Yeah! Exactly! You tell him brother! That's like assuming just because a man is a member of NAMBLA, that he likes to have sex with little boys! Totally ludicrous!
if you're seen hanging around with drug dealers and talking to them in places where they tend to deal drugs, isn't it fairly safe to assume you're trying to buy drugs?
Not in the United States. Here, theoretically, "assuming" isn't good enough, we demand more of our police -- we demand "evidence". That threshold differs from place to place, though.
Is your question hypothetical? (/irony) Or do you really not see the obvious answer to your question?
The answer is that far fewer copies of the score will be sold, so even though the score is far cheaper to produce, the price reflects both the cost to produce as well as the projected sales volume. Well, sort of, surely there is still some guesswork involved, and a tendency to price all CDs similarly.
I'm not saying this makes things "fair" or whatever. Ask yourself why do all movies at the theater cost the same to see? Why aren't famously-inexpensive movies like Blair Witch really cheap to go see? Why doesn't it cost a little more to see CGI-intensive films like X-Men 2?
That price list is for lots and lots of different chips and packages. Presumably, some of them (maybe many or most, I don't know the company, I just looked at the price list because of your comment) have MP3 capability. Also presumably, from what I know of Ogg Vorbis, the license cost would not apply to the Ogg-only chip(s).
I'm not a psychic, but I imagine the people who want this lady to pay for extra service from Lycos, would tell a Linux newbie that if something doesn't work, and he can't figure it out, and he can't find the answer online, and he can't find someone willing to help him for free, then he should do the same as the Lycos lady -- PAY FOR THE SERVICE HE NEEDS. Lots of Linux companies sell Linux support services.
PS adviSe is a verb, which makes your sentence unintelligible. You probably wanted to use the noun, adviCe.
Although I don't know for sure, I imagine he did say that, four or five times, and it didn't sink in to the customer. Eventually, he decided to dumb down his language to what he perceived as her level. Good thing she understood him then, or else he might have resorted to "Look, bitch, yer emails are completely fucking gone. F.O.A.D."
Because you have extra computers sitting around that you want to put X on? or because you don't want to pay for Apple hardware?
Either way, X on non-Apple hardware wouldn't be as compelling, because many things wouldn't "just work" the way they do now. One reason Windows is such a beast is that it supports, what, like 500 times as much hardware as OSX does.
Still, I've heard there are ways to shoehorn X onto non-Apple boxes; google for it.
In 1998 when Apple released the original bondi blue iMac without a floppy drive, the floppy disc was ALREADY so absurdly useless that no computer user needed them. So, I proffer that this story is late by about a decade.
As you probably know, your state issued IDs to the 9/11 hijackers. I know that because I got my driver's license from the very same DMV where they did, up in North Las Vegas. I talked to the guy there who was checking my birth certificate and passport REALLY carefully. He was so careful I wouldn't be surprised if he were the very guy who gave them their IDs.
I don't know the history of that, which sounds interesting, but I do know that the legal province to declare and wage war is exclusive to the federal government. So what I'm saying is they didn't declare war so much as they "declared war", with the little fingerquotes there.
Specifically, the Constitution gives the right to declare war to the feds; and goes on to specify that no state shall engage in war. So, the Constitution implicitly limits a state's preogative to declare war, and explicitly limits their prerogative to engage in war.
Someone care to explain why a national ID card is bad? here in Europe many countries have national IDs but that is not the cause of the slow elimination of human rights.
Your countries are like our states. Would you be happy if the EU wanted to force you to give up your "national" ID and get an EU ID? Well shit, I don't know, maybe you would, y'all aren't quite the same as us -- we Americans grow up in a tradition of not trusting controlling government bodies thousands of miles away.
Also, I don't know where you live, but Europe is experiencing a slow elimination of human rights. Here in America we still grasp to the last bits of having the right to spend our own money (we don't have tax rates as high as you do -- yet); we still grasp to the last bits of having the right to privacy (everpresent watching cameras aren't yet everywhere here like they are in, say, London); our businesspeople still have a little bit of the right to do business with people of their choice (our companies don't have to justify who they hire and fire); we still enjoy a substantial right to bear arms (which I've heard has been done away with in Britain, maybe elsewhere). That's not to say America isn't suffering from a profound lack of rights.
I agree with everything you said except blaming Nixon for the DEA. "Creating" an agency is a moot act unless someone gives you a bunch of money to run the agency with, and in this case that "someone" was Congress, who can very easily stop funding the DEA. Congress is the ultimate seat of power in America *because* of their control over the budget.
The same argument goes for lots of other things. Today, we see it in the debate over the war in Iraq.
Ha! You, sir, very clearly know almost nothing at all about the Constitution. Others have pointed out that if it's not in the Constitution, it *is* forbidden; and you yourself have shown how little you know about American history. I sincerely hope you are in third or fourth grade, before American history really gets taught in much depth. Or, maybe you are a foreigner, so you wouldn't have much business knowing our history.
Whoa now let's not drag marijuana thru the mud here. Smoking pot ("blowing"? oh you crazy Brits) is not nearly as bad as drinking alcohol, for either society or the individual.
Why is everyone complaining? What, you don't like the asshats who won't sell you their movies on your terms? Well, this is capitalism, so do without their movies. Almost all movies suck anyway. What, you don't like how Windows is a shitty OS *AND* has DRM coded into its core? Well, this is a free country, so use a Good operating system instead, there are several of them, and a few of those are even Free. Windows is just about the worst OS out there anyway.
Look, if Freedom wasn't a good enough reason for you all to switch away from Windows, then, damn, maybe this DRM crap will be. It's not like you don't have choices. If nobody bought Vista, and it was because of the DRM thing, and no one bought movies anymore, then how many weeks do you think the DRM bullshit would continue? Four weeks? Maybe eight? You don't think the movie industry would be so stubborn as to go three months with zero movie sales just to prove their ownership over the content, do you? There is one and only one motivator here: money. Speak with your dollars, or STFU.
If you can determine security vulnerabilities just by looking at the computer, or at a website, then you have a great career ahead of you as a security psychic. On the other hand, if you have to telnet in, or scan ports, or brute force a key or something, then that's a bad analogy to seeing that a window is open.
Patent and copyright law exist to foster innovation and reward people for producing new works. Instead, laws like this merely protect the entrenched powers from having to do just that.
Yeah. Have you ever read Animal Farm? Are you familiar with Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad? That's the original chant of the animals, because they see the two-legged people as evil. Then, as the new animal hegemony becomes entrenched, the chant is changed to Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better. The corollary is to the flip-flop of priorities in patent and copyright law: originally intended to protect the little guy and promote scientific and cultural advances, they now function primarily to help the currently powerful to stay powerful.
But, even if you and I are cynical, we aren't blind or stupid. These facts are plain and public; there is no covert conspiracy here. Surprise! The government cares more about rich people! If you aren't rich, you have only one recourse, which is powerful recourse but used in this country with sad ineffectiveness: voting. If you want a different government, you have to demand it. If you want different copyright law, you have to demand it.
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Yeah! Exactly! You tell him brother! That's like assuming just because a man is a member of NAMBLA, that he likes to have sex with little boys! Totally ludicrous!
if you're seen hanging around with drug dealers and talking to them in places where they tend to deal drugs, isn't it fairly safe to assume you're trying to buy drugs?
Not in the United States. Here, theoretically, "assuming" isn't good enough, we demand more of our police -- we demand "evidence". That threshold differs from place to place, though.
Is your question hypothetical? (/irony) Or do you really not see the obvious answer to your question?
The answer is that far fewer copies of the score will be sold, so even though the score is far cheaper to produce, the price reflects both the cost to produce as well as the projected sales volume. Well, sort of, surely there is still some guesswork involved, and a tendency to price all CDs similarly.
I'm not saying this makes things "fair" or whatever. Ask yourself why do all movies at the theater cost the same to see? Why aren't famously-inexpensive movies like Blair Witch really cheap to go see? Why doesn't it cost a little more to see CGI-intensive films like X-Men 2?
That price list is for lots and lots of different chips and packages. Presumably, some of them (maybe many or most, I don't know the company, I just looked at the price list because of your comment) have MP3 capability. Also presumably, from what I know of Ogg Vorbis, the license cost would not apply to the Ogg-only chip(s).
you think people will buy ten million iPods just because the CEO of the company which makes them made a statement about DRM being bad?
Thank you for correctly using "they're". You mistook "then" for "than", though.
Yours,
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I'm not a psychic, but I imagine the people who want this lady to pay for extra service from Lycos, would tell a Linux newbie that if something doesn't work, and he can't figure it out, and he can't find the answer online, and he can't find someone willing to help him for free, then he should do the same as the Lycos lady -- PAY FOR THE SERVICE HE NEEDS. Lots of Linux companies sell Linux support services.
PS adviSe is a verb, which makes your sentence unintelligible. You probably wanted to use the noun, adviCe.
Although I don't know for sure, I imagine he did say that, four or five times, and it didn't sink in to the customer. Eventually, he decided to dumb down his language to what he perceived as her level. Good thing she understood him then, or else he might have resorted to "Look, bitch, yer emails are completely fucking gone. F.O.A.D."
Because you have extra computers sitting around that you want to put X on? or because you don't want to pay for Apple hardware?
Either way, X on non-Apple hardware wouldn't be as compelling, because many things wouldn't "just work" the way they do now. One reason Windows is such a beast is that it supports, what, like 500 times as much hardware as OSX does.
Still, I've heard there are ways to shoehorn X onto non-Apple boxes; google for it.
In 1998 when Apple released the original bondi blue iMac without a floppy drive, the floppy disc was ALREADY so absurdly useless that no computer user needed them. So, I proffer that this story is late by about a decade.
Yeah, wasn't there a lawsuit about that? Someone who refused the eula and tried to return their software?
As you probably know, your state issued IDs to the 9/11 hijackers. I know that because I got my driver's license from the very same DMV where they did, up in North Las Vegas. I talked to the guy there who was checking my birth certificate and passport REALLY carefully. He was so careful I wouldn't be surprised if he were the very guy who gave them their IDs.
I don't know the history of that, which sounds interesting, but I do know that the legal province to declare and wage war is exclusive to the federal government. So what I'm saying is they didn't declare war so much as they "declared war", with the little fingerquotes there.
Specifically, the Constitution gives the right to declare war to the feds; and goes on to specify that no state shall engage in war. So, the Constitution implicitly limits a state's preogative to declare war, and explicitly limits their prerogative to engage in war.
Someone care to explain why a national ID card is bad? here in Europe many countries have national IDs but that is not the cause of the slow elimination of human rights.
Your countries are like our states. Would you be happy if the EU wanted to force you to give up your "national" ID and get an EU ID? Well shit, I don't know, maybe you would, y'all aren't quite the same as us -- we Americans grow up in a tradition of not trusting controlling government bodies thousands of miles away.
Also, I don't know where you live, but Europe is experiencing a slow elimination of human rights. Here in America we still grasp to the last bits of having the right to spend our own money (we don't have tax rates as high as you do -- yet); we still grasp to the last bits of having the right to privacy (everpresent watching cameras aren't yet everywhere here like they are in, say, London); our businesspeople still have a little bit of the right to do business with people of their choice (our companies don't have to justify who they hire and fire); we still enjoy a substantial right to bear arms (which I've heard has been done away with in Britain, maybe elsewhere). That's not to say America isn't suffering from a profound lack of rights.
I agree with everything you said except blaming Nixon for the DEA. "Creating" an agency is a moot act unless someone gives you a bunch of money to run the agency with, and in this case that "someone" was Congress, who can very easily stop funding the DEA. Congress is the ultimate seat of power in America *because* of their control over the budget.
The same argument goes for lots of other things. Today, we see it in the debate over the war in Iraq.
Ha! You, sir, very clearly know almost nothing at all about the Constitution. Others have pointed out that if it's not in the Constitution, it *is* forbidden; and you yourself have shown how little you know about American history. I sincerely hope you are in third or fourth grade, before American history really gets taught in much depth. Or, maybe you are a foreigner, so you wouldn't have much business knowing our history.
Whoa now let's not drag marijuana thru the mud here. Smoking pot ("blowing"? oh you crazy Brits) is not nearly as bad as drinking alcohol, for either society or the individual.
Why is everyone complaining? What, you don't like the asshats who won't sell you their movies on your terms? Well, this is capitalism, so do without their movies. Almost all movies suck anyway. What, you don't like how Windows is a shitty OS *AND* has DRM coded into its core? Well, this is a free country, so use a Good operating system instead, there are several of them, and a few of those are even Free. Windows is just about the worst OS out there anyway.
Look, if Freedom wasn't a good enough reason for you all to switch away from Windows, then, damn, maybe this DRM crap will be. It's not like you don't have choices. If nobody bought Vista, and it was because of the DRM thing, and no one bought movies anymore, then how many weeks do you think the DRM bullshit would continue? Four weeks? Maybe eight? You don't think the movie industry would be so stubborn as to go three months with zero movie sales just to prove their ownership over the content, do you? There is one and only one motivator here: money. Speak with your dollars, or STFU.
I dunno. I buy lots of CDs, and share them.
I don't watch many movies, though, so I can't comment on that.
We now have both major political parties in power and both of them are trying, or succeeding, in screwing our rights.
Personal liberty is good, so both major parties are bad, and so people should vote for other parties. Q.E.D.
If you can determine security vulnerabilities just by looking at the computer, or at a website, then you have a great career ahead of you as a security psychic. On the other hand, if you have to telnet in, or scan ports, or brute force a key or something, then that's a bad analogy to seeing that a window is open.
sadly, you have forgotten an option, which seems likely in this case
C) Child is sexually abused for years and years, then finally killed or gotten rid of, or in a lucky case found and reunited with his parents
Yeah, that could be kinda funny, if it weren't for the probable ongoing sexual abuse.
what's the difference between a downloadable mp3 and a podcast?
Patent and copyright law exist to foster innovation and reward people for producing new works. Instead, laws like this merely protect the entrenched powers from having to do just that.
Yeah. Have you ever read Animal Farm? Are you familiar with Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad? That's the original chant of the animals, because they see the two-legged people as evil. Then, as the new animal hegemony becomes entrenched, the chant is changed to Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better. The corollary is to the flip-flop of priorities in patent and copyright law: originally intended to protect the little guy and promote scientific and cultural advances, they now function primarily to help the currently powerful to stay powerful.
But, even if you and I are cynical, we aren't blind or stupid. These facts are plain and public; there is no covert conspiracy here. Surprise! The government cares more about rich people! If you aren't rich, you have only one recourse, which is powerful recourse but used in this country with sad ineffectiveness: voting. If you want a different government, you have to demand it. If you want different copyright law, you have to demand it.