Yahoo and Hotmail don't find it cost effective. Google's longthought-enough that they store ALL the data around, for good and ever. That was in TFA, btw, as an afterthought.
Anyone who used Python to build a small business and then grow it to huge? Anyone who used PERL to do the same thing? There are two notables, I've forgotten both names - one's the guy who's pushing Ubuntu, and the other's the guy who started that entrepreneurialship thing this spring. Add in Google's recent internship program, and all the behind-the-scenes networking (the jobs at OSDL, etc) and "I've worked with you before, and my company's going well, so have a job" stuff that I assume is going on behind the scenes, and the big front-end jobs displayed openly are most likely dwarfed by the jobs that people are just shoe-horned into.
This guy can hear me. Ergo, here's what I have to say:
You're dead wrong. You're so wrong it's amazing. In creating comparisons between unions, large corporations, and movements, you are being more than mildly unwise, and making yourself look like, in so many ways, someone who is both paid to know what he's talking about, and completely unaware of what he is talking about. Your article is more of a 'run away from Linux' pile of steaming bison-dung than almost anything else I have read in years. The particular incident you are mentioning was a case of invasion of privacy. Were Microsoft's minions to have their privacy invaded - or, God Forbid, the Great Bill have His Privacy Infringed Upon - they would be shot, stabbed, sued, and then their family would have had to eat the body for lack of charity from all the scared peons around them. Whoever paid you to find some way to portray negatively the Linux community and Open Source Movement certainly got what they paid for.
Secondly, to the difference between movements, unions, and corporations: Corporations are after profit, and only profit. Corporations are bereft of certain interpersonal skills, not being people and all. They're treated like people because of - essentially - historical need that is in some ways outdated and some ways still around. Unions are bands of workers attempting to equal the playing field any way they can, and live better lives by negotiating as a group. Movements have a calling. Movements want to make everything better for everyone involved by changing the very playing field. Where unions attempt to negotiate as a whole, movements simply happen. They happen for completely different reasons from unions or corporations. In the case of the Open Source Movement, it has happened not for profit, but for efficiency. The Open Source Movement has happened in response to copyright law making the professions of so many intelligent people frustratingly inefficient in a closed, corporate, trade-secret based environment. In response to their frustration, due to smart people not doing the same thing twice, and really smart people not wanting to do the same thing anyone else has done ever before, 'nerds' have started to share. In the name of efficiency, not accumulated negotiation. If you look at the people behind open source, you look at the people who push it forward the most, they're the ones who benefit through being able to USE it as much as anyone else. The sponsors and creators are working in the name of efficiency, that thing captialism is supposed to drive the hardest. And many of them have managed to make huge amounts of money along the way. Not Bill Style Money, which is apparently all you're paid to respect, but money that they're willing to put back into the community that helped them get where they ended up.
As far as I'm concerned, Slashdot doesn't need people like you peeping in. You don't get it. I'd love to say this with a lower user ID, but this is all I've got, and I say you're fifteen years older than me and not as perceptive about what you're talking about, despite being paid.
This is just the next step. I mean, they're adding RFID stuff to credit cards, what's the point of having like nine digital / identificatory devices situated upon your person? I'm all good with not having to have a wallet, a cell phone, AND a set of keys. The future IS that I will have all three in one device somewhere around the size of my current cell phone. The real question is whether everyone else is enough of a sheep to buy stuff that has ONLY the option of 1 credit card, 1 car key, and 1 cell phone provider.
The way people work, I expect the credit card and cell phone provider to merge so they can provide it 'easier' - that's what this particular article seems to mention. The car, well, that's just a matter of horizontal integration within the marketplace. (otherwise known as monopoly) I mean, do you LIKE having multiple devices you need to drag with you everywhere? Common sense says you wouldn't want ANY of it, but that would require stronger biometrics than currently exist / people find acceptable along with a more integrated identification network. The options are all rather bleak, but I'm sure you agree that eventually one of them will evolve and dominate if the market continues as it is today.
We're already having problems with enough PE being stored in batteries for them to explode occasionally... Is everyone certain that MORE energy being stuffed into chemically based batteries for toys that children play with is a good idea? I mean, there comes a point where selling something 'new' increases its danger level a bit higher than we're willing to go, right?
Are you asking for a way to 'lock' firefox's icon to a particular spot on the desktop, and subsequently be able to sort / arrange all the other icons on your desktop? IE's special place on the desktop is the result of its being incorporated deeply into the operating system - that's no ordinary shortcut, right there. It'd take a particular type of program, is my guess, to lock firefox to the middle of your desktop. I'd suggest just using the quicklaunch from the taskbar. Or renaming your shortcut to 1 - Mozilla Firefox / A Mozilla Firefox. But these are both workarounds, and not the 'ctrl-rtclick-hop three steps to the right-hammer on the c key three times- and you're good' hint you want.
Actually, it's a great PR move. I've currently got 'my' computer at home named, 'my frustration,' and the network neighborhood named, "my networked frustrations"... My naming conventions are going to be broken now, I dunno what I'm going to do. 'Frustration' is just so cloyingly poetic I can't bring myself to use it, and I've lost the irony in 'my frustration,' so I'm at a loss.
Maybe I'll be able to switch OS's by the time Longhorn comes out and still play all the games I want to play now.
See, if we outsourced our police to China, they'd be willing to cut corners on these 'human rights' that mean so much to us. I mean, we don't NEED protestors, do we? They're just cluttering up our nice clean streets. Removal is the best option.
And education? Well, Coca-cola will pay for a BIG piece of it if we just let them put a few signs up right below the alphabet. I mean, it's not like the kids won't figure out it's just advertising. You can just tell 'em that at home.
And fires? Meh. Remember, each fire that burns a building down means NEW REAL ESTATE DEAL! Yeah, baby! Economic growth in a multilevel marketing fashion!
The real beef conservatives have with public sector stuff is that unions have so much power there, instead of being able to be circumvented. A teacher's union is a powerful thing, much of the time. They're able to negotiate mildly fair salaries, etc. Nothing like people with their communication skills and credentials could probably get in the private sector, but then they're just pounding knowledge into your pathetic brats' heads, they're not important.
I'd go through the list, but the question is not whether Americans can accomplish, it's whether they can actually live better lives because of it, and seeing as we're the country that works the most and still has the biggest division between poor / rich, is the most driven by fear, is the most indebted, etc, is more important. We're pennywise, but pound stupid. Quality of life in America is melting, and people tout how great our military is. Great. Here's to ya.
Do the defenestrated take account twice due to subsequent RMA, or is that written up as a loss and deduction from total sales? After the initial defenestration, do subsequent defenestrations by the same user count as more sales or more losses? I mean, if I throw four computers out a window, does it count as $40k in M$ sales despite that being part of the standard operating costs on Microsoft's side (hardware being free and all) or is it considered $40k more in sales, as well as 5x the market share as just one working server? It seems your statistics could be skewed one way or the other quite easily.
The fact that the teenagers paying $12.95 pulls money away from the artists I enjoy while degrading their taste / minds further disgusts me. There's a point in time when you have much more leisure spending cash / time, and the fact that it's sucked up by such low quality, mind destroying dreck due to the bigheartedness of large corporations in shelling out such selfless advertising money to zombify kids offends me. So you're right, I do have to rely on the system rotting from the inside and cheer it on from the outside. Sorry if that offends you, but I'm self interested here. I want more people to live examined lives, because that means I live in a more rational society. Five hundred 'artists' screaming to people I'm going to have to live with in ten years as equals that all that matters is bitches, cristal, shooting people and bling-bling offends me to no end. (As does the other side - the "I'm a horny little bitch / hot guy and individual because of it, and noone's gonna stop me, na na na na na...")
I'm telling you that most of them have no passion. They're just businesspeople. They might have gotten into music when they were young and loved it, but the sharks have risen to the top and they have, in business evolution terms, shed that excess fat of 'giving a damn' about quality. Quality = sales. And if you can convince 14 million 10-14 year olds that an album is great, and half of them buy it, that album is great. That album is timeless.
And who says the small labels can't handle 'all the activities required'? Market control? Monopolization? The RIAA pushes for the labels at this point, not the artists. The artists that follow along are scared because they are told by the RIAA what is going to happen. They're going to be poor because business is going to change. Yeah. Obviously. No mention of where the money's going NOW, just mention of how it's going to work.
I see the big labels disappearing in the future, if they lose control of the outlets. They see that too, that's why they're fighting these battles tooth and nail. It's one perfect example of inefficiency of scale, not efficiency.
Generally, I regard popular artists as either scabs or hacks, and buy from artists I respect. Or go to their concerts. Or pick a different sector to support, one which is still 'underground.' The neat thing about the internet is that it allows for artists to actually BE underground and MAKE a decent living, but the business style you're supporting chokes them out by advertising heavily enough in particular target markets to monochrome our media so labels don't have to replicate their content costs. I think this is a terrible thing and should be stopped at almost any cost.
My viewpoint isn't really in the majority. Welcome to America: your side has more Money, your side is Right. But I get to be bitter. I also, as long as I'm smart enough about it, get to have all the crappy non-creative, uninteresting music I want for free, as long as I can steal it in a cunning enough manner. Sorry about that bursting your bubble.
Artist / Songwriter : 11 cents per track
Producer : 11 cents per track
Average CD : 11 tracks
Total Content Cost : approximately 2.44$
Total CD Cost at retail : approximately 18$
Margin : approximately $15.56
Yeah, artists are winners here. You're really protecting them. Even the most powerful artists got 10% of their total gross under the business models in play 5 years ago when I was in the industry. And you're telling me that it's all in FAVOR of the artists? Good deal.
Really? Online forms changing and often removing existing business models, reducing the amount of waste involved? Don't tell me they 'couldn't make a living' - I've worked with people who got paid 20 grand a month for promotion, and the world would be better off with them flipping burgers, except that then the health department would summarily close all the McDonalds' they'd ever worked at.
More appointed positions? Are you crazy? Yeah, let's just descend into fascism. What we REALLY need is a day off to be devoted to voting. We spend the first 20-40% of our year working to support our government then can't be bothered to vote. What a crock.
And yes, Americans are stupid. Take a look at our literacy rates, our self-centeredness, our government, our legal system. Americans are some of the stupidest, most shortsighted people in the world. And I'm right on curve on some points, behind the curve on others, and a bit ahead of the curve on a few as well.
And as to service? Well, I'd love to have what Bush and family's overall investments are, considering how well he's managed to drive up the price of oil and limit the development and availability of alternatives.
Please make yourself a new account or two. Seriously, the rather inflammatory summary didn't tip off the on-duty editor that this might not be that big a deal? 100 names out of how many? Gimmie a break.
Additionally, every single post I've seen associated with this looks like someone just looking to drum up trouble for Wikipedia. Look at the list, and you'll notice that a lot of them, yes, are copies. And if they're not copies, you should have used a better password anyways, there's not even numbers in those... On top of that, the developer in charge of that little page seems like quite a decent fellow.
The assumption that I will never pay for a CD as soon as I assume it's crap is rather flawed. Last time this argument came up someone posted the link to an alternative music site where you could sample and donate for what you liked in the things you sampled.
Maybe no rock stars have been made uber rich that way, but it's a lot more fair to the consumer, and as a consumer I'd like to say, "Screw you," to the bigger corporations involved in my music. Mainly because I've worked with / for them and heard stuff referred to as, "Content." Art != content to me, and I'm willing to vote with my dollars.
While I agree with you on some points there is one glaring problem with your argument, and that is what a great perpetual motion machine the recording industry has become. Artists / their supporters who say, "Well, I want the system to work for me," are looking at the top.01% of their profession and assuming / dreaming that they will someday be there. If the system reaches its collapse sooner rather than later, I'm all for it. It's not like there will suddenly be NO revenue stream for artists. The streams will simply be different.
However, since the industry is propelled to its incredible heights of profitability by fux0ring 99.99% of the artists, through creating a limited monopoly built upon advertising and rather shady market squeezing, I'd like to think that I as a consumer have been rather deserted somewhere along the line. Ergo, I am deserting the system IF, and I'm not a big pirater, so I don't do this much, but IF I go through other channels for music acquisition.
I apologize for my hippie viewpoint, but in my experience a government situation will be inhabited by 50% Vogons in search of an easy paycheck, and 50% people who are at least mildly competent if not excessively so. Government offices lose out due to politics, and their best people leaving to make better money, but often someone selfless will be making the world a better place in them. I respect government workers who do it as a public service or final choice both, and find it mildly offensive that you're willing to call them all Vogons.
Government in America sucks because Americans are stupid. Even when good people go into public service they're not rewarded to anywhere near a level as compared with those who go corporate. Hell, our PRESIDENT doesn't get paid much more than your average CEO. And we get what we pay for.
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Yahoo and Hotmail don't find it cost effective. Google's longthought-enough that they store ALL the data around, for good and ever. That was in TFA, btw, as an afterthought.
Anyone who used Python to build a small business and then grow it to huge? Anyone who used PERL to do the same thing? There are two notables, I've forgotten both names - one's the guy who's pushing Ubuntu, and the other's the guy who started that entrepreneurialship thing this spring. Add in Google's recent internship program, and all the behind-the-scenes networking (the jobs at OSDL, etc) and "I've worked with you before, and my company's going well, so have a job" stuff that I assume is going on behind the scenes, and the big front-end jobs displayed openly are most likely dwarfed by the jobs that people are just shoe-horned into.
Exactly like I should have said it myself.
A nerd possie rolls like none other.
This guy can hear me. Ergo, here's what I have to say:
You're dead wrong. You're so wrong it's amazing. In creating comparisons between unions, large corporations, and movements, you are being more than mildly unwise, and making yourself look like, in so many ways, someone who is both paid to know what he's talking about, and completely unaware of what he is talking about. Your article is more of a 'run away from Linux' pile of steaming bison-dung than almost anything else I have read in years. The particular incident you are mentioning was a case of invasion of privacy. Were Microsoft's minions to have their privacy invaded - or, God Forbid, the Great Bill have His Privacy Infringed Upon - they would be shot, stabbed, sued, and then their family would have had to eat the body for lack of charity from all the scared peons around them. Whoever paid you to find some way to portray negatively the Linux community and Open Source Movement certainly got what they paid for.
Secondly, to the difference between movements, unions, and corporations: Corporations are after profit, and only profit. Corporations are bereft of certain interpersonal skills, not being people and all. They're treated like people because of - essentially - historical need that is in some ways outdated and some ways still around. Unions are bands of workers attempting to equal the playing field any way they can, and live better lives by negotiating as a group. Movements have a calling. Movements want to make everything better for everyone involved by changing the very playing field. Where unions attempt to negotiate as a whole, movements simply happen. They happen for completely different reasons from unions or corporations. In the case of the Open Source Movement, it has happened not for profit, but for efficiency. The Open Source Movement has happened in response to copyright law making the professions of so many intelligent people frustratingly inefficient in a closed, corporate, trade-secret based environment. In response to their frustration, due to smart people not doing the same thing twice, and really smart people not wanting to do the same thing anyone else has done ever before, 'nerds' have started to share. In the name of efficiency, not accumulated negotiation. If you look at the people behind open source, you look at the people who push it forward the most, they're the ones who benefit through being able to USE it as much as anyone else. The sponsors and creators are working in the name of efficiency, that thing captialism is supposed to drive the hardest. And many of them have managed to make huge amounts of money along the way. Not Bill Style Money, which is apparently all you're paid to respect, but money that they're willing to put back into the community that helped them get where they ended up.
As far as I'm concerned, Slashdot doesn't need people like you peeping in. You don't get it. I'd love to say this with a lower user ID, but this is all I've got, and I say you're fifteen years older than me and not as perceptive about what you're talking about, despite being paid.
This is just the next step. I mean, they're adding RFID stuff to credit cards, what's the point of having like nine digital / identificatory devices situated upon your person? I'm all good with not having to have a wallet, a cell phone, AND a set of keys. The future IS that I will have all three in one device somewhere around the size of my current cell phone. The real question is whether everyone else is enough of a sheep to buy stuff that has ONLY the option of 1 credit card, 1 car key, and 1 cell phone provider.
The way people work, I expect the credit card and cell phone provider to merge so they can provide it 'easier' - that's what this particular article seems to mention. The car, well, that's just a matter of horizontal integration within the marketplace. (otherwise known as monopoly) I mean, do you LIKE having multiple devices you need to drag with you everywhere? Common sense says you wouldn't want ANY of it, but that would require stronger biometrics than currently exist / people find acceptable along with a more integrated identification network. The options are all rather bleak, but I'm sure you agree that eventually one of them will evolve and dominate if the market continues as it is today.
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I was bored with my sig, I'd had it for a full week or two.
Ick. On a box that doesn't have a 'do not open' sticker on it please.
We're already having problems with enough PE being stored in batteries for them to explode occasionally... Is everyone certain that MORE energy being stuffed into chemically based batteries for toys that children play with is a good idea? I mean, there comes a point where selling something 'new' increases its danger level a bit higher than we're willing to go, right?
Are you asking for a way to 'lock' firefox's icon to a particular spot on the desktop, and subsequently be able to sort / arrange all the other icons on your desktop? IE's special place on the desktop is the result of its being incorporated deeply into the operating system - that's no ordinary shortcut, right there. It'd take a particular type of program, is my guess, to lock firefox to the middle of your desktop. I'd suggest just using the quicklaunch from the taskbar. Or renaming your shortcut to 1 - Mozilla Firefox / A Mozilla Firefox. But these are both workarounds, and not the 'ctrl-rtclick-hop three steps to the right-hammer on the c key three times- and you're good' hint you want.
Actually, it's a great PR move. I've currently got 'my' computer at home named, 'my frustration,' and the network neighborhood named, "my networked frustrations"... My naming conventions are going to be broken now, I dunno what I'm going to do. 'Frustration' is just so cloyingly poetic I can't bring myself to use it, and I've lost the irony in 'my frustration,' so I'm at a loss.
Maybe I'll be able to switch OS's by the time Longhorn comes out and still play all the games I want to play now.
See, if we outsourced our police to China, they'd be willing to cut corners on these 'human rights' that mean so much to us. I mean, we don't NEED protestors, do we? They're just cluttering up our nice clean streets. Removal is the best option.
And education? Well, Coca-cola will pay for a BIG piece of it if we just let them put a few signs up right below the alphabet. I mean, it's not like the kids won't figure out it's just advertising. You can just tell 'em that at home.
And fires? Meh. Remember, each fire that burns a building down means NEW REAL ESTATE DEAL! Yeah, baby! Economic growth in a multilevel marketing fashion!
The real beef conservatives have with public sector stuff is that unions have so much power there, instead of being able to be circumvented. A teacher's union is a powerful thing, much of the time. They're able to negotiate mildly fair salaries, etc. Nothing like people with their communication skills and credentials could probably get in the private sector, but then they're just pounding knowledge into your pathetic brats' heads, they're not important.
I'd go through the list, but the question is not whether Americans can accomplish, it's whether they can actually live better lives because of it, and seeing as we're the country that works the most and still has the biggest division between poor / rich, is the most driven by fear, is the most indebted, etc, is more important. We're pennywise, but pound stupid. Quality of life in America is melting, and people tout how great our military is. Great. Here's to ya.
Do the defenestrated take account twice due to subsequent RMA, or is that written up as a loss and deduction from total sales? After the initial defenestration, do subsequent defenestrations by the same user count as more sales or more losses? I mean, if I throw four computers out a window, does it count as $40k in M$ sales despite that being part of the standard operating costs on Microsoft's side (hardware being free and all) or is it considered $40k more in sales, as well as 5x the market share as just one working server? It seems your statistics could be skewed one way or the other quite easily.
The fact that the teenagers paying $12.95 pulls money away from the artists I enjoy while degrading their taste / minds further disgusts me. There's a point in time when you have much more leisure spending cash / time, and the fact that it's sucked up by such low quality, mind destroying dreck due to the bigheartedness of large corporations in shelling out such selfless advertising money to zombify kids offends me. So you're right, I do have to rely on the system rotting from the inside and cheer it on from the outside. Sorry if that offends you, but I'm self interested here. I want more people to live examined lives, because that means I live in a more rational society. Five hundred 'artists' screaming to people I'm going to have to live with in ten years as equals that all that matters is bitches, cristal, shooting people and bling-bling offends me to no end. (As does the other side - the "I'm a horny little bitch / hot guy and individual because of it, and noone's gonna stop me, na na na na na...")
Funny how we've got two threads.
I'm telling you that most of them have no passion. They're just businesspeople. They might have gotten into music when they were young and loved it, but the sharks have risen to the top and they have, in business evolution terms, shed that excess fat of 'giving a damn' about quality. Quality = sales. And if you can convince 14 million 10-14 year olds that an album is great, and half of them buy it, that album is great. That album is timeless.
And who says the small labels can't handle 'all the activities required'? Market control? Monopolization? The RIAA pushes for the labels at this point, not the artists. The artists that follow along are scared because they are told by the RIAA what is going to happen. They're going to be poor because business is going to change. Yeah. Obviously. No mention of where the money's going NOW, just mention of how it's going to work.
I see the big labels disappearing in the future, if they lose control of the outlets. They see that too, that's why they're fighting these battles tooth and nail. It's one perfect example of inefficiency of scale, not efficiency.
Generally, I regard popular artists as either scabs or hacks, and buy from artists I respect. Or go to their concerts. Or pick a different sector to support, one which is still 'underground.' The neat thing about the internet is that it allows for artists to actually BE underground and MAKE a decent living, but the business style you're supporting chokes them out by advertising heavily enough in particular target markets to monochrome our media so labels don't have to replicate their content costs. I think this is a terrible thing and should be stopped at almost any cost.
My viewpoint isn't really in the majority. Welcome to America: your side has more Money, your side is Right. But I get to be bitter. I also, as long as I'm smart enough about it, get to have all the crappy non-creative, uninteresting music I want for free, as long as I can steal it in a cunning enough manner. Sorry about that bursting your bubble.
Artist / Songwriter : 11 cents per track
Producer : 11 cents per track
Average CD : 11 tracks
Total Content Cost : approximately 2.44$
Total CD Cost at retail : approximately 18$
Margin : approximately $15.56
Yeah, artists are winners here. You're really protecting them. Even the most powerful artists got 10% of their total gross under the business models in play 5 years ago when I was in the industry. And you're telling me that it's all in FAVOR of the artists? Good deal.
Really? Online forms changing and often removing existing business models, reducing the amount of waste involved? Don't tell me they 'couldn't make a living' - I've worked with people who got paid 20 grand a month for promotion, and the world would be better off with them flipping burgers, except that then the health department would summarily close all the McDonalds' they'd ever worked at.
More appointed positions? Are you crazy? Yeah, let's just descend into fascism. What we REALLY need is a day off to be devoted to voting. We spend the first 20-40% of our year working to support our government then can't be bothered to vote. What a crock.
And yes, Americans are stupid. Take a look at our literacy rates, our self-centeredness, our government, our legal system. Americans are some of the stupidest, most shortsighted people in the world. And I'm right on curve on some points, behind the curve on others, and a bit ahead of the curve on a few as well.
And as to service? Well, I'd love to have what Bush and family's overall investments are, considering how well he's managed to drive up the price of oil and limit the development and availability of alternatives.
Please make yourself a new account or two. Seriously, the rather inflammatory summary didn't tip off the on-duty editor that this might not be that big a deal? 100 names out of how many? Gimmie a break.
Additionally, every single post I've seen associated with this looks like someone just looking to drum up trouble for Wikipedia. Look at the list, and you'll notice that a lot of them, yes, are copies. And if they're not copies, you should have used a better password anyways, there's not even numbers in those... On top of that, the developer in charge of that little page seems like quite a decent fellow.
Shame to you for not editing that summary a bit.
The assumption that I will never pay for a CD as soon as I assume it's crap is rather flawed. Last time this argument came up someone posted the link to an alternative music site where you could sample and donate for what you liked in the things you sampled.
Maybe no rock stars have been made uber rich that way, but it's a lot more fair to the consumer, and as a consumer I'd like to say, "Screw you," to the bigger corporations involved in my music. Mainly because I've worked with / for them and heard stuff referred to as, "Content." Art != content to me, and I'm willing to vote with my dollars.
While I agree with you on some points there is one glaring problem with your argument, and that is what a great perpetual motion machine the recording industry has become. Artists / their supporters who say, "Well, I want the system to work for me," are looking at the top .01% of their profession and assuming / dreaming that they will someday be there. If the system reaches its collapse sooner rather than later, I'm all for it. It's not like there will suddenly be NO revenue stream for artists. The streams will simply be different.
However, since the industry is propelled to its incredible heights of profitability by fux0ring 99.99% of the artists, through creating a limited monopoly built upon advertising and rather shady market squeezing, I'd like to think that I as a consumer have been rather deserted somewhere along the line. Ergo, I am deserting the system IF, and I'm not a big pirater, so I don't do this much, but IF I go through other channels for music acquisition.
This Copyright Method, Like Almost Every Single Other Copyright Method, can be circumvented with a simple winamp plugin.
Make music people are willing to pay for, and cultivate mature customers.
Oh wait, that means your greedy leech asses couldn't depend upon 14 year old girls for your revenue stream, doesn't it?
I apologize for my hippie viewpoint, but in my experience a government situation will be inhabited by 50% Vogons in search of an easy paycheck, and 50% people who are at least mildly competent if not excessively so. Government offices lose out due to politics, and their best people leaving to make better money, but often someone selfless will be making the world a better place in them. I respect government workers who do it as a public service or final choice both, and find it mildly offensive that you're willing to call them all Vogons.
Government in America sucks because Americans are stupid. Even when good people go into public service they're not rewarded to anywhere near a level as compared with those who go corporate. Hell, our PRESIDENT doesn't get paid much more than your average CEO. And we get what we pay for.
I dunno about you guys, but I like to just stick one finger in an electrical socket and bite down on my 10bT.
Anyone willing to browse like a real man is completely secure from hackers.