I would like you to listen to at least 1 (one) piece of music from each of the following authors: Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven. These people and their music existed before the strangling IP and copyright laws. Sorry for being caustic.
Hrmmmm... So we know those in marketing can't say 'ethical' for the life of them. Now it appears those in the entertainment industry can't say 'capitalism'. Or maybe they can... they do seem to talk about 'market forces' a lot- of course its all just a bunch of crap used to cover the fact that they want to control the market. Very interesting.
Do you know how many people read and trust The Motley Fool? A lot! All those people who are trying to make it in the stock market solo i am guessing, and probably more. That 'our' side of the case is finally getting its viewpoint out is a Good Thing. I also love the way Rob (the writer of the article) talks about how Time Warner bought a judge for their trial and then puts the TW ticker symbol immediately afterward:) We'll see if it has any effect on their stock, but its amusing to me. I wish he had put a link to the EFF's page though... I'm sure this isn't going to produce a huge consumer revolt, but it is a step in the right direction.
Time is money. It also costs time to examine a person. Therefore it does cost a doctor to examine a rash- prehaps even someone's well-being... Mind you, i have only two problems with Napster- firstly, it is designed to make money off of others works without their consent and secondly it is uncontrolled and cannot be used as a tool for the artists except to gain name recognition.
-Elendale (besides, who wants to listen to the crap the RIAA shoves down our throats? Cheap CDs at mp3.com! Woo!)
I'll tell you why opening Carnivore source code would be bad, and why the FBI kept moving down the line until they found someone who would agree with them. It is because if we saw the source to Carnivore, we would know what it really does. And remember folks, if you aren't paranoid you just aren't paying enough attention; alternatively, just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. Mind you, i have no idea what it does... but the FBI's staunch refusal to let me see only makes me want to see! One more thing, why are the FBI afraid of crackers (or are they actually afraid of hackers taking over the system? Mmmmm... that would be very amusing) taking over Carnivore? Crackers love closed-systems... besides that, they already can do all the stuff the FBI claims Carnivore can do. Of course, there could be 'undocumented features' the FBI wants to keep out of the hands of crackers.
-Elendale (BTW, i think we should keep calling it 'Carnivore' regardless of what the FBI decides to change the name too)
A corp. lapdog politician getting a truckload of mail from people sounds appealing to me. Maybe the EFF could get something like that moving. We right letters (and as Suck says, use real names and addresses) and the EFF prints off one copy for each and every major politician in the country. DOS'ing their mail sounds fun, but they would probably just ignore it. Needing a wheelbarrow to get the mail every morning however would not be so easily ignored. The DOS idea sounds interesting, but it would probably have to be kept up over a period of weeks and/or months (look at the French truckers that are 'striking' right now for an idea) and would need to be sustained throughout legal assaults to those in charge.
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I had to check the date when i saw this posted. Hasn't this already been thrown out??? Are we going to be trying restrict copying of tapes again? Every time i think 'The Man' has hit the bottom of the well of intelligence, he digs a new hole...
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There... got that out of my system. Do they really expect this to hold up? It would be insane! I want to say that everyone would toss their VCRs out the windows, but i somehow doubt that would happen. Hot damn we need open source media or something to that effect. Or we need Nader in office for the next 8 years (or 4 at least) BTW, Vote Nader!!!
IMHO, its a Good Thing to gain new users. As long as we don't go the M$ route (sacrifice power for userfriendly-ness) Linux will continue to grow. Even if we do have something like RedHat that wants to become LinuxM$ its not like they are going to take over- thats what the GPL is for!
You know, i would agree with you except this one fact: i know many girls who play rugby. Therefore, your comparison is incorrect. Perhaps better would be to say: American football is nothing more than a pansy narcissist's rugby, has its own World league, in which no other countries participate. Just a thought:)
-Elendale (of course, non-american football is where its at!)
If a company supplies me some nice shiny hardware for a device driver i wrote, that may be better than minimum wage depending on how good i am at coding. Now for AOL (and i am unsure as to what benefits they were giving) the benefits probably were not minimum wage. Now i am unsure about the legality of giving hardware instead of money, but i wouldn't mind getting a nice new computer. In any case, in jobs where you get tips minimum wage will be lower, perhaps something like that could be arranged so people who decide to work for free can gain benefits but still not be paid. Of course, that could be abused but does anyone have a better idea? Oh well.
Not only that, our car is the ONLY car. Any other cars are in violation of our copyright. We have also riveted the parts shut with copper nails in order to prevent people from seeing how our car works and making a similar transportation device.
-Elendale (btw, you forgot your ending italic tag, just thought i would be a nit-picking jerk)
Put up a petition website, send it in to/. and have us all go there:) or something, anything, as long as it doesn't end there! He could end up in hot water because of his blatant disregard for the 'lack of impartiality' deal...
-Elendale (A thought: should be real letters, email would be counter-productive in this case)
A 2600 member was arrested? Ok, fine. What for? Now i'm all for free speech and i think that (for the most part) these protestors are getting nailed unfairly, but i want more info other than a 'big media' glossing of the subject- something more than 'a bunch of left-wing extremists were arested at the republican convention for something unknown, one person there thought they saw the protestors carrying fully automatic weaponry, but this is unconfirmed'. On a side note, Taco can write his views if he wants. Its his fscking web site (well, kinda) so don't complain. Also, damn the man! Vote Nader!
True, but- as my mother used to say- its like calling on the devil to kill off demons. If M$ obliterates Japanese video game companies, their stranglehold on the market... will be REPLACED BY ANOTHER MICROSOFT MONOPOLY!!! Just a thought.
As far as i'm concerned, we've already lost. When i have to import the latest gadgets from Japan & elsewhere i consider that 'lost' not 'losing'. We really need to kill off big buisiness, IMHO. I know someone will flame/troll with 'but Japan is a huge buerocracy' so i'll respond right here: works for them, but if it worked for us then why are we behind? Maybe we need to pick up the pace. Of course, i have no idea how to do any of this!
*sigh* now i miss the times where code took half an hour to compile and all i had to do during that time was smack my friends on the back of the head with floppy disks... that was the only good class i had in high school actually.
-Elendale (of course, our computers were the pinnacle of obsolescense...)
This is like the PHB from Dilbert not giving Alice a raise because she didn't ask him for help with her products during the year (or something along those lines) but in reverse:) Perhaps this guy needs to stop trolling real news and start working for tabloids. His article would have been excellent for The Onion, except he was serious... I'm afraid when people like him are above me in the company heirarchy...
-Elendale (what's the use of posting when there are already 700 comments??? The world will never know...)
Don't forget which country is the only one to have suffered nuclear devastation as a result of warfare. Not sure where that fits in, but it does somewhere...
-Elendale (and if you really look, you can see it in the culture... much more than pearl harbor)
YES! Finally! Someone who knows how to use you're/your correct! (watches/. crowd sweatdrop) Sorry... just had to troll that without being lame/offensive/insulting...
-Elendale (in addition, i agree with pretty much everything the guy says...)
Lets put it this way: When i DMed with my old friends, we got 1 hour of gaming in and 3 hours of making jokes, making fun of the one idiot (who only managed to kill himself once in a while surprisingly), and laughing at how poorly i DM without preperation (inevitably). No movie or computer game will capture that same 'feel'... Unless of course my group is all assembled to see it:) In any case, i believe it will be incredibly difficult to produce a well liked movie from D&D. After all, look at X-Men!
-Elendale (Open the door... yeah... like that... LIGHTNING BOLT! HAHAHAHAHAHA...)
Who moderated that as flamebait??? Hmm... methinks its time to do some meta-moderating... On a side note, one thing that is often forgotten about anime is most (probably 70-80% or higher) of it is complete and utter crap. The redeeming quality is anime like NGE or Slayers (humor has its place). In any case, even the best literature looks bad eventually. We will just have to wait longer for somethings.
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-Elendale (should be doing work right now...)
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-Elendale (besides, who wants to listen to the crap the RIAA shoves down our throats? Cheap CDs at mp3.com! Woo!)
Mind you, i have no idea what it does... but the FBI's staunch refusal to let me see only makes me want to see!
One more thing, why are the FBI afraid of crackers (or are they actually afraid of hackers taking over the system? Mmmmm... that would be very amusing) taking over Carnivore? Crackers love closed-systems... besides that, they already can do all the stuff the FBI claims Carnivore can do. Of course, there could be 'undocumented features' the FBI wants to keep out of the hands of crackers.
-Elendale (BTW, i think we should keep calling it 'Carnivore' regardless of what the FBI decides to change the name too)
-Elendale (and one more thing, vote Nader!)
I had to check the date when i saw this posted. Hasn't this already been thrown out??? Are we going to be trying restrict copying of tapes again? Every time i think 'The Man' has hit the bottom of the well of intelligence, he digs a new hole...
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There... got that out of my system. Do they really expect this to hold up? It would be insane! I want to say that everyone would toss their VCRs out the windows, but i somehow doubt that would happen. Hot damn we need open source media or something to that effect. Or we need Nader in office for the next 8 years (or 4 at least) BTW, Vote Nader!!!
-Elendale (Do it! At least look at the site...)
-Elendale (is bored)
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-Elendale (btw, you forgot your ending italic tag, just thought i would be a nit-picking jerk)
Don't vote the lesser of two evils, vote Nader/Laduke!
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-Elendale (and that's all i have to say about THAT, except: Don't be a loser! Go vote!)
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On a side note, one thing that is often forgotten about anime is most (probably 70-80% or higher) of it is complete and utter crap. The redeeming quality is anime like NGE or Slayers (humor has its place). In any case, even the best literature looks bad eventually. We will just have to wait longer for somethings.
-Elendale (blah blah blah)
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