I agree with you completely. And this isn't the only reason paying per click through is bad. The main reason is it means that if you have bad advertisements that attract less people, you pay less. Why? If my tv ad sucks, I still pay the same amount for the airtime. Why should the web site that runs my ad not make money for the space they sell me because no one wants my product? I have still used space on their page.
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The problem is that all of the decoys would be equally inconvenient for anyone who wanted to find the real decss code so that they could use it watch movies. The whole point was supposed to be that people should be allowed to put this software on the net right? What good is putting it there if no one who wants it can find it, because they search for decss and the first 100 hits are for the other one?
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I think you're right. I was just trying to correct the poster who said that it was a decryption algorihtm and that the mpaa was mad because someone figured out how to "implement" (rather tan undo) it. How correcting the mistake in someone's post who asked to be corrected if he was wrong is "redundant" I'll never know.
Sims is fine until you discover that 99.9% of your time is spent cooking, doing the dishes, showering, going to the bathroom, cleaning up the kitchen, driving to work, etc.
Or maybe that's the point. It would have much "sim" aspect if it wasn't like most people's lives.
The servers are not threaded. Different users are on the different servers. Thats why connecting to a different one (either by using napigator to choose which server you connect to or by disconnecting and reconnecting with the standard napster software) will give you different results when you search. Also, the statistics at the bottom are only for the server your on. I don't know how irc works, so I can't make a comparison.
Last but not least, if napster has 50 million or 100 billion, or whatever many users, how come there are never more than 10 thousand logged on at once?
What?! Where you get the number 10 thousand from? I just logged on before replying and had 8 thousand users on my server along. Given the number of servers they run (blue.napster, popfolk.napster, primus.napster and on and on) that adds up to a hell of a lot more than 1000 people total, given that are 8000 on each one.
Yet again, someone criticizes an article he clearly hasn't read, or attacks straw man arguments no one is making. You say that ISPs cannot "practically monitor newsgroups" themselves. Whose asking them to? What happened here is exactly what you say needs to happen, that "its subscribers point out offending posts and/or groups". And the ISP ignored it. So they got in trouble. Now, you can say that they shouldn't haven't gotten in legal trouble here and I would listen to you, but don't act indigant that someone is requiring isp's to monitor usenet, because no one is.
On the other hand, these are programs that go downloading content by following links on the pages you read. Wouldn't most people who run sites love that? It lets you increase the number of hits you can tell advertisers you get, as well as the click-through rate for ads you run. While these things may not be imprtant for your (non-ad supported) site, for many others that's cash in the bank.
The proof in the long run has been, however, that they are a lot more social with their peers, handle life's challenges more adamently (they don't run away like I did in high school), and generally lead happier lives
You don't provide me with any evidence that the reason the "lead happier lives" is because they were allowed to watch violent media. Why would you possibly think that of all things this must be the cause of any differences between your personality and theirs?
I've seen both although that's really the only anime i've seen other than princess mononoke. honestly, i was really stoned when i saw akira, so i don't remember it that well, but i would say the main difference is that it has more action than ghost in the shell. ghost in the shell is a lot of drawn out plot development and such, which is less of a factor in akira.
So if Australia had a civil war and broke into two countries, would it stop being an island?
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It is "loosely based". In particular, the tv series was about heroin trafficking, whereas the movie is about cocaine. However, the idea and style is similar. At least, that's my understanding.
writing code is the manual labour of tomorrow, and a task that will become automated
Automated? How? By writing a program to do it presumably. And who will do that? The programmers of tommorow of course. And they will will be well paid to do so. Thus it is the programmers of the day after tommorow who will be unnecessary. The programmers of tommorow will do just fine.
Regarding gambling laws: I play poker online at Paradise Pooker. So do a lot of other people I know. It's a virtual cardroom, like the kind you would find in a casino and play is for real money (you can play for play money too if you prefer). I know someone who has made $8000 over the last weeks playing $20/$40 hold 'em there. Anyway, there is a lot of discussion within the poker community about the legality of this. I mention this, because it's status should be the same as that of urbanmercentary.
Recently, a bill was introduced in congress outlawing gambling in any form over the internet. It died in congress. Laws saying the same thing exist in a few states. If you live in one these, urbanmercenary is clearly illegal, even though it is a game of skill (like poker and sports betting). Otherwise, it is very unclear. There is a law prohibitting placing bets over a phone line from somewhere where gambling is illegal and those *may* apply here. Also, I hope urbanmercenary is based overseas like all online poker rooms are.
The main issue with legality as far as these things go is not the gambling itself; you will not be tracked down for gambling online and arrested, Janet Reno's comments this week on 20/20 not withstanding. The issues are that the site may be shut down if it is based in the US (especially since there may be a lot of people playing who are minors) and, more importantly, that if you make a living on it you may have some big tax problems. Casino gambling is different because you can do everything in cash, but here everything you win will get deposited into your bank account, which will be hard to explain to the IRS.
I'm not shocked that Card would model him after Card, at least subconsiously since he reports in this salon article that "My reading of 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' -- when I was 10 -- probably has more to do with my returning to issues of violence [in my books]."
"Latent homosexuality" in Ender's Game seems unlikely since osc is admittedly anti-gay. See the Salon article which says, among other things that he is "disgustingly outspoken homophobe." And where Card is quoted as saying "Gay rights is a collective delusion." Ouch.
The point of banning child pornography isn't that it will turn "normal" people into child molestors. The point is that harmful (emotional or physical) things are done to children for the purpose of creating child pornography. Stopping this direct harm is the goal.
You take the phrase "free as in speech" too literally. Either that or you are misintepreting "as in". The point of the phrase isn't that code is free spech. The point is simply to illustrate that in english, "free" can mean two different things the first is liberty, as expressed in the phrase "free speech". The second is being without cost. When people describe free software as free as in beer, they mean that it is free where the word free is being used with the same conotations as in the phrase free speech: that you have the liberty to do something (in this case, modify the software), not that you don't have to pay. the phrase "free as in speech" is not intended (at least by most people) to indicate that software is "free speech".
I hate to nitpick, but the "Add Office and it's a done deal" comment just makes no sense. If Windows requires it and Office requires windows, what is the relevance of "adding Office"?
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I agree with you completely. And this isn't the only reason paying per click through is bad. The main reason is it means that if you have bad advertisements that attract less people, you pay less. Why? If my tv ad sucks, I still pay the same amount for the airtime. Why should the web site that runs my ad not make money for the space they sell me because no one wants my product? I have still used space on their page.
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The problem is that all of the decoys would be equally inconvenient for anyone who wanted to find the real decss code so that they could use it watch movies. The whole point was supposed to be that people should be allowed to put this software on the net right? What good is putting it there if no one who wants it can find it, because they search for decss and the first 100 hits are for the other one?
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I think you're right. I was just trying to correct the poster who said that it was a decryption algorihtm and that the mpaa was mad because someone figured out how to "implement" (rather tan undo) it. How correcting the mistake in someone's post who asked to be corrected if he was wrong is "redundant" I'll never know.
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The servers are not threaded. Different users are on the different servers. Thats why connecting to a different one (either by using napigator to choose which server you connect to or by disconnecting and reconnecting with the standard napster software) will give you different results when you search. Also, the statistics at the bottom are only for the server your on. I don't know how irc works, so I can't make a comparison.
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What?! Where you get the number 10 thousand from? I just logged on before replying and had 8 thousand users on my server along. Given the number of servers they run (blue.napster, popfolk.napster, primus.napster and on and on) that adds up to a hell of a lot more than 1000 people total, given that are 8000 on each one.
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Yet again, someone criticizes an article he clearly hasn't read, or attacks straw man arguments no one is making. You say that ISPs cannot "practically monitor newsgroups" themselves. Whose asking them to? What happened here is exactly what you say needs to happen, that "its subscribers point out offending posts and/or groups". And the ISP ignored it. So they got in trouble. Now, you can say that they shouldn't haven't gotten in legal trouble here and I would listen to you, but don't act indigant that someone is requiring isp's to monitor usenet, because no one is.
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On the other hand, these are programs that go downloading content by following links on the pages you read. Wouldn't most people who run sites love that? It lets you increase the number of hits you can tell advertisers you get, as well as the click-through rate for ads you run. While these things may not be imprtant for your (non-ad supported) site, for many others that's cash in the bank.
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I've seen both although that's really the only anime i've seen other than princess mononoke. honestly, i was really stoned when i saw akira, so i don't remember it that well, but i would say the main difference is that it has more action than ghost in the shell. ghost in the shell is a lot of drawn out plot development and such, which is less of a factor in akira.
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I wonder if the only reason this was moderated up is that the subject line is so attention getting.
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So if Australia had a civil war and broke into two countries, would it stop being an island?
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It is "loosely based". In particular, the tv series was about heroin trafficking, whereas the movie is about cocaine. However, the idea and style is similar. At least, that's my understanding.
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Automated? How? By writing a program to do it presumably. And who will do that? The programmers of tommorow of course. And they will will be well paid to do so. Thus it is the programmers of the day after tommorow who will be unnecessary. The programmers of tommorow will do just fine.
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How does poking someone's eyes out stop him from telling others where the treasure is?
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Recently, a bill was introduced in congress outlawing gambling in any form over the internet. It died in congress. Laws saying the same thing exist in a few states. If you live in one these, urbanmercenary is clearly illegal, even though it is a game of skill (like poker and sports betting). Otherwise, it is very unclear. There is a law prohibitting placing bets over a phone line from somewhere where gambling is illegal and those *may* apply here. Also, I hope urbanmercenary is based overseas like all online poker rooms are.
The main issue with legality as far as these things go is not the gambling itself; you will not be tracked down for gambling online and arrested, Janet Reno's comments this week on 20/20 not withstanding. The issues are that the site may be shut down if it is based in the US (especially since there may be a lot of people playing who are minors) and, more importantly, that if you make a living on it you may have some big tax problems. Casino gambling is different because you can do everything in cash, but here everything you win will get deposited into your bank account, which will be hard to explain to the IRS.
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But it doesn't mean you're legally exempt from paying tolls.
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I'm not shocked that Card would model him after Card, at least subconsiously since he reports in this salon article that "My reading of 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' -- when I was 10 -- probably has more to do with my returning to issues of violence [in my books]."
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"Latent homosexuality" in Ender's Game seems unlikely since osc is admittedly anti-gay. See the Salon article which says, among other things that he is "disgustingly outspoken homophobe." And where Card is quoted as saying "Gay rights is a collective delusion." Ouch.
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The document about open source only being available in word format is definite irony.
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The point of banning child pornography isn't that it will turn "normal" people into child molestors. The point is that harmful (emotional or physical) things are done to children for the purpose of creating child pornography. Stopping this direct harm is the goal.
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You take the phrase "free as in speech" too literally. Either that or you are misintepreting "as in". The point of the phrase isn't that code is free spech. The point is simply to illustrate that in english, "free" can mean two different things the first is liberty, as expressed in the phrase "free speech". The second is being without cost. When people describe free software as free as in beer, they mean that it is free where the word free is being used with the same conotations as in the phrase free speech: that you have the liberty to do something (in this case, modify the software), not that you don't have to pay. the phrase "free as in speech" is not intended (at least by most people) to indicate that software is "free speech".
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I hate to nitpick, but the "Add Office and it's a done deal" comment just makes no sense. If Windows requires it and Office requires windows, what is the relevance of "adding Office"?
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