Just the opposite. 5 digits would indicate he's been here a long time and probably in his 30s (minimum)
DEFINE VULGARITY
Why is it vulgar to say "shit" but not "poo"? Or "fuck" but not "intercourse" or "sex"? Or "ass" but not "buttocks"? Or "I'm eating cow, pig, or deer" but not "I'm eating beef, pork, or venison"?
The answer, per usual, is the fault of the French. They were the ones who declared ~900 years ago that English words are vulgar and should be avoided, in favor of French substitutes.
Time to tell the French to sex off and shove their poo up their anuses. Let's go back to using the original English words.
>>>maybe an audio CD so you can walk me through it, and me and a shitload of other people WILL buy. It is all about giving folks an easy, cheap, and valuable exchange for their dollar.
Sounds like a good reason NOT to produce a video. A mechanic, engineer, or other skilled tradesmen only has value because his knowledge is scarce. But if a video is available that allows anyone to fix their car, then the mechanic is no longer needed. He becomes like a horsewhip maker (unemployed).
The only reason this model is sustainable is because most of the TV shows cost is paid by advertisers. If the advertising subsidy is removed, the price skyrockets. Look at the cost of the direct-to-video episodes of Babylon 5 and Stargate SG1 (~$10 per hour). This mechanic would have to charge a similar amount in order to avoid losing money on production costs.
In between each "chapter" of the video I would include a brief 5 second ad: "If you paid for this video legally THANK YOU. If you obtained this video for free, please send $15 to paypal address video@netzero.com so I can buy some food for my family and make future videos."
Most americans are decent human beings.
Of course Stephen King tried the same thing back in 1999, providing parts 1-4 of a book for free download and then asking for payment (totaling to $20 for the whole book). i.e. The honor system. He said it was a miserable failure and returned to standard "psy upfront" publishing. So maybe Americans aren't so honest after all.
We're not dealing with stupid people here. Just imagine the thought process: "I want to block Piratebay and other copyright-infringing sites. But the politicians won't cooperate."
- "Well why don't we take advantage of the War on Terror. Instead of asking to block Piratebay, let's ask to block wikileaks and other sites. The politicians, even Øbama, would jump all over that." - "But for what purpose?" - "Once we have the power to shutdown wikileaks, we'll also have the power to shutdown Piratebay, just by accusing them of being terrorist-supporting organizations. Or by showing how they are being used to spread Wikileaks documents. It's brilliant."
Seriously I think it's time We the People (that's us) declare war on the RIAA and MPAA. Yes with bullets. They have turned into tyrants and tyrants deserve only one outcome.
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>>>The latter. Trickle-down is bullshit.
The former. Government only returns 45% of the money it takes. The rest gets squandered on internal corruption, white collar welfare (my previous no-work job), and interest payments to China. I don't mind taxing individuals, but for corporations it makes more sense to let Corporations like Apple or Google or GM keep the money and do something useful with it (like invent some new technology).
And trickle-down isn't bullshit in my opinion. I can't speak for you, but MY job comes from a rich person with money. If my boss was overtaxed (say 100% of his income over $1 million), then I would be out of a job. As would many other people because he'd no longer be able to hire us.
>>>>>Well Abraham Lincoln was shot by a single man, and yes he deserved it. Lincoln suspended the rights of people in the North/Union to a trial. Tyrant. >> >>So, what about Robert Kennedy? Salvador Allende? JFK? James Garfield? William McKinley? Gandhi? All tyrants that deserved to die?
Nope.
But Mussolini deserved it. As did Pol Pot. And Castro if anyone ever gets close enough.
>>>That's like the argument for leaving the country, and doesn't really make sense.
Actually it does. There's a huge difference between moving ~2000 miles to change countries (and pledging citizenship oaths) versus moving ~100 miles from Illinois to someplace else like Michigan or Iowa or Kentucky. One of the advantages of our Union is that if you don't like one Asshole State, there are 49 others to choose from. LP candidate Harry Browne specifically moved from Florida (?) to Tennessee because they had no income or property tax, and said he'd move again if that ever changed.
I've changed states a couple times now, and it's no big deal. All were still within driving distance of parents/grandparents so I could keep in touch. But moving to Canada or UK? THAT would be a huge change.
Changing countries is hard, but changing states is a piece of cake.
>>>I don't make anywhere near enough to be hit with this tax, but I still oppose it.
Well I'd sooner have a State income tax so Washington residents can fund themselves, rather than a Federal income tax rise and then my money gets "redistributed" to the bankrupt Washington State 3000 miles away.
Another advantage of a local state tax is that my representative lives within walking distance, so I can go yell at him a bit to stop wasting money and/or don't raise the taxes. Worst case, if he doesn't listen, I can toilet-paper his house comes this Halloween and then vote him out in November. There is direct, person-to-person representation there.
In contrast: I haven't the foggiest idea where my US rep lives, and even if I did know, previous experience shows he doesn't listen. I get back letters that are the exact opposite of what I originally contacted him about. For example I told him I support the proposal to cut PBS funding 25%. He wrote back that he appreciates my support of PBS and will be sure to keep funding at current levels. (What?!? That's not what I said. Thanks for not reading my email.)
Anyway stronger local government is better as it's easier to control (direct representation). Local taxation is better because then the rest of us in the other 49 States don't have to send you money.
>>>Do you have any reason to believe Nintendo intuited the ease and minimal expense of copying CDs in 1993-94
Of course. We had CD-stlye MODs as early as 1985. CD-rs arrived in 1988. It's why they redirected N64 development away from CDs and towards Carts, because Nintendo knew carts were extremely difficult to clone.
>>>It's not like it's poor old Sony here, they're bastards
Nintendo is (or was) a bigger bastard than Sony ever was. Nintendo used lock-out chips to prevent third parties on their NES. That by itself is not so bad, but Nintendo next forced companies to sign exclusive NES deals and punished companies that dared develop for the Atari ProSystem/7800 or Sega Master System. Nintendo also found itself sued by Atari for their refusal to let Atari (a) develop games for the NES or (b) port games over to the 7800 or SMS. Sega joined into the lawsuit. The US DOJ heard the case, sided with Atari/Sega, found Nintndo guilty of monopolistic practices under the Sherman Antitrust Act, and awarded several million in damages in addition to nullifying Nintendo's third-party "blacklisting" contracts (which meant future games could appear on both Super NES and Genesis).
Sony has done some horrible things, but they are just a small time player versus Nintendo. Sony's like the two-bit gambler, while Nintendo was the godfather that ran the mafia during the late 80s and early 90s.
Basically Nintendo was the Microsoft of the gaming world. Nintendo was the "bastard" to use your ineloquent words.
>>>more likely to get a Win16 app working on Linux than on Windows NT 4.
So why not use Windows 95 or 98 instead. Both ran 16-bit apps flawlessly. (Well, until the app crashed and hung-up the system, due to braindead cooperative tasking.)
>>>Why do you want to run a Netscape Dialing program...
So I can connect to Netscape ISP .
>>>and a "Web Accelerator" (I wouldn't trust such software except if it uses an outbound server which works like a proxy and compresses everything)?
That's exactly what it does, through netscape.com's proxy. It speeds-up a 50k connection to look as fast as a DSL line, somewhat similar to how Opera Turbo works but much faster. So Direct X isn't about displaying video on the screen? I don't know much about DX but I figured that was the point .
I'd like to see this same information broken-down State-by-State, so we can see which states are most censoring. I'm betting New York and California and Pennsylvania are near the top, given their previous activities.
As for China, I wonder how long it will be until someplace like Australia or Canada decide "Hey that's a good idea" and declare takedown request to be state secrets.
I haven't tried WINE lately but in the Ubuntu 2009.0 days, it couldn't even run my Netscape Dialing program or the included Web Accelerator properly (it crashed). If it can't run something that simple, I don't trust it to run MS Word properly either.
And it looks like it's time to get rid of my XP machine. Which is a shame because it still works perfectly but if it can run various DX11 videos that I download, then it will be frustrating to operate.
MS is adopting the Apple tactics (don't support the 3rd to last OS, thereby forcing people to spend money on upgrades).
Fixed that for you. I owned it when it was just "the Amiga" without a number. Everything ran just fine on 256k, because that was the Amiga's standard size. It was not until after the A500/2000 were released with 512k (i.e. 1988 or later) that software started to grow beyond this limit. Prior to that time 256k was perfectly workable. .
>>>Everybody that bought an 1000 bought the 256k ram expansion
>>>The Amiga was especially poorly suited to it, due to horrible support for high resolution high refresh rate monochrome monitors. Yes, monochrome.
I don't know what on earth you're talking about. I used to operate my Amiga in 720x480 mode (with color but boring monochrome was always an option.) 720x480 is higher than the resolution my college's Mac II could do (something like 480x300).
>>>And you couldn't do anything with your ST while you printed.
As I recall the Mac had the same flaw (no multitasking). I remember spending a lot of time staring at "zzz" while my school's Mac II ran off my college reports on the LaerWriter or the dot matrix Apple printer.
It made me yearn for home Amiga which not only had multitasking, but also preemptive tasking (so printing was handled as a separate background program).
>>>However, Apple sold a complete turnkey solution for desktop publishing.
Whatever. My church and school district didn't print their newsletters on Macs. They used Commodore 64's and later STs or Amigas. Why? They were cheaper plus they offered additional benefits like gaming (my pastor was an avid gamer) plus music and video manipulation.
For you to say (or imply) only Macs could do proper desktop publishing is as silly as saying only an Ipod can play music.
>>>IBM clones sold with color graphics cards in the 80s.
Yeah not really. 1984 is when the Mac was released, and most IBM PCs/clones in that year shipped with just 4 colors. In essence, black-and-white plus two ugly garish colors. If Apple really was targeting business, being black and white was not an impediment.
It did however look inferior for us home users desiring to play games, music, and videos. Going from a 128 color Atari or 4000 color Amiga to a 4 color IBM or Mac seemed illogical.
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Why do we need curse words?
Surely there are languages in the world that don't have such a ridiculous idea as "forbidden words". How do they get on?
Just the opposite. 5 digits would indicate he's been here a long time and probably in his 30s (minimum)
DEFINE VULGARITY
Why is it vulgar to say "shit" but not "poo"? Or "fuck" but not "intercourse" or "sex"? Or "ass" but not "buttocks"? Or "I'm eating cow, pig, or deer" but not "I'm eating beef, pork, or venison"?
The answer, per usual, is the fault of the French. They were the ones who declared ~900 years ago that English words are vulgar and should be avoided, in favor of French substitutes.
Time to tell the French to sex off and shove their poo up their anuses. Let's go back to using the original English words.
>>>maybe an audio CD so you can walk me through it, and me and a shitload of other people WILL buy. It is all about giving folks an easy, cheap, and valuable exchange for their dollar.
Sounds like a good reason NOT to produce a video. A mechanic, engineer, or other skilled tradesmen only has value because his knowledge is scarce. But if a video is available that allows anyone to fix their car, then the mechanic is no longer needed. He becomes like a horsewhip maker (unemployed).
>>>$2 per video on iTunes?
The only reason this model is sustainable is because most of the TV shows cost is paid by advertisers. If the advertising subsidy is removed, the price skyrockets. Look at the cost of the direct-to-video episodes of Babylon 5 and Stargate SG1 (~$10 per hour). This mechanic would have to charge a similar amount in order to avoid losing money on production costs.
In between each "chapter" of the video I would include a brief 5 second ad: "If you paid for this video legally THANK YOU. If you obtained this video for free, please send $15 to paypal address video@netzero.com so I can buy some food for my family and make future videos."
Most americans are decent human beings.
Of course Stephen King tried the same thing back in 1999, providing parts 1-4 of a book for free download and then asking for payment (totaling to $20 for the whole book). i.e. The honor system. He said it was a miserable failure and returned to standard "psy upfront" publishing. So maybe Americans aren't so honest after all.
And what if the BBS has been your sole source of income?
It's harder to give stuff away for free, if you have no money to keep the BBS (or whatever) running.
We're not dealing with stupid people here. Just imagine the thought process: "I want to block Piratebay and other copyright-infringing sites. But the politicians won't cooperate."
- "Well why don't we take advantage of the War on Terror. Instead of asking to block Piratebay, let's ask to block wikileaks and other sites. The politicians, even Øbama, would jump all over that." - "But for what purpose?" - "Once we have the power to shutdown wikileaks, we'll also have the power to shutdown Piratebay, just by accusing them of being terrorist-supporting organizations. Or by showing how they are being used to spread Wikileaks documents. It's brilliant."
Seriously I think it's time We the People (that's us) declare war on the RIAA and MPAA.
Yes with bullets. They have turned into tyrants and tyrants deserve only one outcome.
(Note -1 Disagree is not an option for moderation.)
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>>>The latter. Trickle-down is bullshit.
The former. Government only returns 45% of the money it takes. The rest gets squandered on internal corruption, white collar welfare (my previous no-work job), and interest payments to China. I don't mind taxing individuals, but for corporations it makes more sense to let Corporations like Apple or Google or GM keep the money and do something useful with it (like invent some new technology).
And trickle-down isn't bullshit in my opinion. I can't speak for you, but MY job comes from a rich person with money. If my boss was overtaxed (say 100% of his income over $1 million), then I would be out of a job. As would many other people because he'd no longer be able to hire us.
>>>>>Well Abraham Lincoln was shot by a single man, and yes he deserved it. Lincoln suspended the rights of people in the North/Union to a trial. Tyrant.
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>>So, what about Robert Kennedy? Salvador Allende? JFK? James Garfield? William McKinley? Gandhi? All tyrants that deserved to die?
Nope.
But Mussolini deserved it. As did Pol Pot. And Castro if anyone ever gets close enough.
>>>That's like the argument for leaving the country, and doesn't really make sense.
Actually it does. There's a huge difference between moving ~2000 miles to change countries (and pledging citizenship oaths) versus moving ~100 miles from Illinois to someplace else like Michigan or Iowa or Kentucky. One of the advantages of our Union is that if you don't like one Asshole State, there are 49 others to choose from. LP candidate Harry Browne specifically moved from Florida (?) to Tennessee because they had no income or property tax, and said he'd move again if that ever changed.
I've changed states a couple times now, and it's no big deal. All were still within driving distance of parents/grandparents so I could keep in touch. But moving to Canada or UK? THAT would be a huge change.
Changing countries is hard, but changing states is a piece of cake.
>>>I don't make anywhere near enough to be hit with this tax, but I still oppose it.
Well I'd sooner have a State income tax so Washington residents can fund themselves, rather than a Federal income tax rise and then my money gets "redistributed" to the bankrupt Washington State 3000 miles away.
Another advantage of a local state tax is that my representative lives within walking distance, so I can go yell at him a bit to stop wasting money and/or don't raise the taxes. Worst case, if he doesn't listen, I can toilet-paper his house comes this Halloween and then vote him out in November. There is direct, person-to-person representation there.
In contrast: I haven't the foggiest idea where my US rep lives, and even if I did know, previous experience shows he doesn't listen. I get back letters that are the exact opposite of what I originally contacted him about. For example I told him I support the proposal to cut PBS funding 25%. He wrote back that he appreciates my support of PBS and will be sure to keep funding at current levels. (What?!? That's not what I said. Thanks for not reading my email.)
Anyway stronger local government is better as it's easier to control (direct representation). Local taxation is better because then the rest of us in the other 49 States don't have to send you money.
>>>Do you have any reason to believe Nintendo intuited the ease and minimal expense of copying CDs in 1993-94
Of course. We had CD-stlye MODs as early as 1985. CD-rs arrived in 1988. It's why they redirected N64 development away from CDs and towards Carts, because Nintendo knew carts were extremely difficult to clone.
>>>It's not like it's poor old Sony here, they're bastards
Nintendo is (or was) a bigger bastard than Sony ever was. Nintendo used lock-out chips to prevent third parties on their NES. That by itself is not so bad, but Nintendo next forced companies to sign exclusive NES deals and punished companies that dared develop for the Atari ProSystem/7800 or Sega Master System. Nintendo also found itself sued by Atari for their refusal to let Atari (a) develop games for the NES or (b) port games over to the 7800 or SMS. Sega joined into the lawsuit. The US DOJ heard the case, sided with Atari/Sega, found Nintndo guilty of monopolistic practices under the Sherman Antitrust Act, and awarded several million in damages in addition to nullifying Nintendo's third-party "blacklisting" contracts (which meant future games could appear on both Super NES and Genesis).
Sony has done some horrible things, but they are just a small time player versus Nintendo. Sony's like the two-bit gambler, while Nintendo was the godfather that ran the mafia during the late 80s and early 90s.
Basically Nintendo was the Microsoft of the gaming world.
Nintendo was the "bastard" to use your ineloquent words.
>>>more likely to get a Win16 app working on Linux than on Windows NT 4.
So why not use Windows 95 or 98 instead. Both ran 16-bit apps flawlessly. (Well, until the app crashed and hung-up the system, due to braindead cooperative tasking.)
>>>Why do you want to run a Netscape Dialing program...
So I can connect to Netscape ISP
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>>>and a "Web Accelerator" (I wouldn't trust such software except if it uses an outbound server which works like a proxy and compresses everything)?
That's exactly what it does, through netscape.com's proxy. It speeds-up a 50k connection to look as fast as a DSL line, somewhat similar to how Opera Turbo works but much faster. So Direct X isn't about displaying video on the screen? I don't know much about DX but I figured that was the point
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I imitate you
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>>>Everyone you've ever known could be lieing to you.
I still don't believe the United States of Europe exists. http://www.amazon.com/United-States-Europe-Superpower-Supremacy/
>>>United States
>>>4287 data requests
I'd like to see this same information broken-down State-by-State, so we can see which states are most censoring. I'm betting New York and California and Pennsylvania are near the top, given their previous activities.
As for China, I wonder how long it will be until someplace like Australia or Canada decide "Hey that's a good idea" and declare takedown request to be state secrets.
We have met the enemy.
He is us. (Or rather our leaders.)
I haven't tried WINE lately but in the Ubuntu 2009.0 days, it couldn't even run my Netscape Dialing program or the included Web Accelerator properly (it crashed). If it can't run something that simple, I don't trust it to run MS Word properly either.
And it looks like it's time to get rid of my XP machine. Which is a shame because it still works perfectly but if it can run various DX11 videos that I download, then it will be frustrating to operate.
MS is adopting the Apple tactics (don't support the 3rd to last OS, thereby forcing people to spend money on upgrades).
>>>Did you have a [Commodore Amiga]?
Fixed that for you. I owned it when it was just "the Amiga" without a number. Everything ran just fine on 256k, because that was the Amiga's standard size. It was not until after the A500/2000 were released with 512k (i.e. 1988 or later) that software started to grow beyond this limit. Prior to that time 256k was perfectly workable.
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>>>Everybody that bought an 1000 bought the 256k ram expansion
False.
>>>The Amiga was especially poorly suited to it, due to horrible support for high resolution high refresh rate monochrome monitors. Yes, monochrome.
I don't know what on earth you're talking about. I used to operate my Amiga in 720x480 mode (with color but boring monochrome was always an option.) 720x480 is higher than the resolution my college's Mac II could do (something like 480x300).
>>>And you couldn't do anything with your ST while you printed.
As I recall the Mac had the same flaw (no multitasking). I remember spending a lot of time staring at "zzz" while my school's Mac II ran off my college reports on the LaerWriter or the dot matrix Apple printer.
It made me yearn for home Amiga which not only had multitasking, but also preemptive tasking (so printing was handled as a separate background program).
>>>However, Apple sold a complete turnkey solution for desktop publishing.
Whatever. My church and school district didn't print their newsletters on Macs. They used Commodore 64's and later STs or Amigas. Why? They were cheaper plus they offered additional benefits like gaming (my pastor was an avid gamer) plus music and video manipulation.
For you to say (or imply) only Macs could do proper desktop publishing is as silly as saying only an Ipod can play music.
>>>IBM clones sold with color graphics cards in the 80s.
Yeah not really. 1984 is when the Mac was released, and most IBM PCs/clones in that year shipped with just 4 colors. In essence, black-and-white plus two ugly garish colors. If Apple really was targeting business, being black and white was not an impediment.
It did however look inferior for us home users desiring to play games, music, and videos. Going from a 128 color Atari or 4000 color Amiga to a 4 color IBM or Mac seemed illogical.