Yeah, know what? I don't find most Thai women very attractive, either. Luckily, there are a few (non-hookers) and all those from chinese ancestry to choose from.
BTW if you really opt for a piracy free shop I commend you on that. Honest business is good business.
I live in Thailand (like the piracy capital). and when I tell other people that my business uses 100% licensed software, they just look at me like "why?"
They don't even find piracy offensive at all.
So, make a moving graph of the age of various downloads at that point in time and I think that you'll see that the top downloads are always new (less than a few years) and never old ( say, more than the original fourteen year copyright). Just because Kill Bill will only be downloaded for a short time doesn't mean that old stuff is downloaded more than new, just that Kill Bill will be replaced by something newer in a month or less. Use your brain.
Man, I love you!
I've said to these guys here and in a couple other stories, "Get some balls! If you don't like the law, disobey in such a way that brings public pain and suffering on yourself so that the general public can take one of the sides. Doing it in secret is only cowardly."
But noone listens to me, because they just want to justify getting free stuff.
Good thing is that, because I live in Thailand, I am used to this attitude, so it doesn't drive me bonkers.
I don't need to be clear on the intricacies of file sharing (which I don't do), because the original poster said that he was infringing copyright, but didn't care because the law was unfair. I am pointing out that he should either follow the law or protest. Simply breaking the law because he wants something is cowardly.
Fine. I don't even know what "leeching" is, so I wouldn't know the difference. Downloading these files is against the law, so I think people should do one of two things:
Follow the law, or
Disobey in a way which will call attention to the problem and lay themselves on the line for their beliefs.
You are so unbelievably wrong, not the slashbots. I will quote a previous post of mine:
Come to Thailand, and I will show you a land where university profs send their textbook to one of the ten photocopy places on campus or another ten just off campus to copy
the entire book for all 2-3000 students taking their intro classes. Unless the book is written by one of the profs, I have never seen the real schmeel in a student's hands. Never. Photocopying a Bash book from the library on campus is as easy as taking it to the library photocopier and asking them to do is for 50 satang (about 1.2 cents) per page. If they are too busy to do the whole thing, they'll send it out to one of the volume shops outside for you. You know not of what you speak...
Your analogy is flawed, because sharing a recipe would be more like giving someone the sheet music to a song (which, incidentally, is also a copyrighted work).
Both a recipe and sheet usic require something that a music file does not -- skill to turn it into something useful.
As a former chef, I'll tell you that most will give out a recipe if someone asks, simply because they make their living off of having the skill to make it better than you can and an atmosphere where you want to eat it.
Pressing a button on your player is not an equivalent.
To those stating civil disobediance, I think you are lying to cover your selfishness. When you get a demonstration together, announce in advance that you will be downloading music, invite the press, then get thrown in jail for your action, then I will change my mind, because this is what civil disobediance is used for -- to change the law by making an example of yourself. If you are downloading it for any other reason than this, you are not being civally disobediant, you are just ignoring the law to get what you want, and it's childish.
I know you're joking, but it depends on if you are in the Cambridge or Oxford camp, really.
Me, personaaly, I cringe at "syllabuses," but I'm not in the debate.
Can I comment from Thailand?
A typical CS college grad makes 7-9k Baht / month. That's about US$200. He'll be living with a friend or his parents, almost certainly. Within five years he'll add about fifty percent, then he's stuck forever.
He could make more selling food from a lunch cart in front of a textile factory (there's a joke hidden in there).
So, your $45k starting job is being offshored to a Thai who won't bitch and moan or give his bosses any lip (because he's greatful just to have a job) for $2.5k.
Or maybe five guys replace you. At that rate would it matter to the accountants?
Gay has many more meanings than just homosexuality, and, given the context, the sentence had nothing to do with homosexuality, so why are you upset again?
Now, if he'd said "That's so gay! Like kissing your brother." or something, maybe you'd have a point, but right now you only have a whine.
I know... I am not supporting MS Access, just stating the fact that, for very small businesses, it fills a niche. I would rather have an interface to an SQL DB, but that's not my original point.
But MySQL's very simplicity made it so small and fast that it quickly won over small users who wouldn't even understand what they were missing and how to use the fancy features offered by "real" database engines. In particular, MySQL proved ideal for the exploding area of dynamic Web content.
We can talk about this one for hours.
MySQL gets a lot of heat from the DBAs here (and probably with reason), but it's kind of like bashing MS Access -- it's useful enough for most small businesses.
I'm calling bullshit! (On the author, not you) He claims to have installed nine distros, then put into a VPC situation and dual boot. His list of distros include Gentoo. No way you can install sixteen distros PLUS Gentoo twice in two days.:)
Something's fishy! Why wouldn't he name the chipset, because I haven't had a problem with Intel sound for years.
BTW:
I can see where a new operating system might require new hardware, but why should a new operating system require old hardware? And if the hardware was to blame, how could XP handle it out of the box, with no special drivers or setup?
Windows has set people up to believe this. If I buy a new distro, I expect that old hardware (which used to work) will still work, plus some of the newer stuff. I also expect my system to run a little slower, but certainly NOT break.
Come to Thailand, and I will show you a land where university profs send their textbook to one of the ten photocopy places on campus or another ten just off campus to copy the entire book for all 2-3000 students taking their intro classes. Unless the book is written by one of the profs, I have never seen the real schmeel in a student's hands. Never.
Photocopying a Bash book from the library on campus is as easy as taking it to the library photocopier and asking them to do is for 50 satang (about 1.2 cents) per page. If they are too busy to do the whole thing, they'll send it out to one of the volume shops outside for you.
You know not of what you speak...
Well, sorry to rain on your parrade, but: if your most useful skill is that you can use a piss-poor tool (in this case the Unix CLI), then you're a has-been. Your prized skill is quickly going the way of such fine skills as hunting with a bow, or jousting.
You do realize that many members of Slashdot are also gold-card carrying members of SCA, don't you?
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Yeah, know what? I don't find most Thai women very attractive, either. Luckily, there are a few (non-hookers) and all those from chinese ancestry to choose from.
Yeah. Been looking for that, too. Any suggestions?
- Paypal is unusable;
- Many other online ordering service block my whole area;
- I have been unable to find a colo provider with php/mysql that will either accept my payment or allow FTP from SE Asia for their free account;
- Loxinfo (the largest ISP here, I believe) users cannot post to Slashdot stories.
Living in a country that is a home for spam relays, FTP assaults, whatever... makes life much more difficult online, though I do none of this.BTW if you really opt for a piracy free shop I commend you on that. Honest business is good business.
I live in Thailand (like the piracy capital). and when I tell other people that my business uses 100% licensed software, they just look at me like "why?"
They don't even find piracy offensive at all.
So, make a moving graph of the age of various downloads at that point in time and I think that you'll see that the top downloads are always new (less than a few years) and never old ( say, more than the original fourteen year copyright). Just because Kill Bill will only be downloaded for a short time doesn't mean that old stuff is downloaded more than new, just that Kill Bill will be replaced by something newer in a month or less. Use your brain.
Congrats! I think that you have just proved the parent's point to the letter.
Man, I love you!
I've said to these guys here and in a couple other stories, "Get some balls! If you don't like the law, disobey in such a way that brings public pain and suffering on yourself so that the general public can take one of the sides. Doing it in secret is only cowardly."
But noone listens to me, because they just want to justify getting free stuff.
Good thing is that, because I live in Thailand, I am used to this attitude, so it doesn't drive me bonkers.
I don't need to be clear on the intricacies of file sharing (which I don't do), because the original poster said that he was infringing copyright, but didn't care because the law was unfair. I am pointing out that he should either follow the law or protest. Simply breaking the law because he wants something is cowardly.
Your analogy is flawed, because sharing a recipe would be more like giving someone the sheet music to a song (which, incidentally, is also a copyrighted work).
Both a recipe and sheet usic require something that a music file does not -- skill to turn it into something useful.
As a former chef, I'll tell you that most will give out a recipe if someone asks, simply because they make their living off of having the skill to make it better than you can and an atmosphere where you want to eat it.
Pressing a button on your player is not an equivalent.
To those stating civil disobediance, I think you are lying to cover your selfishness. When you get a demonstration together, announce in advance that you will be downloading music, invite the press, then get thrown in jail for your action, then I will change my mind, because this is what civil disobediance is used for -- to change the law by making an example of yourself. If you are downloading it for any other reason than this, you are not being civally disobediant, you are just ignoring the law to get what you want, and it's childish.
I know you're joking, but it depends on if you are in the Cambridge or Oxford camp, really.
Me, personaaly, I cringe at "syllabuses," but I'm not in the debate.
Can I comment from Thailand?
A typical CS college grad makes 7-9k Baht / month. That's about US$200. He'll be living with a friend or his parents, almost certainly. Within five years he'll add about fifty percent, then he's stuck forever.
He could make more selling food from a lunch cart in front of a textile factory (there's a joke hidden in there).
So, your $45k starting job is being offshored to a Thai who won't bitch and moan or give his bosses any lip (because he's greatful just to have a job) for $2.5k.
Or maybe five guys replace you. At that rate would it matter to the accountants?
Gay has many more meanings than just homosexuality, and, given the context, the sentence had nothing to do with homosexuality, so why are you upset again?
Now, if he'd said "That's so gay! Like kissing your brother." or something, maybe you'd have a point, but right now you only have a whine.
I think that you added the "only" part yourself. I cetainly didn't mean it.
I know... I am not supporting MS Access, just stating the fact that, for very small businesses, it fills a niche. I would rather have an interface to an SQL DB, but that's not my original point.
MySQL gets a lot of heat from the DBAs here (and probably with reason), but it's kind of like bashing MS Access -- it's useful enough for most small businesses.
How long before the *AA starts suing ISP/Unis which don't implement this for lack of due diligence?
I am so confused because I have hundres of fonts for OO.o, and I didn't DO anything. WTH are you talking about? Specifics
Something's fishy! Why wouldn't he name the chipset, because I haven't had a problem with Intel sound for years.
BTW: Windows has set people up to believe this. If I buy a new distro, I expect that old hardware (which used to work) will still work, plus some of the newer stuff. I also expect my system to run a little slower, but certainly NOT break.
But wasn't Motif the "official" toolkit of Unix?
On Linux, Qt is in the unique position of being seen as one of the native APIs.
I thought that honor belonged solely to Motif...
It's me... I'm doing it all with my unlimited mod points (shh, don't tell the admins)
Come to Thailand, and I will show you a land where university profs send their textbook to one of the ten photocopy places on campus or another ten just off campus to copy the entire book for all 2-3000 students taking their intro classes. Unless the book is written by one of the profs, I have never seen the real schmeel in a student's hands. Never. Photocopying a Bash book from the library on campus is as easy as taking it to the library photocopier and asking them to do is for 50 satang (about 1.2 cents) per page. If they are too busy to do the whole thing, they'll send it out to one of the volume shops outside for you. You know not of what you speak...
Well, sorry to rain on your parrade, but: if your most useful skill is that you can use a piss-poor tool (in this case the Unix CLI), then you're a has-been. Your prized skill is quickly going the way of such fine skills as hunting with a bow, or jousting.
You do realize that many members of Slashdot are also gold-card carrying members of SCA, don't you?