Presumably it the reference in the dir name that is changed. Is it simply taken out or replaced.
If as you say the text had been changed so that the document still made sense well you could replace every occurance of the offending phrase with \random and it would make sense.
The smurf example in the first post is an extreme but you could probably have substitutes for all the offending words in their varying formats nouns, verbs etc and not destroy the grammer. But I think it would be impossible to not destroy the content unless you replaced lesbian porn with... well to be honest I can't imagine what they replaced that with to provide the same content using different words which didn't run to a line and a half.
In Ireland, AXA Insurance is testing a GPS gadget called Traksure. It continuously checks a car's speed and location, then compares that data with the local speed limit, obtained from digital maps. But Celldar might do the job more cheaply
The Traksure device is I presume able to identify for the insurance co which vehicle it is tracking. Unless there is a similar device in each vehicle the passive system would not really be able to tell which 98 Dodge utility is tearing down the highway at 120mph. Or more likely moving along the freeway in heavy traffic with other 98 Dodges. Is it me or Mr Terrorist.
You'd need a transponder of some kind to identify it for the system. You might as well get the Traksure. I'm sure the appropriate authorities have a way of interogating them from a distance without your knowledge or permission.
Ha Ha you fool. Its a passive radar system that uses reflections of cell radio waves to track you. I suspect a tin foil hat will be mandated headware under the Patriot Act in a few years.
The telcos make lots of money at the moment out of selling circuts for varying periods of time for voice calls. So every time you make a call to China you hire a circut for a short time and make your call.
The internet comes along and suddenly lots of circuts are open for extended periods for a single fee. In Australia it took a long time for Telstra to accept that internet data calls should not be charged on a time basis. They realized at last that if you're a telco that's OK if its a marginal exercise and you can add circuts into the core network to utilize capacity (even if you have to provide additional capacity it can still be profitable at the margin).
But now someone wants to move all traffic into the additional lines and leave your 'core' circut sales out of the equation. So before you would call China twice a day and it would cost you $1.00 for the call and 20c for the daily internet connection. Now with VOIP you get it all for 20c. The low income additional circuts have to pay for all network costs.
Even if you think telcos overcharge they will be reasonably upset if suddenly all their long distance calls go VOIP and they get no income from them but still have the same traffic volumes.
Does anyone think they will sit and watch it happen.
If the same percentages of buyers vs offenders applied we probably would.
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they want to have popular singles available on demand at a price they can afford
Dunno which radio stations you listen to but most seem to rotate popular stuff about every 20 mins. Singles or the CD equiivalent are still available aren't they if not at 99c at least at less than $15. That's all they would have heard on the radio. plus they get a few remixes and maybe a video clip.
Personally I download to set up playlists of stuff I wouldn't buy but would like to hear as background rather than the dreck that does make it to general radio. I still buy the stuff I always bought, music that is for the long term.
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You are confusing the RIAA (music) with the MPAA (movies).
I have a theory that the volume of abusive assholes is constant in any inebriated space and removal of identified mature inebriated assholes allows nascent inebriated assholes to fill the now vacant space.
So you will be no safer in the long run because you can't tell which immature inebriated asshole will fill the space at any given time. At least before you knew who the assholes were and you could watch them.
Remember that in reasonably competitive (free) markets, benefits that accrue to business owners tend to also benefit consumers.
Unless the per unit cost saving is immaterial like the say 3c per drink that might be saved so the price of a glass of water goes down from $4.00 to $3.97. I don't think so. Maybe they'll just give you more nuts.
Big Brother was written by Orwell when he was commenting solely on government power and the use of close surveilance of everyone (except the elite) to make the masses feel safe. The rationale was that as everyone was being watched Big Brother would see those intent on harm and protect all those innocents who went quietly about their daily business. Basically if you aren't doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about.
Gee, where have I heard that recently.
I have no doubt that if Orwell had addressed business in the same manner he would have written similar stories. As an anti-fascist he would have been well aware of the problem associated with the corporate state.
Any way over time the usage of the term Big Brother has expanded in common speech to include mass surveilance/control systems in general. For example the TV show of that name. I don't think people expect the house to be run by the government. So its use here is acceptable I think.
Does that sound like I know what the hell I'm talking about?
I always assumed that the inability to rip digital streams through the audio-in was because sound cards disable the 'digital' channels when they are asked to record a signal. They will play digital signals but not record them as digital. All the Creative cards tell you that in their install instructions. I assumed it was an industry wide practice. They actually say it's for DRM reasons.
I also assume there are professional cards that don't have this restriction.
that all file sharers who didn't register are obviously illegal. We gave everyone a chance to tell us if they were illegal and we only got 800 of them. They have been warned and given a chance to repent and now have no defence against our huge supoenas.
Of course we could find that those 800 plus the 260 supoenaed were wholly responsible for all the illegal fire sharing going on and the rest of us are in fact sharing open licenced product and band released bootlegs.
I doubt that I'll be laid off anytime soon because what I do can't be outsourced.
No such animal. Do you mean that if you died tonight your talent is not replaceable. If that is the case your boss is stupid for hiring you.
I also run a business on the side and I don't expect to lay myself off anytime soon.
But your customers might.
While the other guy might very well be a leech who spent all his money on pot and who expects the world to support him (though it's not obvious from his posts but you are very insightful so you could be right) you seem to have as strong an expectation that merely working hard in your own business should give you the right to chose who lives or dies.
I heard an interesting statistic recently. This is rough but about 25% of Americans think that they are in the top 5% economically and a further 25% think that one day they will be. If that's not a culture setting itself up for disappointment I don't know what is. Self belief is about the most over-rated emotion I know of. Good Luck cause that's the thing that determines success in the long run. And while you and your mates are going up and down the ladder don't piss off the majority who just go to work and pay their taxes and actually are the 'free market' environment that you shout about.
So the "liberal"e on the side of unrestricted competition.
This is getting confusing.
The taxes on energy's too high, so you can't afford A/Cs unless you are richIs that true or are you making it up. Most countries around the world don't use AC because they have designed their built enviormnment over thousands of years so they don't need AC. Heating in Winter is a problem but a couple of weeks of heat a year on average is not enough to want to spend a few thousand dollars on AC install irrespective of the cost.
And in any case the dead ones were old poor, not rich or even middle class. The same people who die in US heatwaves or cold snaps.
The problem with private health care is that as it becomes more expensive HMOs or Insurance companies (or in some countries, the Government) become more involved and at some stage (I believe it is very early in the process) there is a separation of the user of health services (the patient) from the buyer of health services (the HMO/Insurer/Govermnment).
Its at that point that thing start to break down as patients either over use the system knowingly or unknowingly and the buyer who is usually on a fixed income sees their costs blow out and starts to rein in available services.
Most government officials are known for giving preferred treatment to people with ties... I'm willing to bet that Joe will get the liver before John
If you live in a country where this is a real possibility I feel sorry for you. In most countries with a reasonable governmental system this would be a rare exception. Do not expect me to believe it is the general rule in the USA.
I am willing to give a hand to people who are in the bad situations due to circumstances out of their control (like being born disabled), I am against giving help to people who put themselves in a bad situation (like frying their brains due to drug use).
Luckily doctors tend to do the opposite and treat everyone the same way and then sort out the social problems later. I hope you are lucky enough to be in a position to be able to make that judgement in the emergency room on a saturday night when the body in front of you inconveniently doesn't have the "I'm a drug user" tag still attached or the police haven't had the foresight to tell you which of the two bodies was the perp and which was the victim.
Trading stocks with other stockholders doesn't give any money to the company
Couldn't be more wrong. The concept of a share market is based on trading in shares to allow investors to realize their investment without taking their money out of the company.
Consider the correct alternatives.
If I want to get out of Company X (assume I was in the IPO) I have two possible alternatives.
I can ask the company for the money back. Of course I will want to cash out the $1.00 which is the current value, not just the 10c I paid for the share. Then Company X has to go out and find someone like you to put more money in. And they will want the $1.00 per share that they are worth. Before stock markets this is what happened as a matter of course.
Now I only need to go to the exchange and sell you the share for $1.00 and the company doesn't get involved.
Do you not see that as the equivalent of the buyer putting their money into the company. After all if the aompany is liquidated the buyer expects to get the cash out. It's certainly not going to the IPO investor.
Same thing for Bonds.
That said, the best form of investing in a company is to purchase their product.
If you are going to talk about investing you should look up what it means. I cannot think of an example where buying something from someone else can be classified as an investment in the seller. It may be an investment of yours in the thing you purchased but not in the seller (not even colloquially)
Perhaps they paid for IP that SCO does in fact own. It may not relate to disputed Linux related IP. SCO does have other UNIX software that it has IP rights in and that it can licence, doesn't it? (That is a question,by the way, not a statement)
the inability of one company to deliver the service all the way to the doorstep of the consumer
In Australia we have one company and the problem is they have no need to deliver the service because no one else will.
They had competition in laying cable when a competitor began to put down a new network but as soon as the competitor stopped (because they ran out of money) Telstra stopped. So cable is laid to some areas but no more will ever be laid.
They have been dragged kicking and screaming into ADSL but continue to use Optical Fibre to RIM boxes in all new housing areas so making it a significant cost to upgrade later to ADSL capable services which they have just about stopped doing anyway. So if ypu live in an area that was built in the last 10 years or will be built in future, you probably won't ever be able to get ADSL.
Their latest idea is to drop costs of 2 channel ISDN to home users for internet access. They advertise it as an alternative to ADSL. Many suspect that it will officially be reclassified as broadband to allow Telstra to boast to regulators about broadband availability. And it might work. After all Sen Alston the Minister in charge of IT and telecoms has stated that he wasn't too concerned at the takeup in Korea cause after all it was only used for games and porn.
I suppose what I'm saying is that there are a lot of cry babies out there who cry over not being able to get all you can eat 1.5MB/sec plans for $10 a month and how unfair it is and I and millions of others have this much sympathy for them (holds thumb and index finger of right hand very close together and squints into the gap to see if light still shows through) and just wish they would shutup.
Let me get this straight. You want the IRS to decide on the creativity of a particular work. They might understnad creativity but from experience (I'm a tax adviser) they don't like it much. All we would get in the end would be Phil Collins soundalikes. And can you imagine the regulations.
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If as you say the text had been changed so that the document still made sense well you could replace every occurance of the offending phrase with \random and it would make sense.
The smurf example in the first post is an extreme but you could probably have substitutes for all the offending words in their varying formats nouns, verbs etc and not destroy the grammer. But I think it would be impossible to not destroy the content unless you replaced lesbian porn with ... well to be honest I can't imagine what they replaced that with to provide the same content using different words which didn't run to a line and a half.
The Traksure device is I presume able to identify for the insurance co which vehicle it is tracking. Unless there is a similar device in each vehicle the passive system would not really be able to tell which 98 Dodge utility is tearing down the highway at 120mph. Or more likely moving along the freeway in heavy traffic with other 98 Dodges. Is it me or Mr Terrorist.
You'd need a transponder of some kind to identify it for the system. You might as well get the Traksure. I'm sure the appropriate authorities have a way of interogating them from a distance without your knowledge or permission.
You didn't read the article at all did you.
Ha Ha you fool. Its a passive radar system that uses reflections of cell radio waves to track you. I suspect a tin foil hat will be mandated headware under the Patriot Act in a few years.
but that doesn't seem to stop them.
The internet comes along and suddenly lots of circuts are open for extended periods for a single fee. In Australia it took a long time for Telstra to accept that internet data calls should not be charged on a time basis. They realized at last that if you're a telco that's OK if its a marginal exercise and you can add circuts into the core network to utilize capacity (even if you have to provide additional capacity it can still be profitable at the margin).
But now someone wants to move all traffic into the additional lines and leave your 'core' circut sales out of the equation. So before you would call China twice a day and it would cost you $1.00 for the call and 20c for the daily internet connection. Now with VOIP you get it all for 20c. The low income additional circuts have to pay for all network costs.
Even if you think telcos overcharge they will be reasonably upset if suddenly all their long distance calls go VOIP and they get no income from them but still have the same traffic volumes.
Does anyone think they will sit and watch it happen.
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I'm sure something exploded.
Given that it has happened twice so far after they sold X million phones I'd worry more about lightning strikes if I was you.
Its a bit unfair to compare him to some Japanese chick he probably doesn't even know.
"For which one do I use da brooom, guys?"
If the same percentages of buyers vs offenders applied we probably would.
Dunno which radio stations you listen to but most seem to rotate popular stuff about every 20 mins. Singles or the CD equiivalent are still available aren't they if not at 99c at least at less than $15. That's all they would have heard on the radio. plus they get a few remixes and maybe a video clip.
Personally I download to set up playlists of stuff I wouldn't buy but would like to hear as background rather than the dreck that does make it to general radio. I still buy the stuff I always bought, music that is for the long term.
You are confusing the RIAA (music) with the MPAA (movies).
So you will be no safer in the long run because you can't tell which immature inebriated asshole will fill the space at any given time. At least before you knew who the assholes were and you could watch them.
Remember that in reasonably competitive (free) markets, benefits that accrue to business owners tend to also benefit consumers.
Unless the per unit cost saving is immaterial like the say 3c per drink that might be saved so the price of a glass of water goes down from $4.00 to $3.97. I don't think so. Maybe they'll just give you more nuts.
Gee, where have I heard that recently.
I have no doubt that if Orwell had addressed business in the same manner he would have written similar stories. As an anti-fascist he would have been well aware of the problem associated with the corporate state.
Any way over time the usage of the term Big Brother has expanded in common speech to include mass surveilance/control systems in general. For example the TV show of that name. I don't think people expect the house to be run by the government. So its use here is acceptable I think.
Does that sound like I know what the hell I'm talking about?
I also assume there are professional cards that don't have this restriction.
Of course we could find that those 800 plus the 260 supoenaed were wholly responsible for all the illegal fire sharing going on and the rest of us are in fact sharing open licenced product and band released bootlegs.
I know I am.
No such animal. Do you mean that if you died tonight your talent is not replaceable. If that is the case your boss is stupid for hiring you.
I also run a business on the side and I don't expect to lay myself off anytime soon.
But your customers might.
While the other guy might very well be a leech who spent all his money on pot and who expects the world to support him (though it's not obvious from his posts but you are very insightful so you could be right) you seem to have as strong an expectation that merely working hard in your own business should give you the right to chose who lives or dies.
I heard an interesting statistic recently. This is rough but about 25% of Americans think that they are in the top 5% economically and a further 25% think that one day they will be. If that's not a culture setting itself up for disappointment I don't know what is. Self belief is about the most over-rated emotion I know of. Good Luck cause that's the thing that determines success in the long run. And while you and your mates are going up and down the ladder don't piss off the majority who just go to work and pay their taxes and actually are the 'free market' environment that you shout about.
This is getting confusing.
The taxes on energy's too high, so you can't afford A/Cs unless you are richIs that true or are you making it up. Most countries around the world don't use AC because they have designed their built enviormnment over thousands of years so they don't need AC. Heating in Winter is a problem but a couple of weeks of heat a year on average is not enough to want to spend a few thousand dollars on AC install irrespective of the cost.
And in any case the dead ones were old poor, not rich or even middle class. The same people who die in US heatwaves or cold snaps.
Its at that point that thing start to break down as patients either over use the system knowingly or unknowingly and the buyer who is usually on a fixed income sees their costs blow out and starts to rein in available services.
Most government officials are known for giving preferred treatment to people with ties ... I'm willing to bet that Joe will get the liver before John
If you live in a country where this is a real possibility I feel sorry for you. In most countries with a reasonable governmental system this would be a rare exception. Do not expect me to believe it is the general rule in the USA.
I am willing to give a hand to people who are in the bad situations due to circumstances out of their control (like being born disabled), I am against giving help to people who put themselves in a bad situation (like frying their brains due to drug use).
Luckily doctors tend to do the opposite and treat everyone the same way and then sort out the social problems later. I hope you are lucky enough to be in a position to be able to make that judgement in the emergency room on a saturday night when the body in front of you inconveniently doesn't have the "I'm a drug user" tag still attached or the police haven't had the foresight to tell you which of the two bodies was the perp and which was the victim.
Couldn't be more wrong. The concept of a share market is based on trading in shares to allow investors to realize their investment without taking their money out of the company.
Consider the correct alternatives.
If I want to get out of Company X (assume I was in the IPO) I have two possible alternatives.
I can ask the company for the money back. Of course I will want to cash out the $1.00 which is the current value, not just the 10c I paid for the share. Then Company X has to go out and find someone like you to put more money in. And they will want the $1.00 per share that they are worth. Before stock markets this is what happened as a matter of course.
Now I only need to go to the exchange and sell you the share for $1.00 and the company doesn't get involved.
Do you not see that as the equivalent of the buyer putting their money into the company. After all if the aompany is liquidated the buyer expects to get the cash out. It's certainly not going to the IPO investor.
Same thing for Bonds.
That said, the best form of investing in a company is to purchase their product.
If you are going to talk about investing you should look up what it means. I cannot think of an example where buying something from someone else can be classified as an investment in the seller. It may be an investment of yours in the thing you purchased but not in the seller (not even colloquially)
Perhaps they paid for IP that SCO does in fact own. It may not relate to disputed Linux related IP. SCO does have other UNIX software that it has IP rights in and that it can licence, doesn't it? (That is a question ,by the way, not a statement)
In Australia we have one company and the problem is they have no need to deliver the service because no one else will.
They had competition in laying cable when a competitor began to put down a new network but as soon as the competitor stopped (because they ran out of money) Telstra stopped. So cable is laid to some areas but no more will ever be laid.
They have been dragged kicking and screaming into ADSL but continue to use Optical Fibre to RIM boxes in all new housing areas so making it a significant cost to upgrade later to ADSL capable services which they have just about stopped doing anyway. So if ypu live in an area that was built in the last 10 years or will be built in future, you probably won't ever be able to get ADSL.
Their latest idea is to drop costs of 2 channel ISDN to home users for internet access. They advertise it as an alternative to ADSL. Many suspect that it will officially be reclassified as broadband to allow Telstra to boast to regulators about broadband availability. And it might work. After all Sen Alston the Minister in charge of IT and telecoms has stated that he wasn't too concerned at the takeup in Korea cause after all it was only used for games and porn.
I suppose what I'm saying is that there are a lot of cry babies out there who cry over not being able to get all you can eat 1.5MB/sec plans for $10 a month and how unfair it is and I and millions of others have this much sympathy for them (holds thumb and index finger of right hand very close together and squints into the gap to see if light still shows through) and just wish they would shutup.
Let me get this straight. You want the IRS to decide on the creativity of a particular work. They might understnad creativity but from experience (I'm a tax adviser) they don't like it much. All we would get in the end would be Phil Collins soundalikes. And can you imagine the regulations.
Who the fuck are you, the RIAA?