While I am completely with you on the solar water heating (especially for a community pool to make it useful at least 8 months a year instead of the 3-4 that most of them are good for where I live), and possibly even solar power if the demonstrated efficiency year round proves it to be viable, the fact that you are suggesting people put windmills on the roof to generate electricity suggests to me that you have never stood anywhere close to windmills that actually generate meaningful amounts of power. No matter how quiet the mechanics of the windmill are, those blades swooping through the air will not be a sound that lulls you to sleep, from experience, unless the unit is so small that you are only trying to power a handful of LED light bulbs on occasion and not a meaningful amount of the power consumption of 160 units of people trying to live with modern conveniences. To have them at a business where no one sleeps can be meaningful, though (just ask Jay Leno).
Ummm, yeah, sure. Tell you what, you go get a container made out of the material of your choice (not including unobtanium, that would just be cheating) able to hold a meaningful level of PSI (or the metric of your choice) of hydrogen. Hermetically seal the container (I won't even expect you to have a hole in the container via which you can connect it to whatever you plan to generate work with). Come back in a day, a week, a month, a year....
Then realize your concept of "stored indefinitely without degrading" probably needs some significant rethinking. Even if the hydrogen is still hydrogen (not physically degraded), it can't do you any useful work if it is sneaking out of any container you can make and off wafting through the atmosphere looking for other atoms to get jiggy with.
This is only one of the reasons why the ability to generate hydrogen on demand as close to the source that will use it is fairly essential for a hydrogen engine to be viable.
In the late '80s, I was threatened with being turned away from Canada, and having the RCMP and FBI take turns performing full body cavity searches because, while applying for my 4th work visa in a span of 6 months (at that time, I was required to apply each time I traveled up there for the type of work I did), I was asked if there was anyone who would like me to not enter Canada and I responded "just a frat brother back in the USA who knows I am going to take his ex-GF to dinner when I hop over to the GTA."
Lessons learned: A) don't crack jokes with Canadian immigration officials. B) Clear customs and immigration in Toronto (which I mostly did for the next 15 years) and then drive to Ottawa, because Ottawa officials have much bigger sticks up their butts (and the Korean food not far from the Toronto airport is really good). C) After calming the situation down, when asked by said immigration official if, because I work at Motorola, I could get her 1950's vintage Motorola console TV repaired at a discount, do not respond with "Are you asking me for a bribe?" nor the 3 or 4 other responses that went across my mind.
Looking back, I am still kind of surprised I made it to work the next day.
Did you miss the part where she had explicit instruction from her doctor that the pump should not be taken through any scanners at the airports?
A doctor is not an engineer of electrical devices and as such has zero qualification to write a letter saying that any device should or should not be passed through a scanner. That said, the doctor absolutely has the qualification to pass on a recommendation from the manufacturer who probably state in the warranty that putting the device into a focused EM field qualifies as bad idea. Just showing the paperwork from the manufacturer should be enough to allow the device to bypass the security theater scanners. Well, unless the manufacturer (or doctor) is from Yemen, for example (mostly joking).
Once again, assumptions on who "they" are when referring to conservatives in general make for patently outlandish slander, just as someone saying "all liberals are (communists||socialists||whatever) who want to purge the earth of anyone who doesn't think as they do" would be. The hyperbole makes for non-meaningful discussions.
What percentage of self-described conservatives even know what PNAC is? The letter you were referring to, if I got it right, has 41 signatories? Yet from Gallup 41% of all Americans consider themselves conservative , a number that has been fairly steady since 1990. Last I checked, not only did I not think that what 41 people's opine defines what 41% of Americans think, I didn't have to have the debating skills of a prepubescent teenager to make my points. Thank you for making mine.
What about if the Chinese get our codes and hack our defenses like the Cylons from BSG?
So? America would lose most cities on both coasts. Can you think of any outcome more likely to bring tears of joy, to America's far-right?
The fact that you think that people who are politically conservative would be overjoyed by an attack on US soil, the destruction of its' cities, and the death of any of its' people as a group says far more about your AC mindset than I believe you realize.
Given the definition of "traditional" in China (which means since the founding of the modern communist version, or all the way back 7000 years as convenient, including times when China was not ruled by ancestrally Chinese people)), I have had Chinese coworkers suggest that this map is an under-representation of what China should be currently claiming.
Given that the previous article you cite clearly calls out that this is an overclocking issue, "When overclocked, Ivy Bridge runs as much as 20C hotter than its Sandy Bridge predecessor at the same speed, despite the fact that the two chips have comparable power consumption", I believe that the correct troll is self-identified.
It is being punished as a troll, because it is wrong in annoyingly misleading ways. It probably would not have been punished as a troll if the GP had said "in the area of overclocking, 22nm is a fail because..." By making a sweeping comment that only applies to a very small subset of the market, potentially informative because troll. The mods got it right.
The shrink from 22 to 32nm is a staggering size change - 33% finer lithography - and it uses their much-hyped 3D transistor technology on top of things. Yet, Ivy Bridge, being just a shrink of the older Sandy Bridge die, shows no improvements over the 32nm version. Traditionally, Intel has always been able to show lower power consumption and more than a tangible performance improvement when just doing a process shrink, but the Ivy Bridge does nothing extra in terms of performance and consumes not lower power than its older 32nm sibling - and let's not mention the inefficient heat packaging causing temperatures hotter than the 32nm Sandy Bridge. There's a problem here, Intel.
While I will accept you reversed some numbers (the shrink was from 32 to 22, not the other way around) and Intel is using tri-gate transistors, most everything else you describe is just flat out wrong. Ivy Bridge DOES show lower power consumption at stock voltages (TDPs of 77W vs 95W are a testament to that), and it is higher performance at the lower power consumption (though not by huge amounts, nor was it intended to be). Since it is lower power than Sandy Bridge at the same frequency, it is not having any issues related to thermals and packaging.
Now, if you want to rant about the fact that it doesn't handle overvoltage well for overclocking purposes, that is fine, but it is a separate discussion compared to stock. What you are seeing now is that Intel (probably extremely wisely for the market they are chasing most heavily) has tuned in their process node for stock voltages, but this is resulting in very leaky transistors at high voltages. Additionally, while the current packaging has the ability to remove heat just fine at stock voltages, when you start leaking too much the heat builds up too quickly- which certainly is a 22nm node issue and not actually a packaging issue. Quite possibly, though how far in the future I can't begin to guess, they will probably tweak the process for the Extreme Edition CPUS to make them handle an overclock without leaking so much, but that will take some time learning how they can play with the various knobs to get what they want without destroying what they need.
This leaves me with the feeling that the only problem here is your expectations of a CPU that was manufactured with the intent of taking the mobile market by storm (and they have tuned the process properly for that) when what you want is an overclocking king. Let's see how they tune the process technology for the Extreme Edition (and hopefully copy into other desktop-bound CPUS) before any decisions are made that they have screwed the pooch on being able to overclock.
...want a 2% raise, you should ask for 4% and then negotiate. There was even a name for this, but I forget.
This is called the "Door in the Face" approach. Ask for more than you want, and you might get what you want because the other party feels guilty for saying no.
OTOH, if you expect a 2% and ask for 50%, you'll probably get fired without any negotiation.
This is called the "your nuts slammed in a drawer" approach. Even if you thought you were asking for what you wanted, the resulting pain will indicate you were wrong by orders of magnitude.
Any shortages of Sandy Bridge at this point would be more likely related to OEMs allowing current inventories to drain prior to the official release of Ivy Bridge based products.
When I worked with Motorola, I worked to try to get more of our products into Commodore. Specifically trying to get them interested in using the 56000 DSP in place of something they wound up using an AT&T DSP for. I kept being told that it wasn't worth the time, that Commodore management was infamous for stabbing you in the back if it meant they could save a penny even on low volume products. The regional sales manager listed 3 different products off the top of his head from the last time he dealt with them years before that made him never willing to deal with Commodore again. I wasn't successful, but Haynie gave me the Fat Agnus I needed to upgrade my A2000 (engineering version, with tape holding the lid on), so it was all good;-).
Besides: A train or bus is no cleaner than the typical 25 mpg car with one driver.
Yes it is. It has far lower emissions per person than a regular car. One train or bus can replace countless cars.
A train or a bus with one passenger (the driver/engineer) is definitely not as clean as a 25 mpg car with one driver, and absolutely more inconvenient.
A train or a bus filled to the gills with passengers is definitely cleaner than a 25 mpg car with one driver (and probably 3 passengers, to boot), though likely with only a modest improvement in the average convenience level.
At some point, there is a breakeven point looking only at emissions (and not price per passenger mile, etc). What percentage of time is it true in each case because a reasonable exercise to work out, if emissions are your only concern. In China (pick almost any city), the percentage of time a bus or train is over that limit is very common. In Dallas... not so much (small, in all likelihood, except for special events- I consider 4 hours out of an 18 hour transit day to be "small"). Of course, in China they achieve this by putting disincentives in place which cause a car to cost a consumer 2x what it would cost that consumer in the USA (and 2-3x for gas).
The economic and political ramifications are left as an exercise for the reader.
Don't confuse cost of production with price to the consumer, please! First off, you can buy Everclear for about US$14/750ml (~$70/gallon) today, but that isn't the cost of manufacture and we don't fill our cars from 750ml glass bottles. Want to find out a more meaningful price of 95% grain alcohol in bulk? Buy it by the 55 gallon drum for food purity/proof (think maraschino cherries, as one example) verification. It is very, very cheap to buy that way (at least relative to the profit that can be made selling maraschino cherries and paying for the chemist/equipment power to do the testing even in small batches). As an added bonus, if you can work it out so that each week you have 1-2 gallons left over in a drum that is going to be switched out with no compensation for the dregs, no one cares if you empty it completely and bring the extra to the frat house for the weekend... sometimes I wonder why I still have a liver, or a diploma for that matter (I wasn't the chemist, just a beneficiary).
That still doesn't define cost, but I can tell you the price of that 55 gallon drum was far less than the price of roughly 300 bottles of Everclear (back then, and even today bulk food grade alcohol goes for between $2 and $4/gallon, it fluctuates wildly at times). The other comparison point is bulk denatured alcohol (about $11/gallon for 5 gallon quantities at retail, but drums don't cost that much more direct from suppliers).
The continuous process is still going to screw them reaching for scale, though. I wish them luck.
One of the few high (100K+ is high to me. No, I am not a red head.) capsaicin sauces I have had which also tastes good. I would mix it into most any appropriate food, though rarely was more than a drop needed when cooking for one. Add to that the fun of putting one single drop on one random tidbit put out for unsuspecting snacking adds a wonderful dimension to an evening of gaming or any other event where you don't mind being called all manner of foul epithets when the person regains their ability to breath.
A friend who did the same toothpick test you did described it as the closest he has ever felt to having his tongue pierced with no preparation.
Try again. The A500 wasn't even announced until early 1987, along with the A2000. The A1000, however, was announced in 1985 at the Lincoln Center in NYC with Andy Warhol being one of the demonstrators at the show. I had to make do with a borrowed A1000 until i could finally afford my A2000 in 1988. Good times.
A) if you think it takes 61 votes to break a filibuster and you are an American citizen, you are part of the problem.
B) Budget bills can not be filibustered (in spite of what Obama's Chief of Staff would like you to believe). When is the last time the USA had an officially enacted budget and why? Filibusters aren't the only reason why this administration has had problems.
Keep your comment in a buffer somewhere (adjusting hours to months). You will need it again when the story gets dup'ed a second time in a few months. This is still Slashdot, afterall.
My European friends used to love to use that song as proof at the lack of education of Americans. I used to retort that the only irony related to that song was that Morissette is Canadian. We all got over it pretty much by 2000 or so.
From a legal standpoint, it is almost certainly the case that the labels license iTunes to reproduce and distribute, and iTunes sells copies to retail customers. Trying to claim that something else is the case would require a judge with a very pliable sense of reality.
Sweet. I like the way you think, because I am short on cash and thought I would resell my iTunes purchased music that I don't listen to anymore to a friend of mine to raise some extra cash. First-sale doctrine being what it is, I bet I could get him to pay me a quarter a song to transfer ownership to him.
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While I am completely with you on the solar water heating (especially for a community pool to make it useful at least 8 months a year instead of the 3-4 that most of them are good for where I live), and possibly even solar power if the demonstrated efficiency year round proves it to be viable, the fact that you are suggesting people put windmills on the roof to generate electricity suggests to me that you have never stood anywhere close to windmills that actually generate meaningful amounts of power. No matter how quiet the mechanics of the windmill are, those blades swooping through the air will not be a sound that lulls you to sleep, from experience, unless the unit is so small that you are only trying to power a handful of LED light bulbs on occasion and not a meaningful amount of the power consumption of 160 units of people trying to live with modern conveniences. To have them at a business where no one sleeps can be meaningful, though (just ask Jay Leno).
As for the Malthusian nonsense, you first.
Ummm, yeah, sure. Tell you what, you go get a container made out of the material of your choice (not including unobtanium, that would just be cheating) able to hold a meaningful level of PSI (or the metric of your choice) of hydrogen. Hermetically seal the container (I won't even expect you to have a hole in the container via which you can connect it to whatever you plan to generate work with).
Come back in a day, a week, a month, a year....
Then realize your concept of "stored indefinitely without degrading" probably needs some significant rethinking. Even if the hydrogen is still hydrogen (not physically degraded), it can't do you any useful work if it is sneaking out of any container you can make and off wafting through the atmosphere looking for other atoms to get jiggy with.
This is only one of the reasons why the ability to generate hydrogen on demand as close to the source that will use it is fairly essential for a hydrogen engine to be viable.
In the late '80s, I was threatened with being turned away from Canada, and having the RCMP and FBI take turns performing full body cavity searches because, while applying for my 4th work visa in a span of 6 months (at that time, I was required to apply each time I traveled up there for the type of work I did), I was asked if there was anyone who would like me to not enter Canada and I responded "just a frat brother back in the USA who knows I am going to take his ex-GF to dinner when I hop over to the GTA."
Lessons learned:
A) don't crack jokes with Canadian immigration officials.
B) Clear customs and immigration in Toronto (which I mostly did for the next 15 years) and then drive to Ottawa, because Ottawa officials have much bigger sticks up their butts (and the Korean food not far from the Toronto airport is really good).
C) After calming the situation down, when asked by said immigration official if, because I work at Motorola, I could get her 1950's vintage Motorola console TV repaired at a discount, do not respond with "Are you asking me for a bribe?" nor the 3 or 4 other responses that went across my mind.
Looking back, I am still kind of surprised I made it to work the next day.
Did you miss the part where she had explicit instruction from her doctor that the pump should not be taken through any scanners at the airports?
A doctor is not an engineer of electrical devices and as such has zero qualification to write a letter saying that any device should or should not be passed through a scanner. That said, the doctor absolutely has the qualification to pass on a recommendation from the manufacturer who probably state in the warranty that putting the device into a focused EM field qualifies as bad idea. Just showing the paperwork from the manufacturer should be enough to allow the device to bypass the security theater scanners. Well, unless the manufacturer (or doctor) is from Yemen, for example (mostly joking).
Your write, thankyou :D!
Once again, assumptions on who "they" are when referring to conservatives in general make for patently outlandish slander, just as someone saying "all liberals are (communists||socialists||whatever) who want to purge the earth of anyone who doesn't think as they do" would be. The hyperbole makes for non-meaningful discussions.
What percentage of self-described conservatives even know what PNAC is? The letter you were referring to, if I got it right, has 41 signatories? Yet from Gallup 41% of all Americans consider themselves conservative , a number that has been fairly steady since 1990. Last I checked, not only did I not think that what 41 people's opine defines what 41% of Americans think, I didn't have to have the debating skills of a prepubescent teenager to make my points. Thank you for making mine.
What about if the Chinese get our codes and hack our defenses like the Cylons from BSG?
So? America would lose most cities on both coasts.
Can you think of any outcome more likely to bring tears of joy, to America's far-right?
The fact that you think that people who are politically conservative would be overjoyed by an attack on US soil, the destruction of its' cities, and the death of any of its' people as a group says far more about your AC mindset than I believe you realize.
Given the definition of "traditional" in China (which means since the founding of the modern communist version, or all the way back 7000 years as convenient, including times when China was not ruled by ancestrally Chinese people)), I have had Chinese coworkers suggest that this map is an under-representation of what China should be currently claiming.
Given that the previous article you cite clearly calls out that this is an overclocking issue, "When overclocked, Ivy Bridge runs as much as 20C hotter than its Sandy Bridge predecessor at the same speed, despite the fact that the two chips have comparable power consumption", I believe that the correct troll is self-identified.
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It is being punished as a troll, because it is wrong in annoyingly misleading ways. It probably would not have been punished as a troll if the GP had said "in the area of overclocking, 22nm is a fail because..." By making a sweeping comment that only applies to a very small subset of the market, potentially informative because troll. The mods got it right.
The shrink from 22 to 32nm is a staggering size change - 33% finer lithography - and it uses their much-hyped 3D transistor technology on top of things. Yet, Ivy Bridge, being just a shrink of the older Sandy Bridge die, shows no improvements over the 32nm version. Traditionally, Intel has always been able to show lower power consumption and more than a tangible performance improvement when just doing a process shrink, but the Ivy Bridge does nothing extra in terms of performance and consumes not lower power than its older 32nm sibling - and let's not mention the inefficient heat packaging causing temperatures hotter than the 32nm Sandy Bridge. There's a problem here, Intel.
While I will accept you reversed some numbers (the shrink was from 32 to 22, not the other way around) and Intel is using tri-gate transistors, most everything else you describe is just flat out wrong. Ivy Bridge DOES show lower power consumption at stock voltages (TDPs of 77W vs 95W are a testament to that), and it is higher performance at the lower power consumption (though not by huge amounts, nor was it intended to be). Since it is lower power than Sandy Bridge at the same frequency, it is not having any issues related to thermals and packaging.
Now, if you want to rant about the fact that it doesn't handle overvoltage well for overclocking purposes, that is fine, but it is a separate discussion compared to stock. What you are seeing now is that Intel (probably extremely wisely for the market they are chasing most heavily) has tuned in their process node for stock voltages, but this is resulting in very leaky transistors at high voltages. Additionally, while the current packaging has the ability to remove heat just fine at stock voltages, when you start leaking too much the heat builds up too quickly- which certainly is a 22nm node issue and not actually a packaging issue. Quite possibly, though how far in the future I can't begin to guess, they will probably tweak the process for the Extreme Edition CPUS to make them handle an overclock without leaking so much, but that will take some time learning how they can play with the various knobs to get what they want without destroying what they need.
This leaves me with the feeling that the only problem here is your expectations of a CPU that was manufactured with the intent of taking the mobile market by storm (and they have tuned the process properly for that) when what you want is an overclocking king. Let's see how they tune the process technology for the Extreme Edition (and hopefully copy into other desktop-bound CPUS) before any decisions are made that they have screwed the pooch on being able to overclock.
...want a 2% raise, you should ask for 4% and then negotiate. There was even a name for this, but I forget.
This is called the "Door in the Face" approach. Ask for more than you want, and you might get what you want because the other party feels guilty for saying no.
OTOH, if you expect a 2% and ask for 50%, you'll probably get fired without any negotiation.
This is called the "your nuts slammed in a drawer" approach. Even if you thought you were asking for what you wanted, the resulting pain will indicate you were wrong by orders of magnitude.
"Surfed to another page" is the new "but I didn't have enough space in the margin".
I think more importantly, Sandy Bridge has been in scant supply for several months due to a recall. ...
Ummm, no. The recall was back in January of 2011 and was fully resolved by April of 2011. This is April, yes, but given that a year has passed between that April and this April, it is safe to assume that the recall induced issues are well behind us.
Any shortages of Sandy Bridge at this point would be more likely related to OEMs allowing current inventories to drain prior to the official release of Ivy Bridge based products.
When I worked with Motorola, I worked to try to get more of our products into Commodore. Specifically trying to get them interested in using the 56000 DSP in place of something they wound up using an AT&T DSP for. I kept being told that it wasn't worth the time, that Commodore management was infamous for stabbing you in the back if it meant they could save a penny even on low volume products. The regional sales manager listed 3 different products off the top of his head from the last time he dealt with them years before that made him never willing to deal with Commodore again. I wasn't successful, but Haynie gave me the Fat Agnus I needed to upgrade my A2000 (engineering version, with tape holding the lid on), so it was all good ;-).
Yes it is. It has far lower emissions per person than a regular car. One train or bus can replace countless cars.
A train or a bus with one passenger (the driver/engineer) is definitely not as clean as a 25 mpg car with one driver, and absolutely more inconvenient.
A train or a bus filled to the gills with passengers is definitely cleaner than a 25 mpg car with one driver (and probably 3 passengers, to boot), though likely with only a modest improvement in the average convenience level.
At some point, there is a breakeven point looking only at emissions (and not price per passenger mile, etc). What percentage of time is it true in each case because a reasonable exercise to work out, if emissions are your only concern. In China (pick almost any city), the percentage of time a bus or train is over that limit is very common. In Dallas... not so much (small, in all likelihood, except for special events- I consider 4 hours out of an 18 hour transit day to be "small"). Of course, in China they achieve this by putting disincentives in place which cause a car to cost a consumer 2x what it would cost that consumer in the USA (and 2-3x for gas).
The economic and political ramifications are left as an exercise for the reader.
Don't confuse cost of production with price to the consumer, please! First off, you can buy Everclear for about US$14/750ml (~$70/gallon) today, but that isn't the cost of manufacture and we don't fill our cars from 750ml glass bottles. Want to find out a more meaningful price of 95% grain alcohol in bulk? Buy it by the 55 gallon drum for food purity/proof (think maraschino cherries, as one example) verification. It is very, very cheap to buy that way (at least relative to the profit that can be made selling maraschino cherries and paying for the chemist/equipment power to do the testing even in small batches). As an added bonus, if you can work it out so that each week you have 1-2 gallons left over in a drum that is going to be switched out with no compensation for the dregs, no one cares if you empty it completely and bring the extra to the frat house for the weekend... sometimes I wonder why I still have a liver, or a diploma for that matter (I wasn't the chemist, just a beneficiary).
That still doesn't define cost, but I can tell you the price of that 55 gallon drum was far less than the price of roughly 300 bottles of Everclear (back then, and even today bulk food grade alcohol goes for between $2 and $4/gallon, it fluctuates wildly at times). The other comparison point is bulk denatured alcohol (about $11/gallon for 5 gallon quantities at retail, but drums don't cost that much more direct from suppliers).
The continuous process is still going to screw them reaching for scale, though. I wish them luck.
I love this stuff (600000 Scoville units):
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One of the few high (100K+ is high to me. No, I am not a red head.) capsaicin sauces I have had which also tastes good. I would mix it into most any appropriate food, though rarely was more than a drop needed when cooking for one. Add to that the fun of putting one single drop on one random tidbit put out for unsuspecting snacking adds a wonderful dimension to an evening of gaming or any other event where you don't mind being called all manner of foul epithets when the person regains their ability to breath.
A friend who did the same toothpick test you did described it as the closest he has ever felt to having his tongue pierced with no preparation.
Try again. The A500 wasn't even announced until early 1987, along with the A2000. The A1000, however, was announced in 1985 at the Lincoln Center in NYC with Andy Warhol being one of the demonstrators at the show. I had to make do with a borrowed A1000 until i could finally afford my A2000 in 1988. Good times.
A) if you think it takes 61 votes to break a filibuster and you are an American citizen, you are part of the problem.
B) Budget bills can not be filibustered (in spite of what Obama's Chief of Staff would like you to believe). When is the last time the USA had an officially enacted budget and why? Filibusters aren't the only reason why this administration has had problems.
Keep your comment in a buffer somewhere (adjusting hours to months). You will need it again when the story gets dup'ed a second time in a few months. This is still Slashdot, afterall.
My European friends used to love to use that song as proof at the lack of education of Americans. I used to retort that the only irony related to that song was that Morissette is Canadian. We all got over it pretty much by 2000 or so.
While I agree to you that is how it SHOULD work, ReDigi is still trying to find out if it has legs to stand on.
http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/02/08/418729/redigi-itunes-and-the-legal-fight-over-first-sale-and-digital-content/?mobile=nc
From a legal standpoint, it is almost certainly the case that the labels license iTunes to reproduce and distribute, and iTunes sells copies to retail customers. Trying to claim that something else is the case would require a judge with a very pliable sense of reality.
Sweet. I like the way you think, because I am short on cash and thought I would resell my iTunes purchased music that I don't listen to anymore to a friend of mine to raise some extra cash. First-sale doctrine being what it is, I bet I could get him to pay me a quarter a song to transfer ownership to him.
Wait... what?