And this is why the "Pirate Party" will never be taken seriously. There are legitmate organizations like the EFF, etc., that are all for copyright overhaul. Creating "The Pirate Party" removes a degree of legitimacy from anyone calling for copyright reform.
I know it feels good to support the Pirate Bay or something, but this will amount to a hill of beans - or The Pirate Party's servers being raided periodically.
"Aw, baby... look, you know I didn't mean to hurt you. It's just... sometimes I get so angry. You make me really angry sometimes. But I love you - I love you. I won't hurt you again, I PROMISE. I'm going to get help.
"Yeah, I know it's happened before, but it won't happen again - I swear! Come back home baby."
overestimates the amount the federal government gives to NASA
Which is why it's such a shame that we don't give more - the people expect it!;)
In a more serious light, this whole capitalism thing is bullshit. Yes, it's one way to get where we're going, but I find it hard to believe that this far down the page, I'm the first to reference the race to the moon. That wasn't funded by capitalism... rather it was funded by a government actually interested in seeing man progress (and yes, the American man before the Russian man). But progress of humankind was uber-important.
Not sure what happened since then. I think liberalism has gone overboard, with the left being more far-left, expecting the govn't to take care of all the citizens before worrying about "progress" of the human race. On the other side, conservative (or, Republican) leaders have become so much more power and money hungry that they care not for their fellow man at all - in social programs or in progress of the human race.
So who knows - maybe capitalism will get us there, but I still firmly believe that we need a government committed to it. If Bush hadn't gotten us into Iraq and spent so much damn money, maybe people would pay more attention to his desire to go back to the moon.
C'mon...the most OBVIOUS use would be in defeating the photo radar boxes (revenue generators) the cops keep putting out. Hell, if they could develop a 'personal use' wearable system like this, you could 'disappear' from all the cctv they're putting out more and more in the US. Hmm...will this system work with CCTV?
Ah... but it is for this very reason that owning one will be immeidately illegal for common citizens, but perfectly fine for government agencies.
So by my advanced calculations, if a person makes more then $12 an hour--and a majority of Americans do--it becomes economical for them to BUY the music.
You're assuming that a person sits and stares at the download as it proceeds, during work hours. In fact, both downloads more than likely happen in the background, having no true economical impact.
Hey, if the guy who brought the world Lotus Notes thinks Microsoft need to simplify their software, things are worse than - no, correction - almost exactly as bad as I thought.
And how many trillions of lines of code is Vista?? I say put Aero on top of Windows 95. Now we're rocking simplicity!!
A dollar (or ten) is too much for 80% of the stuff that could be sold.
Which is why it amazes me that they still question whether or not to look at Jobs as friend or foe. Jobs single handedly creates a system that sells over 1B tracks of music, at least a good percentage of which is of a questionably quality. He single-handedly forces everyone into the digital generation, where the studio contracts actually pay the artists LESS per track, while having almost zero overhead cost for the production of raw goods because there are no raw goods.
Yes... with such success... how DOES one reconcile Jobs as anything BUT the enemy?
I gotta tell you, I know people love open source software here, but kids getting free access to Microsoft Office apps while allowing the schools to spend the $30M elsewhere is not a bad thing.
The main reason it is not a bad thing is because most jobs in this country that aren't purely physical labor require the knowledge of Microsoft Office applications. Whether it's a future you appreciate or not, there is no reason that these kids shouldn't be prepared for the future they will be dumped in to - especially if the software comes to the schools for free.
Actually, as a scientist, but hey, semantics, right?
Therefore I blame Kyotoists for bringing down the Columbia.
You blame environmentalists, instead of NASA? Hey, environmentalists can scream, but they're not the ones entrusted with the lives of the astronauts. Oh, the continual cutting of NASA funding may be another reason.
Your implicit assumption is that we can steer climate in some kind of positive way by manipulating CO2 emissions. Yet you appeal to the fact that climate is a chaotic system. Chaotic systems vary unpredictably with small changes of input. If you manipulate CO2 emissions (at huge cost) what kind of benefit can those who invested expect to get? Don't deceive yourself or others by thinking you can favorably manipulate climate.
No, my explicit assumption is that too much of anything is a bad thing, and pumping the amount of carbon dioxide into the environment as we do as a byproduct of "progress" and industry, the environment WILL feel the effects, in one way or another. Just as dumping waste into the world's water supplies and oceans has had a vastly more devestating effect than was originally expected, so too will the environment feel this "dumping".
Further, I don't think that we can favorably manipulate the climate, but we can certainly curtail certain activities that we know are effecting it negatively.
If you manipulate CO2 emissions (at huge cost)
Won't someone please think of the poor SUV companies and power plants?! Huge cost my ass. Progress is as progress does - it has never come cheaply, so why, at this time in history, do we suddenly give progress the finger? Oh, right, the almighty dollar.
and yet the artist (me) winds up making less from it. Go figure.
BEAT! Don't like it, don't sign it.
I mean, I'm with Al - considering that the label takes like eighty some cents per $.99 download, he should be getting a significant chunk. But if he didn't like the clause, he should have negotiated. It's not like he's not at least SOMETHING of a name, with SOME negotiating platform.
After years of promoting global hysteria it is nice to see the editors slashdot present the other side of the debate.
Yes... hysteria. I love how people can assume that pumping killotons of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere every day - or about 6.6 tons per person per year in the US alone (that's a cool ~1.98B tons/year in the US) will have no negative effect - or an effect of any sort, positive OR negative.
What's even better are the "related stories" here on this page. One points to a study that shows of all the scientific papers on global warming, 75% agree that global warming is a human-caused condition, 25% take no stance, and a whopping 0% refute that man has anything to do with it.
We know there is a hole in the ozone layer - we've seen it, photographed it. Changes of that variety will have cascading changes all over - the butterfly effect on the environment.
Now I'm not saying that global warming as it currently stands will cause Noah part II, but the truth remains that there is something happening, courtesy of man, that is effecting the environment in a not-so-positive fashion.
You mean, just when XP is patched again, surely unsecure, and dialing home at a constant basis...
No doubt that you won't be able to install this "major" update without downloading the Windows Genuine Advantage tool, which constantly calls back to Microsoft with who knows what kind of information - you know, just in case it crashes.
Thank God I went OSX. I never pirated XP (maybe ME when it was in beta) but this "if you didn't do anything wrong you have nothing to hide" bullshit has gone too far.
Yeah they are! They're removing your choice to read their documentation without using their software!
And my car alarm is removing your choice to steal it. I gotta agree with GP post. If you don't like playing in their world, don't. Nothing is stopping someone from buying a Mac or a Linux box.
Sure, I find this quite frustrating. But the MS anti-trust wasn't, at the heart of things, their bundling of software. That was a scapegoat. The real issue was their strong-arming partners like Dell, Intel, and the like to support ONLY and EXCLUSIVELY their software. Those were the "anti-competitive" things that got them in trouble to begin with.
Now sure, now that they've been convicted, certain actions like this raise a red flag. But I have no sympathy if you can't read an MS written document because it's not in a format you like.
Personally I find it very first-amendment like (not protected by, similar to) - in that its protections aren't for you to hear what you want, but for me to be able to say what you don't want to hear. Very similar - what gives you any right to demand that anything MS releases is in PDF?
Given how the lawyers were acting in this case, I think combat may have been appropriate.
YEAH! Gladitorial style! One guy gets a giant pitchfork and a net, the other guy gets a short sword and a mid-sized shield.
Although, both would probably be so out of shape, that them huffing and puffing in seperate corners after a riling 15 seconds of dancing around eachother wouldn't be all that exciting after all.
I'm tired of all this crap with respects to music. It's just music... why is it so complicated to just sell people music and compensate artists? All the DRM business, angry countries, law suits, etc. It rediculous damnit! Stop the madness.
The madness is a result of the amount of money to be made. When money can be increased by control, no matter how evil said control is, control is introduced. In the recent past, it has also become vogue to lobby congress for some laws that help enforce said control.
See here you run the risk of putting a market value (possibly an incredibly high one) on the results of abortions. What happens if stem cells start to become worth thousands of dollars per sample?
Not to mention that this effort by Harvard could better be used to figure out the best way to harvest stem cells from human fat cells, bone marrow cells, etc. - many of which have been shown to have some ability to produce ADULT supplied stem cells.
Making good from abortion in ANY fashion is just glorifying and condoning the act.
On all the things you could have claimed OSS can't compete on you pick a Text Editor. There are at least 5 or 6 capable Text Editors for Linux. I agree that there are some apps you can't get but I don't think this is one particular area OSS is lacking.
Sorry, perhaps I was thinking specifically to the OSX platform. Feature for feature, I don't think anything OSS stacks up to TextMate, BBEdit, etc. on the mac. But it's an IMHO kinda issue.
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Feel free to go Vonage, etc.
And this is why the "Pirate Party" will never be taken seriously. There are legitmate organizations like the EFF, etc., that are all for copyright overhaul. Creating "The Pirate Party" removes a degree of legitimacy from anyone calling for copyright reform.
I know it feels good to support the Pirate Bay or something, but this will amount to a hill of beans - or The Pirate Party's servers being raided periodically.
"Aw, baby... look, you know I didn't mean to hurt you. It's just... sometimes I get so angry. You make me really angry sometimes. But I love you - I love you. I won't hurt you again, I PROMISE. I'm going to get help.
"Yeah, I know it's happened before, but it won't happen again - I swear! Come back home baby."
Which is why it's such a shame that we don't give more - the people expect it! ;)
In a more serious light, this whole capitalism thing is bullshit. Yes, it's one way to get where we're going, but I find it hard to believe that this far down the page, I'm the first to reference the race to the moon. That wasn't funded by capitalism... rather it was funded by a government actually interested in seeing man progress (and yes, the American man before the Russian man). But progress of humankind was uber-important.
Not sure what happened since then. I think liberalism has gone overboard, with the left being more far-left, expecting the govn't to take care of all the citizens before worrying about "progress" of the human race. On the other side, conservative (or, Republican) leaders have become so much more power and money hungry that they care not for their fellow man at all - in social programs or in progress of the human race.
So who knows - maybe capitalism will get us there, but I still firmly believe that we need a government committed to it. If Bush hadn't gotten us into Iraq and spent so much damn money, maybe people would pay more attention to his desire to go back to the moon.
I know I would...
Ah... but it is for this very reason that owning one will be immeidately illegal for common citizens, but perfectly fine for government agencies.
You're assuming that a person sits and stares at the download as it proceeds, during work hours. In fact, both downloads more than likely happen in the background, having no true economical impact.
It depends on if it's just Drew's, or if this new disc technology is reach-out-and-touch-some-boobs delicious for all movies.
Although, even JUST Drew... ;)
And how many trillions of lines of code is Vista?? I say put Aero on top of Windows 95. Now we're rocking simplicity!!
Which is why it amazes me that they still question whether or not to look at Jobs as friend or foe. Jobs single handedly creates a system that sells over 1B tracks of music, at least a good percentage of which is of a questionably quality. He single-handedly forces everyone into the digital generation, where the studio contracts actually pay the artists LESS per track, while having almost zero overhead cost for the production of raw goods because there are no raw goods.
Yes... with such success... how DOES one reconcile Jobs as anything BUT the enemy?
Bunch of ass-wads, the **AA.
I gotta tell you, I know people love open source software here, but kids getting free access to Microsoft Office apps while allowing the schools to spend the $30M elsewhere is not a bad thing.
The main reason it is not a bad thing is because most jobs in this country that aren't purely physical labor require the knowledge of Microsoft Office applications. Whether it's a future you appreciate or not, there is no reason that these kids shouldn't be prepared for the future they will be dumped in to - especially if the software comes to the schools for free.
eMusic.com - all mp3s, all unencumbered, a million track - all the time.
Actually, as a scientist, but hey, semantics, right?
You blame environmentalists, instead of NASA? Hey, environmentalists can scream, but they're not the ones entrusted with the lives of the astronauts. Oh, the continual cutting of NASA funding may be another reason.
No, my explicit assumption is that too much of anything is a bad thing, and pumping the amount of carbon dioxide into the environment as we do as a byproduct of "progress" and industry, the environment WILL feel the effects, in one way or another. Just as dumping waste into the world's water supplies and oceans has had a vastly more devestating effect than was originally expected, so too will the environment feel this "dumping".
Further, I don't think that we can favorably manipulate the climate, but we can certainly curtail certain activities that we know are effecting it negatively.
Won't someone please think of the poor SUV companies and power plants?! Huge cost my ass. Progress is as progress does - it has never come cheaply, so why, at this time in history, do we suddenly give progress the finger? Oh, right, the almighty dollar.
BEAT! Don't like it, don't sign it.
I mean, I'm with Al - considering that the label takes like eighty some cents per $.99 download, he should be getting a significant chunk. But if he didn't like the clause, he should have negotiated. It's not like he's not at least SOMETHING of a name, with SOME negotiating platform.
BEAT!
Yes... hysteria. I love how people can assume that pumping killotons of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere every day - or about 6.6 tons per person per year in the US alone (that's a cool ~1.98B tons/year in the US) will have no negative effect - or an effect of any sort, positive OR negative.
What's even better are the "related stories" here on this page. One points to a study that shows of all the scientific papers on global warming, 75% agree that global warming is a human-caused condition, 25% take no stance, and a whopping 0% refute that man has anything to do with it.
We know there is a hole in the ozone layer - we've seen it, photographed it. Changes of that variety will have cascading changes all over - the butterfly effect on the environment.
Now I'm not saying that global warming as it currently stands will cause Noah part II, but the truth remains that there is something happening, courtesy of man, that is effecting the environment in a not-so-positive fashion.
Right - so now that they ARE victorious, will they stop filing 20k John Doe lawsuits per month? Or is that whole thing still "game on"?
You mean, just when XP is patched again, surely unsecure, and dialing home at a constant basis...
No doubt that you won't be able to install this "major" update without downloading the Windows Genuine Advantage tool, which constantly calls back to Microsoft with who knows what kind of information - you know, just in case it crashes.
Thank God I went OSX. I never pirated XP (maybe ME when it was in beta) but this "if you didn't do anything wrong you have nothing to hide" bullshit has gone too far.
Which is the entire issue. If it's 17+, and someone sells it to a minor, fine the seller, just like cigarettes.
I mean, WTF else does someone want? Oh, right, the govn't to provide full time parenting for them, so they don't have to do it themselves.
And my car alarm is removing your choice to steal it. I gotta agree with GP post. If you don't like playing in their world, don't. Nothing is stopping someone from buying a Mac or a Linux box.
Sure, I find this quite frustrating. But the MS anti-trust wasn't, at the heart of things, their bundling of software. That was a scapegoat. The real issue was their strong-arming partners like Dell, Intel, and the like to support ONLY and EXCLUSIVELY their software. Those were the "anti-competitive" things that got them in trouble to begin with.
Now sure, now that they've been convicted, certain actions like this raise a red flag. But I have no sympathy if you can't read an MS written document because it's not in a format you like.
Personally I find it very first-amendment like (not protected by, similar to) - in that its protections aren't for you to hear what you want, but for me to be able to say what you don't want to hear. Very similar - what gives you any right to demand that anything MS releases is in PDF?
YEAH! Gladitorial style! One guy gets a giant pitchfork and a net, the other guy gets a short sword and a mid-sized shield.
Although, both would probably be so out of shape, that them huffing and puffing in seperate corners after a riling 15 seconds of dancing around eachother wouldn't be all that exciting after all.
Now, add some hungry, agitated lions or bears...
The madness is a result of the amount of money to be made. When money can be increased by control, no matter how evil said control is, control is introduced. In the recent past, it has also become vogue to lobby congress for some laws that help enforce said control.
See: music, movies, tiered internet, cable monopolies, sports blackouts, DRM, DMCA, trusted computing, product activation, HDCP, PATENTS, 120-year copyrights, etc., etc...
PS. FP on my own story submission?
Yo yo... lemme get like... fiddy karma yo...
See here you run the risk of putting a market value (possibly an incredibly high one) on the results of abortions. What happens if stem cells start to become worth thousands of dollars per sample?
Not to mention that this effort by Harvard could better be used to figure out the best way to harvest stem cells from human fat cells, bone marrow cells, etc. - many of which have been shown to have some ability to produce ADULT supplied stem cells.
Making good from abortion in ANY fashion is just glorifying and condoning the act.
On all the things you could have claimed OSS can't compete on you pick a Text Editor. There are at least 5 or 6 capable Text Editors for Linux. I agree that there are some apps you can't get but I don't think this is one particular area OSS is lacking. Sorry, perhaps I was thinking specifically to the OSX platform. Feature for feature, I don't think anything OSS stacks up to TextMate, BBEdit, etc. on the mac. But it's an IMHO kinda issue.
It's just a sport, relax! :)
;)
Has nothing to do with sports... I want free time off from work