You might have some valid points if their shit worked. But it didn't. They were saying they could do something quite impressive, took money to do it and then couldn't do it. How is it wrong to do something about that? The fact the boss is a woman is completely irrelevant and on it's own means or implies precisely nothing.
I've often been tempted to simulate a concept I had for using Jupiter as a massive particle pre-accelerator for bulk antimatter production, to see what sort of flux in the dozens to hundreds of GeV could be achieved across a reasonable-sized target.
So, go for it. I've no clue what the implications of that are but it sounds damn impressive.
Not having a single sports molecule in my body, I had no clue what they meant by "Juno is a spinning, robotic probe as wide as a basketball court."
Why can't they use standard terms of measurement like 1U or millifurlongs? Sooner or later they'll crash a probe when a contractor gets the sports rules mixed up and uses American hoop ball measurements instead of International.
Having been on both a basketball court and inside of the LOC, I can tell you that it is approximately 1/10th of a Library of Congress wide
Could it be that he was forced by the BBC to leave after it was announced that the police were going to investigate him for sexual assaults in the 1990s? This story has spread in the UK a lot and seems to push to a bigger reason why he left. OR it could just be more of a smear campaign; but his leaving sure does let the BBC off the hook with him and Top Gear. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Protip, if you want any kind of credibility don't link to the daily fail. Every thing on there is misrepresented at best.
Luckily Top Gear is mostly scripted.
It seemed like improvisation, but that's mostly due to the script being very closely written for their real personalities; the old presenters basically played charicature versions of themselves.
That was part of the problem, the script writers didn't seem to get the memo and you had evans reading lines that were clearly written for clarkson. Didn't help he wore the same outfit every week and ran around shouting like a teenager.
You punch me without provocation, im going to HURT YOU IN A PERMANENT WAY as a reminder to control yourself. Fighting is not a fucking joke. I would have permanently disfigured Clarkson if he pulled that shit on me.
Firing him wasn't an excuse, he punched a co-worker. They had to fire him at that point. That said, I am a fan of him but had no idea he would get physical with anyone.
Whatever happened to an apology and handshake? Nope, apparently nowadays everyone has to be fired for everything, especially if it something the PC/SJW brigade take particular offense to.
Wrong.
Only the phones get you the full, real time attention of an agent. Email becomes unbearable if there are more than 1 or two rounds of back and forth. Web chat? 1 agent is probably multitasking between 5+ chats...they won't be doing any deep thinking any time soon...
I'm always suspicious if you webchat it's even a person and not some bot.
Chris Evans was cocky 5 weeks ago that he had massive viewers and was quoting FACT FACT FACT on twitter, now it's a FACT he was so crap he has shut the door and turn the lights off and gone home with his tail between his legs FACT
I think it's probably more he was starting to smell. He had pretty much the same shitty outfit on every week. Blue jeans tucked into his fucking boots then that yellow top with scrappy black jumper.
Personally I'm happy Evans has gone. I hadn't heard of him before the show was announced,
Yes, he's been broadcasting for years and years and he's always been annoying. He's had several talk shows on TV in addition to the radio work. For some reason a lot of people seem to like listening to him rabbit on about nothing in particular. I can't see the attraction myself.
Yeah but they're the type of people that listen to radio 2 and thought big breakfast was cool.
Just to be clear I wasn't advocating piracy or anything. Just the shit state of affairs in the 'biz'. Personally, I'm in the camp of I bought all my cds between ~15-25 when piracy was napster and that shit took two days to download a song that turned out to be lo-res porn if you were lucky. I collected my music, then kinda got bored with new stuff and now I just happily listen to the CDs I already have that are all converted (by me) to mp3. If I remember a blast from the past or notice I'm missing something I might get on the pirate bay to fill in the blanks. Actually a few months ago I noticed I was missing a couple e.p's I used to have, couldn't find them online because it was quite obscure, thought what the hell and checked amazon and there they were, 2nd hand for like 11p each or something stupid. Needless to say I found my originals not long after the replacements were delivered.
So what is it that makes such a stark difference? Is it that technology requires us all to constantly work harder? Or is it that the ruling class are a bunch of shitheads?
It means for every band that rejects the industry there are a lot more behind that will sign without a second thought only to find them selves in the grinder afterwards. Of course it matters what the artists do. Without them the labels have no product. Ok, there's not much can be done now or about the stuff they already have but say for arguments sake new talent stopped signing and everyone self published. That would be a completely different landscape. Not saying it would be any better or worse but there's a chance the money might spread around a bit better. The labels used to be essential, now they're barely relevant but they keep pushing the same old model and resist change at every step.
To give you an idea what it is like for a musician, imagine being told that to write a computer program you were told that to write code for something you wanted to do, you needed to take out a loan, you would have to code on something out of your control, you would not own the copyright and when it was complete, not only would you not have possession of the source code, you would have to pay the record industry back for your labor.
Yet for every one 'artist' that realises it's a massive con and rejects it there are a thousand more before behind ready to take the arm and all.
The barrier to entry is basically zero. From bandcamp, to cd baby and tunecore, right now it's ridiculously easy to self publish. There is no barrier to self publishing. And we're still not making any money.
There's a bit more to it than just publishing and recording.
Of course the best way is to abolish copyright altogether, and artists get paid for performing their work like the rest of us. Getting paid when a machine plays a recording is ludicrous!
Hey Anonymous Coward, quick question. My brother is an author. How does he get paid for 'performing' his work?
By selling books and writing new ones? Do you think he should be paid every time someone reads a chapter of it?
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Define massive.
You might have some valid points if their shit worked. But it didn't. They were saying they could do something quite impressive, took money to do it and then couldn't do it. How is it wrong to do something about that? The fact the boss is a woman is completely irrelevant and on it's own means or implies precisely nothing.
The same way Tesla is allowed to put "beta" autonomous driving abilities into a production car.
How else do you expect them to test it?
I've often been tempted to simulate a concept I had for using Jupiter as a massive particle pre-accelerator for bulk antimatter production, to see what sort of flux in the dozens to hundreds of GeV could be achieved across a reasonable-sized target.
So, go for it. I've no clue what the implications of that are but it sounds damn impressive.
Not having a single sports molecule in my body, I had no clue what they meant by "Juno is a spinning, robotic probe as wide as a basketball court." Why can't they use standard terms of measurement like 1U or millifurlongs? Sooner or later they'll crash a probe when a contractor gets the sports rules mixed up and uses American hoop ball measurements instead of International.
Having been on both a basketball court and inside of the LOC, I can tell you that it is approximately 1/10th of a Library of Congress wide
What's that in Big Bens?
Could it be that he was forced by the BBC to leave after it was announced that the police were going to investigate him for sexual assaults in the 1990s? This story has spread in the UK a lot and seems to push to a bigger reason why he left. OR it could just be more of a smear campaign; but his leaving sure does let the BBC off the hook with him and Top Gear. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Protip, if you want any kind of credibility don't link to the daily fail. Every thing on there is misrepresented at best.
Don't want to add too many basketball court sized objects. And leave Europa alone.
Luckily Top Gear is mostly scripted. It seemed like improvisation, but that's mostly due to the script being very closely written for their real personalities; the old presenters basically played charicature versions of themselves.
That was part of the problem, the script writers didn't seem to get the memo and you had evans reading lines that were clearly written for clarkson. Didn't help he wore the same outfit every week and ran around shouting like a teenager.
Because you can, the answers don't quite make sense while still being kinda relevant. It's the uncanny vally of customer service
You punch me without provocation, im going to HURT YOU IN A PERMANENT WAY as a reminder to control yourself. Fighting is not a fucking joke. I would have permanently disfigured Clarkson if he pulled that shit on me.
Woah, we got a badass over here!
Firing him wasn't an excuse, he punched a co-worker. They had to fire him at that point. That said, I am a fan of him but had no idea he would get physical with anyone.
Whatever happened to an apology and handshake? Nope, apparently nowadays everyone has to be fired for everything, especially if it something the PC/SJW brigade take particular offense to.
Wrong. Only the phones get you the full, real time attention of an agent. Email becomes unbearable if there are more than 1 or two rounds of back and forth. Web chat? 1 agent is probably multitasking between 5+ chats...they won't be doing any deep thinking any time soon...
I'm always suspicious if you webchat it's even a person and not some bot.
Chris Evans was cocky 5 weeks ago that he had massive viewers and was quoting FACT FACT FACT on twitter, now it's a FACT he was so crap he has shut the door and turn the lights off and gone home with his tail between his legs FACT
I think it's probably more he was starting to smell. He had pretty much the same shitty outfit on every week. Blue jeans tucked into his fucking boots then that yellow top with scrappy black jumper.
he's busy making truck loads of money from netflix and live shows
And 8 out 10 cats does countdown. That shit's on all the time.
Personally I'm happy Evans has gone. I hadn't heard of him before the show was announced,
Yes, he's been broadcasting for years and years and he's always been annoying. He's had several talk shows on TV in addition to the radio work. For some reason a lot of people seem to like listening to him rabbit on about nothing in particular. I can't see the attraction myself.
Yeah but they're the type of people that listen to radio 2 and thought big breakfast was cool.
Clarkson,Wilson and Needell. But that was when it was about cars.
And there is a reason why pretty much nobody remembers the last two.
Unless you watch channel 5 and they're both on 5th gear.
Just to be clear I wasn't advocating piracy or anything. Just the shit state of affairs in the 'biz'. Personally, I'm in the camp of I bought all my cds between ~15-25 when piracy was napster and that shit took two days to download a song that turned out to be lo-res porn if you were lucky. I collected my music, then kinda got bored with new stuff and now I just happily listen to the CDs I already have that are all converted (by me) to mp3. If I remember a blast from the past or notice I'm missing something I might get on the pirate bay to fill in the blanks. Actually a few months ago I noticed I was missing a couple e.p's I used to have, couldn't find them online because it was quite obscure, thought what the hell and checked amazon and there they were, 2nd hand for like 11p each or something stupid. Needless to say I found my originals not long after the replacements were delivered.
So what is it that makes such a stark difference? Is it that technology requires us all to constantly work harder? Or is it that the ruling class are a bunch of shitheads?
oh oh oh I know this one!
There's several EU countries...
Perhaps they should exit the EU then.
If they do, for the love of god have a plan to follow through.
It means for every band that rejects the industry there are a lot more behind that will sign without a second thought only to find them selves in the grinder afterwards. Of course it matters what the artists do. Without them the labels have no product. Ok, there's not much can be done now or about the stuff they already have but say for arguments sake new talent stopped signing and everyone self published. That would be a completely different landscape. Not saying it would be any better or worse but there's a chance the money might spread around a bit better. The labels used to be essential, now they're barely relevant but they keep pushing the same old model and resist change at every step.
To give you an idea what it is like for a musician, imagine being told that to write a computer program you were told that to write code for something you wanted to do, you needed to take out a loan, you would have to code on something out of your control, you would not own the copyright and when it was complete, not only would you not have possession of the source code, you would have to pay the record industry back for your labor.
Yet for every one 'artist' that realises it's a massive con and rejects it there are a thousand more before behind ready to take the arm and all.
I hope to steal your work someday.
That is, if you work.
Go right ahead, most people don't do the work once then expect to keep getting paid from it.
The barrier to entry is basically zero. From bandcamp, to cd baby and tunecore, right now it's ridiculously easy to self publish. There is no barrier to self publishing. And we're still not making any money.
There's a bit more to it than just publishing and recording.
Of course the best way is to abolish copyright altogether, and artists get paid for performing their work like the rest of us. Getting paid when a machine plays a recording is ludicrous!
Hey Anonymous Coward, quick question. My brother is an author. How does he get paid for 'performing' his work?
By selling books and writing new ones? Do you think he should be paid every time someone reads a chapter of it?
So, Apple's "monopoly" is "Customers with Money"?
No, it's people with more money than sense.