Exactly. If Starbucks runs a wireless service inside their building, then they should make sure it doesn't create a problem zone outside their place of business. Same with the free network, i.e. they should work with starbucks to make sure that the coffee shop is a "Starbucks network only" zone, if at all possible.
Why does Starbucks get priority? The other network is there FREE as a PUBLIC SERVICE, plus it was there before the Starbucks (or at least their network). Sounds to me like the city should tell them to limit it to inside their shop or make them shut down.
Before you -1 Redundant I haven't seen this take on the Valenti quote yet, I think it reveals alot about what is *REALLY* going on here, and stands to somewhat prove the "Monopoly, not Piracy" theories kicking around.
Blockquoth the article:
Of course, no article on this topic can go without a mandatory quote from Jack Valenti, who points out: 'It is not legal to make a copy of a DVD now. Everything people are doing legally today, they'll be able to do legally tomorrow'."
So...what are these new laws for again? Basically that means they're spending million of dollars lobbying for...useless laws, in so many words?
If nothing is changing on the grounds of fair use, why are they fighting for all these proprietary DRM systems? Easy. Monopoly.
Establish customer lock-in
Produce mediocre content for pennies a day (?)
Profit, since you are the only game in town.
No WONDER they are backing Palladium, MPAA/RIAA are Microsoft's evil sibblings.
The article itself is irrelevent in one sense; why bother speculating on a space program that didn't happen?
It's about a movie done up using CG and other effects, etc. to make it appear as though it where a documentary from the late 1960s, depicting all sorts of advances in space technology that are at best still science fiction to this day. Basically, a Sci-Fi movie that asks "Imagine how limited space travel is today, and how far we've come since we started. What woudl the opposite extreme have been like?"
Looks rather interesting, I'm not a big Sci-Fi fan but it sparked my interest, most likely because the concept behind the filmmaking approach (the intentionally-fictional authentic documentary style) is new to me.
Hahaha, dont' get me wrong buddy, I wouldn't do it or like it, either. But I'm sure the police have better things to do than arrest my ass for not bringing any Beano with me.
SO because I am sarcastic in nature my point is invalid? Get out of my country you unintelligent tool.
That stupid attitude is exactly why we are going to lose all our rights one day: imbeciles such as yourself are nowhere near mature enough to handle them. Pity.
Did I say I like to fart in restaraunts? No. This example proves apoint: laws based on dictating common manners etc. are one of the very things the United States was formed against (read: designed to prevent). It's exactly that type of control that woudl lead to a totalitarian dictatorship, slowlyt maybe but once that door is opened, it can never be shut. History repeats itself, my friend, and it could repeat here someday. If the fact that I mock points I feel are unintellegent makes me unintellegent and immature myself and therefore worthless, what does that make you, being unwilling to be lighthearted about hypothetical situations, and mocking with a general "bad karma" tone of disgust? (Note: it's nothing good, buddy)
It's no suprise you posted annonymously. *Farts in your general direction*
If I don't want to be bothered at all, i sign off IM services. It's not a required software component on any computer except Windows XP machines.
My cel can be shut off too, and although I didnt make it clear in my last post, I usually turn it off or leave it home. My point is there is no reason to have people like those assholes who dress in cel phone costumes and smash the phones of peopel they see using them runnign around. If it annoys you then, in the words of Don Rickles, "Why don't you go buy a horse, and live in the mountians and dont' bother anybody." And no, it's definately not nice to yak it up in a quiet theatre. But it's also not nice to throw drinks and soda at someone who's phone beeped because their mother was just ruched to the hospital after her house burned down and someone needed them. Now do you understand both angles?
I wouldnt' be bothered by a National ID. Do I have something to hide? I'm sure it wouldnt' be at totalitarian as the possibility allows.
The real tragedy of 9-11 is the House and Senate and State Govts. realized they can do whatever they want and probably still be re-elected.
People, my phone has low ring volume, I can barely hear it in the quiet. It has 1-Beep mode, and it doenst make any more than that. And it has vibrate, which sucks, I can feel an N64 controller with a rumble pak from across the room better than I can feel this damn phone in the palm of my hand. My phone also has a silence feature. If it's ringing and i touch ANY button, it silences itself immidiately. What to do: keep your ring volume low. Keep your phone accessable. As soon as it rings, hit silence. Look to see who it is. If it could posibly be an emergency, take it outside, answer in the isle, if people can't understand that then they are stuck up assholes anyways. If it's not important, for god sake let voicemail get it. I love my phone, and there is a way to co-exists with those who fear these little overgrown walkie talkies.
New driving tests should include cel phone tests. I can dial into my bank hotline, enter my accounts numbers and passcode while I watch the road, not the phone. And since i normally only drive with one hand, i'm fine, I dont' miss a beat. Never caused an accident. Never even came close. If i need two hands, dropping a phone on the floor is a small price to pay for absolute control. That's just it though, I am one of the people who can do that. Some can't, I know a girl who has been through 8 cars in 2 years (!) because of accidents, many of them related to her reaching for her cel phone. She wouldnt' pass a drivers test for a phone and therefore her license plate woulnd't have the little cel sticker on it and if a cop saw her on the phone without the sticker she would be pulled over.
What about car makers putting a standardized jack in cars for automatic hands free operation compatable with all cel phones? You would have to get car makers and cel phone manufacturers all together but it's not loke meetings dont' happen everyday in the business world. They coudl make alot of money with this...Could be a luxury option but maybe that is something the law should standardize? After all, we should grow with technology, not hinder it because we found imperfections...
OK, Mod as Troll or Flamebait if you want, but this is how I honestly feel, and considering the points I'm going to make (although rather harshly), I feel it is entirely valid.
<rant>
#1: You're Offtopic(-1) until the last line, lucky for you, but please link when speakng of URLs. It makes life easier for us, and it makes you look smarter and more professional, even if it is just a simple thing.
Maybe you should get your mind out of the gutter. "Man" in this context is not in refferal to "Men only", but to "mankind" or "humanity". Your so worried about wether a word has testicles involved or not you're missing other important things in our world you should worry about, like Palladium, or the DMCA. Or civil liberties? OR slave labor, starvation, or genocide in 3rd world countries?? Instead, you act as if use of words is a conspiracy to keep women on the babymaker leash, and this is the problem with the world today. OKAY, right, i'm sure that "keeping my bitch in the kitchen" was the first thing on these people's mind when naming a fictional movie about space exploration.
Might I also point out that this movie is supposed to be a direct reflection of the time period it represents, at which time no one would give a flying fuck about a name like "Man Conquers Space". In fact I'd be suprised to see a documentary style film from the sixties or earlier called something as lifelessly PC as "Humankind educates and nourishes their skill and creativity, allowing for the graceful exploratrion of Space". Ironically enough, this sounds just like a passive little housewife...hmm i thought the whole point was to get away from that?
When will all these PC retards realize that they are the only truly offensive people? The rest of us really don't care that much, and I think if the world would lighten up a bit we'd get along better and get alot more accomplished, instead of constantly worrying that we might "offend someone" because they "dont' liek what we have to say"...hey, isn't that called censorship?
</rant>
Ok now that my blunt point has been made, I'll be a bit nicer by saying this: See how worked up I get when people get worked up about things like that? This just goes aroudn and around, so why even worry? No one is going to think "Women can't explore space" due to such a title. Anyone who does is either undereducated or intoxicated, both of which are unrelated problems.
The US Patent and Trademark Office has granted an all-encompassing patent to ActiveBuddy that covers every step of IM botmaking technology. According to internet news, ActiveBuddy now plans to enforce the patent, even though the existence of prior art is well-known and documented.
So that means...
xX activbud Xx: OMFG I won my patent. I get lots of money from you now. OnlineHost: Son of a bitch.
I wonder, if since "instant messaging" is defined loosely enough to cover IRC, if the likes of eggdrop or something similar would be enough to tell these fools that "chat bots have existed for years, piss off you money grubbing fucktards"?
Description and Background of the Invention:
A method for building a highly successful technology business comprising of three steps:
Patent obvious technology using loose jargon and generalized statements.
Sue the shit out of everyone.
Profit!
Ah, the United States of America... Just when I think I couldn't be LESS proud of it...there it is.
I can't find it now, but I use dto have a quicktime clip of Bill Gates saying "I love the Mac, and Mac OS 8 is the best operating system I've ever seen", or somerthing along those lines. IIRC it was included on a MacWorld Expo CD about 4 or 5 years ago...it was pretty nifty.
OT: Anyone know where there is a repository of funny Balmer clips?
Let's replace athletes with CG characters. No more million dollar salaries to hit a ball with a bat. Just have the computer animate a fantasy baseball game. Hell the TV show could even be interactive, taking the best fantasy leauge players' teams from around the world and pitting them against each other.
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Exactly. If Starbucks runs a wireless service inside their building, then they should make sure it doesn't create a problem zone outside their place of business. Same with the free network, i.e. they should work with starbucks to make sure that the coffee shop is a "Starbucks network only" zone, if at all possible.
Good point, basically what I was getting at but yes, now that you say it, how can they charge for access to a band that is free?
If Al Gore dances anything like Yeltsin did, he has no rhythm.
Why does Starbucks get priority? The other network is there FREE as a PUBLIC SERVICE, plus it was there before the Starbucks (or at least their network). Sounds to me like the city should tell them to limit it to inside their shop or make them shut down.
Blockquoth the article:So...what are these new laws for again? Basically that means they're spending million of dollars lobbying for...useless laws, in so many words?
If nothing is changing on the grounds of fair use, why are they fighting for all these proprietary DRM systems? Easy. Monopoly.
- Establish customer lock-in
- Produce mediocre content for pennies a day (?)
- Profit, since you are the only game in town.
No WONDER they are backing Palladium, MPAA/RIAA are Microsoft's evil sibblings.The article itself is irrelevent in one sense; why bother speculating on a space program that didn't happen?
It's about a movie done up using CG and other effects, etc. to make it appear as though it where a documentary from the late 1960s, depicting all sorts of advances in space technology that are at best still science fiction to this day. Basically, a Sci-Fi movie that asks "Imagine how limited space travel is today, and how far we've come since we started. What woudl the opposite extreme have been like?"
Looks rather interesting, I'm not a big Sci-Fi fan but it sparked my interest, most likely because the concept behind the filmmaking approach (the intentionally-fictional authentic documentary style) is new to me.
Hahaha, dont' get me wrong buddy, I wouldn't do it or like it, either. But I'm sure the police have better things to do than arrest my ass for not bringing any Beano with me.
Yea, and 120V AC is just what I need to make my cel phone hands free.
You did not make this putt, ya jackass.
Exactly. There is hope after all.
What a blatant -1 Flamebait.
SO because I am sarcastic in nature my point is invalid? Get out of my country you unintelligent tool.
That stupid attitude is exactly why we are going to lose all our rights one day: imbeciles such as yourself are nowhere near mature enough to handle them. Pity.
Did I say I like to fart in restaraunts? No. This example proves apoint: laws based on dictating common manners etc. are one of the very things the United States was formed against (read: designed to prevent). It's exactly that type of control that woudl lead to a totalitarian dictatorship, slowlyt maybe but once that door is opened, it can never be shut. History repeats itself, my friend, and it could repeat here someday. If the fact that I mock points I feel are unintellegent makes me unintellegent and immature myself and therefore worthless, what does that make you, being unwilling to be lighthearted about hypothetical situations, and mocking with a general "bad karma" tone of disgust? (Note: it's nothing good, buddy)
It's no suprise you posted annonymously.
*Farts in your general direction*
...And now it even works with my Mac. Mods, the man deserves a +1 Informative
If I don't want to be bothered at all, i sign off IM services. It's not a required software component on any computer except Windows XP machines.
My cel can be shut off too, and although I didnt make it clear in my last post, I usually turn it off or leave it home. My point is there is no reason to have people like those assholes who dress in cel phone costumes and smash the phones of peopel they see using them runnign around. If it annoys you then, in the words of Don Rickles, "Why don't you go buy a horse, and live in the mountians and dont' bother anybody." And no, it's definately not nice to yak it up in a quiet theatre. But it's also not nice to throw drinks and soda at someone who's phone beeped because their mother was just ruched to the hospital after her house burned down and someone needed them. Now do you understand both angles?
I wouldnt' be bothered by a National ID. Do I have something to hide? I'm sure it wouldnt' be at totalitarian as the possibility allows.
That takes talent and a kazoo you dont' mind throwing away afterwards, neither of which I posses.
Do I have to think of everything??
So if i fart in the resteraunt you're eating at, I should be arrested?
;-)
Disgusting, yes. Worthy of a law? Maybe in Stalanist Russia. Move out if you dont' like it, ya stiffass
Yea, did anyone sneak a video camera in and bootleg it?
...fuck that's illegal too, huh...
LMAO.
Ahh, MrP, you make my day again and again.
I have been a blake fan for quite some time now, BTW. Funny as hell!
It's a FICTIONAL WORK.
Christ.
Otherwise good points, I think we shoudl get up there too. I know I'd love to go....
OK, Mod as Troll or Flamebait if you want, but this is how I honestly feel, and considering the points I'm going to make (although rather harshly), I feel it is entirely valid.
<rant>
#1: You're Offtopic(-1) until the last line, lucky for you, but please link when speakng of URLs. It makes life easier for us, and it makes you look smarter and more professional, even if it is just a simple thing.
Maybe you should get your mind out of the gutter. "Man" in this context is not in refferal to "Men only", but to "mankind" or "humanity". Your so worried about wether a word has testicles involved or not you're missing other important things in our world you should worry about, like Palladium, or the DMCA. Or civil liberties? OR slave labor, starvation, or genocide in 3rd world countries?? Instead, you act as if use of words is a conspiracy to keep women on the babymaker leash, and this is the problem with the world today. OKAY, right, i'm sure that "keeping my bitch in the kitchen" was the first thing on these people's mind when naming a fictional movie about space exploration.
Might I also point out that this movie is supposed to be a direct reflection of the time period it represents, at which time no one would give a flying fuck about a name like "Man Conquers Space". In fact I'd be suprised to see a documentary style film from the sixties or earlier called something as lifelessly PC as "Humankind educates and nourishes their skill and creativity, allowing for the graceful exploratrion of Space". Ironically enough, this sounds just like a passive little housewife...hmm i thought the whole point was to get away from that?
When will all these PC retards realize that they are the only truly offensive people? The rest of us really don't care that much, and I think if the world would lighten up a bit we'd get along better and get alot more accomplished, instead of constantly worrying that we might "offend someone" because they "dont' liek what we have to say"...hey, isn't that called censorship?
</rant>
Ok now that my blunt point has been made, I'll be a bit nicer by saying this: See how worked up I get when people get worked up about things like that? This just goes aroudn and around, so why even worry? No one is going to think "Women can't explore space" due to such a title. Anyone who does is either undereducated or intoxicated, both of which are unrelated problems.
:-)
He already has one! Didn't you say he had a Mac... :-P
So that means...
xX activbud Xx: OMFG I won my patent. I get lots of money from you now.
OnlineHost: Son of a bitch.
I wonder, if since "instant messaging" is defined loosely enough to cover IRC, if the likes of eggdrop or something similar would be enough to tell these fools that "chat bots have existed for years, piss off you money grubbing fucktards"?
Description and Background of the Invention:
A method for building a highly successful technology business comprising of three steps:
Ah, the United States of America... Just when I think I couldn't be LESS proud of it...there it is.
I can't find it now, but I use dto have a quicktime clip of Bill Gates saying "I love the Mac, and Mac OS 8 is the best operating system I've ever seen", or somerthing along those lines. IIRC it was included on a MacWorld Expo CD about 4 or 5 years ago...it was pretty nifty.
OT: Anyone know where there is a repository of funny Balmer clips?
I usually have no problem upping my firmware with only five fingers....
Oh you meant something else didn't you?
Warp 10 speeds affect your ability to get chicks.
Let's replace athletes with CG characters. No more million dollar salaries to hit a ball with a bat. Just have the computer animate a fantasy baseball game. Hell the TV show could even be interactive, taking the best fantasy leauge players' teams from around the world and pitting them against each other.
Bah whatever.