Not to mention every time you download and burn *BSD (Linux/Solaris/whatever), you're giving money to the music industry.
No, you are not. The "levy" is only applied to blank CDR's sold with the "audio" label. These are blanks with some special voodoo in them that lets you use them in the standalone cdrecorders that you put in your audio rack. Data cdrs, AFAIK, are not subject to the levy, but also, won't work in these standalone recorders.
I get my phone bill via the USPS, without an address, I doubt the mail carrier would be able to deliver it:)
But the point is that none of this information is necessary.
Agreed, they shouldn't information beyond the phone number. If they want more than that for verification, they should at least secure the page.
undoubtedly so that they can send you spam
I created an email address specifically for filling out this web form, I can't wait to see what kind of spam starts rolling in to that account. Sneakemail is great for this. I highly recommend it.
Someone else mentioned in a comment that a recent Colorado Supreme Court decision that ruled that the information gathered for provisioning of a service is owned by the person not the company. As a Colorado resident, I will be researching this further in hopes of filing a lawsuit against Qworst.
I called the number, 1-877-628-3732, today, and it seemed to work. The website, www.qwest.com/cpni, was also working.
When i called the number, it asked if I was calling about the phone I was calling in on(option 1, the one I chose) or a different phone(option 2). After selecting option 1, I was informed that qwest is closed for the holiday, and gave me a number to use in case I had a service emergency. This doesn't sound like the opt-out procedures I have been using for the various financial institutions over the past year.
I don't know why the guy was complaining about the questions the website asked, it was all stuff that is on the front page of your phone bill, phone number, name, address. My complaint is that the site has no security and is passing this information as plain text across the internet.
Too bad qwest is back to having a virtual monopoly on dsl service in my area, or I would drop them and give the 1 non-qwest company that is offering local telephone service a try.
ObOfftopic: I recieved a letter from a credit union that I had an old savings account at, explaining their new privay policy. They had absolutely no provisions for opting out of their information sharing policy. I immediately sent them a polite letter , requesting that they remove my information from sharing pool or I would close my account. No response. I then faxed the same letter, plus an addendum giving them the option to remove my name from their sharing lists or close my account. I got a check in the mail 2 days after the fax was sent. I guess they are making enough money off this list that they can afford to lose customers over it.
You mean the one that murdered the men, women and children at Waco and Ruby Ridge? Or the one that shot down twa flight 800 and covered it up? Or maybe the one that still arrests people for marijuana possesion in states that have decriminalized/legalized it for medical use? Umm, maybe you mean the one that invented the "incident" in the Gulf of Tonkin to drag us into the vietnam war? Or the one that let the FBI infiltrate protest groups in the '60s, subverting their rights to free speach? Wait, you mean the government that setup this phony war in Afghanistan, so we can build an oil pipline?
You talk about the loss of rights under the constitution. You must not have read the PATRIOT act, which schreds what little there was left of the bill of rights. With its passage you lose the right to trial by jury, the right to be free from illegal searches and seisures, the right to confront your accusor in court, and the right to criticize the government.
Heres an idea for you, turn off MSNBC/CNN/Fox News and look at some news sources that aren't run by and for the government propaganda machine.
Personally, I hope to be ready when the rest of America wakes up and decides its time to throw off the chains we've put ourselves in.
According to what I have seen/read, xmas is really just a continuation of year end/solstice festivals that have been going on since 2000 years before christ was born. By adding a holiday near the winter solstice, which romans and european pagans already celebrated, early Xtians hoped to convert more people to their religion. The date was set somewhat arbitrarily by Pope Julius I sometime in the 4th century. Even much of the symbolism is the same, decorating evergreen trees with lights, wreaths, feasting, gift giving
Some random web sites that I found on google.com, including one to a Xtian church site, backing these ideas up include:
http://www.holidays.net/christmas/story.htm
http://www.new-life.net/chrtms15.htm
http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/xmasintr.htm
http://www.villagelife.org/news/archives/traditi on s.html
I have a hotmail account that I had not logged into for over 6 months. On a lark, I tried to login to it, and guess what, it still worked. Inbox still clogged with spam, just as I had left it.
I dont think those things ever expire. If they did, MSFT would have to report a lower number of hotmail/passport users, not good for business.
I need to start sending that account eamils with multi-megabyte attachments every day. Maybe I can kill their storage capacity. Anyone know the size limit for attachments that they will accept?
Not entirely true, at least as far as the ION Direct service goes. I live in Broomfield, and have had ION direct for about 8 months. Its not the nifty 8Mb/1Mb service with the phone lines and long distance, but its been good as far as dsl goes.
ObOfftopic: If they can the ION direct service as well, I will be shopping for my 3rd dsl provider in the last 12 months, damn this is getting annoying. I *really* dont want to have to get an ATT cablemodem, but it is starting to look like the only high speed option in my neck of the woods.
I think a (probably mis) quote from Bill Hicks is appropriate here,
person 1: "i feel the puppet to the left shares my views."
person 2: "i think the puppet to the right is more to my liking."
person 3: "hey wait a minute, theres one guy in the middle holding up both puppets!
propaganda mediator: "GO BACK TO SLEEP AMERICA, YOUR GOVERNMENT IS IN CONTROL. HERE...WATCH LOVE CONNECTION TO KEEP YOU FAT AND STUPID."
If you think there is much of difference between the Republicrats and the Dempublicans, you are sadly mistaken.
I just finished installing solaris 8, and it comes with a supplemental cd chock full of your favorite addons. These are precompiled, and ready to be pkgadd'ed or they even have a gui installer tool.
A partial list includes
ghostview/ghostscript
gnome
kde
gcc
netscape
emacs and xemacs
samba
cdrecord
screen
I didnt see teTeX, or the gimp, but a quick search around sunfreeware.com or freeware4sun.com should turn up binaries in package format.
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Wow, I was wondering if I would ever find a post under this article that came close to my situation.
I too have worked at a company that stressed short call times, left little time for research, didn't allow callbacks, had no feedback loop to developers, etc. After about 18 months of being bitched at by clueless newbies, for problems that they usually caused, I moved on. The final straw was the release of a product with known MAJOR bugs. I pointed out in a meeting that the company mission statement said we shouldn't be releasing such a piece of crap, and I was told that it didn't matter, we were shipping it, bugs or not. I appreciate the training that I recieved there, but I'm glad to be gone.
After a few contract gigs doing various forms of IT helpdesk type stuff, I took another chance on tech support, as a contractor. I liked it so much, I ended up taking a permanent position. I now go to new product training at least every quarter, have software developers looking at the bugs that I file, only spend 20 hours of my 40 hour work week actively taking customer calls, AND I LOVE IT. I do get the occasional newbie, but those calls are usually a slam dunk, and let me surf slashdot a little longer. I could get a job as a sysadmin, making about 30-40k more a year, but then I would have to actually work, nahhh!
The systems I support are not home peecees by any stretch of the imagination, and I would NEVER go back to supporting them (peecees) if I could avoid it. Sysadmins might be clueless in their own ways, (backup? naw, we don't do those) but at least they know where the power button is. Well, most of them at least.
The way these 2 companies address the tech support issue seems to be the crux of the problem. The first company had an 800#, and only charged for tech support if you wanted help outside business hours. Tech support was a red-headed step child, one that cost the company money. The company I now work for charges for any support above the warranty level, and the support division is a revenue generator. By being a revenue generator, it makes it much easier to pay people well, staff to keep hold times down, and hire competent people.
On the back of the card, it says something to the effect of "Property of Hughes". I bought mine from a friend, so I don't see how they think they could enforce this.
Yep, if Mr. Airline Pilot's reflexes are a little affected because he spent the weekend smoking crack and he augers a 757 full of nuns and orphans into the box seats at the Superdome on Superbowl Sunday, that's a victimless crime.
No, that is a crime, flying under the influence, or some such. The smoking of the crack should not have been a crime. The only person affected was the user, the other people were only affected afterwards. In fact, I think the punishment for this particular offence(the plane crashing, not the crack smoking) should be worse. Some jobs require a higher level of responsibility than others, i.e. a doctor/nurse/pilot/commercial driver/etc. should be held to a higher standard than a ditch digger/migrant farm worker/general manual laborer.
Yep, if insurance becomes unaffordable to Joe Sixpack and his kid with lukemia because all the money is being paid to save people who have OD'ed, that's a victimless crime.
If the OD victims were paying for their insurance, what is the problem again? I think there would be a lot less OD's if people had access to accurate info about drugs and had access to sources of known quality.
Yep, if someone happens to accidently overdose and leave a widow and children behind, that's a
victimless crime.
No, the junkie is the victim. The widow and child are affected because of their ties to the junkie, but this doesn't make them victims(unless you are talking about the Politically Correct definition of the word victim, or the broadest interpretation of definition #3 from the link above).
Despite what anyone around here thinks, the whole "Drugs are a Victimless Crime" argument is one of the lamest pieces of rationalization ever brought up in a political discussion. If a drug were safe and didn't cause people to be hurt it wouldn't be illegal. Look at alcohol and all the damage it does, and it _is_ legal. Just think what would happen if cocaine or heroin suddenly became legal.
The supply of those drugs would now be taxed and regulated. No more OD's because of poor quality drugs; less crime because drugs would be less expensive; a country that doesn't spend billions of dollars putting a large portion of its populace in jail; better, more complete information about the effects of drugs on humans due to the ability to study them in controlled environments; I could go on and on.
Do you think all the innocent victims I described above would mind being sacrificed for a "victimless" activity?
The only victims I see described above are the plane crash victims, and that has already been addressed.
I know this is totally off topic, but low volume toilets seem to be a bigger waste then their predacessors. How is water being saved, when I have to flush the damn thing 3 times to get a healthy crap into the sewer system.
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Unfortunately, Mr[s]. A. Coward probably believes the crap that was spewed forth, just not strongly enough to give a real name or email address. Of course that doesn't make any of it true either.
I cannot confirm that you are not insane, nor whether you are in the same evil, strange (and possibly parallel) universe as myself.
I hope you are not referring to wiccans when you say "witchcraft", because your opinion would be contrary to the Supreme Court, the Army, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and several US District Courts. References
As to the source of Wicca, it is derived from the tribal Earth religions of pre-christian Europe, well before Crowley's time.
For a better understanding of what wicca is really about, read a list of faq's
I personally will be voting for Mr. Brown. I think that much of the power that corporations have today comes from laws that give power to the corps, written by corrupt politicians (see DMCA, UCITA, copyright laws). The libertarians want to lower the size and power of government, which would hopefully lead to a curbing of corporate power as well. Without the power of law backing them, the big corporations will have less power over consumers, which I would consider a good thing.
See the this page for details the main points of libertarian policy.
To me, Nader might as well be running for the Socialist party. Although I agree with many of the goals of the Green party, I think the way they want to accomplish them, through a bigger government, is not the way to go. I am for less government/rules/taxes, not more.
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No, you are not. The "levy" is only applied to blank CDR's sold with the "audio" label. These are blanks with some special voodoo in them that lets you use them in the standalone cdrecorders that you put in your audio rack. Data cdrs, AFAIK, are not subject to the levy, but also, won't work in these standalone recorders.
I get my phone bill via the USPS, without an address, I doubt the mail carrier would be able to deliver it :)
But the point is that none of this information is necessary.
Agreed, they shouldn't information beyond the phone number. If they want more than that for verification, they should at least secure the page.
undoubtedly so that they can send you spam
I created an email address specifically for filling out this web form, I can't wait to see what kind of spam starts rolling in to that account. Sneakemail is great for this. I highly recommend it.
Someone else mentioned in a comment that a recent Colorado Supreme Court decision that ruled that the information gathered for provisioning of a service is owned by the person not the company. As a Colorado resident, I will be researching this further in hopes of filing a lawsuit against Qworst.
When i called the number, it asked if I was calling about the phone I was calling in on(option 1, the one I chose) or a different phone(option 2). After selecting option 1, I was informed that qwest is closed for the holiday, and gave me a number to use in case I had a service emergency. This doesn't sound like the opt-out procedures I have been using for the various financial institutions over the past year.
I don't know why the guy was complaining about the questions the website asked, it was all stuff that is on the front page of your phone bill, phone number, name, address. My complaint is that the site has no security and is passing this information as plain text across the internet.
Too bad qwest is back to having a virtual monopoly on dsl service in my area, or I would drop them and give the 1 non-qwest company that is offering local telephone service a try.
ObOfftopic: I recieved a letter from a credit union that I had an old savings account at, explaining their new privay policy. They had absolutely no provisions for opting out of their information sharing policy. I immediately sent them a polite letter , requesting that they remove my information from sharing pool or I would close my account. No response. I then faxed the same letter, plus an addendum giving them the option to remove my name from their sharing lists or close my account. I got a check in the mail 2 days after the fax was sent. I guess they are making enough money off this list that they can afford to lose customers over it.
You mean the one that murdered the men, women and children at Waco and Ruby Ridge? Or the one that shot down twa flight 800 and covered it up? Or maybe the one that still arrests people for marijuana possesion in states that have decriminalized/legalized it for medical use? Umm, maybe you mean the one that invented the "incident" in the Gulf of Tonkin to drag us into the vietnam war? Or the one that let the FBI infiltrate protest groups in the '60s, subverting their rights to free speach? Wait, you mean the government that setup this phony war in Afghanistan, so we can build an oil pipline?
You talk about the loss of rights under the constitution. You must not have read the PATRIOT act, which schreds what little there was left of the bill of rights. With its passage you lose the right to trial by jury, the right to be free from illegal searches and seisures, the right to confront your accusor in court, and the right to criticize the government.
Heres an idea for you, turn off MSNBC/CNN/Fox News and look at some news sources that aren't run by and for the government propaganda machine.
Personally, I hope to be ready when the rest of America wakes up and decides its time to throw off the chains we've put ourselves in.
Some random web sites that I found on google.com, including one to a Xtian church site, backing these ideas up include:
http://www.holidays.net/christmas/story.htm
http://www.new-life.net/chrtms15.htm
http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/xmasintr.htm
http://www.villagelife.org/news/archives/traditi on s.html
Dude!
This winter, my house will be heated by SPARC power :)
I dont think those things ever expire. If they did, MSFT would have to report a lower number of hotmail/passport users, not good for business.
I need to start sending that account eamils with multi-megabyte attachments every day. Maybe I can kill their storage capacity. Anyone know the size limit for attachments that they will accept?
ObOfftopic: If they can the ION direct service as well, I will be shopping for my 3rd dsl provider in the last 12 months, damn this is getting annoying. I *really* dont want to have to get an ATT cablemodem, but it is starting to look like the only high speed option in my neck of the woods.
BURN IT, BURN IT!
If you think there is much of difference between the Republicrats and the Dempublicans, you are sadly mistaken.
Since corporations are somehow "people", this is the same as s/corporations/people , right? I didn't think so.
A partial list includes
ghostview/ghostscript
gnome
kde
gcc
netscape
emacs and xemacs
samba
cdrecord
screen
I didnt see teTeX, or the gimp, but a quick search around sunfreeware.com or freeware4sun.com should turn up binaries in package format.
I too have worked at a company that stressed short call times, left little time for research, didn't allow callbacks, had no feedback loop to developers, etc. After about 18 months of being bitched at by clueless newbies, for problems that they usually caused, I moved on. The final straw was the release of a product with known MAJOR bugs. I pointed out in a meeting that the company mission statement said we shouldn't be releasing such a piece of crap, and I was told that it didn't matter, we were shipping it, bugs or not. I appreciate the training that I recieved there, but I'm glad to be gone.
After a few contract gigs doing various forms of IT helpdesk type stuff, I took another chance on tech support, as a contractor. I liked it so much, I ended up taking a permanent position. I now go to new product training at least every quarter, have software developers looking at the bugs that I file, only spend 20 hours of my 40 hour work week actively taking customer calls, AND I LOVE IT. I do get the occasional newbie, but those calls are usually a slam dunk, and let me surf slashdot a little longer. I could get a job as a sysadmin, making about 30-40k more a year, but then I would have to actually work, nahhh!
The systems I support are not home peecees by any stretch of the imagination, and I would NEVER go back to supporting them (peecees) if I could avoid it. Sysadmins might be clueless in their own ways, (backup? naw, we don't do those) but at least they know where the power button is. Well, most of them at least.
The way these 2 companies address the tech support issue seems to be the crux of the problem. The first company had an 800#, and only charged for tech support if you wanted help outside business hours. Tech support was a red-headed step child, one that cost the company money. The company I now work for charges for any support above the warranty level, and the support division is a revenue generator. By being a revenue generator, it makes it much easier to pay people well, staff to keep hold times down, and hire competent people.
I guess I'll have to start running a proxy server, just to keep my "rebel" label.
No, that is a crime, flying under the influence, or some such. The smoking of the crack should not have been a crime. The only person affected was the user, the other people were only affected afterwards. In fact, I think the punishment for this particular offence(the plane crashing, not the crack smoking) should be worse. Some jobs require a higher level of responsibility than others, i.e. a doctor/nurse/pilot/commercial driver/etc. should be held to a higher standard than a ditch digger/migrant farm worker/general manual laborer.
If the OD victims were paying for their insurance, what is the problem again? I think there would be a lot less OD's if people had access to accurate info about drugs and had access to sources of known quality.
No, the junkie is the victim. The widow and child are affected because of their ties to the junkie, but this doesn't make them victims(unless you are talking about the Politically Correct definition of the word victim, or the broadest interpretation of definition #3 from the link above).
The supply of those drugs would now be taxed and regulated. No more OD's because of poor quality drugs; less crime because drugs would be less expensive; a country that doesn't spend billions of dollars putting a large portion of its populace in jail; better, more complete information about the effects of drugs on humans due to the ability to study them in controlled environments; I could go on and on.
The only victims I see described above are the plane crash victims, and that has already been addressed.
I know this is totally off topic, but low volume toilets seem to be a bigger waste then their predacessors. How is water being saved, when I have to flush the damn thing 3 times to get a healthy crap into the sewer system.
I cannot confirm that you are not insane, nor whether you are in the same evil, strange (and possibly parallel) universe as myself.
As to the source of Wicca, it is derived from the tribal Earth religions of pre-christian Europe, well before Crowley's time.
For a better understanding of what wicca is really about, read a list of faq's
See the this page for details the main points of libertarian policy.
To me, Nader might as well be running for the Socialist party. Although I agree with many of the goals of the Green party, I think the way they want to accomplish them, through a bigger government, is not the way to go. I am for less government/rules/taxes, not more.
Have a search on their jobs page.