Beginning Friday, July 25, every major exhibitor in the country will donate time to play daily trailers on all screens in more than 5,000 theaters across the United States.
Well here's a newsflash for you MPAA shitheads: If I'm watching a movie in a theater, I didn't pirate it, did I? Fucking idiots. They're too stupid to live any longer...where's my gun?
I think this is a great direction to head with our already broken justice system. Within a few years I'll be able to go to work with a loaded AK-47 and massacre... ohh lets say anywhere between 10-12 co-workers, and get a lighter sentence than if I downloaded a few songs/movies from the internet.
That's because in "their" eyes the greatest crime you can commit is not murder, or rape etc...it's stealing from "them". Why do you think tax cheats get punished so harshly? Because the one sixth or so of their productivity isn't finding its way into the pockets of the financiers (who set up the reserve banking system) under the guise of "debt servicing". It's just like the mob...you can kill Fat Tony's cousin, but don't steal his money, and don't get behinfd on your payments.
You back up your data, your config, your bookmarks, you have your favorite distro on hand, etc..., etc..., regularly, right?
Better yet, I've got an old IBM Pentium 166! How about I make that the filesharing appliance? Nuke away boys! It'll be up and running again in an hour or so...meanwhile I've got copies of everything on my regular system.
Also I'm in Canada. Where does that asshole get off thinking that he has any right telling me what I can and can't have on any of my computers? He better not venture online, because there are lots of people out there that will have lots of nasty things with his name on them.
They are living not far from Israel who did take some of their territories during the 1967 war they actually started (the E., not the I.).
Bullshit. The '67 war was a war of agression launched by the Israelis in a territory grabbing exercise, which they tried to justify by saying the Egyptians were getting ready to attack them. Senior Israeli leaders have since quietly admitted that the Egyptians were not planning an attack.
The only issue would be if you decided you wanted to download somebody else's copy of John Denver's Greatest Hits (which was likely from a CD, and a much higher audio quality).
Just as you would not go into a video store and steal a DVD copy of Star Wars and claim that you should be permitted to do that because you own the VHS version, you cannot download somebody else's copy of a recording.
If they were licensing the song/or whatever to me, they shouldn't care where I got it, as long as I have a license. This says to me that they are selling me the copy, to do with as I see fit.
Unless of course you don't mind having a dead body on your hands! And if you do happen to have Korean friends, you might want to prepare yourself by watching Weekend at Bernie's...
I had a friend who used to sell cheque printing machines and he, as part of his demo, used to forge the signature of a prospective client and then ask them to pick out the one they wrote just to show how easy it is. He said the hardest signatures to forge were the ones written neatly and legibly; those guys who thought that their illegible scrawl was "safe" usually got a rude awakening.
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Never mind daycare...how about designing an even larger version to help rid the inner cities of their vagrants, or better yet...skateboarders?
Amen! Star Wars is still called Star Wars in my book as well...fuck this New Hope bullshit! Now the burning question is: are there any non special ed DVDs to be had? I seem to recall that Georgie was unwilling to release it on DVD until they'd been "fixed".
BTW You weren't wasting an opportunity posting here. You're above comment has more or less summed up how many of us feel.
Prior to today, I didn't know her name, never mind her reputation, as I had never even heard of her, and had never run across Max's site. Now everyone who reads Slashdot knows that she's a drunken slut! Way to protect that reputation! Perhaps "vapid" doesn't even begin to describe it...
...they're not getting paid for it, and that causes a loss of profits.
No it doesn't. Their signal is falling into Canada, where it is illegal for Canadians to purchase their signal therefore are not losing any more than they would if no-one in Canada tapped into their signal. The satellite transmitter cranks out the same signal whether 1 million people are watching or whether 2 million are. There is NO loss of profits because they can't make a profit in the Canadian market anyway! In any case, I have a hard time swallowing the "piracy equals loss" argument unless it can definitely be shown that piracy is encouraging individuals who otherwise had intent to purchase the service to help themselves for nothing. In fact the Canadian DirecTV situation is probably one of the best illustrations of a case where "piracy equals loss" is false.
Give me a break. You have as little right to hack satellite transmissions as you have to spy on military communications, cell phones, wireless keyboards, mouses and headphone, garage door openers, the EM emissions of my screen or anything else that happens to run across your airspace.
Well I hate to break it to you, but according to the Canadian CRTC, I have exactly those rights! If it's in the air it's fair game...why do you think the military encrypts their shit? It doesn't become illegal until I tell someone else about the contents of what I intercepted! Interception is not illegal in Canada...OTOH dissemenation and distribution of intercepted content...well that's a different matter.
...how is it going to know which card to use for the transaction?
Know what I'm going to do? Pick the lineup with the most customers. That way I'll have a pretty good chance of not acxtually having to pay for my stuff!
A few from my list...not in any particular order
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William Shirer...needs no introduction.
The Grand Chessboard - Zbigniew Brzezinski...dry as hell, but it sure clears up why things are happening the way they are today.
Powderburns - Celerino Castillo (if you can find a copy that is)...Remember Iran/Contra? This is the part 60 Minutes didn't tell you about!
Dark Alliance - Gary Webb...see above.
That oughta keep you out of trouble for a while! (Though after reading these, you'll probably want to quit your job and move to Alaska and build a bunker or something...)
...and just like this new BIOS thingy, Computrace won't protect you from a thief whose primary interest is your data. No self-respecting data thief is going to let any machine that falls into his hands talk to the outside world. And besides, as far as this Computrace thing goes, what's to stop the thief who is only interested in the laptop itself from simply zeroing the hard drive?
BTW I have a friend who works for Computrace (in sales) and she tried telling me that it was "undefeatable", and then wouldn't go into any details...good ol' security through obscurity! A fellow geek and I put our heads together and in about 15 minutes came up with several scenarios where we could come away with either new hardware or extracted data on a system protected only with Computrace. I hope you have your users trained to encrypt their important and sensitive stuff.
The rental industry is getting killed by movie piracy online. If you're a fan of a film, you'll go to the theatre to see it.
But all those so-so films that you tell yourself "I'll wait and rent it", can now be downloaded free-as-in-hobo at your leisure.
And if they keep churning out shit like Pearl Harbor, how is that a bad thing? Would you feel good about having paid to see that garbage? No, you'd feel ripped off...but ever try to get your money back from the movie industry after being subjected to a colossal rip-off? Ha! Now even though a significant portion of their business is based on screwing their customers they have the temerity to complain if they're on the receiving end??? I say turnabout is fair play! Mind you, I won't even allow a colossal turd like Pearl Harbor to occupy valuable space on my hard drive! Make quality, entertaining movies and I'll be happy to pay to see them a multitude of times. Try to screw me and expect to get some of the same in return.
Seeings how Canada is sitting on top of somewhere in the neighbourhood of 200 billion barels of recoverable oil in the tarsands of Northern Alberta. For God's sake, we shouldn't be giving those yankee bastards and their bushit never-ending war on "terra"(oil) any excuses!
Actually, a bloke that I knew once (a South African expatriate), referred to the 3.5" diskettes as "stiffies" (because the case is harder than the 5.25" floppies...) My usual rejoinder was anyone who thought a stiffy was 3.5" was hurting bigtime...
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I'm nor the least bit suprised. Isn't it typical of organized crime to go after the families of those that cross them?
Beginning Friday, July 25, every major exhibitor in the country will donate time to play daily trailers on all screens in more than 5,000 theaters across the United States.
Well here's a newsflash for you MPAA shitheads: If I'm watching a movie in a theater, I didn't pirate it, did I? Fucking idiots. They're too stupid to live any longer...where's my gun?
I've registered as Homer Simpson, with the aforementioned address.
BTW thanks for the zip...I never knew what it was and so just put 90210.
I think this is a great direction to head with our already broken justice system. Within a few years I'll be able to go to work with a loaded AK-47 and massacre... ohh lets say anywhere between 10-12 co-workers, and get a lighter sentence than if I downloaded a few songs/movies from the internet.
That's because in "their" eyes the greatest crime you can commit is not murder, or rape etc...it's stealing from "them". Why do you think tax cheats get punished so harshly? Because the one sixth or so of their productivity isn't finding its way into the pockets of the financiers (who set up the reserve banking system) under the guise of "debt servicing". It's just like the mob...you can kill Fat Tony's cousin, but don't steal his money, and don't get behinfd on your payments.
Aaaahhhhh! In-put!
You back up your data, your config, your bookmarks, you have your favorite distro on hand, etc..., etc..., regularly, right?
Better yet, I've got an old IBM Pentium 166! How about I make that the filesharing appliance? Nuke away boys! It'll be up and running again in an hour or so...meanwhile I've got copies of everything on my regular system.
Also I'm in Canada. Where does that asshole get off thinking that he has any right telling me what I can and can't have on any of my computers? He better not venture online, because there are lots of people out there that will have lots of nasty things with his name on them.
They are living not far from Israel who did take some of their territories during the 1967 war they actually started (the E., not the I.).
Bullshit. The '67 war was a war of agression launched by the Israelis in a territory grabbing exercise, which they tried to justify by saying the Egyptians were getting ready to attack them. Senior Israeli leaders have since quietly admitted that the Egyptians were not planning an attack.
...and am not merely licensing it!
The only issue would be if you decided you wanted to download somebody else's copy of John Denver's Greatest Hits (which was likely from a CD, and a much higher audio quality).
Just as you would not go into a video store and steal a DVD copy of Star Wars and claim that you should be permitted to do that because you own the VHS version, you cannot download somebody else's copy of a recording.
If they were licensing the song/or whatever to me, they shouldn't care where I got it, as long as I have a license. This says to me that they are selling me the copy, to do with as I see fit.
Unless of course you don't mind having a dead body on your hands! And if you do happen to have Korean friends, you might want to prepare yourself by watching Weekend at Bernie's...
I had a friend who used to sell cheque printing machines and he, as part of his demo, used to forge the signature of a prospective client and then ask them to pick out the one they wrote just to show how easy it is. He said the hardest signatures to forge were the ones written neatly and legibly; those guys who thought that their illegible scrawl was "safe" usually got a rude awakening.
Never mind daycare...how about designing an even larger version to help rid the inner cities of their vagrants, or better yet...skateboarders?
Amen! Star Wars is still called Star Wars in my book as well...fuck this New Hope bullshit! Now the burning question is: are there any non special ed DVDs to be had? I seem to recall that Georgie was unwilling to release it on DVD until they'd been "fixed".
BTW You weren't wasting an opportunity posting here. You're above comment has more or less summed up how many of us feel.
Now you get a restraining order forcing me to take down the site because it's all complete BS. I made everything up.
Ahhh there's where you're wrong...I wouldn't bother with the restraining order, I'd simply hunt you down! It's simple, it's direct, it's effective!
Restraining orders are for wimps.
Prior to today, I didn't know her name, never mind her reputation, as I had never even heard of her, and had never run across Max's site. Now everyone who reads Slashdot knows that she's a drunken slut! Way to protect that reputation! Perhaps "vapid" doesn't even begin to describe it...
...they're not getting paid for it, and that causes a loss of profits.
No it doesn't. Their signal is falling into Canada, where it is illegal for Canadians to purchase their signal therefore are not losing any more than they would if no-one in Canada tapped into their signal. The satellite transmitter cranks out the same signal whether 1 million people are watching or whether 2 million are. There is NO loss of profits because they can't make a profit in the Canadian market anyway! In any case, I have a hard time swallowing the "piracy equals loss" argument unless it can definitely be shown that piracy is encouraging individuals who otherwise had intent to purchase the service to help themselves for nothing. In fact the Canadian DirecTV situation is probably one of the best illustrations of a case where "piracy equals loss" is false.
Give me a break. You have as little right to hack satellite transmissions as you have to spy on military communications, cell phones, wireless keyboards, mouses and headphone, garage door openers, the EM emissions of my screen or anything else that happens to run across your airspace.
Well I hate to break it to you, but according to the Canadian CRTC, I have exactly those rights! If it's in the air it's fair game...why do you think the military encrypts their shit? It doesn't become illegal until I tell someone else about the contents of what I intercepted! Interception is not illegal in Canada...OTOH dissemenation and distribution of intercepted content...well that's a different matter.
...how is it going to know which card to use for the transaction?
Know what I'm going to do? Pick the lineup with the most customers. That way I'll have a pretty good chance of not acxtually having to pay for my stuff!
The Grand Chessboard - Zbigniew Brzezinski
Powderburns - Celerino Castillo (if you can find a copy that is)...Remember Iran/Contra? This is the part 60 Minutes didn't tell you about!
Dark Alliance - Gary Webb
That oughta keep you out of trouble for a while! (Though after reading these, you'll probably want to quit your job and move to Alaska and build a bunker or something...)
...and just like this new BIOS thingy, Computrace won't protect you from a thief whose primary interest is your data. No self-respecting data thief is going to let any machine that falls into his hands talk to the outside world. And besides, as far as this Computrace thing goes, what's to stop the thief who is only interested in the laptop itself from simply zeroing the hard drive?
BTW I have a friend who works for Computrace (in sales) and she tried telling me that it was "undefeatable", and then wouldn't go into any details...good ol' security through obscurity! A fellow geek and I put our heads together and in about 15 minutes came up with several scenarios where we could come away with either new hardware or extracted data on a system protected only with Computrace. I hope you have your users trained to encrypt their important and sensitive stuff.
The rental industry is getting killed by movie piracy online. If you're a fan of a film, you'll go to the theatre to see it.
But all those so-so films that you tell yourself "I'll wait and rent it", can now be downloaded free-as-in-hobo at your leisure.
And if they keep churning out shit like Pearl Harbor, how is that a bad thing? Would you feel good about having paid to see that garbage? No, you'd feel ripped off...but ever try to get your money back from the movie industry after being subjected to a colossal rip-off? Ha! Now even though a significant portion of their business is based on screwing their customers they have the temerity to complain if they're on the receiving end??? I say turnabout is fair play! Mind you, I won't even allow a colossal turd like Pearl Harbor to occupy valuable space on my hard drive! Make quality, entertaining movies and I'll be happy to pay to see them a multitude of times. Try to screw me and expect to get some of the same in return.
That's the sound of yet another web server flatlining.
BTW the only lame thing around here is your bloody "lameness" filters! How in hell else can I simulate a flatline in text without using repetition?
Now I'm going to need a tinfoil wallet to go with my hat!
Seeings how Canada is sitting on top of somewhere in the neighbourhood of 200 billion barels of recoverable oil in the tarsands of Northern Alberta. For God's sake, we shouldn't be giving those yankee bastards and their bushit never-ending war on "terra"(oil) any excuses!
Should we call 3.5" diskettes "hard disks"...
Actually, a bloke that I knew once (a South African expatriate), referred to the 3.5" diskettes as "stiffies" (because the case is harder than the 5.25" floppies...) My usual rejoinder was anyone who thought a stiffy was 3.5" was hurting bigtime...
Don't forget barstools!