Hey everybody! The football pitch is mined, but nothing we can do about it, and the mines are mostly duds (mostly), so let's all have fun like nothing's wrong...
I once pretended that I was considering moving to a different apartment complex to get a discount on my current rent. It was all a bluff, but it worked.
A bruiser with a lantern jaw rolls up on an easy mark in a dark alley. The bruiser makes ominous threats while cracking his knuckles, shifting his meaty shoulders.
Then the mark, 97 lbs soaking wet, hauls out a 20 lb maul and brains the big galoot.
They should have a "guerrilla drive-in" on the side of the RIAA world headquarters one late evening. Then send pictures, with incriminating faces and license plates blurred of course. Just to really twist their panties into a bind.
Of course, they'd likely be arrested, so... maybe not such a good idea.
(And did anybody else have an image of gorillas in cars when you read the title?)
I remember in school hearing about Malthusian theory: that populations of organisms tend to grow to the point of starvation, then die off greatly, and slowly start the process all over again. I may over simplify, but that's the gist.
My theory is that governments (no, the RIAA is not the government, they just rent it) tend towards ever-increasing authoritarian control, until the population, no matter how long-suffering and patient, finally stand up on their hind legs, say "Enough!", those in the ivory towers get dragged into the street and shot, and you end up with a new government.
Then we start the long process all over again. "Meet the new boss: same as the old boss."
With the laws, they start with the most obscene and fascist stuff...
So, O. Hatch should have started with a bill making it a death penalty offense to be caught whistling the tune of a copyrighted song. Then bargained it down to merely outlawing anything which can be used to illegally copy something... Gee, which by the way would be any technology which put the RI in RIAA. Ironic...
"See? No death penalty! (Just forty lashes and a keel-hauling.) I'm not such a bad guy after all..."
If giant balls of hydrogen, many times as massive as the earth, could just up and disappear, we'd have much bigger problems than the speed of gravity to worry about. Of course, I understand that this is all hypothetical.
At least, as we hurled off into deep space, our scientific curiousity would be satisfied.
Saudi Arabia: 1500 mpg? 1500 mpg? In a Hummer? Oh, just nuke us now and get it over with... Save us from having to take out a 2nd mortgage on the royal palace.
I wonder how many people there are, who can install Windows, but can't install Linux? Even a Linux nube could run the CD, accept all the defaults, and get a working Linux box up.
Whether it's Windows or Linux, doing an installation requires a knowledge a little more advanced than PC 101: "This is a keyboard, and this is a mouse, and here's the ON switch."
Yeah, the trend is obvious. And seeing how unstable other police states are, the shit will be hitting the proverbial fan soon after we achieve official Police State-ness.
All these corporations who have such a strangle-lock on the Gov't, should take a cue. Such a condition would NOT be good for business. Hard to sell Britney Spears CDs when you're in a bunker somewhere.
The RIAA would be in favor of repealing the Bill of Rights, if it served their bottom line. Of course, they know they couldn't openly support such an action, since the shock to the middle class would probably spur a revolution which would end with the RIAA members being among the first against the wall.
There is more to space exploration than finding life.
I agree. But finding life on another planet will finally let us "get over it." It's as important as (well, maybe not quite as) finding and verifying an extra-solar Earth-like planet.
It'll shut up all those people trying to say there's nothing out there worth the trip.
As for interstellar exploration, we need a financial incentive, much like the X-Prize. Only, in this case, first company sponsoring a colonization mission to an Earth-like planet, claims it. Besides obvious objections from the natives, are there any international treaties which would bar such a claim, assuming that someone who has just traveled 700 light-years will give a flying rip about international treaties of a planet he left umpteen hundred years ago?
how long before we're driving down the highway and suddenly all of our radio stations turn into debt consolidation or penis enlargement ads?
I suspect that modifying an iPod antenna this way, and using it this way, would violate some pretty serious FCC laws against illegal use of frequencies. Get caught, pay BIG fine.
It's one thing to use it once or twice for giggles, but quite another to make a repeating business practice of it. You would eventually get burnt.
Destroying a baby-grand to sell another electronic piano?
For some odd reason, I was reminded of that movie, set in post WWI era, where some Army soldiers are ordered to slaughter hundreds of surplus Army horses, but instead, take them to Canada. If only I could remember the name.
Russian intercontinental ballistic missile known to NATO as SS-18 Satan was converted to a launch vehicle (called Dnepr) and is now launching American communications satellites for profit
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Hey everybody! The football pitch is mined, but nothing we can do about it, and the mines are mostly duds (mostly), so let's all have fun like nothing's wrong...
Next thing, they'll find there's stolen SCO code in their SCO code. Who will they sue? Darl's other brother Darl.
I once pretended that I was considering moving to a different apartment complex to get a discount on my current rent. It was all a bluff, but it worked.
Then the mark, 97 lbs soaking wet, hauls out a 20 lb maul and brains the big galoot.
Yeah, that's good.
Of course, they'd likely be arrested, so... maybe not such a good idea.
(And did anybody else have an image of gorillas in cars when you read the title?)
To lose an election, just think about your glandma naked. That, or run out of Viagla.
At least they're saving all that space they would have taken up in the landfill. After all, litter makes our Native American friends weep.
I remember in school hearing about Malthusian theory: that populations of organisms tend to grow to the point of starvation, then die off greatly, and slowly start the process all over again. I may over simplify, but that's the gist.
My theory is that governments (no, the RIAA is not the government, they just rent it) tend towards ever-increasing authoritarian control, until the population, no matter how long-suffering and patient, finally stand up on their hind legs, say "Enough!", those in the ivory towers get dragged into the street and shot, and you end up with a new government.
Then we start the long process all over again. "Meet the new boss: same as the old boss."
So, O. Hatch should have started with a bill making it a death penalty offense to be caught whistling the tune of a copyrighted song. Then bargained it down to merely outlawing anything which can be used to illegally copy something... Gee, which by the way would be any technology which put the RI in RIAA. Ironic...
"See? No death penalty! (Just forty lashes and a keel-hauling.) I'm not such a bad guy after all..."
Actually, that would be cool. You could get a lot of mileage out of your favorite novel:
Hey! A Tom Clancy novel I haven't read!
Boof!
Hey! A Tom Clancy novel I haven't read!
Boof!
Hey!...
And I, could at last be an Olympic contender.
If giant balls of hydrogen, many times as massive as the earth, could just up and disappear, we'd have much bigger problems than the speed of gravity to worry about. Of course, I understand that this is all hypothetical.
At least, as we hurled off into deep space, our scientific curiousity would be satisfied.
Saudi Arabia: 1500 mpg? 1500 mpg? In a Hummer? Oh, just nuke us now and get it over with... Save us from having to take out a 2nd mortgage on the royal palace.
Steve McQueen, from "The Great Escape." (You know, the whistling scene...)
I wonder if anyone has done a count of all the times that Marshal Matt Dillon took a bullet in the shoulder, and was just fine by next week's ep?
He should have died of lead poisoning, if nothing else.
Whether it's Windows or Linux, doing an installation requires a knowledge a little more advanced than PC 101: "This is a keyboard, and this is a mouse, and here's the ON switch."
Don't tell anybody, but that was going to be next week's /. article.
All these corporations who have such a strangle-lock on the Gov't, should take a cue. Such a condition would NOT be good for business. Hard to sell Britney Spears CDs when you're in a bunker somewhere.
No blind folds either.
Oh, and they were under contract from SCO, so there.
I agree. But finding life on another planet will finally let us "get over it." It's as important as (well, maybe not quite as) finding and verifying an extra-solar Earth-like planet.
It'll shut up all those people trying to say there's nothing out there worth the trip.
As for interstellar exploration, we need a financial incentive, much like the X-Prize. Only, in this case, first company sponsoring a colonization mission to an Earth-like planet, claims it. Besides obvious objections from the natives, are there any international treaties which would bar such a claim, assuming that someone who has just traveled 700 light-years will give a flying rip about international treaties of a planet he left umpteen hundred years ago?
I suspect that modifying an iPod antenna this way, and using it this way, would violate some pretty serious FCC laws against illegal use of frequencies. Get caught, pay BIG fine.
It's one thing to use it once or twice for giggles, but quite another to make a repeating business practice of it. You would eventually get burnt.
For some odd reason, I was reminded of that movie, set in post WWI era, where some Army soldiers are ordered to slaughter hundreds of surplus Army horses, but instead, take them to Canada. If only I could remember the name.
In any case, a senseless waste.
The primary motivator in most good business decisions, either in the short- or long-term. And since they're not a charity org, why else?