That's it. From now on, instead of downloading music I'm going to break in and steal the masters. At least then I don't have to deal with crappy compression.
I think you're missing my point. Why is playing a game like GTA, where you run around as a street thug, any different from a book about someone who engages in the very same acts?
Why stop there? Why not make it illegal to sell books with questionable content to minors? Heck, Without Remorse involves drug use, prostitution, and rampant street violence, much like GTA.
Every time the society has banned books or otherwise tried to control what enters the hands of the populace, technological and societal advance has been put on hold for centuries at a time. Sure, it's for the sake of the children now, but aren't we all God's children?
Remember: They aren't called the Dark Ages because it was dark!
Except that you could only copy the shows to your iPod TV, and you could only write them to tape 10 times. I mean 7 times. I mean, whatever it's been reduced to this month.
Most of SoCal's power woes have to do with big, long range transmission lines going down. The service offered here is a last-mile connection over rural power lines. If someone knocks the pole over and takes out the power, the phone and cable were on that pole too.
Except that they didn't bury chernobyl in rebarred concrete until after it blew up. An American plant is already in its tomb, so when something goes heinously wrong it's just a big building that gets contaminated. I live next to a nuclear power station, and have seen the feet of steel and feet of concrete between the reactors and the atmosphere, and feel perfectly safe.
Slashvertisement isn't cheap. They could have brought it down to $25 if they'd gone for a sidebar, but they needed several mid-page ads^H^Hrticles over the course of several months.
You mean a delicate magnetic material on a substrate, spun at high speed under a sharp head held microns from the surface? Who would be so silly as to entrust data to such a device...
Once I had two buttons, and was content. Then I got a scroll wheel, and would scratch feverishly at the surface of non-wheeled mice. Then I got a three button scrollmouse, and longed for a double-click button on mice of lesser buttinitude. Now I have a Logitech mouse with a wheel, a thumbutton, and scroll buttons either end of the wheel, and would go back for nothing. People were content with the keyboard before they got the mouse; likewise people are content with their current device (or brainwashed into it by one of the most effective brands in technology), until they try something new.
Apparently they only can move one axis of the telescope, relying on the rotation of the earth (movement of the heavens for creationists) to get the other axis. Apparently you can actually do pretty well with this method, and save buckets of cash.
Yes, and how millions of people starved to death every because they didn't have any "money".
You mean how millions of people starved to death because they didn't want to grow their own food, and didn't contribute in a meaningful enough way for someone else to do it for them.
If the working class is being oppressed, they are free to stop working for the robber barons, and form their own economy. The point of Libertarianism is that the government isn't regulating anything, so the robber barons can't buy laws to regulate their employees into slavery. The reason that your average liberal is against this policy is that they are too dependant on their betters to run a society where they can do the bare minimum and live well.
Libertarians are not anarchists. There's a difference between "do whatever you want" and "no fellow citizen can tell you what to do". Libertarians like government, just not a massive government that tries to handle every aspect of your life. Keep people from commiting offense against other people, and let the market handle the rest. There's nothing 'far right' about it; in fact, many Libertarian viewpoints will get you thrashed by conservatives.
While it would be nice if politicians at the height of stupidity and corruption exploded from the inside, actual occurences of this phenomenon are rare.
Why send humans to space when you can send a probe? Why send mobile probes when you can send probes with long range sensors? Why send landers when you can just send satellites? Why send satellites when you can just observe from Earth?
Interestingly, it is the same Walmart whose warehouse speed-ups we are discussing that requires cashiers to scan each item individually. The downside of the massive inventory system is that they can't just know they sold 5 lollipops, they need to know that they sold 3 cherry, and orange, and a grape. Of course, once the cashier learns the syntax of the quantity button, that goes out the window;)
The small number of rich people/unemployed populace thing wouldn't be an issue if people realized that automation is *decreasing* the need for lots of people, and stopped having so many damn kids. If someone can't find a job, what makes them think their 10 kids can find jobs? Birth control in the water supply, and $10K/dose antidotes are the only way... (No, that's not a serious suggestion; black market antidotes would inevitably develop and render such a system useless, let alone the potential harm of putting powerful drugs in the water)
The OPs *entire point* is that in metropolitan areas, the house prices are out of whack. Traditionaly, yes, you would be able to afford the same level of house for the same relative income in any area. However, recently metropolitan areas have been breaking this proportionality, so that 50th percentile incomes can now only afford 25th percentile homes. The idea is that you move to the country, take your cost of living paycut, and get a house in line with your relative salary.
Let's say I make air conditioners. If you drop a normal air conditioner on your toe, it's probably going to hurt. Let's say my air conditioner has a little lip under it, because it was cheaper to bend the sheet metal that way. Am I liable if someone drops this air conditioner on their foot and the lip amputates their toe, where another air conditioner would have only broken it?
Actually, it is a bit of a pain to change online music distributors. All of my iTMS songs are encoded in AAC with Apple DRM. If I wanted to switch to another service, I would wind up with two piles of songs and no common player. Yes, I could burn and rip, or use Hymn to remove Fairplay, but it's still extra work, much like changing cable companies (or to the dish) is extra work.
On an unrelated note, 'monopsony' is the funniest word I've heard all week, particularly in the context of this article.
It doesn't matter what the temperature of the liquid was... you're still an idiot to think it's McDonald's fault you dumped coffee on yourself. Whose fault is it if you get bleach in your eye doing the laundry?
In truth, the top-end model eventually becomes not the top-end model and thus the price goes down. If, however, you're trying to tell yourself that you're part of the exclusive Club Apple, you say that the bottom-end part was upgraded to be identical in every way to the top-end part, and the price stayed the same.
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That's it. From now on, instead of downloading music I'm going to break in and steal the masters. At least then I don't have to deal with crappy compression.
I think you're missing my point. Why is playing a game like GTA, where you run around as a street thug, any different from a book about someone who engages in the very same acts?
Why stop there? Why not make it illegal to sell books with questionable content to minors? Heck, Without Remorse involves drug use, prostitution, and rampant street violence, much like GTA.
Every time the society has banned books or otherwise tried to control what enters the hands of the populace, technological and societal advance has been put on hold for centuries at a time. Sure, it's for the sake of the children now, but aren't we all God's children?
Remember: They aren't called the Dark Ages because it was dark!
Except that you could only copy the shows to your iPod TV, and you could only write them to tape 10 times. I mean 7 times. I mean, whatever it's been reduced to this month.
Most of SoCal's power woes have to do with big, long range transmission lines going down. The service offered here is a last-mile connection over rural power lines. If someone knocks the pole over and takes out the power, the phone and cable were on that pole too.
Except that they didn't bury chernobyl in rebarred concrete until after it blew up. An American plant is already in its tomb, so when something goes heinously wrong it's just a big building that gets contaminated. I live next to a nuclear power station, and have seen the feet of steel and feet of concrete between the reactors and the atmosphere, and feel perfectly safe.
Slashvertisement isn't cheap. They could have brought it down to $25 if they'd gone for a sidebar, but they needed several mid-page ads^H^Hrticles over the course of several months.
You mean a delicate magnetic material on a substrate, spun at high speed under a sharp head held microns from the surface? Who would be so silly as to entrust data to such a device ...
Once I had two buttons, and was content. Then I got a scroll wheel, and would scratch feverishly at the surface of non-wheeled mice. Then I got a three button scrollmouse, and longed for a double-click button on mice of lesser buttinitude. Now I have a Logitech mouse with a wheel, a thumbutton, and scroll buttons either end of the wheel, and would go back for nothing. People were content with the keyboard before they got the mouse; likewise people are content with their current device (or brainwashed into it by one of the most effective brands in technology), until they try something new.
Apparently they only can move one axis of the telescope, relying on the rotation of the earth (movement of the heavens for creationists) to get the other axis. Apparently you can actually do pretty well with this method, and save buckets of cash.
I hear that the bin-laden drives can brainwash your TV into jumping at you and blowing up ...
Yes, and how millions of people starved to death every because they didn't have any "money".
You mean how millions of people starved to death because they didn't want to grow their own food, and didn't contribute in a meaningful enough way for someone else to do it for them.
If the working class is being oppressed, they are free to stop working for the robber barons, and form their own economy. The point of Libertarianism is that the government isn't regulating anything, so the robber barons can't buy laws to regulate their employees into slavery. The reason that your average liberal is against this policy is that they are too dependant on their betters to run a society where they can do the bare minimum and live well.
Libertarians are not anarchists. There's a difference between "do whatever you want" and "no fellow citizen can tell you what to do". Libertarians like government, just not a massive government that tries to handle every aspect of your life. Keep people from commiting offense against other people, and let the market handle the rest. There's nothing 'far right' about it; in fact, many Libertarian viewpoints will get you thrashed by conservatives.
While it would be nice if politicians at the height of stupidity and corruption exploded from the inside, actual occurences of this phenomenon are rare.
It's all a logical progression:
Why send humans to space when you can send a probe?
Why send mobile probes when you can send probes with long range sensors?
Why send landers when you can just send satellites?
Why send satellites when you can just observe from Earth?
Interestingly, it is the same Walmart whose warehouse speed-ups we are discussing that requires cashiers to scan each item individually. The downside of the massive inventory system is that they can't just know they sold 5 lollipops, they need to know that they sold 3 cherry, and orange, and a grape. Of course, once the cashier learns the syntax of the quantity button, that goes out the window ;)
The small number of rich people/unemployed populace thing wouldn't be an issue if people realized that automation is *decreasing* the need for lots of people, and stopped having so many damn kids. If someone can't find a job, what makes them think their 10 kids can find jobs? Birth control in the water supply, and $10K/dose antidotes are the only way ... (No, that's not a serious suggestion; black market antidotes would inevitably develop and render such a system useless, let alone the potential harm of putting powerful drugs in the water)
Since GNU is published under the GPL, we just need some enterprising person to fork it, with the only modification being to call the fork 'Linux'.
All lies! The play order is too complex to occur naturally; there must be some intelligence that selects the order of the songs!
And, of course, looking into the origins of said intelligence is blasphemy.
The OPs *entire point* is that in metropolitan areas, the house prices are out of whack. Traditionaly, yes, you would be able to afford the same level of house for the same relative income in any area. However, recently metropolitan areas have been breaking this proportionality, so that 50th percentile incomes can now only afford 25th percentile homes. The idea is that you move to the country, take your cost of living paycut, and get a house in line with your relative salary.
Let's say I make air conditioners. If you drop a normal air conditioner on your toe, it's probably going to hurt. Let's say my air conditioner has a little lip under it, because it was cheaper to bend the sheet metal that way. Am I liable if someone drops this air conditioner on their foot and the lip amputates their toe, where another air conditioner would have only broken it?
Actually, it is a bit of a pain to change online music distributors. All of my iTMS songs are encoded in AAC with Apple DRM. If I wanted to switch to another service, I would wind up with two piles of songs and no common player. Yes, I could burn and rip, or use Hymn to remove Fairplay, but it's still extra work, much like changing cable companies (or to the dish) is extra work.
On an unrelated note, 'monopsony' is the funniest word I've heard all week, particularly in the context of this article.
It doesn't matter what the temperature of the liquid was ... you're still an idiot to think it's McDonald's fault you dumped coffee on yourself. Whose fault is it if you get bleach in your eye doing the laundry?
In truth, the top-end model eventually becomes not the top-end model and thus the price goes down. If, however, you're trying to tell yourself that you're part of the exclusive Club Apple, you say that the bottom-end part was upgraded to be identical in every way to the top-end part, and the price stayed the same.