Sounds to me like drobbins can't decide whether he wants Gentoo to be a community distro or a for-profit company.
He'd like to get the "coolness" for being a community distro and the free efforts of developers, but he'd also like to be able to profit from it himself without having to hassle with payroll and sniffing around for venture capital in these lean time.
Sorry, but you can't have it both ways. Personally, I have the most respect for Slackware's business model. Even if it's a one-man show now, Pat V. at least has a workable business model and a very focused distro.
They can't. They get busted by their local police for breaking local copyright laws that are created in order to be in conformance with international treaties.
...compliance with which, I might add, is an issue examined by the US State Dept. when doling out foreign aid requests. And since the good 'ole boys in Big Government are cozy with the good 'ole boys in Big Business, a country that scoffs at copyright laws might not get investment from transnational corporations.
And then of course nations who are copyright scofflaws can be strung out to dry by the World Trade Organization.
While new artists should be encouraged not to sign with the RIAA, the works of Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and a very large number of other groups that are an important part of our history should not be ignored or neglected.
In which case I recommend purchasing used CDs to deprive the RIAA labels any revenue if you wanna listen to the oldies.
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ok... this is getting ridiculous... why should anyone that found a way to compromise security for a game be prosecuted in real life?!
Because Shadowbane is a business with paying customers who were adversely affected by this breach of private property rights.
Not only was Ubisoft's property trespeassed upon (unauthorized access), but the negative experience that players encountered may well result in cancelled subscriptions and other potential players staying away from the game.
It definitely has the potential for a financial impact on the company.
Don't tell everyone that... Now the MPAA will lobby Congress to restrict all international flights when they release a new movie.
Why would the MPAA want to hinder people from flying to the US to spend money in a movie theater, where a substantial portion of the revenues collected at the box office go back to Hollywood?
There are non-Christian conservatives (after all, the so-called 'neo conservative' movement is often accused by some liberals (or, actually, leftists) to be run by Jewish people).
That's because the neocon ranks *are* heavily populated by Likudniks, Christian Zionists, and former Trotskyites. The paleo right has known this all along, and the left is catching on.
Word is that Mandrake iso's starting with 9.1 will only be released for public downloading well after the retail boxes are shipped and they're made available to paying members of Mandrake Club
Ever since the engine behind Tribes 2 was released for licensing at $99 per programmer, I've thought the entire concept of Garage Games [garagegames.com] was a rather good one to work with. An incredibly cheap engine license with built-in options for publication once a game is completed, the Torque Game Engine (TGE) is a great option for new game developers.
That is a sweet deal on a good engine. Hopefully, some indie developers will take the ball and run with it. TGE is awesome for large outdoor play with many players.
Dunno about your specific setup, but I would find it perfectly reasonable for hosting companies who rent dedicated servers and colocation facilities to make it customer responsibility and expect customers to patch their systems against such vulnerabilities.
After all, they have root access on the box. They're the admin.
For that matter, it should the customer's ass, not the host's if they get r00ted.
Sort of things that should be in writing in the hosting contracts, IMHO.
Don't forget that much of that telco copper in the ground was subsidized by taxpayers.
As a libertarian you should also know that state/taxpayer subsidization of government monopolies is mercantilism/fascism/crony capitalism.
To simply give the telcos a free-ride monopoly on assets paid for by taxes and captive ratepayers under their monopoly status of yesteryear isn't the answer.
As a start, since the Bells aren't receptive to broadband buildouts I would say get rid of all the federal surcharges and taxes on phone services. No need to have the taxpayers further subsidizing their largess. Universal service fee subsidized POTS lines in rural areas are actually cheaper now than urban lines...$50 in SBC country versus $30 in Alltel. The system is b0rked.
"Actually, Americans weren't quite so selfless. During both World War II and the Cold War, they were told that their own freedom depended on saving Europe's freedom. They were strongly opposed to entering World War II until Pearl Harbor -- by which time more than 100,000 of those allegedly cowardly Frenchmen had died fighting Germany, only to be conquered. Yet to hear today's hawks tell it, the French surrendered without a struggle and welcomed Hitler to Paris; and today they are spurning their benefactors -- us Americans -- who are nobly trying to save them from today's Hitler, Iraq's Saddam Hussein.
Well, the French remember the first Hitler, and they don't see the analogy. They think the United States is pushing for a needless war against a regime that poses no threat to them, let alone to the United States, which, with typical Gallic effrontery and ethnocentrism, they consider to be across the Atlantic, out of reach of Iraq. They see nothing to be gained by such a war, but they see dangers for everyone; and they don't want to be dragged into it. This is now 'anti-Americanism.'
[...]
'Experience keeps a dear school,' Benjamin Franklin said, 'but a fool will learn in no other.' The Europeans have learned bitter lessons in that school; Americans are just now enrolling."
_all the chefs are French
_all the mechanics are German
_all the police are British
_all the lovers are Italian
_and the whole place is run by the Swiss!
In Hell...
_all the chefs are British
_all the mechanics are French
_all the police are German
_all the lovers are Swiss
_and the whole place is run by the Italians!
Ah yes, the zionists. The typical code-word used for uppity Jewish people who you'd rather roll over and bare their throats.
So how do you explain the legions of anti-Zionist Jews in the peace movement who are sick and tired of having their voices drowned out by the shrill Likudnik lobby?
We have a fifth column of a political party from a foreign power in the fourth estate and government halls of power in this country, manipulating America to fight its wars. It's that simple.
"All this happened in the open, with fanfare, to make a public example of McKinney--so that every senator and congressperson would know that criticizing Sharon is tantamount to political suicide. Not content with this flexing of power, the pro-Israel lobby--which consists of Jews and extreme right-wing Christian fundamentalists--is now pushing the Bush administration to start a war in Iraq. This, too, openly and in full view of the American public. Dozens of articles in the important newspapers point out the Jewish pro-war influence as a plain political fact."
BTW, I should qualify my other post. I do realize that taxpayer subsidies help make the Baby Bells what they are, so there is some case for the "last mile" being a public asset.
Instead of getting government to regulate, control and open up the last mile, why not make the marketplace more competitive by ending taxpayer subsidies to ILECs?
Look at the bottom of your phone bill the next time you get one. See that universal service fund charge? Know what that is?
That fund provides taxpayer-subsidized phone service to rural podunk areas where the cost of private provisioning would be substantially higher than cities. In fact, those communities might not get any phone service at all if the phone companies didn't feel like making the investment.
The USF is so out of whack that when I was running an ISP in the midwest, business POTS lines (before we got digital trunks) in our Southwestern Bell hometown cost $50 each a month, while 30 miles away in a remote POP serviced by Alltel our POTS lines only cost $30 a month!
A rock-bottom, anti-market price bought and paid for by the US taxpayers.
The market was oversupplied, so the weaker companies died.
The market was oversupplied because for comparatively little capital outlay any Joe and his brother could form an CLEC and "offer DSL" resold off the ILEC's network as mandated by the FCC.
It's competition, and it's good. Changing the rules like this is nothing more than protectionism for these companies
What the hell is "competitive" about forcing companies to share their networks with some low risk/low capital Johnny-come-lately after they had to risk billions in capital to build their broadband infrastructure?
It's nothing but socialism and government meddling in the private marketplace.
From your anti-semitic and partisan descriptions of the current denizens of Free Republic
What in the parent was "anti-Semitic?" The Term "Zionist?" If you think so, you need to grow some thicker skin.
As Joseph Sobran so eloquently writes...
"An anti-Semite used to be anyone who hates Jews; now it's anyone the Jews hate."
I tend to agree with the parent that Free Republic has become a cesspool of neocon groupthink in the post-Clinton era. There is zero tolerance on that site nowadays for independent discussion that deviates from the neocon-Christian Zionist party line.
Libertarians and paleo-conservatives were banned long ago or left of their own volition.
How fitting that this story was submitted by a poster named "neocon."
National Review is an embarrasment to conservatism and Constitutionally-limited government. It's gone downhill ever since WFB fired Joe Sobran, the best columnist in America, as senior editor.
Now it's just an Israel-First rah-rah rag for GOP hacks with that intellectual paperweight Jonah Goldberg at the helm.
If you want real conservatism (and libertarianism, for that matter) check out
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe the whole thing is a Redmond-sponsored false flag operation to provide Microsoft with an "example" in support its DRM lobbying efforts.
Now, where did my roll of tinfoil go ...
He'd like to get the "coolness" for being a community distro and the free efforts of developers, but he'd also like to be able to profit from it himself without having to hassle with payroll and sniffing around for venture capital in these lean time.
Sorry, but you can't have it both ways. Personally, I have the most respect for Slackware's business model. Even if it's a one-man show now, Pat V. at least has a workable business model and a very focused distro.
And then of course nations who are copyright scofflaws can be strung out to dry by the World Trade Organization.
In which case I recommend purchasing used CDs to deprive the RIAA labels any revenue if you wanna listen to the oldies.
grow some sack and quit posting AC
Because Shadowbane is a business with paying customers who were adversely affected by this breach of private property rights.
Not only was Ubisoft's property trespeassed upon (unauthorized access), but the negative experience that players encountered may well result in cancelled subscriptions and other potential players staying away from the game.
It definitely has the potential for a financial impact on the company.
Reminds me of that line from Dude, Where's My Car?: "Dude.....you're a....dude!!!"
Why would the MPAA want to hinder people from flying to the US to spend money in a movie theater, where a substantial portion of the revenues collected at the box office go back to Hollywood?
wtf are you talking about?
Shadowbane went retail on March 25th
That's because the neocon ranks *are* heavily populated by Likudniks, Christian Zionists, and former Trotskyites. The paleo right has known this all along, and the left is catching on.
Joseph Sobran: Defining Conservatism Downward
Justin Raimondo: Israel's Amen Corner
Pat Buchanan: Whose War?
Gas, ass or grass, nobody rides for free
That is a sweet deal on a good engine. Hopefully, some indie developers will take the ball and run with it. TGE is awesome for large outdoor play with many players.
After all, they have root access on the box. They're the admin.
For that matter, it should the customer's ass, not the host's if they get r00ted.
Sort of things that should be in writing in the hosting contracts, IMHO.
That would alleviate a big hurdle for bandwidth-challenged folks.
Hopefully, this is something drobbins and crew have on their radar screens.
As a libertarian you should also know that state/taxpayer subsidization of government monopolies is mercantilism/fascism/crony capitalism.
To simply give the telcos a free-ride monopoly on assets paid for by taxes and captive ratepayers under their monopoly status of yesteryear isn't the answer.
As a start, since the Bells aren't receptive to broadband buildouts I would say get rid of all the federal surcharges and taxes on phone services. No need to have the taxpayers further subsidizing their largess. Universal service fee subsidized POTS lines in rural areas are actually cheaper now than urban lines...$50 in SBC country versus $30 in Alltel. The system is b0rked.
Well, the French remember the first Hitler, and they don't see the analogy. They think the United States is pushing for a needless war against a regime that poses no threat to them, let alone to the United States, which, with typical Gallic effrontery and ethnocentrism, they consider to be across the Atlantic, out of reach of Iraq. They see nothing to be gained by such a war, but they see dangers for everyone; and they don't want to be dragged into it. This is now 'anti-Americanism.'
[...]
'Experience keeps a dear school,' Benjamin Franklin said, 'but a fool will learn in no other.' The Europeans have learned bitter lessons in that school; Americans are just now enrolling."
--Joseph Sobran, "The School of Experience"
Before you're so quick to diss the French, you might want to bone up on your history and recall just who saved America's ass at Yorktown.
_all the chefs are French
_all the mechanics are German
_all the police are British
_all the lovers are Italian
_and the whole place is run by the Swiss!
In Hell...
_all the chefs are British
_all the mechanics are French
_all the police are German
_all the lovers are Swiss
_and the whole place is run by the Italians!
So how do you explain the legions of anti-Zionist Jews in the peace movement who are sick and tired of having their voices drowned out by the shrill Likudnik lobby?
We have a fifth column of a political party from a foreign power in the fourth estate and government halls of power in this country, manipulating America to fight its wars. It's that simple.
"All this happened in the open, with fanfare, to make a public example of McKinney--so that every senator and congressperson would know that criticizing Sharon is tantamount to political suicide. Not content with this flexing of power, the pro-Israel lobby--which consists of Jews and extreme right-wing Christian fundamentalists--is now pushing the Bush administration to start a war in Iraq. This, too, openly and in full view of the American public. Dozens of articles in the important newspapers point out the Jewish pro-war influence as a plain political fact."
--Uri Avnery, "Manufacturing Anti-Semites"
scrabble nazi!
Instead of getting government to regulate, control and open up the last mile, why not make the marketplace more competitive by ending taxpayer subsidies to ILECs?
Look at the bottom of your phone bill the next time you get one. See that universal service fund charge? Know what that is?
That fund provides taxpayer-subsidized phone service to rural podunk areas where the cost of private provisioning would be substantially higher than cities. In fact, those communities might not get any phone service at all if the phone companies didn't feel like making the investment.
The USF is so out of whack that when I was running an ISP in the midwest, business POTS lines (before we got digital trunks) in our Southwestern Bell hometown cost $50 each a month, while 30 miles away in a remote POP serviced by Alltel our POTS lines only cost $30 a month!
A rock-bottom, anti-market price bought and paid for by the US taxpayers.
The market was oversupplied because for comparatively little capital outlay any Joe and his brother could form an CLEC and "offer DSL" resold off the ILEC's network as mandated by the FCC.
It's competition, and it's good. Changing the rules like this is nothing more than protectionism for these companies
What the hell is "competitive" about forcing companies to share their networks with some low risk/low capital Johnny-come-lately after they had to risk billions in capital to build their broadband infrastructure?
It's nothing but socialism and government meddling in the private marketplace.
She worse than that, even....she's a neoconservative
What in the parent was "anti-Semitic?" The Term "Zionist?" If you think so, you need to grow some thicker skin.
As Joseph Sobran so eloquently writes...
"An anti-Semite used to be anyone who hates Jews; now it's anyone the Jews hate."
I tend to agree with the parent that Free Republic has become a cesspool of neocon groupthink in the post-Clinton era. There is zero tolerance on that site nowadays for independent discussion that deviates from the neocon-Christian Zionist party line.
Libertarians and paleo-conservatives were banned long ago or left of their own volition.
i like it.....I wish i could make one of those
National Review is an embarrasment to conservatism and Constitutionally-limited government. It's gone downhill ever since WFB fired Joe Sobran, the best columnist in America, as senior editor.
Now it's just an Israel-First rah-rah rag for GOP hacks with that intellectual paperweight Jonah Goldberg at the helm.
If you want real conservatism (and libertarianism, for that matter) check out
The American Conservative
OR
Chronicles
OR
The New American