There are plenty of democracies or semi-democracies that would love to have our business.
You silly Americans with your silly idea of democracy! Democracy != business, you shouldn't link both ideas... Only gets you in a terrible mess. You're screwing up!
I, as a matter of fact, have a time machine at my disposal and use it only to watch television shows I accidently missed. I never travel back in time before the invention of the television.
I don't know about Goldfinger but am sure about Bush:
There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, it's probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on... shame on you. It fool me. We can't get fooled again."
What I want to know is if the taunting was done with a kind of french accent and if they insulted the tiger by shouting that one of his relatives smelled of elderberries!
Centuries from now, people will be wondering "Imagine what it was like to live through the era where in roughly one century we went from taking weeks to get a message across a country and taking literally MONTHS to travel across the sea... to the point where you could talk to someone on the other side of the world using a device no bigger than your fist, and could travel from New York to Australia in a matter of hours."
When the internet was new and free, the days of risky file sharing, slashdot, the generation's finest minds meeting on comment threads, battling roving bands of trolls, and holding the great dialogues of the age.
Now where did I hear that before:)
They'll of course be fuzzy on some details, the red cape, goggles, and high-altitude balloons come to mind immediately.
C: I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint!
O: We're closin' for lunch.
C: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this hd-dvd what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.
O: Oh yes, the, uh, the format...What's,uh...What's wrong with it?
C: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. 'E's dead, that's what's wrong with it!
O: No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting.
C: Look, matey, I know a dead hd-dvd when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
O: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable format, the hd-dvd, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage!
C: The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead.
O: Nononono, no, no! 'E's resting!
C: All right then, if he's restin', I'll wake him up!
(shouting at the hardware)
'Ello, HD-DVD! I've got a lovely fresh cuttle movie for you if you show...(owner hits the hardware)
O: There, he moved!
C: No, he didn't, that was you hitting the hardware!
O: I never!!
C: Yes, you did!
O: I never, never did anything...
C: (yelling and hitting the hardware repeatedly) 'ELLO HD!!!!!
Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your nine o'clock alarm call!
(Takes hd-dvd out of the hardware and thumps its head on the counter. Throws it up in the air and watches it plummet to the floor.)
C: Now that's what I call a dead hd-dvd.
O: No, no.....No, 'e's stunned!
C: STUNNED?!?
O: Yeah! You stunned him, just as he was wakin' up! Formats stun easily, major.
C: Um...now look...now look, mate, I've definitely 'ad enough of this. That hd-dvd is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not 'alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk.
O: Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the fjords.
C: PININ' for the FJORDS?!?!?!? What kind of talk is that?, look, why did he fall flat on his back the moment I got 'im home?
O: The hd-dvd format prefers kippin' on it's back! Remarkable format, id'nit, squire? Lovely plumage!
C: Look, I took the liberty of examining that hd-dvd when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting in its hardware in the first place was that it had been NAILED there.
(pause)
O: Well, o'course it was nailed there! If I hadn't nailed that bird down, it would have nuzzled up to those bars, bent 'em apart with its beak, and VOOM! Feeweeweewee!
C: "VOOM"?!? Mate, this hd-dvd wouldn't "voom" if you put four million volts through it! 'E's bleedin' demised!
O: No no! 'E's pining!
C: 'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This hd-dvd is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker!
'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies!
'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig!
'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!!
Over and over and over again; We've stated that we believe that it doesn't matter if we can get it for free or not. What matters is that we like it. And in the cases of books, movies and music, if we love it, we will want to buy a copy to place on our shelves!
I have yet to meet anyone with enormous digital collections of copyrighted works that didn't also have enormous physical collections of copyrighted works.
This is yet another clear illustration of what really drives the consumer and forgetting about lawyers trying to justify their existence, let the MARKETERS take notice that this is most likely to be a very successful business model for the future.
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So did the Velvet Underground:
I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears
Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather
Shiny leather in the dark
Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart
Severin, severin, speak so slightly
Severin, down on your bended knee
Taste the whip, in love not given lightly
Taste the whip, now plead for me
Five actually:
Reinvent the wheel...
There, you answered your own question! She had some RIAA songs on that computer, that's where the $50,000,000 comes from!
Du liebst mich nicht mehr?
You silly Americans with your silly idea of democracy! Democracy != business, you shouldn't link both ideas... Only gets you in a terrible mess. You're screwing up!
I think they prefer to be called 'women'!
Can you believe I have no idea what you're talking about?
Anomity and virtual worlds (a.k.a. the internet as I understand it) only breed this!
Thank $diety there's the law to stop people from singing out of tune!
:)
Jebus, it would, like, totally mess up discussions about encryption, about public and private keys...
So true!
I, as a matter of fact, have a time machine at my disposal and use it only to watch television shows I accidently missed. I never travel back in time before the invention of the television.
I don't know about Goldfinger but am sure about Bush:
What I want to know is if the taunting was done with a kind of french accent and if they insulted the tiger by shouting that one of his relatives smelled of elderberries!
It just means you can't understand a certain kind of humour.
Those who forget history are doomed to run it under emulation!
When the internet was new and free, the days of risky file sharing, slashdot, the generation's finest minds meeting on comment threads, battling roving bands of trolls, and holding the great dialogues of the age.
Now where did I hear that before :)
They'll of course be fuzzy on some details, the red cape, goggles, and high-altitude balloons come to mind immediately.
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
Or did I missunderstand your point about the HLT instruction?
Can you elaborate a little more on those Science Fiction asian massage parlors? How does it go? Do they read out loud Neil Stephenson while ... ?
Mmh, item 2, perhaps from XP?
A customer enters a multimedia shop.
Customer: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint.
(The owner does not respond.)
C: 'Ello, Miss?
Owner: What do you mean "miss"?
C: I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint!
O: We're closin' for lunch.
C: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this hd-dvd what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.
O: Oh yes, the, uh, the format...What's,uh...What's wrong with it?
C: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. 'E's dead, that's what's wrong with it!
O: No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting.
C: Look, matey, I know a dead hd-dvd when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
O: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable format, the hd-dvd, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage!
C: The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead.
O: Nononono, no, no! 'E's resting!
C: All right then, if he's restin', I'll wake him up!
(shouting at the hardware)
'Ello, HD-DVD! I've got a lovely fresh cuttle movie for you if you show...(owner hits the hardware)
O: There, he moved!
C: No, he didn't, that was you hitting the hardware!
O: I never!!
C: Yes, you did!
O: I never, never did anything...
C: (yelling and hitting the hardware repeatedly) 'ELLO HD!!!!!
Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your nine o'clock alarm call!
(Takes hd-dvd out of the hardware and thumps its head on the counter. Throws it up in the air and watches it plummet to the floor.)
C: Now that's what I call a dead hd-dvd.
O: No, no.....No, 'e's stunned!
C: STUNNED?!?
O: Yeah! You stunned him, just as he was wakin' up! Formats stun easily, major.
C: Um...now look...now look, mate, I've definitely 'ad enough of this. That hd-dvd is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not 'alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk.
O: Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the fjords.
C: PININ' for the FJORDS?!?!?!? What kind of talk is that?, look, why did he fall flat on his back the moment I got 'im home?
O: The hd-dvd format prefers kippin' on it's back! Remarkable format, id'nit, squire? Lovely plumage!
C: Look, I took the liberty of examining that hd-dvd when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting in its hardware in the first place was that it had been NAILED there.
(pause)
O: Well, o'course it was nailed there! If I hadn't nailed that bird down, it would have nuzzled up to those bars, bent 'em apart with its beak, and VOOM! Feeweeweewee!
C: "VOOM"?!? Mate, this hd-dvd wouldn't "voom" if you put four million volts through it! 'E's bleedin' demised!
O: No no! 'E's pining!
C: 'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This hd-dvd is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker!
'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies!
'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig!
'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!!
THIS IS AN HD-DVD!!
I'm sorry, this is the abuse department. The argument department is next door!
Git!
Over and over and over again; We've stated that we believe that it doesn't matter if we can get it for free or not. What matters is that we like it. And in the cases of books, movies and music, if we love it, we will want to buy a copy to place on our shelves!
I have yet to meet anyone with enormous digital collections of copyrighted works that didn't also have enormous physical collections of copyrighted works.
This is yet another clear illustration of what really drives the consumer and forgetting about lawyers trying to justify their existence, let the MARKETERS take notice that this is most likely to be a very successful business model for the future.
Naaa, this guy started it all. If he didn't leave with three boats the US would never have invaded Iraq!
Oh, I thought you were talking about your girlfriend and got all confused, this being slashdot and all :)
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