being in the music biz doesn't just mean being the guy getting all the tang. at some point you have to decide if you want to continue to be a starving artist, or you want to be an artist with a roof and electricity:).
so you give lessons, open a studio, play sessions, write and sell the songs, help new bands get started, etc. there are a thousand ways to get paid in the music industry that do not involve selling physical meadia. hell i post all my stuff online to give away anyway. i would rather more ppl hear my art than less. but then i gave up on the songs i write / perform paying for my living a long long time ago (IM OLD)
now that the us military is over committed and short on hardware, russia has decided to take this land. and if they start moving troops in there to defend it, wtf is the us going to do? send the boy scouts?
--]I won't even get into the whole idea of Second Life property being equivalent to "real" property. That's just ridiculous, and I expect this guy to lose his case because of that anyway.
except linden has set up a direct dollar to linden exchange procedure, giving things a real world value. that is something they created themselves.
as to other games, whether you agree or not, as long as someone will pay real money for something, it has value and is treated 'real'. they're going to tax your online income if it exceeds XXX$, it doesn't matter if you made it on ebay or selling 'the uber codpiece of erections' in some game. money is money, and where there is money, there are lawyers.
lack of mutuality. The TOS gave Linden Research the right to terminate users "for any reason or no reason," the right to invoke several one-sided remedies to protect its own rights, and the right to modify the TOS at any time, including the arbitration provision.
no more 'we can kill your account any time and you suck it' from online game companies. a lot of tos's just went invalid today. the shakeout from this will be huge in the pay for online gaming sector.
i said a long long time ago (80s i think) that one day you will have to have a gov approved license to get hold of a compiler. at some point they will lock down everyone who can make tools, as well as the tools themselves. it's just the next step along our decline into the 2nd dark ages.
circuit city is already dieing because of wal marts descision to sell big screen flat panels for under 1k. the fall out from that has caused major closedowns in the electronics sector. the big screens were everyone's major profit generator, now they are a margin item.
this is just a continuation of the war on other stores by satan mart. and they will sell a metric butt load of pc's, maybe even some of those dellinux boxes we keep hearing about.
hell, i might get one just to replace that old k6/200 that i use for a linux gateway:) but it's been working since 97....
just remember, the no fly list is also (legally) a no work list and a no buy list. the law is already on the books that all transactions must be checked against this list before being allowed.
at present, it is only applied to big cash transactions, but it could easily be everywhere.
sorry sir, you can't buy food, you are on the no buy list, next!
works very nicely with your national ID.
it's all part of the same system, just another brick in the wall, as it were.
it's about damn time. civil servants need to remember they are just that, and they are to lead by example.
i support treble penalties for any civil servant who breaks a law, with 0 tolerance. let's end the concept of government corruption and incompetence. I support the death penalty for both. public hanging. as in a few years, we would have a model of open and non corrupt government. something we lack now.
the only way the patent system will ever change is when one of these industry choking lawsuits affects millions.
if a million ppl lost telephone use tomorrow, you can bet congress would get real interested real fast. sadly, our government works in problem reaction mode. only when a problem is big enough to be on the news constantly will they get interested.
so, let us all hope that they lose this and all ip phones are forced dead overnight. then we might see some real patent reform.
takes your digital / cell / whatever cameras with you when you vote. take pix of the machines flipping votes and post them. it will be hard to ignore millions of pix of screwed up votes. but with no exit polling, they are trying.
that's incorrect. i added 2 songs to my spaceverb profile about 3 weeks ago, neither is marked for dl, both play just fine. feel free to check it out for yourself http://www.myspace.com/spaceverb
1940s germany all over again. we had our reichtag fire (911) and now we have the enabling act. bush has absolute power now. he can lock up, torture, kill, have disappeared or assassinated anyone he wants at his sole discretion, and with no oversight. now he has direct control over all military / police in the us.
we already invaded poland (afganistan) and czeckoslovakia (iraq). france (iran) is next. the secret service now has global unlimited police powers (ss), we have dhs (gestapo). we didn't learn, and now its happening all over. sadly, the end game looks similar too.
absolute power for anyone is a bad idea. especially a trained monkey (bush) and his handler (dirty dick cheny)
so i had a though. say i have a linux firewall box that sees the world, all my windows boxes are safely behind it. if they request the computer attached to the ip, would that not be my linux box, with nothing but the firewall on it?
what a waste of google stock. they should have kept using it to light doobies with. once the copyright police get done with utube it will be nothing but a propaganda front and lots of crappy web cam videos. ooooo, great investment there guys.
idiots. sights like utube are only useful and cool as long as they are run by a small operation. once deep pockets take over, the lawyers come out to feed and ruin it for everyone. kill the lawyers!
i remember when turbo pascal and all the nice little objects were going to end having to write the basics, or when windows and common dialogs was going to save it.
same bs, different cow's ass producing it.
software always comes down to borrowing as much existing stuff as you can and building the rest. ime, very little from project a is actually appropriate for projcet b.
as long as the cars met the federal & state standards when they were made, there is nothing ca can do.
it's like all the moronic law suits against gun mfgs because of how a gun was used. the point settled there was as long as it passed all fed & state requirements at the time of mfg, it's not liable.
election stunt, nothing else. not even a cunning stunt.
the sad part is what ms is doing is how it should be. critical security services should be locked down.
i'd like to see a user way to add new things to the lock down / in list, but it would have to be non software doable. something that requires a real hand on the local kb to authenticate.
is my honest answer. between the impending floods as the ice melts (notice that the new trans american union hiway runs along the projected coast line), the wars the us starts (hey lets nuke iran for the elections), the insane ppl with bio weapons, something will kill the planet off soon enough.
and if we make it to 2012, it all blows up anyway.
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it's important to remember the bad times, so you don't end up there again. something about those who can't remember history repeating it.....
being in the music biz doesn't just mean being the guy getting all the tang. at some point you have to decide if you want to continue to be a starving artist, or you want to be an artist with a roof and electricity :).
so you give lessons, open a studio, play sessions, write and sell the songs, help new bands get started, etc. there are a thousand ways to get paid in the music industry that do not involve selling physical meadia. hell i post all my stuff online to give away anyway. i would rather more ppl hear my art than less. but then i gave up on the songs i write / perform paying for my living a long long time ago (IM OLD)
now that the us military is over committed and short on hardware, russia has decided to take this land. and if they start moving troops in there to defend it, wtf is the us going to do? send the boy scouts?
--]I won't even get into the whole idea of Second Life property being equivalent to "real" property. That's just ridiculous, and I expect this guy to lose his case because of that anyway.
except linden has set up a direct dollar to linden exchange procedure, giving things a real world value. that is something they created themselves.
as to other games, whether you agree or not, as long as someone will pay real money for something, it has value and is treated 'real'. they're going to tax your online income if it exceeds XXX$, it doesn't matter if you made it on ebay or selling 'the uber codpiece of erections' in some game. money is money, and where there is money, there are lawyers.
lack of mutuality. The TOS gave Linden Research the right to terminate users "for any reason or no reason," the right to invoke several one-sided remedies to protect its own rights, and the right to modify the TOS at any time, including the arbitration provision.
no more 'we can kill your account any time and you suck it' from online game companies. a lot of tos's just went invalid today. the shakeout from this will be huge in the pay for online gaming sector.
i said a long long time ago (80s i think) that one day you will have to have a gov approved license to get hold of a compiler. at some point they will lock down everyone who can make tools, as well as the tools themselves. it's just the next step along our decline into the 2nd dark ages.
yay team!
circuit city is already dieing because of wal marts descision to sell big screen flat panels for under 1k. the fall out from that has caused major closedowns in the electronics sector. the big screens were everyone's major profit generator, now they are a margin item.
:) but it's been working since 97....
this is just a continuation of the war on other stores by satan mart. and they will sell a metric butt load of pc's, maybe even some of those dellinux boxes we keep hearing about.
hell, i might get one just to replace that old k6/200 that i use for a linux gateway
just remember, the no fly list is also (legally) a no work list and a no buy list. the law is already on the books that all transactions must be checked against this list before being allowed.
at present, it is only applied to big cash transactions, but it could easily be everywhere.
sorry sir, you can't buy food, you are on the no buy list, next!
works very nicely with your national ID.
it's all part of the same system, just another brick in the wall, as it were.
it's about damn time. civil servants need to remember they are just that, and they are to lead by example.
i support treble penalties for any civil servant who breaks a law, with 0 tolerance. let's end the concept of government corruption and incompetence. I support the death penalty for both. public hanging. as in a few years, we would have a model of open and non corrupt government. something we lack now.
to most ppl it would just sound like another freecycle 'come and get it' event.
Welcome to the new dark ages. now we have the inquisition with computers. instead of witches, we have terrorists.
burn the terrorist! he turned me into a newt!
im so ashamed we have let our country become what it has. and still it continues.
this is it.
the government is so far removed from the ppl they don't even try to make it look legit anymore.
it would not matter if an entire state voted to allow medical weed, the feds just ignore it.
they can not allow anything to subvert their insane war on a plant. but hey, enjoy that beer and a cig! they are much safer.
the only way the patent system will ever change is when one of these industry choking lawsuits affects millions.
if a million ppl lost telephone use tomorrow, you can bet congress would get real interested real fast. sadly, our government works in problem reaction mode. only when a problem is big enough to be on the news constantly will they get interested.
so, let us all hope that they lose this and all ip phones are forced dead overnight. then we might see some real patent reform.
come on idiot judgment!
welcome to the new u s a.
we don't need those rights anyway.
the new and improved u s a
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yea, we are truly fucked. government/commercial entities are in control, and we are nothing but money doaners to them.
takes your digital / cell / whatever cameras with you when you vote. take pix of the machines flipping votes and post them. it will be hard to ignore millions of pix of screwed up votes. but with no exit polling, they are trying.
don't let this be another screwed up election!
that's weird as hell. i loaded them up in ff without being logged in. is it an ie thing?
that's incorrect. i added 2 songs to my spaceverb profile about 3 weeks ago, neither is marked for dl, both play just fine. feel free to check it out for yourself http://www.myspace.com/spaceverb
1940s germany all over again. we had our reichtag fire (911) and now we have the enabling act. bush has absolute power now. he can lock up, torture, kill, have disappeared or assassinated anyone he wants at his sole discretion, and with no oversight. now he has direct control over all military / police in the us.
we already invaded poland (afganistan) and czeckoslovakia (iraq). france (iran) is next. the secret service now has global unlimited police powers (ss), we have dhs (gestapo). we didn't learn, and now its happening all over. sadly, the end game looks similar too.
absolute power for anyone is a bad idea. especially a trained monkey (bush) and his handler (dirty dick cheny)
good luck to us all
so i had a though. say i have a linux firewall box that sees the world, all my windows boxes are safely behind it. if they request the computer attached to the ip, would that not be my linux box, with nothing but the firewall on it?
just a question
what a waste of google stock. they should have kept using it to light doobies with. once the copyright police get done with utube it will be nothing but a propaganda front and lots of crappy web cam videos. ooooo, great investment there guys.
idiots. sights like utube are only useful and cool as long as they are run by a small operation. once deep pockets take over, the lawyers come out to feed and ruin it for everyone. kill the lawyers!
feh
i remember when turbo pascal and all the nice little objects were going to end having to write the basics, or when windows and common dialogs was going to save it.
same bs, different cow's ass producing it.
software always comes down to borrowing as much existing stuff as you can and building the rest. ime, very little from project a is actually appropriate for projcet b.
bah, back to coding asm in notepad.
as long as the cars met the federal & state standards when they were made, there is nothing ca can do.
it's like all the moronic law suits against gun mfgs because of how a gun was used. the point settled there was as long as it passed all fed & state requirements at the time of mfg, it's not liable.
election stunt, nothing else. not even a cunning stunt.
the sad part is what ms is doing is how it should be. critical security services should be locked down.
i'd like to see a user way to add new things to the lock down / in list, but it would have to be non software doable. something that requires a real hand on the local kb to authenticate.
i say lock it down and tell everyone to piss off.
so now i can code to oppress. yay.
dhs = stasi. not something i really want to support.
i am against secret courts, secret searches and secret police.
i had my chane to code for the gov back in the 90's. i said pass then, i'll pass now.
is my honest answer. between the impending floods as the ice melts (notice that the new trans american union hiway runs along the projected coast line), the wars the us starts (hey lets nuke iran for the elections), the insane ppl with bio weapons, something will kill the planet off soon enough.
and if we make it to 2012, it all blows up anyway.
color me pessimistically unimpressed