You are right about our friends in the Whitehouse having an interest due to oil companies in the Afghanistani pipeline that they were planning on making, but there is one big gaping whole in your theories that other people have not noticed... enourmous, drive-a-truck-through-it hole.
American taxpayer aid to the taliban was stopped in (the northern) spring due to an oil pipeline deal that was brokered, in part by Cheney, falling through. As a gesture of goodwill, the Taliban supplied the whereabouts of bin Laden at that time. What went wrong? - the contract was awarded to an Argentinian firm. Can you guess plan b?
Here you are saying, in effect we planned a war with the Taliban and the Al Quaeda... your "plan B" smacks of intentional overt warfare... then why were we brokering with a group of people who for more than five years were planning an attack on our two largest massed structures to kill thousands that WE KNEW ABOUT AND STOPPED SEVERAL TIMES? You never, ever come willingly to a bargaining table whilst someone has a pistol drawn underneath it. NO ONE IS THAT STUPID, ESPECIALLY THE ONES THAT MAKE PRESIDENTS. We learned our lesson years ago when certain South American countries nationalized our oil interests.
We never planned on attacking them for God's sake, if an Argentenian company bought them then it would be a surefire indication that it was always up for sale, we just happened to be buying... and lost for some other reason, probably not the money.
Oh, and here's another one. The reason why these countries that you say are broken is not our fault. I would like to advance the radical notion that why those people are screwed so badly is because of the nature of their mentally poor, ridiculously weak citizenry and butcher leaders OVER HUNDREDS OF GENERATIONS... not because of the last 15 minutes that a CIA operative has been in country. These people never got the bug that says, "Liberty!" Never fought for their individual independence. Never even fought for religious independence from their leaders like Martin Luther did. Name one. I dare you. Name one that was a warrior for the people and not to make his own kingdom. I KNOW YOU CAN'T. There aren't any. Not one that any Westerners can look to and say, "Now there was a man out for the advancement of his people, and not just himself." NAME ONE LEADER IN THE MIDDLE EAST THAT IS NOT A COMPLETE, MURDEROUS NUTBAG. That place was a den of vipers long before the the US was a country. I have no idea why the Jews wanted back there, but then again, I am not a Jew, so I don't even try to understand.
You really can't blame the CIA on every countries woes. Its a cop out, and a horrible slap against the United States and all of the other democracies in the free world that had citizens with enough guts to take back their land from tyrannous bastards. If they take it back for the people, then we'll know that they're serious about being something other than pathetic, loser, dirt farmers and poppy-field pushers. Guess what? It ain't going to happen.
I am sure there is a lot of blame coming our way on all of this current mess. But honestly, if you want to BLAME IT ALL on something else and absolve the individuals in question of all responsibility for their actions, then may I suggest a long and fruitful career in social work. Those losers could abuse a doe-eyed crusader like yourself for a while and let you give them things they never earned.
I think that Adobe is obviously doing the right thing, after all, they are not trying to stop the piracy (and IT IS PIRACY, enough said) they are removing the incentive to pirate. They are not doing anything aggressive, they are just walking away from the cheaters (in this case, it appears to be the whole frickin' society). This is an honorable approach in a dishonorable situation.
Many posts here have seemed to bring up these dishonorable practices as though they are the exception. Unfortunately in this case, they are the rule of 90% of the software users there. Entire multinational corporations are cheating because they can. Stealing. Like the idea of paying for goods and services is somehow alien to these corporations.
Yes, I have paid for my software. I plunked down my coin for Wolfenstein. I have payed up. You should too. It is pathetic to hear these cheap justifications.
There is no amount of ridiculous crap that you can spin me to tell me that that market is stealing.
You think that Adobe got into this market to be a goodwill ambassador? No they got in it because they like to make programs and be rewarded handsomely for it. After all this is software, and you people talk about them like they are arms dealers. They are not hurting humanity by selling software, stop screaming at them.
Just substitute the word "Romans" every time you see Americans, and you will get a real kick out of it. It takes politics back about 2000 years... same old stuff, new circumstances.
Honestly, considering the fact that the Ukraine and other parts of the Old Soviet Union are so poor... I'd say the only Cds that they are going to be burning are the ones to keep their homes warm. IF (and this is the big one), and I mean IF they can even get optical media.
Besides, what does a computer with a burner cost these days... three years average Russian salary? More for the Ukraine? Honestly, these people cannot afford the wholesale piracy that they say is happening.
This is B.S. hardball. After all, what is the consequence of letting them burn? More Russians singing pop songs in broken English?
Think if you were the Ukrainian authorities... and you really, really, really, need capital. This is not even a concern to you. Some foreign country starts yammering about CD copyrights? YOU'VE GOT STARVING PEOPLE. THE BEST OFF LOOK LIKE THE POOREST IN THE REST OF THE WESTERN WORLD. I am a US patriot, but I would tell them to go pick a bigger issue to restrict my trade over.
could be tough considering the FCC does regulation of them.
Well yes, theyre regulated, if you call the opportunity to make a 45% profit margin (the highest in any large scale industry) for years selling the world the priveledge to watch television and then charge local stations to run their programming after they run them into the ground... and then have no requirements for community programming, or must-carry discounted political ads.
Honestly, the reason why cable modems are not regulated is because the cable companies got so much cash from lack of regulation that there will never be regulation in the media inustry again.
If you call that regulation, then well, I think that you should work for Enron. I mean, crack dealers have more of a conscience about fairness and barriers to entry than the FCC has recently. Of course, the FCC gets lobbyists and congress up in "they bizness" and starts deregulating everything.
I am a news photographer... one afternoon when a B-1 bomber went down in a Kentucky cow field, the plane exploded into tiny, tiny shreds. Thankfully, the pilot and the crew ejected and were unharmed. Unfortunately, several cows didn't make it.
One of the most interesting moments that followed in the media cavalcade happened a day later. A man drove out of the woods with a pickup and dropped off a large, man-sized bent piece of metal, which according to the DoD was the larest piece of the plane left. It was the heavy steel dash of the cockpit that holds the hundreds of tiny dials the pilots read. No dials, but a lot of steel.
...other than that, I looked for probably 45 minutes with a pair of binoculars at the impact point, and the largest piece I ever saw was a tire. The B-1 is one helluva big plane. It blows up automatically in a crash... no external signal necessary.
Trust me, the DoD does its homework when it comes to keeping its avionics secret.
I have no doubt in my mind that our plane that got captured in China revealed as little as possible to the Chinese Gov't. I realistically believe that they learned very little from taking that plane apart. They certainly didn't get any software to run the equipment, that is for sure. And the software is the real heart of any surveilance system.
In answer to making microchips explode, I would believe there are much better, more certain ways of destroying microprocessors and leave no readable trace.
Your idea has good merit for tiny processors or espionage equipment, that isn't practical for carrying its own destruct. Its also a great idea for sabotage.
In some places, two disks of a classic movie in the highest quality is $11.99. However, a good song on a crappy album that you will constantly hear on the radio anyway is never on sale, is maybe forty-five minutes, and costs at least $15.99.
The music industry complains about their sales, but honestly, what are their sales? If these artists have more money than they can possibly spend in a lifetime, and they get two bucks an album at best, then they need to really shut the hell up.
Its like they are bitching that the record business is not profitable anymore. Bullshit.
Its amazing to see a group of bastards out there like them.
Someone please link to Courtney Love on this one, I think it is the most succinct explanation.
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Man, htose things are seeing a lot of action around Hollywood. Every time I turn a corner, there is someone running down a long hallway with those helmets on... I was flipping through and saw them in a kids show (I think it was some Power Rangers Thingee) and thought, man, the costume company is cleaning up.
Anyway, we need to start an internet list on all of the costumes and props (especially Scifi) that have been waaaaaay overused.
My first vote is for the neo-futuristic bank of lights (it is used to make a place look cool, hah!) that appear randomly in houses of action movies and last-season scifi shows. Usually seen in the background when some thug lieutenant says, "Sir! He's still alive!"
Big Bad Guy with scars:
"Still alive? Impossible!!! Find him and kill him!!!" (Note to viewers, that shiny Christmas lights box in the background is a computer, or somehting, anyway, its winking behind the badguy)
Second vote is for the "V" costumes and helmets. Man, if that ain't overused.
Gartner predicts that by 2010, 40% of adults and 75% of teenagers will be utilizing wearable devices, and 70% of the population will spend 10 times longer per day interacting with people in the e-world than in the physical world.
This is a lesson I learned a long time ago about bogus projections. If someone says the future will be more convenient, they're lying. The lesson that I learned about this was from my mother. She said growing up in the fifties that there were are all of these "new!" and "improved!" lifestyle machines (like a dome ovent that cooked a turkey with the push of a button, Gasp!) that was going to make their newer, shinier, more modern lives better.
There was a lot of speculation from reputable social scientists that said that with all of the modern conveniences that this new society would have, that the average work week would be reduced to something like 27 hours a week by the late seventies... leaving the new, jet propelled mankind to focus on the arts and family.
Of course, we all know what dirction it really went in, where we wear pagers all the time and can't see our children, and we all probably pull a 55 hour week. Our convenient future comes in the form of a bank teller that you get charged extra to see.
If the modern life has taught us anything it is that more output means more expectations.
Period.
So if anyone has a lock on the future? Tell them to stick their projections, because they're probably quadruple wrong and most likely in the wrong direction.
Finally, someone clued me in to what this Wookie-TV memory is that has been haunting me.
Yes, my earliest memory of television was Wookies standing around talking. This has been haunting me for years about what the hell that was. After all, Star Wars was a movie. Why did I have memories of Wookies on TV? And after all... how did I know that Chewbacca had two kid Wookies?
All I remember about this (after all, I was four at the time) was the fact that Wookies had families in big trees, and that they came in other shades of brown instead of Chewbacca brown.
I don't remember the rest, because MY MOM TURNED OFF THE TV. I was sitting there watching the show in my Star Wars PJs and she turned it off. I remember I was rather disappointed.
Apparently, as I just found out today reading the articles, THERE WAS A REASON FOR THAT. Actually, a very funny, ridiculous reason for that. My sister went upstairs and watched it. Looks like I'll have to ask her how bad it was.
Thanks... I feel better. I laughed when I though about my mom turning off the TV.
Unfortunately, this is becoming more of the norm than the exception anymore.
There has been a lot of deregulation that came down about two years ago... can anyone remember what bill this was that allowed subsidiary sharing?
Some other things you will soon notice... same newscast on different competing channels. Television stations can own more than one in any particular area.
Cable-television station-power and lights-commecial gas all in one companies. Many of you have seen this already if you live in Southern Indiana, where Vectren, the power company, controls services package for telephone, cable TV, broadband, power, and natural gas for your homes.
I have a friend that pays one bill a month. One huge, overpriced, amazingly illegal-until recently-deregulated bill.
By the way, the company was accused for decades of price gouging.
Do we have to be concerned about anti-ad-free networks or laws banning such?
That got me thinking...
Not that this guy is doing this but...
Every damn time I think that I am off of my rocker a little, some Orwellian freak on/. shows up talking like the government is wearing a Guy Montag outfit to tell me to keep my television on, and put down the book.
Wow. Free things being outlawed. Now that is truly using a stretch concept.
Its amazing the fiction that people will believe as the truth.
Put the subscription information on a removable hard drive...
Upadate it daily, and pull it out daily. Wipe out new information on web. Lock up drive. Back it up. Client communications about their account should occur over telephone. And be altered in the closed system.
Also, a good security system if the client wants to see account information is to use what my bank does... give them a new account identity number(with letters too) that has nothing to do with the credit numbers. So when the thieves steal the information, it is only useful to your company and not the rest of the world.
After that point, they would have to physically get into your company and system to pull off any information.
After all of the bandwidth issues that are there and blow my mind, I have questions about where this would go.
The question I am thinking is, when are we going to see purchase tier services that rival HBO?
Its great that I can watch a $5 movie on demand with my cable access, but when are we going to be able to buy a package that allows us unlimited viewing of a grouping for say, $15 bucks a month?
Now that is what I am looking for. Maybe a month with Sci-Fi classics, then a month with schlock horror.
Hello, custom made HBO!
Personally, I don't think that I would be buying individual movies if there wasn't an economy pricing scheme, otherwise I would blow my month of entertainment in an evening.
Also, this would be a kickin' delivery system for all of you independent film nuts out there.
Now that is amazing. Someone can get higher points than my original post with an incomplete thought... GREAT. I didn't say here is my comment... I said that we should apply our force into peaceful, political action that can really change something.
This guy sneers, and gets points, because he agrees with all of the conspiracy theorists... and believes that right now, someone is sitting behind a mahogany desk making a concerted effort to take away his rights.
*Sigh* If only they really cared that much.
Honestly, if I could get points through sarcastic remarks, my Karma would still not be that great.
Alas, I don't I think that you really aren't trolling on this one. If you are, hell, you deserve the points for being an excellent troll.
Really people. If there is this big conspiracy, then where is the proof, other than kook words on the kook internet with no pictures, no concrete evidence but a ton of kook ranting? What posesses a person to believe them more than anyone else without proof? In almost any side of an issue, both lie. I want some dang evidence. Independent evidence of Big Brother.
Where have all of your liberties run off to compared to the massive slaughters that the populations of *say* China, Russia, or dictator held lands have suffered? The things that politicians are doing in the United States today might also be the result of the one thing that we complain about on Slashdot all the time...
Ignorance of technology. With a lack of independent voice in tech issues, they listen to companies. The movement should be independent. I know, we've been complaining about this forever... it is a legit idea.
Make action with not the seemingly exciting "counter-terrorist" agenda setting weirdness, but the boring, write-your-congressmen ways that the rich corporations beat over your heads every day. Granted, sign this petition is not as fun as storming a mall with security cameras, but it gets more action and less arrests.
It is not very slashdottian to say this, but your rights are not disappearing, they are being adjusted. They have been adjusted of every session of congress since it was founded. So please get out there and readjust them back in a way that you think is right. Real concrete movements to counteract real concrete laws. It isn't glamorous, but it does work. And it doesn't require harassin' working stiffs on the job.
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You are right about our friends in the Whitehouse having an interest due to oil companies in the Afghanistani pipeline that they were planning on making, but there is one big gaping whole in your theories that other people have not noticed... enourmous, drive-a-truck-through-it hole.
American taxpayer aid to the taliban was stopped in (the northern) spring due to an oil pipeline deal that was brokered, in part by Cheney, falling through. As a gesture of goodwill, the Taliban supplied the whereabouts of bin Laden at that time. What went wrong? - the contract was awarded to an Argentinian firm. Can you guess plan b?
Here you are saying, in effect we planned a war with the Taliban and the Al Quaeda... your "plan B" smacks of intentional overt warfare... then why were we brokering with a group of people who for more than five years were planning an attack on our two largest massed structures to kill thousands that WE KNEW ABOUT AND STOPPED SEVERAL TIMES? You never, ever come willingly to a bargaining table whilst someone has a pistol drawn underneath it. NO ONE IS THAT STUPID, ESPECIALLY THE ONES THAT MAKE PRESIDENTS. We learned our lesson years ago when certain South American countries nationalized our oil interests.
We never planned on attacking them for God's sake, if an Argentenian company bought them then it would be a surefire indication that it was always up for sale, we just happened to be buying... and lost for some other reason, probably not the money.
Oh, and here's another one. The reason why these countries that you say are broken is not our fault. I would like to advance the radical notion that why those people are screwed so badly is because of the nature of their mentally poor, ridiculously weak citizenry and butcher leaders OVER HUNDREDS OF GENERATIONS... not because of the last 15 minutes that a CIA operative has been in country. These people never got the bug that says, "Liberty!" Never fought for their individual independence. Never even fought for religious independence from their leaders like Martin Luther did. Name one. I dare you. Name one that was a warrior for the people and not to make his own kingdom. I KNOW YOU CAN'T. There aren't any. Not one that any Westerners can look to and say, "Now there was a man out for the advancement of his people, and not just himself." NAME ONE LEADER IN THE MIDDLE EAST THAT IS NOT A COMPLETE, MURDEROUS NUTBAG. That place was a den of vipers long before the the US was a country. I have no idea why the Jews wanted back there, but then again, I am not a Jew, so I don't even try to understand.
You really can't blame the CIA on every countries woes. Its a cop out, and a horrible slap against the United States and all of the other democracies in the free world that had citizens with enough guts to take back their land from tyrannous bastards. If they take it back for the people, then we'll know that they're serious about being something other than pathetic, loser, dirt farmers and poppy-field pushers. Guess what? It ain't going to happen.
I am sure there is a lot of blame coming our way on all of this current mess. But honestly, if you want to BLAME IT ALL on something else and absolve the individuals in question of all responsibility for their actions, then may I suggest a long and fruitful career in social work. Those losers could abuse a doe-eyed crusader like yourself for a while and let you give them things they never earned.
I think that Adobe is obviously doing the right thing, after all, they are not trying to stop the piracy (and IT IS PIRACY, enough said) they are removing the incentive to pirate. They are not doing anything aggressive, they are just walking away from the cheaters (in this case, it appears to be the whole frickin' society). This is an honorable approach in a dishonorable situation.
Many posts here have seemed to bring up these dishonorable practices as though they are the exception. Unfortunately in this case, they are the rule of 90% of the software users there. Entire multinational corporations are cheating because they can. Stealing. Like the idea of paying for goods and services is somehow alien to these corporations.
Yes, I have paid for my software. I plunked down my coin for Wolfenstein. I have payed up. You should too. It is pathetic to hear these cheap justifications.
There is no amount of ridiculous crap that you can spin me to tell me that that market is stealing.
You think that Adobe got into this market to be a goodwill ambassador? No they got in it because they like to make programs and be rewarded handsomely for it. After all this is software, and you people talk about them like they are arms dealers. They are not hurting humanity by selling software, stop screaming at them.
Good troll, jerk. Read an economics book.
Just substitute the word "Romans" every time you see Americans, and you will get a real kick out of it. It takes politics back about 2000 years... same old stuff, new circumstances.
It makes me laugh thinking about it.
Whoops. There went my Karma.
Honestly, considering the fact that the Ukraine and other parts of the Old Soviet Union are so poor... I'd say the only Cds that they are going to be burning are the ones to keep their homes warm. IF (and this is the big one), and I mean IF they can even get optical media.
Besides, what does a computer with a burner cost these days... three years average Russian salary? More for the Ukraine? Honestly, these people cannot afford the wholesale piracy that they say is happening.
This is B.S. hardball. After all, what is the consequence of letting them burn? More Russians singing pop songs in broken English?
Think if you were the Ukrainian authorities... and you really, really, really, need capital. This is not even a concern to you. Some foreign country starts yammering about CD copyrights? YOU'VE GOT STARVING PEOPLE. THE BEST OFF LOOK LIKE THE POOREST IN THE REST OF THE WESTERN WORLD. I am a US patriot, but I would tell them to go pick a bigger issue to restrict my trade over.
could be tough considering the FCC does regulation of them.
Well yes, theyre regulated, if you call the opportunity to make a 45% profit margin (the highest in any large scale industry) for years selling the world the priveledge to watch television and then charge local stations to run their programming after they run them into the ground... and then have no requirements for community programming, or must-carry discounted political ads.
Honestly, the reason why cable modems are not regulated is because the cable companies got so much cash from lack of regulation that there will never be regulation in the media inustry again.
If you call that regulation, then well, I think that you should work for Enron. I mean, crack dealers have more of a conscience about fairness and barriers to entry than the FCC has recently. Of course, the FCC gets lobbyists and congress up in "they bizness" and starts deregulating everything.
I am a news photographer... one afternoon when a B-1 bomber went down in a Kentucky cow field, the plane exploded into tiny, tiny shreds. Thankfully, the pilot and the crew ejected and were unharmed. Unfortunately, several cows didn't make it.
One of the most interesting moments that followed in the media cavalcade happened a day later. A man drove out of the woods with a pickup and dropped off a large, man-sized bent piece of metal, which according to the DoD was the larest piece of the plane left. It was the heavy steel dash of the cockpit that holds the hundreds of tiny dials the pilots read. No dials, but a lot of steel.
Trust me, the DoD does its homework when it comes to keeping its avionics secret.
I have no doubt in my mind that our plane that got captured in China revealed as little as possible to the Chinese Gov't. I realistically believe that they learned very little from taking that plane apart. They certainly didn't get any software to run the equipment, that is for sure. And the software is the real heart of any surveilance system.
In answer to making microchips explode, I would believe there are much better, more certain ways of destroying microprocessors and leave no readable trace.
Your idea has good merit for tiny processors or espionage equipment, that isn't practical for carrying its own destruct. Its also a great idea for sabotage.
Punkbuster for P2P!!!
In some places, two disks of a classic movie in the highest quality is $11.99. However, a good song on a crappy album that you will constantly hear on the radio anyway is never on sale, is maybe forty-five minutes, and costs at least $15.99.
The music industry complains about their sales, but honestly, what are their sales? If these artists have more money than they can possibly spend in a lifetime, and they get two bucks an album at best, then they need to really shut the hell up.
Its like they are bitching that the record business is not profitable anymore. Bullshit.
Its amazing to see a group of bastards out there like them.
Someone please link to Courtney Love on this one, I think it is the most succinct explanation.
Man, htose things are seeing a lot of action around Hollywood. Every time I turn a corner, there is someone running down a long hallway with those helmets on... I was flipping through and saw them in a kids show (I think it was some Power Rangers Thingee) and thought, man, the costume company is cleaning up.
Anyway, we need to start an internet list on all of the costumes and props (especially Scifi) that have been waaaaaay overused.
My first vote is for the neo-futuristic bank of lights (it is used to make a place look cool, hah!) that appear randomly in houses of action movies and last-season scifi shows. Usually seen in the background when some thug lieutenant says, "Sir! He's still alive!"
Big Bad Guy with scars:
"Still alive? Impossible!!! Find him and kill him!!!" (Note to viewers, that shiny Christmas lights box in the background is a computer, or somehting, anyway, its winking behind the badguy)
Second vote is for the "V" costumes and helmets. Man, if that ain't overused.
Gartner predicts that by 2010, 40% of adults and 75% of teenagers will be utilizing wearable devices, and 70% of the population will spend 10 times longer per day interacting with people in the e-world than in the physical world.
This is a lesson I learned a long time ago about bogus projections. If someone says the future will be more convenient, they're lying. The lesson that I learned about this was from my mother. She said growing up in the fifties that there were are all of these "new!" and "improved!" lifestyle machines (like a dome ovent that cooked a turkey with the push of a button, Gasp!) that was going to make their newer, shinier, more modern lives better.
There was a lot of speculation from reputable social scientists that said that with all of the modern conveniences that this new society would have, that the average work week would be reduced to something like 27 hours a week by the late seventies... leaving the new, jet propelled mankind to focus on the arts and family.
Of course, we all know what dirction it really went in, where we wear pagers all the time and can't see our children, and we all probably pull a 55 hour week. Our convenient future comes in the form of a bank teller that you get charged extra to see.
If the modern life has taught us anything it is that more output means more expectations.
Period.
So if anyone has a lock on the future? Tell them to stick their projections, because they're probably quadruple wrong and most likely in the wrong direction.
Finally, someone clued me in to what this Wookie-TV memory is that has been haunting me.
Yes, my earliest memory of television was Wookies standing around talking. This has been haunting me for years about what the hell that was. After all, Star Wars was a movie. Why did I have memories of Wookies on TV? And after all... how did I know that Chewbacca had two kid Wookies?
All I remember about this (after all, I was four at the time) was the fact that Wookies had families in big trees, and that they came in other shades of brown instead of Chewbacca brown.
I don't remember the rest, because MY MOM TURNED OFF THE TV. I was sitting there watching the show in my Star Wars PJs and she turned it off. I remember I was rather disappointed.
Apparently, as I just found out today reading the articles, THERE WAS A REASON FOR THAT. Actually, a very funny, ridiculous reason for that. My sister went upstairs and watched it. Looks like I'll have to ask her how bad it was.
Thanks... I feel better. I laughed when I though about my mom turning off the TV.
I'm out. Mod this cat up!
Thanks for the link.
Unfortunately, this is becoming more of the norm than the exception anymore.
There has been a lot of deregulation that came down about two years ago... can anyone remember what bill this was that allowed subsidiary sharing?
Some other things you will soon notice... same newscast on different competing channels. Television stations can own more than one in any particular area.
Cable-television station-power and lights-commecial gas all in one companies. Many of you have seen this already if you live in Southern Indiana, where Vectren, the power company, controls services package for telephone, cable TV, broadband, power, and natural gas for your homes.
I have a friend that pays one bill a month. One huge, overpriced, amazingly illegal-until recently-deregulated bill.
By the way, the company was accused for decades of price gouging.
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Earlier you wrote...
"Looks like Picasso... or Dali... hell I don't know."
Funny. I laughed on that one. You deserve some points for that, unfortunately, I have no points.
Do we have to be concerned about anti-ad-free networks or laws banning such?
That got me thinking...
Not that this guy is doing this but...
Every damn time I think that I am off of my rocker a little, some Orwellian freak on
Wow. Free things being outlawed. Now that is truly using a stretch concept.
Its amazing the fiction that people will believe as the truth.
Although his last paryt is falmebait... the frist three paragraphs are important.
Here's an idea.
Put the subscription information on a removable hard drive...
Upadate it daily, and pull it out daily. Wipe out new information on web. Lock up drive. Back it up. Client communications about their account should occur over telephone. And be altered in the closed system.
Also, a good security system if the client wants to see account information is to use what my bank does... give them a new account identity number(with letters too) that has nothing to do with the credit numbers. So when the thieves steal the information, it is only useful to your company and not the rest of the world.
After that point, they would have to physically get into your company and system to pull off any information.
After all of the bandwidth issues that are there and blow my mind, I have questions about where this would go.
The question I am thinking is, when are we going to see purchase tier services that rival HBO?
Its great that I can watch a $5 movie on demand with my cable access, but when are we going to be able to buy a package that allows us unlimited viewing of a grouping for say, $15 bucks a month?
Now that is what I am looking for. Maybe a month with Sci-Fi classics, then a month with schlock horror.
Hello, custom made HBO!
Personally, I don't think that I would be buying individual movies if there wasn't an economy pricing scheme, otherwise I would blow my month of entertainment in an evening.
Also, this would be a kickin' delivery system for all of you independent film nuts out there.
the fanatic followers of Mr. Christ
"Hey there, Paizan, when the Christ talks, you listen, Capiche? And don't be talkin' smack about his business unless he invites you for a sit down."
"... Aaaaaand thats a Mr. Christ, ta you. Got it?"
Bada-Bing.
Merry Christmas, you heathens.
Now that is amazing. Someone can get higher points than my original post with an incomplete thought... GREAT. I didn't say here is my comment... I said that we should apply our force into peaceful, political action that can really change something.
This guy sneers, and gets points, because he agrees with all of the conspiracy theorists... and believes that right now, someone is sitting behind a mahogany desk making a concerted effort to take away his rights.
*Sigh* If only they really cared that much.
Honestly, if I could get points through sarcastic remarks, my Karma would still not be that great.
Dude, I wish I had some points for you.
Alas, I don't I think that you really aren't trolling on this one. If you are, hell, you deserve the points for being an excellent troll.
Really people. If there is this big conspiracy, then where is the proof, other than kook words on the kook internet with no pictures, no concrete evidence but a ton of kook ranting? What posesses a person to believe them more than anyone else without proof? In almost any side of an issue, both lie. I want some dang evidence. Independent evidence of Big Brother.
Where have all of your liberties run off to compared to the massive slaughters that the populations of *say* China, Russia, or dictator held lands have suffered? The things that politicians are doing in the United States today might also be the result of the one thing that we complain about on Slashdot all the time...
Ignorance of technology. With a lack of independent voice in tech issues, they listen to companies. The movement should be independent. I know, we've been complaining about this forever... it is a legit idea.
Make action with not the seemingly exciting "counter-terrorist" agenda setting weirdness, but the boring, write-your-congressmen ways that the rich corporations beat over your heads every day. Granted, sign this petition is not as fun as storming a mall with security cameras, but it gets more action and less arrests.
It is not very slashdottian to say this, but your rights are not disappearing, they are being adjusted. They have been adjusted of every session of congress since it was founded. So please get out there and readjust them back in a way that you think is right. Real concrete movements to counteract real concrete laws. It isn't glamorous, but it does work. And it doesn't require harassin' working stiffs on the job.