In my opinion there is a better article about this by Reuven M. Lerner in Issue 84 of Linux Journal. It may be worth the time to find a freind who has the issue.
I can see myself being Sean's position. The _last_ thing I wanted to do was get my parents involved in anything!
The best thing I did for myself in High School was standing up for myself. I was slapped, had things stolen, got pushed around (for a while), and every other horror you can imagine.
What I finally did to curtail this was to fight back, but not in a physical way. You have to be smart about it. Befreind teachers and do things in there sight. That way things can't escalate too much. By my 2nd year in high school I was able to call jocks morons in plain sight of teachers and have them tell the bully off. It was pretty nice. Also taking objects of said bully and throwing them somewhere across the classroom descretely can be a good way to get them off your back and have the teacher tell said bully to settle down.
Play it smart and the harrassment will be lessoned. Don't blame the father for this, how could he have known if nothing was said?
Hopefully this case will grab the attention of some lawyers to stop spamming.
I was walking in Darwin Hall this afternoon and saw something that disturbed me. Some company was looking for somebody with a large # of Northern CA University e-mail address to basically spam the list to tell about a yoga class. How this got to be a good idea, I don't know. Maybe they figure the people will need yoga after the stress of spam. I thought flyers were meant to alert people to this kind of class.
How this got to be "acceptable" I don't know. I am certainly not going to take the offer. If by any chance I do get a spam about yoga I will sure as hell try to sue.
Pirating may be illegal, but I do not think that makes it wrong.
Movie prices are horrendous now. $8.00+ to see a movie here. Most often that $8 is used to see two hours of shit that the movie conglomerates pump out because they know people will pay to see a movie they have not seen before. I don't believe huge profits justifies mediocrity. Before anybody says "well you paid to see it" let me just say that I paid to see a movie. I did not pay to see a load of shit displayed before my eyes. There are very few decent movies around now, and that means odds are you are going to see a bad one. Take notice of how most of the movies pirated are new releases, not old films. I think this speaks for itself.
If pirating movies is the only way to get the movie companies to stop releasing shit, so be it.
Yet some do. I don 't know who would want to listen to their hometown station when they can already listen to them in their car. They get old VERY fast.
Internet broadcasting is bringing real choice to the people (at least those who have the net). Radio ratings will be highest for the stations that do their format the best. This means keeping it interesting. The traditional radio that is being streamed over the net will not work. It can't. Stations that are Internet only are already taking the traditional stations to task.
This is really no great loss. Not many people would want to listen to the same songs on a different station. If nothing else I hope people will check out a new, net only station and see that they are better. There are no broadcasting rules to hold them back, and with any luck it will stay that way.
Same reason you pay for newspapers/magazines/etc. The advertising subsidizes it. IOW, if the ads weren't there, it'd cost a lot more. For example, without advertising, your average newspaper would cost around $5 (rough estimate). But add in ads and you get a 90% discount.
You only really use a newspaper for one day, and it comes out daily. Nobody is going to pay $35 a week for the newspaper when they could use the Internet or TV to get their news.
Games are another story. You pay for them and have them basically till you no longer want them. I don't know how many ads they plan on squeezing in a game, but even if it results in a $10 price drop I doubt the consumers will see any difference in game prices. The companies already know people are paying for the games. Why change the price when people are already paying it?
The FCC is totally ignorant on this. It is like police giving kids matches and then fining them for arson when they burn something down.
The FCC is fining all the big money people for a reason. The radio personalities get their listeners by being lewd and pushing the envelope. Why do they want to get all the listeners? It's big money for the corporations who own the stations.
If radio and TV were truly a public service like they should be this would not even be much of a problem. As it is, by allowing corporations to rake in profits from the stations they own, the FCC is in fact causing the problem it is fining.
If I were to commit a crime in Britan, I would just make damn sure to take care and wear something black and make it hard to be indentified. How is a camera gonna stop that?
They wouldn't be trying to sucker you if you didn't have money. Don't flatter yourself by thinking companies are truly interested in anything but your money.
I just finished grading about 300 written CS101 tests (I got a job as the grader) and I noticed a couple of things (the test was on Macinstosh stuff):
1. Only about 10% of the people put answers down as keyboard shortcuts, the rest used the menus.
2. Only 2 people put things about extra security in. 25% didn't even know how to permenantly delete a file.
IMNSHO this means that menus are useful to most new users. They don't take up much screen realestate and tend to be used. The security features of Linux could also be a hinderence...
This is more than likely a old piece from the days when comic books were being banned and burned. The comics they are probably trying to block are the old EC comics from the '50's. They are great if you can find reprints of them. If you are interested in learning more about this do a little research on the Comics Code.
Being in college right now (in California) I can't imagine more than 1 or 2 out of the hundred's of people I know would live in Utah with their liqour laws. When I was there I had a horrible experience with the alcohol. I got a 6 pack of Heineken to drink away my miseries while there (it was hot, dry, and people looked at me funny for wearing a Fear Factory shirt). I started in on it, and thought something was wrong because I couldn't chug the beer like I could a month earlier! Turns out the beer they sell is only 3% alcohol by volume. This means if a 6 pack could get you drunk, you would need to spend twice as much money and drink twice as much. It really sucks. Not to mention that the beer is like carbonated water at that point.
My advice if you want to have an occasional beer: stay out of Utah, or go to a bar there.
"The Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA) is a trade association whose member record companies produce, manufacture and
distribute approximately ninety (90) percent of all legitimate sound recordings sold in the United States."
Uh, doesn't that constitute a monopoly? Maybe the DOJ should look into the RIAA. Not only do they state the 90%, but they seem to be boasting.
Don't forget to check out Bill Kendrick's wonderfull rendition of this game called Circus Linux. You can find it at New Breed Software along with a slew of other great games.
No, I am not spamming, I just happen to think his games are great.
I think this is part of a larger problem. If you read the story (you should, it's pretty short) you would know that the military is involved in this. Why does that not surprise me? It seems like every major advancement must come for the government or corporations, while the people must wait years before they get any real benefit.
Growing industrial hemp would benefit the people of the United States more than it would the government (at least initially), but yet it is illegal. Why is this? Does it have to do with locating marijuana more effectively, or would it just not benefit the government quick enough? I think it is silly for the government to spend any more money on war while there are many things that could be done for the people of our country. Sure, it may trickle down to the common folk, but after how many of our tax dollars are spent?
Just out of curiosity I wonder what would happen if somebody ingested this goat milk...
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On the other hand, one of those cosmic rays could zap one of us just right and randomly cause any given mutation "naturally". Does that make it OK?
Dude, you have been reading way too many comic books lately. Let me guess, your real name is Reed Richards and you belong to a Super Hero team knowns as the Fantistic Four.
I too use Linux instead of BSD. There are a few reasons I do this. The first is the ease of securely maintaining my box on my limited schedule. I will fiddle with BSD sometime in the near future again, but for now I just needed to get what I needed to do done. The second is the documentation that Linux has. From what I have seen it is much more extensive than what I found when looking for BSD related info. Third is that I do many different things on my Linux Box. Networking, graphics, web page design, a few games, papers for school, e-mail, and web surfing are all handled by Linux for me. To make the switch to BSD on my main box would be silly and time consuming. I still look foward to BSD, but until I get more time to put it on my 586 it just ain't gonna happen.
I agree with all of what you said except for one thing. You mention all the applications you use, and how yolu wouldn't switch because you are comfortable with them. At the same time you are talking about how you didn't have enough money for a Mac. It seems to me that you are either pirating your apps or shelling out a lot of money for them.
I used to pirate Winders software, but it is a total waste of time. Almost every app I used to use in Winders has been replaced by a free Linux app. And that is good. No more scurrying around for a patch or crack, just go to the official website and update -free!
I think you should give Linux another try and make the effort to learn the few copy commands that work across programs. And don't forget there are websites that can help you more than your 1 Linux using freind. I believe you would save a lot of time or money with Linux.
What's with the IE hate? Could it be they have no care for standards save their own? Could it be that if more people start using IE just because it's fast that the Linux/BeOS/etc and eventually Mac communities could be left without a browser? Or could it just be some of us like the fact that we can view the source code to our browser to know what is _truly_ going on?
I really don't know what is wrong with people who don't use IE. We must be idiots.
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In my opinion there is a better article about this by Reuven M. Lerner in Issue 84 of Linux Journal. It may be worth the time to find a freind who has the issue.
I can see myself being Sean's position. The _last_ thing I wanted to do was get my parents involved in anything!
The best thing I did for myself in High School was standing up for myself. I was slapped, had things stolen, got pushed around (for a while), and every other horror you can imagine.
What I finally did to curtail this was to fight back, but not in a physical way. You have to be smart about it. Befreind teachers and do things in there sight. That way things can't escalate too much. By my 2nd year in high school I was able to call jocks morons in plain sight of teachers and have them tell the bully off. It was pretty nice. Also taking objects of said bully and throwing them somewhere across the classroom descretely can be a good way to get them off your back and have the teacher tell said bully to settle down.
Play it smart and the harrassment will be lessoned. Don't blame the father for this, how could he have known if nothing was said?
In the future we _will_ be able to go back in time! My Linux Box says so! Check it out:
[jebediah@Tabernacle jebediah]$ perl -MPOSIX -le 'print ctime(999999999)'
Sat Sep 8 18:46:39 2001
[jebediah@Tabernacle jebediah]$ perl -MPOSIX -le 'print ctime(1000000000)'
Sat Sep 8 18:46:40 2001
[jebediah@Tabernacle jebediah]$ perl -MPOSIX -le 'print ctime(2000000000)'
Tue May 17 20:33:20 2033
[jebediah@Tabernacle jebediah]$ perl -MPOSIX -le 'print ctime(3000000000)'
Fri Dec 13 12:45:52 1901
I urge anybody who wants to go back to a simpler time to start using Linux and to grasp there compuret tightly when the sacred time comes around!
Hopefully this case will grab the attention of some lawyers to stop spamming.
I was walking in Darwin Hall this afternoon and saw something that disturbed me. Some company was looking for somebody with a large # of Northern CA University e-mail address to basically spam the list to tell about a yoga class. How this got to be a good idea, I don't know. Maybe they figure the people will need yoga after the stress of spam. I thought flyers were meant to alert people to this kind of class.
How this got to be "acceptable" I don't know. I am certainly not going to take the offer. If by any chance I do get a spam about yoga I will sure as hell try to sue.
Pirating may be illegal, but I do not think that makes it wrong.
Movie prices are horrendous now. $8.00+ to see a movie here. Most often that $8 is used to see two hours of shit that the movie conglomerates pump out because they know people will pay to see a movie they have not seen before. I don't believe huge profits justifies mediocrity. Before anybody says "well you paid to see it" let me just say that I paid to see a movie. I did not pay to see a load of shit displayed before my eyes. There are very few decent movies around now, and that means odds are you are going to see a bad one. Take notice of how most of the movies pirated are new releases, not old films. I think this speaks for itself.
If pirating movies is the only way to get the movie companies to stop releasing shit, so be it.
Yet some do. I don 't know who would want to listen to their hometown station when they can already listen to them in their car. They get old VERY fast.
Internet broadcasting is bringing real choice to the people (at least those who have the net). Radio ratings will be highest for the stations that do their format the best. This means keeping it interesting. The traditional radio that is being streamed over the net will not work. It can't. Stations that are Internet only are already taking the traditional stations to task.
This is really no great loss. Not many people would want to listen to the same songs on a different station. If nothing else I hope people will check out a new, net only station and see that they are better. There are no broadcasting rules to hold them back, and with any luck it will stay that way.
Same reason you pay for newspapers/magazines/etc. The advertising subsidizes it. IOW, if the ads weren't there, it'd cost a lot more. For example, without advertising, your average newspaper would cost around $5 (rough estimate). But add in ads and you get a 90% discount.
You only really use a newspaper for one day, and it comes out daily. Nobody is going to pay $35 a week for the newspaper when they could use the Internet or TV to get their news.
Games are another story. You pay for them and have them basically till you no longer want them. I don't know how many ads they plan on squeezing in a game, but even if it results in a $10 price drop I doubt the consumers will see any difference in game prices. The companies already know people are paying for the games. Why change the price when people are already paying it?
The FCC is totally ignorant on this. It is like police giving kids matches and then fining them for arson when they burn something down.
The FCC is fining all the big money people for a reason. The radio personalities get their listeners by being lewd and pushing the envelope. Why do they want to get all the listeners? It's big money for the corporations who own the stations.
If radio and TV were truly a public service like they should be this would not even be much of a problem. As it is, by allowing corporations to rake in profits from the stations they own, the FCC is in fact causing the problem it is fining.
If I were to commit a crime in Britan, I would just make damn sure to take care and wear something black and make it hard to be indentified. How is a camera gonna stop that?
All you need to do is make them think that you know French. Say something that sounds like french and mumble it softly. Gets them everytime.
They wouldn't be trying to sucker you if you didn't have money. Don't flatter yourself by thinking companies are truly interested in anything but your money.
I just finished grading about 300 written CS101 tests (I got a job as the grader) and I noticed a couple of things (the test was on Macinstosh stuff):
1. Only about 10% of the people put answers down as keyboard shortcuts, the rest used the menus.
2. Only 2 people put things about extra security in. 25% didn't even know how to permenantly delete a file.
IMNSHO this means that menus are useful to most new users. They don't take up much screen realestate and tend to be used. The security features of Linux could also be a hinderence...
Just throwing some observations out there.
This is more than likely a old piece from the days when comic books were being banned and burned. The comics they are probably trying to block are the old EC comics from the '50's. They are great if you can find reprints of them. If you are interested in learning more about this do a little research on the Comics Code.
That would explain the number of liqour stores in Minnesota, and also why nobody buys beer at the grocery store.
Being in college right now (in California) I can't imagine more than 1 or 2 out of the hundred's of people I know would live in Utah with their liqour laws. When I was there I had a horrible experience with the alcohol. I got a 6 pack of Heineken to drink away my miseries while there (it was hot, dry, and people looked at me funny for wearing a Fear Factory shirt). I started in on it, and thought something was wrong because I couldn't chug the beer like I could a month earlier! Turns out the beer they sell is only 3% alcohol by volume. This means if a 6 pack could get you drunk, you would need to spend twice as much money and drink twice as much. It really sucks. Not to mention that the beer is like carbonated water at that point.
My advice if you want to have an occasional beer: stay out of Utah, or go to a bar there.
"The Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA) is a trade association whose member record companies produce, manufacture and
distribute approximately ninety (90) percent of all legitimate sound recordings sold in the United States."
Uh, doesn't that constitute a monopoly? Maybe the DOJ should look into the RIAA. Not only do they state the 90%, but they seem to be boasting.
A CD Coping service! Yes! Just what I need! There is no way I can cope with all my CD's right now.
No, I am not spamming, I just happen to think his games are great.
I think this is part of a larger problem. If you read the story (you should, it's pretty short) you would know that the military is involved in this. Why does that not surprise me? It seems like every major advancement must come for the government or corporations, while the people must wait years before they get any real benefit.
Growing industrial hemp would benefit the people of the United States more than it would the government (at least initially), but yet it is illegal. Why is this? Does it have to do with locating marijuana more effectively, or would it just not benefit the government quick enough? I think it is silly for the government to spend any more money on war while there are many things that could be done for the people of our country. Sure, it may trickle down to the common folk, but after how many of our tax dollars are spent?
Just out of curiosity I wonder what would happen if somebody ingested this goat milk...
Dude, you have been reading way too many comic books lately. Let me guess, your real name is Reed Richards and you belong to a Super Hero team knowns as the Fantistic Four.
I too use Linux instead of BSD. There are a few reasons I do this. The first is the ease of securely maintaining my box on my limited schedule. I will fiddle with BSD sometime in the near future again, but for now I just needed to get what I needed to do done. The second is the documentation that Linux has. From what I have seen it is much more extensive than what I found when looking for BSD related info. Third is that I do many different things on my Linux Box. Networking, graphics, web page design, a few games, papers for school, e-mail, and web surfing are all handled by Linux for me. To make the switch to BSD on my main box would be silly and time consuming. I still look foward to BSD, but until I get more time to put it on my 586 it just ain't gonna happen.
I agree with all of what you said except for one thing. You mention all the applications you use, and how yolu wouldn't switch because you are comfortable with them. At the same time you are talking about how you didn't have enough money for a Mac. It seems to me that you are either pirating your apps or shelling out a lot of money for them.
I used to pirate Winders software, but it is a total waste of time. Almost every app I used to use in Winders has been replaced by a free Linux app. And that is good. No more scurrying around for a patch or crack, just go to the official website and update -free!
I think you should give Linux another try and make the effort to learn the few copy commands that work across programs. And don't forget there are websites that can help you more than your 1 Linux using freind. I believe you would save a lot of time or money with Linux.
From the article: scientists say they plan to clone members of infertile couples.
Great. All we need is more diks in America.
Don't be impatient. At least wait till a couple of thousand people are killed by evil robots before regulating them.
What's with the IE hate? Could it be they have no care for standards save their own? Could it be that if more people start using IE just because it's fast that the Linux/BeOS/etc and eventually Mac communities could be left without a browser? Or could it just be some of us like the fact that we can view the source code to our browser to know what is _truly_ going on?
I really don't know what is wrong with people who don't use IE. We must be idiots.