ok, but aren't you sick of watching News Channel A break a "news story" about upcoming movie B, which happens to be produced by thier common parent owner.
Half of what I watch is advertising for other crap. So and so has a new book, published by our affiliate. So and So has a new album, produced by our sister company. Blah blah.
There is no such thing as news for journalism's sake anylonger in america. It's either opinion, or it's advertising. interrupted by more advertising. And who's paying for the opinion? Same people.
Just for fun, next time you're watching the news and their breaking a story on the next great gadget, watch who's advertising during the next break. It's usually the same company.
This sounds a lot like Memepool's topic last wednesday.
"
Wednesday May 21, 2003 Sequels, prequels, spinoffs, remakes, adaptations. Can't Hollywood come up with anything original any more?
Posted to Movies by yoyology "
Just for educational purposes, why is this a troll?
There were lots of other people saying "oh yeah, My dad and I used to make soap" Or "me too, I'm into SCA" Then I say that I'm in to spudguns, trebuchets, catapults and robots, which are outside of my discipline, two of the 4 are "lost" by the definition of the poster and 1 is entirely un-necessary, and the 4th is still outside my discipline and it's a troll?
Why were the other me toos ok, but mine a troll? I think it's either redundant ( and we all know the problem with that mod) or just fine. Perhaps you were modding my sig and not my comment?
I don't really care about the Karma, I just want to know what constitutes a troll now that I've officially written one.
They should have simply released an SDK and someone would have added this functionality for them. If you're an amateur enthusiast programming your ReplayTV and you learn how to skip 30 seconds, well, how is that a) illegal or b) thier fault. probably would give us lots of other cool things too, but what the hey.
This is novel. This is non-obvious. This is unique. This was inspired by someone elses ideas and artwork, and if Escher had unlimited IP rights like they give now-a-days he'd be suing this out of existence (so much for innovation) - but since he lived back in the good ol days his ideas are our ideas, and this dude put it to practice. I can see giving Tyson a patent for this.
So, now, when I bash a patent as being obvious, stupid, non-unique, and other such crap you can all remember that today, I, Asscroft, actually advocated a patent. So it isn't patents I'm against, it's patent abuse. Remember that the next time you think I'm some sort of communist freak!
If some of you feel this isn't a good use of a patent, please inform me!
I came to the same conclusion. There was never anyone in the building - ever! There was that rehab/halfway house by the tracks right down the road too, I figured it was a nice location for some drug dealing.
The only way out is to kill. Real blood will have to be shed by a majority of Americans. It will take losing all freedom of speech, all freedom to innovate, all gun rights, all privacy rights and when they come to put the chip in your head, that's when you'll go to fight back. But it will be mostly too late. You'll have no gun. You'll have no free internet to get the word out. Your phone will be tapped(eschelon), your email watched (carnivore), your position known at all times (gps cell phones). Fox and Cnn will both tell you why this is for your own good. Just bend over and let them put the chip in your ass. Go ahead, be a PATRIOT. Be a good honest American. What have you got to hide. Your not a JEW are you?! ---oh sorry, wrong country, wrong time -- You're NOT A MUSLIM TERRORIST ARE YOU???
Forget your bill of rights, that breeds terrorists. Forget your freedom of speech, your right to vote, your right to privacy, your right to be a real American.
Forget it all, it's all soon to be illegal.
"First the Nazis went after the Jews, so I did not react. Then they went after the Catholics, but I wasn't a Catholic, so I didn't object. Then they went after the workers, so I didn't stand up. Then they went after the Protestant clergy, and by then it was too late for anybody to stand up."
Martin Niemoeller, Protestant theologian
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if he people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it." http://www.thirdreich.net/Thought_They_Were_ Free.h tml
(I don't know what else is on this site. This is decidedly a warning, so it's clearly not a neo-nazi hate site. That doesn't mean someone scanning logs won't use thirdreich.net against you. It's America after all, the truth doesn't matter.)
true, but the problem is that if you give up free speech because of how it is used by some people, they can apply that for any use once it's a matter of case law.
Just like someone could use Linux to host kiddie porn and some MS backed prosecutor could come after Linux, rather than kiddie porn, knowing the fact that they used kiddie porn on the site would sway the court. And then without the ACLU, They'd have no chance and bam, linux would be outlawed.
and in a week they'd apply it to non-kiddie porn users of linux.
btw, I bet most kiddie porn is hosted on IIS. If that's true, we could use that for our cause.
I agree, lets just give up and put the microsoft tax as a payroll deduction. It comes out of your paycheck, you don't even notice it, and they control the percentage, so you don't have to worry about not giving enough.
Austin, TX. Lawmakers in Texas have proposed State Bill TX-01121301213 proposing that all Democratic lawmakers get the Applied Digital Devices GPS implant chip immediately following a protest and walkout by all but four of the Texas Democratic Legislators to prevent a redistricting policy being forcefully pushed by the Republican Majority. Republicans, being honest Americans are exempt from the requirement -- which some wish to extend to all public workers. If ammended to require all state and city workers to have the chip, don't expect a massive jump in the number of registered Republican voters. Only Republican lawmakers are exempt. Government employees of all parties would be required to have the chip. The only exemption in that section of the law is proposed for those earning more than 250K a year.
SHOT???? I thought the UK was soooooo civilized because they don't have guuunnsss. Guuuunnsss are baaaad, riiiight?
Oh, what's that? CRIMINALS who don't respect the laws against MURDER don't respect gun laws either!!!I never would have suspected such a thing. Wow. Imagine that!
And they don't respect laws about probation or electronic tags or any of that other crap either.
So what now, you can punsish him for killing, and for killing with a gun, and for killing with a gun while on probation. Great. I'm sure that will make his dead girlfriend feel much better....
oh yeah, laws aren't for prevention or victims, their for giving survivors a "legal" form of revenge to avoid street justice. Fair enough. Burn the mother fucker, but don't kid yourselves.
gun laws don't prevent gun crimes. Not in the UK and not in America. Our criminals don't respect the laws any better than this guy did.
they want thier name back!
Seriously, this is lame. There are many bobs and teds and jesuss and mohamads and we manage to know which one we're talking about. why the fighting in corporate land?
Dre used a common place bass riff, that was first developed by the stones. It's an element used as part of the song. It accomplishes a certain amount of rhythm and timing, and also gives a harmony to the melody. He might have dropped it a key or so to go with the other elements of the song. And he got sued for using it.
What if whoever the hell created the stack or the queue or the binary search tree or even the array copyrighted those data structures. We'd be screwed, having to pay licenses and get permission before we did anything.
Seems to me at some point your bass riff is common knowledge and public domain. This is a perfect example of why copyrights are too long. I just hope we can keep copyrights and patents out of software design until they either get reduced to a reasonable time limit.
What a great way to stifle creativity and future development: Patent and Copyright everything for ever so that nothing can ever be improved, tweaked, modified, extended, adapted or used in a manner other than originally intended by the original owner. Dark Ages, here we come!
If they had IP back when they invented addition, we never would have been allowed to do muliplication. Hell, I bet the patent holder for counting would have sued the inventors of both mulitplication and adding.
blah blah, this is a boring ass post isnt' it. hmm, delete or submit????
my father was an unemployed pipe fitter most of my childhood. he told me not to go into the trades, as the unions (here in the west anyway) are all getting railroaded by the politicians and the greedy ass developers and people are willing to pay an illegal $7.00 an hour for crappy but cheap labor versus paying an American a union wage. He told me to go to college.
I think that is good advice too. But, I'd add that to major in something industry specific is not a good idea. Major in something portable like business or marketing. If you're in Marketing you can switch industries without switching careers. Sure there are specifics to learn, but a marketer can go from selling Windows(tm) to selling windows.
Hell even help desk/IT/network administration is industry portable, as all modern industries use computers.
Software development/Hardware development on the other hand, all the CS/EE grads are screwed - unless they go into the defense industry. We don't like to outsource missile controls.
and if not US citizens you don't have to worry about that health care problem
or is it the other way around?
I can never remember who gets better health care, I guess it probably depends on who I'm talking with.
of course I don't think even migrant farm workers spray one weed at a time. Usually they're working the fields while some airplane flys overhead and crop dust them with toxic chemicals. (yes it still happens)
I should probably link to cesar chavez here http://www.sfsu.edu/~cecipp/cesar_chavez/chavezhom e.htm
p.s. why is it i feel guilty calling mexicans mexicans and i never feel guilty calling canadians canadians? hmm, I wonder what Richard Rodriguez would say on the matter - here it is:
"The interesting thing about Hispanics, of course, is that you can travel all over Latin America and never meet one. There are no Hispanics in Latin America. There are Bolivians, Chileans and Mexicans. You have to come to Miami or Sacramento to meet a Hispanic. There is a large controversy among us as to whether we are Latinos or Hispanics. Hispanics are nothing if not people preoccupied by fathers and ceremony, and we worry a great deal about which is the right word for us. The argument against Hispanic is that it gives too much of our identity to Spain."
in my case I'm actually referring to people from mexico, so mexican is appropriate. there I feel better now. Thanks Richard.
I don't have a Mac, but I downloaded AudioHijack while I still can. I recommend you do the same, I imagine they are slowly moving up on the RIAA's most wanted list.
since I'm posting, I imagine this is a huge I TOLD YOU SO to everyone that said "I'd pay for music if I could download it fast and it was reasonably priced and I wasn't required to use the latest microsoft DRM and I could copy it amongst MY machines and MY CD players" apple delivered and we bought. FUCK YOU RIAA! You can repeal your DMCA now. It turns out we weren't stealing all your profits afterall and really your business model was outdated and you really do suck. Give us back our rights! already and start counting the 99 cent sales.
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I just lost my mod points, and I didn't use them Sorry, I wasn't perusing /. on the weekend. But, IF I still had them, I'd use them all on you.
wish they'd add a heart rate monitor, like my ironman watch...
wait, does that work on an FM Signal? Maybe it's possible to hack the nokia to get your heart rate from the chest strap thingy.
by the way, how dangerous is it to have this weird transmitter strapped to your chest while you're working out. jeesh.
ok, but aren't you sick of watching News Channel A break a "news story" about upcoming movie B, which happens to be produced by thier common parent owner. Half of what I watch is advertising for other crap. So and so has a new book, published by our affiliate. So and So has a new album, produced by our sister company. Blah blah. There is no such thing as news for journalism's sake anylonger in america. It's either opinion, or it's advertising. interrupted by more advertising. And who's paying for the opinion? Same people. Just for fun, next time you're watching the news and their breaking a story on the next great gadget, watch who's advertising during the next break. It's usually the same company.
"I'm going to hell and I'm going to take all of you with me"
Look, Rumsfield posts on slashdot!
(offtopic reply to a sig, I know. I know.)
This sounds a lot like Memepool's topic last wednesday.
Just for educational purposes, why is this a troll?
There were lots of other people saying "oh yeah, My dad and I used to make soap" Or "me too, I'm into SCA" Then I say that I'm in to spudguns, trebuchets, catapults and robots, which are outside of my discipline, two of the 4 are "lost" by the definition of the poster and 1 is entirely un-necessary, and the 4th is still outside my discipline and it's a troll?
Why were the other me toos ok, but mine a troll? I think it's either redundant ( and we all know the problem with that mod) or just fine. Perhaps you were modding my sig and not my comment?
I don't really care about the Karma, I just want to know what constitutes a troll now that I've officially written one.
They should have simply released an SDK and someone would have added this functionality for them. If you're an amateur enthusiast programming your ReplayTV and you learn how to skip 30 seconds, well, how is that a) illegal or b) thier fault.
probably would give us lots of other cool things too, but what the hey.
yeah, I'm guilty as charged!
This is novel. This is non-obvious. This is unique. This was inspired by someone elses ideas and artwork, and if Escher had unlimited IP rights like they give now-a-days he'd be suing this out of existence (so much for innovation) - but since he lived back in the good ol days his ideas are our ideas, and this dude put it to practice. I can see giving Tyson a patent for this. So, now, when I bash a patent as being obvious, stupid, non-unique, and other such crap you can all remember that today, I, Asscroft, actually advocated a patent. So it isn't patents I'm against, it's patent abuse. Remember that the next time you think I'm some sort of communist freak! If some of you feel this isn't a good use of a patent, please inform me!
I came to the same conclusion. There was never anyone in the building - ever! There was that rehab/halfway house by the tracks right down the road too, I figured it was a nice location for some drug dealing.
Innovation was starting to suck anyway.
The only way out is to kill. Real blood will have to be shed by a majority of Americans. It will take losing all freedom of speech, all freedom to innovate, all gun rights, all privacy rights and when they come to put the chip in your head, that's when you'll go to fight back. But it will be mostly too late. You'll have no gun. You'll have no free internet to get the word out. Your phone will be tapped(eschelon), your email watched (carnivore), your position known at all times (gps cell phones). Fox and Cnn will both tell you why this is for your own good. Just bend over and let them put the chip in your ass. Go ahead, be a PATRIOT. Be a good honest American. What have you got to hide. Your not a JEW are you?! ---oh sorry, wrong country, wrong time -- You're NOT A MUSLIM TERRORIST ARE YOU???
_ Free.h tml
Forget your bill of rights, that breeds terrorists. Forget your freedom of speech, your right to vote, your right to privacy, your right to be a real American.
Forget it all, it's all soon to be illegal.
"First the Nazis went after the Jews, so I did not react. Then they went after the Catholics, but I wasn't a Catholic, so I didn't object. Then they went after the workers, so I didn't stand up. Then they went after the Protestant clergy, and by then it was too late for anybody to stand up."
Martin Niemoeller, Protestant theologian
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if he people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it."
http://www.thirdreich.net/Thought_They_Were
(I don't know what else is on this site. This is decidedly a warning, so it's clearly not a neo-nazi hate site. That doesn't mean someone scanning logs won't use thirdreich.net against you. It's America after all, the truth doesn't matter.)
true, but the problem is that if you give up free speech because of how it is used by some people, they can apply that for any use once it's a matter of case law. Just like someone could use Linux to host kiddie porn and some MS backed prosecutor could come after Linux, rather than kiddie porn, knowing the fact that they used kiddie porn on the site would sway the court. And then without the ACLU, They'd have no chance and bam, linux would be outlawed. and in a week they'd apply it to non-kiddie porn users of linux. btw, I bet most kiddie porn is hosted on IIS. If that's true, we could use that for our cause.
I agree, lets just give up and put the microsoft tax as a payroll deduction. It comes out of your paycheck, you don't even notice it, and they control the percentage, so you don't have to worry about not giving enough.
You'll have 48 hours to finish and file your taxes.
Austin, TX. Lawmakers in Texas have proposed State Bill TX-01121301213 proposing that all Democratic lawmakers get the Applied Digital Devices GPS implant chip immediately following a protest and walkout by all but four of the Texas Democratic Legislators to prevent a redistricting policy being forcefully pushed by the Republican Majority. Republicans, being honest Americans are exempt from the requirement -- which some wish to extend to all public workers. If ammended to require all state and city workers to have the chip, don't expect a massive jump in the number of registered Republican voters. Only Republican lawmakers are exempt. Government employees of all parties would be required to have the chip. The only exemption in that section of the law is proposed for those earning more than 250K a year.
SHOT???? I thought the UK was soooooo civilized because they don't have guuunnsss. Guuuunnsss are baaaad, riiiight?
Oh, what's that? CRIMINALS who don't respect the laws against MURDER don't respect gun laws either!!!I never would have suspected such a thing. Wow. Imagine that!
And they don't respect laws about probation or electronic tags or any of that other crap either.
So what now, you can punsish him for killing, and for killing with a gun, and for killing with a gun while on probation. Great. I'm sure that will make his dead girlfriend feel much better....
oh yeah, laws aren't for prevention or victims, their for giving survivors a "legal" form of revenge to avoid street justice. Fair enough. Burn the mother fucker, but don't kid yourselves.
gun laws don't prevent gun crimes. Not in the UK and not in America. Our criminals don't respect the laws any better than this guy did.
they want thier name back! Seriously, this is lame. There are many bobs and teds and jesuss and mohamads and we manage to know which one we're talking about. why the fighting in corporate land?
this is important, and I almost missed it.
Dre used a common place bass riff, that was first developed by the stones. It's an element used as part of the song. It accomplishes a certain amount of rhythm and timing, and also gives a harmony to the melody. He might have dropped it a key or so to go with the other elements of the song. And he got sued for using it.
What if whoever the hell created the stack or the queue or the binary search tree or even the array copyrighted those data structures. We'd be screwed, having to pay licenses and get permission before we did anything.
Seems to me at some point your bass riff is common knowledge and public domain. This is a perfect example of why copyrights are too long. I just hope we can keep copyrights and patents out of software design until they either get reduced to a reasonable time limit.
What a great way to stifle creativity and future development: Patent and Copyright everything for ever so that nothing can ever be improved, tweaked, modified, extended, adapted or used in a manner other than originally intended by the original owner. Dark Ages, here we come!
If they had IP back when they invented addition, we never would have been allowed to do muliplication. Hell, I bet the patent holder for counting would have sued the inventors of both mulitplication and adding.
blah blah, this is a boring ass post isnt' it. hmm, delete or submit????
Maybe that AC was the RIAA.
my father was an unemployed pipe fitter most of my childhood. he told me not to go into the trades, as the unions (here in the west anyway) are all getting railroaded by the politicians and the greedy ass developers and people are willing to pay an illegal $7.00 an hour for crappy but cheap labor versus paying an American a union wage. He told me to go to college.
I think that is good advice too. But, I'd add that to major in something industry specific is not a good idea. Major in something portable like business or marketing. If you're in Marketing you can switch industries without switching careers. Sure there are specifics to learn, but a marketer can go from selling Windows(tm) to selling windows.
Hell even help desk/IT/network administration is industry portable, as all modern industries use computers.
Software development/Hardware development on the other hand, all the CS/EE grads are screwed - unless they go into the defense industry. We don't like to outsource missile controls.
and if not US citizens you don't have to worry about that health care problem or is it the other way around? I can never remember who gets better health care, I guess it probably depends on who I'm talking with. of course I don't think even migrant farm workers spray one weed at a time. Usually they're working the fields while some airplane flys overhead and crop dust them with toxic chemicals. (yes it still happens) I should probably link to cesar chavez here http://www.sfsu.edu/~cecipp/cesar_chavez/chavezhom e.htm
p.s. why is it i feel guilty calling mexicans mexicans and i never feel guilty calling canadians canadians? hmm, I wonder what Richard Rodriguez would say on the matter - here it is:
"The interesting thing about Hispanics, of course, is that you can travel all over Latin America and never meet one. There are no Hispanics in Latin America. There are Bolivians, Chileans and Mexicans. You have to come to Miami or Sacramento to meet a Hispanic. There is a large controversy among us as to whether we are Latinos or Hispanics. Hispanics are nothing if not people preoccupied by fathers and ceremony, and we worry a great deal about which is the right word for us. The argument against Hispanic is that it gives too much of our identity to Spain."
in my case I'm actually referring to people from mexico, so mexican is appropriate. there I feel better now. Thanks Richard.
I don't have a Mac, but I downloaded AudioHijack while I still can. I recommend you do the same, I imagine they are slowly moving up on the RIAA's most wanted list.
since I'm posting, I imagine this is a huge I TOLD YOU SO to everyone that said "I'd pay for music if I could download it fast and it was reasonably priced and I wasn't required to use the latest microsoft DRM and I could copy it amongst MY machines and MY CD players"
apple delivered and we bought. FUCK YOU RIAA! You can repeal your DMCA now. It turns out we weren't stealing all your profits afterall and really your business model was outdated and you really do suck. Give us back our rights! already and start counting the 99 cent sales.
I've waited for this for a long time. still, the only thing I can think of is that this is the death of the b-side.
I guess I'm a classical slashdot cynical negative bastard. that's why I'm in QA.