So they're going to charge you to attempt to cancel your service. It's amazing that they're still even around considering their shady business practices. If you want to know how not to run a business, you always have AOL as your guide.
There is no justification for the price of textbooks, especially since I tend to find out that I never truly need them for the courses I take. I'm a biology major finishing up my degree, and I generally buy textbooks as a safety net just in case I need to drive a point home if I'm not quite getting it. The thing is, I end up buying a book I never have to use, $200 down the drain. Just by opening the textbook from its package, the value depreciates 60-80%--that is fucking unbelievable!
I found many books for courses on bittorrent and grabbed them, therefore textbooks have been free for me starting from the beginning of this year. I've actually used one book for one course, but that doesn't make up for the thousands of dollars practically robbed from me. Now publishers are upset that people are using technology to cut corners. It's not like they don't already have an advantage: physical textbooks are superior to anything I have to read on a computer, but I can't justify wasting (my parents') money on textbooks I simply don't use. It's not like sources aren't recycled among competing texts, and the damn information is incredibly easily to acquire on the internet for free and legitimately.
It's not impossible to make affordable texts. They weren't impossible in the days of our older professors who enjoy reminding us about the good ol' days of textbook affordability. How am I supposed to boycott companies without committing some kind of crime, Libertarians?
Because the bands I listen to aren't exactly out of a garage. I don't listen to a large variety of music, and many bands I listen to have either broken up, slowing down, or distributing their music for an option price online.
You presume to know the solution to what economically ails musicians, better than the musicians who freely and voluntarily, and in most cases singularly desired, to become partnered with BigLabels.
I didn't claim I knew the solutions, I gave some options that may be more relevant with the changing times. I thought that was clearly obvious.
Make a case for your "right" to other's work, fine. But don't spoil your argument by professing to be helping musicians by downloading their music and never paying them - that's absurd.
That never was my argument. My argument is that they make quite a bit of money depending on the band, and that the bands that I am aware of are making quite a bit of money, then I'm not going to feel guilty for enjoying their art without paying for it. I thought that is what art is about. If I like a local band, I generally haven't enjoy local band music, then I'd support them by going to their local concerts, buying their merchandise including burned CDs of their music that they usually distribute. Or if they're one of my favorite bands, I'd buy new albums if they did something unique--like when I paid 15 bucks to download Radiohead's latest album. The thing is, art is not quite the same as any other product. The sole purpose of art isn't to make a buck, hopefully there is some meaning behind it.
from somebody who doesn't know a single working (as in making a living with music) musician.
I don't see how that makes a difference. What other purpose does a record company have beyond advertising a band?
That statement reads exactly like a 5 year old saying "I want it now!" - absolutely no connection to reality.
Seems like a pretty good connection to reality, as I can get it now for free and many other people are doing it too. I'm sure many have the same logic as well. None of the artists I'm downloading music from are starving, that's for sure
The only reason why we pay for art is to support the artist. If we see that the artist is either high on the hog or that the artist isn't making very much from the recorded music, then there is less incentive to buy. Artists will always make money from concerts and various things like t-shirts and such, so they people we're really supporting are the ones who are popularizing their music globally. Basically, it is the businessmen who we aren't supporting through downloads.
The problem businessmen have is that they can't figure out the solution to this problem. Perhaps by exposing a band to a wide market, they could collect x amount of dollars from the concerts they performed, as they're supposedly responsible for popularzing the band to begin with. So the contract would spell that out for as long as the band is signed up with a particular record label. Recording music would simply be to advertise for the band rather than a major means of profit. You simply can't reproduce live performances--it's a different experience. Start making shit that can't be downloaded! Add extra shit to those hard copy of albums to make them worthwhile to buy: extra art, neat case, raffle tickets to win apparel, dogtags with band member names on it, et cetera. It's time to be creative. The artist at this point seems to be supported, so now I want my art for free and I'll worry about the artist when necessary. After all, isn't art's main purpose to be enjoyed by both the creator and his of her fans? As long as the artist isn't broke, I'm not going to feel guilty for not supporting the business of uncreative suits.
From my understanding, according to various comments from different women, male attractiveness stems from just a few factors: sharp facial features instead of rounded features tend to be more attractive, as well as tanned skin and light facial hair. Apparently, the butt chin is also seen as very masculine and attractive.
I was on campus completely oblivious that anything happened. My girlfriend called me six times in a row, and while I had the phone on vibrate as to not to disturb the interesting lecture on the horribly long lab I'm going to have next week, I was irritated and concerned. I called her after class to see what's up, and that's when I found out there was an outage. The science and engineering side have nice generators, hence my ignorance. The building my girlfriend, Cooper Hall, is a death trap. Apparently, the idiots at USF made sure that when the electricity is out, people are actually locked inside the building. All of the doors were locked from the inside. What the hell would happen if there's a fire? I understand that's the inferior side of campus, but there are people in my phonebook over there and therefore I'm concerned!
It's about the ongoing debate on whether most evolution is actually neutral or selection. Basically, the neutral argument is that mutations arise and give rise to variation, and very little of that variation is subjected to selection. Selectionists believe that most mutations give rise to variations that are either selected for or against.
I agree with many of the things you pointed out, but if the government can obtain who we are by illegally bullying our providers, then we are fucked regardless of what we do. There are things that are wrong, like the government trying to keep a record about us that exists only to monitor us, and a company keeping a record about us for their own financial gain.
IRCSeek has no ads, and wasn't displaying our IPs. Just by chance, a potential employer may even go to the same channel as I, and may not hire me based on my antics. I would be against this if they were trying to make a buck on my efforts, but it's for mere personal use.
The problem with Soviet Russia, and currently in the U.S., is that the people are afraid to say things in public for fear of losing or not gaining employment, of being arrested, and just simply being blacklisted. That is how we lose our freedoms to begin with. Perhaps I'm still naive since I have a year left till I even have to worry about the world of graduate school, but I hope my potential employer is reasonable enough to hire me based on my qualifications and the opinions expressed by my colleagues over my silly behavior on IRC.
My constitution is supposed to protect me from unnecessary search and seizures. It doesn't really protect me from logs of my anonymous antics being posted on a website. I could have easily used my real name, but I felt having my own identity, free to say whatever was on my mind without paying the consequences: embarrassment, being socially ostracized and all of that fun stuff.
I'm about as paranoid as the next guy, but unless someone does very deep research on me, they could find out how sick and perverted little deviant I really am. Well, no more than the next guy, but we always seem to think that we're more capable of handing our sick little fantasies and thoughts than another possessing much of the same. I'm not afraid.
Our nicks on IRC provide a level of anonymity, and we know that actual people do keep logs of us. Many of our quotes even end up on http://www.bash.org./ I go onto IRC knowing that my conversation is not necessarily private, and if I ever wanted to discuss private details of myself to someone on IRC, I could simple private message him. I could even set up a private room if I have to discuss private matters to a group of people. I don't know why I'd discuss private issues with those on IRC, but some people may for whatever reasons.
It's silly to expect privacy on IRC. Never say anything in public that you don't want to come back at you. If anything, just set up a passworded channel if you're planning a violent revolution.
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So they're going to charge you to attempt to cancel your service. It's amazing that they're still even around considering their shady business practices. If you want to know how not to run a business, you always have AOL as your guide.
There is no justification for the price of textbooks, especially since I tend to find out that I never truly need them for the courses I take. I'm a biology major finishing up my degree, and I generally buy textbooks as a safety net just in case I need to drive a point home if I'm not quite getting it. The thing is, I end up buying a book I never have to use, $200 down the drain. Just by opening the textbook from its package, the value depreciates 60-80%--that is fucking unbelievable!
I found many books for courses on bittorrent and grabbed them, therefore textbooks have been free for me starting from the beginning of this year. I've actually used one book for one course, but that doesn't make up for the thousands of dollars practically robbed from me. Now publishers are upset that people are using technology to cut corners. It's not like they don't already have an advantage: physical textbooks are superior to anything I have to read on a computer, but I can't justify wasting (my parents') money on textbooks I simply don't use. It's not like sources aren't recycled among competing texts, and the damn information is incredibly easily to acquire on the internet for free and legitimately.
It's not impossible to make affordable texts. They weren't impossible in the days of our older professors who enjoy reminding us about the good ol' days of textbook affordability. How am I supposed to boycott companies without committing some kind of crime, Libertarians?
Because the bands I listen to aren't exactly out of a garage. I don't listen to a large variety of music, and many bands I listen to have either broken up, slowing down, or distributing their music for an option price online.
You presume to know the solution to what economically ails musicians, better than the musicians who freely and voluntarily, and in most cases singularly desired, to become partnered with BigLabels.
I didn't claim I knew the solutions, I gave some options that may be more relevant with the changing times. I thought that was clearly obvious.
Make a case for your "right" to other's work, fine. But don't spoil your argument by professing to be helping musicians by downloading their music and never paying them - that's absurd.
That never was my argument. My argument is that they make quite a bit of money depending on the band, and that the bands that I am aware of are making quite a bit of money, then I'm not going to feel guilty for enjoying their art without paying for it. I thought that is what art is about. If I like a local band, I generally haven't enjoy local band music, then I'd support them by going to their local concerts, buying their merchandise including burned CDs of their music that they usually distribute. Or if they're one of my favorite bands, I'd buy new albums if they did something unique--like when I paid 15 bucks to download Radiohead's latest album. The thing is, art is not quite the same as any other product. The sole purpose of art isn't to make a buck, hopefully there is some meaning behind it.
from somebody who doesn't know a single working (as in making a living with music) musician. I don't see how that makes a difference. What other purpose does a record company have beyond advertising a band? That statement reads exactly like a 5 year old saying "I want it now!" - absolutely no connection to reality. Seems like a pretty good connection to reality, as I can get it now for free and many other people are doing it too. I'm sure many have the same logic as well. None of the artists I'm downloading music from are starving, that's for sure
It's about a thousand year's shy of being middle aged. After all, the earth is approximately 6000 years old.
That's right! Fucking ass shit! Cunts tits motherfucker! Shit slapping pantywagon cuntstick on a frog! Fucking ass shithole Barbara Streisand!
The only reason why we pay for art is to support the artist. If we see that the artist is either high on the hog or that the artist isn't making very much from the recorded music, then there is less incentive to buy. Artists will always make money from concerts and various things like t-shirts and such, so they people we're really supporting are the ones who are popularizing their music globally. Basically, it is the businessmen who we aren't supporting through downloads.
The problem businessmen have is that they can't figure out the solution to this problem. Perhaps by exposing a band to a wide market, they could collect x amount of dollars from the concerts they performed, as they're supposedly responsible for popularzing the band to begin with. So the contract would spell that out for as long as the band is signed up with a particular record label. Recording music would simply be to advertise for the band rather than a major means of profit. You simply can't reproduce live performances--it's a different experience. Start making shit that can't be downloaded! Add extra shit to those hard copy of albums to make them worthwhile to buy: extra art, neat case, raffle tickets to win apparel, dogtags with band member names on it, et cetera. It's time to be creative. The artist at this point seems to be supported, so now I want my art for free and I'll worry about the artist when necessary. After all, isn't art's main purpose to be enjoyed by both the creator and his of her fans? As long as the artist isn't broke, I'm not going to feel guilty for not supporting the business of uncreative suits.
From my understanding, according to various comments from different women, male attractiveness stems from just a few factors: sharp facial features instead of rounded features tend to be more attractive, as well as tanned skin and light facial hair. Apparently, the butt chin is also seen as very masculine and attractive.
In other news: Researchers on the project were forced to cooperate with woman researchers in fear of being accused of homosexuality.
I was on campus completely oblivious that anything happened. My girlfriend called me six times in a row, and while I had the phone on vibrate as to not to disturb the interesting lecture on the horribly long lab I'm going to have next week, I was irritated and concerned. I called her after class to see what's up, and that's when I found out there was an outage. The science and engineering side have nice generators, hence my ignorance. The building my girlfriend, Cooper Hall, is a death trap. Apparently, the idiots at USF made sure that when the electricity is out, people are actually locked inside the building. All of the doors were locked from the inside. What the hell would happen if there's a fire? I understand that's the inferior side of campus, but there are people in my phonebook over there and therefore I'm concerned!
It's about the ongoing debate on whether most evolution is actually neutral or selection. Basically, the neutral argument is that mutations arise and give rise to variation, and very little of that variation is subjected to selection. Selectionists believe that most mutations give rise to variations that are either selected for or against.
I agree with many of the things you pointed out, but if the government can obtain who we are by illegally bullying our providers, then we are fucked regardless of what we do. There are things that are wrong, like the government trying to keep a record about us that exists only to monitor us, and a company keeping a record about us for their own financial gain. IRCSeek has no ads, and wasn't displaying our IPs. Just by chance, a potential employer may even go to the same channel as I, and may not hire me based on my antics. I would be against this if they were trying to make a buck on my efforts, but it's for mere personal use. The problem with Soviet Russia, and currently in the U.S., is that the people are afraid to say things in public for fear of losing or not gaining employment, of being arrested, and just simply being blacklisted. That is how we lose our freedoms to begin with. Perhaps I'm still naive since I have a year left till I even have to worry about the world of graduate school, but I hope my potential employer is reasonable enough to hire me based on my qualifications and the opinions expressed by my colleagues over my silly behavior on IRC.
My constitution is supposed to protect me from unnecessary search and seizures. It doesn't really protect me from logs of my anonymous antics being posted on a website. I could have easily used my real name, but I felt having my own identity, free to say whatever was on my mind without paying the consequences: embarrassment, being socially ostracized and all of that fun stuff. I'm about as paranoid as the next guy, but unless someone does very deep research on me, they could find out how sick and perverted little deviant I really am. Well, no more than the next guy, but we always seem to think that we're more capable of handing our sick little fantasies and thoughts than another possessing much of the same. I'm not afraid.
You go on IRC for artistic purposes and/or the purpose of making a buck?
It's unfortunate, but the problem could've been prevented by choosing another nick.
Our nicks on IRC provide a level of anonymity, and we know that actual people do keep logs of us. Many of our quotes even end up on http://www.bash.org./ I go onto IRC knowing that my conversation is not necessarily private, and if I ever wanted to discuss private details of myself to someone on IRC, I could simple private message him. I could even set up a private room if I have to discuss private matters to a group of people. I don't know why I'd discuss private issues with those on IRC, but some people may for whatever reasons. It's silly to expect privacy on IRC. Never say anything in public that you don't want to come back at you. If anything, just set up a passworded channel if you're planning a violent revolution.
Good, now when will they stop fining me 5,000 bucks a fuck?