Anybody else feel more like nothing seems to go along with the constitution anymore? sure technically by law it does, but the very principles which it stands for are what seems like their being violated. First copyleft is sued for putting code on shirts (DeCSS, and forced to remove it...hrmm, freedom of speech anyone?) Now they want to tell us we cant record public broadcasts and were being FORCED to buy new hardware just to make things work? Sure we've got a lot of nice stuff here and I probably have no room to bitch, but im still going to. this paranoid government/corporation that runs our country seems way to involved with preventing piracy lately. All because of the music industry. Sure MP3's are hurting the RIAA bigwigs, but as for DeCSS, and software piracy, and television piracy, is this really a problem yet? suing the sh*t out of people isnt going to stop movie's from being distributed, besides, people were doing so long before dvd, just now their prize had been compromised. This country is full of very greedy people, and I'll admit I can be from time to time, i'll admit I love money. but when it gets to be where its infringing on our human rights, I think its a little bit out there. They invade our privacy with the things they do, they take away our right to do what we want and we're constantly restricted more and more. Besides, nothing they do will work. they think someone won't crack this? their insane. Ok, enough ranting. I just think this is all really lame, and that THE GOVERNMENT WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO PROTECT US FROM MONOPOLIZING AND OVERPOWERFUL COMPANIES IS NOW ASSISTING THESE OVERPOWERFUL COMPANIES. that's just plain sad.
Ok, so maybe I am pampered with my Cable modem and fast computer compared to those out in the sticks who cant have it, but I think that this would be a great idea. when phone's became the thing im sure that only some people had them, mostly in big cities, but now its commonplace, now if only the 100 mbps became a standard with a walljack in every house, then were sittin pretty, its the way things should go, the internet being such a part of life and all, sure, people can dos and mess with things a lot easier, but by the time this becomes commonplace they can get a little better prepared for it, we still got a long wait, so I think a DoS attack is the least of our problems with this setup.
ok, paper manuals are essential, at least these are my feelings. with the online documentation you can be a little bit lighter on the printed manuals if you wish, but I dont think you should be. its just like theyve all said. there may be times when you cant get to your machine, but you would really like to be learning something new. And DO NOT do what packard bell did and put the entire manual on a cd....cuz ya know when your in the case trying to install a hard drive or something its real easy to just pop in a cd and check out the manuals. Anyways keep the printed manuals. sure you can print out all you may need, but thats such a pain in the *ss.
I agree with voodoo. the only reason its so much more plentiful on the net is because you can do it anonymously and not become the next larry flint. but I think because it's become so much easier to get our hands on, and more importantly, free, it gets out of hand, before the internet you never really saw any Channel 5 special reports on "Addicted to Porn." Bah im rambling now. anyways the point of this is that the government isnt gonna be able to do much to stop this, and hell, I grew up with porn available to me if I wanted it, and I think I turned out fine, so maybe they should calm down. so lets not waste our tax money for this bulls**t. ok. im done now.
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Anybody else feel more like nothing seems to go along with the constitution anymore? sure technically by law it does, but the very principles which it stands for are what seems like their being violated. First copyleft is sued for putting code on shirts (DeCSS, and forced to remove it...hrmm, freedom of speech anyone?) Now they want to tell us we cant record public broadcasts and were being FORCED to buy new hardware just to make things work? Sure we've got a lot of nice stuff here and I probably have no room to bitch, but im still going to. this paranoid government/corporation that runs our country seems way to involved with preventing piracy lately. All because of the music industry. Sure MP3's are hurting the RIAA bigwigs, but as for DeCSS, and software piracy, and television piracy, is this really a problem yet? suing the sh*t out of people isnt going to stop movie's from being distributed, besides, people were doing so long before dvd, just now their prize had been compromised. This country is full of very greedy people, and I'll admit I can be from time to time, i'll admit I love money. but when it gets to be where its infringing on our human rights, I think its a little bit out there. They invade our privacy with the things they do, they take away our right to do what we want and we're constantly restricted more and more. Besides, nothing they do will work. they think someone won't crack this? their insane. Ok, enough ranting. I just think this is all really lame, and that THE GOVERNMENT WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO PROTECT US FROM MONOPOLIZING AND OVERPOWERFUL COMPANIES IS NOW ASSISTING THESE OVERPOWERFUL COMPANIES. that's just plain sad.
Ok, so maybe I am pampered with my Cable modem and fast computer compared to those out in the sticks who cant have it, but I think that this would be a great idea. when phone's became the thing im sure that only some people had them, mostly in big cities, but now its commonplace, now if only the 100 mbps became a standard with a walljack in every house, then were sittin pretty, its the way things should go, the internet being such a part of life and all, sure, people can dos and mess with things a lot easier, but by the time this becomes commonplace they can get a little better prepared for it, we still got a long wait, so I think a DoS attack is the least of our problems with this setup.
ok, paper manuals are essential, at least these are my feelings. with the online documentation you can be a little bit lighter on the printed manuals if you wish, but I dont think you should be. its just like theyve all said. there may be times when you cant get to your machine, but you would really like to be learning something new. And DO NOT do what packard bell did and put the entire manual on a cd....cuz ya know when your in the case trying to install a hard drive or something its real easy to just pop in a cd and check out the manuals. Anyways keep the printed manuals. sure you can print out all you may need, but thats such a pain in the *ss.
I agree with voodoo. the only reason its so much more plentiful on the net is because you can do it anonymously and not become the next larry flint. but I think because it's become so much easier to get our hands on, and more importantly, free, it gets out of hand, before the internet you never really saw any Channel 5 special reports on "Addicted to Porn." Bah im rambling now. anyways the point of this is that the government isnt gonna be able to do much to stop this, and hell, I grew up with porn available to me if I wanted it, and I think I turned out fine, so maybe they should calm down. so lets not waste our tax money for this bulls**t. ok. im done now.