The military seems to have zero interest in maned space flight due to 4 issues.
1) Why send a person when you can send a bomb?
2) It's hard to do stealthy reentry.
3) How do you get people home once they are there?
4) It cost way to much to send enough people do do something meaningful vs flying someone in from a near by base.
5) Aliens aren't known to have any oil
6) Haliburton doesn't supply freeze-dried ice cream
7) "Shock & Awe" doesn't have much effect in space since the explosions are dwarfed by supernovas
8) We can't generate a warp signature for the Vulcans to detect yet
Ok, so the primary concern about using excess electricity is pollution from burning coal. The effective implementation of energy efficient TV's will drop that by maybe 1% at best, meanwhile about 100 times more pollution is generated due to the lack of effective public transit systems in LA.
I know it's not the CEC's job, but the disproportionality of using legislation to bring about such a minor benefit while such a greater problem exists is like chasing a thief that stole the wallet of someone who's being attacked by a bear.
Still, profiting from the inventions of students who study in R&D fields is not really any different from profiting from free student labor, a.k.a. practicum. R&D doesn't pay off unless innovation is achieved, so I don't find it that reasonable that an engineering student should profit from helping develop a better mousetrap while a bio-chem student gets nothing for helping map Gnomes. Receiving acknowledgment that helps get them better employment should be compensation enough, except where the student had pre-existing IP. That's another pickle altogether.
I own 1800 cds collected over the last 15 or 20 years. I download the songs from the internet.. too lazy to rip em, so what?
15-20 years? Ok, are you catching more live bands now than you were 15-20 years ago? Do you still have your LP's and cassettes from 15-20 years ago? Educated guess: no on both accounts. You've got most of it on your hard drive, mostly illigitimately, and it's not going to wear out.
So what, right? So what is you not giving a damn about anything but your bottom line. So what is great musicians not being able to quit their day jobs. So what is music venues closing down. So what is your cheap ass turning your back on everything music has ever meant to you.
Know when you're fighting the RIAA and when you're fighting music. There is a distinct difference.
>I hear this argument a LOT. The same argument could be used regarding a school bus, however. Yes, a larger vehicle may be dangerous when driven as though it's a sports car. When driven properly, however, they are no less unsafe than any other vehicle. This is a specious argument; the issue here is drivers, not the vehicle. [...] We do actually use the Jeep offroad unlike the majority of Jeep owners around here, according to the dealer
You've debunked your own point. The problem isn't the vehicles themselves, nor is it the drivers. It's the wrong vehicles under the control of the wrong drivers. There is nothing to keep SUV's out of the hands of those without the cursory kinetic physics background to control them properly, and such people are targeted by advertising, under the premise that SUV's offer better traction under all circumstances without any additional technique on the part of the drivers. Ergo SUV makers are deliberately putting the wrong people behind the wheels (and fleecing them while they're at it).
And as for better built I'd say the average American V8 is very, very lucky to make it to 175,000 miles where as OHC Japanese 4 bangers OFTEN make it to 250,000 and Mercedes diesels and Volvos to 350,000. A heavier car wears out faster due to simply physics even if built to the same build quality standards which American trucks aren't.
Actually, the parts that die in an American or Japanese car or truck are typically built in Taiwan or China. An American-built V8 will work well past 250k miles, it's the water pump, alternator, master cylinder, radiator, starter, distributor, etc that will die at around 100k miles, regardless of maintenance. Fords are especially bad where these parts are ganged together, i.e. a combination water pump and alternator, so if either stops functioning both are replaced. And in many cases even the engines are outsourced. I was suprised to discover many Ford engines are designed by Yamaha and built in Taiwan. Not trying to pick on Ford, just happened to have the info, and they do suck anyway so w/e. In their defense, they do make a very good diesel truck engine.
On the flip side, Japanese 4 bangers are less tolerant of dirty gas, so you have to either pay more for higher octane gas or clean them out twice a year to maintain performance and mileage. And they won't make it to 250k miles on 87 or less octane unless you work them hard to burn out the gunk. I go on tour twice a year, generally 13,000 highway miles pulling a 1500lb trailer, cleans my 2.4L 4-cyl Nissan right out. It's at 180k miles, drives like new. I wouldn't trust that kind of driving to anything less than a 3.6L V6 built by anyone else.
Just because the end was forseen with undue haste does not mean the end is not near. Apple hit the PDA nail on the head with the Newton a good 10 years before the market was ready. Now, despite the hiatus and giving up a huge lead, Apple is taking command of the market with the "smart iPod" derivatives.
What will bring about the end of newspapers is viewership tracking. Spending tracking schemes (i.e. Air Miles, credit cards, reward points) have all but eliminated plastic-less transactions, well on their way to becoming paper-free. When an online news platform that tracks news viewing and rewards viewers becomes popular, they will be able to sell advertising for much less because of the additional spidering income, and steal much of the print ad money. Newspapers will die within 3-5 years, relegated to news magazines primarily marketed to the elderly.
Google News does well without any rewards, and they even put their own ads in the search pages, and from there users can access every online news service, even half-assed translations of foreign language sites. Nobody seems to mind the ads, imagine if they started giving our Air Miles or something similar for regular users. Game, set, match.
We all know how much they care about fairly compensating the people who actually made the music.
What's worse is that videos were never intended to generate revenue on their own, they are advertising for the artist. No record label ever had a problem with MTV making money from commercials in between videos. No doubt there are absolutely no provisions in the artists' contracts for revenues generated by videos either, and no doubt we'll start to see YouTube clips of signed artists protesting this, which the RIAA can't yank.
Actually Louise Fletcher's voice (Kai Winn from DS9) is close enough that I actually thought she did the computer voice in Voyager. Unfortunately she's up there at 74 years old, but she's still active. She was nurse Ratched in One Flew Over The Cookoo's nest (1975).
Just don't let George Lucas have any say on who does the voice, or we'll get some squeaky Jar Jar Binks nonesense to sell Star Trek touchscreen computer monitors to kids with matching appearance themes for Vista...
I dunno, sounds like that would fall under tax evasion or some other related charge.
If it's a business that is clearly not violating copyright nor reselling blank media, there is no way the levy was intended to incur them undue costs. I'd be amazed if there wasn't a tax write-off for paying the levy anyway. Similarily, most musicians don't know that they can just fill out a form and pay no provincial tax on CD's they have replicated. Most just order out-of-province unnecessarily.
Actually, there are at least 30 brand-name car models made in Canada, which are also sold in the US, though some may be made there too. To name a few, the Dodge Charger, Ford Crown Victoria, Edge, and Flex, Chevy Impala and Monte Carlo, GMC Sierra, Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla and Matrix. Guess you haven't heard about Canada's automotive bailout debate. If no cars were made in Canada, why would they be talking about giving automotive companies $2.8B.
Let's assume spent coffee grinds are easy to collect (they're not), and that those making biodiesel from grands will have a free supply of spent grinds (which they won't). The amount of usable fuel oil from grinds will require more spent fuel than the process produces.
Corn ethanol has the exact same problem. By the time you've farmed the corn and processed it for fuel use, you're expended more fuel than it saves. Sure the corn is renewable, but it's fossil fuels that are being burned to make it and ship it.
"it effectively rewards those who failed in the marketplace, punishes those who innovated and sets up a huge, inefficient and unnecessary bureaucracy. Meanwhile, plenty of musicians who are experimenting with new business models are finding that they can make more money and appeal to more fans. So, why stymie that process with a new bureaucracy that simply funds the big record labels?"
Welcome to the music industry. Work your ass off for a few years, the industry shifts, and you're back at square one. Learn how the industry shifts. You're screwed if you don't, especially now.
I'm a little stunned that saving Americans with simple rudimentary organizational tactics for over $1000 each is considered a bargain while many countries cannot afford to vaccinate their children or an effective defense strategy against HIV.
I think a key issue is being overlooked. Manufacturers have contracts with distributors, in which they can and do specify wholesale pricing however they see fit. No volume dealer can sell for less than the MAP unless they are cutting a deal with the distributor. If the manufacturer expects volume dealers to abide by MAP restrictions, clearly those terms must be laid out in the contract between the manufacturer and the distributor, and enforced with civil action if necessary. MAP legislation is completely unnecessary if manufacturers deal with their distributors responsibly.
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If you're changing your original goals (I'm thinking particularly about Sugar here) mid-way through, you'll crash faster.
Does that mean OLPC has gone into hypoglycemic shock?
The military seems to have zero interest in maned space flight due to 4 issues.
1) Why send a person when you can send a bomb?
2) It's hard to do stealthy reentry.
3) How do you get people home once they are there?
4) It cost way to much to send enough people do do something meaningful vs flying someone in from a near by base.
5) Aliens aren't known to have any oil
6) Haliburton doesn't supply freeze-dried ice cream
7) "Shock & Awe" doesn't have much effect in space since the explosions are dwarfed by supernovas
8) We can't generate a warp signature for the Vulcans to detect yet
FIAT == Fix It Again, Tony
Odds are their linux boxen should hold up though!
Ok, so the primary concern about using excess electricity is pollution from burning coal. The effective implementation of energy efficient TV's will drop that by maybe 1% at best, meanwhile about 100 times more pollution is generated due to the lack of effective public transit systems in LA.
I know it's not the CEC's job, but the disproportionality of using legislation to bring about such a minor benefit while such a greater problem exists is like chasing a thief that stole the wallet of someone who's being attacked by a bear.
Still, profiting from the inventions of students who study in R&D fields is not really any different from profiting from free student labor, a.k.a. practicum. R&D doesn't pay off unless innovation is achieved, so I don't find it that reasonable that an engineering student should profit from helping develop a better mousetrap while a bio-chem student gets nothing for helping map Gnomes. Receiving acknowledgment that helps get them better employment should be compensation enough, except where the student had pre-existing IP. That's another pickle altogether.
Worse yet, it is a re-assertion of religion over state. Do any terrorists not justify their acts in some way through religion?
But was it an African or European moose?
I own 1800 cds collected over the last 15 or 20 years. I download the songs from the internet.. too lazy to rip em, so what?
15-20 years? Ok, are you catching more live bands now than you were 15-20 years ago? Do you still have your LP's and cassettes from 15-20 years ago? Educated guess: no on both accounts. You've got most of it on your hard drive, mostly illigitimately, and it's not going to wear out.
So what, right? So what is you not giving a damn about anything but your bottom line. So what is great musicians not being able to quit their day jobs. So what is music venues closing down. So what is your cheap ass turning your back on everything music has ever meant to you.
Know when you're fighting the RIAA and when you're fighting music. There is a distinct difference.
You forgot to mention the Windows Genuine Advantage security check that rivals airport security and results in as many false positives.
>I hear this argument a LOT. The same argument could be used regarding a school bus, however. Yes, a larger vehicle may be dangerous when driven as though it's a sports car. When driven properly, however, they are no less unsafe than any other vehicle. This is a specious argument; the issue here is drivers, not the vehicle. [...] We do actually use the Jeep offroad unlike the majority of Jeep owners around here, according to the dealer
You've debunked your own point. The problem isn't the vehicles themselves, nor is it the drivers. It's the wrong vehicles under the control of the wrong drivers. There is nothing to keep SUV's out of the hands of those without the cursory kinetic physics background to control them properly, and such people are targeted by advertising, under the premise that SUV's offer better traction under all circumstances without any additional technique on the part of the drivers. Ergo SUV makers are deliberately putting the wrong people behind the wheels (and fleecing them while they're at it).
And as for better built I'd say the average American V8 is very, very lucky to make it to 175,000 miles where as OHC Japanese 4 bangers OFTEN make it to 250,000 and Mercedes diesels and Volvos to 350,000. A heavier car wears out faster due to simply physics even if built to the same build quality standards which American trucks aren't.
Actually, the parts that die in an American or Japanese car or truck are typically built in Taiwan or China. An American-built V8 will work well past 250k miles, it's the water pump, alternator, master cylinder, radiator, starter, distributor, etc that will die at around 100k miles, regardless of maintenance. Fords are especially bad where these parts are ganged together, i.e. a combination water pump and alternator, so if either stops functioning both are replaced. And in many cases even the engines are outsourced. I was suprised to discover many Ford engines are designed by Yamaha and built in Taiwan. Not trying to pick on Ford, just happened to have the info, and they do suck anyway so w/e. In their defense, they do make a very good diesel truck engine.
On the flip side, Japanese 4 bangers are less tolerant of dirty gas, so you have to either pay more for higher octane gas or clean them out twice a year to maintain performance and mileage. And they won't make it to 250k miles on 87 or less octane unless you work them hard to burn out the gunk. I go on tour twice a year, generally 13,000 highway miles pulling a 1500lb trailer, cleans my 2.4L 4-cyl Nissan right out. It's at 180k miles, drives like new. I wouldn't trust that kind of driving to anything less than a 3.6L V6 built by anyone else.
Soon ISP's that do not rat pirates to the RIAA or the BSA will charge higher rates. They have your billing address already.
Similarly, people with free usenet access have been paying to access usenet servers with high bandwidth and retention for years.
Just because the end was forseen with undue haste does not mean the end is not near. Apple hit the PDA nail on the head with the Newton a good 10 years before the market was ready. Now, despite the hiatus and giving up a huge lead, Apple is taking command of the market with the "smart iPod" derivatives.
What will bring about the end of newspapers is viewership tracking. Spending tracking schemes (i.e. Air Miles, credit cards, reward points) have all but eliminated plastic-less transactions, well on their way to becoming paper-free. When an online news platform that tracks news viewing and rewards viewers becomes popular, they will be able to sell advertising for much less because of the additional spidering income, and steal much of the print ad money. Newspapers will die within 3-5 years, relegated to news magazines primarily marketed to the elderly.
Google News does well without any rewards, and they even put their own ads in the search pages, and from there users can access every online news service, even half-assed translations of foreign language sites. Nobody seems to mind the ads, imagine if they started giving our Air Miles or something similar for regular users. Game, set, match.
We all know how much they care about fairly compensating the people who actually made the music.
What's worse is that videos were never intended to generate revenue on their own, they are advertising for the artist. No record label ever had a problem with MTV making money from commercials in between videos. No doubt there are absolutely no provisions in the artists' contracts for revenues generated by videos either, and no doubt we'll start to see YouTube clips of signed artists protesting this, which the RIAA can't yank.
Massive fail.
Actually Louise Fletcher's voice (Kai Winn from DS9) is close enough that I actually thought she did the computer voice in Voyager. Unfortunately she's up there at 74 years old, but she's still active. She was nurse Ratched in One Flew Over The Cookoo's nest (1975).
Just don't let George Lucas have any say on who does the voice, or we'll get some squeaky Jar Jar Binks nonesense to sell Star Trek touchscreen computer monitors to kids with matching appearance themes for Vista...
Silly Egyptian... pyramids are for *aliens*.
I can do at least 25 folds.
Think accordian...
I dunno, sounds like that would fall under tax evasion or some other related charge.
If it's a business that is clearly not violating copyright nor reselling blank media, there is no way the levy was intended to incur them undue costs. I'd be amazed if there wasn't a tax write-off for paying the levy anyway. Similarily, most musicians don't know that they can just fill out a form and pay no provincial tax on CD's they have replicated. Most just order out-of-province unnecessarily.
No, keep buying your Canadian-brand cars.
Actually, there are at least 30 brand-name car models made in Canada, which are also sold in the US, though some may be made there too. To name a few, the Dodge Charger, Ford Crown Victoria, Edge, and Flex, Chevy Impala and Monte Carlo, GMC Sierra, Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla and Matrix. Guess you haven't heard about Canada's automotive bailout debate. If no cars were made in Canada, why would they be talking about giving automotive companies $2.8B.
Actually the levy is supposed to offset government expenditures in processing copyright claims, not reimbursement of copyright violations.
And I have no sympathy for Canadians who are "losing thousands" to the levy when they can just order blanks in bulk from the US.
No it's ok, it's was just Dick Cheney.
Let's assume spent coffee grinds are easy to collect (they're not), and that those making biodiesel from grands will have a free supply of spent grinds (which they won't). The amount of usable fuel oil from grinds will require more spent fuel than the process produces.
Corn ethanol has the exact same problem. By the time you've farmed the corn and processed it for fuel use, you're expended more fuel than it saves. Sure the corn is renewable, but it's fossil fuels that are being burned to make it and ship it.
"it effectively rewards those who failed in the marketplace, punishes those who innovated and sets up a huge, inefficient and unnecessary bureaucracy. Meanwhile, plenty of musicians who are experimenting with new business models are finding that they can make more money and appeal to more fans. So, why stymie that process with a new bureaucracy that simply funds the big record labels?"
Welcome to the music industry. Work your ass off for a few years, the industry shifts, and you're back at square one. Learn how the industry shifts. You're screwed if you don't, especially now.
I'm a little stunned that saving Americans with simple rudimentary organizational tactics for over $1000 each is considered a bargain while many countries cannot afford to vaccinate their children or an effective defense strategy against HIV.
Loibisch, where Soulskill had had "had had", had had "had"; "had had" had had Slashdot's approval.
I think a key issue is being overlooked. Manufacturers have contracts with distributors, in which they can and do specify wholesale pricing however they see fit. No volume dealer can sell for less than the MAP unless they are cutting a deal with the distributor. If the manufacturer expects volume dealers to abide by MAP restrictions, clearly those terms must be laid out in the contract between the manufacturer and the distributor, and enforced with civil action if necessary. MAP legislation is completely unnecessary if manufacturers deal with their distributors responsibly.