This is a right granted by the people in exchange for something. It's not a "natural right". The people have a natural right to use any and all ideas and information as they see fit, but they made a deal with the people making and compiling the ideas. That deal is, sure, you can "profit" from your ideas and information, but only for a limited amout of time, and then you have to give it us, the "true" owners of the information.
The RIAA is breaking that deal. The works that are ebign created today will never be given back to the people. They will be stored in locked vaults for 170 years and then, when it's time to open them, they will have crumbled to dust, forgotten.
That, my friend, is the real theft that's going on.
Are there a large number of refund seekers out there acting like raging monkeys?
Yes. Just the other day I tried to get a refund from MicroCenter by flinging dung at the cashier. It didn't work so well, so I'm thinking of giving this "acting reasonable" idea a try.
Does spam generate enough revenue to justify it's cost, even at $Billion, or heck, even $100 million? If not, then it's time for the government to step in. It's your "1st amendment right" to tell epople to buy stock XYZ (knowing you are going to dump it next week), so why are there laws that will put you in prision if you do? The reason why there are SEC rules and such are because it hurts the economy to have people messing with the stock market.
Well, if the spammers are costing more money than they are generating then they too are hurting the economy, and rules need to be made to regulate them.
And if mail servers from other countries are messing with our economy, then that sounds a little bit like, dare I say it, Terrorism? They need an invasion, pronto!
Enter Windows. Let's put it in the lower left, where NO language or culture deems a good "starting" place.
Not exactly, look at a command prompt in any shell... that usually starts at the lower left and as things scroll up the lower left is always where you put the next command.
'Almost everyone'? What *are* you talking about? You must be an American. From a recent online Harris poll, most Americans think at least half the world speaks English. This is just plain wrong. The truth of the matter is that it's more like 20%. That's it. Most people on the NET might speak English, but most people in the world? Hardly.
By that same token, every country that has an international airport has English speakers in the tower... The same is not true of Chinese.
There are so many examples of humans achieving such greatness, and accomplishing such feats, that later generations do not comprehend. I suppose our generation has the Apollo moon landings, and maybe a couple of other things. It really stands as a testament to our potential. So, when we start murdering each other wholesale I like to think about these achievements because it gives me hope that we can rise above our destructive nature.
Until you look under the rocks and find out that there is a human corpse under each and every one of them... They pyramids were just a fancified death machine.:)
Sheesh, one after another, trying to solve how th epyramids were built... Geesh, when will these people figure it out that these theories are all bogus, that the pyramids were built completely by natural erosion?
Wow, MSN is absolutly right... For example, I searched for "automotive racing" and I did not find ONE SINGLE LINK to the French revolution! Can you believe that? It's all skewed to stuff about car parts, what the hell?
Why should I have to change my search terms to fit with what I am looking for, it's that the search engine's job? Good thing MSN Search can read my mind.. It knows all I ever want to see is links to Microsoft products.
How they tie this to '9/11 fears' is curious considering the hijackers had valid paperwork.
Duh, there will be a little yes/no boolean flag as to whether or not the guy who holds the passport is planning on hijacking the next plane. Problem solved! Right?
Better hope you can fit into a wiring closet, if you think cheap bandwidth is a good reason to move to Japan. Even the smallest of basic one-person apartments, in the areas where this kind of bandwidth is available, cost upwards of $800/month.
This entire concept leaves this image in my head of Ranier Wolfcastle as Jesus with a machine gun and flamethrower shouting in ancented English "Ressa-a-rect me nooow you da-ty coooomie pharose!"
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If not, what's your number? Hell, gimmie your number, even if you do!
Perhaps soon to become one of the wonders of the ancient world.
Considering our lacking space program, you might just be right, unfortunately.
It's theft of property/right to make money.
This is a right granted by the people in exchange for something. It's not a "natural right". The people have a natural right to use any and all ideas and information as they see fit, but they made a deal with the people making and compiling the ideas. That deal is, sure, you can "profit" from your ideas and information, but only for a limited amout of time, and then you have to give it us, the "true" owners of the information.
The RIAA is breaking that deal. The works that are ebign created today will never be given back to the people. They will be stored in locked vaults for 170 years and then, when it's time to open them, they will have crumbled to dust, forgotten.
That, my friend, is the real theft that's going on.
Are there a large number of refund seekers out there acting like raging monkeys?
Yes. Just the other day I tried to get a refund from MicroCenter by flinging dung at the cashier. It didn't work so well, so I'm thinking of giving this "acting reasonable" idea a try.
You just didn't hurl ENOUGH feces.
If consumers had to pay separate fees to each lable's site in order to get music that they want, this would cut out some of their potential clientel
Uh oh, it might require competition!
how do they figure $1/msg?
Well, is it $1/msg, or $1/msg/user? If it's just $1 per message then at 30-50 employees you only need to make a minimum wage for it to be true.
Does spam generate enough revenue to justify it's cost, even at $Billion, or heck, even $100 million? If not, then it's time for the government to step in. It's your "1st amendment right" to tell epople to buy stock XYZ (knowing you are going to dump it next week), so why are there laws that will put you in prision if you do? The reason why there are SEC rules and such are because it hurts the economy to have people messing with the stock market.
Well, if the spammers are costing more money than they are generating then they too are hurting the economy, and rules need to be made to regulate them.
And if mail servers from other countries are messing with our economy, then that sounds a little bit like, dare I say it, Terrorism? They need an invasion, pronto!
I hate boxes, I want this to work so much! But a racing game? Peshaw, give me an adventure game with guns, damn it, and I'll buy.
Enter Windows. Let's put it in the lower left, where NO language or culture deems a good "starting" place.
Not exactly, look at a command prompt in any shell... that usually starts at the lower left and as things scroll up the lower left is always where you put the next command.
'Almost everyone'? What *are* you talking about? You must be an American. From a recent online Harris poll, most Americans think at least half the world speaks English. This is just plain wrong. The truth of the matter is that it's more like 20%. That's it. Most people on the NET might speak English, but most people in the world? Hardly.
By that same token, every country that has an international airport has English speakers in the tower... The same is not true of Chinese.
There are so many examples of humans achieving such greatness, and accomplishing such feats, that later generations do not comprehend. I suppose our generation has the Apollo moon landings, and maybe a couple of other things. It really stands as a testament to our potential. So, when we start murdering each other wholesale I like to think about these achievements because it gives me hope that we can rise above our destructive nature.
:)
Until you look under the rocks and find out that there is a human corpse under each and every one of them... They pyramids were just a fancified death machine.
Sheesh, one after another, trying to solve how th epyramids were built... Geesh, when will these people figure it out that these theories are all bogus, that the pyramids were built completely by natural erosion?
Wow, MSN is absolutly right... For example, I searched for "automotive racing" and I did not find ONE SINGLE LINK to the French revolution! Can you believe that? It's all skewed to stuff about car parts, what the hell?
Why should I have to change my search terms to fit with what I am looking for, it's that the search engine's job? Good thing MSN Search can read my mind.. It knows all I ever want to see is links to Microsoft products.
How they tie this to '9/11 fears' is curious considering the hijackers had valid paperwork.
Duh, there will be a little yes/no boolean flag as to whether or not the guy who holds the passport is planning on hijacking the next plane. Problem solved! Right?
Top 40 groups should jump on this badwagon. Why settle for a measly 2% when they can have 91%?
-- not until all the standards crap settles down and I know what I get wont be useless 2 months later.
That is why I picked up the Sony DRU500XUL which reads and burns DVD +/- R-RW. No matter what the standard settles on, I can already do it.
You could have picked up the NEC version of the same for $200 less... that Sony brand is expensive!
Better hope you can fit into a wiring closet, if you think cheap bandwidth is a good reason to move to Japan. Even the smallest of basic one-person apartments, in the areas where this kind of bandwidth is available, cost upwards of $800/month.
Wow, so half the price of San Francisco!
You can bet there's somebody in Japan who can afford to bug you for 3c/min, if it helps them sell a few more useless widgets.
Hello chief, let's talk, why not?
(11) Expect to work 12 hour days if you get a job there. Be ostracized and frowned upon if you don't. (if not fired outright)
Did you still want to sign up?
If you are a white American you'll find that this, and many other rules, don't actually apply.
(11) Steak costs $200/lb.
You've never tried Kobe beef... Give it a try some day, you'll understand after the first bite.
here.
Technically that's not a haiku either. Japanese have strange sylaable counts:
Playing Donkey Kong 8
Forsaking railgun giblets 13
Is Enlightenment 10
This entire concept leaves this image in my head of Ranier Wolfcastle as Jesus with a machine gun and flamethrower shouting in ancented English "Ressa-a-rect me nooow you da-ty coooomie pharose!"
Celebrity X-rays start making thier way out to the tabloids?
name one street drug that used to be available, and is no longer
Mescaline
And thank God for that! No more hard core mescaline addicts running around mugging people to get thier daily "fix".