Whose property? The artist signed a little thing called a contract. The "Cost to produce a CD" argument is a straw man. The whole issue is, it's perfectly legal for us to make noncommercial copies. The record companies don't like that, and have never liked that, but they know that they can still continue to overcharge for CD's and make a hefty profit, even if the same material is available for free, online.
The real issue is control of the medium, and being shut out as the middlemen. When artists stop being such dunderheads and signing into these oppressive agreements with the record companies, and start putting up their own MP3 download sites, is when guys like Steve Heckler stop getting blowjobs from Brittney Spears for making her famous. This is the whole deal. The power. The control. They're going to lose it, one way or t'other.
But they won't disappear either. Did online trading kill off the big brokerage houses? You bet it didn't. Yeah, it squeezed them, but they're still pretty healthy, and you can bet your ass that they would have done something to stop it if they saw a serious threat. We're talking the very gnomes of zurich here.
I'll accept apologies now from all the people who called me an idiot 3 months ago when I suggested that this is exactly the sort of thing they would be forced to attempt.
one example where that would not "work". To my satisfaction anyways -
There is a very talented musician that I know of. Andy Partridge, of the band XTC. He has an unfortunate circumstance; a psychological problem, he can not perform in front of an audience, or even on camera. He has severe anxiety attacks. XTC has toured, and has had to cancel performances, and end tours early, every time he thought he had it whipped. That said, XTC's recorded music is absoltuely fantastic, and I would hate for it to not have a shot at existing, just because it is necessary for an artist to perform in order to be paid.
There has to be another way - and I believe, quite FIRMLY, that free, noncommercial trading of MP3's on the internet will NOT harm revenue from CD sales. It will change things for the record industry, they may need to work harder, more honestly, to make a buck, but they'll still get their bucks. Many of them. People want music. They want it free, but that doesn't mean people won't pay for it, even if it's available free.
If MS designed IE so that Netscape would no longer work once IE was installed, MS would claim that Netscape has a bug, and needs to fix it.
Nobody would go to court.
This is the same exact thing that happened, if you recall, with Microsoft Media Player, and Real, and QuickTime. It has also happened with numerous other competing softwares, like WP, Lotus Notes, and the only time someone has gone to court over it was DR DOS, and even then though it was pretty obvious that it was NOT a DR DOS bug, and that it was actual sabotage by Microsoft, they still got off.
I need a 2ghz chip waiting for menus to pop up on my NT box.
I need a 2ghz chip waiting for NT to boot.
I need a 2ghz chip waiting for the contents of "My Computer" to display-out.
Some folks say that the CPU spins most cycles waiting for the user. Why is it that I still do a fuck of a lot of waiting on my 600MHz PIII?
Not concrete. Asphalt. Asshole. Saying it's skate parks is totally innacurate, and possibly evil. It's the vast expanses of Asphalt freeways and parking lots that absorbs the sun's energy more readily (cause it's black, and concrete is white, dipshit).
the CO2 increases are not causing global warming, and coincidentally some unknown, natural
force is the real cause.
It's Lugia, the mysterious lost 4th bird Pokemon, who is responsible for controlling the earth's ocean currents, and therefore the weather. It's all these Pokemon collectors that are causing the problem!
Hey, if global warming was a natural phenomenon, and it happened 2000 years ago, then we REALLY wouldn't have had a clue, would we? Astrology would have been a hot job market back then (by all accounts, it was anyway).
Just don't buy any insurance, because once those claims start coming in from flooded billion-dollar beachfront homes, the economy will be in upheaval. Best buy guns.
Biodiesel could be considered a very high "pollution at car" source, because there are numerous studies that seem to implicate diesel particles in the causes of allergies, and may be responsible for the high incidence of allergies in humans living in urban areas. That's no fun at all. I'd like to see some studies validating this or refuting it, but that just isn't done yet.
Then there was the T1000, who would bathe himself in it, freeze, shatter, and melt into tiny droplets of liquid metal, and reform into a California Highway Patrolman. What a riot.
Even if you burn the waste, there will still be significant portions that will be significantly radioactive, as well as all the slightly radioactive stuff from replacement parts, cleaning solutions, transportation containers.
This stuff is radioactive for millions of years, Where the hell are we going to put it where it will be safe that long - the longest lasting buildings in human history are only a few thousand years old? Fission is insane.
Of course, your arguments against coal are pefectly valid, coal is equally if not moreso insane.
I thought that Frasier would have a bit more taste than that.
But then again, Frasier has been one long running ad for Starbucks from the start. (or whatever wine they're sipping, or the catalog Frasier ordered that leather couch from, etc.)
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I still wish LiteStep could get rid of the crufty Microsoft Windows widgets - and replece them with something a bit more sensible and clean.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
Whose property? The artist signed a little thing called a contract. The "Cost to produce a CD" argument is a straw man. The whole issue is, it's perfectly legal for us to make noncommercial copies. The record companies don't like that, and have never liked that, but they know that they can still continue to overcharge for CD's and make a hefty profit, even if the same material is available for free, online.
The real issue is control of the medium, and being shut out as the middlemen. When artists stop being such dunderheads and signing into these oppressive agreements with the record companies, and start putting up their own MP3 download sites, is when guys like Steve Heckler stop getting blowjobs from Brittney Spears for making her famous. This is the whole deal. The power. The control. They're going to lose it, one way or t'other.
But they won't disappear either. Did online trading kill off the big brokerage houses? You bet it didn't. Yeah, it squeezed them, but they're still pretty healthy, and you can bet your ass that they would have done something to stop it if they saw a serious threat. We're talking the very gnomes of zurich here.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
actually, lately, they've been making me feel more like a consume-ee, rather than a consumer.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
I'll accept apologies now from all the people who called me an idiot 3 months ago when I suggested that this is exactly the sort of thing they would be forced to attempt.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
one example where that would not "work". To my satisfaction anyways -
There is a very talented musician that I know of. Andy Partridge, of the band XTC. He has an unfortunate circumstance; a psychological problem, he can not perform in front of an audience, or even on camera. He has severe anxiety attacks. XTC has toured, and has had to cancel performances, and end tours early, every time he thought he had it whipped. That said, XTC's recorded music is absoltuely fantastic, and I would hate for it to not have a shot at existing, just because it is necessary for an artist to perform in order to be paid.
There has to be another way - and I believe, quite FIRMLY, that free, noncommercial trading of MP3's on the internet will NOT harm revenue from CD sales. It will change things for the record industry, they may need to work harder, more honestly, to make a buck, but they'll still get their bucks. Many of them. People want music. They want it free, but that doesn't mean people won't pay for it, even if it's available free.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
the moment such a tree was made, another consolidation would come along, and it would change.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
If MS designed IE so that Netscape would no longer work once IE was installed, MS would claim that Netscape has a bug, and needs to fix it.
Nobody would go to court.
This is the same exact thing that happened, if you recall, with Microsoft Media Player, and Real, and QuickTime. It has also happened with numerous other competing softwares, like WP, Lotus Notes, and the only time someone has gone to court over it was DR DOS, and even then though it was pretty obvious that it was NOT a DR DOS bug, and that it was actual sabotage by Microsoft, they still got off.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
yeah-
Motorola, where the fuck are you?
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
I need a 2ghz chip waiting for menus to pop up on my NT box.
I need a 2ghz chip waiting for NT to boot.
I need a 2ghz chip waiting for the contents of "My Computer" to display-out.
Some folks say that the CPU spins most cycles waiting for the user. Why is it that I still do a fuck of a lot of waiting on my 600MHz PIII?
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
John Romero? Wasn't he the dude who did Night of the Living Dead? Or was that the guy who played Joker on the Batman TV show?
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
. . . thus Princess Ada in "A Bug's Life". . .
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
this is why I stopped going to those things. Worse still were the 300 pound GUYS wearing mail bikinis - (shudder!)
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
Then why do you have a quote from Steakly in your .sig?
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
Not concrete. Asphalt. Asshole. Saying it's skate parks is totally innacurate, and possibly evil. It's the vast expanses of Asphalt freeways and parking lots that absorbs the sun's energy more readily (cause it's black, and concrete is white, dipshit).
We need less parking lots, and more skate-parks.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
the CO2 increases are not causing global warming, and coincidentally some unknown, natural
force is the real cause.
It's Lugia, the mysterious lost 4th bird Pokemon, who is responsible for controlling the earth's ocean currents, and therefore the weather. It's all these Pokemon collectors that are causing the problem!
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
Hey, if global warming was a natural phenomenon, and it happened 2000 years ago, then we REALLY wouldn't have had a clue, would we? Astrology would have been a hot job market back then (by all accounts, it was anyway).
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
Just don't buy any insurance, because once those claims start coming in from flooded billion-dollar beachfront homes, the economy will be in upheaval. Best buy guns.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
Biodiesel could be considered a very high "pollution at car" source, because there are numerous studies that seem to implicate diesel particles in the causes of allergies, and may be responsible for the high incidence of allergies in humans living in urban areas. That's no fun at all. I'd like to see some studies validating this or refuting it, but that just isn't done yet.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
Then there was the T1000, who would bathe himself in it, freeze, shatter, and melt into tiny droplets of liquid metal, and reform into a California Highway Patrolman. What a riot.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
How about the Challenger disaster? That was largely hydrogen.
(But I guess ANY rocket fuel would have blowed-up real good).
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
You know, the best way to encourage use of mass transportation is to tear-out all the parking lots and put in high-density housing or shopping malls.
If they can't park, they can't drive.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
um, where are we going to put the waste?
Even if you burn the waste, there will still be significant portions that will be significantly radioactive, as well as all the slightly radioactive stuff from replacement parts, cleaning solutions, transportation containers.
This stuff is radioactive for millions of years, Where the hell are we going to put it where it will be safe that long - the longest lasting buildings in human history are only a few thousand years old? Fission is insane.
Of course, your arguments against coal are pefectly valid, coal is equally if not moreso insane.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
They're already doing that in Japan. Wish I could give you the web link. It was on Memepool about 6 months ago.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
I think that we're all pretty sick of Elvis by now.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
I thought that Frasier would have a bit more taste than that.
But then again, Frasier has been one long running ad for Starbucks from the start. (or whatever wine they're sipping, or the catalog Frasier ordered that leather couch from, etc.)
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!