(ps. I know of a guy who's been struck twice times, not dead though (he's a callout guy who works on power lines - the silly bugger). I don't think the comparason between lottery and lightning are good though. One's entirely clean and mathematical: you either enter or you don't. Whereas the other is fuzzy measurements of number of lightning hits, and doesn't account for lifestyle)
The post didn't reduce and homogenise Indian tribes into nothing but money grabbers, you troll, you. The post said that gambling terminals might spring up, as many Indian tribes do have casinos (as you admit with the negative "dens of gambling" remark).
>negotiated royalties is certainly difficult,
>if not impossible, to implement using the
>technology Napster has introduced
Unless i'm mistaken Napster isn't new techology. It's glorified IRC. People have been putting MP3's on BBS's for years, with searching, albeit centralised storage. But prior to Napster's sucess there were many peer-to-peer systems (DCC anyone?).
Now Napster doesn't allow people to break copyright anymore than the phone system allows criminals to break laws. When telephone systems came out many politicians wanted the things dismantled as criminals could use them to coordinate their devious plots. It's the devious plots that are wrong, not the telephone.
Napster doesn't "allow" as that's the wrong word - it's completely agnostic. Wrapster showed that it doesn't even have anything to do with MP3's necessarily, Napster just involves a searchable database of filenames, chat, and direct connections.
Now as for piracy being your definition of "illegally make use of resources without paying for them". Well, "illegally" is the word at play here - and that's very different to empowering the artist for what they want.
Radio stations, for years, have been playing music regardless of whether the artist wants their music distributed. Artists are powerless in this regard. Radio stations pay some fee to the government, the artists don't get a cent.
AFAIK, Artists have never been able to "track the authorship of the clips" and it's unreasonible to expect such a thing. From minstrels singing each other's tunes, to someone just playing music loudly, to our local radio stations having "TAPE THIS!" nights. Artists have never been able to track it once it goes out of their hands.
I prefer the web for music too. But if only servers weren't so scared of hosting the evil MP3 format. My friend's band had to move to MP3 dot Communist after the free host kept deleting that files. She should have just gave them the.pdf extension and asked her audience to rename the bloody things.
ps. The AC who's talking about swashbuckling parrots and eyepatches and such - don't be such a wanker - Arrr! arrr! ARRR!
Security through obscurity has it's places, like passwords, but otherwise programming can only be improved by peer review.
ps. I suspect you're hitting the middle row of your keyboard, and it's not a code at all. You lied to me anonymous coward, and i'll never trust you again.
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Well you remind me of this spacemoose strip where a paranoid black man thinks everyone's after his anal tract.
I believe he's refering to this gem. It's about 7.3 megs though.
The jews are always a good bet ;)
>facing the truth, right?
What, are you paranoid?
Thanks
No no, this is a much better link: Comparason of Ruby to other languages
Ruby?
How queer.
I'm sure node/alive count could be monitored, perhaps with a flashing red light and lots of loud sounds, defcon 1 style.
I laugh at you. Har. har. har.
I hacked your firewall. You suck!
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It's a troll to take a great liberty and expand a small statement to meaning a systematic oppression of races and world wars - yes.
I (hereby) stand corrected.
I (hereby) agree.
I knight you sir statistician.
Rise, Sir Statistician!
(ps. I know of a guy who's been struck twice times, not dead though (he's a callout guy who works on power lines - the silly bugger). I don't think the comparason between lottery and lightning are good though. One's entirely clean and mathematical: you either enter or you don't. Whereas the other is fuzzy measurements of number of lightning hits, and doesn't account for lifestyle)
"Yeah, because when you think about it, the children literaly are our future." - Miss World Entrant for Australia, 1992
The post didn't reduce and homogenise Indian tribes into nothing but money grabbers, you troll, you. The post said that gambling terminals might spring up, as many Indian tribes do have casinos (as you admit with the negative "dens of gambling" remark).
Heh heh heh.
>if not impossible, to implement using the
>technology Napster has introduced
Unless i'm mistaken Napster isn't new techology. It's glorified IRC. People have been putting MP3's on BBS's for years, with searching, albeit centralised storage. But prior to Napster's sucess there were many peer-to-peer systems (DCC anyone?).
Now Napster doesn't allow people to break copyright anymore than the phone system allows criminals to break laws. When telephone systems came out many politicians wanted the things dismantled as criminals could use them to coordinate their devious plots. It's the devious plots that are wrong, not the telephone.
Napster doesn't "allow" as that's the wrong word - it's completely agnostic. Wrapster showed that it doesn't even have anything to do with MP3's necessarily, Napster just involves a searchable database of filenames, chat, and direct connections.
Now as for piracy being your definition of "illegally make use of resources without paying for them". Well, "illegally" is the word at play here - and that's very different to empowering the artist for what they want.
Radio stations, for years, have been playing music regardless of whether the artist wants their music distributed. Artists are powerless in this regard. Radio stations pay some fee to the government, the artists don't get a cent.
AFAIK, Artists have never been able to "track the authorship of the clips" and it's unreasonible to expect such a thing. From minstrels singing each other's tunes, to someone just playing music loudly, to our local radio stations having "TAPE THIS!" nights. Artists have never been able to track it once it goes out of their hands.
I prefer the web for music too. But if only servers weren't so scared of hosting the evil MP3 format. My friend's band had to move to MP3 dot Communist after the free host kept deleting that files. She should have just gave them the .pdf extension and asked her audience to rename the bloody things.
ps. The AC who's talking about swashbuckling parrots and eyepatches and such - don't be such a wanker - Arrr! arrr! ARRR!
Napster's a common-carrier. It's a glorified IRC client.
> It will keep attendance and tardies,
They let you keep track of 'tards? That kicks ass!
ps. I suspect you're hitting the middle row of your keyboard, and it's not a code at all. You lied to me anonymous coward, and i'll never trust you again.
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>in programming generally.
Oh, I completely agree, but don't let Joel hear you say that.
Maybe it's like those million monkeys million typewriters............ ........................... .......................... .............thing
Why I oughta...