> Did, YOU the downloader create this work? Truth.
>you threaten the very livelihood of the industry and the artists Wrong. I threaten the livelihood of RIAA companies like EMI, BMG, SONY etc. The artistes already have lost money from digital sales. None of the money i pay to iTunes goes to the artist. It is shared between Apple and RIAA company. So when the real copyright holder gets nothing as a result of a contract which is lopsided, what does he/she have to lose?
If i steal zero dollars from you, does it mean i committed a crime? If you bounce a zero dollar check i wrote, does it mean i committed a crime?
Where does the question of theft arise when the artist himself gets nothing from legal internet sales?
The same question you asked earlier can be redirected to the RIAA itself: Did you [RIAA] create this work of art? Do you[RIAA] pay the artist fairly for the work he/she did?
Two wrongs do not make a right. Agreed. But you[RIAA] can't point a finger at us when three fingers point back at you.
If the credit score is high then the doctor has an incentive to provide the best treatment. If not, the generic drugs will do. In india it is a similar situation. Those who cannot afford high bills go to the government-owned hospitals where a by-pass surgery would cost about $350 and the chances of you coming out alive are about 67%. In a private-funded hospital it would cost about $4200 with the chances increased to 94%.
It does. If the child complains she was "solicited" then the FBI swoops in before you can say "my as..." I expect the mother to ask her child testify in court and the 8 yr old stating a male voice called her under false pretenses and "solicited" her. She does not even need to understand the meaning; Just say the voice called her about "soliciting" something...
And then leave it to child molester lawyers and public prosecutors....
Before the RIAA lawyers can board a plane to Brazil... they would be enjoying the soothing attentions of bubba in a max-security hold up cell..
First there will be an investigation. Next, comcast will donate $254,323 to Senator Joe Lieber*gay*. Then, the said senator will tag along a provision with "Funds for schools" stating that throttling a P2P network is legal as long as the carrier has "reasonable" doubts the traffic is illegal. Fourthly, comcast and FCC will "settle" this out of court for an undisclosed sum (which is equal to zero). Fifthly, Vize would suddenly find its internet and physical cable is not available. Sixthly, customers will whine for sometime before comcast introduces "legal" P2P and charges $9.99 per month unlimited traffic.
More than cellphone its like Bankers: You have a low rate when you don't need the money. When you start needing the money, the bank hatches up its rate to make you pay through the nose for it. I had a low 1.79% APR till November. When i thought i could play some money with bank's money they hiked it by 3 times from this month onwards.
I still remember the day at my school carnival in 1984, when i saw the classic tennis game played on TV. I paid about 10 cents in the carnival to play it about 5 times (50 cents).
Dropped out of gaming for a while and rediscovered it playing Netwars in a Netware environment in 1996 on my first job. Then quickly moved to Wolfenstein in 1997 which was my favorite.
At present? Playing Company of Heroes mostly and liking it a lot...
But i can never get the same thrill of old tennis game played on a blact and white TV screen and two screwballs holding a small controller and screwing the knob to control what was bar on screen called as a tennis racquet. Same like you can't capture the first kiss and first lay ever.
Nice try asshole. You would be stopped by the time you opened your fly about Health Care for all
along lines of Britain. I mean stopped literally *by a bullet* in your mouth and fly (each).
Now let's try it once more, shall we: My Platform: 1. Stop all funding to UNCTAD, UNAID and other UN organisation which do not accept US hegemony
over them. After all if i buy enough stocks in a company i get a seat on board. If i pay enough
to UN, i get booted out??? What logic is this? So no seat==No payments. Let see how long the UN survives.
2. Provide tax breaks to health care providers: They are struggling enough with lawsuits and such
from single moms and hispanics who sue the HMO for not paying them medical bills because their
stupid sons drove a bicycle on a highway. I mean if you are that stupid, then you don't deserve
to multiply your family anyway.
3. Continue the surge. After all its working as Gen Betrayus *er.. sorry* Petraus proved.
Institute draft. After all the Executive is working under war powers act from 9/11. Make sure firstborns of congressmen, citibank executives, halliburton, etc are exempted for
*essential duty*
4. Make paying for colleges more expensive by recruiting ex-CEOs like Worldcom ex, who have
served time. After all they could provide useful information to budding CEOs on how NOT to get
caught, next time. Secondly by making it costlier we are weeding out the useless poor who just
suck up resources and draw down social security without contributing anything to society.
5. Extend diplomatic immunity from prosecution for parishes and churches. After all diplomatic
missions from stupid countries like Libya, Ghana get immunity for passing fake notes, traffic
tickets, and espionage etc. The catholic church is a mission from Vatican country, and as such is
each church is a diplomatic compound. Each priest is immune to prosecution from any crime they
commit under passion (after all they are priests and succumb to temptation).
6. Incarcerate ANY and ALL offenders for a minimum of 3 years irrespective of crime. For two
reasons: Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. Secondly, the corporates who construct and
manage prisons pay a lot of taxes. This reduces the defecit.
7. Make sure the FCC allows tax paying corporates to flourish.
Congress is doing its job already: Crating jobs and boosting the economy.
After all you and i don't pay the cost of re-election campaigning. It is done by corporates, who will stand to benefit from Real ID act.
Imagine the cost of contracting out large quantities of safeboard, ink, printing presses, plastic, computer systems to maintain, training, emergency services (someone enters his hand into a press), laser printers, etc.
And now imagine how much employment is generated when these people are needed for above mentioned products.
Now, tell me, how is congress supposed to do its job? Shrinking the economy by pulling back Real ID?
The nuts at NH are clueless m0r0ns who don't even levy state income taxes and hence have bad roads.
The gods in WA and MA do levy income taxes heavily and hence provide better services to people.
SSN is *not* repeat *not* an ID. The USPS does NOT take SSN card as an ID Card. Banks do not take SSN card as an ID card (EVEN to open an account). Payday loaners do not take SSN as the only ID.
A total of 100 points is necessary for making a bank withdrawal/account opening/ID at a Federal facility.
Passport or State Driving License is an takes 75 points. A photo credit card (with your photo) takes 20 points. A non-photo credit card with your name takes 10 points. A check book with your name and address printed takes 20 points.
I had to display my non-US passport, one non-photo credit card, one check book (Citizens Bank) to see the USS Constitution in Boston.
I had to show my non US-passport, US Driving license to encash a check of $3500/-
I had to show my US Driving license, one photo credit card (i was wise enough to opt for it) to open an account with BankAm.
Very funny. Either you are too lazy to visit wired.com, digg.com every day or you are a network administrator managing 5000+ PCs at a time, singularly. Give those fingers an excercise by typing in URLs. Dont glide your mouse alone.
I agree with you. Once you have kids, the maximum number of times you get to have sex (with lawfully wedded wife) is 3 times a month. Out of three, two times would be voluntary, and third time would be a compliant, non-cooperative effort.
I wish this serves as a warning to all guys out there NOT to have kids soon after marriage. No wonder Germans have the best sex life of all.!
Suppose Sony-made batteries explode iPhones
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Why? Is it powered by a Sony manufactured battery? If sony does make batteries for iPhone, and if those batteries explode iPhones, then legally Apple's lawyers have hit the jackpot with a huge lawsuit claiming: 1. Sony competes with Apple on mobile phones. 2. Sony makes batteries for Apple phones. 3. Sony-made batteries explode when used in Apple phones.
Even IF it is all smoke and no fire, am sure Sony lawyers would be very hard-pressed to force the judge to not see a conspiracy. Plus suddenly a sony intern deletes a few innocent emails AFTER the trial starts....
Add to the mix: some a$$ of a rich wallstreet user dies from an exploding iPhone. Am sure Sony executives would find it very, very difficult to beat those manslaughter charges...
When will the dumb slashdot editors realize that the same crowd which reads slashdot also reads wired.com , reddit.com , digg.com as part of their daily dose of fun? They have wasted a perfectly good space by publishing yesterday's story.
No. I expect him to sue Microsoft for not securing his PC. After all if i buy a mattress today and the spring pokes in my bu!t tomorrow, i can sue the maker for damages. Plus he being a lawyer and all am sure he can find some clause to make ballmer throw more chairs.
So, you mean i can pay this amount to Verizon and ask them to tap... say... the NY Police commissioner's office?
After all under constitution ALL people are equal (except corporates, but that's a different topic), so i can just pay this money to verizon, and ask them to commence tapping?
I bet my lawyers will have a field day in court trying to defend me when the cops drag me down and make a rodney king out of me.
Very True. Batch programming, sequential access (like you said for DBs), Actions, Schedules, etc., are not exactly OO stuff.
Moore's law damaged computer science education to a great extent.
By enabling Intel et al to increase clock speed by increasing transistors on-board, the same visual or performance effect could be achieved even after doubling bloat onto it. Much like: If my Ford Focus gets a power Atomic engine powered by Plutonium and capable of going 0-60 in 4 seconds, would i not want to add 1 more tonne of extras/trims onto it?
My previous employer used SafeBoot on laptops. It was connected to an internal server for periodic keys exchange. Other than that if i typed the password 3 times wrong while booting up, it would trash the hard-disk with zeroes. The whole disk was encrypted before Windows XP NTOSKRNL took over, so the decryption happened before allowing control to XP.
My suspicions were confirmed in my analysis of C compiled code, but it wasn't all "that bad."
Probably you have never worked on the Sun C compiler during its early days.
It was the *worst* compiler ever written for ANY language (including RPG) and crashed even with double pointers.
WRONG ! The courts and comcast will fight a long battle, and ultimately comcast will "settle" the issue with FCC by "agreeing" to not throttle P2P for another 2 years and a public apology. That will be all.
All this talk of 195K is for m0rons like you and me.
Corporates are of an higher caste. Oh BTW, comcast will deduct all lawyer fees from its tax bundle thus reducing its tax to the State further. And the FCC would pay our tax money to lawyers to fight a losing battle.
I say dissolve FCC and let the market open.
It would be fun to watch Virgin and Comcast battle it out.
For the record, the same professors said the same thing when C++ was in vogue. They also said the same thing when C was popular. To take apart their argument by logic: 1. Java is an abstraction a VM over the hardware. People who study comp sci, today are of three kinds: a) Those who want to be a programmer and then a Project Mgr. b) Those who want to maintain hardware and/or design new ones. iPod maybe. c) Those want to manage systems (20% hardware: 80% software).
For the first kind, Java is a better choice because: It does not force you to dig down to machine-code which is unnecessary today. Much like car driving in 1920s and 1990s. It teaches you the best of programming by forcing you to think in terms of objects and how to act upon them in real-world. If you mess up, you don't overwrite the root disk thus causing innumerous references to the time-worn joke about shooting in one's foot. It also teaches you GUI writing is tougher by way of its MVC programming. At this time, programmers can be split into real men or MSFT weenies: real men would go to Java in Server-world. Weenies would love GUI and goto VB.
It also teaches you the worst in programming: Forcing you to think only in OO way.
The second kinds is better off learning C or even Assembly.
The third kind is tricky: There are lots of management tools nowadays. Some of them written in Java. if they want to write their plugins easily, then Java is the way to go.
2) Java is one more step in evolution which normally the professors hate because it moves them away from the machine. But mankind has more important things to do (watching LOST and Sopranos) than twiddling with RPG.
3) Blaming Java alone for problems is like blaming the Sea for causing Katrinas.
Lastly if anyone should be blamed for warping the minds of youngsters permanently, it should MSFT with its Visual Basic system.
SAP is a poor example you have chosen out of ignorance i guess. I was involved in a project that involved shifting Oracle DB based data to SAP when the company moved to SAP enmasse. Agreed that it was only a tiny part of total work involved, but the amount of configuring and tweaking SAP required was so high that it would easily have taken a couple of years just to migrate. Even a single extra space in an exported file and SAP would behave like RPG.
IT dept would never be redundant for the same reason the Navy ships are not fully automated. Why do you require people to do so many scrubbing,cleaning, maintenance jobs when they could be easily automated?
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> Did, YOU the downloader create this work?
Truth.
>you threaten the very livelihood of the industry and the artists
Wrong. I threaten the livelihood of RIAA companies like EMI, BMG, SONY etc. The artistes already have lost money from digital sales.
None of the money i pay to iTunes goes to the artist. It is shared between Apple and RIAA company.
So when the real copyright holder gets nothing as a result of a contract which is lopsided, what does he/she have to lose?
If i steal zero dollars from you, does it mean i committed a crime? If you bounce a zero dollar check i wrote, does it mean i committed a crime?
Where does the question of theft arise when the artist himself gets nothing from legal internet sales?
The same question you asked earlier can be redirected to the RIAA itself: Did you [RIAA] create this work of art? Do you[RIAA] pay the artist fairly for the work he/she did?
Two wrongs do not make a right. Agreed.
But you[RIAA] can't point a finger at us when three fingers point back at you.
Better treatment?
If the credit score is high then the doctor has an incentive to provide the best treatment. If not, the generic drugs will do.
In india it is a similar situation. Those who cannot afford high bills go to the government-owned hospitals where a by-pass surgery would cost about $350 and the chances of you coming out alive are about 67%.
In a private-funded hospital it would cost about $4200 with the chances increased to 94%.
Which would you take?
Dear Bubba,
You are quite welcome.
It does. If the child complains she was "solicited" then the FBI swoops in before you can say "my as..."
I expect the mother to ask her child testify in court and the 8 yr old stating a male voice called her under false pretenses and "solicited" her. She does not even need to understand the meaning; Just say the voice called her about "soliciting" something...
And then leave it to child molester lawyers and public prosecutors....
Before the RIAA lawyers can board a plane to Brazil... they would be enjoying the soothing attentions of bubba in a max-security hold up cell..
Right thing???
Are you crazy?
First there will be an investigation.
Next, comcast will donate $254,323 to Senator Joe Lieber*gay*.
Then, the said senator will tag along a provision with "Funds for schools" stating that throttling a P2P network is legal as long as the carrier has "reasonable" doubts the traffic is illegal.
Fourthly, comcast and FCC will "settle" this out of court for an undisclosed sum (which is equal to zero).
Fifthly, Vize would suddenly find its internet and physical cable is not available.
Sixthly, customers will whine for sometime before comcast introduces "legal" P2P and charges $9.99 per month unlimited traffic.
More than cellphone its like Bankers: You have a low rate when you don't need the money.
When you start needing the money, the bank hatches up its rate to make you pay through the nose for it.
I had a low 1.79% APR till November. When i thought i could play some money with bank's money they hiked it by 3 times from this month onwards.
I still remember the day at my school carnival in 1984, when i saw the classic tennis game played on TV.
I paid about 10 cents in the carnival to play it about 5 times (50 cents).
Dropped out of gaming for a while and rediscovered it playing Netwars in a Netware environment in 1996 on my first job.
Then quickly moved to Wolfenstein in 1997 which was my favorite.
At present? Playing Company of Heroes mostly and liking it a lot...
But i can never get the same thrill of old tennis game played on a blact and white TV screen and two screwballs holding a small controller and screwing the knob to control what was bar on screen called as a tennis racquet.
Same like you can't capture the first kiss and first lay ever.
Nice try asshole. You would be stopped by the time you opened your fly about Health Care for all
along lines of Britain.
I mean stopped literally *by a bullet* in your mouth and fly (each).
Now let's try it once more, shall we:
My Platform:
1. Stop all funding to UNCTAD, UNAID and other UN organisation which do not accept US hegemony
over them. After all if i buy enough stocks in a company i get a seat on board. If i pay enough
to UN, i get booted out??? What logic is this?
So no seat==No payments. Let see how long the UN survives.
2. Provide tax breaks to health care providers: They are struggling enough with lawsuits and such
from single moms and hispanics who sue the HMO for not paying them medical bills because their
stupid sons drove a bicycle on a highway. I mean if you are that stupid, then you don't deserve
to multiply your family anyway.
3. Continue the surge. After all its working as Gen Betrayus *er.. sorry* Petraus proved.
Institute draft. After all the Executive is working under war powers act from 9/11.
Make sure firstborns of congressmen, citibank executives, halliburton, etc are exempted for
*essential duty*
4. Make paying for colleges more expensive by recruiting ex-CEOs like Worldcom ex, who have
served time. After all they could provide useful information to budding CEOs on how NOT to get
caught, next time. Secondly by making it costlier we are weeding out the useless poor who just
suck up resources and draw down social security without contributing anything to society.
5. Extend diplomatic immunity from prosecution for parishes and churches. After all diplomatic
missions from stupid countries like Libya, Ghana get immunity for passing fake notes, traffic
tickets, and espionage etc. The catholic church is a mission from Vatican country, and as such is
each church is a diplomatic compound. Each priest is immune to prosecution from any crime they
commit under passion (after all they are priests and succumb to temptation).
6. Incarcerate ANY and ALL offenders for a minimum of 3 years irrespective of crime. For two
reasons: Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. Secondly, the corporates who construct and
manage prisons pay a lot of taxes. This reduces the defecit.
7. Make sure the FCC allows tax paying corporates to flourish.
Congress is doing its job already: Crating jobs and boosting the economy.
After all you and i don't pay the cost of re-election campaigning.
It is done by corporates, who will stand to benefit from Real ID act.
Imagine the cost of contracting out large quantities of safeboard, ink, printing presses, plastic, computer systems to maintain, training, emergency services (someone enters his hand into a press), laser printers, etc.
And now imagine how much employment is generated when these people are needed for above mentioned products.
Now, tell me, how is congress supposed to do its job? Shrinking the economy by pulling back Real ID?
The nuts at NH are clueless m0r0ns who don't even levy state income taxes and hence have bad roads.
The gods in WA and MA do levy income taxes heavily and hence provide better services to people.
-:)))
SSN is *not* repeat *not* an ID.
The USPS does NOT take SSN card as an ID Card.
Banks do not take SSN card as an ID card (EVEN to open an account).
Payday loaners do not take SSN as the only ID.
A total of 100 points is necessary for making a bank withdrawal/account opening/ID at a Federal facility.
Passport or State Driving License is an takes 75 points.
A photo credit card (with your photo) takes 20 points.
A non-photo credit card with your name takes 10 points.
A check book with your name and address printed takes 20 points.
I had to display my non-US passport, one non-photo credit card, one check book (Citizens Bank) to see the USS Constitution in Boston.
I had to show my non US-passport, US Driving license to encash a check of $3500/-
I had to show my US Driving license, one photo credit card (i was wise enough to opt for it) to open an account with BankAm.
Very funny.
Either you are too lazy to visit wired.com, digg.com every day or you are a network administrator managing 5000+ PCs at a time, singularly.
Give those fingers an excercise by typing in URLs. Dont glide your mouse alone.
I agree with you.
Once you have kids, the maximum number of times you get to have sex (with lawfully wedded wife) is 3 times a month.
Out of three, two times would be voluntary, and third time would be a compliant, non-cooperative effort.
I wish this serves as a warning to all guys out there NOT to have kids soon after marriage.
No wonder Germans have the best sex life of all.!
Why? Is it powered by a Sony manufactured battery?
If sony does make batteries for iPhone, and if those batteries explode iPhones, then legally Apple's lawyers have hit the jackpot with a huge lawsuit claiming:
1. Sony competes with Apple on mobile phones.
2. Sony makes batteries for Apple phones.
3. Sony-made batteries explode when used in Apple phones.
Even IF it is all smoke and no fire, am sure Sony lawyers would be very hard-pressed to force the judge to not see a conspiracy.
Plus suddenly a sony intern deletes a few innocent emails AFTER the trial starts....
Add to the mix: some a$$ of a rich wallstreet user dies from an exploding iPhone.
Am sure Sony executives would find it very, very difficult to beat those manslaughter charges...
I LOVE IT When corporates clash!
When will the dumb slashdot editors realize that the same crowd which reads slashdot also reads wired.com , reddit.com , digg.com as part of their daily dose of fun?
They have wasted a perfectly good space by publishing yesterday's story.
No. I expect him to sue Microsoft for not securing his PC.
After all if i buy a mattress today and the spring pokes in my bu!t tomorrow, i can sue the maker for damages.
Plus he being a lawyer and all am sure he can find some clause to make ballmer throw more chairs.
So, you mean i can pay this amount to Verizon and ask them to tap... say... the NY Police commissioner's office?
After all under constitution ALL people are equal (except corporates, but that's a different topic), so i can just pay this money to verizon, and ask them to commence tapping?
I bet my lawyers will have a field day in court trying to defend me when the cops drag me down and make a rodney king out of me.
Rich ! Depends on whether you are M or F.
Coming back to the topic, anybody who publishes SSN and bank stuff online is a fool. Exactly like you portrayed.
Heck forget tikrit, i can't even run like that in San Bernandino.
Very True. Batch programming, sequential access (like you said for DBs), Actions, Schedules, etc., are not exactly OO stuff.
Moore's law damaged computer science education to a great extent.
By enabling Intel et al to increase clock speed by increasing transistors on-board, the same visual or performance effect could be achieved even after doubling bloat onto it.
Much like: If my Ford Focus gets a power Atomic engine powered by Plutonium and capable of going 0-60 in 4 seconds, would i not want to add 1 more tonne of extras/trims onto it?
My previous employer used SafeBoot on laptops.
It was connected to an internal server for periodic keys exchange.
Other than that if i typed the password 3 times wrong while booting up, it would trash the hard-disk with zeroes.
The whole disk was encrypted before Windows XP NTOSKRNL took over, so the decryption happened before allowing control to XP.
Probably you have never worked on the Sun C compiler during its early days. It was the *worst* compiler ever written for ANY language (including RPG) and crashed even with double pointers.
WRONG !
The courts and comcast will fight a long battle, and ultimately comcast will "settle" the issue with FCC by "agreeing" to not throttle P2P for another 2 years and a public apology. That will be all.
All this talk of 195K is for m0rons like you and me.
Corporates are of an higher caste.
Oh BTW, comcast will deduct all lawyer fees from its tax bundle thus reducing its tax to the State further.
And the FCC would pay our tax money to lawyers to fight a losing battle.
I say dissolve FCC and let the market open.
It would be fun to watch Virgin and Comcast battle it out.
For the record, the same professors said the same thing when C++ was in vogue. They also said the same thing when C was popular.
To take apart their argument by logic:
1. Java is an abstraction a VM over the hardware. People who study comp sci, today are of three kinds:
a) Those who want to be a programmer and then a Project Mgr.
b) Those who want to maintain hardware and/or design new ones. iPod maybe.
c) Those want to manage systems (20% hardware: 80% software).
For the first kind, Java is a better choice because: It does not force you to dig down to machine-code which is unnecessary today. Much like car driving in 1920s and 1990s. It teaches you the best of programming by forcing you to think in terms of objects and how to act upon them in real-world. If you mess up, you don't overwrite the root disk thus causing innumerous references to the time-worn joke about shooting in one's foot.
It also teaches you GUI writing is tougher by way of its MVC programming. At this time, programmers can be split into real men or MSFT weenies: real men would go to Java in Server-world. Weenies would love GUI and goto VB.
It also teaches you the worst in programming: Forcing you to think only in OO way.
The second kinds is better off learning C or even Assembly.
The third kind is tricky: There are lots of management tools nowadays. Some of them written in Java. if they want to write their plugins easily, then Java is the way to go.
2) Java is one more step in evolution which normally the professors hate because it moves them away from the machine. But mankind has more important things to do (watching LOST and Sopranos) than twiddling with RPG.
3) Blaming Java alone for problems is like blaming the Sea for causing Katrinas.
Lastly if anyone should be blamed for warping the minds of youngsters permanently, it should MSFT with its Visual Basic system.
SAP is a poor example you have chosen out of ignorance i guess.
I was involved in a project that involved shifting Oracle DB based data to SAP when the company moved to SAP enmasse.
Agreed that it was only a tiny part of total work involved, but the amount of configuring and tweaking SAP required was so high that it would easily have taken a couple of years just to migrate.
Even a single extra space in an exported file and SAP would behave like RPG.
IT dept would never be redundant for the same reason the Navy ships are not fully automated. Why do you require people to do so many scrubbing,cleaning, maintenance jobs when they could be easily automated?
Yup! Well Said.
To help remember, just recall what Carly Fiori.. did to HP.
That ought to shut up the fems for good.
Redhat is free??? Since When?
Fedora is Free. Redhat is sold by RedHat.