Ever heard of kosher food? Creating kosher meat is a part of judaism. There was also a test case in Florida several years ago for practictioners of Santeria, a religion with the same roots as Voodoo, and animals are killed as part of it. (And more humanely than they ever would be in a processing plant too!) Local kosher butchers came in on the side of the Santeros, otherwise their own practices could have people fooling with them. The Supreme Court ruled that animal sacrifice is protected under the first amendment.
It's a ripoff, like everything else in corporate america. If I pay a dollar a song, that's roughly the same price I'd pay to just buy a regular CD. I have to go to the store or buy it online, but I have the entire song, 320 kbps, and I can copy it, rip it burn it ad nauseum. These apple non-mp3s are about the same quality as an MP3, but I don't have nearly the flexibility of FAIR USE.
and we always used to say "We're not their parents" and sustain the charges. But yeah, it IS possible to force the user to make up their own password the first time they use it. Doesn't make it any less difficult to guess most passwords though. What's annoying in these situations is the user's automatic assumption that somebody else owes THEM something. People act like they have a fundamental right to be lazy and/or stupid and it's someone else's fault when things go wrong.
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He lived in a virtual black-and-white world where steaks grow on trees and bloody rawhide frisbees drift by on the breeze, until you catch them.
So often people assume everyone knows every acronym, and those of us who browse this site to learn about stuff often feel left out. So thanks for defining POOP!
Regarding the quality issue, an MP3 is NOT the same. A CD is 320 bps, most mp3s are 128 or 160 bps. And at least for me, I'll download songs I would never buy. There's been a long-standing position among file-sharers that the record companies still have it to sell to a buyer. And even though they like to cry about lost revenues, they have plenty of people willing to pay.
The second issue is your use of the terms piracy and rip-off. All of America is a huge ripoff. (At least where I live.) All big businesses are involved in ripping off whatever they can grab and scratch and pry loose. The record companies rip off the artists and turn around and get ripped off by file-sharing. The phone company charges $85 for a tech to drive by your house. The CEO kills his company, drives its stock from $50 a share to $2.50, and walks away with a hundred million dollars. Executive compensation in American companies since the Reagin years increased far and away over what similar European companies' executives make. A one-bedroom apartment costs 35% of a working person's monthly income in large cities. Or more. And the landlord doesn't maintain the property but lives in comfort and luxury. So if you want to feel sorry for the record companies feel free, but their stockholders and executives aren't going without health insurance, they're going without a second vacation home. Wah-wah fucking wah.
...it's all of America that went to being all about shiny plastic and marketing. People buy shite and they buy it by the ton. I've got a friend with a small biz who sells knives at SF Conventions etc., and it's always the the gaudy shiny crap that sells, not the moderately priced decent tools she carries a few of. HP and the rest are giving the public what they ask for. I had a Panasonic camcorder break the little plastic on-off switch, they wanted $275 "Flat fee" to fix it at the factory. They obviously think the public is a bunch of morons with no Hobbit-sense and too much money.
>Who do you think tax(e)s were really affecting, the slaves and the indentured servants? You think Jefferson and Washington were poor bastards, relative to the general population? Hardly.
**Yeah, it did affect slaves and indentured servants. Hugely. The founding fathers started fomenting revolution when the abolitionist movement got started in England. As an English colony, America would be subject to his Majesty's law, which was on the verge of abolishing slavery. That's why the primary articles of the Constitution guarantee the government can't take away a man's Property. Why stay English when the crown's going to outlaw slavery? We can start bitching about actually _paying_ for postage stamps! Or Tea Taxes! Outrageous! All rights the people (the rabble) have are given to us by Amendments to the constitution, whereas property and speech rights given to corporations have been given to them by 233 supreme court decision. Judicial fiat, done by Lawyers, giving more and more personhood to corporations which are ostensibly property.
Remember, the above beautiful diatribe is about the top 1% or so. They pay virtually NOTHING in taxes, since to them, the money is simply part of their game. A million here, a million there, pretty soon you're talking real money.
Did you connect your Spiritometer to the blade and measure the quantity of spirit in the steel? Honestly, the biggest fallacy of modern science is the notion that if there's no Geek Toy to measure a phenomena, that phenomena doesn't exist/is impossible. What hubris. This is a result of the conditioning to our brains that math & science education does. Analytical thought processes break things up into individual parts, and science/geeks lose the ability to perceive the connections between these things. Just because you can't perceive it (scan it with your tricorder blah blah blah) doesn't mean it's not there. To assume so is simply another kind of superstition. This over-reliance on analysis instead of synthesis has been very useful in making our modern technological world, but has created terrible environmental and political consequences. It's time to do a little integration.
Let's say I'm a business and I'm paying Mr Moore to play commercials on his home stereo so loud his neighbors can hear them. Then they built thicker walls and because Mr Moore is making good money on this he gets louder & louder speakers. Whose rights are being violated?
Slashdotters are always opening their yaps without a second thought. If we wipe out a species due to habitat loss, hunting, whatever, its up to US to clean up our own mess. Biodiversity is valuable for its own sake, not just so some asshole can make a buck off it or create a new drug from a creature's ground up eyeballs.
So yeah, it didn't fail because of ME, but with 8 times as many screens and several million dollars' worth of free advertising on Oscar night, it should do pretty well anyway.
Every comment posted by you finger-pointing name-callers is powered by the thought "Wouldn't it be great to extend MY life?" But what about OTHER people? You dorks would never want to have eight bajillion morons and idiots (who you so obviously hate) living forever and sucking up all the food, water, air, and inexpensive housing. Stop thinking about just yourselves for 5 seconds.
I don't know how many old people you talk to every day, but people over 40 are pretty stiff in the head, let alone over 60! Now, this anti-agathic they're talking about might break up the lipofuscin clogging up the dendrites and that may cure the problem, but _currently_ the problem with most people is they're upset that life isn't like it was when they were young.
For two hours of reasons to replace it, go see/rent Memento. It's fun to sleep with a new woman every night until you wake up one day with tattoo across your check that says "John Q raped and murdered your wife."
Lots of terms used on/. don't have any explanatory material, as if the writer assumes everyone knows everything he/she does. Obviously this is not true. To make up for this, the conscientious writer links to Everything2's site for provides a brief definition.
I opened an account with a local bank which recently got bought out by M&I Bank; over the course of a year or two there were several occasions where I suddenly got overdraft notices. Now those are by their nature always a surprise, and I hadn't gone through my statements like I should've for several months and it turned out a statement was missing. When it finally turned up, I went through the entire account from the beginning and found math errors of around a dollar, and nothing that was on the statement that wasn't in my register.
No other account in the 20 yrs I've been banking has ever done this. There was always a reason. And I'm not in the habit of writing checks days before the money will be in there. I concluded there's a problem in the fundamental code running that bank. I want to ask the Slashdot community is this possible? Anyone had similar experiences? Am I just screwed out of the money? It's around $400 now, and I've let the account die, but they're threatening me with collections, and I'd like to not have it affect my credit either.
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I used to read Shadow of the Torturer et al every year. It's darker than black, not blacker. Great books, though a bit too xtian to take now.
People in this country are obsessed with controlling every single aspect of their pitiful little lives. One of the points of seeing movies is to EXPAND the mind. Same for reading books. If you want to censor all your own input, you deserve to live in a boring world of G-rated pap.
Since the poster reads Dragonlance et all, check out Gate of Ivrel, The Well of Shiuan, The Fires of Azeroth and the 4th one I don't remember, but they're all good. And realistic fantasy for once (sorta. based on technology). An arrow wound takes quite a while to heal and is a big deal for example.
I know that sounds kinda dumb, and certainly didn't apply in the 60's and 70's (have you SEEN some of those covers?) but if you see a great piece of art on a cover by Michael Whalen you know the publisher thinks enough of the book to pay top dollar to promote it.
Robot Wars boring? Come on! MKBZ, battlebots is the same damn thing over and over and over. Two bots enter, one bot leaves. And the kill saws do all the real damage on that show (unless you've got a spinner involved). I'd love to see Mauler go up against Sir Killalot or Dead Metal. The house robots, as individuals would get their asses whupped on Battlebots
Yeah, the house robots have a definite advantage, but it's the original builders' DESIGNS and BUDGETS that creates that advantage. Let's face it, anyone with enough know-how and money could build a Sir Killalot, but it's too expensive. And the robots that win on Battlebots would get their asses kicked on Robot Wars (can't control well enough, not general enough, etc).
After all, if a website doesn't actually facilitate the crime, terroristic or not, as this judge has ruled, then putting DeCSS and links to DeCSS must be equally protected, since these sites aren't actually committing any crimes.
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Ever heard of kosher food? Creating kosher meat is a part of judaism. There was also a test case in Florida several years ago for practictioners of Santeria, a religion with the same roots as Voodoo, and animals are killed as part of it. (And more humanely than they ever would be in a processing plant too!) Local kosher butchers came in on the side of the Santeros, otherwise their own practices could have people fooling with them. The Supreme Court ruled that animal sacrifice is protected under the first amendment.
It's a ripoff, like everything else in corporate america. If I pay a dollar a song, that's roughly the same price I'd pay to just buy a regular CD. I have to go to the store or buy it online, but I have the entire song, 320 kbps, and I can copy it, rip it burn it ad nauseum. These apple non-mp3s are about the same quality as an MP3, but I don't have nearly the flexibility of FAIR USE.
and we always used to say "We're not their parents" and sustain the charges. But yeah, it IS possible to force the user to make up their own password the first time they use it. Doesn't make it any less difficult to guess most passwords though.
What's annoying in these situations is the user's automatic assumption that somebody else owes THEM something. People act like they have a fundamental right to be lazy and/or stupid and it's someone else's fault when things go wrong.
He lived in a virtual black-and-white world where steaks grow on trees and bloody rawhide frisbees drift by on the breeze, until you catch them.
So often people assume everyone knows every acronym, and those of us who browse this site to learn about stuff often feel left out. So thanks for defining POOP!
not theirs.
Regarding the quality issue, an MP3 is NOT the same. A CD is 320 bps, most mp3s are 128 or 160 bps. And at least for me, I'll download songs I would never buy. There's been a long-standing position among file-sharers that the record companies still have it to sell to a buyer. And even though they like to cry about lost revenues, they have plenty of people willing to pay.
The second issue is your use of the terms piracy and rip-off. All of America is a huge ripoff. (At least where I live.) All big businesses are involved in ripping off whatever they can grab and scratch and pry loose. The record companies rip off the artists and turn around and get ripped off by file-sharing. The phone company charges $85 for a tech to drive by your house. The CEO kills his company, drives its stock from $50 a share to $2.50, and walks away with a hundred million dollars. Executive compensation in American companies since the Reagin years increased far and away over what similar European companies' executives make. A one-bedroom apartment costs 35% of a working person's monthly income in large cities. Or more. And the landlord doesn't maintain the property but lives in comfort and luxury. So if you want to feel sorry for the record companies feel free, but their stockholders and executives aren't going without health insurance, they're going without a second vacation home. Wah-wah fucking wah.
...it's all of America that went to being all about shiny plastic and marketing. People buy shite and they buy it by the ton. I've got a friend with a small biz who sells knives at SF Conventions etc., and it's always the the gaudy shiny crap that sells, not the moderately priced decent tools she carries a few of. HP and the rest are giving the public what they ask for. I had a Panasonic camcorder break the little plastic on-off switch, they wanted $275 "Flat fee" to fix it at the factory. They obviously think the public is a bunch of morons with no Hobbit-sense and too much money.
>Who do you think tax(e)s were really affecting, the slaves and the indentured servants? You think Jefferson and Washington were poor bastards, relative to the general population? Hardly.
**Yeah, it did affect slaves and indentured servants. Hugely. The founding fathers started fomenting revolution when the abolitionist movement got started in England. As an English colony, America would be subject to his Majesty's law, which was on the verge of abolishing slavery. That's why the primary articles of the Constitution guarantee the government can't take away a man's Property. Why stay English when the crown's going to outlaw slavery? We can start bitching about actually _paying_ for postage stamps! Or Tea Taxes! Outrageous!
All rights the people (the rabble) have are given to us by Amendments to the constitution, whereas property and speech rights given to corporations have been given to them by 233 supreme court decision. Judicial fiat, done by Lawyers, giving more and more personhood to corporations which are ostensibly property.
Remember, the above beautiful diatribe is about the top 1% or so. They pay virtually NOTHING in taxes, since to them, the money is simply part of their game. A million here, a million there, pretty soon you're talking real money.
Did you connect your Spiritometer to the blade and measure the quantity of spirit in the steel? Honestly, the biggest fallacy of modern science is the notion that if there's no Geek Toy to measure a phenomena, that phenomena doesn't exist/is impossible. What hubris. This is a result of the conditioning to our brains that math & science education does. Analytical thought processes break things up into individual parts, and science/geeks lose the ability to perceive the connections between these things. Just because you can't perceive it (scan it with your tricorder blah blah blah) doesn't mean it's not there. To assume so is simply another kind of superstition. This over-reliance on analysis instead of synthesis has been very useful in making our modern technological world, but has created terrible environmental and political consequences. It's time to do a little integration.
Let's say I'm a business and I'm paying Mr Moore to play commercials on his home stereo so loud his neighbors can hear them. Then they built thicker walls and because Mr Moore is making good money on this he gets louder & louder speakers. Whose rights are being violated?
Slashdotters are always opening their yaps without a second thought. If we wipe out a species due to habitat loss, hunting, whatever, its up to US to clean up our own mess. Biodiversity is valuable for its own sake, not just so some asshole can make a buck off it or create a new drug from a creature's ground up eyeballs.
So yeah, it didn't fail because of ME, but with 8 times as many screens and several million dollars' worth of free advertising on Oscar night, it should do pretty well anyway.
Every comment posted by you finger-pointing name-callers is powered by the thought "Wouldn't it be great to extend MY life?" But what about OTHER people? You dorks would never want to have eight bajillion morons and idiots (who you so obviously hate) living forever and sucking up all the food, water, air, and inexpensive housing. Stop thinking about just yourselves for 5 seconds.
I don't know how many old people you talk to every day, but people over 40 are pretty stiff in the head, let alone over 60! Now, this anti-agathic they're talking about might break up the lipofuscin clogging up the dendrites and that may cure the problem, but _currently_ the problem with most people is they're upset that life isn't like it was when they were young.
For two hours of reasons to replace it, go see/rent Memento. It's fun to sleep with a new woman every night until you wake up one day with tattoo across your check that says "John Q raped and murdered your wife."
Lots of terms used on /. don't have any explanatory material, as if the writer assumes everyone knows everything he/she does. Obviously this is not true. To make up for this, the conscientious writer links to Everything2's site for provides a brief definition.
I opened an account with a local bank which recently got bought out by M&I Bank; over the course of a year or two there were several occasions where I suddenly got overdraft notices. Now those are by their nature always a surprise, and I hadn't gone through my statements like I should've for several months and it turned out a statement was missing. When it finally turned up, I went through the entire account from the beginning and found math errors of around a dollar, and nothing that was on the statement that wasn't in my register.
No other account in the 20 yrs I've been banking has ever done this. There was always a reason. And I'm not in the habit of writing checks days before the money will be in there. I concluded there's a problem in the fundamental code running that bank. I want to ask the Slashdot community is this possible? Anyone had similar experiences? Am I just screwed out of the money? It's around $400 now, and I've let the account die, but they're threatening me with collections, and I'd like to not have it affect my credit either.
I used to read Shadow of the Torturer et al every year. It's darker than black, not blacker. Great books, though a bit too xtian to take now.
People in this country are obsessed with controlling every single aspect of their pitiful little lives. One of the points of seeing movies is to EXPAND the mind. Same for reading books. If you want to censor all your own input, you deserve to live in a boring world of G-rated pap.
I'm at Qwest right now and number sharing has been around for a few months.
Since the poster reads Dragonlance et all, check out Gate of Ivrel, The Well of Shiuan, The Fires of Azeroth and the 4th one I don't remember, but they're all good. And realistic fantasy for once (sorta. based on technology). An arrow wound takes quite a while to heal and is a big deal for example.
I know that sounds kinda dumb, and certainly didn't apply in the 60's and 70's (have you SEEN some of those covers?) but if you see a great piece of art on a cover by Michael Whalen you know the publisher thinks enough of the book to pay top dollar to promote it.
Robot Wars boring? Come on! MKBZ, battlebots is the same damn thing over and over and over. Two bots enter, one bot leaves. And the kill saws do all the real damage on that show (unless you've got a spinner involved). I'd love to see Mauler go up against Sir Killalot or Dead Metal. The house robots, as individuals would get their asses whupped on Battlebots
Yeah, the house robots have a definite advantage, but it's the original builders' DESIGNS and BUDGETS that creates that advantage. Let's face it, anyone with enough know-how and money could build a Sir Killalot, but it's too expensive. And the robots that win on Battlebots would get their asses kicked on Robot Wars (can't control well enough, not general enough, etc).
After all, if a website doesn't actually facilitate the crime, terroristic or not, as this judge has ruled, then putting DeCSS and links to DeCSS must be equally protected, since these sites aren't actually committing any crimes.