Let's charge the people using the lines, and charge the services that are provided.
Why stop there? Bill me for stopping to pick up groceries in addition to the groceries. Charge my credit card for browsing Amazon While I wait in line, absorbing all that heat you'r providing (or shedding BTUs alternately) charge me an hourly rate - no fractions!
This is the very heith of idiocy. Does he realize how much dark fiber is out there? This is right up there with banks and bank tellers: I used to interact with a human teller and get my funds, or deposit the til. Now, I 'interact' with a machine - a machine that doesn't have health care, disability insurance or a retirement plan - and the bank charges me - ME! - for the privilege of said machine use.
Oh wait I forgot. Greed is a very successful business model.
And Apple wasn't asked by the RIAA to increase prices at the iTunes store, I believe it was more like a demand for a piece of the action. That.99 cents wasn't enough. Of course I'm sure they are fine with WalMart's.97 or.88 cents, since Bush signed HAFTA (Hell/America Free Trade Agreement).
My bad. Any of the 'majors' in the US seem to be equally guilty, however. That is to say I wouldn't exactly call the current works of the majority under the RIAA's sponsorship 'epic', certainly.
My television has very little to do with the RIAA and Hollywood. A fact that would terrify them. Dare I say this will be read one day to someone 'over there' - over that line between fairness and decency. How the mighty have fallen. The love for Hollywood used to be absolute. Enough fjord based pining. To my point.
I am an amature satellite enthusiast, and I also enjoy watching international programming to enrich my life, see alternate viewpoints, dabble in foreign languages. I have a collection of the choicest materials in a pile of different formats going back to reel to reel, a good amount of which is far outside anything the RIAA presides over.
Even the RIAA members are beginning to admit that numbers are down on theatre goers because what they produce is, in their own terms, crap. Why people fund horror movies at this point is beyond me. When horror movies became a year-round release date, a constant barrage tucked between truck commercials and station-based self promotion v-spam, I began to rarely watch anything produced in this country. If you could escape, you would too - if you haven't already...
Looks like the boycott has already started. Nevermind. =)
Geez. Will some of you take up reading already? 1,600 successful launches makes the Soyuz the sturdiest vehicle Homo Sapiens has going. We'll have Klipper, and the CEV up soon. Until then Soyuz is a perfect choice. Quit yer bitchin'.
The Earth's core also bounces from North to South. Not sure if it is a remnant of the colision that formed the Moon, or part of its conservation of momentum from the outer crust trying to change it's vector, the core being a giant defacto gyroscope.
"on a 2.7-year return trip to Mars, including a stay of more than a year on the planet. "
This article is assuming a stay of 1.7 years in open space - More than 18 months. If I stand outside on Earth for 18 months unprotected, I'll die of cancer too.
What sort of nonsense is this? 9 month one way trip?? Ridiculous.
Long live television!
Television is dead!
Long live television!
Now, studios are no longer in control. A 'amateur' show can compete with everything, based on your friendsters. Neilsen will have to find a way to cope with this.
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Let's charge the people using the lines, and charge the services that are provided.
Why stop there?
Bill me for stopping to pick up groceries in addition to the groceries.
Charge my credit card for browsing Amazon
While I wait in line, absorbing all that heat you'r providing (or shedding BTUs alternately) charge me an hourly rate - no fractions!
This is the very heith of idiocy. Does he realize how much dark fiber is out there? This is right up there with banks and bank tellers: I used to interact with a human teller and get my funds, or deposit the til. Now, I 'interact' with a machine - a machine that doesn't have health care, disability insurance or a retirement plan - and the bank charges me - ME! - for the privilege of said machine use.
Oh wait I forgot. Greed is a very successful business model.
kulakovich
And Apple wasn't asked by the RIAA to increase prices at the iTunes store, I believe it was more like a demand for a piece of the action. That
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Dear President Obasanjo,
My name is WILLIAM HENRY GATES III, and I am President of the Microsoft Corporation...
Damn I was too slow. I thought I had it all.
ok, blast me now for off topic so I can go home.
kulakovich
Dear Mr. Gates,
My name is UMPENGI MATWATE, and I am the surviving son of DR BASWE MATWATE,
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My bad. Any of the 'majors' in the US seem to be equally guilty, however. That is to say I wouldn't exactly call the current works of the majority under the RIAA's sponsorship 'epic', certainly.
kulakovich
My television has very little to do with the RIAA and Hollywood. A fact that would terrify them. Dare I say this will be read one day to someone 'over there' - over that line between fairness and decency. How the mighty have fallen. The love for Hollywood used to be absolute. Enough fjord based pining. To my point.
I am an amature satellite enthusiast, and I also enjoy watching international programming to enrich my life, see alternate viewpoints, dabble in foreign languages. I have a collection of the choicest materials in a pile of different formats going back to reel to reel, a good amount of which is far outside anything the RIAA presides over.
Even the RIAA members are beginning to admit that numbers are down on theatre goers because what they produce is, in their own terms, crap. Why people fund horror movies at this point is beyond me. When horror movies became a year-round release date, a constant barrage tucked between truck commercials and station-based self promotion v-spam, I began to rarely watch anything produced in this country. If you could escape, you would too - if you haven't already...
Looks like the boycott has already started. Nevermind. =)
kulakovich
Geez. Will some of you take up reading already? 1,600 successful launches makes the Soyuz the sturdiest vehicle Homo Sapiens has going. We'll have Klipper, and the CEV up soon. Until then Soyuz is a perfect choice. Quit yer bitchin'.
kulakovich
It doesn't have to COST more. We can CHARGE more. When you will PAY more.
kulakovich
Here it is, and I know you Hollywood types are going to dig it:
Your Obsessive Compulsive Hardware
+ Your Intellectually Devoid Content
= Chapter 11 Bankrupcy Protection
Enjoy the show!
kulakovich
Very sad indeed.
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ok that was fun.
tnx.
kulakovich
Ok, it is in the domain name record that Apple owns iPhone.org - how the heck is that offtopic?
drat - I don't know how you got this in before me! double drat!
/your speed is teh superior.
kulakovich
Maybe if I put it in all caps people will listen this time. =)
kulakovich
The Earth's core also bounces from North to South. Not sure if it is a remnant of the colision that formed the Moon, or part of its conservation of momentum from the outer crust trying to change it's vector, the core being a giant defacto gyroscope.
Eventually I will post the math. =)
kulakovich
They were sued, and lost bigtime.
/public service announcement.
kulakovich
hm. Maybe Shatner's "Starfleet Acadamy 90210" idea wasn't so bad after all. Bill? You with me? Science professor material here...
Bill?
To say that Windows was a "Pioneering" effort is like saying Columbus "Discovered" America, when there were already people living here.
Give me a break. Why do people insist on re-writing history?
kulakovich
"on a 2.7-year return trip to Mars, including a stay of more than a year on the planet. "
This article is assuming a stay of 1.7 years in open space - More than 18 months. If I stand outside on Earth for 18 months unprotected, I'll die of cancer too.
What sort of nonsense is this? 9 month one way trip?? Ridiculous.
kulakovich
Long live television!
Television is dead!
Long live television!
Now, studios are no longer in control. A 'amateur' show can compete with everything, based on your friendsters. Neilsen will have to find a way to cope with this.
kulakovich
Anyone ever point this out?
kulakovich
check this out:
Domain ID:D15354654-LROR Domain Name:IPHONE.ORG Created On:16-Dec-1999 04:59:34 UTC Last Updated On:27-Jul-2004 18:32:41 UTC Expiration Date:16-Dec-2005 04:59:33 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:EmarkMonitor Inc. (R37-LROR) Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED Registrant ID:mKn-14211604 Registrant Name:Apple Computer , Inc. Registrant Organization:Apple Computer, Inc. Registrant Street1:1 Infinite Loop Registrant Street2:M/S 60-DR Registrant Street3: Registrant City:Cupertino Registrant State/Province:CA
kulakovich
- because Lovecraft has got dibs!
Kulakovich
Peddle your negative-Nancy postings to someone else!
kulakovich