"So who suffers? The criminals and terrorsts? Hell no- they'll just route around it. That leaves only one other class...the vast, vast majority of people who are neither terrorists nor criminals."
I have been able to use it all by myself.. and I KNOW I wasn't moving it...
Although now i must strongly warn anyone who considers doing the same to never do so, if you don't already believe in good and evil you sure will and fast...
"Illegal File Sharing is not an academic/research activity"
I thought the whole point of I2 was for research and development of a new internet. Wouldn't transferring huge amounts of data help in the research? IF so then it wouldn't be "illegal"....
I have an idea about combatting lawsuits from the RIAA as well, let me know what you guys think:
If you get subpoenaed just submit to the judge that yes you did download but you own a license for every song you downloaded so you didn't break the law.
Then find out what songs they list in their brief against you and go buy it in legit form, like singles, cd, etc...
That way when you have to prove that you have the license for the copyright you will have it and save yourself about $735 per song (since the minimum is a $750 fine per song copyright violation).
Seems a lot beter than giving the bloodsucking RIAA lawyers your money plus tying up their time in court making it futile to continue on suing people en-mass because of the cost of litigation (if everyone who was subpoenaed did this).
"But for you and people like you to even try to pretend that there's no piracy issue and that it isn't costing the industry any money is utterly stupid and naive."
I think the point has been made many times that in fact piracy ISN'T costing the industry money when you look at the big picture.
Like I downloaded a britney spears song but would I have ever paid for it? if the answer is no then the music company didn't lose any money. (the answer is no;))
I downloaded some Bare Naked Ladies songs to sample some of their other music after seeing a documentary online, I liked their music so much I went and bought a CD of their greatest hits, then I went to see them in concert... if I hadn't been able to download those songs would I have bought a CD? Probably not, so they actually made money off of my downloading.
These are just 2 examples and I may not represent the norm, but you have to realisticly ask would the people downloading actually buy this music if they couldn't download it? I think for the majority of people the answer is no, thus there are no lost profits.
IF you want to argue the morality or legality of downloading that is different, but from a financial standpoint I don't believe it is downloading that is hurting the music biz, it is the music biz that is hurting themselves.
"that will give humans knowledge and possibly control over not only complex movements but less-than desirable mental functions such as aggression and overeating."
Just who will be deciding what mental functions are the less desirable ones?
Doesn't anyone else find this a scary development?
How far from thought and mind control are we actually?
Like a thousand times before, it's just PR plain and simple.. whenever the chips fall Intel firmly reminds them the price cuts they are getting and how they might not be feasible if the quantities they are buying decrease (I.E. if they start using AMD processors).
Dell sold it's soul to Intel in order to have the most competitive prices on the reseller Intel market, now they realize how costly it will be to get that soul back (by giving customers what they want E.G. AMD cpus...).
Actually in referrence to Paintball tanks the POF is usually the fill valve which can easily become deteriorated or breeched (and then sends the air tank flying through the air at high speeds).
So when used in cars I would worried about this failing rather than the outside of the tank itself in a high speed collision.
"Every country has had to go through some sort of civil rights movement, some peaceful, some not."
True but should we be held to the stadards of other countries or should we (being the first truely "Free" country, of the people, for the people) be held to a higher standard?
At least we could have had a peaceful movement, at the very least.
"Sure, also because the capitalist system kicked their ass. Plus many many more reasons, partly because umm the good old USA didn't let the russians get into western europe."
Um ok, Explain how our capitalist system "kicked their ass"... gl with that.
"Yes we lost the vietnam war because the public didn't want it. The US military on the otherhand kicked the Vietcongs ass."
We lost the Vietnam war because the Vietnamese would have ALL died rather than give in to us, if you don't remember history, the Tet offensive basically kicked our ass and we fled the country...
"But in reality it was because of US media that showed the war first hand to the people of the US that the war was stopped."
See above, your saying that the protests did anything to stop the war? see above...
"The fact that our Civil Rights Movement was peaceful also says a lot about American Culture. Let's not forget what 2 world wars say about other countries cultures."
Peaceful?!?!? There were countless Black people murdered left and right during the Civil rights movement, remember Harlem burning? Do you even know anything about this countries history?!?
"Guess who saved their ass from the Soviets, or umm the war that the french started that escalated into the Vietnam war. Or maybe about the civil rights movements that was occuring during that time?"
Am I crazy or did the Soviets collapse under their own political greed?
Didn't we lose the war in Vietnam?
That we had to even HAVE a civil rights movement speaks volumes about American culture...
"The issue here is that parents should be as responsible as you are at a minimum. Not that a law or a politician can make this happen, but it needs to be in the forefront of the minds of all parents...that they should frame the violence of today's world in comprehendable terms to a child, not expose them to unreasonable violence and actually give them commendation and higher game scores for more violent actions. "
I don't remember specifically, she was pretty into it for a bit there but we play so many games as a family it really varies from week to week/month to month.
Her favorite game I would have to say is Dungeon Keeper (great game btw) because she has control over all of her little "minions" and can build things for them to do and places for them to eat and such (she doesn't go for the typical "evil conquest" role the game is geared towards)
Lately we (I have 3 kids total) have been playing custom maps for Warcraft 3, where you defend a castle as a team, or RPG through quests laid out in the map design, it's great for teaching cooperation and working together to achieve goals.
I think these games are great (much better than watching TV imho) because we get to play and interact through the game as a family.
I think it really all boils down to how involved you are with your kids while they are playing these games, to guide them and make sure they understand the difference between good and bad, right and wrong, reality and fantasy...
"What a great kid! You must live in a terrific village!"
For the most part I don't let anyone raise my kid but me, I just see too many badly behaved kids and careless parents... maybe if I lived in a village of dedicated parents yes.
"or maybe your parenting skills played some small role in how she's turning out"
I think this has a lot to do with it, as well as restricting what you child sees/plays or if they do see/play then explaining things to them (like sex, how to treat others, etc..)
So I didn't mean to insult your brother previously, your brother needs to make these decisions on his own as do I and I'm sure he does a fine job of it, I just wanted to show that GTA doesn't make monsters, parents do;)
"Most of Europe allows their kids to drink wine with dinner."
Yah Wine with dinner is fine, it actually helps to loosen them up a bit, the trick is to put the wine in soda cans (or have your live in maid do it for you).
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"So who suffers? The criminals and terrorsts? Hell no- they'll just route around it. That leaves only one other class...the vast, vast majority of people who are neither terrorists nor criminals."
Hmm, reminds me of copy protection on game cds...
""Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them""
;)
Good book, full of cool eye opening facts, all backed up by a lot of research.
Check it out if you get a chance.. it's on tape or ebook also if you commute a lot
"That film was rated PG, and was not generally described as bloody."
I guess because the light saber cauterizes the wound when severing a limb? Same with the pulse rifles...
"The classic example is the Ouija board...."
Seems like you didn't know what you were doing...
I have been able to use it all by myself.. and I KNOW I wasn't moving it...
Although now i must strongly warn anyone who considers doing the same to never do so, if you don't already believe in good and evil you sure will and fast...
When i run solitare it uses 1.8mb of memory... is that so extravagant?
"Illegal File Sharing is not an academic/research activity"
I thought the whole point of I2 was for research and development of a new internet. Wouldn't transferring huge amounts of data help in the research? IF so then it wouldn't be "illegal"....
I have an idea about combatting lawsuits from the RIAA as well, let me know what you guys think:
If you get subpoenaed just submit to the judge that yes you did download but you own a license for every song you downloaded so you didn't break the law.
Then find out what songs they list in their brief against you and go buy it in legit form, like singles, cd, etc...
That way when you have to prove that you have the license for the copyright you will have it and save yourself about $735 per song (since the minimum is a $750 fine per song copyright violation).
Seems a lot beter than giving the bloodsucking RIAA lawyers your money plus tying up their time in court making it futile to continue on suing people en-mass because of the cost of litigation (if everyone who was subpoenaed did this).
"But for you and people like you to even try to pretend that there's no piracy issue and that it isn't costing the industry any money is utterly stupid and naive."
;))
I think the point has been made many times that in fact piracy ISN'T costing the industry money when you look at the big picture.
Like I downloaded a britney spears song but would I have ever paid for it? if the answer is no then the music company didn't lose any money. (the answer is no
I downloaded some Bare Naked Ladies songs to sample some of their other music after seeing a documentary online, I liked their music so much I went and bought a CD of their greatest hits, then I went to see them in concert... if I hadn't been able to download those songs would I have bought a CD? Probably not, so they actually made money off of my downloading.
These are just 2 examples and I may not represent the norm, but you have to realisticly ask would the people downloading actually buy this music if they couldn't download it? I think for the majority of people the answer is no, thus there are no lost profits.
IF you want to argue the morality or legality of downloading that is different, but from a financial standpoint I don't believe it is downloading that is hurting the music biz, it is the music biz that is hurting themselves.
(gun meet foot)
"Telus or Shaw."
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Looks like Telus has imposed bandwidth limits also:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,120
Scroll down and you will see a form letter they sent in response to a customer inquiry about his transfer rates...
"that will give humans knowledge and possibly control over not only complex movements but less-than desirable mental functions such as aggression and overeating."
Just who will be deciding what mental functions are the less desirable ones?
Doesn't anyone else find this a scary development?
How far from thought and mind control are we actually?
He IS a clay pigeon you insensitive clod!
Like a thousand times before, it's just PR plain and simple.. whenever the chips fall Intel firmly reminds them the price cuts they are getting and how they might not be feasible if the quantities they are buying decrease (I.E. if they start using AMD processors).
Dell sold it's soul to Intel in order to have the most competitive prices on the reseller Intel market, now they realize how costly it will be to get that soul back (by giving customers what they want E.G. AMD cpus...).
Actually in referrence to Paintball tanks the POF is usually the fill valve which can easily become deteriorated or breeched (and then sends the air tank flying through the air at high speeds).
So when used in cars I would worried about this failing rather than the outside of the tank itself in a high speed collision.
they develop an interface for "non-standard" communication protocols so I can understand what the hell george bush is trying to say....
Linux, mmm that's hot..
Didn't we learn anything from Wargames when it comes to changing grades?!?!
The password is kept under the desk on a sheet of paper, look for the one right below the crossed out password.
And don't change anything more than 1 or 2 grade levels... sheesh.
"Every country has had to go through some sort of civil rights movement, some peaceful, some not."
True but should we be held to the stadards of other countries or should we (being the first truely "Free" country, of the people, for the people) be held to a higher standard?
At least we could have had a peaceful movement, at the very least.
"Sure, also because the capitalist system kicked their ass. Plus many many more reasons, partly because umm the good old USA didn't let the russians get into western europe."
Um ok, Explain how our capitalist system "kicked their ass"... gl with that.
"Yes we lost the vietnam war because the public didn't want it. The US military on the otherhand kicked the Vietcongs ass."
We lost the Vietnam war because the Vietnamese would have ALL died rather than give in to us, if you don't remember history, the Tet offensive basically kicked our ass and we fled the country...
"But in reality it was because of US media that showed the war first hand to the people of the US that the war was stopped."
See above, your saying that the protests did anything to stop the war? see above...
"The fact that our Civil Rights Movement was peaceful also says a lot about American Culture. Let's not forget what 2 world wars say about other countries cultures."
Peaceful?!?!? There were countless Black people murdered left and right during the Civil rights movement, remember Harlem burning? Do you even know anything about this countries history?!?
"Guess who saved their ass from the Soviets, or umm the war that the french started that escalated into the Vietnam war. Or maybe about the civil rights movements that was occuring during that time?"
Am I crazy or did the Soviets collapse under their own political greed?
Didn't we lose the war in Vietnam?
That we had to even HAVE a civil rights movement speaks volumes about American culture...
"You should get her a copy of Simpsons Hit and Run..."
:P
We play that on our PS2, we do the head vs head type game though, via round robin selection for player ranking
Yah we enjoy competition at our house...
"The issue here is that parents should be as responsible as you are at a minimum. Not that a law or a politician can make this happen, but it needs to be in the forefront of the minds of all parents...that they should frame the violence of today's world in comprehendable terms to a child, not expose them to unreasonable violence and actually give them commendation and higher game scores for more violent actions.
:)
"
Agreed, well said
"So, how do you teach your children anything valuable out of GTA?"
;)
I assume you have played GTA? You know you can do things like drive a taxi around, perform stunts with your car, drive an ambulence, etc.. right?
There is nothing forcing you to kill maim and destroy...
Maybe GTA isn't "over the top", maybe you are
I don't remember specifically, she was pretty into it for a bit there but we play so many games as a family it really varies from week to week/month to month.
Her favorite game I would have to say is Dungeon Keeper (great game btw) because she has control over all of her little "minions" and can build things for them to do and places for them to eat and such (she doesn't go for the typical "evil conquest" role the game is geared towards)
Lately we (I have 3 kids total) have been playing custom maps for Warcraft 3, where you defend a castle as a team, or RPG through quests laid out in the map design, it's great for teaching cooperation and working together to achieve goals.
I think these games are great (much better than watching TV imho) because we get to play and interact through the game as a family.
I think it really all boils down to how involved you are with your kids while they are playing these games, to guide them and make sure they understand the difference between good and bad, right and wrong, reality and fantasy...
"What a great kid! You must live in a terrific village!"
;)
For the most part I don't let anyone raise my kid but me, I just see too many badly behaved kids and careless parents... maybe if I lived in a village of dedicated parents yes.
"or maybe your parenting skills played some small role in how she's turning out"
I think this has a lot to do with it, as well as restricting what you child sees/plays or if they do see/play then explaining things to them (like sex, how to treat others, etc..)
So I didn't mean to insult your brother previously, your brother needs to make these decisions on his own as do I and I'm sure he does a fine job of it, I just wanted to show that GTA doesn't make monsters, parents do
"Most of Europe allows their kids to drink wine with dinner."
Yah Wine with dinner is fine, it actually helps to loosen them up a bit, the trick is to put the wine in soda cans (or have your live in maid do it for you).
Then after dinner you can read some magazines...