Personally, I still believe that the outcomes of all the dice throws are predetermined. We just don't know how. Well, whoever controlls that must hate me.
So that PB could what? Serve kilobyte torrent index files in a few microseconds? At 1 HD-DVD every 2 seconds a torrent index file would arrive at least 5 seconds *before* you initiated the download!
I don't know about perpetual energy, but I've been working on perpetual lethargy for years. I wish I could publish a paper on it, but that would ruin years of research.
What parent post? OH! You mean, my parent post! Yep, YOUR parent post. That's the one you should've read more carefully.
Or are you too dense Well, I could lose a few pounds...
But wait, I'm forgetting that you have a media degree There were a lot of dumbasses there, trust me...
I should've automatically adjusted my expectations of your intelligence downwards to begin with. Now you're starting to understand! That's something the media are notorious about, and it's one of those subtle ways, even when unwillingly, to make sure a story doesn't get through as it should.
I understand your North Korean example, and you're right about that, but what you don't see is that there's much more to censorship or, to humor you, for a given story to be kept from us. That's it.
My apologies for exposing your mental limitations for all to see. Are you kidding?! That's something I do all the time. I certainly don't need your help there. And judging by your posts you're doing a great job there yourself...
As for it being a free country, you should be careful saying that! Well, I was talking about MY country, not the US. But yes, it's all the same. The difference is that we don't have any delusions of grandeur around here. Yours is a 'young' country. There's stuff you can't understand yet. Hopefully a new generation will one day get it. Let's just give evolution some time to bleach your genes out of the pool first.
It sounds too much like that old "land of the free, home of the brave bullshit" you spoke of earlier. The censors will come and get you! I'll be ok. When you understand how things work you figure out your way around them. I'd have more to worry about if I thought censorship is something only the North Koreans have to worry about...
Remember: "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
After all, censorship is everywhere...right? That's it. Sort of... You're starting to get it.
You are more right than you thought. I own a second hand Nissan Almera with this sort of key. On the owner's manual there's a blank field where you're supposed to write down your specific key code, in case you ever need to order a replacement. Guess what, the previous owner only had ONE key (which he passed along with the car) and the key code was not in the owner's manual! How screwed am I?
This unfolded slowly, of course. Initially I got the car and the one key, and no owner's manual. Later we managed to have the owner's manual posted our way. That's when I read about the key thing, Nissan's replacement policy, and found out that I had no key code. I can't stop thinking that's the reason why the owner's manual was not provided to us at the time we made the deal.
To make things better, the previous owner is an illusive character, which got me thinking he doesn't have the code either. I'll probably have to take this up to Nissan.
In the meantime, the bottom line is: if the key gets lost, I'm screwed.
But not all is bad news. I've been storing my cell phone and car key in the same pocket and nothing happened yet. Truth is, I don't get many calls. Gotta make sure I don't give the Nissan people my cell phone number when I contact them about this issue...
If you took the time to read the parent post to which I was replying to, maybe you wouldn't have made such an ass of yourself. But hey, it's a free country, right?
As a media graduate let me just say that there are many subtle ways to censor a story. Something as harmless as an editor deciding which reporter will follow a story is enough to influence the end result. You really know nothing about how the media operate and have no clue about their agendas.
As long as censorship is perceived by americans as something that only happens when the whole communist textbook we see in the movies is followed, I guess you guys should continue with the 'land of the free, home of the brave' bullshit.
I just wish Bill Hicks was still around to bitchslap you across the face.
As others have pointed out as well, people turn a profit on their work much faster than ever before in our history. The vast majority of works earn very little after only a few years of turning a profit. Then you have the long tail of earnings dropoff. A relative handful of works will continue to be profitable, but those works will have made so much money already that the creator will hardly be starving (unless he gets lost for a week in one of his mansions). And since someone mentioned Waters, Dark Side of the Moon stands out as one of those exceptions. Although released 34 years ago (1973) it still sells around one million copies every year! Some new bands don't sell that in their entire careers. I know people who own more than 10 legit copies of Dark Side of the Moon from various origins and flavours. Bottom line: if the record companies put out quality releases they will sell.
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Just what I needed, 6.6 billion more names on my xmas list.
I don't know about perpetual energy, but I've been working on perpetual lethargy for years. I wish I could publish a paper on it, but that would ruin years of research.
That's how they killed my hyena! I knew I'd get to the bottom of this.
I don't know about gambling, but there's a definite cure for gaming addiction: my computer.
The best of my machines won't play anything new...
That's how I got out.
Man, I've been trying for years and these guys did it by accident!
I understand your North Korean example, and you're right about that, but what you don't see is that there's much more to censorship or, to humor you, for a given story to be kept from us. That's it. My apologies for exposing your mental limitations for all to see. Are you kidding?! That's something I do all the time. I certainly don't need your help there. And judging by your posts you're doing a great job there yourself... As for it being a free country, you should be careful saying that! Well, I was talking about MY country, not the US. But yes, it's all the same. The difference is that we don't have any delusions of grandeur around here. Yours is a 'young' country. There's stuff you can't understand yet. Hopefully a new generation will one day get it. Let's just give evolution some time to bleach your genes out of the pool first. It sounds too much like that old "land of the free, home of the brave bullshit" you spoke of earlier. The censors will come and get you! I'll be ok. When you understand how things work you figure out your way around them. I'd have more to worry about if I thought censorship is something only the North Koreans have to worry about...
Remember: "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." After all, censorship is everywhere...right? That's it. Sort of... You're starting to get it.
You are more right than you thought. I own a second hand Nissan Almera with this sort of key. On the owner's manual there's a blank field where you're supposed to write down your specific key code, in case you ever need to order a replacement. Guess what, the previous owner only had ONE key (which he passed along with the car) and the key code was not in the owner's manual! How screwed am I?
This unfolded slowly, of course. Initially I got the car and the one key, and no owner's manual. Later we managed to have the owner's manual posted our way. That's when I read about the key thing, Nissan's replacement policy, and found out that I had no key code. I can't stop thinking that's the reason why the owner's manual was not provided to us at the time we made the deal.
To make things better, the previous owner is an illusive character, which got me thinking he doesn't have the code either. I'll probably have to take this up to Nissan.
In the meantime, the bottom line is: if the key gets lost, I'm screwed.
But not all is bad news. I've been storing my cell phone and car key in the same pocket and nothing happened yet. Truth is, I don't get many calls. Gotta make sure I don't give the Nissan people my cell phone number when I contact them about this issue...
If you took the time to read the parent post to which I was replying to, maybe you wouldn't have made such an ass of yourself. But hey, it's a free country, right?
As a media graduate let me just say that there are many subtle ways to censor a story. Something as harmless as an editor deciding which reporter will follow a story is enough to influence the end result. You really know nothing about how the media operate and have no clue about their agendas.
As long as censorship is perceived by americans as something that only happens when the whole communist textbook we see in the movies is followed, I guess you guys should continue with the 'land of the free, home of the brave' bullshit.
I just wish Bill Hicks was still around to bitchslap you across the face.