If you'd read "Manufacturing Consent",you'd know that such a report probably wouldn't make it past the editor's desk. And on the off chance that it did, expect to see the "Cones of Silence" thrown over the whole sorry mess.
Why isn't mainstream media up in arms about the DMCA and it's 1st amendment violation?
...and a lot of the mainstream media in the U.S. is actually owned by content holders.
There's your answer. If your paycheck is being signed by Time-Warner then how critical are you going to be of a bad law that increases your boss's profitability? The label "Media-whore" is actually earned...
The point is the US thinks it can impose it's laws on individuals, companies,or entities that aren't actually within it's boundaries, ie: Helms-Burton, California's proposed new tax on satellites, etc...
...it shouldn't be a problem installing Linux. There doesn't appear to be anything too weird or wonderful in the system specs that would preclude installing Linux.
Justifying theft by saying "Well, the RIAA is still making $500 million dollars more than they did last year!" is absolute bullshit.
Let's do a little editing and see what happens...
Justifying imprisonment on trumped up charges by saying "Well, the RIAA is still making $500 million dollars less than they could have because of peer to peer file sharing!" is more absolute bullshit.
I can't speak for everyone else but In the last year I have purchased exactly the same number of CD's that I would have had P2P filesharing not been available. The RIAA or RIAK or whoever claiming that they've lost revenue because of filesharing is bullshit. I'll say it again: Based of my spending habits, there is no more revenue for them...no more! Do I have to whack them (and all the other "sharing is stealing" whiners) in the head with a stick to make them understand that? The best that they could possibly hope for is that their potential for increased revenue is unquantifiable! Quit trying to sell me this BS line that "we lost x millions because of Napster etc..."! That can't possibly be known. I say the number should be zero (the same as their IQ's).
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...a vital but endangered Web species...
I'll say it's endangered! It's getting Slashdotted to death already!
I'm a card-carrying Microsoft guy. Mind you, I work for my clients...not Microsoft.
Who would even think of visiting dot.kde.org, besides people who already know the benefits of Linux over other OSes? Nobody.
Thank-you! Now that I know that it's there, I will visit from time to time.
Go out there into the real world and try selling that to a company who relies on NT for their technology.
I can see myself pitching this to a client as an option. Can you imagine having that versatility of being able to continue to support NT/2000 or offering an extrenmely cool (not to mention cost-effective) solution? I can!
Ever wonder if there's any connection between these virus outbreaks and the issues the RIAA nad MPAA hold dear? Maybe I'm starting to sound like one of those "conspiracy theorists", but it seems funny that when an issue such as the fundamental loss of freedom presented by the DMCA is before us, it is eclipsed in the media by these horrible nasty internet worms and viruses. And at the end of the day if there is any mention of Skyarlov, it's "Oh...he's one of THEM!" (a hacker) and he's immediately equated with the authors of Code Red or Sircam and immediately he's views (and those of others like him)are invalidated, and he and all the other hackers should be locked up and the key thrown away, and humanity will be able to breathe easier and all will be well in MPAA-land!
Now here comes my admittedly controversial point: the vast majority of the world is still like that. The Congo basin is still like that. The evil greedy capitalist colonial corporations have nothing to do with it. There are all kinds of funky diseases, famines, and ethnic infighting in the area. If anything, the establishment of mining and factories will add stability to the region, since the companies want to protect their money and investment.
With all due respect, you are out to lunch on this one.
From the Article:
In the 1960's, the Americans waded in. To fight Communism and secure access to cobalt and copper, the Central Intelligence Agency helped bring about the assassination of Congo's first democratically elected prime minister, Patrice Lumumba. That was followed by three decades of White House coddling of his successor, Mobutu Sese Seku, Africa's most famous billionaire dictator, who set a poisoned table for the chaos that followed his eventual overthrow in 1997.
The evil greedy capitalist colonial corporations are NOT helping the situation. Sure, they'll give them the bare minimum to keep them digging or to keep churning out Nike's but they will never allow them to achieve the stability that will allow them to choose not to be exploited.
This is hilarious! But you're absolutely right! I mean what were they thinking? When the internet burst onto the scene, didn't they stop to ask someone that knew, what exactly it was? (Maybe they should have asked Al Gore...after all didn't he invent it?) "Let's put our stuff up on this cool new internet thing...Holy Shit!...people are stealing it and were not getting paid...make it stop!!!"
So you wanna create a "dot com brand"??? I'll save you the trouble of reading the book. You'll need about two million for your web infrastructure, two million for your office admin and staffing and about 30 million for advertising. Otherwise, don't even try...
Oh, and it actually has to be something people will like. Dr Koop's need not apply. And you will still have to have a realistic business plan.
Hey! I'm gonna get you too...
Another one bites the dust!
I know, I'm heartless...but haven't ANY of these clowns heard of a thing called a business plan??? The infrastructure needed to engage in this type of business is expensive (duh!) and guess what... you'll be going head-to-head with a phone company that has had it's network in place for...hmm...how many years? Didn't think of that did you? I hear Anne Robinson has something to say to you...
Note: second in a series -- you can also read the first.
You just gotta rub it in and torture us, don't you? Yeah, just in case you were succesful in ignoring his first barrage of mindless ditherings, there's a link back to it thoughtfully provided...
Note: I didn't copy the link into the above quote. It's OK! You don't have to click on it!
This isn't much different from Helms Burton, where Cuban nationals can sue foreigners in US courts if they do business with Castro's Cuba that involves property they lost. Of course, if I ever received such a summons, I'd wipe a big shit smear on it and send it back (and cc. Jesse Helms with it!). It's bloody arrogant,not to mention a double standard! On the one hand America says it can sue individuals in US courts using US laws even though they are operating outside it's jurisdiction, but on the other hand they say they won't turn their citizens over to be tried by an international tribunal if they are accused of war crimes!
I find it funny sometimes that people think that they have the right to do anything they want with something they've paid money for.
Guess what? I do. Guess what else? The seller doesn't have the right to change the terms of sale after the fact. Nor do they have the right to alter the terms under which goods are purchased without informing previous customers (who have entered into so-called contractural agreements with them) that they intend to alter those terms.
One flaw in your analogy is that I have the option to choose to purchase the car outright and then do whatever the hell I want with it. I don't have that option where media is concerned.
I agree with your "if you don't like it, don't buy it" statement. I don't like it! And it'll be a cold day in hell before they get any more money out of me.
Is every bit of human endeavor going to be stifled by cease and desist letters or demands for royalties? You know, somebody should take out a patent on this technology that enables the encoding and storage of human phonetics (called the alphabet) onto a semi-permanent medium (paper) and sue these cocksuckers for violation every time they send out one of these asinine cease and desist letters. That'll learn 'em!
I did read the article, sunshine. And I do understand that the creditors agreed to the conversion of debt notes to stock. That's just taking the lesser of two evils...the greater being having the company go tits-up and creditors losing everything. I also know (and have experience with) that from an IR guy's point of view, it's usually better to retire debt with "paper" than with actual cash...
...and not have to pay most of it back! I'm beginning to believe that certain unscrupulous people are starting to take advantage of the talking-head spawned hype surrounding the "dot-com meltdown" in order to get out from under their financial responsibilities. It also illustrates a truism: No matter how much money is raised, a poorly led company will find some way to piss it all away quickly.
If I was him I'd say "screw the friggin US (non)justice system" and head for either Canada or Mexico just as fast as I could. Maybe Mexico would be better because they have direct flights to Cuba and fakes for just about everything (including passports). Unfortunately, this would be another nail in the coffin of any hope we have of seeing the DMCA overturned. Glad I'm not in his shoes right now... Hobson's choice, right? How'd you like that on your shoulders?
This was a reply to another post!!! Don't tell me I stumbled onto Taco's banjo site (hope for his sake "banjo" isn't code for beta testing IIS on XP) by mistake!
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If you'd read "Manufacturing Consent",you'd know that such a report probably wouldn't make it past the editor's desk. And on the off chance that it did, expect to see the "Cones of Silence" thrown over the whole sorry mess.
There's your answer. If your paycheck is being signed by Time-Warner then how critical are you going to be of a bad law that increases your boss's profitability? The label "Media-whore" is actually earned...
The point is the US thinks it can impose it's laws on individuals, companies,or entities that aren't actually within it's boundaries, ie: Helms-Burton, California's proposed new tax on satellites, etc...
...it shouldn't be a problem installing Linux. There doesn't appear to be anything too weird or wonderful in the system specs that would preclude installing Linux.
Let's do a little editing and see what happens...
Justifying imprisonment on trumped up charges by saying "Well, the RIAA is still making $500 million dollars less than they could have because of peer to peer file sharing!" is more absolute bullshit.
I can't speak for everyone else but In the last year I have purchased exactly the same number of CD's that I would have had P2P filesharing not been available. The RIAA or RIAK or whoever claiming that they've lost revenue because of filesharing is bullshit. I'll say it again: Based of my spending habits, there is no more revenue for them...no more! Do I have to whack them (and all the other "sharing is stealing" whiners) in the head with a stick to make them understand that? The best that they could possibly hope for is that their potential for increased revenue is unquantifiable! Quit trying to sell me this BS line that "we lost x millions because of Napster etc..."! That can't possibly be known. I say the number should be zero (the same as their IQ's).
I'll say it's endangered! It's getting Slashdotted to death already!
I thought we were boycotting Adobe!
Who would even think of visiting dot.kde.org, besides people who already know the benefits of Linux over other OSes? Nobody.
Thank-you! Now that I know that it's there, I will visit from time to time.
Go out there into the real world and try selling that to a company who relies on NT for their technology.
I can see myself pitching this to a client as an option. Can you imagine having that versatility of being able to continue to support NT/2000 or offering an extrenmely cool (not to mention cost-effective) solution? I can!
Somebody ought to tell Rocketguy! Then, if he incorporated this, he might have a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding...
Ever wonder if there's any connection between these virus outbreaks and the issues the RIAA nad MPAA hold dear? Maybe I'm starting to sound like one of those "conspiracy theorists", but it seems funny that when an issue such as the fundamental loss of freedom presented by the DMCA is before us, it is eclipsed in the media by these horrible nasty internet worms and viruses. And at the end of the day if there is any mention of Skyarlov, it's "Oh...he's one of THEM!" (a hacker) and he's immediately equated with the authors of Code Red or Sircam and immediately he's views (and those of others like him)are invalidated, and he and all the other hackers should be locked up and the key thrown away, and humanity will be able to breathe easier and all will be well in MPAA-land!
With all due respect, you are out to lunch on this one.
From the Article:
In the 1960's, the Americans waded in. To fight Communism and secure access to cobalt and copper, the Central Intelligence Agency helped bring about the assassination of Congo's first democratically elected prime minister, Patrice Lumumba. That was followed by three decades of White House coddling of his successor, Mobutu Sese Seku, Africa's most famous billionaire dictator, who set a poisoned table for the chaos that followed his eventual overthrow in 1997.
The evil greedy capitalist colonial corporations are NOT helping the situation. Sure, they'll give them the bare minimum to keep them digging or to keep churning out Nike's but they will never allow them to achieve the stability that will allow them to choose not to be exploited.
...solve everything by Reboot, Re-install, Add RAM!
Why not simply uninstall IIS? I'm running 2k at home and IIS is part of the default install config. It was also one of the first things to go.
This is hilarious! But you're absolutely right! I mean what were they thinking? When the internet burst onto the scene, didn't they stop to ask someone that knew, what exactly it was? (Maybe they should have asked Al Gore...after all didn't he invent it?)
"Let's put our stuff up on this cool new internet thing...Holy Shit!...people are stealing it and were not getting paid...make it stop!!!"
Oh, and it actually has to be something people will like. Dr Koop's need not apply. And you will still have to have a realistic business plan.
Another one bites the dust!
I know, I'm heartless...but haven't ANY of these clowns heard of a thing called a business plan??? The infrastructure needed to engage in this type of business is expensive (duh!) and guess what... you'll be going head-to-head with a phone company that has had it's network in place for...hmm...how many years? Didn't think of that did you? I hear Anne Robinson has something to say to you...
You just gotta rub it in and torture us, don't you? Yeah, just in case you were succesful in ignoring his first barrage of mindless ditherings, there's a link back to it thoughtfully provided...
Note: I didn't copy the link into the above quote. It's OK! You don't have to click on it!
This isn't much different from Helms Burton, where Cuban nationals can sue foreigners in US courts if they do business with Castro's Cuba that involves property they lost. Of course, if I ever received such a summons, I'd wipe a big shit smear on it and send it back (and cc. Jesse Helms with it!). It's bloody arrogant,not to mention a double standard! On the one hand America says it can sue individuals in US courts using US laws even though they are operating outside it's jurisdiction, but on the other hand they say they won't turn their citizens over to be tried by an international tribunal if they are accused of war crimes!
Guess what? I do. Guess what else? The seller doesn't have the right to change the terms of sale after the fact. Nor do they have the right to alter the terms under which goods are purchased without informing previous customers (who have entered into so-called contractural agreements with them) that they intend to alter those terms. One flaw in your analogy is that I have the option to choose to purchase the car outright and then do whatever the hell I want with it. I don't have that option where media is concerned.
I agree with your "if you don't like it, don't buy it" statement. I don't like it! And it'll be a cold day in hell before they get any more money out of me.
Is every bit of human endeavor going to be stifled by cease and desist letters or demands for royalties? You know, somebody should take out a patent on this technology that enables the encoding and storage of human phonetics (called the alphabet) onto a semi-permanent medium (paper) and sue these cocksuckers for violation every time they send out one of these asinine cease and desist letters. That'll learn 'em!
I did read the article, sunshine. And I do understand that the creditors agreed to the conversion of debt notes to stock. That's just taking the lesser of two evils...the greater being having the company go tits-up and creditors losing everything. I also know (and have experience with) that from an IR guy's point of view, it's usually better to retire debt with "paper" than with actual cash...
...and not have to pay most of it back! I'm beginning to believe that certain unscrupulous people are starting to take advantage of the talking-head spawned hype surrounding the "dot-com meltdown" in order to get out from under their financial responsibilities. It also illustrates a truism: No matter how much money is raised, a poorly led company will find some way to piss it all away quickly.
If I was him I'd say "screw the friggin US (non)justice system" and head for either Canada or Mexico just as fast as I could. Maybe Mexico would be better because they have direct flights to Cuba and fakes for just about everything (including passports). Unfortunately, this would be another nail in the coffin of any hope we have of seeing the DMCA overturned. Glad I'm not in his shoes right now... Hobson's choice, right? How'd you like that on your shoulders?
This was a reply to another post!!! Don't tell me I stumbled onto Taco's banjo site (hope for his sake "banjo" isn't code for beta testing IIS on XP) by mistake!
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