While there are plenty of advantages to IPv6, don't think you will win anyone over with the "but our 4,294,967,294 addresses are almost gone!" argument. You will not.
So I take it you don't think every person on earth should be able to get their own IP address? Who should be the lucky 4 billion?
"Needless to say, this is not the kids that will drive forward a music scene in the future. "
I humbly disagree. I think that these are precisely the kids who will drive forward a music scene in the future. And the musicians who learn to adapt will be making the music on that future music scene.
It is all about a) _first_ finding ways to become popular/widespread (making your music available for free is probably becoming a necessary but, as you note, perhaps not sufficient criteria. Making good songs also helps, for instance.) and b) _then_ finding ways to capitalize on your popularity. Concerts. Ads. Sponsorships. Anything but trying to charge the listeners directly for copies of the songs themselves, since the spread of those copies constitutes most of your bargaining position when negotiating your _actual_ deals.
I'm not trying to argue that you shouldn't have the right to decide how you want to distribute material you have created. I just think that, even discounting piracy, the market is trending towards musicians exploiting the edge that "free" can give them and the listeners will decide to go with that, ultimately establishing alternative routes of reimbursment.
"Advancement and innovation was excruciatingly slow, with much of it happening in the final few thousand years when they seem to have picked up on what the invading modern humans were doing, at the very least trying to remain competitive."
Alternatively, the traces of those advances were left by the invaders (modern humans) and the Neandertals didn't actually pick much of anything up.
But DNA is so complex that life might well have started as something yet simpler. Perhaps such early, pre-DNA self replicating molecules arose multiple times?
Are they going to use this info to fire the people who named their OS "Vista", arguing that they should have named it "Mojave" instead?
Or are they going to publicly suggest that people like me, who think Vista is a pile of crap (and say so), are so stupid that we would change our tunes if they just renamed the OS - none of us would notice and suddenly we would claim "Mojave" was great? Because we're just that clueless?
Seriously - are they trying to _prove_ that the world has a negative perception of MS and Vista? Is that really a great idea?
One might also, from the outset, wonder if it is theoretically possible to build a phase #3 system of communes that would never become sensitive to exploitation by new fatcats, meaning phase #2 would have to be reinstated from time to time...probably continually, eh?
"And we'll use our absolute power to build cities in the clouds, for everyone!"...
What the RIAA lawyers are doing is often referred to as a "spolied brat" attack - the attempt to undermine one parent's unfavourable ruling by seeking out a different ruling from another parent.
Shouldn't they ask me something like this in checkin, then:
"Is all the information on your laptop yours? Could anyone have tampered with the information on your laptop?"
Anyone who has had their laptop online would have to admit that someone very well could have tampered with the information on the laptop. Should that mean they shouldn't fly then? (Which, while a personally untested theory, is what I assumes to be the case should I answer that "Yes, someone could have tampered with the contents of my checkin luggage".)
People with laptops clearly shouldn't be let into the country: You never know what they might have on them spooky things, and, as it turns out, neither do they!
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While there are plenty of advantages to IPv6, don't think you will win anyone over with the "but our 4,294,967,294 addresses are almost gone!" argument. You will not.
So I take it you don't think every person on earth should be able to get their own IP address? Who should be the lucky 4 billion?
"Needless to say, this is not the kids that will drive forward a music scene in the future. "
I humbly disagree. I think that these are precisely the kids who will drive forward a music scene in the future. And the musicians who learn to adapt will be making the music on that future music scene.
It is all about a) _first_ finding ways to become popular/widespread (making your music available for free is probably becoming a necessary but, as you note, perhaps not sufficient criteria. Making good songs also helps, for instance.) and b) _then_ finding ways to capitalize on your popularity. Concerts. Ads. Sponsorships. Anything but trying to charge the listeners directly for copies of the songs themselves, since the spread of those copies constitutes most of your bargaining position when negotiating your _actual_ deals.
I'm not trying to argue that you shouldn't have the right to decide how you want to distribute material you have created. I just think that, even discounting piracy, the market is trending towards musicians exploiting the edge that "free" can give them and the listeners will decide to go with that, ultimately establishing alternative routes of reimbursment.
Adding to your point:
"Advancement and innovation was excruciatingly slow, with much of it happening in the final few thousand years when they seem to have picked up on what the invading modern humans were doing, at the very least trying to remain competitive."
Alternatively, the traces of those advances were left by the invaders (modern humans) and the Neandertals didn't actually pick much of anything up.
But DNA is so complex that life might well have started as something yet simpler. Perhaps such early, pre-DNA self replicating molecules arose multiple times?
I don't get it.
Are they going to use this info to fire the people who named their OS "Vista", arguing that they should have named it "Mojave" instead?
Or are they going to publicly suggest that people like me, who think Vista is a pile of crap (and say so), are so stupid that we would change our tunes if they just renamed the OS - none of us would notice and suddenly we would claim "Mojave" was great? Because we're just that clueless?
Seriously - are they trying to _prove_ that the world has a negative perception of MS and Vista? Is that really a great idea?
One might also, from the outset, wonder if it is theoretically possible to build a phase #3 system of communes that would never become sensitive to exploitation by new fatcats, meaning phase #2 would have to be reinstated from time to time...probably continually, eh? "And we'll use our absolute power to build cities in the clouds, for everyone!"...
What the RIAA lawyers are doing is often referred to as a "spolied brat" attack - the attempt to undermine one parent's unfavourable ruling by seeking out a different ruling from another parent.
Shouldn't they ask me something like this in checkin, then: "Is all the information on your laptop yours? Could anyone have tampered with the information on your laptop?" Anyone who has had their laptop online would have to admit that someone very well could have tampered with the information on the laptop. Should that mean they shouldn't fly then? (Which, while a personally untested theory, is what I assumes to be the case should I answer that "Yes, someone could have tampered with the contents of my checkin luggage".) People with laptops clearly shouldn't be let into the country: You never know what they might have on them spooky things, and, as it turns out, neither do they!