My first name happens to be the same as a famous lighting company. If I had happened to register the domain: Dana.com, why should they be able to take it away from me? Seems to me that we're giving corporations more freedoms and rights then PEOPLE!
My last name, though rare, happens ot be the same as a farily famous TV writer. If he registered a corporation with his last name. why should I have to give my domain up to him?
Seems to me that posession is 9/10ths of the law...and the Johnny come lately should have to suffer, not the early bird...
Corporate policy forbade us from giving them anything as compensation (the thought was that WE did not own them, the vendor did, so why does it have to come off our bottom line
Well, I guess the FTC just changed that corporate policy! (and it's about time!)
By the way, I got stiffed on a 60 dollar rebate for a Seagate hard drive by Comp USA. Seagate claimed they never received it, even though it was sent with tracking (which proved it had been delievered)
Despite the FTC's action, the case is an anomaly among stores' rebate programs, said Mike Gatti, executive vice president of the Retail Advertising and Marketing Association, a division of the National Retail Federation, a trade group representing 1.5 million retailers.
Rebates are one place where I believe a LOT MORE federal govt. oversight is needed!
I used to do a lot of rebates and have found that over the past year, a much greater percentage of rebates are NOT being fufilled.
I think that GETTING a rebate is an anomaly these days!
What I'd like to know is how come the postal service loses so much mail that's supposed to go to the rebate processors (so they claim), yet all my other mail seems to arrive everywhere else without problem.
Do these lying sacks of S**T really believe that we buy their crap?
Let's see..
1700 times a minimum of 3000 dollars...
5.1 MILLION DOLLARS!
Not too shabby, HUH?
And I'll bet that the artists and performers never see a single cent of it!
That's a phrase I learned in fifth grade. I find it ironic that the likes of NASA doesn't know it.
There's another one they didn't learn either:
"Those who don't learn from their mistakes are bound to repeat them over and over until they finally do"
Lose one shuttle? Did they learn? NO..
Lose TWO shuttles. Did they learn?
We'll see.........
The ISP is selling Internet service to the customer. The customer has a REASONABLE EXPECTATION that the service will be usable for ALL (non harming) Internet uses.
Punitive port filtering is not only bad, it could leave the ISP that does it vulnerable for a HUGE lawsuit if for example their port blocking
(which was done with no advance notification to the customer) resulted in bodily harm because the subscriber could reach police, fire, etc.
But, if I read the consent decree above, arbitrary port blocking for punitive purposes has now been judged illegal by the FCC.
There are people who are GUILTY until they PROVE THEMSELVES INNOCENT!! The bar for doing this is impossible. A woman can simply walk into court in Mass., say: "I'm scared of X" and PRESTO! Instant restraining order! In many cases the supposite perp has NO IDEA the R.O. is even in place (until he gets arrested for violating it that is!).
They even issue PERMANENT ones there - with no rights as to hearing.
I used to live in MA and judges hand restrainng orders out like candy there. My ex wife got one on me when we got divorced, which kept me out of my own house for almost 4 years. My crime?
NOTHING!!
By the time I got back in to get my stuff, most of it was gone, including many family heirlooms and photographs she threw in the dumpster. Not to mention that I was forbidden to even go to my neighbor's house who is a long time friend. She even got to keep the restraining order in place for two years AFTER I moved to California.
Do not trust the Comm. of Massachusetts as far as you can throw them. Once you open this door a crack, next thing you know it'll be completely off its hinges and thrown in the street!
I have only one word...one word....just ONE WORD!
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The newspaper lobby needs to pay off Congress to enact special legislation making Craigslist illegal.
They could call it the NMCA (Newspaper Millennium Copyright Act).
You gotta wonder why with all the crime, terrorism and other nasties all over he world, why SO MANY RESOURCES that could be used for more worthwhile things are used to increase the profits of the fat cats (in other words, make the fat cats even fatter). If I recall, the motion picture industry had a record year in 2003, and is on track to have 2004 be even better.
Yet, more people then ever before have no health insurance, more children then ever are starving, AIDS is running rampant all over Africa,
American kids are dying every day in Iraq because the govt. can't provide the proper armored vehicles, more Americans are homeless then ever before, people are having heart attacks from Aleve, gas and heating oil is almost twice what it was a year ago, and on and on.
What is America's response to this? To ignore all of the above and concentrate on such "important" things as busting movie and song 'pirates', drugs, and Janet Jackson's nipple.
Something is wrong and really, really fucked up in America
Bush should shut the GPS off and we'll have planes crashing into the ground, as their GPS based instrument landing system croaks while they're making final approach.
That way, he can blame THOSE deaths on terrorists too!
I LIKE it!
What a MORON Bush is.....!
The record company LOANS the artist $$$! Each artist has to pay back the label for all that marketing, engineering, etc.
Most bands starting out make NOTHING from their first few albums; the label gets it all!
Here's somethiung for you to read. Steve Albini has been in the business a LONG time, and is very well known and respected. I know him personally and he has something that very few others in the record business have: INTEGRITY!
Pay per cut to use your own bandwith to download a DRMed song. The artist provides the song. The user (and everyone else) provides the bandwidth. The record companies provide NOTHING, yet get the lion's share of the $$!
What a SCAM!
The only way that ANY legit p2p service/program can ever work is by charging a flat rate for 'all you can download'. Or at least have a two tiered system where the Billboard top 100 sells a la carte, but once a song falls off the top 100, it moves into the flat rate category.
This is basically the model the movie industry uses. New films are exhibited in theatres for a premium price, but once their popularity starts to wane, they move to HBO and DVD.
Also, lose the DRM! If you don't, your plan is doomed to FAIL. Someone will crack it anyway! Accept the fact that while some theft is inevitable, the majority will do the right thing and sign up. Besides, despite what you say in all your RIAA bullshit rhetoric, most of the people who download now wouldn't be buying the song anyway.
I have a friend who got screwed by a company that refused to replace a defective high power transmitting tube. From that day, whenever he was EVER buying a tube, he would call the Sales Manager up from that company to tell him how their shit attitude had cost them yet ANOTHER sale! A bunch of us signed on with him too. After a year or two, (and several hundred tube sales lost; these suckers cost thousands by the way) the Manager said: ENOUGH! What can I do to re-gain your trust? That company now provides the best service of all tube companies.
The moral of the story? Don't just hit 'em in the pocketbook - TELL THEM you are!
Nope - but you can build a good one for about $225
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With rebates you can anyway....
I did - here's how....
Motherboard and CPU (Boxed): Fry's @ $49.95 for both.
Motherboard = ECS K7VTA3. Built in sound and NIC.
CPU = AMD Athlon XP 2400+ with fan and 3 year warranty. CPU overclocks to 2.2 gHz, making the chip run as if it was a 3200+
Case and 400 watt power supply: Fry's $15.00 after rebate ($34.95 with 20 dollar rebate)
Memory: Kingston Value RAM 512K PC3200 DDR. Fry's $60.00 after 20 dollar rebate.
Hard drive: 80 gigabyte Maxtor ATA 133 7200 RPM 8 meg cache. $40.00 at Office Depot
CD ROM: Kyphermedia 52X CDRW. $9.95 after rebate at Office Max. 200 CD's and 100 CD jewel cases free after rebate at Office Max.
Video card: ATI 32 meg 4X AGP. $25.00 including shipping from Newegg.
Floppy Drive: $9.95 at Fry's.
Keyboard and mouse: Belkin KB and optical mouse. KB was free after rebate; mouse was $9.95 with $5.00 rebate. Office Max.
Modem: Winmodem. Free after 10 dollar rebate at Office Max
Speakers: Yamaha 2.1 60 watt from Amazon.com
$10.00 including shipping
Operating system: Linspire v4.5. Free Download from Fat Wallet.
Office suite: Free from openoffce.org.
TOTAL: (approx) $225.00
I could have saved about $40.00 by going with 256 Megs of RAM instead of 512 megs, not using a floppy drive and using a 40 gig hard drive.
This system is a KILLER! It is extremely fast and stable - even overclocked to a 200 meg bus speed (3200XP speed).
As a father of four great kids, I'd advise you to stop wasting time doing such meaningless things. Believe me, once your child arrives, you'll be lucky to have time to check email let alone administer Linux servers and watching baby on your cell phone!
Once your child is 4 - 6 months old, find a good babysitter you can trust and take your spouse out on a date at least every other week.
Forget about having any outside life together the first six months; it just isn't gonna happen!
And, finally, enjoy your new baby. Kids rock, no matter what size they are. Right now I'm 50 with an 8 month old; she makes me feel young and I'm very happy and grateful she came into my life.
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Not to mention getting confused by the colors pink and blue looking identical...
Doresn't thatcount for ANYTHING these days? Seems to me that we're giving COROPRATIONS more freedoms and rights then PEOPLE!!
My first name happens to be the same as a famous lighting company. If I had happened to register the domain: Dana.com, why should they be able to take it away from me? Seems to me that we're giving corporations more freedoms and rights then PEOPLE!
My last name, though rare, happens ot be the same as a farily famous TV writer. If he registered a corporation with his last name. why should I have to give my domain up to him?Seems to me that posession is 9/10ths of the law...and the Johnny come lately should have to suffer, not the early bird...
Hmmm...does Bill Gates own this comoany??
Move along
Okay. Now I can look for abuses.
Hey! I don't see any abuses ! You all must be wrong...Can someone turn the lights back on now?
Well, I guess the FTC just changed that corporate policy! (and it's about time!)
By the way, I got stiffed on a 60 dollar rebate for a Seagate hard drive by Comp USA. Seagate claimed they never received it, even though it was sent with tracking (which proved it had been delievered)Rebates are one place where I believe a LOT MORE federal govt. oversight is needed!
I used to do a lot of rebates and have found that over the past year, a much greater percentage of rebates are NOT being fufilled.
I think that GETTING a rebate is an anomaly these days!What I'd like to know is how come the postal service loses so much mail that's supposed to go to the rebate processors (so they claim), yet all my other mail seems to arrive everywhere else without problem.
Do these lying sacks of S**T really believe that we buy their crap?Let's see.. 1700 times a minimum of 3000 dollars... 5.1 MILLION DOLLARS! Not too shabby, HUH? And I'll bet that the artists and performers never see a single cent of it!
That's a phrase I learned in fifth grade. I find it ironic that the likes of NASA doesn't know it. There's another one they didn't learn either: "Those who don't learn from their mistakes are bound to repeat them over and over until they finally do" Lose one shuttle? Did they learn? NO.. Lose TWO shuttles. Did they learn? We'll see.........
The ISP is selling Internet service to the customer. The customer has a REASONABLE EXPECTATION that the service will be usable for ALL (non harming) Internet uses. Punitive port filtering is not only bad, it could leave the ISP that does it vulnerable for a HUGE lawsuit if for example their port blocking (which was done with no advance notification to the customer) resulted in bodily harm because the subscriber could reach police, fire, etc. But, if I read the consent decree above, arbitrary port blocking for punitive purposes has now been judged illegal by the FCC.
There are people who are GUILTY until they PROVE THEMSELVES INNOCENT!! The bar for doing this is impossible. A woman can simply walk into court in Mass., say: "I'm scared of X" and PRESTO! Instant restraining order! In many cases the supposite perp has NO IDEA the R.O. is even in place (until he gets arrested for violating it that is!). They even issue PERMANENT ones there - with no rights as to hearing.
I used to live in MA and judges hand restrainng orders out like candy there. My ex wife got one on me when we got divorced, which kept me out of my own house for almost 4 years. My crime?
NOTHING!!By the time I got back in to get my stuff, most of it was gone, including many family heirlooms and photographs she threw in the dumpster. Not to mention that I was forbidden to even go to my neighbor's house who is a long time friend. She even got to keep the restraining order in place for two years AFTER I moved to California.
Do not trust the Comm. of Massachusetts as far as you can throw them. Once you open this door a crack, next thing you know it'll be completely off its hinges and thrown in the street!Plastics.
...is Intel shooting its foot off!
The newspaper lobby needs to pay off Congress to enact special legislation making Craigslist illegal. They could call it the NMCA (Newspaper Millennium Copyright Act).
Yet, more people then ever before have no health insurance, more children then ever are starving, AIDS is running rampant all over Africa, American kids are dying every day in Iraq because the govt. can't provide the proper armored vehicles, more Americans are homeless then ever before, people are having heart attacks from Aleve, gas and heating oil is almost twice what it was a year ago, and on and on.
What is America's response to this? To ignore all of the above and concentrate on such "important" things as busting movie and song 'pirates', drugs, and Janet Jackson's nipple.Something is wrong and really, really fucked up in America
Bush should shut the GPS off and we'll have planes crashing into the ground, as their GPS based instrument landing system croaks while they're making final approach. That way, he can blame THOSE deaths on terrorists too! I LIKE it! What a MORON Bush is.....!
The Govt. BORROWED money to build the GPS.
The record company LOANS the artist $$$! Each artist has to pay back the label for all that marketing, engineering, etc.
Most bands starting out make NOTHING from their first few albums; the label gets it all!
Here's somethiung for you to read. Steve Albini has been in the business a LONG time, and is very well known and respected. I know him personally and he has something that very few others in the record business have: INTEGRITY!
Want to know the truth? read this:
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
What a SCAM!
The only way that ANY legit p2p service/program can ever work is by charging a flat rate for 'all you can download'. Or at least have a two tiered system where the Billboard top 100 sells a la carte, but once a song falls off the top 100, it moves into the flat rate category. This is basically the model the movie industry uses. New films are exhibited in theatres for a premium price, but once their popularity starts to wane, they move to HBO and DVD. Also, lose the DRM! If you don't, your plan is doomed to FAIL. Someone will crack it anyway! Accept the fact that while some theft is inevitable, the majority will do the right thing and sign up. Besides, despite what you say in all your RIAA bullshit rhetoric, most of the people who download now wouldn't be buying the song anyway.I have a friend who got screwed by a company that refused to replace a defective high power transmitting tube. From that day, whenever he was EVER buying a tube, he would call the Sales Manager up from that company to tell him how their shit attitude had cost them yet ANOTHER sale! A bunch of us signed on with him too. After a year or two, (and several hundred tube sales lost; these suckers cost thousands by the way) the Manager said: ENOUGH! What can I do to re-gain your trust? That company now provides the best service of all tube companies. The moral of the story? Don't just hit 'em in the pocketbook - TELL THEM you are!
With rebates you can anyway....
I did - here's how....
Motherboard and CPU (Boxed): Fry's @ $49.95 for both.
Motherboard = ECS K7VTA3. Built in sound and NIC.
CPU = AMD Athlon XP 2400+ with fan and 3 year warranty. CPU overclocks to 2.2 gHz, making the chip run as if it was a 3200+
Case and 400 watt power supply: Fry's $15.00 after rebate ($34.95 with 20 dollar rebate)Memory: Kingston Value RAM 512K PC3200 DDR. Fry's $60.00 after 20 dollar rebate.
Hard drive: 80 gigabyte Maxtor ATA 133 7200 RPM 8 meg cache. $40.00 at Office Depot
CD ROM: Kyphermedia 52X CDRW. $9.95 after rebate at Office Max. 200 CD's and 100 CD jewel cases free after rebate at Office Max.Video card: ATI 32 meg 4X AGP. $25.00 including shipping from Newegg.
Floppy Drive: $9.95 at Fry's.
Keyboard and mouse: Belkin KB and optical mouse. KB was free after rebate; mouse was $9.95 with $5.00 rebate. Office Max.Modem: Winmodem. Free after 10 dollar rebate at Office Max
Speakers: Yamaha 2.1 60 watt from Amazon.com $10.00 including shipping
Operating system: Linspire v4.5. Free Download from Fat Wallet.
Office suite: Free from openoffce.org.TOTAL: (approx) $225.00
I could have saved about $40.00 by going with 256 Megs of RAM instead of 512 megs, not using a floppy drive and using a 40 gig hard drive.This system is a KILLER! It is extremely fast and stable - even overclocked to a 200 meg bus speed (3200XP speed).
I built this system within the past 30 days....You lost me at gushes.....
As a father of four great kids, I'd advise you to stop wasting time doing such meaningless things. Believe me, once your child arrives, you'll be lucky to have time to check email let alone administer Linux servers and watching baby on your cell phone! Once your child is 4 - 6 months old, find a good babysitter you can trust and take your spouse out on a date at least every other week. Forget about having any outside life together the first six months; it just isn't gonna happen! And, finally, enjoy your new baby. Kids rock, no matter what size they are. Right now I'm 50 with an 8 month old; she makes me feel young and I'm very happy and grateful she came into my life.