It seems Google is becoming quite an asswipe of a company. Anyone who has followed YouTube closely for the past few weeks can tell that there are some real, sucky changes going on. Just today I saw my first video where the sound had been disabled by YouTube because it contained "copyrighted material". At this rate, there's nothing I'd like to see more than a few of these content lords keel over and die. And it can happen. All it will take is some discipline on the part of consumers.
I'd like to think you're serious, but if you look at the way that citizens in general have responded to the constant attacks on our constitutional status from within our own borders, I dare say that most of the time, they'd be just as complacent as those on the three flights that were alleged to have been hijacked by terrorists on 9/11. It's all about fear- it's the great disabler.
These project aren't meaningless for the same reason that both KDE and Gnome aren't meaningless. They allow for options. It means that nobody has to depend on one single source for a given open-source implementation, and that, in my opinion, is one of the most fundamental benefits of open-source. Just because it's open source doesn't mean that competition and alternatives aren't a good thing.
The group thing has been tried, and we've seen the outcome. Part of the problem with a shared risk pool is that there is much less accountability. If people were made to bear more of the true cost associated with the choices they make (which they are prefectly free to make), I dare see we'd be looking at a different landscape in many respects.
I'm inclined to believe that your approach also tends to separate those who are merely in it for the paycheck, from those who are in it because they love doing it.
The reason I made the distinction is because "terrorism" and the so-called "war on terrorism" isn't just a local police issue. It has the force of a huge bureaucracy (DHS) as well as the military behind it.
The article says, "Police officials say the surveillance cameras can help combat crime and terrorism..."
When you start using "crime" and "Terrorism" in the same sentence to justify the actions of government, I think there's a big problem on the horizon. How long will it be before the two are used interchangeably?
Seems to me that avante garde artists like John Cage already have stuff like this covered- not by patent, but by prior art. I doubt any of them dealt with DNA specifically, but they were notorious for creating music (in the loosest sense of the word) using any of various sources of random influence.
I heard it was something about some dude named Chad that liked hanging around during the election, making it difficult to determine what people were voting for. This guy's kind of strange, too- rumor has it that he occasionally gets pregnant from voting machines that malfunction. I'm guessing that the move to e-voting will give this guy a much-needed break.
I'm not suggesting that MySpace will fail - I'm suggesting that this application of MySpace may fail. Let's not forget that Murdoch didn't build MySpace, he bought it. If you've been around YouTube lately, there's a lot of buzz about the way that the corporate suits at Google are making decisions that are really starting to piss people off. They act like they are immune to any fallout from their own incompetence at community management. What makes this whole equation very interesting is that unlike most other media, the communities are the content. When the community leaves, so does the content. I really don't see many people sticking around a service like MySpace or YouTube just to watch more corporate-driven entertainment.
I think Murdoch is missing the point. What makes MySpace (ugh) and other sites like YouTube popular isn't JUST the fact that you're sitting at your computer- it's that the media is produced by thousands and thousands of different content creators. I believe that the days where one centralized entity is making all of the production decisions are coming to an end. Individual control aside, this new breed of content is quintessentially interactive. You can talk to the creators, share with them, befriend them, and even meet them. Traditional media just can't compete.
The sad truth is there is little to nothing you can do to stop any of this. The American people have chosen this path. They vote for it, with ballots, feet and wallets.
NO, the sad truth is that they don't vote for it - because they don't vote. I can't say I blame them when each choice you have is only a matter of playing the lesser of two evils game.
If I'm not doing anything wrong, then you have no cause to watch me.
This is absolutely true. There's nothing tongue-in-cheek about it. I believe this was the basis for the 4th Amendment and something called due process.
Nobody gave dumb-dumb anything. He and his pet neo-chimp have this delusion that this stuff is there for the taking. The real question is why we haven't yet taken it back- it belongs to the country.
I have Comcast, and I also had a BAD resetting problem - I'd get reset on almost every game I tried to play. Sometimes I'd make it through a couple of hours, but those were usually the exceptions. In looking at all possible causes, I upgraded my router's firmware, and all my problems disappeared. It appears as though it was the damned Linksys router causing the problems.
The is that the government, due to its own ineptitude, can't do its job. Recall that there was plenty of information available before 911 occurred. It didn't require secret courts, the patriot act, denying due process, the invasion of another country (the justification of which was a complete fabrication), secret letters that nobody can talk about, operating outside the constitution, or a major catastrophe to justify it all (9/11). All it required was a reasonable degree of competency. The irony here is that all these newly-invasive laws and illegal maneuverings will not magically fix a broken system.
eriously though, this is the sort of law that sounds like it was put together over a drinking game by a couple of high school students
What kind of mentality/mental acuity do you think it actually requires to become a politician? This is another great example of a solution without a problem- much like the patriot act, and much of the so-called "anti-terrorist" legislation that is still raining down upon us as fallout from 9/11.
Here's an interesting tidbit - the election is coming up. Candidates are talking about issues. How many times, though, have I heard about a candidate being asked where they stand with respect to this issue? Or the insidious patriot act? I'd say the constitutional freedom and the integrity of our government trump just about every other issue they could talk about, especially since they same to talk about the same things every damn election.
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It seems Google is becoming quite an asswipe of a company. Anyone who has followed YouTube closely for the past few weeks can tell that there are some real, sucky changes going on. Just today I saw my first video where the sound had been disabled by YouTube because it contained "copyrighted material". At this rate, there's nothing I'd like to see more than a few of these content lords keel over and die. And it can happen. All it will take is some discipline on the part of consumers.
I'd like to think you're serious, but if you look at the way that citizens in general have responded to the constant attacks on our constitutional status from within our own borders, I dare say that most of the time, they'd be just as complacent as those on the three flights that were alleged to have been hijacked by terrorists on 9/11. It's all about fear- it's the great disabler.
These project aren't meaningless for the same reason that both KDE and Gnome aren't meaningless. They allow for options. It means that nobody has to depend on one single source for a given open-source implementation, and that, in my opinion, is one of the most fundamental benefits of open-source. Just because it's open source doesn't mean that competition and alternatives aren't a good thing.
The group thing has been tried, and we've seen the outcome. Part of the problem with a shared risk pool is that there is much less accountability. If people were made to bear more of the true cost associated with the choices they make (which they are prefectly free to make), I dare see we'd be looking at a different landscape in many respects.
I'm inclined to believe that your approach also tends to separate those who are merely in it for the paycheck, from those who are in it because they love doing it.
The reason I made the distinction is because "terrorism" and the so-called "war on terrorism" isn't just a local police issue. It has the force of a huge bureaucracy (DHS) as well as the military behind it.
The article says, "Police officials say the surveillance cameras can help combat crime and terrorism..."
When you start using "crime" and "Terrorism" in the same sentence to justify the actions of government, I think there's a big problem on the horizon. How long will it be before the two are used interchangeably?
It's certainly not any worse than long-time Apple users called the "open-apple" key. Well, at least some did.
Seems to me that avante garde artists like John Cage already have stuff like this covered- not by patent, but by prior art. I doubt any of them dealt with DNA specifically, but they were notorious for creating music (in the loosest sense of the word) using any of various sources of random influence.
I heard it was something about some dude named Chad that liked hanging around during the election, making it difficult to determine what people were voting for. This guy's kind of strange, too- rumor has it that he occasionally gets pregnant from voting machines that malfunction. I'm guessing that the move to e-voting will give this guy a much-needed break.
If I whisper something to someone, wouldn't that give them probable cause to suspect I'm doing something that's illegal?
You do if you're Ted Stevens.
I hope he chooses not to step down...it will be a hoot watching the military carry him out in handcuffs.
I'm not suggesting that MySpace will fail - I'm suggesting that this application of MySpace may fail. Let's not forget that Murdoch didn't build MySpace, he bought it. If you've been around YouTube lately, there's a lot of buzz about the way that the corporate suits at Google are making decisions that are really starting to piss people off. They act like they are immune to any fallout from their own incompetence at community management. What makes this whole equation very interesting is that unlike most other media, the communities are the content. When the community leaves, so does the content. I really don't see many people sticking around a service like MySpace or YouTube just to watch more corporate-driven entertainment.
I think Murdoch is missing the point. What makes MySpace (ugh) and other sites like YouTube popular isn't JUST the fact that you're sitting at your computer- it's that the media is produced by thousands and thousands of different content creators. I believe that the days where one centralized entity is making all of the production decisions are coming to an end. Individual control aside, this new breed of content is quintessentially interactive. You can talk to the creators, share with them, befriend them, and even meet them. Traditional media just can't compete.
The sad truth is there is little to nothing you can do to stop any of this. The American people have chosen this path. They vote for it, with ballots, feet and wallets.
NO, the sad truth is that they don't vote for it - because they don't vote. I can't say I blame them when each choice you have is only a matter of playing the lesser of two evils game.
If I'm not doing anything wrong, then you have no cause to watch me.
This is absolutely true. There's nothing tongue-in-cheek about it. I believe this was the basis for the 4th Amendment and something called due process.
Nobody gave dumb-dumb anything. He and his pet neo-chimp have this delusion that this stuff is there for the taking. The real question is why we haven't yet taken it back- it belongs to the country.
I have Comcast, and I also had a BAD resetting problem - I'd get reset on almost every game I tried to play. Sometimes I'd make it through a couple of hours, but those were usually the exceptions. In looking at all possible causes, I upgraded my router's firmware, and all my problems disappeared. It appears as though it was the damned Linksys router causing the problems.
The is that the government, due to its own ineptitude, can't do its job. Recall that there was plenty of information available before 911 occurred. It didn't require secret courts, the patriot act, denying due process, the invasion of another country (the justification of which was a complete fabrication), secret letters that nobody can talk about, operating outside the constitution, or a major catastrophe to justify it all (9/11). All it required was a reasonable degree of competency. The irony here is that all these newly-invasive laws and illegal maneuverings will not magically fix a broken system.
It's about getting things done.
Well, to be honest, watching Microsoft squirm a little doesn't hurt either.
eriously though, this is the sort of law that sounds like it was put together over a drinking game by a couple of high school students
What kind of mentality/mental acuity do you think it actually requires to become a politician? This is another great example of a solution without a problem- much like the patriot act, and much of the so-called "anti-terrorist" legislation that is still raining down upon us as fallout from 9/11.
If that's all they want to do, they sure don't need Vista to do it. Linux will do just fine.
Here's an interesting tidbit - the election is coming up. Candidates are talking about issues. How many times, though, have I heard about a candidate being asked where they stand with respect to this issue? Or the insidious patriot act? I'd say the constitutional freedom and the integrity of our government trump just about every other issue they could talk about, especially since they same to talk about the same things every damn election.
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