Haha well-said.Quote:
Originally Posted by bobsobol
Those ponchos must be made out of Tauntaun hide :cool:
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Haha well-said.Quote:
Originally Posted by bobsobol
Those ponchos must be made out of Tauntaun hide :cool:
I must teach Google to translate "Huehuehuehu" to "Mwahahahar". XD Who is Hueyoo?Quote:
Originally Posted by gcsilva
HUAHUEHUAHUE BR BR (Animated Version) - YouTube
Google translator is based on documents on the internet not "hard" translation.Quote:
Laughter - most prominent with speakers of Brazilian Portuguese.
The Brazilian equivalent of "haha".
MMOplayer1: "gibe moni plos"
MMOplayer2: "buff plis"
MMOplayer1: "br?"
MMOplayer2: HUEHUEHUE
So translator "could" translate this XD
http://i.imgur.com/lkkyh.jpg
The "capshun" is wrong. It should say "<Control><Break>". ;)
I must try that next time someone posts "I can't connect to SQL" or "My server just crashes" ... "So - It has come to this."
Even better, when some lUser comes into the office and says "Erm... the system made me change my password yesterday, and now I can't remember it?..." or "I'm trying to access the web-page for never-existed-and-never-will.com and I just keep getting 404?..." :lol:
Okay, this one's off-topic, but I feel the need to rant and "rage against the machine". Prepare for WOT! You have been warned.
It was nearly part of this post, but could just as easily have been part of this one. I'm just so damn angry about this issue.
As I say, the problems with MediaFire are probably to do with my ISP. They are also a major record label and video game publisher, and where the first ISP in my country to block Pirate Bay. :(: Having said that, they also made it quite clear that they only did that because they lost the crown court case against taking that action when the govt. asked them to.
I just wonder what the freedom of the internet is coming to when national governments can tell us where we can go and what information we can share. I remember downloading the Anarchist Handbook, Jolly Rogers Cookbook and the Phone Hackers Guide on BBS before we had the Web and 20Meg hard drives, never mind Terrabyte ones. I remember passing video games and coding demos across BBS boards with kids in the USSR doing exactly the same thing and thinking "see, they really are the same as us!" I remember French students organising public protests on government funded public access street terminals to the net, and now I'm facing ACTA and SOPA, FBI site closures and the extradition of Julian Assange for exposing nothing more than the truth.
When next my government criticizes China for limiting public access to the internet and censoring its' peoples freedom of speech and expression, I will laugh in their faces. In fact, every time I am told that my nation has a government democratically elected by it's people to govern in accordance with their wishes I laugh. I thank the Government of China for teaching my Chinese friends how to get around the Great Firewall of China before I needed them to teach me how to do the same in my country.
So that's what I was gonna post before I realised how far off-topic I'd gone. But here's the thing that's bugging me. (since I'm way OT already) It's not an ISPs place to say what people do, or do not do with the internet they sold them. If I buy a butter knife, and decide that I'm going to use it to loosen screws just because I CBA to find my screwdriver, that's my business. It's not like Wilkinson Steel is going to come and reposes the butter knife from me for abusing it! Neither is it any place of the national government. Arrest me; I loosened a screw with a butter knife. So it certainly isn't governments place to tell ISPs to limit what their customers can do with the internet!
This is like "pre-crime". It may well be the position of law enforcement to punish people for things they have done on the internet. (Child pornography, terrorism etc. yea, sure. Software / Copyright theft..? meh, as the law stands... I suppose) But not to physically stop us doing things you don't like. Especially when most normal people consider it perfectly reasonable. You don't fit limiters to every car, you just fine people who speed. (maybe they want to take the car to the track now and then and let rip) You don't insist that every knife be sold blunt and with sharpen-proof edges, you just send people down for stabbing each other! (heck, maybe they where planning on cutting some cheese with that knife) Fact is these sites can be and are used for perfectly legitimate and legal reasons. If you want to punish people for using them illegally that's fine, but don't put us all in a straight jacket just coz some people use their hands for thumping other people! FFS!
I don't really think that telling the truth should be an extraditable crime, but I understand that there is an issue of national secrets being exposed which endangered the lives of under-cover operatives in the case of Julian Assange. So their may be a case to be held. It is my understanding that his defences is that he offered officials the opportunity to redact such sensitive information before publishing. If he can prove that, I think his defence is sound, but I'm not convinced he will get a fair trial. (more like court-marshal)
You can argue the UK gun law is another, much older example of this nannying. On the other hand, I would defend that by pointing out that we really don't have any land open for public hunting, and do not have a legal rite to defend ourself and our family. (we do have e legal rite to expect the local constabulary and armed forces to defend us and our family to the extent that we have no need of arms in the home) We are entitled to a licence to keep a sports gun at a designated shooting range, or on a working farm for pest control. Armed forces and many law enforcement officials are entitled to own and carry fire arms if and when the situations they attend require it. So in reality, our gun law isn't that much more strict than any other. It's just that it's harder to prove a genuine legal reason to have one.
It's not hard to prove genuine legal reasons for having unrestricted access to file sharing sites. In fact, I can see a very genuine risk to the economic efficiency of a nation whose population doesn't typically have such freedoms.
On a wider scale, I am utterly sick and tired of being told how great the democratic system is and watching law after law being ratified against the wishes of the general public but unilaterally agreed upon as "a good thing" by all electable parties in our "democratic" societies. When there is no choice, there is no democracy. Just because you can choose between 3 or 4 parties all of whose policies the majority of the population disagree with doesn't make those policies "the will of the people". All the Pirate Parties, Environmental "green" parties and Occupy movements in the world don't seem to help... and so the only conclusion I can come to is that democracy doesn't work. Voters don't get a say, the only "people" with a voice are people with so much money they don't even care.
Maybe I have a legitimate reason for everyone in the UK owning a gun. Maybe it isn't legal, and maybe I don't care. Maybe I'd like our government to be more scared of not doing what the people want them to. Maybe I'd like them to worry that we may take their "puppet democracy", shove it up their collective butt holes and implement a proper one. One where Prime Ministers could be impeached by the people for failing in their duties and their oaths. One where our political representatives where paid only with tax money, and no more than the average managerial position, and only after they are elected. Where campaign funds came solely from public funds, and never from corporate donations. Where any declaration of war had to be ratified by a general vote. Well... there are democracies where the majority of home owners do carry fire arms, so what's their excuse? :glare:
Maybe such a government would inspire business practices which didn't need national workers unions to constantly call out general strikes to preserve workers rites, or government restrictions to prevent those unions from bringing the nation to it's knees. If the majority of people (most of whom are workers) controlled the demands government placed on industry, a natural balance might magically come about. Who knows! It's not like it's in workers interest for their [strike]employees[/strike] [of course, I meant employers] to go bankrupt is it?
/rant
So... yea. Vormav hates all the Churches in his country, and Sheen hates all the spoon-fed takers in his. That's what I hate about mine. The nanny state and our sham of a democracy.
Amen to that bobsobol.
This reminds me of Ron Paul and his very smart response to some "fat" guy :)
Fat Guy Gets OWNED by Ron Paul! - YouTubeQuote:
Question: Your solutions, on stopping drug trade, is, give up, give up to world drugs. I say zero tolerance, we use the military for aid, we stop it from getting into the country, we cut it off at the source. Why give up on that fight?
Ron Paul: What we give up on is a tyrannical approach to solving a social and medical problem, and We endorse the idea of voluntarism, self-responsibility, family, friends, and churches to solve problems, rather than saying that some monolithic government is going to make you take care of yourself and be a better person. It's a preposterous notion, it never worked, it never will. The government can't make you a better person, it can't make you follow good habits. Why don't they put you on a diet; you're a little overweight, and i think you need government help!
When comes to ACTA and so on... well I don't think that politicians can be "that" stupid; I smell some big money from corporations pumped into government to enforce those decisions. Question is how much money politicians need to stop taking bribes. Private jests, yachts, villas are not enough? Where is the limit? Maybe when they get private planet or galaxy?
Funny thing about piracy is that companies saying they can't stop it and they still making those silly security systems that affect only legal users. If we look at pirated movie or game we don't see 30 minutes of commercials, 5 pages of warnings from FBI or we are not forced to be connected to server that can't even handle that many connections. All this is removed from pirated soft/movies. Looking at this anyone can answer why piracy exist.
I can't run PT server on PS3 unless I hack it... but hacking it is piracy in Sony's opinion. Wait a second I can smash my console into pieces but I can't "edit" it? It makes no sense!
Well yeah bob I hate churches most but government in my country is not better than yours :)
There is even popular joke in my country:
- What are they doing with paedophiles in Poland?
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PS. We should fly planes into government buildings. You will get better WIFI connection in another world! :)
Those companies are just to greedy, an good example is the CD (compact disc, for audio, not data) in comparison to Vinyl records; Vinyl records have a topography that triggers the piezoelectric crystal (in resume, it is a stone that converts impact to electric energy - which sounds kind of 'magic') on the needle which sends the resulting energy to the mixer, and so on.. When recording the first matrix plate of a song (since the 70's, directly from the master to the matrix), all connections are balanced, so there is no distortion and the smoothness/crispness of the low and high frequencies are recorded on the vinyl, just like they were series of little mountains, representing the perfect relief of the sound. Recording vinyls are a more laborious and expensive process than recording cds, therefore, 'the companies' decided to use a cheap digital format.. that even a child could record at home.
And then they complain that people record cd's and stuff, that logic is very similar to a lot of other 'products'.. I begin to think that motor and power companies really did kill that 'clean cheap simple energy from water' dude that gone missing.
I think that quality is the best way to get rid of 'piracy', if 'companies' present people things with quality that they could not do by themselves (well i could not press up a vinyl, but it is an example) piracy would not exist.. If i had a machine that could ""print a car"", probably i would ""print"" a ferrari and get sued for it, etc..
Hmm. Well, we could record on to blank vinyl at the music store. They where wax drums that they recorded on before the disc versions. And they wanted to use CDs (expensive lasers that people couldn't afford at home) to wipe out tape recordings from Radio and Vinyl. :wink: But... CD Writers for domestic use appeared within 3 years of CD audio players. :(: Oops. Still to buy an Album on Vinyl I paid £7, on Cassette it was £5 on CD it was £14!!! WTF!? It cost 12p to press the vinyl 23p to dub the magnetic tape and 2p to press the CD! Where does that make any sense?Quote:
Originally Posted by ScreamingFox
I'm guessing it costs a fraction of a penny to rip the CD to MP3, which is all I do with it when I get it home anyway. :lol:
I fairness, I notice they are giving away a free digital download pass and UMD (USB Memory Device) with an HD copy of films along with most BRDs now. So they are learning.
I think the real answer to downloading "media" is that people don't want to pay an arm and a leg to be cramped into teeny uncomfortable seats in a cold theatre for 3hrs watching a film without laughing (for fear of disturbing others) or getting up to go for a pee or whatever. We don't want to clear our social calendar because we noticed that our favourite TV show is on in the TV Magazine, and we don't want to take a trip to Blockbuster or buy a disc just to watch a back episode we missed because we said "sod it, I'm going out tonight!"
When all these things can be sponsored in on-demand on-line viewing, or possibly pay-per-view in the case of feature films, and the quality is as good as the torrents (if not the BRDs) then I think people will chose to do things the legal way. Maybe not all of them, or all of the time, but most of us, most of the time. Just as it's always been.
There have always been illegal immigrants selling dodgy copies on street corners. Sometimes you buy their wares just because you sympathise, and at least they aren't out-right begging. But most of the time you use the legal outlets... provided they aren't ridiculously inconvenient. And that is the real problem right now.
I love on-line TV. I love TV news from all over the world, which hasn't passed my governments censors. \o/ Hoorey! I love downloads of films I never got around to watching at the cinema that expire a week after I got them... for free! Woohoo! Yea, I probably saw a fair few banner ads surfing around picking what to download, but it was legal, and I honestly don't care if I have to wait 5 years for this years cinema releases to reach those legal on-line distribution sites.
If they want me to legally watch this years film this year, don't premier it in Cinemas. Put it on-line! :wink:
I think they can make it pay. Blizzard distribute their digital download games via torrent. You just pay for the unlock key.
Hosting cost? Recording cost? Postage and packing? All free. (well, they let you download a torrent client from their web-page which is pre-programmed to just get their game torrent, but they'd probably need the website anyway, right?)
How can this not be a profitable way to distribute TV and film legitimately? Music distributors have already "bit the bullet" and moved to iTunes, Amazon and the Playstation Store. (though I think DRM is only fair for a one-off viewing / listening license)
FBI Did Not Steal Megaupload Evidence Because It’s “Digital”?
...arrow to the knee? XD
So if I DL "something" with copyrights I'm not stealing it because its digital? :)
What happens if they (FBI) win? Piracy will be legal act? :)
Now I'm waiting for RIAA or similar organization to defend Megaupload. LOL
The abbrieviated form misses anything of actual value in the argument to play on a cheep pun. Shame.
From the full reportUncontrolled evidence in criminal proceedings is inadmissible. Those drives where analysed by forensic technicians... but such analysis must either be carried out by a non-bias lab, or both the defence and prosecution must have expert witness to the analysis to prove that evidence is not planted and the results are not tampered with.Quote:
Originally Posted by www.stuff.co.nz
The FBI are prosecuting, so they are definitely not "unbiased" and the defence is claiming that not only where they not witness to the examination, but that no independent witness (the local police, for example) was present at the time.I would presume that is to ensure the legal "chain of custody". :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by www.stuff.co.nz
In a TV documentary on the seizure that I watched on RT they pointed out that while Mr. Dotcom was whisked away from his home by the FBI, the seizure of his home and personal effects (including his boats and cars and blah blah blah) was carried out by the New Zealand police. Which is ... IDK ... a reasonable compromise? It's not fair on him, that a foreign power can take him away without proving him guilty of anything at all. But at least the evidence they would need to do so should have remained in safe hands pending the investigation.And yet Microsoft can explicitly say that the High-Encryption Pack for IE cannot be "exported" to certain countries, Oracle can specify that it's software cannot be "exported" to certain countries and the FBI (or was it the CIA?) have made it illegal to "import" the PGP encryption algorithms (in source, binary or even paper print out form) to the U.S. (where much of it was doubtless written)Quote:
Originally Posted by www.stuff.co.nz
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