Christians persecuted?! Not since the Roman circuses!
Having spent the last two hundred years running around systemattically eradicating often much older religions in then new world: the american red indians, the tribes of the amazon basin, the africans. You claim to be persecuted!?!
Who the hell gave christainity the monopoly on religion.
Okay so the Net was built by WASPMs, half of them more agnostic than atheist.
If you want to discuss God then find or start a thread/area on Slashdot and discuss it. NO ONE not even Jon Katz will stop you.
But please don't expect everyone/anyone to read it.
To say he intentionally leaves of christians is a laugh. As an atheist he belives in NO god, that means ALL religions on the the planet, not just yours.
Stop being so self-centred. Find a life and get on with it, and stop complaining that you are being persecuted someone who is just simply ignoring you and your beliefs.
I hope you never suffer real persecution, but if you do then I hope you look back realise how easy you are having it now.
I just started going contract after several years of salaried employment.
Fundamentally I was sick of being asked to work extra hours including some weekends just to deliver stuff to customers without being suitably recompenced.
I am not married and have no children so I am willing to weather a somewhat irregular cash flow for the flexibility it gives me. Some weeks I'm a slack bugger and don't get up 'til 10 other weeks I do 10hr days. The great thing is _I_ decide and I get paid for what I do.
I do value my time, I have a girlfriend, and to have work drag me away from seeing people and doing things I love, for little or know reward sucked, "thank you" is nice but its doesn't make my car go - petrol does and that costs money!
When will the music/movie industry learn from the software industry when it comes to protecting digital information.
Its impossible, a bunch of engineers versus the combined effort of every hacker and cracker on the planet?
Teenagers are the main market for games software and the music industry. They had little cash in general but lots of time, and the crackers love the challenge, they break protections like some people do crosswords.
On a secondary note, I have just pirated a CD I'll admit it. My copy of PWEIs Cure for Sanity just bit the dust, because the chemicals in the black print layer have eaten the CD! So I ripped a friends copy. As I was concerned I had a perfect right to do this. And if I had needed an 'illegal' piece of software to get it to break some stupid protection to get at something I had paid for I'd have used it.
If there is one thing I have its paying £15 thats nearly $25 for a CD which expires in 10 years due faulty pressing. Can I take this back to the shop for a replacement....? No.
So it now sits as a collection of MP3s on my HDD.
How am I going to feel in 10yrs when my copy of the Matrix gives up the ghost for the same reason, or similar reasons.
The rules are simple protections are ALWAYS broken by someone some how, all they ever do is piss off the consumer.
UK consumers are sick to death of paying over the odds for CD and software despite the 1.6 dollar to the pound exchange rate, software music and videos seem to use a 1:1 ration in effect all are 60% more expensive than in the US. Its laughable that its cheaper to buy the MCSE training material from amazon in the US and have all 2kilos of it airmailed to the UK!!
I'm tired of getting charged extra for where I live, can anyone provide any other reason for 'regionalised' DVD other than to charge different prices to different markets? If DeCSS allows me to watch grey-import dvds great!
I love being able to afford to buy orginal product these days now I can afford it. I also appreciate value for money, and not feeling I got ripped off.
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I might buy an Metallica Album,if I can find an MP3 rip of one to listen to before I risk my cash. *=)
Christians persecuted?! Not since the Roman circuses!
Having spent the last two hundred years running around systemattically eradicating often much older religions in then new world: the american red indians, the tribes of the amazon basin, the africans. You claim to be persecuted!?!
Who the hell gave christainity the monopoly on religion.
Okay so the Net was built by WASPMs, half of them more agnostic than atheist.
If you want to discuss God then find or start a thread/area on Slashdot and discuss it. NO ONE not even Jon Katz will stop you.
But please don't expect everyone/anyone to read it.
To say he intentionally leaves of christians is a laugh. As an atheist he belives in NO god, that means ALL religions on the the planet, not just yours.
Stop being so self-centred. Find a life and get on with it, and stop complaining that you are being persecuted someone who is just simply ignoring you and your beliefs.
I hope you never suffer real persecution, but if you do then I hope you look back realise how easy you are having it now.
I just started going contract after several years of salaried employment.
Fundamentally I was sick of being asked to work extra hours including some weekends just to deliver stuff to customers without being suitably recompenced.
I am not married and have no children so I am willing to weather a somewhat irregular cash flow for the flexibility it gives me. Some weeks I'm a slack bugger and don't get up 'til 10 other weeks I do 10hr days. The great thing is _I_ decide and I get paid for what I do.
I do value my time, I have a girlfriend, and to have work drag me away from seeing people and doing things I love, for little or know reward sucked, "thank you" is nice but its doesn't make my car go - petrol does and that costs money!
My apologies if this goes a little off post.
When will the music/movie industry learn from the software industry when it comes to protecting digital information.
Its impossible, a bunch of engineers versus the combined effort of every hacker and cracker on the planet?
Teenagers are the main market for games software and the music industry. They had little cash in general but lots of time, and the crackers love the challenge, they break protections like some people do crosswords.
On a secondary note, I have just pirated a CD I'll admit it. My copy of PWEIs Cure for Sanity just bit the dust, because the chemicals in the black print layer have eaten the CD! So I ripped
a friends copy. As I was concerned I had a perfect
right to do this. And if I had needed an 'illegal' piece of software to get it to break some stupid protection to get at something I had paid for I'd have used it.
If there is one thing I have its paying £15 thats
nearly $25 for a CD which expires in 10 years due
faulty pressing. Can I take this back to the shop
for a replacement....? No.
So it now sits as a collection of MP3s on my HDD.
How am I going to feel in 10yrs when my copy of
the Matrix gives up the ghost for the same reason,
or similar reasons.
The rules are simple protections are ALWAYS broken
by someone some how, all they ever do is piss off the consumer.
UK consumers are sick to death of paying over the odds for CD and software despite the 1.6 dollar to the pound exchange rate, software music and videos seem to use a 1:1 ration in effect all are 60% more expensive than in the US. Its laughable that its cheaper to buy the MCSE training material
from amazon in the US and have all 2kilos of it airmailed to the UK!!
I'm tired of getting charged extra for where I live, can anyone provide any other reason for 'regionalised' DVD other than to charge different prices to different markets? If DeCSS allows me to watch grey-import dvds great!
I love being able to afford to buy orginal product these days now I can afford it. I also appreciate value for money, and not feeling I got ripped off.
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Hmm, well I still use Windoze for most of my day to day email stuff
and, I also find the PGP+Outlook'98 combination very usable.
Two gripes: if you use the auto preview in combination with decrypt-on
open then the preview re-saves the decrypted email which can be
irritating.
Also PGP DOES NOT work with Outlook Express 5.0
( ie. the one that comes with IE 5.0 )
Anyone using Outlook 2000? I daren't yet I don't
have the RAM or DISK. Outlook'98 is bloated enough
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