Yeah I agree, i copped a trolling for a painfully obvious joke. Maybe my humorous sensibilities are wrong. Antipodean humour obviously doesn't mix with US politics. Oh well Karma was good while it lasted. I'm sure it will come round good again.
You have to admit this is a fairly successful business model they are starting to develop. Think about it the entertainment industry bullies tech companies into HDMI DRM use, when it's bad initially for their profits. Then when consumers buy said products like a $6000 flat screen that has bells and whistles but won't work with your VCR, Set top box or your valve amplifier. Said consumer now gets hit in the hip pocket for more tech stuff which is crippled by unnecessary electronic handshakes all so they can let their kids watch crap such as the lion the witch and the wardrobe or shark boy and lava girl when it gets broadcast. So whatâ(TM)s in it for the tech companies?
Think about it you just stop producing hard copies of any film or TV shows, you only have it on pay on demand and that way if people want to see the shows/programs/whatever they have to pony up and pay for both the tech and the program. It becomes a self-propagating profit model.
1.Entertainment and tech hardware manufacturers collude.
2.Make hardware so heavily infringement proof that only digital TV and one use DVDâ(TM)s work.
3.Stop selling DVDâ(TM)s and screening free to air.
4.?????
5.Profit.
The only issue comes from the net. Unregulated information is bad for their business model, same way that it's bad for just about everyone that isn't some kind of private citizen (like most of us on/.). Everyone that has power wants the internet shut down or so heavily regulated that you can't fart on your keyboard without the police finding out about it.
This is precisely why I now only go to live gigs rather than buying music, don't watch TV and have rediscovered theatre. Maybe the hope of all of this will be that people will get fed up and start reading more, that way we'll end up with less Dan Brown's and more Salman Rushdie's.
The bottom line is if you don't want to deal with it, Don't give the fuckers your money. The model works, and only works if they profit from it. People don't buy it, they won't make it.
Just like all statistics getting a good sample population is very important. If this program were to sample the/. population, it would come to one of two conclusions.
We have no holidays as we don't socialize.
We all live within 1.0 km of a basement.:P
But it couldn't sample the population here, on account of the tinfoil hats.
FYI I think RATM get first post on that one:
At Rage's first reunion show, de la Rocha made a speech during "Wake Up" in which de la Rocha called numerous American presidents war criminals, citing a statement by Noam Chomsky regarding the Nuremberg Principles:
"A good friend of ours said that if the same laws were applied to U.S. presidents as were applied to the Nazis after World War II that every single one of them, every last rich white one of them from Truman on would have been hung to death and shot - and this current administration is no exception. They should be hung, and tried, and shot. As any war criminal should be. But the challenges that we face, they go way beyond administrations, way beyond elections, way beyond every four years of pulling levers, way beyond that. Because this whole rotten system has become so vicious and cruel that in order to sustain itself, it needs to destroy entire countries and profit from their reconstruction in order to survive - and that's not a system that changes every four years, it's a system that we have to break down, generation after generation after generation after generation after generation... Wake up."
Zack de la Rocha
I'm not being a troll but with the current US administrations continuing desire to send troops into Iraq I wouldn't say that they were adverse to having their own blood on their hands. Same mentallity as the British in WW1. And then there are American terrorists.
There is also the fact that while
Such cynicism is necessary, though, for the greater good of the country. it ain't necessarilly so for the rest of the planet. Just my two cents worth, quite like Americans just think you are verging on the narrow side, with said cynicism.
I'm not an American. Damn it just wrote a massively brilliant rant thats now pointless, because I misread your post. You don't want to be American do you? You could pretend just for me.:)
Seriously, the dude could have kept his car complete with carpet and passnger seat if he'd of had one of these instead. Hell I need one of these for,errr, my... little brother, yeah for my lil' bro....
Wow, so are you like related to GWB or are just suffering from rectal cranial inversion. I just wanna watch when karma (and not the/. kind) comes along and bites you on the ass like a 300lb african american prison inmate that aint gettin any.
"Time to face up to it, we are living in a Kafkaesque nation."
Strangely enough I'm yet to wake up as a giant cockroach, although apparently it has happened to this guy called POTUS aswell as the original Czech Gregor.
Hey wow this is cool, they even offer a report piracy servicehttp://www.riaa.com/reportpiracy.php. So if anybody finds any KC on a commercial music website they know who tell. Wonder what would happen if they got a couple hundred reports, can the RIAA actually sue it's own board for infringement?
Hey thats rad, you can buy polonium for 50 bucks. Crazy, i wish i'd had the opportunity to poison Russian spys when I was a school kid,assasination would have been much more productive than using thermite on the headmaster's car...
Admittedly Jocks obviously have to have some intellectual capacity, those NFL plays are very complex and all, but isn't it a wapping assumption that the cognitive capacity is there for internet usage? Hell, our Aussie Jocks struggle at tapping kegs, let alone keys...
Amusingly enough australia has piss poor adsl, baring in mind Mr sheen (AKA John Howard the PM down here) has just decided to spend billions making the problem worse with a useless wireless solution their is a distinct sense or irony implicit here. Maybe Dr John should suggest to Mr Sheen that he put his considerable cleaning prowess into practise.
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Yeah I agree, i copped a trolling for a painfully obvious joke. Maybe my humorous sensibilities are wrong. Antipodean humour obviously doesn't mix with US politics. Oh well Karma was good while it lasted. I'm sure it will come round good again.
You have to admit this is a fairly successful business model they are starting to develop. Think about it the entertainment industry bullies tech companies into HDMI DRM use, when it's bad initially for their profits. Then when consumers buy said products like a $6000 flat screen that has bells and whistles but won't work with your VCR, Set top box or your valve amplifier. Said consumer now gets hit in the hip pocket for more tech stuff which is crippled by unnecessary electronic handshakes all so they can let their kids watch crap such as the lion the witch and the wardrobe or shark boy and lava girl when it gets broadcast. So whatâ(TM)s in it for the tech companies? Think about it you just stop producing hard copies of any film or TV shows, you only have it on pay on demand and that way if people want to see the shows/programs/whatever they have to pony up and pay for both the tech and the program. It becomes a self-propagating profit model. 1.Entertainment and tech hardware manufacturers collude. 2.Make hardware so heavily infringement proof that only digital TV and one use DVDâ(TM)s work. 3.Stop selling DVDâ(TM)s and screening free to air. 4.????? 5.Profit. The only issue comes from the net. Unregulated information is bad for their business model, same way that it's bad for just about everyone that isn't some kind of private citizen (like most of us on /.). Everyone that has power wants the internet shut down or so heavily regulated that you can't fart on your keyboard without the police finding out about it.
This is precisely why I now only go to live gigs rather than buying music, don't watch TV and have rediscovered theatre. Maybe the hope of all of this will be that people will get fed up and start reading more, that way we'll end up with less Dan Brown's and more Salman Rushdie's.
The bottom line is if you don't want to deal with it, Don't give the fuckers your money. The model works, and only works if they profit from it. People don't buy it, they won't make it.
- We have no holidays as we don't socialize.
- We all live within 1.0 km of a basement.
:P
But it couldn't sample the population here, on account of the tinfoil hats.As an afterthought did Cheyney and Rumsfield use a beta of this a couple of years ago to find something?
Dude, that's as accurate as my girlfriends map navigation. *sigh*
Soundtrack by Chris Cornell??
FYI I think RATM get first post on that one: At Rage's first reunion show, de la Rocha made a speech during "Wake Up" in which de la Rocha called numerous American presidents war criminals, citing a statement by Noam Chomsky regarding the Nuremberg Principles: "A good friend of ours said that if the same laws were applied to U.S. presidents as were applied to the Nazis after World War II that every single one of them, every last rich white one of them from Truman on would have been hung to death and shot - and this current administration is no exception. They should be hung, and tried, and shot. As any war criminal should be. But the challenges that we face, they go way beyond administrations, way beyond elections, way beyond every four years of pulling levers, way beyond that. Because this whole rotten system has become so vicious and cruel that in order to sustain itself, it needs to destroy entire countries and profit from their reconstruction in order to survive - and that's not a system that changes every four years, it's a system that we have to break down, generation after generation after generation after generation after generation... Wake up." Zack de la Rocha
oops read that as audiosmurf. methinks it's time for bed.
Seriously, the dude could have kept his car complete with carpet and passnger seat if he'd of had one of these instead. Hell I need one of these for ,errr, my ... little brother, yeah for my lil' bro....
Wu tang clan ain't nuttin to mate with?
Wow, so are you like related to GWB or are just suffering from rectal cranial inversion. I just wanna watch when karma (and not the /. kind) comes along and bites you on the ass like a 300lb african american prison inmate that aint gettin any.
"Time to face up to it, we are living in a Kafkaesque nation." Strangely enough I'm yet to wake up as a giant cockroach, although apparently it has happened to this guy called POTUS aswell as the original Czech Gregor.
Looking at porn? How? I can't get the flash to work on my damn iphone.
Hey wow this is cool, they even offer a report piracy servicehttp://www.riaa.com/reportpiracy.php. So if anybody finds any KC on a commercial music website they know who tell. Wonder what would happen if they got a couple hundred reports, can the RIAA actually sue it's own board for infringement?
Hey thats rad, you can buy polonium for 50 bucks. Crazy, i wish i'd had the opportunity to poison Russian spys when I was a school kid,assasination would have been much more productive than using thermite on the headmaster's car...
Aren't SAWCUNTS the people that get hit by bullets?
Admittedly Jocks obviously have to have some intellectual capacity, those NFL plays are very complex and all, but isn't it a wapping assumption that the cognitive capacity is there for internet usage? Hell, our Aussie Jocks struggle at tapping kegs, let alone keys...
Amusingly enough australia has piss poor adsl, baring in mind Mr sheen (AKA John Howard the PM down here) has just decided to spend billions making the problem worse with a useless wireless solution their is a distinct sense or irony implicit here. Maybe Dr John should suggest to Mr Sheen that he put his considerable cleaning prowess into practise.
And here I was thinking that that song was about corrupt police and a boxer....