Which would be really really bad.. if the police had anything to do with this.
I agree, it would be really bad if the police had their hands in this, but at least the police are accountable to the government and the people. Corporate execs are under no obligation to reveal what urls are being censored, nor is there any recourse the public can seek when those corporate execs start blacklisting "dangerous" urls for their friends in Ottawa.
Because the politics of this country are dominated by right-wing christian extremists. Any drug that makes a person feel good and causes laughter immediately falls under the suspicious eye of our moral overlords. If you can't get high on jesus than you have no reason to at all.
I have this feeling we're just on the edge of a scientific revolution in understanding the human body. How many stories in the last few years have we read about using various types of stem cells that give birth to new retinal and nerve endings in the eye, that will give the blind the ability of sight.. or the giving birth to a new pancreas... doctors learning how to harness stem cells for regrowing teeth, understanding how cancer cells operate...
It brings me back to that goofy star trek movie where they kidnap the whale from the 20th century, the Doctor Bones is horrified at the procedures they use to resucitate a victim of cardiac arrest or whatever, he views the whole procedure as barbaric medicine... I feel the same way about what's happening now, if only I could live to see through the revolution in medical science that's happening now. I'm probably too old though, being in my 30's, but one day I wouldn't be surprised if limbs and eyes could be regrown, cancer is understood and easily treated, a great number of ills to be cured... sigh, if only time were not an issue.
I personally know of 3 music artists that have died due to starvation, just in the last 2 weeks. One was a good friend involved on the verge of signing a big record deal with Sony music, but someone leaked the band's latest album on the net before the deal could be signed.. Once Sony realized pirates were using the internat to mass-copy the album, the lawyers walked away and my friend was left homeless and broke.. it was horrible watching his body decompose before my very eyes, I hope you never have to go through the same experience
I'll make a deal with you. We'll remove all the DRM if you remove all the illegal content off of piratebay (and likeminded sites) and make certain it stays clean. Deal?
Sales of DVD's make the movie & music industry billions every year, but blame piratebay for them not making billions more? For how many years have consumers been pirating DVD's? and still most movies make their money on that format instead of at the threatres.
What I find the most interesting part of your comment is the title, "Making monorities happy." Is building a next generation movie disc that's as flexible as VHS catering to the minority? What kind of bizarro land do you live in
Then remove all the DRM garbage, copying restrictions and whatever else is present that limits what the consumer can achieve with these products. If I were able to buy a blu-ray movie disc and make a copy for my mom or brother, you can bet they'd have one ASAP, I'd probably even buy my parents one. It needs to be as flexible as VHS when recording television programs. Is the consumer really anxious for blu-ray/hddvd recorders making the decision as to when commercials can be fast-forwarded though? what programs can be recorded, how many times it can be played, whether or not it can be lent out to a friend.. All of the above is just nonsense that nobody really wants, not even the executives at these big media companies.
Looking at the current crop of "next generation" dvd standards makes me wonder why they would expect any kind of success with such crippled junk. Sony and Toshiba need to relax and accept piracy for the fact that it is.
The only kind of stem cell research that is illegal in the US is embryonic stem cell research (stem cells harvested from aborted fetus's).
The u.s. federal government actually legislated this into law? I was under the impression it was an executive order that Dubya signed that banned federal money from being used on projects that use embryonic stem cells, private research would not be affected (is that the proper use of the a?)
Where do they come up with this 500 million users rubbish? If Yahoo has that many than I would guesstimate that Google has 1.8 billion users, closing in on 6 billion very fast. But whatever, last time I went to yahoo to get some email, it was very difficult to actually find the "mail" link... it's so cluttered with media & celebrity bullshit.. a painful experience.
You've will definitely be flagged for a comment like that and your database score will go up a few points as a result. Go easy with the aggressive tone in the future, chill your speech in this post-911 world.
The roots of this issue may seem petty to you, and to me as well, but this is about speech and the supreme court is getting involved. That is not something you can just ignore.
If I can remember reading stories about this on slashdot from years ago, I'm sure someone else has and undoubtably someone has been keeping track of gracenote's movements.
All of this could be a publicity stunt for the next Bond film? We probably won't find out who was really behind these sinister actions until........ you go see the movie
There has not been an al-queda attack on american soil since 9/11, this is absolute proof that these new policies of privacy invasion and loss of freedom are working to keep you safe.
When is the trial starting ? I'm assuming there will be one, some sort of proceedings involving a judge, plantiffs and defendents and arguments are made to decide whether IBM is guilty of *whatever crime this case is about*...
>Wow. You're truly insane, you know that? You're trying >to tell me that "the rest of the world" thought that the >worlds largest, and best equipped military force couldn't >take on a piddly little country like Iraq? Buddy."
Nobody ever doubted the american machine of war would roll into the streets of Baghdad fairly quickly, capture the government and successfully accomplish the invasion phase of this delightful desert adventure. Name me someone from anywhere that said otherwise, please.
Now american marines are playing cops and robbers with all sorts of hoodlums over there, and who really knows who they're fighting and why they're causing problems.. be it the sunnite "insurgents", shiite fanaticists, islamic zealots, iranian hooligans, chechnyan rebels, PLO, there's a lot of people over there now trying to grab onto power and keep ahold, some see this is as an opportunity, be it for training themselves in the ways of war or it could be for national pride.. Who has the energy to figure out why there are so many clowns over there causing mayhem.
It was this mess that was clear to me and to the rest of the world. Everybody but you saw that the americans would only be getting in the way of the inevitable mess that it's become.
But hey, I digress, this is how they do politics over there. And how much longer do you want your marines to assume the role of national policemen in that desert paradise? In the game that's being played now, the marines and any servicemen on Iraq are simple policemen..
This is like when a New York cop is demoted to a wal-mart security guard... Can you be proud of what's happening when america's bravest warriors have been demoted to toy-cop?
There are 15 episodes, about 12 hours long with english subtitles.. so sit back and enjoy how history repeats itself.. the stage moved to the left, a bit, but it's the same story happening all over again. Iraqi society descending into chaos, neighbourhoods dividing along sectarian lines, intervening regional powers, oh and lots of blood.
That article is hilarious. His first comment, "I still think it's an excellent portable media player." Then he goes on to list 10 doozies that microsoft needs to fix, actually what he's saying is, "I need portable media player produced by someone else." But I don't think he's figured that part out yet.
Well, the thing is, one of the side effects of this treatment is cancer of the pancreas. So, there are a few loose ends they've gotta tie-up before going to human guinea pigs.
>Damn those developing countries, stealing all >the decent jobs from the hard working Americans.
Ya even in our own country they're screwing us. I remember a time when a person could make a good living framing houses, general contracting, drywall and plumbing work, etc. The union ruled, no question about it they were a bitch, but at the end of the day you could easily support a family on that kind of work, good honest work that americans would jump at in a heartbeat...
Good thing those days of decent wages are gone, who needs them anyways? The mexican immigrants will take the job for $9/hr and won't complain about not having insurance/benefits or when faced with glaring safety hurdles that just jumped all over nowadays.
Let this rock disintegrate into nothing. I'm convinced nothing good can come of this human experiment. Whoever or whatever set this up has failed, or maybe they've been proven right. Nevermind, it would be better if humans destroyed this god forsaken shithole and let the surviving crockroaches and worms start another era of magnificent evolution.
These guys are always attaching their names to feel-good petitions and liberal/left wing causes. They've devalued themselves by doing so, nobody takes them seriously anymore. Everybody sees them for who they really are.
I know my parents would love to say goodbye to the keypad. All the cellphones these days are just too small, the buttons too small (and what about people with really big fingers?) I tried finding them a cellphone with extra-large keys but gave up and bought them a motorola unit that they can kind of read but it's difficult without their reading glasses. Screw voice technology, just give me a cellphone with big digits on it... they know how to use a phone, no fancy voice activation stuff that will probably just confuse them anyways.
This country is full of shit and filth and piss. People walking around the streets with no god damn clue, gang bangers, nazis, anarchists, mentally unstable vets, all the stains on society that make this place totally unbearable, unbreathable in it's stench of rotting values. If being fat-assed and sickly obese was a criminal offense this country would be one big massive battle royale, Police vs America. And I say bring it on, let these police fuck with people.. punch his face, shit down his throat.. who really gives a flying fuck about that wart anyways. He was just another pile of human feces that somehow manages to survive on the support of others.
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Which would be really really bad.. if the police had anything to do with this.
I agree, it would be really bad if the police had their hands in this, but at least the police are accountable to the government and the people. Corporate execs are under no obligation to reveal what urls are being censored, nor is there any recourse the public can seek when those corporate execs start blacklisting "dangerous" urls for their friends in Ottawa.
Because the politics of this country are dominated by right-wing christian extremists. Any drug that makes a person feel good and causes laughter immediately falls under the suspicious eye of our moral overlords. If you can't get high on jesus than you have no reason to at all.
I have this feeling we're just on the edge of a scientific revolution in understanding the human body. How many stories in the last few years have we read about using various types of stem cells that give birth to new retinal and nerve endings in the eye, that will give the blind the ability of sight.. or the giving birth to a new pancreas... doctors learning how to harness stem cells for regrowing teeth, understanding how cancer cells operate... It brings me back to that goofy star trek movie where they kidnap the whale from the 20th century, the Doctor Bones is horrified at the procedures they use to resucitate a victim of cardiac arrest or whatever, he views the whole procedure as barbaric medicine... I feel the same way about what's happening now, if only I could live to see through the revolution in medical science that's happening now. I'm probably too old though, being in my 30's, but one day I wouldn't be surprised if limbs and eyes could be regrown, cancer is understood and easily treated, a great number of ills to be cured... sigh, if only time were not an issue.
I personally know of 3 music artists that have died due to starvation, just in the last 2 weeks. One was a good friend involved on the verge of signing a big record deal with Sony music, but someone leaked the band's latest album on the net before the deal could be signed.. Once Sony realized pirates were using the internat to mass-copy the album, the lawyers walked away and my friend was left homeless and broke.. it was horrible watching his body decompose before my very eyes, I hope you never have to go through the same experience
I'll make a deal with you. We'll remove all the DRM if you remove all the illegal content off of piratebay (and likeminded sites) and make certain it stays clean. Deal?
Sales of DVD's make the movie & music industry billions every year, but blame piratebay for them not making billions more? For how many years have consumers been pirating DVD's? and still most movies make their money on that format instead of at the threatres.
What I find the most interesting part of your comment is the title, "Making monorities happy." Is building a next generation movie disc that's as flexible as VHS catering to the minority? What kind of bizarro land do you live in
Then remove all the DRM garbage, copying restrictions and whatever else is present that limits what the consumer can achieve with these products. If I were able to buy a blu-ray movie disc and make a copy for my mom or brother, you can bet they'd have one ASAP, I'd probably even buy my parents one. It needs to be as flexible as VHS when recording television programs. Is the consumer really anxious for blu-ray/hddvd recorders making the decision as to when commercials can be fast-forwarded though? what programs can be recorded, how many times it can be played, whether or not it can be lent out to a friend.. All of the above is just nonsense that nobody really wants, not even the executives at these big media companies.
Looking at the current crop of "next generation" dvd standards makes me wonder why they would expect any kind of success with such crippled junk. Sony and Toshiba need to relax and accept piracy for the fact that it is.
The only kind of stem cell research that is illegal in the US is embryonic stem cell research (stem cells harvested from aborted fetus's).
The u.s. federal government actually legislated this into law? I was under the impression it was an executive order that Dubya signed that banned federal money from being used on projects that use embryonic stem cells, private research would not be affected (is that the proper use of the a?)
Where do they come up with this 500 million users rubbish? If Yahoo has that many than I would guesstimate that Google has 1.8 billion users, closing in on 6 billion very fast. But whatever, last time I went to yahoo to get some email, it was very difficult to actually find the "mail" link... it's so cluttered with media & celebrity bullshit.. a painful experience.
You've will definitely be flagged for a comment like that and your database score will go up a few points as a result. Go easy with the aggressive tone in the future, chill your speech in this post-911 world.
The roots of this issue may seem petty to you, and to me as well, but this is about speech and the supreme court is getting involved. That is not something you can just ignore.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=gracenote+cdd b+site%3Aslashdot.org&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
If I can remember reading stories about this on slashdot from years ago, I'm sure someone else has and undoubtably someone has been keeping track of gracenote's movements.
All of this could be a publicity stunt for the next Bond film? We probably won't find out who was really behind these sinister actions until........ you go see the movie
There has not been an al-queda attack on american soil since 9/11, this is absolute proof that these new policies of privacy invasion and loss of freedom are working to keep you safe.
When is the trial starting ? I'm assuming there will be one, some sort of proceedings involving a judge, plantiffs and defendents and arguments are made to decide whether IBM is guilty of *whatever crime this case is about*...
>Wow. You're truly insane, you know that? You're trying
>to tell me that "the rest of the world" thought that the
>worlds largest, and best equipped military force couldn't
>take on a piddly little country like Iraq? Buddy."
Nobody ever doubted the american machine of war would roll into the streets of Baghdad fairly quickly, capture the government and successfully accomplish the invasion phase of this delightful desert adventure. Name me someone from anywhere that said otherwise, please.
Now american marines are playing cops and robbers with all sorts of hoodlums over there, and who really knows who they're fighting and why they're causing problems.. be it the sunnite "insurgents", shiite fanaticists, islamic zealots, iranian hooligans, chechnyan rebels, PLO, there's a lot of people over there now trying to grab onto power and keep ahold, some see this is as an opportunity, be it for training themselves in the ways of war or it could be for national pride.. Who has the energy to figure out why there are so many clowns over there causing mayhem.
It was this mess that was clear to me and to the rest of the world. Everybody but you saw that the americans would only be getting in the way of the inevitable mess that it's become.
But hey, I digress, this is how they do politics over there. And how much longer do you want your marines to assume the role of national policemen in that desert paradise? In the game that's being played now, the marines and any servicemen on Iraq are simple policemen..
This is like when a New York cop is demoted to a wal-mart security guard... Can you be proud of what's happening when america's bravest warriors have been demoted to toy-cop?
Was produced a few years ago by Al-Jazeera, well, technically it's not about Iraq but Lebanon.
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http://fineartfilm.com/index.php?main_page=produc
(or watch it on google video)
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=war+of+leba
There are 15 episodes, about 12 hours long with english subtitles.. so sit back and enjoy how history repeats itself.. the stage moved to the left, a bit, but it's the same story happening all over again. Iraqi society descending into chaos, neighbourhoods dividing along sectarian lines, intervening regional powers, oh and lots of blood.
That article is hilarious. His first comment, "I still think it's an excellent portable media player." Then he goes on to list 10 doozies that microsoft needs to fix, actually what he's saying is, "I need portable media player produced by someone else." But I don't think he's figured that part out yet.
Well, the thing is, one of the side effects of this treatment is cancer of the pancreas. So, there are a few loose ends they've gotta tie-up before going to human guinea pigs.
>Damn those developing countries, stealing all
>the decent jobs from the hard working Americans.
Ya even in our own country they're screwing us. I remember a time when a person could make a good living framing houses, general contracting, drywall and plumbing work, etc. The union ruled, no question about it they were a bitch, but at the end of the day you could easily support a family on that kind of work, good honest work that americans would jump at in a heartbeat...
Good thing those days of decent wages are gone, who needs them anyways? The mexican immigrants will take the job for $9/hr and won't complain about not having insurance/benefits or when faced with glaring safety hurdles that just jumped all over nowadays.
Let this rock disintegrate into nothing. I'm convinced nothing good can come of this human experiment. Whoever or whatever set this up has failed, or maybe they've been proven right. Nevermind, it would be better if humans destroyed this god forsaken shithole and let the surviving crockroaches and worms start another era of magnificent evolution.
Here's a picture of what they wanted for the login screen... pretty edgy if you ask me
http://24.57.37.118/my_family.jpg
These guys are always attaching their names to feel-good petitions and liberal/left wing causes. They've devalued themselves by doing so, nobody takes them seriously anymore. Everybody sees them for who they really are.
I know my parents would love to say goodbye to the keypad. All the cellphones these days are just too small, the buttons too small (and what about people with really big fingers?) I tried finding them a cellphone with extra-large keys but gave up and bought them a motorola unit that they can kind of read but it's difficult without their reading glasses. Screw voice technology, just give me a cellphone with big digits on it... they know how to use a phone, no fancy voice activation stuff that will probably just confuse them anyways.
This country is full of shit and filth and piss. People walking around the streets with no god damn clue, gang bangers, nazis, anarchists, mentally unstable vets, all the stains on society that make this place totally unbearable, unbreathable in it's stench of rotting values. If being fat-assed and sickly obese was a criminal offense this country would be one big massive battle royale, Police vs America. And I say bring it on, let these police fuck with people.. punch his face, shit down his throat.. who really gives a flying fuck about that wart anyways. He was just another pile of human feces that somehow manages to survive on the support of others.
The nazi's have just taken France.. why don't you stop complaining about them and Hitler, just be happy for them .. just once would ya.