You know, your old roommate COULD have poked a small hole in the lid of the stool jars before opening them, to release the pressure... I guess he liked doing things the quick 'n' dirty way though.
Should it be every network admin in the world's job to have to apply a workaround for a single company's flaunting of standards?
Send Verisign an invoice for the time you spend on this, everyone. Even if they refuse to pay it off, at their Accounts Payable department will understand how far-reaching the consequences of this decision are.
My point exactly. No other mode of transportation CAN stand compare to airline travel over long distances.
Amtrak. It'll take almost 3 days, but NY to LA is only $166.
One-way. Add a return ticket, and you're at the same price point as an airline trip. If one mode takes 6 hours and the other 3 days, which one is more economical?
it's only 2847 miles from NY to LA over roads, so your airline ticket cost estimate of "$.05 a mile" really should be "at least $.10 a mile".
???
$300.00 / (2847 mi x 2) = ~5.3 cents/mile. It's a round trip ticket, remember.
Bullshit it is. I can easily get a NY-to-LA round trip coach ticket for ~$300. That works out to about 5 cents per mile, and a traveling speed of several hundred miles per hour.
Name another form of transportation that even comes CLOSE to the speed and economy of air travel.
how can they wonder why they're having a hard time making money?
Maybe it's because people aren't willing to pay much more than 5 cents per mile for basic service...
They can track your packages and they take responsibility when they screw up. Perhaps the Postal Service could take a lesson?
The US Postal Service offers trackable, insured mail delivery. They just don't do it on EVERY piece of mail because it's not worth the expenses to do so. Why use TCP for everything if UDP meets all the requirements?
As far as I know (not very far), Apple Corps doesn't do much of anything these days except sit around waiting for a company like Apple Computer to do something that seems to violate a contract that was signed twenty years ago.
I'll avoid the obvious joke about rodent testes here and just comment on how since optical mouses started growing in popularity, mouses don't always have balls anymore either.
"I spent $29.95 on Kazaa and thought I could download thousands of dollars of CDs, movies, software and pr0n." Riiiight..
An eMusic subscription enables you to legally download hundreds of dollars of music for $10/month. Why is the Kazaa example so far-fetched?
If Kazaa wants to cover its ass, it needs to put in big obvious terms at the beginning of the license "This software does not give you legal rights to obtain or share copies of copyrighted materials". Obscuring it in section two paragraph six may be legally sufficient, but won't stop misinformed consumers from getting upset with them.
Homeland Security couldn't even say what caused the blackout in New York except that it wasn't terrorism....which is exactly the extent of their duties.
They don't run the power grid. They don't and can't know how to troubleshoot the power grid. Those duties belong to the power companies.
Vilifying Homeland Security for not identifying the cause of the blackout is like blaming your dentist for not diagnosing the cause of your lower back pain.
Reminds me of when people were buying parachutes in case they had to jump out of office towers.
Two years ago today, hundreds of people fell to their deaths from office towers. If they had escape parachutes available, many of them needn't have lost their lives.
Artists make art because that's what they do. It has nothing to do with profit to them. They would be making art no matter what.
You mean you don't know of even a single case where a musician quit playing music because it wasn't paying the bills?
I have friends whose parents were professional musicians. A lot of them don't play anymore, because in order to put food on the table for their families they had to take jobs selling real estate or driving a bus or working at a gas station.
It was advertised in a back issue of National Geographic that the big 5 record labels were guilty of artificially inflating the price of records at their outlet stores!
I don't know the specifics of the suit you're referring to, but I'm guessing that the labels were never found guilty. They decided they couldn't win in court, or stood to lose too much if they did, so they settled -- paid a couple million to the class action lawyers, promised to send out rebate coupons to people who had bought CDs, and officially admitted no wrongdoing whatsoever.
I wouldn't be surprised if the RIAA labels go through this type of lawsuit every few years. Price-fixing settlements are part of their operating expenses.
That article also criticises the industry for failing to do anything to provide a decent legal alternative to file-swapping.
Buying CD's is a decent legal alternative to file-swapping.
It may not have the kind of convenience or inexpensiveness that some people feel they're entitled to, but it has a track record dating back at least two decades as an effective distribution model.
Imagine if court worked the way you think it should?
Judge: Should this man go to jail?
Prosecutor: He committed a crime. Here's the statutes under which he was charged, here's his own testimony affirming what he did, here's a stack of earlier cases that establish precedent.
Defense attorney: But... but he's INTELLIGENT! It would be wasteful to put him in jail!
Judge: Well, we certainly don't people to face the consequences of their actions unless they're stupid! Case dismissed!
What the RIAA is doing is scraping the lists to see whose stuff is getting "pirated" the most so they can increase marketing and airplay for that "artist"
Which is like an insurance company reading through police reports to see what kinds of cars are stolen most frequently, and adjusting their rates.
I don't know why people always try to liken music sharing to property theft.
I don't know why at least five people feel the need to explain why it's different from theft in every/. thread about the RIAA.
When you download a song, you're making a COPY. That's different from taking the property of another person. In the case of theft, the victim sacrifices the thing that you took.
An spy breaks into a US military research lab and uses a microfilm camera to take pictures of sensitive documents, maps, and diagrams. Did the spy steal anything? I mean, the US military still has them -- but they're worth a lot less now that every other government in the world has them too.
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it's entirely possible that a far smaller car collector would benefit. [...] It's not just for the super rich.
Okay, so it's for the super-rich AND the just-plain-rich.
Do you know of many "car collectors" in the middle or lower tax brackets?
See how many of them actually buy the x-box after that. I'd be curious.
See how many of them tell you to leave them alone and punch you in the face. I'd be curious.
You know, your old roommate COULD have poked a small hole in the lid of the stool jars before opening them, to release the pressure... I guess he liked doing things the quick 'n' dirty way though.
Simply block all traffic to 64.94.110.11
Should it be every network admin in the world's job to have to apply a workaround for a single company's flaunting of standards?
Send Verisign an invoice for the time you spend on this, everyone. Even if they refuse to pay it off, at their Accounts Payable department will understand how far-reaching the consequences of this decision are.
You've set up an unwinable contest there, mate.
My point exactly. No other mode of transportation CAN stand compare to airline travel over long distances.
Amtrak. It'll take almost 3 days, but NY to LA is only $166.
One-way. Add a return ticket, and you're at the same price point as an airline trip. If one mode takes 6 hours and the other 3 days, which one is more economical?
it's only 2847 miles from NY to LA over roads, so your airline ticket cost estimate of "$.05 a mile" really should be "at least $.10 a mile".
???
$300.00 / (2847 mi x 2) = ~5.3 cents/mile. It's a round trip ticket, remember.
the ticket is expensive
Bullshit it is. I can easily get a NY-to-LA round trip coach ticket for ~$300. That works out to about 5 cents per mile, and a traveling speed of several hundred miles per hour.
Name another form of transportation that even comes CLOSE to the speed and economy of air travel.
how can they wonder why they're having a hard time making money?
Maybe it's because people aren't willing to pay much more than 5 cents per mile for basic service...
They can track your packages and they take responsibility when they screw up. Perhaps the Postal Service could take a lesson?
The US Postal Service offers trackable, insured mail delivery. They just don't do it on EVERY piece of mail because it's not worth the expenses to do so. Why use TCP for everything if UDP meets all the requirements?
a new phone technology that isolates the user from all other sensory input
You mean like... a PHONE BOOTH?
For big biz this ok but for individuals (such as me) it is a big worry.
Do you have an unlisted number? If not, what's to stop someone from looking you up in the white pages to get your home address and phone number?
As far as I know (not very far), Apple Corps doesn't do much of anything these days except sit around waiting for a company like Apple Computer to do something that seems to violate a contract that was signed twenty years ago.
Does that seem fair?
My favorite mouse is the "pencil eraser" pointer device wedged in the middle of Thinkpad keyboards.
Wait, what I meant to say is that's the worst mouse ever.
mice have balls, digipads dont.
I'll avoid the obvious joke about rodent testes here and just comment on how since optical mouses started growing in popularity, mouses don't always have balls anymore either.
Anybody can into Windows, but it takes a real hacker to get into Linux.
And then that real hacker releases a root kit, and then every script kiddie in the world is able to compromise poorly-maintained Linux servers.
"I spent $29.95 on Kazaa and thought I could download thousands of dollars of CDs, movies, software and pr0n." Riiiight..
An eMusic subscription enables you to legally download hundreds of dollars of music for $10/month. Why is the Kazaa example so far-fetched?
If Kazaa wants to cover its ass, it needs to put in big obvious terms at the beginning of the license "This software does not give you legal rights to obtain or share copies of copyrighted materials". Obscuring it in section two paragraph six may be legally sufficient, but won't stop misinformed consumers from getting upset with them.
Americans got the president and government they deserved.
NO ONE deserves a corrupt or careless government, no matter how ignorant or stupid they might be.
Homeland Security couldn't even say what caused the blackout in New York except that it wasn't terrorism. ...which is exactly the extent of their duties.
They don't run the power grid. They don't and can't know how to troubleshoot the power grid. Those duties belong to the power companies.
Vilifying Homeland Security for not identifying the cause of the blackout is like blaming your dentist for not diagnosing the cause of your lower back pain.
Reminds me of when people were buying parachutes in case they had to jump out of office towers.
Two years ago today, hundreds of people fell to their deaths from office towers. If they had escape parachutes available, many of them needn't have lost their lives.
What's your point?
How is one to know whether something is under copyright or not?
/tongue-in-cheek
Check the 'copyrighted' flag in the ID3 data, naturally.
Artists make art because that's what they do. It has nothing to do with profit to them. They would be making art no matter what.
You mean you don't know of even a single case where a musician quit playing music because it wasn't paying the bills?
I have friends whose parents were professional musicians. A lot of them don't play anymore, because in order to put food on the table for their families they had to take jobs selling real estate or driving a bus or working at a gas station.
It was advertised in a back issue of National Geographic that the big 5 record labels were guilty of artificially inflating the price of records at their outlet stores!
I don't know the specifics of the suit you're referring to, but I'm guessing that the labels were never found guilty. They decided they couldn't win in court, or stood to lose too much if they did, so they settled -- paid a couple million to the class action lawyers, promised to send out rebate coupons to people who had bought CDs, and officially admitted no wrongdoing whatsoever.
I wouldn't be surprised if the RIAA labels go through this type of lawsuit every few years. Price-fixing settlements are part of their operating expenses.
That article also criticises the industry for failing to do anything to provide a decent legal alternative to file-swapping.
Buying CD's is a decent legal alternative to file-swapping.
It may not have the kind of convenience or inexpensiveness that some people feel they're entitled to, but it has a track record dating back at least two decades as an effective distribution model.
Don't put words in my mouth.
Imagine if court worked the way you think it should?
Judge: Should this man go to jail?
Prosecutor: He committed a crime. Here's the statutes under which he was charged, here's his own testimony affirming what he did, here's a stack of earlier cases that establish precedent.
Defense attorney: But... but he's INTELLIGENT! It would be wasteful to put him in jail!
Judge: Well, we certainly don't people to face the consequences of their actions unless they're stupid! Case dismissed!
What the RIAA is doing is scraping the lists to see whose stuff is getting "pirated" the most so they can increase marketing and airplay for that "artist"
Which is like an insurance company reading through police reports to see what kinds of cars are stolen most frequently, and adjusting their rates.
The original analogy stands! *blows whistle*
I don't know why people always try to liken music sharing to property theft.
/. thread about the RIAA.
I don't know why at least five people feel the need to explain why it's different from theft in every
When you download a song, you're making a COPY. That's different from taking the property of another person. In the case of theft, the victim sacrifices the thing that you took.
An spy breaks into a US military research lab and uses a microfilm camera to take pictures of sensitive documents, maps, and diagrams. Did the spy steal anything? I mean, the US military still has them -- but they're worth a lot less now that every other government in the world has them too.
This kid sounds like a bright fish .. why jail him?
Um... because he committed a crime?
This seems rather straightforward to me.