Oh come on, Mike. I can't believe you're putting this spin on it.
"...apparently shut down all cell service at a station under the (false, as it turns out) belief that protesters were going to show up there..."
Obviously the protesters didn't show up because of the agency's wise, proactive precaution of shutting off the cell repeaters. I'm astonished that even you can see it any other way.
The only reason I have a TV at all is to watch DVDs and, occasionally, tapes (more often to transfer the tapes). I also have my old Mac laptop hooked up to watch streaming and things like (see old rant about an American movie only available in region 2 format, or on VHS).'
We had an annoying virus running around at work for the longest time, that was spread via flash drives. Every time we'd disinfect a machine it was infected again within a few days. I tried to get my boss to cough up a bit of cash to buy everybody Flash drives with a write-disable switch but he just said nobody would use the feature.
So I found a registry hack that turned off the XP autorun and went around to every machine I could find, disabled it, and cleaned off the virus if required (usually). And cleaned off every memory stick I could beat out of people. Win7 wasn't an issue because it doesn't operate by the rusty nail principle (injects you with every rusty nail it encounters just in case the nail has the cure for cancer).
Haven't seen the damned thing in more than a year.
While it's mildly inconvenient to have to open a browser by hand any time I insert a Flash drive, it's less annoying than having my settings changed and having to yet again track down and eradicate a stupid keylogger that's for a game we don't have anyway.
Re: Re: Re: It's in human nature to share when doesn't COST one.
"It is also very nice that you have a level of crime you will commit and not commit..."
Ever get stuck at a red light that doesn't cycle? I can't speak for the laws where you are, but where I've lived there's no law or exception that states that I'm allowed to run the light.
How long should I wait? An hour? A day? Until they get the light fixed?
Until I get a ticket for blocking traffic?
Lucky you, you've never had that happen. Millions of people have. If the light obviously isn't going to turn green, no reasonable person would deny you the right to treat the light like a stop sign and go when it's safe (I've actually been told to do that, by a cop), but it doesn't alter the fact that it's technically against the law.
For the record: $0.0025 is ¢0.25, which is 1/4 of a cent. That's 100 times as much as ¢0.0025, which is what was quoted before.
Funny how many people see $0.25 and say "twenty-five cents" but shift it right and they get confused: $0.0025 is "point oh oh two five cents". Only it isn't. And some guy goes to Europe or Asia or something and pays 100 times as much for his cell phone data connectivity as the customer service drone quoted and who gets to eat the difference? Not the phone company.
"If You're Arguing That Pandora 'Deserves' Their Business Model To Work, Your Argument Is Wrong"
I don't think that's the argument. I think the argument is that Pandora's business model should work, and the only thing keeping it from working is the unreasonably high license fees being charged. Either because the Copyright Board is greedy (figuring that charging more automatically makes higher profits) or vindictive (pretending to offer licenses but pricing them too high to allow a sustainable business model, thus shutting down any businesses they don't like).
Re: Re: Wrong premise: the purpose is not the stopping, it's the /control/.
He's saying that nobody is really interested in stopping the copyright violations; they just want more control over the masses. The anti-piracy and anti-terrorism stuff is just an excuse and a distraction. Actually kind of an interesting idea, though I suspect it was intended to be tongue-in-cheek.
Really, you should try reading ALL the words, in the correct order, and ask for help with the long ones. Then it'll make more sense.
You know, those silly things they put on either side of the door that beeps when it sees a security strip that hasn't been zapped? It's funny to watch the clerks in a store when the alarm goes off -- they don't even look up. Somebody could be taking the entire liquor aisle and they wouldn't notice.
"The Boy who Cried Wolf" is more than 2500 years old and is embedded in our culture, even to having its own idiom, and we haven't figured it out yet. Well, it looks like the Germans have. I guess we're not as smart as they are.
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Re: Re: One definition of insanity?
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Oops
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"...apparently shut down all cell service at a station under the (false, as it turns out) belief that protesters were going to show up there..."
Obviously the protesters didn't show up because of the agency's wise, proactive precaution of shutting off the cell repeaters. I'm astonished that even you can see it any other way.
Elephant repellent!
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Eh, we cut the cord years ago
I haven't paid a cable bill in over a decade.
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Re: Re: Re:
We had an annoying virus running around at work for the longest time, that was spread via flash drives. Every time we'd disinfect a machine it was infected again within a few days. I tried to get my boss to cough up a bit of cash to buy everybody Flash drives with a write-disable switch but he just said nobody would use the feature.
So I found a registry hack that turned off the XP autorun and went around to every machine I could find, disabled it, and cleaned off the virus if required (usually). And cleaned off every memory stick I could beat out of people. Win7 wasn't an issue because it doesn't operate by the rusty nail principle (injects you with every rusty nail it encounters just in case the nail has the cure for cancer).
Haven't seen the damned thing in more than a year.
While it's mildly inconvenient to have to open a browser by hand any time I insert a Flash drive, it's less annoying than having my settings changed and having to yet again track down and eradicate a stupid keylogger that's for a game we don't have anyway.
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Wouldn't want to get into trouble.
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Re: Re: Re: It's in human nature to share when doesn't COST one.
Ever get stuck at a red light that doesn't cycle? I can't speak for the laws where you are, but where I've lived there's no law or exception that states that I'm allowed to run the light.
How long should I wait? An hour? A day? Until they get the light fixed?
Until I get a ticket for blocking traffic?
Lucky you, you've never had that happen. Millions of people have. If the light obviously isn't going to turn green, no reasonable person would deny you the right to treat the light like a stop sign and go when it's safe (I've actually been told to do that, by a cop), but it doesn't alter the fact that it's technically against the law.
Now... you were saying?
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Re: Completely off topic, but...
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Re: Re: At least be consistent
And apparently married a guy named Dave in 1989. Don't think gay marriage was legal then.
But the notice does explicitly say "daughter" so it seems likely anyway.
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Re: Double-edged sword
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Response to: Anonymous Coward on Mar 31st, 2011 @ 11:30pm
Tasty, tasty murder.
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Re:
We'll provide nightsticks and aluminum bats on arrival.
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Re: Greedy bastards!
Turns out it's $0.0025, which is 1/4 of a cent, not ¢0.0025, which is 1/400th of a cent.
There is a non-trivial difference.
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Re: Re:
For the record: $0.0025 is ¢0.25, which is 1/4 of a cent. That's 100 times as much as ¢0.0025, which is what was quoted before.
Funny how many people see $0.25 and say "twenty-five cents" but shift it right and they get confused: $0.0025 is "point oh oh two five cents". Only it isn't. And some guy goes to Europe or Asia or something and pays 100 times as much for his cell phone data connectivity as the customer service drone quoted and who gets to eat the difference? Not the phone company.
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Re: Re: Re:
I don't think that's the argument. I think the argument is that Pandora's business model should work, and the only thing keeping it from working is the unreasonably high license fees being charged. Either because the Copyright Board is greedy (figuring that charging more automatically makes higher profits) or vindictive (pretending to offer licenses but pricing them too high to allow a sustainable business model, thus shutting down any businesses they don't like).
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Re: Greedy bastards!
Wait a minute. This isn't Pandora complaining, this is the SEC pointing out that Pandora's model won't fly because of the rates.
Straw man argument and blaming the victim in less than once sentence. Nice.
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Company name
No, that is NOT proper Roman numeral designation!
:)
I suppose it's supposed to be pronounced something like "Civics"-something, but it sure looks like it wants to be a Roman numeral when it grows up.
This looked interesting: http://www.vendoralley.com/2011/06/15/another-civix-lesson-guest-post-by-robert-drummer/
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Re: Re: Wrong premise: the purpose is not the stopping, it's the /control/.
Really, you should try reading ALL the words, in the correct order, and ask for help with the long ones. Then it'll make more sense.
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Re: hmmm...
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Makes me think of store security scanners...
"The Boy who Cried Wolf" is more than 2500 years old and is embedded in our culture, even to having its own idiom, and we haven't figured it out yet. Well, it looks like the Germans have. I guess we're not as smart as they are.
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