I was going to say... if you're browsing several web pages at once, you're basically "using" several computers from one UI. The only difference is your access privileges - which could be set up in a on a subnet to allow full access to multiple computers from one terminal. Even Windows will allow you to share C:\ which would give you full access.
These guys have just as much right to forcefully install advertising software on my computer as I have to break into your house and paint "visit slashdot.org" on your wall.
Too late, I painted it there myself. It's a reminder for when I first boot up in the morning and might be too sleepy to remember where to go.
I think I remember TBS editing it to "Yippie-kay-yay, my friend". Even matched the lip movements! They just bleeped profanity in "Shaft" though, which was... distracting to say the least.
You can still freely read AC postings, nobody's exercising "censorship" just because you can't read them at +2. One of the prices of free speech is that a large quantity of "low-quality" speech may sometimes have to be waded through. I.e. The Internet:-)
there exists a tow-behind your sailboat generator I have seen. Looks like a dinky torpedo that is trailed behind, the little props spin, you get juice.
Hey.... maybe you could use the electricity to run a large fan which would blow in the sails and keep your sailboat moving even when there's no wind. Why hasn't anyone else thought of this before?:-/
Sadly, this is hard because the RIAA was designed to crush people who try to sell their own music. They can wait out the independents forever, they have vast resources, and the indies have bills to pay, a van to gas up and another grungy bar to play while they try to get Sunrise Records to stock their CD... Thank god enough people demand records by non-RIAA bands (and the retailers are themselves large enough corps) that the RIAA can't intimidate retailers into complete lock-in...
Actually, Ashcroft's Pr0n Squad are called the "Un-self-touchables", because they're picked from among the country's most hard-working and religious eunuchs, and have no desire to masturbate. Or, at least that's probably what he'd want...
"Your observation that abuses can happen in little businesses contravenes the accepted group-think that such problems are the sole domain of large evil soulless mega-corporations."
We've all heard of cheap-ass small business owners who cheat their employees. The stories are legion. This story is noteworthy because it's about company policies which demand law-breaking without actually giving orders to do so. Even "good" managers know what they have to do... or they'll be fired. Evil stuff.
And this sums up why companies should show a LITTLE FREAKIN' RESPECT for their employees. Treat me like dirt, I'll do the same right back. Good for you and your premature-donut-throwing-out ways!
"if the company's not going to pay me to do my job properly, the customer's going to suffer. not me..."
Actually, the customer can survive without that donut. It's the company that's suffering (as you knew, I'm sure), when they tell all their friends not to go there...
"As you know, the concept of the suction pump is centuries old. And really, that's all this is, except that instead of sucking water, I'm sucking life. I've just sucked one year of your life away. I might one day go as high as five, but I really don't know what that would do to you, so let's just start with what we have." - Count Rugen, "The Princess Bride"
In short, no one is perfect, but if the USA is going to make big changes to health care, they had better do it in a way that is truly sustainable and not just some political vote-getter. I really believe that the Universal Healthcare platform of the USA presidential debates is purely for votes with little or no real foresight.
For sure, our system here in Soviet Canuckistan is not perfect, but like I said nobody goes without neccessary care, and nobody goes broke when the bill comes. I personally doubt the US is going to make the really neccessary changes to health care very soon, simply because there is a very powerful lobby representing the corporations which profit from the current system. But you are correct, changes must be carefully-planned and sustainable, because if a poorly-thought out "socialized" system was implemented, it would likely crash and burn, thus allowing those same lobbies and their hired legislators to say "Hah! Told you so, back to user-pays!"
My listening habits started diverging from, and then absolutely veering away from, the Top 100. For the first time, it became transparently obvious that mass music is a processed, focus-group-derived product like mass food or mass clothing or mass anything else.
So tell me again why the record industry crushing P2P is stupid? It's wrong and evil, but not stupid per se.
... there's a lot of great music out there. If you give up now you'll end up like my uncle, who virtually refuses to believe any good music has been made since CCR.
Most online music sites have the first 30 seconds of each song. I really don't feel like I know enough from those 30 seconds to decide if I like the CD.
Yeah, partial songs don't do it for me either. I much prefer a couple of full version songs. A lot of artists do do this, though many use Realplayer streams which I refuse to deal with >:-( Interestingly, in my experience, the smaller the artist, the more likely they are to provide free complete tracks on their web site...
Well, arguably TMNT was a spoof of sorts... or part spoof, part its own book... Anyway their origin was clearly meant to poke a bit of fun at Daredevil et al.
They can already do that. It's called the War on Drugs and Philip K. Dick accurately dissected it in several of his books (many years ago, no less). All they have to do is pin a drug charge on you, and you got to jail with rapists and murderers, your property is forfeit and your family is publicly humiliated (or hurt/killed) by a no-knock raid at 3 am. And it's soooooo easy to find "evidence" during that raid, a pound of coke is easily stashed in a cop's vest on the way in, to be discovered later... Congratulations, you're now a drug dealer, the scum of th earth.
I know it sounds paranoid, but with the laws so one-sided and harsh, that's all it would take.
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I was going to say... if you're browsing several web pages at once, you're basically "using" several computers from one UI. The only difference is your access privileges - which could be set up in a on a subnet to allow full access to multiple computers from one terminal. Even Windows will allow you to share C:\ which would give you full access.
These guys have just as much right to forcefully install advertising software on my computer as I have to break into your house and paint "visit slashdot.org" on your wall.
Too late, I painted it there myself. It's a reminder for when I first boot up in the morning and might be too sleepy to remember where to go.
I'm sure certain individuals in government would love to prevent all permanent records of their statements.
Like Scalia barring reporters from recording his speeches?
I think I remember TBS editing it to "Yippie-kay-yay, my friend". Even matched the lip movements! They just bleeped profanity in "Shaft" though, which was... distracting to say the least.
You can still freely read AC postings, nobody's exercising "censorship" just because you can't read them at +2. One of the prices of free speech is that a large quantity of "low-quality" speech may sometimes have to be waded through. I.e. The Internet :-)
there exists a tow-behind your sailboat generator I have seen. Looks like a dinky torpedo that is trailed behind, the little props spin, you get juice.
:-/
Hey.... maybe you could use the electricity to run a large fan which would blow in the sails and keep your sailboat moving even when there's no wind. Why hasn't anyone else thought of this before?
Sadly, this is hard because the RIAA was designed to crush people who try to sell their own music. They can wait out the independents forever, they have vast resources, and the indies have bills to pay, a van to gas up and another grungy bar to play while they try to get Sunrise Records to stock their CD... Thank god enough people demand records by non-RIAA bands (and the retailers are themselves large enough corps) that the RIAA can't intimidate retailers into complete lock-in...
Actually, Ashcroft's Pr0n Squad are called the "Un-self-touchables", because they're picked from among the country's most hard-working and religious eunuchs, and have no desire to masturbate. Or, at least that's probably what he'd want...
"Your observation that abuses can happen in little businesses contravenes the accepted group-think that such problems are the sole domain of large evil soulless mega-corporations."
We've all heard of cheap-ass small business owners who cheat their employees. The stories are legion. This story is noteworthy because it's about company policies which demand law-breaking without actually giving orders to do so. Even "good" managers know what they have to do... or they'll be fired. Evil stuff.
And this sums up why companies should show a LITTLE FREAKIN' RESPECT for their employees. Treat me like dirt, I'll do the same right back. Good for you and your premature-donut-throwing-out ways!
"if the company's not going to pay me to do my job properly, the customer's going to suffer. not me..."
Actually, the customer can survive without that donut. It's the company that's suffering (as you knew, I'm sure), when they tell all their friends not to go there...
"As you know, the concept of the suction pump is centuries old. And really, that's all this is, except that instead of sucking water, I'm sucking life. I've just sucked one year of your life away. I might one day go as high as five, but I really don't know what that would do to you, so let's just start with what we have."
- Count Rugen, "The Princess Bride"
I did the same thing once and I went forward in time 5 minutes...
Yeah, so did I. It took 5 minutes though.
In short, no one is perfect, but if the USA is going to make big changes to health care, they had better do it in a way that is truly sustainable and not just some political vote-getter. I really believe that the Universal Healthcare platform of the USA presidential debates is purely for votes with little or no real foresight.
For sure, our system here in Soviet Canuckistan is not perfect, but like I said nobody goes without neccessary care, and nobody goes broke when the bill comes. I personally doubt the US is going to make the really neccessary changes to health care very soon, simply because there is a very powerful lobby representing the corporations which profit from the current system. But you are correct, changes must be carefully-planned and sustainable, because if a poorly-thought out "socialized" system was implemented, it would likely crash and burn, thus allowing those same lobbies and their hired legislators to say "Hah! Told you so, back to user-pays!"
My listening habits started diverging from, and then absolutely veering away from, the Top 100. For the first time, it became transparently obvious that mass music is a processed, focus-group-derived product like mass food or mass clothing or mass anything else.
So tell me again why the record industry crushing P2P is stupid? It's wrong and evil, but not stupid per se.
... there's a lot of great music out there. If you give up now you'll end up like my uncle, who virtually refuses to believe any good music has been made since CCR.
Most online music sites have the first 30 seconds of each song. I really don't feel like I know enough from those 30 seconds to decide if I like the CD.
Yeah, partial songs don't do it for me either. I much prefer a couple of full version songs. A lot of artists do do this, though many use Realplayer streams which I refuse to deal with >:-( Interestingly, in my experience, the smaller the artist, the more likely they are to provide free complete tracks on their web site...
Universal healthcare will be right beside our mars missions and universal broadband as things that are bankrupting the federal government.
Funny, it's not bankrupting MY government. And nobody I know has had to sell their house to pay for their chemo either.
What, you never found the town portal scrolls in Grim Fandango? They really help in the final battle against the Infected Kerrigan.
Well, arguably TMNT was a spoof of sorts... or part spoof, part its own book... Anyway their origin was clearly meant to poke a bit of fun at Daredevil et al.
They can already do that. It's called the War on Drugs and Philip K. Dick accurately dissected it in several of his books (many years ago, no less). All they have to do is pin a drug charge on you, and you got to jail with rapists and murderers, your property is forfeit and your family is publicly humiliated (or hurt/killed) by a no-knock raid at 3 am. And it's soooooo easy to find "evidence" during that raid, a pound of coke is easily stashed in a cop's vest on the way in, to be discovered later... Congratulations, you're now a drug dealer, the scum of th earth.
I know it sounds paranoid, but with the laws so one-sided and harsh, that's all it would take.
Too... "kawaii"... the goggles they do nothing!
At least my daughter was easier to set up.
Yeah, the initial set up is quite easy (especially if you are not the female). But just wait for your daughter to become a teenager.
Ah yes, the dreaded "Total Cost of Ownership" strikes again.
The telescreens weren't interactive - they were really just TV (did they have surveillance aspect too?). You couldn't even turn them off IIRC.
;-)
The internet is totally different - it's so "interactive" (which pointless blog do you want to read today?) you don't WANT to turn it off
Hehe, thanks. God bless the Internet.
You can buy a whole external case for $40 or $50
/too lazy to look up the exact quote
Yeah, but who'd fly it? Wireless file serving ain't like dusting crops, kid!