Personally, I always thought that pr0n sites should be.sex sites... for instance teens.sex girls.sex...(or if you prefer) goat.sex It would make pr0n easier to find for those who were looking for it, and easy to avoid for those looking to avoid it.... just my 2 cents..
~mauthbaux
I rrecently upgraded my case from the POS that I had before. While shopping for the new case, I ran across these kits. While they sound interesting, (and I'd give them props for the concept if it weren't for the legos and erector sets that had it long before them) The finished products from their gallery are rather dissapointing visually.
I am an art major, so that might have something to do with my bias, but as far as I can tell, you'd get much better results visually with a couple sheets of plexi, your saw of choice, a dremel and some acrylic joining compound, (I use IPS Weld-on 3... got it from http://www.tapplastics.com ) In my mind, the latter setup will give you alot more flexibility in your case than a pre-made kit.
of course, i could just have looked at the gallery and gotten dissapointed too quickly to really make a fair critique of the product. *shrug*
I usually treat reqests just like all other items of insane babbling.... reply with:
1: RTFM!
2: Get over it!
if they succesfully accomplish either of those, the problem is solved!
The Library analogy I do understand. However, a radio station does basically the same thing that these filesharers are doing, and likely on a much larger scale. AFAIK, people downloading these shared files are really only doing the same thing as pressing the record button when they listen to the radio. I don't think that many people, (or the RIAA for that matter) would see this as being 'wrong'. If they then turned around and tried to sell those recordings, then there's obviously a problem, but free distribution would act as a form of advertisement in favor of the said station.
As a point of interest, we can all look back to the 1950s of Radio where the payola scandals were going on. Record companies were actually paying the radio stations to play certain songs. Last time I checked, there was still quite a bit of this going on. So, would filesharers stop getting so many threats if they added annoying commercials to the MP3s they're sharing? How is filesharing different than a radio broadcast?
At this point, the best move that I think the RIAA can make would be to create freely available low quality versions of the music and use it as a way of advertising. Most people wouldn't be willing to burn it to a CD if the sound quality was bad, and they could still have the 'try before you buy' bennefits.
Now all we need to do is convince the spammers to use their bandwidth to check the news rather than using it to piss the rest of us off. As soon as they see that there's consequences for their irritating actions, I'm sure they'll turn around, and most people's e-mail boxes will remain empty.
It prettymuch was popular interest that ended prohibition as well. The book "Drug Crazy" by Mike Gray made that point pretty clear. According to his statistics, heavy drinking (which was a crime) and violent crime rates skyrocketted. Getting rid of prohibition helped the economy (in the hospitality industry) as well as helped decrease the amount of gang activities.
Human civilzation has advanced when information and communication became more common. By promoting free access to information, society as a whole ends up benifitting (that is, unless your idea of an ideal world still has outhouses and no deoderant.) What the record and software industries need to understand is that prettymuch no matter how illegal they try to make file sharing, it will still be around. Big brother isn't going to get them out of the quandry they now face.
What they really need to focus their efforts on is attempts to proffit off of it, or how they should abandon what they're doing and move into a new industry. When the automobile replaced the horse as the popular form of transportation, the people who sided with the horse-based businesses had only themselves to blame. The masses have spoken, and filesharing is going to be around until it gets replaced by better, more popular and convenient technology. Those who still try to stand on their soap boxes and stop everyone have only themselves to blame when their efforts fail...
Live shows are great and all, but even then, the agencies have alot more say in the matter than the actual bands do, regardless of how popular they are. Pearl Jam was in a court battle for quite awhile a few years ago against ticket-master. They eventually ended up losing the case (allowing ticketmaster to control the prices on tickets for all of their shows).
When it comes down to it, most musical artists know exactly what they're getting into when they enter the business. They don't do it for the money or the fame; they do it for the love of making music. We all have decisions like that to make in our lives. What's more important to us?... having money to support our family?... or doing what we love and (hopefully) just scraping by?.... I don't sympathise with the record companies, but with all the stinking welfare programs that my tax dollars are paying for, I don't think that we need to need to take too much pity on the artists either.
If you respect the band and love their music, buy the CDs, go to the shows, and write them some fan mail. If you only like one of their songs and think that everything else about them (or the label they're working under)... then go grab the mp3s off of some p2p network.... it's that simple.....
I can just imagine all of the overclocking freaks trying to figure out a way to use the nebula to keep their processors at a reasonable temperature.... Imagine computing life without heat-sinks or fans! of course, all those flaming processors would end up creating enough heat to send the whole nebula boiling away, and we'd be back searching for the ultimate cooling solution once again....
personally, I'm kinda excited about microsoft's involvement with the whole thing. NOT! Does this mean that they get to screw up my computer before I even load an OS? (which prolly won't be windows anyhow)
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Personally, I always thought that pr0n sites should be .sex sites... for instance teens.sex girls.sex...(or if you prefer) goat.sex It would make pr0n easier to find for those who were looking for it, and easy to avoid for those looking to avoid it.... just my 2 cents..
~mauthbaux
I rrecently upgraded my case from the POS that I had before. While shopping for the new case, I ran across these kits. While they sound interesting, (and I'd give them props for the concept if it weren't for the legos and erector sets that had it long before them) The finished products from their gallery are rather dissapointing visually.
I am an art major, so that might have something to do with my bias, but as far as I can tell, you'd get much better results visually with a couple sheets of plexi, your saw of choice, a dremel and some acrylic joining compound, (I use IPS Weld-on 3... got it from http://www.tapplastics.com ) In my mind, the latter setup will give you alot more flexibility in your case than a pre-made kit.
of course, i could just have looked at the gallery and gotten dissapointed too quickly to really make a fair critique of the product. *shrug*
I usually treat reqests just like all other items of insane babbling.... reply with: 1: RTFM! 2: Get over it! if they succesfully accomplish either of those, the problem is solved!
The Library analogy I do understand. However, a radio station does basically the same thing that these filesharers are doing, and likely on a much larger scale. AFAIK, people downloading these shared files are really only doing the same thing as pressing the record button when they listen to the radio. I don't think that many people, (or the RIAA for that matter) would see this as being 'wrong'. If they then turned around and tried to sell those recordings, then there's obviously a problem, but free distribution would act as a form of advertisement in favor of the said station.
As a point of interest, we can all look back to the 1950s of Radio where the payola scandals were going on. Record companies were actually paying the radio stations to play certain songs. Last time I checked, there was still quite a bit of this going on. So, would filesharers stop getting so many threats if they added annoying commercials to the MP3s they're sharing? How is filesharing different than a radio broadcast?
At this point, the best move that I think the RIAA can make would be to create freely available low quality versions of the music and use it as a way of advertising. Most people wouldn't be willing to burn it to a CD if the sound quality was bad, and they could still have the 'try before you buy' bennefits.
Just a thought
~mauthbaux
Now all we need to do is convince the spammers to use their bandwidth to check the news rather than using it to piss the rest of us off. As soon as they see that there's consequences for their irritating actions, I'm sure they'll turn around, and most people's e-mail boxes will remain empty.
:p
As if that will ever happen
It prettymuch was popular interest that ended prohibition as well. The book "Drug Crazy" by Mike Gray made that point pretty clear. According to his statistics, heavy drinking (which was a crime) and violent crime rates skyrocketted. Getting rid of prohibition helped the economy (in the hospitality industry) as well as helped decrease the amount of gang activities. Human civilzation has advanced when information and communication became more common. By promoting free access to information, society as a whole ends up benifitting (that is, unless your idea of an ideal world still has outhouses and no deoderant.) What the record and software industries need to understand is that prettymuch no matter how illegal they try to make file sharing, it will still be around. Big brother isn't going to get them out of the quandry they now face. What they really need to focus their efforts on is attempts to proffit off of it, or how they should abandon what they're doing and move into a new industry. When the automobile replaced the horse as the popular form of transportation, the people who sided with the horse-based businesses had only themselves to blame. The masses have spoken, and filesharing is going to be around until it gets replaced by better, more popular and convenient technology. Those who still try to stand on their soap boxes and stop everyone have only themselves to blame when their efforts fail...
Live shows are great and all, but even then, the agencies have alot more say in the matter than the actual bands do, regardless of how popular they are. Pearl Jam was in a court battle for quite awhile a few years ago against ticket-master. They eventually ended up losing the case (allowing ticketmaster to control the prices on tickets for all of their shows). When it comes down to it, most musical artists know exactly what they're getting into when they enter the business. They don't do it for the money or the fame; they do it for the love of making music. We all have decisions like that to make in our lives. What's more important to us?... having money to support our family?... or doing what we love and (hopefully) just scraping by?.... I don't sympathise with the record companies, but with all the stinking welfare programs that my tax dollars are paying for, I don't think that we need to need to take too much pity on the artists either. If you respect the band and love their music, buy the CDs, go to the shows, and write them some fan mail. If you only like one of their songs and think that everything else about them (or the label they're working under)... then go grab the mp3s off of some p2p network.... it's that simple.....
I can just imagine all of the overclocking freaks trying to figure out a way to use the nebula to keep their processors at a reasonable temperature.... Imagine computing life without heat-sinks or fans!
of course, all those flaming processors would end up creating enough heat to send the whole nebula boiling away, and we'd be back searching for the ultimate cooling solution once again....
personally, I'm kinda excited about microsoft's involvement with the whole thing. NOT! Does this mean that they get to screw up my computer before I even load an OS? (which prolly won't be windows anyhow)