I'm not even talking about criminal behavior. US law now makes it a crime to _record_ all types of otherwise perfectly NORMAL human behavior under the guise of "protecting the children." You could be a freaking saint but unless you spent your life alone in a room (and were castrated) you would inevitably find yourself "seeing" things the nanny state wants to protect us from. Thanks to the latest bit of wonder from the 11th circuit court, you couldn't even walk the street during Mardi Gras without violating 18 USC2257.
the first time he "sees" a 14 year old dancing provocatively at a street fair or public park, or changes his kid's diapers, or goes to a bachelor party without getting signed 2257 documents from the stripper...
actually your post does not in any way answer what I asked. I didn't say "what value does this have in regards to registered offenders" (which is all you answered) but what value does it have when a good many - if not MOST - cases like this involve people who are NOT already in the system. "Megan" (of Megan's law) for example, was killed by a man who was NOT in the system and, therefore, the law named for her really would not have, in any way, helped prevent her meeeting exactly the same fate.
Were any of these men registered sex offenders? ANY of them? If not, then this law would have absolutely no value in preventing it - nor from preventing exactly the same thing from happening again.
i got no time to rtfct, but perhaps you can asnewr this simple question: were ANY of these men "sex offenders" before this? Would ANY of them have been on this "list of sex offender email addresses" BEFORE this conspiracy? Could this new registration law in any way have prevented this conspiracy of rape from fomenting?
Not even with itunes. Music is a relative fraction of the stuff I keep around - TV shows, movies, music vids, etc. I can't jsut go rip those again if they get lost (although I might, eventually, be able to recollect them... at 50 cents a gigabyte... from newsgroups). I don't have cable (can't get it), won't pay Hughes 600 bucks a year for country cable, and even if I did I still couldn't get many of the shows I like (The IT crowd, CBC reports, various Korean and Russian shows and movies) so what's the point? The "old media" is obsolete.
No matter how it's obtained, a media collection represents considerable time and effort - much more than jsut a box of CDs. If I lose it, even if it's all "free," I still have to recollect, reclassify, and possibly rerip.
So, if anything happens to my "hard drive," I just take out the failing one, replace it, add it back into the raid and wait for the computer to do all the heavy lifting. I've had oodles of cds become unreadable, but I've not lost anything from this RAID in years... even through lightning strikes and pebkac errors (dd if=/dev/zero of=dev/shit/this/is/a/raid/partition).
I have a few CDs I have purchased because I wanted to support the artist and I wanted higher quality rips than others were sharing. I've bought more, though, from places like magnatune - where I can get the quality I want, I know the artist is getting a good chunk of my money, and I don't have to devote "shelf space" to a package I would otherwise never use. Seems to me something already has completely replaced CDs: the combination of internet, dirt cheap hard drives, and SAN appliances.
What I dont get is how people can still accept the notion of "buying music" over and over again. Back in the day, when it came on vinyl or whatever, it was easy to see the tradeoff: if you dont take care fo your shit it gets worn out, scratched, warped or otherwise screwed up and you gotta replace it. Without going into detailed analysis of my past collections I can recall at least three purchases of Sgt. Pepper's (two vinyl and one on 8 track), two purchases of the red and blue collections (LP and 8 track) and that's just the Beatles stuff - I can't even begin to estimate the number of times I have bought some Alice Cooper releases like "Killer" and "Easy Action" (LP, 8 track, CD, cassette... how many of each?)
My Son in law has gigabytes of shit he bought through napster. In return for his troubles he has to keep track of licenses and, if he wants to transport them, convert each one to an MP3 file.
dude... if you dont tolerate people who are intolerant then you are denying them their right to ignorance and stupidity. By saying you "don't tolerate intolerance" you are saying people have no right to be stupid - you deny them their basic human right to freedom of thought.
being intolerant of the intolerance is actually extending tolerance in this world
No, it isn't - it's just another way to justify persecution of others who don't share your idiotic beliefs. Political correctness is fascism.
I exploit my knowledge and skill every day. If you have anything, so do you. People exploit the natural resources around them - cut trees for firewood, fish in their ponds, etc. It seems you've been confused by the mass delusion spread by the politically correct.
We live in a world now where parents have scant real freedom to raise their kids as they deem fit. How I raise my kids - how I let them dress, what beliefs I teach them, how they are educated - is not your business, not george bush's business, and not the business of the school board... well, at least it wasn't before the feds decided to bend over for the feminist left in the 1980s and make a whole new set of crimes for this shit... never mind those existing laws pretty much covered any REAL sex crimes against americans regardless of age.
I'm more or less all for the police just posting a list of those who bought the child porn and let society takes its normal course of false morality and prejudice against them.
Oh yes indeed, that would work perfectly.. it certainly worked well in the south for folks like Emmet Till. While we're at it, how about posting the names of all those folks breaking the other laws, too? Like the whites who married blacks, the ones who buy marital aids, the ones who practice the vile arts like sodomy and cunnilingus and felatio...
And what about the guy who beats his wife? No chance someone like that might be fucking his daughter or even his son, huh? Or beating them? Where are the calls to castrate these folks?
The "civilized west" has gone abso-fucking-lutely batshit. How apt you should be deemed a "troll" by another of those "critical thinkers" spawned from this completely perverted society.
It seems quite unlikely to me that any organization trying to eliminate such bias in its reporting would leap to consider the opinions of an organization that paints everything about as black and white as your most zealous televangelist.
I use pay as you go too - usually runs me $50 for three months, about the same as you. I live in a rural area (as is most of this state) so coverage is important.
That said, I use cingulair prepaid-as-u-go because I dont trust them anywhere near my credit card or bank account. Customer service is terrible. Put my elderly father on a terible plan that ran up a bill for hundreds of dollars. Refused to make accomodations, sent it to collections, and after settling with that agency they decided the wasn't good enough, reneged, sent it to ANOTHER agency and we still get the goddamn harrassing calls - every other day for six months now.
Rot in hell, cingulair. Those fuckers are parasites.
What a totally trite piece of fanboi blathering. You owe me the last two minutes of my life back.
The saddest part is, so many of you really seem to believe apple is not simply a giant corporation. Does their stuff look different? yeah, it has to - and they spend a fortune on those "fun" marketing campaigns that have you so brainwashed. Oooh, look at me, I'm different because Steve Jobs tells me I am!
You're a moron. It's speech. Moreover, it's "anonymous" speech. There's no loaw at all against me walking right up to you on the subway and calling you an idiot - in fact, there's no law against me hitting on a 16 year old in the subway. But somehow you petty little twats have decided you can't get past the inability to get the last word in, or to seek "vengeance" for your hurt little feelings, so you need big brother to step in and protect you frpom the mean and evil people...
Its twats like you who are fucking up this world. get over yourselves. Do us all a vafor and kill yourselves - save us from having to do it for you when *that* time comes...
'it's a digital world! the rules no longer apply!"
Anyone remember hearing that? I've heard it countless times. So the old rules no longer apply when the argument suits people who trade stuff the content owners don't want traded - but wait! The old rules should apply now because.... because this new stuff makes it harder to trade stuff the content owenrs dont want traded!
what matters most (at least to me) is warranty and turnaround. At one time I went on a bit of a buying spree after losing a good bit of my6 data yet again to a single drive failure. In the lsat decade I've had two 80gb maxtors, four 160gb maxtor plus 9's, two 250gb plus nines, a seagate 80gb drive (which i sold right off because it was so damn loud) and a seagate 160. Of these, all but four (two 160gb maxtor satas, which i just put into service in the last month, and the two 250gb pata maxtors) have been back at least once for refurbishing.
What truly amazes me is how many people seem to bu white box drives cuz they're twenty bucks cheaper. Hard drives fail, and often, and that extra twenty bucks is like a two-for-one, or even three for one, sale.
BTW, seagate's warranty response was nothing compared to maxtor's - it wasn't even close, maxtor was so much better to deal with. I've not had to replace one since the merger, and after the experience with my 160gb seagate (which lasted all of 3 months when i first got it) I am not looking forward to the next time.
Maybe the "competition" will get the ripper groups to finally break free of the "two CD" standard and standardize on three cd, or "half a DVD" resolution rips.
I didn't say "ALL" I said "all those" - you need to go back to school if you cannot grasp the difference.
And many of those "squatters" (actually parkers) DO NOT own those domains, nor do they ever plan to - they take advantage of the system, registering the domains and then rolling them over just before time runs out to get their money back - then RE registering them, then rolling over the ones that got a hit or two.... ad infinitum. They create a giant pain in the ass for the LEGIT web businesses that would like to actually do something with those domains, meanwhile they rake in a quarter or two a month on a few tens of thousands of domains they have no intention of ever paying for.
There's your abuse... and earthlink's NOT the guilty party here.
How is this worse than all those "search engine" sites squatting on unused and misspelled dowmains? At least earthlink is trying to provide some meaningful info to their customers.
There are plenty of freely accessible public DNS servers; let those old school "do it our way cuz that's the way it's always been done" zealots learn to drive their own machines and stop telling everyone else how to run their lives and businesses.
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I'm not even talking about criminal behavior. US law now makes it a crime to _record_ all types of otherwise perfectly NORMAL human behavior under the guise of "protecting the children." You could be a freaking saint but unless you spent your life alone in a room (and were castrated) you would inevitably find yourself "seeing" things the nanny state wants to protect us from. Thanks to the latest bit of wonder from the 11th circuit court, you couldn't even walk the street during Mardi Gras without violating 18 USC2257.
the first time he "sees" a 14 year old dancing provocatively at a street fair or public park, or changes his kid's diapers, or goes to a bachelor party without getting signed 2257 documents from the stripper...
Yeah, before MTV came along teenagers were completely uninterested in fucking, dancing like they're fucking, or dressing like they want to fuck.
actually your post does not in any way answer what I asked. I didn't say "what value does this have in regards to registered offenders" (which is all you answered) but what value does it have when a good many - if not MOST - cases like this involve people who are NOT already in the system. "Megan" (of Megan's law) for example, was killed by a man who was NOT in the system and, therefore, the law named for her really would not have, in any way, helped prevent her meeeting exactly the same fate.
Were any of these men registered sex offenders? ANY of them? If not, then this law would have absolutely no value in preventing it - nor from preventing exactly the same thing from happening again.
i got no time to rtfct, but perhaps you can asnewr this simple question: were ANY of these men "sex offenders" before this? Would ANY of them have been on this "list of sex offender email addresses" BEFORE this conspiracy? Could this new registration law in any way have prevented this conspiracy of rape from fomenting?
Not even with itunes. Music is a relative fraction of the stuff I keep around - TV shows, movies, music vids, etc. I can't jsut go rip those again if they get lost (although I might, eventually, be able to recollect them... at 50 cents a gigabyte... from newsgroups). I don't have cable (can't get it), won't pay Hughes 600 bucks a year for country cable, and even if I did I still couldn't get many of the shows I like (The IT crowd, CBC reports, various Korean and Russian shows and movies) so what's the point? The "old media" is obsolete.
No matter how it's obtained, a media collection represents considerable time and effort - much more than jsut a box of CDs. If I lose it, even if it's all "free," I still have to recollect, reclassify, and possibly rerip.
So, if anything happens to my "hard drive," I just take out the failing one, replace it, add it back into the raid and wait for the computer to do all the heavy lifting. I've had oodles of cds become unreadable, but I've not lost anything from this RAID in years... even through lightning strikes and pebkac errors (dd if=/dev/zero of=dev/shit/this/is/a/raid/partition).
I have a few CDs I have purchased because I wanted to support the artist and I wanted higher quality rips than others were sharing. I've bought more, though, from places like magnatune - where I can get the quality I want, I know the artist is getting a good chunk of my money, and I don't have to devote "shelf space" to a package I would otherwise never use. Seems to me something already has completely replaced CDs: the combination of internet, dirt cheap hard drives, and SAN appliances.
What I dont get is how people can still accept the notion of "buying music" over and over again. Back in the day, when it came on vinyl or whatever, it was easy to see the tradeoff: if you dont take care fo your shit it gets worn out, scratched, warped or otherwise screwed up and you gotta replace it. Without going into detailed analysis of my past collections I can recall at least three purchases of Sgt. Pepper's (two vinyl and one on 8 track), two purchases of the red and blue collections (LP and 8 track) and that's just the Beatles stuff - I can't even begin to estimate the number of times I have bought some Alice Cooper releases like "Killer" and "Easy Action" (LP, 8 track, CD, cassette... how many of each?)
My Son in law has gigabytes of shit he bought through napster. In return for his troubles he has to keep track of licenses and, if he wants to transport them, convert each one to an MP3 file.
Well, I ain't buying either of'em. Not again.
dude... if you dont tolerate people who are intolerant then you are denying them their right to ignorance and stupidity. By saying you "don't tolerate intolerance" you are saying people have no right to be stupid - you deny them their basic human right to freedom of thought.
being intolerant of the intolerance is actually extending tolerance in this world
No, it isn't - it's just another way to justify persecution of others who don't share your idiotic beliefs. Political correctness is fascism.
What makes you think he's straight?
With a room like that, he could have every 12 year old boy in the neighborhood!
So, in other words, MySpace's chief demographics are "20-somethings" and "people trying to sleep with 20-somethings."
And thus you have stumbled upon their secret for keeping it "safe from pedophiles."
Oh, wait...
I exploit my knowledge and skill every day. If you have anything, so do you. People exploit the natural resources around them - cut trees for firewood, fish in their ponds, etc. It seems you've been confused by the mass delusion spread by the politically correct.
We live in a world now where parents have scant real freedom to raise their kids as they deem fit. How I raise my kids - how I let them dress, what beliefs I teach them, how they are educated - is not your business, not george bush's business, and not the business of the school board... well, at least it wasn't before the feds decided to bend over for the feminist left in the 1980s and make a whole new set of crimes for this shit... never mind those existing laws pretty much covered any REAL sex crimes against americans regardless of age.
I'm more or less all for the police just posting a list of those who bought the child porn and let society takes its normal course of false morality and prejudice against them.
Oh yes indeed, that would work perfectly.. it certainly worked well in the south for folks like Emmet Till. While we're at it, how about posting the names of all those folks breaking the other laws, too? Like the whites who married blacks, the ones who buy marital aids, the ones who practice the vile arts like sodomy and cunnilingus and felatio...
And what about the guy who beats his wife? No chance someone like that might be fucking his daughter or even his son, huh? Or beating them? Where are the calls to castrate these folks?
The "civilized west" has gone abso-fucking-lutely batshit. How apt you should be deemed a "troll" by another of those "critical thinkers" spawned from this completely perverted society.
that is exactly what MS wants - make sure NO computer can run without having some windows installed.
Would your real name happen to be Ballmer?
I really do, because if something like that doesn't happen, the future country of my grandson is royally fucked.
Who's the more balanced? FOX News, or the EFF?
It seems quite unlikely to me that any organization trying to eliminate such bias in its reporting would leap to consider the opinions of an organization that paints everything about as black and white as your most zealous televangelist.
I use pay as you go too - usually runs me $50 for three months, about the same as you. I live in a rural area (as is most of this state) so coverage is important.
That said, I use cingulair prepaid-as-u-go because I dont trust them anywhere near my credit card or bank account. Customer service is terrible. Put my elderly father on a terible plan that ran up a bill for hundreds of dollars. Refused to make accomodations, sent it to collections, and after settling with that agency they decided the wasn't good enough, reneged, sent it to ANOTHER agency and we still get the goddamn harrassing calls - every other day for six months now.
Rot in hell, cingulair. Those fuckers are parasites.
What a totally trite piece of fanboi blathering. You owe me the last two minutes of my life back.
The saddest part is, so many of you really seem to believe apple is not simply a giant corporation. Does their stuff look different? yeah, it has to - and they spend a fortune on those "fun" marketing campaigns that have you so brainwashed. Oooh, look at me, I'm different because Steve Jobs tells me I am!
There, that's better. Now we're even.
You're a moron. It's speech. Moreover, it's "anonymous" speech. There's no loaw at all against me walking right up to you on the subway and calling you an idiot - in fact, there's no law against me hitting on a 16 year old in the subway. But somehow you petty little twats have decided you can't get past the inability to get the last word in, or to seek "vengeance" for your hurt little feelings, so you need big brother to step in and protect you frpom the mean and evil people...
Its twats like you who are fucking up this world. get over yourselves. Do us all a vafor and kill yourselves - save us from having to do it for you when *that* time comes...
'it's a digital world! the rules no longer apply!"
Anyone remember hearing that? I've heard it countless times. So the old rules no longer apply when the argument suits people who trade stuff the content owners don't want traded - but wait! The old rules should apply now because.... because this new stuff makes it harder to trade stuff the content owenrs dont want traded!
what matters most (at least to me) is warranty and turnaround. At one time I went on a bit of a buying spree after losing a good bit of my6 data yet again to a single drive failure. In the lsat decade I've had two 80gb maxtors, four 160gb maxtor plus 9's, two 250gb plus nines, a seagate 80gb drive (which i sold right off because it was so damn loud) and a seagate 160. Of these, all but four (two 160gb maxtor satas, which i just put into service in the last month, and the two 250gb pata maxtors) have been back at least once for refurbishing.
What truly amazes me is how many people seem to bu white box drives cuz they're twenty bucks cheaper. Hard drives fail, and often, and that extra twenty bucks is like a two-for-one, or even three for one, sale.
BTW, seagate's warranty response was nothing compared to maxtor's - it wasn't even close, maxtor was so much better to deal with. I've not had to replace one since the merger, and after the experience with my 160gb seagate (which lasted all of 3 months when i first got it) I am not looking forward to the next time.
You need to be modded up, thats an excellent article...prophetic.
Maybe the "competition" will get the ripper groups to finally break free of the "two CD" standard and standardize on three cd, or "half a DVD" resolution rips.
Not only did they use it for hair dye, they used it for face powder... and various test have revealed many of these folks died of lead poisoning.
So, yeah, this anecdote is comepltely supportive of modern nanoparticle technology...
Wow, Microsoft has "invented" privoxy!
I didn't say "ALL" I said "all those" - you need to go back to school if you cannot grasp the difference.
And many of those "squatters" (actually parkers) DO NOT own those domains, nor do they ever plan to - they take advantage of the system, registering the domains and then rolling them over just before time runs out to get their money back - then RE registering them, then rolling over the ones that got a hit or two.... ad infinitum. They create a giant pain in the ass for the LEGIT web businesses that would like to actually do something with those domains, meanwhile they rake in a quarter or two a month on a few tens of thousands of domains they have no intention of ever paying for.
There's your abuse... and earthlink's NOT the guilty party here.
How is this worse than all those "search engine" sites squatting on unused and misspelled dowmains? At least earthlink is trying to provide some meaningful info to their customers.
There are plenty of freely accessible public DNS servers; let those old school "do it our way cuz that's the way it's always been done" zealots learn to drive their own machines and stop telling everyone else how to run their lives and businesses.