At the moment I have my e-mail whitelisted because otherwise it's unusable. I don't allow any that isn't in my list. I have to do it this way because it's like I'm under assault.
I've thought about it and come up with something even better. A spam tax. All unsolicited spam to be taxed a nickel per recipient. Charge it to the ISP and let them collect it from the spammer. It should relieve the national debt in a short span....or eliminate spam. Win-Win.
I don't have any problem feeding people who honestly need help but anyone except an idiot knows the system is broken. Why everyone starts foaming at the mouth anytime anyone mentions fixing the fraud in the system is beyond me. No one....well...most people don't want anyone to starve but we don't like being taken advantage of either. Why can't you see that?
Those are both CBS affiliates. I've seen 60 minutes also do an expose on food stamp fraud a few years back. They videotaped people exchanging food stamps for drugs at a store in Chicago. It's so common no one even blinks about it anymore. If you haven't seen news about it on even the left wing tv affiliates then you just don't watch the news or you selectively listen to it.
I remember seeing that in the store. Upgrade from ME to XP for only 99 dollars. "Yes, we'll fix that screwed up crap on your computer for only 99 dollars!" Never mind that they already charged for the screwed up alpha software on the computer, you get to pay for the bug fix too. Only 99 bucks, what a bargain. I swear Gates and Ballmer are the geniuses of all time at making money from nothing. They sell you buggy software for you to test for them and then sell you the bug fix. It's just brilliant!
It's really hard to say but the way I always look at it is that if someone downloads a movie from someplace like a torrent then you can't say if they would have paid for it or not. On the other hand here we have people that did pay for it and the money did not go to the studios. You can't really say they didn't lose money because technically any money he made was lost to the studios.
That's the catch. If you copy a movie you aren't stealing it you are violating copyright. If you make money from it though then the money you made is considered stolen since you don't own the copyright to the movie you sold. Get it?
I've seen these kinds of bootleg cams sold at flea markets for $5 and unbelievably people do buy them. I think some people just want to be the first to see a movie even if the quality sucks.
You do know these corporations are publicly owned? That people who work for a living have 401K retirement programs that share in the profits of these films? Unlike so many that simply downloaded films for their own use this dude had a business going where he was making hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit. He is the type of pirate who the criminal copyright laws were written for originally. He belongs in prison.
It just brings back so many pleasant memories of when it was fun learning and exploring computers. The raspberry pi gives me much of that same feeling and the community spirit starting to spring up around it reminds me of the old user groups.
I bought a book from Amazon then found I couldn't read it on my Nokia N800 using fbreader. I googled until I found how to break the DRM then read the book but after thinking about it a while I decided not to buy any more of them as it just pissed me off. I then fired up PAN on my computer and visited alt.binaries.e-book on usenet and went to town. I now have a digital copy of almost every physical book I owned. I took 20 large boxes of books to the local friends of the library group and freed up a lot of storage space. I found that www.baen.com sold drm free e-books and I started buying from them as well. I have almost every book I own in.epub format on a micro SD card on my Samsung Galaxy media player 5. So damn nice and I don't need no stinkin' DRM either. I'm through paying people money for crippled shit. If I didn't feel sorry for the authors I could pirate any book I want. It's not for those fuckers at Amazon's sake that I don't.
You don't know any poor people do you? Most of the poor drive the old cheap cast offs and the big old luxury cars driven by old people survive well. The big land yachts that never tear up or die. 5000 pounds of steel and chrome with a front seat bigger than most peoples couches. 40 year old caddies and lincolns that get 10 to 15 mpg if they are properly tuned which they seldom are. You can pick them up all the time for 5 or 6 hundred dollars and drive around with a cloud of smoke following you. If it dies you walk away and get another one. When I got out of the service in 88 I had limited funds and picked up a 74 malibu with a 350 engine and 4 doors for the family for 600 dollars and spent about 400 dollars getting it in good running condition. It got about 14 city and 17 highway and I drove it from 1988 to 2002 and spent money on tires, oil and gas for it. When it dropped a valve I got 300 dollars for scrap and moved on. That's how working poor do it. Yes I could have got a toyota corolla for a couple of grand that I didn't have but it would have got maybe 22 mpg and that's not enough difference to be worth it, especially when it would have cost me tons of money to fix if it did break whereas if I had wanted to I could have dropped an engine in the malibu for 500 bucks if I needed to. Mileage isn't everything.
Actually there's no need to upgrade, just install Firefox. Of course older hardware may actually not be able to upgrade to windows 7 and would benefit from a linux install. Just because you're lame doesn't mean everyone is.
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At the moment I have my e-mail whitelisted because otherwise it's unusable. I don't allow any that isn't in my list. I have to do it this way because it's like I'm under assault.
I've thought about it and come up with something even better. A spam tax. All unsolicited spam to be taxed a nickel per recipient. Charge it to the ISP and let them collect it from the spammer. It should relieve the national debt in a short span....or eliminate spam. Win-Win.
I wish I could do this with my e-mail. I think I would like to charge any unsolicited e-mail senders 100 bucks too.
I don't have any problem feeding people who honestly need help but anyone except an idiot knows the system is broken. Why everyone starts foaming at the mouth anytime anyone mentions fixing the fraud in the system is beyond me. No one....well...most people don't want anyone to starve but we don't like being taken advantage of either. Why can't you see that?
http://www.whptv.com/mostpopular/story/Sixteen-PA-residents-pleaded-guilty-to-welfare/xAQekhwrt0ar1uqAE18a6g.cspx
http://www.wbng.com/news/local/Broome-County-Arrests-12-on-Welfare-Fraud-Charges-185548162.html
Those are both CBS affiliates. I've seen 60 minutes also do an expose on food stamp fraud a few years back. They videotaped people exchanging food stamps for drugs at a store in Chicago. It's so common no one even blinks about it anymore. If you haven't seen news about it on even the left wing tv affiliates then you just don't watch the news or you selectively listen to it.
That's it! Windows 8 is Microsoft's Unity! Ugly and Unwanted.
Silly statement. A large part of Apple's users have owned apple computers going back to the eighties and nineties.
I remember seeing that in the store. Upgrade from ME to XP for only 99 dollars. "Yes, we'll fix that screwed up crap on your computer for only 99 dollars!" Never mind that they already charged for the screwed up alpha software on the computer, you get to pay for the bug fix too. Only 99 bucks, what a bargain. I swear Gates and Ballmer are the geniuses of all time at making money from nothing. They sell you buggy software for you to test for them and then sell you the bug fix. It's just brilliant!
It's really hard to say but the way I always look at it is that if someone downloads a movie from someplace like a torrent then you can't say if they would have paid for it or not. On the other hand here we have people that did pay for it and the money did not go to the studios. You can't really say they didn't lose money because technically any money he made was lost to the studios.
That's the catch. If you copy a movie you aren't stealing it you are violating copyright. If you make money from it though then the money you made is considered stolen since you don't own the copyright to the movie you sold. Get it?
I've seen these kinds of bootleg cams sold at flea markets for $5 and unbelievably people do buy them. I think some people just want to be the first to see a movie even if the quality sucks.
He made 6 figure profit is most likely the reason. Big money usually means big time.
You do know these corporations are publicly owned? That people who work for a living have 401K retirement programs that share in the profits of these films? Unlike so many that simply downloaded films for their own use this dude had a business going where he was making hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit. He is the type of pirate who the criminal copyright laws were written for originally. He belongs in prison.
Who did that?
My local food bank doesn't have any caviar. Life sucks hard!
It just brings back so many pleasant memories of when it was fun learning and exploring computers. The raspberry pi gives me much of that same feeling and the community spirit starting to spring up around it reminds me of the old user groups.
The one with the most RAM.
Which proves that DRM sucks no matter the form.
The old adage, "A fool and his money are soon parted" continues to prove true today as in history.
In my house the year of the Linux desktop and the end of Sony happened years ago. What are you waiting for?
I bought a book from Amazon then found I couldn't read it on my Nokia N800 using fbreader. I googled until I found how to break the DRM then read the book but after thinking about it a while I decided not to buy any more of them as it just pissed me off. I then fired up PAN on my computer and visited alt.binaries.e-book on usenet and went to town. I now have a digital copy of almost every physical book I owned. I took 20 large boxes of books to the local friends of the library group and freed up a lot of storage space. I found that www.baen.com sold drm free e-books and I started buying from them as well. I have almost every book I own in .epub format on a micro SD card on my Samsung Galaxy media player 5. So damn nice and I don't need no stinkin' DRM either. I'm through paying people money for crippled shit. If I didn't feel sorry for the authors I could pirate any book I want. It's not for those fuckers at Amazon's sake that I don't.
Put it on a train. Trains are so much more efficient for freight than trucks.
It's 9600 cars not 7000. I love google.
http://www.vabike.org/vehicle-weight-and-road-damage/
You don't know any poor people do you? Most of the poor drive the old cheap cast offs and the big old luxury cars driven by old people survive well. The big land yachts that never tear up or die. 5000 pounds of steel and chrome with a front seat bigger than most peoples couches. 40 year old caddies and lincolns that get 10 to 15 mpg if they are properly tuned which they seldom are. You can pick them up all the time for 5 or 6 hundred dollars and drive around with a cloud of smoke following you. If it dies you walk away and get another one. When I got out of the service in 88 I had limited funds and picked up a 74 malibu with a 350 engine and 4 doors for the family for 600 dollars and spent about 400 dollars getting it in good running condition. It got about 14 city and 17 highway and I drove it from 1988 to 2002 and spent money on tires, oil and gas for it. When it dropped a valve I got 300 dollars for scrap and moved on. That's how working poor do it. Yes I could have got a toyota corolla for a couple of grand that I didn't have but it would have got maybe 22 mpg and that's not enough difference to be worth it, especially when it would have cost me tons of money to fix if it did break whereas if I had wanted to I could have dropped an engine in the malibu for 500 bucks if I needed to. Mileage isn't everything.
Actually there's no need to upgrade, just install Firefox. Of course older hardware may actually not be able to upgrade to windows 7 and would benefit from a linux install. Just because you're lame doesn't mean everyone is.