'Course, you didn't get that rich by buying property right at the time when it looked like house prices were going to collapse.
If you're worried about a few $100,000 here or there, you're obviously not rich enough. Property prices have been "on the verge of collapse" for years now. But if you need the property, you need the property. So what if it loses 30% of its value. You can always justify it by saying "well I needed it for X/Y/Z so we'll just call the difference "rent". And if you end up losing a bit when you sell it, you can always get your accountant to write it off against taxes.
You were perhaps referring to those people who earned a bit of money (in real estate?) and THINK they are rich, perhaps?
no bitch can key your $250k car and no homeless bum can jump you in the car park.
They can always get you at the supermarket/gas station/mall. People who drive Bentleys usually live where there are security guards. I doubt very much they were getting their cars "keyed" at HOME.
So an association of businesses used legal methods to protect their legal and legitimate income stream.
Mr. Coward, please tell me why I can't:
a) watch a DVD that I purchased legally on my television via the TV-Out port on my video card, using my computer's DVD drive to read this legal DVD? Macrovision prevents that. There are ways around it, but they are illegal due to the DMCA.
b) watch a DVD that I purchased legally in linux, because apparently Hollywood hasn't bothered to write an official DVD-decoder for that operating system, yet they maintain that if anyone else does it, it's a DMCA violation?
This makes sense really, when you consider who is pushing for this:
Electronic Arts.
Yet another reason why I hope they will die a fiery death. I haven't bought an EA game since they bought/shut down GameStorm because "gasp" it competed with "Ultima Online".
taking over and using IFPI like this is a pretty low-life kind of thing to do.
No one has "taken over" the site. It was for sale. Someone bought it, and gave it to the Pirate Bay. If they want the site so badly, perhaps they can offer to BUY IT from Pirate Bay, no?
We could always iterate through all 7 quadrillion of them and copyright them all, and thus insure that all possible music is in the public domain by the time our copyrights expire.
OK, but I've already patented that business method...let's talk.
I can see the day when made-to-order viruses and bacteria make and release medicines at the site of the illness, greatly reducing side-effects.
The problem with that is - how do you control the dose? There is such a thing as "too much of a good thing can kill you". Of course eventually I guess we'll find ways to use feedback inhibition, simulating actual physiological systems. But just turning a bunch of viruses loose in someone's body, having them infect cells and start producing insulin (for example) at random is not going to be very helpful. With most (but not all) diseases, not only do you need an ON switch, but you need an OFF button too.
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The "beam" was probably about 5 or 6 positrons in a row... well, you don't want them to blow up the world, do you?
If you paid extra for a ripper
:)
No, I have a freeware one. Was not aware that it was just a "bit", thanks for the info. It also rips out the region flag, which is nice
Nah, I just rip them and remove the macrovision. Problem solved. They can come and get me (I live in Costa Rica - we still have "fair use").
Eventually the taxpayer pays for his own wiretapping. Oh the irony.
He pays for his own incarceration, too. Perhaps you'd like this essay by Henry David Thoreau...
I'll meet his $450 a month and I'll even guarantee a porn sound-track at least one night a week. Please wiretap me!
There's this little thing called "friction", too.
That means I could make out in a car and an elevator at the same time! If I had a girlfriend, and 4.7 million.. But just think of it! A girlfriend!
If you had 5 million dollars, the girlfriend would NOT be a problem believe me. Women are attracted to money.
'Course, you didn't get that rich by buying property right at the time when it looked like house prices were going to collapse.
If you're worried about a few $100,000 here or there, you're obviously not rich enough. Property prices have been "on the verge of collapse" for years now. But if you need the property, you need the property. So what if it loses 30% of its value. You can always justify it by saying "well I needed it for X/Y/Z so we'll just call the difference "rent". And if you end up losing a bit when you sell it, you can always get your accountant to write it off against taxes.
You were perhaps referring to those people who earned a bit of money (in real estate?) and THINK they are rich, perhaps?
no bitch can key your $250k car and no homeless bum can jump you in the car park.
They can always get you at the supermarket/gas station/mall. People who drive Bentleys usually live where there are security guards. I doubt very much they were getting their cars "keyed" at HOME.
Wow
You have opened my eyes to a whole new world - Elevator Geeks!
I hear the centerfold is a pop-up...
So an association of businesses used legal methods to protect their legal and legitimate income stream.
Mr. Coward, please tell me why I can't:
a) watch a DVD that I purchased legally on my television via the TV-Out port on my video card, using my computer's DVD drive to read this legal DVD? Macrovision prevents that. There are ways around it, but they are illegal due to the DMCA.
b) watch a DVD that I purchased legally in linux, because apparently Hollywood hasn't bothered to write an official DVD-decoder for that operating system, yet they maintain that if anyone else does it, it's a DMCA violation?
This makes sense really, when you consider who is pushing for this:
Electronic Arts.
Yet another reason why I hope they will die a fiery death. I haven't bought an EA game since they bought/shut down GameStorm because "gasp" it competed with "Ultima Online".
and you could guess the ads will be cached
I hope the advertisers are aware of my fee for storing their ad info on my hard drive. I think $5 a byte should do it.
I always wonder why airlines have NEVER enforced carry on limits.
taking over and using IFPI like this is a pretty low-life kind of thing to do.
No one has "taken over" the site. It was for sale. Someone bought it, and gave it to the Pirate Bay. If they want the site so badly, perhaps they can offer to BUY IT from Pirate Bay, no?
We could always iterate through all 7 quadrillion of them and copyright them all, and thus insure that all possible music is in the public domain by the time our copyrights expire.
OK, but I've already patented that business method...let's talk.
To be fair it could've also been advocating committing maritime crime against them...
Or simply taking a stand against global warming?
While I agree that the concept of space elevators is cool, perhaps NASA could concentrate on making parachutes that deploy when they're supposed to...
I see you've never had your scrotum pinched between the wheels of... uhh, never mind... I didn't say that. Nope, neither have I...
I can see the day when made-to-order viruses and bacteria make and release medicines at the site of the illness, greatly reducing side-effects.
The problem with that is - how do you control the dose? There is such a thing as "too much of a good thing can kill you". Of course eventually I guess we'll find ways to use feedback inhibition, simulating actual physiological systems. But just turning a bunch of viruses loose in someone's body, having them infect cells and start producing insulin (for example) at random is not going to be very helpful. With most (but not all) diseases, not only do you need an ON switch, but you need an OFF button too.
Don't worry, it's not as if Vista is going to stop sucking anytime soon...
It is a common practive today, and thus has a great deal of prior art to invalidate it.
:)
Prior to IBM? I doubt it
copypasta, also, gb2youknowwhere
Now what?
(slammed against the wall)
"Bro don't tase me, don't tase me! Br-clickclickclickclickclick"
Welcome to the NEW America.
"something the bad guys won't use, because it's too cumbersome/difficult/whatever."
That's the **AA version of "security"...
And yeah, you could be encrypting all that information, but even an encrypted file would be more suspicious than a picture of your cute daughter.
Except for the fact that the little 320 x 240 pic is 512MB...