What's the RIAA going to do now that I can get all of my 300 cassettes that are obsolete, in digital form?
Aren't THEY the ones that said that I'm only paying to listen? I'm not paying to own it? If that's the case, didn't I pay once already to listen?
I consider myself quite lawful in downloading the scores of cassettes that I once owned. I don't even think that the Thomson Twins are even still around to take donations.
Half-Life 2 Collector's Edition which includes Half-Life 2 in DVD-ROM format, Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life: Source, a free limited edition t-shirt, and a Half-Life 2 strategy guide from Prima.
Do you even have anything to back up any of that? Or am I supposed to just go on the name Kennedy?
My friend George Feckle Einstein says that if you eat a green peanut M&M you get pregnant. It's an Einstein so it must be scientific right?
I wouldn't expect a lecture from Chomsky to be a good source of Free-Market information. I certainly wouldn't try to show the/. community how smart I was by ingesting it either.
3. Capitalism blew up in 2000. It's threatening to disappear completely from the face of the Earth and be replaced by feudalism and socialism. Pay attention.
Ha ha ha. I would wager that 99% of the country, the people you don't hear about on CNN, would tend to disagree with you. 100% of the dairy farmers in this area come home from work to food on the table and are tickled pink to go back out at 4am the next day. They're the richest men that they know.
It's all a matter of perspective. That and the fact that anyone can make up statistics.
Unions should have the right to take the company away from incompetent owners and give it to new owners for the price of the depreciated plant and equipment
WTF? The company has every right to fail, and the market will fix any missing product that the failed company was producing. Oh, and also, believe it or not, every single goddamn person in the union has the freedom to GET ANOTHER FUCKING JOB.
I, for one, am glad that the horse-carriage makers didn't band together and talk about how we needed the government to impead the progress of the auto-industry.
Go get educated and get a job somewhere else then. Just because you've been making paddle-ball devices for 13 years and all of a sudden Whamm-O decides to move the factory to Peru; DOESN'T mean that you're suddenly stuck and unable to make it.
The biggest house on my block belongs to a guy that started mopping floors in McDonalds, and now owns something like 6 or 8 or them in the area.
As soon as you voice concerns you become an alarmist. People shun you because you're crying wolf. And now, since people are taking your alarmist attitude seriously, nothing catastrophic ever happens, and then they say, "See? There was no danger. This safety is a waste of money. There was no danger from that little 2-bit dictator." Oops. I meant "cracked heat-shield".
Seriously. It'd be really cool if Belkin could tell the community that they've censured the people that thought this up. Kind of like how it would have been cool if Circuit City would have told the community that they smacked the lawyers that thought up Divx around a bit.
Bleh you lost any credability with me when you called Repulicans facists. Go crack open a dictionary and your history book. =) It'll take you much further than your hot-headed remarks.
That's a good observation IMO. There are too many companies that listen to their sales force at "Action Item Meetings". They have all the information in the world at their fingertips that should have clued them in on how the community would react.
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I agree. They're scared of the unknown.
I agree.
What's the RIAA going to do now that I can get all of my 300 cassettes that are obsolete, in digital form?
Aren't THEY the ones that said that I'm only paying to listen? I'm not paying to own it? If that's the case, didn't I pay once already to listen?
I consider myself quite lawful in downloading the scores of cassettes that I once owned. I don't even think that the Thomson Twins are even still around to take donations.
Funny. That's the same logic I would have LOVED to have seen applied to the smoking hysteria in N.Y.C.
Leave it up to the owner whether or not they want a TV or smoking.
Half-Life 2 Collector's Edition which includes Half-Life 2 in DVD-ROM format, Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life: Source, a free limited edition t-shirt, and a Half-Life 2 strategy guide from Prima.
Huh? Your info sounds like FUD to me.
Oh I'm sorry Mr Slashdot. Telling someone that "Slashdot is the way it is, stop whining" is no longer content?
Maybe I should have been more clear, Mr. Slashdot.
Please try to include your brain when you reply to comments on a VERY PUBLIC forum, Mr. Slashdot.
I hear what you're saying and completely agree. However, since all people ARE different, others will put importance in different things than you.
Thems the breaks.
You sir, are a monkey's bottom. The fact that you think Slashdot is right-wing is evidence enough.
Do you even have anything to back up any of that? Or am I supposed to just go on the name Kennedy?
/. community how smart I was by ingesting it either.
My friend George Feckle Einstein says that if you eat a green peanut M&M you get pregnant. It's an Einstein so it must be scientific right?
I wouldn't expect a lecture from Chomsky to be a good source of Free-Market information. I certainly wouldn't try to show the
Fear Bush or the truth?
Why stop and think like you, when so many people here would jump at the chance to blame Bush, Ashcroft, et. all?
It's like voting against the incumbant. Dipshits don't even care what they're stuck with, they just hate a person based on the op-eds they read.
That's why we won't be able to keep our republic.
How is cracking down on law-breakers an abuse of power?
I may not agree with copyright law, but then again I don't agree with Speed-Limits either.
I still pay my tickets though.
I think it's just assuming that most domain users aren't administrators.
It's not that there's a check for a computer that's a member of a domain.
*shrug*
Great reply. It's too bad that aside from being crazy, people like the person that you replied to are intelectually dishonest.
3. Capitalism blew up in 2000. It's threatening to disappear completely from the face of the Earth and be replaced by feudalism and socialism. Pay attention.
Ha ha ha. I would wager that 99% of the country, the people you don't hear about on CNN, would tend to disagree with you. 100% of the dairy farmers in this area come home from work to food on the table and are tickled pink to go back out at 4am the next day. They're the richest men that they know.
It's all a matter of perspective. That and the fact that anyone can make up statistics.
Unions should have the right to take the company away from incompetent owners and give it to new owners for the price of the depreciated plant and equipment
WTF? The company has every right to fail, and the market will fix any missing product that the failed company was producing. Oh, and also, believe it or not, every single goddamn person in the union has the freedom to GET ANOTHER FUCKING JOB.
Killswitch1968 makes good points.
I, for one, am glad that the horse-carriage makers didn't band together and talk about how we needed the government to impead the progress of the auto-industry.
Go get educated and get a job somewhere else then. Just because you've been making paddle-ball devices for 13 years and all of a sudden Whamm-O decides to move the factory to Peru; DOESN'T mean that you're suddenly stuck and unable to make it.
The biggest house on my block belongs to a guy that started mopping floors in McDonalds, and now owns something like 6 or 8 or them in the area.
Socialism kills.
Jeeze.
The media and journalists also ALWAYS miss the fact that Free Software and Open Source are completely different.
Sheesh.
Nintendo has almost always been about great games.
They've never bought into the glitz and glamour that Sony and Microsoft push for. Nintendo is, first and foremost, for gamers who like playing games.
My opinion anyway.
Does anyone else think that Darl's phone calls would sound a lot like Bernie Shifman's?
"You're breakin' the law over there, assholes!" *click*
The problem with voicing concerns though is this:
As soon as you voice concerns you become an alarmist. People shun you because you're crying wolf. And now, since people are taking your alarmist attitude seriously, nothing catastrophic ever happens, and then they say, "See? There was no danger. This safety is a waste of money. There was no danger from that little 2-bit dictator." Oops. I meant "cracked heat-shield".
Nice sig. =)
Seriously. It'd be really cool if Belkin could tell the community that they've censured the people that thought this up. Kind of like how it would have been cool if Circuit City would have told the community that they smacked the lawyers that thought up Divx around a bit.
In a perfect world....
Bleh you lost any credability with me when you called Repulicans facists. Go crack open a dictionary and your history book. =) It'll take you much further than your hot-headed remarks.
I think you've got that position covered just fine my man.
=)
hahaha I shot milk out of my nose. Bravo.
Aw crap.
That milk totally belkined my speakers on my desk.
That's a good observation IMO. There are too many companies that listen to their sales force at "Action Item Meetings". They have all the information in the world at their fingertips that should have clued them in on how the community would react.
Morons.
Wasn't that patent supposed to run out this year?