You know that whole business of "information wants to be free"
Information doesn't want to be free any more than your door wants to be open or closed. Information doesn't want (lucky it). The Intellectual Pooperty Rights folks could as easily and ignorantly say "information wants to be paid for".
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The RIAA has been screaming about "radio pirates" for 50 years
Congress wasn't always as dishonest as they are now; or maybe the corporations weren't so generous in their campaign bribes. The Audio Home Recording Act of... I think 1972, maybe it was 1978 (google and wikipedia are failing me, or perhaps I fail it) specifically legalized taping off the radio. Despite this, they still screamed about "radio piracy", and did so incredibly hypocritically.
If you're in St Louis you can still sample KSHE. If you're not within 75 miles of St Louis you can hear whole albums on Sunday nights at KSHE's website; IINM they stream online. I'm not affiliated with them; I grew up in St Louis. I'm just an old listener who tunes in whenever I'm in the area.
I mean "old listener" in both senses of the word; I was 17 when they cam on the air.
A four legged animal isn't a horse, either. Light, RF, microwaves are all the same thing and behave the same way. They're just different frequencies.
Yes, like different frequencies of sound different frequencies of EMF are somemwhat different; for example, the higher the frequency the straighter the "beam"; if you stand to the side of your speakers the bass is pretty much the same but the treble will be attenuated.
I'd link some wikppedia articles about various methods of spectrum sharing, but just consider your cell phones work just fine without tuning dials.
I'm not the same guy as in the wikipedia link, although from the link it appears we were born the same year. I'd say he knows a hell of a lot more about the subject than either of us.
I agree it might help, but there are some underhanded bozos here who like to silence opposition. Even SCO and RIAA apologists (probable employees) get mod points. Someone would mark "this comment is a dupe of three other comments" when, in fact, it isn't a dupe at all and you would metamod him as "fair", which would hurt the commenter's karma and not pemaloze the unfair moderator.
I posted a journal about a metamoderation, and was rightly chastized for marking one that had been modded "funny" as "unfunny"; I'd not gotten the joke. After that I don't metamod anything as "not funny". If I don't see the humor I just leave it at the default neutral.
I agree with both you and the other guy who responded to my comment; he convinced me. Whoever modded you as "troll" for the comment I'm responding to should never get mod points.
I'm surprised. I reuse hard drives, monitors, video cards, keyboards, mice, and everything else. When I upgrade I usually get a bare bones box; just a motherboard, case/power supply, CPU and memory. And it annoys me that I usually can't reuse any of those components because they're usually incompatible with earlier gear.
I wind up spending less than $200 for an upgrade. Time for me to do it again; the power supply (I think; I haven't opened the case yet) died in mine. I've been too busy/lazy to work on it and am using an old one someone gave me who upgraded his by replacing the whole thing.
You're not very clear there. Do you mean "But the record companies' artists! we must protect them! and coddle them," which is what you actually said? I suspect you really meant "But they're artists! we must protect them! and coddle them!"
Did you say what you meant or did you tryst you're spill chucker wit out locking ate it?
If in fact you meant "they're artists" and you're a programmer, that explains why all of today's programs are so buggy.
As to your sig "TWITTER - the #1 annoying thing on the internet" I disagree. It's illiterates who are the most annoying... oh, I see. You're right.
Of course usually those royalties end up getting paid to the Big Media companies that manage to obtain ownership of the copyrights and publishing, not to the artists. But "think of the poor, aging artists!" probably elicits a bit more sympathy than "think of the record companies!
I always say the we Americans have the best legislators money can buy, but perhaps I'm wrong. Unless European legislators are all mentally handicapped, they know good and damned well who will benefit from this. The "think of the poor, aging artists" is for the public, not the polictical hacks they elect.
When you own all the media it's a lot easier to gain/keep power.
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He filmed a documentary there, "Predictions of Fire", on the Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK), or "New Slovenian Art" movement. He later published a book of his own digitally reprocessed images from interplanetary space probes, called Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes.
So, to answer your question, no. He doesn't the sufficent knowledge to be making and backing up these crazy suggestions.
I didn't say they were all modded up. Sometimes I get modded "troll" or "flamebait". But often almost every comment I make gets modded one way or another (and sometimes both; modwars!)
When I worked as a cashier they didn't have debit cards, but take debit cards off your list and put inexact change before credit cards and it would have been accurate (and that's back when you counted change back by hand; cash registers were primitive). But, how can a debit card be faster than a credit card when you have to punch in a PIN on a debit? I can sign my namd a hell of a lot faster than entering a pin.
Then there was no authorization on cards; not at the register, anyway. Then you put the carbon slip down, put the card on, swipe back and forth and have the customer sign. Lots faster than today's method, althouh today's method is easier on the credit card company.
What I REALLY hate is getting behind somebody that uses a check to pay for lottery tickets and phone cards.
There is one place a credit card is fast - the gas pump.
Posted AC just in case its a bug even though I rarely use up all 5.
It sounds like you're posting AC to keep from undoing a moderation. DON'T DO THAT. It's not a workaround, it's a cheat. If I see your comment is modded up when I metamoderate, I'm marking the moderation as "unfair".
My karma is excellent, I get tons of my comments modded +5, and my "cowboy time" is four minutes.
As to downmodding people who are inaccurate, that's an abuse of the moderation system. If they're full of shit, reply to their comment with a link to a reputable source that descredits their foolishness, or with a coherent well thought rebuttal.
You are out of your tiny little cowardly mind, son.
The US may not be not a fascist state, but it's a police state. Get rid of the secret police (who we call "plainclothes" and "undercover" and start obeying the Constitution and I might agree with you.
"The US is losing in Iraq" is so far probably true; we've been there longer than we were in WWII. Show me some evidence to the contrary.
Saddam Hussein had WMD, but it was before the first Gulf war. The UN inspectors never found any evidence whatever that there were WMD when they were looking for them.
"Bush claimed Saddam was behind 9/11" Jesus, Dude, if you haven't heard Bush talking about how we're in Iraq in the fight against terrorism you're not paying attention.
Downmodding a statement because you don't agree with it is an abuse of mod points
you notice someone else has made the comment you were going to make!
I consider that a feature. If somebody else says it I don't have to. If you're worried about a "redundant" moderation you shouldn't be such a karma whore. Actually being a karma whore seems to hurt your karma, I get modded "troll" and "flamebait" all the time but I still have excellent karma.
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My daughter worked at Denny's at one time, and even I wouldn't eat there. Their food tastes like your sig's argument against intelligent design.
Your sig hurt my head. Now I need an aspirin.
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Man, I love your broadcasts. The fidelity you get with such high frequency transmissions is out of this world. Puts Sirius corporation to shame.
Your playlists suck, though.
You know that whole business of "information wants to be free"
Information doesn't want to be free any more than your door wants to be open or closed. Information doesn't want (lucky it). The Intellectual Pooperty Rights folks could as easily and ignorantly say "information wants to be paid for".
However-
When information isn't free, neither are you.
Yes, that "typo" above was deliberate.
Citation for the previous post here
The RIAA has been screaming about "radio pirates" for 50 years
Congress wasn't always as dishonest as they are now; or maybe the corporations weren't so generous in their campaign bribes. The Audio Home Recording Act of... I think 1972, maybe it was 1978 (google and wikipedia are failing me, or perhaps I fail it) specifically legalized taping off the radio. Despite this, they still screamed about "radio piracy", and did so incredibly hypocritically.
As I mentioned in a K5 article Birth of a label-sanctioned pirate radio station several years ago, you could record whole albums on cassette. You can still sample whole albums to .wav and convert to .mp3 or ogg.
If you're in St Louis you can still sample KSHE. If you're not within 75 miles of St Louis you can hear whole albums on Sunday nights at KSHE's website; IINM they stream online. I'm not affiliated with them; I grew up in St Louis. I'm just an old listener who tunes in whenever I'm in the area.
I mean "old listener" in both senses of the word; I was 17 when they cam on the air.
But RF isn't visible light spectrum
A four legged animal isn't a horse, either. Light, RF, microwaves are all the same thing and behave the same way. They're just different frequencies.
Yes, like different frequencies of sound different frequencies of EMF are somemwhat different; for example, the higher the frequency the straighter the "beam"; if you stand to the side of your speakers the bass is pretty much the same but the treble will be attenuated.
I'd link some wikppedia articles about various methods of spectrum sharing, but just consider your cell phones work just fine without tuning dials.
I'm not the same guy as in the wikipedia link, although from the link it appears we were born the same year. I'd say he knows a hell of a lot more about the subject than either of us.
I agree it might help, but there are some underhanded bozos here who like to silence opposition. Even SCO and RIAA apologists (probable employees) get mod points. Someone would mark "this comment is a dupe of three other comments" when, in fact, it isn't a dupe at all and you would metamod him as "fair", which would hurt the commenter's karma and not pemaloze the unfair moderator.
I posted a journal about a metamoderation, and was rightly chastized for marking one that had been modded "funny" as "unfunny"; I'd not gotten the joke. After that I don't metamod anything as "not funny". If I don't see the humor I just leave it at the default neutral.
I agree with both you and the other guy who responded to my comment; he convinced me. Whoever modded you as "troll" for the comment I'm responding to should never get mod points.
I'm surprised. I reuse hard drives, monitors, video cards, keyboards, mice, and everything else. When I upgrade I usually get a bare bones box; just a motherboard, case/power supply, CPU and memory. And it annoys me that I usually can't reuse any of those components because they're usually incompatible with earlier gear.
I wind up spending less than $200 for an upgrade. Time for me to do it again; the power supply (I think; I haven't opened the case yet) died in mine. I've been too busy/lazy to work on it and am using an old one someone gave me who upgraded his by replacing the whole thing.
You're not very clear there. Do you mean "But the record companies' artists! we must protect them! and coddle them," which is what you actually said? I suspect you really meant "But they're artists! we must protect them! and coddle them!"
Did you say what you meant or did you tryst you're spill chucker wit out locking ate it?
If in fact you meant "they're artists" and you're a programmer, that explains why all of today's programs are so buggy.
As to your sig "TWITTER - the #1 annoying thing on the internet" I disagree. It's illiterates who are the most annoying... oh, I see. You're right.
Well, when Blair exptresses what he thinks about British voters, he's more polite than what Bush thinks about American voters.
Of course usually those royalties end up getting paid to the Big Media companies that manage to obtain ownership of the copyrights and publishing, not to the artists. But "think of the poor, aging artists!" probably elicits a bit more sympathy than "think of the record companies!
I always say the we Americans have the best legislators money can buy, but perhaps I'm wrong. Unless European legislators are all mentally handicapped, they know good and damned well who will benefit from this. The "think of the poor, aging artists" is for the public, not the polictical hacks they elect.
When you own all the media it's a lot easier to gain/keep power.
Besides, who is he calling "we?" I haven't been there! Did Niel Armstrong submit this story?
Wikipedia is your friend.
So, to answer your question, no. He doesn't the sufficent knowledge to be making and backing up these crazy suggestions.
Send the ISS To the Moon
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday July 15, @03:45PM
from the one-of-these-days-alice dept
He's dead, Jim.
I didn't say they were all modded up. Sometimes I get modded "troll" or "flamebait". But often almost every comment I make gets modded one way or another (and sometimes both; modwars!)
When I worked as a cashier they didn't have debit cards, but take debit cards off your list and put inexact change before credit cards and it would have been accurate (and that's back when you counted change back by hand; cash registers were primitive). But, how can a debit card be faster than a credit card when you have to punch in a PIN on a debit? I can sign my namd a hell of a lot faster than entering a pin.
Then there was no authorization on cards; not at the register, anyway. Then you put the carbon slip down, put the card on, swipe back and forth and have the customer sign. Lots faster than today's method, althouh today's method is easier on the credit card company.
What I REALLY hate is getting behind somebody that uses a check to pay for lottery tickets and phone cards.
There is one place a credit card is fast - the gas pump.
That's what metamoderation is for.
But they update their diary every day, which means for the most part, it's totally boring crap.
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they're a bit old in the tooth now
Piece of cake, easy as pie. The saying is "long in the tooth", comrad.
the Internet just isn't that risky anymore.
You're not paying attenton.
Posted AC just in case its a bug even though I rarely use up all 5.
It sounds like you're posting AC to keep from undoing a moderation. DON'T DO THAT. It's not a workaround, it's a cheat. If I see your comment is modded up when I metamoderate, I'm marking the moderation as "unfair".
My karma is excellent, I get tons of my comments modded +5, and my "cowboy time" is four minutes.
As to downmodding people who are inaccurate, that's an abuse of the moderation system. If they're full of shit, reply to their comment with a link to a reputable source that descredits their foolishness, or with a coherent well thought rebuttal.
I gues the "news for NERDS" at teh top of the page somehow escaped you. We're nerds. Normal people don't belong here.
Well, Ray Beckerman does. Maybe one or two others. But this is a site for people who don't believe that reading the fucking manual is boneheaded.
Yes, there are problems and sometimes slashdot annoys me, but nobody is forcing you to come here.
You are out of your tiny little cowardly mind, son.
you notice someone else has made the comment you were going to make!
I consider that a feature. If somebody else says it I don't have to. If you're worried about a "redundant" moderation you shouldn't be such a karma whore. Actually being a karma whore seems to hurt your karma, I get modded "troll" and "flamebait" all the time but I still have excellent karma.