That is the beauty of bittorrent, it is completely unfeasable to sue someone for sharing *one* file, and this is all you can really find someone sharing on bittorent; at least at one time.
Example: Sony finds me downloading the newest eminem album(or whatever). They sue me for the damages from my sharing one album. Repeat for 6000 people. They cannot get enough money to even cover their legal fees from the settlement at that point, all users have to do is fight the case and sony would cave pretty quick.
The night sky is dark to the human eye because of the red shift caused by the expansion of the universe. If you look at the sky in the lower wavelengths it is much, much brighter.
I did get a lock for abot $20 and I am now learning how to do all the maintainence myself, I did spend about $100 a year or so ago fixing things at a bike shop. I have a rack that I can carry groceries, or in a backpack.
I have also riden around 15-20 thousand miles in the last three years, probably more. so:
$520/20,000 miles
about 2.6 cents per mile. I can understand not wanting to ride in -30 weather, but if you get some good winter wear, which I would figure you would have already, It shouldn't be too bad. I can moreso understand not wanting to ride on an iffy highway, you might look for a safer route perhaps?
Considering the ammount of time one must look for a parking spot here in San Francisco, and the ammount of money required for parking tickets, I would not call *any* car "cheap".
I do not doubt that the democrats will be on board when the draft comes back. I do not even doubt that Kerry would have instituted the draft as well. It is coming though.
Love is not free. I agree that the incremental costs of expressing love can be so small that it can be considered free; however, most of thee cost of love is already sunk into the emotional developmeent of one's person. The giver of love has a right to choose whether or not to reccover that emotion.
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"stealing" GPL code is when you take something that eeveryone can use and tell them they can use it anymore. "stealing" music is taking something thatt should already belong to everybody and listening to it without permission.
While I agree with you about rational people being able to discus the best canidate, that hasn't been what presidential elecctions elections have been about for quite a while now. They are about image.
And to add to my first post on fear. Kerry would have won on the ffear vote as well. The fear of illegal abortions, the fear of bush, the fear of a draft, and the fear of an increasingly religous government.
First you say republicans don't whine, then you admit they do. And as someone who is most definitely not a liberal I must say that my big problem with FOX is not the spin, it is the complete disregard for unbiased commentary and the abandonment of any sort of journalistic objectivity. I have seen a "reporter" roll their eyes and dismisively laugh while reporting the statements of democrats, leftists or foreign governments.(only the ones that oppose US actions of course)
The sad part of it all is that I used to watch FOX news much more often, before 9/11, because they had a lot more real news than the other networks, and I could see through the bias. Now it's absurd.
On a side note, it would be nice to see a news channel that is closer to the content of "the economist". I'd love it regardless of the bias, just to get the damn news and not the fluff that everyone has today.
Nader had intent to get registered in enough states to win. If he ever gets to the point where he has a chance in hell of winning even one state then he might intend to steal votes, until then I can trust the highminded principles of someone who will never win.
If you have been keeping up on the diebold machines you would know that it doesn't take a diebold programmer to steal the election. It only takes someone with access to the machines, and not even that in some cases.
What really happened is that fear won. Fear of terrorism, fear of gay marriage, fear of a lot of things. Most of the people I talked to that voted for Bush didn't do so because they thought he was good, they did it because he wasn't Kerry. And vice versa. On top of that only about 30% of eligible voter voted for Bush and if Kerry had won it would have been a similar percentage.
On another topic, what happened to "no taxation without representation"? How easily we forget.
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I have not found it to be a problem for me.
That is the beauty of bittorrent, it is completely unfeasable to sue someone for sharing *one* file, and this is all you can really find someone sharing on bittorent; at least at one time.
Example: Sony finds me downloading the newest eminem album(or whatever). They sue me for the damages from my sharing one album. Repeat for 6000 people. They cannot get enough money to even cover their legal fees from the settlement at that point, all users have to do is fight the case and sony would cave pretty quick.
The night sky is dark to the human eye because of the red shift caused by the expansion of the universe. If you look at the sky in the lower wavelengths it is much, much brighter.
it kills me to say it but sometimes bikes just aren't the best choice.
I did get a lock for abot $20 and I am now learning how to do all the maintainence myself, I did spend about $100 a year or so ago fixing things at a bike shop. I have a rack that I can carry groceries, or in a backpack.
I have also riden around 15-20 thousand miles in the last three years, probably more. so:
$520/20,000 miles
about 2.6 cents per mile.
I can understand not wanting to ride in -30 weather, but if you get some good winter wear, which I would figure you would have already, It shouldn't be too bad. I can moreso understand not wanting to ride on an iffy highway, you might look for a safer route perhaps?
So I bought a bicycle 3 years ago for 400$.
I use that to get to and from work everyday.
that works out to about 125$ a year, even in hilly san francisco. how does that compare to a car in the big city?
PS: every city is diferent and SF is far worse than most for parking. it makes a lot more sense to ride a bike here.
Where I am we just ride our bikes. Nothing is better than riding your bike pissed out of your fucking skull. nothing.
That could just be San Francisco though.
Considering the ammount of time one must look for a parking spot here in San Francisco, and the ammount of money required for parking tickets, I would not call *any* car "cheap".
I do not doubt that the democrats will be on board when the draft comes back. I do not even doubt that Kerry would have instituted the draft as well. It is coming though.
It is still too soon to say that a draft will not happen. Wait until the next congress gets sworn in, then we will see.
But we have so many shiny techno-baubles, how can we be on the wrong track?
Love is not free. I agree that the incremental costs of expressing love can be so small that it can be considered free; however, most of thee cost of love is already sunk into the emotional developmeent of one's person. The giver of love has a right to choose whether or not to reccover that emotion.
try responding to the rest of his post now.
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"stealing" GPL code is when you take something that eeveryone can use and tell them they can use it anymore. "stealing" music is taking something thatt should already belong to everybody and listening to it without permission.
I am a thief.
I have a lot more guts than most, though.
I steal real, physical, paper books.
And I will continue to until someone gives me a good torrent link to some decent fucking latin books.
And do not try to convince me that stealing from barnes and nobles is wrong, it just will not work, you can not make the argument.
Now, if we were talking friendster where you were actually friends with all your "friends", it might just work. It might just be fucking beutiful.
So does the NSA have one of these yet?
or are they completely theory so far?
Monitor?
Doom is so much more challenging with a braille output.
While I agree with you about rational people being able to discus the best canidate, that hasn't been what presidential elecctions elections have been about for quite a while now. They are about image.
And to add to my first post on fear. Kerry would have won on the ffear vote as well. The fear of illegal abortions, the fear of bush, the fear of a draft, and the fear of an increasingly religous government.
First you say republicans don't whine, then you admit they do. And as someone who is most definitely not a liberal I must say that my big problem with FOX is not the spin, it is the complete disregard for unbiased commentary and the abandonment of any sort of journalistic objectivity. I have seen a "reporter" roll their eyes and dismisively laugh while reporting the statements of democrats, leftists or foreign governments.(only the ones that oppose US actions of course)
The sad part of it all is that I used to watch FOX news much more often, before 9/11, because they had a lot more real news than the other networks, and I could see through the bias. Now it's absurd.
On a side note, it would be nice to see a news channel that is closer to the content of "the economist". I'd love it regardless of the bias, just to get the damn news and not the fluff that everyone has today.
Nader had intent to get registered in enough states to win. If he ever gets to the point where he has a chance in hell of winning even one state then he might intend to steal votes, until then I can trust the highminded principles of someone who will never win.
If you have been keeping up on the diebold machines you would know that it doesn't take a diebold programmer to steal the election. It only takes someone with access to the machines, and not even that in some cases.
What really happened is that fear won. Fear of terrorism, fear of gay marriage, fear of a lot of things. Most of the people I talked to that voted for Bush didn't do so because they thought he was good, they did it because he wasn't Kerry. And vice versa. On top of that only about 30% of eligible voter voted for Bush and if Kerry had won it would have been a similar percentage.
On another topic, what happened to "no taxation without representation"? How easily we forget.
Then why do republicans whine so much about "the liberal media"?
Do you really think there is no intent to steal votes during an election? On both sides.