He may very well be taking any money he would have spent on CDs and DVDs and instead spending it on computer peripherals and hard drives.
Therefore, by not allowing him to share tunes and warez with friends, the hard drive manufacturers would lose money.
The hard drive manufacturers spend a lot of time and effort creating their products. Why are you trying to deny them their profits? Why do you hate hard drive companies?
It's not as if they have a way to snoop on lan traffic, and if they did it would be illegal.
Would it be illegal for the university to snoop on inter-university traffic? I'm not so sure it would be (especially at a private university), and even if it were illegal, wouldn't it be as simple as altering the student code of conduct to make it perfectly permissible?
Besides, in the near future I think we can all look forward to increased ISP snooping and traffic-shaping on our internet activity. The twin spectres of terrorism and child (OMG the children!) pornography have proven to be enormously effective in increasing internet monitoring of innocent citizens. Due to the amount of influence the RIAA and their ilk have in the government, it wouldn't take long for the increased survelliance to be used to crack down on p2p file-sharing.
And since I presume you don't do anything illegal in your home, you won't mind if the government places a camera in there, right?
It will just be some civil servant or whatever watching the video of you in your house. Once they see you're not doing anything illegal, they probably won't pay attention much anyway.
Amen, brother. I never understand how all these democrats automatically think that the NSA wiretapping is somehow illegal.
I mean, it's only the government listening to your phone calls without a warrant! Hasn't that always been ok? Warrants are some sort of liberal imaginary concept anyway. I mean, it's not like warrants are mentioned in the constitution or anything. Read your history books, you panzy democrats!
Just go to dslreports.com and look at how many companies are out there.
Yes, there are a lot of ISPs out there if you're willing to move all over country whenever your ISP begins to annoy you.
You may live in a densely populated area that enjoys the freedom of choosing between several ISPs, but many people are forced to choose between crappy ISP A or crappy ISP B, if that.
If Jean-Luc hadn't replicated those steaks, maybe he would have spent some credits on a real steak, which would have benefitted the farmer who raised the cows. Therefore, using content-industry bizarro-logic, Jean-Luc stole a steak from the farmer! That bald bastard!
Of course, nothing is truly free, as someone earned some credits building and selling the replicators used on the Enterprise, just as many people benefit from movie/music downloading such as hard-drive and blank-cd manufacturers.
Namely, young black males. The overall prison population is the US is somewhere over 2 million, which is a disturbingly high number, but we certainly don't have any room for german prisoners. There is a severe overcrowding problem in most state prisons as it is, despite the booming prison industry. It is not likely to get any better either, seeing as Americans haven't lost their zeal for punishment. Nothing seems to get a few easy votes for a politician like calling for longer prison terms for some crime or another (and there is no end in sight in the "war" on drugs).
Alas, this is true. You also have to rebuild it every time you upgrade the kernel. I believe the truecrypt developers are planning on including a way to create partitions/containers in a future version (also a gui front-end).
True that. Most average Joe/Janes use their computer as an appliance to access the internet, check email, word process, sync their ipod, etc. XP functions very well for what most people need. However, if the DRM scale tips too far (corporations/governments applying frustrating and intrusive tactics), then people may begin to understand the advantages of free (free!) software.
Thank you. I'm amazed at how many people have misunderstood the intended purpose of this law. You put the words "child" and "porn" in the same sentence and people block out all other information and start babbling about child porn. I believe this may be part of the government's plan, however. Stringing two words together to create a symbolic connection is apparently very effective with the american sheeple: Sadam Hussein & 9/11 anyone?
You're right, the world is changing. Civil liberties and expectations of privacy are so pre-911. I join you in welcoming our new era of governmental intrusion and fascism.
Even in Antartica, you can't escape the US government. From the wikipedia page:
The law of the United States, including certain criminal offenses by or against U.S. nationals, such as murder, may apply to areas not under jurisdiction of other countries. To this end, the United States now stations special deputy U. S. Marshals in Antarctica to provide a law enforcement presence.
A self-sufficient space-station is the only hope (orbiting another planet, of course).
With all the other problems in the world, I am at a loss as to why this is a top concern for this Administration?
The Administration's top priorities:
1. Keeping the populace complacent, afraid, and distracted (see 2-5), while the fat-cats buy another yacht
2. Terrorists/oceania/eurasia
3. Abortion!!
4. The children... who no one ever thinks of, need to be protected by restricting the rights of all adults
5. The Gayz!!
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He may very well be taking any money he would have spent on CDs and DVDs and instead spending it on computer peripherals and hard drives. Therefore, by not allowing him to share tunes and warez with friends, the hard drive manufacturers would lose money. The hard drive manufacturers spend a lot of time and effort creating their products. Why are you trying to deny them their profits? Why do you hate hard drive companies?
It's not as if they have a way to snoop on lan traffic, and if they did it would be illegal.
Would it be illegal for the university to snoop on inter-university traffic? I'm not so sure it would be (especially at a private university), and even if it were illegal, wouldn't it be as simple as altering the student code of conduct to make it perfectly permissible?
Besides, in the near future I think we can all look forward to increased ISP snooping and traffic-shaping on our internet activity. The twin spectres of terrorism and child (OMG the children!) pornography have proven to be enormously effective in increasing internet monitoring of innocent citizens. Due to the amount of influence the RIAA and their ilk have in the government, it wouldn't take long for the increased survelliance to be used to crack down on p2p file-sharing.
And since I presume you don't do anything illegal in your home, you won't mind if the government places a camera in there, right?
It will just be some civil servant or whatever watching the video of you in your house. Once they see you're not doing anything illegal, they probably won't pay attention much anyway.
Yes, everyone should stop bitching and moaning until we have as few rights as North Koreans. Then it's ok if people start acting like drama queens.
This is all democratic dragging through the mud.
/sarcasm off
Amen, brother. I never understand how all these democrats automatically think that the NSA wiretapping is somehow illegal.
I mean, it's only the government listening to your phone calls without a warrant! Hasn't that always been ok? Warrants are some sort of liberal imaginary concept anyway. I mean, it's not like warrants are mentioned in the constitution or anything. Read your history books, you panzy democrats!
Question: How many voters does it take to change a lightbulb?
Answer: It doesn't matter. Voters don't change anything.
I believe number 2 is:
2. Teenager uses extra money to buy more gas.
dpkg complains of libboost-python1.33.0 being missing because Dapper use libboost-python1.33.1.
That's funny, because my grandmother who uses linux complained of the same problem!
That is truly disturbing. Land of the free indeed.
Just go to dslreports.com and look at how many companies are out there.
Yes, there are a lot of ISPs out there if you're willing to move all over country whenever your ISP begins to annoy you.
You may live in a densely populated area that enjoys the freedom of choosing between several ISPs, but many people are forced to choose between crappy ISP A or crappy ISP B, if that.
Thank you freenet team! The ability to remain anonymous is the only way to ensure complete freedom of speech.
Man, you must be one horny son of a... Oh, nevermind, I misunderstood.
Yeah, that seems like an easy categorization system you have there. Piece of cake (sarcasm cake, that is!).
If Jean-Luc hadn't replicated those steaks, maybe he would have spent some credits on a real steak, which would have benefitted the farmer who raised the cows. Therefore, using content-industry bizarro-logic, Jean-Luc stole a steak from the farmer! That bald bastard!
Of course, nothing is truly free, as someone earned some credits building and selling the replicators used on the Enterprise, just as many people benefit from movie/music downloading such as hard-drive and blank-cd manufacturers.
in some demographics
Namely, young black males. The overall prison population is the US is somewhere over 2 million, which is a disturbingly high number, but we certainly don't have any room for german prisoners. There is a severe overcrowding problem in most state prisons as it is, despite the booming prison industry. It is not likely to get any better either, seeing as Americans haven't lost their zeal for punishment. Nothing seems to get a few easy votes for a politician like calling for longer prison terms for some crime or another (and there is no end in sight in the "war" on drugs).
Hopefully none of your sensitive data is leaked into /var, /tmp, or swap.
Alas, this is true. You also have to rebuild it every time you upgrade the kernel. I believe the truecrypt developers are planning on including a way to create partitions/containers in a future version (also a gui front-end).
The same thing happened to me at a Target in the u.s..
True that. Most average Joe/Janes use their computer as an appliance to access the internet, check email, word process, sync their ipod, etc. XP functions very well for what most people need. However, if the DRM scale tips too far (corporations/governments applying frustrating and intrusive tactics), then people may begin to understand the advantages of free (free!) software.
Thank you. I'm amazed at how many people have misunderstood the intended purpose of this law. You put the words "child" and "porn" in the same sentence and people block out all other information and start babbling about child porn. I believe this may be part of the government's plan, however. Stringing two words together to create a symbolic connection is apparently very effective with the american sheeple: Sadam Hussein & 9/11 anyone?
I was with you until you got to the then you get a blue screen part. Come on dude... seriously.
You're right, the world is changing. Civil liberties and expectations of privacy are so pre-911. I join you in welcoming our new era of governmental intrusion and fascism.
The founding fathers are sooo pre-911.
Even in Antartica, you can't escape the US government. From the wikipedia page:
The law of the United States, including certain criminal offenses by or against U.S. nationals, such as murder, may apply to areas not under jurisdiction of other countries. To this end, the United States now stations special deputy U. S. Marshals in Antarctica to provide a law enforcement presence.
A self-sufficient space-station is the only hope (orbiting another planet, of course).
With all the other problems in the world, I am at a loss as to why this is a top concern for this Administration?
The Administration's top priorities:
1. Keeping the populace complacent, afraid, and distracted (see 2-5), while the fat-cats buy another yacht
2. Terrorists/oceania/eurasia
3. Abortion!!
4. The children... who no one ever thinks of, need to be protected by restricting the rights of all adults
5. The Gayz!!