If we want our way we must protest in a responible, and effective manner. Remember that at the Boston Tea party the point was to refuse to take the tea on the King's terms. Rather than steal the tea, it was tossed into the harbor. The one man who tried to steal some tea, was stripped naked and sent home.
That "protest in a responible, and effective manner" culminated in a war. Are you ready to fight?
If you don't like the laws that are being made, buy your own, or start a lobby group, or vote Nader, or do anything except claim that your desire to get music for free is some sort of noble cause.
Lobby group costs too much. Laws cost even more. Voting for Nader won't fix this. What the RIAA is doing ain't exactly noble. What you're essentially telling the previous poster is, "shut up".
I can't beleve boogers didn't rate purdy high on the list. Don't those english types pick their noses?
I was in a dimly lit room full of test machines the other day and felt something on the shift key. I flipped on the light and there sat a dried booger flake.
My wife's CC# was one of the ones posted on the Russian cracker's website after CD Universe was cracked last winter. One day, the credit card company called her to say they were cancelling her account and opening a new one and that she'd be getting a new card in the mail. It showed up a couple days later.
Actually, they do this to make you buy more. The funny thing is that people don't buy based on the best price, they buy on the catchiest price. Also, if something is more expensive it is 'better'.
This doesn't work for everything, but that is why they test prices -- to find the price that they will sell the most of a particular product at. Sometimes pricing stuff higher works better. They are not doing this to rip you off (ie raise the prices when you want it based on your purchase history).
This is doubletalk. Of course Amazon is ripping people off. When I find out some outfit is doing stuff like this, I don't trust them. After one-click, the new privacy policy and now this, I am not going to do business with these sleazy net carneys again.
I tried iCab on an iMac rev A running 8.1. I surfed a while. It definitely looked sweet. but I tried to copy and paste a URL from iCab's address pane to another application and it crashed, prompting me with an ominous dialog box with a restart button on it. Not good.
These were not the terms I agreed to. These are very different terms. It seems like the tactic of updating with bogus info is probably the only viable thing most of us can do but this type of bait and switch on the part of dot-coms could put a big chill on e-business.
Non-work-related email can be handled through home accounts, POP3 to an employee's ISP's mail server, web mail, or what-have-you.
This is a much better way to do things. I don't like sending private emails to anyone from my company account anyway. I use a shell account to manage my private mail. It's only draconian if people aren't given an alternative.
I've heard many intelligent people argue in support of libertarianism, but seldom from this so-called "think tank".
So have I. But a number of those who claim to be libertarians seem to advocate corporate welfare in various forms. They don't seem to mind if the gov't helps out big business. They just don't want the gov't hurting big business. See, we got a free market... yeah, right.
Imagine a world where ALL textbooks are password-protected, time-limited, etc. How does Steve Wozniak learn electronics? How does Edison learn physics or engineering? How does ANY person of limited means learn ANYTHING? And how do we pool our knowledge on anything from "how do you set the VCR clock" to "how do you make starship"?
They don't. The goose which lays the golden eggs will have been strangled.
There are powerful societal reasons to keep information transfer as free (in all senses of the word) as possible. Unfortunately, these reasons don't translate well into the language of capitalism. There is no way to say "a rising tide lifts all boats" in Capitalismese.
Uhhhhh. The American Hertitage Dictionary defines Capitalism thusly:
"An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market."
Well this market doesn't sound very free to me. You've described a system in which profits are legislated. That's force. It's the foundation of facism.
Why is it that Nader is the only political candidate rising up against this kind of crap? Where are the libertarians?
Windows and drivers are the chief problems. I seriously doubt this bill is going to remedy those things. Many have pointed out the side effects such as voided warranties if you install anything. People buy these $900 computers from Best Buy then have a hissy when goofy stuff starts happening as they run mission critical jobs on them. I don't have much faith in lawmakers to carefully craft legislation to fix problems like these. They just don't have a good track record. And then Microsoft lobbyists will descend upon these state capitols to ensure their are plenty of loopholes and wiggle room. I just say don't get your hopes up.
Yessir. That is not far fetched. Designers of hardware have always had to deal with product liability issues. I've been surprised at how long the software industry has chugged along without that.
Imagine a senator getting elected on the platform of promising to put programmers behind bars for writing software that is unreliable.
Oh, I can. My mother-in-law goes on and on about how Windows crashes. She will not consider running other OSes because they won't run her applications. She thinks the goernment ought to do something about Windows!
The music racket has stuck it to artists and consumers alike for decades while reaping extortionary profits. They bought the law and the law won. Now they are whining about Napster and such. Is righteousness for sale? Sure seems that way.
"According to Consumer Reports (CR): "SUVs tend to be tall and massive. Judging by looks alone, they should be safer than most other types of vehicle -- but looks can deceive. The safety record of SUVs has been spotty at best." It is SUV's high center of gravity, according to CR, that make them less stable as a class than cars. In particular, says CR, drivers of small SUVs are involved in more fatal rollover accidents than any other type of vehicle. (November, 1997, pg. 60)"
Yessiree. I purt near rolled an SUV - big pucker factor. Heck, it ain't hard to roll a pickup truck. If you run off the road and steer abruptly back on, that'll do it.
What sort of "foul language" gets you kicked off of ebay? Was it Full Metal Jacket level cussing? Was this some sort of flame war? Was it original? clever? inventive? or just your basic troll cussin' type stuff? Inquiring minds want to know.
Think again. The Democrats and Republicans are tripping over their own feet to curb freedom. The Libertarians and Greens both oppose the drug war but with the exception of the Reform Party in 92 and George Wallace's American Prty in 68, 3rd parties haven't been a significant factor. They are regarded as spoilers and those who vote for them are said to be "throwing their vote away". People want to vote for a "winner", even if he's a jack-booted fascist.
I'm graduating in December, and haven't the foggiest idea how to interview my potential employer.
Ask to go to the restroom. If the restroom is not clean, they do not care about their employees. If the top executives have a separate restroom, they are elitists and will suck to work for. What is the quality of the toilet paper? It matters. You will wipe your butt with this day in and day out. Is there a place to shower? If not, going out running will not be possible.
How about parking places? Are they marked? That's generally a bad sign.
What we don't have is the ability to 1)Quickly determine who's skin cells belong to who, to reduce false positives, and 2)To quickly (like O(1 sec)) do enough of a DNA sequence to positively identify someone.
Gosh, not being able to cope with false positives never slowed 'em down on urine testing, which is still a kludge.
What is really important here? Is the work getting done? Unless somebody is downloading porn and displaying it, thereby exposing the company to a sexual harassment lawsuit, or sucking down HUGE files which eat up the bandwidth, big deal!
Yes, in essence, this constitutes goofing off. So what? I see these guys who will implement such policies wasting enormous amounts of time standing around in the hallways each morning, coffee mugs in hand, discussing sports and what not. So some kinds of goofing off are OK, others aren't. Sheeeeit.
Another poster pointed out that he's at work all the time and ain't got time to run errands. Yeah, and everything is open from 8-5. Most software types have to work OT constantly anyway.
I ssh to a shell acount. Yeah, I suppose they could monitor keystokes but at least my mail is not on the company servers.
We haven't really seen a backlash against this kind of crap yet but it's coming. Emboldened by the laws and judicial decisions they've purchased, companies will continue to push the limits until people get fed up.
That ought to do wonders for enrollment. I seem to remember a slashdot article where it was said that fast access was touted as an important benefit of living on campus. If they ration or cut the wire, I will be very interested in seeing the effect this has on either enrollments or housing trends.
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We may see the day when people go to war against corporations instead of countries. The types of abuse described in your link might ignite this conflict. Profits in and of themselves aren't obscene but companies who obtain them by treating people like dirt are.
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Yessir. That's what I've seen this practice referred to as.
... in his corporate cube, re-writing history
One day this business may get ugly. Be ready.
It won't be long before we'll all have to generate our own power anyway due to the decreasing reliability of the power grid.
If we want our way we must protest in a responible, and effective manner. Remember that at the Boston Tea party the point was to refuse to take the tea on the King's terms. Rather than steal the tea, it was tossed into the harbor. The one man who tried to steal some tea, was stripped naked and sent home.
That "protest in a responible, and effective manner" culminated in a war. Are you ready to fight?
If you don't like the laws that are being made, buy your own, or start a lobby group, or vote Nader, or do anything except claim that your desire to get music for free is some sort of noble cause.
Lobby group costs too much. Laws cost even more. Voting for Nader won't fix this. What the RIAA is doing ain't exactly noble. What you're essentially telling the previous poster is, "shut up".
I can't beleve boogers didn't rate purdy high on the list. Don't those english types pick their noses?
I was in a dimly lit room full of test machines the other day and felt something on the shift key. I flipped on the light and there sat a dried booger flake.
- Nose and the 5 boogers, pick it boys
My wife's CC# was one of the ones posted on the Russian cracker's website after CD Universe was cracked last winter. One day, the credit card company called her to say they were cancelling her account and opening a new one and that she'd be getting a new card in the mail. It showed up a couple days later.
Actually, they do this to make you buy more. The funny thing is that people don't buy based on the best price, they buy on the catchiest price. Also, if something is more expensive it is 'better'. This doesn't work for everything, but that is why they test prices -- to find the price that they will sell the most of a particular product at. Sometimes pricing stuff higher works better. They are not doing this to rip you off (ie raise the prices when you want it based on your purchase history).
This is doubletalk. Of course Amazon is ripping people off. When I find out some outfit is doing stuff like this, I don't trust them. After one-click, the new privacy policy and now this, I am not going to do business with these sleazy net carneys again.
I tried iCab on an iMac rev A running 8.1. I surfed a while. It definitely looked sweet. but I tried to copy and paste a URL from iCab's address pane to another application and it crashed, prompting me with an ominous dialog box with a restart button on it. Not good.
These were not the terms I agreed to. These are very different terms. It seems like the tactic of updating with bogus info is probably the only viable thing most of us can do but this type of bait and switch on the part of dot-coms could put a big chill on e-business.
Non-work-related email can be handled through home accounts, POP3 to an employee's ISP's mail server, web mail, or what-have-you.
This is a much better way to do things. I don't like sending private emails to anyone from my company account anyway. I use a shell account to manage my private mail. It's only draconian if people aren't given an alternative.
I've heard many intelligent people argue in support of libertarianism, but seldom from this so-called "think tank".
... yeah, right.
So have I. But a number of those who claim to be libertarians seem to advocate corporate welfare in various forms. They don't seem to mind if the gov't helps out big business. They just don't want the gov't hurting big business. See, we got a free market
This is 70k applications study is M$ propaganda.
Imagine a world where ALL textbooks are password-protected, time-limited, etc. How does Steve Wozniak learn electronics? How does Edison learn physics or engineering? How does ANY person of limited means learn ANYTHING? And how do we pool our knowledge on anything from "how do you set the VCR clock" to "how do you make starship"?
They don't. The goose which lays the golden eggs will have been strangled.
There are powerful societal reasons to keep information transfer as free (in all senses of the word) as possible. Unfortunately, these reasons don't translate well into the language of capitalism. There is no way to say "a rising tide lifts all boats" in Capitalismese.
Uhhhhh. The American Hertitage Dictionary defines Capitalism thusly:
"An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market."
Well this market doesn't sound very free to me. You've described a system in which profits are legislated. That's force. It's the foundation of facism.
Why is it that Nader is the only political candidate rising up against this kind of crap? Where are the libertarians?
Windows and drivers are the chief problems. I seriously doubt this bill is going to remedy those things. Many have pointed out the side effects such as voided warranties if you install anything. People buy these $900 computers from Best Buy then have a hissy when goofy stuff starts happening as they run mission critical jobs on them. I don't have much faith in lawmakers to carefully craft legislation to fix problems like these. They just don't have a good track record. And then Microsoft lobbyists will descend upon these state capitols to ensure their are plenty of loopholes and wiggle room. I just say don't get your hopes up.
Yessir. That is not far fetched. Designers of hardware have always had to deal with product liability issues. I've been surprised at how long the software industry has chugged along without that.
Imagine a senator getting elected on the platform of promising to put programmers behind bars for writing software that is unreliable.
Oh, I can. My mother-in-law goes on and on about how Windows crashes. She will not consider running other OSes because they won't run her applications. She thinks the goernment ought to do something about Windows!
The music racket has stuck it to artists and consumers alike for decades while reaping extortionary profits. They bought the law and the law won. Now they are whining about Napster and such. Is righteousness for sale? Sure seems that way.
"According to Consumer Reports (CR): "SUVs tend to be tall and massive. Judging by looks alone, they should be
safer than most other types of vehicle -- but looks can deceive. The safety record of SUVs has been spotty at best." It is SUV's high center of gravity, according to CR, that make them less stable as a class than cars. In particular, says CR, drivers of small SUVs are involved in more fatal rollover accidents than any other type of vehicle. (November, 1997, pg. 60)"
Yessiree. I purt near rolled an SUV - big pucker factor. Heck, it ain't hard to roll a pickup truck. If you run off the road and steer abruptly back on, that'll do it.
AT 6'2", I find a Saturn SL a bit of a squeeze. I doubt the Insight would be much better or worse.
What sort of "foul language" gets you kicked off of ebay? Was it Full Metal Jacket level cussing? Was this some sort of flame war? Was it original? clever? inventive? or just your basic troll cussin' type stuff? Inquiring minds want to know.
Think again. The Democrats and Republicans are
tripping over their own feet to curb freedom. The
Libertarians and Greens both oppose the drug war
but with the exception of the Reform Party in 92
and George Wallace's American Prty in 68, 3rd
parties haven't been a significant factor. They
are regarded as spoilers and those who vote for
them are said to be "throwing their vote away".
People want to vote for a "winner", even if he's a
jack-booted fascist.
I'm graduating in December, and haven't the foggiest idea how to interview my potential employer.
Ask to go to the restroom. If the restroom is not clean, they do not care about their employees. If the top executives have a separate restroom, they are elitists and will suck to work for. What is the quality of the toilet paper? It matters. You will wipe your butt with this day in and day out. Is there a place to shower? If not, going out running will not be possible.
How about parking places? Are they marked? That's generally a bad sign.
What we don't have is the ability to 1)Quickly determine who's skin cells belong to who, to reduce false positives, and 2)To quickly (like O(1 sec)) do enough of a DNA sequence to positively identify someone.
Gosh, not being able to cope with false positives never slowed 'em down on urine testing, which is still a kludge.
What is really important here? Is the work getting done? Unless somebody is downloading porn and displaying it, thereby exposing the company to a sexual harassment lawsuit, or sucking down HUGE files which eat up the bandwidth, big deal!
Yes, in essence, this constitutes goofing off. So what? I see these guys who will implement such policies wasting enormous amounts of time standing around in the hallways each morning, coffee mugs in hand, discussing sports and what not. So some kinds of goofing off are OK, others aren't. Sheeeeit.
Another poster pointed out that he's at work all the time and ain't got time to run errands. Yeah, and everything is open from 8-5. Most software types have to work OT constantly anyway.
I ssh to a shell acount. Yeah, I suppose they could monitor keystokes but at least my mail is not on the company servers.
We haven't really seen a backlash against this kind of crap yet but it's coming. Emboldened by the laws and judicial decisions they've purchased, companies will continue to push the limits until people get fed up.
That ought to do wonders for enrollment. I seem to remember a slashdot article where it was said that fast access was touted as an important benefit of living on campus. If they ration or cut the wire, I will be very interested in seeing the effect this has on either enrollments or housing trends.
We may see the day when people go to war against corporations instead of countries. The types of abuse described in your link might ignite this conflict. Profits in and of themselves aren't obscene but companies who obtain them by treating people like dirt are.