If I don't want to be photographed, I simply cover my face with my hands, or another object. This is IMO, not much different than having Americans invest millions upon millions to create a pen that can write in space when all you really need is a fucking pencil! That's what it all boils down to.
Hey, if that's neither Kahlua, a good vodka, or Southern Comfort in their heads, then I won't join in the drinking. And, I don't do beer, either. However, I'll be more than happy to hollow out their heads if it proves necessary. Who knows? You might crack their heads open and find nothing at all inside.
Sorry, but first impressions are difficult, if not impossible to overcome and I was very disappointed with Enterprise when it first came out.
I might consider watching it again, but telling everybody to fuck off is not going to help you get your point across. Hell, I can't even stomach turning on the TV anymore and I've felt like that for a long, long time. Who want's to sit back and be spoonfed mindless drivel and corn-laced shit like one of the many sheep? Seriously?
Not on my PC! If I wanted to get ripped off in the CPU price/performance ratio, then I would've bought a Pentium 4, and if I want to get ripped off in the memory price/performance ratio, then I'll consider Rambus. I'll hedge my bets on DDR2 as it matures and put my chips on AMD.
Wasn't Rambus run out of PCs due to their crooked practices anyway? What makes them think people won't forget? Didn't think I was going to hear that name again. (shakes head in grief)
I like 'Lost in Space' you insensitive clod! Hell, everytime I see that silly robot flailing its arms about, shouting, "Danger Will Robinson! Danger..." I start laughing. Oh, and that Dr. Smith? The way he talked sometimes, I wondered if he was itching to come out of the closet or not.
It's pretty difficult to take seriously the idea of Enterprise being further back in time than TOS when the Enterprise looks more advanced than it was in TOS. That turned me off right away to the whole 'Enterprise' series right away. Getting it back to it's roots might not be a bad start, though but I think that at this point it's really beyond saving. I also don't believe that bringing cast members from TNG will save it, either. More like it sounds as though they're beating a dead horse at this point.
....don't want to be the one that limits or denies access to anyone, but as far as I'm concerned, the noobs should HAVE to read the FAQ and follow their TOS before they post stupid 'Me too!' and other useless drivel on the Usenet. If they won't be bothered to learn the rules, then fuck them. They can stay off. There's no point in bothering with the stubborn and ignorant, and that makes me self-righteous, then so be it, but I don't think that what I'm asking is so damned much. Is following simple and concise rules so hard? And why is it that there are always some asshats that think that the rules don't apply to them?
Wouldn't the best way to tell Comcast to fuck themselves be simply to cancel your account with them and invite others to do the same? Why tell them 'Fuck you!' and pay them?
I don't think that Usenet will go away if the WWW gets less 'free'. I think that the Internet is going to have to grow up now that people are counting on it more for important activities and such.
We can wax nostalgic on how the Internet was great back in the day, but now with everybody and their inbred brother online, polluting all the good forums, with spammers, phishers, idiots, and such, this 'Wild West' mentality just can't fly anymore. And, none of these idiots can handle free Usenet without pissing in the pool and ruining it for everybody in the process. So I say that either they can pay for it, or they can piss off. I don't think that the trailer court chickenboners of the world are going to bother to even pay $10 a month to spam newsgroups when email's still free - especially when the idiot 'Me too!' AOL crowd are finally going to leave. Freedom's not free, and if everybody has to pay for Usenet access, then I think the s/n ratio will improve a great deal and will be worth the price. Meanwhile, if an chickenboner or a noob decides to get ignorant, it will be much easier to just cancel their paid account than complaining to their ISP. That's my two cents.
I simply can't see how AOL dumping Usenet could be anything but a good thing for Usenet in general. Once all the noob riffraff leave, the s/n ratio is bound to improve and the spammers will follow the noobs once Usenet spamming doesn't turn in the profits that it used to - improving the s/n ratio even more. Besides that, all those damned noobs just draw too much unwanted attention to Usenet. I can't wait for them to leave IMO.
Somehow, it doesn't seem possible to do, given that the materials needed to string that kite from the ground, to over all the clouds, have to be so strong from carrying the tension across such a long distance, that it probably can't even exist in reality. That, and if that cable were to snap, a lot of people would most likely get maimed or killed. The cable itself will likely be so heavy and massive that you'll never get it off the ground for it to fly a kite. Let alone hollow it out and push in about 8 miles worth of conductor so it can transmit electricity. Anybody want to talk price? And logistics? Somebody's going to have to move all that cable. And, what are they going to make this cable from? Transparent aluminum? Even trying to fly it so that it's over the clouds all the time will be difficult just because of the thin air at FL300+.
Sattelite broadband? I wouldn't even bother from all the horror stories I've heard from other subscriber's experiences. That and for $99 per month from DirectWay, for example, if I do anything more than basic surfing, I'll get throttled back to dialup speeds? F8ck that! It's just not worth the risk for me. With the lag from sattelite, forget online gaming and VoIP. Hell, dial-up's a better deal than that!
I choose to live in the country so I don't have to worry so much about getting mugged or shot over a few bucks or something trivial. If I have to deal with that bullshit just to get broadband, then I'd rather sit on my crappy dial-up and bitch instead, thank you. At least I can breathe out here without gagging from the dirty city air.
....if I can't even get broadband in my neck of the woods and have to contend with dial-up + an expensive bill from Verizon every month, I simply can't be thrilled about VoIP if I can't even get it. Typical, us rural folk getting left out again.
Maybe I might wireless broadband this year? Not likely since I'm not line-of-sight with the _only_ wireless broadband tower and that's only 8 miles away from me.
/me jealous of the world, and plotting my revenge.
If ANYBODY has something to fear from increasing bandwidth, it will be the dinosaurs that are the RIAA, MPAA, and TV broadcasting.
The RIAA is in big trouble right now from P2P and all they can do is wave a dead chicken at it. The MPAA is following down the same road that the RIAA is right now. Now, when the masses are given a choice as to exactly what they want to watch, when they want to watch it, without FCC interference, and DRM ultimately failing to control the inevitable doom of the dinosaurs, then we'll be looking at a much different world. Nobody is going to want a computer that's really only a TV set in disguise.
For the sake of the future, let's not turn back the clock and commit to what the old timers had to contend with back in the Stone Ages with dumb terminals and mainframe timesharing systems. We wouldn't even have great technologies like Linux if everyone had to contend with that kind of archaic operating environment.
Oh I think you're quite presumptuous to say that Joe Sixpack knows how to pirate, yet doesn't know how to secure his own box. Or that Grand-ma-ma is running a 1337 warez outfit for all the kiddies. Very presumptuous, indeed.
DRM and other copy protection schemes aren't anything new. Programmers have employed many forms of them ever since the PC was born. Meanwhile, none of them has done dick to stop piracy one bit. Hardware DRM and 'Palladium' won't do dick, either. It will be cracked, so put your tinfoil hats away. The old NES had a security chip in it back in the 80's, but it didn't stop unlicensed cartridges from circumventing it. Want to talk about XP's Product Activation? Not hard to generate your own product keys and activate your warez copy. Yeah, I believe in bulletproof DRM like I believe that SCO can crush open source, too. Not going to happen. Neither will thin clients for 'The Rest Of Us'. It has the same chance as WebTV of taking over the world - zero.
Yeah, Oracle predicted that "Network Computers" were going to make the PC obsolete ten years ago. That hasn't happened.
This is nothing but a rehash of the same braindamaged idea that will never fly. Like thin clients, and the same basic problems that come with them like when the main box crashes, all the thin clients end up as paperweights, etc, etc...(yawn)
Ever since G4 took over, I've pretty much stopped watching it. It's just too depressing to watch the quality of the programming drop like a lead balloon.
TSS and Call for Help had great value, (unless you were 1337 or wizardly, of course) in that it at least gave the noobs and the common folk something to learn from.
I don't even know wtf is on that abominition of a channel anymore, and personally, I don't really care, either. It just looks like most all the other braindamaged crap that's on TV. And no, someone bragging about their 1337n3ss might impress a few kiddies, but it doesn't impress me, or any other self respecting nerd.
Why do it before M$ when all M$ has to do is embrace, extend, and extinguish like usual? Doesn't matter who does it first, because in the end, only M$ will end up doing it, and they'll have a bunch of patents to boot just to stymie open source and to make sure no one else will be able to do it. We all know how the USPTO works, and they won't really look for prior art, either.
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Bravo! It's about damned time that somebody tells it like it is.
All I've heard from the pro-**AA and the pro-DRM crowd is that it's about protecting their 'rights'. Nothing can be further from the truth! It's not about rights, it's about control, and all this talk about 'piracy' and 'intellectual property' is all a bunch of mindfuck bullshit to further advance their iron fist agenda. If anyone thinks that the Sonny Bono Copyright Act and the DMCA is really all about protecting their rights is either a dumbass, or a mindless, parroting shill.
There are two historically opposing concepts at work here....
1. Information wants to be free.
2. Content creators want financial incentive to keep creating.
Copyright is supposed to strike a fair balance between the two, but when you have corporate content providers buying creative works like property, deciding who 'makes it or breaks' it in the business, spoonfeeding what's hot and what's not to the public with payola and etc., and buying laws that chill free speech and the free flow of information as well as further obstruct people's rights, then it's only a matter of time until people start fighting back.
It's too bad that the creators are caught in the middle of this mess, but as long as people consider ideas as transferable property, and not as what they're supposed to be, then the creators will always be caught in the middle between the likes of the RIAA and such, and the filesharing public. Therefore, either the law is broken and needs to change, or that the p2p war will continue until either the big content providers die off, or else there'll be a Big Brother type policeman stationed at every internet connected computer in the world, just waiting to beat your ass with his/her nightstick just in case you might do sonething 'questionable'.
...and I agree. There's plenty of **AA astroturfing going on here, absolutely convinced that their 'opinions' should be accepted as facts without debate, and all 'nay-sayers' should be shunned, ostracized, and spied upon without warrants or due process. After all, if you don't agree with the RIAA, the MPAA, and the BSA or WTF ever AA that comes down the pike, then you MUST be a thief and a pirate and you deserve to be shot, your family imprisoned, and your house burned down. Where's the rationale behind all this? Whatever happened to justice? Or is the Nazi way the ONLY way now, too? When do we start putting people in death camps for listening to music, or watching TV "The Wrong Way(TM)?"
Here's hoping that level headed, rational people will step in and actually fix the problem, but I won't hold my breath. This 'war' is going to stay bloody for a long, long time and it will probably still rage on by the time I'm old, gray, and no longer give a damn.
I wish I could mod you up for that post as you've definately hit the nail on the head. It's kind of how the old South used to justify slavery by using silly little concepts like religion, the economy, etc. Or how Al Capone justified his criminal acts by being, 'just a businessman'. Whatever justification people use, it all boils down to one simple thing. If we can do it, and we want to do it, we WILL do it. That's a large part of what we are as people, and though we would like to talk and talk about right and wrong and morals and ethics and all that bullshit, believe me. Morals and ethics NEVER factor into the equation. They never did, and they never will.
We can argue the issue until we're all blue in the face. Far as I'm concerned, The RIAA and the MPAA have stolen my fair use rights with the DMCA. They've been planning on fucking over the consumer every which way but loose and have been trying to overturn the Betamax Doctrine ever since it was passed. They've started this damned war even before Napster came out. Now they call on to me to help 'stomp out piracy' while they sue away all their customers? Well guess what? They can go fuck themselves because I'm not going to help ANYONE that's Hell bent on stealing my rights. It's not in my interest to surrender my rights so that the bloodsuckers can make more money, so it's not in my interest to finance the mafia goons by buying their crap CDs and DVDs. Nope, I'll only consider buying from those that will treat this consumer with a little respect. So what if piracy is wrong? Is this organised rape against my rights + the assumption that everyone is guilty until proven innocent supposed to be RIGHT? It's a bunch of bullshit that I find inexcusable and intolerable, so I refuse to play the game and be anybody's pawn for their own self interests, and I refuse to dirty my hard drive by participating in this supposed 'illegal' music and movie trading. Just be aware that if I run into anyone that's sharing the latest Britney Spears album online or the latest hit movie or whatever, that it's not my job to report him/her to the **aa's of the world. It's not my IP, so it's not my problem. Hell, if someone stole my property, nobody is going to do DICK to help me recover it aside from sending Officer Barbrady over to my house to take a police report.
Oh, but mjh49746, piracy costs consumers more by paying higher prices and by having to impose copy controls on them.
Bullshit! They can set any arbitrary price they want and make up any reason that they want, so don't feed me the WIPO line. Drop the price, treat your customers with respect, and go after the REAL pirates and piracy will drop. Raise the price, treat your customers with contempt, and sue everyone in sight and piracy will only get worse as well as them having to deal with more angry people like me.
Most normal people won't even bother to look for kiddy porn on the p2p. If they found any, I'm sure they'll raise a stink about it. Therefore, only the sickos will bother and somehow, I don't think they'll get all bothered over it. Therein lies the problem.
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If I don't want to be photographed, I simply cover my face with my hands, or another object. This is IMO, not much different than having Americans invest millions upon millions to create a pen that can write in space when all you really need is a fucking pencil! That's what it all boils down to.
Hey, if that's neither Kahlua, a good vodka, or Southern Comfort in their heads, then I won't join in the drinking. And, I don't do beer, either. However, I'll be more than happy to hollow out their heads if it proves necessary. Who knows? You might crack their heads open and find nothing at all inside.
I might consider watching it again, but telling everybody to fuck off is not going to help you get your point across. Hell, I can't even stomach turning on the TV anymore and I've felt like that for a long, long time. Who want's to sit back and be spoonfed mindless drivel and corn-laced shit like one of the many sheep? Seriously?
Wasn't Rambus run out of PCs due to their crooked practices anyway? What makes them think people won't forget? Didn't think I was going to hear that name again. (shakes head in grief)
It's pretty difficult to take seriously the idea of Enterprise being further back in time than TOS when the Enterprise looks more advanced than it was in TOS. That turned me off right away to the whole 'Enterprise' series right away. Getting it back to it's roots might not be a bad start, though but I think that at this point it's really beyond saving. I also don't believe that bringing cast members from TNG will save it, either. More like it sounds as though they're beating a dead horse at this point.
....don't want to be the one that limits or denies access to anyone, but as far as I'm concerned, the noobs should HAVE to read the FAQ and follow their TOS before they post stupid 'Me too!' and other useless drivel on the Usenet. If they won't be bothered to learn the rules, then fuck them. They can stay off. There's no point in bothering with the stubborn and ignorant, and that makes me self-righteous, then so be it, but I don't think that what I'm asking is so damned much. Is following simple and concise rules so hard? And why is it that there are always some asshats that think that the rules don't apply to them?
Wouldn't the best way to tell Comcast to fuck themselves be simply to cancel your account with them and invite others to do the same? Why tell them 'Fuck you!' and pay them?
I don't think that Usenet will go away if the WWW gets less 'free'. I think that the Internet is going to have to grow up now that people are counting on it more for important activities and such. We can wax nostalgic on how the Internet was great back in the day, but now with everybody and their inbred brother online, polluting all the good forums, with spammers, phishers, idiots, and such, this 'Wild West' mentality just can't fly anymore. And, none of these idiots can handle free Usenet without pissing in the pool and ruining it for everybody in the process. So I say that either they can pay for it, or they can piss off. I don't think that the trailer court chickenboners of the world are going to bother to even pay $10 a month to spam newsgroups when email's still free - especially when the idiot 'Me too!' AOL crowd are finally going to leave. Freedom's not free, and if everybody has to pay for Usenet access, then I think the s/n ratio will improve a great deal and will be worth the price. Meanwhile, if an chickenboner or a noob decides to get ignorant, it will be much easier to just cancel their paid account than complaining to their ISP. That's my two cents.
I simply can't see how AOL dumping Usenet could be anything but a good thing for Usenet in general. Once all the noob riffraff leave, the s/n ratio is bound to improve and the spammers will follow the noobs once Usenet spamming doesn't turn in the profits that it used to - improving the s/n ratio even more. Besides that, all those damned noobs just draw too much unwanted attention to Usenet. I can't wait for them to leave IMO.
Oh well, it's a good spin of yarn, anyways.
Well Netcraft hasn't said anything about it, so it can't be true.
Sattelite broadband? I wouldn't even bother from all the horror stories I've heard from other subscriber's experiences. That and for $99 per month from DirectWay, for example, if I do anything more than basic surfing, I'll get throttled back to dialup speeds? F8ck that! It's just not worth the risk for me. With the lag from sattelite, forget online gaming and VoIP. Hell, dial-up's a better deal than that!
Maybe I might wireless broadband this year? Not likely since I'm not line-of-sight with the _only_ wireless broadband tower and that's only 8 miles away from me.
The RIAA is in big trouble right now from P2P and all they can do is wave a dead chicken at it. The MPAA is following down the same road that the RIAA is right now. Now, when the masses are given a choice as to exactly what they want to watch, when they want to watch it, without FCC interference, and DRM ultimately failing to control the inevitable doom of the dinosaurs, then we'll be looking at a much different world. Nobody is going to want a computer that's really only a TV set in disguise.
For the sake of the future, let's not turn back the clock and commit to what the old timers had to contend with back in the Stone Ages with dumb terminals and mainframe timesharing systems. We wouldn't even have great technologies like Linux if everyone had to contend with that kind of archaic operating environment.
DRM and other copy protection schemes aren't anything new. Programmers have employed many forms of them ever since the PC was born. Meanwhile, none of them has done dick to stop piracy one bit. Hardware DRM and 'Palladium' won't do dick, either. It will be cracked, so put your tinfoil hats away. The old NES had a security chip in it back in the 80's, but it didn't stop unlicensed cartridges from circumventing it. Want to talk about XP's Product Activation? Not hard to generate your own product keys and activate your warez copy. Yeah, I believe in bulletproof DRM like I believe that SCO can crush open source, too. Not going to happen. Neither will thin clients for 'The Rest Of Us'. It has the same chance as WebTV of taking over the world - zero.
This is nothing but a rehash of the same braindamaged idea that will never fly. Like thin clients, and the same basic problems that come with them like when the main box crashes, all the thin clients end up as paperweights, etc, etc...(yawn)
Nothing to see here, kiddies. Move along.
TSS and Call for Help had great value, (unless you were 1337 or wizardly, of course) in that it at least gave the noobs and the common folk something to learn from.
I don't even know wtf is on that abominition of a channel anymore, and personally, I don't really care, either. It just looks like most all the other braindamaged crap that's on TV. And no, someone bragging about their 1337n3ss might impress a few kiddies, but it doesn't impress me, or any other self respecting nerd.
Why do it before M$ when all M$ has to do is embrace, extend, and extinguish like usual? Doesn't matter who does it first, because in the end, only M$ will end up doing it, and they'll have a bunch of patents to boot just to stymie open source and to make sure no one else will be able to do it. We all know how the USPTO works, and they won't really look for prior art, either.
Don't expect M$ to patch this hole, either. That's a given.
It's just another reason why WMA files are evil and that you must stay clear of them.
Just to show that there are like minded others. http://www.corante.com/vision/digitalmedia/tim_wu. php
All I've heard from the pro-**AA and the pro-DRM crowd is that it's about protecting their 'rights'. Nothing can be further from the truth! It's not about rights, it's about control, and all this talk about 'piracy' and 'intellectual property' is all a bunch of mindfuck bullshit to further advance their iron fist agenda. If anyone thinks that the Sonny Bono Copyright Act and the DMCA is really all about protecting their rights is either a dumbass, or a mindless, parroting shill.
There are two historically opposing concepts at work here....
1. Information wants to be free.
2. Content creators want financial incentive to keep creating.
Copyright is supposed to strike a fair balance between the two, but when you have corporate content providers buying creative works like property, deciding who 'makes it or breaks' it in the business, spoonfeeding what's hot and what's not to the public with payola and etc., and buying laws that chill free speech and the free flow of information as well as further obstruct people's rights, then it's only a matter of time until people start fighting back.
It's too bad that the creators are caught in the middle of this mess, but as long as people consider ideas as transferable property, and not as what they're supposed to be, then the creators will always be caught in the middle between the likes of the RIAA and such, and the filesharing public. Therefore, either the law is broken and needs to change, or that the p2p war will continue until either the big content providers die off, or else there'll be a Big Brother type policeman stationed at every internet connected computer in the world, just waiting to beat your ass with his/her nightstick just in case you might do sonething 'questionable'.
Here's hoping that level headed, rational people will step in and actually fix the problem, but I won't hold my breath. This 'war' is going to stay bloody for a long, long time and it will probably still rage on by the time I'm old, gray, and no longer give a damn.
I wish I could mod you up for that post as you've definately hit the nail on the head. It's kind of how the old South used to justify slavery by using silly little concepts like religion, the economy, etc. Or how Al Capone justified his criminal acts by being, 'just a businessman'. Whatever justification people use, it all boils down to one simple thing. If we can do it, and we want to do it, we WILL do it. That's a large part of what we are as people, and though we would like to talk and talk about right and wrong and morals and ethics and all that bullshit, believe me. Morals and ethics NEVER factor into the equation. They never did, and they never will.
Oh, but mjh49746, piracy costs consumers more by paying higher prices and by having to impose copy controls on them.
Bullshit! They can set any arbitrary price they want and make up any reason that they want, so don't feed me the WIPO line. Drop the price, treat your customers with respect, and go after the REAL pirates and piracy will drop. Raise the price, treat your customers with contempt, and sue everyone in sight and piracy will only get worse as well as them having to deal with more angry people like me.
Most normal people won't even bother to look for kiddy porn on the p2p. If they found any, I'm sure they'll raise a stink about it. Therefore, only the sickos will bother and somehow, I don't think they'll get all bothered over it. Therein lies the problem.