You already been corrected on the drugs case, but what exactly is wrong with sentencing someone for a crime? There seems to be a lot missing from this story and the way it is written is the typical "we always write we want the goverment to be though on crime except when there is a sob story in it".
And considering that australia, the goverment this woman supports with her tax money, treats immigrants as prisoners, shouldn't you first look to your own legal system?
You are using fact and reason to point out the sky isn't falling down. Do you know the harm this is doing to slashdot's advertising revenue? They NEED stories like this and wild random speculation on it to draw visitors. You sir are stealing the food out of the mouth of poor slashdot editors who hardly could get any other job with their skills. I hope you are proud of yourself.
Afraid that is not the case in real life and real law. If you are aware of someone in distress, can help but don't, then you are legally liable. Be very wary of living by your advice, not only would any religion in the world condemn you to hell, you could easily find yourself in a courtroom with a jury who would never dare rule in your favor since that would be admitting they themselves would not help their fellow man.
Filesharing is partially PROVEN legal in holland. Downloading is 100% absolutly legal and judges have ruled on this multiple times.
So, it is only a horrible legal argument in countries where the law is owned by the copyright industry.
And please note, human civilization has DEPENDED on copyright "violations" for millenia. Rossetta stone anyone? Copied all over. How did you think books were made before the printing press? Hand copied over the centuries without any notion of paying the author. Modern copyright as the RIAA and the likes want it is a very recent invention and can easily be argued counter-productive.
You seem to think that the costs of a pressing 1000 CD's is $999 that therefor this is the entire cost of selling these CD's.
What about shipping? Getting the CD's from the plant to your home. Storing them safely as you won't sell them all at once. Setting up a website to sell them. Getting a system to accept payments, which costs money to subscribe to. Shipping to the customers, not just postage but the labor involved in handling the packages. Making the packages. Buying the packages. Handling returns, lost shipments, complaints in general. Keeping track of all your costs for your books.
Can you do all that for 31 dollars? Doubt it. Do you really think you can get better margins then Amazon?
And why can't you make your own CD's as well? This contract ain't exclusive.
No, some larger bands who have a lot of business savy may want to control it all themselves, but if you just want to offer your CD online then this is a very good deal with an extremely payout.
It is the way things are done, you get an agent, a record label and advances. That you pay for everything yourself is in the details and lets face it, musicians ain't the brightest people around.
Also, don't forget the appeal of advances. Sure, you would pay them back if succesful but it is money. Right now, not after you sold copies.
This new scheme is for people who believe in their own music, create their own music and are seeing it is as a job, a career. Not a get rick quick scheme.
It get the feeling anything south of say, Fairbanks, is the deep south.
On topic, has this guy actually seen the images? If this is porn then any translucent ghost from old movies is also porn. It is more formless then a molten barbie.
If you never take it. What the GP was talking about is that we should ask ourselves WHY people start with drugs, less then what drugs they take or even how they work.
I got no desire whatsoever to take meth or anything like it. I don't even drink, don't like that tast and see no reason to learn to like it.
Why do other people feel different?
The problem isn't meth perse, if you want to use a drug, alcohol will do the trick just fine. What is it that causes some people to flee into alcoholism?
Is it a flight from poor living conditions, a way to feel good when there is no other way. Study that, fix that and it won't matter if drugs are available, people won't have any need for them.
Mind you, this is tricky, how many housewives who should be happy by societies standards are abusing medical drugs? Asking ourselves wether some long accepted ways of lives are perhaps leading people to drugs is not comfortable. Rather blame mexicans for drugs then admit the american way of life leads people to drugs. (not saying it is, but doubt anyone could research it without getting a ton of flack)
funny, if it so non-addictive then why do people risk going to jail by using it? Even if they already got two strikes which in the US seems to mean you can get life for a 3rd joint.
But hey, it is non-addictive. I got mates who smoke, the old school are about as addicted as your average tobacco junkie, but the users of the more modern stuff, the type grown under lights and on glass wool and whatever, they are addicted. Just take their stuff away and see the withdrawal.
Fucky you with your one size must fit all mentality. Fuck you with your kiddy safe world. Fuck you with your if I can't use it, nobody else is allowed to either.
If you can't use linux then guess what, I DO NOT GIVE A SHIT. Should stick shifts be damned because americans can't deal with them? Should stinky cheese be banned because some ill people die from it? Should all of life be sanitized and sterizized until it is all a grey goo suitable only for you and your lowest denomanator kind?
Fuck you. Troll/flamebait be damned, the moment we give in to the cries of people like him, we are going to be banning and regulating everything because no matter how simple and safe, someone somewhere won't get it. Someone will cut themselves with plastic sciccors.
Windows for the cattle, OSX for the cattle with money and linux for those who want an OS they control and are willing to pay the price.
Don't like it? Then what the fuck are you doing on slashdot?
A lot of partners feel very insecure and believe they have to compete with airbrushed images of sex-symbols. Yet this one shot experiment shows that there for one man, his REAL woman is able to not just compete, but win from a photograph.
This guy can never get and will never meet the real Angelina, who is already taken anyway. But his wife now should now that the image of Angelina is NOT favorite with her husband. That is intresting to know.
Ask an african about slavery, do they EVER mention that the majority of slaves shipped to europe and america were SOLD by black slavers?
Ask a german wether he/she "es gewust habe". "Nein, ich habe es nicht". 12+ million people rounded up and slaughtered by volunteers and special units that nobody had ever heard about.
Ask a ROMAN catholic who killed Jesus Christ, bet you none of them make a direct link between ROMANS and ROMAN catholics.
Ask an american to explain the difference between conquering the west and the final solution/lebensraum. Making proper use of land illused by the lesser natives who are to be concentrated into special places where they would be more happy? Nah, no link.
Ask a dutch person why one of the most hated words, "apartheid" needs no translation. Ask them why in their colonies in the america's, the natives are BLACK.
The list goes on and on. Human history ain't nice but we like to pretend that we are nice even while we are butchering millions.
Ask why millions are starving from lack of food and water, while we are getting fat arguing on slashdot. But hey, I am nice, it wasn't me. And you better agree, or it is you too.
Remember that movie? A "myth" if you like. Made up as you say. EXCEPT the inspiration for the alien was taken from a real wasp that does exactly what the alien does.
No, the killer wasp does NOT lay dormant for ages in ancient space craft and the tarantulla (its prey) is not betrayed by its own species to explore the wasps resting place and take an egg home for research. That part is made up. Or is it? Is the whole movie perhaps an collection of ideas and thought the author has picked up from stories/impressions during his life? Those stories in turn made up by other people who in turn got theirs from other people?
You seem to think that the story of cannablism would have to pass as a indentifiable story from 30.000 years ago to the moment the "modern" old testament was written. Nobody knows exactly how the old testament got put together (except the god-botherers who insist it was dictated by god to... well who knows).
I find a link unlikely as well, but that is because you wouldn't need to go back in time to find canabalism. It was practised in Africa until recently so no resaon to believe it did not happen back then as well and that those who wrote the old testament knew about it.
If of course Cane ate Abel, can't exactly recall that bit but unwilling to go either way on that claim.
Dogs are adapt at running all day? Bet you never owned a dog.
And if that is the reason dogs do so well with human beings, please explain everyother domesticated animal to me. From cats to cattle.
Sorry, does NOT compute. You are making a huge leap here based on wrong assumptions about dogs and ignoring that said assumption doesn't apply to other animals that had the same result.
What is this sleeping with females thing you keep reffering to? I slept with my sister all the time, with my mother too. They in their rooms, me in mine. Don't see what is so evil about that.
Apple is the biggest PC maker in the world, and they are LOVING IT. Why should they want to be Microsoft? Which is what the GP is telling them to do. Ditch the hardware and become a software company. Like MS.
But you can't out MS MS. Apple has a unique position, they are the only company to make a complete PC: Hardware, OS and utilities. Nobody else does that. Well okay, IBM, Sun/Oracle, HP on the big heavy stuff but not for desktop PC's and laptops.
It allows them to control the total experience. Do you think Dell was happy with Vista? For everyone who didn't buy Vista, how many also didn't buy a PC since their old PC ran XP fine enough? Most people I know upgrade windows and their PC at the same time and I know more and more people who skipped this upgrade.
So no, Apple would have to be insane to put OSX on anything but an Apple. It would ruin their business and their reputation at the same time. Apple after all has NO driver problems to worry about. They know EXACTLY what is inside your Mac because they put it there.
They get paid per call. And frankly that is good. Do you REALLY want a phone company that selects it customers? That outlaws certain kind of calls?
Think for a second before you answer.
Because if you say yes, then you say yes to block bittorrent and other undesirable protocols on the net, yes to ISP censorship, yes to ISP's cutting of filesharers without trial.
So, yes, thank god the phone companies are in on this. I wouldn't have it any other way.
You might as well argue that no american soldier knows the CIA tortures prisoners. That no soviet soldier knew about deportations to siberia.
Talk to some real germans soldiers when they are willing to let their guard down. The knew, just didn't want to know and sure as hell couldn't admit to knowing after the war.
When you are reading history, learn the difference between the one that is in the books written by people who wanted germany back in the civilized world as fast as possible and the real history.
The final solution was to big to keep hidden. But hey, keep dreaming baby.
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You already been corrected on the drugs case, but what exactly is wrong with sentencing someone for a crime? There seems to be a lot missing from this story and the way it is written is the typical "we always write we want the goverment to be though on crime except when there is a sob story in it".
And considering that australia, the goverment this woman supports with her tax money, treats immigrants as prisoners, shouldn't you first look to your own legal system?
You are using fact and reason to point out the sky isn't falling down. Do you know the harm this is doing to slashdot's advertising revenue? They NEED stories like this and wild random speculation on it to draw visitors. You sir are stealing the food out of the mouth of poor slashdot editors who hardly could get any other job with their skills. I hope you are proud of yourself.
Afraid that is not the case in real life and real law. If you are aware of someone in distress, can help but don't, then you are legally liable. Be very wary of living by your advice, not only would any religion in the world condemn you to hell, you could easily find yourself in a courtroom with a jury who would never dare rule in your favor since that would be admitting they themselves would not help their fellow man.
Filesharing is partially PROVEN legal in holland. Downloading is 100% absolutly legal and judges have ruled on this multiple times.
So, it is only a horrible legal argument in countries where the law is owned by the copyright industry.
And please note, human civilization has DEPENDED on copyright "violations" for millenia. Rossetta stone anyone? Copied all over. How did you think books were made before the printing press? Hand copied over the centuries without any notion of paying the author. Modern copyright as the RIAA and the likes want it is a very recent invention and can easily be argued counter-productive.
Just tell security to shoot any canadians that come in the area. Good advice any day.
You seem to think that the costs of a pressing 1000 CD's is $999 that therefor this is the entire cost of selling these CD's.
What about shipping? Getting the CD's from the plant to your home. Storing them safely as you won't sell them all at once. Setting up a website to sell them. Getting a system to accept payments, which costs money to subscribe to. Shipping to the customers, not just postage but the labor involved in handling the packages. Making the packages. Buying the packages. Handling returns, lost shipments, complaints in general. Keeping track of all your costs for your books.
Can you do all that for 31 dollars? Doubt it. Do you really think you can get better margins then Amazon?
And why can't you make your own CD's as well? This contract ain't exclusive.
No, some larger bands who have a lot of business savy may want to control it all themselves, but if you just want to offer your CD online then this is a very good deal with an extremely payout.
It is the way things are done, you get an agent, a record label and advances. That you pay for everything yourself is in the details and lets face it, musicians ain't the brightest people around.
Also, don't forget the appeal of advances. Sure, you would pay them back if succesful but it is money. Right now, not after you sold copies.
This new scheme is for people who believe in their own music, create their own music and are seeing it is as a job, a career. Not a get rick quick scheme.
It get the feeling anything south of say, Fairbanks, is the deep south.
On topic, has this guy actually seen the images? If this is porn then any translucent ghost from old movies is also porn. It is more formless then a molten barbie.
If closed source is secure, then please hook up windows XP to the internet without a opensource router in between.
Thanks for playing clueless scaremongerer. You fail, please insert another coin to try again.
If you never take it. What the GP was talking about is that we should ask ourselves WHY people start with drugs, less then what drugs they take or even how they work.
I got no desire whatsoever to take meth or anything like it. I don't even drink, don't like that tast and see no reason to learn to like it.
Why do other people feel different?
The problem isn't meth perse, if you want to use a drug, alcohol will do the trick just fine. What is it that causes some people to flee into alcoholism?
Is it a flight from poor living conditions, a way to feel good when there is no other way. Study that, fix that and it won't matter if drugs are available, people won't have any need for them.
Mind you, this is tricky, how many housewives who should be happy by societies standards are abusing medical drugs? Asking ourselves wether some long accepted ways of lives are perhaps leading people to drugs is not comfortable. Rather blame mexicans for drugs then admit the american way of life leads people to drugs. (not saying it is, but doubt anyone could research it without getting a ton of flack)
funny, if it so non-addictive then why do people risk going to jail by using it? Even if they already got two strikes which in the US seems to mean you can get life for a 3rd joint.
But hey, it is non-addictive. I got mates who smoke, the old school are about as addicted as your average tobacco junkie, but the users of the more modern stuff, the type grown under lights and on glass wool and whatever, they are addicted. Just take their stuff away and see the withdrawal.
Not addictive. Sure.
Gas is expensive here, so there would be no suv's. WRONG. In fact when the prices were a record high last year, suv sales did NOT drop.
Fucky you with your one size must fit all mentality. Fuck you with your kiddy safe world. Fuck you with your if I can't use it, nobody else is allowed to either.
If you can't use linux then guess what, I DO NOT GIVE A SHIT. Should stick shifts be damned because americans can't deal with them? Should stinky cheese be banned because some ill people die from it? Should all of life be sanitized and sterizized until it is all a grey goo suitable only for you and your lowest denomanator kind?
Fuck you. Troll/flamebait be damned, the moment we give in to the cries of people like him, we are going to be banning and regulating everything because no matter how simple and safe, someone somewhere won't get it. Someone will cut themselves with plastic sciccors.
Windows for the cattle, OSX for the cattle with money and linux for those who want an OS they control and are willing to pay the price.
Don't like it? Then what the fuck are you doing on slashdot?
Only buy supported hardware. If people are willing to buy OSX hardware then why not linux hardware?
Think about it.
A lot of partners feel very insecure and believe they have to compete with airbrushed images of sex-symbols. Yet this one shot experiment shows that there for one man, his REAL woman is able to not just compete, but win from a photograph.
This guy can never get and will never meet the real Angelina, who is already taken anyway. But his wife now should now that the image of Angelina is NOT favorite with her husband. That is intresting to know.
Ask an african about slavery, do they EVER mention that the majority of slaves shipped to europe and america were SOLD by black slavers?
Ask a german wether he/she "es gewust habe". "Nein, ich habe es nicht". 12+ million people rounded up and slaughtered by volunteers and special units that nobody had ever heard about.
Ask a ROMAN catholic who killed Jesus Christ, bet you none of them make a direct link between ROMANS and ROMAN catholics.
Ask an american to explain the difference between conquering the west and the final solution/lebensraum. Making proper use of land illused by the lesser natives who are to be concentrated into special places where they would be more happy? Nah, no link.
Ask a dutch person why one of the most hated words, "apartheid" needs no translation. Ask them why in their colonies in the america's, the natives are BLACK.
The list goes on and on. Human history ain't nice but we like to pretend that we are nice even while we are butchering millions.
Ask why millions are starving from lack of food and water, while we are getting fat arguing on slashdot. But hey, I am nice, it wasn't me. And you better agree, or it is you too.
Remember that movie? A "myth" if you like. Made up as you say. EXCEPT the inspiration for the alien was taken from a real wasp that does exactly what the alien does.
No, the killer wasp does NOT lay dormant for ages in ancient space craft and the tarantulla (its prey) is not betrayed by its own species to explore the wasps resting place and take an egg home for research. That part is made up. Or is it? Is the whole movie perhaps an collection of ideas and thought the author has picked up from stories/impressions during his life? Those stories in turn made up by other people who in turn got theirs from other people?
You seem to think that the story of cannablism would have to pass as a indentifiable story from 30.000 years ago to the moment the "modern" old testament was written. Nobody knows exactly how the old testament got put together (except the god-botherers who insist it was dictated by god to... well who knows).
I find a link unlikely as well, but that is because you wouldn't need to go back in time to find canabalism. It was practised in Africa until recently so no resaon to believe it did not happen back then as well and that those who wrote the old testament knew about it.
If of course Cane ate Abel, can't exactly recall that bit but unwilling to go either way on that claim.
Logic failure detected.
Dogs are adapt at running all day? Bet you never owned a dog.
And if that is the reason dogs do so well with human beings, please explain everyother domesticated animal to me. From cats to cattle.
Sorry, does NOT compute. You are making a huge leap here based on wrong assumptions about dogs and ignoring that said assumption doesn't apply to other animals that had the same result.
What is this sleeping with females thing you keep reffering to? I slept with my sister all the time, with my mother too. They in their rooms, me in mine. Don't see what is so evil about that.
Apple is the biggest PC maker in the world, and they are LOVING IT. Why should they want to be Microsoft? Which is what the GP is telling them to do. Ditch the hardware and become a software company. Like MS.
But you can't out MS MS. Apple has a unique position, they are the only company to make a complete PC: Hardware, OS and utilities. Nobody else does that. Well okay, IBM, Sun/Oracle, HP on the big heavy stuff but not for desktop PC's and laptops.
It allows them to control the total experience. Do you think Dell was happy with Vista? For everyone who didn't buy Vista, how many also didn't buy a PC since their old PC ran XP fine enough? Most people I know upgrade windows and their PC at the same time and I know more and more people who skipped this upgrade.
So no, Apple would have to be insane to put OSX on anything but an Apple. It would ruin their business and their reputation at the same time. Apple after all has NO driver problems to worry about. They know EXACTLY what is inside your Mac because they put it there.
That is not what they made. Might as well complain that in Quake there was no interaction with the aliens, no factions, no character building.
This is not the game genre you are looking for.
What this is akin to is putting the M sign over YOUR restaurant that is NOT a McD franchise.
Google is NOT advertising for McD, it is advertising for Burger King with McDonalds name. You bet McD would be pissed about that.
And in holland at least it is most likely against the law as well. We don't allow negative advertising. You can't use your competitors name.
Sorry, but I really can't see google as the good guy here.
If I build up a reputation worth googling and then you use my name to buy ads leading to your site, something is wrong.
They get paid per call. And frankly that is good. Do you REALLY want a phone company that selects it customers? That outlaws certain kind of calls?
Think for a second before you answer.
Because if you say yes, then you say yes to block bittorrent and other undesirable protocols on the net, yes to ISP censorship, yes to ISP's cutting of filesharers without trial.
So, yes, thank god the phone companies are in on this. I wouldn't have it any other way.
You don't seem to want that, you want to restrict the right of people to live in a police state. Freedom is a bitch ain't it?
You might as well argue that no american soldier knows the CIA tortures prisoners. That no soviet soldier knew about deportations to siberia.
Talk to some real germans soldiers when they are willing to let their guard down. The knew, just didn't want to know and sure as hell couldn't admit to knowing after the war.
When you are reading history, learn the difference between the one that is in the books written by people who wanted germany back in the civilized world as fast as possible and the real history.
The final solution was to big to keep hidden. But hey, keep dreaming baby.