seriously? it was huge along the lines of robotech, tranzor z, star blazers battle of the planets in the wave of anime being rewritten and put out on english language tv in the 80s
I have been rewatching tranzor z lately- I don't think the whole devileen the shemale would go over with middle america so well- I would love to see though a live action star blazers/yamato- the original story with the gemelan war
If I design an improved piece of software and hardware, I should be the one to control how it is used if you designed the iphone you shouldn't have other people selling clones, but at the same time that apple started r&d on the iphone there were a large number of other companies (LG, motorola and others) that were doing r&d at the same time- it is like the ipod- the consumer base at large always sees the ipod as the first but there was the rio and a creative player that were first but jobs made a big noise so now people refer to them as knockoffs- personally I have never seen any "innovation" surrounding the iphone so much as I have seen major marketing of a product that apple put it's spin on. Just because they produced the product first it doesn't mean that every product like it that has been in production owes apple.
I agree and disagree- I think that the $1-$2 model is bad- look at someone like me- I will not pay for mp3 downloads per song and I wouldn't pay for downloads per movie, but I would pay for a high speed well seeded non drm all you all you can eat model- the same way that I pay for netflix right now. The fact is that I am not alone in this thought process- personally i would use the service often if for no other reason than the fact that I have a couple of hours of commute time per day that I would be watching these movies. I do though think that the better model would be to have embedded product placement randomly in the movies (non-obstructive transparent lower right like on TV) and provide them for free on a well seeded high speed connection with no signup so that users of filesharing networks would actually use their site as a first reference rather than a last reference for media.
For the purpose of this argument, would The Grey Album by Danger Mouse or other albums containing unlicensable samples be considered "pirated"? that is one of those things that I get into debates with peers about a lot-
I do breakcore/powernoise and if you are in the scene you know that that stuff is laden with unlicensed samples- yet there are many artists in my scene that feel that they have the right to wrap themselves in the DMCA and whine about "piracy". I am on the other side often saying that we need to push merchandising and the subculture of our scene and concerning business treat the music as the "attractor" and not the end point of sales because under DMCA all of our music is as "unacceptable" as the "piracy" of the music. I personally am fine with that- I make music because I like to make music, not for money or status- just because I love making it.
You're contradicting yourself. You say that the internet isn't a viable option because the artists can't make millions, but yet, the current system doesn't give the artist millions either? there is a huge difference between selling millions and making millions- the fact is that an artist can sell a billion records and not make a cent since record companies can continue to find a way to cheat the artist with backroom deals on licensing,legal and advertisement fees that the artist has to pay(in the average contract)- and for larger artists (like madonna, janet jackson, britney spears etc.) they pay them a flat fee and no points on sales, so sales and piracy is moot to them they just tow the line to keep getting front money. Yes as an internet artist you can get 100% of your sales numbers, but working against the corporate machines and trying to compete and have market penetration is near impossible.
maybe because they aren't completely 'making' the product when they copy the internal workings of another? not necessarily- the iphone is really a lot of available components repackaged together- apple didn't invent the touchscreen or the media player or the cellphone, they just redesigned it- in fact when you look at the component list there are a whole lot of off the shelf pieces in it- if they really want to tighten down patenting and make something that can't or won't be copied they need to do something completely proprietary or stop whining, this is why patent law and copyright has become such a joke.
There's only one supplier for any particular song. If I really like the Eagles' "Hotel California", my choices are "buy it" or "don't buy it". In a "normal" industry, I'd also have the choice "Buy this other one that's practically the same thing but cheaper." that would be cool- if there were cheap Chinese imports of knockoff songs... hoter carifolnia and other great hits-
seriously man- I would pay for that
Science fiction is no more impossible by these standards than it ever was. If you read sci-fi from the 50's and 60's they got some of it right and huge amounts of it completely wrong. I would venture to guess that science fiction today will have about the same ratio of accuracy some 50 or 60 years hence. go further back - E.E. doc smith (lensman, skylark) is still one of my favorite authors- and the science is... well kind of...way off base- but it is still awesome reading
I don't think that windows is the problem so much as using windows and not knowing how to protect it- sure windows is full of holes- but if you don't bend over in the shower you don't expose a big one. I can say that I have only really had one major virus in windows and that was in 2k from a java exploit- I tend to kill windows more than any outside forces by rewriting dlls and modding my system and screwing up from time to time. As linux grows you will see more linux viruses (yes it can happen) and then there will be stupid linux users that used to be stupid windows users that spread them- just as mac is finally getting exploited now.
there are places that still use paper ballots (I have never voted on a machine here in san francisco)- but the counters are made by diebold in a lot of those counties and are subject to the same problems as the touchscreen machines- elections committees just plain and simple don't want to and can't spend the $ for hand counters so there is going to be a chink in the armor until the architecture of the vote is changed to allow people to check their specific votes after they have been counted and are able to file grievances if they are incorrect.
I rip these HD's for a living- not RIAA related mostly b2b and class action- I have to tell you it is EXPENSIVE- I don't understand how prosecution can justify the millions that it costs- esp. since the defendant needs to produce the data but litigant needs to pay for anything that it is going to analyze and submit- if say for some reason I was submitted a subpeona like this just the labor cost of declaring the privileged data from employer's hard drives that are accessed via the internet- this would be the entire company network - we are talking something in the realm of a 200-500 million dollar cost for the prosecution to produce the data- that is from my company (which is the lowest cost vendor as we have a great deal of internally developed automation) from another place you would probably have the costs shoot up to upwards of a billion dollars for the litigation cost- not to mention that when I access the internet through public access servers via wi-fi you would need to subpeopna those servers as well correct? it gets bigger and bigger- how could you possibly justify this economically?
The state you live in is deeply in debt due to years of way too much spending (primarily on social programs) and huge taxes to try to pay for it. actually this is completely untrue- the city of san francisco here was 200 million over budget last year- the budget was passed right before the federal budget which cut... 200 million from funding for the city. social programs in california are next to nil- welfare pays about $180 a month if you live in a county that allows to provide it- we don't here in SF we only allow vouchers for housing and food stamps. All state housing projects were demolished around 10 years ago (federal still exists), we have no coverage for free health care, only privately funded free clinics. The only place that $ goes to regularly is public health which is a necessity since funds have been cut to that on the federal level and especially in SF and LA people don't want the pain or the money suck of things like AIDS, west nile, lyme disease, etc.
What a great argument against socialized health care. Either way it's done you will pay for your own health care, and possibly more. Whether it shows up on your balance sheet, your company's balance sheet, or is buried in the state or federal balance sheet you will pay for it. Do you really want a situation where business can hide part of their costs off their balance sheet by moving them into the state's balance sheet? Actually I do want that- I don't believe that business has any obligation to pay for health care- and my company is awesome in that it actually covers heath care in full with no paycheck deductions, just free. The truth is that your company should have the funds to pay workers more and expand business enterprises in order to allow for more expendable income and greater flow to the economy, without it the economy becomes stagnant. When health care isn't socialized they are doing nothing but sucking $ out of employers and employees and providing the lowest possible care for all involved.
Of course, most state and federal employees are already getting more benefits than the average worker. yes and no- stability is the largest benefit, it is very difficult to be fired from the state. Other benefits are comparable to a company like mine where we have a good benefits package- same level of health care, same 401k, etc. but far better than some companies that I have worked for that literally offered the lowest benefits allowed under the law
is that they should build this internet for them and let us have our unregulated internet- I am fine by that - I would rather have multiple connections in my house and if I wanted to I could browse their crappy network of ads and stores and "regulated" propaganda boards- but I could then flip a switch and be on my unregulated smaller network where we can share files and ideas and discussions without dealing with morons who seem to think that everything that we do online if not kiddie porn related is somehow supporting terrorism.
As for your specific problem, my only advice is to move. Housing costs are certainly not that outrageous in the entire country. the problem with this is that my industry (I have been working with digital legal automation and database and search integrations) really leaves me with a few spots that have a major market for my experience- basically it is new york, chicago, boston and san francisco (unless I wanted to move to india or china). I have been living in san francisco for 17 years now and it is my home, I don't want to be run out of my home.
On a smaller scale, take an industrial company with a unionized labor workforce. After a certain number of iterations of laborers demanding more and more from the company, the company eventually becomes unable to afford its workforce. But of course it made contracts with these people so the only way to get out of it is to close up shop and sell off the assets. A new company will then come in to buy the assets, lay off several people, cut wages considerably, and run a profitable operation. The problem is that this is already happening without the company selloff, most companies are having their major labor budget issues due to health cost and retirement benefits (one good argument for socialized healthcare), but also I have worked in a number of companies that are lopsided with their spending. A number of companies ignore basic realities of business and have payscales that make no sense. Most companies that I have worked for have had a P&L based management schema that says that the less a department spends, the more the manager is bonused, the more the manager is bonused, the more their manager is bonused and so on- in the end that means that larger waged workers are forced out of their jobs and lower waged or outsourced or inexperienced workers are set in. It leads to lower productivity and in the end lower product which puts the company in a position of maintaining a low end status quo. If more companies would put a growth schema in place (my company now- that I have been with for a year has this attitude which I like, though it is a startup that has not gone IPO yet) then bonuses would be based on quality and business growth based on both productivity and product output rather than margin. Quality of product and improvement of sales means a stronger company in general.
I do agree to a certain point with the objection to unionization, but not wholesale. There are a ton of unions that are out of control (muni- the bus and rail here in SF is a good example) but some are very necessary. My girlfriend works for the state and her union is constantly fighting to have their wages increased annually with the cost of living allowance and has failed more times than it has won- so even though she has stability and a good benefits package in general- she is still paid just above the poverty line after 6 years with the state.
t will be illegal to donate to any candidate one is not eligible to cast a vote for.... neither my employer nor my union can donate to anybody at all. unfortunately Corporations would sue as a violation of their civil rights and probably petition for the right to vote.
feature has more to do with purchase than convenience for me- I have converted most of my cds (though I have thousands) to mp3 so that I can easily port and play them on my media player and at work- but I prefer an xvid to a DVD because I have a set top DVD player that plays divx and xvid off of dvd and usb, so it is easier to have 4-7 movies on a disc- or a whole season of a tv show on 1 or 2 discs- but what will make me buy a dvd is cool packaging or extras- I have ponied up for a number of dvd's that have different extras or extra discs or different cuts or more deleted scenes that I already own previous releases of because I want that package as opposed to a rip of the movie.
The downside of the weak dollar is that one big import this country has is oil. That of course makes transportation more costly which does have an effect on the price of goods not just transportation, also energy and plastics which means manufacturing as well- that means a double whammy to the consumer. Couple that with GWB corporate welfare policy that caters to low cost domestic labor and low cost outsourcing and you are left with a slow decline of the US worker standard of living that unless direction changes can only lead to inflation and inevitably depression.
I am 35 years old and even though I am in what would be considered an upper-middle class standing as far as my occupation at this point have zero opportunity to buy a house in my area (as housing costs have risen approx 500% in the last 10 years and my income is 5k more than it was 10 years ago for a much higher position). At the current rate a small house in my area is approx 35 times my pre-tax annual salary which means that if I were to buy a house I am looking at paying it off for the next 50-70 years which is pretty much impossible at my age- maybe if I were 10 years old and making what I do I could do that, but otherwise it is pretty damn impossible.
they just should have given more internal storage possibilities- they had me till the 4g- I was thinking- cool extra portable super small thing to drag around for cheap- but there isn't much I can do on 4gigs- I have a 4 gig flash drive that is always filling up- I couldn't imagine it on a laptop
unfortunately since this was a state grant and since it is an overpayment by their accounting it is probably not a "debt" since there was no agreement and the grant fluctuates in payment from year to year - so they are just garnishing it from my state tax returns- I wouldn't care if it was just the $5 that they screwed up on that i am paying for but they have racked all of these fees on top of it after not contacting me which is ridiculous- I had a similar thing with AT&T when they screwed up on my long distance billing once and issued me a $100 bill for late payment of $0.00 but I got that written off
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seriously? it was huge along the lines of robotech, tranzor z, star blazers battle of the planets in the wave of anime being rewritten and put out on english language tv in the 80s
wow the sword animation is truly ass
I have been rewatching tranzor z lately- I don't think the whole devileen the shemale would go over with middle america so well- I would love to see though a live action star blazers/yamato- the original story with the gemelan war
I agree and disagree- I think that the $1-$2 model is bad- look at someone like me- I will not pay for mp3 downloads per song and I wouldn't pay for downloads per movie, but I would pay for a high speed well seeded non drm all you all you can eat model- the same way that I pay for netflix right now. The fact is that I am not alone in this thought process- personally i would use the service often if for no other reason than the fact that I have a couple of hours of commute time per day that I would be watching these movies. I do though think that the better model would be to have embedded product placement randomly in the movies (non-obstructive transparent lower right like on TV) and provide them for free on a well seeded high speed connection with no signup so that users of filesharing networks would actually use their site as a first reference rather than a last reference for media.
I do breakcore/powernoise and if you are in the scene you know that that stuff is laden with unlicensed samples- yet there are many artists in my scene that feel that they have the right to wrap themselves in the DMCA and whine about "piracy". I am on the other side often saying that we need to push merchandising and the subculture of our scene and concerning business treat the music as the "attractor" and not the end point of sales because under DMCA all of our music is as "unacceptable" as the "piracy" of the music.
I personally am fine with that- I make music because I like to make music, not for money or status- just because I love making it.
Yes as an internet artist you can get 100% of your sales numbers, but working against the corporate machines and trying to compete and have market penetration is near impossible.
seriously man- I would pay for that
no, I was in the sony store a couple of weeks ago and they have a $300 epaper reader there, and that is first gen so it is bound to go down from there
no, puke is the universal language- I guess
I never had any of those classes- they weren't mandatory @ my school
I don't think that windows is the problem so much as using windows and not knowing how to protect it- sure windows is full of holes- but if you don't bend over in the shower you don't expose a big one. I can say that I have only really had one major virus in windows and that was in 2k from a java exploit- I tend to kill windows more than any outside forces by rewriting dlls and modding my system and screwing up from time to time. As linux grows you will see more linux viruses (yes it can happen) and then there will be stupid linux users that used to be stupid windows users that spread them- just as mac is finally getting exploited now.
there are places that still use paper ballots (I have never voted on a machine here in san francisco)- but the counters are made by diebold in a lot of those counties and are subject to the same problems as the touchscreen machines- elections committees just plain and simple don't want to and can't spend the $ for hand counters so there is going to be a chink in the armor until the architecture of the vote is changed to allow people to check their specific votes after they have been counted and are able to file grievances if they are incorrect.
I rip these HD's for a living- not RIAA related mostly b2b and class action- I have to tell you it is EXPENSIVE- I don't understand how prosecution can justify the millions that it costs- esp. since the defendant needs to produce the data but litigant needs to pay for anything that it is going to analyze and submit- if say for some reason I was submitted a subpeona like this just the labor cost of declaring the privileged data from employer's hard drives that are accessed via the internet- this would be the entire company network - we are talking something in the realm of a 200-500 million dollar cost for the prosecution to produce the data- that is from my company (which is the lowest cost vendor as we have a great deal of internally developed automation) from another place you would probably have the costs shoot up to upwards of a billion dollars for the litigation cost- not to mention that when I access the internet through public access servers via wi-fi you would need to subpeopna those servers as well correct? it gets bigger and bigger- how could you possibly justify this economically?
phone sex should be on the list
is that they should build this internet for them and let us have our unregulated internet- I am fine by that - I would rather have multiple connections in my house and if I wanted to I could browse their crappy network of ads and stores and "regulated" propaganda boards- but I could then flip a switch and be on my unregulated smaller network where we can share files and ideas and discussions without dealing with morons who seem to think that everything that we do online if not kiddie porn related is somehow supporting terrorism.
I do agree to a certain point with the objection to unionization, but not wholesale. There are a ton of unions that are out of control (muni- the bus and rail here in SF is a good example) but some are very necessary. My girlfriend works for the state and her union is constantly fighting to have their wages increased annually with the cost of living allowance and has failed more times than it has won- so even though she has stability and a good benefits package in general- she is still paid just above the poverty line after 6 years with the state.
feature has more to do with purchase than convenience for me- I have converted most of my cds (though I have thousands) to mp3 so that I can easily port and play them on my media player and at work- but I prefer an xvid to a DVD because I have a set top DVD player that plays divx and xvid off of dvd and usb, so it is easier to have 4-7 movies on a disc- or a whole season of a tv show on 1 or 2 discs- but what will make me buy a dvd is cool packaging or extras- I have ponied up for a number of dvd's that have different extras or extra discs or different cuts or more deleted scenes that I already own previous releases of because I want that package as opposed to a rip of the movie.
I am 35 years old and even though I am in what would be considered an upper-middle class standing as far as my occupation at this point have zero opportunity to buy a house in my area (as housing costs have risen approx 500% in the last 10 years and my income is 5k more than it was 10 years ago for a much higher position). At the current rate a small house in my area is approx 35 times my pre-tax annual salary which means that if I were to buy a house I am looking at paying it off for the next 50-70 years which is pretty much impossible at my age- maybe if I were 10 years old and making what I do I could do that, but otherwise it is pretty damn impossible.
they just should have given more internal storage possibilities- they had me till the 4g- I was thinking- cool extra portable super small thing to drag around for cheap- but there isn't much I can do on 4gigs- I have a 4 gig flash drive that is always filling up- I couldn't imagine it on a laptop
unfortunately since this was a state grant and since it is an overpayment by their accounting it is probably not a "debt" since there was no agreement and the grant fluctuates in payment from year to year - so they are just garnishing it from my state tax returns- I wouldn't care if it was just the $5 that they screwed up on that i am paying for but they have racked all of these fees on top of it after not contacting me which is ridiculous- I had a similar thing with AT&T when they screwed up on my long distance billing once and issued me a $100 bill for late payment of $0.00 but I got that written off