They sold the media and accepted that I can do what I want with it. What reality are these media companies living in?
Face reality: they deal a product which is easily copied and distributed. Why should my tax money go to cover for their short sightedness? There's nothing unnatural about what's going on.
and despite the fact that the movies have probably broken even or made a profit *anyway*
Indeed. Where does one draw the line? I'll have respect for the US judicial system when judges start questioning the unlimited profit potential basis for the *AA arguments.
Mods on crack... gave me an offtopic... I swear, there is some social clique of mods with a self-confidence deficiency which causes them to be reactionary to any reference to their lack of intellect. Tip: I've got more karma than mods have points...
Residual data is an urban legend. Don't believe the spook-show you read from the FBI/CIA.
Fill with 254. Filling with 0 or 1 may, on fast fills, leave the other bits. That's the origin of your residual effect.
If "residual effect" were real, why don't you see random r/w errors on a regular basis?
Mods on crack... gave me a troll... I swear, there is some social clique of paisley wearing yuppies that follows my account around. They don't like me because I represent a lifestyle that isn't half-homosexual, half-leech...
Residual data is an urban legend. Don't believe the spook-show you read from the FBI/CIA.
Fill with 254. Filling with 0 or 1 may, on fast fills, leave the other bits. That's the origin of your residual effect.
If "residual effect" were real, why don't you see random r/w errors on a regular basis?
and liability for as many times as logs show the titles were downloaded
1) Don't keep logs 2) Just because I've downloaded Debian 15 times doesn't mean I would've bought it 15 times. 3) I've downloaded the Windows updates for 98SE about 20 times in the last year. Can MS sue me because I haven't bought the other 19 copies of Windows?
Inferences suck... laws suck... copyrights suck... The US sucks... I can't move because it would take too long to walk to Canada (and Canadians are all uptight about US'ans anyways).
Nothing forces a kid to grow up more then multiple lawsuits.
Do you have kids? I don't care if they're doing anything "wrong" or not. How about we massage the laws so that, no matter what they do, they're always doing something "wrong"?
I'd love to slap your kids with a few lawsuits just to watch you get all indignant and defensive.
That's a big effing wave. Just thinking about the amount of energy of all of that water swirling backwards from the original fault, along the sea floor, that entire way...
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Debian isn't much nicer. Every day... every day...
Yes, it's sid, but I think four or five of the updates in the last week came from security.
This could be profitable for the UK companies if they can counter sue for misrepresentation or something when SCO is shown to be full of poo. I suppose that depends upon whether or not they figure there will be much of anything left. SCO seems to be quite adept at funneling as much money to the execs as possible. When SCO is finally shown to be a load of horse manure (finally? when? SOON?) the company will be dumped on bankruptcy insurance and then the insurance companies can raise our auto rates to cover their profit margin.
If you are so ignorant that you would sign a document without even reading it, then you deserve what you get. People can say anything.
The documents are fairly easy to understand. The real issue is that no one is offering any better deals. You want to retain rights to your work? Fine. Go home and do it yourself. For the greatest part you can't even get involved with the major industry without knowing that, at the end of the day, any rights that you didn't sign away at first can be easily taken by their strength in legal backup.
When you're in hell, no one's serving cold drinks. What makes you think no one knows that?
Placing that relationship in an appendix was hardly a stroke of genius on Tolkien's part
I don't remember that it was exclusively in the appendices. Surely the betrothal of Aragorn and Arwen is mentioned whenever Aragorn is in Rivendell and perhaps directly alluded to in other places.
I'll take the mythology myself
Personal preference of storyteller and style doesn't justify bashing Tolkien.
To me, it's pretty much all "ho hum."
After you read enough fantasy and mythology it's all ho hum. The themes are common, the trials are predictable, even solutions can often be seen coming a mile off. Many people who've read enormous amounts of material from a particular genre develop this sort of disillusionment. You can say you've earned your degree in English when you get past the ho hum feeling and get back to enjoying it, no longer for the surprises, but for the appreciation.
I find his use of lengthy appendices and created languages fatuous and self-congratulatory.
It would be if he had written all of it over the course of a few months. In reality it was a work in progress which he devoted significant parts of his life to. I'd be disappointed if it hadn't been this thorough.
Okay, now that we've compiled a list of a billion little things that were changed the more important question is... Why? Were the movie producers a bunch of self-serving flaming juice-boxes who couldn't make a movie without putting their grubby little fingers over every little thing or was there some deeper significance to changing some of this stuff? Really. Some of these details are so insignificant one has to wonder how Jackson, et al. convinced themselves they were improving the story line by changing Tolkein's nearly perfect work.
The "My tax money payed for all these services" argument is a bit stupid when you consider that the top 5% of Americans pay over 50% of all the taxes.
It's not stupid at all when you consider that the top 5% of Americans own (or profit from) the 99% of the organizations which receive 90% of the federal funding.
So... if they're getting 90% back, but only paying 50% in, guess what the profit margin is like even after they pay for the smokescreen of actually providing public services with the money they received. You are familiar with money laundering, aren't you?
Unless you make more than $200,000 a year, you're disproportionately benefiting from services paid for by other peoples' tax money.
You're assuming that 100% of the tax money actually gets turned into a real service provided to the public. That's childishly naive. Most organizations, even nonprofit ones, run overhead costs which are around 3x actual operating costs. You do the math.
but the unspoken laws that govern human behavior offline also govern it online.
Which explains a lot about taunting, baiting, harassment, and why there are "griefers".
IMO, the real "griefers" are the people who get a power trip out of setting up a social clique online and then using it to harass to the death anyone who doesn't put up with their online snobbery. There's nothing more enlightening than seeing how online games allow 14-year old brats dictate rules to you.
I guess they learn it from their parents who work in corporations though. That's exactly how the corporate ladder functions.
GMs (I think it stood for Game Masters) would teleport players there if they were deemed to be "disrupting the zone" and try to get them to cool off
Which of course led to exercises in taunting, or baiting, or social manipulation, or outright cliques, and GM worship (similar to op-worship on IRC, which is really disgusting)...
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But taking software/songs/movies without paying for them is harmful to the people that put it together
/. thinks it's alright.
Debunked: they get paid the same no matter what.
It's hurting the few people they're going to lay off when their revenue dips.
So you admit that our laws, supposedly to protect inventors and creators, aren't even coming close to doing their job?
I think your assumption that everyone is alright with file sharing is way off, given that not even everyone on
Some people are parrots who don't know how to think for themselves.
You bought the media and accepted the copyright.
They sold the media and accepted that I can do what I want with it. What reality are these media companies living in?
Face reality: they deal a product which is easily copied and distributed. Why should my tax money go to cover for their short sightedness? There's nothing unnatural about what's going on.
and despite the fact that the movies have probably broken even or made a profit *anyway*
Indeed. Where does one draw the line? I'll have respect for the US judicial system when judges start questioning the unlimited profit potential basis for the *AA arguments.
But on the other hand, private companies have no way of catching the big pirates
Those legal suits against each other are too expensive.
Mods on crack... gave me an offtopic... I swear, there is some social clique of mods with a self-confidence deficiency which causes them to be reactionary to any reference to their lack of intellect. Tip: I've got more karma than mods have points...
Residual data is an urban legend. Don't believe the spook-show you read from the FBI/CIA.
Fill with 254. Filling with 0 or 1 may, on fast fills, leave the other bits. That's the origin of your residual effect.
If "residual effect" were real, why don't you see random r/w errors on a regular basis?
Yeah, those principles sure are great until it's time to back them up with action. Please spare us the righteous indignation.
Action isn't tolerated by the US gestapo. You, as an AC trolling coward, already know that.
Mods on crack... gave me a troll... I swear, there is some social clique of paisley wearing yuppies that follows my account around. They don't like me because I represent a lifestyle that isn't half-homosexual, half-leech...
Residual data is an urban legend. Don't believe the spook-show you read from the FBI/CIA.
Fill with 254. Filling with 0 or 1 may, on fast fills, leave the other bits. That's the origin of your residual effect.
If "residual effect" were real, why don't you see random r/w errors on a regular basis?
and liability for as many times as logs show the titles were downloaded
1) Don't keep logs
2) Just because I've downloaded Debian 15 times doesn't mean I would've bought it 15 times.
3) I've downloaded the Windows updates for 98SE about 20 times in the last year. Can MS sue me because I haven't bought the other 19 copies of Windows?
Inferences suck... laws suck... copyrights suck... The US sucks... I can't move because it would take too long to walk to Canada (and Canadians are all uptight about US'ans anyways).
Nothing forces a kid to grow up more then multiple lawsuits.
Do you have kids? I don't care if they're doing anything "wrong" or not. How about we massage the laws so that, no matter what they do, they're always doing something "wrong"?
I'd love to slap your kids with a few lawsuits just to watch you get all indignant and defensive.
Residual data is an urban legend. Don't believe the spook-show you read from the FBI/CIA.
Fill with 254. Filling with 0 or 1 may, on fast fills, leave the other bits. That's the origin of your residual effect.
If "residual effect" were real, why don't you see random r/w errors on a regular basis?
Oh wait. Given context and all, I guess the more correct form would be,"Cry me a tsunami"
Cry me a river.
Oh quit whining. Our hearts can't bleed for everything.
That's a big effing wave. Just thinking about the amount of energy of all of that water swirling backwards from the original fault, along the sea floor, that entire way...
whew.
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Debian isn't much nicer. Every day... every day...
Yes, it's sid, but I think four or five of the updates in the last week came from security.
This could be profitable for the UK companies if they can counter sue for misrepresentation or something when SCO is shown to be full of poo. I suppose that depends upon whether or not they figure there will be much of anything left. SCO seems to be quite adept at funneling as much money to the execs as possible. When SCO is finally shown to be a load of horse manure (finally? when? SOON?) the company will be dumped on bankruptcy insurance and then the insurance companies can raise our auto rates to cover their profit margin.
If you are so ignorant that you would sign a document without even reading it, then you deserve what you get. People can say anything.
The documents are fairly easy to understand. The real issue is that no one is offering any better deals. You want to retain rights to your work? Fine. Go home and do it yourself. For the greatest part you can't even get involved with the major industry without knowing that, at the end of the day, any rights that you didn't sign away at first can be easily taken by their strength in legal backup.
When you're in hell, no one's serving cold drinks. What makes you think no one knows that?
Placing that relationship in an appendix was hardly a stroke of genius on Tolkien's part
I don't remember that it was exclusively in the appendices. Surely the betrothal of Aragorn and Arwen is mentioned whenever Aragorn is in Rivendell and perhaps directly alluded to in other places.
I'll take the mythology myself
Personal preference of storyteller and style doesn't justify bashing Tolkien.
To me, it's pretty much all "ho hum."
After you read enough fantasy and mythology it's all ho hum. The themes are common, the trials are predictable, even solutions can often be seen coming a mile off. Many people who've read enormous amounts of material from a particular genre develop this sort of disillusionment. You can say you've earned your degree in English when you get past the ho hum feeling and get back to enjoying it, no longer for the surprises, but for the appreciation.
I find his use of lengthy appendices and created languages fatuous and self-congratulatory.
It would be if he had written all of it over the course of a few months. In reality it was a work in progress which he devoted significant parts of his life to. I'd be disappointed if it hadn't been this thorough.
Okay, now that we've compiled a list of a billion little things that were changed the more important question is... Why? Were the movie producers a bunch of self-serving flaming juice-boxes who couldn't make a movie without putting their grubby little fingers over every little thing or was there some deeper significance to changing some of this stuff? Really. Some of these details are so insignificant one has to wonder how Jackson, et al. convinced themselves they were improving the story line by changing Tolkein's nearly perfect work.
The "My tax money payed for all these services" argument is a bit stupid when you consider that the top 5% of Americans pay over 50% of all the taxes.
It's not stupid at all when you consider that the top 5% of Americans own (or profit from) the 99% of the organizations which receive 90% of the federal funding.
So... if they're getting 90% back, but only paying 50% in, guess what the profit margin is like even after they pay for the smokescreen of actually providing public services with the money they received. You are familiar with money laundering, aren't you?
Unless you make more than $200,000 a year, you're disproportionately benefiting from services paid for by other peoples' tax money.
You're assuming that 100% of the tax money actually gets turned into a real service provided to the public. That's childishly naive. Most organizations, even nonprofit ones, run overhead costs which are around 3x actual operating costs. You do the math.
Ill-informed? Oh please, enlighten me.
but the unspoken laws that govern human behavior offline also govern it online.
Which explains a lot about taunting, baiting, harassment, and why there are "griefers".
IMO, the real "griefers" are the people who get a power trip out of setting up a social clique online and then using it to harass to the death anyone who doesn't put up with their online snobbery. There's nothing more enlightening than seeing how online games allow 14-year old brats dictate rules to you.
I guess they learn it from their parents who work in corporations though. That's exactly how the corporate ladder functions.
Bring it on. It won't be a matter of law. It'll be a matter of a rottweiler on your nuts and my shotgun in your hind end.
You're posting as AC 'cuz guys like you and I usually get laughed out of the crowd for proposing such preposterous ideas.
... Things have gotten slightly better over the last decade, but damn if it doesn't feel like a big waste of time
Plug and pray, indeed!
indeed!
quite a few PC BIOS's have had "interesting" bugs
FIC PA-2013, for example (holds head in agony)
GMs (I think it stood for Game Masters) would teleport players there if they were deemed to be "disrupting the zone" and try to get them to cool off
Which of course led to exercises in taunting, or baiting, or social manipulation, or outright cliques, and GM worship (similar to op-worship on IRC, which is really disgusting)...
Enforcing "the law" never makes anything better.