I wouldn't care if others were to view the content I paid for without paying but it wouldn't stop the British public from paying for a license since its extremely well enforced with everyone in the UK without a license being flagged up in their database.
Hahahaha. I'm not sure whether you're joking/trolling, but this is utterly ingenuous. So what? Most of the people 'flagged up in their database' don't HAVE to have a TV licence because they DON'T WATCH TV. Hard for some to believe, but true. Views like yours do provide a great excuse for the TV Licencing authority to regularly send hate/extortion mail and bullying 'enforcement officers' round to those addresses on a regular basis, though.
These old farts need to stop complaining and realize theres a lot of us Brits outside the country wanting to watch the BBC.
There's also a lot of Brits inside the country who don't give a shit about the BBC and don't want to pay the licence fee, and we're pretty pissed off that others who are viewing its content don't have to!!! By a lot, I mean at least several hundred thousand. Fuck you if you say that's irrelevant because it's a 'small percentage'.
I don't think so, actually. What got them kicked out of the Garden was that they'd eaten the forbidden fruit. God was quite happy for them to prance around naked before that.
4. Microsoft is forced to release any extension sourcecode that allows DX10 to run in Linux, which can be ported to other distroes to let them run DX10, and hacked around in any other way that FOSS devs see fit.
Yeah, but MS are tying their hands after they've held them out, and said 'tie me up if ya feel like it'. This is what's depressing. I like LG, their products are good. But I'm afraid they've done something really, really stupid here. I wanna go and smack whomever was involved in this deal.
Yeah, first time I read it I had uge déjà vu, but it wasn't as strait up cut and paste as I thought.
Hey, just give up on the accents. Anyway, we don't need them, we speak English! Seriously, Anglicization of words can legitimately mean dropping accents. I hate the things. Say 'deja vu', and 'cafe'.
I know a lot of your guys are Americans, but this will help you.
All I can say is, if you're thinking of setting up an online store, for God's sake, do it outside the US. Their patent laws are fucking ridiculous, and only when massive amount of business are driven to a country that doesn't implement US-style patent law (European countries, for example) may the adminisatration be forced to fix it. Until then, boycott the US. Sorry to say it, but otherwise, fuckwits like Amazon and the USPTO will remain complicit in this kind of 'idea prohibition'.
The state I'm living in now "deregulated" by saying that local phone companies had to open their lines to any provider that I choose.
I'd call that very strong regulation. I think it's just a different kind of regulation, but it sure aint deregulation. Deregulation would be saying, "the line's yours. Go ahead and do what you want. Hell, the owners have a right to profit out of their infrastructure!" The company wouldn't open the line up to competition, and you'd be screwed as hell.
In general you'll find that the larger players in any industry tend to support regulation for this exact reason -- it provides them with a legal way to force their smaller competitors out of the market.
Doesn't this tell you something about AT&T's motives behind wanting deregulation, then? You think they want to encourage competition?
Which phrase I think does it no justice. It has much improved functionality over GIF, not least being 24 bit colour with a variable alpha channel. This means it actually can *replace* JPEG (yeah I know its file sizes are bigger), whereas GIF can't (even with a big filesize) because of its puny 256 colours.
What could be more appropriate than "FUCK!" when you hit your finger with a hammer, lock your car keys inside the car with the motor running or drop your laptop while walking up a flight of stairs?
If you're arguing that censorship can't happen with live broadcasts, you're wrong. They can just make it near-live with a 5 sec delay and a Jack Thompson-like figure on the 'mute and blank' button.
God, I feel sorry for your kids. It must be a blast where you live.
/Rod and Todd watch a religious kid's cartoon program./
Father sheep: What's wrong, Jeremiah?
Jeremiah: It's not fair. My brother Joseph has a sin to confess. I
wish I had one too. Father sheep: Oh, don't you see? You _do_ have a sin to confess -- the
sin of envy.
[sheep baa their laughter]
Todd: It's all well and good for sheep, but what are we to do?
Homer: Boring! Let's watch something else.
Rod+Todd: Aw...
Ned: Now, boys, Mr. Simpson is the guest. He gets to decide
what to watch.
Homer: Yeah...
[Homer flips through channels which all seem to be blank]
Hey, what gives? I thought you had a satellite dish.
Ned: Sure doodily-do. Over 230 channels locked out!
[Scene: Outside 7^11. Fry and Bender sit on the kerb. Bender drinks beer.]
Fry: Well, I'm down to my last lottery ticket. [He scratches a panel on the "Whiff-n-Win" ticket.] Cherry. [Another panel.] Cherry! [The last one.] Mule. Crud!
Bender: So, you got six bucks left to retire on. I recommend Tender Vittles.
[Scene: Big Apple Bank.]
Teller: You're opening a retirement account for $6? I'm sure a wealthy... [She sniffs.]... mule farmer like yourself is aware that we charge a $10 monthly fee.
Fry: (shrugging) You gotta spend money to make money.
[The teller presses some buttons.]
Teller: Here you are, sir. Your account is now overdrawn by $4.
Perhaps the French had the right idea with going 80% nuclear for their electric power needs.
Yeah. Except - and I don't know if this is the same in the US - in Britain, the large majority of houses have gas heating installed for their central heating and hot water. Presumably this is because direct gas heating of water is more efficient than doing it via electricity.
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I wouldn't care if others were to view the content I paid for without paying but it wouldn't stop the British public from paying for a license since its extremely well enforced with everyone in the UK without a license being flagged up in their database.
Hahahaha. I'm not sure whether you're joking/trolling, but this is utterly ingenuous. So what? Most of the people 'flagged up in their database' don't HAVE to have a TV licence because they DON'T WATCH TV. Hard for some to believe, but true. Views like yours do provide a great excuse for the TV Licencing authority to regularly send hate/extortion mail and bullying 'enforcement officers' round to those addresses on a regular basis, though.
These old farts need to stop complaining and realize theres a lot of us Brits outside the country wanting to watch the BBC.
There's also a lot of Brits inside the country who don't give a shit about the BBC and don't want to pay the licence fee, and we're pretty pissed off that others who are viewing its content don't have to!!! By a lot, I mean at least several hundred thousand. Fuck you if you say that's irrelevant because it's a 'small percentage'.
40,000? I thought they say the Earth was created 6,000 years ago?
Because God thinks it's bad.
I don't think so, actually. What got them kicked out of the Garden was that they'd eaten the forbidden fruit. God was quite happy for them to prance around naked before that.
4. Microsoft is forced to release any extension sourcecode that allows DX10 to run in Linux, which can be ported to other distroes to let them run DX10, and hacked around in any other way that FOSS devs see fit.
Yeah, but MS are tying their hands after they've held them out, and said 'tie me up if ya feel like it'. This is what's depressing. I like LG, their products are good. But I'm afraid they've done something really, really stupid here. I wanna go and smack whomever was involved in this deal.
I don't support companies' freedom to take OSS and profit from them without releasing and modified sourcecode back to the community.
Their oughtta be limits to freedom! (apologies for ripping that)
Try and organize a revolution.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson
Yeah, first time I read it I had uge déjà vu, but it wasn't as strait up cut and paste as I thought.
Hey, just give up on the accents. Anyway, we don't need them, we speak English! Seriously, Anglicization of words can legitimately mean dropping accents. I hate the things. Say 'deja vu', and 'cafe'.
I know a lot of your guys are Americans, but this will help you.
All I can say is, if you're thinking of setting up an online store, for God's sake, do it outside the US. Their patent laws are fucking ridiculous, and only when massive amount of business are driven to a country that doesn't implement US-style patent law (European countries, for example) may the adminisatration be forced to fix it. Until then, boycott the US. Sorry to say it, but otherwise, fuckwits like Amazon and the USPTO will remain complicit in this kind of 'idea prohibition'.
Uhm... what's Umbatu?
The state I'm living in now "deregulated" by saying that local phone companies had to open their lines to any provider that I choose.
I'd call that very strong regulation. I think it's just a different kind of regulation, but it sure aint deregulation. Deregulation would be saying, "the line's yours. Go ahead and do what you want. Hell, the owners have a right to profit out of their infrastructure!" The company wouldn't open the line up to competition, and you'd be screwed as hell.
In general you'll find that the larger players in any industry tend to support regulation for this exact reason -- it provides them with a legal way to force their smaller competitors out of the market.
Doesn't this tell you something about AT&T's motives behind wanting deregulation, then? You think they want to encourage competition?
PNG was developed to replace GIF
Which phrase I think does it no justice. It has much improved functionality over GIF, not least being 24 bit colour with a variable alpha channel. This means it actually can *replace* JPEG (yeah I know its file sizes are bigger), whereas GIF can't (even with a big filesize) because of its puny 256 colours.
What could be more appropriate than "FUCK!" when you hit your finger with a hammer, lock your car keys inside the car with the motor running or drop your laptop while walking up a flight of stairs?
Fiddle-dee-dee!!!
If you're arguing that censorship can't happen with live broadcasts, you're wrong. They can just make it near-live with a 5 sec delay and a Jack Thompson-like figure on the 'mute and blank' button.
I might be able to sneak Firefox in on her with some creative registry hacks, and some install/configure obfustications. We'll see.
I'm glad to see the art of practicing trust in marriage is alive and well!
Combine it with a nice ad server blocker (kerio personal firewall for instance) and the web just suddenly starts working as it was meant to :)
Yeah. Where you have to have 500 subscriptions to fund every site you visit.
I run Microsoft Windows 95 unpatched, so I am safe. No-one targets this old piece of crap anymore!
You do realise that if you disabled all JS in Firefox, it would no longer function, right?
Finally, a useful application for Steve Ballmer's armpits!
Perhaps the French had the right idea with going 80% nuclear for their electric power needs.
Yeah. Except - and I don't know if this is the same in the US - in Britain, the large majority of houses have gas heating installed for their central heating and hot water. Presumably this is because direct gas heating of water is more efficient than doing it via electricity.