Yes and big business did it in Bush #1 and Reagan before him and Carter before him. Yet none of those presidents were CEO's of companies before they were president and took sweetheart loans and stabbed shareholders in the back. Big business has been doing this for years, you're right, but our presidents have not.
It's strange because you are both right. The people do have a final say but that say is limited to 2 or 4 year intervals. We effectively loose our say for any 2 year period between elections. We only can hope our representatives work in our best interest between those elections. They usually do not, however, and that is where the corporations come in. During those two year intervals the corporations are stuffing massive amounts of money into the law makers pockets to get passed what THEY want. Case in point, the accounting scandfals of late. The bills introduced to stop these practices were trimmed down to protect corporations or in some cases axed totally. The people WANTED reform, the corporations did not. The corporations basically won and the only thing we can do about it is take it out on our local congressional candiates. That doesn't solve much as the accounting problems will persist.
"I can't understand why people are mad about this. This is the right thing to do. Instead of going after the technology itself they are going after the users who are actually commiting crimes.
Anything wrong with that?"
Let me get this straight. We should arrest users of a technology/tool because the use of this technology/tool has no historical record of being either legal or illegal?
Fair enough...
Well in that case we should arrest Bush, Cheney and Ken Lay INSTEAD OF Arthur Andersen. Because in the end those 3 were only users of a technology/tool (accounting irregularities with "fuzzy math" by way of Arthur Andersen) which hasn't been proven illegal but sure as hell doesn't look legal either.
So until we arrest Bush and his "friends" for robbing people of millions and even billions of dollars, which were their retirements and childrens college funds, then I can't say I approve of the government arresting some 13 year-old for downloading a $2.00 Britney Spears song. The hypocracy of this administration knows no bounds.
They could announce their website is giving away money, it will rain gold and world peace begins tomorrow but after I ate a couple hundered bucks because their management couldn't keep thier stock price above 2 cents after I bought it in the mid 40s (dollars that is), then I couldn't care what they do. Frankly the name should not be i Village but Villagei for Village Idiots.
Omar Santana is not hard, that is CHEESE!! Listen to REAL hardcore and check out Traffik, Simon Underground, Berzerker, Hellfish & Producer, Matt Green, Nasenbluten (Mark N/Overcast, Xylocaine, Dissassembler), DJ Freak, and I could go on and on...or check the label Bloody Fist, Corrupt, Hardline, Deathchant, Beat To Death, Crapshoot, Disturbance, Widerstand, Speedcore, again etc...I could go on more...but NOT Omar Santana.
Jesus Christ, thank god. I was beginning to think I was in an alternate universe where none of the/.'ers had ever seen Star Trek 4. You know, like the alternate universe where the Federation was evil and Spock had a goatee.
This will never happen, ever. If it does it will ruin the economy because no one will buy anything except this printer. After everyone bought this printer what would be the use of working for 5 days a week, 8 hours a day...All you would need to buy is food really, maybe gas...the rest you could make, clothes, cd's, etc etc. Granted, I am not saying this is a bad thing, far from...I am just saying I can not see the government allowing it is all. Hahaha maybe Star Trek isn't so far away really...=)
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Yes and big business did it in Bush #1 and Reagan before him and Carter before him. Yet none of those presidents were CEO's of companies before they were president and took sweetheart loans and stabbed shareholders in the back. Big business has been doing this for years, you're right, but our presidents have not.
It's strange because you are both right. The people do have a final say but that say is limited to 2 or 4 year intervals. We effectively loose our say for any 2 year period between elections. We only can hope our representatives work in our best interest between those elections. They usually do not, however, and that is where the corporations come in. During those two year intervals the corporations are stuffing massive amounts of money into the law makers pockets to get passed what THEY want. Case in point, the accounting scandfals of late. The bills introduced to stop these practices were trimmed down to protect corporations or in some cases axed totally. The people WANTED reform, the corporations did not. The corporations basically won and the only thing we can do about it is take it out on our local congressional candiates. That doesn't solve much as the accounting problems will persist.
"I can't understand why people are mad about this. This is the right thing to do. Instead of going after the technology itself they are going after the users who are actually commiting crimes.
Anything wrong with that?"
Let me get this straight. We should arrest users of a technology/tool because the use of this technology/tool has no historical record of being either legal or illegal?
Fair enough...
Well in that case we should arrest Bush, Cheney and Ken Lay INSTEAD OF Arthur Andersen. Because in the end those 3 were only users of a technology/tool (accounting irregularities with "fuzzy math" by way of Arthur Andersen) which hasn't been proven illegal but sure as hell doesn't look legal either.
So until we arrest Bush and his "friends" for robbing people of millions and even billions of dollars, which were their retirements and childrens college funds, then I can't say I approve of the government arresting some 13 year-old for downloading a $2.00 Britney Spears song. The hypocracy of this administration knows no bounds.
Don't even get me started on the RIAA.
Yeah like NO ONE else did right? Kiss my ass troll.
They could announce their website is giving away money, it will rain gold and world peace begins tomorrow but after I ate a couple hundered bucks because their management couldn't keep thier stock price above 2 cents after I bought it in the mid 40s (dollars that is), then I couldn't care what they do. Frankly the name should not be i Village but Villagei for Village Idiots.
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/doc/palermo.html
That should help a tiny bit
Keep us informed on this, it sounds interesting. I have no recipe but I'd like to give it a read when it's done.
Omar Santana is not hard, that is CHEESE!! Listen to REAL hardcore and check out Traffik, Simon Underground, Berzerker, Hellfish & Producer, Matt Green, Nasenbluten (Mark N/Overcast, Xylocaine, Dissassembler), DJ Freak, and I could go on and on...or check the label Bloody Fist, Corrupt, Hardline, Deathchant, Beat To Death, Crapshoot, Disturbance, Widerstand, Speedcore, again etc...I could go on more...but NOT Omar Santana.
Jesus Christ, thank god. I was beginning to think I was in an alternate universe where none of the /.'ers had ever seen Star Trek 4. You know, like the alternate universe where the Federation was evil and Spock had a goatee.
This will never happen, ever. If it does it will ruin the economy because no one will buy anything except this printer. After everyone bought this printer what would be the use of working for 5 days a week, 8 hours a day...All you would need to buy is food really, maybe gas...the rest you could make, clothes, cd's, etc etc. Granted, I am not saying this is a bad thing, far from...I am just saying I can not see the government allowing it is all. Hahaha maybe Star Trek isn't so far away really...=)