Re:AOL does not have a monopoly in any market
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Maybe where you live. Over half my customers that use dialup use AOL.
That's a large business, not a monopoly. Not even close. Now in some areas, Roadrunner (owned by AOL) has a local monopoly on cable modem access...
Re:CNet Review - "Don't switch browsers"
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As posted here [ufaq.org] on slashdot, there is a way to disable pop-ups. Sounds like CNET had a bone to pick.
Honestly, if you have to go to some obscure site to set up this feature instead of Edit->Prefs, then it's meaningless for the average user. Netscape 7 suffers from its lack of popup control. Fortunately, IE won't have that feature anytime soon either.
Ever looked at the price of console games compared to PC games?
Which are generally cheaper?
The industry is a bunch of thieves.
Keep in mind the PC is much harder to design for and test than a console. If you're designing a game for the PS2, you only have one set of hardware to worry about. If you're designing for the PC, the hardware is varied.
Should the pilot have landed early? Not as I see it.
Sure he should have. How did the pilot know that it was really a battery being lit? How could the pilot have known whether it was some explosive device disguised as a battery to get it past the screeners? He didn't know, and he had no way of knowing. The pilot did the right thing. It turned out to be unnecessary, but at the time he had no way of knowing whether the passenger was bomber or just an imbecile.
But if you hit a solid wall, chances are you'll be going up with your bike, and more than likely hitting the solid wall while still on (not exited) your motorcycle, crushed between it and the wall. Now say, if you had an ejection seat that popped you out just before hitting the wall... then you would have something there! Smacking into the wall a few feet about the motorcycle, but having been completely ejected beforehand. Now there's something motorcycle companies should be working on!
Now on the other hand, if M$ is springing for the hardware (yeah, right!)I say let them do it, then wipe it clean and build a reliable system on the hardware.
Do you think MS would provide hardware without a clause in the contract stating New Orleans would have to give the computers back if they installed other operating systems on them?:)
Well actually, it's cheaper to lock someone away than to execute them.
You're certainly right about that. The logical solution is then to fix the system so that the above statement is no longer correct, and yet not execute innocent people. You wouldn't think it would be so hard..
Why do you think Gore gave up? The numbers were against him. The Democratic statistician that testified, minipulated stocastic theory in order to promote the Democrates filtered recount plan. Her reasoning has been demonstrated to be flawed. Basicaly she lied! The court was not fooled. The only reason that this was ever an issue was that the media whanted Gore to win.
I don't think the counting of the votes was what the parent poster was talking about, I think it was the allegations of preventing minorities from reaching the polls.
I am a RoadRunner user and have no problem accessing the site. If AOLTW is going to sue somebody to block communications, why haven't they taken this "simple" measure within their own systems?
Because they don't want to seem to be the "bad guy" to their customers. If they block access to a site but the rest of the Internet doesn't, they stand to lose a number of customers to ISPs which don't block. However, if the site is blocked for -everyone- (which is necessary to achieve their plan), then they stand to lose almost no customers since they aren't at a disadvantage in that issue.
Which is all the more annoying when you don't have a penis to enlarge.
I received a spam email the other night advertising a penis enlarger "for men only." I'm glad they're trying to avoid confusion by clarifying the matter.
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Remember basic physics. The pendulum will never swing back as far. It would work the same way with our rights. We will never get back to where we are now, much less 50 years ago.
Aaah, the good old days, when discrimination against minorities was not only rampant, but legally protected. When child labor was common. Before civil rights, before womens' suffrage (if you want to look back that far). Yes, those were the golden days of individual rights.
My point is that the pendulum analogy is invalid. There's no reason to believe that we can only lose rights and not gain them (back). History tells otherwise.
Re:Great, there goes more of our freedom
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Governments also side with big business because big business employs people. Maybe not as many as you want them to but there are still a lot of paychecks written out by big business.
And yet it's the small businesses that employ and drive our economy much more than the big businesses. Yet small businesses don't get much more say than individuals.
Re:Great, there goes more of our freedom
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I'm afraid that I must disagree with you, partially on religious grounds. If I may invoke a quote:
Give to everyone who begs from you, and do not refuse anyone who wants to borrow from you. -- Mattew 5:42, NRSV
Hey, I like giving and charities, I give to them myself. But forcing people to give to charity isn't "giving," it's having your money stolen. There's a big moral difference there.
What makes you say that? U.S. citizens live in a country where, supposedly, our Constitution - our basic LAW - says all unenumerated rights are retained by the states and the people.
That's why the DMVs are State organizations. The individual states are not federal, but they certainly count as "the government."
The use and enjoyment of any public creation is certainly a right until one proves by behavior to be unfit to engage in that right.
If it's a "right until the government thinks you don't deserve it," then it wasn't really a right, but instead a privilage granted by default to those who meet the conditions.
Actually, your car is not your private property in the same way your house is. I remember a story a lawyer once told me, about a client he had who had shot a man who had broken into his car. The cop advised the guy, "next time" I guess, to drag the body to the door, since you have the right to shoot someone who invades your house... but not your car.
You have a right to shoot someone in self-defense period, whether they're invading your car or your home. Assuming it's legal to carry a gun there, of course.:P
Well, I'm happy that MP3 sharing is a non-issue in Europe. And why should it, when most users download american music and american record companies lose money? For now, Swedish law give me the right to share music with my friends and I don't see that changing very soon.
Yes, that's what Europeans said about the DMCA as well.
There's a feature on the Ghostbusters DVD that has a printed commentary to accompany the movie that's kinda like that Pop-Up Video show. It gives facts about locations and ideas for scenes and so forth that are actually really interesting. That might be one of the best features I've seen on a DVD to date (although I suppose it doesn't really harness the power of the medium...).
Yes, that was pretty nice. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Director's Cut) has the same feature, detailing the making of each scene.
Provided you live somewhere civilised, of course, like Europe for example.
Yes, for awhile at least. But when the US passes some sort of draconian IP legislation, the EU quickly scrambles to propose a similar document for passage. Very soon Europe will have it's own DMCA (if it hasn't passed already, I haven't been checking on the progress of it). This is why I find the occasional catcalls of "you silly Americans and your silly laws, I'm glad I live in Canada/Europe/etc where we aren't bothered by that" to be somewhat shortsighted. Bad IP laws spread. Sure, maybe China and Russia might not have them (yet), but things change.
But to be fair to the Transformers, it did at least have another rationale for basing the TV show around the toys rather than the other way round. (They wanted the on-screen transformations to reflect something physically possible in a small toy.) The first major toy/TV series in the US was He-Man, which didn't.
What about GI Joe?:) Or if you were unlucky enough to watch the show, the Gobots?
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That's a large business, not a monopoly. Not even close. Now in some areas, Roadrunner (owned by AOL) has a local monopoly on cable modem access...
Honestly, if you have to go to some obscure site to set up this feature instead of Edit->Prefs, then it's meaningless for the average user. Netscape 7 suffers from its lack of popup control. Fortunately, IE won't have that feature anytime soon either.
Which are generally cheaper?
The industry is a bunch of thieves.
Keep in mind the PC is much harder to design for and test than a console. If you're designing a game for the PS2, you only have one set of hardware to worry about. If you're designing for the PC, the hardware is varied.
Not for the average person. And the casual copier is all they need to stop, really. Well, and the crack makers.
I do propose that someone attempting to ignite something be cause for extreme alarm, yes.
Just wondering, do you support confiscating nail clippers from everyone?
Nope.
How about little old ladies in wheelchairs who need oxygen.
Probably not, that sortof thing isn't that hard to verify, and little old ladies with oxygen tanks aren't exactly a high-risk group.
Sure he should have. How did the pilot know that it was really a battery being lit? How could the pilot have known whether it was some explosive device disguised as a battery to get it past the screeners? He didn't know, and he had no way of knowing. The pilot did the right thing. It turned out to be unnecessary, but at the time he had no way of knowing whether the passenger was bomber or just an imbecile.
Do you think MS would provide hardware without a clause in the contract stating New Orleans would have to give the computers back if they installed other operating systems on them? :)
You're certainly right about that. The logical solution is then to fix the system so that the above statement is no longer correct, and yet not execute innocent people. You wouldn't think it would be so hard..
Hmmm... that sounds cool. Time to start writing my own "translations..."
I don't think the counting of the votes was what the parent poster was talking about, I think it was the allegations of preventing minorities from reaching the polls.
Because they don't want to seem to be the "bad guy" to their customers. If they block access to a site but the rest of the Internet doesn't, they stand to lose a number of customers to ISPs which don't block. However, if the site is blocked for -everyone- (which is necessary to achieve their plan), then they stand to lose almost no customers since they aren't at a disadvantage in that issue.
I received a spam email the other night advertising a penis enlarger "for men only." I'm glad they're trying to avoid confusion by clarifying the matter.
Aaah, the good old days, when discrimination against minorities was not only rampant, but legally protected. When child labor was common. Before civil rights, before womens' suffrage (if you want to look back that far). Yes, those were the golden days of individual rights.
My point is that the pendulum analogy is invalid. There's no reason to believe that we can only lose rights and not gain them (back). History tells otherwise.
And yet it's the small businesses that employ and drive our economy much more than the big businesses. Yet small businesses don't get much more say than individuals.
Hey, I like giving and charities, I give to them myself. But forcing people to give to charity isn't "giving," it's having your money stolen. There's a big moral difference there.
That's why the DMVs are State organizations. The individual states are not federal, but they certainly count as "the government."
If it's a "right until the government thinks you don't deserve it," then it wasn't really a right, but instead a privilage granted by default to those who meet the conditions.
You have a right to shoot someone in self-defense period, whether they're invading your car or your home. Assuming it's legal to carry a gun there, of course. :P
Yes, that's what Europeans said about the DMCA as well.
The technology doesn't support it. Some DVD players have a problem with "seamless branching." Most support it, some don't.
Yes, that was pretty nice. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Director's Cut) has the same feature, detailing the making of each scene.
Wife (sobbing hysterically): "We lost Punky!!!"
It may have been difficult, but she did the right thing. What a hero.
Yes, for awhile at least. But when the US passes some sort of draconian IP legislation, the EU quickly scrambles to propose a similar document for passage. Very soon Europe will have it's own DMCA (if it hasn't passed already, I haven't been checking on the progress of it). This is why I find the occasional catcalls of "you silly Americans and your silly laws, I'm glad I live in Canada/Europe/etc where we aren't bothered by that" to be somewhat shortsighted. Bad IP laws spread. Sure, maybe China and Russia might not have them (yet), but things change.
What about GI Joe? :) Or if you were unlucky enough to watch the show, the Gobots?