What you are neglecting is that the viewer market is not a "fixed pie" of viewers that is carved up among the channels. Actually, as the networks multiplied and grew, and more and more entertainment was available, the market itself also grew, so that the "pie" was much bigger.
...those opposing evolution are mostly responding to strident atheists who are using evolution to attempt to claim that science has disproved God.
A rational human being would not claim to have "disproved God", because the burden of proof is on whomever is asserting something is truep>
In other words, I cannot tell you that "an invisible creature called Bagachoo created the world - if you disagree with me, prove that Bagachoo doesn't exist".
That cleaim that Bagachoo exists is arbitrary, and if YOU can't prove that Bagachoo exists, then I have no reason to even consider your claim.
Even if half the country closes their eyes and wishes for it to be true - reality is still independent of what people think.
Wishing, dreaming, or hoping cannot make something real, and in fact, it is MUCH worse than that. Someone who claims the existence of something non-existent (e.g. god), is essentially declaring war on reality as such. Now they have to live in reality while attempting to rewire their mind around something that is not even true. This fundamental attack on reality as such is why the world has not embraced reason, and why it may eventually dissolve into horror. The fight for reality IS a righteous fight - not an arbitrary, super-being decreed righteousness - but a righteousness based on the fact that reality has a specific nature, including us humans, and if we are ever to discover a philosophy for living here on earth, people need to embrace reason as man's only means of attaining knowledge.
"This is pretty much the video game equivalent of going to a baseball game, getting 3 strikes and then complaining that you should get a 4th."
Well, except that he had been using the name since April. So really its like you start playing baseball, and its 3 strikes and you are out. Then comes May, June, Jully, Augest. Still 3 strikes and you are out. Then September. Still 3 strikes and you are out. Ah, but along comes October, and suddenly, you are called out at the first strike.
Actually it's more like: you're up at bat, and the pitcher keeps throwing pitches, sometimes you swing, sometimes you don't, but the umpire refuses to call it until it's dark and the park is empty and the players are like "who gives a shit".
No, actually it's more like: You're the pitcher and you get through seven innings with nobody knowing that the spikes on your shoes are in violation - then they finally catch you and make you change your shoes, and you complain "These shoes are comfortable and worn it, and I need my shoe money WOOT."
Actually it's nothing like baseball at all, when I think about it.
No, free speech means saying anything you want, no matter who said it (or thought it) first, or any other qualification. Practical free speech means some limits necessary to running a working society are imposed
The term "free speech" is not arbitrary, and comes from the founding fathers who used it in the spirit of "saying whatever you like so long as you don't interfere with others' rights".
That definition seems to me both theoretical and practical (a theory that doesn't work in practice is a bad theory).
If *you* want to create an online delivery system, nobody can stop *you* from doing your business. The entertainment industry is not some enourmous tit, whose nipple is withheld inches from your starving lips. In reality it is a very complex landscape, in which I am sure very great minds (not yours) are grappling to find the right way to do business. You, or nobody else, are entitled to anything. If you want it, either go out and make it happen legally *yourself*, or sit in and sulk in your dirty diapers. Your tit will come, milk baby. (And stealing is a "no-no". Bad baby.)
You do realize that welfare exist for the benefit of the well-of, do you ? After all, if someone has the choice between starving to death and attacking you and stealing your wallef in the street, the latter is always a better option for him
You do realize that welfare does not benefit the well-of, do you? After all, if the government opens your wallet for someone to dip into, then surely a line will form behind you of people eager to partake of your bounty.
You cannot penalize the successful, because they are successful, in the name of rewarding the failures in life - who are being rewarded because they are failures.
Life is not easy, and there are no guarantees - but life today is much easier than in pre-industrial times. Those that wish to participate in a voluntary charity system should not be prevented from doing so, but there should be no mandatory welfare state - enforced at the point of a gun.
Oh. So the Earth is just a resource to be used to our benefit?
Yes, exactly. There is no value inherent in the earth, outside of the value it provides to living creatures. In fact, there is no such thing as value without an entity capable of valuing.
So you assume. But, fancy this, what if our actions forestall the next ice age, or increase the number of mass extinctions that we are already causing?
You seem in an awful hurry to have the next ice age. And there always have been mass extinctions (without humans) and always will be mass extinctions (with or without humans).
...we don't know if our contribution is causing problems beyond our capacity to deal with them.
I am sorry you do not know that. Maybe you should avoid discussing the subject until you DO know something.;)
I don't think there is any responsibility to 'minimize our impact.' In fact, the best way to 'minimize our impact' would be to wipe out the human race (which probably some greens wouldn't mind happening).
Even if only one generation of humans could live full, happy lives before the earth melted, you wouldn't tell those humans to suffer so that ONE MORE generation could be born and suffer too.
But ironically, even if humans weren't on the planet, it would continue to get warmer! That's right, the globe has been warming ever since the last ice age, and would continue to do so until the next ice age, regardless of human involvement.
it's yet another area in which Microsoft can expand their monopoly...
I wish they'd focus on getting even just one thing RIGHT before they
worry about tying TEN things together.
If dollars are votes, then you are NOT in the majority in your opinion.
You're dead on about subjectivity. The law is inconstituional because you cannot know in advance whether you are breaking it. The same goes for antitrust.
If grandma stops buying movies, then that is more than just the consumer being hurt - it is the movie companies, too. Movie companies have a vested interest in not confusing the holy crap out of consumers - and time is running out!
To be even fairer, customers shouldn't have to.
The customers should be able to obtain CDs unencumbered with "prices" - I don't have any problems converting free CDs to MP3 on either PC or MAC.
3. How can I get tracks I rip from my CD into iTunes and/or onto my iPod?
Apple's proprietary technology doesn't support secure music formats other than their own and therefore the music on this disc can't be directly imported into iTunes or iPods.
Sony BMG wants music to be easily transferable to any device that supports secure music. Currently, music from our protected CDs may be transferred to hundreds of such devices, as both Microsoft and Sony have assisted to make the user experience on our discs as seamless as possible with their secure formats.
Unfortunately, in order to directly and smoothly rip content into iTunes it requires the assistance of Apple. To date, Apple has not been willing to cooperate with our protection vendors to make ripping to iTunes and to the iPod a simple experience.
If you believe that you should be able to easily move tracks from your protected CD to your iPod then we encourage you to use the following link to contact Apple directly and tell them so. http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipod.html
That said, while there is no direct support on the disc for iTunes or iPod, SONY BMG has worked out an indirect way for consumers to move content into these environments, despite the challenges noted above. If you'd like more information on how to move content to iTunes please CLICK HERE.
What if someone "hacked" into your house and hijacked your family? Would you blandly chalk it up to a lesson in needing "tighter control and security"?
You spew vitriolic hatred toward companies - whose purpose it is to grow, excel, and be as profitable as possible. You want to bop along with your ipod, munching Doritos and sniggering about how mean the record companies are because last year downloads were 10 cents cheaper.
All these people in the industry devote their lives to the industry and work incredibly hard to achieve their goals. You (or I) don't know the first thing about the pressures and demands these people face day in, day out. But you don't have any problem scraping your fingernails on the chalkboard of whininess, and proclaiming "If anyone changes the price of music, I'll just steal it! Waaahhhhh"
Do you work for free? Have you ever changed jobs to make more money? Do you want to get by in life with more than barely subsisting in a cave with a hunk of meat? Then aren't YOU the "greedy bastard"?
If my grandma can't keep her windows box secure, then she certainly won't be able to apply security patches on a Linux box.
If I'm going to set up a self-maintaining box, I'll get her on Win XP with auto update/reboot turned on with auto-updating anti-virus and a basic firewall. She'll be fine for quite awhile with this, as long as she is not installing anything.
A better way to assess the security implications of vulnerabilities is how much market share do you lose because of switches to an alternative browser to avoid the crap.
DITSCAP certified systems' administrators have to deal with each and every issue in a very timely fashion, so shear number of vulnerabilities does affect them.
And headlines that scream about vulnerabilities are not great press, either.
If by horror stories, you mean dealing with a beureaucrat system and the occasional use of harsh language, then please pardon my lack of tears. Traveling to other countries can be a somewhat frightening experience for people, and it tends to make people exaggerate their little inconveniences into "horror stories".
It is a bad idea to build computers from scratch every time, especially in a secure environment. You would be much better off buying a standard platform, doing a clean OS install on it, securing it as much as possible, then ghosting it (if Windows). Your ghost image is your baseline configuration. Then come up with a process for adding/managing patches until the next baseline.
Perhaps terrorists are not a high priority because the politicians in power have been able to take advantage of the attacks
I don't know where you get you "facts" from, but go google FBI on google news and search for "FBI terrorism". There are plenty of ongoing deterrence activities.
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What you are neglecting is that the viewer market is not a "fixed pie" of viewers that is carved up among the channels. Actually, as the networks multiplied and grew, and more and more entertainment was available, the market itself also grew, so that the "pie" was much bigger.
A rational human being would not claim to have "disproved God", because the burden of proof is on whomever is asserting something is truep> In other words, I cannot tell you that "an invisible creature called Bagachoo created the world - if you disagree with me, prove that Bagachoo doesn't exist".
That cleaim that Bagachoo exists is arbitrary, and if YOU can't prove that Bagachoo exists, then I have no reason to even consider your claim.
Even if half the country closes their eyes and wishes for it to be true - reality is still independent of what people think.
Wishing, dreaming, or hoping cannot make something real, and in fact, it is MUCH worse than that. Someone who claims the existence of something non-existent (e.g. god), is essentially declaring war on reality as such. Now they have to live in reality while attempting to rewire their mind around something that is not even true. This fundamental attack on reality as such is why the world has not embraced reason, and why it may eventually dissolve into horror. The fight for reality IS a righteous fight - not an arbitrary, super-being decreed righteousness - but a righteousness based on the fact that reality has a specific nature, including us humans, and if we are ever to discover a philosophy for living here on earth, people need to embrace reason as man's only means of attaining knowledge.
Actually it's more like: you're up at bat, and the pitcher keeps throwing pitches, sometimes you swing, sometimes you don't, but the umpire refuses to call it until it's dark and the park is empty and the players are like "who gives a shit".
No, actually it's more like: You're the pitcher and you get through seven innings with nobody knowing that the spikes on your shoes are in violation - then they finally catch you and make you change your shoes, and you complain "These shoes are comfortable and worn it, and I need my shoe money WOOT."
Actually it's nothing like baseball at all, when I think about it.
The term "free speech" is not arbitrary, and comes from the founding fathers who used it in the spirit of "saying whatever you like so long as you don't interfere with others' rights".
That definition seems to me both theoretical and practical (a theory that doesn't work in practice is a bad theory).
If *you* want to create an online delivery system, nobody can stop *you* from doing your business. The entertainment industry is not some enourmous tit, whose nipple is withheld inches from your starving lips. In reality it is a very complex landscape, in which I am sure very great minds (not yours) are grappling to find the right way to do business. You, or nobody else, are entitled to anything. If you want it, either go out and make it happen legally *yourself*, or sit in and sulk in your dirty diapers. Your tit will come, milk baby. (And stealing is a "no-no". Bad baby.)
2. MS haters berate it.
3. People are productive with it.
4. An OSS clone appears.
5. OSS advocates claim nothing new was created - the technology existed all along and MS "stole" the effort of others.
6. Rinse & Repeat.
No matter what you don't like about movies, it does not give you the right to steal them. And if you do, you deserve to get caught and punished.
You do realize that welfare does not benefit the well-of, do you? After all, if the government opens your wallet for someone to dip into, then surely a line will form behind you of people eager to partake of your bounty.
You cannot penalize the successful, because they are successful, in the name of rewarding the failures in life - who are being rewarded because they are failures.
Life is not easy, and there are no guarantees - but life today is much easier than in pre-industrial times. Those that wish to participate in a voluntary charity system should not be prevented from doing so, but there should be no mandatory welfare state - enforced at the point of a gun.
Even if only one generation of humans could live full, happy lives before the earth melted, you wouldn't tell those humans to suffer so that ONE MORE generation could be born and suffer too.
But ironically, even if humans weren't on the planet, it would continue to get warmer! That's right, the globe has been warming ever since the last ice age, and would continue to do so until the next ice age, regardless of human involvement.
If dollars are votes, then you are NOT in the majority in your opinion.
You're dead on about subjectivity. The law is inconstituional because you cannot know in advance whether you are breaking it. The same goes for antitrust.
If grandma stops buying movies, then that is more than just the consumer being hurt - it is the movie companies, too. Movie companies have a vested interest in not confusing the holy crap out of consumers - and time is running out!
I think you missed the sarcasm in my post ;)
To be even fairer, customers shouldn't have to. The customers should be able to obtain CDs unencumbered with "prices" - I don't have any problems converting free CDs to MP3 on either PC or MAC.
3. How can I get tracks I rip from my CD into iTunes and/or onto my iPod?
Apple's proprietary technology doesn't support secure music formats other than their own and therefore the music on this disc can't be directly imported into iTunes or iPods.
Sony BMG wants music to be easily transferable to any device that supports secure music. Currently, music from our protected CDs may be transferred to hundreds of such devices, as both Microsoft and Sony have assisted to make the user experience on our discs as seamless as possible with their secure formats.
Unfortunately, in order to directly and smoothly rip content into iTunes it requires the assistance of Apple. To date, Apple has not been willing to cooperate with our protection vendors to make ripping to iTunes and to the iPod a simple experience.
If you believe that you should be able to easily move tracks from your protected CD to your iPod then we encourage you to use the following link to contact Apple directly and tell them so. http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipod.html
That said, while there is no direct support on the disc for iTunes or iPod, SONY BMG has worked out an indirect way for consumers to move content into these environments, despite the challenges noted above. If you'd like more information on how to move content to iTunes please CLICK HERE.
If Linus is anti-specs then I wonder what his stance would be on Microsoft extending and/or breaking specs in their software development.
What if someone "hacked" into your house and hijacked your family? Would you blandly chalk it up to a lesson in needing "tighter control and security"?
All these people in the industry devote their lives to the industry and work incredibly hard to achieve their goals. You (or I) don't know the first thing about the pressures and demands these people face day in, day out. But you don't have any problem scraping your fingernails on the chalkboard of whininess, and proclaiming "If anyone changes the price of music, I'll just steal it! Waaahhhhh"
Do you work for free? Have you ever changed jobs to make more money? Do you want to get by in life with more than barely subsisting in a cave with a hunk of meat? Then aren't YOU the "greedy bastard"?
If I'm going to set up a self-maintaining box, I'll get her on Win XP with auto update/reboot turned on with auto-updating anti-virus and a basic firewall. She'll be fine for quite awhile with this, as long as she is not installing anything.
You forgot OpenOffice
DITSCAP certified systems' administrators have to deal with each and every issue in a very timely fashion, so shear number of vulnerabilities does affect them.
And headlines that scream about vulnerabilities are not great press, either.
If by horror stories, you mean dealing with a beureaucrat system and the occasional use of harsh language, then please pardon my lack of tears. Traveling to other countries can be a somewhat frightening experience for people, and it tends to make people exaggerate their little inconveniences into "horror stories".
It is a bad idea to build computers from scratch every time, especially in a secure environment. You would be much better off buying a standard platform, doing a clean OS install on it, securing it as much as possible, then ghosting it (if Windows). Your ghost image is your baseline configuration. Then come up with a process for adding/managing patches until the next baseline.
I don't know where you get you "facts" from, but go google FBI on google news and search for "FBI terrorism". There are plenty of ongoing deterrence activities.