So, you should ask yourself, why did the author of those words go to the trouble, in three separate ways, of self-justifying the existence and use of Carnivore? Really, think about it.
I really thought about it and realized that it's because people don't trust carnivore and it's legality is constantly questioned by people (like you) who don't know what it really is. When people keep claiming that what you're doing is illegal, you feel obligate to be clear in explaining that it's not (whether this is really true or not).
You seem to miss the point of school entirely, which is pretty sad. When a professor asks you to write an essay about X, it's not because he truly needs an essay about X for his own personal reasons. If that were true, then of course providing him an old one you had written, or one someone else had written that you had their permission to use, would be fine. But the point is that you learn from the process of creating it. Handing in an essay you wrote in high school won't teach you anything, even if it fits the assignment. Writing a new and different essay that also fits the assignment, using the skills you developed from writing the first one, will. And that's why teachers assign you work in the first place. You can pretend that it's not and the reason is just to get something that fills the assignemnt, like someone in the real world needing a piece of code, but I doubt that you really believe that.
How would you see this happen? Do you expect that you would go in and buy a used cd and actually watch the prices on new cd's change in response to your purchase?
With college application essays, everyone uses the same essay for all their applications (with a few adjustments).
Agreed. But once you're actually in college, reusing something you've written before (even from high school) for a class assignment is completely unacceptable and would get you in serious trouble if you were caught (which you wouldn't be).
There's also a legal advantage to the individual in that even if the RIAA/MPAA/etc. found me sharing/downloading, they're at most going to catch me with an album or three as opposed to every MP3 on my hard drive
How would finding you downloading an mp3 on kazaa reveal every mp3 on your hard drive? Maybe if you had them all shared, but that's the same as if you had a web site set up with links to bittorrents of every album you own.
When you buy used cd's, you increase the demand for them, which increases the price that can be charged for used cd's. This increases the amount that people can get for selling their cd's to used music stores. People will be willing to pay more for new cd's if they can get more for them when they sell them, so those prices will go up too, and more money will go to music companies.
I'm not saying you shouldn't buy used cd's. I don't even see anything wrong with buying new cd's: music is good for you and listening to the music you enjoy is more important than trying to feel cool by sticking it to the man, or whatever. I just don't like the idea that you can buy cd's, used or not, and pretend that you are not supporting the people who make them.
drug use isnt exactly what you call healthy That's a pretty big generalization. If someone has some sort of fatal condition that they are treating with a medication, that's "unhealthy"? What if someone has a drug to keep their high blood pressure under control? What about having a small amount of wine everyday, which is also good for you? Or marijuana, good for you also in many ways? How about depressed people who can lead normal lives through use of antidepressents and would otherwise be suicidal. Have they also harmed their "Life"?
So what really happened? I like k5 and read the stories there sometimes, but not all the time. As a result, I guess I missed this saga, and this is the first I'm hearing of it. I'd like to hear your side of the story. What really happened?
It works very well as a preview system, allowing people to watch films for free Eh? How are movie channels free? Is the argument here that rather than stealining movies online, we should use illegal cable? That doesn't seem to move things forward at all. I guess in some areas you might get some channels well for free (but with commercials) via antenna, but thsoe hardly show enough movies to work as a preview system.
I don't have a gamecube yet, for now this is just out of curiousity: for progressive scan gamecube games, do you need to set an option somewhere to put them in progressive scan mode, or do they automatically use 480p if your tv supports it? I guess I'm going to find out the answer for ps2 since I got Jak 2 and Prince of Persia for Christmas, and Jak2 claims to support progressive scan.
It only redirects if the address seems like it contains illegal caracters (and thus tries to spoof the address), not for all webpages accessed
I'd also mention the fact that if their server was getting hit every time everyone using this software tried to go to any url, that would almost certainly be more than the server could handle. It would also mean that any outage on the part of their server would stop everyone using this patch from browsing the web. And browsing would become slower because you'd have to wait for their server to check every url.
I can't just add it in there, since my sig is past the max allowable length already (don't ask).
Here's my compromise for you: I'm heeding your warning about not clicking on the link, but not about not asking about your sig: How did you get a sig that's past the max allowable length?
and encryption isn't, to coin the phrase, like a hand grenade;
Believe me, you didn't just coin the phrase "like a hand grenade" to refer to something for which close is good enough, although I'm impressed that you have the audacity to pretend that you did. Or have you really just never heard that phrase before? I want to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that that's the case, but find it hard to believe.
Boy are you hypocritical. You criticize people who want to use mp3 instead of ogg because the "sound quality is worse" and then you also criticize people who want to use flac instead of ogg because "you can't hear the difference anyway".
Maybe the people who like mp3 instead of ogg can't hear the difference between the too, even if you can. Maybe the people who like flac instead of ogg can hear the difference, even if you can't.
There is nothing that encourages lawbreaking like feeling ripped off and "deserving" compensation
But what percentage of people who go buy blank media/ mp3 players/ whatever are going to know that part of the price is this tax? Because the ones who don't aren't going to feel ripped off and exhibit this behavior.
It's be easy enough to enact duel speed limits for vehicles over and under (say) 10,000 lbs.
There are places in the US where the "truck" speed limit is different than the regular speed limit, and both are posted one on top of another on the highway signs. I suppose differentiating by weight isn't technically the same as by whether you "are a truck", but in practice they mean the same thing.
I argue that because we do not/ cannot exercise government through our representatives (I haven't had a government official give me anything more than a canned response to my letters at best. They bring their own agenda to the table) that we are a republic
Who are you arguing with? No one said that we're not a republic.
Machines just do what they are programmed to do without regard to individual circumstance, and without being able to offer any assistance in true emergencies (like rushing someone to the hospital).
"Without regard to individual circumstance" can also mean fairly and without bias. You're not more likely to get pulled over for speeding because you're black, or because you drive a fancy sports car. If you go over the speed limit, you get a ticket.
The solution to bad laws (like low speed limits) is to get rid of them, not to keep them on the books and enforce them capriciously.
This is only true in a case with two competitors. In a three- or more way competition, making one particular competitor look worse is not "really the same exact thing" as making yourself look better.
Because it's not the first words than anyone has ever written in any context. For example, a first post that repeats what's in a story writeup or article can be redundant. Or just one repeats things that have already been said a million times and don't need to be said again.
No one is putting a gun to the heads of Rockstar games to make this change
Yes, that's the point. If they were having guns put to their heads and being forced to make this change (and would be put that passed the haitians, really?), then this would be acceptable.
And really, it's not that out of context of a statement, as there is an unfortunate and very strong anti-Hatian sentiment in South Florida that I have personally witnessed as have many who live down there.
Rightly or wrongly, this is why people are offended by it. It's when things veer close to the truth that they offend people. The cop-killing seems a little more like pure fantasy. People aren't afraid that a typical gamer is going to go out and kill cops, but they are worried that they might harbor racist sentiments.
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I really thought about it and realized that it's because people don't trust carnivore and it's legality is constantly questioned by people (like you) who don't know what it really is. When people keep claiming that what you're doing is illegal, you feel obligate to be clear in explaining that it's not (whether this is really true or not).
You seem to miss the point of school entirely, which is pretty sad. When a professor asks you to write an essay about X, it's not because he truly needs an essay about X for his own personal reasons. If that were true, then of course providing him an old one you had written, or one someone else had written that you had their permission to use, would be fine. But the point is that you learn from the process of creating it. Handing in an essay you wrote in high school won't teach you anything, even if it fits the assignment. Writing a new and different essay that also fits the assignment, using the skills you developed from writing the first one, will. And that's why teachers assign you work in the first place. You can pretend that it's not and the reason is just to get something that fills the assignemnt, like someone in the real world needing a piece of code, but I doubt that you really believe that.
How would you see this happen? Do you expect that you would go in and buy a used cd and actually watch the prices on new cd's change in response to your purchase?
Agreed. But once you're actually in college, reusing something you've written before (even from high school) for a class assignment is completely unacceptable and would get you in serious trouble if you were caught (which you wouldn't be).
How would finding you downloading an mp3 on kazaa reveal every mp3 on your hard drive? Maybe if you had them all shared, but that's the same as if you had a web site set up with links to bittorrents of every album you own.
When you buy used cd's, you increase the demand for them, which increases the price that can be charged for used cd's. This increases the amount that people can get for selling their cd's to used music stores. People will be willing to pay more for new cd's if they can get more for them when they sell them, so those prices will go up too, and more money will go to music companies.
I'm not saying you shouldn't buy used cd's. I don't even see anything wrong with buying new cd's: music is good for you and listening to the music you enjoy is more important than trying to feel cool by sticking it to the man, or whatever. I just don't like the idea that you can buy cd's, used or not, and pretend that you are not supporting the people who make them.
drug use isnt exactly what you call healthy
That's a pretty big generalization. If someone has some sort of fatal condition that they are treating with a medication, that's "unhealthy"? What if someone has a drug to keep their high blood pressure under control? What about having a small amount of wine everyday, which is also good for you? Or marijuana, good for you also in many ways? How about depressed people who can lead normal lives through use of antidepressents and would otherwise be suicidal. Have they also harmed their "Life"?
So what really happened? I like k5 and read the stories there sometimes, but not all the time. As a result, I guess I missed this saga, and this is the first I'm hearing of it. I'd like to hear your side of the story. What really happened?
It works very well as a preview system, allowing people to watch films for free
Eh? How are movie channels free? Is the argument here that rather than stealining movies online, we should use illegal cable? That doesn't seem to move things forward at all. I guess in some areas you might get some channels well for free (but with commercials) via antenna, but thsoe hardly show enough movies to work as a preview system.
I don't have a gamecube yet, for now this is just out of curiousity: for progressive scan gamecube games, do you need to set an option somewhere to put them in progressive scan mode, or do they automatically use 480p if your tv supports it? I guess I'm going to find out the answer for ps2 since I got Jak 2 and Prince of Persia for Christmas, and Jak2 claims to support progressive scan.
I'd also mention the fact that if their server was getting hit every time everyone using this software tried to go to any url, that would almost certainly be more than the server could handle. It would also mean that any outage on the part of their server would stop everyone using this patch from browsing the web. And browsing would become slower because you'd have to wait for their server to check every url.
Here's my compromise for you: I'm heeding your warning about not clicking on the link, but not about not asking about your sig: How did you get a sig that's past the max allowable length?
If I could find a nice looking bumper sticker with this phrase, I would certainly put it on my car.
Believe me, you didn't just coin the phrase "like a hand grenade" to refer to something for which close is good enough, although I'm impressed that you have the audacity to pretend that you did. Or have you really just never heard that phrase before? I want to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that that's the case, but find it hard to believe.
Boy are you hypocritical. You criticize people who want to use mp3 instead of ogg because the "sound quality is worse" and then you also criticize people who want to use flac instead of ogg because "you can't hear the difference anyway".
Maybe the people who like mp3 instead of ogg can't hear the difference between the too, even if you can. Maybe the people who like flac instead of ogg can hear the difference, even if you can't.
This already happens in that commercial music would be cheaper if everyone bought their own copy rather than copying other people's.
But what percentage of people who go buy blank media/ mp3 players/ whatever are going to know that part of the price is this tax? Because the ones who don't aren't going to feel ripped off and exhibit this behavior.
There are places in the US where the "truck" speed limit is different than the regular speed limit, and both are posted one on top of another on the highway signs. I suppose differentiating by weight isn't technically the same as by whether you "are a truck", but in practice they mean the same thing.
Who are you arguing with? No one said that we're not a republic.
"Without regard to individual circumstance" can also mean fairly and without bias. You're not more likely to get pulled over for speeding because you're black, or because you drive a fancy sports car. If you go over the speed limit, you get a ticket.
The solution to bad laws (like low speed limits) is to get rid of them, not to keep them on the books and enforce them capriciously.
This is only true in a case with two competitors. In a three- or more way competition, making one particular competitor look worse is not "really the same exact thing" as making yourself look better.
And there aren't only two OS's in the world.
Because it's not the first words than anyone has ever written in any context. For example, a first post that repeats what's in a story writeup or article can be redundant. Or just one repeats things that have already been said a million times and don't need to be said again.
What number of players works best for this?
(now I wait until 20 second passes...)
Yes, that's the point. If they were having guns put to their heads and being forced to make this change (and would be put that passed the haitians, really?), then this would be acceptable.
Rightly or wrongly, this is why people are offended by it. It's when things veer close to the truth that they offend people. The cop-killing seems a little more like pure fantasy. People aren't afraid that a typical gamer is going to go out and kill cops, but they are worried that they might harbor racist sentiments.