I understand your point, and I should have limited my scope of my musicians statement- I did mean the famous ones. We overvalue entertainment, in general, is mostly what I was after. I over simplified a decade of thoughts in a short space.
I generally don't agree with filesharing- and think people should pay for their music, software, and movies- and receive a right to listen/watch/play in any format reachable through algorithm (eg not through re-engineering). That said, I don't think if someone rips a copy of a movie they rented they should owe hundreds of thousands of dollars and spend 5 years in jail- or if they download a song they didn't pay for. It should be discouraged, certainly, but I'm not sure how much legal discouragement I support.
I should add- I tend to think that copying without gain or distribution should more or less be ok- and artists should focus on making money the old way - tours, products, endorsements, etc. On that track, I also think sporting individuals are overpaid and actors and musicians are severely overpaid and people like teachers should be the ones raking it in, but we'd rather spend ourselves into dramatic oblivion watching movies than go to school. People don't like forced learning, so our money goes elsewhere.
they like to talk from both sides of their mouth that the CD is your license to listen and yet the license is a separate issue. The law accepts the right of resale, the RIAA can't fight that. While I agree copying is a lesser evil than made out to be, copying bits is still copyright infringement (note, not stealing).
It even says in his (linked) post: "As I mentioned a month(?) ago, I'm working on a free version of a minix-lookalike for AT-386 computers. It has finally reached the stage where it's even usable (though may not be depending on what you want), and I am willing to put out the sources for wider distribution. It is just version 0.02 (+1 (very small) patch already), but I've successfully run bash/gcc/gnu-make/gnu-sed/compress etc under it."
Forget about outages for a minute, think about lightning, surges, sags, etc. I lost some network gear to lightning before I had money to put UPSes everywhere, and I've seen modems with chipsets that have huge holes ripped in them from a strike. Currently, my TV stack (tivo, cable box, cable amp, cable modem, router, etc) are all plugged into a 1500 VA UPS, all of our computers each have UPSes which guarantee at least 10 minutes runtime (depends on number of disks, etc), and the tivo in the other room is on a 550VA UPS. The 1500VA UPS will carry our network gear, tivo, etc for about 2 hours and 20 minutes. Most of our outages tend to be either brief cuts lasting 2 seconds or less, but otherwise tend to be a couple of hours. Around 4:30a the other night, we had an outage affecting some 3000 houses. Before the power went out completely, it reset 3 or 4 times as the grid tried to reroute around the fault and failed. This would have been murder on a disk if the system was set to restore to previous state. The other dozen or so blips every year would also be bad on disks. Anyway, the power finally goes out, my tivo is still recording my shows, and the only light in the house is the LCDs, which I use to shut down the systems and immediately power the screens down to increase runtime. I eventually had to shut off the smaller UPS with the extra tivo, but everything else was shut down cleanly and didn't have any bobbles in power. After sitting around in the dark for a while, unable to sleep, I plugged in a lamp into the 1500VA on my main desktop UPS (which was offline) and read a book for a couple hours until the power came back on. It's pretty damn weird when you think you're maybe the only person for a couple miles with a light on, let alone a tivo or a computer. I second what others have said about laptops, it's pretty nice to be able to keep working for a while with the power out. UPS's are a must for many reasons.
What I really don't understand is he gets to hold her location out like a trophy and then his reward is a better sentence? He did the time, he was convicted, who gives a rats ass if he lead them to the body (sentence wise). Were they afraid of an appeal? Or is just giving the closure to the family somehow outweighing him being in jail longer?
Maybe I missed something, but do you count inedible sugar as food? Would that still cut into edible food supplies? Also, what's wrong with plastic pipelines? They already make plastic water mains- is a plastic pipeline impossible- or is static a problem?
It's different in that we have sections of spectrum reserved for open use, but manufacturers of devices that use those bandwith chunks must register their devices and meet certain standards of interference. So, yes, all devices are in fact registered, but not an an individual basis- and why should they be? If my device is misbehaving, is it my fault or the vendor's? Overwhelmingly, the problem is likely to be the result of inadvertent damage (lightning, ESD, etc), defect, or design induced failure (poor parts choice for profit). The benefits to per-user registration are not worth the overhead of the system, especially given the lack of real problems that occur.
id argue that scam is a overriding subset of hoax or something to that effect. Once money becomes involved, it upgrades to scam status implicitly.
Re:Filesharing at the time of not being homeless?
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i have now skimmed the 6 page summary too- all I gleaned was the guy supposedly used Kazaa over AOL about a year before the court case. So, how long ago was the guy homeless?
Filesharing at the time of not being homeless?
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The linked blog does not make it clear whether or not the man was sued for filesharing that occurred after the date he lost his place of residence/computer. Without reading the 6 page order, what's the real deal? The kneejerk from everyone is to think this man could not possibly have done P2P since he's now homeless. What's the real answer? How did they come to accuse him in the first place? Blog and summary seem short on details.
i shouldn't have been so lazy, but they are the same trains!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redbird_trains "Most Redbirds were phased out from 2001 to 2003 and replaced by the new R142 and R142A cars. 1,208 Redbirds have been sunk at sea off the coasts of Delaware, Georgia, New Jersey, South Carolina, and Virginia as artificial reefs to promote marine life, to serve as a barrier and to enhance recreational scuba diving. Delaware received 558 cars, Georgia 50, New Jersey 250, South Carolina 200, and Virginia 150. An episode of CSI NY titled "The Deep" used these cars as part of the story line, and even featured well-repkucated underwater shots of mockups of the cars. However, the show places them in the East River of New York City."
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you know, I like that so much. you should make shirts. get that out there.
Seconded.
I understand your point, and I should have limited my scope of my musicians statement- I did mean the famous ones. We overvalue entertainment, in general, is mostly what I was after. I over simplified a decade of thoughts in a short space.
I generally don't agree with filesharing- and think people should pay for their music, software, and movies- and receive a right to listen/watch/play in any format reachable through algorithm (eg not through re-engineering). That said, I don't think if someone rips a copy of a movie they rented they should owe hundreds of thousands of dollars and spend 5 years in jail- or if they download a song they didn't pay for. It should be discouraged, certainly, but I'm not sure how much legal discouragement I support.
I should add- I tend to think that copying without gain or distribution should more or less be ok- and artists should focus on making money the old way - tours, products, endorsements, etc. On that track, I also think sporting individuals are overpaid and actors and musicians are severely overpaid and people like teachers should be the ones raking it in, but we'd rather spend ourselves into dramatic oblivion watching movies than go to school. People don't like forced learning, so our money goes elsewhere.
they like to talk from both sides of their mouth that the CD is your license to listen and yet the license is a separate issue. The law accepts the right of resale, the RIAA can't fight that. While I agree copying is a lesser evil than made out to be, copying bits is still copyright infringement (note, not stealing).
It even says in his (linked) post:
"As I mentioned a month(?) ago, I'm working on a free version of a minix-lookalike for AT-386 computers. It has finally reached the stage where it's even usable (though may not be depending on what you want), and I am willing to put out the sources for wider distribution. It is just version 0.02 (+1 (very small) patch already), but I've successfully run bash/gcc/gnu-make/gnu-sed/compress etc under it."
No, that would be en-cucumbered.
*ducks*
You: "TigerDirect is now to internet sales what Best Buy is to a brick and mortar store."
Them: "We are dismayed over your perception of our company, and the feedback you posted."
LOL!
they still used a lock turner- the card just bumps the pins.
Forget about outages for a minute, think about lightning, surges, sags, etc. I lost some network gear to lightning before I had money to put UPSes everywhere, and I've seen modems with chipsets that have huge holes ripped in them from a strike. Currently, my TV stack (tivo, cable box, cable amp, cable modem, router, etc) are all plugged into a 1500 VA UPS, all of our computers each have UPSes which guarantee at least 10 minutes runtime (depends on number of disks, etc), and the tivo in the other room is on a 550VA UPS. The 1500VA UPS will carry our network gear, tivo, etc for about 2 hours and 20 minutes. Most of our outages tend to be either brief cuts lasting 2 seconds or less, but otherwise tend to be a couple of hours. Around 4:30a the other night, we had an outage affecting some 3000 houses. Before the power went out completely, it reset 3 or 4 times as the grid tried to reroute around the fault and failed. This would have been murder on a disk if the system was set to restore to previous state. The other dozen or so blips every year would also be bad on disks. Anyway, the power finally goes out, my tivo is still recording my shows, and the only light in the house is the LCDs, which I use to shut down the systems and immediately power the screens down to increase runtime. I eventually had to shut off the smaller UPS with the extra tivo, but everything else was shut down cleanly and didn't have any bobbles in power. After sitting around in the dark for a while, unable to sleep, I plugged in a lamp into the 1500VA on my main desktop UPS (which was offline) and read a book for a couple hours until the power came back on. It's pretty damn weird when you think you're maybe the only person for a couple miles with a light on, let alone a tivo or a computer. I second what others have said about laptops, it's pretty nice to be able to keep working for a while with the power out. UPS's are a must for many reasons.
me too and it has made me a vi fan instead of emacs.
i meant, he did the crime...
What I really don't understand is he gets to hold her location out like a trophy and then his reward is a better sentence? He did the time, he was convicted, who gives a rats ass if he lead them to the body (sentence wise). Were they afraid of an appeal? Or is just giving the closure to the family somehow outweighing him being in jail longer?
I have an 8 node O2K I'd like to part with- located in Iowa.
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Thank you- any idea on feasibility of plastic gas pipelines? Can the plastic be made conductive enough to prevent static explosions?
Maybe I missed something, but do you count inedible sugar as food? Would that still cut into edible food supplies? Also, what's wrong with plastic pipelines? They already make plastic water mains- is a plastic pipeline impossible- or is static a problem?
Please fill in the details for me/us?
My glock is never broken. Oh, clock!
and apparently, I can't type. sorry.
Or, Microsoft has shown lots of goodwill by allowing XP to be sold longer and donation kagillions to charity.
Now, I'm no MS fan here (I run OS-X and CentOS), but that's an awfully wide brush.
It's different in that we have sections of spectrum reserved for open use, but manufacturers of devices that use those bandwith chunks must register their devices and meet certain standards of interference. So, yes, all devices are in fact registered, but not an an individual basis- and why should they be? If my device is misbehaving, is it my fault or the vendor's? Overwhelmingly, the problem is likely to be the result of inadvertent damage (lightning, ESD, etc), defect, or design induced failure (poor parts choice for profit). The benefits to per-user registration are not worth the overhead of the system, especially given the lack of real problems that occur.
id argue that scam is a overriding subset of hoax or something to that effect. Once money becomes involved, it upgrades to scam status implicitly.
i have now skimmed the 6 page summary too- all I gleaned was the guy supposedly used Kazaa over AOL about a year before the court case. So, how long ago was the guy homeless?
The linked blog does not make it clear whether or not the man was sued for filesharing that occurred after the date he lost his place of residence/computer. Without reading the 6 page order, what's the real deal? The kneejerk from everyone is to think this man could not possibly have done P2P since he's now homeless. What's the real answer? How did they come to accuse him in the first place? Blog and summary seem short on details.
i shouldn't have been so lazy, but they are the same trains!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redbird_trains
"Most Redbirds were phased out from 2001 to 2003 and replaced by the new R142 and R142A cars. 1,208 Redbirds have been sunk at sea off the coasts of Delaware, Georgia, New Jersey, South Carolina, and Virginia as artificial reefs to promote marine life, to serve as a barrier and to enhance recreational scuba diving. Delaware received 558 cars, Georgia 50, New Jersey 250, South Carolina 200, and Virginia 150. An episode of CSI NY titled "The Deep" used these cars as part of the story line, and even featured well-repkucated underwater shots of mockups of the cars. However, the show places them in the East River of New York City."
hey, it was a serious question. i thought perhaps there was some correlation.