Let me spell it out for you: Just like with the oil companies, we will make sure that the third world will remain dependent upon Microsoft.
Those companies who try to switch their governments over to OSS will find themselves on the wrong side of a communications breakdown--much the same way that the mexicans were left with barrels and barrels of oil they could not give away after nationalising their oil fields.
Violently over-throwing the peaceful governments such as peru and installing our own stooges (the way we did with the Shah) who serve M$ interests is also not out of the question either.
After all, what is good for Microsoft, is good for the economy, and we do NOT want to give a bunch of third-worlders even the hope of a leg to stand on.
So, we will keep microsoft in foriegn governments; By Any Means Necessary.
Don't believe me? Go study the history of the oil cartels from 1890-1970 and replace standard oil with Microsoft, and there you go.
I wish I had a time machine so that I could make a fortune accumilating stocks during the 1920's and t hen being the first one to sell out before the big crash.
I mean, why the fuck would anyone with half of a brain waste a time machine on the RIAA?
as a knoppix user, I hope to hell this stays WAY AWAY. Microsoft has published a good deal of api's for writing device drivers; it would be a better idea to develop OSS device drivers that allow read/write access to ext2/ext3/reiserfs filesystems instead.
Now that people are starting to exploit googles' page ranking system on a regular basis and since google is having to bow to legal pressure and thereby lose their outsider "street cred"...they're in the exact spot that yahoo was in in 1999.
All they need now is a half-assed web hosting service.
How many times are we going to see this repeated online until we learn that a jack-of-all-trades really IS master of none?
You are making no sense there. Are you saying that Japan is ahead of us economically? That China is paving the way for us with regards to civil liberties, or that South Africa has anything worth considering that we do not have ourselves?
I'm afraid that you are not making a lick of sense there.
It has been a huge boon for political activists in countries with "overbearing" governments, for whistleblowers in all nations, and for all sorts of other reasons.
Are you so niave as to not realise that in our increasingly totalitarian world, these are all detriments.
How do you think John Ashcroft feels about people who percieve the US as having an "overbearing government" being able to speak out anonymously and with impunity?
Hasn't he gone on record about his views on that?
And as far as whistle-blowers go; no corporation considers whistle blowing to be a Good Thing, and therefore if they were presented with that angle of online anonymity they would probably pony up Even More Money to fight it.
So, in short, the reasons you cite are the reasons why online anonymity is now a thing of the past.
Is wether or not there is really anything broadcast that is so compelling I either want to sit through a million ads, or jump through a million hoops to avoid the ads.
As far as I know, I'm only missing a couple of worth-while shows, and that is not enough to make me grab a tivo or what have you.
I used to look at the whole "kill your television" set as being a bunch of pretentious jerks, but nowadays, it isn't so much a matter of killing it, as much as not seeing enough value in it to make it worth my very few dollars.
I don't know what an AMR slot is, but after fighting with gateway I got "as a present" back in 2001 which has an intel soundcard and modem built into the mobo, I think I'm DEFINATELY going to wait and see what the competition is.
On a side note, is it just me, or is EVERYTHING that intel makes in the way of peripherials (mice, webcams, etc) total shit? Why don't they stick to CPU's? I can't imagine them making any $ off of their shitty, non-functioning web cameras.
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You get the great disney rides, but without the psychotic crowds and (usually) smelly and slimy water, etc (seriously, what the hell is up w/ the smell in disneyland, anyways?)
However, I live in a trailer in the middle of the desert. (why? great view and it's cheap.) During the summer I can a) run ac and cook b) run my computer and ac c) run my computer and cook
but not all three at the same time. (at least, not without having to take trips out to flip breaker switches).
The law only applies *in theory* to microsoft, but yet they have never had to deal with any signifigant penalties (sorry, to M$, 1.1 billion dollars is not signifigant), which means that they are *in practice* exempt from the law.
why should they benefit from it? I don't see anything wrong with Microsoft being "exploited" any more than I did when I heard that Dahmer got offed in prison...
In both cases, my reaction is: "couldn't happen to a nicer fuck". And I dont' see any reason to feel bad about that.
I dunno; maybe because they are legally obligated to look after their shareholders' bottom line--even if it means pushing through draconian legislation (eg: the DMCA, the crap that the RIAA and MPAA are always trying to push through) which is detrimental to indivual's rights to liberty and the persuit of happiness?
So, what you are basically saying is that Linux's exile to the server-room ghetto will be cemented, and that is a good thing? Fuck the home users who happen to compromise *most of the internet*?
Frankly, I'd rather see Linux made totally illegal than to have it be given over to the elitest "priests of syrinx" or their spiritual ilk.
IMHO, it is much more likely that they will be provided with high-level device drivers that depend on the closed portion of OS X, and won't function on bare darwin.
That solution should satisfy the DRM lobby, allow Microsoft to claim to the EU or the DOJ that they do have competition (really, we do, honest) and also keep apple in the game.
Interesting point. As far as the NSA goes, I would imagine that they would either have some sort of 'layered' security sceme in place (internet-accessible computers on the outer layer, routing packets to the linux or whatever computers on the inner layer) or would switch altogether to internet2. of course, I'm talking completely out of my ass on that, since I don't really know much about security.
As far as the creation of two seperate nets go; once you leave seattle, silicon valley or similarly urban-ish areas, you are hard-pressed to find an ISP or other carrier whose TOS allows you to host servers on your internet connection. So, as I pointed out here, you're back to the situation of playing by the access providers' rules; even if all they are providing is the bare wire (phone and or cabling) to set your own internet up on.
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Let me spell it out for you:
Just like with the oil companies, we will make sure that the third world will remain dependent upon Microsoft.
Those companies who try to switch their governments over to OSS will find themselves on the wrong side of a communications breakdown--much the same way that the mexicans were left with barrels and barrels of oil they could not give away after nationalising their oil fields.
Violently over-throwing the peaceful governments such as peru and installing our own stooges (the way we did with the Shah) who serve M$ interests is also not out of the question either.
After all, what is good for Microsoft, is good for the economy, and we do NOT want to give a bunch of third-worlders even the hope of a leg to stand on.
So, we will keep microsoft in foriegn governments; By Any Means Necessary.
Don't believe me? Go study the history of the oil cartels from 1890-1970 and replace standard oil with Microsoft, and there you go.
I wish I had a time machine so that I could make a fortune accumilating stocks during the 1920's and t hen being the first one to sell out before the big crash.
I mean, why the fuck would anyone with half of a brain waste a time machine on the RIAA?
'free as in warez'? Hell, that's nothing new.
as a knoppix user, I hope to hell this stays WAY AWAY. Microsoft has published a good deal of api's for writing device drivers; it would be a better idea to develop OSS device drivers that allow read/write access to ext2/ext3/reiserfs filesystems instead.
Would be better legally, as well.
I'm still curious and amazed at the fact that the church of scientology pops up when you do that search.
Proof that there is justice in the universe...or something.
Now that people are starting to exploit googles' page ranking system on a regular basis and since google is having to bow to legal pressure and thereby lose their outsider "street cred"...they're in the exact spot that yahoo was in in 1999.
All they need now is a half-assed web hosting service.
How many times are we going to see this repeated online until we learn that a jack-of-all-trades really IS master of none?
M/F? ROFL LOL
You are making no sense there. Are you saying that Japan is ahead of us economically? That China is paving the way for us with regards to civil liberties, or that South Africa has anything worth considering that we do not have ourselves?
I'm afraid that you are not making a lick of sense there.
As america goes, so goes the rest of the world. This is particularly true with regards to economics and civil liberties.
Nope. I'm a mortician.
Are you so niave as to not realise that in our increasingly totalitarian world, these are all detriments.
How do you think John Ashcroft feels about people who percieve the US as having an "overbearing government" being able to speak out anonymously and with impunity?
Hasn't he gone on record about his views on that?
And as far as whistle-blowers go; no corporation considers whistle blowing to be a Good Thing, and therefore if they were presented with that angle of online anonymity they would probably pony up Even More Money to fight it.
So, in short, the reasons you cite are the reasons why online anonymity is now a thing of the past.
Is wether or not there is really anything broadcast that is so compelling I either want to sit through a million ads, or jump through a million hoops to avoid the ads.
;-)
As far as I know, I'm only missing a couple of worth-while shows, and that is not enough to make me grab a tivo or what have you.
I used to look at the whole "kill your television" set as being a bunch of pretentious jerks, but nowadays, it isn't so much a matter of killing it, as much as not seeing enough value in it to make it worth my very few dollars.
Esp since the library and litrix are free.
Now that's distinquished company.
the main distinguishing charactaristic being that almost no-one uses them any more...
I don't know what an AMR slot is, but after fighting with gateway I got "as a present" back in 2001 which has an intel soundcard and modem built into the mobo, I think I'm DEFINATELY going to wait and see what the competition is.
On a side note, is it just me, or is EVERYTHING that intel makes in the way of peripherials (mice, webcams, etc) total shit? Why don't they stick to CPU's? I can't imagine them making any $ off of their shitty, non-functioning web cameras.
Some things will never change.
but I was thinking of disney world. I've been to both, and the smell of smog covered up almost every other smell in disneyland. ;-)
You get the great disney rides, but without the psychotic crowds and (usually) smelly and slimy water, etc (seriously, what the hell is up w/ the smell in disneyland, anyways?)
However, I live in a trailer in the middle of the desert. (why? great view and it's cheap.) During the summer I can
a) run ac and cook
b) run my computer and ac
c) run my computer and cook
but not all three at the same time. (at least, not without having to take trips out to flip breaker switches).
"grow up"? big words coming from an ac.
The law only applies *in theory* to microsoft, but yet they have never had to deal with any signifigant penalties (sorry, to M$, 1.1 billion dollars is not signifigant), which means that they are *in practice* exempt from the law.
why should they benefit from it? I don't see anything wrong with Microsoft being "exploited" any more than I did when I heard that Dahmer got offed in prison...
In both cases, my reaction is: "couldn't happen to a nicer fuck". And I dont' see any reason to feel bad about that.
I dunno; maybe because they are legally obligated to look after their shareholders' bottom line--even if it means pushing through draconian legislation (eg: the DMCA, the crap that the RIAA and MPAA are always trying to push through) which is detrimental to indivual's rights to liberty and the persuit of happiness?
So, what you are basically saying is that Linux's exile to the server-room ghetto will be cemented, and that is a good thing? Fuck the home users who happen to compromise *most of the internet*?
Frankly, I'd rather see Linux made totally illegal than to have it be given over to the elitest "priests of syrinx" or their spiritual ilk.
"figuring out" how to run linux on TCPA would turn it into a 'circumvention device' and therefore make it illegal.
And no, I don't anticipate the DMCA being repealed by then. If it has lasted this long, it is here to stay.
IMHO, it is much more likely that they will be provided with high-level device drivers that depend on the closed portion of OS X, and won't function on bare darwin.
That solution should satisfy the DRM lobby, allow Microsoft to claim to the EU or the DOJ that they do have competition (really, we do, honest) and also keep apple in the game.
the only losers would be the OSS community.
Interesting point. As far as the NSA goes, I would imagine that they would either have some sort of 'layered' security sceme in place (internet-accessible computers on the outer layer, routing packets to the linux or whatever computers on the inner layer) or would switch altogether to internet2. of course, I'm talking completely out of my ass on that, since I don't really know much about security.
As far as the creation of two seperate nets go; once you leave seattle, silicon valley or similarly urban-ish areas, you are hard-pressed to find an ISP or other carrier whose TOS allows you to host servers on your internet connection. So, as I pointed out here, you're back to the situation of playing by the access providers' rules; even if all they are providing is the bare wire (phone and or cabling) to set your own internet up on.