Sabotage?! The shuttle? Have you any idea the anal-retentive policies in place to make sure that the shuttle is in good condition before take-off? It would be easier to sabotage Air Force One! Not to mention anyone with half a brain would sabotage the shuttle to explode on lift-off, not reentry. For one it would be much more dramatic and sudden, and two it would give the people on the ground and the astronauts a lot smaller chance to detect and possibly repair the sabotage.
Oh, and if the terrorists have a cruise missle that will hit a target moving at 2 miles a second and 200,000 feet up, I think we should just give up now.
Every time I hear or read "It is highly unlikely that this was a terrorist act" (Which is in every news story) I get pissed off. When Challenger blew up there wasn't even a suggestion of possible foul-play, but now, whenever an accident happens, everyone's jumping fucking scared that a terrorist did it.
I suppose one could only call this fair play if one thought that US laws should be applied everywhere in the entire world.
Kazaa may have been downloaded to the US, but the company, its programmers, and its owners have never had a presence here. That means, guess what, you can't sue it here. The supreme court of california has already ruled on this and even if the little judge of the case says "These cases aren't the same like that" If and when Kazaa gets an appeal, it'll go straight to the Cal Supreme Court who will knock it down again on jurisdictional issues.
If KaZaa had an office in California, it'd be different, but they don't. When the US steps on little countries' soverignty to regulate their buisnesses themselves all it does is get those countries pissed off at us.
Win or lose, until any of those buisnessmen from that company get on a jet and come here, the MPAA will gain nothing but at most a hollow and ineffective paper victory.
The only use I could really see for this is something in the military. Even then half of its affect would be psychological. Imagine you are holed in somewhere you think is safe from attack (for example, unapproachable by tank) and you hear the roar of 24 of these about a minute before 24 troups fly over the edge of the cliff about 20 yards away, the only angle you thought you would be totally safe from attack?
The original Dax was 'acting captain' of the Defiant for like 5 episodes in the 6th season while Sisko was a assistant to an admiral. I think that counts if you ask me.
Pipe Dream, They don't do this.
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I called Time Warner in my area and gave them my list of channels. Here's my list.
ESPN2 MTV2 CNN Comedy Central Cartoon Network TNT USA FX History Channel The Learning Channel Discovery Animal Planet Sci-Fi National Geographic Channel
The representative told me that I was 'wrong' and that I would have to pay $50 a month to get these, "along with over 120 additional channels". I told about the Cable Act, and she told me I was mistaken.
So there's non-compliance with the law right there. Should I press charges;)?
Bush helped an idiot get in as chairman as this new commitee. Republican Cand. => Bush friend, former CIA, FBI Head, lots experience in criminal matters, very very little in civil (read == accounting/buisness) matters. Democrat Cand. => Buisnessman, lots of experience dealing with accounting.
Voting was straight down party lines. The Republican cand won because the comittee for selection was 3 Rep, 2 Demo.
Against it? Yeah, I suppose, if by that you mean not buying it.
But in this country we have this little thing we have a little thing called free speech. This means all the racist idiots out there can make all the movies/Pamphlets/radio shows/video games they want. They are stupid and about 500 years behind the times, ignore them.
I support a silly KKK member being able to make retarded games. I just don't support buying them;). To fight for free speech means one has to fight for all speech, not just the speech you agree with.
They do have the power to ruin your life. But if the cause is just, then it is worth it. People who take a stand for civil rights generally get the shit kicked out of them. It happens.
But if you made $500,000 a year from out-moded buisness practices, wouldn't you get protective about it? Most people fear and dislike change. Some downright hate it. If you don't have the courage to stand up to them, then this article isn't for you.
Personally, and this will be quite the unpopular opinion, I figure that this kind of stuff will not get thrown down soon. Why? Prohibition failed because everybody drank beer. Not enough people are online right now to make the difference. The citical mass is not there.
Patience is important in a thing like this. The people's mood must be red-hot to propagate action. Actions made while the people's mood is indiferent, are at best, small at changing things.
So til then keep the hope alive by donating to the ACLU and the EFF, they are the Flagbarers, they will eventually lead the fight.
Product Placement is already huge. Anybody remember when the kiddies on survivor who were f'in starving did this big challenge and won wonderfully nutrious Mountain Dew and Doritos?
As for commercials, I don't see them going anywhere soon. When TV goes digital, there will prolly be a new encryption or something or other that makes them unskippable to the general public. The general public, having never bought a TiVo in the first place won't notice any changes and it will return to buisness as usual.
I have a Rio 500 and I haven't heard of any linux support for it? Could you give us the webpage for this stuff? I like my rio other then the fact that the 128mb card I bought doesn't work in it, and would like to get it to talk to my linux box.
Normally I don't respond to trolls, but I'll make an exception in this case.
I spell MS or Microsoft as M$ or Micro$oft because they use money to solve all their problems. They have a monopoly and are not afraid to use it to further their own ends. The spelling is simply symbolic of my opinion of them. To them money and the power that it has on other people is the only thing important. As soon as they start operating their company with more compassion and less arrogance and deceit I'll spell their damn company they way I feel like spelling it.
What a stupid move on the part of Microsoft. Nothing would push the judge in the anti-trust case more towards the 9 dissenting states.
Whos idea was this? The smart buisness move would have been to finish the settlement of their current anti-trust case, then lock down their vendors. By doing this now, they are asking for trouble.
"Microsoft is going to flood San Diego with free hardware, free software and free services," Pennington predicted.
I'm sure this will happen because we all know that M$ has thus far solved all its problems by throwing money at them. This will be no execption. Wishing he lived in San Diego right now...
Perhaps you forgot, but when you got numbed up, do you remember the huge fucking needle the dentist stuck in your mouth? And he said "Little pinch" and it felt like somebody stabbed you with a dagger in the cheek?
When I read this story I got a bad feeling. I whent to www.reallifecomics.com , a good comic by the way, to listen to some good old final fantasy radio. live365 now requires $5/month. Jesus fucking virgin Mary Christ.
I now have to pay the RIAA money to listen to old video game music?? Music which I know was written and performed by the Japanese?? Yeah, I'm certain Hilary will send Square the check. Yeah right.
ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!! No more final fantasy radio??????!!!!!!!!
If you had a job that you loved to death, but it meant that there was only one boss in the world that would hire you, would you stand up to him?
Would you speak out against him in public? Very likely you would not. Because this boss can get you shut out of your job for good. Sure you can go on doing what you love, but you won't reach nearly as many listeners. Add to that the fact that your boss is now actively pursuing shutting down every distribution method that you would use to do your job without him.
This is why very few artists have spoken out against the RIAA. "Want to continue recording music for the public? Shut the hell up and live with us, because congress sure won't stick up for you." is what the RIAA is basically saying to every artist out there. Except that they don't need to say it, it is in every artist's mind already.
I don't know about that. Lots of software I use doesn't have any bugs. Little simple programs meant to do one thing, and to do it well. Give the program some bad data and yeah it'll crash, but thats not a 'bug', that's a dumb user. There is a difference.
Let's see if I'm Microsoft, I'll charge $300 for a non-warranty version and $300,000 for a warranty version on a warranty that lasts all of three years. Big companies are basically forced to use warranty one on critical computers because when they call for tech support they are told to buy the warranty version.
I do like the option previously commented:
1) Stand behind your product (Warranty) or 2) Let me fix it when it fucking breaks (Open Source)
This person's comment is well-reasoned, and well-stated. There is no reason that this comment should have been modded-down. His first paragraph is a bit argumentative, but the second one is much better and should easily be worth more then the first.
Just because you don't argee with him, doesn't mean you should mod him down.
While in general, your statement holds to be true, like all rules it has its exceptions.
One very large exception is the growth of technology's effect of the environment. The fact that it used to be, if your TV broke, you took it to the repair shop. Now TV's are so cheap, everybody just gets a new one. Disposable devices ad trinkets are all the rage, now, and their use is growing.
I'm sure that in my lifetime, I will see the introduction of a disposible cellphone. Many other things are now considered this way as well, computer printers, and any other computer device, really. There's no way to fix a trashed video card.
Our rampant consumerism may cause our downfall if we don't stop buying the latest gimmick every time a new one comes out. Try to take a second out of everyday and think, "Do I really need this?"
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Sabotage?! The shuttle? Have you any idea the anal-retentive policies in place to make sure that the shuttle is in good condition before take-off? It would be easier to sabotage Air Force One! Not to mention anyone with half a brain would sabotage the shuttle to explode on lift-off, not reentry. For one it would be much more dramatic and sudden, and two it would give the people on the ground and the astronauts a lot smaller chance to detect and possibly repair the sabotage.
Oh, and if the terrorists have a cruise missle that will hit a target moving at 2 miles a second and 200,000 feet up, I think we should just give up now.
Every time I hear or read "It is highly unlikely that this was a terrorist act" (Which is in every news story) I get pissed off. When Challenger blew up there wasn't even a suggestion of possible foul-play, but now, whenever an accident happens, everyone's jumping fucking scared that a terrorist did it.
I suppose one could only call this fair play if one thought that US laws should be applied everywhere in the entire world.
Kazaa may have been downloaded to the US, but the company, its programmers, and its owners have never had a presence here. That means, guess what, you can't sue it here. The supreme court of california has already ruled on this and even if the little judge of the case says "These cases aren't the same like that" If and when Kazaa gets an appeal, it'll go straight to the Cal Supreme Court who will knock it down again on jurisdictional issues.
If KaZaa had an office in California, it'd be different, but they don't. When the US steps on little countries' soverignty to regulate their buisnesses themselves all it does is get those countries pissed off at us.
Win or lose, until any of those buisnessmen from that company get on a jet and come here, the MPAA will gain nothing but at most a hollow and ineffective paper victory.
They are always more "cost effective" and better. So there is one solution for every problem! I mean really why would Bill lie to us?
"The Libertarians' flawed belief that a Corporation Can Do No Wrong is what got us into this situation in the first place."
Last time I checked, to actually blame a political party for something, they actually had to have somebody, anybody, in congress. Can you name any?
The only use I could really see for this is something in the military. Even then half of its affect would be psychological. Imagine you are holed in somewhere you think is safe from attack (for example, unapproachable by tank) and you hear the roar of 24 of these about a minute before 24 troups fly over the edge of the cliff about 20 yards away, the only angle you thought you would be totally safe from attack?
The original Dax was 'acting captain' of the Defiant for like 5 episodes in the 6th season while Sisko was a assistant to an admiral. I think that counts if you ask me.
I called Time Warner in my area and gave them my list of channels. Here's my list.
;)?
ESPN2
MTV2
CNN
Comedy Central
Cartoon Network
TNT
USA
FX
History Channel
The Learning Channel
Discovery
Animal Planet
Sci-Fi
National Geographic Channel
The representative told me that I was 'wrong' and that I would have to pay $50 a month to get these, "along with over 120 additional channels". I told about the Cable Act, and she told me I was mistaken.
So there's non-compliance with the law right there. Should I press charges
Bastard cable companies.
Bush helped an idiot get in as chairman as this new commitee. Republican Cand. => Bush friend, former CIA, FBI Head, lots experience in criminal matters, very very little in civil (read == accounting/buisness) matters. Democrat Cand. => Buisnessman, lots of experience dealing with accounting.
Voting was straight down party lines. The Republican cand won because the comittee for selection was 3 Rep, 2 Demo.
Why? I have always liked it. I don't see any specific problems, do you?
:)
If it ain't broke, don't fuck with it.
Against it? Yeah, I suppose, if by that you mean not buying it.
;). To fight for free speech means one has to fight for all speech, not just the speech you agree with.
But in this country we have this little thing we have a little thing called free speech. This means all the racist idiots out there can make all the movies/Pamphlets/radio shows/video games they want. They are stupid and about 500 years behind the times, ignore them.
I support a silly KKK member being able to make retarded games. I just don't support buying them
They do have the power to ruin your life. But if the cause is just, then it is worth it. People who take a stand for civil rights generally get the shit kicked out of them. It happens.
But if you made $500,000 a year from out-moded buisness practices, wouldn't you get protective about it? Most people fear and dislike change. Some downright hate it. If you don't have the courage to stand up to them, then this article isn't for you.
Personally, and this will be quite the unpopular opinion, I figure that this kind of stuff will not get thrown down soon. Why? Prohibition failed because everybody drank beer. Not enough people are online right now to make the difference. The citical mass is not there.
Patience is important in a thing like this. The people's mood must be red-hot to propagate action. Actions made while the people's mood is indiferent, are at best, small at changing things.
So til then keep the hope alive by donating to the ACLU and the EFF, they are the Flagbarers, they will eventually lead the fight.
Product Placement is already huge. Anybody remember when the kiddies on survivor who were f'in starving did this big challenge and won wonderfully nutrious Mountain Dew and Doritos?
As for commercials, I don't see them going anywhere soon. When TV goes digital, there will prolly be a new encryption or something or other that makes them unskippable to the general public. The general public, having never bought a TiVo in the first place won't notice any changes and it will return to buisness as usual.
I have a Rio 500 and I haven't heard of any linux support for it? Could you give us the webpage for this stuff? I like my rio other then the fact that the 128mb card I bought doesn't work in it, and would like to get it to talk to my linux box.
Normally I don't respond to trolls, but I'll make an exception in this case.
I spell MS or Microsoft as M$ or Micro$oft because they use money to solve all their problems. They have a monopoly and are not afraid to use it to further their own ends. The spelling is simply symbolic of my opinion of them. To them money and the power that it has on other people is the only thing important. As soon as they start operating their company with more compassion and less arrogance and deceit I'll spell their damn company they way I feel like spelling it.
What a stupid move on the part of Microsoft. Nothing would push the judge in the anti-trust case more towards the 9 dissenting states.
Whos idea was this? The smart buisness move would have been to finish the settlement of their current anti-trust case, then lock down their vendors. By doing this now, they are asking for trouble.
Typical Microsoft arrogance.
"Microsoft is going to flood San Diego with free hardware, free software and free services," Pennington predicted.
I'm sure this will happen because we all know that M$ has thus far solved all its problems by throwing money at them. This will be no execption. Wishing he lived in San Diego right now...
Perhaps you forgot, but when you got numbed up, do you remember the huge fucking needle the dentist stuck in your mouth? And he said "Little pinch" and it felt like somebody stabbed you with a dagger in the cheek?
Lasers == no more big fucking needles
sounds like an improvement to me
I feel like firebombing Rosen's office. I swear.
When I read this story I got a bad feeling. I whent to www.reallifecomics.com , a good comic by the way, to listen to some good old final fantasy radio. live365 now requires $5/month. Jesus fucking virgin Mary Christ.
I now have to pay the RIAA money to listen to old video game music?? Music which I know was written and performed by the Japanese?? Yeah, I'm certain Hilary will send Square the check. Yeah right.
ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!
No more final fantasy radio??????!!!!!!!!
If you had a job that you loved to death, but it meant that there was only one boss in the world that would hire you, would you stand up to him?
Would you speak out against him in public? Very likely you would not. Because this boss can get you shut out of your job for good. Sure you can go on doing what you love, but you won't reach nearly as many listeners. Add to that the fact that your boss is now actively pursuing shutting down every distribution method that you would use to do your job without him.
This is why very few artists have spoken out against the RIAA. "Want to continue recording music for the public? Shut the hell up and live with us, because congress sure won't stick up for you." is what the RIAA is basically saying to every artist out there. Except that they don't need to say it, it is in every artist's mind already.
I don't know about that. Lots of software I use doesn't have any bugs. Little simple programs meant to do one thing, and to do it well. Give the program some bad data and yeah it'll crash, but thats not a 'bug', that's a dumb user. There is a difference.
Yeah, sure that will work great.
Let's see if I'm Microsoft, I'll charge $300 for a non-warranty version and $300,000 for a warranty version on a warranty that lasts all of three years. Big companies are basically forced to use warranty one on critical computers because when they call for tech support they are told to buy the warranty version.
I do like the option previously commented:
1) Stand behind your product (Warranty)
or
2) Let me fix it when it fucking breaks (Open Source)
This person's comment is well-reasoned, and well-stated. There is no reason that this comment should have been modded-down. His first paragraph is a bit argumentative, but the second one is much better and should easily be worth more then the first.
Just because you don't argee with him, doesn't mean you should mod him down.
The plural form of the word Borg is Borg. No s on the end. Kinda like the word moose, ever heard anybody say mooses or meese?
;)
Somebody hasn't watched enough Star Trek.
While in general, your statement holds to be true, like all rules it has its exceptions.
One very large exception is the growth of technology's effect of the environment. The fact that it used to be, if your TV broke, you took it to the repair shop. Now TV's are so cheap, everybody just gets a new one. Disposable devices ad trinkets are all the rage, now, and their use is growing.
I'm sure that in my lifetime, I will see the introduction of a disposible cellphone. Many other things are now considered this way as well, computer printers, and any other computer device, really. There's no way to fix a trashed video card.
Our rampant consumerism may cause our downfall if we don't stop buying the latest gimmick every time a new one comes out. Try to take a second out of everyday and think, "Do I really need this?"
I know, I know, I preach way to much.
No, because the SA doesn't sue people for talking about them, or make it a condition not to trash them if I buy some cloths.