Is it? I've been watching al-Jazeera for two years now. Maybe I was watching it on the MHz network then? I honestly didn't pay much attention - I just know it's channel WYBE 35-2 or 35-3
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I did look at the profits. As of 1Q 2010 the MS Entertainment division is still losing millions every year. Total losses over the last ten years is now a staggering 2.1 billion.
And to put that in perspective: When the TV networks WB and UPN reached that level of loss, they realized they had two options: (1) Join forces as a new network. (2) Die in bankruptcy.
>>>Or have you missed the bit where nowhere in the constitution does it state that everything is to be taken literally as you choose to interpret it
No but appasrently you are too asrtupid to read Amendment fuckign 10!! Stupid son of a vithc. I;'m sick fo you dumbshits who never bother to READ TGHE WORDS DIRECTLY IN FORNT OF YOU:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
By the way the Supreme Court decision is obvious - enforce the law as written. "Congress shall not prohibit free speech... free press..."
If it's felt that needs to be changed, then let the Member States amend the Union government's constitution to ban violent speech. It is not the job of the Court to do anything else but enforce the law.
When I watched the videos of Russian soldiers having their heads cut off, Jews being burned in furnaces, cats being set on fire "for fun", and a Ukranian man having his face bashed in by two teen boys, it taught me the world is a violent and disgusting place filled with dark, deranged people.
Had these videos been censored, I'd still naively think everyone is good.
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The Xbox.... Xbox.... Is that the device which cost Microsoft's entertainment division over a billion in losses? Maybe it's a good thing people ARE forgetting about it?
And even now, teeny-tiny Nintendo is still outselling it 2 to 1.
I convert my files (Star Trek TNG, Babylon 5, etc) to storebought DVDs, put them in a caselogic notebook, and store them on a bookshelf. Much neater way of keeping those types of things.
Other stuff just keeps its original title - such as OuterLimits and BillboardHot100 on the main F: directory (with appropriate subdirectories like Season1 or 2009).
That leaves a a few random files, like GIF avatars and old resumes, that I just dump in my "stuff" folder. I also have a "download" folder for bittorrent files until I get a chance to watch them and delete them.
And just to be contrarian:
- I liked working retail. Sure every now and then you'd get an asshole customer, but you could usually bribe them with 50% off (or whatever), and make them go away. - Overall there were more benefits than downsides, such as flirting with cute coworkers, or looking down blouses when the dumb college girls bent-over in front of you (duh - don't bend over) - But of course the pay was only 1/10th what I make in the office, so that's why I left.
I wonder if Google's action could lead to a lawsuit? It's one thing to re-jigger the ranking equation to block linkfarms, but something else entirely to purposely punish a company and make them essentially invisible.
BTW I used to work for Penney's. They were a good company in the 90s, riding high, and matching 90 cents for every dollar their employees put into an IRA.
Then they got hit hard by the rise of Web shopping, were forced in 2002 to layoff all their managers, eliminated 2/3rds of the clerks, promoted some of these non-degreed clerks as new "managers" but at 1/3rd the pay, and just barely hung on. (Same thing happened with Sears, Kohls, and so on.) The store's quality and service has been lousy ever since. I'm not surprised to hear they would "cheat" to rank on top of search engines, as the Corporate Office went from a Golden Rule-led organization to an "anything to survive" mentality.
If only it were that simple. If we compile ALL the hate crimes, we could easily come-up with a million Muslims that participated those acts, and another quarter-billion that think it was the right thing to do.
Clearly this is a problem with the Qor'an. (BTW christians aren't any better. When they say "Kill women who abort babiers" they arte taking that directly out of tnat sick, sick,sm cik book known as the Bible.)
I've tried Pandora a couple times, but they often play songs I've never heard of --- or music from groups I like but not songs I like. It's a lot like when you buy a CD and there's only 2-3 songs and the rest is 'blah'
I get al-Jazerra from LINK TV and MHZ in Washington and Philadelphia via antenna television (free). Probably other locations as well. And they show Chinese daily news in the original mandarin
Sure no problem. - Or I could just give them WinAmp with MPEG4 decoding built-in. Or hook them up with the Cole Codec Package. Or VLC media player. Or.....
You make it sound like playing MPEG4 video is an impossible obstacle to overcome, but it's ridiculously easy.
But WebM looks no better than MPEG2.
- So I think I'll pass, just as I have no plans to switch from Bluray to HD-DVD. I prefer upgrades, not lateral shifts. I prefer MPEG4 video and audio (AACplusSBR). Same quality as MPEG2 but only needs half the bitrate.
Random thinking out loud : : 4000-color Amiga photos were 704x240x5bits per pixel == 845 kilobits. My ZMODEM protocol transferred 2 kbit/s or 7 minutes just to view one photo! I'd forgotten. No wonder I used to leave the computer downloading by itself.
Of course back then you could only fit 8 photos per floppy, so you had to pause the download every hour, change floppies, and then resume.
Good thing the Amiga multitasked (so you could view photos and download at the same time). All. Good times. Wasted youth. And all that rubbish.:-)
I remember when porn was hard to get. I'd download 4000-color nudie pics or SI Swimsuit scans to my 1985 Amiga, and treasure them like rare gold. (The floppies were hidden with creative names like "Image XXX part 1".)
But now twenty-five years later, there's so much porn I couldn't keep-up even with Viagra.
It didn't seem to bother you when you used Blurays, DVDs, CDs, or VHS tapes, all of which include a license fee to the original developer(s). I don't see why it should bother you now.
But my worry is the "winner" will be an inferior standard, like how VHS beat Laserdisc, so we were stuck with blurry ~320x480 movies for the next 30 years. (LD did manage to hang-on but a lot of the movies I wanted were only available on vhs.)
If there's going to be a war, let's pick the one that can produce the best quality even if limited to a rural America stream of 1 Mbit/s. That would be MPEG4 video with HE-AAC audio.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-to-air - "Free-to-air (FTA) describes television (TV) and radio services broadcast in clear (unencrypted) form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscription (or other ongoing cost)"
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>>The rest of us do have to care about the *legality* of what we do [with VLC Player's unlicensed codecs].
Why?
- I don't think the police are going to come pound on my door, just because I'm watching an MPEG4 movie with VLC.
Is it? I've been watching al-Jazeera for two years now. Maybe I was watching it on the MHz network then? I honestly didn't pay much attention - I just know it's channel WYBE 35-2 or 35-3
I did look at the profits. As of 1Q 2010 the MS Entertainment division is still losing millions every year. Total losses over the last ten years is now a staggering 2.1 billion.
And to put that in perspective: When the TV networks WB and UPN reached that level of loss, they realized they had two options: (1) Join forces as a new network. (2) Die in bankruptcy.
>>>Or have you missed the bit where nowhere in the constitution does it state that everything is to be taken literally as you choose to interpret it
No but appasrently you are too asrtupid to read Amendment fuckign 10!! Stupid son of a vithc. I;'m sick fo you dumbshits who never bother to READ TGHE WORDS DIRECTLY IN FORNT OF YOU:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Dumbass.
By the way the Supreme Court decision is obvious - enforce the law as written. "Congress shall not prohibit free speech... free press..."
If it's felt that needs to be changed, then let the Member States amend the Union government's constitution to ban violent speech. It is not the job of the Court to do anything else but enforce the law.
Sometimes violence can be a learning experience.
When I watched the videos of Russian soldiers having their heads cut off, Jews being burned in furnaces, cats being set on fire "for fun", and a Ukranian man having his face bashed in by two teen boys, it taught me the world is a violent and disgusting place filled with dark, deranged people.
Had these videos been censored, I'd still naively think everyone is good.
The Xbox.... Xbox.... Is that the device which cost Microsoft's entertainment division over a billion in losses? Maybe it's a good thing people ARE forgetting about it?
And even now, teeny-tiny Nintendo is still outselling it 2 to 1.
I convert my files (Star Trek TNG, Babylon 5, etc) to storebought DVDs, put them in a caselogic notebook, and store them on a bookshelf. Much neater way of keeping those types of things.
Other stuff just keeps its original title - such as OuterLimits and BillboardHot100 on the main F: directory (with appropriate subdirectories like Season1 or 2009).
That leaves a a few random files, like GIF avatars and old resumes, that I just dump in my "stuff" folder. I also have a "download" folder for bittorrent files until I get a chance to watch them and delete them.
"think outside [those] boxen."
Fixed.
Plural noun.
Requires plural article.
And just to be contrarian:
- I liked working retail. Sure every now and then you'd get an asshole customer, but you could usually bribe them with 50% off (or whatever), and make them go away.
- Overall there were more benefits than downsides, such as flirting with cute coworkers, or looking down blouses when the dumb college girls bent-over in front of you (duh - don't bend over)
- But of course the pay was only 1/10th what I make in the office, so that's why I left.
1 - Change to Classic Discussion.
2 - Turn-off dynamic discussion.
There that should fix your difficulty.
I wonder if Google's action could lead to a lawsuit? It's one thing to re-jigger the ranking equation to block linkfarms, but something else entirely to purposely punish a company and make them essentially invisible.
BTW I used to work for Penney's. They were a good company in the 90s, riding high, and matching 90 cents for every dollar their employees put into an IRA.
Then they got hit hard by the rise of Web shopping, were forced in 2002 to layoff all their managers, eliminated 2/3rds of the clerks, promoted some of these non-degreed clerks as new "managers" but at 1/3rd the pay, and just barely hung on. (Same thing happened with Sears, Kohls, and so on.) The store's quality and service has been lousy ever since. I'm not surprised to hear they would "cheat" to rank on top of search engines, as the Corporate Office went from a Golden Rule-led organization to an "anything to survive" mentality.
>>>one in a billion does?
If only it were that simple. If we compile ALL the hate crimes, we could easily come-up with a million Muslims that participated those acts, and another quarter-billion that think it was the right thing to do.
Clearly this is a problem with the Qor'an. (BTW christians aren't any better. When they say "Kill women who abort babiers" they arte taking that directly out of tnat sick, sick,sm cik book known as the Bible.)
Religion sucks. Rekligion spreads HARTE not love.
I've tried Pandora a couple times, but they often play songs I've never heard of --- or music from groups I like but not songs I like. It's a lot like when you buy a CD and there's only 2-3 songs and the rest is 'blah'
I get al-Jazerra from LINK TV and MHZ in Washington and Philadelphia via antenna television (free). Probably other locations as well. And they show Chinese daily news in the original mandarin
http://www.linktv.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHz_Worldview
Sure no problem. - Or I could just give them WinAmp with MPEG4 decoding built-in. Or hook them up with the Cole Codec Package. Or VLC media player. Or.....
You make it sound like playing MPEG4 video is an impossible obstacle to overcome, but it's ridiculously easy.
Alba anorexic? Maybe but to quote Wayne's World - "schwing!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adYomnDJsS8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPZWzsFAS1M
But WebM looks no better than MPEG2.
- So I think I'll pass, just as I have no plans to switch from Bluray to HD-DVD. I prefer upgrades, not lateral shifts. I prefer MPEG4 video and audio (AACplusSBR). Same quality as MPEG2 but only needs half the bitrate.
You've not seen Jessica Alba.
She is NOT anorexic. In fact she's gained about 50 pounds since I first saw her on Flipper.
Random thinking out loud : : 4000-color Amiga photos were 704x240x5bits per pixel == 845 kilobits. My ZMODEM protocol transferred 2 kbit/s or 7 minutes just to view one photo! I'd forgotten. No wonder I used to leave the computer downloading by itself.
Of course back then you could only fit 8 photos per floppy, so you had to pause the download every hour, change floppies, and then resume.
Good thing the Amiga multitasked (so you could view photos and download at the same time). All. Good times. Wasted youth. And all that rubbish. :-)
I remember when porn was hard to get. I'd download 4000-color nudie pics or SI Swimsuit scans to my 1985 Amiga, and treasure them like rare gold. (The floppies were hidden with creative names like "Image XXX part 1".)
But now twenty-five years later, there's so much porn I couldn't keep-up even with Viagra.
It didn't seem to bother you when you used Blurays, DVDs, CDs, or VHS tapes, all of which include a license fee to the original developer(s). I don't see why it should bother you now.
Yes battles are interesting.
But my worry is the "winner" will be an inferior standard, like how VHS beat Laserdisc, so we were stuck with blurry ~320x480 movies for the next 30 years. (LD did manage to hang-on but a lot of the movies I wanted were only available on vhs.)
If there's going to be a war, let's pick the one that can produce the best quality even if limited to a rural America stream of 1 Mbit/s. That would be MPEG4 video with HE-AAC audio.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-to-air - "Free-to-air (FTA) describes television (TV) and radio services broadcast in clear (unencrypted) form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscription (or other ongoing cost)"
http://www.hulu.com/ (free tv)
http://www.youtube.com/ (free music vids and tv)
http://www.piratebay.org/