Hello? Why is it a personal right to own a freakin gun in the first place ? What are you going to DO with it ? I know, hunting and practice, sure fine. Make it a 25 year limit, ban all guns in public and control it. Where I live that is the rules of today. I see no point in not having this. Of course there are illegal weapons, bur really, is the fact that someone might obtain an illegal gun, and use it against you really motive enough for everyone to have one to protect themselves ? Of course not! So, if I want to own a gun, I can just become a member of a club or something. Wrong again. For instance, people with a criminal record will never be admitted, and never get a licese, also you need to undergo training, in which they look for possible problem personalities. Yes, they are free to decline your application. Second, the feedback from the schools to the parents, and so on is like non-existant these days. Maybe it is time to stop looking for scapegoats like "violent games and images" and face the fact that the screwed up system and "generation gaps" might just happen to BE the problem, tho everyone seems to simply scoff at the problem and turn to their Psycological-evaluation-religions... But of course, once you have gone too far down that road, it's getting incrrasingly difficult to start going back. I am just glad this gun-control issue and shit ain't my problem.
Maybe it is something akin to the MicroSoft minute, as so nicely described a while back at User Friendly (you know, those nifty time-measurments on copying, installing and such, that always seem, and often are, really far out there somewhere.. Maybe we'll all be using internet time, as standarized by MicroS~1 one day, and we'll all be happier as humans for doing it too. (Thanks Bill, you are our hero!) After all, see you in 10 Internet minutes should leave you with an ample time window to get halfway across town on a rush-hour morning.
Agreed on the decline, but for me the equation is very simple. A lot of people voice questions to wether the CD sales will be affected by mp3..Well; You want a song? You don't own a 100,000$ Hi-Fi system you built your house around to get the best sound? You sit on free bandwidt and spare time ? You wonder if you want to use those 17$ on a CD to get that song ? I don't see the problem with the choice of medium here. You think that more and more "general public" users won't discover this too? The only problem here is the relative difficulty for "general public" users to get their hands on what they want. Once that is sorted out, mp3 could become a contender. And for those who have mastered computers, know the net and generally possesses the general know-how, why would they even bother getting CD's if it's not something they really really like ? Another scary thing is how the record-companies and their lawyers own the artists.. just look at the recent "pre-releases" on the net, and how well they were recieved by the companies. It's all about the money, and maybe through mp3's and the like, the general public can voice their protest against this.
What is there to sue Lycos over ?? If they had incorporated the mp3 searcher into their original search engine instead of opening a mp3.lycos section, noone would have noticed, but it would still BE there. So they sue because Lycos puts their searcers into categories.. I sure hope common sense will prevail (if there is such a thing anymore..) This is all getting very pathetic. There is no way to stop warez, mp3 and as bandwidth gets better, you'll see movies heading the same way. It's all about being there early, instead of doing what the music biz is doing now, fighting too late. .. and I don't pity them one bit.
The thing here isn't investments, it isn't return of capital put into something. The idea is this: If you have a brilliant idea, that you happened to think of over breakfast this morning, the likelyhood is very high, given enough time, that the idea isn't that new or revolutionary, and that someone might even OWN the right to it. So, say, if this is something you think could be immensly helpful in your work or whatever, you are not allowed to use it, because someone OWNS the right to this idea ?? Doesn't that sound weird to you ?
I agree. The agreement has very little to do with the general "Gnu/Gpl" concept at all. How can this be accepted into any free software scene is beyond me. Atleast, why anyone would bother on HELPING IBM develop on their source, is just unthinkable. And then, isn't it all kinda redundant to release it as "open source" ??
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Hello? Why is it a personal right to own a freakin gun in the first place ? What are you going to DO with it ? I know, hunting and practice, sure fine. Make it a 25 year limit, ban all guns in public and control it. Where I live that is the rules of today. I see no point in not having this.
Of course there are illegal weapons, bur really, is the fact that someone might obtain an illegal gun, and use it against you really motive enough for everyone to have one to protect themselves ? Of course not!
So, if I want to own a gun, I can just become a member of a club or something. Wrong again. For instance, people with a criminal record will never be admitted, and never get a licese, also you need to undergo training, in which they look for possible problem personalities. Yes, they are free to decline your application.
Second, the feedback from the schools to the parents, and so on is like non-existant these days. Maybe it is time to stop looking for scapegoats like "violent games and images" and face the fact that the screwed up system and "generation gaps" might just happen to BE the problem, tho everyone seems to simply scoff at the problem and turn to their Psycological-evaluation-religions...
But of course, once you have gone too far down that road, it's getting incrrasingly difficult to start going back. I am just glad this gun-control issue and shit ain't my problem.
Maybe it is something akin to the MicroSoft minute, as so nicely described a while back at User Friendly (you know, those nifty time-measurments on copying, installing and such, that always seem, and often are, really far out there somewhere ..
Maybe we'll all be using internet time, as standarized by MicroS~1 one day, and we'll all be happier as humans for doing it too. (Thanks Bill, you are our hero!)
After all, see you in 10 Internet minutes should leave you with an ample time window to get halfway across town on a rush-hour morning.
Agreed on the decline, but for me the equation is very simple. A lot of people voice questions to wether the CD sales will be affected by mp3..Well;
You want a song? You don't own a 100,000$ Hi-Fi system you built your house around to get the best sound? You sit on free bandwidt and spare time ? You wonder if you want to use those 17$ on a CD to get that song ? I don't see the problem with the choice of medium here. You think that more and more "general public" users won't discover this too? The only problem here is the relative difficulty for "general public" users to get their hands on what they want. Once that is sorted out, mp3 could become a contender.
And for those who have mastered computers, know the net and generally possesses the general know-how, why would they even bother getting CD's if it's not something they really really like ?
Another scary thing is how the record-companies and their lawyers own the artists.. just look at the recent "pre-releases" on the net, and how well they were recieved by the companies.
It's all about the money, and maybe through mp3's and the like, the general public can voice their protest against this.
What is there to sue Lycos over ?? If they had incorporated the mp3 searcher into their original search engine instead of opening a mp3.lycos section, noone would have noticed, but it would still BE there.
So they sue because Lycos puts their searcers into categories.. I sure hope common sense will prevail (if there is such a thing anymore..)
This is all getting very pathetic. There is no way to stop warez, mp3 and as bandwidth gets better, you'll see movies heading the same way. It's all about being there early, instead of doing what the music biz is doing now, fighting too late.
.. and I don't pity them one bit.
The thing here isn't investments, it isn't return of capital put into something.
The idea is this: If you have a brilliant idea, that you happened to think of over breakfast this morning, the likelyhood is very high, given enough time, that the idea isn't that new or revolutionary, and that someone might even OWN the right to it. So, say, if this is something you think could be immensly helpful in your work or whatever, you are not allowed to use it, because someone OWNS the right to this idea ?? Doesn't that sound weird to you ?
I agree. The agreement has very little to do with the general "Gnu/Gpl" concept at all. How can this be accepted into any free software scene is beyond me. Atleast, why anyone would bother on HELPING IBM develop on their source, is just unthinkable. And then, isn't it all kinda redundant to release it as "open source" ??