My point is that, if the nature of music distribution changes so much, due to unenforcable laws and the rise of technology... perhaps being a 'musician' won't be seen as a career by as many people.
You're the one who misunderstands. Being a 'musician' is only a career for just a little tiny overhyped minority that produces trash for the unwashed, gullible masses.
The rest struggle to live, or repay their RIAA "loans".
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They create regulations, mandate tests and send inspectors, increasing your taxes AND the cost of the product.
Now, think how much more expensive life would be if manufacturers were routinely sued into oblivion by defective product suits, and you could not rely on anything else made by others, and had to do your *OWN* testing for everything you'd EAT because there are no government standards and regulations?
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The limited edition Bowie book aside, book prices are getting ridiculous. 30 years ago an hour's worth of minimum wage would pay for 2 or 3 paperbacks, now it won't pay for one. Are they paying the writers considerably better percentage wise than before? I know the price of paper to print on has been rising steadily for a few decades now, but is it the raw materials cost that accounts for the price increase? Aren't typesetting and printing presses considerably more automated, efficient, less labor intensive, and therefore less costly than before?
I've worked several years in the book publishing industry (in the production side), and with the pay I was taking home, I was not able to afford to buy the (specialized) books that interested me.
The most disgusting part of that industry is that the one who gets the bigger profit (50% of the final retail sale price) is (of course) the one who does the least work: the bookseller.
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I played both with Meccano and Lego. I do not see why those are put in the same basket; Lego is clearly an architectural toy, whilst meccano (as it's name even implies!) is clearly a mechanical toy.
With one, you build houses, castles, cities, and the other, you build cars with steering, differentials and gearboxes & cranes.
How can both be mixed?
And you don't play the same with either; with meccano, you have to design subassemblies and make sure they come together the first time. How many times did I have to "redesign" one whole side of an assembly, because one shaft could not go through another one on the same plane?
With Lego, you just stick bricks together; no gears, no shafts, no mechanical subassemblies...
They're like apples and oranges!
However, for having drooled for many years on my granfather's number 10 Meccano set (a 80cm by 40cm by 30 cm wooden chest chock-full of meccano parts (and finally inherited it), Meccano is a fine toy to learn industrial mechanical design, whilst Lego can be a fine architectural toy.
[...] in fear that they would do the manufacturing in factories in China, which would give the Chinese government opportunies to gain access to the DVD techonology.
They're afraid that the Chinese will make regionless DVD players???
Dear Sir or Madam:
This firm is counsel to Lyons Partnership, L.P. ("Lyons
Partnership"), the owners of the exclusive right to use the copyrighted
children's dinosaur character Barney® as well as the federally
registered and famous trademark and service mark Barney.
It has come to the attention of Lyons Partnership that you are
operating a website found at URL:
www.cybercheeze.com/humor/list/31.html. We have reviewed your website
and have concluded that it incorporates the use and threat of violence
towards the children's character Barney without permission from Lyons
Partnership.
As a result of Lyons Partnership's continuous promotion of the
Barney character, Barney has come to be recognized as a distinctive and
famous trademark and service mark. Lyons Partnership vigorously objects
to the unsavory and unwholesome content that you have associated with
its trademark and service mark Barney. The content that you have placed
on your website, used in conjunction with the federally registered and
famous trademark and service mark Barney, including all relevant
hyperlinks to third-party websites, constitutes a violation of the
Federal Trademark Dilution Act pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 1125(c)(1). By
associating the Barney trademark with violence, your website tarnishes
the distinctive qualities of the trademark and service mark Barney.
Remedies available to Lyons Partnership based upon a violation of the
Federal Trademark Dilution Act include a permanent injunction, damages,
costs and attorneys' fees.
Your actions also constitute direct copyright infringement, and make
you subject to injunction and liable to Lyons Partnership for its
damages, costs and attorneys' fees. Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. 501(a),
"anyone who violates any of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner
as provided by sections 106 through 118, or of the author as provided in
106(a), is an infringer of the copyright or right of the author.." Lyons
Partnership hereby demands that you immediately cease and desist from
diluting its trademark Barney, as well as reproducing, distributing,
performing by means of digital audio transmission, displaying, or in any
other way infringing upon Lyons Partnership's copyrights.
Lyons Partnership is prepared to pursue all available remedies to
protect its intellectual property rights. However, Lyons Partnership
will refrain from taking immediate legal action upon condition that you
provide written assurances by June 27, 2001, that you have ceased and
desisted from diluting the trademark and service mark Barney, as well as
reproducing, distributing, performing by means of digital audio
transmission, or displaying the copyrighted character Barney. Your
written assurances must also state that you have removed all web page
content relating to the unlawful use of the Barney trademarks or copyrights as well as any links to the official Barney website.
We await an immediate response from you or your counsel.
Sincerely,
GIBNEY, ANTHONY & FLAHERTY, LLP
By: atthew W. Carlin
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[...] I've never quite understood the reasoning that people think that ISP's that they are paying 20 dollars a month (or less) should open themselves up to a possibility of massive expense
[...]
dropping off a couple of customers to this is MUCH less expensive and doesn't really touch the bottom line
[...]
Contragulations! You just pointed-out the whole idea behind the DCMCA...
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oh come on. if you think that CorelDraw holds a candle to Illustrator you must only be drawing stick-figures. though admittedly Macromedia Freehand is a completely acceptable replacement to Illustrator.
Indeed Freehand is quite potent; it is actually better than Illustrator for one goddammed very simple little feature: it has style-sheets (not the cascading variety, though), which helps **A LOT** whenever you have a complex drawing. It stops just short of this from being a real CAD system, yet can still be used by artists.
It seems that Adope pigheadedly refuses to put style sheets for some unknown reason; if they had style sheets, Illustrator would really be the goddammed best program around. Without, it's just a nice doodling pad. Granted, with artists, Marketroids can sell them ANYTHING since the artists don't know better - this is why AN ENTIRE INDUSTRY (pre-press) HAS BEEN STUCK WITH SUCKY MACINTRASHES, because it WAS SOLD to them.
As of Corel Draw, it seems powerful enough and I quite liked it, until the files would start to disintegrate with time as the Windows bitrot would progress on the system...
However, for web-based work, I'd say that Fireworks is worth looking at; it's a strange cross-breed of Photoshop and Illustrator, with animation frames added (that makes a 4D arrangement of drawings: the normal [X,Y] coordinates, PLUS the [Z] layer, AND the [alpha?] animation frames). But don't use it for print-quality 300 dpi pictures, because, then, it crawls like molasses in liquid nitrogen!!!
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So, I guess Fleming is saying that the practice of fining the renter would be acceptable, given proper notice? I'm pretty sure it would fly here in Colorado.
Yeah, but who would rent a car if the contract sayed in bold letters Your credit card will be charged $150 each time our GPS monitoring system detects that you go above the speed limit???
-- Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness.
Breakfast cereal giant Kellog (NYSE:KLG) has announced it is suing software developper
UWE SATLER over the name he gave to one program he independently developped.
"KILLUSTATOR is a clear infringement on Kellog's intellectual property", said Kellog's legal department head Kevin T. Bains II, in a press conference. "We cannot let wanton software devellopers plunder and pillage the very essence of our corporation embodied in our trademarks".
Asked whether a software program could conceivably be confused with a breakfast cereal, Mr Bains
reffered us to the public relation team head, who was not available for comment by press time.
-- Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness.
Taxing people is a different matter; I'm happy I'm Canadian, and gambling winnings are not taxable. Not lotteries, not casinos, trips to vegas, whatever... not taxable.
Big deal! In Canada, casinos and lotteries are operated by governments; so it makes no sense to tax winnings, since ALL the proceeds of the mathematically-challenged tax go back to governments anyway...
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The rest struggle to live, or repay their RIAA "loans".
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Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness.
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Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness.
If you compare a cross-section of the proposed lunar hotel, you'll see there is nothing to boast about when you compare it to the Montréal Olympic Stadium, which is over 50 stories high, and built in one full G... (Here is another picture taken from 6 km away).
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The most disgusting part of that industry is that the one who gets the bigger profit (50% of the final retail sale price) is (of course) the one who does the least work: the bookseller.
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With one, you build houses, castles, cities, and the other, you build cars with steering, differentials and gearboxes & cranes.
How can both be mixed?
And you don't play the same with either; with meccano, you have to design subassemblies and make sure they come together the first time. How many times did I have to "redesign" one whole side of an assembly, because one shaft could not go through another one on the same plane?
With Lego, you just stick bricks together; no gears, no shafts, no mechanical subassemblies...
They're like apples and oranges!
However, for having drooled for many years on my granfather's number 10 Meccano set (a 80cm by 40cm by 30 cm wooden chest chock-full of meccano parts (and finally inherited it), Meccano is a fine toy to learn industrial mechanical design, whilst Lego can be a fine architectural toy.
But how can both be mixed???
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Re: Unauthorized Use of Intellectual Property
Dear Sir or Madam:
This firm is counsel to Lyons Partnership, L.P. ("Lyons Partnership"), the owners of the exclusive right to use the copyrighted children's dinosaur character Barney® as well as the federally registered and famous trademark and service mark Barney.
It has come to the attention of Lyons Partnership that you are operating a website found at URL:
www.cybercheeze.com/humor/list/31.html.
We have reviewed your website and have concluded that it incorporates the use and threat of violence towards the children's character Barney without permission from Lyons Partnership.
As a result of Lyons Partnership's continuous promotion of the Barney character, Barney has come to be recognized as a distinctive and famous trademark and service mark. Lyons Partnership vigorously objects to the unsavory and unwholesome content that you have associated with its trademark and service mark Barney. The content that you have placed on your website, used in conjunction with the federally registered and famous trademark and service mark Barney, including all relevant hyperlinks to third-party websites, constitutes a violation of the Federal Trademark Dilution Act pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 1125(c)(1). By associating the Barney trademark with violence, your website tarnishes the distinctive qualities of the trademark and service mark Barney. Remedies available to Lyons Partnership based upon a violation of the Federal Trademark Dilution Act include a permanent injunction, damages, costs and attorneys' fees.
Your actions also constitute direct copyright infringement, and make you subject to injunction and liable to Lyons Partnership for its damages, costs and attorneys' fees. Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. 501(a), "anyone who violates any of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner as provided by sections 106 through 118, or of the author as provided in 106(a), is an infringer of the copyright or right of the author.." Lyons Partnership hereby demands that you immediately cease and desist from diluting its trademark Barney, as well as reproducing, distributing, performing by means of digital audio transmission, displaying, or in any other way infringing upon Lyons Partnership's copyrights.
Lyons Partnership is prepared to pursue all available remedies to protect its intellectual property rights. However, Lyons Partnership will refrain from taking immediate legal action upon condition that you provide written assurances by June 27, 2001, that you have ceased and desisted from diluting the trademark and service mark Barney, as well as reproducing, distributing, performing by means of digital audio transmission, or displaying the copyrighted character Barney. Your written assurances must also state that you have removed all web page content relating to the unlawful use of the Barney trademarks or copyrights as well as any links to the official Barney website. We await an immediate response from you or your counsel.
Sincerely,
GIBNEY, ANTHONY & FLAHERTY, LLP
By: atthew W. Carlin
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Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness.
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Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness.
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Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness.
Sorry.
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Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness.
It seems that Adope pigheadedly refuses to put style sheets for some unknown reason; if they had style sheets, Illustrator would really be the goddammed best program around. Without, it's just a nice doodling pad. Granted, with artists, Marketroids can sell them ANYTHING since the artists don't know better - this is why AN ENTIRE INDUSTRY (pre-press) HAS BEEN STUCK WITH SUCKY MACINTRASHES, because it WAS SOLD to them.
As of Corel Draw, it seems powerful enough and I quite liked it, until the files would start to disintegrate with time as the Windows bitrot would progress on the system...
However, for web-based work, I'd say that Fireworks is worth looking at; it's a strange cross-breed of Photoshop and Illustrator, with animation frames added (that makes a 4D arrangement of drawings: the normal [X,Y] coordinates, PLUS the [Z] layer, AND the [alpha?] animation frames). But don't use it for print-quality 300 dpi pictures, because, then, it crawls like molasses in liquid nitrogen!!!
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Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness.
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Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness.
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Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness.
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Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness.
Breakfast cereal giant Kellog (NYSE:KLG) has announced it is suing software developper UWE SATLER over the name he gave to one program he independently developped.
" KILLUSTATOR is a clear infringement on Kellog's intellectual property", said Kellog's legal department head Kevin T. Bains II, in a press conference. "We cannot let wanton software devellopers plunder and pillage the very essence of our corporation embodied in our trademarks".
Asked whether a software program could conceivably be confused with a breakfast cereal, Mr Bains reffered us to the public relation team head, who was not available for comment by press time.
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Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness.
The MPAA and the RIAA will surely kill this technology!!!!
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Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness.
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Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness.
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Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness.
Audio galaxy is spyware!!!
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Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness.