Maybe choice was his point? Storage capacity was a key deciding factor for me when I decided "Android or iPhone". I rather enjoy not chewing up my monthly data with Spotify/Pandora/YouTube because I don't have enough storage space for my music/movies/videos. Fuck "the cloud", I'll keep my stuff on the ground with me.
No economic system is perfect, but in the hands of the right people capitalism is one of the best tools a society can use to manage it's economy.
IMO, what the RIAA is not capitalism. They are using their capitalistic rights to oppress the consumers and artists. That doesn't make capitalism wrong any more than a criminal shooting a store clerk to death makes owning guns wrong.
Such is human greed and capitalism. Damn the bullshit liberal education you received. Quit pointing your accusing finger at capitalism like it's the last bastion of human greed. Communism, fascism, socialism, or any other totalitarian -ism are just as conducive to human greed as capitalism, if not more so. The difference is that, not only is it state sponsored, it's also state run.
FYI, what the RIAA is doing isn't based in capitalism. You could have just stopped at "such is human greed" because that's all it is.
In a broader sense, Intelligent Design is simply the science of design detection -- how to recognize patterns arranged by an intelligent cause for a purpose. Design detection is used in a number of scientific fields, including anthropology, forensic sciences that seek to explain the cause of events such as a death or fire, cryptanalysis and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). An inference that certain biological information may be the product of an intelligent cause can be tested or evaluated in the same manner as scientists daily test for design in other sciences.
I would also like to point out that complaining that your post will be modded down is not somehow a sort of magical incantation to prevent it from actually being modded down. Continuing to reject out of hand the idea that this universe didn't actually come to exist from sheer bastard luck is not somehow a sort of magical incantation to prevent it from actually being true.
Oh wait. Oops... I forgot that this thread was about copyright issues and not about the "inherent dishonesty" that creationists/IDists are allegedly full of. My mistake.
Gender inequality in favor of females is the feminists' way of getting reparations for past wrong-doings to females the same way that the black community has. Or, rather, it's gender-based affirmative action in one of its most 'glistening' moments. They want boys to turn into illiterate, ignorant, sissy neo-men that can barely take care of themselves, much less anyone else. If you don't believe that, go watch any feminist demonstration in the streets and listen to the words they use.
Now, watch all the pseudo-intellectual, left-wing nuts start to gang up on me and lambaste me for pointing out the obvious.
I'm ignorant of ME's development/life-cycle and have never had it installed on any machine I've used. Did Microsoft ever invest as much of their efforts into ME as they have Vista? And did they have the problems with delays and such that they had with Vista? It just seems like they've put more of their eggs into this basket, almost always a flawed strategy, and are likely to suffer the same consequences.
My Wal*Mart is located in the mid-TN area. They carry Seagate SATA drives, but bass ackwards enough they don't carry PCI host adapters. Thing is a lot of people in my immediate area, if they even have a computer at all, generally have older computers that lack system support for sata devices. The local radio shack carries them, but I think they're the crappy radio shack brand. I say that subjectively, since I've never bought one from them. Just going on general opinion. Anyway, your next bet if you live around here is to drive all the way to Nashville, which is about 45 minutes to an hour (depending on how close to the interstate you live...) and get the PCI adapter at CompUSA. But in general, most of the variety we have is also crap. It's a Wal*Mart thing in general. The only reason they even attempt to sell computer equipment is to make money. You want some technical help you're on your own, which really sucks for my area since techies are fewer than in Nashville. Which, I guess that can be good in some ways...
Wal*Mart is 'hip' (as the kids phrase it), speaking strictly relatively, when you consider we're hanging out at slashdot. "Hey, kids - you go hang out at your Wally World, if you'd like. I'm off to to discuss package management over at slashdot!" Touche'.
1.) It's 3AM Sunday morning and Wal*Mart is the only place I can get a drive. I purchase the next WD that I will later be cursing. Doesn't your Wal*Mart carry Seagate? Mine does, and this particular Wal*Mart isn't exactly in a particularly "hip" area. (yes, I'm aware of the contradiction of mentioning Wal*Mart and "hip" in the same sentence.)
I do not think that downloading a movie from the internet is illegal. That's not how the law works.
The simple fact is, uploading is illegal. And just how do you think P2P software works? In order to download something someone else has/had to upload it. After all, isn't the elbow connected to the eth0-bone?
Why would I want to PAY Apple to do something I could do myself!? So all the genius little Apple Techs down at the Mac store can scarf up whatever music and/or pictures I've got stored on my device?? Screw that! I'll just stick with using my standard cell phone... and use my laptop for everything else... and replace the battery myself when I need to.
"Yes, because scientists are 100% pure at heart and work from a completely unbiased agenda", says the scientistian.
So, are we not able to attain absolute knowledge of anything? If not, then how do you *know* that we aren't able to attain absolute knowledge of anything? Wouldn't that mean that you knew something absolute?
You didn't answer my question. You just paraphrased your previous post. Again, clarifying myself, how does that justify stealing? I mean, if you're so interested in "preserving and advancing the species" by "sharing knowledge and culture", then why not just *buy* a copy of World of Warcraft or the new NIN album and put it in a time capsule?
Huh? What's that? Oh, I see. You didn't *really* have an interest in preserving and advancing the species... you were just trying out a flimsy defense for getting something for free...
Sharing information is a natural human survival trait. It allows people to pass knowledge and culture from one generation to the next. Those that you call "leeches" are ensuring the preservation of species. It is morally wrong of you to expect to draw freely from the human experience without contributing back in kind. How are they preserving the species by hawking copies of World of Warcraft or the new NIN album?
Or is my impression that dark matter is stuff we can't see wrong? Is it actually supposed to be some exotic substance (with comic-book like powers)? Dark matter is actually that damn symbiote that turns Spiderman into a bad ass emo chick.
After all, in the course of a day three or four people might stop to hold open a door for you, but the one you remember at the end of the day is the idiot that cut you off on the highway. Human memory is a funny thing... That reminds me of how we take in our media. There's a ton of good going on all around us, but the media only reports on the bad that happens, and they grind it into us in repetition. We're conditioned to accept the good like it's the air that we breath, as if it were that much of an invisible commodity, but we're also conditioned to pay special attention to the bad happening around us. And people wonder why we have trouble trusting anyone anymore?
Sorry for the tangent, but it relates to what you're saying.
Um, do you realize that T3 completely destroyed the "no fate but what we make it" theme from T2? It took the fundamental idea behind the best movie in the franchise and then said "nah, it's actually the opposite". That theme still holds true in T3. Brewster had a choice of whether or not to press enter on the keyboard, giving Skynet control over all the defense systems. It's blatantly obvious that he had at least a modicum of an idea of what could happen once he gave Skynet control, hence his hesitation while on the phone with the commander of the armed forces. DoD had a choice whether or not to invest in picking up where Dyson's company left off after it was destroyed. People had a choice whether or not to move forward with AI when it was created... no, when it was conceived. After all, it's like Sarah Conner said: "Men like you built the hydrogen bomb. Men like you thought it up."
It's not the machine's fault for doing exactly what human kind ultimately purposed them for. In the end, the only thing human kind is the victim of in the Terminator movies is its own ambitions. The rest is just the means to that end.
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Maybe choice was his point? Storage capacity was a key deciding factor for me when I decided "Android or iPhone". I rather enjoy not chewing up my monthly data with Spotify/Pandora/YouTube because I don't have enough storage space for my music/movies/videos. Fuck "the cloud", I'll keep my stuff on the ground with me.
Ideally Apple should lock down the DVD drives and USB ports at the stores, requiring an admin to mount a drive, though I have no clue how to do that.
What makes you think you're different from any given Apple store employee?
No economic system is perfect, but in the hands of the right people capitalism is one of the best tools a society can use to manage it's economy.
IMO, what the RIAA is not capitalism. They are using their capitalistic rights to oppress the consumers and artists. That doesn't make capitalism wrong any more than a criminal shooting a store clerk to death makes owning guns wrong.
FYI, what the RIAA is doing isn't based in capitalism. You could have just stopped at "such is human greed" because that's all it is.
Oh wait. Oops... I forgot that this thread was about copyright issues and not about the "inherent dishonesty" that creationists/IDists are allegedly full of. My mistake.
Gender inequality in favor of females is the feminists' way of getting reparations for past wrong-doings to females the same way that the black community has. Or, rather, it's gender-based affirmative action in one of its most 'glistening' moments. They want boys to turn into illiterate, ignorant, sissy neo-men that can barely take care of themselves, much less anyone else. If you don't believe that, go watch any feminist demonstration in the streets and listen to the words they use.
Now, watch all the pseudo-intellectual, left-wing nuts start to gang up on me and lambaste me for pointing out the obvious.
Careful... you're about to get a bunch of ignorant responses from /. regulars about how your fiance' has probably hoodwinked you.
Buddy, your fucked up "sexual revolution" was dead before they even knew what HIV was.
What I REALLY want is for it to fly. Here it is nearing 2015 and we've yet to see the first hover board.
I'm ignorant of ME's development/life-cycle and have never had it installed on any machine I've used. Did Microsoft ever invest as much of their efforts into ME as they have Vista? And did they have the problems with delays and such that they had with Vista? It just seems like they've put more of their eggs into this basket, almost always a flawed strategy, and are likely to suffer the same consequences.
The simple fact is, uploading is illegal. And just how do you think P2P software works? In order to download something someone else has/had to upload it. After all, isn't the elbow connected to the eth0-bone?
Why would I want to PAY Apple to do something I could do myself!? So all the genius little Apple Techs down at the Mac store can scarf up whatever music and/or pictures I've got stored on my device?? Screw that! I'll just stick with using my standard cell phone... and use my laptop for everything else... and replace the battery myself when I need to.
"Yes, because scientists are 100% pure at heart and work from a completely unbiased agenda", says the scientistian.
So, are we not able to attain absolute knowledge of anything? If not, then how do you *know* that we aren't able to attain absolute knowledge of anything? Wouldn't that mean that you knew something absolute?
You didn't answer my question. You just paraphrased your previous post. Again, clarifying myself, how does that justify stealing? I mean, if you're so interested in "preserving and advancing the species" by "sharing knowledge and culture", then why not just *buy* a copy of World of Warcraft or the new NIN album and put it in a time capsule?
Huh? What's that? Oh, I see. You didn't *really* have an interest in preserving and advancing the species... you were just trying out a flimsy defense for getting something for free...
Sorry for the tangent, but it relates to what you're saying.
It's not the machine's fault for doing exactly what human kind ultimately purposed them for. In the end, the only thing human kind is the victim of in the Terminator movies is its own ambitions. The rest is just the means to that end.