Oh my god... I remember seeing that when I was but a wee lad and it scared the crap out of me. I had nightmares for weeks about giant rabbits coming to bite MY head off...
It seems that scientists stand on their soapboxes and preach from self-proclaimed authority to the unwashed masses about what is and is not fact. Certain well-known theories are taught as rock-solid fact, and anything which flies in the face of these theories is either discounted or hastily explained away. Anyone who dares question a scientist but who does not hold a degree in his chosen field is ridiculed and dismissed as a nut.
My question actually has two parts: what has causes this arrogance, and why do you think the rest of us put up with it?
You've got everything. The archetecture of Chicago is amazingly diverse. The Sears Tower and Hancock building are so amazingly huge your mind will boggle. Standing next to the ST and looking up is a little bit like what I imagine being in the Total Perspective Vortex must be like.
Then there's the Adler Planetarium, the Field museum, the Museum of Science and Industry...and you need to go to the Art Museum and examine the Seurat up close. AMAZING.
What is it going to do? Scan the user's hard drive for MP3s and then send a report off to the mothership? A couple months go by and you get a bill in the mail for all the tracks on your hard drive? Even those you ripped yourself from your own CDs? And how about stuff it doesn't recognise? Will the user get a generic charge for those MP3s to be held in trust for the artist, should he ever be identified? How legal is that, scanning my hard drive and reporting the contents to someone else? Seems to me they'd have a difficult time defending it in court...
Sounds like anyone who used it would be asking for people to migrate to another P2P system that doesn't. Which means they'll try to sugar-coat it and spin it as some advanced new feature OR they'll bury it deep and hope that nobody finds it.
How many times should I have to pay for the right to use a particular piece of music? In the 70's I bought vinyl. Then tapes came out and I bought tapes of a lot of the same albums. Then along come CDs and suddenly I'm paying for the same music AGAIN!
At what point do I, the consumer, have to stop paying? If the RIAA had their way, NEVER! And attitudes like this guy's don't help! I've paid for several albums multiple times, so if I see an MP3 for a song I have on tape or vinyl, I don't feel so awful downloading it, because I've already paid for it, sometimes MORE THAN ONCE!
Can somebody tell me what rights the consumer is SUPPOSED to have? Or do we just have to keep taking it up the ass in perpetuity?
Well, you know there have been lots of Transformers series over the years. To understand this you need to understand that it's anime. Anime series often do this-rework the basics of the show from season to season. Things change. That's why Armada is so radically different from the original series. It's from Japan, and in Japan what sells right now is monster raising/collecting, hence the minicons.
And you DO know it's a kid's show, RIGHT? It's not meant for adults. The dialogue is pretty silly. If it fails to please you in the same way the original did, maybe that's because you've grown up and your tastes have changed.
It is your duty as a citizen of the United American States of Commerce to consume, to be advertised at mercilessly and to never complain once about any of it.
Complainers will be send for re-ADuctation.
You will comply.
Buy, buy, buy! Spend, spend, spend!
And you TiVO users, don't think we won't have a special hell just for you for skipping all those ads and stealing all that TV!
The building in which I work has been invaded by dozens of stainless steel monoliths which, I am told, will soon carry advertising far and wide throughout to every man, woman and child who dares to set foot in the tower. Used to be work was the one place I could be sure I wouldn't be advertised at. But then they got those damned Captivate terminals in the lifts. Now they've gotten a taste of the money they can make off of allowing advertising in the building, and they're going to take a nice, quiet, serene environment and befoul it with ads. For money. *sigh*
I guess as a capitalist I should be glad, but this seems excessive. Even in the 1980s people weren't this money hungry. Now everthing is potential advertising space, just waiting to be taken advantage of. It's sickening.
So is it MacOS X 10.3 compatible yet?
Both 1.4rc3 and Firebird/Phoenix refuse to launch. The icon goes bouncie bouncie and then just stops, and nothing else happens. 8^(
I wish Moz would work, because I can't stand using Safari. No image blocking, cookie blocking or animation blocking. 8^P Of all these, animation blocking is the most important to me. Static images I can ignore, but moving pictures I can't.
There's just one itsy-bitsy problem with that scenario. You're assuming that the RIAA won't fight back. Now then, think on this for a moment: when have you heard the news media utter a single sympathetic word for file traders? They're routinely slurred as pirates and scoundrels, people engaged in illegal and immoral practises who should be rounded up and shot.
Every article about filesharing talks about the plight of the music companies, makes them out to be helpless victims incapable of stopping those horrible pirates. Sales are declining, we are reliably informed, because of those HORRIBLE, NASTY, EVIL, SELF-SERVING pirates who download rather than pay for music.
Do you seriously believe your scenario could come to pass in the media climate described above?
If so, please do tell me, what colour is the sky in your little world?
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No, you are not alone. Motion on web pages is intolerable. Whatever else I'm there for loses to the motion. It pulls my attention away from whatever else I'm doing.
That's why the only browser on my system is Mozilla. Phoenix and Camino are nice, but I don't have the fine level of control with them that Mozilla gives me. I can block cookies, ads, popups all without even having to go into the prefs.
Until Safari gives me a few more basic controls (controls which surely must be in Konqueror) I won't touch it.
But honestly, I doubt they're worried about it. It's not as easy to explain as P2P, and it's certainly not as sexy. And there are probably 100x as many people using P2P than Usenet.
Usenet is the only way to go. I spend $10 a month for 750mb of downloads per day. That works up to 5.25gb per week, and 21gb a month. OK, so it's not as simple as Kazaa, but you don't have to put up with spyware and you won't wind up with partial files. You can place requests and (usually) have them filled pretty quickly. And you'll be exposed to a larger variety of stuff on Usenet, stuff you probably won't see in the P2P communities.
At the moment Usenet doesn't seem to be the focus of any RIAA crackdowns. Just go out and get a good newsfeed (there are plenty which protect user anonymity) and start downloading! You'll never pay for music again unless you want to!
I'd just like to go on record as saying there is still NO proof that any of this is anything other than a rumour.
I'll happily eat my words. Don't misunderstand my pessimism for anything other than a lack of belief. I'd LOVE for Apple to start an online music service, but frankly I doubt I'd use it because I get 99% of what I want for FREE from Usenet and the library. I'm kinda used to the whole not-paying-for-music thing now.;)
Besides, with the RIAA's recent $98bn lawsuit, I have officially stopped purchasing new CDs. Paying AAPL to dl "officially acceptable" MP3s would mean putting more money in the RIAA's coffers. Not gonna do it.
I've only known about dmusic.com for half an hour and I've already grabbed a LOT of really good music for free and without having to worry about the RIAA's jackbooted shock troops (lead no doubt by the redoubtable Lars Ulrich) kicking in my door and hauling me off to copyright court. Beauty. I'm just bummed they don't have any Britney or Backside Boys. Oh, well.;)
But yEnc isn't finished. It's nowhere near as robust and stable as UUCode.
The other problem I have with yEnc is the people who use it and the attitude they cop about people who don't like it. Getting all pissy when people complain (legitimately) and telling them they're idiots and calling them names. Real mature, that. Just because it's new doesn't make it better.
Once yEnc is finished, THEN I'll listen to how great it is. Meanwhile almost half of the yEnc encoded binaries I try to download is truncated or corrupted. That's SO much better than UUcode, which almost never corrupts or truncates a file. And as for Base 64, does ANYONE use it?
WTF will Tremors be about anyway? Rather, what will it be about that they haven't done in the THREE movies? The first one was OK, but the other two have strained the idea past any credibility. A TV series is going to be better? PUH-leez!
You might as well make a weekly show from the want ads. (note to all TV producers-I'm gonna copyright that idea, so don't get any ideas-I know you're fucking stupid enough to try it...)
Well...why does the cold war have to be mentioned in EVERY episode? It's a pretty big universe out there, after all...not every situation will require the Suliban or Future Boy.
Remember, in B5 many episodes made little or no reference to the Shadows or the impending war. Hell, there was NO mention of that stuff in the pilot.
Unlike TNG and TOS, DS9, Voyager and now Enterprise DO have themes. Voyager's was the journey home. Enterprise's is the whole Suliban thing.
Actually, I dl for free because I can sample a broader range of music this way. I've encountered bands I'd almost certainly never heard of otherwise. Then there's always the preview thing...being able to check out an album before plunking down the money for it. Even then I'll buy used before I buy new.
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Oh my god... I remember seeing that when I was but a wee lad and it scared the crap out of me. I had nightmares for weeks about giant rabbits coming to bite MY head off...
;)
*shudder*
Thanks for the memories, by the way.
It seems that scientists stand on their soapboxes and preach from self-proclaimed authority to the unwashed masses about what is and is not fact. Certain well-known theories are taught as rock-solid fact, and anything which flies in the face of these theories is either discounted or hastily explained away. Anyone who dares question a scientist but who does not hold a degree in his chosen field is ridiculed and dismissed as a nut.
My question actually has two parts: what has causes this arrogance, and why do you think the rest of us put up with it?
In other news today, it was announced that grass is green and the sky is blue.
I mean, talk about stating the bleeding obvious.
You've got everything. The archetecture of Chicago is amazingly diverse. The Sears Tower and Hancock building are so amazingly huge your mind will boggle. Standing next to the ST and looking up is a little bit like what I imagine being in the Total Perspective Vortex must be like. Then there's the Adler Planetarium, the Field museum, the Museum of Science and Industry...and you need to go to the Art Museum and examine the Seurat up close. AMAZING.
What is it going to do? Scan the user's hard drive for MP3s and then send a report off to the mothership? A couple months go by and you get a bill in the mail for all the tracks on your hard drive? Even those you ripped yourself from your own CDs? And how about stuff it doesn't recognise? Will the user get a generic charge for those MP3s to be held in trust for the artist, should he ever be identified? How legal is that, scanning my hard drive and reporting the contents to someone else? Seems to me they'd have a difficult time defending it in court...
Sounds like anyone who used it would be asking for people to migrate to another P2P system that doesn't. Which means they'll try to sugar-coat it and spin it as some advanced new feature OR they'll bury it deep and hope that nobody finds it.
Either way, it sounds like a losing plan.
How many times should I have to pay for the right to use a particular piece of music? In the 70's I bought vinyl. Then tapes came out and I bought tapes of a lot of the same albums. Then along come CDs and suddenly I'm paying for the same music AGAIN!
At what point do I, the consumer, have to stop paying? If the RIAA had their way, NEVER! And attitudes like this guy's don't help! I've paid for several albums multiple times, so if I see an MP3 for a song I have on tape or vinyl, I don't feel so awful downloading it, because I've already paid for it, sometimes MORE THAN ONCE!
Can somebody tell me what rights the consumer is SUPPOSED to have? Or do we just have to keep taking it up the ass in perpetuity?
Huh? We talking about the same show? The original was written for 8 year olds too. But 15 year olds were watching it.
;)
Cartoons in America are regularly aimed at preteen boys, except for the obviously girly stuff like My Little Pony and Care Bears.
I suppose next you're going to tell me GI Joe was aimed at ROTC candidates.
Well, you know there have been lots of Transformers series over the years. To understand this you need to understand that it's anime. Anime series often do this-rework the basics of the show from season to season. Things change. That's why Armada is so radically different from the original series. It's from Japan, and in Japan what sells right now is monster raising/collecting, hence the minicons.
And you DO know it's a kid's show, RIGHT? It's not meant for adults. The dialogue is pretty silly. If it fails to please you in the same way the original did, maybe that's because you've grown up and your tastes have changed.
It is your duty as a citizen of the United American States of Commerce to consume, to be advertised at mercilessly and to never complain once about any of it.
Complainers will be send for re-ADuctation.
You will comply.
Buy, buy, buy! Spend, spend, spend!
And you TiVO users, don't think we won't have a special hell just for you for skipping all those ads and stealing all that TV!
The building in which I work has been invaded by dozens of stainless steel monoliths which, I am told, will soon carry advertising far and wide throughout to every man, woman and child who dares to set foot in the tower. Used to be work was the one place I could be sure I wouldn't be advertised at. But then they got those damned Captivate terminals in the lifts. Now they've gotten a taste of the money they can make off of allowing advertising in the building, and they're going to take a nice, quiet, serene environment and befoul it with ads. For money. *sigh*
I guess as a capitalist I should be glad, but this seems excessive. Even in the 1980s people weren't this money hungry. Now everthing is potential advertising space, just waiting to be taken advantage of. It's sickening.
So is it MacOS X 10.3 compatible yet? Both 1.4rc3 and Firebird/Phoenix refuse to launch. The icon goes bouncie bouncie and then just stops, and nothing else happens. 8^( I wish Moz would work, because I can't stand using Safari. No image blocking, cookie blocking or animation blocking. 8^P Of all these, animation blocking is the most important to me. Static images I can ignore, but moving pictures I can't.
There's just one itsy-bitsy problem with that scenario. You're assuming that the RIAA won't fight back. Now then, think on this for a moment: when have you heard the news media utter a single sympathetic word for file traders? They're routinely slurred as pirates and scoundrels, people engaged in illegal and immoral practises who should be rounded up and shot.
Every article about filesharing talks about the plight of the music companies, makes them out to be helpless victims incapable of stopping those horrible pirates. Sales are declining, we are reliably informed, because of those HORRIBLE, NASTY, EVIL, SELF-SERVING pirates who download rather than pay for music.
Do you seriously believe your scenario could come to pass in the media climate described above?
If so, please do tell me, what colour is the sky in your little world?
No, you are not alone. Motion on web pages is intolerable. Whatever else I'm there for loses to the motion. It pulls my attention away from whatever else I'm doing. That's why the only browser on my system is Mozilla. Phoenix and Camino are nice, but I don't have the fine level of control with them that Mozilla gives me. I can block cookies, ads, popups all without even having to go into the prefs. Until Safari gives me a few more basic controls (controls which surely must be in Konqueror) I won't touch it.
Only if people actually USE it.
Aw, shoot...me and my big mouth...
But honestly, I doubt they're worried about it. It's not as easy to explain as P2P, and it's certainly not as sexy. And there are probably 100x as many people using P2P than Usenet.
Once they kill KaZaA, THEN we should worry. ^_^
Usenet is the only way to go. I spend $10 a month for 750mb of downloads per day. That works up to 5.25gb per week, and 21gb a month. OK, so it's not as simple as Kazaa, but you don't have to put up with spyware and you won't wind up with partial files. You can place requests and (usually) have them filled pretty quickly. And you'll be exposed to a larger variety of stuff on Usenet, stuff you probably won't see in the P2P communities.
At the moment Usenet doesn't seem to be the focus of any RIAA crackdowns. Just go out and get a good newsfeed (there are plenty which protect user anonymity) and start downloading! You'll never pay for music again unless you want to!
Well, I don't know the syntax for earlier home computers, but under Applesoft BASIC, it'd be:
10 PRINT "HI"
20 END
followed immediately after by:
10 PRINT "HI"
20 GOTO 10
I'm guessing it wouldn't have been much different. ^_^
or...
Ms Pac-Man: The Motion Picture
It's gonna be a big, big hit...
I'll happily eat my words. Don't misunderstand my pessimism for anything other than a lack of belief. I'd LOVE for Apple to start an online music service, but frankly I doubt I'd use it because I get 99% of what I want for FREE from Usenet and the library. I'm kinda used to the whole not-paying-for-music thing now. ;)
Besides, with the RIAA's recent $98bn lawsuit, I have officially stopped purchasing new CDs. Paying AAPL to dl "officially acceptable" MP3s would mean putting more money in the RIAA's coffers. Not gonna do it.
I've only known about dmusic.com for half an hour and I've already grabbed a LOT of really good music for free and without having to worry about the RIAA's jackbooted shock troops (lead no doubt by the redoubtable Lars Ulrich) kicking in my door and hauling me off to copyright court. Beauty. I'm just bummed they don't have any Britney or Backside Boys. Oh, well. ;)
The other problem I have with yEnc is the people who use it and the attitude they cop about people who don't like it. Getting all pissy when people complain (legitimately) and telling them they're idiots and calling them names. Real mature, that. Just because it's new doesn't make it better.
Once yEnc is finished, THEN I'll listen to how great it is. Meanwhile almost half of the yEnc encoded binaries I try to download is truncated or corrupted. That's SO much better than UUcode, which almost never corrupts or truncates a file. And as for Base 64, does ANYONE use it?
I can't stop my wife from buying them, but I'll never pay for a new CD ever again, and I'll never ask for a CD for a present.
It's really too bad the RIAA isn't capable of treating its customers like civilised people.
You might as well make a weekly show from the want ads. (note to all TV producers-I'm gonna copyright that idea, so don't get any ideas-I know you're fucking stupid enough to try it...)
Remember, in B5 many episodes made little or no reference to the Shadows or the impending war. Hell, there was NO mention of that stuff in the pilot.
Unlike TNG and TOS, DS9, Voyager and now Enterprise DO have themes. Voyager's was the journey home. Enterprise's is the whole Suliban thing.
Patience...
Logically, you're right. But...ah...logic and I have never been able to stand one another's company. ;)
You need to introduce him to the joys of Usenet. All the pr0n you can use, 24/7/365. It's a beautiful thing.
Erm...so I've been told, anyway...
Actually, I dl for free because I can sample a broader range of music this way. I've encountered bands I'd almost certainly never heard of otherwise. Then there's always the preview thing...being able to check out an album before plunking down the money for it. Even then I'll buy used before I buy new.