Bandwidth is the ONLY commodity being sold, not content. Therefore it is a price falling commodity, as it should be. The more you use, the cheaper it should be, like any other commodity. PORN!!! Cool.
I am running for President of the US on MySpace. Vote for me.
My main thrust is lobbiests, they need to go away. The only lobbies that should exist are those that we all may find ourselves in, like the lobby for the aged or for the infirm(handicapped). All the rest need to be outlawed. Period.
I would re-instate the original FCC charter with minor mods to take into account the technilogical changes that have happened since the 1900's. I would make the field level for all, and discount monied interests nearly 100 percent.
Vote for Zoomshorts !!!
Plus I have some really cool fachist(sp) leanings too.
When politicials are talking, they are lying. I lie daily! You all should feel right at home.
You cannot be compelled to testify against yourself.
You can refuse any and ALL tests which may incriminate you. Easy.
Besides, cheap ass whore cops will hold you for 30 minutes to allow the alcohol you drank a hour ago , to reach limits that WILL make you over the mark. They are cowards and criminals. Simple !
Kaspersky Labs is a Russian concern, a really nice AV product. Eugene Kaspersky is a fantastic programmer and has always had his hand in the business of stopping those sneaky bastards who send us viruses and trojans and malware.:P
Most modern PC manufacturers have a hidden Recovery partition on the hard drive which contains the factory image and an install program.
You notice how they do not ship recovery cd's/DVD's with the new PC's?
Try hitting F11 or another F key during bootup. IBM has had this for years. Others do this too. Easier for tech support and users who lose discs far too often.
"But too bad for gateway shareholders who were in at a higher price per share. Anyway, this gives Acer a nationally recognized brand name to use as a vehicle for their products."
Recognised as what? I worked for a company that assembled Acer 'white boxes' using Acer parts. Acers were running around a 42 percent failure rate using Acer "quality" parts. When the Acer people were trying to sell us their business, every third word out of the Acer representative's mouth was 'quality', then to have a 42 percent failure using Acer "quality" parts.
Every Acer I touch is a joke, and I have touched FAR too many of them. ACER is the joke of the PC world. And Packard Bell, the original company, made decent machines for the time.
I got ADSL In 1996 , back when it was 1.5 Mb download and 120Kb upload, today, eleven years later I get 8 Mb download and 385 Kb upload, at about 30 percent higher pricing.
Basically broadband in the US is crap. If those various companies mentioned in the article were forced to refund the money they got for giving us nothing, and I agree we got nothing, they would be singing a different tune. I say send them a bill for the money they received, but did not spend on actually providing that which they said they would, PLUS interest.
Broadband should be defined at 20Mb down and 20 Mb up. Period. Too much time has elapsed with basically zero quality or quantity increases.
The 'Interview" is nothing but a delaying tactic to allow more alcohol to enter the blood. That will give higher test results. Perhaps you were shitfaced, but still able to drive the mile to your house at the time you got into your car, but after a 30 minute 'interview' you would not be able to negotiate the trip.
Say the alphabet backwards is a ruse used to detect drunkeness, to that I say "You first officer"
or "which alphabet?".
90 percent og the officers themselves cannot say the alphabet backwards, even with a printed card.
It is time for artists to realize that the RIAA and similar organizations exist to steal money from the artists themselves.
There needs to be a new organization, one which NO member of , or prior member of,the RIAA et al, can be a member of, and it should replace all such previous organizations.
The RIAA claim to work towards getting the artists the royalities from their creations, but the RIAA gets more than the lions share. They are organized extortion. Pure and simple.
Suppose the RIAA legitimately catches someone making a copyrighted work downloadable, or makes copies for some friends. The RIAA gets a huge judgement for the most part, and the artist gets his/her $0.07 per copy royality?
What is fair about this? This is a protection racket and nothing more. Organized and criminal in intent.
The threat is legal action, litigation you cannot possibly afford, as Joe Average. If you fail to pay the extortion you are SLAPPED with lawsuits. They will nickle and dime you to death with court appearances. They will force you to hire a lawyer to help control the charges and judgement. They will cost you dearly unless you give in to their demands. If not extortion, what is it? Blackmail???
Sound about right?
Now let us turn this same racket into something that will benefit the artist.
Send a simple demand letter to obvious infringers*, you know who you are, asking for the removal of the material and $25.00 to this new organization.
The difference would be this, the new organization can only get $5.00 of the $25.00 as a fee, the remainder would be disbursed to the copyright owner. Same threats of lawsuits, just a more reasonable outcome.
This would do several things :
Reimburse artists
Give the new organization the impetus to go after larger numbers of infringers.
Reduce the money to be made by questionable organizations.
* Obvious Infringer, someone with a ftp site with titles ending in {Complete Album} or {Full Movie} in the file names. Doh!
Any contract has essential elements. If there is no 'meeting of the minds' which translates to a full understanding of the terms both sides have to abide by , then there can be no contract. If , say I sign an agreement, and the contractor wants to change the terms at a later date, the contract is voidable. If the agreement is for a definate time, it is enforceable. BUT there has to be a mutual meeting of the minds to make a contract or continue a contract.
There is no real reason to send a manned flight to Mars. None. You would need to send enormous amounts of gear, several hundred tons of water and food and air enough for the journey, the time spent on the planet and the trip back. Exactly what would be the net gain for anyone? Bragging rights?
You would need a "mother ship" and at least two 'landers' with return capability. In addition, a habitat for the humans. If you think you are a treehugger, imagine the colossal amounts of resources needed to get there and the environmental impact on Earth, just to start this type of endeavor.
Think people. That grey matter is supposed to be used.
"You bring up some good related points but this case is still 100% clear to me. Take the example of the women selling cosmetics from TFA. If she is telling the truth and gets the items from a flea market they could be stolen or fake but that is not what the company is worried about. They are pursuing the ebay seller because they suspect that she bought the cosmetics from a salon which has an agreement to only sell in the salon they run. Therefor the salon is breaking the agreement with the cosmetics company. That would be a clearcut case of them breaking the agreement if that is what is going on, nobody would defend the salon in breaking that agreement."
I agree to. So what id someone buys a TON of makeup at a bulk price and then feels no need to make a KILLING on the product? Once the items are sold to the consumer, the company has NO BUSINESS or INTEREST in what happens to the product. She can give it away free !!!! Fuck them and the horse they rode in on !!!!!!
What you need to run, in order to overcome sandboxing, is my handy utility called Cats(TM). It will effectively pollute any benefits of sandboxing. In addition, it will spawn child processes Kittens(TM) to further confuse the processes.
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YOU CAD !!!!! Those are MY pictures !!!
It is just FUD started by McAfee to sell more crappy software.
Keep moving.
Loose nut between the keyboard and chair. Please use the correct terminology :)
WHO cares? It was a cheesy show, with a ham for a lead actor. This is not news,
it is predictable. Yawn.
Bandwidth is the ONLY commodity being sold, not content. Therefore
it is a price falling commodity, as it should be. The more you use,
the cheaper it should be, like any other commodity. PORN!!! Cool.
I am running for President of the US on MySpace. Vote for me.
My main thrust is lobbiests, they need to go away. The only
lobbies that should exist are those that we all may find ourselves
in, like the lobby for the aged or for the infirm(handicapped).
All the rest need to be outlawed. Period.
I would re-instate the original FCC charter with minor mods to
take into account the technilogical changes that have happened
since the 1900's. I would make the field level for all, and discount
monied interests nearly 100 percent.
Vote for Zoomshorts !!!
Plus I have some really cool fachist(sp) leanings too.
When politicials are talking, they are lying. I lie daily!
You all should feel right at home.
You cannot be compelled to testify against yourself.
You can refuse any and ALL tests which may incriminate
you. Easy.
Besides, cheap ass whore cops will hold you for 30 minutes
to allow the alcohol you drank a hour ago , to reach limits that
WILL make you over the mark. They are cowards and criminals. Simple !
The GNNA should be involved in this discussion!!!
Kaspersky Labs is a Russian concern, a really nice AV product. :P
Eugene Kaspersky is a fantastic programmer and has always
had his hand in the business of stopping those sneaky bastards
who send us viruses and trojans and malware.
An interesting development.
Most modern PC manufacturers have a hidden Recovery partition on the hard drive
/DVD's with the new PC's?
:)
which contains the factory image and an install program.
You notice how they do not ship recovery cd's
Try hitting F11 or another F key during bootup. IBM has had this for years.
Others do this too. Easier for tech support and users who lose discs far
too often.
Neener neener. Yep, they saved a few pennies
"But too bad for gateway shareholders who were in at a higher price per share. Anyway, this gives Acer a nationally recognized brand name to use as a vehicle for their products."
Recognised as what? I worked for a company that assembled Acer 'white boxes' using Acer parts.
Acers were running around a 42 percent failure rate using Acer "quality" parts. When the Acer
people were trying to sell us their business, every third word out of the Acer representative's
mouth was 'quality', then to have a 42 percent failure using Acer "quality" parts.
Every Acer I touch is a joke, and I have touched FAR too many of them. ACER is the joke of the
PC world. And Packard Bell, the original company, made decent machines for the time.
I got ADSL In 1996 , back when it was 1.5 Mb download and 120Kb upload, today, eleven years later
I get 8 Mb download and 385 Kb upload, at about 30 percent higher pricing.
Basically broadband in the US is crap. If those various companies mentioned in the article
were forced to refund the money they got for giving us nothing, and I agree we got nothing,
they would be singing a different tune. I say send them a bill for the money they received, but did
not spend on actually providing that which they said they would, PLUS interest.
Broadband should be defined at 20Mb down and 20 Mb up. Period. Too much time has elapsed
with basically zero quality or quantity increases.
The 'Interview" is nothing but a delaying tactic to allow more alcohol to enter the blood.
That will give higher test results. Perhaps you were shitfaced, but still able to drive
the mile to your house at the time you got into your car, but after a 30 minute 'interview'
you would not be able to negotiate the trip.
Say the alphabet backwards is a ruse used to detect drunkeness, to that I say "You first officer"
or "which alphabet?".
90 percent og the officers themselves cannot say the alphabet backwards, even with a printed card.
Yes, never prevented anything.
It is time for artists to realize that the RIAA and
,the RIAA et al, can be a member of,
similar organizations exist to steal money from the
artists themselves.
There needs to be a new organization, one which NO member
of , or prior member of
and it should replace all such previous organizations.
The RIAA claim to work towards getting the artists the
royalities from their creations, but the RIAA gets more
than the lions share. They are organized extortion. Pure
and simple.
Suppose the RIAA legitimately catches someone making a
copyrighted work downloadable, or makes copies for some
friends. The RIAA gets a huge judgement for the most part,
and the artist gets his/her $0.07 per copy royality?
What is fair about this? This is a protection racket
and nothing more. Organized and criminal in intent.
The threat is legal action, litigation you cannot possibly
afford, as Joe Average. If you fail to pay the extortion
you are SLAPPED with lawsuits. They will nickle and dime
you to death with court appearances. They will force you
to hire a lawyer to help control the charges and judgement.
They will cost you dearly unless you give in to their
demands. If not extortion, what is it? Blackmail???
Sound about right?
Now let us turn this same racket into something that will
benefit the artist.
Send a simple demand letter to obvious infringers*, you
know who you are, asking for the removal of the material
and $25.00 to this new organization.
The difference would be this, the new organization can
only get $5.00 of the $25.00 as a fee, the remainder
would be disbursed to the copyright owner. Same threats
of lawsuits, just a more reasonable outcome.
This would do several things :
Reimburse artists
Give the new organization the impetus to go after larger
numbers of infringers.
Reduce the money to be made by questionable organizations.
* Obvious Infringer, someone with a ftp site with titles
ending in {Complete Album} or {Full Movie} in the file names.
Doh!
Precisely. Well explained.
Ain't it wonderful???
Any contract has essential elements. If there is no 'meeting of the minds'
which translates to a full understanding of the terms both sides have to
abide by , then there can be no contract. If , say I sign an agreement, and
the contractor wants to change the terms at a later date, the contract is voidable.
If the agreement is for a definate time, it is enforceable. BUT there has to be a
mutual meeting of the minds to make a contract or continue a contract.
Alienware = DELL or did you miss that?
There is no real reason to send a manned flight to Mars. None.
You would need to send enormous amounts of gear, several hundred tons of water
and food and air enough for the journey, the time spent on the planet and
the trip back. Exactly what would be the net gain for anyone? Bragging rights?
You would need a "mother ship" and at least two 'landers' with return
capability. In addition, a habitat for the humans. If you think you are a
treehugger, imagine the colossal amounts of resources needed to get there
and the environmental impact on Earth, just to start this type of endeavor.
Think people. That grey matter is supposed to be used.
"You bring up some good related points but this case is still 100% clear to me. Take the example of the women selling cosmetics from TFA. If she is telling the truth and gets the items from a flea market they could be stolen or fake but that is not what the company is worried about. They are pursuing the ebay seller because they suspect that she bought the cosmetics from a salon which has an agreement to only sell in the salon they run. Therefor the salon is breaking the agreement with the cosmetics company. That would be a clearcut case of them breaking the agreement if that is what is going on, nobody would defend the salon in breaking that agreement."
I agree to. So what id someone buys a TON of makeup at a bulk price and then feels no need to make a KILLING
on the product? Once the items are sold to the consumer, the company has NO BUSINESS or INTEREST in what happens
to the product. She can give it away free !!!! Fuck them and the horse they rode in on !!!!!!
I already do that :)
For SPAM, Solicitations et al.
I also send a bill, where practical
for my time taken to respond. I bill
the manufacturer of the product and cite
the email/letter.
Actually I am waiting for the bio-engineers to modify Kudzu genetically as follows :
Insert Cannabis genes for buzz and fiber
Insert Tomato genes for fruit
and let it escape in to the wild. THAT would be bio-engineering !!!!!
What you need to run, in order to overcome sandboxing, is my handy
utility called Cats(TM). It will effectively pollute any benefits of
sandboxing. In addition, it will spawn child processes Kittens(TM) to
further confuse the processes.
"Fsckin Ni**ers"