Given the overwhelming happiness of naive consumers to use electronics with (even highly restrictive) DRM
I'm not entirely sure you can call it "overwhelming happiness", maybe "overwhelming ignorance" is more accurate. In either case, I think we're going to end up seeing these very same consumers end up being more likely to violate DRM once they realize they don't have as much freedom as they thought. The first time Joe Sixpack realizes how difficult it is to make a mix tape of his favorite Toby Keith songs for his sweetie, he's going to the 'net to look for a crack. He sure as hell won't be writing his congress-bitch.
Can someone please explain to me what this bill is about?:
To amend title 38, United States Code, to make a stillborn child an insurable dependent for purposes of the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance program. (Full text, though it's not much, can be found here)
Is it just me or does this sound like he wants to legalize insurance fraud?
I would imagine there are a lot of bible-thumpers who would never hurt another human being, gay or not
That's probably true but, then again, you can sure find a shitload of Jesus lovin' Christians in most major U.S. prisons . . .
Hate is hate, no matter how much one dresses it up in theology. Whenever I hear a bible-thumper rail about how all the folks he defines as "sinners" will soon be roasting in hell, I'm reminded of that Rowan Atkinson skit where he plays the devil welcoming folks to hell. There's a bit where he's dividing up the new arrivals into smaller, easier to manage groups (e.g. sodomites, adulterers, etc.), and he says,
"Christians . . . yes, I believe some of you are fairly surprised to be here, but, you see, the Jews were right."
Ah...but thanks to the second amendment, a sawed-ff shotgun, and the severly reduced gravitational effects, he'll be able to shoot a whole lotta trespassers from a very long way away . . .
Crap. The crap that nobody else in the world has the poor sense to buy.
American carmakers are still hellbent on the notion that muscle is better than mileage, despite the fact that there is so much traffic on the roads that all that power becomes useless in the congestion. So now, that $2.00+ a gallon folks spend on gas is wasted while idling in a massive traffic jam. But hey, at least folks can look cool in an oversized gass guzzler while standing still.
The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles...hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worlwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages...And we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet...the planet...the planet isn't going anywhere. WE ARE!
We're going away. Pack your shit, folks. We're going away. And we won't leave much of a trace, either. Thank God for that. Maybe a little styrofoam. Maybe. A little styrofoam. The planet'll be here and we'll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet'll shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance.
I don't get it either, dude. Is he complaining about A) Bill being tied up with the press, B) giving away his money, or C) giving to charity, or D) all of the above?
If it's A, it's probably intended to mean Bill should spend more time with his developers. Possibly a valid point, but presented in a horribly malignant way.
If it's B or C, he should seek professional counselling. Soon.
If it's D, there's no hope for him. He'll never be happy and should consider moving to a small shack somewhere in the wilderness - preferably without easy access to the Internet, firearms and/or explosives.
If a marketter thinks he can treat me as a hostile idiot, I'm pefectly prepared to behave like a hostile idiot.
I'll refuse to have anything to do with his products. And no amount of reasoning or changed behavior on their part will ever make me change my mind. Ever.
United Virtualities's PIE helps combat this consumer behavior by leveraging a feature in Flash MX called local shared objects [emphasis mine]
So this is what it's come to: we the consumers are officially enemy combatants?!?
OK then, fine. I can live with that.
But tell me one thing: can a businesses that hires a marketeer that treats their customers thus way live without my business, or say, the business of the 58% of Internet users that are apparently getting tired enough of this crap to actively seek out and delete cookies?
Didn't think so.
Business needs to realize that it is precisely because of this entitlement mentality that people are beginning to get pissed. Personal lives and habits are not a gift given automatically with the purchase of a six-pack. My $3.49 doesn't give you any right to compile a psychological shoppping profile. You want to know about my buying habits? Ask Me!!! Try to take it without my knowledge, or sneak it off my hard drive and I'll treat your business no better than I would a common thief: from an extreme distance, and fully armed.
Editors of the popular technology "news" site, Slashdot were found twitching uncontrollably with blood pouring from their ears in the early morning hours of April 2nd. According to the last lucid survivor, a man who only identified himself as "CowboyNeal", all apparently succombed to madness in a last minute orgy of posting numerous, and increasingly bizarre April Fool's spoofs to their site.
According to "CowboyNeal", "Once we started, we just couldn't stop. It was like crack or something."
I also suffer from poor eyesight. What I've noticed is that I can spend more time in front of an LCD monitor without feeling the eyestrain I used to experience with a CRT. In the CRT days, I could only code for about three hours before I began getting severe headaches and that "sleepy eyed" sense of being visually tired. With the LCD, I can go a full workday (which may or may not be a good thing...) switching between Windows and CLI Linux without any noticeable irritation.
Another actor requested the producers install a high-speed internet connection and a microphone at her house so she could just phone in her performance.
In Richter's case, if he had just kept his mouth shut occasionally, he probably wouldn't have become such a target. Instead he flaunted his disregard for other folk's opinions and built an incredibly high precipice to throw himself off.
Unfortunately though, it's not he'll be selling pencils on the street corner any time soon. As many others have already mentioned, he's most likely got a large chunk of change squirrelled away in a few Cayman accounts that'll keep high on Margarita's for years to come.
You send this in to the BBC as an editorial to the article. It's stuff like this that is too often left out of the mainstream press. Hopefully, the general public might take a bit of insight from your responses instead of relying on this poor sod's delusional assumption that computers should work like his toaster, and that tech support is a one question, one solution affair.
Maybe it's a "she". Rouge; the vampish investigator.
An attractive woman could pretty much load whatever she wanted to those servers and no male geek was gonna say anything contrary.
If it'd been a guy, well, everybody'd be comparing the lengths of the encryption keys on their "warez".
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I'm not entirely sure you can call it "overwhelming happiness", maybe "overwhelming ignorance" is more accurate. In either case, I think we're going to end up seeing these very same consumers end up being more likely to violate DRM once they realize they don't have as much freedom as they thought. The first time Joe Sixpack realizes how difficult it is to make a mix tape of his favorite Toby Keith songs for his sweetie, he's going to the 'net to look for a crack. He sure as hell won't be writing his congress-bitch.
That's probably true but, then again, you can sure find a shitload of Jesus lovin' Christians in most major U.S. prisons . . .
Hate is hate, no matter how much one dresses it up in theology. Whenever I hear a bible-thumper rail about how all the folks he defines as "sinners" will soon be roasting in hell, I'm reminded of that Rowan Atkinson skit where he plays the devil welcoming folks to hell. There's a bit where he's dividing up the new arrivals into smaller, easier to manage groups (e.g. sodomites, adulterers, etc.), and he says,
Meteor Hits Hartford, Insurance Industry Destroyed
[sigh]
Well . . . we can dream . . .
Yep. Once you get past the two to three hour wait for the body cavity search, Atlanta has a ton of flights to choose from.
I don't know. It seems to me that although his methods are little more than publicity stunts, at least they do get people talking about the issues.
I mean, when was the last time you heard Joe Sixpack considering the implications of being under near constant surveillance?
Ah...but thanks to the second amendment, a sawed-ff shotgun, and the severly reduced gravitational effects, he'll be able to shoot a whole lotta trespassers from a very long way away . . .
...where everything depends on who it is being owned.
Crap. The crap that nobody else in the world has the poor sense to buy.
American carmakers are still hellbent on the notion that muscle is better than mileage, despite the fact that there is so much traffic on the roads that all that power becomes useless in the congestion. So now, that $2.00+ a gallon folks spend on gas is wasted while idling in a massive traffic jam. But hey, at least folks can look cool in an oversized gass guzzler while standing still.
Get 'em hooked on the gimmes, then ream 'em on the return.
Let's hope that the impending avalanche of negativity will influence BitKeeper to reconsider at least a token giveback to the Linux community.
I don't get it either, dude. Is he complaining about A) Bill being tied up with the press, B) giving away his money, or C) giving to charity, or D) all of the above?
If it's A, it's probably intended to mean Bill should spend more time with his developers. Possibly a valid point, but presented in a horribly malignant way.
If it's B or C, he should seek professional counselling. Soon.
If it's D, there's no hope for him. He'll never be happy and should consider moving to a small shack somewhere in the wilderness - preferably without easy access to the Internet, firearms and/or explosives.
Just switch the scientists to decaf. That'll save some money . . .
That was precisely my point.
If a marketter thinks he can treat me as a hostile idiot, I'm pefectly prepared to behave like a hostile idiot.
I'll refuse to have anything to do with his products. And no amount of reasoning or changed behavior on their part will ever make me change my mind. Ever.
So this is what it's come to: we the consumers are officially enemy combatants?!?
OK then, fine. I can live with that.
But tell me one thing: can a businesses that hires a marketeer that treats their customers thus way live without my business, or say, the business of the 58% of Internet users that are apparently getting tired enough of this crap to actively seek out and delete cookies?
Didn't think so.
Business needs to realize that it is precisely because of this entitlement mentality that people are beginning to get pissed. Personal lives and habits are not a gift given automatically with the purchase of a six-pack. My $3.49 doesn't give you any right to compile a psychological shoppping profile. You want to know about my buying habits? Ask Me!!! Try to take it without my knowledge, or sneak it off my hard drive and I'll treat your business no better than I would a common thief: from an extreme distance, and fully armed.
Editors of the popular technology "news" site, Slashdot were found twitching uncontrollably with blood pouring from their ears in the early morning hours of April 2nd. According to the last lucid survivor, a man who only identified himself as "CowboyNeal", all apparently succombed to madness in a last minute orgy of posting numerous, and increasingly bizarre April Fool's spoofs to their site.
According to "CowboyNeal", "Once we started, we just couldn't stop. It was like crack or something."
Man, that's just nuts. But then again:
So I'm guessing that by the time the radiation gets damaging, they're pretty much too dead to care.
I also suffer from poor eyesight. What I've noticed is that I can spend more time in front of an LCD monitor without feeling the eyestrain I used to experience with a CRT. In the CRT days, I could only code for about three hours before I began getting severe headaches and that "sleepy eyed" sense of being visually tired. With the LCD, I can go a full workday (which may or may not be a good thing...) switching between Windows and CLI Linux without any noticeable irritation.
I thought this bit was particularly funny:
Some users of the so-called "radical websites" have issued this terse press release:
In Richter's case, if he had just kept his mouth shut occasionally, he probably wouldn't have become such a target. Instead he flaunted his disregard for other folk's opinions and built an incredibly high precipice to throw himself off.
Unfortunately though, it's not he'll be selling pencils on the street corner any time soon. As many others have already mentioned, he's most likely got a large chunk of change squirrelled away in a few Cayman accounts that'll keep high on Margarita's for years to come.
Simple. He's applying for a job - likes the idea of dividends.
You send this in to the BBC as an editorial to the article. It's stuff like this that is too often left out of the mainstream press. Hopefully, the general public might take a bit of insight from your responses instead of relying on this poor sod's delusional assumption that computers should work like his toaster, and that tech support is a one question, one solution affair.
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Maybe it's a "she". Rouge; the vampish investigator.
An attractive woman could pretty much load whatever she wanted to those servers and no male geek was gonna say anything contrary. If it'd been a guy, well, everybody'd be comparing the lengths of the encryption keys on their "warez".