Regardless, there are probably about ten people alive who have "pirated" music simply to avoid ripping it from a CD they already own.
Back in 1999, when Metallica introduced me to Napster (really! I wouldn't have known if they hadn't gone all Streisand), ripping CDs was neither simple nor quick. These days your statement stands, but I did get some music I already had on CD, and I am still alive. I think your estimate is on the low side.
If this line of thinking were applied to all technology, you would help to ensure the maximum deaths between now and the singularity, after which nobody will die unless they choose to.
Others have responded well. I describe it with "Well, if the government takes 10 years away from someone in error, they can never give the person's time back, but they can set them free. However, if the government kills someone in error, there's no recourse."
Swift justice might be acceptable for stimulus packages and copyright extensions; it should never be applied to irreversible processes, like ending a life.
In those cases, I happen to like the music, and if the singers were hit by a bus tomorrow they could be replaced and I'd be none the wiser.
Well, I somewhat agree with you. However, there can be no replacing Bon Scott; Brian Johnson propelled AC/DC to their best-selling album (Back in Black) but Bon Scott dressed as a schoolgirl. So, my vote is for the dead guy.:)
Two points. First, he isn't making a new allegation. Second, does the friggin' Telecom Immunity Bill ring a bell? Hellooooooo, McFly. They didn't decide to protect these people on a hypothetical.
Perhaps you're right and most likely there is something there. But you do realise that you can substitute almost any government bill in there and any industry and have a scary conspiracy theory.
Myself, I would prefer to have a bit more evidence before I break my pitchfork out.
I agree with the other responder, and will ask: how many immunity bills have been passed in the last, say, 50 years, and what were the circumstances surrounding the need for immunity?
I mean, I haven't heard of the "Quilting Grandmothers Immunity Bill"... If someone is asking for, and receives, immunity, then there must be something prosecutable that they are needing that immunity to protect them from. Or does the US government really just go around granting immunity to pleasant folks?
The TSP was always about calls and information in which one party was outside the country. [...] An international phone call, in it's very own right is a call that crosses the sovereign borders of the US.
Exactly. That's why our phone companies built out international call centers in Mexico and Canada. Now, even domestic calls can be routed through those call centers, and deemed "international" since they do in fact cross a national boundary (twice!).
Although everyone will need a change of pants at your destination.
That reminds me of the pirate joke.
When the pirate captain took his ship into battle, he asked the cabin boy, "Fetch me my red shirt!" The cabin boy eventually asked why, and he said that it drew the crew's attention, to give them courage since he was fighting alongside them, and also if he was wounded, it would not show, so the crew would not be discouraged. And they won.
The next battle, he again asked, "Fetch me my red shirt!" And they won, again.
The next battle, though, they were up against a much more fearsome ship, and he instead requested of the cabin boy, "Fetch me my brown pants!"
By the way, it's a space not an underscore. Of course, since it's underlined it's easy to miss that, unless you cut-and-paste. Well, that is, copy-and-paste, as you can't really remove text from a web page.:)
I am running Konqueror on KDE (in FreeBSD). I can't imagine why they wouldn't want to test that combination for their web site.
Really? What makes you think that? Linux is still far less than 10% market share. And FreeBSD is even lower. Microsoft is catering to its customers, and you can't imagine why they would do that? LOL! The largest market for Windows 7 is Vista customers, or people who have kept XP and are holding out to double-upgrade. Why would you think Microsoft would focus on the very small base of Linux/FreeBSD users?
Agreed on the pre-payment penalty, was going to add something about that and forgot.:)
Paid off my car this year; since I had credit card debt at a higher rate, I always paid the minimum balance for the car. In fact, you may already know this but others following our discussion may benefit: the best way to eliminate your debt the fastest: say you have 4 credit cards, each at different interest rates. Pay the minimum to all of them, and then with the rest of your "bill-paying income" for that pay period (after paying other bills like gas/electric/phone/cable/etc), pay all the remaining towards the highest interest rate card. Once that balance reaches 0, continue with the next-highest, and so on.
Sorry to hear about the bankruptcy; I've come close to needing that but thankfully haven't. (Of course, perhaps if I had, back around when you did, I'd be in a much better position today, but oh well, there's also a sense of accomplishment in doing something yourself--although "senses" don't put food on the table...)
With VectorVest, I started with under $10,000. It's more than doubled in the past couple months. I look forward to continued returns using this amazing tool. If you look into it, the "Jail Break" search is the one that's been making me the most money. Following the Yahoo! group for VectorVest has also given me insights into both the tool and trading methodologies in general; I recommend joining that as well.
I have a couple things to share. I'm a decade older than you, and wished I had know what you have expressed so far when I was your age so good for you! I've also learned a few other things which might help you.
First, an answer to your question: the reason I would choose the 30-year mortgage over the 15-year mortgage is that the payment is lower, so if I've fallen on hard times one month and can make the lower payment but not the higher payment, then I'm ahead. (Of course times could be so tough that I can't make the lower payment as well, but that's always the case and this way gives me some buffer.) Then, I'd pay the 15-year payment amount towards the 30-year mortgage whenever I can, so that best-case I'll still pay it off in 15 years, and will also have some buffer if I need it. I've also sold the bi-weekly mortgage package back in college, where they collect every two weeks and then pay a 13th payment at the end of the year (because there are 52 weeks in a year = 26 collections every two weeks, divide that by 2 and 13 months' worth of payments). Many people are paid weekly or every other week, so this mortgage payment setup would align better in terms of cash flow. This didn't sell well, of course, because as soon as I described it they asked, "couldn't we just make the payments ourselves?" So now I'm in software.:)
You mentioned individual stocks. I have just begun to invest using the VectorVest toolchain. This is not an ad for them and I'm in no way associated, other than as a very happy customer. I've been following the company for 7 or 8 years, have done their 5-week trial twice, but never had money to invest. Since the beginning of November, I have begun investing. I've had returns of approximately: 20%, 30%, 25%, a loss of 10%, and am in the middle of a trade that's up over 20%. Each "trade" is a set of 5 or 10 stocks or contra ETFs (exchange-traded fund, like a mutual fund for the Dow or S "contra" means they short the exchange's stocks, so you make money when the market goes down even though you're still taking a "long" position, so someone who cannot qualify for a margin account (necessary in order to short stocks) can still make money in a down market). Each of the trades has a different time-frame; the 30% was two days, but generally they have been over a week or two, sometimes three. I'm not in the market every market day, perhaps half of them since 11/1/08. And, after some time invested learning the system and tools, I tend to spend a half hour or so a day managing these investments.
It looks like we've entered a market upswing. According to their indicators, we will be able to know for sure on Wednesday.
Debt is a vicious cycle and I am still working to eliminate mine. I'm glad that you've learned at such a comparatively young age that it is important.
At some point "those people" will start being asses simply to be asses, just to watch the scared little whites squirm. Really think about that.
Or, more generally: If the accusers are not held accountable for the consequences of their accusations, then the accusations will continue to increase.
Similarly (loosely), the game Grand Theft Auto 4 multiplayer has no way to stop hearing someone's microphone. In Halo 3 you can selectively disable players who are annoying, but in GTA4 you can't. Lately, I've tended to keep my headset volume control turned down (Yes, Mr. "piehamcake", I'm speaking specifically of your behavior in the game yesterday afternoon), and have considered building a device that inserts a tone, so that I can drown out the spammers who are trying to drown out the rest of us from being able to have a conversation.
But, that would then make me very much like a terrorist. Which is one reason I haven't built this device. The other reason is it's so much more fun to attempt to simulate a tone using my vocal cords, and hear someone faintly say "oh he's gonna hafta take a breath soon!" But that gets boring, so I generally just turn the volume down and pretend I didn't spend the $30 or so on the headset.
When people can claim (see somewhere above) that it is just a "sexual fetish" and imply that there is nothing "wrong" with wacking off to child porn, you can understand why such laws come into being, because people like that sit as judges somewhere.
Okay, reading between the lines, I understand that you are disturbed by people "wacking off" to "some images". If these were images of machinery, or farm animals, would your reaction be any different? It does not seem that it would be any different, since you put "sexual fetish" in "scare quotes" meaning you don't believe it to be a really valid term, or at least not valid in this example.
Of course, then there's the analysis of why CP exists. In any species, a male's reproductive effort is wasted if the female is not yet able to be impregnated. Similarly, the reproductive effort is wasted if a female is of age, and has already been impregnated by a competing male. So, each male must walk a fine line in order to be able to impregnate the female immediately after she is able to be, no sooner, no later.
For this reason, human males tend to find under-18 females attractive. This is normal; we're hard-wired for it. And by "under-18" I mean 17, 16, 15 -- not 8. In fact, a female ancestor no more than 5 generations away was legally married at the age of 12, so it's also in our (USA) fairly recent past. It's sad that so much of history is forgotten when politicians want to scare our parents into depriving the rest of us of our freedoms.
Yes, yes it is, because we all know that the person sitting there screaming "this can't and won't be done" is generally overtaken by the person doing it. But whatever, go ahead and have the last word, I'm done here. Nice luddite troll, you're right, the joke is on me.
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Back in 1999, when Metallica introduced me to Napster (really! I wouldn't have known if they hadn't gone all Streisand), ripping CDs was neither simple nor quick. These days your statement stands, but I did get some music I already had on CD, and I am still alive. I think your estimate is on the low side.
If this line of thinking were applied to all technology, you would help to ensure the maximum deaths between now and the singularity, after which nobody will die unless they choose to.
Widget 1: You look great today, Widget 2!
Widget 2: Why thank you, so do you!
Others have responded well. I describe it with "Well, if the government takes 10 years away from someone in error, they can never give the person's time back, but they can set them free. However, if the government kills someone in error, there's no recourse."
Swift justice might be acceptable for stimulus packages and copyright extensions; it should never be applied to irreversible processes, like ending a life.
No, that's bad for ad revenue... (I agree with you, fwiw)
Well, I somewhat agree with you. However, there can be no replacing Bon Scott; Brian Johnson propelled AC/DC to their best-selling album (Back in Black) but Bon Scott dressed as a schoolgirl. So, my vote is for the dead guy. :)
If you can't see objects at a distance, then you shouldn't be wearing glasses!
If you can't see objects that are very small, then you shouldn't be using a microscope!
If you can't fly, then you shouldn't be using an aeroplane!
If you can't run faster than 15 mpg, then you shouldn't be using a car!
If you can't [etc]
Colloquially, go fuck yourself.
I agree with the other responder, and will ask: how many immunity bills have been passed in the last, say, 50 years, and what were the circumstances surrounding the need for immunity?
I mean, I haven't heard of the "Quilting Grandmothers Immunity Bill"... If someone is asking for, and receives, immunity, then there must be something prosecutable that they are needing that immunity to protect them from. Or does the US government really just go around granting immunity to pleasant folks?
No, but how about a "-1, Double posting for extra karma"?
See here and here...
Those safety features look rather nice on you! :)
XKCZ? XKCZ? Z is quite a distance from D. You fail. Link.
Ah, so you haven't read his posthumous autobiography.
Exactly. That's why our phone companies built out international call centers in Mexico and Canada. Now, even domestic calls can be routed through those call centers, and deemed "international" since they do in fact cross a national boundary (twice!).
This does not make me feel safer, though.
That reminds me of the pirate joke.
When the pirate captain took his ship into battle, he asked the cabin boy, "Fetch me my red shirt!" The cabin boy eventually asked why, and he said that it drew the crew's attention, to give them courage since he was fighting alongside them, and also if he was wounded, it would not show, so the crew would not be discouraged. And they won.
The next battle, he again asked, "Fetch me my red shirt!" And they won, again.
The next battle, though, they were up against a much more fearsome ship, and he instead requested of the cabin boy, "Fetch me my brown pants!"
By the way, it's a space not an underscore. Of course, since it's underlined it's easy to miss that, unless you cut-and-paste. Well, that is, copy-and-paste, as you can't really remove text from a web page. :)
Oh, the left, definitely the left.
Thanks again for the sig quote! Randomly yours,
Really? What makes you think that? Linux is still far less than 10% market share. And FreeBSD is even lower. Microsoft is catering to its customers, and you can't imagine why they would do that? LOL! The largest market for Windows 7 is Vista customers, or people who have kept XP and are holding out to double-upgrade. Why would you think Microsoft would focus on the very small base of Linux/FreeBSD users?
Agreed on the pre-payment penalty, was going to add something about that and forgot. :)
Paid off my car this year; since I had credit card debt at a higher rate, I always paid the minimum balance for the car. In fact, you may already know this but others following our discussion may benefit: the best way to eliminate your debt the fastest: say you have 4 credit cards, each at different interest rates. Pay the minimum to all of them, and then with the rest of your "bill-paying income" for that pay period (after paying other bills like gas/electric/phone/cable/etc), pay all the remaining towards the highest interest rate card. Once that balance reaches 0, continue with the next-highest, and so on.
Sorry to hear about the bankruptcy; I've come close to needing that but thankfully haven't. (Of course, perhaps if I had, back around when you did, I'd be in a much better position today, but oh well, there's also a sense of accomplishment in doing something yourself--although "senses" don't put food on the table...)
With VectorVest, I started with under $10,000. It's more than doubled in the past couple months. I look forward to continued returns using this amazing tool. If you look into it, the "Jail Break" search is the one that's been making me the most money. Following the Yahoo! group for VectorVest has also given me insights into both the tool and trading methodologies in general; I recommend joining that as well.
Hi Shakrai,
I have a couple things to share. I'm a decade older than you, and wished I had know what you have expressed so far when I was your age so good for you! I've also learned a few other things which might help you.
First, an answer to your question: the reason I would choose the 30-year mortgage over the 15-year mortgage is that the payment is lower, so if I've fallen on hard times one month and can make the lower payment but not the higher payment, then I'm ahead. (Of course times could be so tough that I can't make the lower payment as well, but that's always the case and this way gives me some buffer.) Then, I'd pay the 15-year payment amount towards the 30-year mortgage whenever I can, so that best-case I'll still pay it off in 15 years, and will also have some buffer if I need it. I've also sold the bi-weekly mortgage package back in college, where they collect every two weeks and then pay a 13th payment at the end of the year (because there are 52 weeks in a year = 26 collections every two weeks, divide that by 2 and 13 months' worth of payments). Many people are paid weekly or every other week, so this mortgage payment setup would align better in terms of cash flow. This didn't sell well, of course, because as soon as I described it they asked, "couldn't we just make the payments ourselves?" So now I'm in software. :)
You mentioned individual stocks. I have just begun to invest using the VectorVest toolchain. This is not an ad for them and I'm in no way associated, other than as a very happy customer. I've been following the company for 7 or 8 years, have done their 5-week trial twice, but never had money to invest. Since the beginning of November, I have begun investing. I've had returns of approximately: 20%, 30%, 25%, a loss of 10%, and am in the middle of a trade that's up over 20%. Each "trade" is a set of 5 or 10 stocks or contra ETFs (exchange-traded fund, like a mutual fund for the Dow or S "contra" means they short the exchange's stocks, so you make money when the market goes down even though you're still taking a "long" position, so someone who cannot qualify for a margin account (necessary in order to short stocks) can still make money in a down market). Each of the trades has a different time-frame; the 30% was two days, but generally they have been over a week or two, sometimes three. I'm not in the market every market day, perhaps half of them since 11/1/08. And, after some time invested learning the system and tools, I tend to spend a half hour or so a day managing these investments.
It looks like we've entered a market upswing. According to their indicators, we will be able to know for sure on Wednesday.
Debt is a vicious cycle and I am still working to eliminate mine. I'm glad that you've learned at such a comparatively young age that it is important.
Sure, but what would hold it together? <perplexed>
Parr for the coarse...
Or, more generally: If the accusers are not held accountable for the consequences of their accusations, then the accusations will continue to increase.
Similarly (loosely), the game Grand Theft Auto 4 multiplayer has no way to stop hearing someone's microphone. In Halo 3 you can selectively disable players who are annoying, but in GTA4 you can't. Lately, I've tended to keep my headset volume control turned down (Yes, Mr. "piehamcake", I'm speaking specifically of your behavior in the game yesterday afternoon), and have considered building a device that inserts a tone, so that I can drown out the spammers who are trying to drown out the rest of us from being able to have a conversation.
But, that would then make me very much like a terrorist. Which is one reason I haven't built this device. The other reason is it's so much more fun to attempt to simulate a tone using my vocal cords, and hear someone faintly say "oh he's gonna hafta take a breath soon!" But that gets boring, so I generally just turn the volume down and pretend I didn't spend the $30 or so on the headset.
Okay, reading between the lines, I understand that you are disturbed by people "wacking off" to "some images". If these were images of machinery, or farm animals, would your reaction be any different? It does not seem that it would be any different, since you put "sexual fetish" in "scare quotes" meaning you don't believe it to be a really valid term, or at least not valid in this example.
Of course, then there's the analysis of why CP exists. In any species, a male's reproductive effort is wasted if the female is not yet able to be impregnated. Similarly, the reproductive effort is wasted if a female is of age, and has already been impregnated by a competing male. So, each male must walk a fine line in order to be able to impregnate the female immediately after she is able to be, no sooner, no later.
For this reason, human males tend to find under-18 females attractive. This is normal; we're hard-wired for it. And by "under-18" I mean 17, 16, 15 -- not 8. In fact, a female ancestor no more than 5 generations away was legally married at the age of 12, so it's also in our (USA) fairly recent past. It's sad that so much of history is forgotten when politicians want to scare our parents into depriving the rest of us of our freedoms.
Yes, yes it is, because we all know that the person sitting there screaming "this can't and won't be done" is generally overtaken by the person doing it. But whatever, go ahead and have the last word, I'm done here. Nice luddite troll, you're right, the joke is on me.