I hate to be the troll tying this into the RIAA and Microsoft, but. ..
It's all about the money. Those who have it (RIAA and Microsoft, RJ Reynolds and Budweiser) control the country, and those of us without it(/. readers), can bitch to our congressmen and senators all we want, and change will not happen until WE can donate 100 large to hundreds of reelection campaigns. Forget about the damage to the health of the american public through the products manufactured by the companies, because it ain't all about the raw facts. You have to factor in the "Price is Right" factor.
"No beer until you finish your tequila!" -Leela's Dad
What? Is CommanderTaco Mormon, oh Excuuuuse me! a member of the Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints! If you lived in a mormon controlled state, you would see the stupidity of the religion and their practices. In Idaho, a state where the legislature is predominantly mormon, you cannot buy hard alcohol on Sunday. Why? Because it's against their religion to drink alcohol. And yet, on Sunday, you can walk into any Safeway and say, "10 Kegs Please!" and walk away with enough alcohol to sink a skiff! I mean come one, 10 gold plaques that the book of mormon was printed on, you think someone would have found the lost half-ton of gold by now. And why the fuck could only Joe Smith read the plaques? There are far too many holes in their theology for any rational person to believe in their "Religion". It's almost as bad as Scientology for crying out loud.
Nah, the Mormons are causing an intellectual vacuum in the state, sucking all of the common sense out of anyone within a thousand miles of that huge temple in Salt Lake City.
"No beer until you finish your tequila!" -Leela's Dad
The average schmuck doesn't need or want to know what goes on at the NSA, or even in the military's special forces for that matter. I know it sounds like I'm being flamebait here, but let's be honest, anyone who, when they hear the word "Computer" and instinctively thinks of the Dell dude, cannot possibly comprehend what the NSA is doing to make sure they get their daily dose of American Idol. So, to avoid garnering attention from people who cannot possibly understand why they need to spend 10 million dollars on an encryption breaking computer, they keep their heads down and do their jobs like good governmental monkeys, and get fat checks from the DoD in the process.
Currently, it costs $90,000 to import a USED Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 to the U.S. and to make it street legal. For those of you who don't know, it's the silver and blue car that Paul Walker drives in 2 Fast 2 Furious. (Yeah, it's the one with the steering wheel on the wrong side. . . ) Mind you, it costs a third of that in Japan BRAND SPANKING NEW! You can buy a 2-year-old Toyota Corolla equivalent for 6 thousand in Japan, however, due to the asinine import laws governing foreign trade, it costs two times the cost of the car to get the tests done to prove that the car was street legal and emmisions compliant in the first place, and to pay the import duties. To get the car released from customs to do the emissions testing, a bond of 250 PERCENT OF THE PRICE OF THE CAR must be put up to ensure that you will get the emissions done. You get that money back, but who has the cash to pony up like that when you are buying a car?
Anyways, that's my rant on Stupid American Laws.
"No beer until you finish your tequila!" -Leela's Dad
They [The RIAA] got the children naked, they took the pictures, they stuck them online,
How old was Britney Spears when her first album came out?
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Ah, have any/.ers out there ever looked under the hood of a Ford automobile lately?
The ease of repair, and even basic maintainance, for a Ford is much more difficult, when compared to other domestic car brands, and I'd imagine their OS, if designed in-house would be similarly difficult to use. I work in a garage, and we hate to work on Fords, because they're so hard to work on.
Has anyone looked at the back of most consumer electronics lately?
Most electronic devices comply with part 15 of FCC regulations, meaning they don't cause harmful interference and they have to accept all harmful interference. I know for certain that a Game Boy would be hurt more by the plane than the plane would be hurt by the Game Boy
Hey fucknuts! Clinton wasn't a half-bad president. We weren't running around beating up people wearing turbans, we actually had foreign policy that wasn't based on greed (Operation Iraqi Liberation, you figure out the acronym), people had jobs, and THE FEDERAL BUDGET HAD A SURPLUS FOR ONCE IN A HUNDRED YEARS. How dare you badmouth the one president that actually took time to deal with domestic issues with anything besides a frigging tax cut.
"No beer until you finish your tequila"
-Leela's Dad
If I was you, the only way in tarnation that I'd buy one of them newfangled 'lectric cars wuz if I could put mag wheels, a rebel flag and a gun rack on it.
Why would you shop that kind of store in the first place?
Don't get me wrong, but I get enough church on Sunday. I don't need to hear "Praise Jesus" coming out of my stereo too, or "Family Music" either, whatever horrors that genre of music entails.
whatever. As long as the facts are out in the open: The RIAA is a criminal organization much like the Mafia back when J. Edgar Hoover was head of the FBI.
They already have!!!!!
It was advertised in a back issue of National Geographic that the big 5 record labels were guilty of artificially inflating the price of records at their outlet stores! I don't remember what month it was in, but it was in either 1999, 2000, or 2001 and it was toward the back of the issue in just black and white, like a typical legal announcement.
If my memory serves me correctly, it was the attorney general of Indiana or Ohio or some state like that that initiated and won (settled or outright won) the case!
Would someone please find this issue and put a scanned copy of it for/.ers to look at?
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I hate to be the troll tying this into the RIAA and Microsoft, but. . .
/. readers), can bitch to our congressmen and senators all we want, and change will not happen until WE can donate 100 large to hundreds of reelection campaigns. Forget about the damage to the health of the american public through the products manufactured by the companies, because it ain't all about the raw facts. You have to factor in the "Price is Right" factor.
It's all about the money. Those who have it (RIAA and Microsoft, RJ Reynolds and Budweiser) control the country, and those of us without it(
"No beer until you finish your tequila!"
-Leela's Dad
Am I the only /.er that thought when I saw this article:
FRUCKING DUH!!!!
"No beer until you finish your tequila!"
-Leela's Dad
Hell yes!
If there's one deterrent to crime, it's the threat of Paco and Tyrone violating your every crevice every day for the next umpteen years.
"No beer until you finish your tequila!"
-Leela's Dad
What? Is CommanderTaco Mormon, oh Excuuuuse me! a member of the Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints! If you lived in a mormon controlled state, you would see the stupidity of the religion and their practices. In Idaho, a state where the legislature is predominantly mormon, you cannot buy hard alcohol on Sunday. Why? Because it's against their religion to drink alcohol. And yet, on Sunday, you can walk into any Safeway and say, "10 Kegs Please!" and walk away with enough alcohol to sink a skiff! I mean come one, 10 gold plaques that the book of mormon was printed on, you think someone would have found the lost half-ton of gold by now. And why the fuck could only Joe Smith read the plaques? There are far too many holes in their theology for any rational person to believe in their "Religion". It's almost as bad as Scientology for crying out loud.
Or maybe something in the water?
Nah, the Mormons are causing an intellectual vacuum in the state, sucking all of the common sense out of anyone within a thousand miles of that huge temple in Salt Lake City.
"No beer until you finish your tequila!"
-Leela's Dad
"No beer until you finish your tequila!"
-Leela's Dad
The average schmuck doesn't need or want to know what goes on at the NSA, or even in the military's special forces for that matter. I know it sounds like I'm being flamebait here, but let's be honest, anyone who, when they hear the word "Computer" and instinctively thinks of the Dell dude, cannot possibly comprehend what the NSA is doing to make sure they get their daily dose of American Idol. So, to avoid garnering attention from people who cannot possibly understand why they need to spend 10 million dollars on an encryption breaking computer, they keep their heads down and do their jobs like good governmental monkeys, and get fat checks from the DoD in the process.
Hmmmm. So, Sparticus, let me guess your real name. Is it Lars?
Great Sig! Finally someone with the balls to admit they'd take on the RIAA
"No beer until you finish your tequila"
-Leela's Dad
Currently, it costs $90,000 to import a USED Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 to the U.S. and to make it street legal. For those of you who don't know, it's the silver and blue car that Paul Walker drives in 2 Fast 2 Furious. (Yeah, it's the one with the steering wheel on the wrong side. . . ) Mind you, it costs a third of that in Japan BRAND SPANKING NEW! You can buy a 2-year-old Toyota Corolla equivalent for 6 thousand in Japan, however, due to the asinine import laws governing foreign trade, it costs two times the cost of the car to get the tests done to prove that the car was street legal and emmisions compliant in the first place, and to pay the import duties. To get the car released from customs to do the emissions testing, a bond of 250 PERCENT OF THE PRICE OF THE CAR must be put up to ensure that you will get the emissions done. You get that money back, but who has the cash to pony up like that when you are buying a car?
Anyways, that's my rant on Stupid American Laws.
"No beer until you finish your tequila!"
-Leela's Dad
My first 5 point post! Yes!
Has anyone noticed this article is flamebait?
"No beer until you finish your tequila!"
-Leela's Dad
What company do you work for? I need to avoid investing in said company, like I need to avoid SARS.
So, Samir, how's Michael Bolton?
They [The RIAA] got the children naked, they took the pictures, they stuck them online,
How old was Britney Spears when her first album came out?
Ah, have any /.ers out there ever looked under the hood of a Ford automobile lately?
The ease of repair, and even basic maintainance, for a Ford is much more difficult, when compared to other domestic car brands, and I'd imagine their OS, if designed in-house would be similarly difficult to use. I work in a garage, and we hate to work on Fords, because they're so hard to work on.
Has anyone looked at the back of most consumer electronics lately?
Most electronic devices comply with part 15 of FCC regulations, meaning they don't cause
harmful interference and they have to accept all harmful interference. I know for certain that a
Game Boy would be hurt more by the plane than the plane would be hurt by the Game Boy
Now it appears the catch-line for human echolocation is "Can you see me now?"
Ok. No more posts from you while you are high.
Hey fucknuts! Clinton wasn't a half-bad president. We weren't running around beating up people wearing turbans, we actually had foreign policy that wasn't based on greed (Operation Iraqi Liberation, you figure out the acronym), people had jobs, and THE FEDERAL BUDGET HAD A SURPLUS FOR ONCE IN A HUNDRED YEARS. How dare you badmouth the one president that actually took time to deal with domestic issues with anything besides a frigging tax cut.
"No beer until you finish your tequila"
-Leela's Dad
If I was you, the only way in tarnation that I'd buy one of them newfangled 'lectric cars wuz if I could put mag wheels, a rebel flag and a gun rack on it.
I am a registered Republican, and have voted that way since 1993.
I would hush up if I were you. The unemployed reading slashdot might be inclined to kill you for voting for the guy that destroyed their jobs.
Why would you shop that kind of store in the first place?
Don't get me wrong, but I get enough church on Sunday. I don't need to hear "Praise Jesus" coming out of my stereo too, or "Family Music" either, whatever horrors that genre of music entails.
/. the fuckers back to the stone age!
I can already see the rating now: (Score:-1, Troll)
whatever. As long as the facts are out in the open: The RIAA is a criminal organization much like the Mafia back when J. Edgar Hoover was head of the FBI.
They already have!!!!! It was advertised in a back issue of National Geographic that the big 5 record labels were guilty of artificially inflating the price of records at their outlet stores! I don't remember what month it was in, but it was in either 1999, 2000, or 2001 and it was toward the back of the issue in just black and white, like a typical legal announcement. If my memory serves me correctly, it was the attorney general of Indiana or Ohio or some state like that that initiated and won (settled or outright won) the case! Would someone please find this issue and put a scanned copy of it for /.ers to look at?