ofcourse it's real. and it's useful for everyone who isn't fluent in english trash-talk. I'll just use eudora and see if the flame I send is inflammatory enough.
my local bookshop gets payed in cash. all they know is that some long-haired annoying geek sometimes buy porn. but since this isn't strange they won't remeber that either. they don't know where I live, what other stores I've recently visted, and what my favourite food is. even if they knew my name, they wouldn't be allowed to sell it. I would like the same anonymity on the net.
I don't think companies are evil. they're just not to be trusted, unreasonable and they'll screw you over any time they get a chance. As you state, companies care ONLY about money. nothing else (save a few exceptions, as always). I wouldn't trust a person whose only goal is money, so neither do I trust corporations.
//rdj
P.S. It can be argued that a person whose sole motivation is money, is an evil person. The same can be said for companies.
>The Africans are free to develop their own chemical compounds, and to do with them as they please.
and if they dont want to pay, or cant pay it is their choice, they have themselves chosen to die. Because our revenue-stream is more important than human lives.
yup.. makes perfect sense...
//rdj
Re:The Real World... Is What WE Make It
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laws are set in stone, people shouldn't even TRY to change them. Laws werent made to benefit anyone. That's basically the message I got from the article...
god does not exist, and I dare you to prove me wrong, mr Erikson. The bible is a fictional book with heavy moral content, no more, no less. I happen to agree with quite some of the ideas behind it (let's face it.. religious or not "thou shall not kill" is not a bad idea), but not all.
hmm.. the greeks and romans had some pretty decent sized theaters.. with amazing acoustic properties..as for the limelights: they are open-air, and nothing wrong with daylight.
>And sure, it's glamorous to write about things like the "Big Bang" whereas people like I who live good lives following the Lord's teachings are seen as being less worthy of respect.
make it people who live their lives following your god's teachings without ever questioning those teachings, who I see as 'less worthy of respect', and I'll give you the point. It's not for religion, but for not thinking
stop copyright infringement, turn off caching in your browser. Good luck telling me to stop it. Geez.. they're stupid enough to try.. actually.. they'll just sue netscape and MS, for allowing caching of copyrighted documents in the first place.
ah.. but whereas MS only fucked some consumers up the ass without lubricant, MP3.com actually had the NERVE to have tried to bend the revenue-stream of a company. Can't have that.. how else are politicians going to survive if they can't get their money from industry?
it became such a radical issue when it went into the universal declaration of human rights:
Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
ofcourse the US is one of the few countries that has NOT signed this. big surprise...
if the martians ever intercept terran tv-signals, they better not save it to disk. MPAA will sue them for copyright infringement. under US law. because US law is Universal (or was that Warner?).
>We want to have all TV's equipped with MIB flashing devices automatically activated at the end of each show
which also allows endless reruns, series consisting of exactly one (1) episode, and the 24 hour Friends channel. They won't do it though.. interferes too much with advertising..
>I'm beginning to think that many of the reverse engineering projects these days are losing site of the fact that they are destroying a potential revenue stream for the original developers.
So just cause a commercial app exists, I would have to ask to develop an alternative? I bet Linus never asked anyone they would allow him to make his own OS. the Gnumeric guys never asked M$ whether they were allowed to make a spreadsheet. Boohoohoo.. someone may not make money on a certain product. big deal. but how ethical is this: You can use the hardware we gave you. but only with our software. How else are we going to invade your privacy?
the ß is a bad example, because it actually is 2 letters: a long and a short 's', which is why it can be written as 'ss'.
//rdj
Re:Australian ISPs take on DeCSS
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DeCSS Down Under
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>Anyone know how to arrange a public backlash against copyright, considering that the worlds most powerful media cartels have a capability to control public opinion, have a lot of money and are strongly in favour of strong copyright?
Oh.. the olympics are doing a decent job at that. And it's high-profile enough for a lot of people to take notice.
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ofcourse it's real. and it's useful for everyone who isn't fluent in english trash-talk. I'll just use eudora and see if the flame I send is inflammatory enough.
//rdj
my local bookshop gets payed in cash. all they know is that some long-haired annoying geek sometimes buy porn. but since this isn't strange they won't remeber that either. they don't know where I live, what other stores I've recently visted, and what my favourite food is. even if they knew my name, they wouldn't be allowed to sell it. I would like the same anonymity on the net.
//rdj
I don't think companies are evil. they're just not to be trusted, unreasonable and they'll screw you over any time they get a chance. As you state, companies care ONLY about money. nothing else (save a few exceptions, as always). I wouldn't trust a person whose only goal is money, so neither do I trust corporations.
//rdj
P.S. It can be argued that a person whose sole motivation is money, is an evil person. The same can be said for companies.
my auto-reply on above email is cssdescramble.c, and that's the account I receive all spam on...
//rdj
yeah.. the US needs a new panama-canal...
>The Africans are free to develop their own chemical compounds, and to do with them as they please.
and if they dont want to pay, or cant pay it is their choice, they have themselves chosen to die. Because our revenue-stream is more important than human lives.
yup.. makes perfect sense...
//rdj
laws are set in stone, people shouldn't even TRY to change them. Laws werent made to benefit anyone. That's basically the message I got from the article...
//rdj
>What happens if you try to destroy heat? Whatever gadget you build to do the job will turn out to generate more heat than it destroys.
wow.. congratulations on creating a perpetuum mobile.
total heat energy to be dissipated equals x
actually dissipated heat equals y.
x will always be larger than y, if no extra energy is supplied.
//rdj
god does not exist, and I dare you to prove me wrong, mr Erikson. The bible is a fictional book with heavy moral content, no more, no less. I happen to agree with quite some of the ideas behind it (let's face it.. religious or not "thou shall not kill" is not a bad idea), but not all.
//rdj
hmm.. the greeks and romans had some pretty decent sized theaters.. with amazing acoustic properties..as for the limelights: they are open-air, and nothing wrong with daylight.
//rdj
>And sure, it's glamorous to write about things like the "Big Bang" whereas people like I who live good lives following the Lord's teachings are seen as being less worthy of respect.
make it people who live their lives following your god's teachings without ever questioning those teachings, who I see as 'less worthy of respect', and I'll give you the point. It's not for religion, but for not thinking
//rdj
stop copyright infringement, turn off caching in your browser. Good luck telling me to stop it. Geez.. they're stupid enough to try.. actually.. they'll just sue netscape and MS, for allowing caching of copyrighted documents in the first place.
//rdj
ah.. but whereas MS only fucked some consumers up the ass without lubricant, MP3.com actually had the NERVE to have tried to bend the revenue-stream of a company. Can't have that.. how else are politicians going to survive if they can't get their money from industry?
//rdj
and post the scores when the olympics start :)
//rdj
except for 1:
Violence: the game of egregious and repulsive bloodshed
//rdj
fab-less: they have no factory
//rdj
it became such a radical issue when it went into the universal declaration of human rights:
Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
ofcourse the US is one of the few countries that has NOT signed this. big surprise...
//rdj
>Senator Alston replied: 'can you prove (that content) is still out there?'"
Do you have an email-address, mr Alston?
//rdj
if the martians ever intercept terran tv-signals, they better not save it to disk. MPAA will sue them for copyright infringement. under US law. because US law is Universal (or was that Warner?).
//rdj
>We want to have all TV's equipped with MIB flashing devices automatically activated at the end of each show
which also allows endless reruns, series consisting of exactly one (1) episode, and the 24 hour Friends channel. They won't do it though.. interferes too much with advertising..
//rdj
>I'm beginning to think that many of the reverse engineering projects these days are losing site of the fact that they are destroying a potential revenue stream for the original developers.
So just cause a commercial app exists, I would have to ask to develop an alternative? I bet Linus never asked anyone they would allow him to make his own OS. the Gnumeric guys never asked M$ whether they were allowed to make a spreadsheet. Boohoohoo.. someone may not make money on a certain product. big deal. but how ethical is this: You can use the hardware we gave you. but only with our software. How else are we going to invade your privacy?
//rdj
suse supports it too since 6.4, but I havent tried it...
//rdj
it means they can sue you for reading. Long live the US, where something you tell the world is a trade-secret.
//rdj
the ß is a bad example, because it actually is 2 letters: a long and a short 's', which is why it can be written as 'ss'.
//rdj
>Anyone know how to arrange a public backlash against copyright, considering that the worlds most powerful media cartels have a capability to control public opinion, have a lot of money and are strongly in favour of strong copyright?
Oh.. the olympics are doing a decent job at that. And it's high-profile enough for a lot of people to take notice.
//rdj