Will be RIAA deciding that anyone thinking about sharing files is guilty of copyright violation. Because thinking about it is the first step to the actual crime.
That's interesting, because being from the right (and possibly the extreme right), I have the exact opposite impression.
I guess when you don't want to admit you support evil people all you can do is keep hold of those impressions. All I know, as a former Republican, is you don't see Democrats lying about the honorable military service of men like Max Cleland, Congressman Murtha and John Kerry while lending vigorous support to a gutless draft-dodging frat boy yankee.
There aren't any Democrats listening in on my overseas phone calls without a warrant and claiming it's legal.
When the Democrats were in charge we had a budget surplus.
The Democrats didn't try to trump state's rights...one of their own states...in the Shaivo case.
When the Democrats ran things FEMA did a better job.
I have to think back to the phrase "by their fruits you shall know them." You can make claims and point fingers at the other side all you want but at the end of the day what you do speaks louder than your party affiliation. And right now my former party is a shameful, angry, dogmatic, ignorant shadow of its former self.
Everyone is too convinced that they are correct that they are blind to the other person's point of view and opinions.
I think it goes well beyond not considering another person's point of view, it's more like intellectual blinders. Today it's pretty easy to pick and choose news and commentary consistent with ones political views. There is no fairness in coverage anymore.
In addition to that I've noticed a real tendency for people to not just be "right" but virulently right. Not content to be simply dismissive of other points of view, but hostile to them. I've seen that more from the right and particularly the extreme right. All my life I've seen people holding strong opinions, never in my life have I seen this country so polarized and such angry divisiveness. And I don't remember a time when people had such an almost desperate need to have the answers, even if they're wrong. It's as surprising as it is sad.
My dad says it reminds him of McCarthyism but he doesn't remember it being as angry as it is today. He said it was more dogma but less anger. Don't know, I'll have to take his word for it.
Cooperate for the benefit of all, then compete for your share. I'm not surprised the telcos are doing it, I'm surprised more companies aren't doing it.
Let's think about it. If a couple hundred large companies put 100K (the amount they give the Chamber of Commerce for lobbying efforts) into a pot to use to make improvements to OpenOffice. That would be enough to make the changes in OpenOffice most benefical to business. The 100K the donor companies put up is chump change compared to what they spend on license fees for Office. OpenOffice is not an unknown quantity. They'd be starting with a product that's 90% ready to go.
Certainly some companies and individuals are going to freeload and not contribute to the collective development, but it doesn't matter. Everyone, except Microsoft, wins.
The same logic applies to the operating system. Thousands and thousands of companies all paying individually for a software product that does the same thing is economic insanity. We're not talking about cars with large overhead costs in parts, it's software that runs on the hardware everyone already has.
Here's how Bellsouth is trying to push their idea on the Hill:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10912575/
By having one of the largest lobbying efforts of any company around. So, start the PR offensive right before your coporate wine-swilling legislators step up to defend those poor, down-trodden ISP's carrying the load for those freeloading media companies.
Maybe this will be another another opportunity for Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), the great defender of the common man (if that common man happens to be a Fortune 100 company needing sweetheart legislation) to rush to the defense of his constituents.
England, Australia, and from what I've heard, the US as well. I mean, you are rich countries, why build like third world?
I can't speak for England and Australia, but here in the US there's a built-in bias toward a box made of bricks and sticks with a tar paper roof. Insulation is much better than it used to be and frequently dictated by local building codes, but modern homes are still surprisingly inefficient.
Several factors contribute to that here in the US. First if you want to build something like a concrete house, you'll have to have extremely good credit or be prepared to finance it yourself. If there are no "comps" comparable home sales for comparison, then Fannie Mae won't package the loan and the bank or mortgage lender won't be able to sell the paper on the mortgage. That means a portfolio loan and those require much different relationship with the lending institution. A situation that also makes your high thermal mass home difficult to sell if you have to move.
Building codes, home owners associations and buyer perception all feed into a system that's designed around construction that is shabby and inefficient. I have a steel house that is extremely tight and well insulated. My utility bills are about a 1/3 of the family that lives next door. But put our houses on the market and theirs would sell faster than ours because anyone could get a loan for their home, but not ours. Go figure.
I personally have almost given up on spamming congresscritters.
Unless you're buying expensive dinners for them, or shuttling them around in your private jet or paying for travel to exotic locations, it's likely you're part of that pesky background noise your legislator's lobbyists are trying to shield them from. To them you're part of a well meaning but ultimately not very bright group of people called constituents who don't understand how things really get done.
This is McCarthyism in a shiny new wrapper. Who appointed this guy the radical hall monitor? I had profs in college I thought were assholes, it goes with the territory. Some might have been "liberal", though I'm not sure what that means. Some were just petty and mean. But I survived them all and the only ones we put on any kind of list were the ones with 8 books on their required reading list.
Soil is pretty difficult environment for survival. You could make the case those microbes have earned the right to live there by being tough sonsabitches. When we wanted antibiotic resistant bacteria, we used to go take samples at the hospital. Some of those cultures were scary. The bugs that survive at the hospital are the toughest mofo's on the culture block.
Just like weeds picking up resistance to herbicides. With the rampant application of weed killer, we're actually breeding tougher weeds.
There's a reason they survive. It's because they're tough and adaptable. Sets up an interesting situation. We depend on modern herbicides and pesticides to maintain the food production it takes to feed a planet that's already over-crowded. But the weeds and insects we're trying to kill aren't sissies. At some point the chemicals we have to use to kill them are start going to take a toll on us.
And the "domestic spying" HAS caught at least one guy. Iyman Faris's plan to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge was discovered through monitoring his phone calls.
This is the guy who was going to cut down the Brooklyn Bridge with a cutting torch. We could have let him try it and he'd still be out there trying to cut through those cables. His plan was so stupid it could qualify as material on the 3 Stooges.
And this is your big "evidence" that domestic spying thwarts terrorism? I think people like you are the problem as much as the Bush administration. You'd sell out liberty and freedom just to preserve a false sense of security for your fat, dumpy Lay-Z-Boy sitting, SUV driving ass. You're a gutless, spineless, disgusting example of what America has become.
From the article: "'There are potentially concerns that Google could be in the cross-hairs of the Justice Department,' Kessler said.
The whole market got slammed yesterday. Google is way out there in terms of valuation and 8% isn't that much considering.
The "Justice" Dept. didn't just go after Google records, they asked all the major search engines. Google just had the nads to stand up and say no.
That's not going to cause their stock to go down, being over-bought causes a sell off, especially when the rest of the market is taking a header. Google could be selling toxic waste and as long as their earnings stayed up the market would still buy their stock. This is nothing more than another example of an over-reaching administration trying to gather statistics to support the conclusion they started with.
It was good seeing Democrats growing some stones for a change. I thought for a long time they were taking the right wing hate speech and slander way too lightly. One party has to be the adult but there's a difference between taking the high road and being a doormat. Nobody likes a puss, even if they're right. So it's nice to see the Dems showing some indignation over something.
Maybe this Abramoff deal will light a fire under people finally.
Time and time again we hear about privacy, freedoms and liberties in the US being restricted in favour of "security".
Someone care to make the connection between pornography and national security for me, because I'm not clear on the relationship. Not only is there no national security issue here, the Justice Dept. is starting with a conclusion and assembling mountains of meaningless data to support it. It's Iraq deja vu all over again.
Is there anyone still willing to stand up and defend this criminal and over-reaching administration? Anyone besides the drug addict windbag, the pervert with anger management issues and the neurotic shrew? Which one of you losers wants to include themselves with those dirtbags?
Presumably there were several legislative initiatives on their corporate mind, trying to charge users at both ends of the pipe was probably one of them.
If Bellsouth was giving me broadband this would be fine, but I'm PAYING for broadband. Why would I want Bellsouth picking and choosing which sites are going to load faster?
Of course, it's always been my understanding that Intel is dominant in corporate computing...
If Intel is holding on to dominance in any market segment it's more likely to be the result of their business relationship with a company like Dell, which has been propping Intel up for the last two years while AMD ate away the rest of their market.
AMD makes a great product at a competitive price. What happened to Intel will happen to every other company that starts thinking they have a right to exist. Intel sometimes acts like they're a government agency.
As a result, government lawyers said in court papers they are developing a defense of the 1998 law based on the argument that it is far more effective than software filters in protecting children from porn.
Let's start with the results we want and then work backwards toward the proof. And let's not forget to smear and intimidate anyone raising a reasonable objection in the process as a child molester and aiding and abetting the enemy. Okay, the last one doesn't really fit but it's always a crowd pleaser!
Why must people make such polarizing comments? Can't they see how many people they alienate with one fell swoop?
It's the middle of January and I just went outside in a sweatshirt and was perfectly comfortable. I joked with the fuel delivery driver that if it gets any warmer I'm going to plant bananas.
Probably just normal temperature variation, right? Probably.
Before every disaster there was some figure making polarizing and alienating comments. If people are going to take issue with the message because they don't like the messenger, then how sorry can you feel for them? Weigh the facts, look at the science, draw your own conclusions.
So, yeah, he's a little flamboyant rattling on about Gaia but that doesn't mean there isn't a valid point buried in there somewhere. If it was just one loopy guy in the wilderness then it's easy to pass it off. But when the ice caps are melting and I'm standing outside in the midwest in a light jacket in the middle of January figuring out where to plant my rubber tree plantation, then you might at least want to consider it a little.
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How are we ever going to be able to agree on the meaning without an emoticon standard?
Will be RIAA deciding that anyone thinking about sharing files is guilty of copyright violation. Because thinking about it is the first step to the actual crime.
I guess when you don't want to admit you support evil people all you can do is keep hold of those impressions. All I know, as a former Republican, is you don't see Democrats lying about the honorable military service of men like Max Cleland, Congressman Murtha and John Kerry while lending vigorous support to a gutless draft-dodging frat boy yankee.
There aren't any Democrats listening in on my overseas phone calls without a warrant and claiming it's legal.
When the Democrats were in charge we had a budget surplus.
The Democrats didn't try to trump state's rights...one of their own states...in the Shaivo case.
When the Democrats ran things FEMA did a better job.
I have to think back to the phrase "by their fruits you shall know them." You can make claims and point fingers at the other side all you want but at the end of the day what you do speaks louder than your party affiliation. And right now my former party is a shameful, angry, dogmatic, ignorant shadow of its former self.
How does it taste?
Better yet, how sweet would it be to have a laptop that would boot Windows, OSX or Linux?
Sweet.
I think it goes well beyond not considering another person's point of view, it's more like intellectual blinders. Today it's pretty easy to pick and choose news and commentary consistent with ones political views. There is no fairness in coverage anymore.
In addition to that I've noticed a real tendency for people to not just be "right" but virulently right. Not content to be simply dismissive of other points of view, but hostile to them. I've seen that more from the right and particularly the extreme right. All my life I've seen people holding strong opinions, never in my life have I seen this country so polarized and such angry divisiveness. And I don't remember a time when people had such an almost desperate need to have the answers, even if they're wrong. It's as surprising as it is sad.
My dad says it reminds him of McCarthyism but he doesn't remember it being as angry as it is today. He said it was more dogma but less anger. Don't know, I'll have to take his word for it.
Windows Server 2003 Active Directory network,
MCSA/MCSE Training Kit,
numerous errors
husband, a dog...
Let's see, you're married to a dog and forced to run a Microsoft network. I could see how that would be annoying. ;)
Then allege fraud, take them to court and subpoena the records.
If the election results are honest, what do you have to hide up there in Alaska, aye?
What are the odds on Sundance in the 5th?
Whoever wrote that...lost.
Let's think about it. If a couple hundred large companies put 100K (the amount they give the Chamber of Commerce for lobbying efforts) into a pot to use to make improvements to OpenOffice. That would be enough to make the changes in OpenOffice most benefical to business. The 100K the donor companies put up is chump change compared to what they spend on license fees for Office. OpenOffice is not an unknown quantity. They'd be starting with a product that's 90% ready to go.
Certainly some companies and individuals are going to freeload and not contribute to the collective development, but it doesn't matter. Everyone, except Microsoft, wins.
The same logic applies to the operating system. Thousands and thousands of companies all paying individually for a software product that does the same thing is economic insanity. We're not talking about cars with large overhead costs in parts, it's software that runs on the hardware everyone already has.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10912575/
By having one of the largest lobbying efforts of any company around. So, start the PR offensive right before your coporate wine-swilling legislators step up to defend those poor, down-trodden ISP's carrying the load for those freeloading media companies.
Maybe this will be another another opportunity for Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), the great defender of the common man (if that common man happens to be a Fortune 100 company needing sweetheart legislation) to rush to the defense of his constituents.
http://www.opensecrets.org/payback/issue.asp?iss ueid=BA3&congno=109
That's basically the same approach RIAA took. Seems to be becoming the industry model. Heavy lobbying, PR push, profit!!!
I can't speak for England and Australia, but here in the US there's a built-in bias toward a box made of bricks and sticks with a tar paper roof. Insulation is much better than it used to be and frequently dictated by local building codes, but modern homes are still surprisingly inefficient.
Several factors contribute to that here in the US. First if you want to build something like a concrete house, you'll have to have extremely good credit or be prepared to finance it yourself. If there are no "comps" comparable home sales for comparison, then Fannie Mae won't package the loan and the bank or mortgage lender won't be able to sell the paper on the mortgage. That means a portfolio loan and those require much different relationship with the lending institution. A situation that also makes your high thermal mass home difficult to sell if you have to move.
Building codes, home owners associations and buyer perception all feed into a system that's designed around construction that is shabby and inefficient. I have a steel house that is extremely tight and well insulated. My utility bills are about a 1/3 of the family that lives next door. But put our houses on the market and theirs would sell faster than ours because anyone could get a loan for their home, but not ours. Go figure.
You should try the "search" feature before putting your dick in the dirt in front of thousands of people.
Unless you're buying expensive dinners for them, or shuttling them around in your private jet or paying for travel to exotic locations, it's likely you're part of that pesky background noise your legislator's lobbyists are trying to shield them from. To them you're part of a well meaning but ultimately not very bright group of people called constituents who don't understand how things really get done.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/na tion/epaper/2006/01/01/a2a_bellsouth_0101.html
This is McCarthyism in a shiny new wrapper. Who appointed this guy the radical hall monitor? I had profs in college I thought were assholes, it goes with the territory. Some might have been "liberal", though I'm not sure what that means. Some were just petty and mean. But I survived them all and the only ones we put on any kind of list were the ones with 8 books on their required reading list.
Just like weeds picking up resistance to herbicides. With the rampant application of weed killer, we're actually breeding tougher weeds.
There's a reason they survive. It's because they're tough and adaptable. Sets up an interesting situation. We depend on modern herbicides and pesticides to maintain the food production it takes to feed a planet that's already over-crowded. But the weeds and insects we're trying to kill aren't sissies. At some point the chemicals we have to use to kill them are start going to take a toll on us.
Or maybe they already are.
This is the guy who was going to cut down the Brooklyn Bridge with a cutting torch. We could have let him try it and he'd still be out there trying to cut through those cables. His plan was so stupid it could qualify as material on the 3 Stooges.
And this is your big "evidence" that domestic spying thwarts terrorism? I think people like you are the problem as much as the Bush administration. You'd sell out liberty and freedom just to preserve a false sense of security for your fat, dumpy Lay-Z-Boy sitting, SUV driving ass. You're a gutless, spineless, disgusting example of what America has become.
The whole market got slammed yesterday. Google is way out there in terms of valuation and 8% isn't that much considering.
The "Justice" Dept. didn't just go after Google records, they asked all the major search engines. Google just had the nads to stand up and say no.
That's not going to cause their stock to go down, being over-bought causes a sell off, especially when the rest of the market is taking a header. Google could be selling toxic waste and as long as their earnings stayed up the market would still buy their stock. This is nothing more than another example of an over-reaching administration trying to gather statistics to support the conclusion they started with.
I can't wait 'till November.
Maybe this Abramoff deal will light a fire under people finally.
Someone care to make the connection between pornography and national security for me, because I'm not clear on the relationship. Not only is there no national security issue here, the Justice Dept. is starting with a conclusion and assembling mountains of meaningless data to support it. It's Iraq deja vu all over again.
Is there anyone still willing to stand up and defend this criminal and over-reaching administration? Anyone besides the drug addict windbag, the pervert with anger management issues and the neurotic shrew? Which one of you losers wants to include themselves with those dirtbags?
Presumably there were several legislative initiatives on their corporate mind, trying to charge users at both ends of the pipe was probably one of them.
If Bellsouth was giving me broadband this would be fine, but I'm PAYING for broadband. Why would I want Bellsouth picking and choosing which sites are going to load faster?
Greedy fucktards.
If Intel is holding on to dominance in any market segment it's more likely to be the result of their business relationship with a company like Dell, which has been propping Intel up for the last two years while AMD ate away the rest of their market.
AMD makes a great product at a competitive price. What happened to Intel will happen to every other company that starts thinking they have a right to exist. Intel sometimes acts like they're a government agency.
Let's start with the results we want and then work backwards toward the proof. And let's not forget to smear and intimidate anyone raising a reasonable objection in the process as a child molester and aiding and abetting the enemy. Okay, the last one doesn't really fit but it's always a crowd pleaser!
It's the Iraq invasion all over again.
It's the middle of January and I just went outside in a sweatshirt and was perfectly comfortable. I joked with the fuel delivery driver that if it gets any warmer I'm going to plant bananas.
Probably just normal temperature variation, right? Probably.
Before every disaster there was some figure making polarizing and alienating comments. If people are going to take issue with the message because they don't like the messenger, then how sorry can you feel for them? Weigh the facts, look at the science, draw your own conclusions.
So, yeah, he's a little flamboyant rattling on about Gaia but that doesn't mean there isn't a valid point buried in there somewhere. If it was just one loopy guy in the wilderness then it's easy to pass it off. But when the ice caps are melting and I'm standing outside in the midwest in a light jacket in the middle of January figuring out where to plant my rubber tree plantation, then you might at least want to consider it a little.