Could be that there was significant competition for bu$h in that year and at that time, so he let the price rise to scare people out of voting for his opponent.
"Someone is daring to oppose me! let the gas prices rise! create conflict!"
People don't like change when they are afraid. Now since there is no real challenger, and they have to change one way or another, he can let them drop some to remind everyone that in the end, republicans get the price to go down.
Another theory could be that the oil companies were testing him, turning up the heat so to speak. So that when the next election came around he would know what it was like not to have them in his pocket. After he got elected (the second time), till the present, did he pass any pro big oil bills/laws? That would be some fuel for this conspiracy right there (im too lazy to look it up)
Now they have him or he did what they wanted and they can turn the burner down. Because deep in their hearts, they know republicans will be kinder to them. Now that republicans are facing real defeat possibilities, he(or big oil, im not sure whoes puppeting whom), pulls the ace in his sleeve out and whammo lower oil prices. QED
(custom fit conspiracies WHILE U WAIT! low prices. ask about our frequent conspirator miles!)
Well if they need subsidies, than they wouldnt be currently making a profit. Last time I checked, they are cleaning up:
"In 2005, the oil industry recorded revenues of $1.62 trillion, of which 81% was accounted for by the five major integrated oil companies. Profits for the industry totaled almost $140 billion, 76% of which were earned by the five major integrated oil companies, with thelargest company, ExxonMobil, earningover 25% of thetotal profit." - source
Ok so they need money to do R&D. I understand that.. But if the oil companies were nationalized, then exploration could be funded by the government. But i guess thats where my argument must stop as (if I will assume your american), "the government" equals the misguided belief that it would be more expensive to do it this way rather than in a for profit corporation. I have never really understood this core belief but I am sure someone will bring it against me.
WOW. The states just gained one point on my fucking amazing scale. You have a state whoes state motto is "live free or die" ? Thats so badass and hardcore. Thank you for enlightening me. Maybe there is something to your country after all. Beats the fuck out of je mais souviens.
"I'm willing to bet that a big factor in Slashdotters interest and in general opposition to anti-terrorism legislation, is the fact that many here had a hard time in secondary education and would rather not be stamped on again"
Your saying that we are all "nerds" and got beat up by "jocks" in university? and *THATS* the reason why we are anti athoritarian?
Thats ridiculous. A ridiculous assumption. You belittle everyone here by making it. It IS possible to be anti athoritarian because you're intelligent and not because of some past trauma. You are making people here seem weak and petty and enforcing stereotypes. Besides, everyone I know HAD to read 1984 in high school. Maybe they stop making people read it now, but back in the day that and animal farm i can clearly remember reading in grade 10.
"If governments don't allow companies to create cool new stuff and sell them however they want, then consumers won't get to buy cool new stuff. That'd be free market thinkin."
yes and the free market has evolved bittorrent to deal with that. Bittorrent - the *REAL* free market.
Well um lets look at the grandparent post of rabid apple fanboism to see if the parents link was an apropriate citation IN CONTEXT:
"I highly doubt it is Apple doing this. I'm thinking if Apple had a choice"
In light of the GP's baseless assertion (modded to +4), with such strong evidence as him "thinking" and "doubting", I don't know how you can accept his "evidence" and "proof" any more than that of which you criticize.
Since I personally loathe apple, I am much more supportive of whatever evidence the parent linked to, which i didn't even bother to read BTW.
DRM = vendor lockin and proprietary standards. Thats what it equals, whatever company does it. I don't need any "facts" or fancy "studies" to tell me that.
And on the way down that path, google loses its honour. Is a dishonourable victory better than a loss?
For the greater good! The ends justify the means! These mantras may help you sleep at night, but deep down you know, part of you is dead. At least, shot with a gun, is a quick death. A life lived without honour ; The slow death of the righteous soul.
Don't shoot the messenger for telling you what reality is."
Gee i wonder why people think that lawyers are condescending elitest assholes... Just because hes the articles author we are going lax on down mods? that was a pure classic troll. no information and a loaded emotional opinion. God forbid you'd have to explain your point to us little people. I guess my point is why even post comments if all your going to do is troll?
Plus you seem to have a general misunderstanding about the basic principles of copyright law. When you buy a copy of something you have rights in the copy, that's it. No metaphysical rights to listen, reproduce additional copies, etc. I don't know what gives you this idea.
He said:
It seems strange to me that a copyright lawyer hasn't heard of the fair use rights granted by US copyright law (Title 17, section 107).
Now I was under the impression that you DO have the right to make backup copies of things for personal use (i dont know how to look up laws but i will assume that thats what the cited law states). Now you are saying that this is not the case?
Leave it to scentcone to morally justify the police state. yet again.
How about taking the hint that if people are throwing rocks and firing at you that maybe, just maybe, america isn't wanted in whatever fictional country your talking about. No... who wouldnt want americans around? thats silly.
"most of what the RIAA says (and noticed I didn't say "all of what they say") is in fact correct under US law"
so was slavery at a time.
Shared culture is how humans evolve, culturally. If you want to pass laws that stagnate human development by all means pass them. I personally wont be following any of them as seeing things like When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts(torrent) enhances my life and actually evolves my mind. People shouldn't have to pay for any education that they can get for free. Im sorry but thats h0w society evolves. You don't like it? feel free to stagnate.
Well the fact is that latino is NOT the middle race between white and black. Are white people more "black" than asians? no because it makes no sense and is racist. Thats the difference.
Like hes talking about the blood in your veins being of a different type based on your race. Thats rediculous. Why don't you say something like green eyed people are naturally more firey than brown eyed people. See, does that make sense?
Your perfectly right. This is why I like the moderation system on sites like urbandictionary and reddit. They let multiple people upmod or downmod a comment and then list the most upmodded ones at the top. That way you get the consensus of the site, much more than the consensus of what must be the two or three people, who get mod points.
"Can we please just get everything looking consistent again Apple? Please?"
Their motto is to continuously "think different" so I don't know how its surprising to have a redesign. If you want continuity and stability I offer to you the awesomeness that is winamp! No change to the default look in almost 10 years. Now *THATS* consistant!
Gapless playback works by taking (intelligently) the last few frames(?) of song data and appending it to the next track. I have learned this ripping wav's to cd's with programs like bladenc (-nogap) and watching what it does. There is no way it could go through all the files and then know which order they would always play in. What maybe is happening is that its saving some kind of meta data into some sort of database of how far to chop out of each song. It still doesn't make sense because I thought that you have to rip the cds with gaplessness in mind. They have evidently found a different way to do it but i'll bet its on the fly.
I didnt have a tv for the first few years of my life and I can vividly remember my parents telling me time and time again never to trust anything on televison. I always thought that that was why I was so anti advertising when i knew how to be.
Slashdot Mirror
Could be that there was significant competition for bu$h in that year and at that time, so he let the price rise to scare people out of voting for his opponent.
"Someone is daring to oppose me! let the gas prices rise! create conflict!"
People don't like change when they are afraid.
Now since there is no real challenger, and they have to change one way or another, he can let them drop some to remind everyone that in the end, republicans get the price to go down.
Another theory could be that the oil companies were testing him, turning up the heat so to speak. So that when the next election came around he would know what it was like not to have them in his pocket. After he got elected (the second time), till the present, did he pass any pro big oil bills/laws? That would be some fuel for this conspiracy right there (im too lazy to look it up)
Now they have him or he did what they wanted and they can turn the burner down. Because deep in their hearts, they know republicans will be kinder to them. Now that republicans are facing real defeat possibilities, he(or big oil, im not sure whoes puppeting whom), pulls the ace in his sleeve out and whammo lower oil prices.
QED
(custom fit conspiracies WHILE U WAIT! low prices. ask about our frequent conspirator miles!)
Ok so they need money to do R&D. I understand that.. But if the oil companies were nationalized, then exploration could be funded by the government. But i guess thats where my argument must stop as (if I will assume your american), "the government" equals the misguided belief that it would be more expensive to do it this way rather than in a for profit corporation. I have never really understood this core belief but I am sure someone will bring it against me.
"Suburbs are where the meth labs and grow-ops are,"
you say that like its a bad thing..
"even poorly made funny cat video competition"
torrent?
Thats not entirely true.
http://www.methodshop.com/mp3/tutorials/youtuberi
Disclaimer: I have not found something on there that i wanted to try these tools on and have not used them.
WOW. The states just gained one point on my fucking amazing scale. You have a state whoes state motto is "live free or die" ? Thats so badass and hardcore. Thank you for enlightening me. Maybe there is something to your country after all. Beats the fuck out of je mais souviens.
Your saying that we are all "nerds" and got beat up by "jocks" in university? and *THATS* the reason why we are anti athoritarian?
Thats ridiculous. A ridiculous assumption. You belittle everyone here by making it. It IS possible to be anti athoritarian because you're intelligent and not because of some past trauma. You are making people here seem weak and petty and enforcing stereotypes. Besides, everyone I know HAD to read 1984 in high school. Maybe they stop making people read it now, but back in the day that and animal farm i can clearly remember reading in grade 10.
yes and the free market has evolved bittorrent to deal with that. Bittorrent - the *REAL* free market.
In light of the GP's baseless assertion (modded to +4), with such strong evidence as him "thinking" and "doubting", I don't know how you can accept his "evidence" and "proof" any more than that of which you criticize.
Since I personally loathe apple, I am much more supportive of whatever evidence the parent linked to, which i didn't even bother to read BTW.
DRM = vendor lockin and proprietary standards. Thats what it equals, whatever company does it. I don't need any "facts" or fancy "studies" to tell me that.
Indeed. Let everyone be judged by the company they keep.
And on the way down that path, google loses its honour. Is a dishonourable victory better than a loss?
For the greater good! The ends justify the means!
These mantras may help you sleep at night, but deep down you know, part of you is dead. At least, shot with a gun, is a quick death. A life lived without honour ; The slow death of the righteous soul.
Exactly. If you could cure cancer by killing one person, wouldn't you have to do that? Wouldn't that be the brave thing to do?
Man your owning up this thread markusQ...
:)
Theres only one question, which alternate search engine do *YOU* work for?
(kidding!
ps: is it yahoo?
im evil GRRRR. google please send me to tahiti.
(or the kitten gets it)
Gee i wonder why people think that lawyers are condescending elitest assholes...
Just because hes the articles author we are going lax on down mods? that was a pure classic troll. no information and a loaded emotional opinion. God forbid you'd have to explain your point to us little people.
I guess my point is why even post comments if all your going to do is troll?
You said:
He said:
Now I was under the impression that you DO have the right to make backup copies of things for personal use (i dont know how to look up laws but i will assume that thats what the cited law states). Now you are saying that this is not the case?
Leave it to scentcone to morally justify the police state. yet again.
How about taking the hint that if people are throwing rocks and firing at you that maybe, just maybe, america isn't wanted in whatever fictional country your talking about.
No... who wouldnt want americans around? thats silly.
"most of what the RIAA says (and noticed I didn't say "all of what they say") is in fact correct under US law"
so was slavery at a time.
Shared culture is how humans evolve, culturally. If you want to pass laws that stagnate human development by all means pass them. I personally wont be following any of them as seeing things like When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (torrent) enhances my life and actually evolves my mind. People shouldn't have to pay for any education that they can get for free. Im sorry but thats h0w society evolves. You don't like it? feel free to stagnate.
Well the fact is that latino is NOT the middle race between white and black. Are white people more "black" than asians? no because it makes no sense and is racist. Thats the difference.
Like hes talking about the blood in your veins being of a different type based on your race. Thats rediculous. Why don't you say something like green eyed people are naturally more firey than brown eyed people. See, does that make sense?
Your perfectly right. This is why I like the moderation system on sites like urbandictionary and reddit. They let multiple people upmod or downmod a comment and then list the most upmodded ones at the top. That way you get the consensus of the site, much more than the consensus of what must be the two or three people, who get mod points.
whatever you nazi conformist cheerleader
*lights a djarum black*
"Can we please just get everything looking consistent again Apple? Please?"
Their motto is to continuously "think different" so I don't know how its surprising to have a redesign. If you want continuity and stability I offer to you the awesomeness that is winamp!
No change to the default look in almost 10 years. Now *THATS* consistant!
Gapless playback works by taking (intelligently) the last few frames(?) of song data and appending it to the next track. I have learned this ripping wav's to cd's with programs like bladenc (-nogap) and watching what it does. There is no way it could go through all the files and then know which order they would always play in. What maybe is happening is that its saving some kind of meta data into some sort of database of how far to chop out of each song. It still doesn't make sense because I thought that you have to rip the cds with gaplessness in mind. They have evidently found a different way to do it but i'll bet its on the fly.
"Obviously, Microsoft cannot win, ever"
They make decent mice. Shitty keyboards though.. DAMN YOU F LOCK!!!
I didnt have a tv for the first few years of my life and I can vividly remember my parents telling me time and time again never to trust anything on televison. I always thought that that was why I was so anti advertising when i knew how to be.