Had it been a two way race between him and the Democratic candidate, Perry still would have won. So I don't think that that 39% really means that much. On the other hand, Perry is widely disliked. Although Christian conservatives have supported him in the past, it has become clear to them that Perry's political ambitions far outweigh any principles he might hold. After all, his initial support of requiring a cervical cancer vaccine showed to people like me that he can be bribed into doing the right thing even if it pisses off the Christian Right.
My illustrious governor wants to be Vice President. Although he is a Christian Conservative, he was a backer of Guilliani when it looked like Guilliani would be the nominee and would need a southern conservative as a running mate. Of course he quickly swtiched to supporting McCain as soon as that became convenient. Within Texas, Perry's political ambitions are no secret.
Right now, Perry is trying to raise his national profile among conservative Republicans. Giving a "controversial" speech where is pushes Christian values is exactly the kind of thing he wants to build up the reputation he needs.
The best thing that could happen to Perry is if he got ridiculed by liberals for wearing his Christianity on his sleeve. We hare giving he exactly what he wants.
I recently had some major back surgery and am restricted in how long I can sit or stand. So I have been devising schemes like this in my mind over the past few weeks. I really need a ceiling mounted monitor above my bed, but am in no condition to do the work and am not comfortable asking friends and family to do it for me.
It would be better if ISPs were thought of as ASP (Access Service Providers). Unless you have good reason to know that the provide good email or hosting services (that you could stay with even if you switched ASPs) then simply don't use your ASP's "other" services.
For one thing, they involve a certain sort of lock-in. For another, the ASP never do the jobs as well as dedicated email or hosting companies.
Get your own domain name, so that you can switch providers (hosting and email) if you need to. Most people here know this, but I deal regularly with lots of people who even run their businesses with email addresses at verizon.net or charter.net or comcast or even AoL.
I've been preaching this for a long time. I will certainly use this case as a frightening example.
Personally, I'm a fan of fastmail.fm which is the best IMAP provider I know. Years ago they did have reliability problems with downtime in the past, but their back-ups were rock solid. And they are very open with users about what kinds of redundancy, back-up and disaster recovery systems they have in place. And, of course, they will (for a fee) host the MX for your domain, so you aren't locked into them.
Oops. It does come out that way, doesn't it? Still, I hope that my point comes through.
Since I made my comment, I've read other reviews, and now feel confident that what's in the video is genuine. I would like to know how hard the nail hammering really was and why it was near the edge instead of nearer the center. But I no longer think that anything was actually faked.
As others have pointed out, the causation may be that those with some predisposition to violence are more attracted to violent TV programs and games. Some evidence for that is actually in the press release itself:
When the children in the Columbia County study were eight years old, the most violent shows on television were "Gunsmoke" and "77 Sunset Strip." Even so, the study found large effects of heavy viewing of violence ten years later.
Since those programs are not very violent by more recent standards it shows that the absolute level of violence in the viewed programs is not the crucial factor. Instead the relative level of violence is. Someone who only watched "Gunsmoke" today would not turn out to be very violent, while someone who watched it back when it was the most violent thing available would. That means that the content of Gunsmoke is not a cause of anything.
The explanation that fits these facts the most is that watching violence on TV is an indicator, not a cause.
My thoughts exactly. 5 watts is a joke and is just a cheap attempt to jump on the "green" bandwagon. Unfortunately there are clueless folks out their that don't know a 'watt' from a 'when' and they'll get suckered in by this marketing. I fully agree that if the manufacturing process for these consumes more energy, then there is nothing green about these (other than marketing hype).
But, there are plenty of situations where a consumer might wisely pay extra for these drives even if there is no overall positive environmental impact:
Laptops have already been mentioned.
I like trying to build fanless boxes for noise reasons
longer UPS running time for the unreliable grid power we have where I am
Every watt I save on power draw for my equipment saves additional power on air conditioning for a substantial chunk of the year.
Give it to a pack rat. They'll pile it up with their other...treasures. Soon you'll read about the guy who couldn't get out of his house because the doors and windows were blocked. According to my wife, I am that guy. But I have been "advised" to change my ways.
I show my daughter how to get free music off the internet (and TV shows) and use peer guardian and other ways of not getting tracked.
I have posted about this much earlier. The title of that post was "It ain't civil disobedience if you hide". Read the full post for an elaboration of my position.
you teach your child to blindly obey corrupt laws, I teach mine to violate unjust laws. Please re-read the last paragraph of my post. Here is a reminder:
All the while I am keeping my daughter informed of progress on this, so that when she grows to the point where she will be making choices regarding intellectual property, she will develop an appropriate respect for how the music publishers handle these things. She will come to her own judgment about what "appropriate respect" means.
Not yet. But I have a poorly maintained blog on various rants (so far mostly about religion) at http://jpgoldberg.blogspot.com/, but I will add this on. Thanks for the suggestion.
I should add that I tried this one other time (around 2003) when I first played with iMovie for a home movie and added a sound track from some songs I'd purchased from iTunes. I never received a response at that time either, but didn't follow things up.
My understanding of "fair use" differs from yours. I certainly believe that what I want to do is perfectly reasonable. But I'm sad to say that I do not believe that it comes under "fair use". But IANAL.
One thing you should add, however, is a willingness to pay a small fee for the permission. Surely that's reasonable.
I agree. I will do that when I send a letter on paper.
Overall, I fully agree with what you are saying in the rest of your post. I wish to go the extra mile to make good faith effort to honor Mesa Music's copyright. If they fail to provide a reasonable method for me (or my daughter) to do something perfectly reasonable, I will have to consider the next step. As you say, it may be technically in their right to decline my request, but we may be on the way of developing a notion of "reasonable use" (for a reasonable fee) that goes beyond fair use.
You've got to be kidding. I mean, I understand the concept of trying to teach your kid to follow the rules, that's great and all, but teaching them how to become entangled in legal red tape and bureaucratic nonsense will only teach them how stupid the whole system is. Please note that I wrote at the end of my post
All the while I am keeping my daughter informed of progress on this, so that when she grows to the point where she will be making choices regarding intellectual property, she will develop an appropriate respect for how the music publishers handle these things. I will leave it to you to judge what "appropriate respect" might come down to in this case.
My nine year old daughter made a video of our dogs playing and wanted to add bits of the song "Dog Walk" by Scott Henderson to it. So being the obnoxious person I am and a great believer in "Civil Obedience" (strict compliance with stupid laws to help highly their stupidity), I said we need permission from the music publishers even if she just wanted to send the video to a few friends and relatives, much less put it on youtube.
So I sent off the following email
My nine year old daughter wishes to add parts of
Song: Dog Walk
Artist: Scott Henderson
from the album "Dog Party" (Mesa records 1994)
in a short (two minute) home video of our dogs playing.
It is one of my daughter's favorite songs.
The video, probably as a Quick Time movie, will be distributed to maybe a dozen friends and family.
We would like to know whether we can get permission to use about 1 minute of the song this way, and how you would like to be credited if permission is granted.
Additionally, she may wish to upload the video to youtube. Please keep in mind that this is a first video made by a nine year old. It is far from professional. Would you grant permission for that as well? And if so, what additional conditions may apply.
I can send you a copy of the current draft of the video if you wish.
I am trying to teach my daughter to respect copyrights, and I hope that we can find a way to use the song in the home video in an reasonably convenient way while respecting your copyright.
If you have some established procedure for individuals making these kinds of requests, please let me know. I couldn't find anything on your website.
Thank you.
This was sent by email on October 8, and I have received no reply. Next I will send a snail mail query.
All the while I am keeping my daughter informed of progress on this, so that when she grows to the point where she will be making choices regarding intellectual property, she will develop an appropriate respect for how the music publishers handle these things.
It has always astounded me that such an organization could continue to enjoy such legislative influence despite their interests being so contrary to capitalism, and to 99.9999%+ of Canadians.
It appears that the AC who posted this earlier in this thread is among the (100 - 99.9999)% of Canadians who have little problem with SOCAN managed welfare for musicians at taxpayer expense. South of the 49th parallel few would support introducing something like that (but think nothing of existing subsidies), but I wouldn't be too surprised if a substantial minority of Canadians would willingly support such a thing. SOCAN might be counting on just that.
if the money actually GETS to SOCAN, it will make it to the artists - even the little ones. SOCAN is a stand-up association and not a douchebag riddled litigation society like RIAA.
Assuming that other Canadians feel as you do, then there would be some genuine support for a government subsidy of musicians (through their representatives of SOCAN) in Canada. The proposed (and existing) taxes would encourage piracy so in the end to model would be, "pirate what you want, but we will tax citizens to compensate artists (through SOCAN) with public money."
I personally think that such a model would lead to disaster and corruption (which artists? Only signed ones? Who controls who's signed?). But I'd rather not get into predictable/. battle about free markets versus government subsidy. What I do want to say is that your sentiment does support my claim about intentions: SOCAN is looking to be a conduit for the government subsidies to SOCAN's artists as its new business model
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Had it been a two way race between him and the Democratic candidate, Perry still would have won. So I don't think that that 39% really means that much. On the other hand, Perry is widely disliked. Although Christian conservatives have supported him in the past, it has become clear to them that Perry's political ambitions far outweigh any principles he might hold. After all, his initial support of requiring a cervical cancer vaccine showed to people like me that he can be bribed into doing the right thing even if it pisses off the Christian Right.
Personally, I voted Kinky.
My illustrious governor wants to be Vice President. Although he is a Christian Conservative, he was a backer of Guilliani when it looked like Guilliani would be the nominee and would need a southern conservative as a running mate. Of course he quickly swtiched to supporting McCain as soon as that became convenient. Within Texas, Perry's political ambitions are no secret.
Right now, Perry is trying to raise his national profile among conservative Republicans. Giving a "controversial" speech where is pushes Christian values is exactly the kind of thing he wants to build up the reputation he needs.
The best thing that could happen to Perry is if he got ridiculed by liberals for wearing his Christianity on his sleeve. We hare giving he exactly what he wants.
Well, the center really should have number 0, and it should be either on the Erdos number page or, if one insists, on the Kevin Bacon page.
This is News for Nerds. Surely the analogy should be to Erdos numbers, not Kevin Bacon.
I recently had some major back surgery and am restricted in how long I can sit or stand. So I have been devising schemes like this in my mind over the past few weeks. I really need a ceiling mounted monitor above my bed, but am in no condition to do the work and am not comfortable asking friends and family to do it for me.
Clearly complex math needs to be computed on an iMac.
For one thing, they involve a certain sort of lock-in. For another, the ASP never do the jobs as well as dedicated email or hosting companies.
Get your own domain name, so that you can switch providers (hosting and email) if you need to. Most people here know this, but I deal regularly with lots of people who even run their businesses with email addresses at verizon.net or charter.net or comcast or even AoL. I've been preaching this for a long time. I will certainly use this case as a frightening example.
Personally, I'm a fan of fastmail.fm which is the best IMAP provider I know. Years ago they did have reliability problems with downtime in the past, but their back-ups were rock solid. And they are very open with users about what kinds of redundancy, back-up and disaster recovery systems they have in place. And, of course, they will (for a fee) host the MX for your domain, so you aren't locked into them.
All my spare cycles are working on Yeti@Home
Now imagine a Beowulf cluster ...
Oops. It does come out that way, doesn't it? Still, I hope that my point comes through.
Since I made my comment, I've read other reviews, and now feel confident that what's in the video is genuine. I would like to know how hard the nail hammering really was and why it was near the edge instead of nearer the center. But I no longer think that anything was actually faked.
... as far as I could bribe them.
... is that it was narrow at one end, big in the middle and narrow at the other end.
That is the theory which is mine. It is my theory, belonging to me.
I found a few more details in the press release.
As others have pointed out, the causation may be that those with some predisposition to violence are more attracted to violent TV programs and games. Some evidence for that is actually in the press release itself:
Since those programs are not very violent by more recent standards it shows that the absolute level of violence in the viewed programs is not the crucial factor. Instead the relative level of violence is. Someone who only watched "Gunsmoke" today would not turn out to be very violent, while someone who watched it back when it was the most violent thing available would. That means that the content of Gunsmoke is not a cause of anything.
The explanation that fits these facts the most is that watching violence on TV is an indicator, not a cause.
But, there are plenty of situations where a consumer might wisely pay extra for these drives even if there is no overall positive environmental impact:
I have posted about this much earlier. The title of that post was "It ain't civil disobedience if you hide". Read the full post for an elaboration of my position.
you teach your child to blindly obey corrupt laws, I teach mine to violate unjust laws. Please re-read the last paragraph of my post. Here is a reminder: All the while I am keeping my daughter informed of progress on this, so that when she grows to the point where she will be making choices regarding intellectual property, she will develop an appropriate respect for how the music publishers handle these things. She will come to her own judgment about what "appropriate respect" means.Someone else in this thread suggested that I blog about this. I'll try to do that. I'll add it to my moribund blog at http://jpgoldberg.blogspot.com/
Not yet. But I have a poorly maintained blog on various rants (so far mostly about religion) at http://jpgoldberg.blogspot.com/, but I will add this on. Thanks for the suggestion.
I should add that I tried this one other time (around 2003) when I first played with iMovie for a home movie and added a sound track from some songs I'd purchased from iTunes. I never received a response at that time either, but didn't follow things up.
My understanding of "fair use" differs from yours. I certainly believe that what I want to do is perfectly reasonable. But I'm sad to say that I do not believe that it comes under "fair use". But IANAL.
I agree. I will do that when I send a letter on paper.
Overall, I fully agree with what you are saying in the rest of your post. I wish to go the extra mile to make good faith effort to honor Mesa Music's copyright. If they fail to provide a reasonable method for me (or my daughter) to do something perfectly reasonable, I will have to consider the next step. As you say, it may be technically in their right to decline my request, but we may be on the way of developing a notion of "reasonable use" (for a reasonable fee) that goes beyond fair use.
All the while I am keeping my daughter informed of progress on this, so that when she grows to the point where she will be making choices regarding intellectual property, she will develop an appropriate respect for how the music publishers handle these things.
It appears that the AC who posted this earlier in this thread is among the (100 - 99.9999)% of Canadians who have little problem with SOCAN managed welfare for musicians at taxpayer expense. South of the 49th parallel few would support introducing something like that (but think nothing of existing subsidies), but I wouldn't be too surprised if a substantial minority of Canadians would willingly support such a thing. SOCAN might be counting on just that.
Assuming that other Canadians feel as you do, then there would be some genuine support for a government subsidy of musicians (through their representatives of SOCAN) in Canada. The proposed (and existing) taxes would encourage piracy so in the end to model would be, "pirate what you want, but we will tax citizens to compensate artists (through SOCAN) with public money."
I personally think that such a model would lead to disaster and corruption (which artists? Only signed ones? Who controls who's signed?). But I'd rather not get into predictable /. battle about free markets versus government subsidy. What I do want to say is that your sentiment does support my claim about intentions: SOCAN is looking to be a conduit for the government subsidies to SOCAN's artists as its new business model