Not only are so,me unsubscribe links fake, but often when you send an unsubscribe email, they take it and realize there is a live person reading mail on the other end and start sending you more spam.
So even unsubscribing is dangerous.
By the way all the opt in email things i have ever seen only say "would you like to recieve our newsletter, or some mentions of special deals from us". They NEVER say "would you like to recieve mail from every one we decide to sell this address to.
There is a huge problem with this statement: "But there's also a lot of promotional mail that YOU OPTED INTO whether you realize it or not."
So you think it is ok for people to give up their privacy rights because they didnt realize something? Most contracts are invalid if one of the parties did not intend to enter them, or did not know they were entering them.
And i know companies that would sell your email address make sure that the text where it says "we will sell your email" is in a place where no one will check.
Oh yes and then there are the ones that say "our privacy policy may change so chack periodicaly"
A bad result of that is the use of a fairly inefficient mode of transportation.
If roads were not subsidized at all or recieved subsidies similar to those for other modes for transportation, we would use the most efficient and cheap way to get around - which will probably involve trains.
So i think some kind of use tax on roads should be made. Of course that does not mean that people should surrender their privacy for that purpose.
A gas tax is sufficient.
Arent they tired of being played around by the "culture industry"?
This trick will certainly cost the hardware manufacturers, fewer people will buy the new hdtvs, now that they can never be sure for how long they can be useful.
The home electronic appliance industry dwarfs both the TV and movie industries and in my opinion its about time they started trowing their weight around.
It does not matter how much encryption is used on a sugnal, it always has to be decrypted, in order to be put on the screen.
So you can always get your signal from there. Sure some more hacking will be required, but that doesnt stop people from putting chips in their consoles.
I suppose he wont be skiing straight down so he will need to make turns.
Yet when he is making turns, if he is on one side of the slope it will be moving faster under him then if he is on the other side.
I have a feeling this discrepency will quickly cause him to fall.
they could sell that to advertisers. thats the least scary alternative.
They could use it to control you. Notice how some IP laws have been getting a bit draconian. But in order to use civil law to control every persons normal activity, you will need a cheap way to get proof. And there you have it.
And the third, most dangerous thing is that they could use it to blackmail you. That seems ridiculous right now, but keep in mind that they will have this information always and forever.
What looks ridiculous now may seem normal after 20 years. And all the information will still be around.
Eventually many Microsoft clients will really mind if there is information about them downloading porn out there.
(extended to DVDs now apparantly).
which doesnt seem weird to you, since any dvd that would be in a central database already has the title information on it.
The FSGS (free starcraft game server) was always out there.
Nevertheless blizzard made a killing on starcraft.
Its true some people used the free servers to play pirated games online, but people that liked the game eventually bought it.
Most people that use the free servers actually own the game, but prefer those servers to battle net for various reasons.
There are FSGS servers for more skilled players, there are FSGS servers for people in different countries, where connection to battlenet is slow, some people start FSGS servers only for their friends etc.
So every body wins. Consumers start their own FSGS servers that are better suited for their needs, and Blizzard does not have to pay for the support for thousands of gamers that would have gone to battlenet otherwise.
I didnt know you got this from Limbaugh but it does feature Limbaugh's patent way of lying while using sources that do not agree with his arguments. (well sometimes his sources are false or fictional)
Now of course Limbaugh is not the only one that uses such strategies, and it is completely possible that you got your information from someone else.
So be it. Stop listening to him to. Apparently he lies to you as well.
I dont know how in the world did you decide i am in favor of big government.
I only saw a post that i knew was false, because i had seen it before and i had checked it out. So I corrected it. My correction was not really connected with any political beliefs of mine, other than desire for the truth.
A note to moderators. I know this discussion is way ot by now. But if you want moderate me down as offtopic, please be kind enough to moderate down every one else discussing exactly the same things. Otherwise you are moderating based on political beliefs.
when the supreme court went against all principles of strict interpretation to deny Gore a recount.
Regardless of whether you think there should have been a recount or not, noone can argue with a strait face that their decision, which created a new very specific constitutional right to overturn a state court ruling on state law, was the result of strict interpretation.
I think the SC is just conservative.
If they win they will not be the only ones, able to use public domain books. Everybody will.
It was just more convinient to use bussinesses as plaintiffs, because when they have a real monetary stake in the whole thing it would be easier for them to get standing.
But i think the driving force behind this are not the bussinesses but harvard law proffessors.
Also the phrase "writers and other inventors" is completely ridiculous, because writers are not inventors. An AP reporter should write better than that.
If that AP reporter wanted to be accurate they only needed to say "whether Congress has sided too heavily with Disney co."
And of course when they pointed out the EU they did not mention that the EU does not have the constitutional constraints we have. Conformity with EU is a kind of a pointless issue, because this is not a situation, like technical standards for example, where there is some expected benefit from conformity. Thats like asking to bring the American health care or well fare systems in conformity with the europeans. I mean its meaningful if you especially like the way the europeans do health care, but there is no benefit in conformity in itself.
The so called "Sunny Bono Act" extends copyrights for works that are already existing.
Now the people that created these works obviously did not need that 20 year extention as an incentive to create them.
In fact that extra 20 years is quite pointless, even for people creating right now. I mean how in the world would any one know wheather your work will be worth squat 20 years after 70 years after the day you die. Thats like between 100- 150 years for most people. You cannot even be sure that people will be cinsuming the same kind of art forms after 150 years. And certainly you will not get a corporation to pay you anything extra for those extra twenty years.
Now you think that you should have ownership rights to your works in perpetuity, not only for incentive reasons but for moral ones. Because you created them your grandchildren should own them etc, etc.
Well you are free to have that opinion but that is clearly unconstitutional. Congress only has the power to give those right for a limited time. And if congress decides to extend that period indefinately it will not be for a limited time.
I think there are good reasons behind this constitutional rule, and it should be given power and not scuttled.
I'd hate to get into a huge out of topic discussion but you assert that the press is free, without responding to why they did not cover the humanitarian disasters in Turkey, Rwanda and East Timor, which are much larger than those of Kososvo.
I personally do not want you to be the world's cop. I can safely say the same is true for most people in this world.
I would be perfectly happy if no americans went to Bosnia, Kosovo or Somalia.
As far as i am concerned the military should stay here, protecting the US.
Of course i would agree to wars like WW2, but most wars after that (and i apologize if this truth offends you) have been the result of US imperialism, and have not benefited the world at large or most americans either.
And if you believe that politicians send you out there because of the pictures on TV, you are quite naive, my friend. The pictures on TV come only after the politicians decide to send you there.
Thats why you werent sent to Rwanda, or East Timor, or Turkey where some grave human tragedies (much worse than the balkans) happened.
Apparently all the prominent scientists in the world including most of the alive noble laureates in the physical sciences are in some kind of a conspiracy to create meadia and political hype.
If you actually read the two out of 300 stories you would know that the shooter stopped because he ran out of bullets, and not because some other kids were pointing guns at him.
In fact he was so unfazed that he punched some one while those kids were pointing guns at him. In the end he had to be tackled.
So there you have it. And i repeat dont listen to rush he lies to you.
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Not only are so,me unsubscribe links fake, but often when you send an unsubscribe email, they take it and realize there is a live person reading mail on the other end and start sending you more spam.
So even unsubscribing is dangerous.
By the way all the opt in email things i have ever seen only say "would you like to recieve our newsletter, or some mentions of special deals from us". They NEVER say "would you like to recieve mail from every one we decide to sell this address to.
There is a huge problem with this statement:
"But there's also a lot of promotional mail that YOU OPTED INTO whether you realize it or not."
So you think it is ok for people to give up their privacy rights because they didnt realize something? Most contracts are invalid if one of the parties did not intend to enter them, or did not know they were entering them.
And i know companies that would sell your email address make sure that the text where it says "we will sell your email" is in a place where no one will check.
Oh yes and then there are the ones that say "our privacy policy may change so chack periodicaly"
A bad result of that is the use of a fairly inefficient mode of transportation. If roads were not subsidized at all or recieved subsidies similar to those for other modes for transportation, we would use the most efficient and cheap way to get around - which will probably involve trains. So i think some kind of use tax on roads should be made. Of course that does not mean that people should surrender their privacy for that purpose. A gas tax is sufficient.
Arent they tired of being played around by the "culture industry"? This trick will certainly cost the hardware manufacturers, fewer people will buy the new hdtvs, now that they can never be sure for how long they can be useful. The home electronic appliance industry dwarfs both the TV and movie industries and in my opinion its about time they started trowing their weight around.
It does not matter how much encryption is used on a sugnal, it always has to be decrypted, in order to be put on the screen.
So you can always get your signal from there. Sure some more hacking will be required, but that doesnt stop people from putting chips in their consoles.
I suppose he wont be skiing straight down so he will need to make turns. Yet when he is making turns, if he is on one side of the slope it will be moving faster under him then if he is on the other side. I have a feeling this discrepency will quickly cause him to fall.
It said that windows media sent out an id unique for each user as well.
That is what the above poster is talking about.
they could sell that to advertisers. thats the least scary alternative. They could use it to control you. Notice how some IP laws have been getting a bit draconian. But in order to use civil law to control every persons normal activity, you will need a cheap way to get proof. And there you have it. And the third, most dangerous thing is that they could use it to blackmail you. That seems ridiculous right now, but keep in mind that they will have this information always and forever. What looks ridiculous now may seem normal after 20 years. And all the information will still be around. Eventually many Microsoft clients will really mind if there is information about them downloading porn out there.
(extended to DVDs now apparantly). which doesnt seem weird to you, since any dvd that would be in a central database already has the title information on it.
they do it to us an hourly basis. anyways he was right. The unique id part is troubling.
The FSGS (free starcraft game server) was always out there. Nevertheless blizzard made a killing on starcraft. Its true some people used the free servers to play pirated games online, but people that liked the game eventually bought it. Most people that use the free servers actually own the game, but prefer those servers to battle net for various reasons. There are FSGS servers for more skilled players, there are FSGS servers for people in different countries, where connection to battlenet is slow, some people start FSGS servers only for their friends etc. So every body wins. Consumers start their own FSGS servers that are better suited for their needs, and Blizzard does not have to pay for the support for thousands of gamers that would have gone to battlenet otherwise.
I didnt know you got this from Limbaugh but it does feature Limbaugh's patent way of lying while using sources that do not agree with his arguments. (well sometimes his sources are false or fictional)
Now of course Limbaugh is not the only one that uses such strategies, and it is completely possible that you got your information from someone else.
So be it. Stop listening to him to. Apparently he lies to you as well.
I dont know how in the world did you decide i am in favor of big government.
I only saw a post that i knew was false, because i had seen it before and i had checked it out. So I corrected it. My correction was not really connected with any political beliefs of mine, other than desire for the truth.
A note to moderators. I know this discussion is way ot by now. But if you want moderate me down as offtopic, please be kind enough to moderate down every one else discussing exactly the same things. Otherwise you are moderating based on political beliefs.
So how is second guessing state supreme courts part of strict interpretation? It isnt.
I mean i hear such amazing things, like cellphones being able to take and store pictures, and to run email and decent browsing software.
But when cell phones are able to run Microsoft software- that will be quantum leap for the power of portable computing.
he will have to argue in front of them after all. It is bad practice to insult judges you are about to argue in front.
when the supreme court went against all principles of strict interpretation to deny Gore a recount. Regardless of whether you think there should have been a recount or not, noone can argue with a strait face that their decision, which created a new very specific constitutional right to overturn a state court ruling on state law, was the result of strict interpretation. I think the SC is just conservative.
If they win they will not be the only ones, able to use public domain books. Everybody will. It was just more convinient to use bussinesses as plaintiffs, because when they have a real monetary stake in the whole thing it would be easier for them to get standing. But i think the driving force behind this are not the bussinesses but harvard law proffessors.
I totally agree.
Also the phrase "writers and other inventors" is completely ridiculous, because writers are not inventors. An AP reporter should write better than that.
If that AP reporter wanted to be accurate they only needed to say "whether Congress has sided too heavily with Disney co."
And of course when they pointed out the EU they did not mention that the EU does not have the constitutional constraints we have. Conformity with EU is a kind of a pointless issue, because this is not a situation, like technical standards for example, where there is some expected benefit from conformity. Thats like asking to bring the American health care or well fare systems in conformity with the europeans. I mean its meaningful if you especially like the way the europeans do health care, but there is no benefit in conformity in itself.
The so called "Sunny Bono Act" extends copyrights for works that are already existing. Now the people that created these works obviously did not need that 20 year extention as an incentive to create them. In fact that extra 20 years is quite pointless, even for people creating right now. I mean how in the world would any one know wheather your work will be worth squat 20 years after 70 years after the day you die. Thats like between 100- 150 years for most people. You cannot even be sure that people will be cinsuming the same kind of art forms after 150 years. And certainly you will not get a corporation to pay you anything extra for those extra twenty years. Now you think that you should have ownership rights to your works in perpetuity, not only for incentive reasons but for moral ones. Because you created them your grandchildren should own them etc, etc. Well you are free to have that opinion but that is clearly unconstitutional. Congress only has the power to give those right for a limited time. And if congress decides to extend that period indefinately it will not be for a limited time. I think there are good reasons behind this constitutional rule, and it should be given power and not scuttled.
I'd hate to get into a huge out of topic discussion but you assert that the press is free, without responding to why they did not cover the humanitarian disasters in Turkey, Rwanda and East Timor, which are much larger than those of Kososvo.
"And it will be at least a few decades before most nations have any effective defense. "
You mean like mirrors?
I personally do not want you to be the world's cop. I can safely say the same is true for most people in this world.
I would be perfectly happy if no americans went to Bosnia, Kosovo or Somalia.
As far as i am concerned the military should stay here, protecting the US.
Of course i would agree to wars like WW2, but most wars after that (and i apologize if this truth offends you) have been the result of US imperialism, and have not benefited the world at large or most americans either.
And if you believe that politicians send you out there because of the pictures on TV, you are quite naive, my friend. The pictures on TV come only after the politicians decide to send you there.
Thats why you werent sent to Rwanda, or East Timor, or Turkey where some grave human tragedies (much worse than the balkans) happened.
Apparently all the prominent scientists in the world including most of the alive noble laureates in the physical sciences are in some kind of a conspiracy to create meadia and political hype.
But it doesnt mean it wont react relatively predictably to a relatively large input.
And all this carbon dioxide we are sending up is a pretty large input.
to prove that the world's forests are increasing.
Do you see the problem in that?
If you actually read the two out of 300 stories you would know that the shooter stopped because he ran out of bullets, and not because some other kids were pointing guns at him. In fact he was so unfazed that he punched some one while those kids were pointing guns at him. In the end he had to be tackled. So there you have it. And i repeat dont listen to rush he lies to you.