Please don't mix in ridiculous Space Balls bullshit, and pipe down while the adults are talking, you blasphemer! This is a SERIOUS conversation about Star Wars and Star Trek tech!
Now you've done it. Time to say goodbye to your two best friends (and I don't mean the ones in the Winnebego).
Weeellll...The problem I have is while Abe Lincoln Vamp Hunter made Lincoln out to be cool, you could destroy a person's previous rep REAL quick by just filling the channel with Schlock.
What is really puzzling to me is why they went with Lincoln? I thought Teddy Roosevelt was the Chuck Norris of U.S. Presidents.
Yes, trademarks also need to expire (not claiming they legally do, but they must, eventually). Fortunately, on that front, We The People can influence policy, simply by using them "wrong": Every time you xerox a document, you ride an elevator, you wipe snot with a kleenex, you photoshop a picture - You help speed the demise of a trademark via genericization.
Don't forget googling a subject, no matter what search engine you use.
The AG is the stand-in for a King/Queen with 3 basic duties. Proposing policy or law is not her duty. Australians never admit their subservience to the US military but it's not difficult to imagine who is driving this.
I suppose there is a decent possibility of that. But surely Australia and other First World nations can descend into an Orwellian nightmare on their own without our coaching?
I reckon the other option would be for Australian citizens to take up their knives and baseball bats and... Nah. Don't think that would be very effective due to the super short range of those things.:/
I did actually have a look at the article, and saw that it was Australia's AG that is proposing this. Surely there are more people higher up the government food chain than the AG?
"CDs are big, bulky, and easily damaged. Why are we still using them?"
Because its the only way to get full quality DRM free music.
And if you get tired of a CD, you are free to resell it, give it to a friend, trade it to someone for something else, donate it to a thrift store, etc.
$40-$50 bucks per family member is a lot of money on $8 bucks/hr.
For those earning such a low wage, it is foolish to go breeding themselves a family. As the old saying goes, "If you can't feed 'em, don't breed 'em."
Of course, if they were in a much higher paying job when they started a family, and then got downsized for whatever reason and had to take an $8/hr job just to have some income, then that's a whole 'nother story.
o Lying in bed, alternately freezing and overheating, sneezing and coughing, not sure whether to be worried I was dying or to wish that I was o Going in to work, alternately freezing and overheating, sneezing and coughing, not sure whether to be worried I was dying or to wish that I was
This only applies to the Amazon Kindle store, not to the Kindle hardware itself. Plug the thing in, and it's a USB Mass Storage device you can drag-and-drop DRM-free ebooks (in.mobi and a few other formats) perfectly fine.
Use can also use a nifty little plug in in Calibre to strip out that DRM so that you can load your Kindle Store purchases onto other eReaders, back them up, etc., so you don't have to worry about losing any purchases should you decide to switch to another platform or Amazon chooses to use that Kindle kill switch again.
Same thing as the "Right to bear arms" --- you think with your pissy little semi-automatic assault rifles you can fight the army?
If -- and it's a big if, total hypothetical here, but if -- a dictatorship took power in the U.S. and an armed resistance composed of armed citizens opposed it, the experience of Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, as well as the example of resistance groups in Nazi-occupied areas during WWII suggests that a resistance force armed with rifles (even ones not capable of fully automatic fire) could put up significant resistance, yes. Hell, look at how much trouble the Branch Davidians gave the feds, and they were a bunch of frickin' nutcases.
Additionally, in such a worst case scenario, one must remember that a good portion of our military forces is made up of Army and Air National Guard troops. When push comes to shove, the Feds may find that a large portion of those guns wielded by the citizen soldiers of the various States will be pointed in the other direction instead of at the civilians that they have sworn to protect. Chances are, if civil war broke out here in the U.S. due to the federal government plunging us into a totalitarian dictatorship, even some of the state governors (who are the primary C&Cs for the Army and Air National Guard units in their jurisdictions) could very well throw their support behind their citizen troops instead of casting their lot with the federal forces.
Suffice it to say, a 21st Century civil war here in the U.S. would be one of the most horrific events imaginable. Either that, or all troops, State and Federal, would suddenly remember their oaths to defend the Constitution and the people from all threats foreign and domestic, recognize the tyrants in D.C. as a domestic threat, and resolve the issue with a minimum amount of bloodshed.
Our company got one of these ridiculous letters about 2 months ago. I took great pleasure in immediately scanning it into an email to a colleague so we could laugh about it.
You should have replied to the letter with This. (no, it is not a goatse or a rickroll.)
It doesn't even make sense as extortion. They are setting the fees so high that companies may be tempted to view settling as the more expensive alternative.
If they want to play Mafia games, then there is a small danger that some of these companies they extort may find that pooling resources and paying someone $10K or so plus expenses to take out these turds may be a more economical solution than either paying the troll or settling.
Free music? Probably plenty here: http://archive.org/ and here: http://www.youtube.com/ (I'm sure there are plenty of worthwhile indy artists that put there music up there on YouTube to be freely downloaded and enjoyed. As for games, I don't know. Perhaps someone else can post a site with games that are freely downloadable.
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One place I would like to see Baxter is at McDonalds or Starbucks. Now really how cool would that be!
If they made a Baxter that looked like a Cylon Centurion and had it working at Starbuck's. that would be totally cool.
Please don't mix in ridiculous Space Balls bullshit, and pipe down while the adults are talking, you blasphemer! This is a SERIOUS conversation about Star Wars and Star Trek tech!
Now you've done it. Time to say goodbye to your two best friends (and I don't mean the ones in the Winnebego).
You're right. I've never had grilled banana. And please don't call me Clearly.
Agreed. And eating a banana makes more sense than riding a roller coaster. @:3
Axiom mixing never works. Attempting to combine Wittgenstein's Banana with Elvis' Charcoal Briquette makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Weeellll...The problem I have is while Abe Lincoln Vamp Hunter made Lincoln out to be cool, you could destroy a person's previous rep REAL quick by just filling the channel with Schlock.
What is really puzzling to me is why they went with Lincoln? I thought Teddy Roosevelt was the Chuck Norris of U.S. Presidents.
Yes, trademarks also need to expire (not claiming they legally do, but they must, eventually). Fortunately, on that front, We The People can influence policy, simply by using them "wrong": Every time you xerox a document, you ride an elevator, you wipe snot with a kleenex, you photoshop a picture - You help speed the demise of a trademark via genericization.
Don't forget googling a subject, no matter what search engine you use.
The AG is the stand-in for a King/Queen with 3 basic duties. Proposing policy or law is not her duty. Australians never admit their subservience to the US military but it's not difficult to imagine who is driving this.
I suppose there is a decent possibility of that. But surely Australia and other First World nations can descend into an Orwellian nightmare on their own without our coaching?
That was actually what I was thinking, it just came out baseball instead of cricket, due to distractions here.
I reckon the other option would be for Australian citizens to take up their knives and baseball bats and... Nah. Don't think that would be very effective due to the super short range of those things. :/
I did actually have a look at the article, and saw that it was Australia's AG that is proposing this. Surely there are more people higher up the government food chain than the AG?
Hopefully, someone with some significant power there in the Australian government cordially invites them to piss off.
"CDs are big, bulky, and easily damaged. Why are we still using them?"
Because its the only way to get full quality DRM free music.
And if you get tired of a CD, you are free to resell it, give it to a friend, trade it to someone for something else, donate it to a thrift store, etc.
We are not fucking amused.
$40-$50 bucks per family member is a lot of money on $8 bucks/hr.
For those earning such a low wage, it is foolish to go breeding themselves a family. As the old saying goes, "If you can't feed 'em, don't breed 'em."
Of course, if they were in a much higher paying job when they started a family, and then got downsized for whatever reason and had to take an $8/hr job just to have some income, then that's a whole 'nother story.
I don't know what would be the worse option.
o Lying in bed, alternately freezing and overheating, sneezing and coughing, not sure whether to be worried I was dying or to wish that I was
o Going in to work, alternately freezing and overheating, sneezing and coughing, not sure whether to be worried I was dying or to wish that I was
FTFY
This only applies to the Amazon Kindle store, not to the Kindle hardware itself. Plug the thing in, and it's a USB Mass Storage device you can drag-and-drop DRM-free ebooks (in .mobi and a few other formats) perfectly fine.
Use can also use a nifty little plug in in Calibre to strip out that DRM so that you can load your Kindle Store purchases onto other eReaders, back them up, etc., so you don't have to worry about losing any purchases should you decide to switch to another platform or Amazon chooses to use that Kindle kill switch again.
(Try saying "juicy sushi" 5 times in a row as quickly as you can.)
juicy sushi 5 times in a row as quickly as you can
Okay. Now what?
Right. And the next thing you know, they'll be putting on blindfolds and earplugs, ... and you know where to put the cork.
Ah, no no, miss. it goes in your mouth... Good. Yes, like that. Now you got it.
If -- and it's a big if, total hypothetical here, but if -- a dictatorship took power in the U.S. and an armed resistance composed of armed citizens opposed it, the experience of Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, as well as the example of resistance groups in Nazi-occupied areas during WWII suggests that a resistance force armed with rifles (even ones not capable of fully automatic fire) could put up significant resistance, yes. Hell, look at how much trouble the Branch Davidians gave the feds, and they were a bunch of frickin' nutcases.
Additionally, in such a worst case scenario, one must remember that a good portion of our military forces is made up of Army and Air National Guard troops. When push comes to shove, the Feds may find that a large portion of those guns wielded by the citizen soldiers of the various States will be pointed in the other direction instead of at the civilians that they have sworn to protect. Chances are, if civil war broke out here in the U.S. due to the federal government plunging us into a totalitarian dictatorship, even some of the state governors (who are the primary C&Cs for the Army and Air National Guard units in their jurisdictions) could very well throw their support behind their citizen troops instead of casting their lot with the federal forces.
Suffice it to say, a 21st Century civil war here in the U.S. would be one of the most horrific events imaginable. Either that, or all troops, State and Federal, would suddenly remember their oaths to defend the Constitution and the people from all threats foreign and domestic, recognize the tyrants in D.C. as a domestic threat, and resolve the issue with a minimum amount of bloodshed.
Our company got one of these ridiculous letters about 2 months ago. I took great pleasure in immediately scanning it into an email to a colleague so we could laugh about it.
You should have replied to the letter with This. (no, it is not a goatse or a rickroll.)
Just as I thought. It's not the legal mafia that is at fault here. It's the intellectual property system that is the law of the land.
The fault is shared equally with both our imaginary property system AND the sociopathic assholes who choose to abuse it like this.
It doesn't even make sense as extortion. They are setting the fees so high that companies may be tempted to view settling as the more expensive alternative.
If they want to play Mafia games, then there is a small danger that some of these companies they extort may find that pooling resources and paying someone $10K or so plus expenses to take out these turds may be a more economical solution than either paying the troll or settling.
No free books and music
No free games
Wtf is wrong with the world
Free books you say? How about here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ and here: http://www.baen.com/library/
Free music? Probably plenty here: http://archive.org/ and here: http://www.youtube.com/ (I'm sure there are plenty of worthwhile indy artists that put there music up there on YouTube to be freely downloaded and enjoyed. As for games, I don't know. Perhaps someone else can post a site with games that are freely downloadable.
It was due March 2012, but had to be postponed because of the time requirements of putting in sufficiently huge boobies.
They are following the advice of Ted Stryker, "We can't live in the past any more, or the present. This is the future."
Where does the line between art, or documentary photography, and porn lie?
That's easy. It lies somewhere between the genitals and anus, and is called the taint.
Are you sure it isn't called The Coffee Table?