"That'd be reasonable, and would translate to this:
RIAA: P2P activity from IP xx.xx.xx.xx Verizon: *boot* "
Um. Well. You're an idiot. You see, I've used P2P as an honest to christ distribution tool for media I've personally created, or been asked to help distribute by the creators, and for trading gigs and gigs of stuff that was no longer under copyright, or never was in the first place. P2P has perfectly legitimate uses, and I can honestly say that I've used it for those legitimate purposed a LOT more than I've used it for anything else.
Nope, sorry. Crock of shit, this is. Because in the original post, we were talking about kids who were just downloading an occasional copy of a program, but weren't about to pay for its continued use. Please, you can't sit there and tell me that someone who would NEVER have paid the money for a program NO MATTER WHAT is costing a company money because he downloads a copy of the software to use rarely. I mean, please...
I've never seen a software DVD player that won't allow me to select what chapter to start on, or even fast forward through the ads at the beginning. But, damn, nothing is more irritating than having to sit through seven minutes of advertising defecation because the fast-forward and track-advance buttons are disabled on my hardware DVD player. How sleazy IS that, anyway? Makes me want to go back to VHS. At least with VHS, if they disabled my fast forward button, I could just pop the tape out and crank it around a few (dozen) times by hand....:o
No, I think he was commenting on "correlation" vs "causation". Unless this retarded comment filtering system has once again removed the reply to the reply to the original post that your post is commenting on. (that sound wrong to you?...hmmm)
Anyway, bottom line. Crazy is crazy, and a kid with no parents will pick up his morality from his environment. Without someone to filter and interpret that environment, thus providing a basis against which future decisions can be made, senators will try to win popularity points by forever and again raising issues that fan the bright fires fed by the ignorance of the masses...
I wouldn't say that Heinlein's Starship Troopers-esque society wasn't practical, it's simply that our society isn't set up that way. I mean...in his world, everyone, and EVERYONE did hard work during their time in the service. Just about as hard as they could make it. They did everything in their power to make that person want to quit. They gave everyone a shot, sure, but they made them pay for it. No cushy jobs for the handicapped, etc, just hard ones specifically suited to them. Our military just doesn't seem suited to that, even though it'd be a far better alternative to what we have now. I've always thought that'd be a great way to determine who should be allowed to vote, even though it maintains that odd line that occurs exactly at the mystical chemical transformation that occurs exactly eighteen revolutions of the earth around the sun, starting from the time you come screaming and toothless from your mother's belly, but I think I can live with that.
On that note, I'd like to formerly register my vote against your idea of a poll tax. History has shown us that the rich always use a poll tax to discriminate against the poor, just as literacy tests were used to discriminate against those who not only were not educated, but could not be under the very laws they would no doubt have voted to change, given the opportunity.
I'm actually quite impressed with the amount of real-life research that goes into some of those "historic" games. You can learn quite a bit about the wars just from playing through the game. It's actually quite cool.
Best geekquote ever: "I just bought MOH:Frontline. Wow, World War II was easy!"
I still have Dr Brain's Island. I think it was the sequel to that one. I specifically remember the headaches I earned trying to figure out how to rig up the gears to make the elevators go (about half way through the game). MAN! And for someone as tone-deaf as me, the piano puzzle just wasn't fair. But, I did learn quite a bit from that game, and yet it was both a game and fun. The puzzles were interesting, varied, and educational. So...we know that such a combination is definitely possible. Hmm...all of a sudden you've made me want to play it:D
I do. Although we've reached a level of saturation in this country that's gotten us pretty much to the point where people don't even SEE advertisements, especially online. I don't know...I just can't see people actually clicking on ads, or responding to unsolicited mail...do they? I don't understand people who do; hell, I can't even envision it...
And you're absolutely right. I myself never use "l33t" except as a complete joke when I screwing around. And I use proper punctuation, capitalization, and grammar whenever typing online, even in an instant message window.
What it seems to boil down to is this: Solid grounding in the basic skills in as absolute necessity. I have several teachers in my family, and I feel for them. As much as they know it is a bad thing to give a calculator to someone who can't multiply, what are they to do when 29 other kids can? It's a tought question.
Of course I probably have some spelling or grammar errors in this that I missed when I briefly proofed it...:)
I can't think of how someone downloading a game to try it out and realizing it is good is bad, when (as in your example) they otherwise wouldn't even have KNOWN about it, given that it released with another ridiculously high-profile game.
Uh, sure there's lots of money to be made from the sale and distro of illegally obtained/replicated software...but these groups generally don't go for that. I think Class once had a "greatest hits" CD they were selling...but that was a really bad idea.
Charge me a reasonable price and prove to me the product is worth it _and_ prove to me you're not a money-grubbing asshole throwing his weight around just cause you're the baddest motherfucker on the block and I'll absolutely buy your product. And I do.
Otherwise, gfy. You don't need my money, and all you're going to use it for is fucking me in the ass, and you won't get it.
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Of course, the whole point is moot. We just need to organize a computer help-desk revolt. If we don't support it, people don't use it! :D
Here's a nickel. Buy a clue. Cause a nickel sure as hell won't pay for the insurance.
CAN'T YOU GROK A JOKE? JESUS!
"That'd be reasonable, and would translate to this:
RIAA: P2P activity from IP xx.xx.xx.xx
Verizon: *boot*
"
Um. Well. You're an idiot. You see, I've used P2P as an honest to christ distribution tool for media I've personally created, or been asked to help distribute by the creators, and for trading gigs and gigs of stuff that was no longer under copyright, or never was in the first place. P2P has perfectly legitimate uses, and I can honestly say that I've used it for those legitimate purposed a LOT more than I've used it for anything else.
So...Go piss up a rope.
Nope, sorry. Crock of shit, this is. Because in the original post, we were talking about kids who were just downloading an occasional copy of a program, but weren't about to pay for its continued use. Please, you can't sit there and tell me that someone who would NEVER have paid the money for a program NO MATTER WHAT is costing a company money because he downloads a copy of the software to use rarely. I mean, please...
I've never seen a software DVD player that won't allow me to select what chapter to start on, or even fast forward through the ads at the beginning. But, damn, nothing is more irritating than having to sit through seven minutes of advertising defecation because the fast-forward and track-advance buttons are disabled on my hardware DVD player. How sleazy IS that, anyway? Makes me want to go back to VHS. At least with VHS, if they disabled my fast forward button, I could just pop the tape out and crank it around a few (dozen) times by hand.... :o
No, I think he was commenting on "correlation" vs "causation". Unless this retarded comment filtering system has once again removed the reply to the reply to the original post that your post is commenting on. (that sound wrong to you?...hmmm)
Anyway, bottom line. Crazy is crazy, and a kid with no parents will pick up his morality from his environment. Without someone to filter and interpret that environment, thus providing a basis against which future decisions can be made, senators will try to win popularity points by forever and again raising issues that fan the bright fires fed by the ignorance of the masses...
I wouldn't say that Heinlein's Starship Troopers-esque society wasn't practical, it's simply that our society isn't set up that way. I mean...in his world, everyone, and EVERYONE did hard work during their time in the service. Just about as hard as they could make it. They did everything in their power to make that person want to quit. They gave everyone a shot, sure, but they made them pay for it. No cushy jobs for the handicapped, etc, just hard ones specifically suited to them. Our military just doesn't seem suited to that, even though it'd be a far better alternative to what we have now. I've always thought that'd be a great way to determine who should be allowed to vote, even though it maintains that odd line that occurs exactly at the mystical chemical transformation that occurs exactly eighteen revolutions of the earth around the sun, starting from the time you come screaming and toothless from your mother's belly, but I think I can live with that.
On that note, I'd like to formerly register my vote against your idea of a poll tax. History has shown us that the rich always use a poll tax to discriminate against the poor, just as literacy tests were used to discriminate against those who not only were not educated, but could not be under the very laws they would no doubt have voted to change, given the opportunity.
-kaxman
Expecially with the USPS on the job. And delivery is only best-effort, you know...what with those occasional breaks to shoot random people.
I'm actually quite impressed with the amount of real-life research that goes into some of those "historic" games. You can learn quite a bit about the wars just from playing through the game. It's actually quite cool.
Best geekquote ever:
"I just bought MOH:Frontline. Wow, World War II was easy!"
I still have Dr Brain's Island. I think it was the sequel to that one. I specifically remember the headaches I earned trying to figure out how to rig up the gears to make the elevators go (about half way through the game). MAN! And for someone as tone-deaf as me, the piano puzzle just wasn't fair. But, I did learn quite a bit from that game, and yet it was both a game and fun. The puzzles were interesting, varied, and educational. So...we know that such a combination is definitely possible. Hmm...all of a sudden you've made me want to play it :D
I do. Although we've reached a level of saturation in this country that's gotten us pretty much to the point where people don't even SEE advertisements, especially online. I don't know...I just can't see people actually clicking on ads, or responding to unsolicited mail...do they? I don't understand people who do; hell, I can't even envision it...
Can't we just bash them in the nuts with the mighty gavel of justice?
Dammit, it would feel so GOOD.
Yeah, but you can sure run for mayor. Of course, in most cities, you can't be a cab driver until you're, what, 25?
*sigh*
Nooo...they just realize that all linux users are geeks with skinny arms and pimples :D
Since it's just a new way to recruit, they needed to get the gorillas who don't know how to run anything but...
Uh, yes they can. There's a step-by-step workaround available for that particular "bug"...
And you're absolutely right. I myself never use "l33t" except as a complete joke when I screwing around. And I use proper punctuation, capitalization, and grammar whenever typing online, even in an instant message window.
:)
What it seems to boil down to is this: Solid grounding in the basic skills in as absolute necessity. I have several teachers in my family, and I feel for them. As much as they know it is a bad thing to give a calculator to someone who can't multiply, what are they to do when 29 other kids can? It's a tought question.
Of course I probably have some spelling or grammar errors in this that I missed when I briefly proofed it...
For example...?
I can't think of how someone downloading a game to try it out and realizing it is good is bad, when (as in your example) they otherwise wouldn't even have KNOWN about it, given that it released with another ridiculously high-profile game.
No it doesn't. There are multitudes of tools written for the average luser that will image, mount, and emulate any given CD with any protections.
I dunno...CD replicators are not exactly cheaper than a high-volume bulk fed sheet scanner. And they CERTAINLY aren't a scant $100.
This is SNOOD we're talking about here!
Uh, sure there's lots of money to be made from the sale and distro of illegally obtained/replicated software...but these groups generally don't go for that. I think Class once had a "greatest hits" CD they were selling...but that was a really bad idea.
There won't be any noise, just packet loss. You'll miss a word here or there, but the ones that _do_ make it though will sound just right :D
This'll shove IPv6 right down our throats.
*sigh*
Looks like I'll have to learn how to subnet again...
Charge me a reasonable price and prove to me the product is worth it _and_ prove to me you're not a money-grubbing asshole throwing his weight around just cause you're the baddest motherfucker on the block and I'll absolutely buy your product. And I do.
Otherwise, gfy. You don't need my money, and all you're going to use it for is fucking me in the ass, and you won't get it.
Yeah...bullshit.
Not bloody likely. Its all about power and control. And once they get what they want, and its too late...we're fucked.