...for they will save us all from ourselves and this pirating scourge.
NOT!
Hooray for the common man. Hooray for ingenuity. And Hooray for giving succor to our troops. The RIAA can go suck... oops, sorry.
There is a huge secondary market for books. Always has been.
But, will there will always be such a market? Especially now that e-books are here? Publishers are trying to kill the secondary (or second-hand) book market for years. WHY? Because they get nothing out of it.... Despite the fact that it exposes users (readers) to new authors who then would go out and buy their titles for themselves, or for others as a gift.
In both industries, the publishers are the losers.
For the record, I only buy games from the super-used bin, or after they are in a super-pack (ie., they have been proven and come-out as "hits"). Save me lots of money.
Yes, and not only that, but completely against what the spirit of the Olympics (Olympic Games) is about....
Hey, you know, let's go to Ancient Olympia and tear down all those frescoes those artists created... They violated the spirit of the organizers intent.
HA! I've worked for DELL... I've worked for HP. You should have seen the lengths they would have went to, even if it was one of their suppliers responsible for the defective hardware. You want to talk about avoiding long term problems?
The best way to handle it was call-in from a major Government Service center (preferably military base) and say you have x-amount of laptops that need y-amount of this replaced. You should have seen how quickly we hoped on it...
I'm sure you get on their list simply by posting in a subversive thread like this.
I have been on the NSA's list by simply stating the obvious, over, and over and OVER again.
Apparently, they don't like smart-asses. Neither does Slashdot.
Yes, the year was 1983/1984, and I tied up the phone line and the TV for hours.
My dad hated me,
My brother loved me because as a journalist he wanted me to download the Billboard Top 100 from this one BBS just as they came out.
We would then turn around and send them out to Greece, to a Pop&Rock Music Magazine he was a foreign correspondent for.... We were so far ahead of our time, it wasn't even funny.
I learned BASIC programming before anyone in my school. I practiced other computer languages. I wonder why I did not make a career of this computer thing...?!
Having your browser update itself, and then finding ALL of your add-ons (which you, yourself installed, such as ADBLOCK) broken, sucks big time. Having that happen repeatedly, sucks big time. Yes, I understand their reasoning for doing it. But the Mozilla developers, need to let me choose and pick if I want to go from 6.0 --> 7.0 --> 8.0. And if during these upgrades I want my add-ons to be broken. Some of them work fine, once I turn them back-on.
Their process of releases IS WRONG.
I am now switching to CHROME and am not looking back.
You know in the good old days Design to Prototype was about two years (do any search on any of the old good planes of yesteryear I grew-up with, for example the F-104, took ~2 years). This most often included the competition phase.
Now, they throw everyone in the pot (the let's make everyone happy approach). And to top all they include FOREIGN companies that may or may not meet US standards of excellence (I am not necessarily referring to Japanese or German companies).
Yeah, we definitely have the best Fifth generation fighter out there.....
That's the Stupidest statement I've ever heard....
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Consider for a moment, that there are countries in this world, where market penetration for books is very very low:
http://www.booksforthirdworld.org/http://www.booksforafrica.org/
I have participated in both of these programs through donations, etc.
Consider also, that many manuscripts can only find their way into forbidden societies through the book form, not through the internet. Yes, there are statistics for places like China and the Middle East.
It seems to me that the OP is very Arrogant, and presumes that the US has a position of supremacy to the rest of the world. Very sad indeed.
As of 2006 (don't know about now), the TSA had taken ZERO steps to preven Surface to Air missiles used against a commercial airlines.
So NO, I don't think a terrorist would be stupid enough to do anything that the TSA would catch. The reason the 9/11 attacks worked so well was mainly because no one had ever tried it before. As soon as the U93 became aware of what was going on, they prevented the terrorists from using the 4th plane.
The TSA has not caught a SINGLE real terrorist at the gate, ever. Instead they are engaging in illegal, unwarranted (in both senses of the word), unreasonable searches of US citizens. These searches would have stopped terrorist attacks that in the past failed. They quite clearly would NOT have stopped any of the most logical, fairly cheap potential terrorist attacks.
Their searchs are simple sexual harrasments of legal citizens, they do nothing to make us safer.
But the extensive and invasive nature of the searchs do reassure fools that trust the government with their safety, instead of questioning authority.
I have been arguing the same points repeatedly across various forums, but does anyone listen? I wonder.
People keep throwing up the statistic of 81% of the public being OK with the the pat-downs or the back-scatter imaging technology (aka the virtual strip search) which unlike what the Government keeps denying, can be saved and backed-up. It has to, it's an electronic device after all. An electronic device without that capability would be useless otherwise.
What people don't realize is that in making us do all these crazy things that accomplish zero and have never caught a terrorist or bomber in the US, the terrorists have actually already won. HOW? Because they have everyone scared so badly, they answer polls saying "virtual strip searches" and "sexual assaults" are OK.
And one final point: Everyone says that adding the anti-missile technology to airliners is too expensive. but as gurps_npc says all it would take is one airliner shot down by a surface-to-air missile before the pundits jump on TV screaming: "We knew of this danger long ago". Well, if you knew of the danger, why didn't you do something about it?
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When was the last time I read something from you?
"Can't you just Sonic that?"
To which the Doctor replied, "This is not a weapon, it's a Screwdriver! You did not understand a single thing I tried to explain to you..."
Afterwards, he got back in the TARDIS and departed, leaving those researchers at the point where this article finds them today.
...for they will save us all from ourselves and this pirating scourge. NOT! Hooray for the common man. Hooray for ingenuity. And Hooray for giving succor to our troops. The RIAA can go suck... oops, sorry.
There is a huge secondary market for books. Always has been.
But, will there will always be such a market? Especially now that e-books are here? Publishers are trying to kill the secondary (or second-hand) book market for years. WHY? Because they get nothing out of it.... Despite the fact that it exposes users (readers) to new authors who then would go out and buy their titles for themselves, or for others as a gift.
In both industries, the publishers are the losers.
For the record, I only buy games from the super-used bin, or after they are in a super-pack (ie., they have been proven and come-out as "hits"). Save me lots of money.
Hey, you know, let's go to Ancient Olympia and tear down all those frescoes those artists created... They violated the spirit of the organizers intent.
Dumb.
HA! I've worked for DELL... I've worked for HP. You should have seen the lengths they would have went to, even if it was one of their suppliers responsible for the defective hardware. You want to talk about avoiding long term problems? The best way to handle it was call-in from a major Government Service center (preferably military base) and say you have x-amount of laptops that need y-amount of this replaced. You should have seen how quickly we hoped on it...
Did you also know that you can NOT BE HIRED for the same reason? What reason? For stating the obvious. It has happened to me, a number of times.
I'm sure you get on their list simply by posting in a subversive thread like this.
I have been on the NSA's list by simply stating the obvious, over, and over and OVER again. Apparently, they don't like smart-asses. Neither does Slashdot.
Yes, the year was 1983/1984, and I tied up the phone line and the TV for hours. My dad hated me, My brother loved me because as a journalist he wanted me to download the Billboard Top 100 from this one BBS just as they came out. We would then turn around and send them out to Greece, to a Pop&Rock Music Magazine he was a foreign correspondent for.... We were so far ahead of our time, it wasn't even funny. I learned BASIC programming before anyone in my school. I practiced other computer languages. I wonder why I did not make a career of this computer thing...?!
There is an Apple repair place down the street from where I live ADVERTIZING prominently that they repair iPads, iPhones and iPods?
Having your browser update itself, and then finding ALL of your add-ons (which you, yourself installed, such as ADBLOCK) broken, sucks big time. Having that happen repeatedly, sucks big time. Yes, I understand their reasoning for doing it. But the Mozilla developers, need to let me choose and pick if I want to go from 6.0 --> 7.0 --> 8.0. And if during these upgrades I want my add-ons to be broken. Some of them work fine, once I turn them back-on. Their process of releases IS WRONG. I am now switching to CHROME and am not looking back.
You know in the good old days Design to Prototype was about two years (do any search on any of the old good planes of yesteryear I grew-up with, for example the F-104, took ~2 years). This most often included the competition phase. Now, they throw everyone in the pot (the let's make everyone happy approach). And to top all they include FOREIGN companies that may or may not meet US standards of excellence (I am not necessarily referring to Japanese or German companies). Yeah, we definitely have the best Fifth generation fighter out there.....
Consider for a moment, that there are countries in this world, where market penetration for books is very very low: http://www.booksforthirdworld.org/ http://www.booksforafrica.org/ I have participated in both of these programs through donations, etc. Consider also, that many manuscripts can only find their way into forbidden societies through the book form, not through the internet. Yes, there are statistics for places like China and the Middle East. It seems to me that the OP is very Arrogant, and presumes that the US has a position of supremacy to the rest of the world. Very sad indeed.
As of 2006 (don't know about now), the TSA had taken ZERO steps to preven Surface to Air missiles used against a commercial airlines.
So NO, I don't think a terrorist would be stupid enough to do anything that the TSA would catch. The reason the 9/11 attacks worked so well was mainly because no one had ever tried it before. As soon as the U93 became aware of what was going on, they prevented the terrorists from using the 4th plane.
The TSA has not caught a SINGLE real terrorist at the gate, ever. Instead they are engaging in illegal, unwarranted (in both senses of the word), unreasonable searches of US citizens. These searches would have stopped terrorist attacks that in the past failed. They quite clearly would NOT have stopped any of the most logical, fairly cheap potential terrorist attacks.
Their searchs are simple sexual harrasments of legal citizens, they do nothing to make us safer.
But the extensive and invasive nature of the searchs do reassure fools that trust the government with their safety, instead of questioning authority.
I have been arguing the same points repeatedly across various forums, but does anyone listen? I wonder.
People keep throwing up the statistic of 81% of the public being OK with the the pat-downs or the back-scatter imaging technology (aka the virtual strip search) which unlike what the Government keeps denying, can be saved and backed-up. It has to, it's an electronic device after all. An electronic device without that capability would be useless otherwise.
What people don't realize is that in making us do all these crazy things that accomplish zero and have never caught a terrorist or bomber in the US, the terrorists have actually already won. HOW? Because they have everyone scared so badly, they answer polls saying "virtual strip searches" and "sexual assaults" are OK.
And one final point: Everyone says that adding the anti-missile technology to airliners is too expensive. but as gurps_npc says all it would take is one airliner shot down by a surface-to-air missile before the pundits jump on TV screaming: "We knew of this danger long ago". Well, if you knew of the danger, why didn't you do something about it?