Most albums are 90% absolute crap, most tracks are meerely padding to get you to pay $15 for that one song you liked. Yeah, you can complain about the poor misunderstood artist all you like, but if the vast majority of them actually made albums that weren't 90% pure SUCK, there wouldn't be an issue, because people would want to download the whole thing and listen to it in order.
You need the Pretentious Geek/English translator. Here, let me help:
"I have to confess that I look upon his sojourn into Field Theory as a diversion in the same sense that a prestidigitator (magician), in his field of legerdemain (sleight of hand), distracts the audience members, thereby lessening their attention on what's really going on."
"I have to confess that I'm really smart. Smarter than you. In fact, you're pretty damn dumb. So dumb that I have to explain what prestidigitator and legerdemain mean. A prestidigitator does not mean someone who spanks the monkey, and legerdemain does not mean a type of beer. They mean you are dumb."
"Alas and alack, niente, gar nichts, zilch. Woe is me. Es tut mit leid."
"Not only am I very smart, I know more languages than you, proving I am a cultered man of the world. And implying that you are a redneck hick. So suck it, hick, I'm going to go prestidigitate my legerdemain."
Hope that helps get you started. If you want to learn more Pretentious Geek, please first stick a broomstick up your ass and tilt your nose upwards at a 45 degree angle, it helps the learning process.
You're probably one of those people who also complains about slashdot stories being old news and out of date. Now slashdot gives you a story a few billion years early and you complain about that, too. Sheesh, some people are never satisfied.
I suppose you think that the fact that Clinton did it excuses Bush? You can stop beating that horse now, I'm pretty sure it's dead. Why do you keep bringing up this point? It's utterly childish. You have no rational argument with which to defend "your man" so you point out that the other team did it too. So what. Wrong is wrong. As I said before, this is not a partisan issue, stop trying to make it one.
Okay, gotcha. You aren't trying to justify Apple's actions, you are just trying to explain why they are doing what they are doing. I thought the why was so glaringly obvious that you had to be attempting to justify their actions. I guess not everyone knows how trademarks work.
Do you agree that, in a sane world, Apple would lose these cases just as Apple Records lost theirs?
You don't get it. You are not an it-getter. Maybe someday someone will invent a prosthetic sense of humor, so you can replace the one your ideology has evidently detroyed.
So I guess you think that Apple Records should have won their lawsuit against Apple computers, huh? Trademarks only cover one particular market. I can make and sell Ford brand cookies or Microsoft brand penis enlargers because those trademarks don't cover those particular markets. Companies do not need to protect against use of their marks in other markets in order to keep those marks. This is simple extortion by Apple.
The editors probably have nothing to do with this. But this is very interesting, and deserves more notice. Someone with mod points, click on those links and look at the "campaign_id" field in the links submitted with those stories. These stories are the result of astroturfing campaigns, without a doubt.
You don't understand the free market. In any free market transaction, value is created. Both parties walk away from a trade feeling that they have something of greater value. Paper money is not value. The government does not create stocks, and most value in the world is represented by stocks. Please get your facts straight.
So science and engineering don't make money, or they can't spare any for the poor mathematician that made it possible? Consider the impact of movie licensing on the poor theaters: do you know that the producers/distributers take 100% of the opening weekend box? We should just give it all to the theater ans let the people who produceed it go hang.
Too true. You can kill a tree with a bulldozer without even touching it. You can damage the roots enough just by compacting the soil driving around near the tree.
Personally I think that it is people that think they no best for everyone, and believe in implementing changes based on one sided analysis that are currently doing the most harm.
So you must be talking about people who make these sorts of claims:
"and yet somehow those awfully ignorant Americans are beating everyone else's buts off in every field of endevour, including science!"
One sided analysis: check. Thinking Americans "no" best for everyone: check. Oh wait, that was you. How embarassing. Perhaps you were talking about other Americans, like President Bush, who believes he knows best for everyone and implements fricken' wars based on one sided analysis.
There is now a microorganism that digests nylon. There was never any nylon or anything even remotely like it in the natural environment until man invented it. This is not a case of a species getting stronger, its not like there was an organism that had a slight ability to eat a non existent fiber and it got better. There was no species that could eat nylon before nylon was invented, and now there is.
That is only one example. Speciation has been observed in the laboratory with fruit flies. All you have managed to demonstrate here is your complete ignorance of the subject at hand. Unfortunately, yours is such a common type of ignorance that a whole FAQ has been devoted to debunking it.
Absolutely. They are both completely implausible. In fact, not only is Christianity completely implausible, it is a sick-hearted religion. If there is a God as Christians claim, he is an evil, twisted creature. I would rather burn forever in hell if there is one than spend one moment in the presence of the Christian God. The stories in the bible are worse than a snuff film to me, filled with hatred, insanity and lies.
Human infallibility being what it is, any God worth worshipping would not have entrusted his word to mere humans. He would have writ it in the stars or some such. He would have put in ways to verify the truth and accuracy of his statements, so that the logical beings he created would have a way of knowing their truth. He would have made the "good news" of Jesus birth available to all men at once, not to a select few in one specific place. Any God that would not have done those things is unworthy of worship.
It was "Saving Private Ryan" and it was based on the true story. AFAIK, the kill was verified and occured just as evilviper stated. The sniper in question is a legend, with an annual award and a shooting range named after him.
Read the spoiler above. One cluster collided with another larger cluster. The gas and stars in the smaller cluster slowed down due to friction, the dark matter didn't. Now the dark matter and normal matter of the cluster are in two different places. We can tell the position of the dark matter from the gravitational lensing effect on galaxies behind it. Pretty amazing, and a major piece of evidence in favor of dark matter over MOND or TeVeS.
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Most albums are 90% absolute crap, most tracks are meerely padding to get you to pay $15 for that one song you liked. Yeah, you can complain about the poor misunderstood artist all you like, but if the vast majority of them actually made albums that weren't 90% pure SUCK, there wouldn't be an issue, because people would want to download the whole thing and listen to it in order.
no sweat off my back. Ewww.
But is it skin off your brow?
You need the Pretentious Geek/English translator. Here, let me help:
"I have to confess that I look upon his sojourn into Field Theory as a diversion in the same sense that a prestidigitator (magician), in his field of legerdemain (sleight of hand), distracts the audience members, thereby lessening their attention on what's really going on."
"I have to confess that I'm really smart. Smarter than you. In fact, you're pretty damn dumb. So dumb that I have to explain what prestidigitator and legerdemain mean. A prestidigitator does not mean someone who spanks the monkey, and legerdemain does not mean a type of beer. They mean you are dumb."
"Alas and alack, niente, gar nichts, zilch. Woe is me. Es tut mit leid."
"Not only am I very smart, I know more languages than you, proving I am a cultered man of the world. And implying that you are a redneck hick. So suck it, hick, I'm going to go prestidigitate my legerdemain."
Hope that helps get you started. If you want to learn more Pretentious Geek, please first stick a broomstick up your ass and tilt your nose upwards at a 45 degree angle, it helps the learning process.
The thalamus is not a coathook. It is a series of tubes.
You're probably one of those people who also complains about slashdot stories being old news and out of date. Now slashdot gives you a story a few billion years early and you complain about that, too. Sheesh, some people are never satisfied.
Libertarians are like mind flayers. Fail your saving throw and lose several points of intelligence.
I suppose you think that the fact that Clinton did it excuses Bush? You can stop beating that horse now, I'm pretty sure it's dead. Why do you keep bringing up this point? It's utterly childish. You have no rational argument with which to defend "your man" so you point out that the other team did it too. So what. Wrong is wrong. As I said before, this is not a partisan issue, stop trying to make it one.
Carter used them during Vietnam and Clinton used them as well.
/sarcasm
Ah, well, that makes it okay then.
Why would you even make that comment? What's your objective? This is not a partisan issue...
More like thirty two hammer blows to the head.
Okay, gotcha. You aren't trying to justify Apple's actions, you are just trying to explain why they are doing what they are doing. I thought the why was so glaringly obvious that you had to be attempting to justify their actions. I guess not everyone knows how trademarks work.
Do you agree that, in a sane world, Apple would lose these cases just as Apple Records lost theirs?
You don't get it. You are not an it-getter. Maybe someday someone will invent a prosthetic sense of humor, so you can replace the one your ideology has evidently detroyed.
So I guess you think that Apple Records should have won their lawsuit against Apple computers, huh? Trademarks only cover one particular market. I can make and sell Ford brand cookies or Microsoft brand penis enlargers because those trademarks don't cover those particular markets. Companies do not need to protect against use of their marks in other markets in order to keep those marks. This is simple extortion by Apple.
Maybe /. is a social networking site
"So it's social. Demented and sad, but social."
--Bender
The editors probably have nothing to do with this. But this is very interesting, and deserves more notice. Someone with mod points, click on those links and look at the "campaign_id" field in the links submitted with those stories. These stories are the result of astroturfing campaigns, without a doubt.
You don't understand the free market. In any free market transaction, value is created. Both parties walk away from a trade feeling that they have something of greater value. Paper money is not value. The government does not create stocks, and most value in the world is represented by stocks. Please get your facts straight.
So science and engineering don't make money, or they can't spare any for the poor mathematician that made it possible? Consider the impact of movie licensing on the poor theaters: do you know that the producers/distributers take 100% of the opening weekend box? We should just give it all to the theater ans let the people who produceed it go hang.
(forgive me)
In Soviet Russia, mathematics teaches you.
You sank my spammership!
Too true. You can kill a tree with a bulldozer without even touching it. You can damage the roots enough just by compacting the soil driving around near the tree.
Personally I think that it is people that think they no best for everyone, and believe in implementing changes based on one sided analysis that are currently doing the most harm.
So you must be talking about people who make these sorts of claims:
"and yet somehow those awfully ignorant Americans are beating everyone else's buts off in every field of endevour, including science!"
One sided analysis: check. Thinking Americans "no" best for everyone: check. Oh wait, that was you. How embarassing. Perhaps you were talking about other Americans, like President Bush, who believes he knows best for everyone and implements fricken' wars based on one sided analysis.
There is now a microorganism that digests nylon. There was never any nylon or anything even remotely like it in the natural environment until man invented it. This is not a case of a species getting stronger, its not like there was an organism that had a slight ability to eat a non existent fiber and it got better. There was no species that could eat nylon before nylon was invented, and now there is.
That is only one example. Speciation has been observed in the laboratory with fruit flies. All you have managed to demonstrate here is your complete ignorance of the subject at hand. Unfortunately, yours is such a common type of ignorance that a whole FAQ has been devoted to debunking it.
Absolutely. They are both completely implausible. In fact, not only is Christianity completely implausible, it is a sick-hearted religion. If there is a God as Christians claim, he is an evil, twisted creature. I would rather burn forever in hell if there is one than spend one moment in the presence of the Christian God. The stories in the bible are worse than a snuff film to me, filled with hatred, insanity and lies.
Human infallibility being what it is, any God worth worshipping would not have entrusted his word to mere humans. He would have writ it in the stars or some such. He would have put in ways to verify the truth and accuracy of his statements, so that the logical beings he created would have a way of knowing their truth. He would have made the "good news" of Jesus birth available to all men at once, not to a select few in one specific place. Any God that would not have done those things is unworthy of worship.
It was "Saving Private Ryan" and it was based on the true story. AFAIK, the kill was verified and occured just as evilviper stated. The sniper in question is a legend, with an annual award and a shooting range named after him.
Read the spoiler above. One cluster collided with another larger cluster. The gas and stars in the smaller cluster slowed down due to friction, the dark matter didn't. Now the dark matter and normal matter of the cluster are in two different places. We can tell the position of the dark matter from the gravitational lensing effect on galaxies behind it. Pretty amazing, and a major piece of evidence in favor of dark matter over MOND or TeVeS.
Hehe, glad you didn't take it personally. It was just too good of a zinger to pass up :)