According to the laws of natural selection...wouldn't they then be naturally un-selecting themselves from the evolutionary process? If this is the case, then let them eat what they want... but if you try to free my pig from its pen, the.22 caliber bullet won't just be endangering the pig's life;)
I get about 10-20 legitimate emails per day using Gmail and I am unlucky if I see more than 1 or 2 spam emails per week. Gmail does a great job at not letting me see spam.
That is why they are not going after the downloader. They are going after the distributors.
If $1/song or $15/CD is too expensive then go without. Whether you would have bought the book or not doesn't give you any more RIGHTS to the music for free. That is such a bull$hit argument. Whether you would have bought it or not doesn't make it OK that you download it for free. If a band or record company wants to allow people to sample tracks (like they do in the stores and online at most music sites) then that is their business to respond to what the customer wants. You don't have the right to tell them what to charge. Its not yours, keep your grubby hands off if you don't like it.
I would love to know when listening to someone's songs became some Right that the RIAA is trying to take away. YOU have a completely misguided view of how all of this works (I.E. YOU ARE WRONG).
Yep. I wish there was some sort of way to measure true legal p2p traffic vs. illegal downloading of movies, music, and games. Just off the top of my head, I'm guessing that the illegal portion is somewhere in the high 90% range, as a modest guess. Just because you don't like the rules doesn't mean they aren't the rules. Its too expensive to buy the song on iTunes or some other online music store? Then don't buy it. It doesn't give you the right to go download it because you disagree with the price. Everyone is pissed at the RIAA and every claims that "they can't PROVE that the file was actually the song it was named." And you are right, and the RIAA is asking for way more money then is owed them. But do you think any reasonable and sane person is going to believe that you just happened to have 4000 files with different names that were all song titled differently? Coincidence? Hardly. Stop crying because you got caught.
The government is not stopping you from cutting a deal with the owners of utility poles (usually the electric company) and running your own cable to people's homes. There isn't a law against it. And utility pole owners are happy to have another renter for say $16 per pole per year. Line them up. As long as the pole can support all the wires they'll sign deals to pile them full. The fact of the matter is that Comcast is huge. And they have been around for a long time. They have bought out smaller companies to become bigger. Just like GE, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, AMD, and any other large corporation. Comcast may have a monopoly in certain markets but there aren't any laws preventing someone from starting a new cable company there. That's just plain out bull$hit. It takes money because it take infrastructure. If I want to run fiber to people's homes it would be expensive, but if I have the money and I want to do it then I can.
When a company gets as large as Comcast and has bought up a lot of its competition it has to be careful that it doesn't get nail for anti-trust issues. The throttling issue has pissed off a lot of people and they don't even want to open that anti-trust issues can of worms. That leads to courts, and regulation, which means Money. So they are trying to bargain their way out of it as cheaply as possible.
Its all horse shit, they shouldn't be able to throttle you down from what you paid for. If your traffic can't get through because the line is clogged that is one thing, that shows a weakness. But to drop people's packets to retain a vail of secrecy that your network sucks and you oversold bandwidth then that is fraud and violation of agreements.
Well if black is the absence of all color... then in numeric terms black = 0. So 0 * 1,000,000 = 0.
I'm guessing...black?
Or if black is the absence of color and the number of colors are n. Then you are talking about -n * 1,000,000 which would be less than 0...
So it would be "REALLY black"?
Agreed. Show me a single windows server that can handle a couple thousand users performing multiple jobs at the same time. Let alone rebooting either every night or every couple nights, probably once a week at best.
Should we start putting an * next to the names of scientists that are found to be using these performance enhancing drugs? Its not really fair to the rest of the common folk that these guys get recognized for their break through work if they cheated to get there.
That is such a horseshit argument. There is no way for an emergency response medic to know if you have health insurance or not when they show up, nor do can they determine your ability to pay for the medical care needed to keep your sorry ass alive. With that being the case they have a responsibility to save your sorry ass first and ask those questions later. So if it is then found out that you cannot pay the bill should they kill you since you should have (according to your flawed logic) died?
That's not an auction house, that's a yard sale... And they sure don't make it easy to search more than one region at a time... atleast when I was using it a while back. It has its perks but its no where near what the ebay customers would want...
Its funny how quick people are to attack big iron. I thought much the same way as many of the folks on here. That was until I worked at a place that runs their mid range AS/400SytemiSeriesi(so their marketing department can't decide on a name...so what?). Naming problems aside, this is the most powerful and stable machine that I've worked with. Its expensive, but you get what you pay for. I've been here for over a year now and we've had 100% uptime. If a drive goes bad its no problem because we have it all raided. A drive hasn't gone bad, but I'm just saying...it could...and..well.. you get the idea.
Big iron might be labeled as old tech, but ask anyone who uses it...you don't want to switch to the alternative...
I'm not saying people aren't capable of making a switch to Linux. But they are either too scared, lazy, or don't give a $hit. Paying per byte sent would make them give a $hit, but it doesn't do much for the other two.
If you change your faucet you get water the exact same way. This isn't always the case when changing the OS. Besides, the people's computers that are part of these bot nets are causing the bandwidth issues. So why punish them because M$ just wanted to get their product OTD.
The increase in bandwidth usage is because music and video are being utilized a lot more. As people have been saying, the ISP's oversold their bandwidth. And they did it knowingly. Don't punish the consumer because you are a greedy bastard that got your hand caught in the cookie jar.
Yeah, I think I was misled somewhere along the way. I don't remember where I found that statistic but upon further investigation I need to revisit the topic and my outlook on this. I'm not afraid to admit when I'm wrong. It happens.
I know, I know...
*wipes egg from face*
Nice joke. But the real joke is the fact that people think our gasoline consumption has some huge effect on our oil usage. Actually our automobile fuel usage only accounts for 10% of our overall oil consumption. All those plastics that our cars are made of, and almost everything else we buy for cheap is made up come from petroleum:) So the next time you are asked paper or plastic? You might want to give paper another look. (after all, last year saw the first INCREASE in forest coverage from a previous year in quite a long time...so tress are on the rebound and reproduce much quicker than oil)
Observe this following scenario of dependencies...
Want to watch Netflix online? You need the latest DRM. For this you need Media Player 11 and IE. To get MP11 and IE you need to run Genuine Advantage. To run Genuine Advantage you need a copy of Windows that will authenticate.
You get to the end of the cycle and you begin to see my dilemma...
Here is the problem with your argument... you view access to the internet as your right. You don't have a right to use anyone's network but your own. This isn't socialism. It is private sector money that has build this thing, and now you want to nationalize it because you don't like how one company conducts business. Nice to meet you Mr. Chavez.
Just take one look at what the government has done correctly, not good enough, but correctly... Now, you still want them in charge of the internet? I didn't think so. There will be far more innovation if it is kept in the private sector. It would just be another political football, one side blaming the other for not innovating, the other side saying that the former is spending too much. I personally want LESS government control over me. Not more. If you think that backbone lines should be maintained by the government as a public infrastructure then that brings up a whole new set of arguments over bandwidth usage and who controls that.
And beyond all that....the government can't stop people from creating a whole new internet that would rely on satellite technology or another form of wireless technology. The field is so wide open, and its so easy to create your own network and then connect that network to someone else's that if the government controlled the internet as we know it now, do you really think that they can stop another one from starting once they screw it up?
The government cannot step on your free speech, but if you sign a contract with a company that says you won't say certain things or do certain things then that is outside of that. Hence a non-disclosure agreement. If I sign one, I'm not protected from litigation by the constitution. If NetSol says you can't put something on our networks, and you do after you agree to their terms, then guess what, you don't get that protection. And if people start to get upset that hosts are censoring then you get bet the farm that a host will start up that will offer no censorship. Its how the free market works. Let it work.
You can't equally compare a faith based issue and someone's statement of fact...
People believe in faith that Mohammed received a message from God. The OP made a claim that should have the ability to be referenced.
Your post is nothing but flaimbait.
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According to the laws of natural selection...wouldn't they then be naturally un-selecting themselves from the evolutionary process? If this is the case, then let them eat what they want... but if you try to free my pig from its pen, the .22 caliber bullet won't just be endangering the pig's life ;)
I get about 10-20 legitimate emails per day using Gmail and I am unlucky if I see more than 1 or 2 spam emails per week. Gmail does a great job at not letting me see spam.
Heck, I only have a 6800, but it sits idle except for a couple hours a day at home. I'd be willing to let it chug away. Bring on the Nvidia support.
4th sentence should reference song, not book.
That is why they are not going after the downloader. They are going after the distributors. If $1/song or $15/CD is too expensive then go without. Whether you would have bought the book or not doesn't give you any more RIGHTS to the music for free. That is such a bull$hit argument. Whether you would have bought it or not doesn't make it OK that you download it for free. If a band or record company wants to allow people to sample tracks (like they do in the stores and online at most music sites) then that is their business to respond to what the customer wants. You don't have the right to tell them what to charge. Its not yours, keep your grubby hands off if you don't like it. I would love to know when listening to someone's songs became some Right that the RIAA is trying to take away. YOU have a completely misguided view of how all of this works (I.E. YOU ARE WRONG).
Maybe you should do some research into Pole Attachments.
Yep. I wish there was some sort of way to measure true legal p2p traffic vs. illegal downloading of movies, music, and games. Just off the top of my head, I'm guessing that the illegal portion is somewhere in the high 90% range, as a modest guess. Just because you don't like the rules doesn't mean they aren't the rules. Its too expensive to buy the song on iTunes or some other online music store? Then don't buy it. It doesn't give you the right to go download it because you disagree with the price. Everyone is pissed at the RIAA and every claims that "they can't PROVE that the file was actually the song it was named." And you are right, and the RIAA is asking for way more money then is owed them. But do you think any reasonable and sane person is going to believe that you just happened to have 4000 files with different names that were all song titled differently? Coincidence? Hardly. Stop crying because you got caught.
The government is not stopping you from cutting a deal with the owners of utility poles (usually the electric company) and running your own cable to people's homes. There isn't a law against it. And utility pole owners are happy to have another renter for say $16 per pole per year. Line them up. As long as the pole can support all the wires they'll sign deals to pile them full. The fact of the matter is that Comcast is huge. And they have been around for a long time. They have bought out smaller companies to become bigger. Just like GE, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, AMD, and any other large corporation. Comcast may have a monopoly in certain markets but there aren't any laws preventing someone from starting a new cable company there. That's just plain out bull$hit. It takes money because it take infrastructure. If I want to run fiber to people's homes it would be expensive, but if I have the money and I want to do it then I can. When a company gets as large as Comcast and has bought up a lot of its competition it has to be careful that it doesn't get nail for anti-trust issues. The throttling issue has pissed off a lot of people and they don't even want to open that anti-trust issues can of worms. That leads to courts, and regulation, which means Money. So they are trying to bargain their way out of it as cheaply as possible. Its all horse shit, they shouldn't be able to throttle you down from what you paid for. If your traffic can't get through because the line is clogged that is one thing, that shows a weakness. But to drop people's packets to retain a vail of secrecy that your network sucks and you oversold bandwidth then that is fraud and violation of agreements.
Well if black is the absence of all color... then in numeric terms black = 0. So 0 * 1,000,000 = 0. I'm guessing...black? Or if black is the absence of color and the number of colors are n. Then you are talking about -n * 1,000,000 which would be less than 0... So it would be "REALLY black"?
Agreed. Show me a single windows server that can handle a couple thousand users performing multiple jobs at the same time. Let alone rebooting either every night or every couple nights, probably once a week at best.
Should we start putting an * next to the names of scientists that are found to be using these performance enhancing drugs? Its not really fair to the rest of the common folk that these guys get recognized for their break through work if they cheated to get there.
That is such a horseshit argument. There is no way for an emergency response medic to know if you have health insurance or not when they show up, nor do can they determine your ability to pay for the medical care needed to keep your sorry ass alive. With that being the case they have a responsibility to save your sorry ass first and ask those questions later. So if it is then found out that you cannot pay the bill should they kill you since you should have (according to your flawed logic) died?
That's not an auction house, that's a yard sale... And they sure don't make it easy to search more than one region at a time... atleast when I was using it a while back. It has its perks but its no where near what the ebay customers would want...
Its funny how quick people are to attack big iron. I thought much the same way as many of the folks on here. That was until I worked at a place that runs their mid range AS/400SytemiSeriesi(so their marketing department can't decide on a name...so what?). Naming problems aside, this is the most powerful and stable machine that I've worked with. Its expensive, but you get what you pay for. I've been here for over a year now and we've had 100% uptime. If a drive goes bad its no problem because we have it all raided. A drive hasn't gone bad, but I'm just saying...it could...and..well.. you get the idea.
Big iron might be labeled as old tech, but ask anyone who uses it...you don't want to switch to the alternative...
*-Just a satisfied customer-*
I'm not saying people aren't capable of making a switch to Linux. But they are either too scared, lazy, or don't give a $hit. Paying per byte sent would make them give a $hit, but it doesn't do much for the other two. If you change your faucet you get water the exact same way. This isn't always the case when changing the OS. Besides, the people's computers that are part of these bot nets are causing the bandwidth issues. So why punish them because M$ just wanted to get their product OTD. The increase in bandwidth usage is because music and video are being utilized a lot more. As people have been saying, the ISP's oversold their bandwidth. And they did it knowingly. Don't punish the consumer because you are a greedy bastard that got your hand caught in the cookie jar.
Yeah, I think I was misled somewhere along the way. I don't remember where I found that statistic but upon further investigation I need to revisit the topic and my outlook on this. I'm not afraid to admit when I'm wrong. It happens. I know, I know... *wipes egg from face*
You can change your leaky faucet. How many people can change their virtual leaky faucet, a.k.a. windows?
so I meant... 1.5 down and a trickle upload...as is usually the case with home service.
Is that parallel up and down speeds? Or 1.5 up and a trickle upload?
Nice joke. But the real joke is the fact that people think our gasoline consumption has some huge effect on our oil usage. Actually our automobile fuel usage only accounts for 10% of our overall oil consumption. All those plastics that our cars are made of, and almost everything else we buy for cheap is made up come from petroleum :) So the next time you are asked paper or plastic? You might want to give paper another look. (after all, last year saw the first INCREASE in forest coverage from a previous year in quite a long time...so tress are on the rebound and reproduce much quicker than oil)
I think you meant between the back of the chair and the keyboard :)
I already have this problem...
Observe this following scenario of dependencies...
Want to watch Netflix online? You need the latest DRM. For this you need Media Player 11 and IE. To get MP11 and IE you need to run Genuine Advantage. To run Genuine Advantage you need a copy of Windows that will authenticate.
You get to the end of the cycle and you begin to see my dilemma...
Here is the problem with your argument... you view access to the internet as your right. You don't have a right to use anyone's network but your own. This isn't socialism. It is private sector money that has build this thing, and now you want to nationalize it because you don't like how one company conducts business. Nice to meet you Mr. Chavez.
Just take one look at what the government has done correctly, not good enough, but correctly... Now, you still want them in charge of the internet? I didn't think so. There will be far more innovation if it is kept in the private sector. It would just be another political football, one side blaming the other for not innovating, the other side saying that the former is spending too much. I personally want LESS government control over me. Not more. If you think that backbone lines should be maintained by the government as a public infrastructure then that brings up a whole new set of arguments over bandwidth usage and who controls that.
And beyond all that....the government can't stop people from creating a whole new internet that would rely on satellite technology or another form of wireless technology. The field is so wide open, and its so easy to create your own network and then connect that network to someone else's that if the government controlled the internet as we know it now, do you really think that they can stop another one from starting once they screw it up?
The government cannot step on your free speech, but if you sign a contract with a company that says you won't say certain things or do certain things then that is outside of that. Hence a non-disclosure agreement. If I sign one, I'm not protected from litigation by the constitution. If NetSol says you can't put something on our networks, and you do after you agree to their terms, then guess what, you don't get that protection. And if people start to get upset that hosts are censoring then you get bet the farm that a host will start up that will offer no censorship. Its how the free market works. Let it work.
You can't equally compare a faith based issue and someone's statement of fact... People believe in faith that Mohammed received a message from God. The OP made a claim that should have the ability to be referenced. Your post is nothing but flaimbait.