Indeed, because it you're buying to listen as well as to resell you have to buy the same music twice: once to open and put on the turntable, and once to leave sealed in a darkened comicguy vault.
Be sure to adjust your calculated rate-of-return accordingly.
They can go ahead and use it if they want. It won't affect me one bit.
I can see this blowing up in their face if they try to implement it broadly. For example, what happens if I am at a client site using a Macbook to drive a presentation to a C-level audience, and an "ad" for a competitor product (or some other inappropriate ad) pops up and I have to spend time fumbling with a multiple choice "quiz?"
I like going to music festivals and local gigs, and I make a point of visiting the CD table or merchandise tent, etc. if I heard something I really liked. I will gladly pay $25 for a CD under such circumstances - sometimes directly from the hands of the artist where I get to tell him/her/them how much I enjoyed the show.
The difference is that if the Eagles decide to be greedy about their intellectual property, it puts me in the position of having to reconsider my desire to own Eagles music. If Sony entertainment decides to be greedy about "their" intellectual property, it puts me in the position of having to reconsider my desire to own the music of several dozen artists.
If the Eagles want to dig their own grave, that's their prerogative.
A (high school) teacher friend of mine has this same complaint. Because of the way parents react to even the most basic discipline against their child, it's easier to let Johnny continue being a disruptive little shit in the classroom, and to coast him through on B- grades even when he fails to hand in assignments or skips tests.
But that doesn't prevent somebody going to the county office and at least reading the laws while sitting at a desk somewhere in the corner... or maybe even snapping pictures of the relevant pages with a digital camera. My point is it's not like the laws are trapped behind a paywall as many of the alarmist responses to this story would indicate.
And then of course there's the fact that a full reading of TFA shows the current situation is temporary. The city intends to make full text for all laws available online for free once the project is complete.
(not to mention a good slice of the/dot community)
Actually once you strip away the trolls, I find/. sets a reasonably high standard for discourse. There are a few other tech forums out there that are populated almost exclusively by dittoheads who think namecalling is a valid form of debate.
Does this mean nobody is able to read the laws in any form unless they pay $200, or is it just delivery in electronic format that incurs this extra charge?
Sounds like those "dialup accelerators" from back in the '90s... the ones that would silently spider every link on the page you're currently viewing in order to build a predictive cache.
picking a station that validate one's political views
This is pretty much the crux of it. People actively seek out the information sources (radio, TV, internet) that support the opinions they already hold. Accuracy of information and facts run a distant second, and meaningful analysis runs an even more distant third.
When people talk about oil being "half gone" what they are really saying is that the stuff with high energy-ROI is "all gone" while the stuff that's a bitch to find/drill/refine is left over. When you can extract 1 barrel of oil at a cost of 0.1 barrels energy input, it's easy to feed an energy-hungry global economy. When you extract 1 barrel of oil at a cost of 0.8 barrels energy input, you start to see crazy price spikes, shortages, and major economic shocks.
Oil producers have no motivation to lie about oil reserves.
Oil producers have ample motivation to lie about oil reserves. Who has more geopolitical and economic clout:
a) A country with 50 billion barrels in proven reserves, who publicly state they have 50 billion barrels in proven reserves, or
b) A country with 50 billion barrels in proven reserves, who publicly state they have 125 billion barrels in proven reserves?
Who is better able to attract foreign investment in port facilities or refineries? Who has more influence over the large oil-consuming nations?
It seems you're suggesting the alternative is that right-wing kooks should be treated with kid gloves and never confronted lest they or their base become riled.
Here's an alternative alternative: faulty thinking should be exposed by any and all means possible, and if people still choose to cling to that faulty thinking after it's been discredited, they should be actively marginalized. Parody is an awesome tool for this kind of thing.
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Indeed, because it you're buying to listen as well as to resell you have to buy the same music twice: once to open and put on the turntable, and once to leave sealed in a darkened comicguy vault.
Be sure to adjust your calculated rate-of-return accordingly.
Be sure you understand the consequences before you opt out of Google forever.
What TFA is short on is any sense of motivation on Mark Cuban's part. Why does he want to do this? Did Google frighten him when he was a baby?
I also saw a handgun online designed for people who did not have the strength to pull a regular trigger or hold a regular pistol.
Wicked! I've been scratching my head wondering what to get my toddler for Christmas. Thanks for the tip!
They can go ahead and use it if they want. It won't affect me one bit.
I can see this blowing up in their face if they try to implement it broadly. For example, what happens if I am at a client site using a Macbook to drive a presentation to a C-level audience, and an "ad" for a competitor product (or some other inappropriate ad) pops up and I have to spend time fumbling with a multiple choice "quiz?"
No Thanks.
Agree.
I like going to music festivals and local gigs, and I make a point of visiting the CD table or merchandise tent, etc. if I heard something I really liked. I will gladly pay $25 for a CD under such circumstances - sometimes directly from the hands of the artist where I get to tell him/her/them how much I enjoyed the show.
They just tune out the voice of the customer.
The difference is that if the Eagles decide to be greedy about their intellectual property, it puts me in the position of having to reconsider my desire to own Eagles music. If Sony entertainment decides to be greedy about "their" intellectual property, it puts me in the position of having to reconsider my desire to own the music of several dozen artists.
If the Eagles want to dig their own grave, that's their prerogative.
A (high school) teacher friend of mine has this same complaint. Because of the way parents react to even the most basic discipline against their child, it's easier to let Johnny continue being a disruptive little shit in the classroom, and to coast him through on B- grades even when he fails to hand in assignments or skips tests.
Just be sure that when you call a Z4 driver a tool, you're ready to back it up.
But that doesn't prevent somebody going to the county office and at least reading the laws while sitting at a desk somewhere in the corner ... or maybe even snapping pictures of the relevant pages with a digital camera. My point is it's not like the laws are trapped behind a paywall as many of the alarmist responses to this story would indicate.
And then of course there's the fact that a full reading of TFA shows the current situation is temporary. The city intends to make full text for all laws available online for free once the project is complete.
IOW: Tempest in a teapot.
(not to mention a good slice of the /dot community)
Actually once you strip away the trolls, I find /. sets a reasonably high standard for discourse. There are a few other tech forums out there that are populated almost exclusively by dittoheads who think namecalling is a valid form of debate.
Does this mean nobody is able to read the laws in any form unless they pay $200, or is it just delivery in electronic format that incurs this extra charge?
content will be loaded before you click!
Sounds like those "dialup accelerators" from back in the '90s ... the ones that would silently spider every link on the page you're currently viewing in order to build a predictive cache.
Build a custom firewall that blocks pretty much everything that could even be remotely harmful. Set your MAC as the only exception. Problem solved.
I'm sure they'll justify it with something along the lines of "If we don't pay to teabag, then the terrorists have won"
Hey, it may not seem like a lot but $1.25B means AMD can stop couchsurfing for a while and maybe score some new clothes or something.
picking a station that validate one's political views
This is pretty much the crux of it. People actively seek out the information sources (radio, TV, internet) that support the opinions they already hold. Accuracy of information and facts run a distant second, and meaningful analysis runs an even more distant third.
... what else is new? The IT company I work for implemented 5% pay cuts across the board this year, and then went out and made a ~$2B acquisition.
Yes, but now that the Chinese people will be purchasing them under communist party decree, sales should pick up nicely.
IND is another airport that already has free WiFi.
Bingo.
When people talk about oil being "half gone" what they are really saying is that the stuff with high energy-ROI is "all gone" while the stuff that's a bitch to find/drill/refine is left over. When you can extract 1 barrel of oil at a cost of 0.1 barrels energy input, it's easy to feed an energy-hungry global economy. When you extract 1 barrel of oil at a cost of 0.8 barrels energy input, you start to see crazy price spikes, shortages, and major economic shocks.
Oil producers have no motivation to lie about oil reserves.
Oil producers have ample motivation to lie about oil reserves. Who has more geopolitical and economic clout:
a) A country with 50 billion barrels in proven reserves, who publicly state they have 50 billion barrels in proven reserves, or
b) A country with 50 billion barrels in proven reserves, who publicly state they have 125 billion barrels in proven reserves?
Who is better able to attract foreign investment in port facilities or refineries? Who has more influence over the large oil-consuming nations?
It seems you're suggesting the alternative is that right-wing kooks should be treated with kid gloves and never confronted lest they or their base become riled.
Here's an alternative alternative: faulty thinking should be exposed by any and all means possible, and if people still choose to cling to that faulty thinking after it's been discredited, they should be actively marginalized. Parody is an awesome tool for this kind of thing.
5th grade 13 years ago?
Whippersnapper.