Our favorite villian, simply out protecting the rights of recording artists.
I guess the RIAA fills the role that the 'Narcs' and DEA agents played in the 1970's, they're fun beat up on, mischaracterize, draw cartoon conclusions about, etc.
So lets get the posts going expressing outrage and rightous indignation over the RIAA just because you like to steal music.
People today sound sooooo 1980 - yeah, I remember the comparisons with Roman Empire, Fall of civilization, the coming nukular winter with cowboy Regan at the button, physicists preaching doom and gloom on public tv, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've been thru it all before in 1980.
I pledge alliegence to the broadcast flag of Disneyland of America. And to the Corporation, for which it stands, one media conglomerate, indominable, under Mickey, With movies and fast food tie-ins for everyone.
In a properly working market, the price is the determined by the costs of the sellers, not the desires of the buyers.
Whahahaha - you must be new to this planet. I think "properly working market" is the key phrase, as they don't exist, and businessfolk pay legislatures big bucks for "fair competitive advantages" so they can charge as much as the market will bear. The margin above cost has nothing to do with it. Time after time, if a business can reduce their cost, they will never pass the savings on to the consumer unless they have to.
Anyway, my point is, I have no DSL option, and cable costs $49 / month. I also have to laugh when these people arguing against a Net-Neutrality bill claim the 'free market' will solve the problem. For me, it's the Charter Cable monopoly or nothing [except for far out stuff like satellite Internet or something].
I just tried to rdesktop to my Vista installation from Linux, and instead of allowing a remote 'hacker' access the system, it bravely BLUESCREENed. Imagine an OS so secure it would rather self destructs than allow an intruder. Now that's a secure OS, yes indeed.
Tip: You must update to latest cvs of rdesktop, something about key size.
I don't understand how anybody can read the bible literally, since it literally says NOT to take it literally - Jesus et al said point blank that they were speaking in parables and you have to derive a lesson from it. He would tell them a story about planting seeds then ask them, "Get it? Get It? Do you catch my drift? Do you hear what I'm saying?"
I guess people took the 'literal' school of thought as an answer to the many different interpretations after Aristotlean logic collided with (and took over from) theological colleges in the middle ages.
I would suggest sending a module of cockroaches and kitchen scraps to Mars. If they can't form a surviving colony there, then nothing could possibly survive.
Somewhere, there's an advertising executive with big bucks who thinks it would be a great idea to enable ring-0 kernel mode privilidged assembly code in email so they can not only install a new graphics driver, but also set the screen resolution and audio level to appropriate levels for optimum customer experience of their special purchasing opportunity announcements.
Can't you just imagine, 2000 years from now future archeologists digging the crust off a long buried beige PC and wondering what the sliding tray on the front was for - then guessing it was to hold coffee cups?
There's a really good old tyme radio program about that, future scientists digging up 1950's USA and these 'experts' getting everything about it completely wrong. "Washing-ton" becomes "pound lanudry", "Oscar" becomes a God and "Elivs" a high priest, etc.
During the aftermath of a hurricane in 2003, in a major metro area on the east coast US, *ALL* electric power was out the first night. I camped out in my backyard (the house had been flooded) and it was very clear. Laying on a blanket, with AM radio reporting the latest news, unable to get to sleep, the best entertainment was the sky - never had it showed up so clearly, the milky way, a few shooting stars, etc. I even spotted what must have been a satellite, a very faint dot moving very quickly across the dense field of stars.
As a side note - around 4AM, while in a fitful groggy sleep, there was an explosion in the nieghborhood, followed by a sputtering sound. I actually thought the Iraqi land invasion had begun, but it turned out to be a transformer when the power company tried to apply power to our circuit. Power was out for the next 5 days.
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we used punch cards and our "mainframe" had 640k of core memory
Similarly, the value of a dvd movie is more than just the cost of the media and printing - there's the cost of paying the actors, dressmakers, script writers, camera operators, producers, etc, etc, etc. All that is the gold backing up the value of the dvd. Using the argument that making a copy doesn't devalue anything is as bogus as saying that making a counterfeit $20 bill (backed by gold) does not rob anybody, or that governments running a printing press to pay their bills does not lead to inflation.
Same thing for money - printing more money, like $100 bills, takes just a few cents in paper, ink and press time. Why doesn't the US Mint just print enough money so we can all be billionaires?
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Our favorite villian, simply out protecting the rights of recording artists.
I guess the RIAA fills the role that the 'Narcs' and DEA agents played in the 1970's,
they're fun beat up on, mischaracterize, draw cartoon conclusions about, etc.
So lets get the posts going expressing outrage and rightous indignation over the RIAA just because you like to steal music.
People today sound sooooo 1980 - yeah, I remember the comparisons with Roman Empire, Fall of civilization, the coming nukular winter with cowboy Regan at the button, physicists preaching doom and gloom on public tv, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've been thru it all before in 1980.
What's that extra $40000 paying for
A man in a suit with a laptop and a Powerpoint presentation to demonstrate how it'll lower your TCO, increase your ROI, and boost your career.
Sometimes I'd love to be able to hurl a bolt of lightning at some cell phone users.
Why not? Nixon put a man on the moon, then was caught breaking into democratic headquarters.
Not any more: Famous Doonesbury panel.
Make that ~$400 stock share. They haven't seen $200 since April of 2005.
I pledge alliegence to the broadcast flag of Disneyland of America.
And to the Corporation, for which it stands, one media conglomerate, indominable,
under Mickey, With movies and fast food tie-ins for everyone.
it would also be great for drm - copyright control right up to the display.
In a properly working market, the price is the determined by the costs of the sellers, not the desires of the buyers.
Whahahaha - you must be new to this planet. I think "properly working market" is the key phrase, as they don't exist, and businessfolk pay legislatures big bucks for "fair competitive advantages" so they can charge as much as the market will bear. The margin above cost has nothing to do with it. Time after time, if a business can reduce their cost, they will never pass the savings on to the consumer unless they have to.
Anyway, my point is, I have no DSL option, and cable costs $49 / month. I also have to laugh when these people arguing against a Net-Neutrality bill claim the 'free market' will solve the problem. For me, it's the Charter Cable monopoly or nothing [except for far out stuff like satellite Internet or something].
The server currently running the scam is hosted in Korea
North? South?
As I post this, 6 out of 8 top level posts have a '?' in the subject,
now 7 out of 9.
smugness can breed complacency, complacency leads to carelessness. Carelessness leads to ... suffering
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Looks like you were actually playing DOS 6.22.
I just tried to rdesktop to my Vista installation from Linux, and instead of allowing a remote 'hacker' access the system, it bravely BLUESCREENed. Imagine an OS so secure it would rather self destructs than allow an intruder. Now that's a secure OS, yes indeed.
Tip: You must update to latest cvs of rdesktop, something about key size.
I don't understand how anybody can read the bible literally, since it literally says NOT to take it literally - Jesus et al said point blank that they were speaking in parables and you have to derive a lesson from it. He would tell them a story about planting seeds then ask them, "Get it? Get It? Do you catch my drift? Do you hear what I'm saying?"
I guess people took the 'literal' school of thought as an answer to the many different interpretations after Aristotlean logic collided with (and took over from) theological colleges in the middle ages.
Well, lets see - books burn at 911 degrees fahrenheit, hmmm....
Where are the HD screenshots of the Princess ?
I would suggest sending a module of cockroaches and kitchen scraps to Mars. If they can't form a surviving colony there, then nothing could possibly survive.
Somewhere, there's an advertising executive with big bucks who thinks it would be a great idea to enable ring-0 kernel mode privilidged assembly code in email so they can not only install a new graphics driver, but also set the screen resolution and audio level to appropriate levels for optimum customer experience of their special purchasing opportunity announcements.
Can't you just imagine, 2000 years from now future archeologists digging the crust off a long buried beige PC and wondering what the sliding tray on the front was for - then guessing it was to hold coffee cups?
There's a really good old tyme radio program about that, future scientists digging up 1950's USA and these 'experts' getting everything about it completely wrong. "Washing-ton" becomes "pound lanudry", "Oscar" becomes a God and "Elivs" a high priest, etc.
During the aftermath of a hurricane in 2003, in a major metro area on the east coast US, *ALL* electric power was out the first night. I camped out in my backyard (the house had been flooded) and it was very clear. Laying on a blanket, with AM radio reporting the latest news, unable to get to sleep, the best entertainment was the sky - never had it showed up so clearly, the milky way, a few shooting stars, etc. I even spotted what must have been a satellite, a very faint dot moving very quickly across the dense field of stars.
As a side note - around 4AM, while in a fitful groggy sleep, there was an explosion in the nieghborhood, followed by a sputtering sound. I actually thought the Iraqi land invasion had begun, but it turned out to be a transformer when the power company tried to apply power to our circuit. Power was out for the next 5 days.
we used punch cards and our "mainframe" had 640k of core memory
Umm, that should be enough for anybody.
Similarly, the value of a dvd movie is more than just the cost of the media and printing - there's the cost of paying the actors, dressmakers, script writers, camera operators, producers, etc, etc, etc. All that is the gold backing up the value of the dvd. Using the argument that making a copy doesn't devalue anything is as bogus as saying that making a counterfeit $20 bill (backed by gold) does not rob anybody, or that governments running a printing press to pay their bills does not lead to inflation.
Same thing for money - printing more money, like $100 bills, takes just a few cents in paper, ink and press time. Why doesn't the US Mint just print enough money so we can all be billionaires?
What next? Movies via Television? What a wondrous, brave new age we live in.