Nope, the coupons were to help the broadcasters keep the congress men from showing up on the OTA news shows as being baby eating communists. Instead, since congress gave the OTA broadcasters the coupons, the OTA news shows will show your congress person as a red blooded American. The only thing it had to do with regular people was insofar as they might show up on election day and vote the way the OTA news had told them to.
No one has opted to match thier $100/mo "unlimited voice/data/text" plan
No, you're just not looking around. Cricket has that beat by quite a margin. If all you want is unlimited voice/data/text then they can give you that for about $85. Granted, it's on two plans; one for voice/text($45) and one for data($40).
*This offer not available in all areas, taxes and fees may apply, if it's not micromachines it's not the real thing, yadda, yadda, yadda.
First I want to be sure you know that I agree with what you wrote here. I wish people would be much more clear and refer to copyright infringement as copyright infringement because that is what it is. Doing so, like you say, does not say in any way whether you think it is "good, moral, legal, or should be done/not done".
However, you are not the first person I have seen replying on this article to attempt to clarify that copyright infringement is not stealing, and then in the same post use the term piracy to refer to copyright infringement. I think this speaks volumes about what the RIAA and the like are doing. They take something that is relatively new and until recently a foreign concept (copyright law and the concept of intellectual property) and equated breaching such laws as being the same as things that have been universally hated for as long as man has existed. They like to muddy the waters. It is in their favor to do so. First, they get some people to really think they are the same things. Then they get those people to label people like you and I - who are merely trying to correct - as supporters of these heinous acts.
Are you sure you don't have it the other way around? If you go off the moderating history of the comments, it seems "rpiquepa" had more Troll moderations than "Roland Piquepaille" did.
That actually was the exact opposite for me. I was born in the late 70s but grew up on 50s and 60s music cause that's all my parents liked. I grew up on the Beatles. Then there was that whole anthology thing which allowed me to hear even more of their stuff. That was when I realized that they had maybe 2-3 decent songs each album, and the rest was filler. Later, I learned that was what almost all bands were/are like. First album that I liked every song on was Nevermind. In fact, I can't think of one song from Nirvana that I didn't like, and that includes Endless, Nameless. Before anyone brings it up, I realize Cobain was very influenced by the Beatles.
Last night on my way home work, I was hearing nothing but commercials on all the stations I normally listen to. I got fed up with it and thought I would rather listen to just about anything
else than to listen to commercials so I started hitting the seek button. After hearing a few top 40 songs, I switched back to the commercials.
I'm no music aficionado, but when commercials sound better than the music, then you know there are some serious issues with the music.
The stupid Rock Band wireless guitar sensors continue flashing blue while my Wii is on standby. When the lights are on in that room I barely notice them, but with the lights off and a dark scene on the TV, after a while it was giving me a headache.
Blue LEDs are showing up everywhere. At first I liked them more because I'm red/green color blind and having a light that was more easily distinguishable was great. But more and more they are becoming a major annoyance. Of course, another annoyance is that I can't turn off the Wii from the Wiimotes, and/or that those lights keep flashing when it's on standby.
Maybe it's just that I don't let my kid around my PC when I'm not there, and when I am, it's because I'm doing something. I've never thought about teaching her how to use it. She did figure out the DVD player on her own some time around a year old. I do have a spare laptop around, I should do what you recommend and see what she can do. Thanks for the suggestion. It wasn't something I thought to even try.
Also, I wasn't the guy who you were replying to about having to call to install an OS.
I like to think that my kid is exceptionally smart
Your kid is exceptionally smart. I have a 2 year old. I know lots of other 2 year old kids. Not a single one of them "a week after [their] second birthday" could have done much on the computer other than bang the keyboard and wave the mouse, much less install an OS.
That, or you don't have any kids and just made up the whole story to make a point. I get the point, but I doubt your story.
Does it matter where her power resides? Let's pretend that you are influential over 10 people, I am influential over 100 people. It wouldn't matter one bit if anybody had ever heard of either one of us, I would still be more influential than you. It wouldn't matter if the influence I had on my 100 people affected you or your people in any way, I would still be more influential than you.
Now let's pretend that you and I are the only people in the world that are influential over more than 5 people. That would make you the second most influential person in the world, but me the most influential person in the world. Again, it doesn't matter that our spheres of influence never intersect, or that neither group has even heard of the other.
Similarly, if Oprah has influence over 20 million people (made up number) than you would have to find a woman who has influence over more than 20 million people to find a woman who is more influential than her. Some posters here have suggested Angela Merkel. I'll grant that as PM of Germany, she probably has a fair bit of influence in the world. Then again, the GP didn't claim Oprah was the most influential woman, just that she was one of the most. I think you'd be hard pressed to find enough more powerful/influential women to bump Oprah out of the "one of the most" category.
But again, it doesn't matter where she is. Before today, I had probably heard of Angela Merkel, but she certainly wasn't a known name. Does she have influence over me or anybody around me? I doubt it. Does that change the fact that she is one of the most powerful/influential women in the world? Not one iota.
No, I think you're just a closet fan that wished you could have their stuff. For example, I'm not a Britney Spears fan. If she charged $800 for tickets to her shows I wouldn't complain. Why? Because I'm not a fan and have no desire to see her shows. I'm not a fan of the PS3. I don't complain that it is too expensive. However, I am a fan of nice monitors, and I do complain about how expensive the Dell 3007WFP is. I would very much like that monitor, but I can't afford it, so I complain about its price.
See, when you don't care for something, you don't care for how much it costs. If you're complaining about the cost, it means you want it, but wish it was less costly.
Is that really true? I've been thinking about getting satellite, but living in the Seattle area I figured the constant cloud cover would make it a horrible experience. Any one out there in the Seattle area have Satellite and like it or is it all just a hassle?
Unfortunately, the jet stream will force that eastward across the USA (and around the world, in the event of a major eruption).
Sweet. I'm in western Washington, so I'll be the last one to get that ash. Anyone who wants to be safe just needs to move slightly west of the volcano.
that's not the point. The point is, Microsoft did commit illegal acts
No, that's not the point. What is being discussed is
Microsoft is somehow more 'determined' in their profit-seeking than any other corporation.
. While their conviction for abusing their monopoly is evidence of how determined they are, it is not sufficient to make a comparison between the two. Some corporations that have become monopolies have abused their monopoly status, some have not. If we only compare the ones that have been convicted of abusing their monopoly status (which is relatively few) we still would have to determine if one abused it more than Microsoft abused theirs.
Microsoft wasn't convicted for having a monopoly. They were convicted for abusing that monopoly. Their competitors never attained monopoly status, so we've never seen what they would do if they did. Microsoft may or may not be more determined, but their conviction for abusing their monopoly status in no way indicates that in relation to their competitors.
WTF? I did a GIS for "Space Saver Keyboard" and the 4th image was a giant bra (as in 20 feet wide or so type of giant). I click the image wondering how that can be related to a keyboard and it sends me to slashdot. I kid you not.
So what you're saying is that Star Wars took place on Earth? There have been lots of countries on Earth where after getting a new wonderful government the only technology that advances is military and much of what the people had goes to pot. My father-in-law who lived in a jungle city of Vietnam before the war there said people had cars. After the war, nobody had cars. I was there a few years ago, and a few people in Saigon had cars, but for the most part he was still correct some 30 years later.
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Curse you. You've undersold me. I was selling mine for $699, but it comes with a Linux license.
Nope, the coupons were to help the broadcasters keep the congress men from showing up on the OTA news shows as being baby eating communists. Instead, since congress gave the OTA broadcasters the coupons, the OTA news shows will show your congress person as a red blooded American. The only thing it had to do with regular people was insofar as they might show up on election day and vote the way the OTA news had told them to.
No, you're just not looking around. Cricket has that beat by quite a margin. If all you want is unlimited voice/data/text then they can give you that for about $85. Granted, it's on two plans; one for voice/text($45) and one for data($40).
*This offer not available in all areas, taxes and fees may apply, if it's not micromachines it's not the real thing, yadda, yadda, yadda.
First I want to be sure you know that I agree with what you wrote here. I wish people would be much more clear and refer to copyright infringement as copyright infringement because that is what it is. Doing so, like you say, does not say in any way whether you think it is "good, moral, legal, or should be done/not done".
However, you are not the first person I have seen replying on this article to attempt to clarify that copyright infringement is not stealing, and then in the same post use the term piracy to refer to copyright infringement. I think this speaks volumes about what the RIAA and the like are doing. They take something that is relatively new and until recently a foreign concept (copyright law and the concept of intellectual property) and equated breaching such laws as being the same as things that have been universally hated for as long as man has existed. They like to muddy the waters. It is in their favor to do so. First, they get some people to really think they are the same things. Then they get those people to label people like you and I - who are merely trying to correct - as supporters of these heinous acts.
You're exactly right. But unless tabs are only one space, it's still going to be easy to see the difference between 2 tabs and 3 tabs.
Are you sure you don't have it the other way around? If you go off the moderating history of the comments, it seems "rpiquepa" had more Troll moderations than "Roland Piquepaille" did.
The snout looks like it's not really part of the animal. I'd say burn it, but we better ask Sir Bedevere to be sure.
If it's full size you want, they have that, too.
That actually was the exact opposite for me. I was born in the late 70s but grew up on 50s and 60s music cause that's all my parents liked. I grew up on the Beatles. Then there was that whole anthology thing which allowed me to hear even more of their stuff. That was when I realized that they had maybe 2-3 decent songs each album, and the rest was filler. Later, I learned that was what almost all bands were/are like. First album that I liked every song on was Nevermind. In fact, I can't think of one song from Nirvana that I didn't like, and that includes Endless, Nameless . Before anyone brings it up, I realize Cobain was very influenced by the Beatles.
Last night on my way home work, I was hearing nothing but commercials on all the stations I normally listen to. I got fed up with it and thought I would rather listen to just about anything else than to listen to commercials so I started hitting the seek button. After hearing a few top 40 songs, I switched back to the commercials.
I'm no music aficionado, but when commercials sound better than the music, then you know there are some serious issues with the music.
Is this what you are looking for? Small, keyboard and mouse in one, backlit, and bluetooth.
The stupid Rock Band wireless guitar sensors continue flashing blue while my Wii is on standby. When the lights are on in that room I barely notice them, but with the lights off and a dark scene on the TV, after a while it was giving me a headache.
Blue LEDs are showing up everywhere. At first I liked them more because I'm red/green color blind and having a light that was more easily distinguishable was great. But more and more they are becoming a major annoyance. Of course, another annoyance is that I can't turn off the Wii from the Wiimotes, and/or that those lights keep flashing when it's on standby.
Who/what exactly are you responding to? The GP didn't mention Linux and neither did the article.
Maybe it's just that I don't let my kid around my PC when I'm not there, and when I am, it's because I'm doing something. I've never thought about teaching her how to use it. She did figure out the DVD player on her own some time around a year old. I do have a spare laptop around, I should do what you recommend and see what she can do. Thanks for the suggestion. It wasn't something I thought to even try.
Also, I wasn't the guy who you were replying to about having to call to install an OS.
Your kid is exceptionally smart. I have a 2 year old. I know lots of other 2 year old kids. Not a single one of them "a week after [their] second birthday" could have done much on the computer other than bang the keyboard and wave the mouse, much less install an OS.
That, or you don't have any kids and just made up the whole story to make a point. I get the point, but I doubt your story.
Does it matter where her power resides? Let's pretend that you are influential over 10 people, I am influential over 100 people. It wouldn't matter one bit if anybody had ever heard of either one of us, I would still be more influential than you. It wouldn't matter if the influence I had on my 100 people affected you or your people in any way, I would still be more influential than you.
Now let's pretend that you and I are the only people in the world that are influential over more than 5 people. That would make you the second most influential person in the world, but me the most influential person in the world. Again, it doesn't matter that our spheres of influence never intersect, or that neither group has even heard of the other.
Similarly, if Oprah has influence over 20 million people (made up number) than you would have to find a woman who has influence over more than 20 million people to find a woman who is more influential than her. Some posters here have suggested Angela Merkel. I'll grant that as PM of Germany, she probably has a fair bit of influence in the world. Then again, the GP didn't claim Oprah was the most influential woman, just that she was one of the most. I think you'd be hard pressed to find enough more powerful/influential women to bump Oprah out of the "one of the most" category.
But again, it doesn't matter where she is. Before today, I had probably heard of Angela Merkel, but she certainly wasn't a known name. Does she have influence over me or anybody around me? I doubt it. Does that change the fact that she is one of the most powerful/influential women in the world? Not one iota.
tl;dr: Your "fix" didn't fix anything at all.
No, I think you're just a closet fan that wished you could have their stuff. For example, I'm not a Britney Spears fan. If she charged $800 for tickets to her shows I wouldn't complain. Why? Because I'm not a fan and have no desire to see her shows. I'm not a fan of the PS3. I don't complain that it is too expensive. However, I am a fan of nice monitors, and I do complain about how expensive the Dell 3007WFP is. I would very much like that monitor, but I can't afford it, so I complain about its price.
See, when you don't care for something, you don't care for how much it costs. If you're complaining about the cost, it means you want it, but wish it was less costly.
You would be pretty close to correct A 23 inch 4:3 TV would be closer in height, but 22 is pretty close.
Is that really true? I've been thinking about getting satellite, but living in the Seattle area I figured the constant cloud cover would make it a horrible experience. Any one out there in the Seattle area have Satellite and like it or is it all just a hassle?
But I'll still be able to watch SpongeBob on Cable right? RIGHT!??!!
Sweet. I'm in western Washington, so I'll be the last one to get that ash. Anyone who wants to be safe just needs to move slightly west of the volcano.
No, that's not the point. What is being discussed is
. While their conviction for abusing their monopoly is evidence of how determined they are, it is not sufficient to make a comparison between the two. Some corporations that have become monopolies have abused their monopoly status, some have not. If we only compare the ones that have been convicted of abusing their monopoly status (which is relatively few) we still would have to determine if one abused it more than Microsoft abused theirs.
Microsoft wasn't convicted for having a monopoly. They were convicted for abusing that monopoly. Their competitors never attained monopoly status, so we've never seen what they would do if they did. Microsoft may or may not be more determined, but their conviction for abusing their monopoly status in no way indicates that in relation to their competitors.
WTF? I did a GIS for "Space Saver Keyboard" and the 4th image was a giant bra (as in 20 feet wide or so type of giant). I click the image wondering how that can be related to a keyboard and it sends me to slashdot. I kid you not.
So what you're saying is that Star Wars took place on Earth? There have been lots of countries on Earth where after getting a new wonderful government the only technology that advances is military and much of what the people had goes to pot. My father-in-law who lived in a jungle city of Vietnam before the war there said people had cars. After the war, nobody had cars. I was there a few years ago, and a few people in Saigon had cars, but for the most part he was still correct some 30 years later.