I think you people are talking two different things.
From the summary:
Most instrumental music used today in television commercials, background sounds and themes [...]. For many listeners this makes no difference, as such music is essentially background in nature and does not need to have a true musical interaction with a listening audience at all
Can Digital Music Replace Most Instrumental Musicians?
Betteridge's law of headlines says: NO.
You are both right and wrong. Current synthesizer technology is incredibly advanced and can produce a large number of music. Especially music that used in contexts that few people care. The dulcet [sweet and soothing (often used ironically).] noises of you grand piano will be lost in the recording for a Mc Donald's commercial. Will someone put a synthesizer in his living room to show how sophisticated he is? (Somebody probably will.) There is a reason why live classical performances exists and it will remain. Even with perfect reproduction people will want to see live performance, singing the queen of night is an achievement, hitting the play button is not.
Well that is the beauty of German public workers. They are heavily unionized and have a simple labor contract that has pay grade (based on task/education) and work experience. There is no varitable element, so an admin working for any government position will exactly the same pay as any other admin. That is also part of the reason why LiMux is not more expensive to operate.
No really. The raw numbers are public knowledge. They know what they paid in Windows XP era and how much they are paying now. The last article I read about it, a few years ago, they claimed that the operation of LiMux was cheaper than Windows XP, excluding the license costs for eventual Vista upgrades. (Yes, that was before W7.)
Exactly that. My servers are all kept up to date with a simple cron script that does apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. It is not so hard to implement a similar policy on a desktop system.
And yes most video game players ARE overweight. It's one of the MAJOR causes of obesity in our US society.
Citation or it did not happen. I accept that a large amount of obese people play video games and watch television, they also drive a car. News Flash: Driving a car instead of biking to work may make you fat: most drivers ARE overweight.
THAT case was just a stupid case of ignoring scientific criticism for profit. The Swiss did it a bit better, they invited everybody to review the proposals for multiple sites and only after all criticism was resolved did they start construction on a site. The Asse site was just a, oh look I have an abandoned salt mine, hmm, how can I get rid of it as profitable as possible...
That is why I don't store any passwords anywhere. I have 3 master passwords each in order of trustworthiness and then generate the passwords using supergenpass. As a result each website has their own unique passwords of reasonable complexity. The only issue I have is with system authentication, but that is a different password altogether.
How expensive is this "bra"? How many can you buy without ruining yourself? Do they wash well? Are there different shapes? Can you change the strap configuration? How about matching panties?
I am just a guy and have come up with a bunch of problems without actually touching the issue of sexism. I sort of see the appeal of integrating something into every day use, but it starts to get difficult with items that you change regularly and have a reasonable large amount of.
I stand corrected, the clause was already dropped:
A recent update in the teams’ legal agreement with the X Prize Foundation removed a $5 million penalty if a government entity got to the surface of the moon first.
It does actually not. The summary does not mention this, but AFAIK the X-Prize has the clause "before any national space agency" (except NASA and the Russian obviously). If China succeeds they need to either renegotiate the prize or void it, since the original terms will make it obsolete.
and anarchists... and radical communists... and hate preacher... Basically any speech that is advocating changing or undermining the democratic order. Basically you can say anything, except burn down the government and kill all XXX. (And actually mean it.) Remember this is the country that banned the Communist Party, because they where advocating an armed revolution. To bad the borderline right wing parties are a bit more clever about it all. (They would be banned if they came out, what they say behind closed doors.) The good news is, they are becoming more and more irrelevant and stopped getting parliamentary seats in states.
The modus operendi of the Stasi was based solely on technological restrictions. The important part was that everybody felt like they where watched and monitored. The number of IMs (Inoffizieller Mittarbeiter = unofficial employee) was way lower than most people thought and that was the entire point. (1 in 10 is still awesomely high though.) The main goal was to make organised dissension impossible. When it all fell together it showed that the Stasi's power was solely based on intimidation.
Today you simply don't need that many people, you can tap into almost anybody. Again the important bit about mass surveillance is not about the actual surveillance, they probably do not have the resources to act on all or even many accounts, but that you feel under surveillance and government scrutiny.
The current state if the US similar to the DDR in the early years and comparing it with fully fledged dictatorships does not make it better. THE US WAS FOUNDED TO REPEL OPPRESSION AND GRANT CIVIL LIBERTIES TO IT'S CONSTITUENTS!!!
As a matter of fact copyright also covers performances. A large amount of the mechanical royalties are actually collected for cover performances. There is no debate that without any recorded music you would have a similar situation with infringement. And historically that was the case, musicians would play the music and plays that was performed at the kings court. They did definitely not pay anything to the original author of the works.
It is funny that for many Americans history begins around 400 years ago. Blame it on the history course in high school, that basically begins with the Mayflower. Not that I can apply UsCulturalAsumption to the P or GGP with certainty.
In general terms I think copyright is a step forward. Especially Spottify is going beyond and above, they could just shell out the mechanical royalties and be done with it. I doubt much comes around to the artist through mechanical royalties.
Yet they miss the point totally and fully. They should compare the iTunes giftcard with a giftcard from a mustic service that is DRM free. Likewise the comparison of YouTube to MediaGoblin is stupid. It is like saying you should not buy a Mercedes SLK, instead use this open source motor block. The list is pretty lame, but it unfortunately falls in line with much of the FSF communication: "trying to improve the work, but slightly missing the point". Why am I a FSFE fellow again?
That is why any sane legal system allows some leeway to the decision makers. In many jurisdictions a judge has a wide range of sentencing room, like from 1 to 5 years in prison. He can than look at the specific case at hand and precedents and decide appropriately. Recently all those "zero tolerance" laws are producing absurd situations, for example where a 10 year old boy is expelled from school because he brought a toy gun or knife. (I need to look that article up some time again.) The problem is not the law as intended, it is that the added zero tolerance addition. This makes the administrative staff liable when no action is taken. This creates the stupid situation where people get prosecuted even when the situation runs totally against the intent of the law.
I suppose I'm lucky in that for the past 15 years I've never accidentally entered the wrong terms, because I've never seen anything I'd regard as an image of child abuse.
That actually applies to all porn, the filtering works quite well. You used to only see porn with safe search disabled, now you need to enter obvious terms. And this is sort of good, if my children happen so search for "plug". On the other hand I am quite sure that if you searched for the right trigger term you would occasionally get results that not filtered.
THAT is exactly the point. With the stuff somewhat freely available almost nobody will pay for it. This is exactly what happened to porn once free porn sites started to pop up on the internet. The only revenue they get is though ads and most ad networks have provisions in place to prevent cash flow toward cp. (How well they work is a different issue.)
Once you severely restrict remove free access to the content, you reduce the total volume of consumption but the remaining users will actually pay a premium to get access to the material. This in turn makes it profitable to produce the stuff commercially. This defies the entire purpose and actually makes it worse.
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I think you people are talking two different things.
From the summary:
Most instrumental music used today in television commercials, background sounds and themes [...]. For many listeners this makes no difference, as such music is essentially background in nature and does not need to have a true musical interaction with a listening audience at all
Can Digital Music Replace Most Instrumental Musicians?
Betteridge's law of headlines says: NO.
You are both right and wrong. Current synthesizer technology is incredibly advanced and can produce a large number of music. Especially music that used in contexts that few people care. The dulcet [sweet and soothing (often used ironically).] noises of you grand piano will be lost in the recording for a Mc Donald's commercial. Will someone put a synthesizer in his living room to show how sophisticated he is? (Somebody probably will.) There is a reason why live classical performances exists and it will remain. Even with perfect reproduction people will want to see live performance, singing the queen of night is an achievement, hitting the play button is not.
Well that is the beauty of German public workers. They are heavily unionized and have a simple labor contract that has pay grade (based on task/education) and work experience. There is no varitable element, so an admin working for any government position will exactly the same pay as any other admin. That is also part of the reason why LiMux is not more expensive to operate.
No really. The raw numbers are public knowledge. They know what they paid in Windows XP era and how much they are paying now. The last article I read about it, a few years ago, they claimed that the operation of LiMux was cheaper than Windows XP, excluding the license costs for eventual Vista upgrades. (Yes, that was before W7.)
Exactly that. My servers are all kept up to date with a simple cron script that does apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. It is not so hard to implement a similar policy on a desktop system.
I am pretty sure that he is from SOUTH Korea.
And yes most video game players ARE overweight. It's one of the MAJOR causes of obesity in our US society.
Citation or it did not happen. I accept that a large amount of obese people play video games and watch television, they also drive a car. News Flash: Driving a car instead of biking to work may make you fat: most drivers ARE overweight.
The actual poles are probably not the issue, the square foot they are planed on is more of interest.
THAT case was just a stupid case of ignoring scientific criticism for profit. The Swiss did it a bit better, they invited everybody to review the proposals for multiple sites and only after all criticism was resolved did they start construction on a site. The Asse site was just a, oh look I have an abandoned salt mine, hmm, how can I get rid of it as profitable as possible...
That is why I don't store any passwords anywhere. I have 3 master passwords each in order of trustworthiness and then generate the passwords using supergenpass. As a result each website has their own unique passwords of reasonable complexity. The only issue I have is with system authentication, but that is a different password altogether.
How expensive is this "bra"? How many can you buy without ruining yourself? Do they wash well? Are there different shapes? Can you change the strap configuration? How about matching panties?
I am just a guy and have come up with a bunch of problems without actually touching the issue of sexism. I sort of see the appeal of integrating something into every day use, but it starts to get difficult with items that you change regularly and have a reasonable large amount of.
I stand corrected, the clause was already dropped:
A recent update in the teams’ legal agreement with the X Prize Foundation removed a $5 million penalty if a government entity got to the surface of the moon first.
It does actually not. The summary does not mention this, but AFAIK the X-Prize has the clause "before any national space agency" (except NASA and the Russian obviously). If China succeeds they need to either renegotiate the prize or void it, since the original terms will make it obsolete.
No you only sell them in packs of 6. Steal one, you steal 6...
and anarchists... and radical communists... and hate preacher... Basically any speech that is advocating changing or undermining the democratic order. Basically you can say anything, except burn down the government and kill all XXX. (And actually mean it.) Remember this is the country that banned the Communist Party, because they where advocating an armed revolution. To bad the borderline right wing parties are a bit more clever about it all. (They would be banned if they came out, what they say behind closed doors.) The good news is, they are becoming more and more irrelevant and stopped getting parliamentary seats in states.
Great messed up the quote... s/Oceania/Eurasia/
Oceania is the "county" it takes place in.
Death to Eastasia! Save our friends from Oceania!
Death to Oceania! Save our friends from Eastasia!
Even in dictatorships the leading class changes their mind. Be sure to change yours quicker.
The modus operendi of the Stasi was based solely on technological restrictions. The important part was that everybody felt like they where watched and monitored. The number of IMs (Inoffizieller Mittarbeiter = unofficial employee) was way lower than most people thought and that was the entire point. (1 in 10 is still awesomely high though.) The main goal was to make organised dissension impossible. When it all fell together it showed that the Stasi's power was solely based on intimidation.
Today you simply don't need that many people, you can tap into almost anybody. Again the important bit about mass surveillance is not about the actual surveillance, they probably do not have the resources to act on all or even many accounts, but that you feel under surveillance and government scrutiny.
The current state if the US similar to the DDR in the early years and comparing it with fully fledged dictatorships does not make it better. THE US WAS FOUNDED TO REPEL OPPRESSION AND GRANT CIVIL LIBERTIES TO IT'S CONSTITUENTS!!!
How many independent artists have submitted their stuff for ContentID signatures?
Be careful many jurisdictions have stringent laws on door to door sales.
As a matter of fact copyright also covers performances. A large amount of the mechanical royalties are actually collected for cover performances. There is no debate that without any recorded music you would have a similar situation with infringement. And historically that was the case, musicians would play the music and plays that was performed at the kings court. They did definitely not pay anything to the original author of the works.
It is funny that for many Americans history begins around 400 years ago. Blame it on the history course in high school, that basically begins with the Mayflower. Not that I can apply UsCulturalAsumption to the P or GGP with certainty.
In general terms I think copyright is a step forward. Especially Spottify is going beyond and above, they could just shell out the mechanical royalties and be done with it. I doubt much comes around to the artist through mechanical royalties.
Yet they miss the point totally and fully. They should compare the iTunes giftcard with a giftcard from a mustic service that is DRM free. Likewise the comparison of YouTube to MediaGoblin is stupid. It is like saying you should not buy a Mercedes SLK, instead use this open source motor block. The list is pretty lame, but it unfortunately falls in line with much of the FSF communication: "trying to improve the work, but slightly missing the point". Why am I a FSFE fellow again?
That is why any sane legal system allows some leeway to the decision makers. In many jurisdictions a judge has a wide range of sentencing room, like from 1 to 5 years in prison. He can than look at the specific case at hand and precedents and decide appropriately. Recently all those "zero tolerance" laws are producing absurd situations, for example where a 10 year old boy is expelled from school because he brought a toy gun or knife. (I need to look that article up some time again.) The problem is not the law as intended, it is that the added zero tolerance addition. This makes the administrative staff liable when no action is taken. This creates the stupid situation where people get prosecuted even when the situation runs totally against the intent of the law.
"even if you might be sitting there using slashdot all day"
That would be nice, but Slashdot unfortunately can not fill an entire work day...
I suppose I'm lucky in that for the past 15 years I've never accidentally entered the wrong terms, because I've never seen anything I'd regard as an image of child abuse.
That actually applies to all porn, the filtering works quite well. You used to only see porn with safe search disabled, now you need to enter obvious terms. And this is sort of good, if my children happen so search for "plug". On the other hand I am quite sure that if you searched for the right trigger term you would occasionally get results that not filtered.
THAT is exactly the point. With the stuff somewhat freely available almost nobody will pay for it. This is exactly what happened to porn once free porn sites started to pop up on the internet. The only revenue they get is though ads and most ad networks have provisions in place to prevent cash flow toward cp. (How well they work is a different issue.)
Once you severely restrict remove free access to the content, you reduce the total volume of consumption but the remaining users will actually pay a premium to get access to the material. This in turn makes it profitable to produce the stuff commercially. This defies the entire purpose and actually makes it worse.