Before we were married, my wife worked as a pharmacy teach and she would see all these people getting pills on the government's dime and then selling them in the parking lot, yet the government wouldn't cover her and private insurance was more than she made, so she couldn't afford her bi-polar medicine. If she quit, the government would cover her, but she's the type of person who likes to pull her own weight so she went without. How much sense does that make?
As someone in a similar situation to your wife's (other than not being married), I'd say that it makes a lot of sense. Her work ethic, I mean, not the fucked up system.
I miss the old slashdot of years gone by. Yeah, we still had loonies back then -- and they were the real, frothing, batshit insane type, too. The kind that were fun to read -- but at least back then, most of them had been driven over the edge by trying to read sendmail.cf (If you haven't done it, I wouldn't recommend it. It's a lot like Lovecraft's Necronomicon, with line-noise icing) .
As pointed out by Ars Technica, if two terabytes of data storage represents 5 percent of the DEA's global capacity, then the agency has only 40 terabytes worth of storage overall.
Someone actually needed Ars Technica to tell them that 2 * 20 = 40?
His reviews have a history of being high for any game The Escapist happens to be advertising for
Considering that he doesn't do Game Reviews for The Escapist (his show there is more 'topical rant'), I have to question both this history you speak of.
Now, it's possible that you meant Destructoid, where I understand that he does reviews (I wouldn't know, I don't read them) but if you couldn't even be bothered to get the site right, I have to wonder about your reliability along with those who modded up your bogus statement.
I'm not being an asshole. The problem is from the first line of the abstract.
This paper defines net neutrality as a restriction on price differentiation or price discrimination by firms involved in the distribution and transport of online content and applications
It's using a bogus definition of net neutrality from the get go. Anything built off of that is irrelevant other than as an example of how people, intentionally or not, are constantly misrepresenting what it is.
Your cynicism is a comfort blanket as the republicans fuck you in the arse.
Considering you included this little nugget, it's clear which side you align with. So answer me this:
If it's a "Republican strategy" as you suggest, wouldn't it make sense for the democrats, who, by your logic, DON'T employ this strategy, to make it clear that there is a difference. For example by -- and this is only one suggestion -- NOT "fucking us in the arse?" Then why haven't they done so?
The problem with this excuse is this: It's becoming more and more common that the "Day 1 DLC" is actually ON the damned disc, which means it was done BEFORE "going gold" (creating the master disc).
I've had no end of problems converting PDFs to EPUB with Calibre, for my rooted Nook Color. Though to be fair, few of the other programs I've tried did any better. I finally broke down and bought EzPDF to read them (this was when it was still $0.99. I wouldn't recommend it at the current price). By replacing the horrible BN reader with FBReaderJ for epubs and EzPDF or Adobe (or whatever one you prefer) It does all right. Much better than stock, and it beats messing around with the wonky PDF-EPUB conversions...
To be honest, a metric fuckton of "us" never wandered TO them in the first place, so wandering "away" wasn't really an option.
Not that I give an airborne copulation targeting a ventrally ambulating toroid about the "Social Networking Wars" but G+ didn't do particularly well at gathering users in the firstplace (thus, the commonly cited "crickets" issue)
I don't recall advocating that in my post and according to your hilarious baseless claim that my opinion is entirely dependent upon being paid by these media companies
You accuse downloaders of being "entitled" while ignoring the abusive behavior of those their downloading in spite of. That's drooling ignorance, at best, and outright hypocrisy, at worst.
Though if you want it couched in logical and ethical terms, I can do that. The "right" of monopoly over a creation, especially one that has no material components to express ownership of (you can't own electrons) is granted by law, not inherent in its creation. Those laws were created with consideration given to both sides of the transaction: the creator gets a limited monopoly on reproduction, and after that time is up, it enters the public domain as a societal cultural good.
They broke their side of the bargain with endless extensions, long before the internet came into play. So, while they may still be in the right, legally (not surprising with our court system so firmly nestled in the corporate colon), it's not unreasonable (nor is it universal, so don't bother telling me that you disagree) to make the ethical argument that the agreement has been invalidated by the content creators failing to upkeep their end of the bargain.
Why do you believe you have a right to someone else's work you ballsack?
Um... because I paid for it, whether or not their idiotic schizoid DRM system believes it or not?
The only downside is that you lose the N-key roll-over, and who uses that?
Judging by my recent Borderlands marathon, my Model M's AT-to-PS2 adapter doesn't do so well there, either (or maybe it's just the keyboard. Not sure there exists a computer that can both run 2009 video game and has a native AT-keyboard port.)
One learns to adapt, so to speak. So long as it clicks obnoxiously during my dead-of-night coding sessions, I'm happy.
While I don't disagree entirely with your premise -- donations, especially now that corps are considered "people" -- I'm pretty sure your proposed solution would go very, very bad very quickly.
Even ignoring 3rd parties for the moment (because, let's face it, as far as elections go, we pretty much always have, anyway), what you get is the winner's party getting more and more of the money, which can then be used to influence/buy more and more votes, cyclically getting that party a larger percentage of the pool.
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Before we were married, my wife worked as a pharmacy teach and she would see all these people getting pills on the government's dime and then selling them in the parking lot, yet the government wouldn't cover her and private insurance was more than she made, so she couldn't afford her bi-polar medicine. If she quit, the government would cover her, but she's the type of person who likes to pull her own weight so she went without. How much sense does that make?
As someone in a similar situation to your wife's (other than not being married), I'd say that it makes a lot of sense. Her work ethic, I mean, not the fucked up system.
I miss the old slashdot of years gone by. Yeah, we still had loonies back then -- and they were the real, frothing, batshit insane type, too. The kind that were fun to read -- but at least back then, most of them had been driven over the edge by trying to read sendmail.cf (If you haven't done it, I wouldn't recommend it. It's a lot like Lovecraft's Necronomicon, with line-noise icing) .
As pointed out by Ars Technica, if two terabytes of data storage represents 5 percent of the DEA's global capacity, then the agency has only 40 terabytes worth of storage overall.
Someone actually needed Ars Technica to tell them that 2 * 20 = 40?
His reviews have a history of being high for any game The Escapist happens to be advertising for
Considering that he doesn't do Game Reviews for The Escapist (his show there is more 'topical rant'), I have to question both this history you speak of.
Now, it's possible that you meant Destructoid, where I understand that he does reviews (I wouldn't know, I don't read them) but if you couldn't even be bothered to get the site right, I have to wonder about your reliability along with those who modded up your bogus statement.
I'm not being an asshole. The problem is from the first line of the abstract.
This paper defines net neutrality as a restriction on price differentiation or price discrimination by firms involved in the distribution and transport of online content and applications
It's using a bogus definition of net neutrality from the get go. Anything built off of that is irrelevant other than as an example of how people, intentionally or not, are constantly misrepresenting what it is.
I didn't need to read it even once, since Jim Sterling beat him to the exact same review by a week.
Your cynicism is a comfort blanket as the republicans fuck you in the arse.
Considering you included this little nugget, it's clear which side you align with. So answer me this:
If it's a "Republican strategy" as you suggest, wouldn't it make sense for the democrats, who, by your logic, DON'T employ this strategy, to make it clear that there is a difference. For example by -- and this is only one suggestion -- NOT "fucking us in the arse?" Then why haven't they done so?
What is wrong with the idea of getting billed based on the amount of data you consume?
You mean, other than having absolutely fuckall to do with Network Neutrality, and being completely irrelevant to the conversation at hand?
How is suggesting that women bear full financial responsibility for a child advocating equality?
Because they bear full decision making power. It's either a joint responsibility, or it's not.
firstly, why are you talking like that? i can't tell...
It's a line from and reference to Mandy Patinkin's bad accent as Inigo in "The Princess Bride"
The problem with this excuse is this: It's becoming more and more common that the "Day 1 DLC" is actually ON the damned disc, which means it was done BEFORE "going gold" (creating the master disc).
I've had no end of problems converting PDFs to EPUB with Calibre, for my rooted Nook Color. Though to be fair, few of the other programs I've tried did any better. I finally broke down and bought EzPDF to read them (this was when it was still $0.99. I wouldn't recommend it at the current price). By replacing the horrible BN reader with FBReaderJ for epubs and EzPDF or Adobe (or whatever one you prefer) It does all right. Much better than stock, and it beats messing around with the wonky PDF-EPUB conversions...
If you call asking ten times what you ask others "enforcing your FRAND requirements" then you are a dumbfuck Fandroid.
It's only ten times as much as the phones that cost one-tenth of Apple's shit. That's how percentages work, fanboy.
Apple's logic is that since they sell their phone for more, they should pay less for the patent license. Yeah, THAT makes sense.
You too? Jesus, you guys must be a riot at parties...
Reinventing the Same story a year later...
In fact that is has no effect on the end user is one of the topmost clause of the GPLs.
Not that that fact does much to stop the silly people who develop GPL software for windows from using it as a Click-Through EULA on the installers...
Your Mel Brooks awareness is seriously lacking.
I recommend an immediate dosage of "Young Frankenstein" and "Spaceballs," with weekly injections to follow.
To be honest, a metric fuckton of "us" never wandered TO them in the first place, so wandering "away" wasn't really an option.
Not that I give an airborne copulation targeting a ventrally ambulating toroid about the "Social Networking Wars" but G+ didn't do particularly well at gathering users in the firstplace (thus, the commonly cited "crickets" issue)
Because unlike some other Robin hoods, I can speak with an English accent!
I don't recall advocating that in my post and according to your hilarious baseless claim that my opinion is entirely dependent upon being paid by these media companies
You accuse downloaders of being "entitled" while ignoring the abusive behavior of those their downloading in spite of. That's drooling ignorance, at best, and outright hypocrisy, at worst.
Though if you want it couched in logical and ethical terms, I can do that. The "right" of monopoly over a creation, especially one that has no material components to express ownership of (you can't own electrons) is granted by law, not inherent in its creation. Those laws were created with consideration given to both sides of the transaction: the creator gets a limited monopoly on reproduction, and after that time is up, it enters the public domain as a societal cultural good.
They broke their side of the bargain with endless extensions, long before the internet came into play. So, while they may still be in the right, legally (not surprising with our court system so firmly nestled in the corporate colon), it's not unreasonable (nor is it universal, so don't bother telling me that you disagree) to make the ethical argument that the agreement has been invalidated by the content creators failing to upkeep their end of the bargain.
Why do you believe you have a right to someone else's work you ballsack?
Um... because I paid for it, whether or not their idiotic schizoid DRM system believes it or not?
The only downside is that you lose the N-key roll-over, and who uses that?
Judging by my recent Borderlands marathon, my Model M's AT-to-PS2 adapter doesn't do so well there, either (or maybe it's just the keyboard. Not sure there exists a computer that can both run 2009 video game and has a native AT-keyboard port.)
One learns to adapt, so to speak. So long as it clicks obnoxiously during my dead-of-night coding sessions, I'm happy.
"Inefficient floppies?"
I thought it was the array that was supposed to be redundant, not the acronym itself. ;)
Subscribing only lets you read the stories first, not reply (unless something has changed in the past year or so).
Legos are Danish, not Swiss. ;)
While I don't disagree entirely with your premise -- donations, especially now that corps are considered "people" -- I'm pretty sure your proposed solution would go very, very bad very quickly.
Even ignoring 3rd parties for the moment (because, let's face it, as far as elections go, we pretty much always have, anyway), what you get is the winner's party getting more and more of the money, which can then be used to influence/buy more and more votes, cyclically getting that party a larger percentage of the pool.