You should read insomnia's journal entry on what Six Apart thinks of LiveJournal... this is what really tipped the tide for me...
When I started with LJ, there wasn't a great deal of teenage drama. In fact, I'd say that 90% of the users were in their mid-to-late twenties... Now Six-Apart is telling me that I'm a teenager to be exploited...
Brad had said several times that the small percentage of paid users and permanent accounts were plenty to cover their costs and pay their salaries and have a little left over - that they weren't interested in 'cashing in'. Six Apart changed that idea very quickly.
One thing to keep in mind - Six Apart has never seen a profit. They are a classic dotcom boom business. They have 70+ people working for them and they buy up little organizations left and right and they have never actually made a penny. LJ's business model was working. It was profitable. Now SA comes in and they have to pay for 'buying' LJ, so hello ads. I'm not going to pay for someone else's mistake. I don't care that my $25.99 would keep me from seeing ads. I'm very comfortable with my principles here.
I've been an LJ user since 2000 and I can guarantee you I didn't agree to anything like that. I don't care what the Wayback Machine says about Jan 18, 2001.
I've been a paid user for 5yrs. The whole reason I got sucked into this community was because of their stance against ads and sponsers and anyone doing anything to control them. At the time, it was Brad and a few others struggling with servers and outages and there were less than 50,000 of us and it felt like a real community.
Now it's over 10 million and it's just another Internet buy-out shell. My paid user status is up in December and I am not renewing. Before I felt like I was supporting a project. Now my money would just go to support a product.
That may sound like I'm being dramatic, but that's how this whole Six-Apart shadow has made me (and thousands of other people who were there for the beginning) feel.
Soviet Union suffers worst wheat harvest in 55 years... Labor and food riots in Poland. Soviet troops invade... Cuba and Nicaragua reach troop strength goals of 500,000. El Salvador and Honduras fall... Green Party gains control of West German Parliament. Demands withdrawal of nuclear weapons from European soil... Mexico plunged into revolution... NATO dissolves. United States stands alone.
Fayetteville happens to be one of the fastest growing cities in the country. Wal-Mart, Tyson Foods and JB Hunt are all in the larger metropolitan area. The commercial infrastructure here has exploded in the last decade.
When people hear Arkansas they think of L'il Abner and the like, but the area that Fayetteville is in is nothing like the rest of the state. The population has a higher per-capita income, more education and less crime. Think Seattle, except smaller and with less rain.
And, btw, the picture in the article is looking to the East down Dickson Street, and the real view looks nothing like that.
it does if you get BBC America.. they were showing it every Saturday in the afternoon.. don't know if they still do it on a regular basis, but you can catch it if you look for it...
Plus, there are several PBS stations across the US that show it on Saturday nights next to Fawlty Towers and the Vicar of Dibley, etc....
in essence, yes... they give you just enough for your body to build antibodies but not enough to get sick... but in several cases, like mine, the body does not produce the antibodies fast enough or is too busy producing them for other vaccinations received at the same time and the person actually gets sick...
There's a difference between getting the vaccinated with the disease and getting the disease because of the vaccination...
getting a disease due to a vaccination isn't far-fetched... it happens a lot, but the disease is greatly reduced in its severity... When I was 9 and my family and I were moving overseas, I had to get all kinds of additional vaccines (smallpox, polio, cholera, etc) and ended up getting a small case of cholera that kept me out of school for quite a while...
a bad batch of vaccines were to blame for a measles outbreak in Texas in 1986-87... I was only 13 at the time, but I don't remember it breaking out nationwide... hundreds of kids 15-16yrs old got it... my brother was one of them, but both my sisters and I were unaffected...
The thing with the MMR vaccine now is that they suggest a booster at about 18, but it isn't manditory (or even widely known that it is offered, really) so I imagine that is why we are seeing an outbreak among college-age people...
Cox caps their speed, but not the total bandwidth used... I've downloaded 116GB from usenet this month alone... (and not as much porn as one might think...)
hsve to agree here... I just built my own system (AMD Athlon64 Venice Core 3500+ 2.2ghz, 2GB RAM, Asus MoBo, GeForce 6000LE, 2x120GB HDD, DVD Burner, 500W PSU and a sweet case) for under $1000 including shipping... the same system from Dell would have been twice as much...
What they didn't say is that they also found 30 unopened packets of Duck Sauce...
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the Earth is more likely to be hit, but the Earth has a dense atmosphere that burns up most of what hits it and therefore offers protection... the moon has no such protection... even a small rock (or other debris) could do major damage to a person or even a base on the moon...
But, of course, I'm sure they've thought of that and will prepare accordingly.../wonders how many at NASA are reading this and thinking 'uh oh'
Most of the time when someone says something along the lines of "The movie is nothing like the book." they don't care about the movie, they just want the people around them to be aware that they have read said book and are therefore better than you.
Maybe we should just privatize everything... Instead of having a Free Representative Government, let's have one where only the people with the most money get elected and where votes can be bought...
oh, wait...
#1 We don't know that they didn't pick her name out of thin air...
#2 Large number of songs plus regularly connecting to a p2p may raise suspicions, but it doesn't *prove* anything. That's why they are skipping the courts with this because they know they can't prove it. They are simply saying, "We think you're doing something so we are demanding money or we will make your life miserable."
#3 The point of all this is that the RIAA is demanding personal information about someone from an ISP without any proof of criminal conduct. They are acting with police powers here, whether or not she breached any copyright or not. That's scary...
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Skyrates is not really a time-killer, but it is easy to get heavily involved in it...
This may be the single greatest comment in the history of /. I applaud you, sir.
You should read insomnia's journal entry on what Six Apart thinks of LiveJournal... this is what really tipped the tide for me...
When I started with LJ, there wasn't a great deal of teenage drama. In fact, I'd say that 90% of the users were in their mid-to-late twenties... Now Six-Apart is telling me that I'm a teenager to be exploited...
Brad had said several times that the small percentage of paid users and permanent accounts were plenty to cover their costs and pay their salaries and have a little left over - that they weren't interested in 'cashing in'. Six Apart changed that idea very quickly.
One thing to keep in mind - Six Apart has never seen a profit. They are a classic dotcom boom business. They have 70+ people working for them and they buy up little organizations left and right and they have never actually made a penny. LJ's business model was working. It was profitable. Now SA comes in and they have to pay for 'buying' LJ, so hello ads. I'm not going to pay for someone else's mistake. I don't care that my $25.99 would keep me from seeing ads. I'm very comfortable with my principles here.
I've been an LJ user since 2000 and I can guarantee you I didn't agree to anything like that. I don't care what the Wayback Machine says about Jan 18, 2001.
I've been a paid user for 5yrs. The whole reason I got sucked into this community was because of their stance against ads and sponsers and anyone doing anything to control them. At the time, it was Brad and a few others struggling with servers and outages and there were less than 50,000 of us and it felt like a real community.
Now it's over 10 million and it's just another Internet buy-out shell. My paid user status is up in December and I am not renewing. Before I felt like I was supporting a project. Now my money would just go to support a product.
That may sound like I'm being dramatic, but that's how this whole Six-Apart shadow has made me (and thousands of other people who were there for the beginning) feel.
Reminds me of the opening of "Red Dawn"
Soviet Union suffers worst wheat harvest in 55 years...
Labor and food riots in Poland. Soviet troops invade...
Cuba and Nicaragua reach troop strength goals of 500,000. El Salvador and Honduras fall...
Green Party gains control of West German Parliament. Demands withdrawal of nuclear weapons from European soil... Mexico plunged into revolution...
NATO dissolves.
United States stands alone.
For those who think "Why Fayetteville?"
Fayetteville happens to be one of the fastest growing cities in the country. Wal-Mart, Tyson Foods and JB Hunt are all in the larger metropolitan area. The commercial infrastructure here has exploded in the last decade.
When people hear Arkansas they think of L'il Abner and the like, but the area that Fayetteville is in is nothing like the rest of the state. The population has a higher per-capita income, more education and less crime. Think Seattle, except smaller and with less rain.
And, btw, the picture in the article is looking to the East down Dickson Street, and the real view looks nothing like that.
it does if you get BBC America.. they were showing it every Saturday in the afternoon.. don't know if they still do it on a regular basis, but you can catch it if you look for it...
Plus, there are several PBS stations across the US that show it on Saturday nights next to Fawlty Towers and the Vicar of Dibley, etc....
yep... otherwise we would have no mad scientists...
except they have it backwards.. ORDO AB CHAO is "order from chaos" roughly translated... I don't see any order but I see a great deal of chaos...
in essence, yes... they give you just enough for your body to build antibodies but not enough to get sick... but in several cases, like mine, the body does not produce the antibodies fast enough or is too busy producing them for other vaccinations received at the same time and the person actually gets sick...
There's a difference between getting the vaccinated with the disease and getting the disease because of the vaccination...
YMMV...
getting a disease due to a vaccination isn't far-fetched... it happens a lot, but the disease is greatly reduced in its severity... When I was 9 and my family and I were moving overseas, I had to get all kinds of additional vaccines (smallpox, polio, cholera, etc) and ended up getting a small case of cholera that kept me out of school for quite a while...
a bad batch of vaccines were to blame for a measles outbreak in Texas in 1986-87... I was only 13 at the time, but I don't remember it breaking out nationwide... hundreds of kids 15-16yrs old got it... my brother was one of them, but both my sisters and I were unaffected...
The thing with the MMR vaccine now is that they suggest a booster at about 18, but it isn't manditory (or even widely known that it is offered, really) so I imagine that is why we are seeing an outbreak among college-age people...
seriously..?
Cox caps their speed, but not the total bandwidth used... I've downloaded 116GB from usenet this month alone... (and not as much porn as one might think...)
hsve to agree here... I just built my own system (AMD Athlon64 Venice Core 3500+ 2.2ghz, 2GB RAM, Asus MoBo, GeForce 6000LE, 2x120GB HDD, DVD Burner, 500W PSU and a sweet case) for under $1000 including shipping... the same system from Dell would have been twice as much...
FM ranges from 87.5 up to 108MHz...
The article didn't say whether or not it was a #2 pencil...
What they didn't say is that they also found 30 unopened packets of Duck Sauce...
the Earth is more likely to be hit, but the Earth has a dense atmosphere that burns up most of what hits it and therefore offers protection... the moon has no such protection... even a small rock (or other debris) could do major damage to a person or even a base on the moon...
/wonders how many at NASA are reading this and thinking 'uh oh'
But, of course, I'm sure they've thought of that and will prepare accordingly...
All of those episodes are nothing more than an old western gunfight redressed with new technology. Its all been done before.
/end-of-geek-credibility
Isn't that pretty close to how Roddenberry described TOS when he called it 'Wagontrain to the stars'..?
It was always supposed to be a shown as a pioneer-like, fighting-to-survive kind of show.
I guess maybe that's why I actually liked Voyager...
1. Get contract to build massive government project with no hope of success.
2. Profit..!
3. ?????
4. Profit..!
world's largest Nano-Space Elevator..?
Most of the time when someone says something along the lines of "The movie is nothing like the book." they don't care about the movie, they just want the people around them to be aware that they have read said book and are therefore better than you.
Maybe we should just privatize everything... Instead of having a Free Representative Government, let's have one where only the people with the most money get elected and where votes can be bought... oh, wait...
I can see the headlines now...
"The Religious Right in the US embraces the Book of Armaments."
#1 We don't know that they didn't pick her name out of thin air...
#2 Large number of songs plus regularly connecting to a p2p may raise suspicions, but it doesn't *prove* anything. That's why they are skipping the courts with this because they know they can't prove it. They are simply saying, "We think you're doing something so we are demanding money or we will make your life miserable."
#3 The point of all this is that the RIAA is demanding personal information about someone from an ISP without any proof of criminal conduct. They are acting with police powers here, whether or not she breached any copyright or not. That's scary...