Guitar players use all those pedals to modify the clean sound of the guitar, sometimes into something completely....other - That's all done on a single guitar up till the 1'40" mark.
For a good example, try this clip, starting at the 2'38" mark. The old black guy is Albert King, the younger white guy is Gary Moore. See the difference? Albert uses lovely clean, cool tones while Gary makes his guitar wail and scream in the traditional manner.
Clean and distorted both have their place, of course. Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) doesn't use distortion, David Gilmore (Pink Floyd) uses distortion, flanging, delay and everything else under the sun. "Comfortably Numb" wouldn't be the same song without it, while "Romeo and Juliet" clearly doesn't need it.
Well, see, that right there is the good thing about standards.
Given that the standard is for webpages to be found at www.whatever.com, and the mail server is at mail.whatever.com (or pop & smtp for the really standards-adherent sysadmin - do you work in a smtp & pop operation? I wish I did), I could take a wild stab in the dark and say it would be, oh, I don't know, maybe...ftp.mozilla.org? No, wait, that's right, they've gone commercial - let's try oh, um, I know this, tip of my toungue...ftp.mozilla.com?
Yeah, really hard to work that one out!
Download it. It's only a megabyte. Read it. It is a beautiful thing...
The fun really starts at the bottom of page 144, when Judge Tunis listed as part of her reasons for going for the full disbarment examples of Jack's behaviour right there in her own courtroom!
Not to mention Jack's final glorious stand, the last day he was in court;
"Mr. Thompson came to the Disciplinary Hearing with a 16-page written objection. He had numerous extra copies
which he clearly intended to, and in fact did, hand out to the media and
others in the courtroom. Undoubtedly, his conduct indicated his every
intention to read the objection into the record in open court and then leave.
A clear reading of the document in evidence makes this apparent, as he
writes of leaving the proceeding and courtroom therein. Not only did he in
fact write about his conduct in leaving the courtroom in his objection, but he
in fact walked out of the courtroom.
Clearly, Mr. Thompson's intent was to turn the Disciplinary
proceeding into a press conference wherein he wanted to read his 16 page objection, distribute copies while in court and leave. What may
not be apparent from the written transcript is that when the Court stopped Mr. Thompson from making a speech, by reading aloud word for word his
written objection to the proceedings, he physically left the podium and while
continuing to speak, wandered through the gallery of the courtroom where
the public sits. He had previously prepared extra copies of his written
objection and distributed them from the front row to the back of the
courtroom, as the undersigned watched and the court proceedings were
underway.
Thus, in Mr. Thompson's last contact in court with this Referee
and by his own conduct, he yet again corroborated the notion that he refuses,
and will continue to refuse, to abide by the professional standards and rules
required of members of The Florida Bar."
Beautiful. Just...wow, words fail me. Ten out of ten, Mr Thompson...
"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels." - Matthew 25:41
Well, somebody's sure going to hell, but it doesn't specify who, exactly, so probably not the best example. Maybe you meant the next verse, verse...42 (Oooh, spooky!)
"For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'"
Hmmm...Maybe not the best example...Well, ok, let's go from the other end (If you'll pardon the expression) - 1 Corinthians 6:9
"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,"
Hmmm II...Well, nothing in there about gays, unless you mean that bit about the "effeminate"...But what, so if you're butch you'll be ok?
"Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." - 1 Corinthians 6:10
Still sounds more like it's nice people not going to hell, somehow. Or vice versa, whatever.
And no, I'm not a christian. I don't "believe" in things, but I'm reckon I'm man enough to accept proof if it ever shows up. And no, theories don't cut it here. Pics, or it didn't happen.
I always thought that SI thing was due to some powerful lobbying from the hard drive industry in the first place. I know no real technical person was involved. I mean seriously...Mebibytes? Gibibytes? Bibibytes? Stupid names for a stupid idea.
I posted a great clip of Elizabeth Taylor at the Golden Globe awards - She was in fine form until Dick "Mr Everlast" Clarke had to stick his oar in because he thought she was having trouble (Patronizing bastard)
I got my first copyright violation over that one.
Guess who from?
Dick Clarke Productions.
Hmmm...I wonder if Cleopatra minded? (if you ever find it, just listen to the way she says "Gladiator"*. Or go watch that movie that she was in again....ummm, what was it called, tip of the tongue...?)
I don;t know if Dick - Richard, as I'm amazed he doesn't prefer to be called, has seen the clip personally or if it was one of his paid wolverines that put the big chill on this one, but it does make you wonder, doesn't it?
Not that I care, really. I only grabbed it behause I thought someone had caught her topless.
* Which won the best picture that year. She was really happy about it too, by the sounds of it. I wonder what Russ thinks about ol' Dickie Boy taking away that little memento of his big moment?
Yes, you can get the operating system to run on all this lovely modern hardware for free, but you don't get the hardware for free, do you? Well, obviously not you personally, possibly (being a geek an' all), but for the average guy. Not saying that this kidnapper guy is average, obviously...but if you had a computer that did everything you wanted, you didn't care about the fancy pictures and graphics, 40 columns of text in two colors is fine for some people.
So, all you spend money on are cassettes and disks - can you even BUY 5+1/4 inch floppys anymore?
For twenty years.
Rather than spending between oh, say from 500 up to 2 grand (on average) what, three, four years?
I could guess that if you're such a tightass that you have to steal a girlfriend, brainwash her into loving you rather than do it proper and spend money on diamond rings and things, it's probably not such a far step to never upgrading your computer. what say that he was obsessive over it? He might have kept it immalucate, and there you go, folks! A computer that lasted for twenty years!
What else...As far as why this particular guy stuck with his old crumble-door, well, given the state of his mind to do what he did in the first place, there could be aaaaaaaalll sorts of reasons why..SOme of them you may well REALLY not want to know about.
And finally, if they really want the data that bad, they have the resources (and the technology) to rubuild it. If they really want the data, they could even break out the electron microscopes (I reckon the grains in a floppy disk woudl make this a non-trivial task - the disks were only 170KB, you know...
That's certainly a great idea - I'd vote for it. But one mustn't allow appearances to deceive. I, for instance have a microwave that's still flashing 12:00. The reason being that I already have a clock. It's over there, on the wall, see? I also have this one around my wrist most of the time. What for do I need another one?
> Moral issues aside, willfully engaging in behavior contrary to basic biological drives
> (reproduction) indicates something seriously wrong with an individual.
Strange...I always thought being able to do that was well, kind of, what made humans...not animals?
I mean, I have a strong biological urge to chase away or kill every male and attempt to inseminate every female of my species that I meet.
As a man of God, do you really want to be suggesting that I shouldn't at least attempt to act in a manner contrary to those fairly biological urges of mine?
I wonder what my wife would think of that? If I had one. Which of course, I don't, this being Slashdot and all.
The rocks were falling down the mountain. It was a very big mountain, so the rocks fell a long, long way. It semed to take forever.
John was killed as a rock fell on. And on and on...and on. Down the hill fell the rock, smearing John's remains like a knife-full of red jelly on a slice of whole grain toast at breakfast.
There! Now it fits perfectly!
The other great thing about english is the being able to break the rules like that. Imagine trying something like that in Japanese, without mortally offending someone.
On the other hand, Finnish sounds like fun because you get to make up whole words as you go along.
Red-Jelly-like-you-spread-on-wholegrain-toast-at-b reakfast is entirely doable as a single word in Suomi.
> I'm calling Netflix in the morning to ask where my other 7 DVDs are... > and argue that I shouldn't be charged for changing my Queue.
If you did that, Senetor Stevens wouldn't vote for you either...
The reason being, he's actually saying here, in his quaint little way, two things
1. You can get a movie delivered to your house daily by delivery service.
2. You can change your order but you pay for that.
So, he's aware that if he changes his order, he will pay for that. He seems to be prepared to accept this.
But then he goes on;
..."[on the internet] you can order ten of them delivered to you
and the delivery charge is free"
which does appear to be a fairly cogent argument about why things such as movies are (or should be) cheaper to watch online. It's good that he can grasp this concept (I wonder if he's taken advantage of that particular "service" himself?), but then he goes on to say;
"Ten of them streaming across that internet and what happens to your own personal internet?"
Which, I believe, is related to the next bit, where he complains about his - no, wait -looks like he got a bit confused here, no, welll, that's only to be expected, he's not a technician, after all...his EMAIL was delayed by, by, by - what?* By all this "commercial" stuff..
"So you want to talk about the consumer?"
OK, sure...
"Let's talk about you and me." Not following you there, Stevie boy, are you (and well, I supposed I'll consider myself here - just for the sake of argument, even though I'm fairly certain we don't have a lot in common...) - Are you talking about US (that's a commonly used contraction of "you and me" for all you grammar geeks out there) - "Us" as consumers, or "us" as...
"We use this internet to communicate and we aren't using it for commercial purposes."
Hmmmm...Well, he's right there, for most consumers. They don't actually use the internet to produce anything commercially. But then a lot of consumers of an Inetnet Service Providers's services do produce stuff commercially...Still not clear, then. Let's read on and see what we can see...
So, we don't have to discriminate against people that want to exploit the internet for commercial gain (possibly raising the idea that we can discriminate against them if we want to?) and then says that the bill was an attempt to pass a law saying "No one can charge anyone for massively invading this world of the internet, filling up our tubes and slowing down our email"
"Now I think these people [that] are arguing whether they should be able to dump all that stuff on the internet ought to consider if they should develop a system themselves. Maybe there is a place for a commercial net but it's not using what consumers use every day. It's not using the messaging service that is essential to small businesses, to our operation of families."
Which could be saying that if commercial interests want to make a system such as video-on-demand or IPTV, they might want to consider building a network of their own to do that on. An..."internet", if you will...But don't expect to go using "our" internet if it means that "our" emails will be late. Well, yes, that sound like it could have possibilities...
Then he gets to the bit about pipes, only, oh dear he gets the name wrong, the man must be a total jackass...Let's continue with our translation, so;..."Those pipes can be filled. Your message is going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material."
Which seems to indicate that he has at least grasped an understanding of why his email was slow the other day. This may also be construed as a good thing.
So, three good basic concepts floating around in that loose agglomeration of hazy conceptualisation that serves most people when it comes to any of that "technical bullshit" that they don't want to have to wo
"We can't be associated with sex games, only with violent games" -
an actual quote from a member of the sales team!
Violence good, sex bad. That, in a nutshell, describes so much of this "civilisation" that is just fucked in the head. I want to go live on Bizzaro world!
Here's a story about some guy in my old home town who got off with what many would call a slap on the wrist.
The guy was running herd on his little sister's 18th birthday when it was gatecrashed by a mob with baseball bats. One of the mob attacked the guy's younger brother, knocking him unconcious. The guy thought his little brother had been killed. Overwhelmed with grief and rage, he chased down a random member of the mob and attacked him with a letterbox that he'd torn out of the ground, wielding it (so the report said) like a battleaxe. His victim was left with brain and spinal injuries.
The judge gave him a two-year and three month sentence, to be suspended after the first three months are served in weekend detention.
Now, obviously, it's a bit more than just punching someone in the mouth. We really can't - if we expect to call ourselves civilised - go hunting down random jerks with battleaxes, even if you are only pretending. And you're not allowed to go round ripping people's letterboxes out of the ground, either.
But there you have it. There are times, there really are times, when there is not a jury in the world that will convict you. Which is the way it should be. This is not the same thing as corrupt pollies and predatory business practices being allowed to get away with it either. And it also must be said that you need to have a judiciary that understands the meaning of the words "righteous wrath". One that is able to say yes, laws were broken, but for a very good reason - here's your "Get out of jail free" card.
I think (and hope) that that spirit is still alive and well in the Australian pysche. If it is, the Australian people - the ones who actually have to live under these stupid laws that - and I quote here (Just ask any aussie) "those stupid blooody pollies $Direction(up|down|over) there in Canberra".
What we do, see, is just ignore the law altogether - we did it with the copyright on videos - there is no "fair use" in the australian copyright laws - timeshifting is illegal. But does anybody pay any attention? No. In fact, we get our public figures - or a certain segment of our public figures pretty much advocating civil disobedience. Back then, it was Simon Townsend who stood up on the ABC and said (and this is a quote) "the law is an ass", during a show he had for a season or two Friday nights (because most Doctor Who stories around the time were four chapters which took up Monday to Thursday), when he gave this rather impassioned speech about copyright laws in Australia and how it was illegal to tape show for watching later. He was practically exhorting us to go out and breach these (quote) "foolish" laws. Those of you who don't remember Simon, he was a bit like Mr Rogers, only with more giggling. There was also a bloodhound involved.
With a comment from an earlier poster about the passing of Australia's version of the new anti-terror and sedition laws in mind, there was recently a show put together by Andrew Denton and Wendy Harmer, chock-full and brimming over with fine black Australian satire, sedition and treason. Deliberately so, as the show was intended as a protest against the new laws.
Here's an interesting bunch of comments to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald. See how many people are ready to put up their hands and say "Here we are, breaking the law. Whatcha gunna do?"
Remember the filtering measures that are already supposed to be in place, courtesy of Senator Richard Alston? What happened to them?
And finally, there's those rabble-rousing commie lefties right where they always have been - there at the helm of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Believe it or not, it was our very own comrade Rampaging Roy Slaven who gave this year's post-prandial wallopping at that glittering industry shindig, the annual Andrew Ollie Media Lecture. Towards the end of his speech - it's a cracking good one too, go and have a read of it, it's really long - he pointed out that...
ABC TV has...managed to survive with its current affairs programs intact, loathed by Labor and Coalition alike, as it should be. And as it should be, it still strives to put forward an alternative view. So that when the commercial media is dictated to by myopic intrusive ownership and ill-informed populism, is forced through thoughtless need to make irresponsible programs that lack both style and substance, caresses inflammatory and cheap, nasty demagoguery that seeks to marginalize the already marginalized, that describes the world in simple terms, provides simple solutions to complex problems and is purely a servant to fiscal outcomes, then the ABC will always seem to aggravate, annoy and frustrate and it's precisely when the ABC is doing this that it is serving its charter"
And the head of the ABC agreed with him! Said that the ABC's job was to cause discomfort to the comfortable, or some such seditious nonsense. There's already
It looks like the video is a UA safety video, shown to all the new staff to get the message across "stay away from the rear of the plane". I guess when the airline's own staff come to management with a proposal for this demonstration, saying that it's for a safety video for staff to keep down the workplace injury levels, they would have felt more comfortable approving the request.
Also, the way the demo was run, when the car did get blown away, it didn't travel across any sensitive parts of the airport - just across a service road and then out into the water. I remember seeing this episode on the Mythbusters show - the airport they used appeared to be landlocked, so setting up the test this way wasn't possible for them.
What I want to know is, have the Mythbusters seen this clip?
The biggest misnomer is, 'Father, I know what my children are doing, I know where they are at all times,'" McHugh said. "Trust me, if they did know, their children would not be on Myspace.com for any length of time and viewing the drivel that's on there."
Bias? What bias?
either that, or is he including the posting of his own students amongst this "drivel"?
I would have missed several episodes of Doctor Who if it had not been for the web.
I work night shifts, so I'm almost never home of a Saturday evening when it was on. I was going to use my old VCR to tape the episodes, but it's really old and doesn't work so good any more, so I set up the computer to do it instead. My new graphics card - ATI Radeon X700 Pro - came with an AV in port on it, so the cable that normally goes into the TV input went straight into that instead. Set up a scheduler to record at the right time and it's golden. DVD quality and all. So far, so legal, mmkay?
But now the Wonderful World of Windows goes and does what the Wonderful World of Windows so often goes and does, something broke, and the task never got to run at the appointed time. Or it ran, but the resulting video was bad somehow and wouldn't play. That happened three times, and on one other accasion, the power went out during a storm.
So where's the crime? It's been on TV already. Broadcast, in the clear, free, without obligation, to everybody within range of an ABC transmitter. If my recording device hadn't malfunctioned, I would have seen it already.
Anyway, so I never went and downloaded an episode before it had been on TV, and I'd missed it, and my recording of it had failed too. I still have the ones that I recorded myself and the ones I downloaded from others. They're not in my shared folder. On a dialup connection that struggles for 28.8 Kb/sec, there's no real point. And the funny thing is, the only difference is the accent on the voiceover in the credits, which no one ever listens to anyway.
And let me tell you, my life would have been the less complete because of it. Indeed, if we are talking about the one after episode 9, I would have been seriously disturbed without it. Might have gotten a complex or something .
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Guitar players use all those pedals to modify the clean sound of the guitar, sometimes into something completely....other - That's all done on a single guitar up till the 1'40" mark.
For a good example, try this clip, starting at the 2'38" mark. The old black guy is Albert King, the younger white guy is Gary Moore. See the difference? Albert uses lovely clean, cool tones while Gary makes his guitar wail and scream in the traditional manner.
Clean and distorted both have their place, of course. Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) doesn't use distortion, David Gilmore (Pink Floyd) uses distortion, flanging, delay and everything else under the sun. "Comfortably Numb" wouldn't be the same song without it, while "Romeo and Juliet" clearly doesn't need it.
Well, see, that right there is the good thing about standards.
Given that the standard is for webpages to be found at www.whatever.com, and the mail server is at mail.whatever.com (or pop & smtp for the really standards-adherent sysadmin - do you work in a smtp & pop operation? I wish I did), I could take a wild stab in the dark and say it would be, oh, I don't know, maybe...ftp.mozilla.org? No, wait, that's right, they've gone commercial - let's try oh, um, I know this, tip of my toungue...ftp.mozilla.com?
Yeah, really hard to work that one out!
Are there any similar types of reports for the other types of malware?
A comparison of products that protect against the types of malware targetted by the like of MalwareBytes, AdAware and Spybot would be really handy.
Beautiful. Just...wow, words fail me. Ten out of ten, Mr Thompson...
Sure, make a few sacrifices...a few dead soldiers, a few mutant babies, a missing journalist or two...
Actually, the saying is that it's the love of money that is the root of all evil.
Just sayin', is all
- I have trouble with the idea that worms of merely a foot long have trouble meeting the designation "giant" outside of Tremors or Arrakis.
Try this one on for size...
http://museumvictoria.com.au/DiscoveryCentre/Infosheets/Giant-Gippsland-Earthworm
Ok then;
"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels." - Matthew 25:41
Well, somebody's sure going to hell, but it doesn't specify who, exactly, so probably not the best example. Maybe you meant the next verse, verse...42 (Oooh, spooky!)
"For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'"
Hmmm...Maybe not the best example...Well, ok, let's go from the other end (If you'll pardon the expression) - 1 Corinthians 6:9
"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,"
Hmmm II...Well, nothing in there about gays, unless you mean that bit about the "effeminate"...But what, so if you're butch you'll be ok?
"Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." - 1 Corinthians 6:10
Still sounds more like it's nice people not going to hell, somehow. Or vice versa, whatever.
And no, I'm not a christian. I don't "believe" in things, but I'm reckon I'm man enough to accept proof if it ever shows up. And no, theories don't cut it here. Pics, or it didn't happen.
I always thought that SI thing was due to some powerful lobbying from the hard drive industry in the first place. I know no real technical person was involved. I mean seriously...Mebibytes? Gibibytes? Bibibytes? Stupid names for a stupid idea.
Actually, you'll never see the bad guys using Macs.
It depends on who you offend.
I posted a great clip of Elizabeth Taylor at the Golden Globe awards - She was in fine form until Dick "Mr Everlast" Clarke had to stick his oar in because he thought she was having trouble (Patronizing bastard)
I got my first copyright violation over that one.
Guess who from?
Dick Clarke Productions.
Hmmm...I wonder if Cleopatra minded? (if you ever find it, just listen to the way she says "Gladiator"*. Or go watch that movie that she was in again....ummm, what was it called, tip of the tongue...?)
I don;t know if Dick - Richard, as I'm amazed he doesn't prefer to be called, has seen the clip personally or if it was one of his paid wolverines that put the big chill on this one, but it does make you wonder, doesn't it?
Not that I care, really. I only grabbed it behause I thought someone had caught her topless.
* Which won the best picture that year. She was really happy about it too, by the sounds of it. I wonder what Russ thinks about ol' Dickie Boy taking away that little memento of his big moment?
Yes, for security, one.
Money, for two.
Yes, you can get the operating system to run on all this lovely modern hardware for free, but you don't get the hardware for free, do you? Well, obviously not you personally, possibly (being a geek an' all), but for the average guy. Not saying that this kidnapper guy is average, obviously...but if you had a computer that did everything you wanted, you didn't care about the fancy pictures and graphics, 40 columns of text in two colors is fine for some people.
So, all you spend money on are cassettes and disks - can you even BUY 5+1/4 inch floppys anymore?
For twenty years.
Rather than spending between oh, say from 500 up to 2 grand (on average) what, three, four years?
I could guess that if you're such a tightass that you have to steal a girlfriend, brainwash her into loving you rather than do it proper and spend money on diamond rings and things, it's probably not such a far step to never upgrading your computer. what say that he was obsessive over it? He might have kept it immalucate, and there you go, folks! A computer that lasted for twenty years!
What else...As far as why this particular guy stuck with his old crumble-door, well, given the state of his mind to do what he did in the first place, there could be aaaaaaaalll sorts of reasons why..SOme of them you may well REALLY not want to know about.
And finally, if they really want the data that bad, they have the resources (and the technology) to rubuild it. If they really want the data, they could even break out the electron microscopes (I reckon the grains in a floppy disk woudl make this a non-trivial task - the disks were only 170KB, you know...
That's certainly a great idea - I'd vote for it. But one mustn't allow appearances to deceive. I, for instance have a microwave that's still flashing 12:00. The reason being that I already have a clock. It's over there, on the wall, see? I also have this one around my wrist most of the time. What for do I need another one?
> Moral issues aside, willfully engaging in behavior contrary to basic biological drives
> (reproduction) indicates something seriously wrong with an individual.
Strange...I always thought being able to do that was well, kind of, what made humans...not animals?
I mean, I have a strong biological urge to chase away or kill every male and attempt to inseminate every female of my species that I meet.
As a man of God, do you really want to be suggesting that I shouldn't at least attempt to act in a manner contrary to those fairly biological urges of mine?
I wonder what my wife would think of that? If I had one. Which of course, I don't, this being Slashdot and all.
The rocks were falling down the mountain. It was a very big mountain, so the rocks fell a long, long way. It semed to take forever.
b reakfast is entirely doable as a single word in Suomi.
John was killed as a rock fell on. And on and on...and on. Down the hill fell the rock, smearing John's remains like a knife-full of red jelly on a slice of whole grain toast at breakfast.
There! Now it fits perfectly!
The other great thing about english is the being able to break the rules like that. Imagine trying something like that in Japanese, without mortally offending someone.
On the other hand, Finnish sounds like fun because you get to make up whole words as you go along.
Red-Jelly-like-you-spread-on-wholegrain-toast-at-
I wonder how Microsoft are going to handle that one?
Actually, they'll probably argue that their software isn't a program, it's an operating system.
> and argue that I shouldn't be charged for changing my Queue.
If you did that, Senetor Stevens wouldn't vote for you either...
The reason being, he's actually saying here, in his quaint little way, two things
1. You can get a movie delivered to your house daily by delivery service.
2. You can change your order but you pay for that.
So, he's aware that if he changes his order, he will pay for that. He seems to be prepared to accept this.
But then he goes on;
..."[on the internet] you can order ten of them delivered to you
..."Those pipes can be filled. Your message is going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material."
and the delivery charge is free"
which does appear to be a fairly cogent argument about why things such as movies are (or should be) cheaper to watch online. It's good that he can grasp this concept (I wonder if he's taken advantage of that particular "service" himself?), but then he goes on to say;
"Ten of them streaming across that internet and what happens to your own personal internet?"
Which, I believe, is related to the next bit, where he complains about his - no, wait -looks like he got a bit confused here, no, welll, that's only to be expected, he's not a technician, after all...his EMAIL was delayed by, by, by - what?* By all this "commercial" stuff..
"So you want to talk about the consumer?"
OK, sure...
"Let's talk about you and me." Not following you there, Stevie boy, are you (and well, I supposed I'll consider myself here - just for the sake of argument, even though I'm fairly certain we don't have a lot in common...) - Are you talking about US (that's a commonly used contraction of "you and me" for all you grammar geeks out there) - "Us" as consumers, or "us" as...
"We use this internet to communicate and we aren't using it for commercial purposes."
Hmmmm...Well, he's right there, for most consumers. They don't actually use the internet to produce anything commercially. But then a lot of consumers of an Inetnet Service Providers's services do produce stuff commercially...Still not clear, then. Let's read on and see what we can see...
So, we don't have to discriminate against people that want to exploit the internet for commercial gain (possibly raising the idea that we can discriminate against them if we want to?) and then says that the bill was an attempt to pass a law saying "No one can charge anyone for massively invading this world of the internet, filling up our tubes and slowing down our email"
"Now I think these people [that] are arguing whether they should be able to dump all that stuff on the internet ought to consider if they should develop a system themselves. Maybe there is a place for a commercial net but it's not using what consumers use every day. It's not using the messaging service that is essential to small businesses, to our operation of families."
Which could be saying that if commercial interests want to make a system such as video-on-demand or IPTV, they might want to consider building a network of their own to do that on. An..."internet", if you will...But don't expect to go using "our" internet if it means that "our" emails will be late. Well, yes, that sound like it could have possibilities...
Then he gets to the bit about pipes, only, oh dear he gets the name wrong, the man must be a total jackass...Let's continue with our translation, so;
Which seems to indicate that he has at least grasped an understanding of why his email was slow the other day. This may also be construed as a good thing.
So, three good basic concepts floating around in that loose agglomeration of hazy conceptualisation that serves most people when it comes to any of that "technical bullshit" that they don't want to have to wo
It's right there in the article;
"We can't be associated with sex games, only with violent games" -
an actual quote from a member of the sales team!
Violence good, sex bad. That, in a nutshell, describes so much of this "civilisation" that is just fucked in the head. I want to go live on Bizzaro world!
Remember that story from a little while ago saying all the frozen tundra was melting?
It does exist, to a degree.
Here's a story about some guy in my old home town who got off with what many would call a slap on the wrist.
The guy was running herd on his little sister's 18th birthday when it was gatecrashed by a mob with baseball bats. One of the mob attacked the guy's younger brother, knocking him unconcious. The guy thought his little brother had been killed. Overwhelmed with grief and rage, he chased down a random member of the mob and attacked him with a letterbox that he'd torn out of the ground, wielding it (so the report said) like a battleaxe. His victim was left with brain and spinal injuries.
The judge gave him a two-year and three month sentence, to be suspended after the first three months are served in weekend detention.
Now, obviously, it's a bit more than just punching someone in the mouth. We really can't - if we expect to call ourselves civilised - go hunting down random jerks with battleaxes, even if you are only pretending. And you're not allowed to go round ripping people's letterboxes out of the ground, either.
But there you have it. There are times, there really are times, when there is not a jury in the world that will convict you. Which is the way it should be. This is not the same thing as corrupt pollies and predatory business practices being allowed to get away with it either. And it also must be said that you need to have a judiciary that understands the meaning of the words "righteous wrath". One that is able to say yes, laws were broken, but for a very good reason - here's your "Get out of jail free" card.
What we do, see, is just ignore the law altogether - we did it with the copyright on videos - there is no "fair use" in the australian copyright laws - timeshifting is illegal. But does anybody pay any attention? No. In fact, we get our public figures - or a certain segment of our public figures pretty much advocating civil disobedience. Back then, it was Simon Townsend who stood up on the ABC and said (and this is a quote) "the law is an ass", during a show he had for a season or two Friday nights (because most Doctor Who stories around the time were four chapters which took up Monday to Thursday), when he gave this rather impassioned speech about copyright laws in Australia and how it was illegal to tape show for watching later. He was practically exhorting us to go out and breach these (quote) "foolish" laws. Those of you who don't remember Simon, he was a bit like Mr Rogers, only with more giggling. There was also a bloodhound involved.
With a comment from an earlier poster about the passing of Australia's version of the new anti-terror and sedition laws in mind, there was recently a show put together by Andrew Denton and Wendy Harmer, chock-full and brimming over with fine black Australian satire, sedition and treason. Deliberately so, as the show was intended as a protest against the new laws.
Here's an interesting bunch of comments to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald. See how many people are ready to put up their hands and say "Here we are, breaking the law. Whatcha gunna do?"
Remember the filtering measures that are already supposed to be in place, courtesy of Senator Richard Alston? What happened to them?
And finally, there's those rabble-rousing commie lefties right where they always have been - there at the helm of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Believe it or not, it was our very own comrade Rampaging Roy Slaven who gave this year's post-prandial wallopping at that glittering industry shindig, the annual Andrew Ollie Media Lecture. Towards the end of his speech - it's a cracking good one too, go and have a read of it, it's really long - he pointed out that...
And the head of the ABC agreed with him! Said that the ABC's job was to cause discomfort to the comfortable, or some such seditious nonsense. There's already
It looks like the video is a UA safety video, shown to all the new staff to get the message across "stay away from the rear of the plane". I guess when the airline's own staff come to management with a proposal for this demonstration, saying that it's for a safety video for staff to keep down the workplace injury levels, they would have felt more comfortable approving the request.
Also, the way the demo was run, when the car did get blown away, it didn't travel across any sensitive parts of the airport - just across a service road and then out into the water. I remember seeing this episode on the Mythbusters show - the airport they used appeared to be landlocked, so setting up the test this way wasn't possible for them.
What I want to know is, have the Mythbusters seen this clip?
 "...and because, in all the Universe, they found nothing more precious than Mind..."
please type the word in this image:creature
You know it makes sense.
Quoth the good principal
The biggest misnomer is, 'Father, I know what my children are doing, I know where they are at all times,'" McHugh said. "Trust me, if they did know, their children would not be on Myspace.com for any length of time and viewing the drivel that's on there."
Bias? What bias?
either that, or is he including the posting of his own students amongst this "drivel"?
It's about bloody time.
I would have missed several episodes of Doctor Who if it had not been for the web.
I work night shifts, so I'm almost never home of a Saturday evening when it was on. I was going to use my old VCR to tape the episodes, but it's really old and doesn't work so good any more, so I set up the computer to do it instead. My new graphics card - ATI Radeon X700 Pro - came with an AV in port on it, so the cable that normally goes into the TV input went straight into that instead. Set up a scheduler to record at the right time and it's golden. DVD quality and all. So far, so legal, mmkay?
But now the Wonderful World of Windows goes and does what the Wonderful World of Windows so often goes and does, something broke, and the task never got to run at the appointed time. Or it ran, but the resulting video was bad somehow and wouldn't play. That happened three times, and on one other accasion, the power went out during a storm.
So where's the crime? It's been on TV already. Broadcast, in the clear, free, without obligation, to everybody within range of an ABC transmitter. If my recording device hadn't malfunctioned, I would have seen it already.
Anyway, so I never went and downloaded an episode before it had been on TV, and I'd missed it, and my recording of it had failed too. I still have the ones that I recorded myself and the ones I downloaded from others. They're not in my shared folder. On a dialup connection that struggles for 28.8 Kb/sec, there's no real point. And the funny thing is, the only difference is the accent on the voiceover in the credits, which no one ever listens to anyway.
And let me tell you, my life would have been the less complete because of it. Indeed, if we are talking about the one after episode 9, I would have been seriously disturbed without it. Might have gotten a complex or something .