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I'd be happy to set this up. If everyone would send their money to my PayPal account, we could get rolling. You can trust me, I have over 6000 positive eBay transactions!
I suppose the question becomes: If a rampaging horde burns villages and kills thousands to get someplace and then sets up something you like, does that make how they got there OK?
The ends don't justify the means. My reading of history shows that people who use corrupt means to get to a noble end never get there. They are corrupted, and the noble end gets lost somewhere and is replaced by some corrupt end.
Just because you leave your door unlocked, doesn't mean strangers can legally come into your home.
I'd love to see your statement if a cable company went after someone whoi did that.
In other news: Just because you leave your car unlocked doesn't mean you want it stolen, either.
Which goes to illustrate that laws don't stop criminals. They will steal cars with unlocked and locked doors, even though the law says it's illegal.
That is alot of pipe for 2 days worth of downloads. 6000 x ~3.5megs per song = ~21000megs of download. I don't think that this was accomplished on a 56k modem.
Even now, their ISP sysadmin is grumbling, "friggin' bandwidth hog, let's put a cap on 'im" as he limits them to 128 Kbps...well, I can dream, can't I?
Or it means that the ACPI is always OFF. From the context, it sounds like the BIOS disables ACPI and "protects the user" from accidently enabling it and having a less-than-ideal XP experience.
My mind strains to imagine the "ideal XP experience." I just helped out a friend who has XP, and it was my first exposure. I think my color cones are burnt out.
And they did it intentionally. Hopefully he can understand what is wrong with that even though he is not a lawyer.
You can blab about it in the press, confess everything, and what can anybody do about it? It makes you look "moral", but there's no immediate penalty. When it _rilly rilly_ counted (it always counts, BTW), in court, they lied like the devil, so they wouldn't pay the penalty. Here's hoping for rapid cosmic justice.
North Dakota has a lot going for it if the state government would start attracting tech businesses.
You don't want that, because then that would be a sell-out, and we'd have an endless thread on/. about it: "State Governments get in bed with Corporations, sell out the People." Let's just nip that in the bud.
Fritz Hollings is, unfortunately, in South Carolina...
Here's hoping he gets unelected next time he's up....
You know what? The _real_ Fritz Hollings died about 25 years ago, when he was 93. Now all we see is a cardboard cutout Fritz, with a voicebox stuck on the back to talk. Jack Valenti is the voice.
For many people, the always-on access is very convenient.
When I would dial up, I would have the strangest sense that I absolutely had to get done what I was doing, ignoring the kids and wife. I just couldn't stand disconnecting and then redialing later. Now I don't mind if I get interrupted for any reason at
> How long until the laws of (current) economics
> catch up with Google, and they can no longer
> afford to do the right thing?
It could be quite a while. Google is profitable, and the click-through rate on the ads that you *CAN* purchase from them (clearly demarcated as ads) is phenomenal. They're doing fine.
OK, they're in the green. So the question becomes: how long before they become consumed by greed and run the site down in a mass of cheesy & obtrusive ads?
It costs less to make a CD than a casette tape. So why do CDs and DVDs cost more than tapes? Because it's what 'they' think the market will bear... wankers.
It's what the market _does_ bear. The price of a thing is what it costs to make plus whatever the market bears. Apparently we are willing to pay $14-18 for a CD, because it really is a better piece of hardware than a cassette tape, which quality-wise is absolute crap.
I heard that song in a restaurant recently. I couldn't really hear it well, and it drove me nuts until I finally figured out what the song name and singer were. I really had to rack the memory banks, and I almost came up dry.
The State at least makes an attempt in democracy. Corporations would be perfectly happy with pure tyranny of money (=unbridled capitalism). So yes. I will accept the rule by the State instead that of "free corporations" any day. Corporations and free capitalism are giving you a "free society" as long as you are ready to join the pack of predators feeding on the weak of the society. That's how profit's really made.
Given the nature of the State, and the historical evidence (see the 20th Century), I don't really trust the State. I don't trust Colossal Corps, either. That's why I am a distributist.
Ok, are you a military fan? How about taxes on SUVs and other High Fuel Consumption vehicles (tax the fuel, as stated in the article). You don't need a 4 wheel drive urban tank to get to point B from point A in a city.
That would be a second amendment issue, since these SUVs can in a pinch be used as tanks (weapons) by the militia.
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I'd be happy to set this up. If everyone would send their money to my PayPal account, we could get rolling. You can trust me, I have over 6000 positive eBay transactions!
Maybe they want to integrate it with some of these games. Surely there's lots of money to be made sometime in the future.
The ends don't justify the means. My reading of history shows that people who use corrupt means to get to a noble end never get there. They are corrupted, and the noble end gets lost somewhere and is replaced by some corrupt end.
Which goes to illustrate that laws don't stop criminals. They will steal cars with unlocked and locked doors, even though the law says it's illegal.
Even now, their ISP sysadmin is grumbling, "friggin' bandwidth hog, let's put a cap on 'im" as he limits them to 128 Kbps...well, I can dream, can't I?
My mind strains to imagine the "ideal XP experience." I just helped out a friend who has XP, and it was my first exposure. I think my color cones are burnt out.
You can blab about it in the press, confess everything, and what can anybody do about it? It makes you look "moral", but there's no immediate penalty. When it _rilly rilly_ counted (it always counts, BTW), in court, they lied like the devil, so they wouldn't pay the penalty. Here's hoping for rapid cosmic justice.
Or to any possum with a fetish for galvanized rubber.
It's a Zombie. Can't kill it now.
Try OpenBSD. It's rock-solid secure. It'll give you what you want. And, compared to Morrell, Theo de Raadt (sp?) is a model of civility and diplomacy.
Like all spammers, he should be given a fair trial then given a first class hangin'.
You don't want that, because then that would be a sell-out, and we'd have an endless thread on /. about it: "State Governments get in bed with Corporations, sell out the People." Let's just nip that in the bud.
If you go to Oklahoma (see earlier thread for all the niceties there), make sure you read _The Grapes of Wrath_ upside down, before you go.
And we're the home of McDonald's! Yippee! Sorry I mentioned it, for those of you who've just eaten lunch...
We've seen the Foster's commercials. Is Australia really like that?
You know what? The _real_ Fritz Hollings died about 25 years ago, when he was 93. Now all we see is a cardboard cutout Fritz, with a voicebox stuck on the back to talk. Jack Valenti is the voice.
When I would dial up, I would have the strangest sense that I absolutely had to get done what I was doing, ignoring the kids and wife. I just couldn't stand disconnecting and then redialing later. Now I don't mind if I get interrupted for any reason at
Yeah, but your boyfriend I bet needs all the bandwidth he can get, wink wink nudge nudge.
OK, they're in the green. So the question becomes: how long before they become consumed by greed and run the site down in a mass of cheesy & obtrusive ads?
It's what the market _does_ bear. The price of a thing is what it costs to make plus whatever the market bears. Apparently we are willing to pay $14-18 for a CD, because it really is a better piece of hardware than a cassette tape, which quality-wise is absolute crap.
I heard that song in a restaurant recently. I couldn't really hear it well, and it drove me nuts until I finally figured out what the song name and singer were. I really had to rack the memory banks, and I almost came up dry.
Given the nature of the State, and the historical evidence (see the 20th Century), I don't really trust the State. I don't trust Colossal Corps, either. That's why I am a distributist.
Fair business then would include being able to leverage the power of the State against your competitors. Since it's _for_ you, it's "fair".
I've come to the realization that the solution to spam is vigilante justice. That's how my emotions are, anyway.
That would be a second amendment issue, since these SUVs can in a pinch be used as tanks (weapons) by the militia.