But second, while the excuse for registration has always been to ensure proper and responsible use, in practice the actual use of registration has often -- almost invariably, in fact -- ended up being to restrict.
Yes, JUST LIKE CARS. Dangerous items should be registered so as to keep them out of the hands of crazies/incapable people.
YOU got it exactly right. I haven't bought a coffee from anywhere but IHOP in over a decade, a once a quarter treat. Fine coffee in our house is a small package of the flavored grocery store brand ground and brewed on Sunday at home and only if the store had it on sale. I'm not ashamed of that, I didn't mismanage this country's balance of trade and allow the regulated financial markets to go unregulated - I'm just the guy left holding the bag of generic house brand coffee making the best of the situation. Thank's to my parents and grand parents I learned young to never live like the big bucks coming one day were going to come in every day. NetFlix needs to learn that lesson. They need to get by with less so they can learn the humiliating lesson of greed gone bad. They have on reasonable expectation that the customer in general will cough up an additional premium during hard times.
I'm fairly sure you don't have to be living in a mansion to buy a latte or two (per-month, not per-day).
To be fair, the demographic of most net-steaming users with a computer and network connection good enough to stream is probably in line with the "latte or two" crowd, at least around here. I'm not really sure about the DVD shipment service as I don't know anyone who uses it (not even sure it's *offered* in Canada, where I live).
Most of my friends - even those in the lower-income brackets - still stop at Starbucks every now and then for an overpriced drink. After the first two you've already passed the price of netflix in a month.
A better comparison might have been "a movie rental" though, as even one of those at many video stores hits pretty close to the monthly cost of either netflix streaming/delivery services.
You have no friends in the lower income brackets - your comment screams it.
Few would have screamed if it (a radical price increase) had come with a service enhancement but instead it came with a service curtailment. The outrage is just, the latte excuses and kowtowing by the ignorant are inexcusable.
NetFlix as others have said is a luxury - let NetFlix now learn what that means, the hard way.
You will be surprised how far they can push you. In the UK petrol (gas) is £1.35/litre which I make to be just under $10/gallon. We are the worst in Europe but seem unable to do anything about it.
Get your government to subsidized the oil companies like the US does, get rid of public health, passenger rail and basic services and you too can have simply outrageous prices like the States.
You're damn right! Latte? Latte? Arrogant little shit, people (like me) are pinching pennies cancelling even basic cable in the tight economy already trying to keep a "normal" life going with a $10 spot to Netflix. I can go to Redbox, Steve Swasey, you little asshole and get almost 3 DVDs a week! Netflix was mostly to keep my CHILD entertained with kids shows, but fuck it, it's just a latte to you, right?
Sorry for the cursing, but that mother... needs to read The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk and get some goddamn manners! This is a less for how NOT to conduct business when everyone has a direct line to 500 friends on Facebook, Twitter, G+, etc! What a retard! I hope the fact that he is spokesman for Netflix will make future employers go, "Ah, so I guess I don't have to ask why you're now looking for new employment. Well, we don't find you qualified for spokesman, but we do have janitorial."
And if you go to Redbox three days a week, you're spending at LEAST $12 a month - and that's if you *never* return them late.
Well that makes sixty percent rate hike and 50% cut in services just fine doesn't it???
Who the F thinks he eats out anywhere after canceling all those services? Do you have a clue? Three buck is meaning the difference to have or not for thousands more evert day and to them if you are spending $3 on a single serving of a beverage you are indeed a "rich prick". I suggest you expand your sheltered little circle.
Clearly you're delusional.
This situation calls for Diplomacy and sanctions.
Actually what is needed are robotic limpets that attach a retro and drop this kind of trash out of orbit.
VOIP is just protocols and ports, if you don't value those then you don't value anything about your RIGHTS online - or elsewhere for that matter.
First they came after VOIP and I didn't stop them because I didn't use it. Then they came after IM and I didn't care because I didn't chat. Then they came for e-mail and I said good stop the damn spam.
They they came after port 80 and it was too late because the internet was dead.
Toshiba has always been great for getting parts of machines that are reasonably new, even quite a few for old machines. I've never had a bit of trouble from them.
Members of the military are not entitled to free speech, but we've seen that tossed to the wind over the last 3+ years. Now only some members of the military are entitled to free speech, the ones that agree with the official line.
You don't have to give violate OPSEC to disagree, but you shouldn't be agreeing or disagreeing in public anyways - it's not good for anybody.
"To say that their laws are wrong is a VERY arrogant statement."
No it isn't, it's only Arrogant if I take arrogance to the the statement. If a law is wrong, it's wrong - here in America or in China. I have the right as a free human to try and change ANYTHING I perceive as wrong.
China is not a free society, your statement not mine - and once freedom has been taken it's not a simple matter to restore it. The people of China did not chose the government they have in place, the people who live before them chose it and now it is imposed on the people that live there.
I'm not being arrogant, a person can typically choose not to assimilate information, but a person has no right to refuse others that opportunity.
For the most part I like my government, but I don't destroy my future or my family when I choose to tell foreigners that it has problems, the people you talked to in China do not have that luxury that you and I take for granted.
Your opinion that we do not have a right to change things is a poor one because we do have a right to change or try and change them, and a right to resist change.
I'm not what you call your version of submission but it's not a good thing. I have the right to help a homeless person, but not in your view, in your view the homeless person is happy and I'm an arrogant bastard for offering help.
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But second, while the excuse for registration has always been to ensure proper and responsible use, in practice the actual use of registration has often -- almost invariably, in fact -- ended up being to restrict.
Yes, JUST LIKE CARS. Dangerous items should be registered so as to keep them out of the hands of crazies/incapable people.
Like hammers
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YOU got it exactly right. I haven't bought a coffee from anywhere but IHOP in over a decade, a once a quarter treat. Fine coffee in our house is a small package of the flavored grocery store brand ground and brewed on Sunday at home and only if the store had it on sale. I'm not ashamed of that, I didn't mismanage this country's balance of trade and allow the regulated financial markets to go unregulated - I'm just the guy left holding the bag of generic house brand coffee making the best of the situation. Thank's to my parents and grand parents I learned young to never live like the big bucks coming one day were going to come in every day. NetFlix needs to learn that lesson. They need to get by with less so they can learn the humiliating lesson of greed gone bad. They have on reasonable expectation that the customer in general will cough up an additional premium during hard times.
I'm fairly sure you don't have to be living in a mansion to buy a latte or two (per-month, not per-day).
To be fair, the demographic of most net-steaming users with a computer and network connection good enough to stream is probably in line with the "latte or two" crowd, at least around here. I'm not really sure about the DVD shipment service as I don't know anyone who uses it (not even sure it's *offered* in Canada, where I live).
Most of my friends - even those in the lower-income brackets - still stop at Starbucks every now and then for an overpriced drink. After the first two you've already passed the price of netflix in a month.
A better comparison might have been "a movie rental" though, as even one of those at many video stores hits pretty close to the monthly cost of either netflix streaming/delivery services.
You have no friends in the lower income brackets - your comment screams it.
I drink a latte every evening, you insensitive clods!
After you've served the rest of us and locked the door.
Few would have screamed if it (a radical price increase) had come with a service enhancement but instead it came with a service curtailment. The outrage is just, the latte excuses and kowtowing by the ignorant are inexcusable. NetFlix as others have said is a luxury - let NetFlix now learn what that means, the hard way.
You will be surprised how far they can push you. In the UK petrol (gas) is £1.35/litre which I make to be just under $10/gallon. We are the worst in Europe but seem unable to do anything about it.
Get your government to subsidized the oil companies like the US does, get rid of public health, passenger rail and basic services and you too can have simply outrageous prices like the States.
Get over it. Your kid is not a Retard - you yourself just said so.
"Netflix is not a necessity, y'know" You need to tell that to GougeFlix, not the vanishing customer base.
You're damn right! Latte? Latte? Arrogant little shit, people (like me) are pinching pennies cancelling even basic cable in the tight economy already trying to keep a "normal" life going with a $10 spot to Netflix. I can go to Redbox, Steve Swasey, you little asshole and get almost 3 DVDs a week! Netflix was mostly to keep my CHILD entertained with kids shows, but fuck it, it's just a latte to you, right?
Sorry for the cursing, but that mother... needs to read The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk and get some goddamn manners! This is a less for how NOT to conduct business when everyone has a direct line to 500 friends on Facebook, Twitter, G+, etc! What a retard! I hope the fact that he is spokesman for Netflix will make future employers go, "Ah, so I guess I don't have to ask why you're now looking for new employment. Well, we don't find you qualified for spokesman, but we do have janitorial."
And if you go to Redbox three days a week, you're spending at LEAST $12 a month - and that's if you *never* return them late.
Well that makes sixty percent rate hike and 50% cut in services just fine doesn't it???
Who the F thinks he eats out anywhere after canceling all those services? Do you have a clue? Three buck is meaning the difference to have or not for thousands more evert day and to them if you are spending $3 on a single serving of a beverage you are indeed a "rich prick". I suggest you expand your sheltered little circle.
How does your sticky glue keep moving to the outside of the ball to keep trapping more debris?
True if it were an absolute vacuum, but space isn't.
Nuke the rogue satellite in the orbit.
Clearly you're delusional. This situation calls for Diplomacy and sanctions. Actually what is needed are robotic limpets that attach a retro and drop this kind of trash out of orbit.
No expect me to admin it locally as a VM.
"Server 2008 is the first version of Windows that can be installed without a GUI shell."
Man are you ever wrong, you just didn't know how.
VOIP is just protocols and ports, if you don't value those then you don't value anything about your RIGHTS online - or elsewhere for that matter.
First they came after VOIP and I didn't stop them because I didn't use it.
Then they came after IM and I didn't care because I didn't chat.
Then they came for e-mail and I said good stop the damn spam.
They they came after port 80 and it was too late because the internet was dead.
OpenSuse ok, but the commercial product is dead to me.
Not so effective if the machine doesn't do the final tally correctly, and no one checks because the margin wasn't within 1%.
I'd suggest you look at the Hacking the Vote movie that was on HBO.
Toshiba has always been great for getting parts of machines that are reasonably new, even quite a few for old machines.
I've never had a bit of trouble from them.
Members of the military are not entitled to free speech, but we've seen that tossed to the wind over the last 3+ years.
Now only some members of the military are entitled to free speech, the ones that agree with the official line.
You don't have to give violate OPSEC to disagree, but you shouldn't be agreeing or disagreeing in public anyways - it's not good for anybody.
"Granted, if they were promoting a Dec 1 release date, I'd think it would have been released at the BEGINNING of Dec 1, not the end."
So the rest of what you said was just blowing foul air.
"you don't have to look all the way to China to find some."
No argument from me, I believe my response said as much.
"To say that their laws are wrong is a VERY arrogant statement."
No it isn't, it's only Arrogant if I take arrogance to the the statement.
If a law is wrong, it's wrong - here in America or in China.
I have the right as a free human to try and change ANYTHING I perceive as wrong.
China is not a free society, your statement not mine - and once freedom has been taken it's not a simple matter to restore it.
The people of China did not chose the government they have in place, the people who live before them chose it and now it is imposed on the people that live there.
I'm not being arrogant, a person can typically choose not to assimilate information, but a person has no right to refuse others that opportunity.
For the most part I like my government, but I don't destroy my future or my family when I choose to tell foreigners that it has problems, the people you talked to in China do not have that luxury that you and I take for granted.
Your opinion that we do not have a right to change things is a poor one because we do have a right to change or try and change them, and a right to resist change.
I'm not what you call your version of submission but it's not a good thing.
I have the right to help a homeless person, but not in your view, in your view the homeless person is happy and I'm an arrogant bastard for offering help.
Screw that!
Through the site in the article or this url
http://psiphon.ca/download/psiphoninstall.msi