... and get off my lawn!
seriously though, i'm all for folks like you trying to make a profitable business but frankly, you (and the rest of the industry) need a better business model. let me make analogy from your time period you're selling horses and but steve jobs is really henrey ford, and itunes? well, you can call that the assembly line. what you offer is obsolete.
should artists get paid for what they do? sure, but everyone wants to eliminate the middleman. if you cant find a good reason for people to buy CD's rather than download music (legally or otherwise) you need to stop being a middleman- produce something. the industrial revolution left a lot of people crying the same sob story you are.
sure you can argue that digital distribution is often illegal, but frankly the law is whatever people make it. the law in this case actually makes it harder on the artist. if the lawmakers werent at the beck and call of their corporate constituents the whole RIAA DRM crap would be ancient history, much like retail CD stores. now i know that last sentence may look kinda "conspiracy theory" but truthfully, someday the law will represent the will of the majority and when it does, artists will make music, put it on the tubes and i'll buy it directly from the artist and the RIAA, the record label, and you, will all be unemployed. so do yourself a favor, like i said before, go do something productive, dont be a middleman.
x2 i was just thinking the same thing, hell they dont even need to extend, if they mangle the format even half as badly as adobe does then they'll essentially force ODF to follow MS standards. speaking of Adobe, thats what this is all about, they're trying to take an Axe to Adobes throat in the office envrionment, and i think they very well may succeed. every one of my clients needs office and adobe pro, if they now say "hey i can create PDFs without adobe, and i'll save money!" Adobe will fall the way of the dodo. i'm definitly not a microsoft fanboy but i will certainly say good riddance to adobe when i no longer have to workaround their stupid programming. (and before you start telling mey about the merits of FOSS PDF writers, yet, i agree but my clients succumb to FUD easily and they write the check.)
(it shouldn't be more expensive than the electricity to move those bits around).
i agree with all you said but this. there is a cost inherent in managing, administering, servicing, and maintaining the tools that move those electrons in such a coordinated fashion. and while, yes, badwidth is excessively priced, especially in the US, it will always and should always cost more than the electricity. with your line of thought there would be no service industry of _any_ kind.
mod me pedantic but mushrooms arent plants, they're fungi... and before the ob. fun guy joke comes along, lets squash it, because like zucchini, thats a plant.
Wouldn't it be better for the supermarket to simply not rearrange their store all the damn time? Or alternatively, provide decent customer service by having employees give the elderly people directions?
... and stay off my lawn!
spoken like a true geriatric.
mod me pedantic if you must but Mexican isint a race, to inaccurately imply that Mexican hospitals are of poor quality isint racist, its inaccurate. and for that matter the outbreak should likely bee referred to as Mexican Flu (being that Mexico appears to be the point of origin) or as H1N1 to avoid offending anyone other than astromech droids. calling it swine flu just incites mass panic and irrational action in the pork industry as noted by others.
And your dismissal... coupled with some of stories in the media (30,000 die of flu every year! Why is this so bad?) is undermining what should be considered a serious threat.
undermining what? the potential for panic? the fact of the matter is anyone is part of an
early creditable response" isint gonna give a flaming ballsack for peoples opinions, they'll have actual data and i dont mean brent spinner. if this turns bad, then "an early and creditable response" will not have been made.
holy crap, this is actually a brilliant government bailout scheme! Taxpayer money is bailing out big pharma and we'll be blaming pigs and mexicans for years rather than the government. score +1 for the President on that one.
agreed. touch nothing but your zipper and genitals and all is well. unless of course you have some form of VD, but then hey, your're already infected with something worse than the flu so dont give me a syphilis handshake. also most (if not all) bathroom doors open outward, use your foot to open the door.
for those to lazy to glean from the article heres the relevant lines:
" The leading theory on why so many young, healthy people die in pandemics is the âoecytokine storm,â in which vigorous immune systems pour out antibodies to attack the new virus. That can inflame lung cells until they leak fluid, which can overwhelm the lungs, Dr. Moscona said.
But older people who have had the flu repeatedly in their lives may have some antibodies that provide cross-protection to the new strain, she said. And immune responses among the aged are not as vigorous."
[italics mine]
you dont know that a Cytokine storm is what we're seeing here, and while time will tell, and it very well may be, this idea is at this point theory and speculation. science can work on theory, reality cannot. in theory credit default swaps were like free money, in theory there were WMDs in Iraq... i'll leave it at that.
It it is most dangerous to those with strong immune systems because of the potential for cytokine storms
Which is pure speculation at this point. The truth is nobody knows why it's mostly killed young people so far. Pointing to a cytokine storm as the cause is possible, but very misleading.
No it's not; read up on the Spanish flu of 1918-1920, this strain is very similar and is functioning in exactly the same way.
congratulations, you've just denied speculation on the grounds which prove speculation. yes, its very similar, therefore you're speculating that there is the potential for cytokine storms. until there is documented evidence of something, it is by definition speculative. thus far, there has been no such documentation.
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cuz we don't normally eat people.
speak for yourself. cannibalism is part of my zombie plan. i could explain but it would require lots of maps and graphs...
... and get off my lawn! seriously though, i'm all for folks like you trying to make a profitable business but frankly, you (and the rest of the industry) need a better business model. let me make analogy from your time period you're selling horses and but steve jobs is really henrey ford, and itunes? well, you can call that the assembly line. what you offer is obsolete.
should artists get paid for what they do? sure, but everyone wants to eliminate the middleman. if you cant find a good reason for people to buy CD's rather than download music (legally or otherwise) you need to stop being a middleman- produce something. the industrial revolution left a lot of people crying the same sob story you are.
sure you can argue that digital distribution is often illegal, but frankly the law is whatever people make it. the law in this case actually makes it harder on the artist. if the lawmakers werent at the beck and call of their corporate constituents the whole RIAA DRM crap would be ancient history, much like retail CD stores. now i know that last sentence may look kinda "conspiracy theory" but truthfully, someday the law will represent the will of the majority and when it does, artists will make music, put it on the tubes and i'll buy it directly from the artist and the RIAA, the record label, and you, will all be unemployed. so do yourself a favor, like i said before, go do something productive, dont be a middleman.
x2 i was just thinking the same thing, hell they dont even need to extend, if they mangle the format even half as badly as adobe does then they'll essentially force ODF to follow MS standards. speaking of Adobe, thats what this is all about, they're trying to take an Axe to Adobes throat in the office envrionment, and i think they very well may succeed. every one of my clients needs office and adobe pro, if they now say "hey i can create PDFs without adobe, and i'll save money!" Adobe will fall the way of the dodo. i'm definitly not a microsoft fanboy but i will certainly say good riddance to adobe when i no longer have to workaround their stupid programming. (and before you start telling mey about the merits of FOSS PDF writers, yet, i agree but my clients succumb to FUD easily and they write the check.)
(it shouldn't be more expensive than the electricity to move those bits around).
i agree with all you said but this. there is a cost inherent in managing, administering, servicing, and maintaining the tools that move those electrons in such a coordinated fashion. and while, yes, badwidth is excessively priced, especially in the US, it will always and should always cost more than the electricity. with your line of thought there would be no service industry of _any_ kind.
Anyone who used a single kB more than Joe Average, however, would get slammed with overage fees.
fixed it for ya.
centuries? how old was this gardener?
i'll see your "size != quality" argument and raise you a "natrual == healthier" argument
mod me pedantic but mushrooms arent plants, they're fungi... and before the ob. fun guy joke comes along, lets squash it, because like zucchini, thats a plant.
Wouldn't it be better for the supermarket to simply not rearrange their store all the damn time? Or alternatively, provide decent customer service by having employees give the elderly people directions?
... and stay off my lawn! spoken like a true geriatric.
no, now they can have one more thing they dont understand how to make work. and they'll still ask the punk highschool kid where the alpo is.
compare those curves to the "not flipping out curve" i'll draw it below
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i perfer this one.
any time in the past seems pretty definitive to me... depending on which books you read.
mod me pedantic if you must but Mexican isint a race, to inaccurately imply that Mexican hospitals are of poor quality isint racist, its inaccurate. and for that matter the outbreak should likely bee referred to as Mexican Flu (being that Mexico appears to be the point of origin) or as H1N1 to avoid offending anyone other than astromech droids. calling it swine flu just incites mass panic and irrational action in the pork industry as noted by others.
And your dismissal... coupled with some of stories in the media (30,000 die of flu every year! Why is this so bad?) is undermining what should be considered a serious threat.
undermining what? the potential for panic? the fact of the matter is anyone is part of an early creditable response" isint gonna give a flaming ballsack for peoples opinions, they'll have actual data and i dont mean brent spinner. if this turns bad, then "an early and creditable response" will not have been made.
holy crap, this is actually a brilliant government bailout scheme! Taxpayer money is bailing out big pharma and we'll be blaming pigs and mexicans for years rather than the government. score +1 for the President on that one.
i for one welcome our Zombie flu overlords.
Call the CDC and the WHO i'm sure tehy'd llike to know how you concluded that there is a cytokine storm in effect here.
[citation needed] you must work for fox news
agreed. touch nothing but your zipper and genitals and all is well. unless of course you have some form of VD, but then hey, your're already infected with something worse than the flu so dont give me a syphilis handshake. also most (if not all) bathroom doors open outward, use your foot to open the door.
for those to lazy to glean from the article heres the relevant lines:
" The leading theory on why so many young, healthy people die in pandemics is the âoecytokine storm,â in which vigorous immune systems pour out antibodies to attack the new virus. That can inflame lung cells until they leak fluid, which can overwhelm the lungs, Dr. Moscona said. But older people who have had the flu repeatedly in their lives may have some antibodies that provide cross-protection to the new strain, she said. And immune responses among the aged are not as vigorous." [italics mine]
you dont know that a Cytokine storm is what we're seeing here, and while time will tell, and it very well may be, this idea is at this point theory and speculation. science can work on theory, reality cannot. in theory credit default swaps were like free money, in theory there were WMDs in Iraq... i'll leave it at that.
It it is most dangerous to those with strong immune systems because of the potential for cytokine storms Which is pure speculation at this point. The truth is nobody knows why it's mostly killed young people so far. Pointing to a cytokine storm as the cause is possible, but very misleading.
No it's not; read up on the Spanish flu of 1918-1920, this strain is very similar and is functioning in exactly the same way.
congratulations, you've just denied speculation on the grounds which prove speculation. yes, its very similar, therefore you're speculating that there is the potential for cytokine storms. until there is documented evidence of something, it is by definition speculative. thus far, there has been no such documentation.