That reminds me. The stupidest thing about Quebec is how the stop signs say "arret", part of the "no english signs" bullshit. Stop signs in France say "STOP". Those fascists are more concerned about pushing separatism than the safety of their own citizens. Like the roads aren't bad enough...
The chicks simply remember that there is more usable room behind one of the screens, which is a spatial orientation skill, not a mathematical one, and is definitely hard-wired into any organism with eyes. Chickens don't rely on math at all, so it wouldn't work itself into their DNA.
If there were two holes, one leading to a space too small to sleep, the other of good size, and a chick remembered which was the larger one, would you assume it measured the spaces mathematically? Knew how many cc's each was? Hell no. Just because there's bumps on the tray doesn't mean chicky has a built-in abacus.
We need a Listener's Rights Society, where we can be compensated for hearing music we DON'T want to hear. Think about it, how many times do you hear an awful song in a situation where you can't turn it off? And they want royalties for that?!
No, I'm saying we can adjust to climate change, or suffer an irrational fear that it's all our fault and adjust to climate change. Makes more sense to try to understand what really caused it, rather than just accept Al Gore's fancy presentation uncontested. AFAIC it's just another WMD scare. US politicians get absolutely no credibility from me.
However there are numerous examples of the propagation of fear for the purpose of controlling the masses. 9/11 is dubious at best, no WMD's were found in Iraq, and there is no tangible evidence that greenhouse gasses represent a significant cause of global warming compared to a natural phenomenon. The Earth has been much warmer in the past and had much higher CO2 levels prior to industrialization, which is exactly why dinosaurs were so enormous, they needed enormous air cavities to extract sufficient oxygen.
I am still an environmental advocate, since there is also no reason to make things any worse, but really, do Americans actually have anything to fear from Iraqis or "terrorists"? There are plenty of those who benefited immensely and are capable of perpetrating such frauds on the American public. I don't claim that's what happened, I merely do not accept the story fed us by Fox news unchallenged, and there are too many unexplained holes.
Does your company facilitate copyright infringement? It's not called the Shareware Bay y'know. By offering VPN they are no longer passive facilitators, but active ones. They've even named the service as a parody of an IP protection directive, expressing their clear intent, as if "Pirate Bay" wasn't enough of an outright confession.
And it doesn't have to be a flagrant violation of criminal code, if it's close enough the BSA, RIAA, and MPIAA will simply throw enough money into a civil suit to make it unprofitable and deter anyone else from offering torrents and VPN. That's why the RIAA makes so many contradictory statements in different lawsuits, they're just saying whatever $10M in legal will buy them to scare people away from piracy that's cost them $10B over the last 10 years.
Even if they're certain they're not breaking any law, it'll still cost PB >$200k in legal to defend against an IP infringement claim of that magnitude, and even if they win and are awarded legal costs, that's a pretty big loan they're forced to give their lawyers for about two years. No question, the MAFIAA will go after you with complete knowledge that they have no case whatsoever. Torrents + VPN == an arguable case + a precedent the MAFIAA cannot afford to go unchallenged.
PB can't win this one though, won't surprise me if they get shut down entirely. If they hadn't been so flagrant about it, maybe, but it's pretty much like a gun shop called "Cop Killer's Paradise" in a city with the highest fatal shootings of officers. They not only facilitate illegal activity that is clearly abundant, they promote it.
As a professional your brother should be claiming CD-R's as a business expense anyway. I'm a sound tech who goes through 2-3 100 CD-R spindles monthly, entirely on content I record legitimately myself, much of it live demo recordings. I write it all off, so they can levy it all they want as far as I'm concerned. I also write off half my "entertainment" expenditures from every outing where I discus music with anyone, so roughly 45% of my restaurant/bar bills. It's quite an easy subject to bring up!
I also question whether the tax is actually collected on all imported media, since I pay 23 cents per CD-R at a local shop, and the tax is supposed to be 21 cents each, soon to be raised to 29 cents if it hasn't already. I have trouble believing the manufacturing, distributing, and retailing revenues total a mere 2 cents a disc.
As an artist who knows I'll never see dime of any such levy, it's pretty irritating. How the music industry is supposed to benefit by making internet traffic more expensive is beyond me. This is typical of the music industry's back-end approach to combating music piracy rather than the value-added approach which is generally the most successful.
Worse yet is the "SOCAN tax" for live performances. 3% of the pay for an artist or band is collected by SOCAN (Tariff 3A) to be redistributed to SOCAN members. If an artist or band plays all original music, they have to submit a setlist and wait to get that money back. If they play no original or SOCAN member compositions (i.e. all American-written songs) the collected money is basically swallowed by SOCAN. So the organization whose mission is to compensate Canadian songwriters for 3rd party performance and broadcast actually taxes Canadian performers unfairly and profits from the performance of non-Canadian compositions.
Fortunately, virtually no small live music venues across the country cooperate until they are compelled by SOCAN, and of the 200+ small venues I've played I've only encountered two such venues, one has since closed. So just avoid the Boar's Head Pub in Stratford Ontario and you're ok...
Begs the question, if the game becomes pretty useless once you've finished it, why not just rent it? If it works out to the same as the loss from purchase/resale, what's the difference?
22/7 is an approximation of pi. One would have to celebrate by drinking sloppily. I'd much rather celebrate a more accurate date with enough exuberance to drink sloppily than fake it.
Come to think of it, I had a shot of Jagermeister at 3.14.1:59 last night! Nailed it!
The targeted ads will have nothing to do with the channel you're watching, so if bad commercials make you turn away, they will now make you turn it off entirely.
Also, there will be no way to indicate to the cable company that you dislike certain ads, nor would they let you tell them what ads to run even if there were.
Once the system goes digital, all subscribers will be identifiable by the MAC address or UID of the cable box. One could argue that ad targeting is one of the primary reasons it's going digital.
The really bad news is that although many cable boxes are hackable, and the UID can be changed, it would either be a telltale sign to the cable company that the box has been hacked, or you just end up getting someone else's targeted ads.
Private companies contracted to governments should stick to less critical functions, like making weapons of mass destruction. And no, I'm not refering to Vista.
I for one have a problem with our government documents and processes being hosted by a private company. At least Microsoft just sells software.
Quote from Microsoft paralegal: "They [Gates, Ballmer] aren't in it for the money anymore, they're multi-billionaires. They have a chance to change the world." I for one have a problem with unelected civilians having that level of influence, especially without the consent of government.
Another news service covering a story is legitimate news. I've many times seen or heard an article or broadcast claim "[other news service] is reporting that..." I think the problem is that AHN is leaving out the "AP is reporting that..." part.
The notion that advertising the original news service is as or more important than the news itself is not newsworthy to me.
If a plaintiff could prove harm or even better, immediate irreparable injury, a court would say give 'em up or go to jail
Doesn't firing someone without cause also result in immediate irreparable damages, specifically to their wallet and reputation?
Also begs the question, why didn't Childs just say he was so pissed off from getting fired that he erased the passwords then got astronomically piss-drunk for a week straight and forgot them?
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That reminds me. The stupidest thing about Quebec is how the stop signs say "arret", part of the "no english signs" bullshit. Stop signs in France say "STOP". Those fascists are more concerned about pushing separatism than the safety of their own citizens. Like the roads aren't bad enough...
The chicks simply remember that there is more usable room behind one of the screens, which is a spatial orientation skill, not a mathematical one, and is definitely hard-wired into any organism with eyes. Chickens don't rely on math at all, so it wouldn't work itself into their DNA.
If there were two holes, one leading to a space too small to sleep, the other of good size, and a chick remembered which was the larger one, would you assume it measured the spaces mathematically? Knew how many cc's each was? Hell no. Just because there's bumps on the tray doesn't mean chicky has a built-in abacus.
People's rights are all the rage, however one person's rights don't mean dick. People love to ridicule the sole voice of dissent. Nothing new there.
We need a Listener's Rights Society, where we can be compensated for hearing music we DON'T want to hear. Think about it, how many times do you hear an awful song in a situation where you can't turn it off? And they want royalties for that?!
No, I'm saying we can adjust to climate change, or suffer an irrational fear that it's all our fault and adjust to climate change. Makes more sense to try to understand what really caused it, rather than just accept Al Gore's fancy presentation uncontested. AFAIC it's just another WMD scare. US politicians get absolutely no credibility from me.
But if you were caught stealing, the name of your blog would not be ignored.
However there are numerous examples of the propagation of fear for the purpose of controlling the masses. 9/11 is dubious at best, no WMD's were found in Iraq, and there is no tangible evidence that greenhouse gasses represent a significant cause of global warming compared to a natural phenomenon. The Earth has been much warmer in the past and had much higher CO2 levels prior to industrialization, which is exactly why dinosaurs were so enormous, they needed enormous air cavities to extract sufficient oxygen.
I am still an environmental advocate, since there is also no reason to make things any worse, but really, do Americans actually have anything to fear from Iraqis or "terrorists"? There are plenty of those who benefited immensely and are capable of perpetrating such frauds on the American public. I don't claim that's what happened, I merely do not accept the story fed us by Fox news unchallenged, and there are too many unexplained holes.
Does your company facilitate copyright infringement? It's not called the Shareware Bay y'know. By offering VPN they are no longer passive facilitators, but active ones. They've even named the service as a parody of an IP protection directive, expressing their clear intent, as if "Pirate Bay" wasn't enough of an outright confession.
And it doesn't have to be a flagrant violation of criminal code, if it's close enough the BSA, RIAA, and MPIAA will simply throw enough money into a civil suit to make it unprofitable and deter anyone else from offering torrents and VPN. That's why the RIAA makes so many contradictory statements in different lawsuits, they're just saying whatever $10M in legal will buy them to scare people away from piracy that's cost them $10B over the last 10 years.
Even if they're certain they're not breaking any law, it'll still cost PB >$200k in legal to defend against an IP infringement claim of that magnitude, and even if they win and are awarded legal costs, that's a pretty big loan they're forced to give their lawyers for about two years. No question, the MAFIAA will go after you with complete knowledge that they have no case whatsoever. Torrents + VPN == an arguable case + a precedent the MAFIAA cannot afford to go unchallenged.
PB can't win this one though, won't surprise me if they get shut down entirely. If they hadn't been so flagrant about it, maybe, but it's pretty much like a gun shop called "Cop Killer's Paradise" in a city with the highest fatal shootings of officers. They not only facilitate illegal activity that is clearly abundant, they promote it.
Ironically there's probably more audio being burned to CD-R's in data format (MP3's etc) than audio format.
And I'm insensed that I have to pay the audio levy on cassettes for my C64 tape drive!!
The Coen brothers are set to do a CSI spin-off, Crime Scene Incompetence, sort of like Fargo meets Scary Movie.
I wish I wasn't kidding, that would be a riot!
"Officer Grissom, are you concerned about the security of... your shit?"
As a professional your brother should be claiming CD-R's as a business expense anyway. I'm a sound tech who goes through 2-3 100 CD-R spindles monthly, entirely on content I record legitimately myself, much of it live demo recordings. I write it all off, so they can levy it all they want as far as I'm concerned. I also write off half my "entertainment" expenditures from every outing where I discus music with anyone, so roughly 45% of my restaurant/bar bills. It's quite an easy subject to bring up!
I also question whether the tax is actually collected on all imported media, since I pay 23 cents per CD-R at a local shop, and the tax is supposed to be 21 cents each, soon to be raised to 29 cents if it hasn't already. I have trouble believing the manufacturing, distributing, and retailing revenues total a mere 2 cents a disc.
As an artist who knows I'll never see dime of any such levy, it's pretty irritating. How the music industry is supposed to benefit by making internet traffic more expensive is beyond me. This is typical of the music industry's back-end approach to combating music piracy rather than the value-added approach which is generally the most successful.
Worse yet is the "SOCAN tax" for live performances. 3% of the pay for an artist or band is collected by SOCAN (Tariff 3A) to be redistributed to SOCAN members. If an artist or band plays all original music, they have to submit a setlist and wait to get that money back. If they play no original or SOCAN member compositions (i.e. all American-written songs) the collected money is basically swallowed by SOCAN. So the organization whose mission is to compensate Canadian songwriters for 3rd party performance and broadcast actually taxes Canadian performers unfairly and profits from the performance of non-Canadian compositions.
Fortunately, virtually no small live music venues across the country cooperate until they are compelled by SOCAN, and of the 200+ small venues I've played I've only encountered two such venues, one has since closed. So just avoid the Boar's Head Pub in Stratford Ontario and you're ok...
Begs the question, if the game becomes pretty useless once you've finished it, why not just rent it? If it works out to the same as the loss from purchase/resale, what's the difference?
+2 fighting evil with evil
Hear hear! Such delicious irony! All they need is an outbreak of syphilis and it's a sure-fire Darwin award!
22/7 is an approximation of pi. One would have to celebrate by drinking sloppily. I'd much rather celebrate a more accurate date with enough exuberance to drink sloppily than fake it.
Come to think of it, I had a shot of Jagermeister at 3.14.1:59 last night! Nailed it!
Actually what about the reverse?
Lightning rod -> capacitors -> fast-charge Li-ion == 1.21 Jigawatts!!
The Empire State Building no doubt gets hit with enough Lightning to go off the grid...
The targeted ads will have nothing to do with the channel you're watching, so if bad commercials make you turn away, they will now make you turn it off entirely.
Also, there will be no way to indicate to the cable company that you dislike certain ads, nor would they let you tell them what ads to run even if there were.
Once the system goes digital, all subscribers will be identifiable by the MAC address or UID of the cable box. One could argue that ad targeting is one of the primary reasons it's going digital.
The really bad news is that although many cable boxes are hackable, and the UID can be changed, it would either be a telltale sign to the cable company that the box has been hacked, or you just end up getting someone else's targeted ads.
Assuming you already know the virtues of Viagra, put the cable account in her name.
Private companies contracted to governments should stick to less critical functions, like making weapons of mass destruction. And no, I'm not refering to Vista.
I for one have a problem with our government documents and processes being hosted by a private company. At least Microsoft just sells software.
Quote from Microsoft paralegal: "They [Gates, Ballmer] aren't in it for the money anymore, they're multi-billionaires. They have a chance to change the world." I for one have a problem with unelected civilians having that level of influence, especially without the consent of government.
Teachers here in CO often have bumper stickers proclaiming: Welcome to Colorado, 49th in funding for schools.
I thought it read "51st in fundign for skools"
Quebec ISP To Terminate Subscribers Over Copyright
Man, I'd hate to have the name Sarah Connor and live in Quebec right now...
Your name is Cyberdyne IP!
TAKE THAT BITCH!!
TELL YOUR COUSIN I'LL BE BACK!!
Another news service covering a story is legitimate news. I've many times seen or heard an article or broadcast claim "[other news service] is reporting that..." I think the problem is that AHN is leaving out the "AP is reporting that..." part.
The notion that advertising the original news service is as or more important than the news itself is not newsworthy to me.
If a plaintiff could prove harm or even better, immediate irreparable injury, a court would say give 'em up or go to jail
Doesn't firing someone without cause also result in immediate irreparable damages, specifically to their wallet and reputation?
Also begs the question, why didn't Childs just say he was so pissed off from getting fired that he erased the passwords then got astronomically piss-drunk for a week straight and forgot them?