Other customers (like parents, who tend to be the people bankrolling Christmas and birthday gifts) are liable to appreciate the move quite a bit.
And other parents are going to be offended that the store manager wants them to waste their time to come in and say their kid can buy a game. He's doing something that he has no business doing and is costing his store money, just to make a few prudes happy.
You might not remember history, but Apple does, and they don't want to repeat it. OS/2. BeOS. The Mac Clones. Until Microsoft's OS monopoly has ended, your "competition" would be more like "corporate suicide."
But I don't see any reasonableness in prosecuting an inherently reasonable law. Like that (black) high school student who had the book thrown at him for having sex with his (white) girlfriend because she was a couple years younger than him and broke an asinine law in Georgia.
People throw around the word fascist to describe any policy they don't like (that core observation is the heart of Godwin's law). Excepting the geographical accident that places both of them in Germany, there is NOTHING analagous between Nazism and the actions of the government in this case.
Yes, some glaciers are shrinking. But some that have been CLAIMED to be shrinking have actually been growing. And other glaciers are growing, as well.
Uh huh. Glenn Beck and a bunch of other wingnuts made a big deal out of a thickening Antarctic ice shelf, neglecting to mention the fact that the reason it was thickening was do to increased precipitation, not a drop in temperature. And the the increased precipitation comes from *warmer air*. I wouldn't be surprised if your mystery glaciers were increasing for the same reason.
A better way to put this is conservatives believe that society works better when your reward is proportinoal to contribution.
Which is why they like regressive taxes (like the sales tax) or a flat tax on wages (so people who's income comes from investments wont pay a dime). Which is why they are freaking out that they might, *gasp*, have to pay taxes at at least the same rate as the middle class. Or as John Edwards likes to say: they believe in taxing work, not wealth.
The conservative way seems to be working better than every other method tried in the last 10,000 years...
The conservative way has royally cornholed the middle class, the economy, and created a new Gilded Age.
...aaaand then he made a mockery of the office, slept around on his wife, made an international joke of the word "cigar,"
Only because of a Republican witch hunt.
and completely ignored the growing threat of terrorism leading up to 9/11.
Horseshit. Clinton cared more about getting Bin Laddin before he killed 3,000 Americans than George Bush cares about getting him after he killed 3,000 Americans.
And that's not even getting into the stuff he's suspected of doing.
Horseshit. He was investigated and reinvestigated and reinvestigated by the GOP Congress and by Ken Starr. And the the worst think they could pin on him was splitting hairs over his sex life.
Something that bugs me is the number of people, liberal and conservative alike, that really believe that just having wealth proves you're more intelligent than the average person and deserve to be in a position of leadership.
Could be worse. Could have been Bush in 2000, taking credit during a debate for health care legislation he actually, um, vetoed when he was governor of Texas. But the media was too busy making shit up about Gore's "exaggerations" to notice the mountain of hypocrisy.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it "easy" but intimidation is a possibility. I guess another possible flaw would be taking all the ballots that are sent to your house and filling them out for the recipients, then mailing them in. No system is perfect, but this one seems to be working well for Oregon.
And an even better one than that: vote by mail. Anonymous and verifiable. It also has the benefits of allowing you to vote at your leisure in the comfort of your own home, rather than having to travel and wait in line. You can even take you ballot and do some Googling on the races rather than have to look up the candidates and do your research ahead of time.
You DO realize most clips they send notice to are totally the book example of why DMCA notice should be sent.
And *you* DO realize that these notices are sent out under *penalty of perjury*, which is fairly serious business. If a DMCA claim is frivolous, they deserve to get hit with a counter-claim. That's how the law is set up. And they know this full well.
So no, Viacom should not be let off so easy. But then, you groupthink zealots who run around attacking what you see as Slashdot groupthink are never happy. So run along and find an Apple story so you think you can be the first person to post "Now if this were Microsoft, you'd all be up in arms..."
I see you don't know how to read. I am perfectly aware that platforms change. What you completely missed was how the GOP tries, and has always tried, to have it both ways on "small government." Whereas the Democratic party does not simultaneously pander to the NAACP and the KKK.
Hardly; it's more like a bit of a lazy, incompetent president. Taking Bush to task for not doing anything in the face of point-blank warnings is no more "20/20 hindsight" than asking him why he decided to keep reading My Pet Goat rather than getting on the phone when planes started hitting buildings. This wasn't a fluke: the exact same thing happened four years later, when he received point-blank warnings on Katrina and ignored those as well. Bush doesn't care about what he doesn't know about. And he doesn't know about much. At least Reagan could delegate.
The particulars of the attack were not known (I know there was speculation).
Insofar as alerting the FBI, the FAA, and NORAD, yes they were: Bin Laddin determined to strike the U.S., and that he might use planes to do so. It would have taken minutes for an FAA official to write a memo telling staff to report suspicious activity, and a few minutes for a NORAD commander to prepare a plan to force down planes over probable target cities, which would certainly include DC and NYC. The morning of 911, the FAA notices that three large planes are missing, which certainly counts as "suspicous", and calls the SOD, who calls NORAD, who starts tracking planes and scrambles a few fighter jets. We might not have been able to prevent the hijackings, but we certainally could have prevented them from hitting the WTC and the Pentagon.
Unfortunately the CIA did not tell the FBI that some of those suspected terrorists were in the US. If they did FBI would have no problems obtaining proper warrants.
The CIA didn't need to tell the FBI. It was all laid out on a silver platter on Bush's desk: Bin Laddin determined to strike the U.S., and that he might use planes to do so. He could have taken five minutes to direct the FBI to look out for suspects, tell the FAA to watch out for suspicious activity, and tell NORAD to come up with a plan for forcing down planes. Instead he blew it off.
Except of course that the Democratic party is no longer racist, whereas the GOP is still trying to have it both ways with the "small government" mantra. But then, that was always more of a marketing slogan anyway. What they really want is to get rid of some regulation* and social spending, but baby, bring on those pork barrel projects and military spending. Phil Gramm, for example, spent much of his career railing against "big government", yet bragged that "I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis."
*Big business has no problem with big regulation if it's in their favor. i.e. pharma getting their ban on importing drugs from Canada.
No, we haven't. The NeoCons just hijacked the Party on the way to Never-Nervous Land and stopped listening to us because the Far Far Right demanded their agenda be implemented, kicked in massive campaign contributions, and since their agenda was big and splashy, made sure it got all the press coverage.
Conservatives had no problem backing Bush to the hilt in 2000, when everyone knew he was an incompetent idiot. And no problem backing him in 2004 when everyone knew he was an incompetent, warmongering, torturing, Constitution shredding, cowardly, incompetent idiot. But now that he's killing their electoral chances for the next generation, he's suddenly not a real conservative anymore. Glenn Greenwald has a nice rant on the subject.
Yawn. The last defense of the "balance" argument: I thought you had an open mind. Balance is bullshit, whether it be My Pet Goat, Intelligent Design, or shredding the Constitution. A spade is a spade.
All the things you list are no excuse for you to steal their content.
Don't be a tool for the industry. It's not stealing, never has been and never will be. Else the RIAA would be pressing charges of theft against downloaders rather than suing them for copyright infringement. And it's also not about getting it for "free", as it's only free if your time is worthless. It's about the convieneince. And NBC is making it far less convenient to get their shows legally.
Don't be a tool for the industry. It's not stealing, never has been and never will be. Else the RIAA would be pressing charges of theft against downloaders rather than suing them for copyright infringement. And it's also not about getting it for "free", as it's only free if your time is worthless. It's about the convieneince. And NBC is making it far less convenient to get their shows legally.
For the 1,000,000,000,000th time, that is copy, thank you. The number of thefts in the history of Napster/gnutella/Azures/etc: zero.
And you forgot something: downloading from p2p is only free if your time is worthless. With p2p, you have to deal with poorly encoded/incomplete/fake files and crappy connections. If you make decent money, it makes far more sense to get a subscription on iTunes: fast, reasonable quality, guaranteed downloads. If you don't make decent money, you are unlikely to buy the media in any format in any case.
P2P was never about "free". To borrow that old line about the economy: it's about the convenience, stupid. And NBC is making it far less convenient for many people who would happily buy their shows on iTunes. They are killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.
There may be a little bit of a conflict of interest there.
Since ABC was getting the same deal as NBC, I think you maybe a little bit worried over nothing. It wasn't a conflict over interest, it was a conflict of NBC wanting to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs and Jobs refusing to go along.
There is no conflict of interest, as they both want to distribute content and get paid for it. The conflict is over NBC wanting to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs, and Jobs refusing to go along with it.
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Other customers (like parents, who tend to be the people bankrolling Christmas and birthday gifts) are liable to appreciate the move quite a bit.
And other parents are going to be offended that the store manager wants them to waste their time to come in and say their kid can buy a game. He's doing something that he has no business doing and is costing his store money, just to make a few prudes happy.
You might not remember history, but Apple does, and they don't want to repeat it. OS/2. BeOS. The Mac Clones. Until Microsoft's OS monopoly has ended, your "competition" would be more like "corporate suicide."
But I don't see any reasonableness in prosecuting an inherently reasonable law. Like that (black) high school student who had the book thrown at him for having sex with his (white) girlfriend because she was a couple years younger than him and broke an asinine law in Georgia.
People throw around the word fascist to describe any policy they don't like (that core observation is the heart of Godwin's law). Excepting the geographical accident that places both of them in Germany, there is NOTHING analagous between Nazism and the actions of the government in this case.
So what? Was Mussolini German?
Yes, some glaciers are shrinking. But some that have been CLAIMED to be shrinking have actually been growing. And other glaciers are growing, as well.
Uh huh. Glenn Beck and a bunch of other wingnuts made a big deal out of a thickening Antarctic ice shelf, neglecting to mention the fact that the reason it was thickening was do to increased precipitation, not a drop in temperature. And the the increased precipitation comes from *warmer air*. I wouldn't be surprised if your mystery glaciers were increasing for the same reason.
I think that only applies to "music" cdrs, not "data" cdrs.
A better way to put this is conservatives believe that society works better when your reward is proportinoal to contribution.
Which is why they like regressive taxes (like the sales tax) or a flat tax on wages (so people who's income comes from investments wont pay a dime). Which is why they are freaking out that they might, *gasp*, have to pay taxes at at least the same rate as the middle class. Or as John Edwards likes to say: they believe in taxing work, not wealth.
The conservative way seems to be working better than every other method tried in the last 10,000 years...
The conservative way has royally cornholed the middle class, the economy, and created a new Gilded Age.
...aaaand then he made a mockery of the office, slept around on his wife, made an international joke of the word "cigar,"
Only because of a Republican witch hunt.
and completely ignored the growing threat of terrorism leading up to 9/11.
Horseshit. Clinton cared more about getting Bin Laddin before he killed 3,000 Americans than George Bush cares about getting him after he killed 3,000 Americans.
And that's not even getting into the stuff he's suspected of doing.
Horseshit. He was investigated and reinvestigated and reinvestigated by the GOP Congress and by Ken Starr. And the the worst think they could pin on him was splitting hairs over his sex life.
Something that bugs me is the number of people, liberal and conservative alike, that really believe that just having wealth proves you're more intelligent than the average person and deserve to be in a position of leadership.
Like who.
Could be worse. Could have been Bush in 2000, taking credit during a debate for health care legislation he actually, um, vetoed when he was governor of Texas. But the media was too busy making shit up about Gore's "exaggerations" to notice the mountain of hypocrisy.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it "easy" but intimidation is a possibility. I guess another possible flaw would be taking all the ballots that are sent to your house and filling them out for the recipients, then mailing them in. No system is perfect, but this one seems to be working well for Oregon.
Actually, there's a better answer still.
And an even better one than that: vote by mail. Anonymous and verifiable. It also has the benefits of allowing you to vote at your leisure in the comfort of your own home, rather than having to travel and wait in line. You can even take you ballot and do some Googling on the races rather than have to look up the candidates and do your research ahead of time.
You DO realize most clips they send notice to are totally the book example of why DMCA notice should be sent.
And *you* DO realize that these notices are sent out under *penalty of perjury*, which is fairly serious business. If a DMCA claim is frivolous, they deserve to get hit with a counter-claim. That's how the law is set up. And they know this full well.
So no, Viacom should not be let off so easy. But then, you groupthink zealots who run around attacking what you see as Slashdot groupthink are never happy. So run along and find an Apple story so you think you can be the first person to post "Now if this were Microsoft, you'd all be up in arms..."
You suck. Worst joke since this one for the release of The Wizard on DVD.
I see you don't know how to read. I am perfectly aware that platforms change. What you completely missed was how the GOP tries, and has always tried, to have it both ways on "small government." Whereas the Democratic party does not simultaneously pander to the NAACP and the KKK.
This is bit of 20/20 hindsight.
Hardly; it's more like a bit of a lazy, incompetent president. Taking Bush to task for not doing anything in the face of point-blank warnings is no more "20/20 hindsight" than asking him why he decided to keep reading My Pet Goat rather than getting on the phone when planes started hitting buildings. This wasn't a fluke: the exact same thing happened four years later, when he received point-blank warnings on Katrina and ignored those as well. Bush doesn't care about what he doesn't know about. And he doesn't know about much. At least Reagan could delegate.
The particulars of the attack were not known (I know there was speculation).
Insofar as alerting the FBI, the FAA, and NORAD, yes they were: Bin Laddin determined to strike the U.S., and that he might use planes to do so. It would have taken minutes for an FAA official to write a memo telling staff to report suspicious activity, and a few minutes for a NORAD commander to prepare a plan to force down planes over probable target cities, which would certainly include DC and NYC. The morning of 911, the FAA notices that three large planes are missing, which certainly counts as "suspicous", and calls the SOD, who calls NORAD, who starts tracking planes and scrambles a few fighter jets. We might not have been able to prevent the hijackings, but we certainally could have prevented them from hitting the WTC and the Pentagon.
Unfortunately the CIA did not tell the FBI that some of those suspected terrorists were in the US. If they did FBI would have no problems obtaining proper warrants.
The CIA didn't need to tell the FBI. It was all laid out on a silver platter on Bush's desk: Bin Laddin determined to strike the U.S., and that he might use planes to do so. He could have taken five minutes to direct the FBI to look out for suspects, tell the FAA to watch out for suspicious activity, and tell NORAD to come up with a plan for forcing down planes. Instead he blew it off.
Except of course that the Democratic party is no longer racist, whereas the GOP is still trying to have it both ways with the "small government" mantra. But then, that was always more of a marketing slogan anyway. What they really want is to get rid of some regulation* and social spending, but baby, bring on those pork barrel projects and military spending. Phil Gramm, for example, spent much of his career railing against "big government", yet bragged that "I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis."
*Big business has no problem with big regulation if it's in their favor. i.e. pharma getting their ban on importing drugs from Canada.
No, we haven't. The NeoCons just hijacked the Party on the way to Never-Nervous Land and stopped listening to us because the Far Far Right demanded their agenda be implemented, kicked in massive campaign contributions, and since their agenda was big and splashy, made sure it got all the press coverage.
Conservatives had no problem backing Bush to the hilt in 2000, when everyone knew he was an incompetent idiot. And no problem backing him in 2004 when everyone knew he was an incompetent, warmongering, torturing, Constitution shredding, cowardly, incompetent idiot. But now that he's killing their electoral chances for the next generation, he's suddenly not a real conservative anymore. Glenn Greenwald has a nice rant on the subject.
I thought you libs had an "open mind"?
Yawn. The last defense of the "balance" argument: I thought you had an open mind. Balance is bullshit, whether it be My Pet Goat, Intelligent Design, or shredding the Constitution. A spade is a spade.
Don't forget "and buy a region 1 DVD player, also at twice the price."
All the things you list are no excuse for you to steal their content.
Don't be a tool for the industry. It's not stealing, never has been and never will be. Else the RIAA would be pressing charges of theft against downloaders rather than suing them for copyright infringement. And it's also not about getting it for "free", as it's only free if your time is worthless. It's about the convieneince. And NBC is making it far less convenient to get their shows legally.
doesn't mean you can steal their shit.
Don't be a tool for the industry. It's not stealing, never has been and never will be. Else the RIAA would be pressing charges of theft against downloaders rather than suing them for copyright infringement. And it's also not about getting it for "free", as it's only free if your time is worthless. It's about the convieneince. And NBC is making it far less convenient to get their shows legally.
Steal:
For the 1,000,000,000,000th time, that is copy, thank you. The number of thefts in the history of Napster/gnutella/Azures/etc: zero.
And you forgot something: downloading from p2p is only free if your time is worthless. With p2p, you have to deal with poorly encoded/incomplete/fake files and crappy connections. If you make decent money, it makes far more sense to get a subscription on iTunes: fast, reasonable quality, guaranteed downloads. If you don't make decent money, you are unlikely to buy the media in any format in any case.
P2P was never about "free". To borrow that old line about the economy: it's about the convenience, stupid. And NBC is making it far less convenient for many people who would happily buy their shows on iTunes. They are killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.
There may be a little bit of a conflict of interest there.
Since ABC was getting the same deal as NBC, I think you maybe a little bit worried over nothing. It wasn't a conflict over interest, it was a conflict of NBC wanting to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs and Jobs refusing to go along.
There is no conflict of interest, as they both want to distribute content and get paid for it. The conflict is over NBC wanting to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs, and Jobs refusing to go along with it.