Do you really think you're obeying the law? I'll bet you've broken laws that you don't even know exist. Just hope you don't run into a cop on a day when the donut shop was out of his favorite kind...
I had that on my mid 90s Chrysler Concorde. (I miss that car, the ex-wife ended up with it) It was exactly as you said, a game to try to get max out my mileage. It probably wasn't the safest idea, glancing up at the readout on the ceiling of the car, but I generally only did it on the freeway during a long commute. I found that I could easily get 30+ MPG out of a V6 in a fairly heavy car just by being mindful of how I was accelerating and coasting.
Not to belittle the problem here, but do that many people really shop at TJ Maxx/Marshall's? I know there are a few in my area, but they seem to be crappy little stores in crappy little strip malls. I didn't realize 45 million people shopped there, let alone 200 million.
It's hilarious that everyone I argue with about copyright assumes I'm a dirty commie. Quite the opposite, I'm a libertarian who believes in the free market. In a truly free market, there'd be no protection for IP. Being able to duplicate something without affecting the original is the ultimate free market, everything then comes down to efficiency.
Personally I'm willing to concede that perfect market for a limited time monopoly, because as the founding fathers well understood, a temporary monopoly will serve society by spurring creativity. Too bad the concept of limited time copyright no longer exists. Anything published today won't be in the public domain until sometime in the next century, and that's assuming copyright doesn't extended again between now and then. Since copyright holders have chosen to completely ignore their contract with the citizens of this country, namely that their work will enter the public domain after a reasonable period (and believe me, Disney will get copyright extended even further the next time Mickey Mouse is scheduled to enter the public domain) I see no reason to uphold my end of the bargain.
As far as the rest of society being "work-a-day shlubs", those "shlubs" are the ones cracking your beloved DRM. Crackers are every bit as determined and skilled as your entrepeneurs. I guess that should entitle them to whatever they want?
Lots of people go to school and do work on the side to prepare themselves for a career. What's your point?
I never said I expected artists to work for free, stop putting words in my mouth you "fucking idiot". However copyright is badly broken and the assault on fair use by the media conglomerates simply serve to make people disrespect all copyrighted material. Get copyright back to a reasonable time frame and strengthen fair use such as format shifting (why should I have to buy separate copies of a movie for my home theater and my iPod?) and then go after the pirates with my blessing. Until then, screw the media industry.
The rest of society doesn't feel sorry for you because the rest of society has to work day in and day out to put food on the table. Working for a day, recording the output, and then expecting a lifetime's compensation for that single day's output isn't the way society functions. Get over it. You want to make money as a musician? Perform concerts, work every day, just like the rest of do. The idea of the record as a profit center for primadonna artists is dead. Welcome back to the real world.
Well considering the fact that Sonny Bono's estate likely still receives a percentage of every Sonny & Cher CD sold, yes I'd say his legacy is still screwing people over. Even if you think that people should retain copyright until death, where did anybody get the absurd idea that artists families deserved to get paid in perpituity for a single act? I wish I could go to work for one year and then have generations of my family get paid.
And that was the point of copyright as first envisioned by the framers of the US Constitution. Unfortunately copyright extensions have virtually killed creativity in mainstream media. Have you looked at what's coming out of Hollywood lately? Everything is a sequel or a remake or a comic book movie or a sequel of a comic book movie. Hollywood hasn't had an original idea in decades. Why should anybody be creative? Just keep repackaging and reselling the same thing over and over and over again.
I've heard that saying many times before, and it's as untrue now as it was when I first heard it.
An honest man needs nothing to maintain his honesty. Honest people are honest by definition. Determined criminals will always get what they want. Locks only keep out the lazy criminals, which fortunately is most of them.
There's a slight difference between Google ranking and Zagat ranking. When you run a restaurant, the things you must do to get a good ranking from reviewers is have good food, good service and good atmosphere. It's fairly obvious. To get a good ranking on Google you have to... well who knows. It's kind of a nebulous concept that most people don't grasp. They know they go to Google and type in words, and up come the search results. The variables involved in getting good Google ranking aren't as easily identified.
You're both elitist and ignorant. Plumbers make damn good money, and there's as much challenge in fixing real plumbing as there is in virtual plumbing. Plus, you think watching paint dry is boring? How about watching an OS install? Sorry, but if you really think your average IT staff is somehow better than tradesman, you're simply deluding yourself into thinking you're doing something worthwhile with your life.
How can you privatize a water supply? Were people prevented from digging wells in their own back yard? If so, that's not free enterprise, that's government protected monopoly and the opposite of free enterprise.
Great, then the Democrats can shoot it down. I won't hold my breath waiting for them to do so. If you choose to, let us know how that works out for you.
Do you really think most IT jobs are all that interesting? For every CS whiz who's out there researching AI or writing games or some other area that's truly interesting, there's a dozen code monkeys or network admins who do the same thing day in and day out, and I doubt it's really all that much more interesting than painting houses.
I'm still running Win2K. In fact the way things are going, it will be the last MS OS I use, and mostly it's for gaming. As games start to demand XP or Vista (XP requirement has already started, I've installed several demos recently that refused to run on 2K) I'll simply stop gaming on the PC. Forget MS and their bloated spyware, I'll use Linux for getting work done and buy a Wii for gaming.
Keep in mind that the cartridges which come with new inkjets are almost always low capacity, about 1/3 to 1/4 the amount of ink that's in the manufacturers retail cartridges.
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Do you really think you're obeying the law? I'll bet you've broken laws that you don't even know exist. Just hope you don't run into a cop on a day when the donut shop was out of his favorite kind...
What you're referring to is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valleyUncanny Valley.
I had that on my mid 90s Chrysler Concorde. (I miss that car, the ex-wife ended up with it) It was exactly as you said, a game to try to get max out my mileage. It probably wasn't the safest idea, glancing up at the readout on the ceiling of the car, but I generally only did it on the freeway during a long commute. I found that I could easily get 30+ MPG out of a V6 in a fairly heavy car just by being mindful of how I was accelerating and coasting.
The sad thing is that they'd still finish their version before 3DRealms did.
Not to belittle the problem here, but do that many people really shop at TJ Maxx/Marshall's? I know there are a few in my area, but they seem to be crappy little stores in crappy little strip malls. I didn't realize 45 million people shopped there, let alone 200 million.
It's hilarious that everyone I argue with about copyright assumes I'm a dirty commie. Quite the opposite, I'm a libertarian who believes in the free market. In a truly free market, there'd be no protection for IP. Being able to duplicate something without affecting the original is the ultimate free market, everything then comes down to efficiency.
Personally I'm willing to concede that perfect market for a limited time monopoly, because as the founding fathers well understood, a temporary monopoly will serve society by spurring creativity. Too bad the concept of limited time copyright no longer exists. Anything published today won't be in the public domain until sometime in the next century, and that's assuming copyright doesn't extended again between now and then. Since copyright holders have chosen to completely ignore their contract with the citizens of this country, namely that their work will enter the public domain after a reasonable period (and believe me, Disney will get copyright extended even further the next time Mickey Mouse is scheduled to enter the public domain) I see no reason to uphold my end of the bargain.
As far as the rest of society being "work-a-day shlubs", those "shlubs" are the ones cracking your beloved DRM. Crackers are every bit as determined and skilled as your entrepeneurs. I guess that should entitle them to whatever they want?
Lots of people go to school and do work on the side to prepare themselves for a career. What's your point?
I never said I expected artists to work for free, stop putting words in my mouth you "fucking idiot". However copyright is badly broken and the assault on fair use by the media conglomerates simply serve to make people disrespect all copyrighted material. Get copyright back to a reasonable time frame and strengthen fair use such as format shifting (why should I have to buy separate copies of a movie for my home theater and my iPod?) and then go after the pirates with my blessing. Until then, screw the media industry.
The rest of society doesn't feel sorry for you because the rest of society has to work day in and day out to put food on the table. Working for a day, recording the output, and then expecting a lifetime's compensation for that single day's output isn't the way society functions. Get over it. You want to make money as a musician? Perform concerts, work every day, just like the rest of do. The idea of the record as a profit center for primadonna artists is dead. Welcome back to the real world.
Well considering the fact that Sonny Bono's estate likely still receives a percentage of every Sonny & Cher CD sold, yes I'd say his legacy is still screwing people over. Even if you think that people should retain copyright until death, where did anybody get the absurd idea that artists families deserved to get paid in perpituity for a single act? I wish I could go to work for one year and then have generations of my family get paid.
And that was the point of copyright as first envisioned by the framers of the US Constitution. Unfortunately copyright extensions have virtually killed creativity in mainstream media. Have you looked at what's coming out of Hollywood lately? Everything is a sequel or a remake or a comic book movie or a sequel of a comic book movie. Hollywood hasn't had an original idea in decades. Why should anybody be creative? Just keep repackaging and reselling the same thing over and over and over again.
You say 09-f9-11-02
I say 9d-74-e3-5b
You say d8-41-56-c5
I say 63-56-88-c0
09-f9-11-02
9d-74-e3-5b
d8-41-56-c5
63-56-88-c0
Let's call the whole thing off.
I don't have any mod points, so all I can offer is a "Well said."
I've heard that saying many times before, and it's as untrue now as it was when I first heard it.
An honest man needs nothing to maintain his honesty. Honest people are honest by definition. Determined criminals will always get what they want. Locks only keep out the lazy criminals, which fortunately is most of them.
There's a slight difference between Google ranking and Zagat ranking. When you run a restaurant, the things you must do to get a good ranking from reviewers is have good food, good service and good atmosphere. It's fairly obvious. To get a good ranking on Google you have to... well who knows. It's kind of a nebulous concept that most people don't grasp. They know they go to Google and type in words, and up come the search results. The variables involved in getting good Google ranking aren't as easily identified.
You're both elitist and ignorant. Plumbers make damn good money, and there's as much challenge in fixing real plumbing as there is in virtual plumbing. Plus, you think watching paint dry is boring? How about watching an OS install? Sorry, but if you really think your average IT staff is somehow better than tradesman, you're simply deluding yourself into thinking you're doing something worthwhile with your life.
I'll look it up, but in the meantime, ponder the fact that it's not free enterprise to blame but government in that situation.
How can you privatize a water supply? Were people prevented from digging wells in their own back yard? If so, that's not free enterprise, that's government protected monopoly and the opposite of free enterprise.
Great, then the Democrats can shoot it down. I won't hold my breath waiting for them to do so. If you choose to, let us know how that works out for you.
Do you really think most IT jobs are all that interesting? For every CS whiz who's out there researching AI or writing games or some other area that's truly interesting, there's a dozen code monkeys or network admins who do the same thing day in and day out, and I doubt it's really all that much more interesting than painting houses.
I'm still running Win2K. In fact the way things are going, it will be the last MS OS I use, and mostly it's for gaming. As games start to demand XP or Vista (XP requirement has already started, I've installed several demos recently that refused to run on 2K) I'll simply stop gaming on the PC. Forget MS and their bloated spyware, I'll use Linux for getting work done and buy a Wii for gaming.
Keep in mind that the cartridges which come with new inkjets are almost always low capacity, about 1/3 to 1/4 the amount of ink that's in the manufacturers retail cartridges.