First thing I thought of too. The only way to get around all this is voice activation / talking computer. Obviously, let the passengers surf, watch dvd's, whatever. But the drivers should have a handsfree phone connection, direction finding (GPS) , etc.
Notice how people can have normal conversations in the their car. But put that hand to their ear, and they're all over the road!
So says some anonymous guy. All the Apex's that have been bought by family at my suggestion still work after a year. And even if not, you can always buy another one at the price.
Which is why they just need to go ahead and create "Civil Unions" for tax purposes, inheritence, hospital visits, etc.
Why is it ok for people to get an official marriage at town hall, or at a theme park by Elvis in Vegas, where GOD is NO WHERE to be seen. But bring up an old testament quote and suddenly gay people are evil?
Personally, I feel like we're walking through text book history. In 20 years, our kids/grandkids will read this era in their history book and think what knobs we were for being so discriminatory against certain humans. Just like we look at the knobs before 1964 who would rather throw bricks at a 12 year old black girl for trying to go to the first integrated school.
And how many people will vote for Bush because they listen to Rush Limbaugh every day? I listen every day during lunch, and it's just as full of propaganda as Fahrenheit 9/11 was.
Not only was Feingold the only Senator to vote against the Patriot Act, it's a part of his platform this year! Michel's commercials paint him as unamerican for not wanting to protect us since he voted NO for the patriot act, and Feingold comes right back saying he'd vote no again!
The guy's a genius. But I guess I'm biased being such a liberal. Accidentally stumbled upon his debate with Michels the other night, too. Went very well. But I guess I'm biased...
I can say no for sure, because even if George Bush came out and said he would squash everything pro-RIAA/MPAA/Hatch, I still wouldn't vote for him.
So, I must assume there are many more issues more important to even ol' me.
This would be more of an issue for choosing my state's Senator, though. They're the ones that seem to start these kinds of bills in the first place, and who here hasn't wished they had a vote for Utah this election? Almost as good, I get to re-elect the only guy who voted against the Patriot Act.
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How inspiring! Thanks for sharing.
I wish I knew your nick at nano, so I could read your story though.
Libraries have lots of clauses in the laws pertaining to copyrights, allowing them to do what they do. Forget music for a moment, don't forget they're lending out copyrighted books to people for free!
Your mom is not allowed to make copies of those CD's. Is it enforcable? No.
She might like to know that due to the Patriot Act, the government can check her library records whenever they want and not tell anyone about their inquiry. Of course, it's suppose to only be if she's a possible terrorist threat. But that hasn't stopped them busting dope dealers under the 'terrorist threat'.
Personally, I don't think the RIAA wants to tackle the 'library problem'. First of all, it's not that popular of a practice. It's also quite tedious. But those things aside, I'd say the RIAA would never want to undermine a library. That's just to close to home to voting parents, and would really paint them in a bad picture.
It's not that simple. You can not point at piracy as ruining a company. You have no idea how many of those people WOULD have bought a Loki game if they had employed a 'perfect copyprotection' scheme. Running a business is tough. Look at what ID did to leverage free demos on the internet. Look how Adobe has always lived with piracy of their pruducts to their advantage. Piracy didn't magically increase one day and put Loki Software out of business. Is it even possible to survive out there today without getting Microsoft to umbrella you?
Most of the searching I did on Loki Games pops up nothing but their linux support.
random quote: "The problem with Loki was that they were too visionary. They knew damn well they weren't going to make a profit for a while and their business model was predicated on it. Unfortunately, Investors changed their mind about the risks involved in such a business model and Loki was forced to close up shop.
Unfortunately, that has happened to a lot of business that had great business plans in 1999 based on 1999 economy, but in 2000 and 2001, when the economy changed, they had no "Plan B". Investors don't invest the same way in a poor economy that they do in a boom one."
My family's business of 25 years when down the toilet that year, too. (Along with MANY others, and they are the sales of non-pirating goods) And it was due to the economy, and ever increasing competition. The big guys kept putting out loss leaders for years to undercut us.
What really broke the camel's back, though, was ebay.
The stat they're using is crap anyways. MP3 is on the decline because that's what is getting deleted more often off of hard drives?
That's like saying the music industry is being crippled by pirating because they're making less profit during a recession than compared to banner years when CD's were still new. Oh, wait.
Is it cool to write articles that say something is dying? Apple is dead. Java is dead. Mp3 is dead because there were 50 bazillion deleted this year instead of 40 bazillion of last year. Since when did not breaking a record this year count as "the death of" ?
And why do people always compare how crappy a 128 bit XING encoded mp3 sounds to a 128 bit OGG file? I wouldn't want either one, sorry. Nothing wrong with LAME -aps or -ape, and if there is, you should go with FLAC/APE/etc.
And why does everyone defend OGG as not having that PESKY license that MP3 has. Exactly when was the last time you had to jump over that hurdle? And commercial players like WinAmp never seemed to have a problem with doing it, non-commerical players don't need to even bother with it, and any hardware like DVD players that play mp3 discs don't seem to have a problem doing it.
It's like saying we should all learn the ever-popular Sanscrit language, so that we don't have to bother with the pesky "I before E except after C" rule.
I think it really depends on what side of the fence you're on to see this one way or the other.
The fact that you mentioned Poland was so helpful in this one useful role, is exactly the point. Why can't we get more help than that? From each country, and more countries total?
To have 10 countries total up to be 9% of the total number there just isn't a huge COALITION to be proud of. And I'm talking about Bush patting himself on the back for doing such a good job. Not pissing on the countries that did help.
Well that's my take on it.
Al Frankton did a slightly funny skit on the 4 Norwegian of the WORLD COALITION that are there helping the US. Turns out they're in Kuwait fixing trucks. Well, anyway.
I was going to say you can do this with 5 normal sized drives right now. But alas, I forgot it took up 3 bays.
Still, it brought a smile to my face the first time I saw another site selling something like this... seeing that you could fit more drives in just by putting them in sideways.
If you really think the speed difference between a six vs. three drive RAID-5 setup is that important, then I am sure you wouldn't have limited yourself to a 1U system.
The fact is, you can buy more normal sized drives than smaller sized. More capacity and more speed.
After I checked out your friends and fans, I became really interested as to why you're so obsessed with garcia. Too many suck ups obsessed over garcia. Let it drop! Back on topic, please.
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True, but I'm sure it would be laid out that they could continue to reap the rewards each year, instead of running away with one sum. Also, it wouldn't have to be 2 mil, it could be spread out over many people at amounts that aren't worth running away from (50K, etc)
Plus you could pad execs' payrolls [even more] and they would be in a position where donating it is in their best interest.
All I'm saying is that it doesn't seem like this is an actual viable solution to campaign reform. Not that I have a better idea.
Well if you enjoy 10 minute crafted blather in karma whoring goodness, followed by a 2-to-1 ratio of 'Why do peole mod me this way", you should check out Sir Haxalot and other fine dumbasses.
I'm being a dick and I have 6 foes. Garcia has, what, 60?
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heheh. I'll give you 10 xp for that, and a quest point.
Notice how people can have normal conversations in the their car. But put that hand to their ear, and they're all over the road!
So says some anonymous guy. All the Apex's that have been bought by family at my suggestion still work after a year. And even if not, you can always buy another one at the price.
Why is it ok for people to get an official marriage at town hall, or at a theme park by Elvis in Vegas, where GOD is NO WHERE to be seen. But bring up an old testament quote and suddenly gay people are evil?
Personally, I feel like we're walking through text book history. In 20 years, our kids/grandkids will read this era in their history book and think what knobs we were for being so discriminatory against certain humans. Just like we look at the knobs before 1964 who would rather throw bricks at a 12 year old black girl for trying to go to the first integrated school.
Hey, abortion was banned in the past. Let's go back to back alley coat-hangers.
Really? I've never seen such a difference in two people choosing opposite methods of 'solving' each problem than I have this year.
And how many people will vote for Bush because they listen to Rush Limbaugh every day? I listen every day during lunch, and it's just as full of propaganda as Fahrenheit 9/11 was.
The guy's a genius. But I guess I'm biased being such a liberal. Accidentally stumbled upon his debate with Michels the other night, too. Went very well. But I guess I'm biased...
I can say no for sure, because even if George Bush came out and said he would squash everything pro-RIAA/MPAA/Hatch, I still wouldn't vote for him.
So, I must assume there are many more issues more important to even ol' me.
This would be more of an issue for choosing my state's Senator, though. They're the ones that seem to start these kinds of bills in the first place, and who here hasn't wished they had a vote for Utah this election? Almost as good, I get to re-elect the only guy who voted against the Patriot Act.
I wish I knew your nick at nano, so I could read your story though.
Your mom is not allowed to make copies of those CD's. Is it enforcable? No.
She might like to know that due to the Patriot Act, the government can check her library records whenever they want and not tell anyone about their inquiry. Of course, it's suppose to only be if she's a possible terrorist threat. But that hasn't stopped them busting dope dealers under the 'terrorist threat'.
Personally, I don't think the RIAA wants to tackle the 'library problem'. First of all, it's not that popular of a practice. It's also quite tedious. But those things aside, I'd say the RIAA would never want to undermine a library. That's just to close to home to voting parents, and would really paint them in a bad picture.
Most of the searching I did on Loki Games pops up nothing but their linux support.
random quote:
"The problem with Loki was that they were too visionary. They knew damn well they weren't going to make a profit for a while and their business model was predicated on it. Unfortunately, Investors changed their mind about the risks involved in such a business model and Loki was forced to close up shop.
Unfortunately, that has happened to a lot of business that had great business plans in 1999 based on 1999 economy, but in 2000 and 2001, when the economy changed, they had no "Plan B". Investors don't invest the same way in a poor economy that they do in a boom one."
My family's business of 25 years when down the toilet that year, too. (Along with MANY others, and they are the sales of non-pirating goods) And it was due to the economy, and ever increasing competition. The big guys kept putting out loss leaders for years to undercut us.
What really broke the camel's back, though, was ebay.
That's like saying the music industry is being crippled by pirating because they're making less profit during a recession than compared to banner years when CD's were still new. Oh, wait.
Is it cool to write articles that say something is dying? Apple is dead. Java is dead. Mp3 is dead because there were 50 bazillion deleted this year instead of 40 bazillion of last year. Since when did not breaking a record this year count as "the death of" ?
And why do people always compare how crappy a 128 bit XING encoded mp3 sounds to a 128 bit OGG file? I wouldn't want either one, sorry. Nothing wrong with LAME -aps or -ape, and if there is, you should go with FLAC/APE/etc.
And why does everyone defend OGG as not having that PESKY license that MP3 has. Exactly when was the last time you had to jump over that hurdle? And commercial players like WinAmp never seemed to have a problem with doing it, non-commerical players don't need to even bother with it, and any hardware like DVD players that play mp3 discs don't seem to have a problem doing it.
It's like saying we should all learn the ever-popular Sanscrit language, so that we don't have to bother with the pesky "I before E except after C" rule.
The fact that you mentioned Poland was so helpful in this one useful role, is exactly the point. Why can't we get more help than that? From each country, and more countries total?
To have 10 countries total up to be 9% of the total number there just isn't a huge COALITION to be proud of. And I'm talking about Bush patting himself on the back for doing such a good job. Not pissing on the countries that did help.
Well that's my take on it.
Al Frankton did a slightly funny skit on the 4 Norwegian of the WORLD COALITION that are there helping the US. Turns out they're in Kuwait fixing trucks. Well, anyway.
I take it you're leasing, then? Rack space costs nothing in our server room.
Still, it brought a smile to my face the first time I saw another site selling something like this... seeing that you could fit more drives in just by putting them in sideways.
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The fact is, you can buy more normal sized drives than smaller sized. More capacity and more speed.
After I checked out your friends and fans, I became really interested as to why you're so obsessed with garcia. Too many suck ups obsessed over garcia. Let it drop! Back on topic, please.
Thanks for proving my point exactly.
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Don't bug him now, he's carefully crafting his next +5 post.
Plus you could pad execs' payrolls [even more] and they would be in a position where donating it is in their best interest.
All I'm saying is that it doesn't seem like this is an actual viable solution to campaign reform. Not that I have a better idea.
I'm being a dick and I have 6 foes. Garcia has, what, 60?
I'd rather read outright commercials than listen to your shit.
Wouldn't corporations just 'hire' a patsy for 2 million dollars a year and that patsy donates 2 million dollars to Senator X, Y & Z?