I don't think you can blame Fox News for this, because KTTV is owned by a branch of News Corp that is a sister to Fox News Channel, not by Fox News Channel itself.
is, did MS write their P2P software to preclude people getting in on the downloads without WGAing first? Because that's the biggest reason why they wouldn't be able to use BT out of the box.
But if you say FOX enough times in your article submission, people will start to think it's relevant. And really, that's all that's important when you're trying to make someone look bad for someone else's shoddy workmanship, right?
If you're close enough to hold a maglite in someone's face and keep them from looking away, you're also close enough to just beat them with the maglite.
If the school forwards the letter, then it becomes clear that the school actually knows who has a particular IP address, and then the RIAA can eventually subpoena them to discover the name.
but the whole point is that once someone in authority has a means to "subdue" a person with what they think is a method that cannot result in any permanent physical damage, they lose control, and inevitably cause more damage than would have been done with a lethal weapon which has clear and serious consequences.
Actually, incidents of taser abuse are extremely few and far between. You make it seem like every cop is going around tasering people for shits and giggles.
As for your claim that a very bright light source with a relatively high divergence from a large distance can not cause permanent damage, I think you need to look directly at the Sun a bit more.
Wikipedia says that time-averaged insolation at ground level is about 250W per square meter, taking nighttime and weather conditions into account, going up to about 1kW per square meter at midday. Do you seriously think this device is outputting that kind of power?
I realize that it's the third millennium, when No Software Project Is Ever Finished, but seriously, why not just stick a fork in Thunderbird and call it done? Is there a need to continue adding new features, rather than just focusing on security-related bugfixes? I realize that part of the motivation is to keep Thunderbird able to share code with the active Firefox project, but what is Firefox 3 going to provide that Thunderbird really needs and doesn't already have?
Not to mention double-dipping by charging Vonage, Google, etc., extra to reach the ISP's customers with the same latency and delivery rate that those customers can access the ISP's own services.
For example, let's say that Microsoft were to use parts of the scheduler in their Windows software. That could fall under fair use since the scheduler is a small piece in comparison to the everything else.
Straw man. Your example of fair use isn't actually fair use.
The main argument is that if you support strong support of the GPL like the German courts did, then you have to support strong use by the RIAA/MPAA.
False dichotomy. Support of the GPL and opposition of the ??AA are not mutually exclusive.
Rented this from Netflix just last week. Scary indeed. There are a couple of moderately attractive, scantily-clad women (think pasties) in this movie, but Rue McClanahan isn't one of them. (Okay, she does get scantily clad, assuming that wasn't a body double.) In terms of the underlying movie, it was bad (which is good), didn't make a whole lot of sense (though not as confusing as some MST3K'ed movies), and provided plenty of fodder for the Crew. As for the Crew themselves, well, they're still as funny as ever when making fun of bad movies.
The downside is that there's something missing from the Film Crew that MST3K had. In MST3K, of course, there was an underlying premise of being forced by a mad scientist and his/her assistant(s) to watch cheesy movies, maintaining one's sanity with the help of one's robot friends. Everybody loves robots, and Crow and Servo were the best.
In the Film Crew series, the underlying premise is that Bob Honcho, a voice heard only through a speaker phone, wants to add commentary tracks to all the many movies that don't have them. Think Ted Turner's obsession with colorization, except with commentary tracks, crossed with Charlie's Angels, but without the Angels. That theme, sadly, is weak by comparison, and it doesn't give them enough flexibility to reach the levels of hilarity that the 'bots provided. They attempted to do a funny intermission-type sketch based on a lunchtime brainstorming session, and while it was amusing, it lacked the energy that the MST3K sketches had.
On top of that, there was just something about the MST3K silhouette that grounded the viewer in the riffs and tweaks that Joel/Mike, Crow, and Servo dished out. It's still funny without it, but there's still just something about the silhouette that tells you that you're home again. With RiffTrax, the lack of a silhouette is understandable, but the Film Crew offerings could easily add a silhouette of Mike, Bill, and Kevin in front of the movie. For that matter, they could use the DVD subtitle overlays to allow the viewer to turn the silhouette on and off.
Still, despite its shortcomings, the Film Crew still do a great job at the actual task at hand - making fun of a really bad movie. My criticisms here are offered (though perhaps not to the right forum) in the hopes that things can be polished up a bit for future releases, because they're still working with a very strong foundation here.
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Servo: "Come on, one more sacrifice before we go?" Mike: "Okay, but this is the final sacrifice."
1. The RIAA/MPAA don't hold copyrights on movies and music. Individual companies which are members of those cartels hold the copyrights. 2. The RIAA/MPAA's member companies leverage copyrights and patents in contravention of fair use exceptions to obtain excessive control over the works in question. 3. The RIAA/MPAA's member companies intentionally provide inequitable compensation to all but the top tier of performers, given the revenues received by those companies, all the while claiming that file sharing deprives artists of compensation.
Many of us who oppose the RIAA and MPAA don't oppose copyright per se. We oppose the ways in which those organizations and their members abuse copyright to extract maximum profit from their customers and their artists. On the other hand, the GPL uses copyright to ensure continued free access to the efforts of programmers who give their time to provide the rest of us with useful resources, in many cases forgoing compensation altogether.
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Wonder what'll happen when the urination threshhold exceeds the flooring capacity.
Conduction, followed by screams of pain and barely-suppressed laughter.
as the article says, the machine knows who got too much money and didn't come forward about it.
Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
Where have you been? It's alright, we know where you've been.
and I once used a supermarket ATM that even dispensed coins if you wanted them.
Those were Chuck-E-Cheese tokens!
Your pathetic keys cannot penetrate my stainless-steeltanium armor.
Microsoft Raisin Bran: 1.5 scoops of raisins (fixed to two scoops in Service Pack 3)
I don't think you can blame Fox News for this, because KTTV is owned by a branch of News Corp that is a sister to Fox News Channel, not by Fox News Channel itself.
Verrrry carefully.
is, did MS write their P2P software to preclude people getting in on the downloads without WGAing first? Because that's the biggest reason why they wouldn't be able to use BT out of the box.
I don't need to RTFM, because I already suspected that no proof was available and the AC I responded to was talking out his/her ass.
But if you say FOX enough times in your article submission, people will start to think it's relevant. And really, that's all that's important when you're trying to make someone look bad for someone else's shoddy workmanship, right?
So, um.... care to offer any proof?
If you're close enough to hold a maglite in someone's face and keep them from looking away, you're also close enough to just beat them with the maglite.
If the school forwards the letter, then it becomes clear that the school actually knows who has a particular IP address, and then the RIAA can eventually subpoena them to discover the name.
Because I own the box, it's mine.
Note that, in general, this is becoming less and less true.
but the whole point is that once someone in authority has a means to "subdue" a person with what they think is a method that cannot result in any permanent physical damage, they lose control, and inevitably cause more damage than would have been done with a lethal weapon which has clear and serious consequences.
Actually, incidents of taser abuse are extremely few and far between. You make it seem like every cop is going around tasering people for shits and giggles.
As for your claim that a very bright light source with a relatively high divergence from a large distance can not cause permanent damage, I think you need to look directly at the Sun a bit more.
Wikipedia says that time-averaged insolation at ground level is about 250W per square meter, taking nighttime and weather conditions into account, going up to about 1kW per square meter at midday. Do you seriously think this device is outputting that kind of power?
I realize that it's the third millennium, when No Software Project Is Ever Finished, but seriously, why not just stick a fork in Thunderbird and call it done? Is there a need to continue adding new features, rather than just focusing on security-related bugfixes? I realize that part of the motivation is to keep Thunderbird able to share code with the active Firefox project, but what is Firefox 3 going to provide that Thunderbird really needs and doesn't already have?
Fry: Uh, yeah, look at that exhaust fan!
Flexo: Augh!
Bender: Pervert!
Not to mention double-dipping by charging Vonage, Google, etc., extra to reach the ISP's customers with the same latency and delivery rate that those customers can access the ISP's own services.
Get yer own mozzarella sticks. These two plates are for me.
For example, let's say that Microsoft were to use parts of the scheduler in their Windows software. That could fall under fair use since the scheduler is a small piece in comparison to the everything else.
Straw man. Your example of fair use isn't actually fair use.
The main argument is that if you support strong support of the GPL like the German courts did, then you have to support strong use by the RIAA/MPAA.
False dichotomy. Support of the GPL and opposition of the ??AA are not mutually exclusive.
Rented this from Netflix just last week. Scary indeed. There are a couple of moderately attractive, scantily-clad women (think pasties) in this movie, but Rue McClanahan isn't one of them. (Okay, she does get scantily clad, assuming that wasn't a body double.) In terms of the underlying movie, it was bad (which is good), didn't make a whole lot of sense (though not as confusing as some MST3K'ed movies), and provided plenty of fodder for the Crew. As for the Crew themselves, well, they're still as funny as ever when making fun of bad movies.
The downside is that there's something missing from the Film Crew that MST3K had. In MST3K, of course, there was an underlying premise of being forced by a mad scientist and his/her assistant(s) to watch cheesy movies, maintaining one's sanity with the help of one's robot friends. Everybody loves robots, and Crow and Servo were the best.
In the Film Crew series, the underlying premise is that Bob Honcho, a voice heard only through a speaker phone, wants to add commentary tracks to all the many movies that don't have them. Think Ted Turner's obsession with colorization, except with commentary tracks, crossed with Charlie's Angels, but without the Angels. That theme, sadly, is weak by comparison, and it doesn't give them enough flexibility to reach the levels of hilarity that the 'bots provided. They attempted to do a funny intermission-type sketch based on a lunchtime brainstorming session, and while it was amusing, it lacked the energy that the MST3K sketches had.
On top of that, there was just something about the MST3K silhouette that grounded the viewer in the riffs and tweaks that Joel/Mike, Crow, and Servo dished out. It's still funny without it, but there's still just something about the silhouette that tells you that you're home again. With RiffTrax, the lack of a silhouette is understandable, but the Film Crew offerings could easily add a silhouette of Mike, Bill, and Kevin in front of the movie. For that matter, they could use the DVD subtitle overlays to allow the viewer to turn the silhouette on and off.
Still, despite its shortcomings, the Film Crew still do a great job at the actual task at hand - making fun of a really bad movie. My criticisms here are offered (though perhaps not to the right forum) in the hopes that things can be polished up a bit for future releases, because they're still working with a very strong foundation here.
Servo: "Come on, one more sacrifice before we go?"
Mike: "Okay, but this is the final sacrifice."
"I'm gonna ram my ovipositor down your throat and lay eggs in your chest!"
1. The RIAA/MPAA don't hold copyrights on movies and music. Individual companies which are members of those cartels hold the copyrights.
2. The RIAA/MPAA's member companies leverage copyrights and patents in contravention of fair use exceptions to obtain excessive control over the works in question.
3. The RIAA/MPAA's member companies intentionally provide inequitable compensation to all but the top tier of performers, given the revenues received by those companies, all the while claiming that file sharing deprives artists of compensation.
Many of us who oppose the RIAA and MPAA don't oppose copyright per se. We oppose the ways in which those organizations and their members abuse copyright to extract maximum profit from their customers and their artists. On the other hand, the GPL uses copyright to ensure continued free access to the efforts of programmers who give their time to provide the rest of us with useful resources, in many cases forgoing compensation altogether.
An interesting twist is that Transformers has in-game ads by Helio.
Damn. And I was so looking forward to playing it, since it's the only way I'll get to hear Frank Welker as Megatron.