Really, though, you shouldn't be hard to those people - their jobs are bad enough as it is.
fuck 'em. i have zero tolerance for these worthless parasites.
being a doctor and having a patient die on you even though you've done everything humanly possible to save them, that's hard.
purposely annoying the fuck out of hundreds of people each day doesn't mean you have a bad job, it means you are a bad person. these people should all get some sort of disease that affects their throat, forcing them to go and be productive members of the human race.
we're not outraged because a lawyer got offended and took action. we're outraged that our legal system allows people to be detained, searched, handcuffed, and arrested because SOMEONE ELSE DIDN'T LIKE WHAT THEY SAID.
as Beatrice Hall once said "I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
my point is, like the other responder to my post, you are arguing a fallacy of exclusion. in order for your argument to make any sense, the premise "as a bittorrent user" must be removed.
the OP is talking about the level of granularity offered by bittorrent's controls. you obviously ignored the point of his post in favor of reiterating an understood, hackneyed idea. congratulations, the horse is dead...let it lie. you made a valid point. one that just about everyone on this site understands and agrees with. one that had nothing whatsoever to do with the OP's statement.
let me restate the OP's point for those of you who didn't get it (those of you who intentionally misunderstood it in order to allow yourselves to babble are beyond help).
using most (if not all) bittorrent clients, you cannot choose to not upload. you are forced into distributing these files as you are downloading them. now here's the important point: just because i'm downloading a file that is copyrighted does NOT mean i'm breaking the law. if i am downloading a divx version of a movie that i own on dvd (or any other medium) i'm obeying the law. if i am being forced to upload to someone who does not have any legal rights to the material, i am forced into breaking the law. if the software i am using allows me to elect not to upload to users, thus protecting me from potentially uploading to someone without legal rights to the material and thus breaking the law, that would allow me to be MORE SELECTIVE about my involvement in the distribution of the file.
so no, as a bittorrent user, you cannot be VERY selective about your involvement in the distribution of the file(s).
there is actually a third, more sinister, problem at play here. namely, the fact that the vast majority of the workforce are overpaid morons who are just barely qualified to be mexican migrant workers.
granted, i'm allergic to capitalization because it wastes keystrokes unnecessarily and my punctuation is sometimes skewed by my haste, but i'm nowhere near the drooling invertebrate that is the average american worker.
people who use phrases like "sharing the self-actualization of women in Portland's post-punk subculture" should, for the good of the gene pool, walk themselves off a cliff.
musicians and music engineers have come up with an easy way to avoid this confusion. tracks that are recorded with the sound level high are said to be "hot", sound levels that are so high as to induce massive clipping are usually referred to as "damn that's way too hot, lookit it's clipping there man turn that crap down"
but anyway, we usually refer to the "hotness" of a recording when we are talking about this stuff as "loud" is normally a reference strictly to volume.
i don't work for free unless i can realize a direct benefit from it (ie. not drawing a salary off a start-up you own, putting in a little extra at a startup someone else owns if you have a reasonable belief you will benefit later)
anyone who asks you to do so is a cheap bastard who will not appreciate anything you do and deserves to have you wait until they need you the most then quit with no notice. better yet, wait until everything goes down, go to lunch and never come back, throwing your cell/pda/blackberry/etc. in the garbage on yer way to lunch
this trend of employers trying to rape employees for every last cent they can just because it's a rough job market at the moment is as sickening as people gouging employers for retarded salaries during boom days. granted, nothing's to stop either party from doing it, but i don't believe in doing business with people who do either.
"3. Didn't anyone every teach him "you don't spit into the wind, you don't tug on Superman's cape, and you don't anger the local Sheriff!"?"
bullshit. piss him off all you like, just don't break the law. i'm not having any of this walking on eggshells around police bullshit. quite a few of my friends are police officers and some of my family members are officers. police are 1) servants of the people and 2) bound to uphold the law.
more simply put...if they fuck with you because they don't like you or you have made them angry without breaking the law, then THEY have broken the law and THEY get to go sit in a cell for a while and think things over. that's the whole godsdamn point of the legal system in our country. NOBODY is above the law...we ALL watch the watchers. to do it any other way would undermine what this country is about.
that having been said, if you read the site (not the article) it appears he may not have tried to collect upon previous monies owed. it looks like he merely told them he would need payment for the future as he could not offset the costs out of his own pocket, using the $300k as an example of the kinds of costs he was talking about. the department refused to pay, thus he had to shut the site down. to which the department responded by arresting him, a gross misuse of the power and trust placed in their hands.
this having all been said i conditionally hope for the following: 1) if he really did ask for $300k in back payment, he needs some time in a small grey cell to think it over.
or
2) if he didn't, and merely asked for payment in the future to offset the costs of running the site. the sherrif and/or whomever made the decision to have him arrested, and possibly the officers who arrested him, should be dismissed and be brought up on charges of wrongful arrest and whatever else they can tack onto 'em.
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Really, though, you shouldn't be hard to those people - their jobs are bad enough as it is.
fuck 'em. i have zero tolerance for these worthless parasites.
being a doctor and having a patient die on you even though you've done everything humanly possible to save them, that's hard.
purposely annoying the fuck out of hundreds of people each day doesn't mean you have a bad job, it means you are a bad person. these people should all get some sort of disease that affects their throat, forcing them to go and be productive members of the human race.
i'll second that
although i think personally feet of clay would translate to a powerful movie
$smackdown = laid;
is about as smart as dropping an 80lb crack rock into the middle of harlem
if you need high level support options, your job description isn't "admin" it's "executive"
0wn3d.
additionally, this article confirms my suspicions...namely that about 90% of earth's population is made up of morons.
we're not outraged because a lawyer got offended and took action. we're outraged that our legal system allows people to be detained, searched, handcuffed, and arrested because SOMEONE ELSE DIDN'T LIKE WHAT THEY SAID.
as Beatrice Hall once said "I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
my point is, like the other responder to my post, you are arguing a fallacy of exclusion. in order for your argument to make any sense, the premise "as a bittorrent user" must be removed.
the OP is talking about the level of granularity offered by bittorrent's controls. you obviously ignored the point of his post in favor of reiterating an understood, hackneyed idea. congratulations, the horse is dead...let it lie. you made a valid point. one that just about everyone on this site understands and agrees with. one that had nothing whatsoever to do with the OP's statement.
let me restate the OP's point for those of you who didn't get it (those of you who intentionally misunderstood it in order to allow yourselves to babble are beyond help).
using most (if not all) bittorrent clients, you cannot choose to not upload. you are forced into distributing these files as you are downloading them. now here's the important point: just because i'm downloading a file that is copyrighted does NOT mean i'm breaking the law. if i am downloading a divx version of a movie that i own on dvd (or any other medium) i'm obeying the law. if i am being forced to upload to someone who does not have any legal rights to the material, i am forced into breaking the law. if the software i am using allows me to elect not to upload to users, thus protecting me from potentially uploading to someone without legal rights to the material and thus breaking the law, that would allow me to be MORE SELECTIVE about my involvement in the distribution of the file.
so no, as a bittorrent user, you cannot be VERY selective about your involvement in the distribution of the file(s).
and would love to know who's picking the class action suit up, cuz i want in :)
"Songs are a little tricky, because they aren't very long. It is tougher to pack a message in there."
ever hear of bob marley? ella fitzgerald? even u-freakin-2 manages to stuff some serious messages into their songs.
if you're not getting a real message out of the music you listen to, you should maybe listen to something else.
there is actually a third, more sinister, problem at play here. namely, the fact that the vast majority of the workforce are overpaid morons who are just barely qualified to be mexican migrant workers.
granted, i'm allergic to capitalization because it wastes keystrokes unnecessarily and my punctuation is sometimes skewed by my haste, but i'm nowhere near the drooling invertebrate that is the average american worker.
in still other news, scientists have discovered that trees are made of wood
i only wish we could do this to them physically instead of with packets.
the government and the mpaa should both go fuck themselves.
the people who built internet2 should regulate it
people who use phrases like "sharing the self-actualization of women in Portland's post-punk subculture" should, for the good of the gene pool, walk themselves off a cliff.
so you don't arrive a sweaty gross mess
musicians and music engineers have come up with an easy way to avoid this confusion. tracks that are recorded with the sound level high are said to be "hot", sound levels that are so high as to induce massive clipping are usually referred to as "damn that's way too hot, lookit it's clipping there man turn that crap down"
but anyway, we usually refer to the "hotness" of a recording when we are talking about this stuff as "loud" is normally a reference strictly to volume.
fuck the give-a-bit-more camp
i don't work for free unless i can realize a direct benefit from it (ie. not drawing a salary off a start-up you own, putting in a little extra at a startup someone else owns if you have a reasonable belief you will benefit later)
anyone who asks you to do so is a cheap bastard who will not appreciate anything you do and deserves to have you wait until they need you the most then quit with no notice. better yet, wait until everything goes down, go to lunch and never come back, throwing your cell/pda/blackberry/etc. in the garbage on yer way to lunch
this trend of employers trying to rape employees for every last cent they can just because it's a rough job market at the moment is as sickening as people gouging employers for retarded salaries during boom days. granted, nothing's to stop either party from doing it, but i don't believe in doing business with people who do either.
virtual valerie 1 and 2 installed, prominently displayed.
1) rm -rf sendmail
2) install qmail
3) ????
4) profit!
"3. Didn't anyone every teach him "you don't spit into the wind, you don't tug on Superman's cape, and you don't anger the local Sheriff!"?"
bullshit. piss him off all you like, just don't break the law. i'm not having any of this walking on eggshells around police bullshit. quite a few of my friends are police officers and some of my family members are officers. police are 1) servants of the people and 2) bound to uphold the law.
more simply put...if they fuck with you because they don't like you or you have made them angry without breaking the law, then THEY have broken the law and THEY get to go sit in a cell for a while and think things over. that's the whole godsdamn point of the legal system in our country. NOBODY is above the law...we ALL watch the watchers. to do it any other way would undermine what this country is about.
that having been said, if you read the site (not the article) it appears he may not have tried to collect upon previous monies owed. it looks like he merely told them he would need payment for the future as he could not offset the costs out of his own pocket, using the $300k as an example of the kinds of costs he was talking about. the department refused to pay, thus he had to shut the site down. to which the department responded by arresting him, a gross misuse of the power and trust placed in their hands.
this having all been said i conditionally hope for the following:
1) if he really did ask for $300k in back payment, he needs some time in a small grey cell to think it over.
or
2) if he didn't, and merely asked for payment in the future to offset the costs of running the site. the sherrif and/or whomever made the decision to have him arrested, and possibly the officers who arrested him, should be dismissed and be brought up on charges of wrongful arrest and whatever else they can tack onto 'em.
i second that, i generally assume that any person or organization using spews has only marginally higher mental capacity than a dead starfish.
got a working c64c setup (the one with the snazzy modern-lookin case) that my parents got me way back in the day. and i still can't beat bruce lee :(
you mean closer than the GIANT numerals printed in all four corners on both sides of the bill?
do you people just blindly hand out money or what?