Apparently, not that many. This survey says only about 4% of Americans have actually gotten a full length movie online. A little over 1/2 are not even aware of the concept.
If I'd been caught by contractors and they'd summoned the police, most likely I'd have been given a stern telling off and my parents would have been called to collect me, but I didn't face any criminal charges, because no criminal offense had been committed
Trespass.
But then again, we grew up in a simpler time. The police and other authorities were much more likely to just hand you back to your parents for a very minor crime such as that. There was a much greater expectation that the parent would actually do something. Today, however, the rule of Zero Tolerance comes into play, and kids can and do get police records (howver minor) for truly silly stuff.
How dumb would our legal system look if it found this guy guilty of copyright violation for complete silence?
There might be two things dumber. 1. The 'musician'/producer/advertiser who actually thought someone would be dumb enough to spend actual money on an individual track of complete silence, and 2. The person that actually did pay for it.
I leave it to the reader to determine which is dumber.
It generated a LOT of discussion. And not necessarily higher ratings for the game, but definitely higher ratings/sales/interest for a failing star's latest album.
The halftime show was produced by MTV. Which is a subsidiary of Viacom. Guess who else is a subsidiary/partner of Viacom. CBS. Whose network the Superbowl was on.
First of all.. what about things like Janet Jacksons Nipple "accident"? Why was there such an outrage over the display of a body part common to half of the population? Where was any harm done? Why did the broadcasting station have to pay a fine? How is that different from banning certain HTML and GIFs?
Janet's nipple isn't banned on every potential TV outlet, only on the limited number of broadcast ones. Rightly or wrongly, the FCC has the charter for regulation of what goes out over the broadcast airwaves. They were following their own guidelines. Absent any regulation, content for TV shows and ads would be determined solely by the advertisers and networks. And we all know how well they regulate themselves. Anything for higher ratings. And Janet's floppy boob got exactly that. Higher ratings and interest.
The advertisers and networks will push the envelope, putting more and more unwanted images on the box.
Again...it's not a case of that boob being 'censored', or something 'wrong with it', it's a case of it not being available on every single outlet and TV channel, at any time of the day and night.
Somewhat offtopic, but how do people get spyware on their computers in the first place?
A supercool new 'toolbar'. Or a 'password wallet'. Or some shareware game.
The thing is...all these things are installed by the user. Not just a drive-by kind of thing, where you get stuck simply by going to a particular website. These are things that the user 'thinks' s/he wants. But they get the obnoxious stuff with it.
You know, when I die, I think I will put a clause in my will that requires my next of kin to pay the estate taxes themselves, and LIVE in my house, not sell it.
The judges are all old. Have you ever seen old people move fast on anything? Ok....maybe that old fool you saw on the highway last week, but usually, no. Slow as molasses.
You know, when I die, I think I will put a clause in my will that requires my next of kin to pay the estate taxes themselves, and LIVE in my house, not sell it.
Unfeasible. I recently went through this, and living in it would have meant moving 400 miles (hey...no job), and taking over another $120,000 mortgage. Not happening. I hated selling it. But financially, there were few options.
For example, after Christmas, I sent 6 movies back to NFLX and BB on the same day. All three BB movies arrived before the first two from NFLX. What gives?
I had exactly the opposite experience. The Netflix movies arrived, and and were back in the mail before the BB movies arrived.
Probably has to do with distance to whichever shipping center is closest.
I've had Netflix for about 18 months, and I havent seen this at all. For instance, last week. 3 movies arrived on Tuesday. Sent them back Wednesday morning, 3 new movies arrived on Saturday.
As a comparison, I'm also trying out BlockBuster, and have found Netflix consistently faster by 1 or 2 days every time.
BB gets cancelled at the end of this month, even though it's a couple $$ cheaper, and gives you 2 free at the store.
Analogy: Milk has an expiry date. If you use old milk, that's your business. The milk company don't prevent you from using milk that's a couple of days past expiry (though maybe if they could figure out technology to do this they would).
The milk company (and the law) can prevent the store from selling it past that date.
Well...if you concentrate on on the junk, I can see your point. Thankfully, it is not ALL crap. History channel, NatGeo and a few others make up for a LOT of "The Apprentice:Mike Tyson Edition" and "The Simpleton Life".
Ideally, these jerkwad marketers should realize that people using pop-up blockers do not want to see their ads
They do not care. The people putting up those ads are not the same people sellling you the piece of crap. The marketers, be it a division within, or a separate company, sells your eyeballs to the retailer/manufacturer. They don't care if you personally want the piece of junk or not. What matters is that you saw it. And they can sell that to someone.
One day, we will all realize that for a large segment of the industry, we are not the consumer. We are the product. The are selling your eyes/ears/minds/personal info. Every day, all day.
On the other hand, if you happen to leave your connection unsecured, and your neighbors just happen to piggyback onto it, you aren't actually redistributing, are you? After all, the user agreement does not oblige you to secure your network.
Again, from the RoadRunner Subscription Agreement: 2. General.
(g) Subscriber is responsible in all respects for all use of Subscriber's account, including under any screen name, user name or password by any person, and all use by others of Subscriber's account is subject to the terms hereof and the Terms of Use. For the purposes of this Agreement, all use of Subscriber's account, whether or not authorized by Subscriber, shall be deemed Subscriber's use.
It might NOT turn out to be an AWFUL Shi'ite theocracy aligned with Iran.
It could turn out to be a REALLY COOL Shi'ite theocracy aligned with Iran.
Either way (or something else entirely), it will be what they choose to do. Whether we (the West) likes what Iraq turns into is irrelevant. Do the majority of Iraqis like it?
We know it was an "AWFUL Ba'athist dictatorship" under Saddam. Is it possible for it to be worse, however the elections and ensuing policies turn out? I don't think so.
Are you really so morally crippled that you see no difference between letting things develop naturally versus imposing your will by force?
Did I say there was no difference between change from within or from without? No. But either way, it does not happen overnight.
2 years. How long did the same process take in Japan and Germany after WWII? How long did it take for the Soviet Union/Russia to move away from pseudocommunism to whatever it is they have now? When do YOU think the elections should have been held? What day would have been acceptable to you?
If it had gone much faster, people would be bitching that the Iraqis were not given enough time to hold the election.
I do not agree with how this second half of the 13 year long conflict got started. But now that the US has gone down this road, it must be seen to completion. Anything else would be far more cruel than what is going on now.
If I can legally do that in my own home (and I guess it would be pretty weird if I couldn't), what's stopping me from sharing the same line with one or two neighbours if I would be living alone (instead of with others) ?
In the US, residential service is supposed to be for one residence. A lot of people do it (I did the same 25 years ago with cable TV, and am about to do it with my current connection), but that doesn't mean the provider has to like it or authorize it. Who does the neighbor call for a service issue? You, or the cable company?
From the TimeWarner RoadRunner service Acceptable Use Policy:
"...the RoadRunner service is provided to you for personal, non-commercial use only."
From the TimeWarner RoadRunner Cable Modem Service
Subscription Agreement
"5. Subscriber Conduct.(d)
Subscriber will not resell the Road Runner Service, or any portion thereof, or otherwise charge others to use the Road Runner Service, or any portion thereof. Further, Subscriber will not redistribute the Road Runner Service, or any portion thereof, whether or not Subscriber receives compensation for such redistribution. The Road Runner Service as offered under this Agreement is a residential service offered for personal, non-commercial use only."
Each house/apt/condo is supposed to pay for their own connection.
Having been on CMM Level 2 and 3 cert teams while in the US Air Force, I can say that your statement "Most companies in India are certified CMM level 5" is absolute crap. Level 5 is incredibly hard to get right. It takes years to do. You have to build up a history of process management and consistent development style, not just a one time shot.
If your statement (numerous Level 5's) is anywhere near true, it probably speaks to faking and corruption within the cert teams and local certification process, rather than actual CMM Level 5 process management. Not denigrating Indian developers and project managers, but I simply don't believe your Level 5 claim.
In front of a truly independant cert team, even faking it is incredibly hard.
Likewise, the American attempt to knock down Iraq has proven to be misguided, since they had no plan for what was going to follow it.
Jebus! The results from the first relatively free Iraqi election only came in a few days ago. Let's give the process some time to work out before it's declared 'proven to be misguided'.
It's OK for freedoms in China to be "slow in coming", but not in Iraq? Why?
I love the new A9 search tools, but until their overt privacy policies correspond to their covert privacy policies, I'm going to be highly discriminating in when I use A9/Amazon to search for anything.
In light of this highly suspect 'functionality'(read spyware), there is nothing that compelling to continue to use A9.
In other words: "I love my Bonzi Buddy, but I'll be highly discriminating when I use it for anything."
BB is only $16/month, Netflix is $18. And BB gives you 2 free in-store rentals per month.
I've had a NetFLix acct for a couple of years, and recently signed up for BB as a comparison to see which one I want to keep.
Still not sure which one, but NetFlix has a faster turnaround. Sending 3 movies back to each, at the same time, NetFlix had 3 new ones in the mail before BB acknowledged getting the returns.
No we are going to know the warhead was launched just seconds after it's take off because of our sophisticated system of sattelites and monitoring systems, leaving us with plenty of time to launch our own missle to blow the nuke in mid-air.
Yes, we can locate, identify, and track a missile seconds after it is launched. But "our own missile" to intercept an ICBM does not exist yet.
I speak as someone with first hand knowledge of our sattelite capabilities and I'll just leave it at that;)
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Apparently, not that many. This survey says only about 4% of Americans have actually gotten a full length movie online. A little over 1/2 are not even aware of the concept.
The stuntman isn't making those millions.
Not saying it is, or isn't, but Palast seems to be lacking a certain number of actual facts, and instead seem to be relying on rhetoric.
Show me the facts.
Trespass.
But then again, we grew up in a simpler time. The police and other authorities were much more likely to just hand you back to your parents for a very minor crime such as that. There was a much greater expectation that the parent would actually do something. Today, however, the rule of Zero Tolerance comes into play, and kids can and do get police records (howver minor) for truly silly stuff.
There might be two things dumber.
1. The 'musician'/producer/advertiser who actually thought someone would be dumb enough to spend actual money on an individual track of complete silence, and
2. The person that actually did pay for it.
I leave it to the reader to determine which is dumber.
The halftime show was produced by MTV. Which is a subsidiary of Viacom. Guess who else is a subsidiary/partner of Viacom. CBS. Whose network the Superbowl was on.
Follow the money.
Janet's nipple isn't banned on every potential TV outlet, only on the limited number of broadcast ones. Rightly or wrongly, the FCC has the charter for regulation of what goes out over the broadcast airwaves. They were following their own guidelines. Absent any regulation, content for TV shows and ads would be determined solely by the advertisers and networks. And we all know how well they regulate themselves. Anything for higher ratings. And Janet's floppy boob got exactly that. Higher ratings and interest.
The advertisers and networks will push the envelope, putting more and more unwanted images on the box.
Again...it's not a case of that boob being 'censored', or something 'wrong with it', it's a case of it not being available on every single outlet and TV channel, at any time of the day and night.
A supercool new 'toolbar'. Or a 'password wallet'. Or some shareware game.
The thing is...all these things are installed by the user. Not just a drive-by kind of thing, where you get stuck simply by going to a particular website. These are things that the user 'thinks' s/he wants. But they get the obnoxious stuff with it.
The judges are all old. Have you ever seen old people move fast on anything? Ok....maybe that old fool you saw on the highway last week, but usually, no. Slow as molasses.
Unfeasible. I recently went through this, and living in it would have meant moving 400 miles (hey...no job), and taking over another $120,000 mortgage. Not happening. I hated selling it. But financially, there were few options.
I had exactly the opposite experience. The Netflix movies arrived, and and were back in the mail before the BB movies arrived.
Probably has to do with distance to whichever shipping center is closest.
As a comparison, I'm also trying out BlockBuster, and have found Netflix consistently faster by 1 or 2 days every time.
BB gets cancelled at the end of this month, even though it's a couple $$ cheaper, and gives you 2 free at the store.
The milk company (and the law) can prevent the store from selling it past that date.
Well...if you concentrate on on the junk, I can see your point. Thankfully, it is not ALL crap. History channel, NatGeo and a few others make up for a LOT of "The Apprentice:Mike Tyson Edition" and "The Simpleton Life".
They do not care. The people putting up those ads are not the same people sellling you the piece of crap. The marketers, be it a division within, or a separate company, sells your eyeballs to the retailer/manufacturer. They don't care if you personally want the piece of junk or not. What matters is that you saw it. And they can sell that to someone.
One day, we will all realize that for a large segment of the industry, we are not the consumer. We are the product. The are selling your eyes/ears/minds/personal info. Every day, all day.
Again, from the RoadRunner Subscription Agreement:
2. General.
(g) Subscriber is responsible in all respects for all use of Subscriber's account, including under any screen name, user name or password by any person, and all use by others of Subscriber's account is subject to the terms hereof and the Terms of Use. For the purposes of this Agreement, all use of Subscriber's account, whether or not authorized by Subscriber, shall be deemed Subscriber's use.
Your connection, your responsibility.
It could turn out to be a REALLY COOL Shi'ite theocracy aligned with Iran.
Either way (or something else entirely), it will be what they choose to do. Whether we (the West) likes what Iraq turns into is irrelevant. Do the majority of Iraqis like it?
We know it was an "AWFUL Ba'athist dictatorship" under Saddam. Is it possible for it to be worse, however the elections and ensuing policies turn out? I don't think so.
Are you really so morally crippled that you see no difference between letting things develop naturally versus imposing your will by force?
Did I say there was no difference between change from within or from without? No. But either way, it does not happen overnight.
2 years. How long did the same process take in Japan and Germany after WWII? How long did it take for the Soviet Union/Russia to move away from pseudocommunism to whatever it is they have now?
When do YOU think the elections should have been held? What day would have been acceptable to you?
If it had gone much faster, people would be bitching that the Iraqis were not given enough time to hold the election.
I do not agree with how this second half of the 13 year long conflict got started. But now that the US has gone down this road, it must be seen to completion. Anything else would be far more cruel than what is going on now.
In the US, residential service is supposed to be for one residence. A lot of people do it (I did the same 25 years ago with cable TV, and am about to do it with my current connection), but that doesn't mean the provider has to like it or authorize it. Who does the neighbor call for a service issue? You, or the cable company?
From the TimeWarner RoadRunner service Acceptable Use Policy:
"...the RoadRunner service is provided to you for personal, non-commercial use only."
From the TimeWarner RoadRunner Cable Modem Service Subscription Agreement
"5. Subscriber Conduct.(d)
Subscriber will not resell the Road Runner Service, or any portion thereof, or otherwise charge others to use the Road Runner Service, or any portion thereof. Further, Subscriber will not redistribute the Road Runner Service, or any portion thereof, whether or not Subscriber receives compensation for such redistribution. The Road Runner Service as offered under this Agreement is a residential service offered for personal, non-commercial use only."
Each house/apt/condo is supposed to pay for their own connection.
If your statement (numerous Level 5's) is anywhere near true, it probably speaks to faking and corruption within the cert teams and local certification process, rather than actual CMM Level 5 process management. Not denigrating Indian developers and project managers, but I simply don't believe your Level 5 claim.
In front of a truly independant cert team, even faking it is incredibly hard.
Jebus! The results from the first relatively free Iraqi election only came in a few days ago. Let's give the process some time to work out before it's declared 'proven to be misguided'.
It's OK for freedoms in China to be "slow in coming", but not in Iraq? Why?
In light of this highly suspect 'functionality'(read spyware), there is nothing that compelling to continue to use A9.
In other words:
"I love my Bonzi Buddy, but I'll be highly discriminating when I use it for anything."
Either a book or the insides of my eyelids.
I've had a NetFLix acct for a couple of years, and recently signed up for BB as a comparison to see which one I want to keep.
Still not sure which one, but NetFlix has a faster turnaround. Sending 3 movies back to each, at the same time, NetFlix had 3 new ones in the mail before BB acknowledged getting the returns.
Yes, we can locate, identify, and track a missile seconds after it is launched. But "our own missile" to intercept an ICBM does not exist yet.
I speak as someone with first hand knowledge of our sattelite capabilities and I'll just leave it at that ;)
Whatever you say, bub.