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Accurate knowledge about a product is crucial to the operation of a free market, and a CCA seal (_or the lack thereof_) is amongst the things that could serve as a shorthand for that information/knowledge.
The way it was actually used isn't free-market, but labels like that theoretically could be
Analogous to some conception of trademarks, perhaps.
PayPal has instant transfers out of attached bank accounts available at least in the US. Then you don't have the delay of waiting for the transfer to clear and add to your account balance, then paying with your balance.
I could see these encoded into a computer data-compression scheme, at least one focused on plain text (analogous to FLAC's focus on audio; as opposed to general-purpose compression like ZIP)
I think the biggest problem with all the txting is that the 140 character limit in nearly all of their communication may encourage a short attention span when it comes to reading, listening, and maybe all forms of communication. Yes, it encourages brevity/conciseness as well, but at the expense of genuine literacy. It is simply not possible to communicate complex and subtle concepts in less than 140 characters. If you zone out any time a "wall of text" exceeds a few sentences you are going to have a lot of trouble understanding complex and subtle ideas. And if you limit your outgoing communications to no more than a few sentences at a time you are going to severely limit the complexity and subtlety of ideas that you can express. Eventually this laziness, lack of patience, and expectation that all information be received in easily digestible little pieces can become habitual and you won't realize that anything is wrong with the way you are processing information.
Yeah, I write forum posts of a few hundred words (perhaps low thousands), and people act like it's a dissertation. I could stand to trim my writing, I'll admit, but not down that far
By the way, I tend to avoid txt-speak even when I actually am texting. sometimes I get ungrammatical to fit within 140/160 characters, though.
I did too; even for me, I now mainly read when sitting on the bus or otherwise unoccupied (sometimes it spills over to encompass finishing a book I started that way.)
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The codes could fall under the category of accurate product information even in a free market; yes, they're far more obnoxious in oligopoly situations, but I could see them theoretically playing a role.
I recall some film with a D.B. Cooper subplot suggesting that he burned most of his ransom money to stay alive longer in the wilderness; stacks of $20s also seem to fit your "flammable valuable" theme.
I can see how the same thing can be seen as homosexual propaganda by one side and countering anti-homosexual propaganda by the other; somebody's view of the facts is influenced by existing ideology instead of the other way around.
As for gingers, a roundup of the red-headed is the concept of M.I.A’s “Born Free” music video; it seems clear that she was trying to say that discriminating against groups that actually are commonly targeted is just as nonsensical as the targeting of redheads in the video.
Assuming about 10% frequency is plausible for both gays and lefties, yet they're treated so differently. Is that what your comment sarcastically gets at?
Different means bad to some people (This combines with society's general penchant for sexual hangups); left-handers' behavior only differs incidentally.
P.S, I'm a lefty myself, and I never even really found myself needing special lefty tools.
I tolerate the RIAA's behavior because *some* (IMHO) good stuff comes from their control, and it doesn't make sense to eschew that in the name of a crusade against their bad stuff. Though the music I buy isn't DRMed, this seems analogous to the issue you face; you simply propose a different response.
sometimes it's hard to avoid spoilers, especially when perusing other info related to the franchise, the kind of stuff that big fans would care to look at.
Manufacturers might put on nation-specific labeling and distribute it anywhere for economy-of-scale purposes as opposed to separate labeling runs. It's like it hurts AFAIK.
For those unaware, I figure I'd make it clear that people were making references to the song "Wernher Von Braun", one of Tom Lehrer's classics of satirical songwriting - it refers to the oddity of that case, but its deeper meaning is the problem of science becoming decoupled form ethics.
As I said when I went to Boston, "you know you're in an old city [by New World standards] if Fenway Park at 98 years is relatively young amongst the local landmarks.
Heck, if they bother to make the downloads DRM-free (stop sniggering!), they might have a market.
iTunes has been for awhile now, and I think Amazon MP3 was to begin with.
P.S. I do listen to a lot of indie music along with the mainstream stuff, but I tend to be put off by the giant chip that some indies have on their shoulder.
Granted, Whole Lotta Love was literally 42 years ago, but the airplay version was missing the groovy middle section [although the LP (release a couple weeks earlier) and most pressings of the 45 still had it]
Encourage instances of good behavior from entities whose behavior you tend to dislike, rather than thinking nothing they could possibly do is good enough. That does seem to be the sentiment of many of the previous comments.
That being said:
Oftentimes, a *full album* is ready to go, but the RIAA dicks around waiting to actually release it - could they cut that out as well? (For example, those who are fans of Lupe Fiasco complained of Atlantic's foot-dragging on _Lasers_...)
A couple of my favorites, one RIAA and one non-RIAA, both have albums coming out in May 2011, but waiting the same amount of time for the non-RIAA one doesn't bother me as much because there hasn't been a hype machine running full blast.
Perhaps the conspiracy-theorist broken clock is right twice a day?;) In all seriousness, i figure a few conspiracies are accurate even though most of it seems like BS. Also, your sig seems especially fitting in this discussion.
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Accurate knowledge about a product is crucial to the operation of a free market, and a CCA seal (_or the lack thereof_) is amongst the things that could serve as a shorthand for that information/knowledge.
The way it was actually used isn't free-market, but labels like that theoretically could be
Analogous to some conception of trademarks, perhaps.
I heard of stuff like that, but didn't want to seemingly try to compare the frequency or intensity by bringing it up
PayPal has instant transfers out of attached bank accounts available at least in the US.
Then you don't have the delay of waiting for the transfer to clear and add to your account balance, then paying with your balance.
I could see these encoded into a computer data-compression scheme, at least one focused on plain text (analogous to FLAC's focus on audio; as opposed to general-purpose compression like ZIP)
I think the biggest problem with all the txting is that the 140 character limit in nearly all of their communication may encourage a short attention span when it comes to reading, listening, and maybe all forms of communication. Yes, it encourages brevity/conciseness as well, but at the expense of genuine literacy. It is simply not possible to communicate complex and subtle concepts in less than 140 characters. If you zone out any time a "wall of text" exceeds a few sentences you are going to have a lot of trouble understanding complex and subtle ideas. And if you limit your outgoing communications to no more than a few sentences at a time you are going to severely limit the complexity and subtlety of ideas that you can express. Eventually this laziness, lack of patience, and expectation that all information be received in easily digestible little pieces can become habitual and you won't realize that anything is wrong with the way you are processing information.
Yeah, I write forum posts of a few hundred words (perhaps low thousands), and people act like it's a dissertation. I could stand to trim my writing, I'll admit, but not down that far
By the way, I tend to avoid txt-speak even when I actually am texting. sometimes I get ungrammatical to fit within 140/160 characters, though.
I did too; even for me, I now mainly read when sitting on the bus or otherwise unoccupied (sometimes it spills over to encompass finishing a book I started that way.)
The codes could fall under the category of accurate product information even in a free market; yes, they're far more obnoxious in oligopoly situations, but I could see them theoretically playing a role.
I recall some film with a D.B. Cooper subplot suggesting that he burned most of his ransom money to stay alive longer in the wilderness; stacks of $20s also seem to fit your "flammable valuable" theme.
I can see how the same thing can be seen as homosexual propaganda by one side and countering anti-homosexual propaganda by the other; somebody's view of the facts is influenced by existing ideology instead of the other way around.
Perhaps the deviance from gender roles irritates some people in addition to or instead of the homosexuality.
I do wonder to what extent traditional gender roles and heteronormativity are connected or not connected.
As for gingers, a roundup of the red-headed is the concept of M.I.A’s “Born Free” music video; it seems clear that she was trying to say that discriminating against groups that actually are commonly targeted is just as nonsensical as the targeting of redheads in the video.
Assuming about 10% frequency is plausible for both gays and lefties, yet they're treated so differently. Is that what your comment sarcastically gets at?
Different means bad to some people (This combines with society's general penchant for sexual hangups); left-handers' behavior only differs incidentally.
P.S, I'm a lefty myself, and I never even really found myself needing special lefty tools.
"_original_ Code".
Note that the gay character was introduced before Archie Comics dumped the CCA in its current form
Didn't MAD purposely go to magazine format to dodge CCA-type stuff?
I tolerate the RIAA's behavior because *some* (IMHO) good stuff comes from their control, and it doesn't make sense to eschew that in the name of a crusade against their bad stuff. Though the music I buy isn't DRMed, this seems analogous to the issue you face; you simply propose a different response.
sometimes it's hard to avoid spoilers, especially when perusing other info related to the franchise, the kind of stuff that big fans would care to look at.
Did that person protect their tweets?
Did the powers that be want info that webmasters of any sort might have?
Speaking off general knowledge, not knowledge of that particular case.
http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owastand.display_standard_group?p_toc_level=1&p_part_number=1910
I scroll down to "Subpart S"...
General electrical regulations it seems; can you point to which part of the subpart you refer to?
Manufacturers might put on nation-specific labeling and distribute it anywhere for economy-of-scale purposes as opposed to separate labeling runs. It's like it hurts AFAIK.
For those unaware, I figure I'd make it clear that people were making references to the song "Wernher Von Braun", one of Tom Lehrer's classics of satirical songwriting - it refers to the oddity of that case, but its deeper meaning is the problem of science becoming decoupled form ethics.
As I said when I went to Boston, "you know you're in an old city [by New World standards] if Fenway Park at 98 years is relatively young amongst the local landmarks.
Heck, if they bother to make the downloads DRM-free (stop sniggering!), they might have a market.
iTunes has been for awhile now, and I think Amazon MP3 was to begin with.
P.S. I do listen to a lot of indie music along with the mainstream stuff, but I tend to be put off by the giant chip that some indies have on their shoulder.
Granted, Whole Lotta Love was literally 42 years ago, but the airplay version was missing the groovy middle section [although the LP (release a couple weeks earlier) and most pressings of the 45 still had it]
Encourage instances of good behavior from entities whose behavior you tend to dislike, rather than thinking nothing they could possibly do is good enough.
That does seem to be the sentiment of many of the previous comments.
That being said:
Oftentimes, a *full album* is ready to go, but the RIAA dicks around waiting to actually release it - could they cut that out as well?
(For example, those who are fans of Lupe Fiasco complained of Atlantic's foot-dragging on _Lasers_...)
A couple of my favorites, one RIAA and one non-RIAA, both have albums coming out in May 2011, but waiting the same amount of time for the non-RIAA one doesn't bother me as much because there hasn't been a hype machine running full blast.
Perhaps the conspiracy-theorist broken clock is right twice a day? ;)
In all seriousness, i figure a few conspiracies are accurate even though most of it seems like BS.
Also, your sig seems especially fitting in this discussion.