...because the day I see one of these ads, i will pawn my telivison set.
If I was a television show producer, and I had a contract with a major network to run a season of my show, I would put in the contract that they must run each episode in it's entirty. Then when one of these ads pops-up, sue the broadcaster for breach of contract because it obscured the episode. Same with the stupid channel logo at the lower right hand side.
The Discovery Channel has been doing this crap for months now and it pisses me off. Showing big stupid animations about Nigel Marvin or Monster Garage (which would be a great show if they didn't do those retarded fake races at the end.)
As an amature musician whose creative output would be classified as "Electronic Music" by (i assume) your standards, I find it offensive that I would be associated with the Aphex Twin, Moby, and Paul Oakenfold, simply because the tools I use to create music are similar to theirs. Charro and Joe Satriani both play guitar, but i don't think anyone would ever associate those two.
So I say this... N'Sync is certainly not a group that is welcome in the Electronic Music genre. But BT (Brian Transau) is very talented and well respected electronic musician. He produced N'sync's SMASH HIT "Pop". William Orbit, another respected electronic musician, produced the entire Madonna - Ray of Light album. How come these songs are not considered (by the majority) to be "Electronic Music"?
I'll tell you why. Because your genre classification system is WRONG. It is bad for music, and it is bad for all art in general.
And as for your suggestion that "Electronic Music" is music that is purely synthetic or entirely electronic, I point out that 90% of artists that you might consider to be "Electronic Musicians" will use accoustic instrumentation in their recordings.
I've stated this many times, but I'll state it again because noone seems to understand.
Electronic Music is not a genre. It is a method of recording music. All your favorite hip-hop, country, jazz, and calypso songs are probably recorded using electronics. This is because very few artists use 100% accoustic instruments and record directly to a steam operated wax press anymore.
An Electronic Musician is a person who creates music with the aid of electricity. This would include; Dolly Parton, Nelly, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Britney Spears, Jerry Reed, MC Hammer, Frank Sinatra, Mettalica, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Weird Al Yankovic, Fats Domino, Marky Mark (and the Funky Bunch), The Beach Boys, and Primus. This is because each one of these artists (or groups of) undoubtedly used electronic microphones, electronic guitars, and electronic recording equipment.
I dispise the act of grouping artists and music into genres. It encourages seperatism and stereotyping. Group A likes country, and Group B likes rock & roll, so they sit on oppisite sides of the cafeteria, regardless of the fact that the fundamental elements of the music they enjoy are the same. They seperate because one genre has a twang when they sing and the other uses a distortion effect on their guitars.
Very rarely can an artist labelled as one genre be accepted into another genre, if at all. No examples come to mind. Of course there are artists that don't neccesarily fit into any genre, but of course Music Critics will quickly invent a genre just for that artist if he/she is succesful enough.
Every month or so I try to email my ISP to complain about upload capping with a letter similar to the following:
Dear Sir or Madam:
When i subscribed to your service I was promised "Unlimited" access, however you have limited my upstream connection. When I try to video teleconference with my grandchildren in the hospital, the image quality is extremely poor, and the audio is hard to understand. It is absolutly no improvement from when I had dial-up. I was also promised that I would be able to send video emails, but they take so long to upload, and while they are uploading, it chokes my ability to surf the web. Moreso, when I am trying to upload pictures and video of my family to my website, the connection frequently stalls or disconnects halfway through the upload and I have to start all over. I find this to be very frustrating and stressful, and since my recent heart attack, my doctor has ordered me to avoid stress. Because of this I will be forced to end my service with you.
It never seems to work, but maybe it will get them to stop promissing unlimited access and blazing speed.
I hate firewalls, proxies, and that crap. They don't really stop anything.. they just funnel it all into 1 port. Instead.. I would suggest per user bandwidth/disk quotas. Also.. like lockers.. the systems are school property, not faculty or student. Thus, I don't think there's any right to privacy. Snoop, spy, sniff till your heart's content. As important as I think privacy is, I don't feel it is a right at school or at work. I feel it is a privaledge that can and often is abused. Legality aside, if you're doing something you don't want other people to know about, it's probably not too smart to do it at work or school. Faculty or students can probably look at the post-it note under your keyboard and violate your privacy just as easily as the administration. If you get caught doing something you shouldn't do, you have noone to blame but yourself.
Of course, I would not outlaw all recreational use. If some kids would like to play a spirited match of BZFlag during their lunch break, so be it. Turn students and faculty onto legal ways to enjoy computers. A policy of, "NO FUN 4 U!" will only succeed in turning teachers and students off of computers. There's tons of free fun crap on the net.
It's nice that we aren't allowed to potty anymore. We'ce entered into a contract that says, "It is illegal to potty". Oddly I don't remember agreeing to that. I have a solution, however.. Government subsidized toilet TVs. Because, "Everybody Loves Raymond While They're Taking a Crap."
I happen to think that it's illegal that EVERY SINGLE CHANNEL PUTS THEIR DAMN LOGO OVER EVERY SINGLE SHOW. I'm extremely disappointed in the Discovery/Science channel for this. Their logo often blocks important information on the episode. And those damn Nigel's Wild Wild World ads that they run during the show. I think that is breach of contract right there. Discovery is by no means the only culprit, MTV is by far the worst. I think that if you're going to put that damned logo over all of your shows, the FCC should require that you put it over the commercials too.
The agreement on Best Buy's website is not a sign.. you have to click, "Yes, I agree".
I don't think very many people would shop at your store.
Regardless of what any law or agreement says, you and your cohorts are attempting to profit from someone's mistake. That is called greed. You can argue that you're "stealing from the rich, and giving to the poor" but if you can afford to spend even $100 on a video card, then you are not that poor. I happen to beleive that it's ok for businesses to protect themselves from people like you. Again, I reiterate, if this were a small business, this single situation would destroy it.
I beleive that the "Illegal Act" you are refferring to is called "Bait & Switch", more commonly used by auto dealership to physically lure people into their store and then high pressure sell them on another, more pricey, vehicle. This situation was obviously an honest mistake. I don't think you're going to get John Ashcroft to side with you on this one, either.
You also bring up one's right to die, as in your t-shirt. It's still questionable, and I beleive there was a case lost recently in france, but I imagine that in the not-so-distant future, you will be able to indemnify a doctor to take your own life. And i suppose there's no law against putting a contract on a t-shirt.
you'd have to get people to sign your T-shirt, then you'd have to get your shirt notarized, then you could shoot them.
Conversly, by making it impossible for an individual to waive his/her rights, it takes away the ability to do a lot of fun things. If you couldn't waive your right to sue, it would be a LOT harder to go skydiving or bungee jumping. If you had your way, and companies such as Best Buy could not have such agreements, then smaller companies like ThinkGeek would not be able to have online shopping. If a small company makes a mistake and posts a $10,000 plasma TV for $500, and 1,000 people buy it, and the government says, "Yes you have to honor that price" then the company is sunk. Best Buy is a big company and can afford to lose a buck or two, but imagine that this had happened on ThinkGeek.. I doubt anyone would have pursued this beyond canceling their order.
Frankly I hope you get your wish, and the government says, "Honor the price". Then as you watch your favorite online stores move to canada and you start paying twice as much for shipping, you can think back and say, "Woe is me, I wish I had listened to _aa_ and had protected my right to waive my rights."
Butlers, Maids, Waiters, Waitresses, are all indentured servants. Indentured means "having entered into a contract of servitude". It has nothing to do with freedom because they get paid in exchange for their services. And, last time I checked it was not illegal to be a butler. The only rights you cannot waive in the US are the unailienable ones, Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness. You can waive your right to a lawyer, you can waive your right to remain silent, and you can waive your rights to consumer protection by entering into contracts that may or may not be "safe".
Shopping online is not a right, Best Buy offers it as a service, and in order to participate you have to agree to the terms of their agreement. If you do not agree to the terms, you should not participate. You can still get in your car and goto your local Best Buy and purchase items without signing any contracts. Everybody who bought those stupid video cards entered into the agreement, and now they are changing their minds, saying "No you have to sell it for the price you advertised!!". Unfortunatly for those who purchased the video cards, they have a document that you digitally "signed" in which they state that they reserve the right to change the price without notification, and cancel orders for any reason they wish.
The buyers should be thankful that Best Buy let them out of the other agreement they signed, the purchase, and didn't simply charge their credit cards the full price, which was their right according to the agreement.
Nobody forces you to agree to their agreement. You have the right to waive your consumer protection rights, and that's what you do when you agree to such agreements. Buyer beware. If you do not agree with their disclaimers, THEN WHY DID YOU AGREE TO THEM?
For the last time.. The agreement you agreed to when you registered for their site clearly explains that they reserve the right to cancel any order for any reason they want. Furthermore it explicity stated that prices are subject to change without notification.
Duh. If it's too good to be true, it's probably not true. Besides.. IT'S A DAMNED VIDEO CARD. If it was life saving surgery, or a flying car, it might be worth getting pissed over. But as long as you got your money back, then it's certainly not worth getting pissed over.
Can't use lossy compression, because your clone might end up missing parts. Of course, even recording yer DNA in raw wav format could produce digital jitter, which could enflict you clone with high anxiety. I think the best way would be to record to analog tape. But even then there could be hiss and noise, which could cause your clone to have a sibilant "S" in their speech.
I am running 642, the developer version. I am yet to encounter any buggies.
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/642/rele ase_notes.html -- Release notes. I guess it's the stable version that's important.
but I used that iEscrow service.. costs a little more than pay pal.. and getting your money back when the seller goes AWOL isn't a walk in the park, but at least I got my money back.. and it was never really in jeapordy. I think they got bought out or closed.
I'd volunteer in a heartbeat, but man, imagine the lag on IRC.. and the politics.. they'd probably only want talented sexy people to go. Although.. there'd probably be 20 girls for every guy on that ship.. that'd be awesome. You'd probably have to be a vegetarian, albino, beekeeper to be considered.
Once upon a time there was a young boy. The boy loved to spend his days and nights in front of a television playing video games. His favorite game was "Shaky Jim's Chainsaw Simulator". A game that very accuratly replicated the events that the modern lumberjack encounters. Even down to a violently vibrating controller.
One day, as the boy was playing his favorite game, the Ghost of Christmas Future paid him a visit. "Ugh", the ghost said as he pointed to a newspaper. The headline read, "YOUNG BOY GROWS OLDER, HANDS ARE GOOFY BECAUSE OF VIBRATION CONTROLLERS, PANIC SWEEPS CITY". This struck fear into the boy's heart. The ghost then gave the boy a new controller.
The new controller used drugs and electro-shock to simulate real-life encounters in video games. Before his eyes, the young boy saw the newspaper headline change to read, "YOUNG BOY GROWS OLDER, HANDS ARE LOOKIN' GOOD, PANIC SWEEPS CITY".
we have a law protecting creative satire. Obviously it doesn't neccesarily apply to internationally released films. The previous 2 installments of austin powers were blatent satires of Bond and similar spy movies. How come the Bond people didn't file C&Ds then? and furthermore.. the musical group Goldfinger got away scott free. Nothing bites my bunyons more than seeing governments or big-boy corporations standing in the way of artistic creativity. This here has an easy solution, however. Boycott Bond. Any company who is going to thrust their "Zero-Tolerence" upon a blatently positive creative entity for no reason other than protection of their prescious trademark deserves a boycott untill they can accept creative satire.
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...because the day I see one of these ads, i will pawn my telivison set.
If I was a television show producer, and I had a contract with a major network to run a season of my show, I would put in the contract that they must run each episode in it's entirty. Then when one of these ads pops-up, sue the broadcaster for breach of contract because it obscured the episode. Same with the stupid channel logo at the lower right hand side.
The Discovery Channel has been doing this crap for months now and it pisses me off. Showing big stupid animations about Nigel Marvin or Monster Garage (which would be a great show if they didn't do those retarded fake races at the end.)
As an amature musician whose creative output would be classified as "Electronic Music" by (i assume) your standards, I find it offensive that I would be associated with the Aphex Twin, Moby, and Paul Oakenfold, simply because the tools I use to create music are similar to theirs. Charro and Joe Satriani both play guitar, but i don't think anyone would ever associate those two.
So I say this... N'Sync is certainly not a group that is welcome in the Electronic Music genre. But BT (Brian Transau) is very talented and well respected electronic musician. He produced N'sync's SMASH HIT "Pop". William Orbit, another respected electronic musician, produced the entire Madonna - Ray of Light album. How come these songs are not considered (by the majority) to be "Electronic Music"?
I'll tell you why. Because your genre classification system is WRONG. It is bad for music, and it is bad for all art in general.
And as for your suggestion that "Electronic Music" is music that is purely synthetic or entirely electronic, I point out that 90% of artists that you might consider to be "Electronic Musicians" will use accoustic instrumentation in their recordings.
I don't listen to music, I listen to "MP3s selected to appeal to the Apple demographic".
I've stated this many times, but I'll state it again because noone seems to understand.
Electronic Music is not a genre. It is a method of recording music. All your favorite hip-hop, country, jazz, and calypso songs are probably recorded using electronics. This is because very few artists use 100% accoustic instruments and record directly to a steam operated wax press anymore.
An Electronic Musician is a person who creates music with the aid of electricity. This would include; Dolly Parton, Nelly, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Britney Spears, Jerry Reed, MC Hammer, Frank Sinatra, Mettalica, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Weird Al Yankovic, Fats Domino, Marky Mark (and the Funky Bunch), The Beach Boys, and Primus. This is because each one of these artists (or groups of) undoubtedly used electronic microphones, electronic guitars, and electronic recording equipment.
I dispise the act of grouping artists and music into genres. It encourages seperatism and stereotyping. Group A likes country, and Group B likes rock & roll, so they sit on oppisite sides of the cafeteria, regardless of the fact that the fundamental elements of the music they enjoy are the same. They seperate because one genre has a twang when they sing and the other uses a distortion effect on their guitars.
Very rarely can an artist labelled as one genre be accepted into another genre, if at all. No examples come to mind. Of course there are artists that don't neccesarily fit into any genre, but of course Music Critics will quickly invent a genre just for that artist if he/she is succesful enough.
Every month or so I try to email my ISP to complain about upload capping with a letter similar to the following:
Dear Sir or Madam:
When i subscribed to your service I was promised "Unlimited" access, however you have limited my upstream connection. When I try to video teleconference with my grandchildren in the hospital, the image quality is extremely poor, and the audio is hard to understand. It is absolutly no improvement from when I had dial-up. I was also promised that I would be able to send video emails, but they take so long to upload, and while they are uploading, it chokes my ability to surf the web. Moreso, when I am trying to upload pictures and video of my family to my website, the connection frequently stalls or disconnects halfway through the upload and I have to start all over. I find this to be very frustrating and stressful, and since my recent heart attack, my doctor has ordered me to avoid stress. Because of this I will be forced to end my service with you.
It never seems to work, but maybe it will get them to stop promissing unlimited access and blazing speed.
(btw, I'm not really old)
I think we all pretty much know how the story is going to end.
I hate firewalls, proxies, and that crap. They don't really stop anything.. they just funnel it all into 1 port. Instead.. I would suggest per user bandwidth/disk quotas. Also.. like lockers.. the systems are school property, not faculty or student. Thus, I don't think there's any right to privacy. Snoop, spy, sniff till your heart's content. As important as I think privacy is, I don't feel it is a right at school or at work. I feel it is a privaledge that can and often is abused. Legality aside, if you're doing something you don't want other people to know about, it's probably not too smart to do it at work or school. Faculty or students can probably look at the post-it note under your keyboard and violate your privacy just as easily as the administration. If you get caught doing something you shouldn't do, you have noone to blame but yourself.
Of course, I would not outlaw all recreational use. If some kids would like to play a spirited match of BZFlag during their lunch break, so be it. Turn students and faculty onto legal ways to enjoy computers. A policy of, "NO FUN 4 U!" will only succeed in turning teachers and students off of computers. There's tons of free fun crap on the net.
It's nice that we aren't allowed to potty anymore. We'ce entered into a contract that says, "It is illegal to potty". Oddly I don't remember agreeing to that. I have a solution, however.. Government subsidized toilet TVs. Because, "Everybody Loves Raymond While They're Taking a Crap."
I happen to think that it's illegal that EVERY SINGLE CHANNEL PUTS THEIR DAMN LOGO OVER EVERY SINGLE SHOW. I'm extremely disappointed in the Discovery/Science channel for this. Their logo often blocks important information on the episode. And those damn Nigel's Wild Wild World ads that they run during the show. I think that is breach of contract right there. Discovery is by no means the only culprit, MTV is by far the worst. I think that if you're going to put that damned logo over all of your shows, the FCC should require that you put it over the commercials too.
The agreement on Best Buy's website is not a sign.. you have to click, "Yes, I agree".
I don't think very many people would shop at your store.
Regardless of what any law or agreement says, you and your cohorts are attempting to profit from someone's mistake. That is called greed. You can argue that you're "stealing from the rich, and giving to the poor" but if you can afford to spend even $100 on a video card, then you are not that poor. I happen to beleive that it's ok for businesses to protect themselves from people like you. Again, I reiterate, if this were a small business, this single situation would destroy it.
I beleive that the "Illegal Act" you are refferring to is called "Bait & Switch", more commonly used by auto dealership to physically lure people into their store and then high pressure sell them on another, more pricey, vehicle. This situation was obviously an honest mistake. I don't think you're going to get John Ashcroft to side with you on this one, either.
You also bring up one's right to die, as in your t-shirt. It's still questionable, and I beleive there was a case lost recently in france, but I imagine that in the not-so-distant future, you will be able to indemnify a doctor to take your own life. And i suppose there's no law against putting a contract on a t-shirt.
you'd have to get people to sign your T-shirt, then you'd have to get your shirt notarized, then you could shoot them.
Conversly, by making it impossible for an individual to waive his/her rights, it takes away the ability to do a lot of fun things. If you couldn't waive your right to sue, it would be a LOT harder to go skydiving or bungee jumping. If you had your way, and companies such as Best Buy could not have such agreements, then smaller companies like ThinkGeek would not be able to have online shopping. If a small company makes a mistake and posts a $10,000 plasma TV for $500, and 1,000 people buy it, and the government says, "Yes you have to honor that price" then the company is sunk. Best Buy is a big company and can afford to lose a buck or two, but imagine that this had happened on ThinkGeek.. I doubt anyone would have pursued this beyond canceling their order.
Frankly I hope you get your wish, and the government says, "Honor the price". Then as you watch your favorite online stores move to canada and you start paying twice as much for shipping, you can think back and say, "Woe is me, I wish I had listened to _aa_ and had protected my right to waive my rights."
Butlers, Maids, Waiters, Waitresses, are all indentured servants. Indentured means "having entered into a contract of servitude". It has nothing to do with freedom because they get paid in exchange for their services. And, last time I checked it was not illegal to be a butler. The only rights you cannot waive in the US are the unailienable ones, Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness. You can waive your right to a lawyer, you can waive your right to remain silent, and you can waive your rights to consumer protection by entering into contracts that may or may not be "safe".
Shopping online is not a right, Best Buy offers it as a service, and in order to participate you have to agree to the terms of their agreement. If you do not agree to the terms, you should not participate. You can still get in your car and goto your local Best Buy and purchase items without signing any contracts. Everybody who bought those stupid video cards entered into the agreement, and now they are changing their minds, saying "No you have to sell it for the price you advertised!!". Unfortunatly for those who purchased the video cards, they have a document that you digitally "signed" in which they state that they reserve the right to change the price without notification, and cancel orders for any reason they wish.
The buyers should be thankful that Best Buy let them out of the other agreement they signed, the purchase, and didn't simply charge their credit cards the full price, which was their right according to the agreement.
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Nobody forces you to agree to their agreement. You have the right to waive your consumer protection rights, and that's what you do when you agree to such agreements. Buyer beware. If you do not agree with their disclaimers, THEN WHY DID YOU AGREE TO THEM?
For the last time.. The agreement you agreed to when you registered for their site clearly explains that they reserve the right to cancel any order for any reason they want. Furthermore it explicity stated that prices are subject to change without notification.
Duh. If it's too good to be true, it's probably not true. Besides.. IT'S A DAMNED VIDEO CARD. If it was life saving surgery, or a flying car, it might be worth getting pissed over. But as long as you got your money back, then it's certainly not worth getting pissed over.
the fact that your role model is TV. And even moreso, fictional TV.
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/d isks-i386/3.0.21-2002-03-19/images-1.44/bf2.4/ -- 2 floppies, network install, 10 minutes (depending on your bandwidth).
If you ask me, it can't get much better than that.
BEWARE SOL.EXE!!!!!
Can't use lossy compression, because your clone might end up missing parts. Of course, even recording yer DNA in raw wav format could produce digital jitter, which could enflict you clone with high anxiety. I think the best way would be to record to analog tape. But even then there could be hiss and noise, which could cause your clone to have a sibilant "S" in their speech.
I am running 642, the developer version. I am yet to encounter any buggies.e ase_notes.html -- Release notes. I guess it's the stable version that's important.
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/642/rel
Use Buzz --> http://www.buzzmachines.com -- It's free, better, free, and community supported.
but I used that iEscrow service.. costs a little more than pay pal.. and getting your money back when the seller goes AWOL isn't a walk in the park, but at least I got my money back.. and it was never really in jeapordy. I think they got bought out or closed.
I'd volunteer in a heartbeat, but man, imagine the lag on IRC.. and the politics.. they'd probably only want talented sexy people to go. Although.. there'd probably be 20 girls for every guy on that ship.. that'd be awesome. You'd probably have to be a vegetarian, albino, beekeeper to be considered.
"Major Canadian broadband provider plans to charge heavy users higher monthly access fees as high as $80 per month."
/me calls his lawyer.
This is outrageous! How dare they charge fat people more than thin people!
Once upon a time there was a young boy. The boy loved to spend his days and nights in front of a television playing video games. His favorite game was "Shaky Jim's Chainsaw Simulator". A game that very accuratly replicated the events that the modern lumberjack encounters. Even down to a violently vibrating controller.
One day, as the boy was playing his favorite game, the Ghost of Christmas Future paid him a visit. "Ugh", the ghost said as he pointed to a newspaper. The headline read, "YOUNG BOY GROWS OLDER, HANDS ARE GOOFY BECAUSE OF VIBRATION CONTROLLERS, PANIC SWEEPS CITY". This struck fear into the boy's heart. The ghost then gave the boy a new controller.
The new controller used drugs and electro-shock to simulate real-life encounters in video games. Before his eyes, the young boy saw the newspaper headline change to read, "YOUNG BOY GROWS OLDER, HANDS ARE LOOKIN' GOOD, PANIC SWEEPS CITY".
we have a law protecting creative satire. Obviously it doesn't neccesarily apply to internationally released films. The previous 2 installments of austin powers were blatent satires of Bond and similar spy movies. How come the Bond people didn't file C&Ds then? and furthermore.. the musical group Goldfinger got away scott free. Nothing bites my bunyons more than seeing governments or big-boy corporations standing in the way of artistic creativity. This here has an easy solution, however. Boycott Bond. Any company who is going to thrust their "Zero-Tolerence" upon a blatently positive creative entity for no reason other than protection of their prescious trademark deserves a boycott untill they can accept creative satire.