How am I supposed to get a copy of those 4 tracks that are unplayable on the albums?
You should've returned the albums when you bought them. They are defective.
Am I a pirate if I download those 4 songs to replace the ones I cannot play?...is the uploader a pirate for allowing me to get those 4 songs that I already paid for but cannot use?
Maybe and yes. You bought the physical album. You didn't buy the right to obtain those songs however you want. If that was the case, record companies would offer trade-up discounts when moving from vinyl to CD (or whatever). The other guy is distributing copyrighted material and is breaking copyright law. But I was under the impression that since you already own the songs (in album format), it was legal for you to download the mp3s. But I could be wrong. Does anyone have a definitive answer on that?
Your reply is a very smart one, basically showing the one instance that can make a sampled riff detrimental to a performer's character.
But think about it a bit further. Isn't that what libel suits are for? If I used a bit of a U2 song in my own nazi song (we're talking for instance here, I damn sure don't write nazi songs), and it made it seem like Bono was speaking in favor of nazis, I could rightfully be sued for libel. On the other hand, I believe I should be able to a simple guitar riff in a pro-nazi song, and it should be perfectly legal.
Yes, it sucks. But I think you have to take the bad with the good. Just like I think people have a right to say "You stupid kike" (though if you get your ass kicked, don't come crying to me), I also think that if you're making an artistic statement, you should be free to do so without getting sued. Even if you're a racist rat bastard.
One caveat: I believe that an advertisement is, by definition, not an artistic statement. Advertisers should have no rights, except what the artists give (sell) them. After thinking about it for a long while (really), I believe that propaganda is a form of advertisement. So while sampling should be perfectly legal, using part of my song in a pro-nazi (for instance) song should be considered propaganda, and thereby, illegal. Yeah, it's a slippery slope, but that's what juries are for, right? Does that make sense? What do you think?
I'm part of the discussions about the new sampling license (don't be impressed, anyone can be (see link in article)). I had various problems with the existing licenses (they allow advertisers to use your work for free, no open-source clauses), and I'm very excited that they decided to tack another license onto their pile. I'm very happy with my own (based on the GPL), but I very much like the idea of standardization. If we all used one of a set of licenses, it would give the open-source-* movement that much more solidarity, and be that much more of a threat to the establishment. So I just wanted to encourage you all to be part of that discussion. Skim through the archives and give us your input. The guys running it are really nice and personable; I wish I was working with them in person. I'm hoping that the sampling license will be simple and easy to understand, and at the same time flexible and robust enough for even big-name artists to use.
Or SOME TYPES of artists. Since the "right" to sample is frequently just one artist infringing on the "right" of another artist to protect their artistic work.
Protect it from what? No harm is done to an artist when another samples his song. There is literally no bad that can come of it. Clearing samples is nothing more than one more way for major labels to squeeze some more money out of the industry.
Using samples is an art form. Back in the day, when things like "Paul's Boutique" came out, it was this fresh new way of making music. And it got squashed by the labels. NOT the artists, mind you. The labels. Because they said, "Woah, waitaminnit. We could be charging people for this and making serious bank." Never once, and I can pretty much guarantee this, never once did an exec say "I feel this depreciates the integrity of the original work." Because a) it doesn't, and b) it's free advertising (assuming the samples were credited). So why would they throw away free advertising? They found a better business model that conflicted with it - sample clearance.
Tycho from Penny Arcade talked about this, in regard to the whole American Greetings fiasco. He said:
"I can't even express concepts without leveraging some organization's coveted intellectual property. In the case of the now infamous strip, it wouldn't have made sense to use anything but a commonly known product. So now that these Goddamn characters and concepts and products are completely intrinsic to our language and thought processes, they are, in fact, inextricable, they can effectively police speech."
Sonofabitch, he's right. They can now police fucking speech. They pour loads of cash into ad campaigns to make their products, services, songs, an inextricable part of the American vernacular, and then they tell you what you can do with them.
Fuck that. If you don't want someone sampling your song - if it's that precious to you - don't release it to the public. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Well, you can now, but it's fucked up.
Clearing samples is not all that hard, it's done all the time.
TheAwfulTruth, you ignorant slut. Do you have any idea how goddam expensive it is to clear a sample? No, of course you don't. And you obviously have no clue how much of a pain in the ass it is. Remember Odelay? The grammy-winning album by Beck? I read an interview with him, he said something to the effect of "clearing samples was such a headache on that album, I don't think I'll ever sample again." And that's a guy with a MAJOR label behind him, funding him.
Please, don't try to tell me that it's every Joe's right to use my music for their own personal gain.
Their own personal gain? So if sampling was made legal, and all the sudden that fresh new art form that was squashed by nothing but greedy corporations, exploded onto the scene again, and wave after wave of innivative music came into existence, the only people it would benefit would be the artists? Yeah, because no one actually listens to music, and just enjoys it.
Yeah, maybe a name like "ilickmonkeyballs@thezoo.com" is the way to go. I mean, who (exec, lawyer, or judge) wants to open up the possibility of a sound clip of them saying "I lick monkey balls at the zoo" floating around the net?
I think it's very intuitive. Any program that I can use without having to crack open the manual or even go to the help pages counts as intuitive in my book. Frankly, it rocks. The interface is beautiful because it's so functional, not like in many cases (OSX finder debatably included), where it's functional despite its beauty.
It's great for live sets. I haven't done a long DJ set yet, but for short ones, it works great. The only thing I don't like is that if you overtax your proc too much, you'll start hearing clicks and/or noise. On a g3 iBook, it's not that hard to overtax your proc, especially if you're running Reason as a slave app.
If delivering lots of CDs is such a bad idea, why does AOL still do it? I guarantee you most of those never get used.
I don't think you're used to maunfacturing hundreds of thousands of something. For instance, lots of times you'll see CD duplication ads: 1000 for $1000, and then 2000 for $1500, and maybe 5000 for $2000. It works out to, like you say, pennies.
If I'm making a $1000 profit on every laptop I sell, and it costs me a quarter to include a driver CD with them, no matter how many laptops I sell, the driver CD is a miniscule fraction of the overall profit of the product.
No, what happens is that people get pressured to cut costs somehow, and deliver some report saying "I can increase revenue by $250,000" and the boss goes for it, because he's getting pressure from above, and someone buys one, uses it and gets lots of ad- and spy-ware on it, their tech-savvy friend offers to help them out and wipes their hard drive in order to reinstall the system from scratch, asks for the system and driver CDs, I don't have them, well find them, it didn't come with any, that's stupid of course it came with some, maybe you're stupid, fine fix it yourself.
And the user is left with a blank machine and a bad taste in their mouth. No wonder people are switching to OSX.
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But I'm working on it. Somewhere between steps 3 and 4 are "finish full-length CD," "sell CDs" and "go on tour". I'll probably incorporate Bitpass into the whole equation soon, when bandwidth costs get out of control.
But "An Association Named Sue" written by Slashdot user Yo Grark and myself, about free music, will always be free as in beer. Check out the lyrics:
The RIAA says I'm a theif, because I download mp3s; I got nothing but this hard drive space to lose, But I know it's a fact that if I had much more, they'd take it away from me in court, saying that their actions protected their revenues. Well they must think it's quite a joke, and it gets a lot of laughs from lots of folk; it seems I've downloaded my whole life through. Hell, I never even thought of it as wrong, cause I'd buy more CDs after hearing more songs; I tell ya, it had nothing to do with their revenues.
Well, I grew up quick and I grew up l33t, my hacking got hard and my wits got street, I'd roam backdoor to backdoor to hide my name. But I made a vow to the moon and stars that I'd search the databases and systems far and kill that connection before it got too lame. Well, just finished with a shell I had since July, I kissed my DSL connection goodbye and I battled a round of security with big blue. Went to a cybercafe in case they pulled the lud's, and there at a table, spewing FUD, sat the dirty dog that "protected" the RIAA's revenues.
Well, I knew that snake was a lawyer so bad from the way he jumped up and down so mad when he saw that KaZaa Lite was installed on every PC in the room. He was big and bent and gray and old, and I looked at him and my blood ran cold and I said: "If you're defending your bands, how come all the money goes to you?" I was so pissed off I hit him between the eyes and he went down, but to my surprise, he come up with a lawsuit in his hand. But I called right back and I marked him the theif, and he forced the conversation into the non-witnessed street. Acronym'in and a' cursing, I made my stand.
I tell ya, I've stolen identities of tougher men but I really can't remember when, he tricked like a snake, brought out a Pocket PC and filed another suit, he said I'd pay for this fuss, he went for his digital pen and initialed first, he stood there lookin' at me and I saw him smile. And he said: "Son, this world is rough and if an association is gonna make it, their legal gotta be tough and you know, to keep the music monopoly along we'll crush independents until they die, we'll overexpose until you buy and from those sales major labels go on strong."
He said: "now you just fought one hell of a fight and I know you hate me, and you got the right to report me now, and I wouldn't blame you if you do. But ya ought to thank me before your case is tried, for the l33t circles and coding sk1llz in ya eye cause I'm the son-of-a-bitch that forces you underground when I yell "Sue." I got all choked up and I threw down my Palm and I thought about his crooked law, and I saw that everytime he sue'd it's true. My hacking gets better, and my ski11z get l33ter every time I find a P2P that's sweeter, but in the end, whoever wins, we all still lose.
Cause the RIAA has got control over music, congress and America's soul and if you want to download, copy or even use any music you've bought and paid for, without fail, you'll be fined or put in jail, all in the name of their goddam revenues. I think about him now every time I see, a young coder writing stuff that's free, and if I ever have a son, I think I'm gonna teach him...
to fight the corporations from a legal and political standpoint, so he won't have to hack, and support free music with all his back, and maybe after a generation or two their greed'll thin, and freedom will win, sampling songs won't be a sin, and we'll have taken and farmed all their grounds to sue.
Ask anyone who has ever worked as a doorman in a club if he would rather have 100 potheads or 100 drunks.
Oh, because everyone who drinks alcohol always get blind drunk and violent? And you think that bouncer would still prefer potheads when they're not spending $20/hr each on drinks, but just smoking the few joints that they brought with them, and the club all the sudden can't pay the rent?
Quick is a relative term.
Oh no! I happen to agree with the government on something! Quick, hang me from the OSDN antenna!
I don't need to reply to the rest of your response, jwilcox has already done so, and eloquently (thank you, btw).
Any pothead will tell you they'd have their patch growing in a minute, and let's face it, there wouldn't end up being much of a commercial market.
Yeah, because the average consumer would feel so much more comfortable about buying their weed from some random pothead, rather than off store shelves.
How many people do you suppose are in prison right now for smoking pot, and how long has that enforcement been going on?
The original poster said "if enough people." When alcohol was illegal, it quickly became legal again, because it was important to a lot of people to be able to go out for a drink. There simply aren't enought people who want pot legalized. Personally, I wouldn't like to see it happen. Big tobacco is bad enough. I don't want "Big hemp" lobbying congress and putting out ads that subliminally influence 12-year-olds.
So do different power supplys have different voltages? Or are they all interchangeable? The way I understand it, if there's too little voltage, it won't run at all, and if there's too much, it'll cause some damage. Is that accurate?
If we don't win, do you still get the IP rights to the design? Because my idea isn't Slashdot-specific, and i'd like to make a shirt of it someday, if no one else does. So if you're going to claim ownership of something you're not going to use, then forget it - I'll come up with something else.
I second that - can't say enough good things about them. SO quiet. I replaced the one that came with my early-model mac g4 (a Maxtor (Western Digital's are equally noisy, BTW)) with a Seagate Barracuda I picked up from www.endpcnoise.com, and now the whole machine is maybe a third as loud. It's like a dream - the only sound I can hear is that of the power supply fan. I also replaced the case fan with one that was (unfortunately smaller) much quieter. So now, if I can find a quiet power supply that is guaranteed to work with my machine, I'm golden.
In my last place, I had the thing in a closet, which really quieted it down. I was nervous about the heat, but nothing bad happened at all. I had to keep it quiet so I could do recording. Now I just have the mic in a different room. Much nicer.
Dammit you're right! I thought there was no fee, because when I'd sell a CD I'd get an email from Paypal saying I just got a payment for $8.50, which is the cost of the CD plus s&h. Then I'd look at my Paypal account, and it lists: From Joe Blow, Jan 1st, $8.50.
But if you look at "all activity," then you see that there's a 55 cent fee! Those bastards! That's like 6%! Shit, maybe I'll just set up a credit card thing and an 800 number. Old School all the way, baby.
I read abou this, then I thought: how does this differ from PayPal? You still have to sign up for the bit pass thing initially. If you're going to be putting the effort into registering for something, why not just sign up for Paypal and pay the guy a quarter that way? There's no transaction fee, AFAIK.
Until I can put a quarter in a machine and have it dissappear and reappear in the artist's machine, I don't think micropayments'll catch on too much. But I hope I'm wrong.
Your post is all over the map. Should the government enforce morals on people, or not? You say "unfortunately, a lot of powers at be have tried to enforce Morality." And then in the same breath, you say that you're glad they did, so people wouldn't be able to steal your work. That's the first thing that comes to mind? You're not happy that it's against the law for someone to, say, kill you?
Then you talk about freedom of religion, and mention "Jesus Day" in Texas. I don't know anything about the specific holiday you're talking about, but I suspect that people weren't forced to celebrate it. Are you saying we shouldn't recognise Christmas, or Easter?
Freedom of Religon means that you're free to worship (or not) as you please. It's not an attempt to drive religon from the lawbooks.
I fail to see what your point is. Maybe it's that the government should only enforce the morals that you agree with.
Is this an example of what passes for logic in our public schools? Two things I want you to do. Look up free in the dictionary, and ask yourself what role "encryption" plays in that definition.
No wonder you've posted anonomously - there's nothing worse than a smug bastard who's wrong. Free: (one of the many definitions) not confined to a particular position or place. As in "satellite signals are broadcast freely throughout the atmosphere."
Assuming your actually old enough to vote. You voted that "permission" into office.
Um, no. "Satellite-specific signal decryption" isn't a platform any politian cares to make a stance on, and it's one of the last issues I'd concern myself with when voting anyway.
Any client who represents themself, has a fool for a lawyer.
I think you underestimate the general public. I'm pretty sure that once they hear stories of how these new CP-CDs won't play in their car stereos (or computers or whatever), sales would plummet.
Usually when I'm buying a CD, I can only afford one at a time, and it comes down to a decision between 2 or 3. Well if I know one is copy-protected, it makes the decision that much easier. Just like with those stickers that say "censored version."
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How am I supposed to get a copy of those 4 tracks that are unplayable on the albums?
You should've returned the albums when you bought them. They are defective.
Am I a pirate if I download those 4 songs to replace the ones I cannot play?...is the uploader a pirate for allowing me to get those 4 songs that I already paid for but cannot use?
Maybe and yes. You bought the physical album. You didn't buy the right to obtain those songs however you want. If that was the case, record companies would offer trade-up discounts when moving from vinyl to CD (or whatever). The other guy is distributing copyrighted material and is breaking copyright law. But I was under the impression that since you already own the songs (in album format), it was legal for you to download the mp3s. But I could be wrong. Does anyone have a definitive answer on that?
Your reply is a very smart one, basically showing the one instance that can make a sampled riff detrimental to a performer's character.
But think about it a bit further. Isn't that what libel suits are for? If I used a bit of a U2 song in my own nazi song (we're talking for instance here, I damn sure don't write nazi songs), and it made it seem like Bono was speaking in favor of nazis, I could rightfully be sued for libel. On the other hand, I believe I should be able to a simple guitar riff in a pro-nazi song, and it should be perfectly legal.
Yes, it sucks. But I think you have to take the bad with the good. Just like I think people have a right to say "You stupid kike" (though if you get your ass kicked, don't come crying to me), I also think that if you're making an artistic statement, you should be free to do so without getting sued. Even if you're a racist rat bastard.
One caveat: I believe that an advertisement is, by definition, not an artistic statement. Advertisers should have no rights, except what the artists give (sell) them. After thinking about it for a long while (really), I believe that propaganda is a form of advertisement. So while sampling should be perfectly legal, using part of my song in a pro-nazi (for instance) song should be considered propaganda, and thereby, illegal. Yeah, it's a slippery slope, but that's what juries are for, right? Does that make sense? What do you think?
I'm part of the discussions about the new sampling license (don't be impressed, anyone can be (see link in article)). I had various problems with the existing licenses (they allow advertisers to use your work for free, no open-source clauses), and I'm very excited that they decided to tack another license onto their pile. I'm very happy with my own (based on the GPL), but I very much like the idea of standardization. If we all used one of a set of licenses, it would give the open-source-* movement that much more solidarity, and be that much more of a threat to the establishment. So I just wanted to encourage you all to be part of that discussion. Skim through the archives and give us your input. The guys running it are really nice and personable; I wish I was working with them in person. I'm hoping that the sampling license will be simple and easy to understand, and at the same time flexible and robust enough for even big-name artists to use.
Or SOME TYPES of artists. Since the "right" to sample is frequently just one artist infringing on the "right" of another artist to protect their artistic work.
Protect it from what? No harm is done to an artist when another samples his song. There is literally no bad that can come of it. Clearing samples is nothing more than one more way for major labels to squeeze some more money out of the industry.
Using samples is an art form. Back in the day, when things like "Paul's Boutique" came out, it was this fresh new way of making music. And it got squashed by the labels. NOT the artists, mind you. The labels. Because they said, "Woah, waitaminnit. We could be charging people for this and making serious bank." Never once, and I can pretty much guarantee this, never once did an exec say "I feel this depreciates the integrity of the original work." Because a) it doesn't, and b) it's free advertising (assuming the samples were credited). So why would they throw away free advertising? They found a better business model that conflicted with it - sample clearance.
Tycho from Penny Arcade talked about this, in regard to the whole American Greetings fiasco. He said:
"I can't even express concepts without leveraging some organization's coveted intellectual property. In the case of the now infamous strip, it wouldn't have made sense to use anything but a commonly known product. So now that these Goddamn characters and concepts and products are completely intrinsic to our language and thought processes, they are, in fact, inextricable, they can effectively police speech."
Sonofabitch, he's right. They can now police fucking speech. They pour loads of cash into ad campaigns to make their products, services, songs, an inextricable part of the American vernacular, and then they tell you what you can do with them.
Fuck that. If you don't want someone sampling your song - if it's that precious to you - don't release it to the public. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Well, you can now, but it's fucked up.
Clearing samples is not all that hard, it's done all the time.
TheAwfulTruth, you ignorant slut. Do you have any idea how goddam expensive it is to clear a sample? No, of course you don't. And you obviously have no clue how much of a pain in the ass it is. Remember Odelay? The grammy-winning album by Beck? I read an interview with him, he said something to the effect of "clearing samples was such a headache on that album, I don't think I'll ever sample again." And that's a guy with a MAJOR label behind him, funding him.
Please, don't try to tell me that it's every Joe's right to use my music for their own personal gain.
Their own personal gain? So if sampling was made legal, and all the sudden that fresh new art form that was squashed by nothing but greedy corporations, exploded onto the scene again, and wave after wave of innivative music came into existence, the only people it would benefit would be the artists? Yeah, because no one actually listens to music, and just enjoys it.
Yeah, maybe a name like "ilickmonkeyballs@thezoo.com" is the way to go. I mean, who (exec, lawyer, or judge) wants to open up the possibility of a sound clip of them saying "I lick monkey balls at the zoo" floating around the net?
I think it's very intuitive. Any program that I can use without having to crack open the manual or even go to the help pages counts as intuitive in my book. Frankly, it rocks. The interface is beautiful because it's so functional, not like in many cases (OSX finder debatably included), where it's functional despite its beauty.
It's great for live sets. I haven't done a long DJ set yet, but for short ones, it works great. The only thing I don't like is that if you overtax your proc too much, you'll start hearing clicks and/or noise. On a g3 iBook, it's not that hard to overtax your proc, especially if you're running Reason as a slave app.
If delivering lots of CDs is such a bad idea, why does AOL still do it? I guarantee you most of those never get used.
I don't think you're used to maunfacturing hundreds of thousands of something. For instance, lots of times you'll see CD duplication ads: 1000 for $1000, and then 2000 for $1500, and maybe 5000 for $2000. It works out to, like you say, pennies.
If I'm making a $1000 profit on every laptop I sell, and it costs me a quarter to include a driver CD with them, no matter how many laptops I sell, the driver CD is a miniscule fraction of the overall profit of the product.
No, what happens is that people get pressured to cut costs somehow, and deliver some report saying "I can increase revenue by $250,000" and the boss goes for it, because he's getting pressure from above, and someone buys one, uses it and gets lots of ad- and spy-ware on it, their tech-savvy friend offers to help them out and wipes their hard drive in order to reinstall the system from scratch, asks for the system and driver CDs, I don't have them, well find them, it didn't come with any, that's stupid of course it came with some, maybe you're stupid, fine fix it yourself.
And the user is left with a blank machine and a bad taste in their mouth. No wonder people are switching to OSX.
But I'm working on it. Somewhere between steps 3 and 4 are "finish full-length CD," "sell CDs" and "go on tour". I'll probably incorporate Bitpass into the whole equation soon, when bandwidth costs get out of control.
But "An Association Named Sue" written by Slashdot user Yo Grark and myself, about free music, will always be free as in beer. Check out the lyrics:
The RIAA says I'm a theif, because I download mp3s; I got nothing but this hard drive space to lose,
But I know it's a fact that if I had much more, they'd take it away from me in court, saying that their actions protected their revenues.
Well they must think it's quite a joke, and it gets a lot of laughs from lots of folk; it seems I've downloaded my whole life through.
Hell, I never even thought of it as wrong, cause I'd buy more CDs after hearing more songs; I tell ya, it had nothing to do with their revenues.
Well, I grew up quick and I grew up l33t, my hacking got hard and my wits got street, I'd roam backdoor to backdoor to hide my name.
But I made a vow to the moon and stars that I'd search the databases and systems far and kill that connection before it got too lame.
Well, just finished with a shell I had since July, I kissed my DSL connection goodbye and I battled a round of security with big blue.
Went to a cybercafe in case they pulled the lud's, and there at a table, spewing FUD, sat the dirty dog that "protected" the RIAA's revenues.
Well, I knew that snake was a lawyer so bad from the way he jumped up and down so mad when he saw that KaZaa Lite was installed on every PC in the room.
He was big and bent and gray and old, and I looked at him and my blood ran cold and I said: "If you're defending your bands, how come all the money goes to you?"
I was so pissed off I hit him between the eyes and he went down, but to my surprise, he come up with a lawsuit in his hand.
But I called right back and I marked him the theif, and he forced the conversation into the non-witnessed street. Acronym'in and a' cursing, I made my stand.
I tell ya, I've stolen identities of tougher men but I really can't remember when, he tricked like a snake, brought out a Pocket PC and filed
another suit, he said I'd pay for this fuss, he went for his digital pen and initialed first, he stood there lookin' at me and I saw him smile.
And he said: "Son, this world is rough and if an association is gonna make it, their legal gotta be tough and you know, to keep the music monopoly along
we'll crush independents until they die, we'll overexpose until you buy and from those sales major labels go on strong."
He said: "now you just fought one hell of a fight and I know you hate me, and you got the right to report me now, and I wouldn't blame you if you do.
But ya ought to thank me before your case is tried, for the l33t circles and coding sk1llz in ya eye cause I'm the son-of-a-bitch that forces you underground when I yell "Sue."
I got all choked up and I threw down my Palm and I thought about his crooked law, and I saw that everytime he sue'd it's true.
My hacking gets better, and my ski11z get l33ter every time I find a P2P that's sweeter, but in the end, whoever wins, we all still lose.
Cause the RIAA has got control over music, congress and America's soul and if you want to download, copy or even use
any music you've bought and paid for, without fail, you'll be fined or put in jail, all in the name of their goddam revenues.
I think about him now every time I see, a young coder writing stuff that's free, and if I ever have a son, I think I'm gonna teach him...
to fight the corporations from a legal and political standpoint, so he won't have to hack, and support free music with all his back, and maybe after a generation or two
their greed'll thin, and freedom will win, sampling songs won't be a sin, and we'll have taken and farmed all their grounds to sue.
Ask anyone who has ever worked as a doorman in a club if he would rather have 100 potheads or 100 drunks.
Oh, because everyone who drinks alcohol always get blind drunk and violent? And you think that bouncer would still prefer potheads when they're not spending $20/hr each on drinks, but just smoking the few joints that they brought with them, and the club all the sudden can't pay the rent?
Quick is a relative term.
Oh no! I happen to agree with the government on something! Quick, hang me from the OSDN antenna!
I don't need to reply to the rest of your response, jwilcox has already done so, and eloquently (thank you, btw).
Any pothead will tell you they'd have their patch growing in a minute, and let's face it, there wouldn't end up being much of a commercial market.
Yeah, because the average consumer would feel so much more comfortable about buying their weed from some random pothead, rather than off store shelves.
How many people do you suppose are in prison right now for smoking pot, and how long has that enforcement been going on?
The original poster said "if enough people." When alcohol was illegal, it quickly became legal again, because it was important to a lot of people to be able to go out for a drink. There simply aren't enought people who want pot legalized. Personally, I wouldn't like to see it happen. Big tobacco is bad enough. I don't want "Big hemp" lobbying congress and putting out ads that subliminally influence 12-year-olds.
to track down and record plants
Looks like they're already spending too much time in those fields.
So do different power supplys have different voltages? Or are they all interchangeable? The way I understand it, if there's too little voltage, it won't run at all, and if there's too much, it'll cause some damage. Is that accurate?
Air holes, or speed holes?
If we don't win, do you still get the IP rights to the design? Because my idea isn't Slashdot-specific, and i'd like to make a shirt of it someday, if no one else does. So if you're going to claim ownership of something you're not going to use, then forget it - I'll come up with something else.
proSilence FANLESS 350W PSU
How do I know that'll work with my Mac though? The power supply in there (made by Apple) say max continuous output 237 watts. Would 350 fry the mobo?
I second that - can't say enough good things about them. SO quiet. I replaced the one that came with my early-model mac g4 (a Maxtor (Western Digital's are equally noisy, BTW)) with a Seagate Barracuda I picked up from www.endpcnoise.com, and now the whole machine is maybe a third as loud. It's like a dream - the only sound I can hear is that of the power supply fan. I also replaced the case fan with one that was (unfortunately smaller) much quieter. So now, if I can find a quiet power supply that is guaranteed to work with my machine, I'm golden.
In my last place, I had the thing in a closet, which really quieted it down. I was nervous about the heat, but nothing bad happened at all. I had to keep it quiet so I could do recording. Now I just have the mic in a different room. Much nicer.
Dammit you're right! I thought there was no fee, because when I'd sell a CD I'd get an email from Paypal saying I just got a payment for $8.50, which is the cost of the CD plus s&h. Then I'd look at my Paypal account, and it lists: From Joe Blow, Jan 1st, $8.50.
But if you look at "all activity," then you see that there's a 55 cent fee! Those bastards! That's like 6%! Shit, maybe I'll just set up a credit card thing and an 800 number. Old School all the way, baby.
I read abou this, then I thought: how does this differ from PayPal? You still have to sign up for the bit pass thing initially. If you're going to be putting the effort into registering for something, why not just sign up for Paypal and pay the guy a quarter that way? There's no transaction fee, AFAIK.
Until I can put a quarter in a machine and have it dissappear and reappear in the artist's machine, I don't think micropayments'll catch on too much. But I hope I'm wrong.
Your post is all over the map. Should the government enforce morals on people, or not? You say "unfortunately, a lot of powers at be have tried to enforce Morality." And then in the same breath, you say that you're glad they did, so people wouldn't be able to steal your work. That's the first thing that comes to mind? You're not happy that it's against the law for someone to, say, kill you?
Then you talk about freedom of religion, and mention "Jesus Day" in Texas. I don't know anything about the specific holiday you're talking about, but I suspect that people weren't forced to celebrate it. Are you saying we shouldn't recognise Christmas, or Easter? Freedom of Religon means that you're free to worship (or not) as you please. It's not an attempt to drive religon from the lawbooks.
I fail to see what your point is. Maybe it's that the government should only enforce the morals that you agree with.
Hey, mean-spirited and a Slashdot poster. You must be a devil with the ladies.
I like the way you think - I'm inclined to agree with you.
Is this an example of what passes for logic in our public schools? Two things I want you to do. Look up free in the dictionary, and ask yourself what role "encryption" plays in that definition.
No wonder you've posted anonomously - there's nothing worse than a smug bastard who's wrong. Free: (one of the many definitions) not confined to a particular position or place. As in "satellite signals are broadcast freely throughout the atmosphere."
Assuming your actually old enough to vote. You voted that "permission" into office.
Um, no. "Satellite-specific signal decryption" isn't a platform any politian cares to make a stance on, and it's one of the last issues I'd concern myself with when voting anyway.
Any client who represents themself, has a fool for a lawyer.
Um, try to keep on topic here.
Are you really a bomb technician? Is it ironic when your computer crashes?
I think you underestimate the general public. I'm pretty sure that once they hear stories of how these new CP-CDs won't play in their car stereos (or computers or whatever), sales would plummet.
Usually when I'm buying a CD, I can only afford one at a time, and it comes down to a decision between 2 or 3. Well if I know one is copy-protected, it makes the decision that much easier. Just like with those stickers that say "censored version."