That's exactly what I was thinking. If recent court cases are any indication, that would imply that Rapidshare had about 453 songs on it in total. Seems... a touch on the low side.
In all technicality, the main guy behind the church-burning is Varg Vikernes (recently released from prison), who's band Burzum was more Black Metal or Dark Ambient, not death metal.
Around here at least, the gangs are so large and the police are so useless that if something's stolen... your only choice is to write it off to bad luck, forget about it, and get a replacement.
It's truly both sad and pathetic. Primarily, this is see with car break-ins. Some people (can't find news articles at the moment, but it's been brought up) don't even bother calling the police or Autopac, and just get it repaired by their own means. It costs a lot less, and there's a lot less hassle and paperwork.
Oh, and we're usually the murder-capital of Canada too, due to the violent nature of said gangs... so going after them yourself is generally not wise.
Random statistic to throw out there... March 3rd of this year was the first entire day in decades in which a car wasn't stolen. Of course, one has to note "not one person in the whole city reported a stolen car". I can't prove it, but I'd put good money on that some just put it off until the next day, or didn't notice until the next day.
But yeah, in short... if a crime is done around here, you roll over and take it, and move on with your life.
Man, sucks to be wherever you live. Myself, the only things that auto-renew are kinda needed to not die, and our internet. Rent, and electricity. Both kinda needed in winter to avoid death. And for rent I have to sign a paper every time it increases or it won't auto-renew anyway. And the internet, I simply chose that option, but certainly had the option to manually pay yearly/monthly/whatever. It was not forced on me. Same goes for electricity... it's automatic because I chose it to be.
Car insurance? Have to pay it manually every year (or broken into 4 times a year in my case). Phone? Pay as you go. Website? I'm on a 2-year payment plan, not auto-renewing Domain name? Have to manually pay yearly. Gym membership, recreational things (geocaching.com premium account specifically), things like that... all manually renewed.
In all honesty, I can't even fathom a life in which all payments are automatic. I think I'd hate having that little control over my earnings.
There's one minor thing you seem to have skipped over however.
We're capable of stopping our lights from shining upwards. Y'know, where those stars are. With properly directed yard lighting and shades over the street lights, one can significantly reduce, if not almost eliminate, the main direct sources of upward light. Naturally, reflected light is another story, but that's in orders of magnitude less light than directly from a street lamp bulb.
However, doing so takes time, effort, and/or resources... not a single one of which the common person will expend without immediate personal benifits.
make an offer, but a fair one or you will be added to ignore list after the first message.
Could you please define "fair"? That's been a massive point for this topic in general. Given it costs about say... $10 a year to register a domain, would your definition of "fair" be say... $50, the equivilant of 5 years of registration, or $5000?
Being on the inside, what *SHOULD* an opening bid be? this is the reason your business is so looked down upon... because it's shadowy, unknown, and everything about it is kept secret.
Except of course, if the squatted domain is doing nothing but serving ads, then he'll probably make thousands of dollars off of that before the site goes down. And in a few days it'll be fixed and back up, and the OP will be in the exact same position, except the squatter is a few thousand dollars richer.
Wow, what you describe is exactly the 'other side of the coin' from the security theater that is... well... security nowadays.
In most other fields, people are forced to (or even choosing to) inconvenience the hell out of themselves in the name of some extremely minor (or only just perceived) increase in their security.
I applaud the fact that after hearing this, companies didn't immediately slam the door shut on banking over the phone. Personally, I'd FAR rather be able to check my bank account by phone when standing next to something expensive that I want, rather than no longer have that infinitessimally small chance that my bank account information will be gleaned by having done so.
It's probably not so much that. Given the genral assholiness of companies in general, the most you'd be likely to get out of your mouth is "I'd like to request your permission to use your" before they scream 'no' and throw you out onto the sidewalk.
Oh, if only I had your optimism. Unfortunately, despite that statement, I fully and thoroughly believe that it works the exact opposite. If you're 'defending' yourself, you might as well have the words "guilty, but trying to get out on a technicality" branded onto your forehead.
At least that's how I've seen seeing lawsuits work lately... but I tend to be pessimistic.
Exactly. Now that I've blocked all the ads, I'm not exactly going to be all "Oh hey, now that I have a nice fast web-browsing experience, I need to slow that the hell down again with advertising. After all, if I want a product, clicking on ads is SURELY my first line of thought as opposed to say... searching specifically for it via google or whatever, and researching the best method by which to obtain said product".
Yeah, I can't forsee even the slightest number of ads being actively re-accepted with this. If it's blocked, it's blocked for a reason. It'll just create more slowdown when loading webpages, since now instead of loading nothing in those spots, it'll have to load their little menu asking if you want to view the ad.
It'd cost 150 Million? With an "M"?!? Not a "B" or a "T"? Well shit, was this article supposed to be about how ridiculously cheap it is? Hell, that's worth what... 20 minutes worth of the war on terrorism? Get this shit going while it's so damn inexpensive!
Perhaps famous actors shouldn't be paid tens of thousands of dollars per episode. Why should they be getting the equivelant to my yearly income to make a half-hour show (sorry, 20 minutes and advertising).
And don't even get me started on movie stars or sports in general.
Oh, we all well know that if they do decide to make individual TV shows a pay service, there's no way in HELL it'll go for cheaper than an MP3 (which is ridiculously overpriced, in my opinion). I'd estimate a dead-minimum of 2.50 an episode, but probably more.
This is the industry where they love to gouge the living bajesushell out of your wallet.
The sad part is that now that we've been 'called out', so to speak, Canada will inevitably bend to the will of the USA and change it's laws to be just as draconian, if not moreso.
The satellite has all-weather capability to take images of the Earth and would also be beneficial in mapping and managing natural disasters, such as floods and landslides, besides amplifying defence surveillance capabilities of the nation. It would also help keep track of ships at sea that could pose a threat.
Can't read TFA, since our work has it blocked for some bizarre reason (some seemingly arbitrary things are blocked), but the summary was a little amusing to me. They list off all these various ways that the satellite can be used for good things, that will benifit mankind!
WILL it be used for those good uses? I think we all know the answer to that one. I suppose I could attempt to be optimistic, but society as a whole has taught me that to do so is pointless and irrelevant.
I just hate iTunes with a blinding rage. Sorry... I'm not about to use annoying (and yes, I've actually used it, and it annoys me) software to move MP3's to a portable player, when every other goddamn mp3 player in the history of existance supports friggin' drag-and-drop!
Also, I hate the iPod as a whole too (seriously, why do people rave about that circle movement thing?), and I'm not about to attempt to use iTunes to upload files to my non-iPod player.
But someone else in this thread was saying that hatred for iTunes or iPod is baseless flamebait (or something to that effect) is clearly not talking to the right people. Get me on the subject, and I'll rant for a good half-hour on the specific aspects of why I hate iTunes and iPods, and why I prefer my current player in those regards.
That's also perplexed me about Linux In three short years since it was released, FC 5 is virtually worthless, and next to nothing is available for it. I don't suppose upgrading each version when they come out (which seems to be several times a year) can be done without a full reinstall, can they? The idea of having to reinstall everything on the computer on a yearly basis would be rather annoying.
Maybe I'll look further into this Ubuntu... I'm probably wrong, but I thought that was fairly stable version-wise.
Unfortunately, I honestly don't believethat even after a "truly outrageous act", the people will do anything whatsoever. They will continue to vote for the same people, and let whatever happens... happens. At least I voted for one of the 'non-typical' parties that might not be going along with things so readily. They got zero seats. So my opinions are meaningless to society anyway it seems.
Not that it matters... I believe all parties will roll over for big-money, regardless of their actual goals and/or stances.
I'm quite green when it comes to Linux, but there's one aspect of installing... well... anything that has me want to go back to Windows.
Does that type of command get around the dependancies?
Whenever I've attempted (quite often in vain) to install ANYTHING in linux, it can't install because there's a dependancy it needs. So I try to find this dependancy, and THAT needs another 5 dependancies installed.
Typically, I say 'screw this exponentially-getting-larger list of things I need to install', boot into windows (dual-boot), and install whatever windows-equivilant program without a problem.
*shudder* depedancies.
I'm running Fedora Core 5 though, with KDE. Been tempted to upgrade, but I REALLY don't want to lose the few programs that are managing to half-assed work that I need.
Or failing that, can you recommend a help forum that isn't full of smug jerks that assume you can do anything, and just tell you "install whatever", but give you zero help in doing so?
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That's exactly what I was thinking. If recent court cases are any indication, that would imply that Rapidshare had about 453 songs on it in total. Seems... a touch on the low side.
In all technicality, the main guy behind the church-burning is Varg Vikernes (recently released from prison), who's band Burzum was more Black Metal or Dark Ambient, not death metal.
Generally... yeah.
Around here at least, the gangs are so large and the police are so useless that if something's stolen... your only choice is to write it off to bad luck, forget about it, and get a replacement.
It's truly both sad and pathetic. Primarily, this is see with car break-ins. Some people (can't find news articles at the moment, but it's been brought up) don't even bother calling the police or Autopac, and just get it repaired by their own means. It costs a lot less, and there's a lot less hassle and paperwork.
Oh, and we're usually the murder-capital of Canada too, due to the violent nature of said gangs... so going after them yourself is generally not wise.
Random statistic to throw out there... March 3rd of this year was the first entire day in decades in which a car wasn't stolen. Of course, one has to note "not one person in the whole city reported a stolen car". I can't prove it, but I'd put good money on that some just put it off until the next day, or didn't notice until the next day.
But yeah, in short... if a crime is done around here, you roll over and take it, and move on with your life.
Man, sucks to be wherever you live. Myself, the only things that auto-renew are kinda needed to not die, and our internet. Rent, and electricity. Both kinda needed in winter to avoid death. And for rent I have to sign a paper every time it increases or it won't auto-renew anyway. And the internet, I simply chose that option, but certainly had the option to manually pay yearly/monthly/whatever. It was not forced on me. Same goes for electricity... it's automatic because I chose it to be.
Car insurance? Have to pay it manually every year (or broken into 4 times a year in my case).
Phone? Pay as you go.
Website? I'm on a 2-year payment plan, not auto-renewing
Domain name? Have to manually pay yearly.
Gym membership, recreational things (geocaching.com premium account specifically), things like that... all manually renewed.
In all honesty, I can't even fathom a life in which all payments are automatic. I think I'd hate having that little control over my earnings.
There's one minor thing you seem to have skipped over however.
We're capable of stopping our lights from shining upwards. Y'know, where those stars are. With properly directed yard lighting and shades over the street lights, one can significantly reduce, if not almost eliminate, the main direct sources of upward light. Naturally, reflected light is another story, but that's in orders of magnitude less light than directly from a street lamp bulb.
However, doing so takes time, effort, and/or resources... not a single one of which the common person will expend without immediate personal benifits.
make an offer, but a fair one or you will be added to ignore list after the first message.
Could you please define "fair"? That's been a massive point for this topic in general. Given it costs about say... $10 a year to register a domain, would your definition of "fair" be say... $50, the equivilant of 5 years of registration, or $5000?
Being on the inside, what *SHOULD* an opening bid be? this is the reason your business is so looked down upon... because it's shadowy, unknown, and everything about it is kept secret.
Except of course, if the squatted domain is doing nothing but serving ads, then he'll probably make thousands of dollars off of that before the site goes down. And in a few days it'll be fixed and back up, and the OP will be in the exact same position, except the squatter is a few thousand dollars richer.
Wow, what you describe is exactly the 'other side of the coin' from the security theater that is... well... security nowadays.
In most other fields, people are forced to (or even choosing to) inconvenience the hell out of themselves in the name of some extremely minor (or only just perceived) increase in their security.
I applaud the fact that after hearing this, companies didn't immediately slam the door shut on banking over the phone. Personally, I'd FAR rather be able to check my bank account by phone when standing next to something expensive that I want, rather than no longer have that infinitessimally small chance that my bank account information will be gleaned by having done so.
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It's probably not so much that. Given the genral assholiness of companies in general, the most you'd be likely to get out of your mouth is "I'd like to request your permission to use your" before they scream 'no' and throw you out onto the sidewalk.
If the govt isn't expected to respect anyone's privacy, then surely one can't expect it of criminals.
Well, now you're just being redundant :P.
Oh, if only I had your optimism. Unfortunately, despite that statement, I fully and thoroughly believe that it works the exact opposite. If you're 'defending' yourself, you might as well have the words "guilty, but trying to get out on a technicality" branded onto your forehead.
At least that's how I've seen seeing lawsuits work lately... but I tend to be pessimistic.
Exactly. Now that I've blocked all the ads, I'm not exactly going to be all "Oh hey, now that I have a nice fast web-browsing experience, I need to slow that the hell down again with advertising. After all, if I want a product, clicking on ads is SURELY my first line of thought as opposed to say... searching specifically for it via google or whatever, and researching the best method by which to obtain said product".
Yeah, I can't forsee even the slightest number of ads being actively re-accepted with this. If it's blocked, it's blocked for a reason. It'll just create more slowdown when loading webpages, since now instead of loading nothing in those spots, it'll have to load their little menu asking if you want to view the ad.
It'd cost 150 Million? With an "M"?!? Not a "B" or a "T"? Well shit, was this article supposed to be about how ridiculously cheap it is? Hell, that's worth what... 20 minutes worth of the war on terrorism? Get this shit going while it's so damn inexpensive!
Perhaps famous actors shouldn't be paid tens of thousands of dollars per episode. Why should they be getting the equivelant to my yearly income to make a half-hour show (sorry, 20 minutes and advertising).
And don't even get me started on movie stars or sports in general.
Oh, we all well know that if they do decide to make individual TV shows a pay service, there's no way in HELL it'll go for cheaper than an MP3 (which is ridiculously overpriced, in my opinion). I'd estimate a dead-minimum of 2.50 an episode, but probably more.
This is the industry where they love to gouge the living bajesushell out of your wallet.
And as an added bonus, I get modded flamebait for thinking Canada will bend to the USA. Because y'know, that's never happened before :P
The sad part is that now that we've been 'called out', so to speak, Canada will inevitably bend to the will of the USA and change it's laws to be just as draconian, if not moreso.
Well... Canada's basically the 51st state anyway.
The satellite has all-weather capability to take images of the Earth and would also be beneficial in mapping and managing natural disasters, such as floods and landslides, besides amplifying defence surveillance capabilities of the nation. It would also help keep track of ships at sea that could pose a threat.
Can't read TFA, since our work has it blocked for some bizarre reason (some seemingly arbitrary things are blocked), but the summary was a little amusing to me. They list off all these various ways that the satellite can be used for good things, that will benifit mankind!
WILL it be used for those good uses? I think we all know the answer to that one. I suppose I could attempt to be optimistic, but society as a whole has taught me that to do so is pointless and irrelevant.
This is, of course, provided I WANT to have iTunes, and it's file-type associating, browser-affecting programming filling my computer.
I just hate iTunes with a blinding rage. Sorry... I'm not about to use annoying (and yes, I've actually used it, and it annoys me) software to move MP3's to a portable player, when every other goddamn mp3 player in the history of existance supports friggin' drag-and-drop!
Also, I hate the iPod as a whole too (seriously, why do people rave about that circle movement thing?), and I'm not about to attempt to use iTunes to upload files to my non-iPod player.
But someone else in this thread was saying that hatred for iTunes or iPod is baseless flamebait (or something to that effect) is clearly not talking to the right people. Get me on the subject, and I'll rant for a good half-hour on the specific aspects of why I hate iTunes and iPods, and why I prefer my current player in those regards.
That's also perplexed me about Linux In three short years since it was released, FC 5 is virtually worthless, and next to nothing is available for it. I don't suppose upgrading each version when they come out (which seems to be several times a year) can be done without a full reinstall, can they? The idea of having to reinstall everything on the computer on a yearly basis would be rather annoying.
Maybe I'll look further into this Ubuntu... I'm probably wrong, but I thought that was fairly stable version-wise.
Unfortunately, I honestly don't believethat even after a "truly outrageous act", the people will do anything whatsoever. They will continue to vote for the same people, and let whatever happens... happens. At least I voted for one of the 'non-typical' parties that might not be going along with things so readily. They got zero seats. So my opinions are meaningless to society anyway it seems.
Not that it matters... I believe all parties will roll over for big-money, regardless of their actual goals and/or stances.
In don't know why anyone is even bothering to contemplate 'how people will be punished' or 'what action will be taken.
We all already know exactly what is going to happen, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar.
Nothing will happen.
I'm quite green when it comes to Linux, but there's one aspect of installing... well... anything that has me want to go back to Windows.
Does that type of command get around the dependancies?
Whenever I've attempted (quite often in vain) to install ANYTHING in linux, it can't install because there's a dependancy it needs. So I try to find this dependancy, and THAT needs another 5 dependancies installed.
Typically, I say 'screw this exponentially-getting-larger list of things I need to install', boot into windows (dual-boot), and install whatever windows-equivilant program without a problem.
*shudder* depedancies.
I'm running Fedora Core 5 though, with KDE. Been tempted to upgrade, but I REALLY don't want to lose the few programs that are managing to half-assed work that I need.
Or failing that, can you recommend a help forum that isn't full of smug jerks that assume you can do anything, and just tell you "install whatever", but give you zero help in doing so?
The first thing I read when I skimmed the headline was "Visualizing Data Inside the 30-ft Allosaur".
I can't be the only one who thinks it would be cool to somehow store data inside dinosaurs.