People watched you because you were free. You were a simple way to watch a show someone had missed that maybe the Tivo didn't record due to electrical storm. Once you start charging, you lose your viewership. No viewership? No ad revenue. No viewership? No subscription revenue. And no, you're not Too Big To Fail (TM), so no bailout revenue either.
Too bad. You spent all that money on TV and movie ads about evil alien plots to get eyes on your site, just to screw it all up.
"It occurs to me that if this happens, it has the potential to be applied to anything else that's covered by copyright. Consider the results."
I don't know if you intended it so, but that is a perfect example of the Strawman argument. Learn it well so you will never use it.
Slippery slope. Strawman is tying a lie to a truth and knocking both down. Slippery slope is an informal fallacy only when there's a break in the logical implication chain (or initial assumption). Remember that the slippery slope argument is not always a fallacy, and that much of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights were written by gentlemen seriously considering slippery slope arguments.
The "owner" is a lazy cybersquatter; more efficient, using a shotgun style. "Buy" everything possible for the "free" trial period, using scripts and fake identities to renew the free trials, then sell one or two a year at whatever price people will pay. All profit, no risk.
TFS says the site is the standard "I haz search engine, buy this URL?" copy/paste that squatters use.
How do they plan to handle legitimate file sharing, e.g. content released without a fee or supported by voluntary sponsorship?
How do they plan to handle legitimate file sharing
That is what this law is about. What do you mean "plan to?" This law says what they're going to try to do about it: tax it as though you had paid more than you did.
Legitimate downloads are the whole ostensible point of this law, and people are now noticing that it gives RIAA/MPAA a new angle in dealing with illegitimate downloads.
I notice you changed the meaning of "legitimate file sharing" as defined by GP. GP wasn't talking about free itunes songs (as if there were such a thing).
So the Tivo'd/taped shows you have should be taxed as if you had purchased the shows on DVD?
The fish you caught (with a fishing license) should be taxed as if you bought it at the market?
OpenSolaris should be taxed as if you bought Solaris?
Linux should be taxed as if you bought SCO UNIX? Okay, that last one was a joke, but the others seem to be logical extensions of this "plan".
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Populous, which started the concept of "god perspective games" for me
Grand Theft Auto? Vintage?
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Grand Theft Auto III is only six years old. How's that Vintage? Especially with the rest of the list hovering around 15-20 years old, and each of them being more fun than GTA3 to boot?
Even so, I've never heard of serious marihuana intoxication problems in traffic
I have. Just a couple months ago, a mother was killed in a head-on collision by a high-as a kite pot-head who crossed the center-line. The only drug involved was marijuana. Any drug that messes with your depth perception, impulse-control, or reaction time should not be in your system while driving.
Fortunately, I was already digging up Jaime Sommers' corpse for other uses.
Oh, and you're sick!
He's a forensics expert. What's so sick about.. oh, now I get what you thought he meant. Who would want to use a corpse for the carpool lane? You're sick!
No, that's not how the real world works either. Everybody in school has their own laptop or they go to the public library. Do your friends ask to borrow your car unless it's a real emergency? Do mere acquaintances ask to borrow your car even in a real emergency?
Be "rude and unfriendly" to the true rude and unfriendly people. It's edgy and artistic.
Well, most of the "lasers" in starwars were plasma blasters, but the ships did fire "Turbo Lasers" at each other. Turbo means they're faster than ordinary lasers, but not quite.5 past C.
A compass is possible on an original iphone:
display the compass app, then require the user to orient a needle to the sun/moon/orion's belt. With time of day and cell-tower location info, suddenly, you'll know which way is north.
I do updates manually, and always select "custom" to weed out the shit Microsoft are trying to push.
The problem here is that it doesn't (didn't months ago) show up as "Microsoft unremovable Firfox plugin" in the Windows Update list. It's built in to a.Net 2.0 and.Net 3.5 critical update. I (and many others) manually pushed this critical update to a lot of machines before anyone noticed "Hey, there's this new Firefox plugin". I never thought I'd have to run a tripwire equivalent on MS machines before & after an MS update to weed out stupidity like this.
Yes, I've blocked IE8 from installing - period - even though M$ thinks it's a CRITICAL patch.
Maybe they know something about IE6/7 that you don't. Considering that they said they wouldn't put into the auto-update stream, then a couple days later they put it in the auto-update stream and refused to explain why or pull it back, it makes me think they know about an unfix[ed/able] vulnerability in their older browsers.
So now all those Pyramid Scheme style games (Mafias, Ninjas, Vampires, Knights) can be real Pyramid schemes, with Microtransactions filling in the $$$ glue?
If corporations are leeches, not giving back, then corporate culture will have no effect on open source. In fact, open source will be in a position to effect corporate culture.
I kept my in-game house cleaner and more organized than anywhere I've lived since then. Maybe if I start accumulating tons of weapons and armor I'll be motivated to clean up my place so I can display it all. =P
The difference is that your Father wanted to know how things work because he was used to fixing things.
your daughter is happy with being oblivious and treating technology like a magic box, and if it breaks, we throw it away.
Don't worry, they'll only be able to get away with that for ~30 more years. Once the "magic box" mentality is dominant in the workforce (even the engineering workforce), product quality will decline, and innovation will stagnate. I doubt we'll ever see the Warhammer 40K situation with ultra-tech, and no one knows how it works, but the pendulum will swing in that direction.
I don't know how bad the horse shit and carcases problem was
Warning, possible tall-tale:
It was bad enough in Paris that a good night in the theater was a night where the patrons came in with their boots/spats caked in manure. If there wasn't an overwhelming stench of horse poop, then there wasn't a lot of traffic that night. "Merde" is thus the good-luck word for ballet to this day.
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People watched you because you were free. You were a simple way to watch a show someone had missed that maybe the Tivo didn't record due to electrical storm. Once you start charging, you lose your viewership. No viewership? No ad revenue. No viewership? No subscription revenue. And no, you're not Too Big To Fail (TM), so no bailout revenue either.
Too bad. You spent all that money on TV and movie ads about evil alien plots to get eyes on your site, just to screw it all up.
"It occurs to me that if this happens, it has the potential to be applied to anything else that's covered by copyright. Consider the results."
I don't know if you intended it so, but that is a perfect example of the Strawman argument. Learn it well so you will never use it.
Slippery slope. Strawman is tying a lie to a truth and knocking both down. Slippery slope is an informal fallacy only when there's a break in the logical implication chain (or initial assumption). Remember that the slippery slope argument is not always a fallacy, and that much of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights were written by gentlemen seriously considering slippery slope arguments.
$120.00 isn't enough for anything. It won't pay a consultant for one hour to perform the operations to move and transfer a domain.
What? I totally need to start consulting if that's what the going rates are. I think you're exaggerating though.
The "owner" is a lazy cybersquatter; more efficient, using a shotgun style. "Buy" everything possible for the "free" trial period, using scripts and fake identities to renew the free trials, then sell one or two a year at whatever price people will pay. All profit, no risk.
TFS says the site is the standard "I haz search engine, buy this URL?" copy/paste that squatters use.
How do they plan to handle legitimate file sharing, e.g. content released without a fee or supported by voluntary sponsorship?
How do they plan to handle legitimate file sharing
That is what this law is about. What do you mean "plan to?" This law says what they're going to try to do about it: tax it as though you had paid more than you did.
Legitimate downloads are the whole ostensible point of this law, and people are now noticing that it gives RIAA/MPAA a new angle in dealing with illegitimate downloads.
I notice you changed the meaning of "legitimate file sharing" as defined by GP. GP wasn't talking about free itunes songs (as if there were such a thing).
So the Tivo'd/taped shows you have should be taxed as if you had purchased the shows on DVD?
The fish you caught (with a fishing license) should be taxed as if you bought it at the market?
OpenSolaris should be taxed as if you bought Solaris?
Linux should be taxed as if you bought SCO UNIX? Okay, that last one was a joke, but the others seem to be logical extensions of this "plan".
Populous, which started the concept of "god perspective games" for me
You never played Life then?
Grand Theft Auto III is only six years old. How's that Vintage? Especially with the rest of the list hovering around 15-20 years old, and each of them being more fun than GTA3 to boot?
Even so, I've never heard of serious marihuana intoxication problems in traffic
I have. Just a couple months ago, a mother was killed in a head-on collision by a high-as a kite pot-head who crossed the center-line. The only drug involved was marijuana. Any drug that messes with your depth perception, impulse-control, or reaction time should not be in your system while driving.
Fortunately, I was already digging up Jaime Sommers' corpse for other uses.
Oh, and you're sick!
He's a forensics expert. What's so sick about.. oh, now I get what you thought he meant. Who would want to use a corpse for the carpool lane? You're sick!
Isn't that 34 Million Dollars over budget, or is that in Aussie Dollars?
No, that's not how the real world works either. Everybody in school has their own laptop or they go to the public library. Do your friends ask to borrow your car unless it's a real emergency? Do mere acquaintances ask to borrow your car even in a real emergency?
Be "rude and unfriendly" to the true rude and unfriendly people. It's edgy and artistic.
Well, most of the "lasers" in starwars were plasma blasters, but the ships did fire "Turbo Lasers" at each other. Turbo means they're faster than ordinary lasers, but not quite .5 past C.
A compass is possible on an original iphone:
display the compass app, then require the user to orient a needle to the sun/moon/orion's belt. With time of day and cell-tower location info, suddenly, you'll know which way is north.
I do updates manually, and always select "custom" to weed out the shit Microsoft are trying to push.
The problem here is that it doesn't (didn't months ago) show up as "Microsoft unremovable Firfox plugin" in the Windows Update list. It's built in to a .Net 2.0 and .Net 3.5 critical update. I (and many others) manually pushed this critical update to a lot of machines before anyone noticed "Hey, there's this new Firefox plugin". I never thought I'd have to run a tripwire equivalent on MS machines before & after an MS update to weed out stupidity like this.
Yes, I've blocked IE8 from installing - period - even though M$ thinks it's a CRITICAL patch.
Maybe they know something about IE6/7 that you don't. Considering that they said they wouldn't put into the auto-update stream, then a couple days later they put it in the auto-update stream and refused to explain why or pull it back, it makes me think they know about an unfix[ed/able] vulnerability in their older browsers.
So now all those Pyramid Scheme style games (Mafias, Ninjas, Vampires, Knights) can be real Pyramid schemes, with Microtransactions filling in the $$$ glue?
Fuck iphone.
There's an app for that!
If corporations are leeches, not giving back, then corporate culture will have no effect on open source. In fact, open source will be in a position to effect corporate culture.
I _knew_ scientologists used psychiatry for something!
We've even got ~gasp~ empty space on the bookshelves.
You know what would go well there? More $ITEM.
Mom, is this true?
P.S. Pls throw down more Pizza and Mtn.Dew. Kthx
I kept my in-game house cleaner and more organized than anywhere I've lived since then. Maybe if I start accumulating tons of weapons and armor I'll be motivated to clean up my place so I can display it all. =P
Doesn't help. I need to buy more mannequins.
The difference is that your Father wanted to know how things work because he was used to fixing things. your daughter is happy with being oblivious and treating technology like a magic box, and if it breaks, we throw it away.
Don't worry, they'll only be able to get away with that for ~30 more years. Once the "magic box" mentality is dominant in the workforce (even the engineering workforce), product quality will decline, and innovation will stagnate. I doubt we'll ever see the Warhammer 40K situation with ultra-tech, and no one knows how it works, but the pendulum will swing in that direction.
I don't know how bad the horse shit and carcases problem was
Warning, possible tall-tale:
It was bad enough in Paris that a good night in the theater was a night where the patrons came in with their boots/spats caked in manure. If there wasn't an overwhelming stench of horse poop, then there wasn't a lot of traffic that night. "Merde" is thus the good-luck word for ballet to this day.