The 2011 Canadian census was processed by Lockheed Martin. Under the Patriot Act, Homeland Security can compel any US company to surrender any data, and can also compel them to withhold all information about the surrender of data. So if Homeland Security wanted the 2011 Canadian census data, they could get it, and nobody would hear about it.
This represents a definitive intelligence test. If you think they don't already have it, you're incredibly stupid.
Wow. Seriously? Piracy = private ownership? I hope you're not advocating against the piracy = theft argument, because obtaining private ownership of pirated works is the definition of theft.
Haven't any of you ever created anything unique? Did you try to make more unique things, or say to yourself "nobody will ever appreciate this shit" and give up? It's that exact deterrent that piracy causes in would-be artists.
+5 'insightful' to the PA... not sure I can stomach that.
Allow me to elaborate. Yes there is a lot of shitty music out there that is produced with the firm intent of cashing in solely on a trendy marketing campaign. And the chump the PA is referring to defends pirating that crap, most likely so he can seem trendy too without paying to impress whatever idiots he thinks he needs to.
But piracy has irrefutably devalued proper musical works. It used to be you could only have hard copy of music by paying for it. Now, everyone's iPod or whatever has a fixed amount of memory, and everyone's going to fill it, either with pirated crap, paid good music, or pirated good music. Look through your "digital library", determine what percentage was paid for, and the remainder is how much us musicians are losing in selling our proper music. If you had to pay to fill your iPod you'd still fill it. Guaranteed. Nobody stops short and says "this is all the music I need", they fill it and get a bigger iPod at the first opportunity.
So labels are shitheads. What's new? Us musicians have been getting fucked by labels since Elvis. Now we're getting fucked by you, and in turn labels are fucking us worse. Labels were fucking you the whole time, you're just figuring out how stupid you've always been. It's not our fault you didn't check out cool bands that toured through your town over and over, what else could they do to teach you what proper music is? And thanks to DJ's, the going rate for a musician playing a local gig is the same it was in the 70's.
So welcome to how big a moron musicians think you are when you say "piracy isn't theft".
(it isn't theft, it's tortuous interference, but for arguments sake it's the same as theft)
Piracy isn't theft, it's tortuous interference. Whether or not you think a copyrighted work is valuable, if you usurp the copyright holder's means of profiting from it, it's the same thing as going back in time and selling framed prints of the Mona Lisa to those that would have paid for the real deal. If there's no motivation to spend the time learning and producing great art, then all you get is trash. So let me fix this for you:
I'd hardly call piracy theft. I think I would call it creating trash and feeling egregiously magnanimous about bitching about it.
I dropped Protools for Reaper as well, way more solid, versatile, and way more advanced than Protools will ever get. I'm noticing features all the time that I didn't know it had, like recently I found an ultra low latency setting that does under-the-hood stuff like run it on only one processor core. I never would have thought of that.
What is the definition of "Classical" music? I thought that the works composed by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and so on were out of copyright anyway..
If somebody composes something nowdays can it be still called "Classical" ?
Yes. Composers like Maurice Durufle are considered 20th century classical, which is often characterized by the tasteful use of discord, not so commonly found in early classical. Check out Durufle's Requiem, an extremely difficult choral piece. A 21st century classical style has not formed yet to my knowledge, but there are many classical composers still at it, many working on film and stage soundtracks, John Williams among the more notable.
You had me at 90's Mac fan. Apple shit the bed with AltiVec and became a content-delivery company instead of a user-oriented company. Blackberry will never compete with the iPhone, but they're focusing on the user-oriented paradigm to fill the void Apple left. IMO they're going to let Apple shit itself again, like it always does when it gets ahead, Android will become the Windows of mobile devices and become bastardized like Windows has, and BlackBerry will become the go-to platform for people who need to get shit done, like they've proven they know how to do. They've got capital to ride out this rut and serious shit up their sleeve. I'm betting they focus on emerging third-world markets and I know they're giving away surplus product to lock in certain niche markets, and it's working. RIM is not going to go the way of CBM, but I'm not sure I'd advise buying up their stock just yet. Soon though.
My 8530 lasts most of the week, and charges fully while I'm in the shower. I'm not a super-heavy user so I won't discredit your other claims, but your battery life complaints have me questioning your credibility. Try turning off things you aren't using, y'know like not leaving your car running while it's parked. (obligatory car reference)
Call me naive, but if ABP is blocking the ads tailored to my profile, should I really give a damn how sophisticated their targeting approach is? If you're worried about being falsely accused of a crime based on your online usage that's one thing, but if targeted ads never even get your attention, who cares how they process whatever data to single you out. AFAIC, go ahead and spend all you want to identify me as a good prospect for your ad campaign. It's just going to hit a brick wall.
As for the idiots that let this kind of manipulation decide their vote, well the ethical problem lies in a lack of education to avoid manipulation, not in how they're manipulated. Stupid is as stupid does. If I'm being stupid by not giving a damn about this, by all means educate me. Sure as shit the government won't.
The good news is that using depleted uranium munitions is actually a great cost saver for US taxpayers. It's a cheap way to dispose of nuclear waste while irradiating a foreign civilian population looking for WMD's you know don't exist. Oh wait, just kidding... I'm sure they billed US taxpayers a shitload for the privilege of disposing of their nuclear waste and making sure the "real terrorists" keep trying to attack America. How else can the US justify a "defense" budget that vastly exceeds all other countries combined?
American CEO's have laid off American workers en masse in favor of cheap Asian labor, and put the savings in their own pocket rather than pass the savings on to the people they put out of work. Then the bankers told those who could find work that they could afford a sub-prime mortgage - "just kidding!" I'm amazed that Wall St hasn't been sacked.
It is illegal for me to create a label, and define the requirements you are required to fulfill if you want to attach that label to your product?
Not at all. But your label means squat if you don't promote it enough to make a dent against other labels. Monsanto has multi-billion dollar promotional funds to make their twisted garbage acceptable to complete idiots. Smart people don't read labels, they verify their food sources. So go ahead and make your label. Sooner or later you'll find someone who gives a shit. Well actually no. But you're allowed to do it! Yay freedom!
Fidelity and appealing sound are different issues. Most old school recording engineers hated digital recording at first because it didn't sound as good as analog tape. They deemed that digital was inaccurate and blamed it on flawed methodology, "rounding errors" etc. But the fact is that the tape, like tubes, were coloring the sound artificially in a pleasant way while digital was only trying to be neutral.
Nowadays, tape is pretty much dead, tube-based recording consoles are pretty much non-existent, as digital audio workstations can achieve similar colorations at a much lower operating cost. Tubes are pretty limited to instrument amps, mic preamps, and audiophile amps. Now digital modeling of various forms of coloration are taking over, which is of course highly offensive to tube fans.
But the simple fact is that when it comes to artificial colorations, digital systems will eventually win. There's no limit to the variations and control offered by software, we just have to figure them out because unlike analog they don't come built-in. Software processes can also be used on multiple signals simultaneously in a mix and rendered faster than realtime, while analog devices are very costly one-trick ponies that only work on a few signals and only in realtime.
There are very powerful tools in the hands of amateurs these days, and you can no longer just buy killer vintage analog gear, get "that sound" that nobody else can get, and call yourself a studio engineer. Now more than ever sound engineering skill is the greatest asset a studio can have.
Let's see, Canada has roughly 12x the population of Jamaica, but roughly 1000x the land mass, roughly 1/83rd of the population density. Let's look to Jamaica for insight on Canadian infrastructure costs. Yeah...
It's the same reason Canadian electric companies are paying around 8x the rate they charge (.55/kWh vs.07/kWh) for people using wind/solar arrays to ease the load on the power grid. Sure they can run wires everywhere, but when the demands of any area exceed the tolerances of the sub-stations, they have to make extremely costly upgrades to every substation between that area and the power source(s). In the case of the internet, the sources and destinations of data are spread thinly over a ~10,000,000 sq km area.
Simple reason - whomever gets to monitor private information wins. By helping make the winner, telcos become the winner's friend. Who cares if privacy goes out the window?
The human brain is a neural network that provides ample resources to ponder any concept one may choose to contemplate to a much higher degree than any other animal. Unless someone is claiming they are simultaneously contemplating more than 10% of all the concepts mankind can possibly conceive of the entire universe, the notion that we can use 10% of our brains at once is actually a staggeringly high number.
Here's a figure that's much harder to explain: the human brain uses 20W of power at all times. Calculus exam - 20W. Epic sex with a supermodel - 20W. meditation - 20W. Fast asleep - 20W. It seems counter-evolutionary for the brain to not have a power-saving mode since it uses 20% of our average energy expenditure, but the same is true of all animals, except during hibernation.
Copyright infringement is not theft or plagiarism, it's tortuous interference. If you provide to people a copyrighted work when they could only otherwise get it legitimately by paying the copyright holder, you're on the hook for the copyright holder's losses. Just because you don't understand piracy doesn't mean you get to pretend it's ok.
I have the perfect analogy for this. I'm a sound engineer, and for mixing live shows on digital consoles I can save my mix parameters of a band onto a USB key and recall them onto a same-model digital board in a competing music venue. If I load the mix I was paid to prepare by venue A into the console at competing venue B, does venue A have the right to sue venue B?
The answer is this: if I charged venue B less because I'd already done the work paid for by venue A, then venue A could reasonably claim half the difference. So at best, Google owes Oracle half the cost Sun paid Mr Bloch specifically to write those precious 9 lines of code. Oracle should take the $150,000 and run before they're ordered to pay Google's legal bill, which is inevitable if they push this any farther.
You figure out a way to get big countries with low per capita usage and small countries with high per capita usage to agree on anything, and I bet the Nobel committee would come a-knocking. In the meantime, the country that ranks highest in combined number of users and per capita usage is the US. At least they're predictable. Next on that list are Japan and Germany. Eerie isn't it?
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The 2011 Canadian census was processed by Lockheed Martin. Under the Patriot Act, Homeland Security can compel any US company to surrender any data, and can also compel them to withhold all information about the surrender of data. So if Homeland Security wanted the 2011 Canadian census data, they could get it, and nobody would hear about it.
This represents a definitive intelligence test. If you think they don't already have it, you're incredibly stupid.
Wow. Seriously? Piracy = private ownership? I hope you're not advocating against the piracy = theft argument, because obtaining private ownership of pirated works is the definition of theft.
Haven't any of you ever created anything unique? Did you try to make more unique things, or say to yourself "nobody will ever appreciate this shit" and give up? It's that exact deterrent that piracy causes in would-be artists.
+5 'insightful' to the PA... not sure I can stomach that.
Allow me to elaborate. Yes there is a lot of shitty music out there that is produced with the firm intent of cashing in solely on a trendy marketing campaign. And the chump the PA is referring to defends pirating that crap, most likely so he can seem trendy too without paying to impress whatever idiots he thinks he needs to.
But piracy has irrefutably devalued proper musical works. It used to be you could only have hard copy of music by paying for it. Now, everyone's iPod or whatever has a fixed amount of memory, and everyone's going to fill it, either with pirated crap, paid good music, or pirated good music. Look through your "digital library", determine what percentage was paid for, and the remainder is how much us musicians are losing in selling our proper music. If you had to pay to fill your iPod you'd still fill it. Guaranteed. Nobody stops short and says "this is all the music I need", they fill it and get a bigger iPod at the first opportunity.
So labels are shitheads. What's new? Us musicians have been getting fucked by labels since Elvis. Now we're getting fucked by you, and in turn labels are fucking us worse. Labels were fucking you the whole time, you're just figuring out how stupid you've always been. It's not our fault you didn't check out cool bands that toured through your town over and over, what else could they do to teach you what proper music is? And thanks to DJ's, the going rate for a musician playing a local gig is the same it was in the 70's.
So welcome to how big a moron musicians think you are when you say "piracy isn't theft".
(it isn't theft, it's tortuous interference, but for arguments sake it's the same as theft)
Piracy isn't theft, it's tortuous interference. Whether or not you think a copyrighted work is valuable, if you usurp the copyright holder's means of profiting from it, it's the same thing as going back in time and selling framed prints of the Mona Lisa to those that would have paid for the real deal. If there's no motivation to spend the time learning and producing great art, then all you get is trash. So let me fix this for you:
I'd hardly call piracy theft. I think I would call it creating trash and feeling egregiously magnanimous about bitching about it.
I dropped Protools for Reaper as well, way more solid, versatile, and way more advanced than Protools will ever get. I'm noticing features all the time that I didn't know it had, like recently I found an ultra low latency setting that does under-the-hood stuff like run it on only one processor core. I never would have thought of that.
What is the definition of "Classical" music? I thought that the works composed by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and so on were out of copyright anyway.. If somebody composes something nowdays can it be still called "Classical" ?
Yes. Composers like Maurice Durufle are considered 20th century classical, which is often characterized by the tasteful use of discord, not so commonly found in early classical. Check out Durufle's Requiem, an extremely difficult choral piece. A 21st century classical style has not formed yet to my knowledge, but there are many classical composers still at it, many working on film and stage soundtracks, John Williams among the more notable.
You had me at 90's Mac fan. Apple shit the bed with AltiVec and became a content-delivery company instead of a user-oriented company. Blackberry will never compete with the iPhone, but they're focusing on the user-oriented paradigm to fill the void Apple left. IMO they're going to let Apple shit itself again, like it always does when it gets ahead, Android will become the Windows of mobile devices and become bastardized like Windows has, and BlackBerry will become the go-to platform for people who need to get shit done, like they've proven they know how to do. They've got capital to ride out this rut and serious shit up their sleeve. I'm betting they focus on emerging third-world markets and I know they're giving away surplus product to lock in certain niche markets, and it's working. RIM is not going to go the way of CBM, but I'm not sure I'd advise buying up their stock just yet. Soon though.
They'll have to wait until Harper privatizes the Bank Of Canada before absorbing RIM's debt. Don't worry, it's in the 400-page budget somewhere...
My 8530 lasts most of the week, and charges fully while I'm in the shower. I'm not a super-heavy user so I won't discredit your other claims, but your battery life complaints have me questioning your credibility. Try turning off things you aren't using, y'know like not leaving your car running while it's parked. (obligatory car reference)
Call me naive, but if ABP is blocking the ads tailored to my profile, should I really give a damn how sophisticated their targeting approach is? If you're worried about being falsely accused of a crime based on your online usage that's one thing, but if targeted ads never even get your attention, who cares how they process whatever data to single you out. AFAIC, go ahead and spend all you want to identify me as a good prospect for your ad campaign. It's just going to hit a brick wall.
As for the idiots that let this kind of manipulation decide their vote, well the ethical problem lies in a lack of education to avoid manipulation, not in how they're manipulated. Stupid is as stupid does. If I'm being stupid by not giving a damn about this, by all means educate me. Sure as shit the government won't.
Works for any plutocracy - hold elections, people think they are represented.
It's the reason people are terrified of terrorists getting nuclear arms. Because they simply don't care about the backlash.
So the primary qualification of a terrorist is the willingness to use weapons of mass destruction upon a civilian population with impunity?
Depleted uranium munitions (aka dirty bombs) fired by US forces into civilian areas in Iraq: 340 TONS - Casualties: immeasurable and counting, 7 digits for sure - Backlash: zero
The good news is that using depleted uranium munitions is actually a great cost saver for US taxpayers. It's a cheap way to dispose of nuclear waste while irradiating a foreign civilian population looking for WMD's you know don't exist. Oh wait, just kidding... I'm sure they billed US taxpayers a shitload for the privilege of disposing of their nuclear waste and making sure the "real terrorists" keep trying to attack America. How else can the US justify a "defense" budget that vastly exceeds all other countries combined?
American CEO's have laid off American workers en masse in favor of cheap Asian labor, and put the savings in their own pocket rather than pass the savings on to the people they put out of work. Then the bankers told those who could find work that they could afford a sub-prime mortgage - "just kidding!" I'm amazed that Wall St hasn't been sacked.
It is illegal for me to create a label, and define the requirements you are required to fulfill if you want to attach that label to your product?
Not at all. But your label means squat if you don't promote it enough to make a dent against other labels. Monsanto has multi-billion dollar promotional funds to make their twisted garbage acceptable to complete idiots. Smart people don't read labels, they verify their food sources. So go ahead and make your label. Sooner or later you'll find someone who gives a shit. Well actually no. But you're allowed to do it! Yay freedom!
The word 'advertising' means to get people to do what they specifically do not want to do.
If it were merely to promote one viable option over another, it would be aptly named 'divertising'.
But no, the folks that twist words to promote products and services adhere to the term 'advertising' for what they do.
What kind of idiot would allow this into their home? Much less pay for it...
So they're exactly like Norton, McAfee, and CA?
How did this get modded 'Funny?' That shit ain't funny, it's fucking Insightful.
How did this get modded 'Insightful'?
The GP was insightful. This shit ain't insightful, it's fucking Funny.
[Hint: to break the chain, mod this 'Informative'.]
Fidelity and appealing sound are different issues. Most old school recording engineers hated digital recording at first because it didn't sound as good as analog tape. They deemed that digital was inaccurate and blamed it on flawed methodology, "rounding errors" etc. But the fact is that the tape, like tubes, were coloring the sound artificially in a pleasant way while digital was only trying to be neutral.
Nowadays, tape is pretty much dead, tube-based recording consoles are pretty much non-existent, as digital audio workstations can achieve similar colorations at a much lower operating cost. Tubes are pretty limited to instrument amps, mic preamps, and audiophile amps. Now digital modeling of various forms of coloration are taking over, which is of course highly offensive to tube fans.
But the simple fact is that when it comes to artificial colorations, digital systems will eventually win. There's no limit to the variations and control offered by software, we just have to figure them out because unlike analog they don't come built-in. Software processes can also be used on multiple signals simultaneously in a mix and rendered faster than realtime, while analog devices are very costly one-trick ponies that only work on a few signals and only in realtime.
There are very powerful tools in the hands of amateurs these days, and you can no longer just buy killer vintage analog gear, get "that sound" that nobody else can get, and call yourself a studio engineer. Now more than ever sound engineering skill is the greatest asset a studio can have.
Facebook did warn underwriters of the potential lower revenues as mobiles take over, but if they didn't warn all 33, those that weren't told have a pretty strong case.
Let's see, Canada has roughly 12x the population of Jamaica, but roughly 1000x the land mass, roughly 1/83rd of the population density. Let's look to Jamaica for insight on Canadian infrastructure costs. Yeah...
It's the same reason Canadian electric companies are paying around 8x the rate they charge (.55/kWh vs .07/kWh) for people using wind/solar arrays to ease the load on the power grid. Sure they can run wires everywhere, but when the demands of any area exceed the tolerances of the sub-stations, they have to make extremely costly upgrades to every substation between that area and the power source(s). In the case of the internet, the sources and destinations of data are spread thinly over a ~10,000,000 sq km area.
Simple reason - whomever gets to monitor private information wins. By helping make the winner, telcos become the winner's friend. Who cares if privacy goes out the window?
Eventually, your mental state might completely remold itself to computer interfaces.
Fixed that for you.
The human brain is a neural network that provides ample resources to ponder any concept one may choose to contemplate to a much higher degree than any other animal. Unless someone is claiming they are simultaneously contemplating more than 10% of all the concepts mankind can possibly conceive of the entire universe, the notion that we can use 10% of our brains at once is actually a staggeringly high number.
Here's a figure that's much harder to explain: the human brain uses 20W of power at all times. Calculus exam - 20W. Epic sex with a supermodel - 20W. meditation - 20W. Fast asleep - 20W. It seems counter-evolutionary for the brain to not have a power-saving mode since it uses 20% of our average energy expenditure, but the same is true of all animals, except during hibernation.
Copyright infringement is not theft or plagiarism, it's tortuous interference. If you provide to people a copyrighted work when they could only otherwise get it legitimately by paying the copyright holder, you're on the hook for the copyright holder's losses. Just because you don't understand piracy doesn't mean you get to pretend it's ok.
I have the perfect analogy for this. I'm a sound engineer, and for mixing live shows on digital consoles I can save my mix parameters of a band onto a USB key and recall them onto a same-model digital board in a competing music venue. If I load the mix I was paid to prepare by venue A into the console at competing venue B, does venue A have the right to sue venue B?
The answer is this: if I charged venue B less because I'd already done the work paid for by venue A, then venue A could reasonably claim half the difference. So at best, Google owes Oracle half the cost Sun paid Mr Bloch specifically to write those precious 9 lines of code. Oracle should take the $150,000 and run before they're ordered to pay Google's legal bill, which is inevitable if they push this any farther.
Ok, the country with by far the most internet users is China, you want to give them a 22.5% interest in regulating the internet? Or instead, lets prioritize on a per capita basis, the country with the highest internet usage per capita is Greenland. They're the most vulnerable to regulation, so let's put them in charge. India has only 10% per capita online, but they're #3 for most users. The top G8 country per capita is Canada at #4.
You figure out a way to get big countries with low per capita usage and small countries with high per capita usage to agree on anything, and I bet the Nobel committee would come a-knocking. In the meantime, the country that ranks highest in combined number of users and per capita usage is the US. At least they're predictable. Next on that list are Japan and Germany. Eerie isn't it?
And for the record, I am not American.