"spoken like a true smoker. I wish you assfuckers would find a quicker, more efficient way of killing yourselves so that the intelligent members of the human race don't have to spend nearly as much time listening to and smelling the shit that comes out of your mouths."
"assfuckers" Well, now that's intelligent discourse. Getting defensive at the thought of your alcohol and fatty foods being taxed at a higher rate. I shouldn't have to spend as much time smelling an idiot alcoholics breath or that fat eating body odor.
>In Europe we pay premium taxes for alcoholic beverages. Also, my drinking doesn't affect your liver, does it?
Drinking affects livers and the bodies of the drinker in a negative way. When that health care bill comes around it raises insurance and direct health care costs for everyone. Alcohol also causes people to have 'accidents' (industrial and vehicular) that cause harm to others.
>My eating burgers doesn't raise your cholesterol level. Also, unlike tobacco, food actually helps keep me alive.
It costs more to treat your fat ass for medical conditions than to treat someone that eats healthy foods.
I really can't wait till they levy (higher) taxes on all alcohol products (especially wine) because those products also raise the cost of health care for everyone. I think they also need to tax high fat/high calorie foods for much the same reason.
Ok, the only way to 'fix' this would be to change all 'authentic' windows configurations to contain a wine registry key. This would effectively cripple their updates, and would force Microsoft to 'fix' their software so it wouldn't find wine.
Under copyright law all works are immediately copyrighted by the creator. Registration of the material is just a formality. Anything that I create and send from my system is immediately copyrighted, anything I write down is immediately copyrighted, anything I record is immediately copyrighted. The 'man in the middle' commits several violations of the law, one of which is theft (of the key), and DMCA violation of unlawfully decrypting material to which they do not have rights. It's time to force them to play by the rules they expect everyone else to play by.
The term is wrongly used. It's used to make the 'crime' sound worse than it is. As if someone swung into the record companies offices through the window using a rope, and took what they wanted at the point of a sword by force. The reference is ridiculous, and is Monty Pythonesque.
Someone has to decrypt the packet once it leaves my computer, for instance. Such decryption would be violation of the DMCA. That 'man in the middle' is in violation.
Yes, they aren't the entire music industry, but if we don't buy from the industry as an entitity then peer pressure will build against the RIAA members from non-RIAA members. Hurt them all at the bottom line, and let them know WHY they are being hurt at the bottom line.
"This topic is absolutely chock-a-block with discussions about which burglars' tools work best to fuck over and steal from our neighbors. What next, discussions on how to cut through school zones and take kindergarten-age hostages to elude the police during a high-speed chase? "
I look at it like this. A discussion on how to preserve the privacy and liberty of those of us that do not commit copyright violations. Allowing this is like allowing the cops to tap my phone becuase my neighbor was caught committing a crime. It's unacceptable.
Naw. It'll just start a HUGE push to encrypting all IP traffic. It's the future. Once they crack encrypted traffic, their butt gets hauled in front of a judge on DMCA violations. It's just simply that easy. The law is a tool, it's not a way of life. It's time to start using that tool to the favor of those of us that are unwilling to give up our privacy or freedom to companies that want to poke into our lives to make sure we don't 'violate their property rights'. That will be the revolution, but it'll be a long time till it comes around because the masses are still unaware of what these companies are doing. Sure, you and I know, but the proverbial 'we' here on Slashdot are the minority.
I, personally, think that the process needs to be sped up a bit. Time to push to take away more privacy and rights. In essence, push that snowball furthur and faster down the hill, to lubricate that slippery slope, so to speak. All to bring that revolution around sooner, rather than later.
It's just something that must be broken before it can be fixed.
"Perhaps they do, but the truth hurts and these organizations REALLY want to believe that it is possible to use technology to solve what is essentially a social problem (i.e. the Piracy Problem). "
I wasn't aware that the "usual suspects" (Microsoft, RIAA, MPAA, etc)had a stake on crimes on the high seas. That is the Coast Guards arena.
"Doing half-favours for less than your going rate is not good for your friendship, and overcharging your friends for services they don't need is just plain mean."
If they don't need it, I tell them they don't need it, and why they don't need it. "You don't need me to install that. A blind, drunken, monkey can do it. So can you."
Just remember that if you are offered a bottle of Night Train that it should be in a brown paper bag. Clients that offer Night Train without the bag have absolutely no concept on the proper way to serve drinks.
I agree with you one everything but the rates. The local economy of any area pretty much determins the rate. I charge $55/hr in rural New Mexico. If I were in an area such as Albuquerque(sp), Dallas, Pheonix, etc... I could (and would) charge in excess of $85/hr. My rate works well for me and my clients.
Warranty work generally goes for a flat $40 or $45 per job. Sucks, but it fills in the dead spots.
Don't do favors. They don't pay the bills. Family and friends know to pay me my going rate. They (yes, all of them) are also in business for themselves, and they know that the time I spend on their machine could be paid time on a 'clients' machine. Also, they write off their computer repair expenses at the end of the year, which helps.
The home user market is a huge set of one-offs. You fix it, they break it, and maybe they'll call you again. Usually they don't. Those that complain about my rates are sent to my 'competition' (I use that term loosely) so the user can find out what being ripped off is really like. Those usually come back afterward with a different attitude.
I agree. He/she shouldn't feel bad at all. I charge for ALL my work as straight time. Works well for me, and those that don't wish to pay don't get their computers worked on. Being an alpha geek is good, those skills are worth money, why feel bad about taking money in exchange for use of those skills? It's not like being a whore.
Forget Pascal. They should start by teaching assembly. Personally, I wouldn't hire a programmer that didn't at one time or another do a complete program in assembly.
There are a basic set of assembly instructions for all processors. That could be considered the 'Assembly Language' as far as 'programming language' with subsets specific to a particular process being an offshoot. Would be a short tree.
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"spoken like a true smoker. I wish you assfuckers would find a quicker, more efficient way of killing yourselves so that the intelligent members of the human race don't have to spend nearly as much time listening to and smelling the shit that comes out of your mouths."
"assfuckers" Well, now that's intelligent discourse. Getting defensive at the thought of your alcohol and fatty foods being taxed at a higher rate. I shouldn't have to spend as much time smelling an idiot alcoholics breath or that fat eating body odor.
>In Europe we pay premium taxes for alcoholic beverages. Also, my drinking doesn't affect your liver, does it?
Drinking affects livers and the bodies of the drinker in a negative way. When that health care bill comes around it raises insurance and direct health care costs for everyone. Alcohol also causes people to have 'accidents' (industrial and vehicular) that cause harm to others.
>My eating burgers doesn't raise your cholesterol level. Also, unlike tobacco, food actually helps keep me alive.
It costs more to treat your fat ass for medical conditions than to treat someone that eats healthy foods.
I really can't wait till they levy (higher) taxes on all alcohol products (especially wine) because those products also raise the cost of health care for everyone. I think they also need to tax high fat/high calorie foods for much the same reason.
It'll give us all something to point and laugh at.
Ok, the only way to 'fix' this would be to change all 'authentic' windows configurations to contain a wine registry key. This would effectively cripple their updates, and would force Microsoft to 'fix' their software so it wouldn't find wine.
Perhaps.
it would have to dispense herring.
Under copyright law all works are immediately copyrighted by the creator. Registration of the material is just a formality. Anything that I create and send from my system is immediately copyrighted, anything I write down is immediately copyrighted, anything I record is immediately copyrighted. The 'man in the middle' commits several violations of the law, one of which is theft (of the key), and DMCA violation of unlawfully decrypting material to which they do not have rights. It's time to force them to play by the rules they expect everyone else to play by.
The term is wrongly used. It's used to make the 'crime' sound worse than it is. As if someone swung into the record companies offices through the window using a rope, and took what they wanted at the point of a sword by force. The reference is ridiculous, and is Monty Pythonesque.
Someone has to decrypt the packet once it leaves my computer, for instance. Such decryption would be violation of the DMCA. That 'man in the middle' is in violation.
Yes, they aren't the entire music industry, but if we don't buy from the industry as an entitity then peer pressure will build against the RIAA members from non-RIAA members. Hurt them all at the bottom line, and let them know WHY they are being hurt at the bottom line.
"This topic is absolutely chock-a-block with discussions about which burglars' tools work best to fuck over and steal from our neighbors. What next, discussions on how to cut through school zones and take kindergarten-age hostages to elude the police during a high-speed chase? "
I look at it like this. A discussion on how to preserve the privacy and liberty of those of us that do not commit copyright violations. Allowing this is like allowing the cops to tap my phone becuase my neighbor was caught committing a crime. It's unacceptable.
Absolutely. Doesn't even need to be hard to break. If they break it, talk to the cops and press charges.
Naw. It'll just start a HUGE push to encrypting all IP traffic. It's the future. Once they crack encrypted traffic, their butt gets hauled in front of a judge on DMCA violations. It's just simply that easy. The law is a tool, it's not a way of life. It's time to start using that tool to the favor of those of us that are unwilling to give up our privacy or freedom to companies that want to poke into our lives to make sure we don't 'violate their property rights'. That will be the revolution, but it'll be a long time till it comes around because the masses are still unaware of what these companies are doing. Sure, you and I know, but the proverbial 'we' here on Slashdot are the minority.
I, personally, think that the process needs to be sped up a bit. Time to push to take away more privacy and rights. In essence, push that snowball furthur and faster down the hill, to lubricate that slippery slope, so to speak. All to bring that revolution around sooner, rather than later.
It's just something that must be broken before it can be fixed.
"Perhaps they do, but the truth hurts and these organizations REALLY want to believe that it is possible to use technology to solve what is essentially a social problem (i.e. the Piracy Problem). "
I wasn't aware that the "usual suspects" (Microsoft, RIAA, MPAA, etc)had a stake on crimes on the high seas. That is the Coast Guards arena.
"Doing half-favours for less than your going rate is not good for your friendship, and overcharging your friends for services they don't need is just plain mean."
If they don't need it, I tell them they don't need it, and why they don't need it. "You don't need me to install that. A blind, drunken, monkey can do it. So can you."
Just remember that if you are offered a bottle of Night Train that it should be in a brown paper bag. Clients that offer Night Train without the bag have absolutely no concept on the proper way to serve drinks.
I agree with you one everything but the rates. The local economy of any area pretty much determins the rate. I charge $55/hr in rural New Mexico. If I were in an area such as Albuquerque(sp), Dallas, Pheonix, etc... I could (and would) charge in excess of $85/hr. My rate works well for me and my clients.
Warranty work generally goes for a flat $40 or $45 per job. Sucks, but it fills in the dead spots.
Love doesn't put food on the table.
Don't do favors. They don't pay the bills. Family and friends know to pay me my going rate. They (yes, all of them) are also in business for themselves, and they know that the time I spend on their machine could be paid time on a 'clients' machine. Also, they write off their computer repair expenses at the end of the year, which helps.
The home user market is a huge set of one-offs. You fix it, they break it, and maybe they'll call you again. Usually they don't. Those that complain about my rates are sent to my 'competition' (I use that term loosely) so the user can find out what being ripped off is really like. Those usually come back afterward with a different attitude.
I agree. He/she shouldn't feel bad at all. I charge for ALL my work as straight time. Works well for me, and those that don't wish to pay don't get their computers worked on. Being an alpha geek is good, those skills are worth money, why feel bad about taking money in exchange for use of those skills? It's not like being a whore.
Well, that's one vote.
On one hand I'd like to see that, but on the other hand I wouldn't (shudder).
Actually, I forgot about Genesis II. http://imdb.com/title/tt0070101/
Kinda makes me wonder if the Dylan Hunt character will come to life in another future with no relation to the other futures he awoke in. lol
Forget Pascal. They should start by teaching assembly. Personally, I wouldn't hire a programmer that didn't at one time or another do a complete program in assembly.
There are a basic set of assembly instructions for all processors. That could be considered the 'Assembly Language' as far as 'programming language' with subsets specific to a particular process being an offshoot. Would be a short tree.