Misc16 May 2005 11:43 pm
Another Great Resource Recommended by ITF
Did you know that Radio Bible Class Ministries has the Our Daily Bread devotions online? Sure enough, very convenient. Links to the Scripture readings and everything.
They have two other devotionals online also, Soul Journey and My Utmost for His Highest.
Rob, I expect you to apologize for not telling me about all this sooner.
18 Responses
May 19th, 2005 at 6:00 am
Yes Tom, I also knew of the “Our Daily Bread” online. So I now submit my most humblest of apologies! Couldst thou please find it in thine heart to forgive me?
Rob
May 19th, 2005 at 2:08 pm
Ok Rob, here’s what I want. Tell me now about the the next resource online that I’m going to uncover!
May 20th, 2005 at 8:11 am
Tom,
A few other sites you may not have seen are Crosswalk.com and Biblegateway.com which gives you free access to many Bible resources such as commentaries etc.
Rob
May 20th, 2005 at 8:31 am
I just saw this software site Softike. It seems waaayyy to good to be true. $1000 software for $100??? The catch is it’s downloadable. I don’t know if it’s pirated software or not. If it’s all legit, it’s mind-boggling. I hope they start selling ProTools!!!
May 20th, 2005 at 5:43 pm
Wow, that would be nice. I poked through the site and couldn’t rule out that it was legit. Definitely too good to be true!! That’s the way to go though, download, no stupid manuals and dumb boxes.
I’ll have my OTA look into it.
May 21st, 2005 at 8:01 pm
If they would just be so kind as to put a pirate’s flag on it, it would be a bit more obvious. I can get you software that is just as legit for FREE!
May 21st, 2005 at 8:05 pm
If you went ahead and bought some, you would probably get your software (downloaded off of Bit Torrent with a serial that has been keygenned) and in the coming months you would also find that you somehow purchased a 54″ plasma HDTV in the Phillipines.
May 21st, 2005 at 10:52 pm
Hans can get us legit software for free! Oh wait, just as legit. I see.
Hey Hans, let’s open up an online software store, The Jolly Roger!
May 23rd, 2005 at 7:39 am
That would be… jolly.
May 23rd, 2005 at 10:13 am
So Mr. OTA, unless I’m actually interested in a big screen tv I shouldn’t buy their software, even though I get all that for 50 bucks? Hey, I guess I could smash the tv when it finally shows up, eh?
May 23rd, 2005 at 7:07 pm
The TV wouldn’t be showing up for you to smash. It would be someone else (in the Phillipines or North Korea or somewhere) buying a TV with *your* credit card.
May 23rd, 2005 at 7:16 pm
So OTA, is it pretty hard to shut these software sites down or not?
May 24th, 2005 at 7:16 am
I echo Tom’s question, and I feel I must defend my reputation after that last tv post: I knew that-I was only kidding…
May 25th, 2005 at 8:42 am
Tom: If they’re hosted in a foreign country (you could do a DNS query on the domain and then do a geo-lookup for the IP address) that has little respect for copyright laws (China, North Korea, Russia, etc.) there’s almost nothing that can be done to shut them down. US ISPs are not in the business of censorship (there would be a huge outcry if they started making those descisions on what is bad, etc.) so those sites will be out there. You need to be wary: “If it’s too good to be true, it probably is.”
Dave: I wasn’t sure if you were serious our not. :)
May 25th, 2005 at 9:50 am
So the OEM software companies (e.g. MS, etc.) can do nothing about it, huh?
May 28th, 2005 at 10:56 am
They lobby their homies in Congress and Congress lobbies the Prez to do some diplomacy at that country to try and get them to crack down on it. Also Congress often will pass a law punishing (withholding aid, changing trade agreements, etc.) to a country if they are too uncooperative.
This kind of store that you saw (which seems to be directed at a US audience) can hurt the software companies, but software piracy in Asia is a great boon to Microsoft. The people that buy the pirated software (in Asia, you can buy any piece of software or any movie on the streets for $1) are ones who couldn’t afford the legits versions so if they didn’t get the pirated version they wouldn’t buy the legit versions any way. If they didn’t get MS pirated versions, then they would get Linux. Getting that pirated software out there is exploding MS’s market share in Asia. In time, the region will grow rich enough to buy MS products and then MS will have them hooked. The copyable nature of software means that this whole thing has cost MS $0. Once you are on an OS, all your programs are on an OS, all your data is on an OS, it’s hard to switch.
The best argument I have heard for legalizing marijuana is this: #1 Marijuana is less harmful than alcohol. #2 Legalizing marijuana would bring the prices way down because the smuggling/protection/killing cost wouldn’t be present. #3 It would get less people killed. #4 (the most compelling one) Right now, drug dealers often lace marijuana with heroin. This gets them hooked on the harder more expensive stuff. (Same as software) If it was legalized, the FDA would regulate it, and it would be sold over the counter, you wouldn’t have that lacing. Anyway.. bunny trail…
May 28th, 2005 at 11:03 am
Wow. I’ve never heard that it in a positive for MS aspect before.
May 29th, 2005 at 4:02 pm
Of course you haven’t. All you hear is their side. They have to grex (Dutch for: whine, gripe) about it as much as they can. They need to start conditioning Asians to feel guilty about it, but they also need to work on the 2% in the US that pirate stuff.