I certainly could see some authorities trying that, but hopefully most of them have higher priorities on their mind, such as fighting violent crime.
Dude, what do cops do most of their careers? They sit on the side of the road, eating doughnuts and waiting for some poor schmuck to come by who just happens to be driving a little faster than some governmental "authority" decided is acceptable. Doesn't matter that everybody exceeds the speed limit - we're all just a bunch of lawbreakers.
Something is seriously wrong when laws can be passed that make us all criminals.
Hell, I just read an article where a woman was arrested for - get this - eating a candy bar at a subway terminal where eating is prohibited. She actually took the last bite as she entered the station and threw the wrapper away. But since she was chewing it, the idiot cop followed her. When she asked, "Don't you have anything better to do?", they arrested her.
Then some smart-ass comes along and decided he wants to play games with the definitions. So he has a giant room, has 400 people come over and say they've just become his friends. "But I'm just inviting a few friends over to watch my movies!"
So what? If he's not charging for admission, it's nobody's damn business. My opinion, and no, I don't care what the law really says.
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One thing I've always planned: Empty the entire clip. Even after the slimeball is dead. It will ensure he's really, really, really dead, for one, and for two it will look great on your part: You were so afraid for your life you kept pulling the trigger until you were out of rounds. Maybe you even pulled it a few times after that.
First of all, I think the fact that this is occuring is a sign that the restriction on exhibition of copyrighted works has gone too far, especially when combined with the DRM which is included in the system. I think that the only *right* solution is to avoid buying or renting such DVD's
It's interesting, when people talk politics and don't see eye to eye, they can immediately think they have nothing in common with the other, when in fact they happen to agree on a lot of other things.
You're right, of course. I know a guy who is almost my opposite - he's an athiest, I'm a Christian. He's very liberal in his political views, I'm more conservative. He has a lot of ideas that I think are insane (and vice versa, I'm sure), but you know, we still get along and I find him to be a pretty nice guy. And under the surface, we still can find things that we have in common - sci-fi, Linux, etc.
I think people just get passionate about politics and religion. I know I do. Some issues just drive me insane: "How can he POSSIBLY believe that?!" I have to remember that it doesn't make that person bad. They just have a different frame of mind.
That bad, huh? I've never liked Circuit City. They pissed me off with the divx fiasco, so I already had a bad taste in my mouth. Their employees used to be on commission so it was impossible to just LOOK at a freakin' item without being harassed. Their store is badly laid out and the employees seem really bitter all of the time (probably due to many of them being fired and their comission removed awhile back).
One good note: They do sell some decent hardware. Best Buy only sells your typical consumer brands. I picked up my Harmon/Kardon AVR525 from CC, AND got them to price match Costco which saved me several hundred dollars. It was nice to get a decent receiver without having to deal with the snobs at the high end audio shops (not like we have any of those where I live, anyway...).
LOL. After I posted this, I reread it and noticed that, then secretly hoped nobody else would catch it. That should have read "the day before I called".
Oh, so somehow the person on the other end of the phone knows when traffic is heavy, and they should let you concentrate?
Yeah, actually. It's this amazing invention called "speech". See, you say, "Hold on" and the person you're talking to sits quietly and waits for you to resume the conversation.;)
Actually it is different... because your passengers tend to not talk to you when traffic gets tighter... Not sonthing that is easily seen from the other and of a phone conversation.
I've had traffic get tight many times. A simple "hold on" takes care of it. I've never had anyone on the other end of the line sit there and harass me, they just wait patiently.
I don't know about you, but it doesn't take me too long to say "hold on..."
Hey, somehow you're my freak and I'm your foe, so it seems we didn't see eye to eye at some point in time... but I've got to agree with you on this. I've had to say "hold on" while talking on my phone so I could concentrate on driving. It's really no big deal.
It isn't. Cellphones are much more dangerous than eating. (This has been proven by counting crash sites for phones, crumbs, and alcohol).
Reference?
It has been scientifically measured on test courses that talking on a totally hands-free phone is only a little safer than using a handheld phone, which itself is approximately as bad as 5 beers.
That's so much bullshit. I've seen these studies, and I doubt they are unbiased studies by people in a neutral position on the issue. I've never swerved into other lanes or otherwise found myself in a bad position while talking on a cell phone. Have a few beers, though, and I guarantee you I'd be unable to stay in my lane, maintain the speed limit, avoid other vehicles, etc.
I think that few people think "Gee, I can't really handle talking on my cell and driving at the same time. Oh, hell, I'll do it anyway."
Yeah, so take away everyone's cellphones. You won't do a bit of good. Why? The same people fiddle with the radio, yell at their kids, apply makeup, comb their hair, read, smoke, and do all sorts of other things while driving down the road. Things that are every bit as distractive as a cellphone - if not moreso - and things that you can't take away. What, are you going to remove everyone's radios? Ban children from cars because they distract the driver?
What about those idiots that insist on LOOKING at their passengers while driving? Should we ban passengers, too?
Sorry, but cell phone or no cell phone, there have always been people who don't pay attention while driving, and there always will be. Nothing you can do about it.
Not where I live. Thank God you crazies haven't screwed my life up yet.
Automated voice dialing and a hands-free system. I don't have to take my eyes nor my hands off the wheel. It's no different than talking to a passenger in the car despite what your anti-cell-phone funded bullshit studies claim.
If they're anything like Sony, they're all borderline. Sony products have gone to hell.
Worse than that, the bastards don't honor their warranties. When HDTVs were brand spankin' new, I spent $4,000 on a large Sony set. Came with a "Red Carpet Warranty" that guaranteed repair within a week and replacement with a new one if they couldn't repair it within two weeks.
Day 2 of ownership, the TV breaks. Diagnostics report a bad circuit board. No problem, so I call Sony. The tech takes 2 weeks to get here. Then he beats the guns on my $4,000 set with the back of a screwdriver, tells me "this tv is too new, the service manual isn't out yet" despite the fact that I had downloaded one the day before (how do you think I knew how to access the diags?!). I tell him this. He says no, he's going to replace one of the guns. Of course now the TV is much worse than before - all three guns are damaged from him hitting them for over an hour. Oh, and parts are going to take another month to arrive.
So I call Sony to get my replacement TV. "We're sorry sir, we can't do that." Uhm, what? I have a piece of paper right here that says you will. "Sorry sir. We don't have a TV to send you." After half an hour of arguing I called Best Buy up and told them to come get the set. Bought a nice Toshiba instead.
I haven't required service on my Toshiba, but I did call their warranty department before I bought it and faked like I had a broken set. They answered the phone within a couple of minutes - Sony was over an hour on hold every time. They were polite and promised to fix my TV right away (that's when I confessed I really didn't have one, but that they had just made a sale).
I will never again buy another big ticket Sony product. Never. If I'd had the time, I would have sued the bastards for not honoring their warranty. But since it happened so soon after purchase, I had Best Buy on my side, so no need.
They can do this because the manufacturers make essentially identical products but sell them with different model numbers to competing electronics stores
That and the prices are nearly always identical, anyway. We have a Best Buy and a Circuit City. Every time I've bothered to shop them both, the prices on a given item have been identical.
For all you know you are already subject to a host of illnesses that may not manifest themsevles for years to come.
Absolutely not true. The Hanford site has been operating for decades. The worst releases/contamination took place decades ago. There has been plenty of time to study the effects, and many studies have been done. The results? The local population has not been affected in the slightest.
If there were unknown problems laying in wait, they would have struck other citizens by now. Tens of thousands have lived and worked here for decades. There are people who have been here since the fourties, and none of them have come down with any illnesses. If nothing happened to them in this 60+ year timeframe, it is highly doubtful that anything is going to.
Hanford has been operating here for decades. Cancer rates in this area are no higher than anywhere else - studies have been done and lawsuits ("Hanford gave me cancer!") dismissed based on them. There is absolutely no evidence that anyone here has ever been sick or come down with cancer that is in any way related to the Hanford site.
Furthermore, since activities at the site have been focused on nothing but cleanup for decades, I have to say that I can't foresee things changing.
Read the AC's post below. The plant is being built, I can watch the progress just a couple of miles from my office. Housing has exploded here as thousands of people are being hired to build the plant.
Wonder if I would use a hard disk that long. I mean... 5 years ago... I dont even know what was standard...
You might not use it that long. That means Seagate drives effectively have a lifetime warranty. By the time the warranty expires, you'll have upgraded to a bigger drive.
That's a good thing. I wish I only had to buy drives when I wanted something bigger. I've replaced a couple that died after the warranty, but while they were still very much needed. That sucks.
Seagate probably did a study on this and found that to be the case. I assume thats why they did this.
And it's one heck of a good idea, too. Considering other vendors dropped to 1 year warranties, I think this is a slick move on Seagate's part. I'm getting ready to upgrade the size of my archive here at home, and Seagate will almost certainly get my dollars based on this.
They are talking about this now, too, and they are giving the same completion date, "15 to 30 years from now". That's why I say that apparently nothing has been done, even though they have spent many, many billions.
The glassification plant is being built right now. Construction started about a year ago.
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I certainly could see some authorities trying that, but hopefully most of them have higher priorities on their mind, such as fighting violent crime.
Dude, what do cops do most of their careers? They sit on the side of the road, eating doughnuts and waiting for some poor schmuck to come by who just happens to be driving a little faster than some governmental "authority" decided is acceptable. Doesn't matter that everybody exceeds the speed limit - we're all just a bunch of lawbreakers.
Something is seriously wrong when laws can be passed that make us all criminals.
Hell, I just read an article where a woman was arrested for - get this - eating a candy bar at a subway terminal where eating is prohibited. She actually took the last bite as she entered the station and threw the wrapper away. But since she was chewing it, the idiot cop followed her. When she asked, "Don't you have anything better to do?", they arrested her.
Higher priorities on their minds... Yeah, right.
Then some smart-ass comes along and decided he wants to play games with the definitions. So he has a giant room, has 400 people come over and say they've just become his friends. "But I'm just inviting a few friends over to watch my movies!"
So what? If he's not charging for admission, it's nobody's damn business. My opinion, and no, I don't care what the law really says.
One thing I've always planned: Empty the entire clip. Even after the slimeball is dead. It will ensure he's really, really, really dead, for one, and for two it will look great on your part: You were so afraid for your life you kept pulling the trigger until you were out of rounds. Maybe you even pulled it a few times after that.
First of all, I think the fact that this is occuring is a sign that the restriction on exhibition of copyrighted works has gone too far, especially when combined with the DRM which is included in the system. I think that the only *right* solution is to avoid buying or renting such DVD's
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Damn straight! Download them instead...
Thank you. I wish I had mod points. I'll give you this "I agree, man" as a consolation prize.
It's interesting, when people talk politics and don't see eye to eye, they can immediately think they have nothing in common with the other, when in fact they happen to agree on a lot of other things.
You're right, of course. I know a guy who is almost my opposite - he's an athiest, I'm a Christian. He's very liberal in his political views, I'm more conservative. He has a lot of ideas that I think are insane (and vice versa, I'm sure), but you know, we still get along and I find him to be a pretty nice guy. And under the surface, we still can find things that we have in common - sci-fi, Linux, etc.
I think people just get passionate about politics and religion. I know I do. Some issues just drive me insane: "How can he POSSIBLY believe that?!" I have to remember that it doesn't make that person bad. They just have a different frame of mind.
That bad, huh? I've never liked Circuit City. They pissed me off with the divx fiasco, so I already had a bad taste in my mouth. Their employees used to be on commission so it was impossible to just LOOK at a freakin' item without being harassed. Their store is badly laid out and the employees seem really bitter all of the time (probably due to many of them being fired and their comission removed awhile back).
One good note: They do sell some decent hardware. Best Buy only sells your typical consumer brands. I picked up my Harmon/Kardon AVR525 from CC, AND got them to price match Costco which saved me several hundred dollars. It was nice to get a decent receiver without having to deal with the snobs at the high end audio shops (not like we have any of those where I live, anyway...).
LOL. After I posted this, I reread it and noticed that, then secretly hoped nobody else would catch it. That should have read "the day before I called".
Oh, so somehow the person on the other end of the phone knows when traffic is heavy, and they should let you concentrate?
;)
Yeah, actually. It's this amazing invention called "speech". See, you say, "Hold on" and the person you're talking to sits quietly and waits for you to resume the conversation.
Actually it is different... because your passengers tend to not talk to you when traffic gets tighter... Not sonthing that is easily seen from the other and of a phone conversation.
I've had traffic get tight many times. A simple "hold on" takes care of it. I've never had anyone on the other end of the line sit there and harass me, they just wait patiently.
I don't know about you, but it doesn't take me too long to say "hold on..."
Hey, somehow you're my freak and I'm your foe, so it seems we didn't see eye to eye at some point in time... but I've got to agree with you on this. I've had to say "hold on" while talking on my phone so I could concentrate on driving. It's really no big deal.
Anyway, I would be curious to know how many people would refuse to use such transporters because of the die/recreate thing.
A lot... but, as with any new technology, it would become accepted over time.
It isn't. Cellphones are much more dangerous than eating. (This has been proven by counting crash sites for phones, crumbs, and alcohol).
Reference?
It has been scientifically measured on test courses that talking on a totally hands-free phone is only a little safer than using a handheld phone, which itself is approximately as bad as 5 beers.
That's so much bullshit. I've seen these studies, and I doubt they are unbiased studies by people in a neutral position on the issue. I've never swerved into other lanes or otherwise found myself in a bad position while talking on a cell phone. Have a few beers, though, and I guarantee you I'd be unable to stay in my lane, maintain the speed limit, avoid other vehicles, etc.
I think that few people think "Gee, I can't really handle talking on my cell and driving at the same time. Oh, hell, I'll do it anyway."
Yeah, so take away everyone's cellphones. You won't do a bit of good. Why? The same people fiddle with the radio, yell at their kids, apply makeup, comb their hair, read, smoke, and do all sorts of other things while driving down the road. Things that are every bit as distractive as a cellphone - if not moreso - and things that you can't take away. What, are you going to remove everyone's radios? Ban children from cars because they distract the driver?
What about those idiots that insist on LOOKING at their passengers while driving? Should we ban passengers, too?
Sorry, but cell phone or no cell phone, there have always been people who don't pay attention while driving, and there always will be. Nothing you can do about it.
And both, thankfully, are illegal.
Not where I live. Thank God you crazies haven't screwed my life up yet.
Automated voice dialing and a hands-free system. I don't have to take my eyes nor my hands off the wheel. It's no different than talking to a passenger in the car despite what your anti-cell-phone funded bullshit studies claim.
That's not keeping up, that's perversion. The crime is manslaughter.
Agreed. You ACs have been making some very intelligent statements lately. I'm surprised.
If they're anything like Sony, they're all borderline. Sony products have gone to hell.
Worse than that, the bastards don't honor their warranties. When HDTVs were brand spankin' new, I spent $4,000 on a large Sony set. Came with a "Red Carpet Warranty" that guaranteed repair within a week and replacement with a new one if they couldn't repair it within two weeks.
Day 2 of ownership, the TV breaks. Diagnostics report a bad circuit board. No problem, so I call Sony. The tech takes 2 weeks to get here. Then he beats the guns on my $4,000 set with the back of a screwdriver, tells me "this tv is too new, the service manual isn't out yet" despite the fact that I had downloaded one the day before (how do you think I knew how to access the diags?!). I tell him this. He says no, he's going to replace one of the guns. Of course now the TV is much worse than before - all three guns are damaged from him hitting them for over an hour. Oh, and parts are going to take another month to arrive.
So I call Sony to get my replacement TV. "We're sorry sir, we can't do that." Uhm, what? I have a piece of paper right here that says you will. "Sorry sir. We don't have a TV to send you." After half an hour of arguing I called Best Buy up and told them to come get the set. Bought a nice Toshiba instead.
I haven't required service on my Toshiba, but I did call their warranty department before I bought it and faked like I had a broken set. They answered the phone within a couple of minutes - Sony was over an hour on hold every time. They were polite and promised to fix my TV right away (that's when I confessed I really didn't have one, but that they had just made a sale).
I will never again buy another big ticket Sony product. Never. If I'd had the time, I would have sued the bastards for not honoring their warranty. But since it happened so soon after purchase, I had Best Buy on my side, so no need.
They can do this because the manufacturers make essentially identical products but sell them with different model numbers to competing electronics stores
That and the prices are nearly always identical, anyway. We have a Best Buy and a Circuit City. Every time I've bothered to shop them both, the prices on a given item have been identical.
It's entirely possible. It's also possible that Microsoft's solution will turn out as successful as their poor excuse for a gaming platform.
For all you know you are already subject to a host of illnesses that may not manifest themsevles for years to come.
Absolutely not true. The Hanford site has been operating for decades. The worst releases/contamination took place decades ago. There has been plenty of time to study the effects, and many studies have been done. The results? The local population has not been affected in the slightest.
If there were unknown problems laying in wait, they would have struck other citizens by now. Tens of thousands have lived and worked here for decades. There are people who have been here since the fourties, and none of them have come down with any illnesses. If nothing happened to them in this 60+ year timeframe, it is highly doubtful that anything is going to.
Hanford has been operating here for decades. Cancer rates in this area are no higher than anywhere else - studies have been done and lawsuits ("Hanford gave me cancer!") dismissed based on them. There is absolutely no evidence that anyone here has ever been sick or come down with cancer that is in any way related to the Hanford site.
Furthermore, since activities at the site have been focused on nothing but cleanup for decades, I have to say that I can't foresee things changing.
Read the AC's post below. The plant is being built, I can watch the progress just a couple of miles from my office. Housing has exploded here as thousands of people are being hired to build the plant.
Wonder if I would use a hard disk that long. I mean... 5 years ago... I dont even know what was standard...
You might not use it that long. That means Seagate drives effectively have a lifetime warranty. By the time the warranty expires, you'll have upgraded to a bigger drive.
That's a good thing. I wish I only had to buy drives when I wanted something bigger. I've replaced a couple that died after the warranty, but while they were still very much needed. That sucks.
Seagate probably did a study on this and found that to be the case. I assume thats why they did this.
And it's one heck of a good idea, too. Considering other vendors dropped to 1 year warranties, I think this is a slick move on Seagate's part. I'm getting ready to upgrade the size of my archive here at home, and Seagate will almost certainly get my dollars based on this.
They are talking about this now, too, and they are giving the same completion date, "15 to 30 years from now". That's why I say that apparently nothing has been done, even though they have spent many, many billions.
The glassification plant is being built right now. Construction started about a year ago.