I have a Mac, and since WMA files won't play on a Mac, they're selling faulty merchandise.
Yeah, I know all the arguments about buying a vinyl record and expecting it to work in a tape player, but dammit, if it doesn't play in my computer, it's not a CD, and shouldn't be advertised as such.
Also, corporations do not have any fundamental "right" to exist. Corporations are charters granted by the state. Until the late 1880s in the US, the state could excersize the right to revoke a charter if it were determined that the corporation were not acting in the best interest of the citizenry.
You've said that before, and it's an interesting thought, but I've never been able to find corroborating evidence. Do you have a source?
I don't have a landline, only a cell phone. My tactic is to hang up as soon as I know it's a telemarketer, because otherwise they're wasting my minutes.
If they called during the night or weekend, when I have unlimited minutes, I'd have some fun with them, but until I have unlimited minutes during the week, they get the "End" button as soon as I can find it.
The Darwin Award is an award for people who remove themselves from the gene pool in hilarious ways, and in the process demonstrate that their genes really shouldn't have been passed on to the next generation anyway.
Well, even using the numbers you gave, it would be twice that. But if you actually used RIAA math, the tax would come to about $12K, plus legal fees, court costs and laundry expenses. The actual math used to arrive at this number is proprietary, so they don't have to show you.Oh, and that $12K is calculated under the assumption that 1 kilodollar = 1024 dollars.
Leading market analysts expect us to return to the stone age with a decade. Thanks, RIAA!
I've never been one to fall for the double-the trick, actually. I catch those mistakes in print now and then, and I usually have to point them out to people more than once. ("Look at this typo!...Yeah, I know. Look again." But that's when I bother.)
I sometimes wonder if I would be able to read faster if I could parse over such things, but I definitely prefer being able to get the jokes that result.
There is no business case for making cars harder to steal for the auto industry.
Other than customer demand for cars which won't be stolen...
But auto theft is a steady stream of income. Lack of it simply means customer loyalty. A person will buy a new car a lot earlier if it gets stolen. As long as everyone cooperates, it better for all car manufacturers to opt for easily stolen cars.
A friend of mine just got a ticket for possession of alcohol (he's under 21). The fine was $200.
In Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he got the ticket, the fine for possession of marijuana is $25.
Come and join the fun in Ann Arbor, where it's all weed, all the time! Just don't get caught on University property, where the fine is $2000 and jail time. Oh, and only smoke joints--they'll take your piece away if they catch you lighting it up, be it a pipe, a bong, or a Reeferator RFC 3000.
That's why we need an amendment to the Constitution to require political leaders to lead their troops into wars they start. I think we would have a much more pacifistic government if that were the case.
I'm draft-age, and there was serious talk from some Congresspeople during these last couple wars of reinstating the draft. My stance is that I won't go to war until the President is over there with a gun in his hands fighting alongside his troops.
Then again, the thought of our current president with a gun in his hands is downright frightening, in any setting.
Is it illegal for me to sell a CD if I've made a backup copy? Maybe, maybe not, but that possibility doesn't mean that RIAA member companies have to monitor such backups in case I try to sell a CD used at a later date. I could as easily (more easily, really) connect my CD player to some recording device--my computer, say--and make a copy without any chance of detection as use a program that intercepts my computer's audio signal on its way to the line-out port. I could photocopy a book, keep the copy and sell the original as "used". Everything you cite as a burden for Apple applies equally to other media, yet it doesn't seem to be much of a concern for those publishers.
For that matter, I could buy music from the iTMS, burn it to a CD, and then make and sell dozens of copies of the CD. If I'm using Toast to make bit-for-bit copies, then iTunes's restriction to 10 burns before changing the playlist doesn't apply, and I can make a little factory of pirated CDs. Apple is under no obligation to stop this. They put up digital restrictions that make it somewhat difficult, they discourage their customers from doing it--and not only is that legally sufficient, it's unnecessary except as a concession to the RIAA because they wouldn't have gotten a contract otherwise. In fact, it's more copy protection than a typical CD.
...selling Windows licenses to Mac users is just too good for MS to pass up.
Plus, they get to double-dip. Not only are they selling us the license to their operating system, but for an extra charge they're selling us the software that allows us to run said OS. Sorta like they just got into the OEM business, but without all the overhead of actually designing and manufacturing hardware. Hell, they don't even have to design the software--they just bought it. All they really have to do is print copies of the CD and stick it in boxes. And with their cash on hand approaching $5e10, I can't imagine that that purchase made any more impact on their finances than, say, buying a pack of gum would on mine.
Of course, being a college student, I'm ashamed to say that buying a pack of gum actually would have an adverse effect on my finances...
Don't forget the fun of being able to take a screenshot of the BSOD. I used it as my desktop background for a while, just to prod my Windows-using friends.
Yes. I would say the "Interesting" mods are fair, while the "Underrated" mod is unfair, since it doesn't increase your karma. It has happened that I got to meta-mod moderations on posts I had already read, but don't hold your breath.
Don't worry. Despite the name, it's becoming clear that SCO is neither from Santa Cruz, nor really an operation, so their lies will only sully their own name.
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There are inferior bacteria on the interior of my posterior. Bacterium is the singular.
.sig replies, and this is both. Nevertheless, I had to say it.
I know, not only are grammar nazi posts off-topic, but so are
Sleep dispruption, eh? So that's the explanation.... Time to start looking for a good hookup again.
I have a Mac, and since WMA files won't play on a Mac, they're selling faulty merchandise.
Yeah, I know all the arguments about buying a vinyl record and expecting it to work in a tape player, but dammit, if it doesn't play in my computer, it's not a CD, and shouldn't be advertised as such.
Also, corporations do not have any fundamental "right" to exist. Corporations are charters granted by the state. Until the late 1880s in the US, the state could excersize the right to revoke a charter if it were determined that the corporation were not acting in the best interest of the citizenry.
You've said that before, and it's an interesting thought, but I've never been able to find corroborating evidence. Do you have a source?
I don't have a landline, only a cell phone. My tactic is to hang up as soon as I know it's a telemarketer, because otherwise they're wasting my minutes.
If they called during the night or weekend, when I have unlimited minutes, I'd have some fun with them, but until I have unlimited minutes during the week, they get the "End" button as soon as I can find it.
This is a commercial matter, not a human rights matter. Morality doesn't enter into it; the majority should rule.
The Darwin Award is an award for people who remove themselves from the gene pool in hilarious ways, and in the process demonstrate that their genes really shouldn't have been passed on to the next generation anyway.
So taxes on a 120 GB HDD would be $1843.20.
Well, even using the numbers you gave, it would be twice that. But if you actually used RIAA math, the tax would come to about $12K, plus legal fees, court costs and laundry expenses. The actual math used to arrive at this number is proprietary, so they don't have to show you.Oh, and that $12K is calculated under the assumption that 1 kilodollar = 1024 dollars.
Leading market analysts expect us to return to the stone age with a decade. Thanks, RIAA!
I've never been one to fall for the double-the trick, actually. I catch those mistakes in print now and then, and I usually have to point them out to people more than once. ("Look at this typo!...Yeah, I know. Look again." But that's when I bother.)
I sometimes wonder if I would be able to read faster if I could parse over such things, but I definitely prefer being able to get the jokes that result.
The word was GOOGLE... ...and it was good.
Great. Now, which stranger's advice do I take?
I think I'll take the grandparent poster's suggestion, and discard that of the parent poster. That way, there's no contradiction.
"Forgive me, Daddy, for I have sinned..."
Other than customer demand for cars which won't be stolen...
But auto theft is a steady stream of income. Lack of it simply means customer loyalty. A person will buy a new car a lot earlier if it gets stolen. As long as everyone cooperates, it better for all car manufacturers to opt for easily stolen cars.
Marx on sex: From each according to his virility, to each according to her need.
I'm virile. How can I help?
I believe so. I prefer to toke first, then go there and play frisbee.
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
I also like this quote, from the same comic: "We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities."
Is there anywhere I can get old Pogo comics online?
A friend of mine just got a ticket for possession of alcohol (he's under 21). The fine was $200.
In Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he got the ticket, the fine for possession of marijuana is $25.
Come and join the fun in Ann Arbor, where it's all weed, all the time! Just don't get caught on University property, where the fine is $2000 and jail time. Oh, and only smoke joints--they'll take your piece away if they catch you lighting it up, be it a pipe, a bong, or a Reeferator RFC 3000.
That's why we need an amendment to the Constitution to require political leaders to lead their troops into wars they start. I think we would have a much more pacifistic government if that were the case.
I'm draft-age, and there was serious talk from some Congresspeople during these last couple wars of reinstating the draft. My stance is that I won't go to war until the President is over there with a gun in his hands fighting alongside his troops.
Then again, the thought of our current president with a gun in his hands is downright frightening, in any setting.
Is it illegal for me to sell a CD if I've made a backup copy? Maybe, maybe not, but that possibility doesn't mean that RIAA member companies have to monitor such backups in case I try to sell a CD used at a later date. I could as easily (more easily, really) connect my CD player to some recording device--my computer, say--and make a copy without any chance of detection as use a program that intercepts my computer's audio signal on its way to the line-out port. I could photocopy a book, keep the copy and sell the original as "used". Everything you cite as a burden for Apple applies equally to other media, yet it doesn't seem to be much of a concern for those publishers.
For that matter, I could buy music from the iTMS, burn it to a CD, and then make and sell dozens of copies of the CD. If I'm using Toast to make bit-for-bit copies, then iTunes's restriction to 10 burns before changing the playlist doesn't apply, and I can make a little factory of pirated CDs. Apple is under no obligation to stop this. They put up digital restrictions that make it somewhat difficult, they discourage their customers from doing it--and not only is that legally sufficient, it's unnecessary except as a concession to the RIAA because they wouldn't have gotten a contract otherwise. In fact, it's more copy protection than a typical CD.
Case in point: Windows 95. Wasn't it originally supposed to come out in 1993? Delayed all that time, and it still sucked.
Maybe what takes them so long is finding places to add bugs.
Too bad half of infinity is still infinity.
...selling Windows licenses to Mac users is just too good for MS to pass up.
Plus, they get to double-dip. Not only are they selling us the license to their operating system, but for an extra charge they're selling us the software that allows us to run said OS. Sorta like they just got into the OEM business, but without all the overhead of actually designing and manufacturing hardware. Hell, they don't even have to design the software--they just bought it. All they really have to do is print copies of the CD and stick it in boxes. And with their cash on hand approaching $5e10, I can't imagine that that purchase made any more impact on their finances than, say, buying a pack of gum would on mine.
Of course, being a college student, I'm ashamed to say that buying a pack of gum actually would have an adverse effect on my finances...
Don't forget the fun of being able to take a screenshot of the BSOD. I used it as my desktop background for a while, just to prod my Windows-using friends.
Metamoderators: Are you watching this!?
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Yes. I would say the "Interesting" mods are fair, while the "Underrated" mod is unfair, since it doesn't increase your karma. It has happened that I got to meta-mod moderations on posts I had already read, but don't hold your breath.
Don't worry. Despite the name, it's becoming clear that SCO is neither from Santa Cruz, nor really an operation, so their lies will only sully their own name.