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I always thought Java was a bit ... smelly...-kyrathaba (January 30, 2014, 07:22 AM)
Although details of Tuesday's event remain unclear, occasional suicides by London bank employees have incited criticism of the demands placed on some financial services workers, Reuters reported.
If using a half ounce of common sense will prevent confusion of the two then ... Just, Let. It. Go.Go? not Be?-Stoic Joker (January 28, 2014, 07:04 AM)-x16wda (January 28, 2014, 12:52 PM)
Apple Records
Profile:
Please note, many Apple Records issues also carry an EMI logo. This is not a label and EMI should not be added as a label, it instead indicates that Apple was part of the EMI Group.
Apple Corps Ltd. was incorporated by Beatles, The in 1967 and the band launched its record label division early in 1968. Through a complicated series of deals, the Beatles licensed its records from EMI, which then handled distribution on Apple's behalf. This arrangement has, more or less, continued to the present.
Between 1968 and 1974, Apple released some 40 albums by other acts, the most successful being Badfinger. However, since then it existed solely to administer the Beatles' catalogue (group and solo) released between 1962 and 1976.
The label was, for three and a half decades, run by Neil Aspinall on behalf of the four Beatles and their heirs, but he retired in 2007 to be replaced by Jeff Jones. In 2009, after decades of wrangling, the company reached an agreement to license the Apple trademark (not the logo) from Apple Inc. the world-famous computer and electronics company. In 2010, a massive
remastering campaign of the label’s entire catalogue began.
(From: http://www.discogs.c.../25693-Apple-Records)
Cynically, I think that one of the reasons it worked before was that they weren't prepared. Now? It would be like trying the same sucker punch on the same person.-wraith808 (January 22, 2014, 08:20 PM)
But... what about bitcloud?-wraith808 (January 22, 2014, 08:20 PM)
Actually, it's more than actionable. They held him without advising him of his rights and questioned him. Confiscated his equipment. The manner of questioning for hours is also more than a little debatable.
It comes down to... do we have the rights that our forefathers set forth or not?
Against him is the fact that he didn't challenge them. It takes balls to do, but when you're uncomfortable, you can request your equipment, refuse to let them search and take your equipment, and ask to walk away. At the point when you force it back in their court and they're forced to actually do something, they make an actionable stand. Otherwise they say the double-speak.
It's fear more than anything else- he theoretically had a recording device. But it has very limited recording capacity, and the fidelity is such that it wouldn't even be useable. In fact, most incidences of piracy are in house jobs, not the old sit in a movie theatre with a camera on your shoulder. That wen't out long ago.
Once again, law enforcement is behind. And being pushed by the MPAA.-wraith808 (January 21, 2014, 03:22 PM)
Let America Be America Again
by Langston Hughes
Let America be America again.
...
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!
Some people have always known... Orwell falls into that perceptive group, but is not alone.-wraith808 (January 20, 2014, 11:58 PM)
Reality trumps paranoid delusions.-Renegade (January 20, 2014, 02:23 PM)
Ya might wanna rethink that statement. Money laundering, crime, tax evasion, et al., have been around - i.e., reality - a lot longer than even the concept of bitcoin and other cyber currencies. Evil or good is not the realm of any currency medium, just the uses to which it is applied. To paraphrase an old saying, "What Man can create, Man can pervert."
-barney (January 20, 2014, 09:34 PM)
Or giving them the ability to throttle individual services?More specifically giving them the ability to cripple a service, just because it was decided that it was bad.-wraith808 (January 16, 2014, 04:08 PM)
...AAaanndd from the "let's take it straight to the basement" department, ladies and gentleman I give you the opposing view:
http://www.zdnet.com...his-time-7000025167/
-Edvard (January 15, 2014, 08:03 PM)
ing popular.it requires me to give a phone number
or an alternative email (which I don't want to give)-kalos (January 12, 2014, 04:55 PM)
Have you considered lying as an option? It's served me well for this type of thing in the past.-Stoic Joker (January 13, 2014, 11:34 AM)
but it will send a code to that mobile and require me to view it and enter it in their webpage (at least gmail does that)-kalos (January 13, 2014, 11:39 AM)
it requires me to give a phone number
or an alternative email (which I don't want to give)-kalos (January 12, 2014, 04:55 PM)
What 40hz said. But given costs of hard drives these days, consider getting a replacement instead. If the drive continues adding bad sectors then there could well be a physical defect, and perhaps whatever your friend did with the defrag tool just ran afoul of that. I'd be uncomfortable trusting a "repaired" drive especially if a drive failure later could put me out of commission; I'd rather take proactive steps than be forced to react at some random - probably inconvenient - moment when it suddenly gives up the ghost.-x16wda (January 11, 2014, 08:41 AM)
People living in cold parts of the country probably laugh if I gripe about 48 degrees F but with 20 MPH wind and wet it's no fun to be out in it all night when you've acclimated to 60 or 70+ in December.-MilesAhead (January 06, 2014, 05:41 PM)
