Yes, in the past people have committed civil disobediance, but they had to pay the consequences of those actions long before the laws were changed. And they did so willingly. They didn't hide in their parents basement.
"The Constitution Party gratefully acknowledges the blessing of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as Creator, Preserver and Ruler of the Universe and of these United States. We hereby appeal to Him for mercy, aid, comfort, guidance and the protection of His Providence as we work to restore and preserve these United States.
Article 1 The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a sovereign Arab Islamic state with Islam as its religion; God's Book and the Sunnah of His Prophet, God's prayers and peace be upon him, are its constitution, Arabic is its language and Riyadh is its capital....
Chapter 5 Rights and Duties
Article 23 [Islam] The state protects Islam; it implements its Shari'ah; it orders people to do right and shun evil; it fulfills the duty regarding God's call.
What's NOT a subject for debate is that the bill of rights guarantees that an individual is innocent until proven guilty. This is not some insignificant detail that can be overlooked; this is one of the fundamental principles of a free society. Wiretapping, monitoring, roadblocks, cameras, survaillance of any type -- that is the principle of guilty before proven innocent, and it stands in direct opposition to the values this country was founded on.
The government's answer to that would be that they need to wiretap and monitor seperate the innocent from the guilty.
By your logic the Patriot act is just fine. I think broken laws should be fixed, irrespective of if people break them or not.
No it's not my logic, just facts. Until enough people violate laws there is little motivation for Legislators to change, or even do away, with them. And of course there is enforcement. How many cops do you think drank during Prohibition? How many do you think share copyrighted files illegally today? They are human and consider themselves underpaid compared to music and movie moguls too. Plus, like the majority of people, they don't expect to get paid for the next hundred years for work they did yesterday.
I've only had a couple of "unfair" meta-mods since it was started and I usually get mod points two or three times a week so it has never been a big deal. If it was I would've turned it off the reporting like eraserewind did a long time ago. I only brought it up to point out the futility of trying to beat the "if (post==long) ++karma;" syndrome.
Please read the entire comment before moderating. Thanks.
From the parent:
[...] They really do enjoy making hair braids from Taco's pubes. Zonk put one around his phallus; it looked like the little crown of thorns Lord Baby Jesus wore. Good luck getting people to pick up Dapper Drake if it's ever to sit next to Microsoft Windows on the shelf. There's really a cold chance in hell a single unit will ever sell outside of geekdom. Just my two cents of course. Take it or leave it, but come one... gay duck? The only gay duck around here is Taco. (CowboyNeal is in actual fact a gay fuck.)
Last time I modded down a hidden troll post like this one my moderation got meta-modded down as "unfair".
I listen to music on my iRiver H340 these days anyway and the soundcard built into my Sony VAIO works fine in WinXP for games.
Well, since I haven't used Windows in the last six years I really have nothing to compare the sound quality I get to. I have an iRiver iFP 895 that I use with a stereo microphone to record sound effects and music for phongraphy and the sound quality is just fine with my Audigy.
They just don't seem to be great with software, or hardware for that matter.
Another poster pointed out that you were using the card under Windows and apparently Creative installs the garbage software on that system. The hardware works fine under Linux with open source drivers. Perhaps someone could port alsa to make the card work correctly on your OS.
VCR, DVD player, phones, stereos, car disc players, Walkmen, MP3 players. That's a lot of money to be had.
Yes there's a lot of money to be had, it's just not being had by Sony anymore for the above products. They have too many competitors making decent products for less support more formats.
Hmm... something about this sounds fishy. Outsourcing, PS2 and other suches do not sound like "a loss for this year". Sony should be booming, considering. Perhaps it's a marketing technique? We'll soon see.
No, nothing's really fishy. Excepting the play station, how many electronic products do you consider buying that have Sony at the top of the list?
As a result, he may find himself having to replace his entire Motherboard, CPU, and memory architecture in a year or two just to upgrade his video card. The result is that his upgrade now is false economy....
As long as you purchased a board with AGP 2x or higher, an AGP board purchased 5 years ago should still work fine with an AGP video card today.
Can you spot the contradiction here? On the one hand you say that it is false economy to try to get a couple of more years out of a card, on the other you state that a board bought five years ago is still good today.
You... went... with an AGP board?! You do realize that nearly all video cards are now PCI Express? FYI, PCI Express is not the same thing as SLI. It's a new standard that has TWICE the bandwidth of AGP. You could have gone for a board like the A8N-E board that has PCI Express but no SLI at a good price.
There a many reasons not to go with PCI Express, including having an already perfectly good working AGP or PCI card. Standards come and go so fast that what you buy today is already obselote and who knows what will be the "next great thing" when it's time to replace your board again three years down the road.
I'm sure he meant on windows. Nothing wrong with the hardware, and alsa is swell for linux, but on windows creaf installs a TON of misc addons and about 4 different mixers and auto updaters and sound editor demos and all sorts of other crap that invariably has a negative effect on system stability.
Thanks, I really didn't know that. Seems like such a stupid thing to go and piss off people who have already bought your product instead of just making sure it does what it is supposed to do so they and their friends will buy from you again. I'll be sure to steer any Window's users away from them then.
Unfortunately this is a Creative Labs product so the CPU gained is going to be lost processing other things unnecessarily installed on the system. Based on my experience of their drivers and software over the years, the whole system will also be more unstable.
I've never really had any problems with the emu10k1 drivers, they just pretty much seem to work. It's been especially nice now that they are part of the kernel and installing alsa-libs and alsa-utils have never caused my sytem to be unstable. What kind of instablities have you been experiencing?
...even though this is obviously a blantant advertisement Monarch is one of the sites I've been looking at for the dual opteron system I'm planning on building so I'm looking forward to hearing some honest feedback. In the past I've always just bought my parts seperately for my single CPU machines and assembled them without much hassle but my investment has never been much more than four or five hundred dollars but now that I"m thinking about investing $1500 it would be nice to know the motherboard, processors, and ram have all been tested to work together.
Folks are tired of all the bullshit that's been going on the past 5 years. There is nobody to blame except the party which has made a big deal about how they are in complete control. All of the spin trying to place blame elsewhere merely gets them in deeper. It's political quicksand, and nobody is interested in throwing a rope.
From the poll:
"Would you like to see your representative in Congress be reelected in the next congressional election, or not?"
Um. Well, the obvious answer is to charge him with the criminal act of circumventing copyright protection in violation of the DMCA. I believe there would be both civil and criminal charges involved.
Since the DMCA only applies in a severly limited number of jurisdictions I doubt that that answer would bother them at all.
The whole problem is this...LSB decided try to force a commercial package format on everybody and tried to top it off by charging a fee to be certified compliant. Look, I'm all for consistent file heirarchies and such but I draw the line at being told I have to conform to enable someone else to make money.
Technology is such these days that it is no longer good enough to merely talk about removing a dictatorial regime after it has come to power. In this case, it's not merely prevention being better than cure...Prevention may be our only option.
The problem is while Bush is feeding his oil croonies the likes of Feinstein and Leahy are feeding their IP ones. Elections anymore do little than change one special interest for another. Sure there are those who think revolution is overdue but think of the effect this could have on the world...the US may not produce much anymore but it sure does consume a good deal of what is produced elsewhere.
If you steal music, via internet or at the store, you're still stealing. The choice you make, the chance you take, the price you pay. Its simple.
In the US at least, the founders had the forsight to incorporate copyright law in the Constitution. In other words the law is what Congress says it is. So just remember that twelve year old whose mother you jailed today will be electing your Representive tomorrow.
Slashdot Mirror
...would have been a much better title for this article.
I contacted the owner, but they are not interested in selling (at any price, they said).
The name is theirs and they want to keep it. Why do you think you should be able to take it away from them?
Yes, in the past people have committed civil disobediance, but they had to pay the consequences of those actions long before the laws were changed. And they did so willingly. They didn't hide in their parents basement.
Actually, they did hide in basements.
The preamble for their platform:
...
"The Constitution Party gratefully acknowledges the blessing of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as Creator, Preserver and Ruler of the Universe and of these United States. We hereby appeal to Him for mercy, aid, comfort, guidance and the protection of His Providence as we work to restore and preserve these United States.
Excerpts from the Saudi Constitution.
Article 1
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a sovereign Arab Islamic state with Islam as its religion; God's Book and the Sunnah of His Prophet, God's prayers and peace be upon him, are its constitution, Arabic is its language and Riyadh is its capital.
Chapter 5 Rights and Duties
Article 23 [Islam]
The state protects Islam; it implements its Shari'ah; it orders people to do right and shun evil; it fulfills the duty regarding God's call.
Ummm...thanks, but no thanks.
What's NOT a subject for debate is that the bill of rights guarantees that an individual is innocent until proven guilty. This is not some insignificant detail that can be overlooked; this is one of the fundamental principles of a free society. Wiretapping, monitoring, roadblocks, cameras, survaillance of any type -- that is the principle of guilty before proven innocent, and it stands in direct opposition to the values this country was founded on.
The government's answer to that would be that they need to wiretap and monitor seperate the innocent from the guilty.
What about the baby's right to life?
Nobody has ever suggested killing babies is okay. Rowe-v-Wade only says the state can't force women to incubate them.
The only legimate purpose of government is to protect private property and it seriously negelects its duty by not cracking down on ongoing violations.
It is only possible for a government to protect private property if a suffucient majority of the people governed allows it to do so.
By your logic the Patriot act is just fine.
I think broken laws should be fixed, irrespective of if people break them or not.
No it's not my logic, just facts. Until enough people violate laws there is little motivation for Legislators to change, or even do away, with them. And of course there is enforcement. How many cops do you think drank during Prohibition? How many do you think share copyrighted files illegally today? They are human and consider themselves underpaid compared to music and movie moguls too. Plus, like the majority of people, they don't expect to get paid for the next hundred years for work they did yesterday.
Violating copyright is illegal. If you don't like it, change the laws.
If the laws weren't being violated then there would be no reason to change them.
I've only had a couple of "unfair" meta-mods since it was started and I usually get mod points two or three times a week so it has never been a big deal. If it was I would've turned it off the reporting like eraserewind did a long time ago. I only brought it up to point out the futility of trying to beat the "if (post==long) ++karma;" syndrome.
Please read the entire comment before moderating. Thanks.
From the parent:
[...] They really do enjoy making hair braids from Taco's pubes. Zonk put one around his phallus; it looked like the little crown of thorns Lord Baby Jesus wore. Good luck getting people to pick up Dapper Drake if it's ever to sit next to Microsoft Windows on the shelf. There's really a cold chance in hell a single unit will ever sell outside of geekdom. Just my two cents of course. Take it or leave it, but come one... gay duck? The only gay duck around here is Taco. (CowboyNeal is in actual fact a gay fuck.)
Last time I modded down a hidden troll post like this one my moderation got meta-modded down as "unfair".
I listen to music on my iRiver H340 these days anyway and the soundcard built into my Sony VAIO works fine in WinXP for games.
Well, since I haven't used Windows in the last six years I really have nothing to compare the sound quality I get to. I have an iRiver iFP 895 that I use with a stereo microphone to record sound effects and music for phongraphy and the sound quality is just fine with my Audigy.
They just don't seem to be great with software, or hardware for that matter.
Another poster pointed out that you were using the card under Windows and apparently Creative installs the garbage software on that system. The hardware works fine under Linux with open source drivers. Perhaps someone could port alsa to make the card work correctly on your OS.
VCR, DVD player, phones, stereos, car disc players, Walkmen, MP3 players. That's a lot of money to be had.
Yes there's a lot of money to be had, it's just not being had by Sony anymore for the above products. They have too many competitors making decent products for less support more formats.
Hmm... something about this sounds fishy. Outsourcing, PS2 and other suches do not sound like "a loss for this year". Sony should be booming, considering. Perhaps it's a marketing technique? We'll soon see.
No, nothing's really fishy. Excepting the play station, how many electronic products do you consider buying that have Sony at the top of the list?
As a result, he may find himself having to replace his entire Motherboard, CPU, and memory architecture in a year or two just to upgrade his video card. The result is that his upgrade now is false economy.
As long as you purchased a board with AGP 2x or higher, an AGP board purchased 5 years ago should still work fine with an AGP video card today.
Can you spot the contradiction here? On the one hand you say that it is false economy to try to get a couple of more years out of a card, on the other you state that a board bought five years ago is still good today.
You... went... with an AGP board?! You do realize that nearly all video cards are now PCI Express? FYI, PCI Express is not the same thing as SLI. It's a new standard that has TWICE the bandwidth of AGP. You could have gone for a board like the A8N-E board that has PCI Express but no SLI at a good price.
There a many reasons not to go with PCI Express, including having an already perfectly good working AGP or PCI card. Standards come and go so fast that what you buy today is already obselote and who knows what will be the "next great thing" when it's time to replace your board again three years down the road.
I'm sure he meant on windows. Nothing wrong with the hardware, and alsa is swell for linux, but on windows creaf installs a TON of misc addons and about 4 different mixers and auto updaters and sound editor demos and all sorts of other crap that invariably has a negative effect on system stability.
Thanks, I really didn't know that. Seems like such a stupid thing to go and piss off people who have already bought your product instead of just making sure it does what it is supposed to do so they and their friends will buy from you again. I'll be sure to steer any Window's users away from them then.
Unfortunately this is a Creative Labs product so the CPU gained is going to be lost processing other things unnecessarily installed on the system. Based on my experience of their drivers and software over the years, the whole system will also be more unstable.
I've never really had any problems with the emu10k1 drivers, they just pretty much seem to work. It's been especially nice now that they are part of the kernel and installing alsa-libs and alsa-utils have never caused my sytem to be unstable. What kind of instablities have you been experiencing?
...even though this is obviously a blantant advertisement Monarch is one of the sites I've been looking at for the dual opteron system I'm planning on building so I'm looking forward to hearing some honest feedback. In the past I've always just bought my parts seperately for my single CPU machines and assembled them without much hassle but my investment has never been much more than four or five hundred dollars but now that I"m thinking about investing $1500 it would be nice to know the motherboard, processors, and ram have all been tested to work together.
http://pollingreport.com/2006.htm
Folks are tired of all the bullshit that's been going on the past 5 years. There is nobody to blame except the party which has made a big deal about how they are in complete control. All of the spin trying to place blame elsewhere merely gets them in deeper. It's political quicksand, and nobody is interested in throwing a rope.
From the poll:
"Would you like to see your representative in Congress be reelected in the next congressional election, or not?"
YES: 57% NO: 25%
Price is not determined by production costs; price is determined by supply and demand.
Yes, but with digital copies you are talking about a literally infinite supply to meet a limited demand.
Um. Well, the obvious answer is to charge him with the criminal act of circumventing copyright protection in violation of the DMCA. I believe there would be both civil and criminal charges involved.
Since the DMCA only applies in a severly limited number of jurisdictions I doubt that that answer would bother them at all.
The whole problem is this...LSB decided try to force a commercial package format on everybody and tried to top it off by charging a fee to be certified compliant. Look, I'm all for consistent file heirarchies and such but I draw the line at being told I have to conform to enable someone else to make money.
Technology is such these days that it is no longer good enough to merely talk about removing a dictatorial regime after it has come to power. In this case, it's not merely prevention being better than cure...Prevention may be our only option.
The problem is while Bush is feeding his oil croonies the likes of Feinstein and Leahy are feeding their IP ones. Elections anymore do little than change one special interest for another. Sure there are those who think revolution is overdue but think of the effect this could have on the world...the US may not produce much anymore but it sure does consume a good deal of what is produced elsewhere.
If you steal music, via internet or at the store, you're still stealing. The choice you make, the chance you take, the price you pay. Its simple.
In the US at least, the founders had the forsight to incorporate copyright law in the Constitution. In other words the law is what Congress says it is. So just remember that twelve year old whose mother you jailed today will be electing your Representive tomorrow.