All kinds of people are willing to pay for vapor, so why not steam? In spite of the old saying that you don't get something for nothing, there are thousands of companies that sell nothing for something, and are making a killing.
2004 is 1984. Any information Big Brother doesn't like will be put down a memory hole. Fascism has come to America, wrapped in the American Flag, and the blitzkrieg has even begun against other nations.
What I really want is a ball-top joystick for the PC just like the ones that were in arcades for retro gaming like Pac-man. Using a pad controller, or a flight stick just isn't the same.
Why bother adding anti-counterfeiting measures to our real currency when clerks will accept denominations that have never been minted like the $200pP
This happened more than once.
CNET is reporting results from a Gartner Group report that claims 40% of desktop machines sold with Linux on them are being used to run pirate copies of Windows!
And 100% of Windows PCs are being used to run a pireted copy of Mac OS. Gates and company never inventaed any OS. Dos was essentially stolen, considering what they paid the programmer who really wrote it, and windows was a rip-off of mac.
Beware of the dork side. Once you step down the dork path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will!
You will live in your mother's basement. You will never kiss a girl. The only girls you will ever see will be prOn on the internet. You will have no outlet but playing with your own light saber.
...This happened after an upgrade from Unix to Windows...
Upgrade? Is going from the automobile to the horse and buggy an upgrade? Is going from a modern jet the the Wright Flyer an upgrade? Is going from running shoes to bare feet an upgrade? I could go on forever.
Here's the simple solution. Ditch the high tech whizbang gift cards, and go back to good old-fashioned paper gift certificates. That would be simple and effective, so it will probably never happen.
If a cop tells you to stop doing something, and you don't, he can easily arrest you for "disorderly conduct", a catch-all that basically allows them to arrest anyone at any time. If you continue to argue, they can even throw in resisting arrest. The "freedom" that people go on and on about is just a buzzword. Mess with the man, and you will find yourself in a cage with bubba the booty buster, and suing afterward won't un-rape your ass.
Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested for giving a speech about a piece of DMCA infringing software, not actually circumventing DRM, proving the First Amendment to be nothing but some pretty sounding words on an old piece of parchment.
Remember the Junior Narc sketch on Saturday Night Live. I think it was Dan Akroyd. They promised bikes, and all other things kids would want if they ratted out their drug using parents. This weasel reminds me of that. Weasels and rats are vermin.
Already the inferior bitter tasting species, robusta, has twice as much caffeine as Arabica, the good tasting stuff. Already, a pot of purely robusta will give you the shakes. 20 times more caffeine might be lethal.
Since they want to own your thoughts, they probably don't allow tinfoil hats, which would stop them from using mind probes on you, but here's an Idea. Wear a wig over your tinfoil hat, so they won't see it.
Like any desk jockey executive, he will kick back, collecting a multi-million dollar salary plus bonuses that will bankrupt the company, and laugh all the way to the bank. Gateway will be kaput by 2006, and that is a generous estimate.
Will Doom3 be pirated? Yes. They have priced themselves out of the market. It has a suggested retail price of $54.99, and most gamer kids just don't have that. They will want to play it though, so they will get it by hook or by crook. "Copy protection" will only be a bump in the road, and the DMCA ignored like the 55 mile per hour speed limit.
If Id and Activision would sell it for $29.95, their sales would probably increase 500 to 700 percent. Overpricing because of greed will be the kiss of death.
Ludlow Music trying to muzzle JibJab is the clearest example in recent memory of copyright as censorship.
Locking up ideas as property, whether works of art or in any other form, is ultimately no different than suppressing them. If JibJab doesn't have the right to keep this video on their servers, then they don't have freedom of speech, and guess what? Neither do we.
The purpose of copyright was to prevent plagarists from passing off other people's work as their own for profit, not to censor similar expressions of ideas. It seems to me that a plagarist trying to pass off other people's works as their own (i.e. Woody Guthrie's) for profit is a perfect description of Ludlow Music.
I propose that those wishing to possess "intellectual property" should keep their thoughts in their head.
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All kinds of people are willing to pay for vapor, so why not steam? In spite of the old saying that you don't get something for nothing, there are thousands of companies that sell nothing for something, and are making a killing.
2004 is 1984. Any information Big Brother doesn't like will be put down a memory hole. Fascism has come to America, wrapped in the American Flag, and the blitzkrieg has even begun against other nations.
What I really want is a ball-top joystick for the PC just like the ones that were in arcades for retro gaming like Pac-man. Using a pad controller, or a flight stick just isn't the same.
Indeed! Pot, kettle. Kettle, pot. The Libertarians are as much a legitimate political party as the scientologists are a legitimate religion.
Beside antimatter, how many other science-fiction based weapons systems are they working on? Any phasers or light-sabers?
Why bother adding anti-counterfeiting measures to our real currency when clerks will accept denominations that have never been minted like the $200pP This happened more than once.
And 100% of Windows PCs are being used to run a pireted copy of Mac OS. Gates and company never inventaed any OS. Dos was essentially stolen, considering what they paid the programmer who really wrote it, and windows was a rip-off of mac.
You will live in your mother's basement. You will never kiss a girl. The only girls you will ever see will be prOn on the internet. You will have no outlet but playing with your own light saber.
Don't cross over to the dork side.
Upgrade? Is going from the automobile to the horse and buggy an upgrade? Is going from a modern jet the the Wright Flyer an upgrade? Is going from running shoes to bare feet an upgrade? I could go on forever.
Workers' rights? You must have forgotten that you live in the United States of Avarice. Now grab your pick axe, and get back to mining that salt.
Here's the simple solution. Ditch the high tech whizbang gift cards, and go back to good old-fashioned paper gift certificates. That would be simple and effective, so it will probably never happen.
If a cop tells you to stop doing something, and you don't, he can easily arrest you for "disorderly conduct", a catch-all that basically allows them to arrest anyone at any time. If you continue to argue, they can even throw in resisting arrest. The "freedom" that people go on and on about is just a buzzword. Mess with the man, and you will find yourself in a cage with bubba the booty buster, and suing afterward won't un-rape your ass.
Did anyone invite Darl McBride? I've got some rottern eggs!
Pentabytes? Some of that satanic shit like Pentagrams and calico cats! Devil worship I tells ya! Thank the Lawaaaard for John Ashcroft!
I tried that F%*@ing broadband over powerlines, and my computer A-sploded! This sucks!
Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested for giving a speech about a piece of DMCA infringing software, not actually circumventing DRM, proving the First Amendment to be nothing but some pretty sounding words on an old piece of parchment.
Stealing involves depriving someone of a tangible thing. You can't steal vapor.
Remember the Junior Narc sketch on Saturday Night Live. I think it was Dan Akroyd. They promised bikes, and all other things kids would want if they ratted out their drug using parents. This weasel reminds me of that. Weasels and rats are vermin.
Already the inferior bitter tasting species, robusta, has twice as much caffeine as Arabica, the good tasting stuff. Already, a pot of purely robusta will give you the shakes. 20 times more caffeine might be lethal.
...There's something fishy about this!
Since they want to own your thoughts, they probably don't allow tinfoil hats, which would stop them from using mind probes on you, but here's an Idea. Wear a wig over your tinfoil hat, so they won't see it.
Like any desk jockey executive, he will kick back, collecting a multi-million dollar salary plus bonuses that will bankrupt the company, and laugh all the way to the bank. Gateway will be kaput by 2006, and that is a generous estimate.
If Id and Activision would sell it for $29.95, their sales would probably increase 500 to 700 percent. Overpricing because of greed will be the kiss of death.
Not only that! It's Windows 98.
Locking up ideas as property, whether works of art or in any other form, is ultimately no different than suppressing them. If JibJab doesn't have the right to keep this video on their servers, then they don't have freedom of speech, and guess what? Neither do we.
The purpose of copyright was to prevent plagarists from passing off other people's work as their own for profit, not to censor similar expressions of ideas. It seems to me that a plagarist trying to pass off other people's works as their own (i.e. Woody Guthrie's) for profit is a perfect description of Ludlow Music.
I propose that those wishing to possess "intellectual property" should keep their thoughts in their head.