Is they are so "good" at it, how come the Canadian artists had to sue in order to recover nearly 1 billion in unpaid royalties? (Their songs were used on greatest hits CDs, but the sales never credited back to the singers, writers, etc.)
It's about time the writers, artists, etc become hourly employees just like all the rest of us (engineers, programmers, printers, tech document creators,...). Pay them $30/hour for their work and done. No more free ride beyond that, no 200 year long cashcow that supports their great-great-great grandsperm.
I'm sick of these creative types thinking they are better than ME and the job I do.
>>>this would likely be good for the unknown performers
Why should I have to pay another $128 (taxes) just to listen to crappy pop music? Frak that. This is nothing more than Government tyranny to subsidize megacorporations (Sony, Warners, et cetera).
Megacorps == Dirty pieces of shit. Let Sony and the rest of them die.
>>>CNN uses this for comments on many of their stories.
The worst part is your comment is now forever linked to you. At least with the older systems, you could make up fake names like "Richard Head" and therefore be untraceable by any future employers, or voters.
So what exactly am I losing again? It isn't money. Oh that's right. TIME. I'm losing precious time having to relearn a system because Gnome and/or Ubuntu changes its interface every six months!
If I wanted that much change in my life, I'd divorce my wife and hire a mistress.
The US Justices are buddy-buddy with the US congress and US white house, both of which are puppets of Sony and other megacorps (via campaign donations). Congress and the Executive exert enormous pressure on their coworkers to pass correct decisions from the bench.
Having the US government police the US government (court review of laws) makes as little sense as having Sony corporation police the Sony corporation.
>>>unbiased protectors of the individuals that make up the nation and her constitution
Where did you ever get the illusion the Supreme Court was "unbiased"??? That was never, ever, never the case. Even as early as 1805 Thomas Jefferson wrote, "You seem... to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions --- a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.
"Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.... Their power is the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the Elective control. The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves.
"...But the Chief Justice says there must be an arbiter somewhere. True there must, but the ultimate arbiter is the People, as represented by their deputies in the State Legislatures. Let the States decide to which they meant to give power, and amend the constitution if necessary." .
Since the power of Judicial Review is not expressly granted to the Supreme Court by the Constitution, this power is "reserved to the States respectively, or to the people" per the Constitution's OWN words. It is not the Union judiciary's responsibility to protect individuals. It is the responsibility of the People and the States, standing-up for their rights against an overreaching central government-megacorp tyrant, and nullifying unjust laws whenever the occasion warrants.
I mostly buy Panasonic, and they last a long, long time.
>>>All the speakers had logos too but I pried 'em off.
Afraid your mom will come into the basement and see the 'Sony' brand? (I'm just joking. Put down the lightsaber.) The only Sony products I have are a surround-sound stereo and my PS2, both of which continue to work without failing. (And the PS2 doubled as a dvd player, so it really should have died by now but it just keeps going.)
>>>I swore off [Sony, Xbox360, NintendoWii] five or six years ago and haven't regretted it for an instant.
Better.
>>>Sony has been pulling for the last decade and a half
Slight exaggeration. Sony didn't really "turn bad" until just prior to the PS3 launch... sometime around 2005. So half a decade really, not 1.5 decades.
Star Trek also has ~500 novels that expand upon the original show.
Gene Roddenberry's solution? "I hereby declare the novels non-canon" and then he could do whatever the hell he wanted to do in The Next Generation and sequels. The new television episodes/movies routinely contradicted what the novels said.
George Lucas probably has a similar view towards the SW novels, so if he ever created an Episode 7 through 9, they would go in an entirely different direction from the novel history. (In fact he's already done that once - Episodes 5/6 contradict the 1977/78/79 Alan Dean Foster novels based on the first movie.)
I put this on as many Work computers as I can. It tells them to stop using IE 5, 6, 7, or 8 and install a better browser like Chrome,Firefox,Opera. (I like opera best because it stores my bookmarks on the web - universal access at home, work, or hotel.)
I don't know why Logos on tv bother people so much? When I'm watching television I usually forget it's there. My brain mentally blocks it out --- same with the ads on websites. My Brain is my ad blocker.
It was a JOKE anon.coward. "24,000 pixels x 24,000 pixels and it still looks a giant gray blob on dialup." Jeez
Thanks for the -1 "lacking a funny bone" mod Mr. AC. One of these days I'll discover your read UserID and -1 all your posts, as you do to me day-after-day-after-day.
>>>I wonder what sort of techniques can be used to fight this
Laws. - "The right of the people to peaceably assemble shall not be infringed," so it won't matter if you're being tracked to a demonstration because the police cannot stop you. - Of course to pass such a law in China or Egypt or elsewhere, one needs to first overthrow the government and make it part of the new constitution. A bit of a catch-22.
I'm more worried about the Comcast* Monopoly at my home, then any imaginary google monopoly. I don't have to go to google.com but I do have to go through Comcast to see Sci-Fi Channel, History Channel, or HBO.
Ditto for the internet duopoly that exists between Comcast and Verizon. I can't believe state governments have failed to regulate these Utilities like they regulated all the other monopolies (electric, gas, water, phone). The state politicians are collecting big salaries and not doing shit.
>>>his is partly an oversight, partly a lack of thought as to how this would effect things in the future (when gamers were mostly adult)
I don't buy this argument.
I think Aussie politicians left-off the "adult only" rating for games on purpose. If such a rating existed, then they'd have no justification to ban the games. --- The fact they never bother to fix this, with a quick-and-easy passage of a bill to add AO or 21+, sustains my viewpoint.
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Great! Send them all Dialup modems, plus the phone number to that French BBS giving-away free access.
(And don't say it's too slow - I download books, music, and videos over my dialup.)
Is they are so "good" at it, how come the Canadian artists had to sue in order to recover nearly 1 billion in unpaid royalties? (Their songs were used on greatest hits CDs, but the sales never credited back to the singers, writers, etc.)
Frak that.
It's about time the writers, artists, etc become hourly employees just like all the rest of us (engineers, programmers, printers, tech document creators, ...). Pay them $30/hour for their work and done. No more free ride beyond that, no 200 year long cashcow that supports their great-great-great grandsperm.
I'm sick of these creative types thinking they are better than ME and the job I do.
I only pay $7 for one service, and $15 for the other.
They going to tack another $20 each month???
Fuckiong bastards in the fucking government. Let's do to Ottawa what happened to Nicolae CeauÅYescu, his wife, and his cronies.
>>>this would likely be good for the unknown performers
Why should I have to pay another $128 (taxes) just to listen to crappy pop music? Frak that. This is nothing more than Government tyranny to subsidize megacorporations (Sony, Warners, et cetera).
Megacorps == Dirty pieces of shit.
Let Sony and the rest of them die.
>>>CNN uses this for comments on many of their stories.
The worst part is your comment is now forever linked to you. At least with the older systems, you could make up fake names like "Richard Head" and therefore be untraceable by any future employers, or voters.
Or not.
(shrug)
I'm thinking maybe I need to change some of my "bio" information to a few lies..... like born in 1888, or living in Shang-ri-la
>>you deserve what you're signing up for.
Linux -free
Windows - free
So what exactly am I losing again? It isn't money. Oh that's right. TIME. I'm losing precious time having to relearn a system because Gnome and/or Ubuntu changes its interface every six months!
If I wanted that much change in my life, I'd divorce my wife and hire a mistress.
>>>Turn it up to 11
DEFCON goes from 5 (all clear) to 1 (nuclear extinction). Cmon. Haven't you ever watched Stargate or those old Cold war movies? ;-)
>>>siding with government and business 100% of the time
Then shoot him in the head.
>>>they shouldn't have to answer to anyone
The US Justices are buddy-buddy with the US congress and US white house, both of which are puppets of Sony and other megacorps (via campaign donations). Congress and the Executive exert enormous pressure on their coworkers to pass correct decisions from the bench.
Having the US government police the US government (court review of laws) makes as little sense as having Sony corporation police the Sony corporation.
>>>unbiased protectors of the individuals that make up the nation and her constitution
Where did you ever get the illusion the Supreme Court was "unbiased"??? That was never, ever, never the case. Even as early as 1805 Thomas Jefferson wrote, "You seem... to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions --- a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.
"Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.... Their power is the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the Elective control. The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves.
"...But the Chief Justice says there must be an arbiter somewhere. True there must, but the ultimate arbiter is the People, as represented by their deputies in the State Legislatures. Let the States decide to which they meant to give power, and amend the constitution if necessary."
.
Since the power of Judicial Review is not expressly granted to the Supreme Court by the Constitution, this power is "reserved to the States respectively, or to the people" per the Constitution's OWN words. It is not the Union judiciary's responsibility to protect individuals. It is the responsibility of the People and the States, standing-up for their rights against an overreaching central government-megacorp tyrant, and nullifying unjust laws whenever the occasion warrants.
I mostly buy Panasonic, and they last a long, long time.
>>>All the speakers had logos too but I pried 'em off.
Afraid your mom will come into the basement and see the 'Sony' brand? (I'm just joking. Put down the lightsaber.) The only Sony products I have are a surround-sound stereo and my PS2, both of which continue to work without failing. (And the PS2 doubled as a dvd player, so it really should have died by now but it just keeps going.)
>>>I swore off [Sony, Xbox360, NintendoWii] five or six years ago and haven't regretted it for an instant.
Better.
>>>Sony has been pulling for the last decade and a half
Slight exaggeration. Sony didn't really "turn bad" until just prior to the PS3 launch... sometime around 2005. So half a decade really, not 1.5 decades.
Star Trek also has ~500 novels that expand upon the original show.
Gene Roddenberry's solution? "I hereby declare the novels non-canon" and then he could do whatever the hell he wanted to do in The Next Generation and sequels. The new television episodes/movies routinely contradicted what the novels said.
George Lucas probably has a similar view towards the SW novels, so if he ever created an Episode 7 through 9, they would go in an entirely different direction from the novel history. (In fact he's already done that once - Episodes 5/6 contradict the 1977/78/79 Alan Dean Foster novels based on the first movie.)
Too late - already moved my bookmarks to opera.com two years ago. I'm not going to the hassle of moving them to some other place.
I put this on as many Work computers as I can. It tells them to stop using IE 5, 6, 7, or 8 and install a better browser like Chrome,Firefox,Opera. (I like opera best because it stores my bookmarks on the web - universal access at home, work, or hotel.)
http://ieai.pieroxy.net/sample.html
"Brain, brain, brain. What is brain?"-
Spock's Brain
TOS
A Volkswagen Beetle in a NASCAR race has already been made. Talk about unrealistic!
60hp versus 800hp. Yeah right.
I don't know why Logos on tv bother people so much?
When I'm watching television I usually forget it's there. My brain mentally blocks it out --- same with the ads on websites. My Brain is my ad blocker.
Creatures 1 and 2 were awesome games for the 8-bit commodore and 32-bit Atari ST/Amiga. Check out the torture screens:
http://www.google.com/search?q=creatures%202%20commodore&tbs=vid:1
>>>a perfect time for the -1 Overrated mod
It was a JOKE anon.coward. "24,000 pixels x 24,000 pixels and it still looks a giant gray blob on dialup." Jeez
Thanks for the -1 "lacking a funny bone" mod Mr. AC. One of these days I'll discover your read UserID and -1 all your posts, as you do to me day-after-day-after-day.
>>>I wonder what sort of techniques can be used to fight this
Laws. - "The right of the people to peaceably assemble shall not be infringed," so it won't matter if you're being tracked to a demonstration because the police cannot stop you. - Of course to pass such a law in China or Egypt or elsewhere, one needs to first overthrow the government and make it part of the new constitution. A bit of a catch-22.
I'm more worried about the Comcast* Monopoly at my home, then any imaginary google monopoly. I don't have to go to google.com but I do have to go through Comcast to see Sci-Fi Channel, History Channel, or HBO.
Ditto for the internet duopoly that exists between Comcast and Verizon. I can't believe state governments have failed to regulate these Utilities like they regulated all the other monopolies (electric, gas, water, phone). The state politicians are collecting big salaries and not doing shit.
*
* Or cox, cablevision, time-warner, att, etc.
>>>his is partly an oversight, partly a lack of thought as to how this would effect things in the future (when gamers were mostly adult)
I don't buy this argument.
I think Aussie politicians left-off the "adult only" rating for games on purpose. If such a rating existed, then they'd have no justification to ban the games. --- The fact they never bother to fix this, with a quick-and-easy passage of a bill to add AO or 21+, sustains my viewpoint.