The content industry didn't get anything except trouble with the money they used to buy the DMCA. The circumvention device has now been mirrored, publicized, and distributed beyond what any of the original authors could have envisioned, and the MPAA has gotten enormous amounts of bad press. The DeCSS fiasco started the culture of MPAA hatred and strengthened the growing hatred of the RIAA as well.
It's too bad people can't really speak when they have a tracheotomy. I suppose it would have crimped Carter's style too much to use one of those handheld talking devices real world cancer patients get when they have their trachea removed.
What kind of stupidity-inducing drug did your doctor prescribe? 19991231/20000101 had nothing to do with 32 (or 31) bit time_t. Everyone knows the real invasion happened on 20001231, the real end of the millenium, anyway.
X-Files boils down to too much hokey pseudo-mysterious pop-science bullshit and too little development of the discoveries and conspiracies already presented. There's no way they can wrap up everything even if they had another season. They had a half-dozen seasons worth of episodes to wrap things up properly, and they missed their chance.
Does anyone care about whether the Lone Gunmen are dead or alive? Does anyone actually expect Carter to redeem himself?
Not necessarily. If they had stuck to aliens and not gotten derailed by the paranormal-event-of-the-week syndrome, the show might have been decent after the first few seasons. I'm not sure who decided to go off the deep end with the inbreeding trans-generational episode, but that pretty much did it for me. They explained it away with chromosomal defects, but in the process eliminated any possible link to governmental conspiracy, aliens, or anything else central to the X-Files. I could also do without all the monster crap; Toombs might have been a popular centerpiece for a few episodes, but he/it wasn't interesting within a larger context.
They really should have stayed with government coverups, aliens, and the bio- and tech-stuff. Part of the problem may have been that they twisted the green-blooded alien theme around so many times they couldn't return to it without totally confusing everyone. They didn't have to stick with just those aliens, but so many of the episodes after the first few seasons not only jumped head first off the deep-end, but jumped into a dry pool and failed to tie in with aliens, the government, or any reasonably intriguing biological or technological subject.
I'm more forgiving. Things really went downhill after seaon 4. The Jeremiah Smith subplot was fairly decent, and the Tunguska/Terma episode pair were good as well. Memento Mori is, as I recall, one of the episodes that always ends up on X-Files marathons.
I wish they'd stop demonizing it. Specifically regarding the GPL, I'd settle for anything besides their current position, "the GPL is bad for the economy."
That's bogus. Eps 4-6 are really incredible, with the mythology, etc. IMHO this second one looks like it could be on par at least with TESB. OTOH, the hover/spacecraft scene left a bad taste in my mouth; it was such a terrible rip-off of fifth element. People are going to see these first three movies differently, because there are no real surprises. If Lucas doesn't pull a rabbit out of his hat after ep3, well, then you can chastise him all you want.
Uhh, what about cat5 and fiber interfaces? That shouldn't matter, but unfortunately it looks like it's a typical "TYPE 2 BUT WE MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO ACCESS THE OTHER SLOT" wireless gizmo. If they're going to make it impossible to access the other slot, they'd better give me all the interfaces I need.
One thing you're ignoring is the vast history of price determination being based mostly on physical costs. The reason *I* would "steal" is that $15 or whatever the average is currently is not even in the correct ballpark for a legitimate price of a product with perhaps 10 minutes of desirable music. Heaven forbid artists (who have traditionally been poor) should end up back in the middle-upper class.
"But don't they deserve what they get paid?" Well, if the public generally doesn't want to pay, obviously not. If "stealing" or "pirating" is really a financial problem, which it hasn't been so far, maybe they should cut costs and see if it's still such a problem if product pricing is reduced.
You can argue all day about how it's still "stealing" and that you shouldn't force companies to modify their pricing structure by "pirating," but I believe very few people of historical importance would support the current media industry. I think "stealing" or "pirating" as a form of citizen nullification of idiotic company policies is legitimate. And any reason I would have for buying media giants' products is nullified by the fact that they make me watch FBI warnings and ads at the beginning of their moves, still haven't released many good movies on DVD in the US, and would ideally like to see me prosecuted for "stealing" a few songs (on my computer that I "whir" up at night) regardless of the fact that I've paid for more than my share of cds (hundreds) and dvds (hundreds).
The MPAA and RIAA doesn't *DESERVE* my money, and I've given it to them anyway. Maybe they should show some appreciation for all the people who have contributed to their ridiculous amount of wealth and reduce prices. Travolta and Cruise probably get a good percentage of their movie earnings duplicated by Scientology, anyway.
I don't WANT to break the law. I simply wouldn't go out of my way to track down and buy a cd from some.ca or.uk company and wait days for it to arrive because the RIAA is too fucked to actually release music everywhere, just because I wanted one song. Maybe the MPAA would see their profits go back up if they 1) didn't keep people from buying movies they want by only releasing them in other regions and 2) stop spending huge amounts of money on encryption and authorization schemes that don't work.
Why not require everyone that sends mail to you to use pgp? You can check for pgp signatures or encryption and filter if it's missing. There are pgp versions and hooks for every major MUA and operating system, and this has the added bonus that you can verify who you're talking to, and that more people start using pgp.
If you feel that way, that's fine. You have no hope of contact with anyone who uses blacklists as long as you maintain the open relay. It's your loss, not ours. You can only lose, and we can only win. You simply get to choose whether or not you lose long-term.
Also, public spaces aren't owned by anyone in particular. By the "free the internet" logic, a society should allow anyone in those spaces no matter what they've done. Get rid of criminal justice systems, they're completely unfair!
You were a moron. Accept it, fix your mailer, and contact the anti-spam registries. Nobody ever claimed they were perfect. Nobody ever claimed there isn't a period of time during which previously ignorant admins' mail servers' users are punished. People use them because spam has become unbearable and the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
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The content industry didn't get anything except trouble with the money they used to buy the DMCA. The circumvention device has now been mirrored, publicized, and distributed beyond what any of the original authors could have envisioned, and the MPAA has gotten enormous amounts of bad press. The DeCSS fiasco started the culture of MPAA hatred and strengthened the growing hatred of the RIAA as well.
It's too bad people can't really speak when they have a tracheotomy. I suppose it would have crimped Carter's style too much to use one of those handheld talking devices real world cancer patients get when they have their trachea removed.
You must have missed the episode with the stigmatic kid.
Scully: "Mostly it just makes me afraid."
Priest: "Afraid?"
Scully: "Afraid that God's talking, but that nobody's listening."
Not to mention all the stuff about Scully's faith during her cancer.
The joke's on you for watching the entire season.
After seasons of complete crap, you thought they would make the X-Files cool again? Better luck next series.
What kind of stupidity-inducing drug did your doctor prescribe? 19991231/20000101 had nothing to do with 32 (or 31) bit time_t. Everyone knows the real invasion happened on 20001231, the real end of the millenium, anyway.
Uhhh, were you watching the right channel, pal? The CSM really got toasted this time. I'd love to see Carter try to wiggle his way out of that one.
You forgot...
Hellfire Missile (to CSM)
Yes you are.
2.4 is at 2.4.19 because of the VM screwup mostly. Otherwise the smaller changes probably would have been put into larger batches.
X-Files boils down to too much hokey pseudo-mysterious pop-science bullshit and too little development of the discoveries and conspiracies already presented. There's no way they can wrap up everything even if they had another season. They had a half-dozen seasons worth of episodes to wrap things up properly, and they missed their chance.
Does anyone care about whether the Lone Gunmen are dead or alive? Does anyone actually expect Carter to redeem himself?
Not necessarily. If they had stuck to aliens and not gotten derailed by the paranormal-event-of-the-week syndrome, the show might have been decent after the first few seasons. I'm not sure who decided to go off the deep end with the inbreeding trans-generational episode, but that pretty much did it for me. They explained it away with chromosomal defects, but in the process eliminated any possible link to governmental conspiracy, aliens, or anything else central to the X-Files. I could also do without all the monster crap; Toombs might have been a popular centerpiece for a few episodes, but he/it wasn't interesting within a larger context.
They really should have stayed with government coverups, aliens, and the bio- and tech-stuff. Part of the problem may have been that they twisted the green-blooded alien theme around so many times they couldn't return to it without totally confusing everyone. They didn't have to stick with just those aliens, but so many of the episodes after the first few seasons not only jumped head first off the deep-end, but jumped into a dry pool and failed to tie in with aliens, the government, or any reasonably intriguing biological or technological subject.
I'm more forgiving. Things really went downhill after seaon 4. The Jeremiah Smith subplot was fairly decent, and the Tunguska/Terma episode pair were good as well. Memento Mori is, as I recall, one of the episodes that always ends up on X-Files marathons.
It's midi-chlorians, idiot, and I never even saw TPM. Don't you feel stupid now?
I wish they'd stop demonizing it. Specifically regarding the GPL, I'd settle for anything besides their current position, "the GPL is bad for the economy."
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That's bogus. Eps 4-6 are really incredible, with the mythology, etc. IMHO this second one looks like it could be on par at least with TESB. OTOH, the hover/spacecraft scene left a bad taste in my mouth; it was such a terrible rip-off of fifth element. People are going to see these first three movies differently, because there are no real surprises. If Lucas doesn't pull a rabbit out of his hat after ep3, well, then you can chastise him all you want.
Uhh, what about cat5 and fiber interfaces? That shouldn't matter, but unfortunately it looks like it's a typical "TYPE 2 BUT WE MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO ACCESS THE OTHER SLOT" wireless gizmo. If they're going to make it impossible to access the other slot, they'd better give me all the interfaces I need.
One thing you're ignoring is the vast history of price determination being based mostly on physical costs. The reason *I* would "steal" is that $15 or whatever the average is currently is not even in the correct ballpark for a legitimate price of a product with perhaps 10 minutes of desirable music. Heaven forbid artists (who have traditionally been poor) should end up back in the middle-upper class.
.ca or .uk company and wait days for it to arrive because the RIAA is too fucked to actually release music everywhere, just because I wanted one song. Maybe the MPAA would see their profits go back up if they 1) didn't keep people from buying movies they want by only releasing them in other regions and 2) stop spending huge amounts of money on encryption and authorization schemes that don't work.
"But don't they deserve what they get paid?" Well, if the public generally doesn't want to pay, obviously not. If "stealing" or "pirating" is really a financial problem, which it hasn't been so far, maybe they should cut costs and see if it's still such a problem if product pricing is reduced.
You can argue all day about how it's still "stealing" and that you shouldn't force companies to modify their pricing structure by "pirating," but I believe very few people of historical importance would support the current media industry. I think "stealing" or "pirating" as a form of citizen nullification of idiotic company policies is legitimate. And any reason I would have for buying media giants' products is nullified by the fact that they make me watch FBI warnings and ads at the beginning of their moves, still haven't released many good movies on DVD in the US, and would ideally like to see me prosecuted for "stealing" a few songs (on my computer that I "whir" up at night) regardless of the fact that I've paid for more than my share of cds (hundreds) and dvds (hundreds).
The MPAA and RIAA doesn't *DESERVE* my money, and I've given it to them anyway. Maybe they should show some appreciation for all the people who have contributed to their ridiculous amount of wealth and reduce prices. Travolta and Cruise probably get a good percentage of their movie earnings duplicated by Scientology, anyway.
I don't WANT to break the law. I simply wouldn't go out of my way to track down and buy a cd from some
Why not require everyone that sends mail to you to use pgp? You can check for pgp signatures or encryption and filter if it's missing. There are pgp versions and hooks for every major MUA and operating system, and this has the added bonus that you can verify who you're talking to, and that more people start using pgp.
If you feel that way, that's fine. You have no hope of contact with anyone who uses blacklists as long as you maintain the open relay. It's your loss, not ours. You can only lose, and we can only win. You simply get to choose whether or not you lose long-term.
Also, public spaces aren't owned by anyone in particular. By the "free the internet" logic, a society should allow anyone in those spaces no matter what they've done. Get rid of criminal justice systems, they're completely unfair!
You were a moron. Accept it, fix your mailer, and contact the anti-spam registries. Nobody ever claimed they were perfect. Nobody ever claimed there isn't a period of time during which previously ignorant admins' mail servers' users are punished. People use them because spam has become unbearable and the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.