He was just practising for the day when a giant ape descended on the school, kidnapped the prom queen and started rolling flaming barrels down the stairs at the janitors.
If they confiscate al lthe hammers, who will save the princess!?!
Won't some please think of the children!
I have to laugh, because if I didn't (and trust me, I feel bad for this guy, and hope that the school board members who are piling on him for cheap political points get their just desserts at election time and are sent packing... to an alternative education facility) --- if I didn't laugh, I would just weep for the state of the so-called "free world".
How did things go so wrong that what was once held up as shining examples of the way we wanted to live our lives at a national level has gone so wayward, so fast?
Mod me troll if you want, but I don't see this as being "un-American" in the slightest. Sneaky - check. Unfair - check.
Un-American when your executive branch engages in this kind of behaviour on a daily basis, then sees their way clear to lying in public about it when they get cound out? That seems to me to make this about as American as you can get.
It's a sad but true commentary on the state of the nation that what was once held up as a utopian ideal (that of "The American Way") has become so corrupted and broken that it now means the exact opposite of what was intended.
We're watching a similar situation play out here in Canada. The Canuskistan equivalent to the RIAA actively lobbied for the surchage on recordable media, and the government gave it to them, along with a clearly articulated fair-use policy.
Turns out that fair use policy allows us to download mp3, etc from Napster-like sites punishment free. We can't upload, so we are in effect, a nation of legal leeches.
Now that mp3 players are so popular, most people no longer need to burn CDs of music, so they legally download it, but don't pay the surcharge.
Guess who's arguing against their "bought and paid for" law now?
What bothers me about this report... and everything like it which has been trotted out over the last few years... is that people are expected to be stupid enough to believe it.
I mean, how dumb do you have to be to believe that because children could be manipulated into violating the law by some evil website designer, this has ANYTHING to do with national security?
Unless they think that when we fence off England and turn it into a giant prison island (I mean, they're already halfway there on the surveilance front) there won't be any young males left to fight our wars if we've put them all in jail for stealing copyrighted (copywrit?) items.
These MAFIAA people don't think like I do, and that scares me because they obviously don't have the same moral (in terms of what's right and what's wrong, not anything religious) standards that I do... and they seem determined to turn me into a criminal for some reason.
Given that governments routinely roll over to this group (and groups like it), you can't fault them for trying for the whole enchilada. Why wouldn't they, when they've yet to be smacked down over all their requests, and as corporations, they have incredible patience to keep pushing the same requests over and over again.
If I wasn't sadly jaded, I'd have put the article down to outrageous hyperbole... but I'm guessing it's pretty accurate.
However, I think they are missing the big point. YouTube is successful not because it has clips and full shows of copyrighted material, but because it's chock full of stuff - amateur and professionally done - that's free.
I've watched how my kids use it (9 & 12, and the next big consumer generation) and they watch stuff that people posted that they'd done themselves.
TV is becoming less relevant to us old folks, who grew up on it... if I was the majors, I'd fear the next generation who doesn't care one whit about "their" content.
Kids aren't "into" shows as they have been in the past, and will skip or watch an episode of something they see in passing on TV on a whim - when they bother to have it on at all.
In this case, and no doubt due to the fact that they stood to "lose their shirt" if they kept going with it... because it IS protected in the US, the pork board backed off.
The lawyer who sent the original C&D was an asshat, but the pork board sounds like they knew bad mojo when they found it.
Here's hoping your analysis is wrong, and the Tories are more concerned about the election than you'd give them reason to be.
Dammit, I want my "income splitting" to be a part of the budget to ensure that none of the other parties would dare vote against it.
Can you hear the campaign slogans? "See, the Liberals voted to defeat the budget and take money out of the pocket of every hard working Canadian's pocket" "The Liberals hate stay-at-home moms" "Vote for the Liberals and they'll use the money they just stole from you to finance another sponsorship scandal to stave off another Quebec referendum"
The Tories have to be practically peeing themselves over the chance to run an election on money instead of the environment and the war.
And you'll have raised someone who sees authority figures as people who do not have his best interests at heart, but are more concerned about power and control.
Funny how that works, huh?
Captcha for this post... "lashings". How appropriate.
Regardless of what the FCC pronounces from on high, there will be only one satellite radio provider within a couple of years. Market forces currently dictate that both companies cannot continue to bleed money at the rate they are doing and have any hope of long-term survival.
In fact, the tin foil hatter in me would probably suggest that big radio conglomerates like ClearChannel are actively lobbying behind the scenes to make sure that Sirius and XM can never join forces - in the hopes that they successfully kill them both, to allow re-entry into the market by those that missed the boat the first time.
Personally, I love my XM, and don't ever listen to local radio any more. More choice, less commercials, NHL radio broadcasts from several different markets every night? Why would I ever go back. Commercial radio listening is dropping like so many "buggy whip manufacturers 3 year outlook" and they know damned well that Satellite is taking a big chunk. (Not all, as others have already suggested, iPods and mp3 players are also changing how people listen to music).
One or the other is going to go belly up, and then what is the FCC going to say? "No, you're not allowed to woo former customers, because that would create a monopoly?"
Given that they are Canadian citizens, and, more importantly, NO LONGER INVOLVED IN THE OPERATIONS OF NETTELLER, I think that the Canadian government will have something to say.
The government here is still smarting over the whole Arar affair, and I don't think they'll take it lightly that Canadian shareholders of a British company are being arrested while on US soil, because they created a company that provided a legal service - even legal in the US - when it was started.
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Perhaps that's what you're doing, but not me.
I download music off the internet, not because I want to steal it, or because I feel like I'm entitled to it for free (as in beer), or because I have some vague sense of "sticking it to the man!" to satisfy and I can justify stealing it on that basis.
I download music because, here in Canada, I already paid for that privilige. Through laws lobbied for and passed at the behest of the Canadian equivalent of the RIAA (the CRIA) every CD I buy is surcharged on the presumption that I'm going to use it to steal music (in their words) and so therefore they get some compensation.
But yet, I buy the PC games I play. I buy the movies I own. Both because these are not explicitly covered by the same rulings as music.
Therefore, the music industry created me in their own image. A music leech.
So, I've got no problems being one. It's not looting, it's exercising the right we've been charged for anyway.
And yet, the CRIA still goes after people who are uploading, thus trying to prevent me from exercising the right I've already been charged for. THAT, makes no sense to me.
I haven't been "wronged" by a record company to date (missed out on the Sony Rootkit thank goodness), but I will admit I can't help but feel some sense of satisfaction that they didn't think through the laws which they proposed years ago. It's been interesting watching them twist themselves into logic pretzels trying to argue the other side of the fence lately... all without mentioning that they'd be willing to stop collecting the surcharge on recordable media I might add. I can understand totally why people feel they are smug, self-serving, lying corporate a$$hats.
Of course it's risky, it's freakin' rocket science per Chris'sakes! It's not like it's only brain surgery or anything simple like that.
Having said that, my first thought was "avoiding it because it's risky?" That damned wheel invention was pretty risky too - kept falling over or rolling away... until someone invented the axle.
I am put in mind of the recent NHL lockout (I'm Canuckistian... everything is about hockey to us). Owners cried "we're losing money, you need to take less" to the players, while at the same time raising ticket prices, engaging in "creative accounting" and signing star player to NBA sized contracts.
To fix things, the business model needed to be torn down and rebuilt, and it took an earthquake to destroy the existing situation.
the RIAA is where the NHL was 10 years ago. Yes, things are bad. Yes, we're "losing money". Yes, our players (read: producers of marketable product) are getting shafted in some cases. No, we don't want to change how we structure our business, because our businesses are valued at billions of dollars.
Change is coming, and this may be the tip of the iceberg.
As others have said, DEV doesn't belong in the deployment game, they belong in the development game. They take requirements and turn them into functioning products. IT takes functioning products and melds them into a "production infrastructure" of applications, networks, security access, servers & databases.
IT owns all the deployments, because they own the responsibility for keeping the production infrastructure functioning.
Actually, from where I sit (the snowbound wastelands of Canuckistan) it's not. It's not a crime, it's a right - negotiated/forced on us by the fact that the same organization that owns the copyright collects money on recordable media whether I record music on it or not.
They can get stuffed for all I care with their whining of plummeting sales. I haven't heard of any record companies laying off people in droves because their massive profits have dried up, have you?
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Where exactly did the GP suggest that he was discussing "terrorists", or "Muslims", or "Arabs" ... or whatever your mind immediately jumped to?
Human history is filled with thousands of examples of one group of humans dehumanizing another which has absolutely nothing to do with safety.
Or was Nazi Germany under some sort of threat from the Jews involving planes and tall buildings that I'm not aware of? Sheesh.
He was just practising for the day when a giant ape descended on the school, kidnapped the prom queen and started rolling flaming barrels down the stairs at the janitors.
... to an alternative education facility) --- if I didn't laugh, I would just weep for the state of the so-called "free world".
If they confiscate al lthe hammers, who will save the princess!?!
Won't some please think of the children!
I have to laugh, because if I didn't (and trust me, I feel bad for this guy, and hope that the school board members who are piling on him for cheap political points get their just desserts at election time and are sent packing
How did things go so wrong that what was once held up as shining examples of the way we wanted to live our lives at a national level has gone so wayward, so fast?
Mod me troll if you want, but I don't see this as being "un-American" in the slightest. Sneaky - check.
Unfair - check.
Un-American when your executive branch engages in this kind of behaviour on a daily basis, then sees their way clear to lying in public about it when they get cound out? That seems to me to make this about as American as you can get.
It's a sad but true commentary on the state of the nation that what was once held up as a utopian ideal (that of "The American Way") has become so corrupted and broken that it now means the exact opposite of what was intended.
I had exactly the same "Wizard of Oz" moment.
Funniest post of the day award!
We're watching a similar situation play out here in Canada. The Canuskistan equivalent to the RIAA actively lobbied for the surchage on recordable media, and the government gave it to them, along with a clearly articulated fair-use policy.
Turns out that fair use policy allows us to download mp3, etc from Napster-like sites punishment free. We can't upload, so we are in effect, a nation of legal leeches.
Now that mp3 players are so popular, most people no longer need to burn CDs of music, so they legally download it, but don't pay the surcharge.
Guess who's arguing against their "bought and paid for" law now?
Pay no attention to the pile of burning books outside your neighbour's house.
What bothers me about this report ... and everything like it which has been trotted out over the last few years ... is that people are expected to be stupid enough to believe it.
... and they seem determined to turn me into a criminal for some reason.
I mean, how dumb do you have to be to believe that because children could be manipulated into violating the law by some evil website designer, this has ANYTHING to do with national security?
Unless they think that when we fence off England and turn it into a giant prison island (I mean, they're already halfway there on the surveilance front) there won't be any young males left to fight our wars if we've put them all in jail for stealing copyrighted (copywrit?) items.
These MAFIAA people don't think like I do, and that scares me because they obviously don't have the same moral (in terms of what's right and what's wrong, not anything religious) standards that I do
Given that governments routinely roll over to this group (and groups like it), you can't fault them for trying for the whole enchilada. Why wouldn't they, when they've yet to be smacked down over all their requests, and as corporations, they have incredible patience to keep pushing the same requests over and over again.
... but I'm guessing it's pretty accurate.
... if I was the majors, I'd fear the next generation who doesn't care one whit about "their" content.
If I wasn't sadly jaded, I'd have put the article down to outrageous hyperbole
However, I think they are missing the big point. YouTube is successful not because it has clips and full shows of copyrighted material, but because it's chock full of stuff - amateur and professionally done - that's free.
I've watched how my kids use it (9 & 12, and the next big consumer generation) and they watch stuff that people posted that they'd done themselves.
TV is becoming less relevant to us old folks, who grew up on it
Kids aren't "into" shows as they have been in the past, and will skip or watch an episode of something they see in passing on TV on a whim - when they bother to have it on at all.
Man, there's never a "-0, Bitter" mod around when I need one. ;-)
In this case, and no doubt due to the fact that they stood to "lose their shirt" if they kept going with it ... because it IS protected in the US, the pork board backed off.
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The lawyer who sent the original C&D was an asshat, but the pork board sounds like they knew bad mojo when they found it.
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Here's hoping your analysis is wrong, and the Tories are more concerned about the election than you'd give them reason to be.
Dammit, I want my "income splitting" to be a part of the budget to ensure that none of the other parties would dare vote against it.
Can you hear the campaign slogans? "See, the Liberals voted to defeat the budget and take money out of the pocket of every hard working Canadian's pocket" "The Liberals hate stay-at-home moms" "Vote for the Liberals and they'll use the money they just stole from you to finance another sponsorship scandal to stave off another Quebec referendum"
The Tories have to be practically peeing themselves over the chance to run an election on money instead of the environment and the war.
And you'll have raised someone who sees authority figures as people who do not have his best interests at heart, but are more concerned about power and control.
... "lashings". How appropriate.
Funny how that works, huh?
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Regardless of what the FCC pronounces from on high, there will be only one satellite radio provider within a couple of years. Market forces currently dictate that both companies cannot continue to bleed money at the rate they are doing and have any hope of long-term survival.
In fact, the tin foil hatter in me would probably suggest that big radio conglomerates like ClearChannel are actively lobbying behind the scenes to make sure that Sirius and XM can never join forces - in the hopes that they successfully kill them both, to allow re-entry into the market by those that missed the boat the first time.
Personally, I love my XM, and don't ever listen to local radio any more. More choice, less commercials, NHL radio broadcasts from several different markets every night? Why would I ever go back. Commercial radio listening is dropping like so many "buggy whip manufacturers 3 year outlook" and they know damned well that Satellite is taking a big chunk. (Not all, as others have already suggested, iPods and mp3 players are also changing how people listen to music).
One or the other is going to go belly up, and then what is the FCC going to say? "No, you're not allowed to woo former customers, because that would create a monopoly?"
How stupid is that?
Given that they are Canadian citizens, and, more importantly, NO LONGER INVOLVED IN THE OPERATIONS OF NETTELLER, I think that the Canadian government will have something to say.
The government here is still smarting over the whole Arar affair, and I don't think they'll take it lightly that Canadian shareholders of a British company are being arrested while on US soil, because they created a company that provided a legal service - even legal in the US - when it was started.
Perhaps that's what you're doing, but not me.
... all without mentioning that they'd be willing to stop collecting the surcharge on recordable media I might add. I can understand totally why people feel they are smug, self-serving, lying corporate a$$hats.
I download music off the internet, not because I want to steal it, or because I feel like I'm entitled to it for free (as in beer), or because I have some vague sense of "sticking it to the man!" to satisfy and I can justify stealing it on that basis.
I download music because, here in Canada, I already paid for that privilige. Through laws lobbied for and passed at the behest of the Canadian equivalent of the RIAA (the CRIA) every CD I buy is surcharged on the presumption that I'm going to use it to steal music (in their words) and so therefore they get some compensation.
But yet, I buy the PC games I play. I buy the movies I own. Both because these are not explicitly covered by the same rulings as music.
Therefore, the music industry created me in their own image. A music leech.
So, I've got no problems being one. It's not looting, it's exercising the right we've been charged for anyway.
And yet, the CRIA still goes after people who are uploading, thus trying to prevent me from exercising the right I've already been charged for. THAT, makes no sense to me.
I haven't been "wronged" by a record company to date (missed out on the Sony Rootkit thank goodness), but I will admit I can't help but feel some sense of satisfaction that they didn't think through the laws which they proposed years ago. It's been interesting watching them twist themselves into logic pretzels trying to argue the other side of the fence lately
Of course it's risky, it's freakin' rocket science per Chris'sakes! It's not like it's only brain surgery or anything simple like that.
... until someone invented the axle.
Having said that, my first thought was "avoiding it because it's risky?" That damned wheel invention was pretty risky too - kept falling over or rolling away
We go into that other game that can only be done in person. Shooting people in their own country.
not my language. For my first accepted /. story, it's quite the education in the editorial process.
I am put in mind of the recent NHL lockout (I'm Canuckistian ... everything is about hockey to us). Owners cried "we're losing money, you need to take less" to the players, while at the same time raising ticket prices, engaging in "creative accounting" and signing star player to NBA sized contracts.
To fix things, the business model needed to be torn down and rebuilt, and it took an earthquake to destroy the existing situation.
the RIAA is where the NHL was 10 years ago. Yes, things are bad. Yes, we're "losing money". Yes, our players (read: producers of marketable product) are getting shafted in some cases. No, we don't want to change how we structure our business, because our businesses are valued at billions of dollars.
Change is coming, and this may be the tip of the iceberg.
penis!
tee hee hee!
As others have said, DEV doesn't belong in the deployment game, they belong in the development game. They take requirements and turn them into functioning products. IT takes functioning products and melds them into a "production infrastructure" of applications, networks, security access, servers & databases.
IT owns all the deployments, because they own the responsibility for keeping the production infrastructure functioning.
Actually, from where I sit (the snowbound wastelands of Canuckistan) it's not. It's not a crime, it's a right - negotiated/forced on us by the fact that the same organization that owns the copyright collects money on recordable media whether I record music on it or not.
They can get stuffed for all I care with their whining of plummeting sales. I haven't heard of any record companies laying off people in droves because their massive profits have dried up, have you?