AGREED. Seriously folks, if they won't take anything but MS word, you know you are talking to people who don't know shit about technology.
I've run into this problem repeatedly.. if you get desperate, use photoshop or similar to turn your pdf into a png or gif, and then paste the _image_ into word and you have a word doc with little extra effort. Mac users should use TextEdit rather than word.
Your corollary argument is hollow-sounding, but not as hollow-sounding as the one justifying giving governments nuclear weapons. Especially the one government that has proven itself willing to use them.
Bio-engineered seeds with single-use licensing agreements are not the future, I assure you. You want DRM in your __food__? It will come to that if this kind of crap is tolerated.
This is the same kind of brilliant forward-thinking that produced DiVX single-use DVDs.
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thank you. I wish it was meant as a joke. Was not.
well, if the police are supposedly just using powers they could have had with an army of watcher patrol cars, thus it's legal; then it would go the other way, wouldn't it?
I'd take this to mean that private citizens (especially as the source of income and primary stakeholders in the quality of their police force) have the right to secretly put GPS monitoring devices on police cars, and then do as they wish with that information, so long as they don't break any other laws in the process. For example, maybe publically post the information they find. I'd like to think random monitoring of cops (and hey, how about other possibly corrupt government officials: FBI, Governor, DMV, etc..) should be undertaken by citizens.
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wake up, man. The threat TODAY is from the United States Government.
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Unthinkable? Oh, come on. Hitler thought of it long ago, and he's just my generation's boogeyman of the ages. Unprovoked wars of aggression and occupation were not invented here.
There's no reason we should be paying for another country's military. Especially one that seems totally uninterested in sticking to it's treaties regarding the ending of military conflict.
Actually, on the music industry's part, it's not crap.
They really AREN'T CDs according to the definition. The same way that if you take your ext2 or ntfs formatted drive, and add a 32-byte string at the beginning of each file header to identify, oh, say, the rough geographical origin of the file; the data on the drive stops being a valid formatted drive and is not something else - a proprietary system that would require special accomodations beyond the normal drivers to support.
Well spoken. I agree. Consumers need to work together to fuck the companies in response to this kind of bullshit. Where I have a choice now, I'd rather d/l a movie from a member of the DVD+RW 'Alliance'. I recommend the same to all.
But this IS a new offensively facist act. If there were already laws around, why is this dude not being charged under those? The patriot act is for 'terrorists', and the more they are willing to use those laws for 'non-terrorists', the closer we all are to being treated like (non-us-authorized) terrorists.
Actually, the 'terrorists' are also afraid of our own government. Their tactics suck as much as the governments, but frankly, they present much less of a threat to me personally.
Since terrorism is by definition the causing of terror or fear...
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But you don't need to sign up for a service plan to wear a watch...
Actually, doesn't MS sell watches that you do need to sign up for a subscription service plan to use?
It's because they hate macs, not humans. Or mac-using humans. I'd bet $1 that the Windows version installs easier.
AGREED. Seriously folks, if they won't take anything but MS word, you know you are talking to people who don't know shit about technology.
I've run into this problem repeatedly.. if you get desperate, use photoshop or similar to turn your pdf into a png or gif, and then paste the _image_ into word and you have a word doc with little extra effort. Mac users should use TextEdit rather than word.
i could break a DES key given sufficient time, but i could not torture you because you are an anonymous coward. Disproven.
I agree. I am not kidding here: I have written a compiler in XSLT.
Quicksilver is pretty bad-ass. You forgot to include a link, though.
Your corollary argument is hollow-sounding, but not as hollow-sounding as the one justifying giving governments nuclear weapons. Especially the one government that has proven itself willing to use them.
Damn that's a cool link.
Bio-engineered seeds with single-use licensing agreements are not the future, I assure you. You want DRM in your __food__? It will come to that if this kind of crap is tolerated.
This is the same kind of brilliant forward-thinking that produced DiVX single-use DVDs.
thank you. I wish it was meant as a joke. Was not.
So.. what was that IP block again?
I WILL shoot first, and ask questions later, and I will be completely within my rights to do so
Let me guess:
Were you an interrogator at Abu Ghirab? Guantanamo?
well, if the police are supposedly just using powers they could have had with an army of watcher patrol cars, thus it's legal; then it would go the other way, wouldn't it?
I'd take this to mean that private citizens (especially as the source of income and primary stakeholders in the quality of their police force) have the right to secretly put GPS monitoring devices on police cars, and then do as they wish with that information, so long as they don't break any other laws in the process. For example, maybe publically post the information they find. I'd like to think random monitoring of cops (and hey, how about other possibly corrupt government officials: FBI, Governor, DMV, etc..) should be undertaken by citizens.
Go to it!
that's a damn good point.
If they already have a Boob Network,gimme a URL to prove it.
This man speaks truth.
wake up, man. The threat TODAY is from the United States Government.
Unthinkable? Oh, come on. Hitler thought of it long ago, and he's just my generation's boogeyman of the ages. Unprovoked wars of aggression and occupation were not invented here.
There's no reason we should be paying for another country's military. Especially one that seems totally uninterested in sticking to it's treaties regarding the ending of military conflict.
Actually, on the music industry's part, it's not crap.
They really AREN'T CDs according to the definition. The same way that if you take your ext2 or ntfs formatted drive, and add a 32-byte string at the beginning of each file header to identify, oh, say, the rough geographical origin of the file; the data on the drive stops being a valid formatted drive and is not something else - a proprietary system that would require special accomodations beyond the normal drivers to support.
Same BS with the CDs.
That's EXACTLY it!
If it's really about the IP, where's my cheap replacement copy to remove the NEED for a backup?
Thanks for writing that.
Well spoken. I agree. Consumers need to work together to fuck the companies in response to this kind of bullshit. Where I have a choice now, I'd rather d/l a movie from a member of the DVD+RW 'Alliance'. I recommend the same to all.
Hell, this has DVD+R / DVD+RW written all over it.
But this IS a new offensively facist act. If there were already laws around, why is this dude not being charged under those? The patriot act is for 'terrorists', and the more they are willing to use those laws for 'non-terrorists', the closer we all are to being treated like (non-us-authorized) terrorists.
Actually, the 'terrorists' are also afraid of our own government. Their tactics suck as much as the governments, but frankly, they present much less of a threat to me personally.
Since terrorism is by definition the causing of terror or fear...