I'd also have said that non-US sites will be less prone to hyperbole, but after listening to CBC Radio One this morning, waiting for them to go back to normal programming, it because pretty damn apparent that they've got their heads up their asses as far as anyone else.
Way the heck too much repeated non-insightful non-news.
Even *after* most reports are that this is a aircraft failure and *not* a terrorist attack, they're still wasting everyone's time trying to make a story of it.
Gahd, I can hardly wait for the media to get its shit together once again.
It's got nothing to do with online, and everything to do with copy prevention that disallows one from playing one's music on the equipment of one's own choosing.
It's not necessarily online. In fact, it's better if it isn't. RIAA's really pissed about the MP3 trading. It's not nearly so pissed about the Rio and other personal music players.
What would happen if there was a lawsuit to force MS to pay its taxes?
I'm sure what it's doing is wholly legal. So what if there were a class-action suit, on behalf of all the taxpayers of the USA, that claims that the loopholes must be sealed off, and that MS must pay taxes?
Not sure there's anything in this idea, but let's see what sort of holes can be poked in it...
Please explain this in more detail. I'm quite intrigued at this idea. For instance, aren't you penalized with high taxes when you do sell your non-dividend, long-term stock?
I've lately taken to MP3s, and I've discovered a number of artists that I've quite enjoyed.
There's no goddamn way on earth that I will be buying CDs from retail stores. I made that promise two years ago, and have held true to it. All my music, until now, has been coming from pawn shops.
The last time RIAA was featured on Slashdot, their actions angered me so much that I said "Fuck RIAA with a corncob." I gave MP3s a whirl.
As a result, I've discovered a motherlode of new music that I didn't know I liked. Bluegrass. Cajun. Zydeco. A pile of early 70's hippie stuff. My god, it's been great.
There's still no goddamn way RIAA is getting a nickel of my money. But I would love to send a few of these artists five bucks. Cash, in the mail, if only I could be assured it would get into their pocket and not their secretary's.
That's five bucks more than they see if I buy a pawned CD. And it's approximately four dollars fifty cents more than they'd see from RIAA if I purchased the retail CD.
I got no problem paying the artists. I gotta big problem paying RIAA, who just fucks over the artists.
The article he refers to shows that in 2200BC -- he same date as for the meteor impact -- the Nile basically dried up. Catastrophe in the extreme for the Egyptians.
That's an important connection. I hope the two authors have heard each other's theories!
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Or it could be the way of Aikido.
In Aikido, you don't try to destroy your opponent by bashing hell out of him.
You destroy him by aligning with him, turning so that you face the same direction, allowing him throw himself using his own momentum. All you do is facilitate his action. He does all the work.
it's rather like bullfighting, I suppose. Only a fool would take the bull head-on. Rather, what's done is to let the bull pass by.
Of course, the matador then goes and sticks the bull full of spears. Linus, I think, is more subtle: he's slowly moving toward the wall. One of these times, the bull is going to run into that wall.
Which makes for an oddly appropriate metaphor, given that I'm really refering to Windows. Can't have a Window without a wall...
(And I suppose I could, if I worked at it, get in some bull-in-china-shop and stones-glass-houses stuff...)
then the real fun begins... we export the sales, too.
When was the big growth in America? During the 50's, when no one had the toys.
Who currently doesn't have the toys? Third-world nations that are going first-world.
Where will the big markets be in the near future? India and China.
What will happen? First, product manufacturing goes to those nations. Cheap labour. Second, sales go to those nations: newly-wealthy population wanting the toys they've been making. Third: America goes TitsUp.Com, because no one here is making money (the jobs fled) and no one here can buy toys cheaply (the sales fled).
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Heh. For a kick, try opening this XHTML page in MSIE. Oh, it's a perfectly valid page: heck, it even encourages you to go validate it.
Displays perfectly on Opera, of course. How's it look in Mozilla?
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Well, part of the reason the Euros can do public transportation so well is that they are willing to walk. And part of the reason they're willing to walk is that shopping malls are uncommon.
When everything you need is within a few blocks walk of your home, you don't need to go to shopping malls. And because you're walking in your neighbourhood, you're willing to walk from the bus to the library, from the bus to your workplace, from the bus to the theatre.
Of course, it also very much helps that the buses come by frequently. None of this bullshit wait-half-an-hour that we have here.
And, too, it helps that gas is bloody expensive over there, as is insurance and parking. It costs so much more to drive that there's hella incentive to use public transportation. Or to walk.
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"The indiginous people, uninitiated to the ways of Madison Avenue, would see what american had, what their country and culture lacked and it erroded their faith in their own noble cultures."
Good god... the indigenous geeks have the same reaction when they see Japanese tech magazines! I know I get PO'd whenever I see the neat shit they have in Tokyo, that I'll never be able to lay hands on here in North America.
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Alpha compositing is dead obvious to even the most naive thinker, and the patent may be invalid for that reason alone.
Those of you using Windows boxen may wish to use InCtrl5, which monitors the registry and various directories for any and all changes.
You can then go through its list and ferret out the shite that Cydoor has installed.
Anyone know of an uninstaller that can use InCtrl files? It'd be a snap to replace Windows' rather piss-poor uninstaller.
The Challenger exploded many years before the Internet was publicly accessible, and many, many years before commercial media websites were available.
There were no server problems on that day. Not heavy-traffic related, at any rate.
I'd also have said that non-US sites will be less prone to hyperbole, but after listening to CBC Radio One this morning, waiting for them to go back to normal programming, it because pretty damn apparent that they've got their heads up their asses as far as anyone else.
Way the heck too much repeated non-insightful non-news.
Even *after* most reports are that this is a aircraft failure and *not* a terrorist attack, they're still wasting everyone's time trying to make a story of it.
Gahd, I can hardly wait for the media to get its shit together once again.
Why is this article titled "Your Rights Online"?
It's got nothing to do with online, and everything to do with copy prevention that disallows one from playing one's music on the equipment of one's own choosing.
It's not necessarily online. In fact, it's better if it isn't. RIAA's really pissed about the MP3 trading. It's not nearly so pissed about the Rio and other personal music players.
Plus:
Bike
Cycle
Pedalbike
MTB
Schwinn
Cannondale
Trek
etc.
If "towelhead" were banned, people would start using "sandnigger." And if all the derogatory words were banned, someone would just invent a new one.
Problem with banning language is that new language can always be invented.
What would happen if there was a lawsuit to force MS to pay its taxes?
I'm sure what it's doing is wholly legal. So what if there were a class-action suit, on behalf of all the taxpayers of the USA, that claims that the loopholes must be sealed off, and that MS must pay taxes?
Not sure there's anything in this idea, but let's see what sort of holes can be poked in it...
Please explain this in more detail. I'm quite intrigued at this idea. For instance, aren't you penalized with high taxes when you do sell your non-dividend, long-term stock?
I've lately taken to MP3s, and I've discovered a number of artists that I've quite enjoyed.
There's no goddamn way on earth that I will be buying CDs from retail stores. I made that promise two years ago, and have held true to it. All my music, until now, has been coming from pawn shops.
The last time RIAA was featured on Slashdot, their actions angered me so much that I said "Fuck RIAA with a corncob." I gave MP3s a whirl.
As a result, I've discovered a motherlode of new music that I didn't know I liked. Bluegrass. Cajun. Zydeco. A pile of early 70's hippie stuff. My god, it's been great.
There's still no goddamn way RIAA is getting a nickel of my money. But I would love to send a few of these artists five bucks. Cash, in the mail, if only I could be assured it would get into their pocket and not their secretary's.
That's five bucks more than they see if I buy a pawned CD. And it's approximately four dollars fifty cents more than they'd see from RIAA if I purchased the retail CD.
I got no problem paying the artists. I gotta big problem paying RIAA, who just fucks over the artists.
It'll be interesting should they send a letter to my ISP. I'm up in Canada. If I get any heat about my Gnutella use, I'll be laying claim in court.
I pay a surtax on CDs that goes to the music industry. By that basis alone, I believe I have the legal right to copy as much music as I wish.
...you find something else to do. Life is way too short to waste it doing stuff you don't enjoy. Go seek out something new and exciting. Stay alive!
MARK THAT GUY UP!
The article he refers to shows that in 2200BC -- he same date as for the meteor impact -- the Nile basically dried up. Catastrophe in the extreme for the Egyptians.
That's an important connection. I hope the two authors have heard each other's theories!
AFAIK, it didn't actually impact.
Or it could be the way of Aikido.
In Aikido, you don't try to destroy your opponent by bashing hell out of him.
You destroy him by aligning with him, turning so that you face the same direction, allowing him throw himself using his own momentum. All you do is facilitate his action. He does all the work.
it's rather like bullfighting, I suppose. Only a fool would take the bull head-on. Rather, what's done is to let the bull pass by.
Of course, the matador then goes and sticks the bull full of spears. Linus, I think, is more subtle: he's slowly moving toward the wall. One of these times, the bull is going to run into that wall.
Which makes for an oddly appropriate metaphor, given that I'm really refering to Windows. Can't have a Window without a wall...
(And I suppose I could, if I worked at it, get in some bull-in-china-shop and stones-glass-houses stuff...)
then the real fun begins... we export the sales, too.
When was the big growth in America? During the 50's, when no one had the toys.
Who currently doesn't have the toys? Third-world nations that are going first-world.
Where will the big markets be in the near future? India and China.
What will happen? First, product manufacturing goes to those nations. Cheap labour. Second, sales go to those nations: newly-wealthy population wanting the toys they've been making. Third: America goes TitsUp.Com, because no one here is making money (the jobs fled) and no one here can buy toys cheaply (the sales fled).
Whoo-hoo! What fuN!
Dammit, Jesus, I thought you were all-knowing!
Flamebait?!
Jesus Christ, is the American corporate media moderating Slashdot? Or is it the Political Contributions Machine itself doing the moderating?
Those are the only two reasons that could explain why a post that says wrong is wrong: demand better from your leaders would be marked flamebait.
Keep the masses uninformed, unquestioning, unthinking -- way to go, moderators!
Let's not forget Clinton's Lincoln Bedroom hotel. Let's not forget his last minute pardons.
What a stupid fucking thing to say.
Yes, Clinton was a whore, a cheat, a liar, and a creep. That doesn't make Bush's cheating, lying, and selling-out "right."
Two wrongs don't make a right. Wrong is just wrong.
Clinton's wrongs don't cancel Bush's wrongs, nor vice-versa.
You deserve better. Demand that your leaders behave with honour.
Could you give me one example where information has harmed anyone at all...
I was traumatized when I learned that my parents had sex. (Can I sue them?)
Latest Opera (or what will be the latest) does PNG. Quite possibly better PNG than anyone else...
WTF are you on about? The bit you refer to looks like this:
h1 {
color : #333333;
}
How is that "so many tabs"? It's *ONE* tab. Hell, it's a common CSS structure.
Sounds like a clone of Opera.
Heh. For a kick, try opening this XHTML page in MSIE. Oh, it's a perfectly valid page: heck, it even encourages you to go validate it.
Displays perfectly on Opera, of course. How's it look in Mozilla?
Well, part of the reason the Euros can do public transportation so well is that they are willing to walk. And part of the reason they're willing to walk is that shopping malls are uncommon.
When everything you need is within a few blocks walk of your home, you don't need to go to shopping malls. And because you're walking in your neighbourhood, you're willing to walk from the bus to the library, from the bus to your workplace, from the bus to the theatre.
Of course, it also very much helps that the buses come by frequently. None of this bullshit wait-half-an-hour that we have here.
And, too, it helps that gas is bloody expensive over there, as is insurance and parking. It costs so much more to drive that there's hella incentive to use public transportation. Or to walk.
"The indiginous people, uninitiated to the ways of Madison Avenue, would see what american had, what their country and culture lacked and it erroded their faith in their own noble cultures."
Good god... the indigenous geeks have the same reaction when they see Japanese tech magazines! I know I get PO'd whenever I see the neat shit they have in Tokyo, that I'll never be able to lay hands on here in North America.