Those people that get themselves deep in the doody with the RIAA get what they deserve. By wanting what the RIAA got, these people give the RIAA the power to bend their asses over barrels and have their way. How much brain does it require to realize this?
The capitalists and their running dogs are at it again!
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I can't believe that there would actually be something on the internet worth buying. The only reason I have cable is to do something with that fucking TV I bought. That's the last TV I'm ever going to buy. I won't buy computers either if all they're going to be is internet appliances.
I have T-Mobile and the signal quality in my house is so poor that my phone rarely works there. As far as I'm concerned they can take a hike whether I have to get a new number or not. When are these companies going to learn that trying to restrain customer choice with technological measures is an unsuccessful way to keep customers?
Spam has to be stopped at the source. Do these libertarians not understand how much bandwidth goes wasted? I'm getting tired of their incessant anti-tax initiatives at the local government level while they barely pay lip service to the excesses of the federal government.
Technology is OK except when the fascist corporations like to use it against us... such as with digital rights management. That is sufficient for me to change my relationship with technology.
"There is no fundamental right to be able to earn a living by making music. People used to be able to. But if technology is now destroying that ability, so be it! Nobody these days makes a living manufacturing vacuum tubes or writing letters for people who never learned to read."
It won't be technology that destroys the ability of people to earn a living making music. It will be other's use of technology that destroys it. If people can't earn a living making music they will quit. One less reason for technology.
If I actually buy RedHat I pay $40--or more. Then they want me to pay $60 per year to take advantage of their service to keep it updated. On the open market M$ expects me to pay $200 for XP Home or $300 for XP Pro but they don't expect me to pay to keep either updated. RedHat sells us an embarrassment of riches in open source software but that embarrassment of riches is beginning to look embarrassing.
To an economist, this is a real head shaker. This whole sequence I'm talking about is called reciprocity. It's a solved problem in game theory. The only people who argue about it are people who haven't read and understand the solution, i.e., 90% of the whole world, unfortuately.
Glassman's job should be exported to somewhere in the world where we can find someone who can make the same old arguments for free trade much more cheaply.
I don't care either and apparently most of the people in these United States don't care either. Ultimately, radio is going to do the bidding of those who pay for it. We have good radio in the Twin Cities because people are willing to pay for it with their money and their time which is the way it should be.
I started with Cray in 1991. Cray began their annual layoffs beginning in 1992. The annual layoffs continued after SGI bought Cray. They continued after SGI sold the parts of Cray they didn't want anymore. SGI had two layoffs in 2001, the year they laid me off.
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Those people that get themselves deep in the doody with the RIAA get what they deserve. By wanting what the RIAA got, these people give the RIAA the power to bend their asses over barrels and have their way. How much brain does it require to realize this?
Umm. Consumers are basically stupid and are ripe pickings for corporation-fascist antics like this.
With a Z80. I even got the bank to lend me some money for it. Thank god I lived in my parents' basement.
and it isn't geeky either.
The capitalists and their running dogs are at it again!
I can't believe that there would actually be something on the internet worth buying. The only reason I have cable is to do something with that fucking TV I bought. That's the last TV I'm ever going to buy. I won't buy computers either if all they're going to be is internet appliances.
I have T-Mobile and the signal quality in my house is so poor that my phone rarely works there. As far as I'm concerned they can take a hike whether I have to get a new number or not. When are these companies going to learn that trying to restrain customer choice with technological measures is an unsuccessful way to keep customers?
Spam has to be stopped at the source. Do these libertarians not understand how much bandwidth goes wasted? I'm getting tired of their incessant anti-tax initiatives at the local government level while they barely pay lip service to the excesses of the federal government.
Check out the iCart II from Anthro.
what i do know is the republicans push the idea of "smaller government"
What have you been smoking? Give me some!
McLuhan, I believe, said that art is whatever you can get away with. Technology will end up keeping them honest.
And without the idiots that can't turn their cell phones off.
Technology is OK except when the fascist corporations like to use it against us ... such as with digital rights management. That is sufficient for me to change my relationship with technology.
"There is no fundamental right to be able to earn a living by making music. People used to be able to. But if technology is now destroying that ability, so be it! Nobody these days makes a living manufacturing vacuum tubes or writing letters for people who never learned to read."
It won't be technology that destroys the ability of people to earn a living making music. It will be other's use of technology that destroys it. If people can't earn a living making music they will quit. One less reason for technology.
If I actually buy RedHat I pay $40--or more. Then they want me to pay $60 per year to take advantage of their service to keep it updated. On the open market M$ expects me to pay $200 for XP Home or $300 for XP Pro but they don't expect me to pay to keep either updated. RedHat sells us an embarrassment of riches in open source software but that embarrassment of riches is beginning to look embarrassing.
To an economist, this is a real head shaker. This whole sequence I'm talking about is called reciprocity. It's a solved problem in game theory. The only people who argue about it are people who haven't read and understand the solution, i.e., 90% of the whole world, unfortuately.
Glassman's job should be exported to somewhere in the world where we can find someone who can make the same old arguments for free trade much more cheaply.
Weren't they behind the curve when the Internet took off. Weren't they behind the curve when it came to computer security?
I don't care either and apparently most of the people in these United States don't care either. Ultimately, radio is going to do the bidding of those who pay for it. We have good radio in the Twin Cities because people are willing to pay for it with their money and their time which is the way it should be.
Cable isn't even good enough to put me to sleep!
All bandwidth is shared.
Enterprise-level synergies ... best-of-breed ...
[Puke]
Then he skidaddles off to a top job at Microsoft.
I started with Cray in 1991. Cray began their annual layoffs beginning in 1992. The annual layoffs continued after SGI bought Cray. They continued after SGI sold the parts of Cray they didn't want anymore. SGI had two layoffs in 2001, the year they laid me off.