for buying anything with these kinds of restrictions. I don't care how good it is. Don't accept this crap. To me, you're a fool for buying into it, and you only make it harder for the rest of us to get less restrictive stuff that could be just as good. Don't buy software that has a license big enough to require another whole CD. It doesn't matter if they or anybody else violated their EULA. I don't believe in their validity anyway. If it's not a valid contract that I would have to abide by, then I can't expect them to abide by it either. Stop buying software with such nonsense, and the problem will go away.
With such low power consumption, they are a fanless CPU, and a fanless power supply would probably be feasible I imagine. True silent computing sounds good to me... or is that doesn't sound...?
Will this do?(check it fast. The link won't last) The price is right. If you want quiet, don't try to print.
Prison will do little more than piss you off, and teach you how not to get caught next time, and if you're rich and powerful enough, it just won't happen. Suffice it to say that prisons exist to provide cheap labor for our corporate rulers, not much else. The fact that they're locking up so many non-violent people will make prison safer than the outside. It's hardly a deterrent. Otherwise the U.S., Russia, and China would be virtaully crime free. The simple solution for these types is to take at least 90% of what they earn. Leave them at most $800 usd a month, and yes take all their property. For the rest of us...Well, that should teach us not to vote for people that would pass laws that allow this kind of thing to happen in the first place. Plus we need to insure that the law applies to everybody. That will help reduce the passage of junk laws that diminish the respect(rightfully so) for all law.
It's too easy to fake your name or any other data, especially for a man as well connected as he is. He's just not performing his shenanegans(?) under the name of "Charles Keating". That's what proxies and trusts are for. They exist as a way to hide...from whoever. Corporate crime is as common today as bootlegging was during alcohol prohibition. Probably much more so. It's just so easy. The law(indirectly you and me) is only aiding and abbeting it. And like all crimes, if you're high enough up the ladder, there will be no punishment.
So SCO gets sued. What will be won from that? Are the individuals responsible going to pay anything. I don't think so. Will SCO be banned from something? So SCO dissolves and becomes something else. Here we'll go again. So...what's the likes of Charles Keating doing these days? Hmm? Are they on welfare? Are they living in South Central? Anybody think he's actually reformed? Anybody think that if he has the chance to do it again, that he wouldn't(if he thought he could get it right this time)? How many corporate criminals are actually in the poor house due to being caught? Anybody think that corporate scandals have diminished at all since Teapot Dome? As long as we grant corporations all sorts of special privileges and power, and we don't watch them like hawks, nothing will change. Take a step back from your credit card madness and take a look. This world you see is a byproduct of our actions, our decisions. We let this happen, and we continue to let it happen. Gotta go. My soap opera is back on. You can let me know how it pans out during the next commercial.
We can gloat when the litigious bastards are out of business completely.
You know that will never happen. The people that did this will simply blend back into the cosmos and will rise again under a "new" guise, to do the same, and more. It's not an end. It's a cycle that will repeat forever, like waves on the beach. Enjoy the brief quiet between the waves. It's very noticable.
Not really. Low end pirates are the okies in their double wides oogling the porno screen savers. I think this would be targeting the businesses that are running unauthorized copies. They are the easiest ones to "scare straight". They would have too much to lose in litigation, and they won't be converting to another OS anytime soon. It's easier just to pay them off. Sounds familiar, right?
...but human nature precludes our ever adapting their principles enough to create and sustain the idyllic existence...
This is very true. In this thread I agree with you 100%. However, it's not human nature. It's animal instincts that are still to this day more powerful than any logic or reason we claim to maintain over our activities. Every single act we commit can be traced back to animal behavior(As you touched on earlier). We like to put some fancy philosophical spin on it, but virtually everything we do boils down to genetics. We are not capable of living in a world of "rules without rulers". We won't be until we can overcome our desires of the flesh. You can't force that down anybody's throat. It will have to come about "naturally", as each person realizes that humans don't have to act like animals. Each one of us, right now, could say, "I will never harm another human being ever again.", and it would stop that instant, but it takes everybody, all at once. Something that won't happen for a while to come. So we'll live with the systems that you actually describe very accurately here. And this I can see as a basis for your other arguements as well. These are the basics I look for. It all still comes down to "might makes right", but that is nature's way. I believe we aren't truly human until we rise above that. Then we can realize how silly and trivial our disagreements(amongst all of us) are, and they will be forgotten. Even now, I wonder why I am consumed by this. Everthing I talk and agrue about seems so pointless. If a truly wise person were to arrive on this planet, he would most likely laugh his butt off at all our nonsense. I do believe that ALL of our problems are trivial. We just throw in needless complexities to feel more important than others. That, or he would find it extremely boring.
If you actually do believe you are a good person, then you admit that there are other people that are bad...
Not at all. We could be saying that we are also good people. If no person ever causes harm to another for instance, we could say that we are all good people. Hate is nothing more than "highly evolved" genetic competition. My DNA wants to reproduce. Your DNA is a possible threat to that. Xenophobia is common in nature. It's necessary among the aminals to insure that the DNA that's most fit will survive over the others. Our hate is no different than the "hate" felt by competing gangs of chimpanzies. "You're no part of our group." "You're trying to take over my territory." all evolved to "You're not one of us." "You're not from here." All our poitical borders, hatreds, fear of others, are nothing more than animals defending their territory with lots of fancy, expensive philosophy behind it. There's nothing wrong with identifying people by their appearances. Hate is not required. Saying "blonde hair, blue eyes" in no way degrades "black hair, brown eyes. Even using skin color is perfectly ok. It shouldn't make a difference. That it does to some people makes it their problem.
Damn, Now I can't find it, but there's an option to let the browser identify itself to the site. You can ID as any browser you like, but you have to show "ID". That's what worked for me anyway.
There ya go. Give a new name to the same crappy old product so you can get all "new" copyrights and patents on it that will last another 75 years, and people will indeed lap it up, DRM and all. All your old machines will no longer be allowed online. Where this is going should be obvious.
This is not bastardization of copyright law. It is perfectly natural chain of events as you follow its history. It's not about rights. It's about money, and the city of Chicago can never get enough. It's a beautiful place, but it's a shame that its people don't want to elect anybody but a Daley into office. This guy is Bush on steroids. Like father like son.
I think the problem is that you're confusing censorship and copyright.
Maybe he is, but make no mistake, copyright IS censorship by corporate proxy. It denies one the ability to speak freely. That was its original intent, to deny critics of the gov't access to the printing press. All that crap about promoting innovation is just that, but it was very effective spin to get everybody to go along. It's still working today, 300 years later.
they tried to pull something like this. Once(maybe more than once)way back in 2000 or 2001 there was a non-free concert in Grant Park, and the city actually considered chasing off anybody lingering around within earshot of the show(It wouldn't surprise me if they told all the apartment dwellers nearby to shut their windows.). How much longer will it be before people wake up and realize that all IP robs the public? These kind of absurdities are the only path that copyright and its ilk can take. This will never be an election issue, so forget about putting anybody into office who has any intention of doing anything about it.
All you programmers out there had better make sure that all your comments in the source code are polically correct. No more talk about slaves and masters.
Uh-huh. So I assume you are on your way to prison for your anti-government thoughts?
Naw, just to the principal's office. Read the Patriot Act. You can be detained on trumped up, false, or even no charges. In the meantime, I'm keeping my distance.
The guy does this in every thread he posts in. Once you have more than one discussion with him, you'll see what I'm talking about. Only the governments that go along with his thinking have a right to exist to him, and to hell with the 49% that might disagree. To him 51% of the vote is all that's needed to be legit, no matter how they might treat the other half. If we were ever to invade Korea, it will have absolutely nothing to do with freeing the Koreans, and have everything to do with "protecting our interests". The guy we put in could be just as bad. We certainly wouldn't allow them to vote in anyone that might be considered "unfriendly".
It's not about piracy! The intention of laws like these is to turn everybody into lawbreakers, and make them subject to arrest and all the other fun and expensive things that happen as a result. This is helping to lead us into a worldwide prison society that will be needed to provide cheap labor as more people demand a desent(sp) living wage. So save all your(editorial yous. I only replied to you because you asked the question) moral huffing and puffing out there, and take a good look at what's really happening. These laws aren't pointless at all. They have a very important purpose.
Maybe they'll patent their vulnerabilities so it will be illegal to exploit them. That'll make Windows secure. Kind of like what the cel phone industry did to full spectrun scanners. They had them banned instead of providing secure communications for their customers.
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for buying anything with these kinds of restrictions. I don't care how good it is. Don't accept this crap. To me, you're a fool for buying into it, and you only make it harder for the rest of us to get less restrictive stuff that could be just as good. Don't buy software that has a license big enough to require another whole CD. It doesn't matter if they or anybody else violated their EULA. I don't believe in their validity anyway. If it's not a valid contract that I would have to abide by, then I can't expect them to abide by it either. Stop buying software with such nonsense, and the problem will go away.
With such low power consumption, they are a fanless CPU, and a fanless power supply would probably be feasible I imagine. True silent computing sounds good to me... or is that doesn't sound...?
Will this do?(check it fast. The link won't last) The price is right. If you want quiet, don't try to print.
Prison will do little more than piss you off, and teach you how not to get caught next time, and if you're rich and powerful enough, it just won't happen. Suffice it to say that prisons exist to provide cheap labor for our corporate rulers, not much else. The fact that they're locking up so many non-violent people will make prison safer than the outside. It's hardly a deterrent. Otherwise the U.S., Russia, and China would be virtaully crime free. The simple solution for these types is to take at least 90% of what they earn. Leave them at most $800 usd a month, and yes take all their property. For the rest of us...Well, that should teach us not to vote for people that would pass laws that allow this kind of thing to happen in the first place. Plus we need to insure that the law applies to everybody. That will help reduce the passage of junk laws that diminish the respect(rightfully so) for all law.
It's too easy to fake your name or any other data, especially for a man as well connected as he is. He's just not performing his shenanegans(?) under the name of "Charles Keating". That's what proxies and trusts are for. They exist as a way to hide...from whoever. Corporate crime is as common today as bootlegging was during alcohol prohibition. Probably much more so. It's just so easy. The law(indirectly you and me) is only aiding and abbeting it. And like all crimes, if you're high enough up the ladder, there will be no punishment.
So SCO gets sued. What will be won from that? Are the individuals responsible going to pay anything. I don't think so. Will SCO be banned from something? So SCO dissolves and becomes something else. Here we'll go again. So...what's the likes of Charles Keating doing these days? Hmm? Are they on welfare? Are they living in South Central? Anybody think he's actually reformed? Anybody think that if he has the chance to do it again, that he wouldn't(if he thought he could get it right this time)? How many corporate criminals are actually in the poor house due to being caught? Anybody think that corporate scandals have diminished at all since Teapot Dome? As long as we grant corporations all sorts of special privileges and power, and we don't watch them like hawks, nothing will change. Take a step back from your credit card madness and take a look. This world you see is a byproduct of our actions, our decisions. We let this happen, and we continue to let it happen. Gotta go. My soap opera is back on. You can let me know how it pans out during the next commercial.
We can gloat when the litigious bastards are out of business completely.
You know that will never happen. The people that did this will simply blend back into the cosmos and will rise again under a "new" guise, to do the same, and more. It's not an end. It's a cycle that will repeat forever, like waves on the beach. Enjoy the brief quiet between the waves. It's very noticable.
...so I don't even no why I am bothering to post to this!
Cool, my jedi mind trick worked after all.
I think the other lesson to be learned here is not to buy anything from Creative, either.
...discourage the low end pirate.
Not really. Low end pirates are the okies in their double wides oogling the porno screen savers. I think this would be targeting the businesses that are running unauthorized copies. They are the easiest ones to "scare straight". They would have too much to lose in litigation, and they won't be converting to another OS anytime soon. It's easier just to pay them off. Sounds familiar, right?
to move in for the kill. Prepare to meet your maker, Micrososft! hahahahahaha...MWHAHAHAHA!
...but human nature precludes our ever adapting their principles enough to create and sustain the idyllic existence...
This is very true. In this thread I agree with you 100%. However, it's not human nature. It's animal instincts that are still to this day more powerful than any logic or reason we claim to maintain over our activities. Every single act we commit can be traced back to animal behavior(As you touched on earlier). We like to put some fancy philosophical spin on it, but virtually everything we do boils down to genetics. We are not capable of living in a world of "rules without rulers". We won't be until we can overcome our desires of the flesh. You can't force that down anybody's throat. It will have to come about "naturally", as each person realizes that humans don't have to act like animals. Each one of us, right now, could say, "I will never harm another human being ever again.", and it would stop that instant, but it takes everybody, all at once. Something that won't happen for a while to come. So we'll live with the systems that you actually describe very accurately here. And this I can see as a basis for your other arguements as well. These are the basics I look for. It all still comes down to "might makes right", but that is nature's way. I believe we aren't truly human until we rise above that. Then we can realize how silly and trivial our disagreements(amongst all of us) are, and they will be forgotten. Even now, I wonder why I am consumed by this. Everthing I talk and agrue about seems so pointless. If a truly wise person were to arrive on this planet, he would most likely laugh his butt off at all our nonsense. I do believe that ALL of our problems are trivial. We just throw in needless complexities to feel more important than others. That, or he would find it extremely boring.
If you actually do believe you are a good person, then you admit that there are other people that are bad...
Not at all. We could be saying that we are also good people. If no person ever causes harm to another for instance, we could say that we are all good people. Hate is nothing more than "highly evolved" genetic competition. My DNA wants to reproduce. Your DNA is a possible threat to that. Xenophobia is common in nature. It's necessary among the aminals to insure that the DNA that's most fit will survive over the others. Our hate is no different than the "hate" felt by competing gangs of chimpanzies. "You're no part of our group." "You're trying to take over my territory." all evolved to "You're not one of us." "You're not from here." All our poitical borders, hatreds, fear of others, are nothing more than animals defending their territory with lots of fancy, expensive philosophy behind it. There's nothing wrong with identifying people by their appearances. Hate is not required. Saying "blonde hair, blue eyes" in no way degrades "black hair, brown eyes. Even using skin color is perfectly ok. It shouldn't make a difference. That it does to some people makes it their problem.
Damn, Now I can't find it, but there's an option to let the browser identify itself to the site. You can ID as any browser you like, but you have to show "ID". That's what worked for me anyway.
There ya go. Give a new name to the same crappy old product so you can get all "new" copyrights and patents on it that will last another 75 years, and people will indeed lap it up, DRM and all. All your old machines will no longer be allowed online. Where this is going should be obvious.
This is not bastardization of copyright law. It is perfectly natural chain of events as you follow its history. It's not about rights. It's about money, and the city of Chicago can never get enough. It's a beautiful place, but it's a shame that its people don't want to elect anybody but a Daley into office. This guy is Bush on steroids. Like father like son.
I think the problem is that you're confusing censorship and copyright.
Maybe he is, but make no mistake, copyright IS censorship by corporate proxy. It denies one the ability to speak freely. That was its original intent, to deny critics of the gov't access to the printing press. All that crap about promoting innovation is just that, but it was very effective spin to get everybody to go along. It's still working today, 300 years later.
they tried to pull something like this. Once(maybe more than once)way back in 2000 or 2001 there was a non-free concert in Grant Park, and the city actually considered chasing off anybody lingering around within earshot of the show(It wouldn't surprise me if they told all the apartment dwellers nearby to shut their windows.). How much longer will it be before people wake up and realize that all IP robs the public? These kind of absurdities are the only path that copyright and its ilk can take. This will never be an election issue, so forget about putting anybody into office who has any intention of doing anything about it.
All you programmers out there had better make sure that all your comments in the source code are polically correct. No more talk about slaves and masters.
They have cameras in your house?
I don't know yet. The law permits it.
Uh-huh. So I assume you are on your way to prison for your anti-government thoughts?
Naw, just to the principal's office. Read the Patriot Act. You can be detained on trumped up, false, or even no charges. In the meantime, I'm keeping my distance.
The guy does this in every thread he posts in. Once you have more than one discussion with him, you'll see what I'm talking about. Only the governments that go along with his thinking have a right to exist to him, and to hell with the 49% that might disagree. To him 51% of the vote is all that's needed to be legit, no matter how they might treat the other half. If we were ever to invade Korea, it will have absolutely nothing to do with freeing the Koreans, and have everything to do with "protecting our interests". The guy we put in could be just as bad. We certainly wouldn't allow them to vote in anyone that might be considered "unfriendly".
It's not about piracy! The intention of laws like these is to turn everybody into lawbreakers, and make them subject to arrest and all the other fun and expensive things that happen as a result. This is helping to lead us into a worldwide prison society that will be needed to provide cheap labor as more people demand a desent(sp) living wage. So save all your(editorial yous. I only replied to you because you asked the question) moral huffing and puffing out there, and take a good look at what's really happening. These laws aren't pointless at all. They have a very important purpose.
Maybe they'll patent their vulnerabilities so it will be illegal to exploit them. That'll make Windows secure. Kind of like what the cel phone industry did to full spectrun scanners. They had them banned instead of providing secure communications for their customers.
as long as solitare remains safe
Congress is a bunch of whores.
And we are the johns.
constant supervision (even in your home) - drug testing...
propaganda being streamed to you all the time - TV "news", commercials
people spying on you - DHS, DEA, IRS, NSA, FBI, local police, your employer(see above)
forced re-education - prison, school