where he talks about pornography and saner countries like Holland who allow you access to it.
These saneer countries also are more compliant to currenty copyright holders than the US is, to include charging a fee for every CD-R you buy, and making it illegal to even copy certain stuff at all.
That is the biggest reason DSL is losing. The phone companies in their glee to prevent people from sharing their networks with competitors are causing people to give up because of the time it takes for them to approve a line.
4 weeks of my wait for my DSL was because of the.COM side of Bellsouth who would not get off their arses to provision my line. My neighbor, who went with BellSouth.net? Same problem, guess one BS division can't talk to another. I won't even get into the service problems they cause but blame on my ISP (turned out there was a short at the box - but that was only after 3 modems on my side and 5 on-site service calls by my ISP - until we proved it wasn't the hardware at my house)
I absolutely refuse to deal with Media One (now AT&T - unless AT&T promises to fire EVERY SINGLE person they got with MO).
I'll keep my DSL thank you, just someone needs to bitch slap the phone companies into actually trying to be customer friendly. They are so used to "we are the only solution for your dial tone" that they treat the new era the same way...
Lets see, the first movie was panned by the elistist know-it-alls of movie reviews. The first movie was marketed as a scary-but-funny-but-campy mummy movie. It was purposely over the top like the original Indiana Jones films.
The second film follows suit, gives women prominent roles that are not just as scared little girls. It promises to have a little more horror but all the laughs the first had. It promises action scenes that are unbelievable but exciting to watch. It promises special effects that are cutting edge and a sight to behold.
Guess what Jon, this wasn't meant to be a documentary or a pure horror film. The lead actor himself doesn't take his role as a Shakespearian presentation, he knows exactly what its all about.
I suggest that until you understand what its all about and go back to commenting on things you have a knowledgeable opinion on.
Unfortunately I find that most of your reviews and even articles lack substance, and seem to be nothing more than elistist whines about why the world fails to see your utopian viewpoints.
* ooh - time to lose some karma, just wish I could use my moderator points versus the actual article!!!!
Basically they believe in free speech but cave in when threatened. Thats like saying a drowning man is wet, we all know it, but it doesn't mean anything in the end.
I am pretty sure you can reduce your DVD storage requirements significantly.
I would also think it best to wait till we have non-volatile no-moving parts storage. The current harddisk is really only safe for transient data.
I would not want to have to reload all the stuff I load into this because some brat knocked it over and crashed the heads on the drive.
Mag Ram if it can be made super cheap, which may come if we buy enough, or maybe finally some form of holographic or biological storage would make this dream machine better.
What better thing that to remove all self responsibility and parental-responsibility than to blame someone else.
Are you going to try to convince me that because guns exist that they gun manufacturers are to blame for their mis-use? It falls right in line with the logic you attempted.
You have a slightly PC'd version of what goes on in Muslim countries. In "GOOD" Muslim countries that may be the case, but we have seen some extremes.
Sorry, I don't buy the conditioning theorey. If anything Television causes more harm than video games, and its been around longer constantly portraying guns, drugs, and ever other "soon to be sued industry" in some form.
This is about money, these game manufacturers have some, their a bunch of hippies, the drive fast cards, and they have homes for selling pixalated explosions and purple alien blood.
Can't have that, their irresponsible!;)
Clarification, your taxed at gunpoint.
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People aren't paying taxes to have their kids educated. They are being held at gunpoint and having the money taken from them. If they have kids then they are allowed (some areas its required - they actually dug up dirt on one avowed home schooler and threw her in jail for keeping her kid out of public schools) to go to the public school provided you have no choice in what they learn and what happens to them.
They should provide vouchers to all students... and vouchers that if the PS does not improve shuts them down
there is no free speech in schools...
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and it only gets worse by the time you reach college.
Jon, you and your ilk brought it on. Constantly telling people they don't have to take responsibility for their actions, glorifying in the media these wackos that act out their frustrations, and then finally removing any respect people have for the institutions for ridiculing them for the actions they are forced to take.
In this case, the kid's dad should have taken up the subject of his kid being bullied with the school administrators beforehand. But alas, its not his fault in your world is it? He doesn't have to be a real father does he? He doesn't have to explain to his kid how to deal with life's mysteries and what to do when they get out of hand? He probably should not warn his kid about drugs either right?
If it had been used on someone whom this person did not have a business contact established with I could stand with the crowd and say "yeah". As it is it appears that the California legislature and courts have invented a new money maker for the trial lawyers...
this is not an example of what I would call a moral victory... this is more like a "I want my name in lights" type stuff.
but hundreds of millions of dollars sent to save Afghan refugees would only end up in the hands of the Taliban, and whats left would have to pass officials meaning it would not go to those who need it most.
The money is not being wasted in space, many technological advances you take for granted in your daily life came from space programs. Some of the descendant technologies save more lives than if the cost of this arm was used for "general purpose aid"
People have to stop looking with simplistic attitudes on expenses related to science and space. While space telescopes and planetary probes don't look as it they provide us with truly needed information realize that they give us a better understanding of our universe, and from there we may begin to understand prinicples on physics and science we could not fully fathom here.
Don't decry the money spent on this arm, decry the millions your government and mine waste on pork-barrel politics, propping up businesses with tax breaks, and generally flush down the drain enslaving millions of their own citizens with welfare.
As for the apirations of some other countries, the US spends more money on aid outside its borders than it does in trinkets in space. I would bet Canada in a similar boat.
they are stripping the "air" commercials out of their streaming content and will sell the internet time separately.
I think that is actually the best route to follow. Screw this money grubbing union, which is pretty damn sure not to forward all those "stolen" dollars to their members, after all their are costs involved in collecting it, and heck there are so many they would probably charge their members for the "service"
I would expect many of the streamers to come back after installing the software needed to "swap" the commercials for approved ones
Another dreamer, living in a world of emotion because the world of facts isn't as fun. When push comes to shove they would rather clam up than discuss issues of fact.
The problem here isn't the United States. Its China. China doesn't care about anything but China. They have learned that because they have the bomb they can be as asine as they want because for them their people are disposable.
They want an apology so they can claim to be the stronger of the two nations. They want an apology so they can damage the office of President of the United States enough so they can get away with even more abuses.
Whats appalling is the lack of comment against China in the European press. That big bunch of pussies is doing what they always do, and that is sticking up for what is right in hopes of being ignored so they can't get in trouble. They are so afraid of jeporadizing their trade agreements with China that they lost the will to be world powers. Fact is, there are only 3 real world powers, the US, Russia, and China. The whole of European Union can never equal either three because they don't have the guts to stand up for themselves or anyone else. They live in their little dreamland, hoping the real world won't intervene. They can't even police their own backyard (balkans) without crying to the US, then attacking the US verbally when we want a say in how its settled. Apparently all the EU has accomplished is to turn the whole place into a land reminiscent of France. What Napolean could not do they did.
Back on China. I am willing to bet we know exactly what happened, down to the second out there and are just withholding it until its settled. Everyday the Bush administration is leaking more and more of its "Ace in Hole". Don't think twice that we don't know exactly what happened. Spy planes don't just fly out there, they transmit their data real-time, just because if there is an accident that data is that more valuable.
China is being a childish little shit of a country, and unfortunately everyone has to put up with their hissy fit because they have proven many times that they just don't care about anyone else except themselves, and themselves being those in power.
The Air Force has been experimenting, and probably using GPS guided munitions. Assuming a higher altitude for this type of aircraft it is very plausible it would not even have to enter enemy airspace to hit its target.
Guided bombs using GPS would have both velocity and altitude that they need to make course corrections on the way to target. It is not very dissimilar from guiding a mirv.
First off, let me state quite clearly I haven't ever read FR, having just been there for the first time today. I spent about 30 minutes looking over the site and areas it has.
Regardless of their content, no individual has the right to slander a site. Apparently that is all that is real to the whole story, the guy basically took out his little tirade versus the eveeel "conservative" site and just invented whatever hyperbole he needed at the time.
Pleading the 5th in a civil suit is beyond belief, but alas its what happens when the ultra-left get pressed to act on facts instead of emotion. (this works just as well versus some of the ultra-right - but they are not as prevalent as some might think)
So why is this story on/.? Granted the general anti-conservative (or anything Republican) bent of the/. staff pervades, perhaps its to serve as a warning to some of the screwballs here?
The first rule of "freedom of speech" is that it does not give you freedom to slander, let alone freedom to violate anothers rights. It would no different than having someone constantly spam/. with messages calling the operators trash, making bogus claims about their actions, promoting windows over everything else, and generally spaming the servers with trash just to make a point.
Freedom of speech is very important, but you cannot have it without responsibility, and that is what this gentleman forgot. Its a very important ideal, even if you don't like the message.
so the Internet has eveel-nasty stuff your country cannot stand, so take the standard "Territorial" action and attack it!
Talk about the ultimate Democratic coup, invade every country with information. The trouble for the US is that it works both ways. There are things that are not-lawfully allowed in the US that are just hunkey-dorey overseas. (notably porn)
Trouble with the who internet is, if a territorial entity attacks a non-territorial entity, how can the former be punished? Perhaps there needs to be a "make-nice" system similar that of spam-email. In other words, if the country attacks another site via the net itself or in court, then the net can band together and attempt a DOS versus that country, or just out right nuke all mail leaving it. Yes it would be pretty damn hard to pull off (and not currently feasible versus the US, but I figure we could get little countries like Iran, and maybe bigger ones like Germany if a collective group tried)
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Sorry, there is no freedom of speech or expression permitted on college campuses these days. Flat out nearly all of them are under the thumb of left-wingers.
This lil'book is a great example, a typical tactic of the left is guilt by association. They love this as they can then claim they did not "say it"... infering is their game, dodging responsibility works wonders in their book.
The 10 reasons list that went out recently is a great example of the suppresion of speech on college campuses. This is the fault of a falculty who encourages students to violently lash out against opposing views and then excuses them when they do. (if you notice however, its okay to do anything if you can find a group who was possibly oppressed)
freedom of speech sucks because anwsering the claims requires facts and not emotion
Awesome display of OS bigotry by the/. community and moderators.
The guy was right, why bother trying to create software for Linux. Just read the responses to the article, see which ones were "moderated up" and/. simply proves his point.
The/. Linux crowd is so damn fucking hostile to anything microsoft they will get downright stupid in their comments and such just to "put down" Ms or any of its people.
Corel is proof that it doesn't work to try and sell stuff to the "we must have it free, and we must have the source, or your not going with the spirit of Linux" crowd. Why should any company step into that.
There is nothing wrong with wanting it all to be free and open (both mentally and financially). However get off your frigging high horse and realize that the rest of the world, specifically corporations which exist to make money for their owners, don't have to agree with you, let alone cater to you.
What originally started out as an interesting subject became truly depressing as a I started reading what was actually modded to the top. (Yes I sort on highest first, it drops the FPs very quickly).
I expect to have to read below my threshold to see this, but after all its apparent that even moderation is done to support OS bigotry without regards to logic or reason.
You asked the questions, don't get all pissy because he anwsered them.
It is still illegal for a woman to kill her own fetus by inducing drugs or such. You can be, and it has been done, charged with murder for causing a pregnant woman to lose her child (through assualt (like shooting her) or physical injury via abuse or even an automobile wreck)
Sorry, its not a woman's right, its a state's right. The state has kept to itself the right to choose who can die and when. No individual is allowed this right.
Besides, what did democrats have to do with it in the first place. They did spend money, but your a little to damn ignorant to realize this aren't you? How, they take tax-dollars and fund abortions here and overseas (like we should really be sending out tax dollars overseas to fund abortions and other such crap, sorry - saving people overseas from disease and hunger is fine - keeping them from having children isn't)
At the end of the article Mr Hayes, from Telocity, says he doesn't hold AT&T blameless in this incident?
Huh? From the article it appears that all that AT&T did was buy them out after bankruptcy. It was Verizon who dropped a deal to purchase Northpoint earlier.
I guess AT&T just has deep pockets and Telocity is going to use the California government and cop the blame to them.
Napster could have really put the RIAA into a fix if they had taken care not to do one thing.
Their error was that they provided both the indexing software and the software to push/pull the actual music.
Now, if there were solely an indexing system, telling you were to get the music, I think it would be very hard for a court to nail them. However, Napster went one step too far..
They continue to go to far even now, claiming rights while at the same time abusing ours.
I love the idea of being able to get music off the internet, I just don't have a problem with paying a reasonable fee. However, if I pay a fee I expect a good product. This means professionally ripped and packaged music.. no downloading someone's crap 48bit mono rip.
The problem here is that there is no law allowing for you or another company to aid another in breaking the law.
It is not legal to assist others in violating the law.
If there were indexing new music that was specifically offered up for review and download then they would have the law on their side. However they are making indexes of copyrighted music and then on top of that providing the software which facilitates the transfer of that music.
Actually, I think they could have escaped most harm if their software did not actually do the upload/download.... (instead it would require the host to be running a third-party ftp server)
That would have really put the RIAA up the river without a paddle.
Naptser's business is illegal. They are guilty of the same crime here as the RIAA. Neither of which cares about the artists involved. Both are overly concerned with their pocketbooks.
they don't give a rats ass about the "Artist", and they certainly don't give a rats ass about you either, unless of course you support their view.
the key here is that it is speech. Regardless of what our opinion of their methods they are voicing their opinion. They also were not publishing anything which could not be lawfully obtained. Heck, some search engines returned personal information about me I did not know was available.
the same speech which protects these people also protects those out there who would stand up to corporate abuses. This can be used as case-law to allow for "environmental whacko sites" that list the home address of corporate CEOs of companies that are notorious for abuse.
It can also be used to list rapists and murderers that are free in society...
So where do you draw the line? Freedom of speech only works when its the same rules for everyone. What one person considers harmless another will find a way to make it seem threatening.
* and yes, their "tactics" were scary - but they did not espouse killing anyone. They simply listed people akin to what other events they considered atrocities.
* I would think that a eco-group could legally do the same for company officers of corps which kill the environment daily.
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where he talks about pornography and saner countries like Holland who allow you access to it.
These saneer countries also are more compliant to currenty copyright holders than the US is, to include charging a fee for every CD-R you buy, and making it illegal to even copy certain stuff at all.
If that is saner, I would hate to see insane
That is the biggest reason DSL is losing. The phone companies in their glee to prevent people from sharing their networks with competitors are causing people to give up because of the time it takes for them to approve a line.
.COM side of Bellsouth who would not get off their arses to provision my line. My neighbor, who went with BellSouth.net? Same problem, guess one BS division can't talk to another. I won't even get into the service problems they cause but blame on my ISP (turned out there was a short at the box - but that was only after 3 modems on my side and 5 on-site service calls by my ISP - until we proved it wasn't the hardware at my house)
4 weeks of my wait for my DSL was because of the
I absolutely refuse to deal with Media One (now AT&T - unless AT&T promises to fire EVERY SINGLE person they got with MO).
I'll keep my DSL thank you, just someone needs to bitch slap the phone companies into actually trying to be customer friendly. They are so used to "we are the only solution for your dial tone" that they treat the new era the same way...
Lets see, the first movie was panned by the elistist know-it-alls of movie reviews. The first movie was marketed as a scary-but-funny-but-campy mummy movie. It was purposely over the top like the original Indiana Jones films.
The second film follows suit, gives women prominent roles that are not just as scared little girls. It promises to have a little more horror but all the laughs the first had. It promises action scenes that are unbelievable but exciting to watch. It promises special effects that are cutting edge and a sight to behold.
Guess what Jon, this wasn't meant to be a documentary or a pure horror film. The lead actor himself doesn't take his role as a Shakespearian presentation, he knows exactly what its all about.
I suggest that until you understand what its all about and go back to commenting on things you have a knowledgeable opinion on.
Unfortunately I find that most of your reviews and even articles lack substance, and seem to be nothing more than elistist whines about why the world fails to see your utopian viewpoints.
* ooh - time to lose some karma, just wish I could use my moderator points versus the actual article!!!!
I am guessing they felt that they were portrayed incorrectly in the movie and feel the need to correct that by assuming control over the game?
huh?
Basically they believe in free speech but cave in when threatened. Thats like saying a drowning man is wet, we all know it, but it doesn't mean anything in the end.
I am pretty sure you can reduce your DVD storage requirements significantly.
I would also think it best to wait till we have non-volatile no-moving parts storage. The current harddisk is really only safe for transient data.
I would not want to have to reload all the stuff I load into this because some brat knocked it over and crashed the heads on the drive.
Mag Ram if it can be made super cheap, which may come if we buy enough, or maybe finally some form of holographic or biological storage would make this dream machine better.
What better thing that to remove all self responsibility and parental-responsibility than to blame someone else.
;)
Are you going to try to convince me that because guns exist that they gun manufacturers are to blame for their mis-use? It falls right in line with the logic you attempted.
You have a slightly PC'd version of what goes on in Muslim countries. In "GOOD" Muslim countries that may be the case, but we have seen some extremes.
Sorry, I don't buy the conditioning theorey. If anything Television causes more harm than video games, and its been around longer constantly portraying guns, drugs, and ever other "soon to be sued industry" in some form.
This is about money, these game manufacturers have some, their a bunch of hippies, the drive fast cards, and they have homes for selling pixalated explosions and purple alien blood.
Can't have that, their irresponsible!
People aren't paying taxes to have their kids educated. They are being held at gunpoint and having the money taken from them. If they have kids then they are allowed (some areas its required - they actually dug up dirt on one avowed home schooler and threw her in jail for keeping her kid out of public schools) to go to the public school provided you have no choice in what they learn and what happens to them.
They should provide vouchers to all students... and vouchers that if the PS does not improve shuts them down
and it only gets worse by the time you reach college.
Jon, you and your ilk brought it on. Constantly telling people they don't have to take responsibility for their actions, glorifying in the media these wackos that act out their frustrations, and then finally removing any respect people have for the institutions for ridiculing them for the actions they are forced to take.
In this case, the kid's dad should have taken up the subject of his kid being bullied with the school administrators beforehand. But alas, its not his fault in your world is it? He doesn't have to be a real father does he? He doesn't have to explain to his kid how to deal with life's mysteries and what to do when they get out of hand? He probably should not warn his kid about drugs either right?
This seems overly lame.
If it had been used on someone whom this person did not have a business contact established with I could stand with the crowd and say "yeah". As it is it appears that the California legislature and courts have invented a new money maker for the trial lawyers...
this is not an example of what I would call a moral victory... this is more like a "I want my name in lights" type stuff.
but hundreds of millions of dollars sent to save Afghan refugees would only end up in the hands of the Taliban, and whats left would have to pass officials meaning it would not go to those who need it most.
The money is not being wasted in space, many technological advances you take for granted in your daily life came from space programs. Some of the descendant technologies save more lives than if the cost of this arm was used for "general purpose aid"
People have to stop looking with simplistic attitudes on expenses related to science and space. While space telescopes and planetary probes don't look as it they provide us with truly needed information realize that they give us a better understanding of our universe, and from there we may begin to understand prinicples on physics and science we could not fully fathom here.
Don't decry the money spent on this arm, decry the millions your government and mine waste on pork-barrel politics, propping up businesses with tax breaks, and generally flush down the drain enslaving millions of their own citizens with welfare.
As for the apirations of some other countries, the US spends more money on aid outside its borders than it does in trinkets in space. I would bet Canada in a similar boat.
they are stripping the "air" commercials out of their streaming content and will sell the internet time separately.
I think that is actually the best route to follow. Screw this money grubbing union, which is pretty damn sure not to forward all those "stolen" dollars to their members, after all their are costs involved in collecting it, and heck there are so many they would probably charge their members for the "service"
I would expect many of the streamers to come back after installing the software needed to "swap" the commercials for approved ones
Another dreamer, living in a world of emotion because the world of facts isn't as fun. When push comes to shove they would rather clam up than discuss issues of fact.
The problem here isn't the United States. Its China. China doesn't care about anything but China. They have learned that because they have the bomb they can be as asine as they want because for them their people are disposable.
They want an apology so they can claim to be the stronger of the two nations. They want an apology so they can damage the office of President of the United States enough so they can get away with even more abuses.
Whats appalling is the lack of comment against China in the European press. That big bunch of pussies is doing what they always do, and that is sticking up for what is right in hopes of being ignored so they can't get in trouble. They are so afraid of jeporadizing their trade agreements with China that they lost the will to be world powers. Fact is, there are only 3 real world powers, the US, Russia, and China. The whole of European Union can never equal either three because they don't have the guts to stand up for themselves or anyone else. They live in their little dreamland, hoping the real world won't intervene. They can't even police their own backyard (balkans) without crying to the US, then attacking the US verbally when we want a say in how its settled. Apparently all the EU has accomplished is to turn the whole place into a land reminiscent of France. What Napolean could not do they did.
Back on China. I am willing to bet we know exactly what happened, down to the second out there and are just withholding it until its settled. Everyday the Bush administration is leaking more and more of its "Ace in Hole". Don't think twice that we don't know exactly what happened. Spy planes don't just fly out there, they transmit their data real-time, just because if there is an accident that data is that more valuable.
China is being a childish little shit of a country, and unfortunately everyone has to put up with their hissy fit because they have proven many times that they just don't care about anyone else except themselves, and themselves being those in power.
The Air Force has been experimenting, and probably using GPS guided munitions. Assuming a higher altitude for this type of aircraft it is very plausible it would not even have to enter enemy airspace to hit its target.
Guided bombs using GPS would have both velocity and altitude that they need to make course corrections on the way to target. It is not very dissimilar from guiding a mirv.
First off, let me state quite clearly I haven't ever read FR, having just been there for the first time today. I spent about 30 minutes looking over the site and areas it has.
/.? Granted the general anti-conservative (or anything Republican) bent of the /. staff pervades, perhaps its to serve as a warning to some of the screwballs here?
/. with messages calling the operators trash, making bogus claims about their actions, promoting windows over everything else, and generally spaming the servers with trash just to make a point.
Regardless of their content, no individual has the right to slander a site. Apparently that is all that is real to the whole story, the guy basically took out his little tirade versus the eveeel "conservative" site and just invented whatever hyperbole he needed at the time.
Pleading the 5th in a civil suit is beyond belief, but alas its what happens when the ultra-left get pressed to act on facts instead of emotion. (this works just as well versus some of the ultra-right - but they are not as prevalent as some might think)
So why is this story on
The first rule of "freedom of speech" is that it does not give you freedom to slander, let alone freedom to violate anothers rights. It would no different than having someone constantly spam
Freedom of speech is very important, but you cannot have it without responsibility, and that is what this gentleman forgot. Its a very important ideal, even if you don't like the message.
so the Internet has eveel-nasty stuff your country cannot stand, so take the standard "Territorial" action and attack it!
Talk about the ultimate Democratic coup, invade every country with information. The trouble for the US is that it works both ways. There are things that are not-lawfully allowed in the US that are just hunkey-dorey overseas. (notably porn)
Trouble with the who internet is, if a territorial entity attacks a non-territorial entity, how can the former be punished? Perhaps there needs to be a "make-nice" system similar that of spam-email. In other words, if the country attacks another site via the net itself or in court, then the net can band together and attempt a DOS versus that country, or just out right nuke all mail leaving it. Yes it would be pretty damn hard to pull off (and not currently feasible versus the US, but I figure we could get little countries like Iran, and maybe bigger ones like Germany if a collective group tried)
Sorry, there is no freedom of speech or expression permitted on college campuses these days. Flat out nearly all of them are under the thumb of left-wingers.
... infering is their game, dodging responsibility works wonders in their book.
This lil'book is a great example, a typical tactic of the left is guilt by association. They love this as they can then claim they did not "say it"
The 10 reasons list that went out recently is a great example of the suppresion of speech on college campuses. This is the fault of a falculty who encourages students to violently lash out against opposing views and then excuses them when they do. (if you notice however, its okay to do anything if you can find a group who was possibly oppressed)
freedom of speech sucks because anwsering the claims requires facts and not emotion
Awesome display of OS bigotry by the /. community and moderators.
/. simply proves his point.
/. Linux crowd is so damn fucking hostile to anything microsoft they will get downright stupid in their comments and such just to "put down" Ms or any of its people.
The guy was right, why bother trying to create software for Linux. Just read the responses to the article, see which ones were "moderated up" and
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Corel is proof that it doesn't work to try and sell stuff to the "we must have it free, and we must have the source, or your not going with the spirit of Linux" crowd. Why should any company step into that.
There is nothing wrong with wanting it all to be free and open (both mentally and financially). However get off your frigging high horse and realize that the rest of the world, specifically corporations which exist to make money for their owners, don't have to agree with you, let alone cater to you.
What originally started out as an interesting subject became truly depressing as a I started reading what was actually modded to the top. (Yes I sort on highest first, it drops the FPs very quickly).
I expect to have to read below my threshold to see this, but after all its apparent that even moderation is done to support OS bigotry without regards to logic or reason.
You asked the questions, don't get all pissy because he anwsered them.
okay, I am in pain for reading this...
;)
but it was funny at times.
It is still illegal for a woman to kill her own fetus by inducing drugs or such. You can be, and it has been done, charged with murder for causing a pregnant woman to lose her child (through assualt (like shooting her) or physical injury via abuse or even an automobile wreck)
Sorry, its not a woman's right, its a state's right. The state has kept to itself the right to choose who can die and when. No individual is allowed this right.
Besides, what did democrats have to do with it in the first place. They did spend money, but your a little to damn ignorant to realize this aren't you? How, they take tax-dollars and fund abortions here and overseas (like we should really be sending out tax dollars overseas to fund abortions and other such crap, sorry - saving people overseas from disease and hunger is fine - keeping them from having children isn't)
At the end of the article Mr Hayes, from Telocity, says he doesn't hold AT&T blameless in this incident?
Huh? From the article it appears that all that AT&T did was buy them out after bankruptcy. It was Verizon who dropped a deal to purchase Northpoint earlier.
I guess AT&T just has deep pockets and Telocity is going to use the California government and cop the blame to them.
Napster could have really put the RIAA into a fix if they had taken care not to do one thing.
Their error was that they provided both the indexing software and the software to push/pull the actual music.
Now, if there were solely an indexing system, telling you were to get the music, I think it would be very hard for a court to nail them. However, Napster went one step too far..
They continue to go to far even now, claiming rights while at the same time abusing ours.
I love the idea of being able to get music off the internet, I just don't have a problem with paying a reasonable fee. However, if I pay a fee I expect a good product. This means professionally ripped and packaged music.. no downloading someone's crap 48bit mono rip.
The problem here is that there is no law allowing for you or another company to aid another in breaking the law.
It is not legal to assist others in violating the law.
If there were indexing new music that was specifically offered up for review and download then they would have the law on their side. However they are making indexes of copyrighted music and then on top of that providing the software which facilitates the transfer of that music.
Actually, I think they could have escaped most harm if their software did not actually do the upload/download.... (instead it would require the host to be running a third-party ftp server)
That would have really put the RIAA up the river without a paddle.
Naptser's business is illegal. They are guilty of the same crime here as the RIAA. Neither of which cares about the artists involved. Both are overly concerned with their pocketbooks.
they don't give a rats ass about the "Artist", and they certainly don't give a rats ass about you either, unless of course you support their view.
the key here is that it is speech. Regardless of what our opinion of their methods they are voicing their opinion. They also were not publishing anything which could not be lawfully obtained. Heck, some search engines returned personal information about me I did not know was available.
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the same speech which protects these people also protects those out there who would stand up to corporate abuses. This can be used as case-law to allow for "environmental whacko sites" that list the home address of corporate CEOs of companies that are notorious for abuse.
It can also be used to list rapists and murderers that are free in society
So where do you draw the line? Freedom of speech only works when its the same rules for everyone. What one person considers harmless another will find a way to make it seem threatening.
* and yes, their "tactics" were scary - but they did not espouse killing anyone. They simply listed people akin to what other events they considered atrocities.
* I would think that a eco-group could legally do the same for company officers of corps which kill the environment daily.