IMHO the *AAs are loosers due to their incompetence in the world using digital media and online services. Instead of pushing all these Sonys and BMGs into trying to understand new technologies and be able to introduce a product that will be attractive (as Apple did with iPod), they are holding ground with something not attractive for anyone who is under 35 - like rootkits on audio CDs, DVD regions and stuff like this, all of them *saying* that all customers are criminals.
The problems with new products based on mp3 and online xfers are severe: first of all - publishers will have lower margins, this is outweighted by no price for media, booklet, case etc. The other problem I see is that if some publishing house publishes CD full of songs sang by some fscking trumpet, You have to buy *all* the songs, even if You want only *one* hit. If anyone implements pay per song model, there will be problem what to do with tons of bubblegum sh*t nobody wants to listen to and which in that case are generating no money. It is much easier to sell all songs and let the consumer use the skip button on his CD player. Now is too late - no one sharing his favourite (and only them) songs for free is going to pay for bag of sh*t on prehistoric CDDA with rootkit on 1st track - *AAs will stay on the looser side - not due to people stealing something, but due to their 10 years ignorance of new technologies and banning them, instead of embracing them.
Your proposal of taxing the rural users differently is probably going to cause more problems than it solves. Refunds and cards directly imply trafficking with fuel and/or cards.
I suppose, that the idea behind is to make tax for certain road as simple as possible, because any complications will make room for fraud. Especially when the whole Europe already has astronomical taxes on fuel.
One small country in Central Europe tried similar tax differences. It was relatively simple, they have two VAT charges (5% and 22%) and a lot of technologies uses diesel fuel (heating, electricity etc.). The government tried to tax these (non drivers) less than car users, so it charged lower VAT. The frauds were astronomical and whole trains of diesel fuel were imported from neighbour countries as heating fuel and sold as diesel fuel for cars. Some people got killed during the investigation of this multibillion fraud.
Oh my, go and sue these 13 years old kids who are keen to share something. They need a special lesson, that publishing *anything* on the Internet will lead them to jail. I can understand, that for someone educated in England is easy to say something about waiting for a few months, when they do not know English. BTW my English is very basic, can You describe what does 'money translating' mean?
Wait until You will have kids and they will do this and many other things, like sharing files, getting movies. Would You sue Your own children? Try to imagine some more intelligent model - like: o. k. - here is Your unofficial translation, put it on our server and we will open it to anybody who places order for the expected book.
Until these stupid media distributing companies accept the new media and learn how to live with Internet, there will always be something called mess, but it is created by these companies - by the lack of flexibility and fear from lowering margins.
Actually in long term the answer is Yes, because they do not want any west influence - thats the same like christians 600 hundred yrs. ago. Thats the offset between christian and moslem religions. So You have to wait something like 300 hundred years to get moslem religion to some civilized state. (if it will evolve the some way like christian one).
The uproar would be built from the top to cut off any possible influence and will be organized by the same people who banned this movie. Like all the people in the Cuba waving the flags and glorifying Fidel...
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This is just plain stupid. Connecting hacking with economical situation in any country is going nowhere. There are some countries, where You have to know what's going on before You start a company. And a bunch of guys living in such conditions should know about it.
Just a rule of thumb: running a small family bussines in Eastern Europe means keeping it low. If You don't want to, just be sure You are big enough to face consequences.
On my box it has a features like 'prevent resizing of the window' and 'disable pop-ups'. As far as I know, almost everything in X-Window system is a window, so checking this will work. Anyway, there is lynx and links. And now try the full screen ad on my vt100 terminal. ASCII ads anyone?
> Why should we conform to a treaty that's supposed to address a phenomenon of which there is absolutely no scientific proof
1. You do not need to conform to any treaty or agreement, because You have enough military power to overcome consequences.
Your statement about Kyoto treaty is exactly the same as the one issued by communist China after they were asked to lower production of devices using CFC back in the early 90's. What a pitty, that there is not a mechanism to send You an invoice for 30% of expenses on reconstruction of ecosystems all over the world - see 1. (as far as U. S. produces over 1/3 of substances covered by Kyoto treaty)
As for the Kosovo, this was at least covered by the NATO agreement, without any strong oposition. The situation in Iraq is different - Craig Roberts Stapleton, U. S. Ambassador to Czech Republic, clearly stated, that american taxpayers paid the war bill in Iraq, so the infrastructure is going to be rebuilt by the U. S. companies. This is the most clear statement of war driven by economy. BTW all previous contracts with Russia regarding oil industry in Iraq were already canceled.
... how does help to pass laws, which could be used for putting innocent people in jail? It is kind of stupid, when anyone forms a law about something, he does not have a clue about. Is there any law in the U. S. which would send authors of such laws into jail? Something like DMSPA (= Digital Millenium Stupidity Prevention Act)?
No I will not come to the country, where aircraft captain is fired and arrested, when he tells security on the airport, that there is no need to search him, because if he wants to crash the plane, he could do it with his bare hands. This seems to look exactly like arresting for no reason.
>What kind of "freedom" does a citizen have in a communist country?
I have lived in communist country (unwillingly) for 20 years. You could be arrested for no reason, but laws presented a lot of freedom (which was not guranteed and people were arrested).
To get back to Your question - it looks like communist countries have the same kind of "freedom" as U. S. citizens:
* neither can tell the world what they want * neither of them could go wherever they want - try to go for a trip to Syria and we'll see how long You will stay at customs when You will return. * noth of them are forced to conform to a ton of stupid laws like alcohol in paperbags and right to work (this meant You have to be employee, kind of commie law).
That's from theoretical point of view. Practically citizens in any country have the amount of freedom granted by their leaders/government. These leaders and governments are as stupid, as the majority of citizens in given country.
...and they are used to bring them more money - CD-R, CD Writers, xerox machines - they sue them all. Remember the hysteria around videotapes?
I think someone will create post-p2p device/protocol/software, which will use some of the grid computing and grid storage technology to share not only data, but to sell Your processing power, storage or data via any kind of internetwork. And as the GSM providers are able to crate CUGs. there will be some kind of closed user groups, which will trade data, they do not own.
The question is, if these organisations like MPAA, RIAA will have enough power to terminate any research before it proves its benefits.
... because as they say on their web they are far beyond p2p networks in data sharing. This is interesting and I wonder how long it will take RIAA&MPAA to sue thier U. S. based sponsors for developing technology that might be used to infringe copyright law.
I think DMCA is good example of how U. S. will loose its domination.
By restricting anything which may compromise poorly designed products U. S. will slightly stop any significant research and development, so as americans have to buy Japan electronics, they will have to buy encryption technology from Europe, communications equipment from Israel and software from Eastern Europe and Russia.
More laws will emerge to prevent techology companies moving out, restricting U. S. citizens to work abroad. Canada will have to require visas from americans, because they will seek asylum in there. British and Canadian controls will be set on american international airports to prevent asylum seekers to enter both countries. Amnesty International will be terminated and reopened in Paris.
Military power will be supplied by foreign components and foes will know their weaknesses better than U. S. The more 9/11 will arrive and U. S. will try to respond with military actions. U. N. will become angry about it.
Americans will still fly to space, but only to repair ISS or put in new communication equipment for Japan/Europe corporations. I am really looking forward to Intel HQ and R&D in Europe or Canada, while moving production plants to U. S., rather than Mexico, because of workforce price.
Japan will legally buy Hawaii. Russia with Japan will be complaining about american fishermen overcoming legally agreed quotas on fish in northern Pacific.
Networks of other countries will have the similar border with U. S. like China has with whole world - just because no one using any data tramsmission could not be sure if it will not be attacked by legal (in U. S.) attack at the network.
Why? Because few people wanted to keep high margins on movies...
No I am not confusing anything. I was at the environment, where actually only one available version of Silkwood was the 'cut' one for almost 15 years (which I can remember). That is why I am against any modification of authors/directors/producers thoughts.
And this means if the freedom to change product of someone leads to possible situation, where the only one version allowable is the edited one. And this is completely unacceptable - Imagine if the only version of ie. Terminator allowable (without possible law conflict - as of eastern europe in mid. 80's) would be the Clean Flicks version...
I remember when communist censors edited a movie called Silkwood. The problem was sex (better traces of sex), and the movie lost a lot of its plot and became really stupid.
I understand DGA problem: what if the movie looses an important point in plot or just the feeling of the movie? I think good example of this is Blade Runner, where we have a release made by producer of the movie and a release made by Ridley Scott , which is IMHO much more better.
As of the copyright law, I think that from the "money paid" point of view, it is ok. The question is: can they (Clean Flicks) sue me for starting a company called Dirty Flicks, which will buy Clean Flick version of the movie, add twice ammount of violence and sex and resell it? WOW, I am going to be millionare - imagine this movie full of porn, betiality, blood and shooting
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IMHO the *AAs are loosers due to their incompetence in the world using digital media and online services. Instead of pushing all these Sonys and BMGs into trying to understand new technologies and be able to introduce a product that will be attractive (as Apple did with iPod), they are holding ground with something not attractive for anyone who is under 35 - like rootkits on audio CDs, DVD regions and stuff like this, all of them *saying* that all customers are criminals.
The problems with new products based on mp3 and online xfers are severe: first of all - publishers will have lower margins, this is outweighted by no price for media, booklet, case etc. The other problem I see is that if some publishing house publishes CD full of songs sang by some fscking trumpet, You have to buy *all* the songs, even if You want only *one* hit. If anyone implements pay per song model, there will be problem what to do with tons of bubblegum sh*t nobody wants to listen to and which in that case are generating no money. It is much easier to sell all songs and let the consumer use the skip button on his CD player. Now is too late - no one sharing his favourite (and only them) songs for free is going to pay for bag of sh*t on prehistoric CDDA with rootkit on 1st track - *AAs will stay on the looser side - not due to people stealing something, but due to their 10 years ignorance of new technologies and banning them, instead of embracing them.
You can of course complain at the following website: http://www.bbc.complaints.p.o.box.1922.glasgow.g23 wt.co.uk/
I have not seen a Mac, which needed any case moding.
Your proposal of taxing the rural users differently is probably going to cause more problems than it solves. Refunds and cards directly imply trafficking with fuel and/or cards.
I suppose, that the idea behind is to make tax for certain road as simple as possible, because any complications will make room for fraud. Especially when the whole Europe already has astronomical taxes on fuel.
One small country in Central Europe tried similar tax differences. It was relatively simple, they have two VAT charges (5% and 22%) and a lot of technologies uses diesel fuel (heating, electricity etc.). The government tried to tax these (non drivers) less than car users, so it charged lower VAT. The frauds were astronomical and whole trains of diesel fuel were imported from neighbour countries as heating fuel and sold as diesel fuel for cars. Some people got killed during the investigation of this multibillion fraud.
Oh my, go and sue these 13 years old kids who are keen to share something. They need a special lesson, that publishing *anything* on the Internet will lead them to jail. I can understand, that for someone educated in England is easy to say something about waiting for a few months, when they do not know English. BTW my English is very basic, can You describe what does 'money translating' mean?
Wait until You will have kids and they will do this and many other things, like sharing files, getting movies. Would You sue Your own children? Try to imagine some more intelligent model - like: o. k. - here is Your unofficial translation, put it on our server and we will open it to anybody who places order for the expected book.
Until these stupid media distributing companies accept the new media and learn how to live with Internet, there will always be something called mess, but it is created by these companies - by the lack of flexibility and fear from lowering margins.
Yes, because there is "The lawsuit brough by Santa Claus Operation..."
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Actually in long term the answer is Yes, because they do not want any west influence - thats the same like christians 600 hundred yrs. ago. Thats the offset between christian and moslem religions. So You have to wait something like 300 hundred years to get moslem religion to some civilized state. (if it will evolve the some way like christian one).
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The uproar would be built from the top to cut off any possible influence and will be organized by the same people who banned this movie. Like all the people in the Cuba waving the flags and glorifying Fidel...
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Double Your Internet connection bandwidth:
maybe it was Cowboy from Nepal?
sure, but when your penis is enlarged, it becomes Penis - is there a capitalization taken into account?
This is just plain stupid. Connecting hacking with economical situation in any country is going nowhere. There are some countries, where You have to know what's going on before You start a company. And a bunch of guys living in such conditions should know about it.
Just a rule of thumb: running a small family bussines in Eastern Europe means keeping it low. If You don't want to, just be sure You are big enough to face consequences.
...our latest progress. As You can see on this super cool 3D graph ...OUCH...
On my box it has a features like 'prevent resizing of the window' and 'disable pop-ups'. As far as I know, almost everything in X-Window system is a window, so checking this will work. Anyway, there is lynx and links. And now try the full screen ad on my vt100 terminal. ASCII ads anyone?
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I wanted to spend a few points in this discussion, but in this case it look so useless, that I'd rather loose them...
> Why should we conform to a treaty that's supposed to address a phenomenon of which there is absolutely no scientific proof
1. You do not need to conform to any treaty or agreement, because You have enough military power to overcome consequences.
Your statement about Kyoto treaty is exactly the same as the one issued by communist China after they were asked to lower production of devices using CFC back in the early 90's. What a pitty, that there is not a mechanism to send You an invoice for 30% of expenses on reconstruction of ecosystems all over the world - see 1. (as far as U. S. produces over 1/3 of substances covered by Kyoto treaty)
As for the Kosovo, this was at least covered by the NATO agreement, without any strong oposition. The situation in Iraq is different - Craig Roberts Stapleton, U. S. Ambassador to Czech Republic, clearly stated, that american taxpayers paid the war bill in Iraq, so the infrastructure is going to be rebuilt by the U. S. companies. This is the most clear statement of war driven by economy. BTW all previous contracts with Russia regarding oil industry in Iraq were already canceled.
... how does help to pass laws, which could be used for putting innocent people in jail? It is kind of stupid, when anyone forms a law about something, he does not have a clue about. Is there any law in the U. S. which would send authors of such laws into jail? Something like DMSPA (= Digital Millenium Stupidity Prevention Act)?
No I will not come to the country, where aircraft captain is fired and arrested, when he tells security on the airport, that there is no need to search him, because if he wants to crash the plane, he could do it with his bare hands. This seems to look exactly like arresting for no reason.
>What kind of "freedom" does a citizen have in a communist country?
I have lived in communist country (unwillingly) for 20 years. You could be arrested for no reason, but laws presented a lot of freedom (which was not guranteed and people were arrested).
To get back to Your question - it looks like communist countries have the same kind of "freedom" as U. S. citizens:
* neither can tell the world what they want
* neither of them could go wherever they want - try to go for a trip to Syria and we'll see how long You will stay at customs when You will return.
* noth of them are forced to conform to a ton of stupid laws like alcohol in paperbags and right to work (this meant You have to be employee, kind of commie law).
That's from theoretical point of view. Practically citizens in any country have the amount of freedom granted by their leaders/government. These leaders and governments are as stupid, as the majority of citizens in given country.
...and they are used to bring them more money - CD-R, CD Writers, xerox machines - they sue them all. Remember the hysteria around videotapes?
I think someone will create post-p2p device/protocol/software, which will use some of the grid computing and grid storage technology to share not only data, but to sell Your processing power, storage or data via any kind of internetwork. And as the GSM providers are able to crate CUGs. there will be some kind of closed user groups, which will trade data, they do not own.
The question is, if these organisations like MPAA, RIAA will have enough power to terminate any research before it proves its benefits.
... because as they say on their web they are far beyond p2p networks in data sharing. This is interesting and I wonder how long it will take RIAA&MPAA to sue thier U. S. based sponsors for developing technology that might be used to infringe copyright law.
Is there any mighty /dotter, who can present royalty/patent status of IBM and Cisco claiming, that parts of VRRP are patented by these companies?
I think DMCA is good example of how U. S. will loose its domination.
By restricting anything which may compromise poorly designed products U. S. will slightly stop any significant research and development, so as americans have to buy Japan electronics, they will have to buy encryption technology from Europe, communications equipment from Israel and software from Eastern Europe and Russia.
More laws will emerge to prevent techology companies moving out, restricting U. S. citizens to work abroad. Canada will have to require visas from americans, because they will seek asylum in there. British and Canadian controls will be set on american international airports to prevent asylum seekers to enter both countries. Amnesty International will be terminated and reopened in Paris.
Military power will be supplied by foreign components and foes will know their weaknesses better than U. S. The more 9/11 will arrive and U. S. will try to respond with military actions. U. N. will become angry about it.
Americans will still fly to space, but only to repair ISS or put in new communication equipment for Japan/Europe corporations. I am really looking forward to Intel HQ and R&D in Europe or Canada, while moving production plants to U. S., rather than Mexico, because of workforce price.
Japan will legally buy Hawaii. Russia with Japan will be complaining about american fishermen overcoming legally agreed quotas on fish in northern Pacific.
Networks of other countries will have the similar border with U. S. like China has with whole world - just because no one using any data tramsmission could not be sure if it will not be attacked by legal (in U. S.) attack at the network.
Why? Because few people wanted to keep high margins on movies...
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No I am not confusing anything. I was at the environment, where actually only one available version of Silkwood was the 'cut' one for almost 15 years (which I can remember). That is why I am against any modification of authors/directors/producers thoughts.
And this means if the freedom to change product of someone leads to possible situation, where the only one version allowable is the edited one. And this is completely unacceptable - Imagine if the only version of ie. Terminator allowable (without possible law conflict - as of eastern europe in mid. 80's) would be the Clean Flicks version...
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paja
I remember when communist censors edited a movie called Silkwood. The problem was sex (better traces of sex), and the movie lost a lot of its plot and became really stupid.
I understand DGA problem: what if the movie looses an important point in plot or just the feeling of the movie? I think good example of this is Blade Runner, where we have a release made by producer of the movie and a release made by Ridley Scott , which is IMHO much more better.
As of the copyright law, I think that from the "money paid" point of view, it is ok. The question is: can they (Clean Flicks) sue me for starting a company called Dirty Flicks, which will buy Clean Flick version of the movie, add twice ammount of violence and sex and resell it? WOW, I am going to be millionare - imagine this movie full of porn, betiality, blood and shooting