The recording industry gets a tax on blank digital media....In other words they get PAID for every blank piece of media..
NOW they want to make it so you CAN'T record on said media?
Then why should they get PAID then?
In fact why shouldn't they HAVE TO REFUND all that $$?
Greedier bastards have never roamed the earth....
Okay..so your argument is:.
"Well, it's okay to take away a small amount of freedom for security's sake". Am I right there?
Okay...that's fine..until the NEXT time comes around....and the NEXT time and so on and so on....
Then one day you wake up and find that a BIG chunk of your freedom is gone!
Tell me..where do YOU draw the line?? How much freedom can be taken away before YOU think too much is too much? Searches without warrants? How about just bugging everyone? Do you even HAVE a line? Where is it?
See, law enforcement (and I used to work in it) works on this premise: they zero in on a POSSIBLE suspect and then do their best to PROVE they did it. In other words, they employ 'tunnel vision'.
They don't care if the person is guilty or innocent..all they care is can they get a CONVICTION! I know of proscecutors who KNEW who really DID a crime..and yet they put an INNOCENT PERSON IN PRISON for the crime..did you just hear me? They put a person in PRISON that they KNEW FOR A FACT WAS INNOCENT!!!! People complain all the time that guilty people sometimes go free. WELL...it also works the other way!
Do you know how many innocent people are in jail? Let me assure you, it's a lot more then you think!
There's even been a couple of people who have been PUT TO DEATH only to later find out thet they were innocent. But you think that's okay, don't you? Why not fry a few for the greater good, right? Until that day when they come for you, that is.....
Let me clue you into something....by the time THAT happens, it'll probably be too late.
Once again the MAN takes a big bite out of our civil liberties! My problem isn't with what they did actually...it's with the arrogance they show. OUR government, under the guise of protecting US in reality is permanently eroding OUR freedoms. What's truly scary is that they feel like because they're the 'good guys' then they're allowed to 'bend' a law or two, to 'take away' a freedom or two...it's okay, because they're the righteous 'good guys', remember?
To me, the line between good and evil gets very blurry when this kind of crap is allowed to happen.
Is it okay for 'good' to act in 'evil ways' to catch 'evil'?
I don't believe so. I don't trust law enforcement any more then the criminals! In fact, I think I may trust the criminals more...at least with them you KNOW what you're getting. You know what to expect. With the govt., you really don't know any more.
Unfortuantly, too many people show way too much apathy these days, which allows this crap to fester. Our system of politics needs scrutiny, citizen input and checks and balances to work properly...to keep it 'honest'. That just isn't happening any more....and that's really sad.
You don't know about biggERING? I guess you never read Dr. Seuss' "The Lifted Lorax" as a kid.
Biggering is what happens to EVERY government everything...and many corporations as well.
See, they're not happy being the size they are..so they bigGER. If you have one employee working for you, now you want two. Then two becomes four and so on and son on and so on.
This police chief is the perfect example. he wants a biGGER police department.
More toys = more employees needed to install, run and maintain the toys. Now he can say: Hey, I now run a 100 person dept. (as opposed to a 40 person one five years ago) I need a BIG raise (after all, crime is mostly down everywhere so he surely needs a biGGER dept, now doesn't he?)!
And on it goes. Read the Lorax. You'll understand.
And..the FCC violated their own interference rules to allow DTV. Years ago, I wanted to put a LPTV in the town I lived in. It was to go on channel 19. There was a channel 26 94 kilometers away. The required spacings for an LPTV (operating with 1000 watts) to this station was 100 Km. The required spacings for a FULL POWER TV station (operating with up to FIVE MEGAWATTS) was 92 Km! I called the FCC and asked them to quote the rule of physics that states that 1000 watts of power would interfere MORE then five million watts. They couldn't answer. I even proposed to drop my opwer to 100 watts. They wouldn't allow it. THEN they allowed a DTV station onto the SAME TOWER I wanted on channel 19 with 750 KILOWATTS average power (peak power is five times more). I called them again and again asked them to quote the rule of nature that said that 100 watts was worse for causing interference then 750,000 watts. Same silence. The fact is.....rules concerning most anything are decided by political considerations, NOT the rules of nature and physics. In other words, the dollar rules! A few years ago I saw that the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) was the second biggest lobbyist (read: BRIBER)to Congress.
And you wonder why the broadcasters get whatever they want?
Here's the latest one: Though broadcasters are limited to a maximum of 8 radio stations they may own outright (100%) in a given city, The FCC has just decided that they may own up to 49% of any (or all) of the ones left over!
Ain't this a boon for diversity, huh? Soon we'll be seeing all the stations in a given area owned by two companies operating as a cartel. They'll each own eight, then together own 98% (49% each) of the stragglers. Of course, the 2% left over will be thrown to a minority, and the NAB will trumpet through the land how GREAT this is for minority ownership by allowing the minority one third control!
"Shit is still shit no matter how pretty the package"
Cue is in bankruptcy after losing their single biggest customer a few months ago (I understand it was a million dollar/month acct.).
They were in default of their subcarrier leases on Clear Channel FM stations as of November and were disconnected in early December. They were given one more chance to pay and were turned back on a few days later. Alas, they couldn't come up with the $$ and were disconnected for the (final time) last week.
I would say that as of right now, they're dead in the water....
There used to be a Monsanto plant in Everett, MA..
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There used to be a Monsanto plant in Everett, MA a couple of miles from where My grandmother lived.
On hot summer days the smell from the plant would give you migranes. I meal literally the whole neighborhood would get sick from the smell.
It had to be even worse closer in! You could see all kinds of different colored smoke wafting up into the air from various vents at the plant. The newspaper looked into it and was basically blown off. Fortunately, the plant closed in the mid 70's, but I still wonder what they were putting out into the air and if anyone suffered permanent damage from it. Based on this story that just may be the case.
You were good, but now you're redundant. Others have taken your place. The RIAA killed you and in the process signed their own death warrant.
They're just not dead yet. But they will be. Not even protectionist legislation (bought) from Congress can help them. They got done in by their own greed. Someone the other day compared Hilary Rosen to Osama bin Laden and I think they're not that far off. Both are terrorists. Both work from fear. No one wants to steal music. No one but the RIAA that is. They want to steal it from everyone, including the artists. It won't work.
It's over Napster. It's over RIAA. You'll see....
I got canned a year ago for doing my job.
The (clueless) General Manager bimbo from sales fired me because I didn't sit in my office all day waiting for her calls (my email isn't working....{you have to put in your password}).
I was too busy WORKING! In the server room...in the studios (this was a radio station), at the transmitter (there was only one of me).
What's my point to all this? Sometimes people just don't 'fit'. It has nothing to do with the people involved; it's the situation, the chemistry. I've heard of people who worked in jobs successfully for years only to be fired a month after a new manager arrives. Sometimes it's as simple as the new person having a friend who needs work. I knew one manager who fired someone because they "Reminded them of someone they didn't like". It had absolutely nothing to do with that person at all! Most employees are
'at will' meaning they can be fired (or quit for that matter) with zero advance notice and no recourse.
My advice to you? 1. Polish up that resume (with REAL full time experience). 2. Get another job.
3. Leave.
Leaving can be interesting in itself. I know one person who gave zero notice and nailed a smelly old pair of his shoes to his boss's door with a note: "Fill these dickwad!". Frankly, I wouldn't recommend that way unless you plan to never speak with anyone from that place again (and don't plan to put it on your resume). It's customary to give two weeks notice, but that can vary depending on the situation. Usually the employer has the edge here; most insist on the two weeks from the employee but NEVER give it to the employee. I've given notice before and been told to leave the building immediately; I've also had employers try to make counteroffers and/or ask for a longer notice. Generally I allow neither; the former burns a bridge with the new employer and can result in long term animosity. The latter makes it harder on the new employer.
A final note is this: Unfortunately all of us have to "put in our time". The day of the whiz kid frankly is over. My fiancee just reminded me that she spent many a day carrying coffee and ironing the wrinkles out of newspapers (!) for asshole bosses...and she has two Master's degrees! What she did get out of it was empathy for newcomers now that she's a boss (she'll settle for a wrinkled newspaper {LOL}!).
Good luck to you.
This is just another example of laws not in sync with technology. For that matter though is Congress in sync with anything?
In the U.S. we seem to have this thing about passing laws to cover every possible thing.
The Government seems hell bent in micromanaging its citizens to death. Is it just me or does anyone else notice this trend?
Are all over P2P ppl. Why? There isn't any visible crime. Bandwith isn't even wasted.
I'll tell you why one type of thing gets investigated andf another doesn't.
D O L L A R S !!!!!
Pure and simple.
I pledge allegiance to the flag
Of the Corporate States of America
And to the corporations for which it stands
One cartel
Inhumane
Motivated by greed
With liberty and justice for the top 2% of wealth
I had Mozilla.9.5 on the computter. It worked great. Upgraded to.9.6 and it would crash whenever I tried to open a second window. Uninstalled.96 and reinstalled.95. Same problem with.95 now! So I downloaded Netscape 6.2 and have been using that ever since.
Today I tried Mozilla.9.7. It works great!
No more crashes and it seems really fast and responsive.
I saw it last night at midnight (I have a friend at the theatre who provided us with a special showing).
For over three hours, I literally sat at the edge of my seat! Even though I had been up since that morning, I was wide awake and excited during the entire movie.
The effects are awesome. So is the sound. So is the whole grandeur of the movie. It's HUGE without being grandiose.
if you see one film in 2001/2002 make it this one!
One had IE 5.5 SP2 and one IE6.
When I tried to run the 5.5 SP2 patch on the
IE 5.5 SP2 computer I got a message which said: "This patch will only work with the SP2 version of Internet Explorer 5.5". DOH!!!
The IE 6 patch installed on the IE 6 computer, but now Internet Explorer crashes continually!
And..you can't uninstall these patches either.
So...apply these patches with caution. Looks like Microsoft has DONE IT AGAIN!!!
I mean, power transformers are optimized for best response at 60 hz. This has been the problem with power line transmission for things like wireless intercoms, lamp dimmers, etc., etc. Also, most commercial buildings and many new homes employ three phase power systems. Power line signals do not cross these phases very well. It will be interesting to see how Linksys has dealt with these major problems.
HEY!!! If I BUY something it's MINE!!!!!
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and I don't give a f**k who thinks they do..
NO ONE can tell ME where I can use MY CD or DVD!
If I happen to live in London for a year and buy a dozen movies there WHAT RIGHT does the movie industry have to tell me that I CAN'T play the movies I BOUGHT when I move back HOME!
THEY HAVE NO FUCKING RIGHT!!!!
period.....
Those devices only work with the audio (taxed) CD's
These CD's have a defective pit somewhere on the disk that the player knows to look for. No bit...no record.
Which is why theyr're so much more then regular CD roms.
The radio station I work for uses audio CD's for archiving shows and commercials...
The commercials have NO copyrighted music on them (we pay big bucks for our own custom created musical content for commercials) and any music that gets recorded is already covered by the station's blanket copyright (5% of GROSS revenues)yet we get taxed TWICE....
The music industry IS a CARTEL...who has managed to bribe congress into doing whatever they WANT them to do!
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The recording industry gets a tax on blank digital media....In other words they get PAID for every blank piece of media.. NOW they want to make it so you CAN'T record on said media? Then why should they get PAID then? In fact why shouldn't they HAVE TO REFUND all that $$? Greedier bastards have never roamed the earth....
Okay..so your argument is:. "Well, it's okay to take away a small amount of freedom for security's sake". Am I right there? Okay...that's fine..until the NEXT time comes around....and the NEXT time and so on and so on.... Then one day you wake up and find that a BIG chunk of your freedom is gone! Tell me..where do YOU draw the line?? How much freedom can be taken away before YOU think too much is too much? Searches without warrants? How about just bugging everyone? Do you even HAVE a line? Where is it? See, law enforcement (and I used to work in it) works on this premise: they zero in on a POSSIBLE suspect and then do their best to PROVE they did it. In other words, they employ 'tunnel vision'. They don't care if the person is guilty or innocent..all they care is can they get a CONVICTION! I know of proscecutors who KNEW who really DID a crime..and yet they put an INNOCENT PERSON IN PRISON for the crime..did you just hear me? They put a person in PRISON that they KNEW FOR A FACT WAS INNOCENT!!!! People complain all the time that guilty people sometimes go free. WELL...it also works the other way! Do you know how many innocent people are in jail? Let me assure you, it's a lot more then you think! There's even been a couple of people who have been PUT TO DEATH only to later find out thet they were innocent. But you think that's okay, don't you? Why not fry a few for the greater good, right? Until that day when they come for you, that is..... Let me clue you into something....by the time THAT happens, it'll probably be too late.
Once again the MAN takes a big bite out of our civil liberties! My problem isn't with what they did actually...it's with the arrogance they show. OUR government, under the guise of protecting US in reality is permanently eroding OUR freedoms. What's truly scary is that they feel like because they're the 'good guys' then they're allowed to 'bend' a law or two, to 'take away' a freedom or two...it's okay, because they're the righteous 'good guys', remember? To me, the line between good and evil gets very blurry when this kind of crap is allowed to happen. Is it okay for 'good' to act in 'evil ways' to catch 'evil'? I don't believe so. I don't trust law enforcement any more then the criminals! In fact, I think I may trust the criminals more...at least with them you KNOW what you're getting. You know what to expect. With the govt., you really don't know any more. Unfortuantly, too many people show way too much apathy these days, which allows this crap to fester. Our system of politics needs scrutiny, citizen input and checks and balances to work properly...to keep it 'honest'. That just isn't happening any more....and that's really sad.
You don't know about biggERING? I guess you never read Dr. Seuss' "The Lifted Lorax" as a kid. Biggering is what happens to EVERY government everything...and many corporations as well. See, they're not happy being the size they are..so they bigGER. If you have one employee working for you, now you want two. Then two becomes four and so on and son on and so on. This police chief is the perfect example. he wants a biGGER police department. More toys = more employees needed to install, run and maintain the toys. Now he can say: Hey, I now run a 100 person dept. (as opposed to a 40 person one five years ago) I need a BIG raise (after all, crime is mostly down everywhere so he surely needs a biGGER dept, now doesn't he?)! And on it goes. Read the Lorax. You'll understand.
And..the FCC violated their own interference rules to allow DTV. Years ago, I wanted to put a LPTV in the town I lived in. It was to go on channel 19. There was a channel 26 94 kilometers away. The required spacings for an LPTV (operating with 1000 watts) to this station was 100 Km. The required spacings for a FULL POWER TV station (operating with up to FIVE MEGAWATTS) was 92 Km! I called the FCC and asked them to quote the rule of physics that states that 1000 watts of power would interfere MORE then five million watts. They couldn't answer. I even proposed to drop my opwer to 100 watts. They wouldn't allow it. THEN they allowed a DTV station onto the SAME TOWER I wanted on channel 19 with 750 KILOWATTS average power (peak power is five times more). I called them again and again asked them to quote the rule of nature that said that 100 watts was worse for causing interference then 750,000 watts. Same silence. The fact is.....rules concerning most anything are decided by political considerations, NOT the rules of nature and physics. In other words, the dollar rules! A few years ago I saw that the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) was the second biggest lobbyist (read: BRIBER)to Congress. And you wonder why the broadcasters get whatever they want? Here's the latest one: Though broadcasters are limited to a maximum of 8 radio stations they may own outright (100%) in a given city, The FCC has just decided that they may own up to 49% of any (or all) of the ones left over! Ain't this a boon for diversity, huh? Soon we'll be seeing all the stations in a given area owned by two companies operating as a cartel. They'll each own eight, then together own 98% (49% each) of the stragglers. Of course, the 2% left over will be thrown to a minority, and the NAB will trumpet through the land how GREAT this is for minority ownership by allowing the minority one third control! "Shit is still shit no matter how pretty the package"
Cue is in bankruptcy after losing their single biggest customer a few months ago (I understand it was a million dollar/month acct.). They were in default of their subcarrier leases on Clear Channel FM stations as of November and were disconnected in early December. They were given one more chance to pay and were turned back on a few days later. Alas, they couldn't come up with the $$ and were disconnected for the (final time) last week. I would say that as of right now, they're dead in the water....
There used to be a Monsanto plant in Everett, MA a couple of miles from where My grandmother lived. On hot summer days the smell from the plant would give you migranes. I meal literally the whole neighborhood would get sick from the smell. It had to be even worse closer in! You could see all kinds of different colored smoke wafting up into the air from various vents at the plant. The newspaper looked into it and was basically blown off. Fortunately, the plant closed in the mid 70's, but I still wonder what they were putting out into the air and if anyone suffered permanent damage from it. Based on this story that just may be the case.
You were good, but now you're redundant. Others have taken your place. The RIAA killed you and in the process signed their own death warrant. They're just not dead yet. But they will be. Not even protectionist legislation (bought) from Congress can help them. They got done in by their own greed. Someone the other day compared Hilary Rosen to Osama bin Laden and I think they're not that far off. Both are terrorists. Both work from fear. No one wants to steal music. No one but the RIAA that is. They want to steal it from everyone, including the artists. It won't work. It's over Napster. It's over RIAA. You'll see....
I got canned a year ago for doing my job. The (clueless) General Manager bimbo from sales fired me because I didn't sit in my office all day waiting for her calls (my email isn't working....{you have to put in your password}). I was too busy WORKING! In the server room...in the studios (this was a radio station), at the transmitter (there was only one of me). What's my point to all this? Sometimes people just don't 'fit'. It has nothing to do with the people involved; it's the situation, the chemistry. I've heard of people who worked in jobs successfully for years only to be fired a month after a new manager arrives. Sometimes it's as simple as the new person having a friend who needs work. I knew one manager who fired someone because they "Reminded them of someone they didn't like". It had absolutely nothing to do with that person at all! Most employees are 'at will' meaning they can be fired (or quit for that matter) with zero advance notice and no recourse. My advice to you? 1. Polish up that resume (with REAL full time experience). 2. Get another job. 3. Leave. Leaving can be interesting in itself. I know one person who gave zero notice and nailed a smelly old pair of his shoes to his boss's door with a note: "Fill these dickwad!". Frankly, I wouldn't recommend that way unless you plan to never speak with anyone from that place again (and don't plan to put it on your resume). It's customary to give two weeks notice, but that can vary depending on the situation. Usually the employer has the edge here; most insist on the two weeks from the employee but NEVER give it to the employee. I've given notice before and been told to leave the building immediately; I've also had employers try to make counteroffers and/or ask for a longer notice. Generally I allow neither; the former burns a bridge with the new employer and can result in long term animosity. The latter makes it harder on the new employer. A final note is this: Unfortunately all of us have to "put in our time". The day of the whiz kid frankly is over. My fiancee just reminded me that she spent many a day carrying coffee and ironing the wrinkles out of newspapers (!) for asshole bosses...and she has two Master's degrees! What she did get out of it was empathy for newcomers now that she's a boss (she'll settle for a wrinkled newspaper {LOL}!). Good luck to you.
This is just another example of laws not in sync with technology. For that matter though is Congress in sync with anything? In the U.S. we seem to have this thing about passing laws to cover every possible thing. The Government seems hell bent in micromanaging its citizens to death. Is it just me or does anyone else notice this trend?
It varies a bit actually between 42 and 54 kbps at a sampling freq of 44 khz.
Are all over P2P ppl. Why? There isn't any visible crime. Bandwith isn't even wasted. I'll tell you why one type of thing gets investigated andf another doesn't. D O L L A R S !!!!! Pure and simple.
Just shoot all the lawyers!
BBC is streaming Ogg at 44kbps, and it seeoms to be working just fine.
I pledge allegiance to the flag Of the Corporate States of America And to the corporations for which it stands One cartel Inhumane Motivated by greed With liberty and justice for the top 2% of wealth
Surely you've GOT to be kidding! Our Govt. NEVER lies !
(please mod this up as funny)
Now if only Cox or Comcast could do what you've done, we just might have something!
I had Mozilla .9.5 on the computter. It worked great. Upgraded to .9.6 and it would crash whenever I tried to open a second window. Uninstalled .96 and reinstalled .95. Same problem with .95 now! So I downloaded Netscape 6.2 and have been using that ever since.
Today I tried Mozilla .9.7. It works great!
No more crashes and it seems really fast and responsive.
Make me hurl.....
I saw it last night at midnight (I have a friend at the theatre who provided us with a special showing). For over three hours, I literally sat at the edge of my seat! Even though I had been up since that morning, I was wide awake and excited during the entire movie. The effects are awesome. So is the sound. So is the whole grandeur of the movie. It's HUGE without being grandiose. if you see one film in 2001/2002 make it this one!
One had IE 5.5 SP2 and one IE6. When I tried to run the 5.5 SP2 patch on the IE 5.5 SP2 computer I got a message which said: "This patch will only work with the SP2 version of Internet Explorer 5.5". DOH!!! The IE 6 patch installed on the IE 6 computer, but now Internet Explorer crashes continually! And..you can't uninstall these patches either. So...apply these patches with caution. Looks like Microsoft has DONE IT AGAIN!!!
I mean, power transformers are optimized for best response at 60 hz. This has been the problem with power line transmission for things like wireless intercoms, lamp dimmers, etc., etc. Also, most commercial buildings and many new homes employ three phase power systems. Power line signals do not cross these phases very well. It will be interesting to see how Linksys has dealt with these major problems.
and I don't give a f**k who thinks they do.. NO ONE can tell ME where I can use MY CD or DVD! If I happen to live in London for a year and buy a dozen movies there WHAT RIGHT does the movie industry have to tell me that I CAN'T play the movies I BOUGHT when I move back HOME! THEY HAVE NO FUCKING RIGHT!!!! period.....
Those devices only work with the audio (taxed) CD's These CD's have a defective pit somewhere on the disk that the player knows to look for. No bit...no record.
Which is why theyr're so much more then regular CD roms. The radio station I work for uses audio CD's for archiving shows and commercials... The commercials have NO copyrighted music on them (we pay big bucks for our own custom created musical content for commercials) and any music that gets recorded is already covered by the station's blanket copyright (5% of GROSS revenues)yet we get taxed TWICE.... The music industry IS a CARTEL...who has managed to bribe congress into doing whatever they WANT them to do!