It's nice to see that Record Labels are just as good at screwing the people "they invest in" as a lot of the Venture Capitalists that finance startups. Invest in 'em and then own 'em forever and make all the money, while the real talent (musicians, engineers) get the royal shaft. Nice and fair. Uh huh..
Just remember -- working long hours doesn't necessarily get you any more $$ (welcome to being a salaried employee/slave). The people making the money off of your hard labor are the people at the top who (typically) are going home early, showing up late, and taking the weekends off (aside from stopping in to make sure you really are their working your butt off). The same people who (probably) got you into the long-hour crunch in the first place.
Someone needs to set up a website so we can accumulate all of the SMS Addresses of the various political parties. And then we can start sending them a few SMS messages of our own. If even.01% of the slashdot readers took the time to send some automated messages I bet the laws would change pretty quick. Probably need to establish a political party who's only goal is to stop SMS message spam.
Next thing spammers will be sending spam to the Mowbot -- which will reciprocate by mowing the spam message into the lawn. The neighbors will be all over my case for the 6' (obnonus: 2m) letters spelling out porn sites and make money fast scams.
Hope it's packaged differently then the typical penlight that the doc keeps in his pocket for checking the pupil response of your eye. Imagine him/her making a mistake by grabbing the wrong one out of his shirt pocket and shining it into your eye. "Oooops".
Actually there is already too much government intervention. Taking board members that do things like this out and hanging them from trees in front of the building (or from some of that "art" that is in the front lobbys)is still illegal. But if it wasn't I bet it would be a great deterent. And I bet Amazon would see a dramatic sales increase in "how to tie nooses for dummies" books. It would be fun to submit a request of a book like that through the company library.
"I'm here to collect my pound of flesh from the board. I brought a bucket."
When I as a mascot I consumed large amounts of liquids (good for staying alive). Being encased in a hot suit and working for several hours in 90+ degree weather can cause severe dehydration (unless you're one of those lame mascots who just stands around and shakes people's hands).. Unfortunatly for all these softdrink companies I typically drink only water (with lots of ice).. And then of course there's beer (but that's not till afterwards -- and it isn't being used for rehydration purposes...)
So if the MPAA/RIAA makes a mistake (mistypes an IP address) and accidentally DOSs an innocent machine (well, we know there are NO innocent machines outside of MPAA/RIAA ones) what recourse do we have? Do we get to charge them with a crime and throw their asses in jail? I doubt it.
Wonder if anybody has solved putting a touch panel over the screen? If they could make one with sufficiently high resolution then you'd have quite the system.
The roll up screens they had in Red Planet were great. Well, that and AIMEE. (and Ms. Moss)
2600 years old. Just about the right age for MoonPies... But the vending machine in the second floor lab of CERL at the University of Illinois had older items.
This change would be great. The local affiliates here in salt lake have a tendency to censor programs they don't approve of. Also a lot of shows are cancelled when there are local sports or the LDS Church needs airtime.
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It's nice to see that Record Labels are just as good at screwing the people "they invest in" as a lot of the Venture Capitalists that finance startups. Invest in 'em and then own 'em forever and make all the money, while the real talent (musicians, engineers) get the royal shaft. Nice and fair. Uh huh..
Guess we should create a new channel -- the "Horror Channel" with Science Fiction being shown on it 24 hours a day.
The SciFi channel is kind of like MTV. In the beginning SciFi showed SciFi (kind of like MTV used to show music videos). Now it doesn't.
Just remember -- working long hours doesn't necessarily get you any more $$ (welcome to being a salaried employee/slave). The people making the money off of your hard labor are the people at the top who (typically) are going home early, showing up late, and taking the weekends off (aside from stopping in to make sure you really are their working your butt off). The same people who (probably) got you into the long-hour crunch in the first place.
Great -- now my websites can get DoS'd by washers and dryers too..
Damn -- Microsoft Spellcheck sure trashed that manuscript. That's what you get for telling Clippie to take it's best shot at english.
Important Safety Tip: Disable system BEFORE immersing in water.
Someone needs to set up a website so we can accumulate all of the SMS Addresses of the various political parties. And then we can start sending them a few SMS messages of our own. If even .01% of the slashdot readers took the time to send some automated messages I bet the laws would change pretty quick. Probably need to establish a political party who's only goal is to stop SMS message spam.
Next thing spammers will be sending spam to the Mowbot -- which will reciprocate by mowing the spam message into the lawn. The neighbors will be all over my case for the 6' (obnonus: 2m) letters spelling out porn sites and make money fast scams.
Hope it's packaged differently then the typical penlight that the doc keeps in his pocket for checking the pupil response of your eye. Imagine him/her making a mistake by grabbing the wrong one out of his shirt pocket and shining it into your eye. "Oooops".
Actually there is already too much government intervention. Taking board members that do things like this out and hanging them from trees in front of the building (or from some of that "art" that is in the front lobbys)is still illegal. But if it wasn't I bet it would be a great deterent. And I bet Amazon would see a dramatic sales increase in "how to tie nooses for dummies" books. It would be fun to submit a request of a book like that through the company library.
"I'm here to collect my pound of flesh from the board. I brought a bucket."
When I as a mascot I consumed large amounts of liquids (good for staying alive). Being encased in a hot suit and working for several hours in 90+ degree weather can cause severe dehydration (unless you're one of those lame mascots who just stands around and shakes people's hands).. Unfortunatly for all these softdrink companies I typically drink only water (with lots of ice).. And then of course there's beer (but that's not till afterwards -- and it isn't being used for rehydration purposes...)
So if the MPAA/RIAA makes a mistake (mistypes an IP address) and accidentally DOSs an innocent machine (well, we know there are NO innocent machines outside of MPAA/RIAA ones) what recourse do we have? Do we get to charge them with a crime and throw their asses in jail? I doubt it.
Wonder if anybody has solved putting a touch panel over the screen? If they could make one with sufficiently high resolution then you'd have quite the system.
The roll up screens they had in Red Planet were great. Well, that and AIMEE. (and Ms. Moss)
2600 years old. Just about the right age for MoonPies... But the vending machine in the second floor lab of CERL at the University of Illinois had older items.
This change would be great. The local affiliates here in salt lake have a tendency to censor programs they don't approve of. Also a lot of shows are cancelled when there are local sports or the LDS Church needs airtime.
Timeshifting is also a plus.