true enough, but if you actually give me the money, i'm in no way obliged to give it back. if you then decide that you want something in return, once again, i'm in no way obliged to give you anything.
if a=b, then (a-b) = 0. going from the fifth line to the sixth line, when you divided out (a-b) from both sides, you were, in fact, introducing a nullity.
sorry, but a.xxx wouldn't help you block anything except websites whose operators chose to sign up for a.xxx domain. there's no clear definition of what constitutes porn. does it need to involve more than one person to be porn? or a girl with toys? is playboy porn? what about photos that are only topless? where i live (ontario, canada) women are allowed to wander the streets topless, just like men, so trying to blacklist images of things that we can see everyday by looking out our front window would seem strange. i honestly think that the best answer for people such as yourself who don't wish to view porn, is simply to not view the porn. it's unfortunate that you're offended by images of human sexuality, but no more so than me (as an atheist) being offended by religious images. if they happen to appear on my screen when i'm surfing the web, i ignore them, close the window, or stop visiting that site. but i don't try to get overseer organizations to corral them into a single tld that i can filter out. and as for calling 'a spade a spade', pornography is as much art as *any* image of the virgin mary, regardless of whether or not pachyderms have defecated on it. artistic merit is determined strictly by the eye of the viewer. any attempts to belittle the value of certain types of art based on your subjective tastes, are just that - subjective - and really do nothing but prove how little you understand the concept of art.
there are some of us who have spent years and years playing instruments, studying music theory, learning to be our own recording engineers, mix engineers, gear techs, etc. i can pretty much complete a whole album, start to finish (save for mastering) in my basement, with quality comparable to what "professional" studios would put out (pro tools rig, thousands of dollars worth of mics, pre amps, guitars, eqs, comps, etc...). the problem is, i don't have the distribution channels that the big guys have. so should i sign a contract with a major label *just* to get distribution, and only make thirty cents off of every fifteen dollar cd sold? and where the fuck does anyone get off selling $200+ concert tickets? you don't need that much money, if you're a big name like madonna you're selling out pretty much any venue, and you're making the rest of us look like dicks. your cds are selling poorly because you suck, not because we're all downloading it.
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the problem with that is that somebody then has to front the money. if i can't get paid for each cd that gets sold / copied, then some entity (perhaps a record company) has to pay me up front for it. if you're willing to give me, say $25,000 USD (a modest salary for a year) so that i may go about the business of making music full time without having to worry about the rent / groceries / etc., fantastic. i look forward to doing business with you. so how do you plan to recoup this money you've paid out? selling copies of the cd? makes sense, right? if you design a piece of furniture, you get paid for the design and the manufacturer sells the pieces they build based off of your design to recoup the costs of paying you. and if i could go download the design, click my mouse a few times and have my computer spit out an exact copy of it, don't you think the furniture company would be pissed? then they'd be less willing to pay you to design furniture if everyone is just sharing the plans and making their own. it's a tricky situation and i wish i had an answer. personally, as a musician, all i want is to be able to make enough money off of music to do it as a living without having to work another job. comically enough, i have friends who play in cover bands and make enough money (playing other people's music) to support their families. but try doing that with your own music. a big part of the problem is that without the recognition of cds on store shelves and radio play, gigging on original tunes is hard to do. more people will go to a bar/club to see a cover or tribute band than will go to see an original act.
maybe they're trying to work out an interoperable system so that they too may send orders to his henchmen. in that case, i believe there's an exception...
the big labels are only useful because they have wedged themselves into that position. a big label can get you a booking at a huge venue or play on hundreds of radio stations because big venues and corporate-owned radio station chains will only deal with big labels. the barrier for entry into home recording is low - a few thousand dollars will get you all the mics and pc hardware / software you need to make a good sounding record (provided you have *talent*) but without signing away your soul on a major label, you can't book yourself into anything much bigger than a bar, and you can't get airplay on anything other than college radio. it's a good start, and it could end up getting you noticed by a big label, but until then you'll only ever be a bar band with college radio airplay.
the alpha waves are interpreted in your brain by inputting two different frequencies into the left and right side of the headphone. for example, sending a 300 Hz tone to one ear and a 290 Hz tone to the other will result in your brain perceiving a 10 Hz pulsing tone. read more about it here
that's always been the problem for me. i can fully appreciate that if i leave my house monday morning to go to work and get struck by lightning, that my free will to decide to go to work led me directly to my own death, but i can't draw the connection to (G||g)od. sure, i freely chose my path, but that's kind of a cop out when it's a random act of nature. and saying that "it was his time", "it's God's way", etc. seems to be taking the free will out of the equation. or, to put it another way, imagine your mother getting abducted at gun point while loading groceries into her car, and raped. would you try to comfort her by telling her that it must have been part of god's plan? would you tell her she freely chose to go buy groceries, so she has no one to blame but herself? "don't worry mom, at least the bad man won't go to heaven"? i can't see myself saying any of the above.
god, i hope you're right on point 3. i remember the first time i got my hands on dimensions and flash 4. i animated a rotating 3d crosshair in dimensions, exported it, dropped it into flash, and scripted it to follow the mouse cursor. pointless, but it took hardly any time, was dead simple, and worked exactly as i wanted it to. to this day, i still miss dimensions.
that's why most of what i do is done with synths. no need to worry about clearing samples when you create all of your own instrument sounds. and with propellerheads giving away rebirth for free you've got a free implementation of the classic Roland 808 and 909 drum synths and the 303 bass synth. check out www.kvraudio.com for about a hojillion free vst synths and effects. check out psycle.sourceforge.net for a free tracker. hell, just go to this futureproducers.com thread about free software for home recording. a lot of this stuff is maturing to the point of being used in major production work. it's certainly possible to make a wide variety of music from your computer without investing a cent in software or breaking any copyright laws.
Yep, those sure are pictures of motherboards. So, um, how do we even know those are the beta Mac machines in question, 'cause *I* sure can't tell from those pictures.
Just a quick heads up: it's customary here to explain matters of sex by making analogies to computers, not the other way around. Other than that, welcome to slashdot!
I think the original poster's ideas may work. Why just get the anonymous card when you can increase the signal-to-noise ratio of the would-be observers? If everyone, instead of getting the anonymous card, took out an "interesting" book once a month or so, any attempts at monitoring library habits could be severely hampered. Think of it like email: instead of encrypting all of your email, just randomly send missives to a friend or another of your own accounts consisting of nothing but "bomb assassinate bush terror allah osama jihad" etc. If governments are going to monitor the private affairs of their citizens, it is a patriot's *duty* to flood the system with garbage, not to try to fly under the radar.
I dunno. Most of the twelve year olds that use 'w00t' can't even AIM and need a bot to do it for them. Then they act like they're teh pwnz0r j00 anyways. Fucking campers.
If you want to survive, you need to offer something worth paying for. Companies like RedHat can manage to give away the product and sell services to make money. If you want to be able to sell what your competitors are giving away for free, you'd better have a damn good product. And if you can't make it, give 'em the software and make your money on support and other services. The future is subscriptions.
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true enough, but if you actually give me the money, i'm in no way obliged to give it back. if you then decide that you want something in return, once again, i'm in no way obliged to give you anything.
if a=b, then (a-b) = 0. going from the fifth line to the sixth line, when you divided out (a-b) from both sides, you were, in fact, introducing a nullity.
If I could rearange the keyboard I'd put U and I together.
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fun fact: "rearrange" has three r's
wow. it's a fleur de lis with a rainbow trail. seriously. rainbows and the french. you weren't kidding...
the tracer joke isn't from Mallrats, it's from Chasing Amy.
sorry, but a .xxx wouldn't help you block anything except websites whose operators chose to sign up for a .xxx domain. there's no clear definition of what constitutes porn. does it need to involve more than one person to be porn? or a girl with toys? is playboy porn? what about photos that are only topless? where i live (ontario, canada) women are allowed to wander the streets topless, just like men, so trying to blacklist images of things that we can see everyday by looking out our front window would seem strange. i honestly think that the best answer for people such as yourself who don't wish to view porn, is simply to not view the porn. it's unfortunate that you're offended by images of human sexuality, but no more so than me (as an atheist) being offended by religious images. if they happen to appear on my screen when i'm surfing the web, i ignore them, close the window, or stop visiting that site. but i don't try to get overseer organizations to corral them into a single tld that i can filter out. and as for calling 'a spade a spade', pornography is as much art as *any* image of the virgin mary, regardless of whether or not pachyderms have defecated on it. artistic merit is determined strictly by the eye of the viewer. any attempts to belittle the value of certain types of art based on your subjective tastes, are just that - subjective - and really do nothing but prove how little you understand the concept of art.
there are some of us who have spent years and years playing instruments, studying music theory, learning to be our own recording engineers, mix engineers, gear techs, etc. i can pretty much complete a whole album, start to finish (save for mastering) in my basement, with quality comparable to what "professional" studios would put out (pro tools rig, thousands of dollars worth of mics, pre amps, guitars, eqs, comps, etc...). the problem is, i don't have the distribution channels that the big guys have. so should i sign a contract with a major label *just* to get distribution, and only make thirty cents off of every fifteen dollar cd sold? and where the fuck does anyone get off selling $200+ concert tickets? you don't need that much money, if you're a big name like madonna you're selling out pretty much any venue, and you're making the rest of us look like dicks. your cds are selling poorly because you suck, not because we're all downloading it.
the problem with that is that somebody then has to front the money. if i can't get paid for each cd that gets sold / copied, then some entity (perhaps a record company) has to pay me up front for it. if you're willing to give me, say $25,000 USD (a modest salary for a year) so that i may go about the business of making music full time without having to worry about the rent / groceries / etc., fantastic. i look forward to doing business with you. so how do you plan to recoup this money you've paid out? selling copies of the cd? makes sense, right? if you design a piece of furniture, you get paid for the design and the manufacturer sells the pieces they build based off of your design to recoup the costs of paying you. and if i could go download the design, click my mouse a few times and have my computer spit out an exact copy of it, don't you think the furniture company would be pissed? then they'd be less willing to pay you to design furniture if everyone is just sharing the plans and making their own. it's a tricky situation and i wish i had an answer. personally, as a musician, all i want is to be able to make enough money off of music to do it as a living without having to work another job. comically enough, i have friends who play in cover bands and make enough money (playing other people's music) to support their families. but try doing that with your own music. a big part of the problem is that without the recognition of cds on store shelves and radio play, gigging on original tunes is hard to do. more people will go to a bar/club to see a cover or tribute band than will go to see an original act.
maybe they're trying to work out an interoperable system so that they too may send orders to his henchmen. in that case, i believe there's an exception...
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the big labels are only useful because they have wedged themselves into that position. a big label can get you a booking at a huge venue or play on hundreds of radio stations because big venues and corporate-owned radio station chains will only deal with big labels. the barrier for entry into home recording is low - a few thousand dollars will get you all the mics and pc hardware / software you need to make a good sounding record (provided you have *talent*) but without signing away your soul on a major label, you can't book yourself into anything much bigger than a bar, and you can't get airplay on anything other than college radio. it's a good start, and it could end up getting you noticed by a big label, but until then you'll only ever be a bar band with college radio airplay.
the alpha waves are interpreted in your brain by inputting two different frequencies into the left and right side of the headphone. for example, sending a 300 Hz tone to one ear and a 290 Hz tone to the other will result in your brain perceiving a 10 Hz pulsing tone. read more about it here
that's always been the problem for me. i can fully appreciate that if i leave my house monday morning to go to work and get struck by lightning, that my free will to decide to go to work led me directly to my own death, but i can't draw the connection to (G||g)od. sure, i freely chose my path, but that's kind of a cop out when it's a random act of nature. and saying that "it was his time", "it's God's way", etc. seems to be taking the free will out of the equation. or, to put it another way, imagine your mother getting abducted at gun point while loading groceries into her car, and raped. would you try to comfort her by telling her that it must have been part of god's plan? would you tell her she freely chose to go buy groceries, so she has no one to blame but herself? "don't worry mom, at least the bad man won't go to heaven"? i can't see myself saying any of the above.
you mean typists were designed to slow QWERTY down? how nefarious!
god, i hope you're right on point 3. i remember the first time i got my hands on dimensions and flash 4. i animated a rotating 3d crosshair in dimensions, exported it, dropped it into flash, and scripted it to follow the mouse cursor. pointless, but it took hardly any time, was dead simple, and worked exactly as i wanted it to. to this day, i still miss dimensions.
that's why most of what i do is done with synths. no need to worry about clearing samples when you create all of your own instrument sounds. and with propellerheads giving away rebirth for free you've got a free implementation of the classic Roland 808 and 909 drum synths and the 303 bass synth. check out www.kvraudio.com for about a hojillion free vst synths and effects. check out psycle.sourceforge.net for a free tracker. hell, just go to this futureproducers.com thread about free software for home recording. a lot of this stuff is maturing to the point of being used in major production work. it's certainly possible to make a wide variety of music from your computer without investing a cent in software or breaking any copyright laws.
of course you always drive below the speed limit and cross the street as designated cross walks, right?
Yep, those sure are pictures of motherboards. So, um, how do we even know those are the beta Mac machines in question, 'cause *I* sure can't tell from those pictures.
Just a quick heads up: it's customary here to explain matters of sex by making analogies to computers, not the other way around. Other than that, welcome to slashdot!
or just encrypt it.
I think the original poster's ideas may work. Why just get the anonymous card when you can increase the signal-to-noise ratio of the would-be observers? If everyone, instead of getting the anonymous card, took out an "interesting" book once a month or so, any attempts at monitoring library habits could be severely hampered. Think of it like email: instead of encrypting all of your email, just randomly send missives to a friend or another of your own accounts consisting of nothing but "bomb assassinate bush terror allah osama jihad" etc. If governments are going to monitor the private affairs of their citizens, it is a patriot's *duty* to flood the system with garbage, not to try to fly under the radar.
I dunno. Most of the twelve year olds that use 'w00t' can't even AIM and need a bot to do it for them. Then they act like they're teh pwnz0r j00 anyways. Fucking campers.
If you want to survive, you need to offer something worth paying for. Companies like RedHat can manage to give away the product and sell services to make money. If you want to be able to sell what your competitors are giving away for free, you'd better have a damn good product. And if you can't make it, give 'em the software and make your money on support and other services. The future is subscriptions.
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Only an idiot would use vi to hack at /etc/conf.d/alarm. Emacs has many pre-built macros that make editing the alarm file much easier. Moron.