I do not want people calling me trying to sell me stuff.. so DO NOT CALL me!
Well, here's the thing, why do they even WANT to call you? If I were a telemarketer, I'd love do not call lists. Those lists would save me an awful lot of money calling people who are virtually guaranteed to not buy anything.
It's like, "Here, these people don't want to be your customers. They won't buy anything from you. If you call them, you will be wasting time and money." And the idiots whine, "Noooo! But I WANT to call them!!! Surely my slick salesmen can talk them into SOMETHING!!"
Man, I'd love a list like that. Talk about targeted marketing. These dorks don't seem to get it...
I got screwed by my bank the other day, and want to tell the world: www.moderngeek.com/usbank
Pay them their fees. Close the account. Then sue them in small claims court.
Or, refuse to pay. Tell them, "Fuck you, I'm not paying you, sue me if you don't like it." And walk out. When collection agencies call, there are nicely worded scripts all over the 'net about how to legally get them off your back, too.
They may threaten to ruin your credit; who cares. So long as you buy everything small in cash (cars included), and put at least 20% down on a mortgage, you don't need credit. But if you do care, you can file complaints with the credit reporting agencies, too.
See, that's where you're confused. It's not your courtroom. Yeah, you helped pay for it, but that doesn't make it yours.
Do you get to decide what paintings to put on the wall? Do you get to decide the arrangement of the furniture? The color of the carpet? Choice of lighting fixtures?
No? So what makes you think you can decide what, if any, religious symbols can be put in there?
Just as well to put up a sign saying "All hope abandon, ye different-believers who enter here."
That's ridiculous.
If a Christian judge is going to disobey our laws and constitution, and judge you harshly because you are different, do you really think preventing him from displaying a simple religious document is going to change that?
Who/What/When/How/Why you worship some invisible friend(s) is none of my business
That's right.
This means if my child wants to wear a cross on a necklace to school, it's none of your business.
If she wants to pray with her friends in front of the flagpole before class, and even organize a prayer group amongst classmates to do so, it's none of your business.
If a judge wants the 10 Commandments displayed in his courtroom, it's none of your business.
If the folks down at city hall want to put up a Christmas tree, it's none of your business.
So please, do us all a favor: Stop telling us Who/What/When/How/Why we can worship. As you say, it's none of your business. You don't have any rights when it comes to not seeing things you don't like.
All you do is burn them to an iso/toast , i belive you can do this with toast mount iso/.toast then rip them to mp3 using one of the many programs out there.
When you buy from iTunes or just about any other online music store that uses some form of DRM, your purchase is bound by a service agreement in which you agree not to bypass the DRM.
Oh, shut the fuck up.
You legalistic fanboys are all alike. "NO SIR MISTER, you're BOUND by the.." blah blah fucking blah. I'm not bound by a damn thing. There are no notorized copies of my signature in Apple's vaults and therefore, I will do whatever the fuck I like with the music that I PAID FOR.
You know what, I don't want to buy the whole CD, I want to buy a single song, and after I buy that song I want to listen to it when and where I damn well feel like it. If you or Apple or the RIAA or the federal government don't like that, tough titty. Get off your fucking high horse; you are no better than me. In fact, I think you're a damned idiot for letting others tell you what you can and can't do in the privacy of your own home with the things you purchase.
Sorry, pal. Only I get to decide which rules I follow. Not you or Apple or anyone else.
It's like an all-you-can-eat buffet at the local restaurant. It charges $10 per person to eat, but you and 10 of your friends come in every day, pay for one plate, and use it to feed everyone.
That's the stupidest fucking analogy I've ever heard. Breaking the DRM != sharing with others. Get a clue. If they didn't want to pay for it, they'd just get it from any random p2p network. Song quality is higher on most p2p networks, too.
I highly doubt most people are breaking DRM for the purpose of committing copyright infringement. If they wanted to infringe, there are easier ways to do so without spending a buck per song.
The poster I was replying to had your opinion of DRM, but was also using iTunes-- a product that relies on DRM technology. In short, he was a hypocrite.
No, he's trying to do the right thing by paying for his music. Who gives a shit if he cracks it afterwards so he can actually use it. That's nobody's business but his own.
Would you prefer he just snag it off the nearest p2p network?
How are they screwing the customer? Nobody is putting a gun to the customer's head to force you to buy this DRM music online. Go back to buying CDs then.
Sure - right back to the "One good song and a bunch of filler for $17." No thanks.
Regardless of how you feel about DRM, it's not going to put online music in a good light at the labels.
Who fucking cares. The labels have screwed the customer long enough. We want affordable singles and iTunes is a huge step in the right direction, however, they miss the boat on DRM. I've never bought a damn thing from iTunes. Not because I'm a cheap shit looking for free music, but because of the DRM.
My embedded devices can't play it, my non-iPod MP3 players can't play it, I can't burn 150 compressed songs to a single CD and play them in my car, I can't listen to my music on more than x computers... It's worthless.
So then what? If I download from p2p or copy from friends, I'm a criminal. If I break the DRM, I paid for it fair and square but I'm still a criminal.
The point it's making is that you always make a trade-off between the freedom to do Cool Stuff and the intimacy of developed and dependent relationships
No, that's not true. It only works that way when you make it so. You CAN have your cake and eat it, too.
I hate it that I can't really go skiing any more
Why can't you go skiing any more? You can't leave the kids with friends or family and take your wife skiing? If she doesn't ski, you can't leave her with the kids for a weekend and go up with friends? Why not?
I'm married. I ski. My wife doesn't. BFD. Do I ski every weekend? No, because I want to spend time with my family. Doesn't mean I can't ski anymore. I went skiing a few times a year when I was single and that hasn't changed since I got married. I plan the trip out with friends and go.
Being married doesn't mean you have to spend every waking moment together, or that you have to abandon your hobbies.
Their wives have them under lock and key, they can hardly ever do anything fun, and when they can then they're always asking for permission. It's pitiful.
I agree, but only with this.
I married and had a kid both at 19. On purpose. Why, I wanted a family and I found the right girl. We're still married a decade later (and have two kids now).
But I don't live under lock and key. I don't ask permission. Why, because that's a bunch of fucking bullshit. Marriage isn't supposed to be the end of your life, unfortunately most women seem to think it's their job to make their man miserable. I see the same thing in my married friends, they're always asking permission to do anything. I just tell my wife, "Hey, I'm going to do x." Sometimes she will come with me and we'll bring the kids. Sometimes we'll both go and leave them with family. Sometimes she will stay home. Sometimes she will say, "Oh, we have plans with x that day, did you forget?" and I'll reschedule.
But she NEVER says, "No." Why, because like I said, I married the right girl.
Men need to stop taking shit from their wives. Tell her what you're going to do and then do it. Problem is most men are wussies and never got over the emotional scarring from moving away from mommy. So they marry a mommy type who will take care of them and tell them what to do and they bitch about it, but the truth is they're comfortable there.
It's fucking pathetic, and it's not a healthy marriage.
Their practices are anti-competitive. Have you ever tried to get DSL from a third party? Maybe it's different in bigger cities but where I live, it's very expensive. You pay the DSL provider (phone company) and you pay the ISP.
However, if you just use the phone company's ISP, it's like half the price.
[quote]What, you think a couple of guys with hunting rifles are going to do any serious damage against an armored tank division?[/quote] No, my point was that the armored tank division is made up of our friends and family members. They would not attack our own citizens.
[quote]Perhaps the senario you're talking about is possible with the co-operation of the military[/quote] Not necessarily the cooperation, but at the very least the "lack of" cooperation. What I mean by that: Other than a full scale, major revolt, I can't see the military cooperating by helping to overthrow the government. However, it is even less likely that they would cooperate WITH the government by attacking U.S. citizens.
As I said, they are our friends and family members. I know a lot of people who serve and have served in the military and none of them would cooperate in a large scale attack on U.S. citizens. Against a small group of extremists, sure. But not against us all. They'd either lay down arms and refuse to help the government, or "re-appropriate" the government's tools (weapons, aircraft, tanks, etc) and use them to help the people.
The TV companies appear to not be so desperate to sue people into bankruptcy
Not necessarily. My ISP has threatened to disconnect me, as they received a complaint from the studio who puts out Stargate Atlantis. Seems I was watching their show by downloading instead of over the TV. End result is the same (another viewer and fan for them, yay) but they didn't take too kindly to it.
So I download my Atlantis from usenet now instead of bittorrent. (No, I don't give one fat shit about their rules. They put out a show for everyone to watch and I'm watching it. The fact that my feed comes through a phone line instead of a cable is immaterial to me.)
That's right, more and more we just don't have options. IMHO, this is akin to the phone company blocking access to certain numbers because they just don't want to route them. How would you feel if you weren't allowed to call a phone number you wanted, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it because your telephone provider is the only one in town?
ISPs should not be allowed to filter service like this. My DSL provider IS a phone company, about the time VOIP starts eating into their service they can just turn it off and screw me. That's not right, and is a valid reason for federal regulation of ISPs much like phone companies have been regulated for decades.
If things ever come to the point where you need to overthrow the government and all you've got are the guns in your house you aren't going to get very far. If you do get very far, rest assured someone will simply drop a few tons of high explosives on your house from 50,000 feet.
No, see, you're the one going beyond idiotic. The idea of overthrowing a government isn't intended for use by one house, or a neighborhood, or even a city. It's national. How is the government going to drop a few tons of high explosives on the houses of millions of people?
Surely you realize that military operations are planned, staged and executed by our brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles, and close friends? There aren't a million secret, dark agents running our military, capable of turning against the nation should the president give the word. These are our own citizens, and all indications say virtually none of them would cooperate in such a situation.
No; if the government was in danger of being overthrown, chances are very high those high explosives and the aircraft used to deliver them would not be in the hands of the government. They would be in the hands of a military loyal to the citizens of this country - their friends and family members - and would be used in our favor.
Nobody knows, because the first panels ever made are still working.
Today's panels are warranted for 25+ years. It's entirely possible they'll last twice that, even longer. Honestly, you will throw them away in favor of a better solution before they fail.
The generator nearest to me (Handford) was only recently evaluated as needing a further $5 Billion for a partial cleanup, and that money is not going to be back-billed to the people who got their electricity from it over the years. (In other words, the next generation is stuck paying off the credit card bills of parents who were living beyond their means.) Of course, Handford is worse than normal, because it was an early plant, and so presumably operated in a manner more lax than a modern plant would be, and and presumably much heavier on the side-business as well (most (all?) generators help pay their way with non-electrical side business eg . selling various byproducts to industry and military), but it's the generator closest to me. Furthermore, it's looking like the current administration has decided that the cost of even this partial cleanup is simply too much for our struggling economy to cope with, and probably a lot more corners will be cut.
Parent poster is a liar, an idiot, or both. Yes, I'm talking to you.
If you lived near Hanford you'd know how to spell it. You'd also know the cleanup has NOTHING AT ALL to do with power generation. The nation's first nuclear reactors for the production of atomic bombs were designed and build there, and large amounts of plutonium necessary for bomb production was also build there. THAT is what the cleanup is about. The lone nuclear reactor generating power on the site is very clean, and has never required cleanup other than the occasional shipment of fuel rods.
Go back to school and study your history. Spelling, too.
it may not necessarily be theft, but it did hurt the value of the original.
So?
If I make a park better than central park, that also hurts it's value. For that matter if I setup a zoo just outside central park and everyone decides to spend their money at my zoo, that also hurts central park. But nobody in their right mind would suggest either activity should be illegal.
No he doesn't. The personal info is personal and private. His argument is akin to those idiots who say, "Oh, since everything should be free, you can just give me your credit card number."
Comparing the copying of sensitive data to the copying of content generated specifically for and released to the public is apples and oranges.
Let's stick a red fucking "A" on their foreheard too, while we're at it.
Or maybe a nice GPS "collar" device that occasionally blurts out "Shun me!". Sounds good to me. If you're a danger to others we have a right to know, and you should be shunned. Or would you rather we just pretended the murder, rape, etc, never happened and accept these people back into society as if everything is OK?
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I do not want people calling me trying to sell me stuff.. so DO NOT CALL me!
Well, here's the thing, why do they even WANT to call you? If I were a telemarketer, I'd love do not call lists. Those lists would save me an awful lot of money calling people who are virtually guaranteed to not buy anything.
It's like, "Here, these people don't want to be your customers. They won't buy anything from you. If you call them, you will be wasting time and money." And the idiots whine, "Noooo! But I WANT to call them!!! Surely my slick salesmen can talk them into SOMETHING!!"
Man, I'd love a list like that. Talk about targeted marketing. These dorks don't seem to get it...
But Apple isn't overstocked on Macs.
I got screwed by my bank the other day, and want to tell the world: www.moderngeek.com/usbank
Pay them their fees. Close the account. Then sue them in small claims court.
Or, refuse to pay. Tell them, "Fuck you, I'm not paying you, sue me if you don't like it." And walk out. When collection agencies call, there are nicely worded scripts all over the 'net about how to legally get them off your back, too.
They may threaten to ruin your credit; who cares. So long as you buy everything small in cash (cars included), and put at least 20% down on a mortgage, you don't need credit. But if you do care, you can file complaints with the credit reporting agencies, too.
No, RFID is expensive. iButtons are dirt cheap and almost completely indestructible.
www.ibutton.com
It's not his courtroom, it's mine, as a taxpayer.
See, that's where you're confused. It's not your courtroom. Yeah, you helped pay for it, but that doesn't make it yours.
Do you get to decide what paintings to put on the wall?
Do you get to decide the arrangement of the furniture?
The color of the carpet?
Choice of lighting fixtures?
No? So what makes you think you can decide what, if any, religious symbols can be put in there?
Just as well to put up a sign saying "All hope abandon, ye different-believers who enter here."
That's ridiculous.
If a Christian judge is going to disobey our laws and constitution, and judge you harshly because you are different, do you really think preventing him from displaying a simple religious document is going to change that?
I'll email him and ask him, but: Where can you buy tiny RFID chips & inexpensive readers like this?
No, I don't want to implant one in my hand. However, implanting one in a ring or a watch would be cool.
Who/What/When/How/Why you worship some invisible friend(s) is none of my business
That's right.
This means if my child wants to wear a cross on a necklace to school, it's none of your business.
If she wants to pray with her friends in front of the flagpole before class, and even organize a prayer group amongst classmates to do so, it's none of your business.
If a judge wants the 10 Commandments displayed in his courtroom, it's none of your business.
If the folks down at city hall want to put up a Christmas tree, it's none of your business.
So please, do us all a favor: Stop telling us Who/What/When/How/Why we can worship. As you say, it's none of your business. You don't have any rights when it comes to not seeing things you don't like.
All you do is burn them to an iso/toast , i belive you can do this with toast .
mount iso/.toast
then rip them to mp3 using one of the many programs out there
And then the quality of the music goes to shit.
When you buy from iTunes or just about any other online music store that uses some form of DRM, your purchase is bound by a service agreement in which you agree not to bypass the DRM.
Oh, shut the fuck up.
You legalistic fanboys are all alike. "NO SIR MISTER, you're BOUND by the.." blah blah fucking blah. I'm not bound by a damn thing. There are no notorized copies of my signature in Apple's vaults and therefore, I will do whatever the fuck I like with the music that I PAID FOR.
You know what, I don't want to buy the whole CD, I want to buy a single song, and after I buy that song I want to listen to it when and where I damn well feel like it. If you or Apple or the RIAA or the federal government don't like that, tough titty. Get off your fucking high horse; you are no better than me. In fact, I think you're a damned idiot for letting others tell you what you can and can't do in the privacy of your own home with the things you purchase.
Sorry, pal. Only I get to decide which rules I follow. Not you or Apple or anyone else.
It's like an all-you-can-eat buffet at the local restaurant. It charges $10 per person to eat, but you and 10 of your friends come in every day, pay for one plate, and use it to feed everyone.
That's the stupidest fucking analogy I've ever heard. Breaking the DRM != sharing with others. Get a clue. If they didn't want to pay for it, they'd just get it from any random p2p network. Song quality is higher on most p2p networks, too.
I highly doubt most people are breaking DRM for the purpose of committing copyright infringement. If they wanted to infringe, there are easier ways to do so without spending a buck per song.
The poster I was replying to had your opinion of DRM, but was also using iTunes-- a product that relies on DRM technology. In short, he was a hypocrite.
No, he's trying to do the right thing by paying for his music. Who gives a shit if he cracks it afterwards so he can actually use it. That's nobody's business but his own.
Would you prefer he just snag it off the nearest p2p network?
How are they screwing the customer? Nobody is putting a gun to the customer's head to force you to buy this DRM music online. Go back to buying CDs then.
Sure - right back to the "One good song and a bunch of filler for $17." No thanks.
Regardless of how you feel about DRM, it's not going to put online music in a good light at the labels.
Who fucking cares. The labels have screwed the customer long enough. We want affordable singles and iTunes is a huge step in the right direction, however, they miss the boat on DRM. I've never bought a damn thing from iTunes. Not because I'm a cheap shit looking for free music, but because of the DRM.
My embedded devices can't play it, my non-iPod MP3 players can't play it, I can't burn 150 compressed songs to a single CD and play them in my car, I can't listen to my music on more than x computers... It's worthless.
So then what? If I download from p2p or copy from friends, I'm a criminal. If I break the DRM, I paid for it fair and square but I'm still a criminal.
Fuck the industry and their DRM. "DRM = No Sale".
Hell, she looks just like my buddy's wife. That poor son of a bitch...
The point it's making is that you always make a trade-off between the freedom to do Cool Stuff and the intimacy of developed and dependent relationships
No, that's not true. It only works that way when you make it so. You CAN have your cake and eat it, too.
I hate it that I can't really go skiing any more
Why can't you go skiing any more? You can't leave the kids with friends or family and take your wife skiing? If she doesn't ski, you can't leave her with the kids for a weekend and go up with friends? Why not?
I'm married. I ski. My wife doesn't. BFD. Do I ski every weekend? No, because I want to spend time with my family. Doesn't mean I can't ski anymore. I went skiing a few times a year when I was single and that hasn't changed since I got married. I plan the trip out with friends and go.
Being married doesn't mean you have to spend every waking moment together, or that you have to abandon your hobbies.
Their wives have them under lock and key, they can hardly ever do anything fun, and when they can then they're always asking for permission. It's pitiful.
I agree, but only with this.
I married and had a kid both at 19. On purpose. Why, I wanted a family and I found the right girl. We're still married a decade later (and have two kids now).
But I don't live under lock and key. I don't ask permission. Why, because that's a bunch of fucking bullshit. Marriage isn't supposed to be the end of your life, unfortunately most women seem to think it's their job to make their man miserable. I see the same thing in my married friends, they're always asking permission to do anything. I just tell my wife, "Hey, I'm going to do x." Sometimes she will come with me and we'll bring the kids. Sometimes we'll both go and leave them with family. Sometimes she will stay home. Sometimes she will say, "Oh, we have plans with x that day, did you forget?" and I'll reschedule.
But she NEVER says, "No." Why, because like I said, I married the right girl.
Men need to stop taking shit from their wives. Tell her what you're going to do and then do it. Problem is most men are wussies and never got over the emotional scarring from moving away from mommy. So they marry a mommy type who will take care of them and tell them what to do and they bitch about it, but the truth is they're comfortable there.
It's fucking pathetic, and it's not a healthy marriage.
Their practices are anti-competitive. Have you ever tried to get DSL from a third party? Maybe it's different in bigger cities but where I live, it's very expensive. You pay the DSL provider (phone company) and you pay the ISP.
However, if you just use the phone company's ISP, it's like half the price.
That isn't valid competition.
[quote]What, you think a couple of guys with hunting rifles are going to do any serious damage against an armored tank division?[/quote]
No, my point was that the armored tank division is made up of our friends and family members. They would not attack our own citizens.
[quote]Perhaps the senario you're talking about is possible with the co-operation of the military[/quote]
Not necessarily the cooperation, but at the very least the "lack of" cooperation. What I mean by that: Other than a full scale, major revolt, I can't see the military cooperating by helping to overthrow the government. However, it is even less likely that they would cooperate WITH the government by attacking U.S. citizens.
As I said, they are our friends and family members. I know a lot of people who serve and have served in the military and none of them would cooperate in a large scale attack on U.S. citizens. Against a small group of extremists, sure. But not against us all. They'd either lay down arms and refuse to help the government, or "re-appropriate" the government's tools (weapons, aircraft, tanks, etc) and use them to help the people.
The TV companies appear to not be so desperate to sue people into bankruptcy
Not necessarily. My ISP has threatened to disconnect me, as they received a complaint from the studio who puts out Stargate Atlantis. Seems I was watching their show by downloading instead of over the TV. End result is the same (another viewer and fan for them, yay) but they didn't take too kindly to it.
So I download my Atlantis from usenet now instead of bittorrent. (No, I don't give one fat shit about their rules. They put out a show for everyone to watch and I'm watching it. The fact that my feed comes through a phone line instead of a cable is immaterial to me.)
That's right, more and more we just don't have options. IMHO, this is akin to the phone company blocking access to certain numbers because they just don't want to route them. How would you feel if you weren't allowed to call a phone number you wanted, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it because your telephone provider is the only one in town?
ISPs should not be allowed to filter service like this. My DSL provider IS a phone company, about the time VOIP starts eating into their service they can just turn it off and screw me. That's not right, and is a valid reason for federal regulation of ISPs much like phone companies have been regulated for decades.
If things ever come to the point where you need to overthrow the government and all you've got are the guns in your house you aren't going to get very far. If you do get very far, rest assured someone will simply drop a few tons of high explosives on your house from 50,000 feet.
No, see, you're the one going beyond idiotic. The idea of overthrowing a government isn't intended for use by one house, or a neighborhood, or even a city. It's national. How is the government going to drop a few tons of high explosives on the houses of millions of people?
Surely you realize that military operations are planned, staged and executed by our brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles, and close friends? There aren't a million secret, dark agents running our military, capable of turning against the nation should the president give the word. These are our own citizens, and all indications say virtually none of them would cooperate in such a situation.
No; if the government was in danger of being overthrown, chances are very high those high explosives and the aircraft used to deliver them would not be in the hands of the government. They would be in the hands of a military loyal to the citizens of this country - their friends and family members - and would be used in our favor.
How long do the panels last, though?
Nobody knows, because the first panels ever made are still working.
Today's panels are warranted for 25+ years. It's entirely possible they'll last twice that, even longer. Honestly, you will throw them away in favor of a better solution before they fail.
The generator nearest to me (Handford) was only recently evaluated as needing a further $5 Billion for a partial cleanup, and that money is not going to be back-billed to the people who got their electricity from it over the years. (In other words, the next generation is stuck paying off the credit card bills of parents who were living beyond their means.)
Of course, Handford is worse than normal, because it was an early plant, and so presumably operated in a manner more lax than a modern plant would be, and and presumably much heavier on the side-business as well (most (all?) generators help pay their way with non-electrical side business eg . selling various byproducts to industry and military), but it's the generator closest to me. Furthermore, it's looking like the current administration has decided that the cost of even this partial cleanup is simply too much for our struggling economy to cope with, and probably a lot more corners will be cut.
Parent poster is a liar, an idiot, or both. Yes, I'm talking to you.
If you lived near Hanford you'd know how to spell it. You'd also know the cleanup has NOTHING AT ALL to do with power generation. The nation's first nuclear reactors for the production of atomic bombs were designed and build there, and large amounts of plutonium necessary for bomb production was also build there. THAT is what the cleanup is about. The lone nuclear reactor generating power on the site is very clean, and has never required cleanup other than the occasional shipment of fuel rods.
Go back to school and study your history. Spelling, too.
it may not necessarily be theft, but it did hurt the value of the original.
So?
If I make a park better than central park, that also hurts it's value. For that matter if I setup a zoo just outside central park and everyone decides to spend their money at my zoo, that also hurts central park. But nobody in their right mind would suggest either activity should be illegal.
You raise a good point.
No he doesn't. The personal info is personal and private. His argument is akin to those idiots who say, "Oh, since everything should be free, you can just give me your credit card number."
Comparing the copying of sensitive data to the copying of content generated specifically for and released to the public is apples and oranges.
Let's stick a red fucking "A" on their foreheard too, while we're at it.
Or maybe a nice GPS "collar" device that occasionally blurts out "Shun me!".
Sounds good to me. If you're a danger to others we have a right to know, and you should be shunned. Or would you rather we just pretended the murder, rape, etc, never happened and accept these people back into society as if everything is OK?