The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the facts in controversy. John Jay, 1st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of hte law, against their own opinion, judgement, and conscience. John Adams
and a couple others from other times and places..
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just as it is the duty of all me to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws. Martin Luthe King, Jr.
The law of self preservation is higher than written law. Thomas Jefferson
I was getting very mysterious crashes and then finally BSD.
The very obscure BSD message when googled turned up possible bad memory chips.
The actual reason was that it had shipped with virtual memory disabled for some reason.
No BSD's for a while and now I'm getting BSD's again after a recent -required- patch. It looks like I have to upgrade my video driver (which worked fine previously) to a new one that may not play video correctly.
I got a $379 computer with WinXP. The parts for the computer would have cost me $450 retail AND it was assembled AND the OS was already installed. (I did replace 2 noisy fans and put in a 6800 video card).
If I give up access, I can get the rest of office for about $139. If I lie, I can get it for $99 as a student/teacher. If I use my corporate discount, I can get it for $20 (free shipping). If I use my corporate discount, I can get WordXp Pro for $50 (free shipping).
So why do they charge so much ($300 for the OS) and ($379 for Office) to walk up customers when they are giving 90% of their customers huge discounts.
No clue.
But what Microsoft does want to do is put us into a subscription model where we pay every month for patches and for every kind of action (play video a fee, play music a fee, etc.). They are strongly for DRM even tho most of their potential customers don't want it.
And they crush a lot of folks with good ideas (often illegally and they've been convicted for it aka doublespace) and THEN they just drop the idea and let it stagnate (aka IE between netscape and firefox battles).
Remember despite that everyone using p2p is doing it for free and no money is exchanged, the government considers that somehow p2p is feeding dollars to terrorists per an article posted here in the last week or two.
Anything can be justified as terrorism related so anyone can be survielled now.
The characters were not created by the U.S. Government as propaganda figures.
The characters were created by a PRIVATE business to SELL comics in America.
Their primary purpose was to make money and sell comics. I'm assuming a german hero that hated americans wasn't going to sell a lot of paper during the time these characters were created.
To be fair, if he refused to be a tool they were going to destroy the bottle city of kandor extinguishing his race.
Now the question I have is why they haven't left the bottle and resettled on an appropriate planet out there somewhere.
-- I also disagree the first post was a TROLL. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't make them a troll. As an imperialistic american, I can appreciate that many other countries of the world dislike us. I think that's unavoidable even when we try to avoid it given our size and wealth. That's the bad thing about slashdot moderating.
While I wouldn't personally waste my money on game boxes, you are mistaken if you think you can put a computer into a situation without adequate cooling and it is going to work correctly.
They didn't design it to be crammed into a space with no cooling and I'm not sure it's possible given that it also has to be quiet (a constraint a lot of gamers give up for the performance the Xbox appears to deliver).
But wait... let me throw a car analogy into this just to finish it off.
I paid $23,000 for my car. I'm not going to make it look like ass with new tires and a 9" higher suspension just so I can go offroading in it! They should have thought of that in the first place!
Some options... 1) Foamcore board 2) Doormat 3) Piece of wood
Other options... 1) Get an inexpensive fan and set it blowing on the machine. 2) Look and see if they used 25cfm fans which you can easily upgrade to 33cfm ultraquiet fans for about 10 bucks (should draw the same voltage).
It's just a guess but I'm betting it doesn't do this on tightly closed weave carpet but on some kind of deep plush carpet.
I think folks know that I pretty much think Microsoft is fairly evil, immoral, dishonest, (convicted of multiple crimes), etc. that wants to lock me into paying a monthly subscription for the OS and applications.
Those creditials as a Certified Anti-Microsoft Geek (tm) out of the way:
The one time I had a problem on Win98SE and called for support they: 1) tried to have me reinstall everything (I refused since I'd done that myself twice). 2) They said okay then, the call is going to cost you $35 bucks (I said, Sure). 3) They then spent 5 hours, pulled in at least 2 senior programmers and eventually correctly diagnosed that the sound card (a really high end card I paid about $250 for in 1996ish) had not produced a new compatible driver for win98SE. Since they had me doing all the keying and mousing, I learned a lot about debugging the problem. It was indeed the sound card (which I replaced with a creative Live card). 4) They said, "wow- that was a toughy. No charge!" at the end of the call.
So as far as customer support goes, I have no complaints as a microsoft customer from my one hardcore experience with them.
You get a tax free sale once per 2 years of your personal residence in the U.S. My house has doubled in 5 years, could double again, and double again and I still wouldn't owe any taxes when I sold it.
The mortgage deduction really doesn't kick in unless your mortgage is about $100k (so say a $120k house with 24k down)and up because of the "standard" deduction.
The mortgage deduction is really a subsidy for rich people who are buying million dollar houses and getting 2 grand a month off their taxes. The "fair tax" people are trying to lower that to the average house price in a given market- so about $200k Texas and $450k Calif and New York.
As far as unlimited nationalized health care, I think it is unsustainable. However, I would strongly support a national health care that was about 1,000 times the minimum wage (about $5k). This would cover about 95% of what could go wrong to most people (since auto wrecks are covered by auto insurance and so on for other ways you get injured). It would -not- cover cancer, rare diseases, etc. I think catastropic health care should be covered like it is now. It sounds heartless but we just can't afford to heal everyone- I look at Oregon as a model. And I say that as a cancer survivor who had some heavy bills.
A lot of very good movies are on sale this weekend at $3. A lot of releases from the last year are either $5 or $8. Why the hell would I ever download a movie?
OTH, Music in the same add is on "sale" for $16.99. For that $16.99 I would get about 9 minutes of material I might listen to more than once. I know the physical cost of production was under 50 cents. I would have multiple reasons to p2p under that scenario
Well then you should check out places like magnatune and others so you know that it isn't always true (www.magnatune.com).
I purchased Ehrin Starks (sp) there. Great piano and chelo (sp) music. He got 50% of the money I paid. I got to download the music free- see what I liked- then pay a reasonable amount ($12 I think) and get a hard CD in the mail a few days later.
As long as the abortion issue trumps everything else, all manner of obnoxious issues are being pushed through without consequences. The abortion issue is the glue that makes small time christians vote for large immoral corporate policies.
We have 3 dem parties and 4 rep parties.
1 left wing loonie (basically hate america) 2 soft left (were great in the 50's but haven't adapted) 3 centrist left (put them with 4's and we'd have a decent government) --- 4 libertarian conservatives (really want small gov so voters won't elect lg nmbers) 5 corporate conservatives (money behind everything - currently making out like bandits) 6 religious conservatives (abortion, gay marriage, sneaking religion into school/etc.) 7 right wing loonies (basically fascists/insane)
If "6" drops out, the conservatives can't win power. What keeps "6" so focused is abortion. As long as conservatives have power and "6" only cares about those 3 issues (and really #1) then the "5"'s (corp conservatives) are getting any thing they want passed. In some cases (like where IP is involved) they have the votes of the "2" & "3" liberals as well (Disney protection act- indefinate copyright).
--- At this point the conservatives have jerrymandered my district in texas so strongly that my vote on any issue doesn't matter. Almost every vote is 70/30. Doesn't matter if I vote conservative OR liberal- my vote is meaningless. I've had -1- vote matter in the last decade- through out the incumbant by 31 votes (I was #31 I guess). Otherwise, no vote has mattered- all lopsided one way or the other.
--- My current theory is- if the right "wins" on the abortion issue, the "6"'s will lose a lot of their fire and focus.
Once that happens then MAYBE we can start looking at all the things the corporations snuck through while no one was watching the door.
MASS is saying "we will buy your product if you meet this standard".
Governments spec out contracts all the time.
MS arguing they won't support the MASS requirement is like arguing in favor of building a government vehicle with custom bolts and nuts that require custom tools vs building it with standard nuts and bolts that use standard tools.
Because MS was the biggest nut and bolt company- they have gotten away with murder over the last 10 years making things more and more custom instead of more and more standard.
----
As far as libertarianism goes- Microsoft is not John Galt. Microsoft is larger than many governments while John Galt is an individual. This is the failure of libertarian philosophy- it breaks down when one party can destroy the other party with impunity because of wealth differences. I personally think libertarianism is a good basic philosophy but it breaks down when more than 10 to 15 million dollars concentrates under any one person/groups control. Without many competing small groups, you basically collapse into nobility and peasents.
If you work for a major corporation, whose business is not software, sox now has a 100% overhead of management/procedures/verification to coding. I have literally gone as long as 4 months without touching a line of code while preparing 160 hour projects.
I used to do creative things- they liked it. But now we are increasingly locked out of the boxes and only approved projects are approved to check out/ in code. Again, I've literally made the change and waited a month so I could get approval so I could check it out and then formally install it.
To be fair, in a corporation the stakes are very high. If I'm creative and wrong, I could cost the company more than my annual salary. And that's before any lawsuits.
Plus, I've come to the conclusion, managers would rather it take 3 times as long but have a clear idea of when it is going to go live vs taking between.5, 1 (usually), 2, and 3 times as long. They really like the control more than the productivity.
Then they cut costs by outsourcing the incredibly controlled work in tiny chunks to teams.
Advice to college students: Go find a job without senior level experience and get learned up so we can hire you.
Only problem.... that's what every business is doing. The place I work for hires -only- senior people with at least 8 years experience. Everything else (175+ positions) is done by entry level people in india.
Google is not hiring smart programmers. Only extremely smart programmers.
Most colleges are just teaching smart programmers how to program- not extremely smart programmers how to do new unexpected stuff. The world market for genius programmers is probably pretty limited-- and even there indians, albanians, and chinese are geniuses at the same rate and a lot cheaper to hire.
My honest statement to potential IT students- RUN
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It's horrible. It's getting worse.
Unless you just love doing IT more than eating RUN AWAY now.
If you love it, you might get a no-respect job with no job security that pays well for 5 to 10 years before they lay you off.
Get any pay UP FRONT.50% of people in the field have trouble finding work after 45. 90% have trouble finding work after 55 (maybe 99%).
If you want to be happy, get a degree where you need to be physically present to do the work. Nothing that is pure thinking- because anyone- anywhere can think for 5 cents vs your dollar.
Ask me again in 20 years after worldwide wages even out and the answer will be different- but until indian, albanian, and chinese programmers are making $40k annually (at least) this job category is going to suck.
The ONE IT field you might make a go of is some kind of network engineer.
Ignore everything I said if you are a prodigy or genius- they are always hiring prodigies or geniuses. But if you are merely smarter than average (say 130 IQ or less) forget it and be smart enough to find another field.
A large part of the reason movies are so expensive is what people in california cost. In fact, I'd guess that over 60% of your 100 million dollar budget is not spent on physical consumables.
So... doing the math... thinking about how hollywood folks are different than skilled programmers... I can't see why outsourcing is not a severe threat to them too. There are millions of talented people who can make increasingly high quality entertainment for less and less money every day. At the very least, I can't see why you would spend $120k on an editor when you can get an editor in india for a tenth of that (who has probably edited a LOT more films since they still make a lot more films over there).
And as far as the 'talent' goes- I found at least a third of the actors in Star Wreck to be pro-level acting and only a couple seemed poor (after taking into account it's a spoof). I personally find it hard to get up the interest to see a Tom Cruise film since I don't respect him after the Brooke Shields thing where he came across as a world class idiot.
Now when I see MI I see Jim Phelps (world class idiot) fighting the bad guy (as an idiot) and going on a mission (as an idiot).
So seeing a decent looking actor, who can read the lines well and just play the damn part who doesn't have a trainload of baggage seems more appealing every day.
I disagree that it is there content if it is over 28 years old.
There are also several other rationalizations and justifications I can rely on (Do I already have it recorded so I'm just getting a better copy)(Is it something that isn't for sale at all because they are choosing not to sell it)(Has the company acted like an asshat).
GRRR. I hate it when I do that -- and you can't edit here.
I would change your statement thusly.
Put Simply... there is NO repeatably and independently measurable evidence for God, Heaven, Hell, Devil, reincarnation, and magic...
There are large amounts of evidence for natural selection and evolution (Personally, I find the genetic information most compelling and amazing).
While the evidence doesn't "prove" evolution occured, there is enough evidence to say it is the best theory to fit observed facts unless you are irrational.
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The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the facts in controversy.
John Jay, 1st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of hte law, against their own opinion, judgement, and conscience.
John Adams
and a couple others from other times and places..
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just as it is the duty of all me to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men
to disobey unjust laws.
Martin Luthe King, Jr.
The law of self preservation is higher than written law.
Thomas Jefferson
I took the implication of DKSA to be that he was being controlled the same way in DKR.
I prefer to believe it that way since it fits his character better.
I was getting very mysterious crashes and then finally BSD.
The very obscure BSD message when googled turned up possible bad memory chips.
The actual reason was that it had shipped with virtual memory disabled for some reason.
No BSD's for a while and now I'm getting BSD's again after a recent -required- patch. It looks like I have to upgrade my video driver (which worked fine previously) to a new one that may not play video correctly.
Where I agree with you...
I got a $379 computer with WinXP. The parts for the computer would have cost me $450 retail AND it was assembled AND the OS was already installed. (I did replace 2 noisy fans and put in a 6800 video card).
If I give up access, I can get the rest of office for about $139.
If I lie, I can get it for $99 as a student/teacher.
If I use my corporate discount, I can get it for $20 (free shipping).
If I use my corporate discount, I can get WordXp Pro for $50 (free shipping).
So why do they charge so much ($300 for the OS) and ($379 for Office) to walk up customers when they are giving 90% of their customers huge discounts.
No clue.
But what Microsoft does want to do is put us into a subscription model where we pay every month for patches and for every kind of action (play video a fee, play music a fee, etc.).
They are strongly for DRM even tho most of their potential customers don't want it.
And they crush a lot of folks with good ideas (often illegally and they've been convicted for it aka doublespace) and THEN they just drop the idea and let it stagnate (aka IE between netscape and firefox battles).
Remember despite that everyone using p2p is doing it for free and no money is exchanged, the government considers that somehow p2p is feeding dollars to terrorists per an article posted here in the last week or two.
Anything can be justified as terrorism related so anyone can be survielled now.
Awesome post... the only thing I would add to it.
The characters were not created by the U.S. Government as propaganda figures.
The characters were created by a PRIVATE business to SELL comics in America.
Their primary purpose was to make money and sell comics. I'm assuming a german hero that hated americans wasn't going to sell a lot of paper during the time these characters were created.
To be fair, if he refused to be a tool they were going to destroy the bottle city of kandor extinguishing his race.
Now the question I have is why they haven't left the bottle and resettled on an appropriate planet out there somewhere.
--
I also disagree the first post was a TROLL. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't make them a troll. As an imperialistic american, I can appreciate that many other countries of the world dislike us. I think that's unavoidable even when we try to avoid it given our size and wealth. That's the bad thing about slashdot moderating.
I disagree.
While I wouldn't personally waste my money on game boxes, you are mistaken if you think you can put a computer into a situation without adequate cooling and it is going to work correctly.
They didn't design it to be crammed into a space with no cooling and I'm not sure it's possible given that it also has to be quiet (a constraint a lot of gamers give up for the performance the Xbox appears to deliver).
But wait... let me throw a car analogy into this just to finish it off.
I paid $23,000 for my car. I'm not going to make it look like ass with new tires and a 9" higher suspension just so I can go offroading in it! They should have thought of that in the first place!
I suggest putting it on a small hard surface.
Some options...
1) Foamcore board
2) Doormat
3) Piece of wood
Other options...
1) Get an inexpensive fan and set it blowing on the machine.
2) Look and see if they used 25cfm fans which you can easily upgrade to 33cfm ultraquiet fans for about 10 bucks (should draw the same voltage).
It's just a guess but I'm betting it doesn't do this on tightly closed weave carpet but on some kind of deep plush carpet.
I think folks know that I pretty much think Microsoft is fairly evil, immoral, dishonest, (convicted of multiple crimes), etc. that wants to lock me into paying a monthly subscription for the OS and applications.
Those creditials as a Certified Anti-Microsoft Geek (tm) out of the way:
The one time I had a problem on Win98SE and called for support they:
1) tried to have me reinstall everything (I refused since I'd done that myself twice).
2) They said okay then, the call is going to cost you $35 bucks (I said, Sure).
3) They then spent 5 hours, pulled in at least 2 senior programmers and eventually correctly diagnosed that the sound card (a really high end card I paid about $250 for in 1996ish) had not produced a new compatible driver for win98SE. Since they had me doing all the keying and mousing, I learned a lot about debugging the problem. It was indeed the sound card (which I replaced with a creative Live card).
4) They said, "wow- that was a toughy. No charge!" at the end of the call.
So as far as customer support goes, I have no complaints as a microsoft customer from my one hardcore experience with them.
You get a tax free sale once per 2 years of your personal residence in the U.S. My house has doubled in 5 years, could double again, and double again and I still wouldn't owe any taxes when I sold it.
The mortgage deduction really doesn't kick in unless your mortgage is about $100k (so say a $120k house with 24k down)and up because of the "standard" deduction.
The mortgage deduction is really a subsidy for rich people who are buying million dollar houses and getting 2 grand a month off their taxes. The "fair tax" people are trying to lower that to the average house price in a given market- so about $200k Texas and $450k Calif and New York.
As far as unlimited nationalized health care, I think it is unsustainable. However, I would strongly support a national health care that was about 1,000 times the minimum wage (about $5k). This would cover about 95% of what could go wrong to most people (since auto wrecks are covered by auto insurance and so on for other ways you get injured). It would -not- cover cancer, rare diseases, etc. I think catastropic health care should be covered like it is now. It sounds heartless but we just can't afford to heal everyone- I look at Oregon as a model. And I say that as a cancer survivor who had some heavy bills.
To me that's the key point.
Lack of price response.
A lot of very good movies are on sale this weekend at $3. A lot of releases from the last year are either $5 or $8. Why the hell would I ever download a movie?
OTH, Music in the same add is on "sale" for $16.99. For that $16.99 I would get about 9 minutes of material I might listen to more than once. I know the physical cost of production was under 50 cents. I would have multiple reasons to p2p under that scenario
Well then you should check out places like magnatune and others so you know that it isn't always true (www.magnatune.com).
I purchased Ehrin Starks (sp) there. Great piano and chelo (sp) music. He got 50% of the money I paid. I got to download the music free- see what I liked- then pay a reasonable amount ($12 I think) and get a hard CD in the mail a few days later.
People will not drive no matter what the price is.
If gasoline were 1 trillion dollars per gallon, no one would drive.
As the old saw goes, the difference between 1 trillion and 2 bucks is just haggling.
Currently, it looks like around 6.00 a gallon us, many other methods of fuel become economically feasible. So that's a likely cap on gas prices.
As long as the abortion issue trumps everything else, all manner of obnoxious issues are being pushed through without consequences. The abortion issue is the glue that makes small time christians vote for large immoral corporate policies.
We have 3 dem parties and 4 rep parties.
1 left wing loonie (basically hate america)
2 soft left (were great in the 50's but haven't adapted)
3 centrist left (put them with 4's and we'd have a decent government)
---
4 libertarian conservatives (really want small gov so voters won't elect lg nmbers)
5 corporate conservatives (money behind everything - currently making out like bandits)
6 religious conservatives (abortion, gay marriage, sneaking religion into school/etc.)
7 right wing loonies (basically fascists/insane)
If "6" drops out, the conservatives can't win power. What keeps "6" so focused is abortion. As long as conservatives have power and "6" only cares about those 3 issues (and really #1) then the "5"'s (corp conservatives) are getting any thing they want passed. In some cases (like where IP is involved) they have the votes of the "2" & "3" liberals as well (Disney protection act- indefinate copyright).
---
At this point the conservatives have jerrymandered my district in texas so strongly that my vote on any issue doesn't matter. Almost every vote is 70/30. Doesn't matter if I vote conservative OR liberal- my vote is meaningless. I've had -1- vote matter in the last decade- through out the incumbant by 31 votes (I was #31 I guess). Otherwise, no vote has mattered- all lopsided one way or the other.
---
My current theory is- if the right "wins" on the abortion issue, the "6"'s will lose a lot of their fire and focus.
Once that happens then MAYBE we can start looking at all the things the corporations snuck through while no one was watching the door.
It's not about stealing ip for the greater good.
MASS isn't stealing anything.
MASS is saying "we will buy your product if you meet this standard".
Governments spec out contracts all the time.
MS arguing they won't support the MASS requirement is like arguing in favor of building a government vehicle with custom bolts and nuts that require custom tools vs building it with standard nuts and bolts that use standard tools.
Because MS was the biggest nut and bolt company- they have gotten away with murder over the last 10 years making things more and more custom instead of more and more standard.
----
As far as libertarianism goes- Microsoft is not John Galt. Microsoft is larger than many governments while John Galt is an individual. This is the failure of libertarian philosophy- it breaks down when one party can destroy the other party with impunity because of wealth differences. I personally think libertarianism is a good basic philosophy but it breaks down when more than 10 to 15 million dollars concentrates under any one person/groups control. Without many competing small groups, you basically collapse into nobility and peasents.
If you work for a major corporation, whose business is not software, sox now has a 100% overhead of management/procedures/verification to coding. I have literally gone as long as 4 months without touching a line of code while preparing 160 hour projects.
.5, 1 (usually), 2, and 3 times as long. They really like the control more than the productivity.
I used to do creative things- they liked it. But now we are increasingly locked out of the boxes and only approved projects are approved to check out/ in code. Again, I've literally made the change and waited a month so I could get approval so I could check it out and then formally install it.
To be fair, in a corporation the stakes are very high. If I'm creative and wrong, I could cost the company more than my annual salary. And that's before any lawsuits.
Plus, I've come to the conclusion, managers would rather it take 3 times as long but have a clear idea of when it is going to go live vs taking between
Then they cut costs by outsourcing the incredibly controlled work in tiny chunks to teams.
Hmmm...
Can't find people to hire.
Won't hire folks without senior level experience.
Advice to college students: Go find a job without senior level experience and get learned up so we can hire you.
Only problem.... that's what every business is doing. The place I work for hires -only- senior people with at least 8 years experience. Everything else (175+ positions) is done by entry level people in india.
CLUE???
Google is not hiring smart programmers. Only extremely smart programmers.
Most colleges are just teaching smart programmers how to program- not extremely smart programmers how to do new unexpected stuff. The world market for genius programmers is probably pretty limited-- and even there indians, albanians, and chinese are geniuses at the same rate and a lot cheaper to hire.
It's horrible.
It's getting worse.
Unless you just love doing IT more than eating RUN AWAY now.
If you love it, you might get a no-respect job with no job security that pays well for 5 to 10 years before they lay you off.
Get any pay UP FRONT.50% of people in the field have trouble finding work after 45. 90% have trouble finding work after 55 (maybe 99%).
If you want to be happy, get a degree where you need to be physically present to do the work. Nothing that is pure thinking- because anyone- anywhere can think for 5 cents vs your dollar.
Ask me again in 20 years after worldwide wages even out and the answer will be different- but until indian, albanian, and chinese programmers are making $40k annually (at least) this job category is going to suck.
The ONE IT field you might make a go of is some kind of network engineer.
Ignore everything I said if you are a prodigy or genius- they are always hiring prodigies or geniuses. But if you are merely smarter than average (say 130 IQ or less) forget it and be smart enough to find another field.
A large part of the reason movies are so expensive is what people in california cost.
In fact, I'd guess that over 60% of your 100 million dollar budget is not spent on physical consumables.
So... doing the math... thinking about how hollywood folks are different than skilled programmers... I can't see why outsourcing is not a severe threat to them too. There are millions of talented people who can make increasingly high quality entertainment for less and less money every day. At the very least, I can't see why you would spend $120k on an editor when you can get an editor in india for a tenth of that (who has probably edited a LOT more films since they still make a lot more films over there).
And as far as the 'talent' goes- I found at least a third of the actors in Star Wreck to be pro-level acting and only a couple seemed poor (after taking into account it's a spoof). I personally find it hard to get up the interest to see a Tom Cruise film since I don't respect him after the Brooke Shields thing where he came across as a world class idiot.
Now when I see MI I see Jim Phelps (world class idiot) fighting the bad guy (as an idiot) and going on a mission (as an idiot).
So seeing a decent looking actor, who can read the lines well and just play the damn part who doesn't have a trainload of baggage seems more appealing every day.
I disagree that it is there content if it is over 28 years old.
There are also several other rationalizations and justifications I can rely on (Do I already have it recorded so I'm just getting a better copy)(Is it something that isn't for sale at all because they are choosing not to sell it)(Has the company acted like an asshat).
I get the impression he really wants bit torrent to be used for legitimate uses and isn't saying that with a wink and a nod.
Many of us are corrupted (1) by fighting corrupt people(2) all the time but some people are incorruptible or havn't been corrupted yet.
(1) These days I say the ends justify the means a lot more frequently.
(2) Like, say, buying governments to extend copyrights indefinately.
(1)+(2) I feel no guilt downloading anything produced before 28 years ago. It should be public domain.
What address does sony's DRM phone home to?
GRRR. I hate it when I do that -- and you can't edit here.
I would change your statement thusly.
Put Simply... there is NO repeatably and independently measurable evidence for God, Heaven, Hell, Devil, reincarnation, and magic...
There are large amounts of evidence for natural selection and evolution (Personally, I find the genetic information most compelling and amazing).
While the evidence doesn't "prove" evolution occured, there is enough evidence to say it is the best theory to fit observed facts unless you are irrational.
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two little letters... sigh.