We have come a long way. Advertising used to be easy to ignore, but now some advertisements contain subliminal messages. TV used to only recieve signals, but now, if you have the V-chip, Big Brother is watching.
If you could get in on that new Pay for Play Radio plan, you might make some dough, but it is run by Hilary Rosen and Co. Maybe you could trick them, and just sell your soles instead of your souls.
It would cost Ebay a lot less than a fat legal settlement to have the Mafia deal with MercExchange, and Thomas Woolston. If only they were members of Prepaid Illegal Services, this never would have come to light.
ICANN should not threaten to take Verisign's licence to sell domains, they should just do it. The scam they ran trying to get customers of other registrars to switch to them with bogus renewal notices should be all the impetus ICANN needs. I recieved those bogus notices for uncoveror.com, and dontbuycds.org, but godaddy.com had already warned me they were bogus.
All consumers need to continue to boycott the recording industry. Hilary Rosen, Thomas D. Mottola, Martin Bandier, and the like all need to lose their jobs. Any industry that calls its customers theives deserves to lose its customers.
Hollywood and the RIAA have the likes of Jack Valenti and Hilary Rosen speaking before Congress all the time. Other than Representative Rick Boucher of Virginia, consumers have no voice there. Is there any way Janis Ian could speak before Congress on behalf of musicians and music consumers? I would hate for the likes of Hilary Rosen and Jack Valenti to be the only voices they hear.
If The Two Towers is really out there, it is because a studio insider put it there. No one else had access to the film. Why would they do this? To convince Congress Hollywood needs more protection from Piracy. I hope they don't fall for this rouse.
Napster was dead the day they shut it down. We really knew it was never coming back, didn't we? I hope all consumers continue to punish the recording industry for killing Napster, Gouging kids for up to $20.00 a CD, and worst of all, making copy protected CDs that won't play in a computer, by shunning its products. Boycott the recording industry. Don't buy CDs.
They ripped of Radix and called it the soldier of the future, and the army bought it. The Osprey plane, which does not fly and has killed many of our servicemen was also based on a comic book. Billions have been wasted on that boondoggle. The Avrocar was a failed attempt to create a real flying saucer. It was based on flights of fancy as well. That multi billion dollar turd barely hovered. Will the military ever wake up and smell the coffee?
You can get good surround effects from conventional stereo by placing your speakers to your left and right, where your ears are, not in front of you, where your eyes are. After all, we listen to sounds, we don't look at them. Try it sometime. Maybe you won't need to make Dolby AC3 CDs.
The Spyware VS. Privacyware battle continues. I wonder if Pest Patrol will be able to tip us off that this crap is running, or even better, take it off our systems. I guess thespyware VS privacyware battle will continue to rage until both seem pointless.
Something that might revolutionize the treatment of AIDS, and make it completely managable was discovered by accident. So was Teflon, and Rogaine. So was the planet Uranus. Herschel initially thought he was seeing an asteroid. It is amazing how we can't find things we are looking for, but do find things we weren't looking for.
Using this stuff will just anger legitimate users to the point that we will switch to an open source clone of whatever proprietary software uses this crap. JVC and Hudson soft will make a quick buck selling this to software companies that don't get it, and those software companies will go out of business as their former customers, offended by the presumption that they are thieves, take their business elsewhere.
The fact that you believe in the myths of Jewish wealth and control of the banking system shows that you have anti-semitic attitudes, taught to you by christian society, whether you are christian or not. Nearly 2000 years of christian antisemitism created an environment of hate that made the holocaust possible. In spite of what you may think, Anti-semitism among christians, and all they have influenced, comes straight out of the myth of deicide. It is why Jews were forced to be money lenders by Medieval kings. "Since they are damned anyway for killing christ, make them commit the damnable sin of usury, so we can have commerce." Did you know that because of American anti-semitism, many banks would not hire a jew even as a teller until the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s? Did you know that throughout European history, Jews were put into walled up portions of cities called ghettos? These were the inspiration for concentration camps. Having them all penned up like animals, so they were easy to kill was not an original idea of the nazis. If you think christianity and antisemitism don't go hand in hand anymore, tell peole you don't celebrate christmas, and don't think it should be a national holiday, as it endorses one religion, and see how fast someone accuses you of being a "christ-killer."
"One nation indivisible," as opposed to "A voluntary confederation of sovereign states." The original pledge was a product of the post Civil War reconstruction period, and was then very offensive to southerners, but the winner of a war usually does make the losing side take loyalty oaths. It amazes me that a post Civil War loyalty oath was still around in 1952 for Eisenhower to add "under God" to, making it an anti-Soviet Union Cold War loyalty oath.
Have you noticed that no subject turns us into hostile camps of "us" and "them," sniping at each other, quite like religion? If we were not separated by cyberspace we would be fighting, and perhaps even killing each other right now. Not exactly love, peace, and brotherhood of man, is it? This story was supposed to give us a laugh! So is this one. Maybe laughter can chase away the anger and hate, and bring us a moment of joy.
Businesses assume that the low bidder will do shoddy work, and you get what you pay for. In tangible things like building contractors, the rule of thumb proves true. Cost cutting usually is quality cutting.
The only people who accuse Red Hat of being the next Microsoft are anarchists who rail against anything that looks remotely authoritative, and crack smokers who believe every conspiracy theory they hear. Red hat has nothing in common with the Bill Gates mafia.
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People who have 200 plus cds need to collect tangible things, and a download is too intangible. I used to collect LPs I have hundreds. You got so much more with a $7.99 LP than you do with a $20.00 CD. The artwork was suitable for framing in many cases, especially if you had a foldout or a double album. Miniaturization killed cover art. Also, when CDs were new, they cost two times as much as LP or cassette. They claimed that they cost more to manufacture, and price would come down soon. It never did, and it is well known by now that it costs them next to nothing to press a disc. CDs would sell like hotcakes if they were eight dollars instead of 20, even without extras like the cool cover art LPs used to have. If the RIAA and affiliated labels can shut down file trading, we will all just buy the bootlegs and pirates at flea markets and on street corners. The RIAA doesn't even see them as competition.
Right wingers accuse all the media of forwarding a leftist agenda. Left wingers accuse all the media of forwarding a right wing agenda. We all call the media fair and balanced only when they agree with our own preconcieved notions. It's a shame how so many resort to name calling like brats on a playground when someone dares to disagree with them. This story was an important piece of news not just for nerds but for everyone. If it doesn't fit into your fantasy view of the world, tough shit. Deal with it.
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We have come a long way. Advertising used to be easy to ignore, but now some advertisements contain subliminal messages. TV used to only recieve signals, but now, if you have the V-chip, Big Brother is watching.
If you could get in on that new Pay for Play Radio plan, you might make some dough, but it is run by Hilary Rosen and Co. Maybe you could trick them, and just sell your soles instead of your souls.
The Moon Belongs to the Zhti Ti Kofft, or as we more commonly call them, Martians. They have a base on the dark side of the moon.
It would cost Ebay a lot less than a fat legal settlement to have the Mafia deal with MercExchange, and Thomas Woolston. If only they were members of Prepaid Illegal Services, this never would have come to light.
ICANN should not threaten to take Verisign's licence to sell domains, they should just do it. The scam they ran trying to get customers of other registrars to switch to them with bogus renewal notices should be all the impetus ICANN needs. I recieved those bogus notices for uncoveror.com, and dontbuycds.org, but godaddy.com had already warned me they were bogus.
All consumers need to continue to boycott the recording industry. Hilary Rosen, Thomas D. Mottola, Martin Bandier, and the like all need to lose their jobs. Any industry that calls its customers theives deserves to lose its customers.
Hollywood and the RIAA have the likes of Jack Valenti and Hilary Rosen speaking before Congress all the time. Other than Representative Rick Boucher of Virginia, consumers have no voice there. Is there any way Janis Ian could speak before Congress on behalf of musicians and music consumers? I would hate for the likes of Hilary Rosen and Jack Valenti to be the only voices they hear.
If The Two Towers is really out there, it is because a studio insider put it there. No one else had access to the film. Why would they do this? To convince Congress Hollywood needs more protection from Piracy. I hope they don't fall for this rouse.
Napster was dead the day they shut it down. We really knew it was never coming back, didn't we? I hope all consumers continue to punish the recording industry for killing Napster, Gouging kids for up to $20.00 a CD, and worst of all, making copy protected CDs that won't play in a computer, by shunning its products. Boycott the recording industry. Don't buy CDs.
They ripped of Radix and called it the soldier of the future, and the army bought it. The Osprey plane, which does not fly and has killed many of our servicemen was also based on a comic book. Billions have been wasted on that boondoggle. The Avrocar was a failed attempt to create a real flying saucer. It was based on flights of fancy as well. That multi billion dollar turd barely hovered. Will the military ever wake up and smell the coffee?
Thank you for your critique of the lottery article, and here is my response Have a nice day! :)
Here is my response to my illiterate anonymous coward critic.
You can get good surround effects from conventional stereo by placing your speakers to your left and right, where your ears are, not in front of you, where your eyes are. After all, we listen to sounds, we don't look at them. Try it sometime. Maybe you won't need to make Dolby AC3 CDs.
The Spyware VS. Privacyware battle continues. I wonder if Pest Patrol will be able to tip us off that this crap is running, or even better, take it off our systems. I guess thespyware VS privacyware battle will continue to rage until both seem pointless.
Unlikely things are happening to her, but that doesn't mean she would win the lottery, after all, the lottery is rigged.
Something that might revolutionize the treatment of AIDS, and make it completely managable was discovered by accident. So was Teflon, and Rogaine. So was the planet Uranus. Herschel initially thought he was seeing an asteroid. It is amazing how we can't find things we are looking for, but do find things we weren't looking for.
Using this stuff will just anger legitimate users to the point that we will switch to an open source clone of whatever proprietary software uses this crap. JVC and Hudson soft will make a quick buck selling this to software companies that don't get it, and those software companies will go out of business as their former customers, offended by the presumption that they are thieves, take their business elsewhere.
The fact that you believe in the myths of Jewish wealth and control of the banking system shows that you have anti-semitic attitudes, taught to you by christian society, whether you are christian or not. Nearly 2000 years of christian antisemitism created an environment of hate that made the holocaust possible. In spite of what you may think, Anti-semitism among christians, and all they have influenced, comes straight out of the myth of deicide. It is why Jews were forced to be money lenders by Medieval kings. "Since they are damned anyway for killing christ, make them commit the damnable sin of usury, so we can have commerce." Did you know that because of American anti-semitism, many banks would not hire a jew even as a teller until the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s? Did you know that throughout European history, Jews were put into walled up portions of cities called ghettos? These were the inspiration for concentration camps. Having them all penned up like animals, so they were easy to kill was not an original idea of the nazis. If you think christianity and antisemitism don't go hand in hand anymore, tell peole you don't celebrate christmas, and don't think it should be a national holiday, as it endorses one religion, and see how fast someone accuses you of being a "christ-killer."
"One nation indivisible," as opposed to "A voluntary confederation of sovereign states." The original pledge was a product of the post Civil War reconstruction period, and was then very offensive to southerners, but the winner of a war usually does make the losing side take loyalty oaths. It amazes me that a post Civil War loyalty oath was still around in 1952 for Eisenhower to add "under God" to, making it an anti-Soviet Union Cold War loyalty oath.
Have you noticed that no subject turns us into hostile camps of "us" and "them," sniping at each other, quite like religion? If we were not separated by cyberspace we would be fighting, and perhaps even killing each other right now. Not exactly love, peace, and brotherhood of man, is it? This story was supposed to give us a laugh! So is this one. Maybe laughter can chase away the anger and hate, and bring us a moment of joy.
Businesses assume that the low bidder will do shoddy work, and you get what you pay for. In tangible things like building contractors, the rule of thumb proves true. Cost cutting usually is quality cutting.
The only people who accuse Red Hat of being the next Microsoft are anarchists who rail against anything that looks remotely authoritative, and crack smokers who believe every conspiracy theory they hear. Red hat has nothing in common with the Bill Gates mafia.
People who have 200 plus cds need to collect tangible things, and a download is too intangible. I used to collect LPs I have hundreds. You got so much more with a $7.99 LP than you do with a $20.00 CD. The artwork was suitable for framing in many cases, especially if you had a foldout or a double album. Miniaturization killed cover art. Also, when CDs were new, they cost two times as much as LP or cassette. They claimed that they cost more to manufacture, and price would come down soon. It never did, and it is well known by now that it costs them next to nothing to press a disc. CDs would sell like hotcakes if they were eight dollars instead of 20, even without extras like the cool cover art LPs used to have. If the RIAA and affiliated labels can shut down file trading, we will all just buy the bootlegs and pirates at flea markets and on street corners. The RIAA doesn't even see them as competition.
Vizzini,does that word mean what you think it means? I do not think it means what you think it means.
Right wingers accuse all the media of forwarding a leftist agenda. Left wingers accuse all the media of forwarding a right wing agenda. We all call the media fair and balanced only when they agree with our own preconcieved notions. It's a shame how so many resort to name calling like brats on a playground when someone dares to disagree with them. This story was an important piece of news not just for nerds but for everyone. If it doesn't fit into your fantasy view of the world, tough shit. Deal with it.