I hope so. I also hope the RIAA blows all or most of their worth in money on these cases all over the country, and when they come out the loser because of legal precedent or injunction, have no legs to stand on and collapse entirely.
-R
"Or, it's just to get people used to random and crazy searches by the authorities as a normal part of daily life, without a peep of protest."
Call me lucky, but I don't fly on a daily basis so I'm sure as hell not used to it.
A cop tried to stop me walking my bike home after I left the club I was working at and asked me for my ID. I asked her why she needed my ID and she said that I was near a reported assault on some guy outside a bar that I hadn't heard of, so I showed her my ID and when she gave it back she got out of the car and asked if she could search me. Of course I said "No thanks, there is no reason for that." I had nothing to hide, but that's just not cool, and in the end she just let me go with nothing further.
I'm sure if I were in some urban center like Chicago or NY they would find some way to make me let them search me or use some bullshit like 'Oh, I smell drugs, it must be from you...' Even if it was an unjust search, my complaints about it would have fallen on deaf ears or been lost in a mountain of other paperwork.
Welcome to America. Line up at the counter for your Nat'l ID Card and your Barcode Tattoo.
That's the problem - because sex over there right now is NOT taboo or 'dirty' as it is over here, children aren't afraid of it and don't find the need to obsess over it every chance they get. Maybe we could take a hint from them, along with about 90% of the other countries in the world.
Sex is natural, sex is fun. Sex is best when it's 1-on-1...or 2-on-1, maybe even a little 3-on-1 or 3-on-2 now and then.
1. I don't know what world you're from, but my usual very small few-day-travel suitcase ways about 5 times what a parachute does, including reserve and the container.
2. True, but is that an unreasonable cost to save lives?
3. I don't know what plane you've been flying on, but most planes I've flown on have doors that open outward, which would be very easy to open at any altitude, considering the plane is fairly pressurized even at low heights. Next time you go through the gangway look next to the weather skirt and note that the door is folded back against the side of the plane...outward.
4. Make jumping optional. Put the disclaimer in the ticket agreement - you already agree to a whole bunch of legal mumbo jumbo when you buy a ticket, what's one more line? ("Article 4, SS 2: In the event of a midair problem, you will have the option to exit the vehicle with a parachute. You release and indemnify...")
Regarding the laminar flow issues, yes, if a plane is going 550mph there is a very fast flow of air over the skin of the plane which will hold you against the body of the aircraft until it passes, probably killing you...unless you exit from the back or bottom of the plane. Many aircraft have tail doors for emergency exiting which would be perfect for jumping at any airliner speed. Also, some of the enormous planes such as the 747-400 have elevators to the cargohold, which have hatches which are easily opened to allow you to disembark through the bottom of the plane. These would also work for jumping. Keep in mind, also, that if something bad happens mid-air, such as a piece of the plane falling off, you probably are not doing 550mph or even close at that point. If the pilot can't slow the plane down, most likely the drag from whatever damage the plane incurs will slow it down significantly in time to jump at a safe altitude.
Just my 16 cents
I really did like the first soundtrack a whole lot. Right down to the crazy "Crystal Ship" mix and the reggae-esque song "Invisible Sun". If they can come anywhere near that type of quality on this soundtrack, I'll get it regardless of if I see the movie or not(ok, so there's no way I won't see an x-files movie).
(heh, my Captcha word is 'snifter'... time to get my drink on/.?)
I wonder how long until I am getting a bill from a 'Quantum Dot Provider' that pipes these things in over a special line in my house to fill my computer, which keeps emtpying out because of decoherence...
"Honey, do you have that spare packet of Quantum Dots for the computer? I think I put mine through the wash..."
If people are complaining about not being able to use a Google search in a non-Google product, I don't see where there's a problem(other than Microsoft being gun-shy from the word 'Antitrust').
What I'm wondering now, is if it's time to try Vista? I was waiting for the bugs to get ironed out, and if people have nothing worse to complain about than the HDD search in the OS, all of the more serious issues and downfalls must be fixed, right?
Is it just me or is 'selling' an open-source product like Ubuntu sort of an oxymoron in and of itself? Wouldn't it be ok to just buy the machine sans-os and put it on yourself for free, and tell the Dell CSR's to shove it up their lazy windows-pushing ass?
"Nineteenth-century physicist and engineer Nikola Tesla experimented with long-range wireless energy transfer..."
'Nuf said. Not anything new, and certainly not something I forsee being very useful in the future. Inductive electricty transfer is very well known in science, and if there was a good way to do what these people are attempting, it surely would've been seen in the past.
FWIW, the power plant down the road has hundreds of these 'wireless electricity transfer' devices all over their junction stations... they're called transformers.
Disabling right-clicking isn't a legitimate form of access control, considering it's an option to disable JS in almost(if not) all browsers, and several include it as a default setting.
Using a setting on the streaming server they posted on the site that only allows connections by a certain domain(easy in Shoutcast) would be much more effective and would require an actual effort to defeat, making it much more legitimate, and probably succeptable to 'hacking' accusations.
Just send the message from the free website that most companies provide to send SMS from the internet. I do that to my friends all the time at work because I'm online anyway. Suppose that doesn't work if you have to do it on the road, but get a Treo like I have and bookmark the SMS pages, and you've got free outbound TXT messages. I have free incoming text and voice with my plan, so it's completely free for me, though I generally use less than 100 mins of talk time and less than 100 messages a month, so no big deal.
Verizon: https://www.vtext.com/customer_site/jsp/messaging_ lo.jsp
US Cellular: http://usc.ztango.com/uscwmss
Cingular: No page, but email goes through to number@mobile.mycingular.com
I found this nifty page ( http://www.livejournal.com/tools/textmessage.bml?m ode=details ) with a whole lot of others as well.
I remember being that age, and I couldn't BEG my parents to get me a cell phone. When I turned 16 and started driving they got me a real shitty phone for 'emergencies' for the car, but it had a whopping 100 mins or something and I wasn't supposed to use it for talking with friends or anything. Then, when I turned 18 they cut that line off quick as shit and gave me a business card for the person they get their cell service through, so I could go get my own.
Needless to say, it's easier to take something away from your terror of a child if they never had it to begin with. It's the parents' fault for giving her the phone in the first place.
Step 1: Download music, with or without DRM Step 2: Burn disc for 'backup' purposes with that music on it. Only standard Audio CDs - no MP3 CDs. Step 3: If there are tracks you cannot transfer to a device you want them on, 'restore' these files from the backup CDs using the CD import feature on the software that transfers files to your device. iTunes works especially well this way.
Tips: Save discs by using CD-RW discs Make sure to tell your friends Laugh while you're doing it, you're legally screwing DRM
"There really isn't an excuse to pirate anymore."
Hmmm...how about not having $200 for a Microsoft OS and having to use it to run a program you NEED to run? I'd say that's a pretty good reason.
Microsoft are - pardon the language - fucking CROOKS, and shouldn't be given another dime.
Let them use some of that $64bil of invested capital to support themselves instead of charging $200 for something which should cost $20.
I would avidly support open source, except nothing I need to run for work or my studio will run on Linux, and most people don't want to re-learn computers completely just to use a new operating system.
For example, most of you should try explaining makefiles or even what the terminal is to your parents. It's like running full-speed into a brick wall, head first, repeatedly.
-R
"Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves labelled as industry stooges. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science."
Yeah....welcome to MODERN 'Science'.
It should be noted though that for many card companies chargebacks require you to get information to the effect that the charge was fraud from the company who charged the card. Something tells me Amazon isn't going to be all that willing to provide the necessary chargeback information for products which they feel were legitimately purchased.
I use Wikipedia for its ease of use and general reference - I'm certainly not using it as a citable source for papers or anything. In that respect, no, Wikipedia is not failing.
If it were easier to verify people who change and update articles this might not even be an issue, but alas, it is not.
In all seriousness, banning driving/cars in the most overcrowded, pedestrian-heavy areas wouldn't be that bad of an idea. I don't see why you can't listen to your music while crossing the street, though the awful apple earbuds are like a big bullseye for me now, and I want to smack the yuppie scum who use them.
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I hope so. I also hope the RIAA blows all or most of their worth in money on these cases all over the country, and when they come out the loser because of legal precedent or injunction, have no legs to stand on and collapse entirely. -R
Is it really worth it to buy that at $310 per mL? Isn't that just....stupid?
No doubt. If my wish comes true, the RIAA will be denied an appeal and be forced to pay all legal fees from this proceeding.
"Or, it's just to get people used to random and crazy searches by the authorities as a normal part of daily life, without a peep of protest." Call me lucky, but I don't fly on a daily basis so I'm sure as hell not used to it. A cop tried to stop me walking my bike home after I left the club I was working at and asked me for my ID. I asked her why she needed my ID and she said that I was near a reported assault on some guy outside a bar that I hadn't heard of, so I showed her my ID and when she gave it back she got out of the car and asked if she could search me. Of course I said "No thanks, there is no reason for that." I had nothing to hide, but that's just not cool, and in the end she just let me go with nothing further. I'm sure if I were in some urban center like Chicago or NY they would find some way to make me let them search me or use some bullshit like 'Oh, I smell drugs, it must be from you...' Even if it was an unjust search, my complaints about it would have fallen on deaf ears or been lost in a mountain of other paperwork. Welcome to America. Line up at the counter for your Nat'l ID Card and your Barcode Tattoo.
"there isn't a market for million-dollar CPU cores"
NASA and DARPA beg to differ...
That's the problem - because sex over there right now is NOT taboo or 'dirty' as it is over here, children aren't afraid of it and don't find the need to obsess over it every chance they get. Maybe we could take a hint from them, along with about 90% of the other countries in the world. Sex is natural, sex is fun. Sex is best when it's 1-on-1...or 2-on-1, maybe even a little 3-on-1 or 3-on-2 now and then.
1. I don't know what world you're from, but my usual very small few-day-travel suitcase ways about 5 times what a parachute does, including reserve and the container. 2. True, but is that an unreasonable cost to save lives? 3. I don't know what plane you've been flying on, but most planes I've flown on have doors that open outward, which would be very easy to open at any altitude, considering the plane is fairly pressurized even at low heights. Next time you go through the gangway look next to the weather skirt and note that the door is folded back against the side of the plane...outward. 4. Make jumping optional. Put the disclaimer in the ticket agreement - you already agree to a whole bunch of legal mumbo jumbo when you buy a ticket, what's one more line? ("Article 4, SS 2: In the event of a midair problem, you will have the option to exit the vehicle with a parachute. You release and indemnify...") Regarding the laminar flow issues, yes, if a plane is going 550mph there is a very fast flow of air over the skin of the plane which will hold you against the body of the aircraft until it passes, probably killing you...unless you exit from the back or bottom of the plane. Many aircraft have tail doors for emergency exiting which would be perfect for jumping at any airliner speed. Also, some of the enormous planes such as the 747-400 have elevators to the cargohold, which have hatches which are easily opened to allow you to disembark through the bottom of the plane. These would also work for jumping. Keep in mind, also, that if something bad happens mid-air, such as a piece of the plane falling off, you probably are not doing 550mph or even close at that point. If the pilot can't slow the plane down, most likely the drag from whatever damage the plane incurs will slow it down significantly in time to jump at a safe altitude. Just my 16 cents
I really did like the first soundtrack a whole lot. Right down to the crazy "Crystal Ship" mix and the reggae-esque song "Invisible Sun". If they can come anywhere near that type of quality on this soundtrack, I'll get it regardless of if I see the movie or not(ok, so there's no way I won't see an x-files movie).
... time to get my drink on /.?)
(heh, my Captcha word is 'snifter'
I wonder how long until I am getting a bill from a 'Quantum Dot Provider' that pipes these things in over a special line in my house to fill my computer, which keeps emtpying out because of decoherence... "Honey, do you have that spare packet of Quantum Dots for the computer? I think I put mine through the wash..."
If people are complaining about not being able to use a Google search in a non-Google product, I don't see where there's a problem(other than Microsoft being gun-shy from the word 'Antitrust'). What I'm wondering now, is if it's time to try Vista? I was waiting for the bugs to get ironed out, and if people have nothing worse to complain about than the HDD search in the OS, all of the more serious issues and downfalls must be fixed, right?
Is it just me or is 'selling' an open-source product like Ubuntu sort of an oxymoron in and of itself? Wouldn't it be ok to just buy the machine sans-os and put it on yourself for free, and tell the Dell CSR's to shove it up their lazy windows-pushing ass?
"Nineteenth-century physicist and engineer Nikola Tesla experimented with long-range wireless energy transfer..."
'Nuf said. Not anything new, and certainly not something I forsee being very useful in the future. Inductive electricty transfer is very well known in science, and if there was a good way to do what these people are attempting, it surely would've been seen in the past.
FWIW, the power plant down the road has hundreds of these 'wireless electricity transfer' devices all over their junction stations... they're called transformers.
Disabling right-clicking isn't a legitimate form of access control, considering it's an option to disable JS in almost(if not) all browsers, and several include it as a default setting. Using a setting on the streaming server they posted on the site that only allows connections by a certain domain(easy in Shoutcast) would be much more effective and would require an actual effort to defeat, making it much more legitimate, and probably succeptable to 'hacking' accusations.
Just send the message from the free website that most companies provide to send SMS from the internet. I do that to my friends all the time at work because I'm online anyway. Suppose that doesn't work if you have to do it on the road, but get a Treo like I have and bookmark the SMS pages, and you've got free outbound TXT messages. I have free incoming text and voice with my plan, so it's completely free for me, though I generally use less than 100 mins of talk time and less than 100 messages a month, so no big deal. Verizon: https://www.vtext.com/customer_site/jsp/messaging_ lo.jsp
US Cellular: http://usc.ztango.com/uscwmss
Cingular: No page, but email goes through to number@mobile.mycingular.com
I found this nifty page ( http://www.livejournal.com/tools/textmessage.bml?m ode=details ) with a whole lot of others as well.
I remember being that age, and I couldn't BEG my parents to get me a cell phone. When I turned 16 and started driving they got me a real shitty phone for 'emergencies' for the car, but it had a whopping 100 mins or something and I wasn't supposed to use it for talking with friends or anything. Then, when I turned 18 they cut that line off quick as shit and gave me a business card for the person they get their cell service through, so I could go get my own.
Needless to say, it's easier to take something away from your terror of a child if they never had it to begin with. It's the parents' fault for giving her the phone in the first place.
Step 1: Download music, with or without DRM
Step 2: Burn disc for 'backup' purposes with that music on it. Only standard Audio CDs - no MP3 CDs.
Step 3: If there are tracks you cannot transfer to a device you want them on, 'restore' these files from the backup CDs using the CD import feature on the software that transfers files to your device. iTunes works especially well this way.
Tips:
Save discs by using CD-RW discs
Make sure to tell your friends
Laugh while you're doing it, you're legally screwing DRM
"There really isn't an excuse to pirate anymore." Hmmm...how about not having $200 for a Microsoft OS and having to use it to run a program you NEED to run? I'd say that's a pretty good reason. Microsoft are - pardon the language - fucking CROOKS, and shouldn't be given another dime. Let them use some of that $64bil of invested capital to support themselves instead of charging $200 for something which should cost $20. I would avidly support open source, except nothing I need to run for work or my studio will run on Linux, and most people don't want to re-learn computers completely just to use a new operating system. For example, most of you should try explaining makefiles or even what the terminal is to your parents. It's like running full-speed into a brick wall, head first, repeatedly. -R
"Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves labelled as industry stooges. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science." Yeah....welcome to MODERN 'Science'.
They'll get to identifying and eliminating them just as soon as they figure out what an 'Insurgent' looks like and kill them all...
It should be noted though that for many card companies chargebacks require you to get information to the effect that the charge was fraud from the company who charged the card. Something tells me Amazon isn't going to be all that willing to provide the necessary chargeback information for products which they feel were legitimately purchased.
I use Wikipedia for its ease of use and general reference - I'm certainly not using it as a citable source for papers or anything. In that respect, no, Wikipedia is not failing. If it were easier to verify people who change and update articles this might not even be an issue, but alas, it is not.
In all seriousness, banning driving/cars in the most overcrowded, pedestrian-heavy areas wouldn't be that bad of an idea. I don't see why you can't listen to your music while crossing the street, though the awful apple earbuds are like a big bullseye for me now, and I want to smack the yuppie scum who use them.