>>>there's no arguing with a woman who knows what she want
Yes there is - "Fine. You can have your SUV [or Lexus or Acura], but I'm only paying the first $20,000. Anything beyond that you'll have to earn yourself." After a few months struggling to earn that extra ~$10,000 to buy her precious SUV, she'll have a change of heart and go with a more practical car.
I drive a car that cost me a mere $14000 (new but last year's model). Why should she get a car that costs over twice as much??? I'm willing to go up to $20000 (plus tax), but see no reason to spend more than that.
%21.93 is probably a default value for the "average" person. If the computer crunches your dollars and finds you're essentially worthless, rather than say "you're worth $0.00" it defaults to the national average. (IF PERSONVALUE >>$21.93 THEN PRINT PERSONVALUE; ELSE PRINT "$21.93"). For me the minimum value was around $75 and maximum value was about $1500.
>>>they'd make off with around two grand before they were stopped. I was informed that I'm only worth 645 dollars.:/
Correct. The "guy" pays $645 for your information and he scores about $2000 using it. So around $1300 profit minus expenses like gasoline, renting a place to atash the stuff, and so on. It wouldn't make sense for the guy to pay $5000 for your data if he's only netting $2000 stolen, would it?
I had my credit card number stolen one time, and somebody in California bought $3500 worth of stuff at Walmart. I had been traveling and I suspected the girl behind the Motel 6 desk had collected and sold my number. I don't know how much the scammer paid that girl but if it was around $1500 (Symantec's estimate), then he "earned" $2000 profit overall. Not bad.
See it's not about "your" value. It's about the value to the scam artist and how much he thinks he can get with that data.
>>>The same suggestion as always: Lobby Congress to open rights to orphaned works to publishers
A better idea is to make these orphaned works expire and fall into public domain. This is how that Christmas movie "It's A Wonderful Life" became so popular - it had fallen into the public domain, and that allowed TV stations to air it free or run-off VHS copies for free. Copyright is not intended to be forever; it's intended to be a temporary stimulus for artists.
Breaking-up a monopoly is not fascism (control of the Corporate Board by government). Antitrust laws exist to restore competition so the free market can work properly, and provide consumers with multiple choices. It's about restoring power to the people.
Hence why many of us don't like Spotify or other rental music, because Cable TV is a ripoff. You pay around $800 a year for basic cable, ~$1300 for digital/HD cable, and get little in return (mostly reruns of stuff you've already seen, or just plain ol' crap). It's cheaper to just buy the DVD of your favorite shows like Mr. Monk, Stargate, BSG, True Blood, et cetera. Likewise it's cheaper to just buy the CDs or singles of your favorite singers.
In virtually every case, renting is more expensive than owning. This applies to cars, to homes, to furniture, and also to music. That's why megacorps love to push "leasing" so hard - because they reap bigger profits than selling.
It's not a typo or grammatical error. It's Ebonics.;-)
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>>>I never suggested such a thing, you made it up based on how you (mis)read what I wrote.
I understood perfectly. You basically said "in defense of cable" that it was cheaper than training pigeons, which is more costly in time and money.
Now you're trying to backpeddle and pretend you never said that, but it seems quite clear - you forgot laying cable ALSO requires traiining and money and time.
Right now I'm leaning towards the pigeon being cheaper. It's certainly faster (about 50 times faster).
I shouldn't have become an engineer. Lawyers are the ones with real power. Judges are the next level, and politicians are on the top (unless they do something stupid which causes them to lose the next election).
I'll tell them calmly and rationally "no I'm not turning off the camcorder" or "no I'm not letting you search my trunk" because I have Constitutionally protected rights, but I won't put up a fight either. If they tell me I'm about to be arrested then I'll lay down the camera where it's safe (but still recording) and then turn myself over. Let my lawyer do the fighting in court.
This was just a way to sell their software. When I said I had a "security suite" to protect my accounts they rated me as "low risk" but when I changed the answer to "no security" than they rated me high. I'm surprised they didn't have an instant popup to sell me their program.
This is just like the insurance companies who make it sound you'll be run-over by a car or hit by a falling ladder, as soon as you step outside your home. Exaggerating a person's risk is a scam to get your money. That's all it is. "Oh yeah you need to buy this, else you will be SCREWED!!! Hahaha." "OMG I'll take it!" "A wise decision madam."
>>>Tell that to the fucking cameras that always get me a ticket for making a LEGAL RIGHT HAND TURN AT A RED LIGHT.
I don't believe this story.
Most cameras (or their operators) are intelligent enough to know the difference between an illegal move and a legal right turn. And even if were true, by this point you could sue the city for harassment, because you keep getting ticketed for doing nothing wrong. The AAA won a similar case in Washington D.C. (the lights were too short). The cameras are still there but the problem fixed.
Destruction of evidence (which may have proved the citizen not guilty) is grounds for immediate dismissal of a court case. And usually the cop is forced on mandatory leave (or even fired) for the act.
Sounds like FUD. Especially since the policebox was freshly painted specifically for the new show and could have been made to look good on HD sets. The real reason BBC is filming Doctor Who in SD is because using existing DigiBetacams is cheaper than upgrading to HD cameras. My local tv station is the same way, broadcasting HD signals but filming everything using old SD cameras.
The BBC has always had a funding shortage, which is why a lot of the 60s/70s episodes were lost (not enough money to store/save the tapes or films). There's also a factor of scifi being more expensive to make in HD. Even Star Trek did not switch to HD until the year 2001, and they had a ~3 million per episode budget. I bet the new Doctor only gets a third of that.
Superbit is not really an option for most movies, since that idea was only available for a few select titles. Also: While a normal DVD averages ~5 Mbit/s and superbit DVD averages ~8 Mbit/s, those numbers are still vastly smaller than the ~40 Mbit/s average on Bluray titles. So BRD still offers less compression and fewer artifacts.
>>>Alot of people think their HD player will send to their HD TV with regular cabling, you'd be surprised. I'd say about 2 in 5 make that mistake.
Source of this statistic? Your ass?;-)
>>>There IS such thing as HD sound, that kind of stuff comes on High Definition Discs
You mean uncompressed sound. Say what you mean. Normal people can't hear the difference between the 640 kbit/s compressed sound on DVD, and the uncompressed sound on Bluray, so I consider this "upgrade" a nonfactor in the experience. I certainly hear no difference between 5.1 on DVD and 5.1 on Bluray.
That's just because you don't want to go to jail for flashing your boobs in front of a London or New York City camera.;-) Me I think the cameras are fine (an electronic cop enforcing the law is no different than a human cop enforcing the law), but the laws should be changed. Women should be free to flash their boobs whereever they want.;-)
And yes if you drive 65 in a 55 zone and the electronic cops catches you, then you should be ticketed. I'm sorry but the law is the law. If you don't like it, rather than not enforce it, change it to something better (like no speed limits in rural areas - I could get behind that).
>>>acquire an almost da Vinci-like creativity for inventing reasons you've broken the law
Is this a reference to the Canadian TV show Da Vinci's Inquest? He does indeed have a knack for inventing reasons to arrest suspects, even if they are innocent.
Thanks! Between Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania I run into a lot of bad cops who like to perform Vehicle trunk searches without warrant (or probable cause). It's good to know I can record them in public places,just in case they decide to beat me or otherwise abuse my rights.
If the cops are doing classified work, yes that needs to be kept secret..........but conversations that can be recorded publicly by the human ear-brain combination should also be recorded by pen-and-paper, or tape, or camcorder. Cops are employees of the people, who are the bosses that pay their salaries, so they have NO right to operate with the expectation of privacy in their official duties, anymore than we expect privacy in our corporate cubicles. They need to be held accountable for when they beat-up citizens* or otherwise abuse their power (Professor Gates). If the cops don't like it, then the cops can either resign, or get fired by the People/bosses, or replaced with more-compliant employees that follow the Constitutional law.
Over 30,000 users on Tradewars is not massive? Half-a-million on AOL/Quantum Link's Club Caribe AKA Habitat is not massive? Pu-leeze. The latter carries the designation MMORPG on its wikipedia page. In fact virtually every genre today was born in the 70s or 80s, even if you refuse to acknowledge that fact.
Agreed. It's not as though you can just go buy one in the store. They are at a fixed quantity of ~10 million units and shrinking. Eventually you won't be able to find a Dreamcast or Atari VCS/2600 or NES anywhere except in museums. And then you'll wish you had not carelessly thrown-away or destroyed these machines.
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Yeah but chatty soccer mom will be safe while she rolls-over your sedan. Hence minivans are safer (for her).
>>>there's no arguing with a woman who knows what she want
Yes there is - "Fine. You can have your SUV [or Lexus or Acura], but I'm only paying the first $20,000. Anything beyond that you'll have to earn yourself." After a few months struggling to earn that extra ~$10,000 to buy her precious SUV, she'll have a change of heart and go with a more practical car.
I drive a car that cost me a mere $14000 (new but last year's model). Why should she get a car that costs over twice as much??? I'm willing to go up to $20000 (plus tax), but see no reason to spend more than that.
%21.93 is probably a default value for the "average" person. If the computer crunches your dollars and finds you're essentially worthless, rather than say "you're worth $0.00" it defaults to the national average. (IF PERSONVALUE >>$21.93 THEN PRINT PERSONVALUE; ELSE PRINT "$21.93"). For me the minimum value was around $75 and maximum value was about $1500.
>>>they'd make off with around two grand before they were stopped. I was informed that I'm only worth 645 dollars. :/
Correct. The "guy" pays $645 for your information and he scores about $2000 using it. So around $1300 profit minus expenses like gasoline, renting a place to atash the stuff, and so on. It wouldn't make sense for the guy to pay $5000 for your data if he's only netting $2000 stolen, would it?
I had my credit card number stolen one time, and somebody in California bought $3500 worth of stuff at Walmart. I had been traveling and I suspected the girl behind the Motel 6 desk had collected and sold my number. I don't know how much the scammer paid that girl but if it was around $1500 (Symantec's estimate), then he "earned" $2000 profit overall. Not bad.
See it's not about "your" value. It's about the value to the scam artist and how much he thinks he can get with that data.
>>>The same suggestion as always: Lobby Congress to open rights to orphaned works to publishers
A better idea is to make these orphaned works expire and fall into public domain. This is how that Christmas movie "It's A Wonderful Life" became so popular - it had fallen into the public domain, and that allowed TV stations to air it free or run-off VHS copies for free. Copyright is not intended to be forever; it's intended to be a temporary stimulus for artists.
Breaking-up a monopoly is not fascism (control of the Corporate Board by government). Antitrust laws exist to restore competition so the free market can work properly, and provide consumers with multiple choices. It's about restoring power to the people.
>>>Uggla, who's a reasonably big artist in Sweden, made as much from Spotify as he claims an average busker in the street makes in a day.
I fail to see the problem with this.
Why do singers think they should
be paid more than average guys?
>>>Just like cable channels
Hence why many of us don't like Spotify or other rental music, because Cable TV is a ripoff. You pay around $800 a year for basic cable, ~$1300 for digital/HD cable, and get little in return (mostly reruns of stuff you've already seen, or just plain ol' crap). It's cheaper to just buy the DVD of your favorite shows like Mr. Monk, Stargate, BSG, True Blood, et cetera. Likewise it's cheaper to just buy the CDs or singles of your favorite singers.
In virtually every case, renting is more expensive than owning. This applies to cars, to homes, to furniture, and also to music. That's why megacorps love to push "leasing" so hard - because they reap bigger profits than selling.
Bend over.
It's a good thing we have antitrust laws to stop this kind of thing from happening. Now if only the U.S. DOJ would enforce them.
>>>>>God you dense.
>>Your typing leaves something to be desired.
It's not a typo or grammatical error. It's Ebonics. ;-)
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>>>I never suggested such a thing, you made it up based on how you (mis)read what I wrote.
I understood perfectly. You basically said "in defense of cable" that it was cheaper than training pigeons, which is more costly in time and money.
Now you're trying to backpeddle and pretend you never said that, but it seems quite clear - you forgot laying cable ALSO requires traiining and money and time.
Right now I'm leaning towards the pigeon being cheaper. It's certainly faster (about 50 times faster).
I shouldn't have become an engineer. Lawyers are the ones with real power. Judges are the next level, and politicians are on the top (unless they do something stupid which causes them to lose the next election).
I always cooperate with the cops.
I'll tell them calmly and rationally "no I'm not turning off the camcorder" or "no I'm not letting you search my trunk" because I have Constitutionally protected rights, but I won't put up a fight either. If they tell me I'm about to be arrested then I'll lay down the camera where it's safe (but still recording) and then turn myself over. Let my lawyer do the fighting in court.
>>>I suspect most folks got higher numbers.
I got $1495 with "as low as" $75
This was just a way to sell their software. When I said I had a "security suite" to protect my accounts they rated me as "low risk" but when I changed the answer to "no security" than they rated me high. I'm surprised they didn't have an instant popup to sell me their program.
This is just like the insurance companies who make it sound you'll be run-over by a car or hit by a falling ladder, as soon as you step outside your home. Exaggerating a person's risk is a scam to get your money. That's all it is. "Oh yeah you need to buy this, else you will be SCREWED!!! Hahaha." "OMG I'll take it!" "A wise decision madam."
Ch-ching.
>>>Tell that to the fucking cameras that always get me a ticket for making a LEGAL RIGHT HAND TURN AT A RED LIGHT.
I don't believe this story.
Most cameras (or their operators) are intelligent enough to know the difference between an illegal move and a legal right turn. And even if were true, by this point you could sue the city for harassment, because you keep getting ticketed for doing nothing wrong. The AAA won a similar case in Washington D.C. (the lights were too short). The cameras are still there but the problem fixed.
>>>before or after he destroys your camera
Destruction of evidence (which may have proved the citizen not guilty) is grounds for immediate dismissal of a court case. And usually the cop is forced on mandatory leave (or even fired) for the act.
Sounds like FUD. Especially since the policebox was freshly painted specifically for the new show and could have been made to look good on HD sets. The real reason BBC is filming Doctor Who in SD is because using existing DigiBetacams is cheaper than upgrading to HD cameras. My local tv station is the same way, broadcasting HD signals but filming everything using old SD cameras.
The BBC has always had a funding shortage, which is why a lot of the 60s/70s episodes were lost (not enough money to store/save the tapes or films). There's also a factor of scifi being more expensive to make in HD. Even Star Trek did not switch to HD until the year 2001, and they had a ~3 million per episode budget. I bet the new Doctor only gets a third of that.
Superbit is not really an option for most movies, since that idea was only available for a few select titles. Also: While a normal DVD averages ~5 Mbit/s and superbit DVD averages ~8 Mbit/s, those numbers are still vastly smaller than the ~40 Mbit/s average on Bluray titles. So BRD still offers less compression and fewer artifacts.
>>>Alot of people think their HD player will send to their HD TV with regular cabling, you'd be surprised. I'd say about 2 in 5 make that mistake.
Source of this statistic? Your ass? ;-)
>>>There IS such thing as HD sound, that kind of stuff comes on High Definition Discs
You mean uncompressed sound. Say what you mean. Normal people can't hear the difference between the 640 kbit/s compressed sound on DVD, and the uncompressed sound on Bluray, so I consider this "upgrade" a nonfactor in the experience. I certainly hear no difference between 5.1 on DVD and 5.1 on Bluray.
That's just because you don't want to go to jail for flashing your boobs in front of a London or New York City camera. ;-) Me I think the cameras are fine (an electronic cop enforcing the law is no different than a human cop enforcing the law), but the laws should be changed. Women should be free to flash their boobs whereever they want. ;-)
And yes if you drive 65 in a 55 zone and the electronic cops catches you, then you should be ticketed. I'm sorry but the law is the law. If you don't like it, rather than not enforce it, change it to something better (like no speed limits in rural areas - I could get behind that).
>>>acquire an almost da Vinci-like creativity for inventing reasons you've broken the law
Is this a reference to the Canadian TV show Da Vinci's Inquest? He does indeed have a knack for inventing reasons to arrest suspects, even if they are innocent.
Thanks! Between Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania I run into a lot of bad cops who like to perform Vehicle trunk searches without warrant (or probable cause). It's good to know I can record them in public places,just in case they decide to beat me or otherwise abuse my rights.
If the cops are doing classified work, yes that needs to be kept secret..... .....but conversations that can be recorded publicly by the human ear-brain combination should also be recorded by pen-and-paper, or tape, or camcorder. Cops are employees of the people, who are the bosses that pay their salaries, so they have NO right to operate with the expectation of privacy in their official duties, anymore than we expect privacy in our corporate cubicles. They need to be held accountable for when they beat-up citizens* or otherwise abuse their power (Professor Gates). If the cops don't like it, then the cops can either resign, or get fired by the People/bosses, or replaced with more-compliant employees that follow the Constitutional law.
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* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVMZUgmrJrk
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZqNb4gx1Ss
Over 30,000 users on Tradewars is not massive? Half-a-million on AOL/Quantum Link's Club Caribe AKA Habitat is not massive? Pu-leeze. The latter carries the designation MMORPG on its wikipedia page. In fact virtually every genre today was born in the 70s or 80s, even if you refuse to acknowledge that fact.
Agreed. It's not as though you can just go buy one in the store. They are at a fixed quantity of ~10 million units and shrinking. Eventually you won't be able to find a Dreamcast or Atari VCS/2600 or NES anywhere except in museums. And then you'll wish you had not carelessly thrown-away or destroyed these machines.