There's no need for conservation if we can produce enough electricity to cover our needs... and I'd say so far, aside from this little gaff (and all of California... which is chock full of people who love conservation) we're doing just fine.
About a year ago I started downloading books to my Handspring and carrying them around with me. It took a few days to get used to the constant scrolling, but once you get past that you've got a small device which you always have with you that you can read from at a moment's notice. No more sitting around on the train doing nothing... I just pop out the Handspring and I'm reading Harry Potter V, or Michael Chricton's Prey, or Ender's Game or older books like Fahrenheit 451 or Brave New World or 1984. They're all available online and the list is growing. Publishing is in for the same thing the music world is already fighting... as soon as people become accustomed to reading digital books the industry is in trouble.
Was that Courtoom sketch done by a five year old? It looks like it was done with Crayons. I'll stick with the evil photo until we get a talented sketch artist.
I haven't bought a CD in seven years thanks to file sharing. I don't really ever plan on buying one again. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they're losing money becuase of the Internet. You're all deluding yourselves if you think otherwise. At least acknowledge that your actions, and the actions of others are directly and negatively affecting the industry... and that it's not ALL simply a matter of them putting out poor quality music.
I don't care all that much about YOUR standard of living. If you were going to talk about the whole country, then there's probably room for discussion... but the fact that you went from a $5000/month apartment to a $4000/month apartment doesn't concern me much. Sorry.
If you're going to be self-centered, then so will I.
Yes, programmers are far more deserving of wealth than any other field in business. Hell, doctors will keep making a lot of money too! Screw them! Why do they deserve more than programmers?
You know, this is a good point that I've never really heard argued before. What happens to the "information wants to be free" folks when people start pirating GPL'd software, taking the parts they like and then redistributing it without permission under a different license. Information wants to be free, right? So why even use the GPL? Why place any restrictions on how information can be used? The GPL is too restrictive.
I'm pretty sure it's only the circumvention of copyright protection schemes that is criminally illegal while the actual posession of contraband copies of a song is still a civil issue.
Either way, a private corporation still cannot be guilty of entrapment... it's still got to be police. And going back to the original post, even if it was the police, why would spoofing an IP address be entrapment?
Only law enforcement agencies can be accused of entrapment. There's no such thing for a non police corporation. They can entrap all they want. Remember, you're going to be going to civil, not criminal court.
How exactly do you think you'd hear about new music without a middleman? I don't think that there are very many artists out there with enough startup capital and personal clout to get themselves heard by ANYONE outside their immediate family. To get yourself produced and heard you need money and you need power at your backs... individual artists have neither. If we cut out the middle men tomorrow, the only music that would be produced would be currently established artists, children of already established artists, and celebrities from other industries crossing ranks into the music biz.
Without middle men, you'll never have a music industry becuase you'll never hear anything new.
You could program them to fight each other for possession of individuals neurons in your brain, then post the joke that's able to hold onto the most territory in your head.
I bought my father a inaudible pest repeller for his garden at one point a few years ago. It had two settings, one to keep away smaller animals like squirrels and mice, and another to keep away larger animals like deer and foxes. We brought it out to the garden and set it up, first we set it to the small animal repeller with no problem. But we were trying to get rid of deer, so we switched to large animal.
My brother instantly started shrieking. "Turn it off! Turn it off!" Apparently he was a large animal. None of the rest of us could hear it. Not only that, but even if he was several hundred feet away and you turned it on, he would yell for you to turn it off. Apparently it worked really well... on my brother.
"How do Kate and John just waltz into a top secret military research facility? No ID? No search to see if they're armed? "Sure ma'am just bring in that AK-47 and those C4 charges. It's cool."
Well, presumably the Terminatrix went in first, and little things like doors and military men with guns weren't going to stop her. I'd assume that Arnold and crew simply followed through on her charred and smoking wake.
"When the T-X is about to incinerate them at Crystal Peak, John actually takes the time to stop and thank the T-800. WHAT?!?!?!?! It's a F***ING MACHINE! It doesn't care about your gratitude."
Even if John Connor hadn't explicity stated it in T3, it's pretty clear in T2 that the Terminator acted very much as a father figure for him. Due to their physical similarity, I'm willing to forgive John treating him like a human... he does look and behave like a human... and one who's saved John's life dozens of times at this point.
"Also, Skynet is no longer a single computer, but Skynet is software distributed over the widest of wide area networks. I guess I can understand that the internet was designed to operate in the event of a nuclear war, but when the power plants go out, so do all of the computers that make up Skynet."
Was it ever stated that the power goes out everywhere? The computer was controlling the Nuclear strikes, I'd assume Skynet targetted the missiles to leave more then enough infrastructure to start it's base of operations from. Including power.
"If Skynet is no longer a central machine, how then can John and Kyle Reese "smash" its defense grid and defeat in 20 or so years?"
I guess that depends on what a defense grid is. I'm not entirely clear.
"I also thought that it was stupid that Kate starts to fall for John the SAME F'ING DAY that her fiance gets murdered by the T-X. Maybe a brief period of mourning would have been in order."
It was a rough day, I'll forgive it.
"John is also a pill popping boozer. I'm not sure how that plays into his future role as "leader" of humanity."
I think he was only popping pills because of the motorcycle accident... somewhat legit medical usage. And we only saw him drink one beer, which he didn't even remotely finish. I wouldn't have called him a drunk or a pill-popper.
"They show exactly HOW it was that John came to be thought of as a leader."
That was really good, it always seemed odd that this punk kid would somehow march out of the ruins of LA and take over the army.
Most people don't care all that much about their home wireless networks (or their personal email) being encrypted, because there's no major threat. Sure, corporations need to protect their ever so secret information and precious bandwidth, but if someone near my house wants to go ahead and use my wireless connection, as long as it's not crippling my connection speed, so be it. Not a big loss for me. If someone is going to go through the effort to snoop my network, you're not going to find anything worth stealing that you couldn't get easier from Kazaa. If someone's going to be reading my personal email, well, they're going to be plenty bored. It's just not worth hacking into my computer, there's nothing of non-personal value on it.
Security isn't a major issue for home users. That's why they don't treat it as such. Sorry guys.
You know a lot of very nerdy people if desktop buyers "routinely" build their own machines. I don't have numbers, but I'm sure the percent of people who build versus buy is miniscule. I know a lot of people with desktops, only of them was homemade. Most people aren't interested in the hassle for little reward.
This idea is somewhat doomed if movie ticket scalping were to run unchecked. Scalpers would just need to buy 100 tickets at.20p each, a 20 pound investment, and then wait for showtime. Suddenly you can sell each one for 5 pounds each and you've got a HUGE profit margin. Eventually whole theatres would sell out weeks in advance and everyone would have to hussle with the scalpers outside if they wanted to get in. I think that would effectively kill any sort of business plan... people don't enjoy dealing with scalpers.
I was in England for about six months, and when I first got there I used easyEverything (the internet cafe-esque place run by the same people as this multiplex). They had a similar philosophy, if there were less people using the connection, you would get more computer time for your money. The store was 24 hours so if you stopped by at 1am you could stay most of the night for very little money.
Now, that was when I first got there.
By the time I had left, they very clearly were losing money. Everything changed. Suddenly there wasn't any staff around to sell tickets, they only had machines and nobody would make change for you. The prices had gone up and the connection speed had very markedly gone down. Also the store was now full of extraneous business subletting the space (there was a mailboxes etc. or some similar store where the former ticket counter had been). They were obviously understaffed on techs and there were always a high number of machines out of order or frozen.
Anyway, although this move theater sounds great at first, I sincerely doubt they'll be able to maintain any sort of quality service (even mechanized service) at those prices for very long. They'll go under shortly... just like their sad brother business.
My mistake. I didn't have the name of the court in front of me.
The reason, I expect, that executives are reluctant to obey this court's rulings is that it's not part of a unified government structure. There's a supernational judicial branch in Europe without an executive branch and with only skeleton legislature. If you're going to have a court that extends beyond national boundaries, then you need to do away with those boundaries altogether. You need to set up a true multi-nation government if you want the court to be functional. Why bother listening to this court since it has no (here comes an American phrase) checks or balances?
The majority of the people in the United States support the current government. Look at the poll numbers (67 percent as of last week). Hell, even 71% of Americans were supporting the way in Iraq. To believe that the majority of Americans do not support the current administration is foolhardy.
That doesn't, of course, mean that they're right about everything. They certainly aren't, but they're also not in the minority. Pretending that they've stolen the popular will, or unfairly snatched an election (the election was too close to call and within the margin of error, neither side would have been able to claim a clear victory, no matter what any court, or any liberal, might want to say) just isn't fair. If you've got a problem with policies, argue the policies. Calling the President names and implying that he's illegitimate isn't practical.
I don't see any more problems in America then I do in the rest of the free world. I've seen enough "human rights" cases going before the EU Court to make me want to retch. I've seen Australians constantly having ridiculous laws passed by their parliament. And hell, don't get me started about the messes in Asia, Africa and South America. I don't think that my country is perfect, but it's damned better off than most countries and will continue to be so as long as we're able to maintain our national charachter.
The MPAA is a red herring. Don't worry about silly DMCA laws quite so much. They're bad, but they're not the end of the world.
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Did the power outage reset your cliched joke clock?
Is it currently flashing some date in early 2001?
There's no need for conservation if we can produce enough electricity to cover our needs... and I'd say so far, aside from this little gaff (and all of California... which is chock full of people who love conservation) we're doing just fine.
Stay the course.
Is there a lot of Pac-Man piracy going on that I'm unaware of? Isn't the game like twenty years old at this point?
Maybe they're talking about the horrible Saturday morning cartoon... maybe someone's taken the time to digitize that and put it online.
(I really just like the idea of Pac-Man piracy... Yellow face, circular, eye-patch! What can go wrong?)
About a year ago I started downloading books to my Handspring and carrying them around with me. It took a few days to get used to the constant scrolling, but once you get past that you've got a small device which you always have with you that you can read from at a moment's notice. No more sitting around on the train doing nothing... I just pop out the Handspring and I'm reading Harry Potter V, or Michael Chricton's Prey, or Ender's Game or older books like Fahrenheit 451 or Brave New World or 1984. They're all available online and the list is growing. Publishing is in for the same thing the music world is already fighting... as soon as people become accustomed to reading digital books the industry is in trouble.
Was that Courtoom sketch done by a five year old? It looks like it was done with Crayons. I'll stick with the evil photo until we get a talented sketch artist.
I haven't bought a CD in seven years thanks to file sharing. I don't really ever plan on buying one again. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they're losing money becuase of the Internet. You're all deluding yourselves if you think otherwise. At least acknowledge that your actions, and the actions of others are directly and negatively affecting the industry... and that it's not ALL simply a matter of them putting out poor quality music.
Acknowledge it and move on.
I don't care all that much about YOUR standard of living. If you were going to talk about the whole country, then there's probably room for discussion... but the fact that you went from a $5000/month apartment to a $4000/month apartment doesn't concern me much. Sorry.
If you're going to be self-centered, then so will I.
Yes, programmers are far more deserving of wealth than any other field in business. Hell, doctors will keep making a lot of money too! Screw them! Why do they deserve more than programmers?
You know, this is a good point that I've never really heard argued before. What happens to the "information wants to be free" folks when people start pirating GPL'd software, taking the parts they like and then redistributing it without permission under a different license. Information wants to be free, right? So why even use the GPL? Why place any restrictions on how information can be used? The GPL is too restrictive.
Yeah, sometimes Slashdot just runs ads for things unwittingly. This would be one of those times. Quick everyone, go buy some legal mp3s!
Eh.
I'm pretty sure it's only the circumvention of copyright protection schemes that is criminally illegal while the actual posession of contraband copies of a song is still a civil issue.
Either way, a private corporation still cannot be guilty of entrapment... it's still got to be police. And going back to the original post, even if it was the police, why would spoofing an IP address be entrapment?
Only law enforcement agencies can be accused of entrapment. There's no such thing for a non police corporation. They can entrap all they want. Remember, you're going to be going to civil, not criminal court.
How exactly do you think you'd hear about new music without a middleman? I don't think that there are very many artists out there with enough startup capital and personal clout to get themselves heard by ANYONE outside their immediate family. To get yourself produced and heard you need money and you need power at your backs... individual artists have neither. If we cut out the middle men tomorrow, the only music that would be produced would be currently established artists, children of already established artists, and celebrities from other industries crossing ranks into the music biz.
Without middle men, you'll never have a music industry becuase you'll never hear anything new.
Sorry.
You could program them to fight each other for possession of individuals neurons in your brain, then post the joke that's able to hold onto the most territory in your head.
Sound good?
I know how to solve this problem... SANCTIONS! That'll show 'em.
I bought my father a inaudible pest repeller for his garden at one point a few years ago. It had two settings, one to keep away smaller animals like squirrels and mice, and another to keep away larger animals like deer and foxes. We brought it out to the garden and set it up, first we set it to the small animal repeller with no problem. But we were trying to get rid of deer, so we switched to large animal.
My brother instantly started shrieking. "Turn it off! Turn it off!" Apparently he was a large animal. None of the rest of us could hear it. Not only that, but even if he was several hundred feet away and you turned it on, he would yell for you to turn it off. Apparently it worked really well... on my brother.
That gift didn't work out too well in the end.
If you've disabled your phone line, why would an incoming call cause a shock? Shouldn't that be the point of disabling it? I'm confused.
"How do Kate and John just waltz into a top secret military research facility? No ID? No search to see if they're armed? "Sure ma'am just bring in that AK-47 and those C4 charges. It's cool."
Well, presumably the Terminatrix went in first, and little things like doors and military men with guns weren't going to stop her. I'd assume that Arnold and crew simply followed through on her charred and smoking wake.
"When the T-X is about to incinerate them at Crystal Peak, John actually takes the time to stop and thank the T-800. WHAT?!?!?!?! It's a F***ING MACHINE! It doesn't care about your gratitude."
Even if John Connor hadn't explicity stated it in T3, it's pretty clear in T2 that the Terminator acted very much as a father figure for him. Due to their physical similarity, I'm willing to forgive John treating him like a human... he does look and behave like a human... and one who's saved John's life dozens of times at this point.
"Also, Skynet is no longer a single computer, but Skynet is software distributed over the widest of wide area networks. I guess I can understand that the internet was designed to operate in the event of a nuclear war, but when the power plants go out, so do all of the computers that make up Skynet."
Was it ever stated that the power goes out everywhere? The computer was controlling the Nuclear strikes, I'd assume Skynet targetted the missiles to leave more then enough infrastructure to start it's base of operations from. Including power.
"If Skynet is no longer a central machine, how then can John and Kyle Reese "smash" its defense grid and defeat in 20 or so years?"
I guess that depends on what a defense grid is. I'm not entirely clear.
"I also thought that it was stupid that Kate starts to fall for John the SAME F'ING DAY that her fiance gets murdered by the T-X. Maybe a brief period of mourning would have been in order."
It was a rough day, I'll forgive it.
"John is also a pill popping boozer. I'm not sure how that plays into his future role as "leader" of humanity."
I think he was only popping pills because of the motorcycle accident... somewhat legit medical usage. And we only saw him drink one beer, which he didn't even remotely finish. I wouldn't have called him a drunk or a pill-popper.
"They show exactly HOW it was that John came to be thought of as a leader."
That was really good, it always seemed odd that this punk kid would somehow march out of the ruins of LA and take over the army.
Most people don't care all that much about their home wireless networks (or their personal email) being encrypted, because there's no major threat. Sure, corporations need to protect their ever so secret information and precious bandwidth, but if someone near my house wants to go ahead and use my wireless connection, as long as it's not crippling my connection speed, so be it. Not a big loss for me. If someone is going to go through the effort to snoop my network, you're not going to find anything worth stealing that you couldn't get easier from Kazaa. If someone's going to be reading my personal email, well, they're going to be plenty bored. It's just not worth hacking into my computer, there's nothing of non-personal value on it.
Security isn't a major issue for home users. That's why they don't treat it as such. Sorry guys.
You know a lot of very nerdy people if desktop buyers "routinely" build their own machines. I don't have numbers, but I'm sure the percent of people who build versus buy is miniscule. I know a lot of people with desktops, only of them was homemade. Most people aren't interested in the hassle for little reward.
This idea is somewhat doomed if movie ticket scalping were to run unchecked. Scalpers would just need to buy 100 tickets at .20p each, a 20 pound investment, and then wait for showtime. Suddenly you can sell each one for 5 pounds each and you've got a HUGE profit margin. Eventually whole theatres would sell out weeks in advance and everyone would have to hussle with the scalpers outside if they wanted to get in. I think that would effectively kill any sort of business plan... people don't enjoy dealing with scalpers.
I was in England for about six months, and when I first got there I used easyEverything (the internet cafe-esque place run by the same people as this multiplex). They had a similar philosophy, if there were less people using the connection, you would get more computer time for your money. The store was 24 hours so if you stopped by at 1am you could stay most of the night for very little money.
Now, that was when I first got there.
By the time I had left, they very clearly were losing money. Everything changed. Suddenly there wasn't any staff around to sell tickets, they only had machines and nobody would make change for you. The prices had gone up and the connection speed had very markedly gone down. Also the store was now full of extraneous business subletting the space (there was a mailboxes etc. or some similar store where the former ticket counter had been). They were obviously understaffed on techs and there were always a high number of machines out of order or frozen.
Anyway, although this move theater sounds great at first, I sincerely doubt they'll be able to maintain any sort of quality service (even mechanized service) at those prices for very long. They'll go under shortly... just like their sad brother business.
You know, just because someone hasn't heard of your obscure band, doesn't make them "stupid."
My mistake. I didn't have the name of the court in front of me.
The reason, I expect, that executives are reluctant to obey this court's rulings is that it's not part of a unified government structure. There's a supernational judicial branch in Europe without an executive branch and with only skeleton legislature. If you're going to have a court that extends beyond national boundaries, then you need to do away with those boundaries altogether. You need to set up a true multi-nation government if you want the court to be functional. Why bother listening to this court since it has no (here comes an American phrase) checks or balances?
The majority of the people in the United States support the current government. Look at the poll numbers (67 percent as of last week). Hell, even 71% of Americans were supporting the way in Iraq. To believe that the majority of Americans do not support the current administration is foolhardy.
That doesn't, of course, mean that they're right about everything. They certainly aren't, but they're also not in the minority. Pretending that they've stolen the popular will, or unfairly snatched an election (the election was too close to call and within the margin of error, neither side would have been able to claim a clear victory, no matter what any court, or any liberal, might want to say) just isn't fair. If you've got a problem with policies, argue the policies. Calling the President names and implying that he's illegitimate isn't practical.
I don't see any more problems in America then I do in the rest of the free world. I've seen enough "human rights" cases going before the EU Court to make me want to retch. I've seen Australians constantly having ridiculous laws passed by their parliament. And hell, don't get me started about the messes in Asia, Africa and South America. I don't think that my country is perfect, but it's damned better off than most countries and will continue to be so as long as we're able to maintain our national charachter.
The MPAA is a red herring. Don't worry about silly DMCA laws quite so much. They're bad, but they're not the end of the world.