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Typical corporate rights grabbing.
I guess I was wrong to think/. wasn't typical.
At the very least only winning entries should loose some rights. Since they received compenstation.
Now why wouldn't the telemarketer just remove all the numbers they wanted to call, then request a copy of the list and call them? Then they can say "see
these weren't on the list you gave us".
Also, there is _always_ an economic incentive to invent something better. If I invent a better mouse trap, people will buy it over your old-but-still-patented mousetrap.
What are you talking about?
They will buy whichever one is cheapest at Wal-Mart.
Unless you spend enough on marketing to convenice them otherwise.
What competition, I haven't seen any competiton anywhere I've lived. I can't get DSL and the quote for ISDN was $250/month + a $500 install charge. The price I pay for a dialtone goes up every year. I even live in a major metropolitan area.
No Competition = customer service down + prices up + innovative service additions zero
Some of the best educated people in the world have been the most terrible. Eugenics does not come from dunderheads. Chemical weapons are not created by morons.
I'm afraid I've missed the point of the above paragraph.
Are you saying the people who developed Eugenics and chemical weapons are terrorist?
They go after the little guy first. He can't afford
either to defend himself well, or settle out of court.
What the RIAA is after is precedence.
If my guess is correct, the RIAA probably already researched these guys to make sure the weren't "connected" (politically, financally, etc). Then as these cases go to trial, they keep the one with the least tech savy judge and drop the others (the reason for having four cases is having several judges to pick from, with the added bonus of dividing the defence funds four ways). After days of testimony from thier hired expert witnesses and arguments from high priced lawyers, designed to confuse the judge even more, the get thier victory.
Now they have precedence and can go after the deep pockets.
Though they'll look for someone not connected to anyone they don't want to piss off.
...the color palettes get handled when a video card only does 256 colors. It looks amateur (and frankly, awful) when the color palette gets used up by an app in the foreground, and the background suddenly changes to some ugly black and purple colors. I can run 256 color mode all day long in WinXP or even OSX and not get that behavior.
I can see how keeping the background looking good is
important. Who cares how the thing your looking at (the forground) looks, it's the backgroup that matters, screw the forgroud (it's just blocking your view of the background anyway).
I think it's so funny how there's a section of the population that finds it fashionable to talk trash on their own country...
Wow, I didn't even know it was "trash talking". I guess I don't watch enough professional wrestling.
...It's not just the U.S. that has these kinds of people....
Maybe that's because no country is perfect.
What country would you rather live in?
My research is still not complete, but I'm working on it.
What have you voted on in the last several years aside from Slashdot poles?
Well just yesterday I voted against anchovies and for jalapeños on the pizza for a lunch meeting, but I don't see how that's relevant. In fact I don't see how the prior question is relevant either. I'm not anti-American, only anti-arrogance.
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Yet another example where they would have been better off spending their money on hit men, instead of lawyers.
No, no, don't use tin foil, use this stuff.
Typical corporate rights grabbing.
I guess I was wrong to think /. wasn't typical.
At the very least only winning entries should loose some rights. Since they received compenstation.
Now why wouldn't the telemarketer just remove all the numbers they wanted to call, then request a copy of the list and call them? Then they can say "see these weren't on the list you gave us".
What are you talking about?
They will buy whichever one is cheapest at Wal-Mart. Unless you spend enough on marketing to convenice them otherwise.
I think you mean when we live in fear AND give up our freedoms, those willing to take advantage of the situation win.
I see that a lot. I just don't see anything in the constitution about losing your right to free speech if you fail to exercise your right to vote.
An apathetic electorate only strenghens the hand of the commercial interests that hope to buy favors.
On that we agree, though I would add an uneducated electorate as well. We seem to have both in the US.
If you love your spectrum set it free.
If it doesn't come back to you it was never yours to sell in the first place.
What competition, I haven't seen any competiton
anywhere I've lived. I can't get DSL and the quote
for ISDN was $250/month + a $500 install charge.
The price I pay for a dialtone goes up every year.
I even live in a major metropolitan area.
No Competition = customer service down + prices up + innovative service additions zero
I'd prefer on of these
I gave up in late 1994, the signal/noise was just to low.
I don't think Joe needs to prove anything, just claim it.
I'm afraid I've missed the point of the above paragraph.
Are you saying the people who developed Eugenics and chemical weapons are terrorist?
Absolute truth does exist...
Proof left to the reader as an exercise ;-)
I don't think there will be anyone running who will give a damn about this issue.
Maybe we should all move to the Netherlands as well.
They go after the little guy first. He can't afford either to defend himself well, or settle out of court.
What the RIAA is after is precedence.
If my guess is correct, the RIAA probably already researched these guys to make sure the weren't "connected" (politically, financally, etc). Then as these cases go to trial, they keep the one with the least tech savy judge and drop the others (the reason for having four cases is having several judges to pick from, with the added bonus of dividing the defence funds four ways). After days of testimony from thier hired expert witnesses and arguments from high priced lawyers, designed to confuse the judge even more, the get thier victory.
Now they have precedence and can go after the deep pockets.
Though they'll look for someone not connected to anyone they don't want to piss off.
How did this get a positive moderation?
Somebody doesn't know Godwin's Law I guess.
I'm off to meta moderate.
At least it's something original...Oh wait... Nevermind.
No, no. You got it all wrong. It's
imprison a hundred innocents while letting one guilty go free.
I can see how keeping the background looking good is important. Who cares how the thing your looking at (the forground) looks, it's the backgroup that matters, screw the forgroud (it's just blocking your view of the background anyway).
Strange, I was at the world hedquarters the other day and there sure were lots of people talking on PCS phones. I guess they were all just faking it.
Wow, I didn't even know it was "trash talking". I guess I don't watch enough professional wrestling.
Maybe that's because no country is perfect.
What country would you rather live in?
My research is still not complete, but I'm working on it.
What have you voted on in the last several years aside from Slashdot poles?
Well just yesterday I voted against anchovies and for jalapeños on the pizza for a lunch meeting, but I don't see how that's relevant. In fact I don't see how the prior question is relevant either. I'm not anti-American, only anti-arrogance.
Well at least that seems to be the arrogant American answer.
I guess pride goeth before the fall, or is that pride causeth the fall.
Well at least that seems to be the arrogant American answer.
I guess pride goeth before the fall, or is that pride causeth the fall.
Henceforth to be know as Tackhead's Law.