Lol did you actually click on his link? He is the Lawyer for a couple of the contested cases out there.
Obviously I did click his link, hence my pointed "lawyer" statement. The subject that is being discussed is the parent-posters subject, hence the subject heading "Re: And that matters why?".
His point is... who knows, but he sure has spammed this thread accusing many Slashdotter of being RIAA trolls. Damn, I guess he foiled our plans, we give up, we're sorry, lol.
1. The defendant is not a copyright infringer; read the story.
2. You should be cringing at bringing frivolous lawsuits against helpless people.
1. The subject (and subject heading) is "And why that matters?"; read the parent post.
2. So you think "legal system corporation racketeering" is a good thing? Frivolous indeed.
If you were really a lawyer, like your screen name says, then you would know the RIAA tactics aren't "friolous lawsuits", as they would be thrown out and told to desist. But instead are a form of organized extortion, you know... racketeering, by means of the legal system, by a corporation, and they won't stop until we have more explicit legislation regarding the grey areas of copyright & fair-use.
The title of the submission is "RIAA Sues Stroke Victim in Michigan".
Not, "RIAA Sues Copyright Infringer in Michigan".
I too cringe when I see artcles making issue over whether defendants are moms, grandmothers, or little girls with pigtails. As if we all aren't being equally victimized by the current mess of balancing fair-use rights, with copyright infringment terms, with new invasive restrictive technologies, and with legal system corporation racketeering.
Request to fellow Slashdotters:
Please, next time a submission reports news of some new law or draconian effort in one part of the world, let's not all bash the people of that country. In fact, we should do the opposite, because as citizens of each country lose their freedoms, then our own freedoms becomes all the more threatened.
If NPR were "government funded political propaganda," wouldn't you expect it to be more positive in its portrayal of the government and government policies?
Nope, that would be a tactic, and tactics are different based upon the situation.
Chess Tactic
If one person has a material advantage, then his tactic is to force equal piece sacrifices, so as to amplify the material advantage he already has. Having 3 pieces versus 2 is a much greater advantage than having 16 pieces versus 15. And his opponent would of course use the reverse tactic.
Party Tactic
If one political party has a power advantage then their tactic is to keep the status quo, they don't want things to change. Where as any other political party, with less power, would use the reverse tactic and seek change.
So... let's define our terms upon concrete definitions, instead of inductive assuptions.
If funding comes from the government, then it's "government funded"
And if propaganda is political in nature, then it's "political propaganda"
1) Taxpayers pay out nearly 500 million a year
2) Politians redistribute it to the CPB
3) CPB distributes it to numerous stations
4) Stations buy programming from NPR
5) NPR claims most income is private, and not public supported
I think it's time to establish the seperation of News and State.
Congress should just exempt them from royalty payments altogether via legislation--problem solved. In fact that would be a net win for taxpayers, since we'd get the same public service at a lower cost.
1) Pass law declaring all musicians are Public Servants
2) Stop paying creators and workers
3) Profit!
Interesting suggestion, but I'd rather see...
1) Halt misappropriation of taxpayer monies
2) Defund government funded political propaganda
3) Freedom!
Thanks for the offer, but I can decide whom I pay for news and music, without instituting your nanny-state to run my entire life.
Unless the broadcast flag/some other draconian thing makes it by then (which is useless with already widely available tuner cards that don't care), this does nothing but ensure current broadcast availibility is maintained for both viewing and recording.
You may be right, but i've been burned in the past, so when I read...
Video recording or playback capability, for example, is an impermissible feature of a coupon-eligible converter box.
...then I feel inclinded to believe them. As for my VCR, it's a DVD+VCR combo unit that worked fine on my old TV. Except that my old TV broke and my new TV will only permit the signal from a VCR tape or TV channels, but the signal from a DVD, over S-video or composite, gets blocked (the screen blinks a frozen image while the sound continues).
GP's argument is still valid. Any of those features would make this minimal box superior to an antenna. Personally I don't think it would be so wrong for congress to subsidize my new TiVo, but some people out there get pissed off any time the government does anything to help "rich" people.
I don't see any ban on RF/coax output to channel 3.
Shhhhhh don't give them any ideas about the coaxial analog-hole exploit:-)
Seriously though, I'm not disagreeing with the GP point that people shouldn't be allowed to make a choice on how to spend the 40 bucks that Congress, ahem Tax-Payers, is going to give back to themselves.
I was agreeing by providing supportive documentation, for the GGP point, that consumers aren't buying all this new confusing cripple-ware-DRM mess. And the only way to make people accept it, is to pay-off, ahem lobby polititians to submit bills that force the new bussiness model on everyone.
No Component video (YPbPr)
No Digital Video Interface (DVI)
No High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI)
No Computer video (VGA)
No USB IEEE-1394 (iLink or Firewire)
No Ethernet (IEEE-802.3)
No Wireless (IEEE0802.11)
You can still take the (unencrypted) output and record it on your old (analog) VCR, if you please, although this is less efficient than recording the compressed signal.
I've never owned a VCR that could record S-video input, have you?
The U.S. educational system is currently a monopoly, so while your suggestion of allowing meritocracy is a good one, it cannot work because the current group in charge will be deciding what merit is for everyone.
Vouchers would help to break up the monopoly, but elites repeatedly refuse, because if parents had a choice they might choose what's best for their children.
Parents believe education is about reading, writing, and arithmetic. Elites believe education is about indoctrinating the next generation with their politically correct religions that will shape the future world in their image.
It's false advertising if they claim a lower price on their website than they are actually willing to honor. If their website says those prices apply to stores and their stores say they don't that's different from simply charging differently but either saying nothing at all or saying that you charge differently.
If that was the case, then it would be, but that's not the case, so it's not.
-Think about the cost difference between someone placing an order online themseleves, versus having an employee ring them up.
-Think about the number of customers an employee can ring up per hour, versus how many customers a webserver can ring up per hour.
Conducting bussiness online can be significantly cheaper, and saving can be passed on to the consumer willing to use a computerized interface.
In fact, it is very common for businesses to charge different amounts based on location, age, sex, and willingness to pay.
-Many websites require you to locate yourself before presenting different prices for your area.
-DVDs are region coded, and are priced differently based where you buy them.
-Gas prices are based on what the locals are willing to pay.
-Public transportation charges lower prices for old rich people, and higher prices for the young and poor.
Sometimes it's just economics, and sometimes it's just unfair, but it's not illegal due to special intrest groups that can "convince" (kickback, bigotry,...) legislators to exempt and shield them.
Claws and shit don't do anything to help you solve problems. Problem solving indicates higher order intelligence.
Isn't that obvious?
It isn't obvious to me that a chimpanzee with a twig could survive against a lion with his "claws and shit". Do you have any video footage to support your claim?:)
Humans often assume that others that look like themseleves are better. Just because another race or species acts like you is not proof they are superior. Superior can be defined by objective measures like killing prey, protecting territory, and mating prolificness. Hmm... maybe you are right, what could be sexier than a pin-up calendar of female chimpanzees holding their stick.:)
While tool making is an intersting ability to witness in animals other than ourseleves, the article appears to assume that simple tool fashioning is a cardinal evolutionary ability.
I doubt that other animals with massive claws, razor sharp teeth, or deadly posions are going to trade them in for a pointy twig.
I also find the assumed conclusion that females are the leaders of innovative and creative thinking to be interesting, in the line of who is observing whom here. A method that yields second place is NOT superior to a method that yields first place, but i suppose that is the purpose of another simply fashioned tool we all call political correctness.
IANAG (I am not a grammerian) but I think the point of the sentance isn't the size of the number, but it's value or state, and therefore the adverb form was used appropriately.
The Matrix Online started with ads just over a year ago. At first a few bilboards of movies like Constantine, and Batman:Begins. Then onto computer products, real-world magazines, and car ads.
Sony-Entertainment bought them from AOL-Time-Waner a year ago, and that's when I quit too, so I can't tell you what they are doing today.
Let me guess, your one of the people who thinks if we privatized schools we would all be a happier society? If only poor people had to pay for their own school they would be better educated right?
In the small hope you aren't a troll, I'll bite.
I didn't mention any type of school because my point was that any school or organization, can be incompent and fail, and then blame someone else. When we give money or vouchers, to any public or private school, then we should require that students are actually learning, no excuses.
The purpose of blaming Rockstar is to direct attention away from themselves, and it's working. If it wasn't Rockstar, they would be blaming Bush, or Harry Potter, or anything else but themselves for how they are taking our tax dollars and failing our children.
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If I was involved in security, I would rather look for plastic cds, or ticketing drivers going a couple miles over the speed limit.
Who would want to go after criminals, they might shoot me, and why would I want to stand in front of a terrorist, they have a tendancy to explode.
F that, give me a desk job where I can sit down, snoop through my little security cameras, and check out the women.
If you have two people then one person continues non-stop on compressions, while the second does breaths and monitors for breathing and pulse.
Obviously I did click his link, hence my pointed "lawyer" statement. The subject that is being discussed is the parent-posters subject, hence the subject heading "Re: And that matters why?".
His point is... who knows, but he sure has spammed this thread accusing many Slashdotter of being RIAA trolls. Damn, I guess he foiled our plans, we give up, we're sorry, lol.
1. The subject (and subject heading) is "And why that matters?"; read the parent post.
2. So you think "legal system corporation racketeering" is a good thing? Frivolous indeed.
If you were really a lawyer, like your screen name says, then you would know the RIAA tactics aren't "friolous lawsuits", as they would be thrown out and told to desist. But instead are a form of organized extortion, you know... racketeering, by means of the legal system, by a corporation, and they won't stop until we have more explicit legislation regarding the grey areas of copyright & fair-use.
The title of the submission is "RIAA Sues Stroke Victim in Michigan".
Not, "RIAA Sues Copyright Infringer in Michigan".
I too cringe when I see artcles making issue over whether defendants are moms, grandmothers, or little girls with pigtails. As if we all aren't being equally victimized by the current mess of balancing fair-use rights, with copyright infringment terms, with new invasive restrictive technologies, and with legal system corporation racketeering.
Request to fellow Slashdotters:
Please, next time a submission reports news of some new law or draconian effort in one part of the world, let's not all bash the people of that country. In fact, we should do the opposite, because as citizens of each country lose their freedoms, then our own freedoms becomes all the more threatened.
Martians don't measure water with the metric system, you insensitive clod!
Nope, that would be a tactic, and tactics are different based upon the situation.
Chess Tactic
If one person has a material advantage, then his tactic is to force equal piece sacrifices, so as to amplify the material advantage he already has. Having 3 pieces versus 2 is a much greater advantage than having 16 pieces versus 15. And his opponent would of course use the reverse tactic.
Party Tactic
If one political party has a power advantage then their tactic is to keep the status quo, they don't want things to change. Where as any other political party, with less power, would use the reverse tactic and seek change.
So... let's define our terms upon concrete definitions, instead of inductive assuptions.
If funding comes from the government, then it's "government funded"
And if propaganda is political in nature, then it's "political propaganda"
Public money can only be considered private money, if you launder it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering
1) Taxpayers pay out nearly 500 million a year
2) Politians redistribute it to the CPB
3) CPB distributes it to numerous stations
4) Stations buy programming from NPR
5) NPR claims most income is private, and not public supported
I think it's time to establish the seperation of News and State.
1) Pass law declaring all musicians are Public Servants
2) Stop paying creators and workers
3) Profit!
Interesting suggestion, but I'd rather see...
1) Halt misappropriation of taxpayer monies
2) Defund government funded political propaganda
3) Freedom!
Thanks for the offer, but I can decide whom I pay for news and music, without instituting your nanny-state to run my entire life.
You may be right, but i've been burned in the past, so when I read...
Shhhhhh don't give them any ideas about the coaxial analog-hole exploit
Seriously though, I'm not disagreeing with the GP point that people shouldn't be allowed to make a choice on how to spend the 40 bucks that Congress, ahem Tax-Payers, is going to give back to themselves.
I was agreeing by providing supportive documentation, for the GGP point, that consumers aren't buying all this new confusing cripple-ware-DRM mess. And the only way to make people accept it, is to pay-off, ahem lobby polititians to submit bills that force the new bussiness model on everyone.
No Digital Video Interface (DVI)
No High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI)
No Computer video (VGA)
No USB IEEE-1394 (iLink or Firewire)
No Ethernet (IEEE-802.3)
No Wireless (IEEE0802.11)
I've never owned a VCR that could record S-video input, have you?
Any ability to record, qualifies as a disqualifying 'feature'.r ers.pdf
Manufacturing Document http://www.ntia.doc.gov/otiahome/dtv/DTVmanufactu
I for one welcome our new coupon-bearing DRM overlords.
The U.S. educational system is currently a monopoly, so while your suggestion of allowing meritocracy is a good one, it cannot work because the current group in charge will be deciding what merit is for everyone.
Vouchers would help to break up the monopoly, but elites repeatedly refuse, because if parents had a choice they might choose what's best for their children.
Parents believe education is about reading, writing, and arithmetic. Elites believe education is about indoctrinating the next generation with their politically correct religions that will shape the future world in their image.
Check out Hillary Clinton's padded educational credentials. (for the last 2 years)_ Rodham_Clinton&diff=18494301&oldid=18493966
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hillary
Once exposed (yesterday),
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17388372/page/3/
the author updated his own profile, 'best known for his work on the Hillary Rodham Clinton article'.........indeed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LukeTH
If that was the case, then it would be, but that's not the case, so it's not.
-Think about the cost difference between someone placing an order online themseleves, versus having an employee ring them up.
-Think about the number of customers an employee can ring up per hour, versus how many customers a webserver can ring up per hour.
Conducting bussiness online can be significantly cheaper, and saving can be passed on to the consumer willing to use a computerized interface.
In fact, it is very common for businesses to charge different amounts based on location, age, sex, and willingness to pay.
...) legislators to exempt and shield them.
-Many websites require you to locate yourself before presenting different prices for your area.
-DVDs are region coded, and are priced differently based where you buy them.
-Gas prices are based on what the locals are willing to pay.
-Public transportation charges lower prices for old rich people, and higher prices for the young and poor.
Sometimes it's just economics, and sometimes it's just unfair, but it's not illegal due to special intrest groups that can "convince" (kickback, bigotry,
What were you thinking?
Making an insightful post, that hits the nail on the head, is only going to get marked troll by the first iFanboy to read it.
It isn't obvious to me that a chimpanzee with a twig could survive against a lion with his "claws and shit". Do you have any video footage to support your claim?
Humans often assume that others that look like themseleves are better. Just because another race or species acts like you is not proof they are superior. Superior can be defined by objective measures like killing prey, protecting territory, and mating prolificness. Hmm... maybe you are right, what could be sexier than a pin-up calendar of female chimpanzees holding their stick.
While tool making is an intersting ability to witness in animals other than ourseleves, the article appears to assume that simple tool fashioning is a cardinal evolutionary ability.
I doubt that other animals with massive claws, razor sharp teeth, or deadly posions are going to trade them in for a pointy twig.
I also find the assumed conclusion that females are the leaders of innovative and creative thinking to be interesting, in the line of who is observing whom here. A method that yields second place is NOT superior to a method that yields first place, but i suppose that is the purpose of another simply fashioned tool we all call political correctness.
It isn't that Liberals are ignorant.
It's just that they know so much that isn't so. - Ronald Reagan
IANAG (I am not a grammerian) but I think the point of the sentance isn't the size of the number, but it's value or state, and therefore the adverb form was used appropriately.
The Matrix Online started with ads just over a year ago. At first a few bilboards of movies like Constantine, and Batman:Begins. Then onto computer products, real-world magazines, and car ads.
Sony-Entertainment bought them from AOL-Time-Waner a year ago, and that's when I quit too, so I can't tell you what they are doing today.
Let me guess, your one of the people who thinks if we privatized schools we would all be a happier society? If only poor people had to pay for their own school they would be better educated right?
In the small hope you aren't a troll, I'll bite.
I didn't mention any type of school because my point was that any school or organization, can be incompent and fail, and then blame someone else. When we give money or vouchers, to any public or private school, then we should require that students are actually learning, no excuses.
The purpose of blaming Rockstar is to direct attention away from themselves, and it's working. If it wasn't Rockstar, they would be blaming Bush, or Harry Potter, or anything else but themselves for how they are taking our tax dollars and failing our children.