He was arrested for not persuing the appropriate piracy channels in Hong Kong. Namely going to retail stores that sell pirate dvds. BT poses a threat to the triad-run piracy market, and they obviously wanted to crack down on such behaviour.
Do whatever you can, come to class late, go to the bathroom when they're passing them out, volunteer to collect the forms and "lose" yours. Get your TA to "lose" yours.
One of my good friends was offered some GPL software at a party by a guy who said it was free.
Of course it wasn't free at all, since after he started using the GPL software his mind was changed. He wouldn't hang out with his old friends and if he did, he just insulted them for using the wrong software.
After a year or so, he was so GPL'ed out, that he would yell at people at in the street and insist on that ever software he ever saw should be GPL.
I once showed him a nice program that Microsoft made on the base of a BSD framework, and he got so loud and wild screaming, that the Police had to take him to a hospital, where I visited him today.
I think it is sad, and I hope that the young people of today may learn from this story.
One of my good friends was offered some GPL software at a party by a guy who said it was free.
Of course it wasn't free at all, since after he started using the GPL software his mind was changed. He wouldn't hang out with his old friends and if he did, he just insulted them for using the wrong software.
After a year or so, he was so GPL'ed out, that he would yell at people at in the street and insist on that ever software he ever saw should be GPL.
I once showed him a nice program that Microsoft made on the base of a BSD framework, and he got so loud and wild screaming, that the Police had to take him to a hospital, where I visited him today.
I think it is sad, and I hope that the young people of today may learn from this story.
Exactly, this is the type of product that will put linux on the mainstream desktop. More power to companies like codeweavers and ximian that are making money on proprietary formats. As the ximian guy said, "you've already chosen proprietary" If you want linux on the desktop, quit coding for that sourceforge project, and write some fucking apps that break the stranglehold on formats.
I don't remember the name, but I used to play this game on my old apple II that taught you very basic circuit design with and/or/not etc.. gates. It had a pretty decent graphics, and I learned something to boot.
I use jump.net here in austin, and they provide excellent service, but they charge for it. I pay $150/month for a guaranteed 1500/384 connection w/ 10 static ip's. I trade stocks for a living(yes, still, and it is still a living), and I am more than happy to pay it. Jump.net is owned by Allegiance Telecom.
I used to be covered by Progressive's Autograph service. They installed a GPS and a device that monitored when the engine was on. My rates were determined by multiplying the minutes my car was on by a specified rate (In addition to the locating service). The rate was $.03/minute from 5am-11pm and $.09/minute from 11pm-5am. My policy was 50/100/50. Once a month the device sent up my data. The cool thing was when I went on vacation and didn't drive my car, my monthly bill was $3. They also capped my bill at 80 bucks. It averaged out to be about 50 bucks a month, not bad for a 20 yr old male in Texas.
They did not offer any policy renewals earlier this year, so I still have the GPS and device in my dash. Circuit City did the install and wouldn't tell me where in the dash the device was so I could not disable it, so it is still there. I wonder if they are still monitoring me. The progressive agent who sold me the policy did say, when asked, that they would turn the GPS information over if it was requested by the authorities.
This was a trial program in Texas. I think they had a couple thousand policies and are waiting for all the claims to settle before deciding to take it nationwide.
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He was arrested for not persuing the appropriate piracy channels in Hong Kong. Namely going to retail stores that sell pirate dvds. BT poses a threat to the triad-run piracy market, and they obviously wanted to crack down on such behaviour.
Do whatever you can, come to class late, go to the bathroom when they're passing them out, volunteer to collect the forms and "lose" yours. Get your TA to "lose" yours.
One of my good friends was offered some GPL software at a party by a guy who said it was free.
Of course it wasn't free at all, since after he started using the GPL software his mind was changed. He wouldn't hang out with his old friends and if he did, he just insulted them for using the wrong software.
After a year or so, he was so GPL'ed out, that he would yell at people at in the street and insist on that ever software he ever saw should be GPL.
I once showed him a nice program that Microsoft made on the base of a BSD framework, and he got so loud and wild screaming, that the Police had to take him to a hospital, where I visited him today.
I think it is sad, and I hope that the young people of today may learn from this story.
It's ok, little ac, there are some great treatment programs out there, you can get help.
One of my good friends was offered some GPL software at a party by a guy who said it was free.
Of course it wasn't free at all, since after he started using the GPL software his mind was changed. He wouldn't hang out with his old friends and if he did, he just insulted them for using the wrong software.
After a year or so, he was so GPL'ed out, that he would yell at people at in the street and insist on that ever software he ever saw should be GPL.
I once showed him a nice program that Microsoft made on the base of a BSD framework, and he got so loud and wild screaming, that the Police had to take him to a hospital, where I visited him today.
I think it is sad, and I hope that the young people of today may learn from this story.
Exactly, this is the type of product that will put linux on the mainstream desktop. More power to companies like codeweavers and ximian that are making money on proprietary formats. As the ximian guy said, "you've already chosen proprietary" If you want linux on the desktop, quit coding for that sourceforge project, and write some fucking apps that break the stranglehold on formats.
at least on stile you get pr0n
It was reported here a while back that the internet, particularly chat rooms were possibly used to coordinate terrorist activity.
I don't remember the name, but I used to play this game on my old apple II that taught you very basic circuit design with and/or/not etc.. gates. It had a pretty decent graphics, and I learned something to boot.
I use jump.net here in austin, and they provide excellent service, but they charge for it. I pay $150/month for a guaranteed 1500/384 connection w/ 10 static ip's. I trade stocks for a living(yes, still, and it is still a living), and I am more than happy to pay it. Jump.net is owned by Allegiance Telecom.
They did not offer any policy renewals earlier this year, so I still have the GPS and device in my dash. Circuit City did the install and wouldn't tell me where in the dash the device was so I could not disable it, so it is still there. I wonder if they are still monitoring me. The progressive agent who sold me the policy did say, when asked, that they would turn the GPS information over if it was requested by the authorities.
This was a trial program in Texas. I think they had a couple thousand policies and are waiting for all the claims to settle before deciding to take it nationwide.
you never know where big brother will pop up next