I will be very surprised if they don't try that 'gambit' anyway. And let's hope that the court decides to retain jurisdiction.
See, I'm trying to take the long view here. I am not actually anti-copyright; I am opposed to the way current IP laws are unjustly skewed against the customers, heavily in the Big Corp. favor.
IMHO, we need some serious IP law reform, copyright in particular. The whole purpose of copyright has been twisted, defiled, and corrupted beyond recognition.
As long as the RIAA can get away with it's 'shenanigans', IP law will not be reformed.
Slapping down the RIAA is just the first step in stopping the Juggernaut.
This all just strikes me as more of the same old shit, like yesterday's article about OMGZZ!!! Chinese Hackers Assault the NYPD!!!!
Some intern, or some such person who knows just enough to be dangerous finally noticed the botnet attacks in the server logs...or something similar. While I'm sure there are some genuine 'hacking' going on, that is to be expected. Hell, even allies frequently spy on each other! The internet does not make that news, just another of many methods. If any of this was unexpected, them someone was deluded.
The 'terrorists' started winning in the USA with 9/11. They are pulling even further ahead...without lifting a finger. We are defeating ourselves for them. The USA is no longer the 'big bull in the world's pasture'. We are still as big, but just an ox now, as we have lost our balls.
...your cynicism is no replacement for real intelligence
Neither are your delusions.
Put more than one person in an 'area', and it's only a question of when there will be conflict, not if there will be conflict. The more important the reasons for the conflict, the more intense the conflict will become.
As long as people have a sense of 'self', and any form/degree of self-determination, your vision will never be possible. If we evolve into a 'hive-mind' species like bees or ants, then your vision may have a chance until we degrade back to cavemen...then it all starts over again.
This website is a text book illustration of that. Tell you what, when everyone here on slashdot suddenly starts sounding alike and all agreeing, then you may have a small chance of convincing a rational, intelligent person you are right. I just think that is impossible, not improbable.
There are too many 'hardwired' behaviors/survival traits in animals to achieve your delusions of utopia...and yes, we are animals...the physiological rules still apply to us too.
nationalism and organized religion are forces in this world which must be defeated if we are all to live in peace
"But I can't run 'foo-app' on Linux! And Linux is too hard for us lusers!"
Okay, for the average Windows user, they 'can't' run MS Office, or Photoshop. But you can't run Conflicker either! Or a myriad of other Windows malware!
So, all of you MS trolls, just go away. Keep using your precious MS stuff, keep messing with your computer and networks trying to keep them clean, and leave the rest of us alone..we have productive work to do.
Well, unlike in the recent past, at least this way there will be back ups of Presidential e-mails available from the NSA when Congress or the DOJ ask for them....
People will go to ridiculous lengths to avoid taking personal responsibility anymore it seems.
Of course it can't be the stupid person's fault..it has to be that evil Blackberry possessing their soul.
And turn it off? Ohhh, no! can't do that..might miss an important viagra email...from a Nigerian Prince!
At an earlier job, one of these obnoxious devices was foisted on me. It never made sense to me, as nothing in my job was 'time critical', but 'everybody is going to this' was the reason. I tried warning them it would not work with me...
So, when I got to work and after parking, I would turn it on as I entered the building, and when I left the building at the end of the day it would get turned off. Discussions with management usually turned silly:
Boss: 'I tried calling your blackberry last night and all this morning! Where have you been?' Me: 'Last night I was home, and this morning at my desk, right next to my office phone, working.' Boss: 'Then why didn't you answer?' Me: 'My office phone never rang.' Boss: 'But I was calling your blackberry!' Me: 'Well, it was turned off.' Boss: '??!!?? Why?' Me: 'Because I have a working office phone right next to me, did not need the blackberry on.' Boss: 'What about last night?' Me: 'What about it? I was off work at home. I have a phone there also.' Boss:'?????' Me: 'You only get me for the hours you pay me for.' Boss: 'But but, it's a Blackberry!1' Me: 'Yeah, so?' Boss:'??????"*blank stare*
Some people just don't get it, no matter how often they get hit with a clue-stick. That crap went on weekly, until I moved on to a better job...with no Blackberry.
What would be really cool would be able to build one of those array type telescopes(really, outrageously Humongus sized) at one of the lagrange points.
From a secret launch site in the Florida Everglades, with a really big trebuchet. They are rounding up alligators as we speak, to fill the counterweight basket. It's gonna take a lot of gators!
You can opt out of commercial email, and not all commercial email is spam.
If I did not opt In, and get marketing/adverts from you, you are a spammer in my book, will be reported as such, and dealt with as such. Period.
You will also guarantee the fact that I will go out of my way to avoid those products/services. You have decided against my will and wishes to use up my 'bandwidth' cap, at my cost, for your oddly twisted perspective of gain...and do so gleefully.
You are not convincing me to do business with you, you are just picking my pocket...no different than any other pick-pocket, and should be treated as such.
...thrown in the ocean handcuffed, with a lifevest on and 20lbs of chum stuffed in his pants. Video that.
That would probably make for a TV show that would get me back in front of a TV again, after 6 years of actively avoiding TV!
Get some 'audience participation' going on. Let them phone/text in to vote on how many sharks and how soon the sharks come during each episode. Get the crew from MST3K to 'host' the show and provide commentary. It would make Millions!
"My Pirate Chum" would be a good name for the show!
...for a couple of snipers who can only take out targets at extremely close range.
You have exactly no clue of which you speak. This was most likely no more challenging to those guys than 'fishing' with dynamite in a small pond would have been.
Hint: Note that what they did was three simultaneous head shots, timed perfectly. They did not go for the reliable upper-center torso shot that all military snipers are trained to love and trust. Good timing will get you far.
Trust me, a SEAL sniper is insanely deadly under adverse conditions much further than 'extremely close range', as you claim. I know this personally by direct experience in working/training with them.
That's pretty insulting, dude, despite your ignorance.
Hoorah! Yeah, that was one sweet piece of work. I'd love the opportunity to buy these lads a beer someday, and hear it told their way.
At least there were no reports of the Operators 'tea-bagging' the pirate corpses as the gunsmoke cleared!!!
*Disclaimer-I have worked, trained, partied, and have hunted(deer in PA) with various SEAL's over the decades, and some of them can have a sense of humour that is not representative of the mainstream populace...but did always seem pure professionals on the job, though.
Well yes, but how could the average US citizen know that, just going by their name: 'Marines'?
What you ask is just too hard!!!
Why yes, I do know my countrymen well!
The United States Marine Corps traces its institutional roots to the Continental Marines of the American Revolutionary War, formed at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress on November 10, 1775, to raise 2 battalions of Marines. That date is regarded and celebrated as the date of the Marine Corps' "birthday".
That explains so much....[from: wiki page for USMC]
HehHehHeh! A few captains like Honor Harrington would put fear into pirate hearts for sure!
I just finished 'Storm From the Shadows'(latest in that series, and does not disappoint) No spoilers except to say that you will like it as much as the rest of the series.
BTW, if you like that series, you might also like Steve White's "the Stars at WarI & II". Can be found here to read online as 'html', or download the whole cd in a zip file.
My first reaction also. Two squads of jarheads would be a bit much for this purpose.(It would make an entertaining, if very brief show!)
But, to cut him a little slack, most people have no clue how much destruction a squad of jarheads can wreak in short-order, they've learned most of what they think they know from TV.
WTF? Could you possibly look more like a moron with that statement?
Hint(from the link):
This document provides instructions and notes on upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 (code name "Jaunty Jackalope"), the most recent release of Ubuntu, released on the 23rd of April 2009.
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I will be very surprised if they don't try that 'gambit' anyway.
And let's hope that the court decides to retain jurisdiction.
See, I'm trying to take the long view here.
I am not actually anti-copyright; I am opposed to the way current IP laws are unjustly skewed against the customers, heavily in the Big Corp. favor.
IMHO, we need some serious IP law reform, copyright in particular. The whole purpose of copyright has been twisted, defiled, and corrupted beyond recognition.
As long as the RIAA can get away with it's 'shenanigans', IP law will not be reformed.
Slapping down the RIAA is just the first step in stopping the Juggernaut.
Well said!
This all just strikes me as more of the same old shit, like yesterday's article about OMGZZ!!! Chinese Hackers Assault the NYPD!!!!
Some intern, or some such person who knows just enough to be dangerous finally noticed the botnet attacks in the server logs...or something similar.
While I'm sure there are some genuine 'hacking' going on, that is to be expected. Hell, even allies frequently spy on each other! The internet does not make that news, just another of many methods.
If any of this was unexpected, them someone was deluded.
The 'terrorists' started winning in the USA with 9/11. They are pulling even further ahead...without lifting a finger. We are defeating ourselves for them.
The USA is no longer the 'big bull in the world's pasture'. We are still as big, but just an ox now, as we have lost our balls.
...your cynicism is no replacement for real intelligence
Neither are your delusions.
Put more than one person in an 'area', and it's only a question of when there will be conflict, not if there will be conflict.
The more important the reasons for the conflict, the more intense the conflict will become.
As long as people have a sense of 'self', and any form/degree of self-determination, your vision will never be possible. If we evolve into a 'hive-mind' species like bees or ants, then your vision may have a chance until we degrade back to cavemen...then it all starts over again.
This website is a text book illustration of that. Tell you what, when everyone here on slashdot suddenly starts sounding alike and all agreeing, then you may have a small chance of convincing a rational, intelligent person you are right. I just think that is impossible, not improbable.
There are too many 'hardwired' behaviors/survival traits in animals to achieve your delusions of utopia...and yes, we are animals...the physiological rules still apply to us too.
nationalism and organized religion are forces in this world which must be defeated if we are all to live in peace
Where/what is the punch line?
"But I can't run 'foo-app' on Linux! And Linux is too hard for us lusers!"
Okay, for the average Windows user, they 'can't' run MS Office, or Photoshop.
But you can't run Conflicker either! Or a myriad of other Windows malware!
So, all of you MS trolls, just go away. Keep using your precious MS stuff, keep messing with your computer and networks trying to keep them clean, and leave the rest of us alone..we have productive work to do.
What could possibly go wrong? ;-)
Well, unlike in the recent past, at least this way there will be back ups of Presidential e-mails available from the NSA when Congress or the DOJ ask for them....
People will go to ridiculous lengths to avoid taking personal responsibility anymore it seems.
Of course it can't be the stupid person's fault..it has to be that evil Blackberry possessing their soul.
And turn it off? Ohhh, no! can't do that..might miss an important viagra email...from a Nigerian Prince!
At an earlier job, one of these obnoxious devices was foisted on me. It never made sense to me, as nothing in my job was 'time critical', but 'everybody is going to this' was the reason. I tried warning them it would not work with me...
So, when I got to work and after parking, I would turn it on as I entered the building, and when I left the building at the end of the day it would get turned off.
Discussions with management usually turned silly:
Boss: 'I tried calling your blackberry last night and all this morning! Where have you been?'
Me: 'Last night I was home, and this morning at my desk, right next to my office phone, working.'
Boss: 'Then why didn't you answer?'
Me: 'My office phone never rang.'
Boss: 'But I was calling your blackberry!'
Me: 'Well, it was turned off.'
Boss: '??!!?? Why?'
Me: 'Because I have a working office phone right next to me, did not need the blackberry on.'
Boss: 'What about last night?'
Me: 'What about it? I was off work at home. I have a phone there also.'
Boss:'?????'
Me: 'You only get me for the hours you pay me for.'
Boss: 'But but, it's a Blackberry!1'
Me: 'Yeah, so?'
Boss:'??????"*blank stare*
Some people just don't get it, no matter how often they get hit with a clue-stick. That crap went on weekly, until I moved on to a better job...with no Blackberry.
Might take a gigantic telescope in outer space.
What would be really cool would be able to build one of those array type telescopes(really, outrageously Humongus sized) at one of the lagrange points.
From a secret launch site in the Florida Everglades, with a really big trebuchet. They are rounding up alligators as we speak, to fill the counterweight basket. It's gonna take a lot of gators!
You can opt out of commercial email, and not all commercial email is spam.
If I did not opt In, and get marketing/adverts from you, you are a spammer in my book, will be reported as such, and dealt with as such. Period.
You will also guarantee the fact that I will go out of my way to avoid those products/services.
You have decided against my will and wishes to use up my 'bandwidth' cap, at my cost, for your oddly twisted perspective of gain...and do so gleefully.
You are not convincing me to do business with you, you are just picking my pocket...no different than any other pick-pocket, and should be treated as such.
...thrown in the ocean handcuffed, with a lifevest on and 20lbs of chum stuffed in his pants. Video that.
That would probably make for a TV show that would get me back in front of a TV again, after 6 years of actively avoiding TV!
Get some 'audience participation' going on. Let them phone/text in to vote on how many sharks and how soon the sharks come during each episode. Get the crew from MST3K to 'host' the show and provide commentary.
It would make Millions!
"My Pirate Chum" would be a good name for the show!
Danegeld is just another name for extortion. Historically it has always worked in favor of the extortionist, and detrimental to the foolish that pay.
When you act like sheep, you pass directly to the bottom links of the food chain. Always.
...for a couple of snipers who can only take out targets at extremely close range.
You have exactly no clue of which you speak. This was most likely no more challenging to those guys than 'fishing' with dynamite in a small pond would have been.
Hint: Note that what they did was three simultaneous head shots, timed perfectly. They did not go for the reliable upper-center torso shot that all military snipers are trained to love and trust. Good timing will get you far.
Trust me, a SEAL sniper is insanely deadly under adverse conditions much further than 'extremely close range', as you claim. I know this personally by direct experience in working/training with them.
That's pretty insulting, dude, despite your ignorance.
*Standing Ovation Here!*
Now that is the old American 'Can Do!' spirit!!!
Well said, sir!
Hoorah!
Yeah, that was one sweet piece of work. I'd love the opportunity to buy these lads a beer someday, and hear it told their way.
At least there were no reports of the Operators 'tea-bagging' the pirate corpses as the gunsmoke cleared!!!
*Disclaimer-I have worked, trained, partied, and have hunted(deer in PA) with various SEAL's over the decades, and some of them can have a sense of humour that is not representative of the mainstream populace...but did always seem pure professionals on the job, though.
Well yes, but how could the average US citizen know that, just going by their name: 'Marines'?
What you ask is just too hard!!!
Why yes, I do know my countrymen well!
The United States Marine Corps traces its institutional roots to the Continental Marines of the American Revolutionary War, formed at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress on November 10, 1775, to raise 2 battalions of Marines. That date is regarded and celebrated as the date of the Marine Corps' "birthday".
That explains so much....[from: wiki page for USMC]
Is it really fair to use lethal force against them ?
That's the funniest thing I've seen posted in quite some time.
I hope that was sarcasm that I missed.
Fair...to...Pirates...Bwhaahahahahahahohohohheeheehee!1!111!
HehHehHeh!
A few captains like Honor Harrington would put fear into pirate hearts for sure!
I just finished 'Storm From the Shadows'(latest in that series, and does not disappoint) No spoilers except to say that you will like it as much as the rest of the series.
BTW, if you like that series, you might also like Steve White's "the Stars at WarI & II".
Can be found here to read online as 'html', or download the whole cd in a zip file.
High sea pirates need to be turned into hamburger floating on the waves to feed the fishes.
[my emphasis]
That's chum, you landlubber!
The prospect of THEM killing YOU is a fairly effective motivator though.....
Experience has proven that true many times.
Not a new concept to mankind if you have paid attention...(not directed at you)
"Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." attributed to Samuel Johnson
Two?!?
My first reaction also. Two squads of jarheads would be a bit much for this purpose.(It would make an entertaining, if very brief show!)
But, to cut him a little slack, most people have no clue how much destruction a squad of jarheads can wreak in short-order, they've learned most of what they think they know from TV.
Also, I didnt know that swashbuckling pirates taking people hostage were that much of a problem on americas road network.
I think your onto something here...
I can't remember ever seeing a Samolian Pirate ship on the roads here in Oklahoma.
But I have seen some pretty strange things on the roads here...
Meh...
Been done before.
To recap, we will have a CGI farm pretending to be an actor pretending to be a robot pretending to be a man.
Yes, sometimes even Hollywood writers can't outdo the weirdness of reality.
Yeah, Susan Dey nekkid!
That's all I remember about it though...
WTF?
Could you possibly look more like a moron with that statement?
Hint(from the link):
This document provides instructions and notes on upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 (code name "Jaunty Jackalope"), the most recent release of Ubuntu, released on the 23rd of April 2009.
This is not the first time it has been mentioned here.