...it will be considered a sign of anti-social and possibly criminal behavior if you AREN'T active on FaceBook and such sites. So you won't be able to just avoid the shit and cover your head.
You'll have to hire a company to create fake profiles all over the net for you and routinely post things to them that make you seem like the model worker and/or citizen. And of course it will have to be tailored towards your type of work.
Hospital work? Patient, caring, giving. Stockbroker? Sexist, cracks sick jokes, and laughs at other people being fucked over.
And copyright law was not meant to give power to corporations to forbid competition, but rather to prevent misleading claims "Here's a legit copy of so-and-so book," for an example of what would be a misleading claim, rather than preventing someone from writing a book that's obviously meant to appeal to the same buyers.
Yes, like Kleenex. If they let people just say Kleenex instead of Kleenex Brand Facial Tissue, it can become a generic word and they lose it. That's what happened to the word zipper. That's why they changed the song from "I am am stuck on Band-Aid" to "I am stuck on Band-Aid Brand."
So if Apple doesn't defend against other uses of the word pod, the word pod could be declared a generic term, a word in it own right.
This would require that people aren't what they are - ignorant, hypocritical, self-centered, immature idiots who hold every other person on the planet to a standard orders of magnitude higher than that to which they hold themselves.
We are a country that impeached a president over a consensual sex act. (Oh don't start whining wingnuts, yes it was technically for "lying" about a sex act after his perfectly legal consensual and private sex life was the subject of a multi-year, multimillion dollar taxpayer funded investigation. You should thank me instead of whining - the reality actually makes you look MORE pathetic, craven and childish.)
Me, I saw my company doing something unethical that could have cost lives. I started gathering copies of internal documents with the intent of being a whistleblower, meanwhile pressured for the company to do the right thing. Luckily for me I suppose, the company came around and did the right thing.
I have quit jobs rather than do something unethical. Went into business for myself, and strove to have a perfect record of integrity, and it paid off in customer loyalty.
It's not that hard to be honest. You just have to be willing to sacrifice a few things... stupid material things generally. My personal position has always been that the dishonest person loses more than an honest person.
The honest person may not have the nicest newest car, clothes, the biggest house... but the dishonest person loses their integrity - integrity is the one thing you have that can NEVER be stolen from you... but oddly so many seem willing to toss it away for a few bucks. I've never understood that.
But then, I also have very different goals in life than most people (I'm not saying this is a virtue, maybe I'm defective in some way)
People like you would annoy disabled people such as myself, but generally you don't because we that disabilities come in many forms, such as being a clueless fuck with a vastly inflated sense of your own knowledge.
For others' edification, not for yours... the reason I can't drive is because I sustained a skull fracture and brain damage. I LOOK fine usually, except when I am in a severe attack (during which I literally can't walk and must be carried, can't converse, and have been percieved to be a severely mentally retarded person.) As a result of the head injury (and also later illness) I have severe vertigo problems. I am not able to do the "eye-tracking" necessary to drive,
In addition have various cognitive and memory problems that impair driving.
Brain damage is a strange thing. You never get used to it.
In other words, I could physically drive a bit, yes. I could press a gas pedal and brake pedal, and steer, but I cannot SAFELY drive, I cannot be licensed, and would be a danger to myself and others on the road.
Similar to how people who have seizures lose their license.
But those "honest" cops KNOW some of their co-workers are not honest cops, they all know of cases where a colleague fudged an arrest report or claimed that a driver crossed the white line when they didn;t actually, because they had a hunch that the driver was not legitotherwise but had no probable cause to stop them, etc., etc., ALL cops know of these things happening from time to time, yet don't arrest them or report the cops to supervisors or testify on behalf of the other cops' victims.
There was an expressway that passed through a rural spot of the town. It was in a cut down grade, all local town roads that came near it (very few) passed over it on bridges. So there were NO traffic or safety issues for the town as a result. The town was totally unaffected by this stretch of highway, it was down in a gulch between farm fields, fenced off and inaccessible - essentially a complete other world from the town.
The town used to station cop cars (the town only HAD like 2 cop cars) at some spot near a slight rise and it was a notorious speed trap.
Traffic court was on Thursday night. Every Thursday nights would show our tiny town hall (a historic converted 19th century one-room schoolhouse) with a line of people winding around several times outside. Processed quickly, cha-ching.
A massive revenue stream from people not from the town, who had no idea they were technically IN the town, and whose driving (speeding or not) had absolutely no effect whatsoever on the town, was not even noticeable in the sleepy quiet little town.
The ENTIRE THING was a massive revenue source, and of course when the state moved to raise the speed limit from 55 to higher, the town had a fit, because the highway was under state jurisdiction and therefore the town couldn't set a lower limit for that stretch.
Not even the most virulent nativist would attempt to prevent people from reading books or watching films in the language of their choice in the privacy of their own homes
Oh incidentally, re: region codes - this is particularly slimy.
They take advantage of the "global market" to reduce their costs and increase their profits by offshoring production to a society where wages are less, then shipping their product to a society where they can charge more. Using region codes, they prevent their customers from doing the SAME THING.
The customer is NOT allowed to take advantage of the global market by "outsourcing" THEIR suppliers of media by ordering from a different, cheaper region.
This is the ultimate in hypocrisy, this is the ultimate FUCK YOU to their own consumers - we'll deprive YOU of the jobs making your own consumer items, not shit you can do about it - we'll charge you the same as if they WERE made locally, not shit you can do about it... and we'll prevent YOU from going offshore to get the same benefit we do.
I can't think of a much sleazier business practice.
Exactly. I don't own a blu-ray player, I don't intend to ever own a blu-ray player, I don't rip blu-ray movies, I don't intend to ever rip them, I don't download ripped blu-rays (and of course don't burn them, since I don't have a blu-ray burner.
Yet I am thrilled by this news. Why? How does it effect me? I've never played a blu-ray dics, legit or otherwise in my life and never will... so why do I care?
BECAUSE. There is a trend to remove rights from people, to get people to pay multiple times for the same content (the head of the RIAA even admitted in a 1980s interview that they were aiming towards a play-per-play model)
They create artificial scarcity through region codes and corrupt legislation to allow them to sell a product which costs a fraction of a percent of what it used to cost to "manufacture & distribute" while using law & restrictions to force people into paying essentially HIGHER prices for it - and the end product actually has less tangible value and "permanence" than what came before.
All because they determined that there would be higher profits in this business model - but it's an unnatural business model that is illogical and would not WORK, without them purchasing laws to FORCE people to adhere to it.
This is immoral and corrupt, and would never stand in a true free market or for that matter in a socialist one either... can ONLY exist in a corrupted "democracy" and would require draconian police powers to enforce.
This is a blow against that. This is a blow against a propped-up failed business model.
More like this and eventually they will have to figure out a LEGITIMATE business model, or die.
After reading this, I'm at a loss to understand why my uncle went into the military as someone I respected deeply and came out of the military an amoral asshole.
It's more of a cash cow for the corporations that buy the spectrum. Essentially what happened is, the govt. was mandated to use the public's airwaves in the public interest, and they decided it was in the public's best interest to auction the spectrum off so that the public's government can collect a $5 fee from the corporation for the corporation to have the right to sell it back to us for $500.
While I agree with the intent behind this legislation, the problem is that there are a few applications where CFLs simply are NOT good.
An example is closet and bathroom lights. The CFL makers themselves say not to use the CFLs in areas where you'll be switching the light on only for a few seconds or a couple of minutes. This wear causes them to fail very quickly, totally negating any efficiency advantage.
Livingroom lights, great - closet, a waste. Also, things like garage lights in cold climates - a CFL can take 20 minutes to get up to usable brightness when it's 5 degrees out. Doesn't matter to people in CA or FL, but in upstate NY and MN that's a problem.
would someone buy a piece of hardware that continually needs to be "jailbroken" just to be able to be used in the way they want to use it?
Because for a huge number of people, the device does NOT need to be jailbroken to be used in the way they want to use it. Including myself. I jailbroke my first iphone, saw there was nothing REALLY of use that I couldn't do with signed approved app-store code, and didn't bother on my 3g-s.
Am i representative of 100% of the/. community? Of course not, but in reality the nerd crowd who want to run their own code on the iphone are a tiny share of the market.
Yep, but I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about those who continually buy them, go to the effort to jailbreak them, complain when Apple bricks them, etc.
Of course, some likely do it for the fun of the challenge or something.
You know, you could, i don't know, buy a phone? I don't really know how it's in the States, but here in Belgium you can walk into any old store and buy a phone that comes from the manufacturer directly, no network lock-in, no crapware (other then what the manufacturer installed) and best of all, it's *yours*.
Yeah. Still would cost over $100 a month to use here in the states, though.
would someone buy a piece of hardware that continually needs to be "jailbroken" just to be able to be used in the way they want to use it?
Of course, I say this as an owner of an LG Voyager, which doesn't allow you to load anything on it you don't pay Verizon directly for, so WTF am I talking about? (but at least I got it free.)
Some day you'll be able to own a broadband internet browsing cell phone that will only cost a few bucks a month to use, not $100 or more, and which you can load whatever the fuck you want to on.
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...it will be considered a sign of anti-social and possibly criminal behavior if you AREN'T active on FaceBook and such sites. So you won't be able to just avoid the shit and cover your head.
You'll have to hire a company to create fake profiles all over the net for you and routinely post things to them that make you seem like the model worker and/or citizen. And of course it will have to be tailored towards your type of work.
Hospital work? Patient, caring, giving.
Stockbroker? Sexist, cracks sick jokes, and laughs at other people being fucked over.
Now you're just being pedantic, like a cat wearing my dirty underwear.
And copyright law was not meant to give power to corporations to forbid competition, but rather to prevent misleading claims "Here's a legit copy of so-and-so book," for an example of what would be a misleading claim, rather than preventing someone from writing a book that's obviously meant to appeal to the same buyers.
Look how the fuck well THAT turned out.
Yes, like Kleenex. If they let people just say Kleenex instead of Kleenex Brand Facial Tissue, it can become a generic word and they lose it. That's what happened to the word zipper. That's why they changed the song from "I am am stuck on Band-Aid" to "I am stuck on Band-Aid Brand."
So if Apple doesn't defend against other uses of the word pod, the word pod could be declared a generic term, a word in it own right.
Oh wait...
hell, I can use just four letters.
(no, the letters don't happen to be N O N E)
This would require that people aren't what they are - ignorant, hypocritical, self-centered, immature idiots who hold every other person on the planet to a standard orders of magnitude higher than that to which they hold themselves.
We are a country that impeached a president over a consensual sex act.
(Oh don't start whining wingnuts, yes it was technically for "lying" about a sex act after his perfectly legal consensual and private sex life was the subject of a multi-year, multimillion dollar taxpayer funded investigation. You should thank me instead of whining - the reality actually makes you look MORE pathetic, craven and childish.)
We are a nation of six year olds.
Well by my assessment, MOST are not honest.
Me, I saw my company doing something unethical that could have cost lives. I started gathering copies of internal documents with the intent of being a whistleblower, meanwhile pressured for the company to do the right thing. Luckily for me I suppose, the company came around and did the right thing.
I have quit jobs rather than do something unethical. Went into business for myself, and strove to have a perfect record of integrity, and it paid off in customer loyalty.
It's not that hard to be honest. You just have to be willing to sacrifice a few things... stupid material things generally. My personal position has always been that the dishonest person loses more than an honest person.
The honest person may not have the nicest newest car, clothes, the biggest house... but the dishonest person loses their integrity - integrity is the one thing you have that can NEVER be stolen from you... but oddly so many seem willing to toss it away for a few bucks. I've never understood that.
But then, I also have very different goals in life than most people (I'm not saying this is a virtue, maybe I'm defective in some way)
People like you would annoy disabled people such as myself, but generally you don't because we that disabilities come in many forms, such as being a clueless fuck with a vastly inflated sense of your own knowledge.
For others' edification, not for yours... the reason I can't drive is because I sustained a skull fracture and brain damage. I LOOK fine usually, except when I am in a severe attack
(during which I literally can't walk and must be carried, can't converse, and have been percieved to be a severely mentally retarded person.) As a result of the head injury (and also later illness) I have severe vertigo problems. I am not able to do the "eye-tracking" necessary to drive,
In addition have various cognitive and memory problems that impair driving.
Brain damage is a strange thing. You never get used to it.
In other words, I could physically drive a bit, yes. I could press a gas pedal and brake pedal, and steer, but I cannot SAFELY drive, I cannot be licensed, and would be a danger to myself and others on the road.
Similar to how people who have seizures lose their license.
I'll just add, before someone accuses me of a sort of bias, saying I'm just a leadfoot who wants to speed without consqeuence... BZZZT, wrong!
I don't drive. I never drive. I have never driven nor owned a car.
The reason? I am disabled and can't.
Why am I disabled? Because when I was a teenager crossing the street as a pedestrian I was struck by a speeding pickup truck driver.
So I think I can reasonably claim that I have no particular bias in favor of traffic scofflaws.
But those "honest" cops KNOW some of their co-workers are not honest cops, they all know of cases where a colleague fudged an arrest report or claimed that a driver crossed the white line when they didn;t actually, because they had a hunch that the driver was not legitotherwise but had no probable cause to stop them, etc., etc., ALL cops know of these things happening from time to time, yet don't arrest them or report the cops to supervisors or testify on behalf of the other cops' victims.
So there are no honest cops.
The little town I used to live in did this.
There was an expressway that passed through a rural spot of the town. It was in a cut down grade, all local town roads that came near it (very few) passed over it on bridges. So there were NO traffic or safety issues for the town as a result. The town was totally unaffected by this stretch of highway, it was down in a gulch between farm fields, fenced off and inaccessible - essentially a complete other world from the town.
The town used to station cop cars (the town only HAD like 2 cop cars) at some spot near a slight rise and it was a notorious speed trap.
Traffic court was on Thursday night. Every Thursday nights would show our tiny town hall (a historic converted 19th century one-room schoolhouse) with a line of people winding around several times outside. Processed quickly, cha-ching.
A massive revenue stream from people not from the town, who had no idea they were technically IN the town, and whose driving (speeding or not) had absolutely no effect whatsoever on the town, was not even noticeable in the sleepy quiet little town.
The ENTIRE THING was a massive revenue source, and of course when the state moved to raise the speed limit from 55 to higher, the town had a fit, because the highway was under state jurisdiction and therefore the town couldn't set a lower limit for that stretch.
Not even the most virulent nativist would attempt to prevent people from reading books or watching films in the language of their choice in the privacy of their own homes
don't bet on it...
I was following you right up until you put the word tricks in single quotes. Then you lost me, trying to be all fancy like that.
I am TRULY SORRY.
Oh incidentally, re: region codes - this is particularly slimy.
They take advantage of the "global market" to reduce their costs and increase their profits by offshoring production to a society where wages are less, then shipping their product to a society where they can charge more. Using region codes, they prevent their customers from doing the SAME THING.
The customer is NOT allowed to take advantage of the global market by "outsourcing" THEIR suppliers of media by ordering from a different, cheaper region.
This is the ultimate in hypocrisy, this is the ultimate FUCK YOU to their own consumers - we'll deprive YOU of the jobs making your own consumer items, not shit you can do about it - we'll charge you the same as if they WERE made locally, not shit you can do about it... and we'll prevent YOU from going offshore to get the same benefit we do.
I can't think of a much sleazier business practice.
Exactly. I don't own a blu-ray player, I don't intend to ever own a blu-ray player, I don't rip blu-ray movies, I don't intend to ever rip them, I don't download ripped blu-rays (and of course don't burn them, since I don't have a blu-ray burner.
Yet I am thrilled by this news. Why? How does it effect me? I've never played a blu-ray dics, legit or otherwise in my life and never will... so why do I care?
BECAUSE. There is a trend to remove rights from people, to get people to pay multiple times for the same content (the head of the RIAA even admitted in a 1980s interview that they were aiming towards a play-per-play model)
They create artificial scarcity through region codes and corrupt legislation to allow them to sell a product which costs a fraction of a percent of what it used to cost to "manufacture & distribute" while using law & restrictions to force people into paying essentially HIGHER prices for it - and the end product actually has less tangible value and "permanence" than what came before.
All because they determined that there would be higher profits in this business model - but it's an unnatural business model that is illogical and would not WORK, without them purchasing laws to FORCE people to adhere to it.
This is immoral and corrupt, and would never stand in a true free market or for that matter in a socialist one either... can ONLY exist in a corrupted "democracy" and would require draconian police powers to enforce.
This is a blow against that. This is a blow against a propped-up failed business model.
More like this and eventually they will have to figure out a LEGITIMATE business model, or die.
After reading this, I'm at a loss to understand why my uncle went into the military as someone I respected deeply and came out of the military an amoral asshole.
n/t
It's more of a cash cow for the corporations that buy the spectrum. Essentially what happened is, the govt. was mandated to use the public's airwaves in the public interest, and they decided it was in the public's best interest to auction the spectrum off so that the public's government can collect a $5 fee from the corporation for the corporation to have the right to sell it back to us for $500.
Basically we're selling licenses to print money.
...to whom will we have to fork over the hefty monthly charges to use our "public" airwaves?
Is ANYTHING today manufactured someplace where child labor is UNCOMMON?
While I agree with the intent behind this legislation, the problem is that there are a few applications where CFLs simply are NOT good.
An example is closet and bathroom lights. The CFL makers themselves say not to use the CFLs in areas where you'll be switching the light on only for a few seconds or a couple of minutes. This wear causes them to fail very quickly, totally negating any efficiency advantage.
Livingroom lights, great - closet, a waste.
Also, things like garage lights in cold climates - a CFL can take 20 minutes to get up to usable brightness when it's 5 degrees out. Doesn't matter to people in CA or FL, but in upstate NY and MN that's a problem.
Because for a huge number of people, the device does NOT need to be jailbroken to be used in the way they want to use it. Including myself. I jailbroke my first iphone, saw there was nothing REALLY of use that I couldn't do with signed approved app-store code, and didn't bother on my 3g-s.
Am i representative of 100% of the /. community? Of course not, but in reality the nerd crowd who want to run their own code on the iphone are a tiny share of the market.
Yep, but I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about those who continually buy them, go to the effort to jailbreak them, complain when Apple bricks them, etc.
Of course, some likely do it for the fun of the challenge or something.
You know, you could, i don't know, buy a phone? I don't really know how it's in the States, but here in Belgium you can walk into any old store and buy a phone that comes from the manufacturer directly, no network lock-in, no crapware (other then what the manufacturer installed) and best of all, it's *yours*.
Yeah. Still would cost over $100 a month to use here in the states, though.
would someone buy a piece of hardware that continually needs to be "jailbroken" just to be able to be used in the way they want to use it?
Of course, I say this as an owner of an LG Voyager, which doesn't allow you to load anything on it you don't pay Verizon directly for, so WTF am I talking about? (but at least I got it free.)
Some day you'll be able to own a broadband internet browsing cell phone that will only cost a few bucks a month to use, not $100 or more, and which you can load whatever the fuck you want to on.
Oh who the hell am I kidding. No there won't.