Just as you're free to protest the war and label the government as evil conspirators, supporters of the war are free label you as traitors and troops-haters.
free speech != speech that you agree with.
I'm not wild about the war in Iraq either, but I do think that both sides need to lay off the rhetoric. Whatever or whichever way this nation is trending, we are not, repeat not, in any way shape or form subject to the type censorship demonstrated in this article.
Maybe in Cuba, where basic economic theory has been sodomized by the ruling party you could make an argument for Linux. Here in America, we need to make money.
I recall the infamous Oxford Union debate which included Hillary Rosen who asked, obviously expecting a different answer, how many students had increased their CD spending after using P2P networks. She was, by all accounts, baffled (and probably thinking she was being lied to) when a majority of the students raised their hands.
Kind of funny then how CD sales have been declining in recent years. Are you just plain naive or are you pushing an agenda here?
Call it 7th grade math or just plain common sense or whatever but I'm not going to pay anyone just to sample a song. I have Kazaa for that. I will, however, consider paying for a high quality burnable version of a song that I really enjoy.
So I have to buy fifty tracks per month before Real Rhapsody is even remotely competive, not to mention the fact that something like one-third of the tracks aren't burnable at all.
How would you feel if some ghetto denizen wandered into your gated suburb, then proceeded to wander back out with your computer?
Is that just "commercial competition" or is it just theft, plain and simple?
Bank robbers, burglars, Enron execs, these Russian crackers - what do they all have in common? They steal things and as far as I'm concerned stealing is and should remain wrong.
If by "True Patriot" you are satirically indicting the "great patriots" of recent Russian history (ie communists) as most responsible for my nation's current economic difficulties then I salute you for astuteness. Otherwise, I shall just assume that like most of your Western ilk, you are simply naive, spoilt, and underinformed.
How about we more thoroughly study and understand how human intelligence operates before we even presume to design something that imitates or rivals it in depth and complexity.
An average one mile walk will have around 10 checkpoints but the parent can have fewer if they wish.
Maybe by the time my children get around to having children we'll have mobile phones that can completely rob our children of free will. Hell, since we're already starting to design them from birth maybe phone triggered on(wake)/off(sleep) switches as well. Anything to keep us from actually having to waste our precious time or assume any sort of responsibility for our kids - that's what technology and the government are for!
Not so loud. We wouldn't want any would-be CSer's rethinking those liberal arts degrees. Too many engineering degrees were spawned by the irrational exuberance of the late 90's tech boom as it is. Remember, its DOOM and GLOOM.
but it goes to show these companies don't really care about their customers
Companies exist to make profit, not to please customers. If pleasing customers is the surest route to profit, then that is the direction that they will head. If say, customers would prefer something cheap over something with good service, then companies will ditch service in favor of cutting costs. Its not sad, its just an economic reality.
I'm in a research lab in New York so everyone here got their foreign passports shortly after 9/11 when the government turned openly fascist.
Calling the American government "openly fascist" just because they have started to crackdown (often unfairly I admit) on foreign workers and students and tighten up security somewhat is like labeling Sweden a "communist nation" just because they have a larger social welfare system than the one in this country.
But Napster ran out of money before it could figure out a way to charge customers for downloads.
Irregardless of lawsuits, I'm afraid that this is the fate of all file-sharing programs. I salute Kazaa and Co. for fighting the good fight and all, but I just can't figure out how they'll ever convince enough people to pay for downloadable music to turn a profit.
If it had come to a conflict, faced with certain death, many Europeans might well have preferred to live under Soviet rule and work for peaceful change from within (which is how the East Block finally did fall apart).
Only part of the explanation. Lech and company certainly pushed pretty hard, but it was the willingness of Reagan to "stick his foot out" or directly confront the S.U. that that ensure its fall.
I'd much rather read Salon than watch the Big Dig get dug. x_man writes "According to Salon, thousands of people have rallied behind the online publication and purchased subscriptions for themselves or their friends."
In WWII, according to the Imperial Radio anyway, the Japanese won an impressive string of "decisive victories" over Allied forces. Pearl Harbor, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadacanal, Leyte Gulf, Okinawa, Iwo Jima. It seems the war was practically over after each of these victories and Japanese marines would soon be storming into Washington. Of course, savvy listeners eventually noticed these "decisive victories" were getting steadily closer and closer to the home islands.
AUSTRALIAN and US special forces have already entered Iraq to lay the groundwork for any invasion, a US newspaper has reported.
The Boston Globe article suggests US troops have been joined by CIA agents, Australian, British and Jordanian commandos in Iraq.
It claims about 100 US Special Forces members and more than 50 Central Intelligence Agency officers have been operating in the country in small groups for at least four months.
The report is said to be based on information from "intelligence officials and military analysts who have talked with people on the teams".
Their role in Iraq is said to include hunting down Scud missile launchers and mapping minefields.
"The operations, which also have included small numbers of Jordanian, British, and Australian commandos, are considered by many analysts to be part of the opening phase of a war against Iraq," the report says.
Meanwhile, in Iraq a people's militia has carried out a war game designed to confront an enemy force attacking from several directions, according to another newspaper report.
The official daily Al-Iraq says the civilian militia of President Saddam Hussein's Baath Party practised operations in Babil province.
Militiamen tried deceiving an attacking enemy and fighting in urban and rural areas, the report says.
The brief article did not say how many troops took part, nor did it include photographs of the exercise.
It quoted a senior Baath party member, Fadhil Mahmoud al-Mishiykhi, as praising the fighters' efficiency and morale in battling a campaign against Iraq launched by the United States and "its Zionist ally" - meaning Israel
Canada: land of great beer, free health care, separatist movements, and trolls (both garden variety internet and elected official)
From Slate:
On Wednesday, at the end of a "media scrum" about Iraq, Canadian Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish was captured by TV cameras saying, "Damn Americans. I hate those bastards." When Daniel Leblanc, a reporter from Toronto's Globe and Mail asked her to explain the remark, she threatened to restrict journalists' parliamentary access if it was reported, telling him, "If you guys want to keep the privilege of working in that area without being held back, I would be very careful with this one." The press ignored her attempted intimidation and publicized the remarks.
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We will forge our own path, non-beholden to Ottawa and the provinces adjacent to it!
It's not like the songs are being permanently eradicated anyway.
...don't be suprised if you come out smelling like one.
Just as you're free to protest the war and label the government as evil conspirators, supporters of the war are free label you as traitors and troops-haters.
free speech != speech that you agree with.
I'm not wild about the war in Iraq either, but I do think that both sides need to lay off the rhetoric. Whatever or whichever way this nation is trending, we are not, repeat not, in any way shape or form subject to the type censorship demonstrated in this article.
How about a "-1 Uninformed" instead
Maybe in Cuba, where basic economic theory has been sodomized by the ruling party you could make an argument for Linux. Here in America, we need to make money.
information wants to be free, not cheap
I recall the infamous Oxford Union debate which included Hillary Rosen who asked, obviously expecting a different answer, how many students had increased their CD spending after using P2P networks. She was, by all accounts, baffled (and probably thinking she was being lied to) when a majority of the students raised their hands.
Kind of funny then how CD sales have been declining in recent years. Are you just plain naive or are you pushing an agenda here?
Call it 7th grade math or just plain common sense or whatever but I'm not going to pay anyone just to sample a song. I have Kazaa for that. I will, however, consider paying for a high quality burnable version of a song that I really enjoy.
10 tracks @ RealR - $7.90 + $9.95 = $17.85
10 tracks @ Apple - $9.90 + $0.00 = $09.90
25 tracks @ RealR - $19.75 + $9.95 = $29.70
25 tracks @ Apple - $24.75 + $0.00 = $24.75
50 tracks @ RealR - $39.50 + $9.95 = $49.45
50 tracks @ Apple - $49.50 + $0.00 = $49.50
So I have to buy fifty tracks per month before Real Rhapsody is even remotely competive, not to mention the fact that something like one-third of the tracks aren't burnable at all.
How would you feel if some ghetto denizen wandered into your gated suburb, then proceeded to wander back out with your computer?
Is that just "commercial competition" or is it just theft, plain and simple?
Bank robbers, burglars, Enron execs, these Russian crackers - what do they all have in common? They steal things and as far as I'm concerned stealing is and should remain wrong.
If by "True Patriot" you are satirically indicting the "great patriots" of recent Russian history (ie communists) as most responsible for my nation's current economic difficulties then I salute you for astuteness. Otherwise, I shall just assume that like most of your Western ilk, you are simply naive, spoilt, and underinformed.
How about we more thoroughly study and understand how human intelligence operates before we even presume to design something that imitates or rivals it in depth and complexity.
An average one mile walk will have around 10 checkpoints but the parent can have fewer if they wish.
Maybe by the time my children get around to having children we'll have mobile phones that can completely rob our children of free will. Hell, since we're already starting to design them from birth maybe phone triggered on(wake)/off(sleep) switches as well. Anything to keep us from actually having to waste our precious time or assume any sort of responsibility for our kids - that's what technology and the government are for!
Not so loud. We wouldn't want any would-be CSer's rethinking those liberal arts degrees. Too many engineering degrees were spawned by the irrational exuberance of the late 90's tech boom as it is. Remember, its DOOM and GLOOM.
but it goes to show these companies don't really care about their customers
Companies exist to make profit, not to please customers. If pleasing customers is the surest route to profit, then that is the direction that they will head. If say, customers would prefer something cheap over something with good service, then companies will ditch service in favor of cutting costs. Its not sad, its just an economic reality.
I'm in a research lab in New York so everyone here got their foreign passports shortly after 9/11 when the government turned openly fascist.
Calling the American government "openly fascist" just because they have started to crackdown (often unfairly I admit) on foreign workers and students and tighten up security somewhat is like labeling Sweden a "communist nation" just because they have a larger social welfare system than the one in this country.
But Napster ran out of money before it could figure out a way to charge customers for downloads.
Irregardless of lawsuits, I'm afraid that this is the fate of all file-sharing programs. I salute Kazaa and Co. for fighting the good fight and all, but I just can't figure out how they'll ever convince enough people to pay for downloadable music to turn a profit.
Strong crypto is only a part of the answer (whatever that answer may be).
Getting off our collective asses and voting/participating in the political system would be a big part of said answer.
If it had come to a conflict, faced with certain death, many Europeans might well have preferred to live under Soviet rule and work for peaceful change from within (which is how the East Block finally did fall apart).
Only part of the explanation. Lech and company certainly pushed pretty hard, but it was the willingness of Reagan to "stick his foot out" or directly confront the S.U. that that ensure its fall.
I'd much rather read Salon than watch the Big Dig get dug. x_man writes "According to Salon, thousands of people have rallied behind the online publication and purchased subscriptions for themselves or their friends."
In WWII, according to the Imperial Radio anyway, the Japanese won an impressive string of "decisive victories" over Allied forces. Pearl Harbor, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadacanal, Leyte Gulf, Okinawa, Iwo Jima. It seems the war was practically over after each of these victories and Japanese marines would soon be storming into Washington. Of course, savvy listeners eventually noticed these "decisive victories" were getting steadily closer and closer to the home islands.
"The price is wrong, bitch!"
At least they're not going to war.
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Aussie Commandos 'in Iraq'
By staff writers
AUSTRALIAN and US special forces have already entered Iraq to lay the groundwork for any invasion, a US newspaper has reported.
The Boston Globe article suggests US troops have been joined by CIA agents, Australian, British and Jordanian commandos in Iraq.
It claims about 100 US Special Forces members and more than 50 Central Intelligence Agency officers have been operating in the country in small groups for at least four months.
The report is said to be based on information from "intelligence officials and military analysts who have talked with people on the teams".
Their role in Iraq is said to include hunting down Scud missile launchers and mapping minefields.
"The operations, which also have included small numbers of Jordanian, British, and Australian commandos, are considered by many analysts to be part of the opening phase of a war against Iraq," the report says.
Meanwhile, in Iraq a people's militia has carried out a war game designed to confront an enemy force attacking from several directions, according to another newspaper report.
The official daily Al-Iraq says the civilian militia of President Saddam Hussein's Baath Party practised operations in Babil province.
Militiamen tried deceiving an attacking enemy and fighting in urban and rural areas, the report says.
The brief article did not say how many troops took part, nor did it include photographs of the exercise.
It quoted a senior Baath party member, Fadhil Mahmoud al-Mishiykhi, as praising the fighters' efficiency and morale in battling a campaign against Iraq launched by the United States and "its Zionist ally" - meaning Israel
http://www.themercury.news.com.au/common/story_pa
Did anyone else read "European Life in Doubt"?
Well, in my home country of Italy, the birth rate is only around 1.2.
If this birth-rate holds and if immigration were curtailed, then Italian life past the 21st century might be in doubt : )
Canada: land of great beer, free health care, separatist movements, and trolls (both garden variety internet and elected official)
From Slate:
On Wednesday, at the end of a "media scrum" about Iraq, Canadian Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish was captured by TV cameras saying, "Damn Americans. I hate those bastards." When Daniel Leblanc, a reporter from Toronto's Globe and Mail asked her to explain the remark, she threatened to restrict journalists' parliamentary access if it was reported, telling him, "If you guys want to keep the privilege of working in that area without being held back, I would be very careful with this one." The press ignored her attempted intimidation and publicized the remarks.