Wall Street basically did the same the mortgage boom -- they just lost the bet. Now we're all paying.
What are you talking about? Wall Street didn't "just lose the bet". They kept on making bet after bet, with money that mostly didn't exist, while ensuring that what money did exist was used to pay their rake. They knew full well that house prices couldn't rise indefinitely, because there's no hiding from the fact that an economic system predicated on infinite growth in a world of finite resources is not going to work.
There were. Specifically, the Church was [pissed].
Bzzzz. The Pope was one of the first persons to buy a printing press (3 in fact), so he could quickly disseminate his orders across Rome, Italy, and the whole of Europe.
And hell, if you're paying for cables, they'd better be made of solid gold.
Maybe audiophiles are the future for the RIAA. 320Kbps AACs will be available for free, but FLACs of studio masters will cost $500 per track and will be eagerly snapped up by those who claim to be able to tell the difference.
My friends all made fun of me and said it was just the LSD talking, but I knew I would come to understand the universe if I stared long enough at those posters!
Simply rename all of your torrent files "linux.iso.torrent" and claim you keep trying to get hold of a copy of this linux thing you keep hearing about but the interweb keeps sending you movies instead? I like it!
Besides, the whole point of the scene was to squeeze maximum performance out of the machine. So a demo on the ST might not look as impressive as one on the Amiga -- but to a scener who knows that on the ST there's no blitter and that fullscreen can only be achieved by changing scanrate at each hblank, it might actually be more impressive nonetheless.
Nothing whatsoever. Take a look back at the whole of this discussion, and you'll find it's only you who's concerned about peasants taking your job. The rest of us are talking about resources.
And if you think an embargo is anything like a crisis, boy, you're in for a serious shock. We're not talking about people deciding whether or not to buy and sell oil here. We're talking about the end of the oil age.
and bust out with 'so everybody should have nuclear weapons' in response to a remark about drug prohibition
It's not in response to a remark about drug prohibition, it's in response to a remark about doing "whatever the hell you want, provided that it isn't harming your neighbor" (which includes owning nuclear weapons).
I suspect we are done here.
If you're done making false accusations and setting up straw men: indeed we are.
When I pay for a product I expect something from it. Tangible things are just that, tangible. I have it now, I have it tomorrow, so the value retains.
Ah, it's a shame you're going to have to have your memory erased to remove all trace of those concerts you went to from bands whose music you discovered through last.fm.
You're such an idiot that you stand out as one of Slashdot's greatest ever idiots, and that really takes some doing.
Slashdot Mirror
Wow. The purpose of copyright really is completely beyond you, isn't it?
Why not just look it up on Wikipedia?
Yeah, but either they withdraw their troops or we nuke them.
Dude, you've been playing too many wargames. Time to step out of your Mom's basement and get some sunshine.
Wall Street basically did the same the mortgage boom -- they just lost the bet. Now we're all paying.
What are you talking about? Wall Street didn't "just lose the bet". They kept on making bet after bet, with money that mostly didn't exist, while ensuring that what money did exist was used to pay their rake. They knew full well that house prices couldn't rise indefinitely, because there's no hiding from the fact that an economic system predicated on infinite growth in a world of finite resources is not going to work.
nuclear power, a safe, clean, mature power generation technology
On paper, yes. In practice, no.
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/reports/voodoo_economics.pdf
A U.S. politician couldn't accept anything in excess of $335 in value as a gift from a foreign leader.
Mr. Brown gave Mr. Obama a pen holder carved from the timber of an anti-slave ship.
Where can I get a pen holder carved from the timber of an anti-slave ship for $335 or less? Thanks!
Congratulations, you have achieved: Inverse Occam's Razor
What about: each achievement scores 1, and numerical achievements also score +n?
There were. Specifically, the Church was [pissed].
Bzzzz. The Pope was one of the first persons to buy a printing press (3 in fact), so he could quickly disseminate his orders across Rome, Italy, and the whole of Europe.
Point, meet tangent.
And hell, if you're paying for cables, they'd better be made of solid gold.
Maybe audiophiles are the future for the RIAA. 320Kbps AACs will be available for free, but FLACs of studio masters will cost $500 per track and will be eagerly snapped up by those who claim to be able to tell the difference.
It's just as well Google had that monopoly, otherwise they'd never have got off the ground </sarcasm>
It's rather vulgar to draw attention to it, though ;)
(That should bring the three-digiters out of the woodwork...)
My friends all made fun of me and said it was just the LSD talking, but I knew I would come to understand the universe if I stared long enough at those posters!
Simply rename all of your torrent files "linux.iso.torrent" and claim you keep trying to get hold of a copy of this linux thing you keep hearing about but the interweb keeps sending you movies instead? I like it!
You think it's civilised to protect the producer at the expense of the creator?
AKA you can see the keyboard. What was the laser for again?
Its true that the programmer skill has to be outstanding to pull that off, but the overall effect is still worse to the eye.
I think you might have missed my point. 4k intros don't generally look as good as 64k intros, but to a scener they can be more impressive nonetheless.
The ST ran its 68000 faster ;)
Besides, the whole point of the scene was to squeeze maximum performance out of the machine. So a demo on the ST might not look as impressive as one on the Amiga -- but to a scener who knows that on the ST there's no blitter and that fullscreen can only be achieved by changing scanrate at each hblank, it might actually be more impressive nonetheless.
But what makes you think the software they ran used TOS for anything other than entering supervisor mode?
Indeed, the soundchip of the machine you love was considerably better than the ST's...
TOS was good for one thing -- entering supervisor mode ;)
Dude, everyone with internet access has more porn than they can watch in a lifetime.
Nothing whatsoever. Take a look back at the whole of this discussion, and you'll find it's only you who's concerned about peasants taking your job. The rest of us are talking about resources.
And if you think an embargo is anything like a crisis, boy, you're in for a serious shock. We're not talking about people deciding whether or not to buy and sell oil here. We're talking about the end of the oil age.
Ironic that you accuse me of hyperbole
Poppycock. Show me where I did that.
and bust out with 'so everybody should have nuclear weapons' in response to a remark about drug prohibition
It's not in response to a remark about drug prohibition, it's in response to a remark about doing "whatever the hell you want, provided that it isn't harming your neighbor" (which includes owning nuclear weapons).
I suspect we are done here.
If you're done making false accusations and setting up straw men: indeed we are.
When I pay for a product I expect something from it. Tangible things are just that, tangible. I have it now, I have it tomorrow, so the value retains.
Ah, it's a shame you're going to have to have your memory erased to remove all trace of those concerts you went to from bands whose music you discovered through last.fm.
You're such an idiot that you stand out as one of Slashdot's greatest ever idiots, and that really takes some doing.
By "Offtopic" do you mean "I don't agree with this guy but I can't fault what he's saying"?
Thought so.
Give me a break. A) That's so hypothetical and tenuous that it hardly merits a response
Citation needed.
B) The person in front of you could have made an informed decision not to remain in the car unless you put on your seat belt.
True.
Do you have a single example of this ever happening or are you going on your "gut" feeling?
Call it a gut feeling if you want: I call it an observation of the laws of physics. But no, I don't have any evidence for it.
Some people get violent when they drink -- you gonna take my beer away from me because of them?
Ah, you're in favour of everyone having equal access to nuclear weapons? Good luck with that.