This is what is bound to happen when government faces a system of communication created for the purpose of being acessable anywhere, anytime, to anyone, with no chance of ever being stopped. They'll try shutting this and that down, but in the end, unless they outlaw the computer, the internet will never be able to be completely censored.
Not that I am for critising anyone.. but in the end everyone has the right to say what they want, if we agree with it or not, if it is good and just or not.
So I leave you with this...
"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale -- then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. 'Reality control', they called it: in Newspeak, 'doublethink'."
This learning process taught Gasson and jump partner Joe Jennings enough to drop a Ford F-150 pickup truck attached to a parachute in 1999, something Ford's advertising agency paid them to do for a television commercial.
Yeah cuz it's one of the few times a F-150 can be involved in a high speed accident and it dosen't have anything to do with tires coming apart.
Now that the NASDAQ has crashed and the internet is about to die, there is of course no need for any new tech... no one will ever buy a new computer again, Intel & AMD will never sell another chip, and Microsoft will never make a new bloatware OS. Now that the whole tech thing of the 90's has a spork stuck in it and it's basically done, we can get back to the good 'ol things - tv with 3 channels, static, and big hair. Ahh.. the return of the 80's.
i'm also curious at the level of complaint about this particular consumer item, when exactly the same concerns and cost/price relationship exists for most other things that we buy, particularly clothes. i don't hear many people (especially on slashdot) talking this way about t-shirts and shoes, which cost very, very little to make but sell for at least as much as a CD.
this is simple to answer. you buy clothing, you can see the entire thing, you can try it on, see it fits, justify that you need it for whatever purpose or reason, know basically everything you need to know about it.
buy a cd for 1 good song, discover the other 13 songs suck, and that 1 song is now annoying... and you're stuck with something slightly more valuable than a free AOL cd, aka a coaster
...the nasdaq lost 5% today after the merger between Brittney Spears (BOOB | -19.5%) and Justin Timberlake (NSUK | +2.3%) suddenly came to an end, with Justin now in talks for a future merger with Janet Jackson (VOLD | -4.6%) while it appears Brittney will attempt to go on her own...
The price of CDs themselves is way too outrageous. In many cases, the cd isn't worth the 20 dollars you have to fork over to buy it with. Somewhere, some place down the line, someone is making a fat profit on these cds. Does it really cost that much money to get a plastic case, a little booklet, and maybe a bit of paint on a cd? In this mass-producing-touch-of-a-button world? Say the most expensive CDs would only cost 9 or 10 dollars. Sales would surge since you could buy double as many disks. I for one would love to buy more cds, espically if they cost less. Sure you can find cds that are that price already online, or maybe in the bargin bin of your local Best Buy, but I mean major new releases. Don't you think more copies would fly off the shelf if the new pop hit cd came out at $9.99 instead of $18.99 in your local mall? Sell 10,000 copies at a lower price, and make more than you would if you sold 5,000 copies at a higher price. Of course from the industry's point of view, if you can sell 10,000 copies... sell 10,000 copies at the highest price possible. Got to get that gold plated Lexus, after all.
The sad part is that AOL had to create a "task force" to figure this thing out. All you have to do is ask x number of internet users and they'll tell you the same.
In some countries, government would act in the interest of the people
While in other countries, as long as the people remain rich, the people can turn a blind eye to the government, and the government a blind eye to the people. Once the institutions that cause the wealth to be created begin to crumble, the public can do nothing but stare and the government still keep the blind eye turned, since in the end, they have all the money.
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This is what is bound to happen when government faces a system of communication created for the purpose of being acessable anywhere, anytime, to anyone, with no chance of ever being stopped. They'll try shutting this and that down, but in the end, unless they outlaw the computer, the internet will never be able to be completely censored.
Not that I am for critising anyone.. but in the end everyone has the right to say what they want, if we agree with it or not, if it is good and just or not. So I leave you with this... "And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale -- then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. 'Reality control', they called it: in Newspeak, 'doublethink'."
This learning process taught Gasson and jump partner Joe Jennings enough to drop a Ford F-150 pickup truck attached to a parachute in 1999, something Ford's advertising agency paid them to do for a television commercial. Yeah cuz it's one of the few times a F-150 can be involved in a high speed accident and it dosen't have anything to do with tires coming apart.
Now that the NASDAQ has crashed and the internet is about to die, there is of course no need for any new tech... no one will ever buy a new computer again, Intel & AMD will never sell another chip, and Microsoft will never make a new bloatware OS. Now that the whole tech thing of the 90's has a spork stuck in it and it's basically done, we can get back to the good 'ol things - tv with 3 channels, static, and big hair. Ahh.. the return of the 80's.
i'm also curious at the level of complaint about this particular consumer item, when exactly the same concerns and cost/price relationship exists for most other things that we buy, particularly clothes. i don't hear many people (especially on slashdot) talking this way about t-shirts and shoes, which cost very, very little to make but sell for at least as much as a CD. this is simple to answer. you buy clothing, you can see the entire thing, you can try it on, see it fits, justify that you need it for whatever purpose or reason, know basically everything you need to know about it. buy a cd for 1 good song, discover the other 13 songs suck, and that 1 song is now annoying... and you're stuck with something slightly more valuable than a free AOL cd, aka a coaster
...the nasdaq lost 5% today after the merger between Brittney Spears (BOOB | -19.5%) and Justin Timberlake (NSUK | +2.3%) suddenly came to an end, with Justin now in talks for a future merger with Janet Jackson (VOLD | -4.6%) while it appears Brittney will attempt to go on her own...
The price of CDs themselves is way too outrageous. In many cases, the cd isn't worth the 20 dollars you have to fork over to buy it with. Somewhere, some place down the line, someone is making a fat profit on these cds. Does it really cost that much money to get a plastic case, a little booklet, and maybe a bit of paint on a cd? In this mass-producing-touch-of-a-button world? Say the most expensive CDs would only cost 9 or 10 dollars. Sales would surge since you could buy double as many disks. I for one would love to buy more cds, espically if they cost less. Sure you can find cds that are that price already online, or maybe in the bargin bin of your local Best Buy, but I mean major new releases. Don't you think more copies would fly off the shelf if the new pop hit cd came out at $9.99 instead of $18.99 in your local mall? Sell 10,000 copies at a lower price, and make more than you would if you sold 5,000 copies at a higher price. Of course from the industry's point of view, if you can sell 10,000 copies... sell 10,000 copies at the highest price possible. Got to get that gold plated Lexus, after all.
How come as we plow through the 21st century, we go from "terrorists" to "evil-doers" and from "crime" to "bad things"?
Someone bring back the 1998 internet...
The sad part is that AOL had to create a "task force" to figure this thing out. All you have to do is ask x number of internet users and they'll tell you the same.
Will it ever end?
so what happens to the internet now? and how big will the media hype over it all be?
In some countries, government would act in the interest of the people While in other countries, as long as the people remain rich, the people can turn a blind eye to the government, and the government a blind eye to the people. Once the institutions that cause the wealth to be created begin to crumble, the public can do nothing but stare and the government still keep the blind eye turned, since in the end, they have all the money.
So the company goes under because of what it does, and we get punished because we *gasp* use a service.
Love how this all works...