That's a false comparison; those mp3s weren't uploaded by the artist themselves. If a musician uploads a track today with a free download, and provides the link without any password protection or encryption so anyone can link to and download it willy nilly, then yes, it's free and you can run it on your computer and listen to it.
I think they should put a warning up for people, that by downloading and compiling the code you could be in violation of the law,
By analogy, this would be like the artist putting up a track for download and saying it's illegal to listen to.
Yeah, quoting one twitter account doesn't really show much more than a segment of "Anonymous"'s opinion. Theyhavequiteafew. Tweet from the last one: "Anonymous not unanimous. We don't have to agree w/ each other all the time. We choose to take part in actions we support, or not. #Wikileaks".
Countless studies have shown that once a country gains a stable agriculture system, families average having only 2.2 children. So, your conclusion is baseless and unfounded.
It is possible now, in fact the world creates enough Calories to feed the current population--starvation is a distribution problem. Thanks to Norman Borlaug, we now have corn that creates Vitamin A and 100% of your essential amino acids, and that was years ago. A worldwide team of crop experts has been crossing rice strains to make a type that is highly suited for a hydroponics environment as a way of dealing with the issue of available cropland in Asia. Overall, every staple grain has seen a trend in the last two decades of higher-yield and less maintenance.
You can focus on hype, people waving predictions in your face about potential worst-case scenarios, but those who study "The World Food Problem" know there's equal parts messages of caution and hope.
Well, if I use a ATM not in my (bank's) system, I get nicked for $2.00 from the ATM, and $2.00 from my bank. So, pulling out $40 would be a 10% service charge, when I could just use my debit/credit card to pay for the transaction and make the vendor eat the credit card fee on their end (this is why you see a credit card minimum at many places). I assume the $1.50 fee that BitInstant would charge would also stack with the owner of the ATM's fee, so I would call it just about average (or 50 cents cheaper).
MP3tunes had filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 code, which envisages liquidation of a company's operation. In the court filing, the company had listed out assets of about $7,800 and liabilities of $2.1 million.
"When someone in a position of authority tells you it is - you think that its right. So, I said, Are you sure I can go through with the pump? It's not going to hurt the pump? And she said no, no you're fine."
I think we're missing the real mystery here. And that, is that somebody here laid a big brown snake on the edge of the urinal in the boy's restroom after recess! It's not funny to have to clean up a chocolate hot dog and have no one being held responsible for it.
I like the idea of tying in with future products, right now the farthest that's gone is MW3 showing your multiplayer rank since CoD4 in your profile. The problem is, the real way developers try to make people keep playing single-player games is shovelware. Fallout 3 & NV did it, and NV got more and more glitches the more you bought, essentially leaving you with a $100 broken product they have no intention of fixing. The other way to make people keep the game, of course, is continuing multiplayer experience. But CoD's new "Elite membership" seems to be trying to bleed all of that dry as well. Game makers are tired of people selling off their games after a while/not buying 'til they can get it used for cheap? More like gamers are tired of financially backing these people without getting an acceptable return.
Congress must enact law that supercedes any prior or later law indicating that personal communications CANNOT be intercepted with anything short of a court order.
We wish. Too bad the checks and balances system doesn't include a way for the people to have a say in what lawmakers do...oh wait -- voting! Damn it, that was our "balance"? Too bad the ineffectiveness of that wasn't foreseen. 'Course it would have taken foreseeing 21st century news networks and an amalgamation of other influences to politics to understand how voting being the only power "We The People" wield falls short.
True, but the glyphosate patent ran out back in 2000. RoundupReady has been mostly a marketing strategy (in the title, for sure) to still encourage buying glyphosate in its brand-name form. So, when that patent runs out, Cargill or whoever can make "Brand-Name"Ready crops, and package glyphosate under "Brand-Name", thus following the same plan and ultimately cutting into Monsanto's profits.
[off topic] I remember the year I spent studying Applied Plant Science was also my most politically-active year, because it seemed no one cared about the corporate games being played...
I dunno, reading some of the "Anonymous" releases makes me think they believe they can actually change the world by what they are doing. They get pretty lofty and poetic for being in it strictly "for teh lulz". Not that it wasn't funny/important/damning what they did, but eliciting social change? History will decide, and take a while to do so.
CoD:MW2, anyone? The SpecOps mission in the favela punishes you for killing them. Also, "No Russian". And Rainbow 6 had tons of civvies, but they were called hostages...
That's really interesting. They blocked themselves into using IE and ActiveX controls exclusively for everything because they couldn't wait for 128-bit encryption to come out in '99. So it's not *just* that they're running windows, but that they have to use IE and still haven't moved over to the 128-bit standard.
People's Liberation Front started (according to their website) in 1985. They predate actual hacking of computer systems and got their start by creating devices that could be used to get free access to payphones. I admit, though, it does seem hard to tell them apart from Anonymous in the present day. The certainly are using the memes enough....it's almost like they found a younger cousin who is more adept at the work they like to do and are riding the coattails. But there's still stark contrasts.
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I think they should put a warning up for people, that by downloading and compiling the code you could be in violation of the law,
By analogy, this would be like the artist putting up a track for download and saying it's illegal to listen to.
In reality, it was all a load of bollocks. Neither country could ever have invaded or destroyed the other. .
We know this now; hindsight is 20/20.
I guess it's true; everyone's a critic.
Yeah, quoting one twitter account doesn't really show much more than a segment of "Anonymous"'s opinion. They have quite a few. Tweet from the last one: "Anonymous not unanimous. We don't have to agree w/ each other all the time. We choose to take part in actions we support, or not. #Wikileaks".
Something about an online news source, falling for a dupe. Seemed relevant to /. as a whole.
Countless studies have shown that once a country gains a stable agriculture system, families average having only 2.2 children. So, your conclusion is baseless and unfounded.
It is possible now, in fact the world creates enough Calories to feed the current population--starvation is a distribution problem. Thanks to Norman Borlaug, we now have corn that creates Vitamin A and 100% of your essential amino acids, and that was years ago. A worldwide team of crop experts has been crossing rice strains to make a type that is highly suited for a hydroponics environment as a way of dealing with the issue of available cropland in Asia. Overall, every staple grain has seen a trend in the last two decades of higher-yield and less maintenance.
You can focus on hype, people waving predictions in your face about potential worst-case scenarios, but those who study "The World Food Problem" know there's equal parts messages of caution and hope.
Wat. CFCs weren't depleting the ozone? Also, care to cite the source from your first point?
Well, if I use a ATM not in my (bank's) system, I get nicked for $2.00 from the ATM, and $2.00 from my bank. So, pulling out $40 would be a 10% service charge, when I could just use my debit/credit card to pay for the transaction and make the vendor eat the credit card fee on their end (this is why you see a credit card minimum at many places). I assume the $1.50 fee that BitInstant would charge would also stack with the owner of the ATM's fee, so I would call it just about average (or 50 cents cheaper).
how did this turn political?
You must be new here...
I bet you think Leslie is, too.
MP3tunes had filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 code, which envisages liquidation of a company's operation. In the court filing, the company had listed out assets of about $7,800 and liabilities of $2.1 million.
Good luck with that...
"When someone in a position of authority tells you it is - you think that its right. So, I said, Are you sure I can go through with the pump? It's not going to hurt the pump? And she said no, no you're fine."
A real-life example of what was shown by the Milgram experiment.
I think we're missing the real mystery here. And that, is that somebody here laid a big brown snake on the edge of the urinal in the boy's restroom after recess! It's not funny to have to clean up a chocolate hot dog and have no one being held responsible for it.
I like the idea of tying in with future products, right now the farthest that's gone is MW3 showing your multiplayer rank since CoD4 in your profile. The problem is, the real way developers try to make people keep playing single-player games is shovelware. Fallout 3 & NV did it, and NV got more and more glitches the more you bought, essentially leaving you with a $100 broken product they have no intention of fixing. The other way to make people keep the game, of course, is continuing multiplayer experience. But CoD's new "Elite membership" seems to be trying to bleed all of that dry as well.
Game makers are tired of people selling off their games after a while/not buying 'til they can get it used for cheap? More like gamers are tired of financially backing these people without getting an acceptable return.
Congress must enact law that supercedes any prior or later law indicating that personal communications CANNOT be intercepted with anything short of a court order.
We wish. Too bad the checks and balances system doesn't include a way for the people to have a say in what lawmakers do...oh wait -- voting! Damn it, that was our "balance"? Too bad the ineffectiveness of that wasn't foreseen. 'Course it would have taken foreseeing 21st century news networks and an amalgamation of other influences to politics to understand how voting being the only power "We The People" wield falls short.
"RoundUp" is (TM), that's the brand name. But *glyphosate* is all there is to RoundUp, and the patent on that ran out.
True, but the glyphosate patent ran out back in 2000. RoundupReady has been mostly a marketing strategy (in the title, for sure) to still encourage buying glyphosate in its brand-name form. So, when that patent runs out, Cargill or whoever can make "Brand-Name"Ready crops, and package glyphosate under "Brand-Name", thus following the same plan and ultimately cutting into Monsanto's profits.
[off topic] I remember the year I spent studying Applied Plant Science was also my most politically-active year, because it seemed no one cared about the corporate games being played...
Well, I think it's abut time an Erowid link appeared: https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_faq.shtml#flashbacks. Anything you want to know about drugs on the Internet, and Erowid.org is your best bet.
Freelance, yes. But in the Thieve's Guild we do have a code..
I figured it translated to "anonymous", too (I assume that's what you're implying). But Google says Finnish for anonymous is 'nimetön'.... *shrugs*
I dunno, reading some of the "Anonymous" releases makes me think they believe they can actually change the world by what they are doing. They get pretty lofty and poetic for being in it strictly "for teh lulz". Not that it wasn't funny/important/damning what they did, but eliciting social change? History will decide, and take a while to do so.
CoD:MW2, anyone? The SpecOps mission in the favela punishes you for killing them. Also, "No Russian". And Rainbow 6 had tons of civvies, but they were called hostages...
That's really interesting. They blocked themselves into using IE and ActiveX controls exclusively for everything because they couldn't wait for 128-bit encryption to come out in '99. So it's not *just* that they're running windows, but that they have to use IE and still haven't moved over to the 128-bit standard.
People's Liberation Front started (according to their website) in 1985. They predate actual hacking of computer systems and got their start by creating devices that could be used to get free access to payphones. I admit, though, it does seem hard to tell them apart from Anonymous in the present day. The certainly are using the memes enough....it's almost like they found a younger cousin who is more adept at the work they like to do and are riding the coattails. But there's still stark contrasts.