The RIAA bought and paid for elected representatives. Those representatives created laws which allow the RIAA to metaphorically rape anybody who has stepped out of line causing them the loss of any amount of potential revenue. The courts need to respect the laws that our corrupt politicians have put on the books.
If you can't hire corrupt politicians to make a mockery of the constitution at the expense of normal citizens then what can you do?
It should be as easy to buy judges as it is to buy congressmen.
I feel like the education system totally failed me.
Err actually I went to a gifted & talented middle school (100 smartest kids in Houston). Then I went to a private Jesuit high school. Then I went to a relatively small public college in Dallas.
And now I make fat cash. I guess I really don't have anything to complain about.
Personally, I'm tired of watching people take something that should take few lines of simple code and make an elaborate mess out of it giving up flexibilty and introducing bugs every step of the way.
Then you end up writing code that looks correct but doesn't work because of some bizzare bug that was introduced by some obnoxious framework that gets in the way of everything you want to do. This leads to you spending hours trying to get some crazy thing to work that you would already be done with if you didn't have some framework in the way.
Code that that gets in the way more than it helps is a scourge on programming.
Or when it comes time to debug why content isn't lining up correctly on a page and I have to muck through some spaghetti code of if/else madness with endless tr,td constructs and colspans that don't do anything anymore
Your post is basically a rant against the same kind of bad programming that I also complain about. The same code would suck if it used css instead of tables.
step 2: don't let programmers touch the html markup. their job belongs in the class files defining functions and database queries. All the programmers should be doing is writing business logic that outputs the desired raw data.
Uhhuh. And what about interactive software? You know, where a repeater displays data which can be modified and used in a variety of ways. Should you still stick the developer in his little cubby hole of ouputting raw data?
And why is it you want to stick the dev in his hole? Because you don't like tables?
I've got news for you. Who gives a shit if there are tables in your html? Only wankers! This isn't rocket science people. This is the art of displaying data and pictures and interactive elements on a page where they belong. Thats it.
Well written HTML or any other code has less to do with adhering to rules for their own sake than with creating things which look correct and are easily maintainable. I code to get things done. Not to conform to your wankary.
If you want to avoid html tables like they were a SQL injection vulnerability that is fine by me. My work just gets done faster and with less bizzare rendering bugs by comparison. Just don't tell me that the only way for me to display data and whatnot is with an unnecessarily complex scheme that limits flexibility rather than extends it.
Tivo's DVR may be better, but I refuse to pay $12.95 per month for tv listings I can find for free on the internet. I could live with $3.00 a month, and I'll bet Tivo could too.
Sorry, Tivo, you have priced yourself out of the market.
The BBC would be better off declaring DRM a sham and nullifying all previous commitments. Governments can do that kind of thing, because they are the ultimate keepers of copyright and the public interest to begin with. When the law violates public interests, as it so obviously does here, the law is out of whack and needs to be fixed.
So the open source approach to DRM is nullifying commitments and overturning laws?
Hmm. Well, thanks anyway. You really don't have what I need so I'm going to have to get my software from a closed source company like Microsoft or Apple. The software is still in beta, but at least the BBC doesn't have to overturn laws in order to distribute content.
So a government organization should not be allowed to do what it thinks is best without allowing some open source zealot to impose his software on them by legal harrassment? What a free world you want for the rest of us, twitter.
How about the freedom to choose the right tool for the job for yourself withough havine some whiney little peon thrusting his 'free solution' upon you?
While we are at it, what free, open source video format allows you the same DRM protection that is built in to WMP? I really hope you can answer this question, because you can bet that in the production of their content the BBC has entered in to some agreements that will require some form of DRM for redistribution online.
People who pay their taxes deserve to be able to watch the results without having to pay the M$ tax.
Guess what, at least 90% of the people who will want to use this already have Windows and to them this is by far the most convenient solution. Why? Because even when you give it away for free almost nobody feels like bothering with Linux.
Also, aren't there already Linux applications that can play WMP content?
I actually agree with you about how dangerous economic Libertarianism would really be to society. Then again if it were up to Ron Paul and other libertarians the states could set up whatever government they want libertarian or not. I would assume he would want to live in a libertarian state and I probably wouldn't. Anyways, I still see him as better than any Republican candidate, In my mind McCain is right up there with him, representing the best of mainstream Republicans.
I'm probably still going to vote for a Democrat anyway. Obama!
Oh you mean this? It looks like Rudy got owned to me. Ron Paul even won the instant message poll on Fox News. For some reason the Faux News commentators didn't see it the same way. Heh. Seriously, watch the linked video above to watch Ron Paul wipe the floor with Rudy Giuliani and Republican style ignorance.
Ron Paul is the only one telling the truth about Iraq. The other Presidential candidates are lying to our faces, and anyone whith half a brain can plainly see it. It's both funny and tragic i guess.
Ron Paul should be banned because nobody is going to vote for him, simple as that.
Ahh, Repubican style "democracy". Can't you just smell the fascism?
Instead, why don't we consider systems that have worked successfully. Those of the Electorial College and US Senate, where rural states are represented and protected from exploitation, from the larger populations of urban states.
I would like to thank you, the undernumbered, overcounted rural voters for the last 6 years of a Republican President and a Republican Congress. We have clearly benefited greatly from it.
I don't know what I have liked more, the mindless tax cut mentality that will run up the national credit card for the sake of cutting taxes, or the bizarre combination of biblethumping and killing that has resulted in the deaths of over 3000 Americans and hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals. I'd really like to thank you for that, rural voters.
Millions of people drive to work at 65 miles per hour on giant freeways only one wrong move away from dieing an unexpected death. These freeways are spectacular monuments to our society. They are closest most of us will ever get to flying under our own control and they are what make a giant city possible. Crossing a large city takes over an hour at freeway speeds. The scenery of giant buildings and thousand of other buildings and residences rushing by seemingly endlessly is beautiful in a way.
I'm glad the world's population is more urban than rural. cities rock.
Ron Paul just kicked ass at the Republican debate on Fox news. Right now he has the most votes on a text message vote that Fox news is doing.
The top 3 are:
Paul 29%
Romney 27%
Giuliani 16%
During the debate Ron Paul and Rudy Giuliani had a confrontation about the causes of 9/11 and how we should interpret the attacks and behave. Giuliani actually asked Ron Paul to take some comments back about the causes of 9/11 and Ron Paul refused. Now, Ron Paul, who is considered a second tier candidate is actually leading the vote.
The guys on Fox News don't know what to make of it. He just had a confrontation with Sean Hannity and wiped the floor with him with facts and common sense. Seriously, tune in its hilarious. I'll try to post videos later.
Whoever lets someone use a stolen identity to get a loan or credit card or whatever should be responsible for all damages. That means forgiving the loan and restoring the credit of the victim as well as paying damanges if the victim's credit history took a hit.
Seriously, it's not my job to make sure you verify the identity of your clients and I shouldnt have any consequences if you dont do it right.
Also, anybody who loses data used to steal an identity should be responsible for the consequences. If you run over a pedestrian on a sidewalk you pay te medical bills right?
Wikiepdia has a good article about E911 and the different methods used to triangulate your position for 911 calls. Some solutions include an integrated Gps chip which works like any other gps device. Other solutions (like this one) require the phone company to analyze your phone's signal to determine your position. I'm not saying it would be impossible, but so far no US phone company has provided its users with a streaming feed of their current location.
From Wikipedia:
"time difference of arrival (TDOA) works like GPS using multilateration, except that it is the networks that determine the time difference and therefore distance from each tower (as with seismometers)"
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The America's government is corrup from the lobbyists who bribe politicians all the way up to the Congress and President who accept bribes every day.
A country which is run by bribes and corruption is always going to screw the common man to benefit the people who can afford to bribe the politicians.
This is what the RIAA's bribes paid for.
The website failed and left me frustrated. I went to my bit torrent site of choice and got it there.
Then I decided it was alright but not really worth paying for.
I wonder what Radiohead thinks about all the people who tried to pay for their music, couldn't and downloaded it / got stoned instead.
I didn't know this existed but now that I do I would really like to know what other websites have the same type of conent.
A little help?
The RIAA bought and paid for elected representatives. Those representatives created laws which allow the RIAA to metaphorically rape anybody who has stepped out of line causing them the loss of any amount of potential revenue. The courts need to respect the laws that our corrupt politicians have put on the books.
If you can't hire corrupt politicians to make a mockery of the constitution at the expense of normal citizens then what can you do?
It should be as easy to buy judges as it is to buy congressmen.
I have been shooting heroine with my Inkjet 550 for several years now. I didn't know that the technology had left the basement.
I don't appreciate being denied access automatic checkin machines when I fly.
I don't why Im no longer allowed to use these machines, but I do appreciate being tipped off that the government is watching me.
What do nerd libertarians that listen to internet radio think about this?
I feel like the education system totally failed me.
Err actually I went to a gifted & talented middle school (100 smartest kids in Houston). Then I went to a private Jesuit high school. Then I went to a relatively small public college in Dallas.
And now I make fat cash. I guess I really don't have anything to complain about.
Personally, I'm tired of watching people take something that should take few lines of simple code and make an elaborate mess out of it giving up flexibilty and introducing bugs every step of the way.
Then you end up writing code that looks correct but doesn't work because of some bizzare bug that was introduced by some obnoxious framework that gets in the way of everything you want to do. This leads to you spending hours trying to get some crazy thing to work that you would already be done with if you didn't have some framework in the way.
Code that that gets in the way more than it helps is a scourge on programming.
SO when I want to create a horizontal list out of your table of data
Change the templates in the repeater.
should thank you for your maintainable code?
Yes.
Or when it comes time to debug why content isn't lining up correctly on a page and I have to muck through some spaghetti code of if/else madness with endless tr,td constructs and colspans that don't do anything anymore
Your post is basically a rant against the same kind of bad programming that I also complain about. The same code would suck if it used css instead of tables.
step 2: don't let programmers touch the html markup. their job belongs in the class files defining functions and database queries. All the programmers should be doing is writing business logic that outputs the desired raw data.
Uhhuh. And what about interactive software? You know, where a repeater displays data which can be modified and used in a variety of ways. Should you still stick the developer in his little cubby hole of ouputting raw data?
And why is it you want to stick the dev in his hole? Because you don't like tables?
I've got news for you. Who gives a shit if there are tables in your html? Only wankers! This isn't rocket science people. This is the art of displaying data and pictures and interactive elements on a page where they belong. Thats it.
Well written HTML or any other code has less to do with adhering to rules for their own sake than with creating things which look correct and are easily maintainable. I code to get things done. Not to conform to your wankary.
If you want to avoid html tables like they were a SQL injection vulnerability that is fine by me. My work just gets done faster and with less bizzare rendering bugs by comparison. Just don't tell me that the only way for me to display data and whatnot is with an unnecessarily complex scheme that limits flexibility rather than extends it.
Tivo's subscrition ($12.95 - $16.95 per month) costs as much as my rental DVR from the cable company.
Tivo's DVR may be better, but I refuse to pay $12.95 per month for tv listings I can find for free on the internet. I could live with $3.00 a month, and I'll bet Tivo could too.
Sorry, Tivo, you have priced yourself out of the market.
The BBC would be better off declaring DRM a sham and nullifying all previous commitments. Governments can do that kind of thing, because they are the ultimate keepers of copyright and the public interest to begin with. When the law violates public interests, as it so obviously does here, the law is out of whack and needs to be fixed.
So the open source approach to DRM is nullifying commitments and overturning laws?
Hmm. Well, thanks anyway. You really don't have what I need so I'm going to have to get my software from a closed source company like Microsoft or Apple. The software is still in beta, but at least the BBC doesn't have to overturn laws in order to distribute content.
So a government organization should not be allowed to do what it thinks is best without allowing some open source zealot to impose his software on them by legal harrassment? What a free world you want for the rest of us, twitter.
How about the freedom to choose the right tool for the job for yourself withough havine some whiney little peon thrusting his 'free solution' upon you?
While we are at it, what free, open source video format allows you the same DRM protection that is built in to WMP? I really hope you can answer this question, because you can bet that in the production of their content the BBC has entered in to some agreements that will require some form of DRM for redistribution online.
People who pay their taxes deserve to be able to watch the results without having to pay the M$ tax.
Guess what, at least 90% of the people who will want to use this already have Windows and to them this is by far the most convenient solution. Why? Because even when you give it away for free almost nobody feels like bothering with Linux.
Also, aren't there already Linux applications that can play WMP content?
Is this really your idea of freedom?
I actually agree with you about how dangerous economic Libertarianism would really be to society. Then again if it were up to Ron Paul and other libertarians the states could set up whatever government they want libertarian or not. I would assume he would want to live in a libertarian state and I probably wouldn't. Anyways, I still see him as better than any Republican candidate, In my mind McCain is right up there with him, representing the best of mainstream Republicans.
I'm probably still going to vote for a Democrat anyway. Obama!
Oh you mean this? It looks like Rudy got owned to me. Ron Paul even won the instant message poll on Fox News. For some reason the Faux News commentators didn't see it the same way. Heh. Seriously, watch the linked video above to watch Ron Paul wipe the floor with Rudy Giuliani and Republican style ignorance.
Ron Paul is the only one telling the truth about Iraq. The other Presidential candidates are lying to our faces, and anyone whith half a brain can plainly see it. It's both funny and tragic i guess.
Ron Paul should be banned because nobody is going to vote for him, simple as that.
Ahh, Repubican style "democracy". Can't you just smell the fascism?
Instead, why don't we consider systems that have worked successfully. Those of the Electorial College and US Senate, where rural states are represented and protected from exploitation, from the larger populations of urban states.
I would like to thank you, the undernumbered, overcounted rural voters for the last 6 years of a Republican President and a Republican Congress. We have clearly benefited greatly from it.
I don't know what I have liked more, the mindless tax cut mentality that will run up the national credit card for the sake of cutting taxes, or the bizarre combination of biblethumping and killing that has resulted in the deaths of over 3000 Americans and hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals. I'd really like to thank you for that, rural voters.
I often marvel at the civilization we live in.
Millions of people drive to work at 65 miles per hour on giant freeways only one wrong move away from dieing an unexpected death. These freeways are spectacular monuments to our society. They are closest most of us will ever get to flying under our own control and they are what make a giant city possible. Crossing a large city takes over an hour at freeway speeds. The scenery of giant buildings and thousand of other buildings and residences rushing by seemingly endlessly is beautiful in a way.
I'm glad the world's population is more urban than rural. cities rock.
This service practically names itself.
Ron Paul just kicked ass at the Republican debate on Fox news. Right now he has the most votes on a text message vote that Fox news is doing.
The top 3 are:
Paul 29%
Romney 27%
Giuliani 16%
During the debate Ron Paul and Rudy Giuliani had a confrontation about the causes of 9/11 and how we should interpret the attacks and behave. Giuliani actually asked Ron Paul to take some comments back about the causes of 9/11 and Ron Paul refused. Now, Ron Paul, who is considered a second tier candidate is actually leading the vote.
The guys on Fox News don't know what to make of it. He just had a confrontation with Sean Hannity and wiped the floor with him with facts and common sense. Seriously, tune in its hilarious. I'll try to post videos later.
Also, vote for Ron Paul by texting R7 to 36988.
Whoever lets someone use a stolen identity to get a loan or credit card or whatever should be responsible for all damages. That means forgiving the loan and restoring the credit of the victim as well as paying damanges if the victim's credit history took a hit.
Seriously, it's not my job to make sure you verify the identity of your clients and I shouldnt have any consequences if you dont do it right.
Also, anybody who loses data used to steal an identity should be responsible for the consequences. If you run over a pedestrian on a sidewalk you pay te medical bills right?
Come on! This one was so easy.
Join us in Vancouver as the Winter Olymmpics take posession of the English language and rule it with an iron fist.
Just goes to show you, Canadian politicians are as corrupt as American politicians. They just have way less power.
Wikiepdia has a good article about E911 and the different methods used to triangulate your position for 911 calls. Some solutions include an integrated Gps chip which works like any other gps device. Other solutions (like this one) require the phone company to analyze your phone's signal to determine your position. I'm not saying it would be impossible, but so far no US phone company has provided its users with a streaming feed of their current location.
From Wikipedia:
"time difference of arrival (TDOA) works like GPS using multilateration, except that it is the networks that determine the time difference and therefore distance from each tower (as with seismometers)"