it's pretty god damn hard. its kind of like being vegan. a lot of hardline vegan kids have this little book, its called "900 million animal ingredients". when they go to the grocery store, they have to take the book with them, and make sure that none of the 900 million ingredients are listed on the ingredients of the food they are going to buy.
similiarly, in order for you to "NEVER EVER EVER AGAIN BUY RIAA RECORDING COMPANY CDS", you're going to have to take a list of recording companies represented by the RIAA with you into the music store. here is a list of record companies the RIAA reprsents: link, so go ahead and print it out and take it in with you...
the point is: there is no god damn way you are going to do this. the RIAA represents too many fucking record companies to make a boycott plausible. i mean, who wants to spend an afternoon digging through records just to find out that the 3 they want are all put out by record companies that they've a) never heard of, and b) are represented by the RIAA?
the real problem here is that a lobbyist group like the RIAA is allowed to exist in the first place.
BUT DON'T WORRY AMERICAN!!!!!!!
this is a democracy. since 57 million people (more than the # of voters who were not listened to when we just went ahead and installed a democractic president who didn't win the election back in the year 2000) share files, and because we have functioning and not decadent democratic forms in the united states, the people's voice will be heard!!!! this issue will be resolved once we all get a chance to vote on it!!!!!!!
thank god for voting!!!!!
the problem of sony/emi/universal/the smaller companies/the RIAA will be resolved by democracy in america. this resolution will be very similar to the way that the voters of california voted to legaliz medical marijuana, which was quickly outlawed by a mechanical ape thousands of miles away.
Brianna added: "I am sorry for what I have done. I love music and don't want to hurt the artists I love."
bullshit. sony/universal/emi/the riaa put those words in her mouth. so check it out:
this corrupt association of record companies bought a law called the DMCA. that happened largely due to the efficient functioning of democratic forms in the united states (something like 57 million people download files, right)? that is, because we live in a democracy, these corporations were able to buy a law. corporate lobbying undermines the possibility of a functioning democracy. what a beautiful politcal system to force on the rest of the world with guns and other fabulous killing technology like smart bombs and the joint air-to-surface standoff missile. but back to the main point...
so next, in our democracy, these corporate entities filed lawsuits based on information they subpeoned from internet service providers. keep in mind they didn't have to get a court order for the subpeonas. this is because in the united states, corporate entities have the same rights as human entities. one of the lawsuits is aimed at a 12 year old girl. her mom wanted to get rid of all the extra stress and attention that the lawsuit would bring, so she settled for $2000.
the next development: the superpower formed by corporate entities adding all their money together (RIAA) used their influence over other corporate entities--which, collectivley, can be called the american media. the corporations fed the corporations this STUPID statement that a 12 year old girl said. this is probably what the phone call sounded like:
collection of corporations #1: uuh, yeah? collection of coporations #2? yeah, hi, this is Mr. Reject over at collection of corporations #1. we settled a multi-corporation lawsuit for $2000. you see, the 12 year old owed about $600,000 to Sony, $1.2 million dollars to EMI, and about $6 million dollars to universal records. we settled all those lawsuits for $2000. then, upon reflection of our corporate aims and, of course, what is Good (tm) and Just (tm), the 12 year old girl said "I love music and don't want to hurt the artists I love."
collection of corporations #2: oh, wow collection of corporations #1. that is a tremendously insightful and quotable statement that 12 year old girl said. we'll go ahead and uncritically pass it on to the entire american population, representing it as her words.
i am troubled deeply by what sony/emi/universal/the riaa is doing in your country. incidentally, i live here, but i do not feel allegiance to this corrupt hell hole. that makes it your country, not mine. but i digress. a bigger problem underscores and makes possible what the record companies are doing: our corporate media. these monkey fucks are bought and sold, and we digest their feces as truth and objective reporting. its a lot like how we morons digest the idea of our government as free and democractic. why are we so stupid? the media is being used in this entire shennanigan to pass on the riaa's threats. a bunch of corporations(the recording companies) are abusing our legal system, and then paying a bunch of other corporations (the media) to distribute fear and and propaganda to our populace. 261 targets is nothing out of 57 million. if i lived in a country of 57 million people and 261 of them were murdered, i wouldn't feel threatened. there is no reason for file sharers to feel threatened. the reason we take this seriously is because the riaa and the media are cooperating to brainwash the people of the united states.
i see a lot of cries for boycott on this issue, but its always directed against the recording companies. "get cds from indie labels, etc." that's all well and good, and i support that. i would rather stick a fucking knife in my mouth than by a stream of bits organized with artistic integrity by britney/christina/metallica. i cry for a boycott of corporate media. why do we listen to these fucking idiots? why do we accept their agenda uncritically? the media is bought
I will justify piracy by saying software is too expensive. I will download and use any piece of software that I do not feel like paying for. This usually includes Microsoft, Symantec, and Adobe products.
you paranoid wimp. get some balls. i would play DVDs under linux because its legal. you're probably the kind of chump who buys the DVDs instead of downloading the DVD-Screener SVCD 6 months before the dvd release. dork.
As for other subjects besides science/math, I don't know or care what this will do for them. They're pretty much a waste of time anyway. Reading is fundamental, but a literary critic is a terrible waste of flesh...
that's not malicious--that is AWESOME. the point of kazaa is to download movies, software, and mp3s. the point is NOT legal file sharing. kazaa writes the software for dowloading illegal material (thank you Kazaa). so anything confusing about the applications of the EULA due to what the user missed in paraphrase is a blessing. anything to compound the situation.
oh my god please don't mod me down because i admitted to file sharing.
Xeenon already makes a really good mp3 car player (so i hear....i dont acutally have one) for $550. it plays Mp3 CDs and uses a proprietary OS, however, so the prestiege of using linux and not having skips are absent...but it looks really cool. check it out.. http://www.xeenon.com
I agreee, Tom, about the kernel config and making things easy. make menuconfig is dope. i dont give a fuck about the commented text. why reinvent the wheel? -Neal
The entire premise behind the electoral college is that the ruling class from the 1700's (rich old white men from england) could maintain their grip on the lower class. It was a way for them to look at the people's vote, and say "fuck that, hey mr. electors vote how I want you to". Just because traiditionally the electors of the electoral college vote according to the popular vote doesnt mean they cant blow off the popular vote with no rhyme or reason.
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it's pretty god damn hard. its kind of like being vegan. a lot of hardline vegan kids have this little book, its called "900 million animal ingredients". when they go to the grocery store, they have to take the book with them, and make sure that none of the 900 million ingredients are listed on the ingredients of the food they are going to buy.
similiarly, in order for you to "NEVER EVER EVER AGAIN BUY RIAA RECORDING COMPANY CDS", you're going to have to take a list of recording companies represented by the RIAA with you into the music store. here is a list of record companies the RIAA reprsents: link, so go ahead and print it out and take it in with you...
the point is: there is no god damn way you are going to do this. the RIAA represents too many fucking record companies to make a boycott plausible. i mean, who wants to spend an afternoon digging through records just to find out that the 3 they want are all put out by record companies that they've a) never heard of, and b) are represented by the RIAA?
the real problem here is that a lobbyist group like the RIAA is allowed to exist in the first place.
BUT DON'T WORRY AMERICAN!!!!!!!
this is a democracy. since 57 million people (more than the # of voters who were not listened to when we just went ahead and installed a democractic president who didn't win the election back in the year 2000) share files, and because we have functioning and not decadent democratic forms in the united states, the people's voice will be heard!!!! this issue will be resolved once we all get a chance to vote on it!!!!!!!
thank god for voting!!!!!
the problem of sony/emi/universal/the smaller companies/the RIAA will be resolved by democracy in america. this resolution will be very similar to the way that the voters of california voted to legaliz medical marijuana, which was quickly outlawed by a mechanical ape thousands of miles away.
Brianna added: "I am sorry for what I have done. I love music and don't want to hurt the artists I love."
bullshit. sony/universal/emi/the riaa put those words in her mouth. so check it out:
this corrupt association of record companies bought a law called the DMCA. that happened largely due to the efficient functioning of democratic forms in the united states (something like 57 million people download files, right)? that is, because we live in a democracy, these corporations were able to buy a law. corporate lobbying undermines the possibility of a functioning democracy. what a beautiful politcal system to force on the rest of the world with guns and other fabulous killing technology like smart bombs and the joint air-to-surface standoff missile. but back to the main point...
so next, in our democracy, these corporate entities filed lawsuits based on information they subpeoned from internet service providers. keep in mind they didn't have to get a court order for the subpeonas. this is because in the united states, corporate entities have the same rights as human entities. one of the lawsuits is aimed at a 12 year old girl. her mom wanted to get rid of all the extra stress and attention that the lawsuit would bring, so she settled for $2000.
the next development: the superpower formed by corporate entities adding all their money together (RIAA) used their influence over other corporate entities--which, collectivley, can be called the american media. the corporations fed the corporations this STUPID statement that a 12 year old girl said. this is probably what the phone call sounded like:
collection of corporations #1: uuh, yeah? collection of coporations #2? yeah, hi, this is Mr. Reject over at collection of corporations #1. we settled a multi-corporation lawsuit for $2000. you see, the 12 year old owed about $600,000 to Sony, $1.2 million dollars to EMI, and about $6 million dollars to universal records. we settled all those lawsuits for $2000. then, upon reflection of our corporate aims and, of course, what is Good (tm) and Just (tm), the 12 year old girl said "I love music and don't want to hurt the artists I love."
collection of corporations #2: oh, wow collection of corporations #1. that is a tremendously insightful and quotable statement that 12 year old girl said. we'll go ahead and uncritically pass it on to the entire american population, representing it as her words.
i am troubled deeply by what sony/emi/universal/the riaa is doing in your country. incidentally, i live here, but i do not feel allegiance to this corrupt hell hole. that makes it your country, not mine. but i digress. a bigger problem underscores and makes possible what the record companies are doing: our corporate media. these monkey fucks are bought and sold, and we digest their feces as truth and objective reporting. its a lot like how we morons digest the idea of our government as free and democractic. why are we so stupid? the media is being used in this entire shennanigan to pass on the riaa's threats. a bunch of corporations(the recording companies) are abusing our legal system, and then paying a bunch of other corporations (the media) to distribute fear and and propaganda to our populace. 261 targets is nothing out of 57 million. if i lived in a country of 57 million people and 261 of them were murdered, i wouldn't feel threatened. there is no reason for file sharers to feel threatened. the reason we take this seriously is because the riaa and the media are cooperating to brainwash the people of the united states.
i see a lot of cries for boycott on this issue, but its always directed against the recording companies. "get cds from indie labels, etc." that's all well and good, and i support that. i would rather stick a fucking knife in my mouth than by a stream of bits organized with artistic integrity by britney/christina/metallica. i cry for a boycott of corporate media. why do we listen to these fucking idiots? why do we accept their agenda uncritically? the media is bought
that's a god damn good call my man. i'm going to start naming these pig corporations instead of saying RIAA. thanks for the tip.
what do you think goes on in the indian casions' slot machines? incidentally, indians in my city run this one: http://www.viejas.com/
just watch out for the terrorists!!!!!!!!1
you're a fucking dumbass, dude.
I will justify piracy by saying software is too expensive. I will download and use any piece of software that I do not feel like paying for. This usually includes Microsoft, Symantec, and Adobe products.
you paranoid wimp. get some balls. i would play DVDs under linux because its legal. you're probably the kind of chump who buys the DVDs instead of downloading the DVD-Screener SVCD 6 months before the dvd release. dork.
-neal clark
As for other subjects besides science/math, I don't know or care what this will do for them. They're pretty much a waste of time anyway. Reading is fundamental, but a literary critic is a terrible waste of flesh...
dipshit.
this country is beyond repair.
that's not malicious--that is AWESOME. the point of kazaa is to download movies, software, and mp3s. the point is NOT legal file sharing. kazaa writes the software for dowloading illegal material (thank you Kazaa). so anything confusing about the applications of the EULA due to what the user missed in paraphrase is a blessing. anything to compound the situation.
oh my god please don't mod me down because i admitted to file sharing.
* 3 (.net, .com, .org) = 108
Xeenon already makes a really good mp3 car player (so i hear....i dont acutally have one) for $550. it plays Mp3 CDs and uses a proprietary OS, however, so the prestiege of using linux and not having skips are absent...but it looks really cool. check it out.. http://www.xeenon.com
I agreee, Tom, about the kernel config and making things easy. make menuconfig is dope. i dont give a fuck about the commented text. why reinvent the wheel? -Neal
The entire premise behind the electoral college is that the ruling class from the 1700's (rich old white men from england) could maintain their grip on the lower class. It was a way for them to look at the people's vote, and say "fuck that, hey mr. electors vote how I want you to". Just because traiditionally the electors of the electoral college vote according to the popular vote doesnt mean they cant blow off the popular vote with no rhyme or reason.
hardly what I would call "fair"