i think direct connect is pointless and stupid. calls are getting so cheap and minutes so plentiful that you might as well talk on direct connect. it's not like the police cannot tap the phone on direct connect or anything...:sigh:
Nice try. Are you suggesting that it is a good idea to hire people involved in chronic offenses of anything to police those offenses? Mitnick is your rare execption. And even still, if I was the head of a large corporation (or government) I would not hire Mitnick, if you were Bill Gates you would probably not want to take your chances trusting Mitnick as a consultant.
I think your blind following of all things "dubya" has led your imagination astray my friend.
And will you people shut up about reading the story? Do you expect the Wall Street Journal to put a negative spin on this story?
Anybody who stays with this ISP has no respect for their own free speech or privacy. I would write some intellectual property about how bad my ISP sucks for thier intellectual property rules. That is some irony for ya.
not only do they want to keep the dollar as the oil monitary standard but now they also want american standard technology as well. pretty hard to explain how this war is not profiting American now isn't it...
is that germans are probably the second biggest market for c&c games. i play generals and all the other c&c games and i am involved in the community and A LOT of germans are boycotting this game.... because of the war and the insensitive nature of it's content. not because of the restricted list. also who cares if the war started after this game was on the restricted list the conflict did not.
It sounds really great but it begs the question how much free music for how much cpu power and then what is the point if you are going to download other illegal music anyway, well I guess you may be able to find something in 192kbs that wasn't on kazaa.
This may not be a direct response to your post but this is my opinion as the consumer that I am(reguarless of ethics, this is how i shop). I would not be willing to pay much money at all to legally download an mp3. If I were to pay it, then it would have to be very cheap. Right now I only buy music if I really like the albumb and want to support the artist. It serves two functions: gets me the full bitrate and makes me feel better by supporting artists I really like. I do not think I would be willing to pay for less than CD quality audio, and even 192kbs mp3s are not nearly as good IMHO. I would not be inclined to buy mp3s unless they were tremendously cheap as long as I can get them for free. I know it ain't right, but that's just the way it is.
I would however, by 2-10X as many CDs if they were all under $10. If they were around $5-7 (which on the surface seems doable right?) I would probably not download any music unless it was something I barely wanted, liked one track off, didn't want to support the artists, or simply something I wanted to sample before buying the real albumb.
There are some interesting theories floating around about the drug trade. One famous conspiracy guy, Mike Ruppurt [www.fromthewilderness.com], claims he caught the CIA dealing drugs when he was a narcotics officer for the LAPD. There is actually much evidence to back his assertions, including the fact that he was mysteriously and for no apparent reason fired.
The basic jest of his theory is this: there is 500 billion in drug money all cash every year, it has to be laundered somewhere, banks and giant corporations in America and elsewhere are laundering this money for them (it is almost impossible to catch them) and in the meantime boosting up their stocks and book numbers trememndously with the drug money (gets complicated here), and that drug money is basically keeping the US economy alive. He contends the CIA smuggles most of the heroine (hence the increase in Afghan opium production) and some of the cocain and makes profit there for black operations while also helping the economy. Also he says that drug enforcement is only meant to raise the street prices for drugs and fool the unsuspecting public (and maybe oppress some minorities while we are at it?).
Yeah I know it sounds really far-fetched but he has some interesting ideas and I would like to know where this 500 billion a year (1/4 of all hard money) ends up, I doubt under peoples mattresses. You also have to assume the CIA knows where this ends up and would be concered with this type of thing especially since they are so specialized in finances and monitary transactions.
Slightly offtopic, here in Georgia there is a city called Kennesaw where it is ILLEGAL for any home to not possess some kind of firearm. I'm sure there is some contradiction here I just cannot think of it right now (luckily I got my bong a few weeks ago).
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guess the police got no excuse to pull people over and violate their privacy by searching their cars anymore.
i think direct connect is pointless and stupid. calls are getting so cheap and minutes so plentiful that you might as well talk on direct connect. it's not like the police cannot tap the phone on direct connect or anything... :sigh:
Why the hell could you not hold out on selling mp3.com another couple years and multiply your profit by God only knows how much?
Nice try. Are you suggesting that it is a good idea to hire people involved in chronic offenses of anything to police those offenses? Mitnick is your rare execption. And even still, if I was the head of a large corporation (or government) I would not hire Mitnick, if you were Bill Gates you would probably not want to take your chances trusting Mitnick as a consultant.
I think your blind following of all things "dubya" has led your imagination astray my friend.
And will you people shut up about reading the story? Do you expect the Wall Street Journal to put a negative spin on this story?
Anybody who stays with this ISP has no respect for their own free speech or privacy. I would write some intellectual property about how bad my ISP sucks for thier intellectual property rules. That is some irony for ya.
not only do they want to keep the dollar as the oil monitary standard but now they also want american standard technology as well. pretty hard to explain how this war is not profiting American now isn't it...
is that germans are probably the second biggest market for c&c games. i play generals and all the other c&c games and i am involved in the community and A LOT of germans are boycotting this game.... because of the war and the insensitive nature of it's content. not because of the restricted list. also who cares if the war started after this game was on the restricted list the conflict did not.
the big labowski was definately the shit
fair.org is reporting that less than 1% of guests and personalities on the media are anti-war
and who thinks they won't find some way to try to stick people with media player anyway?
It sounds really great but it begs the question how much free music for how much cpu power and then what is the point if you are going to download other illegal music anyway, well I guess you may be able to find something in 192kbs that wasn't on kazaa.
This is likely to provoke more TV warez piracy or just make average users learn how to clip the chemercials out of their own TV shows.
It is just gonna piss people off and cause more problems.
isn't the real question how much do they get paid?
This may not be a direct response to your post but this is my opinion as the consumer that I am(reguarless of ethics, this is how i shop). I would not be willing to pay much money at all to legally download an mp3. If I were to pay it, then it would have to be very cheap. Right now I only buy music if I really like the albumb and want to support the artist. It serves two functions: gets me the full bitrate and makes me feel better by supporting artists I really like. I do not think I would be willing to pay for less than CD quality audio, and even 192kbs mp3s are not nearly as good IMHO. I would not be inclined to buy mp3s unless they were tremendously cheap as long as I can get them for free. I know it ain't right, but that's just the way it is.
I would however, by 2-10X as many CDs if they were all under $10. If they were around $5-7 (which on the surface seems doable right?) I would probably not download any music unless it was something I barely wanted, liked one track off, didn't want to support the artists, or simply something I wanted to sample before buying the real albumb.
There are some interesting theories floating around about the drug trade. One famous conspiracy guy, Mike Ruppurt [www.fromthewilderness.com], claims he caught the CIA dealing drugs when he was a narcotics officer for the LAPD. There is actually much evidence to back his assertions, including the fact that he was mysteriously and for no apparent reason fired. The basic jest of his theory is this: there is 500 billion in drug money all cash every year, it has to be laundered somewhere, banks and giant corporations in America and elsewhere are laundering this money for them (it is almost impossible to catch them) and in the meantime boosting up their stocks and book numbers trememndously with the drug money (gets complicated here), and that drug money is basically keeping the US economy alive. He contends the CIA smuggles most of the heroine (hence the increase in Afghan opium production) and some of the cocain and makes profit there for black operations while also helping the economy. Also he says that drug enforcement is only meant to raise the street prices for drugs and fool the unsuspecting public (and maybe oppress some minorities while we are at it?). Yeah I know it sounds really far-fetched but he has some interesting ideas and I would like to know where this 500 billion a year (1/4 of all hard money) ends up, I doubt under peoples mattresses. You also have to assume the CIA knows where this ends up and would be concered with this type of thing especially since they are so specialized in finances and monitary transactions.
Slightly offtopic, here in Georgia there is a city called Kennesaw where it is ILLEGAL for any home to not possess some kind of firearm. I'm sure there is some contradiction here I just cannot think of it right now (luckily I got my bong a few weeks ago).