The RIAA has nothing to do with this, this is ASCAP and BMI and is the musicians that performed the music not the song writers or recording artists. This means the backup guitarist, drummer and rapper on the latest Mary J. Blige album wants his cut everytime you make your iPod make noise.
"UK Government Health tells kids to masturbate. Parents pissed.When you have monopoly customer opinions don't matter."
Ok I need to respond to this. I don't disagree with what you tried to say but I'm a little stuck on disambiguating the part about the monopoly customer opinions. If you put the comma after the "when you have" it makes it seem that after you masterbate, monopoly customer opinions don't matter. if you put the comma after the monopoly then it seems that if you own the game of monopoly then customer opinions don't matter. So I would propose these changes:
"The UK government Health Ministry has told your kids to masturbate, since they have a monopoly on the communication channel you have abandoned your kids to, your opinions don't matter."
Wow, The ultimate defense attorney argument. I don't see the problem, they have to tie the car and you to the location. I can't see a jury being convinced that the location of your car is prima facie evidence that you are co-located with it. It is certainly circumstantial evidence however.
We've all seen the remove it and stick it on a different car trick in any number of James Bond like entertainments, and I believe most of us are capable of forming the same thought that Darkness404 here pointed out. So a jury of your peers should also be capable of realizing that fact given sufficient argument by said defense attorney.
Hey I download a distro several times and wind up deleting it because I need the space for more useful things than yet another useless Linux distro. Market share only counts where there is a market and Linux doesn't constitute a market anyway. You still don't know what an Apple costs and you certainly don't understand commerce as it applies to computer systems.
This isn't a spelling flame but "Immume" ? This sounds like some new religious leader. Hmmm, perhaps it could be, the Apple Immume today issued a fatwa on the PC character that he should be henceforth covered in lingenberry dressing and laughed at seriously!
May the Hodgeman forgive me!
Macs enjoy being less of a target since they are a small number of them out there
This is still a myth, why waste effort on a system that is inherently harder to crack when low hanging MS fruit is still available. Even when Macs make up more of the market it will still not be that big or easy a target. Popularity has very little to do with why a system gets viruses or there would not have been as many viruses for the old Mac systems and there were a shit load of them for OS7, 8 and 9.
Updating a Linux box even after the god Linus updates the kernel takes just as long as any other OS. Even longer because it takes an act of what amounts to a congress to make the new kernel available and even then it's only in the Dev kernel until the next major release. A Server up-time of a year is a disgraceful record as they should be taken down and serviced more often than that just to clean the dust filters if nothing else.
Please you are talking just as much rubbish as he is.
I think you don't actually know what a mono culture is. You also don't actually know what an Apple costs. Linux share is still less than 6% last measure Mac share is ~12%. And any other major inaccuracies I can't be bothered to point out right now.
i know people who use macs who are really nice people and they get great work done. none of them post on slashdot, tho.
So I guess Verry Smart Guy isn't a virus either.
Yeah not everybody goes to school in Beverly Hills or places like that where they have rich enough schools to provide that stuff (though now that may not be true). In northern California (Corning, Red Bluff, Chico, nothing south of Sacramento is considered northern) I had to buy my own shorts and shirt for gym from local stores that had the school names and stuff on them. In San Mateo (Hillsborough) the school supplied them hell they even supplied all the bathing suits, towels and goggles for use in the pool.
Thank Ghod, RON PAUL could ruin your whole day. I mean he makes his sycophants think they can think for themselves even though they spout the exact same things he does. Good thing that gets hidden!
it's a heart RATE monitor. Even with the kids name tied to it it would say, yes his heart rate increased during exercise. Just get the damned thing and be done with it.
That's not exploiting Murphy, that's avoiding Murphy by being prepared. But Murphy can even strike then as you discover that one of your preparations has failed unbeknown to you and that is exactly the failure mode experienced. You can't take advantage of Murphy. You can exploit the Streisand effect.
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People, this is NOT the RIAA. It's ASCAP and BMI, the disco greedy bastards not the record company greedy bastards.
The RIAA has nothing to do with this, this is ASCAP and BMI and is the musicians that performed the music not the song writers or recording artists. This means the backup guitarist, drummer and rapper on the latest Mary J. Blige album wants his cut everytime you make your iPod make noise.
What pray tell is this GPS you are sending singles to. Some new dating service I guess, and why would you have to tell it you are in Australia?.
Cell jammers are illegal however.
"UK Government Health tells kids to masturbate. Parents pissed.When you have monopoly customer opinions don't matter."
Ok I need to respond to this. I don't disagree with what you tried to say but I'm a little stuck on disambiguating the part about the monopoly customer opinions. If you put the comma after the "when you have" it makes it seem that after you masterbate, monopoly customer opinions don't matter. if you put the comma after the monopoly then it seems that if you own the game of monopoly then customer opinions don't matter. So I would propose these changes:
"The UK government Health Ministry has told your kids to masturbate, since they have a monopoly on the communication channel you have abandoned your kids to, your opinions don't matter."
Wow, The ultimate defense attorney argument. I don't see the problem, they have to tie the car and you to the location. I can't see a jury being convinced that the location of your car is prima facie evidence that you are co-located with it. It is certainly circumstantial evidence however. We've all seen the remove it and stick it on a different car trick in any number of James Bond like entertainments, and I believe most of us are capable of forming the same thought that Darkness404 here pointed out. So a jury of your peers should also be capable of realizing that fact given sufficient argument by said defense attorney.
Hey I download a distro several times and wind up deleting it because I need the space for more useful things than yet another useless Linux distro. Market share only counts where there is a market and Linux doesn't constitute a market anyway. You still don't know what an Apple costs and you certainly don't understand commerce as it applies to computer systems.
This isn't a spelling flame but "Immume" ? This sounds like some new religious leader.
Hmmm, perhaps it could be, the Apple Immume today issued a fatwa on the PC character that he should be henceforth covered in lingenberry dressing and laughed at seriously!
May the Hodgeman forgive me!
Perhaps, sounds closer to what they mean anyway. LOL!
Oh really? perhaps you could elucidate?
Ya know I keep hearing this "vendor lock in" thing mentioned. I don't think it means what they think it means.
Perhaps they have perfected astroturf, or maybe the ability to get slashdotters to perpetuate astroturf.
I use Linux distro disks for spacers under my desk when it wobbles. The AOL disks have rotted away it seems.
Macs enjoy being less of a target since they are a small number of them out there
This is still a myth, why waste effort on a system that is inherently harder to crack when low hanging MS fruit is still available. Even when Macs make up more of the market it will still not be that big or easy a target. Popularity has very little to do with why a system gets viruses or there would not have been as many viruses for the old Mac systems and there were a shit load of them for OS7, 8 and 9.
Updating a Linux box even after the god Linus updates the kernel takes just as long as any other OS. Even longer because it takes an act of what amounts to a congress to make the new kernel available and even then it's only in the Dev kernel until the next major release. A Server up-time of a year is a disgraceful record as they should be taken down and serviced more often than that just to clean the dust filters if nothing else.
Please you are talking just as much rubbish as he is.
Not enough interest to bother with I guess.
I think you don't actually know what a mono culture is. You also don't actually know what an Apple costs. Linux share is still less than 6% last measure Mac share is ~12%. And any other major inaccuracies I can't be bothered to point out right now.
Where just as immune as linux?
Well actually it's Both Houses of the legislature that can't seem to accomplish anything.
i know people who use macs who are really nice people and they get great work done. none of them post on slashdot, tho.
So I guess Verry Smart Guy isn't a virus either.
Yeah not everybody goes to school in Beverly Hills or places like that where they have rich enough schools to provide that stuff (though now that may not be true). In northern California (Corning, Red Bluff, Chico, nothing south of Sacramento is considered northern) I had to buy my own shorts and shirt for gym from local stores that had the school names and stuff on them. In San Mateo (Hillsborough) the school supplied them hell they even supplied all the bathing suits, towels and goggles for use in the pool.
Thank Ghod, RON PAUL could ruin your whole day. I mean he makes his sycophants think they can think for themselves even though they spout the exact same things he does.
Good thing that gets hidden!
Cool, right on dude! Better than the overpriced deathcare we have now.
it's a heart RATE monitor. Even with the kids name tied to it it would say, yes his heart rate increased during exercise. Just get the damned thing and be done with it.
I hope the kid is adopted fer gosh sakes.
That's not exploiting Murphy, that's avoiding Murphy by being prepared. But Murphy can even strike then as you discover that one of your preparations has failed unbeknown to you and that is exactly the failure mode experienced. You can't take advantage of Murphy. You can exploit the Streisand effect.