Who says life was ever FAIR anyway?
And besides, the thing holding back humanity fron further evolution is this incessant, ridiculous idea that somehow humans have the "right" to their own, exclusive piece of land based on what bullshit god they bow to or what shade of pigment is in their skin.
Rubbish, I say.
The Israelis don't have a right to a homeland, Palestinians don't have a right to a homeland, nor does anyone on this planet.
I believe that this is the "make or break" idea of humanity at the moment.
As a matter of fact, let's stop this talk of the word "rights"
There are in fact no such tangible things in life called "rights"
You either do as you wish or you do not.
You are either free, or you are slave.
Here is the text in full.
I agree wholeheartedly with you, sir, on the issue of IP, and, furthermore believe that it would be in the best interest of ALL Americans if in order to curb digital piracy, the Entertainment industry worked together with the IP community and the makers of processors and microchips in order to more accurately follow the trends of media consumption.
I propose a brave new world order to you Sir, and with the cooperation of a company like Verisign, and the broad, important, vitally necessary powers the President and Government have recently obtained through the Office of Homeland Security, and The Office of Information Awareness, I am certain that in a year's time we can have every American citizen fitted with a simple microchip for identification purposes.
I am also certain that you realize the very real marketing opportunity afforded to a company such as Disney, and I simply cannot contain the joy within my heart, the joy which cries out, that finally, the new world order is upon us, and the forces of right and power will have soon taken their rightly place amongst the kings of the earthly empire, and that one day we may all be subjected to one authority, that of equality, under the Empire, with scorn for the dissident and praise for the polyglot cultural renaissance!!
HAIL THE NEW WORLD ORDER!!
HAIL BUSH!!
HAIL DISNEY!!!!
Anthony Passonno
Funny, and ironic that Weltanschauung has been used twice in the same story, once in my reply to some stupid Nazi Whore hailing Ian Stuart and Adolph Hitler, and now you.
I find nothing repellent in the statement of those words, but do you have to confuse the issue with that juvenile salute to Degenerate Adolph Hitler?
If you, as a self professed fan of 'mallcore', have any interest in your European Ancestry, perhaps it would do you some good to check out work from Blood Axis, Death in June, The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud, Der Blutharsch, and Laibach.
These bands represent the true renaissance in the formulation of a new vocabulary of the European Weltaanschaung, or World View.
Namely, help your friends migrate to Linux, find open source solutions already in place for office productivity, games and networking, write and distribute music and audio production software for Linux comparable to that on Windows, such as Acid or Cubase, and watch the user base grow.
That's the real issue though, isn't it?
You guys apparently don't want to grow the user base of Linux, nor do many of you actually care whether or not people use GNU/Linux as much as many of you simply hate Microsoft.
Well, fair enough, MS has a poor record as far as it's anti-competitive behaviour, and Windows 98 is a piece of Shit OS without lots of hard work and hours upon hours of patching.
Windows XP, however, when properly patched and firewalled, and with certain "services" shut off, works very very well, with as much uptime as I wish to eat kilowatt hours.
So, Linux users, instead of FUD, and bashing, why don't you actually steer people toward a solution, rather than mock and villify them for not being able or willing to run an OS (Damn good one too)that often requires them to edit text files and scripts from a command line to do something as simple as set up a video card, which, in Windows XP happens automatically.
If, as the article claims, the decoding of A/V happens at ChipLevel, and with Palladium, A/V without a license key will not decode, what does this mean for me? I am a musician, independent, and with little marketability considering the industries standards.
I do wonder if perhaps this will make it either next to impossible or seriously cost prohibitive to produce music without paying a distribution/cartel licensing fee to the content industry.
Hey Tshak, I have a question, and small favor to ask(not bad for a total stranger, huh?!)
The Meetup sounds cool, but i need to be in Portland on the 22nd.
Go for Bauhaus!!
Anyway, here's my ?.
I am a musician, and currently use winxp, cuz the Linux support ain't totally there yet.
So, since I can't be there to bring it up, perhaps you could. In particular the support of soundfonts(i know of sfx load, but it wasn't very intuitive (I know I should have rtfm!))with the Sblive Value.
if someone could show me how to set up something like Mandrake or Lycoris for the optimum use for audio and midi I would be a new convert, which, I suspect, well, the reason so many people use windows who know better only do so becasue they have no feasible 'nix alternative.
Thanks for your time
Anthony Passonno
So, are you somehow implying that EVERY american is a xian? Yeah, Brasil is REAL CIVILISED.
The reason why we like to put people to death here, and I do realise that it ain't perfect, but when a crime is so heinous that life in prison seems like a favor, well, revenge is a good thing, and society needs catharsis and the feeling(whether or not it's a valid one) that some measure of justice has been meted out.
I frankly think that the we are far TOO CIVILISED here in the USA; If it were up to me, I would allow the families of victims in certain cases to carry out their own personal death sentence.
Of course, as many in the world believe, and I am not trying to step on toes here, or to be overly patriotic, but when anyone from a country such as practically any in Europe has the audacity to criticise our system of jsutice while not being allowed in their own homes to defend themselves, to own a weapon, to own a firearm.
Not that the threat of an armed public citizenry has stopped the AA's, the Corps and the MultiNAtionals ffrom consolidating their power.
I am not normally the litigious type, but in this case, I would be willing to make an exception.
Is there not one enterprising young Internet savvy Attorney or firm out there that would be willing to take on the case of at least suing these two people, and their companies?
C'mon, I know someone out there is just itching to recieve the kudos, the notoriety, the lavish praise and the adoration of millions by sending these pusilanimous PIG FUCKERS to the poor house and thus setting legal precedent.
Please, I beg of you, any one here who is either a lawyer or knows one should get the ball rolling.
I caught this last night while surfing, I think it speaks for itself:
"Then there's Microsoft's Palladium approach and the separate Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) project, both of which anticipate the embedding of special security chips in PCs. Since Biden's bill prohibits "illicit authentication features" attached to software, it could become unlawful to distribute software that would run on a Palladium-outfitted computer without Microsoft's permission."
A soundfont is a sound sample, created by EMU Corp., which is stretched along the keys of a keyboard, so it can be played as an instrument.
I use them extensively, for example to get those old analog sounds like the Moog and Mellotron, without the overhead of having to own or maintain these monstrosities.
The Soundfont works by using the chip on the soundblaster sound card.
Big important question;
Will it take a college degree in CS and weeks searching Google in order to get it to properly support soundfonts and the SbLive?
If not, I would be into it, otherwise, WinXP works fine for me/
"When a man strikes your left cheek, Smash his cheek!!"
"Blood for Blood, Woe for Woe"
In any sort of combat situation, there are only two types of people. You, and your enemy. Is that clear? Perhaps our society would do better to not listen to the likes of Gandhi or Christ, the Nazarene fool.
Pacifism will work when and only when none of us has arms, legs, teeth, and when there are no weapons of any kind, including, rocks, trees, etc.
When I am attacked, I strike mercilessly, and without warning.
The RIAA had it coming, straight up.
The Strong shall inherit the Earth! The Meek shall inherit the Yoke!
I have tried, but frankly since I cannot use Linux for what I need(Music Production/Use of Soundfont/SbLive)I have dropped both Slackware and Lycoris.
Even Demudi(Debian Music Distro) does not have support forthcoming for Soundfonts, and, I know it sounds petty, but I gotta use what I gotta use to get shit done, and Winxp does that for me.
Any of you hotshot kernel hackers wanna try and get soundfonts to work under Linux?
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Who says life was ever FAIR anyway? And besides, the thing holding back humanity fron further evolution is this incessant, ridiculous idea that somehow humans have the "right" to their own, exclusive piece of land based on what bullshit god they bow to or what shade of pigment is in their skin. Rubbish, I say. The Israelis don't have a right to a homeland, Palestinians don't have a right to a homeland, nor does anyone on this planet. I believe that this is the "make or break" idea of humanity at the moment.
As a matter of fact, let's stop this talk of the word "rights" There are in fact no such tangible things in life called "rights" You either do as you wish or you do not. You are either free, or you are slave.
Thank you!!
And you fail tp see the point:
Future Criminals? Who gets to determine that? Then, where'es the Citizen Oversight?
There won't be any. And the real purpose of TIA is to spy and track ALL Americans.
By the way, Poindexter was in fact convicted in the Iran Contra Scandal, He WAS a Convicted Felon, but it was later overturned.
Here is the text in full. I agree wholeheartedly with you, sir, on the issue of IP, and, furthermore believe that it would be in the best interest of ALL Americans if in order to curb digital piracy, the Entertainment industry worked together with the IP community and the makers of processors and microchips in order to more accurately follow the trends of media consumption. I propose a brave new world order to you Sir, and with the cooperation of a company like Verisign, and the broad, important, vitally necessary powers the President and Government have recently obtained through the Office of Homeland Security, and The Office of Information Awareness, I am certain that in a year's time we can have every American citizen fitted with a simple microchip for identification purposes. I am also certain that you realize the very real marketing opportunity afforded to a company such as Disney, and I simply cannot contain the joy within my heart, the joy which cries out, that finally, the new world order is upon us, and the forces of right and power will have soon taken their rightly place amongst the kings of the earthly empire, and that one day we may all be subjected to one authority, that of equality, under the Empire, with scorn for the dissident and praise for the polyglot cultural renaissance!! HAIL THE NEW WORLD ORDER!! HAIL BUSH!! HAIL DISNEY!!!! Anthony Passonno
I use POW from AnalogX.com.
As a matter of fact, I just added their site to my block list.
Fuck 'em.
It has to be said: Gotta get a Beowulf Cluster of these!!! Sorry
You must be a fan, or possible descendant of, Salieri.
Funny, and ironic that Weltanschauung has been used twice in the same story, once in my reply to some stupid Nazi Whore hailing Ian Stuart and Adolph Hitler, and now you.
Ahh. How enlightening.
The fourteen words.
I find nothing repellent in the statement of those words, but do you have to confuse the issue with that juvenile salute to Degenerate Adolph Hitler?
If you, as a self professed fan of 'mallcore', have any interest in your European Ancestry, perhaps it would do you some good to check out work from Blood Axis, Death in June, The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud, Der Blutharsch, and Laibach.
These bands represent the true renaissance in the formulation of a new vocabulary of the European Weltaanschaung, or World View.
Reject Materialism, MtV, and the Corporation.
Find your soul.
A good place to start looking would be Mozart.
Come on now.
Very simple solution to this problem.
Namely, help your friends migrate to Linux, find open source solutions already in place for office productivity, games and networking, write and distribute music and audio production software for Linux comparable to that on Windows, such as Acid or Cubase, and watch the user base grow.
That's the real issue though, isn't it?
You guys apparently don't want to grow the user base of Linux, nor do many of you actually care whether or not people use GNU/Linux as much as many of you simply hate Microsoft.
Well, fair enough, MS has a poor record as far as it's anti-competitive behaviour, and Windows 98 is a piece of Shit OS without lots of hard work and hours upon hours of patching.
Windows XP, however, when properly patched and firewalled, and with certain "services" shut off, works very very well, with as much uptime as I wish to eat kilowatt hours.
So, Linux users, instead of FUD, and bashing, why don't you actually steer people toward a solution, rather than mock and villify them for not being able or willing to run an OS (Damn good one too)that often requires them to edit text files and scripts from a command line to do something as simple as set up a video card, which, in Windows XP happens automatically.
I'm waiting........................
I have a sincere question.
If, as the article claims, the decoding of A/V happens at ChipLevel, and with Palladium, A/V without a license key will not decode, what does this mean for me? I am a musician, independent, and with little marketability considering the industries standards.
I do wonder if perhaps this will make it either next to impossible or seriously cost prohibitive to produce music without paying a distribution/cartel licensing fee to the content industry.
Hey Tshak, I have a question, and small favor to ask(not bad for a total stranger, huh?!) The Meetup sounds cool, but i need to be in Portland on the 22nd. Go for Bauhaus!! Anyway, here's my ?. I am a musician, and currently use winxp, cuz the Linux support ain't totally there yet. So, since I can't be there to bring it up, perhaps you could. In particular the support of soundfonts(i know of sfx load, but it wasn't very intuitive (I know I should have rtfm!))with the Sblive Value. if someone could show me how to set up something like Mandrake or Lycoris for the optimum use for audio and midi I would be a new convert, which, I suspect, well, the reason so many people use windows who know better only do so becasue they have no feasible 'nix alternative. Thanks for your time Anthony Passonno
So, are you somehow implying that EVERY american is a xian? Yeah, Brasil is REAL CIVILISED.
The reason why we like to put people to death here, and I do realise that it ain't perfect, but when a crime is so heinous that life in prison seems like a favor, well, revenge is a good thing, and society needs catharsis and the feeling(whether or not it's a valid one) that some measure of justice has been meted out.
I frankly think that the we are far TOO CIVILISED here in the USA; If it were up to me, I would allow the families of victims in certain cases to carry out their own personal death sentence.
Of course, as many in the world believe, and I am not trying to step on toes here, or to be overly patriotic, but when anyone from a country such as practically any in Europe has the audacity to criticise our system of jsutice while not being allowed in their own homes to defend themselves, to own a weapon, to own a firearm.
Not that the threat of an armed public citizenry has stopped the AA's, the Corps and the MultiNAtionals ffrom consolidating their power.
I am not normally the litigious type, but in this case, I would be willing to make an exception. Is there not one enterprising young Internet savvy Attorney or firm out there that would be willing to take on the case of at least suing these two people, and their companies? C'mon, I know someone out there is just itching to recieve the kudos, the notoriety, the lavish praise and the adoration of millions by sending these pusilanimous PIG FUCKERS to the poor house and thus setting legal precedent. Please, I beg of you, any one here who is either a lawyer or knows one should get the ball rolling.
Bravo!!!
I for one am a huge fan of Vlad Tepes, the OG Dracula(pronounced "Dra Kool Ya")
Now we need some way to get to the politicians!
thanks, I will be looking into this one of these days
I caught this last night while surfing, I think it speaks for itself:
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"Then there's Microsoft's Palladium approach and the separate Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) project, both of which anticipate the embedding of special security chips in PCs. Since Biden's bill prohibits "illicit authentication features" attached to software, it could become unlawful to distribute software that would run on a Palladium-outfitted computer without Microsoft's permission."
http://news.com.com/2010-1071-946732.html?tag=f
A soundfont is a sound sample, created by EMU Corp., which is stretched along the keys of a keyboard, so it can be played as an instrument. I use them extensively, for example to get those old analog sounds like the Moog and Mellotron, without the overhead of having to own or maintain these monstrosities. The Soundfont works by using the chip on the soundblaster sound card.
Big important question; Will it take a college degree in CS and weeks searching Google in order to get it to properly support soundfonts and the SbLive? If not, I would be into it, otherwise, WinXP works fine for me/
I actually use Winxp Pro to run Cubase, Sound Forge, etc, and I have no problems.
Welcome to the new world order........
The time for pacifism is over, people, the time for action has begun, no more peace, but TOTAL WAR!!
Doesn't anyone else have a problem with corporations owning entire strains and eventually genus(ii?) of crops and animals?
Science and technology will always take a back seat to nature!!
Hardly, little man.
Anonymous coward, indeed.
Moral High Ground?!
HA!!
"When a man strikes your left cheek, Smash his cheek!!"
"Blood for Blood, Woe for Woe"
In any sort of combat situation, there are only two types of people. You, and your enemy. Is that clear? Perhaps our society would do better to not listen to the likes of Gandhi or Christ, the Nazarene fool.
Pacifism will work when and only when none of us has arms, legs, teeth, and when there are no weapons of any kind, including, rocks, trees, etc.
When I am attacked, I strike mercilessly, and without warning.
The RIAA had it coming, straight up.
The Strong shall inherit the Earth!
The Meek shall inherit the Yoke!
Ok,
I have tried, but frankly since I cannot use Linux for what I need(Music Production/Use of Soundfont/SbLive)I have dropped both Slackware and Lycoris.
Even Demudi(Debian Music Distro) does not have support forthcoming for Soundfonts, and, I know it sounds petty, but I gotta use what I gotta use to get shit done, and Winxp does that for me.
Any of you hotshot kernel hackers wanna try and get soundfonts to work under Linux?