I don't know quite how to read this statement, I hope your being sarcastic. If not however, there is this whole "fair use" thing that the record companies seem to forget about. As another further up had posted, when you buy a CD (or tape, record, digital track), you have the right to make a copy of the contents of the media for backup purposes. You don't have the right to distribute it (off topic: yes I think copyright is valid, no I don't think that 100 years of copyright is valid, and the way that media owners are acting about it all is just fskin ridiculous)
Yes, I did read 1984. It scared the shit out of me. I don't care who's in power, republican or democrat, I like most people are more centrist, left-leaning on some issues, right leaning on others. If the phrase "permanent anything majority" doesn't scare you, than nothing will. And as for evidence of the US turning into a police state, look at the cameras atop traffic signals, look at the never ending wars on drugs, terrorism, the fact that a warrant is no longer required to wiretap any phone as long as it dials an international number (hope you don't have any friends outside our borders), the DOJ and their anonymous National Security Letters (thankfully ruled unconstitutional), the prison camps and the ability of the executive branch to label anyone an enemy combatant and suspend all their constitutional rights. I could go on, but even Ron Paul has said that the US is becoming a police state. Also, it has often been said that these new laws would not have prevented 9/11. Simple effective communication would have. Nice flamebait, troll and strawman all rolled into one though.
Here's a few links for you:
http://www.antiwar.com/paul/?articleid=3274http://www.alternet.org/story/36553
Especially when you think about this: Karl's vision has always been, in his own words, a "permanent Republican majority." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jackson-williams/karl-roves-permanent-re_b_60219.html there is plenty more where that came from if you google it. It's downright scary, and something out of 1984 (when Winston is reading the book that was supposedly written by Goldstein about how Big Brother came to be). Maybe I'm just paranoid anymore.
Terribly sorry, I must have missed the part where congress declared war on any nation or group of people in the last 50 years. We are not at "war" there was no declaration. We are in the middle of a "police action", while that may be very similar to a war, I don't feel any safer from terrorist attack today than I did 6 years ago, what I am afraid of is my own government. Our founding fathers are probably spinning in their graves over what has happened to the land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. "Give me Liberty or give me Death" -- Patrick Henry.
The powers that this administration has seized upon are down right scary. The ability to declare anyone an enemy combatant, the ability to wiretap any phone, without judicial oversight, various other constitutional violations, the list goes on. History has frowned upon the interment of Japanese during WW2, and rationing, while a bit of a discomfort, doesn't quite equate with an erosion of our natural human rights, some of which were guaranteed but the first 10 amendments to the constitution. How do you think history will view this chapter in history?
By popular vote, he lost in 2000, I know, he won the electoral vote, but almost 500,000 people more voted for Gore than him. That hardly sounds like consent of the people. And please, don't accuse me of whining. You made the assertion that it was the consent of the people that made him president. (source: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0876793.html )
Seriously, surely they wouldn't have as great an impact as say food re-distribution. I work for a major food re-distributer and if something knocked out 50% of our warehouse workers and truck drivers, it would certainly trickle down to our customers, I hate to think what would happen if vital services across the country were knocked down to 50% of normal workforce for a long period of time.
I personally like your sunset clause idea, having thought the same thing myself. Lawmakers would be kept busy keeping good laws alive and letting dumb ones die, if something became socially acceptable, no one could say "lawmaker X voted to legalize (insert vice here), he wants to sacrifice newborns on the alter of (insert bad deity here) and eat them while flogging kittens! He's EVIL!!!". As an added bonus, they wouldn't have as much time to make new stupid laws, since every 5 years, they would have to renew the really important laws (murder, rape, etc). But, as you said, pipe dream.
Here's the kicker from your list: persons generally that support or threaten to commit terrorism
Don't they get to say who supports or threatens to commit terrorism? Would that include persons on the No-Fly list? If they get to say who's a terrorist or who is supporting terrorism, doesn't that also let them decide who would be subject to having their assets frozen?
And that's something I've never quite understood myself. If I purchase a DVD-ROM for my computer, and I run Linux, why don't I have the right to play DVDs that I purchased? Seriously, someone explain the logic to me (I understand the corporate greed thing), but could I not simply call the maker of the DVD-ROM, inform them that I run Linux and ask that they provide me with functional software? Can't there be some kind of recourse if they fail to do so, because the device (while functional), can't be legally used in the manner I paid for? Doesn't the software they sell with the DVD-ROM come with the codecs? Shouldn't I be able to use those codecs that I paid for? Just askin
Your post is very interesting, but the fact is that all wars eventually become ground wars (unless we just carpet bomb the whole country), and a very important lesson from history is Never get into a ground war in Asia. There are simply too many Chinese people, who are too proud of their culture who will do anything they have to, to get a foreign aggressor out. In Korea, U.S. machine guns would overheat and jam while the Chinese soldiers just kept coming. It would be very foolish of this country to attempt a war with China. Not saying this country hasn't done foolish things in the past (not just this administration, but several others), but a war with China would be a Bad Thing.
I'm sorry you must have missed my point. You were ranting about incompatibilities with open source software and I just asked who was making those incompatibilities. I don't care about your preferences in software, use what you like, I use what I like (or what my job makes me, hey, I gotta make a buck). So, answer my question, who creates the open source software incompatibility problem that you mentioned?
Can you tell us all exactly where the root of the incompatibility is please? Are the OSS developers hiding APIs, file system structures, protocol structures etc.? (please go easy on me developers, haven't done anything but bash scripting forever and a day). I'll answer that for you, no, the whole thing is Open (anyone can view the source code). Wheras with Microsoft (don't want to offend you with the M$), they hide and obfuscate everything they can to keep rivals from working with them, then threaten to sue anything that tries to (the exceptions in the Novell agreement). So, who is not playing nice and creating incompatibility with others?
Off topic, but I have to point out that I think it's a little ironic that a song called Ironic has no irony in it. Either Alanis is a genius, or she had no idea what irony is.
As an interesting note, some of these fingerprint scanners aren't all that accurate. My boss used a fingerprint scanner in one of my co-worker's laptop, and it logged my boss in as my co-worker.
Not everyone, some people who worked it used it to gain that ever-needed 6 months experience to get a better tech job. I worked one while attending tech school, there were maybe 10 people like me (as opposed to the other 200), who ignored the scripts and flew by the seat of our pants. Most people, however, had no business doing that type of job (no technical background, no feel for technology, nothing), most of their calls got escalated. However, rather than modding you a troll, I thought it would be better to point out that you are right to an extent. Most 1st level support people are not techs by nature, and are just reading a script, but some are there to get experience in a field that they love.
Comcast is moving into my neighboorhood (taking over from Insight whom I have had no problems with whatsoever), I have been concerned as I vpn to work occasionally, have VoIP, and some of what I've heard has scared the crap out of me. Right now I'm getting something around 10Mb down and 1.5 up. What kind of speeds do you get and what plan are you on. (also any pricing info you have would be greatly appreciated)
Funny, but as you discribed him, I immediately thought of a character on Bob & Tom's morning radio show named Kenny Tarmac, and you're right, I wouldn't want him talking on the plane. wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Tarmac#Kenny_Ta rmac
No, that is an FBI warning stating that illegal copying and distribution, public performances, and so on are copyright violations. Yes there is the "This is licsensed for use in private, etc..." but that's not a valid license. You cannot make a license that says "by opening this package you accept the terms of the license contained herein", there has to be a point during which you can decline. In the case of movies, that "license" won't hold water in court (try taking it back to the store after you opened it, they'll let you exchange it for another copy of the same movie). They can get you for making copies and distributing them (copyright infringement) or circumventing DMCA (making a copy) but not a "license violation", because you were not given the terms of the license and a chance to decline it prior to purchase.
I was there once when I was very young. I even saw a "mountaintop removal" operation, and I also saw what the mountaintop looked like after they had put it back, they did a damn good job, I couldn't tell that there was a difference (though I am sure animals were displaced, etc.) I think all in all it wasn't too bad of a job. (I was like 12 at the time, so maybe I'm off, maybe a resident of the area would like to back up or refute my post)
Except that he says a member of his immediate family is a teacher at an all girls school. He does not make the claim that he is a student at the same school.
I see your point, and agree that they would face huge backlash if that happened, but they could spin it as free OOo, and then tack on an additional line item like $25 support for OOo, if they really wanted to.
I could not agree more. I have a neighbor across the street whose 13 year old has (in the last 18 months they lived there) has been kicked out of school twice (once for throwing a chair at the school's principal), and has had the police over there for various fights in the neighborhood at least every other week. The police won't do anything to him (the theory is that they don't want to lock him up for fear he gets worse), and the parents won't do anything to him (because they are really bad parents). I feel very sorry for this young man, because he has no good role model to teach him what is acceptable and what isn't, but at the same time, I think he needs to go to juvee for a while, maybe get bullied around himself. All in all, I do blame the parents, but I fear that by this late stage in his childhood, there is nothing anyone can do.
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I don't know quite how to read this statement, I hope your being sarcastic. If not however, there is this whole "fair use" thing that the record companies seem to forget about. As another further up had posted, when you buy a CD (or tape, record, digital track), you have the right to make a copy of the contents of the media for backup purposes. You don't have the right to distribute it (off topic: yes I think copyright is valid, no I don't think that 100 years of copyright is valid, and the way that media owners are acting about it all is just fskin ridiculous)
Yes, I did read 1984. It scared the shit out of me. I don't care who's in power, republican or democrat, I like most people are more centrist, left-leaning on some issues, right leaning on others. If the phrase "permanent anything majority" doesn't scare you, than nothing will. And as for evidence of the US turning into a police state, look at the cameras atop traffic signals, look at the never ending wars on drugs, terrorism, the fact that a warrant is no longer required to wiretap any phone as long as it dials an international number (hope you don't have any friends outside our borders), the DOJ and their anonymous National Security Letters (thankfully ruled unconstitutional), the prison camps and the ability of the executive branch to label anyone an enemy combatant and suspend all their constitutional rights. I could go on, but even Ron Paul has said that the US is becoming a police state. Also, it has often been said that these new laws would not have prevented 9/11. Simple effective communication would have. Nice flamebait, troll and strawman all rolled into one though. Here's a few links for you: http://www.antiwar.com/paul/?articleid=3274 http://www.alternet.org/story/36553
Especially when you think about this: Karl's vision has always been, in his own words, a "permanent Republican majority." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jackson-williams/karl-roves-permanent-re_b_60219.html there is plenty more where that came from if you google it. It's downright scary, and something out of 1984 (when Winston is reading the book that was supposedly written by Goldstein about how Big Brother came to be). Maybe I'm just paranoid anymore.
Terribly sorry, I must have missed the part where congress declared war on any nation or group of people in the last 50 years. We are not at "war" there was no declaration. We are in the middle of a "police action", while that may be very similar to a war, I don't feel any safer from terrorist attack today than I did 6 years ago, what I am afraid of is my own government. Our founding fathers are probably spinning in their graves over what has happened to the land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. "Give me Liberty or give me Death" -- Patrick Henry.
The powers that this administration has seized upon are down right scary. The ability to declare anyone an enemy combatant, the ability to wiretap any phone, without judicial oversight, various other constitutional violations, the list goes on. History has frowned upon the interment of Japanese during WW2, and rationing, while a bit of a discomfort, doesn't quite equate with an erosion of our natural human rights, some of which were guaranteed but the first 10 amendments to the constitution. How do you think history will view this chapter in history?
Well, that is what the Soviet and East German governments said about the Berlin Wall wasn't it.
By popular vote, he lost in 2000, I know, he won the electoral vote, but almost 500,000 people more voted for Gore than him. That hardly sounds like consent of the people. And please, don't accuse me of whining. You made the assertion that it was the consent of the people that made him president. (source: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0876793.html )
Seriously, surely they wouldn't have as great an impact as say food re-distribution. I work for a major food re-distributer and if something knocked out 50% of our warehouse workers and truck drivers, it would certainly trickle down to our customers, I hate to think what would happen if vital services across the country were knocked down to 50% of normal workforce for a long period of time.
I personally like your sunset clause idea, having thought the same thing myself. Lawmakers would be kept busy keeping good laws alive and letting dumb ones die, if something became socially acceptable, no one could say "lawmaker X voted to legalize (insert vice here), he wants to sacrifice newborns on the alter of (insert bad deity here) and eat them while flogging kittens! He's EVIL!!!". As an added bonus, they wouldn't have as much time to make new stupid laws, since every 5 years, they would have to renew the really important laws (murder, rape, etc). But, as you said, pipe dream.
Your point is valid, and I can see why you ask, but should it still be illegal to use the codecs I paid for?
Here's the kicker from your list:
persons generally that support or threaten to commit terrorism
Don't they get to say who supports or threatens to commit terrorism? Would that include persons on the No-Fly list? If they get to say who's a terrorist or who is supporting terrorism, doesn't that also let them decide who would be subject to having their assets frozen?
And that's something I've never quite understood myself. If I purchase a DVD-ROM for my computer, and I run Linux, why don't I have the right to play DVDs that I purchased? Seriously, someone explain the logic to me (I understand the corporate greed thing), but could I not simply call the maker of the DVD-ROM, inform them that I run Linux and ask that they provide me with functional software? Can't there be some kind of recourse if they fail to do so, because the device (while functional), can't be legally used in the manner I paid for? Doesn't the software they sell with the DVD-ROM come with the codecs? Shouldn't I be able to use those codecs that I paid for? Just askin
Your post is very interesting, but the fact is that all wars eventually become ground wars (unless we just carpet bomb the whole country), and a very important lesson from history is Never get into a ground war in Asia. There are simply too many Chinese people, who are too proud of their culture who will do anything they have to, to get a foreign aggressor out. In Korea, U.S. machine guns would overheat and jam while the Chinese soldiers just kept coming. It would be very foolish of this country to attempt a war with China. Not saying this country hasn't done foolish things in the past (not just this administration, but several others), but a war with China would be a Bad Thing.
I'm sorry you must have missed my point. You were ranting about incompatibilities with open source software and I just asked who was making those incompatibilities. I don't care about your preferences in software, use what you like, I use what I like (or what my job makes me, hey, I gotta make a buck). So, answer my question, who creates the open source software incompatibility problem that you mentioned?
Can you tell us all exactly where the root of the incompatibility is please? Are the OSS developers hiding APIs, file system structures, protocol structures etc.? (please go easy on me developers, haven't done anything but bash scripting forever and a day). I'll answer that for you, no, the whole thing is Open (anyone can view the source code). Wheras with Microsoft (don't want to offend you with the M$), they hide and obfuscate everything they can to keep rivals from working with them, then threaten to sue anything that tries to (the exceptions in the Novell agreement). So, who is not playing nice and creating incompatibility with others?
Off topic, but I have to point out that I think it's a little ironic that a song called Ironic has no irony in it. Either Alanis is a genius, or she had no idea what irony is.
As an interesting note, some of these fingerprint scanners aren't all that accurate. My boss used a fingerprint scanner in one of my co-worker's laptop, and it logged my boss in as my co-worker.
Not everyone, some people who worked it used it to gain that ever-needed 6 months experience to get a better tech job. I worked one while attending tech school, there were maybe 10 people like me (as opposed to the other 200), who ignored the scripts and flew by the seat of our pants. Most people, however, had no business doing that type of job (no technical background, no feel for technology, nothing), most of their calls got escalated. However, rather than modding you a troll, I thought it would be better to point out that you are right to an extent. Most 1st level support people are not techs by nature, and are just reading a script, but some are there to get experience in a field that they love.
Comcast is moving into my neighboorhood (taking over from Insight whom I have had no problems with whatsoever), I have been concerned as I vpn to work occasionally, have VoIP, and some of what I've heard has scared the crap out of me. Right now I'm getting something around 10Mb down and 1.5 up. What kind of speeds do you get and what plan are you on. (also any pricing info you have would be greatly appreciated)
Funny, but as you discribed him, I immediately thought of a character on Bob & Tom's morning radio show named Kenny Tarmac, and you're right, I wouldn't want him talking on the plane. wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Tarmac#Kenny_Ta rmac
No, that is an FBI warning stating that illegal copying and distribution, public performances, and so on are copyright violations. Yes there is the "This is licsensed for use in private, etc..." but that's not a valid license. You cannot make a license that says "by opening this package you accept the terms of the license contained herein", there has to be a point during which you can decline. In the case of movies, that "license" won't hold water in court (try taking it back to the store after you opened it, they'll let you exchange it for another copy of the same movie). They can get you for making copies and distributing them (copyright infringement) or circumventing DMCA (making a copy) but not a "license violation", because you were not given the terms of the license and a chance to decline it prior to purchase.
Personally I think that for once someone was thinkingofthechildren, just thought of their well being in the long run, as opposed to the present.
I was there once when I was very young. I even saw a "mountaintop removal" operation, and I also saw what the mountaintop looked like after they had put it back, they did a damn good job, I couldn't tell that there was a difference (though I am sure animals were displaced, etc.) I think all in all it wasn't too bad of a job. (I was like 12 at the time, so maybe I'm off, maybe a resident of the area would like to back up or refute my post)
Except that he says a member of his immediate family is a teacher at an all girls school. He does not make the claim that he is a student at the same school.
I see your point, and agree that they would face huge backlash if that happened, but they could spin it as free OOo, and then tack on an additional line item like $25 support for OOo, if they really wanted to.
I could not agree more. I have a neighbor across the street whose 13 year old has (in the last 18 months they lived there) has been kicked out of school twice (once for throwing a chair at the school's principal), and has had the police over there for various fights in the neighborhood at least every other week. The police won't do anything to him (the theory is that they don't want to lock him up for fear he gets worse), and the parents won't do anything to him (because they are really bad parents). I feel very sorry for this young man, because he has no good role model to teach him what is acceptable and what isn't, but at the same time, I think he needs to go to juvee for a while, maybe get bullied around himself. All in all, I do blame the parents, but I fear that by this late stage in his childhood, there is nothing anyone can do.