Considering that individual song downloads practically eliminate the physical media and distribution costs, I suspect that the RIAA isn't being completely honest regarding their profitability. Actually they don't mention profitability; they want you to assume they're hurting based on their sketchy statistics.
I think the media got the candidate they wanted in both party primaries. I would love to see this data for the media's primary coverage. Although I risk being modded down for mentioning Ron Paul, I did notice that CNNs coverage of the Pennsylvania Republican primary showed the results for McCain and Huckabee, even though Huckabee had already dropped out and had fewer votes than Paul, who was still in the race. If that isn't evidence of media bias, I don't know what is.
Point is, winning by a tiny fraction does not mean everyone wants radical "change". 90% might indicate that, but 50.7% doesn't.
That's probably the best reason to vote third party. There is no way for the people to win in this election; the best we can hope for is to minimize the damage. If the election is as close as predicted, and enough votes go to third parties, the winner of the election will have less than 50% of the country behind him. I believe that will affect the way he governs, and he certainly won't be able to claim a mandate.
The article fails to note how many of those who downloaded the album for free later returned to pay after listening to it to determine its worth. Given the option, I wouldn't pay until I heard it; I expect many others feel the same way.
The article suggests that 38% of 1.2 million visitors paid an average of $6. Some quick, sketchy math says they made $2.7 million.
When I see that "38% paid" figure--again with the sketchy math--I see "61% returned to pay." Considering how many people will give any music a listen if it's free, I'm guessing they're pretty pleased with that result.
If they do it right, it could apply to any control with a linear range of motion. The tense-to-relaxed scale could control lots of essential game functionality, from the speed of slot racing cars to the position of the paddle in pong. Its coolest use might be as an actual tense/relaxed monitor for FPS accuracy, but there are definitely some interesting possibilities.
The way I look at it, if I vote for Obama, and he wins because of that vote...that sucks because I didn't want him to win.
If I vote for McCain, and he wins because of that vote...well, that sucks, too, because I didn't want him to win either.
Most folks who feel that way, see that as a reason to just stay home, or to hold their nose, vote, and hope their vote isn't the one that decides anything. I see it as a reason to go vote third party so that instead of having the two front-runners splitting the vote, I can make a statement (albeit a very small statement!), that they aren't my choice, because there's a piece of the vote that neither one of them got. Remember all the hoopla about whether or not Bush had a mandate? When you can't get near a clear majority because of third party voters, you don't have one, and maybe that affects the way you govern.
Many (sadly, most) eligible voters won't vote, because they don't know who to vote for, don't like either candidate, or don't care. When they come out and vote third party to make their "none-of-the-above" statement, change will come.
It's not about the third party having a real chance. This year they don't. Your "get rid of the electoral college" isn't going to happen either--the two party system likes it, and so it will stay.
The reason to vote third party is because:
1. It's not about voting for a winner, it's about voting for the candidate that would best meet the needs of the country. In this election, if you vote for one of the approved candidates--and they win--you still lose. The country loses, too.
2. Only when enough people vote against the Dems/Reps will the system change. When the Dem/Rep winner only gets 35-40% of the vote, the people will start to realize that as a group they have other options.
3. You get to say "don't blame me, I didn't vote for him."
As a practical matter, third-party politics needs to start and become powerful on a local level and work its way up. It has started--there are quite a few offices around the country held by third party members, we just need to push the most qualified of these into ever higher positions.
Sadly, it's not the spending of hundreds of billions of dollars that is the worst of it--it's the printing of hundreds of billions of dollars. If you thought inflation was bad this year, just wait. The biggest burden on the taxpayer isn't the taxes, but rather the devaluation of the currency. Taxes--at whatever level--could soon be irrelevant.
It's nice to see the government passing on an opportunity to spend.
Maybe true 10 or 15 years ago. I think we need to introduce you to PAR files. Also, with the advent of the.nzb file, it just couldn't be any easier to get a binary. If there's a better way, I don't know about it.
...mainstream internet user between 1999 and 2008...
The answer to your question is yes. Especially for those of us who started using the net before Joe Sixpack got access in your 1999-2008 timeframe.
After finding a BBS with FidoNet around 1986, my computer usage has never been the same. Usenet has it's ups and downs (particulary in September), but it's still the last bastion of freedom on the internet, still has the same quality of content (though you sometimes need to dig to find it), and is still just as valuable to me as it ever was. FWIW, I haven't used it since... yesterday.
Usenet wasn't created for most of your 1999-2008 mainstream internet users, using them as a reference point is silly.
To a large extent, usenet was the internet in 1992.
According to the Bible, prior to the flood, man lived about 10 times longer than he does today. If that were true for all creatures, then maybe we still have dinosaurs. Reptiles grow during their entire lives, so 10x older may translate into 10x larger. I would imagine that a 200 foot long Komodo Dragon or a 50 foot long iguana would be a dinosaur. There are quite a few creatures that would be absolutely terrifying if allowed to get 10x older.
Hmmm... if a salamander stands on his hind legs (and looks menacing enough), he kind of looks like a t-rex... maybe he just never gets to grow up.
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"Eventually" and "within a few months" is all we get. It wouldn't surprise me if they didn't publicly announce it until it was over.
When you go from needing glasses to having glasses, it's great because you can see.
When you go from glasses to contacts, you realize that wearing glasses is like looking out through a slit in a box. When you get out of the box everything you can see is in focus. (And for those with really thick glasses, no more rounded doorframes!)
A friend of mine is a librarian, and when I asked her what she thought about the issue of reader privacy and releasing records, she told me that the city instructed the library system to comply with any such federal requests, releasing any records they have.
The library response was that they decided not to keep any records beyond who has what book checked out now. When a book is returned, the only information retained is the dates of check out--the reader's name is completely disassociated. They know a book was checked out, but they can't tell you who had it. Nice.
FTA, AICAR has been around since at least 1994, and from this article, GW1516 "has a relatively simple chemical structure and can be synthesized easily." It should be relatively inexpensive.
While I certainly appreciate the text-based discussions, usenet is growing precisely because of the binaries. With the antics of the RIAA and friends, many are scared off by torrents--what's left?
When your local TV station runs fifteen minutes of "thunderstorm warning" in the middle of 24, where else can you go to fill that in? If you miss an episode, do you just wait for the DVD? I don't.
Anything you are interested in--text, sound, video--is out there if you know where to look. Knowing where to look was an artform 16 years ago--now the NZBs make it as easy as google. Usenet is anything but dead.
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Considering that individual song downloads practically eliminate the physical media and distribution costs, I suspect that the RIAA isn't being completely honest regarding their profitability. Actually they don't mention profitability; they want you to assume they're hurting based on their sketchy statistics.
Does this make anybody else think of the "sim-stims" of Neuromancer?
Yep. That and the squids from Strange Days
I think the media got the candidate they wanted in both party primaries. I would love to see this data for the media's primary coverage. Although I risk being modded down for mentioning Ron Paul, I did notice that CNNs coverage of the Pennsylvania Republican primary showed the results for McCain and Huckabee, even though Huckabee had already dropped out and had fewer votes than Paul, who was still in the race. If that isn't evidence of media bias, I don't know what is.
Point is, winning by a tiny fraction does not mean everyone wants radical "change". 90% might indicate that, but 50.7% doesn't.
That's probably the best reason to vote third party. There is no way for the people to win in this election; the best we can hope for is to minimize the damage. If the election is as close as predicted, and enough votes go to third parties, the winner of the election will have less than 50% of the country behind him. I believe that will affect the way he governs, and he certainly won't be able to claim a mandate.
Which part of "ripped out" specifies that said fun stuff cannot be replaced?
The part that specifies its security classification.
most people didn't bother paying anything at all
The article fails to note how many of those who downloaded the album for free later returned to pay after listening to it to determine its worth. Given the option, I wouldn't pay until I heard it; I expect many others feel the same way.
The article suggests that 38% of 1.2 million visitors paid an average of $6. Some quick, sketchy math says they made $2.7 million.
When I see that "38% paid" figure--again with the sketchy math--I see "61% returned to pay." Considering how many people will give any music a listen if it's free, I'm guessing they're pretty pleased with that result.
If they do it right, it could apply to any control with a linear range of motion. The tense-to-relaxed scale could control lots of essential game functionality, from the speed of slot racing cars to the position of the paddle in pong. Its coolest use might be as an actual tense/relaxed monitor for FPS accuracy, but there are definitely some interesting possibilities.
Pinky, Blinky, Speedy, and Clyde.
Speedy? Who's Speedy? And what happened to Inky?
The way I look at it, if I vote for Obama, and he wins because of that vote...that sucks because I didn't want him to win.
If I vote for McCain, and he wins because of that vote...well, that sucks, too, because I didn't want him to win either.
Most folks who feel that way, see that as a reason to just stay home, or to hold their nose, vote, and hope their vote isn't the one that decides anything. I see it as a reason to go vote third party so that instead of having the two front-runners splitting the vote, I can make a statement (albeit a very small statement!), that they aren't my choice, because there's a piece of the vote that neither one of them got. Remember all the hoopla about whether or not Bush had a mandate? When you can't get near a clear majority because of third party voters, you don't have one, and maybe that affects the way you govern.
Many (sadly, most) eligible voters won't vote, because they don't know who to vote for, don't like either candidate, or don't care. When they come out and vote third party to make their "none-of-the-above" statement, change will come.
It's not about the third party having a real chance. This year they don't. Your "get rid of the electoral college" isn't going to happen either--the two party system likes it, and so it will stay.
The reason to vote third party is because:
1. It's not about voting for a winner, it's about voting for the candidate that would best meet the needs of the country. In this election, if you vote for one of the approved candidates--and they win--you still lose. The country loses, too.
2. Only when enough people vote against the Dems/Reps will the system change. When the Dem/Rep winner only gets 35-40% of the vote, the people will start to realize that as a group they have other options.
3. You get to say "don't blame me, I didn't vote for him."
As a practical matter, third-party politics needs to start and become powerful on a local level and work its way up. It has started--there are quite a few offices around the country held by third party members, we just need to push the most qualified of these into ever higher positions.
can you build a nuclear power plant in the sea?
Apparently so.
This year, perhaps more than ever, I think the right answer is to vote for anyone other than the two the media has allowed us to have.
Wow. What a sorry lot of grammar and joke impaired grammar nazis...
It's nice to see the government passing on an opportunity to spend.
Maybe true 10 or 15 years ago. I think we need to introduce you to PAR files. Also, with the advent of the .nzb file, it just couldn't be any easier to get a binary. If there's a better way, I don't know about it.
Was it ever actually a bastion?
...mainstream internet user between 1999 and 2008...
The answer to your question is yes. Especially for those of us who started using the net before Joe Sixpack got access in your 1999-2008 timeframe.
After finding a BBS with FidoNet around 1986, my computer usage has never been the same. Usenet has it's ups and downs (particulary in September), but it's still the last bastion of freedom on the internet, still has the same quality of content (though you sometimes need to dig to find it), and is still just as valuable to me as it ever was. FWIW, I haven't used it since... yesterday.
Usenet wasn't created for most of your 1999-2008 mainstream internet users, using them as a reference point is silly.
To a large extent, usenet was the internet in 1992.
or just the books...
According to the Bible, prior to the flood, man lived about 10 times longer than he does today. If that were true for all creatures, then maybe we still have dinosaurs. Reptiles grow during their entire lives, so 10x older may translate into 10x larger. I would imagine that a 200 foot long Komodo Dragon or a 50 foot long iguana would be a dinosaur. There are quite a few creatures that would be absolutely terrifying if allowed to get 10x older.
Hmmm... if a salamander stands on his hind legs (and looks menacing enough), he kind of looks like a t-rex... maybe he just never gets to grow up.
"Eventually" and "within a few months" is all we get. It wouldn't surprise me if they didn't publicly announce it until it was over.
Posting to undo accidental (crappy mouse wheel) moderatation.
When you go from needing glasses to having glasses, it's great because you can see.
When you go from glasses to contacts, you realize that wearing glasses is like looking out through a slit in a box. When you get out of the box everything you can see is in focus. (And for those with really thick glasses, no more rounded doorframes!)
A friend of mine is a librarian, and when I asked her what she thought about the issue of reader privacy and releasing records, she told me that the city instructed the library system to comply with any such federal requests, releasing any records they have.
The library response was that they decided not to keep any records beyond who has what book checked out now. When a book is returned, the only information retained is the dates of check out--the reader's name is completely disassociated. They know a book was checked out, but they can't tell you who had it. Nice.
FTA, AICAR has been around since at least 1994, and from this article, GW1516 "has a relatively simple chemical structure and can be synthesized easily." It should be relatively inexpensive.
While I certainly appreciate the text-based discussions, usenet is growing precisely because of the binaries. With the antics of the RIAA and friends, many are scared off by torrents--what's left?
When your local TV station runs fifteen minutes of "thunderstorm warning" in the middle of 24, where else can you go to fill that in? If you miss an episode, do you just wait for the DVD? I don't.
Anything you are interested in--text, sound, video--is out there if you know where to look. Knowing where to look was an artform 16 years ago--now the NZBs make it as easy as google. Usenet is anything but dead.
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<Sadly shakes head--a whole topic in violation of rule 1...>
The "people voting multiple times" issue is easily solved with a bottle of ink. I bet the ink is cheaper than all those "I voted" stickers, too.