Funny.... my father subscribed to Hulu Plus and for what you get, it is pretty good. I would like to see them 'upgrade' from 480p on some of the shows to actual HD 720p or 1080p, but eh.... still good for what you are paying and what you get.
The only one who misses the point is you, Anonymous Coward. They actually hit all the point squarely on the head when it comes down to the brass tacks.
The first and second one are the best here, and they hit the points squarely on the head, to be blunt.
The fact is that if these music people would go to distributing their music themselves online through various services, they would make MORE money in the long run.
Personally, I like to try songs (use Rhapsody Unlimited to do that) then I buy online the ones that I like.... UNLESS an album is under 10 dollars for 20-25 songs.
Then, I am willing to pony up the cash to pay for the whole album.
The fact is that right now, clean tech cannot produce all the energy that is needed for the things that people want to do in America.
If we wanted to go to all 'clean energy' right now, with the methods available (including nuclear power, which IS a clean technology when you take into account that 'spent' waste can be reused in another reactor of a different design for multiple periods)..... we would have to cut back on a lot of the things that make life worth living today.
No TV's, no computers, no radios, no refrigerators, no etc.
Until then, we have to realize that coal and oil are going to be our major sources of power (which the latter is apparently renewable, judging by them going back to old, tapped out oil fields and finding that they have refilled a substantial amount with the old techniques that were first used on it), and move on to making those technologies cleaner.
CO2? Not worried about it, we are already past the concentration of CO2 that acts as a 'thermal blanket' to the planet. Pumping more CO2 into the atmosphere will NOT make the world heat more, because at any higher concentration, it doesn't have more of a thermal blanket effect.
Your solution isn't logical, in that it assume that the patents are valid ones. From the viewpoint of most in the tech community, these kind of 'process patents' are not legitimate and do a lot of 'freezing out of the market' of competing services, which we should have more of and which would lower prices dramatically.
True. I was sexually active LONG before puberty, though I didn't know that is what it was called.
Hell, I remember doing things that I could equate to adult terms such as cunnilingus with other female children (I am male) when I was 4 when our parents weren't watching.
It's time to realize that sex is NOT an adult nor a 'destructive' impulse. In fact, I am of the thinking that we should perhaps ENCOURAGE at least teenagers to be having sex (while being on birth control) so that they do not hitch themselves to an asshole because the asshole is a relatively good lay!
I hope you are being sarcastic. The fact is that we are BORN with genitals, and there isn't a forcefield between the genitals of people who aren't married.... so if 'god' expected us to only be having sex after we are married, he fucked up big time!
All of this is about forcing religious values on people who don't want to adhere to them. Frankly, I have no problem with my children viewing pornography, as long as they are the ones who go looking for it.
Now, if they find it while searching for something else totally unrelated (which Google and other search providers have taken care of with their Safe Search technology for the most part) and they come running to me whining about this thing they found that 'offends' them.... THEN I would be pissed.
Frankly, I know how to install a 'parental filter' on our computers..... but I am of the thinking that they are totally W O R T H L E S S because any child above 6 can get around them just by searching online for various methods to get around them.
The fact is that is true. One person doing something or even 1000 people doing something is not going to send a message to someone, who are all about figures.
Re: Re: Re: Never pay a man to do the job of an inatimate object...
Those two 'bombers' that you talked about had little to no chance of having any success. The thing that they did were so simply and had so many flaws, that it was a one in a BILLION chance that they would have succeeded.
Even if they had..... big whoop. 150 people killed. Less than 1000th of the number killed IN CAR ACCIDENT ALONE SOLELY IN THE UNITED STATES EVERY YEAR!
Yeah, if someone did those kind of attacks, they might not even get CAUGHT if they were cautious enough, assembled the bomb in a home-made 'clean room' to cut down on evidence, etc.
Rodent hits the nail on the head. The 'intent' behind something doing something illegal is very very very rarely taken into account in Great Britain because their laws are written in asinine ways.
Thankfully, in the United States, in civil law at least, intent IS taken into account.... if you buy something illegal without knowing it was illegal (even if it appears to be a 'too good to be true' thing), you are not held responsible.
Agreed, Anonymous. The fact is that the United States has not been number one in the slightest for a long time.
To Fred... shut up. The real issue is that liberals do not CARE if we are number one if we are breaking moral rules. THAT is the only 'shortcoming' that we impose on the United States.
That isn't even a shortcoming except in the minds of people who have been brainwashed with American exceptionalism.
I don't understand why Private Manning didn't use TOR for his leaks.... it's easy to set up, and judging from what I have seen, nearly impossible to crack.
If hate speech is illegal, then a lot of the stuff that Fox News says or has commentators say should have had people arrested and thrown in prison/jail by now.
We say that hate speech is illegal..... but the prosecutors are way too unwilling to prosecute people for hate speech violations, unless it is against black people.
Actually, you can mail someone without having a return address on the envelope. Hell, I got a letter like that and honestly?
It was someone acting like a jackwad. Never was able to track down the person in question, though I did involve the police since it involved a threat to my person.
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The fact is that if these music people would go to distributing their music themselves online through various services, they would make MORE money in the long run.
Personally, I like to try songs (use Rhapsody Unlimited to do that) then I buy online the ones that I like.... UNLESS an album is under 10 dollars for 20-25 songs.
Then, I am willing to pony up the cash to pay for the whole album.
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If we wanted to go to all 'clean energy' right now, with the methods available (including nuclear power, which IS a clean technology when you take into account that 'spent' waste can be reused in another reactor of a different design for multiple periods)..... we would have to cut back on a lot of the things that make life worth living today.
No TV's, no computers, no radios, no refrigerators, no etc.
Until then, we have to realize that coal and oil are going to be our major sources of power (which the latter is apparently renewable, judging by them going back to old, tapped out oil fields and finding that they have refilled a substantial amount with the old techniques that were first used on it), and move on to making those technologies cleaner.
CO2? Not worried about it, we are already past the concentration of CO2 that acts as a 'thermal blanket' to the planet. Pumping more CO2 into the atmosphere will NOT make the world heat more, because at any higher concentration, it doesn't have more of a thermal blanket effect.
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Maybe by the time I am ready to kick the old bucket, they will have it 60 years in the future.... not until then.
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For goodness sakes, this is nothing more than FTP hosting with a prettier interface and the ability to view your pictures when it comes down to it.
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Hell, I remember doing things that I could equate to adult terms such as cunnilingus with other female children (I am male) when I was 4 when our parents weren't watching.
It's time to realize that sex is NOT an adult nor a 'destructive' impulse. In fact, I am of the thinking that we should perhaps ENCOURAGE at least teenagers to be having sex (while being on birth control) so that they do not hitch themselves to an asshole because the asshole is a relatively good lay!
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All of this is about forcing religious values on people who don't want to adhere to them. Frankly, I have no problem with my children viewing pornography, as long as they are the ones who go looking for it.
Now, if they find it while searching for something else totally unrelated (which Google and other search providers have taken care of with their Safe Search technology for the most part) and they come running to me whining about this thing they found that 'offends' them.... THEN I would be pissed.
Frankly, I know how to install a 'parental filter' on our computers..... but I am of the thinking that they are totally W O R T H L E S S because any child above 6 can get around them just by searching online for various methods to get around them.
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Another step down the road to totalitarianism
It's time to tell the legislators "Hey, DUMBNUTS! Start focusing on REAL PROBLEMS like the economy!"
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The fact is that if a prosecutor/lawyer had put this into evidence, it could have been viewed by the jury.
Really, I would automatically do that for anything where there was videotaped evidence if I was a prosecutor or defense attorney.
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THAT is when you have crossed the line.
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Even if they had..... big whoop. 150 people killed. Less than 1000th of the number killed IN CAR ACCIDENT ALONE SOLELY IN THE UNITED STATES EVERY YEAR!
Not a big danger, as I keep on pointing out!
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Re: Re: Re: Makes sense when you think about it.
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Thankfully, in the United States, in civil law at least, intent IS taken into account.... if you buy something illegal without knowing it was illegal (even if it appears to be a 'too good to be true' thing), you are not held responsible.
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To Fred... shut up. The real issue is that liberals do not CARE if we are number one if we are breaking moral rules. THAT is the only 'shortcoming' that we impose on the United States.
That isn't even a shortcoming except in the minds of people who have been brainwashed with American exceptionalism.
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We say that hate speech is illegal..... but the prosecutors are way too unwilling to prosecute people for hate speech violations, unless it is against black people.
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It was someone acting like a jackwad. Never was able to track down the person in question, though I did involve the police since it involved a threat to my person.
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