And disneyconnection.com - you pay for it even if you don't want it. Or vice-versa if you do want it, but your ISP doesn't carry it, then you can't get it. There's not even an option to handover your credit card and subscribe.
Segregating the internet like that, based upon the ISP you have, is stupid.
Hardly. The markets are defined by proximity to the stations, and what you would receive it you put an antenna on the roof of your house. According to the map you are not in "over the air" receiving distance of any New Hampshire stations. Your stations are in Burlington Vermont.
I am a little surprised your cable company doesn't provide more-distant stations (like Keene NH or Boston MA). I used to get DC stations even though I was nowhere near DC, simply because the Baltimore Comcast company wanted to provide the extra channels.
Anonymous coward wrote: bahahaha I live in DC and you are a fucking liar.
bahahaha I wasn't talking about Comcast in DC; I was talking about Comcast in Baltimore County which really was $7/month and really did give me access to all the Baltimore/DC channels
The situation was a little different though. In this Utah guy's case, the decision was out of the control of customer service. The decision was made by some new central "abuse department"* some 500 miles away. Not really practical to drive 1000 miles roundtrip.
* * That's what it's called - abuse - when you use your unlimited Comcast connection more than they think you should. And then they cut you off.
Unfortunately my local Senator is in Comcast's pocket (massive donations), so he is perfectly happy to let them keep their monopoly. Otherwise I agree with you that having 3 or more companies competing to provide TV would be a better solution.
>>>They certainly are trying to force their way of living on everyone, for example regarding gay marriage.
If it's wrong for them to force their moral values onto others, than it's JUST AS WRONG for you to force your values on everyone else. People should be free to live their lives however they want to live them, without interference from either the Christians or the Democratic-communists
>>>You really think Roger Ailes disagrees with the tripe Hannity and Beck spew? Somehow I don't.
Well if you think that, then you must think CNN and MSNBC agree with all the pro-big-government viewspoints spewed by Maddow and Olberman, so that would make them pro-Democrat/communist biased news channels.
>>>I like how you've managed to work a 2nd amendment reference in
STRAWMAN argument. What he actually said was, "Unless your intended rape victim is armed and declines to quietly submit to your attack." He never said anything about the second amendment, or the constitution, or even gun rights. All he said was that an attempted rape might be dangerous to the criminal.
>>>And under true free market, profit oriented corporations are more than able to *buy* regulations.
Under a "true" free market, corporations wouldn't even exist because they are a creation of government, so if the government takes a handsoff approach to the economy, the Incorporation License would be a non-entity. Instead you'd have private citizens who are directly responsible for their business transactions. No corporations.
Anyway:
I'd like to know why this lady spent two nights in jail for a *civil* violation. If she did infringe upon copyright, the punishment should be doled-out by a civil court procedure, MPAA v. Citizen, not by the police.
Piracy involves the stealing of property, but the copy PRIVILEGE is not property. As Thomas Jefferson wisely explained: "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself. But the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.
"Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine...
"That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."
Therefore:
While I can claim ownership of this computer, and label you a "thief" if you steal it (because I have been deprived of use of the computer), I have NO natural right to claim ownership of an idea. Your copying of my idea deprives me of nothing. I still possess the idea.
No it isn't. As Thomas Jefferson wisely explained, "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself. But the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.
"Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine...
"That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."
Therefore:
While I can claim ownership of this computer, and label you a "thief" if you steal it (because I have been deprived of use of the computer), I have NO natural right to claim ownership of an idea. Your copying of my idea deprives me of nothing. I still possess the idea.
>>>*though your overwhelming particular concern: debt levels, is only a tenth of the economic story and the proper economic agenda, as i see it in my mind...
I'm sorry but I don't see how we can survive with $200,000 (in 2016 according to the CBO) hanging over every U.S. home. That level of debt exceeds the value of the house itself (which is $150,000 on average). In essence we'll be upside-down in debt.
When Bush arrived the debt was $9 trillion; he increased it to 11.
When Obama finishes his eight years, the debt will have jumped from 11 to 20 trillion - almost double. Those numbers come direct from the Congressional Budget Office
>>>Where the hell were the Tea Party people when the US was entering into a grossly expensive and unnecessary war while cutting taxes?
STRAWMAN argument. You presume we didn't rally during Bush's term, but you assume wrong. FIRST off, there's a huge difference between a war that cost ~100 billion a year, and the Congress spending ~2000 billion in less than a year's time:
- I was against the war from 9/12 onward, but nobody listened to me (at that point pro-war was near-unanimous in Congress). I became angry when Bush said "Let's spend 700 billion to bailout AIG and other companies". I called my representative to vote down the bill, but he didn't listen. That is the point when I joined the Protest. I realized Bush was not listening, the Republicans were not listening, and the Democrats certainly weren't listening.
And of course the spending just continues. Congress is acting like a teenager with a credit card - no self control. This isn't a R versus D issue. This is a "stop the madness of the R/D monopoly" issue, or else we'll collapse like the German Weimar republic did (or more-recently Dubai did). .
>>>If you cut the army's budget and put that into health care
Another strawman argument. I'm not against healthcare. I'm against monopoly
Actually I have an office job. Although I get paid about 5 times more than a Walmart employee, it's still a job. I can't sit on my butt and collect royalties off my creations like authors can.
>>>Just one note on BluRay, most the movies there are not compressed for size. They know they'll ship on a 50 GB medium, so they let the bitrate flow almost free.
Completely false. Just do the math:
1920x1080 pixels x 10 bits for luma x 10 bits for chroma x 30 frames per second (interlaced) ===================== 1244 megabit per second (uncompressed video). Bluray's only 50 Mbit/s maximum speed, so clearly they have to compress by a large margin to make the movie fit inside the available bandwidth.
That's not a DVD rip. That's a DVD stream that was converted from MPEG2 to some other format like AVI or MPEG4. A DVD ISO that preserves the original format would be either 4.7 or 9 megabytes
In other words the local stations are "free" and don't cost an extra $10/month like HBO or Showtime or TCM does.
BTW:
Where I used to live the basic package was only $7/month, and included all the channels from two markets - Baltimore and Washington. 7 dollars is a nice bargain.
Second if Microsoft had released a "security update" that killed a computer and made it unbootable, slashdot would be up in arms. But it's okay for Apple? No problemo? A-okay? Double standard.
>>>I'm convinced that Comcast's package will include optimized delivery for NBC sites and content
"If you watch videos elsewhere, it will count towards your 250 GB limit, but videos watched on nbc.com, nsnbc.com, cnbc.com, bravo.com, usa.com, and other NBC or Comcast-owned sites will not be counted." - Future comcast update to their TOS
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And disneyconnection.com - you pay for it even if you don't want it. Or vice-versa if you do want it, but your ISP doesn't carry it, then you can't get it. There's not even an option to handover your credit card and subscribe.
Segregating the internet like that, based upon the ISP you have, is stupid.
>>>(merely political)
Hardly. The markets are defined by proximity to the stations, and what you would receive it you put an antenna on the roof of your house. According to the map you are not in "over the air" receiving distance of any New Hampshire stations. Your stations are in Burlington Vermont.
I am a little surprised your cable company doesn't provide more-distant stations (like Keene NH or Boston MA). I used to get DC stations even though I was nowhere near DC, simply because the Baltimore Comcast company wanted to provide the extra channels.
Anonymous coward wrote:
bahahaha I live in DC and you are a fucking liar.
bahahaha I wasn't talking about Comcast in DC; I was talking about Comcast in Baltimore County which really was $7/month and really did give me access to all the Baltimore/DC channels
The situation was a little different though. In this Utah guy's case, the decision was out of the control of customer service. The decision was made by some new central "abuse department"* some 500 miles away. Not really practical to drive 1000 miles roundtrip.
*
* That's what it's called - abuse - when you use your unlimited Comcast connection more than they think you should. And then they cut you off.
>>>So fight to change it at the local level.
Unfortunately my local Senator is in Comcast's pocket (massive donations), so he is perfectly happy to let them keep their monopoly. Otherwise I agree with you that having 3 or more companies competing to provide TV would be a better solution.
>>>They certainly are trying to force their way of living on everyone, for example regarding gay marriage.
If it's wrong for them to force their moral values onto others, than it's JUST AS WRONG for you to force your values on everyone else. People should be free to live their lives however they want to live them, without interference from either the Christians or the Democratic-communists
>>>You really think Roger Ailes disagrees with the tripe Hannity and Beck spew? Somehow I don't.
Well if you think that, then you must think CNN and MSNBC agree with all the pro-big-government viewspoints spewed by Maddow and Olberman, so that would make them pro-Democrat/communist biased news channels.
Uh... *as I just said* these commentators are merely presenting *their* views, not those of the network or each other.
If there's no orgasm response from the lady, I'd say "yes" that's necrophilia
>>>I like how you've managed to work a 2nd amendment reference in
STRAWMAN argument. What he actually said was, "Unless your intended rape victim is armed and declines to quietly submit to your attack." He never said anything about the second amendment, or the constitution, or even gun rights. All he said was that an attempted rape might be dangerous to the criminal.
>>>And under true free market, profit oriented corporations are more than able to *buy* regulations.
Under a "true" free market, corporations wouldn't even exist because they are a creation of government, so if the government takes a handsoff approach to the economy, the Incorporation License would be a non-entity. Instead you'd have private citizens who are directly responsible for their business transactions. No corporations.
Anyway:
I'd like to know why this lady spent two nights in jail for a *civil* violation. If she did infringe upon copyright, the punishment should be doled-out by a civil court procedure, MPAA v. Citizen, not by the police.
Piracy involves the stealing of property, but the copy PRIVILEGE is not property. As Thomas Jefferson wisely explained: "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself. But the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.
"Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine...
"That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."
Therefore:
While I can claim ownership of this computer, and label you a "thief" if you steal it (because I have been deprived of use of the computer), I have NO natural right to claim ownership of an idea. Your copying of my idea deprives me of nothing. I still possess the idea.
>>>Copyright is a legal property right.
No it isn't. As Thomas Jefferson wisely explained, "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself. But the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.
"Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine...
"That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."
Therefore:
While I can claim ownership of this computer, and label you a "thief" if you steal it (because I have been deprived of use of the computer), I have NO natural right to claim ownership of an idea. Your copying of my idea deprives me of nothing. I still possess the idea.
A copyright, which is really a government grant of monopoly over a particular product, is the exact-opposite of a free market.
>>>Can we watch - I've never seen nipples explode.
Son, you need to spend more time watching the PR0N. You are now at an advanced-enough age to have seen these things.
>>>*though your overwhelming particular concern: debt levels, is only a tenth of the economic story and the proper economic agenda, as i see it in my mind...
I'm sorry but I don't see how we can survive with $200,000 (in 2016 according to the CBO) hanging over every U.S. home. That level of debt exceeds the value of the house itself (which is $150,000 on average). In essence we'll be upside-down in debt.
When Bush arrived the debt was $9 trillion; he increased it to 11.
When Obama finishes his eight years, the debt will have jumped from 11 to 20 trillion - almost double. Those numbers come direct from the Congressional Budget Office
>>>Where the hell were the Tea Party people when the US was entering into a grossly expensive and unnecessary war while cutting taxes?
STRAWMAN argument. You presume we didn't rally during Bush's term, but you assume wrong. FIRST off, there's a huge difference between a war that cost ~100 billion a year, and the Congress spending ~2000 billion in less than a year's time:
- I was against the war from 9/12 onward, but nobody listened to me (at that point pro-war was near-unanimous in Congress). I became angry when Bush said "Let's spend 700 billion to bailout AIG and other companies". I called my representative to vote down the bill, but he didn't listen. That is the point when I joined the Protest. I realized Bush was not listening, the Republicans were not listening, and the Democrats certainly weren't listening.
And of course the spending just continues. Congress is acting like a teenager with a credit card - no self control. This isn't a R versus D issue. This is a "stop the madness of the R/D monopoly" issue, or else we'll collapse like the German Weimar republic did (or more-recently Dubai did).
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>>>If you cut the army's budget and put that into health care
Another strawman argument. I'm not against healthcare. I'm against monopoly
Actually I have an office job. Although I get paid about 5 times more than a Walmart employee, it's still a job. I can't sit on my butt and collect royalties off my creations like authors can.
(checks). Actually the cheerleader would have been 19 during filming, and therefore a legal adult. Too bad the topless Thora Birch was only 16.
(mutters)
I'm going straight to hell.
>>>Just one note on BluRay, most the movies there are not compressed for size. They know they'll ship on a 50 GB medium, so they let the bitrate flow almost free.
Completely false. Just do the math:
1920x1080 pixels
x 10 bits for luma
x 10 bits for chroma
x 30 frames per second (interlaced)
=====================
1244 megabit per second (uncompressed video). Bluray's only 50 Mbit/s maximum speed, so clearly they have to compress by a large margin to make the movie fit inside the available bandwidth.
>>>Most DVD rips are 700ish MB
That's not a DVD rip. That's a DVD stream that was converted from MPEG2 to some other format like AVI or MPEG4. A DVD ISO that preserves the original format would be either 4.7 or 9 megabytes
You stop too quickly. Look at these results
- 139,000,000 for free movies
- 208,000,000 for Free games.
- 614,000,000 for free songs
In other words the local stations are "free" and don't cost an extra $10/month like HBO or Showtime or TCM does.
BTW:
Where I used to live the basic package was only $7/month, and included all the channels from two markets - Baltimore and Washington. 7 dollars is a nice bargain.
First off, it's a G5.
Second if Microsoft had released a "security update" that killed a computer and made it unbootable, slashdot would be up in arms. But it's okay for Apple? No problemo? A-okay? Double standard.
>>>I'm convinced that Comcast's package will include optimized delivery for NBC sites and content
"If you watch videos elsewhere, it will count towards your 250 GB limit, but videos watched on nbc.com, nsnbc.com, cnbc.com, bravo.com, usa.com, and other NBC or Comcast-owned sites will not be counted." - Future comcast update to their TOS