The record labels spend tons of money trying to get popular stations to play their songs. In college, I was the music director of our university's station in Boston. We had TEN watts. Yet, we got servicing from every major record label, just about every indie label and were bombarded by calls and promortions from the independently hired promotions companies (paid by the majors).
All this because we were in one of the top five markets in the country. One spin on our station reached more ears than one on a 50,000 watt college station in the middle of east bumfuck. So we got more attention than them.
The fact that a label only has to convince a single station somewhere to play their song in order to get it on Microsoft's copied playlist must be making them salivate as much as Pavlov's dog at a firehouse.
Maybe there'll be a fight between ClearChannel and MS, but the RIAA must be loving this... And they'll side with MS...
So you are saying that none of the taxpayer's money should be spent on projects that actually benefit taxpayers?
Here's a novel idea - why not let the taxpayers spend their own damn money? I don't think you're directly suggesting otherwise, but I don't think you went far enough. As far as I'm concerned, my money should be spent by me. No group of people can decide how my money should be spent better than I can on my own.
If I decide that I would like wireless access everywhere in my city, then let's start a private fund to do so. The gov't bureacracy doesn't need to skim off the top and waste money that would be better spent directly on the project.
Lowering the cost of running government (by outsourcing to private companies) WILL reduce the number of poor people. Less spent in taxes = more profit for companies and individuals = more money availble to invest hiring people who wouldn't otherwise be hired.
I don't think the fact that he was put on the list was politically motivated - but I am wondering why it took three weeks to make the news...
Did he decide that he wouldn't tell anyone until the issue was resolved? Did the people in the airport not realize it was Ted? I'd have told everyone I know, and an airport usually has enought people in it that SOMEONE would have let a newspaper or TV station know... It happened FIVE times...
Further, wouldn't this have made a more favorable impact for the D's if the news came out during the DNC? Maybe they wanted to wait until people forgot about the DNC and started thinking about the RNC...
Shouldn't that read "9 out of 10 people do not grok what grok means"?
I tend to agree, although it has always seemed to me to be pretty easy to grok the meaning of grok from the context of the sentence in which grok is used, for some reason.
OTOH, if you were to snarkdon a pair of todhssals, I'm not sure the average nihle would be able to grok the viccrick of your actions...
It looks like John Doolittle (the other guy responsible for this bill) was influenced by an iPod:
On Wednesday the Rocklin Republican pulled his iPod from his pocket and used it as a weapon in his battle to amend copyright laws by removing limitation on copying audio and video compact discs and DVDs for personal use.
Often, when I buy the ticket at the venue, the day of the show, on my way in, all I get is one of those small raffle tickets to hand to the bouncer after I pass the ticket window. There's no fine print on those...
Am I to assume that it's legal for me to record the show, but not for someone who bought their tickets in advance?
Maybe, maybe not, but we're going to need one eventually. If we start building vehicles that don't use gas, we'll need to replace the lost revenue somehow...
BTW - I'm not sure that EzPass makes toll roads less useable - in fact, if there didn't "need" to be a cash alternative, we could make the roads more useable by removing the booths and allowing people to pay the toll without having to slow down...
Also - my 2600 lb. car gets 18 miles to the gallon. I'm sure I do only slightly more damage to the roads using them than my lawnmower would, but I pay more in gas taxes than a lot of far heavier vehicles. Furthermore, when I'm on a privately owned track (I give the owner money to maintain it), I get something like 8 miles per gallon. I'm still paying gas tax on this and doing NO damage to public highways...
Taxing gasoline is not a fair way to collect revenue for road upkeep. We've got the technology to improve this, but no one wants to use it.
In fact, until it's a private company monitoring my road usage, and not the government, I'm not sure I want to use it. However, there are alternatives (tolls by mile, tolls by location, etc.), and we will eventually need them (assuming less gas consumption by vehicles in the future), so we need to start somewhere...
keep text logs of the conversations, and able to revoke the access of those who abuse their accounts.
You can't be serious... Would you advocate keeping a log of every voice call as well, and revoking phone service from those who "abuse their accounts"???
Who's going to define "abuse"? Can a TTY user have phone sex, or is this something the deaf shouldn't be allowed to access?
That's not a reason for a gasoline tax - that's a reason to charge for the use of a road.
A gas tax to pay for roads is like a food tax to pay for sewage systems. There is no reason to believe that using a certain amount of gas requires a correlated amount of road use any more than saying that if we both eat the same size pizza, we'll have the same amount of "sewage usage".
Most subscribers will receive an issue that features four cover pages of intensely personalized information, a demonstration of bleeding-edge technology that may one day allow for mass-customized and hyper-individualized print publications (btw, pace the Times' headline, our monthly print circulation totals about 55,000).
I'll let you know - I've been using a Mailboxes Etc. (now the UPS Store) address for the past six years and that's the address my issue of Reason will be sent to...
As for showing John Q. Public how powerful these systems are... You should try reading some of the stuff on privacy at Reason's website. Often times, the stuff there is (believe it or not) more insightful than the stuff posted here!!!
I don't think the average Reason subscriber will be all that surprised that their house is on the cover. I'll even bet that a good portion DO have the post office or a PMB or other mail drop circled.
So for $57 I get cable AND cable modem, $3 cheaper than cable modem alone. Why? Who knows?
It's because TV is like CRACK - once they get you sucked in, you'll just glance at the bill and pay the extra $4 service fee increase in a few months. You'll have gotten addicted to... err.. "used to" watching TV...
Like fairness, "rich" is a subjective term, but the most common definition of "rich" in Washington is someone in the top 20 percent (or quintile) of income. Many Americans in this quintile hardly would qualify as rich, though, since the cutoff in 1999 for the top 20 percent of tax returns is $79,375 of household income.
If you allowed people to wander into the cafe off the street, with no identification or means to identify them later, then you have jsut created a magnificent safe haven for all sorts of criminals.
Becuase criminals wouldn't dream of using the existing safehavens known as public libraries...
I'm not sure how that makes your point. If you replace an hour of TV with an hour of the Internet, you haven't exactly gained time for social activities...
So take your car to the track, go the maximum speed and keep the reciept from your run. Now you've got proof that you've been on PRIVATE land when your speedo registered a LEGAL speed of 147 MPH.
OR, find a dyno at a performance shop and pay them to test your HP at 6000 RPM's or maximum speed, or accuracy of your speedomoter at 140 MPH etc. Again, you've got physical evidence of going "too fast" legally...
Oh yeah - leave your seatbelt unbuckled and take a picture while you're at the track or on the dyno...
Without LOCATION information, speed info is worthless. You can drive as FAST as you want on PRIVATE property...
Authority: Sir, why have you driven 1000 times as many miles at 80+ MPH than at 20 MPH?
Me: Because there's only one hairpin turn at the track I go to...
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The record labels spend tons of money trying to get popular stations to play their songs. In college, I was the music director of our university's station in Boston. We had TEN watts. Yet, we got servicing from every major record label, just about every indie label and were bombarded by calls and promortions from the independently hired promotions companies (paid by the majors).
All this because we were in one of the top five markets in the country. One spin on our station reached more ears than one on a 50,000 watt college station in the middle of east bumfuck. So we got more attention than them.
The fact that a label only has to convince a single station somewhere to play their song in order to get it on Microsoft's copied playlist must be making them salivate as much as Pavlov's dog at a firehouse.
Maybe there'll be a fight between ClearChannel and MS, but the RIAA must be loving this... And they'll side with MS...
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Here's a novel idea - why not let the taxpayers spend their own damn money? I don't think you're directly suggesting otherwise, but I don't think you went far enough. As far as I'm concerned, my money should be spent by me. No group of people can decide how my money should be spent better than I can on my own.
If I decide that I would like wireless access everywhere in my city, then let's start a private fund to do so. The gov't bureacracy doesn't need to skim off the top and waste money that would be better spent directly on the project.
Lowering the cost of running government (by outsourcing to private companies) WILL reduce the number of poor people. Less spent in taxes = more profit for companies and individuals = more money availble to invest hiring people who wouldn't otherwise be hired.
Private solutions are always best...
I don't think the fact that he was put on the list was politically motivated - but I am wondering why it took three weeks to make the news...
Did he decide that he wouldn't tell anyone until the issue was resolved? Did the people in the airport not realize it was Ted? I'd have told everyone I know, and an airport usually has enought people in it that SOMEONE would have let a newspaper or TV station know... It happened FIVE times...
Further, wouldn't this have made a more favorable impact for the D's if the news came out during the DNC? Maybe they wanted to wait until people forgot about the DNC and started thinking about the RNC...
Or maybe it never really happened...
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Shouldn't that read "9 out of 10 people do not grok what grok means"?
I tend to agree, although it has always seemed to me to be pretty easy to grok the meaning of grok from the context of the sentence in which grok is used, for some reason.
OTOH, if you were to snarkdon a pair of todhssals, I'm not sure the average nihle would be able to grok the viccrick of your actions...
[The check is in the mail]
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On Wednesday the Rocklin Republican pulled his iPod from his pocket and used it as a weapon in his battle to amend copyright laws by removing limitation on copying audio and video compact discs and DVDs for personal use.
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Am I to assume that it's legal for me to record the show, but not for someone who bought their tickets in advance?
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Maybe, maybe not, but we're going to need one eventually. If we start building vehicles that don't use gas, we'll need to replace the lost revenue somehow...
BTW - I'm not sure that EzPass makes toll roads less useable - in fact, if there didn't "need" to be a cash alternative, we could make the roads more useable by removing the booths and allowing people to pay the toll without having to slow down...
Also - my 2600 lb. car gets 18 miles to the gallon. I'm sure I do only slightly more damage to the roads using them than my lawnmower would, but I pay more in gas taxes than a lot of far heavier vehicles. Furthermore, when I'm on a privately owned track (I give the owner money to maintain it), I get something like 8 miles per gallon. I'm still paying gas tax on this and doing NO damage to public highways...
Taxing gasoline is not a fair way to collect revenue for road upkeep. We've got the technology to improve this, but no one wants to use it.
In fact, until it's a private company monitoring my road usage, and not the government, I'm not sure I want to use it. However, there are alternatives (tolls by mile, tolls by location, etc.), and we will eventually need them (assuming less gas consumption by vehicles in the future), so we need to start somewhere...
-bs
You can't be serious... Would you advocate keeping a log of every voice call as well, and revoking phone service from those who "abuse their accounts"???
Who's going to define "abuse"? Can a TTY user have phone sex, or is this something the deaf shouldn't be allowed to access?
-bs
A gas tax to pay for roads is like a food tax to pay for sewage systems. There is no reason to believe that using a certain amount of gas requires a correlated amount of road use any more than saying that if we both eat the same size pizza, we'll have the same amount of "sewage usage".
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but you could still stop people from recording your broadcast, reproducing it or distributing it
should that be "AND" and not "or"???
I don't disagree with either of you, but how do you stop someone from reproducing something from scratch?
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This would make it difficult to generate your own mix CD for the car...
First, you'd have to check to make sure no one had ever broadcast the songs you wanted to record in the order you wanted to record them...
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Most subscribers will receive an issue that features four cover pages of intensely personalized information, a demonstration of bleeding-edge technology that may one day allow for mass-customized and hyper-individualized print publications (btw, pace the Times' headline, our monthly print circulation totals about 55,000).
So it's not just the cover...
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As for showing John Q. Public how powerful these systems are... You should try reading some of the stuff on privacy at Reason's website. Often times, the stuff there is (believe it or not) more insightful than the stuff posted here!!!
I don't think the average Reason subscriber will be all that surprised that their house is on the cover. I'll even bet that a good portion DO have the post office or a PMB or other mail drop circled.
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This depends on how fast my key repeat rate is set for... And I do need to look just once...
Password: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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It's because TV is like CRACK - once they get you sucked in, you'll just glance at the bill and pay the extra $4 service fee increase in a few months. You'll have gotten addicted to... err.. "used to" watching TV...
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no - it's Marge Simpson's tin-foil hat...
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HA! If only it were that HIGH... Fact is, many slashdot readers probably fit the definition...
From The Heritage Foundation:
Like fairness, "rich" is a subjective term, but the most common definition of "rich" in Washington is someone in the top 20 percent (or quintile) of income. Many Americans in this quintile hardly would qualify as rich, though, since the cutoff in 1999 for the top 20 percent of tax returns is $79,375 of household income.
Keep in mind that that is HOUSEHOLD income...
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Becuase criminals wouldn't dream of using the existing safehavens known as public libraries...
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Would water/ice be blue w/out a blue sky? I only paid attention in physics when fire was involved, so I have no idea, but does anyone else know?
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I'm not sure how that makes your point. If you replace an hour of TV with an hour of the Internet, you haven't exactly gained time for social activities...
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outlook 2003 doesn't display images unless you specifically request them...
by default...
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OR, find a dyno at a performance shop and pay them to test your HP at 6000 RPM's or maximum speed, or accuracy of your speedomoter at 140 MPH etc. Again, you've got physical evidence of going "too fast" legally...
Oh yeah - leave your seatbelt unbuckled and take a picture while you're at the track or on the dyno...
Without LOCATION information, speed info is worthless. You can drive as FAST as you want on PRIVATE property...
Authority: Sir, why have you driven 1000 times as many miles at 80+ MPH than at 20 MPH?
Me: Because there's only one hairpin turn at the track I go to...
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