Actually, the only reason nuclear powerd reactors were so prevelant in years past was that the US govt needed a way to refine radioactive material into fission material for bombs.
Now that the US administration wants to restart research on low-yield nukes, it will need a way to get the material to test and devlop these wonderful toys. Mind you, they arent weapons of mass distruction, as that would mean the US would have to invade itselve to protect the world from such weapons.
Talk about political spin, this is one of the classic ones. Convince people the one benefit is in their best interests, and use the spoils for yourself.
better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt
New Hampshire, New York, New England, New Brunswick
Your right, they should just 'catch-up' to the North American level of originality and just name it "New Galileo". What were they thinking naming a navigation satellite after the man who had such a profound stance on our REAL place in the universe? Something tells me you wouldnt stand on your word with your life like that man did.
In fact, its not the US govt that has the trademark, its a toy company Please dont just open your mouth and spew more diarhea, americans have enough reasons to be called stupid for now.
Intelligence has many forms, ignorance has just one
Ok, when is the endless parade to 'secure' things going to come to and end. There will always be risk inherent in everything, and there is no way to eliminate it.
But now people are worrying about the 'net being brought to a crawl by these so-called flash attacks. Look, if you corporate pinheads didnt put the internet into a state of stagation by putting in the lobby to pass all these restrictive laws, we wouldnt even have this problem
Before all these 'laws' designed to protect came along the internet was changing fast enough to keep the size and scope of such a thing from even coming close to happening
This is the internet you allowed to form, dont come crying to me that the ones you put in power are now using it for their own means...
Throwing your vote away? Since when was this a popularity contest. I appreciate your efforts to learn about who it is you are actually voting for, but this diarhea of the mouth about 'throwing away your vote' is total garbage and just by using the phrase you show how little you are actually thinking about your ability to vote.
Stop sounding like a whiney loser who expects their vote to not accomplish anything anyway, if you plan on carrying around that attitude please refrain from posting anymore. Theres already enough people on that bandwagon.
If you think for 5 seconds that ANY other party who was in control would be any different, you have a severely warped view of what governments functions actually are. Perhaps you should dig out some of your old college books and re-read "The Republic" by plato, and all those thoughts about the 'perfect' republic being one of slave-owning, censoring, determinists might make a little more sense to you now.
maybe independents can think for themselves
Maybe, but it sure doesnt look like it now
this will be no suprise to you...if your not turned onto politics, politics will turn on you.
But honestly, who gives a shit? Did everyone forget that its actually an artist who writes this stuff in the first place? There are plenty of other options out there to find, IMHO, much more creative music than the 'major labels'. I for one will have no problem with this 'war'. All its accomplished in my case was to drive me away from EVER buying another piece of music from these people. And since this has turned into a nice game of threatening the other side, heres my threat;
feel free to scan my drive with your programs for files that dont exist, since I dont listen to your 'product' and still have thousands of.mp3 files , and the TOS for programs running on my servers states that any program without written authorization by me will be billed at a rate of $120/CPU cycle and by running said program you agree to these terms.
After all for the RIAA to win, they have to SPEND money, for me to win, I have to NOT SPEND money on their 'product'. It doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out that that is a very unstable situation that will quickly come to a state of rest.
If a majority of people get pissed off then they will have no income to draw from to launch these rediculous campaigns. But I fear I am the lone minority, as most people dont even have a clue what the local bands in their area are, much less any music not played on FM radio
Some guy gets an 'idea' that he can do something without ever doing it before and puts out an article like this on slashdot...about once a week now it seems.
I begin to wonder if some of these arent simply college psych class assignments to see exactly what the state of the industry is. Im all for information sharing, but the level of insight most of these project will require will NEVER appear on any of these slashdot boards.
I can see the next one already; Im thinking about sending an orbiter to Neptune, and I was wondering if anyone has ever had any success doing this. Can you give me some ideas of problems I might face? Which solution worked best for you?
Im not criticizing the spirit to attain a new goal, just the expectation that any real use can be had by posing such questions in this type of format.
I dont need to know it all, I just need to know more than you.
the following refers to you, not me. In no way does the following relate my personal status in life
Wow, that whole reply probably went right over your head...
I said YOUR wife will put out whenver you like.
Im curious though, back to the origianl thread, why you think that because your company made a decision with mail software, its automatically a monolithic solution for every application? Your statement seemed biased that the whole OSS idea will die because your company didnt go with an OSS mail server.
See, when you say that to people who actually DO own a company, its a little confusing. Instead, next time just say "the place I work", since thats exactly what it is. I bet you say "we" when you talk about your local sports team too...
Suprising as it may be, there are those who choose to not to 'do' this for a living and instead use computers to actually do work that you dont have to babysit its every move during so they can go off and live for a living...ie being somewhere warm and sunny while the computer doing the work is in cold crappy climate.
Your not the only one in dilbert world, you just choose to keep living in it. Its ok, relax. Your software choice and office politics are the only way to get things done...everything else will wither and die based on the choices of a $2billion company because money is the most important thing in the world. Your job is safe, you will have it until the day you want to retire, your wife will put out whenver you like, and tomorrow you will be able to impress your boss so he doesnt shit on you so bad on friday...lol.
Do everyone a favor, and next time dont even begin to state your point, since as you say its not worth explaining it anyway
Something tells me lots of things arent worth it to you, the least of which is explaining your thoughts. Ah...to be old and bitter...well just bitter anyhow;)
As they say I'mma "bump on a pickle." 'My company' is the place I work
It may do you good to learn what 'group think' is, and why its a dangerous place to be.
I cant help but disagree with your point. Your comparison of the OSS philosophy with religion and the confederacy is a stretch at best, and gross misstating of the facts at worse.
The point you arent able to get your arms around is that OSS bases its very existance on that complaining, its how things get fine tuned to the point of being compulsive behaviors. And it works, regardless of how much I may hate your choice of a MTA, it still works, and in the end thats all that matters. You choose whatever program gets done what you want, and Ill choose the one I dont have to spend all day patching and enjoy a nice ride in the sun(because thats what I want).
Ill take the atmosphere of being able to complain as a way to get things done, as opposed to being fired when you complain about a better way to do something. There is no "Win" here, no matter how hard you look for it, some things arent a competition.
Also, if as in a later post you describe this as your company, what was all the in-fighting about? Its your company right? Forgive me if I dont put to much weight into the opinoins of a guy who runs/owns a company that he cant even convince hes making the right decisions for. Id leave that out of any future posts you make, unless youd actually like to NAME this company. Otherwise, your using cheap sensationalism...which is normal around here, but dont expect it to get you anywhere with your point.
a generation has grown up accustomed to the TV being there. And now there are actually arguments on who gets to provide the technology to present you with 1/3 advertising in a half hour show, and all you all are focusing on is 'its a clearer picture'.
The american consumer never ceases to amaze me with how eager they are to give up money to do nothing...btw, keep it up I like having the money to travel the world while others pay me so that they can sit around and look at glowing chemicals!!!
alright, calm down. Im not going to call you stupid here. Just think outside of the box. Its really just another form of an old debate trick that you are stuck in. The trick involves being presented with two options(left-hand, right-hand) and then thinking that those are the only two options that exist. When in reality, your being pulled without your knowing, to make what amounts to a black and white decision...either it is or it isnt. But its only black and white because you were never presented with the other options in the first place.
I also wonder how many people actually use the ALT, CTRL, SHIFT and similar keys on THE RIGHT SIDE of the keyboards
Um, non-right handed(and there are TWO of these groups, think about it) people who dont get conditioned into using ctl-alt-del every other hour by using MS products use those keys. Perhaps the church has beaten all knowledge of this out of you, but we do still exist. Personally I find it much easier especially with HTML to use the shift key on the right. Now that I think about it, why would you want to use two hands to type the paragraph tag(omitted because it made the post look pretty stupid). You cant even use the ones that are there right now efficiently, and you want to add more? Oh, I dont want to learn, just add more buttons for me to press.
In other words your set-top box or PC TV card would use the proposed standard to let you click on something displayed on your TV screen, for example, to answer a poll or buy the product featured in a commercial
If you want to buy milk should you have to start your own dairy coop?
Yes. If you cant buy it anywhere else, or if the milk you do buy you consider crappy. Was I not clear enough?
And of course its not easy to do, I dont claim saying that it is easy, in fact I think I refered to it as a thankless pain in the ass. But the fact is, you want someone else to do it for you.
Its ok to be a consumer, just dont pretend your not one. Ever wonder where the phrase 'laughing all the way to the bank' comes from? Look no further than your own rush to hand out money for other people to do the simplest of things, sold to you as a 'convenience'.
Dont blame the company for offering you crappy service when you keep renewing that service every month.
The origianl post refered to a town of 60k with only this one brand of crappy service...are you honestly telling me you dont think theres a wide open opportunity here? Can you even imagine the feeling you get when you put the crappy service people out of business because everyone likes to use your service...its nice, and its even nicer when the other guy is your ex-boss...(I digress)
While I sympathise with the lack of competition in your area, I do not sympathise with your ability to accept crappy service. Your still just waiting around for some company to come in and fix your problem. If service is so limited, why arent you starting up a wireless co-op, or any number of public avenues that would benefit the area, instead of waiting around for someone else to come in and offer you 'your internet fix' for the day.
The business is there to make money for a service provided, not be your friend. Dont take it personally when they change their service in order to make more money, thats what a business does. you want real change, start up public wireless internet access nodes around your city. Owned by everybody who uses it, I bet you wont be complaining so much. Oh, you dont want all the work associated for a thankless job...its all in your priorities, besides its so much more fun and easy to whine about it, makes you feel like you have an important opinion..
Look at it like any other idea, anyone with a brain can think of an idea, but to actually have the motivation to carry it through to any productive means is a lot more rare to see in a person....
Come on, this type of reporting is getting out of hand. It clearly states that this is for residential use only. If you are using it for business why not pay more for it. Youll get better quality for one, since you will be on nodes with other business customers. Minus the occasional code red and nimda probes.
I originally had residential cable service, I then outgrew what it offered and realized the cable company was just using it to 'push' content, not a true internet connection. So I simply found a company that offered the service I wanted, I ended up on a business class DSL line with all the features I need, and none of the side stepping you get from residential accounts.
Basically, my point is that you just look like a moron if you only accept whats presented to you and dont look for options to better fit your circumstances.
Look, I can see why this might be a problem for those of you who have been forced to look for work in a downturning economy. But remember, it was you who made the choice to buy that house, to get a new car every few years, to have the nicest things. Nobody is forcing you to go through ANY of this backgroud check crap, but you think you 'have to' because you are so accustomed to your consumer lifestyle and want to continue it.
You would be suprised at the small amount of money it takes to live well if you make the right choices.
Am I holier than thou, of course not! Am I complaining about background checks for a meaningless job, of course not! You make the call
A scam, probably not. Is it smart, also probably not. Im in the chicagoland area and have been hearing the commercials for BSA on the radio everywhere across the dial. What they are aiming for is to get people turned in by relying on an unhappy employee to rat them out.
That being said, keep in mind that the BSA is just an organization set up to find pirated software and collect fees. Fees that they no doubt get a cut of. They seem to have no problem using peoples fear and turning it into the driving force of their biz.
You are under NO obligation to report anything to them, unless they hand you a court order. They are an independent entity and have no more ability to legally inspect your systems than I would. so it would be in their best interest to make it seem that they do have that ability
This seems to be a page right out of the RIAA playbook, pretend something is true and youll fool at least some of the people
You can fool some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, but never all of the people all of the time
Isnt it a bit too late for this? After many a cross-country road trip, my expectations of radio sank lower and lower until I finally didnt listen to it at all. Most of the bands I enjoy will NEVER be on radio so what purpose is there in listening to it? Force of habbit? No thanks...
Ill keep my netradio and be on my merry way. Perhaps this might stop a few people from taking the road away form radio, but its really too late I think.
Picture growing up and seeing a bunch of old people listening to music on AM radio, even though FM had been around for quite awhile, they simply were accustomed to hearing it on AM and stayed with it. History doesnt repeat itself, but it sure rhymes. (Mark T.)
You dont 'bring down the net'. It might dissapear for those who think its nothing but eye-candy, but trust me there are those who would have no problem doing what they did yesterday if your browser-centric view of the net crumbled today.
I wonder how old Im getting when it seems that people are acting like they havent even heard of a dial-up BBS, and Im NOT refering to AOL here.
This doesnt matter for many, many reasons. Yes this woman has been irritating, but she is just a representative of a larger industry. The RIAA is just a lobbying body, the real problem is the member labels that support this crap, not the RIAA. You can block the RIAA IP's all you want, but what about the hundreds and hundreds of member labels...did you remember to block them too? And dont forget the sister org of the RIAA which has gotten some press here on slashdot recently, the IFPI. Ha! And you thought the RIAA was the problem all this time. Just remember the concept of 'lightning rod' here.
If you doubt any of what Im saying, and your halfway competent, dig into it a little deeper instead of going with the quick and visible enemy. Sooner or later, you will realize that the RIAA website is just a 'honeypot'. I mean come on, nobody is as stupid to do what they have done, and leave it that way after its been hacked for months...you say I am making this up...oh no...look at this security hole wide enough to fly the whole planet through. This problem has been exploited at least twice now to deface the page in recent months and nothing has been done to make it even the slightest bit better. All though as I test these links, the whole site seems to be down yet again. I cant imagine how that happened.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, the only reason nuclear powerd reactors were so prevelant in years past was that the US govt needed a way to refine radioactive material into fission material for bombs.
Now that the US administration wants to restart research on low-yield nukes, it will need a way to get the material to test and devlop these wonderful toys. Mind you, they arent weapons of mass distruction, as that would mean the US would have to invade itselve to protect the world from such weapons.
Talk about political spin, this is one of the classic ones. Convince people the one benefit is in their best interests, and use the spoils for yourself.
better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt
New Hampshire, New York, New England, New Brunswick
Your right, they should just 'catch-up' to the North American level of originality and just name it "New Galileo". What were they thinking naming a navigation satellite after the man who had such a profound stance on our REAL place in the universe? Something tells me you wouldnt stand on your word with your life like that man did.
In fact, its not the US govt that has the trademark, its a toy company Please dont just open your mouth and spew more diarhea, americans have enough reasons to be called stupid for now.
Intelligence has many forms, ignorance has just one
Ok, when is the endless parade to 'secure' things going to come to and end. There will always be risk inherent in everything, and there is no way to eliminate it.
But now people are worrying about the 'net being brought to a crawl by these so-called flash attacks. Look, if you corporate pinheads didnt put the internet into a state of stagation by putting in the lobby to pass all these restrictive laws, we wouldnt even have this problem
Before all these 'laws' designed to protect came along the internet was changing fast enough to keep the size and scope of such a thing from even coming close to happening
This is the internet you allowed to form, dont come crying to me that the ones you put in power are now using it for their own means...
whats what you thought?
Id explain it to you, but its too much fun to watch you think you know what your talking about.
Again, you live in your world...leave everybody else alone.
Lets be realistic, how many slashdot readers would be without a job if their software was copied freely.
Ummm...I use linux, and write some freely available drivers in all my projects.
You live in your world, leave everybody else alone.
Throwing your vote away? Since when was this a popularity contest. I appreciate your efforts to learn about who it is you are actually voting for, but this diarhea of the mouth about 'throwing away your vote' is total garbage and just by using the phrase you show how little you are actually thinking about your ability to vote.
Stop sounding like a whiney loser who expects their vote to not accomplish anything anyway, if you plan on carrying around that attitude please refrain from posting anymore. Theres already enough people on that bandwagon.
If you think for 5 seconds that ANY other party who was in control would be any different, you have a severely warped view of what governments functions actually are. Perhaps you should dig out some of your old college books and re-read "The Republic" by plato, and all those thoughts about the 'perfect' republic being one of slave-owning, censoring, determinists might make a little more sense to you now.
maybe independents can think for themselves
Maybe, but it sure doesnt look like it now
this will be no suprise to you...if your not turned onto politics, politics will turn on you.
If its war you want, its war you will get.
But honestly, who gives a shit? Did everyone forget that its actually an artist who writes this stuff in the first place? There are plenty of other options out there to find, IMHO, much more creative music than the 'major labels'. I for one will have no problem with this 'war'. All its accomplished in my case was to drive me away from EVER buying another piece of music from these people. And since this has turned into a nice game of threatening the other side, heres my threat;
feel free to scan my drive with your programs for files that dont exist, since I dont listen to your 'product' and still have thousands of .mp3 files , and the TOS for programs running on my servers states that any program without written authorization by me will be billed at a rate of $120/CPU cycle and by running said program you agree to these terms.
After all for the RIAA to win, they have to SPEND money, for me to win, I have to NOT SPEND money on their 'product'. It doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out that that is a very unstable situation that will quickly come to a state of rest.
If a majority of people get pissed off then they will have no income to draw from to launch these rediculous campaigns. But I fear I am the lone minority, as most people dont even have a clue what the local bands in their area are, much less any music not played on FM radio
So it goes...
Some guy gets an 'idea' that he can do something without ever doing it before and puts out an article like this on slashdot...about once a week now it seems.
I begin to wonder if some of these arent simply college psych class assignments to see exactly what the state of the industry is. Im all for information sharing, but the level of insight most of these project will require will NEVER appear on any of these slashdot boards.
I can see the next one already; Im thinking about sending an orbiter to Neptune, and I was wondering if anyone has ever had any success doing this. Can you give me some ideas of problems I might face? Which solution worked best for you?
Im not criticizing the spirit to attain a new goal, just the expectation that any real use can be had by posing such questions in this type of format.
I dont need to know it all, I just need to know more than you.
the following refers to you, not me. In no way does the following relate my personal status in life
Wow, that whole reply probably went right over your head...
I said YOUR wife will put out whenver you like.
Im curious though, back to the origianl thread, why you think that because your company made a decision with mail software, its automatically a monolithic solution for every application? Your statement seemed biased that the whole OSS idea will die because your company didnt go with an OSS mail server.
See, when you say that to people who actually DO own a company, its a little confusing. Instead, next time just say "the place I work", since thats exactly what it is. I bet you say "we" when you talk about your local sports team too...
Suprising as it may be, there are those who choose to not to 'do' this for a living and instead use computers to actually do work that you dont have to babysit its every move during so they can go off and live for a living...ie being somewhere warm and sunny while the computer doing the work is in cold crappy climate.
Your not the only one in dilbert world, you just choose to keep living in it. Its ok, relax. Your software choice and office politics are the only way to get things done...everything else will wither and die based on the choices of a $2billion company because money is the most important thing in the world. Your job is safe, you will have it until the day you want to retire, your wife will put out whenver you like, and tomorrow you will be able to impress your boss so he doesnt shit on you so bad on friday...lol.
Do everyone a favor, and next time dont even begin to state your point, since as you say its not worth explaining it anyway
Something tells me lots of things arent worth it to you, the least of which is explaining your thoughts. Ah...to be old and bitter...well just bitter anyhow ;)
As they say I'mma "bump on a pickle." 'My company' is the place I workIt may do you good to learn what 'group think' is, and why its a dangerous place to be.
I cant help but disagree with your point. Your comparison of the OSS philosophy with religion and the confederacy is a stretch at best, and gross misstating of the facts at worse.
The point you arent able to get your arms around is that OSS bases its very existance on that complaining, its how things get fine tuned to the point of being compulsive behaviors. And it works, regardless of how much I may hate your choice of a MTA, it still works, and in the end thats all that matters. You choose whatever program gets done what you want, and Ill choose the one I dont have to spend all day patching and enjoy a nice ride in the sun(because thats what I want).
Ill take the atmosphere of being able to complain as a way to get things done, as opposed to being fired when you complain about a better way to do something. There is no "Win" here, no matter how hard you look for it, some things arent a competition.
Also, if as in a later post you describe this as your company, what was all the in-fighting about? Its your company right? Forgive me if I dont put to much weight into the opinoins of a guy who runs/owns a company that he cant even convince hes making the right decisions for. Id leave that out of any future posts you make, unless youd actually like to NAME this company. Otherwise, your using cheap sensationalism...which is normal around here, but dont expect it to get you anywhere with your point.
a generation has grown up accustomed to the TV being there. And now there are actually arguments on who gets to provide the technology to present you with 1/3 advertising in a half hour show, and all you all are focusing on is 'its a clearer picture'.
The american consumer never ceases to amaze me with how eager they are to give up money to do nothing...btw, keep it up I like having the money to travel the world while others pay me so that they can sit around and look at glowing chemicals!!!
alright, calm down. Im not going to call you stupid here. Just think outside of the box. Its really just another form of an old debate trick that you are stuck in. The trick involves being presented with two options(left-hand, right-hand) and then thinking that those are the only two options that exist. When in reality, your being pulled without your knowing, to make what amounts to a black and white decision...either it is or it isnt. But its only black and white because you were never presented with the other options in the first place.
This link should help you out a bit...
the other optionYour kidding Im sure, but its sad...some people would really need this spelled out
Um, non-right handed(and there are TWO of these groups, think about it) people who dont get conditioned into using ctl-alt-del every other hour by using MS products use those keys. Perhaps the church has beaten all knowledge of this out of you, but we do still exist. Personally I find it much easier especially with HTML to use the shift key on the right. Now that I think about it, why would you want to use two hands to type the paragraph tag(omitted because it made the post look pretty stupid). You cant even use the ones that are there right now efficiently, and you want to add more? Oh, I dont want to learn, just add more buttons for me to press.
Come on...
Yea...TV nation. Move along, nothing to see here.
Yes. If you cant buy it anywhere else, or if the milk you do buy you consider crappy. Was I not clear enough?
And of course its not easy to do, I dont claim saying that it is easy, in fact I think I refered to it as a thankless pain in the ass. But the fact is, you want someone else to do it for you.
Its ok to be a consumer, just dont pretend your not one. Ever wonder where the phrase 'laughing all the way to the bank' comes from? Look no further than your own rush to hand out money for other people to do the simplest of things, sold to you as a 'convenience'.
Dont blame the company for offering you crappy service when you keep renewing that service every month.
The origianl post refered to a town of 60k with only this one brand of crappy service...are you honestly telling me you dont think theres a wide open opportunity here? Can you even imagine the feeling you get when you put the crappy service people out of business because everyone likes to use your service...its nice, and its even nicer when the other guy is your ex-boss...(I digress)
While I sympathise with the lack of competition in your area, I do not sympathise with your ability to accept crappy service. Your still just waiting around for some company to come in and fix your problem. If service is so limited, why arent you starting up a wireless co-op, or any number of public avenues that would benefit the area, instead of waiting around for someone else to come in and offer you 'your internet fix' for the day.
The business is there to make money for a service provided, not be your friend. Dont take it personally when they change their service in order to make more money, thats what a business does. you want real change, start up public wireless internet access nodes around your city. Owned by everybody who uses it, I bet you wont be complaining so much. Oh, you dont want all the work associated for a thankless job...its all in your priorities, besides its so much more fun and easy to whine about it, makes you feel like you have an important opinion..
Look at it like any other idea, anyone with a brain can think of an idea, but to actually have the motivation to carry it through to any productive means is a lot more rare to see in a person....
your unique, just like everybody elseCome on, this type of reporting is getting out of hand. It clearly states that this is for residential use only. If you are using it for business why not pay more for it. Youll get better quality for one, since you will be on nodes with other business customers. Minus the occasional code red and nimda probes.
I originally had residential cable service, I then outgrew what it offered and realized the cable company was just using it to 'push' content, not a true internet connection. So I simply found a company that offered the service I wanted, I ended up on a business class DSL line with all the features I need, and none of the side stepping you get from residential accounts.
Basically, my point is that you just look like a moron if you only accept whats presented to you and dont look for options to better fit your circumstances.
Look, I can see why this might be a problem for those of you who have been forced to look for work in a downturning economy. But remember, it was you who made the choice to buy that house, to get a new car every few years, to have the nicest things. Nobody is forcing you to go through ANY of this backgroud check crap, but you think you 'have to' because you are so accustomed to your consumer lifestyle and want to continue it.
You would be suprised at the small amount of money it takes to live well if you make the right choices.
Am I holier than thou, of course not! Am I complaining about background checks for a meaningless job, of course not! You make the call
A scam, probably not. Is it smart, also probably not. Im in the chicagoland area and have been hearing the commercials for BSA on the radio everywhere across the dial. What they are aiming for is to get people turned in by relying on an unhappy employee to rat them out.
That being said, keep in mind that the BSA is just an organization set up to find pirated software and collect fees. Fees that they no doubt get a cut of. They seem to have no problem using peoples fear and turning it into the driving force of their biz.
You are under NO obligation to report anything to them, unless they hand you a court order. They are an independent entity and have no more ability to legally inspect your systems than I would. so it would be in their best interest to make it seem that they do have that ability
This seems to be a page right out of the RIAA playbook, pretend something is true and youll fool at least some of the people
You can fool some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, but never all of the people all of the time
Isnt it a bit too late for this? After many a cross-country road trip, my expectations of radio sank lower and lower until I finally didnt listen to it at all. Most of the bands I enjoy will NEVER be on radio so what purpose is there in listening to it? Force of habbit? No thanks...
Ill keep my netradio and be on my merry way. Perhaps this might stop a few people from taking the road away form radio, but its really too late I think.
Picture growing up and seeing a bunch of old people listening to music on AM radio, even though FM had been around for quite awhile, they simply were accustomed to hearing it on AM and stayed with it. History doesnt repeat itself, but it sure rhymes. (Mark T.)
Isnt another name for this marijuana?
You dont 'bring down the net'. It might dissapear for those who think its nothing but eye-candy, but trust me there are those who would have no problem doing what they did yesterday if your browser-centric view of the net crumbled today.
I wonder how old Im getting when it seems that people are acting like they havent even heard of a dial-up BBS, and Im NOT refering to AOL here.
This doesnt matter for many, many reasons. Yes this woman has been irritating, but she is just a representative of a larger industry. The RIAA is just a lobbying body, the real problem is the member labels that support this crap, not the RIAA. You can block the RIAA IP's all you want, but what about the hundreds and hundreds of member labels...did you remember to block them too? And dont forget the sister org of the RIAA which has gotten some press here on slashdot recently, the IFPI. Ha! And you thought the RIAA was the problem all this time. Just remember the concept of 'lightning rod' here.
If you doubt any of what Im saying, and your halfway competent, dig into it a little deeper instead of going with the quick and visible enemy. Sooner or later, you will realize that the RIAA website is just a 'honeypot'. I mean come on, nobody is as stupid to do what they have done, and leave it that way after its been hacked for months...you say I am making this up...oh no...look at this security hole wide enough to fly the whole planet through. This problem has been exploited at least twice now to deface the page in recent months and nothing has been done to make it even the slightest bit better. All though as I test these links, the whole site seems to be down yet again. I cant imagine how that happened.