I don't know that much about this, but what is the thing to build a device that repeatedly broadcasts the kill command around while it's activated. Turn on before entering the shop, turn off when you have left it, privacy saved a little.
I'm not going to let them track every movement I make in the store, record every product I look at. That they could read what I already brought into the store with me would be a even worse invasion of my privacy.
And for the distance of 20 cm: what keeps them from installing such a reading device every 20 cms?
Great! Everyone who is sensitive about his privacy will carry a device sending the kill command constantly and the big brother fantasies of the corps gu up in smoke.
Would be too nice that it will really happen.
But I will make sure to at least disturb that damn stuff seriously when I go shopping!
that has long fought against barcodes and supermarket discount shopping cards.
It makes sense fighting against these datamining-only tools like customer cards ans alike, which give no advantage to you, the customer who pays for the fscking thing, but tell the corps more and more about your habits.
But I don't see the reason in resenting barcodes, as long as they are used to indentify just a specific product at the POS, not giving each single instance an own number like the RFID tags.
This does not make any sense. A terrorist or criminal would certainly disable this device asap, like a car thief disables the alarm system. So, then what's the real use of such a system except being one more step towards 1984?
If it does not interfere with how I do my job, my private opinions and doings have to be of absolutely no concern for my employer! (Except for actions that bring harm to the employer by purpose)
The muslims don't want to kill them because of what they do; they want to kill them because of who they are.
There will still be some idiots who think so. But I believe that the majority of the arabs would manage to live peacefully together with the Israelis. Just look at how many arabs actually live _in_ Israel without blowing someone up.
Israel's security policies are the only reason it's possible to catch a flight out of the country without being blown up, and I wouldn't be surprised if their airports are the safest place to be in that part of the world. Hate to break it to you, but everyone else's safety outweighs your convenience.
Then why don't they start behaving in a way that nobody wants to blow them up anymore?
Note that I didn't say "good." I said "that you will listen to.":)
Usually I play the whole album when listening to a CD. Even downloaded stuff (listening to it on my Xbox) usually gets played in one piece. Just skipping through a few tracks from an album is really seldom, maybe when I want to show a specific song to someone, or when I listen to my "misc" audio directory.
Neither covers nor jewel cases music make. If that's what you want, then buy a mass-produced CD.
No, I just like the whole experience of holding soemthing in my hand.
If you want digital music for your computer, it's fairly hard to beat $.99 a song--unless you buy albums with more tracks you'll listen to than dollars in price.
There is no album with only one or two good tracks under the ~350 albums I own. And I think it is something you can demand that an album does not contain 80% crap.
OK, these fascists may have laws that would make such asshole behaviour legal. But nevertheless I'd go to the german embassy and protest against such ridiculous treatment!
So they'd arrest me without any evidenc eor even hint of it?
Isreal has a large problem with suicide bombings
Then, why are assholes like Scharon, who enforce those bombings with their politics, in the government instead of being in jail like war criminals should be? This is not meant to justify those suicide bombings, but it is overdue to be stated clearly that the so-called "military actions" of the Israelis are not better (IMO even worse, as it's the state, not only some idiots under the people) than bombing a restaurant in Tel Aviv.
People in Isreal are normal people. They just don't like being blown up.
I'm sure all the palestinensian kids and other people who died from Israelian rockets didn't like that, too. But they were killed by regular military forces, not by terrorists which are only a small part of the people!
However the last time I spent $18 US on an album, there was only ONE song on the album that I liked. I paid $18 US for one track.
No, you spent this money because you were too dumb to listen to it before and then get the MCD, which would have been overpriced anyway too, but cheaper.
In addition, real artists don't throw out such crappy albums!
But you don't own it. You are licensing the rights to use it (within limits), but you do not own it.
Just imagine that the car manufacturers would make the same claims when you were out to buy a new car. How would you react? I guess you'd call them bullshit! What is the difference from a car to a CD?
If you want access to the widest possible source of music, those people who will give you access to that source will be putting restrictions on what you can do with that stuff.
And that's exactly what has to be shut down. Would anybody here except such restrictions e. g. for the car you own and have payed? The music industry sells a product and their only duty is to sell it, not tell the buyers what or when they can do with it!
Right now, online music sales are the cheapest (or nearly the cheapest) legal way to get most music.
In contrary. Count together just the costs for the songs, printing the covers and the jewel case and with $1/song for just the download you pay more than the usual rip-off price of ~EUR 17,- in a store!
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Then #2 is not worth its race. With a real cat, #1 would try only once.
And what's up with Orrin Hatch?
Better ask what's up with the people that such a moron gets elected.
And where is the globalization when it would benefit the people and not the corps? Sharp Zaurus are not officially sold in Europe! :-(
I don't know that much about this, but what is the thing to build a device that repeatedly broadcasts the kill command around while it's activated. Turn on before entering the shop, turn off when you have left it, privacy saved a little.
I'm not going to let them track every movement I make in the store, record every product I look at. That they could read what I already brought into the store with me would be a even worse invasion of my privacy.
And for the distance of 20 cm: what keeps them from installing such a reading device every 20 cms?
Great! Everyone who is sensitive about his privacy will carry a device sending the kill command constantly and the big brother fantasies of the corps gu up in smoke.
Would be too nice that it will really happen.
But I will make sure to at least disturb that damn stuff seriously when I go shopping!
that has long fought against barcodes and supermarket discount shopping cards.
It makes sense fighting against these datamining-only tools like customer cards ans alike, which give no advantage to you, the customer who pays for the fscking thing, but tell the corps more and more about your habits.
But I don't see the reason in resenting barcodes, as long as they are used to indentify just a specific product at the POS, not giving each single instance an own number like the RFID tags.
What then?
This does not make any sense. A terrorist or criminal would certainly disable this device asap, like a car thief disables the alarm system. So, then what's the real use of such a system except being one more step towards 1984?
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like it is e. g. here in Germany.
If it does not interfere with how I do my job, my private opinions and doings have to be of absolutely no concern for my employer! (Except for actions that bring harm to the employer by purpose)
I think that there will still be a rest of idiots who want to exinguish the jews. And idiots they are because of this.
:)
All clear now?
The muslims don't want to kill them because of what they do; they want to kill them because of who they are.
There will still be some idiots who think so. But I believe that the majority of the arabs would manage to live peacefully together with the Israelis. Just look at how many arabs actually live _in_ Israel without blowing someone up.
Israel's security policies are the only reason it's possible to catch a flight out of the country without being blown up, and I wouldn't be surprised if their airports are the safest place to be in that part of the world. Hate to break it to you, but everyone else's safety outweighs your convenience.
Then why don't they start behaving in a way that nobody wants to blow them up anymore?
Note that I didn't say "good." I said "that you will listen to." :)
Usually I play the whole album when listening to a CD. Even downloaded stuff (listening to it on my Xbox) usually gets played in one piece. Just skipping through a few tracks from an album is really seldom, maybe when I want to show a specific song to someone, or when I listen to my "misc" audio directory.
Neither covers nor jewel cases music make. If that's what you want, then buy a mass-produced CD.
No, I just like the whole experience of holding soemthing in my hand.
If you want digital music for your computer, it's fairly hard to beat $.99 a song--unless you buy albums with more tracks you'll listen to than dollars in price.
There is no album with only one or two good tracks under the ~350 albums I own. And I think it is something you can demand that an album does not contain 80% crap.
OK, these fascists may have laws that would make such asshole behaviour legal. But nevertheless I'd go to the german embassy and protest against such ridiculous treatment!
Aehm, to clear this up: I'm german. :)
As an U.S. citizen? And you accepted that instead of going to the next exit?
If any german boarder guard would do the same to me, I'd wreak havoc on his further career for such treatment!
It's very simple: You DON'T fly.
So they'd arrest me without any evidenc eor even hint of it?
Isreal has a large problem with suicide bombings
Then, why are assholes like Scharon, who enforce those bombings with their politics, in the government instead of being in jail like war criminals should be? This is not meant to justify those suicide bombings, but it is overdue to be stated clearly that the so-called "military actions" of the Israelis are not better (IMO even worse, as it's the state, not only some idiots under the people) than bombing a restaurant in Tel Aviv.
People in Isreal are normal people. They just don't like being blown up.
I'm sure all the palestinensian kids and other people who died from Israelian rockets didn't like that, too. But they were killed by regular military forces, not by terrorists which are only a small part of the people!
This is understandable considering that all music is owned by different companies
No.
For nearly any other product it would be no problem at all for anyone to open up a store which sells each brand of this product.
P.S. The music should be owned by the artists, not the record companies or anybody else.
If music is to legally be sold in a digital format, that digital format NEEDS to have some sort of digital rights management.
Ah, that's why the real CD-A format has nothing of such nonsense and was nonetheless that successful? Get real!
Smart labels will always place restrictions,
That's the way of the dumbasses, not the smart ones.
However the last time I spent $18 US on an album, there was only ONE song on the album that I liked. I paid $18 US for one track.
No, you spent this money because you were too dumb to listen to it before and then get the MCD, which would have been overpriced anyway too, but cheaper.
In addition, real artists don't throw out such crappy albums!
But you don't own it. You are licensing the rights to use it (within limits), but you do not own it.
Just imagine that the car manufacturers would make the same claims when you were out to buy a new car. How would you react? I guess you'd call them bullshit! What is the difference from a car to a CD?
If you want access to the widest possible source of music, those people who will give you access to that source will be putting restrictions on what you can do with that stuff.
And that's exactly what has to be shut down. Would anybody here except such restrictions e. g. for the car you own and have payed? The music industry sells a product and their only duty is to sell it, not tell the buyers what or when they can do with it!
Right now, online music sales are the cheapest (or nearly the cheapest) legal way to get most music.
In contrary. Count together just the costs for the songs, printing the covers and the jewel case and with $1/song for just the download you pay more than the usual rip-off price of ~EUR 17,- in a store!