In Europe they talk about States Rights without any of the baggage. Basically - they argue France, Germany, Poland, and so on reign supreme over the central government, and they have the right to nullify any act the EU passes which whose power was not granted by the Lisbon treaty. The same thinking should apply in the US too.
"If Nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
"That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by Nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.
"Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property..... Grants of this sort can be justified in very peculiar cases only, if at all; the danger being very great that the good resulting from the operation of the monopoly, may produce more evil than good [think RIAA and MPAA]." - Thomas Jefferson 1780s .
>>>There's a huge difference between downloading the newest Ke$ha song and plagiarizing a source online for your paper
Ke$ha has a new song? - "Yeah it sounds just like the last one, which sounded like Katy Perry's California Girls." - Oh she's cybercheating then.
Why do you think Assange is a hypocrite? Don't you think We the People have a right to know what our taxpayer dollars are paying for (such as Hillary stealing credit card numbers from visiting foreign dignitaries). I certainly do. I don't understand your 1-minute of hate.
I don't think you do. AOL, Norton, and others PAY to have their software installed on the new computer. That payment reduces the retail price for you, the customer. It is similar to how product placements reduce the pricetag for newspapers & magazines.
And I'm happy with that. I'd sooner pay a reduced price, than to have to pay $800 for my PC, $10 for my magazine, and $5 for my newspaper.
>>>you shouldn't have to do that with an OS that you're paying for.
That's the thing - you're NOT paying for the Windows OS because the other bloatware from AOL, MSN, and so on is covering the cost. If you *were* paying for the OS, then instead of a $500 PC you'd be getting an $800 PC..... and at that point you might as well get a Mac.;-)
Personally I like the bloatware since it does subsidize my PC (my last one cost only $200), and it's easy to uninstall using the add/remove programs icon. Not a big deal. The ~$300 or whatever that I saved equals ~30 hours of less time I need to spend at hell..... I mean, work.
BTW my browser is Mozilla Seamonkey. It's only at release 2. :-(
Motto from a former company : - Safety Has Its Time. The contractor who submitted that was laid-off, and that was what he submitted to the company before leaving.
If that's true, they should have kept Netscape's old version numbers. Mozilla App Suite would have been Communicator 5.0. The Navigator-only breakoff called "firefox" would be 6.0. And by the start of 2012 we'd be rounding-the-corner onto Firefox 10.0 (beta).
>>>Which, one might argue, makes them point releases instead of major releases. If 5 is only adding a few features from 4, and fixing bugs, then why isn't it 4.1? >>> I tried to make that same argument about Windows Seven, that it's really just Vista with bugfixes but nobody buys that argument, and instead insist Seven is a separate OS even though the number indicates otherwise (incremented from 6.0 to 6.1). They claim the numbering system is "completely arbitrary". And maybe they're right.
BTW it's a balmy 0 degrees today and my car was Not covered with snow. It was covered with rain - albeit frozen. And white. And war is peace. And I am not typing on Firefox 3.51, but Mozilla 10. Ooops I mean Netscape 11. Well anyway it's got a picture of a cute dragon/gecko/lizard thing.
(This is meant to be "funny" for those of ye who are humor-impaired. Ooops, I mean comic-challenged. Or is it vertically challenged? I get confused. Double+good.)
Perhaps the U.S. should stop acting like the United Socialist States of America (USSR... I mean, A). Of course if I believe the words coming out of Nigel Firage and Daniel Hannan, the E.U. is headed down the same path. (If I believed...)
Why do you think Assange is a hypocrite? Don't you think We the People have a right to know what our taxpayer dollars are paying for (such as Hillary stealing credit card numbers from visiting foreign dignitaries). I certainly do. I don't understand your 1-minute of hate.
Especially since, in 4 billion years, it will turn the planet into a crisp ember. Of course humans will probably have moved-on by then, but in 50 billion years ALL the stars will have burnt-out to dying red embers.
Then what do we do? "This..... all of this was for nothing." - sinclair, B5
Really? My Verizon DSL gives me a sustained 90 kbyte/sec down, which translates to 720+ kbit/s ----- exactly what I'm paying for. Why is yours so slow?
I think he meant "internet is a right" in the same way that "freedom of the press" is a right. It doesn't mean the government has to give you a printing press.
The Comcast monopoly is being broken, slowly. Verizon offers DSL or FiOS in many areas. Wireless internet is slowly being deployed (there are 10+ companies in my suburb). And satellite is improving.
Of course the ideal would be for State Governments to lay-down optical fibers under the government-owned roads, and lease them to any company that wanted to use them. Imagine being able to choose from any of 50 ISPs.
>>>If you are already paying for data on your phone
Nice idea, but I don't pay anything for my cellphone ($0.00 per month + per-call billing). So yes I would have to pay an extra several hundred extra, if I switched my travel laptop over from dialup to cellular internet.
There's a lot of hate directed at AOL, but people forget it was the first national service to provide a full graphics interface (rather than plain text) in the 1980s.
>>>3G areas is at least 10 times faster than your dialup
I don't know how you figure. Dialup is 53k while 3G is 200k (or so I've heard). It's only four times difference. ----- Also my dialup squashes the images to almost no space, so it's actually faster (pages load as fast as my 1000k DSL).
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In Europe they talk about States Rights without any of the baggage. Basically - they argue France, Germany, Poland, and so on reign supreme over the central government, and they have the right to nullify any act the EU passes which whose power was not granted by the Lisbon treaty. The same thinking should apply in the US too.
>>>You must be a real tiger in the sack...
That's why man invented vibrators - so he wouldn't have to work as hard. Also dishwashers, laundry machines, self-cleaning ovens, .....
"If Nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
"That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by Nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.
"Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property..... Grants of this sort can be justified in very peculiar cases only, if at all; the danger being very great that the good resulting from the operation of the monopoly, may produce more evil than good [think RIAA and MPAA]." - Thomas Jefferson 1780s
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>>>There's a huge difference between downloading the newest Ke$ha song and plagiarizing a source online for your paper
Ke$ha has a new song? - "Yeah it sounds just like the last one, which sounded like Katy Perry's California Girls." - Oh she's cybercheating then.
Noooo..... AOL die in a fire?
If AOL goes, so too does my cheap $7 dialup access which I use in hotels (also work to skirt around the filtering).
>>>30-year old crisis...
Yeah. It's all pretty much pointless. Might as well say "frak it all" and go screw as many women as you can..... kinda like Assange does. ;-)
+1 interesting (not troll)
Why do you think Assange is a hypocrite? Don't you think We the People have a right to know what our taxpayer dollars are paying for (such as Hillary stealing credit card numbers from visiting foreign dignitaries). I certainly do. I don't understand your 1-minute of hate.
>>>I know what your saying
I don't think you do. AOL, Norton, and others PAY to have their software installed on the new computer. That payment reduces the retail price for you, the customer. It is similar to how product placements reduce the pricetag for newspapers & magazines.
And I'm happy with that. I'd sooner pay a reduced price, than to have to pay $800 for my PC, $10 for my magazine, and $5 for my newspaper.
>>>you shouldn't have to do that with an OS that you're paying for.
That's the thing - you're NOT paying for the Windows OS because the other bloatware from AOL, MSN, and so on is covering the cost. If you *were* paying for the OS, then instead of a $500 PC you'd be getting an $800 PC..... and at that point you might as well get a Mac. ;-)
Personally I like the bloatware since it does subsidize my PC (my last one cost only $200), and it's easy to uninstall using the add/remove programs icon. Not a big deal. The ~$300 or whatever that I saved equals ~30 hours of less time I need to spend at hell..... I mean, work.
BTW my browser is Mozilla Seamonkey.
:-(
It's only at release 2.
Motto from a former company : - Safety Has Its Time. The contractor who submitted that was laid-off, and that was what he submitted to the company before leaving.
>>>they all had to catch up
If that's true, they should have kept Netscape's old version numbers. Mozilla App Suite would have been Communicator 5.0. The Navigator-only breakoff called "firefox" would be 6.0. And by the start of 2012 we'd be rounding-the-corner onto Firefox 10.0 (beta).
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>>>Which, one might argue, makes them point releases instead of major releases. If 5 is only adding a few features from 4, and fixing bugs, then why isn't it 4.1?
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I tried to make that same argument about Windows Seven, that it's really just Vista with bugfixes but nobody buys that argument, and instead insist Seven is a separate OS even though the number indicates otherwise (incremented from 6.0 to 6.1). They claim the numbering system is "completely arbitrary". And maybe they're right.
BTW it's a balmy 0 degrees today and my car was Not covered with snow. It was covered with rain - albeit frozen. And white. And war is peace. And I am not typing on Firefox 3.51, but Mozilla 10. Ooops I mean Netscape 11. Well anyway it's got a picture of a cute dragon/gecko/lizard thing.
(This is meant to be "funny" for those of ye who are humor-impaired. Ooops, I mean comic-challenged. Or is it vertically challenged? I get confused. Double+good.)
>>>only connecting double-digit subscribers
How on earth do they squeeze that many conversations into a few kilobits of datastream?
>>>When I had a 1200 baud modem, AOL was a joke.
Well - you're wrong. When I and most other people were using 300, 1200, or 2400 baud modems (i.e. the 1980s), the AOL company was the only service sending Full graphics to a national audience. Stuff like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_Caribe
http://dsgames.net/qlink/caribe/images/cc-bbs.jpg
http://www.dsgames.net/qlink/habitat/images/habitat-popustop166.jpg
This was basically the precursor to Nintendo "Mii" and other icon-based worlds.
>>>56Kb and 3G 200KB.
3G is nowhere near 200 kilobytes/second (approximately 2 Megabit/s). Clear Internet advertises their 3G at just 250 kbit/s.
>>>sad state of the US reputation in Europe.
Perhaps the U.S. should stop acting like the United Socialist States of America (USSR... I mean, A). Of course if I believe the words coming out of Nigel Firage and Daniel Hannan, the E.U. is headed down the same path. (If I believed...)
+1 interesting (not troll)
Why do you think Assange is a hypocrite? Don't you think We the People have a right to know what our taxpayer dollars are paying for (such as Hillary stealing credit card numbers from visiting foreign dignitaries). I certainly do. I don't understand your 1-minute of hate.
Especially since, in 4 billion years, it will turn the planet into a crisp ember. Of course humans will probably have moved-on by then, but in 50 billion years ALL the stars will have burnt-out to dying red embers.
Then what do we do? "This..... all of this was for nothing." - sinclair, B5
>>>my Verizon DSL tops out at 444 kbit/s.
Really? My Verizon DSL gives me a sustained 90 kbyte/sec down, which translates to 720+ kbit/s ----- exactly what I'm paying for. Why is yours so slow?
I think he meant "internet is a right" in the same way that "freedom of the press" is a right. It doesn't mean the government has to give you a printing press.
The Comcast monopoly is being broken, slowly. Verizon offers DSL or FiOS in many areas. Wireless internet is slowly being deployed (there are 10+ companies in my suburb). And satellite is improving.
Of course the ideal would be for State Governments to lay-down optical fibers under the government-owned roads, and lease them to any company that wanted to use them. Imagine being able to choose from any of 50 ISPs.
That would work, although it'd be rather expensive - http://www.thuraya.com/
444 kbit/s. I guess that's better than what most citizens have even when the internet is working.
Noooo..... AOL die in a fire?
- If AOL goes, so too does my cheap $7 dialup access which I use in hotels (and work to skirt around the filtering).
>>>If you are already paying for data on your phone
Nice idea, but I don't pay anything for my cellphone ($0.00 per month + per-call billing). So yes I would have to pay an extra several hundred extra, if I switched my travel laptop over from dialup to cellular internet.
There's a lot of hate directed at AOL, but people forget it was the first national service to provide a full graphics interface (rather than plain text) in the 1980s.
Whatever they are now, they used to be a great service (just like Mac used to be a great computer) (j/k). - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjgH27p-FAM
>>>3G areas is at least 10 times faster than your dialup
I don't know how you figure. Dialup is 53k while 3G is 200k (or so I've heard). It's only four times difference. ----- Also my dialup squashes the images to almost no space, so it's actually faster (pages load as fast as my 1000k DSL).