that the porn industry is part of the media too. Those free porno sites are there with the intent of getting people to buy stuff as well. And porn is just as addictive for some people.
What kid do you know that isn't already infected with the BUY BUY BUY syndrome? Have you seen cartoons lately? They exist with the sole purpose of getting kids to whine enough to their parents so that they will buy them this toy so they will shut up and be happy for a minute or two.
Heck, try going to a department store or the mall during Christmas.
Or even take a look at school teaching materials. How many learning materials use commercial cartoon characters? Do you think they are there just to make the learning more enjoyable? Well, they are somewhat, but don't fool yourself into thinking that's the only reason they are there.
Actually, the clinics sound like a "good thing". The students get real work experience and get credit. Sounds just like co-op programs with the exception that the proff can guide students towards areas they need more focus on. Of course, since it involves money it must be evil...
How is that any different than firm X advertising in newspaper B, and newspaper B finds dirt on firm X (who is their biggest advertisier)?
Besides, how much ground breaking journalism do you see out of college journalism departments. Most of the interesting stuff is done by students using their own resources.
Actually farmers are generally very quick to adopt new technology if it makes any sense whatsoever. I can't tell you the number of farmers I know that have GPS systems in their tractors along with other monitoring equipment so that they know (to within 3 feet), which parts of their land are producing and which are not. Not to mention the hand helds, laptops and other paraphanelia. Some of them are serious techies.
Actually, I as a taxpayer don't like the idea of subsidizing some brain dead moron to go to college at all. It seems to me that the person that get's most of the benefit of that money is not me or society as a whole. It's the kid that's going to college (with my luck probably getting an MS in philosophy) so he can get him a "gud jobe".
Also, corporations pay taxes too.
Besides, if all the money making research took place only at think tanks, guess what would happen to college research? It would dry up and blow away. Colleges are already having a hard enough time hanging on to their people.
The price of tuition has more to do with supply and demand than anything else. There is no where near enough supply of higher learning to meet the demand for it. Not with the US's current educational system where every parent pushes their child to go to college and get a "good job" no matter how brain dead that child may be, and no matter how much happier that child might have been as a garbage collector.
As an answer to those complaining about high levels of college debt, I have an answer. Don't go to college. If you think it costs too much, than don't buy it. Or you could even (gasp) work your way through college! Granted, it might take you longer, and you might not have so much time for beer guzzling/lan partying but if you want the rewards of a college education, then you should be prepared to pay the price.
Sheesh, why are people so aghast that someone should make some profit from their work? Doesn't it make sense that people are generally willing to pay more for the things that they need?
Does Katz think that corporations fund research into stuff so they can then FORCE that stuff upon the unsuspecting masses? No, they do it because they think that is what people need/want.
Granted, this means there will be less research on the suitability of jello as a medium for information transfer and other obviously stupid research projects, but this is not necessarily a bad thing.
BTW, did anybody notice that Katz's spelling was particularly bad in this one? Did somebody hack a fake article posting?
You make a faulty analogy. In order for your analogy to be correct, the magazine publisher would no longer even offer that particular issue, even if that publisher had agreed to send you another copy of that issue at a later date if for some reason you lost yours.
Also, don't confuse distributing abandonware with distributing the source code for that software, they are two different issues entirely.
I do see what these sites are doing as a public service, especially if they do as the interviewee did and remove anything requested by the publisher. It would be even better if they could work out something with the publisher, maybe even a payment scheme. Where they would pay the publisher X amount per download. Then the publisher could still see some profit from their older stuff.
Of course, the amount charged would have to be minimal to be effective, but if a million people went out and downloaded an old game, it might give the publisher the idea to re-release it for newer machines.
What's the point if you can't do a search of the contents? Basically it works out to the same thing as free web hosting. That is free web hosting where you are limited to 100K files sizes. Smells like a public relations ploy or some other technique used to garner "good will".
They also make great Christmas and birthday gifts! Who's going to send one to the judge?
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Puhlease...
And maybe after you've had to care for a dying parent (and seen for yourself how poor Medicare/Medicaid is for our citizens),
What in the world leads you to believe that you (or anyone else) is entitled to have everyone else pay for your parents health care. They're your parents you pay for it (yes, I pay for mine thank you).
or stepped into a city school to meet your child's frazzled out teacher because (s)he has a class size of nearly 40 pupils,
I see, now I'm supposed to pay to make sure your children get an education too. They're your kids, it's your responsibility.
or walked along one of the many bridges which are literally crumbling from lack of repairs
Who elected your local government? Take it up with them!
That your skills are in demand today isn't proof they will be in demand tomorrow.
That's when you have to learn new skills. I guess you should be entitled to a job too, even if you don't put forth the effort to learn skills that make you employable.
And consider the many citizens of America who had to grow up with substandard education, poor health care, and dilapidated surroundings; that could be you but for circumstance.
They are me. So my life hasn't been perfect, who the hell said it would be? Where in our constitution is there a right to happiness? It merely protects the right to pursue happiness, it doesn't obligate the government to provide it.
PREPARE YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY!
Well, duh. You went through all that effort to merely say you're voting for Ralph Nader. You could have saved yourself some work by stating "Bush Sucks! Gore Sucks! I think I'll Ralph!".
Then again, I did get sucked into responding to your troll bait.
The story is of an old Chinese artist, famous because of the quality of his work. One afternoon, the emperor invites him to the palace and once there asks the artist to make a painting of his beautiful pet bird. The artist agrees to do the work nad leaves.
Some years pass, and the emperor has not heard from the artist. Being impatient he pays the artist a visit at his home. Upon entering the artist's home he finds the artist staring idly out the window at a flock of birds.
The emperor is enraged, and demands an explanation for the delay.
The artist, merely smiles, nods his head and begins to go about his home removing scraps of paper from cabinets and drawers. He hands the scraps to the emperor. The scraps are all drawings. Some of bird's wings, some of bird's feet, some heads, some simply of feathers. None are of a bird.
Having shown this to the emperor, the artist sat at his easel and in a few minutes had produced the most beautiful, lifelike drawing of a bird that the emperor had ever seen.
Then the emperor sat and waited until the artist had finished the painting.
How stupid can governments get? What purpose could this possibly serve? It's not like there aren't thousand of other servers that aren't subject to french regulation. The people who wish to remain anonymous will simply move their sites to Geo Cities or wherever. Or they could just give a bogus identity.
Just another example of beaurocrats who just don't get it. Why don't they just send the money directly to another country and avoid the middle man.
More like one language, but you have to remember the size of the country. I would have to drive 2 days just to get to Mexico, where as you can drive across Denmark in about a day (I think). If every state in the US used a different language, Americans would speak several different languages. Actually, with the thickness of some accents, you could almost count them as seperate languages. If for some reason I have to go to New Jersey or Maine (Northern US), I can barely understand the natives and they can barely understand me.
BTW, my wife did not shoot at him. If she had shot at him, he would be very dead as she is a good shot. I can't figure out why that would bother you though, he was illegally trespassing and appeared to be in the process of either trying to rob me, or trying to sneak a peak. Either way, he deserved to have the fear of God put back into him.
Well, considering that I don't subscribe to a paper and live about a 1000 yards from the main road...plus, I did say it was a warning shot. If it's a paperboy, walking around behind my house, looking in the windows etc he deserves what he gets. It's called personal responsibilty. Okay, so he's a minor. It's called parental resposibility.
Plus, my wife would be more likely to use the rock salt rounds on some punk kid. She's a softy.
No, you wrote that you prefer democracy. What you described is not a pure democracy, but a republic.
Individual liberties are not dictated by corporations. And I think you meant to say a government so weak that it cannot control the corporations, no offense intended, I just figured American English is not your mother tongue. It is not the place of government to control corporations, corporations are owned by private individuals and it is the place of private individuals to control the government.
The US constitution does not protect the right to keep and bear arms in order to decrease crime , the right is protected in order to decrease government. Furthermore, I do feel free to keep my guns, it's one of those rights thing.
I left Germany in 97. Why not bill by the minute? Why bother? As far as the social system ensuring that everyone has an equal chance of succeeding...that's what the communists said. It also ensures that everyone has an equal chance of failure. Saying that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer is drivel, there's no evidence for this, and as a matter of fact, I would have to say that on the whole the standard of living has done nothing but increase, I know mine has.
I can't say about Denmark, but muggings happened often enough while I was in Germany that I would have felt much better with a weapon on me. Plus, it is way simplistic to pretend that everyone in America walks around with a gun, truth is, most people don't even own one, and most feel safe that way.
Yes, most european governments take care of their poor economically, the point is that money doesn't fall out of the sky, it is taken from someone (against their will). In the US we take care of our poor as well, we just tend to do it without being forced to by the government. As far as how much money the US spends on Police vs Denmark, please give me some per capita figures along with a source. I would just love for someone to back up sweeping statements like this for once.
Finally, I don't want the government paying for my education. Furthermore, they will in no way be paying for my children's (Yes, we homeschool), simply because I do not wish to steal money from someone else in order to provide for my family. That's something I can do fine, all by myself.
AOL-Time-Warner. They need to make money, which means they need eyeballs, which means they will try to attract those eyeballs. Besides, I don't have a city council, we have some elected officials, but the last one I saw or had to bother with was the property accessor. He came around the back door to look at a building I had erected, my wife saw him (he didn't bother to ring the doorbell) thought he was a perv and fired a warning shot across his bow.
Okay, I had to deal with the sherriff too when he came by, but no biggie, he and I had a good laugh and the tax accessor remembered to ring the doorbell and show proper ID when he came back the next day
I'm sorry, but after living in Germany for 5 years (Heidelberg), I can say without a doubt that the telephone service sucked.
Billed by the minute for local calls
14.4 Connection on a good day
And as far as free education...well there is no such thing. You do pay for it, the only difference is that you also steal money out of other people's pockets to pay for it
Oooh, here's an idea! Let's vote for more bread and circuses!
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that the porn industry is part of the media too. Those free porno sites are there with the intent of getting people to buy stuff as well. And porn is just as addictive for some people.
What kid do you know that isn't already infected with the BUY BUY BUY syndrome? Have you seen cartoons lately? They exist with the sole purpose of getting kids to whine enough to their parents so that they will buy them this toy so they will shut up and be happy for a minute or two.
Heck, try going to a department store or the mall during Christmas.
Or even take a look at school teaching materials. How many learning materials use commercial cartoon characters? Do you think they are there just to make the learning more enjoyable? Well, they are somewhat, but don't fool yourself into thinking that's the only reason they are there.
Actually, the clinics sound like a "good thing". The students get real work experience and get credit. Sounds just like co-op programs with the exception that the proff can guide students towards areas they need more focus on. Of course, since it involves money it must be evil...
How is that any different than firm X advertising in newspaper B, and newspaper B finds dirt on firm X (who is their biggest advertisier)? Besides, how much ground breaking journalism do you see out of college journalism departments. Most of the interesting stuff is done by students using their own resources.
Sorry, over reacted to the "real" bit.
Actually farmers are generally very quick to adopt new technology if it makes any sense whatsoever. I can't tell you the number of farmers I know that have GPS systems in their tractors along with other monitoring equipment so that they know (to within 3 feet), which parts of their land are producing and which are not. Not to mention the hand helds, laptops and other paraphanelia. Some of them are serious techies.
Actually, I as a taxpayer don't like the idea of subsidizing some brain dead moron to go to college at all. It seems to me that the person that get's most of the benefit of that money is not me or society as a whole. It's the kid that's going to college (with my luck probably getting an MS in philosophy) so he can get him a "gud jobe".
Also, corporations pay taxes too.
Besides, if all the money making research took place only at think tanks, guess what would happen to college research? It would dry up and blow away. Colleges are already having a hard enough time hanging on to their people.
The price of tuition has more to do with supply and demand than anything else. There is no where near enough supply of higher learning to meet the demand for it. Not with the US's current educational system where every parent pushes their child to go to college and get a "good job" no matter how brain dead that child may be, and no matter how much happier that child might have been as a garbage collector.
As an answer to those complaining about high levels of college debt, I have an answer. Don't go to college. If you think it costs too much, than don't buy it. Or you could even (gasp) work your way through college! Granted, it might take you longer, and you might not have so much time for beer guzzling/lan partying but if you want the rewards of a college education, then you should be prepared to pay the price.
Go spend a summer on a real farm with no computers Katz, then write about the evils of technology.
Real farms have computers dammit.
WeFarm.net
Yes, it really is a farming site.
Katz say money bad.
Sheesh, why are people so aghast that someone should make some profit from their work? Doesn't it make sense that people are generally willing to pay more for the things that they need?
Does Katz think that corporations fund research into stuff so they can then FORCE that stuff upon the unsuspecting masses? No, they do it because they think that is what people need/want.
Granted, this means there will be less research on the suitability of jello as a medium for information transfer and other obviously stupid research projects, but this is not necessarily a bad thing.
BTW, did anybody notice that Katz's spelling was particularly bad in this one? Did somebody hack a fake article posting?
You make a faulty analogy. In order for your analogy to be correct, the magazine publisher would no longer even offer that particular issue, even if that publisher had agreed to send you another copy of that issue at a later date if for some reason you lost yours.
Also, don't confuse distributing abandonware with distributing the source code for that software, they are two different issues entirely.
I do see what these sites are doing as a public service, especially if they do as the interviewee did and remove anything requested by the publisher. It would be even better if they could work out something with the publisher, maybe even a payment scheme. Where they would pay the publisher X amount per download. Then the publisher could still see some profit from their older stuff.
Of course, the amount charged would have to be minimal to be effective, but if a million people went out and downloaded an old game, it might give the publisher the idea to re-release it for newer machines.
What's the point if you can't do a search of the contents? Basically it works out to the same thing as free web hosting. That is free web hosting where you are limited to 100K files sizes. Smells like a public relations ploy or some other technique used to garner "good will".
Hmmm, sounds like I found a new sig... a quivering mound of unstable hacks, with blueberry syrup please.
They also make great Christmas and birthday gifts! Who's going to send one to the judge?
Puhlease...
And maybe after you've had to care for a dying parent (and seen for yourself how poor Medicare/Medicaid is for our citizens),
What in the world leads you to believe that you (or anyone else) is entitled to have everyone else pay for your parents health care. They're your parents you pay for it (yes, I pay for mine thank you).
or stepped into a city school to meet your child's frazzled out teacher because (s)he has a class size of nearly 40 pupils,
I see, now I'm supposed to pay to make sure your children get an education too. They're your kids, it's your responsibility.
or walked along one of the many bridges which are literally crumbling from lack of repairs
Who elected your local government? Take it up with them!
That your skills are in demand today isn't proof they will be in demand tomorrow.
That's when you have to learn new skills. I guess you should be entitled to a job too, even if you don't put forth the effort to learn skills that make you employable.
And consider the many citizens of America who had to grow up with substandard education, poor health care, and dilapidated surroundings; that could be you but for circumstance.
They are me. So my life hasn't been perfect, who the hell said it would be? Where in our constitution is there a right to happiness? It merely protects the right to pursue happiness, it doesn't obligate the government to provide it.
PREPARE YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY!
Well, duh. You went through all that effort to merely say you're voting for Ralph Nader. You could have saved yourself some work by stating "Bush Sucks! Gore Sucks! I think I'll Ralph!".
Then again, I did get sucked into responding to your troll bait.
The story is of an old Chinese artist, famous because of the quality of his work. One afternoon, the emperor invites him to the palace and once there asks the artist to make a painting of his beautiful pet bird. The artist agrees to do the work nad leaves.
Some years pass, and the emperor has not heard from the artist. Being impatient he pays the artist a visit at his home. Upon entering the artist's home he finds the artist staring idly out the window at a flock of birds.
The emperor is enraged, and demands an explanation for the delay.
The artist, merely smiles, nods his head and begins to go about his home removing scraps of paper from cabinets and drawers. He hands the scraps to the emperor. The scraps are all drawings. Some of bird's wings, some of bird's feet, some heads, some simply of feathers. None are of a bird.
Having shown this to the emperor, the artist sat at his easel and in a few minutes had produced the most beautiful, lifelike drawing of a bird that the emperor had ever seen.
Then the emperor sat and waited until the artist had finished the painting.
Just another example of beaurocrats who just don't get it. Why don't they just send the money directly to another country and avoid the middle man.
BTW, my wife did not shoot at him. If she had shot at him, he would be very dead as she is a good shot. I can't figure out why that would bother you though, he was illegally trespassing and appeared to be in the process of either trying to rob me, or trying to sneak a peak. Either way, he deserved to have the fear of God put back into him.
Plus, my wife would be more likely to use the rock salt rounds on some punk kid. She's a softy.
Individual liberties are not dictated by corporations. And I think you meant to say a government so weak that it cannot control the corporations, no offense intended, I just figured American English is not your mother tongue. It is not the place of government to control corporations, corporations are owned by private individuals and it is the place of private individuals to control the government.
The US constitution does not protect the right to keep and bear arms in order to decrease crime , the right is protected in order to decrease government. Furthermore, I do feel free to keep my guns, it's one of those rights thing.
I can't say about Denmark, but muggings happened often enough while I was in Germany that I would have felt much better with a weapon on me. Plus, it is way simplistic to pretend that everyone in America walks around with a gun, truth is, most people don't even own one, and most feel safe that way.
Yes, most european governments take care of their poor economically, the point is that money doesn't fall out of the sky, it is taken from someone (against their will). In the US we take care of our poor as well, we just tend to do it without being forced to by the government. As far as how much money the US spends on Police vs Denmark, please give me some per capita figures along with a source. I would just love for someone to back up sweeping statements like this for once.
Finally, I don't want the government paying for my education. Furthermore, they will in no way be paying for my children's (Yes, we homeschool), simply because I do not wish to steal money from someone else in order to provide for my family. That's something I can do fine, all by myself.
Okay, I had to deal with the sherriff too when he came by, but no biggie, he and I had a good laugh and the tax accessor remembered to ring the doorbell and show proper ID when he came back the next day
More power to you. I myself prefer the democratic republic that the US used to be.
Unfortunately, it appears all the idiots are intent on voting themselves bread and circuses instead of protecting their individual liberties.
Look, you keep your free universites and government funded bread and circuses, I'll keep my guns, and my money, deal?
I happen to think I can take care of myself much better than any government can, if you want a nanny state, just stay put
Oh yeah, history courses worldwide always have that section on "History of Denmark's Phone System".
Same problem, different domain
Billed by the minute for local calls
14.4 Connection on a good day
And as far as free education...well there is no such thing. You do pay for it, the only difference is that you also steal money out of other people's pockets to pay for it
Oooh, here's an idea! Let's vote for more bread and circuses!