That's a nice thought, but that's not the way it works for other suits or criminal cases. Otherwise, what would the news and entertainment shows do to fill their programming time??? What would they do without the Peterson or Kobe Bryant cases?
Given the way reputations can be completely ruined even when someone is found innocent (remember Richard Jewel), I think protecting the identity of parties involved in a trial (while in progress) is well worth considering...
That's a pretty lame excuse... I have several friends who have used Kazaa, most of which are PC novices, and everybody knew it first and foremost as a passport to free music. I don't think that argument will hold any water in court, particularly since(as noted above), she admits "participating" in the sharing network. There are plenty of reasons to despise the RIAA and their tactics, but this lady better have something good up her sleeve...
In my company (the US arm of a Swedish firm), August is big for vacations, particularly for the Swedes. There are some people that take up to 6 continuous weeks of vacation, from mid-July through all of August...
I think they've got much more important things to worry about in Palestine than copyright violations. Heck, getting through the day without a suicide bombing or tank & missile attack should be considered a major success.
As for Iraq, I think existing Iraqi law is still in place, administered by the vestiges of civil infrastructure still remaining...
The whole second-hand thing could be a good option. If you buy a used CD/DVD, that doesn't send anything to the RIAA/MPAA, right?
Back in college, I had good success buying used CD's. If I recall correctly, only once did I have a problem with skips, and the store gave me a refund right away.
They were going to do something similar in Indianapolis, but the papers got wind of it and protests of entrapment scuttled the idea. Personally, I think it's pretty clever...
Just because the suit was filed in March (or around there, right?) doesn't mean the case will go in front of a judge right away. This is a complicated legal fight and quite often it can be several months, even more than a year, before things get rolling.
Whenever I see quotes like "the US Government and the court system are too much under the influence of business interests to step in," I just have to laugh. Is there a single, monolithic view that defines "business interests" here? Hardly! You have giant corporations on both sides of the issue (IBM/Microsoft), and the (Bush) "Administration" has next to zero role in this whole endeavor. It's a civil suit, for crying out loud.
And I also love "Until they start to uphold the rights of the people instead of the rights of stockholders, this fiasco will continue." Guess what, bub - the people ARE the shareholders!
How does crap like that get modded Insightful? Anyways, thanks for a good chuckle to start my day...
WRONG!!! The "point" of the system, as outlined in HUD's document, reads as follows:
"An HMIS provides significant opportunities to improve access to, and delivery of, services for people experiencing homelessness. An HMIS can accurately describe the scope of homelessness and the effectiveness of efforts to ameliorate it. An HMIS can strengthen community planning and resource allocation."
My wife is a social worker who spent several years working in mental health access clinics, and let me tell you, the tools that they have to do their job SUCK. There is little or no coordination between various government agencies, and one of the biggest challenges is simply putting people in touch with the programs that already exist to help them. Anything that helps make social services more readily available to the people who need them is sorely needed...
Believe it or not, but there is actually some beneficial purpose to this endeavor. For instance (from HUD's document):
"An HMIS offers many benefits to persons seeking and receiving homeless assistance services. Homeless clients can benefit from more effective and streamlined referrals from on-line information and referral and service directories. Clients can benefit from enhanced intra-agency coordination. For example, advanced HMIS software has been developed that both calculates client eligibility for multiple programs and generates ready-to-sign applications for those programs."
This is a GOOD thing. I suppose the alternative is to maintain "privacy by obscurity" through a lack of coordination and reliance on manual processes to determine eligibility and prepare applications? Yeesh...
Aren't natural gas supplies already under some strain, with productions for this winter's energy prices even higher than last year's? I thought that with the recent trend towards using natural gas in electrical energy production, natural gas is losing its competitive edge. Or are there untapped reserves that will be coming online soon???
If I read correctly, the "symbol" is just Cyrillic script, but English words:
"As part of the kernel evolution towards modular naming, the functions malloc and mfree are being renamed to rmalloc and rmfree. Compatibility will be maintained by the following assembly code: (also see mfree/rmfree below)"
I wholeheartedly agree with that to an extent, except that there probably should be a space in the market for non-touring artists. There are, for example, a number of great studio bands and albums that don't necessarily translate into great live shows.
Personally, I think the fan club idea could use some updating. Rather than glossy photos and other chintz, they could be a passport to such things as access to premium web content, Q&A sessions, song downloads, alerts for release of new material, etc. Rather than produce an album every 18 months and hope someone pays $15 for it, I would bet that a compelling value (and that's where the hard, creative work takes place) could attract a $20 annual membership fee quite easily, and cut the record label out entirely.
What do you see as the most promising means of maintaining the commercial tie between artist and audience, but in different form than today's "stone tablet", whereby a song or album is burned onto a CD with copy protection? What about enhancing other revenue streams, like fan clubs, for example?
As recently as four years ago, I went with pulse dialing - as a student, I didn't see the point in paying a couple bucks extra a month for something of so little marginal value. The only difference I see that it makes is that you can navigate through IVR applications instead of talking to a customer service drone. Yippee....
The point is, there's nothing about this issue that has anything to do with big corporations vs. individuals/small companies. It's a simple matter of documents posted on the web containing more info than their posters' probably realize. You could just as well address those letters to "Joe's Local ISP," and the same thing could happen...
I had no idea that the sloppy handling of non-displayed data in output files (not just Word, mind you), and their publication on the web was actually Another Way For The Man To Keep Us Down...
On the other hand, when you look at the many portions of the 3rd world that are looking to bypass ground lines and build their telephone infrastructure around cells instead, this looks like a way to prepare for future battlegrounds in Africa and Asia.
I don't think the world wants to know the exact nature of those explosions propelling the reindeer - let's just say Mrs. Claus makes some mean chili...
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That's a nice thought, but that's not the way it works for other suits or criminal cases. Otherwise, what would the news and entertainment shows do to fill their programming time??? What would they do without the Peterson or Kobe Bryant cases?
Given the way reputations can be completely ruined even when someone is found innocent (remember Richard Jewel), I think protecting the identity of parties involved in a trial (while in progress) is well worth considering...
That's a pretty lame excuse... I have several friends who have used Kazaa, most of which are PC novices, and everybody knew it first and foremost as a passport to free music. I don't think that argument will hold any water in court, particularly since(as noted above), she admits "participating" in the sharing network. There are plenty of reasons to despise the RIAA and their tactics, but this lady better have something good up her sleeve...
In my company (the US arm of a Swedish firm), August is big for vacations, particularly for the Swedes. There are some people that take up to 6 continuous weeks of vacation, from mid-July through all of August...
Fired??? Nah, just put him in charge of hand-polishing the fuel rods or something...
I think they've got much more important things to worry about in Palestine than copyright violations. Heck, getting through the day without a suicide bombing or tank & missile attack should be considered a major success.
As for Iraq, I think existing Iraqi law is still in place, administered by the vestiges of civil infrastructure still remaining...
The whole second-hand thing could be a good option. If you buy a used CD/DVD, that doesn't send anything to the RIAA/MPAA, right?
Back in college, I had good success buying used CD's. If I recall correctly, only once did I have a problem with skips, and the store gave me a refund right away.
They were going to do something similar in Indianapolis, but the papers got wind of it and protests of entrapment scuttled the idea. Personally, I think it's pretty clever...
Just because the suit was filed in March (or around there, right?) doesn't mean the case will go in front of a judge right away. This is a complicated legal fight and quite often it can be several months, even more than a year, before things get rolling.
Whenever I see quotes like "the US Government and the court system are too much under the influence of business interests to step in," I just have to laugh. Is there a single, monolithic view that defines "business interests" here? Hardly! You have giant corporations on both sides of the issue (IBM/Microsoft), and the (Bush) "Administration" has next to zero role in this whole endeavor. It's a civil suit, for crying out loud.
And I also love "Until they start to uphold the rights of the people instead of the rights of stockholders, this fiasco will continue." Guess what, bub - the people ARE the shareholders!
How does crap like that get modded Insightful? Anyways, thanks for a good chuckle to start my day...
WRONG!!! The "point" of the system, as outlined in HUD's document, reads as follows:
"An HMIS provides significant opportunities to improve access to, and delivery of, services for people experiencing homelessness. An HMIS can accurately describe the scope of homelessness and the effectiveness of efforts to ameliorate it. An HMIS can strengthen community planning and resource allocation."
My wife is a social worker who spent several years working in mental health access clinics, and let me tell you, the tools that they have to do their job SUCK. There is little or no coordination between various government agencies, and one of the biggest challenges is simply putting people in touch with the programs that already exist to help them. Anything that helps make social services more readily available to the people who need them is sorely needed...
Believe it or not, but there is actually some beneficial purpose to this endeavor. For instance (from HUD's document):
"An HMIS offers many benefits to persons seeking and receiving homeless assistance services. Homeless clients can benefit from more effective and streamlined referrals from on-line information and referral and service directories. Clients can benefit from enhanced intra-agency coordination. For example, advanced HMIS software has been developed that both calculates client eligibility for multiple programs and generates ready-to-sign applications for those programs."
This is a GOOD thing. I suppose the alternative is to maintain "privacy by obscurity" through a lack of coordination and reliance on manual processes to determine eligibility and prepare applications? Yeesh...
Aren't natural gas supplies already under some strain, with productions for this winter's energy prices even higher than last year's? I thought that with the recent trend towards using natural gas in electrical energy production, natural gas is losing its competitive edge. Or are there untapped reserves that will be coming online soon???
If I read correctly, the "symbol" is just Cyrillic script, but English words:
"As part of the kernel evolution towards modular naming, the functions malloc and mfree are being renamed to rmalloc and rmfree. Compatibility will be maintained by the following assembly code:
(also see mfree/rmfree below)"
Maybe it's just me, but some things are worth paying for. I prefer juice in my stomach, not coursing through my entire body...
I wholeheartedly agree with that to an extent, except that there probably should be a space in the market for non-touring artists. There are, for example, a number of great studio bands and albums that don't necessarily translate into great live shows.
Personally, I think the fan club idea could use some updating. Rather than glossy photos and other chintz, they could be a passport to such things as access to premium web content, Q&A sessions, song downloads, alerts for release of new material, etc. Rather than produce an album every 18 months and hope someone pays $15 for it, I would bet that a compelling value (and that's where the hard, creative work takes place) could attract a $20 annual membership fee quite easily, and cut the record label out entirely.
What do you see as the most promising means of maintaining the commercial tie between artist and audience, but in different form than today's "stone tablet", whereby a song or album is burned onto a CD with copy protection? What about enhancing other revenue streams, like fan clubs, for example?
As recently as four years ago, I went with pulse dialing - as a student, I didn't see the point in paying a couple bucks extra a month for something of so little marginal value. The only difference I see that it makes is that you can navigate through IVR applications instead of talking to a customer service drone. Yippee....
Are you the mysterious Penguin Lover?
The point is, there's nothing about this issue that has anything to do with big corporations vs. individuals/small companies. It's a simple matter of documents posted on the web containing more info than their posters' probably realize. You could just as well address those letters to "Joe's Local ISP," and the same thing could happen...
This is "Insightful"??? Yeesh!
I had no idea that the sloppy handling of non-displayed data in output files (not just Word, mind you), and their publication on the web was actually Another Way For The Man To Keep Us Down...
At least we know where the DDOS attack didn't come from: New York, Detroit, Cleveland, Toronto, et al.
Yes, that does sound paranoid and crazy!
On the other hand, when you look at the many portions of the 3rd world that are looking to bypass ground lines and build their telephone infrastructure around cells instead, this looks like a way to prepare for future battlegrounds in Africa and Asia.
I don't think the world wants to know the exact nature of those explosions propelling the reindeer - let's just say Mrs. Claus makes some mean chili...
try...
2, 1, *snip*
although we've got some embryos on ice as well, so who knows...
Bingo - twins in March 2002, a little brother for them in March 2003. Life just hasn't been the same...
And will it send out white smoke when power is restored, like the election of a new pope?
ps: checked out diaperdevil - very cool! As a father of 3 kids under 18 months, I think I'm going to have to place an order...