In 2002, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee took in $18,009 from moonlighting as a songwriter, according to his latest Senate financial disclosure.
It is Hatch's most successful single year as a songwriter; he has earned $65,986 in songwriting royalties since 1997. It comes on top of his $150,000 Senate salary and investment income between $56,000 and $122,000.
So, despite file trading and p2p networks, Sen. Hatch is earning more money than before. And they say file sharing is taking money away from artists, eh? Must be all those sales of the soundtrack from Rat Race.
He was also paid $2,123 last year for a voiceover he did for a character in an animated religious film. IMDB doesn't say which film, but did anyone else know he was in "Traffic"?
So no mention of _the authors_ being paid, only the rights holders (i.e. the worthless middle-men who'd be eliminated if copyright didn't create a monopoly market).
Also, they seem to imply that whatever the media barons insist should come to pass. Well, what about what Joe Public wants? If everyone just "insisted" that legally purchased media be free of DRM, then no one would buy any DRM-crippled device or media. So, no money for the barons, and artists who wanted their art distributed would gravitate to other channels.
The media barons had better change their 'tude, or they are going to get fucked.
I can assure you, it is neither noisy nor does it kill birds. Birds are pretty smart enough not to fly into something with big rotating fan blades.
The world needs more of these, and less of the people who put up stupid arguments... like whales are going to crash into the pillings. Heck, the whales are probably smarter than the people who say that!
If you RT(F)A, a lot of these "techniques" are just ways to do your work while not at your desk.
They suggest having emails fired off automagically in the middle of the night, using a blackberry to send email from the car, using GoToMyPC (which I assume is a VNC-type thing), getting calls forwarded to your cell, or picking up email with Yahoo by phone "to make sure you're not missing anything urgent".
The fact that you are doing all this from your car, the massage parlor, the park, or the deck of a cruise ship is kinda irrelevant. You are still *doing* it: still checking email and phone calls. Still manipulating documents on your PC. Just not in the office.
I guess some companies aren't savvy enough to realize that employees -- particularly IT employees -- don't necessarily need to be at their desks to do your job.
True shirking would be not doing your work. Or having an Inflatible You to stick in your chair and fool the PHB.
a) It's Goods and Services Tax, not "global sales tax".
b) GST is 7%, not 15%.
c) GST is a supplementary sales tax, like many of the states have... it is not an income tax.
d) There is no "national Canadian tax". There is a federal income tax, and a provincial income tax... just like many of the states have (province=state, in case you didn't know).
e) Your grammar, spelling, and grasp of basic economic theory seem to validate your comment about your services being cut... so I guess one point for you.
Well, how is Joe User going to install, let alone build, a regexp-based filter on his version of MSIE?
I can see text-ads sticking around simply because you can't *easily* filter them by installing one of several apps that changes your hosts file, or by installing a custom stylesheet.
My mistake. The article I read says that "the state of North Dakota alone has enough energy from good wind areas to supply 36% of the 1990 electricity consumption in the lower 48 states."
Still, that's pretty damn good. And there is a whole other Dakota too!
I can't find anything on the site about MoneyDance handling mortgages. Does it?
(And, of course, there is a difference in the way interest is calculated on Canadian mortgages, compared to US ones, so that would be something else... at least for a Canuck like me.)
Also, why doesn't someone just build a bunch of Perl/PHP scripts that hook into a database, and make financial tracking a web-based application? People could install it on their box and access it from anywhere they wanted... or just run it on a localhost.
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So, despite file trading and p2p networks, Sen. Hatch is earning more money than before. And they say file sharing is taking money away from artists, eh? Must be all those sales of the soundtrack from Rat Race.
So no mention of _the authors_ being paid, only the rights holders (i.e. the worthless middle-men who'd be eliminated if copyright didn't create a monopoly market).
Also, they seem to imply that whatever the media barons insist should come to pass. Well, what about what Joe Public wants? If everyone just "insisted" that legally purchased media be free of DRM, then no one would buy any DRM-crippled device or media. So, no money for the barons, and artists who wanted their art distributed would gravitate to other channels.
The media barons had better change their 'tude, or they are going to get fucked.
We all stand on the shoulders of giants.
... and Bezos has the patent on shoulder pads.
There is a windmill right near my office.
... like whales are going to crash into the pillings. Heck, the whales are probably smarter than the people who say that!
I can assure you, it is neither noisy nor does it kill birds. Birds are pretty smart enough not to fly into something with big rotating fan blades.
The world needs more of these, and less of the people who put up stupid arguments
No, no, no ...
You'll now have GNU (GNU's not Unix) and GOAT (GNU, on alternate Tuesdays).
O'Reilly should be pleased.
Um, I've hit those limits before and I am neither.
Pr0n afficianado, perhaps?
Well, if MacOSXHints or (more likely) O'Reilly is paying for the mention, that'd be one reason to put it on the front page.
If you RT(F)A, a lot of these "techniques" are just ways to do your work while not at your desk.
... time to check what's new at ThinkGeek.
They suggest having emails fired off automagically in the middle of the night, using a blackberry to send email from the car, using GoToMyPC (which I assume is a VNC-type thing), getting calls forwarded to your cell, or picking up email with Yahoo by phone "to make sure you're not missing anything urgent".
The fact that you are doing all this from your car, the massage parlor, the park, or the deck of a cruise ship is kinda irrelevant. You are still *doing* it: still checking email and phone calls. Still manipulating documents on your PC. Just not in the office.
I guess some companies aren't savvy enough to realize that employees -- particularly IT employees -- don't necessarily need to be at their desks to do your job.
True shirking would be not doing your work. Or having an Inflatible You to stick in your chair and fool the PHB.
Hrmm
Uh ... I don't think you need to be *that* technically savvy to know how to masturbate.
Imagine a Beow... *whack*
A bit expensive, true, but it is a bare-bones system, not just a case. From the specs:
- Shuttle FB51 mobo
- 200W power supply
- 8x CDR / 8x CDRW / 24x CD / 8x DVD drive
- case fan
- IDE cables, etc.
I just noticed these cases today, and they made me think of the Cube.
Useful for those who want to build a Mac-ish lookalike, I suppose.
Dig around on their site a bit and you see some other case products, like one with Delorean-type openings and some way-cool spherical cases.
Too bad, though. It seems they don't deliver outside of Japan.
Hey ... if you want to build a "real" case out of plastic or plexiglass or whatnot, I bet the cardboard pieces make a great set of templates.
a) It's Goods and Services Tax, not "global sales tax".
... it is not an income tax.
... just like many of the states have (province=state, in case you didn't know).
... so I guess one point for you.
b) GST is 7%, not 15%.
c) GST is a supplementary sales tax, like many of the states have
d) There is no "national Canadian tax". There is a federal income tax, and a provincial income tax
e) Your grammar, spelling, and grasp of basic economic theory seem to validate your comment about your services being cut
Iron Butterfly, dewd! And later, Bart Simpson.
...
So, do I win a pen? I'll give you my password
So what's BC's excuse for not sharing that information with Toronto?
total cost 99cents plus my soul... .. which comes out to $1.04.
Well, how is Joe User going to install, let alone build, a regexp-based filter on his version of MSIE?
I can see text-ads sticking around simply because you can't *easily* filter them by installing one of several apps that changes your hosts file, or by installing a custom stylesheet.
The goal of a musician is to make fans, and then sell stuff like tshirts and hats, and go on tour, ...
Funny, I thought the goal of a musician is to express themselves through music.
My mistake. The article I read says that "the state of North Dakota alone has enough energy from good wind areas to supply 36% of the 1990 electricity consumption in the lower 48 states."
Still, that's pretty damn good. And there is a whole other Dakota too!
They have an abundant source of clean electrical generation capacity, something that pretty much no other nation in the world comes close to.
...
IIRC, there is enough potential in North Dakota alone that wind turbines there could provide enough electricity to service the lower 48 states.
Don't make me find the article where I read that, though
Hear-hear! It's high-time to invite those Tatooine vapour farmers to the discussion table.
and unfortunately many places do not have handy geothermal vents
Obviously you are new to slashdot, where many of the posters vent a lot of hot air.
I can't find anything on the site about MoneyDance handling mortgages. Does it?
... at least for a Canuck like me.)
... or just run it on a localhost.
(And, of course, there is a difference in the way interest is calculated on Canadian mortgages, compared to US ones, so that would be something else
Also, why doesn't someone just build a bunch of Perl/PHP scripts that hook into a database, and make financial tracking a web-based application? People could install it on their box and access it from anywhere they wanted