Agreed. While service credits would be a great way for the media distributor to pay back the people who provide upstream, the realist in me says that they'd just continue to gouge.
Maybe it's because we're long past being tired of microsoft's trumpeting of its 'innovation' when in fact all these things have been done before.
Of course, the slashbots will still bash MS when/if they do innovate something (no matter how trivial) but in this case the criticism is still justified.
What's really asinine is that the copyright collective who collects these royalties isn't accountable for anything.
Even better, the way the 'collection' process is set up is that if I'm a musician and I compose my own work, then perform it alone, record it alone etc without anyone else's involvement and then play that recording in public, that legally I have to pay royalties. And of course, I won't see a cent.
Personally, my favorite panel in that vgcats 'toon was the 'Nazi Propaganda' one. I nearly lost a keyboard at the thought of a cactuar in an SS uniform.
Exactly. Psychopaths and these antisocials (spammers) cannot be reasoned with. The only thing they understand is force... Given that, it only seems reasonable to crapflood them in response.
Write scripts which flood the databases of phishers with garbage data (100 real records in a pile of half a billion fake records are not easy to sort out). Put a drain on the bandwidth of spammers selling V1@gk4 and C14li5 by downloading their entire websites repeatedly.
It's not about hitting them in the pocketbook. It's about driving them stark raving mad with crap like they've been doing to the rest of us.
Easy. If I say something that the gubmint doesn't like, I get arrested and detained indefinitely. Hence, no freedom of speech.
If I take out a library book that is 'suspicious', and the gubmint gets ahold of it, I get arrested and detained indefinitely. Hence, no freedom of thought, as I can't think of things which might be 'offensive' to the governments.
As for cameras.. did the cameras shoot him down? As it turns out, the cameras were not responsible for him being captured/shot:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/470678 7.stm
If you like cameras so much, then why aren't they everywhere. After all, you might be building a bomb in your house.... put them aimed at your porches, in the living room, in the bedrooms, even in the toilet pointing up your ass.... just so you can be 'safe' and society can be 'just'....
The israelis have a tactic of leaving incompetent terrorist leadership in place, and killing the competent ones. I'm not sure where these would-be bombers fit in...
Why is it that tools always think everyone is like them?
Why is it that the only decent compiler from MS costs a $FORTUNE ? The 'free' version sucks.
As other posters have commented, './configure;make;make install;' is almost a universal idiom. Not so on windows.
Debian has almost every package you'd probably ever need on x86: everything works remarkably well. Software comes 'magically' out of the ether in a decently secure configuration. Plus you have alien and rpm for installation of foreign packages.
Since you seem to have missed the point of my earlier post, I'll pose you a challenge. Try updating *all* the applications you've installed via precompiled packages on windows with one short sequence of commands.
perhaps. But what I said about 'Free Speech Zones' still stands. Bi-partisan or not, under his stewardship the people of the US are slowly being lead into tyranny...
Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom from fear, I think that's three out of four right there. Plus the right to privacy, and the right be presumed innocent. that's just off the top of my head...
Why, praytell, were there 'free speech zones' here in Halifax when Dubya came to town? What about those people who were protesting his coronation, and were herded into out-of-the-way areas?
The low penetrating power of a shotgun blast at anything other than close range means it's unsuitable for firing into large crowds, as a single blast won't hit more than a few people. As the shot spreads it loses a lot momentum. You'd have more 'stopping power' using a high-powered compound bow and arrows...
The weapon TFA was talking about has the ability to neutralize (without shooting, mind you) thousands of people. To equal that kind of 'stopping' power with shotguns the police would need to have half a platoon firing into the crowd.
Simple. Linking to a site that contains pirated materials makes you guilty of piracy. Therefore, anyone who links to you (and I'll remind, you are guilty of piracy) is *also* guilty of piracy, and so on....
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Did the mac dissolve into a pool of molten plastic when you connected the MS mouse to it?
Agreed. While service credits would be a great way for the media distributor to pay back the people who provide upstream, the realist in me says that they'd just continue to gouge.
Maybe it's because we're long past being tired of microsoft's trumpeting of its 'innovation' when in fact all these things have been done before.
Of course, the slashbots will still bash MS when/if they do innovate something (no matter how trivial) but in this case the criticism is still justified.
What's really asinine is that the copyright collective who collects these royalties isn't accountable for anything.
Even better, the way the 'collection' process is set up is that if I'm a musician and I compose my own work, then perform it alone, record it alone etc without anyone else's involvement and then play that recording in public, that legally I have to pay royalties. And of course, I won't see a cent.
setting up that server must have been interesting...
Wait a minute, were you trying to save money by not buying a monitor for it too?
Personally, my favorite panel in that vgcats 'toon was the 'Nazi Propaganda' one. I nearly lost a keyboard at the thought of a cactuar in an SS uniform.
I didn't know union websites were illegal.
Exactly. Psychopaths and these antisocials (spammers) cannot be reasoned with. The only thing they understand is force... Given that, it only seems reasonable to crapflood them in response.
Write scripts which flood the databases of phishers with garbage data (100 real records in a pile of half a billion fake records are not easy to sort out). Put a drain on the bandwidth of spammers selling V1@gk4 and C14li5 by downloading their entire websites repeatedly.
It's not about hitting them in the pocketbook. It's about driving them stark raving mad with crap like they've been doing to the rest of us.
Easy. If I say something that the gubmint doesn't like, I get arrested and detained indefinitely. Hence, no freedom of speech.
8 7.stm
If I take out a library book that is 'suspicious', and the gubmint gets ahold of it, I get arrested and detained indefinitely. Hence, no freedom of thought, as I can't think of things which might be 'offensive' to the governments.
As for cameras.. did the cameras shoot him down? As it turns out, the cameras were not responsible for him being captured/shot:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/47067
If you like cameras so much, then why aren't they everywhere. After all, you might be building a bomb in your house.... put them aimed at your porches, in the living room, in the bedrooms, even in the toilet pointing up your ass.... just so you can be 'safe' and society can be 'just'....
The israelis have a tactic of leaving incompetent terrorist leadership in place, and killing the competent ones. I'm not sure where these would-be bombers fit in...
Why is it that tools always think everyone is like them?
Why is it that the only decent compiler from MS costs a $FORTUNE ? The 'free' version sucks.
As other posters have commented, './configure;make;make install;' is almost a universal idiom. Not so on windows.
Debian has almost every package you'd probably ever need on x86: everything works remarkably well. Software comes 'magically' out of the ether in a decently secure configuration. Plus you have alien and rpm for installation of foreign packages.
Since you seem to have missed the point of my earlier post, I'll pose you a challenge. Try updating *all* the applications you've installed via precompiled packages on windows with one short sequence of commands.
perhaps. But what I said about 'Free Speech Zones' still stands. Bi-partisan or not, under his stewardship the people of the US are slowly being lead into tyranny...
These (article 12). Please realize that everyone does not live in the USA...
Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom from fear, I think that's three out of four right there. Plus the right to privacy, and the right be presumed innocent. that's just off the top of my head...
Why, praytell, were there 'free speech zones' here in Halifax when Dubya came to town? What about those people who were protesting his coronation, and were herded into out-of-the-way areas?
"I've used Windows quite a bit, and I like it. But I still like Linux better. And the point about Windows being hard to upgrade is correct."
anyways,
apt-get update;
apt-get upgrade;
Or one click in [s|k]ynaptic, whichever you prefer.
At least I can open my laptop's cover without having the OS crash on me. Defenestrating it was one of the best things I ever did.
right? Or have I missed something....?
The low penetrating power of a shotgun blast at anything other than close range means it's unsuitable for firing into large crowds, as a single blast won't hit more than a few people. As the shot spreads it loses a lot momentum. You'd have more 'stopping power' using a high-powered compound bow and arrows...
The weapon TFA was talking about has the ability to neutralize (without shooting, mind you) thousands of people. To equal that kind of 'stopping' power with shotguns the police would need to have half a platoon firing into the crowd.
Because shotguns permanently maim and/or kill
Because shotguns can't be used by one or two people against tens of thousands.
Because shotguns aren't (usually) used to deny large crowds their fundamental right to assemble in peaceful process.
Because shotguns weren't developed for crowd 'control'.
Because before George "Fucking Haliburton" Walker Bush there were no "Free Speech Zones", and hence no "No-free-speech zones".
Do you really think it's going to be used *only* for use against violent crowds?
More like "the thief has no gun and gets away, and you shoot him on the street the next day"....
Yes, otherwise how could it have no visitors?
Simple. Linking to a site that contains pirated materials makes you guilty of piracy. Therefore, anyone who links to you (and I'll remind, you are guilty of piracy) is *also* guilty of piracy, and so on....
Sad, isn't it?
It must be a microsoft conspiracy with floppy-drive makers.
Antitrust!!!
And who is going to pay for climate change?
Oh wait, that's not happening... sorry.
Would someone explain to me why BSD is called 'more free' than the GPL ?