Everyone here is ranting and raving about the system and then everyone rants and raves about no one doing anything about it. I'm pretty ticked off about the whole thing too so I need to know how many of you would back me for a political stand. I need to know before I quit my job and go on this quest to save the technological world. Why would I quit my job. I don't do anything anyway aside from posting to slashdot so I've got the free time.
I can get 22 colors to display on the 3270 and 3278 monochrome monitors running on an IBM ES9000 mainframe...I think NOT!!! Although I am amazed it has an internet connection.
I completely agree with all the arguments against the RIAA, however; if the RIAA truly was out for all the money they could get why haven't they gone into competition with Napster and collected marketing data to sell to everyone else when they signup. Then again they may not have thought of this...yet...
Also take into account the fact that they did state they will be supporting Unix/Linux and the like in the future. If the "Open Source hackers" reverse engineered a driver for this thing how long could it take for them to put something out in support of this thing. I don't believe they had any intention of supporting their product under Unix/Linux until this occured.
I wholeheartedly agree with you (sarcasm incase you couldn't tell) the CGI in EP:1 was used brilliantly i.e. Jar Jar Binks. Why without the annnoyance of Jar Jar in the movie what would I have done...oh wait I know...been annoyed with the horrible acting from the young Anakin!
Well seeing how Kenny was dropped from the cast list and then magically reappeared today there does seem to be some logic behind where this story may have originated and why it would be considered as true to begin with.
Your right, in a sense. You can stand your ground, however; when you are the minority (and the minority must be heard in the US from time to time rather than ignored like it seems to be) you can be stopped rather quickly in this day and age unlike the American colonists where it took some time for word to spread back to the hierarchy in Britain. I wouldn't have to escape the WTO or the UN only evade them long enough to get a larger following or sympathy from countries who are tired of the US invading there rights.
I don't know why this popped into my head and it is way off topic but didn't the creator of Rocky and Bullwinkle try to sucede from the union? He bought some land between the US and Canadian border, and had a petition signed by a bunch of US citizens stating they were in support of it, but when he went to the white house Kennedy was busy with the Cuban missile crisis or something like that. Someone please fill me in on the correct information. I wonder if that would have worked though.
I'll start a new political party and instead of the green party (color of circuit boards), the tech party. A collaboration of the FSF and the likes could get more political backing in congress and such and technological matters such as these could be addressed. At the very least the formation of a political "Tech Party" would be more acceptable to the politcal parties in place and may make them take notice enough to start becoming more intelligent on the topics at hand.
how about if i just throw up an email address and you can all send me email with source in the subject line and i reply with the source code is that legal? you're not linking to anything right it will just be a email reply on a subject so it would definately then be free speech right? or well i be sent to burn in MPAA hell?
I wouldn't say that the SAMS "Unleashed" series of books are the best I ever read but as for a refrence for Linux commands and explanation of config files and the such it is an excellent book to have by your side. I highly recommend the Linux Programming and the SuSE Linux Unleashed (or whatever your flavor of Linux happens to be).
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Everyone here is ranting and raving about the system and then everyone rants and raves about no one doing anything about it. I'm pretty ticked off about the whole thing too so I need to know how many of you would back me for a political stand. I need to know before I quit my job and go on this quest to save the technological world. Why would I quit my job. I don't do anything anyway aside from posting to slashdot so I've got the free time.
I can get 22 colors to display on the 3270 and 3278 monochrome monitors running on an IBM ES9000 mainframe...I think NOT!!! Although I am amazed it has an internet connection.
I completely agree with all the arguments against the RIAA, however; if the RIAA truly was out for all the money they could get why haven't they gone into competition with Napster and collected marketing data to sell to everyone else when they signup. Then again they may not have thought of this...yet...
Also take into account the fact that they did state they will be supporting Unix/Linux and the like in the future. If the "Open Source hackers" reverse engineered a driver for this thing how long could it take for them to put something out in support of this thing. I don't believe they had any intention of supporting their product under Unix/Linux until this occured.
I wholeheartedly agree with you (sarcasm incase you couldn't tell) the CGI in EP:1 was used brilliantly i.e. Jar Jar Binks. Why without the annnoyance of Jar Jar in the movie what would I have done...oh wait I know...been annoyed with the horrible acting from the young Anakin!
Well seeing how Kenny was dropped from the cast list and then magically reappeared today there does seem to be some logic behind where this story may have originated and why it would be considered as true to begin with.
Dont forget Excel and the rest of em...
Isn't this what copyleft is doing with there anti DVD CCA T-shirt? When you purchase one they send you a printed copy of the source code.
Your right, in a sense. You can stand your ground, however; when you are the minority (and the minority must be heard in the US from time to time rather than ignored like it seems to be) you can be stopped rather quickly in this day and age unlike the American colonists where it took some time for word to spread back to the hierarchy in Britain. I wouldn't have to escape the WTO or the UN only evade them long enough to get a larger following or sympathy from countries who are tired of the US invading there rights. I don't know why this popped into my head and it is way off topic but didn't the creator of Rocky and Bullwinkle try to sucede from the union? He bought some land between the US and Canadian border, and had a petition signed by a bunch of US citizens stating they were in support of it, but when he went to the white house Kennedy was busy with the Cuban missile crisis or something like that. Someone please fill me in on the correct information. I wonder if that would have worked though.
I'll start a new political party and instead of the green party (color of circuit boards), the tech party. A collaboration of the FSF and the likes could get more political backing in congress and such and technological matters such as these could be addressed. At the very least the formation of a political "Tech Party" would be more acceptable to the politcal parties in place and may make them take notice enough to start becoming more intelligent on the topics at hand.
Then you can be my second in command. To bad you posted Anonymously...
yeah i know i cant spell i'm heading to lunch i'm in a hurry.
There aren't enough people with enough common sense to start a fight to over through the mass ignorance.
how about if i just throw up an email address and you can all send me email with source in the subject line and i reply with the source code is that legal? you're not linking to anything right it will just be a email reply on a subject so it would definately then be free speech right? or well i be sent to burn in MPAA hell?
That's it I'm either running for president on a purely technological platform or I'm starting my own country...who's with me?!!!
I wouldn't say that the SAMS "Unleashed" series of books are the best I ever read but as for a refrence for Linux commands and explanation of config files and the such it is an excellent book to have by your side. I highly recommend the Linux Programming and the SuSE Linux Unleashed (or whatever your flavor of Linux happens to be).
A little from column A and a little from column B
Now that's funny
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