The simple absence of religion isn't sufficient to improve things. You have to replace it with something better, not the same thing only instead of slavishly following a prophet of "God" you slavishly follow the Party Leader.
It seems to me that the USSR collapsed not too long after the last generation to actually believe in it died. I fear if things continue the way they have been, the same will happen here.
The difference between the USSR and the USA is that in the USA you can believe in the USA and hate the government.
In English, the usage "adjective country" is usually short for "country under the rule of the adjective system." So "Soviet Russia" means "Russia under Soviet rule," not the USSR itself.
Ahh, descriptive linguistics. So hard for some to grasp.
Soviet Russia doesn't refer to USSR. It's to distinguish it from Tsarist Russia, or Kievan Russia, or any of the other regimes that ruled Russia. Similar usages in other countries: Napoleonic France, Imperial Rome, Colonial America, Nazi Germany.
RTFA. The watermark doesn't identify the name of the downloader, just which CD the song was ripped from. They sample from the P2P stream and see which of their CDs are getting pirated the most.
It's drafting us for market research, not preparations for lawsuits.
2: No they won't. If they don't complain about the quality of MP3 relative to uncompressed, and can't tell the difference between the different bitrates, they won't complain about something more subtle. I know some people on here can and do the above, but those are a small minority in the world at large.
I'd argue that government wouldn't be any better at it. Plus, you could never fire the people responsible--at least here the company's going to lose a lot of business.
It'd help if the factories and modern farming actually got there.
And if the major population-culler wasn't a disease that strikes you in your prime, completely debilitates you, and requires more energetic people to spend lots of time caring for you.
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The simple absence of religion isn't sufficient to improve things. You have to replace it with something better, not the same thing only instead of slavishly following a prophet of "God" you slavishly follow the Party Leader.
So they'll have won the format war with the YouToob capulets?
It seems to me that the USSR collapsed not too long after the last generation to actually believe in it died. I fear if things continue the way they have been, the same will happen here. The difference between the USSR and the USA is that in the USA you can believe in the USA and hate the government.
Thank you, Econ 101. Has it occurred to you that maybe the supply of scientists and engineers is currently socially suboptimal?
54th. England is 51, Saudi Arabia is 52, Iraq is 53.
They're the local phone company in Chicago (thus, the DSL people who, surprise surprise, are better than the cable internet folks).
That's cause their venues suck. Also, that they didn't think to buy copies of XP and switch. What with the cost of a computer, that cost is minimal.
Ahh, descriptive linguistics. So hard for some to grasp.
Soviet Russia doesn't refer to USSR. It's to distinguish it from Tsarist Russia, or Kievan Russia, or any of the other regimes that ruled Russia. Similar usages in other countries: Napoleonic France, Imperial Rome, Colonial America, Nazi Germany.
Security through redundant backups, people.
It's drafting us for market research, not preparations for lawsuits.
2: No they won't. If they don't complain about the quality of MP3 relative to uncompressed, and can't tell the difference between the different bitrates, they won't complain about something more subtle. I know some people on here can and do the above, but those are a small minority in the world at large.
Higgledy piggledy
Wilt Norman Chamberlain
Over his lifetime had screwed twenty thou
Think of the platitude
All men are brothers
Think it ridiculous? Think of it now
I'd argue that government wouldn't be any better at it. Plus, you could never fire the people responsible--at least here the company's going to lose a lot of business.
Should have signed up for the Iphone, then you'd get 52 pages!
Were. It's not like the H key is right next to the w, e, and r keys.
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
HSBC did that to me. They also, when they corrected it, failed to inform the collection agency they'd sent it to that they'd done so.
Mod up for insightful, mod down for gratuitous use of teary-eyed "for the children" nonsense anecdote.
wreckess driving Wait, they charge people for not getting into car accidents these days?
Ahh, booger off!
You mean two more dead puppy's.
I won't accept anyone else's snot but the GP's to pay my debts! Everyone else's snot is counterfeit!
As opposed to governments devaluing the currency, coin-clipping, and other such practices, which never happened pre-1971?
And if the major population-culler wasn't a disease that strikes you in your prime, completely debilitates you, and requires more energetic people to spend lots of time caring for you.
On the other hand, on the topic of things that will actually help, there are many organizations doing many productive things to help.