He never said that the bands he had discovered on napster included Selloutica - that's your own assumption.
I persoanlly have used napster, and have indeed picked up mp3's from bands I've never heard of before that led to physical purchases - I'm more inclined to try a tune out from someone I've never heard of BECAUSE it's free, and I won't buy anything on faith - samples lead to purchases.
I agree that 95 percent of the music that is transferred through the napster client is copyrighted, but the onus is on the users, not the software. The implications of this precedent are staggering and frankly terrifying if you just exchange the term 'copyrighted music' to 'copyrighted anything else'... it could literally be the end of the web - no more browsers, since they infringe on copyright laws by their very nature.
What we SHOULD do is start a clean-sweep policy - no incumbents on the ballot, ever. By doing this, our elected officials can focus on doing their jobs and not how they're going to get re-elected 3 or 4 years down the road. We'd get a steady supply of fresh concepts and practices at every election, the bad laws would be easier to knock down without their old-crony support, good laws would maintain because they're proven.
The Jargonizer's only fault is that the guy who wrote and maintains it can't afford to fight off a bullshit legal threat.
>No representative of a corporation, acting in >that corporation's name, has ever (to my >knowledge) put a gun to someone's head and said, >"Buy our products or we will kill you."
True, but National Lampoon once threatened to shoot a doggie if you didn't buy their mag.
I seem to remember a congressional sub-committee spending an awful lot of time and money on the cost of breakfast cereal not too far back - any chance that we'll see a repeat of this action with the music industry's overinflation of CD prices?
I personally thought the cereal inquiry was a classic example of government being where it wasn't needed, but since it's apparantly OK for our gov't to get involved with pricing in the private sector (socialism, isn't it?), then I want them to look into CD pricing. I listen to a lot more music than I eat breakfast cereal, and I pay a lot of taxes for stuff that never even enters my realm.
>By the way does anyone know if you can make >lesbian Sims?
Yup. I haven't been able to get two women to marry in the game, but I've gotten 'em making out like a couple of prom dates, complete with 100 percent in the friendship/love categories. It may just be a programming oversight (doubtful), but I think it's cool that alternate lifestyles are represented. Pretty bold for Maxis, which typically blands their simulations down so nobody will get offended.
For future revisions, I'd like to see more from the criminal element in the game - drive-by shootings, arsonists, phone scammers, and so on. The setting in the game is quasi-rural, but I bet most people that play it live in urban surroundings and would be able to identify with the game just a little bit more if it was a little uglier.
>... there are so many factors involved in >violent behavior... you can't pin the whole >phenomenon on any one activity.
Sure you can. That activitiy is POOR PARENTING. It's not necessarily a character flaw in today's parents that cause kids to lash out in the most primal of ways when dealing with a tense situation, but today's both-parents-work-and-see-the-family-maybe-an-hour -a-day society takes family focus away from the parent(s). Studies have proven that animals without parental guidance have grown up to be more violent and anti-social, and people are just animals with better taste in clothing.
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He never said that the bands he had discovered on napster included Selloutica - that's your own assumption.
I persoanlly have used napster, and have indeed picked up mp3's from bands I've never heard of before that led to physical purchases - I'm more inclined to try a tune out from someone I've never heard of BECAUSE it's free, and I won't buy anything on faith - samples lead to purchases.
I agree that 95 percent of the music that is transferred through the napster client is copyrighted, but the onus is on the users, not the software. The implications of this precedent are staggering and frankly terrifying if you just exchange the term 'copyrighted music' to 'copyrighted anything else'... it could literally be the end of the web - no more browsers, since they infringe on copyright laws by their very nature.
What we SHOULD do is start a clean-sweep policy - no incumbents on the ballot, ever. By doing this, our elected officials can focus on doing their jobs and not how they're going to get re-elected 3 or 4 years down the road. We'd get a steady supply of fresh concepts and practices at every election, the bad laws would be easier to knock down without their old-crony support, good laws would maintain because they're proven.
The Jargonizer's only fault is that the guy who wrote and maintains it can't afford to fight off a bullshit legal threat.
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>No representative of a corporation, acting in
>that corporation's name, has ever (to my
>knowledge) put a gun to someone's head and said,
>"Buy our products or we will kill you."
True, but National Lampoon once threatened to shoot a doggie if you didn't buy their mag.
I seem to remember a congressional sub-committee spending an awful lot of time and money on the cost of breakfast cereal not too far back - any chance that we'll see a repeat of this action with the music industry's overinflation of CD prices?
I personally thought the cereal inquiry was a classic example of government being where it wasn't needed, but since it's apparantly OK for our gov't to get involved with pricing in the private sector (socialism, isn't it?), then I want them to look into CD pricing. I listen to a lot more music than I eat breakfast cereal, and I pay a lot of taxes for stuff that never even enters my realm.
How about a little satisfaction, Uncle Sam?
>By the way does anyone know if you can make
>lesbian Sims?
Yup. I haven't been able to get two women to marry in the game, but I've gotten 'em making out like a couple of prom dates, complete with 100 percent in the friendship/love categories. It may just be a programming oversight (doubtful), but I think it's cool that alternate lifestyles are represented. Pretty bold for Maxis, which typically blands their simulations down so nobody will get offended.
For future revisions, I'd like to see more from the criminal element in the game - drive-by shootings, arsonists, phone scammers, and so on. The setting in the game is quasi-rural, but I bet most people that play it live in urban surroundings and would be able to identify with the game just a little bit more if it was a little uglier.
>... there are so many factors involved in
r -a-day society takes family focus away from the parent(s). Studies have proven that animals without parental guidance have grown up to be more violent and anti-social, and people are just animals with better taste in clothing.
>violent behavior... you can't pin the whole
>phenomenon on any one activity.
Sure you can. That activitiy is POOR PARENTING. It's not necessarily a character flaw in today's parents that cause kids to lash out in the most primal of ways when dealing with a tense situation, but today's both-parents-work-and-see-the-family-maybe-an-hou