Why is the RIAA even able to set any sort of financial policy for its parent companies? I thought it was just a big bunch of lawyers! Should not each recording studio set compensation based on the contracts it signs with the artists?
Granted, a bit of luck was involved if it was indeed his goal to make the bank lose money. The bank had to even all debts on one of the absolute worst days for the market.
And something hiring managers don't seem to grasp either. I've 5 solid years experience at 21 and no degree (no financial or time means), and getting an interview where they don't pat me on the head and dangle $10 an hour in front of me to do $30 an hour work is getting increasingly difficult. To any who would say that this stance proves the original posting: I have been around the block, I've gotten up at 5:00AM to make the hourlong commute every morning for 3 years. And I'm sick of being lumped in with those who take 3 college classes and play WoW all day. I have to support myself, and increasingly IT jobs are terrible for mental health, and don't compensate for it by paying more (in fact they pay less in most cases).
OR you can take a job for slightly less pay, be comfortable in it, live comfortably though not glamorously, and enjoy life while not having to worry too much about financial hurdles (but you're not going to own a Porsche). I'm 21, have no college degree but have 4 years of county and corporate experience in IT and lab work, and thats my philosophy.
I myself have been without a TV for the last 2 years or so (there are a few shows that I like to watch that I torrent), and my experience has been markedly different than the parent. I'm still smoking, I spend all my time on the PC instead of being able to fall asleep on the couch, and my small apartment barely has room for my PC desk anyway!
So either pay $400 for a unlocked phone, or take a plan and get a free phone and just pay for service, and pay ~3-4 for ringtones? I'm pretty sure I was a bit too broke at that age to afford the former.
Cute sentiment, but still a bit off-topic. I find this a good ruling for me personally, though honestly the ruling could have gone either way. What I find intriguing about it is how confused the judicial system seems about how to apply pre-internet laws to crimes. Should a cyber-crime be treated like a robbery? Should encrypted data be treated like a safe holding potential evidence?
Lovely tidbit from their privacy policy: If you are not the kind of person who worries about being hit by lightning as you're crossing the street, you probably don't have to worry that your credit card number will be intercepted on the way to a secure Web site.
How many millions/billions spent on this that could've gone to the people of the US?
As I see it, any enemy we'd have to use this against would be throwing ICBMs with nukes at us. Why the fuck are we building bigger and better and more expensive bombs when all of our operations are counter-terrorist ops?
I have a $2000 ($4k retail equiv) gaming rig right now, and I can't run Crysis at max settings because I'm running windows XP. (and, in all honesty, the reason I bought Crysis is so I could show people what a good PC can do)
Am I supposed to wait for WINE to try to translate DX10, when they haven't even been able to do DX8 properly? Or am I just going to have to buy vista?
How about if it is some sort of race that could absorb things from whatever they killed, and eventually consume its entire planet? One single being left over perhaps?
Its pretty much always been that way too. Since 1998, the approval rating has only hit 50 maybe twice, and has gone steadily downhill since 9/11. Whats interesting to note is that the numbers have not really changed since 2006, when the Democrats took over. I guess people were looking for a lot of change than a new congress can't bring.
No one really knows much about Crysis, because for most people trying to change any settings in the beta involves looking at wireframe until you restart with default (read: low) settings.
But with my 8800GTS I can run UT3, world in conflict (and actually not freezing up on quad-nukes!!!), MoH: Airborne, and Hellgate:london with EASE and lots of FPS to spare. I've got friends in high places so I got a few discounts, but I got a "top of the line minus 1" system for under a grand, and I expect it to last on high settings with next gen games past 2 years from now.
Well, if the government doesn't need a warrant... does it apply to the public as well? I'd personally love to see some of the RNC's email, especially some juicy Rove memos.
IANAL, but it seems the government has a bit of a conundrum. Half the time people want the internet to be free/anonymous, and half the time they want it to be private information. Truthfully it can't be both, and I don't see unencrypted emails going through public ISPs as ever being called private, no matter if they are treated as such by the sender. People can look at them if they put the time in.
Now though, following with the the governments policy on encryption via the DMCA (as I understand it, once again IANAL and I have only a rudimentary understanding of these things): If the sender uses ANY sort of encryption in the email (hell, maybe even the protocols?), it becomes protected and therefore private information?
Mods, I'm sorry there isn't a (Score: -1, Wrong), so just mod me as flamebait if I'm going nowhere with this.
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Why is the RIAA even able to set any sort of financial policy for its parent companies? I thought it was just a big bunch of lawyers! Should not each recording studio set compensation based on the contracts it signs with the artists?
Slow from 6-9:30 and 4:30-7:00, mostly northbound in the morning, mostly southbound in the evening. When do I get my grant money?
Granted, a bit of luck was involved if it was indeed his goal to make the bank lose money. The bank had to even all debts on one of the absolute worst days for the market.
I can't even rook at such an insensitive statement.
Did they mean "lax" as in "Loose and not easily retained or controlled." or LAX as in the airport?
And something hiring managers don't seem to grasp either. I've 5 solid years experience at 21 and no degree (no financial or time means), and getting an interview where they don't pat me on the head and dangle $10 an hour in front of me to do $30 an hour work is getting increasingly difficult. To any who would say that this stance proves the original posting: I have been around the block, I've gotten up at 5:00AM to make the hourlong commute every morning for 3 years. And I'm sick of being lumped in with those who take 3 college classes and play WoW all day. I have to support myself, and increasingly IT jobs are terrible for mental health, and don't compensate for it by paying more (in fact they pay less in most cases).
OR you can take a job for slightly less pay, be comfortable in it, live comfortably though not glamorously, and enjoy life while not having to worry too much about financial hurdles (but you're not going to own a Porsche). I'm 21, have no college degree but have 4 years of county and corporate experience in IT and lab work, and thats my philosophy.
Not to mention Japan. It may however have split the HD market, with Japan getting blu-ray and the US getting HD-DVD.
I myself have been without a TV for the last 2 years or so (there are a few shows that I like to watch that I torrent), and my experience has been markedly different than the parent. I'm still smoking, I spend all my time on the PC instead of being able to fall asleep on the couch, and my small apartment barely has room for my PC desk anyway!
So either pay $400 for a unlocked phone, or take a plan and get a free phone and just pay for service, and pay ~3-4 for ringtones? I'm pretty sure I was a bit too broke at that age to afford the former.
Cute sentiment, but still a bit off-topic. I find this a good ruling for me personally, though honestly the ruling could have gone either way. What I find intriguing about it is how confused the judicial system seems about how to apply pre-internet laws to crimes. Should a cyber-crime be treated like a robbery? Should encrypted data be treated like a safe holding potential evidence?
This must really scare Bill O'Reilly.
Lovely tidbit from their privacy policy: If you are not the kind of person who worries about being hit by lightning as you're crossing the street, you probably don't have to worry that your credit card number will be intercepted on the way to a secure Web site.
How many millions/billions spent on this that could've gone to the people of the US?
As I see it, any enemy we'd have to use this against would be throwing ICBMs with nukes at us. Why the fuck are we building bigger and better and more expensive bombs when all of our operations are counter-terrorist ops?
I personally wouldn't want to work for you for the reason that you immediately assume the OP is how you describe him.
I have a $2000 ($4k retail equiv) gaming rig right now, and I can't run Crysis at max settings because I'm running windows XP. (and, in all honesty, the reason I bought Crysis is so I could show people what a good PC can do)
Am I supposed to wait for WINE to try to translate DX10, when they haven't even been able to do DX8 properly? Or am I just going to have to buy vista?
Perhaps you should've RTFohwait.
Reboot the link. Haha. Good one.
How about if it is some sort of race that could absorb things from whatever they killed, and eventually consume its entire planet? One single being left over perhaps?
Its pretty much always been that way too. Since 1998, the approval rating has only hit 50 maybe twice, and has gone steadily downhill since 9/11. Whats interesting to note is that the numbers have not really changed since 2006, when the Democrats took over. I guess people were looking for a lot of change than a new congress can't bring.
http://www.pollingreport.com/CongJob1.htm
No one really knows much about Crysis, because for most people trying to change any settings in the beta involves looking at wireframe until you restart with default (read: low) settings. But with my 8800GTS I can run UT3, world in conflict (and actually not freezing up on quad-nukes!!!), MoH: Airborne, and Hellgate:london with EASE and lots of FPS to spare. I've got friends in high places so I got a few discounts, but I got a "top of the line minus 1" system for under a grand, and I expect it to last on high settings with next gen games past 2 years from now.
If you were in politics, you'd be a flip-flopper :P
Something about the American political culture doesn't allow for gray area for some reason.
Well, if the government doesn't need a warrant... does it apply to the public as well? I'd personally love to see some of the RNC's email, especially some juicy Rove memos.
IANAL, but it seems the government has a bit of a conundrum. Half the time people want the internet to be free/anonymous, and half the time they want it to be private information. Truthfully it can't be both, and I don't see unencrypted emails going through public ISPs as ever being called private, no matter if they are treated as such by the sender. People can look at them if they put the time in.
Now though, following with the the governments policy on encryption via the DMCA (as I understand it, once again IANAL and I have only a rudimentary understanding of these things): If the sender uses ANY sort of encryption in the email (hell, maybe even the protocols?), it becomes protected and therefore private information?
Mods, I'm sorry there isn't a (Score: -1, Wrong), so just mod me as flamebait if I'm going nowhere with this.
Know your audience.
Under your rules, The Colbert Report is a new low in serious political punditry.