Daft Punk did this last year. Daft Punk - Discovery came with this credit card looking thing with a 16 digit number on it. That number you could use to download exclusive remixes and such.
Sasha's artist album, Airdrawndagger, has a similar thing, where you can use the number to get live sets and so forth.
but if the info from foo22 is true, i feel no blame towards the administration. if the kid is changing grades, and selling access to other people to change THEIR grades, this is not some kid that was curious. that is a very very serious offense, which warrants 10 days suspension, and also warrants the comment about how it'd be criminal if he was an adult. this isn't harmless looking around, this is changing vital database info. If this is true, the administration, i feel, has no blame to be placed on them. I'm sure they all feel like shit, but they aren't responsible.
See, I just thought of this, but its a nice idea. More groups should do what daft punk did. With their new cd came this card(looks like a credit card, with a 16 digit number). You go to www.daftclub.com , enter that number, and install some software. Daft Punk is releasing remixes, b-sides, etc. over the net through this software. They have proof you bought the cd(it validates the card number and it didn't work when my friend tried to use mine) and thus they've gotten the money from you already, so getting mp3s from them isn't a big deal to them. Then again, this could all just be a big pipe dream, considering daft punk is one of the few groups that actually retains control of their music(they own a company which legally owns the music, and will allow record companies to lease the songs and sell them on CD for a price. Moby does the same thing, IIRC.)
I'm rather shocked to see so many people think that a governmental official abusing his power(yes, abusing his power. if this webpage were on the school server, or created at school, its not an abuse. out of school, it is an abuse) So, lets apply. Remember the GWB parody website Bush has been trying to repeatedly force down? How many of you think Bush should now be able to use his Presidential power to tell the webmaster to take the website down, or face deportation. I mean, what gives you the right to defame public officials?!? You don't HAVE to be here if you want free speech!!!
Sorry, but this whole reaction had me somewhat pissed, mainly cause the school I attend has tried this before and failed miserably.
IANAL, but i have had a class on law, and we dealt with freedom of speech, slander, etc. IIRC, the only way the government can sue an individual for slander has to due with severe malice contained within the contents. (whether this is a public offical or organization i'm not sure). Just throwing in my two cents
This isn't so bad, because it was justified, but it does show you how quickly people can be replaced. I was working as a temp in a IT department at an insurance company(I'm only 16, and my mom is a VP there, so I got my job that way.), and the warehouse guy(he goes to the company warehouse and is there to courier over anything they need, but its a good ways away from the main offices) submits an IS request that his machine is too slow and we need to make it faster. We decide to wipe it all and reinstall Win 95(this was an old IBM Pentium 133). To the surprise of me and my supervisor, when we boot up the machine, the wallpaper is porn. The history is filled with porn. The computer has lots of porn on it. We call his supervisor, show her, and she's pissed. This is the VERY end of the day, and after this I clock out and go home.
Next day I come back, my boss has done the format and reinstall of win95, wants me to install the other programs, and mentions to me that the new warehouse guy will be here in an hour for me to train him how to use the machine, log in, etc. My start time at the company was just about the earliest among everyone save for a few customer service reps and the maintence guys, and the replacement for the guy we discovered breaking company policy has already been found.
"But Singer doesn't advocate genocide or the callous disposal of the disabled. He's arguing that in extreme circumstances, parents should have the right to terminate the life of severely disabled newborns who have no self-consciousness or chance to survive. " ... "Singer is no monster, and the notion that he's an advocate of mass murder seems outrageously simple-minded and hysterical, a club to shut him up rather than a way to support or refute his ideas."
This really reminds me of another man who was to teach at a college, but was blocked from doing it. I just recently read the report of the case of Bertrand Russell, where he was stopped from teaching at a college, but the minute he was named, he was blasted by all of the major religious groups, as they used the most extreme arguments of his out of context to make him out to be a monster. Of course, this case isn't quite as severe, which isn't TOO surprising(of course, Russell was an atheist under McCarthyism, so there's no doubt he'd be worse), but I was very surprised of the parallel I started to see.
Sorry about the random ramblings, just figured I'd throw out my opinion here.
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Daft Punk did this last year. Daft Punk - Discovery came with this credit card looking thing with a 16 digit number on it. That number you could use to download exclusive remixes and such.
Sasha's artist album, Airdrawndagger, has a similar thing, where you can use the number to get live sets and so forth.
This is by no means a new concept.
but if the info from foo22 is true, i feel no blame towards the administration. if the kid is changing grades, and selling access to other people to change THEIR grades, this is not some kid that was curious. that is a very very serious offense, which warrants 10 days suspension, and also warrants the comment about how it'd be criminal if he was an adult. this isn't harmless looking around, this is changing vital database info. If this is true, the administration, i feel, has no blame to be placed on them. I'm sure they all feel like shit, but they aren't responsible.
Crow
See, I just thought of this, but its a nice idea. More groups should do what daft punk did. With their new cd came this card(looks like a credit card, with a 16 digit number). You go to www.daftclub.com , enter that number, and install some software. Daft Punk is releasing remixes, b-sides, etc. over the net through this software. They have proof you bought the cd(it validates the card number and it didn't work when my friend tried to use mine) and thus they've gotten the money from you already, so getting mp3s from them isn't a big deal to them. Then again, this could all just be a big pipe dream, considering daft punk is one of the few groups that actually retains control of their music(they own a company which legally owns the music, and will allow record companies to lease the songs and sell them on CD for a price. Moby does the same thing, IIRC.)
Sorry for rambling
Crow
I'm rather shocked to see so many people think that a governmental official abusing his power(yes, abusing his power. if this webpage were on the school server, or created at school, its not an abuse. out of school, it is an abuse) So, lets apply. Remember the GWB parody website Bush has been trying to repeatedly force down? How many of you think Bush should now be able to use his Presidential power to tell the webmaster to take the website down, or face deportation. I mean, what gives you the right to defame public officials?!? You don't HAVE to be here if you want free speech!!!
Sorry, but this whole reaction had me somewhat pissed, mainly cause the school I attend has tried this before and failed miserably.
Crow
IANAL, but i have had a class on law, and we dealt with freedom of speech, slander, etc. IIRC, the only way the government can sue an individual for slander has to due with severe malice contained within the contents. (whether this is a public offical or organization i'm not sure). Just throwing in my two cents
This isn't so bad, because it was justified, but it does show you how quickly people can be replaced. I was working as a temp in a IT department at an insurance company(I'm only 16, and my mom is a VP there, so I got my job that way.), and the warehouse guy(he goes to the company warehouse and is there to courier over anything they need, but its a good ways away from the main offices) submits an IS request that his machine is too slow and we need to make it faster. We decide to wipe it all and reinstall Win 95(this was an old IBM Pentium 133). To the surprise of me and my supervisor, when we boot up the machine, the wallpaper is porn. The history is filled with porn. The computer has lots of porn on it. We call his supervisor, show her, and she's pissed. This is the VERY end of the day, and after this I clock out and go home.
Next day I come back, my boss has done the format and reinstall of win95, wants me to install the other programs, and mentions to me that the new warehouse guy will be here in an hour for me to train him how to use the machine, log in, etc. My start time at the company was just about the earliest among everyone save for a few customer service reps and the maintence guys, and the replacement for the guy we discovered breaking company policy has already been found.
"But Singer doesn't advocate genocide or the callous disposal of the disabled. He's arguing that in extreme circumstances, parents should have the right to terminate the life of severely disabled newborns who have no self-consciousness or chance to survive. "
...
"Singer is no monster, and the notion that he's an advocate of mass murder seems outrageously simple-minded and hysterical, a club to shut him up rather than a way to support or refute his ideas."
This really reminds me of another man who was to teach at a college, but was blocked from doing it. I just recently read the report of the case of Bertrand Russell, where he was stopped from teaching at a college, but the minute he was named, he was blasted by all of the major religious groups, as they used the most extreme arguments of his out of context to make him out to be a monster. Of course, this case isn't quite as severe, which isn't TOO surprising(of course, Russell was an atheist under McCarthyism, so there's no doubt he'd be worse), but I was very surprised of the parallel I started to see.
Sorry about the random ramblings, just figured I'd throw out my opinion here.