Well, in regrads to my point about the California power companies, the cause of the continued brown-outs is because the general population whines that they can't take another rate hike, and so the price is legislated. This puts the power companies in an impossible situation, because they aren't getting the money to make more power, and can't charge enough to help discourage use. The original cause may or may not have been due to over-regulation.
On your question about why I, as a consumer, rather than a business owner, would prefer a totally free-market economy; an example would be minimum wage: Small fast food restaruants are required to pay employees a certain amount, that is much more than what they are doing is worth. If there were people willing to work for $2/hour at mcdonalds, or a sweatshop type operation, why force the business to pay more? What it does is both raise the price of the goods, and it also eliminates jobs, because maybe a company could afford someone for $2/hour, but not minimum wage. Rather than helping that person, as minimum wage laws are supposed to, he gets no job at all, as opposed to the $2/hour he would otherwise have.
Honestly, how could you consider that post flamebait? That was a reasonably intelligent comment...... even if it disagreed with your (the moderator's) personal philosophy. Slashdot would be completely uninteresting if all people did was agree with each other!
Don't you see what your supposed "good laws" are getting us? The California power failures for one. Though not specifically an anti-trust case, the government is regulating them to death!! And speak for yourself in regards to the state of things in the late 19th century. Myself, and many other think that was much closer to the way things should be. I grant that this isn't the majority opinion, but there are others in favor of it than just the corporate giants.
Did anyone ever consider that there is no good reason to recompile for P4. THERE ARE OTHER CHIPS IN USE!! Should every vendor make a special version for every modern architechture? Most people I know are still running PII's and III's.... ATM I'm on a 200mhz pentium one because my athlon's in for warranty. Maybe games and renderers could be released in multiple binaries.... but generally it's not worth it. Another good thing about open source though is that my entire system is custom compiled:-D
Okay, the Ozone hole is real, no prove it was the result of humans. Seriously. Give me one shred of good evidence, and I will be highly impressed that you were able to do what no scientist to dat has been able to do. The planet has warmed in the past, and will warm again, deal with it!
There are also inertia measuring devices to check for things like that, so when used together the system is actually very reliable. But also, this is no vigilante law enforcement.... they are not enforcing the law by any means, they simply forbid going above the set speed limits, and state IN THE CONTRACT HE SIGNED that that was the deal, it's his own fault for not reading!
They are not monitoring speeding to prevent theft, although that is one aspect of the system, they do it to prevent unnecessary risk! And i don't see how there is any issue here since IT WAS IN THE CONTRACT!!! END OF STORY!! That guy should have to take responsibility for not reading the contract he signed!
Well from what i can tell the company has thought this through rather well. They fined the guy 3 times, and at each time he was clocked at 90mph (if you read the first slashdot article) Which is higher than any public road.
It was in plain writing at the top of his contract which he neglected to read! How can anyone defend someone who didn't even read what they were entering into!? Stupid courts system trying to save people from their own incompentance!
I think the rental company might notice that the car is not on when going 125. The system they use does transmit more than the speed and position, so I think that situation is taken care of.
You are an idiot. Did you read the article?? If it is truly ATA you are speaking of, then you are dead wrong, because that is exactly what it was talking about. Thus you are either a blatant liar, or it is not ATA. But good job of trying to tout the Macintosh, and then ending up making its users seem like idiots. bravo. Macs suck.
Sorry to burst your perfect little bubble, but DirecTV does pay to broadcast in Canada, because they aren't idiots -- they know their signal will be there too,and so they pay the Canadian equivilant of the FCC for rights to, but they still aren't permitted to sell the service. But nice try.
Microsoft may be a monopoly, but that in itself is not illegal! The reason they are under fire is because it is believed they exploited their position of monopoly, thus it is called an antitrust suit, not monopoly. Personally I'm glad Microsoft is being broken up, and though I respect that people can think differently of Microsoft, I'd be very interested to see how many, if ANY people here on slashdot have thought about why they don't like Microsoft, other than going with the group, and being irrationally fond of linux.
You didn't make a single arguement in that entire post! The vast majority of it was attacking my intelligence, which is usually a sign of lacking a real basis for your case. The lesser part of the post makes a general assumption that large media corporations are bad. This would be a perfectly fine point if you gave any reasons!! I can't even refute your arguement since the reason for believing you is "if you can't understand why this is bad, well, you're even dumber than I thought." Not everybody considers large companies inherantly bad!! Give a logical arguement, and stop making yourself seem so ignorant, then I'll give an intelligent response. Asshole.
I think you're confused. DirecTV does pay to broadcast in Canada because they know it will spill over. (I don't know about Mexico) However, for reasons I am unclear about, they are not allowed to sell the service there. I believe it is the government's restrictions. But the broadcasts going into Canada are not, as pretty much every slashdotter seems to believe, unauthorized.
At the same time, there is plenty of good programming and music
So you're saying that because you don't find everything produced in music and TV enjoyable (though others might), you should NOT have to pay for the good things? It makes a lot of sense that that was an AC, it's simply idiotic!
That is absolutely ridiculous and you know it! They provide a legitimate service, and though it may not be legally considered stealing, it doesn't take a genious to figure out that it is taking something for free, which you are intended to pay for!
How is it a "right" to use a service that is far from cheap to provide? How does one justify that? Though I agree that the DMCA has its weak points (no reverse engineering, etc) but DirecTV does deserve compensation for their service. If every country felt you could just steal it, then it wouldn't exist. This technological feat is impressive, and should not be illegal in itself, but using it should be. I hope DirecTV does something clevar like corrupt the firmware irrepably, and force any THIEF who used that hack to either buy a new reciever or be without. That would be just!
On what grounds is it illegal for them to get into the speed enforcement business? These are thier cars, and you are on their contract to use them! It's perfectly legal, it's just stupid people who don't read what they sign, and then throw a temper tantrum like the guy in the article that make this such a big deal! And as for your apartment, if your landlord put in your rent agreement that he could at anytime search your apartment for crack, and you signed it, you are SOL. And finally, You bring up PIs in your own comment, but by your logic, what they do would be illegal too, because it is a "police power"
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Well, in regrads to my point about the California power companies, the cause of the continued brown-outs is because the general population whines that they can't take another rate hike, and so the price is legislated. This puts the power companies in an impossible situation, because they aren't getting the money to make more power, and can't charge enough to help discourage use. The original cause may or may not have been due to over-regulation. On your question about why I, as a consumer, rather than a business owner, would prefer a totally free-market economy; an example would be minimum wage: Small fast food restaruants are required to pay employees a certain amount, that is much more than what they are doing is worth. If there were people willing to work for $2/hour at mcdonalds, or a sweatshop type operation, why force the business to pay more? What it does is both raise the price of the goods, and it also eliminates jobs, because maybe a company could afford someone for $2/hour, but not minimum wage. Rather than helping that person, as minimum wage laws are supposed to, he gets no job at all, as opposed to the $2/hour he would otherwise have.
Honestly, how could you consider that post flamebait? That was a reasonably intelligent comment...... even if it disagreed with your (the moderator's) personal philosophy. Slashdot would be completely uninteresting if all people did was agree with each other!
Don't you see what your supposed "good laws" are getting us? The California power failures for one. Though not specifically an anti-trust case, the government is regulating them to death!! And speak for yourself in regards to the state of things in the late 19th century. Myself, and many other think that was much closer to the way things should be. I grant that this isn't the majority opinion, but there are others in favor of it than just the corporate giants.
When did Bill Gates lie? I understand that you all blindly hate the man with a passion, but when did you ever see him lie?
Did anyone ever consider that there is no good reason to recompile for P4. THERE ARE OTHER CHIPS IN USE!! Should every vendor make a special version for every modern architechture? Most people I know are still running PII's and III's.... ATM I'm on a 200mhz pentium one because my athlon's in for warranty. Maybe games and renderers could be released in multiple binaries.... but generally it's not worth it. Another good thing about open source though is that my entire system is custom compiled :-D
Okay, the Ozone hole is real, no prove it was the result of humans. Seriously. Give me one shred of good evidence, and I will be highly impressed that you were able to do what no scientist to dat has been able to do. The planet has warmed in the past, and will warm again, deal with it!
This has been stated in other posts, but where is YOUR evidence that it's the bulk of the scientific community, and not just the loudest ones?
I think they might not fine you when they notice that the car was in PARK!!
There are also inertia measuring devices to check for things like that, so when used together the system is actually very reliable. But also, this is no vigilante law enforcement.... they are not enforcing the law by any means, they simply forbid going above the set speed limits, and state IN THE CONTRACT HE SIGNED that that was the deal, it's his own fault for not reading!
They are not monitoring speeding to prevent theft, although that is one aspect of the system, they do it to prevent unnecessary risk! And i don't see how there is any issue here since IT WAS IN THE CONTRACT!!! END OF STORY!! That guy should have to take responsibility for not reading the contract he signed!
Well from what i can tell the company has thought this through rather well. They fined the guy 3 times, and at each time he was clocked at 90mph (if you read the first slashdot article) Which is higher than any public road.
It was in plain writing at the top of his contract which he neglected to read! How can anyone defend someone who didn't even read what they were entering into!? Stupid courts system trying to save people from their own incompentance!
I think the rental company might notice that the car is not on when going 125. The system they use does transmit more than the speed and position, so I think that situation is taken care of.
There have been studies to show that the brain is NOT lossy, but can't be recalled consciously. I don't have a link for you, sorry.
You are an idiot. Did you read the article?? If it is truly ATA you are speaking of, then you are dead wrong, because that is exactly what it was talking about. Thus you are either a blatant liar, or it is not ATA. But good job of trying to tout the Macintosh, and then ending up making its users seem like idiots. bravo. Macs suck.
Sorry to burst your perfect little bubble, but DirecTV does pay to broadcast in Canada, because they aren't idiots -- they know their signal will be there too,and so they pay the Canadian equivilant of the FCC for rights to, but they still aren't permitted to sell the service. But nice try.
Microsoft may be a monopoly, but that in itself is not illegal! The reason they are under fire is because it is believed they exploited their position of monopoly, thus it is called an antitrust suit, not monopoly. Personally I'm glad Microsoft is being broken up, and though I respect that people can think differently of Microsoft, I'd be very interested to see how many, if ANY people here on slashdot have thought about why they don't like Microsoft, other than going with the group, and being irrationally fond of linux.
You didn't make a single arguement in that entire post! The vast majority of it was attacking my intelligence, which is usually a sign of lacking a real basis for your case. The lesser part of the post makes a general assumption that large media corporations are bad. This would be a perfectly fine point if you gave any reasons!! I can't even refute your arguement since the reason for believing you is "if you can't understand why this is bad, well, you're even dumber than I thought." Not everybody considers large companies inherantly bad!! Give a logical arguement, and stop making yourself seem so ignorant, then I'll give an intelligent response. Asshole.
I think you're confused. DirecTV does pay to broadcast in Canada because they know it will spill over. (I don't know about Mexico) However, for reasons I am unclear about, they are not allowed to sell the service there. I believe it is the government's restrictions. But the broadcasts going into Canada are not, as pretty much every slashdotter seems to believe, unauthorized.
That is absolutely ridiculous and you know it! They provide a legitimate service, and though it may not be legally considered stealing, it doesn't take a genious to figure out that it is taking something for free, which you are intended to pay for!
hear, hear!!
How is it a "right" to use a service that is far from cheap to provide? How does one justify that? Though I agree that the DMCA has its weak points (no reverse engineering, etc) but DirecTV does deserve compensation for their service. If every country felt you could just steal it, then it wouldn't exist. This technological feat is impressive, and should not be illegal in itself, but using it should be. I hope DirecTV does something clevar like corrupt the firmware irrepably, and force any THIEF who used that hack to either buy a new reciever or be without. That would be just!
On what grounds is it illegal for them to get into the speed enforcement business? These are thier cars, and you are on their contract to use them! It's perfectly legal, it's just stupid people who don't read what they sign, and then throw a temper tantrum like the guy in the article that make this such a big deal! And as for your apartment, if your landlord put in your rent agreement that he could at anytime search your apartment for crack, and you signed it, you are SOL. And finally, You bring up PIs in your own comment, but by your logic, what they do would be illegal too, because it is a "police power"
Well, when you consider the drop in users, 1.5 mil to tens of thousands, I'm just guessing that they have the bandwidth and server power :-P