This is a prime example of why I would love a new reality show based on a mob rules mentality. Find a cop tasering grandma, the mob applies justice in the street, opening up a can of whoop-ass.
The damage from counterfeiting is inflation. Therefore, counterfeiting is a crime whose damage is divided among all individuals who are holding cash, or who are holding dollar-denominated assets at a fixed interest rate.
That the damage to each victim is very small is a secondary issue that perhaps could be considered at sentencing time.
Which is why HR1206 and S604 are essential beginnings to end the reign of the largest counterfeiter and thief of American wealth, The Federal Reserve.
Are you unsatisfied, or unsatisfied if something cheaper comes along? Unfortunately most people chose the later,and then we wonder why so many jobs have left, when all we do if feed these crappy corporations in America, but wish to bitch and moan about them with the same breath. You, a collective, not personal you, need to truly take a stand, and if it means it will cost you more to voice your displeasure, it costs you more. I have not shopped at Wal-Mart in 10+ years, they are the main reason you go into any rural area you see blighted towns. I do not frequent fast food chains, or any chains for when I eat a meal out. If I do eat out, it will be a family owned establishment, if I need to by a product, it will be a hard search, but I will buy it at a locally owned, hopefully family owned business. Does this mentality cost me more? Sometimes it does, but I know I am helping to keep my neighbors employed and food on their families table, and usually at a reasonable wage.
Now for your television watching habits to be specific with your post. Do you even need cable? Are your viewing habits requiring it? I, like most in America, have few choices, local cable, one of the satellite providers, or over the air broadcasts. I've chosen over the air for the network shows, I do time shift them with my PC, then hulu or the networks themselves have their programming available over the internet with fewer or no commercial breaks at all. There is very little programing I do not have some type of free access to without stealing it. So I have no need to pay for cable, and I'm sure you could buy nothing as well. I do get my internet service from the locol cable company, and as long as I do not use their DNS servers, it works just fine, 99% of their trouble is they have no clue how to do something as basic as provide stable DNS for their customers. So again, how serious are you really? I was one of the mom and pop internet providers in the 90's, my (ex)wife and I provided good a living and respectable benefits to dozens of employees until the higher speed connections were becoming popular and the little guy really didn't have a viable way to compete with it. I've since moved to the east coast, and you see people acting desperate for an alternative to their local monopoly internet provider, but like yourself, they don't really hate them that much, as when a real alternative is provided, the majority would rather get that $5 bundled discount.
On the other hand, Slashdot has a right to grouse about it on their own site if they want! Everyone's got rights all around.;-)
I second that, everyone do what they want so long as it doesn't come to threats destruction fists and bullets. In fact I would make that the one-line constitution and we'd be better off.
I would imagine it does come to fists and bullets in some rare cases, but teaching people to ease up on the level of hate spewed on the internet would make a far better world to live in.
I've been thinking that the media has greatly misrepresented the Tea Party movement. The reporting makes the Tea Party look so nutty that I begin to doubt it on the grounds that no group of people sharing a common interest or three could be quite that incoherent, contradictory, and plain stupid.
More likely MSM is painting that picture so you'll vote for their man instead
At $4k, you can afford to have 20 of these drives and still have money for some fancy controllers.
You'd be hard pressed to get "fancy" controllers for 20 drives for the $4k. And good luck getting them all to fit in a 1RU server.
You'd be surprised what $4k will buy. Now I didn't meet your 20 drive or 1U, but the following is a totally workable SOHO solution
~$3500 leaving $500 to fill out the mobo/ram/cpu. These are quick rough numbers, but reality, this is quiet, fault tolerant, and in my closet. I store all my movies/music on this as well as archive all the CD's that come with the things I buy, like driver disc's and manuals. This is for my home, not some enterprise solution, so the risk of flooding the controller is minimal, but I can expand this to 128 devices, and for a household streaming media, I can see it serving that purpose for many years to come. Anything new I build will most likely use SSD for the things needed on the local machine, then the NAS will be sitting there at the ready for all the large storage needs.
I've used WHS as the platform running my NAS, mostly for the backup solution it provides for all the client machines, at ~$100, it is one of the few values Microsoft has on the market. If your household is like most, running Windows XP/Vista/7 then WHS is definatly worth a look, HP even has some small boxes on the market starting at something like $400 and expandable, I don't care for them, but they might be a good fit for others.
Slapping what I assume to be a ton of chips together wont make for an impressive benchmark.
Same as:
... I would rather raid together a bunch of and small fast ssd's than 1 big one.
SSD seek time is zero, there is no multi-spindle advantage. Unless you are trying to exceed a system thruput of 3 gigs/sec, the limit of a single SATA channel...
There might be a cost savings with a raid setup to achieve larger capacity, but personally I would do it just for some fault tolerance. No matter how well made things get, stuff breaks, and usually at an inopportune time.
I've been thinking of some SSD solution for my next PC at home as my current PC has lost it's new toy feel for me. It's still great hardware, but it's not new anymore, and cheaper then trading in women. I think people need to change their view about home computing some though. Is there really a need to have you music/video collection on every computer in the home? How much can be stored centrally on a NAS tucked away in the closet? I see the mechanical drive being king of the NAS market of the future, with folks running huge storage pools at home, then SSD for your local apps.
Abolishing the government completely, is that what it will take? It's going to be tough, what, with the government having all those weapons.
If the day ever came that We the people wish to remove our Governement, and the Government wishes to use it's Military to stop that, how much of the military will listen, and how much will side with the people, you know, those people who are the mothers/fathers/brothers/sisters of this all powerful military you are so afraid of.
U.S.A is a socialist country and have always been a socialist country.
You pay taxes and those taxes and those taxes are spent on "the common good": roads, schools, military, police, firebrigades...
Healthcare is just one more ting on the list of what your taxes pay for
Bzzt, wrong!
The first United States income tax was imposed in July 1861, at 3% of all incomes over 800 dollars in order to help pay for the war effort in the American Civil War. This tax was repealed and replaced by another income tax in 1862 Wikipedia
How did the United State provide those services prior to 1861? Tariffs on foreign imports was a major source of funding.
Mine was the Atari 400 with a cassette tape drive for storage, then around 83 I bought a TRS80. Wasn't until the early 90's that I bought a PC, a 386SX33 with 2mb of ram and a 40mb hd, my girlfriend at the time had to teach me to double click the mouse.
Your example about the number of people we have in prison isn't related to this topic. A large number of them are in prison for non-violent drug offenses-something they knew was illegal. I don't believe our war on drugs is really about drugs, it's about making minorities criminals.
I think you've touched on something, but not the full grasp of the situation. I think the higher percentage of minorities being in prison is due to their lack of resources to acquire a proper defense. But disregard the makeup of our prison population and look only at the sheer number of prisoners, and it seems to me to be a new form of bringing back slavery, with corporate run prisons being the new plantation owners. These corporations are charging a fee to the states they house prisoners for and that fee will cover the operating costs as well as a profit. Now add in labor costs they can earn from selling the use of the prisoners for or manufacturing they do within the walls of the prison constructing products. More profit.
So now we have another new, large, powerful, deep pocketed lobbying group pushing for harsher laws and stiffer penalties to grow the population of these new slaves, to the point of one day we will either be a prisoner or a prison guard.
The ad method won't work for them in the long run, people will figure out how to skip the ads, or just ignore them. Just offer the product way cheap with at least some profit in there (that's why I like a clean "double the bandwith costs and no more" method, easy to figure out and still a cheap price), and try volume sales instead. There are potentially six BILLION customers out there who ARE willing to buy things if the price is right and not blatant price gouging.
While nothing is wrong with your idea, let me ask how are the studios going to make flops or other movies that will ultimately be unprofitable? I certainly do not know or even believe most of their reported revenues and p/l statements as they probably cook the books in ways unimaginable, but some productions simply do not make a profit as they have a limited audience attraction(many art movies), or the movie just plain sucked.
Electric cars do not pay road use taxes. At least in the US, road use taxes are included in the price of gas at the pump, most states also collect road use taxes at diesel pumps as well. I used to drive an over the road truck, and Arizona did not collect from trucks at the pump, rather you reported your mileage monthly/quarterly, and paid the road use tax within their state. I remember it was cheaper to fill up on the AZ/CA boarder, do your business within California, then fill up again after leaving California and just paying the tax on the fuel you would have purchased.
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As a former UnderNet server admin, you may have been unaware the undernet IRC network has been around forever.
This is a prime example of why I would love a new reality show based on a mob rules mentality. Find a cop tasering grandma, the mob applies justice in the street, opening up a can of whoop-ass.
Right you are, silly fat fingers, thanks for the correction.
The damage from counterfeiting is inflation. Therefore, counterfeiting is a crime whose damage is divided among all individuals who are holding cash, or who are holding dollar-denominated assets at a fixed interest rate.
That the damage to each victim is very small is a secondary issue that perhaps could be considered at sentencing time.
Which is why HR1206 and S604 are essential beginnings to end the reign of the largest counterfeiter and thief of American wealth, The Federal Reserve.
Are you unsatisfied, or unsatisfied if something cheaper comes along? Unfortunately most people chose the later,and then we wonder why so many jobs have left, when all we do if feed these crappy corporations in America, but wish to bitch and moan about them with the same breath. You, a collective, not personal you, need to truly take a stand, and if it means it will cost you more to voice your displeasure, it costs you more. I have not shopped at Wal-Mart in 10+ years, they are the main reason you go into any rural area you see blighted towns. I do not frequent fast food chains, or any chains for when I eat a meal out. If I do eat out, it will be a family owned establishment, if I need to by a product, it will be a hard search, but I will buy it at a locally owned, hopefully family owned business. Does this mentality cost me more? Sometimes it does, but I know I am helping to keep my neighbors employed and food on their families table, and usually at a reasonable wage.
Now for your television watching habits to be specific with your post. Do you even need cable? Are your viewing habits requiring it? I, like most in America, have few choices, local cable, one of the satellite providers, or over the air broadcasts. I've chosen over the air for the network shows, I do time shift them with my PC, then hulu or the networks themselves have their programming available over the internet with fewer or no commercial breaks at all. There is very little programing I do not have some type of free access to without stealing it. So I have no need to pay for cable, and I'm sure you could buy nothing as well. I do get my internet service from the locol cable company, and as long as I do not use their DNS servers, it works just fine, 99% of their trouble is they have no clue how to do something as basic as provide stable DNS for their customers. So again, how serious are you really? I was one of the mom and pop internet providers in the 90's, my (ex)wife and I provided good a living and respectable benefits to dozens of employees until the higher speed connections were becoming popular and the little guy really didn't have a viable way to compete with it. I've since moved to the east coast, and you see people acting desperate for an alternative to their local monopoly internet provider, but like yourself, they don't really hate them that much, as when a real alternative is provided, the majority would rather get that $5 bundled discount.
On the other hand, Slashdot has a right to grouse about it on their own site if they want! Everyone's got rights all around. ;-)
I second that, everyone do what they want so long as it doesn't come to threats destruction fists and bullets. In fact I would make that the one-line constitution and we'd be better off.
I would imagine it does come to fists and bullets in some rare cases, but teaching people to ease up on the level of hate spewed on the internet would make a far better world to live in.
To those who repair computers, your two best friends are a guy at work and a friend from church
I've been thinking that the media has greatly misrepresented the Tea Party movement. The reporting makes the Tea Party look so nutty that I begin to doubt it on the grounds that no group of people sharing a common interest or three could be quite that incoherent, contradictory, and plain stupid.
More likely MSM is painting that picture so you'll vote for their man instead
At $4k, you can afford to have 20 of these drives and still have money for some fancy controllers.
You'd be hard pressed to get "fancy" controllers for 20 drives for the $4k. And good luck getting them all to fit in a 1RU server.
You'd be surprised what $4k will buy. Now I didn't meet your 20 drive or 1U, but the following is a totally workable SOHO solution
3ware 9690SA-4I ~$300
Chenbro CK12803 ~$300
16 * 2tb HDD @ $150 $2400
Coolmaster mid tower $60
3 5-in-3 Hot swap bays ~$300
750W 80% Power supply ~$100
~$3500 leaving $500 to fill out the mobo/ram/cpu. These are quick rough numbers, but reality, this is quiet, fault tolerant, and in my closet. I store all my movies/music on this as well as archive all the CD's that come with the things I buy, like driver disc's and manuals. This is for my home, not some enterprise solution, so the risk of flooding the controller is minimal, but I can expand this to 128 devices, and for a household streaming media, I can see it serving that purpose for many years to come. Anything new I build will most likely use SSD for the things needed on the local machine, then the NAS will be sitting there at the ready for all the large storage needs.
I've used WHS as the platform running my NAS, mostly for the backup solution it provides for all the client machines, at ~$100, it is one of the few values Microsoft has on the market. If your household is like most, running Windows XP/Vista/7 then WHS is definatly worth a look, HP even has some small boxes on the market starting at something like $400 and expandable, I don't care for them, but they might be a good fit for others.
Slapping what I assume to be a ton of chips together wont make for an impressive benchmark.
Same as:
... I would rather raid together a bunch of and small fast ssd's than 1 big one.
SSD seek time is zero, there is no multi-spindle advantage. Unless you are trying to exceed a system thruput of 3 gigs/sec, the limit of a single SATA channel...
There might be a cost savings with a raid setup to achieve larger capacity, but personally I would do it just for some fault tolerance. No matter how well made things get, stuff breaks, and usually at an inopportune time.
I've been thinking of some SSD solution for my next PC at home as my current PC has lost it's new toy feel for me. It's still great hardware, but it's not new anymore, and cheaper then trading in women. I think people need to change their view about home computing some though. Is there really a need to have you music/video collection on every computer in the home? How much can be stored centrally on a NAS tucked away in the closet? I see the mechanical drive being king of the NAS market of the future, with folks running huge storage pools at home, then SSD for your local apps.
Stuff did get blown up real well in 2012, but there was way too much romance in there for my liking of an end of the world movie.
Oh wait, I gave away I paid attention to the story
Abolishing the government completely, is that what it will take? It's going to be tough, what, with the government having all those weapons.
If the day ever came that We the people wish to remove our Governement, and the Government wishes to use it's Military to stop that, how much of the military will listen, and how much will side with the people, you know, those people who are the mothers/fathers/brothers/sisters of this all powerful military you are so afraid of.
U.S.A is a socialist country and have always been a socialist country.
You pay taxes and those taxes and those taxes are spent on "the common good": roads, schools, military, police, firebrigades...
Healthcare is just one more ting on the list of what your taxes pay for
Bzzt, wrong!
The first United States income tax was imposed in July 1861, at 3% of all incomes over 800 dollars in order to help pay for the war effort in the American Civil War. This tax was repealed and replaced by another income tax in 1862 Wikipedia
How did the United State provide those services prior to 1861? Tariffs on foreign imports was a major source of funding.
We could have had such a thing, but Judge Greene was a moron that created 5 more monopolies instead of truly divesting AT&T
Mine was the Atari 400 with a cassette tape drive for storage, then around 83 I bought a TRS80. Wasn't until the early 90's that I bought a PC, a 386SX33 with 2mb of ram and a 40mb hd, my girlfriend at the time had to teach me to double click the mouse.
Your example about the number of people we have in prison isn't related to this topic. A large number of them are in prison for non-violent drug offenses-something they knew was illegal. I don't believe our war on drugs is really about drugs, it's about making minorities criminals.
I think you've touched on something, but not the full grasp of the situation. I think the higher percentage of minorities being in prison is due to their lack of resources to acquire a proper defense. But disregard the makeup of our prison population and look only at the sheer number of prisoners, and it seems to me to be a new form of bringing back slavery, with corporate run prisons being the new plantation owners. These corporations are charging a fee to the states they house prisoners for and that fee will cover the operating costs as well as a profit. Now add in labor costs they can earn from selling the use of the prisoners for or manufacturing they do within the walls of the prison constructing products. More profit.
So now we have another new, large, powerful, deep pocketed lobbying group pushing for harsher laws and stiffer penalties to grow the population of these new slaves, to the point of one day we will either be a prisoner or a prison guard.
VPS, TorrentFlux, FTP problem solved
The ad method won't work for them in the long run, people will figure out how to skip the ads, or just ignore them. Just offer the product way cheap with at least some profit in there (that's why I like a clean "double the bandwith costs and no more" method, easy to figure out and still a cheap price), and try volume sales instead. There are potentially six BILLION customers out there who ARE willing to buy things if the price is right and not blatant price gouging.
While nothing is wrong with your idea, let me ask how are the studios going to make flops or other movies that will ultimately be unprofitable? I certainly do not know or even believe most of their reported revenues and p/l statements as they probably cook the books in ways unimaginable, but some productions simply do not make a profit as they have a limited audience attraction(many art movies), or the movie just plain sucked.
Driving to computer store: $250,000
Picking out computer: $100,000
Cost of computer: $350
driving computer to Dot office: $250,000
Installation: $164,032.32
Writing and printing invoice: $56,473.45
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Total: $5,0000,0000*
Reaction from the public: Priceless
I think Denzel is the clear choice to uncover any conspiracy in Washington DC
Excellent point and I've updated my sig appropriately
If it can cut down on some of the hate spewed on the Internet, sure.
4) Possess is purposely misspelled to troll the grammar Nazi
And you've proven my point
Electric cars do not pay road use taxes. At least in the US, road use taxes are included in the price of gas at the pump, most states also collect road use taxes at diesel pumps as well. I used to drive an over the road truck, and Arizona did not collect from trucks at the pump, rather you reported your mileage monthly/quarterly, and paid the road use tax within their state. I remember it was cheaper to fill up on the AZ/CA boarder, do your business within California, then fill up again after leaving California and just paying the tax on the fuel you would have purchased.