Most people in Kuwait do not consider the Gulf War a "terror campaign". People must take responsibility for the actions of their govt. If Hussein decides to invade a country, his people must accept the consequences of his actions, particularly when he hides military targets near civilian targets, making his subjects human shields (interesting how those radar dishes never end up near his palaces, only on top of hospitals). Saying bombing Baghdad was a terrorist act is like saying bombing Berlin was a terrorist act in the 1940s. Or it's like saying police opening fire on bank robbers holding hostages is a terrorist act. There is a difference between a terrorist and someone defending the freedom of a soveriegn nation.
If a govt. runs OSS, everyone has access to the source, including enemy govts. So, if I know govt. X is running Linux, I hire a bunch of hackers to find weaknesses in the security, which should be a lot easier when I have the source available. Rather than report them, however, I catalog them, and the one's that are still remaining when war breaks out I use against enemy computers. Of course, given MS is handing out source to govts. now, they're facing the same problem.
"Maybe at some point state and Federal regulators will realize that the Bells are the problem, not the solution."
State and federal regulators gave ma bell the exclusive right to run phone cable in the first place. They gave the Bells their monopoly. The made the Bells what they are today. The quoted statement therefore is completely stupid. Regulators need to realize that THEY are the problem, not the solution.
It seems to me that someone shouldn't be able to patent something as broad as "compress data before transmitting to save bandwidth". That's just common sense. It's not like they actually invented the concept of compression on the fly. The whole thing is somewhat subjective. Why can't I just patent "a thing that improves something", and sue everyone. Someone has to set up better guidelines about what is actually patentable.
States rights keep the US together. This is because there is a lot of difference of opinion as to what the laws should be as a function of location. Having 50 govts., for instance, allows Baptists in the South to pass laws banning evolution in schools without affecting more scientific minded individuals in other parts of the country. Without this flexibility, civil war would be inevitable since people of different backgrounds rarely agree on the details of law. That's why in the Europe and Asia you see countries breaking up everywhere, instead of putting their differences aside to create larger, stronger nations. Of course, the EU can be considered a parallel to the federal govt. in the US, although with far less power.
You can pay for and download legal copies of both movies and songs on the internet today. No one knows about these sights because it's cheaper to just get stuff from Kazaa for free.
Theoretically you could, if someone in congress gave a rat's ass about what you had to say. People without deep pockets have addressed congress before on various issues.
Bootable cd-rom have been around on pcs for a long time. I'm sick of people saying how much better macs are than pcs when the real problem is the person has no idea what he's doing. Did you consider that the cd-rom wasn't set as a boot device in the BIOS? Get a clue, Apple troll.
As far as the response of 'wasn't opposed to the VCR.', Valenti goes on to say that instead he was in favor of a fee placed on blank cassette, which never passed.
Aso for the quote, 'I think lobbying is really an honest profession', he was talking about the ability to get your point of view across to a congress-person, and then goes on to talk about money corrupting the process.
You'd think slashdot editors wouldn't pick such biased posts, but timothy doesn't seem to mind the misrepresentations.
"The only thing Apple can affect is its own product"
Yes, because they do not allow anyone else to make a machine that runs MacOS. This is a monopolistic practice in which a company uses it's monopoly in software to extend a hardware monopoly. The only reason no one cares about Apple is that it has no market share compared with PCs. Apple has used their monopoly power to put a number of companies out of business.
Your arguement doesn't make sense. People are trading songs p2p that are put out by the music industry, not independent unsigned artists. Therefore, your theory that this is causing the music industry to lose control over what's cool is false. They're not losing control of what's cool, just who has a good copy of it.
"I refuse to believe that file sharing is stealing simply because the music industry tells me it is. They got away with selling sound (sound!) for many years and now they have to deal with reality."
It's stealing (in loose terms) because the law says it is. And not new laws either. Laws that have been around since the US was formed.
"However, evidence proves you wrong. I mention in another post how many bands develop a huge fanbase while releasing few, if any, albums, and never being broadcasted on the radio. Why? They allow free recording and distribution of their live shows."
What evidence? You just made that up. Bands gain a small following locally. Then they get signed by an independent label if they're good. They then get promotion and hopefully become more popular. If so, then a major label signs them, and with more promotion, they may get even more popular, possibly getting a top-40 hit. That's how most bands become famous. Promotion by record labels gets song played on the radio. Not word of mouth.
"An independent survey at Stand [stand.org.uk] has been taken, amongst others, where the overwhelming majority of responses have been against the introduction of an ID card of any kind."
You don't seem to understand statistics. Unless your sample is random, your stats are skewed. That's why The Stand got their result.
"And while I don't have an objection to being filmed whilst in M&S, it is slightly galling that some private company is filming me when I'm walking down the street."
Too bad. If I want to point a camera at you in public and take a picture that's my right. Otherwise, free press is destroyed.
You conspiracy theory nut drive me crazy. You make stuff up without any proff, in this case having not seen a single question asked, and assume it's true. Get some proof before you discount a result as biased. You're making a serious accusation of fraud without any evidence.
If it's done scientifically, they call up random people and ask them what they think. This is what was done. What's unscientific is what the privacy group is doing. They give a phone number to call and voice your opinion either way. Given that you find the phone number on their privacy web site, of course the majority of people seeing the number are against the card, and therefore skews those stats.
Damn, you beat me to it. To expand, if I was an American music producer and was only guaranteed by law to sell one copy of any album in Europe, at which point it would be free to anyone with a computer and a cd burner, I would stop exporting music to Europe. The loss in tax revenue cd European cd sales of American music might change Euopes socialist policy in this area.
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"1991 "Desert Storm" terror campaign "
Most people in Kuwait do not consider the Gulf War a "terror campaign". People must take responsibility for the actions of their govt. If Hussein decides to invade a country, his people must accept the consequences of his actions, particularly when he hides military targets near civilian targets, making his subjects human shields (interesting how those radar dishes never end up near his palaces, only on top of hospitals). Saying bombing Baghdad was a terrorist act is like saying bombing Berlin was a terrorist act in the 1940s. Or it's like saying police opening fire on bank robbers holding hostages is a terrorist act. There is a difference between a terrorist and someone defending the freedom of a soveriegn nation.
If a govt. runs OSS, everyone has access to the source, including enemy govts. So, if I know govt. X is running Linux, I hire a bunch of hackers to find weaknesses in the security, which should be a lot easier when I have the source available. Rather than report them, however, I catalog them, and the one's that are still remaining when war breaks out I use against enemy computers. Of course, given MS is handing out source to govts. now, they're facing the same problem.
"Maybe at some point state and Federal regulators will realize that the Bells are the problem, not the solution."
State and federal regulators gave ma bell the exclusive right to run phone cable in the first place. They gave the Bells their monopoly. The made the Bells what they are today. The quoted statement therefore is completely stupid. Regulators need to realize that THEY are the problem, not the solution.
"I think this will be the greatest part of the threat to commercial software from OSS, that systems dont need changes"
You're joking right? How many linux kernals have been out, and do you think they're any closer to a perfect kernal?
"How often has the Windows user interface changed in the last decade?"
It hasn't changed significantly since the introduction of Win95. I don't know why everyone's so confused about running Winodws.
It seems to me that someone shouldn't be able to patent something as broad as "compress data before transmitting to save bandwidth". That's just common sense. It's not like they actually invented the concept of compression on the fly. The whole thing is somewhat subjective. Why can't I just patent "a thing that improves something", and sue everyone. Someone has to set up better guidelines about what is actually patentable.
States rights keep the US together. This is because there is a lot of difference of opinion as to what the laws should be as a function of location. Having 50 govts., for instance, allows Baptists in the South to pass laws banning evolution in schools without affecting more scientific minded individuals in other parts of the country. Without this flexibility, civil war would be inevitable since people of different backgrounds rarely agree on the details of law. That's why in the Europe and Asia you see countries breaking up everywhere, instead of putting their differences aside to create larger, stronger nations. Of course, the EU can be considered a parallel to the federal govt. in the US, although with far less power.
None of the people you mentioned has anything to do with creating and collecting state taxes.
You can pay for and download legal copies of both movies and songs on the internet today. No one knows about these sights because it's cheaper to just get stuff from Kazaa for free.
Theoretically you could, if someone in congress gave a rat's ass about what you had to say. People without deep pockets have addressed congress before on various issues.
Bootable cd-rom have been around on pcs for a long time. I'm sick of people saying how much better macs are than pcs when the real problem is the person has no idea what he's doing. Did you consider that the cd-rom wasn't set as a boot device in the BIOS? Get a clue, Apple troll.
As far as the response of 'wasn't opposed to the VCR.', Valenti goes on to say that instead he was in favor of a fee placed on blank cassette, which never passed.
Aso for the quote, 'I think lobbying is really an honest profession', he was talking about the ability to get your point of view across to a congress-person, and then goes on to talk about money corrupting the process.
You'd think slashdot editors wouldn't pick such biased posts, but timothy doesn't seem to mind the misrepresentations.
"The only thing Apple can affect is its own product"
Yes, because they do not allow anyone else to make a machine that runs MacOS. This is a monopolistic practice in which a company uses it's monopoly in software to extend a hardware monopoly. The only reason no one cares about Apple is that it has no market share compared with PCs. Apple has used their monopoly power to put a number of companies out of business.
Your arguement doesn't make sense. People are trading songs p2p that are put out by the music industry, not independent unsigned artists. Therefore, your theory that this is causing the music industry to lose control over what's cool is false. They're not losing control of what's cool, just who has a good copy of it.
"I refuse to believe that file sharing is stealing simply because the music industry tells me it is. They got away with selling sound (sound!) for many years and now they have to deal with reality."
It's stealing (in loose terms) because the law says it is. And not new laws either. Laws that have been around since the US was formed.
"However, evidence proves you wrong. I mention in another post how many bands develop a huge fanbase while releasing few, if any, albums, and never being broadcasted on the radio. Why? They allow free recording and distribution of their live shows."
What evidence? You just made that up. Bands gain a small following locally. Then they get signed by an independent label if they're good. They then get promotion and hopefully become more popular. If so, then a major label signs them, and with more promotion, they may get even more popular, possibly getting a top-40 hit. That's how most bands become famous. Promotion by record labels gets song played on the radio. Not word of mouth.
"Many bands give away free CD's, tapes and other merchandise just to get people to remember their names."
Not really. Most unsigned bands sell their self-produced music and other merchandise at their shows in local clubs.
"An independent survey at Stand [stand.org.uk] has been taken, amongst others, where the overwhelming majority of responses have been against the introduction of an ID card of any kind."
You don't seem to understand statistics. Unless your sample is random, your stats are skewed. That's why The Stand got their result.
"And while I don't have an objection to being filmed whilst in M&S, it is slightly galling that some private company is filming me when I'm walking down the street."
Too bad. If I want to point a camera at you in public and take a picture that's my right. Otherwise, free press is destroyed.
You conspiracy theory nut drive me crazy. You make stuff up without any proff, in this case having not seen a single question asked, and assume it's true. Get some proof before you discount a result as biased. You're making a serious accusation of fraud without any evidence.
If it's done scientifically, they call up random people and ask them what they think. This is what was done. What's unscientific is what the privacy group is doing. They give a phone number to call and voice your opinion either way. Given that you find the phone number on their privacy web site, of course the majority of people seeing the number are against the card, and therefore skews those stats.
Actually, I bet in this case they're moving from AOL/MSN to Netzero/Juno/etc. that are only $10 a month for basically the same service.
Damn, you beat me to it. To expand, if I was an American music producer and was only guaranteed by law to sell one copy of any album in Europe, at which point it would be free to anyone with a computer and a cd burner, I would stop exporting music to Europe. The loss in tax revenue cd European cd sales of American music might change Euopes socialist policy in this area.
Apparently your Mac "just doesn't work" when trying to view flash. Very superior.
The part of the site where Strong Bad reads his e-mail is seriously funny. Definitely worth checking out.