I work in the entertainment business. While I don't work in porn, I definitely know plenty of strippers. (For example, my roommate gives strippers choreography lessons every Sunday at my house.) Every single one of them chose that job because they like sexuality, they like showing off and being in the spotlight, and it's exactly what they wanted to do with their lives while they are young. Your arguments are completely wrong.
You seem to be a Christian, so let me ask you this: in the Bible, Jesus spent his time with the poor and destitute. He spent time with criminals and prostitutes. Have you ever actually met anyone that currently works in pornography and befriended them? You might be shocked at what they have to say about their chosen profession. Judge not, lest ye be judged.
Because Sony should release more than a handful of consoles. If they haven't produced enough to do a proper release that doesn't create artificial over-demand, they shouldn't release. It's called corporate responsibility.
Writing some custom code to provide playback functionality on OS X would be a snap. It could be done via REALbasic and AppleScript with very little effort.
From my understanding, once you change a couple of "riffs" in the song, it becomes a different song and therefore is not subject to copyright. This is how these sites have gotten away with this for so long. The RIAA is able to pursue them now since they've become so power-hungry and in bed with all of Washington.
The changes in the songs are easy to recognize and are why when you play a song from a tab site it almost never sounds 100% correct. You're supposed to figure out the issues yourself and adjust if you want to play the original version.
I disagree. Outside of colour, massive storage, and video playback, that ten year old Newton does everything the handheld PC does. Much of that is thanks to a strong community keeping the device alive. The Newton has Wi-Fi, so the Newton can listen to streaming audio over the Web, wirelessly. My PDA that I just purchased last year doesn't even do that.
False. The political entity known as "The United States of America" is an alliance of sovereign nations. Back in 1776, State and Nation and Country were all synonymous.
Many of the United States were entirely sovereign, independent nations at one time or another (not existing in the Constitutional alliance), including, but not limited to:
New Hampshire Massachusetts Bay Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Connecticut New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Louisiana Michigan Texas Hawaii
and, of course, the many Native American nations that still exist within the boundaries within the United States, some of which have not signed peace treaties and continue to be technically at war with the many United States.
When I declare citizenship at the border, I state my nation of citizenship, which is Michigan. The same could be said of any of the Founding Fathers of the United States. When asked in diplomatic meetings what country he was from, George Washington always replied, "I am a Virginian". When in France as our ambassador, Benjamin Franklin stated he was "...a Pennsylvanian".
The USA, legally, are in a state of political alliance similar to the EU. I don't take particular offence when people call me "American", as I'm used to it. I will occasionally correct people, though.
I'll admit I have a gmail account, but I just use that as a spam honeypot.
When it comes to search engines, I do not use Google, nor do I use any of their other services.
Just wait. The Google hero-worship will end, and eventually everyone will see them as what they are: information gatherers that will revolutionize how you are barraged with advertisements, and how your liberties are evaporated.
I would certainly take a job for $30,000 less a year than I make if they allowed me to dye my hair whatever color I want, and have visible piercings and tattoos.
For me, I think a suit is necessary for gentlemen in an office at all times. Beyond a suit, what an employee wears is none of the employers business so long as they're not vulgar. (Obviously a tattoo on the forehead that says, "Fuck off!" would not be work appropriate.)
For some people, tattoos and piercings are just a phase. But for many, many more, it's a reconnection with the divine. It's a rite of passage. It's a sacred, spiritual experience.
To deny that right to people is not only discriminatory, it's morally wrong. Work really is "just a job". You're there 40 hours a week.
Why should your employer own your body, especially when when you aren't even working 128 hours each week?
The statistics say it all:
A 2002 Mayo Clinic survey of university undergraduate students found more than half had some type of body piercing, and 23 percent had one to three tattoos.
With nearly one in four having a tattoo, I don't think that the current trend of discrimination will last through my lifetime. Thank God. It's about time the Victorian-era concepts of an employer owning your ass end, for all eternity.
A while ago I made a comment on Slashdot about Kevin Rose that was, shall we say, not so nice. At the time he was new on The Screen Savers and I saw him as a Microsoft fanboy and I even thought that perhaps he was part of G4's inspiration to steal and destroy TechTV.
These days he's much more open to Linux and OS X and is acting like a true professional. He finally fits in along Laporte and company now that he's on TWiT. I'm not a "fan" of Kevin Rose, but I do take back the bad things I've said about him, and I wish him luck in the future.
The Newton had a lot of potential, but like speech recognition, handwriting recognition is a long way from becoming truly useful. It will take some amazing AI for it to hit "the sweet spot".
I had a Sharp Wizard from 1995-1998, a Clio mini-tablet PC running Windows CE from 2000-2002, and ever since then I've used a Treo. Next up is an XDA III running Windows CE since Palm is dropping syncing with OS X.
I'll never use a PDA with handwriting recognition and no built in keyboard. They all suck.
For quite some time I've been interested in the idea of allowing you the ability to tinker around with my tracks - to create remixes, experiment, embellish or destroy what's there. I tried a few years ago to do this in shockwave with very limited results.
After spending some quality time sitting in hotel rooms on a press tour, it dawned on me that the technology now exists and is already in the hands of some of you. I got to work experimenting and came up with something I think you'll enjoy.
What I'm giving you in this file is the actual multi-track audio session for "the hand that feeds" in GarageBand format. This is the entire thing bounced over from the actual Pro Tools session we recorded it into. I imported and converted the tracks into AppleLoop format so the size would be reasonable and the tempo flexible.
So...
You need a Macintosh and you need GarageBand 2.0. If you have a newer Mac, you already have the software. The more RAM you have the better. I did this on a PowerBook 1.67 w/ 2G RAM but it has been running on far less powerful systems.
Drag the file over to your hard disk and double click it. Hit the space bar. Listen.
Change the tempo. Add new loops. Chop up the vocals. Turn me into a woman. Replay the guitar. Anything you'd like.
I gave this to my crew and band to test out and all work effectively stopped for a while - it's fun to mess around with. I've now heard a country version of the track as well as an abstract Latin interpretation (thanks, Leo).
There are some copyright issues involved, so read the notice that pops up. Giving this away is an experiment. I'm interested to see what comes of it, what issues are raised and what the results are.
As a person into Industrial music that loves Nine Inch Nails and is big into the Apple platform, let me be the first here to say OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! FUCK YEAH! NINE INCH NAILS FUCKING RULES!
Slashdot Mirror
Only on Slashdot does a story about space and lasers lead to the tagging system creating one and only one tag: sharks.
You seem to be a Christian, so let me ask you this: in the Bible, Jesus spent his time with the poor and destitute. He spent time with criminals and prostitutes. Have you ever actually met anyone that currently works in pornography and befriended them? You might be shocked at what they have to say about their chosen profession. Judge not, lest ye be judged.
Because Sony should release more than a handful of consoles. If they haven't produced enough to do a proper release that doesn't create artificial over-demand, they shouldn't release. It's called corporate responsibility.
Of course, after SuSE becomes the de facto Linux standard, all that remains for them is to find some way to kill off Novell.
Writing some custom code to provide playback functionality on OS X would be a snap. It could be done via REALbasic and AppleScript with very little effort.
From my understanding, once you change a couple of "riffs" in the song, it becomes a different song and therefore is not subject to copyright. This is how these sites have gotten away with this for so long. The RIAA is able to pursue them now since they've become so power-hungry and in bed with all of Washington.
The changes in the songs are easy to recognize and are why when you play a song from a tab site it almost never sounds 100% correct. You're supposed to figure out the issues yourself and adjust if you want to play the original version.
I disagree. Outside of colour, massive storage, and video playback, that ten year old Newton does everything the handheld PC does. Much of that is thanks to a strong community keeping the device alive. The Newton has Wi-Fi, so the Newton can listen to streaming audio over the Web, wirelessly. My PDA that I just purchased last year doesn't even do that.
Goths are generally fools, university grads or not.
It would seem that Sussex University disagrees with you.
Spammers will pay to talk to AOL users because AOL users will obviously pay for anything.
One word for you: iWork
"we all know that was in no way representative of the final product."
This should have been moderated "funny".
False. The political entity known as "The United States of America" is an alliance of sovereign nations. Back in 1776, State and Nation and Country were all synonymous.
Many of the United States were entirely sovereign, independent nations at one time or another (not existing in the Constitutional alliance), including, but not limited to:
New Hampshire
Massachusetts Bay
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Louisiana
Michigan
Texas
Hawaii
and, of course, the many Native American nations that still exist within the boundaries within the United States, some of which have not signed peace treaties and continue to be technically at war with the many United States.
When I declare citizenship at the border, I state my nation of citizenship, which is Michigan. The same could be said of any of the Founding Fathers of the United States. When asked in diplomatic meetings what country he was from, George Washington always replied, "I am a Virginian". When in France as our ambassador, Benjamin Franklin stated he was "...a Pennsylvanian".
The USA, legally, are in a state of political alliance similar to the EU. I don't take particular offence when people call me "American", as I'm used to it. I will occasionally correct people, though.
From day one, I had a bad feeling about Google.
I'll admit I have a gmail account, but I just use that as a spam honeypot.
When it comes to search engines, I do not use Google, nor do I use any of their other services.
Just wait. The Google hero-worship will end, and eventually everyone will see them as what they are: information gatherers that will revolutionize how you are barraged with advertisements, and how your liberties are evaporated.
It's the Future of Rock & Roll!
I would certainly take a job for $30,000 less a year than I make if they allowed me to dye my hair whatever color I want, and have visible piercings and tattoos.
For me, I think a suit is necessary for gentlemen in an office at all times. Beyond a suit, what an employee wears is none of the employers business so long as they're not vulgar. (Obviously a tattoo on the forehead that says, "Fuck off!" would not be work appropriate.)
For some people, tattoos and piercings are just a phase. But for many, many more, it's a reconnection with the divine. It's a rite of passage. It's a sacred, spiritual experience.
To deny that right to people is not only discriminatory, it's morally wrong. Work really is "just a job". You're there 40 hours a week.
Why should your employer own your body, especially when when you aren't even working 128 hours each week?
The statistics say it all:
A 2002 Mayo Clinic survey of university undergraduate students found more than half had some type of body piercing, and 23 percent had one to three tattoos.
With nearly one in four having a tattoo, I don't think that the current trend of discrimination will last through my lifetime. Thank God. It's about time the Victorian-era concepts of an employer owning your ass end, for all eternity.
I'd rather die, than be a slave.
I want a torrent of the keynote. Anyone have it yet?
"Linux is more than a decade older than MacOS X is, and Apple is already doing very well."
NeXTSTEP 1.0 was released in September of 1989.
But yes, I agree, Apple is doing very well. ;-)
I think you're looking for this.
A while ago I made a comment on Slashdot about Kevin Rose that was, shall we say, not so nice. At the time he was new on The Screen Savers and I saw him as a Microsoft fanboy and I even thought that perhaps he was part of G4's inspiration to steal and destroy TechTV.
These days he's much more open to Linux and OS X and is acting like a true professional. He finally fits in along Laporte and company now that he's on TWiT. I'm not a "fan" of Kevin Rose, but I do take back the bad things I've said about him, and I wish him luck in the future.
The Newton had a lot of potential, but like speech recognition, handwriting recognition is a long way from becoming truly useful. It will take some amazing AI for it to hit "the sweet spot".
I had a Sharp Wizard from 1995-1998, a Clio mini-tablet PC running Windows CE from 2000-2002, and ever since then I've used a Treo. Next up is an XDA III running Windows CE since Palm is dropping syncing with OS X.
I'll never use a PDA with handwriting recognition and no built in keyboard. They all suck.
It's a steal. The local Japanese store here in the Ann Arbor area sells some of these albums for $40. On iTunes they only want $25.
Is Oracle getting set make an Open Source offering?
I dunno. Is Slashdot getting set make good English on the Editor?
It's not as cool, but it does work in GarageBand 1.0 - Just be advised, you need to click through a seemingly endless string of warning dialogs.
Note from Trent in the .sit file:
Hello all-
For quite some time I've been interested in the idea of allowing you the ability to tinker around with my tracks - to create remixes, experiment, embellish or destroy what's there. I tried a few years ago to do this in shockwave with very limited results.
After spending some quality time sitting in hotel rooms on a press tour, it dawned on me that the technology now exists and is already in the hands of some of you. I got to work experimenting and came up with something I think you'll enjoy.
What I'm giving you in this file is the actual multi-track audio session for "the hand that feeds" in GarageBand format. This is the entire thing bounced over from the actual Pro Tools session we recorded it into. I imported and converted the tracks into AppleLoop format so the size would be reasonable and the tempo flexible.
So...
You need a Macintosh and you need GarageBand 2.0. If you have a newer Mac, you already have the software. The more RAM you have the better. I did this on a PowerBook 1.67 w/ 2G RAM but it has been running on far less powerful systems. Drag the file over to your hard disk and double click it. Hit the space bar. Listen.
Change the tempo. Add new loops. Chop up the vocals. Turn me into a woman. Replay the guitar. Anything you'd like.I gave this to my crew and band to test out and all work effectively stopped for a while - it's fun to mess around with. I've now heard a country version of the track as well as an abstract Latin interpretation (thanks, Leo).
There are some copyright issues involved, so read the notice that pops up. Giving this away is an experiment. I'm interested to see what comes of it, what issues are raised and what the results are.
Have fun-
Trent Reznor
April 15, 2005
As a person into Industrial music that loves Nine Inch Nails and is big into the Apple platform, let me be the first here to say OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! FUCK YEAH! NINE INCH NAILS FUCKING RULES!
*faints*