Well written maybe, but the comparison is ridiculous. Of course it's expensive to keep people in prison. I mean they live there with access to nothing else. Is he suggesting, for example, that we don't provide health care for inmates? If he wants to gripe about prisons and money, complain about the fact that 2/3 of all that money is for people in prison on bullshit drug changes...there's your biggest waste of money.
Sure, when people were looking to sue the tobacco companies, it made sensible strategy to claim that they never knew smoking was bad for them, but it's hard to understand why people believed that outside of the case. I mean, my mother was born in the 1930s and was told they were bad for her.
I agree that anyone with much sense realized a long time ago that smoking is dangerous. My big gripe is the decades (up to very recently) the tobacco industry spent denying how incredibly additive nicotine is. While most everyone known the dangers of smoking, nobody starts that "occasional" grubbing of cigarettes at the bar with the intension of becoming a life long smoker.
I started having "occasional" cigarettes at age 18. After literally a few weeks I realized it was becoming a bit too regular of a thing and decided I should stop. I did...15 years later (25 years ago).
The fact is that cigarettes are as addictive as cocaine, and I'll bet there's still a large portion of the population that doesn't know that. As far as I'm concerned that bit of deception is something the whole fucking industry can rot in hell for.
OK, this is totally OT, but I don't know where else to post it. I posted this several months ago and a lot of people reported the same issue, and nothing has changed.
I get no score in any subject starting at (as far as I can tell) a level 3 post or greater. In addition, everything in any such posts has double line breaks between every post.
It sucks, plain and simple. I'm running Firefox 3.6.16 under Gentoo. So what's up?...is Firefox broken or slashdot???
Believe it or not, I'm still regularly using a Protools MixPlus studio built around a PowerMac 9600/350. It's been working flawlessly running the same OS 9.0.4 I installed when I built the studio 11 years ago. That computer is built like a tank, and yea, the case is like opening up luggage.
I can't seem to find any reference to it, but I was sure there was some sort of public vote/referendum regarding the funding for that project. Anyone else remember that?
Forgive the OT post, but I'm not sure where else to ask this. I'm using Firefox 3.6.13 under Linux (Gentoo) and for a few weeks now, a lot of comment posts (including this one of mine and it's parent), but not all, don't show the score after the subject and show all the comment text double spaced...it's been driving me nuts. Anyone else seeing this? I'm getting this on two different machines.
I still own a (very old) Protools Mix Plus system that has POW-R 24 bit to 16 bit dithering built in. I can tell you first hand that I'd flunk a blind test trying to differentiate the post dithering 16 bit version from the original 24 bit versions of anything I've recorded. I'm sure that, at least with certain material, some could tell, but as the parent post pointed out, with modern day squashed-to-death stuff nobody could.
Agreed...since when is this new? This was my understanding years ago when I first started looking into Bru-Ray via component (because my TV has only one DVI input, currently being used for my MythTV frontend)...that the producers could opt to output low-res to non-HDCP outputs. That's why I never bought one. In fact it pissed me off enough that I vowed that no Blu-Ray player will ever darken my doorstep even if I have 10 HDMI inputs...fuck them and the whole fucking standard.
I often wonder if a) they actually believe their own FUD or, b) their real motivation (and most likely the motivation of the movie and publishing industries) is to eventually create a situation where nobody ever "owns" anything, but rather rents/buys it multiple times. Either way, it's amazing how many industries are climbing over each other to follow the record industry down the DRM toilet.
This is why I hate the illegal immigration debate do much. The real solution is clear...no jobs for illegals, no illegals. We could just start stepping on the toes of, for example, the meat industry, who have used illegal labor to turn what was a great factory job in the 50s into something suited only for those who don't want all their fingers. Instead, we get to have this same retarded politically motivated, racism inflaming shit storm in every election, perpetuated by assholes who have no intention of solving a problem that conjures so much useful anger...don't even get me started.
"United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., 334 US 131 (1948) (also known as the Hollywood Antitrust Case of 1948, the Paramount Case, the Paramount Decision or the Paramount Decree) was a landmark United States Supreme Court anti-trust case that decided the fate of movie studios owning their own theatres and holding exclusivity rights on which theatres would show their films. It would also change the way Hollywood movies were produced, distributed, and exhibited. The Court held in this case that the existing distribution scheme was in violation of the antitrust laws of the United States, which prohibit certain exclusive dealing arrangements."
Why is this country so hell bent on going backwards when it comes to corporate power and monopolies? I can't believe this merger was ever even considered by the feds, let alone treated as a done deal from the beginning as it has been.
Have you read the statement [amazon.com]? It says they withdrew hosting because they believe Wikileaks doesn't own the rights to the content. They also say they are worried about the verification of the 250K cables they are publishing (not: have published).
What do you do when they worry about you?
An ISP should not have to "worry" about customers content. This is a matter of law, except when some people abuse the law and circumvent it for their own benefit.
Not only that, what "rights to the content" are we even talking about? Nothing involved here is copyrighted in any way at all.
Is it just me, or are all the actions being taken by all governments involved in this whole thing doing a fabulous job of driving home the very point that Julian Assange is trying to make?
What I'd like to know is where the FCC stands on that unspeakable NBC/Comcast merger. From everything I've seen that one seems to have just been written off as inevitable by everyone. Talk about net neutrality...
When I want to see information about a business, I just go to their website, not FaceBook.
Ditto...I know it seems to be a must these days and even major corporations are jumping all over it, but am I the only one who sees stuff like facebook.com/yourcompany and thinks "What's the matter...couldn't afford a real website?". Guess I'm old fashioned...
Does this sort of thing really need to have the law getting involved? It's only a small irritant.
Is it a bit of deflection from the real issues that are going on at the moment?
And if they REALLY gave a crap about TV as it relates to consumers, they'd be blocking the Comcast/NBC merger, but it appears that Al Franken is one of the only two who've even questioned it.
Absolutely. During the recent flap over the so-called Ground Zero Mosque I've been pointing out to people that the percentage of Islam represented by Al Qaeda is almost exactly the percentage of Protestants worldwide represented by the Klan...really. About 18,000 Al Qaeda to about 1.4 billion Muslims, and about 8,000 KKK of about 608 million Protestants. Amazingly, that's exactly.0013% in both cases. Why is it that Islam is somehow held accountable for a fringe handful that profess to be devout Muslims?
What exactly is the point of jetpacks supposed to be? They don't seem to be useful for any civilian or military purposes that other technologies aren't more appropriate. Is the obsession with jetpacks just about being like a comic book superhero?
Either that or an odd fascination with Wile E. Coyote...
Yea really...the nerve of people using what they paid for. This industry sell unlimited plans, and then the coins the term "data hogs"??
Last time I checked they don't make any attempt to limit their profits out the kindness of their hearts.
I watch a lot of NFL games...not a whole lot else. I get both New York and Philly markets so there are times I get Philly network games that my friends with cable can't get.
From where I sit, as long as FIOS and all the other pay TV options require CableCARDs they're useless. That's why I've used nothing but OTA for the last 21 years.
...and for the record, since the CableCARD host interface license agreement forbids making decrypted content available in any user accessible bus, there will never be any open source compatible CableCARD device, that that sure isn't MythTV's fault.
OEM versions of Windows ME ended up on countless PCs, essentially all of which needed to be upgraded to XP. No "mistake" there if you ask me. Frankly I think the Vista/Windows 7 upgrade path was no mistake either.
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Well written maybe, but the comparison is ridiculous. Of course it's expensive to keep people in prison. I mean they live there with access to nothing else. Is he suggesting, for example, that we don't provide health care for inmates? If he wants to gripe about prisons and money, complain about the fact that 2/3 of all that money is for people in prison on bullshit drug changes...there's your biggest waste of money.
Sure, when people were looking to sue the tobacco companies, it made sensible strategy to claim that they never knew smoking was bad for them, but it's hard to understand why people believed that outside of the case. I mean, my mother was born in the 1930s and was told they were bad for her.
I agree that anyone with much sense realized a long time ago that smoking is dangerous. My big gripe is the decades (up to very recently) the tobacco industry spent denying how incredibly additive nicotine is. While most everyone known the dangers of smoking, nobody starts that "occasional" grubbing of cigarettes at the bar with the intension of becoming a life long smoker.
I started having "occasional" cigarettes at age 18. After literally a few weeks I realized it was becoming a bit too regular of a thing and decided I should stop. I did...15 years later (25 years ago).
The fact is that cigarettes are as addictive as cocaine, and I'll bet there's still a large portion of the population that doesn't know that. As far as I'm concerned that bit of deception is something the whole fucking industry can rot in hell for.
I get no score in any subject starting at (as far as I can tell) a level 3 post or greater. In addition, everything in any such posts has double line breaks between every post.
It sucks, plain and simple. I'm running Firefox 3.6.16 under Gentoo. So what's up?...is Firefox broken or slashdot???
Tom
Believe it or not, I'm still regularly using a Protools MixPlus studio built around a PowerMac 9600/350. It's been working flawlessly running the same OS 9.0.4 I installed when I built the studio 11 years ago. That computer is built like a tank, and yea, the case is like opening up luggage.
I can't seem to find any reference to it, but I was sure there was some sort of public vote/referendum regarding the funding for that project. Anyone else remember that?
Forgive the OT post, but I'm not sure where else to ask this. I'm using Firefox 3.6.13 under Linux (Gentoo) and for a few weeks now, a lot of comment posts (including this one of mine and it's parent), but not all, don't show the score after the subject and show all the comment text double spaced...it's been driving me nuts. Anyone else seeing this? I'm getting this on two different machines.
I still own a (very old) Protools Mix Plus system that has POW-R 24 bit to 16 bit dithering built in. I can tell you first hand that I'd flunk a blind test trying to differentiate the post dithering 16 bit version from the original 24 bit versions of anything I've recorded. I'm sure that, at least with certain material, some could tell, but as the parent post pointed out, with modern day squashed-to-death stuff nobody could.
Agreed...since when is this new? This was my understanding years ago when I first started looking into Bru-Ray via component (because my TV has only one DVI input, currently being used for my MythTV frontend)...that the producers could opt to output low-res to non-HDCP outputs. That's why I never bought one. In fact it pissed me off enough that I vowed that no Blu-Ray player will ever darken my doorstep even if I have 10 HDMI inputs...fuck them and the whole fucking standard.
But stop fucking using the term brick unless the device is incapable of powering on.
Indeed..in fact the situation described in TFA barely warrants "tits on a bull" status...
I often wonder if a) they actually believe their own FUD or, b) their real motivation (and most likely the motivation of the movie and publishing industries) is to eventually create a situation where nobody ever "owns" anything, but rather rents/buys it multiple times. Either way, it's amazing how many industries are climbing over each other to follow the record industry down the DRM toilet.
This is why I hate the illegal immigration debate do much. The real solution is clear...no jobs for illegals, no illegals. We could just start stepping on the toes of, for example, the meat industry, who have used illegal labor to turn what was a great factory job in the 50s into something suited only for those who don't want all their fingers. Instead, we get to have this same retarded politically motivated, racism inflaming shit storm in every election, perpetuated by assholes who have no intention of solving a problem that conjures so much useful anger...don't even get me started.
Split the content provider and the common carrier apart.
You mean something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc.
"United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., 334 US 131 (1948) (also known as the Hollywood Antitrust Case of 1948, the Paramount Case, the Paramount Decision or the Paramount Decree) was a landmark United States Supreme Court anti-trust case that decided the fate of movie studios owning their own theatres and holding exclusivity rights on which theatres would show their films. It would also change the way Hollywood movies were produced, distributed, and exhibited. The Court held in this case that the existing distribution scheme was in violation of the antitrust laws of the United States, which prohibit certain exclusive dealing arrangements."
Why is this country so hell bent on going backwards when it comes to corporate power and monopolies? I can't believe this merger was ever even considered by the feds, let alone treated as a done deal from the beginning as it has been.
Have you read the statement [amazon.com]? It says they withdrew hosting because they believe Wikileaks doesn't own the rights to the content. They also say they are worried about the verification of the 250K cables they are publishing (not: have published).
What do you do when they worry about you?
An ISP should not have to "worry" about customers content. This is a matter of law, except when some people abuse the law and circumvent it for their own benefit.
Not only that, what "rights to the content" are we even talking about? Nothing involved here is copyrighted in any way at all.
Is it just me, or are all the actions being taken by all governments involved in this whole thing doing a fabulous job of driving home the very point that Julian Assange is trying to make?
What I'd like to know is where the FCC stands on that unspeakable NBC/Comcast merger. From everything I've seen that one seems to have just been written off as inevitable by everyone. Talk about net neutrality...
When I want to see information about a business, I just go to their website, not FaceBook.
Ditto...I know it seems to be a must these days and even major corporations are jumping all over it, but am I the only one who sees stuff like facebook.com/yourcompany and thinks "What's the matter...couldn't afford a real website?". Guess I'm old fashioned...
Does this sort of thing really need to have the law getting involved? It's only a small irritant. Is it a bit of deflection from the real issues that are going on at the moment?
And if they REALLY gave a crap about TV as it relates to consumers, they'd be blocking the Comcast/NBC merger, but it appears that Al Franken is one of the only two who've even questioned it.
Absolutely. During the recent flap over the so-called Ground Zero Mosque I've been pointing out to people that the percentage of Islam represented by Al Qaeda is almost exactly the percentage of Protestants worldwide represented by the Klan...really. About 18,000 Al Qaeda to about 1.4 billion Muslims, and about 8,000 KKK of about 608 million Protestants. Amazingly, that's exactly .0013% in both cases. Why is it that Islam is somehow held accountable for a fringe handful that profess to be devout Muslims?
What exactly is the point of jetpacks supposed to be? They don't seem to be useful for any civilian or military purposes that other technologies aren't more appropriate. Is the obsession with jetpacks just about being like a comic book superhero?
Either that or an odd fascination with Wile E. Coyote...
Yea really...the nerve of people using what they paid for. This industry sell unlimited plans, and then the coins the term "data hogs"?? Last time I checked they don't make any attempt to limit their profits out the kindness of their hearts.
Seriously...they're essentially putting your home address in the http headers. This can't possibly be legal can it??
I watch a lot of NFL games...not a whole lot else. I get both New York and Philly markets so there are times I get Philly network games that my friends with cable can't get.
From where I sit, as long as FIOS and all the other pay TV options require CableCARDs they're useless. That's why I've used nothing but OTA for the last 21 years.
...and for the record, since the CableCARD host interface license agreement forbids making decrypted content available in any user accessible bus, there will never be any open source compatible CableCARD device, that that sure isn't MythTV's fault.
OEM versions of Windows ME ended up on countless PCs, essentially all of which needed to be upgraded to XP. No "mistake" there if you ask me. Frankly I think the Vista/Windows 7 upgrade path was no mistake either.
In what possible way did my post deserve to get modded -1 troll? Unreal.