Actually, they will. Over the air broadcasting will stil be there, just not analog. The rabbit ears will pick up the digital signals just fine. I already have my converter box coupon.
Rabbit ears also make an excellent FM radio antenna.
I believe that in some countries downloading is in fact illegal (e.g. Btitain), but in the US it's perfectly legal to download. Here in the US if you want to download RIAA music all you have to is uncheck the box that says to share downloaded stuff. Of course if you're like me you COULD leave it checked (I only want indie stuff; the RIAA labels need to die yesterday) but then you run the risk of downloading RIAA stuff by mistake and still running afoul of civil law.
I doubt the defense you picture would stand up in court easily. Maybe if you had OJ's lawyer.
I don't know, perhaps you're right, but tobacco is (so I've heard) a diggicult crop to grow, while marijuana is as easy to grow as dandelions. Non-farming city-clickers I know grow tomatos every summer just because the ones you buy in the store taste like cardboard.
More likely astroturfers. I hope when they mod something flamebait and the comment is eventually modded "insightful" despite their mod, their karma goes into the toilet.
Many businesses are depending entirely on ads and search results
That's THEIR problem, isn't it? I'm really getting sick of these corporations getting bent out of shape because I don't use the internet like they want me to. "Oh noes they is using Google instead of my own shitty internal search!" "Oh noes they be using google instead of clicking on my blinkey shiney ads!" "Ohe noes they uses adblock to avoid my annoying blinkey shiney ads!"
I've gotten to the point that if I see any advertising for a particular company I avoid its wares entirely if possible, and the more annoying and full of lies it is the more I avoid it.
Every day I think I couln't possible be more disgusted with the corporations, and every day they still manage to top the previous day. Their contempt for their customers seems to have no bounds.
Information, due to its nature, tends to freedom. That doesn't make a catchy slogan though.
What's wrong with "information should be free?" Or how about "when information isn't free, neither are you"?
Marijuana, by its nature, tends to cost about $40 for 1/8 oz.
Actually that's incorrect too. Marijuana doesn't cost $40 for 1/8 oz because of the nature of marijuana, but by the nature of the laws against it. Were it legal it probably would be free, since it's so easy to grow.
"Lagle" is a typo. It should be "legal". And pedantry doesn't want to be anything either, but it can be annoying. But not nearly as annoying as something blatantly false and stupid that makes its utterer look like a fool. As I said, I want information to be free, and when you say "information wants to be free" it makes MY position look stupid.
feel the USA is in for some really hard times economically in general
I had to read the book Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen in a general studies history class back in the lat 1970s, and it is a very good book; very readable and interesting.
And scary. There are alarming similarities between the Bish years and the Coolige years.
which Sony Exec would do time? The US exec or the Japanese exec?
Before Skylarof I'd say the US exec. My preferance would be both, plus the entire board of directors. Yes, I was bitten by their rootkit when my daughter, who worked at a record store, trusted them and executed one of the programs on the CD (autoplay was shut off).
a government sanctioned monopoly like a cable company should be more likely to comply with laws than a multinational that just doesn't care
Well, of course, since they're more likely to have paid for those laws in the first place.
Well, we could say it's a lot like "Huckleberry Finn", only that wouldn't make a whole lot of sense.
I beg to differ, young man! Have you actually read said tome? It's public domain and online in several places. I shall quote the first part of chapter II:
WE went tiptoeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads. When we was passing by the kitchen I fell over a root and made a noise. We scrouched down and laid still. Miss Watson's big nigger, named Jim, was setting in the kitchen door; we could see him pretty clear, because there was a light behind him. He got up and stretched his neck out about a minute, listening. Then he says:
"Who dah?"
He listened some more; then he come tiptoeing down and stood right between us; we could a touched him, nearly. Well, likely it was minutes and minutes that there warn't a sound, and we all there so close together. There was a place on my ankle that got to itching, but I dasn't scratch it; and then my ear begun to itch; and next my back, right between my shoulders. Seemed like I'd die if I couldn't scratch. Well, I've noticed that thing plenty times since. If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy -- if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places. Pretty soon Jim says:
"Say, who is you? Whar is you? Dog my cats ef I didn' hear sumf'n. Well, I know what I's gwyne to do: I's gwyne to set down here and listen tell I hears it agin."
So he set down on the ground betwixt me and Tom. He leaned his back up against a tree, and stretched his legs out till one of them most touched one of mine. My nose begun to itch. It itched till the tears come into my eyes. But I dasn't scratch. Then it begun to itch on the inside. Next I got to itching underneath. I didn't know how I was going to set still. This miserableness went on as much as six or seven minutes; but it seemed a sight longer than that. I was itching in eleven different places now. I reckoned I couldn't stand it more'n a minute longer, but I set my teeth hard and got ready to try. Just then Jim begun to breathe heavy; next he begun to snore -- and then I was pretty soon comfortable again.
Tom he made a sign to me -- kind of a little noise with his mouth -- and we went creeping away on our hands and knees. When we was ten foot off Tom whispered to me, and wanted to tie Jim to the tree for fun. But I said no; he might wake and make a disturbance, and then they'd find out I warn't in. Then Tom said he hadn't got candles enough, and he would slip in the kitchen and get some more. I didn't want him to try. I said Jim might wake up and come. But Tom wanted to resk it; so we slid in there and got three candles, and Tom laid five cents on the table for pay. Then we got out, and I was in a sweat to get away; but nothing would do Tom but he must crawl to where Jim was, on his hands and knees, and play something on him. I waited, and it seemed a good while, everything was so still and lonesome.
Yeah, it was low tech but gees it was the 1800s! Back then they thought to go to the moon you'd be shot from a cannon.
The public domain is a good place. Too bad he's dead, Jim.
I guess then you stick a picture of an empty room in front of it.
Naaah...goatse.
You guys call yourselves nerds? Pshaw! Duct tape? Pictures of goatse? We can do better than that! Find the nastiest, most offensive (yet legal of course, no kittie porn you sicko) video you can and have it repeat itself. Take the damned converter box apart, cut the damned camera wires and splice your video output there.
OR take out the camera, extend the wires, and stick it pointing out the window.
OR if you're a REALLY smart uber nerd who makes me and most of us look like this guy, hack into Comcast's internal security network, find the feed from the camera in their restroom (you know a corporation this evil HAS to have cameras in the rest rooms) and patch THAT in.
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Actually, they will. Over the air broadcasting will stil be there, just not analog. The rabbit ears will pick up the digital signals just fine. I already have my converter box coupon.
Rabbit ears also make an excellent FM radio antenna.
Link and link and a more detailed link
Well, one out of two ain't bad!
I believe that in some countries downloading is in fact illegal (e.g. Btitain), but in the US it's perfectly legal to download. Here in the US if you want to download RIAA music all you have to is uncheck the box that says to share downloaded stuff. Of course if you're like me you COULD leave it checked (I only want indie stuff; the RIAA labels need to die yesterday) but then you run the risk of downloading RIAA stuff by mistake and still running afoul of civil law.
I doubt the defense you picture would stand up in court easily. Maybe if you had OJ's lawyer.
I don't know, perhaps you're right, but tobacco is (so I've heard) a diggicult crop to grow, while marijuana is as easy to grow as dandelions. Non-farming city-clickers I know grow tomatos every summer just because the ones you buy in the store taste like cardboard.
If they legalized pot I know I'd be growing it!
Novels tend to be full of analogies, metaphors, similes, and other devices of abstraction
They also tend to be fiction.
Monopoly? Google's no monopoly! They're #1 but that's because they're the best. Yahoo gets a lot of secrch traffic, even Microsoft does.
It's a perfectly promulent word.
You misspelled "cromulent".
OH SHI- ...fanboys!
More likely astroturfers. I hope when they mod something flamebait and the comment is eventually modded "insightful" despite their mod, their karma goes into the toilet.
Many businesses are depending entirely on ads and search results
That's THEIR problem, isn't it? I'm really getting sick of these corporations getting bent out of shape because I don't use the internet like they want me to. "Oh noes they is using Google instead of my own shitty internal search!" "Oh noes they be using google instead of clicking on my blinkey shiney ads!" "Ohe noes they uses adblock to avoid my annoying blinkey shiney ads!"
I've gotten to the point that if I see any advertising for a particular company I avoid its wares entirely if possible, and the more annoying and full of lies it is the more I avoid it.
Every day I think I couln't possible be more disgusted with the corporations, and every day they still manage to top the previous day. Their contempt for their customers seems to have no bounds.
I didn't know it was even on CD; my CD of it is sampled from a cassette that was recorded from vinyl.
Information, due to its nature, tends to freedom. That doesn't make a catchy slogan though.
What's wrong with "information should be free?" Or how about "when information isn't free, neither are you"?
Marijuana, by its nature, tends to cost about $40 for 1/8 oz.
Actually that's incorrect too. Marijuana doesn't cost $40 for 1/8 oz because of the nature of marijuana, but by the nature of the laws against it. Were it legal it probably would be free, since it's so easy to grow.
You must get absolutely no pleasure out of reading novels
I'm sorry, I really didn't understand that. Can you please explain it to this old doddering fool?
And wtf is "lagle"?
"Lagle" is a typo. It should be "legal". And pedantry doesn't want to be anything either, but it can be annoying. But not nearly as annoying as something blatantly false and stupid that makes its utterer look like a fool. As I said, I want information to be free, and when you say "information wants to be free" it makes MY position look stupid.
feel the USA is in for some really hard times economically in general
I had to read the book Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen in a general studies history class back in the lat 1970s, and it is a very good book; very readable and interesting.
And scary. There are alarming similarities between the Bish years and the Coolige years.
I have no pitty
I do, and I pity you, fool. BTW I have good health insurance. Many people I know don't.
Amen to that!
Universal heathcare is something more suited to the Soviet Union
No, it's more suited to Europe, Canada, Maxico, Cuba, China, and how about Holland and Finland, where they have far more freedom then we fools do?
Go ahead and drink the neocon kookaid the insurance companies are feeding you.
I despise Comcast, but thought the fellow should at least be allowed to defend himself.
But he didn't defend himself, YOU defended him. If he wanted to defend himself he could come to slashdot and defend HIMSELF.
Instead he unwittingly found an unwitting tool to do his dirty work for him.
Now go sit in time out, you naughty boy.
which Sony Exec would do time? The US exec or the Japanese exec?
Before Skylarof I'd say the US exec. My preferance would be both, plus the entire board of directors. Yes, I was bitten by their rootkit when my daughter, who worked at a record store, trusted them and executed one of the programs on the CD (autoplay was shut off).
a government sanctioned monopoly like a cable company should be more likely to comply with laws than a multinational that just doesn't care
Well, of course, since they're more likely to have paid for those laws in the first place.
Great comment BTW
Nice straw man. I'm talking about FINES, not merchandice.
We were talking about it at Comcast over 5 years ago
Have you resigned, or are you still evil?
I'd just drape a white towel over the camera and smile as I am deluged with ads for snowshoes, fur coats, and skis.
I think considering how stupid this idea is, they would probably deluge you with the other snow.
Unfortunately, too many people will find this handy and think outloud, "I have nothing to hide." Where does it end?
Well, it's still legal but do you really want anybody to know that you huff Kittens you sick bastard???
Huh???
Yeah I thought not!
-mcgrew (hey, there's a page about You, too!)
I beg to differ, young man! Have you actually read said tome? It's public domain and online in several places. I shall quote the first part of chapter II:Yeah, it was low tech but gees it was the 1800s! Back then they thought to go to the moon you'd be shot from a cannon.
The public domain is a good place. Too bad he's dead, Jim.
-mcgrew
OR take out the camera, extend the wires, and stick it pointing out the window.
OR if you're a REALLY smart uber nerd who makes me and most of us look like this guy, hack into Comcast's internal security network, find the feed from the camera in their restroom (you know a corporation this evil HAS to have cameras in the rest rooms) and patch THAT in.
-mcgrew