I love hearing this. In fact, I hope more countries undergoing political unrest opt to shut off 'net access. Specifically I'm hoping for similar occurrences in places like Syria, Pakistan. Go ahead and try getting your internet kill switch bill passed then ya jackasses. Every political talking head will blaze up a nice firestorm while the chickenshits dive for cover.
There were individual tracks on every single studio album they recorded (I have them all on LP). The radio played "Money" by itself almost as soon as DSOTM was released.
True, but as far as cut and dried, pressed on a 45, on the charts, A side and B side, marketed and sold as "Singles", Pink Floyd has been surprisingly stingy. But they've done it.
You're right, there isn't a law saying you can't, but there is the idea of professional courtesy. Weird Al has been adamant through his entire career about seeking out artist permission to parody songs, even though he doesn't have to (in his case, parody has been affirmed by the Supreme court). However, you can raise a royal stink about not *wanting* an artist to cover your work for whatever reason. Especially when you're an artist of Pink Floyd's stature.
(to be fair, pink floyd usually does. or at least did before I was born.)
Listening to an artist and a record company bicker over money by using "artistic integrity" is like listening to two hipsters argue by calling each other "hipster."
If your albums are such unsulliable masterpieces that should never be altered by the mere mortals that exist outside of a studio, then why release singles in the first place (granted, Pink Floyd doesn't often cut singles, but they have)? Why let other bands cover individual songs from your albums? Why slap together a greatest hits or box set package?
I really wish some artists would climb down off their high horses. At some point down the line, you made a conscious decision that playing in front of 30 people in a shithole bar in your hometown wasn't for you. Sadly, some of the bleacher seat dwellers from those bar days decided that choice makes you worthy of the moniker "sellout." You know what? Screw those selfish people. They're still sitting at the end of that bar, and they're not you. But with the ability to reach a mass audience comes a certain sacrifice. Well, not so much sacrifice as trade. You trade the ability to control every sniggling little detail of how the audience should perceive (and, to some extent, enjoy) your work in exchange for a heck of a lot more people getting to enjoy your work. Oh, and you get paid a bit better. Your audience now includes folks that just want the one little song they know & care about, and it'd be nice if you the artist would accept that not everyone thinks every last aural dripping of yours is solid gold.
Pink Floyd. Radiohead. Kid Rock. There's plenty of artists that just need to suck it up and accept that the world has changed. Consumers have picked up the tiniest inkling of purchasing power over the music industry, and we're going to use it. Call it packback for a lifetime of 20 bucks for an album with three worthy tracks.
Pretty much. I was hoping for a "giant CME sends cosmic solar bukakke towards earth, light show imminent!" instead we got "solar activity increasing, says scientists. Also, water levels near coast rising, falling on some sort of odd interval and schedule..."
Aside from being exactly what the internet is designed to avoid, it's also handing control to corporations that are 1) Too big for governments to influence 2) Too big to fail
Hang on, I'm waiting for the "W" to finish, before I get to the "TF" part.....
ok. Done.
Too big for government to influence? Depending on how much credence you give to the fringe of the internet, Joe Lieberman may have personally yanked Wikileaks' servers from Amazon's datacenters and pissed on the still spinning fans. There isn't a company on earth, from a dollar store on 8-mile to Google themselves, that isn't above government influence.
Too big to fail? I'm gonna go ahead and guess that Facebook and Skype combined don't directly employ as many people as a single GM or Chrysler assembly plant. If facebook or skype fails today, I'm pretty sure the sun will come up tomorrow. Now, IBM might be a different story...
No, we'd probably have enough warning to get some looting and pillaging in, even if the event was cataclysmic. Light takes about 8 minutes to get from the sun to earth. Plasma, not being quite as fast, takes slightly longer.
There's a significant difference between LEO (where the shuttle, ISS, X-37, and the majority of manned spaceflight has taken place) and Geosynchronous orbit. About 35,500km difference actually.
I can't say that I'm surprised at all of the snark and the sniping. Yeah, there are a million dozen things that our reps should be fixing. This isn't our nations biggest problem. It's not even in the top hundred thousand.
That being said; this is a very small tidbit of proof that 'the system', for all its pitfalls and failings, still works. People complained about a problem (however minor), the free market decided not to fix it, so the government stepped in and played the angry parent and said "since you won't fix this on your own, and the apparent will of the people says that you should, we'll make you."
That's kinda how things work. At least the major TV makers & advertisers didn't buy up enough votes to get this canned. You may now return to your rantings and ravings about ugly americans and your canned diatribes about the failures of our elected officials.
Palin's goals are summed up by my favorite demotivator.
"Consulting: Because if you're not part of the solution, there's good money in prolonging the problem."
She very quickly / shrewdly realized that sitting on the sidelines jabbering away about "what's wrong with America" is an *insanely* profitable career. A career where your decisions can never be proven wrong. (Obama can make the wrong decisions, but Palin, Moore, Limbaugh, et al. never have that problem because they just offer *opinions* about decisions someone else makes.)
In short, she's exactly where she belongs and I wonder if she's smart enough to know it. Armchair Quarterbacks never, ever, ever get sacked. The only truly stupid thing could do would be to actually run for office again.
It might be able to vote several hundred times in multiple districts & precincts, but unless the Coyote is somehow related to a member of the Daley family (and I'm sure they fall under either the rodent or slimy lizard genus) it would never get elected.
...through the seas of hyperbole and ill informed journalists who in turn try to dumb down articles for the masses. For starters article in question is talking about them working through the backlog created by the original crash. The system went down, most of it is back, but the office is swamped trying to catch up.
"loss of online data from the late 1980s"
The data wasn't lost. From T original FA:
"The original real estate records HAVE NOT BEEN LOST," Atkins said Thursday in a written statement." (emphasis theirs) also from an earlier article: "After a Houston firm said last weekend that it couldn't help, two hard drives, including one from the court's information-technology office, were sent to Data Recovery Technologies in Duluth, Ga. The company confirmed on Thursday that it can get data from that hard drive through last year, Atkins said."
Two drives. If both are from the same RAID 5 array, or the same array where a corrupted controller was writing bad data, Then congratulations! You've just moved to the low rent district of puckered-asshole town.
Now, I know what you're saying: "B-b-b-b-but Backups!" What if your backup system is dutifully writing off that corrupted data for months on end? There's no mention of what if any backups were in place. Maybe they didn't have anything. Maybe they found the backup scripts that were put in place by the contractor hired 8 years ago quit working 4 years ago.
"B-b-b-b-but redundancy!" is more a matter of who controls the purse strings than who has to manage the system.
"B-b-b-b-but someone should be fired!" It won't be the person truly responsible. Too often IT professionals get stuck maintaining the last guy's systems. Will the department administrator get fired for turned down the purchase of new tape drives? or for refusing to re-up the support agreements on the AIX boxes? No. Will the sysadmin get a lousy performance review from the department administrator because the system went down? Of course.
It's easy to be a bad administrator. It's easy to cobble together a bad system. It's hard, however, to look at these articles and, instead of Hurr-Hurr'ing at the 'idiots in charge', look in at your own systems and ask yourself how close to this situation you are.
"I suppose the larger the company, the more likely they are to choose "draconian/bluster" over working with the employees to find an agreeable technical solution..."
My experience is that the larger the company, the more likely you are to run into some jackass that makes you implement shitty "Draconian" policies in the first place. (After all, you *earned* that state school BBA in just 6 years, and that makes you a special and unique snowflake....Those nerds in IT are just jealous of all that Tri Delt trim you used to score...)
You're only as fast as the slowest ship in the fleet. If your sales guy can't get it through his skull that corporate data needs to live only on the servers, then guess what? safeboot time for everybody's laptops. High turnover in your roadwarriors? Hello BES server and crackberry's.
Anyone want to bet remote laptop wipe starts creeping up in prominence over the next couple years?
Hyperbole much? There are lots of things wrong with employment in the US, but I'm gonna wander out on a limb and say that since you're not engaging in actual serfdom or subsistence farming, you're just a tad bit better off.
No, there aren't federal laws mandating the protections you outline, but it's unfair to assume that since the protection doesn't exist, the benefit doesn't exist anywhere. Most of us that work full time have sick time, vacation time, health care, and are covered by some form of overtime law or comp time policy.
South Africa is a third world country? Really? That's a bit disingenuous. That's like saying you live in Simi Valley, CA and talking about what it's like on the mean streets of Compton....
"WE" also fund public universities, which allow professors to do research, which leads to patents, which the universities then license as they see fit as a means of revenue generation. Same basic deal here.
Personally, I kinda like the idea of NASA putting in the legwork for research with public funding, then getting some ROI.
hmmm, I've got my entire O'Rielly catalog, DRM free, on a device that weighs a couple ounces, that can, and I can "lend" copies of those books to anyone I please, even though that's really not what the publisher would like me to do.
What's the problem again? Oh yeah, the *reseller* is stuck doing the bidding of the *publishers* who can't wrap their heads around ebooks.
"The 747 represented the single largest industrial achievement in modern history and its abandonment in the deserts make a statement about the obsolescence and ephemeral nature of our technology and our society."
"Captain, our hyperbole filters are at 127% capacity and rising! I'm diverting power from weapons and life support to create an inverse tachyon pulse using the main deflector dish to try and compensate!"
I'm a hardcore plane guy. (Boeing products in particular) But at the end of the day....it's just a hunk of well shaped aluminum. 30 years of flying leads to metal fatigue. Time marches on. Besides, we've put men on the moon, split the atom, tamed the Yangtzhe and Colorado rivers, created artificial organs, and made it possible for mankind to set our DVR's from our cell phones (making it possible to never miss another episode of Dancing with the Stars or Jersey Shore). There are many industrial achievements that stand above the 747.
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I love hearing this. In fact, I hope more countries undergoing political unrest opt to shut off 'net access. Specifically I'm hoping for similar occurrences in places like Syria, Pakistan. Go ahead and try getting your internet kill switch bill passed then ya jackasses. Every political talking head will blaze up a nice firestorm while the chickenshits dive for cover.
I just wish there was a way to help.
Turns out she just went "ding" for his stuff....
There were individual tracks on every single studio album they recorded (I have them all on LP). The radio played "Money" by itself almost as soon as DSOTM was released.
True, but as far as cut and dried, pressed on a 45, on the charts, A side and B side, marketed and sold as "Singles", Pink Floyd has been surprisingly stingy. But they've done it.
You're right, there isn't a law saying you can't, but there is the idea of professional courtesy. Weird Al has been adamant through his entire career about seeking out artist permission to parody songs, even though he doesn't have to (in his case, parody has been affirmed by the Supreme court). However, you can raise a royal stink about not *wanting* an artist to cover your work for whatever reason. Especially when you're an artist of Pink Floyd's stature.
...make great complete albums.
(to be fair, pink floyd usually does. or at least did before I was born.)
Listening to an artist and a record company bicker over money by using "artistic integrity" is like listening to two hipsters argue by calling each other "hipster."
If your albums are such unsulliable masterpieces that should never be altered by the mere mortals that exist outside of a studio, then why release singles in the first place (granted, Pink Floyd doesn't often cut singles, but they have)? Why let other bands cover individual songs from your albums? Why slap together a greatest hits or box set package?
I really wish some artists would climb down off their high horses. At some point down the line, you made a conscious decision that playing in front of 30 people in a shithole bar in your hometown wasn't for you. Sadly, some of the bleacher seat dwellers from those bar days decided that choice makes you worthy of the moniker "sellout." You know what? Screw those selfish people. They're still sitting at the end of that bar, and they're not you. But with the ability to reach a mass audience comes a certain sacrifice. Well, not so much sacrifice as trade. You trade the ability to control every sniggling little detail of how the audience should perceive (and, to some extent, enjoy) your work in exchange for a heck of a lot more people getting to enjoy your work. Oh, and you get paid a bit better. Your audience now includes folks that just want the one little song they know & care about, and it'd be nice if you the artist would accept that not everyone thinks every last aural dripping of yours is solid gold.
Pink Floyd. Radiohead. Kid Rock. There's plenty of artists that just need to suck it up and accept that the world has changed. Consumers have picked up the tiniest inkling of purchasing power over the music industry, and we're going to use it. Call it packback for a lifetime of 20 bucks for an album with three worthy tracks.
Pretty much. I was hoping for a "giant CME sends cosmic solar bukakke towards earth, light show imminent!" instead we got "solar activity increasing, says scientists. Also, water levels near coast rising, falling on some sort of odd interval and schedule..."
Aside from being exactly what the internet is designed to avoid, it's also handing control to corporations that are
1) Too big for governments to influence
2) Too big to fail
Hang on, I'm waiting for the "W" to finish, before I get to the "TF" part.....
ok. Done.
Too big for government to influence? Depending on how much credence you give to the fringe of the internet, Joe Lieberman may have personally yanked Wikileaks' servers from Amazon's datacenters and pissed on the still spinning fans. There isn't a company on earth, from a dollar store on 8-mile to Google themselves, that isn't above government influence.
Too big to fail? I'm gonna go ahead and guess that Facebook and Skype combined don't directly employ as many people as a single GM or Chrysler assembly plant. If facebook or skype fails today, I'm pretty sure the sun will come up tomorrow. Now, IBM might be a different story...
Not all pilots are AF. In the first ten missions, the shuttle was been piloted by Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps officers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859
No, we'd probably have enough warning to get some looting and pillaging in, even if the event was cataclysmic. Light takes about 8 minutes to get from the sun to earth. Plasma, not being quite as fast, takes slightly longer.
There's a significant difference between LEO (where the shuttle, ISS, X-37, and the majority of manned spaceflight has taken place) and Geosynchronous orbit. About 35,500km difference actually.
This is clearly a predecessor to w32.WesleySnipes worm.
I can't say that I'm surprised at all of the snark and the sniping. Yeah, there are a million dozen things that our reps should be fixing. This isn't our nations biggest problem. It's not even in the top hundred thousand.
That being said; this is a very small tidbit of proof that 'the system', for all its pitfalls and failings, still works. People complained about a problem (however minor), the free market decided not to fix it, so the government stepped in and played the angry parent and said "since you won't fix this on your own, and the apparent will of the people says that you should, we'll make you."
That's kinda how things work. At least the major TV makers & advertisers didn't buy up enough votes to get this canned. You may now return to your rantings and ravings about ugly americans and your canned diatribes about the failures of our elected officials.
Palin's goals are summed up by my favorite demotivator.
"Consulting: Because if you're not part of the solution, there's good money in prolonging the problem."
She very quickly / shrewdly realized that sitting on the sidelines jabbering away about "what's wrong with America" is an *insanely* profitable career. A career where your decisions can never be proven wrong. (Obama can make the wrong decisions, but Palin, Moore, Limbaugh, et al. never have that problem because they just offer *opinions* about decisions someone else makes.)
In short, she's exactly where she belongs and I wonder if she's smart enough to know it. Armchair Quarterbacks never, ever, ever get sacked. The only truly stupid thing could do would be to actually run for office again.
I'm sure this will be a quiet affair. Well balanced, with well thought out talking points and few interruptions.
Also, could someone ring the nurse for me? The pink elephants have begun playing the banjo again...
No it couldn't. Don't be daft.
It might be able to vote several hundred times in multiple districts & precincts, but unless the Coyote is somehow related to a member of the Daley family (and I'm sure they fall under either the rodent or slimy lizard genus) it would never get elected.
...through the seas of hyperbole and ill informed journalists who in turn try to dumb down articles for the masses. For starters article in question is talking about them working through the backlog created by the original crash. The system went down, most of it is back, but the office is swamped trying to catch up.
"loss of online data from the late 1980s"
The data wasn't lost. From T original FA:
"The original real estate records HAVE NOT BEEN LOST," Atkins said Thursday in a written statement." (emphasis theirs) also from an earlier article: "After a Houston firm said last weekend that it couldn't help, two hard drives, including one from the court's information-technology office, were sent to Data Recovery Technologies in Duluth, Ga. The company confirmed on Thursday that it can get data from that hard drive through last year, Atkins said."
Two drives. If both are from the same RAID 5 array, or the same array where a corrupted controller was writing bad data, Then congratulations! You've just moved to the low rent district of puckered-asshole town.
Now, I know what you're saying:
"B-b-b-b-but Backups!" What if your backup system is dutifully writing off that corrupted data for months on end? There's no mention of what if any backups were in place. Maybe they didn't have anything. Maybe they found the backup scripts that were put in place by the contractor hired 8 years ago quit working 4 years ago.
"B-b-b-b-but redundancy!" is more a matter of who controls the purse strings than who has to manage the system.
"B-b-b-b-but someone should be fired!" It won't be the person truly responsible. Too often IT professionals get stuck maintaining the last guy's systems. Will the department administrator get fired for turned down the purchase of new tape drives? or for refusing to re-up the support agreements on the AIX boxes? No. Will the sysadmin get a lousy performance review from the department administrator because the system went down? Of course.
It's easy to be a bad administrator. It's easy to cobble together a bad system. It's hard, however, to look at these articles and, instead of Hurr-Hurr'ing at the 'idiots in charge', look in at your own systems and ask yourself how close to this situation you are.
"I suppose the larger the company, the more likely they are to choose "draconian/bluster" over working with the employees to find an agreeable technical solution..."
My experience is that the larger the company, the more likely you are to run into some jackass that makes you implement shitty "Draconian" policies in the first place. (After all, you *earned* that state school BBA in just 6 years, and that makes you a special and unique snowflake....Those nerds in IT are just jealous of all that Tri Delt trim you used to score...)
You're only as fast as the slowest ship in the fleet. If your sales guy can't get it through his skull that corporate data needs to live only on the servers, then guess what? safeboot time for everybody's laptops. High turnover in your roadwarriors? Hello BES server and crackberry's.
Anyone want to bet remote laptop wipe starts creeping up in prominence over the next couple years?
Perhaps you shouldn't have cheated on your spelling tests....
No holiday time,
-There are 10 Federal holidays, of which most employers will observe at least 6. Depends on your industry and employer.
no sick leave, no maternity leave,
-FMLA. 6 weeks unpaid leave, guaranteed. (though shitty employers can skirt this). Sick time varies from employer to employer.
no restrictions on hours worked, no mandated breaks,
-Varies from state to state. Ostensibly the Federal government only regulates interstate commerce.
few health and safety regulations,
-http://osha.gov/
can be fired without notice or reason,
-In theory yes, in practice not so much. Wrongful termination suits are exceptionally easy to file.
can legally discriminate, etc.
-http://eeoc.gov/ No, they can't.
It is like working in the third world.
Hyperbole much? There are lots of things wrong with employment in the US, but I'm gonna wander out on a limb and say that since you're not engaging in actual serfdom or subsistence farming, you're just a tad bit better off.
No, there aren't federal laws mandating the protections you outline, but it's unfair to assume that since the protection doesn't exist, the benefit doesn't exist anywhere. Most of us that work full time have sick time, vacation time, health care, and are covered by some form of overtime law or comp time policy.
South Africa is a third world country? Really? That's a bit disingenuous. That's like saying you live in Simi Valley, CA and talking about what it's like on the mean streets of Compton....
Completely unimpressive. can't tell if it's a phone or not.
Although, the blue police call box that the person walked in to was interesting. Seemed bigger on the inside than on the outside....
"WE" also fund public universities, which allow professors to do research, which leads to patents, which the universities then license as they see fit as a means of revenue generation. Same basic deal here.
Personally, I kinda like the idea of NASA putting in the legwork for research with public funding, then getting some ROI.
hmmm, I've got my entire O'Rielly catalog, DRM free, on a device that weighs a couple ounces, that can, and I can "lend" copies of those books to anyone I please, even though that's really not what the publisher would like me to do.
What's the problem again? Oh yeah, the *reseller* is stuck doing the bidding of the *publishers* who can't wrap their heads around ebooks.
"The 747 represented the single largest industrial achievement in modern history and its abandonment in the deserts make a statement about the obsolescence and ephemeral nature of our technology and our society."
"Captain, our hyperbole filters are at 127% capacity and rising! I'm diverting power from weapons and life support to create an inverse tachyon pulse using the main deflector dish to try and compensate!"
I'm a hardcore plane guy. (Boeing products in particular) But at the end of the day....it's just a hunk of well shaped aluminum. 30 years of flying leads to metal fatigue. Time marches on. Besides, we've put men on the moon, split the atom, tamed the Yangtzhe and Colorado rivers, created artificial organs, and made it possible for mankind to set our DVR's from our cell phones (making it possible to never miss another episode of Dancing with the Stars or Jersey Shore). There are many industrial achievements that stand above the 747.