thanks for the brilliant explaination, fucknut. we all had no clue what this was for.
good luck getting that job you're looking for. try burger king. they need a sysadmin to hit the "large fries" key.
And how do you think it will get better? "They" have more lawyers, judges, congressmen and lobbyists fighting every day to make it worse.
It will only get worse until it can get no worse. At that point, you will be at the mercy of the corporate marketing machine the same way you're at the mercy of the "War on Drugs".
Okay I see your point. In our 1776 revolution, some prominent and wealthy men were the strongest agitators.
So should we expect Jeff Bezos and Jack Valenti to lead us to revolution? Of course not. This time, the prominent and wealthy are the enemy.
Who worse? It's the "technophiles" and other well-educated, money earning individuals who have the most to lose from falling out of line, and trust me, they won't. Typically, revolutions ferment among the poor, the downtrodden, the people who have nothing left to lose. Sadly, Americans care too much about their own lives, and their own possessions, to care about anything else. It's the "someone else will pick up after me" attitude. If you have your SUV, your Blackberry and your prefab McMansion in the suburbs, your life is too valuable to sacrifice for pedestrian causes such as this.
Americans value their lives too much. This is how we are different from places where shit actually happens.
I'm sure it's a worldwide phenomena but I think Americans pioneer the technology and the concepts, and it trickles down elsewhere.
The problem is that Americans lack tact. We are consumed with this concept of "democracy" and we have been force-fed the idea that unrestricted "capitalism" is a synonym for "democracy". Therefore the idea that we would eliminate tasteless, overwhelming, privacy violating marketing is considered by many to be undemocratic.
When you lease a car, you don't own it. The lease company does. They can do whatever they want to with the vehicle as long as they disclose that up front. If you sign the lease without reading the fine print, that's your fault.
Now granted, I think software companies are trying to snowball consumers by throwing multi page EULA's at them and burying the scary stuff. All the more reason to only use GPL software.
I'm afraid to even boot my Winblows box without running Adaware right away.
What we're seeing in America is a drastic paradigm shift in the private sector. That is: companies, not satisfied with merely huge profits, chase mega profits by attempting to move our economy from a market driven one (where you and I decide what we want to buy, and in what packaging) to a corporate driven economy, whereby selection in the marketplace is eliminated by lawsuits and legislation and decided by lobbyists and executives.
I currently have 6,000 MP3's in my collection and I'm angling to have 25,000 by the end of the summer. I mostly pull them off Gnutella and such. I am racing to reach my goal of 25,000 because I know that sooner or later they will overwhelm p2p software creators and bandwidth providers with lawsuits and they will disappear. They will then return you to their happy world of regularly scheduled mindwashing and all will be good again (for them).
If you think $20 is bad for CD, wait until you can't possibly download the MP3 version.
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lol
This one is for LEFT EYE! RIP!
King of Beers!
theres no way you're going to pick up sluts in this thing. King of Beers!
thanks for the brilliant explaination, fucknut. we all had no clue what this was for. good luck getting that job you're looking for. try burger king. they need a sysadmin to hit the "large fries" key.
is fucked today where's the pist?
wow.
you know it girl
And how do you think it will get better? "They" have more lawyers, judges, congressmen and lobbyists fighting every day to make it worse. It will only get worse until it can get no worse. At that point, you will be at the mercy of the corporate marketing machine the same way you're at the mercy of the "War on Drugs".
I claim this AC phrosty phist for the King of Beers!
Lot's of ./'ers will tell you about their back end's..
Okay I see your point. In our 1776 revolution, some prominent and wealthy men were the strongest agitators. So should we expect Jeff Bezos and Jack Valenti to lead us to revolution? Of course not. This time, the prominent and wealthy are the enemy.
KaZaa already has that covered.
Just click any one of those 5,000 Orbitz pop windows on your desktop.
Who worse? It's the "technophiles" and other well-educated, money earning individuals who have the most to lose from falling out of line, and trust me, they won't. Typically, revolutions ferment among the poor, the downtrodden, the people who have nothing left to lose. Sadly, Americans care too much about their own lives, and their own possessions, to care about anything else. It's the "someone else will pick up after me" attitude. If you have your SUV, your Blackberry and your prefab McMansion in the suburbs, your life is too valuable to sacrifice for pedestrian causes such as this. Americans value their lives too much. This is how we are different from places where shit actually happens.
+1 Insightful
"It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.."
I'm sure it's a worldwide phenomena but I think Americans pioneer the technology and the concepts, and it trickles down elsewhere. The problem is that Americans lack tact. We are consumed with this concept of "democracy" and we have been force-fed the idea that unrestricted "capitalism" is a synonym for "democracy". Therefore the idea that we would eliminate tasteless, overwhelming, privacy violating marketing is considered by many to be undemocratic.
When you lease a car, you don't own it. The lease company does. They can do whatever they want to with the vehicle as long as they disclose that up front. If you sign the lease without reading the fine print, that's your fault. Now granted, I think software companies are trying to snowball consumers by throwing multi page EULA's at them and burying the scary stuff. All the more reason to only use GPL software. I'm afraid to even boot my Winblows box without running Adaware right away.
well done. your humble frosty one has been acknowledged.
phrist
Yes, I must know this also. What is your secret.
There already is software available that will let you use an iPod with a Winblows box.
Why not switch to just using a cellular phone for all your calls? Same effect.
What we're seeing in America is a drastic paradigm shift in the private sector. That is: companies, not satisfied with merely huge profits, chase mega profits by attempting to move our economy from a market driven one (where you and I decide what we want to buy, and in what packaging) to a corporate driven economy, whereby selection in the marketplace is eliminated by lawsuits and legislation and decided by lobbyists and executives. I currently have 6,000 MP3's in my collection and I'm angling to have 25,000 by the end of the summer. I mostly pull them off Gnutella and such. I am racing to reach my goal of 25,000 because I know that sooner or later they will overwhelm p2p software creators and bandwidth providers with lawsuits and they will disappear. They will then return you to their happy world of regularly scheduled mindwashing and all will be good again (for them). If you think $20 is bad for CD, wait until you can't possibly download the MP3 version.