If I steal a CD from a store that is a misdemeanor....
If I download a song...THAT IS A FELONY?!?!?!?!?
Disgusting. How much longer before we can convince the nation to pick up some rifles and march to DC?
The only people who would be pissed enough to arm themselves would be the very same people who no longer have the right to bear arms due to being convicted felons for pirating intellectual property. I know that if I wanted to rule the country as some sort of Czar one of the first things I would try to do would be to disarm the public. Don't want those pesky civilians rising up and disrespecting my authoritah
I agree with most of what you have to say. The only thing I would add is that just because you have the legal right of way doesn't mean you can't also be an asshole. The main reason I see people tailgating others or on occasion find myself accidentally doing the same is because some jerk is driving 10 under the speed limit in the left lane. A lot of people seem to have this sense of moral superiority which goes something like "I'm in the left lane and going the speed limit so I don't care about anyone who wants to pass me because they are speeding anyway". The left lane is not for slower traffic. When someone is tailgating me I just change lanes and let them pass. I see a lot of people who think it is OK to just cruise in the left lane and block traffic. But I guess who can blame then when cops only give tickets for speeding and the process of obtaining a drivers license is such a joke.
You might want to give VSO's CopyToDVD a try. I use it for a number of purposes. They also have another program called ConvertXtoDVD which allows you to drag-and-drop a number of video files to your project and automatically converts everything and writes it to a DVD. Might not be exactly what you're looking for, but I've found it to be very useful and incredibly simple to use.
But all of their software is aimed at selling hardware. Even iWork and their Pro apps (which don't come free with their hardware) are clearly aimed at making OSX a viable platform in various professional environments. It's all about selling their hardware.
I really will not be sorry for them if they lose this case. Oh, you mean you can't use a EULA to artificially limit what type of hardware your OS gets installed on just so you can push more of your hardware? Tough shit, Apple. Maybe its time they have a meeting with the RIAA about updating their business model. Maybe they shouldn't have moved to Intel chips and made 99% of their hardware identical to PC hardware. Maybe then they would be able to maintain complete dictatorial control over their OS, hardware, and customer base. It amazes me how many of you people bitch about freedom of choice and how artificial restrictions are blasphemous, except when Apple does it.
Why does everybody do it that way? That is, with the opening paren on the "if" line? I have always found that difficult to read. Why not
if (something)
{
stuff
}
else
{
other stuff
}
I'm certainly not the best or most formal programmer in the world, but this is the way I prefer. It helps me visually line up any opening and closing brackets for a statement. Having to count through a mangled tree of brackets just wastes my time. I'm sure other people can quickly read through the logic and cram the entire statement on one line; I just find that this is what works best for me.
Lojack or GPS, etc, is not being too close. It allows a parent to give their children extra freedom while still giving the parent insight to verify if the child is doing what they say they are and whether they are capable of handling additional trust or not.
Parents who let their children run around blindly are either fools, or their Give-a-shit-o-meter is broken.
I'm a little unclear as to what trust you place in them initially if you're recording every move they make while out of your sight. Additional trust? You mean like not being tracked like a felon?
I'm pretty sure there wasn't consumer level GPS when I grew up, at least not the kind that parents use these days to track their children like animals in the wild. There really weren't any cell phones yet either, certainly not anything portable. My parents didn't have the luxury of a satellite to pinpoint my exact location. They simply had to trust that I would be where I said I would be. All it took was a phone call when I got where I was going and another to let them know if I was going somewhere else. I may have lied a few times and when I was caught I paid the price.
I think if I was a kid growing up today with a GPS tag stapled to my ass I would deeply resent my parents. I certainly wouldn't have the same type of relationship as an adult that I have with them now. Anyway, as someone who was raised without all of the fancy high tech leashes that parents have today I think I turned out alright... but I am posting to/. so I may be wrong.
I also like to do this when I need to sign up for a sight I don't completely trust. Problem is, the majority of sites have some sort of crappy field validation that doesn't allow a "+" in your email address.
Well, if you can't take the companies to court for this violation, how are you ever going to get them to discuss the details of how they were approached, who approached them, and all the details of how everything went down under oath? You can't just go straight for the capo crimine, you have to start with the street thugs and work your way up.
You make fun of Christianity's aversion to homosexuality, but the fact of the matter is that the harsh restrictions on the lifestyles of Christians make the taboos such as homosexuality and miscegenation all the more attractive. Such extremes such as celibacy have forced even priests into the arms of pederasty.
This is a complete load of bullshit. Priests are not driven to pedophilia because they cannot have sex with women. The ones who are pedophiles would be so if they had any other job, like all the other non-religious child molesters. No one says "well, God says I can't have sex with women so I guess that makes it OK for me to abuse children" or "thanks to God I haven't gotten laid in years. better release some sexual tension by molesting a 10 year old boy". There is just something wrong with their brain.
People had their constitutional rights violated. The people responsible for this egregious violation don't just deserve to be called a traitor, they deserve to be tried as one too. I don't give a shit about good faith and this is more than just a disagreement on matters of public policy. If you don't give a shit about having your rights violated in the name of "good faith" then move to China.
Remember, any suggestion of sex or sexuality to children will warp their tiny widdle minds....but violence, that's just good red-blooded American fun.
You forgot about harsh language. I used to play Counter-Strike and it always tickled me when I came across a server that had banned cussing. I just have a lot of trouble understanding that logic: "Heavens to murgatroid! Little Billy was sitting at the computer, having a good time shooting counter-terrorist operatives and hostages in the face and using an AK-47 to write his name on the walls in blood. The next thing I knew, someone called him a 'cunt-rag' and it warped his fragile little mind!"
You can already mount a TV screen in your car. You can already surf the web on an iPhone or Blackberry or whatever while driving. Its not like this idea is anything new. I'm sorry to hear that someone died because she decided her makeup was more important than driving her car. I don't mean to sound cold, but not everyone makes such stupid decisions. I'm pretty sure that the type of person who would surf the web from LA to NYC is the same type of person who would watch DVDs or send text messages or surf the net on their phone while driving from LA to NYC. The technology is not the problem. People using the technology like complete idiots and a complete lack of the ability to assess risk is the problem.
Personally, I've been waiting for this technology for years. I'd love to be able to set up a streaming internet radio station that I and my family/friends could connect to via car radios.
While reflections on the desktop and a new way to flip through folders would be worth $120 to you? No, but I also wouldn't buy a car with only three wheels and then turn around and pay for the 4th wheel which should have been included in the first place.
McCain has supporters who have blogs? Clearly the Internet belongs to Ron Paul, and we don't take too kindly to flippy-floppy neocons around these parts. How'd that whole "owning the Internet" thing work out for Ron Paul? It worked as well as that whole "sense of humor" thing...
3) The sun is hot - the sun it not a place where we can live, but here on Earth there'd be no life without the light it gives. The only reason we don't live there is because of how prohibitively expensive it is. You have any idea how much an apartment on the sun would cost? However, I have heard rumors that a popular MTV reality show will be filming their next season there...
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$1 to whoever gets McCain's email added. $100 to whoever adds all of Congress!
The only people who would be pissed enough to arm themselves would be the very same people who no longer have the right to bear arms due to being convicted felons for pirating intellectual property. I know that if I wanted to rule the country as some sort of Czar one of the first things I would try to do would be to disarm the public. Don't want those pesky civilians rising up and disrespecting my authoritah
Apparently the copyright was supposed to expire in 1991 but due to all the recent extensions it probably won't expire until at least 2030.
I agree with most of what you have to say. The only thing I would add is that just because you have the legal right of way doesn't mean you can't also be an asshole. The main reason I see people tailgating others or on occasion find myself accidentally doing the same is because some jerk is driving 10 under the speed limit in the left lane. A lot of people seem to have this sense of moral superiority which goes something like "I'm in the left lane and going the speed limit so I don't care about anyone who wants to pass me because they are speeding anyway". The left lane is not for slower traffic. When someone is tailgating me I just change lanes and let them pass. I see a lot of people who think it is OK to just cruise in the left lane and block traffic. But I guess who can blame then when cops only give tickets for speeding and the process of obtaining a drivers license is such a joke.
You might want to give VSO's CopyToDVD a try. I use it for a number of purposes. They also have another program called ConvertXtoDVD which allows you to drag-and-drop a number of video files to your project and automatically converts everything and writes it to a DVD. Might not be exactly what you're looking for, but I've found it to be very useful and incredibly simple to use.
1. Chicken
2. Grease
3. Salt
Holy shit! Frank Grimes, is that you?
Only four straight months? Sounds like heaven!
Black screen of death
I really will not be sorry for them if they lose this case. Oh, you mean you can't use a EULA to artificially limit what type of hardware your OS gets installed on just so you can push more of your hardware? Tough shit, Apple. Maybe its time they have a meeting with the RIAA about updating their business model. Maybe they shouldn't have moved to Intel chips and made 99% of their hardware identical to PC hardware. Maybe then they would be able to maintain complete dictatorial control over their OS, hardware, and customer base. It amazes me how many of you people bitch about freedom of choice and how artificial restrictions are blasphemous, except when Apple does it.
Wow, with elitists like you, who would want to?
For you international viewers, The Daily Show has a global edition that airs on CNN International
Why does everybody do it that way? That is, with the opening paren on the "if" line? I have always found that difficult to read. Why not
if (something)
{
stuff
}
else
{
other stuff
}
I'm certainly not the best or most formal programmer in the world, but this is the way I prefer. It helps me visually line up any opening and closing brackets for a statement. Having to count through a mangled tree of brackets just wastes my time. I'm sure other people can quickly read through the logic and cram the entire statement on one line; I just find that this is what works best for me.
Lojack or GPS, etc, is not being too close. It allows a parent to give their children extra freedom while still giving the parent insight to verify if the child is doing what they say they are and whether they are capable of handling additional trust or not.
Parents who let their children run around blindly are either fools, or their Give-a-shit-o-meter is broken.
I'm a little unclear as to what trust you place in them initially if you're recording every move they make while out of your sight. Additional trust? You mean like not being tracked like a felon?
/. so I may be wrong.
I'm pretty sure there wasn't consumer level GPS when I grew up, at least not the kind that parents use these days to track their children like animals in the wild. There really weren't any cell phones yet either, certainly not anything portable. My parents didn't have the luxury of a satellite to pinpoint my exact location. They simply had to trust that I would be where I said I would be. All it took was a phone call when I got where I was going and another to let them know if I was going somewhere else. I may have lied a few times and when I was caught I paid the price.
I think if I was a kid growing up today with a GPS tag stapled to my ass I would deeply resent my parents. I certainly wouldn't have the same type of relationship as an adult that I have with them now. Anyway, as someone who was raised without all of the fancy high tech leashes that parents have today I think I turned out alright... but I am posting to
I also like to do this when I need to sign up for a sight I don't completely trust. Problem is, the majority of sites have some sort of crappy field validation that doesn't allow a "+" in your email address.
Well, if you can't take the companies to court for this violation, how are you ever going to get them to discuss the details of how they were approached, who approached them, and all the details of how everything went down under oath? You can't just go straight for the capo crimine, you have to start with the street thugs and work your way up.
You make fun of Christianity's aversion to homosexuality, but the fact of the matter is that the harsh restrictions on the lifestyles of Christians make the taboos such as homosexuality and miscegenation all the more attractive. Such extremes such as celibacy have forced even priests into the arms of pederasty.
This is a complete load of bullshit. Priests are not driven to pedophilia because they cannot have sex with women. The ones who are pedophiles would be so if they had any other job, like all the other non-religious child molesters. No one says "well, God says I can't have sex with women so I guess that makes it OK for me to abuse children" or "thanks to God I haven't gotten laid in years. better release some sexual tension by molesting a 10 year old boy". There is just something wrong with their brain.
People had their constitutional rights violated. The people responsible for this egregious violation don't just deserve to be called a traitor, they deserve to be tried as one too. I don't give a shit about good faith and this is more than just a disagreement on matters of public policy. If you don't give a shit about having your rights violated in the name of "good faith" then move to China.
Something like this?
You forgot about harsh language. I used to play Counter-Strike and it always tickled me when I came across a server that had banned cussing. I just have a lot of trouble understanding that logic: "Heavens to murgatroid! Little Billy was sitting at the computer, having a good time shooting counter-terrorist operatives and hostages in the face and using an AK-47 to write his name on the walls in blood. The next thing I knew, someone called him a 'cunt-rag' and it warped his fragile little mind!"
You can already mount a TV screen in your car. You can already surf the web on an iPhone or Blackberry or whatever while driving. Its not like this idea is anything new. I'm sorry to hear that someone died because she decided her makeup was more important than driving her car. I don't mean to sound cold, but not everyone makes such stupid decisions. I'm pretty sure that the type of person who would surf the web from LA to NYC is the same type of person who would watch DVDs or send text messages or surf the net on their phone while driving from LA to NYC. The technology is not the problem. People using the technology like complete idiots and a complete lack of the ability to assess risk is the problem.
Personally, I've been waiting for this technology for years. I'd love to be able to set up a streaming internet radio station that I and my family/friends could connect to via car radios.