it would have been useful to have this a while back when the elevator broke down at a grocery store (safeway) I was at- in order to get to my car I was instructed to take the cart around front when the wheels locked up. There were too many groceries to carry by hand and employees wouldn't help so I was forced to drag the cart around and up a hill which ended up laying out my back. I had to the doctor and was on medications for weeks afterwards (relaxers, anti inflammitories and pain killers. If I would have had an unlocker I could have just unlocked it and saved myself the pain.
this is the problem as well with in my neighborhood at&t. all lines are controlled by at&t and I was talking with someone on the inside the other day about this whole issue because I am looking to switch ISP's off of at&t to a local ISP- what he said is "do it, things won't change here until people start dropping accounts and people have been complaining and doing it at a rate of 5 to 10k a day". He also gave me a bit of insight to where these rules are coming down from and as it happens at&t is evil, yes but corporate rules like file filtering and throttling and government spying were all initiated by yahoo who has a controlling interest in sbc/yahoo/at&t internet.
There's always some punk fresh out of school or some genius fresh off retirement that thinks he/she can do your job better (or he/she can actually do it better), faster, more efficiently, more cheaply, etc. You either gotta step up or stand aside and cry about it. It will never get better. Suck it up. I hope you still whistle the same tune when you are cut down and downsized- let me tell you I do step up that is why I have raised my salary and position from what it was 5 years ago- but it is still lower than it was 10 years ago. the salaries are JUST LOWER ALL AROUND unless you are someone who happens to be blessed with a big name school on your resume and a phone # of a relative or friend of a relative that will pay you way more than you are worth at the expense of people working harder than you. "ECON 101: Free Market." has ZERO TO DO WITH THIS.
Seems kinda hypocritical that you would whine about rich folks, when in fact, you would probably like to have excess wealth yourself. honestly no, I don't care about "excess wealth"- but I would like to be able to own a home someday which is not a reality right now making 70k a year in the bay area. In fact it is barely realistic that my girlfriend and I will be able to move out of our 1 1/2 bedroom apt to find a bigger place, since she works for the state and they pay BELOW POVERTY WAGES IN CALIFORNIA.
And, I'm not sure what you would call rich. in my area that is 250k + a year
If (Federal) taxes were the only consideration, I would have no motivation to earn more. The more I make, the more I'm taxed. good, don't earn more- by your rules I hope you rot and die because you don't count
Send me 10% of your income and I'll send you glowingly positive propaganda about the success of socialism. how about I send the gov't 10% and they provide universal healthcare, increase education, get us out of iraq, fix the roads and highways, do something about homelessness, follow the damn constitution and provide more police on the street. That is a positive tradeoff.
yes and no- oddly enough all of the major live events seem to go on out there like the providence noise fest and saturation bombing and such that feature powernoise and breakcore- though we have more regular events like in LA there are the darkmatter parties and labels like tigerbeat, mechanismz, crunchpod, sistinas, daly city etc. are based on this side so it kind of balances out- I think that when smaller labels are doing distro it is harder to penetrate across the country.
so it isn't open source- it is more like copyright infringement.....
maybe we need a Genetic Industry Artists Association (GIAA) to protect it and sue 10 year old girls and grandmas for having illegal genes.
on #2- I agree with you, but fire marshalls don't see it that way. We have 3 datacenters in my company and airflow and room temp are strictly monitored by the fire marshalls. If they look at the room and say it's not how they want it they shut down the entire company until compliance is made.
I guarantee that 95% of your problems are yours, and not the governments, fault. Right now, taxes are pretty low, the economy is ok, and it really has been for the last 30 years, save for a few hiccups. The economy is great if you are rich- the economy is terrible if you are not rich. the fact of the matter is that I am working twice as long for 30k less than I was 10 years ago in a higher level job. I pay 4 times what I did in rent 10 years ago. I will never be able to buy a house where I live- this was not a reality 10 years ago. Other living expenses are about twice what they were 10 years ago. And I paid the same % in tax then that I do now so taxes just plain haven't changed, if they were higher then we would expect free universal health care and federally regulated housing costs.
So, I don't know exactly where you think that the "economy is ok" comes from other than conservative propaganda.
Instead of spending so much time worrying about what Dick Cheney or Hillary Clinton are doing, worry about your own life. Then, if you do run into a government law that genuinely has an immediate impact on you. If they raise taxes, or do something stupid and get the price of fuel up to $7 / gallon, then yes, riot. This is EXACTLY what breeds corruption and apathy. What you, my friend are describing is living under a dictatorship and not a democracy- remember the government is "by the people for the people" it is up to us to keep this in check or our whole system is useless. When every person cares only about themselves and not the condition of the society as a whole no one will ever have what they want unless they are lucky enough to be born into power (which is what this country was getting away from in the first place). You have to look at your neighbor and see that if he or she is being trampled realize that you are being trampled on as well. We share a pool of the the same rights and privileges in this country and apparently you like a lot of other people have so much trouble seeing beyond the tip of your nose that those that want to will- and are chipping away things piece by piece that don't bother you UNTIL it effects you- and you know what.... that is when it is too late.
that is ridiculous- there is no way that we would nuke iran- to many problems- it would be an all out conventional attack or a serious assassination. nuclear attack would spurn a ton of problems in the region and the rest of the world that would create WWIII, not to mention that I can't imagine that anyone with religious beliefs as a backbone would seek to destroy and make inhabitable what they consider to be their own holy land. Iran wants the state of isreal destroyed- not the land of isreal destroyed.
I guess I am spoiled here in San Francisco, but when I was last on the east coast I visited Mystery Train and Newbury Comics and I was very disappointed in the selection- here in the bay area ameoba and rasputin's cover so much a larger area of the music that I make and listen to (powernoize, breakcore, IDM, experimental) that I understand why the east coast seems waaaay behind us here from this point of view.
the 12 projector thing could be useful if you combined it with something like the Mitsubishi PK10 which uses LED's as a source and is right now $399. Given a couple of years for the tech to go smaller, cheaper and more potent you should be able to get something in the $500-1k range in a few years w/ multiple lenses and projections.
the midair mouse seems like it would be fun at first but all of the squeezing and rotating seems like a recipe for carpal tunnel
yeah you have to love that- online thing- I work in a secure environment where we have 2 domains- one has online access and the other domain is hardwired and completely offline to prevent any security holes and all secure data that we process is don on the offline network. All of this online validation of things pushes us further and further into the realm of leaving windows behind- we can't completely dump it since some of our client data we cannot process without winOS functionality but it is going that way. Either that or we will be forced to crack the OS which puts us in a fuzzy spot legally.
the idea of a national database and IDs is horrible-
for years now I have been suffering through identity loss.
my SS# comes up invalid on security checks, credit checks etc. I am still valid through the federal gov't but my life has become a pain because it is difficult to find a place to live w/o credit checks, I can't buy a car or a house- I have to get paperwork from SS everytime I start a new job, I can't get a credit card, etc. So what happens when you have to be ID'd at all times with the national database- you fall through the cracks like me and have to be deported to ummm who knows just get out of the country? No offense but screw that.
So, having read that summary, why the hell does anyone think there is anything wrong with that decision? True, now people who can justify their price floor on more competition grounds might have to defend that in court, but how is that worse than those same people being not able to encourage competition that way in the first place? because if I run buymycrapforcheap.com and making a living on selling whatver (the product doesn't matter let's just say crap) or even running a small 10 employee business- I can no longer make a living by undercutting a large distributor and can't afford to fight it in court. so if say wal-mart is selling productA for 10.99 and I am selling productA for 10.99 the average consumer will go with wal-mart since it is a larger more trusted company and probably can get better shipping rates (if not eat them all together) and speeds.
that makes it bad for the consumer and small businesses.
awesome- now microsoft will be able to compete with apple and control 10% of the market share.....
honestly- I will be surprised if this is a good idea- apple is trying to corner the smartphone (which it won't unless it can stay in for a long time and create inexpensive fully business compatible models) and microsoft will be trying to control the desktop HW market (which it won't because if you want propriety non-configurable packages you go with apple)
the only people that this will appeal to is MS fanboys- not consumers like myself that use windows (though I won't switch to vista for this reason)because it is the most configurable machine with the strongest software/hardware support for multi-function use. I would like to switch to linux if there were more software/hardware support for audio and video and 3D apps and I hope that if MS goes hardware that it would push developers to support linux with both proprietary drivers and directx-like software support.
I would like to see this machine because I wonder: when they put the material in the machine- how do they contain it? concievably metal would block or reflect the microwaves and plastic would dissolve- since it is vibrating the hydrocarbons wood should catch fire- so isn't it functionally like putting a block of ice in your microwave and trying to grab the water when you open the door?
here in the bay area we have 511 which is a real time traffic condition # that is extremely useful in navigating which freeway to travel (if you have ever driven in the bay area you know what I am talking about)- what is the drive time, etc- when you are on a freeway you can't "pull over" to check the upcoming traffic conditions which change while you are driving. If everyone had an iPhone that would mean either accidents or traffic congestion or both. I would think that apple being from here would have thought of this.
color me a stick in the mud- but,
if I am putting personal data online it is accessible to being stolen not to mention that it will be accessible to the host (google, MS etc)- I don't want to do that
if I am putting up someone else's data I am violating intellectual property rights- I can get in trouble for that
if I am putting up open source or creative commons material there are better places to do that
if I put up work data it is a security risk for my company
am I missing something here?
I totally agree with you on "adapt or die", but I work in litigation so I see this stuff all of the time from the inside since I have worked on a lot of intellectual property cases (usually b2b). I am also an independent musician and personally I would like nothing better than to see the RIAA be destroyed if for no other reason than I want it to force both majors and us independents to be on a level playing field where adaption doesn't have to compete with people who trample on the consumers and have total disregard for laws and rights and make those of us that do music for the love of it look bad either for not aligning or for aligning. A downfall I think would bring a lot of my peers out and allow the opportunity to form a more positive non corporate musician-centric business model. I have personally wanted to start a community that centralizes distribution of merchandising by artists so that we could provide free music content without worrying about piracy. I mean if you face the facts- you make more $ off of a t-shirt than you do off of a cd (if put out through a label)- and people are more comfortable paying 10-15 bucks for a t-shirt. And that is just t-shirts, expanding the creativity of the merchandising is the way to go (as well as site advertising on the community site).
I agree with you in principle, but that is how it should be but probably wont be seen that way. the people that head the RIAA are all independent- that is that those that make operational decisions are not affiliated with the record labels and just as if a CEO makes an illegal decision lower managers and stockholders are not going to be prosecuted/sued the labels get off the hook. think if yahoo gets busted for human rights violations- stockholders whether or not they agreed with the censorship and reporting in china are not legally responsible.
there is a difference- enron employees and CEO's specifically participated in the wrongdoing- you don't see Sony (they are already getting slammed for the rootkit) or geffen any of the other companies the RIAA represents actually participating in the media sentry use or filing these claims against the woman- when it goes to court the RIAA will take the heat as it deserves and hopefully will go down. Do I think that the record companies should take some of the heat- sure I do, but I don't think it will happen though they may settle.
honestly I don't think that a suit against the labels will hold- but it could dissolve the RIAA and kill media sentry since they are acting on behalf of the companies- it would be like suing a corrupt company if their hired accounting firm that conducted illegal activities. In the end the accountants would be at fault for those illegal activities. The record companies will need to find some other way to destroy themselves.
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I have refused to shop there since then- the people there seem a lot more lazy than negligent.
it would have been useful to have this a while back when the elevator broke down at a grocery store (safeway) I was at- in order to get to my car I was instructed to take the cart around front when the wheels locked up. There were too many groceries to carry by hand and employees wouldn't help so I was forced to drag the cart around and up a hill which ended up laying out my back. I had to the doctor and was on medications for weeks afterwards (relaxers, anti inflammitories and pain killers. If I would have had an unlocker I could have just unlocked it and saved myself the pain.
this is the problem as well with in my neighborhood at&t. all lines are controlled by at&t and I was talking with someone on the inside the other day about this whole issue because I am looking to switch ISP's off of at&t to a local ISP- what he said is "do it, things won't change here until people start dropping accounts and people have been complaining and doing it at a rate of 5 to 10k a day".
He also gave me a bit of insight to where these rules are coming down from and as it happens at&t is evil, yes but corporate rules like file filtering and throttling and government spying were all initiated by yahoo who has a controlling interest in sbc/yahoo/at&t internet.
yes and no- oddly enough all of the major live events seem to go on out there like the providence noise fest and saturation bombing and such that feature powernoise and breakcore- though we have more regular events like in LA there are the darkmatter parties and labels like tigerbeat, mechanismz, crunchpod, sistinas, daly city etc. are based on this side so it kind of balances out- I think that when smaller labels are doing distro it is harder to penetrate across the country.
so it isn't open source- it is more like copyright infringement..... maybe we need a Genetic Industry Artists Association (GIAA) to protect it and sue 10 year old girls and grandmas for having illegal genes.
on #2- I agree with you, but fire marshalls don't see it that way. We have 3 datacenters in my company and airflow and room temp are strictly monitored by the fire marshalls. If they look at the room and say it's not how they want it they shut down the entire company until compliance is made.
So, I don't know exactly where you think that the "economy is ok" comes from other than conservative propaganda. Instead of spending so much time worrying about what Dick Cheney or Hillary Clinton are doing, worry about your own life. Then, if you do run into a government law that genuinely has an immediate impact on you. If they raise taxes, or do something stupid and get the price of fuel up to $7 / gallon, then yes, riot. This is EXACTLY what breeds corruption and apathy. What you, my friend are describing is living under a dictatorship and not a democracy- remember the government is "by the people for the people" it is up to us to keep this in check or our whole system is useless. When every person cares only about themselves and not the condition of the society as a whole no one will ever have what they want unless they are lucky enough to be born into power (which is what this country was getting away from in the first place). You have to look at your neighbor and see that if he or she is being trampled realize that you are being trampled on as well. We share a pool of the the same rights and privileges in this country and apparently you like a lot of other people have so much trouble seeing beyond the tip of your nose that those that want to will- and are chipping away things piece by piece that don't bother you UNTIL it effects you- and you know what.... that is when it is too late.
that is ridiculous- there is no way that we would nuke iran- to many problems- it would be an all out conventional attack or a serious assassination. nuclear attack would spurn a ton of problems in the region and the rest of the world that would create WWIII, not to mention that I can't imagine that anyone with religious beliefs as a backbone would seek to destroy and make inhabitable what they consider to be their own holy land. Iran wants the state of isreal destroyed- not the land of isreal destroyed.
I guess I am spoiled here in San Francisco, but when I was last on the east coast I visited Mystery Train and Newbury Comics and I was very disappointed in the selection- here in the bay area ameoba and rasputin's cover so much a larger area of the music that I make and listen to (powernoize, breakcore, IDM, experimental) that I understand why the east coast seems waaaay behind us here from this point of view.
the 12 projector thing could be useful if you combined it with something like the Mitsubishi PK10 which uses LED's as a source and is right now $399. Given a couple of years for the tech to go smaller, cheaper and more potent you should be able to get something in the $500-1k range in a few years w/ multiple lenses and projections.
the midair mouse seems like it would be fun at first but all of the squeezing and rotating seems like a recipe for carpal tunnel
yeah you have to love that- online thing- I work in a secure environment where we have 2 domains- one has online access and the other domain is hardwired and completely offline to prevent any security holes and all secure data that we process is don on the offline network. All of this online validation of things pushes us further and further into the realm of leaving windows behind- we can't completely dump it since some of our client data we cannot process without winOS functionality but it is going that way. Either that or we will be forced to crack the OS which puts us in a fuzzy spot legally.
the idea of a national database and IDs is horrible- for years now I have been suffering through identity loss.
my SS# comes up invalid on security checks, credit checks etc. I am still valid through the federal gov't but my life has become a pain because it is difficult to find a place to live w/o credit checks, I can't buy a car or a house- I have to get paperwork from SS everytime I start a new job, I can't get a credit card, etc. So what happens when you have to be ID'd at all times with the national database- you fall through the cracks like me and have to be deported to ummm who knows just get out of the country?
No offense but screw that.
that makes it bad for the consumer and small businesses.
awesome- now microsoft will be able to compete with apple and control 10% of the market share.....
honestly- I will be surprised if this is a good idea- apple is trying to corner the smartphone (which it won't unless it can stay in for a long time and create inexpensive fully business compatible models) and microsoft will be trying to control the desktop HW market (which it won't because if you want propriety non-configurable packages you go with apple)
the only people that this will appeal to is MS fanboys- not consumers like myself that use windows (though I won't switch to vista for this reason)because it is the most configurable machine with the strongest software/hardware support for multi-function use. I would like to switch to linux if there were more software/hardware support for audio and video and 3D apps and I hope that if MS goes hardware that it would push developers to support linux with both proprietary drivers and directx-like software support.
I would like to see this machine because I wonder:
when they put the material in the machine- how do they contain it? concievably metal would block or reflect the microwaves and plastic would dissolve- since it is vibrating the hydrocarbons wood should catch fire-
so isn't it functionally like putting a block of ice in your microwave and trying to grab the water when you open the door?
I tried to do that but AOL blocked my microwave.
here in the bay area we have 511 which is a real time traffic condition # that is extremely useful in navigating which freeway to travel (if you have ever driven in the bay area you know what I am talking about)- what is the drive time, etc- when you are on a freeway you can't "pull over" to check the upcoming traffic conditions which change while you are driving. If everyone had an iPhone that would mean either accidents or traffic congestion or both. I would think that apple being from here would have thought of this.
color me a stick in the mud- but,
if I am putting personal data online it is accessible to being stolen not to mention that it will be accessible to the host (google, MS etc)- I don't want to do that
if I am putting up someone else's data I am violating intellectual property rights- I can get in trouble for that
if I am putting up open source or creative commons material there are better places to do that
if I put up work data it is a security risk for my company
am I missing something here?
I totally agree with you on "adapt or die", but I work in litigation so I see this stuff all of the time from the inside since I have worked on a lot of intellectual property cases (usually b2b). I am also an independent musician and personally I would like nothing better than to see the RIAA be destroyed if for no other reason than I want it to force both majors and us independents to be on a level playing field where adaption doesn't have to compete with people who trample on the consumers and have total disregard for laws and rights and make those of us that do music for the love of it look bad either for not aligning or for aligning. A downfall I think would bring a lot of my peers out and allow the opportunity to form a more positive non corporate musician-centric business model. I have personally wanted to start a community that centralizes distribution of merchandising by artists so that we could provide free music content without worrying about piracy. I mean if you face the facts- you make more $ off of a t-shirt than you do off of a cd (if put out through a label)- and people are more comfortable paying 10-15 bucks for a t-shirt. And that is just t-shirts, expanding the creativity of the merchandising is the way to go (as well as site advertising on the community site).
I agree with you in principle, but that is how it should be but probably wont be seen that way. the people that head the RIAA are all independent- that is that those that make operational decisions are not affiliated with the record labels and just as if a CEO makes an illegal decision lower managers and stockholders are not going to be prosecuted/sued the labels get off the hook. think if yahoo gets busted for human rights violations- stockholders whether or not they agreed with the censorship and reporting in china are not legally responsible.
there is a difference- enron employees and CEO's specifically participated in the wrongdoing- you don't see Sony (they are already getting slammed for the rootkit) or geffen any of the other companies the RIAA represents actually participating in the media sentry use or filing these claims against the woman- when it goes to court the RIAA will take the heat as it deserves and hopefully will go down. Do I think that the record companies should take some of the heat- sure I do, but I don't think it will happen though they may settle.
how am I supposed to believe that when the penguins weren't in the creation museum.
this was about pear2pear file sharing in the first place yes?
honestly I don't think that a suit against the labels will hold- but it could dissolve the RIAA and kill media sentry since they are acting on behalf of the companies- it would be like suing a corrupt company if their hired accounting firm that conducted illegal activities. In the end the accountants would be at fault for those illegal activities. The record companies will need to find some other way to destroy themselves.