We're paying them to come up with secret evidence of the weapons of mass destruction and some axis of evil so they can dictate public opinion to the stupid masses.
This is exactly the same problem we have with globalization and capitalism. Corporations will do anything to make a buck, including enslaving a population. We'll pay them a little above their minimum wage for the jobs we'll "farm" out to them. We do this in every industry and before you know it everyone is working for minimum wage or not working at all. Then we just lower the minimum wage or increase the use of prison labor.. That's kinda funny. What does Microsoft, Dell and IBM need with prison labor? I mean, can't they afford engineers?
The first thing I do when that happens isn't to adjusts my printer configuration or my fonts. It isn't to reconfigure my software. I rush out and buy a brand new copy of Office XP. Because it fixes everything for only $354.99.
At that price you save $121.01, 26% over list price and all the trouble of dealing with open source.
This would be a good thing. Maybe if we put more honest hard working Americans in prison for owning a computer they'll start paying attention to the laws their policy makers are voting on. You think?
You have tons of content to publish. Put up your own GNU website on freenet with your scripts and personal modifications, icons, etc. Your own place on the net, and its free.:)
You clearly have NO CLUE. Because of the encrypted design of the system freenet can easily store data. And the most important and widely used data will be the easiest to obtain. This means if you want to search for movies, for example, lots of them will be available because movies are popular. And what is even better than that is you don't have to "search" for them anymore. With freenet they have their own website, linked off the main indexes if they are popular, and will let you download the content from the P2P directly off their website. No more searching for movies. Just select what you want from the lists.
If you want a specific file then perhaps an alternative P2P network would be good for you. But if all you want is a divx rip of some popular movies its the easiest thing in the world.
What comes into question is not the performance of the network but its security and anonymity.
But what's funny is they had the world in the palm of their hand. With the technology they had in mozilla they could have provided a cross-platform unified interface to all of Time Warner's content and sold it for a very decent monthly subscription fee. But they had no long term goals, just the typical get rich quick scheme that risks the jobs of 80,000 people. Nothing to see here.
Perhaps if Mr. Sakamura grew up with the social pressure we love to inflict on our engineers in the US he would be just as an off-putting geekazoid.
Remember your environment makes up about 30% of your psyche. I'd cut anyone some slack if they have to deal with the social and political environment that exists here in the US.
But look at them now. Time Warner clearly has control of the company and AOL is losing customers and money like there's no tomorrow. Perhaps there really is no tomorrow this time. Maybe people are flocking because the whole world is slowly sinking into the ocean. I don't know. None of this makes any sense from a logical point of view. But as soon as you start caring about those shares and money then one might see how some short sighted individual could make decisions like these.
I have no problems moving text and data around between Open Office formats and portable text files. But I usually call them *.csv, which brings up the import dialog whenever you double click on it.
Normally a spreadsheet is exported as a list of common separated values. Even Excel can do this, but it has trouble exporting the data in the proper format with the right delimiters for importing into my CGI scripts. For converting *.xls to a comma delimited text file Open Office is the best thing I've ever used.
Bitch slapping them? Our founding fathers would suceed from the nation and shoot and KILL them and declare themselves free. Our founding fathers were radical mofos. Wish more people took after them.
P.S. How many miles of coastline does the US have? How many miles of coastline does it take to sneak in a crate of your favorite WMD?
By pretending you can make the world a safe place you have destabilized our constitutional freedoms. And now maybe half of us would stand up next to you to protect what we have left. I'd walk away and find another place to live because I doubt you ever really cared about those freedoms to begin with.
Would you feel safe in your home, alone at night? Would you feel safe walking down your streets?
At any time every one of us Americans could choose to kill you. We're not terrorists after money, we're just crazy. Look at how we vote. And if we made that choice what government department would be there to protect you? What vote that you cast would help keep you safe?
That's why you are never going to be safe until society can trust the people that make it up. If you can't trust me, and I certainly cannot trust you, then safety is merely an illusion.
BTW, by taking away some people's freedom they may decide life isn't worth living. Ever thought of that? Those people scare me. And they look just like everyone else. No terrorists, just terror.
IP is a monopoly granted to the author by copyright.
Therefore its value is determined by the author and can be anything including infinite.
Usually you would have to prove that the people using the P2P system was somehow profiting from your IP.
Now keep in mind that an mp3 is a reencoded lossy version of the original song. It is not the same thing as copying a CD and giving a 650 MB of raw copyrighted audio to someone. An mp3 loses 9/10th of the data contained in the original encoding. So it could be argued that perhaps P2Ping an mp3 file does 1/10th the damage of P2Ping a wav file rip. But again how do you determine that damage without the criminal making a sale?
Anyway, there's nothing we can do to change this system or even slow it down. Just wait until it collapses on its own weight. One day people will wake up and realize just how much of our life we wasted being so childishly stupid and selfish. Or maybe you'll get rich. Who knows. We're all going to die, one day. So I guess none of it really matters. Its only TV.
Yep. Both sides work for the corporations who just want to make sure there are a bunch of mindless movie goers and TV watchers ready to vote for their next puppet.
I haven't seen my government do anything for the benefit of mankind and its own citizens in a very long time. We just don't seem to care about eachother anymore, because we're either a democrate or a republican or a liberal commie bastard or a "Whatever you want to label and hate right here". So go on, hate me for all its worth. We're going nowhere fast.
Don't they make it more difficult to sleep at night?
I think it would be more beneficial to our collective mental health to forget that Bush was ever elected. Its one of those strange anomolies that should never happen again. If it does just forget about it again.
I find the best way to forget is hang out with your friends and smoke a lot of Cannabis. I think it might illegal right now, but I forget.;)
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It was a mistake to create the internet without consulting the RIAA and MPAA first. What were we thinking?
We're paying them to come up with secret evidence of the weapons of mass destruction and some axis of evil so they can dictate public opinion to the stupid masses.
We've gone beyond ignorant.
This is exactly the same problem we have with globalization and capitalism. Corporations will do anything to make a buck, including enslaving a population. We'll pay them a little above their minimum wage for the jobs we'll "farm" out to them. We do this in every industry and before you know it everyone is working for minimum wage or not working at all. Then we just lower the minimum wage or increase the use of prison labor.. That's kinda funny. What does Microsoft, Dell and IBM need with prison labor? I mean, can't they afford engineers?
Anyway, it doesn't matter. There is no spoon, eh?
Have I missed anything?
No, but do you honestly think he'll listen?
I'm sure he's heard every one of these points before. And I bet he isn't ignorant, he just disagrees with us. That means he's evil.
The first thing I do when that happens isn't to adjusts my printer configuration or my fonts. It isn't to reconfigure my software. I rush out and buy a brand new copy of Office XP. Because it fixes everything for only $354.99.
At that price you save $121.01, 26% over list price and all the trouble of dealing with open source.
Now wasn't that easy?
This would be a good thing. Maybe if we put more honest hard working Americans in prison for owning a computer they'll start paying attention to the laws their policy makers are voting on. You think?
And child pornography is well beyond horrible, don't you think?
No.
But treating a child like a lower class lifeform is rather pathetic in my opinion.
I was a child once and I loved to make pornography, video taping myself, etc. I guess you didn't start thinking until you turned 18, huh?
You have tons of content to publish. Put up your own GNU website on freenet with your scripts and personal modifications, icons, etc. Your own place on the net, and its free. :)
That's teh funny thing about the GPL. There are no restrictions on use. But I'm sure you just wanted to get a rise out of me. :)
Please explain in legal terms the double standards you are talking about. Maybe you'll understand them better if you do.
Have you ever used freenet? Why are commenting?
You clearly have NO CLUE. Because of the encrypted design of the system freenet can easily store data. And the most important and widely used data will be the easiest to obtain. This means if you want to search for movies, for example, lots of them will be available because movies are popular. And what is even better than that is you don't have to "search" for them anymore. With freenet they have their own website, linked off the main indexes if they are popular, and will let you download the content from the P2P directly off their website. No more searching for movies. Just select what you want from the lists.
If you want a specific file then perhaps an alternative P2P network would be good for you. But if all you want is a divx rip of some popular movies its the easiest thing in the world.
What comes into question is not the performance of the network but its security and anonymity.
That's like going after everyone who owns a gun because someone got shot and nobody's talking. Don't make much sense to me, but you go.
Perhaps that's a good reason not to write the damned thing in java, but I'm sure you geniuses know what you're doing.
Yep, they're all morons.
But what's funny is they had the world in the palm of their hand. With the technology they had in mozilla they could have provided a cross-platform unified interface to all of Time Warner's content and sold it for a very decent monthly subscription fee. But they had no long term goals, just the typical get rich quick scheme that risks the jobs of 80,000 people. Nothing to see here.
Perhaps if Mr. Sakamura grew up with the social pressure we love to inflict on our engineers in the US he would be just as an off-putting geekazoid.
Remember your environment makes up about 30% of your psyche. I'd cut anyone some slack if they have to deal with the social and political environment that exists here in the US.
But look at them now. Time Warner clearly has control of the company and AOL is losing customers and money like there's no tomorrow. Perhaps there really is no tomorrow this time. Maybe people are flocking because the whole world is slowly sinking into the ocean. I don't know. None of this makes any sense from a logical point of view. But as soon as you start caring about those shares and money then one might see how some short sighted individual could make decisions like these.
:)
I just wish I knew their name.
I have no problems moving text and data around between Open Office formats and portable text files. But I usually call them *.csv, which brings up the import dialog whenever you double click on it.
Normally a spreadsheet is exported as a list of common separated values. Even Excel can do this, but it has trouble exporting the data in the proper format with the right delimiters for importing into my CGI scripts. For converting *.xls to a comma delimited text file Open Office is the best thing I've ever used.
Bitch slapping them? Our founding fathers would suceed from the nation and shoot and KILL them and declare themselves free. Our founding fathers were radical mofos. Wish more people took after them.
P.S. How many miles of coastline does the US have? How many miles of coastline does it take to sneak in a crate of your favorite WMD?
By pretending you can make the world a safe place you have destabilized our constitutional freedoms. And now maybe half of us would stand up next to you to protect what we have left. I'd walk away and find another place to live because I doubt you ever really cared about those freedoms to begin with.
What's the point? What are we fighting for?
You would? Really? You'd feel safer?
Are you sure?
How safe would you feel?
Would you feel safe in your home, alone at night? Would you feel safe walking down your streets?
At any time every one of us Americans could choose to kill you. We're not terrorists after money, we're just crazy. Look at how we vote. And if we made that choice what government department would be there to protect you? What vote that you cast would help keep you safe?
That's why you are never going to be safe until society can trust the people that make it up. If you can't trust me, and I certainly cannot trust you, then safety is merely an illusion.
BTW, by taking away some people's freedom they may decide life isn't worth living. Ever thought of that? Those people scare me. And they look just like everyone else. No terrorists, just terror.
IP is a monopoly granted to the author by copyright.
Therefore its value is determined by the author and can be anything including infinite.
Usually you would have to prove that the people using the P2P system was somehow profiting from your IP.
Now keep in mind that an mp3 is a reencoded lossy version of the original song. It is not the same thing as copying a CD and giving a 650 MB of raw copyrighted audio to someone. An mp3 loses 9/10th of the data contained in the original encoding. So it could be argued that perhaps P2Ping an mp3 file does 1/10th the damage of P2Ping a wav file rip. But again how do you determine that damage without the criminal making a sale?
Anyway, there's nothing we can do to change this system or even slow it down. Just wait until it collapses on its own weight. One day people will wake up and realize just how much of our life we wasted being so childishly stupid and selfish. Or maybe you'll get rich. Who knows. We're all going to die, one day. So I guess none of it really matters. Its only TV.
Yep. Both sides work for the corporations who just want to make sure there are a bunch of mindless movie goers and TV watchers ready to vote for their next puppet.
I haven't seen my government do anything for the benefit of mankind and its own citizens in a very long time. We just don't seem to care about eachother anymore, because we're either a democrate or a republican or a liberal commie bastard or a "Whatever you want to label and hate right here". So go on, hate me for all its worth. We're going nowhere fast.
We know. Microsoft is just waiting until all your third world countries can afford it. Then they'll be sending over the BSA SWAT teams.
So it costs less to buy a bunch of computers than it does to print out a bunch of pieces of paper?
Yeah, um, why do we bother to learn these facts?
;)
Don't they make it more difficult to sleep at night?
I think it would be more beneficial to our collective mental health to forget that Bush was ever elected. Its one of those strange anomolies that should never happen again. If it does just forget about it again.
I find the best way to forget is hang out with your friends and smoke a lot of Cannabis. I think it might illegal right now, but I forget.
Yay!
I wanna be shot.