Oklahoma judges ? like their office and home numbers so we could call them and let them know how much we appreciate their looking out for the corporatio^H^H^H^H^H^H^H the people of the US... 50 Million people for GOD SAKES, more than ever turn out for an election...about time we start fighting back using whatever tools are available...US federal judges like direct marketing let's start giving them a taste of it...
err WTF ?!?! "The new world order is one in which corporations enforce their own censorship, violate rights, and pass their own laws without any pesky constitution or democratic process to get in their way.
It is a FREE service they have been providing, no laws involved, no right to chat that I know of, and last time I checked they did not need constitutional or congressional approval to alter the terms of a service you offer for NO COST.
I personally won't use it, won't allow it on my network, and block it at the firewall, but it is M$'s business to do with as they see fit...Not some god given right ensured by our forefathers...
this looks much like the 'science' founded in the Asimov foundation series, and promoted by Hari Seldon, galactic librarian and savior of social institutions everywhere:)
already say that there exists a direct marketer's right to send out notices ? While I applaud this it seems likely to #1 run into huge court challenges, #2 be VERY HARD to enforce, #3 seems to smack of grandstanding....
Err what noble pay the artist not the industry sentiment. Throughout history the term STARVING ARTIST has met with great identification. This whole issue is NOT NEW, people have been screwing artists over since paint was first put to canvas and prose first composed to tickle the noble ear. The creations of idea's and then the controlling of said idea is never going to be successful. Now I DO beleive author's have a right to be payed, but as to how to ensure that I do not know....
and delivery of that item doesn't use any existing infrastructure ? like the roads or such ? As for the ban on taxes ? no not correct, they have had no mechanism for determing where you were, but nearly everystate has a law to the effect that you are responsible for paying your taxes and declaring the items taxable, it is you the consumer that is responsible for declaring what you bought, your failure to do so is not the seller's issue. If the evey get a standardized nation tax system I will assure you there will be forced taxes the day after.
they don't care about making anyone's life better, there goal is and ALWAYS was profit. Granted Yahoo! lost sight of that for a while , much like many companies in the SNAZZY BUZZ-WORD filled era of the DOT.BOMBS
would be carried forward very well by those 2 free market moguls, however the light of humanity would generally suffer...
I see you point though there has to a middle ground somewhere, equally unpalatable to all... 98 channels on my cable system and they advertise showing the same movie 3 nights in a row like it was a GOOD hing instead of a lack of content. The addition of a station dedidcated to everything has just allowed the broadcasters to spread out the same amount of content of 3 times as many stations and just triple the amount of commericals without adding any new stuff...Not bragging but my TV is rarely ever turned on, and even more rarely to anything not foorball, discovery, nova, or CARTOON NETWORK:)
this goes over just slightly better than the slashdot PeeWee cruiser idea, and thinkgeek holds on for a long time to the 10,000 they thought they would move to every slashbot on the net...
government subsidies for dying industries incapable of survivng on their own in the environment today. Kind of like the government mandating that we save the dinosaurs. I think I should have that as well, my employer keeps expecting me to produce somthing worthwile or they won't pay me, I should be able to just do what I want, and my 'right to profit' should be assured just like these assinine corporations seem to think they have a 'right' to our money...
FARK EM ALL...
Amazing Dutch and British TV only win awards issued by the Dutch and British governments sorry... Half the decent BBC biographies are produce by Lionheart in the US, for a market which will pay for them...Mandatory licensing is CRAP...
NO vendor will provide any assurances on CD content beyond 12 MONTHS. This I know first hand from product meetings. My company has req's to keep stuff for 7 years, CD's will have to be recalled and reburned 1 every 12 months. We used to do the same with magnetic media but they would not provide ANY sort of assurances beyond manufacturer defect.... If it is worth backing up then you need to keep rewriting it until you don't need it anymore...Archfeld
the RIAA can't sue a 12 year old girl, anymore than she can have a net connection in her own name. They are suing an anonymous online name that has been pirating their precious 'Brittany' crap for a while wholesale:) Her poor parental unit should have paid a wee bit more attention to what precious was doing on the net I think. Hell a 12 year old can't even agree to the EULA on any of the p2p services.
there is significant difference in quality and overall playability. Pressed media is MUCH better, while dvd-r media is OK, there are all kinds of drives and firmware issues on older machines using dvd-r media vs commercial pressed disks. We see it with during builds all the time...On new hardware this would hardly be an issue I imagine...
for the international HACK CHINA outing ? Isn't about time that everyone else gave China a taste of the Rat Crap they've been feeding the world. I'd say 2 billion people hacking at your firewall would send a message, not hat they would understand mind you...
unless the OWNING organization is the one releasing otherwise it is just as bad and just as illegal...2 wrongs and all that crap...I have a business ISP, about 2 days after the thing hit we got info stating that they were scanning and if you were infected you'd get 4 hours notice then disconected...THEY DID RIGHT, bravo Megapaths, MANAGE your network and its' resources not the other way around. Now if only other ISP's say large ones with HERDS of clueless users could manage somthing similar I might yet save my online gaming business....
as proof of pirating ?!?! I buy cd-r's by the 100 pack every 2 months, and use one every night for back-up of application data, not ONCE has one of those disks EVER, contained a SINGLE NOTE of music, in any form, unless the humming of the drive is music to your ears. What we need to do is find a source of cd-r disks the RIAA does not have catalogued and cannot monitor. If the recordable media sales decline while music STILL TANKS and downloading declines what will the chicken littles of the corporate world cry next...poor HUMPTYRIAA, all of King Georges' men could not put him back together again.
"Mr Oppenheim also said the RIAA was immume from rules on unreasonable searches on the internet, because it did not have links with law enforcement agencies."
By that logic I too am immune to search and seizure rules, I produce licensed music in MP3 format and have reason to beleive the RIAA is illegally in posession of said music...does that mean I can start searching away at their traffic, site and PC's ? or should I just file a subpoena...
is DROOLING over these functions, and has been pestering M$ Premier support for mandatory DRM, document self destruct and many other heinous feature for years now. They perceive in as the panacea to the legal issues looming over liability. As much as I despise the whole concept, I can't blame M$ alone for this, when your biggest customers call for somthing you do your best to produce it....The fact that joe user get screwed is of minor importance to all the parties involved here, except Joe:)
My XP or 2k installs at home and work are rock solid, they rarely fail except due to application issues, granted I am not saying that the OS's lack of properly doc'd API's isn't part of that problem. The biggest reason they get rebooted is because of bloody patches and updates, the same reason I reboot my *nix's. Must also admit that M$ has put out on average 9 patches a day under the critical heading in the last 4 weeks so uptime isn't really relavent right now:)
On the other hand, our test install of 2k3 crash, freeze, or die at the drop of a hat doing native functions...
Now the couple of 98 machiens I've got still reboot on the fly for no apparent reason, sometimes under load, sometimes sitting idle.
why bother...I've yet to find any decent games that I wanted to play on my 2' phone screeen thanks.....Heck I can barely use that miniscule screeen to dial much less play a video game....
So much technology, so many idiots, and still the kids starve in the streets.
and as far as that kind of world, a capitalistic 1984 would be much worse, when you could not contribute anymore you would be discarded as valueless, at least a communistic system deals with the people as a whole and not the potential $$$ value a person represents. I guess you'd always have some value...Soylent green is PEOPLE....
The US only pays attention to national borders when it is ours. Otherwise even if what you do is legal where you are, if it violates our laws we will try and enforce it....Makes me sad to be an American sometimes. I just love how we can prosecute foriegn nationals for violating US laws outside the US, but deny them the inherent protection of the US system... Welcome to the United States of Hypocrisy, a subsidiary of King George Inc. "Looking out for their own interests at our expense since the day they were "elected" - Bush and company."
If Linux was based on a system developed 15 years ago it would have problems too. Linux is based on UNIX which has 25 years of learning and growth experience. While my choice of os is a *Nix, you gotta admit M$ drove lots of features onto the forefront of consumer computing, sadly they did it with horrendous coding discipline. Anytime you introduce that many new features, a LOT of holes and bugs will crop up. The real 'CRIME' is their lackadaisical approach to fixing them. I really think if/as the Linux user base spreads out, as soon as you begin to acquire the general (L)User community you will see the incident rate shoot up.
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Oklahoma judges ? like their office and home numbers so we could call them and let them know how much we appreciate their looking out for the corporatio^H^H^H^H^H^H^H the people of the US...
50 Million people for GOD SAKES, more than ever turn out for an election...about time we start fighting back using whatever tools are available...US federal judges like direct marketing let's start giving them a taste of it...
err WTF ?!?! "The new world order is one in which corporations enforce their own censorship, violate rights, and pass their own laws without any pesky constitution or democratic process to get in their way.
It is a FREE service they have been providing, no laws involved, no right to chat that I know of, and last time I checked they did not need constitutional or congressional approval to alter the terms of a service you offer for NO COST.
I personally won't use it, won't allow it on my network, and block it at the firewall, but it is M$'s business to do with as they see fit...Not some god given right ensured by our forefathers...
this looks much like the 'science' founded in the Asimov foundation series, and promoted by Hari Seldon, galactic librarian and savior of social institutions everywhere :)
already say that there exists a direct marketer's right to send out notices ? While I applaud this it seems likely to #1 run into huge court challenges, #2 be VERY HARD to enforce, #3 seems to smack of grandstanding....
Otherwise MORE POWER TO HIM..I HATE SPAM...
Err what noble pay the artist not the industry sentiment. Throughout history the term STARVING ARTIST has met with great identification. This whole issue is NOT NEW, people have been screwing artists over since paint was first put to canvas and prose first composed to tickle the noble ear. The creations of idea's and then the controlling of said idea is never going to be successful. Now I DO beleive author's have a right to be payed, but as to how to ensure that I do not know....
and delivery of that item doesn't use any existing infrastructure ? like the roads or such ?
As for the ban on taxes ? no not correct, they have had no mechanism for determing where you were, but nearly everystate has a law to the effect that you are responsible for paying your taxes and declaring the items taxable, it is you the consumer that is responsible for declaring what you bought, your failure to do so is not the seller's issue. If the evey get a standardized nation tax system I will assure you there will be forced taxes the day after.
they don't care about making anyone's life better, there goal is and ALWAYS was profit. Granted Yahoo! lost sight of that for a while , much like many companies in the SNAZZY BUZZ-WORD filled era of the DOT.BOMBS
Toronto Dominion is an totally owned subsidiary of Bank of America. A US corporation with its' headquarters in North Carolina.
would be carried forward very well by those 2 free market moguls, however the light of humanity would generally suffer...
:)
I see you point though there has to a middle ground somewhere, equally unpalatable to all...
98 channels on my cable system and they advertise showing the same movie 3 nights in a row like it was a GOOD hing instead of a lack of content. The addition of a station dedidcated to everything has just allowed the broadcasters to spread out the same amount of content of 3 times as many stations and just triple the amount of commericals without adding any new stuff...Not bragging but my TV is rarely ever turned on, and even more rarely to anything not foorball, discovery, nova, or CARTOON NETWORK
this goes over just slightly better than the slashdot PeeWee cruiser idea, and thinkgeek holds on for a long time to the 10,000 they thought they would move to every slashbot on the net...
government subsidies for dying industries incapable of survivng on their own in the environment today. Kind of like the government mandating that we save the dinosaurs. I think I should have that as well, my employer keeps expecting me to produce somthing worthwile or they won't pay me, I should be able to just do what I want, and my 'right to profit' should be assured just like these assinine corporations seem to think they have a 'right' to our money...
FARK EM ALL...
Amazing Dutch and British TV only win awards issued by the Dutch and British governments sorry...
Half the decent BBC biographies are produce by Lionheart in the US, for a market which will pay for them...Mandatory licensing is CRAP...
NO vendor will provide any assurances on CD content beyond 12 MONTHS. This I know first hand from product meetings. My company has req's to keep stuff for 7 years, CD's will have to be recalled and reburned 1 every 12 months. We used to do the same with magnetic media but they would not provide ANY sort of assurances beyond manufacturer defect....
If it is worth backing up then you need to keep rewriting it until you don't need it anymore...Archfeld
the RIAA can't sue a 12 year old girl, anymore than she can have a net connection in her own name. They are suing an anonymous online name that has been pirating their precious 'Brittany' crap for a while wholesale :) Her poor parental unit should have paid a wee bit more attention to what precious was doing on the net I think. Hell a 12 year old can't even agree to the EULA on any of the p2p services.
there is significant difference in quality and overall playability. Pressed media is MUCH better, while dvd-r media is OK, there are all kinds of drives and firmware issues on older machines using dvd-r media vs commercial pressed disks. We see it with during builds all the time...On new hardware this would hardly be an issue I imagine...
for the international HACK CHINA outing ?
Isn't about time that everyone else gave China a taste of the Rat Crap they've been feeding the world. I'd say 2 billion people hacking at your firewall would send a message, not hat they would understand mind you...
unless the OWNING organization is the one releasing otherwise it is just as bad and just as illegal...2 wrongs and all that crap...I have a business ISP, about 2 days after the thing hit we got info stating that they were scanning and if you were infected you'd get 4 hours notice then disconected...THEY DID RIGHT, bravo Megapaths, MANAGE your network and its' resources not the other way around. Now if only other ISP's say large ones with HERDS of clueless users could manage somthing similar I might yet save my online gaming business....
as proof of pirating ?!?! I buy cd-r's by the 100 pack every 2 months, and use one every night for back-up of application data, not ONCE has one of those disks EVER, contained a SINGLE NOTE of music, in any form, unless the humming of the drive is music to your ears. What we need to do is find a source of cd-r disks the RIAA does not have catalogued and cannot monitor. If the recordable media sales decline while music STILL TANKS and downloading declines what will the chicken littles of the corporate world cry next...poor HUMPTYRIAA, all of King Georges' men could not put him back together again.
"Mr Oppenheim also said the RIAA was immume from rules on unreasonable searches on the internet, because it did not have links with law enforcement agencies."
By that logic I too am immune to search and seizure rules, I produce licensed music in MP3 format and have reason to beleive the RIAA is illegally in posession of said music...does that mean I can start searching away at their traffic, site and PC's ? or should I just file a subpoena...
is DROOLING over these functions, and has been pestering M$ Premier support for mandatory DRM, document self destruct and many other heinous feature for years now. They perceive in as the panacea to the legal issues looming over liability. As much as I despise the whole concept, I can't blame M$ alone for this, when your biggest customers call for somthing you do your best to produce it....The fact that joe user get screwed is of minor importance to all the parties involved here, except Joe :)
My XP or 2k installs at home and work are rock solid, they rarely fail except due to application issues, granted I am not saying that the OS's lack of properly doc'd API's isn't part of that problem. The biggest reason they get rebooted is because of bloody patches and updates, the same reason I reboot my *nix's. :)
Must also admit that M$ has put out on average 9 patches a day under the critical heading in the last 4 weeks so uptime isn't really relavent right now
On the other hand, our test install of 2k3 crash, freeze, or die at the drop of a hat doing native functions...
Now the couple of 98 machiens I've got still reboot on the fly for no apparent reason, sometimes under load, sometimes sitting idle.
they even look for ID's where you are...they are on the ball there....they rarely lift their eyes from the cash machine here....
why bother...I've yet to find any decent games that I wanted to play on my 2' phone screeen thanks.....Heck I can barely use that miniscule screeen to dial much less play a video game....
So much technology, so many idiots, and still the kids starve in the streets.
and as far as that kind of world, a capitalistic 1984 would be much worse, when you could not contribute anymore you would be discarded as valueless, at least a communistic system deals with the people as a whole and not the potential $$$ value a person represents. I guess you'd always have some value...Soylent green is PEOPLE....
The US only pays attention to national borders when it is ours. Otherwise even if what you do is legal where you are, if it violates our laws we will try and enforce it....Makes me sad to be an American sometimes. I just love how we can prosecute foriegn nationals for violating US laws outside the US, but deny them the inherent protection of the US system...
Welcome to the United States of Hypocrisy, a subsidiary of King George Inc.
"Looking out for their own interests at our expense since the day they were "elected" - Bush and company."
If Linux was based on a system developed 15 years ago it would have problems too. Linux is based on UNIX which has 25 years of learning and growth experience. While my choice of os is a *Nix, you gotta admit M$ drove lots of features onto the forefront of consumer computing, sadly they did it with horrendous coding discipline. Anytime you introduce that many new features, a LOT of holes and bugs will crop up. The real 'CRIME' is their lackadaisical approach to fixing them. I really think if/as the Linux user base spreads out, as soon as you begin to acquire the general (L)User community you will see the incident rate shoot up.