1. Fallout - Love this game. Love the sequel too. I'd kill for more of this series. In Fallout 2, I like to listen to the "Driving Car" music. Very reflective. Cutting foes in half with the laser, melting them with the plasma gun, and the meaty sound of riddling them with bullets from the chaingun are highlights not to be missed.
2. Stars! - 4x Game. Some called it spreadsheets in space but it helps me unwind. I sure wish those guys had finished Stars! Supernova. Most 4x titles these days are just glitz and fancy art. I love to be the Stealth guy, show up and steal a planet full of minerals and laugh as I disappear!
3. Jedi Academy - I feel the need to impale my foes on the tip of the lightsaber. Kills anybody fast. Fast style, force pull + attack = Impale! YEAH BABY!
4. Sword of the Samurai - Old Microprose title. 3 or 4 modes of play. Very fun. Top down, run around and waste ronin. Army command mode. Sword dueling. Invade the house of a rival and kidnap his heir, or steal something that will cause him to be dishonored cause he doesn't have it. Great game. They quite litterally, DO NOT MAKE THEM LIKE THAT ANYMORE. The title by the same company, Covert Action was a blast too.
5. Battlezone 2 - I just pulled it out last week and played through it. Nice terrain to have hover tank battles on. Plenty of vehicals and weapons combinations. The base building stratigic element. Wish more games like that came out.
Honorable Mention - GTA: San Andreas. I bought a PS2 just to play this very fun title. Drive around, shoot people and listen to Radio X. Hard to beat!
Timothy Zahn wrote some excellent Star Wars, I agree. I'm a little amazed that anyone could read something like the Jedi Academy series and find them to be anything better than grade D trash. They had to have Michael Stackpole (of X-Wing / Rouge Squadron books) come in and basically re-write it so it was partially believeable.
The Dark Empire comics where relativly OK, as comics go. However they were trash compared to the good books. Most of the writers had to spend a lot of time ignoring the "Reborn Emperor, and Luke goes to the dark side blah blah. It was shit, but it had to be considered 'canon' for the sake of expanded universe books.
Now we have the New Jedi Order books. I read 2 or 3 and that was the end. Just too cheesey. Other than Zahn, Stackpole, and a couple of others (whoever adaped Episode 3 and the guy who wrote Shadows of the Empire) I ignore Star Wars books now.
Stackpole was right when he wrote his main character telling Luke that you can't take a guy who blows up a whole star system and say he's a great Jedi Knight. Good ole Kevin J. invented the super-weapon of the week club. The Deathstar 3, the Sun blaster who whatever that little twit jedi character he wrote used to blow up a star. It was just lame.
And don't even get me started on the "Wonder Twins" saving the day through any number of books before they were even 12 years old. All of our main characters from the 1st triligy are standing around like assholes, so the kids can do it all.
No thanks. Star Wars has become questionable. I approach anything writen or done for the screen with skepticism.
On a good note, look around on the internet and see if you can find "Stuff". A piece of Star Wars fan fiction that was written to try and fix all the dumb shit various authers had done to the story after Zahn's books. It's very well written and pretty funny to boot.
So try to remember while your laughing at me, to laugh at yourself too!
Anyway, I always ask people HOW the gov is supposed to fix the economy. Should they take that 87 billion and just pass it around to everyone so they can spend it?
435 dollars? Less if you include the other 90 million Americans.
As it is that 87 billion will go into the pockets of all the companies that provide the stuff that makes the military go.
It takes a lot of companies to make the green machine (gray/blue machines too) go. Because of the nature of what they are providing, they are almost without exception, American companies. Producing rockets, bombs, bullets, uniforms, canteens, and the hundreds of thousands of other things needed to support those forces.
Last time I checked, we don't buy tanks from Russia, or any other country. Nor bullets, or almost anything else. We pay American companies. Companies like Ford aerospace for missiles.
Companies like Harley Davidson for 2000lb iron bombs. These are the kinds of bombs, once you strap a laser guidence kit, probably produced by Lockheed Martin, become a smart bomb.
So, that 87 billion get's spent in America, to help PAY Americans.
And because so much of it is classified, the money is not going to guys from India in the USA on work visas. It's going to guys like YOU who probably make less than half of what you make in that cushy civilian job you are probably very lucky to have.
So I ask, WHY is spending that 87 billion bad? How, exactly, would it be spent to "rebuild" our economy?
I saw this film. So did about 200 other people when I did. And the next time was packed too. Most of the people I work with (at a technology firm) have seen it. They all liked it. The usual comments about the urealistic fights and way bullets never find good guy targets but what of that? You didn't question why Neo could rise from the dead cause Carie Ann Moss said she loved him (Good incentive to live) It's impossible, kinda lame but we wanted it to happen so we just rolled with it. You really need to get in touch with the people you claim to write for.
It may seem unimportant, but once upon a time, artists had no protection at all. They wrote a song and sang it in a pub for whatever the innkeeper would pay and the audience would tip. Such was the life of a singer. His songs might be heard and sang elsewhere by other singers who would make money on songs they did not write.
I'll bet that pissed of the original writer. Or maybe it didn't. Maybe he was flattered that other's liked his music so much that it spread. I don't know.
I do know that protections came about because some people did not like that their art was imitated/copied. So here we are today, with artists enjoying a lot of protection.
Things are changing again. I don't recall anything in the constitution that ensures a persons right to make money. If the music industry does not adapt to the changing market for music, why should I care if they lose money? Companies rise and fall daily on the changing marketplace. Just because it's the way it's been for a few decades does not mean that's the way it should always be. So they try to pass laws that force the marketplace to remain the same, to protect their pocketbooks. Scarey that there are people in here cheering legislative attempts to control progress.
Once upon a time, alluminum was very expensive. Very expensive, because it cost a small fortune to produce the required temperatures to needed to extract it from the ore. Then came cheap and powerful electricity. With it came electric furnaces that could heat the ore to required temperatures all day long for cheap. So we have alluminum cans everywhere and the tin can makers were probably pretty pissed. Maybe they tried to get laws passed to protect their industry, but we can all be thankful any such attempt failed.
Professional hair stylists got tired of not making any money cause anybody could cut and style hair in their living room and make money on it by charging much less the the professional, school attending stylists who had shops. So they got laws passed that say you have to be schooled and licensed to cut hair. Result? If you cut hair at your house without a license for money, you can be arrested for breaking the "law". Such people are criminals. Of course, so are people who speed or throw cigarette butts out the window. They cite all kinds of reasons why this is good for everybody, but it's all about protecting their little financial world. Money. That's it.
Lars complaining about how napster types are trading his "Art" likes it's a commodity pissed him off. Of course he fails to mention that the industry sells it like a commodity on a daily basis. He complained about the pictures that are taken of the band that is part of their art. And their being traded without him making any money on the deal. So he is pissed off about money, and his perceived loss of revenue.
My point is, that it is not a god given right to make money on anything. Has anybody heard of supply and demand? You can buy dirt if you want, but you can also head out the forest and fill your truck for free somewhere in your state. You pay for convenience and quality. I buy CD's. Not for convenience. MP3's are convenient. I buy CD's for quality.
I make my living as a computer sysadmin. Lots of folks out there who are smart with computers that are not making money doing it or not making as much as I do. Well I had to work to get where I am and I have to work to stay here. I also have to change as times change if I want to continue to make money. And if Unix suddenly goes away and Bill gets NT to take over, I'll have to change or find another line of work.
But no, wait. I'll just sue that I'm being robbed of my livelyhood by and uncaring, changing market...
The point is whether you like the term sheep or not, guys like Bill Gates and Co. use the mentallity against people. They use it to destroy competitors. People install office and say it's easy to install, and easy to use. Is it?
Installing it is not to hard, but installing most software is not hard, no matter the operating system. And saying it's easy to use, is crap too considering most people don't use 2% of the functions and wouldn't know how if asked, and given directions.
Bill says it's easy. Bill's paid allies says it's easy and so does his paid off publications. And before you know it, everyone says it's easy. Baaaah!!!
Same goes for linux being hard. Damn near every publications says it's hard and for geeks, hackers and hobbiests. What do most people think? Just that, it's hard and not for normal people. Baaaah!
Nothing wrong with sheep. Nobody gets pissed when Jesus calls people sheep. My point is, "human nature" is used against people by companies all the time. I'm wondering what, if anything can minimize this in the future.
Sometime in jr high or high school, we were shown a film about a history teacher who started a little class project to turn his class into an elite group that had much in common with nazi youth organizations. As the film progressed the class became everything he wanted. They had there own secret handshake or sign, and a logo and acted like they were above everyone else.
At the end, the teacher tells them that he can't be their leader anymore and wants to introduce them to the new man in charge. He then shows them a film of Hitler, and they all freak and learn their lesson...
I remembered it because their group was The Wave.
So I'm wondering if this is some kind of joke that nobody has caught onto yet or what.
In any case, the whole thing seems like a terrible idea much like the fictional Wave in the film. I know if I was in school that started such a program, I'd do everything to set off the system just for kicks. I liked what the European said. This is like the kGB and the all the youth groups in the former Soviet Union. It's bad news to teach kids to be rats. Rats never care about anyone except themselves...
Ok, how about JSIPS-N, or IPL, or GCCS-M, TAMPS, or JMCIS? Your analogy is flawed in that most if not all intelligence systems are unclassified and nothing special except buggy and boring to work with. You could open source them all day and it would not screw anybody. Might just up the level of some other country's software for military use but the damage to, say the USA would be nil. It's the data contained by those systems once they are operational that would be damaging if released. Don't mean to pick on your article, but the secret agent man mentality that the media displays intel stuff is overkill. The real world of intel is pretty boring and so is the software.
But there is a lot of truth to what you say. People don't give two shits about the finer points of linux, open source etc etc. But the answer to wanting to use office, education apps etc should not be "Load Windows"
But with the sheep like mentality of the computer using masses, how are we ever to avoid having companies like M$ around to act as the sheppard?
Of course I'm pleased to hear it's finally coming, however this article was almost a waste of time to read. No details and yet another rehash of the IE beat the hell out of Netscape and somebody's two cents on why.
5.5mb? One word. Cool.
As for the name, I'm guessing that they think most people will pay attention to Netscape where they might not notice Mozilla.
And the line about most of us using IE, well, I'm sure the author does not hang out here too much... I'd rather eat hagis than use IE.
"Sure, everyone knows it's illegal, but they do it anyway because it's easy."
Consider this. Just because it's illegal, doesn't mean it's wrong. I don't think "it's easy" is the reason people ignore the law. It might have something to do with disagreeing with current law.
Somebody posting about this, mentioned slaves. It was illegal for a slave to run for it. Certainly it was not wrong. Unfortunatly, this is not such a black and white (no pun intended) issue.
What do we do when an action is illegal, but a large percentage of the population doesn't care? Put everyone in jail?
I'll fall back on the speeding example. When I'm in no hurry (Nice to not have a time clock to punch) I'll set the cruise control to 55 and head into the city. 30 miles later, I've passed no one, and paced no one. Everyone passes me. I'm not exagerating. I get dirty looks, I get honked at, tail gated etc. etc. If every car that passed me was a criminal, I'd be alone on the road. No, scratch that, I speed too, so we would all be riding the bus while our licenses were suspended. But wait, people with suspended licenses drive anyway so I guess we are all driving without a license and being REAL criminals.
If every one of those cars was a vote, clearly, the speed limit would be higher. But it doesn't work that way. Even if the issue came up, at least half of the speeders would say we need to be safe and keep the speed limits down. And don't forget that the government often spells safety: M O N E Y.
I rip my own cd's to mp3 so I don't have to carry the cd's around. I download a song now and again, and if I really like it, I buy the cd so I can get a good mp3 copy, and not worry about losing it. I give copys to my mother who likes to hear some new songs occasionaly but has not bought a album/cd in years and won't. We are criminals, but I don't know if anyone would call it a REAL crime worthy of jail time.
What I'm doing, is borderline legal and outright illegal, but I don't feel it's wrong. A lot of people seem to agree. The law does not treat all crime equally, and that is whole other topic.
Artists should be able to make money on what they do, but no where in the law or constitution does it guaranty anybody's right to make money in the face of new ways of doing things, changing market forces etc. Seems to me, the music industry wants to keep things just as they are and get the law to back up the way it's always been.
So people are going to download mp3's and no amount of law is going to stop it. So what do we do? Have police out giving tickets and slapping our wrists as if we were driving too fast?
Or perhaps industry and government can change the flow of the mp3 river just enough to keep everybody happy. It's challenging. But who ever said making billions of dollars a year and maintaining an empire was supposed to be easy.
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1. Fallout - Love this game. Love the sequel too. I'd kill for more of this series. In Fallout 2, I like to listen to the "Driving Car" music. Very reflective. Cutting foes in half with the laser, melting them with the plasma gun, and the meaty sound of riddling them with bullets from the chaingun are highlights not to be missed.
2. Stars! - 4x Game. Some called it spreadsheets in space but it helps me unwind. I sure wish those guys had finished Stars! Supernova. Most 4x titles these days are just glitz and fancy art. I love to be the Stealth guy, show up and steal a planet full of minerals and laugh as I disappear!
3. Jedi Academy - I feel the need to impale my foes on the tip of the lightsaber. Kills anybody fast. Fast style, force pull + attack = Impale! YEAH BABY!
4. Sword of the Samurai - Old Microprose title. 3 or 4 modes of play. Very fun. Top down, run around and waste ronin. Army command mode. Sword dueling. Invade the house of a rival and kidnap his heir, or steal something that will cause him to be dishonored cause he doesn't have it. Great game. They quite litterally, DO NOT MAKE THEM LIKE THAT ANYMORE. The title by the same company, Covert Action was a blast too.
5. Battlezone 2 - I just pulled it out last week and played through it. Nice terrain to have hover tank battles on. Plenty of vehicals and weapons combinations. The base building stratigic element. Wish more games like that came out.
Honorable Mention - GTA: San Andreas. I bought a PS2 just to play this very fun title. Drive around, shoot people and listen to Radio X. Hard to beat!
Timothy Zahn wrote some excellent Star Wars, I agree. I'm a little amazed that anyone could read something like the Jedi Academy series and find them to be anything better than grade D trash. They had to have Michael Stackpole (of X-Wing / Rouge Squadron books) come in and basically re-write it so it was partially believeable.
The Dark Empire comics where relativly OK, as comics go. However they were trash compared to the good books. Most of the writers had to spend a lot of time ignoring the "Reborn Emperor, and Luke goes to the dark side blah blah. It was shit, but it had to be considered 'canon' for the sake of expanded universe books.
Now we have the New Jedi Order books. I read 2 or 3 and that was the end. Just too cheesey. Other than Zahn, Stackpole, and a couple of others (whoever adaped Episode 3 and the guy who wrote Shadows of the Empire) I ignore Star Wars books now.
Stackpole was right when he wrote his main character telling Luke that you can't take a guy who blows up a whole star system and say he's a great Jedi Knight. Good ole Kevin J. invented the super-weapon of the week club. The Deathstar 3, the Sun blaster who whatever that little twit jedi character he wrote used to blow up a star. It was just lame.
And don't even get me started on the "Wonder Twins" saving the day through any number of books before they were even 12 years old. All of our main characters from the 1st triligy are standing around like assholes, so the kids can do it all.
No thanks. Star Wars has become questionable. I approach anything writen or done for the screen with skepticism.
On a good note, look around on the internet and see if you can find "Stuff". A piece of Star Wars fan fiction that was written to try and fix all the dumb shit various authers had done to the story after Zahn's books. It's very well written and pretty funny to boot.
87 Billion / 200 million is:
435 dollars
So try to remember while your laughing at me, to laugh at yourself too!
Anyway, I always ask people HOW the gov is supposed to fix the economy. Should they take that 87 billion and just pass it around to everyone so they can spend it?
435 dollars? Less if you include the other 90 million Americans.
As it is that 87 billion will go into the pockets of all the companies that provide the stuff that makes the military go.
It takes a lot of companies to make the green machine (gray/blue machines too) go. Because of the nature of what they are providing, they are almost without exception, American companies. Producing rockets, bombs, bullets, uniforms, canteens, and the hundreds of thousands of other things needed to support those forces.
Last time I checked, we don't buy tanks from Russia, or any other country. Nor bullets, or almost anything else. We pay American companies. Companies like Ford aerospace for missiles.
Companies like Harley Davidson for 2000lb iron bombs. These are the kinds of bombs, once you strap a laser guidence kit, probably produced by Lockheed Martin, become a smart bomb.
So, that 87 billion get's spent in America, to help PAY Americans.
And because so much of it is classified, the money is not going to guys from India in the USA on work visas. It's going to guys like YOU who probably make less than half of what you make in that cushy civilian job you are probably very lucky to have.
So I ask, WHY is spending that 87 billion bad? How, exactly, would it be spent to "rebuild" our economy?
87 billion dollars is bankruptcy?
:)
You mean a whole 25-35 dollars per tax payer this year is really gonna put us in the poor house.
Why is it that such a smart group of people can't do simple math?
290 million Americans. Say 200 million tax payers.
AT LEAST a couple of hundred bucks of taxes collected from EACH of that 200 million folks.
87 billion is next to nothing. 50 million for space exploration is insulting.
Sure makes you wonder where all that money is going doesn't it?
I saw this film. So did about 200 other people when I did. And the next time was packed too. Most of the people I work with (at a technology firm) have seen it. They all liked it. The usual comments about the urealistic fights and way bullets never find good guy targets but what of that? You didn't question why Neo could rise from the dead cause Carie Ann Moss said she loved him (Good incentive to live) It's impossible, kinda lame but we wanted it to happen so we just rolled with it. You really need to get in touch with the people you claim to write for.
Venyce
It may seem unimportant, but once upon a time, artists had no protection at all. They wrote a song and sang it in a pub for whatever the innkeeper would pay and the audience would tip. Such was the life of a singer. His songs might be heard and sang elsewhere by other singers who would make money on songs they did not write.
I'll bet that pissed of the original writer. Or maybe it didn't. Maybe he was flattered that other's liked his music so much that it spread. I don't know.
I do know that protections came about because some people did not like that their art was imitated/copied. So here we are today, with artists enjoying a lot of protection.
Things are changing again. I don't recall anything in the constitution that ensures a persons right to make money. If the music industry does not adapt to the changing market for music, why should I care if they lose money? Companies rise and fall daily on the changing marketplace. Just because it's the way it's been for a few decades does not mean that's the way it should always be. So they try to pass laws that force the marketplace to remain the same, to protect their pocketbooks. Scarey that there are people in here cheering legislative attempts to control progress.
Once upon a time, alluminum was very expensive. Very expensive, because it cost a small fortune to produce the required temperatures to needed to extract it from the ore. Then came cheap and powerful electricity. With it came electric furnaces that could heat the ore to required temperatures all day long for cheap. So we have alluminum cans everywhere and the tin can makers were probably pretty pissed. Maybe they tried to get laws passed to protect their industry, but we can all be thankful any such attempt failed.
Professional hair stylists got tired of not making any money cause anybody could cut and style hair in their living room and make money on it by charging much less the the professional, school attending stylists who had shops. So they got laws passed that say you have to be schooled and licensed to cut hair. Result? If you cut hair at your house without a license for money, you can be arrested for breaking the "law". Such people are criminals. Of course, so are people who speed or throw cigarette butts out the window. They cite all kinds of reasons why this is good for everybody, but it's all about protecting their little financial world. Money. That's it.
Lars complaining about how napster types are trading his "Art" likes it's a commodity pissed him off. Of course he fails to mention that the industry sells it like a commodity on a daily basis. He complained about the pictures that are taken of the band that is part of their art. And their being traded without him making any money on the deal. So he is pissed off about money, and his perceived loss of revenue.
My point is, that it is not a god given right to make money on anything. Has anybody heard of supply and demand? You can buy dirt if you want, but you can also head out the forest and fill your truck for free somewhere in your state. You pay for convenience and quality. I buy CD's. Not for convenience. MP3's are convenient. I buy CD's for quality.
I make my living as a computer sysadmin. Lots of folks out there who are smart with computers that are not making money doing it or not making as much as I do. Well I had to work to get where I am and I have to work to stay here. I also have to change as times change if I want to continue to make money. And if Unix suddenly goes away and Bill gets NT to take over, I'll have to change or find another line of work.
But no, wait. I'll just sue that I'm being robbed of my livelyhood by and uncaring, changing market...
Ever here of Dr. Dre?
Hip Hop just as money grubbing if not more.
Where? Here? NO!!!
The point is whether you like the term sheep or not, guys like Bill Gates and Co. use the mentallity against people. They use it to destroy competitors. People install office and say it's easy to install, and easy to use. Is it?
Installing it is not to hard, but installing most software is not hard, no matter the operating system. And saying it's easy to use, is crap too considering most people don't use 2% of the functions and wouldn't know how if asked, and given directions.
Bill says it's easy. Bill's paid allies says it's easy and so does his paid off publications. And before you know it, everyone says it's easy. Baaaah!!!
Same goes for linux being hard. Damn near every publications says it's hard and for geeks, hackers and hobbiests. What do most people think? Just that, it's hard and not for normal people. Baaaah!
Nothing wrong with sheep. Nobody gets pissed when Jesus calls people sheep. My point is, "human nature" is used against people by companies all the time. I'm wondering what, if anything can minimize this in the future.
Sometime in jr high or high school, we were shown a film about a history teacher who started a little class project to turn his class into an elite group that had much in common with nazi youth organizations. As the film progressed the class became everything he wanted. They had there own secret handshake or sign, and a logo and acted like they were above everyone else.
At the end, the teacher tells them that he can't be their leader anymore and wants to introduce them to the new man in charge. He then shows them a film of Hitler, and they all freak and learn their lesson...
I remembered it because their group was The Wave.
So I'm wondering if this is some kind of joke that nobody has caught onto yet or what.
In any case, the whole thing seems like a terrible idea much like the fictional Wave in the film. I know if I was in school that started such a program, I'd do everything to set off the system just for kicks. I liked what the European said. This is like the kGB and the all the youth groups in the former Soviet Union. It's bad news to teach kids to be rats. Rats never care about anyone except themselves...
Ok, how about JSIPS-N, or IPL, or GCCS-M, TAMPS, or JMCIS? Your analogy is flawed in that most if not all intelligence systems are unclassified and nothing special except buggy and boring to work with. You could open source them all day and it would not screw anybody. Might just up the level of some other country's software for military use but the damage to, say the USA would be nil. It's the data contained by those systems once they are operational that would be damaging if released. Don't mean to pick on your article, but the secret agent man mentality that the media displays intel stuff is overkill. The real world of intel is pretty boring and so is the software.
Can you say "Baaaaah!!!
But there is a lot of truth to what you say. People don't give two shits about the finer points of linux, open source etc etc. But the answer to wanting to use office, education apps etc should not be "Load Windows"
But with the sheep like mentality of the computer using masses, how are we ever to avoid having companies like M$ around to act as the sheppard?
Of course I'm pleased to hear it's finally coming, however this article was almost a waste of time to read. No details and yet another rehash of the IE beat the hell out of Netscape and somebody's two cents on why.
5.5mb? One word. Cool.
As for the name, I'm guessing that they think most people will pay attention to Netscape where they might not notice Mozilla.
And the line about most of us using IE, well, I'm sure the author does not hang out here too much... I'd rather eat hagis than use IE.
"Sure, everyone knows it's illegal, but they do it anyway because it's easy."
Consider this. Just because it's illegal, doesn't mean it's wrong. I don't think "it's easy" is the reason people ignore the law. It might have something to do with disagreeing with current law.
Somebody posting about this, mentioned slaves. It was illegal for a slave to run for it. Certainly it was not wrong. Unfortunatly, this is not such a black and white (no pun intended) issue.
What do we do when an action is illegal, but a large percentage of the population doesn't care? Put everyone in jail?
I'll fall back on the speeding example. When I'm in no hurry (Nice to not have a time clock to punch) I'll set the cruise control to 55 and head into the city. 30 miles later, I've passed no one, and paced no one. Everyone passes me. I'm not exagerating. I get dirty looks, I get honked at, tail gated etc. etc. If every car that passed me was a criminal, I'd be alone on the road. No, scratch that, I speed too, so we would all be riding the bus while our licenses were suspended. But wait, people with suspended licenses drive anyway so I guess we are all driving without a license and being REAL criminals.
If every one of those cars was a vote, clearly, the speed limit would be higher. But it doesn't work that way. Even if the issue came up, at least half of the speeders would say we need to be safe and keep the speed limits down. And don't forget that the government often spells safety: M O N E Y.
I rip my own cd's to mp3 so I don't have to carry the cd's around. I download a song now and again, and if I really like it, I buy the cd so I can get a good mp3 copy, and not worry about losing it. I give copys to my mother who likes to hear some new songs occasionaly but has not bought a album/cd in years and won't. We are criminals, but I don't know if anyone would call it a REAL crime worthy of jail time.
What I'm doing, is borderline legal and outright illegal, but I don't feel it's wrong. A lot of people seem to agree. The law does not treat all crime equally, and that is whole other topic.
Artists should be able to make money on what they do, but no where in the law or constitution does it guaranty anybody's right to make money in the face of new ways of doing things, changing market forces etc. Seems to me, the music industry wants to keep things just as they are and get the law to back up the way it's always been.
So people are going to download mp3's and no amount of law is going to stop it. So what do we do? Have police out giving tickets and slapping our wrists as if we were driving too fast?
Or perhaps industry and government can change the flow of the mp3 river just enough to keep everybody happy. It's challenging. But who ever said making billions of dollars a year and maintaining an empire was supposed to be easy.
How do you feel about sites like www.linuxmafia.org
Do you or will you include packages generated by sites like this?
Anyone who runs Slak on a compaq laptop must be a god, or unbalanced...