The majority of artists never record an album. Most play in your local bar, at your wedding, in parks. The number of artists that actually get picked up by a label are less than a fraction of a percent. They are not picked up because they are any good, they are picked up because they are marketable.
The ONLY website I have ever paid to subscribe to is Consumer reports and it's worth every penny. Are their reviews perfect? By no means. But they are the most accurate and most unbiased product review organization there is. Find me something better or shut up. In my opinion they have saved me tens of thousands of dollars over the past 15 years.
The only reason to use Windows is DirectX for gaming. I don't plan on gaming on a tablet so I doubt they are going to get anywhere with their plans. The fact that Linux isn't crushing Windows and MacOS at the moment is a testament to the Linux communities own dis-functionality. Please, we're begging you, get your act together.
You shouldn't be able to sell ANY copies, as software patents are illegal in most parts of the world. Programmers make money by programming. Someone hires you to write something, you write it and then you get paid. Selling duplicates of work you did 2years ago is NOT work.
Books and literature are art. People should be able to lend their book to whomever they want, and hey, sure, let them xerox it. If a company starts making copies of your work and selling it, that's different and should definitely be stopped. If your goal in writing a book is to make money and not for the sake of art, then I have no sympathy for you. If you're going to be an artist, in all likelihood you're going to be poor. It's a fact of life.
Drugs? These should be open domain. No patents at all. It's a human tragedy that drug companies are allowed to sell a drug that costs a few dollars to make for hundreds of dollars, when the majority of the research is funded by the federal government and charitable donations. End drug patents immediately. They are quite literally killing people.
Any other hypothetical questions?
Your starting point in history is a tad off. 100 years ago there were just as many musicians as there are now. I'd even argue that the average salary 100 years ago was about the same as it is today if you adjust for inflation. Then recording came along. Companies that produced records hired musicians for a day, paying them for a couple of hours work and then sold the records for profit. Musicians made most of their money from touring and concerts (AS IS STILL THE FACT TODAY) Over time the record companies learned to market their records and pickup more and more market share. Now the public would stay home and listen to recordings rather than go out and listen to live music. The public went from listening to millions of individual artist to only really listening to several hundred that were approved by the recording industry because they had mass appeal. Then the artists that were not signed realized that people were not coming to see them play live as much anymore, it was harder to make money and saw their only real way to make money was to become more like was allowed by the recording industry. Profit changed their creative output. A 20 minute epic about the civil war was changed to be a 3 minute song about a lost love. The ONLY reason the recording industry had the ability to control the market like this was because recording and copying the data required to reproduce a song was so expensive no average citizen could afford to do it. This has changed. It's over. There is no way the recording industry can ever stop this. The only real looser here are the record companies. Art, as a whole, will benefit greatly from this. Right now the only advantage that record companies still have over an average citizen is the mastering of recorded works. But this too will probably become something rather simple to do at home given time. What it used to cost to record a single album (about $10k-$20k) you could now buy all the equipment required to record that album. Many argue that musicians are hurt. They are not. In the world there are millions of musicians. You might even be one. There are very few that have recording contracts. Most play in bars, at picnics, host open jams and make a normal honest living doing it. The ability to become a multimillionaire just by recording a half a dozen records is a thing of the past. People will not pay for recorded music anymore. The top musicians will have to work for their money now. The ability to have recordings made that could never be played live is gone. But this new system will help the vast majority of every-day musicians in that they can record one of their best songs rather cheaply, upload it to the internet and have it spread rather quickly to many people if it's good enough. People thinking of attending one of their shows can download a quick sample.
The death of the record industry will be the best thing that's ever happened to music since the birth of the recording.
It's the equivalent of google putting a tape recorder in a public park in order to record bird songs and then some people happen to walk by talking about how they like to take it up the butt.
Governments see google as an easy target. Simple as that. You are NOT safe on the internet. Suck it up. Your politicians, as usual, are lying to you.
It's fucking plutonium. You can't just make it. Hippies freak shit when we try to build an oil refinery, much less refine nuclear material. They'll start screaming about us irradiating space or some shit and no one will make a damned thing.
Many of the starving in African countries are denied free food aid simply based on the fact that it's GM. Would you rather these people die TODAY of starvation or in 40 years due to cancer? This is of course assuming your paranoid disillusion of the evils of GM food prove accurate, which I doubt will happen.
They are not getting more expensive to source. It's actually cheaper to bring gas to market now than it's ever been. The rise in price is a combination of taxes, spikes in demand and plain old price gouging by various companies along the supply chain. The spike that will occure when we actually start running out wont be 25% - 50% like we see now... it'll be more like 1000% increase.
No ones figured out why this is a problem yet? I'll spell it out for you... The majority of the damage being done is to small barrier islands off the coast of Louisiana. Those islands are completely wrapped in boom. If you can not come within 65 feet of the boom and the boom completely wraps the island, you can't go to the island at all.
"none of the errors affected the fundamental conclusion by a UN panel of scientists" but it did affect the fundamental conclusion of the public as a whole. If you want the entire planet to shift the way it lives, to spend more money and get less for it, then "small errors" likes these are anything but small and completely unacceptable. Measure twice, cut once.
If a composer wants to make money composing he should find someone willing to hire him to compose rather than relying on income from work he did years ago. This idea of copyright is old and out dated. The Genie will never get put back into the bottle. Copying information is easy and free. It's like trying to charge people for the right to breath. There's just too much air and too easy to inhale.
A whole new generation gets to learn how business works. A company starts and is nothing, why should people buy from it? So the company focuses on quality, low prices and customer satisfaction. People like the company so much they swarm to it. Over the years the company grows larger and larger. Eventually they have capped out their market share, they can grow no more. This is a problem in our growth driven society. We believe that any company that is not growing is failing. So the owners of the company have to grow in other ways, they have to give less to the market they already have... and try to get the market to pay more despite getting less. First the sacrifice from within... departments are cut, benefits are cut, employees are given quotas that grow daily until they are doing so much work they can barely focus on any one thing at a time. Eventually the company realizes it can't cut anymore from within and still function, so it starts looking for cheaper suppliers. Bonuses are given on a yearly basis so an executive can come it, buy tons of faulty components, get his bonus and be gone before the shit hits the fan. Eventually the company is so distrusted by the public they are relegated to a brand name sticker wall-mart sticks on junk it bought from some 3rd party. But the big wigs at the company walk away with their wallets over flowing, open a new start up... rinse and repeat. It's the same with nearly every American business.
I dunno what's more shocking, that the government thinks ICQ has any relevance with anything anymore or that someone thought the network was worth $186 MILLION dollars. That's just insane.
"If you have a big enough majority to win a violent rebellion, you have a big enough majority to win just by voting."
Not in a two party system you don't.
Also, the revolutionary war was fought and won by a minority.
yea, you lose the shopping channel.... until you run the "add the shopping channel hack" lol
Seriously, the WII is the most hackable console in history. You can have the ENTIRE WII library on a single, relatively small external hard drive and run all the games off it.
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There are a couple of different designs that are "walk-away safe" now. But the one you're referring to was rather easy to find on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor#Thorium_High_Temperature_Reactor
The majority of artists never record an album. Most play in your local bar, at your wedding, in parks. The number of artists that actually get picked up by a label are less than a fraction of a percent. They are not picked up because they are any good, they are picked up because they are marketable.
The ONLY website I have ever paid to subscribe to is Consumer reports and it's worth every penny. Are their reviews perfect? By no means. But they are the most accurate and most unbiased product review organization there is. Find me something better or shut up. In my opinion they have saved me tens of thousands of dollars over the past 15 years.
JFK's killer is in space!
The only reason to use Windows is DirectX for gaming. I don't plan on gaming on a tablet so I doubt they are going to get anywhere with their plans. The fact that Linux isn't crushing Windows and MacOS at the moment is a testament to the Linux communities own dis-functionality. Please, we're begging you, get your act together.
You shouldn't be able to sell ANY copies, as software patents are illegal in most parts of the world. Programmers make money by programming. Someone hires you to write something, you write it and then you get paid. Selling duplicates of work you did 2years ago is NOT work. Books and literature are art. People should be able to lend their book to whomever they want, and hey, sure, let them xerox it. If a company starts making copies of your work and selling it, that's different and should definitely be stopped. If your goal in writing a book is to make money and not for the sake of art, then I have no sympathy for you. If you're going to be an artist, in all likelihood you're going to be poor. It's a fact of life. Drugs? These should be open domain. No patents at all. It's a human tragedy that drug companies are allowed to sell a drug that costs a few dollars to make for hundreds of dollars, when the majority of the research is funded by the federal government and charitable donations. End drug patents immediately. They are quite literally killing people. Any other hypothetical questions?
Your starting point in history is a tad off. 100 years ago there were just as many musicians as there are now. I'd even argue that the average salary 100 years ago was about the same as it is today if you adjust for inflation. Then recording came along. Companies that produced records hired musicians for a day, paying them for a couple of hours work and then sold the records for profit. Musicians made most of their money from touring and concerts (AS IS STILL THE FACT TODAY) Over time the record companies learned to market their records and pickup more and more market share. Now the public would stay home and listen to recordings rather than go out and listen to live music. The public went from listening to millions of individual artist to only really listening to several hundred that were approved by the recording industry because they had mass appeal. Then the artists that were not signed realized that people were not coming to see them play live as much anymore, it was harder to make money and saw their only real way to make money was to become more like was allowed by the recording industry. Profit changed their creative output. A 20 minute epic about the civil war was changed to be a 3 minute song about a lost love. The ONLY reason the recording industry had the ability to control the market like this was because recording and copying the data required to reproduce a song was so expensive no average citizen could afford to do it. This has changed. It's over. There is no way the recording industry can ever stop this. The only real looser here are the record companies. Art, as a whole, will benefit greatly from this. Right now the only advantage that record companies still have over an average citizen is the mastering of recorded works. But this too will probably become something rather simple to do at home given time. What it used to cost to record a single album (about $10k-$20k) you could now buy all the equipment required to record that album. Many argue that musicians are hurt. They are not. In the world there are millions of musicians. You might even be one. There are very few that have recording contracts. Most play in bars, at picnics, host open jams and make a normal honest living doing it. The ability to become a multimillionaire just by recording a half a dozen records is a thing of the past. People will not pay for recorded music anymore. The top musicians will have to work for their money now. The ability to have recordings made that could never be played live is gone. But this new system will help the vast majority of every-day musicians in that they can record one of their best songs rather cheaply, upload it to the internet and have it spread rather quickly to many people if it's good enough. People thinking of attending one of their shows can download a quick sample. The death of the record industry will be the best thing that's ever happened to music since the birth of the recording.
It's the equivalent of google putting a tape recorder in a public park in order to record bird songs and then some people happen to walk by talking about how they like to take it up the butt. Governments see google as an easy target. Simple as that. You are NOT safe on the internet. Suck it up. Your politicians, as usual, are lying to you.
It's fucking plutonium. You can't just make it. Hippies freak shit when we try to build an oil refinery, much less refine nuclear material. They'll start screaming about us irradiating space or some shit and no one will make a damned thing.
AVATAR!!!!!
Many of the starving in African countries are denied free food aid simply based on the fact that it's GM. Would you rather these people die TODAY of starvation or in 40 years due to cancer? This is of course assuming your paranoid disillusion of the evils of GM food prove accurate, which I doubt will happen.
They are not getting more expensive to source. It's actually cheaper to bring gas to market now than it's ever been. The rise in price is a combination of taxes, spikes in demand and plain old price gouging by various companies along the supply chain. The spike that will occure when we actually start running out wont be 25% - 50% like we see now... it'll be more like 1000% increase.
No ones figured out why this is a problem yet? I'll spell it out for you... The majority of the damage being done is to small barrier islands off the coast of Louisiana. Those islands are completely wrapped in boom. If you can not come within 65 feet of the boom and the boom completely wraps the island, you can't go to the island at all.
I'd argue that much of what the TSA does is rather controversial. Are they blocking their own websites?
"none of the errors affected the fundamental conclusion by a UN panel of scientists" but it did affect the fundamental conclusion of the public as a whole. If you want the entire planet to shift the way it lives, to spend more money and get less for it, then "small errors" likes these are anything but small and completely unacceptable. Measure twice, cut once.
If a composer wants to make money composing he should find someone willing to hire him to compose rather than relying on income from work he did years ago. This idea of copyright is old and out dated. The Genie will never get put back into the bottle. Copying information is easy and free. It's like trying to charge people for the right to breath. There's just too much air and too easy to inhale.
A whole new generation gets to learn how business works. A company starts and is nothing, why should people buy from it? So the company focuses on quality, low prices and customer satisfaction. People like the company so much they swarm to it. Over the years the company grows larger and larger. Eventually they have capped out their market share, they can grow no more. This is a problem in our growth driven society. We believe that any company that is not growing is failing. So the owners of the company have to grow in other ways, they have to give less to the market they already have... and try to get the market to pay more despite getting less. First the sacrifice from within... departments are cut, benefits are cut, employees are given quotas that grow daily until they are doing so much work they can barely focus on any one thing at a time. Eventually the company realizes it can't cut anymore from within and still function, so it starts looking for cheaper suppliers. Bonuses are given on a yearly basis so an executive can come it, buy tons of faulty components, get his bonus and be gone before the shit hits the fan. Eventually the company is so distrusted by the public they are relegated to a brand name sticker wall-mart sticks on junk it bought from some 3rd party. But the big wigs at the company walk away with their wallets over flowing, open a new start up... rinse and repeat. It's the same with nearly every American business.
I'd think a balloon would be a lot more affective and less failure prone.
I dunno what's more shocking, that the government thinks ICQ has any relevance with anything anymore or that someone thought the network was worth $186 MILLION dollars. That's just insane.
"If you have a big enough majority to win a violent rebellion, you have a big enough majority to win just by voting." Not in a two party system you don't. Also, the revolutionary war was fought and won by a minority.
The GPU wars died about 3 years ago. There was a point at which people stopped willing to pay an extra $200 - $300 for a marginal increase in realism.
This is the reason we have the right to bare arms. My .45 will be empty before they get any samples off me.
yea, you lose the shopping channel.... until you run the "add the shopping channel hack" lol Seriously, the WII is the most hackable console in history. You can have the ENTIRE WII library on a single, relatively small external hard drive and run all the games off it.
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion..." --Thomas Jefferson to William S. Smith, 1787. ME 6:372
Isn't this the exact same thing the MAME project is trying to achieve? http://mamedev.org/about.html