Quagmire is right! Most everything on the net could be considered copywritten or owned by someone else technically.
Hell, when you sign up for an online email account like hotmail, they even tell you in the usage terms that they technically own all the email you send and recieve through their servers.
I was at the mall the other day and went in a FYE (cd/dvd) store. They were asking nearly $20 for a CD!
Have they not learned anything? If they're so inflexable with their pricing while it is so easy to simply go somewhere else for a cheaper digital version of their product then why shouldn't they go out of business?
Instead of being mad at the innovators for killing their out dated business model they should be looking for ways to innovate.
The difference here is that the owners of radio stations usually have deep pockets (unlike most internet radio startups) so they'll be a bit more successful at fighting it.
Whatever happened to the idea that playing music over the radio (terrestial, satellite and internet) was another form of advertisement?
"actually the appeal of owning a mac is owning a computer that just works and works well. oh and security."
Another great thing about a mac is when a piece of hardware goes bad and it costs a fortune to get it services since you can't really service macs very easily yourself. Not like PCs anyway. A DVD drive in a PC go bad, pop in a new one for $40. A DVD drive in a new Mac go bad... good luck with that.
I have nothing against Macs, I like em in fact. But they are a bit elitist and I would never run an OS that did have a feature like this entegrated. Hopefully Apple never implements it.
So, besides using something like the Onion router to surf anonymously, what other ways is there for an average user to surf without being tracked by their ISP or anyone else? The Onion router is so slow.
Is surfing through a VPN on personal home level a viable possibility for the average home user?
Don't we have enough censorship in the United States! If it's a matter of family friendly programming, maybe they should spend more on promoting the V-chip or something. But I guess control is the real issue here.
Even better, Worthy wonders why kids can't just go play football instead of playing video games.
I guess she forgets she lives in DETROIT! Want to prevent being a victim of violent crime in Detroit. Play video games inside your locked house... where it's safe!
Google is taking tons of content you would other wise have to pay for and making it free across the net.
Well, on one hand you look at it like a digital library. You can borrow and look at it for as long as you like, all for free.
On the other it's almost like illegal filesharing. Normally you'd have to pay for these books. Google is giving them to you digitally, all for free.
But since most literature is generally free to use through the library system anyway, I guess we've already decided in our society that literature should be shared freely (just not movies and music).
Am I right in this?
I have a question. If Goldman is to sue The Pirate Bay, will he have to do so in the location of the Pirate Bay's business (or servers) or can he do so from the US?
If he did so from the US, what would keep The Pirate Bay from simply not responding.
This is what shows like 24 do to us. Don't get me wrong, I adore the show and shows and movies like it. But too many American's are letting the drama of shows like it run their lives.
We've become so paranoid that we think everything is a bomb, next we'll start thinking its okay to torture anyone at the drop of a hat to get 'answers'. which is totally illegal and against the constitution (even though you see the president order it regularly on 24)
I agree with the author of the thread. Most likely the paiin they are feeling is soreness. If you've ever held a wii controller you probably agree. The controller weighs next to nothing. If there actually are any injuries its probably due to the user being a couch potato most of their life.
Next thing you know people will be trying to sue nintendo simply because they are sore.
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Re: quagmire
Hell, when you sign up for an online email account like hotmail, they even tell you in the usage terms that they technically own all the email you send and recieve through their servers.
Its bullocks!
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Retail locations suck
Have they not learned anything? If they're so inflexable with their pricing while it is so easy to simply go somewhere else for a cheaper digital version of their product then why shouldn't they go out of business?
Instead of being mad at the innovators for killing their out dated business model they should be looking for ways to innovate.
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Whatever happened to the idea that playing music over the radio (terrestial, satellite and internet) was another form of advertisement?
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Another great thing about a mac is when a piece of hardware goes bad and it costs a fortune to get it services since you can't really service macs very easily yourself. Not like PCs anyway. A DVD drive in a PC go bad, pop in a new one for $40. A DVD drive in a new Mac go bad... good luck with that.
I have nothing against Macs, I like em in fact. But they are a bit elitist and I would never run an OS that did have a feature like this entegrated. Hopefully Apple never implements it.
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GOOG-411?
This is an awesome idea!
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quick question
Is surfing through a VPN on personal home level a viable possibility for the average home user?
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censorship
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haha
I guess she forgets she lives in DETROIT! Want to prevent being a victim of violent crime in Detroit. Play video games inside your locked house... where it's safe!
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Hmm....
You can borrow and look at it for as long as you like, all for free. On the other it's almost like illegal filesharing.
Normally you'd have to pay for these books. Google is giving them to you digitally, all for free. But since most literature is generally free to use through the library system anyway, I guess we've already decided in our society that literature should be shared freely (just not movies and music). Am I right in this?
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Question
If he did so from the US, what would keep The Pirate Bay from simply not responding.
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yeah
Now amazon offering full albums of Non-DRM music for $7 or $8, I may start downloading. :)
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This is crazy
We've become so paranoid that we think everything is a bomb, next we'll start thinking its okay to torture anyone at the drop of a hat to get 'answers'. which is totally illegal and against the constitution (even though you see the president order it regularly on 24)
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thats soreness goofball
Next thing you know people will be trying to sue nintendo simply because they are sore.
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