Maybe they'll have to take out a mortgage on the state capitol./sarcasm
Maybe we should just sell the Governor's Mansion, Governot Blag hasn't slept there once! He lives in Chicago and stays in a hotel when he's here in Springfield.
That's why I'm voting Green this November. I don't even know the candidate's name, but damn it, I'm calling him/her "none of the above". I'm not wasting my vote on a winner this time, I'm wisely casting it for a loser. Because if I stay home, it's not a protest, I'm seen as apathetic.
You know, I used to consider myself "pro choice" on this; how can I be libertarian (note small "l") and not?
But I've been thinking recently, we keep harping about a "woman's right to choose", what about a MAN'S right to choose? I've changed my mind; I'm anti-abortion.
If I knock some chick up, she can abort it whether I want the child or not. If she wants it, I have to pay for it. I have no choice whatever! "Well you should have thought of that before you had sex".
So should she, especially since she has access to birth control and I don't! If I have no choice, she shouldn't either.
A law saying that she can have an abortion when both parents want it would be fine with me.
Also, why should a woman have a choice to take a few cells out but no choice to take a drug?
Note that I raised both of my kids myself, we're talking theory here.
True; it is up to both the customer and business owner to maintain the business relationship. If a customer is too expensive (say, your customer runs off other customers) you have every right and probably obligation to dump him as a customer.
But too many business owners (e.g., record companies) think they are ENTITLED to money. You're not. You're only entitled to money customers are willing to trade for your goods or services.
Copyright infringement is stealing intellectual property.
No, it isn't. If I steal your car, you have no car. If you infringe my copyright, I still retain my copyright; I have lost nothing. This isn't saying infringing copyright is morally correct; I get pissed off when someone plagairizes my stuff. But it ISN'T stealing.
Yes, they can decode tones up to half the sample rate (nyquist limit). However, the closer to the nyquist limit, the more aliasing there is. A 16k tone has only 3 samples per wave crest. You can't discern between a sawtooth wave, square wave, or a sine wave with only 3 samples per crest.
Since no one at disney works in the heat, or has to keep a happy face on at all times, or deal with irate customers
Were you being sarcastic?
I worked at Disney World from 1980 to 1985. I quit after having a heat stroke.
Now, they may have changed things where nobody works in the heat any more (it HAS been 20 years) but I doubt seriously they changed the "happy face" requirement.
But if even that improbability is true, saying you never have to deal with irate customers isn't. I don't believe you ever worked with the public; the public sucks.
Rich people are fucking assholes; at least, 90% of them are. They expect to be treated better than you would treat God Himself; but it isn't hard to understand, as you don't get rich without being selfish.
Give one of these rich bastards what they want and 20 normal people become (understandably) irate.
The worst of them are the famous rich assholes. There are a few, like Dan Ankroyd or the late Buddy Hackett, who are very personable, nice salt-of the-earth types. But for every John Belushi there are ten Christopher Crosses. I remember that asshat well, he was a one hit wonder with a song called "Sailing" on empty-v at the time, irate because I didn't recognise him.
"Don't you know who I am?"
"Of course, sir. You're a valued guest at Disney!"
But don't you know who I am?!!
Fucking dickhead. Or the professional golfer, he was mad enough when I didn't realize who he was but got REALLY pissed when I admitted it was because I hated golf (oops).
We found a sure-fire way of dealing with an irate "guest" (what they call their customers), I don't know if they still do it. It worked on the principle that it's hard to tell what's real there; the things that look real usually weren't, and the fake looking things were real.
The "cast member" (what they call their employees) would start making funny, jerking movements with his arme, talk funny and go rigid, and three more "cast members" would run up. Two would lift the original guy up and carry him away, and the third would say to the cus... er, guest "I'm sorry, sir, I'm afraid that unit needs a little maintenance. May I help you?"
I really don't want to trawl through Limewire's code but I guess I'll have to.
I simply want a P2P app that will keep me from getting sued. When I download a file, how in the hell am I supposed to know the copyright owner doesn't want it downloaded? Any real artist wants his/her stuff seen/heard. You're not going to sell me a song I haven't heard.
Say I hear a song on the local college station; they play local and regional bands some times that WANT to be heard. Say I hear this song "scatterbrain" and think it's hilarious, but have no idea who made the song.
Punch "scatterbrain" into Limewire and you'll discover hundreds of different songs by different artists by that name.
If my P2P client wouldn't DL into a shared folder I would be in the clear. That's not "Lost Boys"' scatterbrain, but instead Todd Rungren's? I'm s(cr)ued.
Note that downloading is legal, it's UPLOADING that's not. I want to upload stuff that the owners want uploaded, and download anything I damned well please.
Oh well, I guess I need to start studying that code. I HATE the C language too >=(
You go on and on about putting your band's songs on MySpace and how you can't get anybdoy to buy your albums, what little hick town does your band play in? The last 30 or so CDs I've bought have been from local bands.
They're not pushing them either, I usually have to go up and ask "hey, man, you guys got a CD?"
Your posting a/c makes me suspicious, somehow. What's the name of your band? URL? Kind of music? Agenda?
If you get caught STEALING a CD from WalMart, it's about a hundred dollar fine. If the RIAA catches you DLing Britney's horrible crap it will cost you thousands of dollars.
So those who say "but your steeling whn u DL" can STFU, OK?
or maybe they can arrest you for incitement to commit a crime: Advocacy of Unlawful Action and the "Incitement Test" for which the penalty is likely to be greater than simple trespass.
That's like why copyright infringement is NOT stealing. You can actually go to prison on a Federal felony for breaking DVD's brain dead copy "protection", but if you get caught shoplifting the DVD from a store it's a $100 misdemeanor.
And what's the masses' justification for "free music"? Is it "the turning point of a new global consciousness, or is it "w00t! free shit!"?
No, it's "OMFG I got an email from someone in AUSTRALIA who heard our band! How fucking cool is THAT!" And the guy in Australia is going "w00t! free shit!"
Give me a nice list of all the legitimate (read: legal) uses for LimeWire, and I'll believe you.
All? You want ALL the legit reasons for using Limewire?
Do you have any idea how many bands out there WANT their stuff shared? I'll give you a hint: it's damned near every single one with a non-major label CD. And there are ten times as many of those as there are RIAA bands.
The labels don't want to stop your sharing "Staynd". You can sample a better MP3 of it off the radio, if you actually wanted to hear that whiney minor key shit.
No, they want to kill P2P so my friends, who are competetitors to the majors' bands, can't get THEIR music out!
Here, Have some free MP3s (scroll to the bottom for 4 CDs worth). Or if you prefer lossless, here are some more friends in a different band.
Two are by no means "all" but it should give you a start.
Hosting those multimegabyte files is expensive. P2P is free. Every unsigned band is a legitimate reason for Limewire.
I like WQNA "The Edge". You might hear punk, you might hear jazz, you might hear soul, you might hear anything. I once heard, in order, a Johnny Cash song followed by a Dead Kennedys song followed by a Frank Sinatra song!
A friend of mine does the blues show there on Sunday afternoons (hi, Mike!)
How did that get rated "insightful?" I've seen more insight from a five year old!
He didn't say he went to Wal Mart to shoplift, he said he refused to go there. Oh, you're equating copyright infringement with stealing. Well, I'll leave it to someone else to explain the difference to you, I can't seem to find small enough words to explain it to an RIAA shill.
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That is as landing between a rock and a hard place : there is no way you can make a good choice. But you are forced to make one anyway.
That's why I'm voting for the third party loser Whatisface. I'm not throwing my vote away on a winner this time!
Maybe they'll have to take out a mortgage on the state capitol. /sarcasm
Maybe we should just sell the Governor's Mansion, Governot Blag hasn't slept there once! He lives in Chicago and stays in a hotel when he's here in Springfield.
Yes, it's not a law until he signs it, but he can't sign it until it's been passed by both houses.
By the time he signs it it has passed. When he gets it he can veto it, sign it, or let it sit on his desk and it will automatically become law.
But he can't pass a law. He can't even introduce a law, he has to get someone else to do it for him.
That's why I'm voting Green this November. I don't even know the candidate's name, but damn it, I'm calling him/her "none of the above". I'm not wasting my vote on a winner this time, I'm wisely casting it for a loser. Because if I stay home, it's not a protest, I'm seen as apathetic.
That's why I'm voting loser party next time.
2. Outlawing abortion.
You know, I used to consider myself "pro choice" on this; how can I be libertarian (note small "l") and not?
But I've been thinking recently, we keep harping about a "woman's right to choose", what about a MAN'S right to choose? I've changed my mind; I'm anti-abortion.
If I knock some chick up, she can abort it whether I want the child or not. If she wants it, I have to pay for it. I have no choice whatever! "Well you should have thought of that before you had sex".
So should she, especially since she has access to birth control and I don't! If I have no choice, she shouldn't either.
A law saying that she can have an abortion when both parents want it would be fine with me.
Also, why should a woman have a choice to take a few cells out but no choice to take a drug?
Note that I raised both of my kids myself, we're talking theory here.
I think he was quoting a Dylan lyric
Every business has customers like that, but you made it sound like it was a lot, "I seem to attract them". It's just taht assholes always stand out.
The difference in the waveform's shape. A sine wave doesn't sound like a square wave, which doesn't sound like a sawtooth wave.
I've got one forming anyway. But if I didn't I'd use the drops; all they would ruin is the lens, which is what's replaced with the IOD.
Ah, ok, my bad then
Harsh? Everyone dies. I'm not calling for his execution. I'm just saying he's scum, a waste of oxygen.
True; it is up to both the customer and business owner to maintain the business relationship. If a customer is too expensive (say, your customer runs off other customers) you have every right and probably obligation to dump him as a customer.
But too many business owners (e.g., record companies) think they are ENTITLED to money. You're not. You're only entitled to money customers are willing to trade for your goods or services.
Copyright infringement is stealing intellectual property.
No, it isn't. If I steal your car, you have no car. If you infringe my copyright, I still retain my copyright; I have lost nothing. This isn't saying infringing copyright is morally correct; I get pissed off when someone plagairizes my stuff. But it ISN'T stealing.
Hey, you're right. Thanks!
Yes, they can decode tones up to half the sample rate (nyquist limit). However, the closer to the nyquist limit, the more aliasing there is. A 16k tone has only 3 samples per wave crest. You can't discern between a sawtooth wave, square wave, or a sine wave with only 3 samples per crest.
Since no one at disney works in the heat, or has to keep a happy face on at all times, or deal with irate customers
Were you being sarcastic?
I worked at Disney World from 1980 to 1985. I quit after having a heat stroke.
Now, they may have changed things where nobody works in the heat any more (it HAS been 20 years) but I doubt seriously they changed the "happy face" requirement.
But if even that improbability is true, saying you never have to deal with irate customers isn't. I don't believe you ever worked with the public; the public sucks.
Rich people are fucking assholes; at least, 90% of them are. They expect to be treated better than you would treat God Himself; but it isn't hard to understand, as you don't get rich without being selfish.
Give one of these rich bastards what they want and 20 normal people become (understandably) irate.
The worst of them are the famous rich assholes. There are a few, like Dan Ankroyd or the late Buddy Hackett, who are very personable, nice salt-of the-earth types. But for every John Belushi there are ten Christopher Crosses. I remember that asshat well, he was a one hit wonder with a song called "Sailing" on empty-v at the time, irate because I didn't recognise him.
"Don't you know who I am?"
"Of course, sir. You're a valued guest at Disney!"
But don't you know who I am?!!
Fucking dickhead. Or the professional golfer, he was mad enough when I didn't realize who he was but got REALLY pissed when I admitted it was because I hated golf (oops).
We found a sure-fire way of dealing with an irate "guest" (what they call their customers), I don't know if they still do it. It worked on the principle that it's hard to tell what's real there; the things that look real usually weren't, and the fake looking things were real.
The "cast member" (what they call their employees) would start making funny, jerking movements with his arme, talk funny and go rigid, and three more "cast members" would run up. Two would lift the original guy up and carry him away, and the third would say to the cus... er, guest "I'm sorry, sir, I'm afraid that unit needs a little maintenance. May I help you?"
I really don't want to trawl through Limewire's code but I guess I'll have to.
I simply want a P2P app that will keep me from getting sued. When I download a file, how in the hell am I supposed to know the copyright owner doesn't want it downloaded? Any real artist wants his/her stuff seen/heard. You're not going to sell me a song I haven't heard.
Say I hear a song on the local college station; they play local and regional bands some times that WANT to be heard. Say I hear this song "scatterbrain" and think it's hilarious, but have no idea who made the song.
Punch "scatterbrain" into Limewire and you'll discover hundreds of different songs by different artists by that name.
If my P2P client wouldn't DL into a shared folder I would be in the clear. That's not "Lost Boys"' scatterbrain, but instead Todd Rungren's? I'm s(cr)ued.
Note that downloading is legal, it's UPLOADING that's not. I want to upload stuff that the owners want uploaded, and download anything I damned well please.
Oh well, I guess I need to start studying that code. I HATE the C language too >=(
You go on and on about putting your band's songs on MySpace and how you can't get anybdoy to buy your albums, what little hick town does your band play in? The last 30 or so CDs I've bought have been from local bands.
They're not pushing them either, I usually have to go up and ask "hey, man, you guys got a CD?"
Your posting a/c makes me suspicious, somehow. What's the name of your band? URL? Kind of music? Agenda?
If you get caught STEALING a CD from WalMart, it's about a hundred dollar fine. If the RIAA catches you DLing Britney's horrible crap it will cost you thousands of dollars.
So those who say "but your steeling whn u DL" can STFU, OK?
Or you could download it from Limewire.
or maybe they can arrest you for incitement to commit a crime: Advocacy of Unlawful Action and the "Incitement Test" for which the penalty is likely to be greater than simple trespass.
That's like why copyright infringement is NOT stealing. You can actually go to prison on a Federal felony for breaking DVD's brain dead copy "protection", but if you get caught shoplifting the DVD from a store it's a $100 misdemeanor.
And what's the masses' justification for "free music"? Is it "the turning point of a new global consciousness, or is it "w00t! free shit!"?
No, it's "OMFG I got an email from someone in AUSTRALIA who heard our band! How fucking cool is THAT!" And the guy in Australia is going "w00t! free shit!"
Give me a nice list of all the legitimate (read: legal) uses for LimeWire, and I'll believe you.
All? You want ALL the legit reasons for using Limewire?
Do you have any idea how many bands out there WANT their stuff shared? I'll give you a hint: it's damned near every single one with a non-major label CD. And there are ten times as many of those as there are RIAA bands.
The labels don't want to stop your sharing "Staynd". You can sample a better MP3 of it off the radio, if you actually wanted to hear that whiney minor key shit.
No, they want to kill P2P so my friends, who are competetitors to the majors' bands, can't get THEIR music out!
Here, Have some free MP3s (scroll to the bottom for 4 CDs worth). Or if you prefer lossless, here are some more friends in a different band.
Two are by no means "all" but it should give you a start.
Hosting those multimegabyte files is expensive. P2P is free. Every unsigned band is a legitimate reason for Limewire.
I like WQNA "The Edge". You might hear punk, you might hear jazz, you might hear soul, you might hear anything. I once heard, in order, a Johnny Cash song followed by a Dead Kennedys song followed by a Frank Sinatra song!
A friend of mine does the blues show there on Sunday afternoons (hi, Mike!)
How did that get rated "insightful?" I've seen more insight from a five year old!
He didn't say he went to Wal Mart to shoplift, he said he refused to go there. Oh, you're equating copyright infringement with stealing. Well, I'll leave it to someone else to explain the difference to you, I can't seem to find small enough words to explain it to an RIAA shill.