I guess people who don't own cars also don't buy goods. You know, goods shipping on the very roads you don't want your tax money spent on. I also guess you don't see a benefit to having a military that can response to invasions on american soil quickly by using, you guessed it, the very roads you don't want to pay taxes for. Roads are used for everyone, drivers and non-drivers alike. Shut them down and watch the entire economy collapse in a matter of days.
I'm awaiting a supercomputer affordable by a small business...something top 100 $30-$60k...then i'll be impressed. Otherwise, it makes no difference to me as I will never get to play with one.
*sigh*
Shorten to: I pledge allegiance to the United States of America and to the republic for which it stand, one nation, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. I hated saying the pledge...pledge to a flag? WTF for? It's a waving piece of useless cloth. You should pledge to your nation regardless of if the flag is a dish towel. And who gives a shit about the under God part anyway, it's under dollar signs./disenfranchised
Hello? Baby bell? Uh, this is your consumer. Would you please shell out billions (pronounced BEEEELIONS) of dollars to speed up the connection to my house. Oh yeah, in the process, please open up this new expenditure to all of your direct competitors so that they can benefit. What? You mean they won't help you pay for it? That f'n sucks. Who says they have to get access? The FCC? WTF! Don't those people support monopolies?
No, of course the don't. They support the inverse and in the process there is no new capital expenditure into landline telecom infrastructure.
Wouldn't it be better to implement something in DNS that sets the ips to be used....Maybe call it an RX record put it in for the @ record of your domain.
@ RX 127.0.0.1-254
RX.....
CRX smtp.someotherdomain.com.
That way you can just poll bob.com and ask bob is whatever-dsl-address.goofyisp.com can really send mail as amazon.com or not. This is more extensible to people who have home-grown servers, as well as big companies. I mean, who doesn't know the outbound servers for their own domain?
You could even couple this with some other check that looks up originating IPs and does a query back to the domain to see if they can send (as suggested in the above article).
That was the Supreme Court there. Not the executive branch. Otherwise i think Clinton would have let the count continue, and perhaps he should have used executive order to do it.
Ding! I prefer that they legalize, homogenize, and tax the holy fark outta drugs. We can get rid of dealers, we can get rid of drugs supporting terrorism (wow!) and we can purge some of the idiot pool. Aside from that, the "War-on-Drugs" is completely unwinnable. You cannot win a war against your own tax payers.
That's the farce you see. There isn't a government in existence that wants smaller government. The whole smaller government is an election-time phenomenon, in that it only exists at times of election.
Talk about a role-reversal. I thought republigoons wants LESS government intrusion. This whole "terrorism-as-an-excuse" crap has simply got to stop. Soon we'll get people with wiretaps on their phones and bugs on their cars after they get caught speeding.
Oooh, he was speeding, he must be in a hurry to get to the bomb-laden-Uhaul-truck. Gimme a fricken break. At least in facist governments you KNOW you're being monitored all the time as a general rule.
Personally I will NOT be surprised when Patriot III comes out giving the current president powers to halt democratic elections. Finally, the new Rome. One corrupt dictator!
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And the other: Takes one to know one.
I mean, come on, these people would sell their own mothers (or at least it seems) to make themselves a dollar.
They steal outright from musicians, in the form of low royalties or in the form of music copyrights.
They steal outright from consumers, in the form of exorbitant prices for albums that are mediocre at best. (And this makes the thing above seem all the more curious.)
They steal from the distributors, in the form of very low margin on CD sales.
So...this whole thing isn't that surprising to me, or anyone I hope, it's just business as usual.
Responsible? More like cowardly. They might as well have said no comment, but they copped out and said it's not "practical". This is complete BS as what Apple considers practical and what the average Joe (who doesn't want to spend a dollar to find out that a song seriously sucks major ass after the first 10 seconds) considers practical are two completely different things entirely. If apple wanted to charge 10 cents for a song transfer, i'd be okay with that too, but they need to come out with a clear position and not just a shrug and change the issue.
They probably DO NOT support resale, and they should just come out and say it instead of being misleading.
And thus the whole antiquated business model scenario comes round again. It is entirely feasible for my 80 coworkers, or even my sister's 8000 coworkers to set up a company library of music, videos, books, etc...just like P&G does in a few of their offices. The internet just facilitates and makes this easier, but it doesn't change the underlying principals of fair use, first sale rights and the consumer's power to do whatever for non-commercial use.
Substitute "line-out type recording..." with "photocopy" and "digital goods" with "book" and you'll understand that the same argument applies to all media in general, digitial or not. Again, just because it's on a computer doesn't make it new or unique. VHS, DVD, CDs, Piano Rolls...doesn't keep people from shopping at Half-priced books, or Used CD stores.
I think this is the whole point of the argument. It's very much akin to if a subscriber to Everwaste actually owns the character and items aquired by that character in order to sell them on eBay.
If it stands up in court, it just measn that a) Apple has to facilitate a free transfer function or b) Apple removes DRM. (Guess which one would happen first.)
I guess the could do C) change the TOS to make it apparent that you don't own the damn thing at all, but are paying a rental fee for long-term use.
They keep saying it's impractical to sell the songs...well, how about trading songs with other iTunes users? I'm sure there is some right somewhere where you can give stuff away that you bought a copy of. (Basically sell it for $0).
So...the real question is...why can't i just forward my legally purchased songs to Jim Bob the same way i could hand him my physical CD.
Noone can explain this other than music companies swear CDs are better quality and thus charge more for it than the same music on cassette.
Of course, since the cassette is basically dead...they should stop sticking it to us and charge the same price. If anything they should lower the price of CDs according to manufacturing price and make everyone happy.
On the other hand, greedy people don't become ungreedy overnight.
Friend of mine lost 900 CDs that were stolen out of his car. (He is a music buff and DJ), they also jacked his $8000 sound system. The insurance company made him provide proof (which he did in the form of the cases for the CDs, he only had the discs in the car in cd folders), and they will now reimburse him whenever he buys ANY retail CD up until he has reclaimed all 900. The catch is he has to purchase them first then send them the reciepts. They replaced his stereo equipment without question.
Thus making it already a superior way to install Perl modules. Not to rain on a parade and this may be useful for systems where there is no CPAN (can't imagine WHY though), but where is the benefit of this over CPAN?
Perhaps this will make it easy to deploy with no network connection? I'm just lost here.
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I guess people who don't own cars also don't buy goods. You know, goods shipping on the very roads you don't want your tax money spent on. I also guess you don't see a benefit to having a military that can response to invasions on american soil quickly by using, you guessed it, the very roads you don't want to pay taxes for. Roads are used for everyone, drivers and non-drivers alike. Shut them down and watch the entire economy collapse in a matter of days.
I'm awaiting a supercomputer affordable by a small business...something top 100 $30-$60k...then i'll be impressed. Otherwise, it makes no difference to me as I will never get to play with one. *sigh*
The tinfoil hat, here comes the conspiracy.
Puhlease. Critical equipment has been running windows since windows have been around. The real wonder is why more people havn't died from it.
Shorten to: I pledge allegiance to the United States of America and to the republic for which it stand, one nation, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. I hated saying the pledge...pledge to a flag? WTF for? It's a waving piece of useless cloth. You should pledge to your nation regardless of if the flag is a dish towel. And who gives a shit about the under God part anyway, it's under dollar signs. /disenfranchised
Hello? Baby bell? Uh, this is your consumer. Would you please shell out billions (pronounced BEEEELIONS) of dollars to speed up the connection to my house. Oh yeah, in the process, please open up this new expenditure to all of your direct competitors so that they can benefit. What? You mean they won't help you pay for it? That f'n sucks. Who says they have to get access? The FCC? WTF! Don't those people support monopolies? No, of course the don't. They support the inverse and in the process there is no new capital expenditure into landline telecom infrastructure.
And now i find out this already exists. *sigh* No patent for I.
Wouldn't it be better to implement something in DNS that sets the ips to be used....Maybe call it an RX record put it in for the @ record of your domain. @ RX 127.0.0.1-254 RX .....
CRX smtp.someotherdomain.com.
That way you can just poll bob.com and ask bob is whatever-dsl-address.goofyisp.com can really send mail as amazon.com or not. This is more extensible to people who have home-grown servers, as well as big companies. I mean, who doesn't know the outbound servers for their own domain?
You could even couple this with some other check that looks up originating IPs and does a query back to the domain to see if they can send (as suggested in the above article).
Low-flow toilets are a plot by water companies. It routinely takes 2 or 3 flushes, taking at least the same amount or more water.
That was the Supreme Court there. Not the executive branch. Otherwise i think Clinton would have let the count continue, and perhaps he should have used executive order to do it.
Actually, the US seems to be using Australia as a role model for certain things. Such as censorship of the media.
Ding! I prefer that they legalize, homogenize, and tax the holy fark outta drugs. We can get rid of dealers, we can get rid of drugs supporting terrorism (wow!) and we can purge some of the idiot pool. Aside from that, the "War-on-Drugs" is completely unwinnable. You cannot win a war against your own tax payers.
That, and I don't think Crystal Meth dealers contribute to political campaigns. Not that they need to, as the product simply sells itself.
That's the farce you see. There isn't a government in existence that wants smaller government. The whole smaller government is an election-time phenomenon, in that it only exists at times of election.
Talk about a role-reversal. I thought republigoons wants LESS government intrusion. This whole "terrorism-as-an-excuse" crap has simply got to stop. Soon we'll get people with wiretaps on their phones and bugs on their cars after they get caught speeding. Oooh, he was speeding, he must be in a hurry to get to the bomb-laden-Uhaul-truck. Gimme a fricken break. At least in facist governments you KNOW you're being monitored all the time as a general rule. Personally I will NOT be surprised when Patriot III comes out giving the current president powers to halt democratic elections. Finally, the new Rome. One corrupt dictator!
And the other: Takes one to know one. I mean, come on, these people would sell their own mothers (or at least it seems) to make themselves a dollar. They steal outright from musicians, in the form of low royalties or in the form of music copyrights. They steal outright from consumers, in the form of exorbitant prices for albums that are mediocre at best. (And this makes the thing above seem all the more curious.) They steal from the distributors, in the form of very low margin on CD sales. So...this whole thing isn't that surprising to me, or anyone I hope, it's just business as usual.
Responsible? More like cowardly. They might as well have said no comment, but they copped out and said it's not "practical". This is complete BS as what Apple considers practical and what the average Joe (who doesn't want to spend a dollar to find out that a song seriously sucks major ass after the first 10 seconds) considers practical are two completely different things entirely. If apple wanted to charge 10 cents for a song transfer, i'd be okay with that too, but they need to come out with a clear position and not just a shrug and change the issue. They probably DO NOT support resale, and they should just come out and say it instead of being misleading.
And thus the whole antiquated business model scenario comes round again. It is entirely feasible for my 80 coworkers, or even my sister's 8000 coworkers to set up a company library of music, videos, books, etc...just like P&G does in a few of their offices. The internet just facilitates and makes this easier, but it doesn't change the underlying principals of fair use, first sale rights and the consumer's power to do whatever for non-commercial use.
Substitute "line-out type recording..." with "photocopy" and "digital goods" with "book" and you'll understand that the same argument applies to all media in general, digitial or not. Again, just because it's on a computer doesn't make it new or unique. VHS, DVD, CDs, Piano Rolls...doesn't keep people from shopping at Half-priced books, or Used CD stores.
I think this is the whole point of the argument. It's very much akin to if a subscriber to Everwaste actually owns the character and items aquired by that character in order to sell them on eBay. If it stands up in court, it just measn that a) Apple has to facilitate a free transfer function or b) Apple removes DRM. (Guess which one would happen first.) I guess the could do C) change the TOS to make it apparent that you don't own the damn thing at all, but are paying a rental fee for long-term use.
They keep saying it's impractical to sell the songs...well, how about trading songs with other iTunes users? I'm sure there is some right somewhere where you can give stuff away that you bought a copy of. (Basically sell it for $0). So...the real question is...why can't i just forward my legally purchased songs to Jim Bob the same way i could hand him my physical CD.
Noone can explain this other than music companies swear CDs are better quality and thus charge more for it than the same music on cassette. Of course, since the cassette is basically dead...they should stop sticking it to us and charge the same price. If anything they should lower the price of CDs according to manufacturing price and make everyone happy. On the other hand, greedy people don't become ungreedy overnight.
Friend of mine lost 900 CDs that were stolen out of his car. (He is a music buff and DJ), they also jacked his $8000 sound system. The insurance company made him provide proof (which he did in the form of the cases for the CDs, he only had the discs in the car in cd folders), and they will now reimburse him whenever he buys ANY retail CD up until he has reclaimed all 900. The catch is he has to purchase them first then send them the reciepts. They replaced his stereo equipment without question.
Thus making it already a superior way to install Perl modules. Not to rain on a parade and this may be useful for systems where there is no CPAN (can't imagine WHY though), but where is the benefit of this over CPAN? Perhaps this will make it easy to deploy with no network connection? I'm just lost here.
"two of its Linux clusters..." Nuff said.