I think its cool that it's named after the town I live in... Great Bridge. I should have registered that name a long time ago! Great Bridge is a section of the city of Chesapeake which is a suburb of Norfolk. Great Bridge was a small but important battle in the War for Independence in 1775.
"In actuality defendant is replaying for the subscribers converted versions of the recordings it copied, without authorization, from plaintiffs' copyrighted CDs," Rakoff wrote.
This means that without the permission of the RIAA, I can't make a copy of my cd to my computer at all. This is total bullshit!
You mean you can buy software? Why?
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Who buys software? I can get everything I want from the net. I'm a Virginian but I have to admit we are probably the most ass-backwards state in the country for everything. We're the largest state without a professional sports franchise. We are one of the worst at protecting the environment and we never know what the weathers going to be like.
I guess selling 50 million albums changes your perspective on things. This is off of Metallica's official website:
Says Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, "With each project, we go through a grueling creative process to achieve music that we feel is representative of Metallica at that very moment in our lives. We take our craft - whether it be the music, the lyrics, or the photos and artwork - very seriously, as do most artists. It is therefore sickening to know that our art is being traded like a commodity rather than the art that it is. From a business standpoint, this is about piracy - a/k/a taking something that doesn't belong to you; and that is morally and legally wrong. The trading of such information - whether it's music, videos, photos, or whatever - is, in effect, trafficking in stolen goods."
I'm from the heart of Pat Robertson country. Once Ralph Reed found out that his Christian Coalition wasn't tax exempt, he jumped ship. He now has a political consulting firm.
Doesn't he look like the kind of guy you just want to punch in the face?
They don't really need our opinions, they should figure it out for themselves. Build an appliance with a harddrive and sell it for $100 over cost. That way they make a profit and we get a pretty cool machine for a low cost.
"The core of Mac OS X is the only mainstream operating system following an open source model," said Philip Schiller, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing.
I must be out of the loop. When did guns start providing defense shields to deflect incoming bullets? Man, I have to change my thinking on guns. (This was sarcasm, by the way.) So, if I run out and get a gun, my chances of being shot will go down as opposed to not having one? You, sir, on a complete idiot.
I'm fed up with this corporatism that runs America. All you have to do is look at the Bush campaign. Here's a guy that will say whatever you want him to say depending on how much cash you waive in front of him.
Hollywood is trying to keep us from watching DVD's on Linux. The recording industry is trying to keep us from listening to music on our computers.
They buy the politicians to pass legislation to do so.
So how do we fight back? I've heard some people on slashdot say that they won't buy dvd's until the dvd fiasco is straightened out. But is it really making a difference? Folks, I hate to say it, but they don't give a rats ass about you the individual and whether you choose to stop buying dvd's. The way to fight back is to take it to the masses. Stop buying cd's? Once again, they don't care.
We can complain all we want on slashdot, but how many people actually read slashdot? If we want to be heard, we need to take it to the mass media.
I live in Virginia. Our local newspaper didn't mention one thing about UCITA until the day after it passed. It wasn't until a week later that someone wrote an article talking about the possible downside to UCITA.
In order to be heard, we need to come together in an organized effort. Corporatism thrives on the basis that a company has more pull than individuals.
What would I like to see done?
1. The Academy Awards are coming up later this month. What better place than this to stage a protest on the Motion Picture Association and DVD than here? Can any linux mag journalists get passes to this to ask some tough questions? Ask actors, directors, and producers as well as executives about the dvd problems.
2. Hand out literature at movie theaters or video stores about the dvd situation. If they won't let you, stage protests.
3. When the summer concerts begin, go to the ticket lines and talk about mp3's and how the record companies are trying to prevent you from listening to what music you want. Call up bands on radio call-in shows and ask them about mp3.
4. Take it to your local paper. Most people still get their information from newspaper or television. Slashdot hasn't gotten that big, yet! Hopefully, in time, it will!
5. Vote. Not just in the main elections, but in your local elections. They affect you the most.
6. Support campaign finance reform. Stop letting corporations choose which candidates you will vote for.
Who cares what Apple has to say anymore. They just don't matter. Linux has become what Apple was supposed to be. But because they were so proprietary, hardware and software, they failed to get the market behind them. Its sad because they make great hardware. It would be nice to buy a G4 preloaded with Linux on it wouldn't it?
So lets take the apple logos off all the themes. You would think that they would appreciate the advertising. Companies like Apple and Sun will need to decide in the future what they are, hardware or software.
These were the worst commercials I can remember. There was only one Budweiser commercial I liked and that was the one with the dog jumping the hedges and smashing into the side of a truck. Please bring back the lizard!
The etrade commercial was the best. The one that said "We just wasted $2 million on this lousy commercial..." That one was pretty funny.
After reading this review, I am going to get Win 2K or Novell for my office. That way all my workers will be connected and we can get on the internet and have email and I can upload files from home.
Oh wait, you say. If I want email, I'll need Exchange or Groupwise for another $1000? And Win 2K doesn't have an ftp server. What exactly do I get for my $1000 then? And if my business does well and we hire another 20 people, I'll have to buy more licenses to connect to the server. How much is that? Another $500-700 for them?
The Preable to the Constitution has been wrong since it was written. It reads : We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
But lets face reality. People have never had power in the United States. Corporations have always run this country.
Write your congressman and request that they pass legislature changing the opening sentence from We the People... to We the Corporations...
Maybe if this went before Congress, people would wake up and see whats been going on for 200 years.
The North American Automobile Manufacturerers Association has announced a lawsuit against 1 million people who carpool. "This infringes upon our copyrights", according to one spokesperson. When you purchase an American made vehicle, you have made an agreement with the N.A.A.M.A. that you will not share your vehicle with anyone else. The goal of the N.A.A.M.A. is for everyone to purchase their own vehicle. You also will never actually own your vehicle, just a license to use it. The N.A.A.M.A. reserves the right to revoke your license at anytime.
I've been a fan of the Simpsons since they were a short segment on the Tracy Ullman show. It is definitely the 1st or 2nd best show of the 90's. Seinfeld being the other. Even the critics have listed it among the top twenty shows of all time.
First you get a Win2K Server to run SQL Server 7. Next, you'll find that your accounting package will require Exchange. So you'll need another server with Exchange on it. Your accounting package will probably require you to have Office 2000 to run reports. So another Win2K server running only Office 2000. And your accounting package will become Web-enabled but only using IIS. So another Win2K server is needed as a web server.
So you've just bought 4 Win2K servers because your accounting package will use only SQL Server 7. What's that $25,000 minimum. I'm not even including licensing.
By the way, the city I work for is getting ready to start looking into enterprise financial systems to replace our legacy accounting system. Why do I have this fear that they may try a system that runs on Win2K? Why not. We spent $500,000 last year upgrading to Office 97.
I mentioned this to some coworkers and one of them said that he is going to patent the century digits in front of the year digits. I guess it will be a free for all now.
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I think its cool that it's named after the town I live in ... Great Bridge. I should have registered that name a long time ago! Great Bridge is a section of the city of Chesapeake which is a suburb of Norfolk. Great Bridge was a small but important battle in the War for Independence in 1775.
Now if they'll only hire me!
"In actuality defendant is replaying for the subscribers converted versions of the recordings it copied, without authorization, from plaintiffs' copyrighted CDs," Rakoff wrote.
This means that without the permission of the RIAA, I can't make a copy of my cd to my computer at all. This is total bullshit!
Who buys software? I can get everything I want from the net. I'm a Virginian but I have to admit we are probably the most ass-backwards state in the country for everything. We're the largest state without a professional sports franchise. We are one of the worst at protecting the environment and we never know what the weathers going to be like.
Maybe you need a lifestyle change if you have as you say "...been in several situations where I needed a gun to protect myself and my family."
If you could run your way out of a situation with a gun, why couldn't you do it without a gun?
I guess selling 50 million albums changes your perspective on things. This is off of Metallica's official website:
Says Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, "With each project, we go through a grueling
creative process to achieve music that we feel is representative of Metallica at that
very moment in our lives. We take our craft - whether it be the music, the lyrics, or the
photos and artwork - very seriously, as do most artists. It is therefore sickening to
know that our art is being traded like a commodity rather than the art that it is. From a
business standpoint, this is about piracy - a/k/a taking something that doesn't belong to
you; and that is morally and legally wrong. The trading of such information - whether
it's music, videos, photos, or whatever - is, in effect, trafficking in stolen goods."
I'm from the heart of Pat Robertson country. Once Ralph Reed found out that his Christian Coalition wasn't tax exempt, he jumped ship. He now has a political consulting firm.
Doesn't he look like the kind of guy you just want to punch in the face?
They don't really need our opinions, they should figure it out for themselves. Build an appliance with a harddrive and sell it for $100 over cost. That way they make a profit and we get a pretty cool machine for a low cost.
"The core of Mac OS X is the only mainstream operating system following an open source model,"
said Philip Schiller, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing.
Huh???
I must be out of the loop. When did guns start providing defense shields to deflect incoming bullets? Man, I have to change my thinking on guns. (This was sarcasm, by the way.) So, if I run out and get a gun, my chances of being shot will go down as opposed to not having one? You, sir, on a complete idiot.
Put it up to SourceForge and lets get a project started.
I'm fed up with this corporatism that runs America. All you have to do is look at the Bush campaign. Here's a guy that will say whatever you want him to say depending on how much cash you waive in front of him.
Hollywood is trying to keep us from watching DVD's on Linux. The recording industry is trying to keep us from listening to music on our computers.
They buy the politicians to pass legislation to do so.
So how do we fight back? I've heard some people on slashdot say that they won't buy dvd's until the dvd fiasco is straightened out. But is it really making a difference? Folks, I hate to say it, but they don't give a rats ass about you the individual and whether you choose to stop buying dvd's. The way to fight back is to take it to the masses. Stop buying cd's? Once again, they don't care.
We can complain all we want on slashdot, but how many people actually read slashdot? If we want to be heard, we need to take it to the mass media.
I live in Virginia. Our local newspaper didn't mention one thing about UCITA until the day after it passed. It wasn't until a week later that someone wrote an article talking about the possible downside to UCITA.
In order to be heard, we need to come together in an organized effort. Corporatism thrives on the basis that a company has more pull than individuals.
What would I like to see done?
1. The Academy Awards are coming up later this month. What better place than this to stage a protest on the Motion Picture Association and DVD than here? Can any linux mag journalists get passes to this to ask some tough questions? Ask actors, directors, and producers as well as executives about the dvd problems.
2. Hand out literature at movie theaters or video stores about the dvd situation. If they won't let you, stage protests.
3. When the summer concerts begin, go to the ticket lines and talk about mp3's and how the record companies are trying to prevent you from listening to what music you want. Call up bands on radio call-in shows and ask them about mp3.
4. Take it to your local paper. Most people still get their information from newspaper or television. Slashdot hasn't gotten that big, yet! Hopefully, in time, it will!
5. Vote. Not just in the main elections, but in your local elections. They affect you the most.
6. Support campaign finance reform. Stop letting corporations choose which candidates you will vote for.
Who cares what Apple has to say anymore. They just don't matter. Linux has become what Apple was supposed to be. But because they were so proprietary, hardware and software, they failed to get the market behind them. Its sad because they make great hardware. It would be nice to buy a G4 preloaded with Linux on it wouldn't it?
So lets take the apple logos off all the themes. You would think that they would appreciate the advertising. Companies like Apple and Sun will need to decide in the future what they are, hardware or software.
No I think the survey was done on MSN.
Uh, it wasn't a leopard. It was a cheetah.
These were the worst commercials I can remember. There was only one Budweiser commercial I liked and that was the one with the dog jumping the hedges and smashing into the side of a truck.
Please bring back the lizard!
The etrade commercial was the best. The one that said "We just wasted $2 million on this lousy commercial..." That one was pretty funny.
After reading this review, I am going to get Win 2K or Novell for my office. That way all my workers will be connected and we can get on the internet and have email and I can upload files from home.
Oh wait, you say. If I want email, I'll need Exchange or Groupwise for another $1000? And Win 2K doesn't have an ftp server. What exactly do I get for my $1000 then? And if my business does well and we hire another 20 people, I'll have to buy more licenses to connect to the server. How much is that? Another $500-700 for them?
Linux or BSD looks better all the time.
I hope they didn't run the tests with X Windows running. If its a server, don't run it unless you need to.
The Preable to the Constitution has been wrong since it was written. It reads : We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide
for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and
establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
But lets face reality. People have never had power in the United States. Corporations have always run this country.
Write your congressman and request that they pass legislature changing the opening sentence from We the People... to We the Corporations...
Maybe if this went before Congress, people would wake up and see whats been going on for 200 years.
The North American Automobile Manufacturerers Association has announced a lawsuit against 1 million people who carpool. "This infringes upon our copyrights", according to one spokesperson. When you purchase an American made vehicle, you have made an agreement with the N.A.A.M.A. that you will not share your vehicle with anyone else.
The goal of the N.A.A.M.A. is for everyone to purchase their own vehicle. You also will never actually own your vehicle, just a license to use it. The N.A.A.M.A. reserves the right to revoke your license at anytime.
south park doesn't come close. the simpsons never had to resort to vulgarity to be funny.
I've been a fan of the Simpsons since they were a short segment on the Tracy Ullman show. It is definitely the 1st or 2nd best show of the 90's. Seinfeld being the other. Even the critics have listed it among the top twenty shows of all time.
First you get a Win2K Server to run SQL Server 7. Next, you'll find that your accounting package will require Exchange. So you'll need another server with Exchange on it. Your accounting package will probably require you to have Office 2000 to run reports. So another Win2K server running only Office 2000. And your accounting package will become Web-enabled but only using IIS. So another Win2K server is needed as a web server.
So you've just bought 4 Win2K servers because your accounting package will use only SQL Server 7. What's that $25,000 minimum. I'm not even including licensing.
By the way, the city I work for is getting ready to start looking into enterprise financial systems to replace our legacy accounting system. Why do I have this fear that they may try a system that runs on Win2K? Why not. We spent $500,000 last year upgrading to Office 97.
Shit! I just got a Voodoo3 3000 for Christmas. Oh well, maybe next year.
I take exception to his description of programmers. I haven't had a twinkie in probably twenty years! I'm also in the gym 5 days a week.
I mentioned this to some coworkers and one of them said that he is going to patent the century digits in front of the year digits. I guess it will be a free for all now.