The RIAA's days are numbered. They just had a movie premier hacked and released again. People who share contraband over the internet are morons anyway. If strangers can read your E-mail, they can probably devine the actual contents of anything else you send, too. The only truly secure crimimal activity is face-to-face, between people who can put each other in jail.
I always wondered if I was the only cool person who wondered what all the fuss over Anime was about. My kids have suggested titles, but after viewing them I still prefer circa. 1975 chop-socky films.
I had a similar problem with TurboTax 2002 last year. Guess which software I'll think about real hard before I buy it again? Fool me once, shame on me, etc., etc.
If one chooses a low-profile lifestyle, when the inevitable crash part of economic cycles comes around there's less injury falling off the bottom rung of the "social ladder."
Morality has nothing to do with this. Every choice has an outcome. Be prepared to live with the outcome of your choices and your life will always be simpler.
No recording of television programs. Oh dear. That means I would actually have to begin watching the "New Fall Lineup." But first I'd have to get my cable expanded to get some cable channels.
I am not enough of a compulsive nutcase to archive the garbage that is offered on my television. We watch DVD movies here. We listen to radio here. We listen to MP3's here. We read actual books here.
I do not believe not being allowed to archive television shows will have ANY effect on my life.
My wife and I BOTH dropped IE in favor of Mozilla about the same time as our cable internet service was hooked up. No pop-ups! Junk mail control! We couldn't wait for MS IE to get it's act together, and are extremely happy with our decision.
As a reminder of what we are missing, whenever Mr. Bill sends us an update notification, the default MS IE fires up to make the catch.
Does anyone remember the character Miller in 1984's "Repo Man?" In one scene, when he's talking to the Otto character, he says, "The more you drive, the less intelligent you are."
Dropping the commercials is not the answer. About four years ago, as a cost-cutting measure my wife and I dropped our cable access back to the ultra-basic service. Entire seasons have come and gone and we have not checked in to see any of the new programs. Eventually everything with sufficient episode count makes it into syndication on WGN or Oxygen or one of the local channels, so if I like I can see some of what I missed. I am usually underwhelmed. The serious crap simply disappears.
I took up my television viewing slacktime with reading and cable internet access. The extra cost was more than covered by dropping a telephone line we had been using for our dialup service. I am working on my wife to drop the other landline in favor of expanded cellphone service. Many of our younger friends have already done this.
About twenty years ago, on the "Joe's Garage" album liner notes, Frank Zappa opined that since most Americans were too stupid to actually be criminals, they would have to be tricked into performing criminal acts. Yowsah! Yowsah! Yowsah!
I have ripped about 200 albums from my collection of CD's. The tracks are all at 320kps, which, although it takes a huge amount of space to store, means they are unlikely to be confused with the 64kps crap that tends to prevail for file-sharing.
Also, ripping, instead of directly copying, allows a person to have the contents of more than one album on a single CD.
The main reason I chose to rip my albums, however, is that if my in-car music is stolen or damaged, I've lost approximately fifteen cents per disk.
If Mr. Bill only sold one copy of MS Office for the entire country, what difference does any of this make? Some people may believe there are useful programmer "back doors" hidden in the legitimate copies of the software for American intelligence agencies to exploit.
The IS people who failed to update their employer's computer's operating systems to protect them from the virus should be sacked. The people who failed to sack them should be sacked too! The moose is okay...leave the moose alone.
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The RIAA's days are numbered. They just had a movie premier hacked and released again. People who share contraband over the internet are morons anyway. If strangers can read your E-mail, they can probably devine the actual contents of anything else you send, too. The only truly secure crimimal activity is face-to-face, between people who can put each other in jail.
I always wondered if I was the only cool person who wondered what all the fuss over Anime was about. My kids have suggested titles, but after viewing them I still prefer circa. 1975 chop-socky films.
I had a similar problem with TurboTax 2002 last year. Guess which software I'll think about real hard before I buy it again? Fool me once, shame on me, etc., etc.
If one chooses a low-profile lifestyle, when the inevitable crash part of economic cycles comes around there's less injury falling off the bottom rung of the "social ladder." Morality has nothing to do with this. Every choice has an outcome. Be prepared to live with the outcome of your choices and your life will always be simpler.
No recording of television programs. Oh dear. That means I would actually have to begin watching the "New Fall Lineup." But first I'd have to get my cable expanded to get some cable channels.
I am not enough of a compulsive nutcase to archive the garbage that is offered on my television. We watch DVD movies here. We listen to radio here. We listen to MP3's here. We read actual books here.
I do not believe not being allowed to archive television shows will have ANY effect on my life.
My wife and I BOTH dropped IE in favor of Mozilla about the same time as our cable internet service was hooked up. No pop-ups! Junk mail control! We couldn't wait for MS IE to get it's act together, and are extremely happy with our decision.
As a reminder of what we are missing, whenever Mr. Bill sends us an update notification, the default MS IE fires up to make the catch.
If the numbers don't make any sense at all, chances are they are wrong!
If women did more drugs, played with guns, and drove fast drunk more often, pretty soon their mortality rates would be right up there!
Does anyone remember the character Miller in 1984's "Repo Man?" In one scene, when he's talking to the Otto character, he says, "The more you drive, the less intelligent you are."
Dropping the commercials is not the answer. About four years ago, as a cost-cutting measure my wife and I dropped our cable access back to the ultra-basic service. Entire seasons have come and gone and we have not checked in to see any of the new programs. Eventually everything with sufficient episode count makes it into syndication on WGN or Oxygen or one of the local channels, so if I like I can see some of what I missed. I am usually underwhelmed. The serious crap simply disappears. I took up my television viewing slacktime with reading and cable internet access. The extra cost was more than covered by dropping a telephone line we had been using for our dialup service. I am working on my wife to drop the other landline in favor of expanded cellphone service. Many of our younger friends have already done this.
Everyone already knows that AMD costs less and runs faster than anything WinIntel has or will ever field!
About twenty years ago, on the "Joe's Garage" album liner notes, Frank Zappa opined that since most Americans were too stupid to actually be criminals, they would have to be tricked into performing criminal acts. Yowsah! Yowsah! Yowsah!
I quit buying new CD's when I cancelled my cable TV hookup. Without MTV and VH1 to tell me what to buy, I'm lost!
How about: Every time you masturbate, God kills a sheep. Please think of the sheep.
I kept my trusty modem, just in case we have to go back to Dial-up Bulletin Boards!
I have ripped about 200 albums from my collection of CD's. The tracks are all at 320kps, which, although it takes a huge amount of space to store, means they are unlikely to be confused with the 64kps crap that tends to prevail for file-sharing. Also, ripping, instead of directly copying, allows a person to have the contents of more than one album on a single CD. The main reason I chose to rip my albums, however, is that if my in-car music is stolen or damaged, I've lost approximately fifteen cents per disk.
Your comments are dead-on. You have obviously put some serious time in the IS trenches.
If Mr. Bill only sold one copy of MS Office for the entire country, what difference does any of this make? Some people may believe there are useful programmer "back doors" hidden in the legitimate copies of the software for American intelligence agencies to exploit.
Cellphone number portability has a lot in common with health insurance portability. Neither one is going to happen.
Even with the lights out, the United States looks brighter from space than North Korea!
The IS people who failed to update their employer's computer's operating systems to protect them from the virus should be sacked. The people who failed to sack them should be sacked too! The moose is okay...leave the moose alone.
Why can't ceramic materials be used for heat sinks on motherboards?