If this continues, my guitar will collect dust for sure, I'm just not talented enough/have the time to come up with an acoustic guitar version of gnarls barkley's 'Crazy'.
The essential question in a capitalist system is "who controls the means of production?"
In a twisted, conspiratorial way, by depriving you of the ability to produce your own music, you are dependent on professional musicians and their agents if you want to enjoy any music.
Do they not have offices or stores that you can go to instead of just calling them for weeks/months on end?
Frankly, if it took that long, I'd consider hiring a lawyer just to call the fucking telco. If they don't fix my problems when my lawyer calls, he will have a very good record of when calls were made, etc., and I can charge/sue/small claims them for my charges, to have my credit rating fixed, and for my lawyer fees.
Actually, if I were a lawyer, I'd seriously consider offering that as a service...
You preserve value the same way you do with eBay--you don't.
If you want to make a lot of money selling $PRODUCT, eBay is not a very good place to do it, particularly when the market is flooded.
This will probably only be used by lazy white-hats who don't want to bother finding a black-market purchaser for their exploit--assuming there are sufficient quantities of supply and demand.
As with many "new overarching central service to do X" stories and sites on/., this one will probably also go down the tubes.
YOU CAN'T BUY EXPLOSIVES WITHOUT PROPER LICENSING/PERMITS/ETC. One shouldn't, and one is not allowed to, but I wouldn't go so far as to assume that one can't acquire explosives.
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You're right.
Kids sent to explosives camp should be given moral guidance first, by sending them to Bible (or $IDEOLOGY) camp!
Whenever a patent is classified as "dumb patent" and the jury has decided that you went to the court with a "dumb reason", you will be requested to pay X times the amount requested to the court and the person/company you sued for wasting everybody's time. You would be put also on a probation period during which suing for "dumb reasons" would increase the X for each time you bother the court with invalid/stupid reasons. No. Very No.
If I'm a small inventor with an idea I want to patent, I would be deterred if my idea is near the subjective line of "dumb"ness.
It is already a risk to have to invest in such an idea and try to sell it. Increasing that risk factor by adding penalties for "dumb" patents will deter small inventors from innovating, or patenting their innovations.
Meanwhile, large patent-whore companies can take the same idea and patent it, with plenty of resources and lawyers to defend their ideas as not being "dumb". Do you really want innovation to be monopolized by large corporations?
A smart inventor will probably have a much lower threshold for thinking an idea "dumb" than a profit-driven corporation with lots of lawyers and a whole patent department.
Has society's attention span gotten so short that we are surprised when news reports on a high-profile new product spans past the Friday it was introduced through the weekend following its introduction?
Or are we just surprised that the iPhone has managed to steal a few seconds of airtime from the whole Paris Hilton thing?
The ironic thing here is that some of the supermarkets have parking spaces outside the lot, but the carts don't roll outside the lots, so sometimes people can't get their shopping back to their cars.
Funny, where I grew up, there were posts around the sidewalk immediately next to the grocery store, and you had to actually do some physical exercise and carry your frickin' groceries to the car.
(Or, if you were lazy, drive the car up to the barriers)
Seems like a much cheaper, simpler, and more effective solution.
As if millions of homeless suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.;-) I don't know how many times I've gone for a nap on a park bench to find my shopping cart stolen when I wake up.
This portable shopping cart antitheft technology is just what the homeless community has been waiting for!
This is not shopping cart DRM. This is the equivalent of putting a strap on your car stereo and bolting it to the frame. Not only that, but a shopping cart is REAL TANGIBLE PROPERTY.
Listen buddy, this is the last empty shopping cart in the store, and I got to it before you did.
Porn-hungry Slashdotters need to get their minds out of the gutter and start thinking about things other than porn. Even though I don't have much to say on TFA, I feel it necessary to balance out the discussion by contributing a comment that does not even mention porn. Not even once!
Pardon the slightly offtopic rant, but there is an article on the AP wire entitled "Moore's 'Sicko' gives accused little say" by Kevin Freking and Linda A. Johnson. (You can find it yourself if you want to, but I'm not about to send them traffic.)
To boil it down to a soundbite (in appropriate MM style), is this quote: "The industry -- doctors, drug makers, hospitals, insurers -- is charged with greed and putting personal interests above patients'.... But one aspect missing from the film is the defense. Do not expect to hear anyone speak well of the care they received in the U.S."
It disgusts me that the mass media like to skirt around issues by claiming things aren't "fair and balanced". If I can't afford to feed my family, what good does it do me to know that my neighbour just had filet mignon for the fifth day in a row?
The issue is not whether the US healthcare system is incapable of producing good results, nor whether the most vulnerable in the country are taken care of. The issue is that there are large parts of the US population that is unserved or underserved by the current health system. They are un(der)served because they are not so poor as to fall under medicare, but they are not so rich as to be able to afford proper health care themselves.
It should not be beyond the capacity of a wealthy, civilized country to ensure that its entire populace--particularly its hard-working middle class--is kept healthy.
(And no, I'm not arguing that Canada has a perfect system, either)
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My boss won't be able to, because she uses a mac.
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Yes, because a fully-functional, modern, open-source, free office suite can be programmed right from scratch.
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"Arrest under New NY Anti-Piracy Law"
I thought New New York only existed in Futurama?
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Anyone else starting to get turned on?
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Yes, and other than the occasional $CRIME, my neighbourhood is 100% safe.
I think the number you were looking for is 95%.
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That's silly. Everyone knows that the 1700s was the century of Linux!
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Yes, and that's probably a contributing factor to it only lasting three days in the lab.
The scientists should have left it in a completely black enclosure.
Instead, they appear to have left it in a surface-lit environment, thereby blinding the octosquid--with science!
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The essential question in a capitalist system is "who controls the means of production?"
In a twisted, conspiratorial way, by depriving you of the ability to produce your own music, you are dependent on professional musicians and their agents if you want to enjoy any music.
- RG>
Do they not have offices or stores that you can go to instead of just calling them for weeks/months on end?
Frankly, if it took that long, I'd consider hiring a lawyer just to call the fucking telco. If they don't fix my problems when my lawyer calls, he will have a very good record of when calls were made, etc., and I can charge/sue/small claims them for my charges, to have my credit rating fixed, and for my lawyer fees.
Actually, if I were a lawyer, I'd seriously consider offering that as a service...
- RG>
You preserve value the same way you do with eBay--you don't.
/., this one will probably also go down the tubes.
If you want to make a lot of money selling $PRODUCT, eBay is not a very good place to do it, particularly when the market is flooded.
This will probably only be used by lazy white-hats who don't want to bother finding a black-market purchaser for their exploit--assuming there are sufficient quantities of supply and demand.
As with many "new overarching central service to do X" stories and sites on
- RG>
- RG>
You're right.
Kids sent to explosives camp should be given moral guidance first, by sending them to Bible (or $IDEOLOGY) camp!
- RG>
If I'm a small inventor with an idea I want to patent, I would be deterred if my idea is near the subjective line of "dumb"ness.
It is already a risk to have to invest in such an idea and try to sell it. Increasing that risk factor by adding penalties for "dumb" patents will deter small inventors from innovating, or patenting their innovations.
Meanwhile, large patent-whore companies can take the same idea and patent it, with plenty of resources and lawyers to defend their ideas as not being "dumb". Do you really want innovation to be monopolized by large corporations?
A smart inventor will probably have a much lower threshold for thinking an idea "dumb" than a profit-driven corporation with lots of lawyers and a whole patent department.
- RG>
The test for obviousness should be that unless someone else has thought of it before, your idea is too obvious!
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Are you kidding me? It's been three fucking days!
Has society's attention span gotten so short that we are surprised when news reports on a high-profile new product spans past the Friday it was introduced through the weekend following its introduction?
Or are we just surprised that the iPhone has managed to steal a few seconds of airtime from the whole Paris Hilton thing?
- RG>
Funny, where I grew up, there were posts around the sidewalk immediately next to the grocery store, and you had to actually do some physical exercise and carry your frickin' groceries to the car.
(Or, if you were lazy, drive the car up to the barriers)
Seems like a much cheaper, simpler, and more effective solution.
- RG>
This portable shopping cart antitheft technology is just what the homeless community has been waiting for!
- RG>
Listen buddy, this is the last empty shopping cart in the store, and I got to it before you did.
It's MINE, dammit!
- RG>
Seriously.
Porn-hungry Slashdotters need to get their minds out of the gutter and start thinking about things other than porn. Even though I don't have much to say on TFA, I feel it necessary to balance out the discussion by contributing a comment that does not even mention porn. Not even once!
- RG>
Pardon the slightly offtopic rant, but there is an article on the AP wire entitled "Moore's 'Sicko' gives accused little say" by Kevin Freking and Linda A. Johnson. (You can find it yourself if you want to, but I'm not about to send them traffic.)
... But one aspect missing from the film is the defense. Do not expect to hear anyone speak well of the care they received in the U.S."
To boil it down to a soundbite (in appropriate MM style), is this quote: "The industry -- doctors, drug makers, hospitals, insurers -- is charged with greed and putting personal interests above patients'.
It disgusts me that the mass media like to skirt around issues by claiming things aren't "fair and balanced". If I can't afford to feed my family, what good does it do me to know that my neighbour just had filet mignon for the fifth day in a row?
The issue is not whether the US healthcare system is incapable of producing good results, nor whether the most vulnerable in the country are taken care of. The issue is that there are large parts of the US population that is unserved or underserved by the current health system. They are un(der)served because they are not so poor as to fall under medicare, but they are not so rich as to be able to afford proper health care themselves.
It should not be beyond the capacity of a wealthy, civilized country to ensure that its entire populace--particularly its hard-working middle class--is kept healthy.
(And no, I'm not arguing that Canada has a perfect system, either)
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No, silly! If it were infinitely small, how could you see the red candy-cane swirl on it?
- RG>
They just don't trust the OEMs anymore. It's the old principle in effect once again--If you want something done wrong, you've got to do it yourself!
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There, I fixed that for you.
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Not quite a Brooklyn accent, but Andy Blitz matches your description closely enough.
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Tsk. If only they had hosted with Google instead of whatever inferior brand they're using, they wouldn't have been slashdotted!
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