You know why? There were a few of those "funny size" CD-Singles that often required an ugly plastic "adapter", a format which was eventually abandoned, replaced by "regular size" CDs. Include a remix or two and it's a "CD-Maxi".
Ignoring the history of them, how popular do you think regular "singles" would have been if they had came on full-size LPs, with just two tracks at the start, and 80% of the vinyl being totally blank?
Despite any rambling otherwise, this has solely to do with Investment Value. IF you want to have a MARKET in Artsy Photographs you will need to have a system that buyers and sellers believe in and have near-certainty about the merchandise.
Modeled after The Promo Bay, TPB should enter political campaigning and start rallying the troops. It's no use harassing these Industry-organizations, they will never change their minds, but politicians have one deeper "basic instinct" than accepting money or favours (free movie screenings) and that is holding on to their seats. TPB can be instrumental, when there is an election anywhere it mattes, to reaching out to first-time voters and urge casual voters/voters of habit to support "friendly" parties (i.e. not necessarily limited to the local Pirate Party).
Every time, again and again, this video becomes more and more of a reality. It's a good thing that as a matter of happenstance the creators used the UK as the operating theater. The rest of Europe will be moving the other way.
Welcome to another example of the "New Normal" in US Government-Citizenry Relations. Yes. YOUR Government is no longer there for you, YOU are there for the Government: to sustain itself (le gouvernement pour le gouvernement) and to be its loyal subject (so it asserts its own legitimacy and reason-for-being). Pay your taxes, and do what we tell you to... or else!
In the old days, the government worker would have assessed the situation, used their brain to think about it, determined that indeed there was an error, and helped the civilian to correct the situation. That required two things:
1. the ability to think independently;
2. a customer-service (instead of authoritarian) attitude.
Part of the Government Bullying problem is also the "metrics-ization" of people's work; it doesn't matter anymore if you do a good job, just if you "met your targets". This means any kind of issue that takes a bit longer puts a blemish on your work performance. Workers are being rewarded to just get rid of you, one way or the other, as quickly as possible. Next in line step forward!
Mars mission that would fly by Mars, but not go into orbit around the planet or land on it.
Right. Tell your kids: "let's go to McDonalds!" Load them up in the car. Drive to McD's, just drive past it, return home. Let's see how well that goes does for "going to McDonalds".
You've all been signed up for the GPolice Beta program! Today, with Industry partners, we've started an open beta of GPolice, where we will be policing your websites for compliance to accepted Industry standards. Should any sites be found to be in violation, we and our parners will cut your funding! Since this exciting new feature is still in Beta, we anticipate a few problems here and there, but with GPolice growing and expanding --we are still looking for more Industries to partner with-- we will soon iron out most bugs and cut funding more effectively.
It's just a matter of time until this exploit is included in malware, so Samsung better start pumping out those firmware upgrades that guarantee enough space will be left to boot.
Except for that little fact that that is how it DID operate for several thousand years. Musicians and authors and performers were paid for their PERFORMANCE.
There's a plus side to that; the recording sounds exactly the same, all the time, every time. The performance (with real musicians, not the Heartthrobs-du-Jour from the Label-Factory) is different every time. That is the thing that live performances offer, but static recordings do not. Going to a concert is not just you-supporting-your-favourite-artist and the artist-actually-breaking-some-sweat, it's a unique experience, it's created before your eyes (and ears) and you (as audience) are a part of it.
The French branch of the RIAA was much smarter: have the tax payer pick up the bill.
French President François Hollande ran his campaign with the promise he would abrogate (abolish) the HADOPI three-strikes law. Yeah, we've seen how that worked out, right, French voters? And the word on the web is that the law is just going to be changed, so you will get a 140 Euro fine right at the first "strike" with unlimited strikes to follow (instead of strike I propose the term "ka-ching", as in "Gee, that's my third ka-ching this year, and it's only February!").
For some reason, the *AA is able to corrupt everyone once they get in a position to do something.
At least they had the guts to call it a "tribunal" which has the subconscious association of medieval witch-hunts, heretics being put on trial by The Church, etc.
Hopefully at one point they will catch the wrong guy that will rally the people against this... the Content Industry persecuting regular folks doing nothing more than "we" did with cassette tapes on the school yard.
I know there's a Pirate Party of NZ but that shouldn't stop anyone from contacting the "we already know who wins because they always win" local seat-holder about these issues.
Regardless of how this was (accidentally or not) triggered, is this a weakness in UEFI such that once one gains kernel-level access to the hardware, bricking a device that was booted using UEFI is trivial?
With BIOS laptops there usually was an emergency recovery mode where the BIOS reflashed itself from an image via USB floppy disk. Was an opportunity missed to make a similar setup mandatory in EUFI (but from a USB stick of course)?
It would be trivial for the US to bar all US citizens from spending money in Antigua and overnight their economy would collapse as nearly 90% of their tourism is from Americans.
Just open up those runways to Canadian charter flights and plenty of tourists will come, tourists that want to stick it to The Man (i.e. certain elements in the US government) for bullying sovereign countries at the behest of their Hollywood paymasters.
Ecuador keeps getting great press for providing sanctuary to WikiLeaks' Julian Assange (UK ---> Sweden --"temporary surrender"--> US custody), Antigua (already well-liked because of its BD and DVD ripping software tool companies) will get even more positive karma.
Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016.
Thank you for taking the time to sign this petition. Due to recent leaks in the press, the Death Star project (previously classified project names included "Sphere of Phear", "Planet Death", "The Killing Ball", "Death Moon", "Giant Hurt Ball" and "Deathticle" has recently been partially declassified under the IEKINLAS provision.
Your administration has begun work on constructing a Death Star at the Formalhaut Space Dock facilities, and work is [CLASSIFIED]. We expect [CLASSIFIED] to mount an [CLASSIFIED] and when [CLASSIFIED] fully commited, it will be revealed that [CLASSIFIED].
Ithe benefit is... what? That it stresses how much the government gouges you for? That's not useful for anything but a political statement, and if so, it should note the credit card robbery as well.
EXACTLY. Having lived in Europe for a long time, on a conscious level consumers do know how much Value Added Tax they pay (Netherlands currently 21 percent!) but in day-to-day live no one stops and calculates daily how much tax they paid on their purchases. "The price" is say 121 Euros, not 100 Euros plus a 21 Euro cut for the government.
The North-American system (even if it's technically a different tax, a sales tax) serves as a constant reminder that you are buying something from whomever sells it to you, and that they also collect the tax on the governments' behalf.
This keeps taxes lower, since the consumer is constantly reminded how much tax is included in the amount going out of their wallet. Proof-in-point: gasoline prices are usually posted with all taxes, fees, levies, included so you don't see how much you pay for the gas and how much goes to the government (including sales-tax-on-carbon-tax).
I don't know about you guys, but my PS2 is still hooked up and ready to go, and I have two shelves full of PS2 titles. What if the laser goes in my PS2, is all that software suddenly worthless? I know about PCSX2 but that is not a 100% solution, and I don't want to think about the legality of BIOS and disc images that you haven't dumped yourself.
I think it's a shame that soon you cannot buy a brand-new PS2 anymore, just to protect your investment in game titles.
“citizens increasingly hear the word copyright and hate what is behind it. Many see the current system as a tool to punish and withhold, not a tool to recognize and reward.” Source
So this is good news, the more Ye Average Americans hit their nose against the Great Wall of Copyright, the better. Our job is to show them that this is not "just the way it is" but that there are viable alternatives.
Not just that, what would come closer would be saying "give her a hug from me" to someone at a distant location, where this person would proceed to give an actual hug to a third party at/near that location.
Now you have this "...but on a computer". The next patent will be the same "...but on a mobile device, using location-based data".
Anything that is from "IBM", "Apple", "Microsoft", seems to be rubber-stamped approved.
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Doesn't this strengthen Antigua's position in the WTO case suspending US copyrights?
Speaking of which... any sign yet of a cheap legal music store??
the CD singles never were [popular].
You know why? There were a few of those "funny size" CD-Singles that often required an ugly plastic "adapter", a format which was eventually abandoned, replaced by "regular size" CDs. Include a remix or two and it's a "CD-Maxi".
Ignoring the history of them, how popular do you think regular "singles" would have been if they had came on full-size LPs, with just two tracks at the start, and 80% of the vinyl being totally blank?
Snobs? Snobs??
Despite any rambling otherwise, this has solely to do with Investment Value. IF you want to have a MARKET in Artsy Photographs you will need to have a system that buyers and sellers believe in and have near-certainty about the merchandise.
Modeled after The Promo Bay, TPB should enter political campaigning and start rallying the troops. It's no use harassing these Industry-organizations, they will never change their minds, but politicians have one deeper "basic instinct" than accepting money or favours (free movie screenings) and that is holding on to their seats. TPB can be instrumental, when there is an election anywhere it mattes, to reaching out to first-time voters and urge casual voters/voters of habit to support "friendly" parties (i.e. not necessarily limited to the local Pirate Party).
Every time, again and again, this video becomes more and more of a reality. It's a good thing that as a matter of happenstance the creators used the UK as the operating theater. The rest of Europe will be moving the other way.
Welcome to another example of the "New Normal" in US Government-Citizenry Relations. Yes. YOUR Government is no longer there for you, YOU are there for the Government: to sustain itself (le gouvernement pour le gouvernement) and to be its loyal subject (so it asserts its own legitimacy and reason-for-being). Pay your taxes, and do what we tell you to... or else!
In the old days, the government worker would have assessed the situation, used their brain to think about it, determined that indeed there was an error, and helped the civilian to correct the situation. That required two things:
1. the ability to think independently;
2. a customer-service (instead of authoritarian) attitude.
Part of the Government Bullying problem is also the "metrics-ization" of people's work; it doesn't matter anymore if you do a good job, just if you "met your targets". This means any kind of issue that takes a bit longer puts a blemish on your work performance. Workers are being rewarded to just get rid of you, one way or the other, as quickly as possible. Next in line step forward!
From http://www.newspacejournal.com/2013/02/21/new-insights-on-that-private-crewed-mars-mission/:
Right. Tell your kids: "let's go to McDonalds!" Load them up in the car. Drive to McD's, just drive past it, return home. Let's see how well that goes does for "going to McDonalds".
Have a look again, because it's there - as an option.
I'd pick Win7 over Win8 any time. Hopefully Win9 will bring back much of Win7, including an upgrade/migration path from Win7 (are you listening, MS?).
Great News from Google!
You've all been signed up for the GPolice Beta program! Today, with Industry partners, we've started an open beta of GPolice, where we will be policing your websites for compliance to accepted Industry standards. Should any sites be found to be in violation, we and our parners will cut your funding! Since this exciting new feature is still in Beta, we anticipate a few problems here and there, but with GPolice growing and expanding --we are still looking for more Industries to partner with-- we will soon iron out most bugs and cut funding more effectively.
Thank You from your GPolice team!
Actually, Bill (Gates) got this one right when he (I have the audio recording) stated that no one needs more than 640k on any computer.
Right. Release the recording or it didn't happen!
It's just a matter of time until this exploit is included in malware, so Samsung better start pumping out those firmware upgrades that guarantee enough space will be left to boot.
Well with the combined power of the Echelon partnership rummaging through all my communications, what's a little Google added for flavour?
Where there exists copyright legislation and legislation that outlaws DRM circumvention, there is no "free market".
It's there; Blu-ray Disc recordable. The problem is that the quality media are still relatively expensive.
Except for that little fact that that is how it DID operate for several thousand years. Musicians and authors and performers were paid for their PERFORMANCE.
There's a plus side to that; the recording sounds exactly the same, all the time, every time. The performance (with real musicians, not the Heartthrobs-du-Jour from the Label-Factory) is different every time. That is the thing that live performances offer, but static recordings do not. Going to a concert is not just you-supporting-your-favourite-artist and the artist-actually-breaking-some-sweat, it's a unique experience, it's created before your eyes (and ears) and you (as audience) are a part of it.
The French branch of the RIAA was much smarter: have the tax payer pick up the bill.
French President François Hollande ran his campaign with the promise he would abrogate (abolish) the HADOPI three-strikes law. Yeah, we've seen how that worked out, right, French voters? And the word on the web is that the law is just going to be changed, so you will get a 140 Euro fine right at the first "strike" with unlimited strikes to follow (instead of strike I propose the term "ka-ching", as in "Gee, that's my third ka-ching this year, and it's only February!").
For some reason, the *AA is able to corrupt everyone once they get in a position to do something.
At least they had the guts to call it a "tribunal" which has the subconscious association of medieval witch-hunts, heretics being put on trial by The Church, etc.
Hopefully at one point they will catch the wrong guy that will rally the people against this... the Content Industry persecuting regular folks doing nothing more than "we" did with cassette tapes on the school yard.
I know there's a Pirate Party of NZ but that shouldn't stop anyone from contacting the "we already know who wins because they always win" local seat-holder about these issues.
Regardless of how this was (accidentally or not) triggered, is this a weakness in UEFI such that once one gains kernel-level access to the hardware, bricking a device that was booted using UEFI is trivial?
With BIOS laptops there usually was an emergency recovery mode where the BIOS reflashed itself from an image via USB floppy disk. Was an opportunity missed to make a similar setup mandatory in EUFI (but from a USB stick of course)?
It would be trivial for the US to bar all US citizens from spending money in Antigua and overnight their economy would collapse as nearly 90% of their tourism is from Americans.
Just open up those runways to Canadian charter flights and plenty of tourists will come, tourists that want to stick it to The Man (i.e. certain elements in the US government) for bullying sovereign countries at the behest of their Hollywood paymasters.
Ecuador keeps getting great press for providing sanctuary to WikiLeaks' Julian Assange (UK ---> Sweden --"temporary surrender"--> US custody), Antigua (already well-liked because of its BD and DVD ripping software tool companies) will get even more positive karma.
You Don't Get Served By Their Kind In Here!
You can always go there if you want a burger served up by a human instead of a droid!
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/secure-resources-and-funding-and-begin-construction-death-star-2016/wlfKzFkN
Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016.
Thank you for taking the time to sign this petition. Due to recent leaks in the press, the Death Star project (previously classified project names included "Sphere of Phear", "Planet Death", "The Killing Ball", "Death Moon", "Giant Hurt Ball" and "Deathticle" has recently been partially declassified under the IEKINLAS provision.
Your administration has begun work on constructing a Death Star at the Formalhaut Space Dock facilities, and work is [CLASSIFIED]. We expect [CLASSIFIED] to mount an [CLASSIFIED] and when [CLASSIFIED] fully commited, it will be revealed that [CLASSIFIED].
Ithe benefit is... what? That it stresses how much the government gouges you for? That's not useful for anything but a political statement, and if so, it should note the credit card robbery as well.
EXACTLY. Having lived in Europe for a long time, on a conscious level consumers do know how much Value Added Tax they pay (Netherlands currently 21 percent!) but in day-to-day live no one stops and calculates daily how much tax they paid on their purchases. "The price" is say 121 Euros, not 100 Euros plus a 21 Euro cut for the government.
The North-American system (even if it's technically a different tax, a sales tax) serves as a constant reminder that you are buying something from whomever sells it to you, and that they also collect the tax on the governments' behalf.
This keeps taxes lower, since the consumer is constantly reminded how much tax is included in the amount going out of their wallet. Proof-in-point: gasoline prices are usually posted with all taxes, fees, levies, included so you don't see how much you pay for the gas and how much goes to the government (including sales-tax-on-carbon-tax).
I don't know about you guys, but my PS2 is still hooked up and ready to go, and I have two shelves full of PS2 titles. What if the laser goes in my PS2, is all that software suddenly worthless? I know about PCSX2 but that is not a 100% solution, and I don't want to think about the legality of BIOS and disc images that you haven't dumped yourself. I think it's a shame that soon you cannot buy a brand-new PS2 anymore, just to protect your investment in game titles.
“citizens increasingly hear the word copyright and hate what is behind it. Many see the current system as a tool to punish and withhold, not a tool to recognize and reward.” Source
So this is good news, the more Ye Average Americans hit their nose against the Great Wall of Copyright, the better. Our job is to show them that this is not "just the way it is" but that there are viable alternatives.
Not just that, what would come closer would be saying "give her a hug from me" to someone at a distant location, where this person would proceed to give an actual hug to a third party at/near that location.
Now you have this "...but on a computer". The next patent will be the same "...but on a mobile device, using location-based data".
Anything that is from "IBM", "Apple", "Microsoft", seems to be rubber-stamped approved.