What use a forum when newsgroups would have worked perfectly fine!
Would have worked if they had solved the spammer/flamer/lamer problems that come with an un-moderated system like Usenet.
Most forums that I have seen are readable and searchable without the need to register or log in. And the forum admins generally do a good job keeping things relevant and on-topic, making it nthat much easier to find the answer I am looking for.
Sounds like the same business model that has companies shutting down manufacturing capacity, and hiring more sales and marketing, showing amazing profits for a few months, then crashing and burning when they discover that the warehouse is empty.
Of course no MBA would ever do that, would they???
A manager can certainly make a difference in how a team bonds, and for those managers I have three magic words: "during office hours".
How timely.
Last month, our GM had scheduled for the whole office to go to an afternoon baseball game on a Thursday. Unfortunately it got re-scheduled due to the game being rained out. No biggie, it happens.
The re-scheduled event is today, we're going to a football game. In the evening. A friday evening. Staff only.
I think less than half of the staff are going, as opposed to near 100% who had signed up for the baseball game.
The reasoning behind the Canadian content rules for radio goes something like this:
If we don't do something to give our homegrown musicians some help being heard over the noise coming from south of the border, then they'll all starve.
Or something like that.
Back when these rules came in, there was no Canadian music industry. only Canadian branches of American music companies. Their job wasn't A&R. They were strictly about promoting the artists that they already had signed. All the A&R was happening in New York, California, Nashville, and Memphis.
The government decided that if Canadians were ever going to be able to be professional musicians, then they needed a bit of help getting heard.
Given the long list of Canadian artists this thread is listing, it seems to have worked.
Ok, mod me down for this if you will, but why not just vote with your feet and go to a different ISP?
At one point there were several ISPs where I live, but most of them were bought up and killed off by the incumbent telco.
There are now 2 high-speed (cable, dominant telco DSL) options, and one (iirc) dial up ISP remaining (with a couple of sock puppet Dial-up ISPs that belong to the telco).
If 2 huge faceless corporations decide to use this sort of proxy, then we're SOL for voting with our feet around here.
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It means a browser that reads a different cookies file from your hard drive.
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I'm moving to a new ISP since my current one has started blocking port 25 in and out.
Isn't this exactly the sort of anti-spam_zombie policy that has been promoted around/. forever? Shaw's TOS has always said that standard home user internet isn't allowed to run servers. (they have a SOHO package that does permit servers)
They start enforcing their TOS, and doing the 'net (not to mention their own upstream bandwidth) a favor by reducing the impact of spam-bots and people start complaining. Strange.
I think you are missing the point here. All of the taxes you mentioned are different kinds of taxes for different purposes. Fuel taxes in many states are used for transportation costs like road maintenance and public transportation (which in theory reduces traffic).
That's all well and good, in theory
In practice, most taxes just get dumped into "general revenue" and get spent on whatever the government's current priority is, rather than for what the original intent of the tax was.
Fortunately, there are still several good tab sites operating in locations where trade cartels whose name includes the word "America" have little influence. And they have the libraries of many of the sites who have been bullied into oblivion, in addition to many recent additions.
We do not excuse - but we must understand.
Nobody fucking understands the difference anymore, and it's made us retarded. If you even imply that the terrorists are not completely insane, completely evil, and driven by nothing less than the demonic forces of hell to kill, then you are condoning their behavior. If you try to discuss the actual motivations behind their actions, you are just making excuses.
We are deliberately avoiding understanding our enemies under the guise of patriotism, and as a result we don't understand our enemies and thus, unsurprisingly, we are completely inneffective against them.
Why, today of all days, don't I have mod points.
Somebody please give this guy a +5 insightful.
Then buy a Tivo. You'll get a great DVR with the ability to burn any show you want to save to a DVD. It takes a while to transfer and burn shows, but it works. Removing the Tivo "DRM" to get a plane jane MPEG isn't all that hard either. The only downside is....
That is not the only downside. It's not even the most important downside. This is:
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At this time, the TiVo service is only available in the 50 United States of America, the District of Columbia, and in the United Kingdom via the TiVo partnership with BSkyB. The TiVo service is currently not supported in Canada, Mexico, or any U.S. territories including Puerto Rico. However, please continue to check the TiVo web site for updates.
I'd argue that option 1 is even more impossible than it sounds initially.
This leaves option 2. Now, we all talk about "ignoring them" - has any government anywhere ever tried this?
Note that I never said my two options were realistic.
As long as MS's stock doesn't mysteriously start a slow, steady decline... Then they'll sue "thoes linux people" for obviously doing "something" with the software.
or something
Maybe less lethal, but will still cause chaos and panic, which is pretty much a win for the terrorists. The only way the terrorists don't win is:
1) all terrorists are quietly killed (simultaneously, without collateral damage for best effect) or 2) no matter what the terrorists do, everyone fails to panic, and continues on with their day as if they had just been bitten by a slightly annoying insect.
Huge jail terms for an economic crime?
And not even crimes against the national interest, but against private business.
Max jail terms more than for crimes of violence?
The recording industry suits got the levy put in to compensate the "poor starving artists", yet the money ends up in the pockets of the same industry people, and not the artists.
Is anyone surprised...
Anyone?
anyone??
Buhller?
At least the existence of the levy gives us Canadians tacit approval to download.
Not only that, but cell phone providers and VOIP providers save money by being unreliable,
How does that work?
Marketing guy: Let's make our service less reliable. It'll make our customers more loyal, and more likely to recommend us to all their friends. CEO: I like the way you think.
Somehow I can't see that conversation happening (outside of Dilbert).
I don't know about Colorado, but here in Manitoba, the pawn shop laws cover any business who buys used articles from the public, and re-sells them.
Any and all items.
If a pawn shop (or any business covered by the same laws) buys a guitar, a TV, an outboard motor, or a CD, the rules are the same. -Manditory reporting of all items purchsed to the police. -Holding period. -ID. -Video recording of the transaction.
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Maybe it's not the perverse pleasure of spoiling anything for the fans
Maybe it is the joy of screwing with the carefully laid marketing plans of some big corporate monolith and their hype machine?
Would have worked if they had solved the spammer/flamer/lamer problems that come with an un-moderated system like Usenet.
Most forums that I have seen are readable and searchable without the need to register or log in.
And the forum admins generally do a good job keeping things relevant and on-topic, making it nthat much easier to find the answer I am looking for.
Sounds like the same business model that has companies shutting down manufacturing capacity, and hiring more sales and marketing, showing amazing profits for a few months, then crashing and burning when they discover that the warehouse is empty.
Of course no MBA would ever do that, would they???
How timely.
Last month, our GM had scheduled for the whole office to go to an afternoon baseball game on a Thursday. Unfortunately it got re-scheduled due to the game being rained out. No biggie, it happens.
The re-scheduled event is today, we're going to a football game.
In the evening.
A friday evening.
Staff only.
I think less than half of the staff are going, as opposed to near 100% who had signed up for the baseball game.
If we don't do something to give our homegrown musicians some help being heard over the noise coming from south of the border, then they'll all starve.
Or something like that.
Back when these rules came in, there was no Canadian music industry. only Canadian branches of American music companies. Their job wasn't A&R. They were strictly about promoting the artists that they already had signed.
All the A&R was happening in New York, California, Nashville, and Memphis.
The government decided that if Canadians were ever going to be able to be professional musicians, then they needed a bit of help getting heard.
Given the long list of Canadian artists this thread is listing, it seems to have worked.
making it more rewarding to produce counterfeit cartridges to begin with.
Now they've got you doing it too.
A third party building a compatible ink cartridge, and selling it as such IS IN NO WAY COUNTERFEIT.
There are now 2 high-speed (cable, dominant telco DSL) options, and one (iirc) dial up ISP remaining (with a couple of sock puppet Dial-up ISPs that belong to the telco).
If 2 huge faceless corporations decide to use this sort of proxy, then we're SOL for voting with our feet around here.
I'm moving to a new ISP since my current one has started blocking port 25 in and out.
/. forever?
Isn't this exactly the sort of anti-spam_zombie policy that has been promoted around
Shaw's TOS has always said that standard home user internet isn't allowed to run servers. (they have a SOHO package that does permit servers)
They start enforcing their TOS, and doing the 'net (not to mention their own upstream bandwidth) a favor by reducing the impact of spam-bots and people start complaining. Strange.
Where does the extra ~$2500 come from, all duty/customs?
Bribes to counter the oil company bribes...
I think you are missing the point here. All of the taxes you mentioned are different kinds of taxes for different purposes. Fuel taxes in many states are used for transportation costs like road maintenance and public transportation (which in theory reduces traffic).
That's all well and good, in theory
In practice, most taxes just get dumped into "general revenue" and get spent on whatever the government's current priority is, rather than for what the original intent of the tax was.
Fortunately, there are still several good tab sites operating in locations where trade cartels whose name includes the word "America" have little influence.
And they have the libraries of many of the sites who have been bullied into oblivion, in addition to many recent additions.
Protecting the Canadian movie industry, my ass.
Since when did Cineplex show Canadian movies on their screens?
Movies using Canada as a set piece, sure, but an actual Canadian movie?
anyone
anyone
Buhller???
Somebody please give this guy a +5 insightful.
That is not the only downside. It's not even the most important downside.
This is:
As long as MS's stock doesn't mysteriously start a slow, steady decline... Then they'll sue "thoes linux people" for obviously doing "something" with the software.
or something
The only way the terrorists don't win is
1) all terrorists are quietly killed (simultaneously, without collateral damage for best effect)
or
2) no matter what the terrorists do, everyone fails to panic, and continues on with their day as if they had just been bitten by a slightly annoying insect.
Discuss.
On those occasions, I'll have whatever is in the pot at a nearby truck stop.
And not even crimes against the national interest, but against private business.
Max jail terms more than for crimes of violence?
Yeah, I'd say it's going too far.
The recording industry suits got the levy put in to compensate the "poor starving artists", yet the money ends up in the pockets of the same industry people, and not the artists.
Is anyone surprised...
Anyone?
anyone??
Buhller?
At least the existence of the levy gives us Canadians tacit approval to download.
How does that work?
Somehow I can't see that conversation happening (outside of Dilbert).
I don't know about Colorado, but here in Manitoba, the pawn shop laws cover any business who buys used articles from the public, and re-sells them.
Any and all items.
If a pawn shop (or any business covered by the same laws) buys a guitar, a TV, an outboard motor, or a CD, the rules are the same.
-Manditory reporting of all items purchsed to the police.
-Holding period.
-ID.
-Video recording of the transaction.
WTF do you think you're going to do for business in the future?
Export our lawyers.
Only if they can be exported to Golgafrincham
In some jurisdictions.
In many others it's legal if one party to the conversation is aware of the recording.