The kind of control the other nations wants is control of content. Already the Chinese put up firewalls and the french ban things they dont like could you imagine if these countries got control of the internet? You see the nations behind this China, France, Cuba, Syria, South Africa, Brazil. With the exception of Brazil all of these nations are the epitomy of either tyranny or Politically correct ideologies.
While I would prefer an affirmative statement in favor of freedom of speech, I will settle for benign neglect.
The record industry still hasnt rapped its arms around paid download services...try finding one paid service that has ALL of the music companies collections. I dont mind PAYING for the songs if I can actually find them.
The right service would be one that has all the music companies collections and has a mix of paid and free song files.
Estonia was part of the Russian empire until 1918, it was independent from 1918 to 1940 when it was forcibly annexed by the Soviet Union, all along it has been an ethnically distinct region. Estonia had only been part of Russia for 200 years prior to 1710 it had been part of either Denmark, Poland or Sweden.
"From a science and technology perspective, the experience of developing and testing a manned spacecraft will be more important to China's space effort than anything that their astronauts can actually accomplish on the new spacecraft," the article stated. "This is because it will raise levels in areas such as computers, space materials, manufacturing technology, electronic equipment, systems integration and testing."
Network affiliates are the roadkill of the information superhighway. Once broadband reaches 25mbps there is no reason for a separate tv connection. The tv networks will become what UPN has already a dumping ground for tv viewers who are Old and poor.
The networks however have a saving grace, they can still outcompete itunes. People will happily accept commercials in their tv programs if they get the programs for FREE...history has already proven this.
There is no technical reason people cant simply download their favorite programs and watch them with commericals for free or commerical free for an additional fee.
This would actually free up networks ro produce programs audiences wanted instead of programs affiliates wanted...programs that could be targeted to niche audiences rather than lowest common denominator.
New releases costing more than classics is not a bad idea. When new songs are releases the number of downloads of increases and having an increased price provides money for faster downloads.
Calling the music people greedy doesnt change the issue. However instead of being kneejerk on the issue why dont we explore the idea.
What if new relases were $1.49 for the first couple months then dropped to 99 cents and classics(songs older than 5 years old) were 49 cents.
A lot of people would like to buy songs that are old and not in heavy demand replacing their collections.
What would Lawrence "Larry the liquidator" Garfield say about this.
"I bet 10 years ago there were dozens of dial-up companies...5 years from now there will only be one and I bet you it will be the best damn dial up company you ever saw...but would you want to be a shareholder in that company?"
This is not an aquisition to create a new internet behemoth, this is cannibalism. This is microsoft eating AOL getting its list of technophobes and little old grannies. Its Time Warner dumping AOL for as much money as it can get. The only worrysome part is Microsoft getting control of Netscape. I suspect we can get the feds to force Microsoft to sell off Netscapes trademarks and assets as a condition of sale and that SHOULD be Mozillas stand on the issue.
Im surprised the first amendment hasnt been invoked on this. The first amendment clearly supersedes copyright in the case of publications of a government owned entity.
Allowing the government to copyright government documents would make the public records laws meaningless because you couldnt disseminate them yourself.
Now the government could say "You are not allowed to sell government publications for profit, but you may freely distribute them and recoup the cost of publication." under the commerce clause.
We are not talking about a patent or an individuals copyright we are talking about a government publication made freely available to anyone who asks simply being redistributed in a more convenient form by a private citizen.
The reason why they dont have enough stem cells is because there is not enough umbilical cord stem cells for this purpose right now.
from NIH "Why not use adult stem cells instead of using human embryonic stem cells in research? Human embryonic stem cells are thought to have much greater developmental potential than adult stem cells. This means that embryonic stem cells may be pluripotent--that is, able to give rise to cells found in all tissues of the embryo except for germ cells rather than being merely multipotent--restricted to specific subpopulations of cell types, as adult stem cells are thought to be"
Instead of blindly trashing the telephone companies. Maybe we should remember their priority and mandate is to get basic telephone service back up for THEIR customers.
Grandma betty and Aunt Sue dont need a fancy wireless internet connection they need a phone line back up so they can call their other family and tell them they not dead.
quoting the article
"The best thing for us economically and the quickest thing from a customer service view is, if the lines are just down, put them back up," he said.
(DUH!)
"The company considered installing wireless broadband in rebuilding, Smith said, but it found that it could recover most of its fiber network. The technologies will be used eventually. "I'm a big fan of WiMax," he said."
(Clue for the clueless: Fiber is still better than wireless)
Bellsouth is a BIG company they think strategically not tactically. The most economical thing for them right now is simply restore their phone lines and their fiber networks. when they roll something out they do it en mass. They will be deploying 25mpbs service to all their customers within 3 years to provide both tv, phone service, and DSL over the same line.
As someone who made it through Hurricane Frances and Jean last year, Im glad bellsouth is on the job. I never lost my DSL service even though I lost my cable for 12 days and many of my neighbors lost power for 2 weeks.
Schiavo Status - Something kept technically alive far past the point of its practical death.
Getting Schiavoed- Someone whos job has been eliminated for practical purposes but is kept on the payroll in a meaningless position.
Americans feel guilty about crap they shouldnt...
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and feel fine about the stuff they should feel guilty over.
If truman had the atomic bomb and reasonably believed using this weapon would end the war and would save a million lives he had a DUTY to use it even if the civilian cost was terrible.
If the critics can play monday morning quarterback then so can I. The use of the atomic bomb in the real world as opposed to just tests allowed the world to see how horrible it was and so far has ensured only two have been used in the last 60 years.
If Americans want to feel guilty over something, feel guilty about your SUV's helping to fund terrorism through oil money. we should feel guilty that we have allowed our constitution to be gutted in the name of safety. We should feel guilty that we sent american soldiers over to die in iraq without demanding verifiable proof from their commander in chief for the reasons for going. Theres plenty of things we can feel guilty about without accepting undesserved blame
Anyone who distributes or contributes to GPL software on a commercial basis agrees to submit to binding arbitration on any issue relating to intellectual property of software issued under this license. If they do not submit to binding arbitration their license to distribute or sell the GPL based product in question is revoked.
I would not be buying a lightsaber...but then again The people who created "All in the family" DONATED Archies chair to the smithsonian.
Maybe I expected more out of billionaire George Lucas than a rummage sale on cultural icons...then again considering what he did with the Special editions of Episodes IV-VI and what he did with Episodes I-III I shouldnt be surprised.
In contrast the original LARGE USS Enterprise model from the tv series is in the smithsonian. In case you are curious
Its not a treaty, it is a stated cornerstone of US foreign policy. The United States does not allow European powers to gain new colonies in the Americas. If any European power feels ready to go head to head with the US armed forces...feel free to try.
Lets put it this way, I oppose the war in Iraq but I have no problem with the US enforcing its monroe doctrine and if that includes the US supporting independence for Greenland from Denmark to settle the matter I have no problem with that either.
As for Napoleon III we DID Care... in 1863 however we were a little busy with something called the American Civil War. A mere year and half after the civil war ended, Napoleons little puppet was executed.
The territory was unclaimed prior to 1985, Allowing a European nation (denmark) to effectively claim new territory in waters of North America violates the Monroe Doctrine. While Canada is not a very good claimant its the only claimant that is compatible with US interests. If Greenland were independent it wouldnt be an issue, but I dont like the idea of Canada being forced to cede territory in North America to the EU(denmark).
not that it never has problems. The firefox community should NEVER sell firefox as permanently problem-free, but instead a much more solid foundation that has FAR FEWER PROBLEMS and those GET FIXED QUICKLY as opposed to Microsoft which fixes things patchwork instead of addressing the problem as a whole like firefox did!
Ok say he stopped using mozilla three years ago(thats more than two).
Three years ago,
firefox DID NOT EXIST, Mozilla was at version 1.0! Netscape was at the tail end of the Netscape 6.X fiasco that nearly killed off Netscape based browsers
In 2005
Firefox is at 1.06 Mozilla has been retired for almost a year after version 1.78 and Netscape is at verion 8
The guy is not biased, bias would imply he knows what hes talking about but slants the facts in one direction. The reviewer is a moron who doesnt bother to research.
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In a word- No
The kind of control the other nations wants is control of content. Already the Chinese put up firewalls
and the french ban things they dont like could you imagine if these countries got control of the internet?
You see the nations behind this China, France, Cuba, Syria, South Africa, Brazil. With the exception of Brazil all of these nations are the epitomy of either tyranny or Politically correct ideologies.
While I would prefer an affirmative statement in favor of freedom of speech, I will settle for benign neglect.
The record industry still hasnt rapped its arms around paid download services...try finding one paid service that has ALL of the music companies collections. I dont mind PAYING for the songs if I can actually find them.
The right service would be one that has all the music companies collections and has a mix of paid and free song files.
The company that brought this suit forward should be countersued into bankruptcy
and its officers sued under the RICO act.
Estonia was part of the Russian empire until 1918, it was independent from 1918 to 1940 when it was forcibly annexed by the Soviet Union, all along it has been an ethnically distinct region. Estonia had only been part of Russia for 200 years prior to 1710 it had been part of either Denmark, Poland or Sweden.
It was never an ethnically Russian area.
Why do the chinese understand this and we dont
"From a science and technology perspective, the experience of developing and testing a manned spacecraft will be more important to China's space effort than anything that their astronauts can actually accomplish on the new spacecraft," the article stated. "This is because it will raise levels in areas such as computers, space materials, manufacturing technology, electronic equipment, systems integration and testing."
Network affiliates are the roadkill of the information superhighway.
Once broadband reaches 25mbps there is no reason for a separate tv connection.
The tv networks will become what UPN has already a dumping ground for
tv viewers who are Old and poor.
The networks however have a saving grace, they can still outcompete
itunes. People will happily accept commercials in their tv programs
if they get the programs for FREE...history has already proven this.
There is no technical reason people cant simply download their favorite
programs and watch them with commericals for free or commerical free
for an additional fee.
This would actually free up networks ro produce programs audiences wanted
instead of programs affiliates wanted...programs that could be targeted
to niche audiences rather than lowest common denominator.
New releases costing more than classics is not a bad idea.
When new songs are releases the number of downloads of increases
and having an increased price provides money for faster downloads.
Calling the music people greedy doesnt change the issue.
However instead of being kneejerk on the issue why dont
we explore the idea.
What if new relases were $1.49 for the first couple months
then dropped to 99 cents and classics(songs older than 5 years old)
were 49 cents.
A lot of people would like to buy songs that are old and not in heavy
demand replacing their collections.
What would Lawrence "Larry the liquidator" Garfield say about this.
"I bet 10 years ago there were dozens of dial-up companies...5 years from now there will only be one
and I bet you it will be the best damn dial up company you ever saw...but would you want to be a shareholder in that company?"
This is not an aquisition to create a new internet behemoth, this is cannibalism. This is microsoft eating AOL getting its list of technophobes and little old grannies. Its Time Warner dumping AOL for as much money as it can get. The only worrysome part is Microsoft getting control of Netscape. I suspect we can get the feds to force Microsoft to sell off Netscapes trademarks and assets as a condition of sale and that SHOULD be Mozillas stand on the issue.
Anyone else have a problem with this?
Im surprised the first amendment hasnt been invoked
on this. The first amendment clearly supersedes copyright
in the case of publications of a government owned entity.
Allowing the government to copyright government documents
would make the public records laws meaningless because you
couldnt disseminate them yourself.
Now the government could say "You are not allowed to sell government
publications for profit, but you may freely distribute them and recoup
the cost of publication." under the commerce clause.
We are not talking about a patent or an individuals copyright we are talking
about a government publication made freely available to anyone who asks
simply being redistributed in a more convenient form by a private citizen.
The reason why they dont have enough stem cells is because there is not enough umbilical cord stem cells for this purpose right now.
from NIH
"Why not use adult stem cells instead of using human embryonic stem cells in research?
Human embryonic stem cells are thought to have much greater developmental potential than adult stem cells. This means that embryonic stem cells may be pluripotent--that is, able to give rise to cells found in all tissues of the embryo except for germ cells rather than being merely multipotent--restricted to specific subpopulations of cell types, as adult stem cells are thought to be"
Instead of blindly trashing the telephone companies. Maybe we should remember their priority and mandate is to get basic telephone service back up for THEIR customers.
Grandma betty and Aunt Sue dont need a fancy wireless internet connection they need a phone line back up so they can call their other family and tell them they not dead.
quoting the article
"The best thing for us economically and the quickest thing from a customer service view is, if the lines are just down, put them back up," he said.
(DUH!)
"The company considered installing wireless broadband in rebuilding, Smith said, but it found that it could recover most of its fiber network. The technologies will be used eventually. "I'm a big fan of WiMax," he said."
(Clue for the clueless: Fiber is still better than wireless)
Bellsouth is a BIG company they think strategically not tactically. The most economical thing for them right now is simply restore their phone lines and their fiber networks. when they roll something out they do it en mass. They will be deploying 25mpbs service to all their customers within 3 years to provide both tv, phone service, and DSL over the same line.
As someone who made it through Hurricane Frances and Jean last year, Im glad bellsouth is on the job. I never lost my DSL service even though I lost my cable for 12 days and many of my neighbors lost power for 2 weeks.
Schiavo Status - Something kept technically alive far past the point of its practical death.
Getting Schiavoed- Someone whos job has been eliminated for practical purposes but is kept on the payroll in a meaningless position.
and feel fine about the stuff they should feel guilty over.
If truman had the atomic bomb and reasonably believed using this weapon would end the war and would save a million lives he had a DUTY to use it even if the civilian cost was terrible.
If the critics can play monday morning quarterback then so can I. The use of the atomic bomb in the real world as opposed to just tests allowed the world to see how horrible it was and so far has ensured only two have been used in the last 60 years.
If Americans want to feel guilty over something, feel guilty about your SUV's helping to fund terrorism through oil money. we should feel guilty that we have allowed our constitution to be gutted in the name of safety. We should feel guilty that we sent american soldiers over to die in iraq without demanding verifiable proof from their commander in chief for the reasons for going. Theres plenty of things we can feel guilty about without accepting undesserved blame
bittorrent bandwidth on my computer...sure I would.
I wouldnt do it 24 hours a day...but i could leave it on when Im not there.
They dont have to pay me just give me something
of value.
Anyone who distributes or contributes to GPL software on a commercial basis agrees to submit to binding arbitration on any issue relating to intellectual property of software issued under this license. If they do not submit to binding arbitration their license to distribute or sell the GPL based product in question is revoked.
I would not be buying a lightsaber...but then again
The people who created "All in the family" DONATED Archies chair to the smithsonian.
Maybe I expected more out of billionaire George Lucas than a rummage sale on cultural icons...then again considering what he did with the Special editions of Episodes IV-VI and what he did with Episodes I-III I shouldnt be surprised.
In contrast the original LARGE USS Enterprise model from the tv series is in the smithsonian.
In case you are curious
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/where/phaser.htm
A cultural icon like that not in the smithsonian?!?
It surely belongs in the smithsonian as much as Archie Bunkers chair.
Its not a treaty, it is a stated cornerstone of US foreign policy. The United States does not allow European powers to gain new colonies in the Americas. If any European power feels ready to go head to head with the US armed forces...feel free to try.
Lets put it this way, I oppose the war in Iraq but I have no problem with the US enforcing its monroe doctrine and if that includes the US supporting independence for Greenland from Denmark to settle the matter I have no problem with that either.
As for Napoleon III we DID Care... in 1863 however we were a little busy with something called the American Civil War. A mere year and half after the civil war ended, Napoleons little puppet was executed.
The territory was unclaimed prior to 1985,
Allowing a European nation (denmark) to effectively claim new territory in waters of North America violates the Monroe Doctrine. While Canada is not a very good claimant its the only claimant that is compatible with US interests. If Greenland were independent it wouldnt be an issue, but I dont like the idea of Canada being forced to cede territory in North America to the EU(denmark).
not that it never has problems. The firefox community should NEVER sell firefox as permanently problem-free, but instead a much more solid foundation that has FAR FEWER PROBLEMS and those GET FIXED QUICKLY as opposed to Microsoft which fixes things patchwork instead of addressing the problem as a whole like firefox did!
Ok say he stopped using mozilla three years ago(thats more than two).
Three years ago,
firefox DID NOT EXIST,
Mozilla was at version 1.0!
Netscape was at the tail end of the Netscape
6.X fiasco that nearly killed off Netscape based browsers
In 2005
Firefox is at 1.06
Mozilla has been retired for almost a year after version 1.78
and Netscape is at verion 8
The guy is not biased, bias would imply he knows what hes talking about but slants the facts in one direction. The reviewer is a moron who doesnt bother to research.
Theres far less distribution and packaging cost, the record companies dont even handle the servers for downloading.
Were not getting all the goodies that come with a CD so why should we have to pay $9.99 for a downloaded album?
If the downloaded albums were cheaper Id take a chance on groups ive never heard of.
or any landing where all seven astronauts walk away from it.
$100 to have 2gb set aside for ultrafast swap and 2gb set aside to load games into SS memory.
You would really be on to something :)