My wife had cingular and a nice samsung phone, I had Verizon and the cheapest/no-frills kyocera phone. Her phone would constantly get drop-outs...but not hang-ups...heh. Mine just always worked. It was weird...
So the Canadians will have to wait a few weeks longer before they get to see a movie in the theater. This would be done to stop 'telesync' copyright infringement in Canada, but I see it as an incentive to get a pirated copy from the 'net.
Their brick-and-mortar stores have given me too many shitty DVDs that get half-way through before cutting out and yuo miss like 10 minutes because someone's crotch dropping scraped the disk.
I'd rather risk the RIAA and MPAA before I give another cent to Blockbuster and their hateful religious agenda.
I consider my downloads payment for the industry's collusion with politicians to take away the 'fair use' back-up rights I once could not be prosecuted for exersizing.
'Cause I think that the ultra-strict DRM would drive consumers away...and consumers would figure out a way to get that content anyway.
You don't need BitTorrent to get DVDs of movies still in the theater...I go to the 'swap meet' in New Haven on Ella T. Grasso Blvd durring the summer and buy all sorts of movies for like $5 each!
I know the police are useless to prevent against robbery, I've been robbed and the cops pretty much told me that I had to handle it myself because they can't be everywhere.
My main system is a dual-processor Athlon MP system. A few minutes googling couldn't turn up a manufacturing country.
Maybe they should let the citizens of the nation in which the corporation is based have free-access...but limit it for the rest of the world.
Nobody wants to buy our cars, we don't produce many other manufactured goods. Our software and our media is what the world is willing to pay for. The government understands perfectly, beause the government let jobs flow out of the nation.
If these companies can't figure out a way to protect their 'intellectual property', then tough titty for them!
They can stop making the product. If there is enough demand for the product, someone else will step up.
Let the invisible hand take care of this.
Of course, since the USA doesn't actually create anything of value to the rest of the world....save food and media...it's understandable why the government wants to protect the economy.
It's OK if some people buy the 'wrong brand' and end up with a doorstop in a year or two. Why does the government have to make sure everybody can get fucking television?
Oh yeah, because the economy depends on you buying shit you don't need...and without TV telling you what to buy...you'll buy less shit you don't need.
Does someone have a gun to Bill Gates' head demanding that he support this format that hurts the consumer? Nope. Microsoft saw what the consumer wants and what the content provider wants and went with the content provider.
I suppose what we really need is a way to figure out who is trying hard enough and deserves assistance, and who is just a moocher.
We put warning lables on everything...perhaps we need a law that correlates household income to reccomended quantity children. If you have more children than reccomended for your income bracket, you get no additional assistance.
I don't care much about flags, but your other points are right on. In addition, I'd like to mention that I feel the US allows too many dual citizenships. If you want to be a US citizen, you should give up any other citizenships you may have.
The illegaly immigrated Mexicans tend to leave the young, old and infirm at home when they cross the border, and they send money back for their care.
Which is better...do we want them to bring their entire extended family here to use US services...or just let them send that money back home?
It seems that this illegal immigration thing only works well when it's mostly able-bodied workers who come here and work.
I don't mean to sound callous, but I expect people to do the math before having those kids. People seem to think it is their right to raise children, I say it is a privledge. If driving is a privledge in this nation, then child-rearing should be a privledge as well.
If you cannot afford to provide for your spawn, you don't get to have any.
I guess all the tax credits aren't enough...American Parents can't seem to raise their children and satisfy their own lifestyle demands at the same time.
I'm not going to take the higher ground this time. Every school budget gets a 'no' vote from me! This school district I live in is too concerned with sports, and not concerned enough with technology, so I always vote no. If you can't spend my money wisely, I don't want you to have it.
Too bad the teachers get caught in the middle, but such is life. I can't help it if the people in the USA value sports more than education...but I CAN choose how I want my money spent.
"noisy" image? What a load of crap.
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Just so when all my frothing Hillary-hating acquiantences find out, I can enjoy watching their freak-out.
A woman president, and a Clinton? Things are looking up!
My wife had cingular and a nice samsung phone, I had Verizon and the cheapest/no-frills kyocera phone. Her phone would constantly get drop-outs...but not hang-ups...heh. Mine just always worked. It was weird...
So the Canadians will have to wait a few weeks longer before they get to see a movie in the theater. This would be done to stop 'telesync' copyright infringement in Canada, but I see it as an incentive to get a pirated copy from the 'net.
Their brick-and-mortar stores have given me too many shitty DVDs that get half-way through before cutting out and yuo miss like 10 minutes because someone's crotch dropping scraped the disk.
I'd rather risk the RIAA and MPAA before I give another cent to Blockbuster and their hateful religious agenda.
I consider my downloads payment for the industry's collusion with politicians to take away the 'fair use' back-up rights I once could not be prosecuted for exersizing.
Don't worry, I buy plenty of DVDs too.
Or did you mean that because there are McDonalds restaurants everywhere...people go in there to eat rather than go to a grocery store?
Hmmm..
'Cause I think that the ultra-strict DRM would drive consumers away...and consumers would figure out a way to get that content anyway.
You don't need BitTorrent to get DVDs of movies still in the theater...I go to the 'swap meet' in New Haven on Ella T. Grasso Blvd durring the summer and buy all sorts of movies for like $5 each!
I know the police are useless to prevent against robbery, I've been robbed and the cops pretty much told me that I had to handle it myself because they can't be everywhere.
My main system is a dual-processor Athlon MP system. A few minutes googling couldn't turn up a manufacturing country.
Maybe they should let the citizens of the nation in which the corporation is based have free-access...but limit it for the rest of the world.
Nobody wants to buy our cars, we don't produce many other manufactured goods. Our software and our media is what the world is willing to pay for. The government understands perfectly, beause the government let jobs flow out of the nation.
If these companies can't figure out a way to protect their 'intellectual property', then tough titty for them!
They can stop making the product. If there is enough demand for the product, someone else will step up.
Let the invisible hand take care of this.
Of course, since the USA doesn't actually create anything of value to the rest of the world....save food and media...it's understandable why the government wants to protect the economy.
I think your idea has a flaw in it!
It's OK if some people buy the 'wrong brand' and end up with a doorstop in a year or two. Why does the government have to make sure everybody can get fucking television?
Oh yeah, because the economy depends on you buying shit you don't need...and without TV telling you what to buy...you'll buy less shit you don't need.
So cynical today.
How dare you mock the very important constitution-ignoring techniques our Dear Leader uses to keep the Homeland safe!
I thought that you always had the right to be heard in court..
Dude, how do you EVER make a decision? :)
Does someone have a gun to Bill Gates' head demanding that he support this format that hurts the consumer? Nope. Microsoft saw what the consumer wants and what the content provider wants and went with the content provider.
How does this guy get to play his games for more than a few hours with the electrical grids popping up and down like fleas in a trailer?
Fertilizers in large doses, and a non-trivial ammount leeches out of the soil and is carried away to cause trouble in other areas.
I hear you on the driving thing.
I suppose what we really need is a way to figure out who is trying hard enough and deserves assistance, and who is just a moocher.
We put warning lables on everything...perhaps we need a law that correlates household income to reccomended quantity children. If you have more children than reccomended for your income bracket, you get no additional assistance.
I don't care much about flags, but your other points are right on. In addition, I'd like to mention that I feel the US allows too many dual citizenships. If you want to be a US citizen, you should give up any other citizenships you may have.
The illegaly immigrated Mexicans tend to leave the young, old and infirm at home when they cross the border, and they send money back for their care.
Which is better...do we want them to bring their entire extended family here to use US services...or just let them send that money back home?
It seems that this illegal immigration thing only works well when it's mostly able-bodied workers who come here and work.
I don't mean to sound callous, but I expect people to do the math before having those kids. People seem to think it is their right to raise children, I say it is a privledge. If driving is a privledge in this nation, then child-rearing should be a privledge as well.
If you cannot afford to provide for your spawn, you don't get to have any.
Sorry, not very sympathetic today.
Oh the humanity!
I guess all the tax credits aren't enough...American Parents can't seem to raise their children and satisfy their own lifestyle demands at the same time.
We should make science as public as possible. Allowing scientific discoveries to be monopolized by a single company is amoral.
Corporations in the US have such a sweet-heart deal with the government, I think we can ask them to share their discoveries with the rest of us.
I'm willing to accept that bias. Until we find Earth v2.0, we should be much more careful with Earth v1.0.
I'm not going to take the higher ground this time. Every school budget gets a 'no' vote from me! This school district I live in is too concerned with sports, and not concerned enough with technology, so I always vote no. If you can't spend my money wisely, I don't want you to have it.
Too bad the teachers get caught in the middle, but such is life. I can't help it if the people in the USA value sports more than education...but I CAN choose how I want my money spent.
CRT beats all because of the brightness and contrast.