Amarok may be great, but unless they've fixed the bug that makes it switch back to onboard sound from USB soundcards between songs its pretty useless to me:-(
Indeed. And then there are people like me who don't have credit/debit cards. I downloaded it and asked a mate who was getting it from the website to chip in my contribution.
At the risk of making a "me too" post, Ubuntu also installed fine for me on my Lenovo laptop, including some things which I'd been led to believe were likely to prove problematic (e.g. sound). In fact, the only issue I have is with my USB soundcard using Amarok, where it jumps back to playing via the onboard soundcard between tunes.
You want "radically leftist", you need to go to North Korea."
Actually, if you want radically leftist, you'd probably be better off going to somewhere like Finland. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think North Korea even manages the essentials like universal free health care and education!
And they don't have a snowball's chance of winning, so we're stuck with tweedledum and tweedledee. Welcome to the world of pseudo-pluralist democratic-tokenist corporate-statism.
$6?? Can you introduce me to the girl? Or, um, er, hold on, are we talking goats here? Hmmm, I see, perhaps you don't have the same viewing habits as me!:-)
Again, the point is that I disagree with him, but I certainly don't think the issues at stake are serious enough to CELEBRATE HIS DEATH over.
Fairy nuff, but I'm not going to be the type of hypocrite that eulogises someone in death that they despised in life. It's not like he was ripped from life at a young age, he'd had more than the full innings and there was zero chance of redemption. The man was scum, he's dead, he remains scum. I, for one, am not sorry that he's gone.
I won't shoot you - at least not unless we end up fighting another civil war about the erosion of freedoms in the UK - but I will scorn you. This is exactly the sort of dumb liberty for (illusion of) security trade-off on which history warns us.
Personally, I'd prefer (nb not desire!) to die on some un-CCTVed street at the hands of a mugger than to live under constant surveillance.
I cursed foully on the day that I saw the first traffic cam go up in Saigon, despite the horrific road fatalities, because I'm already aware where this sort of shit leads.
I'm tempted to start a legal aid fund to support those who are brave enough to begin the decommissioning of the UK's Orwellian surveillance grid!
And I left the UK to live in Viet Nam some 5 years ago, because, ironically enough, I wanted to live free. I found western democratic freedoms (the freedom to choose between tweedle dum and tweedle dee every five years or so, knowing full well that both were controlled by big business, a corporate controlled "free" press, corruption only available to big business/government and not the ordinary citizen etc.), was less important to me than my personal freedom. Viet Nam's changing as globalising corporate capitalism(*) arrives, but to date I haven't regretted my decision.
(*) I am not adverse to business/captialism per se, just the current perverted/immoral form of it.
Sorry, but you're an idiot aren't you? Libertarianism has a long and involved history in Europe (a number of nations), and the word has been hijacked for a particular, rather unpleasant and contrary political philosophy in the US (one nation), so I'm the one who is using the term as a "meaningless buzzword"? Your arrogance is frankly evident. It's the same bullshit that allows US pundits to use "liberal" as a offensive term...erm, excuse me, if you want to live in an illiberal society Mr. conservative dickhead, try China, that's pretty illiberal!
It maybe a synonym for selfishness if you only think in terms of the US Libertarian Party (even then I'm not sure that's accurate), however libertarianism has a long an illustrious history in Europe, and in that context it is far from selfish. Left libertarian, aka anarchist, organisations have often addressed issues of altruism and communitarianism - read up on the diggers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers_(True_Levell ers)) or the levellers (http://www.levellers.org/lev.htm) for example.
The government subsidizes most industries to some extent and some (defense and farming among others) to a very large extent
Indeed, and some, such as Walmart, are subsidised to such an enormous extent that it is laughable that they even be considered capitalist enterprises. Corporate socialism more like.
A first step, as was hinted at above, might be to revisit the concepts of a corporation enjoying all the benefits of (potentially immortal) "personhood" with only limited liability.
And as others have already pointed out MPAA execs (aka Hollywood) already have:
"DRMs' primary role is not about keeping copyrighted content off P2P networks. DRMs support an orderly market for facilitating efficient economic transactions between content producers and content consumers. "
Dan Glickman, Motion Picture Association of America
Sorry, I hate to be a pedant (honest!), but I'm getting really tired of seeing "loose" where I imagine the poster means "lose". Sometimes poor spelling really doesn't matter, and often it's just a typo, but this can really make posts confusing.
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Alcohol/drug abuse? I mean, he has the medical history...
Amarok may be great, but unless they've fixed the bug that makes it switch back to onboard sound from USB soundcards between songs its pretty useless to me :-(
Indeed. And then there are people like me who don't have credit/debit cards. I downloaded it and asked a mate who was getting it from the website to chip in my contribution.
I think I'm going to sign up "Michael Hegg" for all kinds of internet email accounts, etc. It's true there is no such think as a "spoofed" account.
Posted by: Michael Hegg | Oct 9, 2007 1:08:10 PM
At the risk of making a "me too" post, Ubuntu also installed fine for me on my Lenovo laptop, including some things which I'd been led to believe were likely to prove problematic (e.g. sound). In fact, the only issue I have is with my USB soundcard using Amarok, where it jumps back to playing via the onboard soundcard between tunes.
Aside from that, the water is lovely.
You want "radically leftist", you need to go to North Korea."
Actually, if you want radically leftist, you'd probably be better off going to somewhere like Finland. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think North Korea even manages the essentials like universal free health care and education!
And they don't have a snowball's chance of winning, so we're stuck with tweedledum and tweedledee. Welcome to the world of pseudo-pluralist democratic-tokenist corporate-statism.
I'm English too and nor do I. They were a major factor in my deciding to quit England for somewhere where I could live more freely.
In Vietnam, a standard Nokia charger costs around 50,000 vnd (about $3.25), just so you know how much you're being overcharged...
$6?? Can you introduce me to the girl? Or, um, er, hold on, are we talking goats here? Hmmm, I see, perhaps you don't have the same viewing habits as me! :-)
Surely not?! :-) BBC just reported Michael Geist's interesting report on this very topic:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6592133.stm
Especially considering a goodly portion of them probably don't even live in a country where the DMCA applies (yet). America is not the world (yet).
Fairy nuff, but I'm not going to be the type of hypocrite that eulogises someone in death that they despised in life. It's not like he was ripped from life at a young age, he'd had more than the full innings and there was zero chance of redemption. The man was scum, he's dead, he remains scum. I, for one, am not sorry that he's gone.
There's certainly enough oil there to make the invasion worthwhile! :-)
She does anyway!
I won't shoot you - at least not unless we end up fighting another civil war about the erosion of freedoms in the UK - but I will scorn you. This is exactly the sort of dumb liberty for (illusion of) security trade-off on which history warns us.
Personally, I'd prefer (nb not desire!) to die on some un-CCTVed street at the hands of a mugger than to live under constant surveillance.
I cursed foully on the day that I saw the first traffic cam go up in Saigon, despite the horrific road fatalities, because I'm already aware where this sort of shit leads.
I'm tempted to start a legal aid fund to support those who are brave enough to begin the decommissioning of the UK's Orwellian surveillance grid!
And I left the UK to live in Viet Nam some 5 years ago, because, ironically enough, I wanted to live free. I found western democratic freedoms (the freedom to choose between tweedle dum and tweedle dee every five years or so, knowing full well that both were controlled by big business, a corporate controlled "free" press, corruption only available to big business/government and not the ordinary citizen etc.), was less important to me than my personal freedom. Viet Nam's changing as globalising corporate capitalism(*) arrives, but to date I haven't regretted my decision. (*) I am not adverse to business/captialism per se, just the current perverted/immoral form of it.
Sadly it's just yet another example of the victim culture quagmire into which western society is rapidly sinking.
Sorry, but you're an idiot aren't you? Libertarianism has a long and involved history in Europe (a number of nations), and the word has been hijacked for a particular, rather unpleasant and contrary political philosophy in the US (one nation), so I'm the one who is using the term as a "meaningless buzzword"? Your arrogance is frankly evident. It's the same bullshit that allows US pundits to use "liberal" as a offensive term...erm, excuse me, if you want to live in an illiberal society Mr. conservative dickhead, try China, that's pretty illiberal!
It maybe a synonym for selfishness if you only think in terms of the US Libertarian Party (even then I'm not sure that's accurate), however libertarianism has a long an illustrious history in Europe, and in that context it is far from selfish. Left libertarian, aka anarchist, organisations have often addressed issues of altruism and communitarianism - read up on the diggers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers_(True_Levell ers)) or the levellers (http://www.levellers.org/lev.htm) for example.
Indeed, and some, such as Walmart, are subsidised to such an enormous extent that it is laughable that they even be considered capitalist enterprises. Corporate socialism more like.
A first step, as was hinted at above, might be to revisit the concepts of a corporation enjoying all the benefits of (potentially immortal) "personhood" with only limited liability.
And as others have already pointed out MPAA execs (aka Hollywood) already have:
"DRMs' primary role is not about keeping copyrighted content off P2P networks. DRMs support an orderly market for facilitating efficient economic transactions between content producers and content consumers. "
Dan Glickman, Motion Picture Association of America
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4691232.s tm
Sorry, I hate to be a pedant (honest!), but I'm getting really tired of seeing "loose" where I imagine the poster means "lose". Sometimes poor spelling really doesn't matter, and often it's just a typo, but this can really make posts confusing.