6. Be overly descriptive in your item descriptions and check your spelling.
As an adjunct to this rule, I would suggest the following:
The title should be carefully crafted and contain terse, properly spelled descriptive terms that people are likely to search for, as most people search by title first. "WOW!", "RARE!", and "L@@K!" in the title just make you look like an idiot.
I occasionally search for the terms "WOW!", "RARE!", and "L@@K!", but only for entertainment at the seller's expense.
Discount stores and mail-order retailers are flooding the market, but (some) independent artists, antique dealers, rare-book dealers, etc are doing quite well.
Yeah, the key is to find large quantities of stuff that's cheap because the seller has no market. A friend of mine trolls yard sales and library sales for books. Hit a sale at the end of the day and they'll sell you whatever is left for a dollar a grocery bag full just to get rid of 'em. Given a large enough pile of obscure books, all listed for $5-$10 on half.com, you can make a non-trivial amount of cash just dropping books in the mail. He'd surely make a lot more if he worked harder, but he's stoned all the time. Pays for his pot habit, at least.
BPI/RIAA/IMFI don't necessarily get anything from the sale of a record. They have no vesting in individual artists.
Individual labels pay membership dues to the RIAA or BPI to act as a trade/lobbying group in their interest.
Most labels (which does not account for most sales, since 3 labels account for the bulk of all albums sold, but that's another matter) are not RIAA members.
So it's incorrect to assume that recording sales profits are just going to the RIAA.
When people say "RIAA" or "BPI" in the context of profits and sales, it's shorthand for "the member organizations of the [RIAA|BPI]". You pretending the umbrela group that represents them has no interest in the profitability the member groups is either intentional obtuseness or genuine stupidity. Yes. We know royalty checks don't come from or got to the actual RIAA/BPI. Quite dodging the argument with semantic irrelevancies.
So how, exactly, does a consumer paying a premium to download a wav file that was merely upsampled from a free mp3 benefit them?
Seems like kind of a ripoff to me.
Convenience. Users of Allofmp3 don't have to google all over hell's half acre looking for your music. It's right there, searchable and categorized. What Allofmp3 is really selling is convenience.
Despite what you believe the word should or shouldn't mean, this is what the work actually means, as per its definition.
What are you, fucking dense? When someone copies an mp3 of a song, the original rights holder still holds the copyright. The copyright is the only actual property. Property is something you can hold, something you can posess, something that, once you sell it, is no longer yours. Copying a somg deprives no one of property. Copying a song is not stealing. It is copyright infringement. Feel free to argue that copyright infringement is as bad as theft, but continuing to claim it is theft just shows your utter ignorance of the precepts of law.
They might also be gambling that if they win a judgement in court, they can use that to somehow force AllOfMP3 to block people with UK IP addresses from going to the site.
UK courts don't have the power to force Allofmp3 to block UK subnets than they do to stop them from selling mp3's! I don't know why it has to be repeated so many times. It's really very, very simple:
THE UK COURT CAN'T FORCE ALLOFMP3 TO DO ANYTHING BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT IN THE UK, THEY'RE IN RUSSIA!!!
Its illegal for US citizens to carry out certain gambling over the internet, its also illegal for US citizens to travel abroad for the purposes of enacting sexual acts that are illegal within the borders of the United States. So yes, starting in one location and doing something in another where its legal can be illegal.
Yes, but who gets prosecuted, the operator of the gambling web site living in Turks and Caicos and the underage hooker living in Thailand, or the US citizen?
my morality is simple. If people work to create something, and you want it. you pay for it.
Thats not what allofmp3 are doing. the artists dont get a dime.
You can argue about law all you like. Thats not morally right.
You're just reinforcing my point. Your morals. There is nothing special about your morals that says they get precedence over those of others. The morals of other might align with Russian copyright law. Your initial post about the publicity inducing those with a conscience to not use Allofmp3 presumes that using Allofmp3 is an immoral act of someone without a conscience. You are wrong. Sorry.
That's ten minutes of brainstorming by one guy. I wonder what all of the talented folks at Blizzard could imagineer together?
The problem is that the electronic gaming industry has been in a race to the bottom when it comes to game complexity. In an effort to appeal to the widest demographic possible they come up with games that are no more complicated than remembering "green means go"*. This unfortunately means any game that requires thinking is almost certainly out of the question**. Superman better spend his time hittin' things, 'cause that's all the kids want to think about.
* A friend and I, both of us game veterans from the very earliest days of home pong, were playing a PS1 FPS type game and couldn't figure out how to get to the next stage through a locked door. Scattered throughout the maze we were stuck in there were seven levers. Push the lever up, the light next to it turns green. Push it down, red. Being shrewd gamers from the old C64 days where "puzzle" tended to take precedence over "coordination", we tried every combination we could think of, even resorting to mimicing the patterns of red and green pixels seen on a crude "control panel" texture map on some of the walls. Nothing would make the door open. Finally, after a couple hours, we carefully examined every bit of the maze and found one more lever in a hidden alcove. Pushing all the levers up to show a green light opened the door. "Green means go". This phrase has become our reminder not to overthink any console game puzzle.
** Forget anything turn based. It's RTS or nothing anymore!
What if your window is on top of two of two different applications that do not overlap? Which one do you switch to?
Overlapping windows have no direct relevance to window precedence. Overlap just illustrates how the precedence works. Window "order" is a stack, with the most recently selected windows on top. Each time you select a window, it is pulled from the stack and placed on top. Closing that window reveals the next most recently selected window. Overlap is irrelevant.
You end up with a finder window in the foreground.
Why should all finder windows be brought to the front when only one of them has been selected for focus? Given that such behavior has no utility value, I see no reason to classify it as anything but a new bug.
What worries me is the way that they seem to think that by it not being accessed then it is all OK, if anything I think it not being touched is much worse as it indicates that it has been replicated or transferred in order for those who took it to work on it without leaving a bread-trail for the authorities to follow them by. Of course no forensic evidence will be of use, if they were smart enough to copy and not disturb the database itself then they will not have been in physical contact with the laptop for very long and they will have most definitely worn gloves and other protective equipment. It's a shame to see the ever-alert cybercrimes department not realising what is the obvious course of action for these thieves.
What worries me is that there are people of voting age out there who think a thief sophisticated enough to not leave any trace of access would be stupid enough to risk allowing the laptop to be found at all, rather than concealing any potential evidence an easier and more effective way, e.g. duct taping it to a cinder block and dropping it in the Potomac.
But we usually know people who are like us. If you work with computers, you have friends and acquaintances of similar sort. When I was in computer contracting business I could have linked you with tens, if not hundreds, of people who specialize in this and that.
There's one critical difference between you and your legit computer contracting pals and the "criminal underground". Legit operators benefit by getting their name out there and "networking", whereas criminals that do that generally end up nicked. The chain of people between your average housebreaking junkie and the sort of identity theft ring that would pay for such a database is unlikely to be particularly communicative, if it even exists at all. You speak as if "breaking the law" is some sort of common bond that gets people talking with each other. Criminals generally benefit from secrecy. You never know if the guy you're talking to is gonna get nabbed the next day for something stupid and decide to rat you out.
Besides, what identity theft ring operator in his right mind would return the item by any means, risking further exposure? It's not like the feds were going to issue 26.5 million new SS numbers if the laptop wasn't recovered.
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I want to be able to indent or unindent the opening statement for a given loop, be it int, sub, function, if, for or else, and have the entire section that it describes, including the braces, indent accordingly. Anyone know of an editor that has this?
both vim and emacs will do this. unless i misread the question...
I think maybe he's asking for something that moves a whole block of text like (emacs example) Ctrl-Space at beginning, cursor to end, Ctrl-X-Tab... but does so without having to cursor all the way down to the end of the code block, instead just using the indent status of the current
I want to be able to indent or unindent the opening statement for a given loop, be it int, sub, function, if, for or else, and have the entire section that it describes, including the braces, indent accordingly. Anyone know of an editor that has this?
both vim and emacs will do this. unless i misread the question...
I think maybe he's asking for something that moves a whole block of text like (emacs example) Ctrl-Space at beginning, cursor to end, Ctrl-X-Tab... but does so without having to cursor all the way down to the end of the code block, instead just using the indent status of the current line to determine the scope of the requested block indent.
What's to stop an artist going into business for themselves? Hire a studio and make your music available for paid download on your website. You can't call the approach of the recording industry immoral unless the artists have no choice about signing.
This is exactly what has the recording industry going crazy right now. They've enjoyed a hundred years of cartel control over the commercial distribution of audio recordings. Currently, due largely to inertia, the system is still stacked heavily in their favor, so they still can push the same old line of "sign this ridiculous contract or languish in obscurity". Saying the artist has a choice in signing ignores the fact that the recording industry is still essentially the gatekeeper to the established road to success.
I doubt that anyone thinks such a lawsuit would be successful. However it might accomplish one important thing. It might raise awareness that what allofmp3 is doing is tantamount to piracy. It might stop people with conscience from using the site
That argument presumes that the specifics of copyright law in the UK are "moral" and the law in Russia is "immoral". There is nothing that differentiates their morality other than your opinion on a rather subtle nuance in the philosophy of "intellectual property".
If you want to know why more poor people end up in the military than wealthy people (though they make appearances as NCOs)
I somehow find it hard to believe the words of someoneone speaking about the composition of the military when they don't understand the difference between a Non-Commissioned Officer, a po' person who starts as a private and works his way up through the ranks to Sergeant, and a commissioned officer, usually a "wealthy" (prnounce that "middle class") college graduate.
Very, very few people join the military without actually realizing that they may end up getting shot at or shooting at people. Hell, avoiding direct combat is generally as easy as joining the Navy or Air Force! They all get the same bennies. People who join the marines or army know what they're signing up for. I know. I was one of them. Six years in the Army and I never once met anyone who thought it was just a shortcut to college tuition. Those people join the Air Force.
Look, I know you have a big hard-on to paint the modern volunteer military with the old conscription brush that was relevant 30+ years ago, but it just ain't that way anymore. No one is being forced to join. Poor people join the military because it pays? So what. Poor people work in mines or in construction for the same reasons. Poor people have always done the dangerous jobs for the payoff, for the simple reason that rich folks don't need the money.
It depends on which way you measure it. It might be the case that the system has the largest absolute budget, but this is spread across a very large number of people. If you look at the expenditure per capita, a very different picture emerges.
So when you said "axe public health" what you meant was "did not expand public health in the direction or on the scale I would consider ideal"? Such excellent communication skills.
That's why the most common reason why people are put in gaol ( jail for Yanks ) is for non-payment of medical bills.
What, are you kidding me? Now you're just making shit up. Cite me a single case of this. It does not happen, and for very obvious reasons. "Debtors prison" went out of fashion centuries ago when people realized that a person languishing in prison cannot earn money to pay his debts.
Um. I'm not following you here. Are you saying that Republicans actually argued for spending MORE money on social security?
So when you said "axe social security", what you meant was "did not expand Social Security in the direction or on the scale I would consider ideal"? Again, excellent communication skills.
That's not what I hear. Admittedly, I'm not 100% up to date on the minor details, but I have read numerous articles over the past 10 years about public school closures, and funds being redirected to private education. I think that even in absolute terms the amount of money in the public education system has been reducing significantly, and I can say with absolute certainty that the amount per-capita has been decreasing at an alarming rate.
Surely you realize that measuring public school education expenditures "per capita" is ridiculous, as it's patently obvious that not every "capita" is in public school! Per student expenditures have risen consistently for over thiry years. This, of course, doesn't even address the folly that is federal education spending, where 40% of the money gets eaten by bureaucrats before it reaches the classroom.
I find it hard to fathom that there are people who are actually arguing that the Republicans are supposedly adding to public spending. Even Americans know that is bullshit.
I find it hard to fathom how people can blindly believe what they want to believe in the face of easily verifiable evidence to the contrary. Bush has expanded non-defense expenditures 28% since 2000. Even the abominable "war on poverty" president LBJ only expanded non-defense by 21%! I know you want to paint Bush as another Reagan (who cut the non-defense budget by 11%), but it just isn't so.
Bush has scaled back research into renewables
Utter nonsense. Federal R&D incentives for renewable energy declined from 1981 up into the mid 90's, but have steadily increased since. They essentially wax and wane with the price of fossil fuels. I challenge you to cite this supposed budget cut. Again, just because you want something to be true doesn't make it true.
There is enough uranium in the world for about 10 years of total energy consumption, and then you have millions of tons of radioactive waste that will be around for millions of years to come.
Again, complete and utter nonsense. Current known reserves of uranium are enough to supply us at the current rate of growth for 150-200 years. Allowing fuel reprocessing via breeder reactors would extend the utilty of these reserves a hundred-fold, and at the same time eliminates the waste problem.
I dislike Bush as vigorously as anyone, but I'm not so stupid as to try and paint him with the same old tired "heartless budget-cutting Republican" cliches in the face of evidence to the contrary. His spending habits put his Democrat predecessors to shame.
Yup, and the fucktards that did that shit were all given medals, right? Or was it pound-me-in-the-ass prison at Leavenworth?
Like I said, if you can't do your job without being a dick, get out (or get thrown out).
Being a police officer is NOTHING like being in the army or military. And this is what I see a lot of people around here just aren't comprehending. Its not like a war, where you fight your enemy and go home. The police are already home. And they can't open up with assault rifles on their enemies, because there enemies are the same people they have to protect. They have none of the release valves a typical soldier in a warzone has, despite being to all intents and purposes in many cases in a warzone themselves. Being in a war is easy, fight, live or die. Your family will never have to face the meth dealer that you busted five years ago.
You know shit, son.
Actually, it's quite obvious the YOU don't know shit. Cops get to go home at the end of the day, and no, cops don't live in the hell-holes they patrol, so their families don't "face the meth dealer [they] busted". Soldiers can't open up with assault rifles on their enemies any more than cops can with their pistols. Do not fire until fired upon is pretty much the rule of the day. Release valves? You mean like 4th of July barbecues? Drinking a few beers in front of the game with the guy? Going out fishing with your kids on the weekend? Yeah, we were able to do a whole lot of that in Shahi-Kot.
Seriously, you're an arrogant, ignorant prick. But you've already illustrated that quite well.
Feel free to counter with the usual: call me a Bush-voting, baby killing white trash yahoo, or whatever it is your narrow ideology demands. I'm none of those things, but you'll never believe it.
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The title should be carefully crafted and contain terse, properly spelled descriptive terms that people are likely to search for, as most people search by title first. "WOW!", "RARE!", and "L@@K!" in the title just make you look like an idiot.
I occasionally search for the terms "WOW!", "RARE!", and "L@@K!", but only for entertainment at the seller's expense.
So how, exactly, does a consumer paying a premium to download a wav file that was merely upsampled from a free mp3 benefit them? Seems like kind of a ripoff to me.
Convenience. Users of Allofmp3 don't have to google all over hell's half acre looking for your music. It's right there, searchable and categorized. What Allofmp3 is really selling is convenience.
Despite what you believe the word should or shouldn't mean, this is what the work actually means, as per its definition.
What are you, fucking dense? When someone copies an mp3 of a song, the original rights holder still holds the copyright. The copyright is the only actual property. Property is something you can hold, something you can posess, something that, once you sell it, is no longer yours. Copying a somg deprives no one of property. Copying a song is not stealing. It is copyright infringement. Feel free to argue that copyright infringement is as bad as theft, but continuing to claim it is theft just shows your utter ignorance of the precepts of law.
They might also be gambling that if they win a judgement in court, they can use that to somehow force AllOfMP3 to block people with UK IP addresses from going to the site.
UK courts don't have the power to force Allofmp3 to block UK subnets than they do to stop them from selling mp3's! I don't know why it has to be repeated so many times. It's really very, very simple:
THE UK COURT CAN'T FORCE ALLOFMP3 TO DO ANYTHING BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT IN THE UK, THEY'RE IN RUSSIA!!!
Its illegal for US citizens to carry out certain gambling over the internet, its also illegal for US citizens to travel abroad for the purposes of enacting sexual acts that are illegal within the borders of the United States. So yes, starting in one location and doing something in another where its legal can be illegal.
Yes, but who gets prosecuted, the operator of the gambling web site living in Turks and Caicos and the underage hooker living in Thailand, or the US citizen?
* A friend and I, both of us game veterans from the very earliest days of home pong, were playing a PS1 FPS type game and couldn't figure out how to get to the next stage through a locked door. Scattered throughout the maze we were stuck in there were seven levers. Push the lever up, the light next to it turns green. Push it down, red. Being shrewd gamers from the old C64 days where "puzzle" tended to take precedence over "coordination", we tried every combination we could think of, even resorting to mimicing the patterns of red and green pixels seen on a crude "control panel" texture map on some of the walls. Nothing would make the door open. Finally, after a couple hours, we carefully examined every bit of the maze and found one more lever in a hidden alcove. Pushing all the levers up to show a green light opened the door. "Green means go". This phrase has become our reminder not to overthink any console game puzzle.
** Forget anything turn based. It's RTS or nothing anymore!
Besides, what identity theft ring operator in his right mind would return the item by any means, risking further exposure? It's not like the feds were going to issue 26.5 million new SS numbers if the laptop wasn't recovered.
I think maybe he's asking for something that moves a whole block of text like (emacs example) Ctrl-Space at beginning, cursor to end, Ctrl-X-Tab... but does so without having to cursor all the way down to the end of the code block, instead just using the indent status of the current
I want to be able to indent or unindent the opening statement for a given loop, be it int, sub, function, if, for or else, and have the entire section that it describes, including the braces, indent accordingly. Anyone know of an editor that has this? both vim and emacs will do this. unless i misread the question... I think maybe he's asking for something that moves a whole block of text like (emacs example) Ctrl-Space at beginning, cursor to end, Ctrl-X-Tab... but does so without having to cursor all the way down to the end of the code block, instead just using the indent status of the current line to determine the scope of the requested block indent.
What's to stop an artist going into business for themselves? Hire a studio and make your music available for paid download on your website. You can't call the approach of the recording industry immoral unless the artists have no choice about signing.
This is exactly what has the recording industry going crazy right now. They've enjoyed a hundred years of cartel control over the commercial distribution of audio recordings. Currently, due largely to inertia, the system is still stacked heavily in their favor, so they still can push the same old line of "sign this ridiculous contract or languish in obscurity". Saying the artist has a choice in signing ignores the fact that the recording industry is still essentially the gatekeeper to the established road to success.
I doubt that anyone thinks such a lawsuit would be successful. However it might accomplish one important thing. It might raise awareness that what allofmp3 is doing is tantamount to piracy. It might stop people with conscience from using the site
That argument presumes that the specifics of copyright law in the UK are "moral" and the law in Russia is "immoral". There is nothing that differentiates their morality other than your opinion on a rather subtle nuance in the philosophy of "intellectual property".
Actually you are wrong on all but the first point.
Bugger-all: (n) little or nothing at all
He's right on every single point. You are clearly ignorant of the exact meaning of "bugger-all".
If you want to know why more poor people end up in the military than wealthy people (though they make appearances as NCOs)
I somehow find it hard to believe the words of someoneone speaking about the composition of the military when they don't understand the difference between a Non-Commissioned Officer, a po' person who starts as a private and works his way up through the ranks to Sergeant, and a commissioned officer, usually a "wealthy" (prnounce that "middle class") college graduate.
Very, very few people join the military without actually realizing that they may end up getting shot at or shooting at people. Hell, avoiding direct combat is generally as easy as joining the Navy or Air Force! They all get the same bennies. People who join the marines or army know what they're signing up for. I know. I was one of them. Six years in the Army and I never once met anyone who thought it was just a shortcut to college tuition. Those people join the Air Force.
Look, I know you have a big hard-on to paint the modern volunteer military with the old conscription brush that was relevant 30+ years ago, but it just ain't that way anymore. No one is being forced to join. Poor people join the military because it pays? So what. Poor people work in mines or in construction for the same reasons. Poor people have always done the dangerous jobs for the payoff, for the simple reason that rich folks don't need the money.
It depends on which way you measure it. It might be the case that the system has the largest absolute budget, but this is spread across a very large number of people. If you look at the expenditure per capita, a very different picture emerges.
So when you said "axe public health" what you meant was "did not expand public health in the direction or on the scale I would consider ideal"? Such excellent communication skills.
That's why the most common reason why people are put in gaol ( jail for Yanks ) is for non-payment of medical bills.
What, are you kidding me? Now you're just making shit up. Cite me a single case of this. It does not happen, and for very obvious reasons. "Debtors prison" went out of fashion centuries ago when people realized that a person languishing in prison cannot earn money to pay his debts.
Um. I'm not following you here. Are you saying that Republicans actually argued for spending MORE money on social security?
So when you said "axe social security", what you meant was "did not expand Social Security in the direction or on the scale I would consider ideal"? Again, excellent communication skills.
That's not what I hear. Admittedly, I'm not 100% up to date on the minor details, but I have read numerous articles over the past 10 years about public school closures, and funds being redirected to private education. I think that even in absolute terms the amount of money in the public education system has been reducing significantly, and I can say with absolute certainty that the amount per-capita has been decreasing at an alarming rate.
Surely you realize that measuring public school education expenditures "per capita" is ridiculous, as it's patently obvious that not every "capita" is in public school! Per student expenditures have risen consistently for over thiry years. This, of course, doesn't even address the folly that is federal education spending, where 40% of the money gets eaten by bureaucrats before it reaches the classroom.
I find it hard to fathom that there are people who are actually arguing that the Republicans are supposedly adding to public spending. Even Americans know that is bullshit.
I find it hard to fathom how people can blindly believe what they want to believe in the face of easily verifiable evidence to the contrary. Bush has expanded non-defense expenditures 28% since 2000. Even the abominable "war on poverty" president LBJ only expanded non-defense by 21%! I know you want to paint Bush as another Reagan (who cut the non-defense budget by 11%), but it just isn't so.
Bush has scaled back research into renewables
Utter nonsense. Federal R&D incentives for renewable energy declined from 1981 up into the mid 90's, but have steadily increased since. They essentially wax and wane with the price of fossil fuels. I challenge you to cite this supposed budget cut. Again, just because you want something to be true doesn't make it true.
There is enough uranium in the world for about 10 years of total energy consumption, and then you have millions of tons of radioactive waste that will be around for millions of years to come.
Again, complete and utter nonsense. Current known reserves of uranium are enough to supply us at the current rate of growth for 150-200 years. Allowing fuel reprocessing via breeder reactors would extend the utilty of these reserves a hundred-fold, and at the same time eliminates the waste problem.
I dislike Bush as vigorously as anyone, but I'm not so stupid as to try and paint him with the same old tired "heartless budget-cutting Republican" cliches in the face of evidence to the contrary. His spending habits put his Democrat predecessors to shame.
So how much will $6 million get me in terms of these new bionic prosthetic limbs?
You ever get that weird feeling that you've suddenly become old because the kids you're talking to totally miss your 1970's pop culture reference?
For the love of god, somebody mod parent "funny"! I feel like I've turned into my grandmother talking about Benny Goodman!
"which leads one to think what WGA really does then."
No, it would lead one to wonder what WGA really does.
One would think of a conclusion, and "what WGA really does then" is a meaningless sentence fragment all by itself.
Illiterates!
We didn't beat up the random hadjis
Just the ones in Abu Ghraib, then?
Yup, and the fucktards that did that shit were all given medals, right? Or was it pound-me-in-the-ass prison at Leavenworth?
Like I said, if you can't do your job without being a dick, get out (or get thrown out).
Being a police officer is NOTHING like being in the army or military. And this is what I see a lot of people around here just aren't comprehending. Its not like a war, where you fight your enemy and go home. The police are already home. And they can't open up with assault rifles on their enemies, because there enemies are the same people they have to protect. They have none of the release valves a typical soldier in a warzone has, despite being to all intents and purposes in many cases in a warzone themselves. Being in a war is easy, fight, live or die. Your family will never have to face the meth dealer that you busted five years ago. You know shit, son.
Actually, it's quite obvious the YOU don't know shit. Cops get to go home at the end of the day, and no, cops don't live in the hell-holes they patrol, so their families don't "face the meth dealer [they] busted". Soldiers can't open up with assault rifles on their enemies any more than cops can with their pistols. Do not fire until fired upon is pretty much the rule of the day. Release valves? You mean like 4th of July barbecues? Drinking a few beers in front of the game with the guy? Going out fishing with your kids on the weekend? Yeah, we were able to do a whole lot of that in Shahi-Kot.
Seriously, you're an arrogant, ignorant prick. But you've already illustrated that quite well.
Feel free to counter with the usual: call me a Bush-voting, baby killing white trash yahoo, or whatever it is your narrow ideology demands. I'm none of those things, but you'll never believe it.