I conceed that Napster is making money off of others. I also conceed, that most people on there are for copyrighted material. The point however is, that napster can and has been used to distribute non-RIAA (however unsuccesfully) material, mine included. Now with nothing more than corporate power and money, they have shut off an avenue of MY right to free speech. I am a napster user and an artist. Did I ever use napster to download copyrighted material? It matters not, as I also used it for non-copyrighted material.
I an analogy to FedEx in this thread or Katz's about if 90% of FedEx's business was transporting bootleg movies, FedEx would be in the clear because they are the courier.
Well, Napster is the courier here, people use it how they choose. Without Napster (or FedEx) people will still find ways of getting the good's because the roads (the internet) are still there.
"...now have a chance to offer consumers music downloads on their own terms. This displays their current lack of understanding of the real problems that users are seeking to remedy with Napster and the other music/file trading options."
I dont think the music industry has any lack of understanding when it comes to the problems we "pirates" are trying to remedy. They know their distribution mechanism is severly flawed, but it is flawed entirely in their favor. They control (for the most part) the media that influnces what you buy (think radio and MTV). They countrol the distribution method so that they, make the most out of it (and of course the few artists that have mass appeal due to their help). Everyone else get the short end of the shaft.
Why would they want that to change? Even if things like napster caused people to go out and buy MORE music, it may not be the music they are promoting. Having that kind of power over the masses is something I dont think many individuals would give up, much less a corporation. I am not naive enough to think that this is for monetary reasons only. The music industry has power over poeple, power that is clearly illustrated by the fact that as sharaing technologies became more prevalent, the majority of what you see is MAINSTREAM music, Nsync, Brittany Spears, Eminem, ect. Most of the music is fun yes, but talented and emotional, probably not. However it is what is getting crammed down peoples nural pathways by radio and MTV at the cost of millions of dollars. That in and of itself show the gullibility of the masses, and that is what the RIAA and the MPAA exploit.
I myself am a musician. Not a very good one, but you know what my opinion of my music is? I do it for ME. It is a release of my creative energy, my emotion. If other people hear it and like it then great, but if not no loss because I did it for ME. Now yes, I put my music up on places like mp3.com and napster for public exposure. Why? Because no matter how bad I suck, I want to hear other peoples opinions and critiques (sp?).
I have mad all of about $10 from the mp3.com pay for play program, and also put my music out through napster, normally before releasing it on mp3.com. Now what? The RIAA has spent millions, silencing ME an artist, by shutting down one of my distribution channels. Even if I was good, I would never distribute or promote through corporations that behave like that.
I think the RIAA is fighting this battle more for the POWER than the MONEY. The fact that they are still breaking profit records I think proves that. Ok... rant over.. return to your lives people...
I am nowhere near stupid enough to thinnk that this will be free (free beer?). So I wonder what it will cost. Looking at the Press Release, it looks like some bigger names are using it and are satisfied with it's results.
I myself would love to have a go at animation at that level, just to play around, but in all likelyhood the software costs thousands of dollars, well beyond my price range.
Speaking of price ranges the Release mentions that, "The expansion of the Toonz product to these new platforms increases the accessibility of the industry's leading 2-D cel animation software to a broader base of animators." woopty fucking doo daa. How if the software costs a fortune, then you are really not opening it up to a broader base of animators, as the animators who know, use, and can afford your product already have NT or IRIX at their desk, and could care less if it is ported to Linux.
When the Shuttle is up, the Space Control Center at Cheyenne mountain watches the shuttle and places a 1km box around it. If anything comes within 36 hours of hitting that box based on trajectory and speed, A special NASA hotline is notified so course adjustmens can be made. In all of the shuttle missions, this had to be done 7 times.
I believe that if they started tethering things, they would increase the size of the box and the lead time to any possible impact for notification of NASA.
However, I can see MANY complications, IE you are moving some satellite and the tether breaks, leaving the device with a completely different orbit and speed.
I know docking or catching a sattelit with the Shuttle is inherently dangerous, so while this may seem safer, you are putting the sattelites at more risk.
Now I can blow stuff into bloody giblets of glee again. IMO though, I like stuff with a little more substance. For Quake 2, Action Quake was hands down THE best mod. Action Half-life just doesnt quite measure up but its fun. Counter-strike is awesome and of course has Gooseman from the old AQ2 staff, and while it is an extremely well done mod, it is more militaristic, and lacks some of the just plain hilarious fun of Action. I myself am waiting for Action Unreal Tournament to go beta, it looks very promisong for a mod, especially given that the Unreal engine, while not as graphically pretty as the Q3 engine, is easier to map in, and runs MUCH faster.
Plus UT was just better from the get-go with more game options and such.
This type of thing makes me wonder, how much garbage has Jupiter (and our other gas giant planets) colelcted and thus reduced the chance of a major impact on earth.
Since we are also discovering gas giants far larger than jupiter orbiting other stars, does that mean that the 'could' be protecting more inner planets than Jupiter in our solar system.
Since they found NO reference to soccer in Corinthians (KJV, Bible) or in the rest of the bible, the not only ordered corinthians.com to hand over the doamin, but the books of the Corinthians in every new bible printed must at least display a (c) Corinthians Soccer, brazil, at the bottom of each page, and an appendix chapter in the book with the previous years team standings.
Good points, but even though the internet removes boundaries, and limits (at least geographically) the human mind still craves them. Am I dealing with sony of japan, sony of america, sony of germany, ect.
You give them a domain in EACH country they do business. With more domains under the geographical (like.shop,.film ect), strictly enforced, we would not have this petty little problems.
Countries should be forced to use their geographical TLD, including the US. But instead we have no one enforcing TLD usage, domain squabbling, and stupid judgements.
I have said this before, and I will say it again, no TLD structure will work, unless those with authority over the TLD's and registration processes effectively verify that each registrant is using the TLD per it's definition.
As it stands, the second they open up any new TLD's major corporations and domain squatters will grab up just about everything that is available.
The definations for TLD's were good, but they were never adhered too, and currently I don't see any change to that.
The whole system should now be ripped out, because as with anything else, it has become greedy mongering for www.mycorporation.everything.
The tld's imposed organization ad structure that made sense, but no one had sense enough to stick with it. Granted, that cant really be blamed on any one person or organization as nobody forsaw the explosive persoronl and corporate growth of the internet untill it was already too late. Now it has grown so large that nothing at all is going to be done about TLD misuse ever, as anyone with money will feed their congressperson to oppose it.
Very true, however automobiles, and their most basic processes have been a part of society for a century. What is needed to be known about such a pervasive part of society is ingrained at every turn. For instance your dad forcing you to hold the flashlight at 1AM as he futzes with changing the belts then takes it to the mechanic. That type of knowledge (subliminal if you will) has grown since the car became a commodity. Do you think that in the early days of the automobile, everyone that had one knew as much as you do about yours, which is significantly more complex, but works on the same principles? Sure, mechanincs and automobile 'geeks' of the day knew what they were doing, but there was not as much burden, as there increase in automobile usage was not nearly as exponential an increase as there is in computer usage.
Technology, computing specifically, is new to the majority of users, the know that they CAN use the computer as a tool, but they lack the basic skills and knowledge to manipulate that tool to its fullest. They lack the knowledge to proctec themselves from spammers, virii, ect. WHY DO YOU THINK WE ALL HAVE JOBS???
As time goes on, computing will become safer, and easier for the masses. At the same time the masses will gradually accumulate more of the basic knowledge to keep from annoying so much, so we will have more time for our QUAKE 15 deathmatch.
I happen to think e-voting would be a great benefit, but MANY conditions need to be met first. This list of conditions is far from inclusive however.
1. An accurate, encrypted out-of-band authentication method. Someone mentioned europes ID cards. screw that, someone will figure them out. Now, a cybernetic chip implanted would be a start. Although this could still be replicated, it can be made extremely difficult.
2. Independent, external verification on MULTIPLE levels. Ie verification ot the authentication processes, verification of the tallying processes, verification of the gathering processes.
Granted, there are a LOT of stupid people out there, but there are also a lot of smart ones. I would feel more comfortable making voting more accessable and putting the government BACK in the hands of THE PEOPLE, whether I agree with the masses or not. Right now people don't bother to go vote, because things are so bad they truly do not see the point. If you make voting easier, at least they may say their piece, and actually start some change.
Regardless of how much I dislike things, I feel that the next 10-20 years are going to bring major change to the worlds sciopolitical structure, and the internet is going to hold a big piece of that, like it or not.
Just because and advanced technology/society might be indstinguishable from God, dos not mean that god does not exist.
If I gather correctly from the review, both alien civs and of course our own developed in largle similar ways. Large catyclysmic events gave birth to intellect and consciouness, the question becomes was that contrived by a higher power.
If there are enough similarities in how that came to be in enough different places, I can see where it could be consrued that A higher power was at work.
Oh well, I can't seem to put together a coherent thought, but the wheels sure are grinding. Looks like a book I will have to read now!
I always new you had that crossdressing side! When are we gonna hook up? I could see you and hemos in sequined dresses at the next Linux Expo! #include caffiene.c
There may be naysayers that discount how many options AMD will be producing, but think about it, it sure beats the well named pentium 4. Options never hurt, there will be multiple levels for different needs. I am currently VERY happy with the athalon, I don't know anyone who isn't.
As long as their archetecture beats alot of the old x86 stuff into the dirt while keeping compatibility, who gives a rats ass. Your old compilers will work, however poorly they perfor mext to compilers optimized for the instruction set wont matter, because even with out major rewrites you can get old apps working with minimum fuss. Nothing wrong with that in the slightest.
Intel you can kiss my lily white ass.. I know where my dollars go. And with the EV bus they should compete relatively well with Alpha CPU's which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
I just wonder what is going to happen to transmeta... I want to see them do so well, the idea behind thier gear is amazing, to me at least.
While many of the benifits and nightmares may be possible with such new technology. What are the real chances they will be used in the ways you suggest?
Hell, right now its just a map of the genes, we still dont know what the fuck most of them do, thats years even decades down the road.
While I agree that as a society, we fall FAR behind our technology, and are very inequiped to do so, there arent many periods in time when humankind felt otherwise.
As a species, we push to learn, to do, to create. With that comes the LACK of knwoledge to use what we learn, that comes in time, after we blow up a couple pacific islands with nukes, ect.
Hell, even if we do manage to destroy ourselves with our lack of ethics, as you said, much of the world can't or won't have access to this technology, so they will continue to live as before, hopefully learning from our mistake that if you splice gene ddFgx, with y9Aqw it causes all humans to sneeze a higly toxic mist:)
At first glance, this sounds just like another case of sue the big guy and get some money. Which, in many situations is not necessarily a bad thing. I myself am sick of being raped by the big guys (RIAA, pharm. corps, big tobacco, ect.). But in actuality he has a legitamate point.
Nike is a gargantuan corporation with virtually infinite resources and they get hacked. This caused significant problems to the ISP's network and other customers, disrupting business. IMO, nike should ahve at least sad "uh, we fucked up.. here is some compensation." But as I read this, it would seem that Nike did NOTHING. Nothing except fix the problems, and then whine about being hacked. Whhopty woo, boxes get compromised every single day. If yours is, and it causes sever problems for someone else, wouldn't you at least apologise? I would.
It does open up some interesting legal questions, like the slashdotted server question posted earlier, but in effect thats different./. posted an article with links back to sites with th 'real dirt' on the topic. From there on it is individual people causing the site and its provider trauma, there is no compromise of any system. However in many cases, if the increased rtaffic is sustained, do you not think the providers asks the/.'ed site for more greenbacks?
Well.. without know what wavelenght laser they are using, it is hard to predict what envornmental issues might effect it, but here is an idea.
You have several laser guns/recievers on the same building all pointing in different directions... say within a 30-50 degree differenc of each other. Thos signals are all the same and subject to differing amounts of interference. Those signals are all picked up and rebroadcast at different angles to their destination. Adds a little bit of path redundancy.
I could also see being on the roof of a building in the middle and putting up a beam splitter and a couple mirrors and sniffing the media.....
Slashdot Mirror
A few of these I am sure are wandering the universe, bouncing among the planets.
Oh, and science has already brought you talking fruit. It is called LSD-25.
www.mp3.com/Undocumented
I conceed that Napster is making money off of others. I also conceed, that most people on there are for copyrighted material. The point however is, that napster can and has been used to distribute non-RIAA (however unsuccesfully) material, mine included. Now with nothing more than corporate power and money, they have shut off an avenue of MY right to free speech. I am a napster user and an artist. Did I ever use napster to download copyrighted material? It matters not, as I also used it for non-copyrighted material.
I an analogy to FedEx in this thread or Katz's about if 90% of FedEx's business was transporting bootleg movies, FedEx would be in the clear because they are the courier.
Well, Napster is the courier here, people use it how they choose. Without Napster (or FedEx) people will still find ways of getting the good's because the roads (the internet) are still there.
www.mp3.com/Undocumented
I dont think the music industry has any lack of understanding when it comes to the problems we "pirates" are trying to remedy. They know their distribution mechanism is severly flawed, but it is flawed entirely in their favor. They control (for the most part) the media that influnces what you buy (think radio and MTV). They countrol the distribution method so that they, make the most out of it (and of course the few artists that have mass appeal due to their help). Everyone else get the short end of the shaft.
Why would they want that to change? Even if things like napster caused people to go out and buy MORE music, it may not be the music they are promoting. Having that kind of power over the masses is something I dont think many individuals would give up, much less a corporation. I am not naive enough to think that this is for monetary reasons only. The music industry has power over poeple, power that is clearly illustrated by the fact that as sharaing technologies became more prevalent, the majority of what you see is MAINSTREAM music, Nsync, Brittany Spears, Eminem, ect. Most of the music is fun yes, but talented and emotional, probably not. However it is what is getting crammed down peoples nural pathways by radio and MTV at the cost of millions of dollars. That in and of itself show the gullibility of the masses, and that is what the RIAA and the MPAA exploit.
I myself am a musician. Not a very good one, but you know what my opinion of my music is? I do it for ME. It is a release of my creative energy, my emotion. If other people hear it and like it then great, but if not no loss because I did it for ME. Now yes, I put my music up on places like mp3.com and napster for public exposure. Why? Because no matter how bad I suck, I want to hear other peoples opinions and critiques (sp?).
I have mad all of about $10 from the mp3.com pay for play program, and also put my music out through napster, normally before releasing it on mp3.com. Now what? The RIAA has spent millions, silencing ME an artist, by shutting down one of my distribution channels. Even if I was good, I would never distribute or promote through corporations that behave like that.
I think the RIAA is fighting this battle more for the POWER than the MONEY. The fact that they are still breaking profit records I think proves that.
Ok... rant over.. return to your lives people...
www.mp3.com/Undocumented
I am nowhere near stupid enough to thinnk that this will be free (free beer?). So I wonder what it will cost. Looking at the Press Release, it looks like some bigger names are using it and are satisfied with it's results.
I myself would love to have a go at animation at that level, just to play around, but in all likelyhood the software costs thousands of dollars, well beyond my price range.
Speaking of price ranges the Release mentions that, "The expansion of the Toonz product to these new platforms
increases the accessibility of the industry's leading 2-D cel animation software to a broader base of animators." woopty fucking doo daa. How if the software costs a fortune, then you are really not opening it up to a broader base of animators, as the animators who know, use, and can afford your product already have NT or IRIX at their desk, and could care less if it is ported to Linux.
www.mp3.com/Undocumented
When the Shuttle is up, the Space Control Center at Cheyenne mountain watches the shuttle and places a 1km box around it. If anything comes within 36 hours of hitting that box based on trajectory and speed, A special NASA hotline is notified so course adjustmens can be made. In all of the shuttle missions, this had to be done 7 times.
I believe that if they started tethering things, they would increase the size of the box and the lead time to any possible impact for notification of NASA.
www.mp3.com/Undocumented
However, I can see MANY complications, IE you are moving some satellite and the tether breaks, leaving the device with a completely different orbit and speed.
:)
I know docking or catching a sattelit with the Shuttle is inherently dangerous, so while this may seem safer, you are putting the sattelites at more risk.
SUPPORT SATTELITE PROTECTION LEGISLATION
www.mp3.com/Undocumented
Nope... no plans. Beta's for Action Half-Life are out, and Action UT is in the works.
Action Quake 2
Action Half Life
Action Unreal Tournament
www.mp3.com/Undocumented
Now I can blow stuff into bloody giblets of glee again. IMO though, I like stuff with a little more substance. For Quake 2, Action Quake was hands down THE best mod. Action Half-life just doesnt quite measure up but its fun. Counter-strike is awesome and of course has Gooseman from the old AQ2 staff, and while it is an extremely well done mod, it is more militaristic, and lacks some of the just plain hilarious fun of Action. I myself am waiting for Action Unreal Tournament to go beta, it looks very promisong for a mod, especially given that the Unreal engine, while not as graphically pretty as the Q3 engine, is easier to map in, and runs MUCH faster.
Plus UT was just better from the get-go with more game options and such.
www.mp3.com/Undocumented
This type of thing makes me wonder, how much garbage has Jupiter (and our other gas giant planets) colelcted and thus reduced the chance of a major impact on earth.
Since we are also discovering gas giants far larger than jupiter orbiting other stars, does that mean that the 'could' be protecting more inner planets than Jupiter in our solar system.
Makes ya wonder.
www.mp3.com/Undocumented
Sorry... it was meant to be joking... yo know kinda funny. I raely even check my Score bonus off... sorry if I offended.
www.mp3.com/Undocumented
Since they found NO reference to soccer in Corinthians (KJV, Bible) or in the rest of the bible, the not only ordered corinthians.com to hand over the doamin, but the books of the Corinthians in every new bible printed must at least display a (c) Corinthians Soccer, brazil, at the bottom of each page, and an appendix chapter in the book with the previous years team standings.
Seems the bible was a copyright violation too.
www.mp3.com/Undocumented
Good points, but even though the internet removes boundaries, and limits (at least geographically) the human mind still craves them. Am I dealing with sony of japan, sony of america, sony of germany, ect.
www.mp3.com/Undocumented
You give them a domain in EACH country they do business. With more domains under the geographical (like .shop,.film ect), strictly enforced, we would not have this petty little problems.
www.mp3.com/Undocumented
Countries should be forced to use their geographical TLD, including the US. But instead we have no one enforcing TLD usage, domain squabbling, and stupid judgements.
Ain't that nice.
I hate the internet.
www.mp3.com/Undocumented
I have said this before, and I will say it again, no TLD structure will work, unless those with authority over the TLD's and registration processes effectively verify that each registrant is using the TLD per it's definition.
As it stands, the second they open up any new TLD's major corporations and domain squatters will grab up just about everything that is available.
The definations for TLD's were good, but they were never adhered too, and currently I don't see any change to that.
The whole system should now be ripped out, because as with anything else, it has become greedy mongering for www.mycorporation.everything.
The tld's imposed organization ad structure that made sense, but no one had sense enough to stick with it. Granted, that cant really be blamed on any one person or organization as nobody forsaw the explosive persoronl and corporate growth of the internet untill it was already too late. Now it has grown so large that nothing at all is going to be done about TLD misuse ever, as anyone with money will feed their congressperson to oppose it.
Gotta love corporate america.
www.mp3.com/Undocumented
I see your point there... however you slice it though change needs to be made.
Society as it stands right now is inept at dealing with the way or government operates. The way our government operates is inherently fsck'd to hell.
www.mp3.com/Undocumented
Very true, however automobiles, and their most basic processes have been a part of society for a century. What is needed to be known about such a pervasive part of society is ingrained at every turn. For instance your dad forcing you to hold the flashlight at 1AM as he futzes with changing the belts then takes it to the mechanic. That type of knowledge (subliminal if you will) has grown since the car became a commodity. Do you think that in the early days of the automobile, everyone that had one knew as much as you do about yours, which is significantly more complex, but works on the same principles? Sure, mechanincs and automobile 'geeks' of the day knew what they were doing, but there was not as much burden, as there increase in automobile usage was not nearly as exponential an increase as there is in computer usage.
Technology, computing specifically, is new to the majority of users, the know that they CAN use the computer as a tool, but they lack the basic skills and knowledge to manipulate that tool to its fullest. They lack the knowledge to proctec themselves from spammers, virii, ect. WHY DO YOU THINK WE ALL HAVE JOBS???
As time goes on, computing will become safer, and easier for the masses. At the same time the masses will gradually accumulate more of the basic knowledge to keep from annoying so much, so we will have more time for our QUAKE 15 deathmatch.
www.mp3.com/Undocumented
I happen to think e-voting would be a great benefit, but MANY conditions need to be met first.
This list of conditions is far from inclusive however.
1. An accurate, encrypted out-of-band authentication method. Someone mentioned europes ID cards. screw that, someone will figure them out. Now, a cybernetic chip implanted would be a start. Although this could still be replicated, it can be made extremely difficult.
2. Independent, external verification on MULTIPLE levels. Ie verification ot the authentication processes, verification of the tallying processes, verification of the gathering processes.
Granted, there are a LOT of stupid people out there, but there are also a lot of smart ones. I would feel more comfortable making voting more accessable and putting the government BACK in the hands of THE PEOPLE, whether I agree with the masses or not. Right now people don't bother to go vote, because things are so bad they truly do not see the point. If you make voting easier, at least they may say their piece, and actually start some change.
Regardless of how much I dislike things, I feel that the next 10-20 years are going to bring major change to the worlds sciopolitical structure, and the internet is going to hold a big piece of that, like it or not.
www.mp3.com/Undocumented
Just because and advanced technology/society might be indstinguishable from God, dos not mean that god does not exist.
If I gather correctly from the review, both alien civs and of course our own developed in largle similar ways. Large catyclysmic events gave birth to intellect and consciouness, the question becomes was that contrived by a higher power.
If there are enough similarities in how that came to be in enough different places, I can see where it could be consrued that A higher power was at work.
Oh well, I can't seem to put together a coherent thought, but the wheels sure are grinding. Looks like a book I will have to read now!
#include caffiene.c
I always new you had that crossdressing side! When are we gonna hook up?
I could see you and hemos in sequined dresses at the next Linux Expo!
#include caffiene.c
There may be naysayers that discount how many options AMD will be producing, but think about it, it sure beats the well named pentium 4. Options never hurt, there will be multiple levels for different needs. I am currently VERY happy with the athalon, I don't know anyone who isn't.
As long as their archetecture beats alot of the old x86 stuff into the dirt while keeping compatibility, who gives a rats ass. Your old compilers will work, however poorly they perfor mext to compilers optimized for the instruction set wont matter, because even with out major rewrites you can get old apps working with minimum fuss. Nothing wrong with that in the slightest.
Intel you can kiss my lily white ass.. I know where my dollars go. And with the EV bus they should compete relatively well with Alpha CPU's which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
I just wonder what is going to happen to transmeta... I want to see them do so well, the idea behind thier gear is amazing, to me at least.
#include caffiene.c
While many of the benifits and nightmares may be possible with such new technology. What are the real chances they will be used in the ways you suggest?
:)
Hell, right now its just a map of the genes, we still dont know what the fuck most of them do, thats years even decades down the road.
While I agree that as a society, we fall FAR behind our technology, and are very inequiped to do so, there arent many periods in time when humankind felt otherwise.
As a species, we push to learn, to do, to create. With that comes the LACK of knwoledge to use what we learn, that comes in time, after we blow up a couple pacific islands with nukes, ect.
Hell, even if we do manage to destroy ourselves with our lack of ethics, as you said, much of the world can't or won't have access to this technology, so they will continue to live as before, hopefully learning from our mistake that if you splice gene ddFgx, with y9Aqw it causes all humans to sneeze a higly toxic mist
Laters....
#include caffiene.c
(Disclaimer.. IANAL!)
/. posted an article with links back to sites with th 'real dirt' on the topic. From there on it is individual people causing the site and its provider trauma, there is no compromise of any system. However in many cases, if the increased rtaffic is sustained, do you not think the providers asks the /.'ed site for more greenbacks?
At first glance, this sounds just like another case of sue the big guy and get some money. Which, in many situations is not necessarily a bad thing. I myself am sick of being raped by the big guys (RIAA, pharm. corps, big tobacco, ect.). But in actuality he has a legitamate point.
Nike is a gargantuan corporation with virtually infinite resources and they get hacked. This caused significant problems to the ISP's network and other customers, disrupting business. IMO, nike should ahve at least sad "uh, we fucked up.. here is some compensation." But as I read this, it would seem that Nike did NOTHING. Nothing except fix the problems, and then whine about being hacked. Whhopty woo, boxes get compromised every single day. If yours is, and it causes sever problems for someone else, wouldn't you at least apologise? I would.
It does open up some interesting legal questions, like the slashdotted server question posted earlier, but in effect thats different.
#include caffiene.c
Well.. without know what wavelenght laser they are using, it is hard to predict what envornmental issues might effect it, but here is an idea.
You have several laser guns/recievers on the same building all pointing in different directions... say within a 30-50 degree differenc of each other. Thos signals are all the same and subject to differing amounts of interference. Those signals are all picked up and rebroadcast at different angles to their destination. Adds a little bit of path redundancy.
I could also see being on the roof of a building in the middle and putting up a beam splitter and a couple mirrors and sniffing the media.....
"Get your stinking hands off me you damn dirty ape!!!!"