What seems to be forgotten in this discussion are the reports that the Bush adminstration sidelined security experts who didn't say what they wanted to hear. I wish I could remember the documentary but it was essentially one security expert after another outlining damage to the security services they claimed would take years to correct. Bush never gave a rat shit about the data, he knew what he wanted to do and marshalled any force he could to make it happen.
I think more countries are afraid of the States under the Bush administration than they ever were of Saddam. Citizens of other countries can weigh in for themselves, but here in Canada Iraq was never high on the threat list.
I doubt it. Global test probably means what it meant to Bush the Elder, forging a true agreement and coalition of nations before attacking. It tempers rash actions and draws the 'good' nations closer together. Unfortunately, the articles in which dad expressed his opinion on Iraq are getting hard to find.
You could also argue it's closer to their mandate when granted a broadcast license. Though the situations are artificial the parcipants aren't, they're not actors. Even a gem like Elimidate closer reflects daily living than decades of daytime soaps.
Why should entertainment product distributors (who this is really about) get special dispensation from technological advances? If the business model is built on an insecure foundation, change the model. Official goverment tithing on behalf of (foreign!) corporations who have yet to conclusively demonstrate harm from sharing is an appalling idea, one that shifts the relationship between citizens, corporations and governments.
"...but as someone who's lived through the "grunge", the "alternative" and the "internet" revolutions this -to me- stinks..."
I worked in alternative radio in the eighties. You can pinpoint the exact moment alternative died with the first widespread appearance of the word "grunge", a cynical major-label marketing term for punk/rock in flannel. "Grunge" isn't an example of phenomena discussed here, it's its corporate grave marker.
That defines the situation pretty well. It's getting where the areas remaining out of reach to amatuers are largely irrelevant in this context, like cyclotrons. In home brew audio, to take your example, the number of 'free beer' software design tools, suppport forums and web information is staggering, well beyond that available to most corporations less than twenty years ago.
Ironic for someone old enough to remember when the Roman Empire was a bad example of governance for Americans. Telling indicator of how far, and in what direction, the country's moved in a generation.
FUD. You make it sound as if the license restrictions are neccessary to provide the customer a "hugely discounted rate", like buying a car without the Sports package. Microsoft doesn't sell OEM copies at a loss, and truth is from a manufacturing perspective it almost certainly costs them more to fork this license crippled version than simply provide the full retail product to OEMs. These are monopolistic licensing games pure and simple.
Tech support where I work would never, ever instruct a user to download a patch. That's their job, it's also poor procedure to show a user they can perform system-level changes. If it were a Linux desktop it would be trivial, and free, so set up secure shell logins and let the techs do what they get paid to do.
Also, clicking on a file in a file manager is no harder in KDE or Gnome than in XP.
I'm curious what MS Word "business practices, workflow, rights management and collaboration" tools you mean. I can't think of any Word functionality so critical and indispenible that a "Fortune-50" company would risk such operational dependence on it.
Come for the Stars War parody, stay for "Death of a Salesman"? 'Cause you know they won't be doing any film parodies soon unless it's in the public domain. "Birth of a Nation"!
What? The same content distributors who sue customers, have a half-century history of backroom lobbying to elminate citizen copy rights and want to control information technologies from entertainment to computer devices didn't mention fair use or parody exemptions in their FBI warnings? How could that possibly happen?
"Thats a lot like, say, translating the movie into another language, selling it, and not paying lucasfilm. Sure, that analogy isn't perfect..."
Not at all the same thing. Translation means converting to a different expression of the same content. This theatre company is replacing the content with parody audio. Unless you have in mind some of the 'translations' of Hong Kong movies I've seen, but I always took those to be inadvertent rather than intentional parody.
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But they proved it did exist! Was I the only one to see Colin Powell's satellite photos and vial of white powder?
What seems to be forgotten in this discussion are the reports that the Bush adminstration sidelined security experts who didn't say what they wanted to hear. I wish I could remember the documentary but it was essentially one security expert after another outlining damage to the security services they claimed would take years to correct. Bush never gave a rat shit about the data, he knew what he wanted to do and marshalled any force he could to make it happen.
I think more countries are afraid of the States under the Bush administration than they ever were of Saddam. Citizens of other countries can weigh in for themselves, but here in Canada Iraq was never high on the threat list.
I doubt it. Global test probably means what it meant to Bush the Elder, forging a true agreement and coalition of nations before attacking. It tempers rash actions and draws the 'good' nations closer together. Unfortunately, the articles in which dad expressed his opinion on Iraq are getting hard to find.
If I were you I'ld be checking my brake lines before driving home tonight.
You could also argue it's closer to their mandate when granted a broadcast license. Though the situations are artificial the parcipants aren't, they're not actors. Even a gem like Elimidate closer reflects daily living than decades of daytime soaps.
Why should entertainment product distributors (who this is really about) get special dispensation from technological advances? If the business model is built on an insecure foundation, change the model. Official goverment tithing on behalf of (foreign!) corporations who have yet to conclusively demonstrate harm from sharing is an appalling idea, one that shifts the relationship between citizens, corporations and governments.
My preference is Battle Royale.
Governments define the playing field.
Of course, this is Slashdot. All the Slashbots must have one opinion. And they scream too. Disconcerting for someone with such a low ID number.
I'll volunteer.
Iceland only has 12/0.4=30 Internet users.
There you go, authentic RIAA-strength math.
I worked in alternative radio in the eighties. You can pinpoint the exact moment alternative died with the first widespread appearance of the word "grunge", a cynical major-label marketing term for punk/rock in flannel. "Grunge" isn't an example of phenomena discussed here, it's its corporate grave marker.
That defines the situation pretty well. It's getting where the areas remaining out of reach to amatuers are largely irrelevant in this context, like cyclotrons. In home brew audio, to take your example, the number of 'free beer' software design tools, suppport forums and web information is staggering, well beyond that available to most corporations less than twenty years ago.
Ironic for someone old enough to remember when the Roman Empire was a bad example of governance for Americans. Telling indicator of how far, and in what direction, the country's moved in a generation.
http://harpers.org/BaghdadYearZero.html
FUD. You make it sound as if the license restrictions are neccessary to provide the customer a "hugely discounted rate", like buying a car without the Sports package. Microsoft doesn't sell OEM copies at a loss, and truth is from a manufacturing perspective it almost certainly costs them more to fork this license crippled version than simply provide the full retail product to OEMs. These are monopolistic licensing games pure and simple.
Seeing the direction XP is going, you're saying we still have hope?
I clicked on "comments" wondering how far down the list we'd go to find a post ragging on Linux choices. Surprise!
Also, clicking on a file in a file manager is no harder in KDE or Gnome than in XP.
I'm curious what MS Word "business practices, workflow, rights management and collaboration" tools you mean. I can't think of any Word functionality so critical and indispenible that a "Fortune-50" company would risk such operational dependence on it.
Not only would they support it, they'd extend and enhance it!
Come for the Stars War parody, stay for "Death of a Salesman"? 'Cause you know they won't be doing any film parodies soon unless it's in the public domain. "Birth of a Nation"!
Please explain where the "3. Profit" part comes in when they're not permited to perform.
/scratches scalp
Not at all the same thing. Translation means converting to a different expression of the same content. This theatre company is replacing the content with parody audio. Unless you have in mind some of the 'translations' of Hong Kong movies I've seen, but I always took those to be inadvertent rather than intentional parody.