Not to be insulting, but these are not magic pills that make you do what you are supposed to.
No, really?
The point being that while when I'm off the meds, I'm easily distracted; on them, I'm obsessive-compulsive. Which is just as bad when you have difficulty pulling away from whatever it is that becomes the object of obsession. So it's not like it removes distractions, it removes all of them but one.
I task hop. Which is why I was on Adderall in the first place. As I said, I obsessively worked on one thing, and couldn't switch my attention over to anything else---which was a bummer when that something else was, you know, the important stuff.
(/. says: "Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING." I respond: "It's supposed to be like yelling!" So I am adding additional useless verbiage to get past the lame filter.)
You seem to be operating under the assumption that the number of artists benefiting is the relevant statistic here. I am operating under the assumption that it's the amount of money accumulated.
My mother was taking Vioxx regularly when the whole scandal broke. She immediately went to the pharmacist to get as much of the stuff as she could before it got taken off the market. The other drugs didn't really do it for her. Arthritis sucks, and as a dentist, it has a huge impact on your ability to do your job.
Yeah, it might kill you, but on the other hand, it's about quality of life.
No, it's not, and the point is that Time Warner is not a free market service, either, since before Greenlight was set up, the Wilson market was a duopoly between them and the DSL guys, and neither of them was interested in competing much.
The term "free market" may have a real meaning somewhere, but the way it's used is mostly just a PR catchphrase for people who are interesting in ripping off their consumers. And the idiots who support them.
The right person for the job will know which battles are winnable, and which battles aren't.
The right person for the job will recognize that intellectual property holders are going to be more effective at combating user vs. corporation-style IP infringements by expanding access. This person will attempt to foment an environment in which it is reasonable for powerful IP holders to aggressively pursue this objective.
The right person for the job will focus enforcement efforts on businesses (e.g., pirated software) rather than living-room pirates, since the former can likely be widely-enforced, whereas the latter can't.
The right person for the job will seek to reform the patent system, and adopt a relatively narrow view of what IP entails.
The right person for the job will see his or her role as more along the lines of facilitating and educating, than as a law enforcement agent, or, worse, a corporate shill.
The right person for the job will be able to come up with witty comebacks to the TPB staff's bizarre antics.
Also, the right person for the job will probably still be widely reviled here. But that's okay, too.
I can be a very willing guinea pig, lab rat, et cetera. Just tell me where to sign!
Yes, the prospect of long-term, irreparable skin damage is nothing next to the coolness of having the dermatological equivalent of animated GIFs. And I mean that sincerely.
What I don't get is how the author seems to put it in terms of consumers "resisting" marketing. Like the issue at stake is that the record companies come to our houses, twist our arms, and demand that we listen to Britney Spears. When the issue is simply that other good stuff that's out there doesn't get heard as much, because...we don't know about it!
Or if they built it in the Earth's core, they could sit back in their saunas while the nations of the world scramble to figure out who owns it. They could dig the hole in Antarctica to let in a nice breeze.
So you went to the Pirate Bay to get a font for a program you also may or may not have gotten off the Pirate Bay, so that you could forge a document that would allow you to park illegally. And you're mentioning it non-anonymously on the Internet.
I don't know whether I want to applaud or facepalm.
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She's cute. I'd tap that.
Not to be insulting, but these are not magic pills that make you do what you are supposed to.
No, really?
The point being that while when I'm off the meds, I'm easily distracted; on them, I'm obsessive-compulsive. Which is just as bad when you have difficulty pulling away from whatever it is that becomes the object of obsession. So it's not like it removes distractions, it removes all of them but one.
I task hop. Which is why I was on Adderall in the first place. As I said, I obsessively worked on one thing, and couldn't switch my attention over to anything else---which was a bummer when that something else was, you know, the important stuff.
I don't know if I should give it another chance.
More off-topic: The most disturbing songs I've heard, IMHO, are all a capella.
But I haven't seen Barbados, so I must get out of this.
I spent hours writing lame jokes about Andrew Jackson, then couldn't remember them afterward.
Same. I just work and work and work and work, but not at what I'm supposed to be doing.
Sort of why I quit.
Do you drive?
YOU'RE GAMBLING WITH YOUR LIFE!
(/. says: "Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING." I respond: "It's supposed to be like yelling!" So I am adding additional useless verbiage to get past the lame filter.)
I don't know why that notion seems to persist around here. Honestly. It never even occurred to me. We are talking about record companies, right?
You seem to be operating under the assumption that the number of artists benefiting is the relevant statistic here. I am operating under the assumption that it's the amount of money accumulated.
In 3 years, songs from the Beatles' back catalog will start turning 50 years old.
If you don't think there's still money in all that early rock music from Britain in the '60s....
No, it isn't.
Sending obscenity through the USPS is a federal offense. What obscenity is exactly is not very well-defined, but it is not the same as pornography.
The United States Postal Service will dutifully deliver your Girls Gone Wild DVDs with vigor and spunk.
Clarification: I'm not a dentist, my mother is. So you are the only dental /.er. ;-)
My mother was taking Vioxx regularly when the whole scandal broke. She immediately went to the pharmacist to get as much of the stuff as she could before it got taken off the market. The other drugs didn't really do it for her. Arthritis sucks, and as a dentist, it has a huge impact on your ability to do your job.
Yeah, it might kill you, but on the other hand, it's about quality of life.
I think the deadline for making meta-April Fools jokes must have also passed. And yes, there's a deadline. "April Fools was last year!" so he says.
No, it's not, and the point is that Time Warner is not a free market service, either, since before Greenlight was set up, the Wilson market was a duopoly between them and the DSL guys, and neither of them was interested in competing much.
The term "free market" may have a real meaning somewhere, but the way it's used is mostly just a PR catchphrase for people who are interesting in ripping off their consumers. And the idiots who support them.
You're right. We should stop calling them czars, comrade.
The right person for the job will know which battles are winnable, and which battles aren't.
The right person for the job will recognize that intellectual property holders are going to be more effective at combating user vs. corporation-style IP infringements by expanding access. This person will attempt to foment an environment in which it is reasonable for powerful IP holders to aggressively pursue this objective.
The right person for the job will focus enforcement efforts on businesses (e.g., pirated software) rather than living-room pirates, since the former can likely be widely-enforced, whereas the latter can't.
The right person for the job will seek to reform the patent system, and adopt a relatively narrow view of what IP entails.
The right person for the job will see his or her role as more along the lines of facilitating and educating, than as a law enforcement agent, or, worse, a corporate shill.
The right person for the job will be able to come up with witty comebacks to the TPB staff's bizarre antics.
Also, the right person for the job will probably still be widely reviled here. But that's okay, too.
We get Dick Cheney to run the computer security task force, give him no oversight and a redacted budget. Then tell him there's oil in the Internet.
I guarantee, all your regulatory problems will mysteriously vanish, just like all of the(*)#(*)@R_ *CARRIER LOST*
I have to wonder where that would be located.
I can be a very willing guinea pig, lab rat, et cetera. Just tell me where to sign!
Yes, the prospect of long-term, irreparable skin damage is nothing next to the coolness of having the dermatological equivalent of animated GIFs. And I mean that sincerely.
Obviously,yes.
What I don't get is how the author seems to put it in terms of consumers "resisting" marketing. Like the issue at stake is that the record companies come to our houses, twist our arms, and demand that we listen to Britney Spears. When the issue is simply that other good stuff that's out there doesn't get heard as much, because...we don't know about it!
Or if they built it in the Earth's core, they could sit back in their saunas while the nations of the world scramble to figure out who owns it. They could dig the hole in Antarctica to let in a nice breeze.
So you went to the Pirate Bay to get a font for a program you also may or may not have gotten off the Pirate Bay, so that you could forge a document that would allow you to park illegally. And you're mentioning it non-anonymously on the Internet.
I don't know whether I want to applaud or facepalm.
Go look at the font on early computer terminals. The "Q" does not have a descender. That came later.
In fact, the pronunciation sounds almost identical to the sound a cat makes when coughing up a hairball.
The Egyptians knew what they were doing when they deified them.