They're hedging their bets just as any smart capitalist would. Disney's not stupid enough to be putting all of its eggs in one basket. They're fighting for total control in the hope that they can get away with it. They'll survive just fine if they don't get it, but they're also smart enough to turn around and invest in not getting their way as well. And if nothing else, if they were to acquire controlling interest in Tivo, they could shut them down.
" I didn't go for Ralph Nader's "Democrats and Republicans are the same" platform during the election. "
That's not Ralph Nader's idea, that's the obvious truth. They are all entrenched mainstream politicians, and they all play the game. It's really more of a slight difference in style, and if they didn't separate off into "teams", they couldn't fool everyone with riduculous "partisan" antics.
Ohh yeah, chances are he'll figure out how to make some good money doing remixes or backing tracks for other artists. There are a ton of people out there making beats for other people. Often they are called "producers", which is not accurate in the traditional recording industry sense of a producer, but they had to call them something.
Not to sound cold hearted, but that's one of the challenges of being handicapped. In fact, it's why being handicapped is considered a bad thing. If the world was structured in such a way as to make it easier for handicapped people to be successful, then some people would want to be handicapped. I guess I'm just not seeing the plan of action implied by your train of thought. You're saying that we should maintain the content industry monopoly on the pimping of artists because removing that monopoly would make it more difficult for handicapped people to make a living making music? That's pretty out there, my friend.
BB King is 80-some odd yrs old, and he's touring. He walks out on stage, fat ass he is, sits in a chair and plays blues guitar. He puts on a great fscking show and people love it. But, I'm not seeing why people would want to pay to see a dude roll out on stage in a wheelchair and push "Go" on a sequencer. It sounds like your trying to defy natural law, here.
For your wheel-chair bound example to make money off of his electronically sequenced music, he'll likely have to be creative about it. If he can't do live performances, he'll have to think of some other way to make money. That's just the way it is, and it's like that for most electronic musicians, handicapped or not. The electronic music scene is the province of the DJ and the few artists who actually do go out and put on a live show that doesn't depend completely on sequencers.
Couldn't we just start a citizen-based group that spied on all of the congress-lackeys and then blackmailed them into acting right? If the corps can pay them off, can't we provide a balancing force on the other side of the equation?
Yes, despite the fact that it was meant as I joke, it contained a little sadness about the truth of it all. From what I've seen this is exactly what management is looking for in management. From both sides. They want a middle manager that will take it in the ass from them, then turn around and bend all of their subordinates over. I think they call it teamwork or something. Ahh, who can interpret all that manager-speak.
That's why I work at a small company. If I feel I'm being screwed, I can look directly into my bosses eyes and say, "You're fucking me motherfucker!", and see that he knows I know. At that point we've reached direct negotiability, which is impossible to acheive in the pass-the-fuck corporate heirarchy, because it's always the next guy up or down's fault (or 2 or 3 or 4 removed). The ability of corporate drones to adapt to this mass culture of responsibility avoidance is pretty scary if you ask me. If I was a visionary I wouldn't base my society on that principle, but that's just me..
I don't care about it myself, but I see people saying that same thing all the time and invariably they get modded up rather than down. It's like they've figured out how to shame the moderators into modding them up when by all rights the moderators should have just yawned and moved on. I'm annoyed only because I see meta-redundant posts get 5, Insightful and wonder whether I should set my filter to -1 to see if I'm missing the good stuff or just quit reading/. alltogether because there are only a couple of intelligent people posting.
BTW, the rant I directed at you was really far more generally meant. I actually agreed with you to an extent. I just reacted to the flamebait thing cuz it's been annoying me for a while now. Not your fault. My bad.
Dummy, id doesn't charge for the executables. They make them freely available. You can check for yourself, they call them point releases. They do charge for the data files, however, at least in so much as that's the part they don't freely distribute.
They likely were all evicted and living huddled under their desks at Loki HQ surviving by picking crabs from each others dirty loins. Life can be lived really cheap when you don't have one.
Wow, that's funny... You predicted Flamebait, but your now sitting at 3, Interesting. Now that wasn't predictable, was it? Do you really think that anyone believes that you thought that the moderators would treat your completely unenlightening post any differently? Anybody who can read can see that posts expressing those same ideas are very hip on/. right now.. oh wait, and have been for months.
I'm not saying that your point is not valid, but flamebait? Yeah, it was flamebait. As soon as you said, "I will probably get moderated as flamebait".
Just admit your karma whore nature and quit trying to scam the 13 yr olds.
Yeah, as an employer I'm always impressed by a potential employee's willingness to take it up the ass for me. I don't want intelligent employees that know how to judge a situation for what it is and make the RIGHT decision. Nah, my company will be much better off if all my employees are fools.
Because you and your family end up starving and the Drakers make off with a fat retirement account. At least if you take that temporary job at taco bell, you can scam a little free food.
Of course, the fact that you still get to drive to your fantasy world every day and play with computers makes everything ok for your starved, dead infant and your turned-to-whoring wife.
That has to be the most long, boring, self-indulgent OS review I've ever only read part of. Jesus christ! I have shit to do.. Someone needs to put a brevity filter on this guy!
I know this is offtopic, but I just can't help myself. The whole event is in bad taste. How many times a year do "artists" have to dress up in expensive gowns and give themselves meaningless awards. When was the last time a celebrity whore took time out to recognize your contributions to society? Uhh, never. Yet, you likely perform a valuable function within our society. The fact that these people can't just make some music and get the fuck over it is digusting to me. So, in closing, it was not in "bad taist" (your spelling) for this clone/whore to "plug his agenda" at an event like that. In fact, it was completely appropriate given the vile and disgusting nature of the event itself. For example, is it bad form for a dog to fuck when it's in heat? No. It's entirely natural. Should I care about it, or sit there watching it with rapt attention? Hell, no. I don't want to see two dogs fucking. And I don't want to see the Grammy Awards (or any of the other fifty-some-odd awards shows these whores use to pat themselves on the back).
As much as I may like to agree with you, unfortunately, it is my responsibility to inform you that nobody gives a flying fuck what YOU want.
Sorry, I just pulled the cosmic lottery ticket and the duty fell to me. No hard feelings, I act like a jackass, at times, myself. I'm sure you'll catch me saying something irrelevant and stupid within a week or two.
Whatever, he's just enjoying the freedom of fair use. There's no reason to take him or his henchmen to jail. You see, on a percentage basis, most of the songs that were downloaded are likely copyrighted by RIAA member organizations, so it's as if he has bought all of those CD's and is downloading them merely to avoid the time consuming job of ripping them directly from CD. The small percentage of songs that member companies don't own the copyright to don't matter, because he's the CEO of the Grammy Awards. Taking him to court over each specific violated copyright would just be a "waste" of taxpayer money in court expenses. Because he's "important" he's allowed this sloppy mathematical perspective on the subject, whereas an unimportant average CITIZEN would likely have to answer to each specific charge from each specific copyright holder.
Sarcasm and cynicism aside, how is this really any different than a documentary in which marijuana growers openly admit to growing the shit and take the press on a tour of their operation. Somehow, these "criminals" get away with blatantly public exposure of their crimes, why shouldn't an idiot like this guy get away with it?
Forget Democrat and Republican labels. Take a close look at the way these people act and the way that they don't look after the best interests of the people they are supposed to be representing. When you look at them objectively with these things in mind, don't they all just resemble whores?
What's the difference between a whore that bullshits you about how good of a cocksucker she is and one that bullshits you about how tight her pussy is? They're both bullshitting whores.
I'm fucking amazed. Despite the fact that you made very good points, you and the person who started this thread are both aparently too ignorant to realize that the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) has absolutely Jack Shit to do with music, radio, CD's and MP3's (well, except maybe for soundtracks). So, I just don't know what to do now. Looking past this ridiculous error and replacing all references, in my mind, to MPAA with the RIAA, I agree completely with what you have to say. But, some part of me just wants to completely write off everything you have to say because of that silly little error. I realize that you didn't start the mistake, but don't let the idiots fool you.
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I think I was referring to the situation described in the Ask Slashdot question, but whatever.
I agree with you. From the terms of the GPL, specifically the preferred clause, I would think that the company shouldn't be able to get away with doing what they are tryng to do. That doesn't mean that they won't, however. It sounds to me like there is enough ambiguity for a judge to call it either way according to his own preference. Even though to a programmer, this should be not at all ambigous.
If they're too new to know which distro they should have, they should start with an easy one. They can always switch over to a different distro when they understand linux basics. My point, though, is that most newbs need something that they can get their feet wet with, like Mandrake or Red Hat (sure, Suse might be ok too). But, if they have to sit there and wait for three days while X and gnome compile, I doubt their first impression of linux will be very good. Not only that, they probably won't have the Linux command line knowledge to understand what the hell they're doing when installing something like sorcerer or gentoo. So, they aren't really learning much of anything until they end up with a broken system and just say Fuck This!
I don't know, that's just my opinion. I don't think newbs should go straight for an advanced distro. The idea is to get them to use Linux, not hate it.
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Uhh, no. He's talking about doing global find replace on the original source in order to make it hard to understand. It will still compile the same, and they can release it under the GPL.
So, what you're saying is that the editors should make a permanent news story on the front page of/. that points all distro comparators to distrowatch, right?
It's really simple. Any Linux newbie should go with Mandrake or Red Hat for their first distro. They should buy the CD, so that they have install media and support options, in case they get stuck.
You don't give Slackware, Gentoo or Sorcerer to a newbie, because, though they can be ideal for an experienced user, the hassles associated with them will turn a newbie off of Linux.
There is no reason to consolidate the distros, just so that newbies don't have to wonder which distro to try first. If a newb can't figure out how to make that choice, then they aren't going to have much luck with Linux, IMO.
Most DSL providers consider residential DSL a luxury service. It does not have gauranteed uptimes. However, they WILL give you credit on your bill for downtime, if you ask for it. They will not, however, reimburse you for any loses incurred by you due to downtime. I used to dow Verizon DSL tech support, so I've encountered this situation on countless occasions. Pushing the issue to try to get reimbursed for your lost wages is a lost cause. Your DSL provider, or at least its employees, will just laugh at you. And rightly so. If you are basing your livelihood on a $50 dollar a month residential broadband service, you deserve what you get.
If you make good money, call your provider and inquire about business class gauranteed uptime services. They will cost you a pretty penny, but the connection will likely not fail very often or at all, and you will have a case for reimbursement of lost wages if it does go down.
In other words, quit being a fscking amateur. Any professional in any field knows the value of paying for a quality set of tools, does your employer pay you to be an idiot?
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They're hedging their bets just as any smart capitalist would. Disney's not stupid enough to be putting all of its eggs in one basket. They're fighting for total control in the hope that they can get away with it. They'll survive just fine if they don't get it, but they're also smart enough to turn around and invest in not getting their way as well. And if nothing else, if they were to acquire controlling interest in Tivo, they could shut them down.
Disney ain't stupid.
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I didn't go for Ralph Nader's "Democrats and Republicans are the same" platform during the election.
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That's not Ralph Nader's idea, that's the obvious truth. They are all entrenched mainstream politicians, and they all play the game. It's really more of a slight difference in style, and if they didn't separate off into "teams", they couldn't fool everyone with riduculous "partisan"
antics.
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Ohh yeah, chances are he'll figure out how to make some good money doing remixes or backing tracks for other artists. There are a ton of people out there making beats for other people. Often they are called "producers", which is not accurate in the traditional recording industry sense of a producer, but they had to call them something.
Not to sound cold hearted, but that's one of the challenges of being handicapped. In fact, it's why being handicapped is considered a bad thing. If the world was structured in such a way as to make it easier for handicapped people to be successful, then some people would want to be handicapped. I guess I'm just not seeing the plan of action implied by your train of thought. You're saying that we should maintain the content industry monopoly on the pimping of artists because removing that monopoly would make it more difficult for handicapped people to make a living making music? That's pretty out there, my friend.
BB King is 80-some odd yrs old, and he's touring. He walks out on stage, fat ass he is, sits in a chair and plays blues guitar. He puts on a great fscking show and people love it. But, I'm not seeing why people would want to pay to see a dude roll out on stage in a wheelchair and push "Go" on a sequencer. It sounds like your trying to defy natural law, here.
For your wheel-chair bound example to make money off of his electronically sequenced music, he'll likely have to be creative about it. If he can't do live performances, he'll have to think of some other way to make money. That's just the way it is, and it's like that for most electronic musicians, handicapped or not. The electronic music scene is the province of the DJ and the few artists who actually do go out and put on a live show that doesn't depend completely on sequencers.
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Haha, caught you writing!
Pots, kettles and all that.
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Couldn't we just start a citizen-based group that spied on all of the congress-lackeys and then blackmailed them into acting right? If the corps can pay them off, can't we provide a balancing force on the other side of the equation?
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Yes, despite the fact that it was meant as I joke, it contained a little sadness about the truth of it all. From what I've seen this is exactly what management is looking for in management. From both sides. They want a middle manager that will take it in the ass from them, then turn around and bend all of their subordinates over. I think they call it teamwork or something. Ahh, who can interpret all that manager-speak.
That's why I work at a small company. If I feel I'm being screwed, I can look directly into my bosses eyes and say, "You're fucking me motherfucker!", and see that he knows I know. At that point we've reached direct negotiability, which is impossible to acheive in the pass-the-fuck corporate heirarchy, because it's always the next guy up or down's fault (or 2 or 3 or 4 removed). The ability of corporate drones to adapt to this mass culture of responsibility avoidance is pretty scary if you ask me. If I was a visionary I wouldn't base my society on that principle, but that's just me..
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I don't care about it myself, but I see people saying that same thing all the time and invariably they get modded up rather than down. It's like they've figured out how to shame the moderators into modding them up when by all rights the moderators should have just yawned and moved on. I'm annoyed only because I see meta-redundant posts get 5, Insightful and wonder whether I should set my filter to -1 to see if I'm missing the good stuff or just quit reading
BTW, the rant I directed at you was really far more generally meant. I actually agreed with you to an extent. I just reacted to the flamebait thing cuz it's been annoying me for a while now. Not your fault. My bad.
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Dummy, id doesn't charge for the executables. They make them freely available. You can check for yourself, they call them point releases. They do charge for the data files, however, at least in so much as that's the part they don't freely distribute.
Get a clue, before you spew.
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They likely were all evicted and living huddled under their desks at Loki HQ surviving by picking crabs from each others dirty loins. Life can be lived really cheap when you don't have one.
Wow, that's funny... You predicted Flamebait, but your now sitting at 3, Interesting. Now that wasn't predictable, was it? Do you really think that anyone believes that you thought that the moderators would treat your completely unenlightening post any differently? Anybody who can read can see that posts expressing those same ideas are very hip on
I'm not saying that your point is not valid, but flamebait? Yeah, it was flamebait. As soon as you said, "I will probably get moderated as flamebait".
Just admit your karma whore nature and quit trying to scam the 13 yr olds.
Yeah, as an employer I'm always impressed by a potential employee's willingness to take it up the ass for me. I don't want intelligent employees that know how to judge a situation for what it is and make the RIGHT decision. Nah, my company will be much better off if all my employees are fools.
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Because you and your family end up starving and the Drakers make off with a fat retirement account. At least if you take that temporary job at taco bell, you can scam a little free food.
Of course, the fact that you still get to drive to your fantasy world every day and play with computers makes everything ok for your starved, dead infant and your turned-to-whoring wife.
That has to be the most long, boring, self-indulgent OS review I've ever only read part of. Jesus christ! I have shit to do.. Someone needs to put a brevity filter on this guy!
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I know this is offtopic, but I just can't help myself. The whole event is in bad taste. How many times a year do "artists" have to dress up in expensive gowns and give themselves meaningless awards. When was the last time a celebrity whore took time out to recognize your contributions to society? Uhh, never. Yet, you likely perform a valuable function within our society. The fact that these people can't just make some music and get the fuck over it is digusting to me. So, in closing, it was not in "bad taist" (your spelling) for this clone/whore to "plug his agenda" at an event like that. In fact, it was completely appropriate given the vile and disgusting nature of the event itself. For example, is it bad form for a dog to fuck when it's in heat? No. It's entirely natural. Should I care about it, or sit there watching it with rapt attention? Hell, no. I don't want to see two dogs fucking. And I don't want to see the Grammy Awards (or any of the other fifty-some-odd awards shows these whores use to pat themselves on the back).
Blah.
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As much as I may like to agree with you, unfortunately, it is my responsibility to inform you that nobody gives a flying fuck what YOU want.
Sorry, I just pulled the cosmic lottery ticket and the duty fell to me. No hard feelings, I act like a jackass, at times, myself. I'm sure you'll catch me saying something irrelevant and stupid within a week or two.
Cheers.
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Whatever, he's just enjoying the freedom of fair use. There's no reason to take him or his henchmen to jail. You see, on a percentage basis, most of the songs that were downloaded are likely copyrighted by RIAA member organizations, so it's as if he has bought all of those CD's and is downloading them merely to avoid the time consuming job of ripping them directly from CD. The small percentage of songs that member companies don't own the copyright to don't matter, because he's the CEO of the Grammy Awards. Taking him to court over each specific violated copyright would just be a "waste" of taxpayer money in court expenses. Because he's "important" he's allowed this sloppy mathematical perspective on the subject, whereas an unimportant average CITIZEN would likely have to answer to each specific charge from each specific copyright holder.
Sarcasm and cynicism aside, how is this really any different than a documentary in which marijuana growers openly admit to growing the shit and take the press on a tour of their operation. Somehow, these "criminals" get away with blatantly public exposure of their crimes, why shouldn't an idiot like this guy get away with it?
This is the re-evaluation that I suggest:
Forget Democrat and Republican labels. Take a close look at the way these people act and the way that they don't look after the best interests of the people they are supposed to be representing. When you look at them objectively with these things in mind, don't they all just resemble whores?
What's the difference between a whore that bullshits you about how good of a cocksucker she is and one that bullshits you about how tight her pussy is? They're both bullshitting whores.
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I'm fucking amazed. Despite the fact that you made very good points, you and the person who started this thread are both aparently too ignorant to realize that the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) has absolutely Jack Shit to do with music, radio, CD's and MP3's (well, except maybe for soundtracks). So, I just don't know what to do now. Looking past this ridiculous error and replacing all references, in my mind, to MPAA with the RIAA, I agree completely with what you have to say. But, some part of me just wants to completely write off everything you have to say because of that silly little error. I realize that you didn't start the mistake, but don't let the idiots fool you.
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I think I was referring to the situation described in the Ask Slashdot question, but whatever.
I agree with you. From the terms of the GPL, specifically the preferred clause, I would think that the company shouldn't be able to get away with doing what they are tryng to do. That doesn't mean that they won't, however. It sounds to me like there is enough ambiguity for a judge to call it either way according to his own preference. Even though to a programmer, this should be not at all ambigous.
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If they're too new to know which distro they should have, they should start with an easy one. They can always switch over to a different distro when they understand linux basics. My point, though, is that most newbs need something that they can get their feet wet with, like Mandrake or Red Hat (sure, Suse might be ok too). But, if they have to sit there and wait for three days while X and gnome compile, I doubt their first impression of linux will be very good. Not only that, they probably won't have the Linux command line knowledge to understand what the hell they're doing when installing something like sorcerer or gentoo. So, they aren't really learning much of anything until they end up with a broken system and just say Fuck This!
I don't know, that's just my opinion. I don't think newbs should go straight for an advanced distro. The idea is to get them to use Linux, not hate it.
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Uhh, no. He's talking about doing global find replace on the original source in order to make it hard to understand. It will still compile the same, and they can release it under the GPL.
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So, what you're saying is that the editors should make a permanent news story on the front page of
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It's really simple. Any Linux newbie should go with Mandrake or Red Hat for their first distro. They should buy the CD, so that they have install media and support options, in case they get stuck.
You don't give Slackware, Gentoo or Sorcerer to a newbie, because, though they can be ideal for an experienced user, the hassles associated with them will turn a newbie off of Linux.
There is no reason to consolidate the distros, just so that newbies don't have to wonder which distro to try first. If a newb can't figure out how to make that choice, then they aren't going to have much luck with Linux, IMO.
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Most DSL providers consider residential DSL a luxury service. It does not have gauranteed uptimes. However, they WILL give you credit on your bill for downtime, if you ask for it. They will not, however, reimburse you for any loses incurred by you due to downtime. I used to dow Verizon DSL tech support, so I've encountered this situation on countless occasions. Pushing the issue to try to get reimbursed for your lost wages is a lost cause. Your DSL provider, or at least its employees, will just laugh at you. And rightly so. If you are basing your livelihood on a $50 dollar a month residential broadband service, you deserve what you get.
If you make good money, call your provider and inquire about business class gauranteed uptime services. They will cost you a pretty penny, but the connection will likely not fail very often or at all, and you will have a case for reimbursement of lost wages if it does go down.
In other words, quit being a fscking amateur. Any professional in any field knows the value of paying for a quality set of tools, does your employer pay you to be an idiot?
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