If they do this I'll move to Europe, and so should anybody else with half a brain left. Then lets see how american companies fair in a market when they've got no brain power.
Of every/. post I've made concerning file sharing. Not just movies, but music too. If the industry insists on being formulaic and not creating real art. People will value it that way. I don't feel a TWINGE of guilt for downloading most of the crap the mpaa and riaa puts out. Anybody who does is just retarded. Seriously, how much is a Pee pee diddy song really worth? Well, guess what, that's what I'm paying.
rhY
PS No I don't download p diddy songs. Please shut up
For completely the same reasons. School is ludicrous these days, from dated over priced texts that are often highly politicized to career educators who care very little about education, to curriculums that are dated and unnecessary for any of the possible future careers....Hell yeah I'm gonna cheat in school. School is bullshit. The RIAA, MPAA corporate watchdog group du jour wants people to pay $20 a disk for crap that is so formulaic and boring that I can't remember the difference between any of it. Nickle back, creed, staind, I don't even know the difference between these bands because they are all crap, and hip hop is even worse. If SOMEHOW some artist puts out one song I like, I'll just download it, fuck you very much. Don't even get me started on movies, and movie theater price gouging! Oh, and most movies out today also suck big time,and are formulaic, and there is very little "art" at all any more to any of it. As for shoplifting, well, I saw Wal Mart and K Mart and Mervyns and Nordstroms come in to a small town and destroy small businesses where people made a living replacing them with below subsistance living jobs and dreary lack of choices and crappy asian slave made clothes and other junk that falls apart. Steal from them? FUCK YEAH!
So the statistics are that our generation is tired of the bullshit and will fight back at every turn by refusing to adhere to dated versions of "right and wrong". I mean, these corporations enslave 11 year olds in the third world for less than a bowl of rice a day, and then sell the garment it cost them 12 cents to make AND SHIP over here for $50? Who's the bad guy, them or me for shop lifting it? How the fuck am I more reprehensible than they are? I'll be honest, the "right thing" to do is not even go into the store, which is what I *try* to do and still live my life, but if I do go into the store, I'll be damned if they're going to get more than a few pennies of my money, no matter what it is that I actually wanted in the store.
I don't see how by saving American tax payers billions and empowering a generation with any and every type of information is a pork project. A couple thousand wifi towers and some fiber is going to look trivial compared to the latest pork d'jour that is being offered up daily. Besides, making it a priority for the entire government and naming anyone that stands in your way, especially if you've been voted in on that platform is totally plausible. If it is popular with the american people and congressman snow-job is in the way, I don't have a problem letting CNN know that congressman snow-job is in the way, and insuring he is not re-elected.
and my campaign platform: "I strongly believe in the rights of man as set forth in our constitution and bill of rights. I feel they have eroded somewhat with the passage of time and the progress of technology. I feel it is vital to renew some of our individual rights in the face of technology as set forth by our founding fathers. There are several ways to do this including but not limited to:
Improving our national infrastructure, not just our IT infrastructure (which seems non-existent, at the moment), but also improving our military by more effectively budgeting resources, and improving our education and medical systems. Currently there seems to be a lot of scalping and corporate bullying of the american tax payer particularly in the medical industry, and there are many countries already ahead of us on this issue.
Improving our patent and copyright system. As a musician and a fan of computer technology, I have seen first hand since the BBS years to today the holes and problems faced by artists, scientists and other "IP" type fields in the face of new technology. There needs to be a system in place that compensates intellectual proprieters while also empowering the rest of society. Specifically, in the field of science, information should be widely available in the areas that effect human health and progress, yet we still need a system that supports those pioneers in their fields. Imagine if Tesla or Edison had been supported more by tax money in their day, how much farther we as a species would be today.
Improving our education and electoral systems. The only way to a truly healthy democracy is through an informed and educated electorate. This is the primary reason the US led the way by mandating educations for all of our children. Currently our education system, and indeed our entire information system seem guided by corporate and monetary interests, rather than educational interests. The rights to the best texts in each subject should be bought by the government and resold AT COST with YEARLY UPDATES for each field. Paying $200 for books that may or may not improve on last years edition is stifling our national abilities to educate ourselves, from the college level down to the kindergarten level. Also many of the ways and structures for teaching have been shown inefficient by scientific studies and need to be updated. There is also in inherent bias in texts sold by a money making organization which may be downplaying important information specifically in the interest of making more money. God knows there was a LOT of mis-information and dis-information in my own education, because my books were dated. There was no land bridge that Native Americans crossed over from Asia on. Genetic studies have put this theory completely to rest. This is just one small example. Schools still teach basic, and who uses basic? Schools should teach C. It's just smarter and better, and will help future potential programmers already know the language they will most likely work with. Also at this point computer programming and information technology should be a class that is more important than any of the other ones. Putting together a team of top educators and computer experts, I'm sure we could achieve a curriculum far more useful for ALL students than "World History" or "PE".
It is my honor to be an american, and one of this generation that has already achieved so much. Let's help catapult the future generations by insuring a strict return to our inaliable rights and life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
This is my campaign: Nationwide Broadband Internet Access as part of our national infrastructure, like the highways. I'm only 28, but it will probably take 7 years to get enough publicity to actually run.
Other issues will be met on a case by case basis, however, I will also stop government handouts to corporations that already make billions.
These are my two platforms. I'm running on the green ticket, just because the other two parties don't represent me at all and Ralph Nader has been at times a personal hero for me. In addition, the other two parties seem completely beholden to the corporations that are getting government handouts.
I'm setting up a website now, I'll post the URL in a bit.
There is a collection of essays printed called "The Norton Reader" that my gf needed for college and cost $50. I downloaded all the essays she needed individually, took about an hour. So you can save $50 in one hour, not including the high price of gas to drive to the store. Google is your friend, fuck high textbook prices....
Seriously, with rising console and game prices, shrinking pc prices, and broadband expanding, eventually the market will know what many of us have already known for years. Games are better on PC. In fact once wine is cleaned up a little bit, you can have a free game machine with very cheap hardware that will run circles around even the next next gen consoles. The only thing keeping consoles around is the market lock in by game dev companies that want $50 for every disk. I for one waited the extra year to play san andreas on the PC because it was WAY MORE FUN in surround sound with shadows and reflections and in HD format. I doubt I was alone, and as a result the game simply wowed me beyond all expectations.
Forget the console. As PCs get cheaper and cheaper, they WILL die out, it might just take 3 decades or so since the game dev industry is so beholden with getting $50 per game, which is LUDICROUS anyway.
I for one am stoked to hinder our gestapo troops, but my question is how sanitary IS the sanitize button in deer park? Does it really eliminate all of your browsing records reliably?
A LOT OF PEOPLE will NEVER install linux, unless it plays San Andreas perfectly out of the box. Or some other killer app/game that they require. It's really all about the wine. You evangalists make wine perfect, and it's GAME OVER for MS.
Just read one of many articles about how our government is increasingly doing a disservice to the public in the name of corporate interest. Then compare our broadband prices with Sweden. Don't insult me with 8th grade shit because I didn't include a bibliography on a slashdot post, asshole.
This is fine in theory, but the current monopolistic practices of EVERY MAJOR PROVIDER mean that this will NEVER HAPPEN. Unless the government steps in and levels the playing field, which those major corporations are paying them handsomely NOT TO DO. So the consumer is screwed and there's no way out except an educated electorate that actually demands real elections and real government by real policy makers that don't take huge sums of money from AT&T, AOL, COX, VERIZON, SBC ETC.. Those candidates who don't take the money don't get on TV. So really until TV is either owned by the populace and municipalities or is replaces as the primary form of information for john q. public, we're all going to keep taking up the corporate tail pipe while drinking star bucks mochas and listening to whatever the RIAA is paying radio stations to play this week, even if coldplay's new album totally sucks compared to the last two.
The writing is on the wall. We are all slaves to the system already, and it won't quit without real change being made in our anti-competitive pro-corporate-monopoly system. I don't see it happening without blood at this point.
As long as corporations dictate our governmental policy to dis-benefit the populace, you can see this trend continuing for sure. I don't always agree with Dvorak (maybe 25%, or slightly more, but disagree with his details and examples), but he's DEAD ON on this one. Check out the new PC world article he wrote about Philly's municipal broadband shut down.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1843330,00.as p
Our entire government should have been up against the wall and shot about 20 years ago. The fact it hasn't happened yet proves the negative effects of current medicine on the human mind.
rhY
Some superior alien race could see us not evolving past militarism and entering space and think "No fucking way" and kill us all just for safetys sake. This is a really really immature and unwise move. I for one welcome our new microbial overlords.
Slashdot Mirror
Finally something to level the playing field since we were so far ahead in science.... Oh, wait, shit, nevermind.
rhY
If they do this I'll move to Europe, and so should anybody else with half a brain left. Then lets see how american companies fair in a market when they've got no brain power.
rhY
Until McDonald's starts serving mushrooms that make me feel bigger, I'm not going. The food is terrible.
rhY
I mean, weed leads to munchies and munchies provides nutrients, right? What was I talking about?
rhY
Who cares about IM?!? Where in the hell is my San Andreas for Linux?!?
Listen to a real band:
/.)
www.myspace.com/leperkhanz
Hurray for myspace and real music that you can hear for free, rather than brittney and the tripe.
(Disclaimer: SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION VIA
rhY
Of every /. post I've made concerning file sharing. Not just movies, but music too. If the industry insists on being formulaic and not creating real art. People will value it that way. I don't feel a TWINGE of guilt for downloading most of the crap the mpaa and riaa puts out. Anybody who does is just retarded. Seriously, how much is a Pee pee diddy song really worth? Well, guess what, that's what I'm paying.
rhY
PS No I don't download p diddy songs. Please shut up
For completely the same reasons. School is ludicrous these days, from dated over priced texts that are often highly politicized to career educators who care very little about education, to curriculums that are dated and unnecessary for any of the possible future careers....Hell yeah I'm gonna cheat in school. School is bullshit. The RIAA, MPAA corporate watchdog group du jour wants people to pay $20 a disk for crap that is so formulaic and boring that I can't remember the difference between any of it. Nickle back, creed, staind, I don't even know the difference between these bands because they are all crap, and hip hop is even worse. If SOMEHOW some artist puts out one song I like, I'll just download it, fuck you very much. Don't even get me started on movies, and movie theater price gouging! Oh, and most movies out today also suck big time,and are formulaic, and there is very little "art" at all any more to any of it. As for shoplifting, well, I saw Wal Mart and K Mart and Mervyns and Nordstroms come in to a small town and destroy small businesses where people made a living replacing them with below subsistance living jobs and dreary lack of choices and crappy asian slave made clothes and other junk that falls apart. Steal from them? FUCK YEAH!
So the statistics are that our generation is tired of the bullshit and will fight back at every turn by refusing to adhere to dated versions of "right and wrong". I mean, these corporations enslave 11 year olds in the third world for less than a bowl of rice a day, and then sell the garment it cost them 12 cents to make AND SHIP over here for $50? Who's the bad guy, them or me for shop lifting it? How the fuck am I more reprehensible than they are? I'll be honest, the "right thing" to do is not even go into the store, which is what I *try* to do and still live my life, but if I do go into the store, I'll be damned if they're going to get more than a few pennies of my money, no matter what it is that I actually wanted in the store.
rhY
I don't see how by saving American tax payers billions and empowering a generation with any and every type of information is a pork project. A couple thousand wifi towers and some fiber is going to look trivial compared to the latest pork d'jour that is being offered up daily. Besides, making it a priority for the entire government and naming anyone that stands in your way, especially if you've been voted in on that platform is totally plausible. If it is popular with the american people and congressman snow-job is in the way, I don't have a problem letting CNN know that congressman snow-job is in the way, and insuring he is not re-elected.
rhY
Here is the URL:
4
http://www.leperkhanz.com/president.html
and a link for the forums for discussion:
http://www.leperkhanz.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=3
and my campaign platform:
"I strongly believe in the rights of man as set forth in our constitution and bill of rights. I feel they have eroded somewhat with the passage of time and the progress of technology. I feel it is vital to renew some of our individual rights in the face of technology as set forth by our founding fathers. There are several ways to do this including but not limited to:
Improving our national infrastructure, not just our IT infrastructure (which seems non-existent, at the moment), but also improving our military by more effectively budgeting resources, and improving our education and medical systems. Currently there seems to be a lot of scalping and corporate bullying of the american tax payer particularly in the medical industry, and there are many countries already ahead of us on this issue.
Improving our patent and copyright system. As a musician and a fan of computer technology, I have seen first hand since the BBS years to today the holes and problems faced by artists, scientists and other "IP" type fields in the face of new technology. There needs to be a system in place that compensates intellectual proprieters while also empowering the rest of society. Specifically, in the field of science, information should be widely available in the areas that effect human health and progress, yet we still need a system that supports those pioneers in their fields. Imagine if Tesla or Edison had been supported more by tax money in their day, how much farther we as a species would be today.
Improving our education and electoral systems. The only way to a truly healthy democracy is through an informed and educated electorate. This is the primary reason the US led the way by mandating educations for all of our children. Currently our education system, and indeed our entire information system seem guided by corporate and monetary interests, rather than educational interests. The rights to the best texts in each subject should be bought by the government and resold AT COST with YEARLY UPDATES for each field. Paying $200 for books that may or may not improve on last years edition is stifling our national abilities to educate ourselves, from the college level down to the kindergarten level. Also many of the ways and structures for teaching have been shown inefficient by scientific studies and need to be updated. There is also in inherent bias in texts sold by a money making organization which may be downplaying important information specifically in the interest of making more money. God knows there was a LOT of mis-information and dis-information in my own education, because my books were dated. There was no land bridge that Native Americans crossed over from Asia on. Genetic studies have put this theory completely to rest. This is just one small example. Schools still teach basic, and who uses basic? Schools should teach C. It's just smarter and better, and will help future potential programmers already know the language they will most likely work with. Also at this point computer programming and information technology should be a class that is more important than any of the other ones. Putting together a team of top educators and computer experts, I'm sure we could achieve a curriculum far more useful for ALL students than "World History" or "PE".
It is my honor to be an american, and one of this generation that has already achieved so much. Let's help catapult the future generations by insuring a strict return to our inaliable rights and life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
-rhY September 2005
This is my campaign: Nationwide Broadband Internet Access as part of our national infrastructure, like the highways. I'm only 28, but it will probably take 7 years to get enough publicity to actually run.
Other issues will be met on a case by case basis, however, I will also stop government handouts to corporations that already make billions.
These are my two platforms. I'm running on the green ticket, just because the other two parties don't represent me at all and Ralph Nader has been at times a personal hero for me. In addition, the other two parties seem completely beholden to the corporations that are getting government handouts.
I'm setting up a website now, I'll post the URL in a bit.
rhY
For us windites, C-Evo is a way better game. Too bad their site doesn't have a decent forum.
rhY
There is a collection of essays printed called "The Norton Reader" that my gf needed for college and cost $50. I downloaded all the essays she needed individually, took about an hour. So you can save $50 in one hour, not including the high price of gas to drive to the store. Google is your friend, fuck high textbook prices....
rhY
This is the shit we need more of. This and electric cars. Then we can stop bombing the third world for our oil.
rhY
Seriously, with rising console and game prices, shrinking pc prices, and broadband expanding, eventually the market will know what many of us have already known for years. Games are better on PC. In fact once wine is cleaned up a little bit, you can have a free game machine with very cheap hardware that will run circles around even the next next gen consoles. The only thing keeping consoles around is the market lock in by game dev companies that want $50 for every disk. I for one waited the extra year to play san andreas on the PC because it was WAY MORE FUN in surround sound with shadows and reflections and in HD format. I doubt I was alone, and as a result the game simply wowed me beyond all expectations.
Forget the console. As PCs get cheaper and cheaper, they WILL die out, it might just take 3 decades or so since the game dev industry is so beholden with getting $50 per game, which is LUDICROUS anyway.
rhY
1. Come out after the new xbox
2. Be expensive as all hell
3. Use the format that's going to lose this format war
4. ????
5. Profit!
I for one am stoked to hinder our gestapo troops, but my question is how sanitary IS the sanitize button in deer park? Does it really eliminate all of your browsing records reliably?
rhY
A LOT OF PEOPLE will NEVER install linux, unless it plays San Andreas perfectly out of the box. Or some other killer app/game that they require. It's really all about the wine. You evangalists make wine perfect, and it's GAME OVER for MS.
Rightly so and about time, too.
rhY
does jabber on windows
Until San Andreas works really well. I NEED my gang-bangin' bro!
rhY
Be warned, I got one of those "heat pipe" cards, and it fried right away. I'm going back to fan!
rhY
You don't have to take my word for it.
s p
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1843330,00.a
Just read one of many articles about how our government is increasingly doing a disservice to the public in the name of corporate interest. Then compare our broadband prices with Sweden. Don't insult me with 8th grade shit because I didn't include a bibliography on a slashdot post, asshole.
rhY
This is fine in theory, but the current monopolistic practices of EVERY MAJOR PROVIDER mean that this will NEVER HAPPEN. Unless the government steps in and levels the playing field, which those major corporations are paying them handsomely NOT TO DO. So the consumer is screwed and there's no way out except an educated electorate that actually demands real elections and real government by real policy makers that don't take huge sums of money from AT&T, AOL, COX, VERIZON, SBC ETC.. Those candidates who don't take the money don't get on TV. So really until TV is either owned by the populace and municipalities or is replaces as the primary form of information for john q. public, we're all going to keep taking up the corporate tail pipe while drinking star bucks mochas and listening to whatever the RIAA is paying radio stations to play this week, even if coldplay's new album totally sucks compared to the last two.
The writing is on the wall. We are all slaves to the system already, and it won't quit without real change being made in our anti-competitive pro-corporate-monopoly system. I don't see it happening without blood at this point.
As long as corporations dictate our governmental policy to dis-benefit the populace, you can see this trend continuing for sure. I don't always agree with Dvorak (maybe 25%, or slightly more, but disagree with his details and examples), but he's DEAD ON on this one. Check out the new PC world article he wrote about Philly's municipal broadband shut down.s p
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1843330,00.a
Our entire government should have been up against the wall and shot about 20 years ago. The fact it hasn't happened yet proves the negative effects of current medicine on the human mind. rhY
Some superior alien race could see us not evolving past militarism and entering space and think "No fucking way" and kill us all just for safetys sake. This is a really really immature and unwise move. I for one welcome our new microbial overlords.
rhY