Who cares if cellphone carriers want to maintain tight control of their network?
I'm very happy with the stability and predictability of the cellular network, and I have no interest in seeing it clotted up with some god-awful Bittorrent-ish thing that some kid invented so that he could avoid paying for ringtones or whatever. I would greatly prefer that my phone continues to be reliable than that the cellular networks are allowed to degenerate until they work as poorly as the internet.
Those of you with ATT service may not understand this distinction.
It's hard work. I spent two weeks working on a sheep farm. 12 hour days, very physical work. Not to mention living in a state of constant sexual exhaustion.
I really think that eventually the Middle East is going to be one large, glowing plateau of molten radioactive glass. And then how will we get the oil out?
"When you get rid of the real experts, who is going to figure out the new stuff?"
Interesting question. Why not ask the former management of Circuit City?
I wonder if it occurred to the telecom execs that the word "retroactive" could easily be applied again, and possibly not to their advantage.
Spineless weasels to a man, except for the US West guy who told the feds to take a hike.
We need to organize a nationwide, one-week "buyer's strike". For the whole week, nobody buys any online content, or CDs, or DVDs, or anything else.
We repeat the strike, every month, until the content industries ask for legislation to a) protect the consumer's right to free previews and "fair use" snippets of any performance, and b) insure that 98% of the consumer purchase price for any content goes directly to the artists, not to the blood-sucking drug-addicted mobsters that run the business.
I'd organize it myself, but I'm far too lazy, and I'd never make it through a whole week without porn anyway.
There is no such thing as a "jerk who is always right". Jerk quotient and job competency are inversely related, IMHO. Jerks are jerky because they're insecure. And I should know.
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This is all fine and good, but the fact remains that sometimes what the little bastards need is a damned good thrashing.
Thank you for that calm, insightful and reasoned comment.
...take off and nuke 'em from orbit. It's the only way to me sure.
Lie.
Speak only in Navaho. It worked great in WWII.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad elected in a landslide, with 100% of the population voting.
Hip developers? HIP? HAAAAAA-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! WOOOOO-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Oh stoppit yer killin me!
Who cares if cellphone carriers want to maintain tight control of their network?
I'm very happy with the stability and predictability of the cellular network, and I have no interest in seeing it clotted up with some god-awful Bittorrent-ish thing that some kid invented so that he could avoid paying for ringtones or whatever. I would greatly prefer that my phone continues to be reliable than that the cellular networks are allowed to degenerate until they work as poorly as the internet.
Those of you with ATT service may not understand this distinction.
...throw it away in someone else's yard, where you won't have to look at it.
It's hard work. I spent two weeks working on a sheep farm. 12 hour days, very physical work. Not to mention living in a state of constant sexual exhaustion.
Played a lot of pocket tanks with my friends.
Errmmm...that's a good way to get an embarrasing disease, isn't it?
KARMA.
Hmmm...from my experience with hospitals, I thought that all registered nurses studied Stalin as a role model.
I really think that eventually the Middle East is going to be one large, glowing plateau of molten radioactive glass. And then how will we get the oil out?
"When you get rid of the real experts, who is going to figure out the new stuff?" Interesting question. Why not ask the former management of Circuit City?
I wonder if it occurred to the telecom execs that the word "retroactive" could easily be applied again, and possibly not to their advantage. Spineless weasels to a man, except for the US West guy who told the feds to take a hike.
We need to organize a nationwide, one-week "buyer's strike". For the whole week, nobody buys any online content, or CDs, or DVDs, or anything else. We repeat the strike, every month, until the content industries ask for legislation to a) protect the consumer's right to free previews and "fair use" snippets of any performance, and b) insure that 98% of the consumer purchase price for any content goes directly to the artists, not to the blood-sucking drug-addicted mobsters that run the business. I'd organize it myself, but I'm far too lazy, and I'd never make it through a whole week without porn anyway.
There is no such thing as a "jerk who is always right". Jerk quotient and job competency are inversely related, IMHO. Jerks are jerky because they're insecure. And I should know.
Fantastic, the world needs more of Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood. And of course there's no such thing as too much Tolkien.
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