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Resale is a RIGHT. Its not a Privilege. This statement will NEVER hold in a court of law. And in addition, if i twist the MPAA president's speech: If i buy a chair, i can sit on it or pee on it, or sell it. If xyz Corp chose to remove the legs of the chair because my wife is sitting on it instead of me, they can expect a product liability suit, wire fraud suit, OSHA investigation (under Obama), and Damage to Private Property criminal cases. It will be long day before the CEO gets out of prison.
The media is not to be blamed: The corporates controlling them are to be blamed. You have wikileaks, and Salon as examples (OK wikileaks is not media). Absence of Free Press is to be blamed. Finally after all these years, corporates have got it right: Control the information, and you control the people: Owning media enables them to pick and choose what people watch.
World over the same tactic is being repeated: Governments conspire to become more Big Brother, while closing down any doors that disclose their own secrecy. USA, Canada, UK (Forerunner), Germany (defeated), India, Singapore (known case), Australia, and now Scandinavian countries. And a Press controlled by corporatations keep deafening silence as such Big Brother benefits them most at tax payers' expense. Take for instance the law in US to force US Marshalls to act as copyright cops and doing the job of RIAA/MPAA at zero cost to the companies. The same cops can't defend the common man on street, and numerous courts have ruled that cops do NOT have a duty to protect citizens from violence: They can only come to aid after the crime is committed. But the RIAA and MPAA want tax payer money directed to protect their interests. Governmental secrecy will only enable such daring laws to continue. Take for instance impeachment bill: Fox, CNN, CBS, MSNBC do not discuss it. PBS of all stations discusses it!
I say the next war for freedom should be freedom of press. The Press was free during Nixon era and resulted in his removal. Corporate control of Press should be banned by law. But i guess, it will only be a matter of time before slashdot and such sites themselves are banned under "voluntary" compliance by ISPs who seek to protect the 'children'.
This is actually a pretty good suggestion. False Flag operation. I don't know why you were modded Funny instead of Insightful. Don't give the addresses to a spamming agency. Just get an advt drafted in favor of your competitor which also bad mouths your company. Send it out from an anonymous ID from elsewhere.
Doctor Who sounds...and now for the benefit of our audience who wish to learn about how Democracy was killed in the early 21st Century. Today Democracy is being decried as a mindless experiment that lasted for just 300 years, and has been supplanted by Corporate-Ethics-Rule which provides far greater benefits to people who can afford to pay for the best and brightest.
No one claims Elliot was a saint. But then he was no sinner compared to Cheney & Gang. You are right: If he only had been a bit humble and bit wife-lover, instead of roaming like Clinton. But resignation is not the response.
So you admit that your claim relies on twisted logic no better than that used to justify the Iraq invasion. Am NOT sorry for that. Iraq's invasion was planned well before 9/11. WMD's were NEVER in Iraq, and everyone in Bush administration knew about it BEFORE they went to UN and came back empty handed. The war was delibrately started on lies, sustained on lies, and will end only when Bush resigns or his term ends. If the democrats were republicans, they would have impeached Bush, called up Rove arrested him and waterboarded him to get the truth.
The fact that Iraq war was started on lies isn't twisted logic. There is considerably proof and its visible right in your face. Am NOT sorry for saying the Iraq war was based on a lie.
This is what is hard to understand: And the Commons votes to increase surveillance of people through cams. The Lords opens its own doors to cams. I mean isn't this a paradox? The people who need NOT be concerned about people do the best for them. And the bastards that need to heed to people trample upon them and get re-elected.
Sorry for the wrong link. True, the existence of the order doesn't prove anything. The immediate suspension of the US Notes backed by silver after JFK's death says it. Yes, it is circumstantial. But didn't bush argue the same about Iraq? The absence of WMD's doesn't prove the presence of the same. Same twisted logic if applied here proves it. (Yes, am a slashdotter, not a criminal judge, and yes, the proof doesn't exist. Am sorry).
You mean Emperor Spitzer who pissed in the face of his own legislature when he couldn't get his way over the drivers' licenses No, i meant the Spitzer who had balls and who kicked the asses of Large Banks for you and me and made them realize there is a larger power than themselves. I didn't mean the dad who chickened out on fighting in Vietnam and who made sure his under-age daughters dranl alcohol to their hearts content and made sure daddy was there to bail them out.
Sorry my boy. You are naive. They shot kennedy because he was trying to amend the Federal Reserve Act. Your vote does not count. Those who count the votes already know the results.
A week before election, somehow miraculously, Obama's picture with a terrorist or a hooker will appear. It will be widely virally distributed by press and flogged on TV, even though within 48 hours Obama's team will provie it is false and doctored. Fox will run with the story so hard you will puke in your mouth. PBS will try to tell the true story but would be buried, because FOX's newscasters would be the Naked News ladies whom you would not want to miss.
Obama's supporters will still continue to support him, but the middle flock will refuse to vote citing principles. McCain will win 50.0005% of the votes and thus win.
See, how easy it was for me to chalk out a scenario? And imagine the damage it would do if a guy like Kar Rove thought this through.
And don't expect Pelosi or Dems to support Obama. They will let him dry out just like the way they refused to help Spitzer.
Dems don't have the passion or unity like Republicans have. They deserve to lose and lose heavily in the november election. And Pelosi should lose her seat. That b1tch should lose so bad that the votes against her should exceed the total voters.
Quick, somebody arrest an MP's or Minister's son/daughter on some charge and keep them incommunicado for 42 days. Nothing will make a lawmaker retreat from his position than having to experience it himself. Much like how Roman Engineers were forced to stand under the bridges they built, so that if the bridge breaks, they die first. Arrest your PM's son/daughter and put them in jail for 42 days without a charge: Oh and sure, you pay them $252K minus boarding costs...
Ahheemm, sir, we have traced your IP to your address. Would you please answer the knock on the door? Its a free pizza we are delivering to 'deserving' citizens.
AT&T and Apple are working at crossroads here and it is bound to fail in long term. Apple wants to get iPhone into as many hands as possible. $199 price reflects that. AT&T on the other hand wants to milk existing customers, force them to oay $39.99 month after month for a long, long time. To hell with iPhone market share. They want money on a regular basis. AT&T is behaving like any other Telco: Regular steady income and to hell with customers and their choices. The customer can have any color as long as its black. Apple on the other hand is still struggling to replicate the success with iPod: 93% market share of portable music players: iPod killed DiscMan, Walkman, Flash-player, etc. To kill Nokia and others, price is a sure-fire point for them. I mean, come on: A smartphone at $199 and from Apple??? Its a god-send for Asia and EU. Apple is thinking market-share, AT&T is thinking milking customers. I bet a month's salary that within one year this relationship will break down and Apple will goto T-Mobile or others.
You use a Windows Mobile? That's it, surrender your geek license and walk away. And close the door when you go out (making sure the door doesn't slap on your a$$).
We won't, because we are too busy fearing for our jobs, gas prices, and other basic necessities. Maslow's hierarchy (is the name correct?) states that people go for self-actualization only if their basic needs of safety, acceptance, income, are met. We are pushed to the bottom of the pyramid: fear of losing our jobs, worry about Gas, income and inflation, etc., So we have been crudely pushed down the hierarchy so that self-actualization never comes to us. 20 years ago we were almost self-actualized. Call me a conspiracy-nut, but i think the corporates realizing the danger in losing their power forced us down, and now a complicit government led by an idiot with a single-digit IQ has made it complete.
EMI?? It is the artist who owns the copyright. Not the Label. If what you say were the case, Britney would be soccer-mom with 3 kids, and Ashlee simpson would be a waitress in a Del Hugos bar. Radiohead/artist decides to move to a distribution medium. The label had CD rights: Not digital. Which is why labels are trying to shoot for 360 degree contracts; and why artists avoid it. EMI has vinyl, cassette, CD and DVD rights. Radiohead owns live and all other rights not gifted to EMI.
Instead of sticking its head in sand like Metallica did, Radiohead is showing surprising maturity and acute understanding of what a customer wants: Go to the Customer, instead of sitting on your arse and expecting them to come to you. Perception is all-important in Marketing and Radiohead is taking Apple lessons. By direct-download of their albums (free and paid) they proved DownloadMusic!=crime. Second once they realized people mix and match their music (just like i mod my computer table and computer), they allowed it instead of sending RIAA goons after them. After all, Alienware does not raid my home, if i chose to decorate my PC with Yuletide spirit. Apple does not care if i laser-engrave my iPod. So should music be: If i mix-and-match their tunes with mine, i should be free. RIAA believes otherwise. Paying customers think otherwise. Who pays for Radiohead's food? Customers and not RIAA. So Radiohead did the sensible thing and listened to customers. By releasing their tunes DRM-Free in iTunes they hit the likeness factor a lot: iPod users now have direct-download to iPod; which is 90% market share of MP3 players (Zune; you Turd, you really have no chance). The DRM-free enables users to mix and match.
Its a pity that Radiohead's music is not country/hip-hop
You are right on target. This is what i have been saying in all my previous posts. Coprs are irresponsible children with immense power and one goal: Be Selfish. Unless you uncharter their existence, and prevent their CEO and Board Members from serving in same capacity for life, you would not get a safe field. For that to happen, you must prevent corporations from donating to campaigns: Only legal persons who are citizens may donate. And all donations are NOT anonymous and cannot exceed $250.
Usage-based pricing is what is practised in India and other Asian countries. The major players here offer 10GB, 20GB, and even 100GB monthly plans at 2-8Mbps speeds. Unlimited plans are offered at lower bandwidth (512Kbps).
Yup. The product is too good: But AT&T, verizon and COmcast will kill it. Netflix has been the one company which has fiercely focussed on customers instead of quarterly profits and pleasing the wallstreet flip-crowd. I was a customer for 2 long years, and once am back in US, i plan to resume it. I was looking forward to Roku, but...now i guess Netflix is going to hit because the blood-sucking vampires at Comcast/Verizon/AT&T think that reducing service is better than providing better service at higher cost.
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Yup. And the same politicians would get re-elected by the same people who opposed the law.
Sorry. You were Foe'ed by mistake. Changed it now. Sorry.
Resale is a RIGHT. Its not a Privilege.
This statement will NEVER hold in a court of law.
And in addition, if i twist the MPAA president's speech: If i buy a chair, i can sit on it or pee on it, or sell it. If xyz Corp chose to remove the legs of the chair because my wife is sitting on it instead of me, they can expect a product liability suit, wire fraud suit, OSHA investigation (under Obama), and Damage to Private Property criminal cases.
It will be long day before the CEO gets out of prison.
The media is not to be blamed: The corporates controlling them are to be blamed.
You have wikileaks, and Salon as examples (OK wikileaks is not media). Absence of Free Press is to be blamed.
Finally after all these years, corporates have got it right: Control the information, and you control the people: Owning media enables them to pick and choose what people watch.
World over the same tactic is being repeated: Governments conspire to become more Big Brother, while closing down any doors that disclose their own secrecy. USA, Canada, UK (Forerunner), Germany (defeated), India, Singapore (known case), Australia, and now Scandinavian countries.
And a Press controlled by corporatations keep deafening silence as such Big Brother benefits them most at tax payers' expense. Take for instance the law in US to force US Marshalls to act as copyright cops and doing the job of RIAA/MPAA at zero cost to the companies. The same cops can't defend the common man on street, and numerous courts have ruled that cops do NOT have a duty to protect citizens from violence: They can only come to aid after the crime is committed. But the RIAA and MPAA want tax payer money directed to protect their interests.
Governmental secrecy will only enable such daring laws to continue.
Take for instance impeachment bill: Fox, CNN, CBS, MSNBC do not discuss it. PBS of all stations discusses it!
I say the next war for freedom should be freedom of press. The Press was free during Nixon era and resulted in his removal.
Corporate control of Press should be banned by law.
But i guess, it will only be a matter of time before slashdot and such sites themselves are banned under "voluntary" compliance by ISPs who seek to protect the 'children'.
This is actually a pretty good suggestion.
False Flag operation.
I don't know why you were modded Funny instead of Insightful.
Don't give the addresses to a spamming agency. Just get an advt drafted in favor of your competitor which also bad mouths your company.
Send it out from an anonymous ID from elsewhere.
Doctor Who sounds ...and now for the benefit of our audience who wish to learn about how Democracy was killed in the early 21st Century.
Today Democracy is being decried as a mindless experiment that lasted for just 300 years, and has been supplanted by Corporate-Ethics-Rule which provides far greater benefits to people who can afford to pay for the best and brightest.
No one claims Elliot was a saint. But then he was no sinner compared to Cheney & Gang.
You are right: If he only had been a bit humble and bit wife-lover, instead of roaming like Clinton.
But resignation is not the response.
Iraq's invasion was planned well before 9/11.
WMD's were NEVER in Iraq, and everyone in Bush administration knew about it BEFORE they went to UN and came back empty handed.
The war was delibrately started on lies, sustained on lies, and will end only when Bush resigns or his term ends.
If the democrats were republicans, they would have impeached Bush, called up Rove arrested him and waterboarded him to get the truth.
The fact that Iraq war was started on lies isn't twisted logic.
There is considerably proof and its visible right in your face.
Am NOT sorry for saying the Iraq war was based on a lie.
This is what is hard to understand:
And the Commons votes to increase surveillance of people through cams.
The Lords opens its own doors to cams.
I mean isn't this a paradox?
The people who need NOT be concerned about people do the best for them. And the bastards that need to heed to people trample upon them and get re-elected.
Sorry for the wrong link.
True, the existence of the order doesn't prove anything. The immediate suspension of the US Notes backed by silver after JFK's death says it.
Yes, it is circumstantial. But didn't bush argue the same about Iraq? The absence of WMD's doesn't prove the presence of the same.
Same twisted logic if applied here proves it.
(Yes, am a slashdotter, not a criminal judge, and yes, the proof doesn't exist. Am sorry).
Executive Order 11110. Have you heard of it?
United States Treasury Notes backed by Silver?
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/1963-kennedy.html/
I didn't mean the dad who chickened out on fighting in Vietnam and who made sure his under-age daughters dranl alcohol to their hearts content and made sure daddy was there to bail them out.
Sorry my boy. You are naive. They shot kennedy because he was trying to amend the Federal Reserve Act.
Your vote does not count. Those who count the votes already know the results.
A week before election, somehow miraculously, Obama's picture with a terrorist or a hooker will appear.
It will be widely virally distributed by press and flogged on TV, even though within 48 hours Obama's team will provie it is false and doctored. Fox will run with the story so hard you will puke in your mouth. PBS will try to tell the true story but would be buried, because FOX's newscasters would be the Naked News ladies whom you would not want to miss.
Obama's supporters will still continue to support him, but the middle flock will refuse to vote citing principles.
McCain will win 50.0005% of the votes and thus win.
See, how easy it was for me to chalk out a scenario?
And imagine the damage it would do if a guy like Kar Rove thought this through.
And don't expect Pelosi or Dems to support Obama. They will let him dry out just like the way they refused to help Spitzer.
Dems don't have the passion or unity like Republicans have. They deserve to lose and lose heavily in the november election. And Pelosi should lose her seat.
That b1tch should lose so bad that the votes against her should exceed the total voters.
Quick, somebody arrest an MP's or Minister's son/daughter on some charge and keep them incommunicado for 42 days.
Nothing will make a lawmaker retreat from his position than having to experience it himself.
Much like how Roman Engineers were forced to stand under the bridges they built, so that if the bridge breaks, they die first.
Arrest your PM's son/daughter and put them in jail for 42 days without a charge: Oh and sure, you pay them $252K minus boarding costs...
yeahhh... i have this tendency to put my foot in my mouth and don't know when to stop.
Ahheemm, sir, we have traced your IP to your address.
Would you please answer the knock on the door?
Its a free pizza we are delivering to 'deserving' citizens.
AT&T and Apple are working at crossroads here and it is bound to fail in long term.
Apple wants to get iPhone into as many hands as possible. $199 price reflects that.
AT&T on the other hand wants to milk existing customers, force them to oay $39.99 month after month for a long, long time. To hell with iPhone market share. They want money on a regular basis. AT&T is behaving like any other Telco: Regular steady income and to hell with customers and their choices. The customer can have any color as long as its black.
Apple on the other hand is still struggling to replicate the success with iPod: 93% market share of portable music players: iPod killed DiscMan, Walkman, Flash-player, etc.
To kill Nokia and others, price is a sure-fire point for them.
I mean, come on: A smartphone at $199 and from Apple???
Its a god-send for Asia and EU.
Apple is thinking market-share, AT&T is thinking milking customers.
I bet a month's salary that within one year this relationship will break down and Apple will goto T-Mobile or others.
You use a Windows Mobile? That's it, surrender your geek license and walk away. And close the door when you go out (making sure the door doesn't slap on your a$$).
We won't, because we are too busy fearing for our jobs, gas prices, and other basic necessities.
Maslow's hierarchy (is the name correct?) states that people go for self-actualization only if their basic needs of safety, acceptance, income, are met.
We are pushed to the bottom of the pyramid: fear of losing our jobs, worry about Gas, income and inflation, etc., So we have been crudely pushed down the hierarchy so that self-actualization never comes to us.
20 years ago we were almost self-actualized. Call me a conspiracy-nut, but i think the corporates realizing the danger in losing their power forced us down, and now a complicit government led by an idiot with a single-digit IQ has made it complete.
EMI?? It is the artist who owns the copyright. Not the Label.
If what you say were the case, Britney would be soccer-mom with 3 kids, and Ashlee simpson would be a waitress in a Del Hugos bar.
Radiohead/artist decides to move to a distribution medium. The label had CD rights: Not digital. Which is why labels are trying to shoot for 360 degree contracts; and why artists avoid it.
EMI has vinyl, cassette, CD and DVD rights. Radiohead owns live and all other rights not gifted to EMI.
Instead of sticking its head in sand like Metallica did, Radiohead is showing surprising maturity and acute understanding of what a customer wants: Go to the Customer, instead of sitting on your arse and expecting them to come to you.
Perception is all-important in Marketing and Radiohead is taking Apple lessons.
By direct-download of their albums (free and paid) they proved DownloadMusic!=crime.
Second once they realized people mix and match their music (just like i mod my computer table and computer), they allowed it instead of sending RIAA goons after them. After all, Alienware does not raid my home, if i chose to decorate my PC with Yuletide spirit. Apple does not care if i laser-engrave my iPod. So should music be: If i mix-and-match their tunes with mine, i should be free.
RIAA believes otherwise. Paying customers think otherwise.
Who pays for Radiohead's food? Customers and not RIAA. So Radiohead did the sensible thing and listened to customers.
By releasing their tunes DRM-Free in iTunes they hit the likeness factor a lot: iPod users now have direct-download to iPod; which is 90% market share of MP3 players (Zune; you Turd, you really have no chance). The DRM-free enables users to mix and match.
Its a pity that Radiohead's music is not country/hip-hop
You are right on target. This is what i have been saying in all my previous posts.
Coprs are irresponsible children with immense power and one goal: Be Selfish.
Unless you uncharter their existence, and prevent their CEO and Board Members from serving in same capacity for life, you would not get a safe field.
For that to happen, you must prevent corporations from donating to campaigns: Only legal persons who are citizens may donate. And all donations are NOT anonymous and cannot exceed $250.
Usage-based pricing is what is practised in India and other Asian countries.
The major players here offer 10GB, 20GB, and even 100GB monthly plans at 2-8Mbps speeds.
Unlimited plans are offered at lower bandwidth (512Kbps).
Yup.
The product is too good: But AT&T, verizon and COmcast will kill it.
Netflix has been the one company which has fiercely focussed on customers instead of quarterly profits and pleasing the wallstreet flip-crowd.
I was a customer for 2 long years, and once am back in US, i plan to resume it.
I was looking forward to Roku, but...now i guess Netflix is going to hit because the blood-sucking vampires at Comcast/Verizon/AT&T think that reducing service is better than providing better service at higher cost.