This is not at all about fair use rights. He signed a legal contract, willingly, stating he would not disclose information and then proceeded to do exactly that. This is not "taking away his rights." He didn't have to sign the NDA and he didn't have to get the pre-release copy of Tiger. But he chose to, and then broke his contractual promise. Now he has to pay the consequence of his actions.
It can't get any more black and white than this. And the government had nothing to do with this. Christ, take off your tinfoil hat for a while, your brain is screaming for oxygen.
Thank you! Finally an educated adult on slashdot. I couldn't agree with you more. These cynics are the same people who do absolutely nothing positive themselves because "one person doesn't make a difference." Yet when someone else does try and do something positive, they are all too quick to shout how worthless the effort is. Really it is just an excuse for them to remain passive and lazy.
The comprehensive four year study doesn't mean they only studied data from the last four years dumbass. It means that they spent four entire years studying all of the available data which spans thousands of years. Consider this a clue...and you didn't even have to buy it.
You're right, I won't be laughing when the "real pestilence hits", because it won't happen. Wake up, "God" is an imaginary friend for adults. It just makes you feel better about yourself to think "God" exists and that you know "the one true way." Sad, but you know what, I am laughing at you right now:)
While I concede that my 50% estimate was misleading, since defense spending accounts for less than 50% of the overall total budget, it does account for over 50% of the discretionary budget , which is the budget that we (through congress) actually have a say in how it is spent. As for the shit for brains comment, I expect no less from an AC but here is a little research for you:
"If the additional elements of defense spending continue to maintain approximately the same ratio to the DoD amount -- and we have every reason to suppose that they will -- then in fiscal year 2004, through which we are passing currently, the grand total spent for defense will be approximately $695 billion. To this amount will have to be added the $58.8 billion allocated to fiscal year 2004 from the $87.5 billion supplemental spending authorized on November 6, 2003, for support of U.S. military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq and for so-called reconstruction of those despoiled and occupied countries. Thus, the super-grand total in fiscal year 2004 will reach the astonishing amount of nearly $754 billion -- or 88 percent more than the much-publicized $401.3 billion -- plus, of course, any additional supplemental spending that may be approved before the end of the fiscal year."
Uh no, any "aid" that our government hands out is at a price. Sometimes it means letting us put troops anywhere we want in their country, sometimes it means high interest rates on the "aid," and sometimes it means buying certain goods only from the US, or selling certain goods at a steep discount only to the US. For example, the Bush administration recently gave "aid" to South Africa in the form of millions of dollars to help fight the rapid spread of HIV. This money was not just given away, it was loaned at higher than market interest rates and the stipulation of the arrangement was that South Africa could only use this money to by AIDS drugs from US pharmaceutical companies at above market costs (rather than from South American companies selling the same drugs at a fraction of the cost). Now you tell me, is that a free handout? The free handout concept is a myth used by non-political (i.e. uniformed) republicans to place blame for our deficit. Much like how they whine about welfare as draining our pockets. In actuality foreign "aid" and welfare combined are less than 10% of our national spending, and defense (a misnomer, as it should be labeled "offense") is over 50%. So I ask, where are our priorities? And does the allocation of our national monies reflect the will of the people or just a few warmongering, wealthy, assholes who can never seem to accrue enough money to satisfy themsleves.
First of all, Miscrosoft didn't bail out Apple, they settled a longstanding lawsuit concerning how M$ blatantly copied the "windowed" point and click environment of the Mac. A lawsuit that they of course knew they would lose. Do your homework.
Secondly, there are thousands of free open source applications that are available for OSX that you cannot even find a commercial solution for on a Windows PC. Hmm you couldn't find much Mac software at download.com, a overtly windows fanboy site, try a Mac software site, like versiontracker.com or macupdate.com. Again, do your homework.
I use both PC's and Macs in Educational and Corporate settings and there is nothing I can do on a PC that I cannot also do on a Mac. The reverse cannot be said. As far as terminal applications, you have got to be smoking crack.
And lastly, sheer numbers of programs does not equal superior programs. If windows has 300 programs to handle midi files I would be willing to bet that none of them does it worth a shit. And that several Mac programs work marvelously, thus there is no need to have 217 different programs that do the same damn thing.
But you know what, keep using your windows machine, you and your kind keep me paid handsomely:) If the world switched to Macs I would be out of a job.
I am calling BS on your SUV theory. If the auto-manufacturers had some sense of reason or ethics, they would never have produced these monsters. The VAST MAJORITY of SUV drivers DO NOT NEED a vehicle that large. Pay attention to who is driving these beasts and you'll notice it is usually single occupants. Often soccer moms who don't know how to drive the fsckin thing anyway. Not only are the modern giant SUV's horrible for the environment, they are way more dangerous than cars. The only thing the Auto-Makers ever talk about are front-end, head-on collision tests. SUV's do fairly well in these tests, because of how they reinforce the front-end. However, how often do people ACTUALLY run into a brick wall at 60 mph? Almost never. In real world-testing, side-impact, motor vehicle to motor vehicle, these things are atrocious. They will flip at the drop of a hat and since the tops are not reinforced AT ALL and they weigh thousands of pounds, guess what? Smushed occupants. In car to car tests, they destroy other cars, often launching off the car as if it were a now-flattened make shift ramp and flipping itself over. Wonder why you never hear about this? Because you are watching news paid for by corporations who are paid by ignorant people with vast inferiority complexes who feel the need to compensate for this by buying the biggest most expensive trendy vehicle they can find. Makes them feel more manly and powerful. But they still have small penises.
You are missing the point, all of this US military activity was about one thing, money. We weren't trying to stop the evil commies, or bad guy X, out of the goodness of our hearts, if that were true why did we wait so long to get involved in WW2? Because it wasn't profitable for us to do so. The US has a lengthy and vicious track record of exerting our political and military might to "capitilize" the rest of the world. Using military tactics for monetary gain is terrorist activity IMHO. As far as your assertion that I should move to another country, how about I keep working on making this country what it CLAIMS to be and you try to notice when Big Money/Big Government (they are one and the same) tells you what to think.
Its called historical fact. Documented, historical fact. Have you heard of Mexico, Korea, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Panama (and much of Central America)? Ask people that live in these places about US terrorism. Or even our very own Native Americans, hmm were we at "war" with them. Damn, too bad because apparently then we would have been totally justified in slaughtering entire races of people, to suit our greedy-ass ever expanding needs. I mean, we should have been at war, after all, they were living on OUR property and using OUR natural resources. Just like those damn Iraqi's holding all of our oil under their sand. And if you think this war was not about oil, then your head is in the sand. Read a book or two that you were not allowed to read in high school. Now, one can argue with the meaning of documented facts, but one cannot refute their existence. OK, whatever, one can do whatever the hell one wants, but it does tend to make one look silly and ignorant to deny what plainly exists.
Whoa buddy, God has NOTHING to do with these United States of America. And you know what, these terrorists don't give a rat's ass about you or I, or especially our freedom. You have been soaking in too much propaganda. America is a victim of terrorist attacks because of our government's greedy capitalist tactics that trash poorer developing countries and humiliate proud people. I am not defending terrorist tactics by any means, but you should know that from every other country's perspective, the US is the largest terrorist threat in the world (and has killed more foreign people and destroyed more foreign property during "peace" time than any one else).
I couldn't have said it better myself. If you want real news, try NPR or Democracy Now. The rest are just one giant fsck'n commercial. But seriously, learn to think for your self and interpret information intelligently, regardless of the source.
And how does a song get "popular"? By being played on the fuckin' radio, dipshit. Or, where I come from, by not being played on the radio:-) Support GOOD MUSIC, turn OFF your radio and go to some local concerts.
Your missing the point jackass. No, people cannot buy at smaller stores, as you so smugly put it, because Walmart puts them out of fucking business. They manhandle all of their suppliers just like Microshaft bullies their vendors. In a true free market economy some of your points might be valid, but this is not a free market, it is one designed to make the rich richer and to secure market dominance regardless of the merits of the product or service. According to recent research by an independent University, for every 100 jobs that Walmart creates in a community, they eliminate 150. The problem is that too many consumers are just as fucking greedy as the major corporations and will sell their mother to save a few bucks on laundry detergent. Walmart treats their employees like shit and every time you shop there, you are telling them that every fucked up thing they do is OK. Just so long as you save 50 cents on your deodorant. Its kind of like continuing to buy M$ products even though they are convicted criminals who have not changed their ways. But keep on telling yourself its OK to shop at Walmart, none of this stuff really matters right? How about we all stop shopping at Walmart? Do a little research to find out why:
http://www.workingforchange.com/action_center.cfm? itemid=16042
I certainly don't shop there and I won't accept any gifts that were purchased there. You should do the same:
http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/petition. cfm?itemid=16041&ms=mmo001
I agree 100% (and that is rare). My question is: when is the public going to actually do something about it? Its not like the Republicans are even being that discrete about it, their "screw everyone except major corporations" attitude has become so in-your-face it seems to be a challenge to us like "oh yeah, well what are you gonna do about it?" I have yet to figure out a way to pry the apathetic masses from their televisions long enough to get their attention. Anyone have any suggestions?
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I go to Western, and their pipe is shit. The LAN, almost anywhere on campus, is barely faster than dial-up. For some reason, the wireless connection seems faster, but that hardly makes sense now does it? Anyway, good luck getting anything off their servers:)
This is all totally offtopic but, you are right that the electoral college is who ultimately decides who is elected president, but the parent poster makes the mistake of referring to the decision of the electoral college as "the Will of the American People" or some BS like that. When, in fact, that is not the case. The points about the economy though, while I admit many of the factors that contributed to our economic downturn were outside of the political realm of the presidency, all of the factors that were within that realm are directly related to Bush Administration decisions. Their ridiculous tax cuts for the super rich were the largest in the history of our nation. And this happened while we were having a rather significant little budget deficit. And what net gain did we all get out it? Well, some of us got a few dollars back on our taxes, at the cost of a booming economy and a whole lot of services that the current administration doesn't think are important like you know, unemployment. And please don't start with some welfare bit, because we spend exponentially more money on corporate welfare than we do on unwed single mothers trying to feed their fucking kids. Obviously if corporations can only afford to pay their CEO's a 5-25 million dollar salaries, they must need some federal money to help out:) No, the Bush administration sold our "poor" asses down the river in exchange for a fattening of their investments. Name one person in the cabinet who is not a multimillionaire. How many slashdotters are multimillionaires? How is this a government of the people by the people?
The majority of American People did not vote for this administration. The American People, my friend elected Al Gore. This administration was put in place by the Supreme Court. Has your brain been washed so quickly you have already forgotten? Wake up people these guys don't give a shit about you or anyone you know unless they have a net worth greater than 10 million. Look at the facts, overall our economy is in the toilet with the vast majority of citizens considerably worse off than they were 4 years ago. Of course, the extremely rich are doing kust fine, getting extremely richer.
"Now that the other (and let's face it, a bit more technical and hackerish) 90% of the world has real solid access to the format, it'll be cracked in a couple weeks or so."
Oh please. Oh great windows hackers, show us your technical skillz. If you really were more "technical and hackerish" you would be using Linux or OS X. I would have to say that most of the people I know that use Windows are exponentially more technically challenged than those that use an alternative OS. That is why I am removing virii and ad-ware/spy-ware from their perpetually crashing boxen. Just because you have to troubleshoot your fragile system more often does not make you more technical and certainly not a hacker.
This just goes to show that, depsite the FSB bottleneck, the G4 DP still has a lot of life left in it. With the love affair of the new G5's in full force, maybe I can pick up a G4 DP dirt cheap now:)
No need to sell your soul in the name of "security." You can do everything you mentioned and more with out buying into uncle bill's fright program. It's called "software." Look it up on Google. The easiset way to sell somebody something is to make them feel insecure. You are an open pocketbook my friend. It sounds like you may even buy into uncle george's scare tactics:)
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I have been looking for an alarm that does just that! Could you tell me the brand, model etc. of the clock? Extra Karma Bonus for you if you do:)
This is not at all about fair use rights. He signed a legal contract, willingly, stating he would not disclose information and then proceeded to do exactly that. This is not "taking away his rights." He didn't have to sign the NDA and he didn't have to get the pre-release copy of Tiger. But he chose to, and then broke his contractual promise. Now he has to pay the consequence of his actions. It can't get any more black and white than this. And the government had nothing to do with this. Christ, take off your tinfoil hat for a while, your brain is screaming for oxygen.
Thank you! Finally an educated adult on slashdot. I couldn't agree with you more. These cynics are the same people who do absolutely nothing positive themselves because "one person doesn't make a difference." Yet when someone else does try and do something positive, they are all too quick to shout how worthless the effort is. Really it is just an excuse for them to remain passive and lazy.
The comprehensive four year study doesn't mean they only studied data from the last four years dumbass. It means that they spent four entire years studying all of the available data which spans thousands of years. Consider this a clue...and you didn't even have to buy it.
You're right, I won't be laughing when the "real pestilence hits", because it won't happen. Wake up, "God" is an imaginary friend for adults. It just makes you feel better about yourself to think "God" exists and that you know "the one true way." Sad, but you know what, I am laughing at you right now:)
Uh no, any "aid" that our government hands out is at a price. Sometimes it means letting us put troops anywhere we want in their country, sometimes it means high interest rates on the "aid," and sometimes it means buying certain goods only from the US, or selling certain goods at a steep discount only to the US. For example, the Bush administration recently gave "aid" to South Africa in the form of millions of dollars to help fight the rapid spread of HIV. This money was not just given away, it was loaned at higher than market interest rates and the stipulation of the arrangement was that South Africa could only use this money to by AIDS drugs from US pharmaceutical companies at above market costs (rather than from South American companies selling the same drugs at a fraction of the cost). Now you tell me, is that a free handout? The free handout concept is a myth used by non-political (i.e. uniformed) republicans to place blame for our deficit. Much like how they whine about welfare as draining our pockets. In actuality foreign "aid" and welfare combined are less than 10% of our national spending, and defense (a misnomer, as it should be labeled "offense") is over 50%. So I ask, where are our priorities? And does the allocation of our national monies reflect the will of the people or just a few warmongering, wealthy, assholes who can never seem to accrue enough money to satisfy themsleves.
First of all, Miscrosoft didn't bail out Apple, they settled a longstanding lawsuit concerning how M$ blatantly copied the "windowed" point and click environment of the Mac. A lawsuit that they of course knew they would lose. Do your homework. Secondly, there are thousands of free open source applications that are available for OSX that you cannot even find a commercial solution for on a Windows PC. Hmm you couldn't find much Mac software at download.com, a overtly windows fanboy site, try a Mac software site, like versiontracker.com or macupdate.com. Again, do your homework. I use both PC's and Macs in Educational and Corporate settings and there is nothing I can do on a PC that I cannot also do on a Mac. The reverse cannot be said. As far as terminal applications, you have got to be smoking crack. And lastly, sheer numbers of programs does not equal superior programs. If windows has 300 programs to handle midi files I would be willing to bet that none of them does it worth a shit. And that several Mac programs work marvelously, thus there is no need to have 217 different programs that do the same damn thing. But you know what, keep using your windows machine, you and your kind keep me paid handsomely:) If the world switched to Macs I would be out of a job.
I am calling BS on your SUV theory. If the auto-manufacturers had some sense of reason or ethics, they would never have produced these monsters. The VAST MAJORITY of SUV drivers DO NOT NEED a vehicle that large. Pay attention to who is driving these beasts and you'll notice it is usually single occupants. Often soccer moms who don't know how to drive the fsckin thing anyway. Not only are the modern giant SUV's horrible for the environment, they are way more dangerous than cars. The only thing the Auto-Makers ever talk about are front-end, head-on collision tests. SUV's do fairly well in these tests, because of how they reinforce the front-end. However, how often do people ACTUALLY run into a brick wall at 60 mph? Almost never. In real world-testing, side-impact, motor vehicle to motor vehicle, these things are atrocious. They will flip at the drop of a hat and since the tops are not reinforced AT ALL and they weigh thousands of pounds, guess what? Smushed occupants. In car to car tests, they destroy other cars, often launching off the car as if it were a now-flattened make shift ramp and flipping itself over. Wonder why you never hear about this? Because you are watching news paid for by corporations who are paid by ignorant people with vast inferiority complexes who feel the need to compensate for this by buying the biggest most expensive trendy vehicle they can find. Makes them feel more manly and powerful. But they still have small penises.
You are missing the point, all of this US military activity was about one thing, money. We weren't trying to stop the evil commies, or bad guy X, out of the goodness of our hearts, if that were true why did we wait so long to get involved in WW2? Because it wasn't profitable for us to do so. The US has a lengthy and vicious track record of exerting our political and military might to "capitilize" the rest of the world. Using military tactics for monetary gain is terrorist activity IMHO. As far as your assertion that I should move to another country, how about I keep working on making this country what it CLAIMS to be and you try to notice when Big Money/Big Government (they are one and the same) tells you what to think.
Its called historical fact. Documented, historical fact. Have you heard of Mexico, Korea, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Panama (and much of Central America)? Ask people that live in these places about US terrorism. Or even our very own Native Americans, hmm were we at "war" with them. Damn, too bad because apparently then we would have been totally justified in slaughtering entire races of people, to suit our greedy-ass ever expanding needs. I mean, we should have been at war, after all, they were living on OUR property and using OUR natural resources. Just like those damn Iraqi's holding all of our oil under their sand. And if you think this war was not about oil, then your head is in the sand. Read a book or two that you were not allowed to read in high school. Now, one can argue with the meaning of documented facts, but one cannot refute their existence. OK, whatever, one can do whatever the hell one wants, but it does tend to make one look silly and ignorant to deny what plainly exists.
Whoa buddy, God has NOTHING to do with these United States of America. And you know what, these terrorists don't give a rat's ass about you or I, or especially our freedom. You have been soaking in too much propaganda. America is a victim of terrorist attacks because of our government's greedy capitalist tactics that trash poorer developing countries and humiliate proud people. I am not defending terrorist tactics by any means, but you should know that from every other country's perspective, the US is the largest terrorist threat in the world (and has killed more foreign people and destroyed more foreign property during "peace" time than any one else).
I couldn't have said it better myself. If you want real news, try NPR or Democracy Now. The rest are just one giant fsck'n commercial. But seriously, learn to think for your self and interpret information intelligently, regardless of the source.
And how does a song get "popular"? By being played on the fuckin' radio, dipshit. Or, where I come from, by not being played on the radio:-) Support GOOD MUSIC, turn OFF your radio and go to some local concerts.
Your missing the point jackass. No, people cannot buy at smaller stores, as you so smugly put it, because Walmart puts them out of fucking business. They manhandle all of their suppliers just like Microshaft bullies their vendors. In a true free market economy some of your points might be valid, but this is not a free market, it is one designed to make the rich richer and to secure market dominance regardless of the merits of the product or service. According to recent research by an independent University, for every 100 jobs that Walmart creates in a community, they eliminate 150. The problem is that too many consumers are just as fucking greedy as the major corporations and will sell their mother to save a few bucks on laundry detergent. Walmart treats their employees like shit and every time you shop there, you are telling them that every fucked up thing they do is OK. Just so long as you save 50 cents on your deodorant. Its kind of like continuing to buy M$ products even though they are convicted criminals who have not changed their ways. But keep on telling yourself its OK to shop at Walmart, none of this stuff really matters right? How about we all stop shopping at Walmart? Do a little research to find out why: http://www.workingforchange.com/action_center.cfm? itemid=16042
I certainly don't shop there and I won't accept any gifts that were purchased there. You should do the same:
http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/petition. cfm?itemid=16041&ms=mmo001
I agree 100% (and that is rare). My question is: when is the public going to actually do something about it? Its not like the Republicans are even being that discrete about it, their "screw everyone except major corporations" attitude has become so in-your-face it seems to be a challenge to us like "oh yeah, well what are you gonna do about it?" I have yet to figure out a way to pry the apathetic masses from their televisions long enough to get their attention. Anyone have any suggestions?
I go to Western, and their pipe is shit. The LAN, almost anywhere on campus, is barely faster than dial-up. For some reason, the wireless connection seems faster, but that hardly makes sense now does it? Anyway, good luck getting anything off their servers:)
...Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these! or better yet, can this fit into a Powerbook?
This is all totally offtopic but, you are right that the electoral college is who ultimately decides who is elected president, but the parent poster makes the mistake of referring to the decision of the electoral college as "the Will of the American People" or some BS like that. When, in fact, that is not the case. The points about the economy though, while I admit many of the factors that contributed to our economic downturn were outside of the political realm of the presidency, all of the factors that were within that realm are directly related to Bush Administration decisions. Their ridiculous tax cuts for the super rich were the largest in the history of our nation. And this happened while we were having a rather significant little budget deficit. And what net gain did we all get out it? Well, some of us got a few dollars back on our taxes, at the cost of a booming economy and a whole lot of services that the current administration doesn't think are important like you know, unemployment. And please don't start with some welfare bit, because we spend exponentially more money on corporate welfare than we do on unwed single mothers trying to feed their fucking kids. Obviously if corporations can only afford to pay their CEO's a 5-25 million dollar salaries, they must need some federal money to help out:) No, the Bush administration sold our "poor" asses down the river in exchange for a fattening of their investments. Name one person in the cabinet who is not a multimillionaire. How many slashdotters are multimillionaires? How is this a government of the people by the people?
The majority of American People did not vote for this administration. The American People, my friend elected Al Gore. This administration was put in place by the Supreme Court. Has your brain been washed so quickly you have already forgotten? Wake up people these guys don't give a shit about you or anyone you know unless they have a net worth greater than 10 million. Look at the facts, overall our economy is in the toilet with the vast majority of citizens considerably worse off than they were 4 years ago. Of course, the extremely rich are doing kust fine, getting extremely richer.
"Now that the other (and let's face it, a bit more technical and hackerish) 90% of the world has real solid access to the format, it'll be cracked in a couple weeks or so." Oh please. Oh great windows hackers, show us your technical skillz. If you really were more "technical and hackerish" you would be using Linux or OS X. I would have to say that most of the people I know that use Windows are exponentially more technically challenged than those that use an alternative OS. That is why I am removing virii and ad-ware/spy-ware from their perpetually crashing boxen. Just because you have to troubleshoot your fragile system more often does not make you more technical and certainly not a hacker.
This just goes to show that, depsite the FSB bottleneck, the G4 DP still has a lot of life left in it. With the love affair of the new G5's in full force, maybe I can pick up a G4 DP dirt cheap now:)
troll. your just pissed because your computer is an ugly hunk of plastic.
No need to sell your soul in the name of "security." You can do everything you mentioned and more with out buying into uncle bill's fright program. It's called "software." Look it up on Google. The easiset way to sell somebody something is to make them feel insecure. You are an open pocketbook my friend. It sounds like you may even buy into uncle george's scare tactics:)