What convictions? He got detained for no good reason without ever spreading his message. This article doesn't even tell us what group he was half-assedly representing. How does that help their cause in any way? How does this do anything but waste a police officer's time? If people protest the way it should be done, the police aren't worried about the lives of themselves and random passers by. This means more police can be dedicated to preventing crime like rape and murder, as someone else pointed out. Proper protesting gets news coverage and more people learn about the issue at hand. The movement gets larger and there are results. This is stupidity.
Exactly. I went through the same phase about 6 years ago, when I was a teenager. Now that I look back on that time (ah, the sweet nostalgia), I think, What the hell was I doing? Did I accomplish anything? And the answer to that, of course, is not much. Those were some pretty wasted times, much like this unfortunate person's week (end?) was also.
Now the states are going to tear a big chunk out of their money. It feels good, doesn't it? When I first read it, I thought "Yeah! Take that you greedy bastards!"
But it won't help. Well, maybe the states will use the money for something good, but don't expect the record companies to improve. As it was, they would charge the stores $10 and demand that the stores charge $16 or so. Now, they'll just charge the stores $12. The stores will be forced to charge $16 or more in order to keep afloat, and the record companies will use that extra $2 to recoup their losses from the states' suit.
So you hold which high ranking, policy making position in which record label/RIAA?
Yes, but when enough users implement this feature that a signifigant amount of spam never makes it to the user, the spammers will either catch on (ideal) or use some new trick to get their spam through (probable). But maybe when they realize that they are wasting the effort for nothing, after all, it does take effort to open ISP accounts compose the message and get the transfer going, they'll slow the tide of spam.
Unless your school blocks every port, thus rendering you S.O.L. (ahem, Stetson University). Apparently all the English and Art History majors decided to turn on file sharing on their Windows 95 machines and they had some trouble. Simple solution: block everything. (Doh)
A friend of mind has an Odyssey. We drag it out every once in a while. Too bad we have to tape a pillow over the speaker so it won't wake up the other people.
Well, in the Cayman Islands, they have a government run monopoly on telecommunications. It's called Cayman Islands Cable and Wireless. They only run metered internet connections on top of metered local telephone calls. Not only that, since there isn't much of a source of fresh water, they have to pay some outrageous fee per cubic meter of water. Comething like 9 Cayman Dollars (at a rate of about 1.25 cayman dollars per US dollar). Of course, what do you expect when the entire country's government consists of a 15 man oligarchy.
>You want an example? Teenage males are the worst drivers according to insurance records. They make >stupid decisions. Even when they've been trained on the correct actions (read safe).
Well, teenage drivers have had somewhere from 0 to 3 years experience. Teenage lifers have had somewhere from 13 to 18 years experience.
Getting in a car accident on my 16th birthday is like getting myself killed on the day I was born. It is not like getting myself killed on my 16th birthday. Vague, eh?
>You want an example? Teenage males are the worst drivers according to insurance records. They >make stupid decisions. Even when they've been trained on the correct actions (read safe). Well, teenage drivers have had somewhere from 0 to 3 years experience. Teenage lifers have had somewhere from 13 to 18 years experience. Getting in a car accident on my 16th birthday is like getting myself killed on the day I was born. It is not like getting myself killed on my 16th birthday. Vague, eh? --Hunter Pankey
>Its much more comfortable to watch a movie while laying on the couch then it is sitting at my computer desk. You ought to put the Lay-Z-Boy in front of the computer. You're close enough to the screen when reclined that the perspective is the same size as the TV from across the room. --Hunter Pankey
>Why should parents be required to stay with their children in an adult movie? Because if a parent intends >to allow their child to be exposed to such material, he/she should be there to see exactly what the child is seeing
This overlooks a couple of possibilities. Perhaps the parent already has enough knowlege about the film that it is not necessary to experience all of the movie. Of course, it is to the theatre's gain to make the parent spend another $6.00-9.00 just to accompany their child. Another possibility is that the parent has already seen the movie and directs eir child to watch.
Instead of defining a term to replace old technology, why don't we remove the stigma associated with "old". Old is technically the right word; UNIX did happen in the late 60s.
Perhaps the Larry Niven novel you're referring to is The Ringworld Engineers with the large night creating panels strung together with the unbreakable wires that can cut through...at least their ship.
>One could argue that there has to be a critical amount of wanted data in an encrypted format before an >effort to crack that format will be undertaken.
>There isn't enough compeling, proprietary data in DIVX format to warrant a cracking effort.
I think that this is exact mentality of the recording industry; we won't release records and sign bands unless we can be guaranteed a certain amount of sales/income.
I may not be able to speak for others here, but I have done things like this just as a test of my abilities, just to see if I can. Granted, I haven't done something of this scale, but I tend to overlook the lack of critical return on my work. I think that it is the geek mentality to do stuff to see if it can be done.
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Exactly. I went through the same phase about 6 years ago, when I was a teenager. Now that I look back on that time (ah, the sweet nostalgia), I think, What the hell was I doing? Did I accomplish anything? And the answer to that, of course, is not much. Those were some pretty wasted times, much like this unfortunate person's week (end?) was also.
--Xantho
So you hold which high ranking, policy making position in which record label/RIAA?
Oh wait, nevermind, that was just speculation.
--Xantho
Yes, but when enough users implement this feature that a signifigant amount of spam never makes it to the user, the spammers will either catch on (ideal) or use some new trick to get their spam through (probable). But maybe when they realize that they are wasting the effort for nothing, after all, it does take effort to open ISP accounts compose the message and get the transfer going, they'll slow the tide of spam.
Or, perhaps, where did Media Metrix get their stats?
Unless your school blocks every port, thus rendering you S.O.L. (ahem, Stetson University). Apparently all the English and Art History majors decided to turn on file sharing on their Windows 95 machines and they had some trouble. Simple solution: block everything. (Doh)
--Hunter Pankey
--Hunter Pankey
--Hunter
"Stabbings and shootings in the media,
Gratuitous Violence...Panda"
Sorry if the intent isn't clear...it's to the tune of the S.H. Panda theme song.
--Hunter Pankey
That sounds a little Microsoftish. Not the ignore you part, the we control everything and well kill you if you don't like it part.
--Hunter Pankey
I love the marbles in my mouth part...it had me rolling.
--Hunter Pankey
>You want an example? Teenage males are the worst drivers according to insurance records. They make >stupid decisions. Even when they've been trained on the correct actions (read safe).
Well, teenage drivers have had somewhere from 0 to 3 years experience. Teenage lifers have had somewhere from 13 to 18 years experience.
Getting in a car accident on my 16th birthday is like getting myself killed on the day I was born. It is not like getting myself killed on my 16th birthday. Vague, eh?
--Hunter Pankey
>You want an example? Teenage males are the worst drivers according to insurance records. They >make stupid decisions. Even when they've been trained on the correct actions (read safe). Well, teenage drivers have had somewhere from 0 to 3 years experience. Teenage lifers have had somewhere from 13 to 18 years experience. Getting in a car accident on my 16th birthday is like getting myself killed on the day I was born. It is not like getting myself killed on my 16th birthday. Vague, eh? --Hunter Pankey
>Its much more comfortable to watch a movie while laying on the couch then it is sitting at my computer desk. You ought to put the Lay-Z-Boy in front of the computer. You're close enough to the screen when reclined that the perspective is the same size as the TV from across the room. --Hunter Pankey
>Why should parents be required to stay with their children in an adult movie? Because if a parent intends >to allow their child to be exposed to such material, he/she should be there to see exactly what the child is seeing
This overlooks a couple of possibilities. Perhaps the parent already has enough knowlege about the film that it is not necessary to experience all of the movie. Of course, it is to the theatre's gain to make the parent spend another $6.00-9.00 just to accompany their child. Another possibility is that the parent has already seen the movie and directs eir child to watch.
--Hunter Pankey
Instead of defining a term to replace old technology, why don't we remove the stigma associated with "old". Old is technically the right word; UNIX did happen in the late 60s.
--Hunter Pankey
Perhaps the Larry Niven novel you're referring to is The Ringworld Engineers with the large night creating panels strung together with the unbreakable wires that can cut through...at least their ship.
--Hunter Pankey
So I can't go to, say ftp.cdrom.com and download a complete distribution of Linux without paying for it?
>One could argue that there has to be a critical amount of wanted data in an encrypted format before an >effort to crack that format will be undertaken.
>There isn't enough compeling, proprietary data in DIVX format to warrant a cracking effort.
I think that this is exact mentality of the recording industry; we won't release records and sign bands unless we can be guaranteed a certain amount of sales/income.
I may not be able to speak for others here, but I have done things like this just as a test of my abilities, just to see if I can. Granted, I haven't done something of this scale, but I tend to overlook the lack of critical return on my work. I think that it is the geek mentality to do stuff to see if it can be done.
--Xantho
xantho@iname.com
Are you unable to grok the humor that was obviously part of that statement? Open up a little.