I want the music I like (various genres, but a good selection), in a quality at least comparible to the physical media this model replaces, without any unreasonable limitation on use (I want it on my PC and my PMP, and I want to not be fined $150,000 per song if my girlfriend listens to it on my PC while I have it on my PMP), at a price which reflects the reduced cost of reproduction of the media (but bearing in mind required infrastructure upgrades), with a fair portion of the purchase price to go to the creating artist, and I don't want to "rent" it. I want the music to be persistently available, even if I choose to not continue to pay for access to music I don't currently have.
You might like Jamendo A lot of CC licensed music for which you can contribute to the artist directly, if you wish. A lot of it is FLAC encoded, or at least high-quality MP3.
I agree with you, though. The last album I bought was The Slip, and Ghosts I-IV before that. Trent really got his act together with that licensing model.
I can already go to the library, or even the radio to listen to free music but I guess it is a small step in the right direction.
You're lucky. I can't listen to any music that I like on the radio, or find it in the library.
The Metal section of my local library consists of Bon Jovi, Green Day and Nickleback. Ironically, these are the bands which feature heavily on the local "Rock" radio station, Kerrang Radio. *Gag*
You've seen how the English are currently voting; Two British National Party candidates took seats in the Commons in the last election.
The next group of terrorist who attack the UK will probably spark racial violence the likes of which the UK hasn't seen since the BNP were the National Front.
Remember that in the UK, pretending you're not racist is part of the national heritage.
She hunts around car parks for a space she can pull straight through to the other side and go out forwards.
She's a remarkably good driver in general; Even parallel parking is done in one or maybe two attempts (to straighten up / get a little closer to the curb), but this one instance of having to judge traffic distance and speed, assess distance from an obsticle on both sides of the car, and also remember that turning is reversed when going backwards is just not something she learned. Thankfully, I was taught several tricks to make it easier, and she is getting better.
I didn't feel threatened when those folks blew up a tube train in London, or that bus, and nor did the people who were waiting at the stations the next day wondering why the connections were late.
A terrorist is a person who engages in actions which cause a feeling of terror.
As a fellow Holocaust Museum guard, or a doctor at an abortion clinic, would you not feel scared if these people were not caught?
How about if someone came and murdered one of your collegues for a reason linked to your job (importing foreign produce, employing immigrant labour, voting Red, voting Blue etc).
Niceidea, but you're assuming that there would be some person who would choose to be the first to confront them. By any chance is your name "Meatshield"? Because mine isn't.
Self preservation aside, there's also that the Britain's Got Talent / America's Next Top Model watching crowd are more than likely flabby, unfit cowards who would just end up as a nasty stain, scaring the rest of the passengers into suplication. Nothing quite like seeing a fellow human disembowled in front of you to get everyone to comply.
In the UK at least, it's become proof of your ability to pass an arbitrary test of which the tutor knows exactly what will be tested on (in the limited time available) due to prior knowledge of all test routes in the area.
A prime example of "teaching for the test" is that my girlfriend was never, ever taught how to reverse bay-park as there are no bay-parking areas on any test route where we live. She can only put a car in a parking space forwards, and has to get me to reverse out of it for her. I am trying to rememeber what they taught me (as I learned in a different area) so I can teach her, but her license is exactly the same as mine despite having totally different levels of ability.
And please, no jokes about women not being able to reverse park anyway. I've seen blonde "SUV*" drivers reverse into spaces I'd not want to park a "compact*" in, and men in small cars take up two spaces and hit stationary obsticles.
* 4x4 and small car, respectively Think Range Rover and VW Golf.
So, I should donate those old 486DX2 and SlotA Celeron 300 systems to the Beowulf Cluster of Folding? (Similar in effectiveness to the 'Pendulous Apendage of Pendulousnous')
I'd be interested in reading the transcript of the current case, once it's available. If you could post on your site when it is available, I'd be more than happy to donate towards it.
In the UK at least, In criminal cases, you're correct; "Innocent until proven guilty."
In civil cases, it's more like "innocent until someone can show you probably did it, and you can't prove you definately didn't." The onus of proof is still on the plaintiff, but not to the same degree as a criminal trial.
I was given the guestimate percentages for certainty of guilt by a magistrate, once; Criminal cases: 98% certain, Civil: 60%. It's not as clear cut, I'm afraid.
A decade of IT experience looks like it will prove very lucrative within Law, at least for a good few years (enough to get to a very safe financial position).
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False dichotemy is an artificial reduction in choices to two from a larger set.
I think you mean that those two aren't mutually exclusive.
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I think you meant 3F / 40.
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Must be a Vin Diesel thing.
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That site now exists, and the content isn't half bad.
No, but pirating music in 8 kilobits doesn't really give you a stellar aural experience.
It might make teh Jonas Brothers bearable, though.
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How's this, then:
I want the music I like (various genres, but a good selection), in a quality at least comparible to the physical media this model replaces, without any unreasonable limitation on use (I want it on my PC and my PMP, and I want to not be fined $150,000 per song if my girlfriend listens to it on my PC while I have it on my PMP), at a price which reflects the reduced cost of reproduction of the media (but bearing in mind required infrastructure upgrades), with a fair portion of the purchase price to go to the creating artist, and I don't want to "rent" it. I want the music to be persistently available, even if I choose to not continue to pay for access to music I don't currently have.
That sound about right?
You might like Jamendo A lot of CC licensed music for which you can contribute to the artist directly, if you wish. A lot of it is FLAC encoded, or at least high-quality MP3.
I agree with you, though. The last album I bought was The Slip, and Ghosts I-IV before that. Trent really got his act together with that licensing model.
I can already go to the library, or even the radio to listen to free music but I guess it is a small step in the right direction.
You're lucky. I can't listen to any music that I like on the radio, or find it in the library.
The Metal section of my local library consists of Bon Jovi, Green Day and Nickleback. Ironically, these are the bands which feature heavily on the local "Rock" radio station, Kerrang Radio. *Gag*
I use Spotify at the moment to listen to music on my home PC, but I may just get into Magnatune. Thanks for pointing them out.
News for nerds? Nope.
Stuff that matters? Hardly.
samzenpus needs to lose his editor status.
You've seen how the English are currently voting; Two British National Party candidates took seats in the Commons in the last election.
The next group of terrorist who attack the UK will probably spark racial violence the likes of which the UK hasn't seen since the BNP were the National Front.
Remember that in the UK, pretending you're not racist is part of the national heritage.
She hunts around car parks for a space she can pull straight through to the other side and go out forwards.
She's a remarkably good driver in general; Even parallel parking is done in one or maybe two attempts (to straighten up / get a little closer to the curb), but this one instance of having to judge traffic distance and speed, assess distance from an obsticle on both sides of the car, and also remember that turning is reversed when going backwards is just not something she learned. Thankfully, I was taught several tricks to make it easier, and she is getting better.
I didn't feel threatened when those folks blew up a tube train in London, or that bus, and nor did the people who were waiting at the stations the next day wondering why the connections were late.
\ is in the bottom left on the UK keyboard layout. You were shipped a product for a different region, that's all.
I get no end of issues with " not being above 2, # being a \, and other non-UK keyboard layouts screwing up user experiences.
A terrorist is a person who engages in actions which cause a feeling of terror.
As a fellow Holocaust Museum guard, or a doctor at an abortion clinic, would you not feel scared if these people were not caught?
How about if someone came and murdered one of your collegues for a reason linked to your job (importing foreign produce, employing immigrant labour, voting Red, voting Blue etc).
Yeah, we share 50% of it with bananas
Niceidea, but you're assuming that there would be some person who would choose to be the first to confront them. By any chance is your name "Meatshield"? Because mine isn't.
Self preservation aside, there's also that the Britain's Got Talent / America's Next Top Model watching crowd are more than likely flabby, unfit cowards who would just end up as a nasty stain, scaring the rest of the passengers into suplication. Nothing quite like seeing a fellow human disembowled in front of you to get everyone to comply.
In the UK at least, it's become proof of your ability to pass an arbitrary test of which the tutor knows exactly what will be tested on (in the limited time available) due to prior knowledge of all test routes in the area.
A prime example of "teaching for the test" is that my girlfriend was never, ever taught how to reverse bay-park as there are no bay-parking areas on any test route where we live. She can only put a car in a parking space forwards, and has to get me to reverse out of it for her. I am trying to rememeber what they taught me (as I learned in a different area) so I can teach her, but her license is exactly the same as mine despite having totally different levels of ability.
And please, no jokes about women not being able to reverse park anyway. I've seen blonde "SUV*" drivers reverse into spaces I'd not want to park a "compact*" in, and men in small cars take up two spaces and hit stationary obsticles.
* 4x4 and small car, respectively Think Range Rover and VW Golf.
So, I should donate those old 486DX2 and SlotA Celeron 300 systems to the Beowulf Cluster of Folding? (Similar in effectiveness to the 'Pendulous Apendage of Pendulousnous')
So, they are to read Braille?
You'd think someone from the automotive industry would have pointed this out to the guy in TFA.
"Tread disperses fluid. It's to improve grip in damp conditions, fool!"
I'd be interested in reading the transcript of the current case, once it's available. If you could post on your site when it is available, I'd be more than happy to donate towards it.
In the UK at least, In criminal cases, you're correct; "Innocent until proven guilty."
In civil cases, it's more like "innocent until someone can show you probably did it, and you can't prove you definately didn't." The onus of proof is still on the plaintiff, but not to the same degree as a criminal trial.
I was given the guestimate percentages for certainty of guilt by a magistrate, once; Criminal cases: 98% certain, Civil: 60%. It's not as clear cut, I'm afraid.
Disclaimer:- IANAL, IAALS in the UK.
I'm doing a Law degree for exactly this reason.
A decade of IT experience looks like it will prove very lucrative within Law, at least for a good few years (enough to get to a very safe financial position).