It's even worse than 1984. Instead of an ominous, stalinist-grey motif that at least conveys the nature of what's going on, they've slapped a catchy and cheery name on it - NetDiscovery! I wouldn't be surprised if they advertise this complete with Disney characters and a big fucking smiley face.
It's so post-1984-cum-signs-of-the-impending-fall-of-the-r oman-empire.
They think that spiderman *suffered* from internet piracy?
If I'd had the opportunity to preview Spiderman on the Internet, I wouldn't have wasted the time and money to see that worthless, interminably boring piece of crap.
Most of the misses by bombs and missiles from the US Air Force are due to the crews flying high enough to avoid antiaircraft fire. With unmanned drones, that's no longer a concern
How do figure "that's no longer a convern?" In addition to protecting the pilot, they fly at a high altitude so they get there in one piece to accomplish the mission. This doesn't change just because you take the pilot out of the picture.
One of the things I find detestable about advertising is that it creates demand where it doesn't exist, or adds perceived value to something where it doesn't exist, resulting in huge, socially worthless inefficiencies in the economy.
For example, why in the world do people pay three times as much for brand-name sodas over store brands with essentially the same formulation?
Our economic system does not promote wise activity, it just promotes activity. Anything to whip up a frothy head on the national economy so the cream can be skimmed from the top by the owners of the entrenched brands, and by those who make a cut every time a transaction of any kind takes place, regardless of what it is.
Watching Microsoft deal with "consumers" is like being an orderly in the coma ward, and walking in on the head physician while he's raping unconscious patients in their hospital beds.
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Yeah, it'll be XML, but the content will be encrypted. Like this:
The networks don't have to make money on anyone. No one is forcing them to use the public airwaves to broadcast their shows. If no one watched commercials, and the networks went out of business, and we used the airwaves for something else, like multicast internet distribution, I'd be perfectly happy.
What he said.
My theory is, that if *advertising* were not the main revenue source, then the kind of crap programming enjoyed by people who are *susceptible to advertising* would diminish.
Only tangentially related: Why are there no nation-wide public/community access channels?
You've GOT to be kidding. Television is a filthy bowl of swill as it is.
I would gladly pay for TV if it were worth a damn, but its programming is geared toward the smooth, encephalitic brains that are influenced by advertising to buy crap.
In other cases, perhaps you might need to get creative to get that CD out. Perhaps you need to pull the drive apart - who knows.
Or perhaps you need beat the living shit out of the fuck-heads who cavalierly take it upon themselves to fuck with your hardware. Then kill their extended families, burn down their houses with their corpses inside, and piss on the ashes.
Or that paper clip thing might work too, I don't know.
And no restricting it to just namby-pamby cheesy looking cheap white shirts with flimsy looking text and a lame graphic - I want a QUALITY black shirt featuring that big, red "Commie" star on the front, with the lizard's head in the middle, and something simple on the back; maybe just "mozilla.org" in a kickass font or some such.
ABSOLUTELY PERFECT MY GOOD MAN! EXACTLY WHAT I HAD IN MIND!
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Yeah, this is "security through obscurity" like my obscure password is "security through obscurity."
Please, take a nanosecond to think, or at least to ponder the definition of the term you use, before you post something.
It's a basic principle of business - and also, strangely, con artists - you're better off taking a little off your customer/mark over a long period, maintaining a positive relationship for an extended period, rather than taking them for all their worth once and never hearing from them again.
...unless your aim is to manipulate them into position as fodder for some other world domination scheme.
It will be very interesting to see whether MS will get any of the "free" trade orgs into this or (more likely) get the US to lean on Peru. They use words like "discriminatory" which have specific meaning with respect to international trade.
This was my first thought too, but I think they're in the clear as long as they simply set standards for their software and apply them equally.
So, if Microsoft wanted to provide versions of its products under the GPL, and ensure their products all saved data in non-proprietary standard formats, they would be more than welcome to compete for Peru's business.:-)
Did you hear about the new bill in Congress? They're going to require that every consumer television set sold in the US comes with those Clockwork-Orange-like toothpicks to hold your eyes open.
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It's even worse than 1984. Instead of an ominous, stalinist-grey motif that at least conveys the nature of what's going on, they've slapped a catchy and cheery name on it - NetDiscovery! I wouldn't be surprised if they advertise this complete with Disney characters and a big fucking smiley face.
It's so post-1984-cum-signs-of-the-impending-fall-of-the-r oman-empire.
Now the government can listen to me telling telemarketers to go fuck themselves.
Gee, I actually went to look :-(
If I'd had the opportunity to preview Spiderman on the Internet, I wouldn't have wasted the time and money to see that worthless, interminably boring piece of crap.
Yeah, but you don't have to have pilots who can withstand a bazillion g's just to turn in a dogfight either.
How do figure "that's no longer a convern?" In addition to protecting the pilot, they fly at a high altitude so they get there in one piece to accomplish the mission. This doesn't change just because you take the pilot out of the picture.
Could you be so kind as to point out where I stated that, or anything remotely like that?
For example, why in the world do people pay three times as much for brand-name sodas over store brands with essentially the same formulation?
Our economic system does not promote wise activity, it just promotes activity. Anything to whip up a frothy head on the national economy so the cream can be skimmed from the top by the owners of the entrenched brands, and by those who make a cut every time a transaction of any kind takes place, regardless of what it is.
...point to their software's excellent track record with the DoD.
Watching Microsoft deal with "consumers" is like being an orderly in the coma ward, and walking in on the head physician while he's raping unconscious patients in their hospital beds.
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My theory is, that if *advertising* were not the main revenue source, then the kind of crap programming enjoyed by people who are *susceptible to advertising* would diminish.
Only tangentially related: Why are there no nation-wide public/community access channels?
You've GOT to be kidding. Television is a filthy bowl of swill as it is.
I would gladly pay for TV if it were worth a damn, but its programming is geared toward the smooth, encephalitic brains that are influenced by advertising to buy crap.
Or perhaps you need beat the living shit out of the fuck-heads who cavalierly take it upon themselves to fuck with your hardware. Then kill their extended families, burn down their houses with their corpses inside, and piss on the ashes.
Or that paper clip thing might work too, I don't know.
"Then schtick ze blow torchen up your assen-holen, and ge-crank that mutterfikken all ze way uppen-leder-hosen."
ABSOLUTELY PERFECT MY GOOD MAN! EXACTLY WHAT I HAD IN MIND!
Please, take a nanosecond to think, or at least to ponder the definition of the term you use, before you post something.
If they don't sell some goddamn Mozilla t-shirts when 1.0 hits, heads must roll!
...unless your aim is to manipulate them into position as fodder for some other world domination scheme.
Is a soup can art? At least this has the performance aspect.
Can you imagine the fucken fortune they could make with .ANTI ???
On the other, I don't know if I should direct the statement at Microsoft or its customers.
Institutions should just refuse these licenses on principle.
This was my first thought too, but I think they're in the clear as long as they simply set standards for their software and apply them equally.
So, if Microsoft wanted to provide versions of its products under the GPL, and ensure their products all saved data in non-proprietary standard formats, they would be more than welcome to compete for Peru's business. :-)
Music corps lose nothing if they can explicitly control music use. They could then choose to allow sharing as widely or as narrowly as they like.
Watch for it - the DRM PC will become a reality.
Did you hear about the new bill in Congress? They're going to require that every consumer television set sold in the US comes with those Clockwork-Orange-like toothpicks to hold your eyes open.