It actually is a surprise to me, based on logistics. In front of my computer, I have a good upright office chair as befits what I do there - type, mouse, interact with the screen.
In front of my TV I have a mega-comfy lay-z-boy recliner that fits what I do there - interact as little as possible and just veg.
I can't imagine switching chairs, nor doing the right activity for the viewed device from the wrong chair.
Until I find something reasonable that is both office chair and recliner I can't see replacing my TV viewing with PC viewing... no matter how convenient the downloading is.
But I see how the poll questions could result in it appearing that way.
When they do these polls, they typically call a house. My wife or I might respond to a request like this, my 13 year-old-daughter never would.
In the last year, my downloading has dropped off the map - Got satilite (sp bad I know) radio in both vehicles, so despite having grotequely bad local radio in my city, I hear lots of new stuff in my primary "place of listening". Don't need to download for that.
On the other hand, my daughter has gone from "never done it" to "nearly daily" in the last year as she's gotten into music, coupled with getting her own mp3 player, coupled with becoming savvy enough to find stuff she likes.
so, depending on how the survey questions were asked, and more importantly, who responded to those questions, I can easily see there being the appearance of a drop in downloading... but I don't see that as being the case.
1) EVERYBODY certainly does not want to come to America. Personally, I wish America would move. It's constantly playing the radio too loud, is horribly in debt, and has the equivalent of a car up on blocks on it's front lawn (which I can only barely see through the 14' high chain link fence topped by razor wire that it's been busy building around the property line for the last few years). This used to be such a nice neighbourhood, but lately... oy vey!
2) While I can't attribute these views to you personally, since I don't know you, lots of people have huge, and justifiable problems with "government + Christianity". Mostly because most people professing to be "Christians", act in ways which are anything but christian. and that's not limited to the States, look around the world at any other government which is controlled by religious groups and you'll see the very same intolerance and persecution of those who don't belong "in the club". The reason you're in the minority is because most people distrust the ideals you espose as we've seen them practiced by people in power who claim to follow those same ideals.
It's that whole "fool me once, fool me twice" thing. We were fooled once by the Religious Right. They are NOT compassionate, they are NOT inclusive, and they don't care one whit for discourse. They are interested in telling everyone exactly how to live - their way... and that, my friend, is anything but christian values.
That depends entirely on where you choose to raise your children. Our neighbourhood is safe enough that I feel no qualms about letting my children roam free at the park across the street or around the block on their bikes, and don't think twice when they holler in the door, "we're going over to so-and-so's house" as long as I know who so-and-so is and either a phone number to get ahold of them, or their address.
I certainly don't watch them like a hawk when they're outside for fear someone will snatch them away
As other posters have said, we can all choose not to be afraid, and teach our children not to be afraid as well, and a good portion of that is environment.
A remarkably similar story to the Canada/US softwood lumber fiasco. No arrests in this case, but exactly the same tactics employed by US trade "negotiators", legistlators and the justice system.
they got a massive beatdown over the years in that one as well, but it's not until the new Canadian government basically gave in and renegotiated a treaty they didn't have to that we'll start to see any of the illegally collected tariffs returned to Canadian companies.
I'll grant your analogy stretch to equate the leader of a corporation with being a "drug kingpin", but you're missing the point if you think arresting him is going to halt "the flow of illegal gambling" into the US.
This is publicity stunt, pure and simple.
Has whacking the heads of Mafia families ever stopped organized crime? - Nope. Has whacking drug lords in Panama and Columbia ever stopped the flow of drugs into the country? - Nope. And that's killing people to make them deader than Elvis... this is a mere arrest.
Arresting this guy will stem the tide of on-line gambling about as effectively as those stern letters of warning have forced the Pirate Bay or allofmp3 to cease operations.
It's the establishments continuing evolution of a kind of "reverse Godwin's Law" designed to end all arguements. I think they feel like when they trot this out, you lose because there is no place to stand that they feel they can't paint as "morally ambiguous".
It's also well documented that, like Quantum Physics, the act of measuring blood pressure in some people causes that blood pressure to rise.
My wife is like this. If the doctor measures her in the office, she has high blood pressure. If she uses a kit provided by the same doctor and measures herself at home, or I measure her at home, it's well within acceptable limits for "normal".
She's gonna get flagged everytime if this becomes widespread... and always getting flagged for no good reason will in and of itself cause her to get flagged more often.
And their "apology" was shows that Sony thinks so as well. They might as well have said "We're sorry you're all so stupid"... they just covered in up in obscure words.
As I'm currently pricing out the "every couple of years" computer upgrade, it's on my mind to wonder how they might enforce this?
It would really bite if I lost the ability to play content I'd actually purchased over BT just because I upgraded to a newer box. The article is deathly light on any sort of details on how the technical aspects of that kind of content protection might be done.
And yes, before everyone chimes in, I KNOW that they'd like me to buy it every time I upgraded my PC... but that's not what I'm wondering here.
But, the onus to prove it was spam is on you. Just you. While the government only needs to create a reasonably plausible set of circumstances which make it look like it might not have been spam, but information you actually wanted, might have copied off to disk somewhere for your perverted pleasures, perhaps even copied on to CDs and shared with other like minded perverts like yourself.
"Oh, what's that you say, you never shared this data? So, you're not denying that you're a pervert who had this data in your posession at one time then? You own a computer, you purchased blank CDs, your computer had a CD burner, we searched your computer hard drive and obviously you'd wiped out all traces of the files after you burned then to CD."
"Objection noted your honour, withdrawn the last comment"
Man, you just haven't been paying attention have you?
Seems like a pretty vacant-headed stunt to pull in light of the very real abuses which are (based on appearances and the preponderance of evidence) quite real and being meted out daily.
It's worse than you think. The money is received by the CRIA (a collective of record labels). They hold it, they are the ones tieing it up in paperwork and using it to fund their ever-escalating battles against the fair use rights that the levy entrenched. The artists see none of it. The fact that labels don't get it either doesn't make it any better.
Apple applied for, and was granted, a specific exemption from the levy. So, no levy on iPods brought into the country. However, the law also doesn't say that "paying the levy is the mechanism which grants the right to copy", it's merely the vehicle by which compensation is routed to the supposed injured party.
iPods are best of both worlds - we retain the right to fair use copying, but don't pay for the privelige.
That's almost exactly the same situation here in Canada. It's been ruled that personal copying is "fair use". But that fair use costs the music industry money, so they get some back in the form of the blank media tax.
In the meantime, they do everything they can to restrict our fair use copying... and yet never talk about removing the tax, nor willingly document how the money collected gets into the hands of the artists (who it's supposed to compensate for lost royalties, but who never see any of it, to the surprise of no one).
Somewhere in the senior echelons of your organization exists a guy. This guy (likely at the CIO level or higher) is either willfully ignorant of the nature of the IS organization which reports up to him, or he's actively encouraging the situation.
If it's the former, you need to find out who it is that's allowing the inefficient environment to foster and take steps (and obviously "you" aren't the answer, but one of his peers or superiors is) to educate him on how things could improve.
If it's the latter, and he's actively promoting that method of interaction because it keeps their costs down, or reduces headcount, or whatever AND if he has the buy-in of his peers and immediate superior, you're screwed. I suggest looking to outsource your department's IT requirements to a 3rd party if you can't bring them into your own group.
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Face-to-face roleplaying brings body language, facial expressions, voice pitch and human interaction to the table (pun intended).
Not sure how on-line roleplaying... until we reach the nirvana of immersive 3D, holodeck-like technology... will ever compete with that.
His whole article can be summed up like this: "I went to a marionette show, and you know what, movies look more realistic."
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It actually is a surprise to me, based on logistics. In front of my computer, I have a good upright office chair as befits what I do there - type, mouse, interact with the screen.
... no matter how convenient the downloading is.
In front of my TV I have a mega-comfy lay-z-boy recliner that fits what I do there - interact as little as possible and just veg.
I can't imagine switching chairs, nor doing the right activity for the viewed device from the wrong chair.
Until I find something reasonable that is both office chair and recliner I can't see replacing my TV viewing with PC viewing
But I see how the poll questions could result in it appearing that way.
... but I don't see that as being the case.
When they do these polls, they typically call a house. My wife or I might respond to a request like this, my 13 year-old-daughter never would.
In the last year, my downloading has dropped off the map - Got satilite (sp bad I know) radio in both vehicles, so despite having grotequely bad local radio in my city, I hear lots of new stuff in my primary "place of listening". Don't need to download for that.
On the other hand, my daughter has gone from "never done it" to "nearly daily" in the last year as she's gotten into music, coupled with getting her own mp3 player, coupled with becoming savvy enough to find stuff she likes.
so, depending on how the survey questions were asked, and more importantly, who responded to those questions, I can easily see there being the appearance of a drop in downloading
Two things:
... oy vey!
... and that, my friend, is anything but christian values.
1) EVERYBODY certainly does not want to come to America. Personally, I wish America would move. It's constantly playing the radio too loud, is horribly in debt, and has the equivalent of a car up on blocks on it's front lawn (which I can only barely see through the 14' high chain link fence topped by razor wire that it's been busy building around the property line for the last few years). This used to be such a nice neighbourhood, but lately
2) While I can't attribute these views to you personally, since I don't know you, lots of people have huge, and justifiable problems with "government + Christianity". Mostly because most people professing to be "Christians", act in ways which are anything but christian. and that's not limited to the States, look around the world at any other government which is controlled by religious groups and you'll see the very same intolerance and persecution of those who don't belong "in the club". The reason you're in the minority is because most people distrust the ideals you espose as we've seen them practiced by people in power who claim to follow those same ideals.
It's that whole "fool me once, fool me twice" thing. We were fooled once by the Religious Right. They are NOT compassionate, they are NOT inclusive, and they don't care one whit for discourse. They are interested in telling everyone exactly how to live - their way
That depends entirely on where you choose to raise your children. Our neighbourhood is safe enough that I feel no qualms about letting my children roam free at the park across the street or around the block on their bikes, and don't think twice when they holler in the door, "we're going over to so-and-so's house" as long as I know who so-and-so is and either a phone number to get ahold of them, or their address.
I certainly don't watch them like a hawk when they're outside for fear someone will snatch them away
As other posters have said, we can all choose not to be afraid, and teach our children not to be afraid as well, and a good portion of that is environment.
What will be interesting to me is whether the obvious case against her will be pursued with the same vigour as the weak case against Peter Dicks.
A remarkably similar story to the Canada/US softwood lumber fiasco. No arrests in this case, but exactly the same tactics employed by US trade "negotiators", legistlators and the justice system.
they got a massive beatdown over the years in that one as well, but it's not until the new Canadian government basically gave in and renegotiated a treaty they didn't have to that we'll start to see any of the illegally collected tariffs returned to Canadian companies.
I'll grant your analogy stretch to equate the leader of a corporation with being a "drug kingpin", but you're missing the point if you think arresting him is going to halt "the flow of illegal gambling" into the US.
This is publicity stunt, pure and simple.
Has whacking the heads of Mafia families ever stopped organized crime? - Nope. Has whacking drug lords in Panama and Columbia ever stopped the flow of drugs into the country? - Nope. And that's killing people to make them deader than Elvis... this is a mere arrest.
Arresting this guy will stem the tide of on-line gambling about as effectively as those stern letters of warning have forced the Pirate Bay or allofmp3 to cease operations.
It's the establishments continuing evolution of a kind of "reverse Godwin's Law" designed to end all arguements. I think they feel like when they trot this out, you lose because there is no place to stand that they feel they can't paint as "morally ambiguous".
It's also well documented that, like Quantum Physics, the act of measuring blood pressure in some people causes that blood pressure to rise.
... and always getting flagged for no good reason will in and of itself cause her to get flagged more often.
My wife is like this. If the doctor measures her in the office, she has high blood pressure. If she uses a kit provided by the same doctor and measures herself at home, or I measure her at home, it's well within acceptable limits for "normal".
She's gonna get flagged everytime if this becomes widespread
You obviously don't have all the expansions in play. We've purchased every one, and have noted that a two-man game now takes over 2 hours to play.
... gone. Pixie/Faery ... gone.
Needless to say, we'll be culling a few expansions out of the list to get back to speedy game play - City
We haven't had the towers long enough to make a permanent call yet, but it's on the edge.
Heh. Someone else had the same idea as you.
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And their "apology" was shows that Sony thinks so as well. They might as well have said "We're sorry you're all so stupid" ... they just covered in up in obscure words.
How the @#$@# did a discussion on racism stray into "glass ceilings" and "no female presidents yet" and such.
That's sexism, not racism.
Man! If you're gonna complain about oppression, at least complain about the right ones...
As I'm currently pricing out the "every couple of years" computer upgrade, it's on my mind to wonder how they might enforce this?
... but that's not what I'm wondering here.
It would really bite if I lost the ability to play content I'd actually purchased over BT just because I upgraded to a newer box.
The article is deathly light on any sort of details on how the technical aspects of that kind of content protection might be done.
And yes, before everyone chimes in, I KNOW that they'd like me to buy it every time I upgraded my PC
But, the onus to prove it was spam is on you. Just you. While the government only needs to create a reasonably plausible set of circumstances which make it look like it might not have been spam, but information you actually wanted, might have copied off to disk somewhere for your perverted pleasures, perhaps even copied on to CDs and shared with other like minded perverts like yourself.
"Oh, what's that you say, you never shared this data? So, you're not denying that you're a pervert who had this data in your posession at one time then? You own a computer, you purchased blank CDs, your computer had a CD burner, we searched your computer hard drive and obviously you'd wiped out all traces of the files after you burned then to CD."
"Objection noted your honour, withdrawn the last comment"
Man, you just haven't been paying attention have you?
My first thoughts exactly!
Seems like a pretty vacant-headed stunt to pull in light of the very real abuses which are (based on appearances and the preponderance of evidence) quite real and being meted out daily.
It's worse than you think. The money is received by the CRIA (a collective of record labels). They hold it, they are the ones tieing it up in paperwork and using it to fund their ever-escalating battles against the fair use rights that the levy entrenched. The artists see none of it. The fact that labels don't get it either doesn't make it any better.
Apple applied for, and was granted, a specific exemption from the levy. So, no levy on iPods brought into the country. However, the law also doesn't say that "paying the levy is the mechanism which grants the right to copy", it's merely the vehicle by which compensation is routed to the supposed injured party.
iPods are best of both worlds - we retain the right to fair use copying, but don't pay for the privelige.
That's almost exactly the same situation here in Canada. It's been ruled that personal copying is "fair use". But that fair use costs the music industry money, so they get some back in the form of the blank media tax.
... and yet never talk about removing the tax, nor willingly document how the money collected gets into the hands of the artists (who it's supposed to compensate for lost royalties, but who never see any of it, to the surprise of no one).
In the meantime, they do everything they can to restrict our fair use copying
Look around. Most of the comments here aren't "Sony was right", they're "He was an idiot not to expect Sony to react exactly this way".
No double standard here.
Somewhere in the senior echelons of your organization exists a guy. This guy (likely at the CIO level or higher) is either willfully ignorant of the nature of the IS organization which reports up to him, or he's actively encouraging the situation.
If it's the former, you need to find out who it is that's allowing the inefficient environment to foster and take steps (and obviously "you" aren't the answer, but one of his peers or superiors is) to educate him on how things could improve.
If it's the latter, and he's actively promoting that method of interaction because it keeps their costs down, or reduces headcount, or whatever AND if he has the buy-in of his peers and immediate superior, you're screwed. I suggest looking to outsource your department's IT requirements to a 3rd party if you can't bring them into your own group.
Face-to-face roleplaying brings body language, facial expressions, voice pitch and human interaction to the table (pun intended).
... until we reach the nirvana of immersive 3D, holodeck-like technology ... will ever compete with that.
Not sure how on-line roleplaying
His whole article can be summed up like this:
"I went to a marionette show, and you know what, movies look more realistic."
We'll err on the side of making the rich richer ... same as always.
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Oh the irony...