That's right because when I was in the girl scouts as a kid they told us we couldn't sing some of our favorite songs anymore.
What a bunch of *)(&(*&_(*&.
Yeah right and the Nazi's were okay too?
I don't care about downloaded music, I think the RIAA are morons. But it isn't really "right" to download the music now is it?
Downloading music for free is stealing. The artists who created the music will have no incentive to keep creating music if they know everyone is just going to steal from them.
Yeah, welcome kids to the world of big business who doesn't care about you as a person enough to make their friggin music accessible via the Internet but they will sue you for doing it yourself!
Greatest threat so far has been people who think free means not good quality. Also people who are too lazy to learn.
I think if people just see a button on the screen they can click on they'll do that before they read anything. So the 2nd danger would be people's laziness.
Yeah I mean they send a letter demanding payment for something you don't owe them for? What are they going to do if you write them back and tell them to make you pay them? They would lose more money in court trying to prove all these people stole from them and what proof do they have?
It seems to me it is just a move to see what they can get from people. You have to just say NO.
With the same kind of thinking they are using, maybe I would have sent them a bill for $5,000 for all the pain and suffering their slanderous accusations are causing me.
Sosa it's not too late....send them a bill.
I don't think it is easier. I mean what's so hard about cassette tapes? I think it has more to do with the ease with which you can swap the recordings.
The reason is because you have a ton of countries all with unique shipping requirements and laws and blah blah...but the USA has good customers and it is all uniform. You can us the US Postal service, or UPS and you know it will be easy.
For example if I have a customer doing a website and they inquire about shipping internationally, I have to tell them....well how much are you going to charge? They don't know because each country is different, whereas the USA is the USA and they know what to charge. I had a customer who did international shipping and got burned on a sale to New Zealand - her shipping to N.Z. made it not worth even selling.
And yes there is a lot of fraud in Moldavia and places like that. It's too bad the crooks are ruining the repuation of their whole country.
No it isn't allowed. Since when is it okay to tape a movie or a song. NOT.
And before the big old Internet people were file sharing on personal bulletin boards. How do you think they are going to police that? You think we've all just forgotten how to do that or what?
Since when is it a good idea to put your fans in jail?
Who cares about the law? People still tape movies and videos don't they?
The real problem is the Music Industry itself. They refuse to database their music so we can download it and play it on our computer. So it's easier to actually steal it than it is to purchase it from them.
Since when did they think putting their fans in jail is going to help them?
The music industry deserves what it is getting now, and they'll deserve what they get when they start jailing the people who they could be selling to instead. They should start building some databases and selling online.
And the music people are supposed to be so "cool". What a laugh these guys are the worst old fartz around!
Your payback pages are only going to further annoy the people who's email addresses were harvested for use in sending out spam.
Duh...
How about posting the 800#'s that were included in the spam instead? Or the phone numbers even?
There was a spam I got the other day from ebay. It asked me to click on the link and reenter my credit card information. But it wasn't really from ebay and the link was not ebay either.
Let's not call him a moron, let's just blow up his computer! lol
Sen Hatch's answer to people downloading music reminds me of my 10 year old son's stories that always ended with an exploding chicken.
How can it effectively and logically do this? Here's an example of the new illegal behavior:
1. A little old lady xerox's a song from her church song book and gives it to someone.
2. Someone makes a cassette tape from the radio station.
3. I backup my computer software with a CD copy.
4. I backup my hard drive with a CDROM.
So are they really expecting to put all these people in jail for file sharing? No, they are thinking of selectively putting people in jail that copy expensive software and those that copy music.
I don't see how they can logically think this is going to work. So if someone sends me an image and tells me they drew it and I email it to someone else does that mean I can get in trouble too? I think this is just a scare tactic to try and get people to quit file sharing.
Yeah I would like to go to a doctor who changes jobs every 5 years that would be great.
You are dealing with people VERY knowledgeable about their field you don't want them changing jobs every 5 years or you'll have people who are a jack of all trades, but master of none.
Unfortunately in the USA not being employed full-time means no benefits.
It's pretty impossible to get health care insurance or retirement benefits if you aren't full-time.
The people in the US are being so ripped off by the insurance companies it isn't funny. That all began with Reagan. I can't even say he was a president. More of a creep really. Now we have the son of a creep, this guy is even worse than his father because he's stupid. We don't have democracy if the President was appointed by Supreme Court.
The problems in America are not just outsourcing of jobs. The problems are the morons running the place.
I agree with that. If they pay a senior developer $5 an hour how good can he really be anyway? How can a country with such a lack of infrastructure compete with US workers?
"Sorry, our senior developer cannot work he was washed away by a monsoon. And the power is out because of monsoon season, we'll get back to you in two weeks." And then you'll never hear from them again after you paid them.
I hired someone outside the country once to do some web work. He was a crook. And there was nothing I could do about it.
The one problem I see with Americans and America is the difficulty people have starting their own company or working independantly. You don't HAVE to be handed a job on a silver platter.
Also it should be easier than it is to get started, that doesn't promote the economy when someone has to take a long time just doing stupid paperwork so they can begin doing business.
That's the whole problem, not the workers.
The pointy haired bosses don't know what the *&^^%* they are doing. There aren't enough jobs because there aren't enough intelligent people actually running these companies.
Look at Enron - these guys had money coming out the wazoo and they couldn't even run the company legally. What a bunch of idiots!
Techies need to become the company owners and managers and push the pointy haired out of business. It isn't hard to compete with incompetent fools.
Let them hire Russians or Indians and be surprised when it doesn't work. Then intelligent companies can have the best workers, those right here in America.
The McDonaldisation of America doesn't work. You can't McDondize everything.
How about importing doctors from India too. Put those snotty physicians who think they should make all that money out on the street. See how intelligent that argument is?
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That's right because when I was in the girl scouts as a kid they told us we couldn't sing some of our favorite songs anymore. What a bunch of *)(&(*&_(*&.
Yeah right and the Nazi's were okay too? I don't care about downloaded music, I think the RIAA are morons. But it isn't really "right" to download the music now is it? Downloading music for free is stealing. The artists who created the music will have no incentive to keep creating music if they know everyone is just going to steal from them.
Rock is dead.
And let me know when it can translate bad English or heavily accented English.
I think if people just see a button on the screen they can click on they'll do that before they read anything. So the 2nd danger would be people's laziness.
It seems to me it is just a move to see what they can get from people. You have to just say NO.
With the same kind of thinking they are using, maybe I would have sent them a bill for $5,000 for all the pain and suffering their slanderous accusations are causing me. Sosa it's not too late....send them a bill.
I do it all the time for my clients. Look at the colors they pick. http://www.justinlovejewelry.com/
I don't think it is easier. I mean what's so hard about cassette tapes? I think it has more to do with the ease with which you can swap the recordings.
Yeah here they have what people want and they refuse to sell it to us in a format we want. What a bunch of morons.
The reason is because you have a ton of countries all with unique shipping requirements and laws and blah blah...but the USA has good customers and it is all uniform. You can us the US Postal service, or UPS and you know it will be easy. For example if I have a customer doing a website and they inquire about shipping internationally, I have to tell them....well how much are you going to charge? They don't know because each country is different, whereas the USA is the USA and they know what to charge. I had a customer who did international shipping and got burned on a sale to New Zealand - her shipping to N.Z. made it not worth even selling. And yes there is a lot of fraud in Moldavia and places like that. It's too bad the crooks are ruining the repuation of their whole country.
And before the big old Internet people were file sharing on personal bulletin boards. How do you think they are going to police that? You think we've all just forgotten how to do that or what?
Since when is it a good idea to put your fans in jail?
Who cares about the law? People still tape movies and videos don't they? The real problem is the Music Industry itself. They refuse to database their music so we can download it and play it on our computer. So it's easier to actually steal it than it is to purchase it from them. Since when did they think putting their fans in jail is going to help them? The music industry deserves what it is getting now, and they'll deserve what they get when they start jailing the people who they could be selling to instead. They should start building some databases and selling online. And the music people are supposed to be so "cool". What a laugh these guys are the worst old fartz around!
Your payback pages are only going to further annoy the people who's email addresses were harvested for use in sending out spam. Duh... How about posting the 800#'s that were included in the spam instead? Or the phone numbers even?
There was a spam I got the other day from ebay. It asked me to click on the link and reenter my credit card information. But it wasn't really from ebay and the link was not ebay either.
Let's not call him a moron, let's just blow up his computer! lol Sen Hatch's answer to people downloading music reminds me of my 10 year old son's stories that always ended with an exploding chicken.
How can it effectively and logically do this? Here's an example of the new illegal behavior: 1. A little old lady xerox's a song from her church song book and gives it to someone. 2. Someone makes a cassette tape from the radio station. 3. I backup my computer software with a CD copy. 4. I backup my hard drive with a CDROM. So are they really expecting to put all these people in jail for file sharing? No, they are thinking of selectively putting people in jail that copy expensive software and those that copy music. I don't see how they can logically think this is going to work. So if someone sends me an image and tells me they drew it and I email it to someone else does that mean I can get in trouble too? I think this is just a scare tactic to try and get people to quit file sharing.
Yeah I would like to go to a doctor who changes jobs every 5 years that would be great.
You are dealing with people VERY knowledgeable about their field you don't want them changing jobs every 5 years or you'll have people who are a jack of all trades, but master of none.
Sure if this boss were working at McDonald's he would be doing great making big profits. But his boss is not qualified to be in the position he is in.
It's pretty impossible to get health care insurance or retirement benefits if you aren't full-time.
The people in the US are being so ripped off by the insurance companies it isn't funny. That all began with Reagan. I can't even say he was a president. More of a creep really. Now we have the son of a creep, this guy is even worse than his father because he's stupid. We don't have democracy if the President was appointed by Supreme Court.
The problems in America are not just outsourcing of jobs. The problems are the morons running the place.
Or you could move to India. I hear it's cheap to live there.
Pass your time by starting companies to compete with the ones outsourcing their power point presentations to India.
"Sorry, our senior developer cannot work he was washed away by a monsoon. And the power is out because of monsoon season, we'll get back to you in two weeks." And then you'll never hear from them again after you paid them.
I hired someone outside the country once to do some web work. He was a crook. And there was nothing I could do about it.
The one problem I see with Americans and America is the difficulty people have starting their own company or working independantly. You don't HAVE to be handed a job on a silver platter. Also it should be easier than it is to get started, that doesn't promote the economy when someone has to take a long time just doing stupid paperwork so they can begin doing business.
That's the whole problem, not the workers. The pointy haired bosses don't know what the *&^^%* they are doing. There aren't enough jobs because there aren't enough intelligent people actually running these companies. Look at Enron - these guys had money coming out the wazoo and they couldn't even run the company legally. What a bunch of idiots! Techies need to become the company owners and managers and push the pointy haired out of business. It isn't hard to compete with incompetent fools. Let them hire Russians or Indians and be surprised when it doesn't work. Then intelligent companies can have the best workers, those right here in America. The McDonaldisation of America doesn't work. You can't McDondize everything. How about importing doctors from India too. Put those snotty physicians who think they should make all that money out on the street. See how intelligent that argument is?