Criticism is when i say "You suck at your work." Defamation is when you claim my words "You suck at your work" prevents you from getting any work because people believe me more than you. Its based on perception. That is why in US, only a very few can win in courts on Defamation. Constitution forces us to accept criticism and roll with the punches. If you got a thin skin move to Europe.
No. That is not the solution. It is easier to spoof some innocent guy's PC as infected so that he gets disconnected. Corporate Wars. If i ran a corporation and wanted to take down an e-business competing with me, it will be cheaper for me to hire a hacker who can make the e-business PCs to look infected so that they get taken out. Much like the "Swatting".
Iam sure the RIAA will pay my internet connection charges or atleast the provider will make it free. If not, am filing a suit on using my money illegally without my permission. I will file the case against the provider, they are ones who connect my phone to 'net. If many people file, am sure they will either stop helping RIAA or bill them. If not, an legally obliged to defend my property against unauthorized assaults.
HEY! I like my Flash just the way it is. WHo the heck cares about functionality when style is a lot better. Which is why *NIX never won the Desktop while Windows Vista Rules the roost(!)
Of course they would do. If i were a tape player manufacturer, i would try to "enhance" the features by offering non-standard features: like LP recording (twice the capacity at half the speed, thus making it unplayable on any other system), etc. The fact is that punishment is absent when you don't follow standards. If Sony made a walkman that didn't hold a Tape, it can't advertise it could hold a Tape(false adverts) and the market would instantly punish it for it. How do you punish a monopoly like eBay?
Of course. That is the intent. Don't you see it? Ballmer wants another shotgun riding Bill like another hole in the ass. The idea of an exam is NOT to ascertain what you know. It is to expose what you DON'T know. (with apologies to Churchill).
There was a short period of time when companies actually made sure their products were usable by people. That was in 1970s. Electronics then were not complicated, but sophisticated enough. And Walkmans would actually work. Because Open Standards were harsh. Like the standards for an audio tape or even an audio CD. They were expected to work with ANY player as long as it met the standards. That is why i could take a take from my boom box, plug into a walkman and listen on way to school and back. Or how LP records worked. Standards governed and restricted how companies could use "innovation" to screw up their own products. The rot started with Sound Blaster. It was an Industry standard as opposed to open standard. Browsers? There is no standard today. Once you take away a standard that sets minimum expectations, then obviously things don't work. Blaming eBay is easy. Blaming lack of standards and blaming all is hard. WHom should we blame? Microsoft for their UTTER lack of interest in adopting open standards? IBM for its insistence on peeing into the wind? Netscape for its collosal stupidity in failing to set standards? eBay for not knowing what a standard is and breaking things up?
They will. Gettting a law passed for taking out the eyes of someone who viewed a pirated movie as a "lesser" punishment will be sponsored by Orrin Hatch and passed.
There's a major basic difference between Russian and US planes: Russian planes were deliberately made simple so that even a kulak could fix it. US planes were made by private corporations who taught Inkjet Printers Cos., how to rip off people with costly ink and cheap printers. In short, KISS was a philosophy that resulted in AK-47. Keep it complex resulted in X-29 fighter and Star Wars which was scrapped after a ball-busting expense report.
5Mbps down? Wow! In India i get 16Mbps down, and 4.4Mbps Up with a 100GB per month traffic limit at $100/- per month. Oh and that includes IP TV, a free TiVO so i can record, rewind and watch shows i missed.
Yes, and we can easily circumvent this by writing down with your pen on the same contract paper stating that using any information beyond the scope of this transaction will result on violation of terms and hence termination of contract without cause. Make a photocopy of the contract. This means, if the Telco robocalls you, send a copy of the contract and tell them the contract is over and you will be switching the provider.
Yes. I think so. Why? Do you recall how many professors and scientists were prevented from entering USA from 2002 till 2008? Because of paranoia and DHS/TSA? DHS and TSA are a "Yes Minister" type. They will continue to grow and propagate to justify their existence and the money we spend on them.
Legally pathbreaking but also very potentially damaging. If ACLU wins based on fourth amendment basis on the right of people to be secure in their persons & papers, then the border searches will be extremely time consuming as each search will need to accompanied by a warrant from a judge. In short people will start to hate the border patrol more and DHS will get the blame. OTOH, if the judge decides that People are NOT people until they enter USA and that the laws of the land do not apply to them until they enter, then it becomes much more abusive. Border Patrol can easily strip search every 18-yr old girl, in the presence of her parents, and easily barge through every suitcase she has. Also, they can drag a "Person of Interest" to the border, search him, and bring him back. This raises hackles everywhere.
...as evidenced by the video So, will the Feds charge Bush for theft & prosecute him? After all Al Capone wasn't convicted of the many murders he committed. He was convicted of a stupid tax evasion charge. And as per existing laws, if you rob $10 from a bank you get 20 years, but if you fraud $50 million you get a probation. So, Bush can be charged and convicted of copyright violation!
The FCC is fighting the wrong battle. ISPs are not increasing prices for those who use the bandwidth in full, they are reducing the contracted speed/bandwidth while continuing to receive the same money. FCC should allow consumers to pay pro-rated charges based on their bandwidth. So, if verizon reduced my contracted speed from 16Mbps to 2Mbps for 8 hours, i pay only 1/8th the amount for that duration.
Poland has a chequered history. During WW2, poles hated jews, Poles hated Germans, Poles hated Russians. Jews hated Germans, Jews hated Poles, jews hated Russians. The Germans hated Jews, Germans hated Russians. Russians hated Poles, Russians hated Germans. Each group strived hard to get rid of the other. Which is why Auschwitz was perfect location: The poles would betray Jews, the Russians would betray Poles to Germans, and so on.
allofmp3.com was a perfect outlet. However, the RIAA didn't get its usual cut of the money rolled by allofmp3.com That money went directly to a bigger mafia: the Russian Mafia. The 5 cents to and 9 cents they charged were great. Unfortunately that 5 to 9 cents was the amount RIAA paid the artists. The rest of 90 cents pocketed by them under "Administrative" charges. Now, that's very unfortunate. How do you shut down an operation by the Russian Mafia? You don't send in SWAT or goon squads. They get wiped out, plus the russian mafia will take the nuts of RIAA lawyers as interest payments. Instead lean on the most powerful Government, which they had bought with campaign donations, and force them to shut allofmp3.com Once you change the law to suit you, then the state spends taxpayer money to implement it. You need not spend your money. In short if i want to tear down a school road at 60mph in my Ferrari, i can do two things: 1) Pay $500 as fine to cops and spend quality time in Prison for each violation. 2) I can buy the local DA/Mayor for $50,000 by contributing to their campaign, get a law passed that allows high-powered cars to exceed the speed limit. Which is profitable for me?
No, the Town Hall doesn't needs the revenue from parking meters. It needs the parking meters from its "preferred" vendors, like the councilman's son-in-law or the mayor's brother. If you care to dig deep into parking meters supply contract, you can ALWAYS find a 1st or 2nd degree link to the authority. Confront that head-on and you will have "accidentally" filled your home with landfill, or a bank 'accidentally' auctions your home.
Ahhh Yes and No. Feeding money to private jailers will NOT stop because the states are bankrupt. Politicians need campaign money. Private jail operators donate huge amounts to keep them elected. Politicians also need to plug the holes in budgets So, what will happen is this: 1) Small drug possessions will be taxed and decriminalized. 2) Jail time for music/movie piracy will be tripled with most pirates jailed for life. 3) Jail time for jay walking, illegal parking and non-return of library books will be increased. 4) Drug selling will be taxed and made legal.
...yes, when it comes to protecting its own, the Govt exceeds the expectations. Surprising. The same thing happened in Francea few centuries ago and resulted in the Monarchy being booted out to the Guillotine. The same thing happened in Russia in 1917. And we wonder why...
...who was a member of local MPAA/RIAA, had a vested interest in the judgement and possibly a financial stake in the outcome. So, in short, a large corporate buys up a judge, gets custom judgement, makes donations to the politicians, and everything is A OK. But when a poor company buys a bankrupt company, that is criminally investigated since the bankrupt company went bankrupt without paying the large rich corporate.... Wow!
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Criticism is when i say "You suck at your work."
Defamation is when you claim my words "You suck at your work" prevents you from getting any work because people believe me more than you.
Its based on perception.
That is why in US, only a very few can win in courts on Defamation.
Constitution forces us to accept criticism and roll with the punches.
If you got a thin skin move to Europe.
No. That is not the solution.
It is easier to spoof some innocent guy's PC as infected so that he gets disconnected.
Corporate Wars.
If i ran a corporation and wanted to take down an e-business competing with me, it will be cheaper for me to hire a hacker who can make the e-business PCs to look infected so that they get taken out.
Much like the "Swatting".
Iam sure the RIAA will pay my internet connection charges or atleast the provider will make it free.
If not, am filing a suit on using my money illegally without my permission.
I will file the case against the provider, they are ones who connect my phone to 'net.
If many people file, am sure they will either stop helping RIAA or bill them.
If not, an legally obliged to defend my property against unauthorized assaults.
WOW
I mean WOW
If each one of us can do 10% of what that man did, we can make the world a better place.
I hope God judges him Kindly.
HEY!
I like my Flash just the way it is.
WHo the heck cares about functionality when style is a lot better.
Which is why *NIX never won the Desktop while Windows Vista Rules the roost(!)
Of course they would do.
If i were a tape player manufacturer, i would try to "enhance" the features by offering non-standard features: like LP recording (twice the capacity at half the speed, thus making it unplayable on any other system), etc.
The fact is that punishment is absent when you don't follow standards.
If Sony made a walkman that didn't hold a Tape, it can't advertise it could hold a Tape(false adverts) and the market would instantly punish it for it.
How do you punish a monopoly like eBay?
Of course. That is the intent. Don't you see it?
Ballmer wants another shotgun riding Bill like another hole in the ass.
The idea of an exam is NOT to ascertain what you know. It is to expose what you DON'T know.
(with apologies to Churchill).
There was a short period of time when companies actually made sure their products were usable by people.
That was in 1970s.
Electronics then were not complicated, but sophisticated enough. And Walkmans would actually work.
Because Open Standards were harsh.
Like the standards for an audio tape or even an audio CD.
They were expected to work with ANY player as long as it met the standards.
That is why i could take a take from my boom box, plug into a walkman and listen on way to school and back.
Or how LP records worked.
Standards governed and restricted how companies could use "innovation" to screw up their own products.
The rot started with Sound Blaster.
It was an Industry standard as opposed to open standard.
Browsers? There is no standard today.
Once you take away a standard that sets minimum expectations, then obviously things don't work.
Blaming eBay is easy. Blaming lack of standards and blaming all is hard.
WHom should we blame? Microsoft for their UTTER lack of interest in adopting open standards?
IBM for its insistence on peeing into the wind?
Netscape for its collosal stupidity in failing to set standards?
eBay for not knowing what a standard is and breaking things up?
Wow!
Yours is the most insightful comment i have read in a long time.
They will.
Gettting a law passed for taking out the eyes of someone who viewed a pirated movie as a "lesser" punishment will be sponsored by Orrin Hatch and passed.
You will get a Baton in your mouth, in addition to being strip-searched by a fat lady.
There's a major basic difference between Russian and US planes:
Russian planes were deliberately made simple so that even a kulak could fix it.
US planes were made by private corporations who taught Inkjet Printers Cos., how to rip off people with costly ink and cheap printers.
In short, KISS was a philosophy that resulted in AK-47. Keep it complex resulted in X-29 fighter and Star Wars which was scrapped after a ball-busting expense report.
Oh... OK.
I guess i understood it wrong.
My Apologies.
5Mbps down?
Wow!
In India i get 16Mbps down, and 4.4Mbps Up with a 100GB per month traffic limit at $100/- per month.
Oh and that includes IP TV, a free TiVO so i can record, rewind and watch shows i missed.
Yes, and we can easily circumvent this by writing down with your pen on the same contract paper stating that using any information beyond the scope of this transaction will result on violation of terms and hence termination of contract without cause.
Make a photocopy of the contract.
This means, if the Telco robocalls you, send a copy of the contract and tell them the contract is over and you will be switching the provider.
Yes. I think so.
Why?
Do you recall how many professors and scientists were prevented from entering USA from 2002 till 2008? Because of paranoia and DHS/TSA?
DHS and TSA are a "Yes Minister" type. They will continue to grow and propagate to justify their existence and the money we spend on them.
Legally pathbreaking but also very potentially damaging.
If ACLU wins based on fourth amendment basis on the right of people to be secure in their persons & papers, then the border searches will be extremely time consuming as each search will need to accompanied by a warrant from a judge.
In short people will start to hate the border patrol more and DHS will get the blame.
OTOH, if the judge decides that People are NOT people until they enter USA and that the laws of the land do not apply to them until they enter, then it becomes much more abusive.
Border Patrol can easily strip search every 18-yr old girl, in the presence of her parents, and easily barge through every suitcase she has. Also, they can drag a "Person of Interest" to the border, search him, and bring him back.
This raises hackles everywhere.
...as evidenced by the video
So, will the Feds charge Bush for theft & prosecute him?
After all Al Capone wasn't convicted of the many murders he committed.
He was convicted of a stupid tax evasion charge.
And as per existing laws, if you rob $10 from a bank you get 20 years, but if you fraud $50 million you get a probation.
So, Bush can be charged and convicted of copyright violation!
The FCC is fighting the wrong battle.
ISPs are not increasing prices for those who use the bandwidth in full, they are reducing the contracted speed/bandwidth while continuing to receive the same money.
FCC should allow consumers to pay pro-rated charges based on their bandwidth.
So, if verizon reduced my contracted speed from 16Mbps to 2Mbps for 8 hours, i pay only 1/8th the amount for that duration.
Poland has a chequered history.
During WW2, poles hated jews, Poles hated Germans, Poles hated Russians.
Jews hated Germans, Jews hated Poles, jews hated Russians.
The Germans hated Jews, Germans hated Russians.
Russians hated Poles, Russians hated Germans.
Each group strived hard to get rid of the other.
Which is why Auschwitz was perfect location: The poles would betray Jews, the Russians would betray Poles to Germans, and so on.
allofmp3.com was a perfect outlet.
However, the RIAA didn't get its usual cut of the money rolled by allofmp3.com
That money went directly to a bigger mafia: the Russian Mafia.
The 5 cents to and 9 cents they charged were great.
Unfortunately that 5 to 9 cents was the amount RIAA paid the artists. The rest of 90 cents pocketed by them under "Administrative" charges.
Now, that's very unfortunate.
How do you shut down an operation by the Russian Mafia? You don't send in SWAT or goon squads. They get wiped out, plus the russian mafia will take the nuts of RIAA lawyers as interest payments.
Instead lean on the most powerful Government, which they had bought with campaign donations, and force them to shut allofmp3.com
Once you change the law to suit you, then the state spends taxpayer money to implement it. You need not spend your money.
In short if i want to tear down a school road at 60mph in my Ferrari, i can do two things:
1) Pay $500 as fine to cops and spend quality time in Prison for each violation.
2) I can buy the local DA/Mayor for $50,000 by contributing to their campaign, get a law passed that allows high-powered cars to exceed the speed limit.
Which is profitable for me?
No, the Town Hall doesn't needs the revenue from parking meters. It needs the parking meters from its "preferred" vendors, like the councilman's son-in-law or the mayor's brother.
If you care to dig deep into parking meters supply contract, you can ALWAYS find a 1st or 2nd degree link to the authority.
Confront that head-on and you will have "accidentally" filled your home with landfill, or a bank 'accidentally' auctions your home.
Ahhh Yes and No.
Feeding money to private jailers will NOT stop because the states are bankrupt.
Politicians need campaign money.
Private jail operators donate huge amounts to keep them elected.
Politicians also need to plug the holes in budgets
So, what will happen is this:
1) Small drug possessions will be taxed and decriminalized.
2) Jail time for music/movie piracy will be tripled with most pirates jailed for life.
3) Jail time for jay walking, illegal parking and non-return of library books will be increased.
4) Drug selling will be taxed and made legal.
...yes, when it comes to protecting its own, the Govt exceeds the expectations.
Surprising.
The same thing happened in Francea few centuries ago and resulted in the Monarchy being booted out to the Guillotine.
The same thing happened in Russia in 1917.
And we wonder why...
...who was a member of local MPAA/RIAA, had a vested interest in the judgement and possibly a financial stake in the outcome.
So, in short, a large corporate buys up a judge, gets custom judgement, makes donations to the politicians, and everything is A OK.
But when a poor company buys a bankrupt company, that is criminally investigated since the bankrupt company went bankrupt without paying the large rich corporate....
Wow!