You take the basis for the law, go to a judge, ask him to read it.
Then you say, I have never stolen any music. The basis for the law is false.
ie - libel / slander (I never can keep the two straight) - they claim that *EVERYONE* steals - so they whined and begged until they got the tax.
In the United States, we have (had) the same thing with recordable compact disc media. I couldn't tell you if it was still in effect to this date, I would need to check.
All in all, the recording industries, movie industries are all making false statements to whichever law making body is appropriate, to make them even more money.
If someone walked up to you on the street, in front of your friends and co-workers, and called you a fscking thief, would you take it? Would you get mad? Would you file suit?
The industries in question have essentially done this, what are you waiting for?
It's actually grounds for a mass slander / libel lawsuit. If they are doing this under the "assumption" that all of us will infringe, and at least one of us doesn't - boom - instant suit.
#1 - Bikinis - less fabric - more cost. (okay, we can almost agree for this) #2 - Movies - no pan and scan version - more cost. #3 - music - no drm - more cost.
Do you actually think you have a clue in regard to that which you are replying?
For some reason, I just picked your commentary to rant and rave and in general, blow off some steam.
I'd like to say it's been fun, but I can't. You just didn't have the right oomph to come up with any decent responses. Nothing worth reading, and, unless I was so totally out of anything worthwhile to do, nothing worth responding to.
So - goodbye - should our paths ever cross again, I'm sure I'll just brush you off like the flake you are.
Comparing Dell shit to Apple shit? What difference does it make, they're both shit.
The difference comes in that I can go out and build myself a better box than a Dell. Currently, I can't go out and buy off the shelf parts, which would be many times better in quality than Apple's selected parts, and make my own box and load Mac OSX on it.
If I don't like a PC from xyz company, I can make my own. If I don't like a PC from Apple, I basically can't do anything about it.
Which way gives you a true choice? Certainly not Apple.
Build your config, save it, then burn it to a livecd - boots into vmware player, loads image and boom - online - totally stateless, to un-futz, just reboot.
let's see - Karma - Excellent - nope - I guess they do respect me around here.
The only problem that I see is that you don't seem to like me BASHING the 2nd worst (technology company) that I hate.
#1 Microsoft - For making shit, shit, shit and calling it "The greatest thing we've ever done." #2 Apple Corp - For making crap, crap, crap and calling it "The greatest thing we've ever done." #3 Macrovision - for starting the whole DRM mess in the first place and calling it "The best thing for the consumer ever."
"Winning awards for design" - design for what? Their interface was stolen from Creative. There are only so many ways you can wrap shitty plastic around something and have it function. Do you really think an Apple employee designed any of their products? I'd be willing to bet that a good majority of the design work has been farmed out to other *more talented* people, only to be reviewed and the ones that catch the eye of upper management are chosen.
This really makes me wonder about who was in charge when the iMac came out.... panzies...
Woohoo - watch the fan boys (or girls) jump out of the woodwork.
Hrm - spelling? Reigns vs Reins? Maybe their was a subtle undercurrent - as in, if you buy into Apple, you're proclaiming them to be your leige lord. Or maybe I didn't care enough to look up the proper spelling of the word.
Troll? No.
Bitter? Yes.
Will any amount of replies from plastic coated fan *people* change my mind? No.
I definitely don't care for Microsoft's products either. I'm not a fan of Linux any more as well. Recently, it's become too unstable to rely upon. So for me, for the time, it's Solaris x86 for productivity, and an old copy of Windows 2k for gaming. For my phone, I get a phone. I don't nuy models with text pads. I don't buy models with cameras. I don't buy models with music capability. I buy a phone to make and receive phone calls. I don't carry a PDA anymore, as I threw it in the dumpster. If my schedule has so many meetings in it that I need a PDA to remind me, then there's too many meetings, and not enough time to get anything done.
Oh - and as for the moderation of troll and other negative stuff..... Do your worst - I couldn't care less. You have to respect someone for their opinion to count.
Obviously, your opinion doesn't count if you own anything made by Apple. Muah-hah-hah-hahhhhhhh.....
Do you willingly bend yourself over the barrel? Or do they actually have to tie you down with the reigns? Or perhaps both, as you like being tied up with the reigns...
I will NEVER buy an Apple product. Period. Why? Because they don't allow competition. Period.
Every time Apple has ever allowed a competitor to make a compatible product, their sales figures slump, as the clones outsell the *real* thing.
Why is this? Apple doesn't know how to price their products.
They've all been overpriced, underpowered, poorly designed crap.
Macintosh? Black and white crap. iMac? Candy crap. Macbook? Porta crap. iPod? Crap on a string, that doesn't allow you to control your media, your way. iPhone? TM Stealing crap that you hold to your face - why you'd want to hold that much crap up to your face, I'll never know.
Case in point being a publicly owned and traded company in the insurance industry.
Not only do you have to lock down the systems used by the employees, you have to restrict which applications can be run.
Specifically things like any outside mail service, web browsing (except to company provided intranet and internet sites) must be curtailed. Why, you ask? Because customer personally identifiable information often resides within applications being run simultaneously with their web browser. A well conceived hack could potentially read memory locations to extract information from the currently running programs. They could even get a dump of everything in memory, store it locally and peruse it in their free time.
Running applications like external web based Instant Messengers and web mail clients open the corporation up to liability risks that could bankrupt them.
So, whoever this, imo, galactically stupid CIO is who made this statement, I hope to God he doesn't work for my company.
The police are there to "Protect AND Serve" the citizens. ie - they are OUR employees. We HAVE the right to fire them. We HAVE the right to have them arrested (citizen's arrest). We HAVE the right to enforce the laws on THEM that they swore to UPHOLD upon entering into the Police force.
Police officers HAVE to follow the laws to the letter. They have to be upheld to a much higher standard than the average citizen. Unless they are actively in pursuit of a suspect, or on the way to a crime scene, they HAVE to obey EVERY traffic law. If the police officers don't have to follow the laws, then no-one does.
This goes for any political office, up to and including the President of the U.S.A. This seems to be something that GW2 has forgotten.
I had my own issues with a deputy sherrif, who was video-taped (unknowingly of course) altering the measurements at an accident scene. During the court case, when questioned about his altering the data (by lifting the wheel, taking 2 steps, then setting it back down, to alter the distances measured), he stated under oath that he didn't do it. After the judge saw the video tape, he not only lost his job, he was arrested for falsifying official documents and lying under oath. I don't believe he'll ever work in law enforcement again. He didn't deserve to be there in the first place, as he didn't even bother to administer a breath-alizer test to the other driver, even after it was LOUDLY commented upon that the other driver smelled like a brewery.
I've met my fair share of good cops, but that was one dirty deputy sherrif.
First, I am not claiming that there are not good doctors still out there. You may be one of them.
I am claiming that there are too many doctors that are too focused on their specialty that they ignore anything else.
I walked into a big city doctor's office with multiple fractures in my hand. After the doctor has multiple x-rays taken, reviewed by him, and several others, he proclaims that I have a bad sprain.
I then go to another doctor (small town, generalist family doctor), he takes one x-ray, with my hand moved to a slightly different position, and finds the fractures, I'd say there's something definitely wrong with today's ideas of specialists. There's not enough generalists to go around.
Yet we call people in the medical industry who don't know what they are doing "Doctors"? Although they still associate the term "Medical Practitioner" with Doctor, as they can have a "Practice". When do they stop practicing and actually start "doing"?
I'm only joking in part, as todays line of "I'm a specialist in x field, I don't know anything (or much) about y field" is leading us to doctors who can't treat common ailments because they are too busy trying to find some obscure disease to relate to a common symptom.
The RIAA should be forced to retain permanent logs of every song, cd, cassette, music dvd purchase so that when the defective by design media is damaged and or destroyed, they can provide a FREE replacement of the music we purchased.
Also,if the RIAA wants ISPs to retain log files, they should have to PAY for the disk and tape storage to cover this retention. Depending on the size of the ISP, this could be terabytes of data to keep.
If the RIAA is pushing forward with criminal cases, shouldn't they be brought forward by the local district attorneys?
If the RIAA is pushing forward with civil suits, what gives them the legal right to subpoena information from other entities?
There's already been cases that have thrown out ISP responsibility for copyright infringement cases, so they don't have that *handle* to hold onto with ISPs anymore.
I'd say, make the RIAA file charges with a REAL law enforcement agency and wait for trial.
If they choose to make civil cases, make them come up with the identities on their own - they should not have the right to force ISPs to hand over any information whatsoever. Why do they think they have a right in (and seem to have gotten away with) asking for this information so far?
Slashdot Mirror
Well, maybe you'll get lucky, and they'll provide brain transplants in the future.
Woo hoo - looks like I picked up a fan-boy - overrated, when there wasn't a rating?
Ha-ha-ha.... jcr (53032) - is that you, you old dog you....
Exactly my point.
You take the basis for the law, go to a judge, ask him to read it.
Then you say, I have never stolen any music. The basis for the law is false.
ie - libel / slander (I never can keep the two straight) - they claim that *EVERYONE* steals - so they whined and begged until they got the tax.
In the United States, we have (had) the same thing with recordable compact disc media. I couldn't tell you if it was still in effect to this date, I would need to check.
All in all, the recording industries, movie industries are all making false statements to whichever law making body is appropriate, to make them even more money.
If someone walked up to you on the street, in front of your friends and co-workers, and called you a fscking thief, would you take it? Would you get mad? Would you file suit?
The industries in question have essentially done this, what are you waiting for?
It's actually grounds for a mass slander / libel lawsuit.
If they are doing this under the "assumption" that all of us will infringe, and at least one of us doesn't - boom - instant suit.
It's the same as everything else..
#1 - Bikinis - less fabric - more cost. (okay, we can almost agree for this)
#2 - Movies - no pan and scan version - more cost.
#3 - music - no drm - more cost.
rofl, whatever...
Do you actually think you have a clue in regard to that which you are replying?
For some reason, I just picked your commentary to rant and rave and in general, blow off some steam.
I'd like to say it's been fun, but I can't. You just didn't have the right oomph to come up with any decent responses. Nothing worth reading, and, unless I was so totally out of anything worthwhile to do, nothing worth responding to.
So - goodbye - should our paths ever cross again, I'm sure I'll just brush you off like the flake you are.
Comparing Dell shit to Apple shit? What difference does it make, they're both shit.
The difference comes in that I can go out and build myself a better box than a Dell.
Currently, I can't go out and buy off the shelf parts, which would be many times better in quality than Apple's selected parts, and make my own box and load Mac OSX on it.
If I don't like a PC from xyz company, I can make my own.
If I don't like a PC from Apple, I basically can't do anything about it.
Which way gives you a true choice? Certainly not Apple.
Yeah right... Oh, btw - I do like to get the last word in...
Build your config, save it, then burn it to a livecd - boots into vmware player, loads image and boom - online - totally stateless, to un-futz, just reboot.
Yup - that's right - I'm trolling...
That's what happens when you wake up pissed off at the world. You find the first little piss ant to take you on and start flaming away...
Oh what fun it is to troll, in a flame resistant suit.
LOL - jealous? Muah-haha-haha-haha...
Karma to burn you insignificant little twirp...
let's see - Karma - Excellent - nope - I guess they do respect me around here.
The only problem that I see is that you don't seem to like me BASHING the 2nd worst (technology company) that I hate.
#1 Microsoft - For making shit, shit, shit and calling it "The greatest thing we've ever done."
#2 Apple Corp - For making crap, crap, crap and calling it "The greatest thing we've ever done."
#3 Macrovision - for starting the whole DRM mess in the first place and calling it "The best thing for the consumer ever."
"Winning awards for design" - design for what? Their interface was stolen from Creative. There are only so many ways you can wrap shitty plastic around something and have it function. Do you really think an Apple employee designed any of their products? I'd be willing to bet that a good majority of the design work has been farmed out to other *more talented* people, only to be reviewed and the ones that catch the eye of upper management are chosen.
This really makes me wonder about who was in charge when the iMac came out.... panzies...
Hrmmm.... Steadily employed for the past 21 years, still riding the wave at the leading edge of technology here. What's your status you fucking punk?
Woohoo - watch the fan boys (or girls) jump out of the woodwork.
Hrm - spelling? Reigns vs Reins? Maybe their was a subtle undercurrent - as in, if you buy into Apple, you're proclaiming them to be your leige lord. Or maybe I didn't care enough to look up the proper spelling of the word.
Troll? No.
Bitter? Yes.
Will any amount of replies from plastic coated fan *people* change my mind? No.
I definitely don't care for Microsoft's products either. I'm not a fan of Linux any more as well. Recently, it's become too unstable to rely upon.
So for me, for the time, it's Solaris x86 for productivity, and an old copy of Windows 2k for gaming.
For my phone, I get a phone. I don't nuy models with text pads. I don't buy models with cameras. I don't buy models with music capability. I buy a phone to make and receive phone calls. I don't carry a PDA anymore, as I threw it in the dumpster. If my schedule has so many meetings in it that I need a PDA to remind me, then there's too many meetings, and not enough time to get anything done.
Oh - and as for the moderation of troll and other negative stuff..... Do your worst - I couldn't care less. You have to respect someone for their opinion to count.
Obviously, your opinion doesn't count if you own anything made by Apple. Muah-hah-hah-hahhhhhhh.....
Do you willingly bend yourself over the barrel? Or do they actually have to tie you down with the reigns? Or perhaps both, as you like being tied up with the reigns...
I will NEVER buy an Apple product. Period. Why? Because they don't allow competition. Period.
Every time Apple has ever allowed a competitor to make a compatible product, their sales figures slump, as the clones outsell the *real* thing.
Why is this? Apple doesn't know how to price their products.
They've all been overpriced, underpowered, poorly designed crap.
Macintosh? Black and white crap.
iMac? Candy crap.
Macbook? Porta crap.
iPod? Crap on a string, that doesn't allow you to control your media, your way.
iPhone? TM Stealing crap that you hold to your face - why you'd want to hold that much crap up to your face, I'll never know.
Do I personally despise Apple? yes.
Case in point being a publicly owned and traded company in the insurance industry.
Not only do you have to lock down the systems used by the employees, you have to restrict which applications can be run.
Specifically things like any outside mail service, web browsing (except to company provided intranet and internet sites) must be curtailed. Why, you ask? Because customer personally identifiable information often resides within applications being run simultaneously with their web browser. A well conceived hack could potentially read memory locations to extract information from the currently running programs. They could even get a dump of everything in memory, store it locally and peruse it in their free time.
Running applications like external web based Instant Messengers and web mail clients open the corporation up to liability risks that could bankrupt them.
So, whoever this, imo, galactically stupid CIO is who made this statement, I hope to God he doesn't work for my company.
The police are there to "Protect AND Serve" the citizens. ie - they are OUR employees. We HAVE the right to fire them. We HAVE the right to have them arrested (citizen's arrest). We HAVE the right to enforce the laws on THEM that they swore to UPHOLD upon entering into the Police force.
Police officers HAVE to follow the laws to the letter. They have to be upheld to a much higher standard than the average citizen. Unless they are actively in pursuit of a suspect, or on the way to a crime scene, they HAVE to obey EVERY traffic law. If the police officers don't have to follow the laws, then no-one does.
This goes for any political office, up to and including the President of the U.S.A. This seems to be something that GW2 has forgotten.
I had my own issues with a deputy sherrif, who was video-taped (unknowingly of course) altering the measurements at an accident scene. During the court case, when questioned about his altering the data (by lifting the wheel, taking 2 steps, then setting it back down, to alter the distances measured), he stated under oath that he didn't do it. After the judge saw the video tape, he not only lost his job, he was arrested for falsifying official documents and lying under oath. I don't believe he'll ever work in law enforcement again. He didn't deserve to be there in the first place, as he didn't even bother to administer a breath-alizer test to the other driver, even after it was LOUDLY commented upon that the other driver smelled like a brewery.
I've met my fair share of good cops, but that was one dirty deputy sherrif.
I'm sorry, did you say something?
I had you muted..... [8^B)
First, I am not claiming that there are not good doctors still out there. You may be one of them.
I am claiming that there are too many doctors that are too focused on their specialty that they ignore anything else.
I walked into a big city doctor's office with multiple fractures in my hand. After the doctor has multiple x-rays taken, reviewed by him, and several others, he proclaims that I have a bad sprain.
I then go to another doctor (small town, generalist family doctor), he takes one x-ray, with my hand moved to a slightly different position, and finds the fractures, I'd say there's something definitely wrong with today's ideas of specialists.
There's not enough generalists to go around.
Yet we call people in the medical industry who don't know what they are doing "Doctors"?
Although they still associate the term "Medical Practitioner" with Doctor, as they can have a "Practice". When do they stop practicing and actually start "doing"?
I'm only joking in part, as todays line of "I'm a specialist in x field, I don't know anything (or much) about y field" is leading us to doctors who can't treat common ailments because they are too busy trying to find some obscure disease to relate to a common symptom.
If they don't want to be scanned by google, create the file.
If they do want to be scanned (and therefore indexed as well as cached) then don't.
Although, I for one, would prefer that we would have to *create* the file, and add entries that could say:
Scan=Yes
Index=Yes
Cache=No
If no robots.txt file is found, then do nothing for the site.
The RIAA should be forced to retain permanent logs of every song, cd, cassette, music dvd purchase so that when the defective by design media is damaged and or destroyed, they can provide a FREE replacement of the music we purchased.
Also,if the RIAA wants ISPs to retain log files, they should have to PAY for the disk and tape storage to cover this retention. Depending on the size of the ISP, this could be terabytes of data to keep.
If the RIAA is pushing forward with criminal cases, shouldn't they be brought forward by the local district attorneys?
If the RIAA is pushing forward with civil suits, what gives them the legal right to subpoena information from other entities?
There's already been cases that have thrown out ISP responsibility for copyright infringement cases, so they don't have that *handle* to hold onto with ISPs anymore.
I'd say, make the RIAA file charges with a REAL law enforcement agency and wait for trial.
If they choose to make civil cases, make them come up with the identities on their own - they should not have the right to force ISPs to hand over any information whatsoever.
Why do they think they have a right in (and seem to have gotten away with) asking for this information so far?