The fact that I have to read the BBC to get some of the news that don't make the cut in US media isn't really worrysome?
What worries me is that you think that the BBC is viable alternative to US news when they are both subject to the propaganda of their joint militaries going at war together...
They both have "security" issues they'll want to edit out of the news, as well as "morale" booster they'll want to *cough*JessicaLynch*cough* insert in the "news".
In other news... Bill Gates's other current projects: 1. Working toward an Apple-free Future
Actually, Microsoft needs apple around...they can say "we're not a monopoly, there's Apple!" and they can copy the hell out of their products. Same way the US needs communist Cuba (boogyman, and a nice place to fuck the geneva convention by caging prisoners of war).
I wouldn't call Radiohead a "big crap artist". They have some of the most loyal fans out there. If Hail to the Thief had been on the iTunes Music Store, I would have bought it there. It's not, so I ended up going to best buy to pick it up.
Yeah, you ended up buying a "CD" with DRM innit.
Way to go, loyal fan, show them that they can just crappify the CD all they want and that you will blindly keep buying.
Radiohead is no longer elligable to recieving money from me in exchange for their music, just like Metallica.
And when I got home, I couldn't find my memory card, so I tried t go through the game in one go (on account of caring so much about Ico and that glow in the dark princess)...
Of course, when the queen screwed me on the bridge (in the nasty way, not the naughty way), I decided that 3 am was a good time to shut the console off and go get some sleep.
I can't think of a single time that I've ever wanted to email a process listing to anyone, but it's comforting to know that, if I ever get the urge, it's just a click away.
That's probably a debug tool that will be removed before the final build...
There are natural processes by which genes from one organism get inserted into genomes of another. Are you saying that this is not GE?
Indeed, natual processes are not engineering, big fat DUH!
People are concerned about the consequences of a new technology. Its not like corporations have never poisoned the environment and destroyed ecosystems for profit before, there are a LOT of reasons for concern.
Just because the words "Genetic engineering" can be applied, sorta, to things we've been doing for long doesn't mean that the thing people actually mean (taking bits of dna from one critter and putting it in another in a lab) when talking about it is safe.
Yeah, the same morons who claim that MSG is safe (I would SO like to beat their face in with a brick...safe my ass!) and that pot is as dangerous as heroin.
The US FDA does not have my respect. They clearly base their "scientific" rulings on what would most benefit certain industries rather than what is actually safe or not.
It just so happens that GMfood (sounds like an edible car...nevermind) is a big industry in the US, and what a surprise, the FDA does nothing that would stand in the way of billions of dollars of genetically modified profit (glow in the dark cash anyone?).
Sounds pretty neat to me, after all people have been genetically modifying animals for tens of thousands of years, except the tool has been breeding rather than genetics.
Yes, and people have been using cars for tens of thousands of years, it was called running.
Jeez, breeding for particular traits is NOT at all the same as inserting genes from other species.
agreed to cease and desist from any and all other acts of unfair competition with Marvel
Er, yeah, right. I forgot that Marvel is a Sims skin company, not a gorram comic book company.
All those years, forced to publish comic books, waiting for the Sims to finally start to exist for their primary buisness objective to be completed. Must have been rough.
Download an album. You know that $20 sitting in your wallet? It now belongs to the people who brought out that album you downloaded.
Hell no. The music belongs to the people who "brought it out", that's a given. They choose to profit from this music they created and own by releasing it as "albums", a format of their choice. The production of said album incurrs expenses, such as printing, shipping, etc. This sets the base price for the album, then they factor in their desired profit, and set the retail price for the album.
That 20$ (we'll keep that nice, even number) is the retail price. That is money I would owe those people if I were to aquire a "physical album", by, say, walking into a store and walking out with the album.
Now, we'll go the Apple way, and declare that a "d/l album". It is $9.99, since its base price involves less expenses (printing, shipping, etc). So per your logic, I would owe them 10 bucks (I'll be generous and throw in an extra penny) if I d/l an album.
So you greatly exagerated the hypotetical money I hypotetically owe them. Its 10, not 20 bucks.
But you're not going to pay it to them, are you? You're going to keep that $20(sic) in your wallet. You're stealing. Deal with it.
But, I'm in canada, they won't take my money for a d/l album (wich is what I want, if I'm downloading it in the first place). Now, I could let them dictate that I buy a physical album at an inflated price (they are stealing from me there, bub), or I could aquire the product I want (a d/l album). I take nothing away from them, my downloading did not use their bandwith it did not cost them anything at all when I do these things. They are not accepting money, they could take my money, but they don't want it.
I am not stealing, because they did not lose anything.
The fact that there exist a similar product at an inflated price has no impact on wether I was stealing or not (in your d/l scenario), because it is not the same product that I aquired. It is irrelevant, the fact that they want to force me to buy it only means that they are bullies, not that I am a thief for not doing so.
And, once and for all: Stealing is taking something away from someone else without permission. It is illegal. Downloading copyrighted material without permission takes nothing away. It is also illegal. 2 different things.
You are depriving the owner of value by diminishing it.
What?
You are stealing their profits
Huh?
Taking money they should have, but don't.
What the hell?
Why is this so hard to understand?
Because you speak nonsense, obviously.
You "steal" money that they don't have? But you don't end up with money yourself...makes no sense. This is the kind of double talk only an economist or lawyer can follow. There is hypotetical money being magically stolen, money that never was in the pockets of those who it is "stolen" from and does not en up in the pockets of the "thieves", and you wonder why people don't see it?
I'm not saying that its A OK to copy everything and never pay for anything. But you made no sense.
Does anyone know if Apple is pushing for an exclusive right to distribute/sell these tunes online or if they're content being one of many distributors?
Consider: The major labels all have their own craptastic internet music stores. And they are all on iTunes. So...
I think they're content being, by far, the absolute best on-line music store.
This clearly isn't true for the big labels. Some "hits" can only be bought if you take the whole album -- they won't sell Don MacLean's "American Pie" for $0.99 -- and exceptionally long tracks (>7 mins) often have the same restriction.
It has nothing to do with "hits", its about lenght. Don't ask me why, but songs over 7 minutes in lenght are only sold as part of an album, never as "per song". There is probably a good reason for this, I just can't see it.
Hehe, back in high school we used to play nSnipes during lunch time. After a few weeks of seeing the computer lab fill up in the first 2 minutes of lunch, the game was removed from the network. The official reason was "degradation of student language"
We'd scream to each other across the room:"I'll get you you &%$@ son of a $#@!" : )
That's right, all the generations of kids who played these horrendous, violent "street games" turned out to be monstrous asocial killers in real life huh? Didn't they?
Hell, when I was a kid, my mom wouldn't let me have toy guns, so I made myself guns from lego blocks. When I was done with them I would dismantle them into 3 or 4 easy to reassamble pieces that I would hide in separate sections of my lego chest (Ã la Nikita).
Kids play war. This is what kids do. The fact that kids play war using games that didn't exist when the current adults were kids just scares the old farts like any new tech scares the old geezers. "In my time, kids were respectfull of their elders, we walked a 100 miles in snow to school, barefoot and uphill both ways, every morning, and didn't play violent games".
Yes, put limits to your kids. Yes, don't let the lil'uns play adult gore games (silent hill scares me, I wouldn't let a 9yr old play it), yes, don't let them spend ALL their times on games. But for crying out loud, relax allready! Boys will be boys and trying to hide the fact that there is violence in the world will only leave them unprepared to face it.
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Berry tried everything to force the birds to move under their own power. He flashed strobe lights in their eyes...
Anybody else get the feeling he also tried a pendulum, but won't admit it?
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The fact that I have to read the BBC to get some of the news that don't make the cut in US media isn't really worrysome?
What worries me is that you think that the BBC is viable alternative to US news when they are both subject to the propaganda of their joint militaries going at war together...
They both have "security" issues they'll want to edit out of the news, as well as "morale" booster they'll want to *cough*JessicaLynch*cough* insert in the "news".
In other news... Bill Gates's other current projects:
1. Working toward an Apple-free Future
Actually, Microsoft needs apple around...they can say "we're not a monopoly, there's Apple!" and they can copy the hell out of their products. Same way the US needs communist Cuba (boogyman, and a nice place to fuck the geneva convention by caging prisoners of war).
we may have to...consider...activating Task Force Crimson Bravo, although I'm sure I'm as loathe to do that as you are.
I think they are busy...
What DRM? I bought Hail to the Thief, ripped it to my iPod, and listened to it there. I didn't see no stinking DRM ...
Huh? Well, I held one in my hands, had a big ol' warning on the back.
Maybe its a regional trial or something...though my friend bought it and said that despite the half-assed DRM attempt he could still rip it in iTunes.
I wouldn't call Radiohead a "big crap artist". They have some of the most loyal fans out there. If Hail to the Thief had been on the iTunes Music Store, I would have bought it there. It's not, so I ended up going to best buy to pick it up.
Yeah, you ended up buying a "CD" with DRM innit.
Way to go, loyal fan, show them that they can just crappify the CD all they want and that you will blindly keep buying.
Radiohead is no longer elligable to recieving money from me in exchange for their music, just like Metallica.
I bought it for 40 canadian bucks at zellers...
And when I got home, I couldn't find my memory card, so I tried t go through the game in one go (on account of caring so much about Ico and that glow in the dark princess)...
Of course, when the queen screwed me on the bridge (in the nasty way, not the naughty way), I decided that 3 am was a good time to shut the console off and go get some sleep.
I can't think of a single time that I've ever wanted to email a process listing to anyone, but it's comforting to know that, if I ever get the urge, it's just a click away.
That's probably a debug tool that will be removed before the final build...
I'm bitching at the President because hes the leader of the free world and hes not doing shit.
No, he's the leader of the United States of America, that is all.
I don't remember a Free World elections...seems I would have heard of a world wide election.
Have you ever heard of a mule? Two different species, crossed horrifically!
Yeah, right.
2 closely related species mating together is the same as inserting coral genes in a fish.
Ooooooook...suuuuuure...
There are natural processes by which genes from one organism get inserted into genomes of another. Are you saying that this is not GE?
Indeed, natual processes are not engineering, big fat DUH!
People are concerned about the consequences of a new technology. Its not like corporations have never poisoned the environment and destroyed ecosystems for profit before, there are a LOT of reasons for concern.
Just because the words "Genetic engineering" can be applied, sorta, to things we've been doing for long doesn't mean that the thing people actually mean (taking bits of dna from one critter and putting it in another in a lab) when talking about it is safe.
THe US FDA disagrees
Yeah, the same morons who claim that MSG is safe (I would SO like to beat their face in with a brick...safe my ass!) and that pot is as dangerous as heroin.
The US FDA does not have my respect. They clearly base their "scientific" rulings on what would most benefit certain industries rather than what is actually safe or not.
It just so happens that GMfood (sounds like an edible car...nevermind) is a big industry in the US, and what a surprise, the FDA does nothing that would stand in the way of billions of dollars of genetically modified profit (glow in the dark cash anyone?).
Sounds pretty neat to me, after all people have been genetically modifying animals for tens of thousands of years, except the tool has been breeding rather than genetics.
Yes, and people have been using cars for tens of thousands of years, it was called running.
Jeez, breeding for particular traits is NOT at all the same as inserting genes from other species.
agreed to cease and desist from any and all other acts of unfair competition with Marvel
Er, yeah, right.
I forgot that Marvel is a Sims skin company, not a gorram comic book company.
All those years, forced to publish comic books, waiting for the Sims to finally start to exist for their primary buisness objective to be completed. Must have been rough.
The problem with that system, off course, is identity theft.
Scenario: Spammer steals many identities, frames innoncent man and then reports him and claims a bounty,and YOU pay the spammer a bounty.
Do that...and the problem has just gotten worse.
Download an album. You know that $20 sitting in your wallet? It now belongs to the people who brought out that album you downloaded.
Hell no.
The music belongs to the people who "brought it out", that's a given.
They choose to profit from this music they created and own by releasing it as "albums", a format of their choice. The production of said album incurrs expenses, such as printing, shipping, etc. This sets the base price for the album, then they factor in their desired profit, and set the retail price for the album.
That 20$ (we'll keep that nice, even number) is the retail price. That is money I would owe those people if I were to aquire a "physical album", by, say, walking into a store and walking out with the album.
Now, we'll go the Apple way, and declare that a "d/l album". It is $9.99, since its base price involves less expenses (printing, shipping, etc). So per your logic, I would owe them 10 bucks (I'll be generous and throw in an extra penny) if I d/l an album.
So you greatly exagerated the hypotetical money I hypotetically owe them. Its 10, not 20 bucks.
But you're not going to pay it to them, are you? You're going to keep that $20(sic) in your wallet. You're stealing. Deal with it.
But, I'm in canada, they won't take my money for a d/l album (wich is what I want, if I'm downloading it in the first place). Now, I could let them dictate that I buy a physical album at an inflated price (they are stealing from me there, bub), or I could aquire the product I want (a d/l album). I take nothing away from them, my downloading did not use their bandwith it did not cost them anything at all when I do these things. They are not accepting money, they could take my money, but they don't want it.
I am not stealing, because they did not lose anything.
The fact that there exist a similar product at an inflated price has no impact on wether I was stealing or not (in your d/l scenario), because it is not the same product that I aquired. It is irrelevant, the fact that they want to force me to buy it only means that they are bullies, not that I am a thief for not doing so.
And, once and for all:
Stealing is taking something away from someone else without permission. It is illegal.
Downloading copyrighted material without permission takes nothing away. It is also illegal.
2 different things.
You are depriving the owner of value by diminishing it.
What?
You are stealing their profits
Huh?
Taking money they should have, but don't.
What the hell?
Why is this so hard to understand?
Because you speak nonsense, obviously.
You "steal" money that they don't have? But you don't end up with money yourself...makes no sense. This is the kind of double talk only an economist or lawyer can follow. There is hypotetical money being magically stolen, money that never was in the pockets of those who it is "stolen" from and does not en up in the pockets of the "thieves", and you wonder why people don't see it?
I'm not saying that its A OK to copy everything and never pay for anything. But you made no sense.
Sounds like Imperium Galactica.
Nah, in Starflight you fly around ina spaceship and talk to other spaceship. You don't conquer anything.
I was just about to talk about Starflight. You beat me to the punch.
That game was AWSOME. Communicating with alien species, exploring planets...I wasted so many hours with that game, and its sequel.
But why would anyone want a monitor in their mirror at home???
To check on how their internet-fridge is doing.
It is "Akiko Mizutani" not "Aikiko Mizutani"
Actually, its meant to be written in a whole other alphabet, so its really neither : )
Does anyone know if Apple is pushing for an exclusive right to distribute/sell these tunes online or if they're content being one of many distributors?
Consider: The major labels all have their own craptastic internet music stores. And they are all on iTunes.
So...
I think they're content being, by far, the absolute best on-line music store.
: )
This clearly isn't true for the big labels. Some "hits" can only be bought if you take the whole album -- they won't sell Don MacLean's "American Pie" for $0.99 -- and exceptionally long tracks (>7 mins) often have the same restriction.
It has nothing to do with "hits", its about lenght.
Don't ask me why, but songs over 7 minutes in lenght are only sold as part of an album, never as "per song".
There is probably a good reason for this, I just can't see it.
(American Pie is 8 1/2 minutes long)
My only concern is for foul language.
:"I'll get you you &%$@ son of a $#@!" : )
Hehe, back in high school we used to play nSnipes during lunch time. After a few weeks of seeing the computer lab fill up in the first 2 minutes of lunch, the game was removed from the network. The official reason was "degradation of student language"
We'd scream to each other across the room
Ahhh...good times...
"Bang bang! You're dead!"
That's right, all the generations of kids who played these horrendous, violent "street games" turned out to be monstrous asocial killers in real life huh? Didn't they?
Hell, when I was a kid, my mom wouldn't let me have toy guns, so I made myself guns from lego blocks. When I was done with them I would dismantle them into 3 or 4 easy to reassamble pieces that I would hide in separate sections of my lego chest (Ã la Nikita).
Kids play war. This is what kids do. The fact that kids play war using games that didn't exist when the current adults were kids just scares the old farts like any new tech scares the old geezers. "In my time, kids were respectfull of their elders, we walked a 100 miles in snow to school, barefoot and uphill both ways, every morning, and didn't play violent games".
Yes, put limits to your kids. Yes, don't let the lil'uns play adult gore games (silent hill scares me, I wouldn't let a 9yr old play it), yes, don't let them spend ALL their times on games. But for crying out loud, relax allready! Boys will be boys and trying to hide the fact that there is violence in the world will only leave them unprepared to face it.
Berry tried everything to force the birds to move under their own power. He flashed strobe lights in their eyes...
Anybody else get the feeling he also tried a pendulum, but won't admit it?