That I and millions of others like me have decided to boycott the RIAA? Hmmm?
Might we be sick and tired of their power plays and their intrusions into our personal lives? Hmmmm?
Might we be sick and tired of being called criminals by them? Hmmm?
Could we be tired of ther inane music they've been producing the past few years? Hmmm?
Well, My Leibowitz...what do you think??
The Record Industry is looking for a bail out....
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The record industry is looking for a government bail out. They look to Congress and the courts to fix ailments that they brought upon themselves.
I find it funny that in this day of: "let the marketplace decide", the music industry seems to be seeking (and getting) special treatment. This industry should be left to live (or die) by its own bad decisions. I'm in my fourties, and I find that the 'big five' record companies have completely alienated me. Apparently they don't want me for a customer. All they seem to care about is serving my daughters, who can't afford their exhorbitant prices any more.
My attitude is why bail therse clowns out? Let them die and be replaced by better run companies who care about serving their customers.
Of course, we all iknow the answer to why this won't happen: $$....the flow of $$ to Congress' pockets that is!
Doesn't active circutry need power?
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Last time I checked it did....
Or are they going to put a battery on every CD rom?
I can see it now...after two years the battery goes dead and the disk won't work any more.
All they're doing is making themselves look even more like the assholes they sure seem to be...
Their whole way of dealing with file sharing will go down in history as one of the biggest P.R. debacles of all time.
The really scary thing is that these are (suppositely) smart, educated people. Why then do they act like a bunch of scared school children then?
I just don't get it. Will someone please explain it to me - like I was a six year old?
Do you know what CB (Citizen's band) is?
If not, tune into the lower half of 27 Mhz AM.
Wifi is
CB for data Get it? Short range, unlicensed data transmission. Would I use it for anything mission critical? No way.
Let me give you an example: When CB first arrived in the 60's, taxi services bought it for dispatching. They abandoned it after a few years because the interference made it unreliable. Is it a waste of spectrum? I don't think so, even though as a ham I lost the 11 meter ham band to CB.
Same with wifi.
and the statement on the bottom of the unit says it all...
1. You may not cause interference to licensed services.
2. You must accept any interference received including that which causes undesired operation.
Trust me... you don't want the FCC getting involved with licensing this spectrum!
That would mean that 99% of the units currently in service would be off the air....
Don't we have terrorists roaming around? Haven't half of people's retirement funds vaporized thanks to big business' gluttony?...and Congress wants Ashcroft to bust FILE SHARERS???!!
Somethings wrong here...
REALLY WRONG HERE!!!
The RIAA would take your first born child if they could get away with it!
Seriously though, does this surprise even one of you? I didn't think so. It probably doesn't surprise Congress either...and it actually might HURT the RIAA. How? The past few months have been bad times for big companies. Their greed has ruined many people's retirement. Even Bush and the Rebublicans in Congress are running for cover - look at how quickly Republican opposition to the Democrat's business ethics bill evaporated and how quickly it became law. Now here comes the RIAA...a cartel of five companies that control most of the recorded music in the U.S., claiming the established fees for streaming (the biggest cut of whom goes to them) that either already have or will put most of the smaller webcasters out of business need to be even more.
That I believe that they're using data from P2P programs for marketing purposes. Look at the Elvis re-release coming out this fall. Gee, I wonder how they came up with that one? Could it be that Elvis is among the top 10 downloads on Kazaa and Win MX?
What a herd of hypocrites!
because it took almost 40 years to complete, creating two generations of distrust in the process. It caused oppression to a large part of the world's population. It caused an unprecedented build up of weapons, an environmental nightmare, huge deficits (on both sides) and many shadow and puppet governments.
It almost caused nuclear destruction of the world at least once (the Cuban missle crisis, but how many others DON'T we know about?).
Finally, we'll be cleaning up it's mess for another 40 years.
All in all on balance, a dismal failure.
That lives in a 12 volt house. There's no power available where he lives (though phone is there).
He also uses a laptop.
He has a big bank of batteries that charge with solar cells. No incandescent lighting at all.
The other interesting thing is that he can only use a Deskjet for a printer...Laserjets have too much power drain (he uses an inverter for printing).
Oh..and he lives on the side of a hill...with a stream running by...which is how he gets his water. The stream provides about 8 PSI pressure...just enough for a shower and the toilet to fill and flush. Water is solar heated (of course).
Who has no clue of the morass his bill would cause. What this guy simply doesn't understand is that if this bill passes, it's open season for hacking...and the hackers know 10,000 times that of the RIAA and MPAA'S 'experts'.
This is yet another example of the technologically clueless setting technology policy. What this guy is doing is setting up a technology 'cold war'...
You'd think that they would have figured out by now that the cold war was a failure...but I guess you can't teach lessons to the stupid.
They did a big study whose results told them that their subscribers didn't like pop up ads?
Are these guys MORONS? What did they think, that people wanted MORE ads?
Or maybe AOL means ADVERTISING on line?
I picked one up for next to nothing that has four ports (four simultaneous voicemails)
It came with a 286 (!) computer and a 100 meg hard drive that had hours and hours of recording time. DOS based of course (though I've heard that the newer ones use OS/2).
As to a phone system...I'd look for small companies going out of business and offer to buy theirs cheap. A friend of mine got a Panasonic
10 line/25 phone digital system that way for 50 bucks (and he had to remove the PBX from the wall and unplug the phones).
Take the site: civilwarbattles.com. My friend's 13 year old son had to do a school report on the civil war, so my friend suggested they look there. Check it out yourself..then explain what this has to do with the civil war..and why the site owner is so irresponsible in his posting of porn there.
Does anyone really trust these clowns? I mean, their past actions truly don't inspire a single grain of trust. Look at last week where the guy in Houston got busted by the court house for EXPOSING their wifi total lack of security (remember that they claimed he did $5000.00 in damage - no doubt that's exactly how much they paid for all the wifi stuff they had to shut down). Plus...just look at how easy they make it...try to do one good thing and some lawyer begins the mantra: DMCA..DMCA..DMCA.
Nice words you speak guy, but what did Clara say in the Wendy's commercials: "Where's the beef?"
Until I see the beef, I'm not trusting a single word you say....
My 27 inch TV (Daewoo) only cost me 200 bucks. Now the FCC wants to DOUBLE it's price?? This whole HDTV debacle is really beginning to piss me off...and I was General Manager/Chief Engineer of a small UHF TV station until 1999! I've said it before, and I'll say it again..the only people who WANT digital TV are the TV manufacturers and Congress. The manufacturers want it so they can force sell us two thousand dollar TV's instead of letting me choose a $200.00 one..and Congress is having a hard on over all the $$ they're getting by selling off THE PUBLIC'S RF spectrum to the highest bidder. Frankly, the public largely sees HDTV as a rich person's toy. Besides...TV viewership is DOWN...so the answer is to make them pay big bucks for a new TV? I don't think so.... As for me, I'd much rather spend my $$ on a more powerful computer with a 21 inch monitor and a DVD R/W...and keep my 200 buck Daewoo for the 10 hours a week I (still) watch Television.
They use DC for the same reasons that elevators use DC..smooth braking and acceleration....
Also, DC is necessary because as part of the power distribution there are 'breaks' in the third rail...and the rail actually uses the car to complete the break. An AC system would have to maintain phase scycronization for this to work.
And only gives the RIAA more ammo. Frankly, the RIAA is so shooting themself in the foot these days that ignoring them and watching them implode is probably the best thing to do. This organization is hated by just about everybody especially in light of the greed involving corporate America that's surfaced of late.
I believe that there is an implicit boycott of CD's going on. I know that I'm not buying CD's this summer, nor is anyone I know. People have simply had it up to here with greedy corporations. As an example, in my condo we're discussing changing the rules to allow a common outside antenna. Why? because three out of the five owners here are so pissed off at Adelphia that they want to get rid of cable!
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See no evil, hear no evil... Therefore, there must BE no evil! Get it?
That I and millions of others like me have decided to boycott the RIAA?
Hmmm?
Might we be sick and tired of their power plays and their intrusions into our personal lives?
Hmmmm?
Might we be sick and tired of being called criminals by them?
Hmmm?
Could we be tired of ther inane music they've been producing the past few years?
Hmmm?
Well, My Leibowitz...what do you think??
The record industry is looking for a government bail out. They look to Congress and the courts to fix ailments that they brought upon themselves. I find it funny that in this day of: "let the marketplace decide", the music industry seems to be seeking (and getting) special treatment. This industry should be left to live (or die) by its own bad decisions. I'm in my fourties, and I find that the 'big five' record companies have completely alienated me. Apparently they don't want me for a customer. All they seem to care about is serving my daughters, who can't afford their exhorbitant prices any more. My attitude is why bail therse clowns out? Let them die and be replaced by better run companies who care about serving their customers. Of course, we all iknow the answer to why this won't happen: $$....the flow of $$ to Congress' pockets that is!
Last time I checked it did.... Or are they going to put a battery on every CD rom? I can see it now...after two years the battery goes dead and the disk won't work any more.
All they're doing is making themselves look even more like the assholes they sure seem to be... Their whole way of dealing with file sharing will go down in history as one of the biggest P.R. debacles of all time. The really scary thing is that these are (suppositely) smart, educated people. Why then do they act like a bunch of scared school children then? I just don't get it. Will someone please explain it to me - like I was a six year old?
BUT boy does their service SUCK! They'd better improve their service or else this will quickly go down in flames!
Do you know what CB (Citizen's band) is? If not, tune into the lower half of 27 Mhz AM. Wifi is CB for data Get it? Short range, unlicensed data transmission. Would I use it for anything mission critical? No way. Let me give you an example: When CB first arrived in the 60's, taxi services bought it for dispatching. They abandoned it after a few years because the interference made it unreliable. Is it a waste of spectrum? I don't think so, even though as a ham I lost the 11 meter ham band to CB. Same with wifi.
and the statement on the bottom of the unit says it all... 1. You may not cause interference to licensed services. 2. You must accept any interference received including that which causes undesired operation. Trust me... you don't want the FCC getting involved with licensing this spectrum! That would mean that 99% of the units currently in service would be off the air....
Now if only Microsoft would...
NAH! Never happen!!!
Don't we have terrorists roaming around? Haven't half of people's retirement funds vaporized thanks to big business' gluttony? ...and Congress wants Ashcroft to bust FILE SHARERS???!!
Somethings wrong here...
REALLY WRONG HERE!!!
The RIAA would take your first born child if they could get away with it!
Seriously though, does this surprise even one of you? I didn't think so. It probably doesn't surprise Congress either...and it actually might HURT the RIAA. How? The past few months have been bad times for big companies. Their greed has ruined many people's retirement. Even Bush and the Rebublicans in Congress are running for cover - look at how quickly Republican opposition to the Democrat's business ethics bill evaporated and how quickly it became law.
Now here comes the RIAA...a cartel of five companies that control most of the recorded music in the U.S., claiming the established fees for streaming (the biggest cut of whom goes to them) that either already have or will put most of the smaller webcasters out of business need to be even more.
This could be a P.R. disaster for the RIAA.
It couldn't possibly be that Linux is FREE, could it? NAH!!!!!
That I believe that they're using data from P2P programs for marketing purposes. Look at the Elvis re-release coming out this fall. Gee, I wonder how they came up with that one? Could it be that Elvis is among the top 10 downloads on Kazaa and Win MX? What a herd of hypocrites!
because it took almost 40 years to complete, creating two generations of distrust in the process. It caused oppression to a large part of the world's population. It caused an unprecedented build up of weapons, an environmental nightmare, huge deficits (on both sides) and many shadow and puppet governments. It almost caused nuclear destruction of the world at least once (the Cuban missle crisis, but how many others DON'T we know about?). Finally, we'll be cleaning up it's mess for another 40 years. All in all on balance, a dismal failure.
That lives in a 12 volt house. There's no power available where he lives (though phone is there). He also uses a laptop. He has a big bank of batteries that charge with solar cells. No incandescent lighting at all. The other interesting thing is that he can only use a Deskjet for a printer...Laserjets have too much power drain (he uses an inverter for printing). Oh..and he lives on the side of a hill...with a stream running by...which is how he gets his water. The stream provides about 8 PSI pressure...just enough for a shower and the toilet to fill and flush. Water is solar heated (of course).
Who has no clue of the morass his bill would cause. What this guy simply doesn't understand is that if this bill passes, it's open season for hacking...and the hackers know 10,000 times that of the RIAA and MPAA'S 'experts'. This is yet another example of the technologically clueless setting technology policy. What this guy is doing is setting up a technology 'cold war'... You'd think that they would have figured out by now that the cold war was a failure...but I guess you can't teach lessons to the stupid.
They did a big study whose results told them that their subscribers didn't like pop up ads? Are these guys MORONS? What did they think, that people wanted MORE ads? Or maybe AOL means ADVERTISING on line?
I picked one up for next to nothing that has four ports (four simultaneous voicemails) It came with a 286 (!) computer and a 100 meg hard drive that had hours and hours of recording time. DOS based of course (though I've heard that the newer ones use OS/2). As to a phone system...I'd look for small companies going out of business and offer to buy theirs cheap. A friend of mine got a Panasonic 10 line/25 phone digital system that way for 50 bucks (and he had to remove the PBX from the wall and unplug the phones).
Take the site: civilwarbattles.com. My friend's 13 year old son had to do a school report on the civil war, so my friend suggested they look there. Check it out yourself..then explain what this has to do with the civil war..and why the site owner is so irresponsible in his posting of porn there.
Does anyone really trust these clowns?
I mean, their past actions truly don't inspire a single grain of trust. Look at last week where the guy in Houston got busted by the court house for EXPOSING their wifi total lack of security (remember that they claimed he did $5000.00 in damage - no doubt that's exactly how much they paid for all the wifi stuff they had to shut down). Plus...just look at how easy they make it...try to do one good thing and some lawyer begins the mantra: DMCA..DMCA..DMCA.
Nice words you speak guy, but what did Clara say in the Wendy's commercials: "Where's the beef?"
Until I see the beef, I'm not trusting a single word you say....
My 27 inch TV (Daewoo) only cost me 200 bucks. Now the FCC wants to DOUBLE it's price?? This whole HDTV debacle is really beginning to piss me off...and I was General Manager/Chief Engineer of a small UHF TV station until 1999!
I've said it before, and I'll say it again..the only people who WANT digital TV are the TV manufacturers and Congress. The manufacturers want it so they can force sell us two thousand dollar TV's instead of letting me choose a $200.00 one..and Congress is having a hard on over all the $$ they're getting by selling off THE PUBLIC'S RF spectrum to the highest bidder.
Frankly, the public largely sees HDTV as a rich person's toy. Besides...TV viewership is DOWN...so the answer is to make them pay big bucks for a new TV? I don't think so....
As for me, I'd much rather spend my $$ on a more powerful computer with a 21 inch monitor and a DVD R/W...and keep my 200 buck Daewoo for the 10 hours a week I (still) watch Television.
I just used my floppy to update my BIOS.
It's essential for this function.
They use DC for the same reasons that elevators use DC..smooth braking and acceleration.... Also, DC is necessary because as part of the power distribution there are 'breaks' in the third rail...and the rail actually uses the car to complete the break. An AC system would have to maintain phase scycronization for this to work.
And only gives the RIAA more ammo. Frankly, the RIAA is so shooting themself in the foot these days that ignoring them and watching them implode is probably the best thing to do. This organization is hated by just about everybody especially in light of the greed involving corporate America that's surfaced of late. I believe that there is an implicit boycott of CD's going on. I know that I'm not buying CD's this summer, nor is anyone I know. People have simply had it up to here with greedy corporations. As an example, in my condo we're discussing changing the rules to allow a common outside antenna. Why? because three out of the five owners here are so pissed off at Adelphia that they want to get rid of cable!
I can see it now... kill yourself...kill yourself...turn the wheel of youre car hard right...NOW!