These same people would never steal a cd from a store, yet they don't understand that the music they download is the same.
But it's not the same. If I steal a CD from a store, the store no longer has it to sell. If I copy a CD, the store still does have it to sell... just not to me.
This is not to say that copying of music is morally right... but neither is it true that it's "just as bad" as stealing. It's important that we not fall into this moral equivalency trap that the RIAA has set for us.
... but what the hell does their addressing scheme on a PRIVATE NETWORK have to do with the Internet? Since the two are never going to be connected, it seems to me that they can use whatever IP's they want, without any impact on anyone else.
... but I don't think it's too good at intercepting thoughts. Chances are the anthrax guy was acting alone and has never said anything about it over the phone!
A couple of random columnists in (mostly) right-wing publications hardly constitutes much of a push to bring back the draft. It certainly isn't getting talked about in Congress. The military isn't asking for it. It ain't exactly being discussed on the 1800 news. You could probably find press references that want equal time in schools to teach that the earth is flat... but that doesn't mean that there's a "push to teach flat-earth theory".
And besides... the draft has NEVER applied to anyone under the age of 18! No one under 18 has to register now! So even if they do bring back the draft, it's not like they intend to "draft anyone who can't vote".
... but the US Selective service doesn't even require you to REGISTER for the draft until you're 18, which not so coincidentally, is voting age in the US. And we're not actually DRAFTING anyone of ANY age.
If ANYBODY can figure Windows out, but only a select few can get the Mac... that kinda shoots down the theory that the Mac is a more intuitive, user-friendly machine, doesn't it?
They didn't use a control group when they did the experiments, so the sociology crowd finally concluded that there wasn't much you could conclude from the "experiement". Or so I recall from MGMT 101.
There's a certain degree of irony in giving all the seventh graders laptops in a day when we're talking about cutting state employees back to four-day work weeks.
Amen. Why are we wasting all this money on our children's educations rather than funding full employment for state workers?
The ILECs have only themselves to blame for losing money on each DSL line. The terms of the original deregulation agreement were that the ILECs had to lease capacity to CLECs at the same rates as they leased them to their own broadband subsidiaries. Since they lease to their subsidiaries at below cost rates in an effort to make them appear more profitable, they are forced to offer the same artificially low price to their competitors. If they would stop whining about this situation and raise the rates for themselves as well as their competitors, maybe they wouldn't be in such a fix... but they'd rather cry to the government, hoping Uncle Sam will make the big bad Earthlinks of the world go away and leave them alone.
Sean
Arianna Huffington discussed this phenomenon at Salon.
You can't just squeeze the company and get more money from it, and make everything fine. The people at dot-coms, American Airlines, Enron, WorldCom, AOL, etc, are just going to have a rough time of it.
You're kidding, right? The CEO's of Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia, etc, etc, "just squeezed the company" to the tune of billions of dollars! These companies aren't unprofitable because the WORKERS were making too much money, or even because the economy is bad... it's because they were raped by their management. And this story has been repeated all across corporate America.
There is some evidence that much of the US military is still unwilling to be flexible in its tactical/strategic thinking.
The US may in fact be suffering from a degree of inflexibility in its tactical thinking... but you can bet that this is more than made up for by a much greater lack of flexibility on the part of Iraq. They follow the old Soviet model of extremely centralized command, and initiative is not a very valued quality there. Once their comm links go out (which will surely happen more or less immediately once the war starts), they'll be pretty much immobilized.
Whether we should be going to war with Iraq is debatable. But the outcome of such a war, if it does come to pass, is not in doubt.
Even regular inks can be pretty environmentally hostile when disposed of in landfills, etc... to the point where you have to be careful about what kind of paper you put in your compost pile. Load inks up with enough metal for them to be conductive and it seems like they could turn out REALLY toxic.
And if you've let a ship big enough to have a boarding party get close enough to board, chances are your ship is already in pretty bad shape. Boarding is a very difficult evolution even if the boardee is COOPERATING. One guy with a.50 shooting at the boarding party would ruin their whole day.
You mentioned it... the "deluge of wires". Every pound of weight you can trim from the ship gives it more capacity to hold weapons, sensors, ammo, etc...
... that these ships will not rely SOLELY on wireless networks for communications and control. Every ship I was on (which amounts to four or five of varying ages) still had, and occasionally used, VOICE TUBES for communicating between spaces - you know, pipes with horns on each end that you yelled into. Yeah, we had electronic voice circuits too... but a voice tube never goes on the blink.
Treasure Island was one of the handful of places in the fleet where the General Shipboard Firefighting course was taught ("was" because TI is closed now - the firefighting course is still taught, I think, in Norfolk, San Diego, Pearl Harbor, Newport, RI, and maybe Jacksonville).
That's part of the reason you ran into so many of these guys.
Exactly what is a Phonorecord? Does this mean that in order to procescute, the RIAA will have to bring back vinyl records...
No. A "Phonorecord" (or "phonogram"), as I understand the term, is a legalism for an instance of a recording of a work. In other words, it's a track. The term is device-independent, so a CD or CD track is a phonorecord, a vinyl record (track) is a phonorecord, as is an MP3, etc. So the answer is that it matters not whether the recording in question was accomplished on vinyl.
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Joe built a house, then Sally built a bigger house. See how this works? Joe's was first, but Sally's is bigger.
If they had said the "ONLY and largest", you might have a point.
Sean
But it's not the same. If I steal a CD from a store, the store no longer has it to sell. If I copy a CD, the store still does have it to sell... just not to me.
This is not to say that copying of music is morally right... but neither is it true that it's "just as bad" as stealing. It's important that we not fall into this moral equivalency trap that the RIAA has set for us.
Sean
Right, but if you need to wear contacts ANYWAY (as I do), getting rid of a separate pair of sunglasses would be cool.
Sean
What do you mean, "again"?
Sean
... but both Office 97 and Office 2K run fine on XP Pro. I'm running 2k right now at work, and I ran 97 at home (on Win XP Pro) with no problems.
(moves to protect karma)
Not that I'm against switching to Linux or anything...
Sean
(6) Profit!
I can't believe no one else picked up on that.
Sean
I think some of it does pass through commercial pathways. But it's pretty heavily encrypted, of course.
Sean
... but what the hell does their addressing scheme on a PRIVATE NETWORK have to do with the Internet? Since the two are never going to be connected, it seems to me that they can use whatever IP's they want, without any impact on anyone else.
Sean
... but I don't think it's too good at intercepting thoughts. Chances are the anthrax guy was acting alone and has never said anything about it over the phone!
Sean
A couple of random columnists in (mostly) right-wing publications hardly constitutes much of a push to bring back the draft. It certainly isn't getting talked about in Congress. The military isn't asking for it. It ain't exactly being discussed on the 1800 news. You could probably find press references that want equal time in schools to teach that the earth is flat... but that doesn't mean that there's a "push to teach flat-earth theory".
And besides... the draft has NEVER applied to anyone under the age of 18! No one under 18 has to register now! So even if they do bring back the draft, it's not like they intend to "draft anyone who can't vote".
Sean
... but the US Selective service doesn't even require you to REGISTER for the draft until you're 18, which not so coincidentally, is voting age in the US. And we're not actually DRAFTING anyone of ANY age.
If ANYBODY can figure Windows out, but only a select few can get the Mac... that kinda shoots down the theory that the Mac is a more intuitive, user-friendly machine, doesn't it?
Sean
They didn't use a control group when they did the experiments, so the sociology crowd finally concluded that there wasn't much you could conclude from the "experiement". Or so I recall from MGMT 101.
Sean
I spent a lot less money on my P3 to start with, so my guess is that I still come out ahead.
Sean
Amen. Why are we wasting all this money on our children's educations rather than funding full employment for state workers?
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Sean
Probably the most widespread commercial IM product is IBM's Lotus SameTime. It offers industrial strength IM with good security, etc.
Note that I have no relationship w/ IBM except as a customer.
Sean
The ILECs have only themselves to blame for losing money on each DSL line. The terms of the original deregulation agreement were that the ILECs had to lease capacity to CLECs at the same rates as they leased them to their own broadband subsidiaries. Since they lease to their subsidiaries at below cost rates in an effort to make them appear more profitable, they are forced to offer the same artificially low price to their competitors. If they would stop whining about this situation and raise the rates for themselves as well as their competitors, maybe they wouldn't be in such a fix... but they'd rather cry to the government, hoping Uncle Sam will make the big bad Earthlinks of the world go away and leave them alone. Sean
You're kidding, right? The CEO's of Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia, etc, etc, "just squeezed the company" to the tune of billions of dollars! These companies aren't unprofitable because the WORKERS were making too much money, or even because the economy is bad... it's because they were raped by their management. And this story has been repeated all across corporate America.
Sean
The US may in fact be suffering from a degree of inflexibility in its tactical thinking... but you can bet that this is more than made up for by a much greater lack of flexibility on the part of Iraq. They follow the old Soviet model of extremely centralized command, and initiative is not a very valued quality there. Once their comm links go out (which will surely happen more or less immediately once the war starts), they'll be pretty much immobilized.
Whether we should be going to war with Iraq is debatable. But the outcome of such a war, if it does come to pass, is not in doubt.
Sean
Even regular inks can be pretty environmentally hostile when disposed of in landfills, etc... to the point where you have to be careful about what kind of paper you put in your compost pile. Load inks up with enough metal for them to be conductive and it seems like they could turn out REALLY toxic.
Sean
And if you've let a ship big enough to have a boarding party get close enough to board, chances are your ship is already in pretty bad shape. Boarding is a very difficult evolution even if the boardee is COOPERATING. One guy with a .50 shooting at the boarding party would ruin their whole day.
Sean
You mentioned it... the "deluge of wires". Every pound of weight you can trim from the ship gives it more capacity to hold weapons, sensors, ammo, etc...
Sean
... that these ships will not rely SOLELY on wireless networks for communications and control. Every ship I was on (which amounts to four or five of varying ages) still had, and occasionally used, VOICE TUBES for communicating between spaces - you know, pipes with horns on each end that you yelled into. Yeah, we had electronic voice circuits too... but a voice tube never goes on the blink.
Sean
Treasure Island was one of the handful of places in the fleet where the General Shipboard Firefighting course was taught ("was" because TI is closed now - the firefighting course is still taught, I think, in Norfolk, San Diego, Pearl Harbor, Newport, RI, and maybe Jacksonville).
That's part of the reason you ran into so many of these guys.
Sean
No. A "Phonorecord" (or "phonogram"), as I understand the term, is a legalism for an instance of a recording of a work. In other words, it's a track. The term is device-independent, so a CD or CD track is a phonorecord, a vinyl record (track) is a phonorecord, as is an MP3, etc. So the answer is that it matters not whether the recording in question was accomplished on vinyl.
Sean