I'm glad you buy into the whole "if you use profanity you must be stupid" line of thinking. It proves YOU are the one truly lacking in intelligence.
Considering the market for online music sales, it is highly unlikely that continuing as an operating concern will lead to greater returns in the future. It would be best for the company to give back the money now while it is still possible to do so.
I am also in full favor of smarter investors taking advantage of their idioitically stubborn counterparts who may not see the wisdom in closing up shop now.
Shareholders own the company. They have the right to tell it to do whatever the fuck they want it to do. If that means shutting down and divesting itself of all cash to send back to the shareholders then thats simply what the company has to do. It has nothing to do with them not knowing anything about the stock market. It is not unheard of for a company to shut down before it burns thru its capital if the management is smart enough to realize there's no chance in hell of making any money. It sounds like YOU are the one who knows nothing about the stock market.
Patents aren't evil. How do you expect someone to make themself rich off of their own invention if they are unable to patent it for a period of time? I don't agree that software patents are evil. I think they're simply necessary and that there's a bunch of folks out there who just want something for free. The "war on drugs", is something I support by the way. I don't really see the need for the US to sink to the levels of Denmark or the Netherlands or wherever they have legalized drug use. We have enough slackers and losers here already. No need to endorse the wholesale production of more.
I also don't consider lawyers and politicians to be scum. We have a legal system, as do most modern nations, that is designed to help citizens and businesses settle disputes peacefully. Without it, things would have to be settled personally and with so much money on the line I have absolutely no doubt that it would quickly result in violence, fatal violence in a significant amount of the cases. So instead of having to have a gun fight with a record executive over some song, he can sue you or you can sue him and you both get out of it alive. I don't see why thats such a flawed system.
Intellectual property is by no means a flawed concept. Those who say that it is usually simply don't want anyone to be able to force others to pay them for intantingible content. Well too bad. As our economy becomes more and more information instead of materials based it will become even more important for people to enforce patents and copyrights on their IP. Otherwise you have people who cannot earn royalties and income from the product of their minds. I'm not going to say that would eliminate the willingness to invent, it would just seriously suck as well as knock a huge revenue stream out of IP creation and obliterate a huge tax base.
If you want to be able to download MP3's for free I can understand where you are coming from. I don't want to pay for them either. But wanting it to be "right" doesn't make it right. Lets at least encourage people to admit they are being theives when they steal IP. No one is helped by anymore lying.
The only problem with your argument is it would have been excellent a year and 6 months ago when Mac OS X was originally introduced. Jaguar is what it should have been originally. All it is now is re-introducing things they took out of the original Mac OS 2 years ago, things like spring loaded folders and such.
In case you hadn't noticed, we're talking about higher usage then the regular $50 a month cable modem account could support. So you're telling me that someone is willing to shell out $200 to $400 a month out of their own pocket to put the rest of their neighborhood online?
And most of these free WIFI nets are being run off of residential broadband accounts which already prohibit this type of usage in their TOS guidelines.
What you really mean is, you got broadband so you could pass on the cost of your most likely heavy usage of Intellectual Propertry infringement software onto your ISP instead of at least paying for conducting your own illegal activities yourself?
Of course, this being Slashdot you'll probably reply that "Information wants to be free" at which point I would most likly respond, "Information isn't an animal. It can't want anything. It isn't alive nor does it have any conciousness. And if we're going down that route, then Rent wants to be Paid! Lexus's want to be bought....etc"
I apologize in advance if you have legitimate legal uses for P2P software.
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Sup DAWG. I'm stuck at w0rk again. Tell all da boyz in #freebsd "Whats up" Aight, I'm audi 5000! WEST SIIIIIDDDDEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
.......because the money to pay for all this bandwidth usage will simply fall out of the sky just like the money that kept all those stupid dotcom businesses going did......oh wait it didn't!
This free WIFI shit is just a fad. It has no sound economic foundation to support it. SOMEONE is gonna get a big fat bill from their ISP for idiotically giving their entire neighborhood access to it. They won't be able or willing to pay, and that will be the end of the free WIFI movement.
Starbucks could simply apply enough legal pressure on these free WIFI guy's upstream ISP's which after a while will cause them to lose their accounts seeing as how the ISP's don't want to spend a bunch of money in court defending a bunch of loser "Information wants to be free" degernerates.
You know, with most of the Smartphones (including my Kyocera Smartphone) you can turn off the cell phone part while keeping the PDA part on. Or you could simply set the cell phone to vibrate. And not wanting color is silly. Stop being silly. Want color. K THX BYE!
As you participate in Slashdot you are already a geek by default. Coupled with your anti-social behaviour I simply have to ask do you suffer from Aspergers Syndrome or perhaps full blwon Autism?
Because being a fag is bad. Its a slur. Duh. What straight guy who's trying to get chicks would want to be known as one? And how many fags actually want their correct status advertised to the public at large? So thats why it would be a deterrant.
I don't have a problem with the way any of those people were acting. Its a public space, why shouldn't folks be able to talk on their cell phones? If you don't like it, then get a car and drive to where you want/need to go.
With all the bitching and moaning on Slashdot about people not using public transit enough and driving too much I can see why it is the way it is. Because when people DO try to use it, they run into cranky twerps like you who try to make the ride as boring as possible so that they don't get "disturbed".
Distro? As in Linux distro? Maybe they don't sell them because for most people its useless therefore they wouldn't buy it? Linux is still way too hard to use and has way too few apps, (apps that matter not just CLI or half assed OpenOffice crap) so what would be the point of offering it at all?
The full formal name of the US is The United States of AMERICA. Canda does't have the word "America" in its full formal name. Neither does Mexico. But the US does. Thats why we call ourselves Americans. ITS IN THE NAME OF OUR COUNTRY!!!!
Americans. AMERICANS. Not USians you stupid moron. AMERICANS. We do NOT accept that label you want us to go by simply because there are other "North and South Americans" on this continent.
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I'm glad you buy into the whole "if you use profanity you must be stupid" line of thinking. It proves YOU are the one truly lacking in intelligence.
Considering the market for online music sales, it is highly unlikely that continuing as an operating concern will lead to greater returns in the future. It would be best for the company to give back the money now while it is still possible to do so.
I am also in full favor of smarter investors taking advantage of their idioitically stubborn counterparts who may not see the wisdom in closing up shop now.
Shareholders own the company. They have the right to tell it to do whatever the fuck they want it to do. If that means shutting down and divesting itself of all cash to send back to the shareholders then thats simply what the company has to do. It has nothing to do with them not knowing anything about the stock market. It is not unheard of for a company to shut down before it burns thru its capital if the management is smart enough to realize there's no chance in hell of making any money. It sounds like YOU are the one who knows nothing about the stock market.
Patents aren't evil. How do you expect someone to make themself rich off of their own invention if they are unable to patent it for a period of time? I don't agree that software patents are evil. I think they're simply necessary and that there's a bunch of folks out there who just want something for free. The "war on drugs", is something I support by the way. I don't really see the need for the US to sink to the levels of Denmark or the Netherlands or wherever they have legalized drug use. We have enough slackers and losers here already. No need to endorse the wholesale production of more.
I also don't consider lawyers and politicians to be scum. We have a legal system, as do most modern nations, that is designed to help citizens and businesses settle disputes peacefully. Without it, things would have to be settled personally and with so much money on the line I have absolutely no doubt that it would quickly result in violence, fatal violence in a significant amount of the cases. So instead of having to have a gun fight with a record executive over some song, he can sue you or you can sue him and you both get out of it alive. I don't see why thats such a flawed system.
Intellectual property is by no means a flawed concept. Those who say that it is usually simply don't want anyone to be able to force others to pay them for intantingible content. Well too bad. As our economy becomes more and more information instead of materials based it will become even more important for people to enforce patents and copyrights on their IP. Otherwise you have people who cannot earn royalties and income from the product of their minds. I'm not going to say that would eliminate the willingness to invent, it would just seriously suck as well as knock a huge revenue stream out of IP creation and obliterate a huge tax base.
If you want to be able to download MP3's for free I can understand where you are coming from. I don't want to pay for them either. But wanting it to be "right" doesn't make it right. Lets at least encourage people to admit they are being theives when they steal IP. No one is helped by anymore lying.
GAH.
Its not OpenBSD. Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD not OpenBSD. GET IT RIGHT! GRRRRRRR
The only problem with your argument is it would have been excellent a year and 6 months ago when Mac OS X was originally introduced. Jaguar is what it should have been originally. All it is now is re-introducing things they took out of the original Mac OS 2 years ago, things like spring loaded folders and such.
Then why not just pay for your own internet access from the start?
In case you hadn't noticed, we're talking about higher usage then the regular $50 a month cable modem account could support. So you're telling me that someone is willing to shell out $200 to $400 a month out of their own pocket to put the rest of their neighborhood online?
And most of these free WIFI nets are being run off of residential broadband accounts which already prohibit this type of usage in their TOS guidelines.
What you really mean is, you got broadband so you could pass on the cost of your most likely heavy usage of Intellectual Propertry infringement software onto your ISP instead of at least paying for conducting your own illegal activities yourself?
Of course, this being Slashdot you'll probably reply that "Information wants to be free" at which point I would most likly respond, "Information isn't an animal. It can't want anything. It isn't alive nor does it have any conciousness. And if we're going down that route, then Rent wants to be Paid! Lexus's want to be bought....etc"
I apologize in advance if you have legitimate legal uses for P2P software.
Sup DAWG. I'm stuck at w0rk again. Tell all da boyz in #freebsd "Whats up" Aight, I'm audi 5000! WEST SIIIIIDDDDEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
.......because the money to pay for all this bandwidth usage will simply fall out of the sky just like the money that kept all those stupid dotcom businesses going did......oh wait it didn't!
This free WIFI shit is just a fad. It has no sound economic foundation to support it. SOMEONE is gonna get a big fat bill from their ISP for idiotically giving their entire neighborhood access to it. They won't be able or willing to pay, and that will be the end of the free WIFI movement.
Starbucks could simply apply enough legal pressure on these free WIFI guy's upstream ISP's which after a while will cause them to lose their accounts seeing as how the ISP's don't want to spend a bunch of money in court defending a bunch of loser "Information wants to be free" degernerates.
Actually I'm just a really smart guy.
You know, with most of the Smartphones (including my Kyocera Smartphone) you can turn off the cell phone part while keeping the PDA part on. Or you could simply set the cell phone to vibrate. And not wanting color is silly. Stop being silly. Want color. K THX BYE!
In reference to your sig, yes it is.
As you participate in Slashdot you are already a geek by default. Coupled with your anti-social behaviour I simply have to ask do you suffer from Aspergers Syndrome or perhaps full blwon Autism?
Because being a fag is bad. Its a slur. Duh. What straight guy who's trying to get chicks would want to be known as one? And how many fags actually want their correct status advertised to the public at large? So thats why it would be a deterrant.
I don't have a problem with the way any of those people were acting. Its a public space, why shouldn't folks be able to talk on their cell phones? If you don't like it, then get a car and drive to where you want/need to go.
With all the bitching and moaning on Slashdot about people not using public transit enough and driving too much I can see why it is the way it is. Because when people DO try to use it, they run into cranky twerps like you who try to make the ride as boring as possible so that they don't get "disturbed".
What exactly did the guy who you punched out do to justify punching him in the head?
Distro? As in Linux distro? Maybe they don't sell them because for most people its useless therefore they wouldn't buy it? Linux is still way too hard to use and has way too few apps, (apps that matter not just CLI or half assed OpenOffice crap) so what would be the point of offering it at all?
Apple makes most of its money from selling hardware not software.
The full formal name of the US is The United States of AMERICA. Canda does't have the word "America" in its full formal name. Neither does Mexico. But the US does. Thats why we call ourselves Americans. ITS IN THE NAME OF OUR COUNTRY!!!!
So you could do what exactly? Violently confront them and end up with a possibly fatal or harmful result?
Or to voyeristically get your jollies?
AMERICANS. Not USians. AMERICANS. Damn New Age crap.
Americans. AMERICANS. Not USians you stupid moron. AMERICANS. We do NOT accept that label you want us to go by simply because there are other "North and South Americans" on this continent.