Surely this thing calls home to a particular IP address, and asks for a particular kind of permission to install, right? Why not just work out a way of replacing that IP with localhost, and run a program that says "yes, you may install"?
The US Army has been proven by the Iraq debacle to be a paper tiger. It exists primarily for two purposes: (1) to channel tax dollars to arms dealers; (2) to substitute for a properly-constituted unemployment benefits and vocational training system.
Further, the economic "might" of the US has spiralled down the drain of debt. If you were to apply for a hundred credit cards with a $10,000 limit and max them all out, could you consider yourself a millionaire?
This is what happens when you let the foxes, the Republican party, in charge of the henhouse. There are blood and feathers everywhere, and fat foxes.
Sites like YouTube etc generally lack a "Save" button. In fact they go to considerable effort to prevent users from locally saving copies of the videos to distribute. The result of this is that not only does each viewer have to download an individual copy of the video, but if a viewer wants to watch the video again, they must re-download the video. This has got to be driving up the bandwidth costs for everyone.
Granted, there are ways around this, but they tend to be too technical for the average YouTube viewer to understand, and/or too complicated for them to bother with, and are subject to constant attempts by the content providers to defeat them.
Um, wasn't that one of the defenses run by the cabal in the Libby case? That the President, and whatever scumbags he delegates his powers to, can declassify whatever suits them?
It's just punctuation. The same arguments went for non-Chancery script, printed (as opposed to hand-lettered) writing, contractions, the use of first names in correspondence, the use of email in business at all, yadda yadda.
Here's a summary of the process (you'll have to imagine bunnies singing "It's the Circle of Life!" in the background):
1. New innovation in communication invented.
2. Adopted by younger people, who have no personal investment in "the way things are always done".
3. Disdained by older people for not being "the way things are always done".
4. Young people get older, their way of doing things becomes "the way things are always done".
I don't think you're giving enough credit to the extent that pack dominance behavior informs American policy. The primary point of making you remove your shoes is to remove your dignity. Reinforcing your inferiority makes you scared and compliant.
The same mechanism by which you would be caught for getting $20 instead of $5 should protect you from getting $5 instead of $20. Put the complaint in writing, list the serial numbers of the bills, have the bank clerk give you a date-stamped photocopy of your complaint, ideally have them photocopy the bills with the serial numbers showing, and don't spend those bills. Easiest way to assure the latter is to deposit them straight back into your account and get the clerk to give you a receipt for those specific bills with serial numbers on them, then withdraw the amount of money you originally wanted.
However, big corporations have shareholders and directors who "encourage" them to push the envelope of taking advantage of people to the absolute maximum degree that such conduct is permitted by law. As such, given the choice between screwing over a person, or screwing over a corporation, I will choose to screw over the corporation, and I expect people in general to do the same.
Good idea in theory, but the carrier companies aren't even remotely ready for it. As it stands, a simple download of an episode of Heroes would rack up a 5-digit phone bill.
Republicans are aware of this possibility too. That's why they've spent the last twenty years busily corrupting the US military to a pro-Republican viewpoint.
And whatever random crap Repugs come up with. Basically the NRA's job for the last thirty years has been to represent the Republican party to NRA members, rather than the other way around.
There is a difference between opinion and fact. It is my opinion that chocolate tastes better than vanilla. You may well differ on that, and fair enough if you do. It is not my opinion that 2+2=4; that is a fact. If I was to assert that "2+2=5", and try to put up a figleaf that "it's my opinion", that doesn't stop me from being wrong.
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OMG he stole Heroes! That means NBC doesn't have it any more! What shall we do?
USA only, annoyingly. Anyone know of an easy way to change apparent location?
I hope there's actually at least 2, or some other way of making it possible to use a keyboard, mouse and USB flash drive at the same time.
You haven't had a government capable of telling its ass from a hole in the ground since 1999, and computers have advanced a fair bit since then.
Surely this thing calls home to a particular IP address, and asks for a particular kind of permission to install, right? Why not just work out a way of replacing that IP with localhost, and run a program that says "yes, you may install"?
Further, the economic "might" of the US has spiralled down the drain of debt. If you were to apply for a hundred credit cards with a $10,000 limit and max them all out, could you consider yourself a millionaire?
This is what happens when you let the foxes, the Republican party, in charge of the henhouse. There are blood and feathers everywhere, and fat foxes.
... then it would be no issue whatsoever. Pay. Download. Watch. No problems.
You've put the foxes in charge of the henhouses, that's what.
Granted, there are ways around this, but they tend to be too technical for the average YouTube viewer to understand, and/or too complicated for them to bother with, and are subject to constant attempts by the content providers to defeat them.
Cool and stuff, but "... in the U.S.". WTF? Should be noted first in the article.
Um, wasn't that one of the defenses run by the cabal in the Libby case? That the President, and whatever scumbags he delegates his powers to, can declassify whatever suits them?
Your job is what you do for money. Being given money to do a thing does not give that thing additional morality.
Here's a summary of the process (you'll have to imagine bunnies singing "It's the Circle of Life!" in the background):
1. New innovation in communication invented.
2. Adopted by younger people, who have no personal investment in "the way things are always done".
3. Disdained by older people for not being "the way things are always done".
4. Young people get older, their way of doing things becomes "the way things are always done".
I don't think you're giving enough credit to the extent that pack dominance behavior informs American policy. The primary point of making you remove your shoes is to remove your dignity. Reinforcing your inferiority makes you scared and compliant.
The same mechanism by which you would be caught for getting $20 instead of $5 should protect you from getting $5 instead of $20. Put the complaint in writing, list the serial numbers of the bills, have the bank clerk give you a date-stamped photocopy of your complaint, ideally have them photocopy the bills with the serial numbers showing, and don't spend those bills. Easiest way to assure the latter is to deposit them straight back into your account and get the clerk to give you a receipt for those specific bills with serial numbers on them, then withdraw the amount of money you originally wanted.
However, big corporations have shareholders and directors who "encourage" them to push the envelope of taking advantage of people to the absolute maximum degree that such conduct is permitted by law. As such, given the choice between screwing over a person, or screwing over a corporation, I will choose to screw over the corporation, and I expect people in general to do the same.
Whether A and B roll dice or duel for something is equally random, from the point of view of C.
Good idea in theory, but the carrier companies aren't even remotely ready for it. As it stands, a simple download of an episode of Heroes would rack up a 5-digit phone bill.
Republicans are aware of this possibility too. That's why they've spent the last twenty years busily corrupting the US military to a pro-Republican viewpoint.
Bounties, anyone?
Remember who it's "oft touted" by.
Because paying taxes is not an "injury".
And whatever random crap Repugs come up with. Basically the NRA's job for the last thirty years has been to represent the Republican party to NRA members, rather than the other way around.
... and eventually, DVDs, USB flash disks, Blu-Ray disks, the hard disk drive itself, etc etc. Nothing lasts forever.
There is a difference between opinion and fact. It is my opinion that chocolate tastes better than vanilla. You may well differ on that, and fair enough if you do. It is not my opinion that 2+2=4; that is a fact. If I was to assert that "2+2=5", and try to put up a figleaf that "it's my opinion", that doesn't stop me from being wrong.