Wally: I'll just go on ahead to the restaurant. Dilbert: YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS WHERE IT IS!! Wally: Alice knows where it is. Tell her it's the one with the food.
Boss: So have you guys finished the design for the missile guidance chip? Dilbert: I think it's time to give peace a chance.
consumers.each do |x|
# Those who can, do
media = self.mass_produce
x.sell (media, media.wholesale_price * 5)
if x.download?
# Those who can't, sue
lawsuit = sue (x, media, x.shirt + x.arm + x.leg)
unless lawsuit.mucho_dinero?
# Those who still can't, buy and lobby
bill = self.lawyer.law.new
congress.each do |c|
unless c.buy? then c.lobby
end
end
end
He's every employee's worst nightmare. He wasn't born mean and unscrupulous, he worked hard at it. And succeeded. As for stupidity, well, some things are inborn.
His top priorities are the bottom line and looking good in front of his subordinates and superiors (not necessarily in that order). Of absolutely no concern to him is the professional or personal well-being of his employees.
Or you could contract the TF2 engineer to build a sentry gun:
"For instance, how would I keep someone from tearing me a structurally superfluous new behind? The answer: use a gun. And if that ain't enough, build more gun."
In light of the high-profile cases you cited, I can understand why you feel cynical. The fact is, there are probably thousands of cases being heard every day, some being found in favor of justice, others being brought to different conclusions. And there's a few counterpoints to the popular belief that "he who has the deepest, fullest pockets wins." There's Leona Helmsley (yeah, I know, easy example), whose wealth couldn't save her from a conviction for tax evasion and fraud. Even though OJ's "dream team" bested the prosecutors in criminal court, the victims' families were able to get his wallet and then some in civil court (Blake's case ended similarly). Spector's case is a mistrial, not an acquittal, and prosecutors said they'll try him again. We often don't see or remember the ultimate conclusions of these cases, because the media companies are more interested in the ratings that the "courtroom drama" provides rather than the outcome. Everyone likes a violent prize fight, but few will watch a battle won by a technicality.
Also, nobody's pockets are infinite, as you point out. Like the defendants in the above cases, the music labels lose money with each John Doe they try to fish out. I think you'll find that with each victory in court, no matter how small, will hasten the day when the labels find that they really are out of cash. I think the irony may then be that no one will believe them, as they've been whining about losing revenue despite the current boom in paid-for digital music.
It's not because he's smart and well-qualified, it's because neither major party wants him to have even a snowball's chance in hell of coming into power.
Or tighten the rules concerning jurisdiction, so that the courts who are commonly spammed (like this one in Texas) can say, "Not my job. Get lost." Your idea sounds more plausible, and the only thing I might add is that any lobbying to get the "default court" set to Marshall, Texas should be contested.
Extra articles don't clutter up wikipedia. And the deletionist editor will say "yeah they do." Quoth an example from Wikinews:
"If we include every article that anyone wants to write, then the encyclopedia becomes useless because nobody can find the actual needle of worthwhile information on a topic hidden in that hay stack of trivia."
Instead of favoring more mature articles in the search results, or improving/reorganizing content, they'd rather cut it out. That's a real shame, because it makes it seem that they'd rather delete than do the hard work of improving weaker articles.
Even if we can't get such legislation (and given how the music industry funds our congressmen, I doubt any such law would even be proposed), I suspect that the mere evidence that the label rejected an offer to pay some sort of compensation wouldn't sit well in court should the label threaten litigation.
Not only that, but the music in question is a somewhat-audible background recording no doubt filtered through an inexpensive (i.e.: not studio-quality) microphone. I somehow doubt that Prince would attempt the PR faux pas of sending the mother of a baby a takedown notice over this.
No, this seems more like a DMCA-happy lawyer adding a Youtube entry to his list with all the apathy required to ignore the inevitable PR firestorm. Not only this, but UMG has the audacity to pass the buck to the artist when caught.
If you think their English is atrocious, you should listen to some marketing/sales critters spewing forth buzzwords. At least the graduate has some idea of what he's talking about.
Admit that there is a storage problem with the Wii, and for the love of god at least say that a USB hard drive is in development. Tell us that games will be playable directly from SD.
Cue one of several thousand who didn't buy any Virtual Console games: they won't see this storage problem. Still, nice as the Wii is for the casual market, it would be great if they made a system that can be more easily expanded and customized for those of us who like to play games more often. I don't know how product creation is engineered in Nintendo's Kyoto HQ, but even with someone lurking the discussions on the net, it'll take a while for an idea to become a product given the secrecy of their R&D.
the blood is removed and the gibs (chucks of body parts flying around when people get blown up) have been replaced with rubber ducks, unicycles, springs, gears, and hamburgers.
You know, I'd play the German TF2 just to laugh at myself being gibbed. Great response to the German censors on Valve's part.
There are some people who think that the whole "professionalism" thing is just a sham that suits like to use to pull the wool over their customers' eyes. While it's true that many so-called "professionals" do use their conduct to gain an unearned advantage, it's also true that all the facts in your favor won't matter if your conduct causes people to stop listening to you.
I don't know if Theo gets this, or simply doesn't care— my bet's on the latter.
There's also DejaVu Sans Mono, forked from Bitstream Vera Mono 1.10 and still seeing development. Once they get the CJK glyphs in, the DejaVu family will probably be my primary choice.
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Wally: I'll just go on ahead to the restaurant.
Dilbert: YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS WHERE IT IS!!
Wally: Alice knows where it is. Tell her it's the one with the food.
Boss: So have you guys finished the design for the missile guidance chip?
Dilbert: I think it's time to give peace a chance.
All of the above, of course. After which he'll snap and start using a shoe for a gavel, repeating "I will bury you, Google!"
The positive spin would be, of course, that the local transient population in Southern California now has access to a really big microwave oven.
As in ad agencies? That's even more frightening than their current incarnation.
Or you could contract the TF2 engineer to build a sentry gun:
"For instance, how would I keep someone from tearing me a structurally superfluous new behind? The answer: use a gun. And if that ain't enough, build more gun."
You're right, it's a taunt with an extra helping of raspberries.
"anybody can edit it"
Sounds like a "we don't want to talk about this" answer. Here, I'll help:
Translation (pre-college): "We don't want you looking at naughty bits."
Translation (college): "We don't want you citing naughty bits."
Beware the short "this is our policy, go pound sand" answer from management.
Next thing you know, some guy will rename Wikipedia "Strong Badia".
In light of the high-profile cases you cited, I can understand why you feel cynical. The fact is, there are probably thousands of cases being heard every day, some being found in favor of justice, others being brought to different conclusions. And there's a few counterpoints to the popular belief that "he who has the deepest, fullest pockets wins." There's Leona Helmsley (yeah, I know, easy example), whose wealth couldn't save her from a conviction for tax evasion and fraud. Even though OJ's "dream team" bested the prosecutors in criminal court, the victims' families were able to get his wallet and then some in civil court (Blake's case ended similarly). Spector's case is a mistrial, not an acquittal, and prosecutors said they'll try him again. We often don't see or remember the ultimate conclusions of these cases, because the media companies are more interested in the ratings that the "courtroom drama" provides rather than the outcome. Everyone likes a violent prize fight, but few will watch a battle won by a technicality.
Also, nobody's pockets are infinite, as you point out. Like the defendants in the above cases, the music labels lose money with each John Doe they try to fish out. I think you'll find that with each victory in court, no matter how small, will hasten the day when the labels find that they really are out of cash. I think the irony may then be that no one will believe them, as they've been whining about losing revenue despite the current boom in paid-for digital music.
It's not because he's smart and well-qualified, it's because neither major party wants him to have even a snowball's chance in hell of coming into power.
Or tighten the rules concerning jurisdiction, so that the courts who are commonly spammed (like this one in Texas) can say, "Not my job. Get lost." Your idea sounds more plausible, and the only thing I might add is that any lobbying to get the "default court" set to Marshall, Texas should be contested.
Those who don't (or still can't), lobby.
Those who are evil, bribe.
And the deletionist editor will say "yeah they do." Quoth an example from Wikinews: Instead of favoring more mature articles in the search results, or improving/reorganizing content, they'd rather cut it out. That's a real shame, because it makes it seem that they'd rather delete than do the hard work of improving weaker articles.
Even if we can't get such legislation (and given how the music industry funds our congressmen, I doubt any such law would even be proposed), I suspect that the mere evidence that the label rejected an offer to pay some sort of compensation wouldn't sit well in court should the label threaten litigation.
Not only that, but the music in question is a somewhat-audible background recording no doubt filtered through an inexpensive (i.e.: not studio-quality) microphone. I somehow doubt that Prince would attempt the PR faux pas of sending the mother of a baby a takedown notice over this.
No, this seems more like a DMCA-happy lawyer adding a Youtube entry to his list with all the apathy required to ignore the inevitable PR firestorm. Not only this, but UMG has the audacity to pass the buck to the artist when caught.
UMG (in Bugs Bunny voice): He don't know me very well, do he?
If you think their English is atrocious, you should listen to some marketing/sales critters spewing forth buzzwords. At least the graduate has some idea of what he's talking about.
You know, I'd play the German TF2 just to laugh at myself being gibbed. Great response to the German censors on Valve's part.
Hey! At least wait until I've finished my Bawls.
There are some people who think that the whole "professionalism" thing is just a sham that suits like to use to pull the wool over their customers' eyes. While it's true that many so-called "professionals" do use their conduct to gain an unearned advantage, it's also true that all the facts in your favor won't matter if your conduct causes people to stop listening to you.
I don't know if Theo gets this, or simply doesn't care— my bet's on the latter.
There's also DejaVu Sans Mono, forked from Bitstream Vera Mono 1.10 and still seeing development. Once they get the CJK glyphs in, the DejaVu family will probably be my primary choice.