The Irish terrorists are not Catholic. Calling yourself a Catholic does not make you a member of the Catholic faith, that goes for any faith. Striving to live the teachings of a faith makes you a member. Blowing up your fellow man is not a Catholic teaching.
I am not Catholic.
So, because flying aeroplanes into skyscrapers isn't in the Koran, therefore the 9/111 terrorists weren't Muslim?
The Ireland situation was/is a lot more complicated than Protestant v. Catholic, but you can't pretend religion is totally irrelevant there.
Christianity grew up. It's not perfect, it still has plenty of crazies in various kinds, but by and large Christianity grew out of the crusades mentality. Islam by and large has not.
Oddly enough, I don't see some massive Islamic empire waiting to invade us. I suppose they're being cunning and organising their massive worldwide imperial structure without anyone noticing.
There are direction on how to behave in a war in Quran, i.e. fight the enemy, Islam does not tell you to show the other cheek but tells you to stand for whats right.
The evil bastards. How are our Christian Soldiers supposed to fight against inhuman devils like that?
Why do people always let off Buddhism as a sort of ok-religion? It has as many batty ideas as the Abrahamic religions, plus they're fucking vegetarians.
It is not a false dichotomy to say that there is a conflict between the needs of the many and the needs of the few. It is a dichotomy. You cannot have perfect equality and perfect freedom together, one has to be compromised.
Charge it occasionally, to at least 50%
Some devices will permenantly kill their battery if actually left idle for years.
If he leaves it idle for years, by the time he comes to use it it will be less powerful than a kids toy from McDonald's. 32 gigs will seem like a 1.44 meg floppy now.
On that note; did you know that just half the global population lives on average $2.50 a day. The market for selling stuff is vast. The problem is finding people that can afford said stuff.
If they can only affford to pay you $0, it's irrelevant how vast the potential number of customers is.
Ever buy a film you never saw, then considered it trash? Went to see a movie and was offended as the western turned out to be a Gay movie. (Brokeback) I felt like I
paid to see a Goatse movie....
Oh come on, are you seriously saying that you'd heard nothing about Brokeback Mountain before you saw it? No one ever mentioned that it had gay cowboys in it?
You make it sound like someone put a hardcore gay porn film into a Disney box.
A nerd who sets up a NAS for someone expects to only get paid once. A musician who writes and records a song expects to get paid and paid and paid and paid and paid once again. In fact, they expect to get paid each time someone listens to the same job the musician performed decades ago. Further, they expect to get paid again even if a person has listened before and already paid them. Oh, and not on some diminishing scale. They expect the same pay as the first time around (or even more, inflation, you know). The arrogance is outstanding. Work once and get paid forever. What a con!
A musician can ask to be paid over and over again, because people want to listen to or play his fucking work. If you don't want to play or do a version of someone's song, you don't have to pay them.
If you want to get rid of the whole system of anyone working for money, fine, show me the way. In the meantime, why shouldn't artists be paid in proportion to their popularity the same way people selling widgets are?
I would not feel too bad for the artists. With hollywood accounting the artists are only getting pennies (if that) for their hard work.
That's right, no one working in the movie industry earns a penny for their work, they just do it for free. Big movie stars don't really have mansions, planes and so on, John Travolta actually lives in a cardboard box just off Sunset Boulevard.
While I was using Napster I was buying a least two albums a month. Prior to using Napster I was buying at most two albums a year.
Prior to Napster, we used to listen to/tape stuff off the radio, borrow other people's records, buy secondhand records cheap...
I'm not saying it was better (obviously it was a lot less convenient), just pointing out that those of us who bought more than two albums a year managed perfectly well without Napster.
Even today they should be put in a torture chamber to force to recognize that the music boom of today was in good part thanks to that kind of file sharing.
Slashdot Mirror
I think if you were ordering 500kg of plutonium you would just have made the scariest post ever on slashdot.
"A small UK company is bringing new technology online that could reduce the prices of tantalum and titanium ten-fold."
Online... Will it make the tantalum and titanium down-loadable also?
Yeah, you'll just have to download it to your 3D printer, and you print out as much as you want. Tantalum wants to be free.
Oh right, I was thinking more in terms of quality than quantity.
The number killed in the Troubles in Northern Ireland alone was about 3,500.
The Irish terrorists are not Catholic. Calling yourself a Catholic does not make you a member of the Catholic faith, that goes for any faith. Striving to live the teachings of a faith makes you a member. Blowing up your fellow man is not a Catholic teaching.
I am not Catholic.
So, because flying aeroplanes into skyscrapers isn't in the Koran, therefore the 9/111 terrorists weren't Muslim?
The Ireland situation was/is a lot more complicated than Protestant v. Catholic, but you can't pretend religion is totally irrelevant there.
Christianity grew up. It's not perfect, it still has plenty of crazies in various kinds, but by and large Christianity grew out of the crusades mentality. Islam by and large has not.
Oddly enough, I don't see some massive Islamic empire waiting to invade us. I suppose they're being cunning and organising their massive worldwide imperial structure without anyone noticing.
There are direction on how to behave in a war in Quran, i.e. fight the enemy, Islam does not tell you to show the other cheek but tells you to stand for whats right.
The evil bastards. How are our Christian Soldiers supposed to fight against inhuman devils like that?
Why do people always let off Buddhism as a sort of ok-religion? It has as many batty ideas as the Abrahamic religions, plus they're fucking vegetarians.
It is not a false dichotomy to say that there is a conflict between the needs of the many and the needs of the few. It is a dichotomy. You cannot have perfect equality and perfect freedom together, one has to be compromised.
All terrorists are Muslim, therefore all Muslims are terrorists.
Charge it occasionally, to at least 50% Some devices will permenantly kill their battery if actually left idle for years.
If he leaves it idle for years, by the time he comes to use it it will be less powerful than a kids toy from McDonald's. 32 gigs will seem like a 1.44 meg floppy now.
Just give me one damn phone that lets me answer and make phone calls, send/receive text messages, and has a calculator.
A calculator? Whydoes a phone need a fucking calculator? It's just feature bloat.
[......] i know you're clearly anti-microsoft (from your regular posts) [......]
You must be one of the Microsoft Slashdot monitors.
Isn't the term Microsoft Shill?
On that note; did you know that just half the global population lives on average $2.50 a day. The market for selling stuff is vast. The problem is finding people that can afford said stuff.
If they can only affford to pay you $0, it's irrelevant how vast the potential number of customers is.
How many innovations are not invented because of the not available public domain and not available fair use?
Yeah, what technological breakthroughs for the benefit of mankind have been missed because people couldn't download free music?
I would guess: none.
Fuck the artist and movies studios. Its about ME saving money.
Obviously that's the most important thing in discussing any topic. "How can I be as cheap a fuck as possible?"
Which fuckwads modded this as a troll? Remember, there is no "-1 for disagreeing with teenage slashdot groupthink" mod.
Ever buy a film you never saw, then considered it trash? Went to see a movie and was offended as the western turned out to be a Gay movie. (Brokeback) I felt like I paid to see a Goatse movie....
Oh come on, are you seriously saying that you'd heard nothing about Brokeback Mountain before you saw it? No one ever mentioned that it had gay cowboys in it?
You make it sound like someone put a hardcore gay porn film into a Disney box.
A nerd who sets up a NAS for someone expects to only get paid once. A musician who writes and records a song expects to get paid and paid and paid and paid and paid once again. In fact, they expect to get paid each time someone listens to the same job the musician performed decades ago. Further, they expect to get paid again even if a person has listened before and already paid them. Oh, and not on some diminishing scale. They expect the same pay as the first time around (or even more, inflation, you know). The arrogance is outstanding. Work once and get paid forever. What a con!
A musician can ask to be paid over and over again, because people want to listen to or play his fucking work. If you don't want to play or do a version of someone's song, you don't have to pay them.
If you want to get rid of the whole system of anyone working for money, fine, show me the way. In the meantime, why shouldn't artists be paid in proportion to their popularity the same way people selling widgets are?
I would not feel too bad for the artists. With hollywood accounting the artists are only getting pennies (if that) for their hard work.
That's right, no one working in the movie industry earns a penny for their work, they just do it for free. Big movie stars don't really have mansions, planes and so on, John Travolta actually lives in a cardboard box just off Sunset Boulevard.
In 96 I was regularly backing up 60GB of data nightly
Really? I'm pretty sure my PC back then had a 2Gb hard drive and I backed up important data on to 100Mb zip disks.
While I was using Napster I was buying a least two albums a month. Prior to using Napster I was buying at most two albums a year.
Prior to Napster, we used to listen to/tape stuff off the radio, borrow other people's records, buy secondhand records cheap...
I'm not saying it was better (obviously it was a lot less convenient), just pointing out that those of us who bought more than two albums a year managed perfectly well without Napster.
people didn't want a $16 CD of shitty filler to get the one song they heard on the radio.
If you're listening to artists who make CDs full of shitty filler, your musical opinions aren't really worth a great deal.
Even today they should be put in a torture chamber to force to recognize that the music boom of today was in good part thanks to that kind of file sharing.
What music boom?
they're way too pop and shit since that
Please tell me you're under thirteen.