Millions of people buy shit music that collects "awards" at ceremonies that celebrate their popularity and "contribution to the music industry" (ie profits generated).
Popularity is not a measure of quality. Never was, still ain't.
They have great documentation. I used to use it all the time. The problem was all that documentation was hidden behind an incredibly brittle search feature, and they would CONSTANTLY be reorganizing the site so that their own fucking links would break. So, at least half the time it would take me fucking HOURS to find some piece of info about their own goddamn apis.
That alone would not have been so bad had they not, with every new release, broken shit so nothing would be backward compatible. I write a js app that works great on a machine with msie5 and js engine whatever, install 5.5 and now the fucking thing is broken. It was a constant cycle of fixing shit that used to work before they "improved" things.
I have scripts on this machine I wrote 6 years ago that still work perfectly. This is why moving from MS to linux would cause thousands of monkeys to lose their jobs... no more planned obsolescence.
What a douche. Those are the ones always getting nailed for doing unethical shit.
No, I would do what I do now: only trust open source software from reputable repositories. I would nto think twice about my kid installing ANY software included in the default ubuntu repos (for example). Even if something goes wrong, because of the way linux is built I still would be easier to clean up the mess.
Not applying service packs? Clicking "OK" to supervisor priviledges every time he decides to try some new app from downloads.com? Installing cracked copies of software downloaded from newsgroups?
I'm a "limited user" who lacks supervisor priviledges on this ubuntu system. But all it takes is a "sudo" comand and the password to get something done. MOST home users are going to be like this. Or is it your foolish contention that most home users don't have the capability of installing software on their own home pc?
That's pretty much it: where is the economic interest in getting end user apps migrated? Linux works great in a datacenter and works great for end users who are experienced with it. But where's the economic incentive to adapt users? If most everyone used linux in their homes that would kill off virtually Hundreds of thousands of jobs supporting the crap. No more $70 mom and pop shop reloads, no more field service calls that are resolved by running virus cleaner and repairing an infected machine, no more recycled machines that get put back into circulation simply because the owners perceives an infected machine as a hardware failure or simply not worth the investment in repair over an opportunity to "upgrade."
I use linux more than a decade now, and I can't imagine the hell of having to use windows again. And I feel kinda sorry for all those people out there who really don't know any better, who think windows is the only solution because they hate macs and believe the nonsense about linux sucking as a desktop. But I'm sure not going to go out of my way to convince them of their delusion.
It has nothing to do with quality. Those high end grocers are running boutiques. They depend on an elitist consumer base that will try new things and incorporate them into a growing palate.
Walmart depends on people expecting the same thing at the cheapest price. They're not always cheapest but if you keep people coming back rather than running off to other local markets they have nothing to compare.
This is why there's a walmart in every small town in america. Even here in the big ol' city there's two whole foods, two trader joes, and a few more specialty markets. That's in the whole city of tucson - where there's also like ten walmarts just within 3 miles of my house. That's a pretty major distribution network.
You're joking, right? Have you ever been condescended to? Spoken to like you don't know what you're talking about, wether you do or not? Being told, in so many words, "what I like is the best and I think your opinion is both ignorant and meaningless?"
I don't give a fuck what desktop someone uses. If you like windows, fine - I don't, and for a variety of reasons. I also don't like Apple or its OS, for many of the same reasons (evil corporate empire, brainwashed drones, etc). But it's not as if I have never suggested someone ELSE use windows or a mac. I've tried several times to get one friend, who often seems unable to get even the simplest shit done with his windows machine, to get a mac. He refused every time and still insists on asking me questions about how to do things with his windows laptop in spite of me repeatedly reminding him that I myself haven't used Windows since the fucking Clinton administration and, therefore, asking me how to do something in windows makes about as much sense as asking your grandmother who can barely even operate a TV remote.
I normally avoid OS arguments, although sometimes mu comments abotu the world as I perceive it are necessarily going to be seen by some as "jabs." It's not a religion with me - or, perhaps it is in that I really don't give a fuck WHAT you BELIEVE so long as you don't try to convince me that your superstitious, fanboi mumbo jumbo represents a measured, objective reality. Keep your koolaid to yourself.
ROTFL. Michigan is full of bigots. When I lived in MISSISSIPPI I would hear "nigger" more when relatives from up there would come to visit than during the whole rest of the year.
And I have every right to "hate the whole state" - I was born there, and spent the first decades of my life trapped in that hellhole.
The question is "no fair" because it's singling them out as if they are any different than Google, Yahoo, or ANY COMPANY operating within a national boundary. Every company is bound to the laws of the nation in which it operates.
It's also "no fair" because it's misleading: it makes it sound as if the chinese and some of those other "evil" nations are the only ones reading people's private communications. The only differnce between the chinese and the US is the chinese have laws clearly stating their objective, and the us operates within the shadowy realm of "well, if there's no law against it..."
I use a raid. Seems logical (bad pun intended) you could use several of these locked to the same tpm. Now "a hard drive failure" doesn't cause loss of data.
You gotta lotta trust in the system. The rubber hose isn't that difficult, especially in the US.
Someone sees something, you are found downloading something or are a member of some nefarious group. So, You are arrested. Everyone sees you do the perp walk on tv.
The press has already convicted you. Have you EVER seen someone who did that perp walk months ago be cleared on TV? No. The cameras are never there when you go free unless you are a (possibly formerly) loved celebrity.
All your electronic shit is taken as possible evidence. Your family knows about your arrest. Your wife leaves you, your kids hate you because they are tormented in school for the shit their dad "did."
Evidence is found but it is "tainted" so it can't be used in court.
Whoopee. Your life is so miserable they offer you a plea. If you fight then you will be locked in jail (or, if you're lucky, out on bail) for a year or more while you await trial. Meanwhile the prosecutor constantly pressures you with subtle hints about what they have found on your computer. You have no freedom, they can question you every week if they want.
Not being able to submit evidence in court does NOT mean it cannot be used to pressure you into admitting what you have done. They don't even have to tell you the truth - they only are obligated to tell the court the truth.
WTF? This guy says they are going to be a bank and the currency will be for playing games? And if you don't volunteer your information they will just create a profile for you anyway? What fucked up kind of bank is that? I don't do business with bank of america and I am pretty sure there are rules against them just commandeering my financial info and making me an account against my will.
This cocksucker is essentially saying facebook is going to own us all like niggers on a plantation. Don't want to sharecrop? tough.
Well, fuck you, farley. I don't need your crackhead credit.
I'm sure everyone is just going to stand by and let their credit worthiness be determined by the parasites who make their living selling shit like farmville and dog wars to compulsive computerized crackheads.
I don't do porn tgps, music sites or pretty much anything like that and yet I've seen several "possible attack site" warnings today in forefox. Weird sites, like furniture and such. I click a link and get that red screen. I was wondering what was up, it seems very strange today.
Last I looked, the opinion of "many lawyers" in courtrooms had about as much legal power as "the opinion of poptones."
If you're going to cite these things you should take a minute to actually read them. "Betamax," for example, did not rule that copying television programs and movies for one's home library was not a violation of copyright - it clearly says otherwise, in fact - but it said this was clearly not a violation that was in any practical sense enforceable or, individually and by itself, harmful to the industry.
creating an online service specifically for the storage and playback of unlicensed music - and creating a business model from that - is exactly the sort of thing that has been shut down in case after case.
It is technically illegal for you to rip CDs for which you do not own the rights to do so. This de minimis infringement may not be practically enforceable and may not, individually, cause harm to copyright owners, but one does NOT make the same case when talking about employment opportunities. Now we've moved from the realm of "mv cds for my use" to "rip anyone's cds for anyone's use." You're making a business model of wilfully and knowingly violating the law, and the courts generally frown on that.
Are there any landfills left that do NOT capture and use the gasses let off from decomposition?
And yes, if you live in the woods and ceramics is the highest form of technology available to you, then broken pottery is absolutely GARBAGE - just as broken hair dryers and used up toothbrushes are garbage to us.
Many communities even collect yard trash, christmas trees and other organic matter for composting in community run composting centers. How is all this "garbage" harming the environment? Natural gas is worth money; compost is worth money; anyone tellling a policymaker to ignore these facts is not likely to be given much creedence.
Google is worth like a gazillion dollars. Google has the resources to simply do what it wants anyway and wait for injured parties to come forward. So long as they are reasonably careful about selecting out of print books for which owners cannot be readily tracked down, one could reasonably expect them to be able to publish THOUSANDS of books like this while having to settle only a few lawsuits filed by copyright holders.
Can any of those "lesser competitors" get away with this? Perhaps if that "lesser" is named Microsoft. Not many, though.
Those radio "tuned" front ends are tuned very broadly, and the "radio" is essentially nothing but a fast flash A/D convertor connected to an RF amp and a DSP. It's a firmware radio.
Every one of those countries that allows polygamist unions also has laws limiting the rights of women. Men are allowed multiple wives, women are not allowed multiple husbands. Men can divorce easily, women cannot. These problems some try to attribute to polygamy are NOT inherent to polygamy itself, they are caused by polygamy as defined within some religious doctrine wherein women are not free as men to come and go.
If you have a society where women are required to be so modest they even have to wear head scarves or veils when in public, where they cannot drive, where they cannot divorce abusive husbands and, indeed, where even being touched in some inappropriate manner by another against one's own will could end up with the victim being executed, then of course this society that treats women like pets is going to be out of balance. That's not due to polygamy - in fact, the polygamy is needed in such a society lest government be left alone to foot the bill for feeding, caring, and even transporting Millions of divorced and widowed women and their offspring.
We need to either remove these unfair restrictions on marriage or just to get the government out of the marriage game altogether.
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Millions of people buy shit music that collects "awards" at ceremonies that celebrate their popularity and "contribution to the music industry" (ie profits generated).
Popularity is not a measure of quality. Never was, still ain't.
They have great documentation. I used to use it all the time. The problem was all that documentation was hidden behind an incredibly brittle search feature, and they would CONSTANTLY be reorganizing the site so that their own fucking links would break. So, at least half the time it would take me fucking HOURS to find some piece of info about their own goddamn apis.
That alone would not have been so bad had they not, with every new release, broken shit so nothing would be backward compatible. I write a js app that works great on a machine with msie5 and js engine whatever, install 5.5 and now the fucking thing is broken. It was a constant cycle of fixing shit that used to work before they "improved" things.
I have scripts on this machine I wrote 6 years ago that still work perfectly. This is why moving from MS to linux would cause thousands of monkeys to lose their jobs... no more planned obsolescence.
What a douche. Those are the ones always getting nailed for doing unethical shit.
No, I would do what I do now: only trust open source software from reputable repositories. I would nto think twice about my kid installing ANY software included in the default ubuntu repos (for example). Even if something goes wrong, because of the way linux is built I still would be easier to clean up the mess.
Not applying service packs? Clicking "OK" to supervisor priviledges every time he decides to try some new app from downloads.com? Installing cracked copies of software downloaded from newsgroups?
I'm a "limited user" who lacks supervisor priviledges on this ubuntu system. But all it takes is a "sudo" comand and the password to get something done. MOST home users are going to be like this. Or is it your foolish contention that most home users don't have the capability of installing software on their own home pc?
That's pretty much it: where is the economic interest in getting end user apps migrated? Linux works great in a datacenter and works great for end users who are experienced with it. But where's the economic incentive to adapt users? If most everyone used linux in their homes that would kill off virtually Hundreds of thousands of jobs supporting the crap. No more $70 mom and pop shop reloads, no more field service calls that are resolved by running virus cleaner and repairing an infected machine, no more recycled machines that get put back into circulation simply because the owners perceives an infected machine as a hardware failure or simply not worth the investment in repair over an opportunity to "upgrade."
I use linux more than a decade now, and I can't imagine the hell of having to use windows again. And I feel kinda sorry for all those people out there who really don't know any better, who think windows is the only solution because they hate macs and believe the nonsense about linux sucking as a desktop. But I'm sure not going to go out of my way to convince them of their delusion.
It has nothing to do with quality. Those high end grocers are running boutiques. They depend on an elitist consumer base that will try new things and incorporate them into a growing palate.
Walmart depends on people expecting the same thing at the cheapest price. They're not always cheapest but if you keep people coming back rather than running off to other local markets they have nothing to compare.
This is why there's a walmart in every small town in america. Even here in the big ol' city there's two whole foods, two trader joes, and a few more specialty markets. That's in the whole city of tucson - where there's also like ten walmarts just within 3 miles of my house. That's a pretty major distribution network.
You're joking, right? Have you ever been condescended to? Spoken to like you don't know what you're talking about, wether you do or not? Being told, in so many words, "what I like is the best and I think your opinion is both ignorant and meaningless?"
I don't give a fuck what desktop someone uses. If you like windows, fine - I don't, and for a variety of reasons. I also don't like Apple or its OS, for many of the same reasons (evil corporate empire, brainwashed drones, etc). But it's not as if I have never suggested someone ELSE use windows or a mac. I've tried several times to get one friend, who often seems unable to get even the simplest shit done with his windows machine, to get a mac. He refused every time and still insists on asking me questions about how to do things with his windows laptop in spite of me repeatedly reminding him that I myself haven't used Windows since the fucking Clinton administration and, therefore, asking me how to do something in windows makes about as much sense as asking your grandmother who can barely even operate a TV remote.
I normally avoid OS arguments, although sometimes mu comments abotu the world as I perceive it are necessarily going to be seen by some as "jabs." It's not a religion with me - or, perhaps it is in that I really don't give a fuck WHAT you BELIEVE so long as you don't try to convince me that your superstitious, fanboi mumbo jumbo represents a measured, objective reality. Keep your koolaid to yourself.
ROTFL. Michigan is full of bigots. When I lived in MISSISSIPPI I would hear "nigger" more when relatives from up there would come to visit than during the whole rest of the year.
And I have every right to "hate the whole state" - I was born there, and spent the first decades of my life trapped in that hellhole.
let them prove I lied. "I don't recall saying that..."
Fuck the Michigan State Police. Michigan is a hole anyway, no idea why anyone but a redneck or militia member would want to live there.
The question is "no fair" because it's singling them out as if they are any different than Google, Yahoo, or ANY COMPANY operating within a national boundary. Every company is bound to the laws of the nation in which it operates.
It's also "no fair" because it's misleading: it makes it sound as if the chinese and some of those other "evil" nations are the only ones reading people's private communications. The only differnce between the chinese and the US is the chinese have laws clearly stating their objective, and the us operates within the shadowy realm of "well, if there's no law against it..."
dd if=/home/drewgle/videos/mary-kate-and-ashley-winning-london.h264 of=/dev/sda
Data loss is how I am able to sustain my compulsion to collect...
I use a raid. Seems logical (bad pun intended) you could use several of these locked to the same tpm. Now "a hard drive failure" doesn't cause loss of data.
You gotta lotta trust in the system. The rubber hose isn't that difficult, especially in the US.
Someone sees something, you are found downloading something or are a member of some nefarious group. So, You are arrested. Everyone sees you do the perp walk on tv.
The press has already convicted you. Have you EVER seen someone who did that perp walk months ago be cleared on TV? No. The cameras are never there when you go free unless you are a (possibly formerly) loved celebrity.
All your electronic shit is taken as possible evidence. Your family knows about your arrest. Your wife leaves you, your kids hate you because they are tormented in school for the shit their dad "did."
Evidence is found but it is "tainted" so it can't be used in court.
Whoopee. Your life is so miserable they offer you a plea. If you fight then you will be locked in jail (or, if you're lucky, out on bail) for a year or more while you await trial. Meanwhile the prosecutor constantly pressures you with subtle hints about what they have found on your computer. You have no freedom, they can question you every week if they want.
Not being able to submit evidence in court does NOT mean it cannot be used to pressure you into admitting what you have done. They don't even have to tell you the truth - they only are obligated to tell the court the truth.
So, encryption or not, you cop a plea. Done.
WTF? This guy says they are going to be a bank and the currency will be for playing games? And if you don't volunteer your information they will just create a profile for you anyway? What fucked up kind of bank is that? I don't do business with bank of america and I am pretty sure there are rules against them just commandeering my financial info and making me an account against my will.
This cocksucker is essentially saying facebook is going to own us all
like niggers on a plantation. Don't want to sharecrop? tough.
Well, fuck you, farley. I don't need your crackhead credit.
I'm sure everyone is just going to stand by and let their credit worthiness be determined by the parasites who make their living selling shit like farmville and dog wars to compulsive computerized crackheads.
So toasters are tea totalers?
Here in my car
Where the image breaks down
Will you visit me please?
If I open my door
In cars
Just what we need: Make hydroponic pot production even more efficient!
I don't do porn tgps, music sites or pretty much anything like that and yet I've seen several "possible attack site" warnings today in forefox. Weird sites, like furniture and such. I click a link and get that red screen. I was wondering what was up, it seems very strange today.
Last I looked, the opinion of "many lawyers" in courtrooms had about as much legal power as "the opinion of poptones."
If you're going to cite these things you should take a minute to actually read them. "Betamax," for example, did not rule that copying television programs and movies for one's home library was not a violation of copyright - it clearly says otherwise, in fact - but it said this was clearly not a violation that was in any practical sense enforceable or, individually and by itself, harmful to the industry.
creating an online service specifically for the storage and playback of unlicensed music - and creating a business model from that - is exactly the sort of thing that has been shut down in case after case.
It is technically illegal for you to rip CDs for which you do not own the rights to do so. This de minimis infringement may not be practically enforceable and may not, individually, cause harm to copyright owners, but one does NOT make the same case when talking about employment opportunities. Now we've moved from the realm of "mv cds for my use" to "rip anyone's cds for anyone's use." You're making a business model of wilfully and knowingly violating the law, and the courts generally frown on that.
Are there any landfills left that do NOT capture and use the gasses let off from decomposition?
And yes, if you live in the woods and ceramics is the highest form of technology available to you, then broken pottery is absolutely GARBAGE - just as broken hair dryers and used up toothbrushes are garbage to us.
Many communities even collect yard trash, christmas trees and other organic matter for composting in community run composting centers. How is all this "garbage" harming the environment? Natural gas is worth money; compost is worth money; anyone tellling a policymaker to ignore these facts is not likely to be given much creedence.
Google is worth like a gazillion dollars. Google has the resources to simply do what it wants anyway and wait for injured parties to come forward. So long as they are reasonably careful about selecting out of print books for which owners cannot be readily tracked down, one could reasonably expect them to be able to publish THOUSANDS of books like this while having to settle only a few lawsuits filed by copyright holders.
Can any of those "lesser competitors" get away with this? Perhaps if that "lesser" is named Microsoft. Not many, though.
Those radio "tuned" front ends are tuned very broadly, and the "radio" is essentially nothing but a fast flash A/D convertor connected to an RF amp and a DSP. It's a firmware radio.
Every one of those countries that allows polygamist unions also has laws limiting the rights of women. Men are allowed multiple wives, women are not allowed multiple husbands. Men can divorce easily, women cannot. These problems some try to attribute to polygamy are NOT inherent to polygamy itself, they are caused by polygamy as defined within some religious doctrine wherein women are not free as men to come and go.
If you have a society where women are required to be so modest they even have to wear head scarves or veils when in public, where they cannot drive, where they cannot divorce abusive husbands and, indeed, where even being touched in some inappropriate manner by another against one's own will could end up with the victim being executed, then of course this society that treats women like pets is going to be out of balance. That's not due to polygamy - in fact, the polygamy is needed in such a society lest government be left alone to foot the bill for feeding, caring, and even transporting Millions of divorced and widowed women and their offspring.
We need to either remove these unfair restrictions on marriage or just to get the government out of the marriage game altogether.