is DVDs having a "Dialogue-Boost" audio track. If you live in a house with other people, and try to watch any DVD that's not an episode of Mad Men at night, you'll find invariably that every film and television program that exists consists solely of about twenty seconds of unintelligible dialogue, which you have to crank the volume up to 11 to make out, and as soon as you do, you're hit with three minutes of discordant score and explosions, then twenty more seconds of unintelligible dialogue (repeat ad nauseum). It wouldn't be too hard to add in an audio track that mixes down the music and sound effects and turns up the dialogue so you can just hear what the fsck they're talking about without waking up your entire neighbourhood.
I swear, the Brotherhood of Foley Artists and Phillip Glass Wannabes, Local 523 makes Jimmy Hoffa look like Mother Theresa.
Simple: they just take whatever anyone who has the same name, or heck, just whose name has the same Soundex code as you has said. So I'd forget about ever finding respectable employment again if I were you, Sex-mad.
Also, keep in mind that even if they were able to offer a rate that was equal to their average aggregate income over the average of their aggregate data usage, just to get to maintain their current bottom-line, there'd surely be some overhead in the counting that they'd incur if they go to metering, which would get passed on to the consumer.
Well, I don't have the all the details, so I don't know what the songs were, but 37 songs is about four albums, which for the last twenty years or so has been the dominant ways music was sold, so maybe $3,000 ($750 * 4) would be a more reasonable verdict? I mean, what if a whole album were distributed as one MP3 (It makes playing Dark Side of the Moon with The Wizard of Oz a bit easier that way)? How much would that be worth?
Granted, 37 songs selected by a 15 year-old girl are probably a collection of singles by 37 different artists, so that middle-ground might not be entirely appropriate, but they could be off NOW! That's What I Call Music Vol. 532,357.
No, as the counter-article hinted at, the real variable is the propensity of shoppers to drive to the store or to take mass public transit versus the use of a large freight truck to take the product to the store versus a much smaller postal vehicle to your house. The fact that the study was performed in England makes me doubt the applicability to myself as a Yank. (The American interstate highway system, and the fact that products ship from a warehouse possibly 3000 miles away directly to your door, with only a handoff between postal distribution centres versus the manufacturer's warehouse-to-X amount of store distribution centres-to-store warehouse-to-store-to-customer's home model is another variable that also probably is beyond the Limey researchers.)
Or do we believe that people in other countries shouldn't be able to express negative opinions about our leaders?
Because this is Slashdot, I'd be remiss if I didn't bring up the obligatory Yakov Smirnoff quote:
"When I came to America, I was amazed at the freedom of speech comedians had. I couldn't believe they could criticize their country's leaders out in the open. Here in America you could say, 'I don't like Reagan'. Of course, in Russia, we were allowed to do that too. We could say, 'I don't like Reagan!'"
And I don't think most people should intuitively know that. As Jobs himself said in TFA, it makes absolutely no sense for a person to hijack his own plane, as the pilot already has to fly to wherever Steve tells him to go -- and there aren't other passengers in danger. Instead, the rule exists to cultivate a submissive-populaced police state by incrementally adding new rules that almost make sense and are almost good ideas, but in the end only foster an inability or apprehension to question the rules that blatantly don't (like the "no water on a plane" rule because it could ignite -- because, you know, planes are made out of pure caesium -- or the "we can no-knock raid your house on drug suspicion and kill all its occupants because drugs are bad, mmkay?" rule).
Ah, but they were making incandescent bulbs competitively, and thanks to government fiat now hundreds (if not thousands) of innocent Americans lose their jobs.
True, girls do cost money, but the traditional route of buying them flowers, chocolate, and jewelry stimulates the economy. Paying the girl directly cuts out the middleman, plus most of them don't report the earned income on their taxes.
Now when I travel back in time I have to add "Don't accidentally change history in ways that ensure zeppelins remain the de facto form of mass transit for the next two centuries" to my already-prohibitive list of safety precautions. And to think Kitty Hawk was about the earliest I could have hoped for not being burned as a witch.
No, his analogy is proper, as he posited a case where people were restricted from the public posting use of the site, just as the argument here is trying to make private the public facade of a house (and the APPEARANCE of the OUTSIDE of your home is every bit as much a piece of public domain information as is the registration of your address). Your assertion of a "straw argument", in fact, relies on the improper equality of posting comments to this story like we're doing to -- well, I'd say stealing the site code if Slash wasn't already open.
If you want your home completely hidden from the public eye, you don't live in a city next door to other people -- you find an isolated parcel of real estate, surrounded by trees or hills or even a fence, with a private road leading to it, and you live there. If it's easier or cheaper to have a house that's on a common street, that ease or price is the price you pay for not having privacy in the commons. But to live there and say "I don't like people seeing my house from a car!" is no more your right than your "right" to demand that your neighbours in the house across the street may only stand facing forwards if they're on the porch, but that they can't look out their upstairs windows or even look out their downstairs windows if they're sitting on a chair.
So Randy Newman was right, short people do in fact have no reason to live, at least if photography is their chosen calling. Do you also outlaw Hail Mary shots?
Yeah, but at least the "H" in "HGTV" stands for real estate. Not sure whether law enforcement could rightfully be seen as an Art, but when someone's getting tased, it's damned good Entertainment!
As there are no actual full English words in TFA, I'll take your word for it, but then it begs the question as to exactly what the fsck kind of moron spends $1300 on a video game subscription.
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is DVDs having a "Dialogue-Boost" audio track. If you live in a house with other people, and try to watch any DVD that's not an episode of Mad Men at night, you'll find invariably that every film and television program that exists consists solely of about twenty seconds of unintelligible dialogue, which you have to crank the volume up to 11 to make out, and as soon as you do, you're hit with three minutes of discordant score and explosions, then twenty more seconds of unintelligible dialogue (repeat ad nauseum). It wouldn't be too hard to add in an audio track that mixes down the music and sound effects and turns up the dialogue so you can just hear what the fsck they're talking about without waking up your entire neighbourhood.
I swear, the Brotherhood of Foley Artists and Phillip Glass Wannabes, Local 523 makes Jimmy Hoffa look like Mother Theresa.
Simple: they just take whatever anyone who has the same name, or heck, just whose name has the same Soundex code as you has said. So I'd forget about ever finding respectable employment again if I were you, Sex-mad.
Also, keep in mind that even if they were able to offer a rate that was equal to their average aggregate income over the average of their aggregate data usage, just to get to maintain their current bottom-line, there'd surely be some overhead in the counting that they'd incur if they go to metering, which would get passed on to the consumer.
Quick! Patent that shit!
Well, I don't have the all the details, so I don't know what the songs were, but 37 songs is about four albums, which for the last twenty years or so has been the dominant ways music was sold, so maybe $3,000 ($750 * 4) would be a more reasonable verdict? I mean, what if a whole album were distributed as one MP3 (It makes playing Dark Side of the Moon with The Wizard of Oz a bit easier that way)? How much would that be worth?
Granted, 37 songs selected by a 15 year-old girl are probably a collection of singles by 37 different artists, so that middle-ground might not be entirely appropriate, but they could be off NOW! That's What I Call Music Vol. 532,357.
Is it just me, or does that illustration look like the world's Roy Horniest dinosaur?
No, as the counter-article hinted at, the real variable is the propensity of shoppers to drive to the store or to take mass public transit versus the use of a large freight truck to take the product to the store versus a much smaller postal vehicle to your house. The fact that the study was performed in England makes me doubt the applicability to myself as a Yank. (The American interstate highway system, and the fact that products ship from a warehouse possibly 3000 miles away directly to your door, with only a handoff between postal distribution centres versus the manufacturer's warehouse-to-X amount of store distribution centres-to-store warehouse-to-store-to-customer's home model is another variable that also probably is beyond the Limey researchers.)
Off the top of my head:
Bryan Adams.
Alanis Morissette.
Celine Dion.
Justin Bieber.
Your argument cuts like a knife through all criticism.
Now, now, there are plenty of countries where they legally burn American flags in mass protests all the time!
Because this is Slashdot, I'd be remiss if I didn't bring up the obligatory Yakov Smirnoff quote:
"When I came to America, I was amazed at the freedom of speech comedians had. I couldn't believe they could criticize their country's leaders out in the open. Here in America you could say, 'I don't like Reagan'. Of course, in Russia, we were allowed to do that too. We could say, 'I don't like Reagan!'"
In Soviet America, joke's on you!
And I don't think most people should intuitively know that. As Jobs himself said in TFA, it makes absolutely no sense for a person to hijack his own plane, as the pilot already has to fly to wherever Steve tells him to go -- and there aren't other passengers in danger. Instead, the rule exists to cultivate a submissive-populaced police state by incrementally adding new rules that almost make sense and are almost good ideas, but in the end only foster an inability or apprehension to question the rules that blatantly don't (like the "no water on a plane" rule because it could ignite -- because, you know, planes are made out of pure caesium -- or the "we can no-knock raid your house on drug suspicion and kill all its occupants because drugs are bad, mmkay?" rule).
Ah, but they were making incandescent bulbs competitively, and thanks to government fiat now hundreds (if not thousands) of innocent Americans lose their jobs.
Did they go by how much a person makes or how much a person spends?
True, girls do cost money, but the traditional route of buying them flowers, chocolate, and jewelry stimulates the economy. Paying the girl directly cuts out the middleman, plus most of them don't report the earned income on their taxes.
Ooooooooh, uncann is gonna pay!
(Was going to say "gonna pa!", but worried that might be too obtuse?)
Then Debian and Ubuntu have been completely hypocritical in dropping cdrtools over wodim, and will now admit the error of their ways and go back to including software that actually works, right?"
Unfortunately, many Eloi simply don't realize there's a difference, and what little they do notice is just the polish.
Now when I travel back in time I have to add "Don't accidentally change history in ways that ensure zeppelins remain the de facto form of mass transit for the next two centuries" to my already-prohibitive list of safety precautions. And to think Kitty Hawk was about the earliest I could have hoped for not being burned as a witch.
No, his analogy is proper, as he posited a case where people were restricted from the public posting use of the site, just as the argument here is trying to make private the public facade of a house (and the APPEARANCE of the OUTSIDE of your home is every bit as much a piece of public domain information as is the registration of your address). Your assertion of a "straw argument", in fact, relies on the improper equality of posting comments to this story like we're doing to -- well, I'd say stealing the site code if Slash wasn't already open.
If you want your home completely hidden from the public eye, you don't live in a city next door to other people -- you find an isolated parcel of real estate, surrounded by trees or hills or even a fence, with a private road leading to it, and you live there. If it's easier or cheaper to have a house that's on a common street, that ease or price is the price you pay for not having privacy in the commons. But to live there and say "I don't like people seeing my house from a car!" is no more your right than your "right" to demand that your neighbours in the house across the street may only stand facing forwards if they're on the porch, but that they can't look out their upstairs windows or even look out their downstairs windows if they're sitting on a chair.
So Randy Newman was right, short people do in fact have no reason to live, at least if photography is their chosen calling. Do you also outlaw Hail Mary shots?
I'm just curious, what portion of the market does FM radio not have "access to"?
"Boy, I'd love to hear me up some Clear Channel, but I just can't until those fancy Walkmans come down in price to match my iPhone!"
Yeah, but at least the "H" in "HGTV" stands for real estate. Not sure whether law enforcement could rightfully be seen as an Art, but when someone's getting tased, it's damned good Entertainment!
As there are no actual full English words in TFA, I'll take your word for it, but then it begs the question as to exactly what the fsck kind of moron spends $1300 on a video game subscription.
You are absolutely correct, insofar as anchors are generally made of metal instead of stone.
Wasn't it only like four months ago that Dr. Hawking was direly warning us all to stay as far out of the interstellar limelight as possible? Another flip-flop from the liberal elite intelligentsia!