I voted for George Bush because he promissed me a smaller and less invasive government.
And when he made government bigger and more invasive, why in the HELL did you vote to reelect him? WTF is wrong with you damned people????
I voted against him in 2000 because I don't like dynasties. I voted against him in 2004 because he had been a shitty, shitty President in his first term.
BTW, Bush lost by a landslide here in Illinois (70%). Only a few years ago this was a solidly Republican state and had been for decades.
I got in contact with a spokesperson for the FBI's New York field office, who confirmed that the FBI had executed one arrest warrant without incident at around 4 p.m. ET today at the Hotel Pennsylvania where HOPE Six is behind held. The FBI agent said the agency would not release any more information about the arrest, and that the information was sealed until Monday when Rambam is expected to make an initial appearance in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. I've got a call in to his attorney and will update this post if I hear anything new. The scuttlebutt here at the conference is that Rambam may have located someone who was in the FBI's witness protection program, but I have not been able to verify that rumor at all.
What I'm curious about is, I went to Google News figuring that other papers may have more information. A search for "steven rambam" returned just two hits - the Washington Post story, and this slashdot discussion.
Does this say something about the state of corporate-owned news? Will the reporter get bitchslapped by his publisher for covering this?
The fox is in the henhouse. Our "two party" system has become a plutocracy. The reason is simple; it is legal for me to contribute a hundred million dollars to both McCain and whoever runs againt him, and should whoever wins vote against my wishes, I can crush him; all I have to do is give the entire amount to his opponent, rather than splitting it.
This despite the fact that I can't vote for or against Senator McCain.
The problem would be somewhat mitigated by laws outlawing a contribution to anyone you are not eligible to vote for (no more union or corporate money) and outlawing contributions to more than one candidate in any given race; clearly, that is simply a bribe.
Considering where we are now, I have little hope of things getting better. I'm not voting for any more Republicrats; both are bought. I'm splitting my vote between the Greens and the Libertarians, the closest to a "none of the above" we have on the ballot.
Smart people -- on both sides of the piracy debate -- know that the record industry is hugely competitive and highly speculative, and that the reality is that net profit margins are actually quite low.
It's neither my fault nor my problem that your employer's business model is out of date. Your employer competes with my friends, who are indie musicians. Most of them record CDs in recording studios and have them professionally published and packaged, usually in lots of 5,000.
They pay around $2 per CD and most sell them for $10, a few ofr $5. Even $5 is more than a 50% markup.
I was at Best Buy the other day, looking at large flat panel monitors. They were nice, but I just couldn't justify buying one for $1,000. Then when I was in the parking lot, a scruffy looking kid with taped glasses and a pocket protector called me over to his car. His trunk was open, and he had some monitors that he had "cobbled together from spare parts". And they were only $100! This guy has really shown Best Buy that it's possible to sell a $1,000 monitor for $100, cover all distribution costs, and still make a profit.
"rather significant cash investment?" How signifigant is a couple thousand bucks???? I have friends in indie bands who publish their own music; there are inexpensive but very good recording studios even in a small city like Springfield (100k people).
You're talking about an investment or the price of a few good musical instruments, with an 80% profit margin; in lots of 5,000 CDs it costs about $2, most bands here charge ten bucks. We're talking about factory "pressed", labeled, and packaged CDs.
This is what I've been buying the last few years, with an occasional used CD at Recycled Records.
Most of these bands give their MP3s away. The reason the established labels want to kill P2P (off topic, sorry; you won't find Posamist or The Station or the Oohs or Mr Oppornockity or Inspected By Twelve at allofmp3.com, I looked) is because they control radio (where you get music for free, and can "tape" it wil a computer even easier than with a tape deck) but they can't control the internet.
This is about crushing the competetion - and the competetion happens to be friends of mine.
The Federal Aviation Administration is examining the potential risks of such batteries as cargo in passenger planes. In 2004, non-rechargeable "primary" lithium batteries were banned as cargo on passenger flights. The FAA found that Halon, a fire suppressant used on planes, couldn't snuff out a primary-lithium-battery fire.
Primary lithium batteries contain volatile lithium metal; rechargeable lithium-ion batteries don't, operating instead with less volatile lithium chemical compounds. Still, the FAA noted "concerns" about lithium-ion batteries as cargo.
Although an FAA report on the issue is due out within a few months, FAA fire-safety expert Harry Webster said at Wednesday's NTSB hearing that recent tests show Halon effectively fights lithium-ion battery fires.
The hearing was called because a UPS jet was forced to make an emergency landing in February. Its crew escaped unhurt, but the blaze severely damaged the plane and shut down the Philadelphia airport for several hours.
The NTSB hasn't determined the fire's cause. (The plane also had flammable solvent in its cargo hold). There have been a handful of minor air-cargo fires involving lithium-ion batteries, according to an NTSB report.
No one has been killed or seriously injured in the U.S. by lithium-ion battery combustion, the safety commission says.
This was in the Chicago Tribune a couple of days ago. From the Tribune:
But there have been numerous reports of property damage, including fires like the one at Pablo Ortega's house in Selma, Calif., a town near Fresno.
Ortega's wife and 19-year-old son arrived home one evening in January 2005 to find their house full of smoke.
When firefighters arrived, the fire was out. But the living room had been destroyed, according to safety commission records. Fire investigators found the charred remains of a Motorola V220 cell phone on the living-room floor. The phone, which had been purchased a month earlier, had been charging while the Ortegas were away.
Fire and insurance investigators concluded the battery malfunctioned and exploded, rocketing almost 16 feet across the living room, igniting a curtain fire that spread to furniture.
Apparently this is a statistically small danger: "Such explosions and fires are rare considering the hundreds of millions of cell phones, laptops, digital cameras and other devices that are powered by lithium-ion batteries."
There's a picture of a burning laptop there - a Dell, perhaps?
Evil isn't relative, but some people aren't honest, making it seem that way. Being conservative isn't evil, but contributing to global warming and bombing abortion clinics is.
"Piracy is evil" is an evil lie! Well, actually piracy in the old sense of the word (high seas) is, but copyright infringement, as it hurts nobody (and the studies all prove it) is not. No harm, no foul, no evil.
Now, sending a Conservative to Matthew 19:24 might be kind of evil;)
Moot point, since someone actually did find it on Google, but effectively hiding a file that the owner wants found (not what happened) while finding a file its owner doesn't want found sure sounds evil to me.
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The parent links to a warning from Yahoo to click at your own risk, the link from Yahoo links to something with a GNAA logo and attempts to install shit on your computer.
So with Google you can find Madonna's shitty music, but you can't find a file like Posamist's Loom Up, even though it's a legal download that the band WANTS you to have?
They have four CD's worth of MP3s for free download, none googleable.
Pretty much proves what I've been saying all along - the RIAA/IFPI isn't trying to keep Madonna and Metallica off the internet, they want to keep you from hearing Posamist and The Station (Whose FLAC files on archive.org can't be sucessfully googled for, either).
Try to find this file. It's a song by my friends Posamist named "Silky Smooth".
Search for "posamist silky smooth" (no quotes) and you only get links to some old shit on K5 mentioning the song and band. You won't find the MP3, even though I linked to all their MP3s on my (Google indexed) blog September of last year.
Which is what the RIAA/MPAA want. A Yahoo search DOES return the file, it's the fourth result. What was that about Google not being evil again?
Wallis regained the ability to move and communicate, and started getting to know his now 20 year old daughter - a difficult process considering he believed himself to be 19, and that Ronald Reagan was still president.
I was in a real bad wreck in 1976, my brain hardly worked for a year or more, but I got better. I wonder what a scan of it would look like? Would it be wierdly wired like this guy's?
Few people I know would be surprised to find my brain was wired wierd.
Since then, the thought has occurred to me that I could have actually gone into a coma and the last forty years could have been a dream. But then, any of you could have had an accident and not know it, and be dreaming this. So there's little point in not behaving as if reality is real, especially considering the incredibly high probability that this IS real.
With Communism, government runs industry. With Facism, industry runs government. Me, I don't really see much difference between the two.
In cahoots? No, the (mostly foreign owned) multinational corporations have bought all "our" politicians.
Here in Springfield they've installed cameras downtown by the old state capitol to watch for dope deals and homeless guys pissing on the sidewalk. There are cameras on most traffic lights. It isn't just privately owned cameras any more, it's GOVERNMENT cameras.
They didn't drop the ball, they tried something stupid and got caught. Fess up.
Is it only me, or does anybody else see a paralell between this gaffe and Sony's rootkit?
It's not Linux. It isn't your computer. When you buy a computer with Windows on it, or install Windows on your machine, it isn't your computer any more. It belongs to Microsoft.
How do we know they didn't make a deal with the DOJ to open a few backdoors? Do you know what's in Microsoft's code? I don't.
Do you trust a company who has been known for evil business practices for twenty years? I don't.
Microsoft doesn't need a rootkit. That's the only real difference between MS and Sony.
It's early and I'm not used to being able to see without glasses yet. I thought the blurb read "Peter Cullen, Microsoft's chief privacy strategist, found himself in the front line in the wake of the software giant's recent antiprivacy controversy."
On second thought, maybe "antiprivacy" was more accurate?
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I voted for George Bush because he promissed me a smaller and less invasive government.
And when he made government bigger and more invasive, why in the HELL did you vote to reelect him? WTF is wrong with you damned people????
I voted against him in 2000 because I don't like dynasties. I voted against him in 2004 because he had been a shitty, shitty President in his first term.
BTW, Bush lost by a landslide here in Illinois (70%). Only a few years ago this was a solidly Republican state and had been for decades.
Chicago cops totrure(d) people to get confessions:
(report on torture
Daley says he was not aware of cop torture
Gutierrez assails Daley over cop torture scandal
And SURPRISE! The statute of limitations has run out, NO COPS ARE GOING TO JAIL FOR THIS!
What I'm curious about is, I went to Google News figuring that other papers may have more information. A search for "steven rambam" returned just two hits - the Washington Post story, and this slashdot discussion.
Does this say something about the state of corporate-owned news? Will the reporter get bitchslapped by his publisher for covering this?
I knew you were going to say that.
The fox is in the henhouse. Our "two party" system has become a plutocracy. The reason is simple; it is legal for me to contribute a hundred million dollars to both McCain and whoever runs againt him, and should whoever wins vote against my wishes, I can crush him; all I have to do is give the entire amount to his opponent, rather than splitting it.
This despite the fact that I can't vote for or against Senator McCain.
The problem would be somewhat mitigated by laws outlawing a contribution to anyone you are not eligible to vote for (no more union or corporate money) and outlawing contributions to more than one candidate in any given race; clearly, that is simply a bribe.
Considering where we are now, I have little hope of things getting better. I'm not voting for any more Republicrats; both are bought. I'm splitting my vote between the Greens and the Libertarians, the closest to a "none of the above" we have on the ballot.
You voted them in office. Stop that!
One plutocracy. While the rich decry class warfare, they wage it.
Joe only sings and plays guitar. I think Jeff has a day job, not sure.
Smart people -- on both sides of the piracy debate -- know that the record industry is hugely competitive and highly speculative, and that the reality is that net profit margins are actually quite low.
It's neither my fault nor my problem that your employer's business model is out of date. Your employer competes with my friends, who are indie musicians. Most of them record CDs in recording studios and have them professionally published and packaged, usually in lots of 5,000.
They pay around $2 per CD and most sell them for $10, a few ofr $5. Even $5 is more than a 50% markup.
I was at Best Buy the other day, looking at large flat panel monitors. They were nice, but I just couldn't justify buying one for $1,000. Then when I was in the parking lot, a scruffy looking kid with taped glasses and a pocket protector called me over to his car. His trunk was open, and he had some monitors that he had "cobbled together from spare parts". And they were only $100! This guy has really shown Best Buy that it's possible to sell a $1,000 monitor for $100, cover all distribution costs, and still make a profit.
"rather significant cash investment?" How signifigant is a couple thousand bucks???? I have friends in indie bands who publish their own music; there are inexpensive but very good recording studios even in a small city like Springfield (100k people).
You're talking about an investment or the price of a few good musical instruments, with an 80% profit margin; in lots of 5,000 CDs it costs about $2, most bands here charge ten bucks. We're talking about factory "pressed", labeled, and packaged CDs.
This is what I've been buying the last few years, with an occasional used CD at Recycled Records.
Most of these bands give their MP3s away. The reason the established labels want to kill P2P (off topic, sorry; you won't find Posamist or The Station or the Oohs or Mr Oppornockity or Inspected By Twelve at allofmp3.com, I looked) is because they control radio (where you get music for free, and can "tape" it wil a computer even easier than with a tape deck) but they can't control the internet.
This is about crushing the competetion - and the competetion happens to be friends of mine.
So it's personal with me.
Here's one still on fire
Model number 7hgskgh^%*&%&^oik [no carrier]
Intercourse the bleedin' penguin!
Apparently this is a statistically small danger: "Such explosions and fires are rare considering the hundreds of millions of cell phones, laptops, digital cameras and other devices that are powered by lithium-ion batteries."
There's a picture of a burning laptop there - a Dell, perhaps?
Evil isn't relative, but some people aren't honest, making it seem that way. Being conservative isn't evil, but contributing to global warming and bombing abortion clinics is.
;)
"Piracy is evil" is an evil lie! Well, actually piracy in the old sense of the word (high seas) is, but copyright infringement, as it hurts nobody (and the studies all prove it) is not. No harm, no foul, no evil.
Now, sending a Conservative to Matthew 19:24 might be kind of evil
Moot point, since someone actually did find it on Google, but effectively hiding a file that the owner wants found (not what happened) while finding a file its owner doesn't want found sure sounds evil to me.
Particularly if they were paid to do so!
Tear or meany different kind oaf pee pull who visit thus sight. Sum oaf ewe half a reedy disorder culled "dyslexia." Thus disorder mucks it hoard four people two reed. They half too pick the words out on bye on in try to fig you are out whet the words owl mean. Folks wit thus disorder half a very hoard thyme in school, in meany drop out.
Sum oaf ewe half "hyperlexia." Eye am won oaf those people. Hyperlexics reed very fats, in retain must oaf what they reed. Four tease people, reading aye novel is butter tin watching a flim on television. Owl the action is awl around the reader, wit awl sounds in even smells present.
Four thus oaf us who are hyperlexic, a internet page tat half meany words spilled wrong is berry frustrating. Two reed a page wit a hole lots oaf words spilled wrong makes it like ewe or dyslexic. This is a god read son two pee view you're post.
Owl sew, meany oaf ewe or to dependant own tea spill chucker. Sew please remember tat tear is a page called dictionary.com wear ewe kin go two sea wow a word its supposed two bee spilled. An remember that an apostrophe is four a possessive oar a con track shun, an is never used four a plural. On list it's aye plural con track shun ore a okural posie its have.
Sew in conclusion, owl way bee sore you are words or spilled right an your punctuation is correct. Unless, oaf coarse, ewe or a dyslexic who wounds wee hyperlexics two sea what id is like too bee dyslexic, oar ewe or a maroon.
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The parent links to a warning from Yahoo to click at your own risk, the link from Yahoo links to something with a GNAA logo and attempts to install shit on your computer.
So with Google you can find Madonna's shitty music, but you can't find a file like Posamist's Loom Up , even though it's a legal download that the band WANTS you to have?
They have four CD's worth of MP3s for free download, none googleable.
Pretty much proves what I've been saying all along - the RIAA/IFPI isn't trying to keep Madonna and Metallica off the internet, they want to keep you from hearing Posamist and The Station (Whose FLAC files on archive.org can't be sucessfully googled for, either).
You can't even find ligitimate MP3s on Google.
Try to find this file. It's a song by my friends Posamist named "Silky Smooth".
Search for "posamist silky smooth" (no quotes) and you only get links to some old shit on K5 mentioning the song and band. You won't find the MP3, even though I linked to all their MP3s on my (Google indexed) blog September of last year.
Which is what the RIAA/MPAA want. A Yahoo search DOES return the file, it's the fourth result. What was that about Google not being evil again?
I was in a real bad wreck in 1976, my brain hardly worked for a year or more, but I got better. I wonder what a scan of it would look like? Would it be wierdly wired like this guy's?
Few people I know would be surprised to find my brain was wired wierd.
Since then, the thought has occurred to me that I could have actually gone into a coma and the last forty years could have been a dream. But then, any of you could have had an accident and not know it, and be dreaming this. So there's little point in not behaving as if reality is real, especially considering the incredibly high probability that this IS real.
I wonder if he dreamed?
It seems Italy won WWII after all.
With Communism, government runs industry. With Facism, industry runs government. Me, I don't really see much difference between the two.
In cahoots? No, the (mostly foreign owned) multinational corporations have bought all "our" politicians.
Here in Springfield they've installed cameras downtown by the old state capitol to watch for dope deals and homeless guys pissing on the sidewalk. There are cameras on most traffic lights. It isn't just privately owned cameras any more, it's GOVERNMENT cameras.
You're entirely correct, welcome to 1984 indeed.
They didn't drop the ball, they tried something stupid and got caught. Fess up.
Is it only me, or does anybody else see a paralell between this gaffe and Sony's rootkit?
It's not Linux. It isn't your computer. When you buy a computer with Windows on it, or install Windows on your machine, it isn't your computer any more. It belongs to Microsoft.
How do we know they didn't make a deal with the DOJ to open a few backdoors? Do you know what's in Microsoft's code? I don't.
Do you trust a company who has been known for evil business practices for twenty years? I don't.
Microsoft doesn't need a rootkit. That's the only real difference between MS and Sony.
It's early and I'm not used to being able to see without glasses yet. I thought the blurb read "Peter Cullen, Microsoft's chief privacy strategist, found himself in the front line in the wake of the software giant's recent antiprivacy controversy."
On second thought, maybe "antiprivacy" was more accurate?
Because I'm not the one getting PAID for it.