The EU has (in theory at least) no more border controls, and this is indeed taken advantage of routinely by the citizens. Small countries sell their petrol cheaper than their big neighbours, so as to attract citizens from these neighbour states, and their is nothing the big countries can do about it. Well, there have been attempts to legislate that there should be no petrol stations less than 30km from a border, which would make this petrol tourism impractical.
But now, with this French CD tax, we have nothing to worry about: instead of selling petrol, cigarettes and booze to our French neighbors, we'd sell CD-R's instead.
> If there were any justice, this tax would go to artists who are ripped off, not to those who actually sell their albums.
Actually, as there is no easy way to find out who has been ripped of most, they just assume that the ratio rippoff/sales is roughly the same for all artists. Hence more sales means more popularity which means also more ripoffs.
> Btw, RIAA in france, sounds like a take-over of some sorts. I thought the French was nationalists,
This is probably not the RIAA per se, but rather SACEM, the French RIAA equivalent. They are at least as ferocious as the RIAA themselves, and even tax orchestras for songs they play themselves, and occasionnally even for songs that the orchestras composed themselves...
I Have An LCD Remote too...it's from Handspring.
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And at the same time it also doubles as a gameboy, a handheld telnet client and an electronic agenda. And was not that much more expensive than the one listed.
In addition to be able to program macros, it can also act as a timer, sending the remote control commands at a preset time (handy for regestering shows off your satellite receiver at preset times, even if your receiver has no builtin timer).
Do that to whatever spammer you want, but not to a bank. Next time, they'll ruin your credit report, or worse, they'll stick you one of those dreaded ChexSystems
marks. And there is really not much you can do about that.
What if the company sells products that you only need to buy very rarely... (such as furniture or cars). You may still be a loyal customer, and only shop there once every 10 years.
Nope, goatse is 209.242.124.241. But goatse won't work anyways, if you access it by IP: It is on a multi-homed site, and the default site is an innocuous looking picture of a cow.
The benefit of reconfiguring your DNS is that thenext time an NYT story comes up, you just click on the damn link, rather than having to manually rewrite the URL each time.
> Yes, it's the New York times, so no-login URLs will doubtless soon appear.
Actually, the URL given (http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/07/weekinreview/07 WORD.html)
is already a no-login URL, if your/etc/hosts or DNS nameserver is set up "correctly". Just be sure you have the following line somewhere in your/etc/hosts: 208.48.26.217 www.nytimes.com
A browser story,and nobody mentioned konqueror yet
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Done.
The new 2.0.1 version looks real nice. The jittery display while loading Slashdot is gone, it now understand E*Trade's protocol-less relative URLs, and no longer gets confused by localhost:10000. Give it a try.
Oh, and for those who wonder: yes, it does Java, Javascript and NS compatible plugins. And it handles those mazes of nested tables from hell perfectly well, unlike netscape.
*Gasp*. A conventional rocket does have something better than a vacuum to react against: its own exhaust fumes. The new magnetic drive will have nothing to react against... unless:
it is close enough to earth, so that it reacts against any metallic objects on earth, or against the earth's magnetic field
it brings its own reaction mass with it, under the form of metallic particles that it throws out at regular intervals. But then, the main advantage of the "reactionless" drive would be gone: the rocket would need to pack a big enough supply of said particles, and it will have no advantage over a conventional rocket
Don't they check articles for any scientific soundness any more, before publishing them? Even a high-school student knows that you need to "push against" something to get a vehicle moving (the road in case of a car, the air in case of a plane, and its own exhaust gases in case of a conventional rocket). This drive will likely work when near other metallic or magnetic bodies, but the effect will dwindle as soon as you get far enough from the earth or any other planet. You could keep it working by tossing out metallic particles out of the ship, but then you'd be back to square 1: need to take a big supply of "reaction mass" with you.
> A 1 month interruption was not acceptable. I doubt it is for this person, either.
The trick of course, is to make sure you already have sth new when you quit. Seems quite common sense, no?
> 2-3 interviews A DAY and nearly 3 weeks later she found a job with a 2 hour commute time. Was this in some backwater city?
Ok, so that explains the bit of not having a new job ready when stopping the old (you'd never have the time). The trick here, of course, is to send your resume to places that are worthwhile. It's not as if you were desperate at finding sth: after all, you have your current job, so you won't starve if you don't find sth right away. You'll only be stuck with a shitty job a couple of weeks more.
Case in point, earlier this year, I felt I was fed up with the bank I worked for. So, I send out exactly ONE resume to a company I liked. Passed the interviews, signed the contract, and only THEN gave notice at my previous company. I left the old company exactly one week before joining the new. And that week was left-over holidays. Result: no time without pay. And a job that I like.
Ah, but you forgot one little detail: You're daughter may well have played that great flute solo, but did she compose it? Most probably not, and the music composer also holds copyrights on the recordings, and need to be reimbursed for any public performance. So, the encryption is not only protecting your daughter's copyright, but also the composer's, and he'll sue you into oblivion once you got that flute solo to your computer's hard disk.
That link still misses the end. What happened in the graveyard, after they finally got to set up their rendez-vous? Did they look into their server logs to see who accessed the page? What about the video tape, and how did they get back the missing rotors eventually? It just stops right before it would get interesting. And the "next" link points to background information about what the role the machine played in WWII. But the crucial part of how they did get back the missing rotors is... as missing as said rotors.
> Or are they saying you are 'introducing' more 'copies' of a game then the market initially had, and thus the amount of money being lost is equal to the price of the game at market introduction?
If that reasoning would fly, couldn't you ask for a refund of the royalties for throwing your legacy games in the thrash, because that would lead to "less copies of a game than the market initially had"...
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208.48.26.217 www.nytimes.com
But now, with this French CD tax, we have nothing to worry about: instead of selling petrol, cigarettes and booze to our French neighbors, we'd sell CD-R's instead.
Actually, as there is no easy way to find out who has been ripped of most, they just assume that the ratio rippoff/sales is roughly the same for all artists. Hence more sales means more popularity which means also more ripoffs.
> Btw, RIAA in france, sounds like a take-over of some sorts. I thought the French was nationalists,
This is probably not the RIAA per se, but rather SACEM, the French RIAA equivalent. They are at least as ferocious as the RIAA themselves, and even tax orchestras for songs they play themselves, and occasionnally even for songs that the orchestras composed themselves...
In addition to be able to program macros, it can also act as a timer, sending the remote control commands at a preset time (handy for regestering shows off your satellite receiver at preset times, even if your receiver has no builtin timer).
Not that much more expensive, and you can download a universal remote utility for it. At the same time it also doubles as a game boy, a handheld terminal, and *gasp* an electronic agenda...
This one is ok: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/12/technology/12CYB ERLAW.html
Do that to whatever spammer you want, but not to a bank. Next time, they'll ruin your credit report, or worse, they'll stick you one of those dreaded ChexSystems marks. And there is really not much you can do about that.
What if the company sells products that you only need to buy very rarely... (such as furniture or cars). You may still be a loyal customer, and only shop there once every 10 years.
And now the price question: will it become pregnant?
Nope, goatse is 209.242.124.241. But goatse won't work anyways, if you access it by IP: It is on a multi-homed site, and the default site is an innocuous looking picture of a cow.
The benefit of reconfiguring your DNS is that thenext time an NYT story comes up, you just click on the damn link, rather than having to manually rewrite the URL each time.
Actually, the URL given (http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/07/weekinreview/07 WORD.html)
is already a no-login URL, if your /etc/hosts or DNS nameserver is set up "correctly". Just be sure you have the following line somewhere in your /etc/hosts:
208.48.26.217 www.nytimes.com
The new 2.0.1 version looks real nice. The jittery display while loading Slashdot is gone, it now understand E*Trade's protocol-less relative URLs, and no longer gets confused by localhost:10000. Give it a try.
Oh, and for those who wonder: yes, it does Java, Javascript and NS compatible plugins. And it handles those mazes of nested tables from hell perfectly well, unlike netscape.
happen?
Don't they check articles for any scientific soundness any more, before publishing them? Even a high-school student knows that you need to "push against" something to get a vehicle moving (the road in case of a car, the air in case of a plane, and its own exhaust gases in case of a conventional rocket). This drive will likely work when near other metallic or magnetic bodies, but the effect will dwindle as soon as you get far enough from the earth or any other planet. You could keep it working by tossing out metallic particles out of the ship, but then you'd be back to square 1: need to take a big supply of "reaction mass" with you.
The trick of course, is to make sure you already have sth new when you quit. Seems quite common sense, no?
> 2-3 interviews A DAY and nearly 3 weeks later she found a job with a 2 hour commute time. Was this in some backwater city?
Ok, so that explains the bit of not having a new job ready when stopping the old (you'd never have the time). The trick here, of course, is to send your resume to places that are worthwhile. It's not as if you were desperate at finding sth: after all, you have your current job, so you won't starve if you don't find sth right away. You'll only be stuck with a shitty job a couple of weeks more.
Case in point, earlier this year, I felt I was fed up with the bank I worked for. So, I send out exactly ONE resume to a company I liked. Passed the interviews, signed the contract, and only THEN gave notice at my previous company. I left the old company exactly one week before joining the new. And that week was left-over holidays. Result: no time without pay. And a job that I like.
Use konqueror
Ah, but you forgot one little detail: You're daughter may well have played that great flute solo, but did she compose it? Most probably not, and the music composer also holds copyrights on the recordings, and need to be reimbursed for any public performance. So, the encryption is not only protecting your daughter's copyright, but also the composer's, and he'll sue you into oblivion once you got that flute solo to your computer's hard disk.
yes, in a way, if you consider Copyright law as government regulation
That link still misses the end. What happened in the graveyard, after they finally got to set up their rendez-vous? Did they look into their server logs to see who accessed the page? What about the video tape, and how did they get back the missing rotors eventually? It just stops right before it would get interesting. And the "next" link points to background information about what the role the machine played in WWII. But the crucial part of how they did get back the missing rotors is... as missing as said rotors.
Then you would not only have made up your mind, but you would have helped the Merkins make up theirs too...
Cute! That would make Gore the first US president to be chosen by Russians!
Which presidential inauguration?
If that reasoning would fly, couldn't you ask for a refund of the royalties for throwing your legacy games in the thrash, because that would lead to "less copies of a game than the market initially had"...