I still have my Sony Walkmans. They are good products and I'd have loved to buy more Sony products but the proprietary nature of their electronic goods makes those products unsuitable for my use. Using my home stereo I'd make running tapes for use in my Walkmans. It was a tedious and long process but that was what the technology allowed for at the time. When the MP3 players started coming out I expected to be able to use a MP3 player the same way I used my Walkman. Did Sony have a device that was as easy and open as the Walkman? No. I end up buying a Gateway DMP 310 USB player which I can plug into my computer via the usb port and using the windows file system I can happily import/export any mp3 files I want. Simple, works and I love it. Got a Rio player because it was inexpensive and seemed easy enough. It's not USB, requires it's own proprietary software, it's own cable, and it does not allow me to move mp3 back from the device to the computer. Much more difficult and much more unnecessary work. I can't treat my own files as my own files since apparently once they are on the mp3 player they apparently don't belong to me any longer. Outrageous. Guess how many more Rio devices I'm going to buy? Yup the same zero number of Sony devices I'll buy. If I can't use it the way I want to use it then why on earth would I want to support a company that treats me like a subject in a feudal kingdom with no rights to the things I buy? Nope. Sorry Sony, you were good once and no matter how good your products I'm not buying from a company that locks up, constrains or otherwise keeps the product from my ability to use it. It's nice that they at last understand why they've lost market share but it'll take a long time and some pretty good nonproprietary electronic devices before I even begin to look at Sony again.
If you feed this man, he'll just keep coming back. He'll keep coming back, raping our childhoods and messing with our memories of a great Star Trek series and a pretty good Next Generation series. After that it's all been crap to include the killing of Captain Kirk in the most asinine nonheroic way possible. He doesn't deserve another penny from any of us to continue sucking dry Rodenberry's ideas and legacy. Don't go away mad Rick Berman, just freaking go away.
So many logical fallacies, so little time. One of the logical fallacies you have made in your argument is called ignoratio elenchi or irrelevant conclusion. You purport to establish a particular conclusion with an argument that has nothing to do with the argument at hand. -Three times removed at that. Do women have different abilities than do men? That I believe was the issue. Not Jewish basketball players or black entertainers, rappers and athletes.
You sir are a victim of the good manners your parents taught you. You probably even answer the phone and speak with telemarketers when you don't want to. Here's what you do when confronted with a cashier who matter of factly asks you for your phone number, your zip code, street address or any other information when you are paying cash money for something. It's what I do and it works every single time. I say NO! So should you. I also tell them I will spend less time coming to any store that bothers me like this. Heck, I won't even go into a Radio Shack anymore and they don't even try do that address/phone number BS any longer.
So if you are paying cash, not buying a controlled item where a registration is required like a gun or a nuke then you should know they have no right whatsoever to ask you for diddle. Nadda, nothing, zippo, zilch. Say it loud and say it proud. NO!
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I don't know about anybody else but I've missed the impending doom and sense of anticipation since we've missed all our other dates at an apocalypse. The various dooms from the Millenium were very entertaining. Now I have another date to circle on the calendar. Yeah.
This argument reminds me of arguments like 'she asked for it' or 'well, you should have locked your doors'. Blaming the victim for not doing everything humanly possible to prevent the crime against them is one step away from anarchy. And make no mistake, this was a crime as defined by the law. The spammers thought that they had a small company that wouldn't and couldn't fight back. The spammers thought they would get away with it as they have always done. In this case the victim fought back. Shame on the spammers and hooray for the victim.
I"m glad that we have such a scientific mind in the White House. Otherwise you know, the power of the United States government might have been duped into actually checking to see if this was really a problem.
As I recall, anytime I foolishly have tried to use one of the many microsoft programs it will do it's very best to try to take over my computer until I come to my senses and spend the huge effort of removing it from my computer. Music or video software that tries to kill winamp and other programs. Software that drms things I rip off of my own CD's. Their browser breaking netscape (back in the day). This program, after Microsoft finishes 'improving' it will kill or disable Ad Aware, Spybot, or anything else you might have on your computer to battle all that spyware that comes onboard through those defective Microsoft programs in the first place. Don't think I'll be trying this one anytime soon. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
I also don't go ballistic in turning off ads. Annoying flash ads are gone. I will not swat the fly and I will not try to shoot the duck and if it has any annoying epileptic inducing strobe it's gone. Click on the 'adblock' tab. Quiet static ads don't bother me so that little 'adblock' tab doesn't get pressed. Any popup that dares to find it's way on my screen get anything from that ad site banned from my computer. I mean you tribalfusion. Thank you Firefox.
Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Jimmmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, Tyrone Power, Gary Cooper. The list goes on and I'm not feeling too good myself. Still and all, I'd rather see Harrison Ford playing Indiana Jones and Sean Connery playing James Bond than seeing someone else try to take their roles.
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Ah let's see. The Emmy Awards are administered by three sister organizations; the Academy of Televison Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
The Emmy Awards recognize excellence within various areas of the television industry. The awards are a symbol of peer recognition from over 12,000 members of the Academy. Each member casts a ballot for the category of competition in their field of expertise.
Willaim Shatner received a nomination for outstanding guest actor in a television drama series and won. The award is from his peers, his fellow actors. So no, I'm not "fscking kidding" you.
As for the non sequitur (I think that's what you might have meant to write) - perhaps a more careful reading by yourself will show that the person who commented reviled the commercials, the acting and the album. The character William Shatner plays in the new show is the character he won the Emmy for. I have an opinion on the Priceline commercials- I like them just fine. I have an opinion on the new album - surprisingly good, the new show- I haven't seen but here is evidence that it might not be bad - the character he plays is a character he won an emmy for. So I won't say its crappy or horrible without seeing it. Generally though - I think Shatner is a fine actor and I've enjoyed his work. And I hope he gets the first ride on the yet unbuilt Virgin vehicle.
Shatner doesn't sing. The guy from Ben Folds Five sings. Just listen to it before going off into uninformed ranting. In fact, it is usually a good practice to make your own decisions based on your own information.
I've got the new album by Shatner. It's freaking wonderful. It's funny, witty, poignant, sad, truthful, and just plain good. I was pleasantly surprised. As was Boing Boing where I got the heads up and a link to the song 'Common People.' I think the song on his CD called 'Has Been' sums it up nicely. It says he is out there still trying and if he's a 'has been' - that means he was something, accomplished something and at least for him- he's still out there trying. Those who have fun criticising and making fun are often 'Never Was' people.
Oh- and the character he's playing in that new show of his- he won an Emmy for it. Must be fairly good acting then eh? And by the way, I find the Priceline commercials funny and entertaining.
We didn't do anything wrong, we don't know of anyone who did anything wrong, we didn't even think about doing anything wrong. And now we'll correct this wrong right away like we could have done years ago. Thank you very much. Love us, we are the good guys. _-Right.
The only good thing you can say about this is that they pulled the trigger quickly before the bad publicity got even worse. After all- when you are caught red handed being a big bully you write a press release just like this one. We didn't do anything wrong, if anything was done wrong it wasn't us and we'll correct it right away now. Humm.
Thank you Homeland Security, thank you FBI, thank you ATF. Thank god that the terrible scourge that is badly copied movies is finally getting the priority attention it deserves. But curses Night Vision Goggles, now I can't take a woman into the movies to just make out without every night vision goggled attendant busting me. I'm conflicted here.
"It makes me grind my teeth together whenever somebody uses 1984 as an analogy for a contemporary phenomenon."
You will need to get yourself a rubber mouth piece to protect those teeth because contemporary phenomenon warrants such a comparison-your grinding teeth and lack of vision notwithstanding.
I don't even give that cashier over at Best Buy my zip code when he/she asks for it so you know darn well the chances of me buying any device that needs my fingerprints, dna or mothers maiden name for me to use it isn't going to be purchased any time this side of the end of time.
Hi there, I'm one of those 'Hand Wringers' who will tell you my own personal experience with Aspertame is that ingesting any amount of it causes me to get a huge migraine headache. It's a mild hobby of mine to avoid the various things that contribute to anything that gives me pain. (with the painful exception of women of course) I own no stock in any sweetener company that I am aware of and I don't go around telling people not to drink the stuff. I merely don't drink it and politely refuse any offers of any product with it. There are no rants about aspertame at my personal website and I'm perfectly happy letting you consume as much of it as you would like.
But, by your own analysis I might take your concerns about those other sweeteners as evidence of your own 'kookiness' as it would lead me to think that perhaps you are a representative of the aspertame makers. If I followed your logic that is.
We can agree to disagree about the worth of Chris Prillo as a host. I thought he was better than fine and I appreciated how very good he was with answers to questions given to him on the fly. The things you didn't like about him were perhaps things that I found more interesting than the usual teleprompter reading person. In any event, thanks for the link and the information I didn't know. I still think calling anyone a 'freak' is a bit too harsh.
See, I love Tech TV, I'm watching it right now actually. It's fun and enlightening. I have no idea what a "Lockergnome freak' is but whatever it is I must be one as well because I liked him just fine and was not happy when Leo replaced him. Part of the reason I liked him as a host was because, as my son said, he's a real person. Not a pretty boy, not a talking head with nothing to say but an actual smart person. A real geek. Probably the kind of fellow who wouldn't call another person a name like a 'Lockergnome'
Let's see, I remember the car cut in half video, the nurse video, the dark NIN like video. Nothing that reminds me of this trailer I just watched. Perhaps you are thinking of a Utada video whose name escapes me at the moment with the wonderful bird flowers and impossible creatures. -But I do love Shinna Ringo videos.
I've got two HP printers, different ones bought at different times. Both share the same annoying habit of letting me know months in advance that I am "LOW ON INK" and that I should go get me some more 40 -50 dollar ink cartridges as soon as possible and change it out. No thanks HP, why don't you allow me to turn off this annoying warning and let me buy cartridges when I darn well feel like it. This isn't even mentioning that the two printers require four different cartridges and that the older printer doesn't even accept the proper ink cartridges any longer. Ahhh, the frustration of printers. Thus sayeth gadlaw.
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I remember when ICQ was a wonder and people from around the world would drop by for a visit and a chat. Now that has changed and the only people who ever want to message me anymore are those 27 year old russian girls with websites and they want me to look at their pictures. Eh? I know where to get good p0rn and it isn't from the web or from fake 27 year old girls. I doubt very seriously that any sort of social networking system in the AOL crapware that ICQ has become can ever be good. -Unless of course there are plenty of pretty 27 year old russian girls who want to really meet me that is. So sayeth the gadlaw.
What I think is really pathetic is your acceptance of the success that one side in the file sharing argument has had in 'defining the terms'- and we all know that if you can define the argument then you are well on the way to winning the argument. Pirates instead of file sharers. Well this is the argument which you pass right on by and define those who share files as pirates. So by definition they are criminals. And from there it's a short trip to the rest of your argument stating that you could define crimes away by simply changing the defintions. Well, gosh, you start off with the changed defintion that agrees with your current point of view and use that very form of nonlogical argument to argue against that nonlogical argument position. Eh?
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I still have my Sony Walkmans. They are good products and I'd have loved to buy more Sony products but the proprietary nature of their electronic goods makes those products unsuitable for my use. Using my home stereo I'd make running tapes for use in my Walkmans. It was a tedious and long process but that was what the technology allowed for at the time. When the MP3 players started coming out I expected to be able to use a MP3 player the same way I used my Walkman. Did Sony have a device that was as easy and open as the Walkman? No. I end up buying a Gateway DMP 310 USB player which I can plug into my computer via the usb port and using the windows file system I can happily import/export any mp3 files I want. Simple, works and I love it. Got a Rio player because it was inexpensive and seemed easy enough. It's not USB, requires it's own proprietary software, it's own cable, and it does not allow me to move mp3 back from the device to the computer. Much more difficult and much more unnecessary work. I can't treat my own files as my own files since apparently once they are on the mp3 player they apparently don't belong to me any longer. Outrageous. Guess how many more Rio devices I'm going to buy? Yup the same zero number of Sony devices I'll buy. If I can't use it the way I want to use it then why on earth would I want to support a company that treats me like a subject in a feudal kingdom with no rights to the things I buy? Nope. Sorry Sony, you were good once and no matter how good your products I'm not buying from a company that locks up, constrains or otherwise keeps the product from my ability to use it. It's nice that they at last understand why they've lost market share but it'll take a long time and some pretty good nonproprietary electronic devices before I even begin to look at Sony again.
If you feed this man, he'll just keep coming back. He'll keep coming back, raping our childhoods and messing with our memories of a great Star Trek series and a pretty good Next Generation series. After that it's all been crap to include the killing of Captain Kirk in the most asinine nonheroic way possible. He doesn't deserve another penny from any of us to continue sucking dry Rodenberry's ideas and legacy. Don't go away mad Rick Berman, just freaking go away.
So many logical fallacies, so little time. One of the logical fallacies you have made in your argument is called ignoratio elenchi or irrelevant conclusion. You purport to establish a particular conclusion with an argument that has nothing to do with the argument at hand. -Three times removed at that. Do women have different abilities than do men? That I believe was the issue. Not Jewish basketball players or black entertainers, rappers and athletes.
You sir are a victim of the good manners your parents taught you. You probably even answer the phone and speak with telemarketers when you don't want to. Here's what you do when confronted with a cashier who matter of factly asks you for your phone number, your zip code, street address or any other information when you are paying cash money for something. It's what I do and it works every single time. I say NO! So should you. I also tell them I will spend less time coming to any store that bothers me like this. Heck, I won't even go into a Radio Shack anymore and they don't even try do that address/phone number BS any longer. So if you are paying cash, not buying a controlled item where a registration is required like a gun or a nuke then you should know they have no right whatsoever to ask you for diddle. Nadda, nothing, zippo, zilch. Say it loud and say it proud. NO! (pet peeve)
I don't know about anybody else but I've missed the impending doom and sense of anticipation since we've missed all our other dates at an apocalypse. The various dooms from the Millenium were very entertaining. Now I have another date to circle on the calendar. Yeah.
This argument reminds me of arguments like 'she asked for it' or 'well, you should have locked your doors'. Blaming the victim for not doing everything humanly possible to prevent the crime against them is one step away from anarchy. And make no mistake, this was a crime as defined by the law. The spammers thought that they had a small company that wouldn't and couldn't fight back. The spammers thought they would get away with it as they have always done. In this case the victim fought back. Shame on the spammers and hooray for the victim.
I"m glad that we have such a scientific mind in the White House. Otherwise you know, the power of the United States government might have been duped into actually checking to see if this was really a problem.
As I recall, anytime I foolishly have tried to use one of the many microsoft programs it will do it's very best to try to take over my computer until I come to my senses and spend the huge effort of removing it from my computer. Music or video software that tries to kill winamp and other programs. Software that drms things I rip off of my own CD's. Their browser breaking netscape (back in the day). This program, after Microsoft finishes 'improving' it will kill or disable Ad Aware, Spybot, or anything else you might have on your computer to battle all that spyware that comes onboard through those defective Microsoft programs in the first place. Don't think I'll be trying this one anytime soon. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
I also don't go ballistic in turning off ads. Annoying flash ads are gone. I will not swat the fly and I will not try to shoot the duck and if it has any annoying epileptic inducing strobe it's gone. Click on the 'adblock' tab. Quiet static ads don't bother me so that little 'adblock' tab doesn't get pressed. Any popup that dares to find it's way on my screen get anything from that ad site banned from my computer. I mean you tribalfusion. Thank you Firefox.
Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Jimmmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, Tyrone Power, Gary Cooper. The list goes on and I'm not feeling too good myself. Still and all, I'd rather see Harrison Ford playing Indiana Jones and Sean Connery playing James Bond than seeing someone else try to take their roles. http://gadlaw.com/
Ah let's see. The Emmy Awards are administered by three sister organizations; the Academy of Televison Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The Emmy Awards recognize excellence within various areas of the television industry. The awards are a symbol of peer recognition from over 12,000 members of the Academy. Each member casts a ballot for the category of competition in their field of expertise. Willaim Shatner received a nomination for outstanding guest actor in a television drama series and won. The award is from his peers, his fellow actors. So no, I'm not "fscking kidding" you. As for the non sequitur (I think that's what you might have meant to write) - perhaps a more careful reading by yourself will show that the person who commented reviled the commercials, the acting and the album. The character William Shatner plays in the new show is the character he won the Emmy for. I have an opinion on the Priceline commercials- I like them just fine. I have an opinion on the new album - surprisingly good, the new show- I haven't seen but here is evidence that it might not be bad - the character he plays is a character he won an emmy for. So I won't say its crappy or horrible without seeing it. Generally though - I think Shatner is a fine actor and I've enjoyed his work. And I hope he gets the first ride on the yet unbuilt Virgin vehicle.
Shatner doesn't sing. The guy from Ben Folds Five sings. Just listen to it before going off into uninformed ranting. In fact, it is usually a good practice to make your own decisions based on your own information.
I've got the new album by Shatner. It's freaking wonderful. It's funny, witty, poignant, sad, truthful, and just plain good. I was pleasantly surprised. As was Boing Boing where I got the heads up and a link to the song 'Common People.' I think the song on his CD called 'Has Been' sums it up nicely. It says he is out there still trying and if he's a 'has been' - that means he was something, accomplished something and at least for him- he's still out there trying. Those who have fun criticising and making fun are often 'Never Was' people. Oh- and the character he's playing in that new show of his- he won an Emmy for it. Must be fairly good acting then eh? And by the way, I find the Priceline commercials funny and entertaining.
We didn't do anything wrong, we don't know of anyone who did anything wrong, we didn't even think about doing anything wrong. And now we'll correct this wrong right away like we could have done years ago. Thank you very much. Love us, we are the good guys. _-Right.
The only good thing you can say about this is that they pulled the trigger quickly before the bad publicity got even worse. After all- when you are caught red handed being a big bully you write a press release just like this one. We didn't do anything wrong, if anything was done wrong it wasn't us and we'll correct it right away now. Humm.
Thank you Homeland Security, thank you FBI, thank you ATF. Thank god that the terrible scourge that is badly copied movies is finally getting the priority attention it deserves. But curses Night Vision Goggles, now I can't take a woman into the movies to just make out without every night vision goggled attendant busting me. I'm conflicted here.
"It makes me grind my teeth together whenever somebody uses 1984 as an analogy for a contemporary phenomenon." You will need to get yourself a rubber mouth piece to protect those teeth because contemporary phenomenon warrants such a comparison-your grinding teeth and lack of vision notwithstanding.
I don't even give that cashier over at Best Buy my zip code when he/she asks for it so you know darn well the chances of me buying any device that needs my fingerprints, dna or mothers maiden name for me to use it isn't going to be purchased any time this side of the end of time.
Hi there, I'm one of those 'Hand Wringers' who will tell you my own personal experience with Aspertame is that ingesting any amount of it causes me to get a huge migraine headache. It's a mild hobby of mine to avoid the various things that contribute to anything that gives me pain. (with the painful exception of women of course) I own no stock in any sweetener company that I am aware of and I don't go around telling people not to drink the stuff. I merely don't drink it and politely refuse any offers of any product with it. There are no rants about aspertame at my personal website and I'm perfectly happy letting you consume as much of it as you would like. But, by your own analysis I might take your concerns about those other sweeteners as evidence of your own 'kookiness' as it would lead me to think that perhaps you are a representative of the aspertame makers. If I followed your logic that is.
We can agree to disagree about the worth of Chris Prillo as a host. I thought he was better than fine and I appreciated how very good he was with answers to questions given to him on the fly. The things you didn't like about him were perhaps things that I found more interesting than the usual teleprompter reading person. In any event, thanks for the link and the information I didn't know. I still think calling anyone a 'freak' is a bit too harsh.
See, I love Tech TV, I'm watching it right now actually. It's fun and enlightening. I have no idea what a "Lockergnome freak' is but whatever it is I must be one as well because I liked him just fine and was not happy when Leo replaced him. Part of the reason I liked him as a host was because, as my son said, he's a real person. Not a pretty boy, not a talking head with nothing to say but an actual smart person. A real geek. Probably the kind of fellow who wouldn't call another person a name like a 'Lockergnome'
Let's see, I remember the car cut in half video, the nurse video, the dark NIN like video. Nothing that reminds me of this trailer I just watched. Perhaps you are thinking of a Utada video whose name escapes me at the moment with the wonderful bird flowers and impossible creatures. -But I do love Shinna Ringo videos.
I've got two HP printers, different ones bought at different times. Both share the same annoying habit of letting me know months in advance that I am "LOW ON INK" and that I should go get me some more 40 -50 dollar ink cartridges as soon as possible and change it out. No thanks HP, why don't you allow me to turn off this annoying warning and let me buy cartridges when I darn well feel like it. This isn't even mentioning that the two printers require four different cartridges and that the older printer doesn't even accept the proper ink cartridges any longer. Ahhh, the frustration of printers. Thus sayeth gadlaw.
Humm, I remember when ICQ was a wonder and people from around the world would drop by for a visit and a chat. Now that has changed and the only people who ever want to message me anymore are those 27 year old russian girls with websites and they want me to look at their pictures. Eh? I know where to get good p0rn and it isn't from the web or from fake 27 year old girls. I doubt very seriously that any sort of social networking system in the AOL crapware that ICQ has become can ever be good. -Unless of course there are plenty of pretty 27 year old russian girls who want to really meet me that is. So sayeth the gadlaw.
What I think is really pathetic is your acceptance of the success that one side in the file sharing argument has had in 'defining the terms'- and we all know that if you can define the argument then you are well on the way to winning the argument. Pirates instead of file sharers. Well this is the argument which you pass right on by and define those who share files as pirates. So by definition they are criminals. And from there it's a short trip to the rest of your argument stating that you could define crimes away by simply changing the defintions. Well, gosh, you start off with the changed defintion that agrees with your current point of view and use that very form of nonlogical argument to argue against that nonlogical argument position. Eh?