Ironically, I once was a "MacAddict" subscriber and worked at 2 companies that switched FROM mac to PC back in the late 90s when Apple was almost driven into the ground by Gil Amelio and the worst iOS versions (7-8) ever. The trauma of those days has made me anti-Apple forever.
Linux on the other hand is the only OS I would ever use on a server (was a slackware guy but moved to Fedora) but could never become attached to it on the desktop side.
First, in this economy, 2% in this economy IS mind-blowing. I know as a musician you might not follow the financial news but even 2% decline would be seen as good news for some businesses.
Are you seriously blaming piracy for your industries inability to adapt to a changing marketplace? Guess what - most people have no problem with paying for music but the industry, instead of adapting quickly, took YEARS to react and when they did it was to squelch digital formats instead of embrace them.
Some can even argue that people who pirate music probably wouldn't even have bought it in the first place - at least not a full CD. Back before mp3s I can think of plenty of songs I liked that I didn't buy because I didn't want the whole CD so I just never got the song. Now I wouldn't hesitate to just buy that song so you are actually getting MORE money than you would have before.
Shouldn't the question be why should I switch? It works and it's easy to use. It's like asking what would it take me to switch to hopping on one leg while rubbing my belly instead of just walking.
I denounced government bailouts? I don't remember saying that or commenting on the bailouts at all. The bailouts were a necessary evil and things would have been far worse without them.
The problem is I have no control over the corporations and never will. Our only hope is to create a big enough stink that the politicians realize that their constituency, the ones that vote them in, are pissed. Corporations right now have no incentive to be anything but greedy. There was a time many decades ago when if a business acted "evil" you could vote with your dollar and move your business but because of massive mergers and consolidation in the market all that's left is choosing between evils.
For example, try buying a cell phone without supporting some evil megalithic company. It's just not possible.
And what's your point? You think that just because they "ARE" the economy they can't self-destruct and take us with them? The problem is when they self-destruct the captains don't go down with the ship. Do you really think Corzine is going to have problems paying his mortgage after driving MF Global into the ground? Or Richard Fuld from Lehman Brothers?
Unless you are one of those obscenely overpaid executives I don't understand why you would ever take their side.
The you tell me what the third choice is. You let the corporations rule and enslave the world or you let a flawed government (pretty much controlled by the corporations) that is theoretically overthrown every 4 years or so try to rule and enslave the world.
The problem isn't government but the lack of qualified people to run it.
How about the House Speaker Boehner? Considering he is the highest ranking Republican I would think his letter to the Presiddent would count as Republicans in general complaining.
Just goes to show you that lawyers don't know everything then. Either way it is a highly debatable topic. If you get away from the opinions on legality, though, you can't argue against the morality of it. It is ironic, though, that Republicans of all people would complain about getting involved in a war.
You can't seriously believe anything you said. Obama an elitist snob? He is probably the most approachable president we've had since Carter. I can easily see sitting down and having a beer and talking sports with Obama.
And he cares a lot more about the poor than anybody running for the Republicans right now who want to tax them more and the wealthy less.
He is right about the guns, religion, and xenophobia (and I would add homophobia). These are people screwed and lied to for years and because their education system is so horribly flawed they are clinging to what they know and the Republicans are capitalizing on that while having no intention of fixing it.
Except, of course, that this isn't covered by the War Powers Act because it was a peace-keeping operation under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter which was ratified in Congress over 60 years ago:
"All Members of the United Nations, in order to contribute to the maintenance of international peace and security, undertake to make available to the Security Council, on its call and in accordance with a special agreement or agreements, armed forces, assistance, and facilities, including rights of passage, necessary for the purpose of maintaining international peace and security."
He got a 1206 on his SAT's. That doesn't make him bright but pretty much average - even I scored higher. He went to Yale and Harvard because of who his father was and we have no evidence of how much work he really did while there.
Of course, it is possible that he intentionally played dumb to be more attractive to his illiterate constituency. Some say the same thing about Sarah Palin. If you want dumb people to vote for you then you have to relate to them on their level.
You do realize that the President isn't the one wasting his time writing legislation like this. Nor was he the one wasting time voting to reaffirm that "In God we Trust" is our national motto or that the mint should print Baseball Hall of Fame coins.
Right now he's the only one making any attempt at fixing anything with the limited powers he has. Even if you don't agree with what he is doing at least he is DOING something.
I did read the post and I don't agree that they are purporting in any way to be an official reseller. You can be a reseller without being "official" or "authorized". Those are special terms reserved for companies that make special bulk agreements with a vendor. I did not see that claim made anywhere on the Russian site.
The Raspberry Pi people are overreacting and the only thing they have legal recourse against is the unauthorized use of copyrighted images.
I read the whole site and nothing there made it sound official. They said they are a Russian community around the Raspberry pi project and were taking pre-orders for the product (although the page has since taken that down). They never called themselves "authorized" or "official" resellers. They were just plain old resellers.
Based on your definition pretty much everybody company in the world that doesn't manufacturer a product themselves is fraudulent.
They don't have to prove anything right now. They said they expect sales to begin by the end of 2011 so if they fail to deliver AND fail to refund your money then it is up to the buyers to go after them.
Facebook is far more entrenched in a more diverse population than MySpace or Geocities every were. It will likely be a while before it is replaced - longer than the terms of this contract at least.
- No trademark - means screwed all around. They have no case (except for copyrights on images/icons/logos as mentioned above).
- Trademark but on different business segment. If raspberrypi.ru was selling raspberry cupcakes shaped like a pi symbol then there is no recourse to the American company.
- Trademark on the same business segment. Then the domain name issue is irrelevant. It's a trademark violation and good luck enforcing it in Russia. Your only hope is that the hosting company is in the US.
You can't prove any of that at this point, though. They said they issued a take down but I am questioning on what basis. If they didn't register a trademark then they really have no thing to go on.
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Then how does that fit in with AppleTV?
Ironically, I once was a "MacAddict" subscriber and worked at 2 companies that switched FROM mac to PC back in the late 90s when Apple was almost driven into the ground by Gil Amelio and the worst iOS versions (7-8) ever. The trauma of those days has made me anti-Apple forever.
Linux on the other hand is the only OS I would ever use on a server (was a slackware guy but moved to Fedora) but could never become attached to it on the desktop side.
First, in this economy, 2% in this economy IS mind-blowing. I know as a musician you might not follow the financial news but even 2% decline would be seen as good news for some businesses.
Are you seriously blaming piracy for your industries inability to adapt to a changing marketplace? Guess what - most people have no problem with paying for music but the industry, instead of adapting quickly, took YEARS to react and when they did it was to squelch digital formats instead of embrace them.
Some can even argue that people who pirate music probably wouldn't even have bought it in the first place - at least not a full CD. Back before mp3s I can think of plenty of songs I liked that I didn't buy because I didn't want the whole CD so I just never got the song. Now I wouldn't hesitate to just buy that song so you are actually getting MORE money than you would have before.
Shouldn't the question be why should I switch? It works and it's easy to use. It's like asking what would it take me to switch to hopping on one leg while rubbing my belly instead of just walking.
I denounced government bailouts? I don't remember saying that or commenting on the bailouts at all. The bailouts were a necessary evil and things would have been far worse without them.
The problem is I have no control over the corporations and never will. Our only hope is to create a big enough stink that the politicians realize that their constituency, the ones that vote them in, are pissed. Corporations right now have no incentive to be anything but greedy. There was a time many decades ago when if a business acted "evil" you could vote with your dollar and move your business but because of massive mergers and consolidation in the market all that's left is choosing between evils.
For example, try buying a cell phone without supporting some evil megalithic company. It's just not possible.
Different level of regulation. Government regulates companies from regulating their traffic.
And what's your point? You think that just because they "ARE" the economy they can't self-destruct and take us with them? The problem is when they self-destruct the captains don't go down with the ship. Do you really think Corzine is going to have problems paying his mortgage after driving MF Global into the ground? Or Richard Fuld from Lehman Brothers?
Unless you are one of those obscenely overpaid executives I don't understand why you would ever take their side.
The you tell me what the third choice is. You let the corporations rule and enslave the world or you let a flawed government (pretty much controlled by the corporations) that is theoretically overthrown every 4 years or so try to rule and enslave the world.
The problem isn't government but the lack of qualified people to run it.
Some despite the fact that private companies have pretty much destroyed our economy you are ok with them controlling the internet, too?
How about the House Speaker Boehner? Considering he is the highest ranking Republican I would think his letter to the Presiddent would count as Republicans in general complaining.
Just goes to show you that lawyers don't know everything then. Either way it is a highly debatable topic. If you get away from the opinions on legality, though, you can't argue against the morality of it. It is ironic, though, that Republicans of all people would complain about getting involved in a war.
This is a law originating from Congress... Even if the President vetoes it they can still override it with a large enough majority.
You can't seriously believe anything you said. Obama an elitist snob? He is probably the most approachable president we've had since Carter. I can easily see sitting down and having a beer and talking sports with Obama.
And he cares a lot more about the poor than anybody running for the Republicans right now who want to tax them more and the wealthy less.
He is right about the guns, religion, and xenophobia (and I would add homophobia). These are people screwed and lied to for years and because their education system is so horribly flawed they are clinging to what they know and the Republicans are capitalizing on that while having no intention of fixing it.
Except, of course, that this isn't covered by the War Powers Act because it was a peace-keeping operation under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter which was ratified in Congress over 60 years ago:
"All Members of the United Nations, in order to contribute to the maintenance of international peace and security, undertake to make available to the Security Council, on its call and in accordance with a special agreement or agreements, armed forces, assistance, and facilities, including rights of passage, necessary for the purpose of maintaining international peace and security."
He got a 1206 on his SAT's. That doesn't make him bright but pretty much average - even I scored higher. He went to Yale and Harvard because of who his father was and we have no evidence of how much work he really did while there.
Of course, it is possible that he intentionally played dumb to be more attractive to his illiterate constituency. Some say the same thing about Sarah Palin. If you want dumb people to vote for you then you have to relate to them on their level.
You do realize that the President isn't the one wasting his time writing legislation like this. Nor was he the one wasting time voting to reaffirm that "In God we Trust" is our national motto or that the mint should print Baseball Hall of Fame coins.
Right now he's the only one making any attempt at fixing anything with the limited powers he has. Even if you don't agree with what he is doing at least he is DOING something.
I did read the post and I don't agree that they are purporting in any way to be an official reseller. You can be a reseller without being "official" or "authorized". Those are special terms reserved for companies that make special bulk agreements with a vendor. I did not see that claim made anywhere on the Russian site.
The Raspberry Pi people are overreacting and the only thing they have legal recourse against is the unauthorized use of copyrighted images.
I read the whole site and nothing there made it sound official. They said they are a Russian community around the Raspberry pi project and were taking pre-orders for the product (although the page has since taken that down). They never called themselves "authorized" or "official" resellers. They were just plain old resellers.
Based on your definition pretty much everybody company in the world that doesn't manufacturer a product themselves is fraudulent.
What fraud are they committing? I don't see them claiming they are official resellers.
They don't have to prove anything right now. They said they expect sales to begin by the end of 2011 so if they fail to deliver AND fail to refund your money then it is up to the buyers to go after them.
Facebook is far more entrenched in a more diverse population than MySpace or Geocities every were. It will likely be a while before it is replaced - longer than the terms of this contract at least.
There are a couple of scenarios:
- No trademark - means screwed all around. They have no case (except for copyrights on images/icons/logos as mentioned above).
- Trademark but on different business segment. If raspberrypi.ru was selling raspberry cupcakes shaped like a pi symbol then there is no recourse to the American company.
- Trademark on the same business segment. Then the domain name issue is irrelevant. It's a trademark violation and good luck enforcing it in Russia. Your only hope is that the hosting company is in the US.
Yes the raspberry icon would violate their copyright but they could get a C&D on that icon only - not on taking down the entire site.
You can't prove any of that at this point, though. They said they issued a take down but I am questioning on what basis. If they didn't register a trademark then they really have no thing to go on.
Did they register a trademark? I didn't see one on TESS. Not that that would really help them in Russia anyway.