....and the motherfuckers can't even catch any real crooks.
.....OH! CROOKS I thought we were looking for the real COOKS !
Thats why we have all of these french guys named Pierre with chef-boy-are-dee hats locked up and ready for water boarding....
....and the pink tights and boa? Its no fun to be freaky jiggy with the hoes and bros in the light of day, ya know! Can't a G-man enjoy a G-string without diluting the oppressive regime's value system with blatant hypocrisy? Whats the fun in that? Its like Halloween in the light with pants on - no tricks or treats...
There are valid arguments on all sides of this issue, whether you are inclined to be a "red team" fan or "blue team" fan, or you're on the fence or in the closet in purple. But remember, no one has a crystal ball, and even if there is only ONE correct legislative approach, the likelihood is we'll find it in hindsight. Meanwhile, here on earth, the congress and the senate must articulate law. Its just a guess, the chances of it being the perfect policy is like winning super lotto. Its not dogma, or holy scripture, its a game plan, and we can expect that its going to take a lot of adjustment. That being said, perhaps we should stop bickering about the obvious shortcomings we can find in ANY idea, no matter what it is, and instead attempt to get as much mileage as possible from our cooperation. We can sit around and piss and moan about the evil "other" ideologues that we hate and like to kick and spit at, or we can get a clue, stop wasting time and focus on accomplishing SOMETHING. The fact is that we need to take action and we need to agree on a beginning. Lets try to approach this with fairness and flexibility because reality will interfere with our results, no matter how well we define our policy. I believe we can actually get more done if we cooperate, and remain willing to confront stale legislation and ineffective policy without clobbering each other. No matter how much I disagree with "the other team" I am certain that we will all benefit from a new energy policy. Lets be realistic, and begin as best that we can, and then remain willing to tweak and adjust and renegotiate as needed over time. Instead of making law a stone carving, lets be nimble and quick and build in a lot of wiggle room so that everyone's concerns can be considered as the policy evolves, and nobody gets railroaded by a policy that is too rigid to adapt to reality and becomes an absurdity. Our laws feel like a last will and testament, when they should be like a football offensive game plan. No matter what we agree to do, we'll need to make adjustments along the way. Lets find some moderation and common ground and stop bickering in circles. Not everything needs to be a competition with winners and losers. We need to live by the golden rule in this process or else we're going to be heading into a civil war again. Human nature is a bitch, and we gotta try to muzzle it once in a while. Statesmen need to be leaders, and not just cheerleaders, and lets stop with all of the unnecessary roughness and other personal fouls. Koom by ya
Everyone else that stores and shares your personal data are too inept to notice their blunders, or won't dare admit it unless they absolutely must. Its best to assume there is no such thing as secure information once you share it with others.
Information is a double edged sword.
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I agree. I think there is a lot of fear and apprehension of putting data "on the record", particularly in a litigious society. It is as likely to work against you as in your favor. If on the one hand that information limits privacy or insurance policy coverage for patients, it may also be implemented in exposing incompetence, neglect, and greed. Its a double edged sword, since in truth, people behave like there is an angle on one shoulder and a devil on the other. We only want to reveal the good stuff, so the diploma is on the wall, and the malpractice settlement remains undisclosed. Information Technology won't do a thing to change human nature, but it sure as heck will make our medical process more efficient. Lets move forward then, in spite of the perceived cultural drawbacks and fears.
Likewise, excuse my rant, too.
That being said, you're right about the fact its important to be aware of how and at whom we are venting our frustrations. I for one am prone to over look those considerations at the brink of exasperation. High marks to the front line personnel in this story who dared to pursue their customer's earnest request. In somewhat uncommon fashion, they considered the reasonableness of policy under these unique circumstances, and went the extra mile to accommodate a customer. Unfortunately the values of corporate culture generally fail to appreciate individuals, whether customers or staff, outside of the status quo. They squander their best of both sides of the transaction because corporations are like "bottom line" robots that prefer impersonal, generic, mediocre interactions with the organic life forms. Customers and Staff are both likely to feel unfulfilled from their ongoing relationship with these corporate institutions, increasingly prevalent in contemporary social reality. For the time being....
The only thing Sprint goes out of their way to do is to steal as much money as possible, on top of the money that customers agree to pay when they enter an agreement. The customer is no longer right with Sprint - only their rules, which they make up along the way and obfuscate in fine print. Here's the bold print: SPRINT SUCKS
Not only should these scumbags be immediately shut down from their credit hijacking, they should be fined and jailed. I'll NEVER do business again with Sprint or any company that STEALS from its customers. But that is NOT ENOUGH. I think we really need to chop off their heads and put them on sticks for everyone to see. These pigs better cut this crap out before we exterminate them. It is no longer acceptable for shareholders to steal from citizens. Eat the rich.
That's right! No more soup for you RIAA!! I sure as hell won't pay them if they're just gonna sue consumers instead. What a great marketing plan for lawyers that want backstage passes....and lobby sex.
I guess a crappy DRM ripoff is a better deal than $80,000.00 per download with no DRM.....but not much better. You would think that Microsoft was capable of real innovation, but no.... Once you've got lots of shareholders its all about squeezing every dollar out of a weary market, even if its not a very good experience for anyone. I see DRM as the result of greed mixed with technology and music. Too bad they can't just sell us blank tapes like 20 years ago when copyright infringement was a charge placed against someone who mas produced and SOLD the material, not customers who copied a CD for their car stereo. Hopefully this nonsense will find a balance...once the beast has been adequately fed with our $$, I suppose. D R M = Demand Royalty Money.
Do as the Chinese do....actually China has come a long way in the last decade, and its difficult to really get a clear perspective from our cultural context. I just hope that our relations with them, and the rest of the world improve, and that we are all tolerant of one another. One thing I do know about the Chinese, having been vary close to a gentleman from Shanghai, a graduate business student who now works here, is that in China their greatest fear is CHAOS. That one is not on the top of our list, but it gives a little insight as to why they may often seem heavy handed. Lets try to understand where they are coming from, when we hear about how they seem to be. I always liked Chinese food, and the people are cool too.
"In the absence of file sharing, would these people have bought more or less music than they did?"
The can be no absence of file sharing, we don't live in a vacuum and you can't un-ring a bell. And it doesn't matter anyway. What does matter is a bunch of greedy corporate pigs will get your money any way that they can and will pursue every legal avenue at their disposal to do it. But don't delude yourself into weighing ethics when it comes to this type of warfare and highway robbery. They reap the BENEFITS of file sharing and bandwidth bloat, and they'll double and triple dip, rip off the artist, and sue a soccer mom too. Screw em. Nobody needs or wants what they offer...shareholders are lousy citizens. Artists don't need old terms in a new distribution network that requires far less investment for product distribution and marketing than 20 years ago....MTV, Tower Records, Bass Tickets cost $$ but Youtube, Myspace, etc. is FREE. The artist will be just FINE.
Actually, much of what I download I bough many years ago on vinyl, then again on tape (sometimes twice on tape for a favorite) and even again on CDROM. I mean how many times am I supposed to pay for Abbey Road, Dark Side of the Moon, Ziggy, etc.?
The fact is I still have the CD's but its easier to download the good rips that others do correctly, instead of my poorly tagged and labeled rendition. I know my favorite artists get my $$ so we need to eliminate the middle men. RIAA and the payola music network can go pimp someone else. Its time to take these clowns down, and its up to the artist to do it. Artist well know that they never see a dime of all of that money they've extorted from soccer moms, and if anything it costs them sales overall. Eat the rich.
I gotta say that AOL was destined to fail for the same reason GM and Enron and sub prime lenders crashed: Its a RAW DEAL. I was a VERY EARLY adopter of AOL. Back in the day of floppy mailers (way before CD) I was already on a local BBS (Nitelog now Redshift.com) with my brand new 486 with math co processor, Windows 3.0 and an new super blinding fast 14.4 modem (maybe lower) and I thought it was go cool to be able to leave the dos 5 command line, and be in GUI land. But honestly, my enthusiasm for AOL decayed into resentment. Soon these jerks were like the phone company, the bad checking account, or fine print on the policy or credit. Like every other corporate pig in America, it became a finely tuned rip off and maze of obfuscation. There billing practices were ridiculous: you could open accounts all day without any obstacle, but to close an account and get them off of your checking account you had to wait on hold for hours, and then do it again month after month. But worse than that, AOL treated the internet like there own property, and they had many Americans fooled into thinking that the service and experience was entirely proprietary. People who were unsophisticated or inexperienced would pay their rip off $23.95/month (or $2/hour for some suckers) because they were misled into thinking that was their only way to keep email and access to websites. For YEARS they persisted to ever charge, over bill, refuse to cancel service in a timely fashion. There were literally THOUSANDS of "WHY AOL SUCKS" websites popping up everywhere. I really resented the wool that they pooled over many peoples eyes...but how long did they think they could get away with it ? Did they actually expect customers to stay when suddenly Net Zero and a bunch of other dial ups were FREE by the mid 90's? Steve Case cashed in and sold out. He was no Ted Turner. But Corporate American Media had an appetite to EXPLOIT the customer and so that merger was a marriage mad in hell. Severs them right for screwing everyone over, they get screwed too. Its another Web Van, in the end. Only Web Van was good to their customers...the 10 of us. Look at the corporate landscape now: only monopolies retain their customers...but not forever. I dumped Sprint Cellular, Microsoft, Comcast, and B of A, and Visa, AT&T, GM, GE, and Exxon for the same reason: I'm tired of the fine print, the add on fees, and the policy to always punish regular customers for being dumb enough to stay. Good rates are reserved for strangers or stolen business, but if you're a regular then MAKE THEM PAY. Well, these jerks got rich for a while, but I'll avoid ever doing business with them. When did American Business ethics degrade to the point where screwing the customer is the long range strategy and any value offered is a tactic like bait on a hook. Are we all numb in the head? Don't do business with parasites. Just because we have a debt economy doesn't mean we have to take that crap from them ever. Grow up shareholders: if we don't get value, then neither will you. Its simple, its the Golden Rule. AOL, A-hole-hell, good riddance.
Moreover the value of ones time, which degrades when the game experience is good. If the game sucks, then suddenly we grow impatient and want the buck back out of spite. If the game is good, then hours become years as we trance out like lab rats on the crack feeder button test...na na na na....be the ball billy....
I don't see how the cops could recognize him with the ski mask on... Oh yeah, the fuzz can see right through your cloths now. He better wear metal armor next time, or an aluminum foil hat..
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....and the motherfuckers can't even catch any real crooks.
.....OH! CROOKS I thought we were looking for the real COOKS ! Thats why we have all of these french guys named Pierre with chef-boy-are-dee hats locked up and ready for water boarding....
....and the pink tights and boa? Its no fun to be freaky jiggy with the hoes and bros in the light of day, ya know! Can't a G-man enjoy a G-string without diluting the oppressive regime's value system with blatant hypocrisy? Whats the fun in that? Its like Halloween in the light with pants on - no tricks or treats...
There are valid arguments on all sides of this issue, whether you are inclined to be a "red team" fan or "blue team" fan, or you're on the fence or in the closet in purple. But remember, no one has a crystal ball, and even if there is only ONE correct legislative approach, the likelihood is we'll find it in hindsight. Meanwhile, here on earth, the congress and the senate must articulate law. Its just a guess, the chances of it being the perfect policy is like winning super lotto. Its not dogma, or holy scripture, its a game plan, and we can expect that its going to take a lot of adjustment. That being said, perhaps we should stop bickering about the obvious shortcomings we can find in ANY idea, no matter what it is, and instead attempt to get as much mileage as possible from our cooperation. We can sit around and piss and moan about the evil "other" ideologues that we hate and like to kick and spit at, or we can get a clue, stop wasting time and focus on accomplishing SOMETHING. The fact is that we need to take action and we need to agree on a beginning. Lets try to approach this with fairness and flexibility because reality will interfere with our results, no matter how well we define our policy. I believe we can actually get more done if we cooperate, and remain willing to confront stale legislation and ineffective policy without clobbering each other. No matter how much I disagree with "the other team" I am certain that we will all benefit from a new energy policy. Lets be realistic, and begin as best that we can, and then remain willing to tweak and adjust and renegotiate as needed over time. Instead of making law a stone carving, lets be nimble and quick and build in a lot of wiggle room so that everyone's concerns can be considered as the policy evolves, and nobody gets railroaded by a policy that is too rigid to adapt to reality and becomes an absurdity. Our laws feel like a last will and testament, when they should be like a football offensive game plan. No matter what we agree to do, we'll need to make adjustments along the way. Lets find some moderation and common ground and stop bickering in circles. Not everything needs to be a competition with winners and losers. We need to live by the golden rule in this process or else we're going to be heading into a civil war again. Human nature is a bitch, and we gotta try to muzzle it once in a while. Statesmen need to be leaders, and not just cheerleaders, and lets stop with all of the unnecessary roughness and other personal fouls. Koom by ya
The only secure information is never written down or told to other people.
Everyone else that stores and shares your personal data are too inept to notice their blunders, or won't dare admit it unless they absolutely must. Its best to assume there is no such thing as secure information once you share it with others.
I agree. I think there is a lot of fear and apprehension of putting data "on the record", particularly in a litigious society. It is as likely to work against you as in your favor. If on the one hand that information limits privacy or insurance policy coverage for patients, it may also be implemented in exposing incompetence, neglect, and greed. Its a double edged sword, since in truth, people behave like there is an angle on one shoulder and a devil on the other. We only want to reveal the good stuff, so the diploma is on the wall, and the malpractice settlement remains undisclosed. Information Technology won't do a thing to change human nature, but it sure as heck will make our medical process more efficient. Lets move forward then, in spite of the perceived cultural drawbacks and fears.
Likewise, excuse my rant, too. That being said, you're right about the fact its important to be aware of how and at whom we are venting our frustrations. I for one am prone to over look those considerations at the brink of exasperation. High marks to the front line personnel in this story who dared to pursue their customer's earnest request. In somewhat uncommon fashion, they considered the reasonableness of policy under these unique circumstances, and went the extra mile to accommodate a customer. Unfortunately the values of corporate culture generally fail to appreciate individuals, whether customers or staff, outside of the status quo. They squander their best of both sides of the transaction because corporations are like "bottom line" robots that prefer impersonal, generic, mediocre interactions with the organic life forms. Customers and Staff are both likely to feel unfulfilled from their ongoing relationship with these corporate institutions, increasingly prevalent in contemporary social reality. For the time being....
AMEN BROTHER/SISTER. Now if only everyone would just "GET IT" so that a democracy can be useful under these circumstances.
But, they don't care. Not until something bad happens and they get hoards of angry customers.
They don't care and they have hoards of angry customers. We need to take them down.
TELL SPRINT. When you work for jerks then you get treated like one as their representative.
The only thing Sprint goes out of their way to do is to steal as much money as possible, on top of the money that customers agree to pay when they enter an agreement. The customer is no longer right with Sprint - only their rules, which they make up along the way and obfuscate in fine print. Here's the bold print: SPRINT SUCKS
Not only should these scumbags be immediately shut down from their credit hijacking, they should be fined and jailed. I'll NEVER do business again with Sprint or any company that STEALS from its customers. But that is NOT ENOUGH. I think we really need to chop off their heads and put them on sticks for everyone to see. These pigs better cut this crap out before we exterminate them. It is no longer acceptable for shareholders to steal from citizens. Eat the rich.
....every time I see the rubber it reminds me of her.
....bidding voluntarily to the $1.92 Million price tag on Ebay is way too fair, and therefore, should be considered "fraud".
That's right! No more soup for you RIAA!! I sure as hell won't pay them if they're just gonna sue consumers instead. What a great marketing plan for lawyers that want backstage passes....and lobby sex.
I guess a crappy DRM ripoff is a better deal than $80,000.00 per download with no DRM.....but not much better. You would think that Microsoft was capable of real innovation, but no.... Once you've got lots of shareholders its all about squeezing every dollar out of a weary market, even if its not a very good experience for anyone. I see DRM as the result of greed mixed with technology and music. Too bad they can't just sell us blank tapes like 20 years ago when copyright infringement was a charge placed against someone who mas produced and SOLD the material, not customers who copied a CD for their car stereo. Hopefully this nonsense will find a balance...once the beast has been adequately fed with our $$, I suppose. D R M = Demand Royalty Money.
chinese plant-- who said china's govt doesnt know h how to asstroturf? Thanks Bob Hu.
"vary" obvious.
LOL ...
Did the "duck" sauce on my chin give it away...
Do as the Chinese do....actually China has come a long way in the last decade, and its difficult to really get a clear perspective from our cultural context. I just hope that our relations with them, and the rest of the world improve, and that we are all tolerant of one another. One thing I do know about the Chinese, having been vary close to a gentleman from Shanghai, a graduate business student who now works here, is that in China their greatest fear is CHAOS. That one is not on the top of our list, but it gives a little insight as to why they may often seem heavy handed. Lets try to understand where they are coming from, when we hear about how they seem to be. I always liked Chinese food, and the people are cool too.
I mean really, its all just semantics (and semiotics) and we're all infected...cookie anyone?
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/18296/
"In the absence of file sharing, would these people have bought more or less music than they did?"
The can be no absence of file sharing, we don't live in a vacuum and you can't un-ring a bell. And it doesn't matter anyway. What does matter is a bunch of greedy corporate pigs will get your money any way that they can and will pursue every legal avenue at their disposal to do it. But don't delude yourself into weighing ethics when it comes to this type of warfare and highway robbery. They reap the BENEFITS of file sharing and bandwidth bloat, and they'll double and triple dip, rip off the artist, and sue a soccer mom too. Screw em. Nobody needs or wants what they offer...shareholders are lousy citizens. Artists don't need old terms in a new distribution network that requires far less investment for product distribution and marketing than 20 years ago....MTV, Tower Records, Bass Tickets cost $$ but Youtube, Myspace, etc. is FREE. The artist will be just FINE.
Actually, much of what I download I bough many years ago on vinyl, then again on tape (sometimes twice on tape for a favorite) and even again on CDROM. I mean how many times am I supposed to pay for Abbey Road, Dark Side of the Moon, Ziggy, etc.? The fact is I still have the CD's but its easier to download the good rips that others do correctly, instead of my poorly tagged and labeled rendition. I know my favorite artists get my $$ so we need to eliminate the middle men. RIAA and the payola music network can go pimp someone else. Its time to take these clowns down, and its up to the artist to do it. Artist well know that they never see a dime of all of that money they've extorted from soccer moms, and if anything it costs them sales overall. Eat the rich.
I gotta say that AOL was destined to fail for the same reason GM and Enron and sub prime lenders crashed: Its a RAW DEAL. I was a VERY EARLY adopter of AOL. Back in the day of floppy mailers (way before CD) I was already on a local BBS (Nitelog now Redshift.com) with my brand new 486 with math co processor, Windows 3.0 and an new super blinding fast 14.4 modem (maybe lower) and I thought it was go cool to be able to leave the dos 5 command line, and be in GUI land. But honestly, my enthusiasm for AOL decayed into resentment. Soon these jerks were like the phone company, the bad checking account, or fine print on the policy or credit. Like every other corporate pig in America, it became a finely tuned rip off and maze of obfuscation. There billing practices were ridiculous: you could open accounts all day without any obstacle, but to close an account and get them off of your checking account you had to wait on hold for hours, and then do it again month after month. But worse than that, AOL treated the internet like there own property, and they had many Americans fooled into thinking that the service and experience was entirely proprietary. People who were unsophisticated or inexperienced would pay their rip off $23.95/month (or $2/hour for some suckers) because they were misled into thinking that was their only way to keep email and access to websites. For YEARS they persisted to ever charge, over bill, refuse to cancel service in a timely fashion. There were literally THOUSANDS of "WHY AOL SUCKS" websites popping up everywhere. I really resented the wool that they pooled over many peoples eyes...but how long did they think they could get away with it ? Did they actually expect customers to stay when suddenly Net Zero and a bunch of other dial ups were FREE by the mid 90's? Steve Case cashed in and sold out. He was no Ted Turner. But Corporate American Media had an appetite to EXPLOIT the customer and so that merger was a marriage mad in hell. Severs them right for screwing everyone over, they get screwed too. Its another Web Van, in the end. Only Web Van was good to their customers...the 10 of us. Look at the corporate landscape now: only monopolies retain their customers...but not forever. I dumped Sprint Cellular, Microsoft, Comcast, and B of A, and Visa, AT&T, GM, GE, and Exxon for the same reason: I'm tired of the fine print, the add on fees, and the policy to always punish regular customers for being dumb enough to stay. Good rates are reserved for strangers or stolen business, but if you're a regular then MAKE THEM PAY. Well, these jerks got rich for a while, but I'll avoid ever doing business with them. When did American Business ethics degrade to the point where screwing the customer is the long range strategy and any value offered is a tactic like bait on a hook. Are we all numb in the head? Don't do business with parasites. Just because we have a debt economy doesn't mean we have to take that crap from them ever. Grow up shareholders: if we don't get value, then neither will you. Its simple, its the Golden Rule. AOL, A-hole-hell, good riddance.
Moreover the value of ones time, which degrades when the game experience is good. If the game sucks, then suddenly we grow impatient and want the buck back out of spite. If the game is good, then hours become years as we trance out like lab rats on the crack feeder button test...na na na na ....be the ball billy....
I don't see how the cops could recognize him with the ski mask on... Oh yeah, the fuzz can see right through your cloths now. He better wear metal armor next time, or an aluminum foil hat..