Theres one problem with all this, and it's not with napster. It's with the musicians. so they loose , what, maybe 10, 15% of their million dollar profits? thats greed for you. But the internet is changing the world. Hundreds of new artists make their debut online, and it makes it much more easier, not to mention affordable, for small, little known bands to make a name for themselves using the intenet. And soon, i do not doubt, the entire music industry will be forced to change over to a internet based system, where music is cheeper, but more have access. Of course though so many people would be affected by this change. Gone would be the millions of dollars gained from way overpriced CD's, gone would be the mony collected from the selling of players for those CD's, gone would be the mega superstores that make a majority of their profits in CD's. and it is this change that is the reason for so many people fighting it. Yet i belive this change is enivitable. Napster may go down in flames for it, but sooner or later the change will come, and all of the music industies best efforts will fail to stop it.
That was stupid. That is what makes most of the world hat americans, that selfish, crap loaded, shit that most people in this country spew! The bottem line is that it will save peoples lives, period. who cares if it's americans, or russians, or africans, or wherever it is, it'll save lifes.
It's not always the US scientists going to those 3rd world contries. most of the time it is those countries themselves where if they want to survie, if they want to make better living conditions for their people, they have to sacrifice. IT becomes a case off the lesser of two evils. kill a few to save a lot, or kill none, but save no one. The Human genome project will put us on the path to curing hundreds of thousands of diseases. Yes hundreds of Thousands. There are that many geneticly related diseases, and even more that aren't geneticly related that we can still cure by understanding the way the body truely works at it's lowest level.
i never said they didn't think about it, i said the didn't see it coming. there is a difference. Of course they didn't think about it, no one can think about all the possibilities of the future. they didn't foresee what would become of the world makes it a different meaning. Life was profundly diffent in the 18th century. when the said free speech they ment the ability to say what you wanted to any person, in cluding the high and mighty, without fear of consequnce. today we've take it as the right to say whatever we want, no matter what it does to anyone, or anything. Thats why there are the laws for slander and libel. to take your example of a right to bear arms they ment it as a way for people to protect themselves. remember America was still mostly wilderness in that time, and there were a lot of dangers. now a days people look at their second amendment rights and see the abilitie to carry a cool looking gun thats been hyped up by the media and entertainment and look "cool". the people that really know what amendmendts are about don't flaunt them.
Thats exactly right! The first admendment is a great idea, but the one problem is that the founding fathers never foresaw this coming. by this i mean the Internet Age, and now that it's here a lot of judges have to make first time descisions. Yet it's not them who are in this new frontier everyday, they don't really know what it's capable of, or what it means to use it. If possible it would be a great idea to educate more people what really is going on out there, what the Ineternet Age really is about, and what it can really do.
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Theres one problem with all this, and it's not with napster. It's with the musicians. so they loose , what, maybe 10, 15% of their million dollar profits? thats greed for you. But the internet is changing the world. Hundreds of new artists make their debut online, and it makes it much more easier, not to mention affordable, for small, little known bands to make a name for themselves using the intenet. And soon, i do not doubt, the entire music industry will be forced to change over to a internet based system, where music is cheeper, but more have access. Of course though so many people would be affected by this change. Gone would be the millions of dollars gained from way overpriced CD's, gone would be the mony collected from the selling of players for those CD's, gone would be the mega superstores that make a majority of their profits in CD's. and it is this change that is the reason for so many people fighting it. Yet i belive this change is enivitable. Napster may go down in flames for it, but sooner or later the change will come, and all of the music industies best efforts will fail to stop it.
That was stupid. That is what makes most of the world hat americans, that selfish, crap loaded, shit that most people in this country spew! The bottem line is that it will save peoples lives, period. who cares if it's americans, or russians, or africans, or wherever it is, it'll save lifes.
It's not always the US scientists going to those 3rd world contries. most of the time it is those countries themselves where if they want to survie, if they want to make better living conditions for their people, they have to sacrifice. IT becomes a case off the lesser of two evils. kill a few to save a lot, or kill none, but save no one. The Human genome project will put us on the path to curing hundreds of thousands of diseases. Yes hundreds of Thousands. There are that many geneticly related diseases, and even more that aren't geneticly related that we can still cure by understanding the way the body truely works at it's lowest level.
i never said they didn't think about it, i said the didn't see it coming. there is a difference. Of course they didn't think about it, no one can think about all the possibilities of the future. they didn't foresee what would become of the world makes it a different meaning. Life was profundly diffent in the 18th century. when the said free speech they ment the ability to say what you wanted to any person, in cluding the high and mighty, without fear of consequnce. today we've take it as the right to say whatever we want, no matter what it does to anyone, or anything. Thats why there are the laws for slander and libel. to take your example of a right to bear arms they ment it as a way for people to protect themselves. remember America was still mostly wilderness in that time, and there were a lot of dangers. now a days people look at their second amendment rights and see the abilitie to carry a cool looking gun thats been hyped up by the media and entertainment and look "cool". the people that really know what amendmendts are about don't flaunt them.
Thats exactly right! The first admendment is a great idea, but the one problem is that the founding fathers never foresaw this coming. by this i mean the Internet Age, and now that it's here a lot of judges have to make first time descisions. Yet it's not them who are in this new frontier everyday, they don't really know what it's capable of, or what it means to use it. If possible it would be a great idea to educate more people what really is going on out there, what the Ineternet Age really is about, and what it can really do.