You'll almost certainly have to observe curfews where teenagers are concerned.
Of course you'll have to observe the law. And the law is generally on your side. The curfew in my area, and from what I understand, in others', makes exceptions for going to and from school for a school activity. This exception was made for the football players going to, like, 5am practices before school and staying past midnight for thursday games.
So you'd get to have a gaming night AND use a law to your advantage.
FROM THE DESK OF: MR. WORGEE G. SHUB Corporate (Special) Trust Fund, United Political Parties of America, Contract Award Committee, Washington DC USA
Dear Esteemed Nigerian Sir:
I am the Chairman of the Contract Award committee and my committee is solely responsible for awarding and payment of contracts on behalf of the United Political Parties of America. My Committee has received payments from Enron, Microsoft, Walt Disney, and many other large American companies that we then disbursed in accordance with United States law to the intended politicians in return for government services rendered to The Corporations. We overshot the contracted sum by USD35 Million. We have paid the politicians and withholding the balance of Thirty-Five Million United States Dollars. Since the existing domestic laws forbid civil servants from opening, operating and maintaining foreign accounts, we do not have the expertise to transfer this balance of funds to a foreign account.
Due to the salubrious investment and taxation climate in Nigeria, as outlined in FMF A26 Unit 3B paragraph "D" of the Auditor General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Report of NOV. 1999 about annual estimated petroleum revenues of 28billion US Dollars, and especially opportunities relateed to the late Head of State General Sani Abacha who died on 8th June 1998, which we have become aware of through various emails we have received from your countrymen about the supply of Agricultural Machines and spare parts to the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, we have prepared to pay a commission to a worthy individual like yourself equal to 25% of the total sum transfered while 5% will be reserved for incidental expenses that both parties will incur in the course of actualizing this transaction and the balance of 70% will be kept for the Committee members.
If you know you are capable of helping us actualize our life's dream, you should send to me immediately the details of your bank particulars or open a new account where we can transfer the money(US$35M)which you will hold in trust for us until we come over there for our own share.
As soon as you open the account, send by e-mail to me immediately the details of the account viz: Name of bank, address, routing number, telex number, Account number, Tel and Fax number.You should also include the name of your company, your personal address, Tel and Fax numbers for further communication.
Note that this transaction will be concluded within 10 working days from the day you give your consent.
Sincerely yours,
Worgee G. Shub Chairman of Disbursements, Corporate (Special) Trust Fund, United Political Parties of America, Contract Award Committee, Washington DC USA
tel: 1-900-CON-4YOU
NOTE THAT FOR THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF THIS TRANSACTION, WHEN YOU CALL ME THE FIRST THING YOU DO IS FOR YOU TO ASK ME WHAT IS THE CODE, AND MY RESPONSE WILL BE (055).IF I DO NOT TELL YOU (055) THEN KNOW YOU ARE NOT TALKING TO ME. DROP THE PHONE IMMEDIATELY AND CALL ME BACK TILL I GIVE YOU THE CODE WORD. THIS IS DUE TO JAMMING TELECOMMUNICATION DEVICES IN YOUR COUNTRY AS A RESULT OF THE BOMB EXPLOSION IN A LAGOS MILITARY BASE.
My reasoning is that the RIAA is in business to support the labels, whereas the labels themselves are each individually in the business of making and selling music.
OK. The RIAA IS the labels. I don't know how much more clear I could be. The RIAA does not "support" the labels because it IS the labels.
I don't know if you think there's some big RIAA building with lots of separate employees or something with all kinds of job functions. Yes, I am sure there is an RIAA office, but it's like the OSDN. You don't say that the OSDN exists to support slashdot, freshmeat, thinkgeek, etc. Those entities MAKE UP the Open Source Developer's Network. Anyway, now we are discussing semantics, but I don't want people to see the RIAA as some mythical corporation that is anything besides a group of labels. The labels are the RIAA. Period.
Um. OK. But really, the RIAA IS the labels. It's a trade association whose most important members are Warner Brothers, EMI, Sony, BMG and Universal. These just happen to be the 5 biggest labels, comprising like 96% of all published music. Oh yeah, and over 800 other labels too. So. I would propose that an association is made up of its members, wouldn't you?
One point I would like to make is this: People say the RIAA is evil and I agree. People say that the RIAA doesn't do anything and I disagree.
The labels do provide promotion and make famous the bands that they want to be famous with our money and the artists' money. Now, is it worth selling your soul as most musicians do? Debatable. I certainly believe that it would be better if the buying public made famous the musicians that deserve it. That's all.
Well even if it's not directly "passed on" it always affects the consume, usually to the tune of $1 worth of customer service, new equipment that doesn't get purchased, or just lower standards in general. It's economics...
Software should never crash, no matter what input you put into it. That's taught in every first year programming class I've ever seen, and it goes double for software that controls peripherals.
Also, please note-- Automobiles should never crash, no matter what happens on the road. That's taught in every first year driver's education course I've ever seen, and it goes double if you are driving an expensive car.
Here you find out that -They're also shooting special footage for a video game. -There's a trailer coming out soon. -Jet Li was going to be in both sequels but he backed out because they offered $3 mil and he wanted $13.
Why the bloody hell do you have enough karma to get an auto +1? THE LINK HE PUT IN THE PARENT TO YOURS WAS the BT suit. JUST CLICK THE LINK!!! AAAAHHHHH!
The only payment for a lot [of content] is the willingness of the viewer to watch the spot, the commercial. That's part of the contract between the network and the viewer. For anybody to step in between that content and encourage the viewer to disregard the payment in time that he's making--I think everybody should fight those people...or let the viewer have a subscription model where they pay for that, in which case the monies can be taken in and distributed back to cover the loss of the ad revenue.
This is wrong on so many levels. I can watch whatever the fuck I want to of the television programming you send into my house. If I want to watch only 3 minutes of CSPAN perday and nothing else, so be it. If I want to watch only the 5 or 6 interesting shows on the air, so be it. If I want to close my eyes and not watch the ads or find some other way to not watch them, too freakin bad for you! YOU were the one who decided that the volatile business model of selling advertising would bring you stable profits; you are the one taking the risk and putting together the programming together in the first place. I don't owe you anything.
This site is replete with RIAA whining about the fact that webcasters are "orchestrating a campaign of misinformation" about the fees. There's also proposed fees themselves and the RIAA's rebuttal to common arguments made in letters to editors...
Maybe I am unclear on this, but I use the same debit card 95% of the time at the Kroger I visit for my groceries. Do they have to agree to something saying they won't just use my unique cc number to track my purchases? And even still, is it technically against the rules to grep the data from the card for my name that is encoded on the strip and use that to track my purchases? Furthermore, most stores have the "happy consumer tracking" card that many of us keep on our keychain, and to complicate the "tracking" argument further, the fingerprint thing is completely optional, as all of the methods I mentioned are today--
So... I have 50 Karma when I post this, it gets modded up to 5, and then down to 4. I would call that a broken system that gives capped-out users a disincentive to post.
''These type of people perceive the risk of getting caught as being nonexistent. It's like a hacker mentality. If there's a way you can hack it, then you should just be entitled to it. It goes with the hacker ethic.''
This makes me so mad. I am not even much of a hacker, but I'd like to be, in the real sense of the word. I take stuff apart. I make my computer do what I want it to, even if it wasn't originally intended to do those things. The hacker ethic is several orders of magnitude more beneficial to society than the RIAA. Hackers got us on the moon. Hackers made The Matrix. Hackers made slashdot.
I, for one, hope the hacker ethic is here to stay, no matter what this prick has to say about it.
Slashdot Mirror
I suppose that this guy, who slept on his arms last night, will have a bit of a problem.
Ah, yes... Kids in the Hall... I miss you.
You'll almost certainly have to observe curfews where teenagers are concerned.
Of course you'll have to observe the law. And the law is generally on your side. The curfew in my area, and from what I understand, in others', makes exceptions for going to and from school for a school activity. This exception was made for the football players going to, like, 5am practices before school and staying past midnight for thursday games.
So you'd get to have a gaming night AND use a law to your advantage.
FROM THE DESK OF: MR. WORGEE G. SHUB
Corporate (Special) Trust Fund,
United Political Parties of America,
Contract Award Committee,
Washington DC USA
Dear Esteemed Nigerian Sir:
I am the Chairman of the Contract Award committee and my committee is solely responsible for awarding and payment of contracts on behalf of the United Political Parties of America. My Committee has received payments from Enron, Microsoft, Walt Disney, and many other large American companies that we then disbursed in accordance with United States law to the intended politicians in return for government services rendered to The Corporations. We overshot the contracted sum by USD35 Million. We have paid the politicians and withholding the balance of Thirty-Five Million United States Dollars. Since the existing domestic laws forbid civil servants from opening, operating and maintaining foreign accounts, we do not have the expertise to transfer this balance of funds to a foreign account.
Due to the salubrious investment and taxation climate in Nigeria, as outlined in FMF A26 Unit 3B paragraph "D" of the Auditor General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Report of NOV. 1999 about annual estimated petroleum revenues of 28billion US Dollars, and especially opportunities relateed to the late Head of State General Sani Abacha who died on 8th June 1998, which we have become aware of through various emails we have received from your countrymen about the supply of Agricultural Machines and spare parts to the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, we have prepared to pay a commission to a worthy individual like yourself equal to 25% of the total sum transfered while 5% will be reserved for incidental expenses that both parties will incur in the course of actualizing this transaction and the balance of 70% will be kept for the Committee members.
If you know you are capable of helping us actualize our life's dream, you should send to me immediately the details of your bank particulars or open a new account where we can transfer the money(US$35M)which you will hold in trust for us until we come over there for our own share.
As soon as you open the account, send by e-mail to me immediately the details of the account viz: Name of bank, address, routing number, telex number, Account number, Tel and Fax number.You should also include the name of your company, your personal address, Tel and Fax numbers for further communication.
Note that this transaction will be concluded within 10 working days from the day you give your consent.
Sincerely yours,
Worgee G. Shub
Chairman of Disbursements,
Corporate (Special) Trust Fund,
United Political Parties of America,
Contract Award Committee,
Washington DC USA
tel: 1-900-CON-4YOU
NOTE THAT FOR THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF THIS TRANSACTION, WHEN YOU CALL ME THE FIRST THING YOU DO IS FOR YOU TO ASK ME WHAT IS THE CODE, AND MY RESPONSE WILL BE (055).IF I DO NOT TELL YOU (055) THEN KNOW YOU ARE NOT
TALKING TO ME. DROP THE PHONE IMMEDIATELY AND CALL ME BACK TILL I GIVE YOU THE CODE WORD. THIS IS DUE TO JAMMING TELECOMMUNICATION DEVICES IN YOUR COUNTRY AS A RESULT OF THE BOMB EXPLOSION IN A LAGOS MILITARY BASE.
(Thanks to RobLimo)
.. you know how your own voice sounds different than how your friends hear it. Same kinda deal
No, how would any of us possibly know that?
Weezer link
Here's what you're talking about...
This is what it is supposed to look like.
No idea if it works, however...
How many people on death row have:
played a violent video game?
read a book?
4.
Just 4.
My reasoning is that the RIAA is in business to support the labels, whereas the labels themselves are each individually in the business of making and selling music.
OK. The RIAA IS the labels. I don't know how much more clear I could be. The RIAA does not "support" the labels because it IS the labels.
I don't know if you think there's some big RIAA building with lots of separate employees or something with all kinds of job functions. Yes, I am sure there is an RIAA office, but it's like the OSDN. You don't say that the OSDN exists to support slashdot, freshmeat, thinkgeek, etc. Those entities MAKE UP the Open Source Developer's Network.
Anyway, now we are discussing semantics, but I don't want people to see the RIAA as some mythical corporation that is anything besides a group of labels.
The labels are the RIAA.
Period.
The RIAA is not the labels.
Um. OK. But really, the RIAA IS the labels. It's a trade association whose most important members are Warner Brothers, EMI, Sony, BMG and Universal. These just happen to be the 5 biggest labels, comprising like 96% of all published music. Oh yeah, and over 800 other labels too.
So. I would propose that an association is made up of its members, wouldn't you?
One point I would like to make is this:
People say the RIAA is evil and I agree.
People say that the RIAA doesn't do anything and I disagree.
The labels do provide promotion and make famous the bands that they want to be famous with our money and the artists' money. Now, is it worth selling your soul as most musicians do? Debatable. I certainly believe that it would be better if the buying public made famous the musicians that deserve it.
That's all.
Well even if it's not directly "passed on" it always affects the consume, usually to the tune of $1 worth of customer service, new equipment that doesn't get purchased, or just lower standards in general. It's economics...
Software should never crash, no matter what input you put into it. That's taught in every first year programming class I've ever seen, and it goes double for software that controls peripherals.
Also, please note-- Automobiles should never crash, no matter what happens on the road. That's taught in every first year driver's education course I've ever seen, and it goes double if you are driving an expensive car.
Of course, he wanted $13 million, not $13.
Though that would have been an odd demand... hehehe
Is at Upcoming Movies.
Here you find out that
-They're also shooting special footage for a video game.
-There's a trailer coming out soon.
-Jet Li was going to be in both sequels but he backed out because they offered $3 mil and he wanted $13.
Anyway, thought you guys should know.
Why the bloody hell do you have enough karma to get an auto +1? THE LINK HE PUT IN THE PARENT TO YOURS WAS the BT suit. JUST CLICK THE LINK!!! AAAAHHHHH!
Seriously, though , are you retarded?
The only payment for a lot [of content] is the willingness of the viewer to watch the spot, the commercial. That's part of the contract between the network and the viewer. For anybody to step in between that content and encourage the viewer to disregard the payment in time that he's making--I think everybody should fight those people...or let the viewer have a subscription model where they pay for that, in which case the monies can be taken in and distributed back to cover the loss of the ad revenue.
This is wrong on so many levels. I can watch whatever the fuck I want to of the television programming you send into my house. If I want to watch only 3 minutes of CSPAN perday and nothing else, so be it. If I want to watch only the 5 or 6 interesting shows on the air, so be it. If I want to close my eyes and not watch the ads or find some other way to not watch them, too freakin bad for you! YOU were the one who decided that the volatile business model of selling advertising would bring you stable profits; you are the one taking the risk and putting together the programming together in the first place.
I don't owe you anything.
Dude, you blew it! Now they're gonna have to add a serial number and say there are 5! What is your problem???
...There's also The Enemy.
This site is replete with RIAA whining about the fact that webcasters are "orchestrating a campaign of misinformation" about the fees. There's also proposed fees themselves and the RIAA's rebuttal to common arguments made in letters to editors...
Basically, it's good to see mainstream coverage for this story.
Net Radio Fears Heard in Congress
Yahoo writeup showing that we just might make a difference.
USAToday Coverage!!! Suave!!!
Most importantly, A sample letter to your congressman.
Of course, all courtesy of SOMAFM, my favorite internet radio group.
My fave is Groove Salad (128k pls feed)
Maybe I am unclear on this, but I use the same debit card 95% of the time at the Kroger I visit for my groceries. Do they have to agree to something saying they won't just use my unique cc number to track my purchases? And even still, is it technically against the rules to grep the data from the card for my name that is encoded on the strip and use that to track my purchases?
Furthermore, most stores have the "happy consumer tracking" card that many of us keep on our keychain, and to complicate the "tracking" argument further, the fingerprint thing is completely optional, as all of the methods I mentioned are today--
JUST USE CASH PEOPLE!!!!!
We all know that correlation implies causation!
Yeah,
49.
sux
No text.
So... I have 50 Karma when I post this, it gets modded up to 5, and then down to 4. I would call that a broken system that gives capped-out users a disincentive to post.
''These type of people perceive the risk of getting caught as being nonexistent. It's like a hacker mentality. If there's a way you can hack it, then you should just be entitled to it. It goes with the hacker ethic.''
This makes me so mad. I am not even much of a hacker, but I'd like to be, in the real sense of the word.
I take stuff apart.
I make my computer do what I want it to, even if it wasn't originally intended to do those things.
The hacker ethic is several orders of magnitude more beneficial to society than the RIAA.
Hackers got us on the moon.
Hackers made The Matrix.
Hackers made slashdot.
I, for one, hope the hacker ethic is here to stay, no matter what this prick has to say about it.
I would beg to differ on this one.