The NRA's position on this debate is clear: "Guns don't kill. People do." Who gives a fuck what the NRA say? They're all a bunch of quasi-fascist twats who'd feel emasculated if you took their big phallic objects away. If only Heston would get shot, that would be wonderfully ironic. So if having guns doesn't cause gun-related crime, how come there's so much more gun-related crime in a country where any fool can go buy a gun? Bad argument... Anyway - perhaps artists don't want to spend every day of the year touring....
What she said... I get fed up of people screaming "But CDs don't cost anything to make." This is abject nonsense. The band have to eat, have to have a roof over their heads. They have a right to be rewarded for the pleasure they give us. People who work in recording studios from the cleaners to the sound engineers get paid to work there, and the money to pay them comes from the cost of using a studio. The CD plant has staff working there. Someone gets paid for designing the CD inlay. Someone has to drive a truck delivering to the shops. Someone has to work in the shops selling CDs.
All these people have to be paid by someone somewhere along the way and all of their salaries goes into the cost of every CD. In the wonderful CD-less world of Napster, well, most of the people employed in the production and sales process from the manager of the CD pressing plant to the guy behind the counter of your local record store LOSE THEIR JOB. It's not about the fat-cat bosses of the record companies, it's about ordinary people who make a living... They suffer. That's the bottom line. Artists aren't going to spend years of their lives writing songs and recording albums just to have them freely copied with no financial reward, and anyone who believes this is living in a little dream world of their own. People have an basic right to be rewarded for their efforts. Napster piracy waves two fingers in the face of this basic right. It's a bad thing for everyone involved. It's only a good thing for johnny rip-off who wants everything handed to them on a plate and can't be arsed to produce anything himself.
From article in Nokia's paper: ObMandyRiceDavies:- They would say that, wouldn't they...
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I pity those of you without that love, and will do everything in my power to help you to see that love if I ever meet you. And if that ever happens I shall say "Fuck off, god-botherer." So if Christianity = truth, what about Judaism? Islam? Buddhism? Paganism? I'd say they're all != truth, myself. All religion is, is a way for the few to gain power over the many. Well you can take that primitive belief system and shove it!
Ooo! Ooo! Someone criticising our beloved open source! Must be a Microsoft drone! Let's run him out of town on a rail!
What IS your problem here? For example, I feel a lot happier knowing that computer software used for aircraft is designed in a strict formal method under close supervision. The kind of "trusted" system defined here. I would feel a lot less happy had this software been designed by Joe Bloggs and Sid Snot in their spare time, with no formal checking done... Open Source is no universal panacea - for some things you NEED a solid programming team under constant supervision, using formal methods.
# does not mean pound in the UK.... I've never heard anyone call it that. It's either hash or sharp. In fact, coming from a musical background, I always call it the sharp sign.
Nice to see that Slashdot has such a firm grasp of world affairs.... This will most likely become part of a growing trend, at least in the Soviet Union I think you'll find that the Soviet Union ceased to exist by the end of 1991. There is no such thing as "The Soviet Union" in the world today. Back on topic. Good luck to the guy. If I could do that, I would.
I have always loathed the x86's bloody segmented architecture and arse-backwards way of doing things since day one.
The 68000 had a MUCH better architecture than the 8086 - nice linear memory space from 0 to as much as the memory bus could hold - bytes the right way round in long numbers - a delight to program for us old Hex hackers...
Had IBM chosen a 68000 processor, the history of personal computing would have been very different, and very probably a whole load better. Then again IBM deliberately knackered the PC design, so maybe they chose the inferior processor deliberately?
Oh my god! Now I'm a big fan of text adventures. I even used to write them back in the 80's - with a sophisticated natural language parser and non-player characters that could do just about anything the player could. But playing one on a tiny screen when you have to hit a button up to three times for each character? No thanks! Still. Could be worse. Imagine if they had speech recogition to get around the typing problem? Instead of all the idiots bellowing "Hello! Hello! I'M ON THE TRAIN!!!!!" and so on, there would be people shouting:- "Go North!" "Go East!" "Open Door" "Open Door With Red Key!" "Kill Troll!" "Kill Troll With Sword!" and so on.... ***SHUDDER*** I'd invest in earplugs...
We want the moon missions from Stephen Baxter's Moonseed. Send people to the moon for less than the cost of a B2 bomber, and terraform the bugger with a nuke and the water from the craters at the south pole. (I also like the part where they land a Soyuz on the moon using harenodynamics. Wild, but someone has posited it could be done!)
John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider is a classic example of early cyberpunk and was written years (at least a decade? not got research material with me here) before Gibson started. Maybe predates the Vinge? It has the internet (OK - the tech is out, they used sequences on a phone keypad rather than a computer, but it is a large interconnected electronic communications network which is the internet in all but name) and even viruses! The hero puts a worm into the network... Before the internet worm incident happened. Classic book, I just wish I could write more intelligently about it but it's been a while since I last read it and I don't have it, or any research material (such as the Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction) to hand.
Good grief! I suppose it's a culture thing, they release a lot of games in Japan which never make it outside. For every Final Fantasy VIII there are dozens of Train Driver/Schoolgirl Seduction/candy-stripe-painting games.
Oh come on, porn has been around for as long as mankind had the ability to tell stories or draw pictures. It's just that a lot of stuff was suppressed by the church. Only now are some of the carvings from Pompeii coming to light after having been hid away since their discovery. There's probably a web page about this somewhere. It looks like the ancient Romans had porn all over their houses!
Paul Neil Milne Johnstone. Who complained about being called a bad poet! On the double-album they cut it up and played it backwards - everywhere else they replaced his name with the similar Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings.
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The NRA's position on this debate is clear: "Guns don't kill. People do."
Who gives a fuck what the NRA say? They're all a bunch of quasi-fascist twats who'd feel emasculated if you took their big phallic objects away. If only Heston would get shot, that would be wonderfully ironic.
So if having guns doesn't cause gun-related crime, how come there's so much more gun-related crime in a country where any fool can go buy a gun?
Bad argument...
Anyway - perhaps artists don't want to spend every day of the year touring....
What she said...
I get fed up of people screaming "But CDs don't cost anything to make."
This is abject nonsense. The band have to eat, have to have a roof over their heads. They have a right to be rewarded for the pleasure they give us.
People who work in recording studios from the cleaners to the sound engineers get paid to work there, and the money to pay them comes from the cost of using a studio.
The CD plant has staff working there.
Someone gets paid for designing the CD inlay.
Someone has to drive a truck delivering to the shops.
Someone has to work in the shops selling CDs.
All these people have to be paid by someone somewhere along the way and all of their salaries goes into the cost of every CD.
In the wonderful CD-less world of Napster, well, most of the people employed in the production and sales process from the manager of the CD pressing plant to the guy behind the counter of your local record store LOSE THEIR JOB.
It's not about the fat-cat bosses of the record companies, it's about ordinary people who make a living... They suffer. That's the bottom line.
Artists aren't going to spend years of their lives writing songs and recording albums just to have them freely copied with no financial reward, and anyone who believes this is living in a little dream world of their own.
People have an basic right to be rewarded for their efforts. Napster piracy waves two fingers in the face of this basic right. It's a bad thing for everyone involved. It's only a good thing for johnny rip-off who wants everything handed to them on a plate and can't be arsed to produce anything himself.
Heavy Metal was a unique thing that used the full potential of animation medium
And lots of women with very large breasts...
ObAmericanImperialism...
But it was the Russians who launched it.
From article in Nokia's paper:
ObMandyRiceDavies:-
They would say that, wouldn't they...
I pity those of you without that love, and will do everything in my power to help you to see that love if I ever meet you.
And if that ever happens I shall say "Fuck off, god-botherer."
So if Christianity = truth, what about Judaism? Islam? Buddhism? Paganism? I'd say they're all != truth, myself. All religion is, is a way for the few to gain power over the many.
Well you can take that primitive belief system and shove it!
The world doesn't end at the US Borders...
Though sometimes reading Slashdot you'd think it did...
That third arm would really improve your ski-boxing...
Ooo! Ooo! Someone criticising our beloved open source!
Must be a Microsoft drone!
Let's run him out of town on a rail!
What IS your problem here?
For example, I feel a lot happier knowing that computer software used for aircraft is designed in a strict formal method under close supervision. The kind of "trusted" system defined here.
I would feel a lot less happy had this software been designed by Joe Bloggs and Sid Snot in their spare time, with no formal checking done...
Open Source is no universal panacea - for some things you NEED a solid programming team under constant supervision, using formal methods.
# does not mean pound in the UK....
I've never heard anyone call it that. It's either hash or sharp.
In fact, coming from a musical background, I always call it the sharp sign.
Nice to see that Slashdot has such a firm grasp of world affairs....
This will most likely become part of a growing trend, at least in the Soviet Union
I think you'll find that the Soviet Union ceased to exist by the end of 1991. There is no such thing as "The Soviet Union" in the world today.
Back on topic. Good luck to the guy. If I could do that, I would.
I have always loathed the x86's bloody segmented architecture and arse-backwards way of doing things since day one.
The 68000 had a MUCH better architecture than the 8086 - nice linear memory space from 0 to as much as the memory bus could hold - bytes the right way round in long numbers - a delight to program for us old Hex hackers...
Had IBM chosen a 68000 processor, the history of personal computing would have been very different, and very probably a whole load better. Then again IBM deliberately knackered the PC design, so maybe they chose the inferior processor deliberately?
Oh my god! :-
Now I'm a big fan of text adventures. I even used to write them back in the 80's - with a sophisticated natural language parser and non-player characters that could do just about anything the player could.
But playing one on a tiny screen when you have to hit a button up to three times for each character? No thanks!
Still. Could be worse. Imagine if they had speech recogition to get around the typing problem? Instead of all the idiots bellowing "Hello! Hello! I'M ON THE TRAIN!!!!!" and so on, there would be people shouting
"Go North!"
"Go East!"
"Open Door"
"Open Door With Red Key!"
"Kill Troll!"
"Kill Troll With Sword!"
and so on....
***SHUDDER*** I'd invest in earplugs...
It hasn't. And there's pressure from business on the government not to as it would damage Britain's internet trade.
You can read about that here
I advise you to go consult a psychologist to have your paranoia treated. That or stop watching "The X-Files"
It was in the British Sunday newspaper "The Observer"
You can read the story here
No, no bad idea.
Did you never see Space: 1999
We want the moon missions from Stephen Baxter's Moonseed. Send people to the moon for less than the cost of a B2 bomber, and terraform the bugger with a nuke and the water from the craters at the south pole.
(I also like the part where they land a Soyuz on the moon using harenodynamics. Wild, but someone has posited it could be done!)
John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider is a classic example of early cyberpunk and was written years (at least a decade? not got research material with me here) before Gibson started. Maybe predates the Vinge?
It has the internet (OK - the tech is out, they used sequences on a phone keypad rather than a computer, but it is a large interconnected electronic communications network which is the internet in all but name) and even viruses! The hero puts a worm into the network... Before the internet worm incident happened.
Classic book, I just wish I could write more intelligently about it but it's been a while since I last read it and I don't have it, or any research material (such as the Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction) to hand.
Mother to her son in the morning...
MUM: Son, it's time to go to school!
SON: But I don't want to go to school...
MUM: You have to.
SON: But I don't want to!
MUM: Why don't you want to?
SON: Nobody likes me, the kids all hate me and the teachers all hate me too...
MUM: You're forty-two years old and you're the headmaster, now stop moaning and get ready!
Oh great! Now I have to clean coke off my keyboard!
Good grief!
I suppose it's a culture thing, they release a lot of games in Japan which never make it outside. For every Final Fantasy VIII there are dozens of Train Driver/Schoolgirl Seduction/candy-stripe-painting games.
Oh come on, porn has been around for as long as mankind had the ability to tell stories or draw pictures. It's just that a lot of stuff was suppressed by the church. Only now are some of the carvings from Pompeii coming to light after having been hid away since their discovery. There's probably a web page about this somewhere. It looks like the ancient Romans had porn all over their houses!
Paul Neil Milne Johnstone.
Who complained about being called a bad poet!
On the double-album they cut it up and played it backwards - everywhere else they replaced his name with the similar Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings.
Bollocks!
Adams has said that he has never knowingly written a joke in base thirteen.
Enough forty-twos already!