The OP's sentiment is correct. Hirsch is pissed because the online porn sites have driven his profits into the gutter - they encourage sites to pick up short clips for fapping in hopes of bringing in subscribers. Right again on the "think of the children" crap - Nina Eliasoph calls it "Mandatory Public Momism" (Avoiding Politics, Cambridge UP, 1998) - it's been serving as a smokescreen in public discourse for "I don't want to appear to be a greedy git" since the Greeks.
Honestly, if people can't police their own kids, they should just give them up for lost or go on Dr. Phil. If you're going to be too busy with your career to have a family, do the rest of us a favor and don't contribute to the gene pool - you're obviously unfit to breed. Don't expect me to help: I'm busy raising mine. I've got filters on my computer just like my parents had a block on Skinemax and Showtime after 9 p.m. Google is not responsible for your apathetic parenting.
I only meant to provide a reference for the rule at most in question. How many people do you think actually went to the trouble of looking it up before blathering?
NO, MAN, what we really need are open source iris watermarks! I won't pay for your irises, I'll steal them online and pretend I'm doing the world a favor!
From the W3C specifications for XHTML documents [Link]
3.1.1 - Strictly Conforming Documents...There must be a DOCTYPE declaration in the document prior to the root element. The public identifier included in the DOCTYPE declaration must reference one of the three DTDs found in DTDs using the respective Formal Public Identifier. The system identifier may be changed to reflect local system conventions... An XML declaration is not required in all XML documents; however XHTML document authors are strongly encouraged to use XML declarations in all their documents.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
This is the DTD they require. Because the DTD is not declared inline in an XHTML document, it must contain the external reference (the second part - the link to "w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-XXXX.dtd") to the W3C's DTD - which is, presumably, what they're bitching about.
Then make your atom/rss feed post to the firehose. Do you really think that it's him that posts each of these stories? I've never met busier people than practicing trial attorneys, outside of teaching hospitals.
Then you get marked down as a non-supporter. No reason to waste time calling someone who you know isn't a supporter again. Bull. Are you management for Integral Resources or one of those asshat companies?
I worked at one of these places for a week (I had to leave before I killed myself), and actually, they get your name from public records and donor lists. If you've donated to a political campaign online, signed a petition, joined an e-mail list, even visited a political website with the right cookies (the first sophisticated tracking cookies were - according to R.N. Howard in New Media Campaigns - used by the RNC website in the 90s) in the past 9 years, your contact info is automatically added to that party's, candidate's, organization's (the RCCC, DCCC, moveon.org) list of people to harass on the phone.
If you tell them no, if you tell them anything *other* than to specifically "Remove me from your list," ("don't call again" doesn't work) they can legally call back in 90 days (6 mos. if you donate, and then they ask for 2x what you gave before as the start). Worse: you have to be the individual they're calling. If it's a spouse, the autodialer will call back the next day. The organization you donate to is paying these companies by the call, and the company also gets a percentage (right off the top) of your donation. Someone donates $50, the organization ends up with about $35 after all is said and done.
That's partially true: you cannot be held accountable for failing to give testimony against a spouse or dependent child - legally, you could all be said to be the "same person" (shitty reduction of a long explanation, but it's teh internets).
So if you go Gold, that's a net of $7,500,000.00. Now the company spent $100,000 to $250,000 recording, $3,000,000 in marketing (mostly payola) and another half million or so on incidentals (hookers, bail). Oh, and stamps. Add a half million. You're mixing up net and gross - gross is the total taken in, net is that total minus expenses. Most artists get diddly-squat because studios always find a way to take the net total down to nothing (gotta love "administrative costs").
Actually, the scheme may qualify him as "supergeek." Anyone who thinks he "wins" an argument with a wife/girlfriend, no matter the evidence, has never really been involved with one. Introducing evidence can make for some COLD nights, too.:)
So someone who gets a picture cut out of a magazine so that they "know what to get" but don't have time to research it because they're working two jobs and shopping at MaoMart for "great deals" deserves to get shafted? Not everyone works at a job where they've got time to play on the internet.
Far more likely than your utter slam of everyone else in the US (which tells us nothing more than that you think you're better than everyone else) is what the GP said - they're relying on brand confusion and poverty to sell something that looks like a Wii to people who can't afford the real thing and whose kids want a game system. Have you ever been that kid? Ever wondered why Christmas was a big deal in everyone else's house but not yours?
I have, and looking back with a kid of my own, I feel worse for my parents for picking up the knockoff than for myself for getting it. I can't imagine how they felt when they realized it wasn't worth fifty cents and broke the first time I used it. Blame Walmart for targeting desperate parents who want to do something really good for their kids but end up getting cheap crap instead of what they thought they were getting. We can't all be as wonderfully gifted as you, and an eighty hour workweek at a demanding physical job can wreak havoc on a mom who's out doing her last minute shopping.
Think of self-important, critical dickheads like you and realize that while your witty repartee might amuse you for a moment, it doesn't do a goddamn thing to help. Realize that if everyone you meet is "retarded," it may not be them. It may be you.
I know at least one Ph.D. in Chemistry working for the military whose interest in the field was sparked by a Chemistry set he got for his birthday. Is this a case of our government shooting itself in the foot in the interest of exerting control in the place of creating a truly secure environment through diplomacy?
Except that iPods will also play non-DRMed music & video. Google Video allows you to save content in iPod compatible format. You can rip video & music into iPod compatible format... my iTunes library is 90% DRM free, and the content I paid for is content I would have willingly paid for in physical format had I any use for it as such.
Incorrect. In fact, they provide instructions on how to do this in the user manual, including illustrations - and the area accessed is about as idiot-proof as possible. This is FUD. Old FUD, at that.
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I'm far more annoyed by stupidity than all caps.
The OP's sentiment is correct. Hirsch is pissed because the online porn sites have driven his profits into the gutter - they encourage sites to pick up short clips for fapping in hopes of bringing in subscribers. Right again on the "think of the children" crap - Nina Eliasoph calls it "Mandatory Public Momism" (Avoiding Politics, Cambridge UP, 1998) - it's been serving as a smokescreen in public discourse for "I don't want to appear to be a greedy git" since the Greeks.
Honestly, if people can't police their own kids, they should just give them up for lost or go on Dr. Phil. If you're going to be too busy with your career to have a family, do the rest of us a favor and don't contribute to the gene pool - you're obviously unfit to breed. Don't expect me to help: I'm busy raising mine. I've got filters on my computer just like my parents had a block on Skinemax and Showtime after 9 p.m. Google is not responsible for your apathetic parenting.
I only meant to provide a reference for the rule at most in question. How many people do you think actually went to the trouble of looking it up before blathering?
NO, MAN, what we really need are open source iris watermarks! I won't pay for your irises, I'll steal them online and pretend I'm doing the world a favor!
From the W3C specifications for XHTML documents [Link]
3.1.1 - Strictly Conforming Documents ...There must be a DOCTYPE declaration in the document prior to the root element. The public identifier included in the DOCTYPE declaration must reference one of the three DTDs found in DTDs using the respective Formal Public Identifier. The system identifier may be changed to reflect local system conventions... An XML declaration is not required in all XML documents; however XHTML document authors are strongly encouraged to use XML declarations in all their documents.
This is the DTD they require. Because the DTD is not declared inline in an XHTML document, it must contain the external reference (the second part - the link to "w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-XXXX.dtd") to the W3C's DTD - which is, presumably, what they're bitching about.
Creative? Replacing one tired genre (a sitcom/hour long crime/medical dramafest) with "Reality"?
Then make your atom/rss feed post to the firehose. Do you really think that it's him that posts each of these stories? I've never met busier people than practicing trial attorneys, outside of teaching hospitals.
I worked at one of these places for a week (I had to leave before I killed myself), and actually, they get your name from public records and donor lists. If you've donated to a political campaign online, signed a petition, joined an e-mail list, even visited a political website with the right cookies (the first sophisticated tracking cookies were - according to R.N. Howard in New Media Campaigns - used by the RNC website in the 90s) in the past 9 years, your contact info is automatically added to that party's, candidate's, organization's (the RCCC, DCCC, moveon.org) list of people to harass on the phone.
If you tell them no, if you tell them anything *other* than to specifically "Remove me from your list," ("don't call again" doesn't work) they can legally call back in 90 days (6 mos. if you donate, and then they ask for 2x what you gave before as the start). Worse: you have to be the individual they're calling. If it's a spouse, the autodialer will call back the next day. The organization you donate to is paying these companies by the call, and the company also gets a percentage (right off the top) of your donation. Someone donates $50, the organization ends up with about $35 after all is said and done.
That's partially true: you cannot be held accountable for failing to give testimony against a spouse or dependent child - legally, you could all be said to be the "same person" (shitty reduction of a long explanation, but it's teh internets).
Regardless, you cannot be punished for refraining from giving testimony against a spouse or dependent child. They're spinning.
Actually, the scheme may qualify him as "supergeek." Anyone who thinks he "wins" an argument with a wife/girlfriend, no matter the evidence, has never really been involved with one. Introducing evidence can make for some COLD nights, too. :)
Try this. It works wonders
He is providing the same kind of evidence you are: anecdotal. Sorry, but if it isn't good enough for him, it isn't good enough for you, either.
So someone who gets a picture cut out of a magazine so that they "know what to get" but don't have time to research it because they're working two jobs and shopping at MaoMart for "great deals" deserves to get shafted? Not everyone works at a job where they've got time to play on the internet.
Far more likely than your utter slam of everyone else in the US (which tells us nothing more than that you think you're better than everyone else) is what the GP said - they're relying on brand confusion and poverty to sell something that looks like a Wii to people who can't afford the real thing and whose kids want a game system. Have you ever been that kid? Ever wondered why Christmas was a big deal in everyone else's house but not yours?
I have, and looking back with a kid of my own, I feel worse for my parents for picking up the knockoff than for myself for getting it. I can't imagine how they felt when they realized it wasn't worth fifty cents and broke the first time I used it. Blame Walmart for targeting desperate parents who want to do something really good for their kids but end up getting cheap crap instead of what they thought they were getting. We can't all be as wonderfully gifted as you, and an eighty hour workweek at a demanding physical job can wreak havoc on a mom who's out doing her last minute shopping.
Think of self-important, critical dickheads like you and realize that while your witty repartee might amuse you for a moment, it doesn't do a goddamn thing to help. Realize that if everyone you meet is "retarded," it may not be them. It may be you.
But when you see the illiterate mongoloids who post this crap, they use "your." That, I think, is the idea to which the OP was pointing.
I see what you did there. How clever.
I know at least one Ph.D. in Chemistry working for the military whose interest in the field was sparked by a Chemistry set he got for his birthday. Is this a case of our government shooting itself in the foot in the interest of exerting control in the place of creating a truly secure environment through diplomacy?
Your mother called. She has a bone to pick with you, troll.
Except that iPods will also play non-DRMed music & video. Google Video allows you to save content in iPod compatible format. You can rip video & music into iPod compatible format... my iTunes library is 90% DRM free, and the content I paid for is content I would have willingly paid for in physical format had I any use for it as such.
"Chop" steak (glorified hamburger), "Salisbury" steak (WTF?), "Country Fried" steak...
Incorrect. In fact, they provide instructions on how to do this in the user manual, including illustrations - and the area accessed is about as idiot-proof as possible. This is FUD. Old FUD, at that.