You are the equivalant to a fake left opportunist who sucks the cockroaches off the arses of the capitalist pig as well as continuing to be a centrist opportunist tool of the bourgoise orthodox-Trotskyist dog so that you may endeavor to be a Clinton administration adoring ultra-syndicalist anarchist ultra-rightist swine which pervesley gives you satisfaction.
It will be interesting to see how apple attempts to maintain the reputation (accurate or otherwise) of OSX as being stable etc. when people start installing warezed versions on their cousin's compaq or other dodgy pc's. could this have a lowering effect of the overall outlook on apple in the long run? a lot of people won't look at the specifics: "well what do you expect when you install it on THAT" and will chalk it up to the fault of apple.
The idea of an anti-patent patent trust is as old as the hills, but to see this much corporate clout behind it was unthinkable not five years ago. It feels like there's been a sea-change and I like it. More important than helping IBM and Sony fight Microsoft, if this idea gained momentum it could seriously roll back a lot of the current technical stagnation on account of software/algorithm patents.
1. it's not about taste per se as it is a commitment to an art as opposed to a commitment to the dollar/fame.
2. this is possible in the realm of computing for me, but doubtful in music. notify me when they start implementing DRM in vinyl:)
3. i agree it will affect me as DRM has implications beyond "entertainment." i am vehemently opposed to DRM. i think we are on the same team, i just already have a critical view of the "entertainment" (yuck) products that have DRM. DRM is only going to intensify the problem with music in my original post.
i think a lot of people miss the point. DRM doesn't really scare me much because of what it is designed to protect. utter garbage. it's funny that measures are being taken to protect (the profits) "music", movies, etc. that are becoming increasingly trite and just downright mind-numbing and nauseating.
if an artist is dumb enough to do business with a major label (or distributer)that makes use of DRM they probably aren't worth listening to in the first place because they don't make music--they make a neatly packaged commodity. don't try to plead ignorant you know when you are selling out. only in the absurd realm of capitalism do you get people expending large amounts of resources to protect something of little REAL value. it is no wonder that the kinds of artists that are on labels that make use of DRM also hold large, impersonal, and vacuous life performances.
i agree. there is a such thing as a tyranny of the majority. this is why i believe in consensus decision making. of course no formal decision making process is free from corruption or heirarchy i think consensus is as close as good as you can get. in both cases: voting and consensus, virtuous behavior is necessary among the participants. of course consensus is not effective when the number of participants becomes too large and this is why i believe in decentralizations and small communities AND individuals determining their own lives.
however for a MMORPG i figured voting would be fine and i wouldn't get called on by someone like you!:)
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from TFA:
The lichens were subjected to the vacuum of space and to temperatures ranging from -20C on the night side of the Earth, to 20C on the sunlit side. They were also exposed to glaring ultraviolet radiation of the Sun.
The organisms have already been shown to be capable of withstand high levels of UV radiation on Earth.
but then you would be forfeiting your whole experience and investment, thus making it not worth it. they have you. i see what you are saying and i realize there is nothing to hold them accountable unless there is actually one of these MMORPG's out there with a contract providing for democratic control by it's users, but what i am saying is there should be. it only makes sense it seems. voting with your dollars in the case of a MMORPG doesn't really make sense when you get locked into a particular one. its not like switching shampoos.
it seems to me that if you are paying a monthly subscription to play a MMORPG you should have some say in the administration and changes to the game. after all you have a lot at stake in it, monetarily and time spent. why aren't more of these MMORPG companies allowing for more democracy? i for one would be pissed if an update broke my months of time and money spent developing my character etc. furthermore i think the introduction of a little democracy could very well make it more interesting.
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You are the equivalant to a fake left opportunist who sucks the cockroaches off the arses of the capitalist pig as well as continuing to be a centrist opportunist tool of the bourgoise orthodox-Trotskyist dog so that you may endeavor to be a Clinton administration adoring ultra-syndicalist anarchist ultra-rightist swine which pervesley gives you satisfaction.
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stop exploiting mice for your crackpot bullshit. this is stupid and needs to end.
that is outraged by this? this is stupid. i don't like to engage in slippery slope arguments but this is obscene.
This is just going to force people with something to hide underground. uhhh wouldn't people with something to hide be underground regardless?
more surveillance, more repression, more terror, more violence, a society of citizens afraid of each other
anything you want! its dead and can't hear you!
i think its safe to say google is not the knight in shining armour. google is indeed evil(tm). what's next?
the openoffice team would come up with some better icons. the program / file icons make the whole project seem amateurish
so true! ++DIGG
the reputation i am talking about is of course PERCEIVED. in my own experience os x wasn't any more stable than anything else
It will be interesting to see how apple attempts to maintain the reputation (accurate or otherwise) of OSX as being stable etc. when people start installing warezed versions on their cousin's compaq or other dodgy pc's. could this have a lowering effect of the overall outlook on apple in the long run? a lot of people won't look at the specifics: "well what do you expect when you install it on THAT" and will chalk it up to the fault of apple.
Color me cautiously hopeful.
1. it's not about taste per se as it is a commitment to an art as opposed to a commitment to the dollar/fame. 2. this is possible in the realm of computing for me, but doubtful in music. notify me when they start implementing DRM in vinyl :)
3. i agree it will affect me as DRM has implications beyond "entertainment." i am vehemently opposed to DRM. i think we are on the same team, i just already have a critical view of the "entertainment" (yuck) products that have DRM. DRM is only going to intensify the problem with music in my original post.
i think a lot of people miss the point. DRM doesn't really scare me much because of what it is designed to protect. utter garbage. it's funny that measures are being taken to protect (the profits) "music", movies, etc. that are becoming increasingly trite and just downright mind-numbing and nauseating.
if an artist is dumb enough to do business with a major label (or distributer)that makes use of DRM they probably aren't worth listening to in the first place because they don't make music--they make a neatly packaged commodity. don't try to plead ignorant you know when you are selling out. only in the absurd realm of capitalism do you get people expending large amounts of resources to protect something of little REAL value. it is no wonder that the kinds of artists that are on labels that make use of DRM also hold large, impersonal, and vacuous life performances.
however for a MMORPG i figured voting would be fine and i wouldn't get called on by someone like you! :)
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The organisms have already been shown to be capable of withstand high levels of UV radiation on Earth.
but then you would be forfeiting your whole experience and investment, thus making it not worth it. they have you. i see what you are saying and i realize there is nothing to hold them accountable unless there is actually one of these MMORPG's out there with a contract providing for democratic control by it's users, but what i am saying is there should be. it only makes sense it seems. voting with your dollars in the case of a MMORPG doesn't really make sense when you get locked into a particular one. its not like switching shampoos.
it seems to me that if you are paying a monthly subscription to play a MMORPG you should have some say in the administration and changes to the game. after all you have a lot at stake in it, monetarily and time spent. why aren't more of these MMORPG companies allowing for more democracy? i for one would be pissed if an update broke my months of time and money spent developing my character etc. furthermore i think the introduction of a little democracy could very well make it more interesting.
am i the only one concerned about the geographical portion of the addressing and the issues with privacy this brings up?
right-liberterianism is a contradiction in terms. market economies are inherently hierarchical.
so does this at all put sony in hotwater with microsoft legally? perhaps this rootkit, trojan email or not, violates the windows eula.