It's the streaming that the studios have them by the balls for. IMO they should have lowered the rental prices while adding the streaming price. They still would have caught flak, but not nearly so much.
While I'm talking to you, uh, did you read the book your sig comes from? His "autohagiofraphy" was a fascinating book, albeit at over a thousand pages long (dull in a fe places). If you'd read the book you'd know that Crowley was batshit insane.
I always wondered if biomechanical stuff is actually better than "pure" mechanical stuff.
Mechanical stuff breaks down, too, and in my experience breaks down a lot more often. Right now the sound out RCA jacks on my nine year old TV have quit; I'm still trying to decide whether or not to open the damned thing (It's a Sony, for all I know they have C-4 wired in there after what they did to my computer with XCP).
Meanwhile, I'm 59 and have been a cyborg for five years now. I have a device in my left eye that makes me a cyborg, and I fear it breaking far more than I fear biological processes (it was only FDA approved 3 years before it was implanted).
How many 59 year old mechanical devices do you have that still work? Meanwhile, both my parents are alive, my mom's 83 and my dad's 80. My grandmother lasted 99 years despite a LOT of wear and tear. How many mechanical devices last a century?
RIAA has radio, indies have P2P. There is a copy of a song named "scatterbrain" that you heard in a bar, so you DL it. Oops, there are hundreds of completely different songs with that name, some the rights owner put there that he wants downloaded and some RIAA songs; you DLed the wrong one; you're now a criminal. Any law that one can break accidentally and be jailed is unjust.
The RIAA goes after pirates as a way to keep a lock on their monopoly. This isn't only unjust, it's evil.
Art is like science and technology in that everything new comes from the old; "shoulders of giants". The insane copyright lengths cripple creativity. Imagine how technology would stagnate if patents lasted as long as copyrights. This is unjust.
The US constitution states "for limited times". More than a human lifetime is in no way limited. This is just plain WRONG.
The law is unjust, used for evil, and just plain wrong.
Sorry, another slashdot bug bit. His name wasn't visible in the browser I was using (ironically, FF on kubuntu, it shows in IE6 on XP). Um, if you construed that as bashing you need a thicker skin. It was a simple question; I was puzzled.
But why would someone bother to read that comment and mod up other comments of his? That makes no sense to me. And if I were moderating today, if I were to do that the mods would be downmods just because posting anonymously in a thread you're moderating is an abuse of the system.
I just looked him up, from his achievements page I doubt he's a karma whore with more than 2^7 +5s. That matches me, and I've never had to worry about karma. Even when I'm obviously modbombed it doesn't affect me.
Speaking of which, uh, moderators, I'm offtopic here.
Lulz is from their motto, "laughing at your security since 2011". Note that any of the crhacks could have been done by a bright twelve year old (and these may have indeed been).
I'm storing your valuables in a safe with a cardboard door and no guards or cameras, who are you going to blame when someone breaks in and steals the stuff you trusted me with?
If a bunch of kids break in and take your stuff and bring it to you (remember, the black hats were already in and using these data for nefarious purposes), laughing at the bank for having a cardboard door on the safe, are you going to be mad at the kids who showed you that your valuables were in jeopardy or the people you trusted to protect them? Especially if the kids had already told you the door was cardboard but the bank manager assured you that it was solid steel and you shouldn't listen to a bunch of dumb kids?
It's true that the "four boxes" are insightful in themselves, but the originator of the phrase deserves credit. Actually I didn't remember what book it was from so I googled, and I remember reading Starship Troopers but I don't even remember what the book was about. The four boxes stuck in my mind even though the book it came from didn't.
IMHO, resorting to vigilantism represents a loss of faith in the governing system we've established for society.
Bingo! When the system of government obviously does not work, people have no recourse. When the rich say "let them eat cake" you have the likes of the French Revolution. When people have no say in a government that governs their lives, you have the likes of the American revolution. And BTW, the American revolutionaries were the terrorists; they didn't follow prescribed rules of war.
If anything can be done to change the present system, why are people still imprisoned for growing a plant? I'm 59 and they've tried to legalize pot since I was a teenager. In fact, looking at it in hindsight (which I hope can be used as foresight to younger folks) the fact that we were so sure it would be legal "any day now" was one of the powerful's weapons against us.
They are called the "fourth estate" for a very good reason. Nothing will happen to Murdoch, he's done his job well. He has stupid poor and middle class people voting for those who want to destroy them. His class uses racism as a weapon, pitting black against white when the struggle is really rich against poor. Example: blacks get jailed more often than whites. Not because blacks are all criminals or because cops are all racist, but because blacks are predominantly poor. Face it, nobody would object to Bill Cosby or Oprah Winfrey living next door to them, but nobody wants to live next door to people who are now living in the ghetto no matter what their color.
To a rich man, "nigger" means "someone who has to work for his supper". Which is what "nigger" actually means and why it's so repugnant to blacks -- "nigger" means "slave". Less than human. To the Murdochs of the world, I'm a nigger despite my hazel eyes.
A witty saying may prove nothing, but often proof is not needed (or even wanted) for belief. Many a politician has been elected by a witty, yet untrue, sound bite.
A strike itself is passive resistance. And employers hired thugs to harm the strikers, and that violence was met with non-passive resistance.
Passive resistance ended the Vietnam war. In fact, it can be argued that the shots that ended Vietnam were fired by National Guardsmen at Kent State University.
And there's the US civil rights movement. Probably the one thing that mattered most in that movement was a Christian preacher standing up to institutional racism and being shot.
You assume that any verdict in any jury trial will matter at all. If a Murdoch spends a single day in jail I'll be flabbergasted, and will have far more respect for British jurisprudence than I do our own.
Murdoch, according to last night's ABC news, is the thirteenth most powerful man in the world, right behind Putin. Nothing bad happens to people like that.
Most people don't know NotW hacked a dead girl's phone and copied her voice mail and delete4d it effectively stealing it.
Dude, this has been all over the news. Every newspaper, every TV news show (except Fox); hell, they even mention it on classic rock morning radio shows. You would have to be a complete hermit to not have heard of it.
This time the breaches aren't just nerd news. The pie in the face made sure of that (which may be the PR you say they need).
I've noticed that in the MSM comments (Chicago Tribune, Yahoo), too. I think the Faux News watchers are pissed that Murdoch got caught hacking cell phones. Or he and the Kock (sorry, "Koch") brothers have modshills out in force today.
I'd have modded you insightful, but I haven't had mod points all week.
I dislike all democrats and republicans, conservatives and liberals as a whole equally. I vote for and support the individual that has ideas and track record that is most aligned with my own regardless of what political tag
You forgot "don't forget to tip the waitress, I'll be here all week"
Rescue workers described the blast as overwhelming â" like nothing they had ever witnessed. Rail lines were twisted like pretzels, they said. Mining machines were blown to pieces. The conditions underground were such a mess after the explosion that is was only late Friday that rescuers realized that they had walked past the bodies of the four missing miners on the first day without seeing, a federal mine safety official said.
This weekâ(TM)s blast comes after a year in which the Upper Big Branch mine had repeated problems with methane buildups. Since April 2009, federal regulators have cited the mine eight times for âoesubstantialâ violations relating to the mineâ(TM)s methane control plans, according to the records.
In two instances, the regulators found the mine operator was calibrating methane monitors every three months even though it is supposed to be done every 31 days. The delays in attending to the monitors meant they could not properly detect the gas, a risk inspectors said could lead to severe injuries or prove fatal.
On April 30, 2009, federal regulators found that the mine had failed to follow methane-related safety precautions. Regulators stopped work in a section of the mine until the ventilation was corrected.
Kevin Stricklin, of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, said he planned an aggressive investigation of the disaster. âoeI can tell you this: No stone will be left unturned,â he said.
Nobody went to prison, it was forgotten in the bigger news of Lindsay Lohan, Charlie Sheen, and Casey Anthony.
Thanks, but she leads as happy a life as anyone. Meanwhile her younger sister is "gifted", as they say. Also, raedeon's comment leads me to believe he also has a two digit IQ, say 95 or so, which makes him mentally retarded compared to me and the youngest of my 2 daughters (and probably compared to you as well). So maybe he should do the world a favor and feed himself to the polar bears, since compared to us he's retarded?
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It's the streaming that the studios have them by the balls for. IMO they should have lowered the rental prices while adding the streaming price. They still would have caught flak, but not nearly so much.
While I'm talking to you, uh, did you read the book your sig comes from? His "autohagiofraphy" was a fascinating book, albeit at over a thousand pages long (dull in a fe places). If you'd read the book you'd know that Crowley was batshit insane.
I always wondered if biomechanical stuff is actually better than "pure" mechanical stuff.
Mechanical stuff breaks down, too, and in my experience breaks down a lot more often. Right now the sound out RCA jacks on my nine year old TV have quit; I'm still trying to decide whether or not to open the damned thing (It's a Sony, for all I know they have C-4 wired in there after what they did to my computer with XCP).
Meanwhile, I'm 59 and have been a cyborg for five years now. I have a device in my left eye that makes me a cyborg, and I fear it breaking far more than I fear biological processes (it was only FDA approved 3 years before it was implanted).
How many 59 year old mechanical devices do you have that still work? Meanwhile, both my parents are alive, my mom's 83 and my dad's 80. My grandmother lasted 99 years despite a LOT of wear and tear. How many mechanical devices last a century?
Do you mean triopoly?
I'm not a vigilante, but if a vigilante corrects an injustice I'll cheer him on rather than condemn him.
How are the laws unjust?
RIAA has radio, indies have P2P. There is a copy of a song named "scatterbrain" that you heard in a bar, so you DL it. Oops, there are hundreds of completely different songs with that name, some the rights owner put there that he wants downloaded and some RIAA songs; you DLed the wrong one; you're now a criminal. Any law that one can break accidentally and be jailed is unjust.
The RIAA goes after pirates as a way to keep a lock on their monopoly. This isn't only unjust, it's evil.
Art is like science and technology in that everything new comes from the old; "shoulders of giants". The insane copyright lengths cripple creativity. Imagine how technology would stagnate if patents lasted as long as copyrights. This is unjust.
The US constitution states "for limited times". More than a human lifetime is in no way limited. This is just plain WRONG.
The law is unjust, used for evil, and just plain wrong.
Sorry, another slashdot bug bit. His name wasn't visible in the browser I was using (ironically, FF on kubuntu, it shows in IE6 on XP). Um, if you construed that as bashing you need a thicker skin. It was a simple question; I was puzzled.
But why would someone bother to read that comment and mod up other comments of his? That makes no sense to me. And if I were moderating today, if I were to do that the mods would be downmods just because posting anonymously in a thread you're moderating is an abuse of the system.
I just looked him up, from his achievements page I doubt he's a karma whore with more than 2^7 +5s. That matches me, and I've never had to worry about karma. Even when I'm obviously modbombed it doesn't affect me.
Speaking of which, uh, moderators, I'm offtopic here.
You really think Murdoch's going before a jury?
Lulz is from their motto, "laughing at your security since 2011". Note that any of the crhacks could have been done by a bright twelve year old (and these may have indeed been).
I'm storing your valuables in a safe with a cardboard door and no guards or cameras, who are you going to blame when someone breaks in and steals the stuff you trusted me with?
If a bunch of kids break in and take your stuff and bring it to you (remember, the black hats were already in and using these data for nefarious purposes), laughing at the bank for having a cardboard door on the safe, are you going to be mad at the kids who showed you that your valuables were in jeopardy or the people you trusted to protect them? Especially if the kids had already told you the door was cardboard but the bank manager assured you that it was solid steel and you shouldn't listen to a bunch of dumb kids?
It's true that the "four boxes" are insightful in themselves, but the originator of the phrase deserves credit. Actually I didn't remember what book it was from so I googled, and I remember reading Starship Troopers but I don't even remember what the book was about. The four boxes stuck in my mind even though the book it came from didn't.
Are you trolling? I hope not, I hate biting trolls.
So by that reasoning it's ok for someone to go around beating people up because you suspect them of being corrupt
Suspect? SUSPECT? The hacks were proven.
Ugh, what's tat nasty taste?
How can an AC be a karma whore?
IMHO, resorting to vigilantism represents a loss of faith in the governing system we've established for society.
Bingo! When the system of government obviously does not work, people have no recourse. When the rich say "let them eat cake" you have the likes of the French Revolution. When people have no say in a government that governs their lives, you have the likes of the American revolution. And BTW, the American revolutionaries were the terrorists; they didn't follow prescribed rules of war.
If anything can be done to change the present system, why are people still imprisoned for growing a plant? I'm 59 and they've tried to legalize pot since I was a teenager. In fact, looking at it in hindsight (which I hope can be used as foresight to younger folks) the fact that we were so sure it would be legal "any day now" was one of the powerful's weapons against us.
They are called the "fourth estate" for a very good reason. Nothing will happen to Murdoch, he's done his job well. He has stupid poor and middle class people voting for those who want to destroy them. His class uses racism as a weapon, pitting black against white when the struggle is really rich against poor. Example: blacks get jailed more often than whites. Not because blacks are all criminals or because cops are all racist, but because blacks are predominantly poor. Face it, nobody would object to Bill Cosby or Oprah Winfrey living next door to them, but nobody wants to live next door to people who are now living in the ghetto no matter what their color.
To a rich man, "nigger" means "someone who has to work for his supper". Which is what "nigger" actually means and why it's so repugnant to blacks -- "nigger" means "slave". Less than human. To the Murdochs of the world, I'm a nigger despite my hazel eyes.
A witty saying may prove nothing, but often proof is not needed (or even wanted) for belief. Many a politician has been elected by a witty, yet untrue, sound bite.
I missed the video of them perp-walking the Murdochs. Oh, they weren't arrested, only their patsies? And you believe justice was done?
A strike itself is passive resistance. And employers hired thugs to harm the strikers, and that violence was met with non-passive resistance.
Passive resistance ended the Vietnam war. In fact, it can be argued that the shots that ended Vietnam were fired by National Guardsmen at Kent State University.
And there's the US civil rights movement. Probably the one thing that mattered most in that movement was a Christian preacher standing up to institutional racism and being shot.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Maybe not, but three lefts do.
You assume that any verdict in any jury trial will matter at all. If a Murdoch spends a single day in jail I'll be flabbergasted, and will have far more respect for British jurisprudence than I do our own.
Murdoch, according to last night's ABC news, is the thirteenth most powerful man in the world, right behind Putin. Nothing bad happens to people like that.
Most people don't know NotW hacked a dead girl's phone and copied her voice mail and delete4d it effectively stealing it.
Dude, this has been all over the news. Every newspaper, every TV news show (except Fox); hell, they even mention it on classic rock morning radio shows. You would have to be a complete hermit to not have heard of it.
This time the breaches aren't just nerd news. The pie in the face made sure of that (which may be the PR you say they need).
I've noticed that in the MSM comments (Chicago Tribune, Yahoo), too. I think the Faux News watchers are pissed that Murdoch got caught hacking cell phones. Or he and the Kock (sorry, "Koch") brothers have modshills out in force today.
I'd have modded you insightful, but I haven't had mod points all week.
Right on! The bad cops give the 1% a bad name!
I dislike all democrats and republicans, conservatives and liberals as a whole equally. I vote for and support the individual that has ideas and track record that is most aligned with my own regardless of what political tag
You forgot "don't forget to tip the waitress, I'll be here all week"
No Survivors Found After West Virginia Mine Disaster
Nobody went to prison, it was forgotten in the bigger news of Lindsay Lohan, Charlie Sheen, and Casey Anthony.
I doubt it's gas all the way down.
They got everybody's attention, didn't they? Had they not, nobody would have listened.
Thanks, but she leads as happy a life as anyone. Meanwhile her younger sister is "gifted", as they say. Also, raedeon's comment leads me to believe he also has a two digit IQ, say 95 or so, which makes him mentally retarded compared to me and the youngest of my 2 daughters (and probably compared to you as well). So maybe he should do the world a favor and feed himself to the polar bears, since compared to us he's retarded?
The WSJ's no valid citation, either, especially an editorial.