... but private citizens who own guns outnumber the police and military by around 10 to 1.
You really think that an organized military and police force can be stopped by citizens (including grandma) with their.38 S&W? How would you stop a convoy of tanks and humvees? Your argument also assumes that the whole population rises up at the same time and unites. That rarely ever happened in world history.
Do you really think the military, in some portion, will not side and fight with the people?
I would ignore the suggestions to look at lowendbox, unless you are willing to trade price for stability (which is not always a bad tradeoff, just be sure to do it consciously)
How can you say this and feature a LEB staple on the page in your sig?
This is the best advise we'll see for a low cost VPS, as well as the discussion on http://lowendtalk.com/
This pair of sites is devoted to VPS priced $7 per month or less, and filled with mostly candid answers by actual users. Some of the popular, and regarded better KVM providers you will find on these sites are
I ended LK with a full set of top tier, as did most in my guild. And almost all of mine was gone within two levels. If you actually believe that your hit, expertise, or any other caps were being maintained as you leveled up...
Yeah, being hit, expertise and all the other caps really make a difference lvling, NOT!
Any crappy green level 85 gear you have today is still much better then the epic level 80 gear from the litch king era. If you are dieing trying to kill the litch king at level 85 with level 85 gear.... I hate to say it but gear is not the probelm.
I didn't replace any of my 80 raid gear until actual better pieces dropped, and that didn't happen til heroics and rep gear, nothing green or blue is better then well geared 80 raiding gear. but the grind got to me and moved on to other things and let WoW lapse like millions of others did.
Right, with the 3 out at a time plan I am able to get a DVD in the mail everyday the mail runs. So about 25 a month, or about $1 each with the current plan. I've very torn as I do watch some streaming content, but not enough to pay about $5 more for it which is the increase I will face. With 45tb of storage I have a very healthy library already. No, the extra money will not mean much to me, but the data point to the Hollywood execs of another in the pile who won't pay $X for streaming is worth it to me. I'd rather take that money and give it to someone worthy at Vodo.net where an extra $5 month could make or break something getting made.
Failure to pay the monies to the victim would be considered contempt-of-court, and the responsible persons sent to 1 year additional jailtime.
Contempt doesn't hold any length of time, someone found in contempt must hold the keys to their freedom or appellate review will release them with a writ of habeas corpus
...that so many "A" titles are unavailable for streaming from any source (not just Netflix). C'mon, people, it's the 21st century. Put everything up there; I'll gladly pay a buck or two to rent what I want, whenever I want; and I think most adults have the same attitude (not necessarily a lot of Slashdot readers, but anyway).
If only it were that easy. Go look at Amazon and their rental rates for streaming new(ish) movies, $4, and you have to wait the 3-4 month window for the DVD to come out, then the 30 day window for Netflix to start renting, then maybe it gets put on the streaming rental circuit. The stupidios see these windows and a chance to sell another copy, I just see it as a chance for me to care even less about that title.
In 1995 there were over 5000 independent radio station companies, by 1997 five companies controlled 95% of the radio market.
How does this make a fair comparison? What was the percentage the five controlled in 1995 or how many independent stations existed in 1997? You can't take two unrelated statistics and say here is a comparison.
According to TFA we're talking about China selling directly to Africa. Aside from the lack of safety concerns I think they also have an advantage in that they aren't being held back by a billion patents and trolls.
I think also without the limitations of those billions of patents and the trolls that go with them, we can see villages innovate new uses beyond what is already being done with these small power generation units.
BTW I think it's time for an ATT-type breakup for Comcast, Time-warner, and other monopolies.
That is a horrible idea, we would not be in this mess today if AT&T was broken up properly. Rather a community/local govt/state govt/fed govt wire center to each residence/business should exist for the last mile. Pay a fee for the last mile, and then connect to the provider(s) of your choice that offer service at the wire center. If it costs $5 to provide this last mile, collect a $10 fee so there is a fund to upgrade to future technologies.
So the questions we must consider are how does giving them a copyright benefit the rest of us, and what specific sort of copyright, in terms of what's eligible, how much protection there is, how long it lasts, etc., is best. Remember: a copyright is an infringement on the free speech right of everyone other than the copyright holder. They should not be granted lightly.
You bring up some very interesting things to think about. As an attorney, you are aware today's copyright is not perfect, it is what it is, and it's what Hollywood paid for. As such, if you create a work, you have copyright, and can give that away through the creative commons and other such sources for the public good, or attempt to profit from it, or do nothing at all, it is the right you've been granted under copyright.
There are just too many sides to this coin that I can only base my statement on current law. It is all we have to go on today. I look at stars in Hollywood making multi-million dollar paychecks for a single movie, is that right? I don't think so, but they are able to get it, so why shouldn't they. If I look back 50+ years when actors were contract workers to the studios, there were plenty of entertaining pictures made, it's the story after all that I enjoy, and the delivery was adequate to enjoy that story.
Like every other aspect of life, copyright has become perverted to a state where a few benefit the most, and an overwhelming majority suffer. How can this be changed, with an unaware and uncaring populace that mostly refuses to vote, not easily. And frankly, copyright will remain too small an issue for many years to come unless something very drastic changes.
While most disagree with the defense route taken, myself included, the copyright owners, through their counsel are defending it in what they view as a worthwhile course. If you are going to torrent motion pictures that are not in the public domain, this is one of the risks you've signed up for.
I've put some thought lately into how this whole copyright thing has been going, and I for one am very angry we the people are footing the bill for copyright owners, while the copyright owners for the most part are only reaping the rewards.
At least here, the copyright owners are footing the bill, in hopes of creating another profit center, but at least they are doing it on their own, and not using the FBI or ICE as their free foot soldiers to protect their IP.
The only thing really keeping us afloat is the Fed printing money as fast as the presses will run and using it to buy our debt, basically making the money worthless.
Federal Reserve Notes have always been a debt backed fiat currency, and always worthless
I know I am in a minority, but I would welcome this interface at home and if price permits, adopt early. I can get 900+MB/s reads off my home media server (32 drive RAID60) and have 802.3ad implemented between all but a couple of devices. Have you looked at the cost for a 10g HBA lately? Like $500 was the last I remember. FC HBA? Even double that and more, and it has been around for years. I don't see networking in the enterprise making much use of LightPeak when 40Gb and 60Gb are already available, but for storage devices? Well it might just shine there, time will tell about it's adoption and pricing. I have SSD as the only local storage device on my desktop, then use my NAS for everything else, but would I really have a need for any local storage if I had 10Gb of network and storage interface at my disposal at home? Hello PXE and iSCSI
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And when that happens, you are no longer in a 'free Democracy', if the USA was ever one to begin with.
Why would you ever think it was? The United States of America has always been a Republic.
I'd be seriously amazed if they aren't already doing this.
I tend to agree, and while shocking about India, it is also refreshing they are being upfront about it.
... but private citizens who own guns outnumber the police and military by around 10 to 1.
You really think that an organized military and police force can be stopped by citizens (including grandma) with their .38 S&W? How would you stop a convoy of tanks and humvees? Your argument also assumes that the whole population rises up at the same time and unites. That rarely ever happened in world history.
Do you really think the military, in some portion, will not side and fight with the people?
I would ignore the suggestions to look at lowendbox, unless you are willing to trade price for stability (which is not always a bad tradeoff, just be sure to do it consciously)
How can you say this and feature a LEB staple on the page in your sig?
Here you go champ, lowendbox.com
This is the best advise we'll see for a low cost VPS, as well as the discussion on http://lowendtalk.com/ This pair of sites is devoted to VPS priced $7 per month or less, and filled with mostly candid answers by actual users. Some of the popular, and regarded better KVM providers you will find on these sites are
buyvm.net
tinykvm.net
ramhost.us
hostigation.com
bitcable.com
* Disclaimer - I am the owner of hostigation.com
Uh except that you could go to court yourself. And if you are accused of a crime you get a free lawyer if you can't afford one.
Which has no bearing on this topic
I ended LK with a full set of top tier, as did most in my guild. And almost all of mine was gone within two levels. If you actually believe that your hit, expertise, or any other caps were being maintained as you leveled up...
Yeah, being hit, expertise and all the other caps really make a difference lvling, NOT!
Any crappy green level 85 gear you have today is still much better then the epic level 80 gear from the litch king era. If you are dieing trying to kill the litch king at level 85 with level 85 gear.... I hate to say it but gear is not the probelm.
I didn't replace any of my 80 raid gear until actual better pieces dropped, and that didn't happen til heroics and rep gear, nothing green or blue is better then well geared 80 raiding gear. but the grind got to me and moved on to other things and let WoW lapse like millions of others did.
Right, with the 3 out at a time plan I am able to get a DVD in the mail everyday the mail runs. So about 25 a month, or about $1 each with the current plan. I've very torn as I do watch some streaming content, but not enough to pay about $5 more for it which is the increase I will face. With 45tb of storage I have a very healthy library already. No, the extra money will not mean much to me, but the data point to the Hollywood execs of another in the pile who won't pay $X for streaming is worth it to me. I'd rather take that money and give it to someone worthy at Vodo.net where an extra $5 month could make or break something getting made.
Awesome, so 6 digiters are young again!
I'm sure they would be happy to accept your volunteer time to implement that idea.
Failure to pay the monies to the victim would be considered contempt-of-court, and the responsible persons sent to 1 year additional jailtime.
Contempt doesn't hold any length of time, someone found in contempt must hold the keys to their freedom or appellate review will release them with a writ of habeas corpus
Time to build a new NAS then, as 4tb was probably good when DVD rained supreme, now 10tb is a nice starting point.
That would be a boon for abacus makers.
Dell will be more like Packard Bell, irrelevant.
...that so many "A" titles are unavailable for streaming from any source (not just Netflix). C'mon, people, it's the 21st century. Put everything up there; I'll gladly pay a buck or two to rent what I want, whenever I want; and I think most adults have the same attitude (not necessarily a lot of Slashdot readers, but anyway).
If only it were that easy. Go look at Amazon and their rental rates for streaming new(ish) movies, $4, and you have to wait the 3-4 month window for the DVD to come out, then the 30 day window for Netflix to start renting, then maybe it gets put on the streaming rental circuit. The stupidios see these windows and a chance to sell another copy, I just see it as a chance for me to care even less about that title.
I would have to write off the cost of the Tb disk to keep all the video on, though. ...
~$ df -h
/dev/sda1 680G 5.8G 640G 1% /
/dev/md0 44T 13T 32T 29% /mnt/sys
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
Or the very large arrays some make to backup their BluRay collection.
In 1995 there were over 5000 independent radio station companies, by 1997 five companies controlled 95% of the radio market.
How does this make a fair comparison? What was the percentage the five controlled in 1995 or how many independent stations existed in 1997? You can't take two unrelated statistics and say here is a comparison.
Oh yeah, source please ;)
According to TFA we're talking about China selling directly to Africa. Aside from the lack of safety concerns I think they also have an advantage in that they aren't being held back by a billion patents and trolls.
I think also without the limitations of those billions of patents and the trolls that go with them, we can see villages innovate new uses beyond what is already being done with these small power generation units.
BTW I think it's time for an ATT-type breakup for Comcast, Time-warner, and other monopolies.
That is a horrible idea, we would not be in this mess today if AT&T was broken up properly. Rather a community/local govt/state govt/fed govt wire center to each residence/business should exist for the last mile. Pay a fee for the last mile, and then connect to the provider(s) of your choice that offer service at the wire center. If it costs $5 to provide this last mile, collect a $10 fee so there is a fund to upgrade to future technologies.
So the questions we must consider are how does giving them a copyright benefit the rest of us, and what specific sort of copyright, in terms of what's eligible, how much protection there is, how long it lasts, etc., is best. Remember: a copyright is an infringement on the free speech right of everyone other than the copyright holder. They should not be granted lightly.
You bring up some very interesting things to think about. As an attorney, you are aware today's copyright is not perfect, it is what it is, and it's what Hollywood paid for. As such, if you create a work, you have copyright, and can give that away through the creative commons and other such sources for the public good, or attempt to profit from it, or do nothing at all, it is the right you've been granted under copyright.
There are just too many sides to this coin that I can only base my statement on current law. It is all we have to go on today. I look at stars in Hollywood making multi-million dollar paychecks for a single movie, is that right? I don't think so, but they are able to get it, so why shouldn't they. If I look back 50+ years when actors were contract workers to the studios, there were plenty of entertaining pictures made, it's the story after all that I enjoy, and the delivery was adequate to enjoy that story.
Like every other aspect of life, copyright has become perverted to a state where a few benefit the most, and an overwhelming majority suffer. How can this be changed, with an unaware and uncaring populace that mostly refuses to vote, not easily. And frankly, copyright will remain too small an issue for many years to come unless something very drastic changes.
While most disagree with the defense route taken, myself included, the copyright owners, through their counsel are defending it in what they view as a worthwhile course. If you are going to torrent motion pictures that are not in the public domain, this is one of the risks you've signed up for.
I've put some thought lately into how this whole copyright thing has been going, and I for one am very angry we the people are footing the bill for copyright owners, while the copyright owners for the most part are only reaping the rewards.
At least here, the copyright owners are footing the bill, in hopes of creating another profit center, but at least they are doing it on their own, and not using the FBI or ICE as their free foot soldiers to protect their IP.
They created it, what better reason do you need? I enjoy benefiting from my creations, as I'm sure most do.
The only thing really keeping us afloat is the Fed printing money as fast as the presses will run and using it to buy our debt, basically making the money worthless.
Federal Reserve Notes have always been a debt backed fiat currency, and always worthless
I know I am in a minority, but I would welcome this interface at home and if price permits, adopt early. I can get 900+MB/s reads off my home media server (32 drive RAID60) and have 802.3ad implemented between all but a couple of devices. Have you looked at the cost for a 10g HBA lately? Like $500 was the last I remember. FC HBA? Even double that and more, and it has been around for years. I don't see networking in the enterprise making much use of LightPeak when 40Gb and 60Gb are already available, but for storage devices? Well it might just shine there, time will tell about it's adoption and pricing. I have SSD as the only local storage device on my desktop, then use my NAS for everything else, but would I really have a need for any local storage if I had 10Gb of network and storage interface at my disposal at home? Hello PXE and iSCSI