I'd love to be able to do that, just boycott all music produced by the RIAA. It'd be really nice, but oh, wait, I live in America and like music, and like not getting sued like none other for pirating music. There goes that idea. Such a shame I can't live without music. I agree with you, the only way to stick it to them is to not support it, but it's kind of hard to do that without losing an inherent part of who I (and I presume others) am! Even when I buy jazz or classical music, I get it through a member of the RIAA.
I maybe alone in the facts that I LIKE MUSIC, I LIKE NOT GETTING SUED, AND I REGRET SUPPORTING THE RIAA , but I somehow doubt that I am.
WELL. Also playing D.A. here, say I thought about seeing SW3 and I decided it wasn't worth my well earned money because 1 and 2 were huge let downs. So I'm surfing the net and I find that someone has a screener. I decide that I'll download it and watch it. I see it and I find it to be impressive but I would like even more to see it on the big screen with the better sound. So I decide that I will, after all, give my hard earned money to Lucas because of, not in spite of the screener.
Just goes to show, hollywood may still be wrong.
So now with this available to us all, what's to stop someone from anonymously posting something that's believable yet fake? Isn't it posible that someone could make something up that's so horrible it would make the "news" and then the "news" would carry the story and people would demand an investigation into it? Almost a Wag the Dog type thing? The only things someone would need is a hatred, an imagination (which is getting harder to come by, granted), and these methods. Am I way off with this?
P.S. I think it's a great thing, I'm just paranoid about another stupid "Pre-emptive" strike just to find that those weapons of mass destruction we were looking for were actually oil refineries.
Are you serious!? I can't begin to count the errors and or viruses I've gotten using IE. I've had about 5 crashes in Firefox in Windows and 1 that I can remember in Linux. I've never had a crash with OpenOffice.org in either operating system and I've had about 20 with Word.
Now let me ask you this:
Who has new revisions for their operating system more often Macintosh or Windows? Who's revisions actually work without needing 300 patches to fix every dumb bug, Macintosh or Windows? Who actually made their original operating system, Apple or Microsoft? Who actually bought their original operating system, Microsoft or Apple? Answer to every one of those is the first one. I will be the first to admit Bill Gates is a freaking genius when it comes to business (ie buying DOS) but when it comes to actual software he's not that brilliant (look at what happened when he decided to use beta RC1 of Windows 98 to demenstrate to congress how much better he was making it. It was a well documented problem and it had been fixed in later release candidates, but did he bother to use one of those?)
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Maybe the fact that OOo has Sun stamped everywhere should be a clue that they released it?
I'd love to be able to do that, just boycott all music produced by the RIAA. It'd be really nice, but oh, wait, I live in America and like music, and like not getting sued like none other for pirating music. There goes that idea. Such a shame I can't live without music. I agree with you, the only way to stick it to them is to not support it, but it's kind of hard to do that without losing an inherent part of who I (and I presume others) am! Even when I buy jazz or classical music, I get it through a member of the RIAA.
I maybe alone in the facts that I LIKE MUSIC, I LIKE NOT GETTING SUED, AND I REGRET SUPPORTING THE RIAA , but I somehow doubt that I am.
WELL. Also playing D.A. here, say I thought about seeing SW3 and I decided it wasn't worth my well earned money because 1 and 2 were huge let downs. So I'm surfing the net and I find that someone has a screener. I decide that I'll download it and watch it. I see it and I find it to be impressive but I would like even more to see it on the big screen with the better sound. So I decide that I will, after all, give my hard earned money to Lucas because of, not in spite of the screener. Just goes to show, hollywood may still be wrong.
So now with this available to us all, what's to stop someone from anonymously posting something that's believable yet fake? Isn't it posible that someone could make something up that's so horrible it would make the "news" and then the "news" would carry the story and people would demand an investigation into it? Almost a Wag the Dog type thing? The only things someone would need is a hatred, an imagination (which is getting harder to come by, granted), and these methods. Am I way off with this? P.S. I think it's a great thing, I'm just paranoid about another stupid "Pre-emptive" strike just to find that those weapons of mass destruction we were looking for were actually oil refineries.
Does anyone here feel like a young Frank Poole? 3001
How about it working without having to update every other day and me being able to trust it to do what I need done!
Are you serious!? I can't begin to count the errors and or viruses I've gotten using IE. I've had about 5 crashes in Firefox in Windows and 1 that I can remember in Linux. I've never had a crash with OpenOffice.org in either operating system and I've had about 20 with Word. Now let me ask you this: Who has new revisions for their operating system more often Macintosh or Windows? Who's revisions actually work without needing 300 patches to fix every dumb bug, Macintosh or Windows? Who actually made their original operating system, Apple or Microsoft? Who actually bought their original operating system, Microsoft or Apple? Answer to every one of those is the first one. I will be the first to admit Bill Gates is a freaking genius when it comes to business (ie buying DOS) but when it comes to actual software he's not that brilliant (look at what happened when he decided to use beta RC1 of Windows 98 to demenstrate to congress how much better he was making it. It was a well documented problem and it had been fixed in later release candidates, but did he bother to use one of those?)