Note: I'm not so much in favor of soldiers getting sued as I am in favor of soldiers with a grudge and souvenir rpg's visiting the riaa to rebut their arguments...
The way I see it, the media companies bought and paid for laws that went against the intent of the original IP system. There is no way individuals today can fight that sweet sweet corporate money's influence on the system. As I see it, there are two honorable responses to this:
1. Break the law, fess up to it and take the consequences, refiusing to pay fines, but taking jail time instead. This is the Gandhi/Thoreau Civil Disobedience route.
2. Boycott the producers who bought and paid for and subverted the system.
Verizon is cherry picking communities to do demonstration rollouts. I live in one of the first communities picked (Columbia, MD), and not even the entire community is wired. I can't get FIOS and they can't tell me when in the future I will be able to get it. Good luck seeing it if your'e not piloted.
And Verizon is not the best company to pick if you're aking a point about last mile being not a natural monopoly. They already have all the right of ways from local government
The market will cure all. I'm still boggled by the literally TWO choices I have for a reliable ISP.
"The Market" is no magical thing. It's not natural, it's not a cure-all. Markets are formed by rules and regulations. Net neutrality is a reasonable imposition on the market for bandwidth.
If you doubt the Market is artificial, ask why we don't just get rid of contract law. I mean, buyers will just gravitate to sellers who live up to their contracts, right? No need for enforcement.
I believe that selling more than you can deliver is known by a cute little technical name - "Fraud". If they overpromise, that's their damn problem, not mine. I pays my money, they takes their chances.
This makes the idea of a central home server for storage much more attractive. Store your vids and music centrally and use the fast network to copy or stream it to remote stations.
It also make simple TiVO or other PVR transfers much quicker.
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Last I saw the U.S. released about 22% of the global CO2. China was at around 10%. China has 4 times as many people as we do.
Tape his hands together and hide all the lotion and kleenex.
Fuck *you* very much. I am part-Irish, you ninny. Of course, apparently unlike some Irish I have a sense of humor.
As for the redundant rating? I was the fourth or fifth post up. Others may be redundant to this post.
Were the engineers' names Pat and Mike?
They're pirating music! Call in the RIAA!
Note: I'm not so much in favor of soldiers getting sued as I am in favor of soldiers with a grudge and souvenir rpg's visiting the riaa to rebut their arguments...
The way I see it, the media companies bought and paid for laws that went against the intent of the original IP system. There is no way individuals today can fight that sweet sweet corporate money's influence on the system. As I see it, there are two honorable responses to this:
1. Break the law, fess up to it and take the consequences, refiusing to pay fines, but taking jail time instead. This is the Gandhi/Thoreau Civil Disobedience route.
2. Boycott the producers who bought and paid for and subverted the system.
I'm not gutsy enough to do 1., so I advocate 2.
Use less media. See fewer movies and NONE at the theater. Buy no new music, just buy used CD's.
Golly, you might not be cool, but you won't be a sucker, either. Fuck the media companies that want to ruin our intellectual property system.
Are you sure of that? The way they've changed their programming seems to indicate they pay for the videos.
Man, that video was dangerous in the hands of a male teenager.
Hands? Plural?
This never would have happened if the city's citizens had used flying cars.
What?
It's a feature, not a terribly flawed cashflow model.
Uh, I think you'll find it's much, much older than that. Even the Egyptians had tunes. It was using a different scale than we use, but they had tunes.
Has Netcraft confirmed this?
You can't do this with a cat.
My god, according to GPS, Johnny hasn't moved in hours. I think he's dead!
Verizon is cherry picking communities to do demonstration rollouts. I live in one of the first communities picked (Columbia, MD), and not even the entire community is wired. I can't get FIOS and they can't tell me when in the future I will be able to get it. Good luck seeing it if your'e not piloted.
And Verizon is not the best company to pick if you're aking a point about last mile being not a natural monopoly. They already have all the right of ways from local government
The market will cure all. I'm still boggled by the literally TWO choices I have for a reliable ISP.
"The Market" is no magical thing. It's not natural, it's not a cure-all. Markets are formed by rules and regulations. Net neutrality is a reasonable imposition on the market for bandwidth.
If you doubt the Market is artificial, ask why we don't just get rid of contract law. I mean, buyers will just gravitate to sellers who live up to their contracts, right? No need for enforcement.
I'm guessing the Victoria's secret Superbowl Show?
I believe that selling more than you can deliver is known by a cute little technical name - "Fraud". If they overpromise, that's their damn problem, not mine. I pays my money, they takes their chances.
This makes the idea of a central home server for storage much more attractive. Store your vids and music centrally and use the fast network to copy or stream it to remote stations.
It also make simple TiVO or other PVR transfers much quicker.
Once you hit 802.11z, it rolls over and all wireless connections have to ripped out in favor of 802.12 compliant 100Base standard wiring.
Let's pray it never comes to that.
DOA was a great B-Movie from 1950 that was remade in 1988 with Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan.
Get an original name. And an original plot.
I think you can add SACD and DVD-Audio to that list soon.
Are you stoned?
That's the world's most expensive crap glued ONTO an MP3 player.
From your sig, I'd guess you have a slightly more sophisticated view than most of the national peanut gallery.