So it's nothing to do with the surprisingly large number of people out there who have disposable income, but decide instead to keep and perpetuate literally terabytes of copyrighted material via P2P? It's all to do with the prices? Plenty of people have no trouble paying 'em, because they're still making money. It's not like the music industry has changed their prices significantly for years, but their patronage has gone down. Still think it's the prices? Not to mention broadband penetration and piracy rates rose at the same time? Coincidence?
OK - let's take disposable income, especially the disposable income of the 18 - 30 agegroup that historically purchased the most new music.
Where has that disposable income that used to be spent on CDs gone?
Well, there's been a property boom, so young people wanting to get on the ladder are spending more on mortgages. Mobile phone penetration accounts for a large percentage of the drop in available disposable income, too.
Simplistic assertions that 'piracy' has caused the drop off in sales are nonsense, and I'm not surprised that asshats like you post your RIAA shilling as AC.
If I get to metamod the parent comment, I'll be fully supporting the moderators of the GP, so I'll likely cancel out any of the RIAA cockmunchers that you call friends.
No - I remember the three day weeks, electricity rationing and so much more from the early 70s - there was industrial strife and a general air of union power, which needed to be reined in.
But Thatcher's approach was both economically and socially disastrous - I was a sixth former when she came to power, and a greater incentive to nihilism can surely never have existed in British politics.
I'm certainly not Tory, Labour or Lib Dem to this day, thanks to her.
That British Coal stopped its plans to eviscerate the mining industry?
That people doing a difficult and dangerous job should be paid accordingly?
The miner's strike was the culmination of a planned attack by Thatcher on the British people, fed by her determination to squander the North Sea oil and gas dividend as quickly as possible in order to enrich Denis's friends in the oil industry.
Coupled with the disastrous notion of privatisation and the destruction of most of our manufacturing base, it has ensured that Britain will never again be truly great.
Personally, I have a nice bottle of champers laid down to celebrate when the old witch dies.
But all the cyclotronic resonance effects are at frequencies of
The study you refer to didn't even use EM radiation - it used a magnetic field oscillating at 60 Hz, in tandem with a steady magnetic field of 0.2 Tesla aligned in parallel.
The cancer cell division studies require the presence of a promoter chemical - pure RF at 2.45 GHz caused no increase in cell division.
I see nothing to worry me in the studies you reference - the levels of RF radiation used in the studies are far higher than my WiFi router (sitting 3 feet away from me as I type) and my laptop can apply to my body, plus I don't plan on drinking any 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate today, so I'm quite safe.
It seems to me that this effect is likely to be related to threat recognition in the chimps natural environment - the ability to categorise an object glimpsed briefly through branches or bushes as either threat or non-threat will give an obvious survival advantage.
If you can take a 'snapshot' of a briefly glimpsed object, it gives you time to analyse it and categorise it appropriately.
Continuing to reject out of hand the idea that this universe didn't actually come to exist from sheer bastard luck is not somehow a sort of magical incantation to prevent it from actually being true.
Given the options of
a) sheer bastard luck, or
b) an omnipotent, omnipresent being that by its very nature surpasseth all understanding...
I'll choose a) every time, as I can see with my own eyes examples of sheer bastard luck every day, while the evidence for b) is so far lacking in my life.
Excellent idea - replace the bush tucker trials with 'Not approved in Leviticus' trials (seafood, bacon sarnies and the like), get Bush and Blair to play Ant and Dec - the possibilities for a major TV show are definitely there.
Followed your link, actually read further than the summary, and it turns out GP was right!
From the Wikipedia page that you linked:
Garry Kasparov was born Garri Weinstein [1] (Russian: ) in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR to an Armenian mother and a Jewish father. He first began the serious study of chess after he came across a chess problem set up by his parents and proposed a solution.[2] His father died when he was seven years old. At the age of twelve, he adopted his mother's Armenian surname, Kasparyan, modifying it to a more Russified version, Kasparov.
So some bloke who's about to start up a VOIP consultancy firm has made a SIP traffic sniffer, which he claims will allow the recording of SIP calls on a network.
I'm sure he's set up his test network appropriately (hubs not switches, no VLANs in sight, every Ethernet packet visible at each node...) to spread FUD and market his services.
Very l33t, I'm sure.
Just a Slashdot advertisement feature again - there seem to be more and more of these appearing.
I'm waiting for the announcement that a program to increase penis size has been written by a bloke in the pharmaceutical industry - that'll make the fromt page for sure:P
Slashdot Mirror
OK - let's take disposable income, especially the disposable income of the 18 - 30 agegroup that historically purchased the most new music.
Where has that disposable income that used to be spent on CDs gone?
Well, there's been a property boom, so young people wanting to get on the ladder are spending more on mortgages. Mobile phone penetration accounts for a large percentage of the drop in available disposable income, too.
Simplistic assertions that 'piracy' has caused the drop off in sales are nonsense, and I'm not surprised that asshats like you post your RIAA shilling as AC.
If I get to metamod the parent comment, I'll be fully supporting the moderators of the GP, so I'll likely cancel out any of the RIAA cockmunchers that you call friends.
With statements like that, I reckon they'll have to fly very, very fast indeed to get to where they're going before the engines wear out :P
But Thatcher's approach was both economically and socially disastrous - I was a sixth former when she came to power, and a greater incentive to nihilism can surely never have existed in British politics.
I'm certainly not Tory, Labour or Lib Dem to this day, thanks to her.
I thought Mac users enjoyed that sort of thing, or am I mistaken in my stereotypes?
That British Coal stopped its plans to eviscerate the mining industry?
That people doing a difficult and dangerous job should be paid accordingly?
The miner's strike was the culmination of a planned attack by Thatcher on the British people, fed by her determination to squander the North Sea oil and gas dividend as quickly as possible in order to enrich Denis's friends in the oil industry.
Coupled with the disastrous notion of privatisation and the destruction of most of our manufacturing base, it has ensured that Britain will never again be truly great.
Personally, I have a nice bottle of champers laid down to celebrate when the old witch dies.
From your rambling, I'd guess that there's a bug in your genes.
Please report to Dolly the sheep for reprogramming.
What, the article was about Korea?
It would if it was seven tenners, though :)
:P
They have been lobbied by Rekall - all this exploration malarkey is doing nothing for the leisure market :P
The study you refer to didn't even use EM radiation - it used a magnetic field oscillating at 60 Hz, in tandem with a steady magnetic field of 0.2 Tesla aligned in parallel.
The cancer cell division studies require the presence of a promoter chemical - pure RF at 2.45 GHz caused no increase in cell division.
I see nothing to worry me in the studies you reference - the levels of RF radiation used in the studies are far higher than my WiFi router (sitting 3 feet away from me as I type) and my laptop can apply to my body, plus I don't plan on drinking any 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate today, so I'm quite safe.
Bloody audiophile!
If you can take a 'snapshot' of a briefly glimpsed object, it gives you time to analyse it and categorise it appropriately.
Not really relevant to radiation exposure, more a measure of chemical toxicity IIRC.
5-6000 years ago?
More like 2600 years or so, for the oldest written parts of the Hebrew/Aramaic - written some time during or soon after the exile in Babylon.
If you can show me how the OT was written even before the rise of the Pharaohs (and hence before Moses, hint...), I'll eat my leather bush hat.
Knob.
Given the options of
a) sheer bastard luck, or
b) an omnipotent, omnipresent being that by its very nature surpasseth all understanding...
I'll choose a) every time, as I can see with my own eyes examples of sheer bastard luck every day, while the evidence for b) is so far lacking in my life.
:P
That's ramen, you insensitive clod!
:P
Followed your link, actually read further than the summary, and it turns out GP was right!
From the Wikipedia page that you linked:
:P
Not only that, but with 666 permissions, everyone could edit it too!
:P
Dunno how abortion is relevant, but everything else hangs together -
Failure to follow Powell doctrine leads to an aimless and overextended engagement? Check.
Failure to follow said doctrine down to non-military neo-con idiots? Check.
Bin Laden's stated aims? Check.
Amount spent on war? Check.
Point about Mujahedeen costing Russia dear? Check.
Argument that defecit spending and artificially flexible credit is bad? Check.
Pointing out that the USA is in much worse shape now than it was before the neo-cons prevailed? Check.
Perhaps you need to read more carefully, then distil the post in your mind before you accuse him of rambling.
Or torture, or rape or... Oh, wait - Haditha and Abu Graib, among others, tell us otherwise.
My bad.
I'm sure he's set up his test network appropriately (hubs not switches, no VLANs in sight, every Ethernet packet visible at each node...) to spread FUD and market his services.
Very l33t, I'm sure.
Just a Slashdot advertisement feature again - there seem to be more and more of these appearing.
I'm waiting for the announcement that a program to increase penis size has been written by a bloke in the pharmaceutical industry - that'll make the fromt page for sure :P