Honestly, if they have enough money they can make it all illegal. Pirate Bay has been flaunting the fact that the law is on his side. I think the problem is that the Pirate Bay is...a pirate site . They don't have any justification for the files they have listed, not that it's their fault that other people post pirated material, but the name alone encourages that sort of traffic.
If the lawyers wanted a perfect pretense case for anti-bt legislation they got it with the Pirate Bay.
Got the D610 bulk order in today. TPM Secruity and TPM Activation modules in bios. You can choose to turn them on/off in bios. I don't know if that is application/os controllable (as in the active-x script that turned on cpu proc ser# years ago). For whatever the score is on that...the TPM was deactivated out of the box in bios. If it continues to be that way, people will have to manually change it to load Longhorn TCPA compatible OS onto the PC.
Only difference between D600 and D610 was chipset and video card choice (600 was an AGP set/610 is PCI-E).
My IBM T30 was to be replaced with the new Dell hotness...I'll be holding onto it a bit longer I suppose. Not that IBM is any better on the TC side of this (I believe they had TPM's first trial run as a "security chip option" earlier.
The corporation is automatically evil.
It is beholden to none. Only Profit.
Never attribute anything but profit for motive. Anything is justifiable to the bottom line.
I think you are correct that the medium of wealth has increased, that the poor are much better off than they were before, but...( you had to know it was coming )
While there will always be those who have more and those with less, the proportions matter, most especially to a democracy where money buys you a greater voice with your government. CEO's pay has increased astronomically, but it hasn't been proportional to anything in the economy.
http://www.stw.org/research/CEO_Pay_charts.html
In one respect you could look at it as a taxation without representation equivalent.
Rich get a tax break. Poor no break, plus harder/longer work hours or no work at all in a depressed economy.
Know of any Enron execs doing hard time anyone? MCI gets a slap on the wrist fine ($500m for an $11bn swindle). Ever checked how much they spend in lobbying?
Bill Gates may fly to the moon, but if the trend continues you won't have a job to support yourself to old age unless you move to India.
The trend is changing, that is what reasonable people should be looking at. If the economy was still on the rise these CEO's would be a benefit, now they are just sapping the economy.
It is greed that drives capitalism, but how much is good for the country? I'm sure India's poor will be feeling a bit more of that wealth now, they'll probably enjoy it. Sounds like someone has read too much Anne Rule.
When the content is entertainment you are correct - entertainment media should not be regulated in this way, but there are 2 other concerns.
1) News is not entertainment and there needs to be controls placed on it so that the people are not mislead. Granted supply and demand will regulate entertainment media just fine on it's own, but with news media, truth in supply is the demand. You are not guaranteed truth by checking 1 source.
2) Frequency restrictions - Since we only have a finite # of allowable frequencies to be used, it should be quite obvious that no one company should be allowed to control more than their fair share. Satellite radio will try to add more to this, but at a cost and who will be allowed to broadcast on it?
Besides all that - if all you had to watch on TV, listen to on the radio was junk designed to sell you something would it really be a good thing?
If Clear Channel is happy with the FCC rulings then Bush is happy with it and will veto any changes.
I have doubts that Clear Channel would enjoy having "...tightened radio ownership rules".
Old school Dubbya friends -> http://www.takebackthemedia.com/radiogaga.html
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Not all supervisors are the same. I've held 9 jobs in the last 10yrs...I would say that 6 of those would not have given me the time I wanted if it wasn't part of the company policy. It gets worse in a bad economy when the company needs to justify itself because of stock price (hiring consultants to question every corner of your business)
A guaranteed amount of vacation time is much preferable to the elusive great boss who allows you to take the time whenever you want.
Your situation could change drastically if your boss changed. The less control any entity has over your time the better your life will be. Who is the better judge of when you can take time off?
I think vacation time calls into factor what a high standard of living is. Working hard is all fine and good, but to what end? 70-90hr a week so that you can afford that high standard, may defeat the purpose.
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Such as the 2600.com case of linking to DoCSS?
Honestly, if they have enough money they can make it all illegal. Pirate Bay has been flaunting the fact that the law is on his side. I think the problem is that the Pirate Bay is...a pirate site . They don't have any justification for the files they have listed, not that it's their fault that other people post pirated material, but the name alone encourages that sort of traffic.
If the lawyers wanted a perfect pretense case for anti-bt legislation they got it with the Pirate Bay.
Got the D610 bulk order in today. TPM Secruity and TPM Activation modules in bios. You can choose to turn them on/off in bios. I don't know if that is application/os controllable (as in the active-x script that turned on cpu proc ser# years ago). For whatever the score is on that...the TPM was deactivated out of the box in bios. If it continues to be that way, people will have to manually change it to load Longhorn TCPA compatible OS onto the PC. Only difference between D600 and D610 was chipset and video card choice (600 was an AGP set/610 is PCI-E). My IBM T30 was to be replaced with the new Dell hotness...I'll be holding onto it a bit longer I suppose. Not that IBM is any better on the TC side of this (I believe they had TPM's first trial run as a "security chip option" earlier.
The corporation is automatically evil. It is beholden to none. Only Profit. Never attribute anything but profit for motive. Anything is justifiable to the bottom line.
I think you are correct that the medium of wealth has increased, that the poor are much better off than they were before, but...( you had to know it was coming )
While there will always be those who have more and those with less, the proportions matter, most especially to a democracy where money buys you a greater voice with your government. CEO's pay has increased astronomically, but it hasn't been proportional to anything in the economy.
http://www.stw.org/research/CEO_Pay_charts.html
In one respect you could look at it as a taxation without representation equivalent.
Rich get a tax break. Poor no break, plus harder/longer work hours or no work at all in a depressed economy.
Know of any Enron execs doing hard time anyone? MCI gets a slap on the wrist fine ($500m for an $11bn swindle). Ever checked how much they spend in lobbying?
Bill Gates may fly to the moon, but if the trend continues you won't have a job to support yourself to old age unless you move to India.
The trend is changing, that is what reasonable people should be looking at. If the economy was still on the rise these CEO's would be a benefit, now they are just sapping the economy.
It is greed that drives capitalism, but how much is good for the country? I'm sure India's poor will be feeling a bit more of that wealth now, they'll probably enjoy it. Sounds like someone has read too much Anne Rule.
When the content is entertainment you are correct - entertainment media should not be regulated in this way, but there are 2 other concerns. 1) News is not entertainment and there needs to be controls placed on it so that the people are not mislead. Granted supply and demand will regulate entertainment media just fine on it's own, but with news media, truth in supply is the demand. You are not guaranteed truth by checking 1 source. 2) Frequency restrictions - Since we only have a finite # of allowable frequencies to be used, it should be quite obvious that no one company should be allowed to control more than their fair share. Satellite radio will try to add more to this, but at a cost and who will be allowed to broadcast on it? Besides all that - if all you had to watch on TV, listen to on the radio was junk designed to sell you something would it really be a good thing?
If Clear Channel is happy with the FCC rulings then Bush is happy with it and will veto any changes.
I have doubts that Clear Channel would enjoy having "...tightened radio ownership rules".
Old school Dubbya friends -> http://www.takebackthemedia.com/radiogaga.html
Not all supervisors are the same. I've held 9 jobs in the last 10yrs...I would say that 6 of those would not have given me the time I wanted if it wasn't part of the company policy. It gets worse in a bad economy when the company needs to justify itself because of stock price (hiring consultants to question every corner of your business)
A guaranteed amount of vacation time is much preferable to the elusive great boss who allows you to take the time whenever you want.
Your situation could change drastically if your boss changed. The less control any entity has over your time the better your life will be. Who is the better judge of when you can take time off?
I think vacation time calls into factor what a high standard of living is. Working hard is all fine and good, but to what end? 70-90hr a week so that you can afford that high standard, may defeat the purpose.