and a 4.5lb ebook (big damn electronic tablets that are about 1.5x the size of a regular paper back) isn't?
Or a laptop?
The thing about books is that you can carry them pretty much anywhere, don't need batteries, etc...
Would you want to "rent" this book (Agatha Christie's classic mystery "And Then There Were None") for a dollar when you can buy the book for about the same on half.com or a local used book store.
I could, maybe, perhaps, possibly be interested if it was a new book, but not a fifty year old classic (1939).
I have no idea what the RosettaBooks execs are smoking, but it seems to be the same stuff as the guys who make the ebook (you've seen them at staples, office depot, etc.)- a 4 pound lcd screen with a back light (its only reedeeming feature) that sells for nearly $300.
Wake up you morons. Nobody is going to buy (or rent) your (word seems to fit perfectly here) shit.
Who wants to take bets on how long before they hit fuckedcompany? We'll start a betting pool and everything!
Yes.
The same US Supreme Court that said it was acceptable to arrest people and throw them in jail (albeit for a day or so) for minor traffic offenses.
Think of that the next time you drive through Bumfuck, Arkensas.
The Supreme Court justices are nothing but the posterchildren of the democratic and republican parties (who are they appointed by?).
But it sounds to me like he wants MS to make a secure email product that would never, ever do something without the user's permission.
I kinda found that funny, given MS's history.
Besides, I severly doubt that the DOJ will look favorably upon this move, or even if ms will have the fortitude and the gonads to even propose such a thing.
Yes, it would be cool, but I honestly think the folks in redmond don't have the ability to carry out something like this, on such a large scale and have it work properly from day one.
I'm actually not sure who could design the protocol - perhaps a think tank of the best programmers around the world hired by several governments for actually good money?
And yes, I read the last paragraph, and I still think XP's only redeeming feature is allowing us to write our own IP headers.
ever put marbles in a paintball gun? Or ball bearings? Non-lethal home protection at it's finest.
Depleted uranium would also be cool, but methinks that will be problematic.
everytime you have to put an email in use; support@verizon.com, support@aol.com or support@microsoft.com
Be creative. malda@slashdot.org is also a good one to use (watch my karma drop quickly now)
Thank you. I have to wonder one thing - if the mafia was still around as it was in the 20's and 30's (in strength and in "attitude"), would things be different?
If you could send me an email / give more info on some wonderful DA's, it would be great. I'm thinking of making a wall of shame page of figures in politics, etc...
12 months?
More like "shot while trying to evade authorities".
At least in russia, had this gone to trial they would of have put him to death with a three round burst to the back of the skull when he wasn't expecting it instead of strapping some guy to a table and drawing out the process, or burning him/her to death with electricity. I'm against the death penalty, but if you're going to kill someone, do it quickly and painlessly, when they least expect it.
Dunno how they do stuff in russia these days, but before, after a gulty verdict is passed and death sentence is handed down, there is one appeal with the defendant not present, at which point the convict goes to prison, is set free or develops a hole in their head.
But I have to give this a chance. We all bitch and complain about the amount of ads that are on the net. Do you people realize that the net is one of the mediums that have the least amount of advertising? (w/ exception of Top100 sites / hardcore porn, which seem to be all advertising, and exactly the same - but I digress)
Newspapers are disgustingly filled with ads, I'm only 20 and I can barely read the news because it's stuck all the way in the top left of the page, waaay above the super big ads, and mind you, above my plate bowl as well, I have about 2.5 feet from nose to content, maybe more or less if you do the trigonometry etc.. but still all ads in between my plate and the content.
( I live in the portland, oregon area - meier and frank must own the newspaper- you want pics? - I'll send them to you, my email is on the top.)
Radio is disgusting, with the exceptions of "rebel" radio or Public broadcasting. Hell - TV is easily 1/4 advertising, a half hour show actually lasts around 20 minutes, and forget long movies, who have 15 minute commercial breaks near the end.
You can't ignore them either in most of these mediums - some newspaper ads easily take up 4/5ths of a page - or even 2 page spreads, tv and radio channels can be changed, but that's not much of a solution. Turning off the crap and inserting a CD is my typical way of dealing with it.
And think of how many ads you are innundated with when you go downtown.
Quit bitching about the net, we have it pretty good still. Pop ups are not as annoying as things are going to get.
Oh. side note. Has anyone with an ad blocker had trouble with cnn's page (video section)? Anybody know why?
Ronin mentions that the egyptians could of have used silk - the egyptians had silk many times finer than what we can make today - in fact, supposedly the golden mummy cases (caskets?) looked brighter when they were dug up because several years/decades of delicate cleaning by museum staff has scratched the polished surface.
I wouldn't discount the egyptians as backwards people.
Canadian living in USA after failed bid at a.com looking for work. I had it good i.e.had them pay for my move down plus about 50k bonus (one time) for the move, rent for the first year, and cashed in my stock options at a profit.) Also got green cards out of the deal. Dunno wtf people are complaining about.
By no means was my experience "substandard" in any way.
Compared to where I and many other's came from, the USA paid really well - compared to where I came from and where others came from, the $ they earn in the states will be a definite improvement on their lifestyle in the old country.
Fine, perhaps they aren't being paid the average salary, but when you calculate moving, the green cards (i.e. pay lawyers, lots of lawyers), the rent, the bonuses, etc...) and they get substancially more $ than they would have back home.
The States isn't awesome in every way, it just has lower taxes and a higher standard of living than the majority of countries in the world.
Too bad the media doesn't cover any foreign news with the exception of when the us is bombing iraq..
As cool as a jet engine is (wow...) I would of have bought big plastic bags, filled them up with the expanding gas, sealed the bags, got throughly drunk with my cold beer and then shot the bags with a flare gun and watch mini-mushroom clouds appear in my backyard.
Come on. Being a pyro keeps you sane;)
BTW, this also works with 2 liter pop bottles (plastic) filled with a bit (1/4 bic lighter) of butane. Just throw those into a camp fire (watching for stray sparks of course, to avoid setting forest fires, and be sure to be about 10 feet away when you throw it).
Come on, whats better - cold beer and explosions shortly thereafter or cold beer and a jet engine that takes weeks to build?
Spoiled and rich?!?!?! This is in the country were 95%of the $ is in 5% of the population. I'm sure the same shit is in the other countries as well.
Dude, our friendly congresscritters don't even read the damn bills they pass - they can't - some are well over a thousand pages. I think there was an informal survey and not one congresscritter read the DMCA or COPA from front to back.
Moneybag on the left, reading material (includes your letters) on the right. Which one is the critter to choose...
I tell you this. If someone went to Jack V.'s house and put a hole in his head (Just like the Irish do it - with a drill, so one would not have to face minimum sentencing laws for murder with a gun), and left a note saying he did it because the entertainment industry was unfair to artists, etc.. Mr V's um.. replacement would probably be a lot more careful about who's shoes he stepped on.
Now, that's probably not going to happen, and this is:
Some people are going to make a few signs, protest for a few weeks, get pepper sprayed and beaten with 4 foot steel clubs buy the thugs in black, aka. the police. Jack won't even hear about the protests (he doesn't care, even if he does), continue paying his "campaign contributions" to politicians, and smoke Cuban cigars while drinking hundred-year-old wine with an actually disease-free hooker.
Now. I think I've made it clear that Jack and you live in different societies. What do you work for - $30 an hour? $40? Majority of the people in the country make under $15. Perhaps a new/. Poll idea is upcoming.
Hell different worlds. The majority of the politicians don't care about what some pimply-faced Napster user who is at least 4 years away from voting (assuming he/she ever even registers to vote) has to say about the DMCA. Like someone said before. The politician's dilemma is a bag of money on my left hand and a letter on my right.
(Btw, even if the politician does care about being re-elected, he doesn't give a shit about Napster boy. Why? Because he knows that about half of the voters will vote for him anyways (because of the wonderful, two party, pre-chosen candidates [reminiscent of Stalinist Russia] American democracy) and s/he also knows that the guy running IS DOING THE EXACT SAME THING because s/he also has a bag of money in the left hand from the exact same people.
So. That, in a nutshell, is why you won't matter to the majority of the senior politicians in this country. Mind you, there are exceptions, but unfortunately they are too few and far between to matter in a vote. Mayors, etc tend not to matter in these situations.
If you want to repeal a law, you must get a large number of companies, who have money to spend on this - and by the way, have a very personal interest in getting the law repealed.
Besides, if you boycott music, what you are doing, in effect, is letting the music industry claim (to the lawmakers, at those nice parties, with 75 year old wine and "escorts") losses to a yet unknown form of piracy, ooh. CDR's, then Freenet or some encrypted form of gnuttella, which will be banned shortly after the unencrypted one, or if not banned, made useless.
I was going to say, yeah, it's all about the money, but I believe you've touched on a few other issues as well.
I'm not trying to start a flame war, but wondering about your opinion. I'm a canuck living in the states btw.
Would you say that Canada, on average, has more government corruption or the USA, or not.
It seems to me that government corruption is known as "campaign contributions, military contracts and $500 hammers" in the states while in Canada, it's airbuses and "fast" ferry's.
The USA is breaking a nuclear balistic missile treaty, refusing to aknowledge a germ warfare treaty, a land mine treaty and the kyoto environmental treaty. I think the Russian government is thinking of some other things at the moment.
Dmitry shouldn't expect help from the Russian consulate, even if the government did write a letter, the USA would send a big "fuck off" to them, just as it has to every other country.
By the time Bush's term is up, the draft will of have been imposed.
God bless america, home of the free and stuff.
I don't want to be overly negative, and I hope this guy will be freed, but you have to be realistic.
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and a 4.5lb ebook (big damn electronic tablets that are about 1.5x the size of a regular paper back) isn't?
Or a laptop?
The thing about books is that you can carry them pretty much anywhere, don't need batteries, etc...
Would you want to "rent" this book (Agatha Christie's classic mystery "And Then There Were None") for a dollar when you can buy the book for about the same on half.com or a local used book store.
I could, maybe, perhaps, possibly be interested if it was a new book, but not a fifty year old classic (1939).
I have no idea what the RosettaBooks execs are smoking, but it seems to be the same stuff as the guys who make the ebook (you've seen them at staples, office depot, etc.)- a 4 pound lcd screen with a back light (its only reedeeming feature) that sells for nearly $300.
Wake up you morons. Nobody is going to buy (or rent) your (word seems to fit perfectly here) shit.
Who wants to take bets on how long before they hit fuckedcompany? We'll start a betting pool and everything!
Yes.
The same US Supreme Court that said it was acceptable to arrest people and throw them in jail (albeit for a day or so) for minor traffic offenses.
Think of that the next time you drive through Bumfuck, Arkensas.
The Supreme Court justices are nothing but the posterchildren of the democratic and republican parties (who are they appointed by?).
nevermind that the pages are overwritten with "hacked by chinese".
Well, It was probably something like this.
Microsoft Balmer dis'es linux! cool!, accept, next, "attack of the clones", wtf? reject, next...
But it sounds to me like he wants MS to make a secure email product that would never, ever do something without the user's permission.
I kinda found that funny, given MS's history.
Besides, I severly doubt that the DOJ will look favorably upon this move, or even if ms will have the fortitude and the gonads to even propose such a thing.
Yes, it would be cool, but I honestly think the folks in redmond don't have the ability to carry out something like this, on such a large scale and have it work properly from day one.
I'm actually not sure who could design the protocol - perhaps a think tank of the best programmers around the world hired by several governments for actually good money?
And yes, I read the last paragraph, and I still think XP's only redeeming feature is allowing us to write our own IP headers.
fyi. link on your sig is broken.
ever put marbles in a paintball gun? Or ball bearings? Non-lethal home protection at it's finest.
Depleted uranium would also be cool, but methinks that will be problematic.
everytime you have to put an email in use; support@verizon.com, support@aol.com or support@microsoft.com
Be creative. malda@slashdot.org is also a good one to use (watch my karma drop quickly now)
Thank you. I have to wonder one thing - if the mafia was still around as it was in the 20's and 30's (in strength and in "attitude"), would things be different?
If you could send me an email / give more info on some wonderful DA's, it would be great. I'm thinking of making a wall of shame page of figures in politics, etc...
12 months?
More like "shot while trying to evade authorities".
At least in russia, had this gone to trial they would of have put him to death with a three round burst to the back of the skull when he wasn't expecting it instead of strapping some guy to a table and drawing out the process, or burning him/her to death with electricity. I'm against the death penalty, but if you're going to kill someone, do it quickly and painlessly, when they least expect it.
Dunno how they do stuff in russia these days, but before, after a gulty verdict is passed and death sentence is handed down, there is one appeal with the defendant not present, at which point the convict goes to prison, is set free or develops a hole in their head.
But I have to give this a chance. We all bitch and complain about the amount of ads that are on the net. Do you people realize that the net is one of the mediums that have the least amount of advertising? (w/ exception of Top100 sites / hardcore porn, which seem to be all advertising, and exactly the same - but I digress)
Newspapers are disgustingly filled with ads, I'm only 20 and I can barely read the news because it's stuck all the way in the top left of the page, waaay above the super big ads, and mind you, above my plate bowl as well, I have about 2.5 feet from nose to content, maybe more or less if you do the trigonometry etc.. but still all ads in between my plate and the content.
( I live in the portland, oregon area - meier and frank must own the newspaper- you want pics? - I'll send them to you, my email is on the top.)
Radio is disgusting, with the exceptions of "rebel" radio or Public broadcasting. Hell - TV is easily 1/4 advertising, a half hour show actually lasts around 20 minutes, and forget long movies, who have 15 minute commercial breaks near the end.
You can't ignore them either in most of these mediums - some newspaper ads easily take up 4/5ths of a page - or even 2 page spreads, tv and radio channels can be changed, but that's not much of a solution. Turning off the crap and inserting a CD is my typical way of dealing with it.
And think of how many ads you are innundated with when you go downtown.
Quit bitching about the net, we have it pretty good still. Pop ups are not as annoying as things are going to get.
Oh. side note. Has anyone with an ad blocker had trouble with cnn's page (video section)? Anybody know why?
And the flu is not a disease either right? Suck my balls you fucking bitch.
Ronin mentions that the egyptians could of have used silk - the egyptians had silk many times finer than what we can make today - in fact, supposedly the golden mummy cases (caskets?) looked brighter when they were dug up because several years/decades of delicate cleaning by museum staff has scratched the polished surface.
I wouldn't discount the egyptians as backwards people.
Anybody else find it ironic that Mono is named after a pretty bad disase (which I had last month and was a pain to get over)?
Mono: Contagious, painful, and well, a disease.
Canadian living in USA after failed bid at a .com looking for work. I had it good i.e.had them pay for my move down plus about 50k bonus (one time) for the move, rent for the first year, and cashed in my stock options at a profit.) Also got green cards out of the deal. Dunno wtf people are complaining about.
By no means was my experience "substandard" in any way.
Compared to where I and many other's came from, the USA paid really well - compared to where I came from and where others came from, the $ they earn in the states will be a definite improvement on their lifestyle in the old country.
Fine, perhaps they aren't being paid the average salary, but when you calculate moving, the green cards (i.e. pay lawyers, lots of lawyers), the rent, the bonuses, etc...) and they get substancially more $ than they would have back home.
The States isn't awesome in every way, it just has lower taxes and a higher standard of living than the majority of countries in the world.
Too bad the media doesn't cover any foreign news with the exception of when the us is bombing iraq..
As cool as a jet engine is (wow...) I would of have bought big plastic bags, filled them up with the expanding gas, sealed the bags, got throughly drunk with my cold beer and then shot the bags with a flare gun and watch mini-mushroom clouds appear in my backyard. ;)
Come on. Being a pyro keeps you sane
BTW, this also works with 2 liter pop bottles (plastic) filled with a bit (1/4 bic lighter) of butane. Just throw those into a camp fire (watching for stray sparks of course, to avoid setting forest fires, and be sure to be about 10 feet away when you throw it).
Come on, whats better - cold beer and explosions shortly thereafter or cold beer and a jet engine that takes weeks to build?
Spoiled and rich?!?!?! This is in the country were 95%of the $ is in 5% of the population. I'm sure the same shit is in the other countries as well.
Dude, our friendly congresscritters don't even read the damn bills they pass - they can't - some are well over a thousand pages. I think there was an informal survey and not one congresscritter read the DMCA or COPA from front to back.
Moneybag on the left, reading material (includes your letters) on the right. Which one is the critter to choose...
I thought Europeans liked bush on their women. I mean bushes, Argh. You know what I mean.
I tell you this. If someone went to Jack V.'s house and put a hole in his head (Just like the Irish do it - with a drill, so one would not have to face minimum sentencing laws for murder with a gun), and left a note saying he did it because the entertainment industry was unfair to artists, etc.. Mr V's um.. replacement would probably be a lot more careful about who's shoes he stepped on. /. Poll idea is upcoming.
Now, that's probably not going to happen, and this is:
Some people are going to make a few signs, protest for a few weeks, get pepper sprayed and beaten with 4 foot steel clubs buy the thugs in black, aka. the police. Jack won't even hear about the protests (he doesn't care, even if he does), continue paying his "campaign contributions" to politicians, and smoke Cuban cigars while drinking hundred-year-old wine with an actually disease-free hooker.
Now. I think I've made it clear that Jack and you live in different societies. What do you work for - $30 an hour? $40? Majority of the people in the country make under $15. Perhaps a new
Hell different worlds. The majority of the politicians don't care about what some pimply-faced Napster user who is at least 4 years away from voting (assuming he/she ever even registers to vote) has to say about the DMCA. Like someone said before. The politician's dilemma is a bag of money on my left hand and a letter on my right.
(Btw, even if the politician does care about being re-elected, he doesn't give a shit about Napster boy. Why? Because he knows that about half of the voters will vote for him anyways (because of the wonderful, two party, pre-chosen candidates [reminiscent of Stalinist Russia] American democracy) and s/he also knows that the guy running IS DOING THE EXACT SAME THING because s/he also has a bag of money in the left hand from the exact same people.
So. That, in a nutshell, is why you won't matter to the majority of the senior politicians in this country. Mind you, there are exceptions, but unfortunately they are too few and far between to matter in a vote. Mayors, etc tend not to matter in these situations.
If you want to repeal a law, you must get a large number of companies, who have money to spend on this - and by the way, have a very personal interest in getting the law repealed.
Besides, if you boycott music, what you are doing, in effect, is letting the music industry claim (to the lawmakers, at those nice parties, with 75 year old wine and "escorts") losses to a yet unknown form of piracy, ooh. CDR's, then Freenet or some encrypted form of gnuttella, which will be banned shortly after the unencrypted one, or if not banned, made useless.
I was going to say, yeah, it's all about the money, but I believe you've touched on a few other issues as well.
I'm not trying to start a flame war, but wondering about your opinion. I'm a canuck living in the states btw.
Would you say that Canada, on average, has more government corruption or the USA, or not.
It seems to me that government corruption is known as "campaign contributions, military contracts and $500 hammers" in the states while in Canada, it's airbuses and "fast" ferry's.
Dude, who needs tanks when you can "solve" 60,000 crimes in a two day spree. In a city of 2 million.
The USA is breaking a nuclear balistic missile treaty, refusing to aknowledge a germ warfare treaty, a land mine treaty and the kyoto environmental treaty. I think the Russian government is thinking of some other things at the moment.
Dmitry shouldn't expect help from the Russian consulate, even if the government did write a letter, the USA would send a big "fuck off" to them, just as it has to every other country.
By the time Bush's term is up, the draft will of have been imposed.
God bless america, home of the free and stuff.
I don't want to be overly negative, and I hope this guy will be freed, but you have to be realistic.
That was you? Fucker ;)
Trust me, I could kill someone with my heatsink. Wouldn't be too hard either.