Here ya go. Catch it fast before they break the link. I hope you don't think I was slamming your country specifically. What I was saying applies to all concerned.
Whoa! Sorry 'bout that. I didn't check the price. I thought it was within 700 or 800 dollars. Oh well, that's what I get for thinkin'. I guess I'm sticking with pencil and paper. If I need waterproof, I'll use grease pencil on plexiglas.
Wow! Next you're going to tell me to quit smoking weed!
And don't feed me that line of bullshit that you (or your 'friends') download music to protest/boycott the RIAA.
Ok, I won't... I download music to protest/boycott the pirates who sell unauthorized copies. Actually, I don't download music at all. Couldn't care less. I listen to the radio, but I change stations during the commercials. Does that make me a thief?? Actually, I listen to college radio, on the net.(WMXM In case you're interested. Find it here) Good free shit... Can't remember the last time I bought any music, but my memory isn't that good, so this statement means nothing.
...you simply don't have a clue about what is life in a 3rd world country.
Oh, c'mon...doesn't Mexico count? Been living here off and on for over twenty years. Some of those years in the Sonoran Desert, and I hope they don't cover it with algae:-)
I go to my job walking, not driving - I even moved to be able to do that.
I did precisely the same thing, even in the states. I now refuse to take a job that requires driving to work. Even when I didn't walk, I used mass transit. I did use a van for traveling in Mexico for a couple of years(it was also my "house"). The "your" in do your part was more of an editorial "your". You and I are doing what we can as individuals. That's all I could ever ask for. Other than "spreading the word" and hope people take it to heart. In no way am I asking for people to go hungry. Besides, it's not an "either or" situation. I also understand that Brasil can't go around stealing resources from others like the states does. So, in many ways "you're on your own" and nobody's coming to help, unless you can flash a big wad of 100's If it's (the clear cutting) being done by outlaws(which I have no doubt it is. I am aware of some of the enviromental laws down there. They actually made the news(outside the states anyway)), maybe the gov't shouldn't have any trouble allowing "volunteers"(vigilantes?) to take care of the problem. The outlaws have theirs. But if the good guys go in with gov't backing... On a side note, The gov't has a sizable military. Including an air force. What are they using it for? Don't answer that. I might not be able to "handle the truth".:-) Another side note. Since we are all "colonies" of the World Bank or WMF, whatever the hell they call themselves these days, and they are part if Citicorp I suspect. Any talk of " sovereignty" has been reduced to an exercise in mental masturbation. A favorite speech of mine from those "commies" in Hollywood here From the movie Network, 1976. No longer AC...Let's go to a journal. I'm pretty lazy, but I'll try to whip one up if you like, unless you prefer to have it on your page.
Well, I'll show a bit more respect when I see evidence that the law applies to everybody equally. The law becomes invalid if we allow certain people to disregard them. Example: congressman's kid gets busted with an ounce of coke, Ah well, boys will be boys. Poor black kid in the same situation, Lock 'im up!!! 10 years or more!!! Wicked old man gets caught driving drunk, No problem, his cousin is a judge. I stated in another post that laws are being bought and sold like any other commodity. That makes the law not worth the paper it's printed on. It turns the whole thing into a sad joke, and anarchy just might result if enough of the "right" people see through the facade and react accordingly.
The Emancipation Oak under which Lincoln signed the Proclamation is in some guy's front yard... it's not his property to chop down at will.
Yes, and when he bought the property, the tree might not have been included in the deal. In fact, I suspect he signed a contract stating just that. A company I worked for sold a piece of property that had a 100ft microwave tower standing in the corner. The company wanted to keep the tower and made the appropriate contract,and the buyer agreed and signed the deal. One thing I recognize about property is that the gov't owns it all. They can claim eminent domain, and that's that. You will lose any argument over it. Yes, I know that some have won, but that's usually the exception. Even without eminent domain, if you can't or won't pay your taxes, you lose. No, I won't try to catch the 747 in a giant butterfly net and add it to my collection, but any RF that reaches my antenna is mine to peruse. If the thing crashes on my property, I might not be able to keep the pieces, but I am entitled to payment for damages.
They don't get it? Hell, I'm the one that doesn't get it! What is it beyond the 50 billion(not that this money actually exists) in the bank that they want?? This is all very psychotic to me. Dudes, cash out, hit the Riviera, French, Mexican, Mayan, whatever. They must be doing this for a good laugh, watching us wetting our pants everytime they speak. There's just no other reason. Maybe it's some "wag the dog" thing. What are they distracting us from?
... if you are descrambling DTV, you had no rights to view the material in the first place.
Please, don't , stop it already. If you trespass my property with your RF "pollution", I have a perfectly natural right to do as I please with it. The law not withstanding. What's on my property is mine, unless I sign an agreement stating otherwise. But I won't re-transmit.
I'm too lazy to look it up, but isn't there a limit on "effective radiated power" on these things? And would a highly directional antenna violate this rule? Our TV transmitter "only" puts out about 100kw but with antenna gain, it reaches the legal limit of 5 megawatts, because we "squish" the signal flat. No use pumping it out to space(unless the astronauts want to see "Gunsmoke") or into the ground.
What we need in the US, and in the rest of the world, is a real effort to fund and off-set the costs of these alternative sources.
It might also help if the gov't stops subsidizing the oil industry in order to keep prices artificially low. That's one reason not too many people are looking for alternatives. There's nothing "free market" about it. If gov't got out of the oil racket, all these things would be happening already.
Despite the cynic, these companies do develope much of the solar, wind, and other non-oil technologies today, but don't pursure them due to cost.
It's more a matter of control than cost. They prefer to have us buy the energy from their solar or wind power plants. They could even press for zoning laws that would prohibit installation of wind mills. Like what's happening in Chesapeake Bay. Don't know if that has been resolved.
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I think the fire was in the North Sea or near Iceland, can't remember, and now I can't find anything about it. Damn. I saw it Discovery or something like that. You could barely see the flames. I don't know how long it burned or even if it's still burning. I think a drilling platform cracked a big sheet of the stuff. Or it may have been released by an earthquake, and the fire was started by the platform. Can't remember that either. If I can manage to retrace my thoughts, I'll find a link eventually. I'm sure the story will be re-posted someday.:-)
Believe me, Americans, especially right wing whacko Americans, do not say "poppycock".
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Those and the frozen methane hydrates, the quantities I have seen estimated are staggering.
There are many who believe that the release of this methane due to "natural causes" is a big source of global warming. You may have seen this. What do you think? Could the thought just be coming from apologists for the petrol industry? The story goes that some of this stuff is rising from the ocean floor in such quantities that if a ship gets caught in the "gas pocket" it longer displaces enough water to stay afloat. You've seen some of the resulting fires on the surface, right?
What promise?? I made no promise. Turning on the TV does not constitute a "promise" of any kind, except to pay my electric bill maybe. To me, these laws are not valid, anymore than an EULA. In Britain, where I believe you still need a license to use a TV(is that really true?), then you signed a written agreement. It's there in black and white. So there would be little to argue about. Prevailing laws are written by the last guy who won the war. Now we're getting into "might makes right". Is that what you want and believe?
Until then, Radio content is still regulated by the FCC...
That in itself is a major problem. The FCC shouldn't be in the content regulation business. Their only business should involve the tech and rules for that tech for the benefit of all, not just their little friends. This whole "evil bit" thing is just to force people to go through them(RI/MPAA) to make their product. It's there lock out or exclude people who won't sign a contract, giving up all their "rights". "Piracy" is a red herring to get the public to go along, and it's working!
So, if the law says you must torture your slaves (or anybody else), are you going to insist they we obey that law? I need to use an extreme here to see just how far the law can go before you decide enough is enough. Put the right spin on it and people might go along. Do you believe in a person's right to defend themselves against a rogue cop? Or should we just lie down and "enjoy" it? I see it the other way. The idea of law won't work if you overcomplicate. Precision does not have to mean complex. Everybody picks and chooses which laws to obey. Traffic laws being a major example. There are some tax laws that conflict with each other, putting all at risk of violating said laws. It's part of their design. Some laws are literally designed to be broken. Revenue incured through violations is a reason to do this.
...if you believe that the CSA had any legal validity...
Well, there lies the rub. To whom do we give legal authority? Who decides? You? Me? Bush?? Some people may believe otherwise, but I don't believe we are born under some EULA. This agreement doesn't have my signature on it. I feel no obligation to abide by it. Many laws are passed without the public's consent.(copyright extensions?) Their failure to repeal them does not automatically validate them. The law becomes subject to contempt when they can be bought and sold like company stocks.
One helpful social change would be to *stop cheering the thieves on*.
Let's travel back to say 1830...If I "stole" somebody's slave and set him free, am I really stealing? To the owner and possibly the gov't of the time, yes. However, I feel I have the "moral high ground"(favorite phrase of mine lately) in setting a person free that nobody has a right to own, even if society says otherwise. What's being done is merely against the law. It doesn't mean that it's wrong. Many times the law is wrong, and has to be made, by violations, to be unenforceable. The controlled substances act is a good example. Weed was made illegal, not for the benefit of society in general, but simply to round up and deport the Mexicans out of California during the depression. The law is wrong, but too many people believe the propaganda, and thus will be difficult to repeal. This is one reason democracy is called tyranny by the majority. The selling of copies of information is no longer a viable business. And if you want to know who is really hurt by P2P, it's the pirates who SELL copies as a business. They are the first who will cease to exist due to P2P. And they are probably the ones "complaining" to the RIAA about all this file sharing on the net. They stand to lose the most. The pirates who sell unauthorized copies in Asia and other parts are the ones helping the RIAA/MPAA/Microsoft acquire and maintain mind share in these markets. The net just made them obsolete. Society and its "criminals" maintain a bizarre(but apparently necessary) relationship.
History seems to show that "the enemy of my enemy will probably turn and attack me next." I don't want to hang around with dishonest people; I get a crick in my neck from watching my back all the time.
So very true. I don't believe that file sharers are dishonest. On the contrary, the RIAA has settled with the gov't on several ocassions to avoid being convicted of the wrongdoing they are so obviouly giulty of. They appear to be the dishonest ones. You will get no argument from me on your last paragraph. If we simply followed that, the whole world would definitely be a better place.
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Here ya go. Catch it fast before they break the link. I hope you don't think I was slamming your country specifically. What I was saying applies to all concerned.
Whoa! Sorry 'bout that. I didn't check the price. I thought it was within 700 or 800 dollars. Oh well, that's what I get for thinkin'. I guess I'm sticking with pencil and paper. If I need waterproof, I'll use grease pencil on plexiglas.
Wow! Next you're going to tell me to quit smoking weed!
And don't feed me that line of bullshit that you (or your 'friends') download music to protest/boycott the RIAA.
Ok, I won't... I download music to protest/boycott the pirates who sell unauthorized copies. Actually, I don't download music at all. Couldn't care less. I listen to the radio, but I change stations during the commercials. Does that make me a thief?? Actually, I listen to college radio, on the net.(WMXM In case you're interested. Find it here) Good free shit... Can't remember the last time I bought any music, but my memory isn't that good, so this statement means nothing.
This may be old news to you, and it's not really combo, but is this pretty close?
Who knew theft could be so efficient?
I don't know. Let's ask the RIAA.
I don't sufficient data to determine if that's an issue yet. But if my fillings demodulate the signal...
...you simply don't have a clue about what is life in a 3rd world country.
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Oh, c'mon...doesn't Mexico count? Been living here off and on for over twenty years. Some of those years in the Sonoran Desert, and I hope they don't cover it with algae
I go to my job walking, not driving - I even moved to be able to do that.
I did precisely the same thing, even in the states. I now refuse to take a job that requires driving to work. Even when I didn't walk, I used mass transit. I did use a van for traveling in Mexico for a couple of years(it was also my "house"). The "your" in do your part was more of an editorial "your". You and I are doing what we can as individuals. That's all I could ever ask for. Other than "spreading the word" and hope people take it to heart. In no way am I asking for people to go hungry. Besides, it's not an "either or" situation. I also understand that Brasil can't go around stealing resources from others like the states does. So, in many ways "you're on your own" and nobody's coming to help, unless you can flash a big wad of 100's
If it's (the clear cutting) being done by outlaws(which I have no doubt it is. I am aware of some of the enviromental laws down there. They actually made the news(outside the states anyway)), maybe the gov't shouldn't have any trouble allowing "volunteers"(vigilantes?) to take care of the problem. The outlaws have theirs. But if the good guys go in with gov't backing... On a side note, The gov't has a sizable military. Including an air force. What are they using it for? Don't answer that. I might not be able to "handle the truth".
Another side note. Since we are all "colonies" of the World Bank or WMF, whatever the hell they call themselves these days, and they are part if Citicorp I suspect. Any talk of " sovereignty" has been reduced to an exercise in mental masturbation. A favorite speech of mine from those "commies" in Hollywood here From the movie Network, 1976.
No longer AC...Let's go to a journal. I'm pretty lazy, but I'll try to whip one up if you like, unless you prefer to have it on your page.
Well, I'll show a bit more respect when I see evidence that the law applies to everybody equally. The law becomes invalid if we allow certain people to disregard them. Example: congressman's kid gets busted with an ounce of coke, Ah well, boys will be boys. Poor black kid in the same situation, Lock 'im up!!! 10 years or more!!! Wicked old man gets caught driving drunk, No problem, his cousin is a judge. I stated in another post that laws are being bought and sold like any other commodity. That makes the law not worth the paper it's printed on. It turns the whole thing into a sad joke, and anarchy just might result if enough of the "right" people see through the facade and react accordingly.
The Emancipation Oak under which Lincoln signed the Proclamation is in some guy's front yard... it's not his property to chop down at will.
,and the buyer agreed and signed the deal.
Yes, and when he bought the property, the tree might not have been included in the deal. In fact, I suspect he signed a contract stating just that. A company I worked for sold a piece of property that had a 100ft microwave tower standing in the corner. The company wanted to keep the tower and made the appropriate contract
One thing I recognize about property is that the gov't owns it all. They can claim eminent domain, and that's that. You will lose any argument over it. Yes, I know that some have won, but that's usually the exception. Even without eminent domain, if you can't or won't pay your taxes, you lose.
No, I won't try to catch the 747 in a giant butterfly net and add it to my collection, but any RF that reaches my antenna is mine to peruse. If the thing crashes on my property, I might not be able to keep the pieces, but I am entitled to payment for damages.
...they just don't get it.
They don't get it? Hell, I'm the one that doesn't get it! What is it beyond the 50 billion(not that this money actually exists) in the bank that they want?? This is all very psychotic to me. Dudes, cash out, hit the Riviera, French, Mexican, Mayan, whatever. They must be doing this for a good laugh, watching us wetting our pants everytime they speak. There's just no other reason. Maybe it's some "wag the dog" thing. What are they distracting us from?
... if you are descrambling DTV, you had no rights to view the material in the first place.
Please, don't , stop it already. If you trespass my property with your RF "pollution", I have a perfectly natural right to do as I please with it. The law not withstanding. What's on my property is mine, unless I sign an agreement stating otherwise. But I won't re-transmit.
I'm too lazy to look it up, but isn't there a limit on "effective radiated power" on these things? And would a highly directional antenna violate this rule? Our TV transmitter "only" puts out about 100kw but with antenna gain, it reaches the legal limit of 5 megawatts, because we "squish" the signal flat. No use pumping it out to space(unless the astronauts want to see "Gunsmoke") or into the ground.
The farmer who's field you flooded might notice. :-) If it pays better than corn, he might go for it.
What we need in the US, and in the rest of the world, is a real effort to fund and off-set the costs of these alternative sources.
It might also help if the gov't stops subsidizing the oil industry in order to keep prices artificially low. That's one reason not too many people are looking for alternatives. There's nothing "free market" about it. If gov't got out of the oil racket, all these things would be happening already.
Despite the cynic, these companies do develope much of the solar, wind, and other non-oil technologies today, but don't pursure them due to cost.
It's more a matter of control than cost. They prefer to have us buy the energy from their solar or wind power plants. They could even press for zoning laws that would prohibit installation of wind mills. Like what's happening in Chesapeake Bay. Don't know if that has been resolved.
I think the fire was in the North Sea or near Iceland, can't remember, and now I can't find anything about it. Damn. I saw it Discovery or something like that. You could barely see the flames. I don't know how long it burned or even if it's still burning. I think a drilling platform cracked a big sheet of the stuff. Or it may have been released by an earthquake, and the fire was started by the platform. Can't remember that either. If I can manage to retrace my thoughts, I'll find a link eventually. I'm sure the story will be re-posted someday.:-)
Believe me, Americans, especially right wing whacko Americans, do not say "poppycock".
Those and the frozen methane hydrates, the quantities I have seen estimated are staggering.
There are many who believe that the release of this methane due to "natural causes" is a big source of global warming. You may have seen this. What do you think? Could the thought just be coming from apologists for the petrol industry? The story goes that some of this stuff is rising from the ocean floor in such quantities that if a ship gets caught in the "gas pocket" it longer displaces enough water to stay afloat. You've seen some of the resulting fires on the surface, right?
What promise?? I made no promise. Turning on the TV does not constitute a "promise" of any kind, except to pay my electric bill maybe. To me, these laws are not valid, anymore than an EULA. In Britain, where I believe you still need a license to use a TV(is that really true?), then you signed a written agreement. It's there in black and white. So there would be little to argue about. Prevailing laws are written by the last guy who won the war. Now we're getting into "might makes right". Is that what you want and believe?
Until then, Radio content is still regulated by the FCC...
That in itself is a major problem. The FCC shouldn't be in the content regulation business. Their only business should involve the tech and rules for that tech for the benefit of all, not just their little friends. This whole "evil bit" thing is just to force people to go through them(RI/MPAA) to make their product. It's there lock out or exclude people who won't sign a contract, giving up all their "rights". "Piracy" is a red herring to get the public to go along, and it's working!
So, if the law says you must torture your slaves (or anybody else), are you going to insist they we obey that law? I need to use an extreme here to see just how far the law can go before you decide enough is enough. Put the right spin on it and people might go along. Do you believe in a person's right to defend themselves against a rogue cop? Or should we just lie down and "enjoy" it? I see it the other way. The idea of law won't work if you overcomplicate. Precision does not have to mean complex. Everybody picks and chooses which laws to obey. Traffic laws being a major example. There are some tax laws that conflict with each other, putting all at risk of violating said laws. It's part of their design. Some laws are literally designed to be broken. Revenue incured through violations is a reason to do this.
...if you believe that the CSA had any legal validity...
Well, there lies the rub. To whom do we give legal authority? Who decides? You? Me? Bush?? Some people may believe otherwise, but I don't believe we are born under some EULA. This agreement doesn't have my signature on it. I feel no obligation to abide by it. Many laws are passed without the public's consent.(copyright extensions?) Their failure to repeal them does not automatically validate them. The law becomes subject to contempt when they can be bought and sold like company stocks.
One helpful social change would be to *stop cheering the thieves on*.
Let's travel back to say 1830...If I "stole" somebody's slave and set him free, am I really stealing? To the owner and possibly the gov't of the time, yes. However, I feel I have the "moral high ground"(favorite phrase of mine lately) in setting a person free that nobody has a right to own, even if society says otherwise. What's being done is merely against the law. It doesn't mean that it's wrong. Many times the law is wrong, and has to be made, by violations, to be unenforceable. The controlled substances act is a good example. Weed was made illegal, not for the benefit of society in general, but simply to round up and deport the Mexicans out of California during the depression. The law is wrong, but too many people believe the propaganda, and thus will be difficult to repeal. This is one reason democracy is called tyranny by the majority.
The selling of copies of information is no longer a viable business. And if you want to know who is really hurt by P2P, it's the pirates who SELL copies as a business. They are the first who will cease to exist due to P2P. And they are probably the ones "complaining" to the RIAA about all this file sharing on the net. They stand to lose the most. The pirates who sell unauthorized copies in Asia and other parts are the ones helping the RIAA/MPAA/Microsoft acquire and maintain mind share in these markets. The net just made them obsolete. Society and its "criminals" maintain a bizarre(but apparently necessary) relationship.
History seems to show that "the enemy of my enemy will probably turn and attack me next." I don't want to hang around with dishonest people; I get a crick in my neck from watching my back all the time.
So very true. I don't believe that file sharers are dishonest. On the contrary, the RIAA has settled with the gov't on several ocassions to avoid being convicted of the wrongdoing they are so obviouly giulty of. They appear to be the dishonest ones. You will get no argument from me on your last paragraph. If we simply followed that, the whole world would definitely be a better place.
Yet, people from around the world go to Disney just because they've never been there.
You just won the X-Prize! Whaddya gonna do?
We're going to Disneyland!
Traitors!
We all know that governments are ridiculously bad at spending more than need be. Civilians companies are much, much better at it...
Hmmm...There aren't too many private companies better or cheaper than these guys.
As Al bundy said, "The perfect woman has three breasts - one on the back for dancing!"
It's an ad for Jurassic Park IV Sorry for the lousy link. Had to beat the mind readers to the punch. Hope I made it.