it is not that people are dense. it is an over-inflated sense of importance. there are way too many of these assholes running around these days. just my opinion.
he has no qualms about being the spam king. he is unrepentant. rehab?! you gotta be kidding. he does this out of greed. seize all his money and lock him up in a super max prison. screw this guy. he embodies the worst in human nature. it is all about personal accountability...which he does not have.
personally, i dont care if they embed info in the track. my question is the same as yours- WHY and WHY NOT TELL?
in this time when the war cry is TRANSPARENCY it seems that Apple's super duper secrecy flies in the face of what most uber geeks are campaigning against. how hard is it to tell the customer?
is it spelled out in the EULA of itunes? or is it in the small print when you purchase the track(s)?
or is this a feature?-sorta like when your moms writes your name in your underwear when you goto overnite camp?
after reading all the comments, my question is: why do they(apple) do that and why don't they tell you that they do that. i think that is a fair question.
not just those who have thoughts that maybe abusive (or maybe about consensual sex for all we know).
i don't know where you come from but consensual sex with a child is wrong on any level. tell me how a 9yr old can have consenual sex. i will also provide you with the definition of consensual that i am working from-
Informed consent is a legal condition whereby a person can be said to have given consent based upon a full appreciation and understanding of the facts and implications of any actions, with the individual being in possession of all of his faculties (not mentally retarded or mentally ill), and his judgment not being impaired at the time of consenting (by sleepiness, intoxication by alcohol or drugs, other health problems, etc.).
you dont have to travel into the past- as an electricain, we use 'hack' to describe someone who doesn't know what he/she is doing or to describe sub par work. so, i always kinda chuckle when someone claims to be a 'hacker'.
gnewsense is based on ubuntu and uses no non-free software and sports KDE. great platform for those who dont want to feed the machine. you would make stallman proud.
I think you've got it backwards. The copyright statute is NOT an example of government intervention to maintain a free market. It's an example of the opposite.
you are correct. one of the biggest raps against a free market is that it will ultimately slide towards a monopoly with craptacular products, high prices and restricted outputs. well, copyrights monopolize a resource. whether it be intellectual or other. in a free market any entrepreneur would be free to compete with the would be monopolist- free to innovate, free to improve product, free to increase output and lower prices -and the consumer (YOU) would be free to take advantage of this. copyright limits or restricts access to competitors. this is an example of a government sponsored cartel.
but what about the inventors/moviemakers/workers who need/want/demand copyrights? well, in actuality these people are against low cost, expanded output, lower prices and free consumer choice. 'they' do not want anyway to enhance consumer welfare and want to poison the fruits of the open market process.
corporations are a license to print money without any personal accountability. corporations have an ethic responsibility that has not been enforced....ever.
It's very liberating to be able to fix your own problems instead of being at the mercy of a vendor who doesn't care.
the best comment on slashdot in over a year. however Greg Kroah-Hartman gets greater compatability with hardware (legally) the better.
maybe i am clueless...doesnt microsoft know that they have a bad reputation? i mean, worldwide everyone (governments, tech industries and individuals) is either suing them for unfair practices, monopoly building or just being shady-or being sued by them...do they really operate in some kind of bizarro world out there in redmond? i know it is in vogue to bash huge corporations and all but dont they have a clue as to how they are seen, or dont they care? i find it hard to believe that they are ignorant to how the world sees them. is bill gates down in some bunker like hitler in the last days of berlin and ballmer (goebbels) is whispering lies into his ear. i find it quite surreal. these people have to know they come off as the borg or corporate bullys or whatever. they connot stamp out the advance of these other OS's (yes i use winders and linux). soon i dont think that even OSes will even matter as people are making their own and porting apps and all-(i mean that it will become homogenous-sort of like pop-all basically the same-carbonated water and sugar...just different flavors/labels-you know what i mean)...i just dont get it...it is not a sane business plan even if you have all the money that they do. no one likes it when the big guy beats on the little guy-even if the big guy is right. so, what could they possibly gain? gates is a crafty guy but you know he really wants some love-even vader wanted love in the end (no pun intended). so how does microsoft benefit?
i am no fan of crApple but i had a problem with a.mov porn file that played fine on my servver2k3 box but stuttered and heaved on my vista box. i just chalked it up to vista problems. so, maybe he did not answer his own question...
You're kidding, right? You do know lots of people drive without a license. They're not usually caught until they're in an accident.
its not about that...its about freedom, and if you think its about driving...WAKE_UP!
"vhere are your papers? your papers please! no papers...get into the truck, ve have a camp built for you!" its about being tracked and privacy and not completely turning into a complete nazi state or maybe even worse like the world in THX-1138... http://www.thx1138movie.com/ sory about the bad accent in advance....
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To us all your psystar belong. Yeesssssss.
is some hipster dufus gonna come kick my door in if i dont want to return my psystar clone? or should i start flushing it now?
it is not that people are dense. it is an over-inflated sense of importance. there are way too many of these assholes running around these days. just my opinion.
It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions.
he has no qualms about being the spam king. he is unrepentant. rehab?! you gotta be kidding. he does this out of greed. seize all his money and lock him up in a super max prison. screw this guy. he embodies the worst in human nature. it is all about personal accountability...which he does not have.
personally, i dont care if they embed info in the track. my question is the same as yours- WHY and WHY NOT TELL?
in this time when the war cry is TRANSPARENCY it seems that Apple's super duper secrecy flies in the face of what most uber geeks are campaigning against. how hard is it to tell the customer?
is it spelled out in the EULA of itunes? or is it in the small print when you purchase the track(s)?
or is this a feature?-sorta like when your moms writes your name in your underwear when you goto overnite camp?
excuse the ignorance- doesn't every writer start off as a "novice"?
after reading all the comments, my question is: why do they(apple) do that and why don't they tell you that they do that. i think that is a fair question.
i don't know where you come from but consensual sex with a child is wrong on any level. tell me how a 9yr old can have consenual sex. i will also provide you with the definition of consensual that i am working from-
Informed consent is a legal condition whereby a person can be said to have given consent based upon a full appreciation and understanding of the facts and implications of any actions, with the individual being in possession of all of his faculties (not mentally retarded or mentally ill), and his judgment not being impaired at the time of consenting (by sleepiness, intoxication by alcohol or drugs, other health problems, etc.).
emphasis is mine.
Please don't be fucking stupid.
you dont have to travel into the past- as an electricain, we use 'hack' to describe someone who doesn't know what he/she is doing or to describe sub par work. so, i always kinda chuckle when someone claims to be a 'hacker'.
gnewsense is based on ubuntu and uses no non-free software and sports KDE. great platform for those who dont want to feed the machine. you would make stallman proud.
you are correct. one of the biggest raps against a free market is that it will ultimately slide towards a monopoly with craptacular products, high prices and restricted outputs. well, copyrights monopolize a resource. whether it be intellectual or other. in a free market any entrepreneur would be free to compete with the would be monopolist- free to innovate, free to improve product, free to increase output and lower prices -and the consumer (YOU) would be free to take advantage of this. copyright limits or restricts access to competitors. this is an example of a government sponsored cartel.
but what about the inventors/moviemakers/workers who need/want/demand copyrights? well, in actuality these people are against low cost, expanded output, lower prices and free consumer choice. 'they' do not want anyway to enhance consumer welfare and want to poison the fruits of the open market process.
corporations are a license to print money without any personal accountability. corporations have an ethic responsibility that has not been enforced....ever.
the best comment on slashdot in over a year.
however Greg Kroah-Hartman gets greater compatability with hardware (legally) the better.
maybe i am clueless...doesnt microsoft know that they have a bad reputation? i mean, worldwide everyone (governments, tech industries and individuals) is either suing them for unfair practices, monopoly building or just being shady-or being sued by them...do they really operate in some kind of bizarro world out there in redmond? i know it is in vogue to bash huge corporations and all but dont they have a clue as to how they are seen, or dont they care? i find it hard to believe that they are ignorant to how the world sees them. is bill gates down in some bunker like hitler in the last days of berlin and ballmer (goebbels) is whispering lies into his ear. i find it quite surreal. these people have to know they come off as the borg or corporate bullys or whatever. they connot stamp out the advance of these other OS's (yes i use winders and linux). soon i dont think that even OSes will even matter as people are making their own and porting apps and all-(i mean that it will become homogenous-sort of like pop-all basically the same-carbonated water and sugar...just different flavors/labels-you know what i mean)...i just dont get it...it is not a sane business plan even if you have all the money that they do. no one likes it when the big guy beats on the little guy-even if the big guy is right. so, what could they possibly gain? gates is a crafty guy but you know he really wants some love-even vader wanted love in the end (no pun intended). so how does microsoft benefit?
...i am more afraid of dream theater fans than of google.
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greatest thing since internet porn!
no where in that article was any reference to porn! NONE! WTF?
do you mean: Tenant Farmers Association?
since when is common-knowledge 'insightful'?
i am no fan of crApple but i had a problem with a .mov porn file that played fine on my servver2k3 box but stuttered and heaved on my vista box. i just chalked it up to vista problems. so, maybe he did not answer his own question...
its not about that...its about freedom, and if you think its about driving...WAKE_UP!
"vhere are your papers? your papers please! no papers...get into the truck, ve have a camp built for you!"
its about being tracked and privacy and not completely turning into a complete nazi state or maybe even worse like the world in THX-1138...
http://www.thx1138movie.com/
sory about the bad accent in advance....