There is a god, and it is a god of irony. Oh, sweet joy to see this glorious day! My entire month was made right there. If ever a story was posted which deserved no other comment than a giant Nelson "HA HA", this would probably be it.
Of course they do. But if not for the RIAA's actions, the consumers would have never stood for it in a second. The RIAA created the very market conditions that made it logical for Apple to create iTMS. Apple's only taking advantage of what was handed to it on a silver platter, and giggling all the way to the bank.
In the context of the company in question, it's no more dangerous than internet target shooting. It's not like a tour bus is going to pull up downrange in the middle of private, fenced-off, isolated game reserve and disgorge tourists right as the user fires the rifle. And in any case, there's someone sitting next to the gun controlling it, with an override ability. It literally could not be safer.
While I'm a cat owner, and love them dearly, and know of the look you speak of.. I'm not entirely certain that it's guilt and not fear you're seeing. Cats can fear, but guilt is more complex. It's difficult to tell which it really is.
Then I'll just have to stick my tongue to the wires, to pick up the signal, won't I? We "pirates" (aka consumers) will simply come up with some other way of listening to music other than our ears. The only thing they can possibly do is...TAX OUR BRAINS.
Someone WILL try it one of these days, mark my words.
The US government isn't highly inclined to give out radioisotopes to vaguely-formed corporations operating in international waters for the sole purpose of avoiding the legal system.
Is anyone else suddenly feeling the overwhelming urge to chamber a round into their shotgun? Is this the same Jupiter that is hell-bent on screwing over the internet with spyware and adware? If so, how on god's green earth is it that we're taking their "research" seriously?
All the benefits of "zero-G" manufacturing?? Are you an idiot?!? Seriously! And not two sentences before you admit that it's a low-G environment. Read your own damned post!
Officers handcuff for the simple fact that otherwise the person is a threat. Hundreds, if not thousands, of cops have been attacked or killed by people who they were trying to take into custody, and perhaps didn't want to be in custody, due to a pesky little felony warrant or two.
A guy comes in upset. He tries to pay with fifty-seven $2 bills. They are all numbered sequentially. And the ink is smudging. Now, wouldn't this all strike you as a bit ODD? Perhaps odd enough to detain the man for an hour or two, and try to get things sorted out? You have no clue whatsoever what cops have to go through; you do not serve as one, nor do you have the training to understand the situation. So quite frankly my dear, you have no room to criticise.
Make it stop! Put an end to this insane story-spamming!! It's enough to drive one sane around here, to move out of the basement, find a girlfriend, and get a life! For Gord's sake, end this assault of poorly-concieved half-baked practical jokes.
How is this comment insightful? "i wouldnt care what he thinks, i just wanna be entertained." Your position is nothing more than uneducated apathy. If that is what passes for insight in this day and age, I'm truly saddened.
And there we have the difference between the Army and the Marines!;)
He's right, though. It's one thing for the elite forces to recruit intelligent soldiers. It's another thing entirely when you look at the pool they recruit FROM. Orrin points it out better a couple lines above this, but in the military, almost all commanders want obedience over initiative and second-guessing. It IS the military, after all, the greatest bastion of assininity in the world.
I just have to say...the end of your post is one of the more concise summaries of why gun control is doomed to fail I've ever read. I'm going to have to remember it for future use.
You're supposed to wait twenty years, let the retro fanbase grow, THEN remake the original "classic". Somewhere along the lines,/. editors mistook "years" for "minutes".
Yet, they all act together to fix the prices. By acting together to do so, are they not forming a pseudo-monopoly? If there is no other supply of legal music, then have they not created an effective monopoly?
Is someone who deliberately aids and abets the creation and distribution of Hamster Dance. This is nothing more than a fiendish scheme to create a self-replicating Hamster Dance device, which, left to its own ends, will destroy humanity!
..wondering how it is that they're planning to base the metric mass system by giving kilograms a defined value? At risk of sounding stupid..shouldn't they be defining the gram? If the gram has already been defined, than this is just a waste of time; defining the kilogram would just be taking the gram and multiplying by one thousand. Or is this just typical/. editor stupidity?
Heh..but I really think Mars, the Bringer of War might be an even better selection. You can almost see the lawyers being flayed to the beat of the drums.
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And complaining about how difficult it is to do!
There is a god, and it is a god of irony. Oh, sweet joy to see this glorious day! My entire month was made right there. If ever a story was posted which deserved no other comment than a giant Nelson "HA HA", this would probably be it.
Of course they do. But if not for the RIAA's actions, the consumers would have never stood for it in a second. The RIAA created the very market conditions that made it logical for Apple to create iTMS. Apple's only taking advantage of what was handed to it on a silver platter, and giggling all the way to the bank.
In the context of the company in question, it's no more dangerous than internet target shooting. It's not like a tour bus is going to pull up downrange in the middle of private, fenced-off, isolated game reserve and disgorge tourists right as the user fires the rifle. And in any case, there's someone sitting next to the gun controlling it, with an override ability. It literally could not be safer.
While I'm a cat owner, and love them dearly, and know of the look you speak of.. I'm not entirely certain that it's guilt and not fear you're seeing. Cats can fear, but guilt is more complex. It's difficult to tell which it really is.
Then I'll just have to stick my tongue to the wires, to pick up the signal, won't I? We "pirates" (aka consumers) will simply come up with some other way of listening to music other than our ears. The only thing they can possibly do is...TAX OUR BRAINS.
Someone WILL try it one of these days, mark my words.
And where would they get the fuel from?
The US government isn't highly inclined to give out radioisotopes to vaguely-formed corporations operating in international waters for the sole purpose of avoiding the legal system.
Is anyone else suddenly feeling the overwhelming urge to chamber a round into their shotgun? Is this the same Jupiter that is hell-bent on screwing over the internet with spyware and adware? If so, how on god's green earth is it that we're taking their "research" seriously?
All the benefits of "zero-G" manufacturing?? Are you an idiot?!? Seriously! And not two sentences before you admit that it's a low-G environment. Read your own damned post!
Officers handcuff for the simple fact that otherwise the person is a threat. Hundreds, if not thousands, of cops have been attacked or killed by people who they were trying to take into custody, and perhaps didn't want to be in custody, due to a pesky little felony warrant or two.
A guy comes in upset. He tries to pay with fifty-seven $2 bills. They are all numbered sequentially. And the ink is smudging. Now, wouldn't this all strike you as a bit ODD? Perhaps odd enough to detain the man for an hour or two, and try to get things sorted out? You have no clue whatsoever what cops have to go through; you do not serve as one, nor do you have the training to understand the situation. So quite frankly my dear, you have no room to criticise.
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It is because of people like you that Slashdot gets the reputation of being completely sexually inept. Thank you.
Make it stop! Put an end to this insane story-spamming!! It's enough to drive one sane around here, to move out of the basement, find a girlfriend, and get a life! For Gord's sake, end this assault of poorly-concieved half-baked practical jokes.
You must be the guy from the Enzyte commercials.
How is this comment insightful? "i wouldnt care what he thinks, i just wanna be entertained." Your position is nothing more than uneducated apathy. If that is what passes for insight in this day and age, I'm truly saddened.
And there we have the difference between the Army and the Marines! ;)
He's right, though. It's one thing for the elite forces to recruit intelligent soldiers. It's another thing entirely when you look at the pool they recruit FROM. Orrin points it out better a couple lines above this, but in the military, almost all commanders want obedience over initiative and second-guessing. It IS the military, after all, the greatest bastion of assininity in the world.
I just have to say...the end of your post is one of the more concise summaries of why gun control is doomed to fail I've ever read. I'm going to have to remember it for future use.
Great, now we have *another* euphemism for jacking off. Way to go, Slashdot!
It's become a world of "Lord of the Files", not Flies.
At least, it isn't now. Hence the concern.
You're supposed to wait twenty years, let the retro fanbase grow, THEN remake the original "classic". Somewhere along the lines, /. editors mistook "years" for "minutes".
Yet, they all act together to fix the prices. By acting together to do so, are they not forming a pseudo-monopoly? If there is no other supply of legal music, then have they not created an effective monopoly?
Is someone who deliberately aids and abets the creation and distribution of Hamster Dance. This is nothing more than a fiendish scheme to create a self-replicating Hamster Dance device, which, left to its own ends, will destroy humanity!
..wondering how it is that they're planning to base the metric mass system by giving kilograms a defined value? At risk of sounding stupid..shouldn't they be defining the gram? If the gram has already been defined, than this is just a waste of time; defining the kilogram would just be taking the gram and multiplying by one thousand. Or is this just typical /. editor stupidity?
Heh..but I really think Mars, the Bringer of War might be an even better selection. You can almost see the lawyers being flayed to the beat of the drums.
"Ha ha!" /Nelson
You knew it had to happen sooner or later.