Ok, pull those eyeballs away from the computer monitor for a second, go to the mall with a clipboard, and ask Susan Preteen, the one all decked out in Abercrombie & Fitch duds, when the Millennium is. Then ask Martha Middleaged, the one in line at the Chocolate Factory, when the Millennium is. Ask Tim, the one buy Pokemon cards from some cart in the middle of mall when it is. Ask Ted, the father paying for those cards when it is. The answer invariably returned is that the Millennium is this year. How can it not be? m&m's say it's this year. The magic talking box, television, has been hyping this year being the Millennium since LAST year. Tomorrow is a new Millennium to everybody but the enlightened few, those few mostly post on/., unfortunately, us/.'ers don't write commercials, or make decide to call the sale at our stores right after New Year's 'The 1st Sale Of the New Millennium!'. Anyway, this is kinda long winded for the point I'm trying to make. The people who follow the western calendar are sheep, and the shepherd says that next year is the new Millennium.
Has anyone noticed the stark parrallels between todays stock market conditions and those of just pre-great depression conditions? Stocks that are not actually making any money and usually are losing it are being offered to the public and being sold for hundreds of millions of dollars... It's pretty common knowledge, in the geek circles I move through at least, that pretty soon somebody is going to realize that none of these companies are making money, and pretty soon everybody is going to realize it, and then what happens? The soaring stock market begins to drop, like an investor out a window. Also, just before the big crash back then, all the analysts were saying things like 'This is the most prosperous time in America ever! By the looks of things, this upswing will never end!'. But it did. And I think it's going to again. So in a round about way, it's probably just as well that Elz didn't take the money, it'll probably be worthless in 3 or 4 months anyway.
The point is, we don't know this. How many studies can you point to that show the number of illegal mp3 downloads as compared to the number of legal ones? None, it's untraceable, and as long as a piece of software, or just about any invention, has a legitimate use it's just about impossible to 'ban' it for lack of a better word. Just look at guns...
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Ok, pull those eyeballs away from the computer monitor for a second, go to the mall with a clipboard, and ask Susan Preteen, the one all decked out in Abercrombie & Fitch duds, when the Millennium is. Then ask Martha Middleaged, the one in line at the Chocolate Factory, when the Millennium is. Ask Tim, the one buy Pokemon cards from some cart in the middle of mall when it is. Ask Ted, the father paying for those cards when it is. The answer invariably returned is that the Millennium is this year. How can it not be? m&m's say it's this year. The magic talking box, television, has been hyping this year being the Millennium since LAST year. Tomorrow is a new Millennium to everybody but the enlightened few, those few mostly post on /., unfortunately, us /.'ers don't write commercials, or make decide to call the sale at our stores right after New Year's 'The 1st Sale Of the New Millennium!'. Anyway, this is kinda long winded for the point I'm trying to make. The people who follow the western calendar are sheep, and the shepherd says that next year is the new Millennium.
Has anyone noticed the stark parrallels between todays stock market conditions and those of just pre-great depression conditions? Stocks that are not actually making any money and usually are losing it are being offered to the public and being sold for hundreds of millions of dollars... It's pretty common knowledge, in the geek circles I move through at least, that pretty soon somebody is going to realize that none of these companies are making money, and pretty soon everybody is going to realize it, and then what happens? The soaring stock market begins to drop, like an investor out a window. Also, just before the big crash back then, all the analysts were saying things like 'This is the most prosperous time in America ever! By the looks of things, this upswing will never end!'. But it did. And I think it's going to again. So in a round about way, it's probably just as well that Elz didn't take the money, it'll probably be worthless in 3 or 4 months anyway.
The point is, we don't know this. How many studies can you point to that show the number of illegal mp3 downloads as compared to the number of legal ones? None, it's untraceable, and as long as a piece of software, or just about any invention, has a legitimate use it's just about impossible to 'ban' it for lack of a better word. Just look at guns...