it must be so thankless being a cop. you're there to protect people, and all they can do is reflexively depart negativity at you
humanity sucks. you are all so ungrateful What a ridiculous view. Tell you what, get rid of the thin blue line, where these supposed good cops are covering the asses of the pricks, and we could talk. As it is, you have the Hollywood view. Undoubtedly there are good cops, and undoubtedly the majority of cops enter service with the best of intentions, but in reality the people that they have power over get fscked. That's us. I don't know if I could do the job...admittedly it's one of the tougher around... but most cops end up either being cockssckers, or covering for them. A tough job, sure, but someone less gentrified than yourself can see the reality: a large number of cops (easily the majority,) no longer deserve that respect. They have, one way or another, become what they claim to be against. And it's a shame... They do one of the hardest jobs around ---one of the most important and honourable ---and because of that, both they and we excuse how their profession turns a blind eye to their typically crappy behaviour.
Oh, no you don't! He's on my beat. As a helpful courtesy to a fellow tradesman, though: Cowboy Neil cashes his checks at the First International Bank of Minas Tirith on the pi and i of every month.
There's a counter-argument of sorts for what you say, or rather a concurrent counter-thread. While I agree that the artists (and in fact entities throughout the entire chain of production costs) should rightly get paid for the product [wince], it's the 95% that makes me belligerent toward the whole industry. I no longer want that 95% (alright, maybe it's 80%) going to a bunch of rich motherfsckers who will gladly assume I am a criminal, have the fortitude and ability to legally crush me regardless of guilt, and use capital to co-opt legislators to alter laws even further in their favour. I feel betrayed by industries I spent a quarter of a century using the majority of my expendable capital supporting. So I don't feel at all good when 5% of my purchase goes to the artist. And I also don't feel good about getting it for free. AFAIC, there is only one option (read, no option): boycott this retarded industry until either the ridiculous state of copyrights changes to balance the rights of the creator and the commons and the capital, or someone comes up with a brand new idea that doesn't fsck me over as the teat that the RIAA clients have been sucking. The current system, IMO, defends the interests of the capital over the other two way too much.
I WANT to pay the artists for this wonderful shit they've given me. But don't excuse the 95% that goes to eroding the commons, buying politicians, and ruining peoples lives along the way. It's the same 95% that eats up and devours many of these artists as well as their customers.
It's shitty that Art has come to this. Who turned the things that inspire humanity into a commodity market?
I may be completely off-base here, but when I see the UK differentiate itself from the rest of Europe (in cases of large, non-engineered or spontaneous metrics), I think the simple solution is best: it's an assertion (most likely unconscious) of "Englishness" in the face of a (somewhat) conglomerated continental Europe. That may be wrong, but as an outsider, it seems to fit with a great deal of English behaviour, just as a great deal of behaviour and self-definition here in Canada seems to be an assertion of "Canadianness" in the face of the US.
Okay, I'd be a criminal if I did something which caused no damage and didn't lead to an actual loss. Now I'd be a criminal if I unsuccessfully tried to do something which would cause no damage or loss.
We at MADA, Mother's Against Drunk Astronauts, find this horribly disturbing. It's just reckless. E.T. could be flying along on his bike, and POW!, another senseless, avoidable death. Won't someone think of the children^Waliens?
It may be a more robust transistor when dealing with shocks or heat, but I wonder if the same claim can be made for material wear. They'd be some diamond-like carbon structure, sure, but do we really know how robust those would be under such conditions (billions of jitters/sec rubbing against other pieces)? It could cause part wear or moving of parts, I would think....
While I agree the current system doesn't work (in fact, it's absolute garbage which likely exacerbates the problem), pretty much everything else you've said is crap, IMO. I've been to quite a few reserves in Manitoba, and I don't see very many silver spoons in people's mouths. There are plenty of reserves that are absolute holes, where residents don't even own the crappy thirty year old run-down trailers they live in (not allowed to own them on some reserves, from my understanding). No sewage, no garbage pick up, no pavement, mud, no jobs, a laissez faire attitude by the RCMP toward crime (hence lots of juvenile vandalism, arson etc.). What's the option? Move to the city and get a job? Kind of tough when the immediate assumption by too many people, yourself included (I'd guess), is "lazy Indian expecting free hand outs.".
AFAICT, it isn't "current land claims they are proposing", but existing agreements they want honoured. Personally, I want my government to keep its word, even if it costs me. Some of these treaties are fairly recent (government agreements with natives during the world wars to get them to fight etc).
And since when did non-violent civil disobedience become "terrorist antics". You might as well paint Rosa Parks with the same brush.
If 45% of your taxes are largely going to the Indians, you need a new accountant (either that, or I need yours).
being single, white, male and in my thirties, I can speak out, but I have no recourse, I want my government to honour its agreements. Who knows, it might help.
Before Europeans came to North America, the native people would use every part of a broadcast signal, instead of wasting it like we do nowadays. Apparently they did the same thing with bison.
1. Assume I, as a Canadian, am a criminal, or at least paint me with the same brush.
2. Stop an industry-standard practice which works both as advertisement and as a consumer appreciation gesture.
3. ???
Sorry, I don't really see how I could work a "4. Profit" in there. A policy which suggests I may be a criminal isn't going to endear me to your industry, MPAA.
...that the Internet is a delivery system for eco-friendly porn (by lowering our consumption of glossy paper). That's why Al Gore invented it, right? To save the environment?
Employees suggest updating your fire insurance before buying any of their games, since the newly patented pyro-realism features are sure to turn the gaming world upside down!
I grew up at the end of the cold war. I was in High School when the Wall came down in Germany. Even more importantly; but not given as much credit the people of Poland taking action. We don't want to end up there again. You think Iran scary????? Think again. There was REAL fear then. Russia can nuke the continental US. And a considerable amount of it. If you are in your teens or even early twenties you don't understand; you didn't have to live with it.
High school in the eighties? Gee, nobody on/. can understand that, ole timer! When people tell me there was real fear in the fifties and sixties, I'm forced to accept that, since I wasn't around. You might have been afraid in the eighties, but I thought after Gorbachev came into power many people became optimistic regarding the end of the Cold War. Perestroika and Glasnost seemed like very positive reform ideas, and Reagan and Gorbachev were more than civil to each other.
I think I bought my turntable in 91, or maybe 92. I think (but you make a good point, I should really know if I bought to brand, not quality) B & O quality was still considered as excellent by people in the know.
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Really, though, what's terrorism? The media (and gubbermint) use the term pretty much indiscriminately. One of my local news stations referred to the massacre today as an "act of terror". I don't know what the guy's reason was, but there was a girlfriend angle suggested. If that is considered terrorism, then the word has become meaningless. I'd rather not trust a gubbermint (or media) linking reality and meaningless (but evocative) definitions.
The M-Audio looks like a great product. I don't know about the Numark, though. I'd trust my Bang & Olafsen for the mechanical/material quality over a turntable with uncertain quality. I suppose it could be deceptive, but $165 price tag puts it in the lower range of turntables, AFAIC. Then there's always the possibility of only being able to find low or mid-grade styluses.
Really? If you try to install Windows 98 on an old enough machine it might not work! That's what happens. Technology marches on. The old must be left behind eventually or the new will get too bogged down to move forward.
Sleeps-With-DRM: I'm sorry, but old Runs-On-DOS will have to be left behind.
Plays-With-Kernel: But chief, I love Runs-On-DOS!
Sleeps-With-DRM: It's for the good of the tribe, she can't chew the instruction set anymore. It is our way.
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Could your please forward your comment to http:/// www.un.org?user=user&pass=pass&query=INSERT%20INTO %20MainTable%VALUES%20('[your comment]').
Thank you. This could be most helpful.
"It was the best of times, it was the blerst of times---"
AH, you stupid monkeys, try again:
"Item:270008 Date:2007/04/06 Time:19:27:32 To/From:Data Transfer Type:...."
I don't think the naysayers are really seeing the potential of this billing format.
humanity sucks. you are all so ungrateful What a ridiculous view. Tell you what, get rid of the thin blue line, where these supposed good cops are covering the asses of the pricks, and we could talk. As it is, you have the Hollywood view. Undoubtedly there are good cops, and undoubtedly the majority of cops enter service with the best of intentions, but in reality the people that they have power over get fscked. That's us. I don't know if I could do the job...admittedly it's one of the tougher around... but most cops end up either being cockssckers, or covering for them. A tough job, sure, but someone less gentrified than yourself can see the reality: a large number of cops (easily the majority,) no longer deserve that respect. They have, one way or another, become what they claim to be against. And it's a shame... They do one of the hardest jobs around ---one of the most important and honourable ---and because of that, both they and we excuse how their profession turns a blind eye to their typically crappy behaviour.
Oh, no you don't! He's on my beat. As a helpful courtesy to a fellow tradesman, though: Cowboy Neil cashes his checks at the First International Bank of Minas Tirith on the pi and i of every month.
There's a counter-argument of sorts for what you say, or rather a concurrent counter-thread. While I agree that the artists (and in fact entities throughout the entire chain of production costs) should rightly get paid for the product [wince], it's the 95% that makes me belligerent toward the whole industry. I no longer want that 95% (alright, maybe it's 80%) going to a bunch of rich motherfsckers who will gladly assume I am a criminal, have the fortitude and ability to legally crush me regardless of guilt, and use capital to co-opt legislators to alter laws even further in their favour. I feel betrayed by industries I spent a quarter of a century using the majority of my expendable capital supporting. So I don't feel at all good when 5% of my purchase goes to the artist. And I also don't feel good about getting it for free. AFAIC, there is only one option (read, no option): boycott this retarded industry until either the ridiculous state of copyrights changes to balance the rights of the creator and the commons and the capital, or someone comes up with a brand new idea that doesn't fsck me over as the teat that the RIAA clients have been sucking. The current system, IMO, defends the interests of the capital over the other two way too much.
I WANT to pay the artists for this wonderful shit they've given me. But don't excuse the 95% that goes to eroding the commons, buying politicians, and ruining peoples lives along the way. It's the same 95% that eats up and devours many of these artists as well as their customers.
It's shitty that Art has come to this. Who turned the things that inspire humanity into a commodity market?
I may be completely off-base here, but when I see the UK differentiate itself from the rest of Europe (in cases of large, non-engineered or spontaneous metrics), I think the simple solution is best: it's an assertion (most likely unconscious) of "Englishness" in the face of a (somewhat) conglomerated continental Europe. That may be wrong, but as an outsider, it seems to fit with a great deal of English behaviour, just as a great deal of behaviour and self-definition here in Canada seems to be an assertion of "Canadianness" in the face of the US.
Okay, I'd be a criminal if I did something which caused no damage and didn't lead to an actual loss. Now I'd be a criminal if I unsuccessfully tried to do something which would cause no damage or loss.
Well fsck me.
Kafka wasn't a prophet, he was an architect.
This is just ridiculous.
We at MADA, Mother's Against Drunk Astronauts, find this horribly disturbing. It's just reckless. E.T. could be flying along on his bike, and POW!, another senseless, avoidable death. Won't someone think of the children^Waliens?
Oh, come on, man! Zed's dead.
I needed that copper to buy diapers, you insensitive clod!
It may be a more robust transistor when dealing with shocks or heat, but I wonder if the same claim can be made for material wear. They'd be some diamond-like carbon structure, sure, but do we really know how robust those would be under such conditions (billions of jitters/sec rubbing against other pieces)? It could cause part wear or moving of parts, I would think....
Still, good on 'em....
What a bunch of horsesh*t.
While I agree the current system doesn't work (in fact, it's absolute garbage which likely exacerbates the problem), pretty much everything else you've said is crap, IMO. I've been to quite a few reserves in Manitoba, and I don't see very many silver spoons in people's mouths. There are plenty of reserves that are absolute holes, where residents don't even own the crappy thirty year old run-down trailers they live in (not allowed to own them on some reserves, from my understanding). No sewage, no garbage pick up, no pavement, mud, no jobs, a laissez faire attitude by the RCMP toward crime (hence lots of juvenile vandalism, arson etc.). What's the option? Move to the city and get a job? Kind of tough when the immediate assumption by too many people, yourself included (I'd guess), is "lazy Indian expecting free hand outs.".
AFAICT, it isn't "current land claims they are proposing", but existing agreements they want honoured. Personally, I want my government to keep its word, even if it costs me. Some of these treaties are fairly recent (government agreements with natives during the world wars to get them to fight etc).
And since when did non-violent civil disobedience become "terrorist antics". You might as well paint Rosa Parks with the same brush.
If 45% of your taxes are largely going to the Indians, you need a new accountant (either that, or I need yours).
being single, white, male and in my thirties, I can speak out, but I have no recourse, I want my government to honour its agreements. Who knows, it might help.
Hey, at least they came out!
Before Europeans came to North America, the native people would use every part of a broadcast signal, instead of wasting it like we do nowadays. Apparently they did the same thing with bison.
Now you know!
1. Assume I, as a Canadian, am a criminal, or at least paint me with the same brush.
2. Stop an industry-standard practice which works both as advertisement and as a consumer appreciation gesture.
3. ???
Sorry, I don't really see how I could work a "4. Profit" in there. A policy which suggests I may be a criminal isn't going to endear me to your industry, MPAA.
...that the Internet is a delivery system for eco-friendly porn (by lowering our consumption of glossy paper). That's why Al Gore invented it, right? To save the environment?
Employees suggest updating your fire insurance before buying any of their games, since the newly patented pyro-realism features are sure to turn the gaming world upside down!
Does the BoingBoing picture remind anyone else of a promotional picture for Ubuntu? Or is it just me?
I grew up at the end of the cold war. I was in High School when the Wall came down in Germany. Even more importantly; but not given as much credit the people of Poland taking action. We don't want to end up there again. You think Iran scary????? Think again. There was REAL fear then. Russia can nuke the continental US. And a considerable amount of it. If you are in your teens or even early twenties you don't understand; you didn't have to live with it.
/. can understand that, ole timer! When people tell me there was real fear in the fifties and sixties, I'm forced to accept that, since I wasn't around. You might have been afraid in the eighties, but I thought after Gorbachev came into power many people became optimistic regarding the end of the Cold War. Perestroika and Glasnost seemed like very positive reform ideas, and Reagan and Gorbachev were more than civil to each other.
High school in the eighties? Gee, nobody on
Is there any way we can accelerate this process for Gigli?
Step 6: Replace chairs.
I think I bought my turntable in 91, or maybe 92. I think (but you make a good point, I should really know if I bought to brand, not quality) B & O quality was still considered as excellent by people in the know.
I'm sorry, your post has been redacted. All references to: " for endetta" hae been modified. In the future, oluntary compliance is demanded. Please reiew your posting procedures.
Really, though, what's terrorism? The media (and gubbermint) use the term pretty much indiscriminately. One of my local news stations referred to the massacre today as an "act of terror". I don't know what the guy's reason was, but there was a girlfriend angle suggested. If that is considered terrorism, then the word has become meaningless. I'd rather not trust a gubbermint (or media) linking reality and meaningless (but evocative) definitions.
The M-Audio looks like a great product. I don't know about the Numark, though. I'd trust my Bang & Olafsen for the mechanical/material quality over a turntable with uncertain quality. I suppose it could be deceptive, but $165 price tag puts it in the lower range of turntables, AFAIC. Then there's always the possibility of only being able to find low or mid-grade styluses.
Really? If you try to install Windows 98 on an old enough machine it might not work! That's what happens. Technology marches on. The old must be left behind eventually or the new will get too bogged down to move forward.
Sleeps-With-DRM: I'm sorry, but old Runs-On-DOS will have to be left behind.
Plays-With-Kernel: But chief, I love Runs-On-DOS!
Sleeps-With-DRM: It's for the good of the tribe, she can't chew the instruction set anymore. It is our way.