It gets better - the cochlea changes with time and exposure to loud sounds, ask any musician over 60. You + rock concert == not you anymore. There's temporary damage that heals, and long-term damage that doesn't. The cochlea can be damaged even without noticeable hearing loss. The brain constantly adapts to match the OAE's with the listener's preconceptions of the environment. You don't hear sound, your brain makes it up based on stimulus from the cochlea.
Still, there may be enough to go on from the lower-midrange frequencies which are more resilient.
MAFIAA execs have top appointments to the Dept of Justice, so it's a good idea to pirate music and movies?
You imply that your only entertainment options are to buy MAFIAA content or pirate it. I know it's just an oversight, but it's a rather offensive one to independent musicians such as myself. Here's a novel idea - GO SEE A LIVE BAND! IF YOU LIKE THEM BUY THEIR DAMN CD!
It's the last thing the MAFIAA wants you to do! It's the last thing the RIAA wants you to realize - they do NOT have a monopoly on good music!
"There's a new proposal ('URL shortening that doesn't hurt the Internet') floating around for using rev="canonical" to help put a stop to the URL-shortening madness. In order to avoid the great linkrot apocalypse, we can opt to specify short URLs for our own pages, so that compliant services (adoption is still low, because the idea is pretty fresh) will use our short URLs instead of TinyURL.com (or some other third-party alternative) replacements."
Don't read this more than once or you'll contract A.D.D.
Consumer shares music, other would-be consumers become aware they can get music for free, they stop buying music in favor of free music, *even if it's different from the artists they originally sought to buy*. RIAA loses millions per year, spends millions on legal and lobbyists to get back to making those millions again. The actual ratio of damages per file shared is academic. You'll know when the gavel drops.
So it's in the best interests of peace for every country to have and maintain a military capable of what? Destroying another country? A continent? The whole planet? The US can annihilate the planet several dozen times over. I don't want my government to add to that total. I am also grateful that I don't have to bear the resulting $33,000 in debt which all Americans have largely as a result of military spending.
And if you think I'm going to thank the US for its protection as it carpet-bombs Iraq on a knowingly false hunt for WMD's you're sorely mistaken. How exactly is needlessly killing over a million civilians supposed to deter terrorism? Isn't that what terrorists do? Isn't that why otherwise lawful citizens resort to terrorism?
Sorry, but I don't agree that Americans are in any position to criticize any foreign country for declining to adopt the American brand of "protection".
you can't translate what they are doing to defend their client as a policy decision.
Sure we can. The Obama administration isn't ignorant of the moves their lawyers are making, and to allow an attempt for such precedence to be made is no different than Obama advocating it in a public address. It is a statement of policy, cut and dried. Politicians by definition cannot make any other form of public statement. Last I checked the courts are a public forum.
Granted, I can't imagine even the Supreme Court has the authority to grant such unilateral immunity to a government as a whole, so it's a moot argument. That's what's so weird - if the defense doesn't have a prayer of succeeding, why take the political damage from the statement it makes? "Do as I say, not as I do" is in direct conflict with the platform by which Obama was elected, and will upset everyone who voted for him, worse yet those who fought tirelessly to get him elected.
So I do in fact consider the Obama administration either two-faced or unacceptably insensitive as a result of this situation. Not sure which is worse. Hopefully it's just a bump in the road.
Ever download an.mp3 and burn it to an audio CD disk?... If so, the RIAA has been compensated the price they agreed to for those works, because those media have levies associated with them.
There is no levy on blank CD media intended for data storage, which everyone knows works fine for audio. I've never even heard of someone who buys the levied audio CD media, and I'm an audio engineer.
If you check their quarterly reports for '09, I'm betting sales are down. Regardless, their stockholders are losing money in other investments. There has never been this much pressure for productivity.
Oh come on... $388M is like a parking ticket to Microsoft. They're only appealing the decision to dissuade the hundreds of other would-be claimants from filing the thousands of pending 9+ digit suits against them. They employ more lawyers than programmers ffs!
Now more than ever, their shareholders are screaming for them to make more money, not better software! What is M$ better at, making money, or good software?
His employment is not protected by copyright either. He wasn't charged with anything or even sued, just fired. He flagrantly promoted piracy contrary to the policy of his employer. It doesn't matter if his actions were in fact legal, he can't claim wrongful dismissal.
The fact is large scale deliberate civilian killing is not publishable by any American mainstream media
Fixed that for you. With the excuse of "faulty intelligence" the US have not hesitated to strike civilian targets in Iraq and Isreal has not hesitated to strike civilian targets in Gaza. Search the BBC's website and you'll find several stories of Isreal striking schools and refugee camps **administered by the UN**. Faulty intelligence indeed!
I don't think the USA will have any problem using conventional weapons to take out any tinpot dictators nuclear facilities - well before they have a nuke.
After all, the USA outspends the rest of the wolrd combined on their military.
Which is why it's pointless for the rest of the world to spend much in their military.
Great, first they make me pay for incoming texts, I wonder how much it'll cost to catch a virus? I'm guessing $1 for receiving it, $1 for each message the virus sent, then another $50 to remove the virus. Of course, 3rd party repairs on the phone are prohibited by the contract, so they've got all the motivation they need to do absolutely nothing to stop viruses.
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It gets better - the cochlea changes with time and exposure to loud sounds, ask any musician over 60. You + rock concert == not you anymore. There's temporary damage that heals, and long-term damage that doesn't. The cochlea can be damaged even without noticeable hearing loss. The brain constantly adapts to match the OAE's with the listener's preconceptions of the environment. You don't hear sound, your brain makes it up based on stimulus from the cochlea.
Still, there may be enough to go on from the lower-midrange frequencies which are more resilient.
MAFIAA execs have top appointments to the Dept of Justice, so it's a good idea to pirate music and movies?
You imply that your only entertainment options are to buy MAFIAA content or pirate it. I know it's just an oversight, but it's a rather offensive one to independent musicians such as myself. Here's a novel idea - GO SEE A LIVE BAND! IF YOU LIKE THEM BUY THEIR DAMN CD!
It's the last thing the MAFIAA wants you to do!
It's the last thing the RIAA wants you to realize - they do NOT have a monopoly on good music!
It's only safe because nobody uses it.
Checkmate.
BadAnalogyGuy is allowed to play off the board. You're behind the 8-ball now!
They're actually probably hiring daily to develop the means to turn a profit from their extremely valuable brand name, YouTube.
What do you call someone who does [b]UBB[/b]?
HTML and CSS are no more difficult nor deliberately accessible than what used to be called "word processing", but is now called "writing a letter".
Back in my day, typing and/or word processing were manditory high school courses. Do they even teach them anymore?
So... if you live in a shitty country, shut the fuck up?
Do NOT get me started on that one.
cyclical argument FAIL
"There's a new proposal ('URL shortening that doesn't hurt the Internet') floating around for using rev="canonical" to help put a stop to the URL-shortening madness. In order to avoid the great linkrot apocalypse, we can opt to specify short URLs for our own pages, so that compliant services (adoption is still low, because the idea is pretty fresh) will use our short URLs instead of TinyURL.com (or some other third-party alternative) replacements."
Don't read this more than once or you'll contract A.D.D.
Consumer shares music, other would-be consumers become aware they can get music for free, they stop buying music in favor of free music, *even if it's different from the artists they originally sought to buy*. RIAA loses millions per year, spends millions on legal and lobbyists to get back to making those millions again. The actual ratio of damages per file shared is academic. You'll know when the gavel drops.
So it's in the best interests of peace for every country to have and maintain a military capable of what? Destroying another country? A continent? The whole planet? The US can annihilate the planet several dozen times over. I don't want my government to add to that total. I am also grateful that I don't have to bear the resulting $33,000 in debt which all Americans have largely as a result of military spending.
And if you think I'm going to thank the US for its protection as it carpet-bombs Iraq on a knowingly false hunt for WMD's you're sorely mistaken. How exactly is needlessly killing over a million civilians supposed to deter terrorism? Isn't that what terrorists do? Isn't that why otherwise lawful citizens resort to terrorism?
Sorry, but I don't agree that Americans are in any position to criticize any foreign country for declining to adopt the American brand of "protection".
you can't translate what they are doing to defend their client as a policy decision.
Sure we can. The Obama administration isn't ignorant of the moves their lawyers are making, and to allow an attempt for such precedence to be made is no different than Obama advocating it in a public address. It is a statement of policy, cut and dried. Politicians by definition cannot make any other form of public statement. Last I checked the courts are a public forum.
Granted, I can't imagine even the Supreme Court has the authority to grant such unilateral immunity to a government as a whole, so it's a moot argument. That's what's so weird - if the defense doesn't have a prayer of succeeding, why take the political damage from the statement it makes? "Do as I say, not as I do" is in direct conflict with the platform by which Obama was elected, and will upset everyone who voted for him, worse yet those who fought tirelessly to get him elected.
So I do in fact consider the Obama administration either two-faced or unacceptably insensitive as a result of this situation. Not sure which is worse. Hopefully it's just a bump in the road.
Ever download an .mp3 and burn it to an audio CD disk? ... If so, the RIAA has been compensated the price they agreed to for those works, because those media have levies associated with them.
There is no levy on blank CD media intended for data storage, which everyone knows works fine for audio. I've never even heard of someone who buys the levied audio CD media, and I'm an audio engineer.
74.4% of all predictions are just made up, and 83.7% are based on randomly generated statistics.
Ethical sympathy FAIL
If you check their quarterly reports for '09, I'm betting sales are down. Regardless, their stockholders are losing money in other investments. There has never been this much pressure for productivity.
Try slaughtering a cow in front of her for optimal effect. "If we weren't meant to eat them, how come they're made of food?"
Oh come on... $388M is like a parking ticket to Microsoft. They're only appealing the decision to dissuade the hundreds of other would-be claimants from filing the thousands of pending 9+ digit suits against them. They employ more lawyers than programmers ffs!
Now more than ever, their shareholders are screaming for them to make more money, not better software! What is M$ better at, making money, or good software?
"that's it, you fight, it's better that way!"
But then entered the true villain - part man, part robot, ALL SEX MACHINE... it's ROBOCOCK!!
"Dead or alive, I'm coming in you!"
Porn will always survive.
His employment is not protected by copyright either. He wasn't charged with anything or even sued, just fired. He flagrantly promoted piracy contrary to the policy of his employer. It doesn't matter if his actions were in fact legal, he can't claim wrongful dismissal.
The fact is large scale deliberate civilian killing is not publishable by any American mainstream media
Fixed that for you. With the excuse of "faulty intelligence" the US have not hesitated to strike civilian targets in Iraq and Isreal has not hesitated to strike civilian targets in Gaza. Search the BBC's website and you'll find several stories of Isreal striking schools and refugee camps **administered by the UN**. Faulty intelligence indeed!
Has America invaded any nuclear power?
Why, Iraq of course! Don't you watch Fox News?!
Which is why it's pointless for the rest of the world to spend much in their military.
Fixed that for you.
Great, first they make me pay for incoming texts, I wonder how much it'll cost to catch a virus? I'm guessing $1 for receiving it, $1 for each message the virus sent, then another $50 to remove the virus. Of course, 3rd party repairs on the phone are prohibited by the contract, so they've got all the motivation they need to do absolutely nothing to stop viruses.