What they need to do? Historically this is what radio and cable did? Has to cover the vast majority of online users?
I don't recall paying a radio tax. Radio stations are either commercial or listener-spnsored.
I don't pay a cable company, because I don't have cable, but if I did, I'd be paying for the service, not the content. That is either commercial or paid by premium to the producer (e.g. HBO).
I pay for my ISP right now. I don't download music. How do you propose that Congress handle this? A tax which is levied on all ISP customers to be given to media "content providers?"
I sincerely hope your message was tongue-in-cheek. Five digit User IDs should not post such stupidity.
You are entirely correct, and it was not you I was addressing. I thought I might get a point across to the other end of the bimodal slashdot distribution. Being who they are, I likely failed.
Fighting for your rights? Make sure they understand something about rights first:
YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT FOR NBC TO SPEND $10M ON AN EPISODE OF 'FRIENDS' SO YOU CAN WATCH IT FREE.
Don't like this arrangement? then watch commercials, or realize that skipping commercials will prompt the producers to find other ways to recoup production costs. Don't like seeing what brand of shaving cream Ross uses?
Its China, man. Leave them to it. They`ll figure it all out in their own time. They were the first civilisation on the planet...now they`re dabbling with Communism...they`ll dump it soon enough.
Wow. Usually, people post AC when they want to flame, of have something embarrassing to say, or many other substantial reasons. Did you post this AC because it was so completely bland and inconsequential?
Everything gets reduced to good and bad, goodies and baddies, black and white, left and right. Everything is dumbed down, even politics and history.
"Mr. Clinton could understand eight sides of a five-sided issue, and then explain it all off the cuff, an ability that is useful when the subject is the earned-income tax credit. But when you're asking Americans to risk their lives and treasure, the talent for appreciating ambiguity is no virtue." --Wall St. Journal Editorial, Sept. 21, 2001.
Sometimes the issue is "goodies and baddies, black and white." It certainly was that way with the Soviets. It's only proper that high schools would teach it, and I'm sure the appreciation of ambiguity you seem to enjoy is both more prevalent and more destructive than you think.
WTF? Despite all of history's evidence to the contrary, you think government should work this way?
It works for software and other engineering, design, and business projects when people enter into the agreement voluntarily. They know that they can quit at any time, and so does the "all powerful" manager, which keeps objectives more realistic. It does not work when every morning you wake up and are forced to choose between following the dictator and going to jail.
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How can any post seriously postulating "an enlightened authority to force these changes on society" be modded "Insightful?"
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Thank you. The truth about SDI in the '80's is too often missed.
The problem is, you have all these over-educated science and policy types who don't realize that the effectiveness of SDI was in its illusion of destabilization. It forced the Soviets to self-destruct because they believed it would work.
I have little doubt that some of the most capable scientists and engineers live in the United States, and that their analysis of the actual unworkability of SDI in the 1980's was accurate. If they knew what was good for the human race, they would have shut up about it so the cold war could have ended sooner, and with fewer resources spent.
Being an "over educated science-type" myself, I have only later in my life come to realize that the street-smarts vs. book-smarts meme is not propaganda or an expression of jealousy on the part of the street-smart. Universities really do tend to squeeze the common sense right out of you.
My point was about economies of scale. Nobody makes one-door cars because the reengineering would be prohibitively expensive for virtually no demand market. Since Linux is already out there, the fact that it is a multi-user preemptive multitasking OS doesn't matter if it still does the simple stuff well.
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HOLY SHIT MY KARMA IS ALMOST POSITIVE!!!! BATTLESTATIONS! BLOW THE BALLAST! DIVE DIVE DIVE
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Important Stuff:
... how do you double the tax?
Uh huh.
forgot pump
I don't recall paying a radio tax. Radio stations are either commercial or listener-spnsored.
I don't pay a cable company, because I don't have cable, but if I did, I'd be paying for the service, not the content. That is either commercial or paid by premium to the producer (e.g. HBO).
I pay for my ISP right now. I don't download music. How do you propose that Congress handle this? A tax which is levied on all ISP customers to be given to media "content providers?"
I sincerely hope your message was tongue-in-cheek. Five digit User IDs should not post such stupidity.
You are entirely correct, and it was not you I was addressing. I thought I might get a point across to the other end of the bimodal slashdot distribution. Being who they are, I likely failed.
YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT FOR NBC TO SPEND $10M ON AN EPISODE OF 'FRIENDS' SO YOU CAN WATCH IT FREE.
Don't like this arrangement? then watch commercials, or realize that skipping commercials will prompt the producers to find other ways to recoup production costs. Don't like seeing what brand of shaving cream Ross uses?
YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO TURN THE DAMN THING OFF.
pls mod parent up
Won't work. For the cache to hold the data from "internal hits," the /. editors would have to have actually read the pages before posting the story.
When I de-leetify your user# I get "leelbl." Is that worth a few exclamation points?
slashdot == spoon
Wow. Usually, people post AC when they want to flame, of have something embarrassing to say, or many other substantial reasons. Did you post this AC because it was so completely bland and inconsequential?
China is totalitarian, end of discussion.
"Mr. Clinton could understand eight sides of a five-sided issue, and then explain it all off the cuff, an ability that is useful when the subject is the earned-income tax credit. But when you're asking Americans to risk their lives and treasure, the talent for appreciating ambiguity is no virtue." --Wall St. Journal Editorial, Sept. 21, 2001.
Sometimes the issue is "goodies and baddies, black and white." It certainly was that way with the Soviets. It's only proper that high schools would teach it, and I'm sure the appreciation of ambiguity you seem to enjoy is both more prevalent and more destructive than you think.
That's because, while the message is not a troll, the poster is. I post with automatic -1 by choice.
It works for software and other engineering, design, and business projects when people enter into the agreement voluntarily. They know that they can quit at any time, and so does the "all powerful" manager, which keeps objectives more realistic. It does not work when every morning you wake up and are forced to choose between following the dictator and going to jail.
How can any post seriously postulating "an enlightened authority to force these changes on society" be modded "Insightful?"
no.
The problem is, you have all these over-educated science and policy types who don't realize that the effectiveness of SDI was in its illusion of destabilization. It forced the Soviets to self-destruct because they believed it would work.
I have little doubt that some of the most capable scientists and engineers live in the United States, and that their analysis of the actual unworkability of SDI in the 1980's was accurate. If they knew what was good for the human race, they would have shut up about it so the cold war could have ended sooner, and with fewer resources spent.
Being an "over educated science-type" myself, I have only later in my life come to realize that the street-smarts vs. book-smarts meme is not propaganda or an expression of jealousy on the part of the street-smart. Universities really do tend to squeeze the common sense right out of you.
Isn't gentoo source only? Of course it's for 1337-ness reasons and not for binary control freak resaons, but hey.
It only sounds like ass when you squeeze the headphones tightly against your face.
The parent post is a spoiler-spoiler, and encourages careless spoiler-free browsing. Please mod down.
Also I am having a hard time hitting the karma floor again. Could you mod me down, too.
My point was about economies of scale. Nobody makes one-door cars because the reengineering would be prohibitively expensive for virtually no demand market.
Since Linux is already out there, the fact that it is a multi-user preemptive multitasking OS doesn't matter if it still does the simple stuff well.
pls mod parent down
I refuse!