Buy them, rip them on some obscure device that can (like a Macintosh) and return them since they don't work in your DVD player:)
Excellent!
And then write a letter to the consumer section of your local paper and post some flyers near the record store warning them about the ripoffs. Post them near high schools and universities too.
Caveat emptor!
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Re:There's a dead giveaway in the article itself..
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Any chance we can convince them to put the EMP building in Seattle on their short list instead of the Space Needle? I wouldn't mind losing that building, and they'd be attacking Paul Allen, so they might find it more satisfying.
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Remember how to spot terrorist coders
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Ask them questions they won't know the answers to.
Like talk about the Grey Screen of Death and see if they notice. Or see if they can tell you what TCP/IP stands for - hint - it's not Taliban Control Program/Intifada Protocol like they think.
And if they don't get all hot and bothered by the BSD booth babes, you know they must be terrorists.
That Bill G looks an awful lot like Osama bin Laden when he shaves of his beard and puts on glasses?
They even have that same rocking motion...
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We must root out the terrorists and cut off funds
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al Qaeda Hacks XP?
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Every true American knows what he must do. We must all dump WinXP and go open source. Only then, when we know that every dollar goes to a good American distro like Red Hat, instead of supporting terrorist code hidden in obscurity within XP, will we be safe.
It's time to bring in Bill G for questioning by the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities that Ashcroft has set up. We must root out al-Qaeda wherever they are. Some of us may have heard that they have successfully infiltrated their fundamentalist brethren who are in the White House. These people must be jailed immeadiately - their bibles could contain key decoding phrases for passing secret terrorist plans around, using biblical phrases. For example, John 12:16 means attack the Sears Tower.
1. Buy the CD with a credit card.
2. Walk out of store
3. Return within 24 hours and demand a reversal of charges - this shows up as a black mark on credit, costs credit card companies, means more paper trail, and makes more of hassle.
4. Report it to your State Attorney General as fraudulent advertising (CD that plays) and damaged/defective goods. They investigate store and CD manufacturer.
5. Write a letter to the editor in your local paper about how that music label sells defective CDs that you can't play on your CD player.
I have a whole pile of CD's in the office, which I listen to on CD-ROM. Perfectly legal. If I can't expect to do this when I buy a new CD, then I'm simply going to stop buying new CDs.
So do I. I'm sitting here at my desk and I've got 20 CDs (that I bought) that I play at work.
And at home I've got an iMac for my son and a DVD/CD/CD-R/CD-RW player.
So basically, I have no choice now but to buy OTHER MUSIC than that label - SINCE I CAN'T PLAY IT ON ANYTHING.
Economics - the art of waving the dollars you were going to spend in a store in the merchant's face as you tell him why you're taking them to his competitor across the street.
Must agree, Speakeasy is a great DSL provider, just as Drizzle is another one I recommend to cool people in Seattle who got burned by @Home.
And we should note that we'll all miss the Speakeasy cafe that burned down in that fire - luckily most of their servers were in another location so their network never dropped.
As we suffer through the dot com crashes, it's nice to see some of the good guys surviving.
The reason I mention it is the Seattle Times is a fascistic dishrag that backs Bill G without question, and both it and the Post-Intelligencer are morning papers now. Plus the P-I is even older - I work in their old building, which is now a Group Health admin center for us techies.
As to the story, one of the things about Covad and bankruptcy is that this shows us why Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 are very different. The former means you're going to come back like a phoenix, the latter usually means it's time to drive a stake thru your heart.
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Vorkosigan or Retief - which came first
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Ah, the writings of an author who writes upon the works of other prior authors... for there are indeed many SF and Fantasy precedents for such (anti?) heroes as Bujold's Vorkosigan. In fact, Retief is the first that comes to mind, and Zelazny and Poul Anderson (rip) come strikingly to mind.
Back in the first days of large-scale network computer gaming, I used the Corps Diplomatic Terran (CDT) of Retief as the genesis for many of my subculture archons in a number of empires - including those played within Cluster I, Cluster II, and some of my own play-by-mail role-playing games.
Now that's not to say I haven't enjoyed Bujold's works - they've always been a good read.
Either use Microsoft for EVERYTHING, or for NOTHING.
There just isn't much of a middleground anymore. Either take the plunge, wipe Linux off your drives, and surrender all your data (personal and PC) to Microsoft, or don't use them for ANYTHING at all.
Sadly, this is true.
I just bought some plane tix on the web yesterday, so I figured I'd use Expedia, since Orbitz was saying "sure here are ten flights" and each time I'd try to BUY the seats, it would say "this flight is no longer available". On each flight, on each segment, at different times, and I KNEW the plane wasn't full for any of those.
So I gave up on Orbitz and bought them (for more money) on Expedia.
And when I go to Expedia it asked me to Log In To Microsoft Passport. I clicked on the NEVER EVER SIGN ME UP TO PASSPORT option, of course, and after a whole bunch of silly things - like them having problems with my home email address, which has a hyphen (as in my name has a hyphen), so I had to use my work email - anyway I finally got the tix.
And I had to KEEP UNCHECKING all the "let us send you even more SPAM" buttons they tried to reactivate each time.
And then, shortly after I started getting spam from them. It's all "in-between" stuff - oh, since you didn't want us to send you ads, we'll send you product ideas. And I have to keep using the "Take Me Off Your List" URLs and unchecking all the boxes they keep checking (after I unchecked them the first time).
So, sadly, I guess you're right. And I'm glad I preordered Mandrake 8.1 with The Sims, so I can get out of the Microsoft universe.
Right now we have a price war going on between Intel and AMD (which, as you can see from recent sales volumes, AMD is winning on volume). This has cut the prices and pretty much kept Transmeta out of the NAm/EU markets.
As a result, Transmeta laptops are selling pretty much in Asia. But, along with the worldwide fallout in PC and laptop sales, there's some really bad economic goings on in Asia, and especially Japan.
So, the short version is - if you want a Japanese manufactured Transmeta laptop, you can get it. But if you want one of the big box manufacturers here or in Europe, you won't see it for a couple more years at best.
Some of this has to do with how people do things and how they live. In some societies, there's not a lot of spare space, and you have to fit in cramped on the trains. So a non-baking laptop is a good idea, especially with good battery life. When you live with a family of four in a space the size of my living room, you need small things that are portable.
But here in North America and the EU, we have no such problems, so they just don't sell well, since we don't mind buying big boxes and have many rooms.
Bush, Cheney, and all their wives and friends are laughing at how they fleeced the little guys and noone will serve a jail term for that, or lose the assets they pirated from the workers there, or the investors who bought it with "pro forma" accounting that hid the deals from the public eye.
So: lesson today is... only the Friends Of Bush And Bill G win. Everyone else loses, and we all pay the software tax for Microsoft software which we are required to buy and sign away our digital rights for under UCITA.
First they came for the pirate software firms
And I said nothing, because I didn't pirate software.
Then they came for the P2P MP3 users.
And I said nothing, as I had original CDs that I ripped my MP3s from.
Then they came for users without licensed software.
And they arrested me, because my open source software didn't have valid MSFT bar codes, so it must be illegal.
Now I'm in the Taliban jail cell, while Ashcroft and BillG gloat over my cowardice in fighting the software nazis early on.
What operating systems and platforms do you personally use and which ones do you also use (and why)?
MT: I use Linux for work and sometimes I use Windows to play games.
Man, sounds kind of like why I still have the Win box at home - to play games. I'm wondering if/when he'll finally decide to switch - I'm expecting to dump my last Win box when I get the Mandrake 8.1 with The Sims bundle (WINE plus DirectX support).
I know that people believe we should all play Linux games, but the reality is that most of us still have Windows cause of the games. We don't really care why we can finally get rid of it, but we need something workable.
While I thought it was a good article - and I can't tell you how much I like the thin format they have now - remember lugging those 2 inch thick ones back in the.com heydays - one must ask oneself how viable any private non-Open Source P2P system will be.
After people have enough judges messing in the sphere, the user base decides to just go it alone with P2P open source systems that have no centralized server - mostly as they don't like having the plug pulled on them.
Good point. When I asked the strangely misshapen fishermen who were crewing my research vessel about that, they stared at me with their moon-shaped bulbous eyes and said nothing.
They seem to be great friends with that Ashcroft fellow - keep meeting him at docks and piers though - and sometimes I think I've spotted Cheney in the limo, and he appears to have gills almost.
Nah, must be my imagination. But my dreams have become very interesting lately...
First, I'm sure many of us saw the Disney special on the making of the Atlantis movie, and how they speculated that it would be found in this location.
But, the question we should ask is - did this lead them to look for it there?
And we should also realize it is highly likely that, just as we found the origin of the Flood in the submerging of the Black Sea and recent recovery of sunken cities there, that it is also possible that this is really a Second Atlantis - and that the Atlantis of Homer was in fact a mediterranean island and it's just a cool coincidence that there turns out to have been a true Atlantis sunk in a meteor hit.
The plus side is maybe the US will finally get rid of the embargo on Cuba, since most of us weren't alive back when that happened.
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I don't know about you, but I turn off images a lot, and Javascript all the time (except a couple of sites I trust).
If you can't run Java, you don't get my business.
And so I'll never be counted as a Linux user, even though I have at home:
1 Win98 box (soon to be Mandrake Linux 8.1 with The Sims, cause that's why it's Windows - to play games)
1 iMac with 92MB RAM for my son (not on the Net)
3 Linux servers - dual CPU boxes with 256MB RAM and nice big monitors - also serve as browsers
so they'll never record me.
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2500 spam per week
mind you, I filter it off my lists so it doesn't get in, and all the email redirects on the websites, so that might be why.
and I don't even read all the Korean and Chinese spam I get - I just delete it.
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Buy them, rip them on some obscure device that can (like a Macintosh) and return them since they don't work in your DVD player :)
Excellent!
And then write a letter to the consumer section of your local paper and post some flyers near the record store warning them about the ripoffs. Post them near high schools and universities too.
Caveat emptor!
-
Any chance we can convince them to put the EMP building in Seattle on their short list instead of the Space Needle? I wouldn't mind losing that building, and they'd be attacking Paul Allen, so they might find it more satisfying.
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Ask them questions they won't know the answers to.
Like talk about the Grey Screen of Death and see if they notice. Or see if they can tell you what TCP/IP stands for - hint - it's not Taliban Control Program/Intifada Protocol like they think.
And if they don't get all hot and bothered by the BSD booth babes, you know they must be terrorists.
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That Bill G looks an awful lot like Osama bin Laden when he shaves of his beard and puts on glasses?
...
They even have that same rocking motion
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Every true American knows what he must do. We must all dump WinXP and go open source. Only then, when we know that every dollar goes to a good American distro like Red Hat, instead of supporting terrorist code hidden in obscurity within XP, will we be safe.
It's time to bring in Bill G for questioning by the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities that Ashcroft has set up. We must root out al-Qaeda wherever they are. Some of us may have heard that they have successfully infiltrated their fundamentalist brethren who are in the White House. These people must be jailed immeadiately - their bibles could contain key decoding phrases for passing secret terrorist plans around, using biblical phrases. For example, John 12:16 means attack the Sears Tower.
No expense must be spared.
This is War!
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1. Buy the CD with a credit card.
2. Walk out of store
3. Return within 24 hours and demand a reversal of charges - this shows up as a black mark on credit, costs credit card companies, means more paper trail, and makes more of hassle.
4. Report it to your State Attorney General as fraudulent advertising (CD that plays) and damaged/defective goods. They investigate store and CD manufacturer.
5. Write a letter to the editor in your local paper about how that music label sells defective CDs that you can't play on your CD player.
I have a whole pile of CD's in the office, which I listen to on CD-ROM. Perfectly legal. If I can't expect to do this when I buy a new CD, then I'm simply going to stop buying new CDs.
So do I. I'm sitting here at my desk and I've got 20 CDs (that I bought) that I play at work.
And at home I've got an iMac for my son and a DVD/CD/CD-R/CD-RW player.
So basically, I have no choice now but to buy OTHER MUSIC than that label - SINCE I CAN'T PLAY IT ON ANYTHING.
Economics - the art of waving the dollars you were going to spend in a store in the merchant's face as you tell him why you're taking them to his competitor across the street.
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Well, just tried the patch and now the hidden keyboard logger activates just fine with a remote key.
Glad to see they got it working, wonder if it was the DOJ techs or the MSFT techs who fixed that baby?
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Must agree, Speakeasy is a great DSL provider, just as Drizzle is another one I recommend to cool people in Seattle who got burned by @Home.
And we should note that we'll all miss the Speakeasy cafe that burned down in that fire - luckily most of their servers were in another location so their network never dropped.
As we suffer through the dot com crashes, it's nice to see some of the good guys surviving.
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geesh, Hemos, it's even spelled out in the URL.
The reason I mention it is the Seattle Times is a fascistic dishrag that backs Bill G without question, and both it and the Post-Intelligencer are morning papers now. Plus the P-I is even older - I work in their old building, which is now a Group Health admin center for us techies.
As to the story, one of the things about Covad and bankruptcy is that this shows us why Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 are very different. The former means you're going to come back like a phoenix, the latter usually means it's time to drive a stake thru your heart.
-
Ah, the writings of an author who writes upon the works of other prior authors ... for there are indeed many SF and Fantasy precedents for such (anti?) heroes as Bujold's Vorkosigan. In fact, Retief is the first that comes to mind, and Zelazny and Poul Anderson (rip) come strikingly to mind.
Back in the first days of large-scale network computer gaming, I used the Corps Diplomatic Terran (CDT) of Retief as the genesis for many of my subculture archons in a number of empires - including those played within Cluster I, Cluster II, and some of my own play-by-mail role-playing games.
Now that's not to say I haven't enjoyed Bujold's works - they've always been a good read.
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Nooooo!!! Not E-MAIL ADDRESSES!!!!
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Dude, get a clue already. How many games have you bought because someone sent you an email?
Um, I've bought five. The Sims House Party, Mandrake 8.1 bundle with The Sims For Linux, some Linux games
What, do you hang out at game stores or something? That is so last century
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Exactly. This is why you have to make a decision:
Either use Microsoft for EVERYTHING, or for NOTHING.
There just isn't much of a middleground anymore. Either take the plunge, wipe Linux off your drives, and surrender all your data (personal and PC) to Microsoft, or don't use them for ANYTHING at all.
Sadly, this is true.
I just bought some plane tix on the web yesterday, so I figured I'd use Expedia, since Orbitz was saying "sure here are ten flights" and each time I'd try to BUY the seats, it would say "this flight is no longer available". On each flight, on each segment, at different times, and I KNEW the plane wasn't full for any of those.
So I gave up on Orbitz and bought them (for more money) on Expedia.
And when I go to Expedia it asked me to Log In To Microsoft Passport. I clicked on the NEVER EVER SIGN ME UP TO PASSPORT option, of course, and after a whole bunch of silly things - like them having problems with my home email address, which has a hyphen (as in my name has a hyphen), so I had to use my work email - anyway I finally got the tix.
And I had to KEEP UNCHECKING all the "let us send you even more SPAM" buttons they tried to reactivate each time.
And then, shortly after I started getting spam from them. It's all "in-between" stuff - oh, since you didn't want us to send you ads, we'll send you product ideas. And I have to keep using the "Take Me Off Your List" URLs and unchecking all the boxes they keep checking (after I unchecked them the first time).
So, sadly, I guess you're right. And I'm glad I preordered Mandrake 8.1 with The Sims, so I can get out of the Microsoft universe.
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Right now we have a price war going on between Intel and AMD (which, as you can see from recent sales volumes, AMD is winning on volume). This has cut the prices and pretty much kept Transmeta out of the NAm/EU markets.
As a result, Transmeta laptops are selling pretty much in Asia. But, along with the worldwide fallout in PC and laptop sales, there's some really bad economic goings on in Asia, and especially Japan.
So, the short version is - if you want a Japanese manufactured Transmeta laptop, you can get it. But if you want one of the big box manufacturers here or in Europe, you won't see it for a couple more years at best.
Some of this has to do with how people do things and how they live. In some societies, there's not a lot of spare space, and you have to fit in cramped on the trains. So a non-baking laptop is a good idea, especially with good battery life. When you live with a family of four in a space the size of my living room, you need small things that are portable.
But here in North America and the EU, we have no such problems, so they just don't sell well, since we don't mind buying big boxes and have many rooms.
-
Bush, Cheney, and all their wives and friends are laughing at how they fleeced the little guys and noone will serve a jail term for that, or lose the assets they pirated from the workers there, or the investors who bought it with "pro forma" accounting that hid the deals from the public eye.
... only the Friends Of Bush And Bill G win. Everyone else loses, and we all pay the software tax for Microsoft software which we are required to buy and sign away our digital rights for under UCITA.
So: lesson today is
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First they came for the pirate software firms
And I said nothing, because I didn't pirate software.
Then they came for the P2P MP3 users.
And I said nothing, as I had original CDs that I ripped my MP3s from.
Then they came for users without licensed software.
And they arrested me, because my open source software didn't have valid MSFT bar codes, so it must be illegal.
Now I'm in the Taliban jail cell, while Ashcroft and BillG gloat over my cowardice in fighting the software nazis early on.
And I'll die here.
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decompile her code.
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Another one for the bit bucket
while my compiler gently weeps
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Well, if we were to use pen, paper, and envelope, they probably wouldn't open it nowadays.
There's this thing called a war going on. One in which Anthrax is a fear, especially amongst the federal courts.
Now, a postcard might work - but again - do you have a name, address, zip and case number so people could send comments?
The reason I mentioned email or web is that those still work in the federal system nowadays.
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Just wondering, does anyone know where /. denizens can go (web or email) to give input into why these "settlement" terms are so badly flawed?
It's one thing to complain about it and another thing to do something about it.
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What operating systems and platforms do you personally use and which ones do you also use (and why)?
MT: I use Linux for work and sometimes I use Windows to play games.
Man, sounds kind of like why I still have the Win box at home - to play games. I'm wondering if/when he'll finally decide to switch - I'm expecting to dump my last Win box when I get the Mandrake 8.1 with The Sims bundle (WINE plus DirectX support).
I know that people believe we should all play Linux games, but the reality is that most of us still have Windows cause of the games. We don't really care why we can finally get rid of it, but we need something workable.
-
While I thought it was a good article - and I can't tell you how much I like the thin format they have now - remember lugging those 2 inch thick ones back in the .com heydays - one must ask oneself how viable any private non-Open Source P2P system will be.
After people have enough judges messing in the sphere, the user base decides to just go it alone with P2P open source systems that have no centralized server - mostly as they don't like having the plug pulled on them.
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Good point. When I asked the strangely misshapen fishermen who were crewing my research vessel about that, they stared at me with their moon-shaped bulbous eyes and said nothing.
...
They seem to be great friends with that Ashcroft fellow - keep meeting him at docks and piers though - and sometimes I think I've spotted Cheney in the limo, and he appears to have gills almost.
Nah, must be my imagination. But my dreams have become very interesting lately
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First, I'm sure many of us saw the Disney special on the making of the Atlantis movie, and how they speculated that it would be found in this location.
But, the question we should ask is - did this lead them to look for it there?
And we should also realize it is highly likely that, just as we found the origin of the Flood in the submerging of the Black Sea and recent recovery of sunken cities there, that it is also possible that this is really a Second Atlantis - and that the Atlantis of Homer was in fact a mediterranean island and it's just a cool coincidence that there turns out to have been a true Atlantis sunk in a meteor hit.
The plus side is maybe the US will finally get rid of the embargo on Cuba, since most of us weren't alive back when that happened.
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