Re:Dean for President
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My Ph.D. says otherwise.
I've met a lot of Ph.D.'s who think that, since they have a doctorate, they are instantly an expert in every field.
If your Ph.D. isn't in this field, your mentioning the Ph.D. is basically an attempt to get one up on me by artificially inflating your knowledge in this particular subject.
I may not have a Ph.D., and I'm not stupid enough to fall for the bullshit "I have a Ph.D." tactics.
No, that was Arpanet. It can be argued that the "Internet" is a much different beast.
It can be argued. But it's a stupid argument. Because the Internet is a technological advancement of Arpanet, not an ideological one.
Re:Terminator is trying to
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Revolution? Because everyone else is too lazy to actually use a different business model and try to compete against the RIAA? Please.
Re:Dean for President
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This was part of what the internet was all about: democratizing the ability of an individual outside the established powers to enter into competition or publication or public recognition.
Dear God you're stupid. The Internet was about building a very large network that could withstand physical attack.
You revisionist, self-righteous geeks who think the Internet was this noble, grandiose vision of humanity should get off of your high horses and at least brush up on your history.
Interestingly he comments that he doesn't like Napster, he thinks that people should have easier access to music but that artists should get paid for what they do.
How is that "interesting"? I think anyone with a sense of decency wants the artists to get paid...
Great, you stick your old ass to plain jane ISO C, I and the rest of the world that has realized the benefits of object-oriented programming will move on to that which is superior.
As much as I hate to say it, I'd rather not see an anti-spam law on the books. I think it infringes too much on one of the greatest things about the Internet, which is that the 'Net is by its very nature hard to regulate. It's not owned by any one country, and it can be used by virtually anyone.
The hard-to-regulate thing is a problem, because the Internet supports things like news organizations, banks, and companies. The fact that people can just go DDoS a company and affect the livelihoods of the employees, or the fact that spammers can clog inboxes and decrease productivity and get away with it is ridiculous. It's well past time for some sort of regulation; people need to be held accountable for their actions, and it shouldn't be as easy as it is to carry out attacks (DDoS *or* spam -- especially since half of these spammers are DDoS-ing things like spamcop.net!)
And you're just lucky you got a tolerant cop. This little thing called politeness can help reduce the severity of fines, points on license, etc. Swearing at them tends to encourage the maximum penalities, and does not improve your situation.
These aren't all-or-nothing situations; you handle them the way they're meant to be handled. If the cop needs to be yelled at, he needs to be yelled at; if the situation calls for more tact, you are tactful.
When I blew up at the cop, he spent 15 minutes on the horn with the station, and what do you know -- I got out of my ticket.
Now go troll someone else please, I'm frankly tired of listening to your trash.
Really? How about you go make me troll somebody else, bitch?
Oh, do you remember posting this? Have fun with it, I think I'll just ignore you from now on.
Real gear heads tear out fuel injection systems and put in carburetors. Only sissies want modern conveniences like a car that doesn't need weekly adjustments.
EFI is more efficient, more powerful, and cleaner. There is a reason they don't make carb vehicles anymore -- EFI is better technology.
"Real" gear heads only rip out EFI and use carburetors because it is easier to make adjustments to a carburetor than EFI. If you ask me, those "real" gear-heads are the sissies, because they're afraid to take the initiative and learn how to tune the EFI.
For the record, I have cursed out cops that have pulled me over before, and there's NOTHING THEY CAN DO ABOUT IT. Their job is to write the ticket and move on. If they start talking down to you, you can -- and I have -- look a cop right in the eyes, and tell him he's being an asshole. This isn't Nazi Germany -- If a cop is being a dick, you're entitled a) to your opinion, and b) to express your opinion.
And I'm "simply" a jackass, but at least I can spell.
They already do something similar. They walk into places that allow public access - stores, bars, restaurants, taxis - and demand a cut of the profit in the form of license fees.
Which anyone that licenses anything is allowed to do. So how do they have more rights than other people? Answer: THEY DON'T.
The only reason they don't walk into your house is it's illegal. 'Enhance' their rights and you can be damn sure that they would barge into a party or backyard BBQ demanding to see your music license.
Yes, I'm sure that is exactly what the RIAA would do, is go to a backyard BBQ and ask for music licenses. That sounds incredibly fucking realistic. I'm sure the RIAA would go right head and hire hundreds of vigilante license-enforcers to make the rounds in our cities and towns and make sure everyone has everything licensed.
You morons are too paranoid for your own good. You cause your own problem by ripping people off, and then complain when companies -- whose rights YOU have violated, mind you -- start trying to stop you. WAAAAH.
If they want to force you to produce a reciept they have to convince a judge to force you to produce it. That probably won't happen.
Attorney: "Your honor, I have videotape evidence of the defendant walking out of the store with the merchandise without having paid for it."::shows evidence::
Judge: "Does the defense have the receipt as evidence?"
Sure, they can't force you to produce it -- and if you don't, you've commited a felony. CASE CLOSED.
First of all, do you honestly think that the RIAA is going to go door-to-door, and start demanding that people provide licenses for every piece of music they own? Are you really *that* stupid?
Second of all, if a clothing store wanted to, it could go to your house, and say "show us the receipt for the shirt you're wearing or we'll take you to court," and if you didn't show them the receipt, they could file a lawsuit.
The RIAA wants to do the same thing -- show us your license, or we take you to court.
How are they gaining any rights? Anyone can take anyone to court for anything!
Your lack of the word "fucking" doesn't make your argument any more valid, so please, inject some logic into your sentences or go back to playing Freecell.
Photoshop does all the pre-press, color separation, all of that shit... Google around, there is no lack of documentation about why Photoshop is superior to GIMP in almost all respects.
Nobody should be forced to produce a receipt for their stuff weeks later because the store thinks they're short an item and they have a security camera shot of you looking at it.
Your argument is idiotic. Your argument mentions circumstantial evidence, i.e. an item is missing, and they have a video of you looking at it, but no video of you taking the item out of the store.
This doesn't apply to material that requires a license. If you have the material, and you don't have a license, you have broken the fucking law. In the case of music, if you have the mp3's, and you don't have the CD or tape or whatever media you bought it on, chances are you pirated it. Yes, your original CD might have been consumed in a fire or stepped upon, but that is very unlikely all things considered, so if you want to run a discussion about how better to prove licenses, fine, but your argument lacks any thought or depth.
CD players cost like $50. How hard is it to buy one like a normal person and just burn your (LEGALLY AQUIRED) mp3's to a CD? Why would you spend so much money on so retarded a project? Donate that extra money to charity and do something USEFUL with it.
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My Ph.D. says otherwise.
I've met a lot of Ph.D.'s who think that, since they have a doctorate, they are instantly an expert in every field.
If your Ph.D. isn't in this field, your mentioning the Ph.D. is basically an attempt to get one up on me by artificially inflating your knowledge in this particular subject.
I may not have a Ph.D., and I'm not stupid enough to fall for the bullshit "I have a Ph.D." tactics.
No, that was Arpanet. It can be argued that the "Internet" is a much different beast.
It can be argued. But it's a stupid argument. Because the Internet is a technological advancement of Arpanet, not an ideological one.
Revolution? Because everyone else is too lazy to actually use a different business model and try to compete against the RIAA? Please.
This was part of what the internet was all about: democratizing the ability of an individual outside the established powers to enter into competition or publication or public recognition.
Dear God you're stupid. The Internet was about building a very large network that could withstand physical attack.
You revisionist, self-righteous geeks who think the Internet was this noble, grandiose vision of humanity should get off of your high horses and at least brush up on your history.
... to STFU about SCO.
Interestingly he comments that he doesn't like Napster, he thinks that people should have easier access to music but that artists should get paid for what they do.
How is that "interesting"? I think anyone with a sense of decency wants the artists to get paid...
Great, you stick your old ass to plain jane ISO C, I and the rest of the world that has realized the benefits of object-oriented programming will move on to that which is superior.
As much as I hate to say it, I'd rather not see an anti-spam law on the books. I think it infringes too much on one of the greatest things about the Internet, which is that the 'Net is by its very nature hard to regulate. It's not owned by any one country, and it can be used by virtually anyone.
The hard-to-regulate thing is a problem, because the Internet supports things like news organizations, banks, and companies. The fact that people can just go DDoS a company and affect the livelihoods of the employees, or the fact that spammers can clog inboxes and decrease productivity and get away with it is ridiculous. It's well past time for some sort of regulation; people need to be held accountable for their actions, and it shouldn't be as easy as it is to carry out attacks (DDoS *or* spam -- especially since half of these spammers are DDoS-ing things like spamcop.net!)
So why use it?
Because that I used it to set a tone for my post.
And you're just lucky you got a tolerant cop. This little thing called politeness can help reduce the severity of fines, points on license, etc. Swearing at them tends to encourage the maximum penalities, and does not improve your situation.
These aren't all-or-nothing situations; you handle them the way they're meant to be handled. If the cop needs to be yelled at, he needs to be yelled at; if the situation calls for more tact, you are tactful.
When I blew up at the cop, he spent 15 minutes on the horn with the station, and what do you know -- I got out of my ticket.
Now go troll someone else please, I'm frankly tired of listening to your trash.
Really? How about you go make me troll somebody else, bitch?
Oh, do you remember posting this? Have fun with it, I think I'll just ignore you from now on.
What a good job you've done! Bravo!
I proved you wrong with my police comment, and you completely glossed over that fact and skip straight to where I pointed out your spelling error.
And look who's throwing around the F-word now!
Real gear heads tear out fuel injection systems and put in carburetors. Only sissies want modern conveniences like a car that doesn't need weekly adjustments.
EFI is more efficient, more powerful, and cleaner. There is a reason they don't make carb vehicles anymore -- EFI is better technology.
"Real" gear heads only rip out EFI and use carburetors because it is easier to make adjustments to a carburetor than EFI. If you ask me, those "real" gear-heads are the sissies, because they're afraid to take the initiative and learn how to tune the EFI.
For the record, I have cursed out cops that have pulled me over before, and there's NOTHING THEY CAN DO ABOUT IT. Their job is to write the ticket and move on. If they start talking down to you, you can -- and I have -- look a cop right in the eyes, and tell him he's being an asshole. This isn't Nazi Germany -- If a cop is being a dick, you're entitled a) to your opinion, and b) to express your opinion.
And I'm "simply" a jackass, but at least I can spell.
They already do something similar. They walk into places that allow public access - stores, bars, restaurants, taxis - and demand a cut of the profit in the form of license fees.
Which anyone that licenses anything is allowed to do. So how do they have more rights than other people? Answer: THEY DON'T.
The only reason they don't walk into your house is it's illegal. 'Enhance' their rights and you can be damn sure that they would barge into a party or backyard BBQ demanding to see your music license.
Yes, I'm sure that is exactly what the RIAA would do, is go to a backyard BBQ and ask for music licenses. That sounds incredibly fucking realistic. I'm sure the RIAA would go right head and hire hundreds of vigilante license-enforcers to make the rounds in our cities and towns and make sure everyone has everything licensed.
You morons are too paranoid for your own good. You cause your own problem by ripping people off, and then complain when companies -- whose rights YOU have violated, mind you -- start trying to stop you. WAAAAH.
Chill man. Some people just don't care for such words, and they really are not needed.
People that are offended by the word "fuck" can go fuck themselves. I'm sick of living in a puritanical society.
If they want to force you to produce a reciept they have to convince a judge to force you to produce it. That probably won't happen.
::shows evidence::
Attorney: "Your honor, I have videotape evidence of the defendant walking out of the store with the merchandise without having paid for it."
Judge: "Does the defense have the receipt as evidence?"
Sure, they can't force you to produce it -- and if you don't, you've commited a felony. CASE CLOSED.
First of all, do you honestly think that the RIAA is going to go door-to-door, and start demanding that people provide licenses for every piece of music they own? Are you really *that* stupid?
Second of all, if a clothing store wanted to, it could go to your house, and say "show us the receipt for the shirt you're wearing or we'll take you to court," and if you didn't show them the receipt, they could file a lawsuit.
The RIAA wants to do the same thing -- show us your license, or we take you to court.
How are they gaining any rights? Anyone can take anyone to court for anything!
Your lack of the word "fucking" doesn't make your argument any more valid, so please, inject some logic into your sentences or go back to playing Freecell.
Photoshop does all the pre-press, color separation, all of that shit... Google around, there is no lack of documentation about why Photoshop is superior to GIMP in almost all respects.
Nobody should be forced to produce a receipt for their stuff weeks later because the store thinks they're short an item and they have a security camera shot of you looking at it.
Your argument is idiotic. Your argument mentions circumstantial evidence, i.e. an item is missing, and they have a video of you looking at it, but no video of you taking the item out of the store.
This doesn't apply to material that requires a license. If you have the material, and you don't have a license, you have broken the fucking law. In the case of music, if you have the mp3's, and you don't have the CD or tape or whatever media you bought it on, chances are you pirated it. Yes, your original CD might have been consumed in a fire or stepped upon, but that is very unlikely all things considered, so if you want to run a discussion about how better to prove licenses, fine, but your argument lacks any thought or depth.
Metallica? Good stuff? Not since the 80's.
Forcing? Nobody is being forced to do anything. If people want to stick with their Mac, they can get Final Cut Pro.
Dark Side? Borg Drones? Why didn't this elitist anti-Microsoft bullshit die in the 1990's along with flannel shirts?
"Stratedy" is actually spelled "strategy", and thank you for playing.
CD players cost like $50. How hard is it to buy one like a normal person and just burn your (LEGALLY AQUIRED) mp3's to a CD? Why would you spend so much money on so retarded a project? Donate that extra money to charity and do something USEFUL with it.
That == pathetic.
Actually, no, you're wrong. Rearrangement is one symptom of dyslexia, but not the only one -- misspelling is also a symptom.
This lesson brought to you by someone who actually knows what he's talking about.
"Freecall"?
You're either dyslexic or you're living proof that the article is a load of baloney!
These statistics are about as useful as toilet paper, if you catch my drift.
Mod parent up. Makes sense, and you don't have to worry about breaking your Xbox.