I'll give you one: In Ontario, Canada, alcohol distribution is similarly run by the Government. Since they buy their alcohol as a single body representing 8 million customers, they can demand great pricing deals from the alcohol producers, and buy at low cost.
Gee, sounds ideal. But here's my main beef: If it ain't on the Gov's list, you ain't gettin' it.
Lesser beefs (such as the dreaded 'cube steak') are that, at least in my state, there's only two or three ABC stores per larege town/small city. And they close at either 8 or 9pm, and don't open at all on Sundays. Of course that last complaint is easily and often inflicted on other states that allow private sector liquor stores, but it's still wrong.
A weekend without enough booze oughta help convince the populace that a single choke point on a large system is a bad idea, and the government being that choke point is a worse idea. There's absolutely no reason for alcohol not to be handled by the private sector. I live in a state that does this too, and it's just ridiculous on so many levels.
Sure this is somewhat off-topic, but screw it. The whole idea has always bugged me, and I don't even drink that often (maybe twice a month).
Well, yeah, if ya wanna get all literal about it. I was taking the 'disturbing visual' approach.
But taking the literal approach, I don't think you'd wind up halfway to your destination. The way I imagine teleportation, I think you'd effectively become an 'unperson,' having been disassembled at your departure point, but never reassembled at your arrivial point. And while equally tragic, how do you work that one into a classic slashdot meme?
But look how much pent up demand they've generated. Everybody's bitching that iTMS isn't available for Windows yet. That implies to me that it's already got the mindshare.
I parsed the story title as announcing that the good guys had finally finished decrypting the font transformation used to obfuscate the source code that SCO projected on screen at that big press conference a few weeks ago. Silly me.
I'm trying really hard not to take this personally.
Ironically enough, I moved recently, and the tech hooking up my cable at the new place pointed out that using the coax outlets on my surge suppressor was actually slowing my connection. Sure 'nuff, latency *feels* greatly reduced now. Of course, that may be due to moving to an area teeming with the elderly (no, not Flordia) rather than living amongst college-age riff raff.
I'll bet they'd be glad to hear their subcontractors are working against them on this front. Damn that helpful attitude!
Bah. By the time I'm at home and can check out NSFW stuff, they've fixed it and variations on that attack just return a page entitled "Verisign | Try Again."
The old square one, with the front two thirds sloped down. I used those almost exclusively from '88 till I could afford a big, honking Kensington trackball. (yes, that's actually a billiard ball in those things.) Best tracking mouse I've ever used, although I wouldn't trade the wheel and seven buttons of my Logitech MX-500 for anything. Well, I'd trade 'em for $100, 'cause I can get another one for less than that. But you get the point.
No, the artists don't own the rights to the music, the record label does. The artists have to buy records from the label even to sell at concerts. Aerosmith have as much legal right to sell you a track as I do, i.e. none.
Last time I was on that aisle of a BestBuy store, there were still Audio CDs as well as Data, and I assume that means the 'piracy' tax is still in place.
As others here have noted, the blanks sold at record stores would usually be the type specifically labelled as Music CDs, and therefore have a tax added to them that goes directly to the RIAA to compensate them for 'piracy.'
So shouldn't they be cheering this fact, since it shows that so many consumers are paying more than double what they could otherwise get blank CD-Rs for, just so they can pay the required fees to get licensing legitimacy?
Red Hat 9.0 is a boon for those who already use it, but it's too expensive to warrant a switch from Windows. Try SuSE (or the free Red Hat) for a better mix of price and features.
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Red Hat 9.0 is a boon for those who already use it, but it's too expensive to warrant a switch from Windows. Try SuSE (or the free Red Hat) for a better mix of price and features.
I thought this was a board that discusses computer issues, like the code and the security weaknesses of the Diebold machines.
Her HTML is there for the peeking, so we can (and do) kibitz that. The Diebold code, well, much of slashdot would *love* to be picking it apart right now, but can't. Somebody needs to anonymously leak it. I mean, I'm no programmer, but even I can hack Access (it's what I do these days) and I have a very clear idea of just how insecure it is.
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At this stage I'd prefer:
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Gee, sounds ideal. But here's my main beef: If it ain't on the Gov's list, you ain't gettin' it.
Lesser beefs (such as the dreaded 'cube steak') are that, at least in my state, there's only two or three ABC stores per larege town/small city. And they close at either 8 or 9pm, and don't open at all on Sundays. Of course that last complaint is easily and often inflicted on other states that allow private sector liquor stores, but it's still wrong.
A weekend without enough booze oughta help convince the populace that a single choke point on a large system is a bad idea, and the government being that choke point is a worse idea. There's absolutely no reason for alcohol not to be handled by the private sector. I live in a state that does this too, and it's just ridiculous on so many levels.
Sure this is somewhat off-topic, but screw it. The whole idea has always bugged me, and I don't even drink that often (maybe twice a month).
You're one Republican I've got respect for. Now get out there and help us with some good old fashioned regime change.
Wow. Just found this post while doing metamod... I don't wanna metamod it as 'Troll,' but there's no 'Incoherent' option. Pity, that.
I hope you're not the type who rants and raves about mega-corps "moving" offshore to avoid paying taxes.
Well, yeah, if ya wanna get all literal about it. I was taking the 'disturbing visual' approach.
But taking the literal approach, I don't think you'd wind up halfway to your destination. The way I imagine teleportation, I think you'd effectively become an 'unperson,' having been disassembled at your departure point, but never reassembled at your arrivial point. And while equally tragic, how do you work that one into a classic slashdot meme?
I shudder to think what would happen if a teleporter lost power halfway through the journey.
You might end up the ultimate personification of those endless "In Soviet Russia..." inversionary scenarios.
But look how much pent up demand they've generated. Everybody's bitching that iTMS isn't available for Windows yet. That implies to me that it's already got the mindshare.
From the photo on the Yahoo story, it looks suspiciously like Chicago, the Apple system font of yore. Even Dell wouldn't be that blatant, would they?
I parsed the story title as announcing that the good guys had finally finished decrypting the font transformation used to obfuscate the source code that SCO projected on screen at that big press conference a few weeks ago. Silly me.
I'm trying really hard not to take this personally.
Ironically enough, I moved recently, and the tech hooking up my cable at the new place pointed out that using the coax outlets on my surge suppressor was actually slowing my connection. Sure 'nuff, latency *feels* greatly reduced now. Of course, that may be due to moving to an area teeming with the elderly (no, not Flordia) rather than living amongst college-age riff raff.
I'll bet they'd be glad to hear their subcontractors are working against them on this front. Damn that helpful attitude!
Bah. By the time I'm at home and can check out NSFW stuff, they've fixed it and variations on that attack just return a page entitled "Verisign | Try Again."
Fakkers.
You're new here, aren't you?
The old square one, with the front two thirds sloped down. I used those almost exclusively from '88 till I could afford a big, honking Kensington trackball. (yes, that's actually a billiard ball in those things.) Best tracking mouse I've ever used, although I wouldn't trade the wheel and seven buttons of my Logitech MX-500 for anything. Well, I'd trade 'em for $100, 'cause I can get another one for less than that. But you get the point.
No, the artists don't own the rights to the music, the record label does. The artists have to buy records from the label even to sell at concerts. Aerosmith have as much legal right to sell you a track as I do, i.e. none.
Last time I was on that aisle of a BestBuy store, there were still Audio CDs as well as Data, and I assume that means the 'piracy' tax is still in place.
As others here have noted, the blanks sold at record stores would usually be the type specifically labelled as Music CDs, and therefore have a tax added to them that goes directly to the RIAA to compensate them for 'piracy.'
So shouldn't they be cheering this fact, since it shows that so many consumers are paying more than double what they could otherwise get blank CD-Rs for, just so they can pay the required fees to get licensing legitimacy?
Record exec: We'll cut our wholesale price by 25% (16% for big name new releases) if you'll cut your markup in half.
Store owner: Ummm...
What? They've got a product? Who knew?
Click the link before you moderate, folks.
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Not exactly the hard sell, is it?
Her HTML is there for the peeking, so we can (and do) kibitz that. The Diebold code, well, much of slashdot would *love* to be picking it apart right now, but can't. Somebody needs to anonymously leak it. I mean, I'm no programmer, but even I can hack Access (it's what I do these days) and I have a very clear idea of just how insecure it is.
Cut her some slack; that mangled HTML was at least partly created by StarOffice, that should get her a few credibility points around here.
The sum total of all intelligence on slashdot is a constant.
Yet the userbase grows.