Repeating it doesn't make it true. Nice that you continue to post these things, though.:-)
Would you like the litany of fringe groups in the Democratic Party posted too? Balance the fringe out? The point is, ironically, that there are always groups like these and no, they are not any more powerful than they were last election cycle. But it's fun to pretend, isn't it?
I do. via fink. Works great.:) But dragging an icon to a folder (which is standard on OS X) beats the ever-loving snot out of Windows "installer"... or as I like to call it... "gee I hope this doesn't crater my PC" function.
If this has taught us one thing... it's that New Yorkers are some UGLY fuckers.:)
There are strong opinions that the transition from a manufacturing economy to a service economy is the natural progression, just as agrarian to manufacturing is... I don't know yet how well this theory holds with reality, but all sufficiently advanced economies (well, ones that lasted this long...) do move their manufacturing towards the developing world to keep prices low and resources in play.
I have been following the "Manufacturing job mantra" from the White House for the last year or so, but I'm on the fence about the whole idea. Things that are made here are done so not because cost doesn't matter, but the advantage of a more skilled workforce (or things like certain defense items which have to be made here in some aspects due to National Security)... However, it is clear that the economy benefits from cheap labor, and as a country expands its wealth and influence, the possibility of having cheap labor dries up domestically. It's the natural outgrowth of more spending power and more influence the working class can have on our form of government and our economy. Through maturity of the laws and power of labor, things shift away from the 12hr days for scrip... (which I don't think anyone argues is a bad thing to have happened...)
The fun part is when China matures past its "industrial stage" and has to farm out its manufacturing to keep competitive. (I don't know if the oppressive regime there will be able to contain the growth and wealth enjoyed by the prosperity of China's economy forever.) They might try, of course... because unlike the Liberty of the West, China does a good job of keeping their people just enough under the heel of the government's boot to prevent too rapid a rise into a service economy like Europe and the US.
*shrug* It's probably an interesting subject to dive into, if you can get past the boring theories.:)
Whereas with Google and Amazon, you are copying your file to them.
While that may be true of your own mp3's... most people simply keep the mp3's they purchased from Amazon there. (it's what I do).
From a different part of the thread: The ownership of the server is another interesting point... what if I have a "rent-to-own" computer? Obviously I don't own it... can I make mp3's of my CDs and store them there if I am not the "owner"?
Well said. The powers we give the government keep getting expanded in spite of our protests to the contrary (our, meaning the voters). We have given the enumerated powers, but with those powers, our vigilance has been lax, and the government, corrupt as it is, continues to grasp for more power. The resolution is to challenge it in the courts. The problem is, that takes money, and the vested interests (those who like to restrict liberty... that includes the *AA's) will not take up the cause because it is not in their best interest. It takes a groundswell of individual protest to get any headway, but so far, the government and the complicit corporate press dismiss it as fringe loonies. (I never thought I'd see the day that Founders' concepts would be considered "fringe lunacy.")
Funny how things turn out like the Founders warned, though. Jefferson particularly comes to mind these days... but the power still rests in our hands, if only we weren't asleep (collectively)... Something has to jostle the voters awake... I thought renewal of the PATRIOT Act (and the TSA in general) would do it... but it hasn't.
The decline of the Constitutional Republic starts with voter apathy.... the second is letting things (corporations) that don't vote and aren't really people (in spite of the legal definition) control the halls of Congress.
EXACTLY THIS. How is my home media server (I have two) any different from Amazon's cloud? Answer: There IS no difference. But they're sure trying to wring every single dollar out of this they can... I guess their planned obsolescence is coming sooner than they had hoped.
The internet lets people be their own record label... and that is pissing them off to NO end. Life's hard, buy a helmet.:)
That'd be beautiful, but it'd also be a poll tax which is unconstitutional.:)
The sentiment's well placed though. Of course the party that benefits most from this isn't the one that supposedly stole the presidential election.:) Just sayin'.... heh.
The "bible" as it stands today wasn't the "bible" of the Jews. There were history scrolls and religious scrolls.. but no "big black book" (or scroll if you prefer) to say... "there it is! teach them that!"
The old testament (stuff we now convey as the old testament) is a colleciton of anecdotes and stories to teach lessons. The context about ancient hebrew traditions and societal norms were specific to the hebrew people of the time. The concept of "stoning a woman" (people like to bring up about the Bible in this thread) for infidelity was dealt with directly by Jesus in the New Testament: "let he who is without sin, cast hte first stone." Jesus pretty much brought to a conclusion the rigid society that was built by God to bring about Jesus to fulfill the promise to Abraham. (Whether or not you believe this is another matter... this is just so that people can see which Fundamentalists are wrong and which people like the Westboro morons use the Bible as a weapon rather than a lamp.)
Jesus fulfilled the law. (I come not to condemn the law but to fulfill it)... meaning the Law now rested on his shoulders. Do Christians practice animal sacrifice to God? Why not? because Jesus became the ultimate sacrifice, thus closing the book (metaphorically speaking) that was the precursor to God's ultimate plan.
It's simple really. If you choose not to believe it, that's cool. I am amazed though, how many people cannot grasp the meaning of the bible, but can handle the subtleties of the Twilight series. It's not rocket surgery.
Yes, people pervert the gospel. And yes, Jesus had a warning for them... the whole "millstone" thing... but my fingers are tired.
he LIVES under the bridge... he pops out from time to time to extort money from travelers.:)
Microsoft isn't good enough to be a troll... Microsoft is asscrack slime. Just like Apple, Oracle, etc. etc. whoever and whatever use software patents to screw innovation...
That would be great if there was actual market competition in the broadband arena. It's pretty simply a monopoly, and if you factor in the government sanction that provides the monopoly... then yes... it is fascism.
This is vastly more sinister than the government adopting this stance officially.. because we can vote the bastards out who passed it. With the current state of broadband in the US, the only voting out we can do is canceling service in protest, something I suspect the Great Unwashed is unwilling to do.
This has nothing to do with actual infringement. All you need is to piss off the right people and zing! you're throttled and limited. There is no due process. If you get "enough complaints"... your ISP is going to screw you over withholding service that YOU paid for. How equitable is that? How is that not illegal? The EFF needs to sue.
Without competition, we are, to put it bluntly... fucked. And this sort of nonsense has made it more and more clear that the *AA's don't want my money. That's fine. I'll keep it. If only 20% of the people in the US did that, we'd be able to force change. As it stands now, about all we can do is shake our fists and shout insults as the *AA's burn down the orphanage and assrape the kids escaping the fire.
That's why I turned off Genius originally. Now I use other players when I want to listen to my music (I have been since the advent of the "Genius" setting.) iTunes is nothing special unless you have an iPod or iPad (I have a 2nd gen iPod, but I use 3rd party sync apps to fill it.. since I can only use it on my old firewire capable macs.) I don't infringe on copyright other than a single here or there to see if I like the music.. if it's not already listenable on amazon. (I've got enough CDs to last me well past the apocalypse... thank you used CD stores!) Most of my music has passed the current generation by.. so other than remasters and compilations (and the occasional new album)... I'm pretty much set.:)
It will be interesting to see how the RIAA (if they even do it) will figure out how "illegal" a file is, other than saying it's a pre-release. Speculation here has been too forgiving of the RIAA's past stupidity.:)
Funny that... the Dallas Mavericks won the NBA championship, and neither the Miami fans nor the Dallas fans had anywhere NEAR the chaos the hockey fans did. In fact, the night they won, in a crowd over 100K strong in Dallas and the AAC, there were 14 arrests... for public drunkenness.
The parade today in Dallas? Very enthusiastic, but no rioting. (Contrast that with the Dallas Cowboy Superbowl parade back in the early 90's... ) Must be something about contact sports, eh?:)
Oh, and no one died. Guess people should pick less violent sports to watch.:)
Remember, it's like anything... opinions and conjecture. Once you get past that, you can see the discussion more clearly. You also can safely assume that EVERYONE has a bias. Anyone who says otherwise is trying to hide their bias(es).
Never let it be said that any community (online or otherwise) is unbiased... it's simply not true.
The presidential helicopters themselves aren't the problem. the Avionics and electronic warfare stuff inside is what really counted, and that wasn't leaked. There were several foreign contractors involved in that as well... sort of like the unclassified portions of the F-35 being siphoned off by a subcontractor out of Turkey (I believe.)
I am not saying it's never going to happen. It just takes more than this to get to it. There is no way to get it via the internet. There is no classified anything connected to the internet... if there is, someone's head will (literally) roll.:)
Usually I just chalk this up to the morons they hire in the admin departments... but suffice to say, the worst the breach could've gotten, even from a Defense Contractor, is trade secrets... and possibly some unclassified designs and whatnot. (Classified systems are not facing the internet. Ever.) And of course a huge PR hit to Lockheed Martin's ability to claim they can keep anything "secret.":)
They also might've gotten some foreign contract information... depending upon how far they snooped.:) It depends... some foreign entities prefer the same security the US DoD has.. (more or less. heh.)
The consoles make it more like gaming was in the early days. Tweak the shit out of what you have, because you can't just make them buy a new machine to play your "super game". Consider the C-64... its lifespan showed that developers could make some seriously awesome game if they got to know the architecture.
What PC gaming did is make it easy for companies to write something that took more horsepower, and because of the architecture of PCs, developers could just require more this or more that. (believe me, it wasn't a conscious decision to make the architecture open... IBM was just in a rush.)
I like the idea that game companies work on an architecture and squeeze it dry. Why should we go back to the model that allow developers to be lazy and code for the "latest and greatest" because they can't be bothered to get into the architecture. One of the primary reasons I don't game on the PC anymore is the upgrade loop I can't get out of. Now that my computers are not for gaming, I get MANY more years of life out of them.
Only LAZY developers make inferior games.... great games come from great programmers, not from great hardware.
Libertarians believe that the government derives its power FROM the consent of the governed. Corporations are not governed. The PEOPLE are. Libertarians believe in a Constitutionally sound federal government with the powers that are not SPECIFICALLY enumerated to it falling to the States and the People. Corporations != people. The Libertarian party is the only party that seeks to actually enforce the Constitution. Personal liberty is paramount because that is what was paramount to the Founders.
I think you're confusing Libertarian with Fiscal Conservative. They are the "owning class."
Regulation means "market barriers." As long as there are established entities in a market, those entities LOVE regulation. It prevents them from having to play on a level playing field. I don't know if you're being ironic, or just ignorant of basic economics. Either way, Dropbox's lies have nothing to do with the word "Free."
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Repeating it doesn't make it true. Nice that you continue to post these things, though. :-)
Would you like the litany of fringe groups in the Democratic Party posted too? Balance the fringe out? The point is, ironically, that there are always groups like these and no, they are not any more powerful than they were last election cycle. But it's fun to pretend, isn't it?
Is your tinfoil hat on too tight? I just want to know if it hurts while wearing it.... Remember shiny side out...
I do. via fink. Works great. :) But dragging an icon to a folder (which is standard on OS X) beats the ever-loving snot out of Windows "installer"... or as I like to call it... "gee I hope this doesn't crater my PC" function.
If this has taught us one thing... it's that New Yorkers are some UGLY fuckers. :)
There are strong opinions that the transition from a manufacturing economy to a service economy is the natural progression, just as agrarian to manufacturing is... I don't know yet how well this theory holds with reality, but all sufficiently advanced economies (well, ones that lasted this long...) do move their manufacturing towards the developing world to keep prices low and resources in play.
I have been following the "Manufacturing job mantra" from the White House for the last year or so, but I'm on the fence about the whole idea. Things that are made here are done so not because cost doesn't matter, but the advantage of a more skilled workforce (or things like certain defense items which have to be made here in some aspects due to National Security)... However, it is clear that the economy benefits from cheap labor, and as a country expands its wealth and influence, the possibility of having cheap labor dries up domestically. It's the natural outgrowth of more spending power and more influence the working class can have on our form of government and our economy. Through maturity of the laws and power of labor, things shift away from the 12hr days for scrip... (which I don't think anyone argues is a bad thing to have happened...)
The fun part is when China matures past its "industrial stage" and has to farm out its manufacturing to keep competitive. (I don't know if the oppressive regime there will be able to contain the growth and wealth enjoyed by the prosperity of China's economy forever.) They might try, of course... because unlike the Liberty of the West, China does a good job of keeping their people just enough under the heel of the government's boot to prevent too rapid a rise into a service economy like Europe and the US.
*shrug* It's probably an interesting subject to dive into, if you can get past the boring theories. :)
While that may be true of your own mp3's... most people simply keep the mp3's they purchased from Amazon there. (it's what I do).
From a different part of the thread:
The ownership of the server is another interesting point... what if I have a "rent-to-own" computer? Obviously I don't own it... can I make mp3's of my CDs and store them there if I am not the "owner"?
How I got modded offtopic is puzzling. :)
Well said. The powers we give the government keep getting expanded in spite of our protests to the contrary (our, meaning the voters). We have given the enumerated powers, but with those powers, our vigilance has been lax, and the government, corrupt as it is, continues to grasp for more power. The resolution is to challenge it in the courts. The problem is, that takes money, and the vested interests (those who like to restrict liberty... that includes the *AA's) will not take up the cause because it is not in their best interest. It takes a groundswell of individual protest to get any headway, but so far, the government and the complicit corporate press dismiss it as fringe loonies. (I never thought I'd see the day that Founders' concepts would be considered "fringe lunacy.")
Funny how things turn out like the Founders warned, though. Jefferson particularly comes to mind these days... but the power still rests in our hands, if only we weren't asleep (collectively)... Something has to jostle the voters awake... I thought renewal of the PATRIOT Act (and the TSA in general) would do it... but it hasn't.
The decline of the Constitutional Republic starts with voter apathy.... the second is letting things (corporations) that don't vote and aren't really people (in spite of the legal definition) control the halls of Congress.
EXACTLY THIS. How is my home media server (I have two) any different from Amazon's cloud? Answer: There IS no difference. But they're sure trying to wring every single dollar out of this they can... I guess their planned obsolescence is coming sooner than they had hoped.
The internet lets people be their own record label... and that is pissing them off to NO end. Life's hard, buy a helmet. :)
rather _IS_..... :) Oops.
That'd be beautiful, but it'd also be a poll tax which is unconstitutional. :)
The sentiment's well placed though. Of course the party that benefits most from this isn't the one that supposedly stole the presidential election. :) Just sayin'.... heh.
The "bible" as it stands today wasn't the "bible" of the Jews. There were history scrolls and religious scrolls.. but no "big black book" (or scroll if you prefer) to say ... "there it is! teach them that!"
The old testament (stuff we now convey as the old testament) is a colleciton of anecdotes and stories to teach lessons. The context about ancient hebrew traditions and societal norms were specific to the hebrew people of the time. The concept of "stoning a woman" (people like to bring up about the Bible in this thread) for infidelity was dealt with directly by Jesus in the New Testament: "let he who is without sin, cast hte first stone." Jesus pretty much brought to a conclusion the rigid society that was built by God to bring about Jesus to fulfill the promise to Abraham. (Whether or not you believe this is another matter... this is just so that people can see which Fundamentalists are wrong and which people like the Westboro morons use the Bible as a weapon rather than a lamp.)
Jesus fulfilled the law. (I come not to condemn the law but to fulfill it)... meaning the Law now rested on his shoulders. Do Christians practice animal sacrifice to God? Why not? because Jesus became the ultimate sacrifice, thus closing the book (metaphorically speaking) that was the precursor to God's ultimate plan.
It's simple really. If you choose not to believe it, that's cool. I am amazed though, how many people cannot grasp the meaning of the bible, but can handle the subtleties of the Twilight series. It's not rocket surgery.
Yes, people pervert the gospel. And yes, Jesus had a warning for them... the whole "millstone" thing... but my fingers are tired.
God bless. (And sorry for going off topic.)
he LIVES under the bridge... he pops out from time to time to extort money from travelers. :)
Microsoft isn't good enough to be a troll... Microsoft is asscrack slime. Just like Apple, Oracle, etc. etc. whoever and whatever use software patents to screw innovation...
Software patents blow dead monkeys in bear suits.
That would be great if there was actual market competition in the broadband arena. It's pretty simply a monopoly, and if you factor in the government sanction that provides the monopoly... then yes... it is fascism.
This is vastly more sinister than the government adopting this stance officially.. because we can vote the bastards out who passed it. With the current state of broadband in the US, the only voting out we can do is canceling service in protest, something I suspect the Great Unwashed is unwilling to do.
This has nothing to do with actual infringement. All you need is to piss off the right people and zing! you're throttled and limited. There is no due process. If you get "enough complaints"... your ISP is going to screw you over withholding service that YOU paid for. How equitable is that? How is that not illegal? The EFF needs to sue.
Without competition, we are, to put it bluntly... fucked. And this sort of nonsense has made it more and more clear that the *AA's don't want my money. That's fine. I'll keep it. If only 20% of the people in the US did that, we'd be able to force change. As it stands now, about all we can do is shake our fists and shout insults as the *AA's burn down the orphanage and assrape the kids escaping the fire.
That's why I turned off Genius originally. Now I use other players when I want to listen to my music (I have been since the advent of the "Genius" setting.) iTunes is nothing special unless you have an iPod or iPad (I have a 2nd gen iPod, but I use 3rd party sync apps to fill it.. since I can only use it on my old firewire capable macs.) I don't infringe on copyright other than a single here or there to see if I like the music.. if it's not already listenable on amazon. (I've got enough CDs to last me well past the apocalypse... thank you used CD stores!) Most of my music has passed the current generation by.. so other than remasters and compilations (and the occasional new album)... I'm pretty much set. :)
It will be interesting to see how the RIAA (if they even do it) will figure out how "illegal" a file is, other than saying it's a pre-release. Speculation here has been too forgiving of the RIAA's past stupidity. :)
Funny that... the Dallas Mavericks won the NBA championship, and neither the Miami fans nor the Dallas fans had anywhere NEAR the chaos the hockey fans did. In fact, the night they won, in a crowd over 100K strong in Dallas and the AAC, there were 14 arrests... for public drunkenness.
The parade today in Dallas? Very enthusiastic, but no rioting. (Contrast that with the Dallas Cowboy Superbowl parade back in the early 90's... ) Must be something about contact sports, eh? :)
Oh, and no one died. Guess people should pick less violent sports to watch. :)
I don't know if I should point this out, but the irony of an AC calling someone a troll is pretty funny. :)
Remember, it's like anything... opinions and conjecture. Once you get past that, you can see the discussion more clearly. You also can safely assume that EVERYONE has a bias. Anyone who says otherwise is trying to hide their bias(es).
Never let it be said that any community (online or otherwise) is unbiased... it's simply not true.
The presidential helicopters themselves aren't the problem. the Avionics and electronic warfare stuff inside is what really counted, and that wasn't leaked. There were several foreign contractors involved in that as well... sort of like the unclassified portions of the F-35 being siphoned off by a subcontractor out of Turkey (I believe.)
I am not saying it's never going to happen. It just takes more than this to get to it. There is no way to get it via the internet. There is no classified anything connected to the internet... if there is, someone's head will (literally) roll. :)
Usually I just chalk this up to the morons they hire in the admin departments... but suffice to say, the worst the breach could've gotten, even from a Defense Contractor, is trade secrets... and possibly some unclassified designs and whatnot. (Classified systems are not facing the internet. Ever.) And of course a huge PR hit to Lockheed Martin's ability to claim they can keep anything "secret." :)
They also might've gotten some foreign contract information... depending upon how far they snooped. :) It depends... some foreign entities prefer the same security the US DoD has.. (more or less. heh.)
Spoken like someone who never played a C64.
Tell that to the tablet and laptop (and smartphone) manufacturers. Now who's out of touch, AC?
The consoles make it more like gaming was in the early days. Tweak the shit out of what you have, because you can't just make them buy a new machine to play your "super game". Consider the C-64... its lifespan showed that developers could make some seriously awesome game if they got to know the architecture.
What PC gaming did is make it easy for companies to write something that took more horsepower, and because of the architecture of PCs, developers could just require more this or more that. (believe me, it wasn't a conscious decision to make the architecture open... IBM was just in a rush.)
I like the idea that game companies work on an architecture and squeeze it dry. Why should we go back to the model that allow developers to be lazy and code for the "latest and greatest" because they can't be bothered to get into the architecture. One of the primary reasons I don't game on the PC anymore is the upgrade loop I can't get out of. Now that my computers are not for gaming, I get MANY more years of life out of them.
Only LAZY developers make inferior games.... great games come from great programmers, not from great hardware.
Libertarians believe that the government derives its power FROM the consent of the governed. Corporations are not governed. The PEOPLE are. Libertarians believe in a Constitutionally sound federal government with the powers that are not SPECIFICALLY enumerated to it falling to the States and the People. Corporations != people. The Libertarian party is the only party that seeks to actually enforce the Constitution. Personal liberty is paramount because that is what was paramount to the Founders.
I think you're confusing Libertarian with Fiscal Conservative. They are the "owning class."
Shh! Stop saying it's old! It's one of the features of Windows that actually WORKS! :)
(I kid, I kid...) But I hate Steve Ballmer.
But I am capable of figuring out truth from falsehood on my own thanks. I don't need a "Ministry of Disinformation" to help
No offense to the spirit of the idea, but it begs the question "who watches the fact-checkers?"
Regulation means "market barriers." As long as there are established entities in a market, those entities LOVE regulation. It prevents them from having to play on a level playing field. I don't know if you're being ironic, or just ignorant of basic economics. Either way, Dropbox's lies have nothing to do with the word "Free."