stop buying. Sales level off. Boo-hoo. It is not piracy that is ending the boom for the music industry, there simply isn't demand for more. Of course, it would help if they actually produced some good stuff - too rare, too far between.
This is why you should have children. We need more brains, more people thinking about big problems and they need lots of people supporting them to think about these big problems like how to protect this rock and how to get some of our populace off this rock to other rocks. Without this we face near certain extinction. Breed. Read to your children. Teach them to love learning. Teach them to work hard. The rest will follow.
On the one hand, I would like to kill the skimmer sites that steal my artwork and articles.
HOWEVER, how do we differentiate them from the people who are reasonably using materials and if Google censors these searches how will I find the skimmers so I can then take them down as I've done?
The search engines let us fine thieves. I'm all for having the thieves be at the bottom of the search list and having a technique, a check box, for looking for them. That would be helpful.
Thank you Senator Blumenthal and Facebook for standing up to this uncouth breach of privacy. This should already be illegal under existing laws but if employers aren't getting the message than lets nail them to the Facebook wall.
Might I suggest that everyone who has had their employer or prospective employer demand this make a posting to their blog, to their Facebook wall and elsewhere with the company's name. A little market persuasion will go a long ways. Hit them in the pocket book, on their corporate bottom line.
Greedy government's out to tax everything. Digital downloads aren't costing them anything, are no burden, but they see it as one more way they can steal from people.
The rest of the business world thanks the Indian government for destroying India's competitive edge. Now it will be all the easier to compete against India. Rah-rah, India!
Why is it that government's just don't get it. They need business to provide jobs so they can have something to tax. Dummies.
Meat is good for you. Meat is a good use of resources. You can't grow much in the way of food on our steep mountains with their thin acidic soils and short warm season. Grass grows. Animals eat grass. We can't. We can eat animals. Hunting and ranching is the best use, the best way of getting food, meat, from our land. This anti-meat hysteria is the result of nutty city people disconnected from nature. It has nothing to do with reality. Eat meat and thrive.
1990's? I can beat that. I designed a tablet computer back in 1985 as part of a college project. Never saw production because the hardware was not advanced enough to handle what I wanted to do. But it's prior art. Mockups, user interface, etc.
Apple and these other Big Corps need to step back, take a breather and stop suing each other. The whole patent system should be voided. Piss on it.
No, Flickr did NOT need to take down the image. When they receive the take down notice they then need to present that to him and get his response. If he says it is his original artwork then they go back to the person sending the take down notice and give that response to them.
The problem of being at the corporate whim is why I hate this sort of stuff. Apply the same thought to cloud servers and DRM that requires checkins. Corporations shut down projects and go out of business. You lose. They also simply stop supporting hardware and software. Loss of legacy stuff is a growing problem. Apple is being very bad about this.
First of all this is old news. It shouldn't be up on the front page.
Second of all, you can vote with your wallet against this. Just buy all natural pastured pork instead of the factory farmed pork. When the pigs are raised out on pasture using managed rotational grazing they don't have any need for antibiotics in their feed to stay healthy. This results in healthier meat for you so you stay healthier.
If you care, support your local pasture based farmers. Yes, it will cost more than the government subsidized factory farmed anti-biotic laced crap. Because it is better.
We already have sanitary, non-energy consuming, non-water consuming toilets that recycle the human output to good useable soil amendments. Gates is just trying to buy back his soul by claiming advancements to things that are already better than he'll conceive.
Factory farmed meat is bad, not just because it is inhumane, but because it doesn't taste as good, because it comes out of chemical baths, because it is so eco-unfriendly. Total energy and pollution disaster. And you want to put lab meat in your mouth? It's even worse than factory farmed.
Pasture raised livestock can use land that is otherwise unusable for crops. They harvest the grass and other forages that are grown using the power of solar energy directly from the sun. There is a very good reason people pay extra for all naturally raised.
Less? Different. And do watch out for the tusks. Also don't get stepped on. Some of my boars weigh over 1,700 lbs. Not something you want stomping on your foot!
They've got this all bass-ackwards. If they want to see consumers buy more efficient vehicles and use less gas then stop subsidizing power, particularly fossil fuels. Let the price of gasoline, electricity, etc all raise to their natural market highs. When consumers feel the punch in their pocket book they'll conserve more and consume less. It's really quite simple.
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I smell troll dung. From down under no less.
We have enough music. The music industry has been living off reselling much of the same old stuff in new formats, rerecorded. But we don't need to keep getting it. So we stop buying. Sales level off. Boo-hoo. It is not piracy that is ending the boom for the music industry, there simply isn't demand for more. Of course, it would help if they actually produced some good stuff - too rare, too far between.
The very question is flawed. Just because someone is asking for a favor or trying to hit on someone does not make them a sexual predator.
This is why you should have children. We need more brains, more people thinking about big problems and they need lots of people supporting them to think about these big problems like how to protect this rock and how to get some of our populace off this rock to other rocks. Without this we face near certain extinction. Breed. Read to your children. Teach them to love learning. Teach them to work hard. The rest will follow.
Constant Internet Connection is Not an Option.
CIC NO
Guess I won't bother upgrading.
On the one hand, I would like to kill the skimmer sites that steal my artwork and articles.
HOWEVER, how do we differentiate them from the people who are reasonably using materials and if Google censors these searches how will I find the skimmers so I can then take them down as I've done?
The search engines let us fine thieves. I'm all for having the thieves be at the bottom of the search list and having a technique, a check box, for looking for them. That would be helpful.
Well, that is just plumb Crzybook.
Apparently Facebook is not aware of the prior art of several centuries...
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Thank you Senator Blumenthal and Facebook for standing up to this uncouth breach of privacy. This should already be illegal under existing laws but if employers aren't getting the message than lets nail them to the Facebook wall.
Might I suggest that everyone who has had their employer or prospective employer demand this make a posting to their blog, to their Facebook wall and elsewhere with the company's name. A little market persuasion will go a long ways. Hit them in the pocket book, on their corporate bottom line.
Or is it the other way around?
Or maybe it is a two way street.
Anonymous cowards are funny. They are so pathetic they can't even climb out from under their rock.
Greedy government's out to tax everything. Digital downloads aren't costing them anything, are no burden, but they see it as one more way they can steal from people.
The rest of the business world thanks the Indian government for destroying India's competitive edge. Now it will be all the easier to compete against India. Rah-rah, India!
Why is it that government's just don't get it. They need business to provide jobs so they can have something to tax. Dummies.
Meat is good for you. Meat is a good use of resources. You can't grow much in the way of food on our steep mountains with their thin acidic soils and short warm season. Grass grows. Animals eat grass. We can't. We can eat animals. Hunting and ranching is the best use, the best way of getting food, meat, from our land. This anti-meat hysteria is the result of nutty city people disconnected from nature. It has nothing to do with reality. Eat meat and thrive.
Precisely. This is government sponsored terrorism against its citizens.
Nearly as good is not nearly good enough.
To compete they must be a lot better.
1990's? I can beat that. I designed a tablet computer back in 1985 as part of a college project. Never saw production because the hardware was not advanced enough to handle what I wanted to do. But it's prior art. Mockups, user interface, etc.
Apple and these other Big Corps need to step back, take a breather and stop suing each other. The whole patent system should be voided. Piss on it.
No, Flickr did NOT need to take down the image. When they receive the take down notice they then need to present that to him and get his response. If he says it is his original artwork then they go back to the person sending the take down notice and give that response to them.
The problem of being at the corporate whim is why I hate this sort of stuff. Apply the same thought to cloud servers and DRM that requires checkins. Corporations shut down projects and go out of business. You lose. They also simply stop supporting hardware and software. Loss of legacy stuff is a growing problem. Apple is being very bad about this.
First of all this is old news. It shouldn't be up on the front page.
Second of all, you can vote with your wallet against this. Just buy all natural pastured pork instead of the factory farmed pork. When the pigs are raised out on pasture using managed rotational grazing they don't have any need for antibiotics in their feed to stay healthy. This results in healthier meat for you so you stay healthier.
If you care, support your local pasture based farmers. Yes, it will cost more than the government subsidized factory farmed anti-biotic laced crap. Because it is better.
We already have sanitary, non-energy consuming, non-water consuming toilets that recycle the human output to good useable soil amendments. Gates is just trying to buy back his soul by claiming advancements to things that are already better than he'll conceive.
Factory farmed meat is bad, not just because it is inhumane, but because it doesn't taste as good, because it comes out of chemical baths, because it is so eco-unfriendly. Total energy and pollution disaster. And you want to put lab meat in your mouth? It's even worse than factory farmed.
Pasture raised livestock can use land that is otherwise unusable for crops. They harvest the grass and other forages that are grown using the power of solar energy directly from the sun. There is a very good reason people pay extra for all naturally raised.
Less? Different. And do watch out for the tusks. Also don't get stepped on. Some of my boars weigh over 1,700 lbs. Not something you want stomping on your foot!
Been there.
Done that.
Now I raise pigs on pasture.
Shepherding pigs is more fun.
Love it.
Now we'll need to run our SUV's to produce more CO2 to satisfy the need for the raw materials...
They've got this all bass-ackwards. If they want to see consumers buy more efficient vehicles and use less gas then stop subsidizing power, particularly fossil fuels. Let the price of gasoline, electricity, etc all raise to their natural market highs. When consumers feel the punch in their pocket book they'll conserve more and consume less. It's really quite simple.