What about pirating a cd that includes cover a cover song? Would the pirate then be responsible to pay the original artist/label's royalties as well as the covering artist?
I realize that very few artists own the rights to their own music--the artists that this bill would affect, anyway-- but where does it end?
If someone pirates a movie that has product placement in it? Nike, Coca-cola, etc...can they sue, since the pirate didn't get their permission/comission?
There's a garage/punk band from Tucson (the weird lovemakers) who wrote a song originally called "John Henry Bonham", about the drummer in band being approached by his bandmates, and being told that he'd been replaced by a drum machine. He challenged the drum machine to a 45 minute song. He kicked the machine's ass, but then he died at the end. Good stuff.
But you don't seem to place any value on the sheer defiance of it all.
Oh. I do now. But back then, it just seemed like as soon as he got his new descrambler in the mail, the cable company would re-scramble their signal, so he'd have to get a re-descrambler, etc etc. To the point where he had 4 or 5 black boxes on top of his tv, to get through all the crypto that got added as the cable theives got better tech.
At some point, my dad opined (and it made sense then, and it makes sense now) that it was probably the cable companies selling the black boxes in the back of home theater magazines...Since that sense of defiance is what a lot of the early cable hackers were about, more than the money. The cable company doesn't care if you want to feel defiant, especially if you're paying for it...
10 years? I remember my uncle trying to stay one step ahead of the cable companies back in the early 80's, ordering black box descramblers out of the back of Rolling Stone magazine, only to have the cable company then scramble the "newly" descrambled signal, and he'd have to find the new upgrade.
In the end, I think it would have been easier and cheaper to just subscribe to the damn cable, but that's not the point.
When I think of the history of hacking, of course there's the homebrew club, and it's ilk, and all the phreakers, etc. Are there other groups that predate computers? I'm imagining a group of people like HG Wells and his friends in The Time Machine...sort of steampunk hackers, or something...
This occured to me, as well.
I wonder how each group would have done with some sort of characters that mean nothing to either group. Something like the transformers font, or those symbols on the predator's arm bom thing...
Actually Firefox is forbidden on Dept of the Army systems...ok, a lot of them - can't do automated updates due to not being on the Internet in the first place,
If they can't get on the internet, why do they need firefox? Makes sense to me that it wouldn't be allowed if there's no reason to have it in the first place.
Some friends of mine worked in a retail store, and had an old dot matrix printer that still worked, but they were done with. They put it out by the dumpster with a "free" sign on it. It sat by the dumpster for weeks, until one of them went out and put a "$10, inquire inside" sign on it, and it walked off within the hour.
The cards are free, but you have to fill out some demographic information on the application.
I've only been in one store where i had to show id to get the card, and that was in Pittsburgh, PA. I was only there for a weekend; I made one purchase. I did save about 4 bucks, tho, so it was worth it. To me, anyway. I don't guess the store cares that one kid from Colorado bought some stuff to make PB&J's for the weekend.
All the other stores just hand the card over, and tell you to fill out the form and mail it in. Option 1> fill it out with fake info. Option 2> Throw it out on your way out the door. I don't think filling out a supermarket frequent buyer's club card incorrectly is against the law...
I work in print production. We have some inkjets and some laser machines. All the printers we use (and I'm guessing lots of others) have at least one part which has a chip that's designed to stop working before the life of the part is used up. It drives us nuts here. My boss has taken to pulling the old chips off old broken parts, for use in other parts with "used up" chips.
We've since been switching our inkjet machines to use ink resevoirs, which are these big tanks that sit outside the body of the printer, and can be refilled while the thing is printing. They're clear plastic (lexan, maybe?) so you can see how low they are.
Planned obsolescence should be punishable by some sort of recursive punishment.
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that's why i stay out of the neighborhood with feet hanging from powerlines...
You mean, like the weight of a kilogram changing?
no one said s/he was a guy...
Ok, so there's no commission. But a pirate is reproducing a representation of the corporate product when they copy a movie, don't they?
What about pirating a cd that includes cover a cover song? Would the pirate then be responsible to pay the original artist/label's royalties as well as the covering artist?
I realize that very few artists own the rights to their own music--the artists that this bill would affect, anyway-- but where does it end? If someone pirates a movie that has product placement in it? Nike, Coca-cola, etc...can they sue, since the pirate didn't get their permission/comission?
that was indeed a quick test, my friend.
Some people didn't have any girlfriends when they were little and still don't...
Calculators used to be more expensive than hiring ten people to do the job.
Then, imagine fixing such a robot.
Since we're talking about the distant future, I imagine the thing will eventually be able to fix himself. Or be fixed by his peers.
And, eventually the thing will be able to "fix" the 10 humans doing his job less efficiently...
There's a garage/punk band from Tucson (the weird lovemakers) who wrote a song originally called "John Henry Bonham", about the drummer in band being approached by his bandmates, and being told that he'd been replaced by a drum machine. He challenged the drum machine to a 45 minute song. He kicked the machine's ass, but then he died at the end. Good stuff.
will it stay standing if i kick it?
But you don't seem to place any value on the sheer defiance of it all.
Oh. I do now. But back then, it just seemed like as soon as he got his new descrambler in the mail, the cable company would re-scramble their signal, so he'd have to get a re-descrambler, etc etc. To the point where he had 4 or 5 black boxes on top of his tv, to get through all the crypto that got added as the cable theives got better tech.
At some point, my dad opined (and it made sense then, and it makes sense now) that it was probably the cable companies selling the black boxes in the back of home theater magazines...Since that sense of defiance is what a lot of the early cable hackers were about, more than the money. The cable company doesn't care if you want to feel defiant, especially if you're paying for it...
10 years? I remember my uncle trying to stay one step ahead of the cable companies back in the early 80's, ordering black box descramblers out of the back of Rolling Stone magazine, only to have the cable company then scramble the "newly" descrambled signal, and he'd have to find the new upgrade.
In the end, I think it would have been easier and cheaper to just subscribe to the damn cable, but that's not the point.
When I think of the history of hacking, of course there's the homebrew club, and it's ilk, and all the phreakers, etc. Are there other groups that predate computers? I'm imagining a group of people like HG Wells and his friends in The Time Machine...sort of steampunk hackers, or something...
This occured to me, as well. I wonder how each group would have done with some sort of characters that mean nothing to either group. Something like the transformers font, or those symbols on the predator's arm bom thing...
not to mention the cost of the ship, if it takes 50% longer to get their, then you need 50% more ships to get the same productivity.
Or you need to place your order 50% earlier...
Figuring out 50% earlier than a fixed date is an exercise left for the reader.
Actually Firefox is forbidden on Dept of the Army systems...ok, a lot of them - can't do automated updates due to not being on the Internet in the first place,
If they can't get on the internet, why do they need firefox? Makes sense to me that it wouldn't be allowed if there's no reason to have it in the first place.
Perhaps the car analogy the sibling post was talking about is in there somewhere...
Somewhat on topic...
Some friends of mine worked in a retail store, and had an old dot matrix printer that still worked, but they were done with. They put it out by the dumpster with a "free" sign on it. It sat by the dumpster for weeks, until one of them went out and put a "$10, inquire inside" sign on it, and it walked off within the hour.
Unless you advocate anarchy where all laws are ignored?
anarchy doesn't call for the ignorance of laws. it calls for the abolishment of them.
I ALWAYS don't think the customer is not unreasonable.
Winona Ryder has been cast as Spock's mother. So there goes some of the acting...
I, for one, fully expect her to steal the show.
can someone explain this for me?
the google. she is no helping me...
While you're at it, I'd stay away from the ethnic foods aisle as well...
The cards are free, but you have to fill out some demographic information on the application.
I've only been in one store where i had to show id to get the card, and that was in Pittsburgh, PA. I was only there for a weekend; I made one purchase. I did save about 4 bucks, tho, so it was worth it. To me, anyway. I don't guess the store cares that one kid from Colorado bought some stuff to make PB&J's for the weekend.
All the other stores just hand the card over, and tell you to fill out the form and mail it in. Option 1> fill it out with fake info. Option 2> Throw it out on your way out the door. I don't think filling out a supermarket frequent buyer's club card incorrectly is against the law...
i, for one, welcome our new extra terrestrial plant based overlords.
so i can eat them, silly.
I work in print production. We have some inkjets and some laser machines. All the printers we use (and I'm guessing lots of others) have at least one part which has a chip that's designed to stop working before the life of the part is used up. It drives us nuts here. My boss has taken to pulling the old chips off old broken parts, for use in other parts with "used up" chips.
We've since been switching our inkjet machines to use ink resevoirs, which are these big tanks that sit outside the body of the printer, and can be refilled while the thing is printing. They're clear plastic (lexan, maybe?) so you can see how low they are.
Planned obsolescence should be punishable by some sort of recursive punishment.