Give each customer their own machine that they can do pretty much what they please with, root rights and all. No customer gets rights over the other customers' VMs, though.
You quote the wrong numbers (qualifying them with "something like" and "about"), then try to claim that the combined votes of two candidates being larger (again, by your "something like" margin) than another candidate means the latter candidate could not possibly win.
I can use the real numbers and yet use your logic to "prove" that "the people didn't elect" Gore. See, Bush and Nader got 50.6%. Gore got 48.4%.
Peoples' motiviations are shaped by their worldviews -- whether their worldview is based on a religion or other idealistic system.
Interesting conclusion -- it seems to me, purely anecdotally of course, that folks' worldviews are more often shaped by their motivations. But I don't think you could prove either way. Maybe it's just my cynicism that leads me to that conclusion, and being so cynical is why I believe in imperfect man only redeemed by God.:-)
Exactly. The problem is probably (I've seen it myself) that the monitor claims it can do XYZ refresh rate, but wait, that's pretty damn fuzzy, so oh well we'll just fix it in the monitor driver.
I can't even begin to count how many monitors have this problem.
Which is a far cry from what we're talking about. Way way back in this thread, we were talking about people who, by virtue of running their own game, make more per CD, sell fewer copies, and come out far ahead of what they did when the label micromanaged them.
"My car got broken into, and I keep all 900 CDs that I've ever bought since I was in diapers in my car. For some reason, the insurance company refuses to replace them. Therefore I am entitled to Free Music."
"It is too much work to insert my CD and let a program convert it to MP3/Ogg/etc with almost no intervention on my part. Therefore I am going to get it as Free Music instead. I am sure that the collective membership of Kazaa has the same quality standards I do.
"Joe Sixpack doesn't want to listen to any of these hokey eighth-rate artists! He wants RIAA artists, and until they wake up, he is entitled to Free Music."
"Copyright lasts too long, so I want Free Music that has only been published for three days."
"The site is slashdotted! It is too much work for me to wait for it to come back online, so instead I am going to go in search of a complete album of Free Music consisting of tracks encoded in twelve different codecs in bitrates all over God's green earth."
"Until the RIAA starts treating their artists better, I am going to make sure they can't pay them by only listening to their music if I get it as Free Music!"
They are making a LOT more money than they did with Cleopatra but aren't getting distributed as much.
Pardon my possibly naive economic reasoning, but...
This begs the (horribly rhetorical) question: if you make more by calling the shots yourself, but get a smaller distribution, of what use is the larger distribution anyway?
Plus, if you're smaller, you've got more room to grow.
Attitudes like yours are a good part of the reason we're dealing with legal and technical measures that get in the way of me using media I legitimately purchase in any way I see fit.
It's really all about free music for people like you, otherwise you'd all be writing Congress and they'd be bending over backwards to take care of the problem lest they get voted out next term.
In Georgia, Max Cleland (sp??) lost in 2002 to a Republican even though he was polling 11% ahead right before the election.
While there is certainly cause for investigation there, it is vitally important to note that a poll and the vote outcome disagreeing is not proof of vote fraud. Suggestion of the possibility of same, sure.
The thing is, it's not 100% of people who will be very unreceptive. It's been covered before that a not-insignificant portion of the list is people who know they shouldn't buy over the phone but for one reason or another are helpless when someone actually gets them on the phone.
Certainly it's wrong. But it wouldn't even be an issue if it weren't for the real copyright infringement that does go on.
(Incidentally, most of my music is either ogged to go on my laptop or MP3'd for my MP3/CD player, too. Yet I wonder if that will be legal in a few years, and if it becomes illegal, I'll know who to blame...)
What bugs me most is that (apparently) millions of people feel cavalier copyright infringement is their right, giving the content cartels the push they need to get laws that get in the way of innocent behavior.
I mean, come on, seriously, if all these really cared about copyright reform, the Sonny Bono act would have been repealed in Congress by now in response to the outcry from the citizenry.
Wrong answer. It is vital that the interface is well-constructed and auditable as well. What's to stop the interface from intentionally or unintentionally reporting incorrect votes to the backend?
My worry is that the general public won't believe the system is being tampered with unless an election is obviously manipulated. Until that happens, anyone who complains will be labeled a paranoid conspiracy theorist.
While I sympathize, it'd be a heck of a lot easier to convince the public at large if there were more of a shortage of paranoid conspiracies widely propagated on the Internet.
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Give each customer their own machine that they can do pretty much what they please with, root rights and all. No customer gets rights over the other customers' VMs, though.
RTFA. It's GPL.
(waiting for the 20 second delay to expire... @#%$! Slashdot)
That is really pathetic.
You quote the wrong numbers (qualifying them with "something like" and "about"), then try to claim that the combined votes of two candidates being larger (again, by your "something like" margin) than another candidate means the latter candidate could not possibly win.
I can use the real numbers and yet use your logic to "prove" that "the people didn't elect" Gore. See, Bush and Nader got 50.6%. Gore got 48.4%.
Dude. If you don't let people open the machines, you don't exactly have a problem here. BIOS password, done. Seriously.
Interesting conclusion -- it seems to me, purely anecdotally of course, that folks' worldviews are more often shaped by their motivations. But I don't think you could prove either way. Maybe it's just my cynicism that leads me to that conclusion, and being so cynical is why I believe in imperfect man only redeemed by God. :-)
Where can I see these articles? I need to pass them around.
(wishful thinking...)
Exactly. The problem is probably (I've seen it myself) that the monitor claims it can do XYZ refresh rate, but wait, that's pretty damn fuzzy, so oh well we'll just fix it in the monitor driver.
I can't even begin to count how many monitors have this problem.
Which is a far cry from what we're talking about. Way way back in this thread, we were talking about people who, by virtue of running their own game, make more per CD, sell fewer copies, and come out far ahead of what they did when the label micromanaged them.
i.e. 500 x $5 instead of 50,000 x $0.02.
Make sense?
Oh, there's plenty of reason^H^H^H^H^H^Hexcuses!
"My car got broken into, and I keep all 900 CDs that I've ever bought since I was in diapers in my car. For some reason, the insurance company refuses to replace them. Therefore I am entitled to Free Music."
"It is too much work to insert my CD and let a program convert it to MP3/Ogg/etc with almost no intervention on my part. Therefore I am going to get it as Free Music instead. I am sure that the collective membership of Kazaa has the same quality standards I do.
"Joe Sixpack doesn't want to listen to any of these hokey eighth-rate artists! He wants RIAA artists, and until they wake up, he is entitled to Free Music."
"Copyright lasts too long, so I want Free Music that has only been published for three days."
"The site is slashdotted! It is too much work for me to wait for it to come back online, so instead I am going to go in search of a complete album of Free Music consisting of tracks encoded in twelve different codecs in bitrates all over God's green earth."
"Until the RIAA starts treating their artists better, I am going to make sure they can't pay them by only listening to their music if I get it as Free Music!"
Pardon my possibly naive economic reasoning, but...
This begs the (horribly rhetorical) question: if you make more by calling the shots yourself, but get a smaller distribution, of what use is the larger distribution anyway?
Plus, if you're smaller, you've got more room to grow.
Yes, it does stand to reason that ALL THREE injured owners got hurt, if three out of three of them did.
Also, a 100% injury rate would be "ride a Segway, get injured".
Perhaps you meant to say something else?
Attitudes like yours are a good part of the reason we're dealing with legal and technical measures that get in the way of me using media I legitimately purchase in any way I see fit.
It's really all about free music for people like you, otherwise you'd all be writing Congress and they'd be bending over backwards to take care of the problem lest they get voted out next term.
Right, because Dems are Good and Pure and would never act against Citizens.
Does Godwin's Law have a bastard brother that involves blaming the Jews for all that is wrong with the world?
I'm just wondering, because it seems to me that it could be used quite fruitfully to put bullshit like the parent post in its proper place.
While there is certainly cause for investigation there, it is vitally important to note that a poll and the vote outcome disagreeing is not proof of vote fraud. Suggestion of the possibility of same, sure.
Proof of vote fraud would include things like ballot boxes floating in the San Francisco Bay, provided of course the story is reliable.
They probably weren't "minority" votes, ergo they could not be disenfranchised.
Remember, kids, white Christian males control the world, and therefore don't deserve equal protection under the law.
Never ascribe to malice what can be ascribed to incompetence or outright stupidity.
The thing is, it's not 100% of people who will be very unreceptive. It's been covered before that a not-insignificant portion of the list is people who know they shouldn't buy over the phone but for one reason or another are helpless when someone actually gets them on the phone.
If I'm considering the Iraq war, I'd have to say that the correctness of a decision does not make it popular.
Certainly it's wrong. But it wouldn't even be an issue if it weren't for the real copyright infringement that does go on.
(Incidentally, most of my music is either ogged to go on my laptop or MP3'd for my MP3/CD player, too. Yet I wonder if that will be legal in a few years, and if it becomes illegal, I'll know who to blame...)
That's a close second.
What bugs me most is that (apparently) millions of people feel cavalier copyright infringement is their right, giving the content cartels the push they need to get laws that get in the way of innocent behavior.
I mean, come on, seriously, if all these really cared about copyright reform, the Sonny Bono act would have been repealed in Congress by now in response to the outcry from the citizenry.
But it's all really about free music...
Wrong answer. It is vital that the interface is well-constructed and auditable as well. What's to stop the interface from intentionally or unintentionally reporting incorrect votes to the backend?
While I sympathize, it'd be a heck of a lot easier to convince the public at large if there were more of a shortage of paranoid conspiracies widely propagated on the Internet.
"I'm 19 years old" and "Lets recall bush"... why am I not surprised?
Goddamn commie youth. Don't know a good thing if it bites them in the ass.
So the solution, it would seem, is for these kids to commit suicide instead of kill others...
(-1, Tasteless)