"I only like mainstream music. Is Britney Spears next album out?" "I hate using a search button. It is so 1990s" "I am deaf" "Three subscription models are less choice than one model, the true Apple's one. Seriously"
All the people playing to be musicians will leave the field when it is no longer as profitable as it is now.
That is a good thing, since people more commited and more talented will be left on the field.
Sorry, but if DRM is the only bussiness model in town for musicians then they should go, buy a dictionary, and look up the words "talent", "creativity" and add the hard work required.
All of us have to work daily to earn our bread and butter, many musicians are work shy and think they are entilted to work hard for a short time, record something and then sit and reap the benefits. I know, I befriend many of them.
If you are a musician your job is playing live music (or composing, etc). Recorded music is your advertisement medium, good for you if you manage to make money from your own advertisement, but the bussiness model based on recordings of any kind was an historical anomaly that technology is correcting now.
- US collecting data from people flying there, for who knows which nefarious purposes. - Track history of US government aprehending innocent people in airports. - Kidnappings (euphemistically called "renditions") in order to let brutish governments do some bit of interrogation. - Secrecy about charges or laws if you are unlucky to be indicted or held for something nasty. - Guantanamo.
I think my visits to all those wonderful places in the US I wanted to see may need to be postponed for a while. I have not been to NY for goodness sakes...
.... is a leading country when it comes to medical care and research.
You are trying to muddle the waters regarding that fact with other unrelated facts, which may be true, but are irrelevant to the discussion we are having.
Cubans live longer and better lifes than USians, have an estimated 5000 "health tourists" a year (and growing) that bring to the belaguered country an estimated amount of $50 000 000/year.
There are plenty of airlines from many other countries flying to Cuba, so distirbution of the drug is a non issue.
During Saddam Hussein's rule everybody was in agreement with every single decision he made. He won elections for President with the 99% of the votes casted on his favour, in spite that everybody had a family member dying in a war of agression against Iran.
Sociophats like you would like to see our democracies working in a similar fashion. But then, they would not be democracies, but I am sure you will fail miserably to understand all this.
.... the the problem is the speed of the change, not necessarily the change itself?
And how can we drill into your skull that the amounts of CO2 being released in the athmosphere by human activity have no parallel in the history of the planet?
But you will say there is contorversy regarding this because a few wackos paid by oil companies and rapturists say it ain't so.
So Africa can finally go down the drain (since most arable land there would become useless).
I fail to see how Canada and Russia haveing more arable land would make any difference to the poorest of the poor. After all the abundancy of food in the US today has not solved the food distribution problems.
Our ancestors had thousend or millions of years to adapt to slow climatic changes.
Our *direct* descendents one or two generations down the line, and perhaps ourselves, would have to adapt to dramatic golbal climatic changes happening during 200 or 300 years.
Putting aside your despicable disregard for biological diversity and you obvious ignorance regarding extintions in very short spans of time, sea level rising would affect so many people (a couple of meters would do) that is mind bogling to find sociopath like you that seem untroubled by this.
Shanghai and Lagos, the largest cities of China and Nigeria, are less than two meters above sea level, as is 20 percent of the population and farmland of Egypt, just for starters.
1.- The iPod can be used for non DRMed music. I should know. I have one. Try again.
2.- Google for articles stating how much music people have on their iPods and where it is comming from. Hint: most music in people's iPods is not bought in iTunes. The iTunes-iPod model may be making money, but that does not mean it is the most popular mechanism people are using to get music on their players.
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The previous poster wanted to say:
"I only like mainstream music. Is Britney Spears next album out?"
"I hate using a search button. It is so 1990s"
"I am deaf"
"Three subscription models are less choice than one model, the true Apple's one. Seriously"
Please show the sentence in which the poster vilified any company.
Jeeez.
All the people playing to be musicians will leave the field when it is no longer as profitable as it is now.
That is a good thing, since people more commited and more talented will be left on the field.
Sorry, but if DRM is the only bussiness model in town for musicians then they should go, buy a dictionary, and look up the words "talent", "creativity" and add the hard work required.
All of us have to work daily to earn our bread and butter, many musicians are work shy and think they are entilted to work hard for a short time, record something and then sit and reap the benefits. I know, I befriend many of them.
If you are a musician your job is playing live music (or composing, etc). Recorded music is your advertisement medium, good for you if you manage to make money from your own advertisement, but the bussiness model based on recordings of any kind was an historical anomaly that technology is correcting now.
Unless you were trying to be ironic, that is one of the most moronic replies in the history of /.
And that is really something.
.... since Poland joined the EU, I think you will concur that we win anyway.
What was is punishment?
International trade is not circumscribed to software and a few outsourced jobs.
Jeeeez.
Keeping in mind:
- US collecting data from people flying there, for who knows which nefarious purposes.
- Track history of US government aprehending innocent people in airports.
- Kidnappings (euphemistically called "renditions") in order to let brutish governments do some bit of interrogation.
- Secrecy about charges or laws if you are unlucky to be indicted or held for something nasty.
- Guantanamo.
I think my visits to all those wonderful places in the US I wanted to see may need to be postponed for a while. I have not been to NY for goodness sakes...
Which is recognized internationally.
.... is a leading country when it comes to medical care and research.
You are trying to muddle the waters regarding that fact with other unrelated facts, which may be true, but are irrelevant to the discussion we are having.
Cubans live longer and better lifes than USians, have an estimated 5000 "health tourists" a year (and growing) that bring to the belaguered country an estimated amount of $50 000 000/year.
There are plenty of airlines from many other countries flying to Cuba, so distirbution of the drug is a non issue.
When I work from home my remote connection is closed at exactly 17:00.
I don't understand why people can't make the simple exercise of stop working once they have completed their duties for the day....
... and a dictatorship.
During Saddam Hussein's rule everybody was in agreement with every single decision he made. He won elections for President with the 99% of the votes casted on his favour, in spite that everybody had a family member dying in a war of agression against Iran.
Sociophats like you would like to see our democracies working in a similar fashion. But then, they would not be democracies, but I am sure you will fail miserably to understand all this.
Was Sophie Scholl unpatriotic?
.... and anybody that knows how positive feedback in any system works, should be genuinely worried abouts these development.
.... that when I grew up we did not have a car. How did we all survive???
.... in matters of climate change is like quoting the KKK in matters of racial harmony.
.... the the problem is the speed of the change, not necessarily the change itself?
And how can we drill into your skull that the amounts of CO2 being released in the athmosphere by human activity have no parallel in the history of the planet?
But you will say there is contorversy regarding this because a few wackos paid by oil companies and rapturists say it ain't so.
We are fucking doomed.
So Africa can finally go down the drain (since most arable land there would become useless).
I fail to see how Canada and Russia haveing more arable land would make any difference to the poorest of the poor. After all the abundancy of food in the US today has not solved the food distribution problems.
And in such short sentence.
Our ancestors had thousend or millions of years to adapt to slow climatic changes.
Our *direct* descendents one or two generations down the line, and perhaps ourselves, would have to adapt to dramatic golbal climatic changes happening during 200 or 300 years.
We may not have enough time to adapt buddy.
It is not pretty.
Putting aside your despicable disregard for biological diversity and you obvious ignorance regarding extintions in very short spans of time, sea level rising would affect so many people (a couple of meters would do) that is mind bogling to find sociopath like you that seem untroubled by this.
Shanghai and Lagos, the largest cities of China and Nigeria, are less than two meters above sea level, as is 20 percent of the population and farmland of Egypt, just for starters.
The data analyzed is of hundreds of thousends of years.
Stop parading your ingorance. It is not a pretty sight.
To come to a forum where one is encouraged to post comments. And we do post them. In reply to other people's ones!
I really don't know what we are thinking....
1.- The iPod can be used for non DRMed music. I should know. I have one. Try again.
2.- Google for articles stating how much music people have on their iPods and where it is comming from. Hint: most music in people's iPods is not bought in iTunes. The iTunes-iPod model may be making money, but that does not mean it is the most popular mechanism people are using to get music on their players.
Go on. Show us a couple of examples of those people.